Cotton is said to be 40 percent higher than it was at this time last year, and this is certain to result in a great forward movement, industrially in the south which will have its effect upon the entire nation. One section of the country cannot prosper without the entire nation feeling the effect.

Allentown, Pa.—Charles Kressley had no use for a stranger who called and offered him a fancy price for his fine home. The stranger next begged Kressley to allow him to tell his fortune, and grudgingly he consented. The Fortune teller revealed such remarkable facts about his past life that Kressley was not in the city. Then, a Cervantes, a truth dawned on him. The visitor was his brother, Ellas, who left for the West in 1880. Since that time he has made a stake mining gold in Colorado and is rich.

A new use for the baseball is the latest innovation of the Eleventh United States cavalry, whose fame for inventing new sports is nationwide. The idea is to stay on top of the ball while making it move forward by propelling it with a walking movement, treadmill fashion. An ordinary cavalry pushball is used. The new sport has a practical as  Well as sporting value in that it trains the soldiers in balancing themselves and controlling their bodies. 