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...broke through 30 cents and registered a new high record for practically all futures. With the exception of the 43-cent high record of 1920, this is the highest price for cotton since 1876, but producers having sold practically all their holdings, it is principally the factors who will profit by these recent high prices. While the latter have been occasioned by mill purchases, it is the boll weevil rather than " inflation " which is fundamentally responsible...
However, a few titles that suggest themselves for the delectation and profit of the ill-starred mariner are the following: (1) Checkbook; (2) Joyce's Ulysses; (3) Cicero's De Senectute; (4) Walter Camp's Daily Dozen; (5) Cookbook; (6) Coué's Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion; (7) The Bartender's Guide; (8) The family photograph album; (9) Joke Book; (10) The Book of Etiquette...
...something better to do than to run to Mr. Osborne's at Gray's Inn to pick up scarce books. Buy cod books, and read them; the best bocks are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads; for they may profit by the former. But take care not to understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall be at your service. I have some of the Old Collana...
...that has been heard often. Americans take their sports in deadly earnest; they go into strenuous training, and make it their business to win. The English, on the contrary, are more or less indifferent to the results; they are more concerned with the incidental pleasure and profit of competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking in a pleasant, casual way, provided more...
...trumpets; if they meet no genuine need, they soon pass into oblivion and no one but their unlucky sponsors mourns their departure. But if they have any excuse for existence, they take root and thrive without artificial encouragement. Those who have a use for them seek them out and profit by the opportunities they offer; while those who have no concern with their purposes need not be urged to support them...