Show COTTON speculator QUITS theodore H price the tha veteran speculator in n cotton may bo be influenced only by a desire for the welfare of tits his child when lie ho resolved to give up the market for a couple of years at least and it may be merely h a coincidence that lite his cotton commitments amounting to thousands of bales of the may cotton will net him a considerable loss losa and that lie ho would be glad to liquidate them in any case it Is commented upon as significant in the street that mr price Is selling hla his horses and carriages and Is disposing of lit hla country home at tuxedo surrounded by acres of land there would bo be no necessity tor for disposing of those at a sacrifice the gossips say it if lie ho was merely going to pass two years on tho the coast of maine it if mr price has deserted the market on account of tits ills heavy losses it will bo be the first time lie he has shown himself so BO devoid of nerve when as head of the firm of price mccormick McCorm lck co he was carrying on a heavy cotton corner lie he discovered that he be was vas being betrayed by ills his partners who had bad lost courage and had quietly stepped from under leaving him in the lurch tile the firm failed for price in stead of creeping into a corner and blowing tits his brains out shook ok off hla his partners returned to the market and within a year had bad paid oft off all the debts of the house and made three millions besides ile ho has since experienced several ot of those these ups and downs clowns and has always come up lap smiling mr price was waa engaged to be married when the first farst nn financial ancial disaster camo came upon him ills franceo was miss harriet dyer sister of mrs james L taylor it was currently reported that she had noti notified fled him after tho the crash that the engagement was at an end but no such intention had entered the young ladys head she caused an emphatic dental denial to be issued and when that failed to stop the gossip she insisted on oil the marriage taking place at once she carried her point and was of considerable assistance to her husband when lie he was struggling gUng to reestablish establish re himself it Is little wonder then that lie he Is devoted to tits his wife and child so devoted that ho he would give up the excitement of the market to spend two years on a godforsaken god forsaken coast |