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For The Nt-wp. I ? letter from Texas. " Crops this Year in the Lone Star State Gut Off by Excessive Rainfall, which has Also Caused Much Sickness^?People Dissatisfied and Moving West?-Other Matters of Interest. Mr. Editor: Yes, I experienced ft decree ol sadness when the an aouneement. was made that I had received mv last issue ol The Review. I felt as il I had lost an old friend. The Review had been making its weekly visits to my Texas home lor '.he past 10 or 12 years, and during the time 1 only lost one issue. The day that rI he Review arrived at my < llioe il would he the lirst for me to scan, preference to all other mad.? Now, as The Review is succeed rd by The News, with the same editorial head, I have the consolation of Knowing that 1 will hear irom my old home twice instead *1 once a week. Well, I have nothing much to vnle that would he interesting from lower central Texas. The agricultural class as a whole has ?ot had a good year. Only favored localities have made anything like a full crop The rain tall during the spring and sum naer months was unusual forTexAll the low lands were overflowed for weeks, consequently 'he crops were lost. And the wet asons and overflowed lands have caused more malaria than I ever saw in Texas. Take the entire county, and I venture lo say that scarcely a family has excaped gliilla and fever, and a number ot eases of blank jaundice, which was very fatal. The old Texan says he.never saw anything to *?jual this year; and it hascaused Ihe people to become restful an?i dissatisfied, and the migration West is enormous. It is claimed lhatthe West is t he coming country for certain crops. Getting Ikoyond the line of the boll weevil is the cause of this migration. You can notice very perceptibly etnee the appearance ot cotton weevil in central Texas. The country, financially speaking, lias been going backward, as cotton was the main money crop. Land lias depreciated in value fcere to what it was before the appearance of the weevil. If is irue our farmers have not over looked diversification; and last spring they went into t he potatoe business heavily, but at gathering I time they were not oflered enough per bushel Icr pay lor digging ? Jfceally, cotton is the main money ?rop tor (his country. Our cotton farmers of Texas' aeem to be in sympathy with j tlmse of other cotton states in the *1 tvement to hnM their cotton' and push the price up to 10 01 II cents And it there is enough i concert of action among them I ; ion't see why they should not ^realize at least 10 cents in spite our Mr. Peters's advice to sell. Tel < rs may be lalse in his judg- j *ient and advice; still he has eintolerable followiug in this socL<>n. I notice Lancaster is asain try ing prohibition. W? have that law her? in this countv, but the tiger makes his appearance very constantly. I hope old Lancaster will lie atile to enforce the law, but it. is almost, an impossibil it y. It is sad indeed to me to notice through your paper how fast my old friends in Lancaster are passing away. And I will say to those of my Iriends who are still left that I. too. am irettiny no the shady side fast. It seems that, 11 have lost, my health entirely, and this may tie the last that my trietids will hear ot CATAWBA RANGER. Bazette, Texas, Get. 30, 1905. Elections next Tuesday. : Nine States to Hold Elections --Also Municipal Elections in Several Large Cities. New York?Elections will be held Tue.day, November 7, in [seven Slates and six of the larger [cities. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia ana Ohio a Gov ernor and other State officers are to be chosen, and in Pennsylvania, Masyland and Nebraska mi nor State officers, .Judges or regents ot the Stale University. In New York, Indianapolis, Louis ville, Salt Lake and San Francis co a mayor and other citv ofli cers, and, in Chicago, sanitary trustees and Judges are to be voted for. The Democrats and Populists have lused in Nebraska, the Re publicans and Democrats against the Union Labor party in San Krancisbo, and the Republicans and other parties against the Democrats in Louisville In Pennsylvania there lias been a miscellaneous endorse ment ot the Republican and Democratic candid at es. TUB 1?K: HIHITIONISTS have a ticket in Massachusetts, Uhodo Island, Petina\ 1 vaina. Maryland, Ohio, Nebraska, New York. Indianapolis and Chicago; 'he Socialists iti Massachusetts, Uhode Island, Pennsylvania, Chio, Nebraska, Virginia, New York and Chicago; the Socialist Labor party in New York, and , the American party in Salt Lake There are six candidates l< r Mayor in New York and four in i nuianapniia. Crop Figures. , Estimate Made by the Southern Cotton Association. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 81.?The ' Southern Col ton association to- , day issued a statement compiled i Irom the reporia of 17,000 correspondents throughout the cot . ton belt, estimating the present crop at 9,444,314 bales. The ' statement estimates that 61.3 i er cent, ot the crop had been 1 picked and that 54 7 per cent, ginned O d. 21 Arthur Balfour, the British premier, never reads newspapers, t ii ih hhiu. Accoruing to me gog- i sip ol the lobbies, Mirb Alice j Halfour, who keeps house lor her s| bached >r brother, is a diligent i reader of the papers and clips out ' whatever she thinks he ought to a see. | t I The Brice Law Before Judge Pritchard, of the U. S. Couft-*Howell Petition Dismissed, but Case to Come up Again in Another Form. Asheville, N. G. Oct. 31.?The argument ol the South Carolina dispensary case, in which J. G. Howell of Union, S C., seeks to c -rnpel the board ol control of Union c 'iinly to allow him to reopen the dispei sary in Union by claiming that the Hi ice bill, under which the election which resulted in the dispensary being closed, is unconstitutional, came to an abrupt end today before the merits ot the case were readied. .Judge Pritchard, 011 his own motion, raised i lie point t hat the relief demanded, a mandamus, 'vould be improj er in uuv event, hat writ being used only to en :orce decrees of the court, and alter a briel argument he .lis misled the petition without prejudice. Immediately therealter, on no tion of Howell's attorneys, the court, issued a rule to rIiow cause why a mandatory injunction should not be granted, directed against the same defend ants and in lavor of the same complainant. The hearing was set tor Nov. *20, belore -Judge Pritchard, at. Richmond. Ex Attorney General G. Dun can Bellinger and R. II. Welch <it (tnlnnihiu unit lli^lrii't Atlrtr ney J. G Capers <>t Greenville represented the re'?tor. F. V. Barron ol Union represent inu i lie board ot c??n>rol; ex Con reasman Stanvarne Wilson and Indue Elect 1). E. Hvdrick of Sj iiriHtibiirt! and B F Tnwnsen t, V E. Uepnss ;ii d ) A Sawyer ?>l Union, associated with Mr. Bairnn, and represent i 11 ?r tlie ant i-dispensary tnleres's, are parileipa'ing 1 r? the oa-e. What's the Use? We stew and fret and toil and sweat And try to win a name; We strive for years witn many tears To win a little fame; A nd by and by we up and die, And all is just the same. So what's the use? We grow old in search of gold And slave our lives away ; We sell our souls for greenback rolls A nd barter lov e for prav : And by and by we up and die, And then we turn to clay So what's the use? Kor love we cry, for love we sigh, To love we fondly cling; Kor eyes that shine we peak and pine And wince at ('lipid's sting; And by and by we up and die, And everything takes wing So what's the use? kVe join the race for social place And hope at last to shine, And spend our cash to cut a dash ; And when we get a line, IVhy, by and by we up up and die? We're planted 'neatb the vjne So what's the use? lust do your best, and leave the rest To late or what you will; io play your parts and break your utrar ib And drink or life your till, for bv and by you'll up and die. And all your hopes be nil. Ho what's the use. ?Rx Mies Roue Elizabeth Cleveland, iidier ol former President Oleve and, is now a wealthy woman.? \ score 01 years ago she invested M,500 in an island oil the Maine :oa*t near Cauuhn. 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