The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, November 04, 1905, Page 2, Image 2
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? letter from Texas.
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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. |
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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. Fashion has
limed Us eyes in that direction,
ind Miss Cleveland has just sold
>art of her i-laud for $'200,000
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