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Down on Bucket shops. f Surveyor Belk Thinks that they Should be either Legislated or Licensed out of Business. 4? Mr. Kditor: 1 would like to see our people rise in their might against the bucket shops and wire houses, like our neighbors oyer in Georgia, and put them out of business. I believe it was Ilenry Ward Beeclier that said, gambling and intemperance were the two greatest evils of our land. I believe today more of our people lose their senses, their | moneys, their lands and their homes by dealing in bucket shops than in any other way, un * less it is by drunkenness. From what one of the bankers tells me, our Lancaster people must have lost something like fifty thousand dollars last season i in the business. Judge Gillespie in a charge to the grand.jury at Houston, Tex., included the bucket shops as joints, and therefore indictable. Harvie Jordan, of The Cotton Journal, closes a piece this way: "What, then, is the the fair inference? That the whole game is a cold blooded swindle. My con- , elusion in that what is needed is io setm 10 congress men who hav? sense enough, decency enough, patriotism enough, and honesty enough to take by the 1 throat the rotten garablin' den known as the Nesv York Cotton Exchange and wipe it oil' the face oi the earth, and as its so called business is interstate, it can be cleaned out by the Federal Congress.'' 1 hope our State will follow I the example of Georgia, and all of our representatives will do all they can to bring about these ' results. And coming to our own 1 town, 1 hope the council will 1 take the matter up belore the i beginning of another year and either put out the bucket shops , entirely, or put the license up to not less than ten to fifteen thous- ( and dollars. It seems that it our , council is willing for this whole- L sale business to continue right here in our midst, that it ought j to put a license high enough to < get back a fourth of the probable losses. They must admit that it has hurt and is still hurling our town and beginning to hurt the county, besides being an evil in | iiselt. I like the stand tin* plucky ( little Mayor of Rock Hill. Mr. 1 Roddey, has taken, that it we 1 don't punish tlie bucket shot/ 1 dealers, why punish any form ot gambling. And if it is wrong to deal in cotton lutures, it is 1 wrong tor a council to grant a company license to do wrong. Why not put down (lie bucket shops, and buy actual cotton, 1 thus helping the market? T. M. Helk. Hlood Poisoning results from chronic constipation, which is quickly cured by I>r Knit's New L?lfe fills 'i hey remove all poisonous germs from the system ami infuse Dew lift and vigor; cure sour stomach, nou?ia, he?da<-he, <Ii//iu?-km, colic, without griping or discomfort. '2i?c. Guaranteed by J F Mackey Co, Crawford tiros, Fuuderburk Pharmacy, druggists. V Read?The News. Thanksgiving Day. President Roosevelt Issues I Proclamation Naming[Nov. I 29, as Day of Thanksgiv- I ing S Washington, Oct.25.?The President today issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 20 th, as a day of Thanksgiving. The text of the proclamation is as follows: "The time of year has come when, in accordance with the wise custom of our forefathers, it becomes my duty to set aside a special day of thanksgiving and praise to the Almighty because of the Nestings we have received, and of prayer that those blessings may be continued. Yet another year of widespread well being has past. Never before in our M history or in the history of any J' other nation has a people enjoyed | more abounding material prop- h perity than is ours; a prosperity { so great that it should arouse in $ us no spirit of reckless pride, and 7 least of all a spirit of heedless P disregard of our responsibilities; but rather a sober sense of many r? blessings and resolute purpose, Cj under Providence, not to forfeit % them by any action of our own. ^ "Material well being, indispensible though it is, can never 9 be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon this foundation, then our ; national life will be as meaning- $ less and empty as a house where i $ only the foundation has been | laid. Upon our material well be- | ing must be built a superstruc- 3 hire of individual and national S life lived in accordance with the 5 |Q Ti'Q nf tKo bi/vh--4 .~..0 V,. mo in^iiehi morality, or 3 else our prosperity itselt will H in the long run turn out a curse 1 instead of a blessing. We should 3 be reverently thankful for what S we have received, and earnestly ^ bent upon turning it into a means | of grace and not of destruction. ^ ^'Accordingly, I hereby set ?? apart Thursday, the 2!*th day of ? November next as a day of * thanksgiving and supplication on g which the people shall meet 1 in their homes or their | churches, devoutly acknowl | iege all that has been given them, ? and pray that they may in ad- l* dition receive the power to use these gifts aright. g. "The Clansman" Suppressed ^ in Philadelphia, upon Pro- * test of Negroes. Philadelphia, Oct. 24.?Mayor Weaver today issued an order suppressing the further produc I tion here of the drama "The B Chuwiiv... " ?1.W.U ? . ^ , "invu ueiiaii ia-1 ^ night with what was to have been a week's engagement at^ the Walnut street theatre. 1'he mayor's action was prompted by o! t lie demonstration last night at ' ^ the theatre by several thousand * colored cit izens. ! ot t A delegation of representa- ec^ tive colored men, consisting of ? t ciergeinen, doctors, lawyers and(ine businessman, called upon the c mayor today and protested, l^a against the continuance of the play because ot its alleged ten- J dency to arouse racial prejudice'or ' and to riot. The chief spokesman cit.> for the delegation was former If ha Congressman George LI. White,[cu! / RESOLVED J that^now we areatthet - Top/we . s"ha ll makeThincs |7L Spin, ve made Thing i wi before, and the mills made thing's Sp/n where allofowl materials came from. DcNT . -. Vou u/ant things From the store where the hustle js? W.IOF COURSE You Do' ! ; T buster brown., i > r tK r o ,eiuuMi? *71WA t R1./ Isn't it a oleasure for von to nin- * -i~*u~~ y ?v. j uu I v.lULUt3 from the store you know is at the top. Vou can then feel that you have clone your I est. The store at the top has many advantages over the store at the bottom. A store that has climbed the ladder of success has these advantages over the one that is only climbing. First, they have the pick of the market. The best makers of clothes want their goods in the stores of the best sellers of clothes. Second, price. The store at the top has good ''credit," because it can buy for cash. Did you ever borrow money? You know what interest is then. You don't have to pay a higher price ! ?interest?when you deal with us, because we buy for cash, paying no interest, but getting large discounts ; again, because for over- v; coats, suits, underwear, shoes, hats?everv - J thing- men and boys wear?we are at the top. Yours truly, Lancaster Mercantile to. .2 Morth Carotin;*, who now re- j endanger lives. Inconsequence LANCASTER SC CHESTER s here. he ordered the withdrawal oM he I railway company ? i # _ . ? . i niece. schkdclr in kffkct may p, im. iounsel for the management >' ' daily kxckpt mnuav he theatrical production claim j 1 1 Ka-.t. m t.h.. :hat there was redress through I hanger trom the Plague. Lv Lll t l.t(.r WK*1 ".?U * s.? m 3is p m e , , , , Lv Fort L iwn IIII a m 3 is c it courts tor those opposed to I ?? grave linger trom the plngatof ' Lv ll.i-i ri.wile f U .? n. * 00 o m , and colds tli .t nit- so prevalent, no - ! KU'M?urif tt.Vi ? m t is p a; play ana charged that the |mm yon take Dr KIdr'h New Discovery for 7 ? " *** p m 'inn* ?i r l " ^ ?* ? iuuc? juu. n;( . i? on a II. 7 1>J p DQ F^F" "MU 1,01 r,,e Walls,0/ i 'orast ? TtV \i '-Art.'-:'If*aliod A?!.9olu?b,a-Sou.R? 1000 ? 106pm vers were responsible for last K*ti 1 to peovle living in clinmtes where i E A ST MO L" N Ij , , , cough" and cohts prevail. I tint! it <|nickly Lv C<>lutnr>1fc?Sou. Ky <?6 a m 3 h> p nc. lit S riotous demonstration. emls the n. It prevs nts in nui nil. cores 1., i"ur,. ! ?s< ..:ty s .1 :r. ' r> pre lat<ri|>} a. gives woniUrlol relief in asthma i?v ot.e-ttr tnu rr. ? l > p ie i fter hearing both silles Mav- Itn?l Im\ t<*v.r. an.I makes wr,?k lung* I.V Kichhurir 9 40 a n. s3S? p a ... . , . , strong enough to wart oil consumption, Lv h.isiob&v lie i? No a rr. * e> p rt Weaver look counsel Willi the c.sKl.e-.n. >. .oi ?... ? i"'ivtlgS t solicitor and later decided "Sodnbark Pi',?li?.'cyC0' ? , . connections I "The Clansman" was cal- c.,oaled to produce disorder and Subscribe to The News. bANCAS1 a"i^'us^s?cVriaie?aei.i