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4 . The Lancaster News. ( Semi-Weekly. ? i Published ( Wednesdays and Saturdays At Lancaster, S. C., By The Lancaster Publishing Company. Charles T. Connors, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year *l 50 Six Months 75 Three Months *0 l'ftynhle in advance. t ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch, first insertion. *1.00. Each RUhseHuent.Insertion 60 cents. For three months or longer, reduced rates. Professional cards, per year, $12. Business notices, Transient Advertisements, Liost. and Found, nnd other classified sever tlsements not oxcniillnir Uf? word*. V> cents for cucli Insertion; I com a word tor ouch additional word over 2"> words. Obituaries, Tributes of resncct, cards of thanks and all matter i?f a personal or political nature to be charged for. Advertising rates by the column made known on application. Brief correspondence on subjects of general interest Invited. Not responsible for views of corrcspouucnla k. R. WYL115, President. J NO. A. COOK, Skc'Y. andTRKAS J. M. R1DDKB, .lit . Business Manacer. Entered as second-class matter, Oct. 7, IPO , 4t the postoftlce at f/unenster S C., under Act of Congress of March 3. 1 ?7t? Saturday, Sept. 28, 1907. The Illinois woman who has been divorced seventeen times must, be trying lo find her affinity. Among the candidates for the legislature in Tennessee is a man named Coin. Me is evidunly not a hay-seed. It is said that it costs five thons and dollars a day to run the Lusitania. A country newspaper could be run two days on that sum. The reason why men can never tell anything about millinery openings is because they are too busy looking at the fair milliners. A citizen of Btaniford, Conn., has discovered that litnbercer cheese is good for fish bait. A fish thus caught would at least bo worth a scent. The Marshville, N. C., Home tells this week about a mule chasing a Monroe automobile. The auto drivpr must have been making a noise like u bundle of fodder. A boy in Asheville, N. C., ha? sued his teacher for $2000 because be whipped him for kbaiug a girl. What does the lad mean?wasn't the kiss worth ' the price? I According to the Philadelphia 1 Record a pig saved a woman's 1 i:?. M i <i -i > 1 iuw hi nrw jersey me oilier clay. A two-legged hog wouldn't be 1 found risking his own life in so ( good a cause. 1 i About 25,000 shoemakers are 1 on a strike lor higher wages. " They say they won't go back to < work until they get their <le- t mands?no; not. to save their ( soles.?Anderson Mail. , They ought to stick to the last. ( t Two one-legged men in France , have performed the astonish.ng t feat of walking 800 miles?from | Marseilles to l'aris?in less than ( six weeks. There is a man in i( Lancaster who wouldn't walk u that distance in forty years, even j, if he had forty legs. THE LANCi If a womrni i8 her husbaud's better halt i9 it proper to call Mrs. Dollar who married in Tennessee the other day, fifty cents, or more??Augusta Chronicle. Yes, it she dot-sn't look too much like thirty cents. Wu Ting Fan<*, the greatest of Chinese diplomats, who, it will be recalled, has a penchant for asking questions, has been appointed to his former ponuou as minister at Washington. Lle'll no doubt bring along with him a fresh supply of interrogatories/ If the Raleigh man who has sued the Southern tor $5,000 damages tor catching a cold in one of its depots, while waiting on a train, wins his case the company will h ive to get busy enlarging its stations all over the c mntry to accommodate the inevitable rush to "wait o? trains." Editor Carpenter, ot the Anderson Daily Mail, boasts ot the fact that within ten days alter his return from Europe a liun dred-thousand-doll ar bank was established in the city. Maybe the c'tizens of Anderson con eluded that they had belter pro vide a safe place for keeping their money. See? II all the pupils now starling to school this year could he impressed with the importance of starting right, doing every day's work thoroughly, as 'a foundation tor the worn ol subsequent days, it would bring immense satisfaction to teachers and par ents, it would give the pupils themselves the agreeable sense of mastery in*read of the slavish dread of drudgery, and it would lilt them to a higher plane and give them vi-ions that are denied to those who shirk their daily tasks. Do today's work today.? Chester Lantern. lietter advh o was never given school children. "Do todas's work today" is likewise good' counsel tor every toiler in the field ol human endeavor. i lii? thing of making up lost time is a fraud. A day lost is time lost forever. THE NEW OHDIN ANCES. As will he seen elsewhere, Courcil has pissed two very imlim*t Qtlf Ar.lii\n??nn? /*?* ? ^ f' I J/W, < U?U w l Uilini^cg, "UtJ Ul I 'IK III | particularly?ihe ordinance mak-1 big it unlawful !o drink intoxicating liquors in public pi ic^s, etc, ? being f ir-reaching in its elfont. The new liquor law may Reconsidered a drastic enactment., but it is not more so than die State law?the Carey Cothran act?from which it is copied 't therefore, the ordinance has jbjec'ionable features?featuren ihat 9eem to infringe on personil rights?responsibility therefor nust be placed where it belongs ?on the legislature. The Coun iil, as we understand it, i9 simply rying to carry out, through its >wn ordinance, the provisions of he State law And we are inform id that Council i* determined o rigidly en'orce the law as it iow stands. It in realized that he law is not pleasing to many, ?ut as long as it is the law ol he State an 1, of course, of the own, it is the duty ol officials to nforce tt and ol law-abiding citsoti9 to observe it. The ordinance regulating the s kSTER NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2 running of automobiles fully exp plains itself. Ii would be well for autoistsaud the public generally to examine carefully its provisions. AN ORGANIZATION OF HOUSEKEEPERS SUGGESTED. Mrs. McDowell, editor of the Ninety-Six Star, llie only journal in South Carolina edited by a woman, though the commonwealth would no doubt be better off were there more petticoat pencil pushers, is advocating the vuganiza? ion ol a housekeepers' protective association in the Stale. In the lad. issue ol the Star Mrs. McDowell says : Advices from all part-* of the state show that the housewives are face to face with the annual problem of deserted kitchens anu wanli-tubs. A pitiful wail, that borders on di-p ir, must go up from an army of housewives every year, when-the cotton picking seasm is on, tor it is then tha1 Sarah and .lane turn Irom the meni tl service ofkitch en and tub and re poml to the ' call ot tne field." We can hard ly blame them for s-? doi-ig, since there is more mbnoy in it and a change of scene, which appeals to their natures, bat must the housewife have no ie Iress from this yearly vexation? Must she uo on from year to year and snhmit to such unbusinesslike principles in her domestic arrangement)-? We b hove the time has come for the women of South Carolina to organize a ' Housekeepers' Fro eofive As sociHtion." Through organization they can form rules and regulations that will effect the ' servant problem" and we believe eventu1 ly ieguiate ii. Such an organization, we believe, would, aocom plisll as much for the ho use-keepers as the Farmers' Union has acc^inj)lisht?<l f >r ?he farmers. This is certainly ? day of orguniz itions,un 1 it such a \ one as suggested by Mrs. Mel) >well can solve and regulu'e the p?rpl?*xing md annoying servant, problem, by all means let us have ? . THE PRICE OF COTTON. Lancaster's cotton receipts thus far this season are somewhat larger tnan liiey >voio thio time last year, notwithstanding the conceded fact that the present crop is from two to three weeks later than the crop of 1900. The logical inference from the increased receipts is that there is either more ot what is known as ' distress cotton" this year than last or that some farmers are not landing by their organizations, the Cotton Growers' A ? sociation and the Farmers' Union. Of course as long as cotton is rushed on the market better prices need not be looked tor. There is no question about the fact that the farmer? can control this matter if they will but act together. In a strong editorial headed "Cotton Growers, Stand Firm!1' tho News and Courier urges the farmers to he loyal to their organizations. It says : If the growers are to realize the value of their crop this year, they have, in our opinion, the hardest strugelo before them that they have had lor a long time. The farmers must make themselves felt, they rnu-tt obey the instructions of the Southern Col ton Association and the Far mors' Union by w.thholding cotton from the market, or the con trol of the market, will pass absolutely into the hands of the buvers. * * * The disposition among them t. ' f ; \ ' 8, 1907. ia to be satitfied too easily. Eleven cents or ten and a halt' cents, many of them tell temselves, yields a fair profit, and so they fiurry with their loaded wagons fo the towns and sell. They are making a most unhappy blunder. We are speaking plainly because we wish to amuse them to the necessity of understanding that io 8 ii uurieen cents cotton i< r eleven cents >s a mistake quite a-* great as to S-d' ten cents cot tou tor eight, or eight cents co'ton lor six and, in the long run, they will feel it in t he earn1 measure. The merchant who sells for lower prices than the goods should command doe* not know liis business, and cannot sustain his business in tunes of strmgen cy. The same rule applies to the tarmer, and ho is guilty of sui cidal foliy if ho leaves undone anything that tends to realize the highest possible prico tor his product. Throughout the South toda>' is needed such a revival of interest in their organizations among the cotton growers as has not been known since they checked the 'umbling prices in the winter and spring of 1905 bv reducing the cotton acreage. Especially should ihe well ta.do planters extend every possible assistance to their weaker brethren so that t<?<> much of the poor man's co'ton may not he dumped on the marl/n( A o in I 1* nooiof unnn /?!' !?/?.? ii ^.iii * a t ^ (i03iaiau\>g wi ?* v ibankers and me-chants so aid be invoked, we are sue it would i be given cordially, and every j nun and woman in the S n'b >rn States owning a bdoof cotton 6h uld unite to hold the staple Irocn tlie market at, leas' until data is available by which the size of the crop of 1907 may be ? estimated with some degree o. precision. As the News ami (Couriersavs, appeal should be made to the bankers an I merchants to aid in the present fwht. We have no that doubt they will reaiilv cooper.ito wilh the fsrmers, if tlie farmers will but maniiest a determination to help themselves. No' only the News and C >ur ier, but leading newspapers teen erallv, are advising the farmers not to sacrifice their cotton by sellintr at present prices. Our readers will recall that we repnb | lishedinWednesday'sissueof 1 he News a significant art.cie on the subject from the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, a journal I which might be supposed to bt more in sympathy with the manufacturers than with the fanners of the country. The Rec ord gives unanswerable reasons why the tanners should hold on j to their cotton for the best poa siuit? prices. W oman Convicted of Violating Dispensary Law. Sarah Billing, colored, was convicted before Mayor Wvlie Thursday of keeping and storing liquor. Her sentence was $75 or 30 days. She was convicted about two months ago of selling whiskey, but appealed to the Circuit court. Fine Potatoes. Mr. Wilson Howell, of (). K#> says lie is making such large ; sweet potatoes this season that he'll have to get a saw mill to out up the biggest ones. Ho has already sold 72 bushels on this market and will have hundreds more to sell, lie has 2? a iesj in p ifato-'B and expects to unth- < er 500 bushels. Mr. liowell says t raiding potatoes beats planting cotton. He is getting a dollar t a bushel for his new variety and eighty cents for the old. Farmers* Union Meeting. The Fanners'Union will meet ?t Urfmp Creek next Tuesday night, Oct. 1, promptly at 8 o* c'ock. Those wishing lo become members ot tlii^ important ordor can join at this meeting. M. .1. L0112. The Coin red Srhoote. As will be gje'i by notice elsewhere, the colored gr.tried school will open Oc . 7. the tea hers Hr<-: M. I) Lee, principal, Marie A. James, N ?nnie Moll wain, M olivia Dve, Cl-fton Hinton. Ex-Supt. Ed. Goes to Pen. Marion special in the News nod Coutier: Ex-County Sup- . eriutendont of Education (4. Rivmond Bo vy, charged with embezzl*. tnont and forgery, pleuled yuil'y to Hi k latter ch ir^e in 0' urt of General i hi- here today an i was Sentenced to i-e v? . a !. iii] u!*six years in tlie S a e P. niteutiary. Sudden Death of Mill President. _ ? Union, S. C., Sept. 24.?John W. Kant, president and treasurer ol the Vlpmuc ? Go too Mills and largely interested 111 many mipo ..t ent'-rpii ei, was (out d nt .u in b'd toila'. lie win 49 ; e >rs old. Said the Old Man to The 3o)/ "The Only V*atrh that has stiver permanent satisfaction to YOUlt father, to MY futlier, VOL* and ME, is THE HOWARD The Watch De Luxe." Why pot he able to say the same to You* Grandson? Let L)s lell You About HOWARDS in Watch Selection. I Stand Between You and Trouble. I know all about watches, the quality of the Case and the quality of the works. I time and regulate every watch I sell. I guarantee every one for a full year. I will look over your watch anv time von call timo it and regulate it. I will keep it under life long supervision, and see that it serves you well and faithfully. If you get a watch from a general store 1000 miles away, it won't lxi satisfactory at the start, and it will be less satisfactory ever after. 1000 miles of shaking and jolting is rough treatment for a new watch and you have no redress except to repent at leisure. I sell at the same price as the mail order houses. Any standard make 7 jewel movement, Nickel case $5.00, 15 jewel, $7.00 and 17 jewel AA piu.uu. B. C. HOUGH Jeweler and Optician Diamond Rings $10.00 up. To Apply for Discharge. Notice is hereby >fiver. that at 11 o'clock a hi October the lltli I will tiake my IKal retnrn and settlement is Guardian of my daughter, Gladys I'witty, to the probate oourt of I.an aster ? ounty, S Cand apply to ?aid ourt for a tlnal discharge as such Guardian. P. T Twitty . Sept. 10th 1907.