The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, September 28, 1907, Page 4, Image 4
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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. (
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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
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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.
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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.