Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, January 31, 1900, Image 2
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WHOOPING
COUGH
One of the most distressing sights, is
to see a child almost choking with
tho dreadful whooping-cough. Give
i o child Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup, the
; atest pulmonary remedy, and re!
f will come at once, the coughing
?? will re-occur less freqiaently,
: t-.'l. in a few days, the sufferer will no
< itrely cured. No other remedy can
1 so many cures.
3 r.Bull s
taugh Syrup
C'fes Whooping-Cough quickly.
Post-:- ire sninll and pleasant to take. Doctors
i'. mini it. Price js cents. At all druggistfe.
UN CM II FMH:.- <
Published hvery Wednesday and Saturday
in
l -i- sinterpr'^ ^nMislunt <ionit>?"V
A. J. CLARK K.lltnr.
One Year, $ 1.00
Six Months, 50 cts
Three Months. 25 cts
In Advanee
Wednesday. Jan. 151. lttOO.
A hill to exempt the town*
of Heath Splines and Kershaw
from the cotton weiirher's act was
killed.
Senator Tillman has yiven
notice to the senate that he will
speak during this week on the
Phillipine question
Southern and central T'\ is
Were visited l>v a hlizztnl Sun'hr ,
the mercury falling DO decrees in
a few hours.
Cotton is rolling into Lancaster
these days from every conceivaole
nook and corner. Lots of it lias
been brought here recently trnm
Union and Chesterfield.
Lancaster is the place to sell
your cotton and buy your sup
plies. They sell you goods lower
than any place we know anything
of, and our cotton buyers
ate the acknowledged leaders in
that line?away yonder ahead of
everything.
A Washington special to the
Greenville Daily News points out
that there is some probability of
this country becoming involved
in the English Doer war. It savs:
No surprise need be Celt throughout
the country it the 1'nited
States government is suddenly
put forward as an important lac
tor in the South African war.
Such a contingency is regarded
here as extremely probable,
though it is fjuit" elear the gov
eminent would like to keep mi;
of the matter a? this stage ol the
conll'ot. ()l all the great nations
the I'nited Slates is probably tluniost
disinterested in the struggle
from the standpoint #!' material
gain.
That Great Dritian's position is
put in jeopardy not only by ihe
success of 111" Doers but by the
selfish ambitions of eoutineiital
nations is known here lo he true
and from this last condition the
greatest danger to liritish pros
tign is likely to dove lop.
The Mother's Favorite.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy i> t tic i
mot tier's favorite. |i is plea-ant and
safe for children to take and at ways
cures. It is intended specially for
coughs, colds, croup and whooping
cough, and is the best medicine made
for these diseases. There is not tile
least danger in giving it to children
for it contains no opium or at her injurious
drug and may tie given as
confidently to a babe as to an adult.
For sale by J. F. Mackey ?fc Co.
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LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Letter from Representative J.
N. Est ridge.
Columbia, S U., Jan. 29, 1900.
Mr. Editor:?I will write you
short letter. We are getting
long very w j11 on our calendar
We have several whiskey hilts
before us?dispensary, local op
tion and high license. My opiu
ton is that the dispensary law
will be amended in some par
Hculars. II we could got 1 l?o
whole ninnsgpRK'nt of the dispensary
in the hands ot men who
ue tolal abstainers, it would be
j I he next tiling to prohibition.
: The house passed a marriage li
j cense bill, though I voted against
; it. I think South Carolina lias
| the best marriage laws of any
State in the I'nion, the easiest to
j get married and the hardest to
I get unmarried. We now have a
{divorce bill introduced in the
j house, which 1 shall oppose. I
I am certain it will not pass. It
i would take a two third vote to
I
t pass it.
Prof. Ilolmes. Slate geologist
of North Carolina, lectured in the
hall of Represent dives last Fri
day night on good roads. lie
also had good roads and had roads
ill.. 1
<1 tj I t ll'N .l^> ! ?\ it (I I 111' |f"
iiu'ern??l?o broad lire and iru
>,v tire. l)ii* !i always !>;<?] tin
I >! () ,|J lire Oil II.M'.ld IMliZ"(j f?> ?
mil 1 lie : arrow lire in the nun!
I?y 111 * way. tin- senate lias passed
! a broad i ire bill, ii lias not
i reached the house yet. I am
opposed In i lie broad fin1 bill. I
. ,
am )i? favor ol letting every man
run whatever kind ol' tire suit1
him. It the broad tire is best,
the people will soon tind it out.
Alter all this agitation they will
be tried. lint it is strange to see
the people over the State who do
not use wagons, are in favor ol
the broiiil tire ?i??1 tlnu>u ?-l>?
them opposed to it.
The house killed the hill to
make two additional judicial circuits
in the State. It would have
added ten or eleven thousand
dollars expense to the State.
The lawyers ditl'ei as to the con
stitutional limit ol' this session.
Some think it comes under the
forty days limi'. while others
j t itink dliferent ? ? v< e have passed
| a concurrent reset at ion. ot both
1 houses to meet in .joint session to
I
discuss and seit|e i,-. matter. I
think wo oiiirht t<> t away from
I here '.n I lie t'oiM \ lav- any vvnv.
We had a sliv' ; snow in < 'o
I luml'ia Sat , lav n ;ht.
I may v. r.t a . . a
Y"U?' i C- j *' t 1111 I V .
!. N . Ms'i'lti I
fitcatf ( ore Sent Tree.
15 y int'l re ?i I: ; I > I . ? t ttalui < v..
I Michcll st I'i'.'t, .?(lanta. (<n.. c.uy Kntcrprisc
rnotiT mat ( titain a ^ampio
iholtlc in i Inar I nimie it. It. It.? HnI
tunic Ittic 0 It ilm. 'In' ai'caiext. jfrniij
-|r" t. best Hint ? ( iMM^cst ttlo'nl RcipimI.v
incite, ('lire. v. t"'(i : I else t'ni!>.
i I.illllil' . .1 ! .. <c -11 :s i i-zi'Mi-i e.i'w
, poison. :?! ?n;?' did r?*-~i iij;
skin rn;?! i??n?5, ram "iitnrrli, rhfMi;
niaii-m. Krci- ni 'ilical :v<?viirtrlijded
' when description i.l ,\onr trouble is
fftv? ?>. Thi- tp'iierotis oiler ! worth
I v: )i' 1." M'Ti-ji* i!; ^ Simple holl'e
[nil rliartrvs prepaid. I.nrjp* l? 'Ulct.
! (coril'iinintr ?t :?? > \ n <| .;irI ol tnedii-ii:?
> for -si!? !> ill drtiirt.Ti-1 m ai . H
pi?r I"'!I !e. I'. I'-. ' i- r.lwty* of
nil oilier I'.looil Ui'tni'ilie- lor riirinj.'
I'.l.md Humor-' Try Is. l( no-:tj
tjoe yon 'illy >. Monil I'nrilJer.
? WANTI:I?!?Slun^lc Mock*.
Is incites lomr. .ill iiciirl pi no.
I'o \i. A 11 A I: I KI:.
It W. & S .l?n. Hi. I I'm I.
!-'ur Ov-TMork'Ml Kir.s ;iI I' 1.1 wnmi'ii
Simmons Si|invw Vine VVItn; or Tablets are nature's
: rentest lioon.
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OUTLOOK OF THE FARMER.
An Interesting Review ot the
Situation- Good Advice From
An Expert.
The following article from the
pen of Mr. K. 1'. Nesbitt, former
commissioner ot igriculture in
Georgia, is well adapted to the
conditions existing hi Eolith (Jar
olina, and our readers will prolit
by its perusa 1:
The farmers have been the recipients
of much gratuitous adI
vice, and 1 hesitated in the face
lot .so grave a subject, but the
J cotton area question is looming |
up again and possibly there may
be those who, despite the disas
trous lessons of the past, are con
templating the follv of again
committing themselves to an
overwhelming cotton crop. Sure
Iv we have suffered too paintull>
from this mistake to again plunge
ourselves and all connected with
us into this sea of agricultural
and financial troubles. Let each
of us narrow this question down
to his own farm and there let us
decide it. It is immaterial what
our neighbor does; it is, in a
large measure, immaterial to tis
ind.viduallv whether the cotton
area he large or small, for in the
agricultural results of 11)00 it
will be found that success lias
* :omo to the man v\ ho, regardless
ol outside influences, has planted j
l nnple provision crops and then I
?s much cotton as he can afford,
10 thoroughly prepare for, highly
manure and rapidls cultivate.
Short or large crop, high or low |
j !?r th > tir-o chance !
I to win, :?11'i if the details of pre t
miration. fertiligation and cnlti i
; ?ii->n i?? so managed that lie
the 1 irgest vodd from thej
smallest aiva, ho has mastered!
the secret r.f successful cotton I
production. Having done his
n'most, in his individual oapaci ;
rv. to settle the ever recurring
cotton problem, he must seek j
means to com bine with his brother
'arm ra, with the merchants and
with the bankers, in order that
the general cotton crop mav be
held against the pernicious inllu
ences of speculative combinations
and their pewer to wrest from his
Lmnp mi- limn mtiniiiere ne
an realize a fair return for hi*
investment.
The bonded warehouse bill,
now a law. is perhaps the first
step toward the emancipation of
the Southern farmer Irom his
bondage to Wall and Lombard
streets. Here we have the incep:ion
of a plan whereby the farm
er who wishes to hold his cotton
may, for a nominal sum, store
and insure his crop, the ware
house reeeipt being a letter oil
credit acceptable in any business!
r.insaction. 1??' mutual iilto'
nient both farmer and merchant
are secured. Should the p'an be j
come general, the glutted mark !
fts. ?n often witnessed in the
earlier fall months, will be con|
-igned to a dead past, never to
Me- resurrected. The farmer* will
' by this plan be enabled to market
I 'lo'ir i otton with more judgment :
! i <? ond'T lie- whip and spur
i neci sitv. Witness the power
' I lever winch the limited co
iii ration hi the present season;
': s pr"V??n in f .i*. i: 1 *r up prices,
loyally have the hankers, i
! tli<* merchants ami our local J
, manufacturers upheld the farm J
rs. and right rovally has the)
price of cotton withstood the re
I i.p i?ni| and vicious attacks of
manipulators, speculators and
I "prophets of o\ il."
it Iris been asked, if a man has
; the 1 .nil. with sullicienf supplies
and 'tick, is he not justified,
alter setting aside an amply suf
I
I ic it'iii ;i 11 'I if?r provision and
i iiir.lv crops, in crowding in
I <.vi rv r-ossilacre for cotton?
Yos, .unl no. Yes. if he has good
I land. ?.r ?ncb as h >i heon gradll
I :i 11V brought up to il CO'?|i state 1
i of fertility. No. if hi? acres are
like hundreds and t lion?'role over
the South, each war condemned 1
to cotton culture, and u-hich do !
not pay the co=-t of production. 1
In proportion as the hales mini* 1
on these denuded acres co to,1
-well the genera 1 crop ami thus 1
reduce the average price, they, 1
to that extent, increase the bur 1
den which their cultivation imposes.
No greater mistake was
ever made, than to rush over the
preparation of a large area of
poor laud, to be stimulated by a
little commercial fertilizer, and
planted indiscriminately in cot
ton.
At the beginning of a new year
the cott'?n farmer is apt to over
estimate the fertility of Ins soil
us well as his ability to prepare
and cultivate a full quota of
broad acres. It is onlv after b?
is irrevocably committed to the
"extensive" plan, and finds him
self "over cropped/' that he real
izes his mistake, and begins to
wi<h that a part at least of his
land had been devoted to o roct
or to some renovating crop. In
the final settlement, however, he
<ioos not always realize the fac
that the painful disparity between
the receipts and expenditures of
his ^ ear's accounts might be
traced directly to this hig leak
of injudicious cotton cultivation.
It certainly does not pay to plant
an indiscriminate and wide area
in cotton?though a man have
supplies, stock and surplus of
well-worn and overtaxed acres of
hard run land.
In the history and progress o
our agriculture that period ha?
heen reached where the farmers
cannot raise and sell the raw pro
ducts of the farm at a satisfacto
rv profit, if we take intoconsider
atinn the deterioration of our
I a n d.
This is a startling statement.
Pur ii is made deliberately ami
titer thorough consideration, anil
op investigation I' Will lie t>.|| ml
that such is >lic history ?>t over*
agricultural cmitirv, where ciops
nave he ii gtown ami suid <.11 iti?
t n ni lor in toy successive war*,
without an adequate return he
tnji made to tlie soil tor tin* clem
"ins re lit o veil in those crops. As
au illustration ot this trot , we
have onlv to point to Ireland,
whose poverty stricken people,
under the bondage to alt n lords,
have seen their crops removed
and expended elsewhere, year
after year, and nothing of thi?
departed fertility replaced
In our own esse many causes
have tendered to bring us to a
condition where we have been
compelled to study methods to
restore and preserve the fertility
ot our soils and keep up the pro
duetive power of our farms. At
i lie close ot 1 he war, much of the
land at. the south was impoverished
from successive years of cul
ture and despite the fact that the
war left us very pour people, in
(ifiOrifia ttPAnoptv ttulnoj
0 I/H/I?V1 ? T ? aj UCiO UC
being reduced from $000,000,000
t<? $150,000,000, our farmers took
up the struggle brave.v. hoping
to retrieve their losses in the Inr
I her product ion of cotton, which
ruled bewilderingl.v high.
I'he infatuation of high prices
in every avenue <>t trade and
commerce prevailed. t'rodii iv:ieasy,
to.? easy, and everything!
needed on the larm was ruinous;
Iv dear. Mules $150 to $"JT)0; j
liour $10, $15, $20 per barrelmeal
in iho same pr portion ; j
meat 22 ! > 25 cents a p.ui nd ; far m j
laborers $150 to $1 ?5 per vcai.j
and rations; besides guanc $00j
per ton and larm tools were eag ,
crly purrha-e.l at prices which we
WOllId now regard is almost urn I
hil>itor\. Uut this htyh pressure!
policy couli] not continue liulctio
itely, neither couldthe incline.s
prevailniu before the war, ex |
cept in rare and favnm i |
be success! u II v brought over u.5>.j
the new conditions, which Jolinu
i*d thrtt hi cm r tide and ih vast i ;
tii?u ?-?rnjiulo
At le.o-l 1)0 per cerif, o| t he |
tllHIi who plunged into the deft
( erat and - p i 11.? f i 'e p 0 111(1 lie (
came h"|ieh -sb lnv dved. iu.tii
turner- tic; nn-r -nnnts. S he i
hl_'h f.rI ?' c I'oti .(id !tie " (
With \v loo. ! ?ii It pr?. -n()p!l
c :il<! he j.o i' ( i-e?l. cio-dir r i r?' tie|
|itr pi . t i ' tIn ; -i l)i{ i
miinerat;vc < t> n -. c-. tim.pt
imI in a iiv men ptii < vet v n\;;i!
able acre tn c< twin ami n? t i-im
opiate ttwh or i-e a tntalh m
adequate area m precision or
mipply crops of anv kind When I
the price of cot tec, declined, both j
the farmer, who had borrowed,
and the merchant, who had loan I
cd, round themselves saddled
with debts which only years of
earnest and patient labor could
hope to wipe out. In many instances
after a vain struggle to
regain the lost vantage around,
the merchants went to the wall
and the old plantations passed
into the hands of strangers.
This is a sad dicture and pity
'tis, 'tis true. It was oul> those
uien who followed inure conservative
methods and who apprehended
the new era just, beginning
to dawn on our agriculture,
who were able to retain their
birthright and weather the storm
ol financial depression, which
swept with sit en teari n I force
over the entire South. But that
generation has passed ? new men
have come upon the scene and
now prevail. The strong, voting
business men oi the south, farm
I 1 -.4- 1 * tf .
ers hini iiiercnaois arm manirac?
turers and bankers have been
trained in a very different school
from the magnificent goiiieu age
of the old South Agricultural
literature has been spread broadcast
over tbe land, experiment
station* nave multiplied, farmers'
institutes and colleges autl other
met boils I or disseminating agricultural
and up to date principles
are in easy reach < r the army
?>t earnest workers constituting
To per cent o? our population wbo ^
are reading, studying ami applying
these vital truths Air*'adv
diversified farming and rotation,
fruit growing, cattle raising, and '
butter making sire taking the
place ol the one crop system with
its attendant bondage to debt and
the independent farmer who can
make Ins cotton and hold it is not
the rare avis he once was.
In technical education and
manual training, in manufacturing,
in i'1'i'rv other i|??vo1 Miment
of business, the new South is
proudly faking her plsce nmotig
rnmmprcisl tuitions. The era lor
which thirty odd years of lessons
painfully learned, disappointments,
disaster? and final successes
have prepared the wsiv, is being
usheredin, and on the banners
of the twentieth century we see
the glimmer of victory?victory
for farmers, merchants, hankers,
manufacturers?all business in- *
terests fighting in one grand army ^ '
to hold the commercial and agricultural
supremacy of the South
against the world ! From this
union must come our strength for
all future conflicts against the
forces and combinations that
would strive to reap the entire
profits from our great crop?cotton?which
is the giganic industry
of the world. R. T. Nksbitt,
Marietta, Ga., January 8, 1000.
am Ha
and! Hearty Now/*
writes C. B. li.; o! Marshall, Mich..
"a living proof <>i the efficacy of
Dr. Mi! Heart Cure, i have suf- ,
f?*r\ i t V;? ire i*s> t-?-? 1* ?--1 a- Ll
??.??. ? > -.a. i I V^ili it I'd 11 U UUDlc* |
and b-vame oO bed I co'jjtt not lie
d( > sleep Physiciansfailedto
hvij- iv .1 1 was advised to try
I )r.M? .? { ' .me, which benefited
: v ! 1 continued using
i . v.: ? in perfect health."
??& MILES'
..art Cue*a^
.old l?v all druggists on guarantee
t bottle benefit* or" money back.
. ' i n heart and ; < / ? sent fr?v . ,
rim Ind.
J !'. Anplcton, Justice of I'enrr, ( lur.iS' '.1
huru. N .1 . "fay*. "DeWltl's Little Uar.y Winits
ore the best pillh made (or ip.ktion.
We use no ilherx Quickly cures u.l liver anil
iiowel trouble*. ( rawford Bros. MB*1 * *
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