The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1895 Page: 8 of 8
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Houses and lots cheap if you buy
of J. E. Moore.
The Micado repeated Monday
oijjht to a fair audience.
grown in population, in number an
extent of farms and farm lands, in
horses and mules, until we can and
are producing more cotton than the
The English lion on the corner of worid needs for spinning purposes
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12th street and Ave. C, is a very at-
tractive sign for Harris’ drug store.
It is the emblem of royalty and do-
minion. ,
According to the revised law,
Temple will be called upon to put
out and elect 6 aldermen, 2 from
each ward, but the entire city will
vote for each alderman as for every
other officer. There was some slate
making yesterday in accordance
with this idea. There never was a
time when the city needed to fall
into the hands of faithful, efficient
management more than now.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
gives the best satisfaction of any
cough medicine I handle, and as a
seller leads all other preparations in
tins market. I recommend it be-
cause it is the best medicine I ever
handled for coughs, colds and croup.
A. W. Baldridge, Millesville, 111,
For sale by W. E. Willis Druggist.
Oh! My Back!
A good many tired men and wo-
men could get rid of that pain in
their back if they would trv Parks’
Sure Cure for Liver and Kidneys.
The trouble is usually there, and
Parks’ Sure Cure reaches and cure,
it. Sold by R. G. Hamill.
My Sweetheart.
Her cheeks are like the roses,
Her brow is lily white;
And well I know the reason,
She takes Parks’ Tea each night.
She’s strong and well and happy, too,
Her face is clear and bright,
And laughingly she tells the cause,
“I take Parks’ Tea each night.”
Sold by R. G. Hamill.
A severe rheumatic pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mr. J. H.
Loper, a well known druggist of Des
Moines, Iowa, for over six months.
At times the pain was so severe that
he could not lift anything. With
all he could do he could not get rid
of it until ho applied Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm. “I only made three ap-
plications ot it,” he says “And have
since been free from all pain.” He
now recommends it to persons simi-
larly afflicted. It is for sale by W.
E. Willis, Druggist.
Col. Godwin on Cotton Trade.
In looking up this subject in the
interest of the American Cotton
Growers’ Protective Association
and for tne benefit of all, I have
taken an inventory, as it were, as
far as I could with the data at hand
to ascertain, if possible, if the south
really had the agricultural ability to
produce a cotton crop, any and
every average growing season, that
,.would glut the market of the world
and thereby cause a ruinous reduc-
tion in the value of this great staple.
In pursuit of this object, I have used
the government report of the elev-
enth census for the year 1890, and
the report of the secretary of agri
culture for 1893. So if any one
doubts my statistics, remember I
have Uncle Sam behind me.
To avoid contusion and put this
question in as compact form as pos-
sible, I leave ont Virginia, Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory, all of which com-
bined produce something over 100,
000 bales of cotton, and will only
figure on the ten cotton states,
namely: North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala-
bama, Tenuesse, Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Texas. These
ten states have an agragate popula-
tion of 14,050,291); urban population,
as defined by the census report 1,-
258,294; leaving 12,792,000, or 91 per
cent, on farms or in the rural dis-
tricts. The total number of acres of
land in these ten cotton producing
states is 436,472,745. Oi this amount
there is in improved farm lands 77,-
T06;203 acres, or a fraction less than
20 per cent, of the whole. The num-
ber of horses and mules owned in
the alxive named states is 3,821,125.
Of this unmber it is calculated that
821,125 are in use in towns and
makes it no more conspicuous in the
trade and commerce of the world
than the great part it plays in the
spinning industries of all civiliza-
tion. Large as these interests are,
and as important as they mav seem,
they are dwarfed into insignificance
when compared to the interests of
the 13,000,000 of toilers that bow
and while it is of exceeding great
value for that particular purpose, it
can be used for no other, and cannot
be eaten or drank by either man or
beast, it does not deteriorate, will
keep for years unless exposed to
damp or fire, and a surplus carried
over from one crop to the next
hangs like a mountain of lead to
weigh down prices and decrease the
value.
Let us look at the figures as given
above in the light of capacity, of
ability, of power to produce.
1. Population. Thirteen millions
actually on farms or in villages ad-
jacent thereto. If we divide this
number of people into families of
four each, it gives us three and a
quarter millions of families. Now,
if we assume that each family can
produce four bales of cotton, which
is a very moderate estimate, the re-
sult is 13,000,000 of baless—more
then sufficient to run the world’s
spindles if every other cotton-grow
ing country abandoned the business.
2. Let us see how the farm lands
would show up. Seventy-eight mill-
ions of acres available. Of this a
little less than 21,000,000 acres is
the largest estimate ever made by
trusted authority on the amount
planted in cotton in any one year.
The crops have averaged in the last
ten years about one 500-pound bale
to two and a half acres. Now, sup-
pose we should plant 30,000,000 of
acres, and we have plenty of land,
people and plow horses to cultivate
it, the amount for each family would
be eight and a half acres, the crop
12.000. 000 of bales, which is much
more than the world requiries of
commercial cotton, if none was
grown elsewhere.
• 3. We have shown there are
3.000. 000 horses and mules actually
on farms in the ten states. It is
very moderate to estimate that each
of these horses and mules would cul-
tivate a crop that would produce
four bales of cotton, which would
give us a crop of 12,000,000 of Amer-
ican bales of 500 pounds each. If
we reduce this to European or spin-
ning bales ol 400 pounds each, it
gives us 15,000,000.
According to the figures of Ellison
& Co., of Liverpool, who are regard-
ed as the highest authority on cot-
ton statistics, the total consumption
last year by Great Britain, the con-
tinent, East Indies and the United
States was 12,832,000 bales of 400
pound weight. This has only been
exceeded one year, in 1891-92, when
it was 12,929,000 of 400-pound bales.
I submit these figures and facts to
my brother cotton growers with the
hope and earnest desire that they
will give them such consideration as
thegravity oi the situation demands.
My figures are as near correct as I
could get them; my estimates and
conclusions may be faulty, but they
seem moderate ana reasonable to
me. One thing no unprejudiced
mind can doubt, that we are able to
glut the cotton market anv average
growing season and cause prices to
go below the cost of production.
Suppose we plant a full crop this
season, as much as in 1894, and it
should not be a good growing sea-
son, but we make 8,500,000 bales.
That, with the surplus carried over
from this and previous years might
put cotton down next fall on planta-
tions to 3 or 3 1-2 cents. This would
not only ruin the grower, but would
demoralize and damage every other
branch of business or industry in
the cotton states.
It is asked, what of the negro?
cities, leaving 3,§00,000 to do farm ) lie is absolutely under the control
work.
These figures mean a great deal
when intelligently considered, and
their significance is increased when
it is remembered that millions of
people outside of the cotton states
are affected directly or indirectlyly
by the size and worth of this great
crop. Its enormous money value
down to it like oxen in the long hot
summer days to weed out the grass
and watch the slow 'growth of the
•otton to maturity.
it is this latter class, indeed all
either of the landlord or the man
that furnishes supplies. Tell him to
plant more of everything else than
lie ever did before, and not to pull
down the temple that has sheltered,
fed and fostered his race.
In conclusion I desire to say to all
who are nearly or remotely interest-
ed in this subject, the Cotton Grow-
ers’ Protective Association will do
everything in their power to hasten
the all-important work of reducing
the cotton acreage. But it is now
approaching planting time in the
ing meetings to discuss this
matter in all its phases. Pass reso-
lutions, give them to your county
papers and send a copv to the large
city dailies. They will all gladly
aid you, not alone to get up a heal-
thy sentiment as to the reduced
acreage in cotton, b»t will lend a
helping hand to encourage the in-
creased planting of all other crops.
Talk this business at home and
abroad, in season and out of season,
until it shall echo and re-echo from
one end of the cotton belt to the
orher, Do not be diverted from this
single object by discussion of the
currency, bad trade, or depression
in business. We understand them,
but we can’t help ourselves immedi-
ately, so far as those conditions are
concerned. But to reduce the cot.
ton acreage intelligently will bring
speedy and permanent relief. It is
entirely in our own hands and under
our own control. Let us act like
men and drive old gloomy 5-cent
cotton from our midst forever, and
have in its stead something brighter
and better—higher prices, independ-
ence and thrift. Respectfully,
J. R. Godwin,
President of Tennessee,
Memphis, February 23, 1895.
TEXAS NEWS IN BRIEF.
—Smallpox is spreading very rapidly
In Texas.
—Measles have become epidemic in
Houston.
—Fort Worth baa two or three casaa
of smallpox.
—Rain is much needed by the farm-
ers of Kimble county.
- Smallpox has broken out on the
county poor farm in Hill county.
Fire at CJehnesneil consumed several
business houses a night or so ago.
—Eleven cases of smallpox are re-
ported in Navarro county and five fatal.
—The dormitory of the Simmons cob
lege at Abilene haB been destroyed by
fire.
—A night or bo ago thirteen prison-
ers made their escape from the Navarro
county farm.
—A uegro convict has made his es-
cape from the county farm of Wash-
ington county.
—In an affray at Leon Junction, Cory-
ell county, Henry Ebric, a German
farmer was killed.
—One B. F. Wilson is in jail at Uvalde
Charged with having fired the Sargent
hotel at that place.
—At Overton, fire from sparkB Irom
au engine, consumed a platform and
125 bales of cotton.
At Nookenut, Wilson county, the
store of H. S. Hastings was recently
robhed and burned.
—A day or two ago a man was run
over §y a street Qar in San Antonio
and instantly killed.
—Alex Kahn, a saloon keeper at Mar-
shall, has been found gfiilty of having
a screen before his bar.
—In the recent election in Wise coun-
ty for the location of the eounty seat,
Decatur won the prise.
—The date for the next fair of Bell
county has been set to be held at Bel-
ton detober 8 to 12 inclusive.
—Almost the entice business portion
of Burleson was destroyed by fire on
the morning at the 2ftt% ipgt
—Refugio Bertram and Jose Sanchez
have been landed in the Laredo jail for
smuggling horses from Mexico.
—F. M. Pooshee, a stranger, was
found dead in his bed at the Wortham
house in Waco a day or two ago.
—Two Mexican wqmen are in jail at
Lare^p for attempting, to pass counter-
feit Mexican money in that city.
—In a family difficulty near Farmers-
.ville, CoHin county, Deputy Sheriff
Burns 6hot and killed Tom Reed.
—At Keith, Grimes county, the 8-year-
old child of J. P. Baron was severely
burned while playing noar the firs.
—A destructive fire visited Terrell a
couple of nights ago, and a number oi
business hoqses were soon in ashe6.
-Forty-two tramps wars arrested a
day on two ago at Beaumont and the
next day put to work on the streets.
—At <3ii.cp, Wise coqntv, sparks from
an engine sat fire to", and destroyed a
platform and twelve niries of cotton.
—A recent destruotive fire at Long-
view destroyed the Alamo hotel and
several residences and bvjsines houses.
—In a row in a saloon at Marble
Falls, R. Livingston cut 8. Edinanson
in the side, indicting a serious wound.
—At SWeot Ht»me, Lavaoa county,
William llelms, while twirling a pis-
tol, accidentally shot himself in the
bowels.
—It is stated that with kbo exception
of §80,000 the bonps. for securing deep
water at Aransas Pass has been sub-
scribe^
—Washington’^ V^gthday was ob-
served by the eijby §<fho®fe *n nearly
tfikthe oities, towns and ruraJ^istriots
in Texas.
B. Carr, the famous fed-
eral commander, is dead.
Nearly every city and town in Lou-
isiana is afflicted with measles
They have an influenza epidemic in
Berlin', the capital of Germany.
George McBride has been elected CT.
8. senator from Oregon to succeed Sena-
tor Dolph.
Thirty business houses have been de-
stroyed by fire in the village of Hamil-
ton, N. T.
It is Bald the present outbreak in
Cuba was formulated and matured in
New York city.
American cattle have been /debarred
from the French republic on alleged
sanitary grounds
Three lives were lost and a number
of person injured at a recent fire in
Hot Springs, Ark.
Japan is mobilizing another army
preparatory to making an attack on the
island of Formosa.
Two ladies were recently held up at
Hartshorne, I. T., and. robbed of small
amounts of money.
Late news from Rio de Janeiro re-
port cholera aa raging in the state
of Minas, Geraes, Brazil.
Rev. Samuel G. Jones, grandfather
of Rev. Jones, the evangelist, recently
died it Cartersville, Ga., aged 01.
A day or two ago an entire block was
destroyed by fire at Prescott, Ark., in-
cluding the office of the Picayune.
An outbreak in Cuba has occurred
and the revolutionists are enthusiastic
and sanguine of ultimate success.
Governor Morton of New York has
signed the bill prohibiting the display
of foreign flags upon public buildings
in that state.
The number of tons of ice already
harvested and stored at Alton, 111., is
125,000, besides 2,000 carloads shipped
to other points.
Two men were killed and eighteen
almost dead from suffocation, were
recently taken from a mine at Pratt
City, Ala., afters fire.
At Chicago, 111., Minnie Dingat, a do-
mestic, aged 21, was killed by Joseph
Wyman, a tailor, who ihfen stttt Witti-
self. A lovers’quarrel.
At Lake City, Mich., during the ab-
sence of J. Gaukel apd wife, the home
was burned including their two chil-
dren, aged 5 and 2 years.
The lower house of the California
legislature has passed a bill prohibit-
ing the wearing of high hats in thea-
ters or public assemblies.
It has been discovered that a plot is
foot by parties in New York to kidnap
George Gould’s sons, Kingdon and Jay,
and hold them for ransom.
The legislative committee eft* wo-
man’s suffrage in Massachusetts have
reported favorably on a bill granting
full municipal suffrage to women.
The bill making it a misdemeanor for
women to wear high hats at the thea-
ter, church, etc., has been defeated in
the house of the Missouri legislature
Ella and Edie Brooks were crossing
the railroad track near Mansfield; O.,
a day or two ago, when they Wtfce
struck by a freight train and gronad to
pieces. i
Joseph Martia, now on Cuban Boil
for the the third time, will be tMi head
of the provisional government if the
revolutionists are successful in that
country.
A tablet was Recently unveiled iu
Baltimore to mark the site of the old
court house, from the Steps of wMVh
was first read to the citizens ef HttHit-
more the declaration of independence.,
The Governor of Georgia bee been
appealed to for protection against n
threatened uprising of the Aegntyee
against the whites near the tdvgn of
Anniston on the line between Alabama
and Georgia.
The street railway employes in Mil-
waukee have petitioned the Wisconsin
legislature to pass a law oomppilfog
r&llroafi companies in that state §§ pro-
vide vestibules on their oars discing
whiter months.
From London comes the Beam that
at a recent cabinet council it re-
solved to persist in theft oojaqlufcifcin
that the condition of the finances of
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For Confections? Try Hun for the nicest line of Fruits, Nuts,
Cigars, Tobacco, etc. No. 14, 12th Street.
BAKE
India forbids dispensing with the lfn
port duties on cotton.
The following state tiufekt-Mfjte m-
cently put forth by the proMhftujptes
in convention at Providence * :
Smith Quinby, governor; W. B. Frank-
lin, lieutenant gwvernor; George P.
Horte, secretary of state; James A.
Williams, attorney general.
The house of representatives
Carolina recently resolved
out of respect to the "memory of
erick Douglas. As it reftia^d1 t§ git
journ on Lee’s birthday, thiq action
has caused great indignation in Ra-
leigh and other cities of that stale.
A sensation was created in the houre
of the Illinois legislature theoNNttthjr,
when a bill was introduced to
the acts passed in 1845 and 18U, epa-
powering bishops at the Roman Catho-
lic church to forfeit all gold pMbt *nS
convey all real estate for the benefit of
the church.
—An incendiary fire at Yoakum de-
the burn of Mte. f>- May, to-
isles «n
stroyed the burn
gether wfth 250 bales
busimls of corn.
—It is estimated that about 40 per
cent of the cattle in Harris county have
djed from the effects of the late snow
and cold weathe?.
—The Observer end Mail>y Light s^t
Cqrsicuba have been oorisplida,fed and
will siym, appear bcKqA ihe public a$>
The* C<Jurier:Light.
' —A ^Arlington, Tarrant county, while
preparing a fuse to blast ip a well,
Raber.t Ditto vap ipripuely wounded
by the premature qjeftosian of dyn-
amite.
—Jas. Riley, who escaped from the
Hallettsville jail last January while
jBhder adthrefc yqft*’ afen^qifct foat^eft;
vrae recently recaptured 14 Hardin
—"3* ■
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Contractor and Buildei
All kinds of of Job Work, Repairing, Painting,
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Shop Southwest Corner 10th St. and Avenue C. "
The Free Coinage Bill
Don’t interest you half as much as cheap goods.
I keep the best grades of
Staple and Fancy Grocerie:
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, ETC.,
at bed rock prices. Give me a call,
J. H. HXLPXIN,
Belfalls,
Texas
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in Blood Poison
Rheumatism
and Scrofula
and DYSPEPSIA
Are entirely r«movM by P.F.P.
—Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potar-
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earth.
Aberdeen, O.. July 21,1891.
Messrs Lippman Bros., Savannah,
Ga.: Dr.AK Sirs—I bought a bottle ql
--- “ it Spring*.Ark.,aatt
costume became aeeMectel>y HkGhefi
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the fire was extinguished she was ter-
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hay afuTHOO upper part of the
A mob of 5,00(1 Hrtinpf GqgbjjMMfe
tack an ex-priest while delivering a
lecture on Catholicism in Savannah,
Ga., a day or two ago. The military
were summoned and after
charges on the
restored. The coolness of
and military officers preventaobSoo'd
shed.
The bill for the remount of tiN (Rath
capital qf MfssourivfatfU* ^ff|§iyid Mltty
to Sed&ria has paasatf. Witefe iff
the legislature of tlmt atAbMted igav
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the governor. The removal is condi-
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the weak and debilitated, give*
strength to weukened nerve*, expels
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For prlmury. secondary and tertiary
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In ail blood and skin diseases, ilka
. blotches, pimples, old chronic ulcers,
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Springfield, Mo. , Ang. 14th, 1893.
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Send three bottles C. O. D.
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JA8. M. x, EWTON.
Ab6FdMD| Brown County • 0«
Capt. J. D. Tcksstea.
7b all whom U may conctm: I here-
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• offered for several years with an un-
sightly and disagreeablo eruption on
my faoe. I tried every known reme-
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and am now ontlroiy cored.
(Signed by) J. D. ^^STO
Sktm Cancer CuretS.
Testimony from thi Mayor of Sequin,Tu,
Sequin. Tex., January 14,1893.
Messrs, litpmav Bros.. Savannah,
Ga.: Gentlemen—I have tried your P.
P. P. for a disease of the skia, usually
known as skin cancer,of thirty years*
standing, and found great relief: U
purifies the blood and removes all it*
rltatlon from the seat of the disease
and prevents any spreading of tbe
sores. I have taken five or six bottles
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me from indigestion and stomaob
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CAPT. W. M. RUST,
Attorney at Law.
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