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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
Cattle-Grow wing IN the South.
Special to Tue State.

0u uiteCCty with the industrial
growth of the south is the qucs
tion of cattle raising. Not only
Is u populatic n increasing through
industry to be furnished ITS beef
raised at home, but increasing
employment in industry is to be
offered in the handling of cattle
IN all its forms from the field to
the consumer. Census figures
snow that in five important south
ern States there was in 1900 u
smaller number of neat cattle than
there was in 1860 and in two of
them smaller number in 1900
than In 1880. A number of fac
tors have contributed to the act
ual decline in the number of cat
tie in some State, together with a
failure in others of the increase
to keep pace with the increase in
population. Ono of them is the
habit of selling young stock for
shipment to the west TO be orazed
and killed there and to be return.
ed to the south as beef. The
lack OF economy IN such policy
~ beng impressed upon southern
farmers, and there are signs of
deep interest in a revival of cattle
raising and in packing house un
dertakings. Bearing upon that
movement is letter in this
weeks issue of the Manufacrur,
ers' Record from Mr.. G.. j. Haden
of Atlanta, Ga, embodyiny the
results of trip he has made in
the west. He compares the high
plains of the west with the vast
stretches of pine timber plains of
the southeast, with SO inches of
rainfall a year, situated on an av,
erage 1000 miles nearer the
markets and as yet unused for
agriculture, and he says:
"Our southeastern lands escape
the destructive blizzards and
that afflict the plains;
for be it remembered that the
grazing lands of the far west are
from 1900 to 5000 feet above
sea level, and the hest of them
particularly those parts near tn,
Rocky mountains) are subjected
to heavy snow falls.
The casual observer who first
passes through the western plains
and then through southern Geor-
gia forests will satisfy himself
at a glance of the greater quantity
OF g Ass on the latter. Cattle
growing, which has been carried
on In these forest auds in small
way, adjusted to the feeble finan-
ces and lukewLrm enterprise of
the native settlers, has been prac.
tically all profit. The waterln
and wintering necessary IN the
west are unknown requisites.
Hitherto herding has also been
unnecessary, but this last item
must be considered if the indus
try is pursued on considerable |
scale. Persons remote may he |
surprised to know that although
Georgia was one of the 13 orlgi-
nal States, yet within Is miles of
The hrst settlement (Savannah)
The traveller may ride across the
forest 10 miles without seeing the
habitat OF man. Georgia, the
argest State in square miles east
II the Mississippi river, having
depended for nearly a century
'pon natural reproduction, unald.
ID by immigration, is yet decid-
'dly pioneer at both its northern
nd southern ends. Hence there
8 sufficient grazing at present not
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
LANCASTER AND CHESTER
RAILWAY

schedule in effect JuneS, 1902
DAILY except Sunday
WESTBOUND EASTB, UND.
Nos. ii and l8 Nos. IS ana /.
A M. P NJ. A, Pm
$40 6 As Ar Chester Ly 1000 sl5
7.So 6.l5 Richburg 10 Z 8 45
1923 COS Bascombville IO47 ss1
no 5.45 Fort:Lawn lO3 8 905
PM
$40 5.l5 Ly Lancaster AR IL 80 8 80
No. IA, leaving Lancaster 6.45 am.
makes close connection at Chester
Vsth southern Railway No. 3e for
jhariotte aud points north; and Sea-
ooard Air Line ATLANTA Specialu
d Atlanta and points west Also
With Carolina and Northwestern Rail.
Vay NO. I'D for enoir, N. G, and in
eermediate points, and Southern Rail
Tay No 33 for Co!umbia and points
,outh.
NO. l5, leaving Chester 1000 a no
connects with Southern Railway No
10 from Columbia and roints south;
Seaboard Air Line "Atianta lrcci,;
rom northern and eastern poir.- ,r.d
southern Railway No 33 f,"m Moan.
ern and eastern points, an Ln,
oaater with g & q + for Biacksburp
: NO. 49, leaving Lancaster 5 Is y m
snnects at Lancaster with &GE
rom camden ami Marion aud South.
ern railway Nh, "a at Chester tor
Charlotte and point. north "
NO. IL, leaving Chester 8.I5 d m.
Nnnects at Chester with southern
hallway NJ. 81 from oiunnin aud
ooints south. ''"
JAS M. HE nth, Gen Pass Ay,
LEROY SPRI>.I,. P,.s,,e,
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largest otate In square miles east
OF the Mississippi river, having
depended for nearly century
upon natural reproduction, una,d
ed by immigration, is yet decid-
edly pioneer at both its northern
and southern ends. Hence there
Is sufficient grazing at present not
utilized for millions of cattle. Add
to these facts that water is abund.
ant, if not on the surface, access
ible by shallow wells, costing to
dig from IS to $40 each, or at
most artasian wells costing on an
average of $500, and there is a
conclusive showing in favor of
the southern as against the far
west
"The land privileges in the
southe ast would be less in pro.
portion to the feeding power of
grass than in the plains. But as
the southeastern lands are in the
most part tlmbered, or even
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In TOpsN.TnrNN Land.

"TopsyTurvv Land" by Samuel ".
Iweimer and Amy f. Iweimer Fleming n
Revell Company is a book about Arabia
designed for the information of children.
Most children have heard about Arabia be-
cause they have read The Arabian Nights
Enter ailments" and they remember
Bagdad and Sinbad. The authors Of this
book are of the opinion that in Arabia
everything is topsy-turvy according ~
our ideas. They have written about this
topsy-turvv land in lively way. mnglng
humor with seriousness with considerable
judgment,
Their work contains great deal Of IN
formation about the peculiar features OF
life in the desert how the Arabs raise crops
what their children do. vha, sort of money
they use how they amuse themselves, how
they talk and what their social and religious
customs are. The book tells what the
missionary work Of the Christian Church
has accomplished and what they are likely
20 accomplish in the future. Tho book /.
copIouslv illustrated and il ought 10 find
tsway into the hands Of missionary societies
and Sunday schools.
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VIZ. =. u. Stoddart's Recoilcciions.

Il was quito proper 10 have from Mr.
J. r. Stoddart his "Recolections of a
PLAYER The Century Company. MIR Stod-
dart tells his story simply and with much
charm. and his book will he a pleasure TO
many readers We are not sure in what
play il was tina, this well-liked PLAYER used
to stand with his >ngularly rugged and
expressive face in Wallack's thirteenth
stree, theatre and explain that the book
he was reading was "Hervey's Mndita-
tions Among he Tombs." Nobody. we are
sure. ever pronounced the title of that
work with more and more appropriate
effect. For fifty years that strong and
goodlv face has been familiar in his COM
muni,y, and il will he clearly in the mind
of every reader Of these pages
Mr. ~ oddart was born in Black Barnslcy,
Yorkshire. England, in 1927 Some seventy
pages If these memories deal with his
English experiences. He came to America
in 1854 Il was fortunate" We read. in
being accommodated in the house Of a
Mr.. James Smith. who lived in Marion
street. | lived with Mr. Smith
until married, and found him charming
person. He wac a product Of the times,
American of a class then common, b,t now
seldom seen-a Democratic politician, II
contractor, n fireman, and. in fact, 'on" of
the boys He used 20 keep his freman's
helmet hanging over his head where he
slept. and his boots close Ivy. 80 that he
could Jump int o them AZ a moments notice
and when he heard an alarm OF fire in three
leaps he was n the bottom of the stairs
He was never 80 much "a hi- glory
as when running wild de- MACHINE
] occupied one e the best
rooms in the house. and was al
ways admonished 70 help myself 10 any
thing and everything on his Sdeboard
that | fancied His breakfasts were like
dinners. and IL | declined. after stuffing
myself 10 a degree of discomfort, TO TAX"
anything more TO eat or drink, hc would
politely advise me. We'll lot il alone, YOU
Id Englishman' And for all this COM
fort and kigdn"-s paid 81 a week
For seven years or moro Mr.. Sfoddart
lived in a cottage surrounded hv pear trees
a considerable way beyond the Third avenue
Harlem bridge, and every night after IN.
performance he went home. riding from
Ble,rker street 10 the bridge in a horse car
and walking the rest Of the way-a proceed
ing requiring much patience, which he had
Afterward FOR twenty years he lived on
farm near Railway. and 20 this he went
nightly after The play, often reaching home
as late a. o'clock in the morning When
there were rehearsals he went back and
forth twice daily His farm was dear 70
him, II comprised sky acres, which he
had planted with pear trees in the belief
that the product 81 these would support
him by the time he should reach the age of
30; but man merely proposes. and the pear
trees are gone, and Mr. Stoddar' l. still
playing at the age Of a
The book has 2jj pages and is iustrat ed
with many portraits Of the authors friend ,
and fellow PLAYERS
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NEW BOOkS.
Continued from Serenth Page.


work; with fhe map. in Meyer or Brock
hans or Kicper or the colored out ~ Peter
MAINS Mtheildnpcn' Our map-d-avers
and publishers have not advanced beyond
The stage Of colored backgrounds. they are
unwilling TO learn the art Of lettering clearly
or Of caring for detail A German map.
on page Of the same size, will offer ten or
twenty times a. much detail set out with
incomparablv greater distinctness. Why
publishers will stick TO ant iquated meihods
and pay more for Do Sork than Germans
pay for first class work il n mystery. The
International Cyclopadla has done what
can he done with the oid-style maps, we
hope in a new edition il will open the way
for now ideas
A, il stands the New International Is the
mo-t helpful encyclopedia IN English that
We have sen. The editors have wisely
suppressed the names of the contributors,
for work Of the kind should stand on its
own name The volumes are a large &C.
tayo that IL more convenient for Use than
the small u,Iarto size. Tho number Of
them is not stated. Judging from the three
before us the work will comprise eighteen
or twenty volumes. about the number Of
he Brockhaus and Never German Com
versation- lex icons. and one that i not ex-
cessive for work Of this kind.
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declined 10 tie himself 10 any tract Of co,In-
try, however sticcIilont its pies or thrifty its
housewives. He has inesndered far 10 he
westward from Cape God and has sojourned
among the jewellers in the Catskills. He has
even foated down the Hudson IN a canal
boat a mode Of CONVEYANCE which must
have coualled ia speed the triumphal prog
ros- of old Hendrix himself.
The White Mountains are not forgotten
aYd Valley Forge also comes into the seri, =
at sketches. Lake Champaign makes "A
picture in the panorama. and even the
home Of f"ninlur" Cooper il Sketched
together with that enchanted region in
which Young pecrslayor went 10 meet
the Great Serpent Of the Delaware and
earned the title OF llawkeyc. Long Island
aud Pennsylvania are also neighbors Of
New England and the beautiful Juniata
River winds its silver stretches through
some Of the pages. II T. pleasantly writ
ten volume. with abundant evidences Of a
careful study cf character among the
people visited. The pictures are photo-
graphic ather than artistic. but as Illus
trations they serve their purpose fairly
we'll
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in the Lives Of the Great A,henisns' (The
Century CO.. A pretentio,is title and a
preteutiotis book Mr. Butler provides a
numbsr of new and Interesting illustrations
10 hi book II il pity that he did not
restrict himself to the technical part Of
his subject. about which he is competent
10 speak, and that he did not pay some
attention Ia the dignity Of the English Ian
Rudg'. He should have asked some friend
10 strik" out the culloqualisms with which
he adorns his narrative.
The volcanoes in the West Indies are still
NJ work and nobody can tell what the end
will Ia. hut after the first accounts of the
awful catas, rophe all interest in the matter
seems To have died away. and there can
hardly b" much hope for narratives Of per-
-onal experiences. The only addition To
our knovledg" that can he worth having is
that of scientific invest igators. Still Mr..
George Herman was sent down TO report on
the matter and We have now his somewha,
b"laied account in book form. The Tragedy
Of Pele'' The Outlook Company. II il
only last May that 81 Pierre with all it,
inhabitants was wiped out of existence.
bnt 10 busy world the calamity is as dead
as that AT Pompeii and we doubt If Mr..
KEENAN, can bring II to life again.
For some reason or other our old enemy
Euclid has become the fashion Of late.
10 Judge from tho number of books that are
written about him. Queerly enough, too,
they all seem 10 lead up TO an exposition of
the new Eucidean system of geometry.
We have before M Euclid His Life and
System, by Thomas Smith. u. D. IL y
volume of the Tho Worlds Epoch
Makers Series, published by Charles
Scrihncr's Sons A curious fact about this
book Is that il was written after the author
was - years old The reader will never
suspect this in reading it.
An elaborate cookbook. whose recipes
read as though they might be tried safely
in practice. j. Practical Cooking aud Serv-
ing" by Janet Mckenzie Hill doubleday.
Page 4 Company, The author gives exact
Instructors a. 20 the proparaiio Of every
dish, and We imagine the fault will not he
hers if il does not turn out right, There
are novelties that may SCOT he the lord and
muster in his most arrabilious mood.
Bishop n {. Po,ter's lectures before
Yale University on tho ". T. Dodge founda-
tion for lectures on the responsibilities Of
citizenship are published bv Charles Serb
ner'~ Sons under IN" title The Citizen in
His Relation to the Industrial Situation"
Eight ESSAYS bv Capt 4. I Mahan. that
hay" appeared in various periodicals in
The last few wears appear ~ "Ratrospect
and Prospect, Studies in International
Rolai ions. Naval and Political" U.ttle.
Brown 4 co.. tn" collection includes
capt Mahan's trihni: to Admiral sampson ]
What demand can there bc for sane love
poetry lot this H. what Mr. William
Sinclair Lord undertakes 10 provide in
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stirring History OF the Early west.

In "The Conquest: tho True Story OF
Lewis and Clark, by Eva Emery Dye "A. {
NcClura h Co. Chicago. we have vivacous
narrative. In the opening chapter We have
the Governor Of Virginia, Lord Dunmore,
In towering rage He tears oh his wig and
tramples II under foot He rings the bell
violently in III" old brick palace al Williams
hrg. He will teach those Virginia dele
gates lesson. They will have rebellion,
will they2 To the servant who answers
the boil no says. Here, sirrah! take this
compass and dispatch "A messenger "a
Daniel Boone. Bade him hc gone AZ once
~ summon in the surveyors az the Falls of
the ONO VA Indian war is imminent.
Tell him Ia lose no time
II the Governor had been less excited he
would probably have said bid him ~ gone
instead uf Babe him he gone The point
ia not important, Daniel Boone was smoking
In his porch whrn the message reached him
We lost no time He looked a his fat
wife, Rcbccca, busy within the door. She
nodded assent The messenger handed
him tho compass. as large a. a saucer. For
y moment Boone balanced il on his hand,
,hen slipped il into his bosom. Out Of a
near he filed his vale, with parched corn.
took his long rif" from its peg over the
door, and strobe forth.
These are interesting details that give
character To the narrative Daniel Boone
threw back his head and laughed silently.
Old Beadlc was right The story is full
II such touches On page 373 We come 20
hc r'l" ISIS affair al New Orleans. Ma
pocon abdcated, New Orleans wcpi
Then followed the word, England is sailing
iuto The Guf-S Sir Edward Packcnham.
hrothcr-in law of the Duke Of Wellington,
with part of Welling onS victorious army.
fifty ships, a Thousand g-lns and 10000 men"
Never had Great Britain lost sight Of the
Mississippi. This was part OF IN feet that
burned Washington and had driven Dolly
Madison and the President into ignominious
flight. Terrified, New Orleans, the beaUti-
iGl Creole maiden, ieset in her orange
hover, flung on, her arms appealing To
iir Vast And that West answered. Never
while the Mississippi rolls 20 the Gulf, will
We leave you unprotected And ont of
that West came Andrew Jackson and tall
rcrnessccans. Kentuoki1u-, Misi~eippians,
in coon skin caps and leathern hunting
shirts to seal forever our right to Louis
lana" Napoleon laughed nh'n the news
reached him + .old them | had given
En- gland rival THAT one day Hould humble
her pride, he .uii.
You must paint Darie, Boone" said
Gov. Clark 10 the young American artist
Chester Harding, fires. from hie studies in
Paris in the summer Of 1919 Harding
found Boone toas'ing 4 snip Of venison on
his ramrod What laid the pioneer
Paint my picture?" iIc consented Twas
an admirable likeness
Surely the reader will like So lively a
history. Stirring deeds s'irringly re-
corded
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torically. practically and critically, and
illustrated by numerous reproductions Of
title pages and other cuts
The addresses delivered at this twenty
NTH anniversary Of the Johns Hopkins
university AZ Baltimore last February. at
which time also President Ira Remsen was
inaugurated have been published. with the
proceedings on that occasion under the
title The Twonty-fifth Anniversary If the
Johns Hopkins University" tThc Johns
Hopkins Press. Baltimore
From Mos-rs Thomas Y. Crowcll 4 Co.
comes a set of moral and religious book
lets included in he What is Worth While
Series" They are The Cardinal Virtues :"
by William De Witt Hyde. president Of
Bowdoin College; If | Wer" a College
Student" by Charles +. Thwing. president
of the Western Reserve University; Light
Ho. Sir" by Frank T. Bullen; Daily
MaNiins from Amiel's Journal by Orline
Gates; Ways of Well Doing" by Humphrey
J. Desmond; ~Immensee" by Thcodor
Storm, translated 10y Bertha NJ Schmnel-
fennig and In Perfect Peace" by j. H.
Miller
None Of the many books lately published
on China l. better adapted To- rouse popu-
lar interest than Or. Herbert Allen Giles :
China and the Chinese" CThn Columbia
University Press. Macrnllan-D. consisting
of the lectures delivered before the univer-
sity la-t March. the first on the Dean Lung
foundation. DR.. Giles. after his Chimes"
experiences. il now professor of Chinese in
the University Of Cambridge ,Fnglantil
Though IL may he true. a. he modestlv in
IL. l.
no addition to scholarship. they certainly
carry out his purpose of drawing attention
TO a subject Of growing importance and
making II attractive. They are written in
lively and entertaining - vie. and the points
made arc easily comprehended. Dr. Giles
makes even the Chinese alphabet seem
simple and rolises the hope that il can be
mastered by Western minds
An attempt To preserve and 20 popularizn
the fast-vani-hlng poetry Of the aboriginal
Americans il made toy the veteran Charles
Godfrey Leland and Prof. John Dynelev
Prince of Columbia University ia "Kuloe-
kap, the Master. and Other AIgonkn Poems :
Funk and Wagnalls Coz. The poems are
derived from Pas-amaquoddy. Nicnac and
other Algonkin sources and are rendered
mptricalv. but without RHYMES Among
the illustrations are some quaint copies
from Indian drawings on birch bark. taken
by Mr. Leland Besides the epic of kulos-
kap. which is really series Of tales and
legends, there are songs of witchcraf' and
lyrics Mr. Leland in the preface relates
soma personal "reminiscences The book
il an acceptable presentation of important
folklore matter
Mr.. Howard Crosby Butler. 4 NJ lcc.
turer in architeC ure n Princeton tniver.
sty, has written The Story Of Athens
\ Record Of the Iif" ard Art 81 the civ
Of the Violet Crown. Read in it. Ruins Al d
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some Ar Hooks.

II Is futile TO praise Mr. Timothy Coles
reproductions in wooi-cr2raving of the
old masters They arc an honor to the
artist. 20 American art and to the enter
prsing publishers who made them possible
They are a fitting defiance to mechanical
processes from one Of the oldest Of ar
tistic handicrafts. The pictures made
familiar month by month in the Certury
Magazine are now issued in more worthy
form. in a large. handsome, beautifully
executed volume by The Century Co. under
the title old English Masters, with his
torical notes by Prof John G.. NanDyke and
comments by Mr. Cole The masters range
from Hogarth to Sir Edwin Lsndseer The
portraits are naturally more effective than
the other pictures. hut in these it is amazing
30 soc what Mr.. Cole has dared and how
well he has succeeded.
An interesting and popular account Of
the great Wallace collection, presence a
few wears ago to the British nation. ana Of
tho chief artists represented in it, Is offered
hy Mr.. Frederick Miller in Pictures from
the Wallace Collection &C.. Arthur Pearson:
r. r. Duton & CO.. Instead Of trying to
show everything in cheap reproductions
only adequate concentrations Of the urea,
paintings are given, which makes the book
permanent ornament. Franz Halls, Rem
brandt. Van Dyck. Gainsborough. Sir
Joshua Reynolds. Meissonier. Greuze and
"A dozen o hers are represented by pictures
that are worthy of their regulations II Is
a pity that more care was not taken with
the tex. The hllnder Of putting IN Nj.
Ruskin'- possession Mrs- onic-'s 1907
which 4. I. Stewart bought of the artist, Is
IN eng
4 charming Gir' book on which tho pub
LISTERS have expended all the artistic and
typographical taste the subject demandcd
i William Morris Poet. Craftsman. Soc
oalist," hy Elizabeth Luther Cary 90. p
Putnam's SonsI Tho author loo. 40,
dwell 80 much on Inc personal history a. on
The busy, many->idrd and fruitful career
II Morris TIL" illustrations cover ,L,
decorativ" designs in all sorts of mY'"rinl-,
the furniture, and the typographical uy-
porimentS Of tho great craftsman Thor.
are admirabl" portraits in phu'ngravlirr
and other pictures besides The author
writes with enthusiasm and gives clear
account Of MorriS's manifold activities
To the general public Frederick Walker
j. known a. a clover illustrator, who died
Young, In certain artistic circles he was
regarded as genius, a sort Of Keats of the
brush, and in England there j. now a Walker
cult a. readers of Mr. Du Maurier's books
may have surmised A little book telling
about him by Clemen,ina Black. "Freder-
ick Walker" Duckworth 4 Co.; T.. p. Dut-
ton 4 Coz is therefore welcome, II is
written entertainingly. has many illus.
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Travels In . Home Country.

Mr. Clifton johnson is an artist and a
writer. and he combines the two callngs
with considerable success. His latest con.
tribution 10 human knowledge is in tho
shape Of a fat and weighty volume entitled,
New England and IT, Neighhors" (The
Macmillan Company. New England il. as
all good Americans know a tract Of countr nv
in which much variety Of human intcrc-,
and many typos Of the genus hundnun can
be found. Mr. johnson. however, has wisely
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trations and j. gotten up with much taste
pretty gift book for the holiday season
Is Oliver Goldsm,hs The Deserted VIII
lage" with the Illustrations Of Edwin 4
Abbey, r. A. published by the Harpers
The pictures are already familiar TO the
public. The poem il less suited to Mr..
Abbeys talent. perhaps, than others which
he las illustrated. for hi figures are always
better than his Landscapes, but his pictures
ar" Interesting. and for this edtlo Mr.
Austin Dobson has written an entertaining
int reduction