Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1901 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURV
Thursday. December 19, 1901.
the new 80uth.
Summarizing the results of observa-
tions made in a recent Southern trip,
Richard H. Edmonds writes in last
week's Manufacturers' Record as fol-
lows:
"The story of rice and of the devel-
opment which has followed rice grow-
ing in Louisiana and Texas illustrates
very strongly the growth and advance-
ment seen throughout the South. Rice
is revolutionizing southwest Louisiana
and making a garden spot of a hitherto
barren region, oil is creating new con-
ditions in Texas, iron and coal are final
ly being handled on such a basis as to
give to Alabama in the near futurt* Its
rightful position in the iron and steel
development of the world, copper min-
ing in North Carolina and Tennessee is
opening up a vast source of wealth, and
so, in every part of the South, progress
is the order of the day. In one place
it is cotton manufacturing, in another
coal mining, in another lumbering, in
another furniture making, somewhere
else truck or fruit growing, but every-
where there is advancement."
He recalls the persistent efforts
fifteen years ago by an Iowa farmer,
S. L. Cary, to develop rice growing in
Louisiana, and says:
"Crowley is now a town of 7,000 or
8.000 people, with eight rice mills,
handling last year a business of about
$3,500,000, and 25,000 Western people
are settled In that district. Rice grow
Ing, although but in its infancy, ha*
enhanced the value of the land from
25 cents au acre fifteen years ago to $75
or $80 an acre at present. What has
been done in southwestern Louisic+i..
is now being done in Texas, niiere new
districts equally as promising for rice
growing are being opened up. Around
Beaumont and in other parts of that
territory there" is a great influx of
Western settlers, who find in rice
growing a yield of $40, $50, $60, and
sometimes $80 an acre against any-
where from $10 to $12 an acre on the
wheat of the West."
ly toward the Socialist parties because
they are appealing to the people to
think for themselves and to vote ac-
cordingly, and are giving a vast
amount of information calculated to
set the mind to work on the problems
of government. There seems to be a
disposition on the part of the pluto-
crats to somewhat encourage the So-
cialist movement. If this is so, it is to
push the reform movement up to such
a radical position that the vast num-
ber now ready to vote for government
money and government railroads, will
decline to accept the new creed and re-
main in the old parties. In view of
the efforts to suppress certain Social-
ist papers, this idea may be consid-
ered very far-fetched, but such efforts
themselves tend to arouse sympathy
and make prominent the cause such
papers uphold. There are divers and
sundry ways the plutocrats fight re-
form movements, and wc are not will-
ing to say that giving encouraging
prominence to such extreme proposi-
tions as will not be accepted by the
people, is not one of them.—Missouri
World.
to cure a cold in one day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-
lets. All druggists refund the money
if It fails to cure. B. W. Grove's sig-
nature is on each box. 2oc.
wedding at Cana of Galileee. The
tenth verse reads: "And he saith unto
them, every man at the beginning doth
set forth good wine; and, when men
have well drunk; then that which is
worse; but thou hast kept the good
wine until now." The Greek word
which is here translated "well drunkf
is "methusthosin," which means, in
good Attic Greek, "thoroughly soaked,"
"drenched," "stupefied with wine."
How will the Chicago deacons inter-
pret this verse so as to make the same
impression upon the readers that the
master of that feast did when he
called the bridegroom and rebuked him
for not putting the wine on in
proper order? Will they say. "When
the men were as full as goats?" or use
some similar expression equally intel-
ligible to that world for whom they are
translating, to show how very drunk
the men were when the "good wine"
was handed around?
This movement is most intensely
American, and humbuggery in the su-
preme degree. The translation is
made to catch the market. No where
else than in the Windy City would the
brilliant concept have evolved of fak-
ing on the Bible as the hustlers do on
spectacles at the State fairs! But, per-
haps, though, the Chicago firm extends
to unload its stock at the St. Louis Ex-
position, seeing it is "in old Missouri.'
The Past GUARANTEES
The Future
Thm Pact That
St. Jacobs 09
Has cured thousands of cases of
Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago,
Neuralgia, Sciatica. Sprains,
Bruises and other bodily aches
and pains is a guarantee that it
will euro other cases. It is safe,
sure and never failing. Acts like
magic.
Conquers Pain
Price, 35c and 50c.
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE.
One & One-Third Fares
Round Trip.
December 2lf 22 and 23.
Good 30 Days.
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is the peo-
ple's remedy. It will cure the worst
cough or cold when other medicines
have failed.
PRESENT DEMANDS
The four million or more men who
are ready to vote for the Populist de-
mands are not ready to vote for the
common ownership of all property.
The Socialist leaders are standing flrm-
011 their principles, want nothing to
do with parties that recognize pri-
vate property, therefore want nothing
to do with the People's party. We re-
spect them for their courage in stand-
ing up for their principles, but as
nearly all of the millions who are ready-
to vote for extreme Populism are not
ready to vote for extreme Socialism,
we feel that the Socialist party stand-
ing aloof is a great advantage to the
Populist party. A great many Popu-
lists circulate Socialist literature to
get people to thinking. Many people
call themselves Socialists who do not
come within the test of socialism as
defined by Socialist leaders and plat-
forms. * Most every Populist feels kind-
a religious innovation.
We have four popular translations
of the Bible, the Bishop's Bible in the
interest of Episcopacy ; the "Breeches"
Bible, by the Puritans, in the interest
of Presbyterianism; the King James
version, in the interest of orthodoxy,
and the Oxford Revision, published
about twenty years, to correct some
glaring errors which could no longer
be concealed. Now we are to have
another version, and in "English as she
is spoke." It is to fill "a long felt
want" of the man whose vocabulary is
composed of the words he learns on
the street, in business, in the police
court, on the hustings, in the livery
stable and in the corridors of the va-
riety theatres. We have already seen
parts of the work printed in parallel
columns, and find that the new jargon
compares with the old about as res-
taurant buckwheat cake and sausage
compares with what your mother used
to make.
It is not the purpose of these inno
vators to go into a critical examlna
cents to {jo into a critical examina-
tion of the manuscript authorities for
the text. All the learning necessary
for this work is that which is possess-
ed by the country editof who steals an
editorial and attempts to re-write it
In his own language. All they purpose
doing is to re-write the Bible from the
English version in other diction.
Such an idea could be conceived in
only one place in the world, and that
Is Chicago, and in Chicago the scheme
had its birth.
There are many passages that the
Chicago hustlers In religion will tlnd
difficult to handle in the style and on
the basis they have adopted. The sec-
ond chapter of St. John's gospel tells
of turning the water into wine at the
some english opinions
The London Saturday Review, in a
strong anti-American article, advocates
German-English friendship for the
purpose of holding the United States
in check. Emperor William, it de-
clares, sees in the growing German
population in Chile and Brazil the in-
evitable necessity for future Interfer-
ence, which "in any form involves a
conflict with the United States."
This, the Saturday Review holds, it
is impossible for Germany to wage suc-
cessfully. if Great Britain is hostile.
"While not advocatiug S alliance
with Germany against the United
States," the Review says, "we advo-
cate still less one with the United
States against Germany. In the event
of a conflict we might, with advantage
to ourselves, hold the balance. With
a friendly Germany forever eliminated
from the political chess board of the
New World, we should, with our pres-
ent policy of admitting the unbridled
pretentions of the United States ev-
erywhere, one day flnd ourselves el-
bowed out forever from both North
and South America, while Canada
would be found to have become a frac-
tion of an Empire "
Great
W
general debility.
"This is to certify that your medicine
is all that it claims to be in my case,
which was Sick Headaohe and General
Debility. I was down in bed for a
week at a time, for a year. I can say
to the public, I have not had a single
symptom since I began to take the
Southern Germicide; it has worked like
magicjn this town by all who have
used it."—Mrs. Duke. Mt. Pleasant.
Texas.
Witness: Jas. Duke.
flock Island
Route
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South Dakota, Wisconsin, Denver,
Colorado Springs, Pneblo.
Local holiday rates also. Write
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G. P. A., C. R. I. AT. Ry., Ft. Worth, Tex.
HONES FOR THE MILLION
In Southwestern Missouri,
Western Arkansas, Eastern
Texas and Western Louis-
iana, on the line of the
K. C. S.
kansas city southern
railway
Straight as the crow flies from Kan-
sas City to the Gull, through the
cheapest land now open for settle-
ment in the United States. A mag-
nificent country adapted to the cul-
tivation of small grain, corn, cotton,
rice, sugar cane, apples, peaches,
berries, commercial truck farming
and the raising of horses, mules, cat-
tle, hogs and sneep at prices ranging
from Free Governmeut Homesteads
to twenty-five dollars and more per
acre.
Write for a copy of "Current
Events" published by the Kansas-
City Southern Railway.
S. G. WARNER, G. P. and T. AM
Temple Block, Kansas City, Mo.
a. d. dutton, t. P. a., kansas City, Ms
F E. ROESLER, t. P. and Immigration
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Park, Milton. Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1901, newspaper, December 19, 1901; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185929/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .