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W7:'~~r7?*,~j -- -': ; . K. . , 'J" - , STHE SENT 1 ELi U R EnteredApril 28;-W08 at Pickens, S. C., as secon cla miatter, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ....--S --UT --------- I R M Y U 10 Itarier's' Union Burieaut of ll -C(on~ducted b%. theL 8olith Citrolisq irmrs' Educttioida Midt Co-Oporative Uuilon. Colnu t IatII U IIltfis 1itended for tit depair ient shootid he aidiressed to .1. U. Stribiling, ntiletoi , South carolina. A CALL. The State Farmors' Union of South Carolina will meet in Greenwood, July 25-26-27. A. T, GooDWnN, State Pres. From every southern state comea 'the good news that a campaign, in the interest of the Farmers' Union, has been arranged for July and Au gust from Routh Carolina west, and South Carolina is 'now arranging - 4 for a thorough campaign of the Pal netto. state. .rhe time is ripo and the farmers are more ready to organize than ever before known. Just'onq good man ' eqyh county of the South for one . monthhoqrgutizing the farmers now will prepare the way to save mill ons for the farmer in marketing the South's next cotton crop. It is not enough to organize farmers for their own- protection and go back home thinking that the thing will work itself. It will not do it. Every county union in the south should sew to it that at least one county news paper in each county carry a column >f direct news from organized farm emS. Instead of this farmer's col. umn working injury to the regular Farmer's Union papers, it increases the demand for such papers. The conatry or county newspap'ers are good mediums foi educating the farmer along the business side of his' .arming, and in order to keep up -with the progress of the organized 'novements of the farmers, every farme, 'should take at least one good paper that will give him the news direct as to how things are going. -But in case satisfactory arrangements cannot be made with the established press to carry these farmers' col umns in your home papers, a letter addressed to this . bureau setting forth the foots in the case, every local union will be supplied with sample copiea of the best and cheapest papers in the land of the South, which will enable e each union to make its own selection at large club rates. In order to keep in touch with the latest prices, plans and methods of combining - your strength for the good of all, the farmer'must read the aews from reliable sources whioh will save money enough on one bale of cotton to pay for five or six good Snewspapers. There are so many grades of hu mnanity, called farmers, that no one institution or plan could be expected to please all. The best evidence in the world to prove that the Farmers' -Union stands for something is that it is opposed by some individuals, that is, it is doing tliings. Of course this don't suit some folks because they are opposed to doing anything. Especially somethbing that they hap pen to not originate or that does not -give to them some advantage of their fellow-man. All the "graf ters" don't happen to be cotton speculators, nor do they all live in New York. Pos eihty one of the most contemnp'ible brand is the fellow that lives next ,eighbor to some oJpber fellow and is I .ways on the lookout for Bomne op) <9rtunity to work a skini game on his bother farmeir, not aliways in a irse trade at that. YOU can always I them, for a they are opposed to xyftling that goos -to make us one great body of brethren, that don't givo them some special advantage over the rest of their brothers. They won't co-operate; got them out of the ullioni quick, for they will destroy more of your opportunity to success than all the host of speculators and gamli blers combined. The Farmers' Union has nothing to fear from men that have not the password, but death and failure lurk in your locals at ill times from ignorance and trai tors, in the purity of your locals and the faithful practice of your individ ual members of the principles of co Operation and submission to "UIon, which means the local must follow and practice what the county ap proves and directs, and that the county faithful1lv administer what is directed by the state, and as the membors are held in the local mem berahip so will the union prosper, indl its strength be. Members count against the union when their princi ples are against co-operation, and plads put forward to bring results. Dutside of this you cannot have a mnion. It is not expected that every nan that has to till the soil can or vill be union, nor were the principles >f our constitution made broad moogh for every kind of ism or the )rist to get aboard, but on the con rary confines its creed to specific" >rinciples and those that believe in he doctrine of profits and "make noney" in whatever Way open cannot >e true members and should be de lied. Nor should the union become ,be asylum of all the incompetent Irones and .deadbeats that cAn be ound "staying" on a farm. Union iuccess does nut depend on numbers, ,ut -in specific principles and the liv ng up to them. A local can be. as dead with fifty pombers as with flive. And if they efuse to co-operate with the other oasis they are no longer in 'the mion. They have bolted, and are io longer entitled to be called union men. There is more to fear from one rascal in the union than a hundred Mtside. Push them all outside or hhey destroy you. Clemson College Institutes. Clemson College, June 24. Ed. Sentinel-Journal: -I have just received a letter from Mr. M. V. R'ichards of the Southern Railway, in which he states that it will be im possible for them to let us .have a 3oach before the 6th of July. 'hiis will necessitate our making some abanges. in the dates of the institutes bhat come in the early part of July. In my former letter I stated that in ititutes would be he held at Liberty, July 2d, and at Easley, July 3d, but winig to the delay in getting the soarch, these institutes will have to be held as follows: Easley, August 1.0th; LiLerty, A ugust 20th. J. F. HAIRPER, Director. Programme Df the Union Meeting of the Pick ens Association to be Held with Nine Forks Baptist Church, Saturday and Sunday next. SATURLAY, 10.00 a. m. -Devotionse1 exercises, sonducted by W. T1. Blowen. 10 30.-How can we promote the spjirit of evangelism and, the best way to have a revival of religion in the chur'ches. Opened by 3. T. Taylor. A questIon box will be provided and will be drawn upon for the after noon session. A programmie will be arranged on Baurday for Sunday. Cures Cof dsu Preventa Pneumanin SPONTANEOUS REMARKS, Cases Where Suspense* Has Cal Forth Emphatic Requests. (harleV StoneV wit.; one of mmlal unfortnliates. wlio look one ui stands inl the wild, wvild wve-t, wvith reperory% of Siako-peaire and o)ti grands of the classics. 'The lir violin inl (t, orclest a played al114 gether on tile VA string uitil a we urnied cowboy arose and sai< "Pardner, I'm a graduate of Yal I'u- 'eiu in t1is part of the coin tr i fi 0gh or inte years. I. lo music. "1 Then, drawing his sevc shooter, he added, "Fiddle a Uit on. some other string or I'll mak you look like a coal siter." Intense excitement was eaused i De Give's Opera louse in Atlant a number of years ago when Jefte son was playing Rip Van Winkl Every county in the state was rel resented in the audience. Emotior were deeply stirred and but ill suj pressed when the profligate Rip wi driven from home. A very distir guished lonking old gentleman aros in the center of the auditorium an relieved the situation by crying i a loud voice: "Don't go, Rip! Don go!" Then the lachrvmal dan burst, and evervbody wept. C course we all know that men ai hired at times to create these c fects, but now and then such actior are spontaneous. In Bartley Campbellts day thei came prethty near being a riot ov( a lost baby in one of VIarry Miner theaters. It was a si age ba by-a b of real property, however-and il mother was almost crazed whe some bandits kidnaped it. The Box ery audience were wrought up i the highest pitch of melodramat interest. An attenuated westerne over six feet high, unable longer t stand the strain, stood up an( pointing to the wings, yelled wit fearful' emphasis: "Thar's the brf over in the corner! Give it back I its mother an' let the play go on < I'1l wreck the whole darn -ooncern It took sevpral policemen and usi era to restore him to reason ar quiet the fury of the gallery gods. Exchange. A Doubtful Compliment. A lergyman wts About to lbal his church one evening when he e: countered an old lady examining tl carving on the font. Finding h desirous of seeing the beauties 4 the church, he volunteered to sho her over, and the flustered old lad much gratified at this ubexpectf offer of a personally conduqted tou shyly accepted it. By a,d by,.th came to a handsome tablet In t1 right of ths pulpit. "This;" e plained the 4good man, "is a em rial tablet erected to the memory the late vicar." "There now! Ain't it beautiful exclaimed the admiring old lad still flustered and anxious -to pleas "And I'm sure , sir, I 'ope it wor be long afore we see one erected you on t'other side."~ Obedience. The famous Field fatnily, Cyr and his brothers and sisters, we brought up to obey. The fath was a clergyman with $800 a ye for nine children, and frugality ai right living were absolutely nect eary. Once a useful rat trap w missing. The father gave orde that when it was found it should 1 brought directly to him. A fE days afterward during service, wh< the sermon was in full swing, the was a clattering up the aisle. was twq of the Field boys, carryii the lost rat trap. They gravely s it down before the pulpit. One them said simply, "Father, hert your rat trap." Then they turni and went out. How He Looked. An old woman was being que tionied 1y a lawyer as to how a tc tator had looked when lie made a r mark to her about some relatives. "How can I remember? lb been dead two years," she answer, testily. "Is your memory so poor that yi can't remember two v'ears b~ack hn oerniel T'ie old wonan was silent, and the id Imr ase."Did hie look any~'tiing like mee?" ,-t "v eeI)m1 to Ine .lie lid have the um'n Sort of vvacat look.," re-pond- th1 r d flep th ie. ' i Lt... had no further ques- t' I tionl' lo ask lier. Why He Would Be Absent. ha A suburban train was slowly no -orkin" its wav thr-ough. one of the at blizzar ds of a Iebit win lter. Final e ly it cae to ia dead stp. and all efforts to start, it again were fitile. sai I In the wee smll h1oupr1 of the fri e moriing a weary cunmuter, numb al from tihe cold and the eramlped p0 AitiOll iII which he had tried to sleep, a crawled out of the train anld floun,. da, dered through the heavy snowdrifts chi - io the nearest telegraph station. p. This is the message lie handed to 3 the operator: I "Will iot be at office today. Not at S home yesterday yet."-Everybody's a - Magazine. for d BILLINGSGATE. n Markets doem the Natural Abode of Strong Language. The unpolished phraseology, nn tive though not peculiarl to this quarter of Londoh, has given rise bo j; to the proverbial use of the nameic Billingfsgate. "One may term this )ui e the Esculine gate of London," says r old Fuller. "1lere one IIay hear linguas jurgatrices." The seven it teenth cenitury references to the lLs "rhetorie" or obscene lagwiage of n the market are friequent, and hence foul language itself is called "bit 0 lingsgate." In "Vaniity Fair," too, ra c Thackeray tells up how Mr. O borne s8t cursed Billingsgate with an empha- to, 0 as worthy of the place. 1 It is curious how markets are the h natural abode of strong language. bo It Thus the French equivalent for Of , "You are no better than a Billings- th4 or gate fish fag" is "Your compliments int are like those of the Place Mau- 00 bert," the Place Maubert being not A ed for its market. In the good old days the Billings gato porters seem to have thorough- en y enjoyed themselves, for one Bang ford, writing in 1715, says: "This being to my mind another ancient tol custom that hath been omitted* of e late years. It seems that in former M, 'r times the porters that plied at Bil- ha f lingsgate used civilly to entreat and W desire every man that passed that Y, way to salute a post that stood there in a vacant place. If he refused to r, do this, they forthwith laid hold of JU Y him and by main force bumped him 1 against the post. But if he quietly TL K_ submitted to kiss the same and paid down sixpence they gave him a At name and chose some one of the gang for his godfather. I believe this was done in memory of some U1 Y, ,old image that formerly stood there, e. perhaps Belus or Belin." W !t The Qriginal porters of Billings 1: gate belonged to one of the oldestC labor guilds in the country, the Fel lowship of Porters, and at one time the carrying work both at Billings- j1 as gate and from the wharfs to the re warehouses of 'the city within a cer er tain radius was entirely performed I ar by them.-London Globe. 8- Splendid Isolation. uS A number of military men in a rs Washington hotel were once giving T ae an account of an incident of the W civil war. A quiet man who stood in bi by at last said: re "Gentlemen, I happened to be It there and might be able to refresh ig your memory as to what took place et in reference to the event just nar 3f rated." '5 The hotel keeper said to him: d "Sir, what might have been youri A rank ?" "I was a private." A' Next day tihe quiet man as he 5- was about to depart asked for his s- bill. e- "Not a cent, sir; not a cent," an sweed he ropietr."You areW 'stevery first private I ever met." i"You have no sense of hutmor," he o' comnplainied. "You can't take a joke." "I took one wheni I got y'ou," she bilt ter'ly repled.-Chilengo Rlecord-H~erald. Hazel. At this writing heath in this local is good. Farmers are making good use of Uo beautiful aiinshiny days, mugb crops aro very sorry for this ne of year, especially cotton. Your scribo wont to Easley one a it week, and he'found colton to bq t a bit better theio than it is hore - the foot of the mountains. Rev. J. Columbus Parrott, of Ver. lies, is on a visit to ralatives and aods in this section. Colum. is rays a welcome visitor. We have a very flourishing Sun y school at the Antioch Baptist irch. We have 50 scholars. R . Prince is superintonden'.. 3ur good, kind and efficient P. M. Hazel has renewed her bond i will continue to serve the public the next four years. MOUNTAIN SPROUT. Pickens, R. D, 4. . Elarvest about over. Health not very excllent-but no ly hurt. Sanuel Edens, of Easlay, was in e section Friday. It. E. Chastain is on the sick-list. W. E. Edens, Jr., is enjoying the :ury of a new rubber-tire buggy. 'he farwers are muving right ug bossing Geen, considering the ufall, together with hail in this tion, but not much damage done crops so far. Plums are getting ripe, and the rs and girls are enjoying the time their lives. But please .don't tell 3 county commissioners that this uit is ripe up here, for. they might ne to see us agd break their Dke getting over gullies. John Edens killed a large pilot %ke a few days ago. M. N. Simmons now owns a fine > buggy. D. W. Roper, Jae. Edens and krion Roper killed three chicked. vks last week. Shoo Fly. Busy Day at White House. et send word to Ohio, Loeb, to whoop it up for Taft, en get an artist and a horse, and have me photographed; nounce that any army man who can't jump twelve feet nine, >on this horse may never more be officer of mine. rite Burroughs that his article on cowslips is mistaken Iwa never alip--then get my gun and have my picture taken. st cable old King Edwai-d, Loeb, to take no steps until get a little time to draft a brand new Irish bill. Ivise the Kaiser that the plans he's trying to get through keep hisa people satisfied and hap py will not do. form the Czar that he's in bad---his government is tainted; rite Chapter Six of "! and Me," then. get my portrait painted. at tip off the Mikado, Loeb, that lie had bettor be little careful, or the Chinks will have him up a tree. prise these senile scientists who seek to isolate ec cancer bug that they've not got their theories on straight. ho's at the door? Taft? Garfield? No.; I can't see them to-day. u say it's a photographer? Admit him right awayl ---[N. Y. American. ~oley's Kidney Cure akes kidneys and bladder right