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THE PICKENS SE I NELJUNA Entered A pril 23, 1903 at Pickeum, S. C. an second class matter,underaeg of0Congress of March 3,1879 3 9th Year PJ(CKENS, S. C., SEPTEAMBER 2, 1909. Number 15 MONEY AT 6 PER CENT WILL BE LOANED TO FARMERS ON THEiR COTTON. Important Ann-uncemcnt Made by the Standard Warehouse Company. Of ilmportanw- if the highest or(er to the ,olon gr,owIe of SoiUtli 8ar(inIa ;ndi 11(iLhb)ring states is the an onna-ent of the Farners' Lian ai 'rust conpany of Cohinibia that it is prepared to advam1( noiev on recei)ts for ('tton ton-n with the Standard Warhiouse comi pany, havin- warehouses in Orangeburg. G reen vo(. -New berry, Aiileno, G rein ville, ('o hlibia, at * pwr (%,nt interest. The siigniica'e of this state Imlent to i e co P1n ioduer's is measured l. twI" fact that last seasol an(l hcrctofmr the rate Of inltert st oil Ioalls seered by bonded wahoi'1(uses receipts has been , ptr cent. MeanwhiK ii.- Sta1ard ware house compaitv, with which the Farm1er's 1 and Ti.t coml panv is in close alliance, the principle busincs of the latter being to advance money on the cotton receipts issued by the warehouse corpanv, is prepar ed to receive and store .cotton at lower rates than are to be obtain ed from an v o' her wale Iousing .systeni iiith W IHAT 4,011r ANs 1 1)PR CES terest rates savi %1j farmers may be thus illunstrated: When .the owner of a bale of cottoln keeps it at home he must pay 8 per cent. at the hank the inter .est for six m,onths on 850 ad vanced a bale being therefore S2. 'This bale of cottoll is not inred against damage or loss by fire. weather or stealing and the dif ficulty of borrowing money on it is necessarily the greater. Of ! course the amount of money advanced on a bale of cotton is a variablie so1-epending On the market p1rice of the cotton .aod S50 is ta sOleIV for the )Ur)oSL' Of it:he ilhistration. At 6 per celit . the interest on 850 for six mtoths is ;1.5. 'he cost of storage in one~ (f the Standard's warehouses is 15 cents the month thie h)ale withl 5 (cnts for hand ling andl ( ents for weighing and( grading added to the first mnonth, miakinig the t(otal cost for six mionths .91. Inaterest at f; per cent and warehouse charg es together mtake S2.50) for six months. Inl other' words, the farmer storing with the Stand1 ar(1 \at ellouse and I orrowing from the F"armiers Loan andl 'Trust co mp ~any at the same time has hiis hale of cotton in 5Un'(Id a.iilst lie, weather and stealing for)l .) et nBts for six miontihs-thatL is t o say, he is en abled to hold his ('oitton at a net cost to himi (of 1-:s cents a month for each bale. T1he president of the Stand ard Warehouse comlpany, Mr'. T. B. Stackhouise who with Mr. L. W. Parker. a memiber of the board of di rect(ors, lately visited New York and }Boston to confe with bankers as t) securing mn 1er fo ad 8 vances on South ern1 (cott4 n. -aidl ye,trday: .\T sIX NPEi (i:ENT. " think I c'an safely say' that the iFrmers' Loan and Trust c'ompjanly is p rep)ared to make advances onl all cottoni stored1 with thn Standar81d WaZrehoulse comp1 ~any' at (; per cent. We found I he strong ltnacial inter ests of the i-Jst wiling1 to make advances (41n~ louthernh cotton properly w0.vrell<mlsedn andIi had1 noA tr'oubleh' in per'fet tinig arranige mentsI . The) truth is' that ini the wvest wxhere eaistern h)an zZ have b)een lending llmoney Onl wheat and other grain c'rops the pros perity has bee 1~So great that the western banks a om no longer in need of nmuch asut an1ce anid ('an finance their own empns. East er'n hanlfk*'rs herefore' muist 1look for annher field in which to lend money and( they find the Stand ard warehouse cotton receipts wholly acceptalek collaterial. "If vou inquire the reason the methods of producing, will have reahced som dIegree of perfection. The Standard Ware house company, we think, is rendering them some assistance to this end aid our success in making arranmeni,ts to offer money at (; per cent. on ware house receipts as compared with , last year should be an argu mnilt of some coivilcing force. le otlicers of the Standard:l Warehouse company are: T. B. Stackhouse, president: E. W. - Robertstoii, first vice president; J. K. Diurst, inenwood, second. vice president, and L. W. Park-. er, Greenville: C. E. Summer, A Newberry, R. E. Vannamaker, Orangeburg: R. E. Ligon, An derson, anI Allgust Kohn, (o lam111bia ale tie director.s.-Co lunibia State. The Work of One Township. The new road law is working like a charm in Catawba town ship, notwithstandingthe many obstacles the law makers met with during the meeting of the legislature. If every township in York county will follow Ca tawba's footsteps the county will in a few vears have the: t best roads ini the State. I Six roads in Catawba town shin which touch the Chester 1 county line are being worked at present, and they will be work- I ed to the Chester county line. The roads being worked are the Catawba road, both the upper and lower York and Landsford roads, the Colunbia road and i the road running b Mr. W. P N Nealy's residence, which is al new road. Mr. Preston D. Lesslie, Ca tawba's supervisor, informs The Herald that never before i his life has he seen so much good roads enthusiasm. He says that everywhere he has gone he has met with aid and encouragement. He has col - lected already from this town ship $1,845 from the commu tation tax. The law requires that all male citizens between t the ages of 21and 55, except in t incorporated towns and cities are liable for this tax and he has collected practically all with the exception of perhaps 150, who ~ will work on the roads for a peroid of five dlays each. Since crops have been lay-ed by labor is plentiful and the work is being pushed forward, The hardest task the township supervisors have met with is in miaking out a list of all those lia le fo road dulty in each town ship, b)ut this wvork is ab)out ov er and 3Mr. Lesslie wvent to York ville yesterday to have his list coriected by the county treasur er's. The county list contains sonie names that do not appear I on the township's, and Vice ver sa, and the two lists will be cor rectedI to a name. As an examle as to what Catawba township is doing, we will print the followving: Messrs. Henry Massey arid R. H. Pea cock, who live out on the 01(d Saluda r'oad, near the river,1 built nearly three miles of per nmanent road work in three days last week. They- will not, and (d0 not, expect ai cent from the county for their services, al though it cost them a nice little sum to accomplish what they (lid. They had 12 mules at work antd nine laborers. The laborors were p)aid1 75 cents a day, while they- got not a-cent for their own time, neither the 12 mules, andl similar conditions prevail all over the township and as long as such is the case we: are bound to have good roads. Another thing, the work being done now is permanent work. Deep ditches are being placed along all roads arid the roadbeds are being built up considerably. : -R>ck Hill Herald. The Bugle is Blowing. Charleston is to have a direct steamship line~ to Panama. Wake up b)usiiess men, the bugle is blowing reveille for~ Southern commercial expansion. -Florence Times. AN INCIDENT OF 1876 rHE BLOODY SHIRT DRILL Al AIKEN ON AUGUST 9. in Account by Senator Tillman of One of the Most Momentous Incidents of the Struggle. Senator Tillm an, in the cours( of his address today, gave thE ollowing account of the "Bloody )rill" at Aiken on August 9, .876: There has been more or les, liscussion in the papers of the tate recently about The origin of he red shirt as the democratic iniforni in 1876. I shall leave t to others to sift the evidence md determine if it can be done, ust where the credit lies. I vant to tell what I know about he bloody shirt and its effective ise in that momentous crisis. n my story of the Hamburg iot I have mentioned the drum kead court martial which con lemned and executed prisoners fter the fighting or firing had eased The last man selected to be hot was a notorious thief by he name of Pomp Curry whom had known from boyhood. le had furnished the names of ,11 whom he recognized to, Dis rict Attorney Stone and this evi ence caused warrants to be is und against practically all the embers of the Sweetwater abre Club and a few others vho were not members. 'We cere charged with murder and onsiracy to murder, and the heriff of Aiken county was iurdered to make the arrest. Aike a wise and prudent man .e did not attempt to execute he warrants, but communicated rith Col. Butler, our, captain, ,nd by common uuderstanding 11 of the men thus charged as embled at Lower Cherokee ond a place near Col. Butler's ome and started for Aiken. 'he procession was led by the heriff in a buggy, followed by he so-called prisoners, armed to he teeth, and accompanied by aggage wagons with supplies or horses and men, cooks and full camping outfit except ents. Rev. William Shaw who wned a plantation two miles vest of Aiken, the dwelling ouse on which was unoccupied, tad kindly offered it for our use. Ve reached this place some time iefore sun-down and took up sur quar4ers for the night. Iourt was to convene two days ater and we were thus early on he ground in order to give the atwyers who had our case in and opportunity to draw up he papers and prepare for ob. aining bail if we were to be al >wed to return home. Gen. 3utler, who was under indict. ment. Hon. George W. Croft, Ion.D. S. Henderson of the \iken bar and Maj. William T, lary were acting as oua attor wyvs. Among those whose interest lad1 induced them to accompay is was my brother, Hon. Georgt ). Tillman, who had beer tominated as a candidote fo: ongress ln our congressional listrict. He had been in corres >ondIence with General, after vard1s Senator J. Z. George, of dississippl, the man whose con tructive statemanship in devi, ing means to s'tfeguard south ~rn civilization by the elimin. tion of the negro vote will caus< 11s name to shine for all time at . great constitution lawyer and >enef actor of the south. It war mder- him that Mississippi let ff in disfranchising the negr< nd practically every southerr tate has followed suit. Missis ippi had thrown off the carpe >ag yoke two years before tha' nd Gen. George advised my bro her to have the South Carolinu nmpress the negroes both as t< mr strength and the purpose oj :he whites by using spetacula: mniform and urged the paradE f long processions of arme< vhite men through the country. The Hmhnrg riot had cause that southern banks are not equally able to finance the farm ers without assistance from the east, since the price of cotton has increased in the last seven or eight years, the answer is that the increase in the value of the southern cotton crop has been by no means so great as the increase has been in the value of the grain crop. For example, a suggestive table in tihe current number of the Liter arv Digest, which you may have seen, points out that while dur: ing the period from 1900 to 1908 the value of the wheat crop in creased 90 per cent. the increased value of the cotton crop was on lv 32 per cent. THE EXPLANATION. "In m~-Y judgement the ex planation of this is that the west ern farmer has been accustom ed for vears to store his wheat ta the elevator and to sell wheat only when the world wants it, while, until recently, the cotton farmer has disposed of his crop during the harvest months and the two or three months inine diately following at whatever prices were offered. Neither wheat nor cotton can be econ omically held by the farmer un less he have warehouse facilities -and the wheat farmer has had them longer and more of them. "The Standard Warehouse . any is steadly enlarging ts faciTNz>s for storing cotton. Nt present it. capacity is 75.000 )ales but it coNtemplates the es ablishment of otjer warehouses it points where the demand for hem seems to justify it. Ware louse facilities which enable he farmer to borrow money on heir product at 6 per cent. ought o go far in assisting the south rn farmers to distribute the narketing of their cotton dur n) the 12 months of the year' -ather than during four and hat is the real problem that he farmer must face if he would >btain for his cotton what it is ,vorth. BUSINESS AT HOME. "In our arrangements with astern bankers to furnish nion y for advances on cotton wvare louse receipts," continued Mr. tackhouse, 'it is worth noting~ hat the receipts themselves are wot sent to P'oston or New York is collaterial. Under our con racts receipts for a specified iount are simply turned over o the Coiumbia Savings Bank mnd Trust company, which 10ld1s them as custodian for the Eastern lender, they having our general note for the money bor-! owed, which includes ai conl ract to deposit warehouse re :eipts with the Columbia bank.I *he importance and value of his arrangement to the farmer re that if at any time he wish ~s to sell his cotton and pay his wte, he may make the settle nent at home and1 avoid the ecessity of having the bank ere send north for his note and aking payment in New York Lxhange. Our contract per its us, when a note dleposited s paid, to substitute another ote for it. When the farmer's ote and warehouse receip)ts are hemselves sent to Boston from ouror five (days in interest is ost in closing out each accon hich ultimately the farmer ays, as well as the premiunm on Ne w York or Boston exchange. Fequently the farmer wishes o sell his cotton on a particular lay, the market may be up and t may be down the next day, so hat the conducting of the whole ransaction at home so far as he farmer is concerned should >K no small consideration to THlE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE "Whenever the southern far ers universally adopt the cus om of storing their cotton in warehouses, protecting it from amage of every kind at the nost economical rates and sell ing it as the demand develops throughout the year, the meth ods of marketing, which ai'e scaercely seond in importance to such a furore throughout the north and the republican press of that section was waving the bloody shirt with such frantic energy that Mr. Tillman suggest ed to Col. Butler that we though assembled as prisoners should wave the bloody shirt in reality as a token of defiance. The idea was seized upon by all of us and Luther Ransom anmd yself were appointed a committee to visit Aiken confer with the democra tic authorities, and see if we could induce them to help us in securing shirts to be donned as uniforms. Col. George W. Croft, then county chairman en tered into the scheme with groat zeal, and gave us an order for the necessary yellow homespun. Having obtained this, Rans,n who knew nearly all of the la dies of Aiken accompanied me in my buggy and we distributed the bolts of cloth among the la dies with the request that they inake us forty homespun shirts just as soon as possible. As I remember it, the cloth was distributed one afternoon and the next morning we drove into town from our camp and gather ed up the garments obtaining a good supply of turpentine, oil, and Venetian red at the -same time. I had telegraphed to a friend in Augusta, Tom Henry to send me without fail two ne gro paper masks or dough-faces and a kinky chignon. I had or dered a carpenter to m ike a large flag staff in the shape of a cross and I got one of the ladies to make an ennIous shirt big ger than Goliath of Gath would have worn. This shirt was turned into a flag with the arms outstretched over the cross pieces. The negro faces were tacked to the top back to back so as to make a grinning -negro Ihead from either side and the chignon was nailed on top of these. Satan's appeal to the fallen angels: "Awake, arise or be forever fallen" had been emblazoned in large black letters on one side and my brother suggested the motto for the other side: "None but the guilty need fear." The shirt was made bloody with the marks of bullet wounds in red, and when the work of making the unique b)anner was completed, Ransom and others making suggestions, it was sure ly a most ghastly object. The yellow homesoun shirts had been put on and every wear er stained his shirt with artificial blood according to his own fancy. Some used poke-berries to make the color more fiery than the Venetian Red and tur pentine, and vary the ti'2t. Everything in readiness about 4 o'clock the day before court was to convene the Hamburg rioters to the number of forty uniformed as no men have ever been before or since rode into the town of Aiken in column of two's. The flag which was in itself not very heavy required a very strong and muscular man to handle it when we began to gallop, and Milledge Horn was selected as flag-bearer. He had lost five brothers in the Conffed erate army a sure guarantee of his courage and daring, w~as six feet high, weighed over 200 pounds and was correspondingly muscular. As soon as we reach ed Aiken we rode quietly by ev ery house where the ladies had Lbeen at work on our shirLs so as Ito let them see us. Then string ing out in column of file making a line nearly a quarter of a mile Llong, an the order was given to gallop, and for half an hour at break-neck speed we paraded ~through every street. It b,eing Ldry we soon kicked up a great cloud of dust, while all the men in the town as well as the women and children lined the spaces in front of their houses and waved handkerchiefs and cheered us. Not a neg-o did we see. Having shown how little ter I rified we were to thus baed the lion in his den, we proceeded in column of two's to Coker Spring where consumed an hour or more in washing the dirt off our faces and out of our eyes and ears, and watering our horses. At that time there was sta tioned at Aiken a company of United States regulars. These were camped on the bluff over hanging Coker Spring. The strange and unique appearance of this new uniform and the men in it caused all of the sol diers to line up on the bluff and watch us with great curiosity and interest. When all our men had finished washing, and we were again in our places (every thing having been done in mili tary style, one man holding three horses linked bridles while the other three washed at the h-rse trough) Col. Butler gave the command: "Foursleft. left dress." This threw us into line facing the bluff where the Yankees were gathered some sixty yards away and about for ty feet above us. Then the or der was given: "Three cheers for the boys in blue," and if there was ever a "rebel yell" it must have leaped from the throats of those determined and desperate men. As soon as the cheers were given the command followed: "Fours left, left by two's, march," and we started off back up the hill briskly, to wards the town. Almost as if by magic the Yan kee soldiers who were all in uni form received the order from someone: "Fallin, rightdress." As they were already in line it took them only two or three sec onds to get in military formation and withont counting off the or der was given: "Three cheers for the men in white." The answering call of the northern white man to the southern white man was.as hearty and vigorous as our own defiance had been. I will say in passing, that, while some of these same men marched sixteen miles to Rouse's Bridge to stop the Ellen ton riot some weeks later, and were held along with a large number of other troops in the disturbed region,-one whole regiment being sent to Edgefield court house in October, none of the soldier~s ever displayed any other than the most friendly and kindly feeling and they had no stomach whatever for the dirty work they had been sent into the state to do. They obeyed or ders which is the duty of a sol dier but they never showed any feeling other than good will and sympathy for our people. But while the Sweetwater Sabre club andl its successor in Meriwether township, the democratic fight. ing club, came in contact with the troops on several occasions afterwards they were never per m itted to cheer us again. The rioters in their bloody shirts returned to their quarters. In this parade the shirts were worn as blouses over the pants with pistol belts outside. Some of the men wore them home, and one young mian, John Craw ford, I think, caused his sisters to become dreadfully frightened because they thought he was wounded. I carried the flag te my home and I have always re* gretted that it was destroyed by fire when my residence was burned some three years later. It was a unique scene in the court room when Judge Mahei ordered bail lo be granted, fixing the sum as I recall it, at $1,00( each. The argument of the case had delayed action far intk the night. Lamps had to b< brought in and as the restles: "prisoners" would pass in ani out of the court room and tak< their seats the thud of the bar rels of their revolvers could bi heard as they came in contrac with the benches. When court was adjourned thi 'men began to make inquiry o ,the clerk of the court as to whei they could file their bonds. E tn a rather putulant and hrHi able manner, which was natur al because he must have been very much fatigued, replied; "Sometime in the morning." Just then I overheard Sheriff Jordan whisper to him: You had better let these men get out of town tonight else they may burn it and hang you before morning." In a thrice the manner of the clerk changed and be began to hand out blank bail bonds to be signed by all the applicants and their sureties. We all went on each other bonds and it became a joke causing a great amusement that Walker Matheny, who did not own ten dollars worth of property, had signed bonds to the extent of $20,000. In truth the whole per formance was a perfunctory and in many respects a laugh able travesty on law, for if they had attempted to put us in jail I am sure few or none of us * would have acquiesced and we would havc probably killed every obnoxious radical in the court room and town and gone to Texas or some other hiding place. In an hour we had de parted and gathering up our camp followers were on our way bome. We had in truth waved the bloody shirt it the face of the Yankee bull and dared him to do his worst, It is needless to say that this daring act on the part of the whites served to in tensify the dread of the neMes while among the whites the ban of race drew up closer toge eri It was "all for one and one all" and the state's mottocl" "Animls opibusque parati" } ready with our lives and fortu---, nes-pulsated as the sentiment in every bosom.-Anderson DailyMail. Cotton in York We have before us a stalk of cotton measuring eight inches in height and containing one bloom and two forms. It was sent to this office by Mr. Julius. Friedheim and a note sent along with it states that the sample came from a farm in the Santuc section and that it is the best that can be found in that section this year. Now, this may be exaggerating conditions a little, but some good and conservative farmers in that section say they will not make over half a crop of cotton this year. This is no reflecoion on the good people of Santuc for some of the best farmers in the county are to be found down there. They were just rained out this year. The deep sandy soil in that section does not stand a wet year so well as red land, and conditions are bad enough on all kinds of land this year. There is no longer any doubt of the fact that the cotton crop will be short this year and if it does not bring fifteen cents this fall, supply and demand for the staple will not figure in the market at all. Some good farmers say the crop in York county will be at least twenty five per cent less than last year's crop.-Rock Hill Herald. Investigating Titles. Mr. Drayton F. Hastie, assis tant United States district at torney, from Charleston was in town two days last week inves tigating the title to the postoffice lots in behalf of the government. Mr. Hastie is a descendant of the Drayton family, long pro minent in South Carolina. He is a genial gentleman and one who knows his business. He will report the whole question to ,the attorney general of the Unit ed States in a few days.-Gaff ney Ledger. Big Mortgages. Several mortgagesof the Caro lina, Clinchfield and Ohio road are being recorded in the office of the register of mesne convey ance. One is for $5,000,000. It 1is perhaps the h-rgest mortgage on record in this county.-Spar tanburg Spartan.