University of South Carolina Libraries
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1904. VOLUME XXXX-NO. 271 WHEN YOU BUY A ??? WINTER OVERCOAT Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner Marx AT THI3 STORE you will be sure to get the most stylish, the best tail ored and the best fitting Overcoat that can be had for the money. We have made eure of this by handling only the product of the best Clothes makers in the country, and can there fore guarantee every garment to be as represented. In Men's and Young Men's Over caats we are offering incomparable values at $5.00 to $20.00 That you will do well to take advan tage of while our style and fabric as sortment is at its zenith. We were never so proud of any particular group of Clothing as we are of our Stylish Overcoats at $15. They are extremely fashionable garments, such as you usually pay 820 for, and consist of knee-length, me dium-length and long Overcoats, up to-the-minute in style, close-fitting col lar, broad shoulders, cut loose and roomy ; made of Kersey*, Vicunas, Oheviote and Friezes, in black and Oxford, and certainly the most re maskable value ever seen at 815.00. Fashionable Suits for Little Boys. Here thrifty parents can elothe the "little shavers" most stylishly at de oisive savings ovei what libe quality Clothing costs elsewhere. Visit other ?Stores first, then come here and make any Jair comparison you like-tf you <3o, you'll find our styles smarter and our prices lower. Herc's just a hint : BOYS' SUITS, Sizes 4 to 17 years, made of stusdy Serges, Fancy Cheviots and Tweeds handsomely tailored, strong linings, trousers ?.g PA Tft ?f* A fl re-inforced", warm, comfortable, serviceable... $I?9U I U 4H3?UU. . 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. IF YOUR FEET -A.re Cold., Wet, Tired.* Cramped CO TO DEAN & RATLIFFE ARID GET THEM CURED. THEY ute Foot-Fitters froin away baek, and have the best seleoted stock of- ( Bran New Shoes They overbought. Their Special Seduction Saje of I ^r|i&ree hundred pairs of Cheap Shoes at Cheap Figures is now in full blast. This sale spells DONT FORGET THE PLACE. RATLIFFE & THE FOOT PLEASMLS. The F&rmers' Educational and Cc-Operative Union of America. CONDUCTED BY J. O. 8TRIBLIN0. || CommuicatiortB intended for this j j department .should ba addressed to I j J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, 8. C. Tho motto of the organized farmers is, "Not mad hut deliberately in ear liest." The present slump in the prico of cotton from 10 cents to 71-2 couta means a loss to tho farmer and de pression iu business interests alike to every business, whether merchants, fertilizer makers, mulo and horso traders, doctors or ministers. It means over 812 per bale on tho 30,000 bales produced in Anderson County, which aggregates a loss on tho remniniug part of this crop now in tho hands of Anderson County men to full $200 000. If this heavy loss to the farmer re mained in our midst to upbuild our home cotton mills at;d other industries the farmer could afford to shoulder the loss with much better grace, but as the loss is turned into net piolita to en rich ' tho cotton gamblers and specu lators of the East we appeal to every Southern man in every branch of the different trades to unite with us in ouo grand concentrated action with all the cotton States to obtain a profitable price for our cotton. "What are the cotton growers going to do about it?" Well, it appears that the men now holding the remainder of tho cotton crop are determined to bold on to the cotton until it sets in sight of the burning sulphuric blue blazes of Hades before they will let it go for loss than ten cents, ?nt as it is dangerous to let cotton go too near fire, we would now sound the bugle blast of distress to call all cotton growers generally to rally to the standard of our common, neighborly interest and seize the cot ion beais of the East and hold them between us and tho fire. These arctic white cotton bears of the North and East cannot stand heat like the Southern cotton grower, who has kind of gotten used to the smell 1 of burning brimstone and the tropical sun. The cotton grower feels his wrongs as never before and has begun to learn his needs, and as he is today in better tiuancial condition than he has been in 40 years and can stand the collision and crisis with better prospects of win ning than ever before, notice may ns well now be nerved upon the cotton speculator that the galling yoke of price-making by the non-producing speculator will never again be tamely borne by the cotton growers, and as cotton ie perhaps the best collateral ot all the products of the soil there is no j reason why the cotton growers cannot I protect their interest through con- I certed action without disturbing the ; affairs of other legitimate tradesmen or other branches of craftsmen by tho simple use of common horse sense in our methods. i Farmers, Hold Colton, is Adviee of Col. Orr. In an interview with a representa tive of The Greenville News on Wed nesday, Col. James L. Orr, president of the Piedmont Manufacturing Com pany, said that it would be suicidal for the farmers of the South to sell their cotton at71-2 cents when they would undoubtedly receive higher prices later on. He believes that nine cents will be paid if the farmers will only agree to hold. Col. Orr was asked.what he thought of the cotton and goods situation. Ho replied that it was badly mixed. There will unquestionably be a large crop, ho said, but not aa large aa the govern ment estimates, and he would rather trust the ginners' report, which to bis mind, indicated ? crop of 11,080,000 bales rather than 12,400,000, which the government etimate makes it, includ ing linters. In. making the estimate, the government seems to have lost sight of three very important matters which forced the ginning of cotton much more rapidly than Usual. The crop was fully three weeks earlier than usual, ia many sections, on account of the dry weather, four weekB earlier. Not a single day were the farmers pre vented from picking their cotton from the first of September to the 14th of November, and cotton waa selling around ten cents, all of which induced early ginning, so that instead of 80 per cent being ginned, as the government estimate would indicate, there was probably 87 to.88 per cent, actually ginned cn the 14fch of November. This conclusion is corroborated by the small amount of bagging apd ties sold since the loth of November and by the short time that the gins have been running. He said that he advised his friends to sell their cotton freely as long aa they conld get above 0 cents for it, but it would be anioidal on the part of the farmers and the South generally to sell their cotton at 71-2 cents. In stead of fighting the speculators, they would simply be doW j that which the bears are trying so hard to frighten them into. The trade of the country will be excellent for the next year, and all the spindles will be occupied, so that we can reasonably expect 11, 000,000 balea of American cotton to be used in the next twelve months. "This is the best opportunity I have ever eeeo," he said, "to test the cour age and good sense of the farmers of the Sonth. My advice is to .hold, their cotton through December and January. . "The goods market baa been very seriously affected ry the slump in cot ton, and while very few prices have actually been lower, converters, ex porten and jobben are all afraid to .take hold of che market for fear of ad ditional depression. AU of the milla making coarse gooda have practically their product sold through March and many of them through May; so . there Wiltoo very few goods of this cl asa seeking buyers. Fine goods nave been selling for the peat six weeks on a baals of 81-2 cents for cotton and any mill that agrees to f urniah gooda at lesa price than floe gooda are now sell ing for will not make anything, even if the)- have no high-priced cotton al ready bought. Thia ia a contest be tween the spinners of the world against the cotton producen, and the sym pathies of the Southern spinners axe : with the farmers, because their inter est ia mutual in so many other re specta, and they have bought a much larger proportion of their cotton, being in the midst of it than the New E?g-i lund or Continental spinners. Cotton ia worth 9 cents, intrinsically, and if the farmers will hold what is left in tboir hands they can get that price for it." GENERAL SEWS. - Two legislaturemon of Mississip pi have hoon indicted as being mem bers of a whitecap band. - The farmers of Scotteboro, Ala., propose to reduce the cotton estimates by burning a million bales. - The national pension roll has iu creased until thero aro more than a million names on it. Thero arc 4,000 more than last year. - A New Jersey woman thinks she is ontitled to two pensions because she is widow of ono soldier and the grass widow of another. . j~ ? r~J - Tho heaviest-boy inj Georgia for his age, perhaps, is Starke M. Cox, of Ashburn, who is but seven years old and weighs 140 pounds. - It is stated in the Associated Press dispatohes, that the President has definitely deeded not to oall an extra session of Congress. - Thomas Dewey, tho defaulting cashier of the Farmers' and Merohanta1 bank of Newborn, N. 0., for over ono hundred thousand, has been arrested in San Antonia, Texas. - Eleven English fishermon were drowned on Friday while helping to save the passengers of a Norwegian steamer whioh was wrecked on tho coast of Northumberland. - The agricultural department has estimated tho coro crop for this year at 2.453,030,000 bushels, which has only been exceeded by tho crop of 1002, which was 2,523,648,312 hush els. - It is reported from Washington that the postoffice department has given postmasters overywhere to un derstand that tho president will be rigid io the enforcement of his polioy against active participation in parti san politius by federal officeholders. - The house committee on indus trial arts and exhibits have deoided not to recommend to thc house to hold an exposition at Jamostown, Va., but some other suitable and less expen sive mode of celebrating the tricen tennial of the first Euglish settlement there. - Monroe Wells, tho 22 year-old ?on of a carpenter at North Birming ham, Ala., while in a fit of temporary Insanity, shot at and narrowly missed his mother, fatally wounded an aunt who rushed to his mother's assistance, and then turned the weapon upon himself and blew out his brains. - The Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture has issued a circular let ter to the cotton growers of Alabama o&ning for a mass meeting in ail the towns on Tuesday, January 10, to dis caoa the best way of disposing of the present crop now on hand and for concert of action in making a new orop. - A sensation hts been oreated in Jaokson, Miss., by the indictment of Hon? H. T. Montgomery, member of the Legislature, and J. C. Bryant and J. B. Willis, members of tho County Board of Supervisors of Lincoln Coun ty, on the ohargo of whiteoapping. A number of indictments agaiust promi nent oitiienB have beep returned. - Lulu McLaughlin, who disap Seared mysteriously from her home io ewark, N. J., on June 15, 1903, has been brought to that city and re stored to her mother by a detective, who says that he found her in the Catskill mountains. The girl, who is 14 years old, tells a story of having been kidnapped by a woman, taken to Manorkill, in the Catskills, und com pelled to do all kinds of drudgery on a farm there. - The organization of the one-leg ged men of Atlanta has been com pleted and commences with about 300 of tho bast known one-legged men in tho city. The club has started tinder the mutual benefit plan. Each mem ber pays $1.59 a month for five years into the dub and he reoeives a new artificial leg with a guarantee that it Will be kept in repair. - The Daughters of the Confed eracy will present to the State of Mis sissippi a magnificent oil painting of Jefferpon Davis to be plaoed in the hall of fame at the new capitol. Dele gates from each of the sixty local chapters of the U. D. O. in Mississippi will be appointed to attend the pre sentation on January 19, 1905. The painting is valued at $1,000. - Houston Bond a clerk in a lead ing hotel of Nashville, has received a certified eheck from Evansville, Ind., for $10,000. Four years ago an old gentleman fell on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and severely in jured himself. Mr. Bond went to his assistance, lifted bim from the ground and oared for him. Thc check whioh he has receive d is the lequel. - An Atlantic Coast Line passen ger train from Rooky Mount; N. C., to Wilmington was wrecked by run- < Ding into an open switch at Overman's siding, about two miles north of War saw* The engineer and his colored fireman were instantly killed. None of the passengers was seriously in jured, although the entire train, with the exception of a Pullman, was piled up alongside the track. It is believed toe switch ?rae tampered with. - A reward of $1,800 and expenses bas been offered for the oapture of Maro 8. Potter, the defaulting and. fugitive cashier of the bank at Davis boro, Ga., where he is alleged to be more than $20,000 short in his ac counts. The reward is offered by the officials of the bank. Potter is only 22 years old, weight 200 pounds and bas light hair and bine eyes. He is popular, and his friends expresa ?S7. Triso at his action. ". STATE NEWS. ' - Thc Legislature will meet Tues day, January 10. - It is said that there is need of $200,000 additional income to savo the State from borrowing money every year. - A negro man snatched a purse from the hand of Miss Beanie Maxwell on Main street in Spartanburg and es caped with it. Z1'3 - Tho trustees of Winthrop Col lege have made their report, show ing receipts from appropriations of $65,691.68 and expenditures of $l?l, 689.62. - II. D. Ousts, who lives on J. S. Langford's placo iu Newberry Coun ty, killed ten hogs ou tbe 8th inst., four of which netted, after cleaning, 1,255 pounds. - Aaron P. Prioleau, the negro con gressional oandidate in tho 1st district, Efts been convicted in the United States district court in Charleston of tampcriog with the mails. - The citizens of Elloree, Oraogo burg County, will appear boforo the State Board with an overwhelming petition askiog for the removal of the dispensary "from their midst." - A reward of $1,000 has been offered for thc arrest of J. II. Adams, of Collcton County, who walked out of jail some time ago under death sen t?nos aud is still believed to be in the vioinity. - A jury in Camden gave a woman a verdict for $3,000 damages against tho Seaboard Air Line road because ono of i ts conductors treated har dis courteously while she was a passenger on his train. - At a mass meeting at Salley, Orangeburg County, attended by 350 farmers, all signed a pledgo not to market any moro cotton under 10 cents, even if they have to hold it a year or more. - Smallpox is said to exist in twen ty five counties in the State and to bo very prevalent in some, particularly Goorgctown. The State Board finds that thc funds on hand are inadequate to meet thc situation. - L. J. Jordon, a fruit tree man, who liv?. ' at Kershaw, shot and killed a negro a few days ago. The account says "tho colored man was endeavor ing to pull his gun." A 41 pistol was found on him after he was killed. - Capt. Smith Griffin, of Easley, who was in Greenville on Thursday, whoa near the Southern depot was struck by a street oar and sustained sevore lojuries. Capt. Griffin had a out in his temple and complained of his back giving him muoh pain. - Pope P. Hayos, who operates a turkey raffling establishment in Co lumbia, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by the executive committee of the Richland County Law and Order League, in order to bring the question of the legality of turkey raffling to an issue. - It has been announced that Dr. J. Kugene Jarnegan. of Marica, a member or the Legislature from that oounty for four years, will become a oandidate for superintendent of the State penitentiary, opposing the present superintendent, Capt. D. J. Griffith, in his raoe for re-eleotion. - The coroner's jury brought in a verdict the Hughes family at Trenton came to their death by the hands of persona unknown to the jury. Thc publio has settled down to thc convic tion that B. B. Bughes, in a fit of insanity, murdered his wife and two daughters and then oommitted sui cide. - Several prominent capitalists will arrivo in Charleston in a few days from Philadelphia, coming to confer with local parties for the organization of the company which ir. to build a trolley Hue to Summerville, a pine land and health resort about twenty two miles from Charleston. Thc char tor has been received from the Sec retary of State. . - President Johnson, of Winthrop College, has returned from a trip in the North where he perfected all plans and arrangements for building the Carnegie library at Winthrop, and obtained the money and the adoption of plans for an elegant building, work on whioh will be begun as soon as tba material oan be put on the grounds. - County Auditor I. MoD. Hood, of Chester, had an exoiting experi ence a few mornings ago, from which he has not yet reoovered. About 5 o'clock he got up and made a fire, as is his custom, aud went baok to bed to enjoy another nap. His foet getting 'too warm for comfort, ho awoke to find tho bed in flames, which had started at tho foot and were rapidly advancing toward the head. Seeing his serious plight, he quioker than a 16-year-old leaped from the bed and rolled the whole outfit of covering into the fire place, and .began pour ing on water. Both of his hands were badly burned and he cousinly had a narrow escape from being burn ed to death. I -Mrs. Helen M. Felton, of Spring field, Mass., will get a Christmas {?resent from the State of South Caro ma in the shape of aoheokfor 12,320, whioh will be a clear pickup as it were. The check will be sent in pay ment, at 50 per cent, of two bonds of the faoe value of $1,000 eaeh, and dated 1873, with interest at 4 1-2 per oent up to the time of the passage of the special aot providing for the pay ment of these kind of bonds. Mrs. Felton wrote the Comptroller General that she found the bonds among a lot* of old papers and carno near throwing them away. She will be surprised, as she did ?bt think it worth while to omploy an attorney. I o Would Stand By Farmers. Mr. B. P. Muuldin, of Anderson, president of tho South Carolina State Bankers' Association, has received a letter from Mr. W. J. Montgomery, president of tho Farmers' and Mer chants'Bauk, ot'Marion, advising that thc hanks of tho South lend money to tho merchant-' and farmers of tho South on.cotton, willi tho and to enable them to hold their cotton it' they so do si io. Mr. M auld in sends to tho News and Courier a copy of tho lotter, which fol lows: MU. MONTi?OMEUY'?j LETT KU. Marion, December '.>.-B. P. Jl/aul* din, Esq., President State Hankers' Association, Anderson, S. C. -Dear Sir: lt seems to me just now is an op portune timo for the banks, particular ly of tho South, to ho of immense prac tical advantage to tho agricultural interests of tho Southern States by loaning money to tho fanners and merchants on cotton, and thereby pre venting thom from being forced to market their cotton too fast at prosent prices. I am aware that nothing practical can bo accomplished, except by con certed action, and if you will pardon the suggestion I write to inquire if it would not be w?Be for you, forthwith, to tnke tho matter up with the presi dents of tho different Bankers' Asso ciations in tho cotton growing Stntes, having tho obiect stated above in view. It is not my view that the object should bo to "bull" tho price of cotton, but, per contra, to protect the agricul tural interests of tho South against thc "beni" raid that seems now to have complete control o',' the cotton market, I am aware, too, that there is not fl complete system of w are houses in thc South tor storing cottou. but each in dividual banker cnn be left to judgt of how the cotton shall be stored, etc., to satisfy him with the security. 1 might say iu passing, our bank ha* loaned money for the past fifteeu : ^un to its customers on Cotton, most of ii on the farms, aud has never lost a dol lar thereby. I know the bankers of the South cat but feel a keon interest in this matter and 1 am nlso satislled cotton has gooc friends nm oin,' tho great banks of th? North. In revolving this matter in my minc the plan indicated above appeared th* most feasible, because the bunks of th? South are organized, the farmers ar not; the bnuks can act promptly, th farmers cannot. My groat personal interest in th agricultuinl interests of the South which seem now to bo so serious! threatened, is my excuse tor this let ter. After reading and acting upon thi letter, if you see tit to act upon it, have no objection to your giving it t the press of ?the* State with BUC views as you may think proper to ex press. I need not say that if you take an action to accomplish the desired resu! it should be taken at once. With very kind regards, I am, vei truly, W. J. Montgomery. MK. MAULWN'S LETTER. Mr. Mauldin writes the following let ter to the News and Courier, comment ing upon tho letter of Mr. Montgom ery: Anderson, December 15, 1004. To ibo Editor of the Nows and Cou rier: I regard tho above timely com munication that came to me from Mr. \V. J, Montgomery, president of tho Farmers' and Merchants' Hank of Ma rion, S. C., ana vico president of our State Hankers' Association, of suffi cient interest to tho public, and moro especially to our farmers, to request its publication in your paper. Wo all recognize that tho leading primal or basic factor in tho material prosperity of our State, and of tho South, is farming. It is true that cot ton manufacturing, her twin lister, is steadily growing, and I trust will con tinue to grow, but wo are, to a largo extent, an agricultural people. I uso tho expression 'twin sister' advisedly, believing that thee*) two should go hand in hand, and that there Bhould be no eontlict of interests between them. The farmer produces a bale of cot ton, turns it over to tho manufacturer, and ho converts it into two bales,.ia dollars and cents. Tho milla aro full of operatives, they must be fed from the poultry yards, the orchards, the truck patches, the granaries and the slaughter peus of the farmer. This insures to the farm er a good market for all produce of thia kind. The mills naturally desire to secure all the local cotton that they can, for they thus save freight and the profit of the intermediate man from whom they must otherwise purchase, hence the mills must of necessity maintain their local cotton markets. Hanks especially have a community of interest with the farmer, for a largo crop and a good price means to thom easy collections, good depoaita, enlarg ed resources and better earnings. On the other hand the farmer appreciates the fact thnt the banka have placed him upon a cash basis, thereby reliev ing hun from the burden of credit prices to which 25 years ago ho was necessarily subjected. In view of the mutuality of interests between the banks and the farmers, it goes without saying that the tonner atand ready at all times to help tho latter to the extent of their ability. The co-operative plan auggOBted by Mr. Montgomery can hardly oe put ia operation to meet tho present crisis to which he refers. In this connection Mr. W. S. Witham, of Georgia, presi dent of 48 banks, Juts invited tho presi denta of the various State banking as soci?t ions of the South to meet in At lanta, Ga., on the iJrd of January next, and one of the matter? to be consider ed ia the auggestion made by Afr. Montgomery. In the meantime, fortunately for tho farmers of our State, our banka, in our opinion, are in position to give them the necessary aid in holding their cot ton. The bank with which I am con nected, (and I nm sure this ia true o? the other banka here,) baa been able to extend all the accommodation of this kind that has been asked for this season. If this is true of na in a cotton mill centre, where the mills also make beavv demands upon us, it must be true of the banks in other parts of those sections of tho State where there are fewer mills. B. F. Mauldin, President S. C. Hankers' Association To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown ia Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to Our Bayer has just returned from the Northern markets, and valueB ia Goods are arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections.. See our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, __ Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONET. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else where. We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our Stores? inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is true. MORROW-BASS CO.. Successor to Horn-Bass Co?, 110,116,120, East Benson St.,.Anderson, S. C