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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APBIL 26, 1905. VOLUME XXXX-NO. 45. JllXllV' The Clothes we sell ?ll a very important position with a great many well-dressed and particular men. Hundreds of thrifty men come back to us season after season, because of the satisfactory service they secure here at very moderate ?cost. In the first place, we have an excellent Stock of New Spring Suits that can meet the washes and tastes of practi cally every reasonable man. The Suits we Bell are carefully ^nd intelligently made, and we guarantee fit and satisfaction an every case. If not, your money back. We are showing an excellent assortment of Sack Suits, ?ingle and double-breasted, composed of Cheviots, Home spuns, Worsteds, Serges and hard-twisted Fancy Worsteds, priced from $7.50 to $22.50, And at every price between. Few Stores have as large an assortment pf New Spring Suits to show you, and where else can a man get equal value? . 0. Evans ONE PR?OB TO ALL. HARROWS 1 ROMAN? Adjustable frame with three de tachable teeth. TEDDI?! i ItnntLL, Stationary frame with three de tachable teeth. LITTLE JOE, Adjustable frame with nine de tachable teeth. BULL, Detachable frame? using three straight or diamond shaped blades. fi Adjustable Weeder and ? Shallow Cultivator. Thc practical mind will be read ily convinced of the advantage of -an Adjustable over a Straight ?frame Weeder, in as much as its construction permits it tobe used, not only as a weed exterminator, ??hile the crops are young, but as a SHAJiLOW CULTIVATOR between the rows Until the crops mature, which method of cultivation has interested the up-to-date farmer to such an -extent that the thousands who have been agitating it are a Unit in testifying to its necessity, claiming that growth and production of crops depend upon frequent and shallow cultivation, and that no implement yet invented is as welt adapted to the condition as the Keystone Adjustable weeder and Shal low Cultivator. These Weeders can ko widened to 7 J feet, or narrowed to 30 inches. They can be furnished with either flat br round teeth. Our Implements lessen the labor and add to tho profits of ! Tho Far ?i ere' Educational and j I Co-Oporative Union of America, j j CONDUCTED BY J. O. 8TRIBLING. - ! ?Sf Commuicatioiib intended fortbin i department should bo addre??*.ed to , J. C. Strlbllog, Psi dloton, 8. C. Sumelhing (jucer About the rcrtillzcr Ta?s. After makiog some investigation looking iuto tho matter of fertilizer tags our mon of our "secret service" have come to the conclusion thal there must be "something dead up the creek" in this thing! We lind that in one car, unloaded at Anderson, eon fained enough loose tugB to supply i another car, while every ?nek had tags. This is double the amount required by law. The write saw a box some B?X inches square nearly full of tags that were j found IOOBO in another car. while nil the ftacbs were properly tagged. One of the State's fertilizer inspectors reports that he often finds largo numbers of loose tags about in the cara, sometimes a large bunch ia found hanging up inside the cars. We have interviewed quite a numbor of dealers and handlers of fertilizers who state positively that they have never seen anything like the amount of extra tags thrown about loose as they see this season. The other side: Some of the manu facturers of fertilizer account for the extra tags found in cars from careless ness of the handlers caused by the un precedented rush of thia Beason. It is clear to all that the fertilizer people, or some other folks, have money to burn or else the bottom of this thing would fallout. A System of Marketing Cotton. By request of N. C. Murray, presi dent ot the Farmers' State Union of Texas, I hereby give to the presa for publication my views in regard to a system of marketing cotton. First, let every State organize their farmers into the Farmern' Union, then elect from each State a proportionate number of your beBt men, who are honest and qualified todo the business. Select some Southern city, centrally locatod. New Orleans being the great est American center, 1 would suggest that city be designated aa the place to carry on the system. Establish at I that rmi nt a Fanners7 Cotton Ex change, and in connection with the Exchange, establish a secret Bureau of Information, by which means direct information couid be communicated to the Execntivo Board of every State Union of America within a few hourn time; eaoh State Board could furnish the information to the County Pr?si dent or Secretary, and by him each Local notified. Within three daya time every cotton grower in America would know the exact number of bales of cotton in the hands of the spinners, and the number of.bales of spot cotton; also, tho num ber of bales ia the bends of the far mer. With this reliable information, and nothing fletitione connected with it, the confidence of every American cotton farmer would be strengthened, and when orders were issued from cen tral Exehango head an ar tern to held cotton oft of the market for any defi nite time ic would be done at any cost. By this system of management all fictitious reports could be set aside and confidence in the cotton producers, one for another, would be firmly ea tablished, and the great army of cot ton producers could swing into line, and the boars of our cotton market dis appear quickly. This being accom plished, a uniform system of prices on raw material and manufactured goods could at once be established, and no I longer would the American cotton producers be the toys and playthings of the cotton gamblers of the world. Why our American cotton proi neera do not act more in concert, in holding their cotton is on account of loBt con fidence in our statisticians, and even in our ginners reports issued by the government, because of the fact that in many instances it is known that ginners have faited to give a correct report, for pecuniaiy reasons. This being true, we have no no arco to look to for correct information. Tho only thing left for the cotton far mer is organization. By the above system we can get a report direct from every cotton producer every two weeks through the secretaries of onr local organizations, this information furnished by them to our National Bu reau of Information at New Orleans, we io return would receive a general re port from the Burean of Information, of the exaot cotton situation. By thia means the Esch an gc would be in posi tion to iasne correct orders in regard to the holding or selling of cotton; and the growers being familiar with the exaot conditions, would be in a position to act. I offer the above, by request, aaa plan by which the problem of market ing cotton may be settled, and for every thinking cotton growers' con sideration. S om o parties, perhaps, will Bay that all the farmers can't lbs organized. Th? i? true. But tnia w?i? flit no figaro So far ar/ reporting the amount of cotton raised is concerned; na eaoh local secretary contd easily as certain tba number of bales of cotton raised by all who are not members of Union. And with a concerted action of two-thirds of tbs American cotton growers a system of jost and remuner ative prices could bo maintained. I do not claim the above plan to be com plete or absolute, bat ono of mature consideration, However, many sug gestion o may be made as an improve ment/ and should anything better be offered, I am ready to strike hands .With my cotton prod acing friends for a forward march, until avery enemy to jost and remunerative prices on our colton, shall be exterminated forever. 1 would ask every paper throughout the cotton growing belt of the United States that ia friendly to the cotton producers canse, to please copy. v. . B. L. Barnett, Winnsboro/Texas. . - John W. Ensign, Democrat, Was on Thursday elected mayor of Hunt ington, W. Va. Dating the conflict preceding the election three men were shot i several were beaten by ?olioe men and deputy sheriffs and numer ous county and city officers were ar j rested and cast into ?ail. STATE MEWS. -.John H. O'Neale has offered to donato a sito for a hospital in Green ville. - Determined opposition is de veloping to tho fortuatiou of the pro posed Ileyward County. - Dr. C. II. Judson, of Furmnn University, has returned from Florida with his health much benefited, - Nod Mack, colored, will bo hang ed in Manning on Friday, the 2vSih, for the murder of his father-in-law. - J. E. Boyer, of Columbia, has been arrested charged with having yet fire to his storo which resulted io tho great lire disaster of thc Brooklyn section. - A uegro man has sued the city of ; Columbia for $100 for getting his foot ? hurt on the street by failing through i the pavement. - The portrait of Judge O'Neale, which was purchased by the Legisla ture nt a cost of $250 ,has been turn ed over to the clerk of the State Su premo Court. - A number of carpenters working on tho new passenger depot at Green ville went on strike on account of dif ferences with the foreman. A new force was at once secured. - Comptroller General Jones has raised the assessment of tho Standard Oil Company in this State from $5,GOO to $20,000. An appeal will be taken to the board of assessors. - John Gray, a weaver at tho Woodside Mills in Greenville, was shot and severely wounded by a negro gambler who escaped. The negro with others had been surprised while gambling. - The Southern Newspaper Pub lishers' Association will meet in Char leston May 2-3. The newspapor men of Charleston are making arrange ments to entertain the visitors in a splendid manner. - The Catawba Indians in York County say they cannot live on the $1,500 a year given them by the State and wish to emigrate to the West to settle in Indian Territory. There are about 800 in tho tribe, only 10 of whom, however, are full blooded In dians. A report from BateBburg states that no damage was done the peaeh and other fruit crops on the Ridge by the recent cold snap, and that the prospeots for a large orop of peaches and plums are very good. The grow ing of peaohes has become a large in dustry on the Ridge, and has been proven profitable. - TheGoverocv -.thc State off era a reward of two huudred dollars for the arrest of Ed. Wakefield, and his delivery to the Sheriff of Greenville County, oharged with the murder of T. E. Hicks, on February 18, 1904. Wakefield is described as being about thirty years old, six feet and two inches high, drooping shoulders, slender build, light completion, dark brown hair, left thumb off ai the first joint. - Mr. Thos. W. Folk'.-, r?sidence near Garmany, in No. 2 Township, Newberry County, was struck by lightning and set on fire during the eleotrio storm. The fire was put out with only nominal IOBS. The bolt struck the chimney in the rear of the house near the ground, knocking off several planks from tho outside of the house, acd setting fire to a broom on the inside, this starting the blaze. The family distinctly felt the shook, but no one was injured. - Saturday F. P. Mason brought two parts of a minie ball to the Spar tan off .e. About 13 years ago Doc tors Lanham and Allen out out a por tion of the ball from the regina of the ribs under the right arm of Virgil M. Hogers. A short time ago ho felt that there was something wrong with his right shoulder in the rear. He could feel that there was something trying to push its way out. Dr. Lan ham out another portion of the ball, a little larger than the first. It was very rough and jagged with pieces of bone adhering. Mr. Rogers was shot at the orator in Petersburg.-Carolina Spartan. - At Johnston last Friday morn ing about 3 o'clock Gre broke out in the business section of the town and two handsome briok stores and two frame ones were completely destroyed. L. 15. Asbcll, drugs and groceries, IOBQ 810.000, with insurance of $1,000; D. T. Onzts lost on four buildings $3,500, insurance $2.000. The stocks in Ed wards' bicycle store and Dr. M obi ey's drag store were saved, and there was j much damage to nearly every mer chant in moving goods. If the wind had not been blowing from the sooth j a greater portion of the . town would ; have been destroyed. - John E. Smith, a former citizen of Piokens County, ia in serious trou ble. He has deserted the United States Army. He was capturrd ;*?ri : day night eight miles east of Piokens i in the Gross Roads section of that county, near his former home. He served six years io the army and just recently re enlisted. He was oaptured by Town Marshal John Griffin and Mr. H. A. bealey, of Pickens, who will, receive a reward of $50 for his capture. Smith's story is that he never deserted, as he had a dispute with aa officer in Atlanta whom he told he was going to leave. - A dis pute arose ns to tho pay m ont of oar fare from Atlanta to Fort McPherson, Smith claiming that the government should pay the fare and tho of er elsi ming that it was a personal OIK.JI. Smith says he knocked the officer down for insulting him aad left, think ing all that was necessary was to tell the offiocr'that he was going,to leave. H? could not then, in his opinion, be termed a deserter. liMf?fft .., -. - GENERAL KEW S. - The fruit orop at Roanoke, Ya., ! has been killed by the cold. - The mines of Mexico have been closed to the coinage of silver. - Three men were burned t) death io a jail near New Orleans a few days ago. - Thc damage to etrawberries in North Carolina is estimated at 25 per ceut. - The estimate is that 75 per cent of tho Georgia peach crop has been killed. - A lire on Thursday at Nashville, injured Vanderbilt University to the amount of $200,000. Insurance, $10, 000. - A wealthy merchant died in n hospital JU Savannah a few days ago from blood poison resulting from ? eat scratch. - Jehu 1). Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the University of Vir ginia to found a "Curry school of education." - Thc Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Augusta, will ereot a house for taking care of stray dogs and cats. - Some negroes lynched another negro at Marion, Ark., a few days ago because thc lynched negro killed another negro. - At Washington it is thought that unless Franco gives some satis factory assurances complications with England may develop. - Bishop A. A. Watson, of the Episcopal diocese of Eastern North Carolina, is dead at Wilmington. Ile had reaobed an advanced age. - Tho Naval Stores Product Ex port Company to control the turpen tine industry ha9 been formed in Mississippi with $.1,500,000 capital. - The bones of Paul Jonen, who founded tho American navy, have been found in an old cemetery in Paris and will be brought to this coun try. - A [sculptor at Loaansport, Ind., removed a statue of Wm. McKinley from the pedestal in the park because ho said he was never paid for making the monument. - Hardy Walking a negro, was in dicted at Evergreen, Ala., charged with the murder of his wife by throw ing her on a burning brush heap, and holding her there until life waa near ly extinot. - The Japanese will profit by the destruction of the Russian fleet in the harbor of Port Arthur. There will be at leant four of the sunken battleships raised and made to do service in the Japanese navy. - The largest bequest ever made by s colored person to Tuskegee In stitute,Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee, Ala., was recorded in New York when the will of Mary E. Shaw, of Philadelphia, was probated. It bequeathed $38,000 to the institu tion. - . prioe has been put on thc head of tbe American eagle in Tc ham a County, California. Tho board j of supervisors-offers a reward of $1 j for the head of eaoh of the great i birds on tho petition of the sheep 1 men, who have lost many lambs by eagles. - The home of George T. Maull at Clarsburg, W. Ya., was entirely de stroyed by fire and four ohildren were burned to death. The parents, with a fifth ohild, had barely time to escape from the .burning building. The charred bodies of the four ohildren were recovered from the ruins. - State Senator R. L. Hipp, a law yer, and Deputy Sheriff Dunlay, of Culltnan, Ala., went out into the country on Thursday to oust John Williams from a tract of land he had lost in a lawsuit. Williams refused to vacate and a fight ensued, in which Hipp was killed and Dunlay was bad ly wounded. - It bas just como to light that a niece of Andrew Carnegie married her mother's coachman, a widower with two children, a year ago, and that they have been in Europe since. An drew says it is so, and that the conch man is an honest man and he would rather she had married a poor but honest American than a worthless duke. - The heaviest rainfall,of short duration aver rcoorded accurately is said to have been the reoent one at Santiago de Cuba. An English engi neer found the rate to be more than four inohes an hour, and between 7 and IO o'clock io the evening a total fall of more than a foot was registered by the gauge. The storm covered nearly three hundred miles, in places being even heavier than at the point where the measurement was made. - Thomas Yacdaw, a conspicuous figure in Norfolk for over fifty years," claimed up to the time of his death that he was entitled to a large for tune in California. Five years ago he was . adjudged a lunatic and sent to an asylum. Two years ago he died and was buried in a pauper's grave at the asylum. A letter has just been received in Norfolk stating that Yan daw was entitled to a largo portion of an estate in California worth upward of $1,500,000. Yandaw's wife is dead and he left no heirs. - F. M. Cock rel 1, Jr., son of ex Senator Cookrell, is the inventor of a sugar eane cutter that promises to re volutionize the sugar planting indus try of the South and at the samo time make its inventor a millionaire. His machine will do the work of more than one hundred mon. It cuts, strips and tops the cane and is pro nounced by experts who have seen it in operation a wonderful machine, that will mean as much to tho sugar I cane industry as did the cotton gin to thc cotton business. BSPBtoSSse ?|,'\'\-?: jo- V' . '? . .;. * ? To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION", cometo The Racket Store] TTTTTTT 'iT'Wr* ? ? ? V ? WV V V V HT ?V Our Buyer has just returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods aro 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 ail a cordial invitation to visit our Stores? inspect our Goods, and'be convinced that what we say is true. MORROW-BASS CO.,' Suceessor.to Horn-Bass Co., 110,116,120, East Benson St., - - - - - Audessori, 8, G Mamet Mill End Sale ! 15 pieces Brown Linen, regular price 15c, at. ( 10 yards to customer ) Beat Calico.. Mill -Ends of Apron Checks. Cotton Checks and Plaids. Mill Enda vard-wlde Shooting at. Mill Ends Dress Ginghams, 7c grade, at. Mill Ends Dress Ginghams, 10c grade, at. Mill Ends Percales, 10c grade, at. Laces and Embroideries. 1000 yards of Narrow Torchon Lice at., Torchon Lace, one to two lpobes wide, at. 25 pieces of Embroidery, one inch wide, at.... 1000 yards of Embroidery.and Inner..on, worth 5c, at. lOo yar 4o yar 3Jo yax 3jo yai .Hoyar 4io ya; 7?oya Tic ya lo ye 8?o yi lo yt 3Jc yt Lace Curtains. Worth GOc at... Worth $1.00 at 45or G9c j Curtain Poles with Fixtures. White Enameled or Cherry. 8? each, comp Umbrellas. 20 inch School Umbrellas, worth 50c, at. 25c ? Tinware. 4 quart Pudding or Milk Pans, worth 10s, at. 5o 2 quart D'poors, regular price 10c, at. Sc 0 inch Pie Plates, regular price 5c, at. .two fr Fibre Water Pails, "worth 35c, at. 25o Carpet Taoks at. lo a Eeg Whips, 3o kind, at. lo White Metal Tea Spoons at. 7c for set White Metal Table Spoons at.Ho for se Fibre Lunch Boxes at.;. 10c Large size Scissors, nickel plated, a 25o article, at. 10c 6 inch plain White Wash Brush at!. 5t 7 inch painted Wash Brush at. 10< 4 lb package Grandma Washing Powder at. )2< 1 lb. package Grandma Washing Powder at. . 4? A No. 1 Laundry Scsp, 8 cz. cakcb, 12 oakes for. 25< Nobby Soap, best laundry soap made, at.7 cakes ? Cocoa Soap..2 cakes Package Soda, Silver Leaf..,.71 Good Luck Baking Powder at. Good Luck Baking Powder, large size, at. Cracker Jack Baking Porder at.2 cake? 10 inch Meat Dish, worth 10c, at. 0 Inch Gravy Bowl, worth 10r# at. I 8 inoh Gravy Bow), deep, worth 15c, at.~1< Soup Touroons, worth $1.00. at......6? - Large Soup Plates, worth OOo, at. Large Dinner Plates, English ware, worth OOo, at. Cups and Saucora to match, English ware, worth 75c, at. 7 only 100-place Decorated Dinner Sets, worth f 10.00, at.f-1' Sonly 100-piece Decorated Dinner Set?, worth $12.00. at..........i 3 only TOO-pieos Carlsbad ChiDa Bete, worth $22.00, at.8 100 sets of Tumblers, worth 15o, at.?. 25 doz. plain Blown Tumblers, worth 40o, at.., 9 Inch oblong Preserve Dish, value 10.*, at. 8 Inch deep round Berry Bowls, value 16c, at. Half gal. Glass Pitcher, worth 25o, at.* 16 inch Blown Glass Vase, worth 35c, at.n 10 inoh Carnation Vase, value 35o, at.x . First quality Window Snades (Linen) at._ First quality Window Shades with Fringe at.? - WW Remember, we are headquarters for Ice Cream Freezers and Coolera. Ask to see our Sanitary Water Coolers. r> The Magnet The Big Store. JLf CAI to Post G?j' d? . > - '.Mt *.' ' . 3 ..? T*.