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I ^"H^ ' "?HBBBSON.'S. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1905. VOLUME XXXX-NO. K?. F OR MEN. Now is the time to change from that brain-heating Derby to a cool Straw Hat. Brims are Narrower this season. Popularity will be decided between? Splits and Sennits, V ?WITH? . Soft Milans and Panamas Coming to the fore again. Shapesand proportions to fit every man's head and fig tire, and prices to fit every man s idea of expenditure. Good Hats all prices : . 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50. * PANAMAS $5 00 and $7.50. ONE PB?GE T? ALL. W??? THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. - *pinger; : fount's I *"* . * - . Each Cradle is perfectly set by band by ; an' expert who has been making them foi* years. ; All of the wood part of . these Cradles is cut out by hand, which pr?vents the Cradle^warping and ; getting out of shape s!r;B^e^ V There ar? a grea* many makes and styles of these ?radlsson tho masket. Most of them arc manufac tured to suit the grain fftimera of ihe West^here ftne grain grows, ranch tftlley and heavier than m Jftis e?<!* lion. Oar eiporknec h&s tn-ught us that these "ha?F* t" Cradles .'are uot adapted to the nsccLs c-? ou? fa?ta* Our Fo?rieen?Fiog?r Oradjes ara set to suit the conditions of this;$^tio?; and wit?i them the lowest grafat of the ?iapest crops can be saved. Each Cra dle is provided wiik' perfect patentrairt^mg for the atia$hmont. of the Soy th& or Blade; arc the very be^t quality we can buy* The Farmers' Educational and j Cc-Operative Union of America. I -J-,-:- I OONDUOTED BY 0. O. STRIBLING, -,-1 SSi- CotnmnioaU.oQB intended for this | ne^^r'QQent should be addressed to i J. C. v.ribllug, Pecdleton, 8. C. This Utter Explains itself. > t U. 8i Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, June 3,1905. Dear Sir: Your letter of recent date in regard to nitrogen-Axing bacteria has been received. The, publication of the results ob tained with pure culture* in inocula ting leguminous plants has resulted in a very great demand beim? made upon the Department of Agriculture for the inoculating material. The distribu tion made during 1004 waa for the pur pose of obtainiug a large number of teats of the method under average farm conditions, and it was impossible to anticipate and meet the demand which has arisen this spring. The original quantity prepared for distri bution this season was promised early in February. In addition to this we have been able to supply only in cases where, for special reasons, a test ap peared to be necessary. Applications for next year's distri bution should not be made more than two months previous to the time of sowing, and should state the legume to be sown, time of sowing, and quan tity of seed to be treated. The distri bution will b? extended ae far as our limited facilities will permit. . The patent which the Department holds upon the method of growing and distributing these organisms wad taken out in such a way that no one can maintain a monopoly of the manu facture of such cultures. The method has been taken up commercially and we understand that the product is to be handled quite generally by seeds men. Upon application the Depart ment has furnished all n?cessary in formation to the bact?riologiste rep resenting commercial! concern? wbic1 claimed to be properly equipped, tc we can not make any statement which could in any way be regarded as a guarantee of the commercial pro net. Before experimenting with any bac terial preparations for legumes, you should , study thoroughly the condi tions of soil under which the use of cultures offers any possibility of gain. Tbe.*e conditions are disccs&ed in Far mere' Bulletin No. 214, which we shall i'e a led to send to you if you have not already received it. " Yours very truly. A. Fi Woods, Chief Pathologist and Thy Biologist. Playing Second. Fiddler. Texas must he hard up for a repre sentative when a great cotton State like it sends up a congressman like Burloson to represent her interest at Washington by playing second fiddler to Secretary Wilson and the cotton bears. Below is a clipping from a piece sent out. ?e presume, by Secretary Wilson in defence of the recent Department report on the reduction of acreage: "Personally," said Mr. B?rleson, "I expected that tho bureau acreage esti mate would show a greater reduction than 11.4 per cent. I looked, for some thing between 18 and l? per cent. How ever, it is plain to mo that both the acreage and condition estimates as they stand are bullish.' This being the case the agitation set on foot by the South ern Cotton Association is ill timed and calculated to result in harm to/ the far mer rather than in benefit, since the effect c? it is to create tho impression that the bureau estimates are bearish und force priceB lower. "Especially will the actack on the bureau be harmful to the producer who still has his last year's crop on hand and who, by reason of theattempt to make the bureau estimate appear bearish, ie deprived of the higher prices which should be his because of the fact that those estimates are really decided lybnUieh," 'Such a puny, sickly statement as this as coming from a man in a high position as a member Of congress from ar great cotton State Hke TJexae, Js enough to make one bilious to read lt.: .. . - ' " Congressman BurieBon of Texooit seems would have the Southern Cotton Association. Farmers Union' and all other cotton growers to ?it still and be have themselves like good children aa they have always done when an edict goes but from Mr. Wilson and the cot-, ton bearer, ' ' When Wall : street and Secretary. Wilson make a statement cotton pro ducers must'keep, quiet or the price of cotton will go down. Mr; Burleoon had just aa well go way back and sit down, for we intend to^have our turn at this thing or bust, The Farmers Union is a Business: Organ's \ zation, -MiM We are in this thing of Farmers Union as a business organisation. We are in it to save money, not to put a few;men in office at high salaries or to ride aro?hd over the couutry at the ex pense of others or to make money out of Union men in every way. We are in the xvn i oij first,. last and all the time Just eimpiy for the purpose^ of Keeping that which already belongs to ne, vis* the profits of our products that we have labored so hard to make. We k??># that we, the producers, nave the right to this profit, and that the non producing- cotton maupu?ator, who lives thousands and thousands of muet; away from our cotum fields, has no le gitimate claim to any of .our .profits any more than we have to promts on the ?ry goods trade Of New Yj>rk. Bow would it do for; the Farmers' Union and the Cotton-.Growers' Asso ciation to ilocd the manufacturing world &vi tha dry goods trade. with stocks ef circular letters- telling them of-tho conditions of their productions and that prospective prices were bear-. iihi '] : ' ilow-would it do for 'all-the consum ers of manufactured -cotton' goods-?-, especialty in tho cotton beit--*to getf*K gethci* and act prices on the mannfac* j tored products to ?oit our own pockets, rcgardltipa or' tho cos?cl'mnunfactnrit& ' thn now; staple^ : Hoy? would it do fo> all the cotton , : '.?ugvow*:V?.a.-ul -other iar- : mere to form ope. grand producers combine and my to the consuming le- | gions; treat with na and save cost? It is high time that cutton growers read tue riot act to those cotton manip ulators and their houchmen. The farmers' union now have in its ranks more than half tho white cotton growers, and the organization ia grow ing like green graes in the cotton rows in rainy wcnther. Georgia has just organized a State Union. What tho Tar mers'Union and the Cotton Growers'Aesociation can do for these favorites will bo n plenty. Some day not far distant we hope these two organizations will combine and turn loose their dogs of war upon these crouching cotton beat? aud drive them- off tho face of the earth. Farmers, hugh to tho line, lot the chips fall where they may; dornt bo afraid the chips will'fall in your dinner buCket instead of bread, tor you can mako your own bread and cut chips, too. ?re you planing to have a picnic at your local Union and wind up this county eomputgn for fairness with a big central barhecueT Bring out the unorganized farmers and show them that all this movement means is to benefit the farmer, and that we cannot accomplish all we should do without his aid. Make it plain to them that we cannot expect to control others until we control ourselves. We must not quarrel with others for turning the profits of our great Staple?cotton?in to the coffers of other organized bodies when we have refused to organize our selves to keep that which already be longs to na. Tell these slow-going people what tho organized farmer has already accomplished by his winning three best in five of the five cents in dispute between th? cotton speculator and cotton, grower. Tell them about tho cotton specula tors trying bis best to get our last Sear's cotton at 4 and 5 cents and that e was compelled to pay npon an aver age of more than three cents above his set price. Tell them who made them do it. And last tell theBe simple fellows that it takes men of grit, pluck and energy to do something for himself and his country and that it takes a coward and' a niny to slink behind and Bay we can't doit. Complimentary R?f?rence to Repr?senta* five Aiken. Gustave H. Schawb, one of the best informed men on economic questions in this country, recently delivered a masterful address before the Southern Industrial Parliament on "Foreign Commerce and Ocean Transporta tion." Though a protectionist in time past, he admits the crying necessity for a more general application of the doc trine of reciprocity.. It must begrati fving to those who have stood consis tently for a moderate "tariff for reve nue, to hear one of such recognized ability admit that reciprocity, on nu extensive scale, iB a necessity; for reci procity is a subterfuge from the too glaring evils of protection. It is the Democratic doctrine dwarfed, maimed and in a new garb, but nevertheless nn improvement on existing conditions. There iB little wonder; however, that leading men in the Republican Party beginning with the President, recognize the necessity for taking a few brick from the tariff wall{ when the retaliatory protective idea is gain ing such strength iu England, and when Germany stands ready at the ex piration of our present trade agreement to strike us fiotn her list of favored nations. ThiB Would mean millions of loss to this country, but, fortunately a ,vory small portion of tho loss would fall on the South. Mr. Schwab advo cated the reduction of tariff as the best means of increasing and expanding trade and too. without a loss' in reve-> | nue, Another feature of this very inter esting speech was his comprehensive review of conditions in the South. He dwelt at length on the wonderful re sources of the South, developed and undeveloped, and the great future t*y*ti* before her, now somewhat dor mant for lack of intelligent labor. He favored the introduction of the better class of immigrante, and we ?iay say in passing, that he commended in the highest terms tho Bill introduced by Representative Aiken providing for the intelligent distribution *t the bet ter class. He quoted the bill almost entirely and also quoted freely from Mr. Aikeh'a speech in support of ,tho bill. ; Amongst other paragraphs of interest quoted from bis speech might be mentioned the following interesting figures: "The land area of the South is 585,310,000 aores. In 1000 the total farm acreage was : 387,090,490 aores. The total improved acreage' was only 145,185,500. This leaveB about 242,000, 000 acres of farm lands to be put into profitable cultivation. The unim proved farm lauds of the South give a greater areal'or settlement and culti vation than the total area of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas combined. Over 100,000,000 acres of this land lies east of the Mississippi River, and there is comparatively a small amount of it which is not available tor crops .of some&ind." . While Mr, Schwab's speech was very complimentary to the South, he point ed clearly and distinctly to, those things which retard development. In his discussion of the tariff bo depri cated the selfishness pf the manufac turer in resisting necessary general re formers becaceo tfc? immediate result vrould appear to rednce the bounty given him by the government. He advocates tho larger policy ot develop - inV friendly relations and '> pen ports for our gooda abroad rathes than, by an unfriendly and exorbitant tariff have the doors of our beBt customers closed in retaliation. This from one of the oldest disciples of prot :ciion in dicates, in no ?malt degree the modi fication of publie sentiment on tarifl thp question which is apd has boon $5*dividing line between Republican - ism and Democracy .--Abbeville Press atad Banner. ?- A shooting scrape took place at Bush, Aiken County, between some ?tijkite men and negroes; :' Burr?l? Me Olsrn was- killed and his ' son was sori onsiy ;wbundedv abd two negroes'were badlf. 'wounded; The . trouble arose over on attempt by the two white men to carry a'negro child before a magisv tr?te to determine who was entitled to the custody of it. STATE NEWS. ? The carponters aro on a strike in Charleston. ? Charleston is to have another oyster and vegetable canuiug factory. ? Tho Columbia canal has becu assessed at $300,000 by tho State Board. ?r A negro boy, 7 years old, acci dentally shot and killed his 2 year-old sister at Suunncrvillc. ? Clcuison College had 40 gradu ates this year. Many of the graduates have becu given positions. ? Three drug stores in Gaffney have been hauled up and fined for 6clliug malt and Jamaica ginger as beverages. ? Tho Union and Glonn Springs railroad has been finished to Union and the trains aro now running from Carlisle to Union. ? Tho Citadel cadets go into camp for two weeks at Columbia on June 15th. The site selected for the camp is tho old fair grounds. ? P. T. Bullard has beon acquit ted at Marion of tho murder of a tramp. He had previously beon acquitted of the murder of another mam ? The Atlantic Coast Line was fined $1100 in the United States court in Charleston for using cars whioh were not provided with safety cou plers. ? Gov. Heyward has been cordial ly invited by the South Carolina society of Atlanta to bo present at their banquet on tho 28th inst., and j will probably go. ? Thero will ho a meeting in Co- I lumbia in July by delegates of all commercial clubs of tho State to form an association to aid .advancing tho causo of immigration. ? Thomas Shoror, a white man, aged22, the son of respcotablo parents, was caught in the act of robbing the depot at Sharon, in York County, and bound over to answer at Court. ? Yates Snowdetu for many years oonnceted with the^harloston News and Courier, has been seleoted to fill the ohair of English at the South Carolina College at Columbia. ? N. W. Wolborn, of Piokens County, was found dead in a livery stable just outside of Greenville. He is believed to have died from heart disease from whioh he was a suffer er. ? Tho war department, under the Diok law, has given the South Caro lina militia $18,000 for an encamp ment. The encampment will begin July 15th and will be held in Colum bia. ? ?There are 1,258 patients in the insane asylum at Columbia. The number is . always highest at this sea Bon of tho year. It is said that too many patients are from other States and steps will be taken to discon tinue this. ? T. F. StackhouBo, one of the most prominent citizens of Marion County, died at Dillon on Wednes day. Six hours after his granddaugh ter, Miss Bessie Stackhouse, died also. Both funerals were hold at the same time. ? The body of a negro child has been found in Broad River near, Ches ter. A negro boy swore that Jane Mayucld, the mother of the child, paid him $1 to throw the body in the river. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the woman. --Miss Alice Brioe, who manages tho college homo at Duo West, board ed an average of 55 boys of Erakine this year at $7 a month and after tho session she had $235 left over to dis tribute among the boys, whioh came in good to pay their .way home; it ?i There is talk of moving tho Pres byterian College of South Carolina from Clinton to Yorkvillo, the latter town having made a very flattering proposal to the trustees, A commit tee has been appointed'to look into the'matter and report to a mooting of' the board tho 12th of September. ? The News and Courier says after eight months' of experimentation, al teration and investigation, Messrs. J. O. Jau'don and S. L. Bond, of Charles ton, have perfected and patented a cotton picker, which, < they believe, will make the. picking of ?otton by hand a thing of the past. Tho ma chine has. just recently been com pleted, and after securing the patent papers from the Government offices, the piokcr has been exhibited to a number of friends, most of whom be lieve that Messrs. Jaudon and Bond have * good thing. -r The graduating class at An napolis this year numbers only three men from South Carolina?Isaac W. Hay ne, Greenville; Andrew F. Garter, 'Dillon, and Hamilton F. Glover, Orangeburg. These ibrce young mon wrll shortly begin their long,cruise. They begin after leaving tho Acad emy, having had four years' schooling at the Government's ?i.^ense. as mid shipmen drawing something like $960 per year. This is the allowance for tho firct t*vo years of the cruise. For the next three years they are allowed the sum of ?1,400 and are then ranked as ensigns. . ? Wo understand that Mr. Lewis A. Brabham, of Buford's Bridgo peo* tion, was bitten on the right wrist some ,weeks ago by a pet cat, and is now in the Pasteur hospital at At lanta for treatment. His right arm is-said 'to bo in bad condition, and amputation, may be necessary. The eat was, not affected with rabies, but had been killing chickens and, Mr. Brabham picked if*.up to kill it,'when li;fBStened its, teeth in his wri&t. IXe choked it do death with his other i h a no1, and yet it did hot", release its-1 I hold, its jaws having to bo pried apart 1 [.afterdeath.?.Bamberg Herold. j HB To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of? DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to . .< Our Buyor has just returned from tho Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to tho most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections, See our Stock of the Celebrated? Strouse & Bros. High Art SPRING AND SUMMER? CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SATIS MONET, A new and complete line of? OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else* where. | We extend to aii a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, andibe convinced that what we say is true. MORROW-BASS CO., Successor.to Horn-Bass Co,, 110,116,120, East Jenson St., - Anderson, S. C THE MAGNET. MAGNET. We wish To Announce TO BEE KEEPERS In the City and County that we are agents for j ty r\ M And other Ben Keepers1 Supplies, and can furnish them to yon from our stock, thereby saving yon all freights and delay in getting them from supply houses in other States* Oar prices are tho same as yon pay elsewhere, whioh is aft follows: Roots No. 1 Extra Polished. 100 Sections for.... 76c 250 Sections for... .$1.50. 500 Sections /or......< 2.75. 1000 Sections for... 5.00.' Root's No. 2 Extra Polished,; 100 Sections for.,,... ....... 65c. 250 Sections for..V.<.^.$1.25. 500 Sections for.. 2.40. 1000 Sections for............... 4.50. ni ... M The Big. Store. I 9 Next to Post Office.