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* * ? ' ' ._' ' _' - 1 1 1 ? ????!.. . ? ?! ? ll I I ! g I ? . ?? I . M . I J? J. Ul ll I ?! ? _ BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ~~~ ~ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3. 1906. VOLUME XLI-NO 29 1 Your 1 ii Copyright 1905 by ' 2*ert Schaffner &* Mux You'll find every good molel ia Overcoats in our Stock ; and you'll get the quality which wear?, a? well as the correct style.- .?.."-'..}';'. ? &rjod Overcoats $5.00, $7.50, S10.0G, $12.50. 'H. S. & M, Overcoats $1&.?0, $16.50, $18.00, $20.00. Glad to show y?ii. N FIRE INSURANCE ! ^ ?M YOUR / ^.;;;-v:;: ^w?yuings>. . IPurnitur?, ' ; ?: ."i',J?aMt?;"';--x '? ; :;-.^tejca.l3rins.':; WIT B^pr^^ -A v ^ -?OT^ AGENCY. ; 6. N. C. Bolej^ M. M. Hatton, Vic* Pre*' ? GOO? TERSE . ^ Rorminted, eo they wiii ba .read? when you need them. We have a splen did, stock good, dry ferne, Brakes, ? ber in the roagt?^ and nearly everything it takes to put a vehicle :_ . .? ';' -: y PA?& E. STEPHENS.: ~ ! BB , ? j The Farmers' Educational and | Cc-Operativo Union of America, i OONDUOTED BY J. C. BTRIBL1NO. Cotamulcatlons intended for this fl ?parttnont should be addw?-ed to ! 1. O. ?trlblln*. PASd!eten, S. C. I -~ 1 Cotton aft*. Mental Anguish. The.man that huye many euppliea to grow cotton with, produces more men tal anguish to the acre than he baa profita. Wo hr.vo a negro renter that got into it heavy last June when ram and grass were the order of things with the crops and mental anguish waa raging in the minds of cotton farmers. Wo counted 22 hoe bands and 4 plow hands at work at $1.00 per day each, and about half of them were not more than half grown. At that rate this cost ran np to $150 a week; weean now cor nt more gray hairs on this negro's bead from the effects of grass-time anguish than ho ii pa conta in profits in Ino pock ets. His supply bit! forced him to sell oat all his cotton around the 10 cents mark, which he assures me did not pay him out. ? : We would not advocate leaving off cotton altogether, for there ia sure good money in the crop where one has plenty of homegrown supplies and is not compelled to sell his crop nt forced salo to pay for euppliea bought on time at high rates. Now, during these rainy, doleful whiter d ay s is ia " a good time to go Way back and sit down to study and figure or?r the whole year's plans. Think about the May and Juue storms of raia and grass; the sweltering days of mental anguish that may hover over you while you are curbing the cotton speculators, guano trust and tho ^negroes. Figure out the cost of cultivating three acres of cotton for one bale, and then turu the thing around and figure it out on the plan of one and ? half balea on one neve for the e a ni o labor per acre. Go out and take a look nt that $500 pair of mules that you expect to feed and work the life ont of in trying to prepare and cultivate about 60 acres to get about u20 to 80 bale?; while some of yonr neighbors with more business qualifi cations and common boree sense have mude from 20. bales to BO bales every year on 20 acres of land! When you have gone over all these subjects and analyzed them to com pletion, j nat take up that gissing cir cus you were in during' the rush last fall, when ft took some times a whole day and part of the night to get one bale ready for market. If you have no other way to provide shelter to store your Reed cotton in it will surely pay yea tc grov at it at once and pat- up ?H>;6 ;;":;s fi??G?t lix piflcoa anny froui other, ou?d logs where you may jstoro yonr. seed'cotton in safety until the ginning rush subsides next season. Your neighbors who have tested it will tell you that besides making bet ter sample of Hot, that the lint will gain in weight all the while it is stored in - the Bead. This is selling cotton seed at the \ fate ot 10 cents per pound instead of i of a cent per pound, and also getting better sample of lint. Oar experience in this matter of storing cotton in. the seed this lost season turned out very satisfactory: We began ginning- our stored seed cotton about the middle of December by weighing but in each load exactly 1250 pounds of seed cotton, which ranged from 412 pounds of lint on last picking-which was on top-to 458 pounds lint on bales that had been stored longest in seed. We are confi dent that after making due allowance for the shortness ot lint on last picking that we gained at least Ji2 per bale on hali! the crop by storing cotton in tho seed besides tho consideration of vai uable time saved'during the rash of getting crops 'in and sowing entail1 grain:.-, .'..<:.- /(???.A-'. 1 While on this subjeefe of the rush at ?lib? gins last fall, we call to mind the' fact that for; several days and weeks at a stretch wagons were to be seen on tho : wads and at the gins ail night long. Now, there ie a station to stop at call ed reason in everything; and we judge that the man th at Works ali ; day, an d night, too, in this rushing to parket with his .cotton has no brains to spare When he begins thia kind of work, and he surely has loss of both sens? and money when hf/gets through. Fighting th? Guano Trust. There is always two sides to every fusser tight; usually tho fellow that does tho most talking and fussing in a quarrel geta whipped, and tho sido tbat has tho least to ruy and does some good lioks at the right time and place generally knocks his onponent out. Al! cotton growers that will try, eau cut their fertilizer at least half by the judicious saving of the manure that is dropped on tho farm. The way to tight the guano trust is to grow aii i Four nitrogen on the form by planting more cowpeas and returning in all tho cotton seed to the land that is raised on the land. Cation seed is regarded as near a complete fertiliser for most lands and drops ns can be had on tho market; besides, the hulls possess the value of retaining moisture in the soil, a thing that no concentrated commer cial manure possess. All wood ashes from e'rery source should bo cared for ss though these were bought from the phosphate works. With tho proper rotation of crops and with the raising and feeding more stock on the farm no farmer ueed buy ? dollar's worth of nitrogen for any crop. Thia nitrogen (ammonia; cost moro lu complete fertilizers that all tho other ingredients, heneo the impor tance of growing or producing this im portant Ingredienton the farm. While there is no limit to the amount af nitrogen that may be grown or pro duced on the farm, it appears that on some lands there is a limit to which potash and phosphoric acid may be de veloped in some soils, which necessi tate the use to somo extent of these commercial articles, which should always bo bought in the form of high est grades in order to save expense in transporting. The farmer adding the Oilier or dryers on tho farm instead of saying freight and paying the manu facturer ol' ino g n-ile for this dirt that von already have ut no cost on your land* at home. Just a Railroad Rumor. A railroad rumor has been going the rounds of tho prosa for several days to the effect tbat tho Seaboard Air Line will likely purchase the Charleston & Western Carolina railway, and this is a mere rumor, lacking accuracy or con tinuation. A gentleman who is con versant with the affairs of the C. & Wv C. to some extent, and who is well informed on the subject, in talking to a Herald Reporter yesterday stated that it was a mystery to him bow such things were served out as news items, when there was no foundation fer thom. When the road was first built years ago, as the Knoxville and Augusta, to tun from Augusta to Spartnnburg. from McCormick to Anderson and elsewhere it was' sold several years af or operation to Thomas & Ryan. Tiro sale was under foreclosure oro ceedisgs in United States court. Sev- j eral years ago Thomas & Kyno sold the C. & W. C. to th? Atlantic Coast J Line. For some reason, probably- be causo of outstanding indebtedness, tho Coast Line has never taken tho C. & W. C. into its system, but owns and controls it ss a separate corpora tion. The only way tn which the Sea board could get it would be to pur chuRO tho road from tho Coast Line. The following is the rumor referred to taken from the Savannah Press: ..Persistent rumors have come from Angusta that the Charleston^ Western Carolina Railway will shortly pass from the control of the Atlantic Coast Lino to that Of tho Seaboard Air Line. Tho Charleston and Western Carolina io not owueoV as is claimed,, by the Coast Line, bat is under lease, lt is said also that the lease will, shortly expire and that the owners nf the property have.said they would lea?e it to tho Seaboard, as they desire for that Uno to hare access to Au gu ota. If this is done it may bo said tor certain ty that the Seaboard will enter the field actively g for Atlanta :business from this point. The. distance from Savannah to Atlanta via their own lino, tho Charleston and1 Western Car olina, from Fairfax via Angosta to Calhoun Fails., whore tho Seaboard is again tapped, and thence to Atlanta is 880 miles, .lt will be seen at a glance tbat tho Seaboard, would be In a posi tion to at once bid on freight and pas senger trafilo Ju competition with the other lines it om this ci tv. There is a freight service over this line now, and whiah anu u ally bandies a great deal of business. : The developments in this situation'-will h??.awai'ed' with inter* $at."*--Spa?V*?;W'tf lt?" Md. STATE NEWS. i - Tho cruiser Charleston, whioh , rill arrive ia Charloaton January 9th, ?'ill spuud four days in that port. - G. F. Freeman, a mill oporativo J n the Granby Mill fit Columbia, drop- ; >od dead Thursday while at work. - City Eoginoer Liwrenee, of j keouville, has condemned a number j if old barns and walla in that eily. \ - Two liouaoQ were destroyed by f ire in Greenville Wodnosday, causing j i loss of about $2,500, and the arrest if an employee of tho water com- , ?any. - W. Clarence Pria son, a young \ vhite man, was killed by a South- j irn train at Blaokaburg Christmas < light. ? - A coal famine threatons Green- < 'Hie. Tho prioe of coal has advanoed 1 aoro than $1 per ton during the last ( ev? weeks. - As a result of a row over a game 1 loards at Cross Hill, Laurons Couu y, two negroes, Horaee and Henry Bullock, were 3bot dead. - A negro boy, 12 years of age, foll oto a deep pit of tho Atlantic Gust ano road at Florence on Thursday md w?B instantly killed. - The Masons and . Knights of , Pythias of Johnston have started a novement to build a Knights of Pythias and Masonic temple. - At a negro hot supper in Pros >erlty the other night, knives, pistols, cnuoks, etc., were used with a free md easy hand. Strasge to relato, no mo was killed. - A mole whioh was being ridden >y a young white boy at Bishopville, Hioame frightened at a train and ran nto the engine. The boy was badly oj ur Gd and the mule was killed. - Near Camden, in front of the ?huroh where he preaohed. the white md colored friends af Rev. Munroe 3oykia, a worthy colored divine, have ?reoted a monument to his memory. - A robber tried tq hold up Con luotor Ed. S. Motte ou a street in Co ombia oa Wednesday sight. Mr. Motto refused to'be robbed; the fcl ow shot at him and missed, and then ran. - John T. Gas8awav, who hps been is Tezas fer the past fifteen years has -turned to Fiokene County and quite recently re-married his wife from whom he had been separated all these pears. - J. P. Slattery, special agent of the United State- Agricultural De partmeai, is in Charleston looking sf ?ur the matter of reviving the rioe industry ia tue lower part of tho 3tate. - On Sunday morning a negro was round dead on the road from Darling ton to Soaiefcy Hill. An investiga tion of the otase of the death was coade and there, was no sign of foul play. It is thought that tho', negro Fell dead from heart failure or that be was drunk and froze to death. - Mr. W. Boyd Evans, who has been made the State agent for the col lection of Spanish war claims, has Glied an interesting lot in^Washington. Practically all of those from the First and Second and from the Heavy Bat tery . have been filed and ooo B ti tato the j bulk of the claims, but there are a number of othersi - The little two-and-a-balf-year old boy of- Ed Freeman, of Society Hill, by ali accident got hold of some whiskey thet his father had purchased ind drank ec much of it last Thurs* day that i be never regained conscious ness* The physician worked faith fully with him, bat to no avail. The little fellow lived for thirty-six hoars aadpasBod away. - Train No. 36, of the Southern, strask and killed instantly three men , at Sparta?harg. A party of four men . W??a walking on the track In the depot yard, entirely oblivious of dan ger, an approaching freight oh another track completely drowning oat the noise Of the rapidly coming train ?vhioh hurled them into eternity. Fhroo of the four wore killed out- ! right and tho fourth was badly bruised, i rho parties were white. ; - Mr. Hayne Craddook, a promi nent fat mer of Barnwell County. w%? isurdsred by nogroea on Dcoombor ( l'?t?. Two negrocn, Frank DoLoaoh | ?nd his son, were arrosted and tho < 'rienda of Craddook gathered and yoehed the negrooB, riddling their ? jodies with ballets. Craddock was ihot in tho back with a shotgun and tilled instantly. - Tho Thornwoll Orphaoago has .ooeived 91,000 to found thc Kinma ttargarot Orland scholarship. It is 1 iho gift of Dr. Orland, of Spartan Durg. Tho interest will be used for education of a fatherless and deserving shild. It has only been a few weeks sinoo a scholarship was founded by Captain S. S. White, of Lancaster ?ounty, for this same institution. - "Four homioides marred tho otherwise quiet and orderly celebra tion of Ch nu tm an in tho S tnto/' says the Columbia Record. "Aiken. Beau* fort, Fairfield and Laurens furnish this record, and io each, case tho re sult was due to liquor, to drink vast quantities of which is an accepted way of celebrating the day on part of a great many people. These homi oides wero all committed by negroes." - In Manning aman from Florida was arrested and jailed for kidnapping a 13 year-old girl, daughter of a poor farmer. Tho sheriff arrested the cou ple at the depot, the child saying the man had promised to marry her on the train. The follow had engaged himself to an older sister, through some matrimonial agency, but on see ing tho little girl, deserted her and persuaded the ohild to run off with him. GENERAL NEWS. - George McClellan has been sworn in as mayor of Now York for the next four years. - lu a quarrel at a danoo in Brooks, Ga., one mau was killed and three others seriously injured. - A union has been formed of the Methodist, Baptist'and Presbyterian Ohurohes in California. - A Now York restaurant keeper who hold $20,000 aa stakes in an election bet has disappeared. - Two negro men narrowly escaped being lynched hy a mob in New York for beating a young woman. - Tho twenty ?fifth convention of the Christan Ende aver Society wiii be held in Boston, February 2. - In a battle between a posse of white men and negro desperadoes in Alabama two negroes were killed* - W. J. Mabry, a southern ex press messenger, wss stabbed to death in Chattanooga by a negro belper. - Max Lioheofield, of Meridian, Conn., drank four quarts of milk on a wager. He died a Bb ort timo after wards. - Anton Phelps Stokes, Jr., secre tary of Yal G University, bas donated | $300,000 to the eadowmooi* fond of that institution. v - In an effort to make Mts. H. Horne, of Oonneeyille, Pa., givr $300 of her savings robbers placed rod hot irons to her feet. ?7-Frank Work, a millionairo turf man of New York, has had a quarrel with his daughter because she spsnds. $6,000 a month. -~ Mattie Cress a young woman of Ooonee County, Ga., ended her life by swallowing carbolic aoid. She was dis appointed in a'love affair. - Because she wouldr not danos with him. John Flaherty, a Kentucky farmer, shot Mrs. Florence Watson in the baok. She will dis. - A yoong college student at Beth any, W. V., while serenading a bride and groom waa killed by a brother of the groom who fired a pistol shot at the serenader. ---- 1 -M-M--I n- Misa Adelaide Evans, a young lady of Indianapolis, Ind., became so infatuated with Clyde Mayor, a 13? ?roar-oldboy, that she kidnapped him. - Ernost Powers, age 16 yeerB, of tx thens, Tenn., who killed his teach er sovoral months ago, has boen son Lonood to a Ufa term in tho To es 3co ponitontiary. - An attempt was made to poison Miss Elsie Smith, a prominent Albany, N. Y., sooiety woman, by sending her x box of chocolata candy which con tained paris green. - Mrs. Shorpo, wife of Police Ser geant Sharpo, of Philadelphia, Pa., while dressing a turkey for ChrtstmaB dinner, found a diamond worth $100 in tho oraw of tho bird. - Gen. Jossph Whoeler, tho fa mous Confederate cavalry leader, baa boon announced an a candidato for police commissioner of Now York to succeed Wm. MoAdoo. _i - Nino Moxioans aro dead in Mexico as tho result of drinking punch which had been dosed with strych nine. The poisoning, it is said, was tho result of a political plot, - Tho negro who killed Policeman J. J. Mitohell in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Christmas day was killed by a Bon of tho polioe officer after tho negro had boen arrested and lodged in Jail. - An insano man, before a Cali fornia oourt, shot at the Judge and then killed the sheriff. When the orowd overtook the man, he emptied his pistol at his pursuers, but no one was hurt. - Relatives are searching for J. A? Pratt, of Duluth, Minn., who has fall en heir to an estate valued at $1, 000,000. Pratt disappeared from his homo last Easter, leaving his wife and child, and he has not been seen sinoe. - Frank Short, cf Atlanta, and Flagman Couoher were killed while jumping from tho caboose of a freight train near Blue Ridge, Ga,, on Wed nesday. Tho caboose was turning over and they jumped to save them selves. - The twenty-four German mis sionary societies have about 1,000 mis 'onaries in fifteen stations; 2,500 schools with 120,000 scholars and about 400,000 professed Christians, of whom about 20,000 were baptised in 1904. - In tho mountains of Paney and other islands of the Southern Philip pines moths can bo scraped up by the quart. The natives have learned to prise them aa an article o? food, and now collect and eat.thom in large quantities. - MrB. Jefferson Davis, widow of the Confederate Presideot, continues to live in New York, comiog South in the winter. She is 81 years old, frail but not ailing. She is well taken caro by Editor Joseph Pulitzer of the World, for whoso papor she writes when it pleases her. I . - The inmates of tho State lunatior . asylum of Georgia, looatad at Mil ledseville. on Ghriafcrnaa ?ayt ato up 22d turkeys, 271 ohiokens, 9 geese, 44nooks, 550 fowls, 1,200 pounds ot aandy, 850 pounds of nuts, 180 pounds of raisins, 850 pounds of dates, 50 barrels of apples, 55 hoses of oranges and 600 ooooanuts. - Walter B. Hill, chancellor of til? Uoiversity of Georgia, died last Thurs day in Athens of pneumonia aged 54 years. He had been ill several weeks. He was an educator and lawyer.of prominence. He practiced law in Macon from 1871 to 1899, when he became chancellor of the University < Georgia, which position he has held since. ' He was a trustee of Vander bilt University and s member of the Georgia Bar Associa i i o n. - A shell imbedded in a tree and conoeaied by the new wood, was last.. . ; \ week out from a tree on the battle field of Franklin, Tenn., and whoa placed on the fire exploded, wreck* ing a negro cabin and wounding a child. M?OS th? east year wa? the largest ?a its history, and we beg to thank t?^ m?rcliaiitB of Sojith CaroUna for th? liberal SII?^ of patrei^e th^ us. and trust it wa? handled to their satisfaction. We also - J^fr Tho Cetton Growers' Association, f?r two reasons, is in part responsible for the enormons increase ia oar business * S This put more money in circulation. ?. g^^^^ the Association and are working together as a man, ?they realise that tho success of the one contributes largely to the success of the other. The sentiment is there now, and the Shoe Jobbers in the cotton be.t sold more gooda last year by far thau any year previous. ? Tfeese were Shoe lobbers in Charleston ten years ago-~there are four now, We sold more goods last year than the four sold ion years ago, anf we believe there has been a large increase in the business Jpf t^i^^ Why t Because we have put out aline seoond to none in the TTnlted Jfe ?be fbUowln^ celebrated brands are as well or better known than any other Shoes handled In this State : 1 ?? AB IES-The ^U^tess? ??nh?ee, White House CLuecn. Th* Ceuoon, Golden Bell. Blue Bell, Inness' Kangaroo, Ruby, Gentry's Special. iWr'T ^ FOR SALE BY AI,L FII^??I I fe^er is very Mg ?tha?^?? ear policy in the past, and wiU be our peUcy in the future, to improve the^ quality of a Shoo lather ^??S ^i^^alt so^ to we abic'to'iut out a Shoe at a prie*. ' 1 . , ..'