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VOLUME XLI-NO. 32. The ??m^ers^dwatlopl and Co-Opwativs Uniqa of ^mexico. CONDUCTED BY tl. O. 8TRIBLINQ. ?ST- Commuloations Intended for this department should bo addressed io J. C. Stribllng, Pendleton. R. O. Th? Mule and tne Bag of Guano. Tho tug .of war is now oh in earnest 'between tho substantial cotton farmer .o?! the South and the cotton bears. The campaign for the next few months promises some very interesting events. Spinners claim that they have cotton to run them 00 days, while the cotton bulls say that the spinners will bo com 3> ol le ii to go on the market for moro cotton in less than 60 days. Cotton holders claim to be in position to carry, their, holdings over to next .crop. We aro.confident that most far mers now in ! possession of cotton can and will hold for much better prices than are now ruling the markets. / The rawhide colton speculators being whipped out on government and other news reports, have now broke out in. a sew place. These wily fellows have now called into action the mule and tho guano bag; The crack bf the whip over tho hard tail mule in the arena of the cotton market is ringing, while the guano is being stored until it emelia like monay into tho hands bf the cotton beare, :-; 1 have before me a report from nil the important mule pena and guano depots in the South; If these reports ava proximately true-which our ob*, serration bears out-rthere is ho year on record that shows sucha trade in anules and guano. New; aa the mule and- the bag of guono are among the prominent fac tors that: are behind the. cotton bale, these mule and guano figures are sig nificant and should, be Y taken into serions consideration by tho cotton farmer. , Cotton bears argue that, ' aa these mules and guano bags are noleen tout to either feed or clothe the Southern -cotton grower, they indicate an unpre cedented preparation for;a record breaking cotton crop for 1008. And the cotton bearsare using these figures as their last resort to frighten cotton holders into turning loose their cotton. But the up-to-date cotton farmer, can tell these cotton speculators'(if they do not already know} that the trend ol tho times at tho South are leading the .once cottontots away from thia* system of aeckless, all-cotton plan and en to increasing the numberbf acres in food .crone. ail these =ss:e-s and bags ot guano are not going into tbs production of .cotton; we can ar, sure them, thattbero is near double the amount of acres goingtuio smaii grain to be .followed by bay crepe. It takes mules to grow bay, corn and oats, and there is a largo amount bf commercial fertilisers going on the land to make theBo feed 1er ops. The Southern cotton, farmer is learn - ing to save labor and food bills as welt as how to get the value of his cotton af ter be baa produced it. The bright farmer of today, does not longer cheat himself with tho delusive idea that, as his neighbor ls- going td reduce hu> acres in cotton, it will be a good tl me: for the smart chap to doubl? bis, but these bright farmers of today have learned something along this line. Some of them have been badly burned at that business and they now watch the feilows increasing their acreage m cotton, when these bright farmers by their Bide are preparing to plant moro small grain and pea viues for hay to sell to his eottontot neigh bor. Some of these growers of hay are I today- reaping & good trade in bay ut $18.00 per ton, and they grow from one to several tona per acre; while their lands are growing rich where tho cot ton farmers' lands are growing the ether wey. Harmony, Farmers, Harmony! You will never whip your enemies out by lighting e&oh other! If you aro among a number of Union men who have put up some important measure before your members and, have been outnumbered in votes, do not skulk away and join the rule or min crowd. It tikes an asa to do such things, and a trite Farmers1 Union man with iota of manhood in bim to take defeat gracefully in some of his pet ideas and then lay bold of -tho wheel again like a trae mon and push the farinera' side along the road to success as though we bad never got into a mire or struck a rough place iu our road. If you think that some of your mem bers are leaning too much toward the Cotton Association or other things, that some one in doubt as.to some fea tures of their objects, do not hollow "traitor,"--for you cannot doubt that these farmers are at heart with ns. But some of ns like to lead, and are not stuck on the plan of following the crowd. lu other words, if como of us cannot have everything our own way we think that things are going to the devil. We won't dance unless the fid dler plays our tunes ali the while. Above all things cotton growers roust be loyal, to tho cause they have in band, for it mattera not aa to the name of their organizations when it comes to controlling the prion of cotton* oar great ataple orou. But when it comes to the Farmers' Union jye must be as loyal to oar Union as farmers, as the merchant, ban koro or other oe cu pat ion a are loyal to their organizations. / / When it comes to nrofltable prices io tho producers of cotton, the whole South in as one aggregation of people, all of whom must DOST to king* cotton for the revenue to unbuild the whole of our industries. The prosperity of bur whole South is indisnolable with i profitable prices : to the' producers of cotton, and all have now about learned i thia lesson, to the point where we can appreciate tho troth of the statement that if our copartterahip of tradesmen in this thiog ;?a ont asunder frees auy cansethat we have stumbled abd fallen over the precipice of eeliishnc-s and cast down to rain right in Bight of a grosperouB, ' lovely abd beautiful outhland. Farmers, be loyal and stand firm be eide of each other. The Rlojj of troc Mete!, <!oncord Farmers' Union-Foster Brown, President-has on the 17th iunt., consolidated tbeSv orders with ~ - mm W??mm one fertilizer company for one hundred tone. When it ie known that oeveral raeni bere of this Union own ?tock in another fertilizer company that did not get thie Ceder, it proves that Concord Union has among ita members men of pluck and grit sufficient to bring suc cee8 to any right causo that they may undertake to work for. This Concord Union ask other Unions to join with them and concen trate their ordere with them for the simple reason that there ia strength in Union and that wo must meet combi nation with combfr.ation. This voice from Concord has the ring of tho .trno Farmers! Union apir.it about it. This ia not only Concord Union in name, but it ia also Concord in action and work, that will BUiely bring in dollars along with this har monious work. All hail to this plucky spirit that prevails at Concord, and we trust that this movement may extend to more of our Unions. - A dispatch from Paris, Ky. ? says sight was restored to Leslie Combs, colored, of that place, in a peouliar way. Several days ago while riding on a Paris-Lexington interurban car/a difficulty arose, between Combs and a white man. Combs, who waa "to tally blind in one eye, was out across the faoe several times, his nose being severed and a deep out from the fore head down to ike chis, laid bail his eyelid and pierced the eyeball slight ly. When the swelling eubsided Combs was delighted tc find that sight bad been restored to his blind eye.. - It is not difficult to understand why reports from the South indioate that the people of that section of the United States are prosperous and con tented. Daring the last six years the value of tho cotton crop, including seed, bas been $3,600,000,000, agaiu6t $2,100,000,000 for the six years pre ceding. An enormous increase like this indicates, the source of Southern prosperity, and substantially braces up the olaim that in that seotion of the Union cotton is still king.-San .Francisco Chronicle. .--The South is celebrating the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee", who was boro 98 years ago. As the great est and. best man oi the Confederacy his memory deserves the honor.-Bos ton Transcript. - In St. Louis the other day a man Was sent to jail for 20 days for steal ing a tfibie. That is nothing. At Broxton Bridge,'Si..Cy some years ago a man and a .winari were lynched for that orime.-ii dei^'.h Times. - Before going to war say a prayer; before going to sea say two j. prayers, before marrying say three. f- It doesn't take any grit to grum ble. .'...' 4 Gals. L.A M. Paint and 8 gals. oil ces about .$8.50 and will paint moderate Bleed house. Sold by F. B. Cravton, An dereon, 8. C ; E. R. Horton, lawndss vllle, 8 C.; T. O, Jackson, Iv*. 8. C.; W. W. on oin. Feleer, 8. C.\ F. m Hopper, Belton, S.O. STATE NEWS. - Three oases of smallpox Lavo doveloped et Florence - Spartanburg is assured of ber road to western coal ii ol du. - A wireloss telegraph olauon is to bo put up near Columbia. - Tho Cbioora oottou mill at Rook J Hill will in tho near future' begin op ? oration, - The capital stock of tho Seneca Cotton mills has boon increased to $400,000. - A shoo company is considering tho question of moving its plant from tho North to Sumter. - John S. Gordon, who passed bo gus drafts in Spartanburg twelve years ago, has boon arrested in Texas re cently. - Edgefield is legally a dry town for the first time in oho hundred and fifty years with one ozoeption, tho year 1884. ' - More than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars wore expended last year in operating the government of Spartanburg County. - State Constables Hays, Mulligan and Miller wore fired on from ambush while returning from a raid on illicit stills in Spartanburg County. - W. J. Dow, a white man, aged 60 years, has been missing from his homo at Philadelphia,. Darlington County, since December 26th. - Tb? annual State good roads con vention met Wednesday in Columbia. The audicucc was laree and overy seo tion of tho State well represented. ' -Chao. Kitchen, uight watchman at the Bioad Uiver bridge on tho Southern near Blaoksburg, was knook ed from the trestle and severely in jured. - The leading colleges of the Stato j have turned over the good new year ? leaf of quitting foot ball playing. The boys will have hereafter more time for their text books. - The Laurons dispensary election is hoing contested cs the ground that at Laurene and Clinton registration oerttusa??B were not required and at Princeton. preoinot no registration books were provided. -. The Reedy River Power Co., of Laurens, has been organized, for the purpose of developing the power at Boyd's mill. The capital is $50,000 all subscribed. The plant is. lo ca? ed ten miles west of Laurens and five miles east of Ware's Shoals. ; -C N. Harper, a young white mau who elatina vi o ff ney ss his home, stole a sow from; s negro in Union County on Friday, 12th inst. Ho t7S3 tried, convicted and oeutenoe? on the following Monday. He got two years in the ohain gang after pleading guilty. . .- Before the railroad commission s strong and vigorous kick waa made against the praotioo of tbs railroads io appropriating coal intended for tho mills. There ?vasa largo number of cotton mill officials present and a full statement of the condition was made. It is said that 05 cars have boen re cently con?soated. - It is reported that tho attorneys for tho defense in tho case of th* Stato vs. Georgo Hasty, who shot aod and killed Milan Benuett aud Abbott Davison at Gaffney, will move for a ohange of vonuo on tho ground that tho public sentiment in Gaffney is so strong against the defendant, that it will bo impossible for him to securo a fair and impartial trial. - Miss Sallie Ham, a young girl, 18 years of agc, and a student at a, local school in Darlington, committed I suicido last Thursday by firing a pis tol ball through her heart. She died al most instantly. Miss Ham's home is et Timmonsvillo. Tho cause of the act is believed to have been disap pointment in a love affair and dis satisfaotion at being kept io Bohool against h ev wish. - On tho lands of Mr. Jamos L. Atohiac'?, of this county, a grapevine grew in an old mill pond to au un UBual size, the trunk measuring four teen inohes in diameter, says tho Laurensvillo Herald. This remark able vino, or grape tree, recently rot ted at the root and fell, splitting into eight rails, whioh are lying there now, io a green state. This story, our in formant assures ne, oan bo authen ticated by reliable witnesses. - A shocking tragedy ooourred at Union last Saturday afternoon, when A. S. Whitener, aged 18 years, aod son of A. S. Whitener, of tho machin ist force at tho Utuoo Cotton Mills, was instantly killed. He, with threo companions, Matthew Mabry, John Stets and Will Perry had been hunt ing and were in Duncan's pasture looking at some buzzsrls flying over them, when in some woy tho shotgun one of them carried was accidentally discharged and the load entered Whit ener's head. - Seoretary and Treasurer R. B. Hughes, of Laurens, is sending ou: announcements for the eighth annual session of the Tri-State Medical As sedation, to be bold at White Stone Lithia Springs., February 27r,h and 28th. The sooiety is steadily growing in numbers and' usefulness, its mom bera flaming from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. It works in perfect harmony with the State societies and any physician ic good standing, who belongs to th< sooiety of his State, is eligible tc membership. - Ollie Smith, twelve years of age fell into a steaming vat of mash at i government distillery ' seven milei from Greenville last Saturday after noon and was literally oooked. Th< boy was feeding eows from a cool vat and as he watobed them eat the boil ed oom meal he leaned against ? pos sopposed to protect the steaming vat the post gave way and he fell in, Qnl; his head and ono shoulder boing hold above tho boiling mass of meal four feet deop. When pull out ho dashed himself iuto a cool mountain stream in tho hopes of casing the pain. When his clothing was removed most of the skin came oi? with it. GENERAL NEWS. - A canary bird waa levied on by an Atlanta bailiff to .satisfy a millinery bill. - A shortage of $00,000 in tho Kansas State treasury is reported by Gov. Hoch. - M. Fallieres, grandson of a black smith, was elected president of Franco January 17th. - Presidont Roosovolt i? being mentioned as tho successor of the lato W. R. Harper as president of tho Chicago University. - A Chicago jury awarded dam ages to tho children of a drunkard against tho saloon-keepers who aro alleged to havo made him ono. - G. R. Brisby, a Baptist preacher in Atlanta, has instituted divoroo proceedings-, against his wife who is an inmate of the asylum at Milledgo ville. - Postmaster General Cortoiyou threatens to discontinuo tho froo de livery routes that do not pay and whioh aro not appreciated by thoir patrons. - The West hotel of Minneapolis, Minn., said to bo fireproof, took firo on Wednesday and was damaged $25, 000 worth, and eight guests were burned to death. - It is said that the United States usos more sugar than any other coun try. Sovonty-five pounds are ooo sumed by the individual every year in this oountry. - Judge Paynter, tho now Ken tucky Senator, was too young to servo in ?ho Civil war. and he is the first Senator of that kind to represent tbe Blue Grass State since Appomattox. - J. E. Edmondson, a white man, was arrcQtrd on tho streets of Atlanta for being drunk and when examined it waa found that his arm was shot near 1 ly off. Edmonson has no recollection nf who shot him. - Georgia has five candidates for Governor. Three are editors, Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, of Atlanta, ? and J. H. Eatill. of Savannah. The j other two are u?ug? B. o* Bussell and Farmer J. W. Smith. - B. L. Humphrey, cashier of the bank of Wad loy, Ga., oommitted sui cide Jan. 15th, by shooting himself in the mouth with a 38 oaiibro pistol. His aooounts were in good shape. He carried $40,000 insur ance. . . '- Letchworth,, Cos, who was a stoker on the first locomotive thst ever got up . steam in America, has juBt celebrated hit ninety-first birth lay in Jamesburg, N. J. Ho waa ?om in Chester County, PonnByl 'ania. - Henry Lea, former president of ho Doylestown Pennsylvania National ?ank, which failed several yearB ago, jas sentenced to fivo years imprison jent in thc Eastern Penitentiary for mbezzlcment of the bank funds. An ppoal was taken. - James 0. Davidson, who euc cods llobort M. LaFollotto as Gov rnor of Wisoonsin, walked tho streete f Madison thirty years ago penniless nd a stranger. Ho was born in Gogu? ?orway, February 10, 1854, and came o America when fourteen. ..?., - There is on exhibition at tho Poultry Show in Cincinnati a hen for shich her owner, W. R. Fishel, of flopo, Ind., haB refused $1,000. She s a white Plymouth Rook. Her eggs joramand the price of $60 per dozen )r $5 a pieoo for breeding. - Tho United States Court of Ap- ... J peals has deniod the appeal of Mrs. Jaaeie Chadwick, of Cleveland, Ohio, vho was oonvioted somo time ago on ?"ho charge of being in a conspiracy td. ,vrcok the national bank. She will iiavo to servo her sentence of ten fears in the penitentiary. - Witli?in .uuiig in ucuu, E rou aiar i>in serionsly injured and Guy Hines is in a critical oondition as the result sf an accident while riding on a freight oar on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad at Bridgoport, Ala. AU wore in a box oar whoo nuddenly a jolt threw a load- of ties against them. Long was killed instantly. - A telegram from Washington, under dato of the 18th inst., says; "Tho house committee on military affairs directed a favorable report ou tho bill which appropriated $2,000, 000 for uso in marking craves of the/ Confederate soldiers who died in Northern prisons and hospitals luring the Civil war. There aro 24,000. of these graves in the Northern States." -- President- Roosevelt is closing the door of hope and opportunity to thf colored necker in tue South for high Federal offices in Washington and abroad. Hereafter the Northern brother in black is to get all tho big plums. Tho reason is that up North the negro vote counts big is Presiden tial and Congressional eleetions and its the Republican polioy to keep them in solid line and satisfied. - At last thc loot; locked-for and difficult Northwest Passage has been found. Since 1497, when John Cabot is said to have tried to pass through, the Arotio ooean from the Atiaatis to the Pac;6o, there have been many un availing efforts to discover the North' west Passage, and hundreds of men have perished in the attempt. But at last this passage has been BUOCOBS fully navigated, the honor of doing it having lately been won by Captain Boald Amundsen, of Chris si onia, Nor way. . Wo ara glad to cay that 1006 was tho largest burin?es yearia ont history. We wish to thank ?ta* many friends and customera for their patronage during the past year, and we hope to merit a continence ?feame?t?^ Siv 1 Ladies* Jaefc^ts. 50 ladies' Jackets, formerly sold far $3.50 and I4.?G, now going at Si.OSi 56 Children's Iioag Cloak?, formerly sold for 16,00 and ?6.00, now going at $2.48. ;??j?0es%$^ Wool Blankets. A. few Wool Blankets lett, wbioh will be cloned ont at a great reduotlon. Bed Comforts. A big line of Bed Cor&torto to be oloeed ont AT COST. All Our Wool Goods to Go at Cut Prices I