JLIMTE DEPARTMENT.
./. F. FISH FT Editor.
We are requested to announce
that Lancaster Court house Alliance
will meet on next S it unlay, j
the 18th inst at 3 o'clock p. in. I
We are afraid the presence of
smallpox in At lanta.' ia., will seriously
interfere wiih the meet
in^ofthe Cot ton <1 rowers Asso
ciation. Hut v. > 1; >4i t !:e\ will
manage t?? meet some place lor
Wo believe t h::t a erect deal depends
UpO|| t '<e ? ;< ( - - ;.f t llC
A ? i ciat i in.
Now j; :t i linn- lo j)ut in
seme tcllinu W' : !; I'or the A!!i
a net*.
The farmers are ' tl:n
gutboring their o; j>-. and have
?n?ro linn to ?! \a?;? i>? tIn v.oik
ol re-organizing and building ii|?
the Allium***. U'c kimw (hat tin*
low print* of rotten have brocA.'
hard times ami nom-eipieidly <!i
couragement to main of our peu
pie. and probably tho future
looks dark and we say?and it is
a fact that we cannot make a liv
in<r by rnisingcotton at five cents
p< r pound. Hut then, when wo
take time to think we know that
we cannot stop raising cotton,
lor it is our money crop. bet us
try to make the best wo can of
the situation. Raise as much as
possible of the necessaries of life
and then all the cotton wo can.
1 believe this is the only way that
the acreage can bo reduced and
what we do plant let us give it
the best culture possible by giving
plenty of fertilizers and that
of the very best kind. Now I want
to say to the Alliance-men that
you bought your fa?ulir.cr? cheap
or through tho Stafo Exchange:
than your local merchht can afford
to sell them and it is your duty
to help jour neighbor and at tha
same time help th? Alliance find
the Exchange by getting your
neighbor to come into tho Alii?
. - T * ?li I
I lit* .January IIIffMHlg Willi
soon be hero, and wo hope to J
.sot- a full meeting and a large increase
in this county. Wo want
every tanner that reads this to
go and attach himself to some
sub Alliance and be ready to en
joy the advantages of buying
through the Slate Exchange.
The annual report T the sta
t i-1ician ol i he Depart men t ot A^
ii< nillire, .Mr. .Jolin llvdc, was is
Sited ; | tewduVS riL'O. I* >s 1 vot I
ni'inlv in rriti'i rn of the cumbr
1 in'! mil 'i-i- like crop
1'i'j . . '? 1 Ji.it ha.- hccii
in ii in liic department during
lin* last Jew years and to reeom:i
i end al ions looking (o m i in prove'lieni
of the system Mr. Hyde
-t i'es that hi '>rief official con
n< .mi Wii'i tin- d i \ i -1 < >i i lias heel i
nillicient to impress him strongly
I 1 i with the extreme cumbrousness
of the oxi?din?* .system of
crop.reportim?: i - ) with the fact
that the information oh!annul is
utterly incommensurate with the
iahor involved in its collection,
and (II i with tho dimadvflnt.?ir?
^
under which the farmer labors in
being placed in possession, so
much less promptly than other
citizens, of the information which
the department makes public from
time to time concerning the con
(lit ion of the crops in this country.
Eleven times during ouch year
7,500 persona report on the condition
of the crops in their respect ivo
localities to twenty-one salaried
state agents, who co ordinate
their reports and cointnuni
cato the result to the department
at Washington. At the same time
> that this is being done, 0,800
[( her persons are reporting to
I "2.-100 county correspondents, who
similarly co-ordinate their returns
land report to 1 he department.
The same mails that bring these
| state and county reports to \\ a-li
i i.igton carry also similar reports
from 50,01)0 correspondents, who
report each for hi> own township,
boa!. magisterial (list rirt, or voting
| precinct, and several times times
.during the yeai the number is
j -tili further increased by the ad
Jdiiioii ol 1 "2.5tIt) col ton e<irrespon
[dents. 15.000 miller-, elewtor
proprietors, and a variable num
i her of individual fanners, select
I ed Iron! a list ol 1 ] '?,000, there
being thus a by no means remote
I pos>ioiIiiy that nearly -ImMMJO
i jn i -mis may report siuriltnne
j oiislv upon tlu' condition < ; cor
I tain selected crops. Inadditioa to
these, 1 1 ."> t ran>portat ion cuiiijia
j nios make nioni lily returns oi cot
j ton shipped over llioir icspeotivr
I line's.
It would naturally be supposed
that with a force outnumbering
the enumerators of the federal
census five to one a most com
plete and accurate setting forth
j of the agricultural condition of
j the country would at all times be
within the power of the statistieian.
As a matter of fact, how
ever, this highly elaborate system
is in several important respects
exceedingly weak. The indefinite
multiplication of crop reporters,
whose only compensation Is an
occasional bulletin or a packets
of garden seed.unquestionably
weakens the sense of responsibility
on the part of the individ
ual reporter and impairs that obligation
to the faithful performance
of duty which should accompany
even the rendering of
gratuitous service.
Furthermore, the handling of
so enormous a number of returns
within tho few days preceding
the tonth day of each month pro
eludes that careful co ordination
of facts.
Hut nnwieldy as tho machinery
employed, tho statistician rerom
mends its dismemberment only
in tho event ot provision being
made for some slight pecuniary
acknowledgment of the sorvicob
of a carefully selected corps of
correspondents, located mainly in
I the principal agricultural states.
Itv iiJilieiniiu irm 1 lufnfoi'"
| in in>t more than twenty live
states, of a corps of intelligent,
land, if possible, experienced cor
J respondonls, each of whom > hould
he paid lor each of nine re'
ports, making -tiht per annum.
1 he departinent would establish a
! a system upon which it could
rely for the due reporting of all
] hut a very small part of the total
production of the principal crop-,
land it could safely depend upon
its salaried state agent for in lor
mation concerning the minor a-;
I ricultural states.
As a further means, not only
of st rengthenin; and unifying
1 he Ktat ist ical work of t lie depart
I menf, hut also of bringing the
I department itself : nto closer touch
I with agricultural interests of the
j country, the statistician lecom
| mends the appointment of five
traveling inspectors. The statistician
rocornrnends a return tc
the former jiractice of the department
in having j? separate stah
?mr.i ~? v.
| niai i.^in ai in fiifil Mill'*, 111
preference to the system of state
grouping, which now obtains.
Although the printing and
mailing of the monthly report
of each issue, of which 200,00(1
copies are printed, has been con
siderably expedited during the
last few months, the statistician
expresses the opinion that the
department is not yet doing it*
full duty to tho farmer as regards
the prompt disseminatination of
information relative to the condition
of crops at home and
abroad, and the actual and pros
pectus status of the markets, He
recommends tho prominent display
in rural postoffices of brie!
reports on the condition of the
staple crops and the prices ruling
in the principal markets, and on
the prospective requirements of
foreign countries.
The report concludes with the
urgent recommendation that the
statisric; 1 division be reorganized
as a bureau, and estima!tintotal
expenses of such a change
of >1 at u> as n il to exceed .i'.'t.OiM)
per annum, the greater portion
| >il which would he saved in otlu.i
direct ions.
Luxuries <?j' Farmers.
According to a correspondent
of tho Chicago Record the tanners
in certain parts of Indiana
will soon enjoy some of the ad
I vantages hitherto reserved to
; is is i.i
Inut'M. i .wimis iii rruiiKiwi,
Fayette and Dearborn counties
j are preparing to make a test ?>!
co-operation on a very extensive
scale, which will include not only
buying as a linn but the selling
of their products in the same
manner. W hile there have been
a great many schemes of a co-operative
nature attempted in Indiana,
none has been planned on
such a scale. Farmers will buy
even their clothing by the lot and
and boots and shoes by tho case.
Their household necessities and
luxuries will be purchased in the
samo way and thev will sell their
wheat, corn, oats, barley and
farm produce as one big company.
They seo many advantages which
ft scheme of this kind will possess
beyond the simple monetary gain.
In Madison and Grant counties,
along the line of the new Gfts
Belt Electric railway, Another
scheme is to bo tested which will
advance the fanner's interests and
put him on a more equal basis
with the city man. Electric service
for lighting or motor power
is to be furnished to him at a
nominal cost. He can hftvo his
house lighted by electricity and
can work all his machinery with
r A 1 1 .. *t . A-Kri?rjMiwrr.
mirntn 1111 teif jiiiuiH*
system has been extended to
country homes, and, with the additional
service of electric currents
I which will enable him to enjoy
| :iii oi the luxuries ol the oitv,
j?*v? 11 to cooking with elect ricit \
if ho wishes to, I lie 1 farmer
will find life worth living. In
Kastern Indiana ho already has
natural yns burning in his stoves
and jots, and the grocer and
{butcher. as well as the general1
supplv store man have extended
1 th eir daily service to his doors.
Kleetrie ears are running aeross
his land and tlie worth f*t" living
is reduced to a minimum.
A.M. I]. '/,ion Conference.
I 1 In* annual conleronco of the
A. .M. K. /.ion church is in session
in tin> city, bishop < 1 iiiton ol
j Lancaster presides, ai ' there are
about one hundred ministers in
attendance. The conference holds
its meetings in Jones' ehapol and
will in; in hi'rision proluilily until
Monday.?('oliiml.ia Register.
, "On the St/nore."
At n recent rnrmnunioation ol
iJnckfon I-odiro A. 1'. M., the fol
, lowinp woro olertod ofliror* :
, H. J. Withor?poon, W. M.
, ?f. S. (fladnev, S. W.
ir ?l:I.I t \ir
i . ii. i' .urcmiu, ?j . w .
I H. F. Miller, Trons.
E. 0. Secrost, iSocy.
, The White Bluff Ixidgo elected
the following :
J. N. Eatridge, W. M.
K. K Jenkinn, S. W.
U. M. Neal, J. W.
( E. L. llinaon, Troaa.
. J. F. Konnington. Seer.
OUR SMALLPOX SCARE.
A Case of the Disease Said to be
in Our Midst?The Population
Loses Its Head?No Fears oi an
Outbreak However?The Patient
Isolated and the Inmates
of His Home <?uarnntined.
Since Wednesday last I hero has
been considerable excitement in
jour town on account of the pros
iMice in our midst of a case ot
what tin- physicians think is smallpox.
The \ i> tini of the disease is
Julian, the lb year-old son of J.
; i?. Johnson, i he druggist.
About the Itli ol November he
: went to Atlanta for the purpose
jot having hi- eyes treated. lie
I remained in the city two weeks
and three days, attending a cireni
during his stay. On the 'J 1st he
, left and going to Spartanburg
jstaid thereuntil thejlth, when
1 he went to ('harlot te. where lie
| rcma; 110 i until the morning o!
the 127;h, when he returned t<i
his home, in line health. On
| Saturday last. December the 1th,
he complained ol tooling unwell
and was found to have some fever.
I This continued through Sunday
and Monday morning several
splotches appeared on his body,
llis parents, reading in the newspapers
that smallpox was prevailing
in Atlanta, sent for their phy
sician, Dr. W. F. Strait, who responded.
He found the boy with
some fever and a slight sore
throat. I he next day, Tuesday,
ho called again and found several
suspicious pustules on the body.
He at once called in his partner,
Dr. T. A. Crawford, but the disease
had not progressed far
enough to warrant, either a cer
t;iu opinion ns to its nature.
T :esday morning there were other
pustules on the body and Dr. It
V. Murphy, of Kdgemoor, who
had treated smallpox cases in
Kontucky, was invited to call and
he at once pronounced the disease
a modified case of smallpox. It
tliA ftffnrnnnn Ifp W .1 Wliitn
who in also familiar with the dis
e*?e, was likewise invited to In
speet the case, and he confirmee
the diagnosis of I)r. Murphy.
thin time a rumor hud spread lik<
wildfire that there wan a case o
smallpox in town and many o
our citizen* became as rnuel
alarmed as if an army had be
.. ilr 4 ....
lilt* t'MT J1. JifOl J UUUjr ttjf
peared on the streets and th<
more the matter was discusHct
the moro alarmed the poptilatioi
became. At niuht a meeting o
tlie hoard <>f health was 1 < ! 1
when a committee of physician?*
I)i>. \V. J. White, J. E. Massej
and ?I. A. Meldau, was appointci
to examine the patient the nex
ninrniiiLf and renort to the b??:ir?
111<* nut urn of the disease.
The committee called the tiex
morning and reported that th<
hoy was alllicted with a case o
I small pox. hut in their opinion ii
i moililied lorm. Jn the meantim*
j the lamily and servants i?i .Mi
i .Johnson, as well as himself an<
l -cvi ral c'.iihlren who had \!Mle<
! the .Johnson home, were <|iiuran
lined in their respective hone .Mr.
Johnson appreciated the i.e
cessity of such a prec uition am
announced that he would enfore
the regulation on his premises
hut as an extra precaution guard
were placed in charge of the var<
and lot.
The little victim of the diseas
r has been placed in a comfortahl
' house on tin? lot, about throe hun
drcd feet from any dwelling,whcr
he is being attended by Mr. I'orte
(iaston, of Fishing ('reek, Chesto
eounty, who had smallpox whil
in the army. The Johnson horn
has been thoroughly fumigate*
and all the inmates are as corn
pletely isolated from the cornmu
nity as if they were in prisor
Dr. Strait has been vaccinate
and when he calls to see hi
patient he enters a separate room
which is being constantly disin
fected, dresses out and out i
VMM A ? #Vo<n P..5.Jiimilof ^
H ^ ^ ^ Prof. W. H. Peeks, who
Wi ~^k mT"? makes a specialty ot
_j| L Epilepsy, has without
B ^ II Q VW doubt treated and curM
'I M 'WX ed more cases than any
II R I V V aticcess Is*astonfshlntr.
jBdL jL Wo have heard ot' cases
j ' of ma y^^o' standing
: tlo of his absolute cure, free to any BtifTerers
: Who may sond their I*. O. aud Express address.
| We adviso nnv one wishing n euro to nddresa
i ProLW. IL PF.EKF, F. D., 4 Cedar St., Hew York
1 *
| another suit, and washes with the
\ proper materials.
Kverv precaution possible is
I l?ein;jc taken t" prevent t hi.* disease
i from spread in*.. id t' ve pu-itivo!
lv is no !ears of in outbreak. The
! e\cii(?ti:ont h i - uh-dded la rifely
'and a Hairs in town have assumed
II In ir nornial condit ion
There were rumors in town
*i*i. . day i!i t V? ;*! : vi 1 !e had quar
antieed airaind our'own. hut we
arc assured tliis i>- not true.
t (Iro d "vi- ; i'!ty i- fed' here for
Mr. Johnson and his family. Their
friends can he of no help to them
in t!i"ir distress, hi.i they fully
appreciate how very necessary it
i- that every precaution ho taken
to keep down an outhr *:?k of tin's
loatlisotne disi as'?.
Their hoy is doin;r as well as
could he expected. There seems
to l.e no douht aj to the nature of ^
l,;Q .I;..,.,.,, lu.i 1....I i
II- *?l^\ *1-' , I 'Ml ' mi'H l M .U'M
Mr. the ton. I h ; urse. says that
, if it is smallpox it is the lightest
rasv> ln? has ever seen. ? Roclt
Hill 1 lorald. Sat unlay.
| Killed bf/ a Freight, ^
j Joe (-ortnoy, colored, was instantly
killed Saturday afternoon
by tlie south bound freight train
on the < >. It. iVc C. Railroad. At
the inquest hv coroner Young* it
i was proved that Joo was subject
i to epileptic tits and that ho often
' had them, and that when ho felt
the lit corning on he would sit
down or lie down. Engineer
' Metoalf testified that he saw the
object when he was about 350
I yards away, but that he neverdiscovered
that it was a man till he
got nearer, ami that th? down
^ ? ratio wui no neavj mat n wan
j. impossible to stop his train, and
the pilot struck hi in and killed
him at once. The accident oocured
near the 44th mile post in
Air. J. 1'. 0. (Jaskoy'a field.
1 ' *
w5tm hairrbalsam
f anil Wot r?j the hafr.
a luiurnnl Jr. wth.
Pw ? MNivrr Fall* to 11-store Or*y
< KJmLl. dU llair to its Youthful Color.
ISf Jh Volmi- -
\ mMm HANGEnL,NE
| A IH W and UH'ful tinvleu which every family
1 i ' T! . , . I? oi'l . : ;> it) ^!. leal ;ty. nt*
.simp'." ami strong. fan ho put up any whero;
r. In ! ? rope i.r wire, In-.I .:il adjustment
anil removal tif line: no i r jn nee-led.
( he . .. iti. : i" : . ..- pi lei Affrnt* uurttij
iirryuhrrf Km-uum- t-rr'l ry AMrneMvu
3 | o rum PltKMU Mft AND IMIOV1T RIIAUlSfO Any
uiav !>ei 'ii fnmp'r pair, I V mall.
' | < . >< KtLSO NOVl.LVY CO.,
( ' ' I... At f-'t . V:? j l.i.i.
SENT FREE
: to iiousekeepors-Liebig
COMPANY'S
I Extract of Beef
COOK BOOK-telllnn
how to preparo many flo'.li aii tml
IP ilPloua dlsbea.
Address, I.lcblK Co. .!?. CI I) (a *T|?. N> ?r York
VCST5 WJv
L.|jl. ^j-Vr
; Fork Sausage, (
BEEF.
You ran now fjet fre*h pork sati*a>?e
a* well h? flrat t..?M henf at
" my market daily. I'romptdelivery
' made for all orders in any part trf a
g the town.
W. F. YOUNG.
q July r\ l*07(ly)