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i THE FARMERS' | I UNION BUREAU. Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union. Address all communications intended for this . column to J. C. Striblinp. Pendleton .S. C. A ^ j Here are some good rules to paste , up in your books to be read out the first thing at the beginning of the I busiuess feature of your meetings: 1st. Are we Uniou men? 2nd. Do we know that to be . .... good Union men we must sunum to the will of the majority? 3rd, Have we come together for the purpose of combining our strength for the good of the fraternity as a whole, or have any of ui * as-enabled for self aggrandisement or pecuniary interest of iudivid uals or cliques? 4th Have we come together for the purpose of huuting up good ft thiugs to talk of for our benefit, or we are hunting for more trouble by talking over the mean things that others have done? 5th. When you want a thing ijLVl done be sure to get very busy men to do it for you; never think ot of appointing men to do important work for the Union that are not now, uor never were, worth a cuss for anything Gth. Ifyouareout looking for good yon will be sure to find someI thing good, and if ycu are out lookiug for bad things you will find more of this than you want very | -soon. I Local Farmers' Unions are something like good crops; they thrive best when planted on good soil in the country and where well caltivatOne reason for this is that when local Unions meet in the towns there is more or less business and -other attractions that draw members away fiom the meetings in town while there is usually no other than Union business that come before local meetings iu the country. I*. No doubt you are getting sorter "fasbed out" ou so much cotton talk ?ad need a change. Better get up a hog and hominy talk at your next V . docai meeting. We had one in the Pendleton Farmers' Hall last Saturday and some of the boys got right e ' hungry before we got half through & with the sausage and liver pudding subject. Mr 3 Harris stated that he had grown grown pork at lees I (pan three and a half cents per pounds and Bra Richardson vouched for the fact that he knew of a farm: ^ -er that had raised a large family off of the products of a hog farm where the common citron, grown m among the corn, were the chief or principal tog food need in growing hogs. As many know that the^e common citrons may b-> housed and ft 1 v through the winter with better re* \4aite than the common pumpkin ^ < and are many times more abundant , and a sure crop. It was the general consensus of opinion among the farmers at this tf>g and hominy meeting that it -AASta fAA mnok t/? nnrlopfalro frt ctpaiv !>VVD<O VW UiUVU w UUUV4 vv ^tvn hogs on graiu. Turnips, sorghum, clovers, barley, rye, cautelopes, .melons, vegetables and bermuda pastures were used to grow the pigs and the run of cow pea or soga bean aud-small graiu fields and sweet potato crops were all used to advantage under different circumstances for fatteruing the hog in the fall. Hogs will gather cow peas or soga beans very much eleaner and cheaper than little niggers will do it, uod besides your hogs are always ready for the job aud will keep at it That Diversified Farming Talk. All this talk about diversified farming is now getting rather 6tale talk to roost close observers. We . note that many otherwise clever farmers do a good deal of talk away from home along the line of diversified farming. ) But they do not * rite it out on their farms iu a way F ' that he that runs by may read it out on the ground of these men's farms as plainly as it can be read in their papers and talk. This thing of all talk and no work to back it up is <00 much like rot to go down a * .1. practical man's throat without! straining a little. 1 believe it was: B Harris that made the snggest'on at our hog and hominy meetiug that it would pay the owner of the farm best to do the hog and hominy and other diversified farming stunts and sell these farm supplies to his fool all-cotton-growing renters who will i persist in working themselves and families down to rags and tags every year trying to get rich growing cotton | while the other mati out in the shade makes the price and takes the profits Cotton Mill Man Squeals. "We have before our Farmers' Union Bureau a letter to our Bureau i from a cotton mill man that would astonish uiauy of our Fanners' Union men. Beyond doubt mam of our Southern cotton mills are in a much worse tied up condition than our cotton growers who spend a lot of tneir time cussing these same mill men that are in ten times worse fix I and tied up subjects to their selling; agents than cotton growers are borne t dowu upon by Gew York Excbauge men. Cotton growers can pull themselves out from nnder the harness of cotton bears by growing their own foodstuffs. But these Southern mill men who own the minority of their mill stocks are uuder tfie complete control of their selling agents in Philadelphia, New York or other places, who not only ' - -? ;? iL.i M;ua dictate ine prices iuai> tucac mmo shall pay for the raw cotton, bat they also name the prices for the mills products, the quantity and qoality of goods made and even name the brands in many cases that go on the bales of goods and at the same time these selling agents are said to get a good rake off in the j way of commissions both going and coming. LIST QF JURORS. t For Term of Court to Courier Here Monday March 25. Grand Jury. L P Kinder, Kingstree R B McClary, " J A Bradham Jr, " C C Burgess, "' G B Browder, Greelyville R C Marshall, Trio J M Godwin, Rhems P B Thorn, Kingstree S W McConnell, Taft W I Nexsen, Kingstree S L Courtney, Lake City S T Godwin, 44 T S Kelly, Gourdin J A Feagin, Harper L McGee, Scranton Hugh McCutcken, v Kingstree W E Nettles. Lake City R W McCutchen Benson N. 3. The first six names are the bold-overs from last year. Petit Jury. L A Parsons, Harper T M Kellahan, Benson J W Stone, Vox W B McCollough, Taft J E Baker, Kingstree A A Brown, Leo D I Johnson, Lake City J E Davis, Salters Depot E A Cook, Lake City H D Shaw. Kingstree J F Rodgers, Epps J H Bellflower, Scranton W S Brockinton, Indiantown W W Boyd, Trio G II Smith, Morrisville | J P Eaddy, Cades, T B Gourdin, Kingstree ! Bartow Smith, Hebron J H Burgess, Mouzon: E I Montgomery, Greelyville l J J McCollough, Trio i G C Parsons, Harper | S W Jennings, Cades T J Hogan, Greelyville W J Singletary, Single A McD Burgess, Greelyville1 S T McCrea, Benson II 0 Pipkin, Bloomingvale W W Burrows, Leo W W Fulmore, Cades J H Pearce, Cades G W Gist, Greelyville J SThomas, Lake City J.K Hayneswortli, Foreston T A McCrea, Kingstre | S D Hair, Taft. | I Most people kn been sick they ne< is ion to bring bacl But the strongest Emulsion is that sick to get results fro It keeps up the ath on thin neoole. makes n A a ^ 2 brings color to a pale ? vents coughs, colds an ? Food in concentre well, young and old, ri A And it contains no jf ALL DRUGGISTS; NATURE'S SECRETS. Problem* of Life Over Which Ms* Can Only Theorize. "You hear a great deal of talk about a woman not being able to keep a secret," said an agnostic who dabbles in a dilettante way in nearly all branches of human knowledge, "but a glance at the record of old Mother Nature will readily disprove this time honored axiom. The mind of man since'the first faint dawn of iima has anntrhf. tn irrAst frnm her gome of the things she knows, yet her lips have remained as closely sealed as those of the sphinx. In many things she is as garrulous as any other of her sex, but in many of her moods no amount of flattery or cajolery suffices to get even the faintest glimpse into her real thoughts. "We might go back into the remotest period of history for examples, but a few that are well known of all men will suffice to illustrate what I mean. "Perhaps the greatest secret nature holds is the mystery of life and death. Apparently there is no reason why a man who lives a well regulated life should not continue to live indefinitely, but the 6tern fact is that his time is certainly allotted. Men have sought in vain to solve this problem. But not one year has been added to the sum total of human life by all the researches of the scientists. Ponce de Leon sought in vain the fountain of external youth and Brown-Sequard's elixir, that was to arrest the ravages of decay, proved as unavailing as De Leon's search for the # i _ iountam. "Alchemists of old devoted their lives to discover a chemical process that would transmute the baser metals intc gold, but after centuries of research only old Mother Nature holds the secret of the formation of this precious metal. Newton worked out the correct theory of the law of gravitation from the incident of seeing an overripe apple fall from a tree, but all the aeronauts of all time have been unable to discover a way to overcome thi3 law, and we are still bound to the earth as by iron chains as far as practical purposes are concerned, as airships and balloons are only dangerous toys and bid fair to remain so to the end of time. "Laplace mapped out the courses of the stare and outlined 1? .11 1 -1 - _ _1 nearly an we Know 01 tne soiar system, but not a single fact of real benefit has ever resulted from our little knowledge. We theorize, but cannot prove, and nature only smiles at our defeat. These examples might be multiplied indefinitely, but these few of the bigger problems of life show that natura's 6ccrets are safely guarded from the prying eyes of man. We are but an atom in the universe. We know not whence we come nor whither we go. All we know is that we live and that our little life is ended with a sleep."?Birmingham Age-Herald. Von Bulow and the Players. An amusing glimpse of Hans von Bulow is afforded in this extract from one of his letters: "There were two bassoonists in the orchestra ? imagine, amateurs! They were my dread and kept me constantly on tenterhooks. If they had nothing to play, then I was in a state of terror that they might: come in, and I was constantly warn- j ing theni 'Not yet/ but if they real-; ly had to come in, then I had not i the courage to give them the sign, j and I warned them as before. An! amateur kettledrum player, on the contrary, who received honorable mention, must have been a perfect marvel of a timekeeper, for when he had very long pauses lie counted them inwardly and used to pay lit-1 tie visits to an adjoining cafe with- i out endangering the ensemble, as he always got back punctually to his post in time for his next entry." > w, -i ... / ' resvsnbpks ? . - 'l low that if they have O >j r> ip ?m vi /_ o 7U s? c health and strength. point about Scott's jf you don't have to be T im it X lete's strength, puts fat Y a fretful baby happy, X girl's cheeks, and pre- Q d consumption. O ted form for sick and Q ch and poor. 4 drugs and no alcohoL A SOc. AND SI.OO. T ODD OLD BELIEFS. Superstitions Which Deal With the Pasting of Life. Ttm oiiT^irctitinns whirli hflVP JL U^/ OU|'V*U??VAVMW ?? w clustered about the closing scenes of human life are almost innumerable. Some, perhaps the greater portion, now seem to be meaningless, but a few had in early days a significance which they have since lost. The stopping of the clock at the moment a death occurs in the house is still practiced in many families in this country and Europe and originated in the fact that according to the laws of several European states it was necessary to have evidence of the exact moment of births and deaths occurring in the royal family. When a king died an attendant was always present whose duty it was to stop the clock in the royal apartment at the moment when death occurred, and the timepiece was thus a mute record of the event. From royal families the desceat of this practice to aristocratic and finally to families of low degree was easy, and many persons adopted it as a mere superstition without knowing anything of its former significance. Turning the looking glass to the wall is a superstition which is said to have originated m the country districts of Germany during the days when mirrors were novelties. Mirrors of glass with quicksilver backs are said to have been made at Venice in 1300 A. D. and were first made in England in 1673, but did not come into common use among the middle classes until the beginning of the last century. At first they were regarded with superstitious awe, the idea being that the reflection of the face in the mirror was a sort of specter,5 or second soul, of the individual. When a death occurred the looking glass which the person was accustomed to use wtis turned to the wall, lest his ghost should be disturbed by others using the mirror before his spirit had finally departed from the neighborhood, there being an idea that the spirit of the departed lingered about tfie vicinity for several hours or perhaps days after it had separated from the body. Gold Beating. The process of preparing gold unfil if te f rt a f aoa a/ Vll AW AO A WVIUWVVi l>V U V4 1-280,000 of an inch is necessarily elaborate. The gold is first cast into ingots four inches in length and one inch in width, which weigh -from ten to seventeen ounces, according to thickness. It is then passed between polished rollers, worked by steam, until it forms a ribbon twenty-eight yards long and 1-800 inch thick. These ribbons are then cut into 180 pieces an inch square and placed between vellum, and then the real business of the gold beater is begun He beats for half an hour with a twenty pound hammer, making the inch square into three inches square. Then these pieces are quartered, becoming one and a half inches square. He beats again for one and a quarter hours until the one and a half inch square becomes .four inches square. The four pieces are again quartered and beaten and finally cut to proper size?viz, squares of three and three-eighth inches, of a thickness (or rather 'thinness") of 1-280,000 of an inch, and in this shape the leaf is lifted into books of tissue paper. Took It For Truth. "Why deny it?" he insisted. "It J is because some gossip intimates i that I am not true to you that you; have broken our engagement." "Oh, no," she replied; "it is be-j cause I believe you truthful that I; am breaking it." "How do you mean?" "Well, you remember you have frequently told me that you were not worthy of me." ? Catholic, Standard and Times. \ *v - . - ...... ' 'vf - BUZZARD HARDWARE CO. 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