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I_ SENE=JOURNAL f ~ i t r ~ j j ~ 1 0 1 i t P & c s . C , a e o ~ n t r t d w a c t . o f Q o n g e t i i o f M a r o h 3 , 7 , ? . . SOUTH ROINl HURSDAY, ARL1,10 iun A Iim' SIX WAp NA\M I)D| 1A I N URG J N.& iJ1NA1L. le was a toll uell huilt and well r swd nI al riiet a1 copy of the New Yor: ;nn in his outside,,wtt t,oket, and wore the air of.b;ing entirely at linmn in ;he libby of thA'V ,irlan n n; for1 no bas boelen t)en t ;t(dI for yea rs :1' is 1) a bu (i s teo acq uaint aneesh:1in aywher(- from Row York f c in New\' Orlean. 'I'm: from Nim t.v itix right over in t emwnie.od Uounty, and efor J g iwtl andl t 'nt to the had hanidlirg a i it d>ig every body who wanted to buy the best line on the road. I had"ea hdftprin)g afterI poetry and liction thlvorrt you ever saw. I fancied I'd:i'dovitb1my youth to huok writinc, but the meal ticket ro.se grimly in my path, tkud I struck something more pratil.'' A ftor an inquiry as to the,"dpo ro of tao train for Colpihia the travelor loung ed easily iif'a ob4dr sy the Idler broke the ice. 'AVhy do you call that town Ninety six? What's in the name?"''a ''It requires a little blending of fact xn(t legend. as it were, to give you c the stru'ght gpods on thal. Ninoty Six is built 4i near proyimity to Old Camhridge Fort of Rovolutionary days, whose sturdy garrison withstood the siege of the Tories. This fort wns the site of the court house of the first district in upper South Carolina -ut that's -something else. Now, we'll get further along with our nar rative. Gen. Androw Pickens the original Pickens-moved iuo what is now known as the edge of Ocneo County on the Seneca river. In those times Greenville, Oconee and Pickons belonged to the Cherokee Indians. Through Gen. Pickens' influence, South Carolina's Revolutionary gover nor, Rutledge, established a fort on the Keowoo river, named Fort George; it was located at the foot of the1 .llue Ridge mountain., twelve miles ] from Clemson College of today and was garrisoned by fifty men. The fort was in a fertile valley on ] the river banks, and remains of the I fortiticaticns can he seen to this day Nearby was a settlement of the ("hero kee Indians. The big chiefs got to- t gether and after days of planiug and council, set a night for the massacre of the garrison of Fort Gnorgo. Du- I ring this period a stalwart soldier of the little band had gotte'n busy making love to a maid of the Cherokee tribe, the Catoechee. She was pretty as pink shoos and red ribbon, and she ( loved the young soldier to boat the I band in return. Cateeohee did not .atch on to the bntohory program un t,il the vory evening of its happening ; but she acted quickly. Local historians whq h*4ve lived in and about Ninety Six all their lives B and their people before them told them the logond, and they all aflirm it, that the pretty Indian maid,who was game C .all right, rode her horse from Forr. (eorgo, wh6re she had left on a hurry tip enil for her lover to Fort Cambridge h a d i.uauneoof ninety-six miles, and tnuat as shie ihissedl the streamis in a swoop- ' ng gallop she ntamod them .t "This is no pipe dream ; for to this l dayv the streanms are known that way! ~ for 1' ve been all over that 01(d trail. There's One Mile Creek; Five Mile ~ C;reek, l'wolvo Mile Rivor Three and L *iwentv Creok, Six and Twentty Creek. ~ Just ask anybody l1ving in that sect- 1 ion if these- ain't the nameiS of the ~ streams. Untoechoo struck a ridge after Ieaiving Six and Twoenty Mile I Urek gind crossed no more warer un till shQ arrived at Ninety Six Crook, which to this hour runs stopdily on within just a hundred yards of 01(1 l"ort Carnbridge. History hias it that her noble efforts met with failure. That the Cherokees swept (down like a wolf en the fold and the slumbering gairrison. wore butchered. Certainzly lPort Teorge wats domiolish)ed ;lbut the old Indian trail pursued by'this tawny compionod10( maid, is still Pen ted out YI 0eo0er'. A nders)n and A bhoevi lIe 'our ties. All the wvorldI loves a lover and raw, miistor you can't much blamo le ha vi ng beeni stuffe'd on this folkI lore ibom ehil dhood, to wvant to spin out somethinrg like the " 'Alico of Old Vinconnes" brand before I learned tihe Iideks of the c ommero al ago, ohi?" 'stons the conda amd hors. lu.r J;.'11 OIr IP\NI)1L'TON,'1,:ESEN (GE1% AND TIlE I./D i MElR "A ) . PLAN'ri. If any frioiil of th o ld.'endletot farners' Socie. wI1'loan thci e'jcicty -t loi: copies or volumiiir of' oil her of eSne old ''nlpei pulsh'ed.at" I ( Ile un he in.! cntt+ k ,fl0 t odi ;i n" the commiIdJ,L'T. . owmhn J. ('. Strlbli 1\ t.vi1 pa ' ew- botht va" uni roturn thu papters good o-rder: ' ar4.* L4uous i:rniuros lata-bo veou thi date,i)of Ji2U and .:187s-A to jako bllu' now iIItuy f thieh Pe,lloton mnors' Soti.otY comltJote .i Any 'otlitr history- ,"jf i1ilp,ortant ci ont of old P'rildlotorni" shp t :kotchsvt its oldor rosjdents"w6ul) Ili thank 911y recived. 'Betore >;nriding any -of theho Volumes, "t ,enso - commuliicate wi th eitl er J. C' tribling, Pondleton S. C or C. L. owman, Clemson Collego,.S. C. i Five doilarU.reward will he giveq t br the secretary's book or books or cords containing minutes or other ata relating to the Peindloton 1+'armers' ocioty betweon 1820 and 1853. Com nunicate with either C. L. Newman r J. C. Stribling, P t< I?armiers' Union I Bureau. of L Iilfoi'i111il1. ti -Conducted by the South Carolina Ftiners' ducational and d Co-Operative Union. l:c:nI . icfiinsI intCI.dicd for this depmr .4 itnent should be addressed to .1. C. StriOlitng, tndleto n. South Carolina. d d NO RAKE OFF IN HERE Now and then we are reminded of p ho fact that sonic tender hoarted poli. g ician or over cautio.us news man are n it it all the while looking out for some o )olitical scheme or rake off to crop out e hrough our'Farmors' Union Bureau v zolumn in the newspapers. In order to i put all such at ease and rest on this point we moss emphatically state hero f that no one on our committee In charge l f this column or behind it in any way r ire aspirents for politual honors or lepeindent in any way for our support l 'rom this work. If we know what a atriotisrn or missionary work is, that e a our aini. We are not in this thine n or any rake off or purely personal v iggrandisement, we are after driving he truth abr:ad at every lick, It mat- V era not whether the truth makes or e oses friends to us. I] S* * v COW PEAS. 0 - fl Don't think of not planting a full rep of cow peas because you think the h eed too high. o, Where noed is scarce plant in the 01 rill ana cultivate them with the plow ir r disk harrow. One peck of good seed w may bs made to completely cover the rcund with vines if the viney sort is lanted. Harvest the crop of seed and vines hon pod begin to turn yellow by out ing the vine off at tho.roots, rake up n good size s tacks wvhon wvell cur6cd tack or house nil together. Thrash out peas and vines with a brasher or stick. This thrashing of he vines improros the mechanical con ,ition of the hmay and solves the prob am st) the obeapest method of gaLthi ring cov. peaR. You (etnn well afford to pay evqn 84 er bushel for cow peas rather than (do vithout the erop. 94EW YOlU( COTTON EXCHANGE. We have before us for otur consider ition a iong lof;tor of pirotost against ho Now York Cotton Exchanco su r -ndering its rights to exist at, the de nands of Southern cottotn growers Tbhis t imo honored anad dish enorable nstitution first claims for its right to xist, is that it has boen at it for ovor mif a cotntry. As though a grip oif raft upon ie vital organs of thei soutt his cht if staple erop, cotton, shoulId si ou oninuod i ndofinijtely' just b)oilani iho South has not been able to shako hemn ol for lo, those many years of tardt st,ruggiling. Agsof exisen(o will neOver mauke ight. " Truth crushod to earth will iso up aigami'' with more might, as go add(ef to its power. In its bliowouit letter thna: we are. nIIII u upon to acccepat av jinal a:rr trn this corlo'ntiol Manmmon n1! I 1rmor U' ion on l:tiep thai t i : a1mers h7:a'( a sido to be "#te.ard from tis 11ator--reninds oun. that i i: ow icIq f - this i1";.chare in rt tII I%frec that there is t w> sidos uostio of pricinm eOtton. e lao" p It this New Yol ('(flt chl~o-on .lotico also that f')r pra cal a.tllts for good thi#t. itJ Ito o ly hav to look at the acellmuI n f won th and splep<ior of olt aII"s .andi cotton IinIifacotuire'8 o northen t and then tiirn ag irj 'r ow tho- wr tehod hove1s and poor ad ,oitit ons of the :IRrger class ttou grow rs of the saiih wvhicl e dly bo corn ared to a king's rbyal'fai y aIid bis easant subjeits. Ycs we m an just whetyot.say'611 e tmnsis near at hand when-a c,i n nst come. The Now .korh' (ott Kchangl a6id all others like it mitu out"do b siness or stldw b6'thoc< n prod'ucof' of the South tha t it is r iutoesti to mention Ten. The a limit bleyond whorq,th? strougc mbinaiois can of -even ngnc wer tramblo under their feet t od given rights of the humble ople. :n their second reason for holding their grafty grip on our cotton ti xcbanuge mentions the. fact that' l ouis has control of the zinc and t 'ade. 3rd. 13ecause Holland has control Iva's tin 4th. Andt London the tin of t raights. &c. All, each and every one of whi )os not afprd oven one good reas by any one of thrn should exist; 1 ich and every one of these conditic Aints out an alarming increase of tl rowing evil of distant speculative e lents controlling products f rom thi wn arbitrary views Of the matter, ardless of the cost of production hat would be a fair division of pro n the business. All of which is a tino argument uvor of the South being the pro arties to place prices on her gr oney crop, cotton. Yes, the limit of the "Corporat log" who regards the cotton gro1 s his right and property has he rea d and our Farmers' Union aim is rako a touch down right now tl 'ill go on record. WiI the New York Exchange tell 'ho sets prices on iron, lumber, cc ll, cotton mill product, agricultu nploments fertilizers, Amorican h sting machinery and numbers ther products of New England man storios? Each and almost overy one of the %vo combined their interest and c it the middle mon that took a ra f of the goods that ho had no hai its production. And unless t hole or main business interest of t P nt South yt ud up along by :hnu si4e i ho..: the farmt (1 of thF,Souta nu)d help mI, t- ilown the 1id cini cotton for t,rofi'hl in pices tii Now Ydrk etton Ex'lunu n ar nd al Of it ork'rs will cont no tc- rc h tOle '.4 l; of its Go d g ver to Aclth tjtunia)een placed wi hit tit sol fiour.tn ' climoc. c 01)~ i- LX AC K LSTE MI tER4TIL IZEu:RS ne . AN '14bLOW STELu COTT7 N. - IFertilizrtr . mut% tick like thu doi When fartne, ul" heir gbods ha Slt't com ti > to the guarantee on the black list'i'the Im, College lia 1)' before the lw d a penalty instead of of "'black Si9ti. But the unor an 'n- ized, holp c.aondton grglyor tb is n - seen trottingtho streets *. IN,sat pLe of his cotton huntin iunlie local at -buyer for ;u ton bears has no appa'out so alternativ i trO.itako fdicyt" of 11-n1- this eoton apmplor lot iat be yellow St or blue i4t4 . Now th&11ill i n ithis 't matter h s>pen4eache0tbo, anc we to mean to deipi. aiir pl . If tertilizer rr men have, fatlocd io pr uce oods up sn to their gna'Irn rom an causn Ithey Y.. should take:t5' consegq u ci just the be same as tI e cp, growrs haO totake st the yelloW ti go cist plid' on their coltton bf an unavoidabie frost. n On all shipments of frti}izers;that e fall ten por ..cent below gunantoe in '- money valuWare liable to the purcfiasc r n for one-third of the price and a forfeit of the wh ole lot to Clemson College. of For example take sample 378 Etiwan Dis Bone.sampled at Bowman,Jan.30th he is oli 10-2 per cent money value below their gauranteo $11.20, which mnkos c; the manufacturer liable to purchasot on $5.27 per ton on this lot ana a forfeit ut to Clemson College of this whole ship Ins mint. Us On all shipments that fall three per le- cent below guarantee are liable to th< ir purchaser for three times the amoun1 re- of deficiency. Example: take sampl or No. 1 cotton soed nial, manufacture< 1ts at Cross Hill, sampled at Cross Ilil January 21, is ofT 6-6 per cent and i in liable to the purchaser for three time Per 81.54 or 84.54 per ton. Hero ar eat other samples below the three per con guarantee and are liable to same pen on alty as above. Sample 221--Monarcl ver Vegetable Grower, sampled at Pondle 3h- ton January 28th, off $1.23, penalty t to purchaser $3.69, value of shortagi iat $1.23, total amount of claim due pur chaser $4.92 per ton. Sample 56 us Va. C. C. Co., sampled at Cowpons 29t1 al, January, 4-1 uer cent off,liability pen ral alty to purch.ser $2.52 por ton. ,r- The following are liable to the pur of chaser for the sample shortage only as a- they don't come under the bead of threo per cent penalty according te se our figuies: ut Sample 117--Nitrate Soda, Etiwan F. ke Co,. samnled at Pinowood, 21st Janu id ary, short $1.15. ho Sample 228- Wando. V. C. C. Co., e sampled at Ionea Patn 6th Febuarv, $15.00 lys a Sch1coids Sprii Don't envy the man i And mere comfort is not incomuparable "Schloss"( . perfect fit and good quatlil Characteristics, Co)ncaved and perfect] that simly can't break 0! that wvill never lose its she finemients of skilled tail blothes, .lIkst of all, they have at tmction you won't find in no matter howy much you .I91: A(.urr' H. EN I bmmm.zammainmatreet. . ., f 60 ct,. per -ton short: Sapnile 184 -iNit att Soda, Pocomiok -.,samniled af; Lexington ?nd FE?.. u n ty, shoi-t -' otis.--ee'r'thn. 'T'here arrerhA 4 t _n'oie impia nir ihat have fallp3lJ eq . money via, fromi to c1s. to 50 ct;. , er ton on certain shiy ients ' hiOl Qhoncl put all usery of. f'rt-iliz-r.- or.i he w1t10h out -1i 1n( keep ui with the 1'crtil.er I3ullo- -Y titi :sCnt out. to all al,i iants- by It. M1. Stapkhonso,Socretary ioard Fertilizer Uoit rol, Clep?on colloee, S. U. If any of our "armers' Union nom- -- bors have already bought any of the medti.oioItilizeru. that are short in value. our Union 'Bureggvojuld advise you first to make out a carefui state.. Wett in money valne accordine to short age and present yonr claim tI the local agitW otf' faotory that .,old you. the: 4 goods, and no duuby; if your claim is bafed upon actual shortage in money value the manufacturer of the goods could no't refuao -to pay a just olabn Otherwise, -if you are sure that .vyour a claim is a just one, and the manufac- - tnrer refuses to settle the matter, this would bo prima facie ovdonce that fraud nas intended at the -start an proceedins should be taken at once through your busin'ess agent to re' cover the foes. After establishinp the fact that th price of fertilizers was raised this year and at the same time the quality of the goods reduced, thero is no jury in the country that would stand for a rakc-oa both going and coming,as this fact ap pears to be. In looking over the Fertilizer 3ulle in we find girto a number of samples from dcitTeront manufacturers that are short in some one of the three impor tant ingrodients--aumnmonia,phosphoric acid or potash ; but as the money value in the shortage has been made up in the excess on othe- ingredients the companies falling short under those circumstances are not amenablo to 1 penalties under the last fertilizer law s for this, as the fertilizer men claim s unavoidable error that sometimes come 9 to the best mnanagement iii their ma t nipulation of ingredients. - I But, however, if the farmer has an I idea that this over can be avoided he - has a remody in buying his Ingredi > ents in large wholesale lots and doing his own manipulating of his fertilizers which no doubt can be done on most farms with considerable profit, outside of the comfort of knowing that he is not liable to be getting the shortage on one point where some other man is getting the lpng end of some ingredi ont that ho did not order. This whole review of this matter emphasize the importance of buying fertilizer ingredi, ente in largo lots through your organi zations, where your sample test may be mado stand for shipments of several hundred ton lots instead of ten or twelve tons whoro samples hav. been brawn from small shipments. a new Spring Suit-get comfort of wearing it. the only feature of our lothes;-style, grace, a :y are among their other y rounded shoulders, a sag and a coat-front pe, are some of the re oring you find in these air of fashionable dis rone suit in a hundred pay. (i n o ssile -- C