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THE SENTINEL -IOURNA Entered April 28, 1908 at Pickeris, 8. C., as second class matter, under act of Congmess of March 8, 1879. 'L %Vill$ IICI1g, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MAY, 7 IO 8I Farmers' Union. Buromu or' . Il'MIiOfimil .t ro orla l n -C'onducted by the -fSouth Catrolina Formers' Fduentional auad Co-Operative Un Ion. CousmunIc triots Ittended for thistlepar munt should be addressedI to J. 4. Striolting, .uomdletou. S.uttb CarolnS. At the meeting of the State Executive Committee of the S. C. Farmers' Union April 21 State Sec.-Treas. Reid's report showed the Union to be in much better condition financially and as to its progress than the com mittee expected in view of the ttringent times. Arangements was made at this meeting for a Farmers Union campaign in this state to begin about the 1st. of July. For the purpose of supplying an immediate need for disem minating Farmers Union News, after the reorganization of the state Union, the S. C. Farmers Union News Bureau was rees tablished in February last by the executive committee which has be6i supplying this need until April meeting at which time our News Bureau was dis continued in favor of "Farmers Union Sun" a new farm paper to be published at Spartanburg by a Joint Stock Co. by S. F. Parrot of Gaffneuy and other Union men scattered over the state. %n behalf of the Farmers Union I extend thanks - to the large number of newspapers nearly 100 in number-that have rendered such good faith ful service in our interest during the existence of our Union News Bureau. J. C. Stribling, Editor in charge of the S. C. Farm ers Union News Bureau. Hold Your Spot Cotton. Still Reduce Acreage. Plant Other Crops-Corn, Peas, Beans, Tomatoes - Some thing that Can be Eaten and Fed to Stock. PENDLETON, April 27. The manufacturer. of North and South Carolina have decided t0 lose down the mills July 1st. If the cloth market is so bad, it looks like it would be good judg ment to close earlier, as by July 1st the closing wvill be compul sory. Holders of spot cotton, take a firm hold ahd do not be bluffed as you have been in the past. Cotton is scarcer than it has been in years and the mills are about ouit of cotton, not, enough on / hand to run 30 days, and goods have not fallen in price. Cotton gets high when it gets out of i producers' hands. The Government wants to buy b to 10 million dollars worth of Ducking, which will take some cotton. Fall goods have not I ~ been contracted for yet, but will have to be soon. Hold your cot tod for the minimum price. 'Cot - ton exchanges and their agents have been trying to create public senthnent that 15 cts is too high * and on account of the holding campaign of the farmers, the fi nancial cehter in New York has been shaken, widespread panic pervails. If it is a fact that the Farmers Union, has in so short a tin shaken the great Gibraltar of stock gamblers, we should accept it as the highest tribute to unity among the farmers, and call pip on every loyal farmer in the South to join us, then with a firm hand obliterate this dan gerous system of doing business, which only can be done by thorough organization of farm ers. This is a day of organiza tion. It seems the crop is now two or three weeks late and the seed bed worse prepared than in many years, as the spring and winter has been so wet that it was im possible to plow deep, which means poor stands and short crop. Don't forget the 1907 crop is 4,500,000 bales short. Hold to your cotton, futures cannot be spun and woven into cloth, if It could spots wonld not be worth ginning. B. HARRIS, Pres. Farmers Union. Miss Ellen Quarterman, the Brave Georgia Girl - The bravery of Miss Ellen Quarterman in her repulse of the negro brute Saturday morn ing has attracted widespread at tention all over the state. There are very few women, one in ten thousand, who would have stood so bravely up and given sucn a brute what he de. served. To be caught alI alom by this class of desperado in the country with nobody in calling distance, and insulted and at tacked in such a low down, vi. cious manner, and then to b ready with head and hand t repulse that attack, is truly a remarkable feat and one that will always echo through the country to the everlasting credit and honor of the young girl. Her name has already becom the symbol of intense bravery and nerve, and she will always be looked up to and respected for this exhibition of unparal leled bravery. Ttere has been very few instances of neive in the state and very seldom in the country . Most women would have not been able tc do anything, and the negrc would have had his way and as a result, unutterable things might have happened. To bt able t~o use her head, being shrewd enough to outwit him and get the pistol and then tc come back and open fire 'upoi: him is indeed an unusual pro ceeding. Then. to-be ready fer him ai the second attack seems truly unheard of. All hail to the brav< young girl. May her years b( mayand each one a year ol usefulness and happiness fu 1 cof the noble attributes that com< f comn women and lighten and make easy the manifold burdenv of man, IAt Hopewell, Pa., the othe: diay, Mrs. Margaret Toy, aged 8: y( ars, was seenl on the roof : her house directing carpenters David Robinson, her brothe: agedi 84, was ini an apple trei cutting off limbs,' and near by David M. Cope, a teacher, age< 8), was showing some young men tricks in wrestling used of yvars ago. fThriving Liberty. In the absence of Rev. P. F. Crawford, Mr. H. F. Surles, a student, from Furman Univer sity, filled his appointment here Sunday morning and evening, preaching two fine sermons. We were glad to have him with us and hope he will come again, especially the ,young ladies, from the way they greeted him. Of course several of them would like to attend commencement at Furman. The young men gave us quite a treat Sunday morning by singing a quartet, "Nearer my home," which was greatly en joyed by the congregation. Come again, gentlemen, we sure appreciate your help. Mrs. Callaway, of Westmin ster, visited friends here Sunday. Pinr Taylor, of the Parkins Pharmacy, is sick at his home, in Greers. His many friends here hope he will soon be with them again. Mrs. Herbert Smith, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Fickling, of Blackville, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. James Heaton, of Travlers Rest, visited the lat ters parents, Mr. and Mrs. Job Smith, Sunday. Eugene Brown, of The Atlan ta Medical College is at home for his vacation and is helping Dr. Sheldon with some of 1 i; prac tice. James L. McCord, who has been confined to his room foi some time, is able to be ou( again. B. W. McWhorter has bought the3 Mrs. Ford property and is erecting a handsome postoffice building and later will build a large store room. The Liberty Township Sunday School Convention met Thurs day at the Presbyterian church and was well attended. Much interest was taken in the Sunday School work. Dr. Lander and Rev. D. D. Jones, of Easley, gave some interesting talks which were enjoyed by all present. We are glad to see the people inter ested in the work and hope much good may be accomplished. R. L. Bass, at T. N. Hunter's old store, serves ice cream from early Monday morning till late Saturday evening. Come around and get an icec-ream, Brother Bass will treat you nicely. Miss Irene Clark has returned from her visit to Spartanburg, where she took jn t~eMay Fes tival. Mrs. C. H. Parkins is visiting in Laurenms. Mrs. J. C. Rankin, who has been quite sick, is improving slowly. Chapman & Callahan has moved what 'goods was saved from the fire, to W. S. Parsons .0old stand and is selling at cost. Cj J. H ugh Shirley had the mis 8 fortune to get his leg broken last week. It was set by Dr. 1W. A. Sheldon and he is getting i along nicely. ) I Central is after your trade. 0. E. Hendricks. Dead. Died at his home,3 miles north east of Pickens, at 11 o'clock, Tuesday night, 5th inst., Mr. 1). Ervine Hendricks, aged about 62 years. He was a man of excellent habits, fine moral character and sturdy constitution, and he con tinued to be active in his accus tomed pursuits till long past the age at which men ordinarily drop out of the ranks of the workers. To this end there is no doubt that his sunshiny disposition largely contributed. He met most of the condi tions and situations of life with a smile. He was a prac tical, matter-of-fact "man, but had his own peculiar way of extracting merriment from life as it went along, and he was not disposed to worry about matters that could be bettered in other ways. This cheerful spirit remained with him to the last, and he retained his clear ness of intellect up to his clos ing days. He was a man of generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer.; The stranger, even though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands, and he was at home by the bedside of the sick and de lighted in all kind and neighbor ly offices. He had borne advers ity bravely and enjoyed pros perity quietly. He had filled the various relations of life, as son,. husband, father, br ther, friend, and filled them well. WIo can do more? Mr Hendricks leaves two sis ters, a wife, several children anl a host of relatives and friends to mourn his death. His remains were laid to rest at Griffin church of which he was a long, useful a n ( consistent member, on Thursday n-orning, aild as th& last sad jites were performed, and as the clay of earth closed above his silent resting-place, we said with the poet: "Cold in the dust the perished heart may die, But that which warmed it once can ne-ver die."' How much this community owes him and such as he, it is impossible to estimate, though it would be a grateful task to trace his influence through some of the more direct cl,annels, to hold him up in these degenerate days, in his various characters of husband and father, of neigh bor and friend, to speak of the sons and daughters he has reared to perpetuate his name and em ulate his virtues. But it comes not within the scope of this brief article to do so. Suffice it to say he lived nobly and died peace fully. The stern Reaper found him, "as a shock of corn, fully ripe for the harvest." Not for him be our tears! Rather let us. crown his grave with garlands; few of us will live as long or as well, and fewer yet wiHl the Angel of Death greet with such a loving touch. T wo horses belonging .to a for mer minister of France and kept in luxurious idleness near Milton Del., were shipped to France be, cause the minister's widow de sired to see the animals. A Shrewd Republican Scheme. If South Carolina Democrats received reliable Information that Republican .campaign man agers had secured a five-million dollar-fund to apply to the pur chase of newspaper support for the Republican nominee they would get sizzing hot with Indig nation. And they would be righteously angry. But Republican campaign managers are not goingto do this thing. There is a better plan. It has been working for five or six months. It is more insidious than the other and so more dangerous. The people, who would be financial losers under a political regrimo where the gov ernment is run for the benefit of the many and not to fatten the Few, know that Bryan is the only Democrat that this year threat ms the power of the party of the trusts and special privileges. With great shrewdness, those interests have not waited until Bryan's nomination to begin their fight. If that nomination could be prevented their fight would be won before the opening of the campaign. And they could work for his defeat with out exposing a hand. They would have as their natural al lies all Republican papers and magazines, and -as their dupes the old anti-Bryanites, among papers and politicians in the Democratic ranks. Those birds were baited with the declaration that these interests were ready to support a safe and sane Dem ocrat, who could be elected if Bryan were eliminated. And many of the Democratic birds took the bait. Perhaps one here and there a little wild was cap tured through the sprinkling, directly or indirectly, of a little financiali salt. For months one of the most ingenious campaigns ever made in America, for or against any man, has been conducted by that anti-Bryan organization. It has operated from New York to Cali fornia; in the South, in the East, hi the West. Two anti-Bryan emisaries have traveled through the South; they were liberal gen-7 tlemen- "anybody, especially any good Southern man, to beat Bryan!" They hammered on Culberson and on Daniel in a vain endeavor to switch the Texas and Virginia vote for Bryan. They dragged at Gray, and are still pulling on Johnson, who may be deceived into at tending his own political funeral And what vigorous effort was made to direct the country's at tention to New York's Democra tic leutenant-govenor! We esti mate that not less than $25,000 was spent In "Chanler litera ture" alone in the abortive at tempt to persuade the country that he was living. And the fight goes on, and through it all the strength of. Bryan's popularity has been as unshaken as the rocks upo'n which the sea dashes. Indeed, Bryan is growing stronger when any other man in the party must have gone down under the as saults. But the people should understand the full significance ofthe war against him.--The State. Ru d ounew nas