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IFARMERS' EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION * - OF AMERICA VARMLRS ORGANIZING. Tf all fairmers could agree to stand together as ono man, there is nothing they could not accomplish, both In pol. tcs and business. They are being forced to organize in self-defense. Workers in every industry have maious. When employers also have masociations, and with the consolida E'lon of business into large enter ;irises, with ext.e: Ive capital, it be comes a matter of necessity that farip. ers should unite to protect their in. terests. The trouble is to secure mnitc action. The Farmers' Union and the American Society of Equity, organized to protect farmers in the sale of their products, have grown phe 'ounenally, and show great strength. The thousands who have joined this 3Rrogressive movement are not asking anything unreasonable - just a fair .Jeal. Farmers often get the worst of It becanse those with whom they deal are organized, while they are not. The Farmer' Union now numbers 1,400, 00 :niemnbers in 23 States. The organ. tation, in its meeting at Little Rock a few days ago. placed a 15-cent min imu price upon the new cotton crop. 'The farmers think that when all oth er products are commanding higher prices. cotton should bring 15 cezits. If t.he membership of the union will stand loyally up to It, surprising good may flow from it. This paper is in sympathy with ev. *ry movement among farmers to ben elit their condition, and will be glad at all times to hell) them along in ev. 4ery good cause.-Cocsa Citizen. FIFTEEN CENTS. Cotton is worth 15 cents. That all know who know that cotton is planted In April and wcrked until July, then picked in the autunin, and the picking Is as troublesome and as costly a-3 the working in the springtime. CoLtoa is the costliost crop in the vorld iIn Ia tior, and labor is the chief cot of any article produced by man. Already the manufacturers, the wholesalers and the retall ierch:mits have put up the prieo of Cotton goods alove where it should be even with 1ie'zint cotton. One cheap class of c'otton goods that w eiqhs one po1d to iive ynrds has bteen advanced one ce n t a yard, or fivo cen t.s a pound, to Ineet the advance of one cent in cot tou, Spool thread has been advanced mare, than $1 a p)ound because cotton irent up 3 cents a pound. I'he* farnier ought to g:'t a part uf th is. lie does the hardest part of the work, the cul-ivating and the pick Ing. He bears th s-unsh Inc andI the -dew, and when he gets his part he .seils it at on1ce and propceds to spend 'the ca ey, and wvhat ' lhe does not spend~ is put into the bank, where it can he( borrowed. The farmer does zot spend "nough of it at his home, to hIs womien folks or' on himself. If 'he gets 15 cents he may feel like riending more and having more andl ma~klng his home pretty. He wvill kcep better stock and be a better cus tomer of the merchant, In fact, we will all be better off if the farmer geta a fairer shart.--Birmingham In dex. Glood seed is half the crop. Select * the seed now for your main cr opa. Te present financIal pinch may iove to be a good thing in an edu u*tional way, after all. The postal savings bank is coming - E at a slow pace, bati scmn all the same. It Is a common thing to find a lot of sorry fixings for the chickens where teman of the place is sorry. There is no stability to a govern U2at of freedom and liberty, except the citizens be home Owners. That diversflcaion~ fever is doing 'wonders for the farmer who Is in lelligently taking advantage of it. The man who has ben planting 3lienty of mules has found this the miost staple crop in price on the farin, if you have a hired man who needs watching to make him attend to hi. work, either fire him or reform him, and do it now'. A stable government among tenenta la one of semi-slavery; a stable goy -emment among free men is one in which the home is the central point of strength. Get your neighbjraa together and plan for the next season's cropq. This is the time to do the co-optarating. A #ttle do-oroain now 'wall bat ~a whole cow pen t~Ul of :it whQ~, have yout ra rad for the 3t's ight) x0av at o creased, many persons have turned their attention to the growing of na. tive and foreign nuts on a commercial basis. Mlany special nut foods have also been prepared. Nuts being a con centrated food, to have a beneficial ef. fect, should be eaten in connection with a meat, rather than alone. This is especially true when there is a dis position to imperfect mastication. Salt improves the palatability of most nuts with some people, but does. not add to their digestibility. Nut canly is a' highly concentrated form of food when properly eaten. Although very rich in protein, they are more expensive than meat, excepting the peanut. When * ten cents is spent for peanuts* it will purchase more than twice the protein and six times the energy that could be bought for the same expenditure in porterhouse steak. It is of more than passing interest to note that ten cents worth of peanuts contain more protein and energy than is furnished by many rations which are regarded ) as adequate for a day. Although pga nuts suptily protein energy for a smell er sum than bread, they are outran*ed by dried beans. As a whole, *.nyts spay be classed among the staple foods and not simply as food accessories.-From Nuts and Their Uses as Food. D. J. Neill, president of the Farm ers' Union, says truly: "There is one thing that I want to say, and that is that our jury laws are badly wrong in one particular, and that is the pay allowed jurors. Farmers are brought in from their work, sometimes twenty or more miles, and compelled to serve as jur ors at $2 a day, with no mileage al lowed, and then have to pay their own board while serving the State. This is unjust. I think they should be paid $3, and even that is not enough; but at any rate, they should be allowed for their board and mileage. Arkan sas and Alabama- jurors are allowed I so much a day and board thrown In, and if those States can stand that, why not Texas, that is so much wealthier than either of them? A farmer can't afford to leave his work and pay board in a town for $2 a day. His time is worth as imuch to the State as to himself, and he should be paid accordingly." A man hyinug cotten on a salary for a firm of cotton sleculators said to a iiroinient farmer in a North Texas county a few days aga: "You farmers are right for holding on to your cotton. The cotton speculators are making t2he prices in their own interests and all these reports and stories you read calculated to Induce you to rush your cotton to market are manufactured falsehoods sent .out by these speculators to stampede, the farmers. Hold on to your cotton and you'll get your price and then, in an other year we will be independent of WVall Street and its gamblers. I am offering to but cotton', but I am glad I am getting but very little. Just hold on and you are safe."--o-Operator. And, after all, the land speculator is the moth at the heart of the peo ple. That man who has nianaged to "make" his thousands of dollars by buying land at a low price and selling it in the same condition that he bought it, 'at a high price, has robbed somebody of something and has given up nothing in return. The very fact that work done at the right time and in the right way is worth half a dozen times as much as the same workc done at a wrong time, or in the wrong way, is the proper deduction from the question of educa,. tion. Can you afford to do six times as much work as you ought to do? The prospects are that apples will go to $12 a barrel during the holidays, says a prominent jobber in that fruit. There are thousands upon thousands of odd corners all over the. farms of this country growing up in noxious weeds that would be a mighty good place for an apple tree. - If your lana1 has no sand or gravel, it is a good plan to haul a load or ,two and place it where the fowls can have free access to it. It is worth duchesto a part of the food; it is the Carried to its fnal analysis, the land speculator is of no use on the earth. IAll he make. is the unearned incre ment that he talces from the human family. Hle has creatod .nothlng. Plan the planting of pigs, poultry and an all-fired big garden next spring I as an effetive scarce-crow to the mortage nd redit rie goods. "Peauts;pigsandpoultry" is the . slogey in nyg'gggaof Texas, and A154tetM6 ik~sIA;'Maaddd to this -OUI A And You Wil By culling on us before buyii sk Four (and another shipin obaccp, Molasses, etc. Bringus your Corn, Pease, ou the very top of the marke If you haven't tried our Dr. -ealing~ Powder, and HeaveI 11 size packages from the 25c. Our person il guarantee goe We also wvat' to sell you yol erfect" Fence. 1rioes from 4 Our motto is I lonest Weigh "All Isn' W1 Smi Corner Ma in) and Washingt< lagi... iOne- J. I '.au-- hoae.i: - '. *r, anda 1 4' J. I. . . 1"--< na Rn>-d-lo'i . a at. i eor >n o . look!ing for - y'or iihe T- Hf [tIg fa ie !lie: /I sitte IlIia a.'s Foot-Ens(e, ai- p.ev Pr. It pri 2's~~ T 'hn.e anedt1 haiterinlg, uar- s wvaIk-n. -:wezawing~ fe.et. At all Dstug d FRIER. Addmv8ss, A. M4. Ormaited. Le 'rea. N. Y. feb,0Ox4. W InthrIop College oielus1 stail r I~tan3 [1zalitatitl, Th.- exa. -ination fo~r the awlardI of va aa?.t,%.scholarships in Win'ihiop College nd for the adirnIisin of nlew studienlt vili in. eald at the 4Eou- Iy court. houise n IFriohay, Juily ta, a. 0 9 a. i. A plicante nt-st? i4e net less than 15) y, ae f ave. Vheun scholamships ar.e vanePlt tt? r July , ther. will I.e awarded to thosw maktiung he high, at average utt his exantiut.on, arovieteda they me'.t t.h.ea camdlti..ras gov-. rning the award. A p.-l cants for sobo'-. On befo re the exnm~inationa for schotlar-. 14pgxamInation blhanke. fe ,hobla ehr are worth $"rO and fe ',iIteseIon will open 8. p ein 6 'For furthber futourma Ifd at M etaddde~AresIICPea-en. n RE RIGHT! Prices are right Weights are right Treatment is righ I Do RIGHT 1g.your spring supplies. We have a nice ient that will be here in a few lays), Sug, Beans and in fact any kind of saleable pr< for everything. Hess Stock and Poultry Food, Louse K owder,'you-should do so at once. The Si box to the i oo pound sacks. s with every package. jr wire fencing. We are agents for the c o:. per rod up. Any height and weight :s and Good Goods." Come in and see u . RIehE t Cold That Clitt4 All aren't GOOD CLOTHES 1hat look good. Doubtless you've found THIS out by experience. That sort of EXPERIENCE will end if you buy CLOTHING! of us, "Made Right and at the Right Price." Tfake a little time when you come -to Greenville and let us show you some of the new Spring Styles. Strictly One Price. Every thing 'marked in plain figures and your money back if you are not satisfied. ith & Bristow m Streets. We Are Ready 'io furnish -you the very best- goods obt In Millinery we carry a very large line shapes and styles for Ladies, Misses and an expert milliner who is exerting her be our many satisfied customers. Excverything for thi excet Ses.Everything in ready-to-wes Fine line Dry Goods, Dress Goods, I IThe only exclusive Ladies Store in this If you have never shopped in our store Exceptio-mal inducements offered to the Mrs. W. 0. W IL Old DrunSor Bmm.,ng-. t lot of Ballard's Obe Lt. Coffee,Lard, Salt, )ducc. We will give iller, Worm Powder, ock F6o-I comes in Mlebrated "Pittsburgh you want. S. dY.e Dr. reenavillre, S. C. ainabie in our line. and the most varied Children and employ st efforts to please o Ladies ~r goods for Ladies. .ingerie and Notions. County. give us a trial. trade. LARD, Liberty. R. C