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Agricultural Two Hundred Cotton Warehouses being Built in Texas. Dallas, Texas,?It is said by officials of the Texas Farmers' union at the state headquarters in Dallas that, in Texas there will be ready within a few weeks about 200 cotton warehouses, la these it is intended to store a large part of the cotton crop of the state, to furnish a steady and level supply to buyers, especially for the direct selling to spinners j it a.: i. _ j i ana weavers. n is esumareu i that it will bo possible to store indefinitely, iffnecessary, as much as 650,000 to 750,000 bales of cotton. Next year as much as 1,000,000 bales may be stored. Many of the farmers are ready to store large quantities on their own farms. The advantage for the warehouse is said to be that a reasonable advance in mouey will be made to any farmer who is unable to carry his crop without financial assistance. Practically all of the warehouses are bonded, and thus nrnnarAil for Hip lnnninor ' r - "r*" ?w n feature. Adequate msurance ac comruodations are arranged for by President Calvin for all of the warehouses, through a Dallas insurance agency. "In no previous year have the farmers of Texas beeu in such a position for holding their cotton," declared A. H. O'Keefe, state business agent. "Talk of a surplus crop is foolish. I feel sure that if it were a 16,000,000 bale crop we could hold the market to a reasonable price level, and could, through the warehouses furnish spiuuers and consumers with cotton just as they should demand it. This would save them the expense of advance buying, storing and insuring, and the middleman's a J I * m prom ; aim we nave no rear oi a slump at any aort of a orop. The Government to Educate Hens. (From the Philadelphia Enquirer.) Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural department, ia now ii the tenth year of his Cabinet service in the same position?a record which i9 uot equalled in our annals. He has accomplished a great deal for the farmer and for the consumer. We eat American dales, American tigs, not to mention a whole list of things which used to he imported, and ho has accomplished much in making four spi.gB of wheat grow where formerly there were three. When the history of this country comes to be written the agricultural Hftnurf rr\ out u/i kuivaib ?? 111 ii c% t u UlMi. II Ml 1 I M credit, and WiIhoii will have nu>:4 because of his long incumbency. Just now he is preparing to educate the hen, the simple-minded, industrious fowl winch adds to much to national wealth. The hen lias been doing pretty well in tiie past, producing eggs and hatching chickens and making HO flJSH a hull I It Til? ri.niilun. make all the noise in fin- barn yard, but the hen produces the wealth. Last year there were twelve billion eggs laid in this country, a number that Jn utterly incomprehensible, but worth about as much us all the gold and silver taken from the rnin. s. The hen deserves respect. She con Department taiuH many potentialities and w have always thought she did he work admirably. Not so, say th experts. The heu must be educal ed. It is considered a pretty goo job for a hen to lay 140 eggs year. At a cent apiece this pr( duces large returns from the it vestment. But the Governniei lis not satisfied. It thinks it ca produce a hen that will lay 36 eegs a year, allowing no rest o Sundays or legal holidays. Th idea is to keep the hen from r< verting to its maternal instincts. Every one who has any know edge of biology, either theoreti or practical, knows that all an mated nature persists in repr< ducing the species at rapidly f possible. The hen does not cor sciously and of its own free wi lay eggs for breakfast table. H< desire is to fill the nest and hate out chicks. Her wish to "set" fundamental and correct. Th Government proposes to elim uate this instinct as far as possi b!e, so that hens will lay all th year round and not be dissatisfie when there is no brood to cai for. Incubators will do the natu al work. This is hard on the hen, seen unconstitutional in fact, but it a tine exhibition of thestrenuou ness of modern life, the beBt e: amplification of the law of tl survival of the fittest. Uei must work all the time and on! incubators without mother! feeling must rear the brood. Ye it is is rough on the hen, but * welcome the change in the inte ests of the enlarged breakfa table. Adulteration of Cereal "Rreal fast Foods. (From the Scientific America! The cereal breakfast foods : a class, according to Dr. Charl I). Woods and Prof. Harry Snyder in a bulletin issued I the Department of Agricultur are ordinarily free from adulte ation. Various experiment st tion chemists and public anal sists in States having pure fix iiws have examined the brain in the market, as indeed tin 3xamine all classes of food frequent intervals, and foui that as a genera) rule they we made from good, sound gra | without admixture of harmfi substances. Some may be ma< I i rum coarse mining product such as wheat middlings, ai some doubtless contain innlassr glucose, or other similar materia which do not appear in the ma ufaclurer'sdescription, but whit are not injurious. Occasionally the percentage i ash or mineral matter in breali j last toods is abnormally nig but this is apparently due I common salt added to give llav< and not as an adulterant. In gel eral, it may be said that there every reas >11 to suppose that til manufacturers endeavor to m wholesome materials, and tin il an impurity is occasional 1 found in their goods it is accidei tal rather than intentional. Km thermore, cer?'?) breakfaat food as pr- viouely noted, are genera] iy made from well?cleaned irr.u and are marketed in a cleanl way. In the case of the paekag goods the form of marketing at fords special protccMon * iin the goods are in tho dealer hands aud also in the household, where they are very commonly 3^ kept in the original cardboard Wa - box or package. U ^ t The Fate of Salaried Men. Nj ' ? 1 (From Washington Letter to the ^ (1 Milwaukee Journal.) J* a Wage-earners and millionaires are the only people who are en 2% '* joying the present era of pre?- |l lt perity. Farmers fall into one or 11 other of these classifications. The '?! > Government bureau of labor has 11 just issued a lot of statistics e about wages and the cost of liv9 ing. Some people have been mis led into thinking that the figures show that incomes have increasc ad more than the cost of food ' This is true only for that fortu "> nate class known as "wage earn i* ers they and the very rich. ?- But there are several million 11 of salaried men in the United 5r States. They are the clerks, the h bookkeepers, the Government ^ >R employees, policemen, firemen, ? barbers, barkeepers andrepnrters i- What the salaried man has suf i- fered in the frightful prosperity i? which has afflicted the country d he only knows. He has no un'? ions, and he never strikes ; so his r- salary remaius stationary while the cost of living soars. The way the cost of living has increased in the past 16 years i* ?- enough to make a man's hair turn gray. Take as a standard i? the average cost of commodities during the 10-year period from l.v 1890 to 1899, and look at a few ly staple articles of food. Bacon >s, has gone up 38 8 per cent, t* eggs 31.6 per cent, fresh pork 26. r' 6 per cent, ohickens 23 6 per cent, corn meal 22.2 per cent, Hour 19. 9 per cent, salt bam 18.8 per cent, and so on all through the list, k- As compared with the cost of food 10 years ago, the average cost of food has increased 17.7 per cent. This is the finding of i.) the labor bureau, based on care ful and conservative investigation. Unless a man's salary hatbeen advanced 17.7 during the past five years he has uot been getting his share of the prosneri by j ty. In fact, he has been sutler e, ing as much as if he had beer ,r reduced by that per cent. a. 1 1 y- Orphan Work Day. 3(' Saturday, September 29th is the day. It is a very thoughtful a.v linbit that is growing upon our a' people?the setting apart of the 1(1 last Saturday in September as a re day to work for the orphans. 1,1 On that day, unless yourself iin need of help, devote your in h* j come to the fatherless. Give them p? I the proceeds of your day's work. j I There are 250 orphans in the "si '.'lii.rnwell Orphanage, Clinton, 's S. C. And this is only one of our " | Homes for the fatherless. I Remember w hat Job said "If I 1 have eaten my morsel, myself, "1 I alone, and the fatherless hath >-| not eaten thereof, ihen let mine h, aim fall from my shoulder blade.*' I"' Whether, therefore, the reader o! lT 1 tllAJH I IIAU l.A I ' ? ..... ? . I .. | 11 hop up t; m ui fcu ill 11, I proteslant ??r Catholic, let Inn. I h mvo the 2t)th. September to work | 10 ! tor the orphan?, Rending his con- j 10 i tribution to the Institution thai j)j|, *t Ije ih most interested in. .V ) W P Jacobs j Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton, S. C. f! ^ ? |_ In Self Defence U Major llivmni. editor and Aluiiacer of tlie Con ditniioiialiat, Kiuinotico Ky.. when y lie was fiercely attacked, four years I by I'lles. bought u box of Ri.oklen'n Arnica Naive, of u hu ll be Riiy h : "It caret I me in ? ten ibt\siuul no tioublo nince." (^nicke-i . I cr of Ibirun, S iron, Ctita anil Wounds. " ! !if;c ni !. K Mackey Co., Cruwfoi 1 lima., f-IIA U | i'uuueiburk I'burtuucy. i ===== "The Old Reliable." == H THE BANK OF LANCASTER, L-ncaster, S.C. CAPITAL $50,000.00. A SURPLUS $50,000.00. g Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. K Collections given prompt and careful attention. ^ Interest allowed on time deposits.. ? Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and |1 the strongest Bank in Lancaster county. U Ladies* Fine Dress Shoes "Ziegler settles the question." ^ O- n /\ *\ n Vk TV UlltJU y GO \JVLLl}JiXU.y. 1? f A 3 3 CD -J Look Out I g Bargains o 0 01 2. Oq When the bolls begin to pop The people begin to hop? Don't forget to stop At J. C. Edwards's, headquarters for bargains. Best Granulated Sugar 20 lbs. to $1.00. Seed Tick Coffee at 11 1 IU . -.11 ?i1 - II ii i-^.c iu , mi utner groceries soia in proportion. Magnolia Flour gets better every day $2.25 per i>811 ?s. standard weight. Largr line of Cooking Stoves on the way that we are going to sell so cheap anyone can buy. We expect to save you 3 or 4 dollars on your purchase. Our Dry Goods, Shoes and Notions are bargains. All summer Dress Goods at first cost; all Low-Cut Shoes at cost. Come to see us and let us show you everything we have. 1 If you don't buy we will still be friends. Always when you are in town leave your baggage with us. Tell your friends to meet you at the store where goods are very cheap and customers are heartily welcomed To spend their time. To spend their influence, To spend their money To the best advantage for themselves and J. C. Edwards * in Bennett's Old Stand. t t The First National Bank of Lancaster. .' LECTORS I I Besides tbe well known character and ability of our hoard of PiroeT. S. Carter, I tora, we keep your money i(inured J. D. Funderburk, against every kind of loss. making ? (") P Month this bank a safe plane to deposit Chas. 1). Jones, your saving*. 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