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VOL. 3. NO. 2. SEMI-WEEKLY. . . LANCASTER. S. C., OCTOBER 12. 1907 PRICE-FIVE CENTS PER COPY.
The Cotton Conference, |
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Middle Man to be Eliminated
--Spinners Anxious to Buy
Direct f'om Planters.
Atlanta, Ga , Oct. 8.?That
the time ia not lar distant when
the cotton planters of thy South
will sell their product direct to
the spinners of Europe and
America instead of through the
nritldle man, in bales gin-compressed
at the plantation with
methods in which loss has been
reduced to a minimum, was in
dicated by today's discussion be- |
fore the international conference
ot pnttrtn irrnoruro o>.<t jniiitrnfo
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More than 500 delegates were
present, nearly a hundred ot
these representing the great
mills of Germany, Great B'i'iau,
Prance, Italy, Spain and
Portugal, with an MLgrega'e
wealth m farm lands, coMon crop
and mills ot nearly $4,000,000,000.
Spinnero representing hun
cireus ot nulla and millions of
spindles (otd the planters that
they were not only willing but
anxious to buy their cotton direct
from the planter, just as
soon as the planter can deliver
direct. Big planters and representatives
of the Farmers' TTninn
told the spinners of Europe that
already they were organized,
had built a chain ot cotton warehouses,
had perfected a business
system by which the spinners
could purchase au almost unlimited
supply of graded cotton,
and were ready to eliminate the
antquated method of selling
through a middle man.
Hut," said tierr Arthur
Kutller, of Vienna, if you planters
wsh to trade direct with us,
you must give us better seA^ce
than the merchant.*'
Action furthering this condition
took concrete form in the
unanimous adoption by the conference
ot a resolution present
ed by the committee on trade
relations between growers and
of SDinners. Tnis resolution declar
ed that much of the present
difficulty iu handling cotton
could be eliminated if the growers
would adopt what is known
as 'he warehouse system and
establish selling agents in Europe
and America.
Further Proceedings of Cotton
Conference?Permanent
Organization to be Effected.
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plan adopted by thn International
conference of cotton grower*
and spinners goes into effect the
cotton industry of the world from
the time ot planting seed to the
time the mills turn out their
goods will be under one great
organization of planters and
spinners.
The international 'conference
this afternoon decided to make
s- the organization permanent, and
in doing this will invite the Con.
tineptal Spinners association of
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Europe aud Sou Island Cotton
Growers association ot'the United
States to become affiliated with
their association. The plan _
adopted is subject to the action
of the bodies now forming the
international conference.
The conference at its session
today to?<k an action that it is
believed will soon result in vast
improvement in the methods ot I
putting raw cotton into shape I
tor handling by spring with a i
consequent saving to them of i
fylly $'25,000,000 a year which
is now lost by reason of slipshod (
methods of baling. <
A shftrp fight, was made over
Congressman Heflin's resolution
calling on the United Slates gov
eminent and British parliament
to regulate cotton speculation,
but the matter was finally referred
to dfferent bodies for independent
action. The Farmers'
Union and Southern cotton
association later took favorable
action on this reso uiion.
Government crop reports also
came ill lor a share of ciiticism,
but here, too, the cooler'-nee refused
to unite in putting the
great organization behind the
movement favoring the discontinuance
ot government reports.
The international coniereuce
adj jurned late this afternoon.
The first meeting of the new
world-wide organization may
yuHPiuiy oe neiu in farie next
year.
News in Brief.
William Jennings Bryan will
speak in Spartanburg next Friday
night. . . . A colored woman
dropped dead in Winston-Salem
1 Wednesday at^he sight of a telegrain
handed her.... Edmund
L. Patton, formerly president
iOt Erskine College, died in
Washington Tuesday night. He
was at one time a protessor in
'he South Carolina University
... . Leroy Davidson, a wellknown
citizen of Charlotte, is
charged with running a blind
tiger.... The famous C?seie
Chadwick (lied in prison Thurs
d?y. She was baptized in bed
Tuesday... Leila Jordan, six
years old, dropped dead in Salis
bury, N. C., Thursday while returning
home from school. ... A
2-year-old child fell into a htnk
et of wa'er in Greensboro, N. C.,
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Thursday and wa-. drowued....
Three men were killed and several
injured in Ohio yesterday
by the falling of a derrick where
a railroad bridge is being erected
. . . .Ex President Greyer Cleveland
is reported to be a very sick
man. . . .The body of Miss Jen
nie L Stevens, formerly organist
in the Wesley Methodist church
of Chicago, was found Thursday
lloating in the Chicago river.
There were indications of Mur
der....A difficulty occurred
Wednesday at Ward's Gap, Va.,
between Orvill McMillan and
8) dney Tow, brothers in-law, in
which both men were shot, probably
fatally.
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Before and After.
How "Swigs" of Corn Li-1
quor Made the Sorry
Crops of Two T^Cr Heels
Look.
,lJ. H. M." in the Oharh tte
Observer: One* morning between
d^ybre >1^ atid sunrise, in
the Cape Fear section o: North
Carolina, Billv ^ >?i?*. a <?iiehorse
farmer, < ,<( e i on' oi the
door of h's hou e. dad m a striped
calico shi.r and liome-q>nn
trousers, held u one tinllus
9M8pende't. ban-f'iL r. d mirl %*>? .?
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patteriim about ill* yard, looking
alter tlifg and that. It
a warm, "mushy" morning in
late summer with a thick clamm>
mist falling, through which
the smoke tdowly curled its way
from the ki'chen chimney, where
Bill's wile was baking g ?d a biscuits,
and frying white mea'.
It w a> a "saft" morning as Mee
Dodi$ in rtcott'9 "Saint Ruian's
Weil,*' described it to the Indian
nabi b in the ? dice <^l >'quire?
Biinllo'so ?
Bill Sears stood meditatively
scatching with his big toe
the side of a raz ir-back hog, ly
ing against the p'g pen, he sft w
a man trudging up the road car
rying a lougKtrir g back vali-e,
that sort ot a grip-rack that lias
a mouth like a ullegator's, can
hold a barn-lull, and never has
anything ?n it* As the man got
nearer, Bill recognized Tom
Graves, another farmer ot about
hie heft, living two or three
milea down toe road, and hail
ing him :
uHellof Tom. Whar you off
to tliisarly in the day?''
VOff for Texas, Bill," said the
newcomer, as he slowed up to
the little gate, and rested the
valise on the top rail ol the
fence. ,
"To Texas 1 the land rates!"
' Ye-; I'll starve todeaib here.
A fellow ain't got no show. My
crop won't nan out. piinimi. -
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rtin a seed lick through the winter."
"You're more'n half right,
Torn. Darn ine if I ain't good
der rr.ind to go with you. My
corn's not knee-high to a duck,
a'd, biame rav hide, it it didn't
begin a-tasseling before it got
we 1 out of the giou id. Whar
about in Texas you aim to pull
up, Tom? Along about El
Paso?" *
' Wouldn't be surprised it 1
land about thar, Bill."
"Well, I've got a brother livine
arotfnd there They sav he's
doing well, find's got monev. I
wish if you see him you'd
tell him f say for the Lord's sake
to send me a little^help to keep
from petering plumb out. But,
Tom, I've got a jug of good li
quor under the bed. Let's go in,
and drink to your trip,"
Seated on the side of the bed,
each tipped the jug up, and took
a lone, long pull.
"So you're g-g go-ing t^Tex
as?" continued Bill, coughing
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and his eyes red with the strength
of the drink,
^Yes; I think I'd better go.
Bu' I tell you, Bi I (. there's come
out in tny crop vet."
' So there is mine A< I said,
my corn's sorter small, but, Lord*
with good seasons it'll head, and
make hefty corn. 1 wonder jist
w li ?i rsi V\r?n o tlx.i
-- . **. ..w/Mo mac ui '? un wi 111 > LiU
in. If I knew IM wri'e >o him;
perhaps he's a suffering right
now, and I'd give him . ? lilt
Lel'9 take another drink."
"Lord, Tom." said Sears,
smack'iiii his lips alter his drain,
and lying ba^k luxuriously < u
the bed, "you'<i have no ftill 'o
put oil' o T^xas, il you was fixed
like mo. I jisi don't betieve that
when I di- my potatoes they kin
natura ly lav on the ground.
Th y'll spill over the top rail of
'he teuce."
'I'm fixed jist as good as you
ever dared to be, Bill. You jisi
orier gee my chufaa. Hang me
if I don't believe there's a bushel
10 1 he hill."
"Let's have another," snid Bill, j
straightening up, and reaching
lor the jug. The pessimistic
drawl, the calamity whine, were
gone, ai d their voices rang with
a don't-care exultant optimism.
while the ruddy glow ot the corn
whiskey had knocked the lallow
out of their lantern-jaws.
VV hen you frit to Texas." began
Bill, pu'ting the jug slowly
down?
"Damn Texas!" broke in Tom.
"What's a man like me want
with Texa>-? Why, I kin lay in
bed, and hear my corn tairly
cracking; and the pea vines 19
jist reaching out lor somethin'
solM to ho'd outer as they grow.
"Well, Tom, you know we was
a-talkin' about Texas; and I wa~
jist going to say when you git to
Texas, if you see my brother, tell
hjm 1o go to Jericho, poor devil.
If he needs any thing? tell him to
draw* on me for the whole amount,
aud if lie needs it bad, and needs
it quick, let him wire, and I'll
telegraph it to him, be God!
Let's take another."
Father Wants to Exhibit
Deformed Child for Money.
Columbia, Oct. 9.?'/ W
Walker, a Kershaw cuntv farm
er living near Camden, is here
trying to make arrangements to
exhibit during fur week a queer
human freak ol nature, the subinnf
ii<f liiu /*n'i? 1 ^_onu? ^''1 I
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daughter.
' Vhe is 16 years old, weil developed,
well formed, of f^od
sight and good hearing, but she
has never suckled, never talked,
never walked, never sat alone
and never chewed a mouthfn^of
food, liaised her on liqnius,"
said he, spelling off her accom
plishinents and wonders. Mr.
Walker says he has spent all his
possessions raising the child and
is now tryirg to make a living
by exhibiting her.
j Do you take The News?
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Need of Winter Work on
Farms.
Southern Cultivator.
One of the greatest needs on
the average Southern farm nowadays
is more work in winter.
Kver sine I could remember it
has seemed to me that life on
tlie common Georgia farm is loo
much of a happy go-lucky s'ylo.
To get results in anything one
has to keep everl igtinf.lv at. it,
so to sp' ak. For years I have
heard staid old fanners discussing
(all plowing and spring .
piowiug, out i have eeen too
lit tie ol it in actual observation.
There used to be an idea,
which is still prevalent, concerning
results from 'all and
winter plowing. Some argued it
was injurious to plow deep in
the fall, others that it was ab
surd to plow in the springtime
to any great dep'h. The truth of
the matter is th. t good plowing
at any time when the soil is in
good condition is a good tiling
I to do. Usually in the spring the
j subsoil is too wet to plow and
when it is turned up, or broken
in this condition, damaging result
i are likely to occur.
The tail presents 1 lie most acceptable
time for plowing, for
generally the soil is in excellent
Iihape. In addition to this the
benefits accruing through the
retention of winter rains in the
soil is something that can not be
| overestimated. However, another
of the chief benefits lies in the
fact that through deep plowing
in the tall the soil is prevented
from washing and the land preserved
in splendid shape.
Another consideration comes
from the fact that if plowing is
done in the I all and winter when
there is not a tush of work it
will lorseii the amount of work
necessary during the summer
reason when everything seems
to need attention a' once. Farmers
who have not tried this
plan will find that it will pay
handsomely on investments
placed in tlie soil.
J. O. McAuliffe.
Opening of Colored G*aded
School.
Mr. Editor: This school
opened on the 7ih with an increased
enrollment over last year.
Prospects are bright for a succes-fu!
session. ??eh teacher
h?s got ten down to work. The
Opening exercises were conducted
b.v Rev. Dr. King, assisted by
Revs. G Lr Black and N. N.
Gregg. After reading of the
scripture and prayer, some time
ly remarks were made by them
as to the duty of parents and children
to the Institution. They
bade us God speed and left their
prayers and good wishes for a
successful session.
M. V. Lee,
Prin.
?The Pleasant Grove Baptist
ch urch, colored, had a "rally"
last Sunday to raise money for
the pastor'* salary. The sum of'
$t?0.61 wa* realize'!. One member,
George Reed, gave $5.
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