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*?bt JUrim ?amm. PUBLISH KO IVCHV WtONClDAV MORNING. -?V - JAYNE8, 8HELOR. 8MITH m STECK B. T. JAYNK8. t . _ i D. A. SMITH J. W. BHJBLOB, } *B#* I PuM- { J. A. 8TKCK . UMMIPTION, ?1.00 PER ANNUM. nOV?HTISINQ R ATEM REASONABLE. JUf Oommunioationa of A personal aharaoter charged for as advertisements. UT" Obituary notices and tributes ol respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of obarge. AU over that number must be paid for at the rato of one oent a word. Cash to accompany Jianusoript. WBDNKNDAV, VBB. 99 lBWI. Th? Town Farmer. I J. Hawker, in the National Farmer sud Stock Grower."] The town farmer is undoubtedly a funny fellow. He has loaded him ?elf ap with oonoeit of bin own imaginary importance and oan hardly be brought to remember the good old country farm where he was born. The town farmer has some other name for bia occupation now, but be ia a farmer all the same ; either a bo?? fumier, ?. tenant f-rrscr, or & hired hand. He ia one of* the other. He ia honestly a nired hand. There's many a hired hand in the big cities who would be better off feeding pigs in the country, but it is not polite to tell them BO, therefore we let it go at ??hat. Of course the town farmer wears good clothes, or there would be no attraction in town farming. In town e?'en the tenant farmer and farm hands wear good clothes. A oonntry farmer will buy a good Buit of olothes to wear on high days and* holidays, and his good wife will help take oare of the olothes. After they have done service for several years for best, they are still comforta ble to work in. The town farmer lives in the smoke and dust of the city ; therefore he needs two or three snits a year in order to keep himself looking decent. There is many a town farmer who has no home of his own, and bas no prospect on earth beyond his monthly pay, who has to spend all his spare ohange just to keep up appearances. A good, styl ish appearance and uotbing in the bank represent the average condition of the town farmer. We have noth ing against bim ; but the truth is in order and he is getting it. We oould make this part of the story a great deal worse, but we will let it go at that. In St. Louis-which is not a bad farming community-most of the town funnel H are to bu found in the vicinity of Broadway, and most of the homes in whiob tho town farmers live are out toward the park where the World's Fair was held some time ago. The homes aro not on the farms, and that is a strange part of it. The town farmer sleeps out west all right enough and works at the farm down town. He has ten hours at the house and ten hours at the farm and the balance of the time is occupied going backward and for ward. A few days ago tho town farmer bad to put in about six hours going and coming. There was a storm which shut tho town farmer out. The railway trains were broken down, the street cars were frozen up, tho automobiles were packed away for better weathor, and nothing was left to take the town farmers to their farms except plain horses and shanks* mare. It seems a little peculiar to notice the town farmers and their wives and children riding backwards and for wards. By some remarkable rnau agemont the towns are built in the interest of the street oars. The farmer pay? 6 cents to go to the farm and 5 cents to go home again. His wife pays 5 cents to go down shop ping and 5 cents lo go hoce again. Eighty per cent of the children pay to ride to school and thon baok home again. The theatres, the summer gardens and ohurohes all h?vo to be reached by street cars. Town farmers seldom have any money, for the rea son which I have stated. A dollar a day is a fair-sized expense bill for the avorage family. It really is a great deal worse, but J. Hawker will let it go at that. Tho town farmers aro an awful lot of kickers. They have to buy but ter, eggs and milk. They pay 25 to 35 cont ? a pound for butter, an aver age of 25 cents per doxen for eggB, and they get twenty-six pints of milk for -\ dollar. V ou should hear them kick. Then they have to buy beef, bacon, potatoes and cabbages. If a man wants a few onions, it takes cash t > buy them. They don't mind paying for sugar and coffee, they un. derstand th-it, but the outrageous prices for garden truok that is extor tion. Town farmers can talk awful mean when they have to pay for Country produce. Then,' again, these farmers who are simply tenants or hired men have to pay rent for the houses they live in. The boss farmers don't furnish houses. The town boss farmers have to pay higher wages than th? country farmers do, but the hired man in town has to board, feed, clothe and house himself and family out of the pay, whatever it is, and the hired hands all olaim that there is seldom anythipg left. We know a young town farm hand who is saving up his money and some day in the near future be will have enough to hire a horse and buggy an? take his girl out riding in proper style. He told us confiden tially that when he lived in the oountry he was allowed the use of a rig on Sunday, but nobody1 ic town believes it, any such a pwu?hility being obviously out of all reason. The town farmers are no joke. "I must be down town early to-day," said one of them, "for I have a great row to hoe." "We muBt make hay while the sun shines," said another. "Let's irrigate," said a third. "If my shorts ain't oovered pretty quiok I will have to take to the tall grass." "Try a little alfalfa in your sheep dip." If they are not town farmers, what are they ? Immigration Work in South Carolina. [Southern Farra Magazine.] When the Legislature of South Carolina assembled last month E. J Watson was able to show for nine months' work as commissioner of im migration definite accomplish mente that should appeal eloquently tx members of the Legislature and en< oourage them in sustaining and strengthening Mr. Watson in th? task committed to bim. With I comparatively small appropriation a his disposal, he displayed such intel ligent and well directed energy tha as a direct result of his efforts 20< persons were added to the populatioi of the State, coining from otho quarters and bringing with then $16,000 iu cash to be tined in Soutl Carolina. That actual cash was bu a small portion of the real return upon the investment in the immi gration bureau, for everyone of th newcomers represented potentis wealth of at least $1,000, so that th real addition to the wealth of th State in the nine months approache $250,000. In that sum is not ir eluded the investment-} which mw follow negotiations under way, bu not completed at tha tiran Mr. Wai son completed his first annual repor nor does it inolude the investment in industrial undertakings. It refei principally to the agriculture of tb State. The nine months have di monstrated pretty conclusively tl value of the bureau, and ought to I an inspiration for the whole Stat to leave nothing undone to ad largely to the number of its thrift immigrants. Results in South Can lilia must have a marked effeot upc other Southern States that are st lagging in matters pertaining to ir migration work. The Governor of Tennessee, in h message to the Legislature, urg< systematic endeavor in thatdireotio and Aoting Governor Cunninghar of Alabama, is also alive to the nece sities of the occasion and to the ri? promise luat Alabama offers to se tiers. The railroads of the Soul are striving in many ways to indin the movemont of population fro tho North and West into desirab unctions, and at the same time a seeking to devise a working plan secure the croam of foreign immigi tion. Wide-awake communitu through their business organizatior aro co-operating with the railroac and are developing a spirit whi( will make hearty tho welcome f newcomers. Organisations of r< estate mon, like those in cities aloi the Norfolk <fc Western Railway Virginia and along the Frisco sj tem in the Southwest, are oth means of concentrating oommuni effort upon immigration and spreading abroad in other seotio faots for homeseekers. With t magnificent showing of advance agricultural wealth daring the pi few years, and with the more tnt ough understanding of the sitaatu the time is auspicious for a largo i orease in the thrifty population the South. EA?SON Regrets Eltetrio Chair. Not long ago Thomas A. Edison, the greatest living genius, was asked if he had invented the apparatus used in the two .States where mur dererers are electrocuted-New York and Ohio. The question was put to him while he was in a state of great mental perturbation, but- bis face softened aod his voice quickly lost its flinty substance when he replied to the question on electrocution. "I did not invent such au instru ment," he said, "and I am sorry that electricity has been put to such a bad use. When the apparatus was being installed at Sing Sing I went up to look at it. The law providing for such means of death had passed passed to the horror of all men with keen sensibilities, the love of human ity and the foar of God in their hearts. I may have contributed something toward simplifying the method of patting men to death, but if I did so I was moved by ft spirit that meant less suffering for those condemned." "Is electrocution the most painless way of putting one to death ?" "Assuredly it is. There is a sen sation of a moment, only-a? nniok as the bat of an eye. But in that sec ond thore is pain indescribable. The flash comes and the shook ; it is ten times more exoruoiating than the feeling that results from one's placing his hands on live coals. -It is a burn ing, devilish, harrowing feeling. Im agine the quick thrusting of ten thousand bot needle points into the body at one time, and you may have a faint idea of the shook when the current is turned on." H?B blue eyes fell on the oraokling logs that lay burning in the big fire place before him. For a minute he sat wrapped in gloomy meditation. Around him were miniature models of his greatest discoveries-the tele phone, the graphopbone, the eleotrio light, the phonograph, the storage battery-dozens of mechanical con trivances that have given the world incalculable benefits. His big yard dog that had been lying before the fire got up, yawned, stretched himself and then walked over and put his nose between his master's knees. The greatest electrical inventor the world has ever known thus was awakened from his reverie. He con tinued : i "I am sorry the gallows was ever thought of; the guillotine is i bar barous instrument. The system of garroting belongs to the Dark Ages, and whatever may be said in behalf of the present way New York has of treating its murderers, it is no less ghastly and inexcusable than are the instruments oi death used in the semi-civilized nations. "We oall ours a country of ad vanced thought. Our men think and feel and our women pray. But we have not yet emerged from the shadows that made the Middle Ages a text for historians. But it were time that wo threw off some of our barbarity. This country is big enough and rich enough and human enough to look up those who kill and make them work. If it is the desire of the law to punish, what mode could there be that would carry more anguish, greater torture than to enter crim inals in a big house, they knowing thai from that moment they never would see wild flowers, hear the songs of children, catch the clasp of a friendly hand, liston to words of cheer, see the glories of the earth, feel the freedom of the air ? Could one imagine a condition worse? Be cause a crazy man or woman, under the influence of whiskey, or moved by some devilish passion, slays his fel low, is there any reason or excuse why the State should murder him ? That old Mosaic law-an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth-may have been all right in those days, but it does not tit the modern times. "But let's quit talking about such grewsoroe subjects. Did I ever tell you of tho time I was working in a newspaper office and received a mes ??g? convoying thc information that Lincoln was dead ?" Ile had not, and I said so. "Well, it was after a hard day's" "Mr. Edison, did you know you had to get up at 6 ki the morning ?" broke in his secretary. "It's now 1 o'clock." "Is that so?" he asked, in surprise. "Well, I must be going to bed," he said. "But I'll tell you about it to morrow."-New York American. For Coughs -. Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. 26o. for large bottle. WHAT LEGARE SAW, Curious Discoveries Ht Wad? In Ice bound Michigan. Representativo Legare, of Charles ton, says the Washington Post, de scribes vividly his recant trip to Michigan, where he was orator at three patriotic banquets. "Back from the north pole, the frozen zone, at last," he exclaimed yesterday. "There I succeeded in discovering three Settlements known to the aborigines as Bay City, West Branoh and A usable, whioh, when translated, mean icc and .mow. There was ice underfoot and snow overhead, and below zero on four sides of me during my sojourn there. In fact, the orily warm thing I found there was the greeting of the people. And what a people! I oouid see their hearts sticking out of their left vest pockets wherever I went. They have a lan guage of their own. The only English they seem to know was (Qlad to meet you,* *Take something with me,' ;Have another,' und Must [ one more.' In some countries people tell you that 'tho latch string hangs on the outside of their doors.' These people have houses without doors. Simply holes in the wall, and, instead of a door, there stands lr. eaoh hole an invisible spirit of welcome beckon ing to you to enter. 'And he who enters there' leaves all oare behind him, and soon begins to feel that he owns the home, and at last has found the peaoe he has long sought in vain. "Thc men, women and ohildren wear furs covered with sealskins, and over this they wear a smile, whioh is the wannest part of their clothing. With it they warm themselves, and the stranger as well. Our women wear diamonds, but these women wear a smile far more dazzling and brilliant, and, at times, ten times as valuable. But the habits of these people are strange in the extreme. They ride in vehicles that have no wheels and sail in boats that have no water, and they all* belong to a peouliar religious faith knowu as Re publicanism. They are all of this faith. In fact if I had gone a little higher I would have discovered the north pole with a Republican scated on the top of it reading Roosevelt's last message and singing 'My Coun try, 'tis of Thee.' " -? A Night Alarm. Worse than an alarm of Are at night is the brassy cough of oroup, whioh sounds like the children's death knell and it means death unless something is done quickly. Foley's Honey and Tar never lads to give instant relief and quickly CHICS the worst forms of croup. Mrs. P. L. (Jordier, of Manningtou, Ky., writes: "My three-year-old girl bad a severe case of croup; the doctor said she oouid not live. I got a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar, the first dose gavo quiok relief and saved her life." Refuse substitutes. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Luu noy, Seneca. Experiments will be made to1 de termine the adaptability of South Caroliua riue lands for forage crops, a beginning being made with o*ats, Bermuda grass, bluegrass and clover. Take Murray's Horehound, Mullein nnd Tar and stop eougbing. 25o. for | large bottle. Your druggist or Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. Not Fatal. No Matter What Doc tors Say-We Know That Heart Trou ble in Many Cases Can Be Cured. There aro seven main features of heart disease, viz.: (1) Weakness or Debility: (2) Rheumatism or Neuralgia; (3) Valvular Disorder; (4) Dilation; (5) Enlargement; (6) Fatty Degenera tion; (7) Dropsy. Documentary evidence will prove thousands of so-called "Incurables" have been absolutely cured by Dr. Miles' Now Heart Cure. Patients often bavo . Idea their dis ease Is heart trouble, t ascribe it to Indigestion, Diver Complaint, eto. Hero aro some of tho ttytu^! ~*ns: Shortness of breath after exercise. Smothering Spells. Pain In Chest, loft Shoulder and arm. Discomfort In Dying on one aldo. Fainting Spells. Nervous Couirh. Rwe'.Hng of Feet and Ankles. Paleness of Face and Lips. Palpitation. Nightmare Irregular Pulse. "I have great faith In Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure, and speuk of Its merita whenever opportunity presents. I can now go1 up and down stairs with ease, where three weeks ago I could hardly walk one block." One year later.-?'I am still In good health; the Heart Cure did so much for me, that I find lt a far frester medicine thon you claimed It o be."-8.. D. YOUNO, D. D., 697 North Pine St., Natchez, Miss. Money back If first bottle falls to benefit. WW Write us and wo will mall JP XUEiJb you a Free Trial Package of Dr. Miles' Antl-Paln Pille, the New. Sclentlflo Remedy for Pain. Also Symp tom Blank for our Specialist to diagnose your case and toll you what ta wrong . nd how to right ft. Absolutely Free. Address: DR. MILKS MEDICAL CO., LABORATOIUICS. ELKHART, IND. E PLANTS 10 SEU HUD COTTON SEED; Caul>age Plants for ?ale and now ready for delivery. "Karly Jersey Wakefield" and "Charles ton targe Typo Wakefield," two earliest sharp-head varieties and head in rotation a* named. "Succession," "Augusta Truok-r" and "Short Stem Flat Dutch." tho iii ruo host nat head varie ties and head In rotation as named. Prices : Bingle thousand, 91.60; 5,000 and over $1.26 per J,000: 10,000 and over, SI per 1 OJO. Terrai : Cash with order; or plants sent O. o. D., purohaser paying return charges on money. Our plant bed? occupy 35 acres on South Carolina Bea Coast, ano we understand growing thom tu tho opon air; tough and hardy, they will f'tand severe cold without injury, liants orated for shipment weigh 20'pounds per 1,000 ?nd we have special low rates for prompt transportation hy Southern Kxpress Co. I know of other plants you oan buy cheaper than mine. I sell good plants. No cheap "cut-rat?"' plants shipped from my farm, I guarantiee those that I ship to be truo to type and naino, and grown from high grade seeds purchased from two of tho most reliable se?? house* in the United States, X will refund purchase prico to any (Ma sa tl sd ed customer at tho end of tho season. OUR COTTON ?KKI). Lint or our Long Staple Variety of Sea Island Cotton sold last year (a Charleston on December 2 at 32c. per pound. Seed fl.24 per bushel; lots of 10 bushels and over SI per I) us hoi. My s i .eeini i y : Prompt Shlpiuont, True Varieties and Satisfied Customers. I have boen In tho plant buslnusa tblrty-flve yeats. MS Wm. C.Qeraty,1^b$aiy^j&Youns:5 Island,5.C. HAVE YOUR HOMEGROWN CABBAGE Cabbage Plants. All Varieties. Pri?es: 1,000 (?? ?i.?u; 5,000 @ $1.25 per 1,000; 10,000 @ fl per 1,000. , Shipped C. O. D. if desired. Plants arrive at your Express Office in good condition. WRITS FOR MERCHANTS' PRICES. Cabbage, Roans, Sweet Potatoes and Turnips in Season. Orders for ship ment of Tomato Plants, Sea Island Cotton Seed and Sweet Potato Draws should be booked in advanoe. 2-0 JAS. RAY GERATY, Enterprise, S. C., s.o. Sold Postage Stamps at Hall Prico. Spartanburg, February ll.-Post ooloo Inspector E. J. Pulsifer, of Greenville, had arrested in the city Wednesday after noon a young white man who appears to be a tramp. This man, who gives several Eight Thousand Dogs. There are some very enthusiastic sohool districts in tho upper part of Piokens county. The oause of their re joicing is the tax os dogs. In Pumpkin town distriot, whioh has levied a special names as his proper oognomen, was sell- ? tax of three mills for years for sohool lng 2-oont postage stamps in lots of 75 or 100 stamps at half price. His ease will be investigated in TJ. S. Commissioner McGowan's court. He stated that his home was in Augusta, Qa., and that his name is Henry E. Swain. CASTOR IA For Infant! and Children. The Kind You Haie Always Bought Signatar, of ^?//(f??&?cJ?^ .i"^.^***' ~ j Make your druggist give you Murray's ?uUE?Y5II0Mn Mulle,n and Tar- Cnw* purposes, the dog tax amount? to moro than the special levy. The apeoial tax tho past year'was about $70 and the dog tax to be collected in the fall will amount to $81. This means that there is the astonishingly large number of 162 dogs in one small sohool distriot. There are fifty-two dint riots in the oounty, which no doubt will average equally aa well, and this gives PiokenB oounty a dos census of about 8,000. 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