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FARMERS' im OF INFOR Conduoti ti South Carolina Farmers' Edueal Communications intended for this ] J. C. Stribling, ] Notice is here given that every local union after the expiration of thirty days, or before the first of Ootober, 1907, will be required to assemble and vote on the new amendment to the South Carolina Constitution, making the dues double what they are now. This increase in the dues will put new life in the anion and forward the work of or ganizing the State. This increase of dues may cause some few lukewarm members to drop out of the union, whioh should be an argument in its favor, for the reason that all sueh people that think and work for the prinoiple of asking their best men to work for nothing are not the kind of men needed in your anion. That idea of not paying men to do things for the good of all that has been saving sueh enuutous amounts in the value of cotton alone, will have to go. Drop all suoh ideas and members, too, that stiok to the principles of asking others to leave their work and homes to work for them without pay. Cotton School at Clemson. For some time the Farmers' Union of South Carolina has been looking into the feasibility of establishing a cotton school on their own account, not knowing that Clemson College was already well equipped for this purpose. Now, it is no news to the up-to date cotton grower to tell him that beyond doubt this State loses an nually enough cotton money on arbi trary grading to b,uild a warehouse at most of the shipping stations in the State. This thing of trusting the grading and classifying ootton to the ordinary two-by-four "ootton slasher" of the country must go with the privilege of prioing cur ootton. We must get up some real good ex pert cotton graders, or (classifiers that do this work from the stand* ^hjftpint of the requirements of the ^Rllls, and out out this imposition of the common so-oalled expert liars than they are the classifiers of cot ton. I all for a committee from the union to go to Clemson and look into this eotton sohool question there and let the people know bow it is. The olick, click of the buoket Bhop telegraph hr ?mer may be dead, but but tho "ootton bureau" has been born in a number of places where the bucket shops used to thrive. Since the bucket shops have died out and over a thousand cotton ware houses have come up like toad stools in almost a night, ootton bears are not making for tall timber like some thought, but, on the contrary, they have quit the town offices and gone out into the country [cotton patches trying a new game there, to buy oot ton before it is made in order to keep the cotton out of these safety vaults, the cotton warehouses. Commence now preparing for more oats and whetvt orops. This resolution well earried out will plaoe the seal upon your resolutions and I s Why nc People li grow excited c some of them g the actual anal) Too ma economies and save a consider your farm wer! Take o actual analysis our brands, ext Come ai than give you } [TON BUREAU _ j MATION. 1 I id by the .ional and Co-Operative Union. department should be addressed to Pendlet^, S. C. determinations to name your own prioes for your cotton and maintain your position in this matter against the onslaught of the cotton bears of the land. * Perhaps one of the finest corn crops over grown in South Carolina is now to be seen growing, with good proepeots for maturing. This fine corn crop, backed np by a fair oat crop, places the farmers of this State in a fine position for de manding a profitable price for their cotton crop and getting their price. Fortified with more than a thou sand warehouses, owned and operated by the Farmers' Union, and supported by the large majority of the business men in other occupations, it matters little what the size of the present crop may be, the producers of cotton can name a reasonable profit on their cotton crops and get their own pri?es. No matter how favorable the sea sons may be from now on, it is im possible for this orop to supply the enormous demand for cotton. Steady yourselves in the saddle, boys, but don't get giddy-headed or lean too far on either side. In our extensive travels over the State we .'ind a few farmers that have ?old their cotton crops before it is made for from 12 to I J. h cents per ponnd. Now these farmers are not getting any jumps on others nor fool ing anyone exoept themselves, for the reason should be plain to anyone that these buyers are out to make money for themselves, and when the unorganized and uninformed farmer puts up his single judgment against a well organized and well io formed clans of cotton speculators he is sure to lose out at every touchdown these slick ohrvps make on his cotton patches. If these organized specu lators did not believe, or you may say know, that cotton will bring moro than they offer, where is the induce ment for these speculators to con tract instead of buying the cotton instead of buying the cotton when it comes on the market ? Rent Him Um- Way. As Mark Twain and a friend were chatting at the summer home of the humorist, Quarry Farm, near Elmira, Nf. Y., the conversation turned to the I woalth of John D. Rockefeller, says Success Magazine. "Just think of lt, Sam,'' said the guest, "he has more dollars than there are hairs In that vigorous old thatch of yours." I "That's nothing," replied Mr.Clem ens, "I have more dollars than he has hairs In his hoad." - Men Past Sixty in Danger. More than half of mankind over sixty years of age suffer from kidney and bladder disorders, usually en largement of prostate glands. This ls both painful and dangerous, and Foley's Kidney-Curo should be taken at the first sign of danger, as it cor rects irregularities and has cured many old men of this disease. Rod ney Burnett, Rock port, Mo., writes: "I suffered with enlarged prostate gland and kidney trouble for years and after taking two botles of Foley's Kidney Cu? o I feel better than I have for twenty years, although I am now 91 years old." J. W. Bell. >t get your " Money's Worth " dick about the price of Com-s ver the way they think that th o right ahead paying two or thr rsis of the goods will warrant*. ny of us struggle for reductions better values tat are open to e H And discretion in buying F able percentage of your money k if you will only buy your Fer! ur celebrated G. W. G. Soluble with Guano sold by our comp? ra values are obtained in each v id talk over Fertilizers with UJ rour money's worth* Home Treat ment _J-tO NOT CIVILIZED. Chief of the Fox ?nd Sax Nation ls Skeptical About the Whites. (From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Proud of his ancient race, Chief Thuderwater of the Sax and Fox na tion is more than skeptical of the benefits of white civilization. Thun der wa ter was in Cleveland moBt of last week on a mission well calcu lated to maintain his natural pride. He was undertaking to raise money to transfer the bones of his ances tor, Chief Jog-o-sot, from the old E. 9th street cemetery to Lakeview. Thunderwater Is a full-blooded Indian, the grandson of Keokuk. He has not the tall, lithe form usu ally connected with the Amrlcan ab origine. His eyes, however, stamp him as a thoroughbred. They are black, ceaselessly active and inscrut ible as the grave. His conversation ls that of an educated man, but he is not learned in books. "I cannot understand the inability of white people to value the Indian at his true worth. Since the first pale face landed at Jamestown the Indian has been given the worst of the bargain. He ls now at the last ditch, J "'ey say we are rapidly dls appeai . j. "Be that as it may, I can bear the cruel wrongs which my people have suffered oven though lt may result In their extermination, but I will not endure having our civilization scoffed at. We are not barbarians. "Before the whites came to this country we Americans had developed a civilization in many respects su perior to yours of to-day. If the aim of civilized life is the happiness of the people we must be counted easy victors. We had solved the problem of adapting ourselves to our environment. "There had never been a people healthier than we. Disease was al most unknown until the white man brought smallpox. Our medical knowledge was amply sufficient to cure the wounds which we might in cur in our outdoor life. Drunken ness had never been heard of. "As for our arts, lt ls enough to s^y that you whites are to-day vain ly seeking to learn how to make blankets like the Navajo women's, but you cannot. Was our life prim itive? Yes, in the sense that it was simple. We lived in tepees. "I went into a drug store to-day and while I stood there a newsboy ra nu; running In, his face badly cut. The druggist said he could do noth ing, as lt was unlawful for any one but a doctor to dress wounds. Ho sent him away. Do you suppose that If that boy had come to> my tepee bleeding he would have gone away uncared for?" TOLlr^dFreRE? 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It measui ;titors at much higher prices-s /?thout extra cost to the Farmer, 3, If you have any trade in yoi 7 You naturally would trouble, wouldn't you? be able to relieve or eui done, by proper use of it the well-known female t JM Moorhead, of Archlbati' yo ur advice. I gave bar Ibo Card WRITE US A LETTES -,-i-.~=^== REFUSED TO KISS HER MOTHER. A Pathetic Scene at Depot in Char- i lotte Saturday Morning. ((Miariot.to Chronicle.) A rather stirring scene was that this morning at the Southern depot, J when Mrs. Thomas b. Young tried to kiss her ni nie -your old daughter, Irene Glenn, of Gastonia, who, with ] her uncle and aunt, were at the sta tion on their way to Columbia, S. C. The mother had not seen her child for many months-in fact since the y mother and father, N .P. Glenn,wore divorced. The court gave the child to her father and Mr. Glenn baa. had the little girl In Gastonia with him , since. Within a few hours after the di vorce was granted, Mrs. Glenn was married to Mr. Young, of this city, and has been making her home here. When the mother went to her daughter this morning at the station and lovingly threw her arms around her and kissed the child, the aunt of < the child rushed to the little girl and tried to take her away. The mother said: "Irene, don't you know me, lt is your mother; don't you love me?" ' "No, I don't love you; don't kiss me any more," was the child's reply. "I haven't seen you for so long, Irene, kiss me," pleaded the'mother. 1 The child began to scream, and it was then that her aunt came to her assistance and the mother turned and walked away. There were many bystanders and the attention of them was attracted by the child. Mrs. Young ls a hand some brunette, tall and graceful. She ls well known in Charlotte/ The affair of this morning was a most pathetic one and many a heart was wrung by the treatment of the child to her mother. 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