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URGE FARMERS HOLD <X>TTON. Address Issued by Committee *?f Sum tor County Onion. In an address issued to tho farm ers of South Carolina a committee of the Sumter County Farmers' Union urges the holding of cotton until a higher price is obtained. Tho ad dress is prepared by a committee consisting of B. W. Dabbs, president of the State Farmers' Union, J. M. Brogdon and S. N. Welsh. The Address. To the Farmers and all tho Busi ness Interests thnt aro Affected by tho Price of Cotton: The Sumter County Farmers' Un ion at Its last meeting unanimously directed us as a committee to call j your attention to the serious condi tion that confronts us in tho outlook for low prices for this crop of cotton. Thirty or forty days ago cotton sold in Sumter for 15 Vit cents (spot). To day a holder who would not then sell was glad to get cents. These i are actual sales. What has brought) about such n slump in this short time aftor cotton had held steady for niuo or ten monthB at 14 to 16 cents? They say because there Is a prospect of over 14,000,000 bales, ls it not more because the world, judging by tho past, thinks lt can stampede the farmers and the merchants and buy below 10 cents before Christmas. Then men who are predicting such prices aro working with might and main to bring about 10-cent cotton by telling their farmer friends that the crop ls the largest on record. "You ought to sell as fast as you can. for cotton is bound to go lower,*' apparently not knowing that this ls tho very way to bring about a lo wet level of juices. Now, wo have no quarrel with the Northern and the foreign spinner who wants low-priced cotton. I is only a part of his business io get the raw material at the lowest possible price, and it is also part of his busi ness to sell his finished product nt the highest possible price. But how many Southern men, even owners of mill stocks, can wish to see low prices for cotton, or can in any way give aid and encouragement, to tho enemy by joining in the hue and cry that "prices are bound to go lower," is past our comprehension. Every business man and every cotton mill ?~ din South Inevitably hound up 'Vue Soo>J>?> i) Mills. ff Sou'horn raiPJi wbvid seek oni uv.,, ii??. ..ti- -j. . t >!. nu fu* tu u .. goods, and learn from the successes of foreign mills to cater to tho de mands of the world's (rade In the fabrics the world wants, put up in tho kind of packages the world wants, they could join hands with all the business interests of the South and Ox and maintain the highest possible price for cotton and cotton goods. That the mills will not do this is abundantly proven by the history of recent yeats when our own mills kept out of the market while the farmer .vas falling over himself to sell his cotton, and later paid more '"or their Blocks than tho foreigners, with freight and other charges added. We /nay expect tho same things to hap pen this fall. Hence we leave the Southern spinners out of the count. But we do call on every merchant and every fertilizer manufacturer and every banker and every railroad man to join with the Farmers' Union in urging every farmer to hold back his cotton until the world is willing to pay a living price for it. Such a course can hurt no one, and it will help every one-the merchant by giving him cash customers for his goods, the fertiliser plants by in creasing uso of their goods, the banks by larger deposits, the rail roads by larger freights on more Im portcd goods that our people will have tho money to buy, ?Mid every profession and ?.ailing by tho in crease in tho circulating medium brought about by the larger How of foreign gold tu all the arteries of ?. ommorec. What it Means to Farmer. There can bo no question that this will bo the it-suit of higher prices t'?r cotton. If it wer?> not true, from whence comes the present prosperity of the South'.' lt is Ifi cents cotton that has done it. As surely as the sun rises in tho east and sets in thc west, just so surely will there bo stagnation and want, distress and bitterness in thousands of homes ?ti the South, and they will not all be farmers' homes, if we let this crop Of cotton sell for lit cents or less. With the world's stock of cotton almost depleted, with tho automobile lire industry alone taking hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton an nually, increased consumption on every side, this crop can ho marketed at 14 or 1 "> cents per pound Justas easily as last year's crop was, if we but bold out for it. This is not more ly our opinion, fellow-farmers, but, lt ls tho opinion of as shrewd business /nen as tho ones who tell you that cotton will go lower. Besides there's many a slip betwixt the cup and the SENATOR FRYE, OF MAINE, DEAD His Death Was Result of Ohl ARO and Arduous Careel'. Lewiston. Maine, Aug. 9.- The State of Maine lost its senior United States Senator and un almost life long faithful servant when William Pierce Frye died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Helen White, in tills city. The end came at 3.05 p. m. At his bedside were Mrs. White and his other daughter, Mrs. Alice Briggs. Although he had been Ul for a long time, death came suddenly. Up to last week he rested In com parative comfort, spent'''ig much of him time In reading or in having some member of lils family read to him. Last week the Senator's illness took a serious turn, but again he ral lied, and this week physicians ex pressed the hope that he might re cover. As late as 3.1;> yesterday af ternoon ho appeared to bo In a com fortable condition. Shortly after ward lt was seen that he was sinking rapidly and at 3.55 o'clock ho had died. A general break-down, due to age and his extremely arduous career, is ascribed hy Senator Frye's physi cians as the cause of his death. Was Oldest Senator. Washington, Aug. 9. - News of Senator Frye's death reached the Senate Informally yesterday after noon while Admiral Togo, the Japa nese naval hero, was being given an ovation during a ten-minute recess. As the Senate was still in the legisla tive session ol' Monday, by reason ol' continuance under the agreement to vote on the Statehood bill on the leg islative day of August 7. it was de cided that no announcement should be made yesterday of the loss of the Senate's oldest member-oldest both in years and service. There was a unanimous desire also that when ad journment was taken out of respect for his memory that lt be for an en tire day. This formality will be com piled with Immediately after tho Sen ate convenes to-day. I Hunocratlc Successor. As the resultant election of a Dem ocratic Governor and Legislature in Maine, Senator Frye will be succeed ed by a member of that party. The change will reduce the Republican membership of the Senate to 19 and inprpnoo tho Tlomnr.i", *\r> mom)iopchln 1? ii. Sonalof Frye's term would have ended Mardi ? I <:.?. rho choice :? ;;riv. /v. 9 il real with t'lm-. erh?r Pia lofted, v Ho . iii ulak? ir nt ?eu . Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C AS TOR ! A Saved from Georgia Mob. Savannah, Ga.,,Aug. 10, Snatched from the hands of a mob, as pistols wore being drawn, .lake Collins and Jake Eason, negroes, were brought to Savannah to-night in an automo bile by Sheriff Kennedy, of Tattnall county. Georgia, aller a ride ol' forty miles. The negroes were suspected of an assault upon a 12-year-old girl, but later it was learned thai their alleged offense had been robbery at the girl's home. They had been captured af ter a long chase by a mob. Sheriff Kennedy whirled into the crowd in his automobile, seized the negroes and as quickly whirled away again. Hp, and the drought is not yet broken over large areas where cot ton is burned up; in other sections the young crop cannot make a half yield under most favorable condi tions. And all of lt has to run the gauntlet of excessive rains, if they ever start, and of tho many insect posts, and climatic changes that make a large crop so uncertain. lu conclusion, your committee would urge, with all the insistence of calm and deliberate judgment, that every one who can do so hold his cotton off tho market either in his own strength, or with the assistance of his creditors and the hanks. Pick ?1 dry, gin it dry. pul the bales away under shelter dry. And if you must borrow money on it, do not borrow more Mian 25 or 30 dollars a halo and for not less than si\ months. Thirty-day cotton loans and loans close up lo the market value are worse than selling outright. We call on all the unions in the cotton boll lo join in this light. Shut-down on cot lon now and for tho next tin days and tho fight is won. Paper contracts do not run mills. Yours for prosperity, B. W. Da bbs, J. M. Brogden. S. N. Welch, Committee, Sumter County Farmers' Union. In .lapan there is a kind of frog very CO) ebra led for his sweet voice. Ho is called kajlki, and people pay as much as $10 for a pair of the marsh musicians. A poet in Japan heps scores of singing frogs at his home, and he sometimes gives a party to his friends, when after lis tening to the music, every guest ls asked to write a poem In honor of the frogs. AUMIRAL TOGO SAW THE SIGHTS SAYS A THEE SHOWS SILVER. Visited Ono of Philadelphia** Rig De partment Stores. Philadelphia, Aug. ll.-Admiral Togo to-day saw the American wo man do her shopping? On a sight seeing tour ho and his party visited one of Phllf lelphla's big department stores, mingling with tho crowds that filed in steady streams through the aisles, lt was the first time the ad miral has Been so many women to gether during his visit to thl8 coun try. Word that tho distinguished sea fighter was in the store spread rap idly and women forsook for the mo ment their all-absorbing occupation and turned attention to the admiral. "What a small-sized man for a big admiral!" exclaimed ono as tho Japa nese walked by. "Look at his gold teeth," suggested another, and tho admiral's party passed through a gauntlet of rapid fire comment until they reached their automobiles. The admiral next was shown Independence Hall and the Liberty Dell. Well acquainted with American history, he observed mi nutely the various tablets and relics with their Inscriptions. The party also stopped at the United States mint, saw lots of money coined and completed the morning with an au tomobile ride through the streets and parks of the city. More people, men and women, aro suffering from kidney and bladder troublo than ever before, and each year more of them turn for Quick relief and permanent benefit to Fo ley's Kidney Remedy, which has proven itself to be one of the most effective remedies for kidney and bladder ailments that medical sci ence has devised. Barton's Phar macy, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Aged indian Tells Interesting Story Concerning Hidden Wealth. Exeter, Mo., Aug. 12:- \fter spending several weeks hunting for a treasure which he says he helped hide more than eighty years ago, Bik Keyes, a Chickasaw Indian, has returned to his homo In Oklahoma. Keyes, who claims he is more than 100 years old, says tho treasure, which consisted of silver, was burled in a cave on the White River In Southwestern Missouri by hls tribe. According to tho old Indian, his tribe had been driven out of Georgia and went to Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri, where he lived along tho course of the White River. Hero they discovered a rich silver mino and for years mined the metal and melted it into bars. Then, fear ing an attack of white settlers, the silver was placed In a cave, a rock rolled In the mouth and earth piled over lt. Old marks made on the rocks, he says, ho has found, but the mark which designated the entrance to the cave was made on a huge elm tree. The tree he cannot find. Halts Burglar with Fountain Pen. Macon. Ga., Aug. 10.-J. W. Hicks, of 4 0;") Adams street, heard a noise in his house last night, and went down-stairs and into the parlor to in vestigate. He saw a negro rilling his Wife's writing desk. Hulling out a silver-embellished fountain pen ho pointed it at the burglar and com manded him lo throw up his bands. The negro did so, and then Hicks shouted for assistance. In a few minutes a policeman arrived and the negro was arrested. Ile had not taken anything. Get Votas ! Subscription Oopt<?st l^i'ojxv 'J ?ii.y J ? s s ti's ira S's '? SJ^. a a J?IH ^ ?U?L JLf M a i ii IU dill! >l Ol. From to-day to and includ ing Saturday, August 26, we are giving Piano Contestants and their friends another opportunity to get votes by working for New and Re newal Subscriptions to The Keowee Courier. In this Subscription Con test we are giving the following PREMIUMS VOTES. Each Now Subscription. . . . 3,000 Each 5th New Subscription . 5,000 Largest List of New Subs.. . 00,000 VOTES. Each Renewal Subscription . 2,000 Each 5tll Renewal Sub. 2,500 Largest List of Renewals . . . 30,000 15 DAYS There were 72 days from the beginning to thc close of this Special Subscription Contest-JO days in June, 3? days in July and 31 in August, with 9 Sundays to be counted out, There now remain only 15 days. Try to get at least one New Subscription during each working day. Take your pencil and figure out what that will mean for you in the way of votes-and don't forget that in addition to thc votes given for New and Renewal Subscriptions, wc arc going to give, on August 31, two extra premiums to thc ones having turned in the largest lists of New and Renewal Subscription** Thc next day-on September 1st-Mr. C. W. Pitchfoid- is going to give to some enc the Handsome Upton Piano now on exhibition at his store. Any one wishing to enter Thc Courier's Special Sub scription Contest by mail can do so. Send in subscriptions, simply stating that you wish to work in this contest, and an accurate list of your subscriptions will bc kept and the premium votes issued in your name. Enter To-day ! $1. os THE KEOWEE COURIER, Per Year. WALHALLA, S. C. *I* *I* *I* *!* *I* *!* *I* *\* "I* *I* *!**!* *I* 4* *I* *?* "?* ?J? Cut out thia coupon, and pre sent lt at C. W. Pickford's store and ho will exchange it for Twenty-five Votes In tho , Upton Plano Contest. .I* *l* *!**!* "I**!* *?**I* *!* *t? *I* NOTICIO.-Under no circum stances will wo discontinue a paper to ono member of a fam ily, changing to another, and counting samo ns a now sub script ion. SOUTH CA HOU NA STOOD FIRST. First Shot Fired on Monds Island. Untruthful Romance. Editor Keowee Courier: In com menting on the Interesting address of Dr. Dlvver to the survivors of Orr's Regiment you quote the follow ing: "Tho Hist and last guns of that battle were fired by South Carolina troops, lt ls historie fact that South Carolina was the first to secede, (he first to fire a shot at Fort. Sumter, the first to five a shot at Manassa* and tho first of tho seceding States to return to tho Union after the sur render at Appomattox." It might be added that before the formation of tho Confederacy, WHEN SHE ALONE confronted the power of the United States government, South Carolina fired tho first gun of the war from a battery on Morris Is land (January 9, 18C1,) at the steamer "Star of the West," and that South Carolina was tho foremost State to form the Original Union of Thirteen States. "Had it not been for South Carolina no Congress would then have happened," said the great statesman, the magnani mous, nnwavtrlng, faultless lover of his country, Christopher Gadsden. "As the American people spread through the vast expanse over which their jurisdiction now extends, bc lt remembered," says Bancroft, "that the blessing of union ls due to the warm-heartedness of South Caroli na." The Union hiing formed, South Carolina stood on principle, insisted on a strict adherence to the articles of agreement and has always boon consistent. Some of the Northern States have been inconsistent, fluctu ating ?ts their interest dictated. When tho Southern States were in control of the United States govern ment these States vehemently Insist ed on the sovereignty of the States and openly avowed the right to se cede; but when they came in power they asserted that thc United States government was superior to the State, and that secession was rebel lion and treason. "In Connecticut the Governor withdrew tho militia from tho national service and made it subject to orders Issued by State authority." "In 179G Lieutenant Governor Walcott, of Connecticut, said, 'i sin cerely ^""dar"1 thflt 1 wish North ern States would separate from tho South* i the to om ont that event (the elco i J i i? o? J eifel.:oii \ shall take I place " in loo?--* A separation of ino Union was openly stimulated in the public prints and a convention of delegates of the New England States, to meet, at New Haven, was intended and ptoposed.' "In 1811 Josiah Quincy used this language: '1 am compelled to de clare it as my deliberate opinion that if this hill passes (for the admission of Louisiana) the bonds of the Un ion are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations; and that, as it will be the right of all, so il will be the duty of some, lo prepare definitely for a separation amicably if they can, violently if they must.' " If space permitted, numberless other proofs could be furnished, and also proof of Inconsistency in regard to slavery: "In 1 771> slavery existed in all the Thirteen States. A traveler in 1795 writes: 'Nearly twenty vessels from the harbors of the Northern States are employed in the transportation of negroes to Georgia and the West Indian Isles,' " On July 22. 1861, the House of Representatives deemed "any pur pose of conquest a subjugation," and affirmed that the war was waged "to preserve the Union, with all the dig nity, equality and the rights of the States unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects aro accomplished, the war ought to cease." "When self the wavering balance shakes, lt's rarely right adjusted." The object of survivors' associa tions should be two-fold, namely, fraternal, and to perpet?alo the truth of history. The statements In some of the his tories and articles in Republican newspapers are contrary to tho truth, and some of the romances por tray Southern men as ruffians and Northern men as relined, cultured, heroic gentlemen. Recently I picked up a book in Walhalla and read a few chapters A Southern gentle men and two Sou I bein ladies are rep resented as cruel brutes, a Southern clergy man as a heartless, pitiless scoundrel and a Confederate bfflcer as an irrational, tyrannical, brutal, cruel monster. In contrast, to the Confederate a United S ates officer (the ?erm "FodornI," construed by Webster, was not correct prior to April it, I8t;r?.) is represented as re fined, sympathetic, kind and noblo. A good and Intelligent Southern girl is described as a traitress to her country, who, with tho assistance of negroes, secretes and falls In lovo with a United Slater, spy. H is a mystery to me why Southern parents "TUM ABBOTT HOYS" IN TEXAS. M. L. Alexander Visit? Former Oco nceuns in tho Lone star Staito. Following are some bits of infor mation (.oncoming former Oconeeans . now residents of TexaB. We take 1 these extracts from a letter written by M. L. Alexander to his brother, W. O. Alexander, of Cone ross, '"hero are many friends in Oconee of those , to whom Mr. Alexander refera, and we feel sure tho letter will bo of considerable interest to number*: of readers of Tho Courier: Mr. Alexander's Ix'tter. Ardmore, Okla., Aug. 8.-1 have just returned from a three weeks' trip In Texas. I spent two weeks at Mineral Wells, Texas. While there I learned from Sam Dendy that tho Abbott boys Mvo near Weatherford, some forty miles from Mineral Wells. I went out and spent a week with tho Abbotts. I spent two nights with J. Ben Abbott and found him with 200 acres of good land, comfort able home, with a fine herd of Jer sey cattle, with one among the best barns in the country-all modern conveniences In the way of water works, etc. I was pleased to find Ben so nicely situated, and am satis fied that if he had remained in South Carolina he would never have ac complished what he ha? done in the State of Texas. We enjoyed a good time talking over old limos back In South Carolina. I never spent two days more pleasantly in my life than 1 did with our old friends and bis wife. His daughter Kate (thu widow Shaw) owns 160 acres of line farm ing land adjoining thc land of her father. I am reliably informed that she has refused $ 10,00 0 for this farm, and 1 am sure that 1 was cor rectly Informed, for this was one of the best, farms I saw while in Texas. Mrs. Shaw has three children-two bright, handsome young men. and a beautiful liltlo giri. Everything in and around her home indicates pros perity-line mules, thoroughbred Jersey cows, am, lino hogs could be seen scattered about the place. She, too, seemed glad to have me break bread with her. lien and I drove sonic seven miles where I spent the night with Ceorge Abbott. I found George nicely locat ed on 100 acres of land, and he has a nice home furnished with every thing that was necessary to make farm lifo happy and contented. I George Abbott, stands well t? tie j community which U< lives, rle,lt* I roedghk . Rig n lo.wier ip th? conj- '.* munit/ ir w).'>rb he resides, morally and financially. 1 took dinner with Fannie Abbott, who married a Mr. Harton, a pros perous farmer. They are surround ed with droves of young mules, tine cat th? and hogs. I also spent a short lime with Wil li?' Abbott, and was pleasantly et tcrtalned by him and his family. He has some fine children, who enter tain well and stand well in the com munity. Ile also bas a nico farm and a beautiful home. 1 went from Willie Abbott's to Cranbury for the purpose of seeing the son of Sam Dendy. 1 called on Jim Doyle, ono of our old Oconee Doyles, and learned that Dendy'sson, who has a position in Doyle's bank, was on a business trip lo Chicago. I regret that I did not got to see the young man. I made many Inquiries with reference to young Dendy, and I found him to be one of the most popular young men in tho town of Cranbury. I not only got this from Doyle and the Abbotts, but from strangers of whom I asked many questions. I felt interested in him and was anxious to know whether or not he was making good. I was sur prised and delighted at tho many good things said of him in my short stay in the town where ho now lives. Sam should feel proud of that boy, and I feel sure that he does. I went from Cranbury and spent the night with lObbon Abbott. 1 found him with a beautiful home on a IGO-acro farm. He lins four girls and three boys, and I don't think that I oversaw indications of a hap pier home than his. His daughters are all musical, and I was entertain ed with good music OH the guitar, piano and other instruments. Taken as a whole, lho Abbott boys stand far above the average farmer, financially and socially, i am sure If their kinsmen in South Carolina would pay these men a visit they would feel proud of thom, lind they would wish that they, too, had left South Carolina for Texas years ago. Prospects for cotton in Texas and Oklahoma have never boon better. Corn in these two States Is almost a total failure, but there have been June corn, kaffir corn, milo maize, sorghum cane and peas planted in sufficient am mut to feed nil of tho cattle, horses "nd stock of nil classes In Texas, Oklahoma and the adjoin ing States. will pormit their children (o read and their minds to ho poisoned with such low, vile, scandalous trash. V. V. Martin. Mountain Best, S. C.