tumorous department.
A Quick-Witted Epicure.
Senator Beveridge. at a dinner in
Indianapolis, said during the course of
asparagus:
"This asparagus is superb. Its flavor
helps us to pardon Fontenelle."
"Fontenelle?" murmured a young
lady, in a puzzled voice.
"Yes, Fontenelle." said the well-read
senator. "Don't you know the story?
Listen, then.
"Fontenelle lived to be a hundred. He
attributed his longevity to asparagus.
As the consumptives go in for milk
and eggs, he went in for asparagus?
thrice daily?as long as the season
lasted.
"Archbishop Dubois has almost an
equal love for the pale, sweet sticks.
He liked them with a dressing of
Hrnwn hnttcr hut "F"ontpnelle nreferred
vinegar and oil.
"Mme. de Tencin once invited these
two asparagus lovers to dinner. Half
the asparagus course was prepared
with oil and vinegar, the other half
with drawn butter, and on Fontenelle's
arrival the hostess explained this arrangement
to him.
"But just as the dinner hour arrived
there came a pallid messenger from
the archbishop's house. The good
Archbishop Dubois was dead.
" Dead?" cried Fontenelle.
" 'Dead,' the messenger dolefully repeated.
"'Really dead?' said Mme. de Tencin.
" 'Alas, yes, madam; dead irrevocably.'
answered the messenger.
" 'Then he won't be here to dinner,'
murmured Fontenelle.
" 'Naturally not,' the messenger
agreed.
" 'Fontenelle leaped hastily to his
feet. He ran to the door and opened
it. Then he shouted across the hall to
the whitecapped cook in the kitchen:
" 'Baptise, all the asparagus with oil
and vinegar!' "?Washington Star.
A CONVENIENT SEPARATION.?A commercial
traveller struck a small Arkansas
town and asked the landlord of
the one hotel to have his trunks sent
to the sample room.
"Won't be no use." the host drawled,
removing the stem of his corn-cob
from beneath his teeth. "Yo* couldn't
git nobody to come look at 'em. Yo'
have to tote 'em round to th' sto's yo'self."
"What's that man waiting for? He
has been sitting on that goods box all
day. with a gun across his knees." the
drummer remarked that afternoon.
"That's one of th' Johnson boys?
Jim. Feud between them an' th' (,'owpers.
He's waitin' fer Bill Cowper to
come "long."
"And where is Bill?"
"He's settin' on a box 'cross the
square waitin' fer Jim to come iong."
"How long has the feud lasted?
how many have been killed?" the
drummer asked, grasping at the hope
that something exciting would happen.
"Oh, not long?'bout a year." the
landlord replied. "Ain't nobody killed
yet.. Yo' see, ther Johnsons live out
this-a-away, an' ther Cowpers on ther
other side of town, an' they ain't happened
to run across each other so fer."
?Philadelphia Ledger.
His Last Reauest.
Pat was in the habit of going home
drunk and beating his wife. Finally
Kiddy lost patience and appealed to
the priest.
"Pat," said the priest, "if you ever
get drunk again I'll turn you into a
rat. If I don't see you, I'll know about
it just the same, and into a rat you go.
Now, you mind that."
The next evening Pat came home
worse drunk than ever, kicked in the
door, and his wife dodged behind the
table to defend herself.
"Don't be afraid, darltnt," says Pat
as he steadied himself before dropping
into a chair. "I'm not going to bate
ye. I won't lay the weight of me finger
on ye. I want ye to be kind to me tonight.
darlint, and to remember the
days when we was sweethearts and
when ye loved me. You know his riverince
said if I got dhrunk, and this
night into a rat I go. But I want ye
to be kind to me, darlint. and watch
me. and when you see me gettin' little
and the hair growin' out on me and
me whiskers gettin' long, if ye ever
loved me. darlint. for God's sake keep
yer eye on the cat."?Ladies Home
Journal.
Considerate.?A prosperous grocer
in a certain midland town had occasion
recently to engage a new errand
boy. Trade was very brisk, and the
lad had a great deal of work to do in
J - in rllfYppiint na rt^
Ueil vtti mir (klllnn iii iiiiiv. \ . , . t ?
of the town.
"Well. George, how did you get on
or. Saturday?" asked the grocer on
Monday morning.
"Oh, fine." replied the boy. "But
Ml be leavin" at the end of the week."
"Why. what's up now?" queried his
master. "A"e the wages not high
enough?"
"I'm not findin' any fault with the
pay," replied the boy, "but the fact is,
I'm doln' a horse out o" a job here."?
London Graphic.
lit: Was Noncommittal?A Philadelphian,
who crosses the Atlantic several
times each year, happened, during
his last visit to London, to be out on
the street quite early one morning.
He had noticed that the reflected light
gave the sun the appearance of being
in the west.
To a policeman he met the Quaker
City man pointed out the place from
which the sunlight seemed to stream.
"Ah." said he jocularly, "so the sun
rises in the west in London?"
"As to that, sir." replied the officer,
with great dignity, "I really can't say."
-Philadelphia Ledger.
He Was Movino.?In a murder
trial in Cincinnati a negro hotel porter
was called as witness. "How many
shots were fired?" he was asked.
"Two shots, suh." he answered.
"Close together?"
"Des laik dat. suh." lie said, clapping
his hand sharply as quickly as he
could.
"Where were you when the first was
fired?"
"I was in de basemen' of de hotel,
suh, shinin' a geniman's shoes."
"And when the second shot was fired
where were you?"
"At dat time. suh. I was passin' de
Pig I'o' depot."?Youth's Companion.
A Dueapki i. Woman.?"That woman
next door is really dreadful. John,"
said a young married woman to her
husband. "She does nothing but talk
the whole day long. She cannot get
any work done, I'm sure."
"Oh." remarked the husband. "I
thought she was a chatterbox. And
to whom does she talk?"
"Why, my dear, to me of course."
was the reply
"She talks to me over the fence "?
Philadelphia Ledger.
Jttif (fUancous iUadinj).
WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES.
News and Comment Gleaned From
Within and About the County.
CHESTER.
Lantern, June 19: Mrs. S. O. Trapp
and Mr. It. 10. Lynn's children have returned
from a visit to relatives in
Yorkville Mrs. H. 10. Wright
and children returned Tuesday afternoon
from a ten days' visit to relatives
in the Smyrna neighborhood of
York county Last night, on Mr.
W. O. Guy's place, Jesse Williams
shot Mary Thompson in the back,
and she is paralyzed from the wound
downward, but it is not known yet
1. ..... tnitin, r*iov' ho Wil>
"u" WIIUMO nir ? </
Hams claims that the shooting was
accidental, and this seems not to be
disputed by others present. He had a
pistol, however, and told the woman
to look out he was going to shoot.. ..
Little Miss Sarah Patrick, of Woodward,
who has been visiting her cousin,
little Miss Elizabeth McLure, had
the misfortune to fall out of a little
tree over at Mr. R. A. Love's Tuesday
and cut her upper lip so severely on a
snag that it was necessary to put her
under the influence of an anaesthetic
and take fourteen stitches to sew up
the wound. The little girls had gone
ovei to visit Mr. Hal McLure's children
and in climbing the little tree
she set her foot on a decayed limb
which gave way. Her parents were
communicated with and her mother
came up in the afternoon and took her
home Wednesday afternoon
Miss Lottie Orr and Mr. Samuel T.
Proctor, of this city, were married at
8.30 o'clock Wednesday evening. June
17, 1808, at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Orr, at
Lewisville. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. W. S. Martin. The
attendants were Miss Muggie Oglesby,
of this city, and Mr. Isaac Bigham....
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Milieu
near Richburg was the scene of a
pretty wedding yesterday afternoon
when their daughter. Miss Lois Isabel,
became the bride of Mr. John H.
Hamilton, of Chester. There were a
large number of friends present, and
the house was beautifully decorated
for the occasion. Rev. R. A. Lummus,
of Richburg, performed the ceremony
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Timmie, on Church street, was
the scene of a pretty home wedding
Wednesday afternoon at half past seven.
when their oldest daughter, Minnie.
became the bride of Mr. Joseph
Clark Stribling of Denmark, S. C. The
bride is a graduate of Winthrop college
and has been a teacher in the
graded school at Denmark for the past
two years. The groom is a popular
young conductor on tl : S. A. L.
LANCASTER.
News, June 20: Arrangement has
been made for a lecture in the opera
house at an early day for the Hon.
John Sharpe Williams, the great leader
of the Democratic side of the house
of representatives at Washington. The
date will be announced later
Little Katie Caskey, daughter of Mr.
Jason Caskey. of the cotton mill village,
died Tuesday from the effects of
a spell of measles. Had she lived
until the 4th of next month she would
have been four years old. The remains
were buried at New Hope, Wednesday
Cards have been received
here announcing the marriage in
New York last Wednesday of Mr.
James Oscar Williams, formerly of
Lancaster, and Miss Alice Pickett,
daughter of Mr. Theodore Clarke
Caskin, of that city Miss Maggie
Hailman, daughter of Mr. A. M. L.
Hallman, of the (.'reek section, had a
narrow escape, a few days ago, from
the hands of a black brute. She was
at a branch near the house, washing
some clothes, when, on hearing a
noise, she looked up and saw a negro
man in some bushes within a few feet
of her. She started to run direct to
the house, when the negro headed
her off, forcing her to take another
route, through some open land. The
negro ceased to follow when the
young lady got out into the open field.
Finally reaching home in safety Miss
Hallman told of what had happened,
whereupon her father and some
neighbors, with guns, searched the
country for hours for the black
scoundrel, but were unable to find
any trace of him At a meeting
of the commissioners of public works
Thursday night the bonds, amounting
to $30,000. voted by ttie town to be issued
for the establishment of a system
of water-works, were sold to Lancaster's
three banking institutions,
the Bank of Lancaster, the First National
Bank and the Farmers' Batik
and Trust company, each bank taking
$10,000 of the bonds, at par. with accrued
interest to date of delivery. The
bonds, as heretofore stated, are to
bear 5 per cent interest, payable semi
;mnuaiiy. mere \\rir uui.nur
bids for the bonds, but they were not
considered as altogether satisfactory.
The public spirit and the faith in
Lancaster's future manifested by the
local banks will no doubt be appreciated
by our citizens generally.
GASTON.
Gastonia Gazette, June 19: The Gazette
learns on good authority that,
soon after the first of July the Southern
railway will take active steps looking
to the rebuilding of its freight depot
which was recently burned. It is
understood that their architects are
even now drawing plans for this
structure and it is more than likely
that the road will lose no time after
the first of July in pushing the construction
of the depot....Mr. Frank
Xolen. aged 21 years, died at the
home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. W.
M. Xolen at 1.30 Wednesday morning,
after an illness of many months with
lung trouble. Before the long illness
which ended in his death, Mr. Xolen
had been for some time a clerk in the
establishment of J. M. Relk company,
and had a large circle of friends who
sympathize deeply with the bereaved
family Sheriff T. E. Shuford.
accompanied by officers Kendrick,
Sandifer. S. (\ Whittaker and Sanders.
left Gastonia about 11 o'clock
Tuesday night on a search for a blockade
still of which he had been informed
by some unknown person and returned
Wednesday afternon with Jim
Whitener, a young white man whom
they captured that morning near the
South Carolina line. They found
Whitener engaged in washing the
still, which was located in a lonely
spot in a deep hollow. They found
about six hundred gallons of beer not
quite sour enough to still, which explains
probably why the plant was not
running, and several tubs of mash.
While Whitener is very reticent and
the officers are not able to get much
information out of him, it is expected
that he will claim that the outfit
belongs to another man, for whom he
was working Mr. J. U. Warren.
one of the pioneer residents of Gastonia
and one among the best known
and most highly esteemed citizens of
| the town, passed peacefully away at his
horm* on Main Avenue ai i o ciock
this morning. Mi'. Warren iuul been
in declining health for many months,
but had only been confined to his bed
for about four weeks. The cause of
his death was heart .trouble, from
which he had been a sufferer for a
| long time. Mi-. Warren was born in
York county. South Carolina, on May
16. 1S4 1. and had reached the advanced
age of 67 years, one month and two
days. For more than 35 years he has
been a citizen of Gaston county, having
first lived for several years in the
I t'nion neighborhood, and having been
a resident of (Jastonia for more than
thirty years. In that time so many
changes have taken place in (Jastonia
that Mr. Warren was at the time of
his death probably the only Gastonian
engaged in the same business at
the same place as he was thirty years
iigo. He had conducted a blacksmith
and wagon shop in the same place
since he first came to (Jastonia in the
TP's. Mr. Warren was a Confederate
vetern,n. having served through the
Civil war as a private in Company H.
isth South Carolina regiment, under
Captain Robert H. Glenn. Among
his comrades the only one now living
in (Jastonia is Mr. S. S. Smith.
THE WAY TO FIFTE
"Plain Talk In Plain Lar
St. Louis (!lobe-Democrat.
(Continued from our Issue of June 19)
A Few Figures.
The government estimate of acres
planted In 1907 is placed at 33,000,000.
If that is correct, and we have no reason
to doubt Uncle Sam's figures, what
would have been the result If the land
hud produced an average of one-half
bale, instead of about one-third of a
bale to the planted acre?
A crop of 16,500,000 bales.
Do you know what that would mean?
Nothing short of a 5-cent market, in
view of all that has happened, and an
unsalable surplus of 4,000,000 or 5,000,000
bales. You just escaped that because
nature was considerate enough
to regulate weather conditions in the
planter's favor and got a hustle on the
boll weevil. Any credit to the cotton
grower? Not a bit; he did his best
to ruin himself, but?no use rubbing
it in.
Why plant 33.000,000 acres to grow
11,000,000 bales.
That amount could have been grown
on one-half the acreage if only the
best land had been planted. The balance
was plowed, seeded, fertilized and
worked?but. thank heaven?not picked.
Millions of acres were inundated
and did not have to be cultivated; millions
of acres were burned tfp by
drought in other sections and did not
mature: millions of acres were cultivated,
but the weevil took his toll;
other millions yielded one-half bale
and upward; this alone bore the expense
of picking, ginning and marketing,
and yet, with a relatively short
crop prices did not average within 4
cents a pound of what it would have
been worth in normal years, or has not
up to this writing. A portion of the
crop was seeded three and four times
before a stand was secured. Where is
the profit?
At the most liberal calculation 10,
000,000 acres were plowed, seeded and
fertilized for naught. This loss must
all be charged up against the product
of the balance. It was, practically
speaking, only the richest and most
productive land which made the crop,
what there was of it. The poor lands
were a practical failure.
On this basis, then, enough land was
plowed, seeded and fertilized to have
produced all the corn, oats, hay, etc.,
needed in the entire south. All It
would have cost in addition to what
was really expended would have been
the cultivation and harvesting. If each
reader of this article will analyze his
own particular case and mentally go
over his entire plantation the result
will probably convince him that he has
been anything but a "business farmer."
If he is one of the fortunate ones who
averaged his bale to the acre, or near
that quantity, it may not strike him at
first glance that his calculations were
in error. He is the favored exception
and profited by the misfortunes of others.
Their loss made possible his gain,
but he did not count on that at seeding
time; he had no ground for so doing.
Had the other cotton growers
been favored as he was his crop and
theirs would not have been worth picking.
The planters of the south cannot afford
to plant such an enormous acreage
of cotton and run the risk of having
such a gigantic crop as good con
ditions would produce, especially it tney
neglect all other crops and elect to buy
their supplies on the market. Each
planter jeopardizes his own market
and his own chance of profit, as well
as that of his neighbor. He may not
be interested in his neighbor's welfare,
but he can not disassociate his case
from theirs.
Each man must "legislate" for himself
as to the acreage of cotton he
plants, but his only "hedge" is in the
insurance policy of so diversifying his
crop as to render himself wholly independent
of his cotton product. If it is,
as it should be, his profit crop, he will
get some returns even if he has to carry
it over the season.
It is money in every man's pocket to
realize that he is not the whole thing.
Try an Experiment.
Borrow a page from the book of success.
Consider your own case and analyze
your own position. Calculate
your acreage, select all of your best
cotton land and figure how much it
will cost you to "make the crop." If
you must borrow money to do this, do
not make a short term loan or one due
in the season of marketing. Borrow
enough to enable you to pay cash for
all your outlay .on the season. You can
get money at a cheaper rate on long
time on your land, if you own any,
than you can on other collateral. Borrow
from March or April for one year,
so that you may have abundant opportunity
to choose your time for marketing
your crop of cotton, if you sell
early from choice, you can deposit an
amount equivalent to your loan in an
interest-paying bank, and thus get
back part of the interest charge.
Then is your opportunity to learn
how to finance your business by
scheming to raise enough of other
crops, to make a living and meet that
mortgage note, regardless of your cotton.
Plant enough corn and forage crops
to cover your needs at least. An acre
or two of early potatoes, well tended,
will show a good profit, and a later
crop of Irish or sweet potatoes will not
lose you anything. An acreage of cabbage
and half an acre of onions will
help. A few pigs will only eat up the
waste about the farm. Chickens, turkeys.
geese and ducks are easily cared
for by the women folks and children.
Their eggs will supply the table. Two
or three cows will render good account
of their care if you treat them well.
The orchard?which you ought to
have?and the vegetable garden that it
is your duty to plant, will help you live
as you ought to live, and conduce to
health, serving to lessen doctor's and
drug bills. These all help make or
save?which is the same thing.
I've often wondered why full grown.
free Americans will sentence themselves
to a diet of salt meat and corn
pone and the simplest living?like a
soldier's emergency rations, or a jailbird's
fare, when they have splendid
ground for garden purposes, and a little
expense in seed, liberal use of barnyard
fertilizer, and a small amount of
labor, will enable them to live a full,
healthy, liberal life?like folks.
A farm without its carefully tended
vegetable garden, its small fruit and
orchard is not a home; it is a mere
refuge?one degree removed from the
county poor farm. You'll have to
work, of course, but no harder than
you would in cultivating a cotton crop
011 ground that will not reward you a
penny for your labor.
EN CENTS COTTON
iguage to Plain People."
Don't do this on my advice, for I am
not giving any. I only tell you that
others have followed this plan within
my personal observation and have won
independence by so doing.
If you own no land, you should be
more careful than ever to grow enough
of everythilng else but cotton as a tenant,
so that you may be sure of a living,
independent of the storekeeper,
and able to drive the demon of debt
from your roof tree. If the big planters
near you are growing cotton as a
sole crop, don't bother with cotton at
-11 i? * ~ *w%A
a 11, uui itiioc me siuii iiic^ nccu anu
must buy. It's a fine thing: to have a
sure demand at cash prices right at
your door. If you have cotton and do
not wish to sell, believing in better
prices later on, and your obligation becomes
due, you will no doubt be able
to deposit your cotton in a near-by
Farmers' Union warehouse, borrow
against it and free yourself from the
first indebtedness. Of course, you are
one of the F. E. and C. U. of A- No
small planter or tenant farmer can afford
not to avail himself of the advantages
of co-operation offered to
members. Large planters, ditto.
If it should chance that you are not
a member, your first step toward success
will be in becoming one. If you
are as good and true as the union
principles?you'll do.
Mule Sense.
If a planter can. by selecting his land,
seeding only the best to cotton, using
high grade seed and fertilizer and
carefully and thoroughly cultivating
the plant, secure as much cotton from
seven acres as he would from ten
handled in the. uverage way?what
you think of him If he insisted on the
full acreage and the old-fashioned
methods?
Every county in the cotton belt will
show the investigator both classes; the
new man who plants the seven acres
in modem-fashion and the "old timer"
who religiously?or fanatically?plants
ten acres, just as his father and grandfather
did before him. The seven-acre
man gets more net cotton of a higher
grade than his ten-acre neighbor, and
saves the cost of seeding and fertilizer,
plowing, cultivating and picking on
three acres of ground. He plants
some crop necessary to make his farm
self sustaining on the three acres, and
at the same expense as his neighbor,
has the product of three acres as an
extra profit.
The seven-acre man is well to do,
lives well and has money in the bank.
The ten-acre man is poor, lives the
life of a slave and wears the mortgage
yoke of debt around Ids neck until it
is so chafed that he can not stand
erect.
This illustration applies equally to
the targe planter who owns hundreds,
or thousands of acres, the small farmer
who owns but a few acres, and the
renter who makes his crop as a tenant.
The tenant class and the small farmer
suffer more from this reckless disregard
of the fact that two and two
??-,oi/r, frvii,- fhnn hlvj landlord neierhbor.
He needs the product of the three
acres more in proportion than any
other class of cotton growers, and, as
he is dragging the plow while the mule
Is behind it, driving, he does not and
will not see or understand it.
He believes (hat the world is wrong
and everybody is against him. whereas
he is the only stumbling block in his
own path. If such a farmer could separate
his "spiritual essence" from his
physical body for a few hours, sit
meditatively on a stump In the field
and watch the misdirected steps of his
tired frame, how he would "cuss out
that fool farmer" over there, mechanically
and monotonously grinding out
his strength, mentally asleep.
Pioneers and prairie schooner pirates
in the new country may be excused
for seeding all the land they can
break up for the first year or two in
oider to get a home started. The
rankly rich soil, virgin to the plow,
will grow almost anything in profusion;
no fertilizer or extra cultivation is
necessary; it is like gardening in a
compost heap. He can make money
on a price basis that would show a
loss to the farmer in a settled country.
His chief expense is for seed. His
labor is his own and that of his family.
If he requires help It is only beOio
hnrvAst i? tnn erent for him
to handle. And still, this is only true
for a few brief years. The cream Is
soon skimmed off.
But the cotton grower of the older
states is tlie evolved product of from
five to eight generations of farmers,
who have tilled the same fields. By
tills time lie should be the most accomplished
agriculturalist In the country.
There are some, to he sure;
enough to serve as object lessons. But
seeing the value of example the rank
and file have refused to pattern after
it, and for the most part prefer the obsolete
methods they have inherited;
they still farm by main strength of
hone and muscle, and leave their
brains fallow.
Don't call this picture a dope dream
or the view of a d(sorted vision. I
wish to God it was not so true as it
is. People are beginning to wake up,
and gradually commencing to take the
nourishment offered by science, but
they are only nibbling small crumbs
and swallowing them slowly and reluctantly.
Oh. if they would only acquire a
hearty appetite and down a few solid
meals! Their digestion is all right;
they would thrive on the food of knowledge
if they would only eat of it liberally.
If I Were a Farmer.
If I owned a large plantation I would
farm so much of it as I could supervise.
I would know my acres as a
horse-breeded does the pedigree of his
colts. If I hadn't learned them thoroughly
from experience of their produce,
I would bring the scientist to my
a ill to point out the missing: links in
my chain of knowledge. If deficient in
knowledge of the chemistry of agriculture,
according to twentieth century
standards, I would secure the services
of some farm-boy graduate of an agricultural
college and utilize his knowledge.
Moreover, I'd give him the advantage
of all the reading matter he
could digest regarding the latest discoveries
in scientific agriculture. I'd
give him the tools and elements to
work with?and learn from him all I
could absorb.
I'm in the grandfather class now,
still I go to school every day. I shall
never he too old to learn so long as I
can read and think. I'm willing to
learn from the lips of a child or profit
by the intuitions of the female mind?
that sixth sense which often puts to
blush the wisdom of the other five
combined in any man.
Therefore, I would study how to get
the greatest interest on the value of
my lands, as a banker does the interest
problem; and a profit on the labor
11 utilized, as does the successful manufacturer.
That is business farming.
If I had tenants I would select those
who were not too smart to take a few
hints from the boss. They would have
to till my acres pretty much on my
lines. I would finance them if they
required assistance, and only ask that
if they were determined to sell their
cotton that I should have the first call
on their crop?at the same price they
could obtain elsewhere. If they belonged
to an organization of a cooperative
nature and wished to store
their cotton in Its warehouse, I should
be pleased.
As a business farmer I would not
wish my tenant's cotton to come into
competition with my crop on the mar- i
ket. fIf I were a tenant farmer l|
would not care to till the land of any
other sort of landlord.)
I would calculate my acres to a fraction
and plant so much of my land to
other crops as would produce a living
for me, meet my obligations and cover
the cost of what cotton I raised. I
would not intend that my cotton should
cost me one cent, and I would grow
just so much as I thought could be
cropped under these limitations?and
no more. I might miss it a little some
years, but not to any serious extent.
Then if a big crop is raised, and
prices are low, I can sell if I please or
carry as long as I please, being sure of
some profit in any case. If I need
banking accommodations I would have
a sound collateral on which to borrow
without jeopardizing my property,
either real or personal?except my
profit crop.
I would at least have done my full
duty to myself as a land owner, merchant,
hanker and farmer, and in so
far as I was able by example, by duty
to my own dependents and my fellow
cotton growers.
If I had but few acres, instead of
many I would follow the same principle
as far as able, work harder, think
harder and co-operate with my brother
farmer of the smaller class I
would not sell an acre of cotton land
that would average me a bale to the
acre at any price. I'd buy more when
able to pay cash for it, for it is a good
thing to own. Amid all the 33,000.000
acres and new acres yet to be reclaimed
from nature, there wl! never be too
large a percentage of this class.
If I were a tenant farmer I would
preferably pay a cash rental for land
so that I might plant such crops as I
saw fit, and I would adhere to the
above plan more rigidly than ever.
But I'd aim never to produce a bale
of cotton that would repre-sent one cent
of actual outlay. I'd make a good living
every year; a good profit some
years, and a chunk of money in a very
favorable year. Then I'd buy land?
good land, for cash.
This Is what I'd do and make money
al it. Others have followed such Ideas
and have grown wealthy thereby.
You will do as you see fit; but.
what's wrong with my plan?
The Department Farm.
The department store is the mercantile
success of the age; why not "depaitment
farms? The great department
store requires large capital and
a multitude of employes. The department
farm requires a moderate number
of acres (anywhere from 40 to 160
will do) and a family of boys and
girls. If they're all boys, or all girls,
it doesn't alter the possibilities, you'll
only carry different lines of merchandise.
The staples, consisting of cotton,
corn, oats, hay and field crops generally
come under the "old man's personal
department. The boys all help,
those that are big enough, and most
farmer's boys over 10 years of age can
do a part of the work that helps out
and does not harm them. If there
are no boys the big girls can help
mother cook for the hired white help,
and run the house.
There's always spare ground for a
good, big garden, and there should
be an orchard of peaches, apples, pears,
plums, etc.. and at least an acre or so
of blackberries, raspberries, strawberries
artd other small fruits. Here's a
chance for the boys to become interested
in a specialty. Give your son a
share in the profits and he'll soon settle
on the specialty which most excites
his enthusiasm: then encourage him.
r>o * him an thp honlr u'hon lio rlnoq
well, and sympathize with him when
the results are disappointing1. Keep
his interest alive and he'll triumph in
the end. Help make a good, strong
man of him?not easily daunted. He
doesn't have as much use for dogs and
guns as you had.
His tastes may be in the direction of
stock raising or swine breeding. Start
him off as best you are able, and help
him with your wider experience until
he can stand alone, (let him a reliable
magazine or other publication devoted
to his specialty and let him
study success. Don't confine him to
the knowledge imparted to you by your
father or gained in your own experience,
good enough as far as they go,
but tlie world keeps moving, and the
boy should be up to date.
In the woman's department are the
dairy, poultry, bees, flowers, small
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fruit culture and the herbs and finer i
flavors of the kitchen garden: canning,
preserving and a dozen side issues,
not so hard to manage as the
field work many have been called upon
to perform. Perhaps their mother had
a taste of that horror once. If so, she
will not want her daughter to share
the experience. There's profit in all
these items and the girl has learned to
be self-reliant, capable as a manager
and your little men and women early
learn th value of a dollar, to their lasting
benefit through life. Provide helpful
literature, foster their Interest, and
they will lead purposeful lives. Toll
will not be all drudgery, and their
share of the profits will compensate for
any overtime or extra exertion employed.
I know of department farms thus
conducted where the oft-neglected side
issues and "trifles" of farm life carry
the burden of the family support, and
yet each sun and daughter have their
little bank accounts, and are able to
enjoy luxuries and diversions inaccessible
to the children of the single crop '
farmers in their neighborhood.
Before reaching the mature age of
17 years I had won many prizes at
country fairs for "the best display, and
best specimens" of fruits, vegetables
and farm products of my own culture.
Work? Yes. it necessitated plenty of
hard work, long hours of back-break- i
ing toil in the broiling sun. But what
of it? It didn't stunt my growth: it '
developed by frame and muscles, and
I've never been able to discover where
I lost anything by it.
Then, I got a share of the profits?
and the prizes.
That's enough to keep any boy Interested
in his work.
But I never worked so hard or so
many hours a day on the farm as I
have since those days in business and
journalism, and I never could have
withstood the fatigues I have experienced
If I had not "grown up from
the soil."
Your family may not be large, and
your farm have but few possible departments,
but some of these avenues
of profit are open to you.
Don't neglect a single one.
To be Continued.
'Jt4T New York, with 4,000,000 population
has been adding to its total in
the three years preceding 1905 at the
rate of 100,000 a year. Philadelphia,
with a little less than 1,500,000 population,
had increased at the rate of
30,000 a year.
...BLUE ROCK...
Mineral Springs
(Calcic, Sodic, and Lithic Bicarbonated
Saline Water.)
A recent analysis or tne water or mis
Mineral Spring by Dr. Boyden Nlms,
Ph. G. of Columbia. S. C.. shows it to
be equal to the best Mineral Water
used by the American people today.
This water has been given away for
more than sixty days since the present
owners came into possession and has
been thoroughly tested by the public,
and pronounced superior to any in the
State. Now on sale at the STAR
DRUG STORE.
To any one not yet having tried this
water, we will furnish the same free
upon application, until a thorough test
has been given it.
BLUE ROCK MINERAL
SPRINGS CO.,
D. L. Shieder, R. E. Heath and Mar*
ion B. Jennings, Proprietors.
W We will show the analysis of this
water to any one, any where, at any
time. No secret about it. We are not
afraid to show it.
THE SUMMER AND
FALL MONTHS
As a rule are the best months in
which 1:0 sell Farms, so the buyers and
sellers can arrange for the coming
year. For this reason now is the best
time to have your property advertised
and sold.
Poag's Real Estate Monthly is circulated
not only throughout York county,
but over many parts of the United
States by the thousands of copies. Besides,
we advertise in such mediums
as the Cotton Journal of Atlanta, which
claims over 50,000 circulation, and the
Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore,
which has an immense circulation,
north and south.
We are in a position to find not only
home buyers, but buyers from a distance
as well.
Subscribe for our Monthly. It will
cost you only Fifty Cents per annum
and help to keep you posted on real estate
values and transactions. Object
lessons on farming, etc., will be quoted. *
J. EDGAR POAG, Broker,
Rock Hill, S. C.
"Certs the Earth to Suit Your Taste."
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will be in attendance after ^
tailing a new Piano. ??? <
he month of June, f
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Low. You all know that ^
iranteed to Cure.
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)N, King's Creek, S. C. ^ j
about Cottages ^ I
R, King's Creek, S. C. ;?> I
NERAL SPRINGS CO. 4 !
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LAYING 1
win uk m
H-A-ID -A.T
Iii llio dry goods store, as on I
and ilic merchant puts forth streni
of a season's stock into Cash, prep
iness of buying and selling. Our
all profits are forgotten?You can i
nvriEixrs ci
AT $0.48 SUITS in Black and Dar
gle and double breasted, that 1
AT $5.98 AND $6.48 one lot of Su
to 39, that were good values a
AT $9.48 AND $11.48 one lot of si
sait patterns, that regularly st
AT $7.48 a lot of Black and Blue
at $10 and $12.50 a suit.
$1.98 to $1.98 for Men's Dress Par
DRESS
10 CENTS A YARD for White Lav
20 CENTS A YARD buys all Whitt
that formerly sold at 25c and
28 CENTS A YARD buys all Whit
at 40c to 60c a yard?while tl
95 PEX'TK \ YAltn hiivs Inch 1
(formerly sold at 50c to 75c a ;
39 CKXTS A YARD buys 36 inch
and 60c a yard.
15 CENTS A YARD buys all Cot'
sold at 20c and 25c a yard.
89 CENTS A YARD buys 36 inch
quality?regular $1.23 value?
8 1-3 CENTS A YARD is the pric
Silks, made to sell at 25c and
89 CENTS EACH for Ladles' Wh
$1.25 each. See these to app
33 CENTS EACH Is the price put
?nicely made of lace striped 1
5 CENTS TO 50 CENTS EACH fo
our big line of Towels.
$1.48 TO 81.98 for Bath Rugs.
LOW ?
$3.00 A PAIR Is the "Laying-by"
Shoes.
$1.98 A PAIR buys Men's $2.50 I,?
ONE-FOURTH OFF is the "Lay!
Ladles and Children.
Our "Laying-by" prices will s
erv pair sold is Guaranteed.
J. Q. WRAY,
NOTICE.
Of Election For the Establishment of
a High School.
Yorkville, S. C., June 15, 1908.
A PETITION duly signed by In excess
of forty per centum of the
free-holders above the age of 21
years and in excess of one-third of
the duly qualified electors, residents
within the territory known as Common
School District Number Eleven, embracing
the Town of Yorkville and the
School District of Yorkville, in York
Township, York County and State of
South Carolina, addressed to the
County Board of Education for York
County and petitioning the said board
to grant and order an election within
said territory for the purpose of establishing
a High School therein, as
contemplated in an Act of the Gen.
a ? i.i.. Couth
erai Assemuiy ui me oiaic wi uuutu
Carolina, entitled "An Act to provide
High Schools in this State," Approved
February 19th, 1907, and the Act
amendatory thereof, approved February
27th, 1908, having been filed
in the office of the County Superintendent
of Education for York County and
having been acted on by said County
Board of Education, which has ordered
the Trustees of the said School District
to hold an election within said District
to be conducted in all respects,
including the requirements of those
who are allowed to vote therein, as
elections are now conducted under Section
1208 of the Civil Code of 1902, in
reference to special levies for school
purposes.
Notice is hereby given that an election
will be held in the Court House
at Yorkville, South Carolina, within
the above described territory, on
WEDNESDAY. JULY 1ST, 1908, to
determine whether or not a High
School shall be established within said
territory.
The polls will be opened at 7 o'clock
In the forenoon and will be closed at
4 o'clock in the afternoon of the said
1st day of July, 1908.
Those favoring the High School will
vote a ballot "For High School," those
opposed to same, will vote a ballot
"Against High School."
At said election only such electors
residing within the territory or District
as return real or personal property
for taxation and who exhibit their
tax receipts and registration certificates
as required in general elections
will be allowed to vote.
The rate of the High School tax to
be voted, levied and collected within
the proposed High School District, to
be one mill.
By order of the County Board of
Education for York County. South Carolina.
T. E. McMACKIN,
Chairman.
By order of the Board of Trustees of
the School District of Yorkville, in
York County, South Carolina, pursuant
to the order of the County Board of
Education, for York County.
WM. B. MCCAW.
Chairman of Board of Trustees.
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|roffssional d[ards.
A. Y. CARTWRIGHT,
SURGEON DENTIST,
YORKVILLE, S. C.
0fSSk OFFICE HOURS:
9 am. to i pm,; a p m. to 5 pnr
Office upstairs In the Moore building
over I. W. Johnson's store.
DR. ill. W. WHITE,
DENTIST
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Opposite Postoffice, Yorkville, S. C.
JOHN R. HART
ATTORNEY AT LAW
No. 3 Law Range
YORKVILLE, S. C.
J. S. BIIICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office Opposite Court House.
Prompt attention to all legal business
of whatever nature.
GEO. W. S. HART,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
YORKVILLE, S. C.
I Law Range. 'Phone Office No. 58
D. E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings.
PIVI.PV Mr .IRNNINfiS.
YORKVILLE, S. C.
Office in Wilson Building, opposite
Dourt House. Telephont No. 126.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
[n the United States District Court,
for the District of South Carolina, '
In re J. N. Benfieid, Bankrupt.
PURSUANT to an order in the '
above cause, made on June 5th, A. '
[)., 1908, by C. VV. F. Spencer, Referee j
n Bankruptcy for said District, I will
eceive until JUNE 23, 1908, 12 m., ^
sealed bids for the stock of tnerchan- 1
lise belonging to said Bankrupt, and
orated at his late place of business at 1
Delphns, In York county. The stock 1
consists of Dry Goods, Groceries and ]
Hardware. The right to reject any j
ir all bids is reserved.
Terms of Sale?CASH.
JNO. R. HART,
Trustee J. N. Benfieid. Bankrupt.
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"WR.-A-TTS
lie farm, "laylng-by" times come
ions efforts to turn the remnants ^
oratory to the next reason's Ims"Laylng-hy"
time Is now here?
roup the harvest of low prlees.
-OTHING
k Blue Unfinished Worsteds, sincere
$10. ^
its In cheeks and grays, sizes 37
t $10 and $12.
uits, sizes 35 and 36, pepper ami
?11 at $12.50 and $15.
Serge Suits that are good values
its In most desirable patterns.
GOODS
ins in stripes that are worth 15c.
? Goods in checks and pin stripes
35c a yard.
e Dress goods that formerly sold
ley last.
holies?as long as they last?that
yard.
Worsteds that usually sell at 50c
Ion and Wool Mixed Plaids that
Black Taffeta Silks?guaranteed
as long as It lasts.
:e put on a job lot of Marcellne
worth that price.
Ite Shirt Waists, made to sell at
ireclate the values,
on a special lot of Ladies' Waists
J 1?-1? C A/i
aW118 fclllU reKUltlliy piitcu ai uvt,
r Towels will give you an idea of
SHOES
' price on Men's 53.50 Low Tut
iw Cut Shoes.
ng-by" prices on Low Shoes for ^
ave you money on Shoes and evThe
Leader. |
J. C. WILBORN *
FOR SALE
A No. 3 Geizer Thrashing Machine;
No. 4 Geizer Thrashing Machine; one ^
Wheat Drill; one 2-horse Disc Plow,
and one McCormlck Mower and Rake.
Known as the Frank C. Horton's property.
The Shubert place; 32 acres; Joins
the corporate limits?$850.
The Maria Cowen place; Joins David
Clark?$200.
50 acres; Frank Horton place $40.00
per acre.
233 acres, Ralph Adams place.
99J acres; J. R. Ferguson place?
Filbert.
78 acres. 1 mile New Zion?81.200.
6 acres, a nice home; E. B. Menden- 0
hall, McConnellsvllle; 7 rooms?$1,200.
127 acres; lower Steel Creek township,
N. C.; $15 per acre.
163 acres; 9 miles of Gastonla?$25
per acre.
319 acres; King's Mountain township;
J. B. Plexico place?$20 per acre. a
151 acres; Dr. White, Miller Place;
4 miles of Yorkville.
136 acres; one-horse farm open;
tenant house and barn.
190 acres; King's Mountain township?$7
per acre.
235 acres; 5 miles of Rock Hill; rents
for 9 bales of cotton?$4,700.
153 acres In Bethel township; 8 miles
of Yorkville, 6-room dwelling, land lies
well; Arthur Quinn place. ^ ^
202 acres; Sam Youngblood place;
$50 per acre.
The Old Presbyterian church property
in Hickory Grove; 1J acres?$500.
517 acres; 50 acres of fine bottom S"
land; 250 acres in woods; 2 story, 8- /
room dwelling; 9-horse farm in culti- V '
vation; 6 good tenant houses; close to
railroad. This is a grand bargain?
$16 per acre. W. M. Whitesides place.
220 acres, one mile of Piedmont
Springs; 7-room dwelling; 7,000 cords
of wood; 10 acres of fine bottoms?
$20 per acre. A. C. White place.
A new cottage near Graded School,
5-rooms?$1,650.
David Russell place; 12J acres near
corporate limits.
125 Acres?a beautiful 6-room cottage;
good new barn?8 stalls; double
crib. Everything in good shape; 4
tenant houses; land lies well; plenty of
wood; Bethel township, 6 miles of Clover.
At a bargain?J. M. Barnett.
J. C. WILBORN, Real Estate.
CIVIL ENGINEER WANTED.
Office of the County Board of Commissioners
of York County.
Yorkville, S. C.. June 5. 1908.
PURSUANT to the requirements of
an Act of the General Assembly
of South Carolina, approved February
24th, 1908, we will employ a competent
road engineer to survey and lay off all
the public roads of York county In sections
of from one to five miles, post
the same, number said sections, make
a map thereof, and furnish plans and
specifications for the working and improvement
of said sections, and perform
the other duties required of him
under the provisions of said Act. Term .
of employment from July 1st, 1908, to
July 1st, 1909, by which latter date said -^Vj
survey and plans must be completed,
and during said period, said engineer
shall devote his whole time to said
work, and is required to give bond in
the sum of Three Thousand Dollars
for tne raitnrui performance 01 nis duties
under said Act.
All parties desiring to apply for the
position will please file their application,
with references, and state salary
expected, on or before the 25th day of
June, 1908. All applications to be filed
with the Clerk of the Board at Yorkvilie,
S. C.
T. W. BOYD,
Supervisor.
L. J. LUMPKIN.
J. C. KIRKPATRICK,
County Board of Commissioners of York
County. 4
Hazel Grist, Clerk of the Board.
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Clemson Agricultural College
Examination.
THE examination for< the award of
Scholarships in Clemson Agricultural
College will be held In the County
Court House on FRIDAY, JULY
3RD, at 9 a. m. Applicants must fill
out proper forms, to be secured from
the County Superintendent of Educa- ?
tlon, before they will be allowed to
stand the examinations. For detailed
information apply to the Supt. of Education
or to the President of Clemson
College.
Applicants for admission to the college,
who are not seeking for the
scholarships, will also stand entrance
examination at the Court House July
3rd.
The Scholarships are worth $100 and
free tuition.
The next session of the college opens
Sept. 9. 1908.
For catalogues and information apply
to P. H. MELL.
President.
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YORKVILLE '
MONUMENT WORKS.
Remember the Read ,
Every grave in York county should
be appropriately marked with a Tombstone
or Monument. To do this is not
only a mark of respect and esteem to
one's departed relatives, but it is desirable
and proper to place an enduring
record in stone over all graves. If
you have loved ones who have passed
to the great beyond and are considering
the idea of a suitable marker for
their graves, we will appreciate a call
from you that we may have an opportunity
of showing you designs of Head
Stones and Monuments and quoting
you prices.
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YORKVILLE MONUMENT WORKS.
W. B. Wylie, Sec. and Treat.