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THE CORN] I Tall Stalks arid SK st JU TOPIKA, KAN., Aug. 17.-Tl oom crop is beginning to tell conditions in Kansas, akhoagl picking season win sot open for days. A quickening is felt i kinds of business. Farmers are counting some of the profits. Lu yards are laying in great stool "crib stuff." At the ninety sta of one railroad there will fee sold fall, the estimate is, 1,000 carloa material with which to construct c The amount of crib lumber whicl whole State will require is beyonc cnlation. This crib building is a gratii sign of the big crop year. It cates better than words that the 1 eas farmer is master of the situa Two good years have put him w he is able to hold over a considei proportion of his crop until he eee what the next year will give ] and he is going to do it. A well structed crib in Kansas climate keep corn in conditio? ten years, vator men say. A crib of corn i good as a bank account. In tl days, with money almost a drug in banks, man; farmers will deposit i surplus ol crop in the crib and U stay there until next year, and e longer, unless prices tempt. I One effect in the anticipation is s in the rush of old corn to marl There are fore-handed farmers dealers in Kansas, who store up c against a failure. They long ago r the story of Joseph in Egypt and plied it to their own business. Tl have the record of Kansas for a tl of a century, showing the fluctuate of prices by periods of years. In flush seasons they fill the cribs : then they wait to guess the top not Sometimes they hit it; sometimes tl don't. About ten days ago it beca evident to the most sceptical Thou that Kansas had the banner corn ci of her history, a yield that would -far beyond the high water mark 1889. Now the corn savers are en tying their cribs. The steam shell? are whirring at all of the princi] corn stations. Hindsight makes so; of them wince a little. Repeated f U6als to sell at 30 cen ts are recall by the men who are now letting go 20and 22 cents. Rut as some of th< pat this corn by al cen -enta a bust ?hey are only cutting in h?f the pro that has been possible. On? s ta ti is letting go of 250,000 bushels of tl old corn. At another station 300.0 bushels has been marketed in a wee At the "forks of the Blue" is one these fore-handed farmers who had big crib fall of fine corn. The loo buyers got after him and bid clos and closer to his figure. Finally oi of them offered the farmers prie The, disagreement only was as whether it should be so much a bush at the crib as the farmer asked or tl same a bushel at the elevator as tl bayer offered. There was no sal Subsequently that farmer hauled t town and sold to the elevator men f< exactly one half of the price upo which they had once agreed. Withi certain limits the corn crop is aa it tores ting "gamble." Corn is the universal topic in Kat sas these days. Corn starts the coe venation on the cars. Corn stalk are stacked up at the station doors t show the.travelers what that part?cula locality has done. In the office of th Atchison Globe is a collection of stalk -with their butts on the floor. Whei Editor Howe stands on tiptoe he cai jost reach the ears with the tips o his fingers. Nothing less than four teen feet is, considered worthy ol ?how. Oat at Downs, half way acrosi the State, thc station agent has ot exhibition stalks which tower abov< the depot roof. They measure twen ty-two feet and four inches. A loca! poet has been inspired to the follow ing: The Kansas chinch bugs never die, Each season they appear, But corn ?talks 22 feet high Have knocken them out this year The bugs may come-they come in vain, We'll live when they have flown; Give Kansas but her share of rain And she will hold ber own. Some of the new crop is sufficiently advanced to justify weighing. One bayer to illustrate the quality, is showing eight ears which tip the beam at two pounds each. Thirty-five such ears would weigh a bushel. In ordinary years such corn from which eighty ears will weigh out a bushel is accounted good enough for Kansas. From a variety of points of view the Kansas corn crop affords satisfaction. Doddrige. the cattle feeder of White City, came into the Court House at Council Grove one day this week and said : ;,I tell you, boys, this corn crop makes a lot of difference in driving stock where the roads are not fenced. If a brute leaves the road ^now and tries to ran into the corn the ears hang across the rows so big* and heavy it ju3t can't make headway.' ' ^^^^^re^^an^^w^^^^^Law^ )P OF KANSAS. r Ears-_tV "Value of 00,000. ?e-Vemocrat. reo je, has very large milling interests perhaps the largest of any individual owner in the State. "We shall grind four times as much corn meal this year as we did last," he said. 'The consumption will be increased by this large crop Wheat will be higher, in my opinion than it has been in several years, es cept for the period when Leiter's ope rations advanced it. The price of wheat affects flour.. I have observed that whenever flour goes up the use of corn meal increases largely." "Does this great crop mean lower prices for corn?" Mr. Bowersoek was "No," he said, "I don't think so. We shall not see ten-cent corn this year, and I don't believe we shall ever have it again in "Kansas. There is a close relation between prices of wheat and corn. The former will tend to hold the latter up. That is always true. But, more than that, our farm ers are no longer obliged to rush the corn on the market. They can hold over a large part of the yield, and my belief is they will." An investigation made in one of the. northern central counties of the State shows four out of five farmers abun dantly able to carry half of their corn to another year without borrowing a dollar. Mr. \ Bowersoek and other public men of Kansas agree that thc benefits of the 300,000,000 bushels of corn will be more widely distributed, and that a greater proportion of the profits will remain in first hands than would be the case with any other source of agri cultural wealth.' The finest wheat crops of 1897 and 1898 made the grow ers in this State independent, but wheat is raised by only a minority of Kansas farmers. The advance in cat tle and hogs of the past three years has put many millions into the Dockets of the stock men, who constitute an other minority. Now comes this un precedented corn crop, and it seems as if every fanner in the State has some of it. Not only that, but commercial men on the road, lawyers in towns, the merchants and business men gen erally who own ground from an acre up are telling of the height of stalks and size of ears in their particular patches. B. F. Smith, the pioneer horticulturist of Douglas County, counts this as one of the most dis I couxaging berry seasons he ever knew. But he put in corn wherever he had a vacant acre, "just to keep the ground clean," and says he will make up as a farmer some of the profits lost as a fruit grower. Not only has every farmer in Kansas "great corn" this year, but, perhaps, the proportion which will have to share profits with landlords is smaller than in any of the other States. In quiries made in several counties the past week showed that less than 5 per cent of the cultivated land is owned by uon-residents. This line of inves tigation was pursued in a dozen coun ties, with reference especially to the farms on which thc principal crop is corn. It was demonstrated that most of these farms are from eighty to one hundred and sixty acres, and are owned by the men who occupy them. Here and there is a man who owns three hundred and twenty or six hun dred and forty acres and who rents corn land to the man who prefers to move often and pay no taxes rather than beeome a landholder, though he must put two-fifths of the crop he makes into a landlord's crib. Eighty acres of corn to the farmer seems to be the rule. One man in the custom of the country can and ought to put in, work and pick that amount of corn, thousands and thousands of Kansas farmers have done it this year, that is, up to the last stage, the pick ing. With half-grown boys to ride the cultivators, some farmers have more than eighty acres to their credit. And occasionally a farmer with an in spiration to be the talk of his neigh borhood has managed singlehanded to raise more corn than any other man in the township. In one locality there is a farmer who has made this year without help 15U acres of corn, and it is mighty fine, too. The neighbors lik? to tell strangers how he did it. This man had horses to spare. He worked them in relays, ile rode his cultivator and drove his horses across the field at a round trot. When one team tired this hustler got down, "hooked up" another team, and away he went. He cultivated twenty-five acres a day. The neighbors who sat on the fence and let their own,crops wait are ready to make affidavit to the statement. And now the problem is, how that man will spread himself over that 150 acres and pick it all by next March. "When I was a boy in Indiana," said a traveling corn buyer, in telling ?ow things are done in Kansas, "it was considered an excellent day's work to gather fifty oushcls of corn in a day. Lots of Kansas farmers pick 110 bushels day after day. They have ; a peculiar kind of hook, which is the only improvement over the fashioned peg. They reach fo ear and as they wrench it off the; it a turn with this hook and, stri of the husk, it goes flying int? I wagon. They make just one li the picking and husking. Thee sides, the horses are well tra They.never stop, but keep moving -along the row as fast as the mai pick, until they come to the end. rows are longer than they were ii older States. A farmer picks rigl from a quarter to a half mile wit turning. That helps in making the big showing at the end of the Frank M. Bo ker, the elevator i of Atchison, came from Jackson\ 111., in the heart of what made commonwealth the corn State of Union, two generations ago. He been twenty years in Kansas. "The farmers here," he said, <;i out more corn in proportion to t numbers than they did out of the < counties of Illinois, as I rcmcml They produce more than the s; number did on a like amount of 1 in Central Illinois. It is the si with wheat." "Much of this Kansas corn wh finds its way to market," con tin Mr. Baker, "will be exported. It i go out of the country by Newr. News and by New Orleans. Our ports of corn are growing heat every year. If there is any decline prices by reason of the upreceden crop the effect will be to greatly st: ulate exporting. This corn crop Kansas will be two or three years g ting to market." Feeding cuts a notable figure in 1 calculation of the profits which v accrue to Kansas from the 300,00 OOO bushels and more of corn, traveling man made this rather sta ling statement a couple of days ago group gathered in a hotel office: "The value of the corn crop Kansas will be more than that of the gold and silver mined in t United States this year." And then he proved the assortie The lowest estimate put upon the cr is the one just stated. From that t figures range to 400,000,000 buahe But the traveling man worked on t minimum basis. When the farme came to Kingman, the Delavan mc chant, one day this week and ask? him what he would contract to gi them for their corn he said prompt he was ready to enter into agrecmen to take it at 15 cents a bushel. Co gressman Bowersoek, whose millii connections make his opinion as prioes valuable, says some corn mt be sold by farmers at 15 cents, bi he doubts if much will. He thin! the great bulk will bring more. Frat M. Baker, of the Green leaf & Bair Company, which will handle millioi of bushels of the crop, makes 17 cen the minimum price, with probabilit? that not a great deal will be seid ; low as that. At 15 cents and 300 000,000 bushels the value of this cor crop to Kansas is $45,000.000. Bi that is far below the actnal amoni that will be realized. Half of tl crop for the State at large, probabl more, will be fed to cattle and hogi A bushel of cern at 15 cents is usual! worth 30 cents when manufacture into meat on the farm. Then a coi siderable fraction of the crop, perhap one-third, will go into cribs and sta, there until prices advance next yeai or even the year after. The travelin man figured out a value of abou $100,000,000 in the corn orop of Kan sas for this year, and his result wa not disputed. In The Police Court-Tried and Judg ?ont io Ka Favor. Some time ago Judge Andy E Cal houn, judge of the police court of At lanta, had occasion to pass a sentence that was gratifying to him, and ii people will take his advice much suf fering will be alleviated. The judge is subject to nervous sickheadacheE and dyspepsia. Here is his sentence: "I am a great sufferer from nervous sick headache and have found no rem edy so effective as Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy. If taken when the headaohe first begins it invariably cures." Price 50 cents per bottle. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. - Some Egyptian boats made of cedar, probably in use 4500 years ago, have been found buried near the banks of the Nile, and furnish an interesting proof of the power of that wood to withstand the ravages of time. The Rev. W. B. Costley, of Stock bridge, Ga., while attending to his pastoral duties at Ellenwood, that State, was attacked by cholera morbus. He says : "By chance I happened to get hold of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and I think it was the means of sav ing my life. It relieved me at once." For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - The gas and the lamp don't stand much show when there's a couple of spoony lovers around. They get turn ed down every time. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures obstinate summer coughs and colds. "I consider it a most wonder ful medicine -quick and safe.- W.W. Merton. Mayhew, Wis. Evans Phar macy. Quickly cure constipation and re build and invigorate the entire system -never gripe or nauseate-DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Evans Pharmacy. The Credit Man's Costly Error. Sometimes a credit man goes all wrong-but not often. A country merchant came up from Indiana with a written list of the things he wanted. He said he was new to the business, but he meant to have a partner who was wise. After he had picked out goods amounting to $8,000 he was in troduced to the credit man, and he looked so uncouth and inefficient that the credit man wondered how good clerks had been wasting their time on him. "What terms do you want, Mr. -?" He stopped, and the visitor supplied the name. "Well, down in our country we al ways pay after harvest." "But harvest is past. You don't mean next harvest-in 1900-do you?" "Well, that's when my people will pay me." "Oh, we couldn't do that. Ninety days is the very best I could give you. ' ' And even at that he wanted to know a great many things about his visitor's prospects. "How much if I pay all in 60 days?" The credit man quoted the terms. "How much in 30 ?" A discount was mentioned. "How much for cash?" 1 'Spot cash ? Money do wn ?" "Yes-currency." It was a wild question. The credit man knew he had no chanoe to get $8,000 ont of that man, and he quoted a beautiful discount. "Well, receipt the bill," was the countryman's rejoinder. And out from the folds of a $3 snit of clothes he dragged money enough to bay a yacht and ron it all summer. He didn't pud on much style, but he "figures" he saved the expenses of his Chicago trip.-Chicago Evening Post._^ _ - Marriage is considered good form, yet it is often med. - Chance gives us relations, but we most make our own friends. - Abeut one month ago my child, which is fifteen months old, had an attack of diarrhoea accompanied by vomiting. I f-.ve it such remedies as are usually gi\ en in such cases, but as nothing gave relief, we sent for a phy sician and it was under his care for a week. At this time the child had been sick for about ten days and was having abont twenty-five operations of the bowels every twelve hours, and we were convinced that unless it soon obtained relief it would not live. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy was recommended, and I decided to try- it. I soon notic ed a change for the better; by its continued ase a complete care was brought about and it is now perfectly healthy.-C. L. Boges, Stumptown, Gilmer Co., W. Va, For sale by Hill Orr Drue Co. At tue North Pole. If the North Pole is ever reached, the adventurous spirits who get there will find that they have actually out stripped Father Time altogether-in fact, he will have given up the race entirely, for at the northern and south ern extremities of the earth's axis there is no fixed time at all. At any moment it can be either noon or mid night, breakfast time, supper time, work time or play time, whichever time you like. Clocks will be a fraud and a delusion, for at the pole all de grees of longitude converge into one, and therefore all times. The possi bilities of such a position are endless. Not only, too. will the clocks be out of time, but the calendar as well. It can be at will either yesterday, to day or to-morrow. - Many men court distinction, but the wedding day dawns for the few. - When a man starts out to cover his tracks he makes a lot of new ones. - A true love-letter is written with utter disregard for Jtuture pos sibilities. -<<-__-^rw_^^__._ wnTuW? Before you buy a PIANO see me. I have saved to some of my customers as much as seventy-five dollars in the par chase of ONE PIANO. Snch makes as Chickering, Emerson, Stulz & Bauerand Mehlin to select from. None better. As to ORGANS you can save from fif teen to twenty-five dollars by seeing me. Remember, I am in the SEWING MA CHINE business, just for fan. Yon can get pri?es on any of the hitch grade makes; and do not forget that I sell any .Machine Needle at three for 5c, 20c. per dozen. The finest Sperm Oil 5c. per bot tle. Nothing bat new, select stock. Remember the place M. L. WILLI8, _South Main St., Anderwon, S. C. If you want Bargain* CHEAP JOHN'S, The Fire Cent Store. IF you want SHOES cheap go to Cheap John's, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS it's the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco.37*c. Early Bird Tobacco.37?c. Gay Bird Tobacco.35c. Our Leader Tobacco.27*c. Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 for 5c. Premio or Habana.3 for 5c. Old Glory. 8o. a pack. Arbuckle's Coffee Ile. pound No. 0 Coffee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Candies Cc. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in fact, everything of that kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed for five years, f 1.95,. Tinware i c beat the band. ' JOHN A. HAYES. -OUR Buggy and Wagon Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testify that "Old Hickory," "Tennessee," ''Studebaker" and "Milburn" Wagons are the lightest running and will wear longer than other makes on the market. You may find in this County these Wagons that have been in constant use for the past twenty years. We also have on hand a large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, and among them the celebrated "Babcock's," "Columbias," "Tyson & Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for selling first-class Goods is evident by the blands men tioned above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men's" Buggy has no equal. Have also a large and select line of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI DLES, &c., and have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldman" Harness, which is well known in this County, and needs no "talking up." The Wagon and Buggy manufacturers are advancing prices on all their goods on account of the advance in price of all the material, and in conse quence we will have to advance our prices from $5.00 to $10.00 a job ; but we wish to give you a chance to buy before the rise, so you had better join in the procession and buy one of our Buggies or Wagons at once, for on and after September 1st next our prices will be at least $5.00 higher than at present. We regret having to do this, hut cannot get around it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRETWELL. W?1 still sell you a first-class Buggy for $30.00. Car riage $85.00._ THE WOMAN, THE MAN and the THE PILL. She was a good woman. He loved her. She was his wife. ! The pie was good. His wife made it. He ate it. But the pie disagreed with him, and he disagreed with his wife. Now he takes a pill after pie and is happy. The pill he takes is EVANS'. MORAL : Avoid Dyspepsia by using EVANS' LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS. a?e. _EVANS PHARMACY. 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The serious consequences to which Scrof ula surely J eads ^ _ should impress upon those afflicted with it the vital im- J^SB?*?*^ portance of wasting no time upon treatment which can /fl^ffljBSgfia not possibly effect a cure. In many cases where the wrong ?SKfi ^ffijfj| treatment .has been relied upon, complicated glandular fi^?H swellings have resulted, for which the doctors insist that if?f?fif 9ft a dangerous surgical operation is necessary. EiB?w?om? Mr. H. E. Thompson, of Killedgeville, Ga., writes : "A bad case of Scrofula broke out on the glands of my neck, ^flfi sfBSs which had to be lanced and caused me much suffering. I ^I^S?; was treated for a long while, but the physicians were un- ySl&K?MtH able to cure me, and my condition was as bad as when I gBU WWAJ&L began their treatment. Many blood remedies were used, ?i^gEafiH? but without effect. Some one recommended S. S. S., and n? j?tST SHH I began to improve as soon as I had taken a ft-w bottles. ^flL-?T^^sW* Continuing the remedy, I was soon cured permanently, and have never had a sign of the disease to return." Swift's Specific S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD -is the only remedy which can promptly reach and cure obstinate, deep-seated blood diseases. By relying upon it, and not experimenting with the various so-called tonics, etc., all sufferers from blood troubles can be promptly cured, instead of enduring years of suffering which gradually but surely undermines the constitution. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable, and never fails to care Scrofula, Eczema, Cancer, Rheumatism, Contagions Blood Poison, Boils, Tetter, Pimples, Sores, Ul cer s, etc. Insist upon S. S. S. ; nothing can take its plftefc. Books on blood and skin diseases will be mailed free to any address by the Swift Specific Company^ Atlaa*?,i "G*?^ywW r , STOVES, TINWARE, CROCKERY. ALARGE LINE, carefully selected to suit the public. We sell the Iron King, Elmo and Garland Stoves and Banges, and the Times and Good Times, Ruth, cottage and Michigan Cook Stoves, ranging in price from $7.00 to $35.00. All are gnaranteed to give perfect satisfactioo, if not money will be refunded. Be sure you make us a call before buying a Cook Stove. We are bound to sell you and are sure to please you. We will take your old Stove in ps.rt payment for a new one. Our TINWARE is the best on the market. We carry a well-selected Stock of CHINA, such as Dinner Sets, Tea Sets and Chamber Sets. We also carry a full line of PORCELAIN GOODS. Also, a nice line of GLASSWARE. We do all kinds of ROOFING-Tin Roofing, Slate Roofing-and Repair work. We will be pleased to have yon give us a call before buying. OSBORNE & OSBORNE. N. B.-All Accounts due Osborne <fc Clinkscales must be settled. ,?itt?.ti??AtAi " The Best Company-The Best Policy." J Ti mui BSNEF?T LIFE INSURANCE CO.. OF NEWARK, N. J. This Company has been in successful business for fifty-four y fa rs ; bas paid policy-holders over 8165,000,000, and now has cash assets of over J $67,000,000. It issues the plainest and best policy on tbe market. After TWO annual premiums have been paid it RR N, A VTvee ? 1. Cash Value. :?. Extended Insurance. Incontes t? u AKA* IIL&?S j .j, Loan Value. 4. Paid-up Insurance. tability. Also Pa)s Large Annual Dividends. M. M. MATTISON, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, S. C., over P. O. Resident Agent for PIRE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. A FIRST-CLASS COOK Can't do first-class work with second-class materials. But you can hold the girl accountable if you buy your : : : : GROCERIES FROM US ? We have the right kinds of everything and at the right prices. Where qualities are equal no dealer can sell for less than we do. We guarantee to give honest quantity at the very LOWEST PRICES. Come and see us. We have numerous articless in stock that will help you get up a square meal for a little money. Our Stock of Confections, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., Are always complete. Yours to please, Free City Delivery. Q-. F. BIGBY. ?H o ' S ?Cd g Sc P w td O' td 0 ?> M Sd o < a H t? 33 0 ? ? ft H a o ts cc ? < > W M ft 0 ft w d ts ft H B ft td ft Q K ft H SS B CD O o S" tr? is e SIT ON THE FENCE AND SLEE ! . . . WHILE the procession passes ii you want to. Nobody will disturb you. Butt you are alive to your own interests arouse y ourself, shake off slumber, climb into the band-wagon and wend your wav with the crowd to THE JEWELRY PALACE OF WS'-L. R. HUBBARD ! They that want the best and prettiest to be obtained in Diamonds, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Watches and Gooks that will keep time and are backed with a guarantee, Fine China and Glassware and beautiful Novelties, know that to Will. 2rt Hubbard's is the place to go. They that want honest treatment know that thia is the place to find it. All Goode are justas represented, and are fully covered by guar antee , The young man who has a girl and wants to keep her goes there. Hubbard will help you keep her. The young married couple goes there to beautify their little borne. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go there because they &n afford it, and the poor go there, also, because they can afford it. afr- Evervthing NEW and UP-TO-DATE. AT- ENGRAVING FREE. WILL. R. HUBBARD, Jewelry Palace, next to Farmers and Merchant? Bank,