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HE CORN CK! Tall Stalks and Bij SIOOX fit. Louis QU ^jka, Kan., Aug. 17.?The big; crop is beginning to tell upon lion? in Kansas, although the cg season will not open for sixty A quiekening is felt in all of business. Farmers are dis lieg some of the profits. Lumber re laying in great stocks of g,staff." At the ninety stations t railroad there will be sold this the estimate is, 1,000 carloads of it! with which to construct oribs. amount of crib lumber which the e State will require is beyond cal op. \t crib building is a gratifying of the big orop year. It indi better than words that the Kan firmer is maeter of the situation, good years have put'him where ;. able to hold over a considerable rtion of his crop until he can ffhat the next year will give him, ? be is goiii'g to do it. A well con ted crib in Kansas climate will corn in condition ten years, ele rnen say. A crib of corn is as as a bank account. In these with money almost a drug in the I, many farmers will deposit their as of crop in the crib and let it there until next year, and even , unless prices tempt. ie effect in the anticipation is scon tie rush of old corn to market. arc fore-handed farmers and ra in Kansas, who store up corn it a failure. They long ago read itory of Joseph in Egypt and ap it to their own business. They the record of Kansas for a third century, showing the fluctuations ices by periods of years. In the 1 seaports they fill the cribs and they wait to gu"ss the top notch, times they hit it; sometimes they t. About ten days ago it became lent to the most sceptical Thomas Kansas had the banner corn orop er history, a yield that would go beyond the high water mark of Now the corn savers are emp their cribs. The steam shellers whirring at all of the principal Btttions. Hindsight makes some hem wince a little. Repeated re Is to sell at 30 cents are recalled e men who are now letting go at od 22 cents. But as some of them this corn by at ten cents a bushel 'are only cutting in half the profit bas been possible. One station King go of 250,000 bushels of this rn. At another station 300,000 heia has been marketed in a week, ie "forks of the Blue" is one of ? fore-handed farmers who had a crib full o* fins corn. The local :rs got after him and bid closer closer to his figure. Finally one Hhem offered the farmer's price. igreement only was as to Sther it should be so much a bushel ie crib as the farmer asked or the :a bushel at the elevator as the t offered. There was no sale, flwqaently that farmer hauled to and sold to the elevator men for ?tly one half , of the price upon h iey had once agreed. Within in limits the corn crop is an in tiog "gamble." rn is the universal topic in Kan ?ae days. Corn starts theses tion on the cars.' Corn stalks tacked up at the station doors to the travelers what that particular ity has done. In the office of the ison Glohe is a collection of stalks their butts on the floor. When r Howe stands on tiptoe he can reach the ears with the tips of fingers. Nothing lesr than four feet is considered worthy of Out at Downs, half way across Etate, the station agent has on ition stalks Which tower above epot roof. They measure twen fo feet and four inches. A local has been inspired to the foliow ?anaas chinch bags never die, season they appear, Born stalka 22 feet high ~?a kuockeo them out this year, )ogH may come?they come in vain, '11 live when they have flown; KansviB but her share of rain A aba will hold her own. jfce of the new crop is sufficiently g^eed to justify Weighing. One to' illustrate the quality, ?b (tag eight ears which tip the 1 *t two pounds each. Thirty-five ears would weigh a bushel. In uy years euch corn from which y ears wiilweigh* out a bushel is &?ted good; enough for Kansas. J** ^variety of points of view the com crop affords catisfaction. B^ige, the cattle feeder of White came into the Court Ctauseat cil Grove one 'day this week and tell you,* boys, ' this corn crop * slot of difference in driving 'where the reads are not fenced, [brute Jeeves the road.?new. and to tt^S?td the corn the ears. : *cros?( the rows so big and heavy -can-4 naake headway. OP OF KANSAS. ^ Ears?J\. Value of KX>,QOO. ibt-Democrat. rence, 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 Trill be higher, in my opinion, than it has been in several years, ex cept for the period when Leiter'a ope rations advanced it. The price of wheat affects flour.. I have observed that whenever flour goes up the use of ooru meal increases largely." "Does this great crop mean lower pri?es for corn?" Mr. Bowersoek was asked. "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 I and corn. The former will tend to hold the latter up. That is always true. But, more than that, our farm-1 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 I shows four out of live farmers abua-1 dantly able to oarry half of their corn to another year without borrowing a dollar. Mr. Bowersook and other public men of Kansas agree that the 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 wonld be the case with any other source of agri cultural wealth. ' The finest wheat crops of 1897 and 1898 made the grow-1 ers in this State independent, but wheat is raised by only a minority of Kansas farmers. The advance in cat tie and hogs of the past three years I has put many millions into the pockets of the stock men, who constitute an other minority. Now comes this un precedented corn crop, and it seems as I if every farmer in the State has some of it. Not only that, but commercial I men on the road, lawyers in towns, the merchants and business men gen- I erally who own ground from an acre up are telliug of the height of stalks and sise of ears in their particular patches. B. F. Smith, the pioneer horticulturist of Douglas County, counts this as one of the most dis couraging berry seasons he ever knew. But he put in corn wherever he had I a vaoantacre, "just to keep the ground clean," and says he will make up as a i farmer some of the profits lost as a fruitgrower. 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-1 quiries made in several counties the past week showed that less than 5 per cent of the cultivated land is owned by non-residents. This line of inves- I tigation wes pursued in a dozen conn ties, with reference especially to the farms oh whioh the principal crop is 1 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- ! I dred and forty acres and who rents corn land to the man who prefers to move often and pay no tax?s rather than become a landholder, though he must put two-fifths of the orop he makes into a landlord's crib. Eighty aores of corn to the farmer ! seems tcbe the rule. One man in the custom of the country can and onght 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, tho pick ing. With half-grown boys to ridel the cultivators, some . farmers have more than eighty aores to their credit. And occasionally a farmer with an in-1 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 I is a farmer who has made this year without help 1?0 acres of corn, and it is mighty fine, too.. The neighbors I like to tell strangers how he did it, I This man had horses to spare. He j worked them in relays. Hb 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 aeres.ia 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. y ' "When I was a boy in. Indiana," said a traveling corn buyer, in telling &0w things are done in Kansas, "it wa* . considered . an excellent day's work to gather fifty bushels of corn in. a day. Lots of Kansas fanners pick 110 bushels day after day. ''.Thoyhav? ' a peculiar kind of book, vbicb is about the oniy improvement over the old* fashioned peg. They reach for the ear and as they wrench it off they give it a turn with this hook and, stripped of the husk, it goes flying into the wagon. They make just one lick of the pioking and husking. Then, be sides, tho horses are well trained. They ne ver stop, but keep moving right along the row as fast as the man can pick, until they oome to tho end. The rows are longer than they were in the older States. A farmer picks right on from a quarter to a half mile without turning. That helps in making up the big showing at the end of the day. Frank M. Boker, the elevator man, of Atchison, came from Jacksonville, 111., in the heart of what made that commonwealth the corn State of tho Union, two generations ago. He has been twenty years in Kansas. "The farmers here," he said, ''ship out more corn in proportion to their numbers than they did out of the corn counties of Illinois, as I remember. They produce more than the same number did on a like amount of land in Central Illinois. It ia the same with wheat." "Much of this Kansas corn whioh finds its way to market," continued Mr. Baker, "will be exported. It will go out of the country by Newport News and by Now Orleans. Oar ex ports of corn are growing heavier every year. If there is any decline in prices by reason of the upreoedented crop tho effect will be to greatly stim ulate exporting. This corn orop of Kansas will be two or three years get ting to market." Feeding cuts a notable figure in the calculation of the profits whioh will acoruc to Kansas from the 300,000, 000 bushels and more of corn. A traveling man made this rather start ling statement a couple of days ago to group gathered in a hotel office: "The value of the corn crop of Kansas will be more than that of all the gold and silver mined in the United States this year." And then he proved the assertion. The lowest estimate put upon the crop is the one just stated. From that the figures range to 400,000,000 bushels. But the traveling man worked on the minimum basis. WL n the farmers came to Kiogman, the Delavan mer chant, one day this week and asked him what he would contract to give them for 'their corn he said promptly he was ready to enter into agreements to take it at 15 cents a bushel. Con gressman Bowersook, whose milling connections make his opinion as to pri?es valuable, says some corn may be sold by farmers at 15 cents, but he doubts if much wi". He thinks the great bulk will bring more. Frank M. Baker, of the Grcenleaf & Baker Company, which will handle millions of bushels of the orop, makes 17 cents the minimum price, with probabilities that not a great deal will be sold as low as that. At 15 cents and 300, 000,000 bushels the value of this corn orop to KansaB is $45,000.000. But that is far below the aotual amount that will be realized. Half of the crop for the State at large, probably more, will be fed to cattle and hogs. A bushel of corn at 15 conta is usually worth 30 oents when manufactured into meat on the farm. Then a con siderable fraction of the crop, perhaps one-third, will go into cribs and stay there until prices advance next year, or even tho year after. The traveling man figured out a value of about SlOC.eOO.OCO is the com orop of Kan sas for this year, and his result was not disputed. In Tke PoHco Cenrt-Tried and Jodg steat la Its Favor. Some time ago Judge Andy ? Cal houn, judge of the police court of At lanta, had occasion to pass a sentence that Was gratifying to him,, and if people will take his advice muoh suf fering will be alleviated. Th? judge is subject to nervous siokheadaches 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 headache 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. ? . r ' '1 ? 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 Stook bridge, Ga., while attending to his Sastoral duties at Ellenwood, that t?te, was attacked by cholera morbus. He says : "By chance I happened to g>t bold of a bottle of Chamberlain's olic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and! think it. was the means of sav ing my life. It relieved mo at ones." For sale by Hill-Ore Dru? Co. -*- The gas and the lamp don't stand muoh show when. there's a couple of spoony lovers around. They get turn ed down every time. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures obstinate sommer coughs and I colds. "I consider it a moat wondcr ! fui medicine?quick an<? stf?.-^WVwV Morton, Mavhew, Wis. Evans Phar macy. Quickly cure constipation and re build and invigorate the entire system - aevergr?pe or oauseate?DoWitt's Li?!? Early Bitars. Evass 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 pioked out goods amounting to 13,000 he was in troduced to the credit man, and he looked so unoouth 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 oould 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 CO days?" The credit man quoted the terms. "How much in 39?" A discount was mentioned. "How much for cash?" "Spot cash? Money down?" "Yes?currency." It was a wild question. The oredit man knew he had no chance to get $8,000 out of that man, and he quotod a beautiful discount. "Well, receipt the bill," was the conn try m an's rejoinder. And out from the folds of a $3 suit of elothes he dragged money enough to buy a yacht and run it all summer. He didn't put 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 rued. ? Chance gives us relations, but we must make our own friends. ? Abeut one month ago my ohild, which is fifteen months old, had an attack of diarrh a accompanied by vomiting. I gave it such remedies as are usually given 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 ohild had been sick for about ten days and was having about twenty-five operations of the bowels every twelve hours, and we were eonvinced that unless it soon obtained relief it wonld not live. Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was recommended, and I decided to try it.' I soon notic ed a change for the better; by its continued use a complete cure was brought about and it is now perfectly healthy.?C. L. Boggs, Stumptown, i Gilmer Co., W. Va. For sale by Hill-1 Orr Drug Co._ At the 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 ioto 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. - ~mm ? am* . ? Many men court distinction, but the wedding day dawns for the few. ? When a man starts out to cover his tracks ho makes a lot of new ones. ? A true love-letter is written with utter disregard for future pos sibilities, ^^^^^j....^^^^.^^. WILL YOU 1 Before you buy a PIANO see me. I have saved to some of my customers as much aa seventy-flv? dollars in the pur chase of One Piano. Such makes aa Cbiokerlng, Emerson, Stulz A Bauerand M?hlin toaeleot from. None better. As to ORGANS you can cave from fif teen to twenty-five dollars byeeelng me. Remember, Z am in the SEWING MA CHINE business, jnst for fan. You can get pri?es on any of the blah grade makes ; and do not forget that I sell any Machine Needle at three for 5c, 20o. per dozen. Tbe finest Sperm Oil 5c. per bot tle. Nothing but new, select stock. Remember the place? M. Ij. WILLIS, _gogth Main St., Anderson, S. C. If you want Bargains go to. CHEAP JOHN'S. The Five Gent Store. IF you want 8H0EB cheap go to Cheap John's, the Fi vo Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and OIGARS it's tbe place to get them cheap. Schnapp* Tobacco. 37?o. Early Bird Tobacco. 37$c. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35c. Onr Leader Tobacco. 27$c. Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 forde. Promio or Habana.3 for So. Old Glory. 8o. a pack. Arbuckle's Coffee llo. pound No. 9 CofTee 9o. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Candles Co. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in faot, everything of that kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed for fi ve years, f 1.95. Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. 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" Wngona are the lightest running and will wear longer than other makes on the market. You may find in this County these Wagons that bave 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 A Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for selling first-class Goods is evident by the bxands men tioned above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men's" Buggy has no equal. KaveaiKKa large and select line of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI DLES, &c., and have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldmon" 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 ca 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 tban at present. We regret having to do this, but cannot gel around it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRETWELL. Will still aeU yon a first-class Boggy for $30.00. Car riage $86.00._ 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 EVAN8'. MORAL : Avoid Dyspepsia by using? EVANS' LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS. S?c. EVAN8 PHARMACY. WHEELMEN, ATTENTION ! ijt you want BICYCLES and SUN DRIES Bring the CASH and call o_f-*~ hf THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, mm BioYoxas people. ONLY ONE CURE FOR SCROFULA. Remedy Equal to this Obstinate Disease. SO ? Jo fhft flfllV There ?ro dozens of remedies recommended for Oi Oi 10 1119 UIBIJ Scrofula, some of them no doubt peine able to afford temporary relief, but S. 8. S. is absolutely the only remedy which completely tuns it. Scrofula is one of the most obstinate, deep-Bested blood diseases, and is beyond the reach of the many so-called purifiers and tonics because some thing more than a mere tonic is required. 8.8. S. is equal to any blood trouble, sud never fails to euro Scrofula, because it goes down to the seat of the disease, thus permanently eliminating every traco of the taint. The serious consequences to which Scrofula surely leads should impress upon those afflicted with it the vital im portance of wasting no time upon treatment which can not possibly effect a cure. In many cases where the wrong treatment has been relied upon, complicated glandular swellings have resulted, for which the doctors insist that a dangerous surgioal operation is necessary. Mr. U.E. Thompson, of Milledgeville, Qa., writes : "A bad case of Scrofula broke out on the glanda of my neck, which had to be lanced and caused me much suffering. I was treated for a long while, but the physicians were un able to cure me, and my condition was as bad as when I began their treatment. Many blood remedies were used, but without effect. Some one recommended 8. S. 8., and I began to improve as soon as 1 had taken a few bottleB. Continuing the remedy, I wss 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 csn 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 ne promptly cured, instead of enduring years of suffering which gradually but surely undermines the constitution. 3. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable, and never fails to euro Scrofula, Eczema, Cancer, Rheumatism, Contagious Blood Foison, Boils, Tetter, Pimples, Sore r, U1 cors, etc. Insist upon S. a S. ; nothing can take Ha plac?. Books on blood and skin diseases will be mailed free to any address by the Swift Specific Company, Atlanfe^ Gan^da. , , STOVES, TINWARE, CROCKERY. ALARGE LINE, carefully selected to suit the public. We Bell the Iron King, Elmo and Garland Stoves and Ranges, and tbe Times and Good Times, Ruth, Cottage and Michigan Cook Stoves, ranging in price from |7.00 to f??.OO. All are guaranteed to glv ? perfect satisfaction, if not money will be refunded. Be sure you make us a call bet?re buying a Cook Stove. We aro bound to noil you and are sure to please you. We will take your old Stove in part 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 lino or PORCELAIN <iOODS. Also, a nice line of GLASSWARE. We do all kinds of ROOFING?Tin Rooting, Slate Hooting?and Repair work. We will be plesRod to have you give ue a call before buying. OSBORNE & OSBORNE. N. B.?All Accounts due Osborne & Clinkscales must be settlod. " The Best Company?The Best Policy." ^ THE MUTUAL B?f LIFE 1NS?BANCE CO., t OF NEWARK, N. J. TbiB Company bas been in successful business for fifty-four years ; has % paid policy-holders over $180,000,000, and now bas cash assets of over 41*67,000,000. It issues thr. plainest and best policy on tbe market. After TWO anou?i yreiuiumn Luvb Iihuii jpiid it? GUARANTEES Alao Pajs Large ?nnual IMTide^g in have uhuii pud it? f 1. Cash Value. :t. Extended Insurance. 5. Incontes-? \ 12 Loan Value. 4. Paid-up Insurance. tabllity. L klan Vmm m n ?.tarer? a n il il al St?Tl?'?-?"'" M. M. MATTISON, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, S. C, over P. <>. 5fS- Resident Agent for FI KE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. www yVTVVVTTVTVTTV w V w A FIRST-CLASS COOK Can't do first-class work with second-claBS materials. Dut 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 cau 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 itock that will help you get up a square meal for a little money. Our S toc. f? Confections, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., Are always complete. Yours to please, Free City Delivery. GL F. BIGBY. ? < ? CO ? g ^ z ?-a g 3 S a 2 US 1-188 il o- g S ? il as; SIT ON THE FENCE AND SLEE ! . . . WhILB the procession passas If you want to. Nobody will disturb you. Buti you are alive to your own interests sronas youraolf, shake off slumber, climb into ? the band-wagon ami wend your way with the crowd to? THE JEWELRY PALACE OF WILL. R. HUBBARD! They that want the best and prettiest to be obtained in Diamonds. Jewelry, Sliver and Plated Ware, Watches and Clocks that will keep time and are backed with a Kuarantee, Pins China and Glassware and beautiful Novelties, know that to Will. R. Habbard'a is the plaos to go. They that want honest treatment know that this is the place to find it. All Goods aro just as represented, snd sre fully covered by guar Ths young man who has a girl snd wants to keep hex goes there. Hubbard will help you keep her. The young married couple goes there to beautify their Utile boms. Hubbard beautifies it for you. The rich people go there because they ein afford it. and tbe poor go there, also, because thsy can afford it. M?P Everything NEW and UP-TO-DATE. ?S* ENGRAVING FREE. , , r WILL. R. HUBBARD, Jewelry Palace, next to Farmers and Merchants Bank.