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TO FAI South. Carolina, Clems See Columbi ID the history of nations there has been giren no wiaer Advice than this : .'In time of peace prepare for war." If in time of peace Japan had not jirepared for war she would long be fore this have been conquered and gubject to Russia instead of having met success at every turn as Bhe has done. Since nullification and secession Lavo long ince became dead issue's, South Carolina alone will never again have cfcuse to make war with villain ous saltpetre. But alone and unaided South Caro lina has before her an industrial fight of giant proportions, unlesB she is willing quietly to become the New Kngland of the South, a collection of worn out lands and deserted farms, ber sons migrating to other States to make a living because none can be made at home, her daughters, in in creasing numbers, never to know the joys of motherhood and bring up sons to the State because those who should have been their fathers have gone elsewhere to work and to marry, un gallantly unmindful of the girls they left behind them. New England boasts of her manu factures, bat those who have followed the plow have had a corry time of it of late years. South Carolina, too, may boaBt of her ootton manufactures, and heaven grant that she may do so for a hundred years to come, but if she does not give heed to the signs of times, if she does not in peace prepare for war, she will have little elso to boast of but her cotton mills and her truck farms when a decade of two has rolled by, for her general agricultural condition will be that of New Eng land. The years of 10 oent cotton are times of peace and prosperity. In these she uhould prepare for war, and if she does so wisely she may lead the whole South, not only in cotton manu factures, hut in agricultural as well. Her sons will remain at home. Her daughters will increase her population with native Carolinians faster than immigration will do with foreigners, MQU peopie from nearby States will flock here to share' her prosperity. Fortunately for South Carolina, she has one great thing in her favor which New England has not, and that is a genial climate, the full significance of whioh has been understood here and the importance of whioh will be shown later. New England had her agricultural fight with the northwest and lost out because her lands were less fertile and her climate and other conditions were m BO better. South Carolina must fight, ? not only the middle west, but also ? Louisiana and Texas, whose richer ? lands are already robbing her of her I supremacy in rice, and with the Mie If sis??ppi valley, which Will most cer tainly make her cotton plantations worthless when ootton again declines to its former unhappy level. I have taken upon me to Buggest a battle cry for this industrial war in whioh South Carolina mast engage. It is "Carolina, Clemson, Cattle and Cotton Seed," a. homely battle cry, perhaps, but* thiB is to be ap indus trial war and things industrial are omely things. It is none the less a attie ory whioh will win if the good pople cf this State ?BU be induced to ake it np. South Carolina has already had her arning. I trust that ? may be a lit e personal without offense, saya ew wordB to bring myself in closer ?neb with my readerB?tid show ,that J have some fitness to deal With this [j ?gesti?n. About eight years ago I came to his Stato and settled at Fort Hill be aase South Carolina's agricultural liege was the only one in thc United tates whose doors were open in sum* iet?B}er time, when I had leisure to study, or four years I did study there, udied my test, ('Carolina, Clemson, 3, Cotton Seed." Then I return to tbo homo of my fathers in Ten "see, made myself a place and a sae (here, and in doe time returned the Palmetto State for UB presid ?s genios'. ?Sorely then I am entitled to speak Carolinians and Carolina bas the M to claim tho best that is in lino, thia.spirit I'am writing these let It will be ? pleasure to welcome of South Carolinas sons in Ten bee, but it will be kinder if I can jip them to remain and make honves ?their own and good incomes in their ?tates. started to say that South Carolina already bad a warning. When I here some three or four years agc (seemed that this industrial war bad -dy begun, though tho remarkable ice in thc price of cotton, which cannot hope to last always, bas fe us forget it for Che tim?. mon waa not then paying for the nu ?MERS. son, Cattie and Cotton 3d. ia State. cost of production in So..'.h Carolina, although you were doing your best to stimulate it with some 200,000 tons of commercial fertilizer. Tho Missis sippi valley, Louisiana and Texas, where fertilizers are yet little needed on account of the great fertility of tho soil, were still making a little money on cotton, and could have gone on after South Carolina had been com pelled tc drop out of the rase it the price had not changed. Agricultur ists may say what they please, South Carolina cannot turn her attention lo something else and stop raising cotton without sinking lower than New Eng land. Her cotton mills already need three-fourths as much cotton as the State raises, and will soon need twice as much; the oil mills of the State already need twice as much cotton seed as are raised here; her fertilizer factories need nothing so muoh as a cheap supply of ammoniates whioh the seed furnish;.her people understand cotton oulture thoroughly and under stand no other great crop except rice, which is suited only to a portion of the State. Had cotton remained low and no new conditions been introduced, the growth of cotton would have fallen off in the State, the cotton mills, oil mills and fertilizer factories would have made less money add thousands of farmers would have left the State. Even then your farmers were despair ing of giving their boys a chance of making a living on the farm, and were sending them to Clemson Agricultural College to learn mechanical and elec trical engineering, and Senator Till man was finding them positions with the government outside the State be cause there was no place for them in the State. I saw one of the graduates of those days recently home for a visit, and sure enough he brought a wife with him. Another family lost to the State and nobody to blame but conditions in South Carolina at that time. ; . Many of the farmers' daughters were going to the cotton mills and gradually drawing father, mother and little brothers and Bisters into the same work away from the farm. South Carolina was fast approaching New England conditions at that time. But most significant to my mind of South Carolina's decline agriculturally was the decrease year by year in tho num ber of cattle raised in the State, for everywhere in civilized countries suc cessful agriculture is accompanied by successful cattle raising. 'In the good old times before the war South Caro lina had,- in 1850, by the census re port, 777,686 head of cattle. In 1900 she had only 255,164. j i I cannot call to mind any State in the union or any country on the globe that did not at least begin to go to the j dogs as soon as its oattle or sheep in dustry started on a steady deoline. The number of States and countries that .have risen to wealth, influence and importance by developing their live stock industries is legion. . ? So little understood and yet. so un important -is this matter of oattle rais ing in South Carolina, so intimate io I its connection with success in agricul ture (as ?veTfy text book on the sub ject shows) that if I were au editor in .South Carolina I would imitate the example of a Roman orator who had a purpose to accomplish and acoora^Usb edit, and would close every one cf my speeches, I mean editorials, with : "South Carolina Must Have Cattle." The next best thing for South Caro lina to the immigratian of substantial men, who will pay-for their keep, ii the immigration or raising of substan tial oattle that will pay for their keep. Indiana, not much bigger than South Carolina, baa a million and a quarter of them, and is growing rich from them. Iowa has over 4,000,000. A man who went np to one of these States where they combine ?attie rais- j ing with agriculture; and do it right, came back and said the farmers there live aa muoh better than our farmers do than we live better than the ne groes. I shall stop right here and let this cine thought soak in till my next letter. Farmers who want to live well, must combine cattle raiding with farming. Farmers live well where they raise cattle and their tone stay at home. Why not in South Carolina? We must have cattlo in South Caro lina. ' Edwin Lehman Johnson. Pendleton, Aug. 29,1904. ,m j im * - Une cup that cheers tee honey bee is the but tero up. ;-Many who think they will fee chosen aren't even oalled. # J -. Some men remind oro of a b?rd's cyo view of tho rea) thing. -A man never ?cts full until lie ia too far gone to get homo sober. ' -Critics are misanthropic persons who .have a penohaut for throwing ^nes., Southern Farm Mortgages. Without detraoting from the value of the observations of "Bonds sad Mortgages," printed elsewhere in this issue of the Field-remarks whioh are made from the standpoint of the in vestor, dealing with the element of security rather than the question cf benefits acoruing to the South from the h vestment of outside capital in this form-it may be added that the singular absenoe of the farm mort gage-its comparative absence-is one of the most striking features brought to the attention of tte home-seeker. In the West the farm mortgage was the preeursorof development; it large ly preeeded all eise in thc nature of development, while development cf the South, proceeding along different lines, performed the work of creating the best of home markets and the highest prioo for farm products with out incumbering the chief source of the South's wealth-its soil. Tn other words, the industrial development of the South has so greatly improved the status of the Southern farmer, by multiplying the demands for his pro ducts, both at home and abroad, but more especially at home, that many of the consideration whioh moved the Western and Northern farmer to mort gage his holdings do not apply in the South. There the burden of initial exploitation and development har been borne by the manufacturer and the railroad, while in the West it fell upon the shoulders of the farmer. In tho South, the farmer's oppor tunity has come to him quickly, largely through the efforts of other factors; iu the West it came by slow gradations, marked by heavy drains upon his substance to meet interest payments on mortgages, whioh are now being canceled. In a word, the West mortgaged its realty, while the South, for the most part, has only in cumbered some of the chattels. On the other hand, from the view point of the investor, there can he nc doubt about the attractions of the South as a field for farm mortgage investments. As "Bonds and Mort gages" points out, the seourity is safe -relatively safer than in any othei part of the country, for there is nt ; other section where values put upoi land are so disproportionate to itt earning po iver, whether it is employee in agriculture or allowed to idle anc grow up in timber. It has often been said by sbrewc observers that if only a small percent age of the money employed to give the Weet its start-and of course thi major part of this money was placet through the medium of the farm mort gage-had been invested in the Soutl instead, it would now be the mos prosperous section of the country But whatever the ultimate economi value of a system of farm mortgagin, in tho South, as general as that pur sued in the West would be, there is n doubt that suoh a course at this june turc of the South's developmen would promise more for the seotio than if introduosd alan earlier period before the strides in industry an transportation placed the Souther) firmer in his present position of oom parative independence respecting mai kets and market prices. The utility of the mortgage is c course the same in financiering a fan that it is in any other business ut dertaking; and the essential, or pr mary difference bef ween the West an the South has simply been the ord< in whioh resources have been take up for development. In the Wei the farm lands came first; in tl South they are coming last, their a traotions heightened by all that hi gone before in the development < other things.--Southern Field. Method In His Madness. A visitor to the St. Louis expos tion congratulated Joseph W. Foll the district attorney of the oity, upc the speed with whioh he had brougl the "boodle aldermen" to trial, sa: the San Antonio Express. "Speed," said Mr. Folk, emil in "is an. excellent thing, a thing th will aohieve wonders. I neard tl other day of an Irishman, thong who expected too much -of speed. . "This Irishman was a painte Usually being paid by the hour, 1 worked rather slowly, but a frier found him painting one- day like steam, engine. "The friend paused to investiga so strange a matter. " 'What's come over ye, McGuiro ho said. 'It ain't like you to woi that fast.' "'Whist,' said McGuire. 'Stat out of the way and don't shtop m Oi'm sh tri vin* to get through befi mo paint gives out.* " - The bibulous chap who is al wa; loaded isn't tho ona who insists upc carrying other people's burdens. . -- When you hear a man referred as a diamond in tba -rough you w generally find a lot of people wi want to ont him. - Jones-What have you got th stiring around your finger for ? Brov -My wife put it on so that I shoo remember something, I forget what was. I'm keeping it oo now io i mind me to ask her what it/was wh* I get homo t!*is evening. A Hood Word for "Dad." Over the parlor doors of a home Dot fat from one of the Woodbury churohos may be seen tho legend, "What is Home Without a Mother?" On the opposite wall is a motto, "God Bless Our Home." And as we looked at the two mottoes we wondered how it would do to hang a third, to read like this: "God Bless Our Dad." He is of some account surely. He gets up early, lights the fires, boils au egg, grabs his dinner pail and wipes off the dew with his boots while many a mother is sleeping. Ile makes the weekly handout for the butcher, the baker and bis little pile is badly worn before he has been home an hour. He keeps the renr. acoount balanced and otands off tho sherill. Should there bo any unusual noise in the night he is kicked iu thc back and made to go down-stairs to find the burglar and kill him. Mother darned the sooks, but dad bought the socks in the first place and the needles and yarn afterward. Mother docs up the fruit; well, dad bought it al), and jars and sugar costs like thc mischief. Dad buys ohiokens for Sunday din ner, carven them himself and draws the neck from tho ruins after every one else is served. "What is home without a mother?" Yeo, that is all right, but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding house; father ?B under thc blab and the landlady in a widow. Dad, hero's to you; you have your faults-you are all right, and we'll miss you when you aro gone. Woodbury, Vt., Reporter. Stripes. "Did you over stop to think about the origin of the stripes we use in our I prisons," said a man with an eye for the curious. "If you have not it will not take you long to figure the thing out if you hsppen to know anything about the Bible. The fact is that we get the idea from the old dispensa tion. When I say we I mean the peo ple of our civilization, of our own day and time, and who live under and are guided by our systems and notions. For instenoe, in the laws and ordi nances of Deuteronomy we find the following, which will give us thc clew to tho origin of stripes as a badge of infamy : 'If there be a controversy between men, and they come int" judgment, that thc Judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wioked. And it BU ni i be, if the wicked man he worthy to be beaten, that the Judge shall eau BO him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, aooording to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not em ceed ; lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.' Now instead of in flicting these physical stripes, we put striped clothes on the men who offend the law, or who may 'come unto judg ment, that the Judges may judge them,' aa. it is put in the text. Of oourse, yon should go much further baok in history if you cared to trace the origin of marks of infamy, hut yen would find ?hat physical mutila tion of some sort in a majority of in stances afforded tue means. But I was just telling you about tho origin of our penitentiary stripes, and did not mean to open the whole question which lieo behind the modern prac tice."-New Orleans Times. No Time Lost. A mother, says the New York Tri bune, after days of preparation for a j week's absence from heme, suddenly remembered, after the train was well under way, that she had left a bottle of a certain well-known remedy within reach of the meddlesome little fingers of her three-year-old son. She re membered, too, that there was noth ing that the ohild loved better than the aromatic contents of that particu lar bottle. Hurriedly oalling the porter, the anxious mother prepared a message to be telegraphed from the first station. It read: "Hide bottle of Bobbie's medioine I left in my room." An hour later sho reoeived this not altogether soothing message from the boy's father: "Too late/ Bobby got there first." World's Fai ?VI SOUTHERN Best Line, Choice of Routes, Thi Care. Stop-overs allowed at Western Noi er. pointa. * ' . Low Excursion Rate Tickets on S return aa folio wa : Season Tickets. Sixty-day tickets.. Fifteen-day Tickets*.... -. For full information or World's F Southern Railway, or R. W. H W. E. McOEE, T. P. A., August m Tbe Preacher's Tay. ? Massachusetts town has a preach er who retained a $3,500 pastorate rather than accept ono ?t $7,000. This is probably thc exception that proves tho rule. When preacher has two calls to duty, ono at $3,500 and the other at $7,000, the read is generally a plain one. Certainly. Why should ho hesitate to accept the $7,000 position if thc location is a pleasant one? It is his Christian duty as well as his material advantage to do 60. The man with $7,000 a year ie bet ter equipped for good work in any walk in life than is the man who gets only $3,500. Ile can feed and clothe himself and his family better, secure advatages in education and refinement, devote him self to his profession diligently and not have to scramble a* something el6c to keep bread and butte: ?iud a littleham in the house. Success brings success. Who can doubt that the lawyer or tho doctor who is making good money is a more iuilucntial man in his ptofesaion than is thc ono who barely gets along? In any profession you care to con Hider, money helps to standing and increased BUOCCBS. Thc common comment about preach cru looking at thc matter of compen sation rather than to the plain and unvarnished buniuess of saving souls is usually by thoughtless or mean spirited people. t Part of a preaoher's Christian duty, as of every other man, is to look out for the welfare of his wife and chil dren, as other men do. He ought to have enough money to enable him to make a good appearance and enjoy his friends, and it is per fectly proper for him to lay up a little against a rainy day-for preachers, like other people, grow old and help less, and to the shame of Christian people it must be said that a worn-out preacher oommands little more thoughtful consideration in this heartless world than does akioked-out shoe. A shabby preacher is one of the worst obstructions in the path of hu man progress. He is a drawback on the gospel. The man who has to go into an abject struggle to make a plain living is not thc magnet to draw sinners to the path of repentance. The minister shr dd bo a shining example of the claim that it paya to subscribe to the Christian system and be good. There may be occasional exceptions, but as a general rule tho preacher ought to go where he can get tho high est salary, and he is entitled to boldly present that as a reason for going. 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This is a strong statement, but Evans Pharmacy emphasizes it by agreeing to refand your money if Hyo mei does not care. _ ir St. Louis, IA *^?r I RAILWAY. rough Pullman Sleepers and Dining j rth Carolina Summer Resorts and o th a?e from Anderson to St. Louis and -.?36 10 .- 3a IO ...'.?. 24 65 'air Literature, apply to any Agent UNT, D. P. A., Charleston, Sf C. a, Ga. FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Sffi&, ^ Courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) and Master of Arti" M. A.) Library Reading I?r>??i. Laboratories. Lurge and Comfortable Dormitories, Expenses reduced to a Minimum. Next session beginB Sept. 14. For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. Cook. For Cala logue or information address Tho Secretary of the Faculty. IMPORTANT t Shingles, Lime, Cement, Lathes, BMBSBSSSMBBS? Brick'^?r8i INVESTIGATE wh?n in Sash, Blinds, i , c , - . - Mantels, I need of ^ kln* of~ "TS?SSat- BUILDING MATERIAL. Oil, Turpentine, Har?0U'G^SB' See me. If I don't sell you EVERYTHING nl make the other fel1T" ?8S THE BUILDER.I SELL YOU RIGHT. "W". Hi- BRISSEY, ANDERSON, S. C. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. We offer for sale the following desirable property, situ ated in this and surrounding Counties. Nearly all of these? places have good improvements on them. For full particu ulars as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 acres, two miles from city, un improved. House sud Lot, G acres, near city limits, very desirable. 1 acre, with new dwelling, in city limits. Iii acres, near city limits, cleared, no improvements. 200 acres in Fork township, on Tug aloo River, two dwellings. 400 acres in Oaklawn township, in Greenville Co., half in cultivation, 5 tenant dwellings, 50 acres of this ia in bottom land. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Creek, 300 acres in cultivation, 2 good residences, 6 ten ant dwellings, 40 acres in bottom land 91 acres in Garvin township, on Three-and-Twenty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 200 acre9 in Center township, Coo nee County, 100 cleared, balance well timbered, well watered, good mill site with ample water power. 133 acres, in Pendleton township, well improved. Berry place, Varennes, 87$ aorea. 437 acrcB, Pendleton township, tenn ant houses and dwelling. 145 acres, Evergreen place, Savaa nah townnhip. 150 acrcB in Savannah township^ well timbered, no improvements! 600 aorea in Hopewell township. 130 acres in Broadway township^ improved. 230 aorea in Fork township, on Sen eca River, good dwellings, &c. 800 acres in Anderson County, on Savannah River. 96 acres in Lowndesville township Abbeville County. 84 aerea in Corner township. 75 acres in Ooonee County. 75 acres in Piokens County. 152 acres in Rock Mills township* on Seneca River, 2 dwellings. 700 acres in Fork township. 56 acree in Macon Co., N. C.,'2^ miles above Walhalla, on road tc Highlands. All the above are d?sirable Lands, and parties wanting good homes, .aV low prices, can eeleotfrom ile abovo and call for further particulars. Now ia the time to secure your homes for another year. JOS. J. FBETWELL, ANDRFJ?ON, S. O. CH 0 ? H ^ H ? S g-?a F ? td cr- S W ?d 0 < w H M W 00 ? < O 5d OB 03 o This Establishment lias been Solling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitor ir have come and gone, but we have remained right hero. We have always sold Cheaper than any others; and during thooo long years we have not had one dis satisfied oustomer. Mistakes will sometime? occur, and if ai any time we found tuai s customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This policy , rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the confr dence of the people of this section. We have a larger Stook of Goods thie? season than we have ever had, aud we pledge you our word that we have never sold Furniture at aa close a margin of profit aa we are doing now. This IF proven by the fact that we are Belling Furniture not only all over Andersoo County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see us. Your parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can eave money by buying fc^re leo. Wc carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line,. C. F. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street The Old ^Reliable.Furniture Dealer? THOUSANDS SAY THAT McClure's Magazine Is the best' published at any price. Yet it, ie only IO cents a copy, $1.00 a year;. In every number of McClure's there are articles of intense interest cc> subjects of the greatest national importance. Bix good short stories, humorous stories, stories of life and action-tat?" t always good. In 1904 McClure's will be more interesting, important and entertaining - than ever. "Eveiy year better than the last or ii would nut be McClure's. ' THE 8. S. McCLURE COMPANY, 623 Lexington Building, New York, N. Y. NOW IS THE TIME For Overhauling Carriages and Buggies so aa to have them ready for sei vice in pretty weather. We have a tine lot of material and plen ty good, reliable help, and will do [our best to fplease with'repairs on all vehicles. PAUL E. STEPHENS,"? PAW M E R 8?XY| th? most MjjrtjgQ -Iv In the wo rica. CITY L0TSJ0R SALL SITUATED on and near North Main Street. Five minutes' walk Conrt House Apply to J. F. Ciinkscales, Intelligenoer< ?nice._ Notice to Creditors. - ALL persons bavin? demanda again* j' the Ea tat? of D. 8. Maxwell, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, properly proven, to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, nntS those Indebted to make payment. MRS. KATE B. MAXWELL, Ex's. June 22, 1904 1 3.