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> BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1904. VOLUME XXXX--NO. 28. #3&- WHEN YOU BUY A NTER OVERCOAT ! .Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner ?s? Marx AT THI3 STORE you will be sure to get the most stylish, the best tail ored and the best fitting Overcoat that can be had for the money. We have made sure of this by handling only the product of the best Clothes makers in the country, and can there fore guarantee every garment to be as represented. In Men's and Young Men's Over o'jiitB we are offering incomparable values at $5.00 to $20.00 That you will do well to take advan tage of while our style and fabric as sortment is at its zenith. We were never so proud of any particular group of Clothing as we are of our Stylish Overcoats at $15. They are extremely fashionable garments, such as you usually pay 820 for, and consist of kneA-?encril^ sc dium-length and long Overcoats, up lo-tiie-niinutc in style, close-fitting col lar, broad shoulders, cul loore and roomy ; made of Kerseys, Vicunas, Cheviots and Friezes, in black aid Oxford, and certainly the most re markable value ever seen at SM 00. Fashionable Suifs for Little Boys. Here thrifty parents can clothe the "little shavers" most stylishly at de <t?stve samngs ovea what libe quality Clothing costs elsewhere. Visit other ?Stores first, then come here and make any lair comparison you like-if you do, you'll find our styles smarter and our prices lower. Hone's just a hint : BOYS' SUITS, fihfles 4 to 17 years, made of Etuidy Serges, Fancy Cheviote and Tweeds feandsomely tailored. strong linings, trousers ^| |?|> Tft ?fi fifi reenforced, wann, comfortable, aervioeable*.. 35 o DU I U 3D? UU. Evans & Co THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. F FEET -A_re Cold., . Wet, Tired.? Cramped T -CO TO -? LEAN & RATLIFFE AftlD GET THEM CURED. $ THEY, are Foot-Fitters from away back, and have the besti selected stock of Bran New Shoes They ever bought. Their Special Reduction Sale of three hundred pairs of Cheap Shoes at Cheap Figures is now in fullblast. This sale spells DON'T FORGET THE PLACE * 111. & RATLIFFE, ; " 3 THE FOOT PLBASERS. f rm : :.. -_! _Ll_!_ ^_IM.... . -i The Farmers' Educational and Ca-Operativo Union of America. CONDUCTED BY J. C. STRIBLING. yt-if Commuicationa intended forthi? department should bo addressed to J. O. Stribling, Par dikton, 8. C. The Farmers Should Organize. Everybody it seems except tho Cot ton Exchanges and cotton gamblers have indicated their friendship and sympathy with the cotton growers of tile South, and still sume of our cotton growers ure looking at and holding on to the dollar that it takes to join the Farmers' Union while the cotton spec ulator is running oft* with from $10 to $13 per bale of his cotton, when, if all cottongrowers, or even one half of them, would unite, they could abso lutely control prices. The Southern cotton mill men, tho merchauts and bankers ure tumbling over each other in concert of action of fering aid to farmers to enable them to hold their cotton, but the farmers aro very slow in coming together. They have been fooled and deceived so often that they have almost lost conlidence in each other. Mr. Montgomery, vice president of the .South Curolina Bankers1 Associa tion, in his article appealing to bank ers to come to the cotton growers aid, speaks thus: "In revolving this matter in my mind the pinn indicated above appeared the most feasable, because the bauks of the ?South are organized, the farmers are not; tho bank-? ?-nn o?t promptly, mo tanners cannot." Farmers, this cluuse from this letter from a banker should be read and re read again, and nguiu, to every farmer who refuses to join the farinosa' organ izations to help himself. There are bankers, the mill men, merchants, cot ton oil mills, ginners, cotton handlers and even the little "2 x 4" cotton buy ers that stand on the BtreotB, aro all or ganized to protect their own interest, while some farmers consider them selves too independent or feeble, too smart or too big a fool, too good or too indifferent to associate his name with that of his best neighbors, in one gruud concert of action to protect that which belongs to him. So lon*? as farmers refuse to "trust each other" and stand aloof to battle against the organized, world single-handed, just so long the organized world will regard him ns u dog for the fleas to prey upon, and he has nu escape. Why is it thut the manufacturer of cotton cannot raise the price of the manufactured products instead of low ering the price of cotton in order to make his profitf It is because the dry goods trade is well organized und the cotton grower is not. The curreut of trade moves alone the line of leant re sistance, and as the dry goods trade is a unit and is fortified against resis tance, and the farmer is not prepared to meet this pressure upon his business with an organized force as an equal if not superior nnit the f armera' i utereut is swamped, and he has to yield to the inevitable and pay tribute to the or ganized lorie* of his wiser competitor for the dollar. Farmers, rally to the standard of equity; come out on 7th January next at eveiy precinct in the country and join The Farmers'' Union, organize one if yon have none at your place and line up ready for action. The Baakers Heard From. It is exceedingly gratifying to the farmers to note the ready response of the business men of the South to the appeal of the farmers for aid in their desperate struggle against the com bined forces of the cotton speculators who are now playing a game to force the farmers of the South to yield to their levy of several hundred million dollars. In the article recently published, coming from Mr. B. F. M auld in, presi dent, and Mr. W. J. Montgomery, vice president of the South Carolina Hankers' Association, there are several paragraphs beside* the bankers' oilers nf much-needed aid, of special interest to farmers at this time. In Mr. Mont gomery's remarks he says; 'Becuuae the bankers of the South are organi zed, the farmers are not; the banks can act promptly, the farmers can not." This paragraph of Mr. Montgomery's Bhonld us read and read again to every farmer of South Carolina who doea not already belong to some tannera' or ganization. The farmers who stand outside of the farmers' organization are usually of the class cf farmers limt are continually harping on the combi nations of capital and refusing them selves to join the other farmers in or ganized eifert to meet these combina tions. Just as Boon as the farmer begins to organize and shows to the world that he is trying to help himself, his friends will flock to his aid; bat so long as he is unorganized and indifferent he can not expect any concerted action among his frienda in his behalf when he hes made no effort in the way ot a nnited, concerted action hin self. Mr. Mauldin says: "Tho mills nat urally desire to secure ali the local cotton that they can, for they thus Bave freight and the profit of the in termediate man .from whom they must otherwise purchase. Hence the mills should in their own interest maintain their own local cotton markets." To all this from-Mr. Mauldin the cotton grower will say amen, bat some of the farmers of Anderson claim that tbe mills claim all this cost of freight and commission of cotton handling, and do not allow the local cotton grower any part of this profit that he as all along been told was a part of his good fortune in living near the mills. It is also shown from the farmers' point of view that the local mills do not always maintain the cotton market at their own doors, as the record of ! .ales billa provea that many times dar ing the last few years the cotton mar ket waa better at other towna than nearer the milla. However, we can not blame tho mills for this action on their part, for it ia the foult of the fanner in not taking care of his own interest by combining his forces and offering his cotton in large blocks to the consumer. Tho differences mentioned ar? small matters compaiedwith the greed of the loreign gamblers' present exac tions. The few cents br a dollar be tween the grower and bis neighbor, tho home mills, nre ns dimes to dol lars. There aro farmers yet among tia that will stay out of their organizations and hold on to the dollar that ir tajtos to join these protective association? and watch tho cotton speculator run oil' with $10 or $13 on each hale of their cotton. We should not quarrel with or abuse these short-sighted neighbors for they aro really ?to bo pitted, but their wiser and moro progressive neighbors ar? to be blamed for not stiring up these unfortunate neighbors to joiu in concerted action on behalf of every ono that raises eotton. Remem ber that "To him whom much is given much is required." Progressive farm ers, there is a largo hold ot home mis sion work for you to do among your neighbors, rise up and go at it. 'Hold Your Cotton" ls The Watchword. AB ia well known to all our farmers, there has been a very sharp and rapid decline in cotton since December 3rd, when the Government report of a prob able crop of 12,102,000 huies WP* given out. At once the Wallstreet gamblers and money sharks began hammering the price down until it has most reach ed seven cents. And now when tho farmers rise in their might and trv to protect themselves against this gigan tic steal of iii ty million dollars of their honest toil and labor, hy keeping their cotton ott'tho market, tho same Wall street robbers como back at us with tho threat that they will break the farmers from holding cotton or ever attempting to hold again. Fellow farmers, aro we going to stand this? Aro the farmers ot' the South prepared to lose fifty million dollars worth of their honest toil and seo it gobbled up by speculators who never as much ns saw a stalk of cotton growing) Wc say no. Then, follow farmers, lets provo our assertion hy rallying around our banner. Let's stay in this fight to win or die. Remember the word*? of the immortal Lawrence, "Dont give up the ship." Let ours be, "don't give up tho eot ton." From every quarter of tho South, from men,nf high, degree, men of in fluence and financial Ntandiug comes with encouraging words of help to us in this great battle between honest toil ot'tho South and legal thieves of the North. Wo say, hats off to the bankers of tho South who are coming to our aid. Let's give them ti? under stand that we appreciate their effort in our behalf, and that wo aro ready to join bunds with every movement that is calculated to help us in our present struggle. And now, brother farmers, in our ef fort to secure u better price for our eottou-tho great staple and money crop of our lair Sou thin d, let's not overlook the important of organiza tion. Get into the Fumers1 Educa tional and Co-operative Union of America, and stand by it, for herein we must finally tight our battles and win our victories. Remember that this great Order was originated in the great State of Texas and that every farmer within her border i-J with us in all our trials and tribulations. W. L. Cosey. The Educational Feature. One object in organizing the far mers, aa the heading of this column indicates, is edncation. The little amount of money it takes to organize under the Texas plan is money well spent, even from an educational stand point. Then let the farmers organize, if for no other purpose than that they may meet together and exchange ideaB an to the most improved methods of farming. With this object In view, the Ander son County union last Wednesday from its action taken, wishes a focal union organized in every school dis trict or township in the county. Then let the farmers in any section where no local union has yet boen organi zed, if they deoire organization, write to Mr. T. T. Wakefield, whoa J address is Anderson, R. F. 1)., and ho will take pleasure in organizing you into a local union, that you may lie repre sented at tho next meeting of tho county union, which will bo held on the first Tuesday after the second Sunday in January next. We thank tho editor of Tho Intelli gencer for the nso of thia column. Wo appreciate tho favor, realizing that wo cannot succeed without the aid of tho press. Wc antagonize no calling. Wo need the help of all classes and pro fession?*; more especially do we need the aid of the manufacturer. Many of our cotton farmers hold stock in cotton factories. We want them to I succeed. Will the mill presidents help us by some concerted action to keep up or increase the price of cotton goods, that they may be able to give tho cot ton grower more for his cotton? We cannot raise cotton at seven cents. Under present conditions it costs more than that to raise it, due to competi tion in labor. In our meetings we discuss various agricultural questions. We wish it understood, that the order is nou-pnr tizan, non-political. Last Wednesday at the regular meeting of the county union we discussed the subject. "How to Buy-How to Sell." We resolved not to sell cotton unless wo can get therefor a remunerative price. We resolved further to buy our gu ar. o in bulk, direct from tho manufacturers, if uosaible. J. P. Glenn, Equality, S. C. One Tfiousand Dollars For a Rooster. Tho closing of tho poultry and pet stock show at the Herald Square Exhi bition hall last night was marked by a rather sensational incident, and for tho first time in the poultry world, it is contended, an offer of $1,000 was refus ed for a rooster. When William Cook & Sons placed their black Orpington cockerel on exhibition his value was marked at $1,000. This was thought to be a prohibitive price. Last night, however, Wallace P. Willela of this Ba breeder of Orpingtons, offered for the black rooster, which was ined, and then Henry T. Sherwood, a Connecticut breeder, raised the price to $000. This also waa ref a sed. Mr. Wi Ho ta finally offered the maximum amount for the Orpington, bnt failed to secure him. Mr. Cook, owner of the cockerel, aaid he would keep him be cause it had taken bim 27 years to per fect the strain, at a cost of more than $00,000. ? - James G. Harper has been nomi : nated for postmaster at Seneca, and the nomination seoj to the Scoato by the President. STATE NEWS. - Gold has boon discovered in G reen ville County, uear the old Mo Bee-Carson minc. - Tho constables destroyed a dis tillery near Greenville aud captured a wagon and thc driver. - Robert Pichoff, an aged white man from the oouutry, was struck and killed by a trolley car in Spartan burg. - Somebody has suggested tho name of Bishop W. W. Duncan for President of thc Puked States in 11108. - Tho South Carolina Methodist Conference, which mot at Darlington, will hold its annual meeting in MOS at Spartanburg. - Ned Oliver, a young man, was arrested in Orangcburg ou ibo charge of counterfeiting. Counterfeit half dollars were found in his possession. - J. II. Adams, tho Collctou mur derer who escaped from jail while uudcr a death sentenco and for whom a reward of $1,000 was offered recently, ha* boen captured. - Prank Polctaki, a Polish farmer, who cannot speak a word of Koglish, arrived io Columbia on Friday, hav ing walked all tho way from New York. He found employment with a farmer near tho city. - At a meeting of thc County Com missioners of Spartanburg held on tho ltith inst., in tho oflico of Supervisor Miles, $21,000 worth o? twenty-year 4 per cout. county bonds were sold to the American National Bank at par. - According to a motion passed at thc recent Methodist oonferenco at Darlington, Williamston Collego will now bear the name of Lander Col lege, in honor of tho distinguished aud beloved founder of that institu tion. - Sis Lee, a negro girl, about ten years old. was killed hy a freight train at Seneca Wednesday. She. was be tween coal cars picking up coal, when the engine was hacked agaiust tho cars. Her body was fearfully man gled. - On Tuesday morning, 20th inst., two strangers went to thu home of a mill operative at Spartanburg aud loft a little three-year-old girl in thc care of the operative, stating that they would return shortly. They never cam-j back. - Thc next examination for the Cecil Rhodes scholarships at Oxford from this State will be held in Colum bia ou the 17th and ISth of next month. One man will bc given a scholarship from South Carolina, as well as from every other State in the union. - Wealthy farmers from Pennsyl vania were in Columbia ii conference with Commissioner Watson last we:k in regard to the purchase of lands suitable for farming. If successful in their search the Pennsylvanians will establish a large farm, to be conduct ed on a modern and model plan. - The Secretary of State has char tered the Broad River Light and Power Company, whioh will develop the power in Lockhart Shoals, in Union County, and with head offices in Charleston. The capital is $1, O00,0UU and J. L. Davis is president and M. V. Haselden secretary and treasurer. - A carload of contraband booze 78 kegs of five gallons each-was seized at Cayce's, just across the Con feree, from Columbia, by dispensary constables. Every package was con signed toa different name, but it is thought it all belonged to one party. Nobody has called to claim it, and it will bo confiscated. - Gov. Hcyward ha? received ap peal for a pardon fruin a woman in North Carolina who wants a pardon for her father, a Confederate veteran who was sentenced to two years on the Ilorry County ohaingaug for hav ing taken $25 from a store to which ho had access with a key which was rightfully in his possession. - At Camdon last Wednosday the DeKalb cotton mills were sold at auc tion, under order of the United States Court for $170,000 to George H. Wright, a mill owner, of Union. This is the third time tho mills have been on the block. Alleged irregularities set aside the first sale and there were no bids offered the second time. - Geo. Middleton, a white boy of Beaufort, aged about eleven years, accidentally shot and killed a young negro girl, Rebecca Patterson. The boy was playing with a gun which contained a load of bird-shot. It is alleged that the weapon was accident ally exploded. The charge took ef fect on the throat of tho girl, causing almost instant death. -The petitioners for the new coun ty to be called "Ileyward" have with drawn for the present their potition presented to the governor a few weeks ago. Tho withdrawal of the potition was duo to the ordering of thc cleotion for Calhoun County on January 3. Aa the two counties would conflict with eaoh other in territory the peti tioners for "Ileyward" County have not bad a day fixed for an eleotion 1 yet, and they realize that it would be better to withdraw their petition until the fate of- Calhoun County is settled. - Barnwell County has, perhaps, the oldest colored woman in the State. Her name is Luoy Beak Sanders, and ahe lives in Red Oak Township. A reputable gentleman told aa recently that he ia prepared to. prove that she is one hundred and eleven years old. Up to a year ago the old woman could get about, but now she is in n helpless condition. A few years back she was known to split 150 rails in a day. i Barnwell Sentinel. (j KN EU AL NEWS. - Tho wall of a Minneapolis hotel caved in and eleven people were kill ed. - Neill Stubbs, a young Texas farmer, killed his sweetheart because she rejected him, and then shot him self. - The next reunion of Confederate veterans will be held in Louisville, Ky. The date has not yet been an nounced. - J. C. McEIroy and his wife arc under arrest at Central City, W. Va., charged with using tho United States mails for fraudulent purposes. - Reports to the North Carolina Stato Hoard of Health show that small pox is very epidemic in (Jreone Coun ty, with a great number of cases. - At Portsmouth, Ohio, Elli o Phipps was killel, aud several womon were injured by leaping from a window after an explosion ia thc house where in they wcro at work. - A million gallons of oil were burned at sea olf Loug Brauch, N. J., tho ISth inst. Four men were burnt to death. It some unexplainable way an explosion occurred. - A general mooting of tho hard yard spinners of thc South has been oalled to be held in Charlotte Janu ary 5, when matters of vital mtercst to tho trade will bc considered. - Tho residence of ono of Atlanta's wealthiest citizens waa robbed in tho broad daylight of $4,000 worth of jewels. Tho work was dono by a sty lishly dressed young man and thc police aro bu Hied. - A physician is authority for tho statement that Miss Carrie Sawney, of Bogers, Ark., has just completed a fast of 48 days. She weighed 240 pouuds and fasted to loso flesh. Sho fell off 40 pounds. - Just soberinsr from a week's drunk, Capt, Jno. Flowers, a wealthy citizen of Palmo Sala, Fla., shot and fatally wounded his adopted son, aged 18, slightly wouuded another young man and then committed suicide. - E. E. Mangum, a prominent citi zen, WUK shot and killed on Thursday by Prof. J. E. Woodward, principal of tho high school at Magee, Miss. Mangum attacked Woodward for hav ing whipped ono of his boys at school. - Sluson Thompson in tho Outlook says that 180 persons were killed in labor strikes between January, 1002, and June, 1004, and 1,001 were injured. Of tho killed 110 were non union men, 51 were union men and K> were officers of tho law. - Alva Adams, of Colorado, Demo cratic candidato for governor iu tho late election, has lost 1,182 of his plurality of 5,275 by the action of the Supreme Court in ordering the elec tion committee to eliminate five pre cincts from tho returns. His plurality in the State, however, still stands at about 10,000._ - Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, delivered the convocation address to thc winter graduatiuir class of the University of Chicago, Decem ber 20. She is thc first woman ever invited by the university authorities to act as convocation orator. - The agricultural department han rented twenty acres ucar Yula City, Cal., and the University of California will experiment there with all kinds of wheat, barley, oats and rv e. Two other experimental stations will bc es tablished North and South. - A steel bridge, 42 years old, broke down in Charleston, West Vir ginia, last week* and tumbled to tho frozen river below. Several teams and two or three dozen school chil dren were on it. The bridge went through the ice. Several persona wero drowned. - Moro than 22,821,293 acres of the public lands were turned over to i private individuals last year. This means that an area almost cqoial to that of the State of Indiana has with in that time been added to the produc tive regions of the United States. Most of those oponed lauds were homo steaded by farmers. - The gross proceeds of the annual sale of merchandise articles by tho dead letter office, which was concluded Saturday evening last, was $8,360.35. This was the largest amount ever real ized from a salo of this character. Afror deducting thc accessary expen ses thc remainder will be turned into the treasury to the credit of the mis cellaneous fund of the department. - Tho president has dismissed two more letter carriers from service-one in New York, tho other in Now Hamp shire. Doth were officers in tho National Letter Carriers Association and during tho recent campaign sent circular letters to candidates for Con gress urging legislation in favor of higher pay for carriers and demand ing that the candidates so pledge themselves. .- The proposition to make IS years the age limit for admission to the Knights of Pythias of tho world, which was submitted to and passed at thc last session of thc supreme con vention of that order, has been ap proved by Charles K. Shively, the supreme chancellor. Under the pro visions nf thc constitution the pro posed amendment will now go to thc? various graud lodges for action. - Senat ir Fairbauks is already in the field for the Presidential nomi nation in 1?US, says a New York Her ald special. Thero is a Fairbanks literary bureau in Indianapolis, fully organized and hard at work, and tb^e Senator has a programme to make every speech he can. Ile will accept all invitations, and thus far has made a very fair record. Every speech of thc Senator's is sent out in full from the Indianapolis headquarters, and otherwise his personality is being ex ploited. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to i The Racket Store. <_b <f> *y V V y y y y iy y W^TW^WWW W^WWW ? ? ^ V ? Oar Sayer has just returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove _to_the most fastidious dressers the rca alt of careful selections, j See our Stock of the Celebrated- / Strouse & Bros. High Art FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, _ Which will interest those who wish to dress weil and SAVE M0NE7. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else where. We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, and be convinced that what we say is true. MORROW-BASS CO., Successor to Horn-Bass G?., 110,116,120, East Benson St?.Anderson, S. C