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The Clothes we sell fill a very important position with a great many well-dressed and particular men. Hundreds of thrifty men come back to ns season after season, because of the satisfactory service they secure here at very moderate ?cost. In the first place, we have an excellent Stock of New Spring Snits that can meet the w4shes and tastes of practi cally every reasonable man. The Suits we sell are carefully and intelligently made, and we guarantee fit and satisfaction in every case. If not, your money back. Weare showing an excellent assortment of Sack Suits, ?ingle and double-breasted, composed of Cheviots, Home spuns, Worsteds, Serges and hard-twisted Fancy Worsteds, priced from $7.50 to $22.50, And at every price between. Few Stores have as large an assortment pf New Spring Suits to show yon, and where else oan a man get equal value? ONS PRICE TO ALL HARROWS ROMAN, Adjustable frame with three d? tachable teeth. TERRELL, Stationary frame with three de tachable teeth. LITTLE JOE, Adjustable frame with nine de tachable teeth. k RULL, Detachable frame, using three straight or diamond shaped blades. KEYSTONE Adjustable Weeder and ' Shallow Cultivator. Tho practical mind will bo read- ll ll ii ikjfs wl^rJi I 1 ily convinced of the advantage of ll H {lyra *"^J %3K I I ??H Adjustable over a Straight fl flypU ^ - ? Frame Weeder, in aa much aa ita IBM PH ^ H I .construction permits it to be need, \ ^ J not only aa a weed earterniteator, %g| ^ W while the crop* ?re young, but as av' 3 S?AIJX)W CULTIVATOR- between the i>ws until the crops mature, which method of cultivation has interested the up-to-date farmer to auch an -extent that the thousands who have been agitating it are a unit in testifying to its necesjUy, claiming that growth and production of crops depend upon frequent and shallov cultivation, nud thai no implement yet invented is as j; well adapted to the condition as the Keystone Adjustable Weeder and Shal low Cultivator. These Weeders can be widened to 7i feet, or narrowed to 30 inches. ?They can be furnished with either flat or round teeth. Our Implements lessen the labor and ada to the profits of The Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America. CONDUCTED BY ?J. C. STHIOLINO. $&r~ Comuniic?iionB Intended for tbifr department should bo addrented to J. C. Stribling, Pox dletou, H. C. Something Queer About tito Fertilizer Tags. After making 6onie investigation looking into tho matter of fertilizer tags our men of our "secret service" have conto to tho conclusion that there must bo "something dead up tho creek" in this thing! We lind that in ono car, unlonded at Audernou, con tained enough loose tags to supply another car, while every sack bad tug?. This is double tho amount required by law. The write saw a boxsomo sis inches square nearly full of tags that were j found loose in another car. while all the sacks were properly tagged. Ono of the State's fertilizer inspectors reports that he often Hods largo numbers of IOOBO tags about in the curs, sometimes a large bunch is found hanging up inside the oars. We have interviewed quite a number of dealers and handlers of fertilizers who state positively that they have never seen anything like the amount of extra tags thrown about loose as they see this season. The other side: Some of the manu facturers of fertilizer accouut for the extra tags found in cars from careless ness of the haudleid caused by the un precedented rush of this season. It is clear to all that the fertilizer people, or some other folks, have money to burn or else the bottom of this thing would fallout. A System of Marketing Cotton. By request of N. C. Murray, presi dent ot the Farmers' State union of Texas, I hereby give to tho press for publication my views in regard to a system of marketing cotton. First, let every State organize their farmers into the Farmers' Union, then elect from each State a proportionate number of your best men, who are honest and qualified todo the business. Select some Southern city, centrally located. New Orleans being the great est American center, 1 would suggest that city be designated as the place to carry on the system. Establish at that point a Fermera' Cotton Ex change, and in connection with the Exchange, establish a secret Bureau of Information, by which means direct information could be communicated to the Executive Board of every State Union of America within a few hours time; each State Board eonld famish the information to the County Presi dent or Secretary, and by him eaoh Local notified. Within three days time every cotton grower in America would know the exact number cf bales o? cotton in the hands o? the spinners, and the number of bales of spot cotton; also, tho num ber of bales in the bands of tho far mer. With this reliable information, and nothing fictitious connected with it? the confidence of every American cotton farmer wonld be strengthened, and when orders were issued from cen tral Exchange headquarters to hold cotton off of the mat ket for any defi nite time it wonld be done at any cost. By this system of management all fictitious reports could be set aside and confidence in the cotton producers, one for another, would be firmly es tablished, nod the great army of cot ton producers could swing into line, and the bears of our cotton market dis appear quickly. This being accom plished, a uniform system of prices on raw material and manufactured goods could at once be established, ana no longer wonld the American cotton producers be the toys and playthings of the cotton gamblers of the world. Why our American cotton producers do not act more in concert, in holding their cotton is on account of lost con fidence in our statisticians, and even in our pinners reports issued by the government, because of the fact that in many instances it is known that ginners have failed to give a correct report, for pecuniaiy reasons. This being trae;. we have no source to look to for correct information. The only thing left for the cotton far mer is organization. By the above system we can get a report direct from every cotton . producer. every two weeks through the secretaries of oar local organizations, this information furnished by them to onr National Bu reau of Information at New Orleans, we in return wonld receive a general re port from the Burean of Information, of the exact cotton situation. B> this means the Exchangewould be in posi tion t-> issue correct orders in regard to the norning or selling of cotton; and the growers being familiar with the exact conditions, would be ina position to act. I offer the above, by request, asa plan by which the problem of market ing cotton may be settled, and for every thinking cotton growers' con sideration. Some: parties, perhaps, will say that all the farmers can't bo organized. This ia true. But this will cat no figaro so far as* reporting the amount of cotton raised is concerned; aa each local secretary contd easily as certain the number of bales of cotton raised by all who are not members of Union. And with a concerted action of two-thirds of the American cotton growers a system of just and remuner ative prices could bo maintained. I do not claim the above plan to.be com plete or absolute, bot one of matare consideration. However, many sug gestions may be made as an improve ment, and ohonld anything bettor bo offered, lam ready to strike hands with my cotton producing friends for a forward match, until every enemy to jost and remunerativo prices on oar cotton, shall be exterminated forever. I would ask every paper throughout the cotton growing belt of the United States that ls ..friendly to tb? cotton producers cause, to please copy. ' , B. L. Barnett, Winnsbbro,Texas. - John W. Ensign, Democrat, was 1 on Thursday eleoted mayor of Hunt ington, W. Va Du?ing the conflict preceding tho election three men were shot, eovcrai were beaten by police men end deputy sheriffs and numer ous county and city officers were ar rested and.cast into jail. STATE NEWS. -..John H. ?'Neale has offered to donate a site for a hospital in Green ville. - Determined opposition is de veloping to the formation of the pro posed lleyward County. - Dr. C. II. Judson, of Fm man University, has returned from Florida with his health much benefited. - Ned Mack, colored, will be hang ed in Manning on Friday, thc 28th, for the murder of his father-in-law. - J. E. Boyer, of Columbia, has been arrested charged with having set lire to his store which resulted in the great lire disaster of thc Brooklyn section. - A uegro man has sued tho city ol' Columbia tor $100 for getting Iiis foot burton the street by failing through the pavement. - The portrait of Judge O'Xealc, which was purchased by the Legisla ture at a cost of $250 ,uas bec , turn ed over to thc clerk of the State Su premo Court. - A number of carpenters working on the new passenger depot at Green ville went on strike on account of dif ferences with the foreman. A new forco was at once secured. - Comptroller General Jones has raised the assessment of thc Standard Oil Company in this State from$5,b'0(J to $20,000. An appeal will bo taken to the board of assessors. - John Gray, a weaver at tho Woodside Mills in Greenville, waa shot and severely wounded by a negro gambler who escaped. Tho negro with others had been surprised while gambling. - Tho Southern Newspaper Pub lishers' Association will meet in Char leston May 2-3. The newspaper men of Charleston are making arrange ments to entertain the visitors io a splendid mander. - The Catawba Indians in York County say they cannot live on the $1,500 a year given them by the State and wish to emigrate to the West to settle in Indian Territory. There are about 800 in the tribe, only 10 of whom, however, are full blooded In diana. - A report from Baiesburg states that no damage was done the peach and other fruit crops on th n Ridge by the reoest cold snap, and (hat the prospeota for a large crop of peaches and plums are very good. The grow ing of peaches has beoome a large in dustry on the Ridge, and has been proven profitable. - The Governor of the State offete a reward of two hundred dollars foi the arrest of Ed. Wakefield, and hie delivery to the Sheriff of Greenville County, charged with the murder ot T. E. Hioks, on February 18, 1904, Wakefield ia described as being about thirty years old, six feet and two inchon high, drooping shoulders, slender build, light complexion, dari brown hair, left thumb off at the firsl joint. - Mr. Thoa. W. Folk's residence near Garmany, in No. 2 Township, .Newberry County, was atruok bj lightning and set on fire during th< eleetrio storm. The fire was put oui with only nominal IOBB. The bol struck the ohimney in the rear ol the house near the ground, knookinj off several planks from the outside ol the house, and setting.fire to a broon on the inside, this starting the blaze The family distinctly felt the shook but no one was injured. - Saturday F. P. Mason brough two parta of a minie ball to the Spar tan office. About 13 years ago Doo tors Lanham and Allen out out a por lion of the ball from the region o the ribs under tho right arm of Virgi M. Rogers. A short time ago he fol that there was something wrong witt his right shoulder in the rear. Hi could feel that there was something j trying to push its way out. Dr. Lan j ham ont another portion of the ball a little larger than the first. It wai very rough and jagged with pieces o bone adhering. Mr. Rogers was s hoi at the crater in Petersburg.-Caroline Spartan. - At Johnston last Friday morn ing about 3 o'clock fire broke out in th? business section of the town and tw< handsome briok stores and two frami ones were completely destroyed. L B. Aobell, drugs and grooeries, losi $10,000, with iuBuranco of $1,000; D T. Ou7.ta lost on.four buildings $3,500 insurance $2.000. The stocks in Ed warda' bicyelo atore and Dr. Mobley'i drug store were saved, and there wai much damage to nearly every mer chant in moving goods. If the wini had not been blowing from the sou tl a greater portion of the town wouh have been destroyed. - John E. Smith, a former citizei of Piokena County, ia in serions trou ble. He has deserted the Unite: States Arxsy. He waa captured Fri day night eight miles eaat of Picken in the Gross Roada section of tba county, near bia former home. H served eix y car a in the army and jua recently re-enlisted. He was capture? by Town Marshal John Griffin ant Mr. H. A. ISTcaloy, of Piokena, whi will re?oive . a reward of $50 for" hil capture. Smith's o tory ia that hi never deserted, as he had * di s put; with an officer in Atlanta whom hi told ho was going to leave. A dis puto'arose QB to the payment of ol faro from Atlanta to Fort McPherson Smith claiming that the government should pay the fare and the office claiming that it was a personal claim Smith says he knocked the office down for insulting him and left, think ing all that wea necessary was to tel the officer that he was going to leave Ho could not then, in his opinion, b< termed a desertor. GENERAL KB WS. - The fruit crop at Roanoke, Va., I has been killed by the cold. - The mines of Mexico have been ! closed to the coinage of silver. - Three men wore burned tj death in a jail near New Orleans a few days ago. - Tho damage to strawberries in North Carolina is estimated at ?? per cent. - The estimate is that 7") per cent of tho Georgia peach crop has been killed. - A fire on Thursday ai Nashville, injured Vanderbilt University to the amount of $200,000. Insurance, $-10, 000. - A wealthy merchant died in a hospital in havannah a few days ago from blood poison resulting from a cat scratch. i - John 1). Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the University of Vir ginia to found a "Curry school of education." - Tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Augusta, will ereot a house for taking care of stray dogs and oats. - Some negroes lynched another negro at Marion, Ark., a few days ago because the lynched negro killed another negro. - At Washington it is thought that unless France gives some satis factory assurances complications with England may develop. - Bishop A. A. Watson, of the Episcopal diooosse of Eastern North Carolina, is dead at Wilmington. He had reached an advanced age. - Tho Naval Stores Product Ex port Company to oontrol the turpen tine industry has been formed in Mississippi with $11,500,000 capital. - The bones of Paul Jones, who founded tho American navy, have been found in au ld cemetery in Paris and will be brought > this coun try. - A sculptor at LogauBport, Ind., removed a statue of Wm. McKinley from the pedestal in the park because be said he was never paid for making the monument. - Hardy Watkins, a negro, was in dicted st Evergreen, Ala., charged with the murder of his wife by throw ing her on a burning brush heap, and holding her there until life was near ly eztinet. - The Japanese will profit by the destruction of the Russian fleet in the harbor of Port Arthur. There will be at least four of the sunken battleships raised and made to do servioe ia the Japanese navy. - The largest bequest ever made by a colored person to Tuskegee In stitute,Booker Washington's sohool at Tuskegee, Ala., was reoorded io New York when the will of Mary E. Shaw, of Philadelphia, was probated. It bequeathed $38,000 to the institu tion. - A prioe has been put on the head of the Amerioan eagle in Te lunna County, California. The board of supervisors offers a reward of $1 for the head of eaoh of the great birds on the petition of the sheep men, who have lost many lambs by eagles. f - The home of George T. Maull at j Clarsburg, W. Va., was entirely do lf stroyed by fire and four children were i burned to death. The parents, with a fifth ohild, had barely time to escape from the .burning building. The ' oharred bodies of the four children were recovered from the ruins. - State Senator R. L. Hipp, a law ' yer, and Deputy Sheriff Dunlay, of ] Cullman, Ala., went out into the f country on Thursday to oust John j Williams from a tract of land he bad t lost in a lawsuit. Williams refused 1 to vacate and a fight ensued, in which 9 Hipp was killed and Dunlay was bad , ly wounded. - It has just como to light that a uieoo of Andrew Carnegie married her s mother's coaohman, a widower with f two children, a year ago, and that i they have been in Europe since. An i drew says it is so, and that thc coaoh man is an honest man and he would rather she had married a poor but " honest Amerioan than a worthless y duke. ? -The heaviest rainfall,of short ; duration ever reoorded accurately is 9 said to have been the recent one at : Santiago de Cuba. An English engi t oeer found the rate to be more than ! four inches an hour, and between 7 a ?od 10 o'elook in the evening a total a fall of more than a foot was registered . by the gauge. The storm covered 1 nearly three hundred miles, io places 1} being even heavier than at the point } where the measurement was made. - Thomas Yandaw, a conspicuous 3 figure in Norfolk for over fifty years, . claimed up to the time of his death I that he was entitled to a large for . tune in California. Five yenrs ago he a wis adjudged a lunatio and sent to t an asylum. Two years ago he died 0 and was buried in a pauper's grave t at the asylum. A letter bas just been 1 received in Norfolk stating that Yan } daw was entitled to a large portion of D an estate in California worth upward 9 of $1,500,000. Yandaw's wife is dead ? and he left no heirs. 3 - F. M. Dockrell, Jr., son of ex 3 Senator Cookrell, is the inventor of a - sugar cano cutter that promises to re r volutionize the sugar planting indus , try of the South ana at the same t timo make its inventor a millionaire, r His machine will do the work of more . than one hundred men. It outs, t strips and tops the eane and is pr? - nounoed by experts who have seen it 1 in operation a wonderful machine, . that will mean as much to tho sugar B cane industry as did thc cotton gin to the cotton business. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to mmm m%m, A S> A ?mt (th mttm t?m% A ??t ,ftt m\ lft> I fill rffll iWm A l?% A (V J The Racket Store. " .^?f P^'?^ SJ^" "v~ 'vr^v7"*':?7r "v ' '?T* %v" V 'v" Our Buyer has ju3t returned from tue Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections. See our Stock of the Celebrated Strouse & Bros. High Art FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONET. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else* where. We extend to ail a cordial invitation to visit our Stores? inspect our Goods, aud;be convinced that what we say is trna. MORROW-BASS CO.,' Successorgto Horn-Bass Co., 110,116,120, East Benson St., ..... Anderson, 8. G Mamet 15 pieoea Brown Linen, regular price 15o, at. 1 (10 yards to customer ) Beat Calico. 4o; Mill Eada of Apron Checks.3}o ; Cotton Checks and Plaids. SJc Mill Ends yard-wide Sheeting at. 4io; Mill Ends Dress Gingham*, 7c grade, at. -J ju. Mill Ends Dress Ginshams, 10c grade, at. 74o, Mill Ends Percales, 10c gracie, at. 7}o; Laces and Embroideries. 1000 yards of Narrow Torchon Lice at.V...>.. io yard,: Torchon Lace, one to two lrcbes wide, at., 8Jcyird' 25 pieces of Embroidery, one inch wide, at. lc yard 1000 yards of Embioldery.and Inner.?on, worth oe, at.?.35cj?rd lace Curtains. Worth GOc at.S. 43ajSMr Worth ?1.00 at.3. <?!)al|>air Curtain Poles with Fixtures. j White Enameled or Cherry.,'.. 8? each, complete Umbrellas. 26 inch School Umbrellas, worth 50c, at. Tinware. 4 quart Pudding or Milk Pan?, worth 10c, at. 5c ea 2 quart Dippers, regular price lOo, at. 5c efl 0 inch Pte Plates, regular price 5c, at. .....two for ? Fibre Water Pails, worth 35c, at.25o e$6h Carpet Tacks at.\. lo i box EBB WThips, 3o kind, at.:..?$. looac?i White Metal Tea Spoons at. 7c for set of (i White Metal Table 8poons at......Ho for aft of ti Fibre Lunch Boxes at. 100 eae'a Large size Scissors, nickel plated, a 25o article, at. 10c each 6 Inch plain White Wash Brush at!..-..M9t each 7 inch painted Wash Brush at.,. 10c each, 4 lb package Grandma Washing Powder at.12o 1 lb. package Grandma Washing Powder at. 4c A No. 1 Laundry Soap, 8 oz. cakes, 12 cakes for.25c Nobby Soap, best laundry soap made, at.7 oak OB for 25o Cocoa Soap.:.cakes for 5o Package Soda, Silver Leaf...?>....7 for 25o Good Luck Baking Powder at.-tocan Good Luck Baking Powder, large Size, at.?*..">...80 can Cracker Jack Baking Porder at.2 cake? for 6o 10 inch Meat Dish, worth lCc, at. 5oeach 0 inch Gravy Bowl, worth 10?, at. oe each 8 lnoh Gravy Bowl, deep, worth 15c, at.:...-JOc each Soup Toureens, worth ??.0O. at....,. o,6*10. Large Soup Plates, worth 00c, at....?? "J Large Dinner Plates, English ware, worth OOo, at.4*?. . Cup? and Saucers to match, English ware, worth 7Ac, at.86 : 7 only 100-plece Decorated Dinner Seta, worth f l(?.00, at.......17.69 set 5 only 100-ptece Decorated Dinner Seta, worth $12.00, at..$0 49 set 3 only 100-plece Carlsbad China 8etP, worth ?22.00, at......'..-..116.7o set 100 seta of Tumblers, worth 15c, at. ,2? * 25 doz. plain Blown Tumblers, worth 40c, at.86* 9 inch oblong Preserve Dish, value 10?, at.>>c 6ficn 8 inch deep round Berry Bowls, value 18c, at.!- irre Half gal. ?law Pitcher, worth 25o. at.JT 2S 10 Inch Blown Glass Vase, worth 35c, at.JW oaon 10 inch Carnation Vase, value 35o, at.T?,.?so eaon First quality Window ?hadea (Linen) at..,.gio eaott First quality Window Shades with Fringe at.-?? o?0? SV Remember, wc are headquarters for Ice Cream Freezers and Water Coolers. Aak to see our Sanitary Water Coolers. The Magnet, Thc Bia Store. , Scxt to Post Office.