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BY CLINKSC ALES & LANGSTON. ^NDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1905. VOLUME XLI?NO. 6. This July MEANS BIG SAVINGS To the men and young men who take advantage of the ex ceptional* values' we offer in Stylish Spring and Summer Suits and Odd Trouser?. As our regular prices are conoldo rably less than like quality goods are sold elsewhere, the sayings during this Clearance Sale establishes a new record for value giving?and remember at the cut prices quoted for this July Sale we give our usual guarantee of a perfect fit and satisfactory service. If you have never worn our Cloth lug this is a good time to get acquainted with it at little cost. 1-4 Off on Men's and Youths Clothing. Here's a chance to get a New Suit that does not come often. Up-to-cJato Suite, made as only onr Clothes can be, and full worth every cent of our regular prices to any one, but it's not our way of doing business to carry 'Goods from one season to another. Hence this July Sale. 95.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now.$3.75 7.50 Men's and Youths' Suits now........... 5.65 10.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now........... 7.50 12.50 Men's and Youths' Suits now,,. 9.40 15.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now. 11.25 20.00 Men's and Youths' Suits now.. 15.00 1-4 Off on all Odd Trousers. If it is just a pair of Odd Trousers you need to make your Suit last the balance of the season here's a chance for yon to SAVE MONEY : $2.00 Odd Trousers now. $1.50 2.50 Odd Troustrs now. 1.90 3.00 Odd Trousers now................ 2.25 4.00 Odd Trousers now. 3.00 5.00 Odd Trousers now. 8.75 6.00 Odd Trousers now.. 450 .% f ' Parents Will be Interested in This|i| Interested because it offers to them an opportunity to provide their boys Smart, 6tyJt?h, Weil-Tailored Suits at saving prices. This is really an im* portant sale, coming just at this season when many boys are in need of a New Suit. $200Knee Panta Suits now.......'. $1.50 2.50 Knee Pants Suits now..'.',* 1.90 . 3 00 Knee Pants Suits now......I 2.25 v 4.00 Knee Pants Suits now.... . ... ... 3.00 6.00 Knee Pants Suits now.............. 3.76 6.00 Knee Pants Suits now............. 4.50 A chance to save money on? Shoes for Men. Oojp entire line of $3.50 and $4.00 SHOES and OX FORDS cat as follows: '* $3.60Shoes now....................... $2.75 4.00 Shoes now..................... 3.00 3.50 Oxfords now....... r.. 2.75 k'c^ .. y................. 3.00' At tegular prices these Shoes were among the best to be had; At the [Out Prices they are kxCKPTIOyTA^ VALTJE8. , > Wo are having the most successful July Clothing ?o have ev?r known in our whole business experience. Tb* ?gwpl? know that we mean what wo say. >T CASH ClOTHIERS. iirtlMrtiii'liiii'iiiii-i i'>iwi?i>?il>'V]iiil HK?aHBMMBM The Farmers' Educational and Co-Operativo Union of America, CONDUCTED BY J. O. 8TRIBLINQ. Commuloatlona intended for this epsrtment should be addressed to J. C. Siribllng, Pondloton, 8. C. ON TUE FIRING LINE. Don't Step Orer lha Firing Line if Ton Don't Want to be Shot at. There is a kind of line of demarka tion existing between right and wrong in everything. Thin line is generally drawn by mutual consent of both sides of all subjects. It is a kind of obscure dead line on all new subjects that are passing through the crucial test of pnblic discussion for a time; and fi nally the atmosphere of equilibrium of thought clears away the fog of agita tion and the distinctive lines of right and wrong are well de?ned in tbe minds of the public and justice and equity reigns supreme. The absorbing subject of today that is occupying the ohief attention of the public in the South is the right of the producers of cotton to fix the price up on his own products as against the right of the spinners and cotton spec ulators to fix this price on a product that neither the cotton spin ner, or the cotton speculator never spend a dime or an hour's labor to produce. The producers in about all other occupations fix prices of their products, and organized labor, also is demanding and maintaining tbe right to set prices as to the worth of labor. About every occupation, except the farmer, has its organization, and is found in the line of battle defending their respective interests, wmle the farmer, tbe "hay seed," the mudsill and foundation of them all, and the most i m portant and power ml erat ta rnen of them all, is the last to rise up and shake his massive body and say to all tha organized world: "See here, now, get oft'my toes, and hang no more upon my back." The Farmers' Union is just now in the midBt of this manifestation, and it is extremely amusing to see the shuffling among men for position at the hands of these farmer organizations. Some are tum bling over each other for nositions within the band of some of these or ganisations for the political pull, while others outside are catering to first one side with the money powers and then turning to bow again to the farmer. The nonproducer, who has all along priced our cotton, is not su ing to yield tbistpower to the producer without a hard fight, and these little jumping jacks that play along the firing line between the cotton grower and the cotton manipulators, are hav ing a hard time of it. The Farmers' Union has some sharp shooters who are engaged to watch out for these jumping jacks, and when ever these fellows step over the firing line our sharpshooters are sure to shell them out. Some of these aspirants, both inBide and out of these farmers' organiza tions, are continually making the effort to "bark with the hounds and run with the hare" at the same time, and they are catching fire coals in the baok from one aide and hot ashes in the face from the other side! They are fioating along looking for position just between hades and the deep blue seas, and the boys?the sharpshooters? who . are watching them have lots of fun firing at them and watching them jump from one side of the firing line to the other, Of course, whenever these Sharpshoot ers who are engaged to watch this fir ing line opens fire upon either a de serter of former principles from within or the enemy without, our sharpshoot ers or. pickets open fire upon these enemies, either within or without onr faimera7 organizations. The one that opens the fire must expect to be fired at in return. It is well in order to state here that these sharpshooters are ready for the fray, and any enemy who peeps over this firing line from either side may as well look out for burning sulphur right in his nose. Controlling Marketing of Cotton. Where is tbe farmer, or business man, or manu facturer that has watched the efforts of cotton growers to control th? marketing of our last cotton crop that has not seen and felt that the concerted action of cotton growers is a factor in the pricing and controlling the marketing of his product a? Where iff the business man in any occupation that ia not willing to acknowledge the fact that our last cotton crop was the largest erop on record by ono and a half ; million bales, yet its average price ranges perhaps one-third higher than other large crops have averaged! Who raised the price from 6 cents to 81 cents if the grower did not do it by stopping the selling when pri?es were not profitable? Reduction of acreage, unfavorable weather and th? determined will of the most faithful holders of cotton all had something to do with raising prices from 6} to 101 cents; but no- one can gainsay that if tho growers had not held out to the last for. 10 cents that this our record breaking crop would have reached 10 cents at tblba date while this cotton was yet in tho hands of the grower. ?_--.- - ? Why need the. cotton grower care a snap whether or not that any of the cotton reports are correct or frandu Iooit If cotton growers determine to have profitable prices for their cotton all they hove to do is to atop market In* when priv?s are not profitable. This is the wipning card that won the game in 1005, and it Will win again averyiSmeUispteyed right. Concert of action must do had, and it - cannot be maintained without permarant organisations among cotton growers, Sim hone of these farmer organisations ?or any others for that matter?can be kept Sb working order without money to pay expenses. It is^ax^ng the patriotism ?l men too much. We must oil tho machinery or it will wear out all too soon. We should encourage silt cotton growers to organize in any name they may choose. The Farmers' Union, Cotton Association, Alliance and the Society of Equity all should be friendly rivals to. see who conld get up the best working force to aid cotton producers ' to organize. All these Organization s should come to gether occasionally in one grand mccca or cotton; congress and got equitable prices for bur.Southern ttaplo regard less of prices made by other coan tri es or other people and stick to our prices or base. _ _ - In commenting upon the worth of Government crop reporte, and the new factor of price making by the growers of cotton, the New York Times has this to say: "Tho indicated crop io the crop grown; the commer cial crop ia the crop sold. The crops which come out of the ground and the crops which go to market are different quantities, and agreement should not be expected. The discrepancy is like ly rather to grow than to decline. Only in their poverty did the planters sell to the first buyer upon his own terms. Year by year, with growing wealth and banking facilities, they will be slower sellers, and crops will fade into each other, so that thay can not be separated. Reserves in plan ters1 hands are an uncertain quantity, especially in hold-your-cotton years." This statement from the other side is owning np the corn in good style and ought to lead cotton holders to con gratulate one another for the success they have achieved on this their first round in their campaign for fairness. - Some folks say you can't learn an old dog new tricks, but we know of a large nu mb or of old farmers that are learning new things about selling cot ton. Before thu farmers began to or ganize there were certain large cotton growers that got much moro for their cotton because it was in "large lots." This looks reasonable, but on the 5th of July last one of the farmers1 cotton agents bunched between 450 and 500 bales in one lot and offered it to local buyers at top market prices but none of the local buyers wonted that much cotton. The local buyers seem to have changed their notion about large lots of cotton since cotton growers have come to take hold of the cotton market. The cotton growers seemed to have overdone the. concentration business right at the start. Now, this is just the thing we expected to "ran up agin," and we had jase as well go by these little fellows and ship these large lots of cotton ont over this dead line into the market where large lots flo better than small lots. Go by these ittle 2x4 fellows and lind the 10x12* fellows. CROSSING THE OCEAN. ? Voyage fras? Ntw York to Qoreistown on ide great British steamship Celtio. Editor Anderson Intelligencer : The third largest ship in (.he world, and one of the fastest, lt ia over soo yards long, 75 feet wide, carries 5000 passengers, the propeller is 400 feet in diameter, barna a ton of coal every six minutes. Oar departure on this good ship was made from New York %t 4 o'clock Fri day, June 80th. . There was inevitable bastle and hur ry BS the last pieces of baggage were put aboard, and as the last heisted passenger pat in an appearance at the pier. The wharji was filled with a solid, wdving masB of humanity-.friends and relatives of the departing ones-who gave vent to their feeling. Sobs could be heard and tears cc*?n trickling down cheeks on all rides. Ant an end comes to this. All are JU board, the gangplank is pulled up, the clink of the bell is heard in the engine room, then a tremor comer - over the great ship, and the propeller ia brought into use. Then, with mnjeatic motion, the stately ship glides down on the broad bosom of the river. The handker chiefs, t'vr>a and hats from the great crow dr on the wharf begin to futter and wave in the air. Now a view of the noble bay is unfolded to the wist ful visions of all on deck, as onr ves sel passed .between Governor's Islaud on one side and the Statute of Liberty on tho other. Gasing backward one gains a last view of the gigantic office nildings of the metropolis.^Distance softens the outlines. Wo'rooif. Our ship skirts the great resorts. Coney Island and Manhattan Beech, strikes the channel and increases ht>r speed. Crowds aro now grouped to gether ont on deok singing those dear old sweet songe, "My Old Kentucky Home," "In The Sweet Bye and Bye," "The Old Folks at Home," etc. Our first dinner on board waB moat delightful. The slight amount of sea air already breathed has stimulated a keen appetite. The grand saloon, tastefully decorated for the daily ban quets which are thrice set before the ship's guests, form a sight delightful to every sense of the most cultivated. Not only are the raenuea tempting, bat the paintings, the flowers, the music, the furniture must -please the fastid ious. The passengers on one of these great trans-Atlantic lines are served far beyond their dreams. We people on land can scarcely ap preciate the comfort, luxury and safe ty thereto on the ocean liner of today; they surpass moat of onr finest hotels; few of them compare in wealth of ap pointments, and tasteful designs with these floating palaces. Sunrise and sunset on ocean onco seen is never forgotten. There is but j one sight that equals an ocean sunrise, and that is an ocean sun set. Then if one ever feela the nothing ness' of man you stand before your Make? in silent contemplation of His works. . * Far, far to the east stretches the great waste of waters, tinged with every hue by the radiant beams of the orb of day. The m sj estie, stately progress, as it were, from the bosom of the deep grand beyond the descriptive ?loquence of the* moat fertile imagination la the scene, and yet it is bot water, Sky and ann. Aa for sunset, it, too, is a glo rious spectacle. Poets may rave over the graaeur of such sights on moun tains, but nowhere on land have sun sets auch a charm as they have at sea. Today la the 4th of July, r.nd it has been gloriously . celebrated on our ?hip. Onr two hundred delegates to the World's Baptist Cougress are too patrotic to forget Independence Day, even if we are away out at sea, two thousand miles from land, and sailing on a chip under a different flag. Welravehad speeches from eloquent men from the North, South, East and West, and all were very patriotic and full of enthusiasm. Dr. W. W. Landrum, of Atlanta, Ga., represented the Sooth m a strong and eloquent patriotic speech, which created a great deal of enthusiasm. All on board joined in the American Eatriotic song. It waa a glorious and appy fourth, spent on the mighty deep. - . [ . Thursday . July Ctn.-We are now nearing the banks of. our old mother country, i We were duo to arrive at Liverpool Saturday, but thc'.Capta of the ship tells us we will not make it until Sunday, aa we had to go three hundred miles off of onr direct route on account of Icebergs oft' the coast of New Fonndland. We have had a very calm sea and a pleasant voyage 00 far. Haven't had any sea-sickness at all. I will try to give a birds-eye view of England and Scotland later. With best wishes for the dear old Intelli gencer and its many readers, K. L. Branyon. j STATE NEWS. ? Lightning struck and destroyed a negro Baptist Church at Biahop villelast Friday. ^? A negro servant attempted to kill a whole family near Laurens by using poison in water. ? Gov. Heyward has been invited to deliver an address at the New Hampshire State Fair. ? It is said in Greenville that Jos. A. MoCullough may heoome a candi date for governor next year. ? Tom Smith, a white man of Aik en County, oommitted suioide by shooting himself. He was despon j dent. ? A number of prominent peolpo living in or near Walterboro have been presented by the grand jury for pension frauds. ? Earl Rochester, a young while man now under sentenae of death in Walhalla, has been granted a new trial by the Supreme 0 jurt. ? Rev. R. L. Rogers, pastor of the Walhalla Presbyterian Church, died I 00 Wednesday morning of typhoid i fever, in the 36th year of his age. ? The supervisor of Marion Coun ty, in pursuanoe of a petition, has ordered an election on the question of "Dispensary" or "No Dispen sary." ? Mt. Zion, one of the largest negro churches in Laurens County, was /burned. Dissensions among the members caused bad feeling and it ia thought that the church was fired through a spirit of revenge. ? Z. T. Pearson, of the Marlboro County sand hills has a peaoh orchard of 74,000 trees. From 9,000 three year old trees he is shipping oar loads of fruit, selling them at 02.25 per crate, 850 crates to the oar. ? H. P. Coker, a young school teaoher of Spartanburg, who taught in Union County last session, has been arrested on the charge of forging the name of W. H. Jeter, of Carlisle, to a oheok for $75 on a bank in Union. ? Rev. A. J. S. Thomas is said to have sold his half interest in the Bap tist Courier to Rev. A. C Cr?e, late of Louisville, Ky., and formerly of Gaffney. W. W. Keys is the othar owner. Mr. Cr?e will not take oharge until late in the fall. ? Miss Motte Rodgers, aged 13, was killed at her home in Sumter in a peculiar way. ' While playing hide and seek she hid in a piece of terra cotta piping, whioh rolled down into a ditoh with her, causing injuries from whioh she died in a few hours. ? Reports from Columbia say that J Murphy, who is alleged to have mur 1 dered Treasurer Copes in Orangebarg ! some years ago, and escaped from the I penitentiary where he was confined, has been located in the Philippines and is a soldier in the United States army. ? Joseph Blythe, a resident of Chester, has recently been granted a' patent on a self-winding alarm olook,. whioh is said to have several very novel features. The winding is done by electricity, 'and when once set will ring every day at the same hour if desired. ? The line between North and South Carolina is to be surveyed at the point adjoining Marlboro County. Governor Hey ward has appointed R. L. Freeman, of Bennettsville, as the surveyor for this State and the Gov-1 ernor of North Carolina will appoint a surveyor. ? Ex-Senator MoLaurin made a hot speeoh against the dispensary at a cotton meeting at Dillon. President E. D. Smith, of the State Associa tion, afterwards said that he regret ted that political questions should be injeoted into the ootton association's meetings. ? At Trenton Mr. Wallace Wise, the town marshal,'has been bound over to appear at the next term of the United States court on the charge of wilfully retarding a mail carrier. He arrested the mail carrier thero some time ago and kept him in the lookup about 20 minutes. ? The Jordan Manufacturing Com pany, near Wei If 3rd, will begin opera tion within about two weeks time. The work of installing the maohinery in the mill building has been under way for sometime and the work is about completed. The plant will manufacture towelings. ? Woodruff, in Spartanburg Coun ty, is boasting of a strong boy, Vir gil Casey, 7 years old, weight 96 pounds, who can easily lift s 140 pound man from the floor. If his strength increases with his year j, he ought to be able to lift several tons when he is 21 years old. ? A young whits man named Spann was arrested by Policeman Forde in Columbia charged with swindling. The alleged scheme was to plaee a Mexioan dollar with four American dollars and ask that a $5 bill be given for it. It is said that several victims were caught. . ? L. R. Gillum H?rton, one of the most prominent and influential far mers of Kersbaw, and a negro man who took refuge under a tree during a I storm last Thursday were both in stantly killed by lightnings A mule belonging to thom was killed. Mr. Horton was 45 years o]d,aod.leaves a family. , / ' To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of? DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Andereon, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to Onr Buyer has ju?L returned from the Northern markets, and vakioB in Goods are arriving daily that prove to tho most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections. See our Stock of the Celebrated? Strouse & Bros. High Art SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONEY. Ken's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else where. We extend to all a cordial invitation'to visit our Stores, inspeot our Goods? and*.be convinced that what we say is true* MORROW-BASS CO., Successor to Horn-Baas Co.? HO,' 116,120, East Benson St.,.Anderson, 8? G THE All Summer Goods r To be closed out the. balance of this month AT COST PRICE ! We do not intend to carry over any Summer Goods whatever. The Magnet, The 6ig Store. iVext to Post Office.