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'VOLUME XLI-NO. 7. ARRIVING BAY! Om Bayer is now in the Northern markets where he is carefully selecting the Newest Styles and Best Values in Men V Wear! Our New Fall Hats Are here in all the new shades-Light Greys, Tans and Blacks, from $1.50 to $5.00. New lot of Corliss Coon & Co'e. Collars. 15c. each. : : : : Two for 25c. fi Ei/4fic Kt PA . v. L. r (ilia li U), One Pride. Spot Gash Clothiers. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, cometo .... . A A AA ??jt?4 A A ????i??J???J?k Oar Bayer has just returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods aro arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections. See our Stock of ike Celebrated Strouso & Bros? High Art SPB?NG AND SUMMER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress WJU and SAVE HONEST. A new and complete Hac of OX?OlU)S, Men's, Women's and 0&Udren% at prices unequalled else where. W? ?stend to.?ll a cordial invitation to visit our Storey *ct on* Goods, ?nd*b* convinced that what wo say is tra?. MORROW-BASS CO., Successor to Horn-Bass Co., ^10,116, Ea?t Benson St., ..... Anderson, S. C Tho Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union of America. CONDUCTED BY J. O. 8TRIBLINQ. jar* Coromulcatlona intended for thia department should be addressed to J. C. 8trlbllcg, Pendleton, 8. C. Keep ?he Road Open From the Farm te the Presidency of Cotton Mills. These boys from the farm usually make good presidents of cotton mills, and another thing about it is that they l-.now something about the trials and tribulations the cotton grower hau to go through to get his cotton ready for the mill. The farmer boy may make a flue bus iness man and yet keep his heart in the right place. And if his heart ia with the people-the people of the South including the cotton mill people, too, he will never place the power that he controls into the handB of the foreign cotton speculator to depress cotton prices to damage the material interest of the whole of the people to whom he owes bia allegiance. Suppose ali cotton mills bought all their cotton through New York or other cotton gamblers at ?i cents, WC??6 would the competition come from to raise the price of our gTeat staple from 7} cents, which is below cost, to a profitable price, if cotton growers do not combine and hold their cotton for profitable prices? On the other hand if all cotton grow ers, or even half of them, sold their cropB to the mills to be priced by tho growers at any future dates, where would the demand for consumption come from to keep prices at a profit able figureT If American mills already had their cotton on these terms, for eign mills would then have the whole field to themselves, and could name any old price for cotton that they chose, ana the lower prices under these conditions the better it would be for the millB at home and proportionally ruinous to cotton growers, if growers did not set profitable prices and main tain theoo prices by refusing to place the cotton at unprofitable prices. Farmers' organizations are iuiilding up to try to help all cotton growers that will try to help themselves; cot ton speculators will take care of all cotton growers that will not try to take care of themselves. There ia no half way station between the cotton grower that is trying to do ?;ood for cotton growers ana th? other eilow. ?? voa are not with yonr friends in this thing you aie surely against them and are in the hands of your enemies. If you are not sticking to the princi ples that are to your interest you are surely sticking to principles that are against your interest. You are always etioking to one aide or the other. You are something or you are nothing in this matter. If you have promised your friends and brother craftsmen cotton grower?-to hold your cotton for a stipulated and profitable price and did not do it when you could nave done so, yon have lied, and there is no other name for it. The writer of this can tell the names of several Union men that would have sold their cotton this year at a large loss of $15.00 per bale or more had they not taken oath to the Union that they would not let their cotton go for less than ten cents. One of these Farmers' Union men aaid not long aince that neither his wife and children and neighbors could have kept him from selling at a heavy loss, but the Farmers1 Union did keep him from selling at a IOBS. Ul Thia brother, who was one time toss ed thither and hither in doubt, ia now a solid Farmers1 Union man and will doubt no more. That Chinese Boycott. Cotton grower? need not lose any sleep over that Chinese boycott busi iieas. That boycott business is about this way: If China does refus? Ameri can manufactured goods the country that manufactures China's goods for her cannot make these goods without oar cotton; in ether words, it matters but little to the Southern cotton grow er who makes China's goods for her, the Southern cotton grower, will fur nish from 7 to 8 bales of every 10 bales they use any way you fix it, and South ern cotton growers need not become alarmed or lose any sleep over this thing: Fanners'Union Take Notice. All local secretaries are requested to canvass their whole membership for the 50 cents subscriptions to the bar becue fund and isauo one family ticket for each 50 cents. This family tiokat will also include one outside friend with the family.. Secretaries must write this ticket when he receives the 50 cents. Thia ticket will be bnuuod to the gate keeper on day of barbecue. All money anbatriptions and list of an ?mala, meats, etc., must be handed in at Anderson on 7th of August. . -- Sin?i"/T 'Co???cuilon. ?''-- . Belton S. C., July 2D. 1005.-Dear Editor: The Belton township singing convention met at Cedar Grove uh ure h last Sunday and held their second all day einRing. Ahe crowd from Bolton itself num bered about 75, besides several from Anderson, Pelaer, William eton, and Piedmont. The singing vms conduc ted by Profs. Comptou, James and Leslre. of Anderson, Jas. A. Duncan and W. H. Cothran, of Bolton, and W. L. Neal, of WHiiamston. ' . ' - An addrers was ?ade by Deo. T. Magill, of Greenwood, whose subject was. "The Powerof Maaie." * Dinner WAS f aroished bv the CeMr G rovo neopio. ^hish was plentiful and eojoyed by all who had the, pleasure of being present. It is not decided yet where, we will meet next time, which will be the ard Sunday ia October. If there ia any Church in the town ehip that would like to have the con vention to meet with , them on that dato will please corrosnond with the Secretary, Aaa Mahoney, or M. A. Mahaffoy, Pr?sidant. Belton?, 8. C. - There aro 6,700 Johnsons and only &,<K>0 ?Smiths now living in Chi cago. LETTER FROM EUROPE. Bird's Ey* view of Eagtaod, Scotland and (be City of Paris. Glasgow, Scotland, July 20, 1905. y.ditoro Intelligencer: We started on our journey of sight seeing from Liverpool the morning of July 10th. Our first stop was at his torical old Chester. The city stands alone amongst alf the ancient towns and oiticB of Great Britain, unique in its architectural character. No oity iu England can boast of walls so per fect and so continuous as Chester, and a walk around them on a fine and olear day ia never likely to be forgot ten by the visitor. We took a stroll around the walls for some two miles and we came to a mouldering old tower, part of the MeOvnl fortifications of the city. Throe hundred years ago it was known as "Newton's Tower," but at the present day it is oalled the Phoenix Tower. Looking up as we approached it, we read on an inscribed tablet the startling announcement: "King Charles the First stood on This Tower Sept. 24th, 1615, and saw his Army Defeated on Kow ton Moor." We went jp iLio the tower and looked out cf the same window that King Charles looked through that sad September day and saw his gallant oavaliers boree down by the grim soldiers of Oliver Cromwell's army. After visiting other ancient and his torical places, we maie our departure for London, a diBt?r>30 of about one hundred and fifty iuiles, though we made the trip very quickly, as the road beds are fine and all doubled tracked, and were on a special through train, only two stops in that distance, an average run of about sixty miles an hour. AU the oars look small and squatty, and what looked so very odd to us was that, the doors are on the side of the oars, and about six doors to the oar, and the engines all look aa though they had not been finished, as they haven't much ma chinery on top or on the outside and they, are much smaller than ours. Well, we arrived in the heart of Lon don in the afternoon. We felt like exclaiming, Behold! The Length, The Breadth, The Immensity, The Den sity, the Gloom, Tho Glory. The mind oan hardly grasp the vastness of this great city, with its six million of human souls, and taking in the Bu burba makes it over eight million, over twice the sise of New York. The distance across the city from North to South is about thirty-five miles; from East to West is about twenty miles. London is the tourist's first Mecca. Starting from our hotel the first morn ing we visited the Victoria Embank ment. This , haa entirely transform ed the north bank of old Father Thames into a stately esplanade, ex tending from Westminster Et.idge to Blaokfrairs Bridge, with Westminster dose by, displays a picture worthy of the grandest flights of imagination. We retrace our steps but a short dis tance past the house or* Parliament, and now we stand before the Great Westminster Abbey. Waat memo ries orowd upon the brain! At our feet lie the bones of some of Eng land's noblest and best. We bow our heads and reverenoe a nation ,\bat knows how to honor her worthy oona and daughters, sob ol aro, war riors, rulers, etc. Here we notioe the statues or busts of Wordsworth (1850,) Charles Kingsley (1875.) Dr, Arnold of Hubby (1842). In the south aisle of the Choir the most notable monu ments are those of' Isaao Watt, the hymn writer of (1748), and Charles and John Wesley (1788) and (1791.) We have now reached the Poets oorner, to many visitors the most interesting part of the Abbey. The transept is famous throughout the English speaking world, for here are memo rials of all our greatest writers, and poets-Browning (1889), Tennyson (1892), near at hand is a bust of Long fellow (1882), Milton (1674), Gray (1771). The monument of Shake speare (1616), adjoins that of Burns (1786), while Dickens '. (1870), Thackeray (1863) are near to each ofct'jr. The south aisle contains a monu ment to Mary Queen of Soots (behead ed 1687. In the north aisle is buried Queen Elizabeth (1603). Wo next visited the King's Palace, situated in the midst of Parks. The present immenso edifico waa erected in 1826 at a cost of nearly five million, but waa not occupied until Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837. Our next point of interest waa the Tower of London. It ia one of the mest interesting buildings in .bondon, as it corara the whole range of Eng lish history from Saxon times. . lt dates back to the day of William the Conquerer ia 1078. Thia Tower cov en thirteen- aerea of ground. We would like to give the interesting his tory of this Tower, hut time and space forbid. We can only give a brief .ketob of eaeh placo at thia time. We visited St. Paul's Cathedral.' This is ooo of thc finest Cathedra!? in the world. Thia grand amoke-staf ned handing.is tho overshadowing featuro of London. Tho first churo h dat?e back to 610, but the great fire of 1866 practically s wept it away. The present msstttzpieoe was erected between 167ft and 1110. The great warriors Nelsen and Wellington aro buried hero. London eridge whioh spans the Thames cost ever three millions; it ia over eleven .hundred feet long. It is estimated that over 140,000 people and 22,000 vehicles cross this bridge every dayl The House of Parliament. This magnificent building was built in 1845 at a cost of hine millions. T?, covers eight acres of land and includes ll courts, 100 staircases, 1100 j rooms. The clock. tower is 218 feet [high, whioh contains the bell called "Big Boo." The dials of this olook arj 23 feet io diameter, and the boll weighs 13 tons. Albert Hall built it io 1867-71 as a memorial to the Prince. It is one of tho largest halls in the world and will seat twelve thousand people, though frequently used for politioal demonstrations and other great gatherings, it is princi pally famous for musical performan ces on a large seale. It ia said to take a lol of brains mixed with braoe to face this vast audienoe. In the arena alone there is spaoe for 1000 persons, while the amphitheatre holds \ 1400. The magnificent organ, built i by Willis, has 900 pipes--the largest in the world. The British Museum, the Royal Naval College, Imperial Institute, National Gallery, Tower Bridge, the Zoological Qardene, Victoria and Al bert Museum; these plaees are all very interesting, and only wish we had time to give even a faint sketch of them. We will now notice a few things that impresses an American most. First, one is struok by the politeness and kindness of the English people to strangers. They seem to take pleas ure and interest in giving soy infor mation and any assistance they can. Next we notioe the splendid street transportation. The streets of Lon don sre very muob more crowded than those of our large cities, yet they very seldom have an accident or col* lision. They do not use the electric oars in the most orowded streets, but they have the two-story busses that seat 40 people, drawn by two good horses. They also have the under ground system. It seems strange to us to take an elevator and go down 60 feet in the earth to get a oar, but nevertheless it is a faot, and it is a nioe, cool, pleasant ride and runs very fast. This underground system is fat superior to the New York system, ss theirs is only 4 feet below the sur face, and it gets warm and foul in the summer. They also have splendid oabs snd esrrisges in London. The? use the electric osrs, but on streets that are not so orowded. What seemt very odd to us was that everything io the shape of oars, oabs and vehiol?< take to the left instead of to the right as we do. And another thing we American! could not get aooustomed to in Eng land, Scotland, and especially Franoe, was the "tipping" custom; it hsi almost become a law in all the hotels restaurants-the waiters and waitress es, guides, cab drivers and in faot, most ev?yy one expects a tip. Th< firoprietors p%y their help but verj ittle, so they look to the publio snc guests for their pay. We were informed that most all thi barrooms in England had young lad; attendants to wait on the customers They tell us the reason for this is that nioe, attractive young ladies drat trade for them. A DAY'S TRIP TO SHAKESPEARE' COUNTRY, VISITING 8TBATFORD-ON* AVON. This place attraots a great numbe of people from both sides of the Al lan tic. The home of Shakespeare i one of the most beautiful and charm ing regions in the country. Beauti ful fields, luxurious hedgerows, gentl flowing rivers, these are oharaoteristi of the beautiful country of Warwick uhire, and they are but the setting o those stately old mansions and tim? stained oastles whioh more than th pages of the most eloquent historia carry the imagination back to the rt mantio past. The house on Henle strcsl.where Shakespeare was bon also tho house in whioh he died, hi sohool, and the church in whioh h was buried, we y pe nt a)<r~z. two houi in examining and admiring his grei library of ten thousand volume whioh alone attraots a great numbi pf people from all parts of tbe coui try. We took a little trip out to Be< ford whioh is only an hour's run fro London. Here we saw the jail in whic John Bunyon was imprisoned, j whioh he wrote Pilgrim's Progres We also visited William Penn's cou try and Milton's oottsge. Aft driving a few miles through a beau) ful country we oame to a quaint o Quaker meeting-house at Jordans, i unpretentious building dating fro the seventeenth century, in the quai burial ground of which lie, Willis Penn, the founder of Pennsylvani At Giles the original cottage to whit John Milton removed during the gre Plague, at the request of Ellwoo Here the poet finished "Paradi Lost" and began "Paradise Regai ed." And now on to Paris. The g and the beautiful. If the litera and htstorioal associations in t tourist's mind co ?J corn ing Par?s i not so numerous as those of Londc certain it is more suggestive of mi nifioence, of beauty of arohiteotui and of streets, and the gayety of i people. Without fnrther preface, we et? ru Now Opera House, the finest .world. Soon we goby the Mt elise and the Church of St. Aug* tine. Next we reach the famed i de Triomphe at the top ot the Aven des Champs Elycies, the finest Aven ia Paris. The Aro, a magnifi?e memorial erected by Napoleon Boi part?, it on an eminence and can seen from every part of the oity. is called L'Etoile, from its position a center, where radiate twelve fi Avenues sloping upward to the art Passing the now Amerioan Chm and the Hippodrome we contin along the right bank of the Seine thc Trocador,' Palace and gardei then across the river to the GT< Eiflol Tower. This tower is 9S6 h high, the highest tower in thc woy Tho elevators are run by v.ator pc cr. One elevator starts down rn the top while the other is just start ing from tho ground. The founda tions ?rere laid 46 feet deep on the Seine side, and 30 feet on the othor side by means of iron caissons. The ground floor covers two acron of ground. About 200 feet high is a theatre and restaurant. It is said during 1900 Paris Exposition this tower was beautifully illuminated of an Anning in red, white and blue, sad from its summits ou the day of Amerioa's Declaration of Indepen dence proudly floated an enormous silken flag, the biggest stars and stripes the world had ever seen, while from the ground below it looked little larger than a ten oent toy flag. At first wo hesitatod about going to the top. but after mustering up a little courage wo deoided to go, and from the top of this tower we had a grand view of this great and beautiful city; street oars, cabs and busses below looked like little toys and the people looked as small as insects. Re-crossing the Seine we 'omc to the Place de la Conoorde, beautiful to the eye with statues and fountains, and the Egyptian Obelisk. But where this utanda is the site of the guillotine, the spot where all the vic tims of the Revolution were behead ed, the great and the small. Here also one hundred communists met their fate in 1871. Going baok across the river Seine and a little further up, we came to perhaps the most famous Church ic the world today, the Cathedral of Notro Dame. Among other notable f aots in its history was the coronation of Napoleon and the Empress Jose phine within its walls, in tho year oi 1804. I Only a few hundred ysrds away wc I came to the tomb of Napoleon. I This magnificent ir.dmorial is plaoec ia the Church of the Invalides. Th< Dome oonsists of a square pile, sur mounted by a oironlar tower with om lofty dome and twolve windows. Im mediately beneath the dome is a cir eular crypt, 36 feet in diameter and 21 feet deep. The walls are of polishet granite adorned with marble reliefs the effect of which is greatly enhanoei by the strong golden flood of ligh Admitted through the stained win doTTS. The mosaic pavement at th bottom represents a wreath of laurels and from it sets the marble oaske which oontains the ashes of Napoleon thu? filling the request embodied ii the conqueror's will, as inscribed ove the CL f ranco to the vault: "I dooir that joy ashes may root on the bank of the Seine, in the midst of th erenoh people whom I have so wei loved." The King's Palaoe was our nex very interesting plaoe. It ie at Va* Bailies, twelve miles from Paris. Thi was the home of all the Kings an Queens of Franoe. It cost over $40 000,000; the painting alone cost $3 000,000. The rsoeption room is ovc 300 feet long, and all the ceilings < walls are solid mirrors. It is tl most perfeot building in all Franc? and oertainly the most artistio and ii struotive to visitors. We saw the private apartments < Marie Antoinette, the' bed and ti same bed covering that che used; ht bsth room just es it was in her da; also saw the private staircase by whic tho fled when that great mob again the nobility sought to behead he Briefly the ohief historical aveuts i whioh the Palaoe bas beer? the soec ute as follows: Louis 14th (the Grai Monarch) dies 1715. Louis 15th du 1775. Louis 16th who was guill tined January 21st, 1789, was foroib oarried away from the Palaoe 178 lu 1815 the Palace was pillaged 1 the Prussiaa?. In 1825 Queen Victoria was reoei ed here by Napoleon 3rd.. On tl 18th of January King William Prussia was here proclaimed Kmper of Germany. Old Paris is better known as t Latin part of tho City; it is on t South side of the Seine River and good many of the old buildings s still standing that were built in t sixth oentury. The streets are ve narrow, some of them only ten a twelve feet wide. All the poor pi j pie live in this ancient part of t I city. Oar guide oarried us to the Hoi Market where the poor are suppli i with horse flesh to eat. All the mu and horses that get their legs brok or are crippled so that they are t fit to work, ara taken to the mark killed and dressed. The movning visited this market there were mu and horses all dressed and swingi up on all sides. There were the p people buying mule sausage, sp ribs and baok bones, and thouj nothing of it. They get the ho .sd mule flesh moe.') eheaper tl other meats, only one and a half s two oents a pound. The Catacombs waa the next pl onr guide showed us. This surely the most hideous plaoe in all world. We told our gnide that were not much believers in haue but we would not enjoy visiting t plaoe alone at night. Away down the earth, 100 feet below the surf* great oaves or dene eut up into api monti fifteen or twenty feet wide, i we oau not say how long as it i dark as Egypt's night, and we o ! had a dim oandle for a light. On sides and everywhere we eould bodies and hones in great piles, h dreds and thousands of hideous sk? oould be seen in one heap. Th bones and skeletons have been < leoted for centuries from all parts i stored in this placo. It is said t toe remains of three million pers are deposited here. . Ue-crossing the Seine, and near of tho most beautiful Avenues Franco, is tho great Museum and Gallery of Paris. These bui?ui cover 20 ocrea of ground. Tht? f > dation was laid by Francis the First; it took 30 years to build them. Tho ground Poor contains Egyptian col lections, tho most complete in Eu rope. On the left iring of the quad rangle tn the following galleries: Sall?) de Phidias, devoted chiefly to antique sculptures of the highest de gree of Greek art. Salle of Venus da Milo. This sa loon contains the famous Statue of Yenus, whioh is tho admiration and the model of every art student. It was found at Milo by a peasant and sold for 6000 franos to the French Government. Second .loor, the Gal lery Ap pol lon, one of tho most beau tiful halls in the world, containing the Grown Diamonds, fine furniture, enamels, etc., of the Kings and Queens. We saw ono diamond that coot $3,500,000. This gallery is guard ed day and night by armed militia. Pioturo galleries which con un all the groat paintings, we only .?mem ber a few of them: Madonna and Child with Angels, by Perugino. Family of Nazareth, by Rombrant. Marriage at Cana, by Raphael. Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Titian, etc. There io muoh of beautiful Paris wc fail to mention; but time for bids. We v J* leave Franoe, orono tho English Channel, thence by rail through England on to Scotland, or the land of Walter Scott. We made an extensive tour through this beau tiful oountry. Tine is decidedly the finest oountry wo hum seen. We stopped at Edinburgh, for awhile. This is a nice, olean, ooo! city, situated al most in tho mountains. It is said Prinoess St. Edinburgh is the most beautiful street in all Saotland. We continue our journoy by rail to Calen der; here wo took a stage ooaoh for IO miles through a grand and beautiful mountainous oountry; now wo arrive at Lake Vennachar. Here we took a delightful boat ride on the lake for eight milos, then another ooaoh ride through the interesting mountains for five miles. This brought ua to tho great and widely known Trossachs and to the lovely Lake Loon Katrine; this is one of the most noted places in Scotland; here Walter Soott wrote "Lady of the Lake." The scenery along this lake is grand beyond de scription, great mountains on eaoh side towering hundreds of feet high, and along the margins of the lake oould oe seen here and there lovely hotels, stately mansions, eto. It ia no wonder that Scott was inspired to do the great work he did, situated as he wes in this grand and glorious oountry. After a delightful sail of twenty-miles we landed hero and took a train for Glasgow. There is a great difference between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The latter was a Bishop's seat and plaoe of oon sequenoe centuries before Edinburgh %as thought of. Edinburgh in now the oity to whioh Scotsmen and strangers alike look for the antique interest of Scotland, while Glasgow forgetting its romantic past, lives ohiefly by thc fame of its energetio life of today. By reason of this very fact, noce par haps is better fitted than a Glasgow man to appreciate the peauliar charm, the heroic memories and lettered graoe, whioh form the atmosph?re of the "modern Athens." It is uo doubt for this oauBe that Edingburgh remains the chief "Lion" of Saotland to Glasgow peoplo and their friends. We would liko to have given a muoh fuller description of the lovely ooun try of Walter Soott, but we cannot at this time. We would also like to say something about Belfast, Ireland, and her great linen and shipbuilding in dustries, but we will have to leave this to some future time. K. Lewis Branyon? - A statoment issued from the Department of Commerce in Wash ington a few days ago shows that im migrants to the number of 112,315 ar rived at porto of tho United States during the month of June, compared with 75,443 in the corresponding mon.-.h of 1904. Of the total, 106,075 oame from Europe, more than 3,000 from Asia, the remainder being scat tered. Nearly 20,000 immigrants registered from Russia, a slight in oraase over the figures for June, 1904. The new regulations covering Chin ean immigration have had their effect. Three hundred and eleven Chinese applied for admission in June, and 300 were admitted, eleven being do* ported. This is the highest percent age of admission of Chinese in a sin gle month in a long time. - Beginning September 1st the Southern Railway will put on the Paoifio type of engines, capable of polling fourteen heavily loaded Pull mas sleepers and maintaining the fast vestibule t.ohedules. The work of strengthening trestles and bridges on the Atlantio and Charlotte divi sion will be completed by that time, and the road bed then will be suffi ciently strong to support with safety the heavy engines aaa trains. - The biggest nugget of silver ia the world is one of the features of Colorado's mining display at the Lewis db Clark exposition. It weighs 397 pounds, contains ninety per oent. of silver and would, if eoined into money, make 6,640 silver collars. The nugget was taken from the famous Molly Gibson mine, a mine whioh has already prodaoed silver and gold to the value of $13,000,000. - William Early, of Coalburg. near Birmingham. Ala., shot and killed his wifo on Thursday night, mistaking her for a burglar. She had gone to the back porch for somo water for her baby and was returning with it whoa her husband shot her. - Gy Pt r'iins, the New llampshiro n?ll?on?i''e, w ?o died the other.day, never drovo inching Swifter tUu a pair ?f stC?.s.