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VOLUME XLI---NO. 17. W& ?ow have ready for yo? ? large Stock of dependable Suit? for JBOWS.". Xn our Stock s^u'll as? exclusivo styles in ?oubl?-Breast0d and Norfolk Sack Suits of plain and fancy designs-in needs for dress, school ?nd play. ?bices range feon^ ?ges 4t? 17 years. i ?nfjin A. 1Q ?A?? ? fe . *?' TO.?OOH: FOR-v ?'?. . ; /.V-> ] ^ causes r ! 1 F?*h and ?p,tr>Date Sh?i* ai the Yerr least money S?oaa p ., ^ fan be ,50^ ^Ts sell only "Solid lather.'?ote,^ nomatterhoW-' L . lU?ot%price, ? 'r ? 3 cncriilS ?*?' * yery fitrorjg line of BOYS and OHIXiDEB?T^ fr 3 fKO^, and wa aro proud to state that we hold and control the F i ;:XiTOe^:^^,>^mdo '3n - tho CH?y and County df ^?ettonv We h . ^ aot oaly ?s?ll but knowhow to fit't&o^moaiiendw-.'fest; and there- L ^ fore WQ^pp?al to ybii who never tried us. Come abd try uvas L J -^pw'?o'w, topicsaa.-yott. There are ?o many people f 1 ? J^Nt S^^W* ^? t?? *>* b?fusalf amfFf ? . :ba^n.'?::,w^?,:,taat ???'-.expensive-a , very: .pa V ?^vistf^:-. H ".!*?!.!? '. . T???&s :vBuy ;*iw? sShoo 1? Snoe St?iee-X ' Mfr, . .J ' Come.?mm es-? we ?an ec?vinee you. ' - ; t-1 . ^^ ?V???8SI^ Boydea Shoe f . J..^;;ft-^-:9^bi^8hoo;Co, * ? . ?> j ? '-M . =:.??? ^ . Tho Farmers' Educational asid ?o-Operativo Union of Asaetea. CONDUCTED BY J. O. 6TRIBLINQ. ?St' Commuieations Intended for thia d?partaient sb oula be addressed to J. C. Stripling, Ff c ditton, fj. ?. AH the (rood People sre sci Dead Yet. - We ar? reliably informed that at leaat two cotton milla wo snow of are now storing and insnring cotton for fermera free of all charg?e. This ia now actuaSly being done by two cotton milla, and if it waa net too much Of a free advertisement ve would alvo the names of the mills that are doing it, and also the names of the farmers that have their cotton in these mill ware houses. And more, these mills have agreed that in case of fire that the nulla will- pay all damages, and aleo allow the farmers to move their cot ton out and to aol! to others, in case the farmer can get a better price from other parties than mills ofter. If we are to stop jost hero you might as weil give it up that these mill people are about the, best trienue that the poor, dowa-trodden m>farmer has to his elbow. Bot, there ia a little more to be eaid. When these men that stored . their cofctou there were informed by I wiser neada that the mills could spin thio cotton and keep out of the market for other cotton, therefore, if all cotton growers were to do this the mills could run on with farmers' cotton, and there, would be no one out on the market to ' create a better market for cotton. In other1 words, M ail cotton growers were to keep tho mill warehouses filled with cotton, and allow the mills to work up their cetera, where would tho demand for cotton come s^r?mT All the Fools are not Dead, Either. When these farmers were informed ! by others what they were doing to wards bearing down the price of their own cotton, a committee was appointed to see the mill men and demand that .the mitts mast not spin up their cotton tbftt was stored in the milt warehouses by the, farmers, the milt men politely assured the farmers that they "had not spun up the farmers cotton, and in , case they did do co that they-tho! mill men-would ron|a?e tbs same amount iu pounds ana otate? Thoro io two b?as under this' ship; ?ne is that the mills have thia cotttm.it hand fe fetiiy.their position, while the mills .. are benrcug down ?he market, and the ether is that these farmers aro fooled, injo the boiior" that thoro iu no need for them to spend ^ei?r good money in building wareaotaw- when toby can get their cotton Barfed and insured free of charge. , - Get lc the habit working to-, gether-get into tho habit of attending 1 your local Union, Do not m?a? A nifl?t?aif. (Jet is ihe habit of bulking your cotton when you are ready to sell. Got into tte habit of co-operat ing with your neighbors and working , together ?er ?nod to all. This concert pf action is money in your pockets,1 and strength to the community for any: good undertaking that you may attempt. Got in the habit of caving to one another that if we farmers want anything done fer ourselves that we farmers will have to do it xor our selves, ?et into the fcabit of looking' out for the good things that your neighbor and others have done, and ion will find that there ip good itt the indyet: ?nd if you are ail the time hunting for bad things and bad peo ple, you aro not likely to find nany good m Sodom or yourself either. Wet ia the habit of combinilg With your brother farmers for the good of the farming interest, that you may bo abie to meet other Combinations that are directed ogainKt tho interest of the farmer. . Think about the good there ism this for yon and your neighbors, and go out and do it, .", .*. -.. .;-,>v^ . i': evv- ; _ is There Anything New y^er the Sun? havek?ltire ? ? book printed in im iGu? b?foro tho Pendleton Farmers' ?wiety, which; was organised in 361?;, In an article wad before thia Society ont8ei^niber lUb, 1815, on sheep, by * *P|;t. North, Etsq., ho has thia refer ence : as to the merita of the thoa new breed of Marino sheep ano" their wool then being introduced in ta Spain. He addof ??The .raenuraeturers and dealers in wool, who came In number? to Rambouillet this year, (1780) to purchase, unanimously agreed to this fact, at the very time they were oom- ' bipinff to^p down the price.", v . Well, vhea. even lwfcre the value of, i^tten e?\av textile staple was known te^he ^rld the huyere of woo* in A1^im&^?b&*%v*m:}how to1 leading & ?apie.th&t ?lrjtueWtbe warM^ And tho cotton producers, after ethe/s i^^^^Jmrm^: pow?*?hW ia ia an organised combination to nro&nt ^^^^ ^^to?f^. mt m . a?B^rof today, is.* more business- j ?kersan aa*a?b?t,ter educate cit?iBe? , than be was theo, and bia ?hafices for success are much better than 100 :yeft-rgback.;-;: v v- ' '; Stja^y^^c^a,:,:; ?. B?yfe?0?a?>eciai fAent of the department of agriculturo;^Wash ?Pfft?? ia: Wi? Bienville, nuking ?**tdt of inspection-to the esperlment t?farms at this place. Mr. Boykia. a. 1^. Coun^jman, brthe way. is a fut?ateof piemaoa College, (class of l?oa,) when he? he took the coarse Sn agriculture, --About't^ year* afters Kft&P**?0 Mast?cM agent to carry eut the planaof the department as co tho improvement oftho ; yield? stapiev dise&B^^esistance, eto:; of ?e ordi nary cotton planiza io the So^tbeu* States, and to determine tho variety ot seed best adapted to different lot? a?d climatic oouvfitfoas. v Tifsre are three of t?ese ex'periment nl farm*- hew; oed Mr. Boykia is cow tr.king hf a notes nod making ou fe re port*/thereon. $he seed* v*ed hero ay* pf the .Jli&siBSippi ?or? s^V?c v."i> rieles, a?d a "satiety ii.-t-eisg mada with; a number. :?? ;jha noland song. ?t?ple vcirietie*i(t?/ determine wBej&er^r ?ot they ar^ available ??r i y??fr-i5?atte?f< . 8?le?ric5ia?pf the bast formed and -,-I- .... moat perfect plante are being made from these varieties with the idea of improving the type of plant, increasing the earliness and productiveness and finally making a better variety. The work here is coulincd to the long staple rarities, but My. Boykin is conducting some experimenta st other points in this pints and in Ala bama *on the ordinary upland abort staple* cottons. Afc Mccoll, 8. G., s "variety teat" is being made which iuoludes about six ty varieties, and in Alabama a test is being made cohering about thirty va rieties. This work is done in a perfectly sys tematic way; a record hoing runde of each plant selected so that a com plete pedigree c*s be shown of any strain of cotton that is being im proved. lt is well known that seed from per fect plants will give better results town the omicary unimproved gin run seed. So is lt believed that by a systematic process of selection for a few years any variety can be so much improved that its productive ness will bo greatly increased. It bas been demonstrated that early n-uVuriog varieties are petter adapted td withstand the approach and inroads of boll weevils ?han tho later, as they can produce crop before the weevils become numerous enough to do much damage. ; For thia.reason, a groat effort ^be ing ronda to develop ..early motoring varieties which will be adapted to the eastern- emotion ef ths Elvira bel*, so that th? farmers of this section v. Al be better- prepared for the pest snoold it continue to come in this direc tion. The experimental farms here have ?traduced magnificent crops, but it s too soon as yet to estimate the yield. Mr. Boykin* who is a very intelli gent gentleman, ia thoroughly en thused with his work and speaks hopefully of tho great benefits tp the cotton : industry, which will result from .these experimental stations, and the splendid system adopted by the department.--News and Courier. Concrete and Brushy Creek News. Well, Mr. Editer, as it has been some time since I have given your readers .a&y news from this hustling little burg I will try oud give them a few dots. Newe ia very scarce these days aa everybody ii too busy picking cotton and doing their other work to visit. . The cotton ??op in this section ?eehu to be very short, hut we hone we will get a fair price for what we nave work? ed so hard. iHes Ida Keys; who has been teach lng at Concrete for the past two years, hag accepted a position fc^ tea j ?er ol the primary <SUWB in the Greenville Female Col i ego. We aro very sorrs to give her up but we wish her suc cess, A delightful dance was given "at Mr, artd Mrs. A. F. Jones- Saturday hight, and waa highly enjoyed by everybody present. . Messrs. Raymond and Gordon wn iif-iiuD, of greenville, visited theil mother, Mrs; Jane Williams, Satur day night. Miss Bollo Norton, of North Caro lift-rv is visiting Zorina Bicton for a few days. Miss Francis Sitton,ot Greenville visited her paren ts Saturday night ano Sunday* ?? James Oats, of Easiey, . visited hie parents Saturday night and Sunday. Hermon Hoed was the guest of Mi?t Afary Ellison Sunday af ter noon. Mr. and Mrs. J ames Phillipa vieited at Mr. Mearh Merritt's Sunday. Mr. and Mw. A. F. Cely and Mr, and Mrs. J. A. Cely visited Mr. John ?ely Sunday. Misa Faa? Jones vial ted ber cousin, Bliss Maggie Jones, Saturday night and Sunday, tether Ceiy, sou ef ?*r. and sara John Cely, lefr-nifew weeks ag? foi Wofford College,atiere he has entered as student ot that popular institution Success to yon, Luthew Mr. and Mrs. Newton Oats were k Easley last Friday on busineso, and while there Mre. Oats visited her au at, Mrs. James White. Hamp Hicks, of Fiercetown, was tnt guest of Miss Eunice Smith Snnday. ??r&r; James Merriot and daughter, ? Miss Martha, vieited the former'c brother, Will Merritt, Sunday. ? .Miss,Pea^l Phillipa viaited at N. ?Oats Sunda;. ? J, T. Bridges wea the geest of Mfa* ?Florene Merritt Sunday afternoon? ? &;P- James, who is m tho general ?merchandise business at G.Teenvllle, ?visited his family Snnday. ? * VMckct. I r-Sinoe the process Of photograph ing on silk and linen has be,en >i)roogh( to such perfection in Franco mau? persons have their portraits upcc their linen* instead of their rianH-s Ol ?initials, t?he portraits, are not in ?jared by washing. I Edward Teals frey?a-?? bf mil liosa., Cal., in his will insisted or ?dr?matioe. Se alco declared that J oj ahould>reign instead of Borrow and left ?a prefision foy a fund for a dinoo ?drinks, oSgors, betel bille and railroac ?fares for desijnn^^Mds who at ? -, Heretofore marriages - of Amer! constad Japs have been few, but w< may f?w look for matonea of the k\ni ?by ?^ seore. Besaotly a dashini Japanese cavalry officer belonging tp a family of great wealth in Tokio cap tared an American ota^ beauty au< ?hore her in triumph to the "Land o ?Flowers." ~-N. mHeV^tter of Whlto, th ?sewing, machine mao ot wor?d.widi fame, died in Beloit, Wie,, the ethe: day. Mr. White was a man of maoj ?peculiarities. Ooo of them waa tba ?ho would never trim his whiskers His whiskers were probably louse theo those of s&y other mau in th ?world, as they would drag at least i foet on the ground when he a?lcwcu thcnVto h?og dows. .v- liecently in a pape? read before i technical sooiety st Odessa. Mr, Loka zejewski described a way of liilioj the young of i osee ls in fieldn by cleo trS?ity. A dynamo Ja carried on i wagon {Ws? or" automobile) ??d th? current excites au induction soil. ?iv i og a high tension discharge* Ofy p??e of tho eotl is to the metal tiro ?ad tho other to metal hrushes past* log over tho ground. The disohavgi kills\he grub?, etc., in the soil. STATE -NEWS. * - The governor has offered a re ward of $500 for the murderer of R. A. McDowell on the streets of Camden a few nights ago. - 7. be governor has restored Treas urer Patterson, of Edgefield, to his office, ho having made a deposit to fully cover his shortage. - The Marion County farmers are standing out for ll cents for cotton. Only two bales were sold in Marion on Friday and none on Saturday. - Tbs Charleston Canning Com pany will be forced to import labor to corry on its work, as the negro help obtained Las proved unsatisfactory. - Lee Loeb, a prominent business mao of Charleston, committed suicide Sunday morning. He had lost his reasoning over a business' deal. - While tn an intoxioatod con dition Charles Spenosr, of Greenville, held a pistol to his wife's head and shaved off her hair and her eyebrows. - The farmers of York County have numerously signed an agreement to hold their cotton until the first of I January, 1906, anti110 cents can be obtained for it. - Hargrove Frierson, aged 13, was shot sud killed os Friday night by Herbert Vaughan, aged 14, in Sum ter; Frierson claims he did not know, the pistol was loaded. N - J. E. Gillis was tried in Camden last week for the murder of John MoB*e Whittaker, the trial occupy ing the entire weak. The jury brought in a * ord? jt of not guilty. : - While playing with firearms at Donalds on Friday a 7 year old negro boy accidentally shot and killed bis 5 year old brother. It was another ease of the "unloaded" gun. .-The people of Due West and Donalds have subscribed $12,000 to build a railroad from the Southern oat to Dae West, a distance of four miles. The line will bo an indepen dent company? - Mrs. .Cauble, of Greenville, Widow of Engineer Cauble. who waa killed,, by the derailmeut of his train at King's Mountsin in Jun.?. has es? cepted $8,000, without snit, from the Southern. - Through the efforts of E. J. Watson, State Commissioner of Immi gration, a Polish eulo ny will be estab lished in Aiken County. A tract eon taining about 3,000 aores has been par? chEsed for the settlement. tr- Tho Union and Buffalo cotton mills at Union have failed, with lia bilities estimated at $3,000,000. Tho downfall of the mills was doe to large amorfnts of money lest- by the presi dent through speculation. - The Baptist Stato convention will meet in Columbia next month. It io espectod to be the largest1 meet ing in the history of the church. The Baptist membership in Sooth Caro lina now numbers 110,000. il -J. M. Marcy, the Canadian and alleged yeggmaa, who escaped from the Lamons . jail a few .days ago, has been captured in. Spertanburg. Ho was arrested on anspiele*?" of being a bank robber. - J; M. Abercromby '. notorious character of Laurent County, has been lodged in the cosray jail for assaulting Magistrate P.M. Hollomo on Friday. Abercrombie was. drink ing md tried to kill the magistrate. - R. A. MoDowell, a merchant of Camden, was waylaid ?nd foully marr dered on his way homo Tuesday night and robbod of his watch, keys and all tho money ho. had with him. The murderer escaped and is still at largeL - Abo newest advertisement we have soon appears in un up-country newspaper. A wide-awake merohant invites all the ladies to attend his millinery opening and tQ inspect, among goods, his stock food, coffins and oatkets.-Barnwell People. ;:^^:Fiftn.k'^>ld?e0? a son of Comp* ?.oller General Jones, waa given a Verdict in the circuit court in Abbe ville on Friday for $5,000 for tho loss of a part of his foot Sn an accident on the Seaboard Air Line railroad two mrs sgo while ho waa in the employ ot the road. - Would you be willing to have one of the dispensaries Tooated on your farm or on the road in front of your home? Then why should you by your vote force upon other? that, wbiob you would not ba willing to bo a neighbor to.-Field, of Con* way. ' - Cunningham, Henkel and War ing, three white man sentenced td the penitentiary fifteen montas ago on the charge of robbing .? bank at Latta, wero .pardoned OA Th ur ad ay by the governor, it appearing that they were i ?ooonft-other parties having sines been couvioted ia the United States court, of the same offense. -v- A German earp fish that weigh ed 16} pounds waa exhibited OB the streets a few day? ago. The fish was caught by Mr. J. P. Hutchison, Jrv,' about a milo above the; dam in Cataw ba River. It was caught in au ordi nary split basket with a wire muzzle arrangement at the ?ntr?nee. As stated above, ?ho fish weighed 16}' pounds wheo first taken from, the water and it weighed 24} pounds after it was brought td, thia city,-Rook Aili Herald. - S. H. Owens, former Supervisor of Richland County, has bean arrest ed on a charge of embezzlement- of tho county's funds to the extent Of $50, OOO, His derk and a member of ehe board of commissioners are implicated in the systematic misappropriation bf ffi? public ft?, uda. Their official mis- i conduct extended over a period of several years and the public funds wera-.diverted'?: to their Own use by means of paddod accouuts and forged ronquera.v'lv^T-\^;- ". .. ' - lu 1805 the world had not a sin gle steamship on the ooean, a?* single mile of railway on land, a single span of telegraph upon the conti)!' <ts or a single foot of oable beneath the ocoan. In 1905 it has 18,000 steam vessels, 500,000 miles of railway, and more than 1,000,000 miles of telegraph, while the very continents are bound together in instantaneous communi cation by more than 200,000 miles of ocean oables, an i the number of tele phone messages sett aggregates 6,000, 000 annually, and one-half of them in the United States alone. - President Roosevelt's admirers in New York city are agitating the I question of naming a prominent thoroughfare after tue chief magis trate. There is a Roosevelt street there already, bat it is not a place of note, aud, besides, it was named after the - President's great-grandunole, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, the inventor of ^ vertical paddie wheels, who,( sin ?:uiarly enough lived in early life at ?sopus, the home of Judge Parker. It is suggested that Seventh avenue beyond the park be given the Presi dent's name and the present Roose velt street be renamed Athens or Hel las street. _ - It is now declared danger of a financial breakdown forced Japan to aooopt Russia's peace terms as modi fied. - Because Oliver Powe, a builder, of Ansonia, Gonn., put all his prop erty in his wife's name and she died childless, he bas lost it all, according to the probate court's ruling, and is left penniless at the age of seventy two, too infirm to work. - Henry Leonard, a broker's mes sengor, confessed to forging tho cheek by which $360,000 worth of securi ties were obtained from the National City Bank of New York, saying ho committed tho orime only to sher now easy it was. '* -? What probably will be tho cost liest monument erected to the di:*d in reoent times will be placed above tho grave of Mrs. Margarita Alvavado, the late wife of Pedro Alvarado, tho peon mining king of Mexico. The monu ment will be Italians marble and solid silver. Two tons of silver from Alva rado's famous Palilla uiuo in the J Parril distriot will be used. A steel frame will be built around the grave to guard against the theft of silver from the monument. m The kind of shoes ail stylish, well-dressed men are looking for-they are style leaders. They are "shape holding," perfectly fit ting shoes, made on oustom lasts. Made In Patent Colt, Russia Calf, and yef?ur Calf-ali soft, pHabte and dressy leathers. ALL AMERICA SHOES are known throughout theoountry for style and wear -and sell everywhere for $3,50-$4.OQ. All men need them-you need them. Come In and let us show them to you. MORROW BASS CO. : \t'ip ?..?. tri-. m. ' f ? - - v. .. ? . ' ? tr -J. ? : ... ill! InB?siness Ha* provan to fcosta of people that we know. OUK business* That they get for every dollar spent with us value received, isr? keep .the host au i freshest goods for all classes of . The rich ?nd the poor, The'highiandthelow, ||i The fat and the lean, gk. The dirty ?nd the olean, The weak and the strong, The abort and the long, The deaf and the dumb, Aro all invited.to come, The blmd and the lame, All are treated the same. , life are building a trade that weare proui of, and we are doing itIa au honest way. We handle- ' . \\ \'\ t?*vV ,jy.;j . . Table Luxuries, Staple Groceries, ?^?&S^ Cow Teed, ?0 ? Hog Feed, Chicken Feed, aed Bust Proof Seed Oats, Turf Oats, Bye, Barley. Fleur, &o? *. GET OUR Fft?CEjS* ( ;-^;>,;:;. Yours truly, w: A. POWER * co*, 204 SOUTH MAINT STRKET- ??