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-f-mtm- ? ? - - ? m m --- ? - .. . , - , , -, HHUHUmammamm . , , ? - - -.-?-. - -. __ . . . . _l l l . . _ ^ ^ . , . , BY CLINKSCALE8 & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNET 1906. "^VOLUME XLI-NO. 51~ That smart attire is dependent upon lavish expenditure. Exactly the same knowledge of exclusively correct fashions that goes into the making of high-priced custom tailored garments has been used in the productions of B, O. EVANS & GO'S. CLOTHES For this Spring and Bummer, s nd our assort ment of single and Double-Breasted Sack 1 Suits for men and young men contains models 4M stylish in design, as perfect in eut, as fault? ; less in fit and finish, as those for which many jnakersi^barge double the price. : : : : : I If it's not the thought of the high cost of y eur garments, but their intrinsic character ; and looks that gives you satisfaction, donV fail to come an/4 see our splendid selection cf ? styles in Fine Quality Grey. Worsteds and '. j . ii.-'" > ; ^assimeres, Flain and Fancy Worsteds, Mixed tweeds and Blue Serges-made with tho care ; it? attention to details of refined fashion, j which men of discrimination appreciate. . $7.50 f&k TO ? V ; ' $22150. R ft F vatic Kt f a II* V. Li ttllu vt \JV, ?.'.Vi .. . .t.'.r^-;. ' .,.?.?. .... . R :V-JJ :? ?. ? -, .-ri . Iii? Spot Cash OktMer?, ^ 11 5= FARMERS UH BUREAU. Conducted by S. 0. Farmers' Union J2&~ Address ell corn munica ti ou a in tended for this column to J. C. Strlbllng, Pendleton, S. C. Stunting Corn. We are pleased to re?oive the follow ing letter from Mr. Williamson on IiiB stunting corn plan, and trnst tbat some of oar Farmers' Union men will put hisp?an through a comparative t*at, which will remove all doubts either way about the plan. We have six acres under comparative test after Mr. Williamson'^ stunting process, and and will weigh the products and measure the area byan expert from the South Carolina Experiment Sta tion : Mr. J. C.Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Dear Sir : The exhaustive and con tinuous teeta that you ask about in ?our letter of 12th inst., to Dovesville, have nat made; nor is it possible in agriculture to tell positively which of the many attentions given to a crop has contributed most to the result. This method 1 have advised tried on only a few aerea the first year, or until one is familiar with its ways. I feel that tho results that 1 and my neighbors who have adopted it have obtained are sufficient to justify me in recommending that it be given a trial; if it is not a a tief ac torc it need not be followed again. Af ow acres will not only be sufficient brit best 'for giving thia trial. This "stunting" ts no new thing in corn growing; sud if I had expressed it : "To so check and retard the stalk growth; th? thora shall be neither suis into or pleut food wasted in its production.1- Then numbers of farm ers would have recognised it as just what they have been trying to do for years. Many of them have planted both early and low all of their lives to reduce the size of the stalk- and they will tell you that when young corn (not jointed) ia bitten by frost, the stalk will not grow large, but that it ts uni y makes bettor ears. v This plan is not so new to the farm ers as the newspapers seem to think certainly not to the fermera abpnt here. It will need to be altered and modified to suit dUTerent soils and special condi tions, yet the general principles are correct and will work great benefit whenever the tendency is to make stalk growth at thc expense of ear. Experience and judgment are re quired to give best r?sultai and all who try it may not succeed-certainly not the first year. I trust that none will do worse than by the old method, and I sincerely hope that it may give to all who try it the benefit that it has given tome. Youra truly, E. M, Williamson. -,-mmi y",'_ Why Be Alarmed? Some of onr farmers seem to be a little worried ever this i??k o? the English cotton spinners buying np some of our . Southland on which to raise cheap cotton with tho hope of >l?ivl'"z r.r, wi^k IM uu.rvuuen prices. And now? aa The National Co Operator says, this movement; on tho. part of the spinners would be funny if it were not BO ridiculous. Yeo, it is too ab surd to even give it notice. Hasn't rino cotton scare-crow been hoisted by those English Spinners in Egypt, fouth Africa and almost every other country where there isn't snow on tho ground 305 days iu the year? And what was tho result? A feat failure-just what will be over hero after they have tried it. We will give tue Englishmen tho credit of knowing how to spin cottou after wo of tho South have grown it for them, but when it cornea to either them or those WelBh or Bolginus rais ing the fleecy staple, they know noth ing more about it than a hog knows about politics. In fact, if thoBe Welsh and Belgians are as lazy aa some of the emigrants who came here, they will be too infernal lazy to koop off tho mosquitos down there in Missis sippi and Louisiana much less trying to noe and plow cotton. No, those English spinners are sharp and they well know that with crop-diversittca tion the Southern cotton farmer ia just going to raise cotton to supply the demand, and with organisation, they are coing to stand Bhoulder to shoul der like men and demand a profitable price for that cotton, and seeing that their scare-crow failed to frighten, when so far from us, they are now go ing to move it up a lit.1 o nearer. Bo. brother farmer, don't be afraid. It's the same old bunch of rage tied on a little bit taller pole, and it moved up to where they hope we will notice it. Stay in the buggy and just keep cool. There's no danger in their cot ton mule. W. C. Casey, Secretary Five Forks Union. - Every governor in the United States will soon reeoive an invitation from Governor Curara inn, of Iowa, re questing them, in compliance with a resolution passed by the general as sembly of Iowa, to name five dele gates eaoh to attend a convention to be held at DOB Moines for the purpose of devising some means of bringing about the election of United States oeoators by direct vote. Although the governor has not yet definid!/ ?e termin?d the date for this convention, it is known that it will be called for a day in September. -- Miss F. E. Heid, former secre tary of Gen. Gordon, has been arrest ed at the instance of Mrs. E. L. Hum phrey, in Atlanta, for stealing her towels. Miss Reid then had Mrs. Humphrey indicted for stealing blank ets from her, a search having discov ered the missing articles in their trunks. Mrs. Humphrey kept a board ing house, and Miss Reid was ons of her boarders. Lawyers have been employed, and both oases will be pressed. - Henry TV an, as Atlanta negro, received 22,000 volts of eleotricity in his hands, and whioh failed to kill him. Taroo became maniacal frc m to? shook, and it took twelve men to hold him. Taroo had carelessly placed his hsr.d cn the live part of a snitch hs waa cleaning. - Santo Domingo ia reported to be on the verge of another revolution. RECENT SLUMP IN COTTON. Columbia, June H.-President E. D. Smith, of tho Cotton Growers' Associa tion, waa \a tho city yesterday, and last night gave out Ulis interesting state ment with regard to the recent "slump" in tho price ot* cotton : The recent drop in tho price of cot ton emphasizes tbe absolute necessity for thorough organization on the part of tho South for the protection of tbis, her main article of commerce and from which abe derives tho capital upon which her entire commercial structure depends. It is a matter of surprise that business nicnof tho south look upon this movement to control the prion of cotton os beiugoneln which their sym pathies, perhups, are enlisted, but in which they have no personal interest. I write this article in the hope thut it may pot a new light upon it and will show to some at least how the price of cotton in of vital interest to every one engaged in business in the Sooth, and how it ia absolutely impossible for the farmer alone to control the price. No one will deny that cotton ia the essen tial, the currency of the South. The amount of business in the South is de pendent upon the volume of money ehe receives from her cotton crop. Now, what aro the factors under the present system of things whioh determine tho amount of money we are to receive from a given crop? The banker, the merchant, the teacher, the preacher, all seem to look upon this ilgbt as be ing one in which the farmer alone is vitally interested. Now, to illustrate the actual condi tion of affairs, there is enacted on tho streets every day during the cotton season a scene which brings out accu rately the explanation of the South's condition, and the forces'which deter mine the price. The farmer driveB up on the street with a bale of cotton on his wagon; that bale of cotton repre sents a part of the currency of the South, part of that which is to deter mine the amount of money that shall be put into osculation. Who samples, crudes, weighs and Axes the price of this cotton? The representative of the organized brain and capital of the world. The European spinner is thoroughly organized, the Northern spinner is or fcanized, the Southern spinner is organ zed, therefore, the one who samples, weighs and prices the cotton is the representative of v one of these organi zations, one who knows the Intrinsio value of the cotton, and from the very nature of the oase it is to his interest to get it as low as possible ; because the difference between what he buys it at and the prise at which he sello the manufactured artioles is the margin of bia profits. As said before, he is a repre sentative of organized brain and capi tal, he bas an unlimited credit, he rep resents that element'which seeks to get the cotton as cheaply as possible, and which really, nnder the present system of things, fixes the price of it. New, who ison tue Sou t ho side, the side which is to determine how much money shall be put into circulation through the Southern cotton crop? The representative of Southern pov erty and disorganization, the producer wno has neither oapitat nor credit sud without any organization to baok bimi Cn tue one aide a representative of the organized brain and capital of the world, and on the other eldo the repre sentativo of the South's poverty and ilieorgauization. and between tho two is tho destiny ot' tho South. Tho banker, tho raerehaut and tho business mon ol' tho South from diflor en t places of business seo this uuenual struggle goiiiK on from day to day, seeing the price of cotton put down, say four per cent per nonud, twenty dollare on tile bah?, $20 loss to bo de posited in our banks, 820 less to move tho goode from the shelves of our stores,$301essto beputintotbe brain and character of tho children o? tho South, $200,000,000 less than a ten million balo orou, to develop tho resources of tho .South; because poverty aud disorgani zation cannot copo with wealth and or ganization. Is it not manifestly tho duty of the morcbant and banker and financier of the South tojoiu with tho f?reducers of this, tba South's mouopo y, to so fix the price of the cotton crop that they shall give to the world what the world needs at a price fixed by those who produce itt It is idle to speak of the farmer alone beingable to solve the economic prob lem of tho South. Let the Southern merchant, banker and finanoier pro vide the ware houses in co-operation with the farmer, help him to borrow sufficient money to meet his present obligations, put the cotton in this ware house, organize this ware house into holding companies throughout tho South, have the farmers to give to this holding company the power of attorney to sell this cotton, let the Erice be fixed below which it is not to e sold. Let samples be taken and placed where the buyera of the world can have access to them, and where these buyera may be able to place their orders, and thus be able to dic tate prices at which we will supply the world. Should there be a surplus, from every business standpoint the South should own and carry this sur plus, because the moment that if. pass es into tho hands of tho consumer it becomes a means by which he can withdraw from the market, and be enabled to bear the prices of the next crop. Hence we carrying the surplue can at all timea have a uniform price on all that we dossil. The Southern Cotton Association if bending every effort now to have ware houses built, and then to have these ware houses merged into one genera' company, and this general company, with the State company to bo charter ed under, the Haws of the different States, and thereby become the me dium through which all the cotter owned by the members of the Southon. Cotton Association shall be sold. There ia no other plan by which th? Booth can possible hope to convert hoi cotton crop into a inst and adequate return of money. We make 85 pe] cent of all the cotton produced in tin world. And, if the business men o the South will but join forces with th? producers of cotton and organise t ware house committee and financier and through a selling committee ii every State market her cotton crop then in the future we can calcul?t* anon **aeb. and every cotton cro? bringing to the South an adequate re turn for this, her great monopoly Besides this, every American shouli feel it his duty to see that the highes possible price for the American ra\ cotton should be obtained. The American mills consume oui; ?imnf. one-third cf tbs American cot ton crop; two-thirds of it is marketa abroad. Soy thero is D 12,000,000-bal crop made, and tho price ia 12 oenl per pound, the amount of foreign cai ital brought into America would bo $ 180,000,Ov.'* At 10 cents per pound it \ would bo $<i0d.000,000, or a loss of $80, 000,000, equivalent to Si per capita for every man, woman aud child in America. Should it bring 8 cents por Eound the amount brought in would o only $;120,000.000, or a IOBS to Amer ica of $100,000,000. per capita for ovory man, worman and child in Amer ica, which would mean a lons in Amer ican trade of from $80,000,003 to $100, 000,000 a year on export cotton alone, while it would not in anywise injure the manufacturing interests of Ameri ca. From every economic standpoint in view of tue fact that America has a practical monopoly of the cotton pro duction of the world, it should anpeal to tho business men, not of the South alone, but of the entire country, to see to ?K: hat means should be devised by which the cotton might be financed and marketed so SB to insure to the South and to America the maximum ' price possible. Mr. Dale, of Boatos, Mass., took thia ground before the meeting of the epinnors and growers of Washington and read a moat ex- A collent article along the carno lino W Sorely the businessmen of the South feeling and enjoying tho last two years of prosperity, the result of high price cotton, will join with us now and aid us in reduofng this proposition to a simple praotical business basis where we can set the price and determine the fluctuations in values. Let no man be discouraged on account of this slump in the speculative world. We ean not afford to give np the light. We are learning our weak points and aro do ing all within our power to strengthen them. We must nave ware houses that are chartered organizations in each State. We must have a means by which tho cotton can be concentrated, financed and sold only at the price fixed. This is tho problem bolero uo, and it is one in which every Southern mau is .interested. We must solve it. E. D. Smith. mm * m Gored to Death by a Bull. Pickens, S. C., May 31.-A gloom of sadness was cast over the town of Pick on B when it heard the news that their beloved citizen, John Ferguson, who lived near town, wau gored by a Guern sey bull. He had just finished feeding when the bull attacked bim and knock ed him down and gored him io death. His wife, Mrs, Hattie Ferguson, hef .rd bim cry out. She was sick in beil. but she jumped np and ran to the piazza and by that time John Simpson, a colored man who was working for Mr. Ferguson, heard him scream also. He saw the bull goring Mr. Ferguson and he scoured a pitchfork and fought the animal away. Earl Stephenson, another ono of.Mr. Ferguson's hands, who was near by, ran up and pulled Mr. Ferguson's head from under the barn. The animal had crushed his skull and pushed his head under the I barn. He was carried into the house ! and died in a few minutes. He never spoke after he waa hurt. I Mr. Ferguson was for many yearn a prominent merchant of Greenville. - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church so longer exists as a ?ep?tate organization. There has boen a renn* ion with the Northern Presbyterian Church. Such a move has been ad vocated for some years. ......ipjranr^ii, W||in.i.i. mn.mn Tm XJlSTTTIj SATURDAY, JUNK ?th. '' 1^ WW Within 13 Days. . A'TBBBXFI? BLATTCrH-XBB ! Outfit your family Sa Wearing Apparel %t drifting Coat? To Close Out the Business the entire Stock to bo sold out rapidly-all to gc at LESS THAN1 ACTUAL COSTforrair (g?^^ June 9th._ i Men's Boita, worth J8.50 and 09.00, Administration Salo........*., 14 85 ito's ......... ?........ 6 40 l{e&^ 6nih?t wbr^ ...........? T 95 ?:;fl?^# ...IQ 40 MenVSnifeiwo^ .&&f??&*;:worth22.60^ Admii^s^ ..............v.\.?.,i$$? Hon's Snits, WArth 25.00, Adiaimiatrfit?on 8??ok... , .v<..17 ?5 ' Hen's Fine??sa Panis (worth 2.00 ox money rafurided) ^J. Salo..'. : 85 Afton's....1 39 Bring this list, a? every article will fee as advertised. Boys' Suits^All Sizes* ?uith worth 88.50, Administration Sale........................... .$3 98 finita worth 10.00, Administration Sale .................-...... 4 89 Suits worth 25 00? Administration Sale.............. . 9 89 Boys' Extra Good, worth 3.00 up,for....................... 1 49 Boya' All Wool, latest shades and stylet, worth 4.75, for.. 2 98 Boys, our Finest Snits ia thia Sacrifice Sale all go for. 3 48 BOYS' KNEE PANTS. ^iVortb 75*c to 1.00 go for..... .?............. ... .v........... 89c Extra Good, worth 25c and 50c, for. ? ; :. 19c Furnishings, Shirts, Shoes,&c. Men's best quality hoavy Working Shirts.. 39c Men's Dress Shirts, worth 1.00. 39o Men's Hats, the latest shapes, worth 2.00, none less than 1.50.V/ 89c Men's Fino 35c and 50o Suspenders to go nt. I9o Socks, worth 10c, at Administration Sale. ? 6c Over 1,000 Keck Ties, all shades, worth from 50o to 75c, at. 19c Men's Handkerchief*, worth 10c, go at.. 3c 400 pairs Men's Shoes, 3.00 and 3.60 values, Sale price,..1 19 A few hundred pair Men's Extra Fine Shoes to be sold at. 1 48 A few hundred pairs Men'e Extra Fine Shoes will be offered at.1 98 11 A REGULAR BARGAIN FEAST FOR THE PUBLIC j 3'1 . AUproataw^ ? gale ^thont? ^&|ftlleL Opportui?ty of a Ufe?^ A money ?saving opportunity that appeals to yon. I ! fi *&? This G?GAKTIC . JLOXH?N? ' SALE will abound with monoy-aaving inducements that will troly prove a tonio to over- S "M ; ^ Everything must go rapidly. This g f?ft In order to provo to yon what a tro? Q ' jj^ ^^^^l^^^^^^^^^1 ^^^^'ffi>iirtit& In^^ythe city or country jj ? s ? TMa^srillbe the greatest Bargain Sale o? Clothing, Bto., ow conducted ia tko State of South Carolina. Wo put