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$40,000,004 The "Pacifi( $40,000,000 of its stockholders' Fund for every policy holder of thii ptot from what policy holders pa3 It is 40 years old. It has over $i the most liberal policies of any Lite more cash and more paid up Insura largest dividends of any company d Call to see us, Office over old Post Office. Farmers' Union Bureau of information. -Condueted by the South Carolina Farmers' Eduoa tional and Co-Operation Union. .SCommunications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. To the Press. Owing to making a change in the printing establishment that has been setting up our Farmers' Union Bureau column -for us, our proofs have not gone out to our papers in a satisfac tory way recently . But under our new arrangements our column will go out to the press promptly on Tuesday mornings, released to the press Wed nesday, which we trust will be satis factory to all parties. W9hilst we are on this subject of the press we take this opportunity to thank all our papers that have been publishing our Bureau column for us. Oar committee of eight prominent farmers, whose duty it is to look after the good of our organization have done a wise thing in their efforts to educate our farmers on the business side of their farming through the es tablished press of the country in pre ference to accepting any one of seier al selfish propositions made to the Union to patronize only one paper as an organ for the Union. From the beginning it has been our opinion that in order to protect the interest of our farming populationu through an organized effort that was not necessary to uproot, teardown, or undermine any of our necessary indus - tries or legitimate business or subsi dise any part of the press of the coun try or split off any cohice pieces of politics to aid us in upbuilding our farming interest, which all sane peo ple, regardless of their occupation, will admit that the farming interest is the basis of the prosperity of our whole country. While the farmers' movements is educating the farmer in his business, we note.that the business fraternity is also learning that his prosperity de pends upon the prosperity of the far .mier, too. Putting in Fall Oats.. SNow is the time to begin to prepare yourselves to battle against the cotton bears that are sure to come after you next fall.. QBegin now to put in a large crop of winter oats. We nevey fail making a getod erop of winter oats.when.we can Plow the land deep, harrow smooth andl( drill the seed in open furrows. I use a common cotton planter with a fertilizer attachment and put in Y~from 150 lbs to 200 lbs of 10-4 acid phosphate to the acre. It is a waste of money to use small grain sown in the .fall. We use a shovel plow about six or eight inches wide on the planter foot '~to open the furrow and make the rows ~ ust close enough to not allow any & loose dirt to roll back in the open S trench just planted. Be careful and > don't allow any dirt to fill in the open trench, and run the rows nearly on-*a level but should empty out gradually' at each end. Never on any occasion sow seed oats in the fall that has not been grown from fall sowing at least three years; at which this seed may be considered as having the established habit of win t;er growing. . We would also give the preference to seed already grown by .the open -trench system over that seed grown from broadcast sowing, though we have no positive proof that the open trench grown seed are the safest. We eaution all. new beginndrs about -seeuring first-class pure elean seed. Most any up-to-date farmer would tell you that seed oats or wheat plant .ed with cheat,. cockle or smutty stuff would not only fill your lands with these foul seeds, but they reduce the 'yield to an extent that would make it profitable to pay five or mor.e prices . fr pure seed tha.n to tako foul seed at 'no cost. ) Besides Assets of t : Mutual Life" is the rivate fortunes is, by the State Lav i Company. Stockholders, accordir in. oo,oop,ooo of business in force in 4< I Compan'y. It writes all forms of nce at end of premium paying pei oing business in South Carolina. ROB] We are now'preparing to mow down a crop of about two tons of pea. vine to the acre on land that was aband oned three years back by an improvi dent renter that failed to get more than five bushels of corn or 150 lbs. of seed cotton to the acre. Deep ploughing, cow peas and from 150 lbs. to 200 lbs. of acid phosphate to acre on each crop is all the secret there is in this. This simple application of a little common horse sense, a good deal of horse sweat in a co-operation way, with nature, has made this land that was barren bloom again with profi table crops that average over thirty bushels of oats and from one to two tons of pea hay to the acre all in one year. This land next year would grow a good profitable crop of corn without any fertiliser, or with the applica tion of about 150 lbs. of acid phos phate we believe it easy to grow 1,000 lbs. of seed cotton to the acre. After a good crop of peas we don't need to udd any more nitrogeneous manure. Ordinarily we have plenty of this costly fertilizing ingredient stored in the soil by the cow pea crop. Raising Stock or Raising Negroes. On one side of the creek we can show you a large farm that was once considered one of the finest farms in the country, but for the last 18 years it has been run in cotton and niggers, until a larger part of the once fertile soil is now, in the lower places and in the streams, until these small streams are all filled with the washing froni the lands above. These once rich bot ton lands on the filled up streams are worthless now for crops. This whole farm now has a skinned desolate and barren look about it. Stock raising here-excepting little niggers -is at its wolest ebb. Not far away from the above farm is a farm that is farmed like the man who was after taking care of himself and his land, too. On every side, on the hills as well as on the lowlands, he has fine crops of grain and grass and pastures, roaming with cows and cal ves, hogs and pigs, mares and colts and poultry. The gaulded and naked places are nearly all covered over with grasses. The lowing of the cows and calves, the squealing of the pigs, the neighiing of romping colts and cack 1ing of the lhens, all chime in one grand chorus of farm music that make the heart of the true farmer leap with joy, and his city cousin wants to swap places with him. Compare these two farms' products One is covered over, almost with grass and live stock and the land and the man is growing richer. The cotton plantation is growing poor~er wvhile this man is raising little niggers. Take,your choice. As for our part we can manage the stock better than we can the little niggers, who generar ly go awvay to town or other places just about as soon as they get big enough. Temper. If a man has a quarrelsome tem per, let him alone. The world will soon find him employment. He will soon meet with some one stronger than himself who will repay him better than you can. A man may fight duels all his life if he is disposed to quarrel -Cecil. She Merely Wanted Bill. Dundee Advertiser. A dear old lady who had never left her native village before decided last summer to pay a flying visit to Ports mouth to see her son, a sailor. The exeursion train landed her at the har bor station. Wandering down to the pontoon in a dazed fashion, she was 'hustled into a boat by an entertaining boatman, and before she had recov ored from her astonishment found kerself by the sid, of the Victory. Looking up in awe at the imposing old hulk, she spied a sailor's fae beaming at her from a porthole. T'om mediately li' t dawned on her puzded braflinl, and snet yde~td out: ''Is this the ''Yes, mum,'' was the apologetic re ply he Company. Company. v of California, a guaranteed Safe ig to La.w and Charter. derive i ) States and Territories. It writ )olicies. It guarantees in the poli riod than any company. It ps RT NORRIS, Gen Agt. for South Carolina. "Then toll our Bill I wants 'im she commanded. "Your Bill?" wonderingly quer! the tar. ''Yes, my Bill-ho's in the navy was the lucid reply. He Wanted To Know. The steamer Morning Star, co manded by Capt. Brown, in the as mer of 1904, while on a trip up I Maine coast with a party of exei sionists, was caught in a severe stor and the waves washed the decks peatedly. The captain assured I passengers that there was no i mediate danger. Most of the passq gers were satisfied with his answ but a little gentleman with an exe ed face stopped forward and ask the captain, time and time again, I same question: ''Do you think shall be wreeked?'' After the captain answered ma times, he at last became tired of I persistent passenger and said, "Doi you hear what I say? Look at I other ptassengers, they do not seem all disturbed. If there should be di ger, I will inform you in time.'' The passenger in reply, said: want to know in time, if we are ing to be lost, because there is a frie of mine on board.'' "Do you want to say good-by him'' inquired the captain. ''No, not exactly that,'' answet the frightened mail. "You see, 1 thing of it is, he has sh'amefully ceived me, and if we are going to t bottom I just want to tell hiim'wha think of him.'' Too Much Curiosity. A dangerous operation was bei performed upon a woman. Old D< tor A , a quaint German, full kindly wit and professional enthu asm, had several younger doctors w' him. One of them was administeri the other. He became so interested the old doctor's work that he wil drew the cone from the patient's ni trils, and she half-roused and r( to a sitting posture, looking with wi eyed amazement over the surromi ings. It was a critical period, ai Doctor A- did not want to be terrupted. ''Lay down, dere, men,'' he commanded gruffly. ''Y haf more curiosity as a medical si dent.'' Some First Occasions. Tile first canal was made in Et land when Henry I joined tile Trn to the Withamn, in 1134. Quill pens came into use in 553 ;t first steel ones in 1820, whlen the fi gross of them sold for $30. Tile first pocket hlandkerchliefs, ut ized in the manner they are todl: wvere manufactured at Paisley in 17' From thle press of tile celebrat Wynken de Worde the first book ci taining musical characters was issu iln 1495. The first coins were struck in hra a bout 1184 B. C., and in gold and ver by Phlelden, Tyrant of Arg about 862 B. C. About 70 A. D., the first glass he tie was made by the Romans, thlough the manlufacture was not te en up in England until 1558. Movable scenery was first used theatres in 1508. It was invented Baldassare Peruzzi and displayed Rome before Leo X. Pliny's ''Naturaly History'' m be regarded as the first eneyeloped since it contained 30,000 facts cc plied from 2,000 books by 100 thors. Hindu PUague Town. London Globe. The ruined bouses and temp which from tile town encircle a gr< mass of rock that riises a sheer feet above it. This' rock is erowr witAh an ancient fort, and with si moie ancient temples, the summanit1 igreached from the town by a gr< flight of worn and sunbeaten ste cult in the face of tile rock and ori mlented witht carved arehlways and p chIes. The temples on the solinmit: Jainl and Brahmin, anld tile great I s tone fort wna raised bthe ihnmij The Pacific Its peculiar legal organization n 40 years old, It gives the greates cost. Its non participating rates ty lowing are the rates per $1,ooo o: WHOLI 20 PAVMECN1 3o AGE LIVFE. 11IE. 20 $14 65 $22 6o 21 15 00 22 95 es 22 15 35 22 30 23 15 70 23 70 Cy 24 I6 o5 24 10 25 16 45 24 55 Ys 26 16 85 25 00 27 1y 3o 25 45 28 17 75 25 90 29 1 25 26 4o 30 .18 75 26 95 31 1925 2;5O 32 19 84 28 05 33 2040 2860 34 21 05 29 20 ,' ty Mogul Emperor, Akbar the Wis( but all is now decay and desolatior ed In equal ruin lie the carved wondei of Jain priests and pious Brahmii ,' with the inlaid marbles and arabeF ques of the Morgan emperors. Her the only inhabitants are the mang hyena and the fierce panther, an m- perhaps some starving wretch, wh m- having exhausted the generousity c he his caste fellows has crawled up froi ir- the ruined town below to crouch i m, some (lark recess and to die-alon( re- It is but early March, but the heat i he intense; already the blazing sun c m- Indian summer beats down with mn- force that is not soon forgotten, whil er, from the sun-beaten surface of th it- rock there seems to leap the fier ed breath of ,000 years of fierce sn he shin and hot winds. For down beloi we tile flat-topped roofs of the ruine houses shimmer and tremble in ny haze of heat. Away on all sides th he horizon stretches like a petrified sea I't mile after mile of arid stony hills an ;he barren plains, across which smokin at pillars of hot air and dust whirl in im- mad dance mocking the empty field and the withered trees; while th "I whole landscape trembles in an into r- rahle glare. Down inl the narro' nd stone-paved streets of the town nii erable wretches who have never know to the meaning of a good meal, mutte and stumble along in dimless miser; ed Tile air here is like a furnace; tl he minute shops, little dark stone ri le- cesses b!ackened with the smoke ain he toil of centuries, are mostly desertei t I and if some poor wretch with the gla: ed eye of cholera, or tile Crouchil attitude aild fetii breath to die, tl only interested spectators will be th ng great, heavy-winged birds of pre; >c- vile objects, that with gorged clums of ness circles and wheel in a sky tho si- is at once cloudless and colorless. ith jig Press Notes for October Designer. m In the Designer for October ai - shown, in addition to many other ul )s- to-date patterns, the newest design )sc for coats and jackets for ladies, mi 1d s girls and boys. The millinei d- pages display autulmn hats, an nd ''Fashionable Frivolities " at n- ''Fashion and Fab)ries"' desribe all '- illustrate manyil new articles ill ti u1 dress line to be found in the shlop "- ''Points on Coat Making'' instruec how to make a "Peter Pail" blom coat, one of the latest styles of wvra: In fancywork are supplied directioi i- for crocheting a I- 'd, baby cap, boa nt tees, bedroom slipj. baby sack, an hug-me-tighlt jacket wr lady; also ft hIe making in lace stocks, handkerchlief rst a chemisette and gauntlet cuff, wi IMiss Moeran continlues her lessonsi ii- Carrickmacross lace. An amusir iy, monologue ''Aunt Anugelina 's Exper' 3enees Wid do New Cornvention " lt ed Agnes RI. L. Pratt and "HIallowe'c "~l Entertainments'" supplhy the amusi edi mient deman,d. Among the literal features are ' 'Tile Haunted Castles< ""Europe," by Jolln do Morgan, tw ~1 short stories "'The Royalist,'' by Joli SJustin Commings, and ''Tile Facei tihe Mirror," by Zelia Margaret Wa t~ ters, and "Tile Village Improvcmeu -Society" which comes to a termina Lk- tion amid most exciting events. .picture story of "Two Pumpkir ma whlich Enlded in a Pie'' will amuse tl: by small folks. Bertha Ilasbrook tel in how to be a " A Visiting Gift Maker, and 'Mary Kilsyth writes of "Ti ? Modern Use of Colonial Furniture. Ia, Receipts for layer cakes, piccallil m- and.ecatsups are given in "The Kitel u-1 en Kingdom," and "For L.ovely W< man" tells how to have soft whil hands. Posted. les "Can you repeat the Declaration< ~at Independence?" shle asked. "0'I used to be able to," lie replie ed "but about all I remember of it no Liis, 'To be or not to be-that is ti be question.' ",...udge. 3at ______ psr rom the Woods. mi- A popular soprano is said to have -voice of fine t imbrei~, a will owy f'ilur I re cherry lips, chetstniuti lair nd ( liaz '('( eyes. SIle - .Is h.a..' l)-Pi rs..' d Mutual Life Insurance iakes it the strongest Life Insurance Co t guarantees written in the Policies of i re less than any other company doing', i non-participating plans. , WHOLE 20 PAVMENT AGH 1,1im. 1,1FH. 35 21 70 29 85 36- 22 40 30 50 3 2315 3120 31 23 90 31 95 39 24 75 32 70 40 25 00 33 50 41 26 5 34 35 42 2755 $5 25 43 2860 36 20 44 29 70 3 20 45 3050 3 25 46 32 15 3935 47 32 50 40 50 48 34 9S 4175 49 365so 43 10 Frank R. Hu 0 y Real Estate, Stocks, Bo d Bought ain f Office Over Hers n Newberr3 f a If you want to Buy, Sell or SEE I Upon application at our I to price and show a we have in FRANK. R. HUN S e V 22nd' Making 22 HUNDR e CHOICE TENNESSEE a and While it Lasts to C Best Patent $4.51 Best half Pat. $3. Best Meal 85c. bi Best Grits $1.75 o Don't pay any more, don't be swil along, save money and buy from us. Our immense stock of fall goods. e ties and fancy goods and staples, our ng novelties in millinery. Come and right thing in prices, style, quality, Z y. ply cannot beat us, we don't make d you up on balance, people getting d and looking out more for No. x. Co: d Forty years experience counts some edon't you forget it, PROSPE R i SAtIaqtic Coast ,Good Service. Quic: Through Coa Pullrr between the Flori ,For full inforn e TC W. J Passenge Company. mpany in America. It is nearly ny Insurance Company at loss business in this section. The fol W1oL04 . 20 PAYuiW* 11103IF. LIFS. 50 38 iS 44 50 51 3990 4600 52 41 75 47 60 63 43 75 49 30 54 485 5 15 55 to 53 10 56 50 50 55 20 57 53 10 7 45 68 5485 5 59 80 6a4$ 60 6195 25 6: - 6 30 1 62 71 45 63 .77A,49 64 R3 87 nter & Co. nds and Mortgages d Sold. Ad and News, F, S. C. Exchange Real Estate JS. )fMoe we will be glad ny property that Charge. TER, Manager. CAR, ED Barrels of that FLOUR Just Received o at 3 Every bbl. 95 guaranteed. .shel. lack. tched off by argument, come right arriving embracing all the novel Mrs. Moseley in the North select. see us, we are prepared to do the tc., for an all round bill you sim-. i cut price on one thing and burn educated and opening their eyes ne and see us and be convinced. thing, we will treat you right and rY. S. C. Line Railroad k Schedules. ches and ian Sleepers East and da. Satoin write .CRAIG, r Traffic Manager, Wilmington, N. C.