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VOL LIII NO.83.NEWBERRY. $. 0. FMt[ky. 00 voIIERt 5. 1904. OROP OONDITION 71.6 ON SEPTEMBER 25. Washington, Oct. 2.-The crop re porting board of the bureau of sta tistics of the department of agricul ture finds from the reports of the eorrespondents and agents of the bu reau that the average condition of cot.ton on September 25 was 71.6, a compared,with 77.3 on Aug. 25, 1900, 71.2 on Sept. 25, 1905, 75.8 on Sept 25, 1 and a 10-year average of 66.7. The following table shows the Col dition of the cotton crop by States on Sept. 25 of last year, and with the 10-year average: Ten- . Sept. 25, Sept. 25, year State 1906 1905 average Virginia .. . 66 77 74 N. Carolina ..66 77 71 S. Carolina ...66 74 70 Georgia ....68 76 70 Florida ......64 76 71 Alabama .. ..68 70 67 Mississippi ... 75 68 67 Louisiana .. ..73 59 68 Texas .. ....74 69 62 Arkansas .. .76 72 66 Tennessee . ..75 79 72 Missouri .. ..82 81 76 Oklahoma.. . .75 80 72 Imd. Territory 74 78 71 United States 71.6 71.2 66.7 This report dues not reflect the damage caused since Sept. 22 by the recent storm on the Gulf coast. A striking Appeal. In his first letter to the great secret order over which lie presides in this State Grand Chancellor M. Rutlede Rivers of the Kiights of Pythias, makes a stiirring appeal to the patri otisim of ten Ilhusand sterling men who compose its Imlbership in a call to them to stand for the law and the constituted authority of the State. It is a powerful plea and a most strik ing and welcome manifestation of awakening thought and a sense of the obligation upon us to take stock of our civilization and undertake a re establishment of the shaken founda .ions of the law. Grand Chancellor Rivers points out that the membership of the Pythian order comprises one-tenth the number of South Carolinians qualified to par Neipate in tile affairs of State and truly says that ''ten thousand earnest advocates of the maintenance of order and of upholding constituted author ity will make an impress that surely will bring untold benefits to our state, honior p)on o ur order and credit to. ourselves.'' Inudec(l the power of such an organization to aecolplish upon which it is united is inestimable. If One man in every ten of voting age in South Carolina were prepared always and in all circumstanees to stanld for the law and to support the constitu ted authority, against all clamor and rage of tile mob, there would soo, he an end to lynching. To the enld that the members of the order should be impressed with their obligations to the State an<t their duties as citizens to maintain order and su1pp)ort the law, the head of the Pythians ill South Carolina instructs thait at least once in every month, each lodge of Pythians under his jurisdiction shall be called to its feet and thme members shall repeat to tile order, a declaration of their be .licef inl the maintenance of order and the uphiolding~ of constituted author ity in the government. This is a practical and striking method of bringing to tihe realization of a very large propertion of tihe citizenshuip' of h . South Carolina tIhe duty which rests upon01 all of them to stand steadfastly against all forms of violence and rage, and it can not but be impres sively beneficent inl its fe Tegrand chancellor of the Pyth ians has undertaken in this recoin mecndation~ a patriotic service amnd was b)rought is order inmto the ter. a: 'm of its activit, for the uplift ing of society. It would be most whlole some1 if the cxamp)le of tile Pythians were followe'd by the other great "riate: a1. m dlers in South Caralina. By mereI' nopressing and illustrat iing ani oht at on1ce of eite'..en ship in thme ort.er, a benefit to hie whmole P society might be wro. ,at., the value of which no man canme s11I3. Farmers' Union Bureau ol Information. --Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Educa. tional and Co-Operation Union. $rCommunications intended for thi department should be addressed to J. C 3tribling, Pendleton, S. C. [mportant Notice to Farmers' Union Our Chairman of Executive Coi. nittee, T. B. Picket t, has arraiiged foi Ilie State Farmers' Union to ieet. iti the Y. Al. C. A. Hall, Columbia, S. C. n Wednesday iiglit, 24th of October, diiring Fair Week. Wednesday is Farmers' Union daN it the State Fair. Every Farmers Union man in South Carolina that cal posil)ly attend ishould go to tile meet ing of the State Union. All member: will be admitted to the State noeting: whether they are delegates or not. N< one but dele.ates will, be allowed to vote. Send to The Union News. Tiomas ton, Ga., for a free copy of The Unio News, containing the latest constitu tion, which will give all informatior as to electing delegates, etc. Stat( Secretary-Treasurer B. F. Earle, An. derson. S. C.. and State Organize M. A. Malaffey. Williamston, S. C, will give you all the information i1 their departments. R. F. Duckworth1 from Texas, is now making a cam paign of the State. Be sure to g out to hear him when he comes you way. COTTON MARKET. Quotations by the Farmers' Union Good iddling 1 I cents. No advance this week. buit refuse t( .40 lower at any time. Tle vottfi ii market Ias no nervou eftect on the Farmers' Union ma1 wihol has plenty of food crops and ha a good replutation, or a good ware house in reach. Wien your good wife has more to matoes or fruit than she can sell a profitable prices she stores then away ini cans and awaits for hous( oiinsumption or a better market C*an't You have as much business tae about you as your wife and can you 'otton away in some good place, ge .torage receipts for it, pay yoir bill ad stand pat ? Eleven cents for cotton will givt yon a profit and make you and every. body that you mix with happy. Nine cents for cotton knocks al makes tile prof,it, good that it touche life of everytliing" that it touches an< makes the man that buys and th man that. sells botlh feel like thel ha< stolen something. Go right ahead now putting in oat bet ween the cotton rows just behini the cotton pickers. You will knock off a good man; bolls perhaps, but you can save thi eotton later on. , Your character as an independen farmer rests largely upon yous grow ing your own food crops for both mal and beast. If you think that you can buy you food for both man and beast cheape than you can grow it on your farn then we are sure that you en bu your cotton, too, cheaper than yo can grow it for 9c. Thlat is the thing that hurts an makes slaves out a large percentag of cotton farmers. They undertak to do a kind of mercantile cotto growving bunsiness of buying food crop and selling cot ton for a p)rofit withou the knowledge of the first principle of good business tact in anything. Comne out and1( join the Farmers UJnion-thne biuginess orga'inizat ion o farmers-and get a free course il business farming and be independent All you farmers that have you nsiness matters well in hand am .ein position to hold your cottoi DLof the depressed markets, shouh Lo (out and tell your less fortunat< b)rotheor farmers just how you manag ed to do this. When you (10 this yoi irc iiot only helping your follov ' aft smen, but you are increashin [lio st rengthI o.f your own position by Hr9 ;ing in recruits for the army o. A. fon '3rs' movement for lI - put' pose of 'snrolling t1o farmo..' ow. N-01 A VIEA/S F9 NOTE-No. j, Methodist Church; No. 2, Sc Bird's Eye View of Village affairs by the farmers. I)emocratic Tell the news Io everybody th!at the bvealuse it is Farmlers' I'llionl now numbers over sevenl bhundred thousand, and is grow-l. is opinion in, at at rate thiat insuires it to reaen ,to t the millioinimark before thiis 1rop1 Is .ITal n cofd 1I )emt it I .- tarvested.ril Wvlerie is tilie institutlioll for, WrOW-." 11i(tig tlaat cal stan< 111 agaillst ol1e . Iis ri-lht '111 Ilmill weil oraie and14 determlind-1 rhat an 11 solns ol tie slil ni tile .i11t who ar e banded to.gether to stand by the side .el dof ri it ' Orgaii%ize farilers, or.ai t, -n and all Iltings for pood is yours. aita in, the 011onl Oties Ill A SOUTHERN MAN FOR iESI- " pil' , DENT. hmve 11a: vf ''"Cetim.e S The Cattanooga Times Tells why it .,otitlien pa Thinks the Next Democratic Can- as a Soultie q - st 0.1 1to lip kent. didate Should be from the tob kp Soth with the WI us carry the 1 (Chattano ga Tpimes. it un:uniimou Tlhe Charleston News and Courier, votes.I f~ w r ebiallengzing ani article in the BallIi, ';'jte and(i e. more Su n, anid to which editorial I - broad enonii' ,ference was made in this newspaper t ry, why let y relative to a Sout herni candidate for Ileast exact l .1 the Presideney, expresses the follon'~- come the voli in Ion ard pat riot ic sentiment: ing to makt I Tt b, after all, not where thle c'andi- imupossib)le in 3 -late of the party comes from, but in 0r1We a what lie sitends for that will count, aind it we a a iand that ought to count, in thle next ation of th a Presidential elect ion and in succeed- have it fori tlg Presidentilal elect ion if, indeed, or any othleu s~ we are to have any more Presidenitial flectedl erel 'lect ions. We shuoubl like to havYe a who would 14 a ' out hern Democrat ini the Wh ite~ able st andinc f 1House, of coitrse, buiit the first thlin-ii thl ink ine- mec ito be done is to catch a D)emocrat in countray. .whomi the peole of the country, not Perhaps,t the peole of a p)art of the country ha~ iviung our< any part of the county, wvillI have such its in (lie I Ieon1fidenc(e that they will he willinie thinking at to elect him. We (do not care whieret beeni doing. lihe comes from, so t hat lie measures I uip to the .Jeffersonian standard-''is li hecap)able, is lie honest, is lie fait h- Boll V - iul to (lie Constitution?'" IC any Litle Ro< a State or seetlion is to be rewarded he- ( . Vinceenhe cause of tl'o e' 'dy of its lDC.aoerats k:iansas agri Sto the party, we should like to have a tin, ainnouni 'the next D)emocrat ic candidate ntom- it v of D)r. Y inat ed from VTermhonit, a St ate in Sittgave whichu the D)emocrats nuever win an holl weevil I elect ' 1 but in -vaich ,'.-vote the in . "Mr. T ,,~ 11 ..... ..... A.t. '.4.4 o~m THE NEBRY < hool Building; No. 3, Lutheran Church; icket year. after earht co ntie ' hinleii Delm-ratic. Vi.tr \IIIc( -stmn emntempor(11arV haser. Shere40iroir 11pon)[1 tIhle idea that the int sted teritir: 190S is to be a seriou c1Onlsiderably by F eled with (he purp'st, tint i o l' ( electinl" tile I: tVoter Sug Anldi(late, and Allr that iti tilmo 'll ci sist eit .A, i lillt. is 411i dhui h, ad what the be I-Im-1111-vei I hinled. was that, if wt ,. oi (4 make a mess ofA . Slaw if) No-whvi-r-v S llit-1 Nern Votes heillf I lie. is to) behv ce (le I'leclulral ollege for ICv!t m -het, tIhell we had betteri , too sn--f-es lite Ff Ite , as a m atter of selt'- . 1d . . . eitiment, east flo a n Ward 2. F N. -ty is to colntilile soleV Wn i . . N n instilui ol, and1 we .e "i - - lite H ous, why t thil let idlea out fully and make s-anididate as well as A;ie I' ennii't get a parity cani iaet ftorm big enioughi ait nd uk . i bi to4 fit thle whole counh- iittt lthViI us get one that will at ertewl, fit t he section whenieeai ~~thitI : es. If Mr. PBryan is golii:l it impo)tssile, wit ii s aiil"I w 'i 111, to carry' aliy North- fWYite 14 l) er*n States of accounit,i:t.14h agLainI to have tlhe segre- Ll14. )a niels, Hailey, ('armIhack, ' . I Soumthern'ier wh'lo has re' 111upon (he section, andtoItvhsiiii' I Ileast gi ve us a resp iect .bwk, suh fu ChlC: ea:' taitofndinon,I 'wi hiw ' ui fl~~ nt,ivertthe"ewhrb". 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