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VOLJXLIV. NO. 19. NEWBICRRY. S. 0. TEJ6ISI)AY._M~ARCE 5, 1907. TWIOE A WEEK. $1 50 A YEAR
Farmer's Union Breau of
Information
-Conducted by the -
uth Carolina Farmers' Educa
'tional and Co-Operation Union.
Communications Intended for this
epartment should be addressed to .J. C
lbling, Pendleton, S. 0.
Our South Carolina .Farmers' Un
ion would be exceedingly well pleas
ed to have congress to investigate
the Farmers' Union on the same plan
with the New York cotton exchange.
It would be, interesting to know just
-why it takes a ninety thousand dol
9lar fee to buy a seat in the New York
Cotton exchange and it takes but one
ollar to buy a. seat in the Farmers'
,.nion. We would also take much
pride in showing up a shirt made
from our Farmers' union cotton
.against a shirt made from Wall street
'vind cotton.
Take Your Choice.
We had rather chew the rag than
-hew tobacco and spit upon the floor
f the church or schoolhouse.
If we had no bad farmers in the
*country good farmers' would not
Istand so high.
If we had no enemies would we
have much appreciation for our
friends?
You can't take a man very low
down that has not already gone up
.high. This should be comforting to
some of us that have never gotten ilp
high enough on the ladder of fame
to make our heads swim.
If cottrn farners could feed their
stock and families on future corn,
oats, hay, wheat and pork, crops
wvithout getting their jaws on the real
-stuff like cotton gamblers feed cotton
mills on cotton futures, the all-cot
'iton farmers would then be in shape
to enforce a square deal with the
wind cotton fellows.
If we had no trifling no account
farmers in the country, no grafty
,merchants in town, no small lawyers
in the legislatpre and court rooms,
would we have any use tor a lien
law?
) Ever hear anything like this? ''I'm
pt going to lose a crop trotting
1r6und after no Farmers Union and
-things like that.'
Now I will be good if this same old
.fool won't be found up a tree next
.fall hanging out on a lien law limb
d a big cotton bear, at the root
1 kilng up at him, and he looking
A dn at the bear praying and howl
ing, ''Good Lord if you can't help me
'please don't help that bear.''
Our best generals will tell you that
it is an invariable good rule, in war
fare to never do that thing which
your enemies suggest would be best
for you to do. Cotton speculators
have pt it in the newspapers aid in
the mouths of the commercial travel
ers to sing a swan song all over the
-south to grow all the cotton p)ossible,
that there never was such a dlemand
for cotton products andl that the trade
will need and take fifteen million
bales next year at ten cents. D)on't
-you (10 it.! Fill the months of all that
youi eat at your p)lace first with home
grown food crops and then fill the
mouths of these cotton hears with 12
-cent cotton.
?ok out Thore IBe Careful or Some
i One Will Get Left on Long Sta
pie Cotton This Year.
Because the long staple cotton
I 'Owers have come together and got
good price for t heir cot ton through
elligent concert of action.'- It now
>ks like every jaekass in the conni
y is going into long staple cottonm
rowing business. Whenever this
o jdition of' things come to pass and
he, rowVers (10 not stick to their or'
an .tions there will be less profit in
bng stiaple cotton than in short sta
le cotton. Many farmers refuse to
bin the Farmers' union because they
ay the farmers won 't stick. Now
y man that puts up this kind of an
euse for not sticking to the farm
.s grganization because some otheor
n on 't stick, had about as well
ut and steal a chicken because
eohrfellow had done the same
m ien you come to think the,matter
ver there is something curious about
l&m Mr. Drake of Marlboro county,
South Carolina, grew 252 bushels of
corn on one acre and Mr. Tindal of
Calarendon county of this state grew
nearly 200 bushels on one acre, both
winning prizes, beating the world on
corn at differ.ent times, and yet it is
said that South Carolina cotton farm
ers'buy proportionately as much or
more corn per horse than any other
cotton- state. Again we can name
some Farmers' union men in Ander
son, Pickens, Oconee and several
other counties in South Carolina that
average nearly one bale of cotton per
acre on their crops and then some of
them sell from 300 to nearly 1,000
bales of hay, one Farmers' union man
near Pendleton now has over 1,000
bushels of corn in his cribs and 106
bales of cotton on. hand. And again
our co-operative experiments last
year season averaged up on five
acres 70 bushelis without using the
hand hoe at any time, no thinning
done, corn left inl rows just as plant
er put it in. Less than $7 worth of
fertilizers was used per acre. But the
land was cow pea stubble and plowed
deep before planting and weeder and
cultivators were used in rapid suces
Sion.
Again in this connection we men
tion the fact that South Carolina
needed both McIver Williamson and
Robert Aldrich, and these two corn
chaihpions in turn have raised more
discussions of their respective meth
ods of the far-famed ''Williamson
Stunting'' method and the ''Aldrich
system" of growing two rows of corn
alternating with two rows of cotton,
than anly other corn growers on the
continent.
Now we South Carolinians- are a
very inconsistent, unbelieveing thick
skull set of cottontotts, or we do not
believe that we can see all around us.
The world is now compelUed to rec
ognize South Carolina farmers as the
champion corn raisers of the world,
or we South Carolina farmers are the
biggest liars in the world. We don't
believe that our lien law farmtrs will
ever grow their own food crops as
long as they can go to the-stores and
buy it. - This same class of farmers
would also buy their cotton-on the
lien law plan instead of making it if
there was as slick a plan to do it on.
"The Sign of the Cross."
Wilson Barrett's historical and re
ligious drama, ''The Sign of the
Cross," has long been accepted as one
of the greatest plays in the history
of the stage. Its historical interest
turns to the cruelty and excesses in
Rome during the dark reign of the
Emperor Nero. The religious atmos
phere, which so beautifully pervaded
this most impressive of plays, is
drawn from the band of faithful
Christians who endure the most cruel
persecutions and even martyrdopi at
the hands of the followers of Nero
rather than adjure their faith. The
conversion to Christianity of the Ro
In 1 Prefect, Marcus Superbus,
through his love for the beautiful
Christian maiden Mercia, and the
twain going to the arena to
be torn by lions rather than
obtain freedom at the price
of their faith is the grandest climax
oft this drama of so many soul stir
ring incidents. '' The Sign of the
Cross'' is notably elaborate and
magnilleent -in its reprIodutiton of th6
luxury and rich settings of the Ro
man court. Some of thme most strik
ing pictures ever p)resented in spec
tacular drama are showna in this play.
''The Sign of the Cross'' with an
admirable cast will be given at the
opera house on the .13th of March..
FARMERS UNION BUREAU
Raising Cotton the Intensive Plan.
It is estim.tecd that New York Cot
ton exchanges have boon selling more
cotton to the square inch off of their
Wall street cotton plantations than
southern cotton growers have sold
from an average square rod of their
otton farms.
Whrlen you have determined to go
into the long staple cotton growing
business, do it right or you will sure
ly get left. Enough men in each vic
inity should grow long cotton suffi
ient to justify pulttin1g in a roller gin
or a needle gin, then you can make
all -things work right through your
organizations im, ginning and selling,
Good authorities state that South
Carolina' used last year over five mil
lion dollars worth of fertilizers and
that at least two million dollars of
that amount was lost-washed out
by applying the more soluble nitrate
goods before their crops had roots in
the soil to take it up.
This washing out of this costly am
moniated goods by heavy rains before
plant roots are in the soil to tqke up
this costly plnt food is deserving of
more serious thought than some peo
ple give it. Try side a-pplication and
tell us about it.
Havd you ever gone over a field
where there were many terrace banks,
and made .a thorough <-tlculation
about how muich of the best land was
loot thereby growing tiothing but
weeds? If not do it, then you may be
in the proper state of mind to make
a change by sowing down your lands
every other year; plow deeper and
plow down every terrace bank on your
farm just as soon as you can get
enough root on other vegetable matter
in the soil to hold it together. We
have put the thing to the te-t and the
terrace banks are going down as fast
as we can get to them. Our terrace
banks and niggers are growing boau
tifully'less and less Profitable every
year.
You admit that over half the land
in the country is running down. If
you don't know what Went with it go
look down the streams and low places
where you will find the sand, but the
richness of the original good soil has
gone down the streams where Ward's
ducks went.
What a power for good of the whole
of the south these supply merchants
could yield if they would only compel
their improvident all-cotton farmers
to grow their own food crops. This
would enforce diversified farming
and at the same time reduce the ac
reage in cotton which would in turn
improve the land, increase the yield
per acre and reduce thie risk and loss
to the supply merchant to a -minimum,
by causing better prices for their cus
tomers products.
Our better class of more business
like farmers could afford to stand
their cotton off the market and watch
this dog eat dog riot that comes off
at the winding up of every crop if it
was not for the fact that cotton bears
take advantage of this pull Dick, pull
devil, melee between the mortgaged
swoop down upon the whole cotton
crop with their own set prices which
gives spinners enough cotton to go
up while cotton bears either force
the better class .of farmers to either
sell at a loss or store their cotton and
incur the expense of storage and in
surance.
Now these statements of facts in
regard to the cotton zrowing 1usiness
in the south should make it lain to
every~ thinking business cotton grow
er and all supply merchants and bank
era organ iza tions, Farmers ' Un ion
and Cot.ton Association men in the
whole south that wec must have a
'better understanding with each other
and come together before we can
mate the whole situation of both grow
ing and marketing of our money
crop-cotton. Growving the crop wvell
and selling it hadly will hurt every
one in the south excepting those in
specula tig business and those that
are in league with them. No matter
how well we are organized at the sell
ing end of our cot ton b)usiness we can
no more force an over production of
cot,ton down the cosmes throat
without. causing a revolt than you
could force a whole pot of chicken pie
down a mani's thiron-t t hat was not
already very hunigry without p)rotest.
0f course a large warehouse system
under the direct control of the pro
ducers of cotton could stay or tem
p)orarily stave off a calamity of one
or twvo bumper crops but repetition
of over p)roduct ion in any crop means
suicide or inevitable destruction.
Mny a man ?ows wild oat.s at his
leisure that his children must reapl in
haste.-Chicago Ne,ws.
Any man can stand abuse if it's
hbeauen lie is rich.
THE HIGH SIOOL AOT.
Only Two Schools In Any Oounty In
One Year. Newberry Should Se
cure Them.
The following is the High School
Act as passed by the recent legisla
ture:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the state of
South Carolina, That it shall be law
ftd for any couty, or for any town
ship, or any aggregation of adjoining
townships, or for any aggregation of
adjoining school districts, or any in
corporated towi or wty within the
state, of iot. more than one thousand
inhalbitants uider the last preceding
United States census, to establish a
high school in thc manner and with
the pivilege herein given.
See. 2. That any high school terri
torial iti ientiotned in section 1 of
t'his.act estiblisht a high school by an
election to be held in said proposed
high school district ut0po.n the question
of establishing the same; said election
to be con(ucted in all other respects,
including the requirements of those
who are allowed to vote therein, as
elections ai now conducted under
section 1208 of the civil code of 1902,
in reference to special levies for
school purioses. If a majority of the
votes cast' shall be ''For High
School,'' and 'not ''Against High
School," the high school shall be
established, and become a body cor
porate under the name and style of
High School District No. - of -
county (the state board to insert the
uniber in order of its establishment
in the particular county, and also the
name of the.- proper county), where
upon the county board of education
shall appoiit for said high school a
board of trustees composed of five re
gulari members: Provided, That the
five trustees for said high school
shall be appoinited for six years, one
of whom: shall serve for only two
years, two for. only four years, and
t.wo for six years, the tenure of each
to )e determined by lot : Provided,
further, That the chairnii of each
school district board within the high
school territory be ex oficio a mem
ber of the high school board: Provid
ed, further, That the trustees of any
special district in any incorporated
town or city operating under a spe
cial act of the general assembly, shall
be ex oicio trustees of the high school
in that town or city, every vacancy
by expiration of tenure to be filled
for six years and all unexpired terms
to be filled by appointment of said
county board, except. in special dis
tricts otherwise provided.
See. :i. That the board of trustees of
every high school so established is
hereby authorized to levy annually
for the support of such high school,
not exceeding two mills on the dollar
in addition to the levy now allowed by
law. of all taxable property wi-thin
sneh hLih school district, the tax to be
collected in the same manner as spe
cial levies arec now collected uinder
sect in 1208 of saidl codle: P'rovided,
That the right to manke it a lev-y more
ly fort coniductintg the high school for
the then next cutrrent. scholastic y'ear
as now defined in section 1232'of said1
codle mayt be v'oted down fot- that
vear- i-n the same manner as ntow pro
vided for in saidl section 1208 with
r-efereince to voting upon01 spiecial le
v'ies fuur school distr-ict putrposes.
See. -1. That any public bigh school
al readly estabhlishted, 01r any numtber of
hig~h schtool grades int a public, school
already established-provided, it.
shtall be ortganized attlndtdpte .as a1 i
hti-ghI settmol by sp1ecialI elect iton as pre
sertihted int seet.ioni 2 of I this at(t-itn
any~ I highI school terrtitor ab love dle
seri hed, may claimi thle priilege~ of
this act : Pr'tovided, futher Io, That
ntotinitn jthtis act shtall be cotnstrueld
as a r-epeal otf any of the pr-ivileges~
gr-an'tedi thIem in the special atis of
thec general assembly.
Sec. 5. That a high schtool maitntait
itng a four- years' course of study be
yondo thIe branches of Iearniling pre
ser-ihed tt be taughtt ini th Itomonflt
schouols of the state, and emabracinig
tnot fe-wer thani seven grades otr school
y'earts, shatll be ktnownt as a fouri-year
htigh school ; a hight schtool manin Iaini
ing a tree year-s' cour-se beyondl( thle
commttonI school cour-se, shtall be kntownt
na a thrtee-vene hight sehool- and one
maintaining a two years' course be.
yond the commnion school course, shall
be known as a two-year high shcool:
Provided, That any and all high
schools established iider authority of
Ihis act shall include in the course of
study instruction in manual training
especially in respect to agriculture
and domestic science.
See. 6. The state high school board
shall provide for the inspection and
classification of high schools undei
this act. Ii doing this, it may invite
the assistance of such Il members of the
universities and colleges of this state,
as they may select, and their actual
expenses shall be paid out of the fuid
hereafter appropriated from year to
year while actually engaged in the
duties devolving upon them.
See. 7. That the state board of edu
cation, as now constituted, shall con
stitute the state high school board.
The state high school board shall pro
vide rules for the apportionment and
disbursement of the state aid to the
high schools, giving due recognition
to the nuimiber of years of high school
work, to the number of courses of
.study offered, to the enrollment of
pupils, the amount of industrial train
ilng given, and to. such other inatters
of local merit as may appear to tle
board after a careful exanination of
each high school: Provided, That no
school shall receive more than fifty
per cent of the amount raised1 an
nually by taxation, subscriptioii o
otherwise: Provided, further, That no
school shall receive aid unless it has
at least twenty-five pupils and two
teachers i,n the high school depart
ment: Provided, also, That no school
shall receive more than twelve hun
dred dollars annually from the appro
priation provided in this aet: Pro
vided, further, That no county shall
receive more than five pe'r cent of the
annual appropriation provided for un
der this act.
Sec. 8. The funds raised in the va
rions counties by taxation, subscrip
tion, or otherwise, for hig-h school
purposes, shall he placed inl the coun.
ty Ireasury, together with any appro
priation received from the state board
of education, and shall be paid out
only upon the order of the board of
high school trustees, <luly approved
by the county superintendent of e(I
eation. Both the treasurer and the
county superintendent of education
shall keep accounts of this fund, as is
provided for other public school
funds.
See. 9. That each of tile high school
distriets :o established is hereby an
thorized to receive and use gifts,
transfers, bequests or devises of pro
perty for Corporate piurlpose!, wheth
er they be otherwise coidi(iional, or
whether absolute inl their terImls; and
also to issue couponm h s withiiiii the
wiostit ut ional limit aind to dispose of
the saime to raise imoney for the pur
Imse of purehasinig sites and the (-ree
i--t of buiilings thereoni, or for the
llrpos of1 piu1rhaisinlg impr)oved pro'0
pert y, suit able foir schlool, or' dorm'ili
'' mie's-hanll purposes: Provid
,. Thait thle question of amount of
'"'. rind4 thle r'ate of interest, and(
t he t ime or t imes of paynientI of' t-he
principal, shall first be submit ted to
tile qualified electors within the said
hi1gh school distiits who ietun real
or per'sona iiliprpert for11 taiixait ion, at
an elect ion to be held in the same
maniiei' as elect ions for spIecial levies
for' school district purpl'oses aire now
sec'tion 1208 of said c'ode: Priov'ided,
Thliat a petitilon foor such dcleelion h,e
firist ad driessed to thle boardi' of truis
tees of said school dist rict signied by
a miajor'ity of thle freeh'itlolders thleirein:
Aiid prov'ided(, further,- that an an
iinal interest 0on said issue shalil not(1
exceed six per' cei, anud that the
sale shal1lI not be for less thani i p)ar
and( aeernedl i.nterest.
See. 10. That th le sum (If fifty thlou
san td dollar is ($5000.00), or so'( much
t heireof as ma~y be necessary, f'or eaneh
ofI thle school yearis, beginingiii July
1st, 1907, be, and the same is hereby,
appiropiated to carry out the piro
visions (If this act, andl thle comptrol
ler' geneiralI is hiereby' a utho rized to1
dr'aw warr'anus upoin thle state tmens
iirier fo r such a monaliis up oIn the oir
dler of Ithe state boar'd of edluention,
duily signed by tihe g'overnor0i, as chiair
mam, and thle state sup)erint eindent oIf
ednceition, na secery:ev Prmvid1d,
ONE BILLION DOLLARS
SPENT BY CONGRESS.
Largest Sum Ever Appropriated at
One Session-Review of Important
Measures of Present Session.
Washingkon, March 3.-More
money has been appropriated during
the short session of the Fifty-ninth
congress, which passes into history ut
noon tomorrow than during any pre
vious session. The amount, as near
as can be estimated, approximates
$1,000,00,000.
Two big battleships were authoriz
ed for the navy, and the artillery
corps of the army was reorganized
and enlarged. A general service pro
vision was granted to veterans of the
Mexican and Civil wars and like pro
vision was made for army nurses. For
river and harbor improvements, the
appropriation aggregates $83,000,000.
Increased salaries were given, to
cabinet officers, the vice president and
senators, the speaker of the house of
representatives and its members, to
iII)bassadors, ministers and consuls;
to postoffilee clerks and letter carriers.
The public niade more inquiries for
inforintition for the document. rooms
of congres.s regarding the ship sub
sidy bill, the currency measure and
the bill regulating the hours of rail
way emiiployes than ily other pelid
ing legislation. Ship subsidy died
hard inl the last hours. The other
two iemasure.s became law as the ses
sion closed.
The immigration bill, oie of the
measures brought over from the long
session, was Completed under the spur.
of the president, that lie might meet
lie California-Japanese situation by
giving the adIniiiistration (onitrol of
Coolie iniportatiois through lpass
porls. The bill further restricts the
adlmission of aliens to this country.
A bill was pamsed for the estab
lishment. of an agricultural bank in
the Philippine islands.
The free alcohol law of last session
was modified that farmers may distill
the waste products of the farm to be
denatured and ised in the arts and
seiencees.
The riglt ol appeal inl criminal
caSPS Was g1ranitedI tle gv(1'l]ne enlt, a
metisure inteided to strenlgtheln the
anti-trust legislation by affording. a
means whereby the supreme court
maily pass uponl the constitutionality
an1id construction (if such laws.
Ai investigation wa.s authorized re
carding tle condition of women and
children workers.
The interstate coinmieree cominis
sion was authorized to ase-rtain if the
express companies of tle counlfry are
evading the railroad rate haw of la;t
session by buying, selling and han)d
ling on coisignment frui, vegetables
and oysters.
Heet Smoot was retained by the
senale as a senator from Utah, etndl
ilg a four years' controver-sy.
The seniate ratified treaties with
Santo D)omingo and Algeria.
Th president was author14inzedl to use
his omee's ittprevent at rotities in the
The' sentet also iannehied ati ex
haust ive invest igat ion of thle Browns
ville affair.
The Deadly Tongue.
Thec se'onld most deadly inastrniiet
of dw.truct ion is the dlynamite gun.
IThe gtin merely kills bodies ; thle ton -
gute kills repumt.ations tad oft ti mes
ruinus chiarao crs. 10achi gun works
alone ; each loaded tonugue has a hun
dredl iiecom 'tiplier.--. rTe havoc ofP thle
gnun is vi sibl)e ait ontce. Te PullI evil
of Ite Itntne lives thironghi all the
years :even thle eye of Omniiiisieniice
imight grow tired in tracintt ii t' ils
f ialtity. The Crimesi' of the tngiue
mualitie, ir entvy, of1 bittrness. oIf
hari sh crticism111, iossi p, lyintig a nd
fitul it's, yet in any siniLle year the
Ihey caus lin a nation4111 isi miroscoii
when comtpjared wvith th le sorroiws thatli
conme firm the ('ritmes otf thle t4oine.
--William George Jordan,.
Tlhat tui i t in slhtlh be free in everv
I.-.hool r'ece4ivi12.. tinder hids act to
Iall pupils in thle county wvhere thle
school is localted: Provided. fiithlen.
That no'tii ig ini t hiis act shiallI be coni
st ruedl to meani that puils1 of dliffer
ent races shall aittenid the same school.
Appro-ve.1 Terwarys. 19, 1907.