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Farmer s Union Bure...u of Information -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Eduea tional and Co-Operation Union. gWCommunications intended for this department should be addressed.to J. C 'Stiibling, Pendleton, S. C. lqut Him Of. That bright fool that is in your Un ion who sold his own crop of cotton for future di.livery and keeps at it trying to persuade oibers to do the :se a."anitn act, shond be backed up against the b.sine.is end of one of his first cusv!s the h.: g-eared ass, where he will receive the grand bounce out of the Union and land in to some future society that carries its brains in the opposite end from wher good Farmers' Union members carry theirs. Remember this, that a large portion of cotton growers that are yet out side of the union, watch the minimum prices set by the Union as close as union men do, but somehow or other they do Pot possess the requisite amount of grit, pluck and fairness to come into the Unior yet. About the fifth of. Sptei:1er you will hear the mi1m1FA on eotton, then heave for it, altogether. Farmers, You Have "Got There First 'with the Most Men." Now let me implore you to go at it at once to digging and throwing up your fortifications so that you can hold your positions against the on slought of all the cotton bears on earth. I m'ean this as an illustration to show you the importanee of sowing a large crop of :-mall' grain this fall to bdrtify yourselves against the possi birity of being forced to sell your cot toz next year at cotton bear prices to pay fur te stoer food that you may raise at home by starting now to do it. Take a common fertilizer drill or cotton planter and drill in from two to three rows of oats between cotton rows just behiai thc cotton pickers at the first pickirg. This maehine will open out the furrow and put ina the seell all at one time going and leave the open furrow in just the ideal condition to stand the winter freeze. Farmers' Union objects are, first, Ii-d'W-to'#ut more busiiness in your far ming and. second, how to put more brains in your work These principles apphied to farm ing properly will do wonders in the way of m 'ir. .t your' profits .inst here are in uteertain status if yu allow others to name the price for your products. There is in most men a kind of dlpcsitior. to take all that the other fellow will allow, and thie profits in your year's labor have gone to others who have neither spent a day 's labor or a dime to produce the crop. Juist here is the strong position of the Farmers' Union whose objects are to combine their interest in a way to control or place a fair price on their own products and they have been very successful in doing this during the last three years. This principle is the right thing to do and so long as we stand by these rules we are going to continue to be successful. Too Much Speakng. We are in need of a little reform and forethought in these public meet ings in two ways. In order to make sure of entertaining the crowd and feneing against an accident by some speaker not showing up we overload the meetings sometimes by about double the number of speakers that is needed and consequently the peo ple become worn out, and disgusted with the whole lot' of speakers and the cause for which the people were called together to discuss. We have k.own some men to get up and talk one and a half hours re peating about the same thing over and over again while about half a dozen speakers, and the people, too, are waiting on him to get through. The ranedy for this is to start in time and be sure to get men that know something about the subject to be discu-ssed and above all to know how to condense their ideas and stop at the right place. When you get the right man remember that this man pays his own .expenses and if he is not worth this to you don't get him, but get another man that is worth his fare and you pay it. Experience teaches a few and fools -many. There is more or less charity in the her of evry man-usually less. SHADOW OVER THE SOUTH. Its Marvellous Prosperity Threaten ed by the Hue and Cry Against the Railroads. New York Sun. In discussing the wild Populistic agitation against *railroads which is sweeping over the South the New Or leans Picayune very wisely says: If it shall turn out that, blind to their own welfare, careless of their great economic interests and deluded by politicians who are playing with vast issues for their own political aggrandizement, some of the states of the great new south are cramping their present and strangling their fu ture by legislation and attempts at legislation which tend to ruin their lines of communication with their markets, they may awake to the fact that there is grave danger of wide spread industrial disaster as a conse quenee of ill advised railway legisla tion. Prudence should be called in to play in every case to prevent con ditions' that may bring serious mis fortune to the south. Whatever may be the conditions in other parts of the country, there is certainly no section of America which has so little excuse for hostility to railroads and corporations generally as the south. In the south, at least, the rapid increase in wealth is not be ing concentrated in a few hands, but on the contrary is being shared in by everybody. In every village and ev ery town, on every farm and in every factory there are seen evidences of increasing wealth, and it is widely distributed among all classes. The farmers of the south produced last year more than $2,000,000,000 worth of crops and stock, which was $450,000,000'more than the total val ue of the .gricultural products of the United States, the south excluded, iii 1880. Of manufactured products the total in the -south last year was $2, 500,000,000, which was more than five times the value of the south's manufactured products in 1880. In 1906 the increase in the assessed val ue of property in the south was $1, 100,000,000, which was $350,000,000 more than the total gain in assessed value from 1890 to 1900. In that ten year period the increase in assess ed value was $760,000,000. In the two years 1905 and 1906 the gain was more than $1,600,000,000. The south has developed its industrial activi ties until it now has $250,000,000 in vested in cotton mills, or more than the cotton mill capital of the entire country in 1880. Notwithstanding the tremendous development of iron and steel in the Pittsburg district as an outcome of the discovery of the Mesaba ores, the south, though its iron and steel busi ness is in its infancy, is yet making at the rate of 3,500,000 tons of pig iron a year, which is but little less than the United States made in 1880 and more than the entire county, ex luding the south, made at that time. In 1880 the United States mined 42, 000,000 tons of bituminous coal, of which the- south mined 6,000,000 tons. Last year the southern states mined 5,000,000 tons. 'Iiwenty-five) years ago the exports through southern ports amounted to about '$250,000, 000 a year, whereas foreign ship ments through southern ports the last fiscal year were $734,000,000.. Indicative as these statistics are of the broad, general progress of the south, they do not begin to tell the whole story of its material advance ment. Moreover, this advancement would have been even greater but for the fact that the south is suffering from a great scarcity of la bor and from the inability of railroads to handle the traf fic offered to them. So vast are the rem aes of the south, so marvellous ly blessed by nature is it that it af fords to the railroad builder and the invdor in industrial pursuits the met inviting opportunitiejs in the woril There is scarcely a railroad in the south that does not need double traking, and 5,000 or 6,000 miles should be built every year for the next fifteen or twenty y'ears to meet the pressing necessities for increased transportation facilities under nor mal conditions of growth. Despite these conditions, however, the wild clamor of the politician, seeking to ride into power by arous ing the mob spirit against railroads and corporations, is serinasly threat eningi a continuation of this marvel lous expansion. It is worse than fol ly for the people of the south to expect capital to ~seek investment in the extension of southern railroad fa cilities in the face of hostile legisla tion, actual and threatened. None but people blind to these conditions or without any knowledge in the world of financial matters could imagine hat caita would seek investment or C01u1 IeQ 1diced to inveSi in 1he p-1 jeetion and blildiig of niev railroad f facililies inl the south at present. It f is piractically impossible for railroads e loW operliill, iltere to Seeui'e any e new money for double tracking or e the extension of their facilities. Such t] railroad work as is now being done c was financed long before the present u agitation swept over the south. e Though hundreds of millions of dol- a lars are urgently needed for new rail- d road facilities in the south it may be m stated that practically not a dollar of 1 new money will be available for such s work until the capitalists of the v world are convinced that the wave of q Populism is spent. h1 In the meantime Mexico, which d guara.ntees the amplest protection to c capital, is becoming the centre of vast railroad and industrial operations. A P letter received a few days ago tells P me that the Harriman people alone " are planning for the building of d about 2,000 miles in Mexico, while I many other enterprises are under way. It is estimated that more than f $700,000,000 of American capital is e now invested in Mexico, and it is t quite certain that with the continua- 0 tion of present conditions this vast sum will be tremendously increased, t t6 the loss of the south and other parts of our country. To the north a of us Canada is pushing its railroad t work with such vim as to insure gi- a gantic development operations s throughout that country from the At lantic to the Pacific. So great is the call of the world for capital that P those countries which offer the am- t ples protection are found to at- t tract it away from others which na C turally may have greater advantages, but whose people, in their blindness to their own interests, berate the cap italists and the corporations as the enemies of mankind. The south .may. well ponder a great truth uttered by e one of its greatest men more than fif- h ty years ago, when in seeking to N make his people understand their fail-- t] ure to avail themselves of their na- si tural advantages he 'said: God may have given you coal and g iron sufficient to work the spindles t) and navies of the world, but they will t] sleep in your everlasting hills until the trumpet of Gabriel shall sound C nless you do something better than h build turnpikes. You may have granaries sufficiently stocked to feed mankinid, but mankind will starve and perish before a bushel of grain a an reach them. In the everlasting hills of the south, b in its valleys and in its mountains p there is latent *wealth enough,to en rich not only one but many einpires. a But unless the tide of Populistic agi- . tation is stopped and the business people of the south awake to the res ponsibility which rests upon them to bury their demagogues beneath the everlasting hills, so deep that Gab- t riel 's trumpet shall never reach them, c the south will -not attain the full t fruition of its potentialities. t Richard H. Edmonds, p Editor Manufacturers'. Record. s Baltimore, August 14. DIVIBES OF DEAMS. t Have No Rank as Prophets, but Hold to Certain Theories-. a Now the modern diviners of dreams t take little or no rank as prophets, but a they claim that there are no dreams, t however trivial as to contents, that t are without significance, writes Dr. 1: Peterson in Harper's Monthly. They 'a employ neither the symbolic nor the cipher systems of interpretation, but a method quite their own, which may be called anartic-synthetie. To them the subconscious Ego, out of which the dream comes, is an infinitely vas- 2 ter personality than the conscious, Ego, and keen analysis of the com pressed conglomerate of a dream is discovery, is a develation of wishes, desires, conflicts, tendencies, charac teristies, hidden far down in th3 in- e most depths of the dreamer's indivi duality. These broken fragments of p unrelated esperiences, woven by the e dreamer's fantasy into a sort of dra- 6 matic unity. drift, like the ice-floe,. on that invisible sea of personality. Separately, piece by piece, the frag ments are studied and their old mo- I tivs, relations and associations trae- E C ed out. Each fragmient is in itself a condensation of some outlived experi- r ene. As the palentologist recon- 1 DUE WEST FEMa DUE WES The ideal place for quiet study, thorough kind personal oversight. The attendance c facilities. New Carnegie Hall with elega Electric light, steam heat, complete water mate and splendid health record. The ver: Be,autifu cataou.1 The President's addre tits mIs hypothetical monster rom its only remains, a scale or a 1utpript, so the dream-diviner mak I his synthesis from the vestige un ,vered in the strata of dreams. He xamines the apparent material of ie dream, but he must also follow losely all clues to the latent material nderlying it. A curious and inter sting fact established by the dream nalysts is that a large proportion of reams represent the fulfillment of a ish or desire. This particularly true f children, whose dreams are of the implest zature. Any one may co.i ince himself of this by a little in uirv. There are thirst dreams and ,nzer dreams. wealth dreams, fame reams and so on through the whole atalogue of man's desires. The sick ream of health, the unhappy of hap iess, the childless of children, the enniless of golden ducats, and in his -inter attic in the city the poet reams of summer in the country. 'he discovery of the desire at the Isis of dreams is not 1:lways easy, >r it may be hidden from the dream r himself, and this is a riddle that ie new oracles enjoy solving. When ne dreams that he sees an enemy ly ig dead before him, the fundamen il wish is clear. But when dreams the death of a friend or relative, parent or sister, he is horrified by e diviner's suggestion that here too, desire lies hidden, albeit probably me old, longforgotten infantile ish such as children often express i irritation. Such at least is an ex lanation which has been authorita vely offered, though the writer feels iat it is more than questionable. ommon as a wish is as ar. impetus to reams, it is not a constant or invar tble factor. Beat Him One Way. As Mark Twain and a friend were Watting at the summer home of the umorist, Quarry Farm,.near Elmira, ew York, the conversation turned to a wealth of John D. Rockefeller, ys Success Magazine. "Just think of it Sam," said the iest, "he has more dollars than iere are hairs in that vigorous old iatch of yours." "That's nothing," replied Mr. lemens. "I have more dollars than e has hairs in his head.'' What He Would Do. Grandpapa-Tommy, Tommy, you ren 't!.behaving well. Do you know hat I' should do if I were a little oy like you? Tommy-Yes, grand apa, you'd do the same as I do, ause if you didn't you wouldn't be little boy like me. OPENiNG DAY! The simultaneous Opening Day iroughout America, for the sale f the new VICTOR RECORDS is he 28th of the month before. On he 28th inst. the leading news lapers in all the larger cities ini the outh will contain a quarter page dvertisement giving a complete st of the September records; as the najority of these papers will be in he hands of the public by noon of he 28th, an immediate demand for hese selections is sure to occur, .nd while we have ordered very Leavily in these records, the Sep ember list is, as you will see, one f the strongest of the year, and he marked superiority of many of hese selections is surd to create a arge demand, so come at once hile stock is complete to SALTE R'S rt and Variety Store, Newberry's Victor Store. Tbe Universe. The heavens themselves, the plan ts and this center, observe degree, riority and place (insisture, course, >roportion, season, form, office and ustom, and all in line of order. ihakespeare. REER To women for collecting names and selling our novel ties, we give Big Premiums. send your name to-day for our new plan f Big Profits with little work. Write c-day.. Address C. T. MOSELEY Pre 2ium department, 32 E. 23d Street, f'ew York City. ALE COLLEGE, T, S. C. work, sweet Christian influences, and verflowing last year. Greatly improved .nt accommodations for ioo boarders. works and sewerage. Delightful clh best advantages for the least money. iss till September ist will be REV. JAMES BOYCE, Montreat. N. C. Capital $50,000.00 Deposits $324 THE COMMER of Newberrn an emergency you may r The Commer is prepared to loan reasonable sun at legal rates. If you need money or for other purposes come to the I positors of course receive the preft am.I2M Intcrest Paid in Savir "The Bank for'yo JNO. M. KINARD, Pres. J. Y. McFALL. Hardto You would be so indeed ii fied thoroughly with the a Ware offering at 10 cen furnish you a first class D a set. Drop in and see wl SMayes' Bo4 EXCUF -TO COL UJ -via Columbia, Newbern WEDN ESDAY, From Laurens,.. .... Clinton,.................- - Gold ville, ............ - Kin ards,................- - Gary, --- Jalapa, .-......-- - Newberry,.............- - Prosperity, ........... - - .Little MountaIn,......... Chapin............-. - - Irmo ....... Ar. Columbia.............- - Children under twelve years, ha Tickets good to re.turn on reg August 29th, 1907. :-: BASE B. COI.UME3IA V PERUCHI GYPZENE VA At Hyatt's CALL ON AGENTS, W. J. CRAIG, P. T. M., J. I Wilmington. N. C, Surplus$54,924.33 ,552.84. CIAL BANK r, S. C., E OV WL ieed a little money. :ial Bank is on acceptable collateral to pay or discount your bills bank and talk it over. De rence. C. gs Department. ur Savings." 0. B. MAYER, Vice-Pres. Cashier. Please! 'you were not satis ssortmenlt of China ts each. I can also inner Plate at 4O cts. at I have. >k Store.' ISION' VIBIA ind L.8urens R. RE AUGUST 28 chedule Round Trip Rate. 7.10....... -...$ 1.50 7.5.. -..- . 1.25 8.02...-..._-- 1.25 8.1...---. 1.25 8.24 --..---s1.25 9.33 --- ... .75 9.45-___-- .75 10.1 .__.---- .50. 10.50 if rates. ular trains until Thursdy A LL :-: B. MA.00or. . UDEVILLE SHOWS: Park. OR WRITE '. LIVINGSTON, s. A., Cohimbia, S. C.