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I Farmers Union Bureau of Information e -Con,?ucted by theSouth Carolina Farmers' Educatlonal and Co-operation Union. tt?"Communication8 intended for this department should be addressed to J. C Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. <0(ut Him Off. That bright fool that is in your Union who sold his own crop of cotton for future delivery and keeps at it trying !o persuade others to do the s>Mue n..anion act, should be backed up against the business end of one of his lirst cousins the lo; eared ass, where he will receive the grand bounce out of the Union and land into some future society that carries , brains in the opposite end from I wherj good Farmers' Union members ' carry theirs. Remember this, that a large portion of cotton growers that are yet outside of the union, watch the minimum prices set by the Union as close as union men do, but somehow or other they do not possess the requisite amount of grit, pluck and fairness to come into the Unior yet. About the fif th of Sepien bcr you will hear the on cotton, then heave for it, altogether. I r 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 onslought of all the cotton bears on earth. I mean this as an illustration to show you the importance of sowing a large crop of --mall grain this fall to fortify yourselves against the possibility of being forced to sell your cottcii next year at cotton bear prices to pay for the stoeu 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 bpl.inl the cotto.-i pickers at the first picking. This machine Avill open out the furrow and put in the seed 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, ? how to put more business in your farming and. second, how lo put moro brains in your work These principles applied to farming properly will do wonders in the way of mi'ii" .( your profits jus*, here are in ui.certain status if y>u allow others to name the prico for vonr products. There is in most men a kind of dls-pr sitioi. to take all that the other fellow [ will allow, and the profits in your L year's labor have gone to others who have neither spent a day's labor or K a dime to produce the crop. Just here is the strong position of the Farmers' Union whose objects W are to combine their interest in a way r 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 (he right thing to do and so long as we stand by there rules we are going to continue to be successful. \ Too Much Speaking. AVe are in need of a little reform and forethought in these public meetings in two ways. Tn order to make sure of entertaining the crowd and fencing against an accident by some speaker no{ showing up we overload the meetings sometimes by about double the number of speakers that is needed and consequently the peo. pie become worn out and disgusted v with the whole lot of speakers and I the cause for which the people were called together lo discuss. We have known some men to get up and talk one and a half hours re1 peating about the same thing over W and over again while about, half a r dozen speakers, and the people, too, are waiting on him to get through. The remedy for this is to start in time and be sure to get men that, know something about the subject to be discussed and above all to know how to condense their ideas and stop nf the right place. When you got the fright man remember that this man pays his own expenses and if he is not worth this to you don't get. him, hut get another man that is worth his fare and you pay it. Experience teaches a few and fools many. V There is more or less charity in the) ft heart of every man?usually less. \ SHADOW OVER THE SOUTH. \ Its Marvellous Prosperity Threatened 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 Orleans 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 th? ft i eat new south aro cramping their present and strangling their future 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 widespread industrial disaster as a consequence of ill advised railway legislation. Prudence should be called into play in every case to prevent conditions that may bring serious misfortune to the south. W hat ever may he the conditions' in other parts of the country, there is certainly no section of America which has so little excuse for hostility to tail roads and corporations generally as the south. In the south, at least, the rapid increase in wealth is not being concentrated in a few hands, but on the contrary is being shared in by everybody. In every village and every town, on every farm and in every factory there are seen evidences of increasing wealth, and ii is widely distributed among all classes. 1 he 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 value of the igricultural products of the l;nilcd States, the south excluded, in 1880. Of manufactured products the total in the south last year was $2, >00,000,000, which was more than live times the value of the south's manufactured products in 1880. In 1006 the increase in the assessed value of property in the south was $1, 100.000,000, which was $350,000,000 more than I lie total gain in assessed value from 1800 to 1000. In that ten year period the increase in assessed value was .$7(50,000,000. In the two years .1005 and 3000 the gain was more than $1,000,000,000. The south has developed its industrial activities until it now has $250,000,000 invested 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 business 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 (lie United States made in 1880 ami more than the entire county, excluding the south, made at that time. In 1.S80 the United Slates mined 42, 000,000 tons of bituminous coal, of which the south mined 0,000,000 tons. Last year the southern states mined 85,000,000 tons. 'Pwenty-five\ years ago the exports through southern ports amounted to about $250,000,000 a year, whereas foreign shipments 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 tho whole story of its material advancement. Moreover, this advancement I would have been even greater but for the fact that the south is suffering from a great scarcity of labor and from the inability of railroads to handle the traffic offered to them. So vast arc tho resources of the south, so marvellously biassed by nature is it that it affords to the railroad builder and the inv?t?or in industrial pursuits tho most inviting opportunities in the worW. There is scarcely a railroad in the south that does not need double tracking, and 5,000 or 0,000 miles should be built every year for the next fifteen or twenty years to meet the pressing necessities for increased transportation facilities under normal conditions of growth. Despite these conditions, however, the wild clamor of the politician, seeking to ride into power by arousing the mob spirit against railroads and corporations, is seriously threatening a continuation of this marvellous expansion. It is worse than folly for (lie people of the south to expect capital to seek investment in the extension of southern railroad facilities in the face of hostile legislation, actual and threatened. None but people blind to these conditions or without any knowledge in tho world of financial matters could imagine that capital would seek investment or could be induced to invest in the pro- , jeetion and building of now railroad facilities in the south at present. 'It is practically impossible l'or railroads < now operating there to secure any < new money for double tracking or < the extension of their facilities. Such I railroad work as is now being done < was financed long before the present 1 agitation swept over the south. < Though hundreds of millions of dol- i lars are urgently needed for new rail- < road facilities in the south it may bo ! slated that practically not a dollar of < new money will be available for such s work until the capitalists of the 1 world arc convinced that the wave of i Populism is spent. ] In the meantime Mexico, which 1 guarantees the amplest protection to 1 capital, is becoming the centre of vast ' railroad and industrial operations. A I letter received a few days ago tells 1 me that the liarrimau people alone are planning for the building of 1 about 2,000 miles in Mexico, while many other enterprises are under ' way. It is estimated that more than : $700,000,000 of American capital is ' now invested in Mexico, and it is ' quite certain that with the continua- \ tion of present conditions this vast 1 sum will be tremendously increased, 1 to the loss of the south and other parts of our country. To the north 1 of us Canada is pushing its railroad ' work with such vim as to insure gi- 1 gantic development operations ! throughout that country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. So great is the call of the world for capital that 1 those countries which offer the am- 1 pies protection arc found to attract it away from others which naturally may have greater advantages, ' but whose people, in their blindness 1 to their own interests, berate the capitalists and the corporations as the enemies of mankind. The south may well ponder a great truth uttered by , one of its greatest men more than fif- | ty years ago, when in seeking to ] make his people understand their failure to avail themselves of their na- ? tural advantages he said: Clod may have given you coal and i iron sufficient to work the spindles I and navies of the world, hut they will I sleep in your everlasting hills until the trumpet of Gabriel shall sound I unless you do something belter than 1 build turnpikes. You may have granaries sufficiently stocked to feed mankind, but mankind will starve and perish before a bushel of grain can reach them. In the everlasting hills of the south, in its valleys and in its mountains there is latent wealth enough to enrich not only one but many empires. But unless the tide of Populistic agi- , tation is stopped and the business people of the south awake to the responsibility which rests upon them to bury their demagogues beneath the everlasting hills, so deep that Gabriel's trumpet shall never reach them, , the south will not attain the full fruition of its potentialities. Richard II. Edmonds, Editor Manufacturers' Record. Baltimore, August 14. DIVINERS OF DREAMS. Have No Rank as Prophets, but Hold to Certain Theories. Now the modern diviners of dreams take little or no rank as prophets, but they claim that there are no dreams, however trivial as to contents, that are without significance, writes Dr. Peterson in Harper's Monthly. They employ neither the symbolic nor the cipher systems of interpretation, but a method quite their own, which may be called anartic-synthetic. To them the subconscious Ego, out of which the dream comes, is an infinitely vaster personality than the conscious Ego, and keen analysis of the compressed conglomerate of a dream is discovery, is a devclation of wishes, desires, conflicts, tendencies, characteristics, hidden far down in Ilia inmost depths of the dreamer's individuality. These broken fragments of unrelated experiences, woven by the dreamer's fantasy into a sort of dramatic unity, drift, like the ice-floe, , on thai invisible sea of personality. Separately, piece by piece, the fragments are studied and their old motives. relation** and associations traced out. Each fragment is in itself a condensation of some outlived experience. As the palentologist reconDUE WEST FEM DUE WES The ideal place for quiet study, thorough kind personal oversight. The attendance facilities. New Carnegie Hall with cleg Electric light, steam heat, complete water mate and splendid health record. The vei Beautiful catalogue. The President's addr struets his hypothetical moustc from its only remains, a scale or ; fjotpript, so the dream-diviner mak us his synthesis from tho vestige un covered in the strata of dreams. 11< examines the apparent material o: the dream, but he must also follov closely all elues to the latent materia underlying it. A curious and inter csting fact established by the dream analysts is that a large proportion o: 1 reams represent tho fulfillment of i wish or desire. This particularly trui f children, whose dreams are of tin simplest nature. Any one may co.i i-incc himself of this by a little in juirv. There are thirst dreams am Innuer dreams, wealth dreams. farm :1 reams and so on through the wlioh catalogue of man's desires. The siel 'ream ot health, the unhappy of hap piness, the childless of children, tin penniless ol golden ducats, and in hi: winter attic in the city the poe ;1 reams ol summer in the country Die discovery of the desire at tlr h:isis of dreams is not rlwnys easy for it may he hidden from the dream cr himself, and this is a riddle tlm I he new oracles enjoy solving. Whei )ne dreams that he sees an enemy ly ing dead before him, the fundamen lal wish is clear. Hut when dream the death of a friend or relative !i parent or sister, he is horrified b; I he diviner's suggestion that here toe a desire lies hidden, albeit probabl; some old, longforgotlen infantil wish such as children often cxpres in irritation. Such at least is an ex |)lanation which has been authorita lively oflcivd, though the writer feel that il is more than Questionable Common ns a wish is as ar impetus t Ireams, il is not a constant or invar able factor. Beat Him One Way. As Mark Twain and a friend wer chatting at (he summer home of th humorist, Quarry Farm, near Elmir.i ^ew York, the conversation turned ti he wealth of John 1). Hockefellei says Success Magazine. "Just think of it Sam," said th uest, "lie has more dollars thai there are hairs in that vigorous oh thatch of yours." "That's nothing," replied Mi Plenums. "1 have more dollars thai tie has hairs in his head." What He Would Do. Grandpapa?Tommy, Tommy, yo aren't behaving well. Do you knoi what 1' should do if 1 were a litt! boy like you? Tommy?Yes, gram papa, you'd do the same as 1 d< 'cause if you didn't you wouldn't b a little boy like me. OPENING DAY! The simultaneous Opening I)a throughout America, for the sal of the new VICTOR RECORDS i the 28th of the month before. O the 28th inBt. the leading new: papers in all the larger cities in th south will contain a quarter pag advertisement giving a complei list of the September records; astli majority of these papers will be i the hands of the public by noon ( the 28th, an immediate demand ft these selections is sure to occu: and while we have ordered ver heavily in these records, the Sej tember list is, as you will see, or of the strongest of the year, an the marked superiority of many ( these selections is sure to create large demand, so come at one while stock is complete to SALTER'S Art and Variety Store Newberry's Victor Store. Tho Universe. The heavens themselves, the plat eis ami this center, observe degre priority and place (insisture, cours proportion, season, form, office an custom, and all in line of order.Shakespeare. rRPr 'fo women for collectin names atid selling our nove I RIImIb ties, we give Big Premium Send your name to-day for our new pi a of Big Profits with little work. Wril to-day. 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