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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
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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
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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.
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names atid selling our nove
I RIImIb ties, we give Big Premium
Send your name to-day for our new pi a
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mium department, 32 K. 2yl Stree
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