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Farmer Vj.jvw 11 v: u ; ' Info nxia Lion ?Conducted by tlioSouth Carolina Farmers' Educational and Co-Operation Union. Jti^Communieations intended for this department should be addressed to J. C Stribling, Pendleton, 8. C. Cotton Lettor. Wo desire to mako it plain to all eoncernod that whoa wo urgo farniors to lurid their cott'on off tho market wo arc talking1 to that elase of cotton growers who aro in position to do so. In the outset wo urged every farmer to arrango his debts first, as best' as ho could, by storing his cotton or otherwise, and koop all the weak cotton off tho market. But now, since Now York has combined to refuso monoy to our southern banks to koep tliia weak cotton oil* the market, it seoms that those cotton growers who have placed themselves in such a hazardous position of growing cotton exclusively with which to buy their living, even down to thoir daily broad, aro in hard luck, and aro likely to pay a heavy penalty for not growing their home supplies, and placing thoir financial destiny in tho hands of h gang of worthless gauiblons. Boys, como out from imdor those robbers and grow your own supplies. Money turived loose by tho cotton coming on the market at this time helps others of more grit and pluck by making money easier to get. to hold other cotton off tho market. I Seventy-four banks in (ieorgia have made public their willingnoes to do all i:i their power to aid fanners in holding their cotton off the market for profitable prices. What are our banks in South Carolina doing in this matter? Tho cotton growing fanners who have plenty of home grown farm supplies at homo and do not have to borrow money with which to hold their cotton, aro increasing in numbers and growing in both purse and education in the business. This move to store cotton i:i Kuropean warehouses does not mean but one thing, and that is to flank New! York's money panics and save cotton I growers from being forced to sell at j bear prices. Soul her.i colton in Ku- i rope is just as sate I'icre us Kuropean money !- in New Y ik. Faliners' Union. When tilings don * I go your way all j the time and you conclude to <jni! Ihe ! I niou on your oiv.i account, public j opinion generally .includes that you are I?u* one who is wrong, or von i Woiihl not have condemned yourself j out of ihe union. W hen any ot your officers ge| up to! that high station of conducting the 1 nion s business oil such a high plane that I hey protest against an enquiry by members into their affairs, you ma\ put it down that there is something dead up the creek. Don't get uneasy about any of your ! officers of the I'nion getting topheavy, or fear about their heads j growing heavier their bodies. Specific gravity, or Ihe natural trend of things, will tumble the head or Iieavv j end down towards the collar, while! his heels go up towards the ceiling. , | One enemy within the Union can be more haruitul than ten enemies on .the outside. Because some officer has not done ' his duty or done some dirty trick, J don't fall out with Ihe whole system ? or plan of the Farmers Union, for i 'his I nil-ii is the best organization tne I aimer ever made, ?Jusl swap that lellow oil tor a belter man for the t.|:ne and -.-o right ahead with the :: yeod v\i rk. und slop fighting one another. 1 Ihe I nion is no resting place for, sluggard or grafler. It is a comhination of farmers forces to combat . against the enemies who combine to! rob the farmer ?f the earnings of his ! hard labor. I iierefore, when voii have joined the Union you have merely enlisted ;u (lie farmers army I" !':>I'h' for your ri:hts iVen.u'e yourselves to s|;uid the five and ! < re!u"n it two f >1(1 every time. Cheaper to Sell? We have recently heard several farmers say that it was cheaper for them lo sell their cotton at 10 cents than i< wis for tiiem fo borrow tnonov a" 1 hold their cotton for 15 cents. ' :''l I'ink for a moment that I these were Union men, for 1 hardly; think there ace any so weak minded ( ?:> i!,c . v . a M . ! 'if r Io cumc (' I i;J| i >| *. i i v I i. <1 ! .I'M t,i ;< !I "ihe i nilli he u hole (ra, li and nothing I?iil. tin; truth," these nun who do this arc to a certain (aucl very large) extent, robbers. Yes for in a groat many instances they aro robbing their families of good wholoeomo food, good clothing, and taking the advantages of a good education away from their children, and taking away from his homo that joy, poaco and happinoas that should bo thero. Poor fools "thoy know not what they do." Say now, tho Ten Cont Man! You have sold your 500 pound halo of cotton at 10 cents. It brought you $50.00. If you had boon a man, had been honest to your family, to those dependent upon you, and kopt that cotton for 15 con Us, don't you think that you would he fooling better ovor tho matter? It is doubtful for such as you urn devoid of feeling. Tf you had kept that cotton off tho market until tin; 15 cents mark was rcachod, it would have brought you $75.00. Now say, if you had kept that cotton at homo and borrowed tho $50.00 and paid 50 per cent for same, would you havo lost anything? Of oourso you could havo borrowed this $50.00 at a much loss rate, Out I am just giving you this to ?how you what you are doing. Thoro is not a man iu tho whole cotton bolt but that oould havo kopt his cotton ovory balo of it till tho present timo, and if they had, and not glutted tlio market at tho very beginning ovory pound of cotton would have brought 15 cents and more. Thero aro men in almost all sections of l!io country today who are urging their renters lo sell at the ]?reset11, price. "Thou fool" ?liy listen not to these men, who are stealing front you for their individual gain. Mold fast to your cotton boys audi listen to the voice of these moil, who j aro Irving to drag you down I lie hill while tliev arc going upward no longer. I Mold for (In' price fixed by your I National I'nion. For 15 cents. i W. C. Harnett, j Our Cotton Letter. For chook and gall tho following' clipping from an editorial in tho Sat-' urday F.vening Post seems to be about tho limit. This man wants the Southern Cotton (Jrowers to sacrifice their col Ion as usual in order |o benefit others bnl I lie old col I on growers are determined not lo do ibis tiling: "Wo mil l depend principally up on col I o, i. which I'". ii rope will buy in great quantities and which runs into money voi\ .a . |o overcome Ibis im unco and turn Ihe tide our way.! Thai, in \ie.v of such a public need, planters should hold colloii for merely personal jjain is truly reprchensi-1 hie. We read that Ihe banks goner- J ally will keep them in the path of duly by refusing lo extend loans on stored ?'ol loll. " A similar situation arises every fall. Col Ion makes nearly one-quarter of our total exports. Much more than anything else, ii is what keep our I rude wiih the world going. We must, each year, hurry out the great staple in order lo moot our balances in Europe. The funclion of the cotton inilustry in financing our foreign trade is so important, indeed, that one tuin-Ill almost expect to see a bill in congress introduced by a gentleman from Pennsylvania and backed by Ihe stand-pal league- forbidding planters to withhold a single bale that was ready for export." Our Cotton Letter. Wo are rejoiced to see the grit and pluck shown by so many Farmer's I'nion men during this supreme motion! when all New York seem to be omhinod to break down our determined elt'orts lo bold cotton for profitable prices. There aro more and) -Irongcr ii.on in the holding crowd! this year than ovor known before, :itid quite a largo number are with us I his lime thai do not belong lo either the Farmer's Union or the cotton Association. Our farmers warehouses all ovor S. ('. are being filled up with colic,n. Anderson County I'nion has j her lar^e two slorv house full and now fi'ling another department in a cotton mill house. In fad every whore wo hear of warehouses being filled and throwiii-.: Ihe key away j I.-! {o be foiiid nniil minimum prices; :V..' ivac'ied. Fu'-'y half Ihe cotton' i- no; :-i wuvhou os. All are free/in.' lo iheir cotton and are go- | in;;- lo hold on nn'il it carrie-: Ihcni ; ii si:.;,! cf the burning sulphuric blue, hla/.os ol' hades before liny will lei it go at col (on bear prices. The lime is now at hand when nil the south must si; ml up for cotton, hvory banker, merchant and all other business no si aid cotton growers in thoir struggles for tho profits on * i> - ino.iey i-. Ir.uii '.. | I i It ii ;;rn\\ ci-*> liu lu.selvos in'i ! I for .1 lime while tlie fight for profitable prices is on; leave off luxuries and deny themselves Jand' families sorno of tho comforts that they may oxpoct to on joy when thoy gain tho victory. Tho cotton grower who is in tho fight for right must woar out his old clothes and then patch them. Ho must do without sugar in his coffee if necossary and only ono drink of whiskey a wcok and a wholo lot of other things and abovo all go at it now to raiso ovory thing at home that will grow on your lands that you need. Diversify your lands and increase tho yiold and profits. Wo have won our prices on cotton sood bocauso tho oil mills aro here among us where we can attend to our own affairs and Now York is not in it. It now beings to lok like we at the south will be forced to spin up more of our own cotton too. 4 The south must now set up a determined fight against this Now York's skinning game on her cotton crop and go at it in earnest to improvo our own southern ports. South i Carolina must stand for Charleston as her shipping port for hor cotton and patronize imports brought in by ships that export hor cotton and all other cotton states must do tho same for their respective ports. Tho south docs not owo Now York I any bounties or pensions in this cotton business. New York cotton bandling busi.iess wsa built up by men many of whom were reared in the j south and we have more as capable ' men here to build up our soutitem 1 ports and shipping interests. The south's prosperity was not brought la-bout by New York's aid or friendship, but it has been forged out of tho golden profits of her cotton in | spite of New York's skinning games j practiced by her cotton exchange and other combinations of accumulated wealth. f Cotton bears and speculators that I have done no other business all their i lives cannot afford to givo up their occupations without a hard fight. They have got to put up a hard fight or starve while they run. The farmer that gives in and lets lite speculator have his cotton at panic prices when be can help it has j no more grit, or pluck than a ooward| ly soldier thai siampedes and flee- to the rear ;il the lirsl fire from the i ne niv's gun. 1 j The relief afforded cotton r? \,>rs 'under I'ii* new plan of -t >rie: his co'it-n across ihi- ocean <>nt <i New York panic's where both storage cost I and interest on advance are much 1 cheaper, is a good move at llie right lime. This will show New ^ <<rk tha' I she caumd skin cotton growers when they take a notion to keep them from doiiii>- it ! Many of our hesl farmers say they are too busy to attend I'nion meetings. A man that is noi busy al home or is not worth anything to himself or his family ai home is of no use to his Fanners Union. Stick a pin down at this point and please remember it. A good farmers union is made of good working farmers that have de-1 tennined to think some as work some. When a member undertakes to rule or run the union and the membership, gels on to him you may listen for something to drop and down lie. goes himself. Whenever one man or even three or four of them gel to thinking they are bigger than their county or state union and the membership gel on to them, these very large small men generally have to take water and go down tho river where Ward's ducks went. A Memphis man complains bitterhat womon are permitted lo wear big hals in the theatre boxes. If Ibis reform wave seeks to go loo far, doubt !cs there will be I rouble sure enough. NOTICE TO OVERSEERS. All overseers of public roads in Newberry county are hereby ordered to work their respective sections for the full time, as reqyirod by law, by December 1st, l!>07. Herein fail not, on pain of the penally of the law. J. Monroe Wicker, County Supervisor. Nov. 2nd. 11)07. Jtaw. ENGINE, GIN,PRESS, FOR SALE j October HOtli, l!M>7, at 11 o'clock a. m.. we will sell al pub'ic auction a I tho "(iilliani Place," now owned by Mrs. 1). A. Kleckly, one-halt' mile from the late residence of John A. Cromer, deceased, One Engine, One Ciin and One Press. Terms: Cash. i Daisy E. Cromer, I Geo. li. Cromer, I Executors. 2w. \ j & 1 i .4 { > i..> Lit -i [ | CELERY 1 and all kinds of FRUITS Phone 247 and have every- ( thing delivered promptly to your residence. ( We are now located on Main ( street, also at the old post office. Theo. Lambry? Prompt Delivery; NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. As administratrix of the estato of Robert L. Schuinpert, deceased, I will make a final settlement ns said administratrix of said estate in the office of the probate judge for Nowberry county, South Carolina, on Deeomber 5, 1007, and thereafter apply for letters disinissory as said administratrix. All persons holding clninis against said estate will present thorn duly attested before that date, and persons indebted to said estate must make payment. Mrs. C. A. Schumpert, ? Administratrix of estate of Robert L. \ Schuinpert. EXECUTOR'S SALE OF LAND. By virUue of (he power vested in k1 me as executor of the last will and {j testament, of Simeon Miller, deceased, 1 will sell at Newberry Court House y on Monday, (salcsday) the 2nd of December, 1007, at 11 o'clock a. m., at public auction, the following real estate of which the said Simeon Miller died sti/,ed and possessed: Tract No. 1 containing 100 1-5 acres, bounded by lands of B. L. Mil- ? lor, Miss Sallio Metts and tract No. 2 of the estate of Simeon Miller. Tract No. 2 containing 01 1-3 acros, bounded by tract No. 1 of the estate of Simeon Miller, by land*; of .J. \V. MctUs and Mips Sal lie M)ptts, the lands of Ira A. Miller, and tract No. !> i'l tin- c!a!e of Sii:i- - i M/'er. Trad No. :: (-(-ntaiuing 00 acres and i bounded b\ tract N<>. of iJk? estate of Simeon Miiler, lands of Ira A. Miller, A. T. Dominick, 1). 1. Long and .1. W. Motts. IMiits of said lands are on file in the ollice of the probate judge for Newberry county. c Terms of sale: One-half cash and the balance in twelve months with interest from date of sale secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises. Purchaser to pay for papers. James IT. Wise, lOxeculor, Simoon Miller, deceased. K . y Mr>I). N. Walker, editor of that spicy tournal, the Hntcrpri.se, Louisa, Va., jays: "I ran a nail in my fool last week tl and at once applied Hi.cklen's Arnica ?. salve. No inllamation followed; the * salve simply healed the woun V Ileals sores, burns and skin diseases. OuaranSeed at W. H Pelliatn & Son, Druggists. Arrival and Departure of Trains. q Schedules of passenger trains in and out of the Union Station, New- berry, S. C. Southern Trains. No. 15 for Greenville .... 8.56 a. m. No. .12 for Columbia ....10 32 a. m. No. 18 foi Columbia .... 1.50 p. m. No. 10 for Greenville .... 1.35 p. m. No. 11 for Greenville .... 4.42 p. m. ^ No. 10 for Columbia .... 0.47 p. ui. * 0., N. & L. Trains. No. 85 for Laurens .... 5.10 a. m. No. 22 for Columbia .... 8.47 a.'in. No. 52 for Greenville ..12 46 p. m. No. 53 for Columbia .... 3.10 p. in. No. 21 for Laurens .... 7.25 p. m. No. 84 for Columbia .... 8.30 p. m. The foregoing schedules are given only for information, arc not guaranteed and are subject to change without .lotice. July 15, 1007. Q. Ti. Robinson, Station Master. Savid Her Son's Life. How u. domain Young. To continue young in health and! I strength, do as .\irs. N. I'. Rovan, Mr Douough, Cia., did. She says: "'Three bottles of Ivlectrie Hitlers cured ine of chronic liver and stomach trouble, complicated with such an unhealthy condi lion of the hlood that my ski'- turned red as flannel. 1 am now practically 2o years younger than before I took Ivlectrie Hitters. 1 can now do all my work with ease ami assist in my husband's store." Guaranteed at W. H. Pclliain & Son's Drug Store. Price 50c. . / fit V/ , ; | fj . . ' j i ' < biifli'vtitL iiii JANUARY In o? der to red' change, will clos< Clothing, Shoes, Crockery at New Sale is on and 1 iry, 1908. 0. G. BARRI Prosperii NOW IS THE T ?: TH Jamestown It is complete In ever A/ar Path-Air Shi /ill interest and instruct you. eautifully illustrated folder conU st of hotels, etc., write /. J. CRAIG, P. T. M., Wilmington, N, C. ATLANTIC C The Short Thrc . 80 so ?>/ | <?> / ** ' . J&ii -v* . V , ,.v If your head aches, if yoii ^ater, if your eyes burn, i row is puckered, if your our eyes have squint. 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