The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 13, 1909, Page SIX, Image 6
HARRIS TO UNION FARMERS.
Urges Diversification of Crops as the
Best Means of Securing Better
Priced Cotton.
Columbia. April 10.-President
Harris, of the State Farmers' Union,
has issued a strong statemen- to the
members of the Union and the
farmers generally over the State,
urging diversification of crops as a
cure for low priced cotton, the reme
dv which Congressman Lever, a mem
ber of the agricultural committee of
the Federal House of Representatives,
and the Federal agricultural experts
fhave been arguing for several years,
and which the press of the State has
been pleading for during a quarter
of a century.
Mr. Harris urges the planting of
at least 35 per cent of cotton lands
in food crops. He shows in detail
how the farmer who has been buying
corn has been swapping $1 for 50
cents on a cash transaction and 31
for 25 cents on a lien basis. He says
he has met ovc,r fifty farmers recent
ly who had raised corn for 35 cents a
bushel and as many as fifteen who
had raised it for less than 20 cents
a bushel.
"Again I want to call your atten
tion, farmers, that now is the .time to
fix prices on the 1909 cotton crop.
Will you make it 8 or 15 cents? It
is in your power to make it either.
"I want to if I can impress upon
you that diversification of you:r crops
is the keynote of the situation. I want
to urge every Southern farmer to
,plant at least 35 per cent of his cot
ton land in food crops so as to make
-home self-sustaining. Now, let's see
if it will pay us as farmers to diver
sify our crops. To my knowledge the
farmer who has not been making
'home self-supporting has been swap
.ping $1 for 50 cents. Now let's see
if this assertion is true. The farmer
who bought corn last year paid $1.10
cash for it. If he borrowed the money
to buy with it cost him $1.25, as he
paid interest on the money. If .he
hauled it home ten miles it cost him
10 cents. It is worth 10 cents per
bushel ti haul corn ten miles, so his
corn cost him $1.35. Now, any good
progressive farmer can make all the
corn he will need on his farm for 35
eents per bushel. You see he gave a.
dollar for what he could havg raised
for 35 cents per bushel.
"Are any of the~ Southern farmers
guilty of the above? If so, go and
sin no more. Did you ever buy any
bacon? It is selling now for 12 1-2
cents cash. Still swapping one dol
lar for 50 cents. Any good farmer
can raise enough for his famaily use
for -three cents per poun.d. Did -you
~buy any hay? If you did you are
still at the same old way of exchang
ing. If you bought a horse or a mule'
you paid from $200 'to $250. You can
raise one just as good for less than
$100. Now, brother farmers, do not
say that you cannot raise corn for 35
cents: Try to do it. I have met more
than fifty fa:rmers t-his year 'that
raised it for less than 35 cents per
bushel, and as many as fifteen who
raised it for less than 20 cents. The
farmer who is 'raising corn for 30
cents, bacon for 3 cents, raising -his
own 'horses and making, home self
supporting, has quit swapping one
dollar for 50 cents. The farmer who
is buying is still at his old job. While
the farmer who is buying on a lien
and mortgage on -his crop is just
swapping one dollar for 25 cents; for
the cash buyer is swapping $1 for
50 cents. He can raise it for half
what 'he pays for it when he buys it.
Brother fairmers, if you are guilty
of the above sin, I say t'o you: Sin
no more. Now, what price will you
have for the 1909 crop? Will you
have 8 or 15 cents? Remember, it is
all -in yvour- hands, and you will get
what-ever price you make it. To get,
15 cents you will .have to diversify
your crops and stop exchanging .one
dollar for 50 cents, or you will. never
be able to get a remunerative price.
Now. what is the 'use of the farmers
of the South to raise 13,000,000 bales
of cotton and not get any more than
they can for a 7,000,000 or 8,000.000
bale crop. Think of 'the enormous!
expense of raising the extra 5,000,000
bales to bear the market down. And
who does this? It is the farmer.
Think and consider for a moment
what you are doing, and you will quit
it. Do you think for a moment that
the manufacturer would do any such
ruinous business as t.his? No, he
would stop one-half of his machinery
at once and curtail his output one
half and make the same profit. Now.
brother farmers, use a little good
business judgment and common. good'
horse sense. I hear some farmer say:
Mr. Jones is going to cut his- cotton
aereage, and I will just increase mine.
Sad, but this too true to make a joke~
of. This is just whaL the speculative
world says von will do. The most es
sential thing for the farmers to do
tis year is to plhmt 35 per cent of
c-ot ton' land in feed crops and live a.t
home.
"I took dinner the other day with
H Ho aH' i lives in th ic ountry 1*V eanU
!iu .,ay that he was a farimer, for his
dinier did not satisfy me in calling
him a farmer, for everything he had
on his table was bought. Out of curi
osity I asked him how -he cured his
bacon. He said Mr. Armour cured it
for him. I asked him what tomato he
found was best for canning. He told
me his were canned in Baltimore. I
asked him what kind of turnips he
sowed for making salad. He told me
he bought that also. Then I wanted to
know what kind of cotton seed he
planted, and he quickly answered; I
plant Toole's and Cook's. So you can
readily see that he was a planter and
not a real, real farmer. This is the
kind of farming that -causes 8-eent
cotton. I was in a grocery store the
other day and one of these planters
came in to buy some corn, flour, ba
con and hay. He asked the price of
corn, $1.10; flour, $7 per barrel; ba
con, 12 1-2 cents per pound, and hay,
$23 per ton. He said to the merchant,
"Are you going to Tob me?' The
merchant told him he had robbed 'him
self. You did it by planting all the
cotton you could, last year.
"Now, brother farmers, let's look
at things square in the face and see
that October cotton is being sold for
about 9 cents on the New York Ex
change. Now, are you going to plant
another big crop when you -know .that
9 cents is about the cost of produc
tion? -Surely not. There is just one
thing that will keep you from deliv
ering your cotton crop of 1909 for 9
cents, and that is organize into the
Farmers' Educational and Co-opera
tive Union of America. Plant 35 per
cent of your cotton crop into food
crops,-and you will get as much money
for an eight and one-half million bale
crop as you will f ;r a thirteen mil
lion-bale crop.'"
Dust! Dust! Dust!
A woman, essaying work in cer
tain rooms in certain cordage fac
tories, has, for initiation, an attack
of "mill fever," says a writer in
Everybody 's. It is a cold, a tem
perature, a loss of voice, a lassitude.
It keeps the patient in her house for
a. few days. Passing off, it yields in
time to a hoarseness, an asthmatic
habit, enfeebling, ehronic, in many
cases.
These facts, long familiar to old
er countries, were substantiated for
this country inr 1905 through an ex
traordinarily painsaking investigal
tion conducted by Hiss Mabel Par
ton on behalf of the Woman's Educa
tional and Industrial Union of Bos
ton and the Federation of Women's
Clubs' of Massachusetts. Eleven of
sixteen doctors elaborately inter
viewed by Miss Porton stated,
from wide experience among cordage
factory operatives, that chronic asth
ma, chbronie catarrh and chronic
bronechitis were unduly prevalent
among them.
This is certainly bad. But is it be
cause of something inherent, some
thing irremovable, in the making of
cords, ropes, 'twines? Not precisely.
Precisely, it is because of dust, ex
tremely removable dust.
When .we see men metal polishers
dying by the hundreds of throast and
lung diseases, because of the dust
which rises into their nostrils
when they press metal objects
against whirling wheels of emery,
corundum, carborundum, we do not
say, "Industry is bad for men.".
W'e say, "Dust is bad for men.''
So, sometimes, we put hoods over
the whirling wheels and attach pipes
to the hods and place suction fans
in the pipes.
On top of one of the buildings of a
big manufacturing company in Chi
ago there is a pipe through which
thick as cinders from a smokestack,
come hurled, swirled, scattering,
d.rawn up from the rooms beneath,
sifted to rifted drifts all over the
roof by the wind, lying there a heavy,
hell-hued snow-storm of lead, iron,
brass. It was all of it in the air of
the rooms beneath, breathed by the
men, two years ago.
A saction fan can carry - metal.
It can carry flax fibre. Neither men
nor women treally need breathe a
harmful quantity of any kind of
dust. metallie or vegetable.
Justifiable.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"According to this paper," observ
ed Mr. Goodwin. "a man 'has lived a
ear on beer alone."
"'Well, that 's as it should be,'' ob
served Mrs. Goodwin. "Any man
who lives on beer ought to be eompell
ed to live alone.''
Whny There is so Much Crime.
Cicago Tribune.
''Hello!'
'"Hello!'
" Say Central, you g'ave me the
w)Od '1 douible 6 d1ouble 7. I Wanted
Wodken 1 double 7 double -
"'l ri1ght- I 'll rino- em again.'
NEWS OF BACHIVAN CHAP"EL.
Attractive Good Friday and Easter
Services.-A Very Sad Death.
Bachman Chapel, April 12.-There
was preaching at Colony on Good
Friday morning at 11 o'clock, by Rev.
A. J. Bowers. There was preach
ing on Easter Sunday morning at 11
o'clock, and communion services af
terwards. The following is a part
of the Easter services whieh be
gan at two p. m., and to which the
public was cordially invited to attend.
Song, by Sunday School.
Recitation, by Johnnie Dominick.
The Gate, by 13 girls and 2 boys.
Recitation, by Ira Cousins.
Song, by little children. .
Recitation, by Cleone Hayes.
Recitation, by Sammie Mills.
Recitation,by Holland Bedenbaugh.
Song.
Recitation, by Katie Bedenbaugh.
Recitation, by Hugh Feagle.
Recitation, by Willie Mae Mills.
Song.
Recitation, by Carlton Paysilger.
Song.
Address.
Recitation, "Prayer," by 4 boys
Colie Cook, Johnnie Fellers, Olin
Cousins and Clyde Wilson.
Song.
Benediction.
Mrs. M. M. Long has been in very
bad health for a while, but is slowly
improving now.
Mrs. W. F. Enlow, who had an at
tack of grip, is much better.
Miss Carrie Ray_ Werts and Mr.
Wilbur Epps spent last Saturday
night with the family of Mr. and Mrs.
Hentz, of the New Hope section.
M,rs. W. W. Kinard spent last Sat
urday night and Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson.
The farmers are busy now turning
the soil. A shower of rain would be
very acceptable now, as some land is
getting hard. Also it would be a nice
time to put an application of nitrate
of soda to grain after a shower.
There is being a great deal Qf corn
planted this week. Early planting
generally makes the best corn on up
land.
The measles are around, but we
haven't heard of any in this section. I
am thankful that I have had them. .
A very sad death occurred in the
St. Paul's section last Wednesday
night from the 'effect of measles.
Thaddeus Riehardson, son of M,r. and
Mrs. - Jacob Richardson, passed over
the river into the beautiful land.
His body was laid to rest in the
St. Paul's cemetery on Thurs~day~ af
ternoon.
He was about 25 years of age and
was a good boy. The Rev. J. A. Sligh
peached his funeral and spoke very
highly of this young man. He wil.l be
greatly, missed. We extend our sym
pathy to the bereaved family and
relatives. He cannot .come back to
yu, but you ca:n go to him. .
WHITE RIBBON ECHOES.
Prohibition Campaign in Florida.
The Florida W. C. T. U. and the
Anti-Saloon League are coperating
in petitions to the Legislature, which
will convene in April, demanding the
submission of a constitutional amend
ent .prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxica.nts in the State.
An advantageous location near the
capitol has been secured for state W.
C. T. U. headquarters, which will be
decorated with banners, mottoes, etc.,
and will have an attrective sign,
Woman's Christian Temperance
UTnion, that cannot be overlooked by
those going to the capitol.
Prohibition literature has been
sent to the members of the legislature
that they may see both ,ides of the
question, for of course they will be
flooded with literature, influence and
the argument t.hat elinks, by the li
quor men. Since Georgia went dry
many 'liquor dealers formerly of that
state have moved into' Florida,
making the ten wet counties of the
st-ate thoroughly ''booze " counties.
All Christian organizations have
)een asked to help in the prohibition
campaign and they .are responding
nobly. Petitions are coming in daily
and the whole state seems aroused.
The liquor forces have adopted the
'still hunt'' policy.
An appeal has been sent out asking
that on April 11th every minister.mi
the state preach on Christian citizen
ship and follow his sermon by taking
a rising vote on a resolution asking'
the legislature to submit the prohibi
tion amendment and that on April
12th he telegraph or mail this reso
lution to the WV. C. T. U. or the Anti
Saloon League at Tallabassee. April
11th.is to be a day of special prayer
service, when all who love righteous
ness will pray that prohibition may
The State W. C. T1. U. president.
Miss Neal. will go to the capital onl
April .5th. Other state officers will
i*.in her there and many white rib
bn-:. fr. vau secion will be
PIANO
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When you Buy a Piano
What You Pay for. 1
$300 an Instrume
will we. pret
All we can do is to give you the
you invest. No one e'se can do mc
higher than others because it costs:
instruments, and ,ire worth more m
We do not attempt to enter into j
represented as having extraordh
struments of inferior grades, maA
sell them at apparently bargain fi
But we would rather be fair %
f.,unded on the confidence of the pt
discovered is to give every purch
and without recour,e to fictitious st
You can find pipnos here higher
piano stores. You can also find in.
prices. You can make your c oi<
paying no premium over the real vC
Everything Kr
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PRICES
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it worth $500, nor
.nd to do so.
full measure of value for the money
re. Some of our pianos are priced
more to make them-they are better
oney.
Wrce competition with cheap pianos
iary merit. We could produce In
-e exaggerated claims for Jhem and
rures..
ith our patrons and have a business
blic-and the oLlly way we have yet
RLser a full equivalent for his money,
atements.
in price than you see at most other
;truments marked at very inoderate
e knowing that in any Case you are
.lue of the one you select.
lownq inq Music.
, -our S aeso n, S. get
s-Gl. measae, Eden value for,theemkey
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EXCURSION RATES.
To Louisville, Kentucky, and Return
Via Southern Railway.
Account Southern Baptist conven
tion the Southern Railway announces
very low round trip rates to Louis
ville, Ky. from all points. Tickets
will be sold May 10, 11, 12 and 13,
1909, limited for return leaving Louis
ville not later than midnight of May
22nd, 1909.
Round trip .rates from principal
stations as follows:
Abbeville.. .....- ...$15.85
Aiken ........-- .18.70
Anderson ..1..5..)......
Batesburg .......... 17.95
Blacksburg .. .......14.95
Blackville ............ 18.40
Branehville........ .. 19.0
Charleston .. ......... 20.80
Chester.. ............ 15.85
Columbia ............ 16.90
Gaffney.. ..1..0........
Greenville ............ 15.10
Greenwood ..1..5.. ...... .5
Lancaster.........17.05 -
Newberry..16.30
Orangeburg.. 18.40
Prosperity.........16.45
IRockHill... 15.85
Spartanburg. 14.20
Sumter.... 18.
Union. 1.95
Yorkvile.. 15.85
For tickets, detailed information,
etc., apply to Souehtrn Railway tiek
et agents or address,1
. 14.80
Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. C.
3. L. Meek,
Asst. Cren. Passnger Ag1t.
Atlanta, Ga.
RCk Cil ...D.o.... c. 58
Fo icke dtl informatn-,
et. apl to Soe nRiwytck
J . C.L,a
box of Backlen's Arnica Salve
Here's a quarter-For the love of
Moses, hurry! Baby's burned him
self, terribly-Johnnie .cut his foot
with the axe-Mamie 's scalded-Pa
can't walk from piles-Billie has.
boils-and my corns ache. She got it
and soon cured all the family. Its
the greatest healer on earth. Sold
by W. E.~ Pelham & Son, Newberry,
S.C.
NOTICE or FINAL SETTT.EMENT
Notice is hereby given t:hat I will
make a- final settlement of the estate
of Lucindia E. Jones in the court of -
probate for Newbher'ry coanty on
Thursday, April 22, 190:9, at elern
o 'cloek in the forenoon, and immeda
lately thereafter apply for letters
lismissory as administrator of said -
aeceased.
J. Y. .Jones,
Aaministrator.
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3LUE RIDGE SCHEDULES.
Eastbound.
".. 28, leaves Anderson at 6.3U a. .
t..r-r connection at BeltoD wiw
Ai mn.crn for Greenville.
S12, from Walhalla. leaves An
er i t 10.15 a. m.,'for connectiori
- Belt.n with Southern Railway for
',iambe" and Greenville.
N. 20d, leaves Anderson at 2.20
s. .. f..r connections at Belton with
a berr. Railway for Greenville.
N'.. S. .daily except Sunday, from
hal airrives Anderson 6.24 p. I
.. ith conrnections at Seneca with
atherkn R -ilway from points south.
N,, 10. fro'm Walhalla, leaves 'An
ero 4 ::7 p. in., for connections
if B..i'.n wi'-i Southern Railway for
* rti m~ il!1- -- I Columbia.
Westbound.
N.. :-. arr-i- e's at Anderson at 7.50)
..m.fr mio with connections
N. .:arrive:.,. t Anderson at 12.24
m.L. from 8e1'.'u with connections
from Gron id Columbi.1. Goes
-, \ 8jiba.lla.
No.. 19. arrives at Anderson at 3.40
p.., rm Belton .with connections I
from Greenville.
N.>. 11, arrives at Anderson at
6.20) p. mn., from IBelton with con
i.:. (Goes to Wnlhaill.
N... 7. ..iiy except0 Sunday, leaves
\udrsem ;t 9.20 :1. m . for Walhalla,
iih e,)nnetionsR~ a;t Se::ees for local
Nos. 17. 18, 19. n ad 20 are mixed
res~i between A ndersonr and Belton.
Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight
rmins, carryingZ iaegre, between
ndrson and W- m!hn' o: l between
WYsih11a a n? A ndarsor