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8U. "Truth Aboot the Col^n Lxiiiange 1 &ad tlte Dealing iu Futures SSis&CT' Southern Cultivator: Certain newspaper harlots ami ( saara&UJins prostitutes, pretending zj jaejE3??ent the Farmers Cn:on, sought the cotton exchanges for the ' &mrpose of creating the impression &bsS -said institutions serve a legitisaafiis ?nd, and are of great benefit to : producers of cotton by maintaining tflte price, are endeavoring to show ^tcaU the decline in the price of cotton 35? IS?4 was due to the fact that tn? ?sfl??xs* excnanges 01 mis wuuut orfcTe ?tosed; hence no price could GR A I N 5 United States Government guar; of wheat harvested in 1918. St ?nght not to be a very difficult i "wheat at $2.00 a bushel. Sout/iC their wheat acreage 47 per c< _ ?aa<y to accooplsh. Tiro dollar wheat means high flour, i tfcen pay the miller's toll, railroai .'3?j Itour will cost you a pretty stiff ] $a> zoa&e the kind of flour the most or y< - flgesLJers have ther profit, they won't w wat&e*,. The result is you can make y< Sfccd besides it will pay a man to soww ses?5uderahle trouble the last fewy< as? Caere "has been no trouble to get ai : jSuEted alter stubble. An early stana i "SEisss the boll weevil strikes you and i; - jMTT. the early cotton is all you will 1 *xasbJbs it will be July crop or no crop, i **tt?3 j&eavy on cotton that comes up in jou will pick and stubble mighty Yob can't sow down all your land ai < mbtm you are guaranteed $2.00 bi TSwrce acres of wheat and three acres prepared and well . fertilized - 3W>ar farm needs and if it is a goo 1 W&en you sow with a three disc gi acx jRsd you have about as safe a crou as \hvtt disc grain drills but there are i gratia drills?but we are selling feriiiz "Viy ijest put in sacks; the best byte "^and'-the best by test of results W ^ T^isi nor the spring of 1916. Sc >nmSt %e a pretty good fertl ze ^saeNfeShe goods, at least we have been r did not add to the sales to speak c TRW?fc -of the goods that makes the cr Wm "have it now fine and dry. See c If you can nse it in bulk (unsacked) 3 'Uses vfcich is higher this year than w labor of bagging it, which is also m See ns and get the best. When it is .? many people will use" 16 per cc dress in the spring, if needed. * Tit* Virginia farmers use 16 per ct list 1*?p dress in the spring, r.nd ^ <??<e *a* supply you with acid and m V-*. >*??? * J * Anderson Phos] Comp W. F. FARME Fdrfili7atinn M. *. A w? >w ? ? Tbt folowing statement concerning tf sss.ncd by the department ol agrlcultu J 31, 1917: l%e fertilization of the wheat cr j be this fall. From every part of j 29ssiits secured from fertilization an) ' from unfertilized soil. By fer:i ".K'-iieiic* -n the profitableness or fe "SJ'HI j^. W. Waggoner, of St. jos i O&imAs of acid phosphate to the acrve * sct&vt m wheat. From the fertilized p ir fcsr ?2&e acre, and on the unfertilized, il.l -ItaJEkEls. due to fertilizing." This year two hundred pounds of a i azx? v&eat is worth $2 per bushel. Oa Waggoner would be worth 19.80 a * & ^a?.j??2iig fertilizer and paying for t-=sPH&?f!d csop would be more than 55. OC '.dollars for eagles It come,; Ohio experiment station of Wjc \ >~6*snMy-lwo years, has secured an in*r iron?. -an application of 160 poun< lESe- unpiLOsphated yield has been 112 ^tssteels. Where 1,000 pounds of pot is yie'id has "been 20.4 bushels to ih Tstans- flian was secured from phophate 2 'wfeKei and before-war prices for pot;j '5KK. 3*&t sufficient to pay the cost of thi &sc??izer containing phosphorus an 1 9 1. 1 ..v 11 -tr*. ?viaT and Inam soils. ? ?^rui;o iv "v"?j ?? < farmers out of ten should fer:i ^creases the yield directly, but th< -- SiHftc: r"s*&'kes stronger plants that wTt'ii --jbS isseats better than those unfertTi ' "asaey expect a return of at least fire < ^apfeesx "xertiMzer this fall. Tfee importance of ordering early < ^Ffen>se who orcter early "will get what -will be compelled to take what Is Anderson Phosp W. F. FARME ANDERSO be had and cotton could not be sold 1 Nothing is more absurd and further from the truth than this statement, o mattar of fact the cotton ex ao ?, maw?.www changes closed because of the decline in the price of cotton, to such a level that "the gambling freebooters" (a3 styled by Postmaster General Burles'on), were on the verge of bankruptcy, and to prevent the English and other foreign spinners fro xnreaping a rich harvest, the exchanges suspended payment, by closing down to ?" chains 1 i i save iuca o kw 1 The truth of the m,. er was, th : foreigners knew that America ha ; made a bumper crop of cotton; th;t >owincT~ ' mtees a minimum price of $2.00 a j matter to induce a patriotic farmer to arolina farmers are asked to m3nt this year. This also should be j i i u-!ipn von oav S2.00 for wheat j i freight and the dealer's profit, price. It takes six bushels of wheat | 3U buy?millers and railroads and j ork for nothing and board them- I 3ur flour cheaper than you can buy heat for the stubble. There has been ?ars to get an early stand of cotton, i early stand of cotton when it is s going to be exceedingly important is going to strike you and when it ' ? - . I lave to pick. When tne 0011 weevj; \.nd your July crop will not tie l June. It will be the early cotton ' nearly guarantees a quick stand. ' >nce and it is a good -year to begin ishel for your wheat. > of oats to the plow on land that fs ill turn the trick and make enough year will leave some to sell. ain drill you can fertilize when you ; you can plant. We are not selling >eople here who do. You can get the er, and the best that is made; the st of result. And that is what you . e could not supply the demand >ld out and swept the floors, r for there to be such a demand for it. 1 pliably informed that our wmnnis \ >f. It is just the natural inherent ! ops and that creates the demand, is for prices. Cash December first. ' re can save you the cost of the e hare ever known and the cost of ore than it has befcn heretofore, oil nriee. set the beat A ;nt acid by itself when sowing and int acid by itself when sowing and ( Virginia afrmers make fine grain j i ixed goods, just as yon prefer. Come vr;. *.-<?. : a. * -? *T * a I . phate and Oil >any R, Secretary | of Wheat ! le fertilization of wheat this fall was | i extension at Purdue University, i I ;mn^rfQT,f than it ! 3 was never uiurc huja/i ? ndiana come reports of the excellent j the very poor yields of wheat se- j sing, the farmer swaps dollars for j I utilizing the wheat is abundant." ' >h county, applied two hundred j i, on all but a small part of a field j t he secured 22.4 bushels of wheat ] 5 bushels to the acre?a gain of 9.9 ; " ' i I d phosphate will cost about .$2.25, j this basis the increase secured by id the profit after counting expenses harvesting and marketing the inl an acre. If this isn't a case of very near to it. >ster, as an average for * ^ last ease of 8.0 bushels of ^heat to the Is of acid phosphate to the acre. bushels and the phosphated 19.2 >h has been added to the phosphate, j ? rtf 1 0 huaholfi I 3rCF6, or <xUL iuv.icaoc ui A.W ilone. Even at present prices for ?h the increase in the wheat crop i potash. The addition of potash *o nitrogen will not be profitable when i lize wheat this fall. Fertilizer not a greater supply of available plant stand the attack of fungus diseases zed. At present prices the farmer Jollars for eyery dollar spent for r" -- " \ cannot be too strongly emphasized, they want, while those \rho order left, or do without. x >hate & Oil Co. <R, Secretary N, S. C. war was imminent; aflft it was a go:i time to sell couoii "short;" so tli3 operators on the Liverpool Exchange loaded the .vinerican gamblers to u.i juard; and when war was declared, the botton lell out! The members of the Cotton ex * ?1 -- ? ? *% nnf nnn change know tneir ruieo est; and unless the public is kept in the dark, sooner or later some congressman will get a bill tnrougn Congress that will actually prevent the manipulation of prices, and destroy their graft; hence by sundry and divers methods false impressions ara created on the public mind. The "Cotton Futures Act" is not what it purports to be, and does not prevent the manipulation of prices, u,r> was promised the farmers by the Baltimore platform in 19127 The fluctuation of cotton prices were never so frequent, nor more violent, with greater variations, than during uie past year, under the beneficient influence of uie "Cotton Futr ures Act," the would-be advisers of the farmers, boast of having been instrumental in having enacted into law. The loud-mouthed blatant demagogues in Congress boast of having secured for the farmer a great Tioon, as is evidenced by the prevailing high pncea. The protection the farmer get3 from the baneful influence of manipulated future prices, is dne to the efforts of that great statesman and patriot, W. P. G. Harding. President cf the Regional Bank Board. Mr. Harding prevented the sacrificing of our cotton crop in 1915 bv telling the bankers in the South, that unless they supplied the farmers with * fJio r>r>ttr>n croD money to can; u?ci <.uv ? ?. at a rate not to exceed six per cent, the regional banks would supply a'I the money necessary. Hence mone.? has been available O every man who had cotton to sel\ and was willing to take prevailing prices. This has always been the farmers trouble: The banks *ould not let him have money to carry his cotton, but forced collections, be the price high or low. Not a great many years ago, a farmer could not borrow money Prom the banks unless some merchant, brokei or other business man would endorse his note. Money in the sprfnf, before -!-e crop was planted, when there was nothing tangible, has for a number of years been available, with A Tffln A? wmcn to grow a crop; uui, rmoi* products were In sight, and the world clamoring for the stuff the farmer had grown, he was forced to "come across" if he had to sacrifice his crop at half price, as was the case in 1914. "Spot cotton" has. time and again on the streets of our little city, dur ing the past year, sold for a cent to i cent and half above the future marked The farmer refused to get "rattled." thanks to Mr. Harding, and held on to his stanle He knew the world needed what he had to sell; and knew the value of same, without advice from the cotton exchanges. He also kne* the banks would" not "call him;" hence he went along the even tenor of his way undisturbed, and got. his price. If there were a few more men lifcc the federal judge in Arkansas, who declared cotton future transactions " 1 1 *? ? ~ ' " ? J - rv 1 1 A i\f gam Dim 2: contracts, :t.iu uui cuncti.ible by law the country would De rar richer and better. There is no greater < ''' j _l.v\ ;::-- ... ' Olive Thomas in new. Triangle ^ play, " An Even .Break" OPERA HOUSE Saturday, September 31 evil in the land save p hssibiy \shiskey, than is gambling in cotton future. The exchanges resort to all sorts o-: IiCs aucz vT'JUJtcu mti ;-.>u > iu iji about fluctuations in prices, :'or by this means the members live. They are parasites on the other naiiVj prosperity, and serve no legitimate purpose. G. T. MeElderry. Talladego, Ala., Aug. U, 1317. irittfif. / 'TAv" f V 4 Til'] i n VHTil n Aniii-ioiv.i uu.t J 11 n.,1/ u >AU PliKHIO KEREN SKY'S PLAX Washington. S* pt. 13- News of Premier Kerensky's determination to instill better discipline into Russia s armies created almost as much gratification here today as reports that Gen. Korniloff's revoTt was failing and civil war had been averted. If Kerenskv succeeds in his d - p.omacy program. Kernnon s auemuid coup will have borne good fruit, in the opinion of officials and diplcmats. Such an accomplishment would remove one of the great weaknesses of the new democracy, and it is be* lieved. might go far toward infusing ^ spii it of order and ^cooperation Into the civilian population on whose industrial support the war so largely, depends. Kerensky's plan is believed to be to restore discipline by making it plain that military commanders shall ha". 3 full authority over military movements; by rooting out the persistent interference of soldiers' committees with commanders' orders; and by retaining the present system of government by civil commissioners at th front to advise men in the ranks and provide a certain check on ill treatment of soldiers. P.y thi-s arrangement the death peno!+*r fr\r tMnlotirma Af nrriprs mis'ht IU.I V X. va ww. w continue to be imposed by court-martial. subject to limited review by the civl commissioners. Gen. Alexief, - who was made chief of staff when Kerensky assumed nominal command of the armies. Is an advocate of strong authority for directing officers and a friend of tha civil commissioner system. i. Recent rerorts from the Russian front indicate that the soldiers' committee still persists in trifling inter ference, which sometimes mean aei-ay and disaster. The civil commissioners are emissaries of the democratic movement with the function of assuring the army ranks that they are not being used as tools of military leaders for purposes other Than the defeat of Germany. SWEDISH MJ SISTER TO JfEXICO ALSO KAISER'S MESSENGER Washington, Sept. 13.?Anothe? chaoter to the story of German in trigue in neutral countries and among neutral diplomats was revealed tonight by Secretary Lansing In tae form of a letter to the Imperial Chsfncellor from the notorious von Eckhardt, the German minister at Mexico City, to whom the intercepted ~~Zimmerniann note was addressed. It disclosed that Fol'-ce Cronholm, then . Swedish charge in Mexico, was appended upon by the German diplo mat to furnish informatroL* rrom the "hostile .'"amp" and to transmit communications to Berlin ani that von Eekhardt wanted him rewarded by a secret award from the Kaiser of me "order of the crown of the secona class" ' This ietter was written cn March i 8, 191G. and apparently has been in ' the possession of the American gor: ernment for a long time. It was i ; marift nubile without comm-nt. shet> j ding light upon the methods o- ar?j ether Swedish diplomatic represent.; tive in this hemisphere, at a Tim j when the United States and her a:| lirs are awaiting with interest Sweden's explanation to Argentina of tl a conduc: of her minister a: Buenos Aires who transmitted the Germa "sink without leaving a trace" di i patch I .T??. I.n.n A i a] rn pll2.rST-> j 1 JCi I ^/U ilU 4 ' here, said tonight in response to a query that Cronholm was dismissed from the diplomat'-? service last "January, He would not discuss the cas?, but there was no intimation that it was in any way connected with Cronholm's relations with the Germans. Baron Akerhielm called at tne | state department during the day to Inform Secretary Lansing that he had received from his government tns statement already given to the public at Stockholm explaining that i Sweden had forwarded dispatches ! from Buenos Airos to Berlin in Ger* ' 1 - J M i.U .f. man code witnouc Knowieuge ui meir contents. Tt is assumed that the Stockholm foreign office would not address any communication to American government on the -subject. THR HER A LP AND NEWS ONE j VT^AR FOR ONT/7 si .50 i | RUR-MY-TTSM?Antiseptic. Relieves ) Rheumatism. Sprains. HAKT1YELL JL AYKK EXPIRES SUDDEXLI V( < 13 kucnvH Xewspaj-er E<1H->r Dili* Wkfle Sitting hs thjir Before fire-?Just Homo From Office News hj:1 Courier. Flor.nc-e, Sept. 13.?It w-as a severe shock to all Florence tonight t^p ?ad news passed out from the 'x>me cf Kamvoil Moore Ayer, editor of the Florence Daily Times, that thy summons had come to him suddenly and without a moment's v.arning. to lay down his pen forever. and to ccaie up higher and rest from his labors. Mr. :Ayer had beef af office all day in connection with his duties as editor ana puur.slier cf hi3 paper, and hau only rnnrhfd home a few moments prior to he:U2C stricken. He had been inocufaied yesterday against "typhoid, and his devoted v/ifo had just asked how the treatment was serving him. Ho attempted to reply, and in a half-dazed manner dropped over in the chai", in whirh he sat beside the fire, ar.i without being able to speak more, passed away. H;s Newspaper Career Hart well Moore Aver was a son of the late Gen. Lewis Malone Ayer, of old Barnwell County. He was t>orn in January, 1868, and was. tTiere'ore. forty-nine years eld last January. Re was educated in the common schools o? Barnwell County and under lbs . tutorship of his_ learned father. He attended the South Carolina College, from which he graduated in the class of 1887. He later went into newspaper work, and for a time was connected with the Charleston World, later with The News and Courier, and then, coming to Florence, purchased the old Florence Times from Dr. C. H. Prince, the then owner. He continued the publication of his paper for several years until Us rrzed and became the founder or the present Charleston Evening P03?. Later he returned to Florence ana resumed the editorship of the Flor " - rni rv<si>v en re Times ana me r lureu^c Times. Hs built what is xnown as the Times building in West Evans street, which he recently sold to J. M. O'Dowd. Pie was widely known as aa enthusiatie newspaper mas and loved his work. He was devoted to his family and to Florence, hi* adopted home. Active hi fiaay Trays iir. Ayer was great lover of the military, and was for a time captain of the Calhoun Light Infantry, the local military oragnrzation. He believed in education and was a worker in ail branches that tendod tliat y/ay. He was a member of the Florence City School Board of Commissioners and has done valued service. He served Florence county as a member of the Legislature of 1908-1912 and was a faithul representative of the people. He was married to Miss Cornelia Walter Smith, of Charleston, and to this union seven children were hnrn five of whom, with .Mrs. Ayer, survive, as follows: Misses Elizabeth, Cornelia and Verner Ayer. of Florence; Mr. Banks Ayer, erf Pensacoia, Fla.. who is in the aviation corps, and Master Cewis Ayer. of this city. Besides r.hes3 Mr. Ayer is survived by his mother, now Mrs/T W. Hamilton, of St. Paul, Minn., and two slster3. Mrs. J. R. Vandiver, of Anderson, and Mrs. Knut Okerberg, of Munieli, Germany. Funeral Saturday As yet the hour for tne funeral services has not been announced, Dut :t win Le held at St. John's Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Ayer was a member5' and vestryman, on Saturday morning, September 15, and the interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. For several years Mr. Ayer had been jhe Florence corrfnnnf''?r?t fo.* rninmhifl Stflfp and filled th.0 dll? lilt? VV/iUAA*W*W ^ ?vvw, ? _ _ ties to the satisfaction of that paper. Mr. Ayer was a member of the >Iasonic fraternity, the Knights or Pythias, Junior Order and other secret organization, and was a worker in secret societies. He will be 111*88ed in this town, county and State. , Henry H. Husbands, f What Mary Roberts Rinehart's Creed Is Mary Roberts Kinenarc says in m* October American Magazine: "For twelve years out of that forty I have been a writer. It is as if, at twenty-eight, I had turned at a rlgut nnsle to my former path, a path which "had seemed as fixed as the sun In Its orbit, or the alphabet, or a cement, pavement, and had begun a journey into a Tar country, n cnangeu iuv u.e somewhat, it changed me entirely. "The one thing which has, than* God, remained unchacg A, has been my family. "In aLl of my life I have never before sat down and turned my eyes inward. I have never had time to sit by the fire and feel. My life has been. WOMAN SICK ~ ! TWO YEARS 1 Could Do No Wort Now Strcnflr as a A Man ? i Chicago, III. ?"For about two yean 1 ;; suffered from a female trouble so 1 ^ li!H"!!H :iH.' was una^ie wa^ il^UjJjji or do any of my own ? work. Ireadaboul l Lydia E. Pinkham's w}Wm Vegetable Com! nnnnd in the news. 1 I ilBwii brought almost imi j mm me^ate re^e^ ^ and I never imd^efr j ^r health. I weigS : .65 pounds and am as strong as a man. !' think money is well spent which pur- ? chases Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."?Mrs. Jos. O'Bryan, 1755 V Newport Ave., Chicago, 111. _ The success of Lydia E. Pinkham'a ^ Vegetable Compound, made from roota ana herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from displacements, infiam* mation, ulceration, irregularities, perinriir nains. hackache. beariner-down feel ing, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, and nervous prostration. Lvdia E. Pinkbam 's Vegetable Compound is thestaa* curd remedy lor female ills. work?the family It is not 4MH pasy now to put my phlisophy inur words. Probably it could be done In ^M two words, love and work. And that, MM after all. is the foundation of every 9B normal life. "Love and work, and to live life to its fullest, and with honor, that seems 4 to me the universal creed. To take fl one's self lightly, and one's work ser- 1 iously, to be a good friend and a poor enemy, to work hard and play hara, to look out and not in, has been thj goal I have struggled for. I hava failed, of course. Is not the very fact that I am writing this an indication that I am beginning to take myself seriously ?" Hovr Hary Roberts Rlnehart Cares Famllv?And Writes Mary Roberts Rinehart has writ- j ten a wonderful article for the October American Magazine called "My Q Creed." and in ft she says: "Now and then my domesticity an1 1 my ambitions clash. This ambition. I by the way, is not to be but to <20. ft is a part of the desire to live a full life, to be a part of my times. I hare rover wanted or expected to be famous. Even such success as has come to me never ceases to surprise me. Also I do not do things' because 1 want to write about them. I do them, and then T frequently write about t r?M nnt ffo to the war. for t instance, because I felt that anything ' T could write about it would add to m/ the history of this tortured period^B^ anything of material value. T "went^B because I wanted to see war. It 13 fl the same with all of my traveling; V w!th the wilderness trips we take. "N'ow and then, however, comes a 9 time when it is fiatly the fa'jiilj my work. Every woman of the many who are carving out careers for themselves. whether it be on the stage or thA nnrifprt nlatfnrm nr in small way in a salaried position, knows what this is. It never happens to the man. His work is always first. And he can ) r.ri- always understand the woman's struggle. Because with her it is maetpr of tradition ns well as o* co.ico.ience. She may be able to emproy skiMful n onle to take her rlace In tna home. She mar install a housekeeper end a trained nurse. Always. If sh? be a true woman, there is going on in her the struggle. Perhaps, in a, few years, it will be the accepted ^ thins to consider that, having brougnt her children into the world, a raotner mav then pursue a gainful occuratJon without further serious responsibility for them. I hope not. but I fear It I* oomins: " -^IM The October Woman's Home Cow- V uanion mBS Articles and fiction which stfma- J late and entertain are part of the Oc-^B lODer vWoman s Home i ompamoa. "American Children," by Agnes Rep- V plkr; "The i^omen go to War," DT V Id . M. Tarbell; "Uncle Sam's Camp S Meeting ' and "Cutting the Coal Bill** j ar* only a few of t'io userui arVclw. * The fiction includes the srst installment of a new serial -entitled. "Flaming Knights." by Grace S. Ricnrrond; and stories by Peter Clark Macfarlane. Sophie Kerr. Walter A. Tlver an/1 T.niira \Tf11er TVia reSrulaTA^^. departments for younger readers, tie fl rooking, picture and fashion section* fl are all up to T.hf* usual standard, V :n? a well rounded numDar. -m axo *gj&3N oky cnvnaH sat OS t ilX'O HOJ-HYSjB