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~~lere is a Re t of tartar, d 'mod in Royal Baki .i izthe best and most t nwn for the purposi Phosphate and ali ived from mineral s4 t"0,e baking powders, tartar, because they a "If you have been ir powders made. from use Royal Baking Pa will be pleased with difference in the quality ROYAL BAKING New . .r NG LIENS FOR ADVANCES Summerton, S. C. Members of the South Caro Senate and House of Repre 1tatives: ring the 1916 session of the Leg Senator Chariton DuRant, at uest, introduced in the Senate owing proposed bills, to wit: iAct to repeal Section 4165, Vol ii, Code of Laws of South Caro i1910, relating to indexing liens advances. ' n 1. Be it enacted by the Assembly of South Carolina, . ection 4165, Volume I. Code of & of South Carolina 1912, relat to indexing liens for advances, be, he same 'is hereby, repealed. -2. That all Acts or parts of 4 consistent with this Act be, The same are hereby, repealed. 3. This Act shall take effect cdiately upon its approval by the or. IT Act to Amend Section 4162, ine I, Code of Laws of South ina 1912, Relating to Lien of rd for Rent and Advances, by Out on Lines Nine and Ten he Following, "Subject to Hereinafter Provided for cible in the Same 'Way," dding on Line Ten Thereof e Word Lien the Following, hout a Writing of Any Kind," CTHEBEST to use this year is 'prts of Acid Pho Seed Meal. This mixture will cent. available Phe TH REE AND ONE-li 'monia. and nearly prcent. Potash. Weare prepared t< 4above materials ani Tankage. anid we s< MANNING Manning - - Make to / by s * or no other reason than t aih life, you owe yourself a ;~a duty,' because you ha' ~' 14 yOts have power to stai Se, Basidbs we want to hie day with $. al Difference 3rived from grapes, ng Powder because healthful ingredient im, which are de )urces, are used in instead of cream of re cheaper. duced to use baking alum or phosphate, wder instead. You the results and the of the food. POWDER CO. Cork and by Adding on Line Eleven There of After the Word Tenant, the Fol lowing, "Or Other P-erson," and by Adding at the End of Said Section the Following, "And the Purchaser of Said Crops Shall Be liable to the Landlord and His Assigns for Said Crops or the Value Thereof to the Extent of Such Rent or Advances as Aforesaid." Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of South Carolina, That Section 4162, Volume I, Code of Laws 1912, be, and the same is here by, amended by striking out on lines nine and ten thereof the following, "subject to the liens hereinafter pro vided for and enforcible in the same way," and by adding on line ten thereof after the word lien the fol lowing, "without a writing of any kind," and by adding on line eleven thereof after the word tenant the fol lowing, "or other person," and by adding at the end of said section the following, "and the purchaser of said crops shall be liable to the landlord and his assigns for said crops or the value thereof to the extent of such rent or advances as aforesaid;" so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Section 4162. Every landlord leas ing land for agricultural purposes shall have a prior and preferred lien for his rent to the extent of all crops raised on the lands leased by him, whether the same be raised by the tenant or other person. No writing FERTILIZER a mixtude of equal sphate and Cotton analyse NINE per sphoric Acid, and IA LF. per cent. Am if not quite ONE > furnish both the dI also Blood and licit inquiries. OIL MILL :,S. C. me tells what :lid 'yesterday. morrow better arting a Bank' ecount to-day." he. unforeseen demands Incident Bank account, ren't the power to predict the 't a Bank account and fortify for Lp worbhyyoung meni to succeed. If Manning. Now Well "Thedford's Black-Draught is the best all-round medicine lever used," writes j. A. Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. "I suffered terribly with liver troubles, and could get no relief. The doctors said I had con sumpuon. I could not work at all. Finally I tried THEDFORD'S BLACI(" DRAUGHT and to my surprise, I got better, and am to-d:ijas well as any man." Thedford's Biack - Draught is a general, cathartic, vegetable liver medicine, that ' has been regulating irregulari ties of the liver, stomach and bowels, for over 70 years. Get a package today. Insist on the genuine--Thedford's. E-70 sixty per cent. of the business of the bountry is done on open acount, with out any recorded lien for same, the argument that the white farmer might cheat his negro laborer if the lien for advances is not recorded, proves absurd and groundlss. In a private letter to the writer, the author of the Act of March 4, 1C09, which repealed the agricultural lien law, or, rather, Section 3059 of the Code of Laws 1902, has this to say, to wit: "I was the author of the repeal bill; my purpose briefly stat ed was to place the landowners where they could control their labor and wrest that control from the hands of the merchant; my purpose also was to aid our farmers to get upon a cash basis, but the South Carolina Senate emasculated my bill; I did not disturb existing conditions in regard to far mers' or landlord's lien for supplies or rent." It would appear that the South Carolina Senate, which is composed to a verl large extent of lawyers, either intentionally or ignorantly betrayed the white farmers of South Carolina, for when it is considered that under the old agricultural lien law the only lien thereby secured superior to the lien of the farmer was limited to ad vances made to the farm hand dur ing the year, but that now under the ubiquitous chattel mortgage whereby a lien thereby secured superior to the lien of the farmer includes .past and present and future indebtedness, sur.lv the white farmers of South Carolina have been crucified upon a cross of gold, and the bills herein pro posed should be speediiy enacted into law. Finally, thp enactment of the liro posed bills into law, will enable the white farmers of South Carolina to protect the crops of the ignorant ne gro laborer, and farm hand, and ten anit from the clutches of the organ agent, the picture agenat, the patent mle-icime agent and the usurious "W it(dom cometh down from above and it becomjeth the strong to pr'o teet the weak.' Res;pectfulily suomitted, Ji. J. CANTlEY. TlOM WATSON IN TEAF~RS AT' HIS ACQUITTAl. A ugust a, Ga., Dec. 1 .-Thomnas E. WVatsoni, author andi editor, wept when he was acquit ted this mnorning' in the feea Iour on the charge of send mag obscene matter about the Roman ..anoaic enuren through the mails. The case was given to the jury at 6;:38 last night and trie verdict wvas r'etuirnedl at '10):45 this morning. IThis was the second trial of Mr. Watson on this charge, a former hearing having resulted in a mistrial. TIhere wano d ~Oemonsitration ini the court rom at the announcement of' t he verdict. TIhe verdict was not un expected, though there hadi been ru mors that the jury stood nine to thre2 for acqluittal. For Best Results Ship Youir Long Staple Cotton to WHALEY & RIVERS, Chiarlestoni. S. C. Original pr'omoter's of Staple Couttoii m the Southieast. ICon stip ation la to be dreaded. ,load. to serious alment., Foyer Indigoeton. Files Siek Hleadaohe, k'olsoned System anJ a asoro of other troubles follow. Don't let Consulpation last. Kee ur idnys.Liver and Bowels offerm~ented das f ouryse. Nothbing better than Dr. King's NewLife Pills All D ggts25 oents. SATI8AfA~l aR ONEYv =AC SUPREME COURT ON NEGLECTED COLDS GROW THE POWER OF JUDGES WORSE' A cough that racks anid irritates Washington,- Dec. - 4. -- Federal the throat may lead to a serious judges of the Supreme Court held to- chronic cough, if neglected. The heal lay, do not possess inherent power, ing pine balsams in, Dr. Bell's Pine sxercied for a century but without Tar Honey--Nature's own remedy snecfic congressional authority, for will soothe and relieve the irritation, indefinite suspension of conviction of breathing will be easier, and the anti triJinal cases. Disposition by Dis- septic properties will kill the germ trict Judge Killits, of Ohio, of sen- which retarded healing. Have it. tence upon James J. Henakin, Toledo, handy for croup, sore throat and bank embezzler, was revoked, chronic bronchial affections. Get a ? bottle to-day. Pleasant to take. At ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES. all Druggists, 25c.-Adv. KNOWING THAT they are getting the real, genuine article-.under its own label in a sterilized bottle -- absolutely pure and always uniform in its delicious flavor-. is one of the ream sons why Chero. Cola is the satis. fying choice of particular people DRINK Cherlm' -C'ala_ "n Through Bottle Straw" OLD SAWS RE=SET 'Of all Lla. Saw y~'~ ou xve saw sawxx , you non- 'a a Swsaw~ lik~e our aws saw." Say that over ts yourisel f Pral)dly. Keelp oi 5.aying~ it. lt. true: and it is equally \trueii of all <,nr To'hols ai~ n id nware'i. Noth-. ing but the very best inatorialIs are used in the miak ing. ,f our good(I~s, anid wve g'ua ran tei' (each arIticle that la ves tee store. If you want to get the best llardwarie at the PlodeiHadwaeaps Coicallyou haegtt/cm ee or recording shall be necessary to create such lien, but it shall exist from the date of the contract, wheth er the same be in writ'ng or verbal and the landlord and his assigns shall have the right to enforce such lien in the same maner, upon the same con ditions, and subject to ithe same rp, strictions, as are provi ed in this ar ticle for persons maIcing advances for agricultural purposes. And the landlord anc his assigns shall have a lien without a writing of any kind on all the crops raised by the tenant or other person for all ad vances made by the landlord and his asigns to such tenant or other per son during the year, and the pur chaser of said crops shall be liable to the landlord and his asigns for said crops or the value thereof to the ex tent of such rent or advances as aforesaid. Since the repeal of the agricultu ral lien law in 1902, the farmers of South Carolina have been in a worse condition with respect to this matter than they were before, and a clear understanding of present conditions and the judicial decisions upon the subject will show the necessity of the aforesaid proposed bills or amend ments. Under Section 3059, Code of Laws 1902, a merchant, for instance, could acquire a lien superior to the unwritten lien of the landlord for ad vances; but lien acquired under Sec tion 3059 of the Code of. Laws 1902, was limited to advances expended during the year in making the crop, and such a lien had to be indexed and reduced to writing. Section 3059 of the Code of Laws 1902, provided for what was then commonly known as the so-called agricultural lien law and this section was repealed on the 4th day-of March, 1909, when the daily. newspapers and pretended friends of the farmers with one acclaim announced the freedom of the individual farmer. But a review of the decisions of the South Carolina Supreme Court since the 4th day of March, 1909, will show that the far mers of South Carolina were woeful ly deceived, and that the white far mers of South Carolina are today more at the mercy of the negro farm hand than ever before in the history of the State. South Carolina is an agricultural vocacommunity and the prosperity of all vocations, depends, to a very large extent, on the condition of the crops, and the condition of the crops in South Carolina depenis to a greater extent on negro labor. Now, in order to control this negro labor, ever since the ivil War, the white farmer in South Carolina has had a lien for ad vances made to a farm hand, without a writing of any kind, and ever since the freedom of the slave, the Su preme Court of South Carolina has sustained the validity of this unwrit ten lien of advances, as can be seen from a study of the cdecisions in the :matter of State v. E'.more, 68 S. C., 145, and Nexsen v. Ward, 96 S. C., 313. However, the Supreme Court of South Carolina, in the matter of Can tey v. McClary-Broadway Co., 95 S. C., 30, has limited to some extent the aforesaid unwritten hen of the far iver. by holding that the farmer could not assert sail unwritten lien tor advances against a third party, without compliance with Section 4165 of the Civil Code of south Carolina 1912. During the 1916 session of the Le' islature, Senator DuRant, at my re quest, introducLd the aforesaid bills or amendments, in order that the white farmer of South Carolina might have complete control of his negro labor, and in order to put a stop forever to the negro farm han-l giving innumerable chattel mort gages, which at the en I of the year, the white farmer mus: pay off, in order to get a farm nand for the next year. With the view of showing the fair ness an-] necessity or this proposed .egislation in behalf of the white far mer, let me illustrate: For instance, .John Doe and Richar:I Rloe are good bookkeepers and bank elerks and each get a good salary from their respective baks Eithe'r of' these diistinguished gentlemen could owe every merchant in hiis home town and decline to pay their obliga tions and there is no process of law by which the salary of either of them couldl be attached; and this is true, for the sumple reason, that the mem bers of the Legislature p)rotect the banks and corporations in the opera tion of their private affairs by the ab sence of and the refusal to enact a garnishment statute. On the other hand, I have a white farmer friend in Summerton, who, at the beginning of the year, rented some land to a negro far'm hand and supliedl him with a horse, guano, plow stock, and gears for the horse; this arrangement between the whliite far mer and negro laborer was made ver bally early one morning, and the ne gro farm hand agreed to come back next day andl execute proper~ papers, which he did, but (luring the pireced ing evening, and within the space of twenty-four hours, the negro farim hand executes to a Syrian merchant in Sumerton a chattel mortgage over the aforesaid crop, horse, guano, plo0w stock, and gears of my white farmer friend, and under the authority of Cantey v. McClary-Broadway Co., 95 S. C., 30, my white farmier friendl is defeated out of any c:aim or lien in or on the crops grown on his owvn lands and for which he furnished the fertilizer and the horse and the gears with wvhich to work said crop. It might be argued that the mer chant will not advance to the negro farm hand, if the proposed bills are enacted, but there is nothing in the proposed bills to prevent the wvhite farmer releasing or assigning to the merchant his unwritten lien for adl "anoes, and when i.;e negro farm hand understands that he must get the consent of the white farmer be fore he cian mortgage his crops to the merchant, a friendly harmony and understanding will be promoted be tween the white farmer and the mer chant and the negro laborer. Further, It might be argued that the white farmer will cheat his negro laborer, if the unwritten lien for ad vances is not recorded, but when it Is considered that the farmer already has an unwrItten lien for rent and there Is no demand for the repeal of the unwrittena-lien for rent; and when it is further considered, that at least