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HIGHER PRICES.' Why tlw Farmtrs Shatild Stand by Thair ferns and HOLD THEIR COTTON. BtrouK Argument for the Cotton Growers and Against the Middle Men. Five Montlis Before the New Crop Will Move and the Middle Men Short on Their Contracts for Delivery. We commend the following letter from Mr. J. E. Wunnamaker of St. Matthews, to the careful perusal of all who are interested In the prosperity of our Southlaud: Although I do not claim to he a prophet, or the sou of a prophet, I venture to assert that cotton should not l>e sold in the present low market; first, because of the moral effect upon the farmers themselves. I need not tell you how for forty long yean? the middle man. the speculator and the g nnblers have made a foot ball of cotton; how for the time being, he has set at nought the great law of supply and demand, and thereby robl>ed the cotton producer and the South of millions of money; how the farmers tamely and ignobly submitted to this thraldom until a few years ago the slumbering manhood of the South asserted itself, and at New Orleans made a new declarations of independence. I need not tell your reuders how steadily our organization has grown, how bitterly it haH been fought by the New York and other cotton exchanges; all these things are matters of history. To surrender now, four to five months before it Is possible to put new cotton in quantities in the market, would be to take counsel of our fears, to show the white feather, to play into the hands of our enemies and to Invite defeat now and hereafter. Then, aguln, It la not the time to ell cotton, because the low prices prevailing would entail too greut financial loss upon those who have risked all for the common good. It is well known that, the last crop was mnde at high cost. Mules, wagons, fertilizers, farm supples of all kinds, Including labor; all commanded high prices. Then, once more, it is not time to sell cotton because conditions present and prospective warrant much higher prices. "Hut," says some one, "I am willing to grant that the moral effect of selling out now would be bad, and that the loss would be heavy on those who have held; but let us face facts. Is it not true that the depressing influence of the panic still lingers .That the sale of mill products is slow? That many mills are running on reduced time? That the buying capacity of the world seems to be diminished? What are the chances for higher prices?" I answer, much of what you say is doubtless true; still, with firm holding of the remnants of the crop I believe the chances of higher prices are first class. When fertilizer mills have more goods than they can sell they maintain prices, ware house the surplus mock ana cut down production. The diamond kings do the same,same, we nre toid. When the cotton mills find prices for their products too low they often warehouse their stock and curtail their output. These are wise men. Shall not the farmer profit by their example? Then, remember, trade is steadily moving toward the normal, even in this country, where the depression lias been greatest. In England, I am informed, the export trade has approached close to the figures of last year for some time. England is wide awake. Note these straws: Liverpool, May 7: Cotton, spot, good busings done; sales 20,000 bales, of whfch 18,000 American; receipts 1,000, no American. Futures opened easy and closed steady. "Liverpool, May 8: Cotton, spot, in active demand and u good business done. PriceB 18 to 20 points higher. Sales of the day were 15,000, of which 14,200 American; receipts 1,000 bales, no American." Here nre 'some facts which should not be lost sight of. While a good many mills have curtailed their output, this is offset, to a certain exteut, by the uew spindles which are merrily humming away for the first time this year. And let no one forget that there were 2,000,000 bales of cotton less made in this country last year than the year before, and that India also fell short 2,000,000 bales. Then mark well this fact, which is very significant: The cotton manufacturer ignores the farmer and buyes his supplies of raw cotton, by contract. iiiuuuin (iiivuw, auiiirLiiuuD a jrni ahead, from middle men. Higher prices now for raw cotton would not hurt, hut help the mills. These middle men are shrewd, smart men. They have no cotton, hut sell short to the mills. They utilize the New York Exchange in all their trades. The New York Cotton Exchange is the arch enemy of the cotton planter. The distinguished editor of the Saturday Evening Post has declared that n luetenths of its activities are pernicious. And now comes United tates Corporation Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, who in a report published last Monday, says: "However this me be, the New York Cotton Exchange, if it can not exist under a Just and equitable system, has no excuse for existence at all. The present New York system of fixed differences is uneconomic. In defiance of natural law. unfair, and like all other efforts to defy natural law, results in such complex and devious effects that the benefit of its transaction accrues only to a skilled few." To return to the middle men; who have sold short to the mills. They com* into daily contact with the farfmi ^liiritiii j>in4 KILLED HIMSELF. CoDTkted Cwhler Found Dead When Sought for by an Officer. When he finally succeeded In effecting an entrance to the barrlcated residence of John W. H. Gelger, for whose arrest and Incarceration in jail he had an order of the United States district court. United StateB Marshal Langhammer found Gelger dead. Later Coroner Caruthers found a bullet wound in the roof of Gelger's mouth, and a 3 2-claibre pistol lay beside the body. Gelger was the central figure of one of the most sensational cases that has ever been tried in a Baltimore court. He had been cashier of the Canton National bank, but resigned the position in January of last year. As a result of investigations of National Bank Examiner Hanna. he was arrested on February 22, 1907, and his indictment by the United States grand Jury on 109 counts preceeded his trial. Of the extensive mlnime r?f the fnrwlu r?f the I bank he was convicted on five of the 4 7 counts. He was sentenced by Judge Morris to serve five .years in Jail. Gelger's counsel appealed the case to the United States district court of appeals, which, about a week ago, * sitting in Richmond, decided against him. Appeal was taken to the United States supreme court, but Judge Morris decided that pending the court's decision Geiger must begin to serve his sentence. Accordingly, Marshal Lanhammer Friday went to the Geiger residence, only to find Geiger dead by his own hand. * TROUBLE AT PEEDEE Another Sensational Hold up and Robbery Near the .Junction. The Florence Times says: Blake W. Godbold. station daypumper for A. C. L., was assaulted and robbed about n mile from Pee Dee last Friday p. m. at 5 o'clock. Godbold was on the Dillon road atteuding to his lamps when he was jerked backward over the track choaked. ' Only a few hours before, he had drawn a month's wages, $30.00, which the assailant got. He is described as being a tall, powerfully built negro, a scar on his forehead and supposed to be named Witherspoon, a former workman of the Marion County Lumber Company. Three negroes were within a hundred yards of Godbold but neither went to his assistance. It afterwards developed that there was another negro implicated who was biding in the bushes. Pursuit was given by the railroad men, Capt. B. E. Waley. of the trestle force taking the lead. The negro has not been found yet. though he is sup posed to be still hiding near Pee Dee A suspicious looking negro was held for Identity but Godbold said he was not the robber. He was freed and told to leave Pee Dee at once. Afterwards it was discovered that he was the man hiding in the bushes. A plan yas also on foot to rob S. J. White; the night Watchman, but u little boy told White in time for him to thwart them. This recalls the mysterious case of C. E. Kale, former night watchman whose body was fouud almost lifeless on the railroad track last December. * A Human Monster. At Montgomery, Ala., five children of Jim Kennedy were burned to death ^Tuesday night, and two others so badly burned that they cannot recover. The crime is chargod to the father, who, the mother says, locked the seven in and set fire to the house. The police are looking for Kennedy. The couple were 6eperated and had been at law over the children. The woman says she say Kennedy lock and set fire to the cabin. mers through their agents, who cover the whole cotton belt. They play daily upon the hopos and fears of the cotton farmer, always taking their tuo iroin me new yotk cotton Exchange, and have grown strong and waxed fat in their successful dealings with him. If the truth were known hales of cotton are now sold on contract to the mills by these middle men for May, June, July, August and September delivery. Suppose, Mr. Editor, the farmer realized the true situation; suppose he quietly put his cotton in u good ware house and went about his business, cutting down his cotton acreage, putting in more corn, harvesting his small grain, increasing his pasture lands and truck patches; wouldn't there be something doing in the cotton world? Wouldn't the irice begin to jump? Would't the world wake up out of its slumber after all it must not go naked? Mr. Editor, I tell you the manufactuie of cotton and the civilization of the world go hand in hand! But, says some one: "The farmers will plant the earth in cotton this year." Let not the manufacturer, nor the middle man, nor the speculator pin their faith too strong to what the fool farmer may or may not do. 'Papi may plant and Appollos may water, but God alone givetn the increase.' is as true in material as in spiritual things. Already in the wisdom of Providence, by frost, by flood, by cool nights and withering, blighting winds, cotton has been killed outright and stands badly broken the length and breadth of the cotton belt; and j yet still it has to run the gauntlet of I flood and drought and frost. "Three I-s i^any a s;ip iw<s toe cup and the I lip " Mr. Editor, I believe we are fighting in a great cause, a cause which embraces the financial, industrial and economic welfare, and, therefore, the educational and spiritual welfare of all our people of the entire sunny South. In view of all I've done and tried to do. no matter what the outcome may be, I feel that I can adopt a.? my own the motto of the distinguished Rabbi Elzas: "Men say I've failed; I have not failed. If I have brought truth to men, they'd not receive, 'Tie they have failed, not I." J. E. Wannamaker. St. AXatthewt, May 9, 1808. HISTORY OF COTTON. SOME FIGURES THAT DEEPLY CONCERN THIS SECTION. Extracts From a Speech Made In Congress by Representative Heiliu of Alabama. More than 3.000 years ago cotton was found growing in India and Herodotus tells us that the natives called It "tree wool." He Bnid: "They made clothes of this tree wool and claimed that it exceeded iu beauty and goodness the wool of the sheep." lu 14! 2 Columbus found cotton growing in the West Indies and it Is certain that coton came to Jamestown with our fathers In 1607, for it was cultivated that year In Virginia. Pickett, in his history of Alabama, tells us that as early as 1728 cotton flourished in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. How to seperate the cotton from the seed was an important problem with our fathers, and this tedious task was performed with the Angers. So slow was the process that four pounds of lint per week was as much as a good hand could do. In 172S there was great rejoicing In the South when a man in Philadelphia invented a machine for seperatiug seed and lint, and this machine could turn out only ten pounds of lint per day. Not until Ely Whitney, of Georgia, invented the sawgin in 1793. was this feuture of the cotton problem solved. The Arst cotton gin operated by any other than hand was run by water in Falrlleld, S. C., by James Kiucaid, in 1 .'95. For a long time spinning and weaving were done by individuals and families in their homes. They used the little hand curder, the one-thread spinning wheel and the wooden loom. Those were followed by the inventions of Cartwrlght, Wyatt and others, the carding engine, the spinning Jinuey and the power loom, all run by steam, and the manufacture of cotton became one of the most important lu nusiries in tne worm. In 1784 we exported from the United States eight bales of cotton to England, and this fibre had been seperated from the seed by th hand. At Annapolis. Md., in n political convention, 1786, James Madison of Virginia, the author of the Federal Constitution said in a speech: "The United States wll one day become a great cotton-producing country." We were then producing 5,000 bales. Mr. Madison's prediction has come true. The S outh produces SO per cent, of the world's crop of cotton. This cotton belt is 1,4 50 miles long from ea6t to west and 500 miles wide and has in it about 448,000,000 acres. In 1880 the amount of capital invested in cotton mills in the South was $2-.000,000, and today we have Invested in this important industry a little over twelve times that umount, $225,000,000 Twenty-live years ago the South had only 600,000 cotton spindles and today we have about 10,000,000. In 1890 there were 33 6 cotton mills in the South and now we have over 600. Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, is the greatest cotton manufacturing country in the world, and bus over 40,000.000 spindles. America stands next to the mother country with 26,000.000 spindles. Germany comes third with 9,000,000 spidles. Russia is fourth with 7,000,000 spindles, and France is fifth wnn fi.uou.uuo spindles. In 1906 New England cotton mills consumed 2,349,478 bales of cotton, and in the same year our Southern mills consumed 2,374,225 bales; 26,00 0 bales more than our Northern mills consumed. This is a splendid showing for the South when you remember that the North has nearly twice as many spindles as we have. There is one fact, howwever, connected with both that we applaud, and that both Northern and Southern mills consumed more cotton than ever before. We are the greatest cotton producing people in the world, with the cheapest and best lit an u factoring facilities on earth. England leads in exporting cotton goods, and Germany is second In the list; the I'nited States ia third and France is fourth. East year the United States imported more cotton goods than she sold or exported. England, or the United Kingdom, exports every year more yards of cotton cloth than our American mills produce for both home and outside trade. During the calendar year ending December, 1906, the United Kingdom exported cotton manufactures to the value of $4 84,000,000, and the United States, during the same period, exported cotton manufactures to the value of $62,000,000, aud yet we exported twice as much as we did in 1904. IXSTIllCTS FOR BRYAN. Wyoming Joins the Triumphal l'ro cession ?r stales. The Wyoming Democratic State Convention Thursday selected delegates to the national convention instructed for William J. Bryan. Resolutions were adopted favoring the election of United States senators l?y a diiect vote of the people, favoring an amendment to the Sherman antitrust law. excepting labor union? from the effect of its provisions and opposing the forest reserve policy of the present national administration. , Tried the Jail First. Edward Siebert, of Beneville. Ohio, rather than pay a tine of S10 and costs assessed on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, declared he would work it out in the county workhouse After spending one night in a cell he pnid the fine. Siebert is about sixty years old and is worth over 160,000 4 r. ' itftiih'11* - ... . A PAIR OP ROGUES Obtained Money Under False Pretensions and Blew It All In. A young white man by the name of Zeb Vaughn was arrested in this city and carried to Newberry by Sheriff M. N. Buford of that county to stand trial . for misappropriatinK funds entrusted to him by a cotton mill in Newberry. Vaughn is charged with securing forty dollars from the mill to take certain of his relatives from Orangeburg to Newberry to work in the mill. Instead of using the money in this way Vaughn is charged with using it for ihmself. Deputy Sheriff Dukes returned from Newberry on Tuesday with a young white man named Willie Ponell. who is charged with doing in Orangeburg what Vaughn is charged with doing in Newberry. Mrs. Vaughn, the mother-in-law of Vaughn, the mother-in-law of Vaughn, charges that she got forty dollars from the Orangeburg Manufacturing Company nad entrusted It to Ponell to go to Newberry and ship some of her furniture from that j place to Orangeburg and arrange some other matters up there. Instead of doing as directed Ponell is charged with appropriating the money intrusted to him by his mother-in-law to his own use. Donell and Vaughn are brothorsln-law, and it semms that they were using the same family of people to get money on from the mills. These young men have been committed to Jai to await trial. This is a sad cose, and these young men will find this way of raising money will not pay. They will find hard labor more honorable and profitable in the end. REBUKES NKWLAN'DS. Major J. C. Hemphill Calls the Nevada Down. A dispatch from Washington to The State says Muj. J. C. Hemphill, editor of The News and Courier, in ; the drainage conference Tuesday afternoon reproved Senator Newlands of Nevada for criticising the South Senator Newlands had declared that the South before the war. because of slavery, was strict in construction of the constitution and a habit of mind had descended to this day. which tinfortunately kept the South from being prominent In the greut reclame tion measures. Maj. Hemphill said that the Southern people were willI .% M, M * n i IM <1 loAllflP ll'it Vl III*; O. I UIIV U1II*7 iu uintuaa **I1U Senator Newlands their habit of mind towards the construction but that the 1 drainage conference was not the place for n discussion either of that ques1 tion or for the resurrection of the slavery Issue. He therefore deplored the remarks from the senator from Nevada. ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. Because His Daughter Was Not Allowed to See Him. Because his visits to his ten-yearold daughter were stopped by his divorced wife. Rudolph Witte, a bookkeeper, shot nlmself through the head In a hotel in Brooklyn. His wife obtnlned a divorce years ago and secured the custody of their daughter Helen. Witte was permitted to see his daughter at his former wife's home until recently when she married again. Pleadings and letters were disregarded by the former Mrs Witte. It was said that the father became heart broken. He went to the hotel and told his story to a friend. Then he went into another room and killed himself. Witte died before a doctor arrived. Hydrophobia Increasing. It is reported that hydrophobia is increasing alarmingly in the United States. This is the conclusion reacnod by Government experts, who have oxamined the subject. They say the disease Is not confined to any particular section of the United States but is generally prevalent throughout the country. The report on the subject strongly recommends that all dogs be muzzled, and the declaration is made that the disease cannot be stamped out until the dogs are muzzled for a period of several years. The experience of some European countries is cited to show that only by the muzzling of dogs can the dihease be absolutely eradicated. \ Fatal Explosion. At Quarr. Fla., Tuesday W. T. McDonald was seriously injured and his nine year old son was instantly killed by the explosion of several thousand dynamite caps. The boy's body was cremated. He had just handed his father some tobacco when the explosion occurred. It is evident that Mr. McDonald cut into a cap while trimming off the copper wire from a lot of condemned material. They Will Swing. At New oi'cans on Tuesday death sentences were pronounced on Edward and Jack Fierre, negroes, convicted of murder. They are members of a sect of negro fanatics who last , fall barricaded themselves in a house and defied the police for several nours. *_?iie poiirfiiiau was kimuu. , _ Negro Legally Hanged. Porter Cooper, a negro, was hanged at Sparta, (Ja., Friday for th nmrder | of his wife last March. Cooper kill- , ed his wife with an axe. cut the body 1 in three pieces and then burled the remains nearby. He afterwards set five to tiie house, which was entirely destroyed. * Don't be afraid to change a man's opinion, but beb careful how you do It. Time will tell; but gossipers manage to tell It first. Don't be afraid to do more than is required of you. Beware the geese when the fox preeches. , 1 V WILL DO MUCH GOOD. DEMONSTRATION ON FARMS IN THE SOUTH. Farmers Cooperating With Agricultural Depart nieut on Selected Areas to Stimulate Effort on All. Congrssman Lever has recently received a letter from S. A. Knupp, special agent in charge of Farmer's Cooperative Demonstration work, stat iiijs Hint me Department of Agriculture has started the work in the 7th Congressional district. South Carolina. and that they hope to do a great deal more next year. Fifteen demonstration farms and ninety cooperative farms have been established in Lexington county; thirty-five demonstration and ten cooperative in Richland county; ten demonstration and forty cooperative iu Orangeburg, and five demonstrative and twenty co operative in Calhoun. Dr. Knapp in his letter said, "A valuable practical feature of this work is that all the field agents are' Southern men and residents in the States in which the demonstrations are made. They know the people and the conditions." Dr. Knapp has very briefly outlined what is to be accomplished by this Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration work in the following: "The object of the work is primarily to greatly increase the net earnings of the average farmer, by the improvement of the soil, by the use of the best seed and by the adoption of better and more economic methods on the farm. ? "This is accomplished l>y farm dej monstrations of an acre or more made l by a farmer in every neighborhood, if possible, under instructions from our central office and supervised by field ageut6, who visit these demonstrations monthly. "Thus the crop on an acre under the best management is contrasted in every neighbornood with the crop of the average farmer. The effect is Immediate and the results are astonishing, "In 1003 th first cooperative farm was established at Tarrell. Texas, and the farmer, W. C. Porter, was guaranteed by the citizens against lost, if any should occur in following 'the department instructions. The work was a success. "From this small beginning the Farmers' Cooperatice Demonstration work has increased in five years from one locality to ten States, and from one Held ageut to 141, from one farm to thirty two thousand directly instructed and possibly half a million aided through observation. "The funds appropriated by Congress are used only in boll weevil infested territory: to wit. Texas. Louisiana, Oklahoma. Arkansas and one district in Southwestern Mississippi. Cooperative Demonstration w ork in the remainder of Misssippi, Alabama. Georgia and the two Carolinas and Virginia is done by funds from other than government sources. The great value of this work is shown by the successful production of cotton by I the average farmer under boll wee| vll infest Ion. i "Our instructions are also directed to the more profitable production of the standurd crops, because rotation Is j necessary to he best success in cotton : production. "Aside from the demonstrations. | the educational features of the work ] consists mainly in reducing the l science of agriculture to a few pracical problems, easily understood by the common farmer, as the following: Better drainage of the soil; a deeper and better seed bed; more humus; 'he best seed; thorough tillage; more horsnower and better toois: more and j better (arm stock; these are taught by letters, circulars, lectures and deI monstrations. "The cooperative feature of our , work gives to It elasticity atul ad, lustment to conditions. Farmers coi operate in furnishing land and workling the demonstration. "Bankers and merchants cooperate in furnishing, free of cost, the best ; seed for the demonstrations and In i refusing to advance less the tenant j works the crop under our iustruc1 tions. "Business men's clubs and hoards ! of trade organize farm demnnslraI tlons under our agents and pay all ; expenses. The Business Men's Club of Helena, Ark., has 1,000 such ; farms. The Farmers' unions are glving great assistance by organizing demonstration farms in cooperation : with us. "Some 2,000 women In the South are organized in clubs for the betterment of the conditions o f rural homes. They are actively assisting us by urging the general adoption of our demonstration work. "These women are practical and nrce not nnlv Ctpnldr onrnlnir nnnno itj for the farmer, but greater economj and more comforts In the home. Miss Mary T. Nance, president of the Women's Clubs of South Carolina, for rural improvement, has been largely instrumental in organizing this effective work. "County superintendents of public instruction are organizing boys' clubs on a large scale. The superintendent does the work free of charge. The boys demonstrate on their father's farms. The public gives suitable prizes. Our department furnishes seed and instructions. "In addition, our agents visit the rural schools when Invited, (and this is almost universal), and instruct the boys in demonstrations." It is thus seen that this work is doing a great deal of good throughout the South, and with more liberal appropriations by Congress in the future this work will greatly aid to bring the South b ack to the top of tl-e ladder where she was before the war, and to which she is now taking great strides. * Whon you see a man advertising his virtues it is to keep your attention i off bis real character. A Test of Strength. A Republican from Vermont puts the matter so clearly that we adopt his letter written to the New York World. It is good tonic for some of South Carolina's weakkneed Democrats: To the Editor of The World: I am not an admirer of W. J. Bryan, neither am I a Democrat, but the result of the poll made recently by the Success Magazine somewhat amuses me. Last January that periodical sent out about 12,000 votes, to be returned with preferred candidates for the next president. The subscribers to this magazine must admittedly be men of more than the average clear-headedness and ability. The total number of rinrv* i?? * 1 t/duwiaug picierences returnea was 1,404. Of these W. J. Bryan had 1,178: Gov. Johnson 191; Folk 22, and Judge Gray 12. Or, in other words, Mr. Bryan, the gentleman who you are saying every day can carry only one small corner of this country, received 83.8 per cent, of the total; Johnson, the Democrat who you seem to think is as liable as any to carry New York and Pennsylvania.13.6 per cent., while Judge | Gray, the gentleman for Delaware i whose "carrying abilities you have been exppunding to a considerable extent, received .8 of 1 per cent. From this result, gathered from all parts of the country, the East as well as th2 West and South, it almost seems as if you had been in a measure mistaKen in your conclusions that Mr. Bryan was politically dead and buried and that Johnson or Gray should take up the standard he had let fall and bear it on to victory. * Dorman B. E. Kent. Montpelier. Vt., May 4. CLASSIFIED COLUMN. WANTED. Wanted?Lumber and Logs. Write us. if you have Poplar. Ash. Cypress, Hickory or Cottonwood Lumber. Also want Walnut and Cedar Logs. Savannah Valley Lumber Co.. Augusta, CJa. Wanted?Agent in every town to introduce the Handy Fruit and Vegetable Silver. Price 50c. Sells at sight; 50 per cent profit. Metropolitan Novelty Co., tjreenville. S. Wanted?Hoys, from 7 to 11? years of age. who would like to earn a valuable watch for a few hours' easy work, to send name and address to Lock Box 175. Fort Mill. S. ('. Salesman Wanted?Sell retail trade your locality. $65 per month and expenses to start, or commission Experience unnecessary. Itemingsen Cigar Co., Toledo. Ohio. Cow Peas?I will pay $2.20 per bushel, f. o. h. your shiping point fot Clays and Unknown Peas. Write me. II. H. Daniel, 504 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, La. PERSONAL. >len?The Vacuum treatment permanently cures vital weakness, varicocele and stricture; confidential. Charles Manufacturing Co.. Charles Bldg. Denver, Colo. FOR SALE?MISCELLANEOUS. For Sale?Laundry outfit consisting of washer, extractor, stove and dryer. boiler, mangel, pulleys, shafting, etc. Write J. W. Ivey, Florence, S. C. For Sale Cheap?One Ruger Bread Mixer, one Thompson Moulding Machine; four Bread Presses; two Bread Troughs; one Cake Machine 50 Plane Moulds; and many othei things used In n first-class bakery Apply to L. E. Riley, Orangeburg. S C. | For Sal?'?One twelve horse power Blakesley Gasolene Engine, cheap Also lot of shafting, pulleys, etc Apply to L. E. Kiley, Orangeburg S. C, FOR SA LB?KOGSANDPOULTRY. Eggs for Hatching?Hat red Plymouth Rock and S. C. Brown Leghorn. $1.00 per sitting of 15, packed and f. o. b. Pure stock. New iJiood. Blythewood Poultry Yards, lilythewood. S. C SO .MANY Have availed themselves of our Liberal Offer viz. $15 discount on $HOanti $1M> Organs, we have concluded to renew the offer for a short while so us to get these excellent organs introduced into every county and locality in S. C. Only $120 first payment, $i!0 Nov. 1st, IIMIH, and balance Nov. 1st, ItHifl. These terms enable you to buy this First-class Sweet Toned Organ which will prove a Lasting Treasure. Don't Delay but write at once for catalog and price list to the old established MALONF/K Ml Sit" Him SB, Pianos and Organs. Columbia, S. o. j' oo 1 ? w ' '"v# ?*? ! year ^lR?'>I!5fv'# other kind* of vegetable p ^?"?rd P'?n'?. ?n<l Tomato I now have ready for ah Early Jersey Wakefields. Cha cessions. These being the b< K ' rmenl- Theae planta are m> Vi2fewr?bB* / w"' *Uf>d severe cold witht fi -JCt'/'i a?^? I Prices: |l 00 for MO plai ^S|Mffv1l?nd. y<m to ? ooo at $1 JS t M We havt special low t*pr< ?Tiiordera will l>e shipped C. O. I would advise sending mo returning the C. O D'a. Other plants will be read and personal attention. U h g/?~ \ - *y[ ^ I guarantee satisfaction. Ad WHERE THE OLD PIANOS GOT That Is, When Thejr Get So Old Yon Cau*i Give Them Away. What becomes of all the old pianos? Any piano dealer will take your old p'ano when you want a new one and will allow a substantial 'rodit on it e**en if it is of another make. From time to time the dealrs anno iu *e sales of used plauos. All dealei nave large stocks of them on hand constantly. One piano firm has on exhibition an old fashioned squin o piano which w as made at least ha f a century ago. The piano beaiv a placard to the effect that any one who will pay the cartage may have it for the asking. No one has accepted the offer. Suppose no one eve takes that piano off the hands of the dealers who want to get rid ot .t What will the dealers do with it? Obviously with rents as hieh bb they are it wouldn't pay to stow a piano you cau't give away. So the questiou remaius.: | \\ hat. In rhe last stage of unde?waI b'litv. becoines 01 all the eld plaaasT ?N. Y San. Filling Mnny Wants. One of the most useful trees in the world is a species of palm which grows in Hrazll. It might safely be ! caiied a vegetable emporium, for It i yields everything from medicine to ' cattle food. Front the roots Is obtained a very valuable medicine which is used for purifying the blood In springtime. Its timber takes a very high polish, and is much sought after by cabinet makers for fine : work. The sap becomes wine or i vinegar, according to the treatment it receives Front the sap, starch and sugar are also obtained. The fruit of the tree is given to cattle for food; the nut. -round o powder, makes a g..nd substitute for coffee^ . and the pith becomes bottle corks. T HI i ds That Figif Windows. "The mating season of the birds approaches, said a nature student, "and, if you livt in a good bird country your windows will kill off many a male. Male birds in the mating season become extraordinarily bold and fierce Houses have 110 terrors i for then) /vpproaching, they see their own reflections In the glass of the windows, and mlstuking these | images for rival males, they dart ludotnitably upon the g!a.-.s. to fall ! back stunned, or bleeding or hrokeni winged. I have a south window that 1 can nl ways rely on in the spring to kill me two birds a week I grill them ' on toast. Avoided tlic Danger. It was a wise young man who paused be" -re he answered the widow who a-ked him to guess her age. ! "You must have some idea about it," she said, with what was inimded for u I nit u onirujac fjlAUWC. "J have several Ideas," he admiti ted with a smile. "The only trouhie Is that 1 hesitate whether to i make yon len years younger on aei counts of your looks or ten years | older on account of your brains.'" Then while the widow smiled and ^ olushed, he took a graceful but ** speedy len\e.?Youth's Companion. Not That Kind of h Talker. ' "On one occasion when In Congress," said James F. Hanks ol Boston, "Gen Itenjamln Butler arose In his place and .ntlniated that the ! member who occupied the floor was i transgressing the limits of debate. | "Why, General, said the member ! reproachfully, "you divided your time with me." " "1 know I did,' rejoined Hutler grimly, "h..t I didn't divide eternity I with you.' ' .1 Bequest Itefused. The French Academy refused the 1*20,000 bequeathe J to it by Mile. ! Louise 11. Leclere, to be used, acI cording to ihe terms In her will, "In ! raising the moral tone of France." Tile Aca.df?Iliv nnlflu thi? aiypnlaupp nf this fund would he tantamount to admitting the opinion of the lestratrix, who regarded ner native country as a jink of iniquity. Why Indeed. One old member of the New York l bar. who has long been m touch with : court methods and proceedings, says | he wonders why a certificate of good character Is required betoie a man ts admitted to practice. I Where Grafters Idve.wq^ The guides on the WashlngTon rubberneck automobiles take great pleasure in pointing out the Grafton Hotel and informing the passengers that a greut many politicians stop there. Diamonds From Crater. A South African diamond mine or "pipe" is the crater of an extinct volcano and the dlamouditerous ground 1 forma the filling of that crater. When McCortnlck built nis nrsi hundred reapers in 18 15 he paid 4 V<j cents for boltB. To-day f?0 bolts are made for a cent. lie Giant" Screw Plales sortments. Each assortment is put up it wood case, as shown in cut. Each asnt has a4|asUMe Lap wrencbesfor holding all f taps contained in assortment. Threads s rod from 7-64 in. up to 1 1-2 in. "BEST IEST PRICES "ColnmbtaSupplyCo.ColumMajS-C. j < L y ii * w I iB experience lo trowing Cabbage plant* and all lanta for the trade, viz: Beet plant*. Onion plant*, plants. ipment Beet plant* and Cabbage plant* aa follow*: rleston I -arge Type Wakefield* and Hendlreon Suep?C known reliable varieties to all experienced truck grown nut in the open air n? - "It water and >ot injury. ita. In lota of l.MS to S.SO0 a' f "t? per lb . >er thouaand, 1M90 and over at $1.00 ?>* wad ? :?? ratea on vog, table plants from thia point. Ail ^ 1). unleaa you prefer aernting money with ordera. nty with order*. 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