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.
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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*. You will aave the charge* for
y in Februaiv Your order* will have my prompt
rn In need ni Vegetable plant* give me a trialorder;
dreaa all order* to
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