Bsmweil People. which nectlon U wlrendr pretty well fllled with gaud people from oortberu Kurope. Finding little nr no tncaur* •cement (her*he returned to Waehfng- ton, we. A.acfed of the yympntliy end ruhatantial a««Utance of the gtvern* mrnt immigration ofUdala, and pro ceeding to Charleaton received a TlitJK»l»AY. SKPTIMtBItR, I* tfl©Tv~|-0fl**cely welcome and dictated a trade that guaranteea him and hia employera HOlMESt Editor 1 Prop’r jUMilt cocm CIRCCLATIOS rOMCCRNIYO COTrON.- The Parmfra Union haa llxed II «vnt» a* tHe minimum price of cotton Tor deptemher to be Increaaed a quarter of a cent each auooeeding month to pay atorage Ac. 3 A« only fariftara can be memtera of the Union and aa tliey know their hniding ability, tfce coat -of nuking notion and the probable pmdiietWon tiettrr than all othera put together their demand command* rwpect. When the Increased coat of every filing uae) In nuking cotton is taken Hi to account 15 cent* la about at «*•* finable a price aa (|ik cents a down tears ago. The annual report of HeoicUry Mea ter of the New Orleans (&iuugu£&t, mie-pampie ere growing l native to (»t^ change eatlmates the last jear crop at ll.ftlOOCO bales and there la but little difference between Ida llgnrea and Mvnca of other well Informed authori ties. ff life crop In this HUte and dttaeraof the Atlantia *ea hoard had tteen aa good aa that of the Wot the total wonid hare beon more than the world wants, aud the prhie at present vfoirtd be hi Hre ten cents neighbor IfttuT. — Thfa laaaon teadhea that tbe South tsan make as much cotton with Ita prea- n,it labor supply aa it n.i-glrt to puke, and disprove* the clamor of the mill* Hud cities for more Immigrant labor jn the cotton livid*. Maid a good farnwr the other day : Yhe price of coltmi uetc* good now. hut labor will want to la*te higher wages next year. That’s all so, but tbe farmer! can af ford to uke life a Utile lea* strenuously now, and If they will plant small gram freely UiU fall and let some thin laud fhat tn lbn# labor will be more reason- •hie and reliable and money equally plentiful a year from now. ISN’T Tills TRUK? _ Thif iateemed News and COftfler will •nmpare the Commercial Club banquet Cfteech of the German visitor guest Von Fills wLti bis broad day statements published a couple of days later in the New York Herald we are quite sure ♦hat our puyll will slug Pi Lharlfcaom : “Trust him not..O gentle maiden, Though hla voice be low aud sweeU” Von tnis came to the CHy by the sea i prestige of being a director of great North fferman Lloyd’s httarnship rnganlaallon. In hla (KVauranee that Charleaton would American end of tbe new line of at«am-t- 4rt from Trj«ste, and added the prom i*c that no Italians would be brought •ver by that said new line. According to the Herald Von Pills was, up tolfay, ‘ director In charge of the Meeragardrpartinent of the North Oerman Lloyd Steamship Company,’' . » aort •># head waiter puaiUon, we a»p- pmm, hla no longer. Jq the Herald la.* •nrvlow be a ould not make the deftnke statement in tbe effect that charleston wd<> bet'te pottof enlry In this conn- *ry, end closed hla talk with these pre dictions:- “From Italy America i»ay wxpeot great awarms for a few yeara. ’ »** lnslU*-of or six yeara In the wotlmatlnn of many of the experts of JNirope one half of the Immigrants who come tn America will go to the ''Bnuthem Statea.” — ebon Id the 'News' *«d CbBrTer wnoilnue Ita Von Pllla Immigration preachmenta we cannot think that tho imainess men of Cuarlestou will be so •imple aa to have any dealing* wh»|- ' whatever with that person. Von Pill*. •fire profit at little rl«k and that threaten, vast Ills to the gullible people of tho Month. Fig urea don’t He. From one of tbe most scholarly men In the Month, who has made a study of statistics from the ^ofllclal publication* of the United States and other government*, we get these fact!i The population of the world haa in creased from 6W flOd.OOO In IdlO to 1, 834.(118100 In 1U08, k Since 1W0 the population of the United state* hat increased 7/1-4 mil lion*. Of that number 0 millions are imml- Counting children of foreign parents Lawyer C. C. Tf-ttherstone of Lan- rena proposes to make farm labor more reliable by making the employers more careful. ITfir plan la to require All farm < , ontract* to be lit writing and tiled In the Clerk’* oflioe. He would further provide, that any one giving employment to a laborer under con tract should be punished hr tlie chain gang and should noi lowed to pay nut In money. . 1 The Hague Peace Conferetxw now in aeaslon ha* resONtad that hereafter na- tlomtehralknot Kei mission to do *o from a board'nf arbitrators to be com- posed of re presen tatlre.of all the so- called enlightened nation*of the world. •» ’ T" No wonder that ao many European* of the undesirable classe* are coining to thi* country. According to government *1811*1108 the people of Germany, the heat In all Knnipe, in tbrlff and I ndu*trr, slaugh tered and ate Iasi year 182,000 horse* and^pver 7 000 dogs. ROUND AT LAST. J, A. Jlarmon, of V* . say* : “At Inst I Ilia success, howcveiVoonld not have Iwnn greater, had hi* > av been many tlmas Wpger. ^’pNorth the twople of . both great poHtlcal parties arc coming to the con clusion that tho South Is best qualified to understand and deal with the race problem and are willing to leave Its settlement to the South. Our northern cousin* are probably busy enough with trouble* of their ow n - the management of . undesirable Immigrants among Chkfletttonsrsechhe gate the'MItivH'Kotith many .would be doe tore are prescribing IminlgratHn-a* We remedy, without the proper dlag, no«i* of the affliction or Intelligent thought a* to the effect of tholr medt v cine. They conld give one larger poi son aa the antidote o! a leas one. lha gushing talk bubbling up In many newspaper* about Southern pros perity and money abundance la In point blank oonlllct wi^h stubborn fact*. Tbe Columbia Hec<*rd I* told by V’loe Presi dent lugleof BaHInsore that hi* bank, the Merchant* National haa since Au gust 1st lent over a million dollars to cottonTnlll* and bank* In the two Csrollna*. Georgia and Alabama. He add*: •’ Such a sum is. of cour«e only a drop in the bucket, and It I* but a small fraction of tho advance* made Month by . the banka In New York, Tha News and Courier of the iiOth ■It .alleged that thi* paper “sars all •orta of thlnga about Commissioner WalKon and Mr. Gadsden and their _»ork in Europe a few months ego, and THr* • great many thing* whlpmewl of immigrants In Hie mesmr •hip Wlttekind that are not true.’’ A reference to the New* and Courier account of the Von PHD featlval In Charleston showa that our esteemed contemporary undertook to pick ihe wiote out pf our eye before plucking the beam from ita own uptio organ. Both in Its news and editorial departments ths News and Courier spoke of the vDI- •nras a director of the North German Lloyd Mteamsbip-Gompany. . .Q* that same eventful day Von PHD declared that he was not In Charle«ton a* a director of the Lloyd Company, «nd the New York Herald of a later dale stated that Von PHD had not bceu • Llbtd director since May. We will not aay that the News and Courier said what wak not untrue, nor will we apply the old saying falaut In sino falsus In omnibus, for we believe the honesty of our Broad Street friend t#aa great aa Ita capacity for making Mistakes. Good Intentions pave many road* tbit do not lead to summer resorts. A good reader of Tux Pkopmc asked «a fsak-waek why . Baron Von Pills went^to Chicago before going to tlliaVleetqp, with hi* steamship propo-* ** 1 .. We did not l|now. hut the New York Herald Interview Has given the key Chat unloeka the secret. Von Pill* had smased to be a director of the fforth irpan Lloyda and was representing i, tbe International. Ills l to ChU»{o was therefore nfade In ] y, lo Inquire as to chsncos ~ popoUrltv In bringing .pottfor|fittle- it PiiHadolphD, Chicago and St. Louis. SELECTING SEED CORN. WLLLiAMSON’s PLAN. x t r*«4* i mm a paper read before the Darlington Agricultural Society at their nnnuiil moetiug August )3th 1907. Published by request. Most farmers Icbvw, and minr of them prseMce, the essential principle* of sii«'ce«sful animal breeding. They know they must breed from the be*t Individual animal* they hare or can get In order to improve their herd*.' '1 hey know that aiiimala tiMialjr trans mit iheir more prominent character istic* to their progeny and that these characteristics are more marked In some of the progeny than in others. KaracL* lUso know that these la-^w I-ltetnors, West have found the perfect pil! that never disappoint.* me; am] for tnc hcnHit 07 other* afflicted with torpid liver arid chronic constipa tion, will say; take Dr. King's New Life PUD.’’ (jtiaraotecd xaiDfactory. ivc at K. A. Denson & (Jo , Druggist. foreigners Are wc biting oft more than chewf Here comes tho new steamer line from Tt lesta, the port of the storm centrejtf Europe, Tuflcs, Albanian*,^ Montene grins, Roumanians. Slavonians. Aus trians, Hungarian* <&c. Ao. I travelled In that country 60 years ago and was not prepos*cs*e«l with the population. Coming 1-3 female* and 2-3 males there will be a large crossin# with our stock. The New Yotk Herald remarked that Frederick Von Pill* had returned from “an extended trip through the Caroli na* and other Southern States.’' The Itinerary of the vDUot wee lim ited to three day* and three stops In thi* State. He arrived In Charleston Indore breakfast, was given* a rWe arouodMIie city and an harbor excur sion In the day, was the Mon of a ban quet a: night, reached. Columbia in time for breakfast next morning, rested several hour* from the exacting prey! out day In Charleston, ride in -the af ternoon. Informal entertainment at night, to (j7. variation in the producc've capacity of seed*, but few of them have real hied the treuienddiM differerce In the ca- pacltyl of indivhiual ptanta of a varle ty to produce both quantity and quali ty- Prof, Hopklna of the University of IlHnoD apeaklng of corn, says; ••The Individuality of the seed ear become* apparent when one Held row yield* M bushel* per acre and another adjoining row planted from a different seed ear, but on ihc same kind of soil, produce* 120 bushels per acre. Such differences are not unusual in breeding pDnta Similar difference* are often seen In different animals. Experiments have Shown that one cow may produce 550 pound* of hotter fat in a year, while another cow, even when consuming i he same quantities of food, produces 180 poftnds of butter fat. Prof. Reyser of Lincoln,' Ncbi say* of wheat breeding: “Ww studied all the progeny of a ffew mother plants through three generation's and found that they showed wide variations In yield and composition. That some mother plants. a’though excellent themselves, produced uniformly very pour progeny. That some- mother plants produced uni ormly good prog, eny.” This spring I got together a number nf the best >eert ears of coin tlmt 1 ooulcl Hnd and planted a part of each ear separately in adjoining rows.. The rjws Irom the different seed ears' show a great diversity of characteristics. While uk* early to estimate the yield «.f the grain, the main features t of the plants can noW (Aug 13th! be judged Some .rows have set their ears over six feet frdm the ground M,| d others less Ilian four feet, tiome have a tendency to produce two ears and others only one. Tha largest ai d IT- nest loosing seed ear has produced a very poor stand and many of the stalks are dwfiH^ped. Select 25 ears from the best Held of corn you.can And, of a va riety yojj like. PIcK cars of good sixe strwtyht-vlBys and deep grain that are well tilled at butt and tip. Take none that have been attacked bv~ weevils Select onl y from upright stocky stalks a t Jim?. thfilfittaSE low. Plant 2fi rows w ith these seed, using one half to two thirds of the seed from each car, reserving the balance to use in case of disaster. Gt«e each seed ear ni.d correspondlngjow a number. Take pole of the features which each row dUp nv* during the growing sea son. When the t*>«el* ti< gin to apt*ar detass'el alierns'e. halve* of each row. Select ears for the next year’s seed and plant from the deiasseiled ends of the best rows. ThD is important, as it has been proved that tbe detasseled stalks proJuc- much berter *eed—Their seed being all ernes bred and none Inbread. All are familiar with the disastrous re •ult* of con tinned inbreeding of ani mals. and rimUar results follow the ih- breeding of coin. Tbe Illinois experiment station in 11*03 and HHH got an average yield of U bu-hel* more from the seed of de taaseled pl*nt* than from the seed of plan:* of the same variety that bed been allowed to tassel. ^ Take all the good remaining ears from the detasselled end* of (h« be*t yielding tows fqr Held seed the follow lug year Continue to earrv on tl|D system Tor a few years and the result* wTH Sur prise you. SAVED HER SON’S Ufcg, - The h*ppb»l mother In this little town of Av*. Mo., D Mrs. S. Kuppee She writes: ‘ One yeiir ago my son was -ftnwn with smll serious lung tronhtp- that our phvsicUn wa* unable to help him; w hen, by onr druggist’s advice r began giving him Dr. King* New Dis- covery I—anon -nriticrd T mprore . > keI* r Ulj * Jor tow weeks wheniie was perfectly well. He ha* worked steadily since at car penter work^-ftr. King'* New Dis covery saved hi* life ” - * Guaranteed beat cough and cold remedy by R. A. Dmrtomft Co^te*uggtSl. 90 Jud |1 00, Trial Buttle free. —rr:—« RAILROAD NEWS. On alleged account of unfriendly legislation In the South the Soulhern Railway ha* stopped all tha work ol double-'Hiwkihg and building new Tine*, an.’ will me the moneyinreiuled go f* § 2 75 © p- 2 *•« S. 3 c -to - H 5 a *3 AND THE RACK BEGINS AT HILL TOP STABLES. _ BAENWELL, S. C. A CAR LOAD OF ■CREAM OF KENTUCKY’ Horses, Saddlers and Harness, and Brood Mures, Per*^ soimlly selected by the Veteran Capt. Bonn. ^ JUST RECEIVED. All TBlne Grass Beanties Am! as Good as Pretty. Pride of the Prairie Horses and Mules for all pi always on Hand. purposes c* -® rf r5- i SS E * o ^ — ~ ■ — W » ^ E- n x 05 A GREAT OPPORTUNITY. Koosale, with consent, one hundred acre* Including inili site on water* ue Jackaon Branch, two miles below Svca more, four mile* from Fairfax on lh- C. 4.-W.-G. K. R. One building and two ket- <*f mill rocks with property Till* is a flne Tinrter (•ower on * bold never failing stream, healthy;- good neighborhood, an “- 1 —liinatiiin or a cotton factory or otl.er manufac turing enteFfH’De. For fuitbrr informatlompply to H. W. Deer, Ulmers S. O, for |mprt»rement» In paving n|>eratlng borne say they are playing a bluff game. — Railroad a->sessments in this State fur taxation are iucreaacd eleven and a half mil lien dollars over last year’s llgurcs. The addition is divided thua: Smith ern Hallway six milllona. (.'oast Line abniit four and a half iniliiona, Sea board about a half million aud small road* the balanto. frasoa mshk naaisTcaao no. irssaj FROG POND CHILL AND FEVER CURE TNC ODIGINH NO CURf NO fAVT' 50 CCNTS A B0TTLC. The old reliable the kind your fathers used to take. The one that never fails to cure. Don’t waste time and money experimenting with new-urea, liutgo for the beat from the jump. FroJ Pond is the ounce jf prevention and ,-ound of cure combined. Aak for it— .’•Time* change and men change with I take no substitute, if your merchant Joes not aell it write to u*-we will send It direct for 50 cents. J B. DAVENPORT * CO. ' WflOLKSALX DgPGOIBTS, ‘ ) * ' Augu*u, Ga. For Sale By ■ • '* > ‘ . 81mm* A 1lest. R. A. Deaaon & Co., N. Burekhaltar,—Barnwell. R. R. Flekling—BlackvHD. r 8Jargon Drag Co., -*A UAUI* Diojsrn^arv dffnk is becoming more poptiUr in Charleston. Sale* during August anionnied to over <4 (0 jO Dog day thirst and the Von Pill* en:hu*i a*ui probably helped to Increase the down pour. HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG. To continue young In healih and str< ngth. do a* Mr*. N. F. Rowan, Me Donough, fia. did. bhe *av»: ‘ Three tmitlesof Electric Bitter* cured me of chronic liver and stomach trouble, complicated with *iich an uiibealthy condition of the bliMid that my rkln turned red as flannel. I am now prac tically 2t) jours younger than before I took Electric Bitter*. I can now do all my work with ease and assist in my husband's store.” Guaranteed at R. A. Deasou'a Drug Store. Price S0j. KILL™* COUCH MS curb™* lungs! WITH Dr. King’s New DiscoVf for C8EJ" yJ&ku MID AU.THR0AT AND LUII8 T» GUARAITTHXO BASsSIL OR XOVBY UrUVDXIX A. T. Beard J. F. Grubbs —- B K A Rj > ft "grub bs. DRamvil ix r Family and Farm GroqerlM, Lancaster Building, M ain Street. ^—Bant well, S. 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To Our beautiful line of tba aost select Pictures for wall decoration we aak the special and critical attention of the public. Placing and pledging onr bent services to our friend* are aak with entire confidence the ! opportunity U* in tint good our every promise | MK8. KELLY’* STUDIO. _ - Llatl^Alc, 5. C. ’ The Best that good JodgiDeiit and Experience can select. Wagons and Buggies in great variety of the very choicest materials and built by mister workni Mi For comfort and durability, good looks and lightness they arc unmatched in the State. Hai ness—Honest Leather Goods, sufficient for on army, any single piece sold as readily as a full Set. “Whi ns. Lap liojyes. UmbreflM^ Bridles, Saddles and all Horse Goods ever wanted. ~ PRICES RIGHT, AS ALWAYS, - CHARLIE BROWN. THE Tie Oldest and Strongest - bank in Barnwell County - -. T -' Depositor}’ of Tlie State of South Carolina, The County of Barnwell, and The Town of Barnwell CftpitAff ' • • • • a m m Surplus aud (Jndivldad Profits, f60.000.fi0 f 45,000.00 To *sve money 1* not hard when once s bank account Is started f*r money in a bank cannot burn a hole in tbe p Let us talk this over with you the next time you are In towa If lm- porsiole to call, write ua. Irr I a. i ORANGEBTJIIQ, S. C- Firstr€las9 Equipment,“Strong Faculty, Thorough Course of Study. We offer as thoroug, Business course as any school in the South. Jt live months busi ness course _for $70.00. We can take onlv-a few more students. For-catalocrue and all address, President W. S. Peter son , S. C. , F. Mi VAGJ5NBR & COMPANY — :■ “T" \ • COTTON DEPARTMENT, CHARLESTON, S. 1 C. 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