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HIGHER PRICES. k w Tkair Ciim Mil ^JWlw WWW HOLD THBR COHON. * ■ t t ti ■tfonff ArgunHiit for the Cotton Grower* and AfaJiu* the Middle Men. Five Month* Before the New Crop WUI Move and the Middle Men Short on Jfhelr Contract* for ' Delivery. r We commend the following letter from Mr. J. E. Wannamaker of St. Matthew*, to the careful peruaal of all a ho are Intereated In the pro«H iperity of our Southland: . Although I do not claim to be a prophet, or the *on of a prophet, 1 'venture to assert that cotton should not he sold In the present low mar ket: first, because of the moral effect upon the farmers themselves. 1 need not tell yon how for forty long years the middle man, the speculator and .the gamblers have made a foot hall of cotton; how for the time being, he has s«t at nought the great law of ■upply and demand, and thereby rob- hied the cottoh producer and the South of millions of money; how the farmers tamely and Ignohlyvsubmltted to this thraldom until a few J^ars ago the slumbering manhood of the^Stnnh .asserted Itself, and at New Orleans made a new declarations of Indepen dence I need not tell your readers how ateadlly our organisation has grown, how bitterly It has been fought by the New York and other cotton ex changes; all these things are matters of history. To surrender now, four to live months before It la 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 here after. Then, again. It la not the time to ■ell cotton, because the low prices prevailing would entajl too great 11- nanclsl loss upon those who have risked all for the common good. It Is well known that the lait crop was made at high coat. Mules, wagons, fkrtlllrers. farm supples of all kinds. Including labor; all commanded high prices. Then, one* more, It 1* not time to Mil cotton because conditions present aad prospect 1 vs warrant much higher priced. •'Bot,” *afs some one. "I am willing to grant that the moral effect of aelllng out now would be bad, and that the loss would tye heavy on those who have hold: but let u* face facts. I* It hot tru* that the depressing 1«- fluence of the panic still Unger* .That th* Ml* of mill products is slow? That many mill* are running on re duced timer That the buying capacity of the world *oem* to be diminished? What are the chance* for higher pric**?" I answer, much of what you *ay !* doubtlea* tru*; still, with firm holding of th* remnants of the crop I believe the chance* of higher price* ' ar* 4r*t cla**. When fertiliser mill* have more good* than they can sell they main tala prices, ware house the •urplns stock and cut down produc tion. Th* diamond kings do the same.same, w« are toM. When the cotton mills tnd price* for their pro ducts too low th*y often warehouse v their stock and curtail their output. These are wise men. Shall not the fan, er profit by thelf exam^TW Theo. remember, trade Is steadily moving toward the norma), even in this country, where • tAe depression ha* been greateit. In England. I am Informed, the export trade has ap- proactfed close to the figures of last year for some time. England Is wide awake. Note these straws; Liverpool, May 7: Cotton, spot, good business dope; sales 20,000 bale*, of which 18,000 American; re ceipts 1,000, no American. Futures opened easy and closed steady. “Liverpool, May 8: Cotton, spot. Id active demand and a good business done. Prices 18 to 20 points higher. Sales of the day were 16,000, of which 14,200 American; receipts 1,000 bales, no American.” Here are some facts which should not be lost sight of. While a good many mills have curtailed their out put, this is offset, to a certain extent. * by the new spindles which are merri ly humming away for the first time this year. And let no one forget that there were 8,000.000 bales of cotton less made In^thls country last year than the year before, and that India algo felLahort t.000.000 hales. Then mark well this fact, which Is very sig nificant: The cotton manufacturer Ig nores the farmer and bnyes his sup plies of raw cotton, by contract, months ahead, sometimes a year ahead, from middle men. Higher prices now for raw cotton would not hurt, but help the mills. These mid dle men are shrewd, smart men. They baY* no cotton, bat sell short io the . mills. They utilise the New York Ex change 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 ineteuths of its activities are pernicious. And now comes United tats* Corporation Commissioner Her bert Knox Smith, who in a report published last Monday, says: “However this the be, the New York Cotton Exchange, if It can not extst under a Just and equitable sys tem, baa no excuse for existence at all. The present New York system of fixed dlfierences is uneconomic, in of natural law, unfair, and othsr efforts to defy natural , results is such complex aad de- tfeat the benefit of its aacrues only to a skilled to the middle awn; who irt to the mills. They with ‘the far- " KILLED HIMSELF. Convicted Cashier Found Dead When —IfiOME HISTORY OF COTTON. FIGURES THAT When he finally succeeded in ef fecting an entrance to the barricated residence of John W. H. Geiger, for whose arrest and Incarceration In Jail he had an order of the United States district court. United States Marshal Langhammer found Geiger dead. Later Coroner Caruthers found sN>ullet wound in the roof of Geiger’s mouth, and a 32-clatbre pis tol lay beside the body. Geiger was the central figure of one of the most sensational cases that has ever been tried In a Balti more court. He had been cashier of the Canton National bank, but re signed the position In January of last year. Ar-u result of investigations of National Bank Examiner Hanna, he was arrested on February 2$, 1907. and hjji Indictment by the United States *gfand Jury on 109 counts proceeded his trial. , Of the extensive -misuse of the funds of the bank he was convicted on five of the 47 count*. Ha was sentenced by Judge Morris to serve five years In Jail. ' Geiger's counsel appealed the case to the United States district court of appeals, which, about a week ago, sitting in Richmdnd. decided against him. Appealjwss taken to the United States supreme court, lint Judge Mor ris decided that pending’ the court’s decision Geiger must begin to serve his sentence. ^Accordingly, Marshal Lanhanvmer Friday went to the Gei ger residence, only to find Geiger dead by his own hand. TROUBLE AT PREDEE Another Sensational Hold up and * t. Robbery Near the Junction. The Florence Times says: Blake W. God bold, station daypumper for A. C. L., was assaulted and robbed about a mile from Pee Dee last Fri day p. m. at 5 o'clock. Godbold was on the Dillon road attending to his lamps when he was Jerked barkward over the track choaked. ‘ Only a few hours before, he had drawn a months wages, 130.00. which the assailant got. He Is described as being a tall, poweffullv built negro, a scar on his forehead and supposed to be named Witherspoon, a former workman of the Marion County Lum ber Company. Three negroes were within a hundred yards of Godbold bot nelrtier went to his asMiMtnrr. It afterwards developed that there was another negro Implicated who was hiding In the bushes. Pursuit was given by the railroad men, Capt. B. E. Waley, of the trestle force tak ing the lead. The negro has not been found yet, though he Is sup posed to be still hiding near Pee Dee A Suspicions 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. After wards It-was discovered that he was the man hiding In the bushes. . A plan yas alto on foot to rob 8. J. White; the night Watchman, but a little boy told White in Ume for him to thwart them. This recalls the mysterious case of C. E- Kale, for mer night watchman whose body was found 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 bkd- ly burned that they cannot recover. The crime is charged 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 seperated and had been at law over the children. The woman says she say Kennedy lock and set fire to the cabin.' CONCERN THIS SECTION. ) Extracts From • Speech Made to Congress by Representative Heflin ef Alabama. More than 3,000 years ago cotton was found growing In India and Her odotus tells ns that the natives called it "tree wool.” He said: "They made clothes of this tree wool and claimed tha^. it exceeded in beauty and goodness the wool of the sheep." In 1492 Columbus found cotton growing In the West Indies and it Is certain that coton came to Jamestown with our fathers In 1607, for it waa cultivated that year In Virginia. Pick ett, la his history of Alabama, tells us that as esfly as 1728 cotton flour ished in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. How to separate the cotton from the seed was an imirartant problem with our fathers, and this -tedious task- was performed with the fingers. Bo slow was the process that four pounds of lint per week was as jnucb as a good hand could do. ~ In 1728 there was great rejoicing In the South when a man in Phila delphia invented a machine for sep arating seed and lint, and this ma chine could turn out only ten pounds of Upt per day. Not until Ely Whit ney, of Georgia? invented tho saw gin In 1793, was this feature of the cotton problem solved. . The first cotton gin operated by any other than hand was run by water in Fairfield, S. C., by James Kincaid, tn 1/95. For a long time spinning and weav ing were done by individuals and families In their homes. They used the little hand carder, the one-thread spinning wheel and th* wooden loom. These were followed by the Inventions of Cartwright, Wyatt and others, the carding . engine, the spinning Jlnney and the power loom, all run by steam, and the manufacture of cotton be came one of the most important In dustrie* In the world. In 1784 we exported from the Uqlted States eight bales of cotton to England, and this fibre had been separated from the aeed by th hand 'At Annapolis. Md., in a political con vention, 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 ebuntry.” We were then producing 6,040 bales. Mr. Madison's prediction has come true. The S outh produces 80 per osntr~of t&* w6rtd*s crop of cotton. This cotton belt Is 1,450 miles long from east to west and 600 miles wide and has In H about 448,000,000 acres. .* In 1880 th* amount of capital In vested 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 amount, $226,000,000. Twenty-five years ago the South A PAIR OF ROGUES Obtained Money Under False Fretea- it ' AH In. A young whito man by the name of Zeb Vaughn was arrested in this city and carried to Nswbsiry by Sher iff M. N. Buford of that county to stand trial for misappropriating fund* 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 tpr 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 charg ed with doing In Newberry. Mrs. Vaughn, the mother-in-law of Vaughn, the mother-in-law of Vau ghn, charges that she got forty dol lars from the Orangeburg Manufac turing Company "nad entrusted it to Ponell to go to Newberry and ship some of her furniture from that place to Orangeburg and arrange some other matters np there. Instead of doing as directed Ponell is charg ed with appropriating the money in trusted to him by his mother-in-law to his own use. Bonell and Vaughn are brothers- In-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 Jal to aVhlt trial. This Is a sad case, and these young men will find this way of raising money will not pay? They will find hard labor more hon orable and profltkble In the end. WILL DO MUCH GOOD. DEMONOTRA IATION QN FA THE SOUTH FARMS IN „ . bead In a hotel In Brooklyn. His wife had only 600,000 cotton spindles “4, ^pfelned * divorce years ago and se- today w. hate about 10.000.000 * n cu of th( mers through theft- agents, who cov er the whole cotton belt. They play daily upon the hopes and fears of the cotton farmer, always taking their cue from the New York Cotton Ex change, and have grown strong and waxed fat In their successful dealings with him. If the truth were known bales 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 a good ware house and went about his business, cutting dow.n his cotton acreage, putting In more corn, harvesting his small grain, Increasing his pasture lands and iruck patches; wouldn't there be something doing In the cotton worldT Wouldn’t the orlce begin to Jump? Would't the world wake up out of Its slumber af ter nil It must not go ugked? . Mr. Editor. I tell you the manufac- tme of cotton and the civilization of the world go hand In hand! - But, says some one: “The farmers will plant *ho earth in cotton this year.” LetAot ihe manufacturer, nor the middle man, nor the speculator pin their faith too strong to what the fool farmer may or may not do. ‘Paul may plant and Appolloa may water, but God alone giveth 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 yet still It has to run the gauntlet of flood and drought and frost. "Three *8 many ■ slip tw.; fie cup and the lip." - .. Mr. Editor, I believe we are fight ing 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 out come may be, I feel that I can adopt as my own the motto of the disting uished Rabbi Elsaa: “Men My I've failed; ! have not fall- to men. If I have brought truth they’d not receive, Tto they hare failed, not I." J. £. Wannamaker ft. Matthews, May ». 1»0$. 1890 there were 336 cotton mills In th* South and now we have over 600. Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, Is the greatest cotton man ufacturing country la the world, and has over 40,000.000 spindtee. America stands next to the mother country with 26.000,000 spindles Germany comes third with 9,000,000 spidles. Russia la fourth with 7,- 000,000 spindles, and France la fifth with 6,000,oao spindles. in 1906 Ne* England cotton mills consumed 2,349,478 bales of cotton, and in the same year our Southern mills consuined 2.374,225 bales; 25, 000 hales more than, our Northern mill* consumed. This la a splendid showing for the South when you re member that the North has nearly twice as many spindles aa w« have. There Is one fact, howwever. connect ed with , both that we applaud, and that both Northern and Southern mills consumed ijiore cotton than ever before. We are the greatest cotton producing people In the world, with the cheapest and best manufac turing facilities on earth. England leads in exporting cotton goods, and Germany is second In tile list; the United States is third and France Is fourth. Last year the Unit ed 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 cottoji manufactures to the value of $484,000,000, and the Unit ed States, during the same period, ex. ported cotton manufactures to the value of $.',2,000,000, and yet we ex ported twice as much as we did in 1904. » IN8T111CT8 FOR BRYAN. Wyoming Join* the Triumphal Pro- cettsion of Slates. The Wyoming Democratic State Convention Thursday selected dele gates to .the national convention In structed for William J, Bryan. Res olutions were adopted favoring:the election, of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, favoring an amendment to the Sherman anti trust law, excepting labor unions from the effect of Its provisions and opposing the forest reserve policy of the present national administra tion. , • Tried the Jail First. Edward Siebcrt, of Beuevrae,'Ohio, rather than pay a fine of $10 and costs assessed on a charge of being drunk and .disorderly, declared be would work It out in tha county workhonse. After spending one night In a cell he paid tha ftae. 81a- bert Is about sixty years old aad la •i worth over $$0»000. REBUKES NEWLAND8. Major J. C. Hemphill Call's the Ne vada DoWU. * A dispatch from Washington'to The State says MaJ. J. C. Hemphill, editor of The News and Courier, in the drainage conference Tuesday af ternoon reproved Senator Newlands of Nevada for criticising the South Senator Newlands had declared thst the South before the War, because of slavery, was strict la construction of the constitution and a habit of mind ha<J 'descended to this day, which un fortunately kept the South from be ing prominent In the* great reclama tion measures. MaJ. Hemphill said that the Southern people were will ing at any proifer tltyato discuss with Senator Newlands their habit of mind towards the construction but that tho drainage conference was not the place for a discussion either of that ques tion or for the resurrection of the slavery issue. He therefore deplored the remarks from the senator from Nevada. s - A Test of Strength. * A Republic*!! 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 weak- kneed Democrats: r ENDS HIS OWN LIFE. His Daughter Was Not Al lowed to Sea Him. - Because his visits to hts ten-year- old daughter were stopped by his di vorced wife, Rudolph Witte, a book keeper, shot uimaelf through the cured the custody of their daughter tielen! Witte was permitted to see bis daughter at his former wife's home until recently when she mar ried again. Pleadings and letters were disregarded by the former Mr* Witte. It was said tbit 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 1* reported that hydrophobia is Increasing alarmingly In the United States. This Is the conclusion reach ed by Government experts, who have examined the subject. They My the disease is not ^confined to any partic ular section of the United States but Is generally prevalent thronghout the country. The report on the subject strongly recommends that all dogs be muzzled, and the declaration Is made that the disease cannot be ftamped out until tlm dogs are muzzlea tor f of s«v« period of several years. The exper ience of some European countries is cited to show that only by the muz- sllng of dogs can the disease be ab solutely eradicated. ' i Fatal Explosion. At Quarr, Fla., Tuesday W. T. Me Donald was seriously injured and hit nine year old son waa Instantly killed by the explosion of several thouMnd dynamite caps. The boy’s body was cremated. He had Just handed hU father some tobacco when the explo- slon occurred. It Is evident that Mr. McDonald cut into a cap while trim ming off the copper wire from a lot of condemned material. They Will Swing. At New Ov’eans on Tuesday death sentences were pronounced on Ed ward and Jack Pierre, negroes, con victed 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 hours. One policeman was killed. Negro Legally Hanged. Porter Cooper, a negro, was hanged at Bpafta, Ga.. Friday for th murder of his wife last March. Cooper kill ed his wife with an tot©*, cut the body In three pieces and then burled the repaalns nearby. He afterwards set fire to the house, which was entirely destroyed. Don’t be afraid to change a man’s opinion. 4>ut beb careful how you do it. ~ . . .... Time will toll; but gossip*rs mau to tell It first. ^ . Don’t be afraid to do more than to required of you. ^ Cooperating With Agricaf- tnral Department oa Selected Areas to Stimulate Effort on All. Congrssman Lever has recently re ceived a letter from 8. A. Knapp, spe- agent in Charge of Farmer’s Co-' operative Demonstration work, stat ing that the Department of Agricul ture has started the work In the 7th CongreMional district, South Caro lina, and that they hope to do a great deal more next year. Fifteen demonstration farms and ninety co operative farms have been establish ed-In Lexington county; thirty-five demonstration apd ten cooperative in Richland- county;* ten demonstration and forty cooperative in 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 Farmer*' Cooperative Demonstration work In the foHowing: . "The dbJecL of the work Is primar ily to greatly increase the^net earn ings 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 by farm de monstrations of an acre ovihore made by a farmer In every neighborhood, if possible, under .Instructions from our central office and supervised by field agents, who visit these demon strations monthly. ‘‘Thus the crop on an acre under the best management is contrasted in every nelghbornood with the crop of the average farmer. The effect is immediate and the results are as- Jonlshlhg,. “In 10t)3 th first cooperative farm was established at Tarrell, Texas, and the farmer, W. C. Porter, was guaranteed by. th*_cUizens against lost, if any should 3ccurMn foliowftfk the department Instructions. The work was a sueecas. ^ "From this smalt beginning the Farmers' Oooperatlce Demonstration work has increased in five years from one locality to ten States, and from one field agent to 141, from one farm to thirty two thouMnd directly In structed and possibly half a million aided through ubservatleai “The funds appropriated by Con gress are used only In boll weevil In fested territory: to wit, Texas. Lonis- tana, Oklahoma. ArkaasM and one district In Southwestern Mississippi. Cooperative Demonstration w ork in th* remainder e f Misasippi, Alabama, Georgia and tbs two Carol inas and Virginia Is done by funds from other than government sources. The great value of this work Is shown by the succeMful production of cotton by the average farmer under boll wee vil infestion. “Oar instructions are also directed to the’ more profitable production of the standard crops, because rotation Is necessary to be best success In cotton production. “Aside from the demonstrations, the educational features of the work consists mainly in reducing the science of agriculture to a few prac? Ucal problems, easily understood' by the common farmer, as the following: Better drainage of the soil; a deeper and better seed bed'; more homns; the beet seed; thorough tillage; more horspower and better toois: more and better farm stock; these are taught by letters, circulars, lectures and de monstrations. “The coo iterative feature of our work gives to it elasticity and ad justment to conditions. Farmers co- oimrate in furnishing land and work ing the demonstration. “Bankers and merchants cooperate In furnishing, free of cost, the best seed for the demonstrations and in refusing to advance less the tenant works the crop under onr instruc tions. “BuslneM men’s clubs and boards of trade organise farm demonstra tions under our agents and pay all expenses. The Business Men’s Club of Helena, Ark., has 1,000 such farms. The Farmers’ unions are giv ing great assistance by organizing de monstration farms in cooperation with us. J. __ -“Some 2,000 women in the South are organized in clubs for the better ment of the conditions o f rural homes. They are actively assisting us by urging the general adoption of oui^ demonstration work. "These women are practical and urge not only greater earning capac ity for the farmer, but greater econ- omj and more comforts in (be home. Miss Mary T. Nance, president of the Women’s,Clubs of South Carolina, for rural Improvement, has been largely instrumental in organizing this ef fective 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 snitable prises. Our department furnishes seed and instructions. “In addition, onr agents Tlsit the rural schools when invited, (and this is almost universal)', and Instruct the boys in demonstrations.” It to thus seen that this work is doing a great deal of good through out the South, and with more liberal .appropriations by Congress in the (uture this work wlU^ greatly aid to bring the South b ack to the top of the ladder where she was. hofore the war, and to which ska to now taking groat strides. * To the Editor of The World: I am not an admirer of W. J. Bry an. neither am I a Democrat, but the result of the poll made recently by the Succees Magazine somewhat amuses me. Last January that pe riodical sent out about 12,000 votes, to be returned with preferred can didates 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 Democratic preferences returned was 1,404. Of these W. J. Bryan had 1,178: Gov. Johnson 191; Folk 22, and JudgeGray 12. Or, in other words, Mr. Bryan, the gentleman who you are saying every day can carry only one small corner of £his 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 Pennsyl- vania.13.6 per cent., while Judge WHERE HO THE OLD PIANOS GO? ' W' T' - to 1 That Is, Whea They Get So Old Yoa Can i Give Them Away. What becomes of all th* old pianos? Any piano dealer will taka yourold when, yon want asqw one and Mil allow a aubatantlal ’redlt on It even If It la of another make.' Fr:*ra time to time th* dMl- -rs anno!i!ce sales of used pianos. All dealer ? nave large stocks of them on band constantly. One piano firm has on exhibition ah old fash ioned aqua re piano which waa mad* at least ha f a century ago. Th* piano beai« a placard to the effect that any one who will pay the cart age may have it for the akking. No one has ac.epted the offer. SuppoM no one evei takes that piano off the hands of the dealers who'want to get rid of 4 What Fill the deal ers do with It? Obviously with rents as h<rh as they are it wouldn’t pay to-stole a piano you can’t give away. So the question remains.: VN hat. In tie <ust stage of undeoira- bMity, becomes ot all the old piaaoi?, —N. Y S.nn. Filling Many Wants. - n - . - ^ - . _ , - - One of i he most useful tree# la (iray, the gentleman for Delaware wokfe! fs,a species of palm which whoee "carrying abilities you- have been expounding 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 the West and South, it al most seems as if you had been in a measure mistaken in your cohciu- sions 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 vic tory- Dorman B. E. Kent. Montpelier. Vt., May 4. Beware when th* fox CLASSIRED COLUMN. grows In Brazil. It might aafely be called..»./* Ketable emporium, for It yields ewrytulng from medicine to ' cattle food. From the roots Is ob tained a very valuable..^qedlcins which is used for purifying the bloQd-» in springtime. Its timber takes a very' high polish, and in much sought after by cn blnet ’tnakeTs -for fins work. The sap becomes wine or vinegar, according to the treatment It receives From,.the sap. starch and sugar are also obtained. The fruit of the tree Is given to cattle for food; rhe nut. ••round o powder, makes a y >od substitute for coffee, * and the piih becomes bottle corks. WANTED. Wanted—I .umber and Logs. Write us. If you have Poplar. Ash. Cy press, Hickory or Cottonwood Lum ber. Also want.Walnut and Cedar Logs. Savannah Valley Lumber Co.. Augusta. Ga. Wanted—Agent' in every Tftwn to in- ry~tAi -"rnTT ©table Sllcor. Price f>0c. Sells* at sight; 1 50 per cent profit. Metro-' polltan Novelty Co., Greenville, S. C 'Wanted—^oys,''from T to 12 years oF^Hte. wb<*m>uld like to earn a valuable wafclr' for a few hours easy work, to send name and ;wl- dress to Lock Box 175, Fort Mill, S. C. Salesman Wanted—Sell retail trade your locality, $65 per month and expenses to start, or • commission , ,, ^ , , , , _ Experience unnecessary, liming- wit h *hat w« Uuandsd-tor- sen Cigar Co., Toledo. Ohio. Oow Peas—I will pay 82.20 per bush el, f. o. b. your shiping point for Clays and Unknown Peas. Wrlto me. H. H. Daniel, 504 Tchoupltou- las St., New Orleans. La. PERSONAL. Men—The Vacuum treatment perma nently cures vital weakness, vari- •cocele and stricture; confidential. Charles Manufacturing Co., Charles Bldg, Denver, Colo. FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS. For Sale—Laundry Outfit consisting of washer, extractor, stove and dry er, boiler, mangel, pulleys, shaft ing, etc. Write J. W. Ivey, Flor ence, S. C. For Sale Cheap—One Ruger Bread Mixer, one Thompson Moulding Machine; four Bread Presses; two Bread Troughs; oue Cake Machine 60 Plane Moulds; and many othe> things used In a first-class bakery Apply to L. E. Riley, Orangeburg. S C £ lllrd* That Kigh* Windows. “The mating season of the lairds approaches, said a nature stifdent, "‘ahrlrtf yon live In a good bird coun try your w tndows will kill off many a'“imri*r” Male birds In the mating season become extraordinarily bold and flA-ce Houses have no terrors for them .approaching, they see their own reflections In the glass of the windows, and mistaking these imsaen tor rival males, they darf ln- domitably upon the gla^s. to toll back stuiin<'d.,or bleeding }ir broken- winged. l have a south window that 1 ran alws ,g rely op In the spring to kill me two birds a week. I grill them cn toast.' A v i tided the Danger. It was a wise young man- who paused be ore he answered the wid ow who asked him to guecs her age. "Yon must have some idea about It,” an area sidewise glance. “I have several Ideas," he admit ted with a smile. "The only trou ble Is that -1 hesitate whether to make you ten yMrs younger on ac counts of your looks or ten years older-on account of yonr brains."’ Then while the widow smiled and blushed, hf took s graceful but speedy leave.—Youth's Companion. Not That Kind of a Talker. m , “On one occasion when In Con- ' greae," said James F. Banks of Bos ton. “Gen Benjamin Butler arose In his place and .ntimated that th* member who occupied the floor waa transgressing the limits of debate. “Why. General, Mid the member reproachfully, “you divided yonr time with me." ’’ ‘1 kno<' I lid,’ rejoined Butler grimly,, “b a 1 didn’t divide eternity, with you.’ '* For Sale—One twelve horse power Blakesley Gasolene Engine, cheap Also lot of shafting, pulleys, etc Apply to L. E. Riley. Orangeburg 8. C. FOR SALE—EGGS AND POULTRY, for Hatching—Barred Plymouth Rock and S. C. Brown Leghorn. $1.00 per sitting of 15, packed and f. o. b. Pure stock. New Gtood. Blythewood Poultry Yards, Blythe- wood. S. C SO MANY Have availed themselves of our Llber- alOfferviz.fia disco an t on $80 and $00 Organ*, we have concluded to renew the offer for a short while so as to get these excellent organs intfoduced Into every county and locality In S. C Only $80 first payment, $30 Nov. 1st. 1008, and balance Nov. 1st, 1009. These terms enable you to buy this Flr*t-cl«*s Sweet Toned Organ which will prove a laasting Treasure. Don’t Delay but write at once for catalog and price list to the old established MALONE’S MUSIC Hoi HK, Pianos and Organs. Columbia, S. C. A Bequest Refused. The French Academy refused th* $20,000 bequeatheJ to It by Mils. Louise H. I.ectere. to be used, ac cording to the terms ‘n her will, “In raising th£ moral (one of France." The Academy bolds the acceptance of this fund would be tantamount to ad-, mittlng the opinion of the testratrix, who regarded ner native countiy as a sink of Iniquity. Why Indeed. One old member of the New York bar, who has long been In touch with court methods and proceedings, says he wonders why a certificate of good character is required before a man la admitted to practice. ■I Where Grafters Live.' The guides on the ' Washington rubberneck automobiles take great pleasure In pointing out tbe Grafton Hotel and informing the passengers that a great many politicians stop there. Diamonds From Crater, A South African diamond mine or “pipe" to the crater of an extinct vol cano and tbe dlamondiferous ground forms the filling of that crater. When McCormick built his nnn hundred reapers in 1845 he paid 4 cents for bolts. To-day 50 bolts are made for a cent. “Lillie Glair Screw Plates 1$ assortments. Each luaortment to pot up la ■ nest wood csss, as shown in cut Each as sortment has sEmMIe tap mtathes for holding all •toes of tape contained ia assortment Threads all sizes rod from 7-44 in. up to 11-2 in. CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE , - f Whan you see t man advertising htovlrtoM it to to keep yonr attention of hto real charastor. . *