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A : '■ sffles •1^ 1 k4^v. mm ¥ -* >d& ^v\ ii~ :* . * S C ** ^■f < • /• reU I. HOMES. cioics i it. 1911. •< . <s L*r- • •„ 1B0K KINGS. KCO l.I.KCT I ON S. the mtn. who b«ni «ekMt Cl*v«?lnnd, the imUbla McKinley to war«|t»1n*t* w«nln« kingdom, who tb« t>n)»]r R^e- Wit *nd for whom ihf chirf of nil po litical hypnotlata, William Howard Ta/t r l* now a travelling, speech pu king epol.i^*t, were ihe can*** of the w-eikenlng of the American press la the public confidence end Us lose, erj tapie, of Influence upon the Issues sod of the recent years. the commercialism, the get- Tlch quick spirit of the l**t quarter of • ceptury the Independence of the northern metropolitan press bent-the knee that thrlff might follow fswnlng r editors became the mouth pieoea, spieler*, of great Interests first and l •mailer land sharks that and gambled on the ex- chengea, or wherever there was room and secrecy for the safe and sure plsy- of the game of “heads I win. tills lose.” ies of the North greyr and like green bay trees and the blossomed like the rose, ixed great snd profitable, were multiplied and jour- became less of s profession • selfish, sordid business, i was the yeast from which V fortunes rose and to lure i Into their nets the srlf- uaof Industry, apecu- and wire pullers A eo. called for 'iattons and their bidding The one cent dal f .eemed « subscriber or buyer but the footed the difference and re- If many times by feathering with cew birds, Innocent of of tbe f«Uene«s of city the nsaget of moderw trade ropolltau press pro<pered caste and oomidenoe and In guidance of public affairs Us Influ w became practically worthless as •a«oW. •/ To establish beyond Mel) the truth of the a bore assertion let tia bring up as a witness in syhlte and black last week’s copy of the cleanest pnbllcatlon fn the Unltefl 8t*te», (be Saturday lEvenlng Post of PhlledrtphU, which .Sfe was establlybed by Benjamin Franklin 10 1798. Is i weekly Journal having >; w* running above a million ad rad and fifty thousand cop. Is a safe visitor In any honse- r no unwholesome reading mab> demoralising advertisement Is t? have place in Its columns, no unclean money. rr -I- S" 1 - » __ .. The of September b*. »JmiKE J*o T** r » *go the Democratic *on. mention of this county adopted ratolu tions recommending to the dtate jlay Convention the edoptlon of a platform defining tho Issnes of tbe campaign -to that candidate* might Intelligently dis cuss them and Inform and Interest tbe plain voters vjboee votes they were courting. >■; | 1 The resolutions were presented to tbe State Convention and dlbd without attracting a second’s attention. The Democratic party continued to be at the mercy of the candidates, who made the !•• ties,: and It was natui'aUhiUbey ►honld select and harp on such meas ures snd propositions, whether practi cal or visionary, as would wlo them popular favor and electing votes. The outlook for tbe campaign of 1912 as it now appears bas nothing new or pretty in and about It. The people, It seems, are to be fed upon a rehash of the old candidate chosen issues that have bad all the good taste and strength exhausted in previous campaigns. Governor Bleaio is to be a candidate for reeleetion as a local OptlonUt favor ing the dispensary plan of regulating the liquor business, lie may not be s can didate for Governor but may run for th« Lulled States Senate If Senator R. R. Tillman U not In the race. Chief Justice Ira H. Jones has re signed the high office lie holds as head of tbe State's judiciary. HU reslgns- tlon will not go Into effect until danu- iVff 9th, 1912. the day of the meeting of the legislature. In the meantime Jnstloe Jones must according to the proprieties be si|*nt as to the reasons why and the purposes for which he lays aside tbe gown, gives up his seat on the benph and gets on the speech making stump. It Is understood that he too Is s local optlonist, In favor of the license system as the best plan for controlling the liquor trade. Between the Governor and tbe Chief Justice there is no Hlamese bend of affection, t,- The next campaign and deciding pri mary election are a long way off and there Is a plenty of time for a drove of dark horses to come to the front The prohibitionists are to be reckoned with. The scrap between the Governor and Chief Justice will tempt the thirsty for honor and oOlce and emoluments to en ter tbe race, and the bees are buzzing and the mosquitoes singing around many wakeful heads. The logic of the situation seems to point to Charles A. Smith of Tlinmons- vllle, the present LieutenantGovernor, aa the proper man to lead tbe proliibi- tlonista to victory or defeat, and hla aucceas or failure would be equivalent to a aettllng of the whlakey question for a couple of years. At the opening of the campaign, however, the State Convention should formulate a plat form, and no longer go on like the Bturbon kings, wbj^jiew learned anything, a bo 'the needs and wishes , subjects, until they caught It in the neck. / THB 1911 COTTON CHOP. ; At the meeting In Montgomery, Ala , last week of 600 farmers and ee many bankers, merchants sod othe«- business met> representing every Moutbern State the atfoptAd estlbate of the cotton crop of tkla year was 12,fiOO.OOO bales Tbl estimate was reported on figures by the committee, compiled on the roil caji of State*, each Buifce being represented by Its aggregate reports of total pro duetion. }. On the call of States tbe estimate arrived at reached only 11,217 000 bsles. Tbe estimate aa made by the farmers’ union at Shawnee, OMa., was 11,747,000 balm and tbe revised esti mate by President Barretf was 12,092,. IKM) ba]i*s. An average of these three estimates of 12,250,000 halos made. On tbe calj by State*, the fallowing ffgures were submitted : Alabama, 1,- 100,000 bales’; 10 per cent less than last year; Arkansas, 900,000 bales, a slight increase over last year; Florida, 60,000 bales, slight increase, Georgia, 1,800, 000 bale*, 28 /per cent decrea-us einue July 25 la*f|MisH|s»i|ipl 1.200.000 bales, 5 pet cetii Jess than last year; North Carolina, 050.000, 10 per cent lesa than last year; Oklahoma, 600.000, 30 per cent off from Uat year; South Carolina 1,2)5,000 bale*, condition 6« 6 per cent leas than Uat year; Tennesaee, 360,000 bales, 15 per cent Increase ove- last year; Virgins, estimated crop, 16,000; Texas, estimated crop, 2,250.000 bales, condition 67, crop 8 to 5 per cenr. less than Mat^year; California estimated 12,000; Louisiana, 300,000 bales; Mis souri estimated 60,000 bales. All other States, estimated crop, 4,000 bales. ATBMMT Of OF IRK located at Alkeo, Barnwell, Bio vHle, Rallev, KUenton, Wegener, North Augastaaad Johnston, at the close i f hutlnets Bept. I, If 11.. ► RESOURCES. k v 1 1 r- m Loans and Discounts Overdrafts Bond* and Stocks,. Furniture and Fixtures... Banking Houses.. Other Kgal K«tate Owned Due from Banka and Hank- ® •»’J-•••••*•••!• Currency O..H ■. Silver and other Minor Coin Checks and Cash Items.. In Transit. ’ ....I 872 689 80 5 362 41 82 923 00 22 253 47 90 283 88 1 302 00 149 576 98 83 525 00 990 10 18 401 4 107 2 221 • '* ! Jlri ■J V’ rin'rM’ " ■ , A .. ogs, 1 V 7a..' S» Mis, Iry ' naitcUl ■ ■ —■ ■. -*— MASTER’S SALE. have MIS. It lain ms form, con- cover, 84 pages, fUby 13} inehea. It Is wall ooexoellent book paper, an<L copy weighs twelve ounces. Cal if* cost of the paper, ink, preaswork, postage and Dews agents oommitflnn wa »g“»w It that tbe pub lishers get no profit whatever from their minion and three quarter copies at to ftfbscrlbofs or sold through agents aver? week, an examination of tbe Pott where tbe profit to the publlab- Of the 84 pages of our copy, first contains a few words and a ure introducing the Post. 37 3-4 pages are filled with unobjectionable reading matter and good pictures, while 45 1-4 pages are devoted to ad- aot»s varying la ala* from two pages to a single column Inch long ap- 1 for trade. The Post no doubt harvests royal revenue from tbe 159 1 advertisements that It sends out to its enormous pat ronage. Im w. If sfich a high clan publication aa tbe Post depends for bread and meat the luxuries of life upon its adver tising Income wbat may be expected of the yellow Journals of the great snd wicked eltics of the North that will venture the pubUoatiotf of any rumor or reality that will boom sale*, swell their circulations and put them In po- - altion to advance advertising rate* ? Aa an observer for lo these many years of the course and conduct of the . . newspapers of South Carolina wo can ad do clfterfully bear witness to the :y of the worMrt of the fourth Since the departure of tho^ar- ; bag adventurars there haa been no II cl Ore on tbe garmenta of any user of pen or pencil or office shears, service and self gkcrlfiee they have i worthy of tbe State’s best past, may have made mistakes, nepa- f mod collectively, but their errors ; of the head and not of the i enthusiasms of contests - «t tlm*s to be more vig- »ad defence than tbe That was a great meeting held In Montgomery, Ala., Ust week. It wa* grant In Its purpose, to secure a better price for cotton, also great In the at tendance of one thousand leading men of tho Mouth, Unit«d Statoa Senators, Congreaamen, Commissioners of Agrl culture, bankers, merchants und best of si! the farmers. There was much eloquent speaking, complimentary applause Ac. South Carolina seemed to lead. Col. K.J. Watson wav elected permanent president and made a couple of ready and red hot speeches, Senator E, D. Smith by his eloquence secured the adoption of a resolution fixing 16 cents a* the price of the present cotton crop. President Barrett of the Farmers’ Union deuietl that a Dumper crop is being fathered nojv. He said he had been informed of a world round con spiracy to bear the price of cotton. This paper saw and said that weeks ago, but every body was so busy marching along with shut eyea and heads thrown back singing prosperity that thsy could not see detcaioratlon waiting ahead, waiting for the ripen ing of cotton. Col. Barrett also said that foreign capital had agreed to advance as much as sevonty-dve million dollars at 6 per cent interest to finance tbe cotton crop. The Montgomery organization was made permanent and every cotton state is to have its own organisation, which will be subject to the Southern Cot ton Congress. HOW TO GET RID OF NUT GRASd. (Progressive Farmer) A friend wants to know If I conquered the nut gra<« in my garden Yes, 1 have nearly finished it, and tills summer it iw-the rarest weed in my garden. Last year wa* the tti st year the garden was cultivated, at it had been lying out as a Vacant lot. One 4nd of the l >t was well set In nut grass, and 1 determined that it should go. 1 did not dig it out except whatever turned up in the plowing of tit' land and was raked out. Then EVERY DAY I chopped off that nut grass. Cut off to-day it was up to-morrow, but 1 knew that no plant can long survive If not allowed to make gceen leaves above ground. So I chopped it off dally. It got thinner and thinner by frost, and as none wa« allowed to seed, 1 find few plants this summer and have simply been pulling them out as fast as seen, and have not even had to use the hoe on them. This is equal y ap plicable to any persistent weed. Keep them cbopped off and they must die. The tame la true of rassafras sprouts. These will simply increase if dug and the roots cut, but chopped off or mown off regularly wiili the mowing machine tbev soon give up. Tbe mower Is the be«t implement to rid laud of sprouts and briers. SOME NEW8. A frost in New England on Thurs day morning destroyed half a million dollars worth of tobacco, cranberries and garden vegetables Army worms are doing great dam age to the 11to cotton crop in the val ley of the Ark*»*SAriveT, which is the richest section of that State President Taft was 54 year* old on Friday, and atarted on a railroad ride 12.000 miles long through 24 states. He will be on the go until November 1st Attorney Geaeral J. Fraser Lynn of Abbeville Is to marry Miss Katbieep Oaeenwood of Massachusetts. They met In Beaufortlas winter at tbe home of State Senator Neils Christensen, Charleston is happy again. Nego tiations are in progress for establish ing a trails Atlantic steamship line to bring foreign immigrants into tbe old city by the sea. Tx)ng continued ill health has forced Editor J. Frank Foosbe to sell his paper, the Herald add News of Wlnns- boro, which he has conducted well for over ten years. He will go back to the farm problp in Western North Carolina. Total .. .. fl 732 950 01 LIABILITIES Capital ....;. 2«2 00i 90 SoroUs • 262 000 00 Undivided Profit*, « 448)88 Due to Banks and Bankers 6 318 22 Dividends unpaid 63 00 Individual Deposits subject to Check 461760 14 Savings Deposits 184 457 55 Demand Certificates of De- • posit 915 00 Time Certificates of Deposit 67 3'4 98 Certified Checks 68 78 Cashier’s Check* 6)13 94 Bills Payable 473 000 06 0F= Total.., $1 732 960 01 EDUCATING A CHILD. Nothing matters in a nursery—ex cept the mother, nurse and air. The rougher and plainer everything tbe better-no lace to cradle cap, hardest possible bed and simplest food accord 4ag to Age.JiaUJ9Qi9J find walla of the cleanest. All education to beautv is first ii. the beauty of gentle human faces round a child; secondly, in the fields—fields meaning “grass, water, beasts, flowers and sky.” Without these, no man can be edu cated humanly. He may be made a cal culating machine, a walking diction ary. a painter of dead bodies, a twaug- ler or scratcher on keis oi cstgut, a discoyerer-of new form* of worms In mud. But a propeily so called human being—never. Pictures are, I believe, of no use whatever by themselves. If the child has other things right, round it ar.d given to It—its garden, its cat, and its window to the sky and stars—in time, pictures of flower* and beasts and things in heaven and heavenly earth, may bo useful to it. But see first that Us rcklities are heavenly. State of South Carolins, I County of Aiken. ) 3 S Before me came W. W. Muckenfuss cashier of the above named bank, who, being dniy sworn, *Hys that the above and foregoing statement is a true con dition of imtit bank, a* rbnwti bv the books of said bank W W Muckenfos*, - ’ Cv-hier Sworn to and snb»<-rlb-o| before me .his 12th day of Sept . 1911. M L iMrr, Notary Public, Correct Attest: J. W. Lupo, W. J. (Tati, J. B. Salley, Directors. NOTICE. COUNTY TKaCBKRS KXAMIKATIOH TO Bt HELD. Notice Is hereby given that th« next semi-annual examination for tlie teach er* of Barnwell county will he held in the Court House at Barnwell on Fri day Oct, 6th The County Board of Education has been authorized to renew certificate* still in force for all teachers boluing first or second grade certificate* who attended the summer schools at W’ln- throp C’liege and Wofford College doing satisfactory work and passing the final examinations Tne examination will tie based on the 1911 text bocks recently adopted bv the State Board of Educ*l*on. Ap plicants f-<r certificates may secure these books from R L. Bryan Co Columbia, or from tbe local county depositories. The aaid semi-annual teachers examination will embrace the following subjects; Physiology and Hygiene, Civic* aod Current Event*, United States Hisrorv, English Gram- mer and Com position. Arithmetic, Al gebra, Geography, Pedagogy, and Agriculture. The examination will start promptly at 9 :30 o’clock a. m and will close at 5 o’clock p. m. Horace J. Crouch. County Supt. of Education. LOW CUT SHOES - - ^ _ / . •/ . . . fit apd Below Cost! We MUST have room for our coming Superb Fall and Winter Stocks. Pursuant to a decree of the C Common PLa* f,, r Bamberg On dated March u, 1911, In the ca*e O Rice v*. A I. Milhous I wjll ■ the hlgheet bidder, before tbe House door at Barutyell, S. O.. on L day October 9, 1911. during tbH hour* for ealp*, tbe following real eatate: Terms, eaeh. Purchaser to pay papers All that certain tract of land lying and being In township, Barnwell County, said to contain one hundred anc. ‘(190) aora*. more or lea*, aod bou a* follows: North by land* of Croft; Eat' by land* of WilUany aog; South by lands of eatate off Harttog, and West bv land* «f las Hutto, Isaac Dyches and Mi Delk. H. O- Master for Bamberg j Rapt. 8. 1911. ’ — . .iwB™ Strictly a Cash Sale of the Best Goods at the Lowest Prices; come early and keep coming until we tell you the sale is over. It will pay you, no matter how far aivay you dwell. STILL’S - SHOE - STOEE, BLAGKVILLE, S- C. • SIM - W W. H‘JONES, ColnabU. S, l1 Secures (positions (or teacf sells school furniture and si plies, and publishes Southern School , 9 New*. , * ^JSend for Our school supply i our magazine cat our entertainment Wm. Mcl Insun —all kin< rue and lalogui •••••♦a* MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina. I County of Barnwell. | Court nt Common Pleas. Ina Bradlev. bv her guardian ad litem, omB o2 BaruweU (The Farmers’ Union Bank) Life. Ill Stock,’ cident flea Office in Harrii BARNffl Jock Main c S.C etc Plaintiff, Mary M v*. Halford, et al ritaof men and they may bay* been oo- bMty, fprgethri of t*. I there ere two aide* to every t, but their hands have kept clean end their consciences uobought. llpMOllb.lrlBflB.110. SB J orths humo hw Hlfigtiich they are entitled Isj ~ Tbe ebedows win soon it become es pil- .4 A FALSE PROPHET. Some speaker, whose name we hare forgotten, said at the Montgomery meeting tbst In a few years tbe world will bo using twenty-five, to thirty million bales of cotton. If tbe opinion of a prominent lawyer frorfi a distant city aa expressed to us some time ago come* true the woild wllfln a few year* more be getting on tome how with less cotton than is now made. This distinguished gentlemen consid ers the Bible tbe best law book in ]}i* flue library. From its teaching be be- lleyee that the boll weevil, caterpilUr and droughLare sent now aa punish ments and warnings just as tbe plagues of TCgfpt In the time of Pharaoh aod Moser. Be expects worse tribulations than those of this yeer un« less people become more obedient to Andrew) pressed, several ] die a | PS 34* 0»« said to bare ex ago, a desire to s'Ji'WJHHJ?' emptied Me money newe- tb » j bags, but as he Is going to apart a tbe chances are much but sOok as tbrtr m d#log poor that TO KEEP BUTTER COOL. A convenient aod easy way to keep butter coo] Is by applyiug tbe principle of cooling by evaporation, ee ■ used In tbe wet bulb of the wet end dry bulb hygrometer. Tbe butter is planed in e closed receptacle (butter dlHi with lid), and after tbia he* been placed in a soup plate containing water a wet cloth la put oyer the disk with Its ends in tbe water. Evaporation goes on at the surface of tbe cldthi, snd more water Is supplied toYhe cloth from the plate below. Tbts keeps tbe doth and dish inside at s few degrees below the atmospheric temperature, and by tbla means batter esu be kqpt trja la the hottest day, . ^ _ t FOR 16 CENTS COTTON. A meeting will be held in thi bell of the House of Representative* tn Colum bia nn Tuesday of next week. Septem ber 28th, commencing at 8 o’clock, by the BUM Farmers’ bankers, merchants e generally to consider reeoluiiona of the Montgomery, Ala ^ SJWT Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the ahoy* entitled cause, I will sell at Barnwell, in front of the Court House, on Mnudav, Qctnbei 2nd. 1911, it being saieday Hi said aiotuh, wilhia. tna 4egaJ Ouur* oX sale, the fid lowing described real property: All that tract or plantation of land *iruated in Barnwell Comity. Barnweil Town ship, and State aforesaid, containing fifty four t54) acre*, more or le*«, bounded north by land* of Marv M, Halford; East bv estate lands of M A Aldrich; south by lands of M. A Al drich and west by lands of C W- and J G Moody and lands of Barbe Hal* ford Term* of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H L. O’Bannon, M a*te r. Master’s office, September 9th. 1911. The Best Goods m and The Lowest Prices t It Out of town checks and draft* accepted for deposit without exchange. We pay 4 per cent in Sayings Department OFFICERS: Harry D. Calhoun, President William L. Cave, Vice-Pres. N. G. W. Walker, Cashier G. Miller Greene, Attorney ' R. C. Carroll, Asst. Cashier J. J. Cochran Tarlton S. Cave Dr. Tom F. Hogg G. Miller Greene DIRECTORS: T Jeff Grubbs William L. Cave Winton T. Walker - B. Lee i I Easterling T “Watch Ihe tioipe pavjk GroW** can b« found at Elko, S. C. te, Wf / ' .gffklo to Jnst received direct from the leading Northern markets, a fully complete, carefully chosen STOCK OF GEIERiL IERCH1KDISE that is guaranteed to please Ihe best Mstes and to satisfy tbe most careful purchasers. They were bought right and will be sold right, and I pledge myself to make the Fall and Winter business campaign on that sound platform. •! Come and see the beautiful Dry and Dress Goods, FACT S FOR THE FALL Acclimated Mules for finishing crop gathering and best wagons in America for hauling the yields of the fields. All right horses for driving purposes and unequalled buggies and surreys, the easiest riding and longest lasting in the world. Harness—single and double, separate pieces, strongest leathers and most thoroughly dependable making. Saddles, Bridles, Whips. Lap Robes and all horse equipment Prices as always in favor oU buyers. More so than — ever in shortening days, -v- : . Soft collars—tbAlatest—at M -lai r DR. J. \\fk. MILHOUi NT 1ST. BLACKVILLR. tt. IS. Office days Thursday, f' day and Saturday. Well equipped office. Operations made as pm Prices reasonable. Ten cash. DR. W. C. MILH0U5 N DENTIST, Aarnwell, - * * S. !i» OFFICE HOUMK 8.30 s« m. to 6 p. m. . Persona living away from Barm will please mak«L appoklBiont* bel coming By so doing they will be 1 of immedia M and avoid appointments. j: OF THI tigers trtts-1 amr L 2- • ' 1 Vl* Wa , igfcN I a dleknr NOTICE TO Charlie Brown Barnwell, S. C. AND CBED- 1 to tbo eaUte of J, aro requested to ~ such indebt- and all par- sat tbo said os tbo same prop- MRSljS- ■ W. W. Cope aod •