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ABOUT THAT COTTON TARI FARMERS ARE ENTITLED TO SEN PER CENT. TARE. Here is Much Work Farmers's Un ions in Every Cotton State Should Begin on at Once. A farmer writing to the Progres sive Farmer and Gazette, says som< time last fall, "I saw an article ii your paper advising farmers to pu 30 pounds of bagging on their cottoi including ties. The farmers here following your advice did so. Th< mill men kicked on it and stoppec all local buyers from buying, saying a farmer had just as well put ii plank to make up, as it would be more honorable." What I want t( know, is it law to put it on? If ii is defend us; if not publish the amount we can put on it." In answer the Editor of the Pro gressive Farmer and Gazette wrote as follows: I am glad to get the letter fron "C.," but he should remember tha ? all The Progressive Farmer and Ga zette can do in a case like this is ^ to tell what is right. With all the in ^ Knfnvn nc ti-Q caiH ar?r lUlUiaUUU UC1UIC UO, I> V UU1U, v~? V still say, that the farmer is entitled to put 6 per cent, tare on his cottor bales. This is his right, but if the farmer is not disposed to insist on it we cannot help it. The Farmei has a right now to get 14 to 15 cents for good cotton, but if he is willing to be run over and let a buyei take it for 10 cents, we have toe much important work to do to gc out and fight the battles of a mar who won't stand up for himself. The 6 per cent, tare is right and farmers from one end of the Soutfc to the other ought to organize with a view to enforcing this right on at 1910 market. All that we can do is to tell then: ? v this and then it is up to then: through the Farmers' Unions anc other ways to do the rest. Rut u-hv do wp sav the 6 Der cent tare is right? Put in a nutshell, our position is just this: Europe buys most of oui cotton, and buys it on a basis of C per cent, tare?fixes prices with a view to losing 6 per cent, to get nel weight. President J. L. Lee of the Georgia Farmers' Union publicly asserted last fall that Wilmington, Atltnata, Augusta and Savannah exporters buy cotton on a basis of 22 pounds and put on full 30 pounds ; before exporting. If the European manufacturers allow 6 per cent, for tare, then the American manufacturers should eith/v er allow 6 per cent, or pay a higher price for their lint. And if per cent, is right, then it is not the case that where the farmer puts or the full 6 per cent., he is acting dishonorably and selling bagging and ties at cotton prices; the real trutfc is, that where less than 6 per cent is used the buyer might more reasonably be accused because he gets cotton bagging prices. And it is ir getting cotton at bagging prices that the only unfair action has been go - - i?-C 4.: T VnirA -c mg on, 11 ins imuiuianuu i ua?o incorrect. Last fall the American Textile Manufacturer jumped on me for my fight for the 6 per cent, tare, and J answered them with the letter. Although I watched their paper care fully they have never yet published this reply, so far as I can learn, nor x have they ever refuted my position by private correspondence. One or two leading cotton manufacturers also attacked my position but could not come back at me when I presented these arguments, although I made it plain that I wrote with no feeling toward either cotton buyer or cotton manufacturer and with an earnest desire not only to be absolutely fair, but to get any information that might show me in error. ? For as I said to them in the language of old Marcus Aurelius: "Ii any man can show me that I dc not think or act aright, I will gladly change for I seek only the truth by which no man was ever injured.' The fact that neither the manufacturers themselves nor their official ogran were able to attack or over {? Vioot r?nm. turn our arguuitruia io mentary on their soundness. The paramount need, as I see it is for the uniform system. There ought to be a definite understanding between the farmers' organizations and the manufacturers' organl izations as to the amount of tare tc be allowed on each bale and the present double standard system with all of its irregularities and losses forever done away with. If the tare were less than 6 pei cent., but uniform and unvarying prices would soon be adjuster! through natural law to compensate for the increased per centage of lini in a bale, but with the present double-standard system the farmer gets caught between the upper and neth er milstones and has lost thousand; of dollars as a result. If 6 per cent, tare is to be and con tinue the recognized standard b: ^ Europeean manufacturers?and i has been the standard so long tha manufacturers tell us it would b< J SODA FOUNTAINS RARE THERE. 4 London Has Only One Place Where Drinks are Served as in America. London.?When an Englishamn - adapts an American scheme for making money the result is deadly. His motto seems to be, "Sting the American for what is called America. ' He cannot realize the sentiment, "Do it right and you will make money." With one exception the soda foun1 tains of London are criminal mis^ representations of the American idea. 1 During the American season every ' "chemist shop" invests in a spark'liot bottle and a bottle of sweetened | toilet water. This rash expenditure 5 is then made known to the public by 1 a hold window placard reading, ' "American Drinks." } The unsuspecting American en^ ters. ' "An egg phospate, please." The man behind the symbolic bar is horrified. "We don't keep eggs. ' * * * Our syrups are quite nice, though." Wishing to conciliate him and not t wishing for a dose of medicine, no matter how beautiful colored it may s be, the American asks for a lemonade. Before he knows what is hand* ed him he has swallowed a mouth^ ful of pop, slightly acid in taste. 1 Lemonade is not lemonade in London ' ?it is lemon squash. | The only thing that can be said for these soda fountains is that they ' bring one back to childhood days, the days when one mixed and drank vinegar, water, sugar and cooking soda. On the other hand, there is a real fountain in London at the American department store. Furthermore, it is ' in charge of H. J. Besher, a young 1 man from Chicago, of wide expen1 ence and varied talent. He can make Aver thirtv kinds of ice cream. "When I first opened up," said 1 Besher, "herds of English ladies used | to gather about me to watch me toss the drinks. Finally, one would get up enough nerve to ask for something ' and she would be disappointed if she found she had ordered a drink that | isn't tossed. "And the crazy questions they'd ' ask! "One woman, after puzzling over * the bowls of crushed fruit, asked for ' a plate of salad. "Ano'ther asked for a fried egg. "Then there was a woman who sat down with her drink to listen to a ' musical concert. She thought the 5 faucets of the fountain were the stops of an organ."?New York Times. > ? i almost impossible to change it?then - the American standard should be re vised to accord with it. ! In other words, we must have a i uniform system, and the 6 per cent, i tare seems to be the only one that can be agreed upon. I What President Lee Says, i Mr. J. L. Lee, retiring president . of the Farmers Union, says: Some time ago I fell into great > disrepute by assuming a position i that the farmer was being cheated : out of several pounds in every bale of cotton under the system of tares; ? men high up in financial, social, and business affairs of this State proceedt ed to show the farmers that I was uninformed, and that no one possessed any knowledge concerning equit able tare but few people whose business it was to make this special i profit on every bale of cotton bought. Their criticisms did not deter me i from pushing this investigation, just a little, to see what was in it. It ; did not take me long to get evidence I that in Wilmington, N. C., where the cotton buyers were only allowing the t farmer twenty or twenty-two pounds of tare, were placing on every bale exported the full thirty pounds. Att lanta was guilty of the same offense, so was Augusta, Savannah, as well as every other bale exporting? The people in the city of Atlanta engaged in the cotton business were quick enough to throw in our face > a bill for cotton delivered in the New ' England States showing that the tare ' was twenty-two pounds, they suppos' ing that the farmer would be con * ? *-- i~ ;? +V>ic onnntrv hp It?JLLI LU ?LLLU W tLLCVL 1U wu WU1AV1? 1 and the cotton buyer, as well as the * cotton mills, were about even; but as two-thirds of our cotton is manufactured in Europe, therefore ship, ped there, a different scene is behind > the curtain when we look beyond the seas, where two-thirds of our cotton - is manufactured. I am in possession of some infor) mation which resembles the follow> ing language: "Under present con, ditions of importing cotton into Engl land, we, the English buyers, always buy it with six per cent, allowed on * tare; this includes the band and can; vas; six per cent tare is about 30 t pounds to the bale." My communii cation also states "that at the Amerit can gin only six ties are put upon - each bale, but all exported cotton s has from eight to ten ties." Now - if we sell, to be perfectly liberal, 3 say five million bales abroad the American buyer buying the same - with twenty-two pounds of tare, and < adds eight pounds more at the prest ent price of cotton, it is no wonder t to me that they are anxious not to 5 be disturbed in this little game. SAYS HE MURDERED HIS WIFE John Goodlett Now in Oconee Jai Awaiting Information. John Goodlett, colored, was lodgei in the jail at Walhalla early last Fri day morning and is being held her pending instructions from Asheville. Goodlett was first noticed particu larly in the Wolf Stake section o Oconee, when he stopped at the hom of Magistrate P. A. Brown and aske< for something to eat. He was givei some victuals by Mr. Brown, whi warned him to "move on" to othe parts. Goodlett, however, was some what talkative, and a little later vol unteered to Magistrate Brown th information that he had killed hi wife at Asheville and was now want ed in the Old North State on th< charge of murder. On this informa tion Mr. Brown held the negro ii custody, prepared a warrant upoi which Goodlett could be held, hai his constable arrest him and brinj him to jail. Since Goodlett has been within th< jail he has somewhat enlarged upo] his original confession, going mor /J /\+rt il ill lip uciaa. It was about four years ago, h< says, that he killed his wife, thougl information from Asheville fixes th< date about two years ago. Discover ing that his wife was unfaithful t< him, Goodlett asserts, he killed he one night while she was in the com pany of another negro man. H< then left North Carolina. Arrivinj at Toccoa, Ga., he assumed the nam< of George Wofford, and shortly afte his arrival he was married to a ne gro woman of that place. He say: that he later learned that she, too was 'nfaithful to him and he becam< A rrari o r> r? 1 H OT1 11 UiOlyUUl UUU AVWW the "gentler sex" in general, decid ing that he would "reform." H< told the woman that she could g< her way and he would go his; tha he had killed his first wife, and tha he was wanted for murder and wa: going to give himself up to the au thorities at Asheville. During hi; stay in Georgia, he divided his tim< between the towns of Toccoa an< Lavonia, according to his statement He claims that he was on his way t< Asheville to give himself up when h< met Mr. Brown and made the confes sion that landed him behind the bar: in this State. There is a re ward of $50 offered by the governo of North Carolina for the arrest o Goodlett, and the sheriff of Bun combe county, that State, has noti fled Sheriff Kay, of Oconee that fron the description of Goodlett given b; Sheriff Kay he is satisfied that h< has the man wanted by them.. Goodlett is a light ginger-cake col ored negro, of slight built and prom inent eyes. He weighs about 135 o 140 pounds. Information fron Greenville, this State, is to the effec that Goodlett is well known in tha city, his mother during slavery hav ing belonged to the McBee family There seems to be considerable inter est there in some quarters as to th negro under arrest. Goodlett will be held here until in formation is received as to the wishe of the North Carolina authorities He seems to have been a very intel ligent sort of fellow, though Sherif Kay seems to think from his genera conversation that his mind may a rresent not be entirely clear. Goodlett says that he was locke up by the Seneca authorities las Wednesday night, and on Thursda; morning he was told to hunt th< tall timber, and he hunted it. This morning Sheriff Kay receivet from Asheville a photograph of Good lett, and there is no mistaking th< fact that he has in his custody th< right man. He will be taken t< Asheville within a very short time, in struotions to that effect having com* from the sheriff of Buncombe county ?Keowee Courier. A CHICAGO TRAGEDY. Young Woman Finds Infant Smoth ered and Mother's Throat Cut. Chicago, August 18.?Returninj from shopping to-day, Mrs.G. H. Fort miller found her baby smothered t< death and her mother, Mrs. Doroth: Bartell, unconscious from razo wounds across the throat. When restored to consciousnes< Mrs. Bartell who is 68 years old declared that a man entered th? house and attacked her with a razor The police found no evidence of i struggle in the house. There hat been no attempt at robery. All th< doors and windows of the housi were locked from the inside. Th< razor with which Mrs. Bartell hat been cut was found Demna ine Dan tub. Mrs. Fortmiller said that he mother had been complaining of pain in her head recently. "You are charged with stealing nine of Colonel Henry's hens las night. Have you any witnesses?' asked the justice sternly. "Xussah!" said Brother Jones hum bly. "I specks I'se sawter perculii dat-uh-way, but it ain't never beei mah custom to take witnesses alonj when I goes out chicken stealin' suh."?Central Law Journal. FSHlisSakel "My husband begged me B to take Cardui," writes Mat- H tie L Bishop, of Waverly, H Va., "and for his sake I a- H greed to try it Before I had H taken 1 bottle, 1 felt better. H "RpfnrA falnncr ParHn i Y H !. BEGINNING "STRING" OF BANKS. * Charleston Men Obtain Commission for Three New Institutions. Columbia, August 19.?Three banks for the low-country, with e Charleston men as petitioners and the possibility of a "string" of banks for ~ that section revealed, were commisf sioned to-day at the office of the sec8 retary of State. Wilson G. Harvey, president of the Enterprise Bank, of a Charleston, and T. Moultrie Mordecai, 0 a lawyer of note, are the petitioners r for the three new banks. Summerville, Harleyville and McClellanville. Each of the banks is 8 capitalized at $25,000. ' A number of banks have been chartered in South Carolina during 8 the last few months. Especially during the present year has the increase a in banks been large. Nearly every ^ small town in the State now has one or more banks. y D e Cotton and Corn Problems. 1 Many farmers have written to me asking whether they should top cot ton that is growing rankly. I have stud3 ed this, and have seen cotton that was 5 topped, trying at once to put weak " shoots to replace the ones cut off and 3 I do not beleive that this is an adr vantage. In fact, I have seen cotton topped a.uu rigui aiuugsiut; sumo iuai 5 was not topped and the long late sea= son gave some top crop on the un3 topped plants. r We do not know what the season is " to be in the fall, and no matter how 5 rank the weed on cotton I would nev er top it. This is my observation, - while there may be some who think 1 they have benefitted the crop by top" ping. But when I was asked recent3 ly when to top cotton, I replied: 3 "Never." Some years ago I saw a friend * hauling out manure in August and s spreading it between the cotton rows. ~ He had been stall feeding some s beeves, as he was in a neighborhood ^ I V* ir* rr Kt* a n?QV^ UtftJi CI U U I <X gWU klliug, U} tuc nu.i /. 1 and he did not want to throw the manure out in heaps to spoil. I ask3 ed him if he thought the manure e would help the cotton at that date. " He said it certainly would do no R harm, as he intended to sow crimson " clover among the cotton and believed r that the manure would help that. f And it did, and more than that, he " got a late top crop of cotton as far " as the manure went. Now, do not 3 let the high price of crimson clover ? seed stop you from sowing it among B the cotton. I believe that in most, sections the time of the first picking " is a good time to sow the seed. Even " if you intend to grow cotton after cotr ton, the clover will be a good thing 1 for there is no better preparation for * cotton than crimson clover plowed * under in April. And for corn which " should follow the cotton, you can let * the clover stand till dead before turn" ing it under, for there is always time B enough to make a crop of corn after the clover has fully matured. In riding around the country here s I notice on the most sandy soils that ' there is no firing of the corn where - ?mmcnn oinTror Ti'ns tnrnpd under for VI 1JLUOVU ViW ? X- A V> MW WV.. * the crop, while on soils that had not * this humus-making material and ni* trogen-fixing crop that there is firing almost to the ears on sandy soils. ' A few days ago I went through a t field of corn near my place. The P growth is splendid, and one would say 3 that the field would be good for fifty bushels an acre. But I do not be- , * lieve it will make over 25 bushels ' solely because of bad seed, for I es3 timated that there are at least 20 per 3 cent, of the great stalks that have no D ear at all, simply growing fodder. " Seed from that field will be worse and 3 worse, for the barren stalks are the , * strongest males in the field, and will . set most of the grain, and the grain will inherit the same tendency to make no ears like the lintless cotton that promoters tried to sell years ago. I know of one corn breeder who has, by years of careful selection and < cutting out of tassels from barren I plants, wholly eliminated barren J - plants from his field. I went through 3 his corn field of thirty acres last fall V and could not find a stalk without an r ear, and he made over ninety-five bushels an acre on the thirty acres, j s and sold it all at an average of $z.ou , per bushel for seed. Does it not pay s to grow good seed??The Proggressive Farmer. i ? i State of Ohio, City of Toledo, 3 Lucas County, g Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ^ he is senior partner of the firm of ! 9 F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business < I j in the city of Toledo, county and ; II State aforesaid, and that said firm ! r will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of cas tarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed 11 5 in my presence, this 6th day of Det cember, A. D. 1886. (SEAL.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. ; Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- . nally, and acts directly on the blood 1 1 and mucous surfaces of the system. ' l Send for testimonials free. ? F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pillls for con stipation. J1 IA^VAV* V ******* suffered miserably every month and had to go to bed until it wore off, but now I am all right1' B iCARDUl The Woman's Tonic I You know Cardui will fl I help you, because it has H helped others who were 1| in the same fix as you. f| It is not only a medi- n cine for sick women, but H a tonic for weak women. H| Being made from mild, B gentle, vegetable ingredi- B ents, it is perfectly harm- B less and has no bad Q after-effects. || Cardui can be rdied H upon to help you. K Try it today. K At all druggists. m PHICHESTER S PILLS ~ ' TIIE DIAMOND BRAND. A Ladiea! Ask your Drugristfor feU Cbl-cbe*-tor'? Diamond 11 ran d/V\\ Pllla in Red *-.d Gold mrtai;ic\^#/ *pv -!^*3 boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. Take no other. But of your * I'/ - flf Druggist. AskforCiri.ClfES.TERS I L 2g DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for 86 \ *C* Ju years known as Best, Safest. 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If the first bottle falls to benefit, your druggist will return your money. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Offices Over Bamberg Banking to. GENERAL PRACTICE. J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Hendersor Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated Shoe & Harness Repairing I have moved my shop to my newbuilding in rear of Johnson's Hotel, by the passenger depot, where I am read to serve you with all kinds of harness and repairing, as well as new work in the harness line. Give me a trial. HEYWOOD JOHNSON BAMBERG. S. C. I DE. GEO. F. HAIR | J Dental Surgeon...Bamberg, S. C. X + In office every day in the week. ? Graduate of Baltimore College X of Dental Surgery, class 1892. X ? Member S. C. Dental Associa X tion. Office in old bank build- T Xjng; 1 I W. P. RILEY | j Fire, Life ;> t Accident || {INSURANCE <: i BAMBERG. S. C. <> / WHY SUFFER FROM ECZEMA? ??? 4 A Georgia Man Tells His Experience. 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