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THE WAY OUT And the Ouly Way Out For the Faimsr. SOME PLAIN TRUTHS Corn, Wheat aiul lock Fanners of the West Herniate Prices by Living at Home, and Southern Farmers Can l>o the Same 'thing if They Will Try to l>o It. Hon. John M. Parker, of New Orleans, discussed the methods of cotton farmers in plain, hard words that evoked much applause during the forenoon of the last day of the Farmers' Union Convention at New Orleans. Ho spoke as follows: "It is much more pleasant and safe to hand bouquets than it is '.o throw hrick, and, for that reason, most speakers at farmers' gatherings adopt the former course, and give 'the hardy sons of toll' such a surfeit of llatterly as to make a blunt statement of existing (conditions most unwelcome. "A number of personal experiences have satisfied me the majority are like children, and prefer a sugarcoated pill to quinine. Sometimes It is necessary to give your medicine straight. Due to low prices and the boll weevil, already over a large section and certain to spread further, the time has come for the farmer to take his dose like a man. "My excuse for this preface is having addressed a number of farmers gatherings and having been hooted and hissed at, too,' I now ask as a personal favor that you hold up any demonstrations until my short talk Is finished, as it is decidedly unpleasant for a speaker to be interrupted with the shout "Throw him out,' and then again, it is apt to interfere with this argument. "There is no more improvident man-.on earth than tlie average cotton planter. In those good old days. , r > , ? ... ihmoix i ix* war, oi w 111 o 11 tin* orator tolls us, history says ovory farmer had hi- smoke-house packed with lmcon, his crib filled with corn, the grist mill hummed regularly, and the farmers waxed fat and prosperous. "Today not one cotton farmer In ton raises meat. Not one in five raises corn enough to last him, and, shameful to say, thousands actually buy the* hay necessary to sustain their stock. "Annually now for some years the cotton farmers meet in convention, listen to some good political speeches, and occasionally a new joke, then vigorously applaud tlx* fervid oratory denouncing all trusts, and finally organize the biggest kind of a trust t r gulate price.-, agree to decrease acreage and diversify their crops, to raise what they need at home, an i he independent of bank, cotton factors or merchants. "Their final resolutions are enthusiastically carried at the convention hall, and all conveniently forgotten. for by the time they return home, they decide to plant a little bit more cotton, and they keep ot. in the same old way. "Do you cvor hear the wheat grow r. or the corn grower, or the oat grower, or the mule raiser ca I conventions to 'regulate prices?' Not on your life. lie goes ahead. num- uiiin no geiS out Ol debt, then aslts the value of his product and holds it until he gets it. lie don't sit on the fence and cry for either moral or financial sympat hy. "The curse of our cotton planter Is debt, and until he gets out of deb* he will never realize his dreams of independence. "Have you ever thought that in the great chain of the credit system the cotton planter forms one of the important links? How the tenant borrows from the planter, who borrows from the merchant or factor, who, in turn, borrows from the local bank, which borrows in one of the great financial centers, which, in turn, borrows from the financial centers of Europe, and how in return both from the picking of the cotton to the final sending of the bill of exchange to reimburse the European center completes the chain? "Credit Is the whole system, with tlio high prices and excessive charges which must l>e made to cover'the risk involved. "Have you ev(?r boon through Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, or Iowa, and seen the farmers of those sections? Great, splendid barns filled with hay and corn and oats and silage. The pasture with sleek cattle and sheep and hogs, the tool-house filled with well-kept implements, everything neat and orderly, and some profit on every article raised. They rotate crops in those sections, and keep their property up, and have money in hank. "Why do our planters still adhere to the razor-back hog and scrub cattle when at a less expense they could raise fi*jo stock, which will improve the farm and go a long ways towards lifting the mortage. The loss and abuse of farm implements annually represent a fortune. Hoes, plows, harrows, mowing machines * and wagons often lie, for months > xposcd to the elements and when t crops of corn and cotton are gathered they are shamefully cared for. The leaky barns with damaged corn and colicky mules are a disgrace. "No other agricultural product is as abused as cotton, it is improperly covered, improperly cared for, and there is not a train out of New.Orleans from whose car window's you cannot see picked cotton lying out over-night ex|>osed to weather, bales of cotton lying on the ground or under a tree, or in a puddle of water, with chen> hugging rotting and cotton daily being damaged. Such planters don't deserve the name of cotton farmer. They are merely cotton producers. "Most business men or professional men will average at least 2 7." working days a year. On the properties under niv control last season the greatest time any tenant actually worked in the fields was 1 41> days, tho least time 112 days, and the average 128 days, or less than onehalf the time put in by the merchant or professional man. It was either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, or any old excuse to keep out of the field. "The Northern farmer works twice as hard as we do and under great, disadvantages, and to the full appreciates the old motto: The T,ord helps those who help themselves.' "Quit resolving and resoluting. flet to work. Diversify your crop. Raise good stock. Get your Congressman to send you the latest Government bulletins. Get the host seed. Raise what you can at home. Above all, got out of debt. Stay out of debt, and then hold your products until you get value for them, an 1 the whole world, instead of condemning, will applaud your wisdom." JAH STICKS ON IMS IIKA1). Itoy Plays Soldier and (lets Into Trouble. New York, Nov. 2 8.?Playing soldier a Brooklyn youngster placed a brown earthenware jar, such as i.i used for baking beans, on his head for a helmet, then found to his mortification and horror that he could not remove it. Even more mortified and more terrified was his mothej, who in desperation hurried the sobbing little soldier out of th? house and boarded a car bent on taking him to a physician. The child could not even wipe his tear-filled eyes, for the rim of the jar rested on the bridge of his nose I Blushing furiously, the mother tried to appear unconcerned in the face of the staring passengers, but finally one woman grew so serious that she asked: j "Why does your little boy wear | a bean pot?" "Hocause ha can not got it off," replied the mother, stiffly. "Why don't you break it with a hammer?" some one suggested. This proved to he a happy thought, and as there was no hamnn r available, the motornian was railed to the rescue. Ho broke the jar with his controller. The li.ttlo boy gulped with relief, and his mother took him home. * \yi:\t o\ tiii: war patii Ihsause Her Son Was Whipped at Public School. Cuthbert, Ha., Nov. 2S.?Cuth bert's ])uhlic school children wen thrown into a panic Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. \V. M. Shirley, wife of Rev. \V. M. Shirley, a Rapt 1st minister, went, it is alleged, to the school house holding a brick in her hand, and in a very exciting manner ask-d for one of the young lad> teachers. One of the larger boys called Su perintendent Hambv, while a man living near telephoned for the police. Chief of Police Cox answered the call and restored order. The case of disorderly conduct has been entered against .Mrs. Shirley and will he tried in the police court next Monday afternoon. The trouble, it is alleged, grew out of one of the teachers whipping Mrs. Shirley's son for an alleged infraction of the rv.les. Some of the school hoys claim that Mrs. Shilrey visited the school again on Wednesday afternoon, this time armed with a nistni but Pain..., to find tho teacher she was looking for, left without making any demonstration. m KILLKI) A PLANTER. Three Negroes Arrested Charged With the Crime. Greensboro, Ala., Nov. 2S.?Sheriff Gewin has captured three negroes, charged with tho murder of Former Sheriff It. W. Drake, near Laneville, Ala., Thursday night. One of the negroes confessed and implicated the other two. lie says that ho held the light while the other two negroes "\t.? - ? -- ' * u.wvrw .in. ny kiiof'King nun in the head with an a\o; that they then saturated his clothing and the bed clothing with oil and sot fire to thorn. Steps have boon takon to call a special term of court to try tho negroes because of the feeling, which is running high. * An alderman in Chicago has introduced an ordinance to prohibit football in the Windy City. They come to the front ever day in that town. WHAT WE NtlU ANI) IIOW Till'! GO Villi NMKVk CAN IIKLI*. Ilcllor Foreign Markets, Ileal liegu lotion of Trusts aiul More C'ottoi Manufacturing at Home. Tom Watson. of Georgia, at tlu meeting of the Farmers' Union in New Orleans recently made a speech from which we make the extract below : "In civilized government then are three great departments upon which prosperity depends. Agriculture is one, manufacturing is anothci and commerce is another. If tlu ;overnmont keeps hands off and merely protects each man in the possession of his property, it is an open field and a free light, 'root hog, or die.' The government can do this, or it can protect each and every 0110 of these departments, in which case ;he result would lie about the saun as in the first. Hut when the govern mont tak'?s up one at the expense oi the others, the other two are injured. When it takes up two at tlie expense of the third, the third languishes and suffers. Analyze this situation and you will begin to realize what is the matiter with the backbone of the country." Mr. Watson reviewed tho history or protection in this country, and declared the manufacturers hare not only made S per cent, but also cleared $2,000,000,000 besides. Ho said that the farmer has never asked anything but a free Held and a fair flgh*. and had been denied these; that he had never asked to have other commodities taken to put money iu his own pocket; that no more unsellflsh man was ever made in Clod's image on this earth; that when there is ,t pestilential swamp to drain, tlu; farmer drains it; that when thero are taxes to pay. the farmer pays them; that in the early history of the country when there were savages to drive hack, it was the farmer who shouldered his musket and did the work. The capture of Andre was referred to and it was stated thai tin1 farmers who captured him could not lie bribed. We cotton farmers of the South are the only people in the world who have a "monopoly and don't know what to do with it. continued the speaker. The Steel Trust has a m ?nopolv and knows what, to do. It sells yon plows, and hoes and rakes, and you have to pay the price. The Harvester Trust makes you pay the price. And all the time they are ?-? C% * i- ?- ? in num ii America and Russia at cheaper prices than at homo. The Coal Trust fixes the price of the coal. It is their business to fix the price and yours to pay the price. Congress could have said: "No, I won't burden the agriculturist with such loads as these." Congress could have broadened your markets, obtained greater mercantile trade by reciprocity and other treaties. One commodity could be exchanged for another on terms fair to both. Hut its policies have caused the other nations to adopt- retalitory tactics and narrowed the foreign markets to the produtcts of the American agrieult nrlst. President MoKinloy sent a Commission to Franco to negotiate a treaty that would have meant the entry into that country of cottonseed products from the South, valued at $20,000,000 a year. Hut the Senate killed it, and killed it because it contained a clause favoring the importation of French hosiery. Some little old New England mill would have been affected, and so $20,000,noo a year to the South had to b? sacrificed. In 1 907, the sale of cotton abroad amounted to 9,708,000 hales. This cotton was manufactured and shipped hack again and sold at higher prices, so that the net profit to our country was only $9,000,000. Hon t that show that we are selling cottoi two low? Why not manufacture every hale right here? The high tariff and trust system has restricted and, narrowed the market, cut off the demand and left a surplus. The remedy lies in a lower tariff. Let the foreigner in, reduce the price of American goods that are now protected, and thereby InoKAnno tb/v J * niviuiiBu iut; wiMiuiiiu ior raw cotton for tho greater the demand Is the greater will be the price. That's tho permanent remedy. Now for immediate and temporary relief. I like that warehouse plan. That takes it off. The coffee growers were confronted with a situation al most similar to that which now confronts the cotton farmer. Did they swamp the market with their overproduction? No, they put all their surplus in warehouses, raised the price and compelled the consumer to pay for not only what was market o<i, but alsu for what was never sohi at all. Killed by Train. Covington, T,a., Nov. 2 0.?While pnsing the station at Florenville, T.a., one car of a r.rent Northern railroad gravel train jumped the track and crashed into the depot. Mrs. J. W. Condor, wife of the treasurer of the Covington Naval Stores Company, v. ho was waiting for a train, was killed outright. Sevearl negroes were badly injured. | HOG KILLING TIME SOMK <;ooi> ou> SOUTH I:KX Kcri|M*S of llow to Make All Sorts of (?oo<l Tilings When You Kill Your Hogs 'litis Winter. We print below some Rood oldtinie Soutl%rn recipes that were used before creosote, borax and oth1 er so-called preservatives were known. In the days before the war. says Commissioner of Agriculture . (iraham, of North Carolina, in the i Progressive Farmer, any one who used these things would have but little company for Christmas. Hut . here is what we started out to say: 1 "In Cutting Up." In "cutting up" the hog, cut 1 through the skin on each side of the backbone; this gives the "fat back" piece, which with all surplus fat from the hams and shoulders goes into the lard. First-class lard is generally the highest priced hog product. 1 cut to savo ail that can he gotten. Pork Chops. In taking out the spare ribs begin at the bottom instead of at the backbone, as is usually done. Tnk" , out th? loin, some times called griskin or sausage piece, with the rlt). Cut the rib In two lengthwise, the bottom piece is still spare lit); cut each rib of upper piece with attuehed meat for chops. ih a ?uoai or nog weigmng sixty pounds or Jess the backbone can be 'split, leaving half to each side. Cut the lower half for "barbecue" and then separate each rib through thu ukln for chops. How to Treat llams. Whea cut out sprinkle half teaspoonful of powdered salt peter on each bam; use one part granulated sugar, three parts good salt; put hams in tub or box, let remain three days, break bulk and re-pack, using some salt. This is done to bo sure that all parts of the ham get their salt. Let it lie in bulk one day for each pound the ham weighs hang and smoke for ten days, take down and apply to flesh of ham a paste of molasses and ground' black pepper, wrap in newspaper and pack in barrel with cut, nice hay between hams to keep from touching. This process is for hams from hogs weighing 2."i0 pounds or less Those who have few hams can treat the shoulders as hams. For hams ' from hogs weighing more than 2;">n pounds, put in brine described below for corn beef and pickled pork, let lie for four we >ks and then siftoke until dry and treat as for lighter hams. I'ickUMi I'ork. Cut tlio pork in pieces of suitable size, pack in barrel. For each 1U?) pounds of pork prepare: G quarts good salt, G gallons water, 1-4 pound saltpeter, 1 pound sugar, 1 pint molasses. Mix cold without boiling and pour over the beef. In a week's time it will be ready for use, and will keen for a year. Corn beef can be made by using the above brine and packing , it in a barrel. llog Feet. I Boil until thoroughly done, split the foot, beginning between the hoof, fry in batter as you would fry chicken. Nothing better about a hog. The ears and the skull below ^ the eyes will do for souse, but do s not spoil feet to make it. ^ Fiver Mush. ( Boil together a skull and a haslet 1 (liver and lights, but not heart) "I until thoroughly done, take out tli" c bones, mash together, season with sage and onions, pdt meal sufficient to make a stiff dough, boil half an ( hour, pour in a mold, and when cold \ out in slices and fry as needed for breakfast. Tongues. Have a kit of brine and put the tongues in as you kill your hogs. * Ca.ii mix hog and beef tongues. * QUEER ACTION OF LAKE. Goes Dry Atmut Every Five Yea?s m or So. Tifton, Ga., Nov. 28.?Ross laka, one of the most notable bodies of water in this section of the State, situated about ten miles east of Ashburn, in Turner county, went dry this week, the waters being emptied Th ursday. This body of water which is about 500 yards in length by about 3 00 yards In width, emptied itself periodically, formerly about every seven years, but recently once about every five years. The water begins running out after a protracted spell of dry weath- ' er and runs off several days before the lake is emptied. When the lake begins to empty itself the citizens gather for miles around to see the curious sight and to catch the fish, of which many barrels are gathered. The lake is entirely empty now. the water flowing through a large hole between rocks near the center. It. will flill up again as soon as the rains come and about five years from now empty itself again. * STiLLS CAPTURED Tlll'ItSDAV OVEK IX THE COI NTV OF AIKEN. Officers Find Some "illiiul Timers" lliisily Turning Out the "Tiisshc" Variety in Edisto Swamp. Aiken, S. C., Nov. 2S.?Vigilant efforts are being made by the constabulary officers of this county in an effort to break up the blind tigers that are said to infest the Edisto river swamps. The officers, Messrs , Cato, Samuels and I>. II. Wallace, returned to the city Wednesday from Merritts bridge, where they made a successful haul, bringing with them a large copper still, that appeared to have recevMy b. en bought. Sunday night the officers paid a visit to the vicinity, und found a I quantity of "mash," but the still | was conspicuously absent. Th v J calculated that if things were left undisturbed, the "mash" would be made into "blind tiger" about Tuesday afternoon, that, being the time> it would require, Ik fore the mash would be sufficiently soured to be used. Tuesday afternoon they were m the scene. They found that their calculations as to time were correct, i but they were just a few hours too; early to catch the bunch at work. ! They found tne still, a new copper apparatus all in readiness, and thei "mash" in ' first class rnnrlltlrni "I rid all other appurtenances road/ for still 1 up hot tho op? raation li*d not actually commenced. They thought of leaving it in place and returning, hut fearing t' at they may have already been discovered, and that the still would he taken away it' left unmolested, they decided to "break up" things. So taking the still in the vehicle with them they destroyed about 100 ga.Ions of mash, broke all the harries, iugs, etc. The still was brought to the city by the ofllcers. j Messrs. Ca*o and Samuels are the; county dispensary constables, and Mr. Wallace is a I'nited States revenue ofllcer. This is the third sl'M captured on Edlsto river within the past few months, and tho ofllcers, are being co? gratuiated upon their excellent work. Yesterday morning the same officers made another raid in the s*me vicinity This raid was made at a saw mill about four miles from i Morritts bridge. Thev did not lind a still at this point, but found an empty furnace where -a still had recently been taken from, apparently very hurriedly. Five barrels of in ash was destroyed here, about 1 ?C gallons. It was supposed that tho onerarors if this still, hearing of the fate >f t he* one near Morritts bridge, had lastil.v removed it to a place of saf-? My. Resides the mash, which was, made of corn, five barrels; one 'flock" stand, a portion of a still >ots, jugs and tubs were chopped to . )ieces with axes. * Fiend Killed. , Jackson, Miss., Nov. 26.?Wi'l < \nderson, suspected of being Wili i daok, the negro who criminally as 1 aulted Miss Meyers, a 16-year-old vhite girl, at Pelahatcliie last Fri- * lay, was shot to death Monday night ( >v a sheriff's posse near Brandon. The negro refused to halt when the loinmand was given to surrender. Southern States ri r ivlqchinerv , m&kWWtSnBMBEtotiBUZXaJGk l'HONl COLLI M E ^ gibbes tori Uj A money-maker Indeed, g self. Write. _ ,, GIbbcs M Good! vE/ s?"'n z\ BOX 12DO, ( Tlie American All-Wrought T*|ip B Split Stool l'ulloys. * "V 1 STANDARD DESIGN iii2L44L.^0l C\\r<JllT A SKA HAT. Stnin^c Fish Taken in n Seine Oil North Carolina Coast. One of the rarest specimens of the fish kingdom known to watery contiguous to the North Carolina Voast was captured in a seine at Masonhoro Sound Monday by William Hewlett, a fisherman. The fish, which was brought to the city, is what is called "tho sea bat," and it is a perfect reproduction of a leather wing bat oil a large scale. '1 lie fish is about fifteen iuches long and about thirty inches across the back. Strange to state, it had a thin threadlike tail about fifteen inches in length and on each side of the rear appendage were two perfectly termed gloved feet, with a smgler diversion having the exact ap f ance of a thumb, with the oth(^^V.un of the hand mittenod. The mouth of tho strange specimen was about five inches across and on each side of the mouth or tho under side of tho body there were five "strainers" or holes through which tha fish is said to rid itself of refuse products resulting from tho forage it picks up at tho bottom of tho sea. 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