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ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. J. F. N1SBET Editor. OREGON WHEAT. A Wheat Swindle. \ ft. T. Terry, in Practical Farmer. T. B. Heekett, Lagrand, Oregon, Kqo nil In oan f W?? UMO ninuij OOUl 111 o luiru uuo bunches of wheat heads, of different varieties. He wishes to know how they compare with wheat heads that grow in Ohio. The moment I opened the box I said to myself, now I understand better how they get such large yields in the Northwest. The heads are much longer and better filled than any average wheat heads ever are here. The grain, however, is not auy better than we grow, perhaps not quite as plump as ours was this year. The straw is larger and stronger than we ever have. These heads will bo preserved as a beautiful illus tration of what nature can do where conditions are right. But she has not favored us with a climate in which HllC.ll hftailu can ho grown. It is remarked by every one who r>ees them that thev look as though they *\ere artificial; that they are too wonderfully perfect to be natural. I have just received a letter from a certain firm offering me some seed wheat of varieties that have averged 46 bushels per acre for several years ( ?) as they say. I am asked to sign a wheat order blank, agreeing to deliver to them one year from date, 5 bushels of m bor, r waaIaa M-.-J ? J pyvuu n urat 1 ll^U JUT Of the variety sent, me, f??r every one bushel I receive. But they will not send more than 15 bush els to |any one man (?). They Only let you have this seed to grow a sample field to advertise their grain ! The following is my reply : 'No, thank you ! 1 do not rare to bor row a bushel of wheat of you and return it in a year, with 4 bushels more for intere-t?400 per cent.! Not much! You ought to be reliable financially, as you state you are, if y??u can get enough people to lute ?t this hook; but how about th<- poor farmers, who do not wtop to think. out of whom you 'ire making your money? May <?nd have mer cy on your swindling souls ' Let all such hare ' iced swind lers alone, friends. Y ui can buy just as good wheat e?-rtainlv, and probably better, of men * no ad vertise in the P. F., ?*i a reasona ble price. Deal \vi*! nonerable men. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Kruptions rob life of joy. Buck iei'* Arnica Salve, cures them ; Old. Run ning and Fever Sires, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corn?. War' .Cut-, Bruises. Burns, Scalds, ('happed Hands, Chilblains, Best 1'ile cur? on earth Drives out Bains and A - I * v ? ' * - Acues. only gor a i^x. ('urn guaranteed. Sold bv Crawforo Bros., Druggist. (>. A newKpaper whose columns overflow with advertisements ot business men have more influence in attracting attention to building up a town than anv other agency that can be employed. People go where there is business. Cop ital and labor go where there is an enterprising community. No power on earth is so strong to build up a town as a newspaper well patronized, and its power should be appreciated.?T. DeWitt Talmage. BIGHT GENTS COTTON. ' EXPERTS IN FLEECY STAPLE DECLARES NO CROP EVER REACHED 11,000,000 BALES. Says Connt Was Made too Fast. Lagrange, Ga., Sept. 5.?Special. The farmers of Troap county held an enthusiastic meeting in the courthouse this morning for the purpose of organizing and putting on foot some scheme by which the price of cotton can be raised. Three are four hundred farmers were present and Judge F. M. Longley, a practical farmer, was made chairman of the meeting. A prominent cotton buyer and ; classer, also a farmer, showed how * thousands of bales of cotton are counted twice, and declared he was strongly of the opinion that < the United States has never in one year made as many as 11, ' 000,000 bales. A suggestion of this cotton buyer brought forth hearty applause. It was that the merchants, farmers and all who are requested by Neill, Alexander Latham & Co., and others to give estimates as to the cotton acreage yield, etc., refuse to do so. "Every lime such information is given it tightens the cord on the farmers purse," he said. A more perfect scheme for getting the actual number of bales of cotten was suggested and an effort will be made to put it in operation. It was suggested that the ordinary of each county get a list of the nilhlio ffina ftf thn nnnn. I e ty, each proprietor being fur nished with postal cards addressed to the commissioner of agriculture, and every Saturday these cards, showing the number of bales ginned during the week, be mailed to the commissioner. This plan is simple and practical and it will not take over a dollar or two from each county to furnish the cards for the reports. Reports under this plan would be absolutely accurate. A resolution in accorsince with this suggestion was unanimously adopted. The farmers, merchants and backers of Troup county having ' Hkh day met in pursuance of a ! previous call to consider some ! plan of co-operation among the termers, whereby an adequate | price in> y be obtained for the prevent cotton crop, suggests the j t.iil-iwing: 1 "1. The present crop shall not <.< pur on rno niarKet lor a price i I less ihan 8 cents per pound. ' *2 Until that price is reached i'ln bankers and merchants arei i I 11?? advance such amount on all j I * > ?"i? received by them as will, tiiei-T the immediate demands ol the farmer storing said cotton in I the warehouses and as security hold the receipts of such cotton until a sale is deemed advisable. "d. The great difference be* I nvi'Pi) the raw material and the manufactured goods is proof con* I cIumve that the present price of J 1 IliM >.tunli> ia hnl litOo I . ..v-j/.v ?o ?/uif Kbvio iiiwi ?j iiinu j halt 11h value. The surplus on j hand is of such low grades as not to t>e of much value save for the very coarse fabrics and should cut no figure as against the presKodol Dyspepsia Cure Is a sol en tl fir. compound having the endorsement of eminent physicians and the medical press. It "digests what you eat" and Rosltively cures dyspepsia. M. A. 'etron, Bloomingdale, Tenn., says it cured hiin of indigestion of ten years standing. Crawford Bro9. d-W-s / jnt high grade. i "4. There is uo snob thing as i >ver-production of cotton while more than half the human family is in rags and tatters, as a reiult of arrested distribution. "We, therefore, call on the farmers of Georgia and every cotton 1 growing county in the.south to meet at once and organize simi- , lar associations and force the price of our principal product to that figure which will remuner- i ite the industrial classes of the louth, and to that end ask The Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Journal, The Macon Tele < graph, The Montgomery Advertiser and other papers in sympathy to publish the foregoing." Resolutions declaring the intention of the Troup farmers to liold their crops until the desired price is offered and calling on planters throughout the south to join in the movement were adopted. "Best on the market for coughs and colds and all bronchial troubles; for croup it has no euual," writes llenrj R. Whitford, South Canaan, Conn., of One Minute Cough Cure. Crawfoid Bros. d-w-s Stock Notes. dr. galen wilson. Raise More Stock.?A New York daily has the following to say on the subject stated at head of this item : The increase in the price of meat, whatever its cause, is a very serious fact. But there is no reason why it should be a permanent fact, as some of the experts have predicted it will. Cattle, sheep and hogs are not lobsters and oysters. There is no danger of exhaustion of the supply. When it runs low it can be increased. Meat throughout the east, and especially in New York, is now selling at prices that make live stock an exceedingly profitable thing to raise. Any farmer who has any animal fit for the butcher has something that is as good as cash. And it is not necessary to have a section of west eru bottom land to make money in this way. The rockiest aban doned farm in Vermont can be made to support stock. The peo_1 ~ _ it. ' pio in me cuies are Hungry ana clamoring for meat. The farmers want to make money. Let de mand and supply come together here, and both sides will be happy. On the same date another New York city paper quotes good native steers at $5 00 to $0 per cwt.; hogs, $5 to $3.15; sheep $5.00 to *7, all live weight. The Rochester, N. Y., Chronicle, August 10, has the following to say : "Vegetarians will not resent the recent action of the Chicago meat combine in advancing the prices! of meats 2 V cents a pound. Amor-1 icans would have better health ifi they ate less meat, and the dearer the meat barons make their! products, the less will be eaten.'' I quote the last only to show the large advance recently made in the price of meats, having no very kind feeling towards the vegetarinnfl wlw* if* i? iimlinre oc oom i pared with the whole population,, are as hut one in a thousand. Most people seem to require meat, especially the laboring classes, and it is their right to have it. Nature gave them incisors to bite and rend, and molars to masticate, plainly indicating meats as a proper diet for them. The prices of meat animals and meats are E. K. Turner, Compton, Mo., was cured of piles by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve after suffering seventeen years and trving over twenty reme. dies. Physicians and surgeons endorse it. Beware of dangerous counterfeitsCrawford Bros. d-w-s . v ' - ' * ' ' away up, beyond the means of many to purchase. Now, let us look at the curient prices' of the cereals. In New York wheat is quoted at 75 to 78 cents a bushel; corn, 36 to 38 ; eye, 55 to 60; oats, 26 to 28 Thus we have it; meats way up and the cereals way down. Farm ers generally do not. realize that growing and selling cereals tends to impoverish their boil ; while growing and selling meats, wher judiciously conducted, has the contrary effect. Their efforts are mainly expended in producing that which brings them the leas' profit. And why is this? We have not far to look to find the correct answer. Several yeari ago the meat barons undertool to control nil the frooli moot t*.o.l. of the United States by erectin; meat houses in every coneiderabh town, and 'selling fresh meati from the cheap lands of the wes lower than they could be growi on cultivated farms in the easteri and middle states. They sue ceeded so well that growing mea in these states became unprofit able and waS abandoned. Loca butchers ceased slaughtering, be cause they had nothing to slaugh ter, and they became merely re lailers of western meats. Gettini control of all the markets, am driving eastern producers out o the business, the barons com menced increasing their prices until now a great many citizen can illy afford to eat any meat a all. And is not this about th< history of all trusts ? It behoove most farmers now to decrease th< production of grain and grov more of what pays better?meats And at the next governmenta election vote only for honest men who are sacredly pledged ti squelch all robber trusts. Memory of Sleepwalkers. The memory of sleepwalkers i occasionally prodigious under th< influence of the dominating im pulse that moves them. There i an instance of a poor and illiter ate basket maker, who was una ble to read or write, yet in a stat ot sleep he would preach tlueo sermons, which were afterwan recognized as haVing formed por tions of discourses he was ac^us tomed to hear in the parisl church as a child more than 4' years before. Quite as strange i case of "unconscious memory" i referred to by I)r. Abererombie A girl given to sleepwalking wa in the habit of imitating a violii with her lips, givieg the prelimi .ui J i ii it i it fm. null m I n [II llf; Mill llourishing with the utmost fidel ity. It puzzled the physician : good deal, until ho ascertains that when a child she lived in > room adjoining a fiddler who of ten performed on his violin in he hearing.?Pearson's Weekly. it r. m a it it a it i.t: it knci i:. Mrs. Michael Curtain, i'lain field, 111., makes the statement that she caught cold, which set tied on her lungs ; she was treatei for a month by her family physi cian, but grew worse. He toll her she was a hopeless victim o consumption and that no medi cine could cure her. Her drug gist suggested Dr. King's Nev Discovery for Consumption ; shi bought a bottle anil to hordolml. found herself benefitted fron first (lose. She continued its usi and after taking six bottles,fonn< herself sound and well; now does her own housework, and is a well as she ever was.?Kree tria bottles of this Great Discovery a Crawford Bros Drug Store. Onlj 50 cents and $1.00, every bottlt guaranteed. ( Eriuratn Your Doweli With ('Mctr?U. Candy Cathartic, eve constipation forever 10c. 25c. If C. 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( > Excellent dally passenger aervioa between 1 Florida and Naw York. 8 Noa St and 84?New York and Florida Express. Drawing-Room Bleeping Cars between I Augusta and New York. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between 9 Tampa, Jacksonville, bavannah, Washington and New York. s Pullman Sleeping Cars between Charlotte a and Richmond. 0 Noe. 86 and Hd?U. 8. Fast Mall. Through A v Fullman drawing room buffet sleeping cars be- v H tween Jacksonville and New York and Pulll, man aleeping cars between Augusta and Char. lot te. Dining cars serve all meals en route. 1 Pullman sleeping ears between Jacksonville and Columbia, en route daily between Jack- M , nonville and Cincinnati, via Asheville. ,-^jP FRANK 8. GANNON, ,T. M. OTTLP, / 7" J Third V P. 4b Qea. Mgr. T. M? Washington W. A- TURK, 8. H. HARUWICK. O. P. A.. Washington. A 8. P. A., Atlanta OOUTH CAR0L1HA & GEORGIA B 0 EXTERSIOR R. R. COMPART. 9 Schedule No. 2 In Effect 12 01 a. m.. Sunday, June 18th, 1800. - Between Camden, S- C., and Shelby, R. C. . W.st 33 | host. 32. Firs < KASTERN TIME. [HMr-. , . isa B I'.lM-sf.il/4T 1 Uao.n....,* t Duily Dully Except STATION-. Except ? 1 _Suncl .y Sunday. . PM IA M 12 ui i umu' n 111 15 I; e? D.-Knlb II 1* 12 27 \\ enlvtllO 111 UO 1 12 5'? K>t>lut? 110 45 [) I l-> llc.tih Spr.nir Id 3d I 2U Pleuaunt Dill Id 25 H I Pi l.iintur 10 05 1 55; Kivcr. i in 0 50 B 2 05 sprlnedt-ll B 40 . 2 20 Cutiiwlm June I Ion B 30 2 30 -9 20 ^ S 2 hi Kin li Mill B I > 1 3 05 Newton 8 US i N 3 12 Tlrzn 8 >2 3 25 York villi- 8 20 3 MI Mhtiou 8 0 [1 3 52 l!ick> iy 11 rare 7 45 \ , , 4 02 Sin -rn i 7 30 -U 4 2 > hlucksbur/ 7 10 " j MM El.'I 5 50 5 no Pull< rnnn SpruiKH 0 40 1 5 15 SI I I V 5 3) I I ?* M _ |a. m . Between Bla iksburM S.C.,and Marion,N.C. r ! -1 ii iK isi. i2. s, c i K A s 1 h It N I 1 M K I Mixt-o | | HlXutT" D.n.> 1 D .fly Except i STATION'S. I Except I I" M " P y|> - I 8 lo llliii-ksbiir.' ' B 10 8 3*i Kuril 8 50 t | 8 |'i PuttiTMon ^prluirn H 38 ' 0 20 Sliclby 8 30 ' I 1 i I (ill I .Ml..? -? Ill i I ,1V 1 W MoorcMboro 7 iJO J1' 25 11? nrli-ttii 7 "0 ]0f>0 Fores' illy fi :bs " I. Kuilirrfonlton fl l?T* , ' I Millwood 5 &o I 11 lloltW n V illoy 5 85 2 05 Ttierinal C tv 5 30 * J2 25 C Ion wood 5 05 . SO Marion 4 4o v wi;>t i \i;v 1 >i*visi6n """ ks*fc r FirM riits'T" | Fl IS l ? KASTKRN TIMB. ' 14 a B ~ ~ w 1 *>S1i ?? f? :? se st a 1 3-~ i^7 STATIONS. D i. 23 ?35 ? 35=^59 * * j. M?i UaB n ______________ .IMAM A M. P. M. 1 I :?) ft 00 Blacksburi; 7 oo A SO ? 4-flO 5 20 Cherokee Falls fl 40 6 10 1 5 io h 40 Oaffr.ey fl ? 5 W 7 P M A. M A. *?. P. M. ? ? A ) Train# make connection with Southern road , 1 at Mlarknburg'. C ft N W road at Yorkvllle, > with the Southern at Hock Hill, S A. L. at Catawba Junction, L ft C. at Lancaster for Chester, and with tho Charleston Division of the Southern at Camden. SAM'L. HUNT, A. THlPPi President Superintendent S. B. LUMPKIN, O. P. A. 7