Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i f ? iFTARMERy * UNION BUREAU. 4lk-* Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union. dross all communications intended for this 1 olumu to J. C. JStriblinjr, Pendleton ,S. C. Bucket Shops and The New York Cotton Exchange. ?1T| 1 ~ I unil ' V UtMl UlllNfl SUUp mm wv "legitimate eotton exchanges" go with it, what next? Shall we swap the little devil of a bncket shop for the big devil of a "legitimate cotton exchange" under another name? "Is there a nigger in the woodpile behind this new proposition of "Cot-; ton Bureau" to follow exchanges?" "Who is it that is so much interest ed in the welfare of the farmers and the mill men?" "Who will manage this new concern? \ are some of the' pertinent questions bought forward by correspondents of The Piedmont Herald, Greenville News and othei papers. The statement is made that these wire tonnections will cost from - ~ 'i ? %2o to $oU per mile, operator uum < $5 to $10 per day, then manager, office lent, etc., will cost from $10 to $20 per day. Who will pay this enormous expense?" Somebody has got to make big money out of this affair and the maney will all eventually?soouer or later??iome out of the producer of: -'tsotton as usual. Our Way Oat of It is TblSi * i . What do the people want with all 1 this New York wire connections, anyway? Does New York make the cotton? Do our Southern cotton mills need to go to New York for ( thpirmtton when eixrbt-tenths of all i the world's cottou is grown at their j own door? Why should the farmer! that grows the coitou, and should J know the cost thereof, ask the New * '?\ York Cotton Exchange, over these costly wires, whether or not he shoaldsell his products for cost, or ^ profit, or at a loss? Call. this great New York wire connection what yon may; nick name it to suit the taste of the people if yon please, but the facts are this whole schema is one grand sucUoa pomp line through vihich the wealth of the South is I pumped out into the East. Cotton growers want no comprom ise in this bucket shop ana uoiioq gambling business. We want bottom knocked out of the whote business, and the earth in the South ivept clean of the whale business and the places where they stood disinfected. It is of little concern to those that are being robbed whether the thing is done legitimately or ille~ g*dly> whether the act is done in the darkest of the night or at noonday; or whether it is done by the little bucket shops or the great he-bucket shop as Senator Daris calls the New York Cotton Exchange. , This arch mammon, the New York Cotton Exchange, is no doubt the chief conspirator behind this whole cotton bnrean wire business. When onr cotton mills wait cotton let them get it at first cost from the growers of cotton through the "Farmers' Cotton Union" or warehonses. The New York Cotton Exchange neither makes cotton or owns cotton unlees they get it from the South. When the farmer wants to know what his cotton is worth let him ask the Farmers' Union and the Southern Cotton association abont it. They know the average cost of production and what is a reasonable profit on their cotton. What does New York Cotton EJxchange know or care about * * ? 4 A _ iL these factors ot cost ana prone to me cotton grower? Whei oar business men, merchants and cotton mill men in the Sonth want to spend large sums of money in the interest of the cottoir trade and"for the interest of the whole people who produce and spin cotton, let them do it in paring the roadway direct from the cotton fields of the South to the mills of the world at first cost and keep the profits that are justly due to the Sonth at home. It will take the combination of both brain power and musctle power to produce cotton aid command and control the cotton situation of the South, and absolutely every man in every occupation in the South is directly or indirectly interested in prolitable prices to the South for her cotton, excepting those among us who are in league with our enemies ?the cotton gamblers and speculators. It is these cotton gamblers and speculators that cause our mil men to grow gray all too soon and the wives and daughters of cotton i growers to go in tattered rags and j their children to grow up in dense j ignorance. It takes sweat and labor! to make cotton, and it takes aj triumph of brain power to turn this' ,r,trv rrnl.l th.? Sniith'fil t'UllVli 1UIA? fev/,vi *v'* *-'v * * credit. It will not be done through] making laws to operate wires for j cotton manipulator?! but it can be] done by opening up a channel of' trade under absolute control of the' growers and spinners of cotton; to! the beuetit of the spinners the world | over and at the same time transform j the South from a community of bor rowers into a community of self-re-1 liant capitalists. It will set the; South up iu business for itself on j its own account The limit of submission and suffering of the South ! through this legalized. robbery has j been reached. Cut off this.* beak of the vampires that are sucking the South'* life blood out and lets take i care of ourselves. We"can do it. That is right, take your cotton right along back home or to the warehouse when you can't get your I price; that is the sort of pluck to wear. The South Carolina Union was right when they set the price at 12 cts, and all that have sold for less than the minimupa of-11 qts4 feel the loss, and now, since the race to market is over, they wiV have plenty time to go over the wnole calculation and see just how far behind the dead line of profit loss jb$Y have now landed. Now and then we meet up with a real fair looking prosperous farmer that makes it a point to tell as that while be does not belong, to the Union he is holding his cotton for 11 cents and is sticking to the Union. Now we want to know if all farmers ? I'l*" *!?'? IPAnl/l were JU5t ll&e UUC UllBU "ucit nwuiu this man gets a Farmers' Union to stick to? This oiao is fooling himself when he thinks that there is always something lying around especially for him that others don't get. We are sore that if this man had a sadden downfall for deep trouble that the first aid that came to him would be his beet Union neighbors. : i ? About Onr Fanners' Union Barton. Can too ran a Farmers' Union Bu.ean without money? Can yon get op a better column for oar farmers than we have been dotng? If so, now is your chance to take hold of it *nd show your hand. Send ns some of yonr condeused good thoughts, and we will give yon a fair showing. Did yon know that the Anderson S C., County Farmers' Union was the only conntv in the State that has ever paid a dollar towards the sapport of onr Farmers' Union Bnreau that is spreading Farmers' Union and progressive farm news over every cotton State, from the Bio Grand to the James river? Two dollars will pay the actual cost of fifty-two copies of our Bureau column. Send this two dollars in to the State Treasurer, B F Earle Anderson, S 0., and the name of your county paper that your County Union has chosen to publish your column, and your column will be mailed out to your paper every Monday for the year. If the publishers of your county paper tells you that they have no room for yonr" Farmers' column in their paper, you just go home and look on yonr reading table and see if you have any room there ior his paper. We are" uo boycotters, but our farmers' interest comes, first. We are uot mad, but we are disgusted, and bare got about enough of some county papers that always have plenty of room for all manner of politics and common rot, but no room for a farmers' column If these country papers hare an interest in their counties of more importance than the farm, and need more aid and information than their farmers do, let them eater to that interest, and the farmers can then look oat for their friends. CUTTING THIRD BASE. | 0 How Mike Kolly First Worked the P*' loi moui Trick In Boston. The trick of cutting third base in f o game of ball was originated by i tra Mike Kelly when he was a member kn< of the famous Chicago champions, poi The first time he tried it success- 6ta fully was in Boston. There were no 10,000 persons present, and when the the last half of the ninth inning be- bal gan the score was tied. 'Kelly, who Ne was the first man at the bat, turned ass to the crowded grand stand before wo: taking his place and shouted: of "Open the gates and go home! sin It's all over!'' Kel was guyed un- thi; mercifully, but lie merely laughed cor and cracked out a safe hit. As he It crossed first base he fell and rolled "gc on the ground in apparent agony. ter "It's me ankle!" cried the king, its< and the Chicago players took off sig his shoe. After fifteen minutes' ni.i delay Kelly got up and seemed to me be very lame. The Boston battery, pri believing that he could not run. Inpaid little attention to him, until me suddenly^ he. <la?hed. for. second like call a real sprinter and slid around Bur- a d dock in safety. ed "Never touched me!" yelled Tvel- pre lv, and theVi all eyes were turned to \Vl Captain Anson. The latter finally the Sushed a slow grounder toward all ohn Morrill, the first baseman, gig and Eugene Van Court, the umpire, one ran down the base line to see wheth- Ma er Morrill got to the bag ahead of col Anson. He believed Kelly would wit go only as far as third, so he did tha not look at Mike. r The moment the ball was hit by far Anson Kel ran as far as shortstop, is < then turned boldly into the infield the and cut across at least five yards ma from third. He reached the base wh line before the umpire turned to ers see what he was doing and fairly call flew across the plate in a long slide the with the winning run. 17f "He didn't touch third!" scream- waj cd thousands. tra "He cut the bag five yards!" roar- a i Wit-a Urn Rrtclnn cVirtrfc+An UU UQill 11 IOC* i^VD VV/il ruvi vwvvj/1 HI*.' But the umpire was helpless, as he tha hadn't seen the trick*, and so was r compelled to allow *the Tun. The lab big crowd, at first enraged at the of trick, leaped down upon the field ow in a threatening manner, but Kel cor soon won everybody over by shout- of ing: of "It's all over! The game's won! ev( You can't get it back!- Open the jou gates!" Then there was a great vie: cheer for the trickiest ball player res who ever walked the diamond. This to trick was original with Kelly, and ,an< many players have tried it since.? exi Exchange. v Th? Junius Lsttsrs. > No fewer than thirty-seven per- thr ?ons have had the "Letters of Ju- Qr niu6" assigned to them, but since 0f the publication of Taylor's "Junius eJ, Identified" in 181(3 Sir Philip Fran- trj( cis has generally been regarded as crc their author. Sir Philip, who was an( at school with Woodfall, the pub- jn lisher of the letters, was a clerk in pjj the secretary of state's office and in wwia rwirw>rfl unripr various n i V W *V4 VMV ? names. It is upon the similarity of tr;i his known writings to the style of ?ph Junius that his claim is principally ]y based, though experts nave also j"n identified his writing with the feign- uni ed hand in which the letters were ^ written. The most famous of the res other claimants are Burke, the ev( statesman; the American General 0f Lee, who is said to have himself us( claimed them; Lord George Sackville and Home Tooke.?London cj0 Answers. on, His Humsr. Ma He prided himself on being a P01 humorist. He was running down the steps of the hospital in which he was working when he met a fellow student leisurely climbing up. "Hello, Brown!" cried the slow P^ one, noticing his friend looked ^ pleased. "You're in a hurry. What's* the matter? Any good . cases ?" "I should think so!" cried Brown, just bursting with a new pun. / MTT7-* 4 waMi 81 ne ve |^ui a wuuiau m upstairs who is so cross eyed that ? the tears run down her back." , "What!" said his friend. "Could ^ not do anything for her, could you V* " y ! "I should think we could," replied Brown. "We treated her for bad- ^ teria." And away he rushed to fire it off on some one else.?London Tit-Bits. Ttw fUaC TMi*eA story is told at the erpense of a Wall street man who once suddenly evinced a great interest in nau tical matters and who in some man- 8W ner, de?piU his inexperience in this ,u? regard, was made the commodore of to t a jacht club in Maine, where the financier spends a short vacation each summer. One day, it is said, the newly t fledged yachtsman shouted to an of- t fleer of a certain craft, "Have yon weighed anchor ?" 'TTes, sir." 1163 "Then," thundered the new com- J01 modore, "why the deuce don't you *? announce the weight?" 701 RIGIN OF TRADES UNIONS. irneymen Bakers Struck In N?n* Ycrk ss Early as 1741. The exact date of the origin of des unions in America is ui:>wn. It is believed, says the rc t of the Massachusetts bureau of tistics of labor, that there were labor unions in the color.ie1, ai ugh a strike of journeymen cers is said to have occurred in w York in 1741. Whatever of ociated effort there was amoug rkmen at this early period was 1 a temporary nature, having a gle purpose in view, and when 5 was accomplished whatever iipact existed was then dissolved, was then the custom to call a moral meeting" whenever a matof trade importance presented j ?lf. Such calls were generally ned by one or two men of recog- J ed influence in the trade, and the etings were, as a rule, held in vate homes. They were organized the election of officers, a state-j nt was made of the purpose in ling the trade together, and after iscussion resolutions'were adopt- ; embodying the views of those , sent on the question presented, j ten the meeting had decided what, attitude of the trade was to be | those present, if willing to do so, j ned an agreement to stand by j ; another during the difficulty. I ny if not all of the strikes in onial times were undertaken h no more of an organization ,n this. The first real understanding, so as compositors were concerned, aid to have been in 1776, when journeymen printers made a de-1 nd for an increase of wages, ich was refused by their employ, with the result that a strike was led. This proved successful, and ! association ended. Again, in 16, an effort was made to reduce ?es to $5.83 1-3 a week, and the de was again called together and statement issued declaring that i signers would not work for less in $6 a week. J. - - J -f 4.U me great, jwrtuu ui gru? m ivi or unions was in the latter part the sixties of the last century, ing to the organization of great porations and to the opening up the whole country to the work freemen. Local unions were >rywhere formed, rigorous labor irnals appeared, labor parties, re organized, in some places repcntatives of labor were elected office, and many of the largest 1 strongest national unions no* sting were established. Th? Ax. Die ax is of so great antiquity it its origin is lost, though the eek legends attribute it to one their mythical heroes. Stone ?s have been found in many councs. Iron axes have been discovd in the Egyptian catacombs. 1 axes of brcnze have been found almost every land. in Europe, nt axes, for wood cutting, were use among the Mexicans and othCentral and South American bes at the discovery of America, e axes of ancient times were badmade, having most of the weight front of the handle, being thus certain of aim and ineffective in ting power. Battleaxes are rep ented on the monuments of Nih;h and Babylon. The battleax Robert Bruce was 60 heavy and ,'d with such effect that, it is said, the battle of B&nnockburn he ve an Englishman in twain with ? How. The bsttleax of Charles irtel, it in said, weighed thirty inds. It Was Found. k clergyman while going to irch one Sunday morning lost a iketbook containing valuable pe s. After the service he made own his loss and said that whoir found the pocketbook and rered it to him would be well rerded. kn old man immediately rose up the back of the church and cried t: It's found, sir!" 'Oh, thank you, thank yon, my n," said the clergyman. "Have 1 got it with you ?' 'ho, sir," answered the man, it I corned that way myself after t did, and it wasn't there then." London Globe. Sinooroly. tfrs. De Robinson (writing)? ar Mrs. Brown, we are so dread ly sorry, my husband and I, that most unfortunate previous enjement prevents us from accept; your much too kind invitation dinner on the? I say, John? 'Yes, dear." 'What day is the Browns' dinr?" 'The 14th." This month 01 next month?0 *Next month." Continues letter: "Fourteenth of ct month. I cannot tell you how ry we are, and with best rewards you and your dear husband, I am in most sincerely." : > ; . > ' RHEUMATIS^gj 3 The Circulation Stimulated- . i BBBSmt* and the Muscles and Joints NNh 'ubricated by using ' Hi, Sloaovs HI Liivinvervt QHTvV, Price 25c 50c 6 $1.00 Sold by all Dealers w$Smmw jf^'0dns Treatise On The Horse"Sent Free . j[ Address Dr. Earl, S.SIoan, Boston,Mass^ Siank of Williamsburg, KINGSTREE, S. C. Capital Stools $40,000. "" ? << ** ? ? ? n m If D t.has. W. Moll, frcs. t. L,. fcpps, v^asnicr. r. rvnem, v#rrc?# WE}do business on business principles. WE extend every consideration consistent with safe and sound banking. WE pay four per cent on deposits in Savings Department, payable quarterly. WE respectfully solicit your business. Large or small it will receive our best attention. Board. Of Directors, Chas. W. Stall, W. V. tOilkins, P. S. Sourdin, 1/7. / 9/axsan, [J. 97/c 3-ad dan, tfthem, ZT. jf, S8la/relay, y. C. SraAam. mromtrmmmmmny I HOLIDAY SEASON I ? Hi- tun yiollfcvltb oicJerj firm cur William* 1 crp friends and we IM>?C date their pitrrneftc and will give their mail order* *peciai attention. All we ?-< ^ a>k is a ( hunt* to dcroon.-trate our wlllingnen to give a nquare deal la every -y y? ,?rtlcular. >, "gfe E We Have Just Received a lartre B Assortment of: 3 G Id-Tipped Back Combs, Gold-Tipped Side Combs, Also Coldp Plated-Tipped Side Combs. Fresh supply of Beautiful Rosar- <5 g: ^jes, Amethysts. Garnets, Jet, Torquoise, Sapphires, Mother of SX J"*Pearl, rignet Rings, Sleeve Buttons, Beauty Pins. > 2* Watches and Jewelry repaired by Expert Workmen. 3; 5*- w AT* m IVRPFTTORS for Southern. Georgetown 'and Western Railroad; also Consolidated Street Railway. I S- THOMAS & BRO. I |E 257 KINO STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C. j| | Registration Notice. Theofflce or the Supervisor of Reg istration will be opened on the fir;; m 5 Monday in every month for the pur- I jf pose of the registering of any person I PTTJ ff T TPT? A r*nt I who is qualified as follows: I * US ??, Who shall have been a resident of I ripvrm YJT?ATrnTT I the State for two years, and of the I bLtiH I f AJuALlil I county one year, and of the polling pre- D B cinct in which the elector offers to | I ' vote four months before the day of I **M?? B election, and shall have paid, nix I I months before, any poll tax then doe fl B and payable, and who can both read I ?^ _ B and write any seotion of tbe coastita- I Kiiw/vlowr I tion of 1896 submitted to him by the I aJLLa jf lCLa V 1 Supervisors of Registration, or who I 8 eau show that be owns, and has paid I * all taxes collectable on during the I iTlftllY'ATI#*#* I present year, pioperty in this State | UIOWI CU1V'C I assessed at three hundred dollars or I n mors. J. X. MciiiL,!,, c.i?rk of Board. f0r Banks or private residences. Monuments. surety Headstones. bonds EVERY _ STYLE. ?* . * Ad-ink*. ^ ^ ^ tort, Receivers, Trus~ tees, Casluers of In Georgia, Tennessee, Vermont or Treasurers of tapped MirUe. Airthtaj li Marble. Corpwitiou, St.t* Abo Cruite M-imeiU. , ? . NO ORDER TOO 8MALL OR '*"*Cy ? rM:er*' NONE TOO LARQE. Detfeu <uk1 Prices Fonuihed - if Tiff BMUjiUl I " I Insurance & Bend- | 1 Florence I Ibq flflensy, I DXsr bltW^JixksI K"g,tree' " S C I J J. W. Chapman, Prop. | FLORENCE, - 5 C.