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r IE FARMERS' [ UNION BUREAU. [ Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union. Addivss all communication* intended for thi> i, column to J. C. Stribling, Pendleton ,s. c. We Grow Food trops to Eat and Feed j to Stock. "We grow cotiou not for the fun of it, but far the protits in it tor us. Now, we have over oue million ' f i farmers in our farmers' organization I and we have come together for the ( express purpose of saving this profit in cotton growing for the grower. How are you going to do it? There ', is but one way and tfrat is to stick , to vour selling agents, "The Paruicrs'Cotton Union." You can never , save your profits by calling a million , fat mers together to do nothing but , howl the calamity howl. ! You now have a fine start in the , way of linking the States together for selling your cotton, and we are feeling good over the fact that we have eoine of the pluckiest men you ever saw in the Fanner's Union, i They are fighting the thing out to the finish, and are saving money for the growers right along. We have the positive evidence in our posses. aion to prove the facts that some farmeis have saved by this move j from $2 per bale up to $5 in short j cotton and as much as $26 per bale * on long cotton. ] I) Pays to Stick to Your Own Men. The Farmers'Union can't make a smart man out of a natural born fool. But they can comfc as near * <2oing it as any other organization, 1 if they will only round him up 5 among the crowd, corral him in, ] and move him along he will count 1 / one of bis size. ( Every farmer makes his own rat- 1 4. iug. The adult fanner is rated not ' . by what he says he is going to do, . hut by that which he has already 1 done. The young farmer and the 1 novice in farming may receive res ' pei-tful hearing as to what he in- ' tends to do without criticism. 1 k " v u *1 . , But, young men, remember this: TN _l. L 1 - I j. | _ 1 1 xjou i ue iiervuub huuui pevpie miuw. ing jf ho is doing well anil who is noL Every mother's son of ycu farmers are at it every day writing out Uj>0D the ground your own rep- , utat4ou aud character, and if you ara doing ' creditable work others . will see it and do your blowing for j you without your help. . ? ? 1 . . Good farming tools and imple- j | flints are comparatively very cheap' ^ t and will be ready aud on hand for! ( work at any hour, while labor is! very high and unavailable. You ( may have 15 hands today but you ( Ciuiuot count on o or tbecfi for to- ( - ? morrow's work until they fall in ^ line at work time. Then don't ^ make a mistake by trying to save 011' tho tools side and paying big wages j f for very worthless labor. Pay bet-! : ter WMges for better men and never \ pay the best price for poor laborers. ( * > Some boys, and meh, too, make a ""big mistake in the difference between j1 ' smart tricks and mean tricks. All j snoh efforts are abortive as to the; ? ; 1 * original intentions, this kind of cheap stuff fools no one more than j * the one who starts out to fool others. ( In other words, he that gets up , these mean tricks to fool others v with in these days generally fools himself. No Corn Bears Ever Come South. Produce as much corn as you may! in the South and one is never uu-' ! easv or i>mi lose any sleep over rears i about com bears ruining yonr pros-: i pect. You cannot eat, feed or wear cotton, but corn in the South is always legal tender, and can be utili- ] : zed oii the farm in many ways or ; sold to your neighbors. We made an average of seventy 11 bushels and nearly one-half corn per; ( acre last year w ithout using the hand j hoe at anv time, neither did we thin < * # | the corn. It was left in the row ; ju3t as the planter dropped it. Our ] {ilaus for this year's corn crop on i upland is rows six feet, hills two, < feet, and land bedded out in the Fall and January. I v . < ' < - ~ Will plant in water furrow from j middle to last of March, if weather permits. Our low bottom lands were bedded out with two-horse plows in January and February in beds ten feet wide, harrowing top of bed as fast us plowing goes en.' Two rows will be planted on top of this bed m March four feet apart, hill two feet. This will leave six feet between water furrow side and < four feet apart on top of bed. Cultivation will be as near this, plan as weather will admit. About, the time corn begins to peep out of j the ground the weeder will be run over lengthwise and in from five to1 seven bays ran crossways on bottom lands, but may have to run over twice on upland with the rows before crossing on account of covering corn down in the furrow. If the weeder pulls down too much dirt in ! water furrow in the bottom lauds we will run out water furrows with large middle buster or double jack to kesp drains open. About time crops are half done i cultivating then apply standard com-1 plete fertilizers in every other mid-; lie on upland aud nitrate of soda at; j ast cultivation in the other middles, | ( ind either sow or drill cow peas or ;oga beans in all middles at last i ploughing. For fear of missing our; < *ed peas and beans we will drill j >ne row of these between the sixt foot corn rows about the time we are half rhrAiiarh with tip mi I timtinir. ! 1 We uever go more than twice in a ' row and smooth lands but once. ' """"" i i Fertilizers For Corn. 1 i We have referred to fertilizers as ] though we could not grow corn i without it. but this is not the case, < is many have good lands that 2gr?*' paying crops without the nse of any ! fertilizer. If we had to confine our choice to only one side application j we would apply nitrate of soda at ] last cultivation. 1 Our observation and experience 1 with the Williamson method is that planting the crop early and down in j the water furrow and the late side ipplication of soluble fertilizers contributes more to the success of the Williamson method than the ' ''stunting" of the plants. SELECTING THE SEED. 1 \ We prefer a hard white grain and jot less than two ears to the stalk, i We used to want one big ear on ac- 1 jount of baud-shucking and gather- ! ing, but low we do all the stunt of tiarvestiug, Ihucking, fodder-pull-!] ng and shreddiug by machinery, ind the number of ears to the stalk has 110 consideraflton in the matter, [n about 100 of seed corn taken from planting machines in [o-wa the AmejfeEjdfcrimeiit Station test showed a (Wffence of 20 bush?ls to nearly 100 bushels in the seed to the acre. That is a good seed, *ave sometimes 50 bushels increase io the acre, ME NEW YORK WORLD THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION Read Wherever the ltnRli*li I.aii^unKe 1m Spoken. The Thrice-a-Week World expects to be a better paper in 1907 than sver before. In the course of the year the issues for the next great Presidential campaign nil be foreshadowed, and everybody will wish to keep informed. The Thrice-aWeek World, nomine tn vnn evfrv . o ? J - ? j other day, serves all the purposes of a daily, and is far cheaper. The news service of this paper is constantly being increased, and it reports fully, accurately and promptly every event of importance anywheie in the world. Moreover, its political news is impartial, giving von facts, not opinions and wishes. It has full markets, splendid cartoons and interesting fiction by standard authors. The Thrice-a-Week World's regular subscription price is only >1.U0 per year, and tnis pays tor lob pupeis, "We offer this unequalled > lewapaper and The County Rec- J 3RD together for one year for $1.75., The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.00. J 1 r|T Rapid changes of t JvfiL on the toughest consti !The conductor passi inside of a trolley car tc of the platform?the ca hour or so in a heatec walking against a bitii difficulty of avoiding a Scott's Emuts tkst If <?>n I igi uvujr ?W utuk *k wn a Q clanger of cold from cha 4 It will help you to jsv T ALL DRUGGISTS t C , STUART, THE PJUNTER. Curious Hits Born of His Faculty For j Reading Faces. "I don't want people to look at my pictures nnd say how beautiful y the drapery is. The face is what I e] care about," said Stuart, the great ^ American painter. He was once 0 isked what he considered the most n characteristic feature of the face. ^ He replied by pressing the end of | [lis pencil against the tip of his nose, ; a( distorting it oddly. rj His faculty at reading physiogno- ^ my sometimes made curious hits. ^ There was a person in Newport cele- o; brated for his powers of calculation. ^ but in other respects almost an idiot. One day Stuart, being in the ^ British museum, came upon a bust ^ trhose likeness was apparently un- ^ mistakable. Calling the curator, he (] said, "I see you have a head of 'Cal- a] mlating Jemmy/ " "'Calculating Jemmy!'" repeat- C] ?d the curator in amazement. "That j ^ is the head of Sir Isaac Newton/' j 1 On another occasion, while din- f< ing with the Duke of Northumber- ti land, his host privily called his atten- p tion to a gentleman and asked the 1 o winter if he knew him. Stuart had S1 never seen him before. ei "Tell me what sort of a man he tl is." "I may speak frankly ?" j ai "By all means." 11 "Well, if the Almighty ever wrote | p i legible hand he is the greatest , " rascal that ever disgraced society." | tl It appeared that the man was an tl - ^ ^ Ua.I 1 Tl ' 4' tllUrucv nuu nau uccu uckvku w sundry dishonorable acts. ij Stuart's daughter tells a pretty i ci story of her father's garret, where ! t< many of his unfinished pictures were ' si stored: ei "The garret was my playground,,! and a beautiful sketch of Mme. \ h Bonaparte was the idol that I ! 1( worshiped. At last I got possession | p )f colors and an old panel and fell ' T to work copying the picture. Sud- i a lenly I heard a frightful roaring j a sound. The kitchen chimney wa9 e an fire. Presently my father ap- j z\ reared, to see if the fire was likely j to do any damage. He saw that I j looked very foolish at being caught it such presumptuous employment c ind pretended not to see me. But' j? presently he could not resist look- ! i ing over my shoulder. ji " 'Why, boy/ said he?so he used ! js to address me?'you must not mix d n ifli lnrnnnfino Ynn ! _ VVUI ?UU , tmust have some oil/ " n It is peasant to add that the lit- 'jj tie girl who thus found her inspira- j u tion eventually became a portrait b painter of merit. b ; fi Royal Builders. , n Both Ludwig II. of Baf&ria and c Stanislaus, the Polish king, father- t( in-law of Louis XIV., were most in- b veterate builders. In the course of I a few years the former built the b castle of Xeuichwanstein and the j p palace of Luiderhof and Herren-1 chiemsee, the la?t intended by hira ^ to be a monument to Louis Qua- p torze, while the latter, to gratify t| his hobby, demolished churches, j ^ chapels, ducal palaces, castle towers ^ and town homes. His greatest glo-1 ry, according to some, is the church ' ^ of Notre Dame de Bon Secours. But antiquarians see in this church the king's greatest crime, far to construct it he demolished the famous old church of the same name erect- a ed by the Duke of Lorraine in grat- i ?. itude for his victory over Charles, duke of Burgundy, in 1177. i x ' : p Honor Satisfied. "I heard of a man the other day," j * said a member of the New York j " bar, '"who carried his ideas of hon- j or to an extreme limit. He failed for an immense sum and settled j a with his creditors for 20 cents on P the dollar. But he hunted up one " of them and paid him in full; said " he could not sleep well if he did i ei not do so." c< "Why this one especially?" ^ "It was a poker debt." ' ^ emperature are hard V tution. T ing from the heated X >the icy temperature 2 nvasser spending an o I building and then 9 ng wind?know the M. Y ton strengthens the X setter withstand the 2 nges of temperature. 2 oid taking cold. 41 OC. AND $I.OO. A WATER WITCHER. he Way an Expert With a Witch Hazel Bough Worked. It may be that his errand was in le nature of a cheerful gamble aftr other resources failed, but the ict remains that Mr. Eastman was u the ground equipped for busiess and that the train waited upon is investigations. His outfit was simple. A friend, rting as assistant "witcher," carled a bundle of freshly cut witch azel boughs, trimmed in V shaped ranches, the leaves and buds still n them. The two men disemnfked. Mr. Eastman, stout, conventional s to dress and looking as essentialr rwruflionl n vntnrnn railroad inn ought to appear, took one of le V shaped witch hazel boughs nd tightly'grasped the pliant ends 1 his two fists, holding the point or rotch upright. Thus equipped he loved sedately across the prairie, 'he witch hazel remained upright >r perhaps fifty feet. The crowd railed in behind, vastly eurious. resently the bough begaa to turn r waver. The inverted X twisted lowlv until it was parall"with the irth or pointing straight out from ae bearer. He slackened his gait and moved head, while the telltale bough loved slowly down until it was ointing toward the soil.' Xow the water witcher" had it so grasped aat it was twisting in his fists, and tie tender bark along the pliant ads was beginning to break, showlg that some force other than musalar effort was pulling the bough 3ward the earth. When it pointed traight down, he stopped and'heeld a mark in the grass. Then he moved on, and very slowt the branch began to rise until at mgth it had returned to the perendicular in its original position, 'he vein of water had been passed, nd the witch hazel was no longer ttracted.?From "A Water Witchr of Prairies," in Outing Magane. Color of tho Bride's Gown. T+ io in tnretf in or tn nntfi that the * to AO iUVVt rv ??? - hoice of white for wedding dresses ; comparatively a modern fashion. Tie ltoman brides wore yellow, and i the most eastern countries pink ?the bridal color. During the midle ages the renaissance brides wore rimson, and most of our Plantageet and Tudor queens were married 1 this vivid hue, which is still poplar in parts of Brittany, where the ride is usually dressed in crimson rocade. It was Mary Stuart who rst changed the color of bridal garlents. At her marriage with Franis II. of France in 1553?which cok place not before the altar, but efore the great doors of Notre )ame?she was gowned in white rocade, with a train of pale blue 'ersian velvet six yards in length'his innovation caused quite a stir 3 the fashionable world at that ime. It was not, however, till quite he end of the seventeenth century hat pure white, the color hitherto orn by royal French widows, beame popular for bridal garments l England.?Church Eclectic. No Reward Offered. "Have you lost anything, madmi'" asked the polite floorwalker f the square jawed, austere looking lopper who stood before the "Lost 1 " >?> ?-? J / A1 qq round wmuow ot uic laigcvjcartment 6tore. "Yes, sir/' stye replied; "I've lost 14 pounds of husband in a light rown suit, with black derby hat, nail tuft of hair on its chin and a Tightened look. I lost it in a crush t the fancy goods counter. It's robably wandering through the uilding in search of me, and I lought perhaps you could find it asier than I can. I want it on acaunt of a bundle it is carrying uner its arm."?Woman's Home ournal. i . 1 ?:J*' " " . ^ ,k I I > VTWTYtVVTYTYtY^TWYWWtY^^ | SPRING! SPRING! SPRING! |1 ? NOW THAT IT HAS ARRIVED ^ 1 : ^ I wish to announce to our customers and the ? ^ ^ public in general that we are better prepared ^, j I > than ever before to serve our customers, our j | ^ buyer having just returned from Northern 5 ] > markets where was purchased an elegant j ^ stock of Ladies' and Gentlemen's goods. 5: j ^ Call and see for yourself. 5 > Yours alwavs to please, , ^ | > Kingstree^ S. 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