The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 11, 1907, Image 2
THE FARMERS'
UNION BUREAU.
Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union
Address all communications intended for this
column to J. C. Strihlinj. Pendleton C.
Good News from all Sides.
From every Southern State, comes
the good news that a campaign, in
the interest of the Fanners' Union,
haa been arranged for July and
a .. Coiifk fiiriilinu a'pflf
AU^USl. I iUUl WIIHI vmuii""
and South Carolina is now arranging
for a thorough campaign of the
Palmetto State.
The time is ripe and the farmers
are more ready to orgauize than ever
before known. Just one good man
in each county of the South for one
month organizing the farmers now,
will prepare the way to save millions
for the faimer in marketing the
South'8 next cotton crop.- It is
not enough to orgauize farmers for
their own protection and go back
home thinking that' the thing will
work itself; it will not do it! Every
county Union in the Sotrh,
should see to it that at least one
conaty newspaper in each county
carry a column of direct news from
organized farmers. Instexd of this
farmers' column working injury to
the regular Farmers Union papers,
it increases the demand for snch pa
pers. rne country or county newspapers
are good mediums for educating
the farmer along the business
side of his farmiug, and in order to
keep up with the progress of the organized
movements of the farmers,
every farmer should take at least
one good paper that will give him
the news direct, as to how things are
going. But in case satisfactory arrangements
cannot be made with the
estaolished press to carry these farmers'
columns in your home papers,
a letter addressed to this Bureau
setting forth the facts in the case,
every local Uuion will be supplied
with sampie copies of the best and
cheapest papers in the land of the
Soath, which will enable each Uni'
n;on to make its own selection at
large club rates.
In order to keep in touch with
the latest pries, plans, and methods
of combining your strength for the
ijood of all, the farmer must read
the news from reliable sources which
will save money enongh on? one bale
of cottou to pay for five or six good
newspapers.
There are so many grades of humanitv,
called farmers, that no one
institution or plan could be expect
Ped to please all. The best evidence
in the world, to prove that the Farmers'
Union stands for something is
that it is opposed by some iudiv iduthat
it is doing things. Of
course this don't suit some folks because
they arc opposed to doing any.
thing. Especially something that
they happen to not originate or that
does not give to them some advantage
of their fellow man. All the
"grafters" don't happen to be cottou
speculators, nor do they all live in
New York. Possibly one of the
most contemptible brand is the fellow
that lives next neighbor to some other
fellow and is always on the lookoat
for some opportunity to work a
skin game on his brother farmer, not
always in a horse trade at that.
You can always tell them, for they
are opposed to everything that goes
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to make U3 one great bodv of brethren,
that don't give them some
special advantage over the rest of
their brothers. They won't co operate;
get them out of the Union quick,
for they will destroy more of your
opportunity to success than all the
host of speculators and gamblers
combined. The Farmers'Union has
nothing to fear from men that have
. not the pass-word, but death and
failure lurk in your locals at all
times from ignorance and traitors,
, in the purity of your locals and the
faithful practice of your individual
members of the principles of co-operation
and submission to ' 'Union.'1
which means the local must follow
and practice what the couuty approve
and direct and that the county
faithfully administer what is di<
rected by the State, and as the
members that are neld in the local
membership so wiil the Union prosper,
and its strength be. Members
Count agamst the Union when their
principles are against co operation,
ana the means and plans bat forwaid
to bring results. Outside of this
you can not have a Union. It is
! not expected that every man that
1 has to till the soil can or will be
Uuion, nor were the principles of our
j Constitution made broad enough for
I every Kind of ism or theorist to g t
aboard, but on the contrary confines
j its creed to the specific principles
and those that believe in the doctrine
jof profits and "make money" in
whatever way open can not be true
! members aud should be deuied.
' ol?Aii M fho TTnian Kartrinio
11 VI OUVUiU WUV, VUIVU WVVUkV ?uv
asylum of the mcoinpeteut drones
and dead beats that can be found
"staying*' on a farm. Union success
does not depend on numbers,
but ou specific principles and the
living up to them.
A local can be as dead with fifty
members as with five. And if they
refuse to co-operate with the other
locals they are uo longer in the
Union. They have bolted, and are
no longer entitled to be called Union
men.
There is moie to fear from one rascal
in the Union, than a hundred
outside. Push them all outside or
thev destroy you.
A Call.
The State Farmers' Union of S
C, will meet in Greenwood the 25th
26th and 27th July next.
0 P Goodwin*
State President
THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COUNTS.
Tbe Lessons we Learn in Hard Work
Wakens Succeed.
Mr R J Reynolds, President and
! Founder of the largest manufacturing
plant East of the Mississippi,belongs
to that class of men whose success
in life has been due to their own
euergy aud industry, though the
circumstances of Mr Reynolds' boyhood
afforded him a sound basis upon
which to build. He was eudowed
by nature with health and strength,
full of energy and ambitious,
while yet a tender age, to lead in
whatever he undertook. His father,
a large planter und a manufacturer
in Patrick county, Virginia,
made his yearly contracts with his
laborers on the condition that they
wonld keep up with young "Dick."
Even as a boy, Mr Reynolds was
never contented uuless in some way
employed. He found pleasure in
tuaL-a thufr nlbprs found to tedious
be burdensome.
Mr Reynolds while in his teens,
planted, cultivated, cured , manufactured
and worked in every department
of the manufacture, and
had successfully held the position of
manager of a factory. In the year
1875, hardly more than a boy, he
was manufacturing tobacco under
the uame of R J Reynolds & Co.,
in a very small factory at Winston,
NC.
The methods and processes of
manufacturing tobacco in those days
were very crude. Other men were
content with the machinery, proceses
and methods is use.
Mr Reynolds, and the men associated
with him, worked out by experiment,
the reason for the prevailing
methods, and by the help of the
skillful men in charge of the various
departments of the manufacturing
plaut, they invented, perfected and
adopted improved machinery and
processes, until today the flat plug
tobacco industry has been complete
- ly revolutionized, and the R J Reyt
nolds Tobacco Company is known
i as the largest, best equpiped and
cleanest plug tobacco manufactur>
ing plautin the world. They now
i own, for which a patent has been
applied, the great discovery of a
process for the manufacture of
tbeir new brand refined granulated
smoking tobacco. After many
years of study and experiment they
' found out how to produce tie most
delightful and harmless tobacco for
- pipe and cigarette smokers. It is
proving a great favorite with smok
era.
? A yiait to the new mammoth
I
plant of R J R^n ilds Tobacco Co.,
proved not more interesting to the
j seeker for information and an it;ei^ht
into the tobacco uiumifacturI
ing industry, than to the student
jof the labor problem. The visitor
j cannot but be impressed by the ut,
most hurmoov and good feeling
I which prevails between the empbo|
er and employed.
Strikes and other disagreements
I and labor agitations are unknown
( ood hours and good wages, entirely
acceptable to the employees, have
always beeu allowed, which is fully
manifested in the unusually large
number of employees who started in
with Mr Reynolds many years ago
and have never found it necessary
to demand higher wages or to leave
the employ of his company. Many
of the heads of the various departments
started in the business as
boys and grew up under Mr Reynolds'
tutorship. With their ever
mcreasiug knowledge of tobacco,
they develop into experts, and have
brought into the business vigor and
improvement. R J Reynolds Tobacco
Company's plant of WinstonSalem,
N C, U S A., stauds a visible
proof of foresight, united efforts,
untiring energy and the insistence
upon fair dealing by its fouuder.
CURIOSITY HUNTING.
Some Inatano** of Finds of Mu?K Vatuo
In Unoxpoctod Plaooo.^
Some years ago in Yorkshire a
man went to a farm for a day's
shooting with the farmer. In the
morning as they were about to start
a pointer dog was unkenneled to
tympany them. The sporting
friend noticed that attached to the
dog's collar was apparently a braaa
ring, which the farmer explained
his servant had plowed up the day
before and tied to the collar. When
the ring was removed the friend
pronounced it to be gold, and he
offered to take it into town and get
it valued. The farmer assented,
but he said he would rather have
some silver spoons than money.
These the jeweler readily agreed to
give, and he afterward sold the ring
for ?20. The next time the ring
changed hands it brought ?35t), and
it is now in the British museum.
It may be said that this is quite
an exceptional case, says a writer in
Chambers' Journal on curiosity
hrmting, and a man might live a
hundred years and never get such a
chance. But how many people ever
make the attempt ?
T* oar.*
At 19 tcx LCUUIJ COOICl IV av(|uou?
curiosity shops in town, but you
must know something about everything
worth buying. I remember
once being in a well known jeweler's
shop, and while 1 was looking
at some old rings and trinkets my
eye caught sight of a ring which had
in it a .stone with a lion cut on it
and above the lion a single star. I
knew it as a Roman gem, and it
was the constellation Leo. When I
asked the price the dealer hesitated,
and, looking hard at me, he asked
me if it was a Soman gem. I replied
that was what 1 wanted to
know from him. He tried all ways
to get me to confess I knew about
such things, and when I presently
put down the ring and was going
out he told me he wanted 30 shillings
for it as it was, but if it was a
Roman gem he wanted more. I
took advantage of his offer and
bought the ring.
It is always advisable to turn
over the loose stones you sometimes
see exposed in the window of a small
jeweler's shon. srenerallv lvintr in a
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saucer. I got in that way a head
which was appearing out of a bath.
The stone was a yellow carnelian,
but.just where the neck was there
was an accidental streak of brilliant
red in the stone representing blood
very faithfully. It proved to be a
Roman gem and is now, I believe,
in the Ashmolean museum. Antique
gems are not cbmmonlj met with
even abroad, and this way of picking
them up in England is worth trying
when you are hunting up curi
osities.
lurMu*.
It is interesting to learn from
one authority that the name bureau
was derived from the days when tables
were the only writing desks.
These tables were covered with a
thick woolen cloth called "bare,"
and from this beginning the name
has clung to the modern glorified
piece of furniture. It was not until
the reign of Louis XIV. that either
writing tables or dressing tables
reached their height in beauty of
design and comfort. Strictly speaking,
a bureau is a desk, or what we
call a secretary, from which the
term bureau, or department, is derived
in a broader sense. The article
of bedroom furniture commonly
called a bureau nowadays is really
an improved dressing table combined
with a chest of drajrers.
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We are sending out a number of
statements to our subscribers who
are in arrears. We don't want to
offend anyone, and we hope that nobody
will be foolish enough to take
umbrage at our asking for what is
due us. At the same time we would
rather a man would get mad and pay
up than to stay pleased and pay
nothing.
In the near future we have several
notes to meet on paper and material
and it is urgently necessarv to
collect what our subscribers owe us.
Our actual running expenses are $50
a week aod it is a plain proposition
that we cannot continue to issue the
paper unless this money is forth
coming. Printers have to be paid
Suturday night, and paper men
won't wait till fall for their money.
Now, we have a number of these
little accounts scattered among
hundreds of people, but it means a
substantial sum to us.
With the price of paper advancing
every week we simply can't afford to
send the paper any longer to those
who won't pay; so if you are really
unable to pay and owe us for over a
year, kindly notify us, so that we
can strike your name off our list, as
we don't care to send good money
after bad.
A great many have already settled
their account* and paid a year ahead.
To them this notice has no reference.
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