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1 . . nv fir.TWiron*TTsia * T.AWfiHHW? ANTIffiltHfYN. H. ?!. WRTlNTCST?AY. MAR?TH IS. 190X. VOIJTMTC TXYY-.-TiO. Sift OUR JANUARY SALE IS OVER, But we still have some excellent Bargains in Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner ?? Manr> TO OFFER YOU So if you have a C1?M fit This is the Store for yon. All Overcoats we have left we will continue to sell at a dis count of 25 per cent until they are all sold. It will pay you to buy one of our Overcoats when youl can get them at this saving, even if you do not wear it at all this winter. i Buy one and save it for next winter. Ton can't invest your mon* ey in anything that will pay you as well. By the way, just want to tell you that our January Sale was the most successful one we have ever known. Our ?sales mounted to a height never before reached in any pre cious January. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. V'S' . . Keystone Adjustable Weeder - AMD -- Shallow Cultivator. Tho practical mind will be readily convinced of the advantage of an Adjustable over a Straight Frame Weeder, inasmuch as ita construction par ?l?3t to be used, not only as ? weed exterminator, while the ?ropa are young, tut aa a SHAIXOW C?JL7HVAT?K between .the rows unti?he crops ma iure, which method of cultivation has interested the ur>tc-dftte farmer to euoh an extent that tho thousands who ie** trsss sg&?hig ii ra a unit ia ttstity ??g to ita^pe^i^iy^.^Axiuwg' that th? growth and ^redaction of the crops dv\. pend upon ^qt?sfit^^ehallow cultivation, and that no implement v^it?M^J^ ^^?t?the condition aa the Keystone Adjustable Weeder Tba adjusiment OJ; ?his Weeder aarrrf|fe#f?^l?chW, .fr* c& ?ra* *on3? teeth, . ? it peing expanded to 7i feet, and these "Weeders with eitfcer . Sat or Gotlow Hoes. -?-,-1 The Farmen' Educational and Co-operative Union of America. CONDUOTED BY il, O. 8TRI0LINO. BSf Comraulcationa Intended for this department should be addre f-sed to J. C. Strlbling, Petdlotou, 8. C. Prepare For War in Time of Peace. Now ia the time to prepare for trou ble next winter. Prepare to make ?len ty of food for both man and beast. I you have plenty of rations ahead you can well afford to store yonr cot ton next fall cr bave your own price for it. There is more tn soiling crops right these days than there is in sell ing crops cheap; it matters not how cheap you grow a crop if you allow the other fellow to dt, ail the pricing. The man that does the prioing is tho man tii&i is going to reap the pro fits. Begin now io fortify your position and get ready for the contest in pric ing this crop of cotton, hy making plenty of everything t?at you can grow for home consumption, and then you can make your own prices for cot ton and cotton seed and maintain these prices or you can Just anchor the cot ton down and let the turbulent waves of the speculative sea roll by you while yoe smile at the growls of the cotton bears. It, matters not if you can grow cot ton at 7 cents a pound, if the buyers do all the prioing. The one that con trols the prices is the one that will Barely reap the profits, whether it be the farmor on the nonprodacing specu lator. Then fortify yourselves, far mers, by growing food crops and get ready for the big nattle next fall. You have been engaged in little picket fighting, finding ont where ycur ene mies are and their plans of compaign ing, but the main battle, the struggle to*win or dio, is laid for the next har vest. The formers are organizing as never before; they are beginning lo learn their need, and in the r lean time the whole cotton manufacturing inter est of old England is forming a com pact with New York to try to down us. Batas we produce the cotton and have it already in hand, bow in the name of reason can these pirates get i the crop unless we let them have itV Make yonr cotton as a surplus and the thing is done. . How is This? A few years ago we made eleven million bales and got only hom 8 to G cents for it* anchscw we have made two and a half million more and prices range from 7 to 0 cents. Have the buyers suddenly become very chari table and paying the farmer more for his cotton than it is worth? Or did rho cotton mnnipnlatoro in 1880 pull the farmerf for about half the value of bi cotton? Some bravo formera itev tong back got up io a publie me?. < and had the audacity to say that ,e cause of cotton going- np to 8} cen was brought about by the action of the farmers ia holding their cotton, and that the only thing that forced prices down again to 7 cents was the untrue and shaky fol lows turning too much cotton loose around 0 cents. - Thia fellow ought to have been ruled ont '.f order for making statements about farmers having anything to do with the jp! Icing of their production. Never before has it been proven that the producer had anything to do with either raising or lowering the price of cotton, but m this case it was clearly shown . that the cotton prower dui both. He raised theprice by holding and he lowered it by letting go. Take courage from this lesson ana co bet ter. The cotton spinnners1 association is now bass>, ss SSWVM nt thia timo> o? year, seading over.; here the "bluff" that if the South doesn't quit acting so foolish, and plant more cotton and sell it cheaper, they will go to work in an organized way and grow their own cotton in some of their own provin ces? Now, England and all the outside world tried to raise cotton while the South was busy fighting daring the GO's, but the price went to1 about a dol lar a pound, and the longer they tried it tho higher it got until it sold for .1.60 a pound at the close of the war. For ioyears otber countries have sent down South and took off some of our Southern cotton growers, cotton seed and tools, to grow cotton in other countries, but at the winds np of these experimenta they all came out about like the Alabama man did in import ing monkeys to y3k cotton. This Alabama man said he was successful ia getting tho monkeys to pick cotton, bat lt took two men to make one mon key pick. Reports say that cotton will grow to acme extent in other countries, but it takes two of our Southerners, to show one foreigner how to rafee the cotton "id keep him at itv - The Sooth owns the ideal cotton , belt of tho world, and they know how to grow it too weih and they aro now learning how to sell and control this God-Riven blessing and we axe going to do it. 7 ? ,; CHI There ls scarcely a farmer anywhere that does cot know that if he had half the cotton crop in his hands he could get his own price for it, but some have not tho grit and pluck to stand firm, have been so used to al * to attend to their ard to^get them to . gc. They; havo not been Ju -th* the good of the noopr<riae*7bao grown on them. Farmers, wake np and break the record, and tear loose from tbOhabit that anchors you down to poverty. - ^ ' i ' nat?'' m 0* . Aaa si??i th&v oose. Letters from 'j??tef??M WaUamaton. and are tending ont canvassers to Uah np .termer to sign np, with the ring rosalia ?nat the average ion sj ill amount to more than C6nt in acreage, why o' tho re n in the ose o* fertilizers will ?int to between 35 and 40 per cent, is encouraging ; nows and shows tb* sticking qualities are growing toe farmers. STATE HEW?. - United States ooart at Florence adjonrned on aooonnt of smallpox. - Jndge Gage sentenced 15 peo ple to the penitentiary from Charles ton. - Monasite has been disooverod in paying quantities in Greenville Coun ty. - The cotton milln of the Stato have paid about $18,000 on ac munt of the new franchise tax. - Governor Heyward is receiving many invitations to roako addresses at sohool and oollego commence ments. - ^ho Gaffney Lodger says the people of Cherokee County aro well pleased with the results of voting out the dispensary. - Commissioner of Immigration Watson has arrangcd.for a market in i St. Louis for soupperoong grapes from South Carolina. - The president has appointed James F. Hunter, democrat, post master at Lanoaster, to succeed James Stewart, also a democrat. - Walter Silvia, brakeman on the Southern Railway, who HveB in Char leston, had one of his logs out off while ooupling oars at Aiken. - An effort is being made in Co lumbia to hold an election on the question of issuing $400,000 in bonds to establish new water works. - John B. Clayton when held up by would-be robbers at Florence drew a pistol and began shooting at them. The hold-up men fled and were not bit. - Dr. J. S. Wheeler and Dr. J. N. Kibler tied in the election for in tendant of Prosperity, eaoh receiving 50 votos. Another election will be held. - Mrs. William J. Collins is dead at bor home in York County, lack ing but a few months of being 100 years old. She /left 204 descend ants. - A Lanoaster negro has invented an ?oe cream freezer that does its work admirably. It freezes the oream in blocks that can be preserved on i;e a long-time. * - A special election will be held in Charleston County on April ll to ?11 the vacancy in the delegation to the House of Representatives. There are three candidates out so far. - A 12-year-old white boy was held up is Columbia by a negro man and a bundle of laundry taken from him. The negro threatened to kill the boy if he did not give him tho bundle. - John F. Craig, a merohant at Walhalla, has made an assignment to W. W. Stover, of Greenville, for the benefit of bis creditors. His liabili ties are stated to be $16,000; assets net yet definitely ascertained. - ChaOj^Orane, Tom Rigdon and J. S. Duncan have been -arreoto/* ic Greenville, oharged with brea V .g into the Monoghan mills and destroy ing $1,000 worth of doth and steal ing several bolts of doth and a pis tol. - Tho 28th annual meeting of the South Carolina Sunday Sohool con vention will be held in the First Pr?? Dyteriau Church at Florenoe March, 28 th to 30 th inclusive. It is ca pool ed that there will be a largo attend anco. The last meeting was held in Columbia and did a great desi of good. - Mrs. Ella S. McKenzie, of Grove, Greenville County, is dead. She was an excellent woman and onjoyed a reputation of being ona of the most intelligent and successful, farmers io Greenville County, taking up the management of a large, plantation on the death of her husband several years ago. - Peter Thomas, odored, was struck by a passing Seaboard Air Line train at Norway, in Orangeburk Coun ty, and killed. . It is said that the negro was drinking during the morn ing, and he either went to sleep on the track as the result of hin liquor, or was too drunk to got out of the way of tho approaching train. -- At St. Stephens, Marok 7, the body of John WV McCracken was found dead near the 44 mile post on tho Northeastern railroad. Magis trate J. M. Wilder was notified and a jury of inquest was summoned. A verdict was rendered that the deceas ed esme ?Vo his death by either falling or hoing thrown from a train. - 8cme nights jogo a basket contain ing m well dressfa baby about three months old was found oa the front ?iazza steps of Mr. Whit Moore, in ?arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, who Bite no children, took the little O?* in, and it io receiving the best of ease. There is no clue whatever to tho child's parentage. The baby is a girl, has dark hair, nn4 is, of coarse, reported to bo good looking. - A bern valued at $2,000, belong ing to J. M. Wood, in Greenville Cou o ty-, was * destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Twenty-three head of cattle perished in the flames, together with a quantity of farming ampie mente and tools. There wa? only $500 insurance. The fire was un doubtedly of Incendiary origin. A man WAS seen leaving the building shortly before the flames wore dis covered. - Sp?r?asb?s?g'? BOW passenger depot, which Ss ?ow about finished, coat $25t0C0. It is a handsome build ing cf presued brick ?nd granite, com fortably tiled flooring, red tiled roof? fog, thorough ventilation, comfort ably equipped with steam heating, and the sanitary arrangements are adequate and convenient. Tho entire work ie first class, and tho people of Spartanburg appreciate the Southern's 5oed tarn in 'building such a nice cpot there. . 1 :r,^jHalavaVRala^Bfz'HHisaHiBnsa GENERAL SEWS. - 34,000 persons have died ot Cal cutta io the last seven days of bubonio plague. - Thero aro thirteen men in five coundon in Kentucky under sentence of death. - Congress has voted an appropria tion of $250,000 for the Jamestown exposition. - Hunter Sharp, of North Caro lina, has been nominated to be consul at Kobe, Japan. - The hank at Flovilla, Ga., was broken open on Saturday night and $4,000 was carried off by safeblowers. - Charles W. Anderdon, a colored lawyer, will be appointed collector of internal revenue for the district of New York. - Charlotte physicians wrote 1,611-4 whiskey prescriptions during tho month of February-twice as many as in January. - Ministers and laymen are hold ing meetings iu Philadelphia to pray for the redemption of tho city from vioo and corruption. - TtW robbers blew ouoa the post offioe safe at East Point, Ga., on Wed nesday and scoured $1,500 worth of stamps and 920 in money. - The Supreme Court of Connecti cut has rendered j augment against Col. W. J. Bryan on bis claim for the Bennett legaoy of $50,000. - Over the long distance phone Mr. Taylor Craven and Miss Bettie Sellers were married at Dot, Ga. The officiating minister was seventeen miles away. - The safe of the wo Aden cotton mills, near Charlotte, N. C., was broken open on Sunday night and rob bed of $2,000. It waB the work of professionals. - A Central cf Georgia passenger train jumped the track near Bremen, Ga., and rolled down an embankment. Several persons wore injured, but no body was killed. - A legal fight that promises to be long drawn ont has commenced be tween the federal and state govern ments over the possession of the Ever glades io Florida. - Mrs. Sallie M. H-.aua has con fessed at Lynchburg, Ya., to poison ing an entire family because they gave shelter to her husband, whom she had driven from home. - Adolph Weber, of Auburn. Cal., aged twenty years, is nooused of kill ing his mother, father, sister and brother. He is the sole heir to the estate whioh is quite valuable. - A man who is suspected of mur dering Mrs. Hannah B. Hosp, the rieh reoluse of Montclair, N. J., and Betting the house on fire to oonoeal the crimo, has been arrested at Hamp ton, Va. - James Ince, of Whitley, Ark., murdered his wife and three chil dren with an axe. At first he denied the orime; then he confessed, giving as his reaaon for killing them that he was not able to support them. ?-Carter Tate, recently a demo oratio congressman from the Gaines ville, Ga., district, has been tendered tho position cf district attorney of the northern di ot riot of that State by President Roosevelt. He will ao oepfc. - The trustees of the "Gbristain Church" at Peoria, Illinois, desire a paster^ They want one ''not over 35 ?'rears old, married, evangelistic, a odge mao, a miser, a orank." They cay "It takes a orank and a mixer to move things and that is the kind of preaoher we want." - After paying out $870,000 to the Confederate pensioners of Georgia for the year 1905, it has been announced by the Commissioner of Pensions, J. W. Lindsey, ' that the funds lack $18,139 of being suffioient to meet the vouchers properly cor tined to and pre sented to him for payment. - In the New Jersey House of Rep resentatives on Tuesday, 7th inst., a resolution was introduced authorizing the governor to return a Confederate flag to the governor of North Caro lino, captured by the Ninth New Jer* sey volunteers at the battle of New born. The flag was presented to the Beaufort Plow Boys by the ladies of Beaufort, N. O. - Ktathlo Harjo, a Seminole, known as "Old Fish," said to have been the oldest Indian in America, is dead at the age of 110. 'He was born in the Everglades of Florida and fought in the war of 1812 against this country as well as in the Seminole wars. He enlisted ss a volunteer sol dier of the United States in the civil war and served^with distinction. Sinos thou he had lived with his tribe and acquired a reputation ai a dootor among the Indians. - Binger Hermann, member cf Congress from Oregon, and former commissioner of the general land ?fit??. has been indicted by the federal grana jury of Washington on the charge of destroying publio records. It is alleged that he destroyed thirty five letter press copy books, contain ing oopies of official communications, written by bim as commissioner of tho general !and ofBcc. Bail was fixed at $2,500. Mr. Hermano denies tbs charge. -.The great order cf Ksighia ot Pythias is about to invade the realms of John Bull. Charles E. Shively. of Richmond, Ind., Supreme Chancellor of the World, is arranging to establish several lodges of the order in London. At present ?c lodges of the K. of P. exist on territory not controlled by the United States, except those in the southern portion of Canada. There are lodges in the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippine Islands, and the order will shortly gain a foothold in . Cuba. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to The Racket Store. Our Buyer has just returned from the Northern markets, and values in Gooda are arriving daily that prove to the * mosy fastidious dressers the result of careful selections. See our Stock of the Celebrated / Strouse & Bros. High Art ^ FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, Which will interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONS 7. A new and complete line of OXFORDS, Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else? where. We extend to ali a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, and$e convinced that what we say is true? MORROW-BASS CO., SuoeesBorSto Horn-Bass Co.? 110,116,120, East Benson St.,.Anderson? 8. C ? TOI? ?@ Fertiliser Mm f We are selling Home-made Fertilizers made by the ANDERSON PHOSPHATE & OIL CO. Goods that are fast becoming famous. ? Testimonials from some of the largest and most success ful cotton growers in this State say "There's none better." Below are some of our popular brands : AVA. AMO. POT. Anderson Trnok Fertiliser. Anderson Special Fertiliser. Standard Blood Guano. Anderson. Blood and Bone Guano... Petrified Bono Guano. Anderson Soluble Guano.. Andorson XXXX Potash Bone.... Anderson XXX Potash Bone. Anderson XX Potash Bone. Anderson Potash Bone. Anderson Special Dissolved Bone.. Anderson High Grade Dissolved Bone Anderson Dissolved Bone. Anderson Kainifc (K 20),. 8 8 8 10 8.65 8 10 8 10 ll 14 13 12 4 3 2i 2 2 2 12 We are prepared to furnish you all the- T COTTON SEED PEAL Ton may need. Mr. SAM MOORS is in our employ? and takes special pleasure in talking "Fertilisers." You will find him ou the Publie Square cr in our Store. HR* FARMER : Our advice is to reduce the acreage, but think before you out down your Fertiliser bili. See us tra? ita* you buy. We will make prices and terms satisfactory* j Yours truly? Osborne I Pearson.