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The Clothes we sell fill a very important position with a
great many well-dressed and particular men. Hundreds of
thrifty men come back to ns season after season, because of
the satisfactory service they secure here at very moderate
?cost. In the first place, we have an excellent Stock of New
Spring Snits that can meet the w4shes and tastes of practi
cally every reasonable man. The Suits we sell are carefully
and intelligently made, and we guarantee fit and satisfaction
in every case. If not, your money back.
Weare showing an excellent assortment of Sack Suits,
?ingle and double-breasted, composed of Cheviots, Home
spuns, Worsteds, Serges and hard-twisted Fancy Worsteds,
priced from
$7.50 to $22.50,
And at every price between.
Few Stores have as large an assortment pf New Spring
Suits to show yon, and where else oan a man get equal value?
ONS PRICE TO ALL
HARROWS
ROMAN,
Adjustable frame with three d?
tachable teeth.
TERRELL,
Stationary frame with three de
tachable teeth.
LITTLE JOE,
Adjustable frame with nine de
tachable teeth. k
RULL,
Detachable frame, using three
straight or diamond shaped blades.
KEYSTONE
Adjustable Weeder and
' Shallow Cultivator.
Tho practical mind will bo read- ll ll ii ikjfs wl^rJi I 1
ily convinced of the advantage of ll H {lyra *"^J %3K I I
??H Adjustable over a Straight fl flypU ^ - ?
Frame Weeder, in aa much aa ita IBM PH ^ H I
.construction permits it to be need, \ ^ J
not only aa a weed earterniteator, %g| ^ W
while the crop* ?re young, but as av' 3
S?AIJX)W CULTIVATOR- between the i>ws until the crops mature,
which method of cultivation has interested the up-to-date farmer to auch an
-extent that the thousands who have been agitating it are a unit in testifying
to its necesjUy, claiming that growth and production of crops depend upon
frequent and shallov cultivation, nud thai no implement yet invented is as
j; well adapted to the condition as the Keystone Adjustable Weeder and Shal
low Cultivator. These Weeders can be widened to 7i feet, or narrowed to 30
inches. ?They can be furnished with either flat or round teeth.
Our Implements lessen the labor and ada to the profits of
The Farmers' Educational and
Co-Operative Union of America.
CONDUCTED BY ?J. C. STHIOLINO.
$&r~ Comuniic?iionB Intended for tbifr
department should bo addrented to
J. C. Stribling, Pox dletou, H. C.
Something Queer About tito Fertilizer
Tags.
After making 6onie investigation
looking into tho matter of fertilizer
tags our men of our "secret service"
have conto to tho conclusion that there
must bo "something dead up tho
creek" in this thing! We lind that in
ono car, unlonded at Audernou, con
tained enough loose tags to supply
another car, while every sack bad tug?.
This is double tho amount required by
law.
The write saw a boxsomo sis inches
square nearly full of tags that were j
found loose in another car. while all
the sacks were properly tagged. Ono of
the State's fertilizer inspectors reports
that he often Hods largo numbers of
IOOBO tags about in the curs, sometimes a
large bunch is found hanging up inside
the oars. We have interviewed quite
a number of dealers and handlers of
fertilizers who state positively that
they have never seen anything like the
amount of extra tags thrown about
loose as they see this season.
The other side: Some of the manu
facturers of fertilizer accouut for the
extra tags found in cars from careless
ness of the haudleid caused by the un
precedented rush of this season. It is
clear to all that the fertilizer people,
or some other folks, have money to
burn or else the bottom of this thing
would fallout.
A System of Marketing Cotton.
By request of N. C. Murray, presi
dent ot the Farmers' State union of
Texas, I hereby give to tho press for
publication my views in regard to a
system of marketing cotton.
First, let every State organize their
farmers into the Farmers' Union, then
elect from each State a proportionate
number of your best men, who are
honest and qualified todo the business.
Select some Southern city, centrally
located. New Orleans being the great
est American center, 1 would suggest
that city be designated as the place to
carry on the system. Establish at
that point a Fermera' Cotton Ex
change, and in connection with the
Exchange, establish a secret Bureau of
Information, by which means direct
information could be communicated to
the Executive Board of every State
Union of America within a few hours
time; each State Board eonld famish
the information to the County Presi
dent or Secretary, and by him eaoh
Local notified.
Within three days time every cotton
grower in America would know the
exact number cf bales o? cotton in the
hands o? the spinners, and the number
of bales of spot cotton; also, tho num
ber of bales in the bands of tho far
mer. With this reliable information,
and nothing fictitious connected with
it? the confidence of every American
cotton farmer wonld be strengthened,
and when orders were issued from cen
tral Exchange headquarters to hold
cotton off of the mat ket for any defi
nite time it wonld be done at any
cost.
By this system of management all
fictitious reports could be set aside and
confidence in the cotton producers,
one for another, would be firmly es
tablished, nod the great army of cot
ton producers could swing into line,
and the bears of our cotton market dis
appear quickly. This being accom
plished, a uniform system of prices on
raw material and manufactured goods
could at once be established, ana no
longer wonld the American cotton
producers be the toys and playthings
of the cotton gamblers of the world.
Why our American cotton producers
do not act more in concert, in holding
their cotton is on account of lost con
fidence in our statisticians, and even
in our pinners reports issued by the
government, because of the fact that
in many instances it is known that
ginners have failed to give a correct
report, for pecuniaiy reasons. This
being trae;. we have no source to
look to for correct information.
The only thing left for the cotton far
mer is organization. By the above
system we can get a report direct from
every cotton . producer. every two
weeks through the secretaries of oar
local organizations, this information
furnished by them to onr National Bu
reau of Information at New Orleans,
we in return wonld receive a general re
port from the Burean of Information,
of the exact cotton situation. B> this
means the Exchangewould be in posi
tion t-> issue correct orders in regard to
the norning or selling of cotton; and
the growers being familiar with the
exact conditions, would be ina position
to act.
I offer the above, by request, asa
plan by which the problem of market
ing cotton may be settled, and for
every thinking cotton growers' con
sideration. Some: parties, perhaps,
will say that all the farmers can't bo
organized. This ia true. But this will
cat no figaro so far as* reporting the
amount of cotton raised is concerned;
aa each local secretary contd easily as
certain the number of bales of cotton
raised by all who are not members of
Union. And with a concerted action
of two-thirds of the American cotton
growers a system of just and remuner
ative prices could bo maintained. I do
not claim the above plan to.be com
plete or absolute, bot one of matare
consideration. However, many sug
gestions may be made as an improve
ment, and ohonld anything bettor bo
offered, lam ready to strike hands
with my cotton producing friends for a
forward match, until every enemy to
jost and remunerativo prices on oar
cotton, shall be exterminated forever.
I would ask every paper throughout
the cotton growing belt of the United
States that ls ..friendly to tb? cotton
producers cause, to please copy. '
, B. L. Barnett,
Winnsbbro,Texas.
- John W. Ensign, Democrat, was
1 on Thursday eleoted mayor of Hunt
ington, W. Va Du?ing the conflict
preceding tho election three men were
shot, eovcrai were beaten by police
men end deputy sheriffs and numer
ous county and city officers were ar
rested and.cast into jail.
STATE NEWS.
-..John H. ?'Neale has offered to
donate a site for a hospital in Green
ville.
- Determined opposition is de
veloping to the formation of the pro
posed lleyward County.
- Dr. C. II. Judson, of Fm man
University, has returned from Florida
with his health much benefited.
- Ned Mack, colored, will be hang
ed in Manning on Friday, thc 28th,
for the murder of his father-in-law.
- J. E. Boyer, of Columbia, has
been arrested charged with having
set lire to his store which resulted in
the great lire disaster of thc Brooklyn
section.
- A uegro man has sued tho city ol'
Columbia tor $100 for getting Iiis foot
burton the street by failing through
the pavement.
- The portrait of Judge O'Xealc,
which was purchased by the Legisla
ture at a cost of $250 ,uas bec , turn
ed over to thc clerk of the State Su
premo Court.
- A number of carpenters working
on the new passenger depot at Green
ville went on strike on account of dif
ferences with the foreman. A new
forco was at once secured.
- Comptroller General Jones has
raised the assessment of thc Standard
Oil Company in this State from$5,b'0(J
to $20,000. An appeal will bo taken
to the board of assessors.
- John Gray, a weaver at tho
Woodside Mills in Greenville, waa
shot and severely wounded by a negro
gambler who escaped. Tho negro
with others had been surprised while
gambling.
- Tho Southern Newspaper Pub
lishers' Association will meet in Char
leston May 2-3. The newspaper men
of Charleston are making arrange
ments to entertain the visitors io a
splendid mander.
- The Catawba Indians in York
County say they cannot live on the
$1,500 a year given them by the State
and wish to emigrate to the West to
settle in Indian Territory. There are
about 800 in the tribe, only 10 of
whom, however, are full blooded In
diana.
- A report from Baiesburg states
that no damage was done the peach
and other fruit crops on th n Ridge
by the reoest cold snap, and (hat the
prospeota for a large crop of peaches
and plums are very good. The grow
ing of peaches has beoome a large in
dustry on the Ridge, and has been
proven profitable.
- The Governor of the State offete
a reward of two hundred dollars foi
the arrest of Ed. Wakefield, and hie
delivery to the Sheriff of Greenville
County, charged with the murder ot
T. E. Hioks, on February 18, 1904,
Wakefield ia described as being about
thirty years old, six feet and two
inchon high, drooping shoulders,
slender build, light complexion, dari
brown hair, left thumb off at the firsl
joint.
- Mr. Thoa. W. Folk's residence
near Garmany, in No. 2 Township,
.Newberry County, was atruok bj
lightning and set on fire during th<
eleetrio storm. The fire was put oui
with only nominal IOBB. The bol
struck the ohimney in the rear ol
the house near the ground, knookinj
off several planks from the outside ol
the house, and setting.fire to a broon
on the inside, this starting the blaze
The family distinctly felt the shook
but no one was injured.
- Saturday F. P. Mason brough
two parta of a minie ball to the Spar
tan office. About 13 years ago Doo
tors Lanham and Allen out out a por
lion of the ball from the region o
the ribs under tho right arm of Virgi
M. Rogers. A short time ago he fol
that there was something wrong witt
his right shoulder in the rear. Hi
could feel that there was something
j trying to push its way out. Dr. Lan
j ham ont another portion of the ball
a little larger than the first. It wai
very rough and jagged with pieces o
bone adhering. Mr. Rogers was s hoi
at the crater in Petersburg.-Caroline
Spartan.
- At Johnston last Friday morn
ing about 3 o'clock fire broke out in th?
business section of the town and tw<
handsome briok stores and two frami
ones were completely destroyed. L
B. Aobell, drugs and grooeries, losi
$10,000, with iuBuranco of $1,000; D
T. Ou7.ta lost on.four buildings $3,500
insurance $2.000. The stocks in Ed
warda' bicyelo atore and Dr. Mobley'i
drug store were saved, and there wai
much damage to nearly every mer
chant in moving goods. If the wini
had not been blowing from the sou tl
a greater portion of the town wouh
have been destroyed.
- John E. Smith, a former citizei
of Piokena County, ia in serions trou
ble. He has deserted the Unite:
States Arxsy. He waa captured Fri
day night eight miles eaat of Picken
in the Gross Roada section of tba
county, near bia former home. H
served eix y car a in the army and jua
recently re-enlisted. He was capture?
by Town Marshal John Griffin ant
Mr. H. A. ISTcaloy, of Piokena, whi
will re?oive . a reward of $50 for" hil
capture. Smith's o tory ia that hi
never deserted, as he had * di s put;
with an officer in Atlanta whom hi
told ho was going to leave. A dis
puto'arose QB to the payment of ol
faro from Atlanta to Fort McPherson
Smith claiming that the government
should pay the fare and the office
claiming that it was a personal claim
Smith says he knocked the office
down for insulting him and left, think
ing all that wea necessary was to tel
the officer that he was going to leave
Ho could not then, in his opinion, b<
termed a desertor.
GENERAL KB WS.
- The fruit crop at Roanoke, Va., I
has been killed by the cold.
- The mines of Mexico have been !
closed to the coinage of silver.
- Three men wore burned tj death
in a jail near New Orleans a few days
ago.
- Tho damage to strawberries in
North Carolina is estimated at ?? per
cent.
- The estimate is that 7") per cent
of tho Georgia peach crop has been
killed.
- A fire on Thursday ai Nashville,
injured Vanderbilt University to the
amount of $200,000. Insurance, $-10,
000.
- A wealthy merchant died in a
hospital in havannah a few days ago
from blood poison resulting from a cat
scratch. i
- John 1). Rockefeller has given
$100,000 to the University of Vir
ginia to found a "Curry school of
education."
- Tho Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, in Augusta, will
ereot a house for taking care of stray
dogs and oats.
- Some negroes lynched another
negro at Marion, Ark., a few days ago
because the lynched negro killed
another negro.
- At Washington it is thought
that unless France gives some satis
factory assurances complications with
England may develop.
- Bishop A. A. Watson, of the
Episcopal diooosse of Eastern North
Carolina, is dead at Wilmington. He
had reached an advanced age.
- Tho Naval Stores Product Ex
port Company to oontrol the turpen
tine industry has been formed in
Mississippi with $11,500,000 capital.
- The bones of Paul Jones, who
founded tho American navy, have
been found in au ld cemetery in
Paris and will be brought > this coun
try.
- A sculptor at LogauBport, Ind.,
removed a statue of Wm. McKinley
from the pedestal in the park because
be said he was never paid for making
the monument.
- Hardy Watkins, a negro, was in
dicted st Evergreen, Ala., charged
with the murder of his wife by throw
ing her on a burning brush heap, and
holding her there until life was near
ly eztinet.
- The Japanese will profit by the
destruction of the Russian fleet in the
harbor of Port Arthur. There will be
at least four of the sunken battleships
raised and made to do servioe ia the
Japanese navy.
- The largest bequest ever made
by a colored person to Tuskegee In
stitute,Booker Washington's sohool at
Tuskegee, Ala., was reoorded io
New York when the will of Mary E.
Shaw, of Philadelphia, was probated.
It bequeathed $38,000 to the institu
tion.
- A prioe has been put on the
head of the Amerioan eagle in Te
lunna County, California. The board
of supervisors offers a reward of $1
for the head of eaoh of the great
birds on the petition of the sheep
men, who have lost many lambs by
eagles.
f - The home of George T. Maull at
j Clarsburg, W. Va., was entirely do
lf stroyed by fire and four children were
i burned to death. The parents, with a
fifth ohild, had barely time to escape
from the .burning building. The
' oharred bodies of the four children
were recovered from the ruins.
- State Senator R. L. Hipp, a law
' yer, and Deputy Sheriff Dunlay, of
] Cullman, Ala., went out into the
f country on Thursday to oust John
j Williams from a tract of land he bad
t lost in a lawsuit. Williams refused
1 to vacate and a fight ensued, in which
9 Hipp was killed and Dunlay was bad
, ly wounded.
- It has just como to light that a
uieoo of Andrew Carnegie married her
s mother's coaohman, a widower with
f two children, a year ago, and that
i they have been in Europe since. An
i drew says it is so, and that thc coaoh
man is an honest man and he would
rather she had married a poor but
" honest Amerioan than a worthless
y duke.
? -The heaviest rainfall,of short
; duration ever reoorded accurately is
9 said to have been the recent one at
: Santiago de Cuba. An English engi
t oeer found the rate to be more than
! four inches an hour, and between 7
a ?od 10 o'elook in the evening a total
a fall of more than a foot was registered
. by the gauge. The storm covered
1 nearly three hundred miles, io places
1} being even heavier than at the point
} where the measurement was made.
- Thomas Yandaw, a conspicuous
3 figure in Norfolk for over fifty years,
. claimed up to the time of his death
I that he was entitled to a large for
. tune in California. Five yenrs ago he
a wis adjudged a lunatio and sent to
t an asylum. Two years ago he died
0 and was buried in a pauper's grave
t at the asylum. A letter bas just been
1 received in Norfolk stating that Yan
} daw was entitled to a large portion of
D an estate in California worth upward
9 of $1,500,000. Yandaw's wife is dead
? and he left no heirs.
3 - F. M. Dockrell, Jr., son of ex
3 Senator Cookrell, is the inventor of a
- sugar cano cutter that promises to re
r volutionize the sugar planting indus
, try of the South ana at the same
t timo make its inventor a millionaire,
r His machine will do the work of more
. than one hundred men. It outs,
t strips and tops the eane and is pr?
- nounoed by experts who have seen it
1 in operation a wonderful machine,
. that will mean as much to tho sugar
B cane industry as did thc cotton gin to
the cotton business.
To See the Prettiest and
Most Complete Line of
DRESS GOODS
Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices
that DEFY COMPETITION, come to
mmm m%m, A S> A ?mt (th mttm t?m% A ??t ,ftt m\ lft> I fill rffll iWm A l?% A (V J
The Racket Store.
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Our Buyer has ju3t returned from tue Northern markets,
and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the
most 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
MONET.
A new and complete line of
OXFORDS,
Men's, Women's and Children's, at prices unequalled else*
where.
We extend to ail a cordial invitation to visit our Stores?
inspect our Goods, aud;be convinced that what we say is trna.
MORROW-BASS CO.,'
Successorgto Horn-Bass Co.,
110,116,120, East Benson St., ..... Anderson, 8. G
Mamet
15 pieoea Brown Linen, regular price 15o, at. 1
(10 yards to customer )
Beat Calico. 4o;
Mill Eada of Apron Checks.3}o ;
Cotton Checks and Plaids. SJc
Mill Ends yard-wide Sheeting at. 4io;
Mill Ends Dress Gingham*, 7c grade, at. -J ju.
Mill Ends Dress Ginshams, 10c grade, at. 74o,
Mill Ends Percales, 10c gracie, at. 7}o;
Laces and Embroideries.
1000 yards of Narrow Torchon Lice at.V...>.. io yard,:
Torchon Lace, one to two lrcbes wide, at., 8Jcyird'
25 pieces of Embroidery, one inch wide, at. lc yard
1000 yards of Embioldery.and Inner.?on, worth oe, at.?.35cj?rd
lace Curtains.
Worth GOc at.S. 43ajSMr
Worth ?1.00 at.3. <?!)al|>air
Curtain Poles with Fixtures.
j White Enameled or Cherry.,'.. 8? each, complete
Umbrellas.
26 inch School Umbrellas, worth 50c, at.
Tinware.
4 quart Pudding or Milk Pan?, worth 10c, at. 5c ea
2 quart Dippers, regular price lOo, at. 5c efl
0 inch Pte Plates, regular price 5c, at. .....two for ?
Fibre Water Pails, worth 35c, at.25o e$6h
Carpet Tacks at.\. lo i box
EBB WThips, 3o kind, at.:..?$. looac?i
White Metal Tea Spoons at. 7c for set of (i
White Metal Table 8poons at......Ho for aft of ti
Fibre Lunch Boxes at. 100 eae'a
Large size Scissors, nickel plated, a 25o article, at. 10c each
6 Inch plain White Wash Brush at!..-..M9t each
7 inch painted Wash Brush at.,. 10c each,
4 lb package Grandma Washing Powder at.12o
1 lb. package Grandma Washing Powder at. 4c
A No. 1 Laundry Soap, 8 oz. cakes, 12 cakes for.25c
Nobby Soap, best laundry soap made, at.7 oak OB for 25o
Cocoa Soap.:.cakes for 5o
Package Soda, Silver Leaf...?>....7 for 25o
Good Luck Baking Powder at.-tocan
Good Luck Baking Powder, large Size, at.?*..">...80 can
Cracker Jack Baking Porder at.2 cake? for 6o
10 inch Meat Dish, worth lCc, at. 5oeach
0 inch Gravy Bowl, worth 10?, at. oe each
8 lnoh Gravy Bowl, deep, worth 15c, at.:...-JOc each
Soup Toureens, worth ??.0O. at....,. o,6*10.
Large Soup Plates, worth 00c, at....?? "J
Large Dinner Plates, English ware, worth OOo, at.4*?. .
Cup? and Saucers to match, English ware, worth 7Ac, at.86 :
7 only 100-plece Decorated Dinner Seta, worth f l(?.00, at.......17.69 set
5 only 100-ptece Decorated Dinner Seta, worth $12.00, at..$0 49 set
3 only 100-plece Carlsbad China 8etP, worth ?22.00, at......'..-..116.7o set
100 seta of Tumblers, worth 15c, at. ,2? *
25 doz. plain Blown Tumblers, worth 40c, at.86*
9 inch oblong Preserve Dish, value 10?, at.>>c 6ficn
8 inch deep round Berry Bowls, value 18c, at.!- irre
Half gal. ?law Pitcher, worth 25o. at.JT 2S
10 Inch Blown Glass Vase, worth 35c, at.JW oaon
10 inch Carnation Vase, value 35o, at.T?,.?so eaon
First quality Window ?hadea (Linen) at..,.gio eaott
First quality Window Shades with Fringe at.-?? o?0?
SV Remember, wc are headquarters for Ice Cream Freezers and Water
Coolers. Aak to see our Sanitary Water Coolers.
The Magnet,
Thc Bia Store. , Scxt to Post Office.
