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-ConIducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Educa tional and Co-Operation Union. 4 Communications intended for thii _iepartment should be addressed to J. ( Stribling, Pendleton, S. C. Cotton Letter. We desire to make it plain to al] soncerned that when we urge farmers to hQld their cotton off the market we are talking to that class of cotton growers who are in position to do so, In the outset we urged every farmei to arrange his debts first, as best as 'he could, by storing his cotton ox otherwise, and kaep all the weak cotr ton off the market. But now, since New York has combined to refuse money to our southern banks to keep this weak cotton off the market, it seems that those cotton growers whc have placed themselves ; in such a hazardous -position of growing cotton exclusively with which to buy theiz living, - even down to their daily bread, are in hard luck, and are like ly to pay a heavy penalty for not growing their home supplies, and placing their financial destiny in the hands of a gang of worthless gamb. lers. Boys, come out from uxde these robbers and grow your own sup plies. Money turned loose by the eottoa coming on the market at this time helps others of more grit and plulc by mnakig money easier to get tc hold other cotton off the market. Seventy-four banks in Georgia have made public their willingnees to dc all in their power to aid farmers it holding their cotton off the marke for profitable prices. What are oui banks in South Carolina doing in thiE matter? The cotton growing farmers wh< have plenty of home grown farm su plies at home and do not have f< borrow 'money with which to holi their cotton, are increasing in num hers and growing in both purse and education in. the business. This move to st'ore cotton in Euro pean warehouses does not mean bu one thing, and that is to flank Nov York's money panics and save cottoi growers from being forced to sell a bear prices. Sout.hern ceotton in Eu rope is just as safe there as Europeal m,oney is in New York. -Farmers' Union. When things don't go your way al .the time and you conclude to quit th< Union on your own account, publi, opinion generally concludes that yoi are the one who is wrong, or yoi would not have condemned yoursell out of the union. When any of your officers get up t< that high station of conducting ~the Union's. business onl such a high plan that' they protest against an enquir2 by members into their affairs, yo1 may put it down that there is some . thing dead up the creek. Don't get uneasy about any of you: officers of the Union getting top heavy, or fear about their headf growing heavier their bodies. Spe cific gravity, or the natural trend di things, will tumble the head or heavy end down towards the collar, whil( his heels go up towards the ceiling One enemy within the Union can be 1nore harmful than ten enemies or -.the outside. * Because some officer has not done .lis duty or done some dirty trick, don't fail out with the whole system or plan of the Farmers Union, for this Union is the best organization the jfarmner ever made. Just swar that fellow off for a better man foi the niace and sto right ahead with the good work, and stop fighting one an -other. The Union is no resting place foi sluggard or grafter. It is a combina tion of farmers forces to combai against the enemies who combine t< * rob the farmer of the earnings of his hard labor. Therefore, when yoi -have joned the Union you hav-e mn. elv enlisted inl the fa rmers arm' to battle fr r oir ri-:h Prepari yoursr'Ives to 'tinna( the f~'c and ti refe.r:! it two-fold pvery time. Chea.rer to Sell?. We have reen;~tly heard severa farmers say that it was cheaper fo: them to sell their cotton at 10 cent than it was for them to borrow mon a o thver cottfon for 15 eent5 N>' :~ 't tIink for a moment tha these were Tnion men, for I hardl: think there are any so weak minde< mtn who do this are to a cerLain (and very large) extent, robbers. Yes Ifor in a great many instances they are robbing their families of good wholesome food, good clothing, and taking the advantages of a good edu cation away from their children, and taking away from his home that joy,. peace and happiness that should be there. Poor fools "they know not what they do.'' Say now, the Ten Cent Man! You have sold your 500 pound bale of cot ton at 10 cents. It brought you $50.00. If you had been a man, had been honest to your family, to these depen dent upon you, and kept that cotton for 15 cents, don't you think that you would be feeling better over the mat ter? It is doubtful for such as you are devoid of feeling. If you had kept that cotton off the market until the 15 cents mark was reached, it would have brought you $75.00. Now say, if you had kept that cotton at home and borrowed the $50.00 and paid 50 per cent for same, would you have lost anything? Of course you could have borrowed this $510.00 at a nuch less rate, but I am just giving you this to show you what you are doing. There is not a man in the whole cotton belt but that could have kept his cotton every bale of it till the present time, and if they had, and not glutted the market at the very beginning every pound of cotton would have brought 15 cents and more. There are men .in almost all sections of the country today who are urging their renters to sell at the present price. "Thou fool" why listen not to these men, who are steal ing from you for their individual -gain. Hold fast to your cotton boys and listen to the voice of these men, who are trying to drag you down the hill while they are going upward no lon ger. Hold for the price fixed by your National Union. For 15 cents. W. C. Barnett. Our Cotton Letter. For cheek and gall the following - clipping from an editorial in the Sat turday Evening Post seems to be about r the limit. This man wants the i Southern Cotton Growers to sacrifice t their cotton as usual in order to bene - fit others but the old cotton growers i are determined not to do thi; thing: ''We must depend principally up on cottoni. which Enrope will buy in great quantities, and which runs in 1 to money very Last, to overcome this I menace and turn the tide our way. 3 That. in view of such a public need, 1planters should hold cotton for mere ily personal gain is truly reprehensi Sble. We read that the banks gener ally will keep them in the path of du ty by refusing to extend loans on Sstored cotton. ''A similar situation arises every fall. Cotton makes nearly one-quarter rof our total exports. Much more than 1anything else, it is what keep our trade with the world going. We must, each year, hurry out the great staple in order to meet our balances in Eu rope. The function of the cotton in dustry in figancing our foreign trade is so important, indeed, that one might almost expect to see a bill in congress-introduced by a gentleman from Pennsylvania and backed 'by the stand-pat league-f orbidding planters to withhold a single bale that was ready fe9r export." Our Cotton Letter. We are rejoiced to see the grit and pluck shown by so many Farmer's Union men during this supreme mo ment when all New York seem to be combined to break down our deter mined dforts to hold cotton for pro fitable prices. There are more and stronger men in the holding crowd this year than ever known before, and quite a large number are with us this time that do not belong to either bthe Farmer's Union or the cotton As sociation. Our farmers warehouses -all over S. C. are being filled up with .'cotton. Anderson County Union has her large two story house full and' now filling another department in a cotton mill house. In fact every where we hear ofwarehouses being fed and throwimr the key away n mt to; be femal unitil mniimum nriees en.efl(i',. F7:Vr half the co~ttonl a. sy 'f the? burning sni!p,hnrie bhie 1lazes of hades bef'ore they will let it gO at cotton hear prices. The time is now at hand when all the sou:h must strud up for cotton. tEvery banker. merchant and all oth er business !m-t -id cotton growers 1(in their strugeles Lor the profits on table prics is oU; leave off luxuries and deny themselveis and families some of the comforts that they may expect to enjoy when they gain the vetory. The cotton grower who is in the fight for right must wear out his old clothes and then patch them. He must do without sugar in his coffae if necessary and only one drink of whiskey a week and a whole lot of >ther things and above all go at it aow to raise every thing at home that will grow on your lands that you aeed. Diversify your lands and in .rease the yield and profits. We have won our prices on cotton meed because the oil mills are here unong us where we can attend to our >wn affairs Ind New York is not in it. It now beings to lok like we at ;he south will be forced to spin up 31ore of our own cotton too. 4 The south must now set up a de termined fight against this New York's skinning game on her cotton -rop and go at it in earnest to im prove our own southern ports. South Darolina must stand for Charleston 3s her shipping port for her cotton nd patronize imports. brought in by ihips that export her cotton and all Ather cottoi states must do the same Vor their respeetive portt& The south does not owe New York any bounties or pensions in this cot ton business. New York cotton hand ing busiaess wsa built up by men many of whom were reared in the south and we have more as capable men here to build up our southern ports and shipping interests. The south's prosperity was not brought about by New York's aid or friend ship, but it has been forged out of the golden profits of her cotton in spite of New York's skinning games practiced by her cotton exchange an'd other combinations of accumu lated wealth. Cotton bears and speculators that have done no other business all their lives cannot afford to give up their occupations without a hard fight. They have got to put up a hard fight or starve while they run. The farmer that gives in and lets the speculator have his cotton at panic prices when he can help it has no more grit, or pluck than a coward ly soldier that stampedes and flees to the rear at the first fire from the ene my's gun. The relief afforded eetton growers under the new plan of storing his cotton aeross the ocean out of New York panic's where both storage cost and interest on advance are much cheaper, is. a good move at the right time. This will show New York that she cannot skin cotton growers when they take a notion to keep them from doing it ! Many of our best farmers say they are too busy to attend Union meet ings. A man that is no~t busy at home or is not worth anyt-hing to himself or his family at home is of no use to his Farmers Union. Stick a pin down at this point and please remember it. A good farmers union is made of good working farmers tha't 'havg de termined to think soine -as work some. When a member undertakles to rl or run the union and the member ship, gets on to him you may listen for- something to drop and do'wn he. goEs himself. Whenever one man or even thre'e or four of them get to thinking they are bigger than their county or state union and the membership get on to them, these very large small men gen erally have to take water and go down the river where Ward's ducks went. *A Memphis man complains bitter !hat women are psrmitted to wear big h'ats in the theatre boxes. If this reform wave seeks to go too far, doubtles there will be trouble sure enough. NOTICE TO OVEESBBES. All overseers of preblic roads in Newberry county are hereby ordered to work their respective sections for the full time, as reggired by law, by December 1st, 1907. Herein fail not, on pain of the penalty of the law. J. Monroe Wieker, . County Supervisor. Nov. 2nd. 1907. Staw. October' 30th, 1907. at 11 o'cloc.k in.m., we will sell at iublic anetion atD Gilliamu Placc.'' now owned by M~rs. D. A. Kieekly, one-half mile from the late residence of John A. Cromer, dee.eased, One Engine, One Gin and One Press. Terms: Cash. Daisy E. Cromer, Geo. B. Cromer, Executors. 2w. IdLLRY ' and all kinds of FRUITS Phone 247 and have every- Ci thing delivered promptly to your residence. We are now located on Main G street, also at the old post office. Theo. Lambru Prompt Delivery. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMNT. As administratrix of the estate of Robert L. Schumpert, deceased, I will make a final settlement as said ad ministratrix of said estate in the of flee of the probate judge for Newber ry county, South Carolina, on Deeem ber 5, 1907, and thereafter apply for letters dismissory as said administra trix. All persons holding claims against -said estate will present them duly attested before that date, and persons indebted to said estate must make payment. Mrs. C. A. Schumpert, Administratrix of estate of Robert L. Schumpert. EXECUTOR'S SALE OF LAND. w By virtlue of the power vested in be me as executor of the last will and Jis1 testament of Simeon Miller, deceased, I will sell at New(berry Couirt House W on Monday, (salesday) the 2nd of Deember, 1907, at 11 o'clock a. m., at public auction, .t.he following real estate of which the said Simeon Mil 1er died sEized and possesed: Traeit No. 1 eontaining 100 1-5 aeres, bounded by lhndA of B. L. Mil ler, Mise 8allie Metts and traet No. 2 of the estate of Simeoni Miller. Tract No. 2 containing 91 1-3 acres, bounded by traet No. 1 of the estate of Simeon Milller, by lands of J. W. Met.ts 'and Miss Salie Mitts, the lands of Ira A. Miller, and tract No. 3 of the~ st:ate of Sim:'ai M:''er. Tract No. 3 containing 60 acres and bounded byv tr-aet No. 2 of the estate of Simeon Miller, lands of Ira A.4 Miller, A. T. Dominiek, D. I. Long and J. W. Matts. Plats of said lands are on file in the office of the probate judge for Newberry county. Terms of sale: One-half eas.h and the balance in twelve months with interest from date of sale seeur'ed by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises. Purchaser to pay for pa pers. James H. Wise, w Exeutor, Simeon Miller, deceased. bi Mrs'D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy tournal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., jays: "I ran a nail in my foot last week til and at once applied Bucklen's Arnica fo salve. No inflamation followed; the salve simply healed the wound.'' Heals sores, burns and skin diseases. Guaran Seed 'at W. E Peiham & Son, Druggists. Arrival and Departure of Trains. oi Schedules of passenger trains in and out of the UTnio)n Station, New- = berry, S. C. Southern Trains. f No. 15 for Greenville .. .. 8.56 a. mn. No. 12 for Columbia ....10 32 a. m. No. 18 for Columbia .... 1.50 p. m. No. 19 for Greenvie .. .. 1.35 p. m.. No. 11 for Greenville .... 4.42 p. mn.N No. 16 for Columbia . ... 9.47 p. m. C., N. & L. Trains. No. 85 for Laurens . ... 5.19 a. m. No. 22 for Columbia . .. . 8.47 a.'mn. No. 52 for Greenviile . .12 46 p. m. No. 53 for Columbia .... 3.10 p. mn. No. 21 for Laurens .... 7.25 p. mn. No. 84 for Columbia .... 8.30 p. mn. The foregoing schedules are given only for information, are not guaran teed and are subject to change with out dotice. July 15, 1907. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. Savcd Har Son's Life. How to Remain Young. T~1 continu vowL in healthi and strength, do as ai rs. N. F. Rox'an, 3Ie Ionugh, Ga., did(. She says: "Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of chronic liver and stomach trouble, com picated with such an unhealthy condi tion of the blood that my skir turned red as flannel. I am now practically 20 years younger than before I took Electric Bit trs. I can now do all my work withI ease and assist in my husband's store." Guaranteed at W. E. Pelham & Son'sj naore . Price 0Co. JANUAR" In ot der to red aange, will cloc lothing, Shoes, rockery at Nev Sale is on and -y, 1908. c. 6. 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