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The Farmers Union Prices.

What about this? Have you had
time to look over the record to see
. about that steadying process of the
cotton market? We are of the opinion
that the II cents made by the Farmers
Union has maintained more regular
and uniform price through the whole
year than has been recorded in our
recollection.
; Suppose some ofyou that have more
time than we have look over the re-
cords and let US know about this.
, We are looking for the time when
cotton producers shall run a regular
market quotation in all the newspapers
of,the country as to the condition of
= crops and prices of their own products.
For many years the manipulators of
the cotton market have been at it
gathering in all the information about
our Southern staple crop, cotton, from
our own silly producers of cotton who
it seems never once consider the fact
that they are placing into the hands
of our enemies all the valuable infor-
nation about our own business that
these shrewd manipulators desire.
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amount of cotton seed and acid to the
acre, and then in the spring he ell.
couraged them in getting nitrate OF
soda for that grain:
Now, Bro. Stribling, as an excuse
for not sowing wheat last fall, JUST
listen al that old cotton farmer coming
at us with that old gag" that he can
buy his flour cheaper than he can raise
it. Now, wouldn't that give the man
that wants to live at home the ''Jlm-
iamsm Now, here is where we con-
tend that: Casey is winner i'll this mat
ter. If from some unknown cause
flour should 90 to eight or nine dollars
per barrel it will not hurt this man
for he has his already at home. Ana
there again he will get another crop
from that land, crop of pea-vine hay
and at the same time leave his lan0 III
a higher state ofcultivation than when
he started. And last but not least
there will not have to be an Inspector
standing around to see whether Casey's
flour is pure or not. So you see the
"pint?"
Here, you old farmers that have been
buying that "potted' or routed ham,
it really is, instead of raising goou ola
streaked ham at home, can now con
tent yourselves:with The thought that
you've been eating something that
wasn't fit to feed decent bird dog. :,
But then 1 guess it was alright-lt
was put up in a nice little red box and
cost mick"
Say, Bro. Stribling, was up in your
country last week and it seems that
some of your farmers are trying that
corn stunting plan this time. l believe
they went the whole hog, for it looks
like they planted stunted seed on
stunted land, that it came up stunted,
will be laid by stunted, and we very
much fear will be gathered stunted:
Take in your lip, I am not talking
about your crop. Be sure an meet
Five Forks No. at the Farmers H.
s,itute at Clemson, we are going to be
there in a body and if there is any
thing to be learned we are going 10
learn it.
w. L. Casey, Sec.
Five Forks Union,
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bLG BOOKS,
fh cir Contents Rather Than The1H
Dates Make Them Valuable.

Dates Make Them Valuable.
"It is extraordinary, said book col.
lector the other day, the value some peo.
Pile attach to old books simply because they
are old Not long ago friend OF mine
showed me two old trunks filed with
books which he had found in house orig
inally the property Of his wifes grandfa-
ther, and which she had recently inherited
from her mother. There were in all per-
hups about 800 volumes, most OF which
boro tho dates 1760, 1910, 1765 and so On,
and my friend confidently believed that
they were worth at least their weight In
gold. On the contrary, they were books
of very little value and interest, and not
worth much more than their weight as
waste paper. He politely suggested that l
was a liar when I told him that, but he
changed his mind after he had tried In
vain to sell the books to secondhand deal
ers.
"Outside Of these overestimated books
my friends wife had barrelful of pam
phlets which she was going to use to kin
die the fire with. Though worthless in
my friends opinion, these had really con-
siderable value, being old Massachusetts,,
Philadelphia and New York almanacs,
Revolutionary pamphlets and broadsides
and printed documents relating to Kings
and Queens counties, and a dealer paid
my friend 500 for the lot. One Of the de-
spised almanacs was Charles Smith 3
'Gentleman's Pocket Almanac for the
year 1893, which contaiDed a portrait OF
Washington - one Of the rarest OF the
Washington portraits yet my friend
was going to kindle tho fire with it.
1T is really next to impossible to get
such people to believe that q book is not
of necessity worth money because 1t was
printed long time ago. Nine out Of ten
books published before this century are
growing more worthless every year. The
tenth one has value, higher or lower, In
proportion to it's character. Occasionally
q literary gem, book of real value to .
collector, may be found in lumber room,
but the date on the title page Is never q
safe guide. New York Commercial Ad-
vartiser
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
Varied Career Of the Distinguiahed
Courtier and Adventurer.

Varied Career of the Distinguished
Courtier and Adventures.
Raleigh's day Of days was at the sack Of
Cadiz in 1896. It was Raleigh who over
bore the timid counsels Of Lord Thomas
Howard, crying out to Lord Essex: "En-
tramos Entramos!" a permission so ac-
ceptable to the gallant young earl that he
threw his haS into the sea for sheer JOY.
Then Raleigh betook him to his ship and
led the van under the batteries and right
into the harbw. When his vessel, shat
tered by sAot, was on the point Of sinking,
he left 1t to enter Essex's ship, and,
though wounded severely by q splinter,
had himself carried on shore and lifted on
to horse to charge with Essex against
the Spanish army. Of the sea fight Hak.
luyt says:
"What manner Of fight this was and
with what courage performed and with
what terror to the beholder continued,
where so many laundering tearing peeces
were for SO long time discharged, leave
1t to the Reader to thinke and imagine.
Of the charge on shore he tells us: "The
time of the day was very hot and faint,
and the way was all Of dry deepe slydins
sand in manner, and beside that, very
uneven. But the most famous Earle, with
his valiant troopes, rather running In
DECIDE in COED order, then marching, has
tened on them with such unspeakable cour-
age and celebrity, as within one houres
space and lesse the horsemen were all dis
coIpforted and put to flight, their leader
being strooken downe at the very arst en-
counter, whereat the footmen, being won
derfully dismayed and astonished at tbs
unexpected manner Of the Englishmen's q
kinde of such fierce and resolute fight, re-
tyred themselves with all speed possible
that they could"
We know the story Of Sir Walter Raleigh
but too well-his cruel imprisonment, his
more cruel liberation to save his life by
accomplishing the impossible and his
most cruel execution on warrant signed
15 years earlier He knew alI that Is to
be known Of success and failure, Of courts
and treachery, of sea fights and assaults
on cities, of treasure islands and tempests
and long marches in tangled forests
Fortnightly Review.
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Reuben Is Coming.

= Look out for Reuben. He will soon
be through cultivating his crops and
he will be coming to town, but be is
coming to the front all along the line
just the same. Reuben is in this
thing for. himself this time and since
we come to think about it, if there
were no Reubens in the country dig
ging there would be no towns to go
to. If all the Reubens and other hay
seeds were to stop digging for awhile
some other folks would have to go to
digging like the devil or there would
be more funerals in the land than
there would be pail bearers and grave
diggers.
: Look out for Reuben for he is going
out for game; Reuben is coming after
some of the good things for himself
and his family, too.
Look out, cotton bears; give US plenty
80 of room,
Old Reuben is coming your way soon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

The number that gets the
First Hat Rack at Darans
S & 10 cents Store is 1853 on a
Red ticket. We have started
on a new Hat Rack now
this time we give Gray Tick
cts, Save them-and watch
our advertisement for the
number that gets the second
Hat Rack. One Ticket with
a number, given free with
each 10 cent purchase.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
He hid His Re4f.

In an Aberdeen bookshop an old lady
was inquiring for copy of the Bible, and
the shopkeeper brought forward one q
half a crown. But the old lady wanted
something cheaper. A copy at 1s pencu
was produced containing illustrations.
But the Illustrations, the old lady ayerred,
entailed superfuous expenditure.
"Then, here" said the shopkeeper, III
. copy for a shilling which contains a
that's necessary for salvation" he de-
scended from the ladder and laid 1t before
bis customer.
"But hae ye no something q wee bit
cheaperp" asked the old lady.
"Wumman, wumman," said the shop
man, sea upon the ALMIGHTY to come
down and sell ye his ain publications, fo1
oan dae nae mairl'-London Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
The LandraiI.

The most remarkable thing sSout the
landrail is It's extraordinary instinct or
passion for migration. Whence comes to
it that overpowering desire which twice
In the year impels 1t, weak winged though
it Is, to change its quarters, to range dur
Ing our English springtime as far north
as the bleak and frozen shores Of arctic
Greenland, to descend in the fall Of the
year away south into Africa and eastward
into Asia, reaching in Its return migra-
ton countries so distant and 80 widely
sundered as Natal and AfghanistanP At
present, in spite Of theories and surmises,
we have no satisfactory reason offered to
us for the wonderful migration-recur-
ring steadily, persistently and unfailing-
ly, year after year-of hrd Like the land
rail, whose weak wings and strongly de-
veloped legs plainly attest the fact that
It's natural powers Of progression Lie Tar
more in walking and running than In
flying. Review.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
A Call.

& To the membership of the South Caro-
lima Division of The farmers Educa-
tionsl and Co operative Union OF
America:
All Local Unions in South Carolina,
are called to meet at their respective
places of meeting on or before July
Dist for the purpose Of electing dele
gates to their County Unions which
are hereby called to assemble in dele
gate form in each County on July 18th
at II a. m.
Local, County and State Unions are
requested to name their minimum
price for their cotton crop l9O6l9O7 at
these meetings. All locals average by
the counties, and counties averaged up
by sending in their county reports to
the State Secretary, B. F. Earle. An.
derson, S. G.
Each County Union is requested to
send one delegate to the National
meeting in Atlanta, Ga, on End OF
August.
) o. P. Goodwin, President S. G..
State Union.
B. F. Earle, Secretary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
ManipnlatOrs' Desire.

All you local cotton reporters that
are now at it regularly sending in your
reports to our enemies about our own
affairs, ask yourselves this one ques-
tion and then 60 off to some quiet
corner and ruminate over the thing.
Here is the question When 1 have
given these pirates of trade all the in
side information that I can gather
about my own and all my nelghbors'
affairs Of trade, wonder if these
propaganders will use this valuable
information for the benefit of the toll
ing legions of our southland and our
home Interest of the South? Or will he
use this advantage given him by our
own people to rob the whole interest,
of the South for the benefit Of foreign
interest? Oh, you cheap fools, you
traitors of.the South's interest.
How long, oh how long will it be be-
fore our whole people of the South
come to know and realize what a great
mine of wealth that there is locked up
in three inches of soil spread over our
Dixie land and will join together In
one grand concert of interest and dig
this wealth out of our own ground for
the South's own interest?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

Get box Of that nice paper at Milford's
before IL is all gone.
Buy your Tangle Foot Fly Paper from
Speed, II is fresh and sticky.
1t is best to give your baby as little medl-
cine as possible don't risk every Old nos,
trum that comes along; II " IN weak anu
many give II Ninol, IL will brirg back the
health and color to its little cheeks.
Don't be fooled and made to believe
that rheumatism can he cured with To-
cal appliances. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea is the only positive cure
for rheumatism. 50 cents, lea or lap-
let's. G.. A. Milford.
Ifyou waut TO see all the Up To Date things
in the Post card line come to bargains d lO
cents Store Have just gotten in over q thou
sand.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
A Financial Shake.

"Good morning Mr.. Toney. On ths
hck list todayP"
"Yes, sir; got the ague."
"Do you ever shaker"
eyes"
"When do you shake againi"
"Can' t say when; shake every day Why
do you ask?"
"Oh, nothing in particular, only !
thought if you shook bad I'd like to stand
by and SEQ If you couldn't shake the IL
shillings out of your pocket which you
have owed me so longp'-London Stand
an1
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Only ~ fears Old.

"I am only 80 years old and don't
expect even when I get to be real old
to feel that way us long as can get
Electric Bitters, says Mrs. f.. fl. Brun-
sen, of Dublin, Ga. Surely there's
nothing else keeps the old as young
and makes the weak as strong as this
grand tonic medicine. Dyspepsia, tor
pid liver, intlamed kidneys or chronic
constipation are unknown after taking
Electric Bitters a reasonable time.
Guaranteed by P. B. Speed, druggist.
Price soc,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
A Barrel of Flour.

A barrel of flour will make nearly dou-
BILE Its weight in bread Flour rapidly de.
teriorates with age unless kept dry. II
absorbs moisture, and this moisture i'm
pairs the gluten which is indispensable to
the .lightness of the bread. Besides, 1t
changes some of the starch into sugar and
q glmmy matter known as dextrin, and
this makes the bread heavy and sodden.
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The Smart VerneY.

The church possessed valuable Bible,
which was only used on Sundays, says 9
writer in The Cornhil Magazine, speak
ing of an English country parish. During
the week twas kept in a box which rather
curiously formed the stand upon which
the reader Of the lessons stood. On one
occasion, when this was being shown to .
visitor, the remark was made that 1t did
not seem very reverent for even clergy
man to tread upon the Bible. "Pardon
me-" the old verger replied. "In this
church, sir, we take our stand upon the
Scriptures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
watching 70 See Which Way the Cat
Will Jump.

There are a good many farmers stay
ing back on the outside of the farmers
movement watching and waiting to
see which way the cat will jump before
they will make q move. These men
have been listening and watching
every movement of the farmers organ
ization to see where their. leaders are
going to land into some fat position and
all that sort of thing, never once
thinking that if some fortunate farmer
should land into some good position
that the farmer had just as well have
these fat:places as for all of them to go
to others: Better come into the move
.ment instead of standing out there
watching; or some devilish cotton bear
or some other sneak might slip up be-
hind and get you into something a
saight worse than a good Farmers
Union made up of your best neighbors.
Come along my good fellow, you cal
see the cat jump on the inside better
than you can by peepiDg through the
crack from the outside.
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A Hard Lot

of troubles to contend with, spring
from a torpid liver and blockaded bow
els, unless you awaken them to their
proper action with DR.. Kings New
Life Pills; the pleasantest and most
effective cure for Constipation. They
prevent Appendicitis and tone up the
system. 25c at Speeds drug store.
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Well, Bro. Stribling, for fear you
NAV think Five Forks boys have quit
and gone fishing, perhaps had bet
ter say something. Nothing of i'm
portance this tIme-yes, by-the-way, l
want to tell you that Mr.. .. w. Casey,
a member Of our union, made enough
wheat this time to do him till another
crop is made, and he didn't have a
grain saved himself. How did he do
it? That was easy. Last fall he let
his renters SOW all they wanted to and
he didn't make them take some old red
hill side, and then with little short
half-shovel scratch in the seed without
manuring. No, he allowed them to
sow the best land he had and then to
turn it good and deep with q good
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
4 Call Meeting.
To the membership Of the F. E. & G.

To the membership Of the F. E. & G.
U. of A:
1 have been requested to call a meet
ing for the purpose of naming the
minimum price for cotton for the sea-
son of l906-07.
I hereby call said meeting to be
composed of delegates from each State
with or without State Union.
This meeting to he held in Atlanta,
Ga, August 3, 1906, 10 O'Clock a. M. at
Williams House No. l.
Fraternally,
r. F. DuckwOrth,
President National Union.
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"Kid" is merely jocose substitution
for "lamb," used for young child, and
Is very old. Charles Reade and Dickens
used "kid" In this sense, and VirgEG
phrase, site capelle," has been freely
translated, "Go it, my kiddies."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Old Chronic Sores.

AS dressing for old chronic sores
there is nothing SO good as Cham ber-
lain's Salve. While it is not advisable
to heal old sores entirely, they should
be kept in good condition for which
this salve is especially valuable. For
sale by G. A. Milford and II. NJ.
Young, Due West.
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do Not Neglect Your Bowels.

Many serious diseases arise from
neglect of the bowels. Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets are pleas
ant and agreeable laxative They in
vigorate the liver and regulate the
bowels. For sale by e. A. Milford and
H. M. Young, Due West.
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Tortoise Shell,

What is called tortoise shell is not ths
bony covering OF shield Of the turtle, but
only the scales which cover 1t. These are
1S in number, 8 Of them fiat and a little
curved. A large turtle affords about eight
pounds Of them, the plates varying from
an inch to Q quarter of an inch In thick.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
The Fool and His Money.

"Optimism, said the sorry fool, us
seeing the green side Of a IS bill"
And what Is pessimismp" asked bis
friend.
"Seeing neither side Of a SIS bill New
York Commercial Advertiser. 4.
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ititR.

Washington, June 29.-Amohg the Items
agreed to by the conferees on the public
building are the following;
South Carolina: GreenviLle SS0.C0O Ander.
son $50 0oOs Chester $4,000; Green wood
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

Thousands Of Egyptians live in old
tombs, eating, sleeping, wooing, loving,
laughing, dancing, singing, doing all
their deeds OF daily life and household
tork among ths mummies and sarooph'
tgi
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We.are showing most excellent line of 10
cents goods all through the store now and we
would like 10 see you In, and price you on
great many things we are good dea under
the markat-Take FRUIT JARS for instance
bargains 5 g. 10 cents store.
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Have a Telephone in your resi-
dence-- per month"; only DC
a day. Day, night and Sunday
service.
Abbeville Telephone Co.,
VIM. M. Barnwell.
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dTanglefoot and poison fly paper
fresh at Speeds Drug store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

A nice line of Comic Post Cards at
Speeds Drug Store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

Speeds Cinco Cigars pleases all the
people all the time.
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For paint, oils, varnishes and stain, Nil
ord is the man you want 10 see
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"Out Of sight out Of mind"
is a time honored proverb
which applies with peculiar
force to a merchants adver-
tising. Who remembers the
ads. Of last year or last
month"; Keep your name be-
fore the public in our COL
umns II you would not be
forgotten.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-04-27

.A,,ala y.
8lt :. or HE NJ. PE Dt
y rs EkS Or ADNlNloIk
IA Dakota
>ss. In cunn s.f.
the state OF humhs 20
tate If So,fth Dakoin greet
It.- l@ s. ii 4. Clark, Gr ace Ii Z OF
ta rtre !, rs next OF KIN If Thomas s.ta, de-
ce sea, s. g.. MI to whom these pr may
,
>aitet ny given that sarah A. !3,rk has
ii Cd ~ judge of this court. a pc ition pray
~ Ior tr- Of adm nstratlon OF the estate OF
homas k, deceas d, aud that Thursday, the
'nird dav ay, A. d., 1906, at ten O'clock a
IN. oi s.iu day, being day o a regular term OF
th- court towit; of the May term 1906, al the
cour, rom # said court at Miibank IN the coun-
" of irant south Dakota, have beer appoint
ed AS the time and place for hearing i'd petit
uph. when and where any person may appear
aud chow cause why SAID petition should not
re granted.
Dated this eleventh day Of April. A. ID. 1905.
BY the Court,
tsEAL) S. s. LoCkHART, Judge oi tountyCou rt.
Attest: JOAN w. LIGGETT, Clerk.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-04-27

April q May II
NOTICE TO OWNER OF LAND BEFORE
IN TAX DEED SHALL ISSUE.
To Christine Johnson:
You are hereby notified that the second
day of November, A. ID. 1903, the following de-
scrlbed piece parcel of real estate, taxed in
the name of Christine Johnson and situate in the
county of Grant and state of South Dakota, as
follows: Lot five (5). in block fifteen Q5) of the
city of Mlbank, was sold for taxes then due and
delinquent for the year 1902, at tax sale by the
treasurer of said county to Grant county, and
was by said purchaser duly assigned to Frank
Heilman, who Is now the lawful holder of the
certificate of purchase. That said taxes then
due and delinquent amounted to 81. 20, and that
subsequent taxes to the amount OF S39 35 have
been paid. with interest, penalty and costs &C.
crued 1895 making total amount necessary to
redeem S45, and in addition thereto, the cost of
service of this notice, together with such inter
est as may accrue after this date must be paid
and that the right ofredemption will expire and
a deed for said land be made within sixty da Us
from the completed service of this notice
Dated April 2l, 1906
FRANK HEILMAN,
Owner and holder of said cert ficate
By S. S. LoCkHART, his attorney, Milbank, S.