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Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

| aims at an entirely different accom-
| plishment-equity In all the bust
ness relations Of life
This society holds that the prices
OF farm products are the ones that
are arbitrarily and unfairly made,
that while supply and demand each
have limit and their relationship
varies. the adjustment Of the proper
ton between the two constitute the
law Of supply and demand. but that
in making the prices i'm the ordinary
speculative way as published in the
market reports, these principles are
wholly ignored and prices are made
that viii best serve the purpose and
profits of Spectators. who buy cheap
t1 sell high
Taking this view of the business
situation DO IFS emin~ntly The province
of The Society of Equity TO wrest
rom tn hurtul hand. Of specula-
lion and gambling and give them
greater p.rmauency i'm price and
more equitable adjustment This
price maf De- higher md il may be
lower than sometimes made by the
speculative forces. but it will al
ways Dee romunorafEc 20 the pro
N'hh NJ. 'AHt. NNA' if| ''thNn lNAfl w
them instead of flowing into the cof-
fers Of those who toll not. neither
DO they sgin. and yet Dee no more
costly 90 customers. This can be
done, the society claims. and has
proven &c. not by Withholding needed
supplies. but by keeping the market
supplied only rs actual demand calls
for it,, stringins 1t along throughout
the season instead Of pouring whole
crops upon the market at times of
maturity TO become the playthings
Of the bulls and bears of speculation
and the means of extorting unfair
prices from customers
This theory OF farm organization
and accomplishment places. or
should place. the Society of Equity
in the most friendly relations with
the legitimate business interests of
the country. and they with II. In
deed the society has fully proven its
friendliness by opening its doors to
business men, inviting them to men,
bership, welcoming them TO it's coun-
ellis, and working hand in hand with
them In building up home interests.
The Society of Equity has no secrets
from the woEld. its propositions are
plain business ones. It's success
makes farmers better off financially,
increases their ambitions, refines
their tastes. multiplies their wants,
gives them the ability to satisfy them
and this makes them more abundant
purchasers.
The merchant. therefore, or pro-
fessional man, or anybody who is I'M
friendly 10 the society is too narrow
i'm his views and selfish in his actions,
and he is blocking the path to his
own best interests. In many local.
ties the business and professional
men understand this and have be-
come members of the society and are
helping 10 lead il on to maturity and
success. In others they give it every
assistance by counsel and good
words
In such localities 1t takes eminent
~ the proper form-that Of pure mu-
tuality Of interests. leading to
equity in all business relations of
life" And so It may be 10 every
locality. aus.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
MARION r. PoGUE. EDITOR.

TO larmcr and their friend,
While tlr object Of these columns
primar. So advance che cause of
the Society Of Equity by promul
eating IS principles and recording
its wonderful work in state and
nation. njcnscd form, We shall
be- glad Co. ,cive contributions
FROM our friends everywhere relative
60 the farmer and his interests, no
matter 60 what organization you
may belong. All such communica
lions should be addressed TO me,
Frcdonia Ky, H. 7. d. No. ,
Such communication must be signed
IN full By the writer, besides the
nom do plume, if any.
Tue EDITOR.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
sGLF FEEDER FOR WHOLE GRAIN
On which wiu Encourage the Po~As
% whoI9soms kxsroiss.

4 novel yst simple ssff feeder and
exercissr for whole grain is shown
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
EQUITY \ FRIEND OF ALL.
Unlike Any other Farmers society.


When farmers, smarting under
wrongs they could not entirely I'M
derstand. realized that they must or
ganiZo so ms 10 meet organization
with organization. they very natur-
lly looked no further than to the
business men they knew for the
source of their trouble The idea did
not occur 90 them that the prices OF
their own products might be too low
and unfairly and improperly made
They had been taught all their lives
rs they vet are taught by many
whose reason for such teaching is in
comprehensible that the prices Of
farm products are made al The foun-
tain head OF trade I'm accordance
with some mysterious law. and there
fore. they must be right--at least
that they were irreVocable Hence
II there was a lack OF equity, an un-
fairness in prices the farmers at
that time concluded il must be in the
prices they we're required to pay.
Their efforts were therefore. di-
rocted to q reduction of retailers
prices. Where merchants were stub
born or could see no place for a re-
duetion of prices, the organized farm
ers formed companies and establish
ed stores Of their own in opposition
to the local trade Some Of these
made credible success, but most of
them were miserable failures.
The theory and action on the part
of the farmers inevitably created an
tagonism between organized farmers
aud business men So bitter became
the antagonism that business inter
ests still hold to IL, and whenever
farm organization is suggested to
local merchants, or even to the
Wholesale trade. II is at once con-
cluded that an enemy to them is be-
ing built up, and they vigorously OPP
pose IL.
Rut this Is not true OF the Ameri-
can Society OF Equity. This orrap,-
zation is unlike many other g. cnl or
CARNATIONS in that 1t Is built on
an entirely different foundation.
erected upon different theory and
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

Ma. EDITOR EQUITY PAdE.-At
your request | will give you my
ideas a. to how the present crop OF
tobacco in this the Stemming Dis
trict should be housed, cured and
handled for the trade to bring the
best prices or grade the best when
delivered. First, be sure you let
your tobacco get ripe for two reasons,
il will weigh more and grade better.
And when you begin cutting don t
get in too big hurry, handle care
tul, every leaf broken or hole punch
cd with stubs or sticks damage yosr
crop. and don't crowd on the sticks,
eight ordinary plants are enough
for one stick and If very large, si1
or seven j. better, you may crowd
your tobacco on the stick and II will
house.hurn, although you give the
sticks plenty OF room in the barn
when you begin putting in the barn
be sure your tobacco hangs straight
Aad clear and regulate the plants
veil, placing the plants end OF sticks
out against the tier poles and keep
il perpendicular from bottom to top
OF barn so the heat can pass through
and dry it evenly. II it is hung this
way it will cure in the top OF the
barn as fast as in the bottom, If the
tobacco ~ well wil,ed before you put
it in the barn. You may put from
,hirty-two to thirty.eight sticks to
che pole ~ twenty foot barn, owing
to the sire o. tobacco. II you can
gu barn in one or two days so it
will yellow evenly when you get
your barn full put your wood m at
once and be ready. Nv plan d, 10
cut my wood feet, like the old time
cord wood, 30 it will lay close togeth
Grand from six to ten in diameter,
and begin about sixteen inches from
the wall and lay it solid all over the
barn. Then for barn twenty foot
square havo two loads OF saw dust 10
a wagon that will hold sixteen or
eighteen bushels Of corn and place
regular over ~ except leaving 10
about twite a. thick IA ihc center
and leaving about fifteen inchc, at
each door not covered 20 your wood
will start easier, when started 1t will
burn evenly ali the time keeping a
regular heat. The saw dust Is left
thicker in the center so 1t will not
get two hot when the fires come to-
gethor. Start the fires at both doors
If your barn has two doors, and have
little space under doors for air in
case your fire don't burn free enough.
If your barn is tight you can make
your fires burn as you desire by Civ
il air in case it don't burn free
enough, and you may at any time 1t
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
fine

The country branch OF the Ken
lucky Society Of Equity has sent out
a call for its members TO assemble
In Louisville at the State Fair
Grounds on Friday, September is.
No formal meeting will! be held by
them. but in the morning OF the day
which has been named In their honor
as Equity and Grange Day, they will
form a mammoth parade through the
streets OF Louisville, which Presi-
dent J. Campbell Cantrill says Will
be the greatest sight ever seen In
the metropolis OF Kentucky. A fea-
ure OF their parade will be an es-
cort OF honor provided for Miss Alice
Lloyd. the brilliant young school
teacher whose notable defense OF
the man in brown Jeans won for
her instant fame. Nearly every bust
ness house will also be represented
by some member OF the firm, march
ing in the parade with the tobacco
people Following the parade the
members Of the Society OF Equity
will assemble az the grounds and en-
,oy themselves as they desire.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
One Poultryman's Methods.

Our young chicks get meal, table
scraps, curdled milk, then cracked
corn and wheat with plenty of water
and skim milk to drink. One year
they got gapes, and the next year we
added few drops of carbolic acid
to their drinking water, also TO the
water used in mixing their meal, and
they got along nicely. .tr
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
Some Things Farmers Should know,
But Do they?
Some Things II Farmers DO Know
They What To do About
Them.
PROF. S. B. DOUDNA, CAMBRIDGE, 0.

Do you know: That farmers are
hard up because they sell to low?
DO YOU know: They don't get over
seven or eight cents per hour for la
Dor, above Investment, while other
laborers average two or three times
a. much?
Do you know That a farmer
ought to have as much for an hours
labor as any other man gets for sim
liar services. and that no body could
fairly object if they did?
Do you know: That for the loaf
Of bread that feeds the worlds the
farmer gets approximately one cent
and the miller and baker four, and
that he contributes more value to the
finished product than both Of them
and that most other products are d.
vided in similar proportionb
Do You Know: That it is almost
an industrial crime to thus take the
fruits of his service and that all will
repent Of it in sackcloth and ashes
sooner or later?
Do You know that agriculture is
the Divinely ordained occupation Of
man and that it carries most bless
ings If given fair chanc?
DO You Know: That low prices
aud discrimination is causing the
boys and girls and hired help to
leave the farm for the city, and that
while few climb up there the ma
iority 20 down to vice and rum and
thereby bringing unqucnchable evil
to the race
DO you know That you can stop
this fatal drift if you commence in
time and that to do this you must
make the farm more profitable and
attractive?
Do you know That the best way
to do this Is to get more for what you
sell thru systematic price making
and marketing, which can only be
accomplished by concerted action an
organization 2
DO you know That all other pro
ducers do this, they fix their own
prices aud make the supply conform
thereto, aud that you could do this
same thing with more ease aud than
any OF them if you would try?
DO you know: That the saving
that farmers can't STICK together
is a fabrication and a scraccrow clrcu-
lated mostly by spectators to keep
YOU from trying TO unionize?
Do you know: That great news.
papers and commercial magnates and
syndicates will discourage all your
efforts to cooperate, because they
know it will spoil their game and
keep them from piIing up fortunes
on the differences between what you
get and what you ought to have.
DO YOU KIN ow: That you are sin
ming away your day of grace selling
your birthright for a mess Of pottsge
by thus allowing them to dominate
and keep you DOWN.
Do you know: That the social
ed law of supply aud demand no
longer regulates your prices, but
that it has been strspglcd to death
bv sp"culstors at the other end Of
the line. and if there was such q law
it would do you little good SO long
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

PINK Pain Tablets-Dr. Shoop's-stop
Headache, womanly pains, any pain,
anywhere, in 20 minutes sure. For
mula on the 2jc. box. Ask your
druggist or doctor about this formula
its fine. j. II. Orme.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

In the cut. This
m merely a bon
hung up two and
one bali TO three
feet above the
floor. The lower
board on each
side 10 removed
and the space
covered with one
fourthinch mesh
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10
Gas House Lime.

Do no, use gas house lime fresh
New Yorker. Ii contains poisons for
the soil Let II weather" in shallow
piles and then use like other line
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-10

on inc hre anu nave YOU 'oino oA''"
saw dust outside IN case the hre
burns too free' put som e dust on It,
You need not DC airalo =" SPARKS
from the saw aust as they Will never
hurt anything Don S'ar' your "'e
II the weather Is warm un'li your TO-
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about three uay' IN warm weather
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Then next comes the striplng sea
son. when you begin TO strip Is the
time to make II grade well Every
time you handle II bear IN nina that
here IS the pIac" 70 make II grade
well. hVerYume you handle IL,
Strengthen and lay 1t on your platform
or table straight Put one man to
taking on the trash and the best
hand you have or more than onel to
taking of the Tugs as that Is the
most important place. A. he can
discover and throw back any trash
leaves tho trash assorter may leave,
and then most any one can strip and
tie the leaf, but caution them to
watch for any inferior leaves and
throw them back, and each one when
they tie bundle las 1t wants to be
bundled straighten 1t and lay 1t
down by his side and press it down
occasionally aud when IT gets IN his
way carry it to place fixed to bulk
It down and never leave 1t over night
in the bulk and by no means pitch
your tobacco as some people have
done IN the past, II you follow this
plan one season you will never pitch
IT again, you may strip one day and
pitch to one corner OF the barn and
let IT lie until next morning and you
will never get 1t straight and when 1t
goes to the factory 1t looks bad and
you are apt to not get as good a
grade as you ought have had and you
saved no time either. And in as
sorting every doubtful leaf put 1t in
tue lower eraue " you nave any
douo' "ne'net a 'eai snou'd 60 III
the zeal or Jugs put II IN WIN tue
tugs every ume' II Will De money 10
you' II Will make your rugs ana leai
craze h'Suer Inc men 'ha' got the
best prizes last year anu 'neF crops
net 'n'u the 'no'' a''uuu were 'ne
ones 'N'' m''e twenty 10 twenty-five
per cent 'ra'h ana me a III c
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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
For Temperance.

Editor Hustler:-As-J John the Baptist
said, "the Kingdom of God is at hand. F"
Truly the coming prohibition election
should awaken everyone who looks
forward to the betterment of this grand
old State of ours. Let nothing but
death keep you away from the polls on
May 26th. You may have voted many
times, but never have you cast a vote
which means so much for the uplifting
of the State as the one 1 now beg you
to cast, and we will roll up a tremen-
dous majority for temperance if we all
agree that we are one ommon party
working for the common good.
To the man who has children or grand
children: You may be a total %abstainer,
but what you SOW you must reap, and to
not vote the dry ticket now is to SOW
whiskey you must reap drunkards, for
that is the only crop it will yield.
If it were necessary I would go to
Raleigh to cast my vote in this election.
1 don't care to discuss the evils of intoxi-
cants, it is so plain we all know 1t, but
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26

the point is-go and vote, The oppo-
sition will vote to a nah, and will tell
you that licenses will help Il school
your children. l would rather mine
would die in infancy than help to make
q single drunksrd. I prefer paying my
taxes with money instead of paying
them with the mortal souls of my boys.
Woman, send your husband OF take
him and vote him.
Young lady. take or send your sweet
heart and vote him for prohibition.
Henderson county, let US lead every
county in the State for prohibition on
election day, May 26, 1908
r. M. PRYOR.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
Allowed in Which
to Pay for Side
walks.

The following raj adopted Feb. 18th,
1908.
Ordered that time allowed property
owners on Main street and Anderson
avenue to pay for concrete sidewalks
be ten years, to be made in ten annual
payments.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
Interesting S p e a k e r
Before Psychologists
Society.

The Psychological Society of Atlanta
has in its Chautauqua course a speaker
of national reputation along many lines
of philanthropic work-a speaker whom
all those interested in the optimistic
life and in betterment of human con-
ditions should hear. This is Mrs. Ran
sier, of North Carolina. AS a speaker
Mrs. Ransier has an unaffected and
pleasing delivery and is clear and logi-
cal. She talks to the hearts as we'll as
to the intellects of her hearers. Those
who have heard her at the Bible parlor
meetings held in Atlanta this week
by the Psychic Club lave been impress
sed with her largeness of heart and her
love for humanity.
When at home at Ransier Place, near
Hendersonville, Mrs. Ransier leads an
interesting life, her time occupied with
literary and philanthropic work, with
her pets, and with a daily drive yer the
mountains. Her evenings she deYotes
to reading and study, and to composing
the melodies which she ia now engaged
in composing.
At Ransier Place there is no such
word as a stranger, but the welcome of
friends is given all who come within its
portals. In speaking of plans for the
coming season at Rsnsie- Place, Mrs.
Ransier said there would be open one
small cottage devoted to study and that
a free library of New Thought publ
cations would be available. There will
also be conducted 1classes for the study
of the fundamental principles of practi-
cal Christianity and right thinking as a
basis of right living. Mrs. Ransier's
subject before the Psychological Society
Sunday afternoon will be 1.-THE Sun
shine of Psycnology."-The Atlanta
Georgian & News, March II, 1908.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
Property Owners to
Have Right of Ley
ing Walks and Time
in which work must
be Completed

The following was adopted March 9Th,
1908.
Be it Ordained by the Board of Com
missioners: That the work of putting
down concrete pavements on Main street
and Anderson avenue, IS heretofore
determined, shall all be let to contract
and the work commenced by first day
of April, 1908, except that part which
may be done by abutting property OWN
ers; that the %abutting property owDers,
shall have the option of doing the work
which is to be charged to them them
selves; Provided the same is done ac-
cording to the specifications and under
the regulations made by the town and
within the time prescribed by the town,
to-wit: All owner shall give notice in
writing to the Secretary of the Board OF
Commissioners by the first day of April,
1908, that they, in good faith, intend to
do the work required to be done by or
for them, aud that they will commence
the work on or before the 18th day of
April, 19OS, and will complete same on
or before the 18th of May, 1908, and in
all cases where said notice is not filed
with said secretary by the date mention
ed and the work commenced by the date
mentioned, the owners shall be deemed
to have waived the right to do the
work themselves, and the same shall be
done by the Town and charged to the
AUDITING owners to be paid for as order-
ed by the Board. Tis further ordered
that the Secretary of the Board see to it
that a copy of this ordinance and all the
orders made by the Board relating to
the paving of said walks on Main street
and Anderson avenue be forthwith
placed IN the hands of resident owners,
or their agents, and mailed to the nom
resident owners, or their agents.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
Width of Walk

''On both sides of Main Street from
the Brevard Railroad to a point oppo-
site s. v. Picken's southern line four
az feet wide; from q point opposite S.V.
Pickens southern line to Willow street
six (6) feet wide; from Willow Street to
Chestnut street twelve (12) feet wide,
from Chestnut Street to Park Avenue
full width of present sidewalk; from
Park Avenue to Anderson Avenue
twelve (12) feet wide; from Anderson
Avenue to Bamberg Street six (6J feet
wide; from Bamberg Street to the end
of the macadam five (5) feet wide"
On both sides of Anderson Avenue
from Main Street to the Southern
Railway Company's right-cf-way six
(6) feet wide"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26

SSSSNA 49,
wealthy man. holding a controlling in
terest In the famous Calumet and Hec-
la copper mines on the shore of Lake
Superior. Many years ago he took
charge Of these mines when they had
been abandoned, developing them into
properties that have paid millions in
dividends. The work ably begun by
his father, who established the uni
versity museum, has been carried for
ward by the o with the zeal of the
scientist and the generosity of the mil
lionaire. The ships Of Professor Agas-
siz brought to light the interesting
secrets of the coral reefs in the Carib-
bean sea. At his own cost Professor
Agassiz founded the marine geological
station at Newport r. L. One Of the
greatest achievements OF the professor
was the discovery Of a vast ocean
desert in the bed Of the Pacific.
Professor Agassiz was born in Swift
zerland, but came to America In 1S49,
at the age Of fourteen.
The a OF speechmaking at
Washington has begun again. The
senate is the scene Of most Of the ora
tory nowadays. That is where the
longest speeches, which I'LL page after
page Of the Congressional Record, are
usually delivered. One Of the old time
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26

Mr.. Bacon and a H"SEA1 BAUM
companion named Robert Reid. a stu
dent, jumped overheard, swan to their
rescue and succeeded In saving their
lives. The Massachusetts Humane so
ciety recently awarded bronze medals
to MI. Bacon and Mr.. Reid in recogni-
ton of their heroism.
The assistant secretary has won fame
in the world Of finance as a partner Of
J. P. Morgan and in the world Of diplo-
macy by his able conduct of his pres
ent position Of responsibility in connec-
ton with foreign affairs, but it is said
there are few incidents in his career
that give him greater satisfaction than
that of which the little engraved bit Of
metal is a reminder.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-26
A Quiet Wedding,

Barnwell were married at the residence
of Squire r. M. Pryor, at Fruitland.
last Sunday. The wedding was a preuty
and a quite one. Just at eleven O'Clock
a procession of buggies stopped in front
of the Squires residence. From them
alighted the bride and groom and some
of their many friends. They were de-
lighted with their kindly reception from
the Squire and shortly after the cere-
mony drove away Mr. and Mrs. John
Barnwell.