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PAGE SIX TARMEXS’ UNION ‘DE'PARTMENT DIRECTORY OF UNION OFFICIALS. National. Chas. S. Barrett, President, Atwater, Ga. J. E. Montgomery, vice-president, Gleason, Tenn. R. H. McCulloch, Secretary-Treas urer, Bebee, Ark. Executive Committee: W. A. Mor ris, chairman, Sulligent, Ala.; T. M. Jeffords, secretary, Elgin, Ok.; W. S. Miller, Lake Creek, Tex.; I. N. McCol lister, Many, La.; S. L. Wilson, Eden, Miss. Alabama. J. F. Duncan, president, McShan. J. M. Pearson, vice-president, Flor ence. E. J. Cook, secretary-treasurer, Bir mingham. W. A. Morris, state organizer, Sulli gent. O. P. Ford, lecturer, McFall. J. N. Hutto, conductor, Lincoln. M. G., Lumsden, sergeant-at-arms, Dutton. M. J. Taylor, doorkeeper, Lawrence. Florida. G. N. Trawick, president, Mayo. W. G. Watford, vice-president, Esto. J. R. Anderson, secretary-treasurer, Union. Jno. M. Caldwell, chaplain, Jasper. S. Newburn, conductor, Madison. J. A. Jackson, doorkeeper, Jasper. R. L. Bishop, sargeant-at-arms, Ber rydale. W. M. Carlisle, lecturer, Dukes. W. J. Mcßae, organizer, Harlem. Executive Commitee: C. E. Pled ger, chairman; W. C. Caldwell, secre tary; J. L. Brown, J. M. Jenkins, G. T. Braswell. Illinois. A. H. Evans, president, Lamason. W. A. Bain, vice-president, Benton. Andrew Shepherd, chaplain, Benton. T. P. Crawford, conductor and state organizer, Mount Vernon. Henry Frick, doorkeeper. Executive Committee: G. B. Sanders chairman, Sparta; E. T. Price, secre tary, Omaha; G. W. Bennett, Benton; G. W. Ketteman, Ewing; M. M. Simms, Macedonia. Kansas. J. E. McQulllln, president, Heizer. Paris Henderson, vice-president, Os age City. GO TO FARMING. A good living is what comparative ly few men succeed in making in vil lage city life, and yet nothing is more easy of accomplishment on the farm. Besides there is a pleasure in cultivating and embellishing the earth, improving and increasing its products, and thus adding to the ag gregate of human happiness. Why, then, should young men hesitate to be farmers! It is-both profitable and honorable. It is the nearest approx imation to independence that a man, as a member of society, can make. A gentleman farmer —and all farm ers are, or should be, gentlemen— belongs to an order of nobility that is not indebted to place-holders for installation, and may, if he chooses, be ranked among the greatest bene factors of the human race. Let the idle young men go to work on farms, and quit seeking third and fourth rate elerksbips. In short, go to farm- WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN M. M. Mitchell, secretary, Kingman. Ole Olsen, doorkeeper, Salina. C. E. Gray, conductor, Columbus. Executive Committee: G. W. Can field, Hallowell; W. F. Brown,' luka; W. F. Eames, Delphos; J. M. Norman, Burlingame; J. H. Torline, Beliefont Louisiana. J. E. Bullard, president, Belmont. F. T. Baird, vice-president, More house. J. W. Boyett, Jr., secretary-treasurer, Winnfield. J. A. Ambrose, chaplain, Ruston. W. H. Porter, conductor, DeSoto. Geo. W. Smith, doorkeeper, Wash ington. Organizers: Jasper Boyett, District No. 1; F. DeSoto, District No. 2. Executive Committee: L. N. Holmes, Bernice; C. R. Kelley, Dubach; R. Lee Mills, St. Landry; I. N. McCollister, Many; R. T. M. Hancock, Ruston. Mississippi. J. M. Bass, president, Hazlehurst T Kyle, vice-president, Hazle hurst G. W. Russell, secretary-treasurer, Hazlehurst. E. M. Boyd, chaplain, Rayburn. T. W. Thompson, conductor, Blue Springs. Abner Penn, doorkeeper, Aryeville. Executive Committee: H. W. Brad shaw, chairman, Mosley; T. R. Palmer, secretary, Greenwood Springs; M. A. Brown, Yazoo City; W. B. Dunway, Enon; B. H. Wade, Belden. Missouri. John G. Wear, president, Poplar Bluff. N. H. Summitt, vice-president and lecturer, Bertrand. L. F. Luthy, secretary-treasurer,, Lebanon. J. J. Wilson, chaplain, Stanley. A. Hughes, conductor, Kennett. Wm. A. Yount, doorkeeper, White Water. James Mclntosh, sergeant-at-arms, Purdy. J. I. Barrett, business agent, Bly. Executive Committee: John A. Mil ler, East Prairie; J. E. Baker, White Water; Fred M. Best, Lanagan; C. M. Gooch. Ponder; Wm. B. Yount, Mar ble Hill. Oklahoma. J. A. West, president, Shawnee. ing and quit begging.—Effingham News. FENCING THE FARM. It costs little money to divide and subdivide a farm by fencing with a good fence, and a good woven wire fence is about as good as can be built. It pays the cost and a good profit right from the start for a farm er to have the farm fenced so that he can keep his stock at home and also to keep other people’s stock away. The farmer can then work and not spend all his time in running after his stock, remarks a writer in Farm and Fireside. In many localities the old rail fence which has rotted down can be used for firewood or built into a fence on some part of the farm where the good fence is not quite so impor tant. The rail and board fences har bor weeds, are subject to decay and are very expensive in the loug run. J. P. Connors, vice-president, Ca nadian. J. S. Murray, secretary-treasurer, Shawnee. C. C. Lee, chaplain, Granite. J. W. Scott, doorkeeper. Tom Roach, conductor. Executive Committee: T. M. Jef fords, Elgin, chairman; J. T. Calla han, Enid; M. B. Brown, Cordell; O. H. Matthews, Tupelo; W. G. Vandiver, Granite. South Carolina. O. P. Godwin, president, Laurens. T. T. Wakefield, vice-president, An derson. B. F. Earle, secretary-treasurer, An derson. A. B. Black, chaplain, Taylor. M. A. Mahaffey, organizer, Belton. Executive Committee: J. L. Pickett, chairman, Seneca; W. L. Anderson, secretary, Ninety-six. Tennessee. J. E. Montgomery, president, Green field. Samuel Young, vice-president, Chest nut Bluff. T. J. Brooks, secretary-treasurer, Atwood. J. T. Upton, organizer and lecturer, Halls. W. B. Savage, chaplain, Halls. S. S. Fouch, doorkeeper, Medina. W. T. Smith, conductor, Hardin. G. A. Hornbeck, business agent, Greenfield. Executive Committee: S. R. Wil liams, chairman, Lebanon; A. A. Webb, secretary, Ripley; Dr. H. P. Hudson,- Brownsville; Guy Perkins, Stantonville; T. N. Epperson, Hum boldt. Texas. D. J. Neill, president. Fort Worth. J. P. Lane, vice-president; Gallatin. C. Smith, secretary-treasurer, Fort Worth. B. F. Chapman, organizer and lect urer, Fort Worth. J. W. Smith, chaplain, Belton. J. E. Beane, doorkeeper. W. W. Scott, conductor. A. H. O’Keeffe, business agent, Fort Worth. Executive Committee: W. T. Louder milk, chairman, Proctor; J. C. Allbrlt ton, secretary, Snyder; Peter Radford, Whitt; J. E. Montgomery, Kyle; H. Laas, Waller. A good woven wire fence is clean and thoroughly satisfactory. By spending a few dollars for good fence the farm will increase in value, so that after all it is a method of sav ing money.—Seneca Journal. y THE DECLINE IN COTTON. There has been a considerable slump in the price of cotton during the past several days, and as a result, business among local merchants has been very dull. The conditions which have brought about the temporary decline in the price of cotton are due to causes en tirely foreign to the market. Cotton ie intrinsically worth as much as it ever was, but the mills are not able to secure at reasonable interest rates the money to buy the stocks needed for their business. That a reaction will come is inevitable. How long it will be postponed, it will be diffi cult te say. The cotton farmers are in an unusually prosperous condi tion. The value of their product has temporarily depreciated, not because it is not needed, but because the spin ners and manufacturers are postpon ing their purchases on account of the tight money market. This is one of those occasions the laws of supply and demand have been set aside, not by immediate specula tion, but by a business disturbance which affects the money market and thus indirectly every line of trade and commerce. To this extent it has temporarily halted the marketing of the crop at fair prices. With re stored confidence the re-action will come and cotton will go up again! The crop in Oglethorpe county this year will be the largest grown in many years. Many fields are yet white with the fleecy staple, and prosperity abounds. Oglethorpe Echo. OUR FARMERS HOLDING COT TON. The writer finds in traveling through the county that our farmers are by no means discouraged by the recent drop in the price of cotton. They are as a rule fully determined that they are not going to sell at the present prices and they are confi dent that the price of the staple will in a short time reach a fair and proper level, until which time they are going to hold on to the cotton. It is theirs and they do not have to sell it. They are in a good fix. They have plenty to eat and to wear, live in good houses and are about as independent as anybody you ever saw. They believe cotton ought to be bringing 15 cents and that it will bring that in a few months. Cer tainly they believe that it ought to be worth considerably more than ten cents and they are going to hold for much better prices. They are not at all out of heart. They are confident of the strength of their position and are determined to have what their product is worth be fore parting with it. They made it and they know what it costs at the present high scale of prices for la bor and for everything that they buy and use. They believe that the price of cotton ought to be commensurate with the prices of other commodities and this is not so vdien cotton is at ten cents. They are therefore going to hold on to their cotton, as they are fully able to do, until a fairer price level is reached, even if this does not come until next spring or summer or later.—Spartanburg Jour nal THE LEGS OF THE LAME NOT EQUAL. If a few farmers were to gather themselves together and, just for the pleasure cf the thing or for the pad time afforded, were to engage in a little game of poker for a one cent ante, or a game of seven-up for a five cent limit, they would be arrest ed, jailed, yanked up before the courts, and heavily fined. A few New York etock gamblers ean juggle with stocks and bends without any limitations whatever, un-