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The Prosperit I~ COf The Heral .A. H.T:CO3l PROSPERITY LETTER. The Coming and Going of the Peo ple of a Live and Progres sive Town. Prosperity. S. C., November 24. Dr. C. T. Wyche has gone on a bus iness trip to Charleston. Mr. J. B. Fellers of the St. Lukes section is also taking in gala week in Charleston. Mr. S. J. Kohn has purchased Dr. R. L. Luther's Stoney Battery farm. Dr. L. T. Littlejohn has gone to his home in Pacolet to spend Thanksgiving with his parents. Messrs. Hawkins Bros. are build ing a buggy warehouse across the street in rear of their store on Mr. S. L. Fellers' lot. Mr. Fellers will occupy the rear of the building as a tin and repair shop. Mr. 0. P. Harris has sold his Bush River plantation to Messrs. Newton Lester and Peter Hawkins. Mr. E. W. Werts has purchased Mr. 0. P. Harris' house in town. Mr. Harris has purchased a large planta tion six miles north-cast of Clinton. We regret very much to lose Mr. Harris. He is a man of sterling worth and he will be missed. Pros perty's loss is Laurens' gain. Mr. D. J. Taylor has moved from the Langford home, on Main street. to 'the new cottage on Calhoun street. Mr. Jerome Harmon went to Au gusta last week on a very pleasant mission. He was married to Miss Gussie Spence on last Thursday. Mr and Mrs. Harmon came to Pros perity on Monday. They will make Prosperity their future home. Mr. Harmon is Prosperity's youngest merchant and has a fancy grocery store. We extend congratulations to the happy couple and wish them much happiness and a long life of usefulness. Miss Sula May Boland. teacher of the Monticello school. spent Satur day and Sindav with Miss Susie Langford in town. Mrs. S. M. Caimes will spend to day with Mrg. Ella Pedenbaugh. near St. Pauls. WVe can almost envy her the good things to be found on this hospitable board at Thanksgiving. I said last Tuesday that President Smith had called a meeting of the cotton growers in Columbia Decem ber 8. You left off President. I saw the machine man and he was so nice and showed me where the proof reader was at fault. So I had to bury :he hatchet for this time. But I put all of you on notice. Mr. A. P. Dominick is improving and we hope to see hiim on our streets again soon. Capt. Banks, we learn, is about holding his own and we hope to re port an improvement in our next communication. Capt. Sease of the C., N. & L. rail road will mon~ i:t the section house in a few days. Mr. Geo. P. Griffin will move into the Boozer house with his daughter. Mrs. Crosson. The cildren will break the first grotmd tmo'rrow for the beautify ing of the graded school grounds. We v. nder when ground will be broken for the new building? Let eshavec :he new building for the old bh.iding i alm' 't unfit for use in cold wea:Wr We wish you. .ir. Editor, and all the readers oi The Herald and News many happy returns of the glad Thanksgiving times. Sheep husbandry at one time was cari-ied on pretty extensively iti COfuty and. in fact, in the state. but of late years it has gone out offah ion. The yalier dog holds sway. Now there are over 2.300 more dogs in South Carolina than -there are sheep and goats. The best figures obtainable give use 46.132 sheep and goats and 69, 16 dogs. Does this account for the bsence of mutton from the markets four tc/wns. The value of sheep d goats is given at $49.432. Dogs (-). The time was a few years o, 12 or 15. that there was shipped m this town from 15.000 to 2o.0oo nds of wool, to factories. etc.. and y Departrment Id and News amount if so nituch as that. In talking a few days ago with a large wholesale merchant, he said, "this country was bankrupt." I cited him to the recent statements pub lished by the State from bankers and manufacturers from all parts of the state. He said he did not care if they did, it wa- a fact. He said he would admit that conditions were better in some respects. that people were better clothed, better fed and perhaps in some instances better housed. but they (his firm) had more money owing to them at this date, than in any year since they have been in business and that they found it harder to collect their bills. He said one cause was the immense; traffic in high priced stock, (mules, horses, etc.) increase in the quantity of fertilizers used at an advanced price, etc. He did not offer a solu tion, but it seems to us, if this is the case, it would be wise to use our old mules another year and make as much manure at home as possible. This to our mind is the thing to do. Make our own fertilizers as far as possible and buy as %ttle as p-ssible. We need good stock to make good crops and do good work. What do vou say to this Mr. E-ditor? Through the kindness of Mr. A. G. Wise we were given a pleasant ride Sunday afternoon to Little Mountain. We saw many evidences of r :,,perity on our drive. New houses and repairing and fixing up generally. The parsonage at Lit tle Mountain has been newly painted and presents quite a neat appearance. We believe that there is more painting in that town than the aver age small town and speaks well for the good taste of its citizens. Mr. Virgil Sease, a student of Newberry college, we found sick and not able to be up. He is improving slowly. Say, Mr. Editor, why don't you have a "*reporter" from this prosper ous town and section. We are sure The oil mill in the town is run and they are accumuIlating :he gol den ci!. and will be ready to Thip a tank by and by. WVe arc glad to see our section. building up so, and trust that the oil mills are but forerunners of cotton mills. A gentleman remarked to me last week "that the town in South Carolina that did not have a cotton mill was a back number." We hope to see one here yet. All things come to him who waits if he hustles while he waits. Grace Sunday school will have a Christmas service and active prepar ations have been begun. STORY OF A FADED LILY. Mrs. Langtry's Pitiable Plight After Her Career on the Stage. Des Moines Register and Leader. Mrs. Langtry's lines have fallen in hard places. Discarded by her daughter whom she has not seen since the day of her marriage, aban doned by the p.ycophants who once fawned upon her and licked her hands for manifold charities, spurned by her former associates with whom she lived a life of !angour and laughter. ruined by her extravagance and1 dV s!pations. the very ho'me over her head and the trinkets given to herl by a'lhnirers fri m palace tohumble home sold under the hammecr-sure cxtremes ->f lie li her -! wnfall were ;'. entirelv her own :aQl she would be an object of pity, but she is reaping as she sowed, with a prod igal, lavish hand.caeri mrk Mrs. Langtry'scaerirmrk able to the last degree. She brought two continents to her feet by her beauty and forced women in whose veins courseai blood honored by title and fortune for hundred of years to acknowledge her as a social equal despite her peccadilloes and shortcomings. It was more than thirty years ago that her wonderful beauny set London arrog and started scandals and innundoes which kept her name before the public of Old World and New, and, with her beau i. was her chief stuc; in trade when fux sent her upon the stage. "Give me three boards and a passion, and I wiII give you a play." declared Dumas. Nlrs. Langtry gave the world a player on almost as limited w1rking capital. Basking in prince lv favors she was the rage, the sensa tion. From the stage she soon orntd to the race track to become thie eading sporting woman of Eng laid. Her new set of sycophants ftli,wed and applauded her. Every (drawing-room was open to her. Hardly an hour was unknown. That.is one picture. The pther is a bleak, somber one. The auction eer enters a home deserted of fam ily, friends and servants. With ruth less hands he jumbles together me mentoes which gave ieadachest to queens .and princesses, and cost even kings much thought. He sells them to the highest bidder, to canaille. to aristocrat, who ever bids may buy. And as the sale goes on an aging woman, her beauty departed, her friends and wealth gone, with noth ing but a wasted body and a ruined life, eats her heart out for very shame. Many lessons may be drawn from the career and downfall of the Jersey Lily. The fickleness of fortune, fame, and flatterers, she uncertainly of those who toil not nor spin. the cert7aintV that compe:,sation comes son timne. soon ,r late. Mrs. Lang try was in the heights, now she is in the depths. She has but herself to blame, se has made well echo the Villon cry, "Where are herself what she is." But there is a sadness about the story after all. Mrs. Langtry in her shame and misery may the snows of yesterday? England and France at One. New York Tribune. M. Delcasse has won a splendid victory. His treaty with Great Britain has been ratified by the French chamber - of deputies by an overwhelming majority. That it wvM be ratified was expected. T r few. if any. expeced *te m-ait wold he so large as 1t have hc . Fran:e is pove hia!!y impulsive. She has ie r cen' tt'ries regarded England as her tra ditional foe. She has for some years been exulting in an alliance wit Russia and has been regarding Rus sia as her nearest friend. Yet nowx by a more than four-fifths vote her congress ratifies a treaty of close ap proachment with her own and her friend Russia's traditional foe at the very time when that power and Rus s.a are nearer a clash than they have been before for a score of v-ears. Oi a truth, the cause of sweet reason ableness and of peace is making pro gress among other nations! Upon the face of it M. Delcasse's triumph appears greatest in some of the specific provisions of the treaty. He has induced the French deputies to approve the surrender of the French shore of New Foundland and to approve the British occupatior and control of Egypt. We shall noi say he is a magician: but it is withir bo:'nds to say that a few years back no miinster of France could have even proposed either of those mecas uires without incurring grave dangei of being turned out of office and oi being mobbed in the streets of Paris Yet M. Delcasse has not only pro pose5d. but h as carried themr both hy an Verwh-'ehtning majority. and there s rtuon th e believe that on thiat ac count he is the tmore secure ini hi! 'ilce andl ia held in higher pp: esteem'. Is Oposition Crushed. Springfield Republican. As the people view the wreck oi the national democratic party. the thought will inevitably arise. Is all oposition crushed? Will any one have the heart even to criticise, much less oppose, the acts and policies of an organization so stupendously successful as the one led by Presi (lent Roosevelt? If the tremendous popular triumph which the country has witnessed has the effect of mak ing ll x-hodissnt fom epubica MOSELE' The Oldest, Larg House in TI After standing the storm for th, front this fall with a large and w Remember that we sell almost ever3 Our motto is, never misrepresent an birtv-six inches to the yar., and si, and square dealing to all, black an bngle makes the announcement that prints, black, silver grays, and othe White homespun, 6 c. per yard. S FURNITURE. We have a full line of full furniture suits, beds, chairs, bureaus, springs, mattresses, and also mattings, car pets, rugs, etc. Elegant reed rockers, $1.75 each. Capes, Jackets, Ready-made Skirts, a beautiful line, new and nice and stylish. We invite everybody to come and see our fall stock and make their selections. An Elegant eight-day clock for $1.99. In Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Stoves, etc., we claim to lead. Choice seed oats, Sixty cents MILLINERY. Our millinery business is constant ly growing and our display this fall is simply superb. Many Novelties are displayed and our prices are just right to suit the ladies. Our Shoe department is now complete and we have the old reliable Bay State brand, Battle Axe, Wolf, etc. In fine ladies shoes we have the Kanatina, the Au tocrat, the Radcliff, the New Idea and others. People say that the Moseleys c make a profit. What difference doi long as you get the goods? MOSELEi PROSPERITY, S A Car Load Ji Co - while you SELEC PRICES AND 1 Qualilebau Prosperi poicesorgovernmental act< nquire stiutinaloppositionl w'hich a de mlocracy *o much needs, then indeed the republican victory may come to >e regtarded as more a curse than a b)lessing. even by those who have been most jubilant over the result. The business )f opposition and o legitimat criticism must indeed go on, and in this work the press of the country bears a peculiar and impor tant responlsibility to see to it that the political life of the nation is kept wholesome and vigorous and normal undler democratic and constitutional forms of government. i BROS., Ist and Cheapest 1e Country, ! .ast forty years we come to the ell-selected stock of merchandise. -thing, from a cambric needle up. article to make a sale. We give :teen ounces to !he pound. Fair I white. The first sound of the we are selling all our standard r designs, at five cents per. yard. ea Island 5c. Riverside plaid 64c. DRESS GOODS. V t have the new things in dress gods, trimmings, notions, capes, Jackets, Hats, Caps, Mens', Boys' Youth' C"lothing; Trunks, Valises and * Telescopes. SEWING MACHINES. Five Drawer, Ball-bearing, Drop Head Sewing Machine, $17-93, and a cheaper machine for $12.50. SPORTING GOODS. We have a beautiful line of Guns, Shells, Wads, and other Sporting goods, the prices of the Guns rang ing from $3.99 to $20.00. STOVES. Don't buy until you have seen our old reliable Elm and Iron King Stoves. They are the best on the market. We have ranges for $20.00 cach. They are beauties. Vhy pay sixty-five dollars for a stove when we have them from seven dollars up. ORGANS. Can sell you a beautiful organ, Stool included, Walnut Finish, tone elegant, five years' guarantee, for $50.00. ant sell the goods at the price and ,s it make to you what people say as (TBROS., UTH CAROLINA. [ ules! aist Received. MVE can get a 3TION. ERMS RIGHT. Schu per(, ty, S. C. REGISTRATION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the hooks of registration of the Town of N ew~berry S. C., are now open, and the undersigned as Sup. .rvisor of Reg istration for said town, will keep said books open every day from g a. mn., until 5 p. nm. (Sundlays excegted), in clu..ing the ist day of DecemWer, 1904. T. 0. Stewart, Supervisor of Registrat*i. September 5, 1904. 4t T and F.