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R. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matter. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1905. Cotton Bags. The suggestion is made by promi nent leaders of the Cotton Growers' association that the farmers use cot ton baggir:g for their cotton and that the fertilizer companies use cotton bags for shipping fertilizer instead of hemp and jute. It is claimed that this would consume several hundred thousand bales of cotton more than is now used and would thus create a larger market for cotton at home. We do not know the relative value of jute. hemp and cotton. but if the dis parity is not too great in favor of hemp or jute. we think the suggestion is worthy of serious consideration. What we need is a greater market fur our cotton, and while we should push the products on the foreign markets as much as possible yet we should not neglect those at our door. Our people at home could so increase the demand for cotton by using more cotton goods themselves that there would be little left to ship to foreign markets.-Ex. Of course if there were greater consumption of cotton goods the de mand for cotton would be greater and with increased demand the price would go up. Those interested in the farmers' movement are now ad vocating the use of cotton bags* and cotton bagging. The farmers should use cotton goods wherever it is pos sible to use them for the greater the use of cotton goods the greater the amount of cotton consumed. But after all the solutio- of this question is the doctrine we have preached in this newspaper for twen ty years. We notice that Gen. M. C. Butler takes the same position in a speech he made to the farmers at Edgefield a few days. The doctrine is plain and the plan is simple and it is possible for every farmer to fol low it and it is after all the only salvafion .for the cotton farmer for it matters not what the price of cot ton is the cotton farmer who does not follow it will never have any money. The farmer in this country who raises on the farm all that he needs fo'r the farm is the one who is going to make some money regard less of th - price. Our solution for the farmer of South Carolina and especially for Newberry county is first to grow on the farm all he needs for the farm and then to grow all the cotton he can regardless of the price and- the one who does it is the one who is going to make some clear money every year. The farmer who does not is going to lose money it matters not wvhether cotton is high or low, because wvhen cotton is 'high provisions are high and it takes all that the all cotton grower can make to buy the provisions, which he does not raise. Grow your own provisions at home on the farm and don't worry too much about the price of cotton. Still just at this time we think the farm ers have and have had the situation in their handls. If they would hold what they 'have on hand' and reduce the ac'reage for the next crop there can be no doubt about the rise in price. VVill they do it? . Ar Admirable Editorial. The Atlanta Constitution's editor ial Tuesday morning on the subject of Hon. James R. Gray having 'ob tained -complete control of the At lanta journal, was donceived in an admirable spirit of fairness and .ex pressed without. the slightest sugges tion of rivalry. "Atlanta,' it con cluded, has long outgrown the day when one successful business cannot view with gratification the success of others in the same line-and in this spirit we congratulate our neigh bor. "There's room-at the top for all who know how to reach it." We copy the above from the Au gusta Chronicle and it is so admir ably put that we must commend it not only as between newspapers, but it is equally applicable to all other callings and professions. Every place and every individual should outgrow the day when one 'success ful business cannot look with grati ricatin on another successful busi ness. It is not a day of small minds' nor of small men. There is room at the top for all who have the energy and the ability to get there. No man has or can have a monopoly of brains or business and we had just as well all dwell together in harmony as to be pulling at one another's throats. The trouble with some small towns, and some that are not so small is that they always have some business men in them who do not want others to come there in the same line. That is all a mistake. If there is no room for these new comers it will soon be discovered and if there is they will soon discover it. The Laurens Advertiser has a col umn leader on the free delivery for Laurens. \e understand that Green wood is to have free delivery and that the Newberry office will be a sec ond class office which will material lv increase the remuneration for the office and therefore make it possible for us to have more efficient service. Of course things all depend upon the amount of business done by the office and the business done at these offices is measured by the sale of stamps. If our people would they could easily run this office up in receipts so that we could have free delivery. There can be no doubt that commercially speaking this town does as much business as Greenwood, but our people do not unite in the effort to increase the business at the postoffice. We should -have a larger and more commodious office. The amount of business has very largely increased in recent years, but it should not be forgotten that we have about seven free delivery routes going out from here and avery one of them has helped to swell the busi ness done at this office. and yet it could still be very materially increas ed. \hv not let us, all of us, unite to make this not only a second class office, but a free delivery office. Con centration of effort is what we neen to make this the best town in the state. Why can't we get together. "Life is made up of ups and downs-mostly downs. And the man who rides in the wheelbarrow of life today may push it tomorrow." The above is from "Reuben-His Book-" and contains a lesson which all of us might learn with profit. Especially is it true in politics, but it is also true in business. The pnan who rides in the wheelbarrow of political office today may be pushing it tomorrow. The man who is rid ing the wave of success today may be among the unfortunates tomorrow. The lesson is to do your duty in whatever walk of life or station in life you may find yourself today and be ready to face bravely whatever fate may await you tomorrow. The annual meeting of the South' How Much Ci If every man had to earning power there w4 in the world. It is the e that makes men wealth: may be limited but you savings if placed in thi: per cent. compound int safe.. THE COMME of Newbe JNO. M.KINAR 0. B. MAYER, Z. F.WRIGHT, OPERA HOUSE THE DePEW-BURl Presenting Royalty Pla: -and Electri< 4 BIG VAUDEA THE GREATEST PAR ScO ern Publishers association convened yesterday in Charleston. An elabo rate pr(gram was arranged to give these newspaper mn a jolly good time in the city. The Charleston people know how to enter:ain and their hospitality is known 1ll over the world. It would have been nice had the State Press association been in vite< ... meet with. the distinguished editors from other states.-Manning Times. It would have been pleasant. no aoubt, but the State Press associa tion had no invitation. In fact it is always pleasant to visit Charleston. At the meeting of the college of bishops of the Methodist church held on Tuesday it was decided where -hev should go for the year. Bishop Duncan will hold two Georgia conferer.ces. one in Virgin ia. one in Kentucky and one in Ala bama. Bishop A. Coke Smith will hold a conference in Kentucky, August 30; Illinois. September 7: Louisville, September 27: Mississippi. Decem ber 13. The South Carolina conference will be held in Spartanburg, Decem ber 13, by Bishop V. A. Candler. We have received the first issue of the Carolina Field. a new weekly newspaper issued at Georgetown and edited by James 'Henry Rice, Jr. It shows up well with several articles on the resources of eastern South Carolina and with a good advertising patronage. Wqe wish the Carolina Field success. Maj. J. C. Haumphill, of the News and Courier, was elected president of the Southern Publisher's association, which has been in session in Char leston during this week. A good se lection. The Duncan mills have gone back to the ii hour day plan. It. is stated the operatives were not satisfied with the reduction. Nan Patterson's case has ended in another mistrial. Handiap of Genius Chicago Tribune. Robert Fulton 1had invented the steamboat. "It was the only thing I could do," he said. "It costs too much to run a railroad through the legisla tures and city councils." Instructing the engineer, in case of accident, to hold 'er nozzle ag'in the bank till the last galoot was ashore, he proceeded to open negotiations with an iron foundry for a lot .of life preservers. Eenry Irving has so far recovered as to be able to reappear on tlhe Lon don stage. SYou Earn? epend upon his own uld be no millionaires rning power of money . 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