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S. H. AULL,SRDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matter. TUESDAY, OCTOBER io, 1905. The Crucial Test This is the time for the farmers to stand to the rack. Cotton went !bebow ten cents last week. The South ern CoEton association has fixed the aninimum price at eleven cents and practically all of the ,subordinate or ganizations have adopted and en dorsed this action, and all of the farmers had about made up their minds before this action not to mar ket their cortton for less th'an ten cents per pound. Now is the time for the farmers to say by their action whether .they will be free or not. If-they do not stand the test now they need never try to organize again. They have the situa .tion in thieir own hands. Last spring with a fourteen. mi-lli6n bale crop they forced the price from six and seven cents up to ten. With a smaller crop now -it will only take a little uniced effort on the part of the farmer to -keep it. above ten cents. We want to see t(his done before the cotton goes out lof .the hands of the farmers so that the producer may re-ceive the benefit. When the farmer prospers all other.business prospers in propor ion. From all sections of the cotton belt comes the news that the farmers are tholding for eleven cents and no cotton will be sold. In our own coun ty the farmers are holding. They agreed to 1hiold at least until .the 28th. Let them stick and victory is theirs. IM-e bankers, merchants and busi ness .men generally are willing to co operate. -The farmers never had a more p1.itious -time to win. Expert Accountant. The necessity for an examiner of the public accounts ;is making itself felt more and more every day. One county.after another is being robbed by its supervisor and county board. Forgeries and emtbezzlements are getting to be commion in the proud old Palmetto state. Last but not .least in this 'humiliating .record comes RicC6 land, with a shorrage of $51,0oo-oo which was so skillfully manipulated as to have gone on without discovery for more than four years. This one shortage -wouild have paid the salary of an examiner and all of intis expenses * for fifteen years. The system used with the National banks by the Unit ed States -governmen-t under which an examiner walks ,in at any moment and goes through all the accounts, s1 'badfy needed for the county offi cers 'of South C'arolina.--Sumter News. The Herald and News has advo cated tihie app'ointmen,t of expert ac coun.tants who shall have no ot'her 'business than to examine the offices, county and state, of .those who rhandle public .and trxust funds. Something like the United States bank examiners and postoffice -inspectors. One man clould not do the work in this state but it would be better to pay the sala ries and expenses of a half a dozen than,to.have all t'he shortages and er . rors which we now 'have. In Green vil-le and Richiland counties the short ages are very large and in Edgefield and Dorchester and Saluda the books are being examined. It would be a iblessing for -tdlde officers themselves to kniow that they were to be checked up by experts. It .would east no re *flcioni upon an 'honest 'man to know ithat 'he might be checked up any 'day without notice by an officer ap pointed by the sta-te for that pur pose. It would make the officers who landle other pelople's money more careful, for we believe that many of the shortages come from carelessness and possibly inefficiency. This is 'a matter wvhic'h should have the attention of our legislators. Dishonesty In High Places. That there is a wave of graft or dis honesty in 'high places spreading over ,the l.and just now no one can ques't?on who reads tihve newspapers. It is not confined to South Carolina but 'is all over the country and takes in its range every class of business. Not only pub lic officials but 'those hv..lding places of trust in corporations and other in stitut.ions. The desire to get rich quick- spirit no 'doubt is responsible fr the most .of it The temptation to speculate is so great that few can re sis- it and when they lose tieir own they begin to risk trust funds in their hands, with no purpose at t,h;e start to be dishonest, but when losses come in their effort to reclaim they plunge only deeper until ruin overtakes them. In a recent speech Mr. Simmons, a New York banker, calls attention to thi.s species of gambling or specula tion in a plain and forcible manner. He says among other things: "DisNonesty in high places in the s.tate, the judiciary and great finan cial institutions and corporations ind palliation of such acts by the masses, gravely theraten the future of the country." He pointed to the lessons taught by the fall of the ancient Roman republic, the reign of terror in France and the disasters w6ich befell Russian arms in the -recent conflict in tf:;'e far east, all :o.f which, he said, were -due to palliated dishonesty. "I hear voices from the east and volces from the west," he said. "Ill-boding voices from the pulpit and the divine. voices from the college and the educator, voices from -the bench /and *che bar, voices from the press and its sages, t1he voice of the president himself, denuoncing .in ringing tones and de ploring t1he universal spread of sel fis'hness in its meanest and most re Tuls-ive form-the form of dishonesty. They bewail one universal carnival of dishonesty Alas, these voices are not unconfirmed." % He deplores the conditi'ons which have led men -o tolerate the terms "graft" and "grafters," and said he feared .the very use of the words was -an indication of men's tolerance 'of a thief and his. trade. He called upon the members of the' association .to give -their assistance in remedying a condition which makes it possible "for men who pose as the salt of the earth and who condemn, without re serve, -th1ose who steal $50 or forge a check for $ioo, or accept a bribe, to themselves make imil4ions by lying, by misrepresentation; by fraud and by brilbery," without receiving punish ment or even criticism, while the man who steals the paltry sum is sent to the jail. He denounced the men of stainless private life who, "in the in terest of corporations, of t'he trust, of the gas company, of the railroad com pany, of the insurance company, have recourse to every villiany damned in the Decalouge; wh~o does the deed of a highwayman with the air of a saint." The News gn;d Courier says thar. eight banks in'the county of Orange burg show a deposit account of a lit tle ovpr one and a half million dollars. In Newberry county wel have seven banks 'and one but recently organized and in a smal.l county an'd they show a deposit .account of about one mil lten and three hundred rhousand. It is an evidence as the News and Gour er says tihlat the farmers are more prosperous and consequent-ly diher people are more prosperous and be sides they -are more .inclined to put it on deposit. Nearly all the farmers now keep a bank account. With the price of clotron at ten cents it makes everything move smoother and every one feels better 'because debts can be paid and a lit.tle soemt.hing left over. Editor Aull of The Newberry Her ald and News declares that he reads t&is column of the Daily Mail every day iof his life. -But then a man' who uns a semi-weekly paper 'has lots of leisure.-Daily 'Mail. IThis is the highest evidence that we read this column or we would not have seen this. T'he city of Union passed a series of ordinances on the liquor question since the dispensary 'was voted out. In one of them any person w-itihin t'he city is forbiden to have any liquor or to give any to any other person. If 'he is not permitted to have it thimself 'he would scarcely be able to give any to any other person. If ordinances can make a people sober and :emperate Union ought to contain that people. In Florence county the dispensary won by a small majority. It is the only county yet in which an ele-tion has been held where the dispensary won. There are now eight counties in the state where no whiskey is sold by law. The supervisor of Edlgefield has or (lered tl>ie election to vote on the dis~ ensary to be hel oni the 7th day of NEWIf All of the Latest an Our Dresc mings sh tion. We patronag berry, Ci be convinced th CO &I I NOTICE. All persons are Ihereby forbidden to tresspass upbn the lands of the under signed in No. 5. township by fishing, hunting or permitting stock to run at large upon th.e sanhe. or in any oth er manner. T. J. Oxner. NOTICE TO DRAW JURY. Notfice is hereby given that we, the undersigned, Jury Commissioners for Newberry oo.unty, S. C., will on the 21s-t day of October, 1905, at nine o'clock a. -m., in thel office of the Clerk of Court for said county and state, publicly draw thirty-six jurors to serve as petit jurymen for the Court of General Sessions for New berry co-unty, S. C., beginning Nov. 6trh, 19o5, and continuing for one week. Jno. L. Epp.s, Win. W. Cromer, Jino. C. Goggans, Jury Commiss.ioners. NOTICE. The committees -appointed to or ganize a cotton ass&ciat-ion in each school district will do so at once and all associations already organized 'will meet on~ or before Saturday 21st of October to elect four .delegates tco rep resent t'he'm at a mee~ting of the coun ty association to be held at Newberry court 'house on Saturday the 28th. at 11 o'clock *a. m. All associations Will please collect 3 cents per bale of cot ton raised this year. At eThe meeting of .the County as sociation all farmers and business men of the county are urged to be present Siat they may stand firm for 11 cent cotton. We have whipped the figiht if we 'hold our cotton for 30 diays. Come one, come .all and let Newberry coun ty show Th-e other part of the state t.hat she is not behind in anything tihat is for' the upbuilding of the w.hole coutry. R. T. C. Hunter, Pres. Cotton Assc. EXECUTORS SALE. By virtue 'of the authority given us by the will of 'Mrs. Matilda Beacham, deceased. We will sell before the Court House at New'berry, S. C., on the first Monday -in November, 1905, witOiin the legal hours of stale, at public Out cry all that tract or plantation of land situate in the County of Newbery, S. C., and containing forty-four and ninetv-five one 'hundredth acres. more or ess. Tract Izovnded by lands of L. B. Morris. Wicker Bros.. Rilla Smith, state .:'f R'hodi Bedentbatgh, de eased and J. 0. Moore. The same being the place upon 'hich tihe said Matilda Beacham lived it the time of her decease. Plats can be seen on day of sale or inv .time before tihat by applying to he~ uner signedl. Terms of sace: Cash. Purcha,er to ay for papers. 3. 0. Moore, W. L. Gibson, Executors.j ALLU Latest Weav d Stylish. Drec ; Material ar )w rare taste appreciate tf 9 of the ladies ty and Couni at we are Right on Qua S. MOM Statement of the The Cormercial Ban At the Close of Businew RESOURCES. Nntes discounted. . . . . . $299,790.71 urniture and fixtures . . . 3,051.93 Due from Banks . . . . . . 93,741.96. Cverdts. .2,887.68] Cash and'cash items.. . . 29,212.81 $428,685.09 STATE OF SOUTH ECAROLINAY COUNTY oF' NEWBEBRY.5 I, J. Y. McFall, (lashier of the abov4 statement is true to the best of my know Sworn to before me this 2nd day of 0 Correct-Attest: Jno. M. Kinard. T I{E D C. CU T PRI( Our store is ch clean fall and wir Millinery, Cloak Shoes, and mor week. In order t them we speak t prices, prices to I 54 in. Broadcloth, all colors, I 56 in. Heavy Suiting, worth $ 42 in. Fancy Mixed Cheviots, 40 in. Venetians, all colors, 4 Black Mohair, Melrose, Panal 23c. yd. All Cotton Flannels, Wool Flai in fact every yard cotton goods f< 500 doz. Men's, Ladies' and C half price-the 50c. kind, 39c. f 'We have them for Men, Worn them for less. A big lot Boys' Knee Pants tc are 19c., 25c., 49c., and 69c. This department is complete a rimmed and ready-to-wear Hate A big lot Ladies' and Childrei ,il price these right as wei shawls,W oolen Hoods and Jacke This week we will give free a :sh purchase. H air & The Right Pi ODS 'es in the %s Goods id Trim of selec ie liberal ; of New= y. Call and lity and Prices (ER CO. Coudition of k of Newberry S. C. , September 30, 1905. LIABILITIES. Japital stock.. . .. .. . $50,000.00 Drofits (Less Expenses Paid), 34398.64 )ividends unpaid. ..... 686.00 tediscotuts . . . . . . . . 15,000.00 ndividual deposits.. .....328,600.45 $428,685.09 named Bank, swear that the above ledge and belief.. J. Y. McFALL, Cashier. ctober, -1905. JNO. C. GOGGANS, c. c. c. P. 1SAL.E. ock full of good, iter Dry Goods, , Notions and e to arrive this > make room for he news of cut AKE YOU BUY QUICK. or 89c. yd. 1.00, for 59c. yd. worth 65c., for 49c. yd. c. yd. na, Henrietta, worth 49c., for nels, Outing, Sheeting, Prints, r less than elsewhere. ~hIldren's Underwear at about r a starter. Take a look. s2KOES6? m and Children, and will sell arrive this week, the prices Every pair worth double. ith every shape and color in from 49c. up. i's Coats and Jackets. We ieed the room. Fascinators, :s for the baby that are beauties. olumbia Clock with $10.00 Havird, ice Store.