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PROSPERTY LETTER. The News of Newberry's Sister City Interestingly Told. Prosperity, Feb. 1.-We had the pleasure of a trip to Little Mountain ionday. We were glad we went by rail as the roads were almost, well, al together in places, impassable. This is a hustling town and does a nice business. The Herald and News ought to have a large list of sub seribers. Mrs. A. G. Wise went to Little Mountain on Monday to see Miss Toy Lathau who is at home sick. Miss Lathan is one of the teachers in the Brookland graded school. The Herald and News is requested Uy Mr. R. T. C. Hunter to say that' all who desire to contribute anything towards the fund for the erection of the monument to the 'Women of the Confederacy to hand the same to him as it will be impossible for him to call an all. Mr. Hunter is committeeman! for No. 9. Your correspondent will loe glad to receive any amount for' Mr. Hunter if it will be more con venient for you to hand it to him.: The women ought to have a monu mnent. Mis Jo Langford, of Swansea, maAe a flying trip to Prosperity last Sunday, returning to her school Sun day.gight. Mr. J. D. Quattlebaum has gone to Monticello to deliver a lot of mules he sold in that section. There was quite a pleasant gather ing at Pastor Kreps' on Tues4ay. Rev. and Mrs. Seabrook and-daughter of Newberry, Rev. Bedenbaugh of the county and Rev. W. H. Greever of Columbia were present and enjoyed i the hospitality of mine host Kreps. It was an enjoyable occasion and it was with regrets that your cores pondent had to forego the pleasure of the occasion. Mrs.. A. H. hawkins and Mrs.' ~Hodges were visiting in the St. Luke's community the past week. Mrs. Lizzie DeWalt and G. Y. Hun ter went to Columbia on -Wednesday. ]j Mrs. S. W. Calmes has been visiting 1 in Little Mountain.] Mrs. P. E. Wise has so far recover ed that she will return to her home in Orangebierg today. Miss Mary Kinard returned Wed nae$y night from an extended visit tojierfrJother. Mr. J1. Win. Kinard, of gtita. The ladies' aid society will meet with Mrs. B. B. Schumpert at the reg-1 ular,ti,p. Miss Julia Mathis, of Ninety Six, H is visiting relatives ini and around Prosperity.1 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Werts have i moved into rooms at Mrs. D. H. Witherspoon'?s. The Sorosis will meet on February 9. We will give the topic or subject 1] in our next letter. Col. H. C. Moseley left for a trip to Florida on Wednesday on business. Miss Janie Kinard, of Leesville, is visiting her brother, Mr. J. HI. Kin ard. Dr. J1. Wmn. Folk,. Jr.. and bride: spent a few hours in town on Mon- 1 day oni their way home. Mtiss Ethel Paysinger. after a very pleasant visit to her aunt, Mrs. J. P. Wheeler, has- returned home.1 Mrs. W. A. Moseley and Mrs. S. E. Schumpert have returned from a visit4 to Columbia.. There will be a meeting at Dr. Wyche 's on Friday night to organize a glee club. We are glad to note this1 and trust the efforts along this line 1 will be eminently successful. '1 Miss Annie Leckie has returned to her home in Chester .after a short visit to her sister. We are pleased to note that Mr. D. H. Wheeler is improving. Soiiie of otir citizens have a newh disease or rather an old one broken out afresh. It is the chicken fever and your correspondent has a new attaek of it.. This.disease just now is the ggdLen plymouth rocks aind there are others. Oh, but they are beauties.4 Come- down, Mr. Editor, and see 'em. Mr. Charles S. Schumpert left on Thursday for Richmond, Va., where, he goes to enter Massey Business col- 1 lege to study stenography and book keeping. We wish you much success. Dr. T. J. Kinard, the veterinarian, was in town on Wednesday. < Another one of the staunch citi zen of No. 9 has been called away. i There was laid to rest with Masonic i konors in St. Luk3 's cemetery on f Wednesa, the reains of Mr. L. i . oozer. Mr. Boozer was a Con. ederate veteran and not only did hi iuty in time of war, he did it in times )f peace as well. He was a gallani member of the Red Shirt democarc f '76 and helped by work and vot( to rid our state of the vultures tha were sapping her life's blood. Mr Boozer was 73 years of age and leave, two sons and many relatives an< friends to mourn his death. We ex tend our sympathies to the bereaved The funeral ,was conducted by Rev S. P. Koon. The Jolly Dozen will in a shor time hold one of their unusual jolli acations and fortunate indeed will b the young man who is so fortunat as to get an "invite." Your correspondent wishes to re turn thanks to the editor of Th Southern Farmer for copies of hi paper. We would like to see a cop: f this farm journal in the hands o. all our progressive farmers. It i the only paper of its kind in the stat< and one of three or four in the south Subscribe for it and then read it. Say, Chips, can you tell us what th< egislature has done. Come now, oh boy. Come out with it if you knov it. If you don't know I want to sa: that you have lots of company. Miss Marie Bobb is at home for -hort stay. The recital of Mrs. Browne or Wednesday evening was quite an en joyable affair and all who attendei were well repaid. Say, Mr. Editor, in your account ol ;he election in the legislature you saii 'he received 169 votes out of 124. Eow is this. You know we clodhop pers are not familiar with highe nathematics and we just can't figur( .t out. Mr. J. C. H. Rauch, of Saluda, wa4 >ver to see us last week. Miss Toy Lathan is reported to ~b mproving at this writing. We are sure that the school ground vil be beautified in the near futur is the Sorosis has kindly consented : cooperate with the school board a this work. This is the civic im rovement department or city beau iful work that we see so much in the papers but rarely anywhere else ur ladies will do something, !he South's Educational Opportunity ['he Manufacturers' Record. Adding to its wealth at the rate ol 3,,000 a day, the south has ar >pportunity for educational invest nent unparalleled in American his* Infinitely greater in value than its nineral and timber wealth is the ;outh's wealth in its undeveloped ovs. There are tens of thousands of oor white boys throughout~the soutib n whom there are latent abilities hich, if quickened and developed md utilized. would make them greal eaders in (outhern upbuilding. The inding of a l,oy who has such abilities md the development of that boy inte mreal man, a leader of men, is far be. pond the discovery of a ,new ore oi oal or gold mine. The opportunity hieh the south will henceforth af ord to such boys is greater than ear e found in any other section of this r any other country. How shall we nd the boys and how shall their abil ties be utilized to their c wn good and o the blessing of the south? A few years ago the Manufactur rs Record suggested that in view ol :his situation business concerns and he people of means throughout the ;outh should undertake to aid in the ehnical education of poor white oys. The rich need no help; the- poo1 >y needs not charity, but does need ssistance. In every technical school n the south there are a number of yoys who are paying for their tuitioil md board by working their way :hrough college. Some do this by vork on the farm connected with most f the schools, often up at 5 o 'clocli n the morning milking or doing othei arm labor in order to secure the op ortunity to get a technical edmca ion, while others are employed in the lining-room oi- about the buildings koing other manual labor. Fortu ately, for the honor and good sense >f the scholars in these schools, the >oys who work their way through do mot in any way lose social caste or ositiol. On the contrary, it very ~enerally happens that these boys are f such force and strength of char Leter that they are leaders and the ren of honor in the schools. Where dozen or maybe 15 or 20 boys can ind employment in this way and be bl to work their wny through col lege, there are hundreds of others seeking similar opportunities who cannot he accepted. because in these schools there is only a certain amount of work to be done and only a limit ed number of boys can thus be em ployed. Some of the presidents of these technical schools to whom ap 'plications are made have said to the Manufacturers' Record that their hearts have ached at. times because of having to refuse so many who de sired only the privilege of working their way through college. The suggestion was made five years - ago by the Manufacturers' Record that subscriptions should be given by people in the south to aid in- offering to these poor boys an opportunity of - education. It will cost anywhere. probably, from $125 to $150 a year to carry a boy through one of these tech nical schools. A subscripLion of, say, $150 a year for four years made through the president of the school could be utilized by him as a loan to such a boy, with the agreement on his part that after graduation he would begin to repay in annual in stalments the full amount without in terest. This would eliminate any charity feature, the acceptance %-f whi' would tend to destroy the brov. self-reliance and independence, and it would develop in him an apprecia tion 'of business methods. As soon as the boy was graduated and com menced in, say one year thereafter to repay to the school the fund bor rowed from it, this would start an onther boy, and the $150 a year .for four years would thus become a per petual fund, forever keeping some boy at college. It is true that here and there death or disaster might cause the ending of the fund through the failure of the recipient to repay. but it would be safe to count that a very large proportion of these sub scriptions would be continued as per petual endowments. If an outright endowment of $50,000 were given to a school, the annual income would probably be $2,500 and on the basis of $150 a year. if the income should be utilized this way, 16 or 17 boys mnight be annually educated. But, if, instead of investing $50,000 in stocks and bonds, the same $50,000 should be invested in boys and divided up into annual payments of $12,500, over 80 boys could be educated in this way, and in such an educational cam paign an investment in boys might be more profitable than if put in stocks and bonds. Still there is room enough for the large endowments to schools and for this plan of dealing with the individual boy. Hei'e is a tangible plan which should appeal to the south. There are thousands of business men, merchants, bankers, manufacturers, planters and thous ands of business institutions which could well afford, in the interest of southern upbuilding, in the interest of humanity, and if need be in their own selfish interest for the advancement of the country, in which they would share, to undertake to spend $150 each year for four. years in a work of this kind. Each subscription could be made to the technical school in the staLe in which the donor lives. No longer can the people of the south plead financial inability to do this. No longer can they shirk the moral responsibility to carry on the broadest educational campaign that may be needed to fully equip the ris ing generation to meet the opportuni ties which are already at hand. Prov idence has blessed this..section with a vast increase in wealth. Within the last five years the real wealth of the south -has increased by at least $3,000,000,000, of which over $1,000, 000,000 has been added in the last 12 months. Thousands of men are well to-do and other thousands are rich who a few years ago scarcely dreamed of ever getting beyond the immediate needs of the day. Wealth is acu.mu lating everywhere, but this wealth will prove a curse unless the people of the south utilize it for the develop ment of manhood by the training of the boys who should become the lead es iri the material advancement of the next quarter or half century. Op portunities such as have never been vouchsafed to any other section are ahead of the south. Whether its own people are to be benefited to the full est extent, whether this increasing wealth and the increasing opportuni ties are to be utilized for the fullest advancement of the people of the south, depends upon whether we measure up to the responsib)ility which rests upon us in this time of increasing prosperity. If tie thought, the activity, the life of the south be centered Only inl m()neV-getting. if w( do not ;ive to the p14r )ovs of tlh south the opportunity of a technical education which will fit them to do the work now opening up before this section, we will prove recreant to ow trust. The responsibility is upon us, noi upon oxr neighbors. It is upon tht south, not upon outside philanthrop pists. With an increase of $1,000,. 000,000 a year in the south's wealtt it would be a disgrace to our manhood for the south to be begging for alm from the people of other sections t( earry on its educational campaign. The Manufacturers' Record ha, dealt in this editorial with the tech nical education of the poor white bo3 because here is the gTeatest need anc the greatest opportunity of the south But all that we have said on this sub. ject bears with almost equal fore upon the general education of boy. and girls alike, and in this campaigr the denominational schools . of ti south should receive the heartiest sup port of the people of their own faitl as a part of their religious work. An" somewhat in the same way that w( have suggested for the technical edu cation of poor white boys-a way thai develops, not saps, their manhood and self-reliance-there could be de veloped such a general educationa campaign for the boys and girls alikE as the south has never had. To All Spot Holders. The recent heavy depression in the price of future contracts atid spot cot ton is totally unwarranted from thE standpoint of legitimate supply and demand. The price of cotton shoul be based on its intrinsic value and noi subject to the whims and fancies ol speculation. Let us examine the sta. tistical position of supply and de mand. Exports for season ending A.ugust 31st, 1903. S,743,316 bales Takings of American mills same pe. riod 4,565,733 bales. Total for the past season 13,341,049 bales. Exports since September 1st to January 20th, 3,948,060 bales. American spinners takings for same period 2,272,58& bales, making total of export and do mestic takings this season, to Janu ary 20th, of 6,220,643, a difference of 7,120,406 bales between the present and past season. Assuming that only 6,000,000 bales will be required for export and domestic takings for the balance of the present season as against 7,120,406 bales last year, after the same date, where is the cotton tc come from to supply the demand. Al lowing for a crop of 10,250,000 bales, there remains to come into sight only 2,667,369 bales. Port and interior stocks are figured at 1,479,000 bales. If the American mills take the entire port and interior stocks and 721,000 bales from the crop yet to be sold tc fill their demands it will leave only 1,947,000 bales of cotton for export to satisfy the foreign spinners demand for at least 3,500,000 bales, .and this figures the foreign demand at fully 1,500,000 bales less than was taken from that source last year. These are facts based upon actual conditions Yarn spinners are now selling their output on a basis of 14 cents pei pound for raw cotton. This has been going on for months. Every bale of cotton held in the south should easily command a price of not less than 15 eents, batsis middling. The spinners pan easily pay 15 cents for the bal ance of the unsold portion of this cop and will do so if the spot holders stand firm. Speculative manipulation by the "bears'' operating in the fu ture market is no guide to the true value of cotton. Telegraphic reports received by the Assdciation from al] points in the south indicate that spot holders are standing flim. and will not sell at declines. Hold firm for 15 ents, the cotton is worth it, and I challenge any spinner to show the con trary at presenat prices of dry goods. Theodore Price is daily filling the southern press with misrepresenta tions of facts and doing all that mon ey and ingenious manipulation of fig ures can do to break the solid south. Spot holders in the south should show by their firmness that they can and will repudiate such men as Theodore Price and the methods employed by them for purely selfish gain. Those who hold will win the battle and get 15 (ents for their holdings. Hlarvie Jordan, P~resient Southbern Co'~ttci Assocuia tioii. 'HAIR I Big White Good an Ribbon Wednesda: Remember,ei New in weavi sign and New We sell the g prices made i your trade. your interest We want HAIR&i The Right F STATE Of the condition of The Commercial Ban business, Decomber 30th, 1905. RESOURCES. Notes discounted..........$358,741 95 Furniture and fixtures...... 3,031 93 Due from Banks.......... 49,405 10 Overdrafts................ 2,741 80 Canh in Bank.............. 16,730 97 I $430,671 75 CTFY OF N EBR . Statemtine true th bes of my ISworn to beforeme this 1st day Attest: Z. F. Wright, 0. B. Mayer, 4 COTTON To Increase Y Anderson More Li A Labor Saver, A Money Ma Iwith Fish, Blood, and othe FO INFORMATION, call Onl < road sta ANDR SON PROSPH Andersc Atlantic Coast Good Service Quie Through Coa between thi Flori For full inforr PassengEt 6iAVIRD'S d s, EnIbroideru id DiSply0 y Morning. /erythingNEW. E, New in De in the House. oods at New specially for [t will be to tc VisilDuar Sitre, (our trade., -iAVIRD >rice Store. 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