Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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E. 8. AULLI DiTOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New Oerry S. C., as and class'matter. Tuesday, May 8, 1906. GOOD ROADS AND BUBINBSS. National aid to highway construe. tion proposition is, in my opinion Parasbount to any question that nom presents or that can possibly be sug gested, because good roads would - d( more for the country than any othei one thing that can be named, or an3 dozen or more things combined writes W. P. Brownlow. The ques tion is outside of the cotton fieldi may say, its entire constitutionalitj is now almost universally admitted and the necessity for it is present ir every household in the land. It ii important to every calling and con dition; to every trade and profes sion; to every toiler in whatever fiell of human endeavor; to every manu facturing interest and industrial con eern; to every eburch and school, an to the stability of the government it. self. I am aware that many people it cities and towns regard the road ques tion as one affecting the farming in. terests alone. If this were true, il would be simple justice and only f recognition of the existence of re ciprocal obligation between the gov ernment and the people for the gen. cral government to extend its aid, foi the reason that all wealth and al prosperity depend.,; upon agriculture The farmers are the only real pro ducers; all others are consumers. Th< farmers preserve the balance of trad4 in America's favor year by year Strike down agriculture, and chaoi would quickly follow.; cripple agri culture and every interest in the lani would suffer. But it. is not true tha1 the farmers alone are interested i this great question. It is pregnan with interest to the consuming popu lation of towns and cities, and t( railroads, nianufacturers and trades men as well. Furthermore, churel and school interest must inevitabli be retarded while road conditions re main as they are today. The rural schools are the schooli of the masses in which are laid thi deep and lasting foundations for com ing lives of usefulness and for thi betterment of mankind. The rura churchhouse is the birthplace of goot character, of high ideas of life, am of patriotic purpose. Neither rura church nor school can flourish when impassable roads abound, and i these can not prosper the Americai home can not long survive, becaus the American home can only be per petuated in its present glory throug the uninterrupted progress of civi lization and the wholesome growtl of christianity an1 the speed of edu cation in the land. There is a feature of this (questiol whliich persons11 accuist omed. to t her oughness in every other line o thought seemi to entirely overlook especially dwellers ini towns an' cities. It is the universal interes nivolved, andl upon this I desire ti speak with special emphasis. Asid from church, school and social econ omy, there is meat ini the questioa for every man to digest. If the conm mon roads of the county were broughi to a condition that would enabl farmers to market their products a all seasons of the year, the cost o living in town and city 'would bi among laboring people and the opere * ives of industrial concerns woul largely decrease, if it (lid not entrel *. disappear.-Collier's Weekly. The people hereabout who livei the towns regard the road question ai of interest to them as much or mnor than to the people who live in thi country. In fact it is the people wh live in the country w~ho oppose an taxation for the building of road: They would be more benenlted if is possible for one citizen to receiv more benefit from' this great publi mprovement than another. Tbi benefits to them would be direct an immediate and tangible. Why every one should not be er thusiastically interested in this grea question and 1)e eager to invest mor ew in it is and has long been a marvi to us and past understanding. Goo roads wvould make the country th ideal place of residence. It woul s, ive us bettor schools, make churche ~V nearer and make country life pleau ant and desirable. Lot all of us ge lW bhind this great public blessing an< u rng it to all our county. ofor vcllg observes a legi. 0lday in honor of Dr. J. H*. Car ~i,I~O' brthday. It would be a pret ~tr bute to the memory of Dr. J. P eIer who saved Newvberry collegi 4ilealivinig baking bread in o,r '~. 'I~ k~ p th4 eollee going whea ii t riends hd little money. A VISIT TO 0As.% My first visit to t tifulty of Camden was made fp ays ago. I was en route to KeMiaw toittend the Wariage of *y fri.nd, Col. JQhn tel1 T iand as I bad never had thpleasure of seeing the city of Camden I eneluAed to,'spend the night there. Soon after my arrival in the after noon Editor McDowell of the Journal took me in charge and through his kindness I had a drive over the city. The streets are broad and shady and here and there are beautiful parks. The tourist hotels were near ly all closed as the season is about over, but it is no wonder the people of the north like to spend their winters in this beautiful historic town. This is an old town, and has many places of historic interest. It is the former home of Judge Joseph B. Kershaw, that peerless soldier, pure jurist and elegant gentleman. I spent the night very pleasantly with Mr. C. W. Birchmore, editor of the Wateree Messenger. He has re cently moved into the city and has a hiidsone new home fronting on Hampton Park. This park is named in honor of Wade Hampton. It was among these 'stately pines where lie addressed the red shirt brigade in the memorable campaign of 1876. Cam den like all the other towns of the state shows every evidence of growth and prosperity. A new $40,000 court house has just been completed and many handsome houses and beautiful lawns adorn the city. Kershaw is a town on the line be tween Kershaw county and Lancaster county but on the Lancaster side and is beautifully laid out with broad streets. It is only sixteen years old and is a progressive and prosperous community. Col. John Bell Towill and Miss Daisy Pearce were married in the af ternoon of Thursday, the 26th of April at the handsome home of Mr. E. D. Blakeney, Mrs. Blakeney being a sister of the bride. The beautiful and impressive ceremony which made them man and wife was spoken by Rev. Hugh R. Murchinson of Bishop ville. The bride is a beautiful and charming young woman and Col. Towill is to be congratulated on secur ing such a prize for his life partner. On the return trip I came by Rock Hill and spent several hours with Dr. James P. Kinard and his family at Wiithrop college. Dr. Kinard is professor of English at Winthrop. He has recently pub lished an English grammar which those who are competent to judge say is a very valuable and complete text book and it would do well for the state board of education to adopt it for use in the public schools. There is certainly sore need for a text book on this important subject. E. H. A. ;Spartanhurg has 740 pensioners on - the state pJension roll ; Greenville E 436, and Anderson 503. and these ,three counties receive about. one-fifth I of the total amount appropriated by the state for Confederate pensioms > Spartanburg gets $18,839.20; Green a ville $12,050.63; Anderson $13,286.30, - making a total of $44,176.15. The to 1 tal amount sent out to the various - counties is $224,186.80. Newberry t has only 173 names on the roll and e receives $4,295.00. The smallest.numi t her of pensioners is in Beaufort coun f ty. The number is 43 and the amount e of money is $839.70. The amount of - pension paid to each county would <1 scarcely b)e a fair estimate of the y number of soldiers furnished to the Confederacy. a IMPORTANT TO SOUTH. o Congressman Lever Was Active in o Protecting Interests of South tThe State. Caolna e Washington, May 4.--The agricul e tural bill has at last passed the house. e It is of special interest to the South [1 and to South Carolina. Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, is on the commit -tee and he is able to rest a while t from lisa very arduous labors and his much travail of spirit. Several of 1the propositions which were in closa LI contest for life were of special im 0 portance to South Carolina and Mr. LI Lever was the special champion of S those, sometimes again~st very strong opposition... The clause to establish t dairies to encourage the dairy indus I try proposed by Mr. Lever and finally passed renaes as follows: ''The secretary of agriculture be I authorised to expend of the ampount hereby appropriated, through the dai ry division of the bureau of animal industi'y of tho depArtment of agri culture, a sum not to exceed $20,00 if further developing the dair In {tstry Ut the Southern States by eon duetitug'experiments, holdling insti tutes, and giving object leseonA in cooperaton with individual dgIrymen and state experiment station$." In presenting the need of this *ro vision Mr. Lever called attention to the fact that the south must buy from northern and western markets each year over 150,000,000 pounds of but ter, 03,000,000 pounds of cheese and ' millions of gallons of milk. A con servaliv ! e.,timate shows that ' the Southern States are annually contrib- A uting to markets other than their own, the enormous sum of $38,000,900 for butter and cheese alone, products which we have every reason to be lieve can be raised at home. Mr. Lever furtherargued that appro priation of $20,000, carried by hisl bill, has in it the possibility of the creation of a new industry in the south and the saving to our people of this enormous drain upon their re sources. There can be no good reason given why the dairy industry cannot be built up in the south. We have every natural advantage in the mild ness of our climate, and in the capac ity of our soil to yield large forage crops and the rapidly increasing pop ulation of our cities, the growth of our mlanufIacturiinu interests will con suie for many years the entire pro ducts of our dairy farm. ''It seems to me,'' saidl he, "that the time is opportune for launching this industry; among u011'r people. especially when we, take into consideration the increns- - ing demand for dairy products.'' Continuing. Mr. Lever said: "That this industry has not heretofore been t developed is due to the fact that the t entire .attention of our people, all " their energies. and most of their ag- t ricultural capital have been givert to the development of the cotton indus try. Cotton has been and will con tinue to be the great money crop of: the south. It is king among our peo- e ple and so jealous is it of its own do- t minion that no other agricultural in- ' dustry has dared to raise its head c within its domain. The people of s the south have become servants of the N one-crop system. We have grown cot- r tonl so long and so successfully that we have to believe that we cannot I grow anything else, and the bulk of a our people have been afraid to under take any new agricultural industry. t The purpose I had in mind when I in- s troduced this bill was, as much as ( anything else, to prove to our people < by aetual demonstration that cotton was not their master, and to teach them that in diversification of their industries must lie their ultimate ag ricultural independence. I want to show to the people that the same at tention devoted to the raising of eat tle and to the development of the dal ry industr-y as is given to cotton will bring a profitable return. I want to strike from their wrists the mat.acle I of the one-crop system and make them in a degree the holders of a monopoly upon their cotton. They do not nowi have this monopoly, although it is of- ' ten asserted that. they' have. You can not *have a monopoly on anything when you must sell it to buy the nee- I essaries of life. The southern farmeri is now the slave oif the cotton specum lator and gambler, the servant of the cot ton spinner, because in tihe fall he1 must ruish his cotton upon the market in order to meet the obligations in eurred in the production of the crop;.1 When our' farmers are self-sustaining and cotton is a surplus crop, then and1 only then, can we take advantage in' the monopoly in the growving of cotton which is given to us by our peculiar soil and climate. The southern farm er must diversify if lhe would reap the full possibilities of his natural advan tages. It is my hope that this appro p)riation will serve as an entering w~edlge in this dir:ection. "No industrijal structure can long maintain itself on one leg. Farming is at best a gamble; and tihe single crop~ system is always a gam.ble. Ir will not (10 to put all of your- eggs in onme biasket. The great wvest wenit eray on wheat some years ago. Wheat he camie to the western farmer- as much his master as cotton has become the master- of thme southlern farmer, Thle result wras that in 1890 to 1904, in thlat period of low prices, one-third of 1 the w~heat growers in the United States lost their farms by forelosur'e, and it was only in those sect ions of the west wvhere diversified farming wvas practiced that the hammer of thle sheriff was not felt. So it was in the a south some years ago; when our cot- a ton was selling from four to five entts per ponnd, a foreclosure was the com monest occurrence. We all remember that period of gloom and depression among our people. Our one-crop sys- 4 tem had made us victims of the cot- .1 ton gambler and industrial ruin was lI almost the result. Only those coun- a ties where there is diversified agricul- i ture attain the highest development 11 of their agricultural possinbilties, c "The department oif agriculture for I several -years his been conducting a diversifieation canmsgn in the south 01 The Wor Expeien fears of Experiene ei k Line of Goods Not FROM THE L Anything--E% Hats, Shoes C. & Q. THE I nId no section of the country offers uchl a promising field for the diversi cation missionary. This appropria ion is intended to be a reinforcement f the work of the department in this irection. "I understand the plan of the de artment if this appropriation passes he senate is to- employ a number of airy experts who will work in coop ration with the state exepriment sta ions and with individual dairymen. 'hey will furnish to dairymen the heapest and best plans for the con truction and erection of silos; they ti vill teach him the most economic iethods of feeding and show him the -alue of herd selection; they will C ioint out to him the best methods of nanufacturing, handling and market ng of his products, and put him in ouch with the best markets for the ale of the products. They will visit very dairyman in the south when re Iuested and investigate the condi ions and peculiar problems of each stablishment and offer such sugges ions and advice for improvement as is experience has given him. What mr people need most to make the dai -y business a success is expert infor nation, This they have not had and :his it is that this appropriation vould give to them. I am confident hat an intelligent. aggressive cat >aign along these lines will succeed. L'here can be no reason for a.failure. 9 Ve should so far develop this indus- o ry as to at least supply our home narkets with their demand for dairy wroducts. If we can do this. wve bale ( aved to our people millions of dol ars. Bkit this is not all, if we can laty he foundation for the buildingu up of r successful (hairy indlustry in the south we will save to ourselves mnil ions in the wvay of fertilizer bills and id1d millions to the value of our farmt ands whose f'ertility' will be enor nously increased by the develop)ment f this industry. I see in this appro- Ii priation great possibilties for goodt mud I feel that no one ean doubt that he promise of tangible results is not u suficeient warrant for this appropri- F ution with which to make the experi nent.' rfhis proposition has met with much favor in the south and is warmly in horsed by the secretary of agriculture md the press of the country. Near the close of the (lay, when one beatunre of the hill was uunder consid- (J rat ion, Mr. Lever wyas instrumental n saving a part of the ap)prop)rialtion C ~or the experiment farms. SonthI Car >lina haus two of these farms. By come -triek of one of the New York nen, Mr. Driscoll, part of the increase ~or this purpose was shifted to a New ETork station. Only 48 members were )resenlt wvhen the matter came up and mt for the watchfulness of the South ~arolinin one or hoth of these ex >eriment stations in South Carolina vould have suffered. He called at ontion to thme w~hole situation and bowed how the New York man wvas eot ''toting' fair.'' The house voted nd the Lever proposition carried by 7 to 21. Origin of Dog Days. Accordingly to the generally accept d doctrine the dog days begin on i.uly 3 and end on Aug. 11, but there lave been disputes as to every pos ible point about them. It was uni ersally agreed that they were con ected with the dIog star, but which ne?f The real dog star, Sirius, or 'rocyon, th.e Little Dog1 Then there rere disagreements as to the parti.. alar atronmial perorm- - of d Will Tell Yot :e is the best T mables us to place be Surpassed by any .OWEST TO THI rerything Ladles Oesire Dress ( ,No veltit S. MOW -ADIES' S 4rink R. Hunte Real Estate, Sto Bought a: IF IT IS REAL E! If we haven't got what you wa We have a most desirable, list Lrming lands In various section acts, ranging in price from $5.1 For particulars concerning an harge phone, write or call on i FRANK R. HUN Office over Summer Bros. Special attention to collection Fire I Think twice before you buy, Then buy your goods from Hill We are not content t< >thert. We must unde SHOES, SHC Men's, Womer.'s, Boys', Girls' :y. High Cut and Low Cut. Chea f Newberry. Others may clain to biem and make money. itandard Granulated Si HII ie star that fixed the (log days; as > 1heir inmber, which varied in dif erent estimate between thirty and ifty-four, and whether they were to e reckoned before, after or around ie star's peCrformances. The forty ettled on precede the rising of irius with the SUN. A belief grew p that in these days dogs went mad, uit terrestrial dlogs have really noth ig to doi with it. The original be ef was that the star and sun to ether b)rought intense heat and all iris of plagues.--London1 Chronicle. A goodl man is known by the ac utuniitanices he cuts loose fromn. If. a man's credit isn't good lie can aisily (cut down his expenses. Wood's Evergreenu Lawn~ Grass. The best of I*n Grasses for the South; epcally prepared to withstan our summers and to give a nice green sward the year round. Special L awn Cironlar telling Plant Wood's Gau-dem Seeds for superior Vegetables and Flowers. Our Doeorptle Ocal.ous tells fortscces.Mailed rree, We T.W. Wool &Sons, Soedsmon, RICHMOND,.- VA. Jtyu wnttheawe4.and beaWte fore our., Other in H IG HEST In the way,of Dross 7 foods, Ps, etc. ER CO. TORE. r & Company. eks and Bonds nd Sold. 3TATE, SEE VS. nt we can get it for you. of city property. Also good - of the State in large or small )0 to $75.00 per acre. y property that we have in Is. ITER, Manager. Phone 200 of rents. [nsnrance. Security Bonds. & Sligh. ) be as low priced as rsell. IES, SHOES. ind Children's Shoes. High Qual per than ever known in the town sell Shoes at cost, but we undersell agar. 25 lbs. $1.25. L & SLIGH. WEEDERS. We [have the best and most up-to-date one on the market. Don't buy until you see it and get prices. SUMMER BROS. IL.LUSTRATED POST CARDS I have a large as ||sortment of MCRDS Have a splendid view of the Col lege. Price: Two for Five Cents. All others Throefor5c.