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10' A IWOP T ON T 002NA'0 Sout Sould a Pirm tt 4 tion Calls Upon Farmers, chants and Bankers to I Xold Their Advantage. Hi-. E. D. Smith, president of t South Carolina division, Souther Cotton association, whio was here a the offices of the association yeste day, gave out the following intervie last night: "In view of the fact that such number of planters and merchani throughout the South are selling the cotton for next fall delivery at I cents per pound, there are certai facts which I deem it duty of mysel and others who are posted, to give t the members of the Sonthern Cotto association and those interested i the continued high price of cotto and the consequent prosperity of th South. ''In 1.904 we made practically 14, 000,000 bales of cot ton: in 1905 w made approximately 10,500,000. Thes two items make an averag-e of abou 12,250,000 bales for the two yearF '1904 and 1905. Notwithstanding thi enormous yield of cotton, (niormo1 in comparsiol with what we have heel led to believe was necessary for th; world's supply, hear wliat the officer of the British Cotton Growing asso ciation have to say in reference to ti cotton situation published May 19t] in the official journal of the Manchies ter cotton association. This journa says: '''On last Thursday what the primo minister described wliat the prim most influential deputations that ha! ever waited upon-the head of the gov erment of this country, met togethel in the forign office, London. Accom paying Sir H. Campbell Bannermai .were the Earl of Elgin, colonial secre tary; Mr. John Morley, secretary fol Tndia; Mr. Winston Churchill, unde colonial secretary, and Mr. Georgo Whitley, chief ministerial whip. Thi deputation which repesented th British Cotton association, some o the principal chambers of commere of Great Britain, the various associa tions of labor and capital, some of th chief magistrates of Lancashire, an other towns outside of Lancashir was introduced by Lord Derby, th lord-lieutenant of Lancashire. H was followed by the Dilke of Marl borough, who in a few pithly reiaIk associated himself with the movement Mi. .1. A. lut ton, vice chairman o tihe conlil of the association, statei tihe case for tile deputation. le stat ed that the annual value of the p'o dieliomi of' the cotton trade anotmite, to over' 100t,000.00)0 pounditis sterlini; t$500t.000).000) amid thait thle caipita di rectly (1iL(I ena et representeId o've 400.000.00,0tI oumiuis sterl ing, or $2, 000,000.)000. Thiere was no ineed, hi said, to labour the pouiint thait a Irad of sneh'l imiiportae vliC~ it ally affectec the wel fare of thle couttry, and thai any disaster to it might he sid to b a disaster to the whole countiy. Th cotton trade, lie wenit oii to say, wa in a very do lgeirons posit ion. Th~ dangeirs were t wo-fold. Ini the firs place, they got 75 pier cent of thei' rawv material from one couiitry, am that they we're conisequently at. thi meircy of the weather' in one pai't : the world. It was therefore quiti evident that they ought to aim a broadening the base of supply, and i: possible to (10 so within the Britisl Empire. Thle second dlanger' to whiel lie called attention was that conisump~ tion was more or less oveitaking pro duction. It was calculated that con suimption in thme British Empire wa: increasing at the rate of 400,000 bale: per annum, and Lancasire alone ha, in the last yeair or s0 added someht in; like 6,000,000 spindles t.o her spinin capacity which represe'nted an ini crease in consumption in Lancashiir alone of hal f a million bales; that thIi Unmited States had iincreasedl thi consumption fi'om 2,500,000 bales 11 years ago to 4,000,000 bales at th present. It was therefore clear tha ini a comp)arat ively short time thb United States would requirec the greal er part of their own hproduct.ioi WVhether they would get it was c cour'se another thing. For the cotto .would go to those who paid the bet price for it; that,.a scramble wvas e:s J)eeted, nobody wvouhd deny. Til present position gate great enxiet to those who were deeply intereste in the cotton trade. 'In 1001 and 1902 a good manl mills had run short time; in 1903 t.l bulk of thiem had to run short tin for four' months. The climax we reached in 1904.when the gireater' nun her of mills ran short time cigh -monithis. He did not tink it wer .eplized outside of Lancashire ho, much 4ffering this entailed. Perhaps .he couW not indicate it better than by gpying.that ii maiy cases two famil ies ha4 to be 4 wded Jn,to one house Se loig as th6 had fh'ts4ations qf B th#t sot, so long'nust'they Abi#W'lp the unhappy position they were1 Pn1. What was the crop goink i661 If it was anything less than 12,000 000 bales, they would hAve specula tion again and short time. The con sequences of short time WOre very serious. According to Mr. Macara, who was generally recogized, he said, e As 'the greatest authority on cottod n statistics, three-quarter time meant a t total loss to capital and labor.of 150, 7- 000 pounds a week ($750,000) to v Lancashire alone, and $20,000,000. a week to the whole country (England). a ' 'The association had made inl s quiries all over the world in their r search for new sources of supplies, 0 and they had come to the conclision n that they must. have a country cal) f able of prodicing millions of bales to 0 take the place of or supplement the n American supplies. And that North n Nigeria alone was the only possible 1 salvation for tihe cotton trade. But e here they are brought up against tle fact that North Nigeria was for all - practical purposes inaccessible. . '''Sir Alfred Jones urged the Eng 2 lish government to take a hand in t helping the British cottongrowing as sociation. Sir Alfred Jones is presi d dent of the British Cotton Growers' association. Sir W. H. Holland, pres ident of the association Chambers of Commerce, said at their meeting they hla( passed strong resolutions to the same effect. He said that any who paid a visit to the cotton manufae turing district of Lancashire and saw the large number of new mills which Were springing up in every direction almost like mushrooms, would be con vinced that the question of new sources of supplies of raw cotton was more acute today than ever before. The prime minister's reply was, ''I doubt if ever deputation came to a government so important, so almost i pretentious, and so impressive as -this, and then went on to review the situation in full.' The South's Chance. ''Now, in view of these facts, does it not seem the height of folly that the South, owning a monopoly of the world's supply of raw cotton, and having,the possibilities of an unlimit ed increase in cotton production, should be so indifferent to this, her traand opportunity for fixing 'and maintaining a price commensurate with thie world's demand for raw cot ton ! It is a very painful contrast be tween tle at(itulde of the English overnment. to the English cot ton trade and our government to the Almerican cott0n trade. England is not hal1 so indebted to her cotton inl <hisry for her financial welfare as Almerica is. to say anything of tile South. it is a mark of the grossest ignor.an, noQ 10~t to say stuipidity, onl thle part of thle Southlern business'5 mni not to take t he proper 01 vie w of t heir relaltion to the coto(n) inidustry in lfixing and1( maintaining a remuner atlive)price. Tho sell ou r cot ton at 10 ('(nts1 a pounid for niext fall delivery' is to f'orest all thle work of thle South ('rn1 Cot lonu assoiciationl and( 1)lace the 'onIsumilers or purchasers of ouri cot tonu in a posit ion to (dictate the price. '' At amtigo h xctv sociition held ini Jac'ksoni,Msispi .nMa 11, thle following resolution was assed: 'Rlesolved, That wve call upon01 our members and the producers of cot ton at large not to sell their aet ual cotton for future delivery; as we have every reason to believe and feel conifidenit that the price of cot tonl must. advance~ materially beyond the present fall qulotations.' ''In view of the article quoted from the Lancashire paper, all that we have to (10 in order to fix and mnaintaini a fair price is simply to re-. l'nse to take less. And this may not be done, except. lby and wvith' the full (ooperat ion of all Soulthern business interests. 'cor'dinig to Mv. Hutton, the w~or'ld will nieed 12,000,000 hales or more, it has practically consumed 12,000,000) bales in each of the years S1904 aind.105. With only a partial organization we 'have bJeen able to maintain a price of slightly over 10 -1-2 cents average. At least 2 1-2 cents above wvhat wve probably would have obtained without an organiza t ion. - Hold Ootton. e ''I hope every business manl in the y State will read this article and study 'a it carefully and then decide as to whether or not lie can 11011 in the y great opportunity now presented to e the South of reaping abundant e wealth from this, her great staple q cerop in such pressing demand by the l. orld a large, S 'Stop selling cotton for fall de s ,h'ivery organize in every community ,for the erection of proper wvarehouses and the, proper financing of theI crop, so that we may. be in a position to supply the world with cotton as it needs it at a price satisfactory to us." CONOESSIONTO MILLWORKARS A ViWgidia Paper's View Of a Step Aieently Taken by Carolina Mils. Richmond News-Leader. Cotton mill owners in the Caro lita have formed an organization and the fi'rst act of the newly creht ed body was to provide for reduction of the hours of labor from 66 hours a week to 60. There is no reduction of wages and the time will be cut, gradually, two hours a year for four years. Eleven hours average- day seems severe work to those aceus tomed the eight and nine hour svs ten. In the cotton mills the rile really has been eleven amid a half for five days and eight and a- lialft on Saturday, bringing the total to the 66 hours per week, )ermitted by law. The workers, however, have m11ade little protest. The truth is pwactically all of them are from thie farms. where the accepted rule of work is fron si to sti. Labor orga,nizations never have gainled substantial foothold in the Carolina mills. One reason for this is that the mill villages are owned by the complanies and being private prolerty uider the immediate con trol of company officers, labor% or ganizations are forbidden to work in them and labor organizations are not allowed to exist. Aside from that the villagers are in a stone's throw of farms and whenever a mill worker becomes dissatisfied lie or she can find a tract of land or employment at farm labor within a mile or two. There is no need to strike because everybody can fluit, and go at some thing else within a day. It is a fact, however, that whatever may be the permanent, effect of cotton mill em ployment on the race, the immediate comfort and pleasure of the life of the workers is- very much improved when lie leaves the fa'rmn and goes to the mill. The hours are long and the work is confining, but work under shelter in warmed and ventilated buildings is easier after all than fol lowing a plow under a July sun or picking cotton in the nipping winds of November. The mill village house is not a palace, but in most instances it is much more comfortable thah a log cabin. Man is a social animal amd constant contact with people is a1 delight after the solitary life of tihe momitaineer or the comparative solitude of the low countrv tenant' farmer or farm laborer whose near est neighbors are half a mile or so away. Church every Sunday, a sc.hool everV day, stores just across the street. doctors within call and all lie a muisement s and comupainionshmip of village society makes a welcomet change from the isolationi of the armt. TlherefCore, the mill worker does not4 worryi' hiniiself ve thU le pros l)eet t hat five or six igenerat ions of sedent ary Ii fe will result in the )hiysical stimmiting and moral decad enee of his descendants. HeI prefers the mill to the farm heeaumse it is more comfort aile and attractive and1 offers him more cash every month than lie has been accustomed to hand le in the whole course of a year and puts him on a .satisfactory basis of knowledge from day to day how he stands with thme wvorld. The reduction of hours is brought abtout, doubtless, partly by the lion est desirie of the mill owvners to im prove the condition of their people and partly by the chronic scareity of labor. Competition among th.e owvn ers for desirable working people has become so eager that thme bidding in the wvay of higher wages and shorter hours threatens to demoralize the conditions and cause general confu si on and irregularity. Therefore, the mills have come together and made their concessions uniform anid b)y agreement. In addition to shorten ing thme hours the mill owners adopt ed resolutions urging the legislature to enact a compulsory edncation law and to fix the age limit for wotrking in mills at 12 years. Indications are that wit hout labor omrganization or agitation, or even de finite domnanid, the mill people in the Carolinas presently will have gained all that the most aggressive forces of organized labor require. The pro cess of improvement is slow, but is the inevitable result of natural caus es. As the mills have increased in number they have drained the labor of that section until all are short of hands and anxious for miore people. Concessions and inducements of all kinds are granted b)eause they' are necessary to secure and to hold a desirable class of labor. Some people save a hot of time by telling the Arinthin Acted in Self-Defence. With lacerated hands and disjoint-' ed knuckles James Neary rushed into the central' polide station vepoirted that he had beten a md':who had "jumped on him" in th# street so severely that he feared for the other { fellow's life. Neaiy, who admitted inb1bing free ly, had, he said, 'unintentionally .run into the man, Who then bit him in the face, despite his apology. Neary got angry and gave his an tagonist a punch,and the latter lurch ed against him, both going to the 2round, with the other fellow on top. Neary said he saw stars for a mo ient and then, recovering himself, dealt his antagonist a terrific blow, which turned him over, landing him in a doorway. ''He took the court,'' Neary add ed. He was much worried and beggedr policemen to look after the other I fellow. Several policemen hurried Y m)t and found Neary's opponent a alone in a doorway. He was a big I wooden Indian.-Baltimnore corre- g wondence New York Herald. a ro Our Yisitors and Citizens I-low could Newberry College be . inything else, but. one of the best ristitutiois of learning in the South xith Dr. J. A. B. Scherer President Md his able assistants? How could ve have a better town government, vitli A. T. Brown as Mayor? The Newberry Cotton Mill with !7104 spindles, 900 looms, Z. F. ATright President, J. M. Davis Sup 'rintendent, is already a success. The Mollohon Mfg. Co. with 30000 3pindles, 736 Looms, Geo. W. Sum ner President, E. B. Wilbur Supt., tands right at the top of the ladder. 3oth of these mills have the very lest of help. There are also two successful Cot on seed Oil Mills in operation in Zewberry. We have thirteen churches- a ine Graded School System, two of lie best County papers, four strong 3anks, practically four Railroads, wo new Knitting Mills, and number ,ontractors-all kept busy. How could Newberry be anything mt a healthy town, with two artes an wells 300 feet deep-almost the mtire dept through solid granite -supplying the very best water for ier citizens. Water that needs no )oiling like (some of our neighbo-ing ities.) Why do some of our Column ia friends send to Newberry daily e 'or drinking water? Answer-Why How could you miss it by investing in Real Estate of any kind or a iome at this place. Conic and edi- ( mate your children or go in business if sonic kind. We already have more lew buildings than any place of its 'iZe. h'llis is what people away fromi I ere say.( 1 Charley, you s.aid a few (lays ago hat I didni't have a bileck store on( M(ain street for sale at $2200.00. Now, [ have five brick stores on Main St. for sale-yes on Main street as fol ows-$2300, $2200, $2100, $2000, 1900. This sounds cheap-but, I w'ant to <ell them. Next year these will be sonsidecrably higher and you will be lorry you did not get one. The Post Office building as' I have said before, is a splendid pilace for i Bank. This is really the best place for a Bank here. You know peop)le as a usual thing do not wvant 3verybody to see them going to the B~ank, so you could stop on your way :o and from the large newv Post Of Bice and atten~d to your Bank busi less. This is next door to our sky icraper. I have 'six lots in front of the [4ut heran Clhuirch and Graded schools that would be the very place for Dierks. Why? Because they are no very convenient. I have 6I lots, formerly knowvn as the Wheeler property. Ydu will not nieed to be at the expenise of keeping a horse, byeiele or automobile. If you should buy one of these. Direct ly on the water and sewverage. Charlie one of these lots would suit you. You know you like to wvalk hoine and hack three of four times each day. Buy one of these and be a neighbor to Alex Browvn and Tenc.h Pool. I sold a lot very neaor these to one of our good friends Saturday. .If you are fond of keeping a horse, Byelele or automobile, I have other lots would just suit you. Come and see me, write or call me over the 'Phoneo, No. 57. If I hav'nt what you want, I will do my best to get it for you. I have some good 'stocks for sale. My' ambition is to please my ens tonmers. J. A. BURTON, "The Man Between." 2Otl Makhr TWO TI HOICE TENNES1 md While it Lasts Best Patent $ Best hWlf Pat. Best Meal. 854 Best Orits $1.1 Don't psy any more, don'i Iong,, save money and buy fr Our immense stock of sprin les and fancy goods and stap ng novelties in millinery. C ight thing in prices, style, q ly cannot beat us, we don' ou up on balance, people nd looking out more'for No. Porty years experience coun on't you forget it, PROSI Sp For the I 50 E Straig 0 AT $4.00 S. S. E STA )f the condition of the Ex he close of business M -RESOURCES. ,oans and discounts.. . $127,771 )verdrafts .. . . ......3.801 'Lurniture and Fixtures . . 3,36% )ue from Banks & bankers 10,88: urrency .. .. .. ....4,21' ~ilver, Nickles and pennies 1,741 ~hecks anld cash items . .6,03) $156,82 Before me came M. L. Speai eaing duly sworn says that the ab< dge and belief. Sworn to and subscribed before Correct attest: J. D. Davenport, Edw. R. Hlpp, Directors Geo. B. Cromer, We Mei lest Stoues AND B Werts Prescript Which we use are wit We believe in PUR~ We constantly prea We always practice I clies. ' PURITY counts, ari S Ask ybur doctor. MAYES']i C AR,' HOU AND Barrels of that EE -LOUR Just Received toOb at 5.00 Every bbl. 4 $4.40 gparanteed. 3. hushel. r5 Sack. be switched off by argument, come right om us.. g goods arriving embracing all the novel. les,'our Mrs. Moseley in the North select. ome and see us, we are prepared to do the inlity, &c., for an all round bill you sim t make.a cut price on one thing and burn getting educated and opening their eyes 1. Come and see us and be convinced, .ts something, we will treat you right and "ERITY, S. C. cial lext Ten Dais E OFFER arre1s :F:: 1ht Flour PER BARREL. lirge Co. TEMENT. change Bank of Newberry, S. C., at ay 4th, 1906. LIABILITIES. ).52 Capital stock Paid in . . . $i0,0.00-o 3 Undivided profits less 'ex- $0000 p$enses and taxes paid 4,60589 -.4 Individual deposits subject 00 to checks. -. . . . . 71,441.87 3.34 Cashier's checks. .. .....76.00 L.85 Bills payable.-.-..-.-.....30,000.00 !.27 $156,822.27 eman Cashier of The Exchange Bank, who >ve statement is correct to the best of his knowl M. L. Spearman, Cashier. me this the 12th day of May, 1906. W. B. Wallace, N. P. for S. C. w Business! OTHE Sand Furniture EST PRICES' GOTO & Sample. aghrin's Block. ioq MVaterials: hout exception the purest grade :h PURITY. PURITY when preparing medi Ld counts for much, in medicines.* DRUO STORE. I