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VOL XLIV NO, 85. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY kEPiEMBER 20. 1907. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 STAND BY THE FAMERS. Necessity for Keeping up Pay for Cotton as Fixed by Both Or ganizations. The State, 19th. Mr. F. H. Weston, the secretary of the South Carolina Cotton association, yesterday issued an important state ment regarding the cotton situation. 4r. Weston calls upon all cotton growers to stand pat on the price fix ed by the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union for 15 cents and emphasizes the necessity for mer chants and bankers and all classes in t'he south to support the cotton plan ters in this move. His statement is as follows: Mr. Weston, in speaking of the sit uation, yesterday said: "In view of the decline of cotton for the last few weeks, I deem it nec essary to issue this appeal to the far mers, merchants and bankers of South Carolina. "The national executive commit tee of. the Southern Cotton associa tion, which m'et at Jackson, Miss., on -September 5, after canvassing the cot ton situation thoroughly recommend ed and fixed the minimum price of cotton at 15 cents. "At this meeting of the national executive committee all of the cotton producing states were respesented, except Oklahoma and~the Indian Ter ritory. The men who composed the executive committee which met at Jackson, were men of the highest character and fully informed as to the crop conditions in their respective states. Our own state was represent ed by President E. D. Smith, Execu tive Committeemen E. L. Archer and Dr. W. W. Ray. Dr. Ray was request-' ed by the writer to ascertain by in quiry and observation, the condition of the cotton crop in the several states through' which he passed; his report embodied in an interview, which he gave out a few days after his return, was certainly not indica tive of a large crop. ",We know at this season of the year that many of the growers of cot ton, who have in many instances pledged their cotton by mortgage or lien for supplies furnished them to make it, are compelled by necessity to put their cotton on the market. ir respective of prices, unless aided by their local merchants or bankers. Of course the cotton buyers are aware of this and will continue to put the price of cotton down as long as growers are found who are willing to sell. The losses that result to this debt burdened individual affect man, woman and child in the south; it can niot be measured by hundreds of dol lars, but runs up into millions. Every time cotton goes down means that much less money for the home, the school house, the merchant, the banks and the development of the re sources of the south. "-There c.an be no reason assigned for this material decline in the price of cotton: every man who has had an opportunity to observe, will cheerful ly bear testimony to the fact that cotton has deteriorated in the last two or three weeks: heavy rains having fallen, followed by extremely higrh temperature. I was informed by a reliable cotton manufacturer that while the visible supply of cotton according to the estimate of the sta tisticians-ia greater thaiw it was last year, yet the qulality is so poor that only about 75 per cent cf each bale can be spun. The consumers, with the cotton on hand and the farmers who have sold in advance, are making ev ery effort to force the market down. There is but one remedy for t-his con dition, and that is for the holders of cotton to withdraw it from the market cuting off the supply. "I am confident that the thought ful people all over the south realize the fact that their destiny, and that of their country is wrapped up in cotton: antit behooves eaeh and ev erv man, whatever may be his voca tion or profession, to come to the aid of the farmers in their effort to stem this unreasonable and unjustifiable attack upon the price of cotton. "Cotton oods have not declined in price, nor have those articles, wic we are obliged to purchase, depre ciated. "The Fariers' uniot,. which I be lieve is a good oraniization. has.fixed its min-imum price at 15 cents. Sure ly the membership of the two organ izationS, the Southern Cotton asso ciation and the Farmers' union, should be able to hold a sufficient quantity of cotton off of the market to keep up the price. "The people of the south have the situation in their own hands; it is for them to say whether the south will be prosperous or poor. I believe that the people of the south realize the in trinsic value of cotton. and that they will join hands and do all in their power to secure a good price for the cotton crop of 1907. According to all estimates, this crop of cotton is far less than tht consumers will need, and they will give us our price, if we have the courage and the manhood to demand it and fight for it." OONTRAqT LET. Route for Railroad from Anderson to Athen, Georgia, to be Sur veyed. News and Courier. Anderson, September 1S.-The con tract for the survey of- the Georgia- 1 Carolina Railroad will be let at Roys- I ton, Ga., tomorrow ifternoon. This < road will connect. Anderson with Athens, Ga. It will be recalled that a big railroad meeting was held at Hartwell, Ga., several weeks ago and I that the building of the road was agi- I tated. It was decided that the road, which will be sixty miles in length, i should be constructed. Hon. W. L. 4 Hodges, of Hartwell, was selected I president at a meeting of committees from each town along the route which was held at- Franklin Springs. It was decided that all of the towns should I be assessed for the survey work. An- I derson was assessed $550 for its share. Two days ago the Anderson Chamber of Commerce appropriated $100 and I the Anderson city council appropriat ed $250. Mr. J. S. Fowler and others who I ara taking much interest in the move~ ment have guaranteed the remaining $200. Mayor McCully is the Ander son representative and he will reporti at the meeting tomorrow that Ander-:: son's assessment has been raised. An-1 derson will be much benefited by the< building of the road. The route isI through a most fertile country and many small towns will be tapped. An derson will be able to have close con netions with the main lines of the Seaboard and Southern, and will be able to get direct -connections with the Northern and Western markets through Atlanta. Many engineers from this state and Georgia will bid for the contract at oyston to-morrow. An Easy Job.I Pat had just arrived in ~New York in the morning and was sauntering down Broadway, viewing with won der the mammoth buildings of that noted street when he came to a large office building just being constructed. As he was passing, a foreman emerged from the structure and eateh inr si;rht of Pat 's broad shoulders and sinewy form, called out, "want a j'ob." "Bezorra. and I'm looking for tht.'' replied Pat. Se he was soon installed in his new' position. The satisfaction which hi:. work gave him may be best shown by the letter which he sent to his brother the next day. This is the letter: "New York, June, 190- ) Dear Mike: Come quick. Good pay. Easy work. All youditave to do is to carry mortar] up a ten story building and you end 1d a man up there with a trowel to do: all the work." The True Version. Puk. The,Whale-Come on in! Aw, come; on in out of the wet. Jonah-And have Roosevelt get af ter me for a nature fakir? Nixey.? On yont way. RAILPOAD LINE TO SALUDA C. E 7~ork .eg;.n on the New Road Thr day-Long Felt Want Supplied. News and Courier. Greenwood September 18.-The bi.e3t thing that has happe'ned in Greenwood and Saluda counties in some time will happen here tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, when Mr. B. W. Crouch throws the first spadeful of eaarth in the construction of the Mid die Carolina and Western Railway, the line that is to connect Saluda Court House with Greenwod, and which will open up some of the fin est country in South Caroliua, a see ! m that has tbeen bottled up for lo, tiesc many years. It is 1 great thing for this whole section, and its final consummation has been a secret more closely guard ad than the development of any sim ilar enterprise in this section has ev ar been, perhaps. It was impossible to keep such a big thing from live ewspaper men, but the men who are oing the work acted after the man aer of the late President MeKinley, who, when he wanted to keep any thing from the papers, would call in the newspaper correspondents, tell -hem all about it and then ask them to eep it secret. It is aid that his re uest was always sacredly regarded. To return to this enterprise the ,iddle r0arolina and Western Rail way is to be 29 miles long. The com any has mules and scrapers here ight now. The first spadeful or dirt will be thrown to-morrow morning eaf town at 9 o'clock, by Mr. B. W. 'rouch, president of the Bank of Sa uda, and until now the mainspring nd moving spirit of this enterprise. Mr. Crouch deserves more than can )e said of him in this account of the >eginning of the enterprise which he ias so successfully developed. He is young man, but if he ever accom >ishes anything else while he lives 1e deserves a monument at the hand )f the people of these two counties. o monument, however, will equal is real monument, the Middle Car )lina and Western Railway. He has xrked day after day on this enter rise getting the people along the line .nterested, having it surveryed, secur .ng the rights of way, and in this con .ection it should be stated that the ompany has had absolutely no trou )le with the rights of way *except 'rom one man. The officers of the road are:'Presi lent, D. A. McDonald; treasurer, 'Moses C. McDonald; secretary and mditor, W. T. F. Warren. These gen :lemen, with B. W. Crouch, constitute :he board of directors of the road. Messrs. McDonald are now making heir home at Carthage, N. C . Mr. Warren, the man who will have harge of the work of construction mnd also the operation, is a native of England, his birthplace being Strat Ford-on-Avon. He was recently gen aral manager of a railroad in Alaba na. The road is to be completed in 18 noths. The Devil's Disciple. Charles F. Liumis, the well-known ~hr, triaveler~ and authority on In ans, appeared recently in Washing :on in a corduroy suit. a sash and a sombrero. "'Mr. Lummis,'' said a reporter, 'in your study of the Indians you must have come up)on many strange Ehings.' "In any study,'' said the novelist, "ne conmes upon strange things. r'ake, for instance, the study of child iood. Nothing reveals stranger things chan that. "I know a little boy in Los Ange les. He was bad the other day, and iis mother punished him.. "After his punishment he was seen to go to his father's desk and write something on a sheet of paper. Then he went out into the garden, dug a ittle hole and buried the paper in it. "His mother, after he had gone way, dug up the paper. It contained these words: " 'Dear devil, please come and ta mamma.' ''-Pittsburg News. LATIMER TALKS TMMIGUATION. Not Favorably Impresed with Line From Triest-Outlines the Plat form on Which he will Run for Senate. News and Courier. Greenville, September 18.-Sena tor Latimor gave out his first inter view todayN since his return from Eu rope. The Senator favors restrict- ] ing immigration, says he will fight for Federal aid to drain the swamp lands I in the lower part of the state, and will continue his advocacy of the national i good roads plan. He is a candidate 2 for re-election. Among others things he said: from what I saw of the class of peo Dle we are drawing our immigrant ;upplv from in Europe I am satisfied 1 that we should not be making any ef- t fort to induce or stimulate any more foreign people to come to America than we are now getting. I am not 1 opposed to people coming here, pro vided they promise to make good citi zens, and to help build up our institu- I tions and benefit our country, rather < than prove a stumbling block and a hindrance, as is now the case in some a of the larger Northern eities. We do 1 not need the class that will come sim ply because their passage way is paid, f or because they are promised a job on this side of the water. "I am inclined to restrict immigra tion, rather than foster it. I am op posed to the state or corporations fur nishing money to pay the transporta tion of any immigrants into the Unit ed States, but believe our best policy is to be content with the natural growth of population. Over population C in America will result in the same eonditions that now exist in Europe, which are low wages and poverty on the part of the poor people. "We had better let some of our land lie idle and get thirteen or four 0 t teen cents for cotton than to under take to work all of our lands and take a lower price for our products, and I thirik our mills would be better off c in the long run to let a few of the spindles stand idle and sell their goods at the high price they are now t getting in the United States than to run all their spindles and take a low- f er price for the lgroduet. "In other words, to sum up, I 2 think we ought to be content with the prosperous conditions that we now enjoy than to attempt to change that t condition by addiing to our population the undersirable immigrants from Eu rope who.are now proving so unsatis factory ini the cities and states where the bulk of them have been going for the last few years. "Europe has more people to the ~ square mile than the United States, but Europe is much poorer per capi tia. Over there, is a wealthy class C and a poverty-stricken class. Certain ly we have no desire to bring about a such conditions here. Wages are low- ( er in Europe than in America and work is harder to get. I should like 1 to see our waste lands under cultiva- s tion, but I would not like to see the world over-supplied with cotton andr our farmers. merchants and manufac- I turers suffer hecause of unsettled con-i ditionis b)ound to arise under such cir-. Th Senator was asked what he thougrht about the steamship line from e Triest to Cha.rleston which P>aron '] von Pilis has promised shall be put t in operation within the next few weeks. t He replied that while nothing would t please him better than to see the port I of Charleston in communication with y Europe through a steamship line, he j could not approve the line from j Triest, for he said that it would pri- I marily be an immigrant carrying j line, there being but few products in s his estimation which would be -shipped j from Triest to Charleston, and the , immigrants would be of the most ob-e jectionable class-the kind that South t CaroJina does not need and that would c injure rather than build up the state. [An Ohio judge has decided that "a K woman is as old as she looks.'' This t merely affirms a ruling handed down e THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY.I qew Lutheran Church to be Erected -Excellent Opening of the Grad ed School. Prosperity, Sept. 19.-Mrs. E. B. uther and children, of Columbia, are ,isiting Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Luther. Mrs. Z. W. Bedenbaugh has return- I d home from a very pleagant visit to Zocky Mount and Roanoke, Va. She vas accompanied by her nephew, Mas er Frank Peak. Miss Legget is again in charge of he millinery department at Mrs. Cal es. Miss Souterland arrived today and vill have charge of the millinery de )artment at Moseley Bros. Miss Mary Kinard has gone to At anta to spend some time with her sis er, Mrs. MeWaters. The Sorosis will meet today (Fri lay) with Mrs. G. Y. Hunter. This ill be a social 'meeting and. will be n enjoyable meeting. Miss Walker Whittaker and Her iert Langford have gone to Wofford ollege. Misses Clara Gibson and Willie Mae s Vise left Tuesday for Winthrop col- i ege, Rock Hill. Hon. K. Baker was in town for a e ew hours Wednesday. - The congregation of Grace church i as sold the old church building and i ervices were held in it for the last t ime on last Sunday. The services, I oth preaching and Sunday school will I e held at the City Hall at the same i ours that they were held . in the e hurch. The old church will be taken v own to make room for the new. The h ongregation will note the place of p eeting. The three churches in town, t . R. P., Baptist and Methodist were c laced at their disposaL The council s eided that there would be no con- 1 lict of any services by having e hem in the Oity Hall, hence they ae- i epted the tender of the town council. r Mrs. Lizzie Hunter is visiting her e aughter, Mrs. A. H. Hawkins. e Messrs. J. B. Lathan and J. H. Vise, of Little Mountain, were in P own on Tuesday. Mr. B. L. Wheeler is spending a b ew days at home with his parents. I Miss Marie Bobb has returned to inety-Six.I Mrs. H. H. Rikard and children, of eberry was visiting her parents his week, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wheel- i r. drm Mrs. Mary RawI has returnedfo visit to relatives in Georgia. Miss Gertrude Simpson has return.. d to Newberry and will resume her ~ uties as teacher in the graded ehools. Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler spent Tues ay in Newberry.. Mr. A. T. Mayer, familiarly known i s "Berry" is with the Prosperity ~ )il Mills as bookkeeper. . The attendance at this time is the e argest in the history of the graded c chool for the first month. The num ler of pupils in our school and the e tumber of young people going from t rosperity to the different colleges in he state shows the interest of our eople in education. It is a good inP ientionl and we are glad to see it. The slump in cotton has laid ev- ji rvthinz low and it seems ruino~us. he crop will be short in this neck of r he woods. One of our progressive farmers says hat as long as he can get 11 cents and ~ pwards for cotton he can afford to uy land. He has averaged a tract a 'ear for the past 3 or 4 years. He e ust completed through Mr. F. R. b lunter the purchase of the Hannah tester tract about 1 1-2 miles from .t 'rosperity. "Cap" (Mr. S. J. Kohn) e ays he wants ,to buy all the land that a ais him and with 12 cents cotton he i rill jry it. He has one of the best I otton crops in this section. He says .e is off 25 per cent. whieh means 20 e r more bales from what he expected. r Mr. J. A. Baker, who recently sold I is plantation near Fairview has pur- ~ hased a lot and will build a home in 3 he near future. We are glad to wel ome Mr. Baker and his interesting mvin toncr town. ISTRlAL 0"EL.MW IN WASH HUNTER %CASE -.fter Remaining Out All Night the Jury Reported That it Was Un able to Agree. 'he State. Laurens, Sept. 18.-As indicated ast night the jury in the Wash Hun er case could not agree on a verdict Lnd at 7 o'clock this morning this act was communicated to Judge. rary who went to the court room, or lered a mistrial entered and dismiss d the jury, which had been out 5knee esterday at noon. It is said that he division was eight for acquittal nd four for a verdict of conviction n some degree. And thus a ease that verybody is getting tired of goes ver for January court. EARLY RIMNG. L Habit Which May Severely Tax the Vital PowerS. "There is no adequate support for he impression that the early morning iours are in any way more Whole ome or healthy than later periods of he day. Except in summer time they re apt to be damp, foggy, chilly and mong the least desirable hours of aylight, says Doctor Woods Hutch ason in the American Magazine. It quite true that during the simmer here is a sense of exhilaration about eing abroad in these early Morning ours, but this evaporates with the ::w and is apt to be succeeded by a orresponding depression and loss: of orking power later. in the day. ave been observing my friends, and. atients for the past twenty years, in. his respect, and 'am inclined to the pinion that not a little of the depres ion and nervousness which common develop in hot weather is due to xcessie exposure to light, from hab ,s of early rising, inherited from ag icultural ancestors, not conuterawt d by three to four hours rest in dark ned rooms in the middle of the day. ''Secondly, that the exhilaration ex erienced during the early morning ours in an expensive luxury which ' as to be paid for later in the day. In act, I have found, that -a general rule, > put it very roughly, the business iprofessional man who rises an our before 7.30 or 8, goes-to bed, or res his working power an hour and' half earlier in the evening. Eaeh dividual has in the beginning of his ay about so much working power ored up in his brgin and ZuseleA ells. If he uses this up with great apidity in the .early morning hours e naturally' exhausts, his stock the oner in the afternoon or evening. "It is largely a matter of when a .an wishesto be athis best. Ifh his cupation is -of such a character that e can clear off the brunt of his work ii the early morning hours, then let '" iim rise early. If on the other hand e requires full vigor and readiness f mind and body in the latter .part the day, or at night, then he must ise later to get it. Even in pure inus- ~ e work it is false economy to work 0 long hours." A Game That Two Could Play. A once well known old time Lonis ille gambler' on one occasion thought .e had struck a good thing when a tranger who looked as if he 'had lenty of money came along and sug 'estedl a friendly game of poker. The ame ran along very smoothly for while, and at last, when the oppor me moment~ came, that unregenler te native dealt to .the guileless strang four queens and gave himself four ings. Of course the betting became in eresting right away, and after all the ash was up and it came to a show own the Louisville man laid down his ur kings and the stranger showed ur aces. 'Take the money, mister!" gasp the astonished Kentuckian as he early fell in a fit. "Take it if you :ave the heart to do it. But I '11 be amned if that was the hand I dealt Star gazing doesn't pay unless you' e an astronomer.