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,? . .v^;v;Ct3 VOL XLIV NO. 85. NEWBERRY. 8. O.. FRIDAY' SEPTEMBER 20. 1907. TWICE A WEEK. #1.50 A YEAR STAND BY THE FARMERS. \ Necessity for Keeping up Pay for Cotton as Fixed by Both Or. ganizations. The State, 19th. Mr. l'\ II. Weston, the secretary of the South Carolina (lotion association, yesterday issued an important statement regarding the cotton situation. lM(r. Weston calls upon mil cotton j? growers to stand pat on the price fixed by the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union for 15 cents and emphasizes the necessity for merchants and hankers and all classes in V the south to support the cotton plan1 tors in this move. His statement is as follows: jty Mr. Weston, in speaking of the sit?? nation, yesterday said : "In view of the decline of cotton for the last few weeks, I deem it necessary to issue this appeal to the farmers, merchants and bankers of South Carolina. "The national executive committee of the Southern Cotton association, which met at Jackson, Miss., on September 5, after canvassing the cotton situation thoroughly recommended and fixed the minimum price of cotton at 15 cents. "At this meeting of the national executive committee all of the cottonproducing stales were respesented, except Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. 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 represented by President E. D. Smith, Executive Committeemen E. L. Archer and Or. W. W. Ray. Dr. Ray was requested by the writer to ascertain by inquiry and observation, I lie condition of the cotton crop in the several states through' which he passed; hi* report embodied in an interview, which he gave out a few days after his return, was certainly not indicative of a large crop. "We know at this season of the year that many of the growers of cotton, who have in many instances pledged their cotton by mortgage oi lien for supplies furnished them tc make it. are compelled by necessity to put their cotton on the market, irrespective of prices, unless aided l>> their local merchants or hankers. 01 course the cotton buyers are aware of this and will continue to put tin price of cotton down as long a? growers are found who are willing t.( sell. The losses that result to this debt burdened individual affect man woman and child in the south; it car not be measured by hundreds of dol lars, but runs up into millions. Ever} time cotton goes down means thai much less money for the home, tin school house, the merchant, tin banks and the development of the resources of the south. 1 There can be no reason assigned for this material decline in the prie? of cotton: every man who has had ai opportunity to observe, will cheerfully bear testimony to the fact thai cotton has deteriorated in the last jwf or tluve weeks; heavy rains havim fallen, followed by extremely hi*..':! temperature. I was informed by r reliable cotton manufacturer thai while the visible supply of cotton? according to the estimate of the sta Iisticians?is yivaler than il was lasi year, yet the quality is so poor thai only about 75 per cent r.f each bah can he spun. The consumers, with tin cotton on hand and the farmers win have sold in advance, are making ev ery effort to force the market down There is but one remedy for this con dition, and that is for the holders ol cotton to withdraw it from the markci euting off the supply. "I am confident that the thought ful people all over the south realiz< the fact that their destiny, and tha of their country is wrapped up ii cotton; andK.it behooves each and ev ery man, whatever may be his voca tion or profession, to come to the ait of the farmers in their effort to sten this unreasonable and unjustifiabl< attack upon the price of cotton. "Cotton goods have not decline* in price, nor have those articles, which we are obliged to purchase, depreciated. "The Fanners' union, which i helieve is a good organization, has .fixed its minimum price at 15 cents. Surely the membership of the two organizations, the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union, should he able to hold a sulTicicnt quantity of cotton off of I lie 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. T believe that the people of the south realize the intrinsic 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 1!)07. According to all estimates, this crop of cotton is far less than the 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." CONTRACT LET. Route for Railroad from Anderson to Athen, Georgia, to bo Surveyed. News and Courier. Anderson, September IS.?The contract for the survey of the GeorgiaCarolina Railroad will be let at RoysIon, (la., tomorrow afternoon. This road will connect. Anderson with j Athens, Ga. Tt will be recalled that a big railroad mooting was held at Hart well, CJa., several weeks ago and I that the building of the road was agitated. It was decided that the road, which will be sixty miles in length, i should be constructed. Hon. W. L. Hodges, of Hart well, was selected president at a meeting of committees from each town along the route which was held at Franklin Springs. Tt was ; decided that all of the towns should f be assessed for the survey work. An. derson was assessed $550 for its share. I wo days ag*o the Anderson Chamber of Commerce appropriated $100 and . the Anderson city council appropriated $250. . Mr. J. S. Fowler and others who . are taking much interest in the movei incut have guaranteed the remaining r $200. Mayor MeCully is the Ander. son representative and he will report . ;it the meeting tomorrow that And'er? son's assessment has been raised. An-! , dersou will be much benefited by the , building of the road. The route is . through a most fertile country and ) many small towns will be tapped. An, der.son will bo able to have close conf nections with the main lines of the , Seaboard and Southern, and will be . to get direct connections with r 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. [ Pal had just arrived in New York > in the morning and was sauntering , down Broadway, viewing with won. dor the mammoth buildings of that I noted street when In1 came to a large , ollice building just being constructed, i I hi' was passiny, a foreman! i i emerred from (ho structure and catch- ! i i in'j- si".h I ot Pat s broad shoulders j I j and sinewy form, called out. "want j - j '* job.'' -j '' Hegorra. and I'm looking for I hat,'' ivplicd I'at. | Se lie was soon installed in his new i ') position. The satisfaction which hi: ' I work gave him may be best shown by II the letter which he sent to his brother the next day. This is the letter: "New York, June, 100? ' " Dear Mike: ! , Come quick. Good pay. Easy work.' All you have to do is to carry mortar j up a ten story building and you find | " a man up there with a trowel to do : ? all the work." I t I The True Version. j Puck. 1 The Whale?Come on in! Aw, come ! t on in out of I he wet. b Jonah?And have Roosevelt get af- J tor me for a nature fakir? Nixey. I 1 On your way. ; \ RAILROAD LINE L TO SALUDA C. H. N V ovk Begun on the New Road Thnir.day?Long Felt Want Supplied. News and Courier. X Greenwood September IS.?The bi;?gesl tliin*r Hint lias happened in (( Greenwood and Saluda counties in vi some time will happen hero tomorrow r< morning nt <) o'clock, when Mr. II. W. in ( touch throws the first spadeful of F> earth in the const ruction of the Mid- in ( aroiina and Western Railway, c< the line that is to connect Saluda gt Court House with Greenwod, and f< which will open up some of the finest country in South Carolina, a sec-j fi l' ui l luil has been hot lied up for lo, pi th'.'r-'i many years. J q It is i ?reat thin*; for this whole! !l section, and its final consummation f< has been a secret more closely guard- f< cd than the development of any sim- tl ilar enterprise in this section has cv- o] er been, perhaps. It was impossible vi to keep such a big thing1 from live zt newspaper men. but the men who are ti doing the work acted after the man- tl ner of the late President McKinley, hi who, whet) he wanted to keep any- <>1 thing from the papers, would call in in the newspaper correspondents, tell pi them all about i| and then ask them to <?i keep it secret. II is aid that his re- <n finest was always sacredly regarded. lo return to this enterprise the ti Middle 'Oarolina and Western Rail- p< way is to be 2!) miles long. The com- hi pany has mules and scrapers here ti right now. The (irst spadeful or dirt e< will be thrown to-morrow morning is near town at 0 o'clock, by Mr. R. W. gi Crouch, president of the Bank of Sa- ii luda, and until now the mainspring ' < and moving spirit of this enterprise. w Mr. Crouch deserves more than can II lie said of him in this account of the beginning of the enterprise which he hi lias so .successfully developed. lit; is tc a young man, but if lie ever accom- tj> plishes anything else while he lives a lie deserves ;i monument at the hand I ol the people of these two counties, ii No monument, however, will equal s| 'lis real monument, the Middle far- g< olina and Western Railway. He has g< worked day alter day on this enter- n prise getting the people along the line ei interested, having it surveryed, securing the rights 0f way, and in this con. tl nection i| should be staled that the p company has had absolutely no Iron- ei bio with the rights of way oxcnpl c? from one man. H The officers of the road are: Presi- n dent, 1). A. McDonald; treasurer, f< Moses C. McDonald; secretary and tl auditor, W. T. V. Warren. These gen- f< tlemen, with B, W. Crouch, constitute the board of directors of the road. s< Messrs. McDonald are now making b their home at Carthage, N. C . Mr. U Warren, the man who will have a charge of the work of construction b and also the operation, is a native of s' Kngland, his birthplace being Strat- e Iord-on-Avon. lie was recently gen- w oral manager of a railroad in Alalia- ti ma. 1 lie road is to be completed in IS t<i months. w The Devil's Disciple. ! |, Charles ! '. l.-iiiiuiis, the well-known } d author. I raveler and autliority on ln-jc diaus, appeared ivcenily in Washin-.!- j Ion in a corduroy suit. ;i sash and a ! sombrero. | "M r. I.uinmis," said a reporter, j .. "m your study of the Indians you I j, must have come upon nianv straii"0 things." ' " "In any study," said the novelist, "one comes upon strange things. ^ Take, for inslance, the study of child- " hood. Nothing reveals stranger things than that. f* "I know a little hoy in Los Ange- n les. lie was bad the other day, and ?j his mother punished him. "After his punishment he was seen f to go to his father's desk and write i, something on a sheet of paper. Then j, lie went out into the garden, dug a f lit He hole and buried the paper in it. j, "His mother, after he had gone away, dug up the paper. It contained . these words; Dear devil, please come and n take mamma.' "?Pittsburg News. b ATIMER TALKS IMMIGRATIO] ot Favorably Iinprcsed with Lii From 'Priest?Outlines the Platform on Which he will Run for Senate. i'? s a lid Courier. (Jreenvillc, September 18.?Sen >r Latimer gave out his lirst inte ;ew today since his return from E ?|'c. I Ik> Se\ator favors resjric 'g inwnigra?' ,11, says lie will fight f< ederal ai'* to drain the swamp lam 1 I he lower part of the state, and wi nilinue his advocacy of (lie nation >od roads plan. lie is a Candida >r re-election. Among others things he sai< "in what 1 saw of I lie class of pe< le we arc drawing our iinniigrat M'ply from in Europe I am satisiU Kit we should not he making any e >rt to induce or stimulate any moi > reign people to come to Ameri< uiii we are now getting. 1 am m Dposed to people coming; here, pri ided they promise to make good cit ms, and to help build up our institi oils and benefit our country, ratlu tan prove a stumbling block and indrance, as is now the case in son f the larger Northern cities. We (i >1 need the class that will come sin lv because their passage way is paii i' beeauso they are promised a j< ) Iiiis side of the wale;-. 'I am inclined In restrict iiniuigri on. rather than foster it. I am i?| used to the state or corporations fn ishing- money to pay the transport; on of any immigrants into the Uni 1 States, bul believe our best polic lo be content with the natun I'owt h of population. Over populatio 1 America will result in the san uulitions that now exist in Europ nich are low wages and poverty ( ie part of the poor people. "We had belter let some of 01 md lie idle and get thirteen or fou 'en cents for cotton than to nnde ike to work all of our lands and tal lower price for our products, at I hi 11k our mills would be belter o I the long run lo lei ;i few of ll undies stand idle and soil the >ods at the high price they are no 'llintr in the United States than 111 all their spindles and lake a lo\ 1* price for the product. ''In o!her words, to sum up, link we ought lo bo content with t] rosperous conditions that we n<i ijoy liian to attempt lo change th uiditimi by addling to our populatii 10 undersirable immigrants from I'! >pe who are now proving so unsati ictory in the cities and states wlie ie bulk of them have been goii ">r the last few years. "Europe has more people lo t inare mile than the United Stat< ut Europe is much poorer per caj n. Over there, is a wealthy da nd a poverty-stricken class, f'ertai v we have 110 desire lo bring abo uch conditions here. Wages are lo r in Europe than in America ai 'ork is harder to gel. T should li " s<?e our waste lands under cultiv ion, bul I would not like to see I orhl over-supplied with cotton ai ur farmer*. merchants and manuf'ii :rcr> suffer bccsiu-i* of 1111-el 1 led en 'lion- bound to ;iri-r under such ci tuns! :t!icc-.'' 1 ;ie Scii;i1or w,i- :i-d<rd what lioiighl abort the -tc;ini<hip line fru riost to Charleston wliich Man on I'ilis !:;i> promised .-liall be )i II operation within the next ft .'ceks. TTe replied that while nothing won lease him better than to see the pe f '(Charleston in communication wi hirope through a steamship line, ould not approve Hie line frr 'riest, for he said that it would p iarily be an immigrant earryi ine, there being but few products is estimation which would be shipn rom Triest to Charleston, and t emigrants would be of the most 0 actionable class?the kind that Sou larojina does not need and that won ljure rather than build up the si a An Ohio judge has decided that ' 'oman is as old as she looks." Tl lercly affirms a ruling handed do\ y Adam. f. MISTRIAL ORDERED IN WASH HUNTER \OASE jted 1- After Remaining Out All Night tlio Jury Reported That it Was Unablo to Agree. B. are 1'he Stale. r. , Laurens, Sept. .18.?-As indicated y' . lasl night the jury in (he Wash ITun? to ease could not agree on a verdict She and at 7 o'clock this morning' this las- 'act was communicated to Judg'C Clary who went to (lie court room, or> of dered a mistrial entered and dismissDai Ihe jury, which had been out f>fnee yesterday at noon. It is said that and t'H> division was eight tor acquittal de- and lour for a verdict of conviction in some degree. And thus a case that At- everybody is getting tired of goes sis- over for January court. Fri- EARLY RISING. L'his t ( , ij0 ^ Habit Which May Severely Tax the , Vital Powers. Icr'ord "There is no adequate support for the impression that the early morning hours are in any way more whola'o\ Somc 01 bealtihy than later periods of the day. lOxcept in summer time they are apt to be damp, foggy, chilly and M a among the least desirable hours of daylight, says Doctor Woods Ilutchirch insou in the American Magazine. It and | is quite true that during the summer last Micro is a sense of exhilaration about ices, being abroad in these early morning will hours, but this evaporates with the Mine dew and is apt to be succeeded by a the corresponding depression and loss of ken working power later in the day. I The | have been observing my friends and ! of | patients for the past twenty years, in >wn, I this respect, and am inclined to the vera j opinion that not a little of Mic deprcsmcil sion and nervousness which commoncon | ly develop in hot weather is due to ring oxeossio exposure to light, from habac its of early rising, inherited from agncil. ricnlloral ancestors, not counteracther J (-d by three to four hours rest in darkened rooms in (lie middle of Mie day. II. I " S.'condly, that the exhilaration ex. [n I perienccd during the early morning ^ hours in an expensive luxury which ? ,, ',as ',(> 'or biter in the day. In ? fact, I have found, t'hat a general rule, j I"1' i' very roughly, the business or professional man who rises an hour belore 7.ill) or 8, goes to bod, or i. ot j |.>sos his workinir power, an hour and (Mlls j n hail earlier in the evening. lOach ieol- individual has in |>he beginning of his I day about so much working power rom stored up in his brain and l'usclo cells. If he uses this up with great urn- '"apidity in the early morning hours her 'U! naturally exhausts his stock the ided SO(>,'(>r iu the afternoon or evening. "It is largely a matter of when n ues- man wisllfis to ,)(> ?t his best. If his occupation is of such a character that he can clear off the brunt of his work own , , . . , in tlie early morning hours, then let him rise early. II' on the other hand he requires full vigor and readiness "l(i of mind and body in the latter part uled of the day. or at niylit, then he must mm- rjs0 later to get it. Kvon in pure mus11'o j c 1 c work it is false economy to work rorn |oo lony hours.'' s in 1 A. Game That Two Could Play. ' A oiler '.I'M loiOWII old ! ' !.,Illicit . ; 11 i i . , , ! IIMM i o'l o' ^I,III | 11 >11 .' lit i'V- i.;i 1 li'.iclc a '.:??<?11 tliiir..'' when a 'oils, .-I ";'!!*..?? ,* w I,,, looked ;is if lie had I; of pl.'iity of money canie alony and sugi ye:-led :i friendly game of pok.*r. The <ay< a i in ran along very smoothly for and awhile, and at lasl, when the oppord to tunc moment came, that uiiroyonerct a | ate native dealt to the guileless sirangH(i or four queens and gave himself four kings. >nah Of course the betting became inVom teresting right away, and after all the din) cash was up and it came to a show that down the Louisville man laid down his n he four kings and the stranger showed best four aces. says "Take the money, mister!" gasps 20 ,.,t tJio astonished Kentuckian as he nearly fell in a fit. "Take it if you sold I have the heart to do it. Hut I'll he pur- damned if that was the hand I dealt le in you." wel - ? ? ding Star gazing doesn't pay unless you are an astronomer. sr. j THE NEWS OF PROSPERITY ie' New Lutheran Church to be Ere* I ?Excellent Opening of the Gra< ed School. Prosperity, Sept. 10,-^Mrs. E. LtilluM' ami children, ymbia, a- visiting Dr. and Mrs.X y^uthe r- '/' W. Bedeidr . . ^as ret) n- od home from a \yr y. J^ J t- Rocky Mount jur /' / '/ yp/ >r was aerompa\\)r. '//jrf / ,ow, ft Is lor Frank IV/ L V'// ill Miss charge al Hie millifyi;v^'lOpairaent at Mrs. I to men. / / Miss Noulorlanf. arrived today 1: will have charge of the millinery D- pari incut al Most-Icy Mros. il Miss Marv Kinard lias none |o td lanta to spend some lime with her 1'- tor, Mrs. McWatcrs. re The Sorosis will meet today ( ;a day) with Mrs. G. y. Ilunter. 'j :>t will he a social 'meeting and will 0- an enjoyable meeting. 1- Miss Walker Whit taker and I i- bert Langford have gone to Wofi 3r college. a Misses Clara Gibson and Willie ] ie Wi'.e left Tuesday for Winthrop lo ley Hock Hill. ' Jon. K. linker was in town f< / > hours Wednesday. The congregation of Grace cln ^ has sold the old church building v services wore held in it for the lime on last Sunday. The servi J both preaching and Sunday school t_ '>e held at the City Hall at the s ,y hours that they were held in church. The old church will he tn down to make room for the new. l0 congregation will note the placc e> meeting. The three churches in tc >n ^^>M baptist and Melhodist \ placed at their d? osal. The con decided that there >.'ouhl he no llicl of any services by ha v them in the City Hall, hence they u copied the tender of the town com Mrs. \Ay.-/,\it Ilunter is visiting ft' 'Ian-liter, Mrs. A. 11. Hawkins." ie Messrs. ,1. B. Lalhan and J. ir Wise, o| Little Mountain, wor? w town on Tuesday. to Mr. B. L. Wheeler is spendin v- few days at home with his parent Miss Marie Bohh has returnee ' Ninety-Six. lW Mrs. II. II. Kikard and children Newberry was visiting her par " this week, Mr. and Mrs. ,1. M. Wl us_ Mrs. Mary Raw! has returned 1 re a visit to relatives in Georgia. Miss Gertrude Simpson has ret ed to Newberry and will resume |10 duties as teacher in the gr,' ;s schools. >i- Di". and Mrs. Wheeler spent T ss flay in Newberry. n- Mr. A. T. Mayer, familiarly kn ut ns "Berry" is with the Prospr w- Oil Mills as look keeper. 1(1 The attendance at this time is ke largest in the history of the grt a" school for the first month. The n b'*r of pupils in our school and " number of young people going I Prosperity to I lie different colic-. " !>lale ?Ini\v> tii<- interest of " " j I"' 'ph* in ed ilea I i< mi. Il i- a '.>111111 j 1) mm | it ii 1 :i >i*l we are -jJai! in see he ' i I in slump in cot ion ha-; hi id j er\11:i!i |i>\\ and i' seems ruin " ! I I"' crop will he short in this n-'c "' j the Wi 101Is. 'W 1 , , < 'ne o| <iur pi o-rc- -.i\ ( larmer.o that as long as he can nel I I cents M upwards for c..||,,n he can affor "' buy land. He has averaged a tra 1,1 year for the past or 'I years. 1,0 just completed through Mr. F. >,n Hunter the purchase of the Hai n- Lester tract about I \-'2 miles f rV?? Prosperity, "Cap" (Mr. S. J. K< sa.vs he wants to buy all the land joins him and with 12 cents cotto "e will .try it. He has one of the cotton crops in this section. He I he is off 25 [>er cent, which mean l,(' or more bales from what he expo* . Mr. .J. A. Baker, who reeentlv i his plantation near Fair view has 'a : chased a lot and will build a lion lis the near future. We are glad to vn come Mr. Baker and his interef j family to our town.