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iEX N9WBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY' N OVEMBER 1. 1907 Yl*-vt-NO.91. UR~GRS HOLDING Or COTTON~. Secretary Weston, of the South Car olina Cotton rowers' Association, Calls Attention to the Low Price of the Staple and Ualls Upon Planters Not To Market. Columftia, October 29.-The follow ing was issued toda.y from the state office cf the Soutthern Cotton Asso eiatior To the Farmers . Merchants and Bankers'of South Carolina: In view of the fact that cotton upon which the prosperity of the state is dependant-has fallen from 13 cepts at the opening to about 10 cents today, and its tendency seems still downward. I deem it my dutv as secretar, of "he Southern Cotton As sociation. Sout!h Carolina Division, to make this appeal on behalf of the business interests of -South Carolina. The loss to the state on account of this depreciation in cotton can hardly be realized: a loss of $15 to the balh, or in -ease the State of South Oarolina makes 1,000,000 bales of cotton $15,000,000, far more than the assess ed value of the property of most any county in the state. The decline in the price of cottou can be partially explained by the ex traordinarily tight . money market. which has been prevalent in certain sections of the United States for sev eral months. But an examination of the books of the stock market will convince you that the depreciation in cotton, which has intrinsic value, has ;een greater than that of any stoks whose values are largely speculative. This down-ward tendency of cotton can 'be cheeked only .in one way, and that is to withdraw the cotton from the market. To eonihue to offer it for sale under these ciroumstances is but to assist those who are hammer ing the price of cotton down. A southern man who will sell his cotton under these circumstances, except un der the most pressing necessity, is nothing more or less than a traitor to -his eountry: his position is that of th-e eontemptible East Indian who allied himself Ndth the English to shoot down his own .people and assist in conquering his own country. Eor .the producers to have a voice in fixing the3orice of his ,product is a proposition so 'fair. so just . and so equitaJble that no"right thinking per son can ome it. That is al' thej farmers desirepr hope for. We are passing through a crisis in the his tory of the soutlh If its prosperity is to ..continue. the price of cotto4 muet be kept up. Tn this fight we cannot, like the stock gamiblers of Wall street, expect aid from the- treas ury of ghe United States, but we must make this'fight upon our own resour ces. In fact, it is the policy of those high in the financial world to depress the pri:ee of cotton in order that the foreign consuner may ibring his mon ey and purehase the cotton in thef south and relieve the financial situa tion in Wall street. * They tell us that the farmers of Texas are demora'lized. I have be fore me a dispatch fr$m the Farmers' Associatio'n in Texas to the eftfect that tl:ev are not selling cotton, butt exopect t ha1d to the last ditch. Yeu ee"not help the situation by selling your eotton: the only thing you can do is to withdraw every bale of cotton from the market until its downvward course is checked. The mills actually need every bale you p'rodnee, and if you are loyal to your self and to the best interests of the south you will hold your cotton and ~erieive better prices. Francis H. Weston. Secretary. HeSo they got married and went off in their newv motor car. She-And where did they spend their honeymnoon?t He-Tn thee hospita.l.-L2ondon Tit Bits. Miserv l'ee compa ny--)nt it's toe: 'n the company. Great authors never use wgrds that are larger than -their idqAs. The darkest hour is when you haven't a matc.h. REV. S. li. AYR AN. An Able'and Sr.ce2sfn1 Methodist Minister Paced Away Early Wedneida'. Alftter a long ilneVs frfm tNIpIoid fever, the Rev. Samuel ler'ert Zim merman. financial a-unt .f the Co Ilmnbia college an-d statistica: seere tary of the South Carolina confer ence. Methodist ehman. South, died this inornin at 2.45 o'lock at his home in E ne.ovd Paik. Mr. Zimie"'Iran1 !eaves his wife, *formerly Miss Eliz&eth Simpson Jones,. and four children. The funerml services will be con dueted from the MaIn Strect Metho uist chui-eh tI--ioorrcIA- afte'rnoon bv the Re v. H. B. Browne, elder of Co lumbia district. The interment will be at Elmwood cemetery. Sketch of His Life. The Rev. Samuel Henhert Zimmer man, son of the late Rev. John H. Zimmerman and Mrs. Mary E. Zim merman,. was born in the Methodist parsonage' at Union, March 1, 1861. Reared by a devoted menber of ,the South Carolina conference, it was nattiral that, he joined the church in childhood. He was converted at Mil ler's Camp Meeting, in Union coun ty, wihen about eighteen years old. He attended the school near his han.ing homes and was two years in Wofford colleze. Althourh eireum stances prevented the completiop of his college course, he continued all his life to study, and his education was quffieient to make him a most sucessful teacher. He first t-aught when but sixteen years of age, and, after leaving college. teaching was his vocation until he entered the confer ente. His fields for this labor were in Marioin, Darling and Marlboro coun ties. On May 1, 1884, he married Miss Lizzie Simpson Jone:, daughter of the late Rev and Mrs. Simpson Jones. Four children were born of this un ion: Simpson Jones, Marie Lucile, Slammuel Herbert and Helen Elizabeth Zimmerman. Feelinkg ealed to preach, Mr. Zim merman was licensed in 1S90, and in Decem;ber of that year was admitted to the Sot'h Carolina Methodist cen-' ferene. His .apipointments were: Piedmont circuit, two years: Pendle ton. four yvears: Rock Hill. two years; Main Street, Oohnnbia, four years.; Newberry, invo years. Since Decem ber, 1903. he has 'been the. financial a,ent and tra.velling solicitor for the Colmbia co'llege. Leaves Splendid Record. Mr. Zimmnerman 's recor'd as .a builder was remarkable. During ahis nastorate at Piedmont, a tastefdl and handsome ehurch was erected; at Pendleton an elegrant and comforta ble parsonage was built; at Roek Hill, a. fine church and parsonnee, and at Main Street, this city, a fine pa.rson ae and :ehureh. In this and other re spects he long ago showed himsolf to be a man of special busmness capacity, energetic, resourceful and persever Mr. Zimmerman was an excellent nreaher. He -studied his sermons earelly and uttered them in choice 1anna;'. His reading and study qcov ered a wide range of sub.ieets, so that he was not a mere sermonizer, but a ~t,dent of ii:fe and truth. As a pas tor he was attentive and helpfnl. He looked after the many tihines reqir ed of him with fidelity and success. The Zimmerman home has known sickness and sofering beyond the kno.wledge or ex.perience of most. In 901 Mr. Zimmerman was desperately ll with tyiphoidl fever. Few so ill ver recover. From June to Arenst be hovered1 between life and death. A rane fact: O{ what occurrd in *hat time he rem'4tnbered notihing, vt he conversed with friends so sen ily tha.t he seemed fully at himself. Re even told where napers had been laced by him and they were found where he said. This is a most inter *'stin cease of the po r Of the sub nsious mind. Tn 1896 Mrs. Zim merman for wnnhn 1.y t death's door. her ii "oe -M"- v etnd the ree ord of any lo- a t" re recovered. LOGNO APPLIED TO BICYCLES. The Observer and Our Pomaria Cor respondent Almost To gether. Poiariia, Ocober 31.-In Tute day's issu/ t.le Observer says: "Our unknown eritic a't Pomaria ought to koww that baby carriages have never run over anyone on the sidewalk, while bicycles have.' Of course this correspondent knows' that: we were merely criticising the Observer's faulty logic. He argued that "bicy cles are vehieles" and so "should be -kept in the street." According to the .' lu:ic. it would follow that, as ari carria-es are vehicles,'' they, too. should be kept in the street. Since the Oserver has amended his pre mise to the somewhat different and more definite proposition that "biev eles on the sidewalk are dangerous to pedestria.ns," the conclusion that they "sh-ould. .be kept in t-V street" is more l4fical and legitimate. If he will modify his proposition slightly further, so as to make -the statement in this form: If the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks can not -be so re -trictfd as to be twithout danger to pedestrians, the bicycles should be kept in the streets, we. shall agree with him in both premise and conclu sion. This "critic" and the Observer are not very far apart, we think, after all, in the end which they desire at tained; and that is, the removing of any possibility of danger to pedes trians, from the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks. We differ merely as to the maans of attaining that end. The Observern evidently thinks that it can be attained only by forbidding hi eveli.sts to ride on the sidewalks at all. This writer thinks that it can be at tained equally well by a iless drastic ordinance--as, for instance, the pres ent one: an ordinance which, while not working a hardship upon anyone, will permit a great convenience to a number of good citizens ant deserving people. S. Knight-Thomas. Married, October 26th, in Coplum bia, at the home of the bride's uncle L. N. Pope, Cecil V. Thomas and Mrs. Hyla Knight, widow of the late Billy Knight of Wadesboro, N. C. The happy couple arrived in New berry in the afternoon of the 28th, and proceeded to the home of the groom 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Thomas, ("Jeems'' and "Becky Ann'') wvhereaa bril.liant reception awaited them. At half past six o'cloek the invited guests began to arrive, and at sevren o'elock, the hour an nounced for supper, all were present and ready to partake of the .)uxui-ies on the bountifu=lly supplied talble. The dining room was decorated in ferns and geraniums. A lovely wedding 'bell was suspended in a ,wreath above the taible, and bened. it was~ the cen ter piece, a vase of ntagnificent pink iteraniums with maiden-hair fern fol iagZe. The table was set for twelve. and on each. napkin .was a dainty bute ton hole boquet of pink geraniums and leaf, with pin.. The guests were the Rev. "Mr. Mc Gill, pastor .of the secon~d Baptist ehurb,- Rev. Mr. Miller and wife of the 0O'Neall St. Methodist ehmrch, the Nen1}erry Mills Suipt. J. M. Davis and wife, the weave room over-seer, W. LI. Hardeman~ and wife, the weave room second hand, W. Koon and wife, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Thomas, Mr. Grover Thomas, and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Duke. The bride received some useful and beautiful presents, the most valuable being a fuli set of lovely china with gold 'eeorations, presented by Siupt. J. M. Davis and wife, and a magni fient water set and waiter, from 0. Klettner, ex-muayor of the city. The bride was ibeautifulily dressed in pure white and gracefull'ly acknowledged the many hearty congratulations and good wishes bestawed upon her and the happy groom. The host and hostess were highly complimented on the success of the occasion, which was greatly enjoye3 by all present. With the politician might makes - ine nd money makes it rigrht. SOME NEWBERRY VISITORS. In Columbia as Mentioned by the Co lumbia Papers. The following personal mention! are taken promiscuously from thi three daily papers in Columbia, thi State, the News and Courier and thi Record. There may have been other from Newberry who received atten tion from the daily papers but thesi names are the ones our scissor: found. There were a great man: Newberry people in Columbia bu somehow the numfber on Wed-nesda: at least, did not seem as large as ii former years: Miss Bessie Schuinpert, of Newber ry, is here for the fair week gaieties Dr. 0. B. Mayer, of Newberry, prominent member of the State Medi cal association and chairman of th board of councillors of that organiza tion, is among the many fair wee] visitors. Col. W. H. Wa-llace, the brilian editor of that live newspaper, thi Ne*berry Observer, is among the pro minent visitors -attending the fair. Senatoir and Mrs. Cole L. Blease, o Newberry, are here enjoying the faii Mr. John Bedenbaugh, of Newber ry, is in ColumIbia enjoying the fair. Mr. L. S. Bowers. who has beei postmaster at Prosperity for abou forty years,. is here taking a littl rest. Hon. Alan Johnstone, of Newberr the new chairman of the Clemso1 board, is here and is very proud of th Clemson exhibit. Mr. Johnstone is man not only of hard sense but o real eloquence and of force of char acter, and while he is doing a grea work as chairman of the Clemsoi board as well as menmber of the hous from Newberry he would grace i"ioher position in the state. Dr. Wyche, 'f the house of repres entatives, is ere enjoying himself. Mr. Alan- Johnstone, of Newberr is here for the fair. Mr. Johnstone i today one of the -most efficient mem bers of the general assembly. He i now chairman of the board of frus tees of Clemson college, and he ha for years been one of the arden workers fpr that institution. Mr. C. J. Puicell. postmaster a Newberry, is hera for the fair. Mr. Georre .Johnstone, of Newber rv, is here taking in the fair. Col Johnstone has a great many friend1 all oyver the state. j Herbert H. Evans,, 'the great an only "''Hb.'' is here for fair weel; lHe looks as dapper and effervesen as ever. Mr. Z. F. Wri'dt, president of thi Nerwberry Cotton: Mills, and.who ha been remarkably sneeessfiAin his nea work. is here takin'g in the fair. Among the lead'ine Newberrv farar ers a'te'ding the fair is Mr. A. J. E Laeford, who is amon'z the. guests a Wiht 's. Mr. B. L. Jones, a well know New .ierry insurance man. is at Writh~ for the remainder of the week. ,Senator and Mrs. Cole T2. Bleas. Newberry. arrived gesterday a.ftei noon. As usual, they are stopping a Wright 's. Hon. Alan Johnstone. of Newberra one of the members of the house ' representatives, was in the city yE terday. Mr. S. Roy Jones. of Newberry,I stopping in the city with his frieni Edward B. .Houseal, for fair week o Ihis way home from Pou'h'keepsit where lie has been pursing * busi ness course. Mr. John W. Earhardt, of Newbei y, is'spending fair week in the ei.t.3 Mr. Earhardt is a former member o the honise of representatives and als exmayor of Newberry and his friend are insisting on his making the rae Ifor mayor this year. The 'electio comet off in December. Mr. Robert Norris. of Newberr' state agent of the Pacific Mutui Life Insuranee comipany, is amuon the we].l known visitors in tQhe cit today. Col. George Johnstone. of Ne .sbei ry. is among the visitors ini the city t day. Mr. Nat Gist. a prominent eotto buyer. of Newberrv. is one of th' many visitors in CQ1lumibia who is gu.s a the Coinmibia hotel. COL. R. W. HUNT PROMOTED. - Popular Southern Railway Official Goes up Ladder-Made Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Southern Railwaf, With Headqi;arters Sin Atlanta. s News and Courier. - Columbia, October 30.-Col. R. W. e Hunt has been appointed assistant s general passenger agent of the South ern Railway, with headquarters at t Atlanta, to succeed Mr. Geo. B. Allen, y resigned. The appointment rwas an 1 nounced from Washington tonight. Col. Hunt has as many friends in South Carolina and Georgia as any man in either state. He has worked his way up. from the ranks and his - friends will rejoice with hig in the B promotion and congratulate the Sou - thern Railway on the-wisdom of the apopintment. -Col. Hunt, who is knowp as "Iab'' to .his friends, won t the title by gallant serviee on the e staff of Governor Heyward, and now he will be 6alled "Gen." Hunt. Col. Hunt is at present division f passenger agent of the Souithern, with -. headquarters at Charleston, and in . charge of the South Carolina terri tory. Before being sent to Charles a ton he held the similar position with t headquarters at Augusta. e He is now to take the position made vacant several months ago by the re r signation of Mr. George B. Allen, who retired to go, into. private business. e I The appointment becomes effective a November 1st, and it is stated that f the appointment is dictated by the - desire on the part of the Southern's t management to promote a faithful of , fiial and to kleep in touch with the e people of this territory by putting in a to an executive position a man who is familiar with the needs of the service. Col. Hunt is now in .Washington, but will return to Charleston wi-thin a few days. J. H. A Helping Hand. s From "Suecess Magazine.'' When the foreign missionary had s concluded his talk, he made the usu t al appeal for contributions, however small. Comanig up to the platform t raith several others, a small - boy mounted to the level 'of the lecturer -and hastening tovard'him said: [" 'Please, sir, I was very much in Iterested in -your leeture, and-and-'' "Go on. my little man,'' said the m- isionary encouragingly. "You want to help in the good 'work?'' "Not exactly, sir,'' said the boy. "What I want to knoweis, have you eany foreign stamps you 'don't want?" A. Christening in Sight. From"Success Magazine." A Mabile lawyer was surprised *~when his negro gardener called at the office accompained by a large wheel p..barrow. s"Marse Rob'nson,'' he said, "I s wants to know ef you'd mind leadin' 'me some of yo' eyelopediars an' die tionaries an' any other big books, sa." "Upon my soul!'' exalaimIed-the as tonished la wyer. "What on -earth reyou ap to Very important oeasion, 'deed. es' :!!', me w~n' ) hunt up zi nGold Nugget Worth $900. Seattle Post. The largest nugget ever brought nut of the (Ocoper River district is 'odzed in the Arlington, Hotel. The Tnuzet is the pi-operty of Dan Kam,. fwho made a rich strike in the Shush oonta district. Kain brought t1e hug et down witih ihim from Alaska, to et'hr with a considera;ble numnber of Snmaller naggetts and gold dust, .es timted at vari1us amounts running into the hundreds of thousands of LIollars by Kain's aequainltanlces, but ;e exact :"onult of whie.h Kain me ius to dis&lose Ti parti'iiPer nw'zget weighs fif . n.s, :'nd is pronounced by -l *' '~efen it to be one of .* *st ever broughit out of lavl:a. Fain estimaltes it to be nworna about .$15 an ounce. which DEATH OF CAPT. N. B. MAZYICK. After Brief Illness Died at His Home in Columbia Wednesday Night. Capt. Nathaniel Broughton Mazyck passed away last night at 9.50 o'clock at his home on Elmwood avenue, af ter an illness of a few days. He was in the 77th year of his age. Capt. Mazyck was a native of Charleston, where he lived until the outbreak of the War of Secession. He enlisted as first lieutenant in the Beau regard Light Infantry and shortly af temtwards organized and was captain of Co. E, Twenty-fith South Carolina volunteers, and served as such until the surrender. He was ever loyal to the "Lost Cause" and was deserved ly proud of his cross of honor. After the war he moved to New berry, where he was identified with the interests of that place for more than a quarter of a century. He was agent for the old Greenville & Coum bia railroad and its'suecessors for 35 yeaTs until a few years ago, when age and failing health necessitated his re- - tiring from ative work, and he moved to Columbia. During his residence in Newberry he was lay reader o St. Luke's..Episcopal chur&.. He was a life menber of the Masonit bodies there and served faithfuRy in all the1 offices of these orders. He is survived by four daughters and one son, Mr. Pierre St. J. Mazyck of this city, his wife having preceded him to the grave three years ago. The interment will be alade in Mag nolii cemetery, Charleston. Mr. Mazyek's family had lived it Cha0leston for years, having beeni among the Huguenot .aettlers.--The State, 31st. Sneering at SoutI. ew York World. The fact tht Bishop Potter, who is attending the General convention de the Amerifan Episeopl'ehreh at Riehmond entertained a negro at his dinner table Friday evening has eon vulsed the i.roud Virginia city. It happens that the offending negro is Bishop Ferguson of -Africa. By the time th6 news spread the whole south may be exp-rted yo rise in rebellion. It is not only that Bishop Potter re eived Bishop Ferguson at his 'ta'ble, where Mrs. Potter and. Dr. W. R.v Huntington, of, Grace Chu.reh, New' York,- were also present. -That ner- - haps might be overlooked if it had been done in New York after proper precautions of secrecy. But Bishop Potter presumed to offer his hospital ity to a negro in a. sonthrn, house, and Bishop Fergusont:dared)to aeeept~ the invitation to dine ini a -southern house. TIhly even -rode ' togetb~er through the streets of Richmond in. Bishop Potter's carriage. .This at tempt to estalblish "social equality" in Richmond of all places. is an as salt on the most cherished of South ern religions. This crime against ci vilization is enough to- make the blood of tihe Tilmtans and Vardamnans boil, and to start a tidal. wave of fur ios oratory from Arkansas Pass to. the Poto'mac. Popular Names For Girls. London Chronicle. In tihe eighteenth century girl3 were christened Sophia and Caroline; in the early nineteenth, Emma and Jane, a little 'later, Laura and Clara; tien came a crop of Dorothys and . Marjories, who are now all calling their own babies in a reaction against the "quaint " Elizabeth. The names of men suffer no such emphatic fash ions; and yet it is a pleasure to note tht.there areNeertain-ly no.more, young men called Aif ang Gus, as were the young men who walked with t'he crinoline in the days of Leech. Good is the soun.d of John, through all changes._______ ___ flow Wellman Will Tell From " Suecess Magazine." "How will- you know when you ae re:!iy crossed the pole?" said he Washington deibutante to Walter~ Welman. "'Oh, th:i's easy." ?e4pond1ed Mr. Welean carelessly. "The n.-rth wind4 will become a iont. vvwre