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E. R. AULL. EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berrl. S. C., as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, January 7, 1908. THE APPALA1HIAN FOREST BSERVE. Wherever the effect of deforesta tion is known and understood there is an insistent demand for the pre servation of the demaining impor tant forests by the creation of na tional forest reserves. The South and the East are now asking that the general government shall do for these sections,. though on a smaller scale, what it has done for the West and the Pacific slope and in the Rockies, where 150,000,000 acres of national forest reserve have been established with the minimum of restriction and the maximum of privilege to the people whose homes are in or adjacent to the territory affected. Congress is asked to esta'blish here the . Appalachian forest reserve, comprising approximately 75,000,000 acres on the Atlantic slope, exteal ing from the New England states on the north, well into Georgia and Ala lbama on the south. Government officials of the agricul tural department, dealing with the subject of forestry, have written vol 4umes upon the importance and the necessity of federal action in the di reotion of preserving the eastern for ests. Bodies of engineers who, like the Atlanta section of the American Institute of Eleotrical Engin'eers, have studiect the subject individually and collectively, have passed resolu tions urging 'early congressional ac tion as a matter in which delay means national loss. Were it solely a matter of the pre seination of the forest woois, per haps little would have been heard of the forest reserve proposition. But as has been clearlyt demonstrated, vastly more is involved. It is a quas 'tion of the life and vitality of mil lions of acres of valuable agricultur al lands, which depeni upon the proper distribution of moisture such as can be effected only by the forest. It is a question of the preservation of the sources of the important nay igable streams of the Atlantic slope and of the eastern gulf; likewise of the valuable wvaterpowers through out the south and east, developm'ent of which has only just begun. It is estimated that deforestation has already caused a loss in this sec tion, principally in the 'erosion or washing away of. farm lands, of more than $10,000.000. That is but a be ginning. France counted up her loss in millions before she acted, and then found the work of restoration a long, tedious and expensive process. Opportunity now confronts the na tional government to take hold of the situation almost in 'the begin ning of the destruction. But it is a destruction that .promises to be swift and sure and complete unless early action is taken. It is more than a passing, it is a national and a patriotic duty of the representatives in congress from tn-s south and east -to get solidly back of this movement and demand favorab~rs action by that body. They have it within their power by united and de 'termined action, particularly at a time when there is no possibility of making the plea of national poverty, to seeure this important legislation, and they egenot afford to let it go - by default. - 'With so much of our national fu ure depending upon this action, de Tay in the establishment of the Ap palachian natiopal forest reserve must be considered as more than ex ~fra hazardous.---Atlanta Const'itq tion. ~e have never been able to under stand just why it should be neces sary that the people should have to rise en masse, as it were, and peti tion our representatives in .congress to enact some legislation which would preserve .our forests. We have always taken it' for grant ed that our congressmen were at l'east -as intelligent and as patriotic as the nyerage citizen and we doubt if you could inmd a citizen anywhere in this country 'who would not 'endorse al most any proposition looking to the preservation of our forests. It seems. however. t-hat our con gressmen do not view the situation in this light, or if they do threy are indifferent to its mportance and it is. therefore, necessary that the peo ple call it to their att'ention and ask~ that 'som'ething he done. Not only is it necessary to preserve the Appa laehain forest but we have been toc reckless in a wanton destruction of our forests all thr'oug'h the country, t eeams that we might have improv ed ou." condition and taken advan tage of the experiences of European countries, but unfortunately we have not. In some sections of this state you can find people who will cut down their forests and pile the tim ber in heaps and destroy it by fire simply to get it out of the way. The preservation of the Appala chain forest, however, affects the whole country and the land is not valuaible except to be kept in a for est. We not only publish the above from the Atlanta Constitution bu.t in an other part of this paper we quote an article from the Atlanta Journal. We would suggest to our chamber of commerce that they should hold a meeting at once and adopt resolu tions expressing the approval of the people of this community in a pro positon, to pass an act of congress preservng this forest. The Appalachian National For est Association has been organized with headquarter in Atlanta, and it is proposed to hold, in the city of 'At lanta. on the sixteenth day of this month. a. mass meeting which will pass resolutions and send representa tives to Washi'ngton urging the pass age by congress of the Appalachain forest reserve bill, rwhich is now pending. The Atlanta association dc sires that the chamber of commerce of iNew berr'y shall send representa tives to the meeting to be held on the sixteenth. We hope that our cham'ber of commerce will hold a meeting prompt ly and adopt resolutions and also elect representatives to the Atlanta meeting. We take it, of course, that everybody in this section is in favor of preserving these forests. In ad dit-ion to this there is a local inter est in this bill which is now before congress. in that Mr. A. F. Lever, one of the representatives Bihom this state and who is well known in New berry. has been placed in eharge of this measure. Col. E. H. Aull, the esteemed an] verantile editor of .The Newberrt Herald and News. is a generous and kind-hearted gentlena:. In his pa. i per last week he extended a Merry Christmas to those of his subscriber who have been in arrears for mnore than a quarter of a century.--Lex ington Dispatch. Yes. sir, we wislied them all a Merry Christmas and we meant it. Why not ? And while tirere are none who owe for a quarter of a century, we are sorryv to admit that there are many who owe for more years than they should, but now that the post office department is going to regulat: this branch of our busines we are satisfied they will all come forward and pay up and renew before the first oif April. At that time we wil have to part with those who do not pay. We bear no ill will to any man, even those who do us injury and as for the delinquent subscriber he has 'been our friend for many years and we all al'ways believed he intended to pay an.d still believe his intentions are good. We try to believe that all men are honest and will pay their debts if they can an I yet sometimss our faith is put to a severe ..test. Now and then we find a man who gets mad and writes an ugly letter i,f he is- kin dly reminded that he should pay for his paper-that his subsription which he agreed to pay is part of the income of the editor and if he fails he to that extent crip ples the ability of the editor tP meet his obligations, but this specimen of humanity, thank heaven, is rare. Un fortunately we have let tire subscrip tions run along until we have some $8,000 or $10,000 due us in small sums varying from one to more years and we suppose when we are compell. ed to stop the paper under the ordei of the post office a lot of those who 'have been indulgd for many y-eart will get had and take some other pap. r and never pay what they owe. W will have opportunity to put their honestly to the test for it will have tc be left largely to them for it would cost more than it nomes to to send 2 collector after them. Most of them are able to pay and we are hoping they will. It is best. however, to wisli them a Merry Christmas and a Hap py New Year and this we have done We have spent the best years oi our life in an honest effort to serve the best interests of our town, coun ty and state and to gixje ggw imadeirs a clean and live newspaper. We have learned thv't such efforts ari not a,ppreciated. As to our subscrib. ers, we will see howv they stand uj and show their appreciation wher the time comes to require tihe cash o: no paper. Remember that on the first o1 April. all subscribrs mnust be p)aid i: advance. We do not see just whla right the post office departmaent hm; to interfere. but thlat it the rulin yo u have paidli on your label. Ex amine it and make yourself finan cial. WILLING TO MAKE CORREC TIONS. We desire to impress upon our sub Wciibeirs that in sending out state meats if an error should be made as to the date to which any subscriber has paid and the amount of the pay ment, that we will be glad to make tlhe correction. We are exceedingly anxious to get our mailing list correct and the eli tor is now giving it his personal at tention, and while, of course, we are anxious to colleet what is due, one of tihe purposes in mailing a statement to each subscriber is to find out just what is due. In the event of any doubt as to the amount we will gladly give the subscriber the benefit of the doubt. It is impossible almost in handling as large a list as ours not to have some mistakes. Of course if the business was sufficiently large to wa;rrant the employment of one per son to keep the mailing list, it might be pos:;ibile not to make mistakes, but we have never claimed infallibil ity and have always been willing and anxious to correct any mistakes. If any subscriber has misplaced his re ceipt and is certain that he has paid and has not received credit, we will be' willing to give him credit for any such amounts. This it seems to us is as fair as we can possibly offer. What ,we desire now is to get our mailing list as near correct as possible,, This is absolutely necessary undr ." the ruling of the post office department, which requires that subscriptions be paid up. We desire to apoligize for refer ring to this matter so frequently in the columns of the paper, but ia seems necessary in order that our subscribers may understand and ap preciate that we are willing and anx ious to correct any miAta'kas whidh have been or may be made. lit is announced from Greenville that in all probability Hon. Jos. A. McCullough will be a candidate for U nated States senator. In the event that Mr. MieCulloughI1 sllould enter the race he will make it very inter esting- for the others who are aspir ing~ to this position. Mr. MeCullough is one of the a-b lest youn lawvyers in t:his state an 1 a public speaker -of conspieuous ab)i1 itv. He is also well and favorably known tihroughout the state. 'The farmer's union, passing a re soludon to reduce acreage, is work ing along th:e right line. They should also resolve, however, that tihey will pioduce as much, or more, on the reduced aereage as is now produced on the present aereage.. We believe that the farmers of Ithis state could reduce their acreage one-alf and by proper cultivation and fertilizing. make as much, if not more, as t:hey make now on the pres ent aereage. This plan. wou:ld help largely in solving the labor problem, for while the one-half re4luetaon woulki not reduce the laber one-half, we be ieve the laber could be i-educed very nearly in proportion as the areage. In some parts of this county, for instane, the farmers are producing now better yields on one-half acreage than they did formerly on tw-ice the amount of land. Of course such a plan would require intelligent culti vation and probably take a little miore work, but witfh improved ma ehinery and - intelligent cultivation and proper fertilizing .we are satis fied as large yields can be haid on one-half t:he acreage, as on the pres ent acreage thiat is now improperly cultivated. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAR (OINA RY. Schedule in effect November 3rd, 1907 Lv. Newberry(C N & L.) 12:4( p. m. Ar. Laurens ' 1 :->2 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 p. m. Ar. Greenville 3:40 p. m. Lv. Laurens 2:07 p. mn. Ar. Spartanburg 3.35 p. m. Lv. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 3:40 p. m. Ar. Hendersonville 6:25 p. mn. Ar. Asheville 7:30 p. m. Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:00 p. mn. Ar. Greenwood 2:56 p. mn. Ar. McCormick 3:55 p. mn. Ar. Aligusta. 5:40 p. in. Note: The above arrivals and de-. partures, as well -as connections witi other companies, are given as mfo mation. and are not 2uarant?eed I !&nrEst WVilh;irr Greenville. - (len. ALWI. Change of Schedules. Effective 12.01 a. m. Sunday Jan. 5th, 1908, tihe following is the time of departure of all passenger trains leaving Newberry Union station: Southern Ragway: No. 15 for Greenvil-le .. ..8.57a.m. No. 1S for Columbia .. ..1.28 p.m. No. 11 for Greenville .. ..4.17 p.m. No. 16 for Columbia .... .8.47 p.m. C., N. & L. Ry. No. 85 for Laurens .. ....5.19 a.m. No. 22 for Columbia ....8.47 a.m. No. 52 for Greenville .. 12.46 p.m. No. 53 for Coumbia .. ..3.10 p.m. No. 21 for Laurens .. ....7.25 p.m. No. 84 for Columbia.. .. 8.30 p.m. No's. 84, 85, 21, and 22 run daily except Sunday. The above schedule is given only as information, is not guaranteed and is subject to change without notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. Father Time to Young 1908: f 'Waltz me around again, Willie." The Kirke La Shelle production of Paul Armstrong's comedy gem. "The Heir to the horah." comes to the opera house Jan. 29. The majority of the theatre-going public are familiar with thia charm ing story of life in a Western mining camp, its fearless type of men who mined for gold in the pioneer West, its strong emotions, its delicious hu mor and the absorbing love of a man for his wife. Mr.' Armstrong's play is pleasantly remindful of "The Virginian," "Ar izona,'" a'nd "A Texas Street, but it has a new and original.plot of its own, making it one of the best liked products of the stage of this country. The east is aid to be an admirable one and includes many notable play ers, among whom are Frank Monroe Helene Laekaye, R'aiph Dea', Ben S. Higgins, Harry Crosby,. H. S Hishida. C. C. Quinby, Frederie Roberts, Gene Lamoat and Alice Mur. rell. ENGINE AND GIN FOR SALE. We will sell on Wednesday, th fifteenth day of January. 1908. at the residence of Mr. G. Ii. Cromer on the AdIhford Ferry road, abou2 twelve miles from Newberrv: - One 10-horse power. A jax portabh engine and boiler. One saw mill. One 60-saw Pratt gin, feeder ai e indenscer, togetiher with belting. TPhe same is sold for division Terms cash. G. H. Cromer, 2t *D. A. Cleekley. . ICEONSE TAX DUE. Notice is flereby given that city licenses for. the year 1908 are novn due and must be paid at once. By order of city coureil. J. J. Langford, Eugene S. Werts, ~ Mayor. Clerk and Treasurer. Mind Your Business!. If you don't nobody will. -It is your business to keep out of all the trouble you ean and you can and will keep out of liver and bowel troublk if you take Dr. King's New Life Pills. 'They keep biliousness, malaria and jaundice out of your system, 25e, at W. E. Pelham and Son's drug store. NOTI0E oF ANNUAL MEBTING, The annual meeting of the stock holders of the- Peoae 's National Bank of Prosperity, S. C., will be held at tbhe office of the president al the bank, on Tuesday, the 14th day of January, A. D., 1908, at two p in., for the election of direetors ol the said hank. W. W. Wheeler, -Cashier. Prosperity, S. C., Jan. 4, 1908. Watched rifteen Years. ''For fifteen years I have watch d the working of Bucklen 's Arnies Salve! and it has never failed to curE a.ny sore. boil, ulcer or burn to whied it was applied. It has saved us man3 a doctor bill,'' says A. F. Hardy, ol East Wilton, Maine. 25c. at W. E Peham and Son 's drug store. GOLD DOLLARS Can't be had for Fifty Cents NEITHER Can $450 PiaUos 1,e sold for $300. WE HAVE no fictItions prices on pianos. CAN SELL g: od piancs for f 25", which are fa suerior to some ads.et ti ed as j450 pianos. Spe Icial offer io our 24 years of 1honest dealingl here I: I t' ,(u e-i1e e. t.t- 1 innlOS a nid Organs, writ' fMaone's M~usic E'oise I OLUMBIA S C. THE WEfL OF PP It Will Be Observed by the Newerry Churches, Beginning With Sun day, January 5. The custom of having a week of prayer, now in practice in all Chris tian lands, will be observed in thf churches of Newberry in the follow ing order: On Sunday, January 5, 1908, the services will be at 11 o'clock a. m. in the respective churches. However, beginning with Monday, January 6, the services will be at 7.30 at night, obeying the following order: Baptist church Monday night, Lutheran church Tuesday night, Methodist church Wednesday night; then re turning in the same order to close on Saturday night at the Central Meth odist churen. Let the friends keep at hand th papers with this notice so as. .to be sure, during the week, where to go. The following is the list of topics for the week of prayer, as suggested by the Evangelical Alliance for the United States: 5unday, Jan. 5, 1908-Sermons: "The Promises of God." "For hom many soever be the promises of Go i in Him (Jesus Christ) is tire yea wherefore'through Him is the Amen unto the glory of God through us." 2 Cor. 1:20. "And I say unto you ask, and it shall be given you. " Luke 11:9.' Monday, Jan. 6- -"Things Unseei and Eternal." Tuesday, Jan. 7--"The Triumphi of Faith." Wednesday, Jan. 8-' "Th e Churc] Made Truly Glorious." Thursday, Jan. 9--"Missions, Hom and Foreign." Friday, Jan. 10-"Intemperanc the Master Social Curse." Saturday, Jan. 11-"Christian Ur ity." Sunday, Jan. 12-Sermons: "Go Revealed." "God bath spoken one( twice have I heard this, that powe belongeth unto God; also unto The 0 Lord, belongeth lovingkindness, fo Thou renderest to every man accord ing to his 'work. "-Psa. 62: 11-1 NEW YEAR Our Sales in 1907 Exc WE START T with better and broader* f sustain our Selling the Best G04 Not "old out of date," bu tomers know our method interests by remaining 1o3 extend our sincere thank say, honest, fair and squai Every. Article Guaran1 As a rule you will find tha elsewhere. You can de "Our Word is Our Bond. 0. 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