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COTTON MARKET Corrected by Nat Gist. Good Middling ..14 5-8 Strict Middling ..14 1-2 31idding .. .. ..14 3-8 By Robt. McC. Holmes 1.() Good Middling ..14 5-8 Stnet Middliag ..14 1-2 Middling.. ....14 3-8 Cotton seed 45 cents Bacon. 13 1-2 to 15 VOLUME XLVIII. NUMBER 19 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY,.-MAECH 8, 1910. TWICE A WBBK, $1.50 A YEA. * THE IDLEL. * ** I wonder if many old people ever read the funny paper. I like to read the funny paper, especially Buster Brown. Some of his resolu tions are very good and carry good lessons. There was one recently -which gave Buster's experiences in getting an education. He was al -ways late at school so he decided to remain on the steps of the school house over night and he felt sure that -he would be on time next morn ing and then -he adopts the follow ing: Resolved, That too much atten tion cannot i>e given to the import anee of being on time. Promptness is the biggest asset some men possess. i would rather be prompt than tal ,ented. I want them to say: "Don't worry about Buster, he said he would be here and he will." Doing -a thing at the right time is more important than doing it. If a hun ter wants to hit a deer he must shoot while the -deer is in sight. If -you want to catch a train you must get there before it starts unless you are a mighty fast runner which you're not or you would have been on time. Don't be late. -0 Now tat contains some very strong truths in such a way that you will not forget them. The prompt man, however, is forced to -waste a great portion of his life -waiting on those who are not prompt. Be on tim. Be prompt. Be pune tual. -0 I had a real good old eoin&y laugh the other day all to myself. I laughed and I laughed until I al -most split my sides. I just eouldn't help it. You know I am a country -racker myself and this joke is all on me. I rexd the Observer. Now, I thought everybody was reading Tile Idler, even the Observer, ,but that is a mistake. After all I have been saying about "parking" the -old court house square, and planting a "flower garden" and some grass and making it attractive the Obser ver says it must be a mistake. The 40bserver never heard' of it until just mow. That's the worst jostle my lit tle bubble of fame ever received. But it 's all right. The park is coming. Did you read that 'leader'' in the'Ob eerver about it? Well I -did and I must stop to laugh again. Please pardon me. ..But my, the concern for the poor country people, one of -whieh I am. Now, I don't mean to tell you who I am and^ that doesn 't matter, The idea of making a little park and planting a few flow ers and a little grass driving us coun try people from the town. Why we like nice things ourselves. It is too funny for anything. .I did -not u'derstand that the purpose was to lock the streets but rather to open them so the country people -could pss along through .them with their teams and I think the country peo -pie would rather see a little "park ing'' and. a "flower bed'' and a -nice la,wn on part of this square than to see a lot of hacks and &rays ard wood wagons standing a-round on it with a lot of idle negroes. But it is too funny for anything, this great concern for t-he ceount-ry people. Now if you want to bring the country people here give them ~the highest market for what they lave to sell and the cheapest mar ket for what they have to buy and spend your energy building some -good roads to your town and~ in do ing that you will be 'busy and will -do something for your town. But it is too funny a-nd vou must ex -use mre t-his time. I see that city council has a prop * ositin to pave the streets. To put down $25.000 at one time, but to take six years in which to pay for it. Th-at would be too good. You can not expect anybody in Newber-ry to favor such a good proposition. The old town might get a move on her if we made any such progressive step at one' time. Then the country peo asle migrht not come to town and of course I can't favor anything that would keep them away. How would Newberry look with 10,000 square vards of bitulithic streebs. Just try to imagine it, for that's all you will 1 live to do. Why, people who pass on the train would look out and see it and they would enquire what place it was and would say it is a good town, it must be live and progress sive, a good place to live in. No, we don't want any such remarks as that made about our town. But council is to consider it and a committee is to report at the next meeting. -0 By the way, I see Alderman Bax ter makes a statement to the farm ers and merchants along the publie square about that oi-dinance. There can'.t be any misunderstanding about the purport of that ordinance unless 1 it is with the desire to misunderstand it. Now, I hope Alderman Baxter is not taking that fatal malady known in certain professions as cold feet. The ordinance is all right. Let it alone and direct your ener gies to the paving of the streets. Ten thousand, yes, twenty thousand yardt of bitulithie paving, I won der how many people would object to paying their portion, now, if the :paving had been put down five years )ago. We don't grumble about pay ing for a railroad we never got and I am sure we would willingly pay it if we hadl the railroad, and if we had 10,000 square yards of bitulithic paving we would be willing to pay $5,000 a year for 5 years, now, ivouldn't, you? But I agn afraid we are not itv for this forward step. The town has borrowed $10,000 and' may have to borrow $15,000 and the total income is not over $30,000 and you see these business men say it is not well for a town to live beyond its income. - - The Idler. Rev. Mr. Pendleton to Visit New berry. On Sunday, March 13, at 5 o'clock p. in., the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleto--, rector of the Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, will preach and cele brate holy communion at St. Luke's chapel. Mr. Pendleton bas only --. cently come to South Carolina, and has made a profound impression on the people of. Spartanbuirg irrespec tive of deenominational affiliation, for genuine piety and deep scholar ship. The rector in charge of St. Luke's bespeaks for Mr. Pene'dleton the courtesy of a large hearing by the citizens of Newberry. The com munion is open to all Christian peo ple. The mid-week Lenten service will be hel~d as usual, Friday after noon, March 11, at 5:30 o'clock, with a lecture by the rector on "The His tory and Signifi0ance of'the Leiu Season.'' Mr. I. T. Williams. Mr. I. T. Williams, the field seere Itary of the Baraea-'Phila.thea union has been in the city simce Thursday, March 3nd, filling his appointment with Central M. E. church on that date. Sunday he was with Rev. J. B. Friday, at Lebanon and Ebeneezer, and at 7.31) he was with 0O'Neall Street chureh. He will be with West End Baptist church Wednesday the 9th, at 7.30 p. m. and at Mollohon, the 1&th a2t 7.30 p. mn. Owing to the extremely busy season with the farmers rat present the other engagements made for Mr. Williams, throughout tbh county will be cancelled. A Card of Thanks. Edito.r Herald and News:-I de sire to return special thanks and heartfelt appreciation. in behalf of the family, to those kind neighbors and friends, who showed sympa thetic deeds of kindness to us dur ing the last sickness and the death of our dear old mother. Mrs. Har riet Epps. Dear friends, those deeds of kindness sink deep into our hearts and shall never be forgotten while our lights hold out to burn. it is (od who gives a mother, and it is God who has taken her away, and to this end we humbly bow, and say: "Blessed Be His Name." Thos. J. Wilson, * * * * * * * * ** * * * A Study in Psychology. * * * * By Aunt Jerushy Jenkins. * * * * * *.* *. * * *1 When Hezekier cum from the mill Tuesday night, he flung The Herald and News in mi lap, sorter grinned and sed: "W ll, Jerushy, Human*bas is tootin his horn agin.' "-What the matter with 'him -now9 '" I axed. "Blessed if I know! he's got mitey ni two collums of hi flown sentiment in thar, an I bin a ehawin on it all the afternoon and can't swaller a bit of it-much less digest it.' Hezekier an' the boys sot down to supper an,' I proceeded to read. Pur ty soon 9 lade down the paper, an' Hezekier sorter laughed an' sed: "What's the matter, oe wo man?" "Matter enuff!" sez I. "I see, mitey plane what that feller thinks of cotton mill peepil-an' his co pinion ain't very complimen'telry nuther. He says we don't know enough about "physiology'' to know a good thing when we see it; but if I could lay mi ize on him, I'd make him think I was "conversed" in- physiognomy enuff to size him up proper! An' he shore "stretched his blanket" till it tore slap in two, when he says I intimated that "Ilady workers in cotton mills were not ,posted in health science.'' Health science nuthin! I .never mentioned sich a thing. I guess cotton mill women have got sense enough to eat when they're hungry, drink when thirsty, and bathe when' dirty, and under sich favormble circumstauces an' eonditions health science can take keer of its self, I reckin." Hezekier- had now finished his supper an' wuz drummin on the ta :.ble with his fork, an' lookin mitey 'seious. "What you studyin' about?" sez I. He answered: "II wuz jest a thinkin about what Humanitas writ about improved meriheenery makin.' our conditions. worse,. the days lo.nger, etc. That's a darn-'" "Oh, he jest quoted that from some big enciclopeedy of useful in formation. His idee wuz to impress Ius with his immense profundity, I Iguess.'' "Shades of mi departed ances ters ! you're gettin sorter hi flown too, ain't you Jerushy?'' " Well, I hain't got a Webster's underbridged dicshunery fur nuthi-n, ,an' I've sorter got -a hankerin' for literary fame, I've bin a studyin it, since Mr. Aull reckognized mi furst attempt at ritin,'' sez I. "Well! weli! bat to return to Hu manitas. What do you think about hbim anyway?'' axed Hezekier. "I'm not goin' to say, just yet. You know that I'm a woman of strong contrabunetion and when I pass mi copinion on a thing I'm hard' to consequence; so it won't do for me to be in a hurry-I might happen to be~ rong, an' that wood hurt mi reputation.' "He sed somethin' about child labor law, too, did-n't he?'' contin . nered Hezekier. "Yes, he jest did mention it, an' to mi mind that's the most im portint subject of awl. You know they won 't allow children under 12 to work a liek in the mill, no differ ence how big an' strong an' willin' they air, an' at the presen:t hi price of rations, lot-s of mothers air com. pelled to leave the children in keer Iof a servant an' go 'to work herself :i1 order that the children may be fed and clothed, while in sehool. Now mothers don't mind doing any thin' under the sun< for their children. But here 's the rub. School is over about 3 o'clock, an' then what ? In stead of bing. allowed to go in the mill and help father, mother, broth er or sister for a couple of ours, these misehievous imps are turned loose on the streets to smoke filthy cigarettes, learn filthier language, an' lay foundations fur indolence an' iziness; if not crime. "There 's a problem for Humanitas. What's to be done withi our boys an' girls after schod'l ours, whose moth mill to support 'em? If Humanitas will figger this problem out to my stupefaction, then I'll undertake to furnish ribbin fur every mother in West End.'' Aunt Jerushy Jenkins. PASS POSTAL BANK BILL. Chamberlain the Only Democrat to Vote- for Measure.-Republi cans Fall in Line. Washington, March 5.-Dividing practically upon party lines, the Senate at the close of the third ses sion of the legislative day of March 5, to-day passed the administratiol. postal savings bank bill. Of the 72 votes east, 50 were in favor of the bill and 22 against. All -the negative ' votes were cast by Democrats. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon was the only Democrat who voted for the bill. As it goes to the House, the bill authorizes the various money order postoffices to accept sum of one dollar or more from depositors, and to deposit these sums in the local banks, where the money is to remain unless withdrawn by the President in case of war or other exigency. In case of this withdrawal the fund's are to be in vested in government securities but with the proviso that such securities shall not draw less than 2 1-4 per cent. interest. The control of the funds is vested in a board of trus tees composed of the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Treas ury and the Attorney General. Two Per Cent. Interest. The aggregate balance allowed- to any depositor is $500 and no per son is permitted to deposit more than $100 iu anv one month. The governent is required to pay 2 per cent. interest and must exact not less than 2 1-4 per cent. from the banks, the extra quarter of 1 per cent. being required' for the payment of expenses and losses. It is calculated that such a law would bring much money out of hid ing and result in a fund ranging all the way from $5,000,000,000 to $1, 000,000,000. Democratic Opposition. Mr. Money, speaking for the Democrats, based 'his opposition upon the theory that a amendanent, con stitutional in itself, could not ren der valid a bill whieh in itself was in contravention of the constitution. A number of Democratic Sen'ators ir'eluding Senators Gore, Stone and Bacon. spoke in general opposition to t.he measure. The three men tioned saw in the bill the forerunner of a great central bank and regard&ed the legislagion as unconitational. -The postal savings bank bill had been before the senate since the 28th of January. *. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AT THE OPBBA VOU?B. * * * * * * * *.- * * * * * * *1 . ..Meadow Brook Farm. TIhe. play as a diversion from the every day .troubles of life seems to be in the most popular favor nowa days. Of course there are many .theatre goers who prefer the serious rather than the ludicrous when making their selections from the many theatrical entertainments of fered: and the theatriieal producer is kept constantly on the alert to sup ply the popular demand. Fortunate is the producer who can strike the fancy of both classes of: play goers as has been the case with W. F. Mann who offers to Newberry theatre goers his latest ad'dition to his long list of successes, ''Meadow Brook Farm'' which comes to New bery on Saturday, March 12th. ''Meadow-Brook Farm'' is one of~ those real wholesome plays which leaves such a lasting delicious, never to,be forgotten taste in the memories of both classes of play goers. Hiawatha. Don 't forget the p)lay to be given at Itopia school house Friday ev eing at eight o'clock. Buy tickets ini ad1vance at the Book store so yo will ae sets resrved for you. SUNDAY MORNING FIRE. Residence of Mr. Frank R. Hunter Practically Destroyed.-Origin Fire Unknown. Sunday morning about five o'cloek Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Hunter, who live at the corner of Boundary and Caldweli streets, discovered that their residence was on fire. They were awakened by an explosion of some kind, just what it was no one seems to know. The fire at -that time was but a small blaze between the ceiling .and roof of the kitehen. It spread very rapidly and before the fire department reached the building the fire was practically under the entire roof. There was strong pres sure from the water works and af ter the department began playing on the fire it was soon under control. Only the roof including the joists, was burned. Considerable damage was done, however, to the furniture and building by water. None of the furniture, except the kitchen furn ture, was completely destroyed by the fire. Mr. Hunter had $3,500 insurance on the building and $1,200 on the furniture. It was thought by some that the fire originated from the electrie wires but that has been investigated by Messrs. Schumpert and Dunston of the power plant, and it is not probable that the electric wires had anything to do with the origin of the fire. Others say that probably the fire restulted from the stove flue but that seems hardly probable as there had been no fire in the stove for some hours, and the stove flue was well built and carefully protheted. To repair the building will cost probably as much as to put up a new one. It is fortunate for the. section of the town in which the fire oc curred that there was no breeze and the firemen were enabled to confine the fire to the one building. If there had been some members of the fire company on duty at the engine house so that the hose wagon could have come out promptly when the alram was turned in, it would have been possible to have saved the building with very little damage. T'here has been sufficient losses from fires recently to convince ahnost any community of the need of some paid firemen. , OUNTY FARMRES UN~ION. Inaugurates Corn 'Contest.--Confned to Members of Uni.--Names Entered on or Before May 1. iThe regular monthly meeting of the County Farmers' .Union was held last Saturday and was one of much interest. It was unanimously decided to have a corn contest among members of the union this year. Already $50 have been subscribed and it is con fidently expected that mueh -more will be added to the fund before the time for closing the list of names of contestants which will be May 1. All names must be giveun to the county seretary, J. B.~-O'Neall Holloway, on or before May 1 or they will be debarred. The- prizes will -be di vided into $25.00, $15.00 and $10.00 -if more than $50.00 are secured, prizes will be awarded in same pro portion. The rules governing the details- of the contest will be published soon in both county papers. A hearty vote of thanks was given Summer Bros. company for their public spirit in offering prizes for the larpst yield of corn. M'any ex pressions of commendation were heard that this large firm had shown such interest fin an increased! corn yield in this county and have shown their confiden'ee in Newberry coun ty soil by putting up their money as an eneouiragemeult to our farmers to increase their corn yields. Two young mill men were up against the mayor's court Monday morning for fighting. One pleaded guilty and was fined two dollars, which he paid; the other fellow was A GOOD SUGGRSTION. Call to Road Overseers and Inspew tors to Hold Meeting.-Discuss Boad& Mr. Editor: I want to offer a sug gestion through your paper to our county supervisor. It is simply to call a convention of his five hun dred road overseers to meet in, the ,ourt house at as early date as pos sible-say on Saturday, for nearly every one comes to town on that day anyway. Right now would be a good time for the ground is too wet to plow and very little work of any sort can be- done. There would be -no need for some "prominent man" from afar to be invited to address the meeting on theoretical road building. Just let the overseers get together and discuss in their own way the best plans for good, prae fieal road working with .the means at their command. MAny of these overseers are good road workers while the majority of them would have an opportunity to learn a great many things they ought to know-for instance, that it is much more satisfactory to.have a ditch on each side of the road than to have only one and that one in the middle of the road. ,Then again let the newly appoint ed road inspectora attezid this on vention and learn something of the overseers and the conditions of the roadst under their respective juris dictions.- 7 Tiis' would be a .good time for the supervisor to demonstrate the usefulness of those King road drags ?he has. ordered- and to enwurge their use. on all the. roads in the county. This King road drag is the simplest yet:most effeetive pisee of road machinery that has ever been invented. There should be one in every section of road in the county. It would give .us smooth hard roads and save a lot of hard labor-labor that is often misapplied and mis directed on account of the incompe tency of the road overseer. This brings me back to the begin ,iug. Let us- teach our overseers how to turn labor on the roads to the best advantage. Let the supeir visor call a convention of the road overseers of Newberry oounty. Citizen. P. S.: If the chamber of commerce '*ould set 'em up to dinner or open a keg of nails the overseers would attend the convention to a man. RAINY LAST MARCH. Very Little Farm Work Done Last Year Before the First of -April. 'According to the record of 'h weather for March, 1909, as kept by Mr. J. W. Johnson, of Jalapa, it rained the 2nd day of March, and was too wet to plow until the 6th, and i't rained again and was too wet to plow until the 11th. It began ao r in again, on the 12th, and contin ued -the 13th and 14th, and no plow-. ing could be done until 'the, 20th. -It rained on the night of the 20th, and 'the plowing .haid to stop until the 24th, when' it. -rained again that night and the ground was too wet to plow until the 31st. *April was a fine month and plow ing was done the whole mon'th. Not In It. An old darkey named Mose White, in one of the southern states, walkbd down the main street one mnoning in his~ best black 'broadcloth suit, with a white rose in his buttonhole and cotton g'loves on his large hands. "Why, Mose,'' said the proprietor of a large store that he was passing, "Are you taking a holiday?'' I"'Dish yere,'' said the old man, ion a stately voice, "am mah golden weddin', sah. Ah'm sallybratin' hit.'' I"But your wife,'' said the store keeper, "is working as usual. I saw her at the tuab as I passed tinis morning. Why isn't she celebrating, "Her?'' said Mose, angrily, "She hain't got nuffin' to do with hit,