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COTTON MARKET Corrected by Nat Gist. Good Middling.. .14 5-8 gs 2. Strict Middling ... 14 1-2 Sticdiddin.11 By Robt. McC. Holmes Good Middling.. .145-8e Striet Sugar ...53-4to614 Middling....... Bacon.......14 to 17 Cotton seed .37 1-2 cents. VOLUME XLVI- NUMBER 24. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1910. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YBA1L THE NEWS )r ptospEpiTy. Dr. Mayer to Lecture to School. Teachers Met.-Egg Hunt Sat urday.-U. D. 0. Prosperity, March 24.-Mrs. Ad die Hodges has returned from a visit to her niece, Dr. Mary Lyles Simms, in Columbia. Mrs. M: C. Morris goes to-day to spend several days at Columbia and Lvkesland. - Mrs. Elizabeth DeWalt has gone to Saluda to .spend a while with her sis ter, Mrs. Mitehell. Miss Nannie Hunter, of St. Luke's, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. H. Hawkins. Mr. W. H. Hiller and family are visiting at Wise Hotel. Miss Alie Kelly, who will have -charge of Moseley Bros'. millinery ,establishment arrived Monday. She! is a milliner of wide experienee and comes well recommended. On account of the late arrival of their goods, as the firm was undecided as to mil linery, they will have no formal openimng. Mr. Willie Moseley arrived Sun y night from Texas where he has a traveling salesman fo, a large furniture company for more than a year. There will be an egg hunt on ,Grace church green Saturday after noon. Come and bring your tots and help them to pass a pleasant hour. The charge for the privilege of hunting is only t-en cents and every child is assured a certain number of ,We perceive that the soil is being upturned on all sides and tlat all axe hastening to plant beans, atie., as 1 sign is favorable for beans as e as blossoms. Mrs. M+:neth Baker f Green -wood, made a week end visit to her sister, Mrs. Werts, last week. Mr. F. E. Schumpert and family have movea into the Kohn residence Brown street. Miss Mary Willis accompanied -by Miss Haigler arrives today from the Presbyterian college to- spend the, Easter tide. 'The St. Luke's school, under the anagement of Mr. E. 0. Counts and iss Della Bowers, will come to a suecessful close on Friday of this ek. The Teachers' Association on Sat dav was well attended by mem ,trustees and visitors. They all rt a most profitably spent hour. Wyche and Hunter gave inter ng nd convincing talks. Several e, not on the regular program, favored the meeting with short ~eches. Mr. John Pat Wise will arrive to morrow from Columbia to remain over Sunday with his home people. Miss Erin Kohn spent several days of last week in Columbia. The U. D. C. will meet next Wed -esday at 3:30 p. mn. with Mis Hattie Groseepose. This, the Win. Lestdr chapter, is growing steadily and do ing gratifying work. At present they are prepari:ng to celebrate Me morial Day, May 10, with appropri ate exercises. Quite a few of our people went to Newberry for the March Debate Fri ayevening. They all returned quite elated over the fact that one of or boys, Mr. Chas. P. Barre, came off victorious. Dr. 0. B. Mayer will deliver a lee ure at the school house on next Mon-! day at 11:30 a. m. His subject will be pertinent to the physical well be ing of 'ehildren, etc. The public is assured a most hearty welcome by the teachers at this time. President Harms, of New'berry col lege will deliver an address before the graded school Wednesday morn ing. Black's millinery opening Tuesday and Wednesday was. fully attended. Many beautiful hats were on display. The array of colors, pretty flowers, chic and charming creations were very much admired on all sides. Mr. and Mrs. Eff Ridgell leave in a few days for Jaeksonville, Fla. Mrs. W. A. Moseley was at home to the Literary Sorosis on Wednes day from 4 to 6. These hours were most pleasantly spent in two guess vided with blanks and pencils. Each one in turn was sent to the board to draw the animal her particular slip called fo.-. Much merriment was provoked by the ineffectual attemptsI to portray and betray the character istie lines and curves of one crea ture over against another. In this artistic contest Mrs. Hunter, having the most discerning eye, received a 1handsome box of stationry. The next mirth producing game was lo cal surnamres as suggested by hints on the cards. Animation and guess ing waxed high here, but finally Mrs. J. C. Schumpert was the lueky one in locating the names correctly. As a result she received a dainty Irish lace rabat. A two course lunoheon, consisting of salad, olives, pickles,. saltines, tomato glapee, celery, eheese straws and coffee was served. Among those present were: Mesdames Wyche, Hunter, Moseley, Ridgell, J. C. and F. E. Schumpert, Morris and Misses Langford, Lester, Kibler, Bowers and Della Bowers with Mrs. Kreps and .Mrs. Lovelock, of Virginia, as visitors. Our corps of N= wlerry college boys are expeected home in full force today. They are looking forwaxd to the old rabbit 's visit and the at tendant egg fights and feasts. But they are welcome, none the less. Mr. F. 0. Black goes to Ward'sto day to spend the Easter tide with his father. At Grace church Easter morning there will be preparatory and di vine services at eleven and the ad ministering of the sacrament after wards. There will be be special ap propriate muie by Mms Lovelock and the choir. There will be services at the A. R. P. church on Sunday ev ening at the usual hour. iMr. E. W. Werts has opened up a silversmith's zhop* and is prapared to do all kinds of fine repairing on watches and other intrica0e pieces of mechanism and so on. We wish to extend to our editor, readers and friends our best wishes for a gladsome, joyous, happy Eas tertime. May the full meaning and import of Easter be brought to bear u.pon your lives and hearts. THE IDLEFI. * * The Idler has received from some nknown friend- a poem in; behalf of the children who are forced to la bor. It is a pretty poem of con siderable literary merit, and well worth reading. I don't know the au thor. Evidently he is a close stu ent of Tennyson's "Loeksley Hall,"' for the measure and the rythm are the same. You know, in my youth I sed to think "Lockeley Hall" was the finest poem that was ever writ en, and even in my older days it is. ne of the poems which I like to read. But this poem is about the chil ren, and it is entitled "The Chil ren's Cry.'' I have always been pposed to child labor and in favor, f child labor laws, upon the same ~priniple that I favor comipuIs.ory, ducation. The children have rights I hat must ,be respected if our boast-I d twentieth century civilization is o endure. You will hear people alking about invading the sanctity f the home when children of certain ges are prohibited from working in he cotton mills, 'but I tell you, that 1me in which the children of ten er years are compelled to labor day n and day out in a cotton .mill, shut ut from God's sunshine and God's I air, and from the education to which I very child has a right-the sanc tity of that home ought to be invad ed, and if the parents will not do it f their own volition.it is the right i ad not only the right, but the duty2 f the State to step in and say that* he rights of the State's childreni hall be protected. As I have had< ocasion heretofore to remark, a hild is not on the same footing as< a .cow or a pig. South Carolira has been moving< along in the right direction in the atter of child labor ediucation. land in hand with it ought to go the I mpulsm,ory1duation law. But I am getting too much of my own opin ions in instead of giving you the poem. Here it is: The Children's Cry. Did you fail to catch the echo of the low pathetic cries That were uttered in the meshes .where o'er labored childhood dies? Was your soul so lashed to pleasure, bent upon a petted scheme, That the wail of pain. and anguish dwindled to a -distant dream? Pass, and trip the lightsome meas ure, let the frothing cup be quaffed, Float upon the buoyant current, were the world that you have laughed; Yet, in some uanwelcome period, you shall hear the ehildren's cry Grating with distracting musie on your heartst-rings dull and dry. We have seen the pallid features, we have heard the weary plead, Where the wine of life is yielded to the brimming cap of greed; Lying by the sunny playground that the laughless children miss, And we dare to play the prophet on an issue like to this. Oh, the ether of the furnace is as dense as Egypt's night, Where the pastime of the puppet is the absence of delight, Where the weary stand- and wither in the den of wheels and thrums, And their portion in the sunshine never cails and never comes. Let them pipe themselves to shad ows; Juggernaut will not regard, rhough beneath his wheels their lives are pressed into a knotted shard; rhough their watery eyes may fol loaw with appeals in tears that swim, Juggernaut will not regard them; what are their affairs to him? But once more the seer's assertion falls upon the startled ear, Juggernaut shall wail in jadgment, and the little children hear, For 'tis sealed he shall'regard them, paled amid the shoals of shade; rurned to fiery flying serpents are the cries the children made. rraft and greed will snot regard them, but, oh, brothers of the race, Wo from pulpit and from sanctum call for gifts of gold and grace, Why do you export the offerings into 'barbarous continents, Decik the dwarfs in silk and purple, leave your own in.vile cerements?J Slear as the bells at midnight ring ing when the air holds nota eloud, * ou have heard the 'heathen crying, heard them crying long and loud, And you rush across the ocean to relieve them of the yoke, While the home-ebrn cry is muffled -under folds of grime and smoke. reach your ears to heed the wailing, that is born among the wheels; [each your eyes to t-race the sorrow that the rheumy eye reveals; t reach your feet to walk the wind ings of the tools of shame and sin [eac~h your hands to file the fetters frpm the veins of kith and kin. [hen, recruited by the victims that from death you have redeemed,t iou may 'build the Christian temple where the vile pagoda gleamed; : Eou may penetrate the jungles with the help you have denied [o the tired little children that in~ prison called and cried. ti Talking about compulsory educa ion and the howl that is always I aised about the negro when compul cry education is mentioned, I wanti o tell you of a little incident which 1 ~ame under my observation. the oth r day. I saw a crowd of negro ~hildren going to school, and among he number was a little boy so smalli h:t I know he had not long been >ut of tihe eradle. I wondered what 1 rogress tgis little negro could be naking, and as a matter of curiosi-< y I called him to me and asked him was in the third grade. He had only one book, and most of the pages in it were dirty and greasy and torn, but he knew that book, and when I asked him to repeat his ''A. B. C''s' for me he went through them, and then asked me for a "brownie.'" This is only an instance, but it shows you that the negroes are bent upon get ting all the education they can, now, without any compulsory education law, and some of the white children are the ones we ought to reach. Next Sunday is Easter. How about everybody sweeping the paraments in front of their doors so that the old town w il present a clean and a neat appearance on Easter Sunday mornTO I am satisfied the city au thoritie are going to see to it that the steets and- the pavements in the business porion of the city are swept on that day. Most of the churches will be dec oratedhv th palms and lillies and all the hsicest flowers of spring in commemoration of the greatest and gladdest evant in all the history of the world-an event without which Christianity would be but a mockery, and the hope of immortality but a vain dream. But if some of the paved -sidewalks are not cleaner) than they were last Sunday by the time those who have any distance to walk get to church their clothes will be so dirty that they won't feel like going into a church. Let's dean up the town for Easter, and let's every body clean in front of his own door. This thing of everybody 1doing his part is great and brings about results and brings them right away. I see the editors of both the Newberry pa pers hea been writing about pulling togethex .and team work. That's one Ine expresion we have 'got from our Athletie teas-''team work,''-ev. rybody doing his part and all pull-j ng together for the, good. of the wlhole. That's what it means. A baseball team of nine members might ae composed of nine of the finest players in the world, but if they did lot work together and pull together he team couldn't do anything. 'Team work''--that's what Newber -y needs. The Idler. A.n Interesting Bible Class Meeting. The adult Bible class number 11, >f 0O'Neall Street M. E. church hekl i meeting last Friday evening at the iome of- A. H. Bouknight. Thuis neetiing was held for the .purpose of no're thoroughly organizing, it hav .ng been partly organized somne time go. This meeting was a very interest ng one. There were about twenty-I ive of the members present to take >art. The business was transactad in mn interesting and' enthusiastic way,I fter which refreshbments were served mnd enjoyed by all.. The offieers were elected as fol ows: ~M. N. Padget, president; H. . Longshore, vice president; A. H. 3oaknight, teacher; J. F. Koon, as ;istant teacher; J. H. Bouknight,! eretary and treasurer; L. 0. Sligh, assistant secretary. After the elec-. ion of officers some new plans forI uilding up the class and arousing nore interest were introduced and tdopted, and the plans have already roven a success, the evid'ence being even new scholars last Sunday. This telass is not a new class at all, mit -'the members some months ago ook on new life and aroused more nterest among themselves and other nud thereby have increased the roll ~rom twelve to forty-five and are till at work with the intention of eaching the mark one hundred in he near future if possible. o 'Neall has another class of youngI en with a roll of 35. Their class Las also 'done some good work and re still doing more, with the same tention of increasiing their num ar and arousing more interest mong the young men that do not ttend Sunday school. This Sunday school as a whole is n a flourishing condition and the aperintendent is glad to know that. le can not only represent two large nen 's Bible classes, but some ladies' ~lasses also at the comning Baraca ~hilathea :convention. J H. Bomwhnio-ht. Sec. I MARSE JAKE AND * A STORY OF TH' * * * BY COL D. Maj. Baldwijn was blessed with a worthless son, a very unusual case in that section of the country, 'lying between the Broad and Saluda riv ers, and known from the mountain to the sea as ''the Duieh Fork" Furthermore, he had an aristoratic wife, amd a haughty daughter, known to the negroes of the two plantat;wns as the '"young miss at the big house.'' These two raled the old Major wi-th a strong hand.. Now, this Marse Jake was an outeast, an exile from his family, but the neigii bors all said Jake wab the best one in the ibunih. May, the young miss at the big house, had never aded her cold, proud haart to faM a vietim of love's 1wiles. Nevertheless, her splendid style of beauty, her magniieent form, rosy complexion, to say -ioihing of ther father's wealth, brought suitors for her hand and heart in abundance. StiH Miss May was unfettered and faney free, while the young gallants ffickered around har like. moths to the candle. Maj. Baldwin was a man of many acres, in the heart of Datch. Fo*. and many slave.% with a good, easy dipositio3:, always yielding 'to the point of least resistance. So he gen eray allowed his pompous wife and august daughter to -run the household as they saw fit. It 'wis told of odd Major Baldwin how true I am not p-pared to say that during the day, when he was out on the farm at work with thed. negroes he always left his shoes at the ''big- house,'" and should company ome in the meantime, Mrs. Baldwind would ruk&h a negro out into the yard 1 with the shoes, ready to put on,. be fore being admitted to the house. But what of Jake, his son, and two years younger than Miss May I No pen can portray the charaeteristics, the peculiarties and idiosynerasies of Marse Jake, as the .negroes on the plantation, as well as those round abou.t ealled 'him. He had long since been given up as a hopeless case by the haughty women of the household and, of course, the father silently gave consent. There was nothing vicious, dissolute o.. mean about Jake. He was just simply worth less, a rovinig blade, loved fun am& frolic and above all, he loved to huntj and fish. The negroes all said Marse Jake was a sure enough gentleman, and .the best daneer in all the coinna try side. In his early youth he had chsen as his affinity and boon comn panon a great pot-bellied, flat-head-j ed negro boy,- near his own age, andi wIh answered to the name of Cage. I lhere were:never two people better' suited and more devoted to 'each oth er .thani these two adepts in vaga bondage. They were inseparable. age followed Jake like a shadow,1 while the latter thought everything one and said by the formerwa just too Lunny for 'anything. Cage, was considered by white and black to< be the laziest negro in ,the land, do-. ng nothing but trailing after Jake|I Baldwin 's heels, carrying his gun l ad fishing tackle. Mrs. 'Baldwin ad her daughter ieordially hated age, and laid most of Jake 's 'short omings to 'his door. And the over eer, he was -on,y biding ha~ time1 when he would be called upon to take the worthless zaseal in hands. Major Baldwin, to keep down biek. erings against Jake for 'his uncouth nd slovenly ways, his indifference to the proprieties of life, wished to' keep them out of sight as .much as possible and allowed Jake and Cage o follow the even tenor of their ways. Both were -lazy, out of all -eason, it is true, but to ramble from orn till night over the field hunt ing, or pushing a rickety old bat teaui up and down the river, fishing, were joys unspeakable, with Cage arryingP his long barrel ''flint and RUNAWAY CAE. E DUTCH FORK L DICKERT. not much in vogae in thbse days they woul walk for miles and diles, to hunt the yellow hamnmer.or the timid dove. It was the joy of Cag4's life to have the powder hon and shot gourd swung around hai 7ieok, the gun on his shoulder, pointing oes ionally at an amaginary game. Then Cage al!ways gathered up the birds, and carried them home, -which was another delight to his soul. Then, when the Msg eason sot in, how willngly and loyally did Cage wield the sprouting hoe in his hunt for the elusive angle worm or grabs to furnLah Marse Ja'ri wit bait. Cage taught him every art and trick in the science of the rod, as it had come down to 'him from h& I ag ago aneestors. During rainy ays, when there was no plage about the house for the two to amuse them selves, they would go down to _the gin house and theme Cage would give Marse Jare lesso in daning, and he learmed him every step imown bo the nego inthat day and tium for ;Cage was sure enough an artist n the "tripping of the ight, fan bastif toe." laneing comes. natr ally to the negro, as an inhei-tanee from Providenee to while away the monotony of his slavery dap and Cage did delight in tearhing his young master the Divine art of the 'pigeon wing, and 'possum tSt1 Cae would often say with a seeret pride, "Marse Jake is eartaini-y a amner, ease I larned him myself. Whe' Jake wais forced to go to sehool, an exertion he bitterly re sented Cage would always meet him down the road to carry his, bueket and incidentally to eat w1hat was left arer from MArse Ja;ke's dinner. So these two worthies, hunted, fished and danced- the days away, and with the exception of the sehool' days no happier couple ever lived. The overseer, Mr. Bardee, had a beautiful daughter, a year or so younger than Jake Baldwin. Miss Carolina, or as Cage called ''Cal ine,'' and they were sweetheaarts, as long ago as they .could rememrber. T'he news of this asoiation 'would a]hways throw the haughvy and proud ' Miiss May into -a cataleptic fit, and ber high strung mother into agonies of d'espair, at the thought of th ion of a Baldwin keeping company with an overseer's daughter. Often would they upbraid him for lower-. ing hMmimlf and for his want of self respect in waig from school with ahat 'little ''uppish" Caroline Fur ike, who would soon think herself is good as anybody. But Jake whiis ;kd derisively at their -ohidinig, and ~ontinued to carry little Caroline's ooks and -din.ner bucket, assist her with her lessons, help her over the ~ence and' in all -was as perfelet a ;allant to the overseer's daughter is the knights of old knight errant lays. But time, that artifreer of every >ne'b f'uure, the dispenser of des iny and "fate, deereed that Jak. ldwin, inorder tokeep up the tonor and traditions of his ainces ors, must go' awaly to 'a boarding chool, there being but few colleges n those days. The overseer, too, hought it high time that lazy, worth eas Cage should be put to work in he cotton field. All this was a se rere test for Jake and Cage, and >verwhelned -them in serious hought. The day before his depart tre, Jake stationed hmoself at the p~ring of the overtseer about the nane Miss Caroline was expecte to eome for water for supper. When Fake saw 'her lithe and beauit.ful form coming sprightly down the sprin'g path, her pail balanced on. 1er head, her bonnet swinging in 1er hand, and singing a love song, Take isprang to meet her. He filled 1er,pail and then motioned his (Continued on Page Three.)