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OHIPS KEEPS A PROMISE.
Writes of the Crops and the Mer
chants Temptation to Extrava
gance-Other News.
Bachman- Chapel, Nov. 22.-I have
decided to verify a promise which 'I
made to a number of my friends. Last
year while rambling over the country
quite a number insisted.that I should
scatter a few more of my chips around
amopg the reading public. I told
them I would try to throw out a few
more when the war was ended. I have
written a few letters since, but they
have all ben of a sad nature. I am
not going to promise you that this
letter will be so full of news, but still
I hope that I will be able to say some
thing that will at least interest a few
of the many readers of The Herald
and News.
The principal part of the crop is
gathered, and there is no use to dis
-- guise the fact that this is another
short crop. Taking Newberry county
as a wlhole, the average farmer has
sold his cotton as lie gathered it itnd
realized a very faii price for what he
had, notwithstanding the crop is not
going to pay the debt, the merchant
and gnano dealers say. They also say
that tmre is too much money spent
for luxuries. We frankly admit this
to be a fact, but who is to blame but
the muveliants themselves. They are
the ones who are leading the people
into temptation' and there is no use
for them to blame any one else.
Here comes John. He saw Dan at
church last Sunday driving a very nice
horse or mule to a beautiful top bug
gy, dressed all up in style. John be
comes very much dissatisfie'd with his
napped up clothes aid muddy shoes,
lie begins to think about the old mule
at home, which is not fit for a decent
man to drive, so lie puts out to town
and it isn't long before lie thas a two
hun111dred dollari mule, ninlety dollar top
buggy and beautiful rifteen dollar
dress suit of clothes. Now lie is ready
for what. To make ten cents cotton?
Yes, this is what the merchants
tliink, or at least tih sis the way. He
acts like lie thinks, but what does the
aveap-e laborin- man make wh1en le
gets aI out fit of this kind, lie makes
a law suit.
This state of extravagance is not al
together confined to the negro. We
find white people are to blame to a
great extent themselves. It is a fact,
when you make credit. easy, put out
all those nice inducements, the temp
.tation becomes so great that the aver
age man cannot resist it.
Now, understand that I am not
preaching economy. -I am only talk
ing about the state of affairs as I
hear others talk, but. now is the time
to begiin to talk about these things.
The wvay to keep from getting burned
is to stay out of the fire, but some
folks may say, ''go ahead boys, cot
ton is hound to bring a good price
another fall. You may make a good
crpp and rise to the top' after all.''
If' you have to buy a mule and pay
for' it with cotton and the mule cost
you $200.00 and you get 10 cenits pci
pound for your cotton, which you pay
for him with, how mneh better off
are you than when your mule cost
$100.00 and you only got 5 cents for
your cotton.
*I believe ini the farmers union, or'
any other organization that tends to
r better the condition of thle farmer, so
cially, morally cor fiinancially, but the
7ver*y best organization cin earth for
the farmer is the one whPeh keeps him
out of debt. Wh.en the farmers has
plenty to eat, r'aised on his own farm,
owes nobody anything, lie is as well
organized as a man needs to b)e to
hold his cotton until the manufacturer
is willing to pay him his price for it,
S. but as long as lie owves it all before
lie gathers it, lie is a dlependant being,
it makes no differenge how much
money lie cain borrow.
Some other newvs of a local nature:
Our supervisor', Mr. J. Monroe Wick
ce, has built a splendid bridge across
Cannons Ci'eek on the road leading
from Bachiman Chapel to St. Phmilip~s
church; knowvn as the Tom Kinard
bridge. Supervisoir Wicker knows
his business when it, comes to building
bridges and lie is saving the county a
lot of money in this way by the use of
his gang.
Miss Alma Waters opened her
school at Jolly Street on Monday, the
12th.
Miss Teddy Maybin also opened
her school at Union Academy on Mon
day the 19th.
Mrs. M. C. Moore has moved to
the Newberry knitting mill.
Mr. J. D. H. Kibler is building a
dwelling on the place lie purchased
friom Mr'. J. M. Wheeler, where lie
will move in the near future.
Mr'. A. B. Piester wvill soon have his
h newv dwvelling comlelted near' St.
Philips church, wvhere ,he will shortly
move.
rMr. M. L. Strauss returned from
Orangeburg last Saturday, where he
~" had been collecting rc.nts and attend.
ing to other farming interests.
I am very much interested in our
country homes. I see too many of our
young white boys drifting off to
tow'n. What are we to do with the
farming interests of our couniry is
soon going to be another problem to
solve.
Now, my dear boys, I know that it
is a very hard task to live on the
farm. I know that it is the boy who
has all the errands to do around tho
farm. You are the ones who have all
the wood to chop, the barns and cribs
to fill, the horses and cattle to feed;
you are the ones who follow the mules
and horses up and down the hot and
weary rows; you are the ones who
have to go to town for all the neces
sities needed about the home, it mat
ters not how hot or ho'w cold it may
be; and y,ol are t.ie ones wIho have
many other hardships to undergo,
which lare too tedious to mention. And
I know wheni you look all these things
in tIe face, it seems mighty hiard to
be a farmer boy, but let me speak a
word of encouragement to you, my
dear ebuntry boys, stick to your bush.
After all you are living the happiest
life that can be found on God's carth.
Yes, I say stay out of town, you are
shiunniing hundreds an(d thousands of
femptationls that. are leadin hun
dreds and thousands of young men
down to degredation and hell, who
have dirfted off to town.
I want you to know and understand
that you country boys are the very
kind of stuff that great men are made
from. There are only 'a very few of
the boys who sprouted in town who
have become the noble men of our
land.
After all, if it were not. for you
country boys the towns and cities
would soonl go to seed. What is a
farm worth without a boy. I mean a
white boy. Just let all the white boys
drift off to town and turn their farm
in. interest over into tle iiands of tle
0 1l erabbed white mlen and thle Sorry
1Ngrs and it will only be a matter
of' a very shi while before you will
ha.ve a banlkrulpt counltry.',
Ir IT. .W.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Justice for the South in Payment War
Claims-Roosevelt Wants
Power.
Special Cor. Herald and News.
Washington, Nov. 21.-Prospects
are bright for the passage, during the
approaching session. of Congress, of
the omnibus claims bill carrying large
amounts for the payment of war
claims in every State in the South.
The justice of these claims is not de
nied. Many of them have been pass
ed upon by tilie Court of Claims and I
the amount (Ie from tihe United
States adjudicated by that tribunal.
The fqljire to pass the bill at the last.
session was due to the efforts of the
Republican leadcws in Congress to
keep down the total of appropriations
as much as piossible for (ffect in the
C6ngressional camplaig~n. They piled
up extravagant appropriations for
other objects buit refused to authiorize
the p)aymenmt o01 the just debts of the
geivernmen t. The Southern men in
Congress will also make a determined
effort to secure thle passage, duinig ]
the approaching session, of the hill .
providing far thle refuniding of the
millions of dollars illegally collectedI
in the Southern States during the war
through the cotton tax. Thlis money
is in the Treasury but it can not be 1
restored to those from whom it wvas
wrongfully collected or their hiirs
without special authority from Coni
gress. The passage of this bill. wvill
be an act of tardy justice to the1
South.
President Roosevelt is determined
to continue his efforts to secure a
further concentrationi of power in thme
Federal Executive at the expense of
Congress and the States. His
message to Congress at thme beginning
of the session will contain several r'e
commendations along tihi sline. 1His
proposition to have the Congress im
pose0 a tax on legacies and inherit
aneles is a dlirect propiosal to invade
the field of State taxation. There is
no question as to the power of Con
gress to impose an inheritance tax,
put therefore this form of taxation
has been regarded as one to lie re
soited only to meet the expenIses
of a war or some other emergency,
and there cani be no justification for
this eneropchment on the field of
State taxation in time of pearce when
the receipts of the Treasury are run
nling far ahead of even the extrava
gent Republican expenditures. An
other invasion of the rights of the
States is the proposition of the Presi
dent to sub)ject corporations doing at
interstate b)usiness to a 'larger inea
sure of Federal control with 'wide
discretionary powvers vested in adlmin
istrative officeials, thus taking from
the States a large part of their con
trol over the corporations chartered1
KEEP YOUR
Somethi ng
Co CUt t
FREE trad
erebai
THE COLD
And The Bee Hiv4
DRY GOODS, DRESS
at a saviig Of 1
For 98 Cents.
1 11-4 White Quilt for 98 cents.
1 pair Ladies' dongola shoes for
98 cents.
96 balls good sewing cotton for'
98 cents.
10 yards of the heaviest cotton
flannel for 98 cents.
1 Boys' suit, sizes 6 to 16 for 98 cts.
1 pair men's $1.50 pants for 98 cts.
1 suit of men's wool fleeced under
wear for 98 cents.
1 good man's hat all styl6s for 98 c.
1 pair man's fur top gloves for 98 c.
1 all wool shirt for 98 cents.
10 pairs men's wooa socks for 98 c.
1 Ladies' all-wooa underskirts for
98 cents.
For $7.50, $10. & $12.50
The best suits ybu ever bought or
your money back if you can beat it.
Men's $12.50 and $15.00 rain coats
for $10.00.
Men's high grade overcoats in black
and blue for $10.00.
Boy's suits from 98 cts. to $4.50,
for the $5.00 and $6.00 kind.
HEE
Cheapest Store in T4
E.L.
M/r. J. H. Clarry is with us and will be gh
1y' tli fhi(an givinlg to( execti ve of- a1 pheIt formn deC
icials power~s which, if exercised hv Ih Inro'vernmiiei
:he FedeCral go)verinmen t at. all, should th DemI c,oerney
>e exercised1 by Congress dlirect. Hie sont. Several
11ls~Oopses an1 enlargemenit of the menci are talke
Fnterstate Commerce Cotimmission nn jd thle supporters
i further extensioni of its dliscre tion- .rsmnJohi
iry pJowers by authorizing it to ap- Mississippii-a
r>rove and make effective agreements cihing his boo
between railwvays as to rates. The Iin Washingtol
langer, especially to the South, of weeks.
antrusting this Commission with wider
liscretionary powvers has already been AN (
illustrated by its action under the Fixing the
Hepburn law as to export cottonl the Time for
rates, action that wvas directly con- Taxes for the
trary to the' intention of Congress UI IT 0111
and that has amounted to direct legis- and the Alde
lation by the Commission to the dis- Nebery S.
advantage of the Sonthern parts and and by autho
tihe South generally. The (discretion 'That for thl
given the Commission wals intended to revenneI and
be exercised so as to put the Southern: taxing p)ower
ports on equal terms with tihose of thle lowinu: taxes a
North and no Southern man w~ho vot- I fiscal year' (
ed for tihe bill had any idea it would 11006, upon all
be used in directly the opposite way. Iperty within
This experience of D)emocratice Sena- said Towvn (e>
tors and Representatives wvill make from taxation
them more careful about following the andl laws of ti
future recommendations of the Presi- uation thereoi
dent for enlargement of thle powers tion for the co
of the -Federal Executive. viz:
Section 1. T
The results of tIhe Nevember elee- on eachl one
tion in the Northern States, having of real and pl
showvn tile hopelessness of attempt- the~ corporate
ing t.o elect a radical Northern Demo.. >Newhierry, in
crat. as President oni a radical pint- olina~ (Except
form, have greatly eticouraged those taxation unde
Democrats wvho lIolieve it is time for laws of ti i
thle cofiservative Democracy of the for tile purp'jo
South to assert itself and insist upon to defray th<
the 'nomination of a Southern man on saidl T4wn fom
Decemb'er 31st
Section II.
EYES ON I
01
Doing All
his Coupon out brir
) $7.50, save 25 per
:e of 50 cents for he
WAVE
6 is all ready to Su
GOODS, CLOTIj
0 to 35 per ceni
For $2.98
1 pair men's box calf, vici or pat
ent leather $3.50 shoes for $2.98.
1 pair all-wool blanket for $2.98.
1 pair men's $3.50 pants for $2.98.
For $4.98
1 Man's black Thibet suit worth $7.
50 for $4.98.
1 $8.00 ulster'for $4.98.
1 Man's 54 inch oveercoast for $4.
98.
1 boy's well made overcoat size 15
to 20 for $4.98.
NOTIONS
2 balls sewing cotton for 1 cent.
1 paper pins for 1 cent.
1 big bottle of vaceline for 5 cents.
1 pair wool socks for 10 cents.
A good pair aadies' or Misses' heavy
ribbed hose, 25 cents.
Men's 10 cents socks, black or tan
for 5 cents.
Ladies' 10 cents hose for 5 cents.
1 good ladies corset for 49 cents.
1 very good corset for 25 cents and
29 cents.
>wF. Your Mone
BA1LE2Sdc
Ld to see his Friend and Customer.
it to the0 pinci ples 'of t fien n
of ,Jefferson an Ja1.1~ck--wti h CV)Iit
p)romin)ent Souither on :fNwey(
I of as candidat ~es eptfrmtndto
of one of th emi-Con- 51Ii101mn iW
i Shar'p Williams, of hrb eif o h
re conltempIlating lun- l Irecietde
a at a public meetingifdbeis osa
within the next few OeaHue
James S. McCarthy. Seto I.Ttr
RDINANCE. ra n )1Sfflp~
Rate and prescribing croaelmt ft
tile Payment of T'wnlbry(xcp uha
fiscal year 19065. txto ue h
)AINED by the Mayorlasothstte
rmeni of tile Tiown of 4.1e )11Pleo
.in counicil assenmbled 1)1tinieet
.iIy of the same: ..iki. fnf.te
e purpTose ofP raising a 1 5(fsiiljw
ini thle exercise of tihe (Ik 111btue
of said Town, the fol- ~(ti'lI.Ta
rec hereby levied fo the Oler ila sW
ndinig December 31stb )'a(lOIIrletyW
real and personial pro- aelmt ftl f
the corporate limits of (xetsiia sc
cept sneh as is exempt toii~1i h oa
under tile Constitutionofhi te)shme
118 state) upon the val- proeo asn
as assessed for taxa- ieitreto h
unty and state purposes lCSo adTw
hat a tax of Sixty cents Seto .TaE
hundred dollars worthimoeorlvd
wrsonal property within tesi oni
limits of the Town oftieUtdSat
the State of South Car- It(t 1yo CO
such as is exemp)t from iIeal a fNva
r the constitution andpcu
state) is hereby levie4 il)SdIpi,ads
se of raising a revenuealtxeinarrs
ordinary 'expense of ScinV.Ta
the i.eacl year ending Iseacrigt a
1906. o ~txsfnso
Thxempt fromotaxatio
HE BEE HIVE ~
The Time!
ig it to the BEE HIVE
cent. and get. Cash
tck fare. Ev 1. BAILES & CO.
IS COMING
ply Your Wants in
HOES, ETC.,
oq all Uou buU.
SHOES! SHOES!
We buy shocs direct from first
hands and guarantee all our shoes
above $1.25.
Men's all solid Blucher, Bal, Cap
or Plain too sluo for $1.48.
Men's Vici Blucher cut shoes gen
erally sold for $2.00 for $1.48 per
pair.
Ladies' all solid shoes at $1.25.
Ladies' better grade Dongola or
paltent leather shoes at $1.58 and
$1.75 pair.
Ask to see our $3.50 Men's dress
shoes, the same shoe that sell; else
where for $4.00 and $4.50 pair.. Got
these in all leather.
Ladies' Jackets
and Long Coats
Ladies $12.50 to $15.00 long coats
nearly all colors though inostiy
black, tan and castor for $10.00.
Regular $10.00 coats for $8.48.
Ladies' long black and castor coats
for $4.98 and $5.98.
Ladies, long coat; cheap as $3.48.
Children's coats at 98 cents.
r Back if you want it.
1each deClar's - I. I HtIP1 l 6 El d.n, and( cost
li mits of th IL al I na airi ed1 under the cor
'xcept such as is porate sa of I . Town of Newberry,
under thie Con- in the St ate of S-mthI C'arolina, this
f this state) is i h thir'd (1ay of ()etoberi A. 1). 1900.
purpose Of rais- !At.tiest: A. .1T. Brown,
~ray the bonded E . . Werk Maor.
Town for the Clerk and Treas.
tax of two and
lollar's worth of)
p)erty within the
e Town of New
is exemp)t from
lonst.itution and
is hereby leived
ising a revenuet
mi and create n
>ondeld indleIbted
for the wae
axof one mill
rth of real and
thin the corpor- -
,vn of Newberry
emp)t from taxa
tution and laws
leidfor the T ytr Sso is On!
revenue to pay
onded indebted- The City Cafe is serving delightful
or the sewerage Oyster Stews to its patrons, as well as
many other seasonable dishes to refresh
11 taxes herein and sustain the inner man-all food of
hall be paid to high quality and well cooked.
;wful money of We arei agents for the celebrated
>etween the fif- Wiley's Candies, and carry a full lino
r, 1906, and fif.- of choice fruits, etc.
her1, 1906, and a .Call to see us. Ladies cspecially are
cent is hereby invited to visit the Cafe while in th
;all be added to, city.
l'orrhardin&leclion
analties npat Ano N4'at door to old Post Office buildini.
