The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-07

Is TT only for tho learned professions,
If ilt for anything. But his hoys
have to min,,l, study with labor and
alternate tho ycars Of zach. Mr.,
Aull is tho president u tho Stat"
Pross Association.
OF course Nowbcrry has II largo
cot'on mil. Almost every Carolina
town has ono or m,ro. As you
trnvo! from place to ll.oo they "ro
in sight, anl givo employment to the
poor l'ivo ycars ngo Union hnd
only 1900 inhabitants, but during
oil thoso distressing years has CON.
tinnod to grow and prosper until now
thorc nrr 5000. One littlo mill, ns
they call it, stnrtod tho boom and
, encouraged them to build another
very largo one, whose four jloors
cover Il spnco equal to SIX acres.
N"Xt cumc IN oil mill and II knitting
mill and other industries, and now
thoy nrr boring for nltcsinn wutor,
to supply Il system OF wntrrworks.
Neither in tho city nor nonr it nrc
, amy people begging for work, for
employment Is at hand.
Then 80 to Spartanburg and be
amazed. Whom was thoro II fow
years ago thcrc WIS nothing to make
note OF save II college, but now thrrn
arc cotton mills ncnr hy that manu-
fuoturo 10000 hnlca annually, and
it. is claimed that no ono county in
tho United States consumes as much.
Not IN aero Of suburban land can
bo bought for lrss than $40. Every.
thing prosprrs and everybody srrms
happy. Tho taxnhlr property has
Increased four fold within eight
years, nnd tho population has moro
than donblol.
Whcro did ull tho money como
from, inquired.
From n small boGinning--from ono
littic mill and it did so we'll that
others soon followed. Northcm
manufacturers of machinery wcro
attracted ihorc and took one. third of
the stock and paid for it in spindlos
and loonis-anu havo made good
money and arc content. Some Char
lesion money is there too. These
mills have madn from 10 to 20 per
cent. for several years and keep on
mnking 1t, and those machinery mon
up north will do tho Same thing for
tho people OF Cartcrsvillc or any
other southern town that is healthy
and woll situated. Thoy only wait
to bo invitcd Tho Piedmont rrigon
of South Carolina is now the New
England of tho south. Even tho
young mon and young ladies' of good
families in their towns aro not too
proud to tnko positions in tho facto-
rios, Thoy arc bookkocpors, type,
wrltorS, correspondents and superin,
tend in some of the departments and
Darn good honest money. Just think
of it, what Il revolution. For many
years wo havo supposed that the
state was noarly Worn and horyoung
mon would havo to accept Greelcy's
maxim, "Go west, young man, go
wost," but not so. Northern South
Carolina is richer today and more
prosperous than any portion of
Georgia. Anderson has nearly
doubled her population during tho
last five years. New stores, new
dwellings, now churches, parsonagos
and fine public school building
have gono up, now courthouse is
projected and all this comes from tho
cotton mills. 1t docs SOON as though
the cotton wc grow should bo spun
and woven ut home.
My last visit was to tho old histor-
ic town of Edgotiold "a town almost
retired from tho public gaze but ono
that has always folt proud of it's
prostigo rs tho domicil of moro great
mon than any in tho state. McDuf
flo lived horo and Governor Pickens
and tho Butlors and Rhotts and
darys and many cthors. I was the
honorcd guest of ono Of them. The
nobility hnvo no bottor manners than
mine host and hostess and it. is rare
to find II handsomer couple.
BILL ARR.