The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-17
OUR PROSPERITY BUDGET


Especial C"irnsnon'lrhc" Herald n"d News |
Prosperity, :. g., Feb. IG.-Wcll.
who ever thought that wr would see
nero weather her" in this part Of the
Sunny south. but it. il fact and we
have seen thr mercury , degrees be-
los, something that the oldest inhabi-
tAnt nrv"r oitw before. Bat with the
mercury dancing aud sporting way
down ll:'.rr the weather. was not near
50 sever" - hen il was from lS to %
degrees and windy. In fact to Us it did
not seem near 50 cold as those windy
days.
w" note TIL, week the death Of Mrs.
Tho1. Derrick, Of Little Mountain,
9h" Was daughter OF Capt. Geo. F,p-
ting and was about - year, Of aye. She
VA laid 10 rest in Holy Trinity ccmc-
terry, Little Mountain.
our Old friend. Cot. r.. G.. Mrclzc. OF
"hIl" Rock. was up to see us last
week. II" spent the time with Dr..
). H. Simpson and old man Kay. rhc
1no" got too mach for him and he left
for home on Saturday.
In AL our writings when we have
had any thing TO say on IL question Of
public moment wc have tried TO be on
the rlght side, not necessarily the
popular one. We will not discuss
politics bml we may discuss political
m"hsu'' :, especially when those mcn-
h,. hl,G inn
all The people. The question that
comes up ut each recurring session OF
the Legislature Of npprOpriulinr
money Tor the State institutions. We
get the same old story Of the cnmity OF
dcnonlnn.iOnal schools lahrd M tn
us "ad nnusram,' and If wc can read
thc hand writing on ''n wall the
friends who talk SO much and SO loud
about State institutions had best suv
Irns hard things about the dcnomiun
ti"nal schools aud their friends for In
li"Ir much talk they hope To bcfov the
'7S"" ana vote away the pcoplr's
'n"h"y. IL is such an easy lhiup to
vote hIE amounts when the burden does
not rest on the voters. why vote (*:,ON
three hundred dollars TO educate arich
mans son and only three dollars SO aid
lhc poor mans son getting IA little
Alhnil"rinG OF the three RS during "A
'hrrr" fonr months winter term In our
public srho"ls, why? While ON this
subject wr would like to call u,lcnlion
"l alt the rrntlrls OF The Herald and
News To President Geo. Is. Cromrrl, ur-
'lrIr IN tn" State Of Feb. lith on the
SUBJECT OF ")rnOminntionnl SchOols "
.ook on pn%" seven, lst column and
you will lind il. II is worth rrudinr
ana, as H. " unl ard in Keeping with The
state Edi'"r's methods, anything that
Is not ns hc thinks Is stuck away in some
Obscure place, but let IT, hr to his likinr
or against the disprnsury and whui
prominence iIgrls
We hnd IL pleasant call on last rri-
day from the Rev. Il w. Brdrnbuuyh |
ana he hnndrd us IN old cotton bin |
dated Dec. 10, 1913, at which ,imo his
l"lhrr hnd gone to Columbia and sold
'"" ha''S "t cotton nnd had received |
thrro Tor the price OF 3 3l.lUU cents
per pound and the bales only weighed
Tor tho two 6S9 pounds. This wus so
years ago last December and we find
upon this same bill that sugar w.s
worth IA cents II pound and thu,
u" got 10! pounds OF colrcc for 81. So.
m"l"sHcs was worth TO cents II pullon
til" same as now; homcspun was worth
"A cents yard and ono silk hnndk,r.
'hlri cost 624 cents. We SEQ from
'h'Se hgnrrs that prices 80 Years moo
ana now were not SO very much ditr,r.
'ht ~ some people would have us be.
'cV'' Iho greatest difference IL i'm
me place where We keep our mcnt
h"nSo a:'d tlour mill. We verify he.
loVc That conditions ON the who)o M,
II ia'or OF today il we would buL talso
advantage OF them ns they prssont
themselves, In those good old times
moro was no Guano used and tho trn ma
i'd not make It easy for tho pooplo to
Ee' what they wantod aud they raisod
'VorythinG at home, just what we
'oght to do now and only buy those
hhgs that wo could not raise.
owing to the unusual fall OF
now, from to 10 inches, traffic for
ho past 3 days has almost been sus-