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TK7, N32WS Op Po;57j':.^ Ivii.-t ^ .0 Vi.'i \VCil l.in?. or W i'y - '. y. Ciomciv; --i ov.sonai. m I'mimriy, Oclober LN.~ |?r?,|. I man Ij-oii, of the I'lfsliyi,.,iai, college at Clinton, spent Sunday wit.h I,is ! ' sister, Mrs. ?. M. Setzlcr, of this place. Mrs. \Y, tL). 11i]>|> returned last week from a very pleasant week's visit to relatives in Orangebui-"' countv. Mr. R. L. Crooks is now oleikiin> ' for A? 11 and Hipp, where lie will be ^ glad to see all his friends. ^ Mr. C. D. Shoely has moved to 1\>L nvaria, and occupies he dwelling' re ceivtly vacated by Mr. Aiulcrson? forW anorly agent, for the Rou'thern Kailway at this place. Mr. Horace llarF ?'">* succeeded Mr. Anderson as agent I here, and i-i uo'w performing !lie , 1 . J lies of !h<> position in an ?>nt(-ii>iil and i j accommodaliug w;iy. Mi>. ( airier l,;iiir. together with I Mrs. \\ . I. 11 *? ( is a till her li:i!<- - >n. | I spent a day in I'omaria this last i j week. | j .Mrs. .). P. (iraliain is able to be; 1 up ml; a in. alter a week's illness. t ^ . IVmaria can n.iw boast >>!' a watchmaker. Mr. !>. A. Murphy' has ro-j cently opened an olTicc here in the || store of Mr. T. K. Jlentz, where he W will repair clocks, watches, and jewel| rv of all kinds. A good many of the people of tlii- *' community ex peel to attend the slate lair this week. They regret liial l'li<excursion I rain arrives in Columbia so late, however, li is difficult to net lodging in Columbia, for the night, and if one returns the same day, the ~ present schedule does not give him ? much lime in the city. H Cotton picking is well advanced in 1 this section, and if the pretty weath" er continues for a week or two longer, tilie picking will be practically finished. S. The Coluds Will Roll By. The following editorial from last week's Manuifaeturers' Record is so good and so limely thai we reproduce it here, ft should be carefully read, _ and we believe all who read it will endorse it and appreciate it: . "And still the sun (is shining. And g , still S."),000,000 people are being I ' clothed and led and are doing their I accustomed work. Still the tramp of * a mighty army of a million workers is annually pouring into our country, and hundreds of thousands from ol'n- ~ or sections of the t'nited Stales are . a.unually turning llu-ir foot stops to- [ ward the -real Southwest, and m.-ny into the Central South. 'fee world I i E moves. 11urn an activities know no. { let-up. The farmers of the. counirs j I will til is year receive $7,000,000,000 ' for their products, or about nine times ^ the total national banking capital of | the Cniled Stales; almost one-half as I " much as the 'total investment in all B the railroads of the country. Never before in the (history of America _ were the agricultural conditions of the country so sound and solid; never n before were 'tlhe farmers of .the south l!" and the west alike so nearly out of deb't and -with a total value of farm products to their credit so staggering in amount as to be almost beyond comprehension. Contrast the $7,000,000,000 which will this year be paid n to American farmers with the total jf value of farm products was $2,50(5,000,000, or bul a little more than u one-third of I he value Ibis year, from " seven years ago, or in 1000, the total 'J was $4,717,000,000, wflrile this year ^ the aggregaIe of $7,000,000,000 shows ~ a gain of $2,300,000,000 as compared ? with 1000, and is almost as great as *' the total value of farm products in 1 .1800. h "How can a country materially a y suffer in its business interests with ? such a solid foundation for .marvel- ,l ous prosperity and 'business cxpan- ,S1 sion? New York is ml present the " storm-center of a bad financial condition, due in part to t'he rottenness 1 of the methods of some financial J' operators in that great avorid-enter, in part to destruction of confidence s' by ceaseless agitation and legislation 11 against, railroads and other corpora- '' (ions. It- is true that I he depreciation a in securities lias been enormous. Tt 1 is true lib ait thousands have lost their all by having to sacrifice securities, e Hut these conditions do nol, by any a means, change the fundamenla! soundness of American business con- 'I dilions. The man who has been il forced by Ibis financial storm to sac- " ritice his securities for far less than ^ their intrinsic value 'has transferred a to the pnmhaserI a property wliioh, o when the st,orm ift over, .must inevita- c lily advance commensurate with the *1 marvelous natural resources and de- f velopment of itlie country. Take the b condlions of 1803 with our disorgaai- <1 i/ed currency system, with the world y uncertain as to 'the future of our b /1 Ml m 1 C* ^Hi IV w Plenty of Ne\ Millinery e Moved W call HAIR jwsr Main Street, lonetary standard, <\vit?h 1 ho silver Wall street opera' isue tin Uhe balance, and no man able need for hysteric.> predict the outcome, and contrast possibilities of a lat situation with the conditions to- in'finite resources jy. and we can ^ee something of the tory affords noth ifferonce?a difference so great as I llhe opportunities > he. really startling. Then the far- man of energy ai icrs of I lie west and south wore bur- country. Instead ened with debt. Then their agricul- hysterics of New iral products were at an exceedingly ness poojfle of t nprofitable point. Then cotton, turn with greater heat and corn and cattle were sell- before to the utili )g at less tlhan the cost of raising, uificent oipportuni ince that day we have added from fore us, and the In 0,000,000 'to 2"),000,000 people to great as they iur ur population. We have doubled be forgotten in tlh; nd in iiwiny ca-es trebled and quad- prosperity which uipled the volume of business. We may be delayed fc ave trebled the value of agrieuliur- no-thing can stop 1 products, and against the poverty of America's busi f tilic farmers of that year is the bounding prosperity of today. J)c- News Fr0J1 ,?[. Ihcsc s?n,o f-oo.l so- E!trc|?iw 0ct? nnhca-l.avo laic,,t? as Unv a .|mcc SI.,mo| ,]s |his s |?cva,lo,l in 180.1, notwilhxlamlnift nMo1,,,r lie vast expansion ,,, in.lnslry and KT.?txvil Iwl...Iin-onulaliou and wealth. Mus is part- < . ' 1 some ol our larnn a case ol hysterics, <ind, as already j() (, . , latcd, parllv an outcome of misinan' . . . manv oats sown tl gvunent m some tinancial ni'stitu- j p stom ions, and, of course, to some extent Columbia lor' sou distrust created by constant agita- pf.n(0>. wor,. ,1;ls 'on nulroad-s. |imv ^ "These things, however, are ephem- Miss Lucv Lake, nil in their nature, and must pass spending a few d way. The country at heart is sound Dominick. nd solid for abounding prosperity \|r, | , ;l \;ilc.s. espite the disorder 'which temporal-- has been up spend |y prevails in Wall street and the returned to Colun it crests connected therewith. The While in Propp lanul'act ui'(M's' Keeord does not by were pleased to So uy means fair to appreciate that in nrd and Kibler's ne sense Wall street is the financial ready grown so th enter of the country and that its to add ten feet n isorders afflict the wolilo body, but their store buildi or some years the country at. large men ate kind and as been growing1 more and more in- <Mtis'oiners each d opondent of Wall street, and every visit their store ea ear hotter able to meet its own local will gel ."}(> inches usiuess problems without regard to eloth they buy. fiT v ^ 'i'" '^"h j| 13 ^ ^^^THE^BICJ v and Clean Dr 4 tnd Ladies' Cc ithin the Next lions. Theiv. ds no Some few of our pe?*ple will at- upon j. The boundless tend t he fair in Columbia I his week, friend country of almost M,-. am| Mrs. f. n. BouUvare, of are 'hot ore us. ILis- I'topia section, visited Prof. ?]. S. 's sa<' inir comparable to Wheeler's family last week. rehith .which await the ,ni .. ' c, . , . circle , .... . ... IMie me<tiny ot our Sundnv school ., id art ivity in tins . , . ... ; . , , lU-r I ..... . ., has been changed from 3 o clock to 0'1 joining in tlie ,m a.bxem ,r , , , . . p. m. i ork, lot the busi- ^ # ^ ura rr lie whole country . ^('x* J1'51, * aldwoll preacned an 0j- r(jn eneiMfV Mian ever <ishing sermon here Sabbath al- |)]1;11 v i/ataoii* of the ma- !l ????! audience. Mr. S)u, ties which are be- r'ahlwoll is an able speaker and Ins ,.|fi(in<1 sses in Wall street. " ?'? always listened to with { i-c been, will soon inm'h 1((>V)m ivt niiirhiy sweep of We 1,ad il nuv nun Sunday nijrht. (M||. is (ahead of us. 11 Sigma. haippy ir a brief time, but many the onward march In Memory of Miss Leila Baker. say: ' lies activities." On the early morning oif Soptem- ller . her 8, 11)07, the spirit of Miss Leila oik* 1 n Excelsior. Bakeir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. young her 28. KxceJsior ^aker, was oallcd to her Heaven- 'few >\\ anoniing with good ^ hoipe ils. Miss LeYIa. was just n little past land. the dry weather the age of 17 years. Though a brief "s ai'v prs have been sow- life, still her elicerful and kind ?1 is- '('"Might to be a "-ood position brought happiness to her de- 'ol' 1 lis fall. voted (parents and fond sisters and ' ''lend who has been in brothers. During her illness all that le time doing car- human skill and tender lovintr care finished up and is eoubl do, was done to restore this ' in. precioms one, but f!od in his wisdom of Peaks, has been saw fit to take her to a brighter ' Mr. ( ays with Miss Pet world, and a happy home was shrouded by sorrow. hi our blindness we of "Columbia, who can't understand it, hut at last when j ing a week al home :'H <?l life's lessons have been learn-I t"1 ibia Sunday night. ed and we, too, have been called 111> a W('l erit.v Saturday we higher we shall see and understand. | died e that Messrs. Kin- She was a dutiful daughter an af- \ augi business had al- lectionaite and a sincere friend. She j con I ii at it. was necessary was a faithful member of Bet'hel Hap- j thong! lore to (the rear of list church and Su.nday school and sevcroi ng. These gentle- from her earliest childhood endeavor- if v polite making new ?>' io learn the works and examples took I ay and those who of her Saviour, and to follow in his earn.; n rest assured they steps. ' Cap ; to every yard of Dear Miss Leila was beloved by her ! Cov. y teachers and friends and was looked j ho w; n I'M YU m fi if% U ^ u * m y Goods, Shoes, ats Must Be Short While. iur Share. iVIRD, Newberry, S. G. as a ffood fjirl. She was very Member, ISMS. No <rraduated at the ly and with ;i smiling face al- South Carolina college ami during lli?5 welcomed you in her lioine. She war served in the. Third regimen I on 1 ly missed by her friends and the statT of Col. Williams. After the es, but, oh, in the sad faimily war he was married to a Miss |{uthher place never can be filled, erford, n most estimable lady of oved ones are jrrieved by her Newberry county, who died about. 20 n\ luit are smstauned by the years nyo. For many years he was an of the Comforter, and the hope extensive planter in Newberry eoune-winer the tender ties in Heaven iv and later managed the larue planrcro formed on earth. 'tations belonjfinjr to his mother. shall no more be with her About ten years a.iro he can.e to s and loved ones here, but we Cnion and latterly has been living in to meet ,'ier on t'lie other Hhore Ka^t Cnion. (1 the river of dearth. \\ ? njourn ('apt. Cist leaves one brother, Mr. >ss but not without hope ol. a David ('. (list, who lives near West reunion. May (!od heal the Springs. broken hearts and help us to 'I'iie interment will he this nfler' Thy will be done." noon at the old fannily burying death was a remarkably sad . ground, iienr tin' "(!ov. (list maniccaiise ol l/ho death ol herjsion," about two miles from Sedalia. vr sister, Miss Carrie, only a -?The State. ,eeks before, but dear jiirls we 'to meet you both in a lairor The reason a man argues politics 'fhese t'Wii pre.cious jjirls 1 rom js In* doesn't know what he is lalk . "-one but they are not for?rot- j|t<, about. May I lie (lod of all ponce com he bereaved parents and many ;\ (rp(.:ll| disappointment about innrs* ryinjz a rich wife is she can spend it I wo I'airvio'w (ViriS. J just as if it was yours. DOL. R. V. GIST DEAD. TO DRAW JURY. i Notice is hereby "riven that we, the iist "Was For Many Years a J undersigned jurv commissioners for Citizen of Newberry ( Newberry County. S. C.. will, in the County. olljce of I lie Clerk of Court for said County and Si.ito. at 0 o'clock A. M., on, Oct. 2.).?( a.pt. I{. V. Cist, Nov. Srii, 1007. openly and pulnidv 1 known citizen of this county, > draw ihe names ..I' thirty-six persons last, niuhl al the home of Mr. who shall serve at lYtit Jurors for iaii in Kast Cnion after beinjr the Court of Common I'leas, which icd to Ins bed only a few clays, ' will convene al Newberry ('. II., S. C. h he had been in ill health for at Id o'clock. Nov. 25lh, 1007, and i) years. I continue for one week. uis laf-'t Sunday that Capt. Gist j Jno. S,. Epps, o It is bed and his condition be-I Wm. W. Cromer, serious on Wednesday. ' Jno. C. Oo^nns, it. Ciist was Ihe. son of the late Jury Commissioners for Newberry kVi 11 iam II. Oist.of this state and County, S. is born in Union county, Sep- i October 28tb, 1007.