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I TOL XLV NO <*8 NEWBERRY. S. C.. TUESDAY. AUGUSr 25.1008. TWICE A WEEK. $1.60 A YEAR SENATOR TILLMAN ON P> NATIONAL POLITIC PREDICTS CERTAIN DEMOCRAT IC VICTORY. ^ Taft too Subservient and Sherman' Nomination an Insult to the ^ Name of Reform. The following; special cable di: K patch from its represontative in Lot c don, printed in the Now York Moral B "Saturday, will he read with inferos in this State: Among all the prophets of Denu B eratic success at the coming olectio none is more confident than Sonato Benjamin 1\. Tillman, of South Cai olina, who, after an extensive f'oi J "tinental tour, is emjoying Itis firs I visit to London. I "It may he that the wish is fatho I to the thought." said Senator Til I man when 1 encountered him at tli >' office of the American Express con > pany, "hut it looks to me as if Br\ Vhas a powerful good chance c cleaning up the other crowd this time Tn tfirst place he lias been nomi nated v.'i spite of tlie best organic' newspaper fight against him eve known, thus demonstrating his innat strength with lIn rank and file ot tli Democratic party. Taft, on the. coi trary, has been nominated solely :i the dictation of Roosevelt and agains the wishes of the masses in the Rc publican parly. While Taft is ; lovable character in every %ay, an I don't wish be construed as sa\ ing anythint, against him as a mat his self-obi it oration and what should call thv? element of subservi cncy in his visit to Oyster Hay t get his speech revised are not in hi favor. Other Factors of the Situation. "There are other facts that inns appeal to the people. Tf. for instanet Ave are gojjig to INTcxicaiiizc our conn try by having the president appoin bis successor through the machiner of the Republican party and the us of ofiice-holders to a sto<*l< nominatiu convention, it is simply going t<> tnak a ere at slump downward in the lib 'torv of the American Republic. "Again, if the country is really i love with, and anxious to have earriei out. reforms which Roosevelt stol from the Democrats and proclaimci as 'my policy,' the people will recou ni/.e that Bryan more fully represent Ihose ideas than does Taft. "Then again the vice presidentia nomination of the Republican con vent ion is an insult to t bo name o reform. Kvcrvbody in Washingtoi is familiar with Sherman's align inent with the plutocratic influence of the country, and unless T mistak the character of the people generall; they will consider his nomination a :a surrender to the plutocracy. "While Taft's friends are deny ing everything that is calculated t lose him any votes there is still an other important consideration whie -will influence the election of Rrvan The panic of last winter has onb left unpleasant recollections and ai amount of damage to business w hid now is relatively small. Things seen to be almost normal at present, bu whatever it was, harm resulted witl Republicans in possession of al branches of the government, in spit of the protective tariff, in spite o the gold standard. No Money Issue Now. "The money fpiestion is no issw now and cannot he made one. Brvan altitude in 1800 and 1000 would no influence even a nervous baby, muel less a sensible voter, and unless Amor ican minds are absolutely besotted, o which in uiv opinion there is not lb slightest indication, they will realiz v tlint to allow one party ( > remain ii jL power indefinitelv is not healthy o Ijj;. for the good r>f* the country. W "Consider, besides, the disaffec W tion in the west over the tariff, an< Ty thi' clamor for Roosevelt's program ji, which Brvan represents, and you wil $ see that Bryan cannot keep from win ft ning." $ Tn answer to a f|uestion Senato n Tillman said: "No, T don't think anything inucl I' can be done with the tariff next ses sion. I wo-thirds of the senati against any reduction, and iL* C wci'o a change this big majority v rather favor an increase. Kven Domcrat ic president and house elected wouldn't Aid rich just there in the senate and laugh at la rill bill sent from across the \vj 's | TREASURY THIEF CAUGE Man Who Stole $173,000 Arrest* Chicago?Crime Committed i d 1907C hicago, Any. 23.?The mystei ^ the theft of $1 <3,000 from the I* Stales subtreasury a year and a ago, one of the largest losses 1 froverntnenl has ever suffered in manner, is believed to have been ed by the arrest at an early lion day of (leorge \Y. Fitzgerald, ers are believed to have been ii ' cated in the crime, which for m< coinjdelely baffled government ^ ret service men. l4it/.gerald was an assorting I under Assistant United Stales T > nrer \\ illiam Roldenweck. Susp at the time, February 'it). 1007. ed on him, but so plausible wa y story and so intense his apparen e teres! ill discovering the real en p thai interest ceased to centre in Much work was done on the 11 j I hat t lie crime had been perpeti .j. by a negro. Meanwhile Fit/," w as discharged from the govern , employ for culpable negligence i (| lowing such a theft to be consum ed under his very eyes. The m j ( stolen had been used and was j packages, some having been ma j_ for destruction at Washington. (> ot the bills would readily have | s ed anywhere except for their larg nominations. None of the bills under $.>00 and some were id' ^ $1,000 and .$5,000 denominations v $1,000 ones predominating. The theft created a sensi ( throughout the country and eon; y at the last session was asked am p 1 used to release Assistant Treas nr lioldenweok from liability, thout p was promised that congress w a train consider the matter at its session. ii rl SON SEES FATHER KILLE e ^ Saluda County Farmer Struck ] , by Lightning. ] Saluda. Auirnst 22.?During a i_ storm late yesterday afternoon, \\ f was accompanied by much lighti ? Mr. S. II. Quarles, u well-to-do f !_ er living near Johnston, was striu s liirhttiing and instantly killed, p Quarles and his son were takin; fodder when the rain came on s sonuhi refutre in his barn. Soon ; entering the building a bolt of 1 nintr came tearing through the 0 s!riking Mr. Quarles, and killing instantly. IIis son, although w 1 a few feet of the father, was not ] Mr. fleorge M. (ilisson, of town, was called to Augusta j morning on account of the deat his father, who lived in that cih n t LEXINGTON CROPS SHOR1 1 Rains Come too Late to Help Cc f ?Old Corn Best in Years, f Lexington, August 23.-?(!ood i have fallen all over the county r> ing the past few days, but in i s places it has conic too bile to h I material benefit jo the crops. Ii ton is opening rapidlv and will - be on the market. Those who f followed the campaign say that n I ton will hardly be more than a r> crop. Old corn will be the bes ii many years, while late corn is all r a complete failure. Sympathy. 1 A kind hearted little slum girl i, visit to the country saw one eve 1 a mother lien about to gather - j brood ot chicks under her wings. jl;tll" rjii*l rushed up to the hen r I shouted : I '-Si. von ugly l kitt'j ! I low I | you >il down on these beautiful I - j birds V' i ' a it NEWS OF WHITMI] there ? i-ould Master Edgar Fant Painful i f* a ed?Personal Mention?1 were Matters. sit any Whit mire. Any. '24.?Mrs iv ? '' Tsoni, oi (ireenvilie. is vis daughter, Mrs. J. W. llipp. [>j> Mrs. J. F. ('o field and Mrs. William Mayhin have 2<j jn from a pleasant visit t?> Ne\ n The Rev. Foster Speer, as the Kev. .1. T. Miller, has 1 ducting a meeting at Qua' c week. liited s" ''ost(M' Speer and ehi half Vls',i"- lu>1' parents, the i{ the ^'rs- ^'oo/.cr, in Columbia. Fi tliis ^'rs- will ?o to Heinle solv- x- r ' lo visit Mrs- R 1,1 r to- ^r* *' ^'* and Mrs* Oth- *^(''('r returned from a mpH- Vls'' C. S. Howie an m|||s 'n Greenville. They attende SOf._ union while away. They pleasantly with Gov. Ansel. . ,, lar in his own home town. Icller , , . ... set always reeals with |>lej . ! friendship for and admir: '"',n Gov. T. H. deter, deeeased. I . blisses Marv and Tjouise I I in ss Mini ie Fleming, t lire . . girls of Carlisle, are visit in 1 |u" W. A. Andrews'. Misses Kate Hargrove a Dobbins have n'tnrned from rated . .... . . slay at Kinards. ' Messrs. C. 11. Koll< and T. menl ,, . ^ dler were in town today. j j The young people enjovei selves at a dance in (lie sell forinni last evening. ^ Tn the early hours of this we lie;.rd the fox hunters' li Cofield and friends cli ' '" fox over the hills and far aw e de- , , . eaujiht liiin. 'l Master Edgar Fanf was v< fully burned one day last w Itase-ball team from Cross here and an unusual ainouni 1 11)11 hash had been prepared at I arress of M,. ,lno Vi F;l?( fl((0 1 ro" had two la rye dishes of lias *urer waiter bringing ii in tn tli * ' ^ \vhen l'Muar eame running onld fi'om a door into the hall. He m'xl Joe and the hash, spilling t tents on his face and necl<. a bright, handsome bov. and ID. he may soon be well airain. a scar. Dead M''s- Mary Calder is visi parents, Mr. and Mrs. ,T. F. Mrs. Louis Braunon and of Mobile, Ala., are spending rain mer with relatives here. hich ^Tr. Hunter, of Chester, i.nitipr. ])js daughter. Mrs. Ida Writ k ^ l Eanrens, ca hast week to see his brother. W right, who was t|iiite si k u,> Wright made a pleasant tal *uu at the Sundav school. itter i"ht- ' f,:1r,os Felder, of Bai roof v's't>n? relatives here, him Mrs. .Tack Henderson am it hill snn? fa Id well Sims, are at M l,u|.j A brains'. this The Whitmire base-ball te; this ed West End on Saturday. 'I h of was six to five in favor of V I. Eggs Barred. One evening a solid lookim tton carrying a basket, houiihl a ti started to miter the opera In TiOiig Island town, .lust as ains go in ir in, the cover of the bii dm- accountably slipped off, revesi most do/en eirirs. ' ol '"IIe.v!" said the I ieki ''"I- ''This isn't Faster. Where soon 'mo with eyirs?" have "None o' v'r business! TTi cot- ticket, all paid lor an* reir'l halt clared the citizen. ' ''Well, there don't iinv egi most side while firi here." said I taker, and then the other reason his burden was suspei roared with laughter. "" :l lie left the ei?cs in chary ning | man at the box otlice and hei t and he en.joved everv ni'>men ' j show. When it was over. 111 Mini I ,v,.|. ivturnci! the to ! i said : 1 "1 was afraid yn i mijlit | 1,1foot into the basket while \ j applauding.' ElE. BURIED MONEY. ly Burn- Arkansas Man's Decayed Fortui Other Saved for Him by Woman. Washington, August 21 ?Of $1( . .1. M. 000 in decayed greenbacks sent to (I it ins; her treasury department for redeinptit hy (). 1). Karl, of Morrillon, Ark., ;i Mr. and hut -t2.? hav cbeen identified and returned cheek lor ${),!)*.) was mailed to M vberry. Karl today. sisted by Fearing the banks were unsafe M )t?en eon- Karl buried his savings in an old pa ker this in H)0|. Recently he dug ii|> li treasure only lo find that tin- hi! ldren are were so decayed (hat lie eould not di ev. and ccrn their numbers. All that was le om there ol the roll was a hunch of paper r rsonville, sembing a package of dried leave utow. with here and there the torn end ? i Frances a note displaying a figure. Mrs. j pleasant Is. Brown, the burnt monev expert < rl family, I lie redemption division, was giv< <1 the re- custody ot the unrecognizable ma chatted when Mr. Karl forwarded what w; so popu- left of his fortune I., the treasui (lov. An- department. Alter much ledioi isure his work she has succeeded in identifvii Uion ol most of the monev. s?n<1 WEST END NEWS. e pretty _ g at Mr. The Sad Death of Little Daughter < Mr. O. S. Goree?Personal and nd Inez. Otherwise. a week 's \V('s| I'-1"! Aug. 12-1.?'The couni ( ,inn" P<?lilical campaigners paid their r spects I.) our citizens at the acaden [1 them- on Saturday evening, and the cam] ool audi- dales were cordially and enthusiast cally received. Tomorrow will d morning ride the results of the campaign, lorn. Mr. There was a sad death in the lion lased I lie of Mr. (>. S. Uoree on Saturday, win ay. They little Knla May. the I hree-year-ol dauirhtei ol Mr. and Airs, (loree su sr.v pain- cunibed in a short attack of lyphoi eek. The fever. The funeral services wei Hill was held in the O'Xeall Street Melhodi t of fine church on Sunday morning, conduc lie home ed by the pastor, after which 11 (he cook, remains were carried to Rosenionl an h on his interred. c table. O'Xeall Street parsonage has bee Middenlv the scene ol social felici|\ for tl ran into last two or three weeks, lmt the vi he con- itors are all gone; Mrs. W. K. llei Kdgar is derson and children to their lumie j we hope Verdery. S. (\; Mrs. [). X. Miller ai without children |o their place of abode Washington, I). and I'rof. K. 1 ting her Miller lo his home at IlennetIsvill Oofield. S. ('. children. After a three weeks' visit lo friem I lie sum- jn (Jreenwood and Verdery. Miss Li cile West and Miss CJiace Miller lia\ visiting returned to their homes, where tin r''1- W'H s,M"i he making preparations l\ me down another school term. Mr. Zacn Mr. Baxter had charge of the I'm ck. Mr. era I procession yesterday and niovr k for li? it with his accustomed ease and aff; bility. Mr. Frank is an expert, nberjr, is The Rev. .1. T. Miller spent la: week in a meeting with Rev. Fosl< I grand- Speer, on the Whit mire circuit. II fr. M. K. reports a good meet inc. We gladly welcome our peop sun play- back after their two weeks' pleasai The game outing. It was a well deserved res kThitmire. and we hope they all enjoyed it. Nit a. A Fast Record. At a political convention held i z citizen, Illinois the importance of nominatiii cket and ja popular man for a certain clo> use in a I district was thoroughly recognized. lie was speaker had just renominated a pe isket un- sonal friend for the position and i iling two an elaborate eulogy had presented i glowing terms his manifold merit I laker, especially emphasizing his great se you go- vices on I lie field of battle ax well ; j in t lie pursuits of peace. r>M' After lie had finished a voice wji ar, de- heard in the rear of the room. 'Win we want i< the man I hat will run tli ITS go in- |?.S|." In mi instant the orator was agai saw the i <> . on Ins I eel. fled find , II you think, he yelled, I hi e if the M'1'" convention can find anybody tli; entered | ''lnl1 gentleman il of tin ! "oiuiiuited. I point once tnoi . to 11 i? well known war record." Lit ic maun- J 1 lim antl j I'"" i mi I your : i lie f i -> 11 candle* "I Al.i-k.: ai'e In nil were :i -en! over i i? world i;i f|it:.nl il it . I a-> curiosities. HUNTING WILD HORSES. ie A Favorite Sport in New Soutl Wales?How Animals Are broken u> Whether "brumby" is a survival >11 ll'i' aboriginal name for a wild ill forse or a corruption of "unbranda |111 ' appears to bo a question whicli r. philologists have loft utulceidcel, but brumby limiting is still a favorite r. sport in Now South Wales . iil Districts liko llio Clarence and Stois pbons and Manning river watershed Is are still the home of numerous droves s- of brumbies, and hunting them is deft j (dared to be a very oxhiliraling pas| time. The first step taken is to stake >s, | "lit a corral and make all secure ex?f j oopt a narrow entrance, which oar .\. j subsequently he gated. On eithoi if side of the entrance and projecting mi I from it fnnnelwiso a "booby fence' ss is prepared. is To (he simple minded brumby i! v presumably looks like a stockade, and ls pieces ol fluttering cotton make il t?y look impregnable. When this i> ready the young bloods, well mounted gallop out and round np the wild I horses, driving them with shouts and I inneh loud snapping of stock whip; ' toward the month of the funnel. In a group of brumbies there is al ways a leader, and when once tin hunters have got the leader headin*. j v for the corral they are pretty certaii j of the rest of the drove. The flut tering cotton rags of tin* sham fenci |j_ are sutlicieiit to deter the hruuthic? j. j from breaking through the flimss ! barriers, and in less lime than it take* | to tell the wild horses are safely corrailed and the big gate sliu! on them ,M I Then they are loft for lour ami |(| twenty hours without food and walei c_ to rol'loet on the situation, ami aftei i,l | that they can be broken in without | much difficulty.?Loudon Standard. st i (J True Devotion. )(, j A naval ollieor relates a tale of voll(| j eran seaman named Dailey, who, dur! ing his service on one of our cruisers 11 I became devotedly attached to a youmj ,,, | officer named Knsign Peters. s-| One day il happened that a green ii- seaman, while attending lo some <lut\ it aloll, lost his foiling and fell overid board. As lie was a poor swimmer il ir.i was probable that ho would havi P. drowned before the vessel could hav< 0 been stopped in her course sutlicieiitl.\ t" permit a boat to be lowered, h;id not an ollicer, standing on the gut deck below, sprang after him and, al (> the risk his own life, gallautlv held him up until assistance came. ?r In due course a letter from the secretary ol the navv, commending it i). high tonus this heroic action, wa> ,(] sent to the bravo rescuer, and read n_ before the assembled ship's company Seaman Dailey viewed the whole proceeding with a feeling of extreme ^r jealousy, and after brooding over the [e matter for some days he relieved himself in I he following strain: le "Mr. Peters," said ho, siding up |i it 'object of his devotion, "that lt there letter the sechelary wrole's a line thing for a young ollicer to have* ^ on ought to get one, Mr. Peters." "Sure thing," said the youthful officer, smiling, as lie scented a joke; n ,( * ... . . ir a tetter like that is a fine thing for ~ a yonin.' man to have. Still. I am , afraid I don't see my way clear to oh I .lining one like it. " ri, j "Mr. Peters," continued Dailey, in ii " horase whisper, "trust to me an n I II lix it lor you. Tomorrow night, t. | sir, I II be in the main chains, fnsjs sin' with sonielliin' or other. Maybe 1 I 1! just accidentally fall over. Seeh j linn::- has Icippened, he added, . i w il 11 ;i dv wink. it |(i j " I lien, Mr. Peters, what's to hin; der you I'rotu jampin' overboard after me. like your mes-analc done? | Then, I guess, you'd have as good :i j chance as liiin for one o' them letters j from I he secret ;i ry. ! 'There's onlv one diflicultv about 1 ' j vonr plan. Dailey." re-ponded the en( sign, keeping his face straight. "I'n*j fortunately, I don't know how In ' swim." "'h,. i- I i! ; ' .ill?" returned D'lilev, - ' nndi-mav Thai :iin "t not' in ' I - j < 'i I 'II liold .ij. ? ]'. | >,< I, ,-it jCoii.es.- Harper's Weekly. .. SEEING WITHOUT EYES. i How the Blind Men Described an Elephant by Sense of Touch. I here wort* oner six blind men who 1 bad often board of elephants, but I wlm bad never seen one. for, beinsj blind, how could Iliev. i ll so happened one morninir that an elephant was driven down the road where they stood, and they ashed the driver to let hint stop so that Ihev niiirhl see him. I or course they could not see him ; with their eyes, but (hey thought tlial bv touching him lliev could - learn just what kind of animal he was. I he first one happened to put his ? hand on (lie elephant's side. ''Well, well! he said. "Now I know all : about this beast. He is exact lv like a wall." The second fell onlv of ||,e 0|(>. ' Pl'-'H'I's lusk. "My brother," he said, I "you are mistaken. lie is not at all I like .1 wall, Me is round and smooth 4 !,l"l sharp, lie is more like a spear , than any!hint: else." | The I bird happened lo take hold of 1 ,l?' ''h'phant's trunk. "l?o||, of vou - are wronjr." he said. "Anybody who knows any I hinir can see licit this elej pliant is IiUi? a snake.'' , i ' '""i I h reached out his arm and -rasped one of the elephant's Icus. ' < Mi, how blind you are!" he said. " Ir , ls V(,,'.V plain to me that lie is round a ml tail like a I ree.'" ''''lb was a very tall man, and . he chanced to lake hold of the elephant s ear. " I he blindest man oujrlil ?" know thai this beast is not like any I 0,1 ,1|(' Ihinjrs thai you name," he said. lie is exactly like a luce fan." I lie sixth was very blind, indeed, and il was some lime before he could ''",l 'lephanl at all. At last lie seized the animal's tail. "Oh. foolish lellows! re cried. " \ mi surely have . lo>1 your senses. This elephant is . "'M l?l??' a wall or a spear or a snake , or a I ree; neither is lie a fan. IJul any man with a particle of sense can see he is exactly like a rope."?Philadelphia hedtrcr. A Reductio ad Absurdum. ''he late Waller A. Wyckoff, the tramp professor of Princeton," said a magazine editor, "had in his IrampI niu .lays inaiiv a ?|iiain! experience, i lie u as talking lo me one nitflil I about political econmy. lie wanted ! lu prove that I was wron? in my jelaim that labor-saving inventions . robbed poor men id' work. Me said, i a I the argument 's end. lhaf h>> was < reminded of a eonversal ion lie over1 heard in 15)00 on a tramp in Pennsylvania. "'They were d iii.irinir,' he befall, 'Miter beds on the outskirts of Philadelphia with a steam shovel. The wonderful shovel, whistling and trrunl in?r, would darl into the earth, , jork out a?rain and swim,' up merrily . toward I lie wail iii}.' car, loaded with a ton of dirt. I wo laborers stood beside \\ \ ckkolT. I hey watched I lie quick and tireless shovel scooping up and dumping into the car a ton of dirt at a lick. I" inally the yountfcr laborer sa id. with an oa I h : A iii I il a >liauic. (icorye, lo shovel dirl that way?" i ' "Mow so? " said fleorj/e, the ' I elder laborer. . j ' "Why. thai I here machine is j lakin ' bread out of I lie mout lis of .">00 1 | men what would be required lo do the same work with hand shovels. *' i j '1 ' < m ui <>e laughed. ! '' ' " ((>n!" he said : " yon don 'l ; reason riyhl. I k a here. if tliij steam diiryinir, would eive work to | men with -hovels why not eel f>,| 000 men with teaspoons for the .job.'' Philadelphia Press. A Hint to the Old Man. '' I hope you appreciate I he fact, -sir. thai in marry in-.: my daughter \"n marry a lar*_'e hearted and 'jener| ous -.'il l " ' wil !> eniotion. ''ami ! j .h< j :: - f' - -? oiimIit ies !'> (tin i her fai her.