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BRYAN SPEAKS TO HOMEFOLK! DELIVERS TWO NON-POLITICA] ADDRESSES DURING DAY. Says Agriculturalists Have Not Hai Their Share of Representation in Matters of Government. Lincoln. Neb., Sept. !.?William .1 lirvan. I )emocratic <*iiixli?l:i(<> tor tin presidency. today made 1 w ? avowed ly 111 11-]?<i]i 1 ical specehes lo his honii folk. The first was at the Slate fai grounds where he participated ii ihe dedication of the new auditoriun ami ihe second was at the Tahath; home, near Kai rview, where a nev hniMinu was dedicated as a hospila for I lie aired. In his fair ground speech he was introduced hy (hiv Sheldon who has just heen remunin ated by the Republicans for govern or ami who was a captain in Mr Bryan's regiment in I lie Spanish American war. Mr. Bryan refcrrci somewhat humorously to his own ex pcrieuces as a soldier and said Ilia anion*.: Ihe candidates for presided this year he was the only man with i war record. He said that underlyinj parti/.a n feel'my"- in this country w a! pat riot i-ui deeper and stronger thai all else, as indicated l>y Ihe ready re spouse to the call for volunteers ii the Spani-h-American war. 1 lis per sonal experience typified this. Am less than I wo years al ter his defea hy Mr. MeiKnlev he had voluuteerei his service- a! Washington for tie war. Thi- oll'i'i", however, was no acccpled and he turned to his owi Sia'e which v'avc him a coininissioi ami lie raided a regiment < f Xehras kaus. Mo?-t of the otliccrs in tin re*; imeii l. like tiiiv. Sheldon, he said >\ ere 1 f p 'I>!'i ;im, 1! oii'.di I he maj"r i \ . . . .1 ;> n i'i i iv I li'ino 1:11 -. A >li| i ,i ; i' in,- el!' i > i he l a riuer !? ^a id : Addressing the Farmers. ' M \ I'riemN'. we are more sting; in ma t: the apiu'opria I i <?11 ~ for t In farmer l ;ui 1 r a11\ "i her da-.- e- o in i i I \Y! . :i i :.l 'ii; i! -i .. ; r :;n', i >'11;11< 111 w a oiv.i ni/.ei f a'lolit ' i I: i i I I >: W e -Ueeeedcd II . i 11 ,i department 1 aLMtcull up e-tatdi-lie I. We aie the greatest a*.: i-ieultnral country in ihe world am aurieiilt nre is the greatest industry ii our country and \c| almost pin year elapsed before the farmer got a sea around lit*- president's council chain her. Mow backward we have heen ii leco 11i/iie.f the fanners' place in on j.'\ eriiaieiil and anion" our i'l^-tilu : ion-.. In I lie time liiat his elapset -ilice the c rea I ioi of this depart men i. . .. ,l.. 1 tM : .11 i a'el ' ' I ii. I d'-; i : 111 i i .1 i ' | .! -1.; ' || i ll . e .- |n-|i iir'i'e i 'i.ni i i i'h a vn \ and >i:<\ i We .p.-: .1 time- 111> i e in gettin re:;d\ for war> we ought never I liace than we spend on av l'ie'i 11 ure. The agricultural sclnw i< developing: its advaueeim'iit is on (d' the ureal marked charaeterist i< of this generation. 1 think I ni safe in sayiuir that in no other ill parlnient of learning has there liee so much progress as in that depart incut which relates lo agriculture, am triad to encourage Ihe agricultni al college. Why, for years it h;i heen deemed n pari of the duly < Ihe Stale to train lawyers throng law school - estaldishcd hy the go> erniuent. And we have trained dm tors through schools connected wit otvr Slate ijust ilut ions, hut, in friends, we arc just beginning t learn that the training of the farim is jn-t important as the trainin >t the doctor or the lawyer. 1 c peel uie.it tilings liiMil our agricii tural eolh v.e-. I hidieve those eo leges will lift |he average of genei'i intelligence of I lie farmer : I expei those colleges lo equip an iucreasiii nuinher of young men for public lit' "\\ e will read the role of I'nited SI; tes senators and we will find but Iw farmers among them, linn down 11 list ot congressmen and you will fin but very lew farmers among tliei < ousidcring the people engaged i farming, the farmer has very inad Mutito representation in the nation; congress. The result is that the fa mer has been neglected inorc than ar other man and his interest disregan e<l more than the interest of any of er chiss ami with Ibis larger Irai ing of our farmer boys and farnv cirls, I e\peel lo see the farmer a -ociate Jiiniseif more and vain a la ger representation in Ihe making our laws and the shaping of the n tion's policies. Discrimination Against Farmers. "The dis< riminalion that has be going on against the farmer has ten ed to drive the people from t farms to the town and I believe th j I hat symptom is dangerous. I am | nul going to dwell at length upon ^itliis discriminat ion; I am going simI ply In point out two or three ways I in which it manifests itself. Our fedCi I eral taxation is almost all eollected through methods thai bear upon consumption and when we tax eonsumpJ tinii instead of possession we mako the poor man pay more than his share and the rich man less than his share, and there has heretofore been a con slant drain of (ho farms in the mati' I tor of collecting taxes, and when the - | taxes are appropriated and expendu | ed the money is nearly all spent in r the cities and very little of it upon i the farms. The farmer therefore has i , not only suffered in paying more i | than his share to tlie collector, hut v ! In- has been the least benefited diI recllv by the expenditure of the * money that is raised. Head (lie amounts spent on ships and then fi pure, if you can, what portion of that ire Is to Ihe farmer. "Take up the oilier large appro print inns and with the exception of 1 pensions f do not know of any large appropriation in which Ihe farmer I i has a i iv t hi lit; like his share in pro' portion to his number. These have 1 been some of Ihe methods of diserim' ination. T believe thai with more * farmers in the councils of the na1 lion, more farmers prepared to ex" erl an influence upon public thought 1 through the pen and'-pencil and by " the tongue, that we shall have a 1 change and lliaf I hat change will I help to retard, if not to stop, the ten' denev now from 'he farm to the town. Danger of Concentration, j J>uI what, my friends, i< the dan^ ger of the concentration of our population in the great cities? 1 do not , mean to say that the causes that I have given are Ihe only ones that have tended to build up the cities, i Nearly everything has contributed. : bat tin -r i'lflnences have all. when 1 vmi trace them bark to the cause, j been operating, and the fad thai the I farmers' influence in legislation has ! not been what il ought lo have been k (is one of these influences. l> "Take lhe rebates that have huill 11!i reat i-eji're-s and de troyi-d the i m ill !i'V us W!i\ have I hey been 1 - i v en I.ecaie-e the farmer lias not I had a voice in the regulation of the railroads. | "I believe the farm is the great j training school ainl 1 know that Ihe 1 I people from the farm have strcnglhcued every branch of business but, ' my friends. I believe as we gel awav from the country, as we gel farther 1 | from Ihe soil, we are less and less ' ! impressed by those great laws of nai turtle that "U-jlit to have a controlling' 1 ' j influence in our lives. Man as lie lives dose to the soil lives dose lo i ioil. It i- ea-\ to inspire regard for I'll'-- {'realor in one who < - overv ' :\ ibc lentdiwork of ,\ 1 it;i".h!y and] ' ia'. .|-s con-.!,i!111 v a?nid '-.e .> / ' cries of na t nr." I I i I'. . Ail on t Sieve f:i rni- : we have been rearing the 'lien and "! women whose influence.- lnv? helped j "(to keep this country great and to : | promote tin* movements which have '' | for their objects the welfare of Ihe '' world. "lint there is another reason why " I am anxious that the farmer shall have a great influence. As T have " been si inlying the causes of evil, as I have been sludyng the abuses thai ^ need to be remedied, T have found that the fundamental trouble is a IS mistaken understanding of the law of rewards. The fanner, more than 'l any one else, is brought into close touch with the divine law of rewards. '' "The farmer knows that Clod has v given him a fruitful earth, Ihe show? ers that are necessary and the >r warmth of the sun and the farmer; - j knows that if he is to convert raw I material into wealth, il nin-l be by " j diligence and by intelligence; and '" the farmer is impressed day by day, vear by year, with the idea that his I reward is to be in proportion lo his merit." >- PEOPLE THE "MUTTS." >?' One of the Reform Papers of San id Francisco on Ruef'B Release. n. ? in As showing the feeling in regard i'- to the graft situation in San Franeisal co the following, written by J. S. r- Unnuingan in the Bulletin of that i.V city, is instructive: I- liuef has bailed himself out of I'" jail. ii- Pari of his plunder is pledged for l''' his appearance iu court when he s" conies to trial for one of his Ihree'*~ score felonies. "f Some day, if he is crowded too dose to the jute mill, he may spil in the face of San Francisco and scoot away till time destroys the evidence en which should convict him. d- lie could easily?but not willingly he - sacrifice three-quarters of a milat lion dollars to evade a convict's stripes and still have it, it is estimated, probably $2,000,00 in safe deposit vaults or in the safekeeping of his relatives. Analysis of the bonds upon which the looter of this city has procured his liberty shows that he is his own surety. And when the final signatures were being allixed to the bonds in Judge Muruskv's court he grinned and remarked sot to voce: "I am giving the whole bond." Ruef's sister and father were accepled as sureties for $000,000; the Aetna Indemnity company put up $100,000 cash for which the company holds coin and collateral, undoubtedly Rucf's and his codcfendnut crooks; "nd a mortgage for $100,000 on the Ruef property at Kearny and Montgomery avenue secures one ol' I lie' bondsmen who guaranteed that amount for Ruef's appearance. ' The total bail collectable, should Ruef run away, is $780,000. The records show that Ruef himself has put up $790,000 and lie or his close friends have insured the bond given by the surety company. While the 1 aw requires two sure-1 ties on each bond, which compelled the grafter to produce $1,500,000, yet the default would amount to just half that amount. And Ruef's own signature as surety is on all of the bonds on which his father and sister qualified. His signature was required to make doubly sure that the State would have a claim to the Ruef real estate if foreclosure proceedings are begun some time in the future. I odav Ruef is free to travel about the city. I lis insolent and braggart demeanor may now be witnessed in public places, other than in the hobbled courts of justice. He is at liberty to defame and vilify judges and lioiiesl ollici.ils in places where his Mud lorc/al her to admire him fori 'he !??.. in- ha- t .n* ?I .iin! the jmi.ite ; hrjzcuncss with which lie defies decency. He may iro and come at will, visit hif> law \ cr I riends who manipulate jury boxes and higher courts for Herrin and Calhoun; ihero is nothing to prevent Ireoueitf conferences hdwctn ' im-eli * 11 I S,::i: l.eake. who. bv I lie way. sal in court jti.- i before the order ot iclease tor I lie grattor was signed. And Abe is now aide to plot and conspire to destroy evidence; suborn perjury, bribe jurors and resume his rat-like gnawing at the pillars of government . His vanity is untouched; disgrace does not puncture his shell so long as he has his illimitable gall and his ducats. His nerve will, no doubt, take him t'> fashionable theatres and re-danrHe will not, as Schmilz did. line with jail bird- on I'arbarv coast, j '[? : ' ih.-i-erous Ic. I he hio'.'c:- ' ? :!lfi lain ] iin and " '""wl-,1:, him in public places. I.aws are inr criminal--, Justice is cldotMi'nvii'.'.l. The people are the M ut i -. Sharp Dealing. I'W once the American had discovered something British that was bett,>r anything that could he pro-1 (luced- "across the pond." His dis-i c?very was a fine collie dog, and lie' | at once tried to induce its owner, an I old shepherd, to sell it. N\ ail \e be takin' him to America?" inquired the old Scot. "Yes, I guess so," said the Yankee. "I thought as muckle," said the [shepherd. <4I couldna pairt \vi' 'Jock." Hut while they sat and chatted an English tourist came up, and to him I the shepherd sold the collie for much less than the American had offered. '' N on told ' me you woiildu 'I s.dl , him. said t lie \ aukee, when the . purchaser had departed. J "Xa," replied the Scot; "T said 1 j couldna' pairt wi' him. Jock'11 be back in a day or so, but he couldn't swim the Atlantic."?Detroit Free Press. VERY LOW RATES. To Denver, Colorado and Return via Southern Railway. On account of the Annual Convention, American Rankers Association, the Southern Railway announces attractive low round trip rates to Denver, Col. Tickets to be sold daily until September nOth, 11)08, good to return leaving Denver not later than October olsl, 1008. I'or rates, details, schedules, etc., apply to Southern railway ticket agents or, J. C. Lusk, Division I'assanger Agent, Charleston, S. C. J. L. Meek, Asst. (Jen. Rass. Agt., Atlanta, Ga. TJ ?-* Cj 8 o S ? S & 3 > 8. crq JS'dtcSSMp & >-?. r- ? E o ^ ^ ^ Sc^^r^CuPOcS^? 2. CO . r/-) C/) ^ B P P r CfQ Mrs. Alice Robertson, TEACHER OF Voice, Piano and Harmony. Studio Over Mower's Store. Opens Sept. 1st. VIOLIN MUSIC: Miss Can ie Pool will give instruction on the Violin, beginning September the 14th. Address: 1727 Harrington Street. Phone: No. 78. LANDER COLLEGE (l-ormerly WitHmiislon Female College). GREENWOOD, S. C. Rev. John 0. Willson, President. Ol'KNS Sept. iS. Comfortable, steamheated, electric lighted building, in city limits. Good food. Ilome-liko life and oversight. _ Thorough teaching and training. l>"ine work in music and art. Cost reasonable. Send for catalogue. Due West Female College. With the best modern conveniences and equipment, and high standards of teaching and living, this is an ideal place for preparation for the great responsibilities of womanhood. TIC RMS MODERATE. I'"or attractive catalog write RTCV. JAM ICS BOYCE. Due West, S. C\ " " ? ----- - r University of South Carolina \\ ide range of choice in Scientific, I.ilerarv. Graduate and Prolessional Courses leading to degree of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Licentiate of Instructions, Bachelor of Laws, Master of Arts, Civil Engineer and Electrical Engineer. Well equipped Laboratories, Library of over 40,000 volumes. Expenses moderate. Many students make their own expenses. Next session (lo.jth) begins September 23d, 1908. For announcement write to the President. Columbia, S. C. 11705 Megerf (Mitm 1908 liarieston, S. C.. 124th Year Begins September 25II1. Entrance examinations will be held at the County Court House 011 Friday, July 3, at 9 a. 111. All candidates for admission can compete in September for vacant Boyce Scholarships which pay $100 a year. One free tuition scholarship to each county of South Carolina. Board and furnished rcom in dormitory $11. Tuition $40. For catalogue, address Harrison Randolph, President. Piano and Organ Economy. If yon are interested in the purchase of a 1'IANO or an ORGAN, we want to sell you one. Don't think you must go to some mail order house to buy a low priced piano or organ: nor outside of South Carolina to get the best piano or organ. We have a great variety of grades, and all styles, at prices which cannot fail to interest yon. We ate manufacturers' factory representatives for several < f the largest ami most famous makers of pianos and organs We take old instruments in exchange and make most liberal terms of payment to those who wish to buy on time. No house?quality of pianos and organs considered?can undersell us. Twenty-four years of fair dealing in Columbia ami throughout South Carolina is our reference and guarantee. Write us at once for catalog price and terms. Malone's Music House, Columbia, S. C. PIANOS ANI) ORGANS, SUMMER EXCURSION RATES Via Southern Railway. Round trip summer excursion tickets <0 seashore nnd mountain resort. points are now on sole via Southern Railway at greatly reduced rates. Tickets good returning until October 31st, 1908. Asheville, Waynesvillc, Uendersonvillc, in the ' Land of I lie Sky"; Lake Toxaway and the "Beautiful Sapphire Country," now iu their glory. Apply to Southern Railway agents for rates, tickets, etc. J. C. Lusk, Division Passenger Agent. J? L. Meek, Charleston, S. C. Asst. Cien'l Passenger Agt., Atlanta, Ga. The Commercial Bank, [1 NEWBERRY, S. C. I 1 Condensed from report to State Bank I Examiner at the close of business June I JT 4th, 1 908: I >1 ! RESOURCES: I 1/1 Loans and Discounts $37 1.2 1 7.20 Overdrafts 6,52 1.92 IS I Furniture and Fixtures 3,1 16,93 m Cash ; 30,599.38 ^ $411,455.43 i LIABILITIES: Capital $ 50,000.00 I Undivided Profits net 55,887.90 1 Dividends Unpaid 1,112.00 \ Cashiers Checks 12.00 J Due to Banks 1,063,32 j Individual Deposits 303,380.21 Borrowed Money None Y | $411,455.43 I ! JNO. M. KINARD, O. B. MAYER, J. Y. McFALJ,, I I President. Vice-Prcs. Cashier. I 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid in Our Sav- *s| B ings Department. . ] mi IM I in iiiiiniiiii mil I INI II III II mill Mill III Mill hi minium inmn miiinmni ml ______ I Newberry Col. lege j e Two Courses: fl w 1 Bachelor of Arts ^ b Languages and Mathematics | e with Electives sj r 2 Bachelor of Science 1 r Mechanical and Electrical fl y Engineering with a. b. English <9 c high standards i 0 good sanitation i l unusual economy 1 l Positive Moral Influences i e opens sept. 23. 1 g For Illustrated Catalogue a nm'e 9 e j. a. b. Scherer, Newberry, s. c. a c hi co r a co llege, s GREENVILLE, S. C. fl Owned and controlled by the Presbyteries of the S\ nod of South Carolina. 58a A high grade college for women. A Christion home school. j^B Graduate courses in the Arts and Sciences, Music, Art, Expression, Gymnastics 'Jfl and Business. Large and able faculty, beautiful grounds, elegant buildings, modern conveniences, healthful climate. location in Piedmont section, and in city of 25,000. Ai EXPENSES FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. V 1 A. Tuition, Hoard, Room and Fees ..... ?183.00 ijB B. All included in proposition (A) and Tuition in Music, Art or Expression ^ #203.00 to $213 00 9 Next session opens September 17th Eor catalogue and information address S. C. BYRD, D. D., President. a| REPORT OF CONDITION OF I THE EXCHANGE BANK 1 of Newberry, S. C., I I condensed from report of State Bank Exam: 1 iner June 4th, 1908. | RKSOUHCHS: I Loans and discounts $199,738 76 ? Overdrafts 2,115.92 Ifc Furniture and fixtures 3,696.62 N P Cash 011 hand and in Banks 26,548.34 If $232,099 64 J EX I.IABII.JTIKS: if Capital stock 5 50,000.09 I Surplus, net 8,439.70 11 Unpaid Divided?* 12.51 Ei Cashiers Checks 1,162.80 m Bills Payable ...65',ooo!oo 9 Deposits, { ?taVk^1tV i * 1 ?492?74 , 9 (Individual 105,991.82?107,484.57 I $232,099.64 I Reliable and absolutely safe. We pay 4 percent 011 time deposits. f J. D. DAVHNPORT, M. I, SPKARMAN, | Piesic'ent. Cashier. fl KDW. R. IIIPP, W. B. WAIJvACJv, 9 Vice-President. Assistant Cashier. fl OKO. B. CROMER, Attorney.