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TL A- I-?~S~RT -Programme For Dime Reading at City Hall To-Night Personals. Prosperiy, S. C., July 7. Mrs. A. H. Kohn, of Columbia,:; returned to her home on Wednes- i d-y after a visit to her aunt, Mrs. E.'E. Young. Misses Ellen Werts and Eula,, Joiner spent Wednesday in New berry with Mrs. T. B. Walton. Miss Nannie Simpson has as her guest Mrs. G L. Johnson and chil-1 dren of Clinton. 1 Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Boozer, of Lake City, Fla., are visiting Mrs. c J. P. Wheeler. The Ladies Union Missionary x society will meet July i5th at five I o'clock in the A. R P. church. a Miss Rebe Langford has returned to Columbia after a visit to her par- r ents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Langford. 1 Mrs. Henry Parr, of Newberry, t spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. P. Wheeler. Miss Olive Feagle, of Newberry, and Mrs. J. I. Wheeler, of Colum bia, are visitihg Miss Gertrude Bobb. Master Randolph Schumpert, of Savannah, Ga., will spend this d month with his grand parents, Mr. t and Mrs. B. B. Schumpert. ] Services will be held in Grace o Lutheran church Sunday night at - 8:30, July Ioth. t t( Messrs Jim Luther, of Columbia, il and Robert Luther, of Atlanta, are c visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Luther. b Mr. Wartez Joiner, of Helena, c Ga., will arrive in town Monday to a visit his sister, Mrs. R. T. Pugh. n Following is the programme for the Dime Reading, which will be tj Friday evening, July 8th, at the s: IS Scity hall: s - -Instrumental duet - M r s . Bi-own and Mrs. Ridgell'. 2-Recitation -Elizabeth Haw- ti kins. 3-Song-Misses Annie Moseley and Janie Russell. 4-Reading-Miss Ethel Counts. 5 -Instrumental solo-Mrs. J. D-.t SQuattlebaum. ,d 6-Recitation--Miss Julia Schum- ti pert.a 7-Song-Miss Groseclose. 8-Reveries of a Bride-Miss Isoline Wyche. 9-Tableau. ro-Instrumental solo - Miss Annie Moseley. 11-Plays-"An Old Sweet-t heart' '-Eglantura. _ _ - a A THRIFTY TOWN C S d In a Thrifty Community-Plenty to Eat and Always Something to Sell. - Jr We were in Little Mountain one y afternoon this week. President Chiids has recently completed one~ l of the handsomest depots on his S line at this place. It is large and commodious with ample waiting, rooms and baggage room and largeg storage apartment as well as a large e and convenient office. It is built t of brick and is really an ornament to the town. Little Mountain has also just s completed one of the handsomest: 1school buildings in any town of its size in the State. The town is not very large but has several success ful merchants and a bank with ai capital of $10,000. The bank was organized only about three years .ago with Dr. J. M. Sease as Presi dent and Mr. WV. A. Counts as Cashier, and it has regularly paid the semi-annual dividend of three pe:r cent. and has placed to the sur plus an undivided profit account of about $2,500. This is a very goodI showing for a bank of its capital. The Oil Mill, under the presi- 1 dency of Mr. Joe Derrick, and Mr., Addy as superintendent, is also successfully operated. We heard one of the oldest merchants in the town say the other day that he had never bought a car load of flour or a car load of corn since he had been in business at this town, and~ he was the first merchant to open business at Little Mountain. Now and then some one runs she~ it or' con, but he can always direct him svho Inas corn to sell. The rural district is very dens( )opulated with a thrifty and indi :rious white population who oi ;nall farms but who make th, >wl "hog and hominy," and wl :otton they raise is a surplus crc ks a result they Ive gooti Co ortable homes, plenty to eat 2V lways a little cash on hand. The third quarterly conferen if the Newberry circuit will mE .t New Chapel church on Thui ay, July 14, for just one da Nhere will be preaching at 'clock. a. m. The Rev. H. H. Sweets, of Loui ille, Ky., will preach at the A. ] . church next Sabbath morni t the usual hour of service. Mr. F. W. Higgins is hereby a ou nced as a candidate for the leg iture, and will abide the rules he democratic party. POETS AND COUNTRY LIFE. umber Who Have Lived 'Mid Grei Fields and Rural Scenes. ondon Times. In a letter which we printed yeste ay the poet laureate very good hui redly took us to task for suggesth iat Wordsworth is perhaps the on nglish poet who preferred and live r free choice, the simple country lif [r. Austin summons a formidable a ty of our great poets from Chauc > Tennyson for our discomfiture, ai isists that with rare and doubtful e: ptions th-ey all of them preferred t] fe of the country to that of the tow evertheless, his logic seems to us a a little at fault. No one denie irtainly we did not, that the aspec ad moods of nature are among tl tost powerful and pregnant sourei E modern poetic inspiration. Bi iat is not by any means to say th; le poet who draws his brightest ii pirations from these sources is n-ece trily devoted to the simple counti fe. Wordsworth, it is certain, d: >r the most part lead the simp >untry life; but even Mr. Austin h; >admit that this undoubted fact :h.e source of his limitations," th; ror'dsworth's mistake arose from h 'Averting his eyes,' as Matthew A old says of him, 'from half of huma tte.'" Does uot this go far to pro iat Wordsworth's case is essential Liferent from that of most if not all. re other poets who have loved natu: nd partaken of her inspiration? I 'as more of a peasant, or at least dalesman, than they were. "I on' aid to Matthew Arnold," says Lo: [oreley in his "Life of Gladstone that I'd rather have been Word torth than anybody (not exactly iodest ambition); and Arnold, w] new him well in the Grasmere cou 7, said, 'Oh, no, you would not; y< rould wish you were dining with i: t the Athenaeum. He was too mu< f a peasant for you.'" Now th ems to us to. mark one of the gre ifferences, perhaps the greatest d rence of all between Wordswor nd the other poets of nature. He d eally love the simple country life b ond all others. Matthew Arnold d ot, though he lived in the counti >ved the country, and sang of weetly, as the poet laureate himsi oes. But with Arnold there was rays the Athenaeum in the bac round, the nights and suppers of t: ods, the society of wits and oth ongenial souls. It will be noted, tc dat Mr. Austin makes no mention Irowning, although he might ha ited "Oh, to be in England now th pril's there!" and many anoth weet and convincing note of Brow ig's true love of nature. Yet no o ~ould attribute specially to Browni: love of the simple country life. The truth is that the love of oth oets for nature and their susceptib ty to its inspiration is quite a differe hing from Wordsworth's innate pi ilection for the simple country li t was there that Wordsworth's tr enius found itself. In that he is u: tue. It is not there that the genius iher poets mostly finds itself; it ather in the larger, wider, and witI nore exacting field of human life a muman nature at large, as indeed i tustin himself acknowledges. Sopi ies signs with surpassing sweetne >f the charms of his native Coloni mut we do not on that account pl suade ourselves that It was there ti 1s genius found itself. "Chauce says Mr. Austin, "lets us see that vas for the most part leading the si >ie country life among lanes, me; >ws, and bowers;" but he had alrea tknowledged that in Chaucer's ti: 1either poet nor' peasant had any o1 3r life to lead. Of Spencer the p< aureate is more doubtful, though pleads, not very cogently, perha :hat "nearly all the action of 1 .raery Queen" takes place 'down a dale hard by the forest side'" ledge of nature are indisputable; bL not even his retirement to one of th best houses in Stratford-on-Avon sul 1is. fices to persuade us that he yearne n to lead the simple country life ther 1ir It is indeed a tour de force on th iat part of the poet laureate to cite Pop( not exactly as a lover of the countr3 but at least s a poet who liv?d, not i: Lndon, bu? at atTwiceenham. Horac Walpole lived at Strawberry Hill, bu he was nevertheless a town mouse i ever there was one. Again the exile o ce Byron and Shelley was not altogethe et a voluntary one. nor was there muel of the simple country life about thei residence in Switzerland and Italy Y-Tennyson, it is true, comes nearer t I I the point. Perhaps next to Words worth he shows more of a true tast for the simple country life than thi rest of them. But he never quite los his footing in the town nor his inter 1c est in the larger concerns of mankind Even in his exquisita invitation t Maurice. when he offered his cominj guest "honest talk and wholesomi - wine," the talk was to be, not o of Wordsworth's favorite themes, but a things which concern the larger inter ests and welfare of mankind. His suc cessor to, with whom we are break ing a friendly lance, is a man wh< loves th-e country well and sing, sweetly of nature; but he is also on who is, in his own words, "well ac quainted with cities and men of th4 world," and we are not quite sure tha r- the Impression conveyed to most peo f ple by "The Garden that I Love" wouk 1 be exactly what Wordsworth under ly stood by the simple country life. d, On the whole, then, in spite of thi e- gentle protest of the poet laureate, w( must adhere to our opinion-an opin ion which Mr.- Clement Shorter, in his letter of this morning, corroborates that Wordsworth is almost the sol( ie poet and preacher of the simple coun n try life who has really lived and lov to ed the life that he sang. Nearly al d the others have sung rather of natur and its manifold inspiration than o ie the simple country life as such; an of nearly all of them it must be ac It knowledged that their highest inspira It tions come, not like Wordsworth's di i rect from nature and the country, bul -from a wide, penetrating, and sympa . thetic outlook on mankind and th-i id world at large. Perhaps in these days le no man can be a great poet who is tblind to the aspects of nature and deal i to its 'inspiration; but even Words tworth himself-unique -.he is in his iintimate sympathy with nature-h-is n< rexception to the canon that no mar acan be a great poet who seeks his in I spiration in nature alone. After all 7it was not the poet in Wordsworth Dbut the man and even the peasant-th4 re word is Matthew Arnold's, or W4 lshould not dare to use It-that prefer of red the simple country life. He wal ~e not the greater for it, as Mr. Austin rfollowing Matthew Arnold, acknowl edges; rather he was great among th4 s-greatest in spite of it. He sang ofte a of high and mighty themes, but 11 10 sang of them nobly because he was Dgreat poet, not because he had "to' yumuch of a peasant" in him. He sang atoo, of nature and its inspiration as ni 3poet had ever sung before, and per at haps as few poets will ever sing again at because nature and human natur< fwere so rarely commingled and inter th fused in his very being that their fu id sion found expression, at once unique e- and inevitable, in his song. But al id this is only so much as to say tha 7 Wordsworth was his own incorparabli it self. It is not to say that Wordswortl f was what he was because he loved an< l- lived the simple country life, nor da k the instances cited by the poet laur ae eate convince us that the many poet; er who have sung sweetly of nature havy >, shared Wordsworth's love in this re of spect. atTHE IKAISER'S ILLNESS. n-Specialist Claims it is Due to OTer nimbibing. Baltimore American. ilr Emperor William is comparativel ta young man and of generally robuE ntphysique. The condition of his blooc -e- therefore, that has caused abscesse ne. to form upon the hand and knee i usomething rather disquieting, eveni it shall not prove actually serious .The conclusion of a cancer exper' aDr. Doyen, of Paris, that t~he caus tl of the 'eruptions is overimbibing b ithe Kaiser in the national beverag omay or may not be the case. It odifficult to assign to an immediat cause blood disorders, that may aris sfrom a relation of causes and effect: Lat I t is easily conceivable, howeve rthat overindulgence in eating an he* drinking should be the ba.ne of m- ruler whose pos(tion removes hr Ld- from the necessities and restraint dy that hedge ab)out the ordlinary pei ne son. The emperor. while a gnO :h- licer, has. however, never been yet glutton. His condition is probabi he due to a bad state of blood that wi ps, yield to abstinence ini the matters i :he which he may have gone to exces: in It would be very distressing, indee A eto have this vigorous ruler fall uI No. 0994 REPORT. e Of the Condition of The Peoples NationaA Bank, at Prosperity, in the State of d South Carolina, at the close of bu ness, June 30th, 1910. e RESOURCES: Loans and discounts . . . . $149,395.24 Overdrafts, secured and unse cu:41. .. .... .....459-71 U S. Bonds to secu,re circula tion ......... 6,250 00 f Premiums on U. S. Bonds - 437 50 Banking house, furniture and r fixtures 3,429.091 1 Other real estate owned . . 4,000.00 Due from approved reserve agents . . . . . . . . . 8,27192 Checks and other cash items 149-50i !Notes of other National Banks 140.00 Fractioral paper currency, nickles and cents .1.... I62.71 t Lawful money reserve in Bank, viz: Specie . S.....$4,383.65 Legal-tender notes 5,159 cO- 9,542.65 5 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per cent of cir culation) . . . . . . . . . 312.50 - Total . . . . . . . . . $182,550 82 LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in. . . . $ 25,000-00 Surplus fund ... ... 7,0oo.00 Undivided profits, less ex penses and taxes paid. . . 4,343-37 National bank notes outstand ing ......... . . . . . 6,2oo.00 Due to other National banks. 2,405.26 Due to Trust Companies and Savings Banks. ....-.59-89 Dividends unpaid .1.0... . o4.oo Individual deposits subject to check . . . . . . . . . . 112,388.30 Bills payable, including certifi cates of deposit for money borrowed. ........ 25,000 00 Total ........ $182,550.82 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. I, R T. Pugh, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the 'above statement is true to the best of my kno-vledge and belief. R. T. Pugh, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of July, 1910. T. A. Dominick, Notary Public. Correct-Attest: Jos. H. Hunter, J. A C. Kibler, R. L. Luther, Directors.4 I STATEMENT Of the Condition of The Newberry Sav ings Bank, located at Newberry, S. C., at the close of business June 30, 1910: RESOURCES: 'Loans and discounts . . . . $24o,268.66 ~Overdrafts . . . . . . . . 1,254.164 Bonds adstocks owned by -the bank. .. ..-.-..-.-.500.00 Other real estate owned. -. 9,593.84 1 Furniture and fixtures . . . 2,275 00o. SDue from banks and bankers 23,574.21 L Currency. .. ..-.-.-.-.-.3,670.00 ) Gold.. .. .. ....-..-..530-oow Silver and other minor coin . 1,849.51 Cash and cash items . . . . 1,113.20 Total... .. .. .. ..$294,628.58 LIABILITIES:4 - Capital stock paid in . . . . $ 50,000.004 -'Surplus fund... .. .. ....12,500.00 SUndivided profits,1less current 1expenses and taxes paid. 15,403.45 t Due to banks and bankers - 7,637.854 SDividends unpaid .. .. .....266 0o iIndividual deposits subject to4 j' check... .. .. .-.-..-.73,989.53: > Savings deposits. .. .. .1.04,5I6.00~ - 'Cashier's checks ...-.-.-.-.-.3l5-75~ Bills payable, including cer tificates for money borrowed 20,000.00 Total... .. .. .. ..$284,628.584 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I County ef Newberry. Before me came J. E. Norwood, Cashier . of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and fore going statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said' bank. t J. E. Norwood. Sworn to and subscribed before me this seventh day of Jul-y, 1910. . E. H. Aul1, Notary Pnblic for S. C. Correct-Attest: IJomes Mcintosh, J K. Gilder, Geo Ge.S Mower, Directors. der the power of a malady so soon after the death of his uncle, King Ed ward. At times there have be-an1 alarming hints as to the kaiser, buti these have not been actually disturb-1 ing. The man who, more than all others, holds In his hand the destiny of Europe will probably rally under care and attention. a: Maximum Punishment y Mrs. Packen-Henry, what pun 1 ishment should be meted out to a n man who proposes to a woman and, then refuses to marry her? iPecken-He should be compelled Real I How many people of means monev on 1land? Small invest gains. We have a few farms that o on their cost and at the same in the next ten years. No. I Is 170 acres - four homestead and tenant house, i cotton, will cut 250,000 feet o: No. 2 219 acres good e, tenant houses, only one mile fri No. 3 9oo acres near W land is well timbered, and con desirable farms. No. 4 200 acres in Newber open, plenty of good timber, cotton, all for $2,200, on easy No. 5 300 acres near Reno $16 50 per acre. No. 6 550 acres only three with an oil mill and a ban: homestead and several tenant I being worked, all for $8,500 is worthy your consideraEion i: good neighbors, has telephone present owner rich enough to: A five room house and two: worth $2,500 for only $2,ooo. Four nice building lots on R attractive price. Two lots at two story house and three acre We have numerous other pr son and Greenville. New South Re CoM Herald and News Building, Newberrn Newberry Corn WEEDERS CULTI\ COTTO HORSI WHEEl .H( GRAIN ( SCR EEI 2SCREEN -D S WINI CREAM I Newberry ____ Coni heeping Her Busy. "ow that your daughter has grad itd from school she ought to be 2 ret help to you." "es. indeed. We can depend up t er to correct our grammar ever) i.netrnit Free Press. ~state! do vou know who ta%en't made ients wisely made le.-d to large ught to pay you a large interest time more than double in value miles from railroad village, ents for 2800 pounds of lint timber, all for $2, 100. ght room residence and five >m Silver Street for $45 per acre. iitmire for $5 an acre. This d readily be cut into several ry county with a two-horse farm rents for 1700 spounds of lint terms. a good farming proposition at miles from a prosperous village k and numerous stores, large ouses, 12-horse farm open and Very easy terms. This farm F you want a nice home. Has in the house, and has made its retire. icres of land right in Newberry, eed street in Newberry at an High Point for $550. Large s of land for $4,750. perties in Greenwood, Ander al Estate Trust pany r. Masonic]Temple, Greenwood. pan y 0 HARROWS: rATORS.+ N HOES. + HOES..+ ~HOES+ )ES RADLES I WIRE OORS-RAND * )OWS+ TREEZERS Hardware pany Hie Fighting Chance. Achilles was lamenting his vulner able heel. "But you can talk all right," they assured him. Thus he saw the main requisite for a fight remain'ad.--New York Sun.