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WOMAN KILLED AT MANNING. Found in Door of House with Heac Crushed. Manning, April 2.?A negro woman named Annie Rodgers, aboui thirty years old, was killed last nighl in a tenant house", near Probate Judge Windham's residence. She was found about 8 o'clock this morning lying in the partly opened door with her head crushed, as if with ar axe. Apparently she had been called to the door during the night anc Struck down by some unknowr party. No disturbance was hearc by near neighbors, but Judge Windbam noticed that his bird dog was acting in a very excited mannei about 10 to 12 o'clock. The womar is said to have come from Sumter and had lived out in the country until last Tuesday, when she movec . into the house in town, in which she t was killed. It was at first thought that some nno -whn had known her elsewhere had followed her here and committed the deed, but later it was reported that her mother had given hei thirty dollars with which to go bach to Sumter and, as no money has been found about the house, it is possible that the killing was done for the purpose of robbery. The womar leaves a little girl four or five years old, whose tracks were plainly shown in her mother's blood on the floor. Coroner Baggett instituted an inquest, but sufficient evidence has not yet been had to warrant finding a verdict. A young negro named Ben , Miller was arrested on suspicion, he having been seen about the premises yesterday evening, but when ques:7 tioned about it he denied having been there. Another Lily White Effort? Columbia, April 2.?What may amount to very little or may portend fe-' aome future hold by the Republican party in this State, in slight measure, is the significance of the gathering here to-day of postmasters, South Carolina appointees and friends ol Ex-Internal Revenue Commissioner John G. Capers. In his room at a local hotel to-night, In conference with some of his followers, Capt. Capers did not care to discuss the situation, but the main points in the movement are available for publication. Postmaster Harris, of Charleston, was not among those present at the conference, but there were about twelve postmasters from other towns of the State. There is an understanding that L. C; W. Blalock, of Goldville, will be in the lists for collector of revenue in this State. It is also announced in the local afternoon paper that Dr. B. SK-v P. Clayton, of Charleston, is being considered, and also that there is a possibility of Major Jenkins losing out Mr. Jenkins will probably have something to say later on. v. Inaugurating a campaign to make a "Lily White" party is admittedly * the purpose to-night of the gather ing. It is hoped to accomplish thi? fey applying Section 9 of the State party law in seating delegates in the State Convention next fall. This section requires delegates to be registered voters or to make a satisfactory showing that they were improperly refused registration. The meeting r' . adjourned after signing a letter tc National Committeeman Capers as follows; s.. , "Dear Sir: In obedience to a request from you we have assembled together to confer with you in regard to the advancement of Republican principles in South Carolina and the building up a strong, active and will' - ing Republican party in this State. We feel that such a condition can be developed and consumated under the laws of the party which we adopted at our past State Conventions. It is < contended by many, and we are informed has been stated by the president, that you and Major L. W. C. Blalock are the leaders of a party composed almost entirely of the colored race. Our presence here to-day - is a strong and emphatic denial ol this untruth. There are thousands 7 v of the best white men of this State who, like us, are willing to follow your leadership in all earnest efforts to better the conditions of our party, and to this end we pledge ourselves, and will do anything to perform all that we can, to accomplish this purpose." Jealous Rage Costs a Life. Hampton, Ark., April 4.?Enraged at the sight of his wife dancing with Bee Hollingsworth, J. W. Perrell, a cattle buyer from Cooper, Tex., leveled a revolver at Hollingsworth lasl night and pulled the trigger, but th cartridge failed to explode. As Hollingsworth saw the irat( husband pull a gun, he reached foi his own pistol. Before Perrell could shoot again Hollingsworth opened fire upon his assailant and shot him twice, on< bullet taking effect in the left breast Perrell was taken to a hotel, when his wife is caring for him, but the attending physicians say there is nc hope for his recovery. GRUBBS AND JOHNSON GUILTY. I Barnwell Negroes Must Serve Life Term for Murder of Perry Ussery. The case of Quitman Johnson and t Ferdinand Grubbs was finished last t week at Barnwell, when the jury ? brought in a verdict of guilty witn i recommendation to mercy. The evioo o-ii-^n i n + Vi o cc +Vn? t i rri CfeO T Vii 1U V11V VM?^V V** > - > , differed very little from that of th<; i first trial. Only one of the defeud ants, Grubb, was put on the stand. I While contradicting his former testii mony in a few immaterial points, he I held mainly to his story as told be fore. He declared that Johnson and 3 Kennedy were responsible for the killing of Ussery and that he had i nothing to do with it.. According to , his statement, he is simply a victim r of circumstances. He claims that 1 Kennedy hired Johnson to do the } killing and recited a conversation he heard Kennedy have with Johnson, j in which he stated that Kennedy told i Johnson he had killed the wrong man, a good friend of his, and that he must go back and get Holland. The sentence of Kennedy to life im; prisonment is said to have had i weight in saving the lives of the nes groes. > The two prisoners have been cari ried to Columbia and commenced i their sentences, thus closing one of i the most important criminal cases tried in this section in years. Orangeburg Wants Road. L 1 With the proposition of connecting ! Ehrhardt and Bamberg by railroad, 1 comes some talk of continuing the' road from Bamberg and tap the A. C. L. and thus by this means connect Orangeburg with that section of the State/ As it is now, the railroad connects Ehrhardt, Walterboro and on to Green Pond, but considerable inconvenience is experienced in ' getting to these places on account of 1 the fact that there is no connection from Ehrhardt this way. The proposition which is being agitated in . Bamberg is to connect that place ; with Ehrhardt, which will mean the building of a road about 16 miles | long. Since this announcement of the proposed road, there has been some talk in this city of making an effort to have the road continued through Bamberg to a point on the A. C. L. which would bring the road to Cope, ' and on over the main line of the A. C. L. to this city, and thus make 1 Orangeburg the terminal for this nVv rr r?no A Ar> f A fVlO A. C. L from Bamberg would mean the building of only a distance of four or five miles, and would mean I much to this city, to make this con" nection provided the other road is ' built. The A. C. L. would take over ^ the operation, and this would open | up this section of the State in a great measure and, offer greater advantages to reach those points which | are now accessible only in a round about way.?Orangeburg Evening News. ; > ( Cotton?Our Greatest Crop. There is no crop grown in the . United States that offers better profP its for good farming than cotton, P and there is no crop grown that , keeps men poorer, when grown in , the old single-crop way than cotton. These old methods have enriched the fertilizer manufacturers and have I made wastes of thousands of acres i in the cotton belt. They have kept L thousands of men in bondage to the , merchant and the fertilizer seller, . year after year taking up the old hopeless task of going in debt to , start the cotton crop, and coming , out at the end of the season often ^ worse off than at the beginning. ( The all-cotton man will tell you . soberly that there is no money in , anything but cotton, while the fact ' is, that in most cases he has not found a great deal In cotton. Yet - here and there are farmers who have ! found out what there Is In cotton i when they -farm instead of merely ) plant cotton. Talking once with a - large cotton farmer in South Carot lina who generally made more than , a bale per acre, he said that he. had , made cotton at a cost of four and a [ half cents per pound, and that the - cured bacon that I saw him selling by the wagon load cost him the same price per pound. Cotton was then six cents a pound, and he still had a [ little margin, but the bacon and hams i averaged him fourteen cnts a pound, i and the feeding of the hogs left something to help his soil. - At that time the all-cotton men - were in distress, for they could not make cotton at four and a half cents - a pound after being carried by a mer chant and paying 100 per cent on everything they bought. The other . man kept hogs and sheep and cattle, 5 and made corn and oats and hay i and fed them, too, and, of course, he had manure, and with these auxili i aries lie was carried, but not by tne - merchant. He bought for cash all ) that he needed to buy, and he did not need to buy much, for he did not need to buy fertilizers for bis corn, nor a complete fertilizer for his cotton, for it followed after peas and S crimson clover. His land was increasing in fertility and productiveness, while the all-cotton men were M f A 11 pa ClSKilig Wlictl. 1C1 LU UMV ivt g corn, oats, wheat, cotton and every a other crop and could not think of 0 planting any of these helping crops ^ without buying more fertilizer for ^ them, they can not understand that y, they need not buy a complete ferti- 0 lizer for every other crop, and they c, jump to the conclusion that cotton g: is the only crop that they can af- ^ ford to grow. g ii What we need to learn is, that ^ commercial fertilizers, properly used, are a valuable adjunct to our home- ^ made manures in the permanent upbuilding of the soil in humus, but j used merely, year after year, for the production of something to sell off n the land, they are the ruin of the soil and the farmer alike. And the poorest farms and the poorest farm- a ers in all the cotton belt are where ' the most money has been spent for ^ commercial fertilizers with the one 81 Idea of making cotton to sell. ^ The all-cotton man must spend more money because he has to buy his nitrogen in a fertilizer, while the good farmer gets his nitrogen free, jj and for the same money gets twice as much of the phosphoric acid and potash he has to buy, and these stay ^ by him till used by the crops, while hl the nitrogen does not. ~( The hardest thing to get the aver- ^ age cotton planter to understand is, ^ that the use of a rotation of crops t and the growing of legume forage gj will enable him to reduce his cotton acreage and still make as much, ^ or more, cotton on one-third the land w than he has been making on the gj whole. It is the man who takes five acres to make a bale of cotton * w who is keeping the Southern soil and himself poor. ir b But I am glad to know that there w is a new spirit abroad in the South, and the day is not far distant when a ' farmer will be ashamed to tell you that his land is poor, for our people are fast coming to understand that if a man's land remains poor it is the &] fault of the man who farms it. The h Demonstration Work is doing great good, and when they persuade farm- b ere to carry the demonstration Ig through their whole farm work we a" will have different times in the South ' a! I do not believe that we will ever 0 see six-cent cotton again, because a the advances of the boll weevil will a make the culture too risky for any n but those who study the conditions and take the best measures to over- S] come the difficulty, it tne doii wee- & yil ever reaches and thrives in the g upper section of the cotton belt, it u will be the end of cotton there, for n we can not, like Texas and the far s] South, make an early crop ahead of d the weevil. .Hence the great impor- n tance of getting into a system of b> farming that will make the farmers b, of the upper South independent of cotton if they are driven out of its w culture. ti The advances of the boll weevil p( does not mean that we should look a after new crops but that we should n farm well with the old ones. The ai farmers, and there are a very few q of them, who have made two bales to two and a half per acre, have not done it by simply piling on fertilizers, but by adopting a course of soil improvement that has increased the - iV.I. ITTV.UA O proaucuvent?ss ui men iauu n unv paying for the improvement. Si b s] You must have something besides cotton to sell. You must raise good y< forage and feed stock of some sort. 81 One young farmer who adopted my a advice made seventy-five bushels of ** oats per acre, and then cut two tons of cowpea hay from the same land ei before frost It would take a good e deal of even fifteen-cent cotton to * pay as well, and at the same time, the growing of these crops was part of the means used for getting his cotton crop up to more than a bale per acre on land that when he begun ^ its improvement would not make a t fifth of a bale per acre. j1 With cowpeas and crimson clover even the Indian corn crop becomes a soil improver through the feeding of ? the shredded stover added to the pea 3 hay and the cotton seed meal. It is to the barnyard that we must look c for the future, and aided by the w barnyard, we can make the South the greatest farming section of the country. st Si The old Dutchman's idea was the ^ ?^""innra the. mnrp fnrnp'p.: the 111U1 ^ Uiauuiv v _ ci more forage the more cattle, and the more cattle to make more manure. J si In all the world over there has never been a system of farming that per- j Si manently improved the productiveness of the land that was not found- ^ ed on live stock industry of some ~ sort, and I know of no part of the world where the dependence of the farmers for sale crops on fertilizers only has failed to reduce the productiveness of that section?Progressive Farmer. T SHEEP QUEEN OF WYOMING. heared 35,000 Head This Year at Her Kirby Creek Ranch. Of course the country could not et along without a sheep queen, nd the throne of Natrona county is ccupied by Mrs. C. C. Moore, who as a ranch on Kirby Creek, rhere she sheared 35,000 head this ear, with an averageof 12 pounds f wool per head, and sold it at 22% ents a pound, which if you ever tudied arithmetic, makes out a andsome income for the good lady, he is the richest woman in Wyomlg, worth about one-half million ollars in sheep and lands and real state in Casper, Cheyenne, Los ngeles and other cities. She has a inter home at Los Angeles where tie lives four or five months every ear, and spends her summers on the inge. She formerly camped all timmer long with her sheep in an rdinary camp wagon and looked fter them herself. Then she built house in Casper, but had to give i up because it was selected as the ite for a new $150,000 postoffice uilding, which Senator Warren has Bcured to his loyal supporters in lis town. But Mrs. Moore has had troubles, ke the rest of us. About 20 years zo she lost every sheep in her flocks scept about 250 by a cloudburst rhlch washed them into eternity, ut she gathered that little bunch toether, drove them into the mounlins herself and attended strictly to usiness until she recovered her forme and had acquired twice as many leep as she lost. When Mrs. Moore first came to Wyoming, about 25 years ago she as the wife of Mr. Morrison, a leep man, who died in 1899. A sar later she married C. C. Moore, ho was herding a band of her sheep n shares, and he has been a partner istead of a hired hand ever since, ut oho runs all the business: she ouldn't trust anyone to manage her (fairs, and not only has remarkable icecutive ability, but is considered ae of the best sheep farmers in Wyming, and has the reputation of etting as much out of her flocks 3 any man in the territory. Her usband is a sort of genteel assistnt; her son is "running" sheep for is mother on shares; one daughter i married to a lawyer at Casper, uother to a farmer in Fremont and third to a merchant at Sheridan, II of them enterprising and prosper us young men, who are able to take ire of themselves and their families nd ask no assistance from their lother-in-law. Mrs. Moore is by no means a conpicuous woman, notwithstanding er wealth, ability and influence, he dresses modestly, keeps out from nder the electric lights, never lakes a splurge, never goes where tie is not wanted and is a quiet, ignifled, well-read, intelligent wolan. She travels a good deal, has een everywhere in Europe and has een around the world. Mrs. Moore is the only important ool-grower in this part of the coun y who doesn't take an active part in : Aithmisrh women can vote nd hold offices in Wyoming, she ever attends campaign meetings ad never goes to the polls.?W. E. urtin, in Chicago Record-Herald. Run Over Negroes. Savannah, Ga., April 1.?While Ding at a very high speed on a part f the Grand Prize race course near avannah early to-night, an automoile in which were Alfred M. Maraall and Harry Noyes, well known Dung society men, left the road and :ruck first a small negro girl, then negro man, and later a negro wolan on the sidewalk, plowed over lem, struck and killed a cow, pass1 on and struck a second cow. This nded the car's career as it went rith the second cow into a deep itch, turned over and badly injured oyes. Police ambulances were hurried to ie scene. Noyes and Marshall both listed the officers but Noyes was urt and was sent to a hospital, farshall was arrested and is at poce station to-night to remain until le result of the Injuries to the three egroes is known. They are all bad hurt and it is expected will die. The car which had just been purbased and was being tried out was recked. Declare Stock Dividends. Spartanburg, March 31.?It is :ated on excellent authority that at recent meeting of the directors of le Woodruff cotton mills it was deided to declare a stock dividend of 0 per cent. This means that the :ock of the mill will be worth $125. ; is also understood that similar tock dividends will be declared at n early date by the Victor and [onaghan mills. Aug. W. Smith, of partanburg, is president of the Woodruff mill and Lewis W. Parker f Greenville is head of the Victor nd Monaghan mills. Feather dusters 25c and 50c at he Herald Book Store. j . jA ' . ': * -"-v.. - -.V- v" . ' KYANIZE FLOOR Fit a?a??bb??a? ?asac will stand the scuffs, rubs and gr the leather sole and the scrapes, and scratches of the steel studded ] It dries elastic and will not pee flake or rub off. It's made to walk on. It'! anteed to wear and last and give faction. , Made in Clear and Seven Beautiful C Good for all Interior Woodwork. J. A. HUNTER, Agent | No More 4* with that automobile, bicycle, (A, have me to put it in first-class T prepared to do your work as ax V cities, and my prices are about (A, also have in stock a well select j AUTOMOBILE & BIC T which I will sell to you at close w what you need I will get it for ^ the next one. When in need o T don't forget me. All work giu |j. B. BR A The Repair Man fx COT' The ginning season is now about have the engine and boiler and g inn tion for next season's work so that "starting np" with the first bale. Works take your plant in hand, putti and save you dollars and trouble b paying out the cash for the work m about it, and, "ten to one," they wi the work done before the rush, and do no harm to inquire about it any The Denmark Machine Works, Dei 1?? IP . . " I Bargains in Rea Farms in small and large and residences, merca: ( mill sites, sale stables, ; ? propositions, at low flgi terms. Descriptive list tion. Call on or write, U J. T. O'l H Real Estate Agent, - fa I II Q The Thrifty Mao is a Locky His good fortune, however, do< He worts and saves. His lab only, but the fruits of some p he lays by for the morrow. His savings are deposited whei tion from loss and where his d< a fair rate of interest. DEPOSITORS WITH THIS BANK Interest is credited quarterly u through the quarter. Four pe PEOPLES BANE - - C' f s I I B4 from I ~ ness 1 A and i ronag ice a We will send around the ice wagon house will be OPEN ALL THE TIN will always find someone ready and MAY! n I also sell No. 1 Timothy Hay at tl in need of anything in my line call < SMOAK'S SALE AND J. J. SMOAK, Proprietor f Take a Look Int< WHERE WILL YOU BE two 3 barring accidents and bad hea money ahead? You certainly w to save. - And if you are going We will start your account at $ glad to explain anything about not understand. Come in, get h posit and Lay by Something for ' I EHRHARDT BANKI ^ EHRHARDT, .. / 5JSH \ . Ramhenr. C. Trouble 11 gun or pistol if you will V lyone outside the larger 7 t ed line of || :ycle supplies r , st prices. If I haven't f you just as prompt as v t anything in my line > flCKLEr 1 rON! over, and NOW is the time to ing machinery put in condithere will be no delay in Let the Denmark Machine ng it in proper shape for you, oth. If you do not feel like rhen done, see or write them 11 manage it so you can have t pay for it next fall. It will # way. Just write about it to unark, S. C. * ; >'* ":r; Xai MBI IB I Estate, etc. j i tracts, town lots ntilfl hnainessfls and pole and tie U' ires and on easy 5 ' sent on applica- I seal. | Bamberg, S. 0. || j I >i icacii o I Mm | 98 not come by chance. ore are not for to-day f art of each day's labor \ v . * v ii-.i re he is sure of proteo jpoeit will earn for him , ' ;:? ABE ABSOLUTELY SAFE. pon balances remaining r cent, is allowed. ' ; -.i~ - Bamberg, S. C. ^ 5^MO ' jj ?) re just had erected an ice s next to my Sale and Livery 98 and expect to handle ice now on. I am in the busi- * to stay, not for a short time, ^ isk for a share of your pat;e, guaranteeing only the best nd the politest of service. once every day, and the ice IE, Day and Night, and you anxious to serve you. I AY! hie very closest prices. When >n or 'phone me at UVERY STABLE Telephone 68 . mmmmmmmmammmm ?_ 4 | 4 ) the Future 1 ? * rears from now? Even 1th, will you have any ill not unless you begin to save, BEGIN NOW. 1.00 or over and will be banking which you do acquainted, make a devour Future Self. NG COMPANY. ? SOTTH CABOIiNA. ,