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M PUBLISHED THREE GREAT PLANT To Be Eroded Near Ridgeriile fcy a Chicago Syndicate. WEI COST MILLIONS Will Be Used to Manufacture Nitro genous Fertilizers From the Air. It Is Also Said That Georgia Com pany will Construct Power Plant on Edisto River at Big Cost. That a company of Georgia busi ness men is about to build on the Hdisto river, six miles from Ridge ville, a hydro-eleciric plant at a coat of $1,200,000 and that a Chicago] syadiate purposes to erect at Ridge- J ville or at some point near this i water power a $10,000,000 factory I for the manufacture of nitrogenous fertilizer are statements contained in a communication received by the Ridgeville correspondent of The News and Courier and by him sent to that newspaper. The correspon dent states that this communication waB sent to him by Mr. D. G. i,: Zeigler, who. it seems, has been the moving spirit in the enterprise men tioned. Here is what the Ridgeville correspondent says: Some time In the early spring Mr. D. G. Zeigier. of the firm of D. G. Zeigler & Co., engineers, of Jack sonville, Fla., began an investiga tion on the Edisto river, six miles southwest of this place. Mr. Zeig ler had located a valuable water power at that point on the Edisto river. There came at one time to this place Mr. H. S. Marshall, of Illinois, an engineer in charge of a force. He made surveys on the river and immediately-after his. sur veys these lands began to change ownership at fancy prices compared to their former priceB. Mr. Zeigler bought them and within a short space of time, about two weeks, sold them to a group of Savannah business men, who have organized a company to develop a hydro-elec tric plant on the river Just 6 miles flrom Ridgevirle, where they will develop 23,000 commercial horse power, electrical. It is also learned that this de velopment will cost about $1,200, "000 and that the company has been chartered in Georgia to make this development, capitalized at $1,500, 00 0. It is said that all stock has been subscribed for and fully paid %xp, and that construction wiil be gin very soon. The plant when completed will be one of the best ? water powers in the Southern States. This stream always affords an abundance of water, and a head of 35 feet can b3 easily obtained. There will never be any scarcity or short age of water. It is stated that this same firm of engineers is making at present the following other wa tre power developments: 35,000-horse power, on the Se wanee river in Florida; 8,000-horse power on the Allapaha river in Flor ida; 8,000-horse power, on the Ca noochee river, near Savannah; 17, 900-horee power, on the Satilla riv er, near Brunswick, Ga.; 18,000 horse power, on the Flint river, near Americu8, Ga.; 6,000-horse power, on the Abbey creek, near Dothan, Ala.; 3,500-horse power, on D-ble Bridge creek, near Geneva, Ala.; 9,000-horse power, on Pea river, near Abbey, Ala., and 8,000-furse power on Little river, in Alabama. The abov* make a total ievelop ment of 136,500 electrical ho/s power, at an estimated total cost of twelve million dollars when complet ed. It is also estimated that when all of this power is put into use it will take the place of about four mil lion dollars that is being spent each year by the people in the- various sections of the country where these powers are situated for coal to make steam power. This alone will be a nice sum to be paid for the water power, to say nothing of the other expenses of a stoam plant. It is said that power will be furnished from these plants t<>r about $33 per horse power por year. It is stated also that Mr. D. G. Zeigler has received from Wall street banks offers of large Bums for a number of the water powers which he and his associates now control, but that he has received a still bet ter offer from a Chicago syndicate These Chicago people have secured control of a process to extract ni trogen from the air by means of an electric current, and they have de cided to establish a chain of fac tories in the South for the manufac ture of nitrogenous fertilizer, which is said to be cheaper and more pro ductive for the farms than any other fertilizer on the market. The gentlemen above referred to bad t^eir engineer meet Mr. Zeigler last week in Georgia and go with him over some of these water powers. The result of the investigation is that they have offered to Mr. Zeig ler and his associates all the capi tal necessary for them to use In con structing the various plants, an'' they will take power at a fair price in exchange. The syndicate will erect at or near each one of the wa ter powers a factory for the manu facturing of this fertilizer. It i6 stated that they will invest in the ten manufacturing plants at least $50,000,000, and that work will be-1 TIMES iCWEEK. ACCUSED HER HUSBAND POLICE FIND BLOODY CLOTHES OWNED BY HUNTER, Whose Wife Declares That While a Negro Held Her He Gave Her a Fatal Blow. A dispatch from Savannah says developments Monday night in the aftermath of the tripple murder of last Friday afternoon gave birth to the startling theory that not a single murderer, but two or possi bly three were engaged in the com mission of the terrible crimes. County officers declare that of these J. C. Hunter, husband of Mrs. Mag gie Hunter, .whoso death Monday | added a third to the number of murdered women, is certainly one. They declare that the chain of evidence is complete, asserting that, some clothing, badly stained, appar ently spattered with blood, which was found and belongs to Hunter, is the final link. This clothing is is declared, was worn by Hunter on the day of the crimes, and a walking cane found In the house of the mur ders is declared to have been car ried by Hunter on the same day. It was declared by a physician ati the Savannah hospital that state ments-made during a moment of consciousness by Mrs. Hunter early Monday charged the crimes to her husband, and that she was being held by a negro man when the blows were struck that caused her death. The Rev. J. S. Wilder, pastor of r. Baptist church in Savannah, stated that Mrs. Hunter, after recognizinr him, declared a white man had struck the blows. CAVE LIFE FOR CHILDREN. With Her Clothes Aflame She Leap ? ' ed ^Through Window. One of the greatest acts of hero ism whim has occurred in the sec tion of Marion, N. C, in years was that of Mrs. John Lewis, of Vein Mountain, who sacrificed her life Friday afternoon to save her three children from being burned to death. Mrs. Lewis was standing before the open fire place and her cloth ing caught fire. She started to rush for the bed in the room intending to smotner the flames. The chil dren who were In. the adjoining, rocm rushed to their mother's aid. For fear that the clothes worn by her children would catch fire Mrs. Lewis leaped through a window and ran for several hundred feet before fall ing exhausted and dying. Her screams attracted neighbors and when they reached the body all clothing had been burned off except two small pieces under ea'h arm. Her skin was burned to a crisp and blackened by the smoke and flames. Blood was flowing freely from many parts of her body. Tender hands carried the dying woman back to her residence, where she expired a few hours later. Her suffering was intense. CORPSE HOLDS- AUTO WHEEL. Woman's Presence of Mind Prevents Tragedy on French Road. Mme. Maurice, of Roanne, France, has had the terrifying experience of driving in a motor car with her dead husband clutching the steering wheel and a four-year-old baby In her lap. She had gone for a drive with her husband as chauffeur. Noticing that the car was pursuing an erratic course, she spoke to her husband, uring him to be more pruden. There was no response, for he was djad. In an instant the woman realis ed the truth. She was ignorant of the machinism, and could not stop the oar. But with remarkable pres ence of mind she did the next best thing. Lifting her baby up, she lean ed out of the auto and dropped it on the roadway. Then, taking the steering wheel, she headed the au tomobile for a ditch, into whi<h it ran and capsized. Mme. Maurice, who, with the corpse of her husband, was flung out, fortunately escaped with very, slight injury. The baby was found unharmed. The husband's death was due to heart failure. Froze Steamer's Whistle. News comes from New York that the weather 1b so cold tip there that it froze up the whistle of the Italian liner Cltta del Messina, ac cording to the report of her cap tain. Members of the crew, he said, spent several hours thawing out the whistle by burning oil soaked waste under it, before the ship could make its way up the harbor at New York. gin on them at once. Mr. Zeigler is very busy at pres ent bringing the matter to a close, and is accepting this offer as fast as he can consult with the various incorporations. As each one of these water power developments has been chartered as a separate company, It is necessary for him to have a meet ing of each company and place the matter before the stockholders, and it will take some weekB for him to 'o this. Still, at the same time, It Is understood that the matter will be left to his judgment, and as he 13 inclined to accept the offer, it means, apparently, that Ridgeville will have very soon a ten-million dollar fertilizer factory. line OBANGEBUR6 SHOT AT DEPOT Mr. W. L. Felder, of St. Matthews, Sbot by Express Messenger WITHOUT PROVOCATION While Waiting for a Train to Leave From the Union Depot at Char lotte-?Harry Jones, Who Did the sShooting, Arrested and Pat in Jail to Await Folder's Injury. A special dispatch from Charlotte to the Columbia Record says Mr. W. L. Felder, a well known busi ness man of St. Matthews, S. C, was shot in the left arm and side at the Southern passenger station there Tuesday morning by Harry Jones, an express messenger. Mystery surrounds the affair, no provocation or excuse for the shoot ing being given by either Jones or Felder. The shooting took place at 2:30 o'clo.!k Tuesday morning, shortly after the arrival there of train 39, and was witnessed by two other express messengers, who de nied any knowledge of the affair at first, but afterwards told about it after they were arrested. Felder, who is not, it Is hoped, dangerously wounded, is in the Presbyterian hos pital. Jones is in jail, where he will be held for the preliminary trial. The Record gives the following particulars of the shooting: The first person to reach Mr. Fel der was Capt F. B. Fishburn of Columbia, while Dr. A. B. Knowlton of Columbia was also near and gavo the wounded man prompt medical attention. The shooting occurred at the Charlotte union station, about 2:45 a. m. Mr. Felder, as well as Capt. Fishburne and Dr. Knowlton, was at the station expecting to come ' to Columbia on Southern railway ! train No. 29, due to leave Charlotte at 3:30 a. m. While in the lunch room Capt. Fishburne had been talk ing with Mr. Felder, but left and went into the combination baggage car to He down. Mr. Felder, it seems, walked up to the door of the express car, where the express messenger was checking up his express with the negro porter, and it is said that Mr. Felder asked if he coulu get aboard the car, as the passenger coachs had not been opened and it was cold out ride. What else passed' between them is not known, except that Mr. Felder stated afterwards that ho was shot, without warning, from the ex press car. Capt. Fishburne waB first to reach the wounded man, and having seen Dr. Knowlton at the station, sum moned him. Mr. Felder was carried to the Stonewall hotel, at the sta tion, until he could be taken to the hospital, and after some delay the ambulance arrived and he was car ried to the Pifesbyterlan hospital. At Mr. Felder's request, Dr. Knowl ton remained with him. returning to Columbia on No. 35 instead of No. 29, and reaching Columbia at 10.30 a. m. Wednesday. Mr. Felder had been to High Point, N. C, to place an order for furni ture, and was on his way home. He is a member of a prominent family In the Orangeburg section. Dr. A. B. Knowlton, who was with Mr. Felder just after he was shot at Charlotte early In the morning, bitterly criticised the Charlotte po lice department when he arrived in Columbia. Ho says three officers were notified and given all the facts one after the other immediately after the shooting, and after they were finally gotten to the scene act ed like a lot of dummie?. He could get them to do nothing, he saym and the most important witneeses were about to disappear, when he ap pealed to Attorney Shannonhouse, who began to get results as soon as he arrived. Dr. Knowlton says the shooting was most wanton and inexcusable. Felder was thirty feet away from the coach when fired upon, had never been In the coach and was walking away when fired upon. Mr. Felder, Dr. Knowlton says, had been walk ing up and down the cement floor under the shed between the fruit stand and the first track, waiting for train 29. Ho approached a couple of express coaches which were coming to Columbia when No. 29 arrived and nskod a colored man in one if It would he allowable to come into the coafo and keep warm till the train arrived. Mr. Felder Bays the colored man told him that this would be against the rules and he weut away. Jnst before being shot he had turned about to watch some antics the ne groes were doing In the coach he had approached, when the messeng er came to the door and ordered him away. He says he started away when he was fired npon. The bullet entered the right slie just un^er the arm, probably punc tured the right lung and made Its exit at what Is commonly known as the breast bone. Dr. Knowlton could not estimate Mr. FeMer's chances of recovery before leaving Charlotte that morning. At Mr. Felder'B re mest Dr. Knowlton remained with Mr. Felder until the next train, wwhich arrived in Columbia at 10.30 a. m. ? 8. C. TJIDRSDAY. DE SEVEN'LIVES LOST IN A FOUR-STORY CINCINNATI TENEMENT DEATH TRAP. Tue House Ablaze With Eevry Oc cupant Sleeping?Firemen Carry Many Down Ladders Safely. In a Are at Cincinnati that de stroyed a tenement house shortly before daylight on Tuesday morn ing seven persons were killed and 30 injured. The buildingf was a veritable death trap. The one fire "escape was ren dered useless by the flames and the emergency door, supposed to lead to safety, and ordered kept open by the fire department, was nailed shut. The building is a four-story struc ture with ?tenants on every floor except the first. The hallways are lighted by kerosene lamps and in some way the lamp on the second floor was up6et and in a very few minutes the dry woodwork in the hall was aflame. The blaze shot upward, making it impossible for the tenants of the place to get out by way of the stairs. Some of them jumped out of the windows and were badly hurt. There were fifty persons in the house at the time. The first firemen to reach the scene saved several of them from the roar of the burning building. The captain of engine company No. 4 carried down two bodies on the ladaor and several women were found huddled together on the fourth floor. Tho ?bodles taken to the morgue were so badly burned that identification was almost impossi ble. Patrolman Clark and Trinkler, who were the first upon the scene, picked up a blanket from in front of the building and yelled to the terrified people in the windows to jump. Holding the blanket between them, they called to a woman on the second floor to jump into it. As she jumped to safety the offic ers called to a small girl who was on the verge of dropping from <i window on the third floor. The girl took one look at the outstretched blanket and jumped head first In to. Both woman and child were badly burned and were quickly rush ed to the city hospital. Two officers carried many of the tenants to safety over the neighbor ing roofs". CORN YIELD AWARDED. John R. Dingle of Clarendon County Wins First Prize. A dispatch from Columbia sayp the first prize on yield In the State corn contest has been awarded to John R. Dingle, of Summerton, in Clarendon county, as also the first prize on points. His yield was 1G6.7 bushels on one acre. This is the second State contest that haB beeo won by a Clarendon county farmer The total points made were 99. Toe first prize on yield Is $175. Tea award was made at a meeting of the State Corn Contest, which is com posed of Commissioner Watson, President P. H. Meli, of Clemson Col lege, and D. N. Barrow. The second prize for yield and points went to A. Bascomb Usher, the young Marlboro lounty boy who produced 152 1-2 bushels on one acre. He will rece'.ve $75. The five-acre contest was won by J. M. Mosse of St. Matthews. The number of bushels produced was 500.5. This prize is worth $200. The second prize of the five-acre contest was awarded to Thos. Tay lor, of Richland county, who pro duced 251 bushels. This prize is $50. There were 156 entires in this year's contest, representing 36 coun ties of the State. Many of the con testants are boys. Of the total en tries only fourteen compiled with all of the requirements. Many of the contestants failed to send in samples of their corn. The best ear of corn sent in the opinion of the commission was that of It. K. Hayes, of Marlon county, who won second prize In last year's contest. A close second to Mr. Hayes in the quality of corn was sent by Usher, of Marlboro county. Captain Admits Hin Guilt. Capt. Thomas Franklin, U. S. A., twice commended by Gen. Chaffee and Gen. Otis for distinguish d serv ice in China and at Manila, plead guilty a few days to a long series of petty embezzlements from the mess fund of the West Point cadets, as commissionary and treasurer of United States Military academy, and was sentenced by Judge Hand, in the circuit court. In New York, to two years and six months in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. His rounsel gave notice that they would apply for a writ of error and re view. ? ? - Negro Identified. A dispatch from Thomasville, Ga., says Lucius Robinson, a negro, was Identified by the two young daugh ters of Mr. Jack Walker as the man who confronted them In their home and after holding a pistol in their faces threatened to kill them if they screamed. He is in jail. The ne-1 gro after frirhtening the girls fled. CEHBER 16 1909., COMING SOUTH New Land of Promise for Millions of Capital HER GREAT RESOURCES Her Undeveloped Lands, Mines and Forests Arc Attracting Enterpris ing Men of Means and Those Willing to Take Advantage of Her Possibilities in Farming. "A greater nation through a great er South!" This is the tocsin that the South is sounding today from Atlantic to Pacific .and from the southcrmost everglades to the northern pines, says the New York American. Tho South wants men and mon ey?men that her vast resources may be given over to cultivation and industry, and money for entrprise, that their products may feed the markets of the universe. She haB produced a cotton crop this year which will net about $1, 000,000,000. Her grain, will fill 800,000,000 bushels. Her total agricultural products will foot up nearly $2,500,000,000. She is fining 90,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. Her cotton mills are using nearly 3,000,000 bales of cotton a year. She commands the sulphur trade of the world producing nearly one half of the whole production of the world. Her ports are second to New York in their shipments. She is spending today $20,000, 000 in new cotton mills. Nearly a quarter million of peo pie are swarming into her rich country to help win for her the success that has been so long com ing. Her resources are withal but beginning to show their worth, for she has lacked in capital and the kind of labor necessary to bring her soil and opportunities to their full fruition. She has 40 per cent of all the timber lands in the United States, about GS-.OOO square miles; quarries that are rich in the most beautiful and useful stone, marvellous ores, and thousands of square miles of the most fertile and greatest pro ducing farm lands in the world. Everywhere the railroads are pushing colonies and building their extensions, until five years hence It is believed that every available mile of her lands will bo within easy reach of some road. Millions of dollars are being put into her mines; other millions are going into her textile advantages. Along the line of one railroad alone 450 textile mills have been erected. Her phosphate beds are being work ed to the fullest limit of the;, pres ent capital. Her tobacco crops are enormous, and In every spot touch ed by the tide of Investment springs forth a golden return greater than their investors ever dreamed of. With a population of nearly 28, 000,000, or about a third of the to tal of the United States, she is put ting out in agricultural product alone the equal of all the States in 1890. Nearly $2,000,000,000 will be spent by the railroads during the next ten years to add to her wealth. Everywhere the cry is.going up for better roads, and every State is bend ing its efforts to make the Southern roads the peers of those of any oth er States. "I do not believe that there is any land on the face of the earth that equals, acre for acre, the lands of the South. It is a greater pro ducer than the lands in the north west, and?it is immensely cheaper "Then, too, there la Its fairer climate and Its oaay markets; its cheap freights, short hauls, Immedi ate Bales, until you hav? an Ideal condition. Here, too, yoa have a land well watted by qjo/H w.iters. where artificial irrigatici may be reduced to a mi )iinuni to produc marvellous rout's Coai Is at h? railroad fa;ii;*' -h hv: go j and wa ter hauls first class. "You have water power for tho mills, which is cheapest; cities with all modern things close at hand; a wideawake population both on farm and in city, until the situation would seem ideal." Here are some of the facts as t< what may be done on Southern lands: Peanuts have recently be come a world staple. Virginia an . North Carolina produced this yea.' 5,457,400 bushels of them. Georgin melons are as famous the worin over as the Rockyford cantaloupe Georgia peaches are the best n the market. Florida's oranges and cit rus fruits are being pushed hard by its grape fruits, which stand mor" frost and bring better market pric es, taken all In all, than oranges. Of the tobacco, cotton crop, grains and such there is no space to dilate here?they are so much a part of the South that a sufficient knowl edge of them is known to every household. GOOD BOY FARMER HOW BA8COMB USHER WON THE CORN PRIZE CONTEST. How He Prepared, His Land, Ferti ? listed His Soil, Cultivated Mid Gather. *! His Crop. A Columbia dlspatc'J says the an nouncement to the effect that ltas comb Usher, the Marl-ioro county boy who raised 152 bushels on bis acre, had won the State prize in the national corn contest has caused a great deal of comment here. Many are wondering just how he did it. A glance at the following will give some idea as to just how the phenomenal yield was produc ed: The land on which the corn was (produced Is in Brightaville town ship in Marlboro county and is a sandy loam soil. There was a sub soil of 1? inches. The land sloped to the southeast. The land was first cleared In 1907 and was plant ed in corn and peas. The same crop was planted In 1908 and 65 bushels of corn was produced. Pri or to tho large yield cotton seed meal and 100 pounds of nitrate of soua were used. The acre was well fertilized this year. The following being used: 200 pounds of commercial ferti lizer, 100 pounds German kanit, 300 pounds second grade Peruvian gua no, 900 pounds cotton seed meal and 000 pounds nitrate soda. The land is considered worth $75 per acre. On March 20 the land was brok en. It was subsoiled with a Boy Dixie plow. There was no barn yard manure used. Great care was exercised in the selection cf seed, which is one of the most important points about the contest. Garrett's prolific corn seed wore used. This seed was secured from B. E. Moore, who won the State prize in 1908 by producing 137 bushels on one acre and who won third prize in the national con test in 1908 with 125 bushels. This corn has been used since 1900. The seed were planted on April 1 by hand, in rows five feet apart. There were no hills and only ouc peck of seed was used. The seed were carefully hand picked befcr planting. . No time was spent in germinating them. The cu.u. ti commenced on April 2S, a Boy-Dixie plow being useu. The grouua w.u. stirred to a depth of 10 Inches. The acre was cultivated five times on April 28, May 17, June 16 anu July 9. The corn was thinned by hand, one stalk being left to the hill, eight inches apart. Hand la bor was used in removing the weeds. The weeds were the rag weeds and the morning glory, which were re moved in one day. On October 13 the crop was har vested. The corn was pulled from the stalk by hand. The stalks were not cut and shocked. The earn was husked by hand. The boys corn club work was in troduced in this State last spring. Only five counties could be organiz ed, Marlboro, Lee, Florence, Claren don and Newberry. The results have already been reported in detail from each of these counties. Prof. Ira W. Williams, United States Farm Demonstration Agent; O. B. Martin and Prof. D. N. Barrow, of Clmson college, are now actively engaged in stimulating the work in various lo calities of the State. With the co operation of the different county su perintendents of education, the rural school improvement associations, -/t?te Superintendent of Education Swearingen and Commissioner Wat son. Active efforts will be made to organize boy's corn clubs In every county. Means and methods will be discussed at the coming meet ing of the State teachers' associa tion, and thoae In attendance will learn definitely of the scope of this work for 1910. This work has, up to the present, been independent of the contest conducted by the State oorn contest commission for both boys and men. though many of the boys participat ing in the above contest have also participated in the State contest. During the coming year it is the purpose of the commission to com bine its efforts and prizes with the new work that has been inaugurated under the direction of O. B. Mar tin. There has been a great increase in tho corn production iu South Czi olina In the past several years and the corn contest commission is of the opinion that the work of Mr. Usher will encourage other boya of the State in agriculture not only in producing corn but in all other lines of agricultural work. One of the members of the com mission in speaking of the young boy said, "Why he is a great man and Iocs not know It. There are few boye that havo done what he has. His record is most enveniable. He has demonstrated most strongly tba the best way to farm and get re suits Is not on paper." One Killed. Three Hurt. One person was killed, one fatally injured and two others badly bruis ed when the automobile in which they were riding turned turtle an! plunged In a ditch near Atlanta, Ga., ?x few days ago. "Dare Devil'" Jones, an amateur driver, was kill ed and Ralph Kaplan, aa employe of an automobile agency in Atlanta, was most serlouBly injured. rO CENTS PEB COPY I DOG WAS MAD Bit Four Persons and Caoses Great Ex citement in Colombia BIT OTHER DOGS ALSO Those Bitten by the Animal, Which Was a Fine Bird Dog, Were Mr. Alfred Wallace, Mrs. Mayraat, Alfred Wallace, Jr., and Mr. A. H. Scats, of the State. The State says Quail, an English setter belnging to Alfred Wallace, of Columbia, appears to have be come afflicted with hydrophobia, and has attacked several persons. Not wishing to alarm the people of the city unnelessarily, no statement "was given out at the time, for it was hoped that the dog was not affected with rabies, and the animal was put under lock and key awaiting (teve) opmoDta. The persons attacked by this dog are Mrs. Mayrunt, mother of Mrs. Wallace; Alfred Wallace, superin tendent of the street railway; Alfred Wallace, Jr., attorney at law, and A. Hamilton Seats, of The State. A very fine dog, the property of Magistrate Jas. H. Powles, is known to have been attacked, as well as other dogs being under suspicion. The members of Mr. Wallace's household were attacked Sunday. The animal was supposed at first to have been 111 tempered on account of having probably been poisoned by chicken thieves who visiied the place, corner of Senate and Hender son streets, one night last week. However, Dr. F. A. Coward, the State baiieriologist, was notified aud all wounds were cauterized and thf: animal was locked up pending de velopments, for if it were affected with rabies, death would come in five days. It would not be necessary to administer to the persons attack ed any Pasteur treatment within that length of time. Tuesday night the animal freed itself from Its fastening and at the corner of Senate and Barnwell street attacked Mr. Seats as he was on his way to supper. The dog struck him in the chest without warning, and as Mr. Seats fell back from the impact, the dog fastened its teeth in his left arm just above the elbow. He went at once to Dr. T.. M. Du Bose and had the wound cauterized. Dr. Coward stated that even should' the animal be caught and found to" be rabid, he has at the laboratory enough virus to treat all the persons who have been attacked. Quail is a white seter, female, with liver colored spots. Every patrolman in the idty was given her description and Sergt Sloan saw her at the corner of Main and Gervais streets at 1 o'clock in the morning. He fired one time and is satisfied that he wounded the dog. All per sons In the city are advised if such a dog is killed to notify at once the police station or Dr. A. F. Coward so that the brain may be tested. There was another rabid dog run ning amuck Wednesday and created much excitement on Main and As sembly streets in the section from Washington street to the postofflce. Two officers were needed to kill it, jthe animal refusing to dfie after being shot and severely beaten about the head by the first officer, who essayed to dispatch it. The animal Jommenced its last run on Assem bly street and after attacking an other dog, it was seen to be clearly out of its sense. Policeman Dreher therefore shot It and when the animal fell, ho ad vanced and after beating it vigor ously with bis club left it for dead. The dog recovered in a few moments and ran into Main street, creating much excitement on this thorough fare until Policeman Sligh was en countered In front of Monckton's and the shot fired that ended its existance. LAYING UP TREASURE. The Noble Gift of a Lady to the Hnniter Poor. We fully agree with the Sumter Item that of all the bequests for charitable and other purposes enu merated in the will of Mrs. Ella Tuomey, none showed a tiner spirit or a kinder, tender thougbtfulness for her needy fallow creatures than that to provide Christmas cheer for the poor of Sumter. The income from the $3,000 left in trust to the city council to be expended at Christ mas each year for the relief uf the poor of Sumter will brighten tho lives of thousands and bring to them a portion of the Christmas spirit of which they would be destitute other wise. There is in this gift of Mrs. Tuomey something that appeals to the humanity that is in as with pe culiar force, and we feel that it is the greatest and best of her bene factions. In that for decade? and de r.des to come it will bring glad ness and joy to numberless hearts ! s?t the season of the year that the j poor and the children of the poor I ffol most bitterly the panes of pov I ertv. if Mrs. Tuomey had done I nothing else for charity, this j thoughtful remembrance of the poor I at Christmas time is sufficient to ' place her name on the roll of thorj who had thought for the children of the peor.