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r | | Monday S To Write you I I _ ('-<>1 in ii hi an Nation Life I S Dillon I>ear "Dock"? Accept my thanks for your < mcnt un?ler my policy for 2 and cannok recommend you ami you public fcp-p rompt payment and icy sold. Wishing you and the am Youn 5 Just Ask "I s = = ! JOE CA 1 The Savage in Us. leave. Besides being ?? the small islands of th Charleston Evening: Post. tain commands the coi Centuries of civilization, genera- 9ulu, whe>re the only A tions of moral teaching, the press, tan lives, the pulpit, and the schools have "There are about 4 failed to stamp out of us altogeth- the Tawi-T>awi group," er those savage traits which are Shutan. They range commonly supposed to thrive chief- Tawi, whioh is 28 mi ly in the heart of the lower ani- wide, to hardly more mal or of the untutored Fiji Island- Sitauki, the smallest "Ti era. Indeed, the intellect of 1911 is about half a mile s< appears In spots to be hardly more Las a bigger populatio permeated by sweetness and light of the larger islands, than that of the dark ages when covers an area of abou torture held nations in fear, and miles, a life was worth only the thrust, of "How do you get abc a lance or the stab of a dirk. But gunboat comes down it is not so much the frenzies of a takes me on inspection mob nor the secret attack of the when such a craft is n< criminal that stains the fair rec- travel from one islanc -?rd of modern civilization with in a launch or a native murky markings, as it is the de- is my second period c . plorahle flash now and then the Moro country, of primitive rashness where reason "There are fewer w should rule. Fortunately, the sav- Tawi-Tawi group than a?e instincts of this century crop part of the Philippines r?n? minani ni\ icn Mv anH with the In- COnStubularv officers tl individual rather than the masses, one a German, who is To say that there are among us way ties for a Philip] yet characters who know not mod- Company. Khey use p eration and temperance is to state for that purpose over wherein the present day civilization favorite being molabi, is handicapped in its progress to like maple; but it is h tl?e higher planes. last 150 years in w It happens the press dispatches month a steamer comes recently carried two stories, one there to plok up the t from the West and one from the them to their destinat East, which should cause the be- "We used to have fo lievers in right living to weep. In of constabulary, but c St. Paul a man and woman danced have beeno nly two coi seven hours and then the man men each. I make my dropped dead from sleep and ex- at Bongao. which is haustlon. In Baltimore an unfor- smallest islands, In fa< tunate fellow boasted that he could rock. It is about 5 drink more whiskey than anybody Barneo coast. Some else. He tried it, and drank more lands lie right in I)arb< than anybody he oould find. He belongs to Barneo. '^dropped dead at the conclusion of "I have to act as Ji the foolhardy victory. lion to my constabul Are not these two incidents ex- eullve work, and get a amples of a real savagery? In the domestic case6 to deal one case the element of an elec- the dattos or Mono cl trie lighted fury predominated, rea- mitted to settle most aonless and silly. In the other, among their own peopl the instincts of a hog swallowed up litigants are not satisfi the balance of a man. Fortunately, decisions they appeal a cure for such excess comes out of m^n. the very civilization which pro- "Ves, I have frequ< duces it. Death is the penalty for with divorce cases, such defiance to the Laws of health number of divorces is ? ? Under the Mohammed KING OF THE MOKOH. ^oro is allowed as m _______ he ran support. Undi An American Who is Bonn Of Our re'igion divorce Is < Islands Near llaroco. :iJ. K lf ?wW To behead man over almost half J J* ier; I divorce thee a hundred Islands, with ever so .. f' divorce Ih??many dattos under you and to be J thre? times, and th a sort of supreme court In your- 'c? u?y 5rYaL8 *'etw self sounds big, but ("apt. W. H. 4 e have shut down 01 Shu tan, P. O., aays It is not really . ? that way, according to the New NFH CAW IN 8KL S. York Sun. P. C. means Philippine ^ constabulary. Capt. Bhutan, who Plea <tif Four CouIkjQh has just arrived at the Holland M'wnan Accused o House, is head man of the Tawl- Lincoln, Neb., Sept Tawi group of islands, which are cowboys aiul a young * the southernmost of the Philip- cused in the courts of pines and even extended into the ty, Nebraska of the waters of Barneo. Charles Perry Sellers, Capt. Bhutan is a young man with by hanging him to a te steady eyes and a quiet manner, The young woman, who has been In the Philippines phy, has not been a since he went out in 1899 its a vol- has been traced to i unteer. Ln 1903 he Joined the con- where she engaged a stabulary and is now home on haft promised to prodi. ( I I Will Be In My Office and Tuesday Coi ???? r Insurance. See letters below that expl They are Some of Many I>r. Joe Cabell Davis. Mgr. umiranee Oo. (Columbian Nation Life Insu , ?. C. Dillon, 8. C. IVar '"Dock":? company's check for $73.00 in full |?ay- Accept my thanks for your culm I 4-StJi weeks' sickness from fever. I nient under my policy for one week' r company too high to the insuring ctpnmcmd you and your company too square treatment. It is the best pol- prompt payment and square treat] company the success yon deserve, I Wishing you and the company the ? Truly, Yours ' Pierce liethea, Ge< Deputy Sheriff to Dillon County. X>CK" in His Office over the CotU Yours on one leg, BELL DAVIS, ' # 11 in charge of ever the trial date is set. Sellars A AA A A. A A A A A a A AAAJi e South Cap- had been engaged to marry her for j < nstabulary of several months. Ttie engagement *.* American Sul- followed a spectacular wooing in 1\f a STUBBS which he had to thrash half a doz- i $ 5 islands In en rival cowbay suitors. | V w w said Capt. Sellars carried two life insur-1 in size from ance policies aggregating $7,000, J || SI lIllTOV Pmmi les long by and the State charges that the be- ^ A than rocks, lief of the young woman that being A ihabited one, his affianced wife she would get I J , , l ! ll .1 quare, but it the money led to the murder. The V We life receiving daily Sill the n than some lynching took place about forty 1 j; i . l I The group miles from Cody, out In cowboy | i BDCllSC SIlU CXlBDu 3 COfQlBI 111 t 200 square land. On the night of June 19 last j V inenert mir cinclf of four men, undisguised, called at1A luapcci UUI MUCK U1 >ut? Well, a the home of Hutch Jack, wltii whom 1 nnrcc PAAftP PT l ni i? writ there and Sellars was spending the night. UKljj uUUIJj, jl Al Lt LfKl trips, and They were George and Alma Weed, >t available 1 Harry Heath and Kenneth Murphy, | J We carry Steadfast, Zei I to another the latter a brother of Eunice. all the very lvest that ni< i craft. This Sellars was in bed and declined ' pointer brand hats. Also . f DOfvipa in t r. /.nmn n,i* " '1 t ~i A ? 1" ' ? ri PVIKVV -v> VU1*>C wut (UlU panvil/lpaiu 111 J * OENT8 FURNH what the visitors said was a social ^ Of tliis department we hites in the call. Thereupon one of them pull- ^ please you whether it be in any other ed a gun and covering Jack order- you wish. ; besides the ed hlni to keep his seat and not in- LADIES' i lere is only terfere with w>at was about to We have bought a big t getting rail- take place. George Weed dragged $ great values from stock or yine Railway Sellars out of bed and Harry Heath recious wood threw a rope around his neck. ^ . there. the With this they dragged him into $ ill men 3 and D0V8 Clothing V which looks the road and hanged him to a tele- J fe iard and will phone pole. Then they went home JL U7 - I *j. rater. Every and submitted later to arrest. J Workmanship. We make SUlt i along down To the Sheriff they declared that ies and take they were simply dealing out col- JL xxri ion. lectively a fate that Sellars had ? When in IOWn II1S ur companies promised each of them individually. >f late there Their story was that Heath and JL npanies of 50 the two Weed boys had been pay- t U A TJ A T 1 headquarters ing attention to Miss Murphy; that AAXXAWJ AVvr v i-<~" 1A xA. JLrf. one of the this had angered Sellars and that 3t is only a he had warned them that if they J ... - . !0 miles from didn't keep away from his girl he VVVVVVVVVVVVVV^^V^J of our is- would kill them. Young Murphy's ^??? ?1 Bay, which complaint was that Sellars had threatened him for interfering with idge in addi- his courtship and that he was in "W'y , ary and exe- fact forcing his attention upon his A good many sister. The four young men evinc- ? with. All ed astonishment that they should |AjI . liefs are peu*- he arrested and insisted that they IKcjl A I I A IV I T of the cases hud a clear right to dispose of J |T| s x X X K* le; and if the Sellars. ed with their It was not until weeks afterward I * _ a nrn - n, t i to the head through the confession of a fifth I .1 f 1 IlG olcUlUcirU XvelllrOclCi 0 man that the authorities got an KtSi M J o, .a. > > rpL i , , ?ntly to deal inkling of the conspiracy which vxSXCtGn opOt InrOU^llti though the they charge exists. Eunice Mur- JJxf QniifU PcivnliriQ Clarwre\ diminishing. J?hy is a nieece of Mrs. Heath, and \J(X1 Uilllct, vJcUIgl an religion a she and her brother lived on the | | | any wives as ranch, which was five miles from j? j y . > . _ ?r the same that of Sellars. An affidavit has A? f J / / A-? /\ iasy. A man been secured from William McGee, 1 JL 1 *?' * * Ife by saying n cowboy, that on the night of June PjTji V my% houHe", ZZre?iere%.t"^S 5T* fll New York and Florida Special ? rtf S? SS^JSS^ a5rfeeH.a."h m -Palmetto Limited,-Fl. i that." ajia her two daughters and two or All year arouna inrOUgfl Ciir S1 F.?kpfn< k a?"eEu"yo* mu" flh and Knights Key, connectii phy had a private conference of an f^V | and a Vising hour a* the house Hnd after the r Mdnitr. w,'neurtpohy ?! For beautiful booklet ai .Four ?p Charley Sellars. At midnight j P | vornan are ax- tj,e men returned and he heard , wat- t /"* * ^ "Zlirz "T ? i w- J- Craig, a ranchman, ^ '8 done, Wflb ! _ _ _ _ dephone pole. "What's done?" asked Mrs. j ^ Wjl Kunlce Mur- Heath. 1 rrested. She ?We strung up Charley Sellare," 1^1 (ansae City, replied Heath. * ^TV("* fVlf lawyer, who "Something bad to be done," said ' r$f?? Vm Si*iB^ ] ce ber when- Kunice Murphy. w mm ??? '' I I art Week S ==? B am themselves i ranee Co. pany's elieck for |2S.OO in full pay's sickness from fever. I cannot high the insuring public for ment. It is the best policy sojtl. Hi success you deserve, I am, HI ISn.lv >T)Ce llruce, . A ml i tor IMllou founty. m r 7n Mill Offices B ' I s Dillon, S. C. [ ? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmirn ?* ** * ? * J. D. HARGROVE W- E. HALL ^ .. ? -Hall Company |: seasons' newest novelties and staple merchivitation to the purchasing public to call and m ? ? ^ 0m m 0m f GOODS, LINENS, SHEETINGS AND SHOES gler Bms. and Putney's I tattle Axe shoes, >ney call buy. We handle Stetson and ?{ a biff stock of caps. X , SHINGS ANI) NOTIONS. V feel extremely proud and feel tJiat we can shirts, under wend, hosiery oi* neckwear DAT SUITS AND CLOAKS. stock of these and can show yon some ^ make you a suit to measure. f V te are showing the seasons best styles and s to your measure, either men or ladies. T ike our store your Headquarters ? ? L COMPANY, BETHEA BUILDING 33U3S3S 333333g! COAST LINE ^ f the South. Ramifies the "Nation's r?f , le States of Virginia, North Carolina, Ira a, Alabama and Florida ?#4 MOUS TRAINS fej , January to April,-Florida and West Indian > >rida Cost Mail.-Dining Car-a la carte service W ervice from New York to both Port Tampa ig with steamships to and from Havana id copy of ''Purple Folder'' address T.C. White, W Imington, N. C. G. P.JA. wj BE8ESEESEE8BHBHB0