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FOUND SHORTAGE Probers of Colleton's Situation Makes Report ARRAIGNS OFFICIALS Report of Expert* \\ ho Made Stud) of the Affairs of Several of the OlTlcea of Colleton County Filed With the Governor?Accountant Claims Kx-Treasurer Short $5,144. The Columbia Record of Monday afternoon bays Mr. R. K. Hill, appointed by Governor Ansel, under a suecial act of tbe last legislature to investigate the affairs of Colleton county, today filed with the governor his report finding ex-County Treasurer D. L. Smith short $5,144.18, and severely criticising several former and present county officers for looseness in methods and direct violations of law. The report divides the Smith liabilities as follows: Borrowed money account $1,031.62, bond account $2,450, dispensary account $1,662.56 Following his services as county treasurer, Mr. Smith was a member of the legislature, and was accused by Representative J. Wright Nash of Spartanburg of appropriating his prohibition bill and running it in under the name of Smith as a ruse to defeat the local option bill. Mr. Nash made a dramatic speech to knife his own "baby" under the Smith name, so as to save the day for local option and put the old State dispensary out of business. Mr. Smith was at one time spoken of as a candidate for governor. Accountant Wilson of the comptroller general's office, who has twice checked up Mr. Smith as treasurer, the final checking being when Mr. Smith left office, was surprised by the report of today. Mr. Wilson offers to bet $100 each that each of the three items referred to by Mr. Hill are incorrect. Mr. Wilson does not believe Mr. Smith is short at all, that Mr. Hill has made some error. Governor Ansel will not take any action on a report for the present. The act requires the report to be published in one of the county papers, and this will be done. In the meantime the governor will reserve action. The treasurer's office was held by Mr. I). L. Smith's father, Mr. A. R. Smith, from 1899 till the spring of 1900. when ho died and was succeeded by D. L. Smith, who was succeeded early in 190 7 by the incumbent. R. E. Jones, who the report finds is conducting his office properly, except tbnt he has a habit of cashing claims, "which is liable sooner or later to cause trouble if it has not already done so. to" say nothing of the fact that it Is directly contrury to law." "Concluding to begin work in the office of county treasurer." says the report, "we called upon the county auditor (held by A, A. Patterson, Jr.) for abstracts of the duplicates and copies of the settlement sheets from 1899 up to the last settlement, which wus for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1907, und ending June JO. 1908. "We were informed by that officer that he knew little or nothing about such papers, as he had only recently gone into office and had been kept busy ever since In taking tax returns and in making up his duplicates preparatory to the next collection of taxes. and that therefore he hud not had an opportunity or the time to acquaint himself with the other affairs pertaining to his office. He did, however, point out to us un Indiscriminate mass of papers and books plied on top of tables, in dry goods boxes, etc.. In an utter state of confusion, with no sort of dist inr?Hnn ? ..mvi.vu ucmei'u me papers of one year and those of another, saying at the same time that they were in just the condition in which they were turned over to him by his predecessor. "After spending considerable time in a futile effort to obtain some reliable data that would be of service to us. we applied to the comptroller general for the tettlement sheets filed in his office for the period to be covered by our investigation, but as ho seemed somewhat indisposed to allow these papers to go out of his office, Mr. \V. \V. Bradley (the expert accountant employed by Mr. Hill to assist in the investigation) went up to Columbia and made copies of them, save those for the year 1 905, which he was informed, could not he found in the office." I Colleton having sold the Green Pond and Walterboro road, for which the county was bonded to the extent of $60,000, to the Plant System for $:t5,000, is now entirely out of debt with about $1,000 on hand to meet future claims. The report says: "The following is a summary of the liabilities of D. L. Smith, excounty treasurer, as found by us: Borrowed money accounts $1,031.62: on bond account $2,450; on dispensary account $1,662.56; total $5,744.1 8." The report says of tho last Item, a credit for $1,210.76, that it was given by Mr. Smith as paid the towns on dispensary account, whereas the towns had already gotten this mooey. "The office of county supervisor." says the report, "being one of the most important of onr county offices, should he filled by a man of firmness, good Judgment and business talent, but unfortunately, nheao qaullflcatlons are not often taken into account by the average voter. We found tho papers relating to one year's in ?ery much tb# same condition as / DASHED TO DEATH I PARACHUTE FAILED TO OPEN PROPERLY. Before ? -t rifled Crowd * Balloonlet Cute Loose Too Soon and is Killed. Mistaking the promlscous firing of revolvers aa a signal for the ellmax of hie aerial act. James Corcoran. aeronaut, 28 years old, of Lowell, Mass., cut loose with his paracute when "out a few hundred feet from the earth at Portland, Me., Sunday, and was dashed to the ground, meeting almost instant death at the feet of o.000 horrified spectators. TKroo nnraoK nlao u-ora n H e *? * MI vv |/uiovuuvvo n?io auttVUCU WW the balloon for a triple jump. It was arranged that Corcoran should drop with his parachutes when he heard a certnln number of revolver shots after the balloon had reached a height of approximately 5.000 feet. ? Corcoran had barely left the ground before promiscuous firing began, but the man to give the signal [(tilled out to him to keep on up Above a few hundred feet it is hard for an aeronaut to judge correctlv his exact height, and so when Corcoran heart^ a second fusillade it is believed he was certain the signal had come. He was seen to drop, although he was barely 500 feet In the air. The distance was too short for the parachute to open properly, and the man dropped like a plummet, striking the ground about 1,000 feet from where the ascension was made. He sustained a fracture of the skull and other injuries and he soon died. PREACHER FATALLY SHOT. Minister Wounded Trying to Separate His Sou and Another Boy. A dispatch from Grayson, Qa., says: Much excitement prevailed In that community over the fatal injury of the Rev. E. L. Langley, who was Monday shot while trying to separate his son, Bose Langley. and J. E. Webb, who were engaged in a fight. Webb and young Langley fought a desperate duel with pistols. Each received two wounds of a serious nature. The minister In attempting to act as peacemaker, came within the range of the flying bullets and fell at his son's feet mortally wounded. MISSING HOY FOUND. Murder Mystery at Clinton Proves to be a Canard. The boy, Hen Deane, who was reported missing from Clinton since Saturday a week ago. has been found at Ware Shoals. This puts an end to the sensational rumors which were dying about of mprder at the Lydla Mill. The police tound on close investigation that the reports about Joe Franks and his friends were based on facts, but they were greatly exaggerated, and there is no reason to make any arrests in connection with the matter. were those in the auditor's office? the papeds relating to one year's transactions mingled and mixed up with those of another, iu the most indiscrimate manner conceivable." The occupants of this office have been J. O. Jacques, whose term lasted four years; he was succeeded by J. E. Moore, who was succeeded last year by J. O. Griffin. The report finds that the board of which Mr. Griffin is chairman had ordered claims paid which were not properly sworn to as required by law and that claims amounting to $206.55 had been twice paid. The county would have been short to this extent but for the investigation. Kx-Sunervl?ir?r Vtnnro'o wi v o a\ tuuuia were correct, but Joe Jacques had left a lot of Jury certificates not conceded. The present clerk of court Is conducting his- office properly, but exClerk K. R. McTeer did not keep a book for recording "fines and forfeitures" as required by law, except for last three months of his term, term. The superintendent of education. Dr. II. W. Hlack, is conducting his office all right. The manner in which the offices of master and judge of probate are run j are highly commended. The magistrates are strongly condemned for not making regular reports. The present sheriff is doing all right, but of ex-ShorifT L. 0. Owens, who held office about 12 years, the report says: "Tn examining his tax execution hooks for several years hack, we found that in the case of quite a number of taxpayers who had return *-u iHnas. running from an acre up *o 106 acres, aggregating over 3 00 acres in 1905, who failed to pay the taxes thereon, that executions were issued against them ard put into the hands of the sheriff for collection. "In his return, made to the treasurer. is this report, 'Can't find,' when in 1006 these same parties paid the taxes on these identical lands, showing that with proper effort these lands could have been found.. The same or worse Is true as to executions for 1906 and 1907. "It occurs to us that there might he some profitable gleanings had by the sinking fund commission in this field, wore they to look into the matter." . -A Mm- . ?. .j i SAYS HE DID IT I V Unexpected Confession Made In Murder Trial HORRIBLE DETAILS Bob D?lrh?r, On? of th? Mfa g Charged With Slaying Officer? in 11 0 Ocone? on the Night of March 0, e Claim* He Fired th? Shots That c 7 Proved Fatal. c 1 "Yes, 1 killed the Corblns." With c these startling words did Bob Belch- c er clear up Tuesday the mystery as ? to who fired the fateful shots that J removed forever Deputy United * States Marshal W. B. F. Corbin and ] and his deputy, "Chris" Corbin. Four persons, J. B. Palmer. Charley ? Palmer, father and son. and Lou s c l Uolnhur anrl Hnh Unlahor mnthnr and son, stand charged with murder- ing the two officers near Walhalla on < the night of March 8, 1909. Their ' cuse was begun in the Sessions Court. { Although nearly a Ecore of witness- J es had been exumlned. not before Bob , was placed on the stand had the au- < thor of the Bhot been revealed. 1 Belcher, nervous and perspiring, told ' the following story of the event of that night: ( "About 2 o'clock that night some one knocked ou the door. 1 started to open it, but my grandfather said: 'Let me open it.' He asked who was there. The reply was Corbin." Open the door or 1 will busf it down.' I'ap, J. B. Palmer, unbuttoned the door and the Corbin a the old one (W. B. F.)t came into the room where we were sitting about the lire wi^h a cocked pistol in his right hand. 1 did not run and hide. 1 did not know who they were, nor what they wanted. 1 backed into a room to the left, and W. B. F. Corbin glanced at me, but said nothing. Pap asked him his business, and he made no answer. He went into the cook room, took up a lamp there, and climbed up on the stove. Lou told him to get down, as we had stolen nothing. He said: 'That's all right.' Lou said he could not walk around the house with cocked pistol. Again he replied: 'That's all right.' Lou and Charley Palmer, my uncle, followed him. He searched around in there about fiv? minutes. 1 stayed in the front of the house watching Chris Corbin, who was standing with a pistol drawn in the frout door. Bill Corbin came back into the big room, and without a word walked up to ine and put his big pistol barrel right over my heart. Charley knocked the pistol to one side just as it was bred He wanted to kill me, but did not have time to lire. I dodged. Chris then ran iu and grabbed my hand, and in jerking loose from him my elbow knocked a board from the side of the house. Chris grabbed me by the coat, and pulled me toward the front door, tiring again. just men Lou said: Oh, you bhot me,' and I grabbed the pistol to protect my mother. He dragged me out of the door and fired twice at my head, but 1 turned the pistol. He dragged me out doors toward an applo tree. About that time, when Charley and lx>u were begging them not to kill me, 1 heard Charley say: *Oh, Lord, you have killed me," aud fell. I jerked loose from Chris to run to Charley, when I saw Dill Corbiu trying to chop my mother with an axe. 1 rau in the house and got my shotgun. Pf 11 kept coming with his axe as if he meant to kill either me or Lou, so when he was three feet off, I shot and he fell. Chris Corbiu then fired again at me, and 1 returned the fire aud he fell. I thought Charley was dead on the ground. I shot because I Baw they were trying to kill me. 1 never did know what they were trying to kill me for. I saw no papers. I could have escaped through the window when they came." If there was ever any doubt as to the plea of the defendants it is now removed. Illegal invasion of a man's house and firing to kill all the defendants will be charged against the two dead men. On crossexamination by Solicitor Honham. the witness was considerably confused. It was truly a gruelling examination. Court adjourned for the day with the witness still on the sand. The State rested its case before the dinner hour. It was evident that they will try to prove a conspiracy to prevent the arrest of Hob. Judge Dantzler admitted testimony going to show that the defendants knew that a warrant for Hob's arrest for shooting Into f a mall box would be issued. Wit- r nosses were introduced to prove and f disprove that some one had been in ^ the loft, where, the State contends. Hob was told by the others to hide. Many gruesome objects were offered in evidence, including bloody 1 gun wads and shots, taken from the I lungs of the dead man: hloody shirts, 8 trousers and waists worn by the de- s fondants. The crowd overflowed *1 from the court room into tho square K and streets nearby. Many women were present. a tl Liquor in Dry Sections. r' At a meeting of the Texas Brewers' Association Tuesday at Galveston a fund of $100,000 was set aside to be given to a public charity if they could not prove that more liquor is h consumed in the prohibition or dry, c< States and sections of the United It States than in the free or wet sec- b< tions. i<J SIX CREMATED k'HSX THEIR HOME IS DE8TROY. ED BY FIRE. lb Old Confederate Veteran and Flee Childden Meet Horrible Death At Danville. A dispatch from Danville, Va., ays as the result of a mysterious re. which totally destroyed the home f S. E. Hamlett at South Boston arly Monday morning, five of their hlldren and H. A. Strange, aged 4, were burned to death, and another child, aged four years, seriously njured. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett esaped without injury. The victims if the frightful affair are: M. A. Itrange, Vernie Hamlett, aged 14 ears; Beatrice Hamlett, age seven ears; Violet Hamlett, age six years; Jecll Hamlett, three years; Henry -iamlett, age 18 months. Mr. Hamlett, who is employed with i planing mill at South Boston, retided in a two-story frame building >n the west side of the city, near ;he Norfolk and Western Railway, rhe fire was discovered at about 3 j'clock Monday morning by neighbors. At this hour the occupants bf the house had not been aroused, ?nd the building was almost completely enveloped in flames, the tire ranging the worst on the south side of the structure. The residence whs threatening to fall In at almost any minute, when Mr. Hamlett and his wife were aroused. They were on the north side of the houBe, and their four-year-old child was in the same room. They crawled out of the window on the front porch and dropped the child to the ground. Roth of the child's arms were broken by the fall. The baby was also slightly burned and its face lacerated. Mr. and Mrs. Hamlett reached the ground in safety. All of the occupants of the building were sleeping on the second story, and those who met death were on the south side of the house. When the fire was discovered it was impossible to save any of the children or Mr. Strange, all of whom It is thought had been burned to death by this time. Mr. Strange was a Confederate Veteran of Halifax county, and was in South Boston to attend the Fourth of July celebration. The building collapsed and fell a few minutes after Mr. Hamlett and his wife escaped. The six bodies of the victims of the fire were burned to .a crisp, the remains an unrecognizable mass of bones being taken from the debris. CRUSHED I XDKR ENGINE. Engineer Meets Horrible Death Neni Anderson. Mr. Stonev Bouchillnn nt f\nr. deaux. engineer of a hoisting engine on the A. C. and W. C. wreck train, operating near Barne'a station, was probably fatally Injured when the engine overturned Monday morning. The engine and one of the work cars turned over, and Mr. Houchillop was caught underneath the engine. His fellow workers jumped to safety. Mr. Bouchillon was quickly placed on a special train and was carried to the hospital at Anderson. His condition is precarious, and his death is expected almost at any moment. His right leg was almost crushed lo a pulp, his hips were also crushed und other internal tnjuries are feared. He is severely shocked, and is getting worse. His condition has prevented any close examination, and, of course, no amputations have been made. It is doubtful whether he will sufficiently recover from the shock to even permit an examination. The cause of the wreck is a mystery. It blocked the track for some time and several trains had to transfer. Several persons employed on the work train were more or less Injured by Jumping, but no other than Mr. Bouchillon was seriously Injured. FATAL DUEL IN VIRGINIA. Fanner Kills Merchant and is Discharged as Guiltless of Grime. A dispatch from Lynchburg. Va.. says reports from a country roadtide duel Sunday afternoon, In Nelion county, thirty miles from Lynchburg, in which John McCallum shot ind instantly killed L. A. Astrop, ? merchant of that county, reached Lynchburg Tuesday afternoon. Mr ^anum is a rarmer. The men quarreled two weeks ago and Sunday, vhen Astrop saw McCallum In the oad, he opened Are on him. McCallum responded and killed Asrop. A preliminary trial resulted n McCallum's discharge ui>on the tround of self-defence. The dead nan is survived by a wife and eight hlldren. Both men seem to have teen armed for earh other. Signers Meet, In the room vhor* the Iieelara ion of Independence was signed in ndependence hall in Philadelphia everal scores of descendants of the igners gathered Monday. Resoluions were adopted providing for a eneral meeting of the society of tie descendants on October 19 next t Yorktown, Va.. to take part in tie 128th anniversary of the surender of Cornwallls. (Committed Suicide. A dispatch from Aiken says Josph Crews, the negro who killed is wife at Warrenton Thursday, immitted suicide Saturday by placig himself In front of a train and sing run over. The body has been lentifled. DUAL TRAGEDY | Takes Place In Edgefield County Monday. KILLS WIFE AND SELF Cieorge Bush Shoots His Wife Six Tlnrai, Mortally Wounding Her and Then Takes Refuge La a Swamp, Where He Puts a Bullet ! Through His Own Brain. Several parties from the neighborhood where the awful tragedy occurred, brought the news to EdgeQeld Monday that Mr. Cieorge Bush hud soht and instantly killed his wifo, , Alice, the weapon used being a pistol. The homicide occurred at the home of Mr. P. P. Doollttle, an uncle of ? Mrs. Bush's, near Rehoboth Baptist ^ church. Mr. and Mrs. Bush have been sep- I arated several years, their trouble | being due to the former's alleged |j very dissipated habits. He has lived || lii Augusta for some time, but re- ' cently returned to this county, of which he is a native, and In the neighborhood where his wife resided, and has been using efforts to get her to return to him. This she refused to do. On Saturday last he avowed his Intention to take his wife's life and then his own, and while little credence was given to what he said, as a precaution, Mrs. Hush was moved from the place where she was staying when the threat was made, to her uncle's home, and It was there that Mr, Hush appeared at 11 o'clock Monday morning, and it seems, without warning or excuse shot her to death. The circumstances of the homicide are not known. Hush, it is said, fled as soon as be got in his bloody work. At 12 o'clock Monday SherlfT Ouzts received a telegram from Modoc on the Charleston and Western Carolina railway to come there at once, that Hush had killed his wife, and the presumption at Edgefield was that he had been captured at that place about three miles from where the killing occurred. Hush is well known, having carried the mall from Edgefield to Parksvllle for several years. He was i a hard drinker, it was alleged, but was thought to be harmless. Mrs. Hush before marrying was a Miss Doolittle, and a most estimable woman. her family being prominent in the county. Mrs. IIiini oi lii Ali.r. Later information brought by a party direct from tho scene of the tragedy is that, although Mrs. Bush is shot six times, she is alhe with no hopes of recovery. Her statement is that her husband met her coming from the spring and demanded that she come back to him. She refused. He then said: "Well, you are a dead woman," and commenced firing, shooting her twico after she was on the ground. The news spread like wildfire, and soon hundreds of citizens gathered and are hunting Hush. As yet he has not beeu captured, but likely will be, and the apprehension is that he will be lynched. "Suicide," Cot oner's Jury Verdict. The posse that surrounded Georgo \V. Hush in the woods, finding that they could not recurc dogs, went in t.fted Hush. They found him lying on the ground d?ad, with a bullet hole through his brain and a 32 calibre S. and W. pistol in his rlgnt hand. The coroner's jury, summoned by Magistrate J. K Blackwe'l found thnt Hush "came to his dentn <rom a gunshot wound Inflicted by his own hand." SEES HUSBAND CRUSHED. Groom Steps in Front of K\pi'c?i. Wife Tries to Rescue Him. As a result of seeing her husband crushed to death under a railroad train on Long Island, N. Y., Mrs. Halsey H. Thebaud. a young brldo, Is prostrated at her homo in New York city and under the care of physicians. Mr. Thebaud, who had an extensive insurance brokerage business, and his wife had been members of a house party over the Fourth on Long Island. They hud been attracted across the railway tracks by tho burning of a building and In returning Mr, Thebaud, while only a few feet in advance of his wife, stepped In front of an express train. Mrs. Thebaud reached for her husband and might hava fallen under ' the train also had not friends restrained her. OAS EXPLOSION KILLS NINE. Miners Suffocate in Pit at Tollcrrille, Near Trinidad, Colo. ... I .mho men wore killed Tuesday by an explosion of gas in the Cedar I Hill Coal & Coke Company mine at Toilerville, near Trinidad, Colo. All but one were foreigners. The men wer? descending in the / cage. The explosion partly wrecked V the shaft and those who were not in- ' stantlv killed were suffocated by gas. ? All of the bodies have been recovered. : Prof. Ordway Dead. Prof. John Morse Ordway. up to ' three years ago professor of metallurgy at Tulane university. New Orleans, dkd a' his home in Saugus Mass., Monday, aged 86 years. j Southern States BUT FBC ^7 Plumbjng^ OOL.UMB Bargains In Real Estate 40? acres?l 1-2 to 2 miles from Clarendon, Oolumbus Co., N. C'., on the Chadbourn & Conway (A. C. L.) R. R. All wood land timber *old and 4 years longer to remove some. While the land, or part of It. has clay subsoil and would make all kind of crops, I would not advise an> one to buy It for that purpose now. It would , be a good Investment for pasture ' and timber growth. It's the great- 1 eat Strawberry bel?, and would produce berries. Price $2 per acre, or $800. 18S acres?Mostly cleaned low land. About one mile from ?he proposed terminus of Whltevllle (N. C.) R. R. Will make 3-4 bale cotton I R.. Will make 3-4 bale cotton and 30 bushels corn per acre without fertilizer, $15 per acre for cleared and $10 for uncleared. This land Is easily worth $50 per acre, but for the fnct that It Is subject to extreme high water, and one crop In every 5 or 6 might be loBt. It now ha9 fine crop. This land In Columbus county and near the Waccamaw river. 12-t Acres in Cnttnil Hay, Columbus Co., N. C., uncleared. This bay has about 1,500 acres land and about 400 cleared. Has produced 75 bu. corn per aero. D. J. Lewis, attorney at law. In Whiteville. N. C., has over 100 acres of this bay in cultivation and would Kive any information desired. Have been offered and refused $400 for the timber. Timber cousists of fino juniper, cypress, poplar and gum. Hrico $12.60 per ucre. i 173 Acres good clay subsoil, small farm about 6 or 8 acres cleared; buildings no good. About one mile from the proposed terminus of Whlteville (X. C.) R. R., near Reeves Ferry on the Waccamaw river, in Columbus county. Price $750 17 Acre*?About 6 cleared, in the corporate limits of the town of Loris, S. C. Produces fine strawberries. tobacco and other crops This is fine trucking section and is fatd developing in that direction Some buildings but are very poor This to*n is in llorry county on the A. C. L. R. R., which Is now developing faster than most any section of the State. Price $1,260. 79 Acres?Just outside corporate limits of Loris. S. C. Cood clay subsoil, fine chance for drainage, all unimproved, enough timber and light wood to pay half the price asked. Price $1,250. One small house ami lot in tows of Lorie, S. C. Price $300. 2 Store Houses nnd lots in town of Boris, S. C. Best location In the town for business. Price $1,2G0 each. 85 Acres ? In the center of the trucking section know.n as Homewood, a few miles front county seat. 85 Acres?In the trucking section of Horry county. One-fourth of a mile from station of Homewood and four miles from Conway. 45 acres cleared. Has dwelling, barn and stables on place. 10H Acres?All woods and some timber on place. Lies between the 1 Chadbourn and Conway and the Conway Coast and Western railroads. not more than a mile to either road. Is six miles from county seat of Horry county. 3<M) Acre*?About 15 miles from Conway, 13 from Loris and 2 from Red Bluff on the Waecamaw river. 1 About 30 acres of lowlands well drained, and 100 acres of upland suitable for cotton, rest not cleared. ;IOO Acres-?In Horry county. About ' 50 acres pasture land and rest ^ timber land. Could bo easily cleared and made good fanning land. SOO Acres?Situated iust on edge of Sanford, S. C. Large new dwelling and other outbuildings on place. About 25 acres cleared, rest in ~ timber. 2f>o Acre*?On the Blarkvillo road, 'i R miles west of Neeses, S. C. and five miles west of Salley lfiO acres cleared. balance In woods. Has 8-room house on place. also tenant houses, stables, etc. Daily mall service and telephone eonnections. Good price for quick sale, j Carolina Sales Agency, OKANGEBI RG, S. O. : tt ALBANY i th,? 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"At first ho wanted mo to sign a written statement that wo hud pflanued to dJe together and had turned the gas on." she said, "but I refused to do this and tried to get out of the room. He locked the door, closed the windows tightly and then turned on the pas Jets without tightening them. 1 tried to open the door and he attacked me, choking me with his hands and throwing me to the floor, where he held me until I became unconscious." Oother boarders smelled the pas and after the door was broken in Morey and the young girl were found unconscious from Inhaling gas. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Tobacco Habit Cured or no CostHarmless home treatment. NicKo House, Wichita, Kansas. Wanted?To correspond with owners having farms for sale cheap. Describe land and Improvements. R. 8. Fletcher, MeColl. S. C. A good worm powder for horses and mules. Safe and effective. Sent postpaid on receipt of 25c. T. B. Wannamaker, Cheraw, 3. C. F'airview House, Clyde, X. C.?Fine view, good water, good table. Rates $6 and up per week. No consumptives. I)r. F. M. Davis. Wedding Invitations and announcements. Finest quality. Correct styles. Samples free. James H. DeLooff, Dept. 6, Grand Rapids, Mich. Manuscript of Novels, essayr, playa, poetry, etc., wanted for issao la book form. Address Hroadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway. N. Y. Real Instate?If you have any property for Bale list it with us. No charges unless sale Is made. Carolina Sales Agency, Orangeburg. S. C. Hogging and Ties?Qinners, farmers and merchants, save money by making contract with us now for fall delivery. Write without dolay. Address, Ragging Factory. Boykin, S. C. ORIENTAL RUG COMPANY. 1101 Cathedral St.. Baltimore, Md. We make you handaome and durable Ruge from your old wornout carpet, any atze to fit a room or hall. Let us sead you a price list; Just wrue ror one. Tewchere?Write for free booklet. "A Plan," showing how we help you get a better position. Thousands excellent v&cnncles open, paying |30 to $150 monthly. Schools supplied with teachere. Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia, South Carolina. IVhy don't yon work for Uncle Ham? Civil Service Manual, which prepares you $or the examination. Three volumes (with mais), $8. express prepaid. Sims' Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C. A'anted?Hardwood lumber a.id logs. In lumber we want poplar, ash, Cottonwood, gum and cypress. In logs we want cedar, walnut and poplar. Prompt cash and Inspection at your point. Savannah Valley Lumber Company, Augusta, Oa. AHF, FOUND GUILTY. bvo Camden Men Sentenced to Serve Thirty Days or Pay $100. A. L. and C. P. Lindsay Wednesday re re found guilty of assault and attery of a high and aggravated nalre at Camden. The sentence was 100 or 30 days. This case, vbieh as created a great deal of talk, grew nt of an attack on R. I. Lane, a aveling man. at the Hotel Camden, i? house Kept by the Lindsays. grease: id Safest Lubricant ( f Mmahtnmrv v : jfTH t? or Waste Away fjT*^ '?V1 * isacl >> Pin i nit. 1 d r/1 Ceitjuibta, S. C.