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CIGARETTES kV genuine "BilUT DURHAM TOBACCO NBGRO PAYS PENALTY. Thorn an Johnson Electrocuted at Penitentiary Friday. y M, i >4 (From Saturday's State.) Thomas Johnson, 16-year-old negro from Bamberg: county, was electro cuted yesterday morning at the state prison. Johnson walked into the death chamber at 10:30 o'clock sup-^ ported by two penitentiary guards, the switch was turned at 10:35 and at 10:39 1-2 o'clock Dr. R. T. Jennings pronounced the negro dead. Johnson sat in the electric chair while two scores of persons heard him speak his final words. Col. A. K. Sanders usked the rfegro if he had anything to say and Johson said in subdued tones, "I am sorry for what I did. 1 done wrong and hope nobodv thinks hard of me." Johnson was asked to tell . if another negro was connected with . the killing and he re plied that he alone was responsible. The condemned negro appeared to be frightened and spoke with diffi culty. He watched every move the attendants made as they buckled leather straps around him and he never uttered a sound after ho said his parting words. Thomas Johnson suffered the death penalty for killing a well known wo man of Bamberg county. He was charged with attacking the woman in a gin, death resulting 24 hours later, it was brought out at the hearing that Johnson attacked the woman on January 9 at about 3 p. m. and, that a neighbor heard groans on the in aide of the gin. Johnson was in the gin whoa thy witnesses arrived and they testified that the negro claimed that his victim had fallen from the top floor of the gin jiouse. Later .the npgro admitted that ho had struck ' the woman a number of blows on the head. Prison officials received a large number of requests from Bamberg county cititens who wanted to witness the electrocution. Admission was pro vided for a delegation and two phy sicians who attended the woman mur dered by Johnson were among the spectators. Johnson was given a speedy trial and he paid the death penalty three weeks and three days aftev the crime had been committed. Said* Camdea Waa Her Home. Councilman Earlo . occupied the bench yesterday 'morning at the po lice station and he sat in judgment o,n the case in whifch five young white vjromen and one man were charged with vagr&ncy. Officers testified that they visited a rooming house on the 1K>0 block of Gervais street at mid day last Friday aad arrested Mary Jones, Lizzie Walters, Belle Williams, Lillian Williams and Ethel Johnson on chargos of vagrancy. The wit nesses said the landlord was out of the city at the time of the raid and they told the judge that the house hold furnishings were removed at some hour Friday. One tfirl said she lived in Camden and that her husband left her at the rooming house until he could return. AnotHor said her homo was in Wil son, N. C., and Newport, Tenn., was tho homo of another. Girl. No. 4 said she lived at Danville, Va. The man said he was a railroad mai from Jacksonville. He was fined $2( or 20 days. Councilman Earle ques tioned the girls and all agreed to leave Columbia. Lizzie Walters was at liberty on bail and her ease was continued.? Sunday's State From the few hogs that were freed on Island of Santa Cruz in 1547 havo come a race of ferocious wild boars, which have lost every trace of their domesticity. They mature en ormous tusksr bristles like wire, have long hoof 8 and can run like deer. They are a plague to the ranchers of the island, eating other garden stuff and goring young stock. 1 BlackPaste Shoe Polish Positively the onlij polish that will shine oihj or damp shoes -No disagreeable odor QUALITY QUANTITY P. F. DalJvy Company ha. Ihstfeelaigest sale in America ><U, N, V. English Justice. "An English woman wan hung for murder. The inevitable aftermath is the world-wide protest againat the brutality of the execution* and renew al of efforts to abolish capital pun ishment," says a writer who does not believe in capital punishment. Continuing; the propagandist declar ed "The protests are a healthy sign. For the time will surely come when both capital punishment and putting away in stone and steel cells at hard but unproductive labor as punish n&nt,. will bo one with the rack and the thumbscrew, the burning at the stake, the ducking stool, the stocks, the casting into dungeons of the in h sane; "A few hundred years ago nations made 'the punishmentv fit the crime.* If a man stole his ears were cut off. If he bore false witness, his tongue was cut out. If he didn't pay. his debts he was put in jail until he did, the idea being not to allow him to earn money to pay, but to make him disgorge his hidden wealth or mulct his friends. "We smile pityingly at the 'mis guided ignorance of those old days. We are very wise and modern. All we do is hang women, or electrocute men, or put them behind iron bars ifor various periods of time, only to turn them loose again, worse men than when they went in." English courts have a way of re quiring a murderer to prove his in nocence rather than to establish his guilt. When a crime is committed in the Mother Country the criminal is pretty well assured that his punish nunt will be commensurate with the offense against society. An Englishman, Sir Basil Thomp son, pnly the other day, lectured in Greensboro, this state, and made the statement that last year there were 9,501) murders in the United States and only C.'i in all of England. English courts hang murderers, hence there art' few who tnki> human life. And there air today many persons in North Carolina, who would move heaven and earth to forestall justice ? capital punishment. Every time justice is thwarted it makes for Kukluxisin. ? Monroe En quirer. 1 More than $500,000 in bonus checks was given as Christmas presents to those employes of the Baltimore & Ohio' railroad who remained loyal to the road during the recent railroad strike. "So long as 1 keep my mouth shut I never do any harm" said the pen knife. "Nor any good either," it re flected, presently. ? Dr. Pell. New York Life Insurance Co. (Incorporated under the laws of the State of New York) \ * ? ' 346 & 348 Broadway - - -- -- New York, N. F:-. DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, President INCOME, 1922 Premiums > $156,757/178 Interest and Rents 42J>19,009 Other Income <, 13J972?19 Total Income ... 7 $ 213,248,406 PAID POLICY-HOLDERS, 1922 Death Claims $33,737,607 Endowments 26,143,757 Dividends 40?66,432 Surrender Values, etc . 29,695,478 'Total to Policy-Holders $130,143,274 New Paid Insurance in 1922 $606,381,000 Insurance in force January /, 1923 $4,042,169,658 *Ex<lusive off $32,490, 800.0.'! transferred to foreign companies and governments in re-insuring foreign business. BALANCE SHEET, JANUARY 1, 1923 Bonds at Market Value, as determined by Insurance Dept., State of New York. ASSETS Real Estate Owned $8,238,684.28 First Mortgage Loans ? On Farms 57,592,277.53 On Residential and Business Properties 143,070,999.93 Loans on Policies 166,099,516.84 Bonds of the United States 115,370,340.00 Railroad Bonds 285,079,312.14 Bonds of other Governments, of States and Municipalities.... 152,583,974.81 Cash 8,816*310.47 Other Assets 51,700,794.96 Total $988,552,210.96 LIABILITIES Policy Reserve $788,236,317.00 Other Policy Liabilities 22,747,657.3f> Dividends left with Company to Ac cumulate at interest 10,492,741.71 Premiums, Interest and Rentals prepaid 3,508,893.64 Taxes, Salaries, Accounts, etc., due or accrued 7,452,155.33 Additional Reserves 7,946,366.00 Dividends payable in 1923 48,769,410.67 Reserve for Deferred Dividends .... 39,310,473.00 General Contingency Funds not in cluded above. 60,088,196.25 Total $988,552,210.96 L. C. SHAW, Agent, Camden, S. C. Mules! Mules! Mules! Another car of fine, fat, sleek young' ?? mules just came in yesterday. We have the quality in this shipment as well as the last. You would be sur prised how cheap we can sell you these mules, after you see the QUALITY. Come in and see them. It will be a pleasure to us to show them to you. Mules! Mules! Mules! Springs & Shannon GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From Many Sources. 1 Henry Clews, widely known bunker, died nt his home in Now York Wed nesday. Dispatches from Athens and An gora indicate that the Greeks and Turks are {Sparing to go to war again. The legislature of Pennsylvania has a proposition before it to in crease the tax on gasolirle from one to three cents a gallon and also in crease the license fees on strictly pleasuro automobiles, both increases to be for the benefit of state roads. Lew Dockstader, 62, famous min strel, is virtually paralyzed at New Brunswick, N. J., the result of a fall on an ice covered pavement while re turning to his hotel after a perfor mance. The coroner's office of Philadel phia, ascribes 307 sudden deaths in that city in January to "moonshine" liquor. Of these 100 deaths were due directly to acute alcoholism and the rest to diseases alleged to be caused by excessive use of "moonshine." President Harding has accepted the invitations of the Chilean and Pe ruvian governments to act as arbi trator under the Tacna-Africa proto col which resulted from conference held in Washington last year. Dr. Walker B. Allen, of_ Keyport, N. J., made a direct appeal to Presi dent Harding that he be supplied with coal that his invalid wife might be kept comfortably warm. The pres ident turned the appeal over to the national fuel administrator and the doctor has been supplied with fuel. Mrs. Ivy Giberson, convicted at Toms Kiver last October on a charge of murdering her husband and sen tenced to life imprisonment, began serving her sentence Tuesday after losing out in an^ppeal to a higher court for a new trial. K. F. IKiggan, cotton broker of Dallas, Texas, reports that, he re cently sold one bale of cotton in Bre men, Germany, for 4,596,625 marks. The cotton brought $165.25, equiva lent to 32 1-2 cents a pound. Jeff Smith, oil field* worker, and eleven prominent business men of Carter county, are on trial at Ard moro, Okla., charged with murdering Joe Carroll in December, 1921. The killing is alleged to have been the work of a masked band. Vandals recently disfigured the monument presented by French peo ple to Argentina and located at Bue nos Aires, as a centennial monument. The female figures adorning the monument were bombarded with with electric light bulbs filled with liquid air. Some Argentine newspa pers ascribe the vandalism to Ger man sympathizers. President Harding has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Harding Publishing company, which publishes the Marion Daily Star at Marion, Ohio. Owing to the growing shortage of coal, railroad directors at Berlin have taken off ninety-five local and ex press trains, effective Tuesday. 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