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GET RID OF THAT "TIRED FEELING" DO you feel run down und half Hick ail tlic tune? Arc you thin, pale;, easily tir**cl ? no energy, no ambition, nb "pep"? Now ia the time to take (aide's lVpto-Mangan. It will brace you up, Ktve you ? delightful feeling of vi^or and ambition, enrich your blood, buikl in m, aolid flesh, and bring th(- healthy color back to your skin. Your druKKMt lias GudoV- Liquid or aolid, aa you prefer, Gude's PcptoMan^an Tonic and Blood Enricher HARRISON WAS SHAMMING State* I*riaon?r Who Spent Last Daya With Condemned Mun. Direct evidence that the .stupor in whieh Ira Harrison, convicted mur derer of John C. Arnette, went to the electric chair February 10 whh h pre tense, undertaken in an effort to es cape the penalty of his crime, is chn tained in a statement made to The State yesterday afternoon by John F. (Jossett of Spartanburg, prisoner in the penitentiary, who was released yesterday when Governor McLeod si /; ponded the lli days that remained of his two year sentence for alleged for gery. (J onset t was assigned to watch H u' rison in the prison hospital' and when the young slayer was transferred to the death house the day before -his electrocution was sent into Harrison's cell and there remained with the mur derer during his In'st night of life. Harrison, according to the statement, during the period that he' was sup posed to be in the deep coma talked freely to (Jossett as a fellow prisoner and during that last night confessed to him the details of his crime and tqjd of the genesis of his plan to avoid the electric chair by the feigned coma. For the greater part of the night the two of them joked and laughed, despite the fact that both realized that the' morrow would prob ably bring death to Harrison. "1 tried to keep him in as good a hu mor as possible," (jossett explained yesterday. During Harrison's stay in the hos pital these conversations l>etwcen them had beeit almost a regular fea ture at night when penitentiary guards wen* out of sight and hearing, (Jossett said, Harrison being careful always as soon as he "heard the noise Nose stopped up? MENTHOLATUM quickly clears it. of approaching footsteps to turn over on hiH .hack and relapse once moro into the Hee/ning comatic state. The murderer, according to Oossett, it no time abandoned all hope that his ipparcnt stupor might .save him and luring that final night discussed uvith him the advisability of abandon ng the pretense and telling every m that the stupor was feigned. He HMked me," (iossett said, "if I thought it would do any good for him -O way anything to the crowd in the electrocution room when he wan placed in the chair, in helping him (Q make peace with (?od. And 1 told him not to say anything, that I didn't .hink it would help him any in mak ing peace with (?od and there was ? chance of reprieve at the very la.st minute if he stuck to the stupor to the last. 'Don't give up all hope,' 1 told him. 'There's hope as long hs Harrison's mother aiul his attorney knew nothing of the stupor's not be ing genuine, Gossett said, Harrison'i only confidants being prisoners, (Jossrti was i onvicted in Spartan burg of forgery in April,, 1921, and ditenced to serve two years in the (konitcntiary. For 23 days he remain ed in the Spartanburg jail after sen teiu ing and then wan brought to tho penitentiary. These 23 days, Clover* nor Mc.Leod held, should be construed as part of his term and had they so he-en construed Gossett wofcld havo the prison February 13, having ompltted his two years' sentence. ' liminating these dayjj in the Spar anburg jail his sentence would have i had 12 more days to run. Those 12 I lays were suspended by Governor Me Leod yesterday and Gossett freed torn the penitentiary is now planning .<? return to Spartanburg. Harrison, Gossett said, had ' given I him permission to tell the story of he stupor after the electrocution had been gone through with, in case the si. rat ego m failed to secure a stay of execution, and had asked that the true account be given the newspapers. So yesterday afternoon, Gossett, freed of i he prison, sent for a representative of The State to tell his story. Harrison first went into his appar ent stupor November 2, after reading in The State the news that his appeal had bc.en rejected by the supreme [court. He "recovered" consciousness i when he learned that his attorney had I secunnl a stay in the ^handing down [of the remittitur and on December 7, two days before he was resentenced, i he again lapsed into the then familiar coma-tic state. Carried into the court room en a stretcher, he was sentenced to die for the second time, the court living the date of his death as Decem ber 22. the same day upon which Frank M. Jeffords, also convicted of the murder of Arnette, had previously i (Tii sentenced to be electrocuted. A I S\ \% days before the electrocution of [ 'i ft'twd-. his partner in the crime, Harrison, was: moved from the death house, when1 he had been kept ev;r !jic ? his trial in May. After Jef *i electrocut ion,/ Harrison, nis I death im\ing been postponed by a re l.prieve granted by Governor Harvey, for the veeond time resumed a normal ' Visteiu'o for about a week, at the end of which he lapsed again into hi? stupor, never to come out of it in the presence of penitentiary officials. On February l?i he was electrocuted. Gossett's acquaintance with Harrl aon, according to his statement, dates from the transfer of the murderer to the prison hospital where Gossett at that time wit on duty. ' During the nights the; Spartanburg prisoner, hi* practically completed, watch ed beside the bed of tho man doomed to die und during tho nights, accord ing to Gossett, the two of them talked. When guards and visitors were around Harrison. Gossett said, remained in his apparent stupor and it was only at night, when there was least likelihood of detection, that they carried on their conversations. Har rison during the period divided his (deep between the days and night, but the greater portion of the time dur ing the day he was conscious of things going on about him, Gossett said. O'Neil, a prisoner serving a term from Charleston for manslaughter, had a habit of reading newspapers aloud in the room and it was from this reading and from conversations with Gossett that tho murderer kept track of the news outside. After Jeffords' death Harrison recovered consciousness, Gossett said, and for a week appeared to have abandoned his plnn. Attendants, however, after about a week were told to cut his hair and shave him and Harrison im mediately resumed his comatic state, evidently believing, Gossett thinks, that they were preparing to make ready for the electrocution. (Jossott, according to penitentiary officials, was sent into Harrison's cell the night before the electrocution to watch over him. ''When I went into the cell," (Jos sott explained, "Harrison raised up in the bed and shook hands with me and told me that he was glad I was' to be with him on his last night. I yat down on the cot beside him and we talked for hours. "He said that he had committed the crime' on account of a girl, a girl he] wanted to marry. He needed funds to earry her to Chicago or some where else out West. The murder had been planned for some time in vlvitme and Harrison was at. a 'girl's home the night of the killing when Jeffords and Treece came after him. They called him, ^e told mo, and Jef fords, I think he said, told him, 'Let's go out and do that job.' He went along with them and went into the back room 'with Jeffords.. Harrison struck the first blow with a stick. Then Jeffords, he said, did the rest. "Neither .his mother nor his attor ney nor any of his outside friends knew anything about the fact that his stupor was faked. They thought it was genuine and none of them ad vised him to do it, he said. Harrison at first had planned to play like he was really crazy and he had nht even thought of anything like a stupor, un :ii the ?"???? ning after refusal of his .i-peal, when Captain Roberts ?( head ; oi" the penitentiary guard) came into ; hi* cell and spoke to him. Harrison <>M me Mi at he was not feeling well 1 the tim?* and was sleepy an 1 that, ? therefore, he did not answer Captain j Roberts, me'elv lying on the eoj, as ; he had not heard him. Captain . Robejts then said that there must be '?omething the matter with him, that | he looked like he was in a stupor, j Tli is suggested the plan to him and j ever afterwards, except for the times j that he came out of it, he refused to Ledrnthe truth about Fertilizer Commercial fertilizer is not magic. It is no substitute for work, or for farming brains. It will not make a successful farmer nut of a shiftless, .gnorant failure. Fertiliser varies in quality like corn or tobacco or cotton, and some brands are worth more than others. Good fertilizers, like Royster's reliable old mixtures, are a godsend to good farmers who learn how to best use them to make money. Kach crop has its individual food requirements; different soils require different treatment. 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"Hi; told me that he was going to tell everything before *he was elec | trocuted, but he gave it up and I ad vised him not to tell, becauae I didn't think it would do him any good and there waa a chance that he might get off after all. That last night, how ever, he gave roe thia book (a paper botind copy of the Gospel according to at. Luke, evidently given him at some time by the prison chaplain or some other minister) and told me that it would bo all right for me to tell | tho story after he was dead. I prom ised. J "For a long time we joked and talk ed about foolish things. I tried to keep him in as good a humor as pos sible and to keep his mind off the electrocution, Ho 'knew that it was to come tho next day, though I don't think I told him In so many words and he didn't give up hopo that he might be reprieved at the last min ute. At about 11:30 or 12 o'clock I went to sleep in the cot with him and we didn't talk any more about the crime or the electrocution or the stupor. "I think some of the other prisoners in the hospial knew he was faking, but I don't know, which ones. I am g<>ing to keep tihe Testament that he gave mo, and until now I have not *aid anything about what he told me." G os.se tt intended to return to Spar tanburg yesterday. He missed his train, however, and will therefore go home Unlay.? Columbia State. Flirting With Death. "I ran over a nigger this afternoon, just below Northwest Junction," re marked Engineer McNair, Southern railway engineer on No. 18, Columbia to Yorkville, Wednesday evening. "1 saw something 011 a trestle half a mile ahead, lying on the guard-rail, and supposing that some one had thrown an old pair of overalls or something of the kind on the track I didn't pay any particular Attention to it. When I got up right close, too close to stop, i saw it was a nigger lying on the guard rail asloep. He had his head toward the engine and he was 011 the fireman's sfide. Sure I thought I had killed him, and after a bit 1 stopped and backed up. and when we got within a couple of hundred yards of the trestle we saw the nigger going across the field,/ with his hat in hiy hand and running- like a deer. The ' only reason the engine didn't kill him was because on the big engine ! am running now the cylinder cocks are just high enough to give room for a man. lying as this fellow was, to [pa.-s- over him. Had I been running ; the little engine of a few months ago j (here would have been a sadder tale to tell."? York Knquirer, Farmers .Mutual Fire Insurance. ?There are some twelve or fourteen Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance companies in South Carolina. They are found in every section of the State except in the lower counties. From Oconee in the northwest to Marlboro in the northeast these or ganizations touch hands. Among the largest of them are the associations1 of Anderson, York, and Darlington counties, although several others are nearly as large. Each of these three county mutuals has about $20,000 cash reserves, enough to pay its average annual losses for two years, without levying ail assess ment. They charge for insurance against fire, lightening and wind s to rips upon an average of fifty cents per hundred dollars of insurance. Old line companies charge about four times this much. Most " of these companies were organized some twenty-five Or thirty years ago. They have been giving satis factory service and adequate protec tion to farmer members ever since. The policies of these organizations which have sufficient cash reserves are accepted by the land banks as collateral, which is evidence that they are in good financial standing. Those counties in the State in which there are no county mutuals1 are either doing without this form of cheapest and best insurance, or else ^et a portion of it from some companies which attempt to do an inter-county business, or else the far mers have to go to the old line com panies and pay the higher premiums. The beauty about farmers' Mutual insurance is that the conflagration hazard is entirely eliminated and the moral hazard very largely eliminated. In Kershaw County there is at. least $2,400,000 worth of farm build ings most of which is probably un insured. There is enough in this county to justify the organization of an excellent Partners' Mutual. Probably nothing would save more money to Kershaw county farmers than such an association. Come to the Opera House, Camden, on M arch Gth. ! 1 a. m. and let's or- | ganizt- one! I. W. Sanders, County Agent. Married in Sumter. \ccoiilinff to the Sumter l>ai!y Item of February 22nd, Pat Tim mons of Camden, nnd Miss Mabel Pritohard. of Tindal, were married , i in the office of the Clerk of Court ' at Sumter oji Wtxlnesday. Clerk H. W. Cuttino performing the ceremony.' Dropped into His Own (?ra>e. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22. ? De spondent over a separation from his wife, Kugene Merkle, n grave digger, yesterday dutf his own grave beneath m cemetery tree, climbs to a limb and attempted to commit suicide by hanging. The rope broke and Merkle dropping into the grave. He was tak^n to h hospital where it was aaid both of his hips had been broken. His suicidal attempt, the police *aid, brought about a reconciliation with his wife, whom he had not seen in fwr Tcnr*. Turn on the C?s # -,-Ay r; - ; / "? >J| and IJtli Ui? your tank with th* beat product of the rofimry. our (?aaolino has boon thoroughly ed atri has never yot boon found wanting in purity, powor and purao-aavintf. Our oils and ^roanc# too ar* tho beat. Be*rd'a Filling Station W?at DeKalb Street Card of Thanks. Wo wif/h to thank our many friendH ahd neighbors for their kindness to us during the illness and death of our darling baby, James Elmer Poi son." Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Poison. Is your wife like "Her Husband'* Wife?" "We" Didn't, Oh No! I They live some distance outside tho big city, whither his business takes him daily, and keeps him till night. And so, when they were 'changing houses, tho wife gradually got all tho things moved while he was away and one day on his return he found the old' house empty, and the new one ready to receive him. "Well," said he, "we didn't have much trouble moving, did we?" "No," replied the missus, "and we didn't have much trouble when tho babv was born, either, did wo?" ? Pipe Progress. BANKRUPT SAUE In the? District Court ot' tho United States for tho Eastern. District of South Carolina. In re Abe lAxlingcr, Bankrupt. Under ami in pursuance of an or der of H. N. Edmunds, Referee, -of February 7, 19123, I will sell to the highest bidder at public auction, for cash, before the Kershaw County Court House door in Camden, South Carolina, during tho legal hours of sale on Monday, Match 12, 1923, the following described real estate: All that piece, parcel pr lot of land lying, being in the cily of Cam den,. County of Kershaw, and state aforesaid, on Lyttleton Street, meas uring fifty feet on said Lyttleton Street, and extending backwards of a uniform width to a depth of three hundred (300) feet, same being nor thern portion of lot number seven hundred and eighty-seven (787), of the city of Camden, and bounded as follows: On the north by lot of Cle mentine Hirsch, East by Lyttleton Street, South by lot formerly of M; A. Smyrl, now of A. E. Robertson. West by premises of Smyrl Halsall. Said property to be sold free of all liens and encumbrances including taxes to the dav of sale. L. A.' WITTKOWSKY, Trustee. February 9. 1923. 15-48 MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw, 'p-.ij'-t ,){ Common Picas) Arth.ir >'r?;;th, Walter Smith, P. D. Stokes, John Charles and West < haiies, Plaintiffs, against Prince English, David English, Prince English, Jr., Harvey English, a mi nor, Rosa Davis, Lillie Adamson, James English, Nehemiah FJnglish, minor, Bridget Gaithcr, Mattie Gai ther, a minor, Edith Gaither, a mi nor, Liddie Gaithcr, a minor, Nan nie Gaither, a minor, J. H. Burns, B. M. Hall and John Gaithcr. De fendants. Under a Decretal Order, dated February 15, 1923, 1 will sell to the highest bidder at public auction for cash before the Kershaw County Court House door in Camden, in said State, during the le^al hours of sale on the first Monday, being the fifth day of March, 1923, the following de scribed real estate: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the County of Kershaw. State of South Carolina, described as tract No. 2 of plat of Kershaw deLoach, Sur veyor, of date March 31, 1922. filed in the proceedings herein, containing forty-one and one-tenth (41.1) acres, more or less, bounded North by lands of Jas. H. Burns; East by tract No. 3 on said plat, and herein ill it ?tt ?'il to John Charlea; South kfl | lands of Hermitage Cotton Mill* JH West by tract No. 1 allotted J Prince English herein. B. 11. CLARKE, 1 Master for Kershaw CounuB February 1ft. 1923. PROBATE COURT SALE?! State of South Carolina, f County of Kershaw, (In the Probate Court) Robert Reynolds and Perry l). Stoke* Surviving Executors of the Lai Will and Testament of It. B. i^}. Una; deceased, Plaintiffs, gainst Effie Stokes (formerly EJffie Rollins) F. A. Baker, R. H. Baker, Bank o Bothune, Bank of Camden, Camda I Wholesale Grocery, E. M. Mat , thews Co., hickory Overall Cfl^ Frank 15. Block Co., J. Ijcopole I Co., J. M. Hearon, Germany-Rq Brown. Co., Armour & Co., Souty em Dry Goods & Notions Co., Lcrf ick & Lowrance, Inc., Geo. K. Ben me Manufacturing Co., Colema# Drew CS., Gray & Dudley Co., L Nitchez & Sons, H. J. Silberniani Co., M. W. Duvall and Add PaU> Bui well & Dunn Co., Crown Mil. linety Co., and United States WasU * House, Defendants. !.y \ iviuu of an order of the Pro l>:i.?* I'ouri in the above entitled pro caodirigs- bearing date the Mth dayd February, A. D., 1923, I will offer for sale before the Court House door ii Camden, South Carolina, within the legal hourn of sale on the first Mot day in March, 1923, being the fiftt day thereof, the following describe! tracts of land belonging to the estate of ft. B. Rollins, deceased, th; sail land being sold in aid of assets to ?pay the debts of the said estate: 1st. All that curtain piece, pared or tract of land situate, lying and be ing in tho County of Kershaw, Stat? of South Carolina, containing one hundred and thirty-nine (139) acres, more or less, hounded North by landi of M. C. West; East by lands of Fred Waters; South by lands of Frank El liott and West by lands of J. S. Hy att.. The said tract of land is that which was conveyed to R. B. Rollini by J. S. Hyatt, with the exception o( about eleven acres lying on the North Hide of Beaver Dam (.'reek, which is claimed by M. C. West, and which ii apparently owned by him, and is not included in the portion to be sold. 2nd. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of laiyd situate, lying and be ing in Kershaw County, South Caro lina, at Cassatt station on the Sei board Air Line Railway, containing one acre, more, or less, bounded North by Main Street, East by right of way of Seaboard Air Lino Railway; South by lands formerly owned by J. I). McCaskill and West by Wash ington-Atlanta Highway, and bcinj the same land conveyed to said R. B. Rollins by J. I). McCaskill by deed of date June 28th, 1904. 3rd. All those certain pioces, par cels or lots of land situate, lying and being in the County of Kershaw, Stato of South Carolina, at CassaH station on tho Seaboard Air Line Rail way, and distinguished as lots 11 and 12 of Block 2- A, on a plat of East Cassatt, found of record in the of fice of Clerk of Court for Kershaw County, South Carolina, fronting West on Main Street of Cassatt one hundred (100) feet, and extending back Eastwardly, of a uniform width to a depth of one hundred and fifty ( 1 .r?0 ) feet, bounded North by Cro? Street, East by lot now or formerly by L. M. Lowman; South by Lot No. 13 on said plat and West by M*? Street, of Cassatt, and being the same lots conveyed to R. B. Rollins by -Julia Hyatt by deed dated July 14th, 1911. Terms of sale ? cash. w. l. Mcdowell, ?Judge of Probato Kershaw County Camden, S. C. Feb. 15, 1923. WANTED- 1,000 bushels cow peas. F. M. WOOTEN WE ARE SAVING MONEY for thousands of others in cleaning and dyeing Win ter Garments, Carpets, Rugs, Blankets, Comforts, Curtains, etc. We will be glad to serve you. FOOTER S DYE WORKS Cleaners-Dyers. Cumberland, Maryland.