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Sick Headache "1 have uaed Black-Draught when ueedud for the past 25 years," a a y h Mrs. Kmma Grimes, of Forbes, Mo. "1 , began taking it for a bad case 1 of constipation. I would get 1 constipated and fee! just mis- i crable- -sluggish, tired, a bad taste in my mouth, . . . and soon my head would begin hurting and 1 would have a severe sick headache. I don't knew just who started me to i taking j Thedford's BLACK-DRAUGHT but it did the work. It just seemed to cleanse the liver. Very soon I felt like new. When I found Black-Draught so easy to take and easy acting, I began to use it in time and would not have sick headaches." Constipation cause* the Byiitem to re-absorb poisons that may cause great pain and much danger to youi health. Take Thedford's Black-Draught. It will stimu late the liver and help to drive out the noisona.. Sold by all dealers. Costs only one cent a dose. _ P-1A1 MWDOO WAS FAVORITK With Conventions Hold at Various County SeatH of State. (From Tuesday's State) With 13 counties giving direct in structions to its delegates to t lie state Democratic convention to vote for delegates to the national convention who would support William Ciibbs McAdoo as long as there was any chance for his nomination, IS indors ing him without instructions, one giv ing a half way indorsement in the form of instructions to vote for Mc Adoo in case the issue were between him and Smith, and ll taking no defi nite action on the subject, the 46 counties of South Carolina expressed their preference in their Democratic conventions. None instructed for or indorsed any other candidate. With instructions and indorsements combined,' McAdoo carried 31 counties as opposed to the M which expressed no preference. Saluda was the one county which expressed the preference for McAdoo only over Alfred Smith, while New berry indorsed McAdoo, Underwood, (?lass, Ralston and Davis as being up to the standards of the Democratic party, without expressing preference to any, A1 Smith being the only 041c left out in the cold. Numbers of Women were elected as delegates, some with^iialf votes and sonic with full votes. In some cases the women were given full votes and men half votes and in others it was vice versa. Some counties doubled the delegations giving all half votes. The counties which sent their dele gations instructed for McAdoo were: Aiken, Bamberg, Calhoun, Chester, Colleton, Dillon, Kdgefield, Horry, Jasper, Lancaster, Lee. Marion and Richland. Those which merely indorsed Mc Adoo were: Allendale, Barnwell, Heaufort, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington. Fairfield. Florence, Greenwood, Kershaw. Laurens, Mc Cormick, Newberry (with all others hut Smith), Oconee, Orangeburg. Saluda (if at issue with Smith). Spartanburg, Union and Williams burg. These make the total It'. The following sent uninstructed delegations: Abbeville, Anderson, Berkeley. Charleston, Cherokee, I 'or ? hester Georgetown, Greenville, Hampton Lexington, Marlboro. Pick cn?;, Sumter and Y01 k. Jenkins Sentenced. Lexington, N. C., May !?>. I < ' Jenkins, former chief of police 01" Thomasville, N. this afternoon was found guilty of mui'!< t ;n the cecond degree in connection with *.!.< death at Thomasville late in .March >\ Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Appalachia, Va. Ho was immediately sentenced to from 2.r> to 30 years in state prison .it hard labor. Counsel gave notice of appeal. COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND LUMBER . , PLAIN & HUGER.STS. Phone 71 COLUMBIA, S. C. HANGING IS AN AKT Louisiana Kxecutioner Telia Huh It ! Feel* to Kill Six at u Time. New Orleans, May 10. Hang ing convicted criminals in a good job with plenty of money in it if there are enough of them providing the man who shoots his victims into eternity has sufficient nerve and skill, and holds no compunction over taking a human life. So spoke the mysterious hangman who yesterday afternoon dropped six Italians through the gallows at Amite, La., and then boastfully characterized his day's work as ''per fect." In an exclusive interview with In ternational News Service, the little man, aged, gray and Hlightly stooping (under the weight of 61 year# gave an account of experience^ he encounter ed during the execution of his grue sorhe work. Not until he was assured that his identity would be concealed* however, would he be approached. "If the law requires hanging," ho said, "someone must do it. I have $300 in my pockets from yesterday's! work and $50 a head is pretty fair money, considering the speedy fashion in which I get it over with. "Then it takes skill to hang in the right way, Kasiest thing in the world to bungle a job and let your man strangle to death. That's some thing I can't stand. "And nerve? well', it takes a lot of it. 1 almost lost mine yesterday for the first time when 1 hanged Andrea Lamantia after he had stabbed himself. When they brought his unconscious form up the gallows stairs, I felt like running away; and 1 almost did it, "Hut when 1 thought to myself, the sooner I get that poor devil out of his misery, the better off he'll be, so I rushed the job up; and I did it well, too didn't I ? I broke his neck and he felt nothing." The hangman never looks at his victim after they have taken their death plunge. Although he reluct antly admitted that he has taken the lives of some sixteen men, he has never seen one dangling at the end of the rope which he has so carefully prepared. His first act after releasing the death trap is to run for seclusion and there he remains hidden away until the doomed man has been pro nounced dead and his body .taken away. At the yxecution yesterday a special room was set aside in the jnil for his benefit, and he darted into this immediately after killing the men. After springing the trap for the 'third time, spelling death for the last pair of doomed men, he ran into his secluded nook and sat there, trembling for more than an hour. . "The worst job I've ever done," he said. "And if I bungled, it wasn't my fault. Did you see the way some of tin* witnesses stared at me while I was working and tried to see enough of my face under my mask to find out \vhomI really was? That was a\Vful. Couldn't keep my mind on my work. They ought not to do it. They ought to be satisfied that 1 hang them without trying to find out who 1 am." The hangman scorned to take the greatest pride in doing his jobs with' out' bungling 'em and confessed thu? "hanging is an art." "But now I'll tell vou why 1 really /? hang these devils," he added, volun tarily, "I have a little home here in New Orleans and in that home I have a wife and daughter. I'm trying to give that daughter an education in music. 1 .want her to be cultured, re fined and to have an education. "In my regular profession as a ear penter, 1 don't make enough money to give her tlu'.xe things, .no when the authorities ask me to don my Mark mask anil <io some more of their work 1 iaunot iefuse. "Do you leally blame me; and am .1 so bad, after all ? "If they e\'e! found out. !' Wou'd kill me. I i ouldn't ?tand it. And I've got t?i In- i ai < fu!, too, for if there are many mole jobs like that one yesterday I'm afraid they will t! Denver the truth. Besides l.amant.a. ? he ? ! h e i live who died on t h ?? t'.illow.s yesterday were: Ro> l.eona. .Joseph (Jiglio, .Joseph Him; Natale Deamore and .Joseph Boeehio. All were convicted and sentenced to death for the mur der of Dallas ( almes, during an attempt to rol> a hank at Ir.depin dence, I. a., three \eaf- ago. i Dry agent< i r. New VoiV !a-t j'"* j day, posing a* we.vhy' t igai dealers from Philadelphia, after dickering I with nr. Italian firm < f cigar dealers ' and gaining their -confidence, vaided ? their place of business and >eized 1 $20,000 worth of liquor On its 1 ns*t trip to Kng.ar.d from1 New York, the ? stv*nm = h.!p Majestic ; bad to mako a wide detour in order ? to avoid floating iceberg*, of which warnings had been sent out by the guarding" ships in the ire fields. LUXURIOUS YACHT 8AIL8 Built in Germany But Given Finish ing TouehfH at Jacksonville. Jacksonville* FU4 May 10. ? With her owner, designer and some thirty two expert shipmen aboard, the Vanadis, said to be the thin! costliest yacht in the world, sailed out of Jack sonville this week for a trial trip to the West Indies. The Vanadis was constructed in Kiel, Germany, at a cost of nearly a million dollars. Be cause of a dock workers strike there, the vessel was brought across the sea to Jacksonville where it has re ceived the finishing touches. This beautiful little pleasure boat is $0 property of C. K. G. Killings, retired capitalist and internationally known sportsman. It is equipped with two 1,000. horsepower Diesel engines and auxiliaries and has a cruising radius of 12,000 miles. It. U said to be one of the two yachts that possess a gyroscope, which is a stab ilizing device for the purpose of dimishing the motion of the vessel at sea. , The boat is decorated like a palace on the inside. Its feature decoration is a coastal chart of the world show ing the most important discoveries and navigations from 1,600 B. C., to the end of the eighteenth century. A New York artist, Mr. Billings said, spent eighteen months making this chart. The boat itself, was designed by Irving Cox, well known naval architect. Following his return to Jackson ville in a few days, Mr. Billings plans to set sail immediately for New York city. He. maintains homes in New York, Chicago and California. General News Notes The sudden death of Charles- F. Murphy, Tammany boss, in New York, Friday, is said to have loosened the grip of Tammany on the Demo cratic party, and lessened the chances of Governor Smith of New York to get the Democratic, presidential nomi nation, who had the backing of Mur phy. JBandits robbed the assistant cashier of the Granite City National Bank, Granite City, 111., of payrolls totaling $63,000 on Friday. The money had just been received from the St. Louis reserve bank through the post office. Policeman Phillip Ryan, 27, killed a bandit in New York early Saturday morning as the bandit attempted to pull a gun on him after requesting .*? cigarette. The dead bandit proved to be the policeman's brother-in-law, aged 17 year**. Mrs. N. E. Smythe, worried over financial affairs, on Friday night shot hej' daughter, aged 30, and herself, aged AO, to death in a Phoenix, Ari zona rooming house. J. Pierpont Morgan , New York financier, is in Paris discussing with French authorities the matter of an international loan to Germany. Four of the governments at interest have agreed to the adoption of the Dawes reparations report. Governor Pinehot of Pennsylvania, has called a conference of forty-one mayors of Pennsylvania cities of the first, second and third class, to meet in Harrisburg on May 7 to start a law enforcement campaign against crime of all kinds but especially boot leggers. Police Sergeant Daniel B. (Big Dan) Ahearn, known as the tallest policeman in the world, has retire.! from the police force of Hartford, Conn., on a pension, on account of ill health. He is six feet, seven and a half inches tall. Miss Elizabeth Howe, of Fulton, N. V., has been awarded the ''?Sunny Jim" prize as the most "outstanding young woman" of Bryn Mawr college. Philadelphia. The winner must pos sess such qualities as courage, cheer fulness. fairmindedness, and gooil sportsmanship. The Republican delegates from Tennessee to the National Republican convention at Cleveland, Ohio, next month, will l>< for President Cool id go foi the presidential nomination. ; There are J7^ votes for Tennessee. Frank I rbain. Altoona, Pa. man. last Frida\ withdrew $1,400 from a bank in t unvni y. changed silver into bills i 1 1| it ? t rtl $?;oo more in bills and vet tne pile on fire and after being, sun it was gone beyond recovery, drank a pint of furniture polish and j ate a can of wall cleaner. He died n j few hours later. He was 65. His I wife i.r lathei his widow, was unable i to . xplain t he act. l'hc home of Francis Marion, fa mous Revolutionary leader which is located in Williamsburg county is re j*?r:ed falling into decay. The owners the property have declined over Iw I ft to SP II it to the state. Thr general Methodist conference in session at Springfield, Mass., is be ing urged to investigate the large mi gration of negroes from the South to North, on the ground that it is hurt ful to the negroes. Makes your property safe and will provide you promptly with ready money with which to re build or replace the damage done to your buildings. The cost is insignificant compared with the tremendous risk to run. -v-- ':'C C. P. DuBOSE & CO. General Ihsurance Agents Phone 43 Two Little Victims Huried. The " refrains of two little child dren, victims of the storm that Swept over portions of South Carolina on last Wednesday, were brought to Westville on last Friday to be taken to the home of their grandparents for burial. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Gaskin, of Lykesland, whosfc home was utterly destroyed, the parents being both in the hospital now, the father with a broken leg, the mother with a broken arm and other injuries, and the older brother injured while the other two children who were in the Horrell Hill school which was completely wrecked, escaped without injury. The two little children, who were killed, were blown some distance from the home. The younger, IS months jidd, landed in a puddle of water and was almost dead from drowning while the other, five years old, was imbedded in the sand and already dead when found. Efforts to resuscitate the young child proved futile and it died in a short time after being found. The children were buried in the Gaskin graveyard in the Flat Rock section, near the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Gaskin, their grand parents. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. F. Estridge and Rev. J. M. Neal. Prof, and Mrs. G. C. Gaskin, ol Greenville, and Dr. L. R. Gaskin of Mt. C'roghan, were here to attend the funeral. An appeal for help for the parents of the children i.?^ being published in the Era today and a liberal re sponse will no doubt come from the friends of the family. ? Kershaw Era. Dr. Turner Gets Hand Injured. Dr. W. B. Turner had his left hand badly lacerated last Thursday morn- 1 ing. He was leading his cow by n, chain when she made a lunge for ward and ran, dragging the chain rapidly through his - hand, and the hook at the end of the chain caught in the flesh of the palm and tore a long gash in the doctor's hand ns it jerked through. The hand was dressed by Dr. Blackmon and it re quired many stitches and a consider able length of time to unite the edges ?of the torn place. ? Kershaw Era. Hyman Sverdlow of Philadelphia, has been awarded damages of $750 for being arrested by Reading rail road detectives when they found the man kissing his wife in the Reading terminal in that city last January. The railroad police suspected the man of being a masher who was playing his game. Instead he was merely kissing his wife goodbye as he was about to take the train for a new job. The arrest caused him to miss his train and the job. Police have arrested four men who are eharged with the killing of Ernest ^Whitman, a bond salesman, when six bandits held up the First National bank at Bellmore, N. Y., April 4 and got away with $6,000. The police claim positive identifications of the men under arrest. AN ORDINANCE To- Approve Assessment Roll for Street Improvements. State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. City of Camden. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Camden, and by the authority of same: Section 1. That the Assessment Roll on abutting property for street improvements on Fourteenth Street Chestnut, extending from Sixth Ave nue-Broad on the east to the traclu of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad ) on Gordon Street on the West, and for sidewalks on Fourth Avenue Lyttleton street extending from Tenth street-Rutledge on the South to Fourteenth street- Laurens on the north, and on Tenth street-Rutledge Avenue, extending from Fourth Avenue Lyttleton on the east to Seventh Avenue-Church street on the West, as prepared by Carolina Engi neering- Company, Wilmington, North Carolina, of date "April 28th, 1924, be and the same is hereby approved . and adopted subject to such correc tion by said Carolina Engineering Company of any errors that may ap pear on said Assessment Roll, and with ? the exception that all churcfe property contained in said Roll shall be exempt from said assessments. Section II. That said assessments contained ill said Roll shall constitute and be a Hen upon said abutting prop erty as provided for in an Ordinance ratified in Council assembled this 28th day of April, 1924. ? Ratified in Council assembled this 28th day of April, 1924. H. G. CARRISON, Jr. ; Mayor of the City of Camden. Attest: H. C. SINGLETON, City Clerk. U.S. Royal Cords UNITED STATES TIRES ARE GOOD TIRES HERE'S the standard of value in cord tire equipment ? made in all high'pressure sizes from 30 x 3Vfe inches up and in Balloon'Type for those who want low-pressure tires and don't want to change wheels and rims. Also U. S. Royal Cord Balloon Tires for 20, 21 and 22 inch rims. - All made of latex treated cords ?a new and patented process of the United States Rubber Company ? that adds great strength and wearing quality. U. S. Tires are the only tires in the world made of cords solutioned in raiv rubber latex Buy U. S. T ires from DeLOACHE MOTOR CO., Inc. CITY FILLING ? i