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auto awko natives ' ar i? Fiji Islands Vas treated" by JPevil Doctors. The ii i motor our to appear i? the Fiji Munds h? 1905 wo# viewed with $we by the inhabitants, it beir^ conjiderwl the contraption of a madman, 9n(i conservative residents suggested that the owner be deported as a dimerous character. The .second car made its appearance in 1907, doetfawd foy ttyr^wlfe of the mayor of Suva. A liveried chauffeur was provided, and it 'is not known which created the greater stir, the vehicle or its driver. One day the owner found under the machine several bush men, poking about and exploring the mysteries. Explanations revealed that the Fijians,had held a conference about the new vehicle that lacked visible means of locomotion and hud concluded that the affair was nothing less than a devil wagon. Therefore, partly out of kindness to the owner and partly to prevent the I escape of the devil into the bush and into the villages, the "devil doctors" constituted themselves a committee to study this weird thing and to exterminate its concealed monster. Eighteen Months for- Robbing King. ?i Brussels, Belgium, Aug^?Alexander Itcheit, 4ST; a Russian* who, recently robbed the bath house of King Albert while his majesty was on the beach at Ostend, today was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. Itchen, who was unaware of the identiXj' ty of his victim, took articles vauled at $1',075, Including a locket containing;a picture of Queen Elizabeth. o AonlWr Drunken Millionaire Driver. Ixjs Angeles, Aug. 23.?Michael J. P. Cudahy, 21, of the Chicago meat packing family, was convicted by a jury in superior court tonight on a charge of driving an automobile wihle [intoxicated, 'pie jury recommended a $5,000 fine. BD^GErfbuS \ ' .'v FU^?MTR^H| I'. Jr **' Mt/ to kMp your jr house free from flies IV with CENOL FLY DESTROYER. Juat spray miH it around. The flies fail B/ dead* - Safe".'and easy ' to use. "Quick and thorough. For a healths' ler* more comfortable \ ho me, free from flies, use | <U Cenel Fly Destroyer. I Sold In Camden By | J DeKALB PHARMACY f/'CHILDREN 1 |/ Need -a Laxative | . I we nave Qi6d Thedford's Black* Draught in our family for nineteen years. 1 have found it of great help in raising my family. "I have given it to all six of my children. Whenever they complain of upset stomach* or begin to look pale and sickly, I snake 4 J tea of Black -Draught and E9 oo&in giving it to them. In a * B day or two they are all right. 5 B "I give it to them for ?on- x H ^jpation, and my htifband and * I jt for colds in winter; for fbe. ! K keve a way to prevent them j B ? to keep the ayatem clean." J rMrs. Doshie Terry. ,1206 * R Fourth Avenue* Decatur, Ala. J I DP . ? u* vuCWfllfro ' I Contractor GaMfal I SO Years Experience I Ut me figure on your next R^?fdr?ring machine. I Masons Give State New Hospital Home Columbia, Aug. ?1.~ 0t South Carolina through their tuberculosis committee have presents! to the State a building for the oar? of tubercular white women, Dr. James A. Hay no, secretary of the State board of health, announced today. The building will be erected at State Park at a coet of $85, ooo. Funda Tor the "women's building have been (turned over to the building committee to decide on the type and location of the building, which is to take care of 50 beds. The building, Dr. Hayne said, will be so constructed that additional funda which .the various Masonic lodges in the State will false can be used for the erection of additional wings. "The Masons hove aided in the crusade against tuberculosis not only by their generous gift," Dr. Hayne said, "but fyy the educational work that they have conducted all over the State in connection with their drive for funds." * MAN AND WOMAN HANGED Poisoners Pay Penalty fqr Crime Committed in Canada. Hull, Quebec, Aug. 23.?Philip I>efebvre, 32 years old .trapper from Qic Gratineau hills and Marie Viau, 42 years old, mother of eight children were hanged today for the murder of the woman's husband seven months ago. As the ruin poured down in the jail yard, the trapper went to the gallows first, followed 16 minutes later by Mrs. Viau. She was the sixth woman in the history of the Dominion to be hanged. They were convicted of poisoning Zephyr Viau. Although wooden screens and curtains had been placed about the scarlet scaffold to hide it from the curious, a large crowd milled about the walls of the jail yard during the double execution. Two masses were said for the condemned before they were led to the scaffold. Mrs. Viau was the more composed of the two as they waited in their cells. While she sat stern and "unmoved, Lefebvre sobbed and fretted. Although Mrs. Viau had expressed a desire to see him before they went to their deaths, he expressed no such wish. One of his last acts was to write a letter to his father asking forgiveness for what he had done. The couple were arrested after authorities found poison in Viau's body. His sudden death and hasty burial aroused the suspicions of the village priest of Montpelier, near here, who communicated with authorities. At their trial last spring neither made any attempt to deny the crime. Her Body Spurned By Children. Hull, Que., Aug. 24,?Unclaimed by any of her eight children, the body of Maigie Viau lay in Hull- jail today, awaiting burial in a nearby potter's field. The 43-year old woman, hanged with Philbert Lefebre, 82, for the poisoning of her husband, Zephyr Viau, spent the hours before she mounted the gallows "writing last messages to each of her children, !?" her ftldtKey and other relatives. All "her letters remained unanswered. Lefebvre's "body was claimed by his father an hour after it was removed from the scaffold. Officer Kills Two Men. W&t Frankfort, 111., Aug. 22.? ! Earl Kreicer and Albert McDonald were shot to death by Police Ohief ! Leroy Fisk at about 10:30 o'clock , night, after the chief and Patrolman 1 George Nipper stopped their motor car in the downtown district to search it for liquor. Kreicer is said to have fired at the officers first. Fiejc fired four shots from a sawed-off shot gUn, hitting both in the head and killing them instantly. An inquest was scheduled here today. Fisk was plae. ed under, technical arrest and held jn jail at Benton. Kreicer and McDonald were about 35 years of age. t t "T The Chicago .National League ^baseball club, hae recently signed up aa a future prospect for He pitching "Red17 Solomon, 13-year-ofcf IwaebaH I phenomenon of the Bronx, New York. Tuesday was the coolest August 20 that Boston has experienced in 82 ,ye*a. ihena<n?*m worded a temperature of 54 degree? at day-V -2 7 . ** ?c i vr/ One boy was killed, another seriously wounded and a girl dwt in the Um |fy m Hew Jotwey fawner Toeaday night whan ha found the trio ***** ** ?** % A mm * Um state auvene in Columbia on Augutt 80th for such business aa may FgMfi coma before the tilbunal, Contract Let For School at Kershaw v.The contract for the erection of Kershaw's new grammar achool building w#? let last Thursday to W.iS. l^angley, of Ijancaster, for ground 118,000, his being the lowest bid. There were severs! bidders from Ijsuctttttvr, Hock llill and Clover. The building is bo be two stories Shd of brink, ooosiruction, and will contain seven class rooms and an auditorium, with other necessary additions. The new building will stand north of the high school building, about opposite the home of W, F. Estridge, and when completed about the end of the year, will give Kershaw a well balanced school plant In a group with the high school building in the center, the grammar school on the south side.?Kershaw Era. c MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Washed Away Annually Because of Soil Erosion Says Clemson. 6 " V Clemson College, Aug. 27.?In this state 91,000 acres of land have been mapped that have been abandoned be?j cause of erosion, said H. H. Bennett,| Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, when speaking at Farmers' Week on "Is Your Farm Washing Away?" When the South Carolina topsoil is washed away all we have left is (?n impervious clay subsoil. "The people of South Carolina have been asleep on the soil erosion problem for a long time," declared Mr. Bennett, "and it is time for them to awaken to the truth. Erosion is active on 75 per cent of ! all the land in the United States, l continued Mr. Bennett, and it is ex[ ceedingly harmful on 50 per cent. The washing of gullies is not -ythe most serious type of erosion, he explained, but it is the sheet erosion we do not notice that does the most harm. Three of God's most precious gifts to man are soil, sunshine and rain, and we cannot afford to waste any of them. Annually 1,500,000,000 tons of soil in suspension are carried from fields in the United States by the streams, containing 126,000,000,000 pounds of plant food at a potential value of $2,000,000,000. Following Mr. Bennett's address, Prof. John W. Carpenter, research agricultural engineer, Mississippi EXj* pfcriment Station, spoke to .the assembly on Latest Developments in the Control of Soil Erosion. Mr. ,Carpenter said the worst feature about the controlling of erosion in South Carolina is that the wrong kind of terraces are used. He gave blackboard illustrations of how to lay off, build, and maintain proper terraces, and how to cultivate the land between the terraces. He emphasized the fact that if you are not going to build terraces right, and keep them up, it is better not to terrace at all because water will be drained from all of the slopes and turned on the lowest place. The. Mangum or broad-base terrace was recommended for general purposes/ Convicts Burned in Cage. Clinton, August 23.?Seven members of the Sampson county convict force were painfully burned, five of them seriously, early today. The men were locked up in an iron cage attached to a truck when it caught on fire while en route from the camp to |heir work. There were 10 men in the cage and the guards were unable to Unlock the door owing to the frantic effort of the prisoners to open it from the inside. Finally the guards succeeded in tearing the door loose so the prisoners could escape. 0 *' It is not known what started the fire but it spread rapidly when more than a case of dynamite carried along with the prisoners became ignited. A case of dynamite caps also carried on the car didn't explode until after the prisoners had been released. The dyTiamitc was to be used m blasting stumps. The men burned are white, Walter Rivenback. and T. G. Home were the most seriously burned and. their recovery is doubtful. The oth?r prisoners burned a^ fT 1 ^th and Henry McGhee. ,A11 were taken to a Fayottevilte hospital except Faircloth and MeGhee who received treatment here. ? JamesE.Peurifou Urged Far Governor Columbia, Aug. 21.?Judge James ?, Peurtfoy, pronahn** attorney, banker, farmer and draah van, i? * potential candidate for gOreroor, who is being urged to make da ttte hy many personal frtenda throughout the state White Judge PourifOj tmrwmte no authentic amoonen^etr it was sold by doae friends <M the former circuit court M?u thut he to not - ?.???? y?. r HIWA 1 At III 51 5' Tractor Replaces H One-Mule Teams Clcmson College, August 20.?Qno tractor with proj>er equipment w ill replace eight to fourteen one mule outfit on the farm, declared J. T. McAlister, extension agricultural engineer, speaking during Farmers' Week on Supervised Power Farming Demonutraiions in South Carolina. These figures were based on Mr. McAlistei's study of the comparison oC man and horse hours uguiost man and tractor hours for similar plot# of ground growing'tfimilar crop?. "The purpose of the power demonstrations being conducted over the state is not to do away with animal power," continued Mr. McAlister, "but to make full use of power that is available. There are about 600 geiwial purpose tractors in the state, that if outfitted, could be profitably us< (1 it) cultivate crops. Farmers have money tied up in tractors from which they get only u part-time benefit. The expenditure of $250 for equipment would make these part-time tractors whole-time tractors." When Mr. McAlister called on some of his j>ower farming demonstrator $ to relate their experience with using only tractor power, Miss Keels, of Rembert, gave sustaining evidence of the efficiency of tractor power, and L. O. K.underburk, of Camden, said he felt sure his tractor outfit could cultivate 25 acres of cotton per day and do it as well as mule labor or belter. Mr. Davis, of Albany, (la., tested the efficiency of tractor power in growing peanuts. He said that the cultivating labor that required sixtenths of a tractor day required over three days of one-mule power. The digging cost with the tractor was $4.H5 per acre against $(5.75 for mule power. His net profits were $13.34 per jure with tractor power and $5.<50 per acre with mule power. Mother Gives Up Hope. Aaru, Switzerland, Aug. 22.?The mother and sister of Kurt Luescher, missing Swiss trans-Atlantic aviator, today gave up hope of seeing him again, and accepted with resignation what they considered' the will of Providence. Neighbors greatly admired the mother's stoicism, she bakl them that when she agreed to her son becoming an aviator, she realized she must fi prepared for all hazards. i .. j Vtit?" ' 1 1 1 S Murderer Dies in (lhair. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 23.?Leator Bouyer, negro, died m the electric Chair at Kilby prison shortly after | midnight for the murder of Jack Hine?, young Eufala, Ala., mechanic I on the night of July 10. He entered j the death chamber at lid: 12 a. in., and was pronounced dead at 12:23 a. m. Bouyer made n lengthy statement | before the Current was tui nod on. He admitted shooting Hincs to death but denie<l having attacked Hines' young woman companion, which he was said to have admitted shortly afj.ter his capture. | Bootleg Planes Are Been. San Antonio, Texan, August 24.? ,. -S Phantom? of moonlit skies uro those ' lone airplanes tlvat carefully avoid | San Antonio's landing fields. Thinking that the droning motor Z~$ may belong to a otray plane seeking to land after dark, the night watchman at Winburn field frequently prepares for a landing. But there never i? anything in sight. Wayne Parks, Wilbum field manager, explains these unseen ships this i way: 6 ^ 0 ) I "They are outlaws of the air, deali ing in bootleg, both bottled and hu1 C man contraband. There are several of .. 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