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MURDER MOST FOUL. J. C. Hoi ley Suspected of Crime Would Shame a Fine. Wilmington, N. C., August 10.? The supposed murder of a youth to secure $2,500 insurance on his life, the gutting of the Rock Spring hotel, a combination hotel and lodging house on the wharf, the arrest of J. C. Holly, about 40 years old, proprietor of the house, erstwhile preacher of the Sanctification faith. Artnefitnfo/j +>10 continna 1 features of a tragic fire which occurred in this city early this morning. When arrested, and after being warned that he need not make any statement that would incriminate himself, the defendant stated to the justice who issued the warrant, in the presence of several persons, that nobody but he and the boy and his God knew the circumstances surrounding the death VAllfK VI IUC J vutu. Signs of Crime. The seriously burned body of the youth, Edward Cromwell, 19 years old, who is said to have come here four months ago from an orphan home in Charleston, and was cook at the hotel, was found lying on the floor of his room, in his night clothes, nearly an hour after the fire was discovered. Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant chief of the fire department, who was first to enter the room, testified at the coroner's investigation to-day that the body was lying parallel with the bed, which showed no evidence of having Deen aisturoea, nis ieet rowaiu uc head of the bed, thus exploding the theory that the youth fell from the bed. The mattress, he testified, was saturated with kerosene oil and under the head of the dead youth was found * a counterpane also saturated with oil, while two large empty oil cans were found in an adjoining room. Other witnesses testified to hearing a noise as if a struggle about midnight in the youth's room. Probable Motive. J. H. Scull testified that on Monday,acting as notary public, he signed certificate of transfer of insurance policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to Holly, the premium on which he was informed was paid by Holly, who had applied for insurance to the amount of $5,000, the company refusing more than $2,500. This is supposed to have furnished the motive for the crime that is believed to have been committed. The autopsy performed on the body failed to disclose any evidence of violence, but the stomach was distended and the lungs congested, which the physicians say could have been caused by smoke. The physician was satisfied that the boy was bured before death, but could not say as to whether narcotics were used, as a chemical analysis only can determine this. The coroner's jury will resume its investigation to-morrow. Killed by Excursion Train. ' Spartanburg, August 11.?Vernon Jollev, 19-year-old son of Stephen Jolly, a well-known and highly respected farmer living six miles west of Chesney in Spartanburg county, was run over and killed early this morning on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio road, about one mile above the Chesney depot. He was killed by the excursion train which had taken a party to Johnson City and was returning to Bostic after putting off the passengers at Spartanburg. The Better Sort. Senator Shively, apropos of patriotism and the fourth, told at a South Bend banquet a war story. "A private," he said, "got veryhomesick on the campaign and went to headquarters for a furlough. " 'What do you want a furlough for?' the colonel asked. *' 'What do I want a furlough for?' the private answered bitterly. 'Why, colonel, I ain't seen my wife for over three months!' " 'Oh, that's nothing," said the colonel, 'I haven't seen my wife for more than three years.' " 'Well, said the soldier, that may be, colonel, but me and my wife ain't that kind." '?Washington Star. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1SS6. (SEAL.) A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pillls for constipation. Cure for Insanity. The Lawyer?Temporary insanity is generally cured, isn't it? The Doctor?Yes, by a verdict of acquittal.?Philadelphia Record. FAKE "ADM LURES GIRL. Negro Janitor Arrested for Fiendish Attempts. St. Louis, August S.?Miss Lulu Fehlhammers reported to the police to-day that she was attacked at a pistol point last Tuesday night by James Bradfield, alias Bradford, a negro, when she went to answer what proved to be a "fake" advertisement for an office girl. Bradfield was arrested Saturday night while menacing Miss Bessie Unger, after decoying her by means of an advertisement into the building where he was janitor. Bradfield, according to Miss Fehl[ hammers, held a pistol to her head when she recovered from a faint and | made her sign a statement that she visited the office building on her own free will. The statement was found in Bradfield's pockets and attached to it was a lock of Miss Fehlhammer's hair. Mr. Bellinger in Charleston. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 6, 1910. Editor Bamberg Herald?Dear Sir: I am on the steamer Lawrence, the ferry boat from Charleston to Mt. Pleasant, returning from Sullivan's Island, where I have been spending a most delightful visit. We are now just at tne oena wnere me uu<tuuei makes a curve off from Castle Pincknev, and near by is Fort Riley and we are making in to land at the ferry wharf near the custom house. This is a building of magnificent proportions with huge pillows and solid foundation. Its artistic designs of strength, utility and beauty have been well combined. From this point we have a good view of the city and the different church spires. Most conspicuously sacred and venerable rise the lofty heights of the spires of St. Michael's and St. Paul's. And now the skyscraper on Broad street near being completed will hereafter be a most conspicuous landmark. But before we land let us calmly look out and upon this magnificent panorama that environs the queen city by the sea. First we have the inner port land locked, safe and secure from the great tropical storms that have from time to time swept our Atlantic coast. Sufficiently commodious to shelter and to acMmmndstd. not onlv all present de mands, but for the future, in which we see a prospect for a greater commercial outlook than the city has ever attained. At one view we can see the Cooper as it broadens out into a cansiderable bay, reaching out to the main land in the direction of Mt. Pleasant and then next to the city and extending up to the navy yard and beyond, a deep channel ample and sufficient for the passage of the nation's fleet and her vessels of war, now being constructed and repaired. We are far enough out that we can see the battery and the large handsome resident buildings that adorn that section of the city, and here flows in the Ashley and widens out into a broad bay, along the margin of which is now being constructed the great boulevard, an extension of the present battery, which will be more fully adorned and beautified by the many mansions, which are to be erected along the margin of this beautiful walk. And now look over and beyond the bay, into which the Ashley mingles its waters, and see that low level point of land with , forest growth sufficient to remind one of the famous "hundred pines," which once so proudly lifted their stately forms along James Island and now exist only in memory. And here is Fort Johnson where the present quarentine is located, and farther on is Morri's Island on which is the light house, whose friendly beacon light ever flashes sea* ' J xt- ? ??? yv nn/1 ward to guide me nidi iuc auu u? ship safely into port. From this island also projects one arm of the jetty reaching out for the other arm that extends from Sullivan, and only leaves a narrow channel or gateway, that all vessels either leaving or coming into port must necessarily pass under or in reach of the great guns of Fort Sumter like guard or sentinel ever keeping watch. But I haven't said a word about the nice sea breeze and how I enjoyed the surf. It has been many years since I have been in salt water. Not since a bov, when I lived in Texas and occasionally would try the rough waves that rolled in from Gulf of Mexico's stormy waters. But here when battling with the waves quite naturally my thoughts turned back to my Western home and visions of wild broncos and mustangs, and once again turned loose upon the boundless billions of that prairie land. Matters were in confusion for at times when borne upon the crest of a swollen sea and I could imagine that the wild bronco was doing very well, then all at once cast down and bumping on terra firma. Such was my sad experience riding the waves that I wished I was a boy again and racing over the wild West. L. N. BELLINGER. Buy your fruit jars at Hunter's hardware store. Prices right. / "" - v jdSS INVESTIGATING SOIL VALUES. Work of Government in South Shows Vast Possibilities. Washington, August 8.?The vast agricultural resources of the South, especially along the line of vegetable gardening for the Northern markets, have been shown forth in the results of recent work done by the bureau of soils, under the direction of the secretary of agriculture. This bureau has just completed an exhaustive investigation of the soils of more than 30 million acreas in the Atlantic and Gulf States. The soils investigated were those especially adapted under extensive culture to early fresh vegetables, of which these States have a clear monopoly in the Northern markets from January until the last of ' - t* J i.1 i. ik/N June, wnen 11 js reanzeu mac cue South must supply vegetables for more than two-thirds of the United (States for more than half the year, the enormous possibilities of this industry can be appreciated. The investigations showed that , about 7 per cent, of the acreage mentioned is capable of yielding far more per acre under scientific and up-to- ^ date methods than by the hit-and miss farming so commonly in vogue among the Southern truck farmers. Of the vast area, only 1 1-4 million acres are incapable of being profita- t bly farmed; these, however, may be i put in profitable forests. Nearly 4 I million acreas are especially adapted t to early and extra-early vegetables, t especially turnips, radishes, lettuce, * peas, string beans, Irish potatoes, t beets, cucumbers, watermelons and i cantaloupes. Nearly three million i acres are well suited for early crops 1 of the same varieties maturing about t two weeks later, especially to early c squash, peppers, sweet potatoes, okra, f tomatoes, lima beans, spinach ana cabbage. Four and a half million acres are of a sandy loam adapted to vegetables which mature for market at a medium period and on which the J lightest type of general farming c comes in with early crops and light ^ yields. J Ten million acres constitute a fine, I sandy loam which may be profitably * used for vegetables for medium late spring market and a light type of i general farming. There are 1 1-2 ? million acres of loam, the best gen- f eral purpose soil, adapted to vege- i tables for the late spring market, a These are the last that can be served ^ in a fresh state from this territory, t <n +V10 Mnrthprn fc UUlUlUg iX L?ivju\jy\jij xu market. More than two million acres t are classified as silt loam, well fitted to canning crops and heavy general \ farming, with about equal adapta- e tions to wheat and grass. Four mil- ^ lion acres of clay adapted to heavy t farming and ensilage forage crops c make up the remainder. i: In the sixteen former slave States, b including Oklahoma, there was 145,- t 000,000 acres planted to general b crops. There are more than 612,- r 000,000 acres of unimproved land in t these States. Texas has 167,000,000 f acres of virgin land, though much of b it is used for grazing. Florida has b more than 35,000,000 acres of as b rich land as any in the world, now b classed as worthless "Everglades." These are being rapidly reclaimed by a private enterprise. v Alabama has 33,000,000 acres not " utilized, and Arkansas as much. *> Louisiana has 30,000,000 acres of f swamps, which, if drained, would d rival the fatness of the Nile Valley, a There are in Mississippi more than e on nnn nnn nmu awaitine* the 1< OVJVUVJV VV C4.V.X AAV- 0 thrifty immigrant' and Missouri has a 44,000,000 also awaiting the plough, t if we include her rich swamps on the h river, Georgia has 38,000,000, and q North Carolina 31,000,000 acres of t unimproved lands. South Carolina s has 26,000,000, and Tennessee has a 27,000,000 acres of such lands. Vir- fl ginia has an unimproved area as g large as that of Tennessee, while d Kentucky has 26,000,000 acreas and West Virginia 15,000,000. Maryland has only about 6,000,000 acres unimproved. As for the swamps, most of them s growing fine timber, though under b water for nine months of the year, t they will be unfit for cultivation to f any extended extent unless drained, t To drain the swamps of the South J would be a stupendious enterprise, "V dwarfing the first continetal railroad a or the Panama canai. But our American people have v learned that our constitution is flexi- t ble enough for any good and practi- s cal purpose, and it only remains for n some logician from the South to de- b monstrate to congress that the drain- s ing of the swamps will facilitate the t navigation of the Southern rivers, b Then that section can get her arms t elbo-deed into the "pork-barrel" and t as a result 100,000 square miles of b the richest land in the world will t come under the plough of the hus- 1 bandman. a ? t Struck a Rich Mine. ^ S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala., f says he struck a perfect mine of health in Dr. King's New Life Pills 1 for they cured him of liver and kid- t ney trouble after 12 years of suffer- g ing. They are the best pills on earth ^ for constipation, malaria, headache, dyspepsia, debility. 25c at Peoples * Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. \ Southern Bell 108 SC & II Tl SSC CHAMPION BANANA-EATER. Polish Resident of New York Go Outside of 64 at One Sitting. The banana-eating champion o :he world is claimed by Morris Leo jeske, a Polish resident of the Eas Side, New York, who on Monday, af ;er a desperate struggle and agains :remendous competition, won a $10' ?old watch in the annual interna ;ional banana-eating contest at Mas >cth, Long Island. Morris succeede* ry r\r\ + /"Ml f oiHn of fid 1 IX WXA LUV uuwiuv VI. v A * < >ananas. The feat is more remarkabl vhen it is considered that the rule )f the contest prevent the contestant rom taking liquids while competing Kind Words for Dad. We do not know who the Rev. W F. Hindley is, save that he is past'o >f congregational church in Spokane Washington, but we are "for him.' le has just inaugurated a "Father': )ay," a day in which, he says, h< rants to give everybody a chance t< 'speak a few kind words for the ol( an, who surely needs sympathy.' lure he does! None more so. Th< ounder of this movement hopes tha t will spread all over the country .nd so do we. We hope it will read Washington, and everywhere else, s< hat poor old dad may chirk up anc legin to know that he is not going tc ip Afpmallv neelect'ed. Mother has her day, and properly Ve know all about the "coffee Moth ir used to make;" some one is al t-ays saving "mother's picture fron he sale," or is continually helping ai Id lady across the street and smirk ngly apologizing with "She's some ody's mother, boys," he said. But ii he rush of pathos poor old dad ha* een shamefully neglected. It's al ight for him to furnish the coin foj he household; to wear pants wit! ringe on them, so that mother maj iave a peek-aboo shirtwaist, or tc uy such expensive lace curtains thai is wife won't let him smoke in the ouse for fear he'll spoil them. You can come pretty near winning wager that it was a woman whc irrote that highly popular song Everybody Works but Father," anc te all know it isn't true; that ii ather didn't work, mother anc aughter couldn't parade or ride ir utomobiles the way they do. Fath r has been shamefully neglected toe Dng by far, and it was high time thai voice rose in the wilderness?nol hat. Snokane is a wilderness?giving lim a day to himself. We don'1 uite see what dad's going to do witl he day when he gets it; it's prettj afe he won't be allowed to spend ii t the club, and if he wants to g( shing it's likely that mother and the iris will think him selfish if he oesn't let them come tagging along Things Came Her Way. He joined the Maccabees and Maon9, he joined the K. of P.'s, he lowed in all he had to pay initiaion fees. He borrowed money of his riends and put them on the bum o take out life insurance in the llkafoozelum. He was a Moderr Voodman and he headed the parade n axe upon his shoulder that had wooden blade; his wife at home was wrestling with a gnarly knot to trj o split a splinter off to keep the cook tove hot. He went into the Workaen, but he had no love for work, s :ind of lodge bacillus in his systeir eemed to lurk, and when he went ui own to buy potatoes, meat, or tea ie was very apt to spend the cash tc ake some new degree. 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