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WHITE MAN KILLED IN GIN. ??? H. C. Pope, of Sumter, Met Horrible Death in Machinery. jgr . Sumter, Oct. 11.?H. C. Pope, a -white man living several miles from town, was cut in a gin to-day shortly after noon and died from the shock this afternoon. Mr. Pope was overseer on Mr. H. J. Harby's place, having come here some time in the early part of this year. It seems from what can be learned of the accident that Mr. Pope . had ju?t walked into the building and went over to see how the gin was running. His hand was caught In the gin and before the power could be turned off the arm was mangled and the breast was cut in a number of places. A doctor was at once called and after seeing the patient, had him removed to the Sumter hospital, where the arm was removed. Death followed a short while aftewards. To Avenge Sister's Disgrace. XTooV,t^T1q Tonn fV>t 11 T5 W. g. . Carroll -was shot five times this afternon and killed fly Weaver Smith,, who charges that the dead man ruin- j ed his 13-year-old sister, Carline Smith, who disappeared from Nash% ville last Sunday, and was found two days later in a deserted house near the city, in company with Ed Turheville. ^ Carroll and Smith are both railway *1, V firemen and had been friends for years. Carroll is 35 years old and married, while Smith is 22. Carroll had lived at the Smith home for p; % more than a year and in this manner ?V-: became acquainted with the girl he Pfl-,.. is charged with having wronged. After the capture of Turbeville in company with Carline Smith, Turbegfk-i ville is said to have charged that Carroll was responsible ror tne gin s downfall. The story reached the ears of the father and brother of the child and this afternoon Weaver ||p; Smith went to the railway, yards and 5 found Carroll preparing to leave on his engine for Chattanooga. At the point of a pistol Smith forced Carroll to accompany himtoahet year s?a55 to accompany him to the Smith I home, where Carline was confronted with the man, and told that she must tell the truth about her relations with. Carroll, whereupon the girl told the entire story of her ruin, which she says was accomplished by Carroll about a year ago. Weaver Smith then fired several shots into Carroll's body with fatal effect. He then surrendered himself to the of fleers. Train Wrecked at St. Matthews. St. Matthews, Oct 11.?A serious wreck of Southern freight train No. 72 occurred here at 12:10 this morning. A tremendous. cloudburst had just taken place, the high water loosening the underpining of the trestle about 50 yards north of the depot station. The northbound passenger had passed over a short time before. Ac, tlio froicht eninc south Struck fthe trestlework, the timbers began to crack and bend. Engineer B. H. Weathersbee pulled open the throttle and landed his engine, but seven cars crashed into the excavation 40 feet below. Bales of cotton floated on the water. C. T. Cannaday, head brakeman, was badly shaken up, the / end of a little finger being torn off and other bruises about the body and head. Jim Lewis, colored fireman, was also badly shaken up, but will recover with little delay. B. H. Weathersbee, engineer, also sustained slight bruises about the right leg and knee. C. T. Cannaday is the most seriously injured, and the result will depend upon the outcome of possible internal injuries. Surgeons J, S. Wimberly, of Branchville, and T. H. Dreher, of St. Matthews, physicians of the Southern Railroad, and Dr. A. R. Able, of St. Matthews, attended t.hA iniured and relieved their sufferings. One of the Lickers. Dr. Wines, principal of a boys' school, just before he went on his holiday had occasion to cane a pupil, / and it is to be supposed did the work thoroughly. The lad took his revenge in a way that the doctor himself could not help laughing at. Dr. Wines's front door bore a plate on which was the one word, "Wines." The boy wrote an addition to this in big letters, so that when the doc-, tor came home the inscription ran: "Wines and other lickers."?Lon. don Tit-Bits. Ineffectual. A colored woman went to the pastor of her church the other day to complain of the conduct of her husband, who, she said, was a low down, worthless, trifling nigger. After listening to a long recital of the delinquencies of her neglectful spouse and her efforts to correct them, the minister said: "Have you ever tried heaping coals of fire upon his head?" "No," was the reply, "but I done tried hot water."?Kansas City Star. gf-* km* ..- V , PASSING OF LOAN SHARKS. Drastic Measures Stop the Business in Augusta. Augusta, Ga., Oct. 4.?Money loan cases were assigned for trial in the city court to-day, but at the opening of court announcement was made that a plea of guilty had been entered in each of twelve cases on the docket. The cases in which pleas have ben entered are: B. L. Spinks, four cases; J. B. Chapman, three cases; W. D. Robertson, W. D. Ford, three ? ^ ? mx. ^ cases; ana fora & iinmau. xue ucfendants were not in court, but entered pleas of guilty through their attorneys. It is understood that the money lenders are going to abandon their business in Augusta and enter other pursiuts. The manner in which the unsuspected poor were treated by some of the loan sharks was the cause of considerable agitation several months ago, and a number of criminal cases were brought in the courts. This contest to suppress this evil has been going on for seven or eight years in Augusta. After many backsets a bill was at last gotten through the legislature making it a crime to charge more than 5 per cent, per month on these small loans, whereas the usual charge is from 400 to 500 per cent, per annum. The supreme court rendered an elaborate opinion sustaining the | constitutionality of the criminal usu_? . ? j 1 AAO ry law. Tnai law passea m uuo and sustained by your honor.and affirmed by the highest court of the State is now fixed beyond all question. There never was any question about the violation of the law on the facts. Every money lender in Augusta of this class was charging from 400 per cent, to 500 per cent, while the law forbade more than 60 per cent, per annum, or 5 per cent, per month. Lime as a Soil Improver. Lime is not a fertilizer but what is teripea an "amenameni oecause it brings about effects in the soil that make the plant food already present more available. It sweetens acid soils, bringing about conditions favorable for the increase of the microorganisms that are helpful. These microorganisms decompose organic matter and liberate the plant food which is stored therein so that it can be used by the growing crops. Soil water charged with carbonic acid, which is a product of the breaking down of organic matter, is our strongest natural solvent.- In this way mineral plant food will be dissolved more readily and made available4 to the plant. Under certain conditions lime liberates some J potash for its insoluble, combinations and make8 it available. Some very desirable physical effects are produced by lime. It flocculates clay causing it to become < more granular and consequently more open. On the other hand it tendB to cement the sandy soils making them lees porous. There are three forms of lime used i for agricultural purposes: quick lime, waterslaked lime, and carbonate of lime. The two forms first mentioned are quickly changed, in the soil, or when long exposed to the 1 *n. fV?o rarhnnata form. The * <Uiy tV vuv v?*? ? ? finely ground limestone rock is al- : ready in the carbonate form. The quick lime is most drastic in its effects, the water slaked next, and the carbonate is mildest. Quick lime is the same whether it is made by burning oyster shells, limestone rock or marl. When buying bear in mind i that you want pounds of actual lime, therefore the analysis is of prime im- i portance. We advise a liberal application of the lime at long intervals, $ rather than the use of a small amount often. We would use at least a ton of the finely ground limestone, or of marl, or 1,000 pounds or more per acre, of the quick lime, or of the so-called agricultural limes which are usually mixtures of the quick, water slaked, and air slaked lime. It is preferable to apply the lime < as long before planting as practica^?,_i_ 11 i ? UIB. VjUlCK. 111UC ID DlFUicnuaii uiiuvutb to handle on account of its drastic nature. It is best to put this form in small piles at intervals over the field and cover with earth, it will slake and can then be distributed without much inconvenience. Quick lime, if pure, runs higher in content of lime than other forms of lime, but is more expensive. When the farmer iuny realizes that lime is an amendment, and not a fertilizer, that it acts best in connection with an abundant supply of organic matter, and, that, if properly used its beneficial effects are many it will find a permanent place in our system of agriculture. Do not mix lime with fertilizers that contain a soluble phosphate' or a salt of ammonia. This station has gotten good results from applications of lime at Clemson College and also in our experimental work in the lower part of the State. ? < T. KEITT, Chemist, S. C. Experiment Station. f . I A SAILOR BOLD WAS HE. Georgia Lad of Fifteen Poor in Cash, bnt Rich in Experience. A red-haired boy of 15 years strolled into the detective bureau and told I Lieut. Diefenthaler that he wanted to get home. He was John Dudley Hall, of Pincora, Ga., says the New York Sun, and since June 3 he has been wandering about the North Atlantic and the North Sea as a seaman in search of adventure. He arrived here as a waiter on the Kronprinzessein Cecilie, and now he is unable to work his passage on any of the ships running to Savannah. John had a small seaman's chest, which he carried on his shoulder, and a mass of documents, papers of discharge from ships and letters from American consuls to attest his story. His stepfather is William L. Gignilliet, a lawyer. When high school closed this spring ?e obtained his father's consent to ship as a seaman on a steamer from Savannah to Hamburg, Germany, and see some of the world. He is tall for his age, muscular, and could pass for a boy of 18 or 19. He showed a letter of recommendation from Daniel Iveson, assistant superintendent of the Savannah Port Society, saying that John had the consent of his parents to sail the seven seas, and with this and a copy of the Bible he started out. His first ship took him from Savannah to Hamburg. From there he went on the steamer Weimer to Leith, Scotland. He worked as an assistant steward on the steamer Corsica from Leith to Dundee, and returned to Leith on her. He shipped as assistant steward in the Coblenz to Hamburg ^hd took train to Bremen. There the American consul gave him a letter to the captain of the Rutland, but the ship company was complete and he wasn't needed. About this time John thought it would be well to start for home if he was to get back in time for the school opening and he shipped as a waiter on the Cecilie. When he landed here he tried to get on a boat going to Savannah but was turned down. He went into a Western Union TeleCTanh office on West street and asked to send a message home for money, hut the telegraph clerk wouldn't send it collect. That night he slept in the park, and the next, and finally went up to police headquarters with his chest on his should der to ask help from Lieut. Diefenthaler. And because he was under 16 the lieutenant sent the young seamafi to the children's society until money comes to pay his way home. "Just Meandering." A city girl writes: It is a fond dream of mine to become a farmer's wife and meander with him down life's pathway. Ah, yes, that is a nice thing! But when your husband meanders off and leaves you without wood and you have to meander up and down the land pulling splinters off the fence to cook dinner, and when you meander along in the wet grass in search of the cows till your shoes are the color of rawhide and your stockings soaked and when you meander out across 20 acres of plowed ground with a club to drive tjie hogs out of the corn field and tear your dress on the barb wire fence, when you meander back home to the h,ouse and find that the billy goat has butted the Btuffin' out of your child, and find the old hen, with 40 chickens, in the nnrinr. voti'll nut vour hands on your hips and realize that meandering is not what it is cracked up to be.? Dahlonega Nugget. Misapplied. It is related that a clergyman living in the suburbs set a tired looking man, who had applied to him for work, digging potatoes. In an hour or so he went out and found that the man had uncovered about two quarts of the tubers. "Well," said the parson, "you don't believe in overworking yourself, do you?" "Oh," replied the laborer, "I worki r? >> according 10 ocupiuic. , "Where in the Bible can you find anything that justifies your taking an hour to dig two quarts of potatoes?" "Why this: 'Let your moderation be known to all men.' " The minister thought this rather witty and he took the man to dinner. The moderate worker aia not prove to be a moderate eater, in fact he cleared the table. "You don't seem to eat according to your text," remarked his host watching the viands disappear. "No," replied the tired man, plying his knife and fork faster than ever, "I have another text for this. 'Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might!' " . "Humph!" said the clergyman, "my good man, you've got your two texts misplaced." s I LADIES! 1 Do Your Shopping at Hooton's, Where Yon Will Find the Newest and Best Money || Can Secure, for Each Day We Receive New Goods in Every Department for the Ladies ( i ? = A New Shipment of Suits Just Arrived Among these you will find the most stylish suits, suits to suit most any style. J-. ' ^ % Hooton's Suits are in a class by themselves, and when your Suit comes from H .,-i Hooton's you have the best made and best fitting Suit that money can -btgr. :| ,V.iH Every one of our Suits are full of style and we guarantee you a fit, ALL AL- ?J f-i TEBATIONS DONE WHILE YOU WAIT, FBEE OP COST. A New Shipment of Hats, Shapes and Trimmings Have Arrived - || DO NOT FAIL TO SEE THEM BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER. I ? J Every day adds new attractions to the Millinery Department, Hats are com- I ing and going all the time, and it pays to keep in touch with the new creations fl 19 being constantly shown here. Hooton'sHats are reasonably priced. No one * IS knows that better than the Ladies who have bought and placed their orders ^ ' If with us this season. Dress Making Department | [H'l We now have five dressmakers in this department, with Mrs. H. D. Free in :J ; charge, and we believe we are in position to give prompt and satisfactory ser- UI * J vice. WE MAKE ANYTHING WE SELL. SO SEE US BEFORE YOU ip II BUY IF YOU WISH YOUR SUIT OR DRESS MADE AT HOOTON'S. -| |||| ill Yours for Promptness and Business. ^ : I GE1 Hooton's Ladies Store RrTl || J patterns.<| ajjj Dress Making Parlors v J f|j|| ^^^^WeGive and Kefleem merenants rurpieatamps^ASK^ior mem. I Southern Life and Trust Company I S * # - * - :W| GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA ' v^^HgW 1 THREE THINGS TO CONSIDER IN LIFE INSURANCE ft 3 @ 1st. IS IT SAFE? and sense of responsibility by employing as its con- W Sg This is the paramount consideration, and all faltAing actuary the most eminent durance expert W ' ?> others are insignificant in comparison. The South- ln America; (5)'has persistently refused to make;W ^|S @ ern Life and Trust Company has a surplus to poll- facr ces t0 1(*01 ?' m6re big business and ? cy holders of $537,000.00, and is amply able to has Persistently demanded for its policies those ? make gdod every one of its contracts. Idto "to n^ary eXPerienC? *** dem<)n8tra*-M KM 2nd. IS IT WELL MANAGED? ? ^ iThe Southern Life and Trust Company (1) has 3rd. ARE MY PREMIUMS INVESTED ; v achieved a success that has seldom been equalled, , AT HOME? ' O . ||| having increased its surplus to policyholders in . ft ~': M six years over 150 per cent.; (2) is conducting its The Southern Life and Trust Company loans or ft , v V* business with unprecedented economy as shown by invests its funds in the locality from which they are 3K * the above results; (3) is conducting its business received, so that the life insurance business shall * with rare good judgment as shown by its exception- not be a drain upon a community, but contribute to' JR 1 yl ally low rate of mortality; (4) has shown its care its development and upbuilding. i ? - iJB EIGHTH ANNUAL STATEMENT I Condensed from Annual Official Report to Insurance Commissioner of North Carollina, Dec. 31, 1910. A I RESOURCES 9 LIABILITIES X Real Estate '.$ 93,383.49 Legal Reserve $338,589.00 Sk. / >v Mortgages on Real Estate 287,421.52 Bills Payable by Trust Dept. (Net) 48,639.12 ST Stocks and Bonds 378,272.70 Premiums Paid in Advance 1,743.19 W-v Collateral Loans 28,444.00 Unpaid Dividends left with Company.. 309.34 ^ yfjS Policy Loans - !? Capital Stock ...$300,000.00 <W 5 Corporation Deposits 5,880.04 g lng 236,478.87 i A ft* Interest Due and Accrued x 6,200.36 * Net Due and Deferred Premiums .... 17,033.65 * gi Cash in Banks and Office 62,046.20 Surplus protection to policyholders ....$536,478*87 V $925,759.52 $925,759.52 RECORD FOR SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS SINCE BEGINNING THE LIFE INSURANCE BUSINSS JULY 1, 1903. jjg JSurplus Protection Insurance A Assets Legal Reserves to Policyholders in Force A * December 31, 1903 $202,425.92 $ 998.00 $201,427.92 $ 243,180.00 X rpf December 31, 1904 209,452.16 8,363.00 201,089.16 890,500.00 S? December 31, 1905 318,503'.38 27,761.00 290,742.38 1,672,500.00 ^ Jgj @ December 31, 1906 408,418.12 60,1S6.UU 34S,Z3Z.jlz a,<29,ou.uu @ December 31, 1907 ^ 512,368.14 109,499.00 402,253.51 4,062,250.00 A / } X December 31, 1908 TL j. 606,058.39 174,599.00 430,152.12 5,030,747.00 - X December 31, 1909 730,?78.62 250,230.00 477,846.21 6,056,895.00 5? ^ Sg December 31, 1910 925,759.52 337,443.00 536,478.87 7,016.177.00 ? A SEE THE NEW ANNUAL DIVIDEND POLICY ISSUED BY THIS COMPANY @ H. M. GRAHAM, Manager ji jj/f^ UNDER JOHNSON HOTEL % BAMBERG, S. C. 5? f