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ROBBED ON STREET. A Northern Visitor to Columbia Held Up by Thieves. The Victim Buys Thoy Weiv Negroes They Took Victims Coat, Shoes and Money. The State says Mr. M. M. Hamelreth, a Northern man, who has been stopping at the City hotel since Tuesday evening, was held up and robbed Thursday night about midnight, at the corner of Assembly and Green streets by two negroes. He was relieved of his coat and shoes and $J7 in money. Mr. Hamelreth was walking down Assembly street toward the union station and on approaching the Green Street Methodist church he noticed a negro coming down Green from the direction of Main. The negro met him at the intersection of the two streets, on 'the sidewalk, and asked for a match. Mr. Hamelreth replied that he did not have a match and continued on down Assembly, without hesitation. Just ns he had passed the negro he was grabbed in the collar and almost thrown down. He tackeled tbe negro and was making a pretty lively fight, when he was suddenly grabbed from behind by another negro and thrown to the grown. They held him firmly on the ground while his pockets were gone through. While the big negro held him the smaller one took his shoes off and told him to "scoot." Having secured their booty, the negroes started off down Assembly, in the middle of the road, at a rapid pace. As soon as he regained his feet, Mr. Hamelreth went in pursuit of the highwaymen, running them to within a short distance of the union station before losing sight of them. The negroes disappeared around a street car and it is thought that they went straight to the railroad tracks beyond the depot. Mr. Hamelreth describes the robbers as follows: One about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches, yellow, weight about 140, mixed sack coat, ripped in th back of right sleeve, wore cap. medium negro voice; second man about 6 feet 1 or 2 inches, weight about 175, real black, heavy thick lips, wore slouch hat, slightly stooped shoulders, dressed decidedly coarse and rough. Just before they let go of their victim, one of the coons said: "Run, Tom," Mr. Hamelreth reported the matter to the police within 10 or 15 minutes after it happened, but nothing to indicate the identity of the robbers has been discovered. The hold-up was almost under an electric light, which was burning brightly. Mr. Hamelreth says he would recognize either of the negroes if he sees them again. His ap mi i * ? insurance i nursaay nignt snowed that he put up a good fight, his shirt being badly torn in several places. He was presented with a pair of shoes at the Union station by a railroad employe. Mr. Hamelreth is an attorney at Long Run, Ohio, and has been in Florida and Georgia for the past three months and was on his way back to his home. He says he received $40 Thursday by mail from borne and expected to leave Friday or Saturday for Ohio. RAINS IN THE NORTHWEST Complete Tie Up of Telegraphic and Railway Service. Continuous heavy rains, resulting in serious washouts, violent wind storms and a wet, clinging snow, have combined to produce a complete telegraphic tie up in the Pacific Northwest. The States of Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon have been isolated since early in tlie day, and there seems to be no imme diate prospects of an improvement in the sitnation. Thursday night a heavy wind storm passod over Great Salt Lak?, from the Southwest to the Northeast, and by driving tho water with teriflc force against the Southern Pacific cut-off across tho western part of the lako, washed out an entensive section of the tract, compelling a discontinuance of the train service. Sacramento is cut off from the railroad communication with the outside world, except from tho east. No eastern train were able to leave over the Odgen route Friday. John D. Rockefeller has announced his intention of giving'.two hundred and fifty million dollars for the benefit of the poor. It will take more than that to save you, John, in the grand wind ud. Ban Young, a watchman at a railroad crossing in Columbia was knocked down by a runaway team and run over by a locomotive, tie will probably get off with only the amputation of a foot. William DeLoch severely cut George Blatin near Good Hope Church in Saluda County. Both are white and had been drinking, it is said. An extensive series of photographs of Clemson College are being prepared for exhibition at the Jamestown Exposition. MAN FOUND DEAD. Merchant and Postmaster Killed and Body Robbed. It Is llclievtnl That the IVrsou Who Koltbcd Hint (Javo Hint a Deadly Drug. C. F. Ferguson, pastmaster and merchant at Ncwsoms, Southampton county, Va., was found dead in an alley leading to the wharf of the Bennett Steamship line, just off Water street, Norfolk, Va., early Sunday morning. It is thought that death was the result of a drug administered by some one for the purpose of robbery, although Coroner Knight, after a careful autopsy, stated that he could find no signs of poisoning. Ferguson, it is said, had been drinking heavily. To support the drugging theory is the fact that the face of tne dead man had turned purple by noon. The coroner will conduct an inquest, at which time he hopes to be able to assign, without question, the cause of the man's death. Ferguson wore a handsome gold watch, with his initials engraved on it, and to which a chain and charm were attached. These were missing, as was everything else the man'spockets may have contained. The pockets were turned wrongside out. Nothing was left in them by winch he could be identified and the police were for a time at a loss. A Masoaic emblem which Ferguson wore and which the pickpocket over looked finally gave the police a clue, and the body was later positively identified by Mayor's Clerk E. M. Dardeo, who had known Ferguson intimately for many years. Furgeson is not supposed to have had a great amount of money, or much else of value, save the watch and its appendages. Two rings of small value were left on a finger. Furguson was last seen Saturday night about 9 o'clock, seated on the sidewalk, reclining against a brick wall, and it was there and in that position Jthat he was found Sunday morning. Whether the body was robbed before or after death is not known. The police will conduct searching investigation into the case. Ferguson was about thirty-eight years old and unmarried, Tillinan Quotes Hums. A Washington correspondent says one Sunday afternoon recently a party of gentlemen met in Senator Tillman's rooms at the Normandie and, strangely enough, the conversa tion did not touch upon the negro question, Mr. Roosevelt, State rights or any political topic. Mr. Tillman directed the talk to the shams and humbugs of modern life, particularly among the class that had recently required great wealth. His remarks, if reported, would have made an admirable sermon that could have been delivered from almost any pulpit. Mr. Tillman especially deplored and con demned the practice that so many men had followed of deserting the partner of their earlier struggles and seeking younger women with whom to share their newly-acquired wealth. "To my mind," said Senator Tillman, "there is nothing finer or more beautiful in prose or poetry than the second stanza of thai gem oi oubbit Burns, 'John Anderson, my Jo John.' Gazing out of the window at the driving rain, Mr. Tillman repeated th< verse he had mentioned: "John Anderson, my Jo John, We clamb the hill thegithcr; And monie a cauty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither. Now we maun totter down, John Hilt Hanrf in Vian/1 um'll #? / ? .......V* ,.v. II And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my Jo." "Those are my sentiments exact ly," said Mr. Tillman softly, after i brief interval of silence. "Wha a world of trouble and heartache would be saved if we would all live up to them!" Thr Anderson Mail says "just a apt as not in the next Congress some member from Massachusetts ma> come right out and advocate a bii to keep ships of any kind from en tering the port of Charleston." N< i doubt they would like to, but it wouh do no good, Charleston is destine< to be a great city, and the hate of i thousand Massachusetts will not re tard her a day. Sometimf^ the hard worked coun try editor has very little time t< devote to editorial writing. He ha a great many things to do beside writing editorials that the editor o a city daily knows nothing about That is why the city editor think that the country editor has a weel in which to write editorials. Dr. Leon Goldburg, who has beei acting as interpreter for the stat immigration bureau and who ha been charged with being implicate) in the seduction of a young girl wh< came over in the Wittekind, has db appeared from Columbia. Thetgovernor has appointed fou constables to look after the blin< tigers in Richland County. ^ CIRBWQ KXTRAVAGANCH. What She Asked for and What She Got Were Different Stories. "Some folks/' remarked a well known autoist, who had Just returned from a tour through some of th? Southern States, "hu/e peculiar ldees of extravagance. Down in ViiglnU a few weeks ago I stopped at a farmhouse to refill my water jug and got Into conversation with an old negro who came out to render me what assistance he might. During the process of drawing the water from the well he became somewhat confidential. "My wife," said he. "Is pow'ful 'stravagant. She's ulways askin' me fo' money. She wants 50 cents for this and a dollar for that, an' there's no end to it, Sah." "Why, uncle, what does she do with so much money?" I asked sympathetically. "She don't de any thing wid It," he answered. "How 'Is that, uncle?" I asked in surprise. "Well, I tell yer, Sah," he replied la the most matter of fact way, "i don't give It to her." A Tip on Hot-any. Wllllara C. Whltnsy, Jr., who has spent a year in Indian Territory learning practical mining at Quapaw, described at a dinner party lm KT^?.? V??1. - r* iic?r ium n v^uupaw restaurant. "Ono evening at this restaurant," he said, "two miners near me got into a botanical argument about the pineapple, one claiming that it was a fruit, and the other that it was a vegetable. In the midst of their argument the waiter entered in his shirt sleeves and looked about to see what was the cause of the loud talking. "The miners decided to-let ths waiter settle their argument, and accordingly one of them said: " 'Pete, what is a pineapple? Is it a fruit or a vegetable?' "The waiter, flicking the ash 'rorn his cigar, smiled at the two men with pity. " 'It's neither, gents,' he said, 'it's an extra.' " Explained. I ^ i \ His Wifo (a year later)?When you proposed to nie you said all I'd have to do If I married you would be to sit around and look pretty. But, alas, how very different! Her Husband?Well, it isn't my fault if you can't look pretty any more. To Say and to Mean. "I don't know how it happens, but harder I try, the worse luck I have with my friends," a pretty Baltimore girl remarked not lon? ago. "Who is it now?" her intimate friend, who is sometimes able to smooth things over, asked. "Charlie Maxwell. You know he writes really charming verse, but it is only verse, and he knows it. He wants to do something really ilno, you know. "Well, a short while ago he was around here and showed me a pretty in t lo poem. He called atfain last night, and I naked him If he had Bent it to a magazine. " 'No T tore it up,' ho said. 1 thought that was foolish, and 1 said: " 'Tore it up, Charlie? Why, that was tl.o cleverest thing I ever knew you to do,' and, do you know, ho seemed to get offended, and I can't, to save my life see why. Can you?" Nautical Ignorance? Young Captain Sealby of the liner Cretic was talking about the ignorance of the sea and of nautical terms that is sometimes displayed by fes malo passengers. "Last fall," he said, "there was a ( young lady from Warwick whom I showed over the steerage. As we were making our tour the steerage ) nannln I ? iU.I- J? I nci o UltJir limner <1 TIG I ^ I couldn't help remarking the tre* mendous appetite of a red-haired a man. " 'Great Jupiter,* I said, 'Juot look at the amount of food that fellow consumes.' " 'I suppose, captain,' said the {) young lady, "that he is what you sailors call a stowaway.' " s * Appropriate. Wilton Lackayo, the player, has a ^ pretty wit, as was evidenced by an ^ observation on his part in a discussion at the Players' Club touching the merits of a new play by a prolific playwright known not. to be overscrupulous in his use of the ideas of others. "What do you think of Blank's latest?" Lackayo was asked. " Too realistic," said Lackayo. "Too realistic?" "Yes. Even the words spoken by the burglar in tho third act were ' stolen I" The Horry Herald CONWAY, S. C. Thurnday, March 28, 1907, Farmers and Telephones. Many farmers do not realize the immense advantages and labor-saving possibilities in the telephone. By its use, one may learn from city or village the state of the market, the' probable demand, any shortage that i exists, and be prepared to take advantage of it promptly, while Mr. Slowpoke is finding out too late that there was a brisk demand for the verv goods he had to sell. Market reports in weekly papers are ancient history wheu received these days. What we want is advance information. The telephone was certainly, the most valuable invention of the! 1 oaf Knl^ nnwf" I-?-? t ? ??v nun v,\_ ii mi j, t*uu nunc nave oenefitted more by it than farmers. They can now sell their stuff in whole or in part before leaving1 home and do not, as formerly, have to take the risk of driving to town with a load only to find the market glutted. There is no excuse now for making such mistakes as this and it is safe to say that no farmer who understands his business is ever caught in such a trap. "In 1807 I had a stonmch disease. Some physicians said Dyspepsia, Consumption. One said I would not live until Spring. For four years I existed on boiled milk, soda biscuits, and doctor's prescriptions, I could not digest anything I ate; then I picked up one of your Almanacs and it. happened to be my life-saver. I bought a fifty cent bottle of KODOL and the benefit I received from that bottle all the gold in Georgia could not. buy. in two months I went back to my work, as a machinist, and in three months I was well and hearty, liay you long live and prosper."?C. N. Cornell, Roding, Ga., 1906. The above is only a sample of the great good that Is dally done everywhere by Kodol for Dyspepsia. It is sold here by Conway Drug Co. READY TO RUN. I Please send me Illustrated Catalog No. 1 I FAIRBANKS, MORSE f' IBOTT' I Whisl AND 6 Full Q Carolina VI Carolina Whiskey will i article and in our estin |([ I jlir Hill tures sold by Irresponsi I IIIU per gallon. We make a a ^ ll I | '||i Jlia that wo aro not afraid of teen acres, making us th B3 SAMPLE BOTT1 will ship you by expr will Include In same I SPECIAL NOTICE! the caspe: LBL. nm,' 1 '.L 111 II "iJJ ' JJ111 BANK OF CON W CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSEI OFF1C B. O. COLLINS, President. C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-Pira. Our Bank, being a local inatitu building of Horry County and for th suing this policy *e take pleasure ii accommodation rrlaen conaiatent v* itk With gratitude for the liberal cordially solicit your future buainaei Rcppcctfi D.A.SPIVEN Robt. B. Scarborough, H. President. Vice-. BANK OI Conwa ( Capital Stock DIREC Robt. B. Scarborough, Hal L. Buck, George J. Holliday, We will pay you 5 per cent. int< iali sayings banks to those wishin Try out plan for BAying your nickles those little banks and the interest w help yen. Little globules of sunshine that drive the clouds away. DeWltt's Little Early Risers will scatter the gloom of stck-headache and biliousness. They do not gripe or sicken. Recommended and sold here by Conway Drug Co. Congress hasdocked the railroads $4,000,000 for carrying the mails. Now cut off the franking graft, make everybody pay postage on what he sends and the perennial deficiency in the postoffice department will be leveled down. To remove a cough you must got at the cold which causes the cough. There Is nothing so good for this as Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. The liquid cold relief that la most quickly effective, that stills Rnd quits the cough and drives out the cold. Sold by Conway Drug Co. A dispute over the merits of the Russian army resulted in a captain of Siberian sharpshooters lopping off a prince's ear and being shot twice by his antagonist, the affray occurring in a St. Petersburg hotel. The winds of March have no terror to the user of DeWltt's Carbollzed Witch Hazel Salve. It quickly heal chapped and crack, ed skin. Good too, for boils and burns, and undoubtedly the best relief for Plies. 8old hero by Conway Drug Co Half of the business portion of Summall, Miss., was destroyed by fire. The loss is $60,000. You should be very careful of your bowels when you hnv^ a cold. Nearly all Other COUKh HVrims arn rnntiHiin. ting, especially those containing opiates. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup moves the bowels?contains NO opiates. Conforms to National Pure Food and Drugs Law. Bears the endorsement of mothers everywhere. dhildren like itH pleasant taste. Sold by Conway Drug co. Excellent progress is bein^ made on the electric railway from Anderson to Bel ton. KODOL digests what you eat and quickly overcomes Indigestion, which is a forerunner of Dyspepsia. It is made in strict conformity to the National Pure Food and prugs Law and is sold on a guarantee relief plan. Sold by Conway Drug Co Kfe^laclMil^LlMVadesl flpjSp GASOLINE ENGINE | IIP* NEW HOLLAND FEED MILL I rYwl Thin Is tho only outfit that will I 'V? \vt tflnd Kar Corn natlRfactorlly | n'r with umall power. Tho engine can - \w ?1ro ho used for pumping. Haw- H ing wood, Hhelllng corn, rutting H fodder, running cream noparntor, H churn or washiuK niachiiio. Slr.i-n H L950 from 2 II. 1*. up to 200 II. I'., vor ileal, horizontal or portablo. &. CO., Chicago, lit. | kly FREE; quarts F?r 0O QC /hiskey HrVL.u9 give excellent satisfaction. It in a well atred r lation, far superior to tho decoctiona and mix ble mail order whiskey houws at $.3.00 to $.3.60 R pcclal price on CAROLINA WHISKEY to show K any kind of competition Our plants cover four 0 largest mail order whlakey house in the world. I 1 .F.S FREE. Cut out this advertisement and 3 return It with $2.95 and we I ess 6 full quarts of Carolina Whiskey and wc p >ox, complimentary, a sample bottle of each, ind" and Casper's 12 Year Old White Corn. 0 deliver tho noovo express prepaid anywhere finia and West Virginia, but customers living 1 by Adams or Southern Express Companies, Buyers oast of Mississippi River residing on s must send $3.9" for tho Oqua'tn and .3 sample ay express. Remit cash with order and address: K CO., 0nc., RoanoKe, Va. Dwncr* of U. S. Rcglatprpd DUtlllrry No. SOD, r.(h Ih.t., V*. nervNIon of V S. ORIipra and Riiarautced pure niider Ihe lioiial I'uro Food and PmK Uv. ?fw ? *' ?i Hwi'BiPwiar CONWAY. A V/ O A-\ T * O . SFDRPLUS FUND, $2?,000. \S, $180,000.00 2ER8: D. A. SP1VET, CiBfiiBB. M. W. COLLINS, Aibt CMDN tion, ban alwaya atriven for tfce ?pa betterment of ber citizens. In per t extending to our cnatomers awry i aound banking. patronage received in tfee pent, we i. illy youre f v_> A? S H L. Buck, Will A. Freeman President, Cashier. * HORRY, y. S, C. $25,000 ;TORS: W. It Lewis, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman Brest on yearly deposits. Will furng to open small accounts with us and dimes, and yon will find that e will pay you on yonr savings will MAY GET AUEHS. |m U. S. Attorney General BonapartBR Elucidates His Opinion. T~(J Money For Prepayment of PossagK I May bo Given Aliens by State btMl Not by Individuals. HI The President has made public thm H decision of Attorney General Bona! H parte in answer to questions ask em I by Gov. An:J^, as to the efforts tJ H promote immigration through ComH I missioner Watson. fl Replying to the first question--*? whether it is a violation of the iml I migration law in force at this titneft . L . _ ? r.*-1 nn .nnn.i ut-iuic luc aui tu reuruary zv, H takes effect, for a State to advertisil I its inducements and publish abroacl 4 a scale of wages prevailing in itfl m borders, provided no contracts o>| M agreements expressed or implied aril entered into?Mr. Bonaparte ansj R wers in the negative. Neither woulqj the State violate any law nor woulea the alien be subject to deportation, The second question of Gov. Ansel's! was whether the State may prepay^ the passage of immigrants secureuap in tne manner asked in the firs^ question, provided there is no con i tract and thgximmigrant is left free t to choose c^Woyment upon arrival J) Mr. Bonaparte says that the passage t may be prepaid provided the alien* 5 do not come within the catagories o^ ? undesirable immigrants. He say* * that the law prohibits any "person"^ from prepaying passage but the State 3 cannot be regarded as a person. The { . introduction of immigrants undei J) these circumstances, provided every-J thing else had been legally done J would not be illegal. J) The third question is an importanlS one as Gov. Ansel asks whether theC. State, through its officers, canaccepra contributions to its immigration fund, provided the funds are con-J) ? tributed free from a contract oik agreement, the funds to be used irf defraying the expenses and passagijj money of imixwgrants. What woulcw hp thp etll 11 a /i u?.v?o.-i iiniiitKx ama apply Hint for admission under these circumfs stances. The Attorney General saytk the question is a difficult one to ants swer. He points out that if the con? tribution were given with the know-J ledge that they would be used to payp for advertising and other purpose** the act would come within the inhibi-fc tion of section six of the present* law. The effect, however, would not# be the same as to the immigrants.? They could not be excluded but the? ff, parties furnishing the money ' 'might? be in my opinion, liable to the penal-J ties imposed by section 5." It iek a, doubtful, however, if the govern-? ^ ment would undertake to bring pros-? tio ecutions against contributors. ? Mr. Ansel then asks whether the? >n' act of February 20 will materially? ti change matters. The Attorney Gen* ste eral answers with emphasis that itj ,r* will. Under the new law he say^ ier aliens solicited or induced to emigrates at by reasons of offers or promiseja NV even when there is no contract (X employment, will be excluded. 1^ p'k? the next place, the new law excluded i?> immigrants whose passage mone^j Cl shall have been paid by a "eorpora-j t?k tion, association, society, municipal-} so ity or foreign government." He says ,li< the language of the new law does notj 01 prohibit a State prepaying passage} ay money, but if the payment is madej t from funds contributed by persona \ or associations, the immigrant would? 1 be liable to exclusion. The prohibi-| i o tion, curiously enough does not ap-J \ ly to prepayment by individuals rep-' E resenting the State, providing their? tfc action is in good faith, and it is uo^; attended by combination or concert^ of action. Under the new law, there-fi rt .. Ol-J.- - xvn c, it ouilc miiy prepay the passage/ ' of immigrants %it the funds must) be wholly those of the State unass-J sisted from oiitside. 1 1 The Attorney General significantly) calls attention to the fact that in both the old and new immigration/ \ laws the important of skilled labor isjj as! not forbidden when the like can not m be found unemployed. As South Car- *ou olina cotton mills suffer much from; affl want of skilled labor, the point mayt yow open the doors'to considerable skilled ' 3 labor in that State. / J*??" Has a Mission. The weekly country paper has indefinite an excuse for being in theworld as can be jrrnished by the city dailies. Such ^publication is uot only a business guide, but is a pulpit' of morals; it is a kind of a public rostrum where the affairs of the state are considered; it is a supervisor of streets and roads; it is a social friend, a promoter of friendship and good will. Edited by a board and just man, such a publication so treats the different sects that thev reali?.#* vaivli brotherhood and become in reality what they are pictured in print. The county weekly is not Presbyterian, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Lutheran, or Episcopal, or Christian, but it does select the valuable in each church, and thus it becomes the harmonizer of discord it binds those whom theology would often seperl ate. Even the so-callCd small matter a of a villaco or inonrrknvaf?/+~ 0_ ...?.. tuwn arc small only to those whose hearts arc too full of personal interest. It is very important, if some school bo? reads a good esj^iy, or speaks well j piece, or sings Veil a song, or stand high in the class room, that kin< mention should be made publicly o such success, for more young mind are injured by the want of cneerin I words than are made vain by an ex cess of such praise. si