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KILLED AT A FROLIC FATAL SHOOTING IN LKX1NGTON NKAH HWAN8NA. Murder Follows the Too Free Vse of llooze tit a Christina* Country "Breakdown." A fatal shooting took place a few miles fro*T Swansea on last Saturday night, and as a result Gartleld llutto lies beneath the sod and Thomas Craft is languishing; behind the bars in the Lexington Jail as a result of the Christmas frolic and the Christmas dram. A gloom hits been east over two households, which generations cannot wipe out, and the life of a young man once so full of promise, haa been blighted forever. On lust Saturday night thero wan an old-ttrue country "break-down," us thojr are termed by tho uver&go country person, at tho homo of "Teg" llrown, said to tx* a questionablo resort in tho vicinity of Swu i sou. There wis plenty of whiskey there, and soon a row arixm between Thomas Craft and another yiouug man, in which h number took a part. Craft became angry and loft tho house, only to bring a Winchester rifle inio play, which ho hud hid outside upon his arrival for tho frolic. \\\' h this rille he tired several shots into I he building with the result that Clarfleld Hut to was struck in the head by one of the balls, Inflicting a wound from which ho died on Sunday about noon. At the inquest, which was held by Magistrate U. W. .Jeffcoat several witnesses were sworn and the testimony was conflicting, it is said. Hut. it. was sworn that Craft, after leaving the house, remarked that he "would get somebody," and began firing, tho second shot striking young Hut to in the head. It was stilted that several shots were ilrod by Craft, although he says that only one shot was fired, and that the rifle wont off accidentally. He claims that the whole affair was an accident: that he and Gar field Hut.io had boon tho boat of friends and that be had no Intention of killing him. It is etated, as a matter of fact that Craft and Garfield had boon bosom friends, and that they had taken several drinks together Just a short time before the killing, and that it was another young man by the namo of Hutto that Craft wanted. Young Garfield lint to was just 20 years old. Ho was a son of iMr. Jerome Hut to, a well known farmer. Craft Is 2 6 years of age, and is a son of tho lato Walter Craft. Oraft was arrested early Sunday night by Deputy Sheriff Miller, who went to the seone immediately u|>on hearing of tho tragedy, nnd was lodged In Jail late last night. Washing Their S<>il?*<l Linen. Pittsburg does not rank very high In a moral sense among the cities of this land. Most people connect it with dlsruptable millionaires, chorus girls and family scandals. Doubtless this idea Is exaggerated, but none Iho less there has been too much cause for the unfavorable opinion formed. And now the city will rank still lower as the result of the corruption which seems to have honeycombed Its city council Probably the reason for this deplorable state of affairs is to he found in the hitherto passive or indifferent attitnde of the good element which has been content to let unworthy men run the business of lite city. Sooner or later corruption results and things get from bad to worse until they become intolerable. Then comes reform, which in the majority of cases is spasmodic only, instead of being permanent. It is now within the power of the citizens of Pittsburg to purify its municipal life lodeem its name and set a much needed example to other cities where graft and dishonest v flourishes, by a thorough municipal house cleaning and keeping the house clean. Will they do it is the finest ion? Pittsburg is not the only city in Pennsylvania that reeks with corruption. In fact, the whole State of Pennsylvania reeks In political corruption, and it seems hard to gf>t reform started in that State. But it will do no harm to pond a fow of the Pittsburg corruptionists to the penitentiary. It may do a little good if it did not break up the band of thieves entirely. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup stops the cough by allaying inhumation of the throat and lungs, and it drives the cold from the system by gently moving the bowels. Children like It for it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by nil Druggists. The girl with a mother anxious *o have her marry generally has a little brother mischievous enough to brouk the engagement. Every case of backache, weak hack, bladder Inflammation and rheumatic pains Is dangerous tf negVeqrtod, for such trouble* fire nearly always due to weak kidneys. Take DeWltt'a Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are antisceptic aad soothe palu quickly. Insist upon DeWltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Regular size 50c. Bold by all Druggists. CURIOUS MISSOURI FARM. ** No Fence* Roqulro<l?Wheeled Vehicle Never Upon It. Within sight of the town of Jasper, Mo., In the Ozark*, a Bettlor ha* a farm which protwbly 1* unlike a ay other In the world. This farm oecuple* the table Innd on the summit of a ridge and is enclosed with a fence which no animal has ever broken through. It does not rise above the surface of the farm, but falls sheer from the edge a distance of many feet. The man who homesteaded the tableland had a hard climb up the perpendicular cliff to reach the comparatively level summit. At one point a lodge extends out a few Inches und along the face of the cliff at an upward grade. By following this ledge and making use of occasional points of rocks and of shrubs growing In the fissures the discoverer pulled himself to the summit and found a surface well covered with ?oll and a luxuriant vegotatloa. (Ivadually he Improved the lodge MM?ll I *-* hutu nm ?h>uiu carry up to<9e au4 seed. \ij blasting and drilling be vWared a narrow trail up whlcfc be was nbla to tah# I rat same pigs and than n new. letter en he took up a bursa. And that to-day Is the condition af the enrioaety pratected farm. Na vehicle Kaa turned a wheel within Its limits of palisades. The lira stock has multiplied and consumea the grain raised. Some stones thrown across the trail completely fence In the hogs and cattle. Whea the farmer has stock to sell he drives the animals down tho private trail and strikes the road to Jasper.? Kansas City Star. Hooks Returned After Years. With the heat system and careful watching books go astray, but it Is hard to write thetn off as entirely "lost," since they havo a way of turning up that is only paralleled by the cat of lyric fame. The other day at tho desk of one of the oldest city Institutions, the Philadelphia library at Locuait and Juniper streets, there was returned by n fair Imrrower, a book that had been cut a little oter three years. Fortunately for the borrower, n# fines were exacted and after she had gone tt>e question as to whether the womai had not established a record, wan asked. "No, indeed," en 14 the librarian. "We hare in the library soveral relumes that were held ten. fifteen and twenty years, aad one book that was returned to ne after being gone for erer a century! It is one of a valuable set of the olAHstea, and after succeeding in hiding Itself m> long, finally tnrned up in Holland, where Its babel declared its lawful place of alK>de and the hone**. finder lost no time in Kirwuixfttog it to Philadelphia. Yen, w^'hare t>ooks out stilt longer, and I hare not the leant donbt that some of them will yet find their way bttek te eur shelves." Deepeet Hooted of All Hates. The age long hatred of the white race for the black, yollow and other colored race* is by no means oneatdexl. It Is fully mutual. Yearn ago Livingston observed that "There must l>e something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for on entering villages previously unvislted by Europeans, If we met a ohild coming quietly and unsuspectingly toward lis, the moment he raised his eyes and saw the men in 'bags' he would take to Ills heels In t n agony of terror. such an we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum. Alarmed by the child's wild outciles, the mother rusnes out of the hut, but darts hack again at the llr.? g'iinpse of the fearful apparition. Dogs turn tail and scour off In dismay, and hens, abandoning their chickens, fly screaming to the tops of the houses." The same is true, though perhaps In a lesser degree, of the other colored races. Where the Tips CJo. "Bet I can tell you something you don't know about the tipping system In the cloakrooms of some of the large cafes," remarked a midnight diner to his wife "Why?don't the small boys Just pocket all they ?et?" inquired slio. "Pocket! Their uniforms are made without a sign of a pocket so that none of the tips can find a lodging there; those hoys get nothing but a salary which is paid by a man who has purchased the cloakroom prlvlego for as high as five thousand a year. The tli>s are all turned In to him. You can imagine what the privilege is worth when he can ajr down that suca for the rl^ht." The nominee's Pall. A Carthago minister Jokingly told a friend an Interview would cost him ten cents. Th? latter pretended to take the matter seriously and presented him with ten pennies. The minister then arose to protest and while rising his chair skidded and he stumbled. And now the friend Is teling everyone he meets, how upset the minister was at having to refuse a contribution.?Kansas City Star. The man who borrows may not be able to wear tetter clothes than the man who lends, but he usually doee, Just the same. It takes a good many years of strenuous experience to enable a man to profit by the knowledge he aoqnlred at ooltoge. FREE DINNER G1VKN TO HOOK CTIILDIIKX IX CIIA It LKSTON At tite MiLMxtk' Banquet Hall on New Year's Kve, Nearly Six llun<lre<l Attended. Charleston, Dec. 31.?Nearly 6 00 poor children, their sisters, cousins and aunts, mothers anil grandmothers, attended the dinner at the Masonic temple this afternoon, the Itev. Dr. Vedder opening the entertainment by .saying, "Help yourselves, children," and the fun was on. Remarkable changes of scenery made up this remarkable dinner, where j nothing was eaten, and yet the appetite of hundreds was satisfied. It was a play of three acta under I the heads of preparation, realization, and mastication. The preparation I took weeks, the realization about two minutes and the mastication was of indefinite length. This diu| ner is one that requires the tgolug out into the highways and the byways for guests, of which work of several srond tiwmin <>f w ...... t-|> i v> \/i I IH7 \, i i. J fttl II year hundreds of poor people are made very happy by the dinner, and I this year they seemed especially ho,! Promptly at 1:30 o'clock this' afternoon Miss (Jeorge F. M. Fowler j gave the signal to Metz's orchestra In the large Masonic temple banquet hall, and the waiting children, women with babies in their arms and little ones tugging at their skirts, old women who needed assistance, and one old man, moved up stairs and into the hall. They found rows of tables gay with many good thing-;. On tin- rest um was seated tb?> Kev. Dr. Vedder, with visiting ladies and gentlemen. Metz's orchestra, of seven pieces, was there, as it is every year, with music for the occasion given free. When all was ready, the Rev. Dr. Vedder gave a three-minute talk appropriate to the occasion, and told the children to help themselves. Dr. and Mrs. Vedder, Miss (Jeorveile F. M. Fowler Mrs. J. H. Holmes, Mrs. C. J. Parsen and all the ladies interested in .the dinner returned most hearty thanks to all who had heljied to make the dinner successful. Some 3 5 hams, 35 turkeys, a dozen bunches of bananas, several boxes of oranges, scores of pounds of ca n ft rst ? r> i ? I ?,.. % , wvx. v. v#* i uiniun, Bt'urt'a of loaves of bread, hundreds of cakes, several bushels of apples, and other food were distributed. The cash donations were liberal, and there was no lack of interest or help. Many ladies and gentlemen boys and girls helped to prepare the tables and flood thin morning, in work from early morning, and much g(Kul was done in the feeding of the poor. The poor children's dinner is an institution that bids fair to continue many years in Charleston It is a large work. Kodol for Dyspepsia, indigestion, weak stomach, sour stomach, gas on the stomach, etc., is a combination of the natural digestive juices found in a healthy stomach with necessary vegetable acids, and is the only thing known today that will completely digest all kinds of food under any condition. It is guaranteed to give prompt relief from any form of stomach trouble. Take Kodol and bo convinced. It will cure your dyspepsia. Sold by all Drug gists. It takes almost as much money to send a boy througn college as it does to euppoit him afterward. I A HAtki | /^'r^TABUSI j 0 0 0 0 1 WfT 1, -It? iJiiJhB j The al>ove is our shipping M best and quickest shipping facilitic M HATKE'S VIRGINIA MOUN1 ? PRIVATE STOCK CO^N-'l H HOLLAND GIN-Best Gin sol fl APPLE BRANDY-This years | PEACH BRANDY-Mede es 9 "ADD 1 Sj We prepay express Charges I R00-R02-R04-R00 E, EDITOR HEMPHILL PARSES AWAY AT HIS HOME IN ^ AHHKVIEIJO. Served HIh State Gallantly In War, With Fidelity lu IVvmt and Marked : Ability as Editor. Abbeville, Doc. 28.?Gem Rol>t.! Held Hemphill, editor of The Abbeville Medium, died at hie borne here this morning ?t 11 o'clock. He has been in falling health for several months, and his death was not altogether unexpected, still it came as a shock to him friends in Abbeville. , The immediate cause of his death wus heart failure. He left a wife and ft number of children, all of whom were with him when ho died. Gen. Hemphill was l>orn on Dong i Chine Creek, In Abl>eviile county, on May 2, 1840, and was the son of the Rev. William R. Hemphill, Asroeinte Reform Presbyterian church. IDs grandfather. Rev. J. Hemphill, was also a leading minister of this i denomination. Major J. C. Ilemp' hill, editor-in-chief of The News and Courier, is the only brother Gen. Hemphill left. Gen. Hemphill was graduated from Eraklne College in 1 850, with thej1 | highest honors of his class, and on 1 I June 8, 18(51, at Richmond, he onj listed as a private in the 7th South) Carolina Infantry, Army of the Con-| federate States of Amerl/??i a? - \ ?t. ai i in.; j I battle of ftrst Manassas he art*'*! as { I orderly for Gen. ,.i. 1/ Bonham. On'' Juno 24. I8G2, ho was transferred to! I the 1st South Carolina, (Orr's Rifles), and In March, lSdl, ho was made sergeant major. II" was in most of the battles in Virginia and was slightly! wounded at Chancollorsvill.e, Petersburg and OottysbuitK. Captured at Falling Waters on July 14, 1 864, he was a prisoner of war for six weeks. After the war ended he studied law and went to Texas, where lie practiced his profession for two years. In 1S70 he married Miss Bugonla C. llrewton, of Spartanburg, who, with three sons and live daughters survive hi in. a * In 187f? he was sent to the State Consent J on which nominated the ' Strnightout Democratic ticket, and ' in the same year was elected a ( member of the State Legislature ' from Abbeville county, and with an 1 Intermission of two years served ' three terms. He was a member of ( the special committee appointed in 1X77 to - .. . vuvi^n v\7 I im 1,'Ilciri Ul 1)11} and penal institutions of the State, and did pood service In hrlnplng the { corrupt officers to Justice. Ho also 1 represented Abbeville county In the State Senate from 1886 to 1894. He was a member of the Conatitu- * tional Convention of 1895. ( A1 the reorganization of the State f Government and militia he was com- * missioned a brigadier general by f Gen. Hampton. He represented 1 South Carolina as a member of a * .committee from the Senate at the ( funeral of Jefferson Davis in New * Orleans, and delivered an Address '' at the Tennessee Centennial and al- J so before the National Woman's Suf- !i IT a go Association in Atlanta in 1895. * For a number of years he had ^ been the president of the Association 0 of Survivors of Orr's Uilles, and at ' ie time of his death was Clerk of be State Senate, a position which he tilled with ability. In fact the H Semite never had a better clerk than * he was. Ho had given notice only a few weeks ago that on account of declining health he would give lip ? the clerkship. < t wnor oi die addovijio Medium, i which ho founded some thirty-fivo I years ngo, and which has long been c reco.mt i/ed ?s one of the ablest and a nam E&CO-ffp**" JED 1867 I cSH a-! <F E ? E B jA,N115 r?II va/w/mV?:ai r I lr?f" house where we havo hoen doing buRineRR !8, All ordere are sent out same duy recoi rAIN RYE?A whiskey we have been 'Is mild and mellow, try it onoe, th d at this low prioe ... i crop, but it is PURE BRANDY peoially for us in Maryland. O CENTS EXTRA PER GALLON FOR ANT i 24 Pint* or 48 Half-Plato of Any Abo at thoBc prices and guarantee safe delivery Send Money Order or Rcgisi A. HATKE & , cary stm box a \ bank oj Conwi CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDER SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS dire Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to pay 5 per cent inte: it your account BOB ERT B. SCARBOROUGH, President. BANK OF OONWi APTTAL KVfKW TOTAL ASKKT8 BUUK I). T. McNeill, J. A. McL H. G. Coilina, M. W. Collius, A "Savinpc Bank has recently been Btltutlon. Inquire for terms and rat We wish to thank the public for t and cordially solicit their future bus D. A. SPIVEY.V.P. & d HI 'oSB0iq3 -OD *3 njqmjnil jo pnuoijjoq KJ -JOA '-.J JJ OJ <1 II -,| || - uiujj ?90"] "3 JO IIJIII)J U J OlVJVd.'H II1V.?J .1 .1III II (I IIJ 'j.tppOj k* iHl|l|n.l 'tuo.t <1II -pi)<)M 3U| p?[Uj -A\UN '.1llpilllll<t jo; p.ltlll (?<| OS|W W\ IIW9 OIIJJIllO OIJJ, (|VUIS HIJ.W ?\ M s j ) "i 'ip'- i... , jujj pill J VI r ? ir kjj him ??in iinno xpio oqv *i ?pi,l ?\ vj"vj 1TIIH 033J GNV110H M3N I 3NIDN3 3NI3OSV0 Jjgfxg l^pgjx iiv )Q nost Independent weekly newspapers if South Carolina, Con. Hemphill lid excellent service for the State ind for the Democratic party. lie was rogarded oh one of the most imminent and resourceful members )f the State Preee Association. An uncle of Mr. Hemphill, Mr. Tohn Hemphill, was at one time United Htatee Senator from Texan mil later Imme Chief Justice of he Supreme Court of that State. Eat all the pood food you like ^uit dieting. You don't hare to 1 lot to cnro dyspepsia. In fart, you an not cure dyspspsia or lndl/feslon that way, but rather you must idd strength to the weik stoiricfe >v taking something that will d'test he food which the stomach can n .t ligest Kodol is the only thing mown today that will do this, for Codol is made of natural digestive uices found in a healthy stomach uid it digests all food completely. Codol is pleasant to take, and is ;uarant(ed to give relief in any case if stomach trouble. Sold by all )rugglsts. A girl wants to stay in bed when he has a cold so that men can't ice the red nose that goes with it. HeWitt's Carbolizod Witch TTa ?*1 ?alve lias many imitators. There is >ne original, and the name DeW'tt s on every box. Host salve, for turns scratches and hurts If is specially good for piles. Sold by ill Druggists. ' LOCATED I N'T RICHM '-S?d o r--T pa Ki x^h _ 111 BBH8 HUH 3 ?: --- c=a fcz a 4aft fcij W PER 3^E F1 ^ E wmr>k rrys I ^.1 for more than forty years. Being next t ved. We make Iobbob and breakage goc 1 G?!. soiling for forty years - S2.60 ion always .... 2.60 2.60 . . ..... 2.60 OF THE ABOVE BRANDS IN FULL QUA vb Brandm In Ptmim Cmmmm 97.SO. Write for complete price list, as th tered Letter with order. COMPANY, ri, c F HORRY, ly. S, C. \ $ 50 000 10 000 S 60 000 lioooo ;ciors * W. R. Iyewis, W. A. JolmBon, Will A. Freeman, reet on yearly dej tbitB,"aLcJ we tclicH L. buck, WILi. A. Kfi KElf AM Vice President. . Cabiuxii CONWAY ^Y, S. O * no.ont.oo SiioO.OOO.OO. 7TOIU9 ) eminott, Jno. O. Hplrey, G. P. Qualtlolmuin, I). A. Hpivey, lorpnnizort Na connection with our lnes in this department. hoir lihprnl imtrnnncn in thn r>oa# ?- , ~ ? ? iinoss. Cashier asaow 'SMNvaaiva 1 I 'OM SOJBHQ ponujsnni am puas osuaij Sj una ox xavaa do us n? H Si 4 | RBOFKSHIONAL CAJUfrfk H. IV. WOODWA1UV Attorney and Councelor At Law. COW WAY, 8. 0. C. H. ST. AM AND, 1 v 7^' Attorney at Law Ooaw?y, 8. C. IL B. 8CAHBHOUGH CONWAY, 8. O. Attorney at Law. j W. 1C. McCORD, 8URGKON DENTIST. CONWAY, S. 0. Over Rank of Horry H. 11. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, S. G. M. WOFFOH1) WAIT. Attorney afc Law. CONWAY. S. C. Office lp Spivey Building. HElHEART OF J LONDi VA,| rror or jUTHERN E.X-pPTTg-Sj ' " C///DA#rvrcx MMWZi't MmiW f o ine express oflico gives us the I ^ )d. 2 Gala. 3 Gals. 4% Gats. $4.50 $6.60 $9.00 4.60 6.60 9.00 H 4.60 6.60 9.00 4.60 6.60 9.00 4.60 6.60 9.00 IRT3." ^ Oio are only a few brands. I Richmond^ Va. I