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?i> $ Bank of %! A OONWA Capital Stock wi Deposit* A Total Asvct?* ? D1HK & J. A. MoDermott, X T. McNeill, R G. jF tlelmum, Hal. L. The oldest Bank in 11m Jflk olina. Associated with. tlu> i it tJio jNist (lcratlo. Our. polic tiio "Independent liopiiblir," CTj to our customers ovofy . roa. A tout with sound hanking. \V? jjL mIn, firms and corporations. 1). A. SPIVKY, Vice-President. BANK OI Conwa CAPITAL STOCK 8URPLU8 LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SBCURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRIK Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Burk, George J. Holiday, W ?continue to ] ay 5 per rent intert it youraocount BOINT R. SOARROROI'Gfl, 11 PKKSIDKNT. PROFK8H1GNAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney end Counselor At Law. CONWAY, 8. C. a K. ST. AM AM), Attorney at Ijih Oouvf?y, 8. O. _____ j R. B. H( AItHH()l(iH CONWAY, A. 0. Attorney mi Law. w. s. Mtconu, WRaKON DEKTIBf. OOMWAI, ft. ?. Of?r Baak d iliif I. H. BVRROlHiHfl ' w PhjrtldM and HnrgeoB. CONWAY, S. O. Bu WOFFOK1) WAIT. Attorney at law. OOJIWAY, S. C. You ought to have Kodo] handy all the time. Everybody at some time? and you can't tell when?has poor digestion, due to many different things, but mostly to eating excessively or eating wrong kind of food. These little attacks of indigestion are what bring on other ailments, such as acute indigestion, chronic dyspepsia, and even more serious permanent illness. Kodol is guaranteed to give relief. Try it today. Sold by all druggists. Karly rising means practically a i whole day's work before noon, a j consideration that hot weather makes j desirable. Mrs. P. M. Bray, of Columbus, Ga., says, I>e Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills cured her of kidney trouble. These pills ore antlftceptlo and relieve pain quickly. Insist upon DeWitt's. Send your name to R. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, for a free trial box. Sold bv all druggists. ! To caube the whites n eggs to come to a froth quickly, a pinch of salt should be added to the eggs while beating. After washing lamp chimneys rub them with dry salt, which will give a brill^int polish to the glass. There isn't any guess work about Kodol. We do not say to you, that it may or might euro your dyspepsia ?we say it will. We know it will, because It Is made to digest food you eat, and when your food digests you can't have indigestion?that's ull indigestion Is?your stomach fails to digest your food. Heartburn, sour risings are all paused by Indigestion. Kodol stops them by digesting all the food you eat. A tablespoonful of Kodol digests 2 1-4 pounds of food. It is a pleasant, palatable, liquid oomhdnation of natural digestive juices and vegetable acids. Kold by all druggists. i . Conway 3! Y. 8. O. W $50, OOO.OO w ino.ooo.oo M 250,OOO.OO /|\ CTOKS Jno. C. Splvoy, I). jfjk Collins, C. P. Quat- iflv IUick, I). A. Spive>\ jl; rry and a pioneer in Kastn n Car'lipid progress of our Oinnty for Ak y has been for the upbuilding of Willi lliis in view wo extend %! son able nccoimnodut ion eonsis- flj ? solicit the accounts of individu- /is /IS IIM.. I,. HICK. Cashier. ? HORRY, .y. S, C. $ 50 00G io ooa ; 50 cod 110 000 :tors W. R. Lewis,^ W. A. Johnson, J Will A. Freeman. ?pt on yearly elc;p<>BiIh, eiidve bohc. L. BUCK, WIWL A. PUEKMAJS VlOK I'KKSIDKNT. .OASIHKR DeWitt's Tattle Early Risers, tlio famous little liver pills, small, Kentic and sure. Sold by all druggists. DcWltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills quickly relieve backache, weak back, pains in the groin, rheumatism, urinary disorders, etc. Insist on having DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Send your name to E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, for free trial box. Sold by nil druggists. Tf you expect to get the original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, you must be sure It is DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hnge] Salve. DeWitt's is the original ?others are imitations. It is good for cuts, burns and bruises, and Is especially good for piles. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. A Wonderful Memory. One of the most interesting inci cl?>nts of the Senate tariff debate in Washington has been the speech by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, who is totally blind, says the Saturday Evening Blade. In reply to Senator Lodge's speech raising a question as to figures submitted a few weeks ago by Mr. Gore purporting to give the earnings of certain cotton and woolen mills in New England, the Senator from Oklahoma, with no assistance except his memory, quoted complete statistics and without the slightest hesitation, giving the capital stock, surplus, percentage of dividends and the percentage of net earnings of perhaps fifty different corporations in New England. It showed an immense amount of labor in preparation, but the womjer| ful tiling about it was the showing of such a retentive memory. It appears that Mrs. Gore reads to her blind husband everything he calls for and he seldom has to have a passage repeated. Facts and figures are indelibly impressed upon his mind, and no Senator with two good eyes can present, statistics so forcibly and accurately. No wonder the Senators were amazed at his arguments, but more amazed were they by the blind Senator's phenomenal memory. Senator Gore would make a good witness in any kind of court. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE fc .LIGHT RUNNING ^ Hjggf / / fft kaflHm \ \ Jfyou want either n VlbrntlnRShuttlo, Rotary {Shuttle or u Hlnijlo Thread (Chain Milch J Sewing Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINfi MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. Many sewing machines am rna<l?* to sell rrgardlpM of quality, but the New Home is nia<lc to wear. Our guaranty never rtins out. Sold by authorized denlera only. fOH SAIR HV j lU RKOl tiMH At (X)I<lilNS CO., < 'on way, S. MINERS KILLED SKVKNTBKN OF T1IKM IX)ST Til Kilt LIYKN IN A MINK In Pennsylvania by the Kvplosion of (.'as Due to I gn it ion From u Miner's Lamp. As the result of an explosion of gas in mine No. 4. of the Lucka wanna Coal and Coke Company k shortly after 7 o'clock Wednesday morning seventeen miners were killed and sixteen injured. With the exi ception of one, those killed were , foreigners. With few exceptions those injured were Americans . it was stated that all the injured probably would recover. Superintendent Johnson stated that while the mine has always been regarded as non-gaseous, the explosion was due to the ignition of a pocket of gas by the open lamp of a miner. The mine has only been opreatitu: two days each week, Tuesday and Friday. Those in the mine had enj tered the shaft for their daily al l Jowance of coal for family use. Grouped al>out the slope entrance of the mine just before the explosion wore several Italians. When the terrible subterranean upheaval of rock and gas spouted skyward, these Italians were caught. Terribly burned and maimed they rushed about the settlement crying for aid. The tlrst man to reach the surface was A. L. Johnson, son of the superintendent. He is one of the few very seriously injured. Superintendent Johnson called for volunteers to enter the mine. In the volunteer ranks stood several women. These were ordered back. With wet handkerchiefs tied over their faces the first squad of the relief party started down the shaft. Of the eight who started four came back with their senses. The others, overcome with black damp, were pulled to surface with ropes. A second and a third party entered only to be driven back by the deadly gases, hissing and shouting in the lower levels. Oxygen, sent by the Cambria Steel Works, aided the searchers, and with safety helmets, a fourth rescue party succeeded in bringing twelve bodiea to the surface. Late in the afternoon five more bodies were recovered. They were found huddled together in the lower left heading, where they had died in an evident effort to reach the main shaft. HICCLMIW TO INJURIKS Received in Auto-Trolley Kw?sh l'p Nc?r Bolton. A dispatch from Anderson says the death of the Rev. I). D. Richardson, which occurred at a hospital here, where he was brought soon after the accident, makes him the second victim of the automobile- ' trolley car collision, nine miles east of here yesterday. His skull was fractured and he never regained consciousness. The body was taken to Simpsonvllle, near Greenville, for , interment, accompanied by Mrs. Richardson, who was also injured, and who had since been here with her husband. Mr. Richardson was thirty-six yenrs old, and pastor of the Second Haptist church, of the Helton and Gluck mills church here. They had no children. A telephone message from Ninety-Six said that the condition of the Rev. K. A. McDowell, another of the injured, is very satisfactory. SNAKK IN llKF.lt. Poison Hcet* Kills Kight Italians Who Drank It. Kight Italian laborers on the Pinew Creek branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, near Raleigh, Ya., are dead following a wild debauch with n barrel of beer. The beer had been set up in their shack in the mountains and later the men were found dead. The barrel was taken out and emptied and a large rattlesnake was found in the bottom of it. It is presumed that the snake, i 11 its death agonies, injected enough of the poison into the beer to kill the men who drank of it. CH1NKSK MISSION AT DISCO! XT In New York on Account of Horrible Murder. Work for decent women in the slums of New York has had a set back in a very horrible case recently come to light in that city of great crimes. The Sigel family, the head of the family being a son of Gen. Frank Sigel, are plunged in the very greatest of distress and shame because of the terrible result of "encourag- ! ing" the Chinese. The father of the unfortunate girl said that this fearful example ought to be a lesson to other young girls not to mix with others than their own kind. SHOT TO DEATH A GKOKGIA FA KM UK AND HI* WIFK AI IK JULLKD While at Work iji c FichI \rjr a Mini Who Succeeds ia His K scape. A special dispatch from Adrian, ('.a., to the Atlanta Journal says that while at work in tho field adjoining their home Wednesday morning, Geo. Howell and his wife were shot to death by Robert Jenkins. Jenkins used a shotgun for his deadly work, and is said to have come upon the couple unawares. Raising his gun he fired one barrel at Howell, killing him instantly. Hardly before bho realised what had happened, Howell's wife wan fired upon by Jenkina with the other barrel. Like her husband, she was killed outright. Immediately after killing the couple Jenkins made his escape. The firing of tho shots attracted the attention of neighbors and a large crowd gathered. Roth Mr. Howell, who is a farmer, and his wife, aro highly respected by their neighbors, and when they learned of tho tragedy they were greatly aroused. Within a few minutes tho men of the neighborhood had formed a posse, procured bloodhounds and are I now in pursuit of the alleged murderer. The cause of the killing cannot be ascertained. It is known, however ; that Howell and Jenkins had not ; boon on good terms for some time, and it is believed that the tragedy was the result of some previous dispute. Adrian is a small village in the : western part of Kmanuel county. BACK TO MFK AGAIN. Medical Heroic] Tells of Some Kxperimerits. Forty-five persons who have dic^d recently form the basis of a most remarkable report on bringing the. dead hack to life, according to tho New York Medical Record. Of the theory of manipulating tho heart by the hand, seventeen patients were resuscitated, nine with complete recovery. The remaining eight died after a short time. Forty of the cases treated are said to have been due to the anaesthetic administered. Tho report says that in each instance Immediately after death ensued, or not more than five minute afterward, the chest was opened and the heart was given a direct application of manual massage. "After the chest cavity has been opened, the hand is forced in and the heart Is grasped, and pushing toward the interior thoracic walls, according to the Medical Record, "and the ventricles aro squeezed rhythemically at about normal beats. Sometimes fifteen minutes elapse before any response is obtained. During all the time assistants should be busy with artificial respiration, saline and adrenalin infusions, tongue traction, intubulation or trachneotomy and elevation of pelvis and legs." BAKON WAS A LUNATIC. Recaptured While Knguging \ loon is j t at a Hotel. I A New York dispatch says the Hotel St. Regis management antici- J Dated a material increase in revenue t late Wednesday, when a man of distingulshed appearance engaged a suite of eight rooms, and said that he and hia wife would occupy them, with two lady'fl maids and two valets. The man described himself as llaron Wurz. While the visitor was making the final arrangements for the suite, an attendant from an I insane asylum on Long Island arriv- j ed and took charge of the caller, ex- J plaining to the hotel management i that he was John Wurz, of Pitts- | field, Mass., who had escaped the j day before. ' PHOWNKI) IX LAKK KILLAKNKY. Nine Touristh and Two Float men la?Kt Their Livea. A dispatch from Killarnev, Ireland, says that a large row boat, carrying five American and four Knglish tourists and four Irish boatmen, was swamped in a gale while crossing lower Killarnev Lake Wednesday afternoon. All of the tourists and two of the boatmen were drowned. The victims were: Mrs. A. A. Hilton and son. of Tacoma, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Longhead, of Iloston: Miss M. II. Catum, or Cotum, of Massachusetts (town not known); tho Rev. B. Barton and sister, of London, and Miss Florence Wilkinson and cousin, of Bret wood, Rssex; Boatman Con Tooney and Con Rleoson. None of the I>odics were recovered. You might say that the "bearded woman's claim to having whiskers j is a bear-faced lie. A CKl'KL KIUtOR. Thought H? Was Fro? Ilut Got Full Life Sentence. A feeling of hope of freedom, held out to a prisoner in u Chicago court Wednesday, was snatched from him in a way that caused a sigh of pity to spread among the spectators. The prisoner was Frank O'Donnell, accused of robbing a citizen at the point of a revolver. The foreman handed the clerk two forms, one for guilty and the other for acquittal. "Not guilty," read the clerk, abI sentmindedly failing to note that he i was reading the unsigned form. O'Donnell jumped from his seat, j excitedly laughing, and wrung his I lawyer's hand. He started from the | room with his head in the air and his Knnrlf linir Thnn fVin rnio. i take was discovered and O'Donnell was brought back. His head sank on his chest as the real verdict was delivered. "Guilty and condemned to serve the term of his natural life in prison." LURKD YOUNG WOMAN To a Hu tiding. Over-powered and AssmiU<*d Her. I.ittle Rock, Ark., and its suburbs were searched Monday night, for an J unidentified white man, who, it is charged, beat Into insensibility and | assaulted a young woman in an office building. Miss Ray Rurkhalter. of Rino BlnfT, Ark., student at a local business college, says she was called to the office building with a promise that she would be given clerical employment. She wns met by a young man, who ?he deeares, overpowered her and assaulted her, after she was bound and gagged to prevent an outcry. Her face and nock aro badly bruised, and hor con- I dltlon is regarded as sorious. STORK HOI KS AT FL015K\(T. Merchant A greo 1'pon Scheme for Karly Closing. Vlorenoo merchants have introduced an innovation. Under an agreement now being generally signed by them, they will not close their establishments at 6 o'clock in the afternoon during the summer months, but Instead will keep open as late as ordinarily, and on Wednesdays will close up at 2 p. m. It Is said the clerks like this plan better, as it gives them the whole afternoon off a time they can put to some pleasant ose. Labor World. A Hebrew local of tho typographical union is to b? formed in Boston, Mass. Application has been made to the A. K. of L. for a charter from the Brotherhood of Railroad Signal Men. The secretary of the South Wales Coal Owners' Association has given notice of a five per cent reduction in wages. The unemployed colliers in South Wales are so numerous that .1,000 pounds was voted to relieve their distress by the federation. A referendum vote is being taken by the Theatrical Stage Employes on the question of founding a monthly magazine for the order. San Francisco, Cal., Stablemen's Union has decided to start a campaign for the unionizing of all men in the stables ^of the city. Three Kinross (Scotland) miners were each fined $10 or thirty days' imprisonment for having matches in their possession in a colliery. Bulletin Hubbies. Exclusive circles ? engagement rings. The summer Rirl often dismisses a fellow in a summary manner. The dressmaker does more than the doctor to make some women look well. The summer man who never pops is not likely to be at all popular. It is a pretty poor detective that is afraid of his own shadow. No woman is original enough not to say, "Where am I?" when she comes out of a faint. It is always the sent of discord when some people get sat down upon. Kveu the baker might be boiling mad when on a Cook's tour. Don't ask for panned velvet in I the tin goods department. Sold Ills Wife. i i The Circuit court sitting in PortI land, Ore., will hear arguments this week in the strangest case that has j ever appeared on its docket. John Braganza, a German, after selling his wife to II. Uuddart, for $150, has brought suit against, her purchaser >n charge of alienating her affections. Attorneys fail to see how Hragonza can have been damaged aa h claims since ho sold, exchanged : and bartered his wife. Snake in Folds of Her Skirt. While walking through her kitchen. Mrs. John Hartzel, of Rod Hill., Pa., noticed a snake drop from her skirt. She had been to a cemetery a mile from her home, and it is thought the snake got on her there. CROP LAST YEAR Some Interesting Figures About . the Cotton CROP OF THIS STATE The Number of Hales Produced and > t'lllnn ill' Ihn Cum* -nn" r. " "??' " *,,v * ' *" Acjinoxo for tho l'ast Year was lairgovt in History of the Slate. Other Facts. According to figures by Commissioner Watson the 1908 cotton trap was 1,2 42,012 running bales, including linters and sea island or, properly, exclusive of linters 1,215,343 bales, comprising 8.8 per oeut of tbe cotton tinned in the United fHatcs. The production exceeded that in 3 907 by 52,991 bales. South Carolina has now fallen to filth place, her 'fourth place attained in 1907 being taken by Alabama. it is estimated by Mr. Watson that there are 3,383 bales still unginned. The average weight per balo was 4 83 pound* against 4 8 1,2 pounds in 1907. Bea island bales weighed oh the average 351.S pounds and linters 470 b pounds. The South Carolina son inland sold in 1908 at an average of 23.39 cents per pound, while that grown in Georgia and Florida averaged 17.92 cents. In 1900 South Carolina's average price was 3G.70 cents, and in 1907 35.5 cents, these being the best prices since 1901. This year it was lower than in 1902 or in any year in the seven year yield. The South Carolina crop was ginned in 3,4 81 ginneries, about the average number. The aggregate value of the South Carolina crop was $61.90 4.522. against $72,607,817 lu 1907 and $40,8 88,010 iu 1006. The 1908 Crop was tho most valuable In money th? Stat<? has ever had save the two crops of 1007 and 1005. According to Mr. Watson, of artual cotton linters the total valuator 1008 was $52,3 29,480, representing 553,762,49 1 pounds of upland worth $51,167,654, 4,967,1 90 pounds of B?*a island, worth $1,161,826. Of cottonseed there were 621,669 pounds, worth $9,635,042, the largest value since 1901 with the exception of the 190 7 crop. The acreage was the largest i? the history of the State?-2,545.6^0, the next largest being 2,531,8 75 In 1904. Since 1 904 more than 2,000.000 acres, have been regularly planiccl in / nttnn Anderson, with 63,1 S3 bale**, continues to bo the chief producing county, having assumed tho load when ft > ' Calhoun was cut from Orangeburg. Spartanburg, Marll>oro, York, Marion and Greenville, Darlington aa-.l fhim i*r are the olher chief producer* The stocks on hand in South Carolina on March 1 amounted 'o 4 2"?,7 63 bales, of which 230,429 were i* the hands of the manufacturers and 126,285 in independent warehouses, including compresses. The rest was in the hands of transportation companies. The mills of the State are consuming 7 93,396 bales of cotton annually, turning out product worth about $77,000,000. The yield per acre in 1908 in the State was 219 pounds, versus a 10year average of 189. It is estimated that the acreage planted this year ( 1 909) is 2,498.000 against 2,645,000 in 1909, but the real acreage is probably about the same as last. year. Cotton on March 1, 1 908, *& bringing on the average in South Carolina 9.2 cents while at the same date the preceding year it was bringing the average price of 11 cents. Mr. Watson in making the estimate has issued the following statement. "In making the 1 908 estimate for the Association of Southern Commissioners of Agriculture as early as November 21 I used the liguree furnished by each Southern commissioner, while mentioning the fact tbat if conditions after that date remained the same as to the picking and ginning as the average for the preceding four seasons we ought to have a crop of at least 13,334,157 bales. Assuming that tho conditions gave every estimate on the dat? named at 12,551,086 running bales, exclusive of linters, or including linters, at practically 13,000.000 bales?to be exact 1 2,897,2 1 2 bale*. The actual crop exclusive of 1 inters with everything accounted for was 13. oab.uub bales, under which our November estimate fell f>34,919 bale*. This difference is almost exactly accounted for by the underestimates furnished the committee from the four States of Georgia, Texas. Arkansas and Alabama, which wo wished to but did not feel authorized to raise. Had we done so we would have struck the final crop almost to a bale." Concerted effort Is to be made at the New Orleans convention of the Rrotherhood of Railway Clerks to secure next year's meeting for Memphis, Tenn.