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COMING SOUTH New Lawl of Promise for Miliioos of CipiUl HER GREAT RESOURCES^ , I I U?r UmlovHoiNHl I And*, Mint* tuid Forwts Arc Atlr?ctin^ HnttwprlMing Men of Mimuui and Thimo Willing to Take Advno(a^< of Her Possibilities in Farming. "A greater nation through a greater South!" This is the tocatu that the South la sounding today from Atlantic to Pacific and from tho southernmost everglades to the northern pines, aaya the New York American. The South wants men and money?men that her vast resources may he glvtkn over to cultivation ano Industry, and money for entrpriso. . that their products may feed the markets of the universe. She has produced a cotton crop this year which will net about $ 1 > 009.000,000. Her grain will 1111 800,000.000 bushels. Her total agricultural products will foot up nearly $2,600,000,000. She Is mining 90,000,000 tons of bituminous coal. Her cotton mills nre using nearly 8,000,000 bales of cotton a year. She commands the sulphur trade of tho world producing uearly onehslf of tho whole production of the world. Her ports aro second to New York in their shipments. She Is spending today $20,000, 000 In now cotton mills. Nearly a quarter million of peo pie are swarming into her rich country to help win for her the success that has been so long comiar. Her resources are withal but beginning to show their worth, for she has lacked in capital and the kind of labor noceaanry to bring her boil and opportunities to their full fruition. Bhe has 4 0 per cent of nil the timber lands in the United States, about 02,000 square miles; quarries that are rich in the most beautiful and useful stone, marvellous ores, and thousands of square miles of the most fertile and greatest producing farm lands in the world. Everywhere the railroads are Hushing colonies and building their extensions, until five years hence It is believed that every available mile of her lands will be within easy r^nch of some road. Millions of dollars are being pnt into her mines; other millions are going into her textile advantages. Along the line of one railroad alone 460 textile mills have been erected, Her phosphate beds are being worked to the fullest limit of thcU present capital. Her tobacco crops are enormous, and In every spot touched by the tide of investment springs forth a eolden return creator than their Investors ever dreamed of. With a population of nearly 28, 000,000, or about a third of the to tal of the United States, ahe is putting out in agricultural product alone the equal of all the States iti 1800. Nearly $2,000,000,000 will be spent by the railroads during the next ten years to add to her wealth Everywhere the cry is going up foi bettor roads, and every State is bend ing its efforts to make the Southeri roads the peers of those of any oth er States. "I do not believe that there i any land on the face of the eart1 ttaat equals, acre for acre, the land of the South. It is a, greater pro ducer than the lands In the north west, and?it is immensely cheapei "Then, too, there is its faire olimate and its easy markets; it cheap freights, short hauls, imnied ate sales, until you ha/? an idet condition. Here, too, yoj have land well watted by :;o r! w.iteri whore artificial irrlgatic 1 may tj reduced to a m; ilinuni to produt marvellous r j t.'s Coai is at hu ?railroad fajill*' ;s are go J and tor hauls first class. "You have water power for th mills, which is cheapest; citica wit all modern things close at hand; wideawake population both on fan and in city, until the situation woul seem ideal." Ilurlel of Leper. The body of First Sergt. C. ( Mix, of the 72d Company, coast a tiller? corpp, the only leper in tt United States army, who died i his Isolated quarters on the mil tary reservation at Fort Screve near Savannah, has been riven hoi orabte tyurial in the National Cen ?tary at Heaufort, S. C. Fatal Shooting Scrape. A fatal shooting scrape ocrurrc at Westvllle Tuepday night in whk fX>c Uelk was shot and killed I John Peach. The parties are whit Th? Killing Is understood to be aboi woman. .... ; GOOD BOY FARMER HOW 1IA8COMU I'SIIKll WON THE CORN 1TUZK CONTEST. How He Propurxl His frVrtillzed IIIh iktU, Cultivated i?u?] (jiilhcn d His ('rop. A Columbia dlspatoi saya the announcement to tho effect that 1'khcomb Usher, the Marl ?or > county boy who raised 152 L^sludj on Ma aero, had won tho 8tato prize In tho national corn content has caused a groat deal of comment here. Many aro wondering Juat how he did it. A glance at tho following will irlvo hoiiio bloa as to just how tho phenomenal yield wuu produced : Tho land on which the corn wa? produced In In HrightBvlllo township In Marlboro county and la a aandy loam soil. There waa a subaoll of 10 inches. The land sloped to tho tfoutheust. The land wan ?rst cleared In 1907 and waa planted In corn and peas. The same crop was plantod In 1908 and 60 bushel* of corn was produced. Prior to tha large yield cotton s??ed meal and 1.00 pounds of nitrate of soda wore lined. The acre was well fertilized this year. The following being used: 200 pounds of commercial fertilizer, 100 pounds German kanit, 3 00 pounds second grade Peruvian gua no, 9 00 pounds cotton seed meal I and 600 pounds nitrate soda. The | land is considered worth $75 per acre. On March 2 0 tho land wns brok en. It was subsolled with a HoyDixie plow. There was no barnyard manure used. Groat care was exercised In the selection of seed, which Is ono of the most Important points about the contest. Garrett's prolific corn seed were used. This seed was secured from H. K. Moore, who won the State prize In 1908 by producing 137 bushels on ono acre and who won third prize In tho national con tost In 1908 with 125 bushels. This corn hus boon used since 1900. The seed were planted on April 1 by hand, in rows live feet apart. There were no hills and only one peck of seed was used. The seed were carefully hand picked before planting . No time w-rh spent in germinating them. The cultivation commenced on April 2 8, a Hoy-Dixie plow being used. The ground was stirred to a depth of 10 inches. The acre was cultivated five times on April 28, May 17, June 18 and July 9. Tho corn was thinned by hand, one stalk being left to the hill, eight inches apart. Hand la l>or was used in removing the weeds. The weeds were tho rag weeds and the morning glory, which were removed in one day. On October 13 tho crop was harvested. The corn was pulled from the stalk by hand. The stalks were not cut and shocked. The corn was husked by hand. The boys corn club work was Introduced in this State last serine Only five counties could he organized. Marlboro, I-.ee, Florence, Clarendon and Newberry. The results have already been reported In detail from each of these counties. Prof. Ira W. Williams, United States Farm Demonstration Agent; O. B. Martin and Prof. D. N. Harrow, of Clin son college, are now actively engaged In stimulating the work in various localities of the State. With the co operation of the different county superintendents of education, the rural school Improvement associations, ^ State Superintendent of Education Swoaringon and Commissioner Watson. Active efforts will be made to organize boy's corn clubs in every county. Means and methods will be discussed at the coming meoting of the State teachers' association, and those in attendance will g learn definitely of the scope of this ' work for 1910. This work has, up to the present, been Independent of the contest conducted by the State corn contest j commission for both boys and men j though many of the boys participating in the above contest have also participated In the State contest. During the coming vear it is thf *' purpose of the commission to combine its efforts and prizes with th< '' new work that has been inaugurated 1 under the direction of O. B. M.ir tin. There has beon a groat increasi in the corn production in South Car B olina in tho past several years am the corn contest commission is o the opinion that tho work of Mr URher will encourage other boys o the State In agriculture not only ir producing corn but in all other linei ). of agricultural work, r- One of the members of the com ie mission in speaking of tho young bo: n said, "Why he is a great man ant I- does not know it. There are fev n, boye that have done what he has i- His record is most enveniablo. Hi i- has demons!rated most strongly tha the host way to farm and get re suits is not on paper." ?d Bitten by Bull l>og. :h Seven persons wore bitten by 1 >y rabid white bull dog which went or e. a rampage In the lower part of Nov nt York Wednesday night. Tho doj was Anally killed by a policeman. GREAT PLANT It Be Erected Near Ridgerille by a Cbicagt Syidicate. nvvT rAOT imii i inun ITILL LUdl miLUUDd Will Ik) t'ned to MjuiufiM'tnre Nitro^uouh Fertilizers From the Air. It in A1.no Haiti That Georgia tV?nipany will OtnNlrurt Tower Tlant on Kdisto Itiver at Big t.Vxtt. That u company of Georgia bual* ntntH men 1b about to build on the Kdisto river, bIx inlleB from Rldgeville, u hydro-electric plant at a coat of $1,200,000 and that a Chicago ayndlute purposes to eroct at Rldg<*ville or at aome point near thin water power a $10,000,000 factory for the manufacture of nitrogenous fertilizer are atatementa contained In a communication received by the Rldgevlllo correspondent of 'the NewH and Courier und by him aent to that newspaper. The corroHpon (lout states that thin communication wa? sent to him by Mr. I). G. Zeigler, who, It seems, haH boon the moving spirit in the enterprise men tioned. Here 1b what the Kidgeville correspondent Bays: Some time in the early spring Mr. I). G. Zeigler, of the firm of D. G. Zeigler & Co., engineers, of Jack sonville, Fla., began an investigation on the EJlsto river, six miles southwest of thin place. Mr. Zeigler had located a valuable water power at that point on the Ed is to river. There came at one time to this place Mr. H. S. Marshall, of Illinois, an engineer in charge of a force. He made surveys on the river and immediately after his surveys those lands began to change ownership at fancy prices compared to their former prices. Mr. Zeigler bought them and within a short space of time, about two weeks, sold them to a group of Savannah business men, who have organized a company to develop a hydro-electric plant on the river just 6 miles flrom Kidgeville, where they will develop 23,000 commercial horse power, electrical. It is also learned that this development will cost about $1,200,000 and that the company has been chartered in Georgia to make this development, capitalized at $1,600,000. It is said that all stock ha* been subscribed for and fully paid up, and that construction will begin very soon. The plant when completed will bo one of the best water powers in the Southern States. This stream always affords an abundance of water, and a head of 3 6 feot can be easily obtained. There will never be any scarcity or shortage of water. It is stated that this same firm of engineers Is making at present the following other wa tre power developments: 3 6,000-horse power, on the Se wanoe river in Florida; 8,000-horse power on the Allapaha river in Florida; 8,000-horse power, on the Cu noochee river, near Savannah; 17, 000-horse power, on the Satllla river, near Brunswick, Ga.; 18,000 horse power, on the Flint river, near Americas, Ga.; 6,000-horse power, on the Abbey creek, near Dothan Ala.; 3,600-horse power, on E.ible Bridge creek, near Geneva, Ala.;-I 9,000-horse power, on Pea river, nun r A KK/? v A In nn/< I) Add ?> . .. uvm n wuv^ , nia.( aim o, vv ".mi; ni power on Little river. In Vlabama The above make a total ievelo,) roent of 1,10,500 electrical ho.'spower, at an estimated total cost or twelve million dollars when completed. It is also estimated that when a 11 of this power is put into use it witf take the place of about four million dollars that is being spent each year by the people in the various sections of the country where these powers are situated for coal to make steam power. This alone will be u nice sum to be paid for the water - i v wer, to say nothing of the other expenses of a steam plant. It Is ? said that power will be furnished from these plants for about $33 pet ' horse power per year. It Is stated also, that Mr. D. G - Zeigler has receive! from Wall 1 street banks offers of large sums for " a number of the water powers which he and his associates now control i but that he has received a Rtill bet " tor offer from a Chicago syndicate ' Those Chicago people have secured t control of a process to extract nl trogen from the air by means of ar t electric current, and they have de 1 elded to establish a chain of fac s torlos In the South for the manufac ture of nitrogenous fertilizer, whlct " Is said to be cheaper and more pro f ductlve for the farms than any othei ' fertilizer on the market. ' The gentlemen above referred tr had their engineer meet Mr. Zelglei Inst week In Georgia and go wltt ' him over some of these water powers The result of the Investigation I< that they have offered to Mr. Zelg ler ant his associates the capl tnl necessary for them to use In con i structlng the various plants. an' l they will take power at a fair prle< } In exchange. The syndicate wll ? erect at or neT e^ch one of the wa tor powers a factory for the manu SEVEN LIVES LOST IN A POUR-fcTORY CINCINNATI , TKNKMKNT DKATH TRAP. Tiio Houne Ablwie With Ef>?ry Occupant Bleeping?Firemen Carry Many Down Ladderr* Hafely. In a Ore at Cincinnati that destroyed a tenement bonne shortly before daylight on Tuesday morning seven persons were killed and 30 Injured. The building was a veritable death trnp. Tho one fire escape was renI I t... * \ u a it uj nit; IIuinitini int.' emergency door, supposed to load to Hafoty, and ordered kept open l?y the tiro department, wuh nulled shut. The building Is a four-story Btruoture with tenants on every floor except the first. The hallways are lighted by kerosene lamps and In some way the lamp on the second floor was upset and In a very few minutes the dry woodwork In the hall was aflame. The blaze shot upward, making it impossible for tho tenants of the placo to get out by way of the stairs. Some of them Jumped out of tho windows and wore badly hurt. There wore fifty persons in the house at tho tlmo. The flrst firemen to reach the scene saved several of them from the rear of the burning building. The captain of engine company No. 4 carried down two bodies on tho ladder and several women were found huddled together on the fourth floor. The bodies taken to the morgue were so badly burned that Identification was almost ImposHl Mo. I Patrolman Clark and Trlnklor. who worn tho first upon tho scene, nickod up a blanket from In front i of tho building and yelled to the ! terrlflod people In the windows to jump. Holding the blanket between them, they called to a woman on the second floor to Jump Into It. Ah she Jumped to safety tho officers called to a small girl who was on the verge of dropping from a window on the third floor. The girl took one look at the outstretched blanket and Jumped head first In-' to. Both woman and child were badly burned and were quickly rushed to the city hospital. Two officers carried many of the tenants to Hafety over the neighboring roofs. OORPBE HOLDS Al'TO WHEEL. Woman's Presenee of Mind Prevents Tragedy on French Road. Mine. Maurice, of Roanne, Franco, has had the terrifying experlen e of ( driving in a motor car with hor dead husband clutching the steering wheel and a four-year-old baby In her lap. She had gone for a drive with her husband as chauffeur. Noticing that the car was pursuing an erratic course, she spoke to her husband, uring him to he more pruden. There was no response, for he was dead. In an Instant the woman realised the truth. She wns Ignorant of he machinlsm, and could not stop imp ear. nut wun remarkable presence of mind she did the next beet I thing. Lifting her baby up, she leanel out of the auto und dropped it on the roadway. Then, taking the steering wheel, she headed the automobile for a ditch, into whi h It ran and capsized. Mine. Maurice, who, with the corpse of her husband, was flung *Mit, fortunately escaped with very slight injury. The baby was found unharmed. The husband's death was due to heart fnilure. One Day to the Ideal. It is beautiful to give one day occasionally to the Ideal. One day n which books and stocks and deeds and notes, and interest and mortgage, and all kinds of business and trade are forgotten, and all stores 'nd shops and factories and offices tnd banks, and ledgers and ac'ounts, and lawsuits are cast nside, put away ?nd locked up, and the weary heart and brain are given a voyage to 'alryland. Let us hope that such a 'ay is a prophesy of what all davs I will t>e. i In the nature of things a weddins isn't a wedding if it proccods with out a hitch. i recurring or mis rertmaer. it is atated that they will Invent In tho i ten manufacturing: plants at least - *r>0.000.nn0. and that work will begin on them at once. Mr. Zelgler Is very busy at presi ent bringing the matter to a clone. and Is accepting this offer an fast p as he can consult with tho various Incorporations. As each one of these > water power developments has been p chartered ar. a seoarate company, It i |o necessarv for him to have a mooting of each company and place the s matter before the stockholders, and - it will take some weeks for him to 'o this. Still, at tho same tlmo, - 't la understood that the matter will ' >>e left to his Judgment, and as he * la Inclined to neoent the offer, It 1 u'eans, annarentlv. that Rld?revlllc - will have verv anon a ten-inllllon - dn]]nr fertilizer factory. f Bank of (ft OONWA1 ? OkpiUl Stock rjfS Depo?it? /K Total Amets ?jfjr DIHKC J. A. McDermott, J T. McNeill, B. O. C jm. tlebaum, Ilal. L. L /V\ The oldeat Bank in Hon ik olina. Asho< fated with, the r? ^ the paat decade. Our. |>olicy the "Independent Republic." /1\ to our cuNtoiuerH every . ream /1\ tent with wiund banking. We a als, Arum and corporall ohm. D. A. 8PIVKY, | Vlce-IVetiident. BANK OF Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURl 1 Y TO DEPOSITORS I) IRIX Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, Ueorge J. Holiday, We <outime to jay 5 per cent interei it youraccount KOBKkT H. SCARBOROUGH, H I'ltKHIWPNT. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE Ifyoo want etthera Vibrating Hhottle, Ilotary Bhuttloor A Hlnglo Thread [ Chain tUlle/i] Bowing Much I no write to THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Orange* Mass. Many aewtn* machine* arc made to sell regardless of Quality, but the Now Homo is made to wcac. Our guaranty never runs out old by Mthorliod dealer* only. POM 6ALB BV lilJHKOl t. 'i.LlNS CX).? Oooway, H. O. I'KOKKHSIL.NAL CAKIXi H. H. WOODWAKl) Attorney and Councilor At Lav CONWAY, S. C. C. K. HT. AMAN U, At form*) at I myi (Conway, H. C. K. li. MCAIUIItOIWH OONWAY, 8. O. Attorney at law. ' ill u* aa ?/i/ai i ii ? . ri. r?ir* * ?m?. hiIU;K4)\ HKNTIHT. (X)X\VAV, H. O. ovrr limit of Horry ri. if. iuiuioh.hh rhyflf'*i?n him) SurtCdott. CON WAV. S. O. ! 11. WO^KOUIt WAIT Aftoriiev at I/?w. OONWAY, 8. O. ( One Killed, Three Hurt, i One person was killed, one fatally ; Injured and two others badly brula i od when the automobile In which they were riding turned turtle and i plunged In a ditch near Atlanta. Oa., a few davs aero. "Dare Devil" .Tones, an amateur driver, was killed and Ralph Kaplan, an employe of an automobile aeencv In Atlanta, i was nio?t c/off->iioi v In lured. Tf a m^n ha** a chance to do a i lot of good In the world, he feels a < grievance over It. MM, ?^ ?????:????? Conway 2 r. s. a w #50,000.00 W 150.000.00 A 250,000.00 A / rroiis a? no. C. Spivey, D. AL tolling, C. P. Quat- ML luck, D. A. Spivey. *y and a pioneer in Kwitern Car- A i|Mii ui uur vajuiii/ ivr m Iihn been for the upbuilding of jc With thin in view we extend ^ >nablo accommodation ronnissolicit the accounts of individu- A HAL. L IHJCK, & Castiier. ^ ' HOKRY, y. S, C. $ 50 000 10 006 50 006 110 006 riORS W. R. Ileitis, ~ W. A. JohnHon, ' Will A Freeman. f-t on yturl) dejoMte, tnove t-olioL BUCK, HILL A. FRF.KMAW VlCK I'BFBIPENT. .CA8HIBB . J a cxyrroN thkkbhkr. Machine Invent^] to Nave Htaplo la Unopened IU>11r. A good deal 1h being said in the papers about a cotton thresher gin. which was invented by a citizen oF Oklahoma and which has boon In operation in that State thia fall, with, it is claimed, much succewe. A great many bolls of the crop for several years only partially opened and some inventive genius in Oklahoma determined to save what would otherwise be thrown away. So he invented this threshing gin. The bolls were fed into the gin, resembling hickory nuts as they went in. The machine promptly tore them (to pieces and departed the lint that had not been exposed to the view of the pickers in the fields In this way it is estimated that fully twenty thousand bales of cottoe have this year been saved in Oklaho, ma alone. This Is a considerable Item In tha output of that State, and the invootlon Is attracting the attention of the cottou world. If It can be perI fected In a way that will eliminate the cotton pickers In the fields tho American crop of cotton can bo largely Increased at no considerable expense. PAYS SOCIAL PEHTS. Gives a Party and Then Submits ts> Fatal Operation. Determined that none of her social obligntlona shuold remain unpaid at her death, Mrs. Alma DodsY>n? society leader and lawyer, of Springllel 1. Mo., Invited all her freinls to. a farewell jCard party and rocofv| tlon immediately after being informI od by her physician that she must submit to an operation that would probably prove fatal. The party was held tho day before the operation. Smiling and cheerful, Mrs. Dodson was an admirable hostess. AV'rward, Mrs. Dods/vn calmly arranged her personal effects and rJob - -1 * 11 * - - * uMi me ciorninf In which aim wished to lie attired after death She then went to the hospital and the operation caused her death. The Glamor of Distance. It is often amusing to see how poople will deceive themselves into thinking that they pet better good* by going away from home. People will go to the big cities, join in the department store mob to the low of their time and temper, carry heavy bundles about the streets and into tho trains, and return with articles that could be had juRt as well at homo. Examined by the sober light of aecond thought, they often nrrtVn linnn'l-' ? * - , ... Mucaimmciory, t)Ut bought at a distance they can't be returned* save perhaps by a prohibitive amount of time and trouble. People do not always stop to think that the raorchants In their home towns hare | made marvellous advances within ft few years. They are as keenly alive ? to the need of keeping up with the fashions as anyone. They have reg! ular clearance saleR to get rid of old goods, and It is no more poaslblo for them to carry back number styles than it Is for the hig city competitor. Therefore, why not patronize the home merchant, who will see to It that you get satisfaction If the goods aro not what is represent, od?