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I I Absolutely/^ Storaf BmMagPowt I Improves the ft ^aswS'Svs^ end adds healthful RJSrid STATI HISTORY " I And the Part Played in it By Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman. AS SEEN BY OUTSIDERS "In Resistless Force of Cliaraetci Hen Tilljnan is (lie Greatest Man L< f IS? I nuuui v4Ii?miiui ritui Mnuutu Mid One of tlio .Most Extraordinary Men Our Country lias Produced." 1 The following Is taken from the ? I Washington Post, and may b? said to be a fair outside estimate of Sen- ! ator Tillman. Until benjamin It. Tillman rose to smite it, the State of South Cuvo- J llna was dominated by an ol'^a-chy made of illustrious iamilies This * regime was partly political and partly social. It was a pure government, frugal and honest. It was nevei , guilty of extravagence, and never ^ accused of graft. But the greatest families ruled, though the form was a representative commonweal h. In the Revolutionary period was n Butler, Gadsden, Izard, Laurens, Motte, Pinckney and the Rut ledges, to say nothing of the heroes of Moultrie, Sunder and Marion. Aft.ei the adoption of the Lcderal consu ution t came the Butlers, the CaUvjuus, i Gaillard, Hayne, Legare, Preaton, < Pickens, McDuffie, Barnwell, the Rhetts, Chestnut, Hamilton, Ham- f mond, Hampton and others. There 1 }was commingled the blood of ] Scotch-Irish and the Hugennt and ; Jperhaps it was the climate that made it so fervent and so impetuous. It scorned the spoils of olli ,e, did ! this o'Jgarchy, or a glance will show that since the federal government was established but four citizens ot South Carolina have been callo 1 to the cabinet, and but two havs sal , ? it . _ t?M rn i~ , upon nit? suprouij ueuen. uu otitic furnished but cue minister o IQngland, Tlios. Pinckney, appoints! by , Washington, for four year, an I one to France, Charles C. Pincicney also appointed by Washington, sorv'ng ^>ne year. No South Carolinian ever r represented the United States at the the court of Austria or Germany or Italy. Under Washington our minister to Spain was that same Thomas Pinckney for two years, and later Jefferson appointed Charles C. Pinckney to Madrid, where he remained four years. Three South Carolinians rephesented the United Stat's at the court of the czar?Henry Middleton, one year, appointed by Monroe; Francis Pickens, two yenrs, appointed by Buchanan, and James L?. Ot, one year, appointed by Grant . Thus it will be observed that this obligarchy or aristocratic families was no vulgar association of political bosses intent on official patronage. And therein was its vitality and its strength. Less than 25 years ago Benjamin R. Tillman determined to destroj this aristocratic regime. It was a battle of the giants. Hampton and Butler were representatives of it. Both were of Illustrious families; both had fought and bled for the South on many a stricken field; both wore men of unblemished honor. There rallied on them the scions of] the old families, and they were intrenched in the traditions of centuries. Even lien. Tillman's elder brother, who had displayed conspicuous abilities In congress, spoke and voted against the policies of h's brother. Hut the "Craker" was aroused, y* ire had found a leader as brave hb taesar, as devoted as Hampden, )mpetuous as Hotspur, resolute, earnest, honest, invinicble. After a tremendous struggle Tillman was elected governor in 1890, a id tw > years thereafter he was reelected Ho was an "architect of ruin, ' in that eb held in contempt the tra Miens of the past and smote the oi'garcny unMl it trem.ded and fell. \V?iiie Hampton was the flrst ciil YAL^ JUNG IWBER f\i olutely Pur? WANTS ALL HER MONEY. Bride Takes Her llubby to Court for Keeping Thirty Cents. "When I married Sam," said Mrs. Fanny Bookbinder in a New York police court, "lie promised to provide for me and Saturday night his pay envelope was 3 0 cents short." Mrs. Bookbinder is a liride of eight days. Although she lias a personal hank account of $1,000, which she refuses to share with Sam, she liauld him into court on representations that he had treated her cruelly. "Sam make $20 a week," she continued, "and I want, every cent of it. If he needs anything I'll get it for him. 1 know what's due a wife and that's why I brought him here." "Suppose your husband wants a cii?ar?" suggested the magistrate. "I'll buy it for him," repeated Mrs. Hook binder firmly. The magistrate laughed outright. "Then go home and make up your nind," lie said, "to do as your bus mnu tons you and tako what he ?ives you. And don't you come be'ore nie again with such rediculous ,barges. Case dismissed." The pair left court, arm in arm, md there was no sign of a cloud to li 111 their honeymoon. AUTO TUIINKI) TUHTLK riiree Ladies Seriously Injured by tlie Accident. Miss Aonid McKinle^ and Miss Anlie (Mae Manuel of Unidilla, Ga., and i Mrs. Davis from near Macon, Ga., suffered serious injuries in an auto mvash wich occurred on the public oad from Unidilla on Thursday and Misses McKinley and Manuel are suffering from broken legs, while Mrs. Leo Davis was badly bruised about the hips and back. The ladies were in the car of John Mcinley, who was himself driving. While going at a high rate of speed the machine suddenly turned turtej, throwing Misses McKinley and Manuel across the road and pinioning Mrs. Davis underneath. .While the car was considerably damaged, the party was able to come back in it. zen it the State, a hero and a Fta.fman, the heir at a great name and of un immense fortune. No more gallant soldier die- sword in 1 hr> big vv a r nl flift t\F > ??. ^.^...11 ?v , ,V/kJ y W 1 U 111M1 I1U I Ulll i have said with n.o.t truth than d'd ho crowned V.iioris on tlie -i \y of Pavia, "All is lost save honor " Put wi ptntp hesitation 1 P.* new champion of popular government stripped Wade Hampton of ills tog.i and gave it to another. Only a little while and ho defeated M. C. Pi.tler for the Senate, in which he took his seat in 1 S0.r>. Nobody who witnessed the scene when Tillman delivered his m-tlden speech in the innate will eve" [ >.get it. His fellows appeared to b? awed and certainly nothing Ilk? it over before transpired in that theatre. It recalled the p-f?ence of tha rude Gaul in the Roman senate as regarded in ancient story. Tillman wr.s fierce in his denunciation of the then Democratic president and sec'etary of the treasury. Nor was he coment with that. Ho assailed everything political then in existence, and talked as though ho felt sure that thert was but one honest man in public life, and he a senator from South Carolina with but one eye and a pitchfork in his hand. Put Tillman got bravely over th.1t. As he canto to know the senate he respected It. Plunt to vulgarity, he was nonesL to tno core, and the senate came to respect him, and senators to love him. Perhaps had he been a great Intellect, and a thoroughly cultured scholar he would have made for himself a smaller place. Certainly he would not h'ave been the picturesque figure he hecame. Not in breadth of intellect, not In learning, not in eloquence, but In resistless force of character, Hen Tillman is the greatest man South Carolina ever produced, and one of the most extraordinary men our country has produced. FREE AT LAST " Woman Pardoned Who Has Been in Prison For Fifteen Years A RESUME OF THE CASE " Fannie Carson is Her Name and She 0 Was Convicted of Complicity in Helping Two Men, Who Ave Xow o Serving forms in Prison, Murder 11 ,\ Her llnslmnd. Gov. Ansel has pardoned Mrs. Fan t! aie Carson, who, with two men j, planned the death of her own hits- y band over fifteen years ago, and she v has been in the penitentiary ever f since. She may go back to that k home now, where still lingers the r memory of a dark night when J. O. t Carson lay asleep in his bed and was murdered by Ed Green and John n Page, while the wife stealthily left the home, and abandoned here husband to his cruel fate. 1 A humble woman now is Fannie t Carson. Out at the penitentiary l they say that she has repented of i her sins. Conducting a llible class among her fellow prisoners, it is c probable that she has seen the error ? of her way and it truly sorry for what she has done. Pity and the i opinion that she has suffered much i are the moving powers in the seeur- i ing of a pardon for this woman, t Frail of body, a physical wr*cl< ac- , cording to the written statement of | physicians, Fannie Carson is not a i fit person, in th.i opinion of those i who considered her case, to serve : out nor clays in the state prison. Govs. MeSweomy and HeywatJ re- < fused to pardon the woman that now i goes free. t Mrs. Carson will leave in the pen itontiary serving life sentences John i Page and Ed Green, the two men c with whom she conspired to murder i here husband. It was by tlu eon- j fession on the stand of Fannie Car- I son that it was jxjssible to convict I these two men who tire now serving r life sentences in the prison. The ? planning of that horrible muider was 1 told by Fannie Carson on the witness s stand, and she also told of the ac- I tual killing. e On two occasions, before the two > men took the life of her husband, 1 she and they had discussed the plait s and on the second occasion poison 1 was suggested. The llrst time that s Pago and Green came to the house a to kill Carson, the wife informed the c men that her husband was not sound e asleep. This saved his life that time. The next time, when strychnine was suggested, Mrs. Carson said she r| "did not have the heart to poison my husband," thus failed the second plot to kill her husband. Then came the third and successful plot. Ed Green and Page came around ( to the Carson home. What to do with the little baby was the first ! matter, discussed. The men who ? were about to become murderers did not wish to wake the baby, and it was agreed that Mrs. Carson would 1 talce the child out Into the yard. ( With no mention of the killing it- J self, but in words that carried con vtctlon with more force than if there had been another eye-witness, the . two men who killed Carson, the wife told of the happenings of the next few minutes. After describing the passage of 10d (}re< n and John Page through the dining room, one with an axe in his hand, Mrs. Carson said, "well, I went out and went to the well, but I did not stay there nit a few minute? I went around to the from yard and stayed there until they came out. When they came out John stooped in 1 the kitchen and lOd started towards ( mo, and I motioned my hand to him ( not to come to me, that the babe ' was awake, and he never came, and 1 they went and I went then to Mr. i Jackson's." And in those few min- ' utes her husband had been murdered as ho lay asleep. Some of those in Spartanburg County, who recall tire killing of < Carson, say that Ed. Green exerted t a hypnotic Influence over Mrs. Car- i son. Green had been received into the Carson home and had very prob- < ably planted himself in the affec tions of Mrs. Carson. When her < husband came homo drunk and abused her, Green would take up for ' the wife. This attachment must < have become closer and closer, judg- 1 ing from the matters hinted at in 1 tne papers filed In this case. 1 Worn out, perhaps, by the drunk- 1 en debauches of her husband and ' day by day becoming more and more 1 under the control of Green, Mrs. * Carson readily lent herself to the 1 scheme to rid her home of the husband. By securing the aid of Pag , 1 this was found easy to do by Green. < In a review of the case by the par- I don board, Green Is called the instigator of the plot and the one 1 who used the other two to carry out 1 the plan. It was Green who brought ' Carson strong drink from his farm < across the way, It was Green who < saw the need of getting Carson out ? of tho way. One of that trio goes free. Ed. 1 Green was found guilty of murder i and sentenced to be hanged. Hlsl' A WHITE FIEND 4 * t lTTAOKS A YOl'NU WOMAN AT $ NIGHT IN IIIOIC IIOMK. 4 * 4 lor Brother Heart iior Screami, ana 4 Wont to llor Assistance, Hut the (| Fiend Escaped. ^ Miss Louise Willis, of Walden, 2 a., was savagely attacked l>y an nr.- m nown man in a room at the home 1 !' her brother, Mr. lOnunett Willis, i a fashionable residence section of ^ Incon, Cla., Thursday night. J The man was frightened away by *j he approach of the young lady's ^ rot her, who, hearing her screams, J ashed to her assistance, and the ^ oung lady was thrown violently j| roni her bed to the floor, a lianderchief being tied tightly about her z nouth. The intention of the inruder was criminal assault. The man made his escape through i window and made his escape by he means of lightning rod. The police department are makng a determined search and from ( be description given by the young ^ ady, it is believed her assailant will j ?e captured within a few hours. ^ The citizens of that section of the ;lty were quickly aroused and they ire aiding in the search. At midnight the police depart- I meat, had thrown out a dragnet 1 jitizens, had thPown out a dragnet ( >vhich, it is believed, will result in 1 he arrest of Miss Willis' assailant. [ \ light burning in the room occu ied by the young woman aided her t n getting a good description of the man. lie is described as being rouiig and well dress* d. p The Willises are prominent in social circles in Macon, and at Walden ind the attempted assault lias created a decided sensation. In one of the most fashionable res deuce sections of the city another -riminal assault was made the same light upon Mrs. J. C. Hanberry, a oung matron, who with her lius>and, boards at the home of Dr. Wil- i iam Cleveland, on Washington avenie. Mrs. Hanberry was alone in i room in the rear of the house when ler assailant, a young white man, udilenly jerked open a window ilind and attacked the woman. IOxxcising unusual nroscnco of mimi v .1 rs. Hanberry succeeded in freeing ^ lerself from the grasp of her as- c lallant. Several occupants of the (' louse were attracted by the woman's s creams and hurried to her assist- 1 ince, only to see the departing form 11 >f the intruder as he beat a hasty >xlt through the window he entered. 1 ll BRUTE ATTACKS CHILD. e c Tlie Fiend Was Pursued by a Posse But He Cot Away. ^ a An unknown negro man made a !i lesperate attempt to criminally as- 0 mult the 4-year-okl daughter of \V. ji 3. Hearn, a prominent citizen of c lelloville, Ga., Thursday afternoon. The negro was frustrated in his des- a >erate attack by a man named Ben- t on, who drove him away and res- o :ued the fainting and dangerously in- f lured child.. i A large posse of enraged citizens vas immediately formed, and it is f bought that if the negro is caught ic will be lynched. Bloodhounds t traced the negro to a swamp near > Pembroke. He later escaped from \ he swamp and made his way toward t Daisy. There he was sighted and lred upon by a citizen. It is believ- e id the man was wounded, but In- \: nonaged to again escape. ( Death of Dr. Sinklcr. c Dr. Wharton Sinkler, the noted 0 ihyslclan and specialist on nervous {l liseases, died in Philadelphia, Pa., (i in Wednesday. He was a brother nf Ion. Charles St. George Sinkler of 1 Berkeley, who up to 1890 was State 1 icnator from that county. He was v 52 years of age. s I Makes Good Showing The second report on the Nortli ' Carolina State high schools shows hat at the end of the last school v rear 160 were in operation, having ">,282 students. At present only nine ' counties have no rural high schools. _ ii ;o-defendants, Fannie Carson and ' fohn L. Page, were found builty, hut ecommended vo the mercy of the j. 3ourt, and were thereupon sentenced j ,o imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary. The defendant, Green, appealed and was granted a new .rial. At the second trial he was ^ found guilty of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and was thereupon sentenced to life imprisonment ' in the Penitentiary. The case was first tried before the late Judge F.arle, who shortly after ilied before the first petition was filed in behalf of the prisoner. O. L. Shumpert was at that time solie nor or that circuit and prosecuted s the case. A petition in behalf of ( this prisoner was presented in 1902 1 to M. B. MoSweeney, then Govern- 1 or. This petition was refused. An- A other petition was presented in her behalf to D. C. Heyward, then Governor in 1903. Again the petition, ' although the solicitor recommended ' the pardon, was refused. 1 f Bank of & CON WA jj Capital Stock A l>t?pOMlt? A Total AftftctM a 1)1RK< j\ J. A. McDermott, J k T. McNeill, Ii. G. C P tlebaum, Hal. L. 1 A The oldest Hank in Hon lv olinu. AsHOciHlcd with. I ho ri ^ the nasi iloo?i<l??. i?i??? It " J P? tho "Independent Republic." Fj to our customers every . reus* |\ tout witli sound banking. We k *1h, tlriiis and corporations. I>. A. SPIVEY, ? Vice-President. BANK OF Conwa i CAPITAL STOCK JURPLUS LJABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRL( lobert IS. Scarborough, I. L. Buck, leorge J. Holiday, We continue to j ay 5 per cent inter* t youraccount 10BERT B. SCARBOROUGH, II PRE811)I NT. CORN GROWERS MEET j N KVKICY COUNTY T1IIS MOXTII TO OIUiAN 1/10. 'here Ar? Tliroo TIioiiniiimI Hollars in I* r I/oh OlYcri'd to tlio Successful Contestants. The Corn Growers' association ft* -ill be organized in every county in outh Carolina on March 2 6th, acording to a letter addressed Monay by Ira W. Williams of tli<? United tates farm demonstration to all of he agents in the State. This is a lost important stop. These associations are to be comlosed of farmers, merchants and iiisiness men and all who are intersted in the intelligent growing of orn. The Hoys' Corn Clubs in the State re under tho supervision of Mr. Villinms. Over three thousand boys nd girls liave been enrolled as roomers of the clubs. The sum of $)i,-I 00 in prizes will be offered. These irizes are in addition to the $5,000 iffered for the corn exposition. I All of the corn clubs and prize ere contests in the different coutiles will conic under the supervision ?f the county association and the arm demonstration agents will be in mined late charge. ? 1 1 ' ? ' i in: ioitowiiik is u?o loiter calling or the meeting: | "I think it would lie well for you o call a meeting of the citizens of 'our county, as many as you think vould take an activo interest in In- matter, and organize what would >p known as a Southern Corn Crowis association. This could bo conilosed of farmers, merchants, banksrs, and every man who is intersted in growing more and better orn in South Carolina. If we grow orn we protect the price of cotton | nd make the farmer more Indepenlent. "Hy growing corn IntelligentIv it nakes for the farmer one of the nost profitable farm cro,.s. Should ve increase our production as wo hould wo could in a very short icrlod of time stop the importation nto our State of any corn whatever, "his alone would save several milion dollars for the State. You can eadily see,that if we raise our corn ye will have all of the fodder, hay nd peas needed. This would mean hat we would be ablo to raise our | nubs, hogs, cows, chickens, and IK'o tock in that there wolld ^e plenty of ood for them. This would save riany millions more dollars and the armer would soon come to his own n South Carolina. "So let us help the people to oranlze the local association in ev< ry ounty. Those associations can hold lold fairs and corn prize contest J i ? t urn mi ichs than Ave years Kto.i the importation of corn into th-* State uid all other tilings will be added into us." North Carol inn Pensions. State Auditor Dixon of North Car>lina, says that last year 1,200 peniloners died, yet there is an increase >f about a thousand in the total lumber, this being because the last /ogislature increased the number of vldows who could receive pensions ? Oifford Plnchot is conserving all >ur national resources except tho emon crop, which is fast being depleted by Secretary Balllnger. Conway \ V. 8. o. & $.V),(K)0.00 W ir>o,ooo.oo 2^0,0(H). 00 /Vy JTOI18 Ino. C. Splvey, D. Collins, C. P. Quat- it luck, I). A. Splvey. _ V i j ?%u?a ii |?iuiirrr ill riJlSUTH I III** ipiil progress of our County for jjfk ' lias been for the upbuilding of jJL With this in view wo extend ^ tillable accommodation consis- fl\ solicit the accounts of ludividu- /|\ & HAL. L. HICK, <!> Cashier. ' horry, y. 8, C. $ 50 00C 10 (K* 50 01V 110 006 ;iors W. R. I^wis, W. A. Johnson, W ill A. FreeniM3. on yenrl} deposits, i>n<lvu sobcL. LUCK, WILL A. Fill KM AN vlck pite8ident, caHIIIKK 1 '? PROFESSIONAL CAKI>8. II. II. WOODWAHl) Attorney and Counselor At Law, CONWAY, 8. O. C. K. ST. AM AND, Attorney nt Law Conway, B. O. R. B. SCAKBIIOUOH CONWAY, 8. Cj Attorney at I*aw. W. K. McCOItl), SUltUHON DKNTI81. CONWAY, 8. O, Over Bank of ilorry H. 11. BUIUtOUOHS i - ^ i?byalclan and Burgeon. CONWAY, 8. O. " B. WOFFOKl) WAIT. Attorney at Ltt /. CONWAY, 8. O. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE k JLIGHT RUNNING ^ Ifyon wanteUherA Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary Bhuttle or a Mingle Thread \L'hain iHilch\ Bewlug Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Orange* Mast. Many ?ew!n<r machine* are made to sell regardless c| Quality, but the New If 01110 is made to weac Our guaranty never run* out. old by authorized dealers onlft FOR SALK BY BURKOircillS * COLLINS CO.* Conway, H. C. After Lever's Seat. The npual farce of contesting tho seat of Mr. Lever in Congress was enacted again in Washington last week. One R. H. Richardson Is th? fellow that Is after the two thousand dollar allowance this year, vyb(etv,'h? will divide with Jacob Modrer.^a^fcegro lawyer of this city, who it innocent of any l*gal knowledge, but who r< presented Richardson. Capt. B. Hart Moss represented Mr. Lever. Lever will hold his seat.