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| GREAT GAINS Hade io Capital Invested in South CaraGia SINCE FIRST OF YEAR Orfr Kloven Million IH>Ilars in Petiv tions for Charters and Commissions.?The Fees Paid the State larger Than Ever Before.?They j May Break the Hecord. The State says over $11,000,000 repesents the amount invested in enterprises in South Carolina since the first of the year which is an unprecedented record for the State as to the capital used. In several instances companies were organized and rechartered, but the m/ajority of the $1 1,000,000 represents new business. The records In the secretary of state's office shows that to April 1 charters were issued to companies with a capitalization of over $7,000,000. Since April 1 several large companies have been chartered and rechartered. The Charter of tiie Pelzer Manufacturing company will expire at an early date and a new charter in per petuity was secured. This concern has a capital of $1,000,000 and was chartered by the legislature in 1880 for a term of thirty years. The Pelzer Manufacturing company is a pioneer in the texile industry in this State and is one of the most successful manufacturing concerns. 'Another large company to receive a charter since April 1 was the Santee River Cypress Lumber company of Ferguson in Orangeburg county. The company has a capital of $1,500,000. In connection with a general lumber business, the company will do a general mercantile business. The secretary of state has turned over to the State treasurer the sum of *7 ,051.91 as charter fees received since the first of the year and up to April 1. Since April 1 over $2,500 has been received by the secretary as charter fees which will he counted on the presnt Quarter. The total ara'ount received as charter fees from January 1 to April 1, 1 QUO fi 1 4 8 whirJi nAarlv $2,000 less than for the present year. The total amount received in charter fees by the secretary of State for the year 1909 was over $20,000. Judgiug the increase over the first quarter of the year of 1910 and 1909, it is estimated that at least $3 0,000 will be secured from charter fees, which amount will be the largest iu the history of the State. The number of dissolutions for the present year has been less than for 1909 to the present time. T.he records in the secretary's office show that the industries that have been chartered are varied. There have been a large num'ber of companies chartered with capital stocks, Tanging from $10,000 to $100,000. A number have been incorporated with over $1,000,000. The largest number of companies to be chartered were in Georgetown, Charleston and Greenville. The increase in these counties has been most marked. There has been special activity in real estate. More than, a score of large companies have been organized in Charleston and Georgetown, 1 and especially Georgetown, which oounty makes a fine showing for real estate companies. In Charleston real estate values are said to have made phenomenal < advances during the past few years, i Properly is said to have doubled in i value. This fact is shown that at ; least a dozen substantial real es- i ?tate companies, backed by the lead- < ing business men of Charleston, have been chartered during the first thre? months of the yea*. The cap * .1 of these companies average from $u-.000 to over $200,000. A number of smaller industries bave l eer organized with sub3t? ?;if.l capitao Included under ill's might 4>e mentioned the large number of uier.'a. t io companies that have !mn chartered in almost every town n the state. This would indicate that the mercantile business is good. F?w dissolutions of this nature of bounces nave been reported. Moro companies have been o1*3,?n ized during the year f>or the purpose of conducting farms than ia the history of the State. Two companies have been organized with a caj.tt! more than $85,000. Generally a mercantile company is conducted In conr eel ton with these companies. Other corporations organized !i elude hanks, buildings and loan associations, realty companies, telephone companies, vegetable companies. boat lines and loan companies. The organization of texile companies 'has been unusually active. Something now for the State has been the corporation of the two underwear factories for Greenville. Each of the companies has a capital of $50,000 and will manufacture high grade under wear. Those companies are controlled by South Carolina capital. Several knitting mills have been organized witli small capitals. Money doesn't give a person virtues. hut it makes people act as if he had them all. 1 KILLED TWO MEN JEALOUSY PROBABLY CAUSES A DOUBLE MURDER. Negro Mail in Jealous Rage $hoots Down Two Negro Women in a Field. Evidently in a jealous fit of rago, James Robinson shot and instantly killed Willie Brown, about 35 years old, and her mother, Fannie Brown, all the parties being negroes, m the lands of the McNamee Kaolin works, near Bath, in Aiken county, Tuesday I morning about eight o'clock. .'The only eye-witness was a little boy. From evidence given by him at the coroner's inquest, it seems that the two women were hoeing cotton in a little patch near their home, when Robinson was seen to come out of the woods nearby with a riflle in one hand and a satc-hel in the other. I Seeing that he was mad about something, the woman asked him what was the matter. Saying, with an oath, "don't ask me what's the matter," .he raised his gun to the level of his waist and shot Willie Brown, the dughter, the bullet entering the right side of her body just above the waist and lodging in her body. Running off ten or twelve feet, Robinson turned and shot twice at the mother, both shots taking effect, one in the back and coming out through her right breast, and the other entering at the thigh and coming out behind. Turning then, he fled to the woods, were he met Caroline Jeter, colored, who asked him what he had been shooting at. Giv. ! 1.. V, ? lng ail evasive repiy, uc tuimnucu his flight and has not as yet been cauaJit. The coroner held an inquest over the two bodies Tuesday afternoon, but from the testimony nothing was gathered as to the cause of the shooting, although from outside sources it is learned that Robinson and the younger woman had been living in intimate terms for some time, and he must have heard some reports that aroused his jealousy, causing him to commit the double homicide. He has been employed in the Southern Railway yards at Augusta, Ga., for the past two years, making occasional visits to his former home in Bath. The coroner's verdict laid the crime at his feet. MOZAMBIQUE DESTROYED. City on East Coast of Africa Hit by Terrific Cyclone. A terrific cyclone swept over Mozambique on the east coast of Africa early last week, killing hundreds and destroying practically the entire city. The details received are meagre, but all reports agree that the windstorm was the fiercest ever known on the African coast in many years and that the death roll will be enromous. A coast-wise steamer, carrying 400 natives, was caught in the cyclone off the harbor of Mozambique and overturned, drowning all on board. A number of small native craft were swamped with loss of life and nearly every house on the three islands in the harbor was demolished. Mozambique, 6,000 in population, was formerly the metropolis of the Portuguese possessions in Africa. Its harbor is world famous. * Colored Hoy Drowned. The State says one negro boy was drowned, and two others who had gone to his assistance nearly lost their lives Sunday afternoon while playing in the pool just below wJtere the Southern Railway crosses (Jill's _ i a. ? M i ree k , a do m lour nines ueiuw v^wiurnbia. The boy who lost his life was about 14 years of age. Murderer Arrested. Dispatches from Bowlin,g Green, Ky., tell of the arrest of a man who answers the description of Joseph Wendling, wanted for the murder of Alma Kellner. The police say the man talked inco-herently of having blood on his hands. He had been employed as a laborer in a Howling Green mill only a week. Getting Worse. New Jersey has 7 0,000 negroes without religion, said Rev. Trusty, Sunday, in an address to the conference of colored Presbyterian pastors at Patterson, N. J. He went on to say that crime and vice was on the increase among the negroes. Removed from Office. Horace 1. jones, or i'ortiana, ore., special agent for the land office, .has been indefinitely suspended from service by the order of Secretary of t.he Interior Ilallinger. Jones was a witness against Hallinger and in support of the charges made by Louis R. Glavis. Killed by ail Auto. At Tampa, Fla., Mrs. J. H. Thompson was run down by an automobile driven by 'Mrs. Oscar Windhorst. The skull of the woman was fractured and she died in a few minutes. She was struck just after alighting from a car. Mrs. Windhorst was not arrested. A BIG CROP NEEDED NEW ORLEANS PAPER ANALYZES THE SITUATION. Says the World Will Need More Cotton This Year Than It Ever Did Before. In a comprehensive review lately of the cotton situation, The New Orleans Picayune argues in favor of a larger production of the staple, declaring that while the speculative element of the market is continually advocating short crops and high prices it will be a mistake for the American farmers to allow these arguto to f i 1 11 o i o fjarQinot a 1 ' hnro 1 muii LO tvy uiiutatv u k? /UA <? planting. It takes this position, this paper, which is expert in the cotton business, declares that the crop of the past year was disastrously small and the season ends with the shortest visible and invisible stocks in a long number of years. In the main the ideas of this paper are harmonious with those of the farmers in general for the reason that the curtailed production of the past year admittedly necessitates a larger yield for the new season, in order to meet the actual necessities and requirements of the world. A big crop would sell not only at satisfactory but at paying prices because every hale of it will be needed. With a short crop coming 011 top of the crop failure of last year famine prices will be experienced, but as always happens under such conditions, profits, instead of being equitably distributed, will accrue to a comparatively few people, the balance being left to suffer the results of disastrously small yields, which no amount of high prices can make profitable. Moreover, another short yield coming on ton of t.he scarcity of the past sea son would demoralize the spinning industry of the world. The Picayune believes, therefore, that there is every incentive for farnvers to repair the damage done by the cold weather of Apri' an 1 t.he backwardness of the season generally. Nothing is to be gained by a short crop, while a good crop is certain to sell at paying prices. The mere planting of a large acreage does not insure a good crop, but the careful cultivation of a reasonable acreage does help materially to produce the best results. It would, therefore, be ill advised to permit early discouragements to cause an abond a;..' of any of the normal cotton acreage as long as it is possible to replant. While the season has been backward and there has been a notable absence of anfR nmict n ro It ic a f f 11 ou rl v OUIliVylUi' I M.IIUIOVMI V/| it OVIli enough for these adverse conditions to change. A big cotton crop is absolutely needed, no matter what the speculators may say, and there never was a time when there was a greater certainty that a big crop would prove profitable. * STUDENT COMMITS SUICIDE. Was Member of Junior Class and a a Bright Young Man. Alfred Evelyn Clayton MacRae, a member of the junior class in the university, a son of the late S. H. MacRae, of Fayetteville, and a grandson of the late Judge James C. Mac Rae, committed suicide Friday between 12.30 and 12.45 at the home of G. E. Donnel, Chapel Hill, N. C., by taking potassium cyanide. The cause of the act is not known. Going to an upper room at Mr. Donnel's, where he was accustomed to spending much of his time with H. V. P. Vreeland, a friend, Mr. MacRae took the fatal dose. He was discovered a few minutes later by Mr. Donnel w.ho was attracted to the room by heavy breathing. Doctors were summoned at once, but to no avail. Mr. MacRae seemed cheerful the night proceeding his death and up to within a fe v minutes of the deed. He even talked freely of his plans for the connng year. He was a bright student and well known on the campus. His death will be a great sorrow to his many friends. * ? ??mm ii Instructive Tornado. Many houses in the village of Guthrie, W. Va., were destroyed by a tornado which passed up the Elk Valley Monday afternoon. Several persons were injured and mil oh live stock killed. The coal and coke railway was a heavy sufferer. A Hint to the Heartless. "The lamp-post and the common people.''?Senator Cummings. The poor may starve, you do not min d. It troubles not your pampered sleep. Yet you may wake some day to find That rope Is cheap. Your money moves the lawyer's jaw, It buys the scoundrels of our land; But though you overthrow tho law, Our lamp-post stand. You men whom lust of power controls, . . You men who rise on human wrecks; You have no hearts, you have no souls, But you have nocks. ?J. J. DOOLING. FATAL FIGHT One Soldier Kills Another in a Fisticuff n Sulliran's Island AFTER A HOT QUARREL Artilleryman Accused of Striking Another With a Chain.??His Head Hits Curbing and Death Knsues. The Two Soldiers Had Had a Disagreement. i ne unarieston evening post says Private Fry, of Company 144, coast artillery, at Fort Moultrie, was knocked down in a fight with another soldier, said to be Private Murray, and did not recover consciousness, following the contact of his head with the curbing in front of the post exchange. Murray ia under arrest at the Fort and will have to stand trial for the d^ath of Fry. It appears that the two soldiers were at the post exchange, and got into an altercation over some matter or other, and Fry is reported to have struck Murray with a chair, which brought on a fight and it was proposed to settle the difficulty outside, after the manner of the hardy soldiers. This was at about 8:45 o'clock. Outside the two soldiers squared off, for their fight, and Mur- : ray is said to have hit Fry a blow . which knocked him down, and as j he fell the soldier's head came in contact with the curbing, and he lost consciousness, which he did not regain. death resulting.. The death of the soldier caused a profound impression among his msiloe whri wurn a nn ri rlori hv th? ? ? , unexpected outcome of an ordinary ; fisticuff, such as is frequently indulged in among the fighters of the various companies. Private 'Murray was placed under arrest after the fight, and is in a serious predicament. He was terribly shocked by the result of what at first promised to be only a trifling matter. Little or no official information of the affair could be gotten from Fort Moultrie Thursday, but the story was current on Sullivan's Island, and Fry's death gave rise to general discussion of the trouble. Murray, the soldier under arrest, is of the same company as Fry was, and is well known in Charleston, where he appeared in the guise of a clever and aggressive prize fighter, meeting Riily Yeager in the local ring for three hard battles, before the Nonpareil Clur>. It is said that Murray did not wish to fight Fry. At the hospital on the island it was thought that strangulation had as much to do with Fry's death a? did the blow on .his head, for before he fell he also received a blow to the stomach that caused him to vomit. DEATH OF AX OLD HEItO. C/\tn'iwl /\n >na/> in RuYt In out ? VXi Ull UIV i?AV I 11IIMV Ail &#?? t VIV With the Monitor. The Rev. A. A. Jones, aged 6 7 years, one of the oldest active members of the Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died at Norfolk, Va., Monday, following a stroke of paralysis. At the time of the Hampton Roads engagement between the Virginia and Monitor Mr. Jones was on the Virginia and was in one of the last two boats that left the Virginia when she was subsequently blown up by her own men off Craney Island. ^ g # Causes Serious Sickness. "Watch the fly as he stands on the lump of sugar, industriously wiping his feet. He is wiping off the disease germs; rubbing them on the sugar that you are going to eat, leaving the poison for you to swallow. There is special danger when flies drop into such fluid as milk. This forms an ideal culture material for the bai.lius. A few germs washed from the body of one fly may develop into millions within a few hours, and the person who drinks such milk will receive large dose" of bacilli, which may later cause serious sickness." ? ? l'lucky Woman. (Unmindful of a revolver, which he leveled at her, Freda Dolinsky, a girl of 20, tackled a burglar in her parents' home, in New York City on Sunday and floored him with a seltzer bottle. She followed this by breaking a tumbler on tbe burglar's head, stunning him, then sat on him until help arrived. Drank Carbolic Acid. Albert Hetts, aged about 67, despondent 'over his inability to secure employment in Greenville, committed suicide Tuesday morning by taking a dose of carbolic acid. He left a note explaining his reasons for taking his own life and hiding his friends and relatives good-bye. ( Two Hoys Drown. While bathing in Hillsborough river, near Tampa, Fla., Sunday morn- ( ing Victor Fabler, aged 1 9, and .his brother, Henry Fabler, 16 years old, : were drowned. Victor was teaching his younger brother to swim when the accident occurred. I NO MOKE MOSQUITOES. Experts Find a Fish That Destroys Their Larvae. Experts in the employ of the United States government declare that If Northern people will cultivate three types of fish known as "top minnows,'" sunflah and goldfish, the mosquito pest will be a thing of the past within a few years. Prof. William P. Seal declares New York will be rid of the bad Anopheles If her people will cultivate the 'Gambusia Aftinus" and the Hebranda Formnan ' Rnth nf t.hpsn BUecies are known as "top minnows" because they ar? in the habit of being near the surface and feeding there. Both are to be found in vast numbers in the South in the shallow margins of lakes, ponds and streams in the tide water regions. They are also to be found in shallow ditches and surface drains, even where the water is but a fraction of an inch deep. They find their way to the remotest possible breeding places of the mosquito and eat the mosquito larve by the million. Prof. Seal also advises Northerens to cultivate gold fish and two hinall kinds of sun fish, know as the "roach" and the "shiner,' which live orwr\n ? r\ln nf a Thn atr\ 1 /I fl a V* ia I a 7 V unit/115 j^/iau voi x IIU 5VIU11011 10 ?i??v 9 \ hut eats immense numbers of mosquito larvae. But it is cannibalistic. The top minnows are foragers, always on the move in search for food, skimming over the tops of plants with restless energy. * ^HwrfTI Greatest Internal and External [EEG0pain [IKILHill Remedy For Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lame Back, Stiff Joint* and Mu*cIe*,Sore Throat, Cold*, Strain*, Sprain*, Cut*. Bruise*, Colic, Cramp*, Toothache and all Nerve, Bone and Muscle Ache* and Pain*. The genuine has Noah'* Ark on every package. 25c., 50c. and $ 1.00 by all dealer* in medicine everywhere. Sample bp mall free Noah Ranody Co., Rkknoad, Va. and Doatoa, Man. n n n Bobbed of Her CSoslins. A gander pre-empted the first goslin hatched by a hen owned by Victor P. Witter, of Maunch Chunk, Pa. and when she went to coax the youngster back a Wyandotte rooster stole her nest and finished hatching the eggs. The hen became disgusted and left the place. Burned in House. At Raufaula, Okla., Pucnobojo Lowe, Peter Beaver and the lattor's wife and child, all from Weleetka, Okla., were burned to death in a Are which destroyed a rooming house early Monday. Beaver and Lowe each had a daughter at the Indian High school and were here to attend the graduating exercises. (JQUOR and DRUG ! HABITS and 1 mwM SELECTED ~ UESfll DO YOU FEEL LET DOWN DR. KINGS BLOOE WILL BRING BACK Y< BOOST your LP your S"i MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD NOW IS ALSO TF BOWEL T DR. KINGS DIAR ENTERY RIGHTS ALL WRONGS AND IS GIM Kwill force water to k anywhere about the hard water, and hav< or attic tank to freez< Columbia Suppl; CLASSIFIED COLUMN For 8h1?n? 100 bushels fine cotton seed, Laten strain.. SI.00 per bu. f. o. b. R. E. Edward's, Elloree, S. C. WjuiUhI?To buy Hides, Wool, Beeswax, Tallow, etc. Write for prices. Crawford & Co., 508-510 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Ga. For Sale?-Juniper telegraph and telephone poles, 20 feet to 65 feet long, 4 to 8 inch tops.. Boeder 'Bros, Edmund, S. C. Eggs for Hatching?superior quality. UnW Omlncrlnn * 1 SO Brown Leg- ^ " W". vy |/4..0vw ? horn |1.90 setting. Geo. 3. Austin, 738 Glenn St., Atlanta, Ga. Wanted?Names of those wanting teachers; names o.f teachers desiring positions. No charge to school officials. Address with stamp. Piedmont Teachers' Bureau, Durham, N. C. Wanted?Hardwoods, logs and lumber. We are cash buyers of poplar, cedar and walnut logs. Also want poplar, ash, cottonwool, cypress and oak lumber. Inspection at your point. Easy cutting. Writ# us. Savannah Valley Lumber Co., Augusta, Ga. IMPORTANT NOTICE. For a short while we have decided to save our future customers agents' pxnf>npif?? This will save about twenty per cent, on OrgniiM, and about ton per cent on Pianos. Organs, from $75 up. Pianos, from $225 up. Less the discount as stated above. Write at once for catalogs and terms to the old established. Clip this and send for catalogue. MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, Columbia, S. O. no cure: no pay:: Ho prepared for an emergency by having A bottle of NOAH'S COLIC VIEMIDY on hand. More animals die from colic than all othor non-contagious diseases combined. Nine out of overy ten cases would have been cured If NOAH'S COL'C REMEDY hAd beengiven in time. I?| TXnQTET 1 Isn't a drench or dope,|-<j|Sj^ I but Is a remedy given J uij mo ioiikli*-, nrif '' i Bm""'" ? m,.?m pie that a woman or|HM child can Kivo it. If i11 |n(| fails to cure, your! money refunded. I f your dealer cannot ^nT^^nnrM supply sond 50c in I '[AT I stamps and we wil'l k If / 4 1 | Bfc mall a bottle. Noah&AJ^^LBkjLJLB^I Remedy Co., Inc., Richmond, Va.|HI||HillllUllB Brured Bees Hiulily. 'While robbing a bee hive that had been made in the coping of the Baptist church, at Johnson, Mr. Parish was so badly stung as to require the services of two jvhysicians to relieve him of the pain. About 75 pounds of honey was found, an accumulation of three years or more. SEEa-tItt^N * C . NoT Hypodermics, ^uj?d(inr treatment', of Alcoholism . DRUGS .Reduced, AND UNFIT FOR WORK ) & LIVER PILLS 3UR ENERGY THEY /ER and TONE 'STEM AND LOOK GOOD TOO IE SEASON FOR ROUBLES J m W mr-m i ? ? ? KHUfcA & DYSCORDIAL LRANTEEI>. PRICE OF EACH 25c. ^| ltchen, bath room, laundry, barn, and place. You may have both soft and 3 It hot as well as cold. No elevated o or leak. y Co.' Columbia, S. C.