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jL f A QUEER YEAR" Of to This Tiae We Ha?e Had Some Most Remarkable Weather. YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER Are We Going to Have a Repetition of the Year That Had Cold Weather in Every Month and Had Hig Snow Storms in the Month of June. The Augusta Herald says the seasons so far this year have been most peculiar. After a winter of rather disagreeable weather spring apparently opened up early, and during March and the first half of April the weather was most pleasant, with absence of rain and the usual 'March winds the distinguishing feature. Then came a return of cold weather. During the latter part of April there was a heavy snowfall which extended well into Georgia, and frost which reached into Florida. And since that time the weather has been cool. Only a few days ago a heavy snowstorm was reported from the West, and within the past week overcoats were worn on the streets of Augus ta. Surely mosi remarnaoie weamer! But it is not without precedent. The year 181G was a year that must have been similar to the weather as we have had it up to this time. Jt was referred to for years afterwards as "the year without a summer," and so cold was it at times in some sections that almost all crops were a failure, and the year was called by the irreverent the year of "eighteen hundred and starved to death." A gentleman in Thomasville has a copy of an old Virginia paper, published shortly after the war, which contains the weather conditions of the year 1816 that was copied from the Boston Globe, and which is of interest now. This seems to be the account of a party who had personal knowledge of that abnormal summer, and who had collected some data in regard to it. He says: "While every one is speaking of the present season as being remarkable in its characteristics, I have gathered for your readers some reliable facts of the year 1816, known as the 'year without a summer.' Few persons now living can recollect it, but it was the coldest ever known through Europe and America. The following is a brief abstract of the weather during each month of t.he year: January was mild, so much so as to render fires almost needless in parlors. December previous was >very cold. "February was not very cold; with the exception of a few days it was mild like its predecessor. ! "March was cold and boisterous ' during the first part of it; the re- ' mainder was mild. A great freshet 1 on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers 1 caused a great loss of property. "April began warm, but grew cold- 1 er as Uie month advanced, and end- 1 ed with snow and ice and a temperature more like winter than spring. * "May was more remarkable for c frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen; ice formed half an inch 1 thick; corn killed, and fields again t and again replanted until deemed J too late. 1 "June was the coldest ever know in this latitude. Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost every green thing was killed. Fruit nearly all ? destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in Maine, t.hree in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. Considerable damage was done at ^ New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise in the river. The su- * burbs were covered with water, and ' the roads were only passable with l! boats. * "July was accompanied by frost ' and ice. On the 5th ice was formed ( of the thickness of a common win- J dow glass througout New England, f New York and some parts of Penn- ( sylvania, Indian corn was nearly all J destroyed; some favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of ' some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. "August was more cheerless, if possible, than the summer months 1 already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so 1 frozen that the greater part of it was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed, both in this country and in Europe. Papers received from England state 'that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no summer.' Very little corn ripened in the New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1815 for the seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 a bushel. "Septemebr furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it became very cold and frosty; ice formed a quarter of an inch thick. "October produced more than its share of cold weather; frost and ice were common. | "November was cold and bluster CAUSES MANY WRECKS V VESSELS IXXST AND SEVERAL MEN DROWNED. | The Disaster Was Caused by Heavy Fogs Along the Coast of British America. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., Days thick fog and a quickly born southwesterly gale are said to have resulted in the wrecking of six vessels and the loss of eight men at various points along the rocky coast of the Atlantic Wednesday night and early Thursday. While most of the crew of 25 were asleep below decks, tne t<reucn brigantine Mauve, a fishing vessel, piled up in the fog an Point Blanche, at the entrance of St. Pierr harbor, Miquelon, Thursday morning, and six men on deck were hurled overboard and drowned. The remainding 19 made their way to shore in small boats and rafts. The Mauve is believed to be a total loss. The Norwegian bark Borghild was driven on Castor Ledges, off Port Bickerton, N. S., and at once began to go to pieces in the heavy sea. The crew of nine men launched t.heir small boats, but all of them were batered to pieces on the rocks and two of the men were either drowned or hurled to death on the ieugt*s. i ne reiimiumg o^v^n, tunning to the wreckage of the boats, were rescued by fishermen. .Half a mile inside of Port Nova, N. S., the BritisJi steamship Hen Cruachan bound from Baltimore to Chatham, N. B., struck the beach so hard that it is doubtful if she can be saved. Her crew of 2G men ( were rescued. Captain Boswell, it ( is said, mistook the Louisbury fog sii^11 for the Scattarie w.histle and steered a wrong course, landing in the breakers. Several steamers and tugs have gone to the scene of the < wreck. ( ? ? ? ? "i can't explain:" I Holstlaw, Illinois Senator, Talks Of His Confession. "I'd rather be known as a boodler than a liar," said Senator Duniel Holstlaw in an interview at his home at Inka, 111., Wednesday, speaking of his confession to accepting a bribe of $2,500 as a legislator. "Maybe," he continued, "I took the money because I saw everyone else doing the same thing?I can't explain." "I made the confession because I could not tell a lie." "I don't know?I don't underetaml " Y\e *nid with a honeless air answering a question of why he, a man owning property worth a quarter of a. million dollars, would accept bribe. i "All I want is to sink out of sight. ( I knew the indictment charging ma with perjury was a bluff, and it did ' not frighten me. But when they asked me whether I was paid for noting for Senator Lorimer, I had * :o tell the truth." (A daughter of Holstlaw followed ( .he interviewer out of the house. Breaking down, she exclaimed: "To spend years of toil in buildng a name and then to destroy it at >ne blow. Oh, how could he do it? dy mother is prostrated. We have lot said a word to father about the "j rouble, for it would break his heart, lo could not have been in his right nind." J BONK IN THROAT KILLS. ? ^cgro Man at Bntesburg Dies in a } Peculiar Manner. At Batesburg Wade Brooks, a nejro man, who lived on Mr. N. A. I Bates' place, died Wednesday under ( leculiar circumstances. About ten , lays ago Wade w?s eating a piece of i Guinea fowl, and in some way he J ,rot a piece of bone crosswise in his hroat. T.here it remained for a lay or two, when a doctor was sum- ( noned. The doctor, it is said, took in instrument and pushed the bone lown. Instead of relieving the ne- j ?ro it made matters worse. The , 3one was lodged further down and . :he man died Wednesday. ^ College Moved. Harbinson college, the colored institution at Abbeville whose main building was burned down by an incendiary first several months ago, has decided to move to Greenville. ing. Snow fell so as to make good sleighing. "December was mild and comfortable. "The above was a brief summary of the 'cold summer of 1816, as it was called, in order to distinguish it from the cold season. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year. Very little vegetation matured in the Eastern and Middle States. The sun's rays seemed to be destitute of heat throughout the summer; all nature was clad in a sable hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety concerning the future of this life. "The average wholesale price of flour during hat year in the Philadelphia market was $13 a barrel. < The average price of wheat in Eng- ; land was 1)3 shillings a quarter." < STRUCK BY CYCLONE HIGH WINDS DO MUCH DAMAGE IN AUGUSTA, GA. Streets Were Blocked With Trees and Wires and the City Was in Total Darkness. A dispatch from Augusta says that the entire city has been in darkness since 10.13, every street is congested with uprooted trees and disabled wires; every telephone is out and trolleys are disabled, as a result of a cyclone lasting about eighteen minutes Thursday night. So far no fatalities have been reported, but half a dozen or more res Idences have been more or less wrecked, and two or three warehouses blown down. The Casino building, at Lake View, where a nLglit performance was just concluding, was completely wrecked, but the audience escaped uninjured. Every night enterprise depending on electric power is tied up, and all business .houses and residences using current are in darkness. The entire fire alarm system is disabled. The cyclone passed over into South Carolina touching Aiken, Orangeburg and other places. HEATS THE KECOIU). Englishman Flies Across English Channel and Hack. A Dover, England, dispatch says the Hon. Charles Stewart Ilolla. captain in the London section of the army motor reserve, driving a Wright Kttxl rv tirt til r> inn tn/1 A ti oln-Qn von il pi' UlJJiailC) viuuivaicu nilgiv> uunux UX/. Dualities by crossing the English channel twice Wednesday evening without alighting. He made the round trip between Dover and Calais in ninety minutes. .While two Frenchmen, Louis Dleriot and Count de Lesseps, have crossed the channel in an aeroplane, it remained for an Englishman, in an American machine, to perform the double feat. The distance across between the two points named is 21 miles, so that .his over water flight of 4 2 miles without a stop establishes a new record. Capt. Rolls left Dover at G.30 o'clock. The atmospheric conditions were excellent. He lost no time in manoeuvres, but after describing a circle, headed toward the coast of France. In anticipation of the flight, torpedo boats steamed at full speed across the Straits, but the pace of the aeroplane was swifter. ? ? ? SMOKE CREATES PANIC. % In the Subway Five Hundred *eei Beneath the Street. Five hundred hysterical women, 9creamlng children and panic-stricken men fought their way through a dense smoke in the Mott avenue subway station in the Bronx, New York city, early Thursday, striving to escape. Only one elevator was available to take them to the street, which is B5 feet above the subway level at :his point, and the crush to reach his exit or the five flights of stairs tvhich led to the surface increased :he panic. Fifteen persons were overcome by ;moke and two men were injured seriously enough to require hospital frMtment. Fire in an automatic lumpinig station caused the smoke. The damage was nominal. ? ? AUTO JJUItST INTO FLAMES. Valuable Car of Lancaster Man Destroyed by Fire. At Lancaster the automobile of dr. Ghas. 13. Skipper was practically lestroyed by fire Thursday afternoon, dr. Skipper had just lighted the dlot light when flames burst from Deneath the car. He had presence )f,mind enough to push the car out )f his carage, which was very close to his home, and turn a stream 3f water on the car from the y.tru hose. Otherwise, it is probable that his home would have been destroyed. The car is covered by insurance. This is the second automobile that has been destroyed by fire at Lai caster in the past six months -? ? ? Requisition Refused. Governor Ansel Tuesday issued his decision on Governor Patterson's requisition for Shep Pearlstine of Denmark, indicted in Charleston, Tenn., for embezzlement, refusing requisition and stating the legal ground at A f/nn mnnt ho fiirn Hi v^m. M IV U 111 V II 1 II u VI . . v/. .. or Patterson of Tennessee disallowed Governor Ansel's requisition of C. J. Hebert, wanted for trial here in connection with the Seminole swindle. ? ? Shot Self and Wife. At Jefferson, Ind., with the words "I don't believe you love me any more," William Boatman, a former employe of the American Car and Foundry company, walked up to his wife and shot her three times and then killed himself. ? Snow in Pittsburg. At Pittsburg, Pa., snow fell Tuesday. The temperature was 2 9 degrees, the coldest May 31 in the records of the local weather bureau. CHURCH GROWTH Larger in Proportion Than the Increase in the Population. INCREASE VERY GREAT There Are Many More Women Than Men Included.?In the Larger Cities Catholics More Than Double Protestants, but the Latter Is Said to be Oreatly Understated. Church growth in the United States has been greater than the ii crease in population between Uie years 1900 and 1906, according to the special census repo'-t on the census of religious bodies for 1906. In the principle cities of the country^ the growth both in the number of religious organizations and communities was greater in the years mentioned than the increase in population, w.hile in the area outside the principle cities to the rate of increase in the number of new churches established was approximately) the same as the rate of population j increase, although in the number of , communicants the increase in the outside area, as in the cities, was in excess of that in population. | Out of every 1,000 people in the 160 principle cities of the country?j that is, those which had a population of more than 25,000?there were 469 church members w-hile for, the area outside these cities there i were 3 64, and for the entire country there were 391. As compared to 18 90 the report sJiows a gain of ninety communicants in each 1,000 of population for the principal cities and a gain of fifty-one outside of them. Female members in 19 06 outnumbered the male members by 3 2 per cent in continental United States, | while in the principle cities the excess of female members was proportionately less, being 960,526, or 23.5 per cent. The aggregate number of 32,936,445 communicants or members of all religious denomination in continental United States was reported. Of this grand total the various Protestant hnriioK renorted 20.287.743. and v w ^ ^ - - *r ? ' the Roman Catholic Church 12,679,1 42. | For purposes of comparison the census authorities divided the prin- ' cipal cities into four classes, those having in 1900 a population of 300,- J 000 and over, constituting the first class; those of from 100,000 to 300,000 forming the second; those of ' from 50,000 to 10,000 making the third; those of from 25,000 to 50,- 1 000 forming the fourth class. Of the protestant aggregate there were 1,478,145 or 7.3 per cent, in the first class cities; 4.7 per cent in ^ the second; and 7.4 per cent, in the third and fourth classes combined, while 80.6 per cent, were outside the principal cities. Of the Roman Catholic Church's * total membership there was 3,375,453 or 27.9 per cent in first class cities; 1,361,132 or 11.3 per cent in the second class; 1,570,944, or 13 per cent in the third and fourth classes combined, with 5,771,613 or ^ 48.8 per cent, outside the principal cities. It is seen, therefore, that the num- ^ her of members of the Roman Catholic Church reported in cities of the * first was considerably more than double the number reported by all the ^ Protestant bodies, while outside of the principal cities the number reported by the Catholics was only a little over one third of the number g credited to the Protestants. It is pointed out in the report that the j strength of the Protestant bodies, as compared with the Roman Catholic g Church, is ereatlv understated. Only two of the Protestant bodies i reported a majority of their membership in the principal cities, i. e., the Church of Christ, Scientist, 82.6 per cent., and the Protestant Episco- * pal Church 51.2 per cent; while of the membership of the Jewish congregations, 88.7 per cent are in the ^ principal cities, and of the Eastern Orthodox churches 70.7 per cent. ? Of the total number of communicants or members reported for the *principal cities by all denominations, 6,307,529 or 60 per cent, belonged to the cities showing the largest proportions of Protestant communicants are Memphis, 84.1 per cent; Toledo, 70 per cent; Kansas City, Mo., 66.2 6 per cent, and Indianapolis, 62.1 per f cent. The cities showing Uie largest percentages of Roman Catholic communicants are Fall River, 86.5 per cent; San Francisco, 81.1 per cent; New Orleans, 79.7 per cent; New York, 76.9 per cent; Providence, ' 76.5 per cent; St. Louis, G9 per cent; ( Chicago, 68.2 per cent., and Philadelphia, 51.8 per cent. In t.he five leading cities the proportion of communicants to population was: New York, 4 4.7 per 1 cent; Chicago, 40.7; Philadelphia, ' 38.8; Roston, 62.6, and St. Louis, 1 4 6.6 per cent. It is stated that, in ' general, cities which have a rela- { tively large Roman Catholic popu- 1 lation show a higher percentage of 1 church members than cities in which ! this body has a comparatively small ' representation. In Fall River 86.5 1 per cent of the total number of 1 members reported were Roman Cath- < BANK OF Conwa ( CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Bock, George J. Holiday, We continue to pay 5 per cent inter* it youraocount ROBERT B. BOARBOROUGH, ? * President. 999 999 999m& | FIRST NATI( A OONWA ? CAPITAL STOCK A SURPLUS PROFITS A TOTAL ASSESTS fDIIUSC J. A. (McDermott, John C Jfk B. G. Cotllins, H. L. E 2? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qus Successor to the Bank of jLt Horry County, and a pioneer ]y allied with the recent dev (Republic. Backed by the ( jLi United States Bonds, we are p WJ tomers any reasonable aecomn Jk H. A. SPIVEY, ||f Cashier. Must Keep Step. Towns are like individuals, they I must keep un with t.he progress of the times, or they will soon be forgotten and passed by as old foggies. There was a time when rushlights and tallow dips were the only kind of lights available for private and public uses. Rut the day of the rushlig.hts and tallow dips is gone, and any individual or town that would adopt such a mode of lighting when oil, gas or electricity are at hand would be considered antediluvian. But what is not done in the matter of lightning is too often done in other things. That is to say, t.here is frequently a lack of public spirit which prevent the introduction and use of many things that would embellish a town, make it more attractive and draw people and trade. People laugh at the idea of tallow dips, but are content to endure whetched sidewalks, abdominable roadways, and unsightly spots that detract from the beauty and convenience of a place and therefore interfere with its prosperity. In these things many people are content to ive as their fathers did, forgetting hat if their fathers were now living .hey would have too much pride and mblic spirit to live as their descendants do. We are glad to say hat our little city ip up-to-date and )rogressive, and the same may be 4 ;aid of the other towns nearby. LiAUGHIN'. ling us something full of laughter; Tune your harp and twang the strings "ill your glad voice chirping after, Mates the song the robin sings; joose your lips and let them fritter Like the wings of wanton birds? 'hough they naught but laug-hter utter, Lau.g.h, and we'll not miss the words. ing in ringing tones that mingle In a melody that flings oyous echoes in a jingle Sweeter than the minstrel sings; ling of winter, spring or summer, Clang of war or low c" herds; 'rill of cricket, roll of drummer? Laugrh and we'll not miss the words. dke the lisping laughter glancing, From the meadow brooks and springs, , 1 >r the river's ripples dancing To the tune the current sings. } ling of now, and the hereafter; Let your glad song, like the birds, I )verflow with limpid laughter? Laug.h and we'll not miss the words. lanind W Vi 11 OA ni )\ nil Av %J Uill\>0 IT iiltwill U 1VMV j , The war against consumption thould have the sympathetic co-operition of everyone. That co-operation nay be effectively given by close at:ention to sanitation. Foul air is me of the most prolific causes of the disease, yet how many people there are who seem to dread pure lir. They sleep with the windows and floors of their rooms hermetically closed. ? ? ? The testimony in the BalllngerPinehot investigation is all in, but we sec no reason to chanre our opinion that Nallinger is a complete tool af the land grabbers and should be kicked out of the cabinet. Dlies and the church membership rep resented 67.8 per cent of the population, while in Memphis, where 34.4 per cent of the communicants reported belonged to Protestant bodies, the church membership was only 30 per cent, of the population. 1 HOKKY, y. C $ fiQOOT 10 OCH 5?<X* 110 (XN :ioks D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman* *t on yearly deponite, and we aolie). V. Richardson, wiix a. frfeka* Vice President. Cash he *99 999999 9 9mfX JNAL BANK | Y, S. C. $25,000.00 9 2,500.00 ffli * 125,000.00 0k TOIIS: 9? Spivey, D. T. McNeill, JK luck, W. It. Lewis, D. ? ittlebaum, D. A. Spivcy. Conway, t.he oldest Bank in A in Eastern Carolina. Closeelopment of the Independent xovernment and secured by 0k repared to extend to our cus- it. nodations. ^1$ ?. G, COLLINS,' A President. $ ?- i PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attornej and Councelor At Law. CON WAV, S. C. R. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, S. CL Attoraej at Law. H. H. BURROUGHS IThjilcUn and Jvrgeoa CONWAY 8. O. m. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney M L? Bank of Horry Building. OONWAY, S. O. IDE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE k fcLIGHT RUNNING ^ yEWunflJL [fyon wool elthiera VibratingShuttle. Rotary Shuttle or a Single Thread f Chain &ticA] Sewing Machine write to > rttl NEW NOME tEWINI MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mamm. If any tewlnff machines are made to tell rerardleta Qf Quality, but the New Heme it made to weaa Our ruaraaty never runt out Aelf hj Mtherlied dealer* ealj* roa SALS BY * BURROUGHS A OOLLJNS OOh Oonway, B. O. Senator Lorimer, who is charged wit.h bribing members of the Illinois Legislature to vote for him for Unit ea oiares nenaior, rairiy roamed at the month as he abused the Chicago newspaper that first published the charge that he had bought his seat In the United States Senate. Un-. fortunately for Senator Lorimer, several members of the Illinois Legislature have confessed that they were paid to vote for him. No newspaper should be abused for publishing the truth, matters not who it hurts. If publishing the truth hurts a public man, it is because the public man has done something he should not have done. If the truth hurts it Js not the newspapers fault. ^ A A / With Rome men you cannot tell how strong you are until they bear the responsibilities of high public office. And it is by the same method that other men show their weakness.