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MAY GAIN THREE! ^i Spallation as to What Increase o Congressman There Will ? ^ BE GIVEN THIS STATE t ? By the New Census, Which Is Now lieiag Figured Up.?The Increase in Our Population May (Jive Us as Many as Three New Members of Congress. One of the interesting and important results of the census of 1910 will be the reapportionment of representation in the national house *r,mif will be one Ol rtjiieotniiai.il vo. -? ? ? of the duties of the Sixty-second congress, to be elected next November to pass a law making a new basis of representation in the lower house, the figures of the census of 1910 being used in the apportionment. Unless the record of 100 years is broken, the aumber of representatives in congress will he increased. The Washington correspondent of The State says: Cdf course the population of the United States will be shown to have increased by several millions in the past tea years. Likewise the population of practically every State will show increases, although it is expected that in some of the New England States there will be only veiy slight increases, if not actual decreases. The present number of representatives in congress is 39 1, the basis of representation being, as nearly as possible, one to every 190,000 inhabitants. The allotment of representatives to each Stale is fixed by federal law, and the States themselves lay out their districts, endeavoring to arrange the districts so that each will include the required number of inhabitants. The congressional districts of this state, under act of the legislature approved February 20, 1902 (with one or two amendments to take care of new counties formed since that date), are as follows: First: Charleston, Clarendon, Col Je^ou and Dorchester; population, 1900, 196,390. Second: Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Edgefield, Hampton and Saluda; population, 1900, 195,609. Third: Abbeville, Anderson, Newberry, Greenwood, Oconee and Pickens; population 1900, 190,662. Fourth. Greenville, Laureus, Union aad Spartanburg: population, 1906, 161.933. Fifth: Cherokee, Chester, Che** terfieid, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and York; population, 1900, 190,462. Sixth; Darlington, Florence, Horry, Georgetown, Marlon, Marlboro and Williamsburg; population, 1900, 201,677. Seventh: Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter; population, I960. 163,753. Total popuation of South Carolina, 1,340,216. It has been estimated In Washington by a South Carolinian who pays close attention to such thinga that the population of the State will be shown by the present census to be botweea 1,600,000 and 1,900,000. At the lower of these figures, if the present basis of representation prevailied, the State would be entitled ' to two additional representatives, while if the population of the State should be 1,900,000 or over, the State would be entitled to three additional members of congress. An Idea has gained currency in Washington that the basis of representation to be. adopted In the apportionment of members of congrei>6 ( for the next ten year is one to every 220,000. Of course, nobody knows just what basis will be adopted, anil will not know until the mutter is decided by oougress itself. But if this guosa proves to be correct, a population of 1,700,000, or a gain of 420,000 in the past te? years, would entitle South Carolina to no additiual representative in congress. Oklahoma, the new state, whicii was entitled to five members of eoncress the rory clay she was admitted to the Hi ion, is expectea to show np io the census of 1910 with such gains thai she will be entitled to five more members. The growth of the State has been marvelous. Most if % * ^ V> f > %* f< .ill V, 4 . menu iiiviii iiGi o w lii UV) UUUIUCI it l*j. la New York, the population of New York city has so increased that It is probably that several new co.igressraea will represent the city in the Sixty-third house. As New Yora city is nearly always Democratic, the*^ new members from that town will probably add to Uie number of Democrats in the house in the next congress but one, although the in[ crease ia the electoral college, whicii will be commensurate with the increase in representatives, will probably be a gain for the Republicans, as the entire electoral vote is cast in accordance with the result in the whole State, and New York is no.mally Republican. S On the 220,000 basis, the num[ ber of representatives in congress I for the next ten years would be | about 41#. There has been some f talk ef n axing the basis so large that TRIED TO SELL GIRL RESULT, MAN IN JAIL ON * WHITE SLAVE" CHAfUaK. Atlantic City Police Relieve They Have Agent of Gauk Which l)c4?l? in Immigrant Girls. After a chase lasting over two weeks the police of Atlantic City, N. J., believe they have captured a "whito slave" operator for whose arrest the Federal authorities have been looking for some time, and also gotten on the trail of traftlc in immigrant girls whibh may cause an even greater scandal than the one which came before the Rockefeller Grand jury in New York city recently. As the result of the work of Detective Herbert, a man who gives his name as Geo. E. Nelson, is locked up in jail without bail, while a Slav girl, unable co give her name, is being held as a witness. The charge made by the police is that Nelson openly took the girl to a tenderloin [ resort in Atlantic City with a price for her possesson. The charge is made that Nelson went to Atlantic City several weeks ago and offered to sell the girl, whom he said had just arrived in this country and would be "perfectly tractable." A day or two afteiward the girl escaped from her cap tor and went to New oYrk city, Nelson followed her and reappeared in about a week with .his charge whicn he attempted to sell again. Nelson now in a cell, denies that he ever attempted to sell girls, but the police are working on the theory that he is an agent for a "white slave" gang dealing in iminigran' girls, and whom the Federal author, ties ha.e been attempting to catch lor some time. THK MOSQUITO WAli. ? Brings Health to a Large Scop? of I^and in Italy. As a result of a war on mosquitoes in certain party of Italy, a healthful, ?*>eerful looking race and fat, rosy c? t'dren have succeeded a population, which a few years ago consisted of a few miserable peasants, their skins yellow as saffron and their bodies bitten and suffering. This is the report made to the Department of agriculture by Dr. L. R. 1T ~^ rtf hnrpati of f>n nu wai u, vuiui v4 v**v MM. v. tomology, who ha6 returned from a recent visit to the Italian Campagna. Most of the visitors recollected this region as a vast tract of marshland, where mosquitoes and malaria would breed. The country having been drained by the government, now is being extensively farmed and is beginning to support what eventually will be a large population. The Italian government has used the German method of systematic dosing with quinine. It is known as official quinine and as the government has a monopoly on the tobacco trade, the cigarette boxes are made to carry a printed quinine ad vertisement. The drug is sold cheaply and to the charitable institutions, the soldiers and other individuals too poor to pay for it, the medicine is given free. QUITE liOM ANTIC. 1 i Opened Wrong Ix*tter and Ten Weds the Writer. 1 1 When Sergeant Thomas F. McCartney, stationed at Fort Barrancas, j Fla., unintentialiy opened a letter . addressed to another of the same j name, he had no idea t-he mistake i would bring him a wife. The incident culminated in the marriage on Wednesday of McCartney and MissFrances Donnell, at Carbonville, Pa. , When McCartney learned of his mistake about the letter he addressed a note of apology to the writer. This led to a correspondence, and this to tho engagement. Last week McCartney, whose home is at Gadsden, A o n /I it' rin f cu a 1 u i iuu^U ? uu n v to the Pennsylvania town for his bride. ? Head Struck Post. Norman Crouse, a New York Central engineer, was instantly killed when his head struck a signal post as he leaped out of his cab window when a south bound freight train his engine was hauling approached Williams Bridge near New York. Mail May Die. At Chicago Carver Remington, son of Samuel Remington, who >shot himself after preparing for his burial is hovering between life and death. The motive for the shooting was disappointment of several business ventures. Fewer Caine. Official figures show that 289,7 84 fewer immigrants landed In the last fiscal year than in the year previous. "" the number would be reduced to 350. But such an idea Is preposterous, as It would be Impossible ,to get a oongress to legislate 50 of its members out of their Jobs, ' .1 - VI READ THIS, BOYS A LKAF FROM TliK LIVKS OF TWO Git EAT CAROLINIANS. How I>r. Jaraes II. Carlisle Disco verchI in a Little Bo,v a Great Man and Railroad Manager, "From water-carrier at 50 cents a week to general manager of a great railway system, at a salary of many thousands of dollars a year, is a career one doesn't hear of every day, hut that was the achievement of a South Carolina boy, who grew up in Columbia, and who became well known all over the South. That boy was William H. Green, who was general manager of the lines now controlled by the Southern Railway system for a number of years.' This statement was made to the Washington correspondent of the Spartanburg Herald recently by Mr. S. H. Hardwick, who, as passenger tratlc manager, is at the head of tne entire passenger business of the Southern. The story of Capt. Green s remarkable success was mentioned by Mr. Hard wick in an accidental way. On the desk of the busy rail| way man's office lies a stack of rather heavy volumes, whose appearance indicates that they are the work of printers and binders of many years ago. Closer examination revealed the fact that the books were bound volumes of a weekly i magazine, printed in London, during the years from 18-10 to 1 852. Across the first page of each weekly issue were th * words. "The Railway Times," a " directly beneath this captain was * ."rude picture of a railway train of -hat date. Trailing along behind a de.'cate looking little locomotive a tra* 1 of cars was repaeneed, the single passenger coach being very much lixe the old*1 ?" nil" rlpoti'n l.v hnrcoj I 1 HI Ucll I J "fl J i UHl n U IJ J M V WV/W Next to this in the train ww a car loaded with cattle, while at the extreme rear was a flat-car, loaded with boxes of goods, trunks and other kind of traffic. "The issues appearing during the period mentioned has been bound into a dozen sturdy volumes, bearing the mark of an enterprising lx)okseller of Southhampton, England. Mr. Hardwlck was asked where he ran across these books, which were apparantly of much value and to reply he told the following story: "Why, about five or six years ago ?in 1905, I believe it was?I made a talk down at Glenn Springs, S. C., on the subject which was all-absorbing at that time, not only in South PTa ml in n.. hnt all over the country? the railroad-rate question. After my address was finished, Dr. James H. Carlisle, president emertius of Wofford Allege, Spartanburg, who was spending a while at Glenn's, and who had heard the talk, came to me and spoke most kindly of my feeble effort. He declared that he had been interested in what I said, and seemed deeply impressed with the importance of the problem of railroadrate adjustment. As well as I can recall his words?and they were impressive, I can assure you?he said: I feel that it is a great question, and I regret that I have not given i: more careful study.' "Dr. Carlisle tb?n told me that he had in his librar) <>n the Wofford College campus sever-l bound \ oiumes of an English railway magazine appearing about the middle ol the last centry, which might be o, interest to me, as they had been t< him so far as he, had had time tc read them, and asked me if I would accept them. Of course I told him 1 should he glad indeed to get them and I arranged for .him to ser.fi them to ine here. Those are ih< volumes he gave me. Most peopl would have destroyed them a.worthless years ago, but I have no doubt that Dr. Carlisle nas preserved them all these years, waiting fo; some such opportunity to give them to someone to whom they would he of interest and value. I have foun: them of great interest, as contrasting the railway business of sixtyyears ago with that of today; and now that Dr. Carlisle has passed away, the value of those hooks to me has passed out of the realm of dollars and cents.' Continuing Mr. Hardwick said: "I 8upj)08 you knew of the close friendship that existed for so man\ years between Dr. Carlisle and Capt. Green, our late general manager? Well, it is not so generally known, but they were great friends until t.he /I ?rt h /\P ^ o rvi C! r/\r\n ? ooenrnl t?i? o re ui'tuu wi v^a^t. vii UUI1, nv ? VI ai c% ? n ago. Dr. Carlisle began bis career as a teacher, after graduation from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and going to and from his school each day, ho passed by a litle fruit-stand, kept by an old lady "from the sand-hills," Mrs. Green, in the suburbs of Columbia. Occasionally, wheD she was not at the front of the little store, or when she was otherwise engaged, her little son, Willie, would wait on the young teacher, selling him suc.h wares as he wished to purchase. The teacher soon discovered that the boy was unusually alert and intelligent, and became much interested in him. Ho persuaded the boy to attend the school he was teaching. The two became great friends, and the boy \ 1 . ? ,/ confided to his teacher his desire to get into a larger world. His mechanical taste and tendency had been discovered by the teacher, and a position was secured for the boy in the j shops of the railroad at Newberry. I His wages were BO cents a week. Of course that was not enough to pay his expense, but both he and his Ididhh? were looking into the future and st'f&e.means were provided by which he could remain in the shops. His duties, at first, consisted in carrying water for the men employed in the shops. Continuing in the shops, he became apprentice, Mien fireman, then locomotive engineer, then supervisor and division superintendent, general superintend ent, and finally general manager of the great system he had served as a boy carryig water in the shops. His service covered a preiod of fortytwo years. Every step of his upward climb was marked by great dilligence and efficiency. He was pointed to as a strong man, a kindly man, and indeed a great man. He was faithful to his work, as well as to his benefactor and always attributed his success largely to Dr. Carlisle's interest and assistance. "We hear the boys these days talking about the hcnor of 'discovering' a great baseball player. Dr. Carlisle 'discovered' a great man in the little boy attending the fruitstand, and was always proud of Capt. Green's success. And Capt. Green, w.henever he found it convenient, would stop off in Spartanburg and go over to the college campus to call Ion his friend. After he had achieved such a position in the railroad I world that he. always traveled in his I own private car, Capt. Green freouentlv invited Dr. Carlisle to be bis > guest on tliQ car, and to travel with | him; but he was never successful. He said the doctor seemed to think that it was not exactly right for .him to ride on a railroad free, while others were required to pay their fares. That is just the idea that has now been enacted into law: but Dr. Carlisle was several decades ahead of his generation in holding those views. "Yes, those books are valuable, and would probably sell for a good sum; but you may be sure I am not going to sellthem." POLITENESS PAIS. ? While Traveling Assisted Stranger. Now Gets Legacy. An act of kindness which he rendered an aged stranger six years ago has brought a reward of $10,000 to t v a linn n vounc man of Homer. La. While traveling In Texas, Allen met an elderly man. In looking out for whose baggage the former proffered his services. On parting company with Allen, the old man took his name and address, with the declaration: "You may some day be rewarded for your kindness to a stranger.'' Allen was Thursday notified by lawyers of his former traveling companion's death and that the latter had bequeathed him $10,000 as "the young man who assisted an aged man while traveling several years ago." OFFENDED BY WOODEN HAMS. Neighbors Complain of Offensive Odors and Police Interfere. i At East Orange, N. J.. Max Rose had a butcher shop, Max went away, eaving in the deserted shop a num_ / ? cu'inprlnir ill I)er OI Cclil Y Cir>?t?U 11 n /no on <un...n ... . the window as an advertisement. John Smith, a druggist, after a few :lays, complained to tiie health board hat tlie hams were emitting an odor that wag not only offensive but dangerous. A number of neighbors joined in the complaint. The autorities hurst in the door of the shop, vn.l with clothespins on their noses, seized the hams and ripped off the canvass covering. The hams were oasswood. , ^ ... POLICK KILL TWO. iilot at Sugar Trust Plant Results With Fatalities. Two men were shot and hilled and four were dangerously wounded, one i policeman, in a riot C. striko sympathizers Thursday at t.he plant of the American Suear Refining company in Williamsburg, N. Y. A score of others were hurt. C-^wds of sympathizers threw bricks at the strike-breakers from house tops and when the non-union men started on with their trucks to deliver sugar a rush was made for the wagons. Thn nnlir-tt on the trucks returned th~ iiro of the crowd and two of tho rioters were shot. Klevon Men Killed. Kleven men were killed in La Tueque, Canada, Tuesday. One of the men was opening a can of powder with an axe when an explosion 'occurred which set fire to a traiu of powder leading to a tunnel in which 1 f> men were working. The accident occurred on the new Traus-Continental railway line, j Had Oool Day. With less humidity and more breeze New York didn't suffer greatly with the hoat Tuesday, although the mercury reached a maximum of I 36 at 2.30 o'clock that afternoon. Seven deaths occurred during the day. ??????13 fFIRST NATIC ft OONWA CAPITAL STOCK ffS SURPLUS PROFITS ^ TOTAL ASSKSTS fDlKEC ' J. A. (McDerinott, John ( ?B. G. Collins, II. L. I M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui Successor to the Bank el jwk Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent dev A Republic. Backed by the < ik United States Bonds, we are | A ?m ? K1 a it / ?/ r% m i lUlll^l tf till/ iCtinuuauiv avvvmi A H. A. SPIV 10V, ? Cashier. BANK OF Conwa i ! Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OK STOCK SECURITY OK DEPOSIT! DIR EC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< , will justify, and we ; ROB Ell T B. SCARBOROUGH, D i 'RESIDENT. ? ?? ?11? > 11? l/-\ rai! ^ ri*?| v? c tumiiiui, iv |'"J | PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney Mild Councilor At Law CONWAY, 8. 0. R. B. SCAJiD ROUGH OONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. M. ift. BL KKOOGHJ9 cm WAT, A. o. K. WOFFOKD WAIT. Attonwr ?t . Ttaak of Horry Iluilding. CONWAY, 8. O. ^ ? WE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE Ifyon want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary &hutile or a Hlnrle Thread (Chain 8litch\ Hewing Machine write to TNI NEW NOME 8EWINI MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Masa, MaaT*ew!nc machines are made to sell regardless ft quality, hut the N?W House is made to wca*. Our ruaranty never runs out old by aatbarlsed dealers Ml|W roa SAUS IT bukiiol'UNS & collins OO.# Conway, ft. O. o ? ? Every time a lavly goes into a store and buys a pair of American made hose she pays a tax of seven cents to the hose trust. Why should the hose trust -be given this right to plunder the people- The same may be asked in regard to the lumber and other trusts. ? ? ? Tt is very convenient for the indicted officials of sugar and other trusts to lay all the blame of wrong doing upon dead men, but it is anything but honorable and deceives no one. Still no one expects honor afnong people who deliberately set themselves to defraud the goyernmeut and cheat the public. - ?*?-u??M?MSM??MM?? 5 .v< $ )NAL BANKV ' Y, 8. o. . ffiT $26,000.00 V 2,600.00 I? V 126,000.00 ^ 1 TOUS: jP 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, luck, W. R. Lewis, 1). mL ittlebaum, L). A. Spivey. ^ f Conway, t.he oldest Bank In \_A in Eastern Carolina. Close- " , elopment of the Independent d? Government and secured by Mk prepared to extend to our cub- jp nodations. Kw% II. (S. COLLINS, A President. ^ f HORRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,000 12,no* holders . . . . 50,00? dks 1 1 2,500 ;iors I). V. Richardson, w. a. joiitihon, V. ill a. } rcpman Dmmodaticn which their accounts solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a. fkeemam Vice Rr^iukwt. ( ahhike. cent, cn yearly deposits. Sonic More Graft. Senator Dick is to be called upon to make an explanation concerning his collection with a corporation owning a pneumatic device for the transportation of mail and this wdl further complicate the political situation in Ohio. In view of the fa^t that Mr. Dick is a member of the senate committee on postofllces and post-roads he is in a position to tigure as something more than a "deadhead" in the enterprise. Unfortunately for him, howeve\ he has to stan l for re-election at the hands of the legislature to be chosen this year, hence he is likoly to be asked some Questions abo it his Interest in the United Pneumatic Transmission Company. William it. Dinspel, the inventor of the pueumatic tujie for which the comj?cnx owns the patent, hae attempted t ; explain Mr. Dick's connection witn the corporation. "Senator Dick, ' nc says, "is a hustler and a fine man. He has about $200,000 worth of stock, which { n (? a 11 I n nr o t ? k ? ? O ? .% L. to fjuiiiiifj txi. yo i uui in cumw; un <;id not pay that for it. Ho paid $10,000 for the first stock he rH. Then I got him a lot more, and lie is very enthusiastic about Lhe company's prospects." Evidently Mr. Dinspel appreciates the advantages of having a "hustler" on the senate committee on postofilces and post roads who is interested to the extent of $200,000 in his device. Recommendations from that committee for the adoption of the device should have great weight with the postoffice department. * ? Don't Rob l/over. The Aiken Journal and Review ' says: "In this Issue appears a letter from Mr. J. O. Patterson In which he claims to have secured a survey of the Edisto River, with the view of providing a direct route for t.he transportation of freight. Some four weeks ago the Columbia State published an article crediting Congressman Lever with HOrnrfmr Ml in ... ...q v,i *" survey, looing to the dredging of the Edisto River, which article also appears in this paper. Who secured it, we do not now, but Mr. Lever beat. V Mr. Patterson to it, and will receive the credit for doing this work." ' i We think the Journal and Review has gotten a little mixed up on this matter. There is no doubt but Congressman Lever got the bill through congress to survey the Edisto River and the proposed canal from the Edisto river to the Ashley river. Congressman Patterson, no dougt, got a bill through to have the South Edisto river surveyed up to Aiken. We do not wish to rob Congressman Patterson of credit for anything ho - I has done for his constituents, hut at. the same time we think Congress man liever snouni he Riven credit, lor all he has done for his constitutents. That he should he given credit for the Edisto river survey and the canal survey connecting the Edisto and Ashley rivers there can be no doubt on the part of those who are acquainted with all t.he circumstauces connected with these surveys. Suppose a congressman gets appropriations for his district aggregating five hundred thousand dollars and then helps the Republicans pat a duty on some article that will cause the people of his district to pay double that sum in the way of indirect taxes, would the people of the district be benefitted or harmed? 1 . i