Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- Absolutely Pure The only baking /powder matfo from Royal Gra/pe Cream of Tartar HoAlum,No Lime Phosphate A GREAT VICTORY DWMOCKATS WKN'T IS OS TI IOS DAY ON A TIDAL WAV 10. Tlioy Not Only Carry the House by Sweeping .Majority, l'ut Oaiii Niav Senators. Tho political upheaval of last Tuesday, when tho Democrats went in on a tidal wave, lias been followed by a general survey of the popitical field, which discloses with greater detail and precision the magnitude of the great Democratic victory. Latest calculations on the national house of representatives, based on complete, but unoflicial returns, show - : 1 i 1 .? r,, I that the Dei ilO^TflUS W111 Ilil vu (i oaic j working majority of 30. j The outcome of the United States I senate is now definitely settled. Thai Republicans are assured of 1G now I senators, which with 34 hold-over J senators, gives them a total of 50. The Democrats are assured of 15 new senator, which, with 25 hold-overs, gives tliem a total of 4 0. 1 Two senantorships are still in doubt?namely, the successor of the late Mr. Dollivcr in Iowa and of Mr. I Garter in Montana, where there is J prospect of a tie. These determined totals, However, J leave a Republican majority in the! senate as follows: Total membership, 92; necessary to majority, 47; Republicans, 50;! Democrats, 40; doubtful,'2. I The 1G Republican senators considered assured are from California, Connecticutt, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada,! North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode! Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington,! Wisconsin and Wyoming. The 15 Democratic senators eon-1 sidered assured are from Florida, In-I dianna, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,! Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Teunesssee, I Texas,, Virginia and West Virginia. A summary of the contests for governorships shows the following Democratic governors elected with the approximate pluralities: 1 New York, Dix, 60,000. j New Jersey, Wilson, 3 0,000. Connecticut, Haiuwin, 5,0</u. Massachusetts, Koss, 33,000. / Ohio, Harmon, 60,000. Oklahoma, Cruce, 25,000. Oregon, West, 2,000. Wyoming, Carey, 2,0 00. Alabama, O'Neal, 50,000. South Carolina, 131oase, 60,000. Texas, Colquit, 150,000. North Dakota, l'lurke, 3,000. The Republican governors elected with approximate pluralities: New Hampshire, Mass, 7,()O0. Rhode Island, Pothier, 1)00. Iowa, Carroll, 10,000. Kansas, fitubbs, 5,000. Oslinrn. -10.000. Minnesota, Eborhart, 50,000. Nebraska, A Id rich, 6,000. South Dakota, Vessey, 12,000. Wisconsin, McOovern, 1 5,000. California, Johnson, 25,000. Nevada, Oddie, 500. Tennessee, Hopper, 12,000. The governorships in two States are not yet reported as being beyond doubt, namely, Colorado and Idaho. In the Mast the Republicans lost TNow York Now Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut in the late election and Maine sometime ago. Express Ollice Robbed. The express ofliee at St. Matthews was broken into by robbers one nig.it last week. They evidently were on the hunt mainly for money, but fortunately, they found very little. A few of the lighter express packages were rifled and a suit of nice clothes, shipped from a tailor in Columbia was taken. The sheriff and Deputy Hill are on the trail of the burglars and they hope to eet them. ? ? Carbide Exploded. Dr. Henry C. McFall, of Anderson county, while charging his lighting plant with carbide, was seriously burned about the face and hands on Sunday, the cheniicnl exploding. The cause of tlio explosion is unknown. MONEY FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK. Britfrch Academy Receives Endowment for Research. The British Academy has received ?10.000 i'or the purpose of establishing a memorial to the laie I.eui>ol i Sch welch, of Paris. This is the first benefact on the a< tdemy has received. In accordance with the wishes of the dom r, says tlio Ixmdon ICxpresr, the end; wm< tit Is to be ca led "The the end* winent is to be. called "The Leopold Schwelch *und," ai d Is to be devoted o the futherance of research la the archaeology, art, history, languages and literature of an ient civilization, with reference to Biblical study. There are to be anr uolly not less than three public lectures to be delivered in London, dealing with a subject coming within the scope of those studies. The r sidue of the income of the fund, with all sums which may be added, is to be applied for the purposes of excavation, and for the publication of the results of 01 iginal re search In connection with one 01 moie of the subjects named. Ash Pit for Every House. Among the objects that invariably attract the attention of tourists in Denver are the ash pits at eveiy fPh ao/1 oca vnurln t rv h IIVMiOC. I IROU (Li U 11J(VU\> ?iv v/vw..?*i ^ .y the character of the coal commonl used fur domestic purposes and by 11.. high winds that prevail, says th_ Kansas City Times. The ashes of the lignite coal so e: tensivcly burned hold the heat for a extraord naty length of time, rcmai. ing red hot for many hours, or, i kept from the air, for days alter pacing thro igh the grate bars. It is evident tliat if these red he; ashes were thrown out in Lnek yai or vacant lots tho high winds tli sweep across the plains would seatt them broadcast, making tnem a cu stant menace to the ejes and clot hi of passcrsby, as well as it) infla. inahie property of every kind. Ew house is therefore required by c.i.. ordinance to be provided wiili an at pit, shaped like /an old fiskSonc bake oven, with small openings at t... top. thiough which the ashes ai thrown. Another opening i.. one sit at tlie bottom permits their rumow.i when the pit is full. $1,000 For a Newspaper. Lairing the siege of Kimterley the editor of the only daily paper tho.< was often hard put to lind enoug. news. One day in a club room hi found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairi. new paper from Capo Town. He bor rowed it and rushed to his own olfiet where it soon appeared as a speci j edition, selling like hot cakes. Thu same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who inquired: "Where's my Cape Town paper?" Oh, I cut it up for the priu ers," war the reply. "Please don't or that ag.iin," said Rhodes mildiy. "That paper came through by uaiivi runners and cost me $1,000." Hoi 32s Made From VV'iales. iNot very long ago there was en the coast of Lancashire, England, r cottage anil boatbouse that were matt almost entirely from the remains of , score or so <if whales thai had bee; driven ashore some years before. Ti ..P < Ixi i /Midi itr' i I tl 111^ ? lit I\ \J k l liVJ VVIUIV V W wholly of whalebone, and the drit skins of Die huge creatures were uea? ly and strongly fastened as a co\ern for wa i iS and roof. Thre is a not lie, building of exactly the same kind i. Scotland, and in this case the skull: of the whales and some of tae heavie bones aie used with great eiiect a.outsioc ornaments. Thunder perstitions. Thunder, just because it is a nob : for winch there ij no visiuti camlias alwt >s excited the ima; in .(ion ? . the unscientific. One old wiacr e.. plains the belief o? his day that "a storm is said to follow present y wbc a company of hogges runnc cryi. , home," oil the ground that hogt t is most dull and of a melancl dy nature and so by reason doth for -ee the rain that cometh." Leonard ;->iggc in liis Prognostication Ever astin; (155G) mentions that "thunde in t. ? morning signifies wind, al n t no( 1 rain and in the evening a gra .t tempest." A Remarkab New Pot vo. The British Vice Consul ai 11 men reports that the culiivation in h.ance i tho new potato b iglit. from orugu has been observed or some i an wl . great interest. T a variety s calico "Solatium comm .r.onali \ \* jet," i> Said to jiOii>v;n3 6# CilCliCO Of lilo'C ! '.! well as nutritive 'alue, and is equ . to the best table potato kn )\vn i . France. This variety is (lis i,unshed by its resistance * frost, as also to disease, and its one great advantage is that it prospers moat in a damp inu swampy soil, where no other kind of potato would grow, Chem'st'y f Fatig' ?. A German investigator. > re'chard*. has promulgated the theor that f tiguc is the direct result of 1 pois< i manufactured by the system and d veloped by hard work, and r?quiri: } rest to dri* it out- Welchard expei,mented w i the muscle juice c. guinea pig vhich he had tu >vioup ' fatigued a hie examinatior prov- < that this ice anted as a * eritat poison sin ir to some of t e \ve? known J. B.v inoculating oth animals h? roduoed sympt njs of f tiguo and .go doses produced death. SMITH ON COTTON ? .. l lUilOS TIIK FARMERS TO HOED THEIR NERVE STEADY. Ho Advises them to Look to their Own Interests mid Let the Manufacturer Look After His. Senator 10. I). Smith Friday pave out the following statement with reference to the cotton crop: The usual efforts are belli? made to depress the price of cotton. The same old arguments, the same old song. It is a commentary either 011 the presumtion of those who would depreys the market or on the ignorance of those who have the cotton to sell. I am convinced that it is the former, for the farmers have at last arrived at that stage of knowledge, in reference to their business, where the. ridiculous and foolish arguments of the bears no longer affect, them. In a word, those manufactures and buyers who hope by any specious arguments to so affect the market, as to get cheaper cotton bad as well disabuse their minds of any such fond hope. The farmers of the South who produce the cotton know as well or better the conditions than those so-called manipulators of the market. Tlmy are thoroughly aware that the narmal consumption of American cotton by Die world is approximately 14,000,000 hales. That last year the)' only made above 10,000,000 hales, leaving a deficit of 3 1-2 to 4,000,000 hales; that stocks are exhausted; that the manufacturing world begins t lie 1000-1910 with no supplies to draw upon from the 1000-10 crop. They know that this crop cannot exceed 11,000,000 bales maximum, making a deficit in this crop from the normal dc maud of about 2,500,000 hales, an aggregate shortage in the ,.r i* r. <>no iuiii j %ztll f> ui n j;|;i v/aiiiku vij v w v v v hales of cotton. They know that millions of dollars are invested in the mills which must spin and weave cotton or lose their dividends . They know that the world has no substitute for cotton and that sooner or later they must have it. They know that the price obtained in the last few years has placed them 111 a position where to own the cotton, rather than the merchant who furnishes them the supplies to make it. They knew the "tricks of the trade" at last and have learned a few things themselves. This crop was unusually late; the frost comparatively unusually early, the price unusually high durshort so that this present picking will rapid ginning of the crop. The last short so that this present picking will mean the end of the crop of 19 101911. It matters not in any event, what the ultimate yield of 19 10-11 may he, if the farmers of the South ? in their present prosperous condition ? will but use discretion and common sense In the disposition of this crop they can absolutely dictate the price to the consuming world. In conclusion I wish to say to ill farmers: You have absolutely nothing to do with the price of the manufactured article. Let the manufacturer look after his business and attend to his profits; you look after vour business and attend to your profits. A FT tilt A ISITTtilt FKjJIIT. President Taft Fired Stuart from a (*oo<l Office. Announcement Thursday of the ippointment. of Fred Read as collector of customs at Newport News, Va., marked the end of a fight that hegan early last winter and forced the retirement from the office which he had held for four years of J. E. R. Stuart, son of the famous Conj federate leader. President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Stuart to office as a compliment to the South, he said. Early during his term, Mr. Stuart became involv d in a civ'l service investigation because he deposed two white denut ies and put in their places negroes who happened to be party leaders. President Taft took up the matter last week and decided to appoint Mr. Read, but announcement of the appointment was deferred until last Thursday, when it was given out at I he treasury department. He Dropped Dead. When the 'Missouri Pacific Train No. 1 ran down and killed an unilentified man near Warrenburg, N'o., Thursday, L. D. Hopkins, of St. I.ouis, tHe conductor, clutched at his breast, reeled and fell dead in the Pullman coach. He had been on the road forty years, and the accident, was the first that ever occurred while he was in charge of a train. Where is Teddy? Oyster Hay wonders what has bocome of Colonel Roosevelt. He i3 still in complete seclusion at Sagmore Hill. Not. since his return from the Spanish-American war, twelve years ago has the colonel kept himself so secluded at his home. The man is strong who conquers himself, but he who allows vicious habits to control him is a weakling. MEAL It A THE It THAI* CASH. . This Is What the Carolina Union Farmer 8uy?. The current issue of The Carolina Union Farmer contains an interesting article on the importance of the farmers co-operating in the disposal of their cotton seed. Our contemporary urges the storing of the seed until spring and the disposing of it through an agent who will act for a number of farmers. It is convinced that by this method a better price j will he realized han could possibly [follow individual marketing. Having made this point clear, The Union Farmer proceeds to urge what it considers an equally important step, j namely, the exchanging of the seed j for cotton-seed meal rather than sell- | intr for cash. "There can be no economical buying of commercial fertilizers m ready-mixed form,' it argues in support of its views on this subject. "The only way to get the best fertilizer at least cost is througn the process of home mixing. Acid phosphate, basic slag or ground raw phosphate-rock can always bo bought without much difficulty, and potash in the form of kainif or niurate of potash is also easy to secure if orders are nt in time, but drie i biood and tankage as a source of ammonia is not obtained so easily because be fertilizer-mixers use these ingredients in great quantities and generally [ buy up tbe bulk of them. if far-I iners in tbe cotton counties will iav J j plans wisely and get cotton-seed , I meal in oxctiange lor seen, inev v. 1.1 . have this elomont of fertilizer on hand. It th? n follows that they will 1 have to hay only phosphate are po ash to form the complete mixture, such as is usually sold in read>-mixed form at high prices." The subject of proper fertilization of crops at reasonable cost is one of the most d'llicult problems which confront the progressive farmer today and The Union Farmer's advice should be carefully considered by ail who have or will have cotton seed a* their disposal. Aside from the fertilizer question the meal has proved its value as a feed, a feature which would seem to furnish an additional safeguard to those following the plan outlined. A VEKVDHY COUNTRY. ? This Is \\ hat the Law Tries to Make of the South. The law In Alabama. Georgia, North Carolina and a part of South Carolina may he dry, but the dry bchi is limited to the law, not. to the people, according to the rc nut 'he revenue collectors in ihes. prohibition states made to their chief at Washington. These reports are fairly steeped ii liquor. They tell not 011I3 of "booze being made but of the sale, both in small and in large quantities. In another month Commissioner of Internal Kevenhe Royal Cabell will make public his annual report, 'n which he will quote figures furnished by collectors of internal revenue in these states showing the number of special tax stamps which have been sold in the past year. It is estimated that in Alabama. Georgia, North Carolina and a smal part of South Carolina the receipts from the sa'e of these special tax stamps will amount to approximately $105,000 for the fiscal year which ended Juno 110 last. Alabama lends in the number ol stamps purchased. The sale of retail stamps amounted to approximately $3 1,000, and the combined sale of retail and wholesale $v8,500. Georgia comes next with a combined sale of $30,5GS worth of stamps It is estimated that $16,000 worth of both kinds of stamps were sold in North Carolina in the past year Again drug merchants were tie heaviest buyers. South Carolina will show a combined sale of about $20,000 worth of stamps. POINT lihl'K NOW. Congressman Mlect Changes Name of Oyster Bay. The New York World says Congressman-elect Martin W. Littleton, who was elected over Col. Roosevelt's friend, W. W. Cocks, in Koosc- | velt's own district, was being congratulated by a host of Deinocrat.'c friends at the Manhattan Club Thursday. "Well, how are thin?8 clown at ' Oyster Bay now?" said Littleton. "They don't call it Oyster Bay any more." "Well, what do they call it?" "Bine Point.," ho replied. Will Jubilate. New York suffragists held a mass meeting at Cooper Union Thursda> night to celebrate the victory of woman suffragists, wor. in the Mate election last week. The meeting was one of the largest ever nein in .mm\ York city by the advocates of votes for women. Sweep Chicago. Tlie Democrats carried Chicago by about 4 0,000 majority, capturing six Republican congressional districts and electing their entire county ticket. The vote in the rural disi triets was ail that saved Illinois to t tlie Republicans. BAJNK Conwa Mas largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LI A HI I,I TIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT 1)1 RH( Robert B. Scarborough, 11. L. Buck, Qoorgo ?J. Holiday, Wc offer our customers every acc will jusbfy, and we ROBERT B. BCARBOKUCGF, I ! 'resident. We continue to pay 5 pe - ? -M& s\y. > ?*' It ? mm* * <* - W -CCA*.' *.??? oA. '4 ?* f FIRST NATI( m fi\ cox wa /i\ J? CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS 4% TOTAL ASSESTS % J. A. Md'crmott, John < Jki It. C. Collins, II. U I >T* M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu ^iV Successor to the think o /iV Horry Ooun<y. and a pioneer FyS ly allied with the recent (lev Hepublic. Braked t?y the /AV Unit il Stales Bonds, we are i toineiB any reasonable accomj /ft II. A. SI'I \ KY, /ft Cashier. PBOFE8SIC V AI j CA H1 >8. H. H. \VOOI)\VAKI> Attorney and Councelor At L?y? CON WAV, S. C. R. IS. SCAUBBOUGH CON WAY, H. C Attorney at Uw. tf. H. 1SCKISOI-GII8 ("*hy?iciaii and Sui'itroR CO.WVAY, N. O. ii. WOFVOKB WAIT. Attorney nt l.? .. Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, S. C. THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE ' ' ' Ifvou want cithern VlhmtlnRSIiuttlc, Ttotnr^ tohuttleor ii WinkleThread [Chain /Stilch\ Bowing Machine write to YHE NEW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE COMPANY Ornnyc, Muss. (Many sewing machines nre made to sett rcsraTdless of Duality, but the jfcow IIoiim* is made to wcuf. Our j^iornnty ruus out* old by authorized deulej.** unly? FOK SALK BY lit kluh i.u* u/m.lny co., Conway, tt. O. Fiui: vr co.vvict cam;* Olio of (fie Guards Was Horned to Death in Camp. At the Gaston county coi.vi. t camp, t miles west of Hessimer City, N. C., at noon Tuesday, 'Me Camp with all its contents was destroyed by tire. Dennis llarrelson, a night guard, of Cherryville, who was sleeping in tho building, was burned tg death. Mr. llarrelson 's a son of S. S. llarrelson and had been at the camp three weeks. He was popular with all. The entire force was away from the camp, building road, except one or two trusties, who were unable to rescue llarrelson. * 1 HOKKY, y. 8, C. ny bank in Hcrry ccunty. More lus of all olber barks in ibe ccunty. * 50,000 12,500 1HOLDERS . . . . 50,000 ORS 112,500 ;iors I). V. Richardson, W. A. JulinBcm, \\ ill A. Irtcn an. ommcdalion which llieir account* solicit your business. ). V. Kichardfon, will a. frkema* VlCK 1 KKMUKNT. CaSBHLR r cent, on yearly clepcsi's. 3NALBANKl | $25,000.00 2,500.00 dfft 12 5,000.00 /ft /ft TOILS: & 3. Spivey, I). T. McNeill, /ft luck, \\ . U. Lewis, 1). jft attiebaum, 1). A. Spivey. T (ft f Conway, t.he oldest Bank in |H| in KasKrn Carolina. Close'clopinent of the Independent *ft Government and secured by >repared to extend lo our curmodu Lions. It. (i. OOIXIN8, A President. & EXPLODING GAS KILLS EIVK Eighteen Others Injured in lULnoi* Mine Accident. Five men are dead and eighteen injured ;is the result of an explosion Saturday in a coal rino at Panama, 111. For men were killed outright and the fifth died from injuries later. Kassol Honuinio, a miner, is othi J in the shaft. uas, wi'cn nan accumunueu aver night is a pocket several hundred feet from the mouth of the shaft, exploded, tearing out the timbers and shaking the earth for miles around. No serious lire followed. The men who escaped were injured by fading slate aiul flames from the explosion. About 300 men were working in and around the mine at the time, most of thorn on the outside ran away from the danger. Fifty man in the entry of the shaft were rescued by the other miners. ? WOl Id) HOLD I F OIL KING. Young Hungarian Writes Threatening Letters. Charged with writing threateutns; letters to John 1). Ilockfeller , demanding $.">0,000, Peter Libi.ir.hu, a i Hungarian. 23 years of age. is field at police headquarters in New Yntk. lingo Kardoc, who accused Lillijohn of sending the letter to him to v>^ forwarded to Mr. Hock feller, m.uto the complaint which caused the young Hungarian's arrest. K irdoff told detectives lie received three letters from L'llijohn Friday afternoon. One written, in Hungarian, was addressed to the Standard Oil chief, j aihI contained the demand for ooo. The others were addressed to iKardoff and directed him to translate ami forward the message to Mr. Kockfellor , under threat of (death. * * . Fine Wheat (Top. The wheat crop for South Carolina for the year 11)10 has broken all records in this state. The figured on the crop were given out Wednesday by Commissioner Watson. Darling 1910, the wheat chop crop was j 4,750,000 bushels, while for 19u9 the number of bushels was d,8 10.000. Seven Houses Hiinird. Fire Thursday afternoon destroyed seven dwelling houses at Goldsboro, N. C. Inhabitants of the burnt houses were heavy losers, as tl\?* flames spread so rapidly, and the heat was so intense that it was with great difliculty that they succeeded in saving what few articles they did save. * Kemarkablo Prisoner. At New York Joseph Jones, under | arrest charged with picking pockets, I is rated by tlie detective bureau an I one of the most remarkable pris| oners coming into their custody. Jones is S7 years old, blind and alj most deaf. He is bald, toothless [and lame, yet the police allege despite these handicaps, he is one of the most expert pickpockets in tho country.