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ROYAL Baking Powder | Absolutely H I Pure I Royal is the I only baking I powder made I from Royal I Grape Cream I of Tartar I Highest in I Leavening I Efficiency I No Alum I No Lime Phosphate I MAY LOSE ONE ! ? A Rearrangement of Congressional Districts Will be Made. NEW CENSUS FIGURES If Congress Increases the leasts of Representation, As Is Very Likely, Changes of Districts in This State Will (.'lit Off One of Our Congressmen. While the General Assembly at its 1911 session will, in accordance with the State Constitution, reapportion the membership of the House of Representatives, along the lines recently set forth on the basis of tne 19 10 census, it depends upon whether Congress at the present session nassps :l i'eaDDorLionmenL bill as to when the rearrangement of the Congressional districts will he made. But the State will necessarily be redistricted before the election of 19 12 ?either at the 1011 or the 10 12 session, and preferably at the 1011 session, if the basis of representation in the national House is then known. The following interest in? discussion ft>f the above subject by the Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier will be read with interest: The present basis is one representative to every 194,000 inhabitants. In round nuinuers, and on this basis South Carolina has seven representatives for a population of 1 3 4 0,91(5 in 1 90 0. The Slate will possibly lose a congressman, since the basis of representation is certain to be increased, it is said in Washington. and If the basis is increased to more than 21 0,000 South Carolina will ho entitled to not more than six 1 representatives. This would necesL sitnte an entirely new distribution of the counties in congressional districts. There are only three of the present seven districts which now mnri' than 210.000 inhabitants. Kl?l*V' i.. v ?? - - - ? - - , the three being the 4th, fith and 7th districts. These three, it happens, also have more than 220.000 each, and this figure, 220,000, is more likely to he adopted as the basis of representation. In that case South Carolina will have only six reprebtmrtalives in congress and the State wil! be entirely redistricted, as stated ^ above. I'opiilnt Ion. The arrangement of the districts nt. present, with the population of each county, according to the new census, the total population of the districts in 1910 and in 1900, and the increases, are as follows: First District?Five Counties Dorchester 17..C)1 Berkeley 2 2.1 S7 ; Charleston S8,5D4 Clarendon 2 2,1 OS Colleton Tot Hi, 1010 197,170. Total, 1 900 1 90,3 90 1 Increase 1.0S0 Second District?Seven Counties. Aiken 41,849 Pamkersr 18.544 Darnwell 32,200 Beaufort 30,335 , Edgefield 28,281 Hampton 25,126 Saluda 20,943 Total, 1910 197,307 Total. 1900 190,663 Increase 6,6 45 Third District-?Six Counties. Abbeville 34,804 Anderson 49,568 Greenwood 34,225 Newberry 34,580 Oconee 27,3 3 7 Pickens 25,422 Total, 1910 205,942 Total, 1900 190,662 Increase 16,280 Fourth District?Four Counties. Greenville 68,377 Laurens 41,550 n a. %? a o a n r rtparwuDurg OJ>,u'' | Union 39,911 Total, 1910 ..238,303 Total, 1900 181,933 Increase 51,370 Fifth l>iwtrlct?Seven Counties. j Cherokee 26,179 Cheater 29,425 Chesterflelrf 26,301 Fairfield 29,442 Kershaw . 27,894 Lancaster 26,650 York 47,718 Total, 1910 .213,609 Total, 1 900 190,492 Increase 23,117 Sivtli District?Fight Counties. Darlington 36,027 Florence 35,6 71 Georgetown 22,27 1 Horry 2 6,99.) Marion 20.596 Marlboro.. . . 31,189 Williamsburg 37,626 Dillon. 22,615 Total, 191 0 . .232,990 Total, 11)00 201,57 7 Increase 31.413 Seventh District.?Seven Counties. Lee 25,318 Lexington 3*5,040 Orangeburg 55,993 3n rn t o r .. .. H W 4 79 Richland 55,14 3 Calhoun 10,*034 Total, 1910 223,600 Total, 1900 183,753 Increase 39,847 Cains. It will be seen that In the abso'e gains the district* rank as follows: First, the 4th district, with a gain of 51,370. Second, the 7th district, gain 3 9,| ooo. Third, roll dl?frir?t irnln 31 41 9 . .... v V v? > ?r v a V | ?.? U A tf I Fjourth, 5th district, gain 23,4 9 2. Fifth, 3d district, gain 15,2?0. Sixth, 2d district, gain 6,045. oeventh, 1st district, gain 1,080. Itank. In order of their total population, according to fhe 1910 census, the districts rank as follows: 4th, Gth, 7th, 5th, 3d, 1st and 2d. The 4 tli, 6th and 7th districts might remain unchanged, oven on a basis of 220,000, but other counties will have to be added to the 1st and 2d districts even on a basis of 200,000, and this will require that some counties bo taken f;om the other districts. The districts adjoining the 1st and 2d districts are the 6th, 7th and 3d. so that it now seems inevitable that there shall be an entirely new arrangement of tlio counties to form the six or seven districts, as the case may be. Greenville and Spartanburg, now both in the 4th district, would be ?lad to get into separate districts. While these two counties are similar i? i *? ? 1 111 | >w ji (i i<i i.iwn <11111 reautirruti, ui C r18 rivalry between them, and they a/e respectively the third and second most populous counties in the Stale. (*p to 1900 both were In the same district as Columbia. The matter of redisricting the j State will command the attention of, the legislature and require much care and thought to work out satisfactorily. NATIONAL (.'INNKIt'S UK POUT. ? Indicates Yield Under Eleven Million Hales. According to the report of the National dinners' association issued at Memphis Fii.iay about WV.OOu halels ol cotton were ginned during the period from December 1 to December 13, compared with 481,000 bales in 1 909. The report states that the crop is 99 per cent picked and 90 per cent ginned, indicating a crop under 1 1,059,000. 'I'he reports from ginners show that Die winning will be completed by January 1. The report by States follows: Alabama 1, i 1 1,000 Arkansas 073,000 i Florida 00,000 | Georgia 1,000,000 < Louisiana 260,0 00 1 Mississippi 1,046,000 North Carolina 608,noo Oklahoma 801,000 South Carolina 1,089,000 Tennessee 205,0 00 Texas 2,862,000 i Various C4.00 0 i Total 10,617,000 I WANT BIGARMY Says This Cssslry is at the Mrrcy ?t Aiy Forrifo Eieny Says REPORT TO CONGRESS General Wood Confirms Startling Details?He, In an Examination Before House Committee, Point* Out Nation's Weakness?llolutoii Proposes National Defense Council. A sensational report from the wai department showing that the country Invasion from foreign governments ts Inadequately protected against was sent to the house Wednesday a? i secret document and, after a nurnoer of conferences and hurried telephone messages, was returned to the war department on the ground that the house could not receive a secret report. Members who saw the document f efore Its withdrawal say it is a reoort of J. M. Dickinson, secretary of war; that it points out that the country is wholly unprepared; that there is a woeful inadequacy of men, of sting and of ammunition; that the iimy should be reorganized and that i council of national defense, with he secretary of war at ils head, should be created by congress. The i report of Gen. Wood, which was marked "confidential," dealt with hese matters and gave oflicial admission to matters that are of more ! or less common knowledge among irmy and navy experts in this country and abroad. In fact, the real significance of the document is that it makes official admissions of these conditions. Gen. Wood, in his testimony before the house military committee furnished some of the most interesting information ever given before that body. He discussed the whole subject of national defense, fold where the weak points lay, and laid particular emphasis on the pos dbllity of attack from the Orient. Ho did not give vent to any aianmsu views as to danger of any immediate | nvasions, but talked confidentially >f the need of changes as prudent ?nd valuable, to guard against trouble from Japan or China. Representative MacLachian, the author of the resolution which brought the official exposition of the weakness of the militry defense, Bald 'oday: "A foreign country could land 200,000 troops on the Pacific coast in 30 days, and the only intimation of trouble would be the blowing up of the mountain passes, thus preventing any communication with the East. In the three States west of the Rocky mountains?California, Oregon and Washington?we have 2.000 retrnlar troons and H.OOO State militiamen. The best military authorities say that it would take years to dislodge foreign troops if they ever got a foothold under these coalitions, and that it would cost the United States a billion of dollars." The hill introduced today by Representative Hobson provides for a national council for defenso and is the result of his conference with President Taft, Secretary Dickinson ind other otlicials. The war department's precaution to protect the report led to a serious mix-up in the house. The report was marked "confidential," but that precaution was indicated only on a part of the document. In the routine handling of the report it was passed along with other executive documents to the clerk's oflice. un/>li mill tore !iw niion f n mm. i lie inspection, but almost Instantly its confidential nature was discovered and it was withdrawn to the privacy of the speaker's office. After looking into the precedents, the speaker concluded that there was no warrant for the reception of the report as a confidential communication. There he returned it to Secretary Dickinson with a polite letter calling attention to the rules of the house, which require all originally executed communications to he' p rin ted. The secretary received this letter [ very late in the day and consequent-i ly withheld his answer until tomor-' row. It is probable that he will ! withhold from the house the appendices to the original report, which, after all, contained the only rc'aUy confidential matter and resubmit the document, omitting the inIunctional confidence. Kills Daugln ci-'s Kseort. Policeman Lubbock Wednesday} *hot and probab' fatally wounded lami-i Fife, a tuother ollicer, at i II APCI Art Tovio 1 \ f i ion ? it ! I li I II U I1UUUIV/II, V .> 11 O I M v, W (I O Willi I J 11 11 bock's daughter o: die street when, [lie latter met then. \nd opened lire. Miss 1 nhhock ran t her father and endeavored to keep ini from shooing. *4 ? . ????? I l The first battle of tnassas, where die gfen troops of ho South de- I feated Minost twice heir number, lalf of *hoin were socullcd seasoned I regular* demonstrated the fact that < <ve do n t need a large standing army j 1 o defend our country from foreign] I uvader* . i I PUIS BULUT IN HEAD WltKX HK IS OOllNHKfcV U\ FOHKK OF FA KM KICK i A DhHuk IWiiik KolK>or Take. H?m Own lJt'e When Ksai|*? is 1u<p?>a> Bible. Earl Ward, 3 0 year? of age, who this morning robbed the State mtok. of Paradise, Kan., securing $1,500 killed himself when sut rounded bv a posse of farmers, fourteen. tn'les north of that place, 1U* today. Ward's suicide wae h cMmfj. .o one of the most sensational jobber es committed In Kansas In recent ye* 3. He made a hard ride for liberty t?>jt a posse of farmers surrounded h'tn at sundown. Then he turned 'be gun he had bought earlier in je day upon himoclf arid cent a bn??et through his brain. On the body the posse found oe * o r A A ~ 1 ?w, ?lr VV/ n . I OIUIWU 1 I Ulll HIT iMUin, f? u ?, who lives twelve niles northeast, went to Paradise last night. lie ? tracted only casual notice. Thi> morning he went to a hardware store and bought a revolver, ammur'tion and a coil of rope. He then en. ere.i tho bank, where he covered Cashie Bert O'Brien and four other mei with the weapon. After (ho safe had been opened L>> tho cashier at Ward's diuection ihc five men were marched into a track room and forced to lie on the floor. The lone bandit then tied and gagged them with gunnv sacking. After taking the $2,500 from ..he vault Ward walked to a luirilv n-e store, purchasing a ritle and a laiM-r" number of cartridges, and mourn.ng his horse rode rapidly away. In a short time t:.e men in the bank wero discovered and released. A p >sse quickly formed and started in pursuit. DR. KNATP WKIiL PLKASEi Letter Received by Commissi* *?er Watson on Corn Display. Seaman A. Knapp, special agent In charge of the farm developn ent work for the United States dep irt| ment of agriculture, has wri 'en Commissioner Watson a lettei in the recent corn exposition helc tn Columbia. Dr. Knapp is well km vn throughout the South and especially in this State and therefore his tetter, given below, will he of Interest: "Dear Mr. Watson: Your \z~y Interesting letter of the !)th, giving information about tho corn exposition, is at hand i "I have noted with great pleas ire the wonderful p ogress being made in South Carolina and we are do ng all that we can to contribute to :t. With tho nrr?spn intorost if matt ?r? are properly hat lied, I think there will be no, dltlU- Itv In bringing South /Carolina t.. the front in ail a g r ic u 1 tufrWf' matters." i ? GIVEN FOlt GOOI) CAUSE. ? Carnegie Donates Ten Million to Promote Peace. At Washington surrounded by twenty-seven trustees of his choosing, comprising former Cabinet members, ex-ambassadors, college presidents, lawyers and educators, Andrew Carnegie Wednesday transferred $1 0,000.One in 5 per tent mortgage bonds. v.,lued at 000, to be devoted primarily to the establishment, of universal peace by the abolition of war between nations and such friction as may In pair "the progress and happiness of man." When wars between na ?ons shall have cease 1 the fund is to be applied to such altruistic purpose- as "will best help man in his glor ?us ascent onward and upward" by be banishment of 'he "most degrad" ag evil or evils" then harrassing mankind. Cyclone Devastates Provinces. Storms of a cyclonic character are flooding a part of the country and the situation is becoming desperate in the provinces of Malaga, Seville Ya! latbdid, ii.ula/.ose. Zamora and ' Covunna. Prac'lcallv all the crops in these district?" have been destroyed and the people are threatr>>.rw? with f?i in ln^ W n Mi*An/l o -1 ^1 V ,1V <1 .< I W> t 1(111 lit vi -1(1 HI VilU It II II 11* I' ( egraphio communications are broken * everywhere and it has been found j almost impossible to send .assistance ( to the sufferers. ^ ? , Freight Fnyine Fxplodes. .T. Fermier, aped 20. brakemnn l was instantly killed, Hen Hill, tiro- i mar, was fatally injured and Mai i Reed, engineer, was >erio <?iy hurt r Monday night when a Miissonri. r Kansas & Texas freight engine ex- . ploded, rix miles north >f Dallas s Texas. The boiler wis b'tod from f the trucks and hurled 200 feet from \ the track. a ? 1 1 -?* - ?? ? 1 Ktrveiliii'C Is IvilltM. I n - "* * ... ueorvp aiooi'o, a srevom e at llio | Champion compress at \\ lminglon wU8 instantly killed Wedn mIuv af- a ternoon while loading <att a in the 11 British steamer St. Jerome, oid John 1 Lamb, another stevodo-e, >?as seriously injured. The met \vf e in the hold of the vessel wh o tl ? Gtorni- 1 back fell in on them, MootVs head b*vtnc hAAn split opAn ' HaJNK Oh Conwa ? Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRHC Robert B. Scarborough, hi. L. 15uck, ?*?orge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc ' j will justify, and we <ORERT B. SCARBOROUGH, L I'REBIDENT. We continue to pay 5 pe FIRST NATI( T /|\ COX WA CAPITAL STOCK 1\ SURPLUS PROFITS /j\ TOTAL ASSESTS. . .. . . . . 'ft 1)1 It ICC 'ft J. A. McDormott, John ( /|V R. G. Collins, H. L. 1 M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui /i\ Successor to the Rank ol Horry County, and a pioneer Iv allied with the re-ent dev /^\ Republic. Hacked by the 1 /iw United States Bonds, we are | " touiers" any reasonable accoini 'ft /|\ H. A. 8PIVEY, % Cashier. NO FOOD FOR A WEEK IIIR1LLIXG STORY OF A SURVIVOR OF SEA TRAGEDY. ? Vfter Starving a Week, He Seta Oui For the Shore Pursued by Man} Sharks. After drifting for six days without food on a derelict, Theodore Anderton ;i fsiv nftfi nwnin In RhOTfl Oil the vest coast of Australia. Ho told a thrilling story of the disaster that had brought death to every other member of the crew News of the tragedy was brought here by tho steamer Moana from Brisbane. The derelict was a pearling lugger cT 2 00 tons, the Hugh Norman. She wis sailing down the coast from Broome to Freemantle, when she struck a reef. The dingey was launched and all members of the crew except Anderson and tho captain boarded her. The little boat drifted away and was swamped. All her occupants were d town (Ml. Tho captain ordered Anderson to jump iti after tho dingey, but seeing three sharks cruising in the vicinity he refused. Later tho lugger drifted oiY tho reef and the captain leaped overhoard and tried to swim ashore, but was attacked and devoured by 1 sharks. Next day Anderson decided to risk all in an effort to reach land. It took him one hour to swim ashore and lie was pursued by sharks but ascaped them. Many Are Drowned. The German Meamer Palorno is a total wreck off Cape Corrubodo, on the west coast of Galicia, Spain Her five passengers and crew of nineteen were lost. Advices received staic that the vessel struct- and went to f)ieccs during a fierce gale last Sun- i day night. YOl'.Vti (illlb IIANGS IIKKSKLF. Body of Miss <?orr Found in Ha mi Near Lak?' City. Miss Susie Gorv fourteen year? Md. of Vlneland, N C . committee uiicide Monday at te.\ ister's Mil! our miles from L- e City, says s lispatch to The NT s ami Courier Mie was visiting b r cousin, Mrs 3d die Antwine, wh saw her last uiyp hi 11' o cioc'k. i dp noiiv was ound about, midday, hanging by a ope from a joist in tin* barn. Kvi* leiitly 'he desperate iiir 1 stood or barrel, tied the rope to the joisi ? ind around 1?or ::e? k and jumped of; v letter was fe tid near the body tating that it ujild be best for tio* o kill herself ml then her name vould not be 1? everybody's mouth, in 2 requesting e be buried at her iome. A half *>nished b,r?er to her a t her,-1 Ion ry -?'C. was also found lie was well *?n doped for her age ?>d of very reassessing appearnee. Magist> \i? duldwin held the nquest and a -foict of suicide was . et urned. - ? - If Charleston id given the Kdlsto reject her a ^re support there irould bo 110 oubt of '??* going hrough. 1 HOKKY, y. S, C. iny bank in Horry county. More >lus of all other banks in the county* . tr.o onn ? www m m w ?yvv?vvv 12,500 :holders .. .. 50,000 oks 112,000 :iors D. V. Richardson, W. A. Will A. Freeman, ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. ). V. Richardson, will a. freema* \ ice I'kebldhnt CaBHIKE r cent, on yearly deposits. "\\1 A I T> A Y, 8. C. ^ $25,000.00 2,500.00 Jfn 1 25,000.00 /4\ /l\ TORS: A 1 Spivey, D. T. McNeill, luck, W. It. Lewis, 1). attlebaum, 1). A. Spivey. f Comvay, t.he oldest Hank in j'W in Eastern Carolina. Closeelopment of the Independent Government and secured by jrepared to extend to our cub- y?c mod at ions. 11. COLLINS, President. _ """*" " ^ PROF ESS! O NA!j CA Rf)gs K. H. WOODWARD 1 f f'irn<.? anil rnnnpt>lnr At T a ? v\f UUVVI\/I ** % MLdm W I CONWAY, 8. C. K. B. SCAlUUtOUGH CONWAY, S. C. Attorney at Uw. H. U. BUlUtOUGHB Physician ami Stirgeoa. CONWAY. 8. C. H. WOFFOltD WAIT. Attorney at /. I'wink of I lorry llui!<li*ig. CONWAY, S. C. (HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE j^^HT RUNNj^^| l< - ' ^ V ^A 7 * *k*:y E/yrr. want cllhera Vibralln^Shuttlc, oil utile or a Single ^Thread [Chain ?iVwoAJ ' fcM'wIng Machino write lo f?l HtW HOMF SEWING MACHINe COM? A*#, Orange, Mass, tC&fiy sewtns: machine* are ni.i>te lo sell reinrdtmi Jli f uaUty, but the \ t'W Homo is luade to w -uUt Ou* guaranty never runs out. Aout t>y ttiiihorirotl tivulen ootf: I tou WU uv ni'KKOCtiHS A COl.LlXa CO., Conway, S. C. ( ItiM Hums to Death. An exploding lamp in (ho homo of H. .1. Woodoook at Gleenvillo, Ga.? I'hursdny night caused the death by fire of the --year-old granddaughter oi Mr. Woodcock. The child's grandmother made an unsuccessful effort t ? save her. The house was burned, Incinerating the bnhv, * ?- _ (lots Higger -lob. The treasury dcpnrtmeut Tuesday appointed Giles L. Wilson, a national hank examiner assigned to South Carolina and north Georgia. Mr. Wilson presented his resignation a8 State bank examiner of South Carolina on Monday. v. ,.yji