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f lJ " ^ P "I PEOPLE ARE $f ARVING Family Condition* Described by a Minister Who Is Out There.?A StyP5 p? | Pathetic Story o/ Starving Men ain{ Women and Little Children.? Th* Crops Failed. Probably not in several years has there passed through the mails of this section of the country letters j bearing more distressing news than communications which have been re~ " ?'? * '-& wfl ASitwflSvVl ceived by the Rev. P. D. Jenkins, pastor of fhe Piedmont Presbyterian Church, from his brother, Dr. W. F. Jenkins, who is a missionary to China, says tlie Greenville News. Floods last summer and fall near Suchien, China, destroyed crops and the gaunt spectre of famine is now stalking through the land. The letters received by the Rev. Mr. Jenkins tell of the most terrible conditions which exist in the famine stricken j t)i? Pipdmont nastor has! UlOtl IVt. A .?v - 4 very kindly consented to allow the J publication of extracts from some of the letters he has received from his brother. They are as follows: I am away from home?out in a Chinese house?that means in the cold. I have a small charcoal fire in a little furnace beside me but that don't begin to warm a room. My bones are so near my skin those days that I feel the cold more than ever and I always was a coward about it. I have on for outer clothing now a heavy overcoat lined with sheep- ( skin with the wool on, my hat (I don't take it off except to pray or feing or sleep, and heavy wadded i Chinese shoes with two pair of woolen socks to keep my feet warm. Don't pity me. I'm not suffering | physically, but oh it does hurt me to see the famine sights and hear the famine cries. I just had to buy a pair of pantB the other day for a fellow. He kept 1 Tll'lilo pluSS COIIllUK IU LIIV7 1IK|II11VIU I these freezing clays with only one garment 011 his lower limbs and that was thinner than my summer underclothes and he had no socks at all. He had pawned everything heavier. It is freezing cold day and night and this poor fellow like a raft of others has no sign of quilt at night? pawned or sold for food you know. His face is swollen from the food he has been eating?utterly indigestible stuff and not nourishing? weeds, greens, bark, ground up with a little barley or potatoes and made, , into thin gruel to fill up the stomach. He has Q little hoy in the hut with him clothed 110 better than he and his wife, carrying a baby, is out begging, gone a week now. Who knows but that she and the baby are dead on the wayside, starved or frozen to death. Alas, alas, the sufferings ; of these noor people. A young man in the ullage a mile from here where we have a Christian mission, starv-i ed. to death the other day and an old lady near, of the same disease, lately. He was thrown out of work by hard times?begged, but few could firive?110 work to be had?pawned his only thick clothing, got so weak and stiff he could not get about. J lis sister-in-law gave him five cents in gold. He sent by a friend for food, ate it all at one meal and died, too much for his wasted stomach. In that same village there are 20 odd families and only three of them are now eating "dry" food, the re^t; are eating thin gruel made of a little coarse tlour or beans mixed with much greens (?) really just almost any weeds, grass, etc., because gruel fills up bet*er. And this is only December! What will things he like in the early spring? Other vintages are better off but they say that half the people through this section are now eating gruel and much of that exceedingly thin. If it should snow and so, shut the people off from gathering greens (weeds) in the fields many will just have to die. Some of our Christians have already changed color, a sign of advanced starvation, have been eating gruel some time. Christians and friends look at me with longing eyes (I gave out so much famine relief four years ago.) They dog my stops to seek a private interview to tea me their troubles. And what can I v do? Already I've given out more money than I possess of my own and besides one has to he very careful how he gives or he will be utterly swamped by crowd.? begging. I don't see how I can come back hero before harvest If I cannot bear to see their distress and hear their cries. I wish I could put my head In a hole and not see or hear anything till next summer! It Is going to bo awful later and It Is bad eilough now. Any monej sent will swe life. I'll see to that, I have been holding a "Bible stud) class" here for a week or more and they have been coming very well but pserarf fA SPAJt^ANJ^G . IiAI>Y IfAS THKIU4NQ KX|?KKLK>TCK. . i .\no?* **?0/1 ( :i >J. sii< She.I^rcamecl That a Burglar Was In Her Itoon\ Which She Feuiid True oil Awaking. -* Mrs. Max Henrici, wife of the city ? ^ * ttamu 1,% editor of the sparumuurg ucum, dreamed during the early hours of ! Monday night that bufglars would enter her room before morning and a few hours after having this weird dream awoke to find that reailv and truly there stood a burglar in tho centre of her room. She retired Monday night as usual, but. did not sleep soundly during tne early part of the evening. After experiencing such a dream she fell asleep. At S:30 o'clock she awoke and at once noticed that her room was very cold. Looking toward the window which she had left close 1 :t was open and the outside shutters had also been thrown wide open. The inner shade was pulled down and this had been left up. She lay still for a moment and soon heard tho footsteps of the midnight intruder. Creeping out of her bed on the opposite side from the robber she could plainly see him j standing by the dresser and presently he flashed his electric pocket flash-light on the bureau and was ransacking this for valuables. The brave young woman attempted lo creep out of the room without being detected but just as she reached the door pud was on the point of getting into the adjoining room, wUorrt hnr husband was asleep, the robber flashed his light squarely into her face. This so frightened the young woman that she screamed at the top of her voice and wakened every one in the house. Her husband rushed into the room, but at this time the burglar had jumped out of the open window onto the front porch and once .gaining the street, easily made his escape. Positively no clue was left. The fright of Mrs. ITenrici was awful and almost threw her into hysterics. However she soon recovered, and is now in her usual good health. It was a peculiar coincidence that Mrs. Henrici should dream of the approach of the burglar and wake up several hours later and find one standing in the centre of the room. . MAD DOG RITES FIVE. ?. Rabid Animal Runs Amuck and Succeeds in Escaping. A mad dog ran amuck at Anderson on Thursday, biting two white boys and three negroes, besides several dogs. It disappeared before it could be captured. The dog started his run at Cox's Creek, just east of the city, when it attacked a negro man named Ware, who was working in * i. ~ oii/M.fil in (r on 11 <1 Wnrp lui rl 111C UI CV1V 3llUl tilll(5 UU11UI I I.. X, ...... on rubber boots and the dog's teeth did not reach his flesh. The dog then circled through the Bailey place, attacked and severely bit another negro man. The dog then proceeded through the city, through Calhoun street. It attacked Hlinira Henderson, the young son of E. \V. Henderson, a travelling salesman, biting him in several places. The next person attacked was a small white boy named Duvall, in the Cox Mill village. The last person reported bitten was a negro near the Cox Mills. The dog attacked him from behind, and it was necessary for the negro to fight the beast off. Fatal How About Koad. Bailey P. Turner, a planter was shot and probably fatally wounded while driving in the roadway near Cameron, Texas, Wednesday. The shooting followed a quarrel with Ed. Tompkins, another planter as to the right of way on the county road. In the midst of the dispute Tompkins ; buggy was overturned and his leg i broken. He is under arrest. . . ? . OX1A" WHITE MEN. Will lie Appointed Notaries by Governor ltlcnse. It is stated that Governor Mease issued his proclamation revoking the commissions ol all notaries jnblic in i South Carolina for the purpose of !eliminating the negro. After Febi rnary 10 lie will refuse to .srue a 'commission to a negro as a notary } public. Hundreds cf applications are bei inr received for a commission as ! notary public. The one most Important requirement is that the applicant must prove ocyond a doubt that he is a white man and of good standing. It is expected that at least 5,000 notaries nnbiic will bo commissioned . in South Carolina within the next i several weeks. some just :nn't walk every day tc i come?it takes a little grain to give , one leg force to walk; gruel mostlj ; weeds and water, won't give It! Contributions to help tho starv< 1 lng Chinese may be forwarded tc r the famine district by being Bent tc , Rev. Mr. Jenkins at Piedmont, or e r New York Exchange sent to Rev. W I' F. Jenkins, Suchien, China, will b( , good for its face value. CANfM ffiHJND ; i ?ji >.f / ?r-r*? r? y/ \<-jh < The Myslerhis Disappearance of a Young Woman irliw York. >' . ' ^ *< h I PRETTY AND RICH GIRL \T " 1. i ; f. /. ^ < . Family Convinced She Had No Lovo i:i 4>1 * ' ' A Hair unu That k8he Is Alive?liv- ( erything That Money Can l)o and " " " ? It I (trains nuve int-ii iwmj " ! lo iu - f tto ttoi ' in Hunt. 'Seven weeks ago last Monday Dorothy II. C. Arnold, the beautiful daughter of Francis It. Arnold, a millionaire Importer of perfumes in Xew York, and a niece of the late Rufus H. Peckham, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, bought a novel at Drentano's, in Fifth avenue, that city. From that moment no news/ of her ; has reached her family. She disappeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed her, and though both the Pinkertons and the Central Office detectives have searched for j her everywhere no trace has been found. Miss Arnold's aged parents, her two brothers and her sister, are I heartbroken over the mystery. They have assured themselves in the most positive way that no romance attaches to the vanishing of Dorothy, and they and those whom they have consulted fear that some tragic crime lies behind the disappearance of the girl. For six weeks Mr. Arnold, who is seventy-three years old, refused to allow a general alarm to be stmt out for his daughter. Tie hoped against hope that she would announce herself to him in some way, and he told his advisers that his riches were at their helping if they would find her without the publicity which, he feared, might lead to unpleasant notoriety for the family. Dut Deputy Police Commissioner Flvnn and former Assistant DistrictAttorney Francis P. Garvan, Mr. Arnold's counsel, persuaded the aged father that the only remaining hope lay in the publication of the story of her disappearance. They also urged the reproduction broadcast of her photograph. Mr. Arnold was brought around with difficulty. With tears in his eyes he begged Mr. Garvan to think of some other way than publicity. 'Money, he assured his counsel, meant nothing. Me would willingly spend all he possessed in finding his child, he said. Mr. Arnold is so heartbroken over the mystery that he has been unable to attend to his business since the | day she left home. Mrs. Arnold, I who was a Miss Samuel, is bowed with grief, for she was the last of the family to sec Dorothy and speak with her. It was around 11:'0 on the morning of Dee. 12 that Miss Arnold left' her home, Xo. 108 East Seventyninth street. She told her mother she was going down-town to pick out an evening gown for the approaching holiday festivities. | "I'll go with you," said Mrs. Ar-i nold, but her daughter, kissing Mrs. Arnold softly, answered: "Xo, mother, don't bother. If I' I see anything I really think I want to: get T'll telephone you, and you can j come down and look it over. But j you don't feel just right, and it's no | use going to the trouble of coming with me. 1 mightn't see a thing 1 want to wear." With another kiss they parted and I from that moment Mrs. Arnold has never seen her child. When Dorothy did not appear home for dinner the family became alarmed, for though she was twenty-five years old and a college graduate she had never absented herself from home for a single meal without letting her mother, who is somewhat of an invalid, know just where she was going to he, when she would he home and why she wished to stay out. John It. Arnold, a brother, arrived from ftp rope Saturday. lie knew nothing hut the bare fact that his sister was missing, and inquired eagerly for details. It. came out through counsel for the family this afternoon, that Mrs. Arnold had broken down under the strain and is being kept in seclusion with friends out of town. Circulars reproducing three of Miss Arnold's latest photographs, and giving a minute description of her appearance, were mailed to every police, town marshal and detective agency in the United States and Canada, with the offer of a v *i ward of $1,000 for information lending to her recovery. ? ? Sent l*p lor Life. Guilty of murder in tne first, de> gree was the verdict returned at ? Marsh field, Mo., by the party in tho r case of Walter A. Dipley and Goldic Smith, charged with the murder 01 . Stanley Ketchel, pugilist. Sentence? > of lifo imprisonment were recom> mended for each defendant. Th< i Jury was out seven hours. ? Don't expect to find peace in life t>y hiding from your neighbors. f | -W ANJJEKSOX nSFEAKS WAHMLY, IN I MI TIOXfqBC 91 II flI iioY w DEFENSE OF PARTNER* .tiiiiaJ'j XMH'X' 1^*2 flfcyoO He Declares Insinuations in Gover7 ,* ' ' '5 '? r <T] 'A " nor*8 i>lcn*s8tfe Which Refer to FoA cler Are Absolutely Untrue. An Atlanta dispatch says Cr< h. Anderson, law partner of Thomas B. ... Felder, the Atlanta lawyer who has figured h?ite prominently in winding up the old State dispensary, in Felder's absence from Atlanta, made a statement Wednesday in reierenue to the Associated Press dispaten from Columbia, in which Cov. Bleaso is quoted as inquiring why Feidei "was not prosecuted when it was found that he was the attorney for a liquor house and was favored with liquor purchases and rebates were paid fo' these purchases." Anderson sa>s: "Since the Goodman and Fleischman compromises referred to were also made under the advice and through the instrumentality of IWr. Felder, I assume that the governor's reference to these matters and demand that they be inquired into, is likewise an attempt to reflect upon Mr. Felder. "Througnout the entire course of the investigation of the South Carolina State dispensary and the disposition of the matters connected therewith by the winding-up commission, I have been closely associated with Mr. Felder, and am familiar with all the facts connected therewith. "Mr. Felder is out of the city, and in his behalf 1 desire to say that the charges and insinuations contained in the governor's message, which refer to Mr. Kelder, are absolutely untrue and without foundation in fact. "If Gov. Blease has been informed by any persons that there are existing facts giving foundation to these charges he has been wilfully misled by designing persons, who probably have felt the weight of the law, growing out of their own nefarious transactions with the State dispensary, and seek this method of revenge." WHAT Hl'H KVANS SAYS. Ife Talks About That Alleged Atlanta Meeting. "Yes," said H. H. Evans, of Newberry, known as "Hub" Evans, once chairman of the State dispensary board of directors, whose name was mentioned in Governor Blease's message to the General Assembly wit h ' reference to a meeting in Atlanta, "Felder did send for me to come to j Atlanta." This was in reply to a Question about the meeting. Air. Evans continued: "When we were ?n the room together I said to him, 'Hnon that floor, von. and let. the At torney General come in ami hear ev- ! erything I have pot. to say.' " "Then 'vhat did you tell?" "1 told hi in e"en if I knew anything I would not toll it to him," and Mi. Evans concluded, with his words ju t , a bit stronger. The former dispensary chairman while in Columbia Wednesday //as shaking hands in legislative circles. Ho talked freely o newspaper representatives, as is Us wont. Mr. Evans said if he went on rhe stand there would be some "hoi stuff." fie continued: "The county dispensaries are now buying !h< u-imn Unnnr the State dispensary li'i paying the same prices and higher You talk about a firm turning over $30,000 the other day, well, then th 1 county dispensaries ])av back $L0U,000 for that." ? TIM301) TO SAY10 CHILD. Lost 11 or Own Life as Well as Thai of Her 15aby. A heart-rending tragedy occurred near Klza, On., on last Wednesda by which a mother and her two chi dren lost their lives. Trying in va n to save the life of her 1 1-year-o' daughter, whose clothing was cant n< in the shafting of a cotton gin, Mr .). Tt. Wilkes sacrificed her own li and that, of her six-months-old ha near 101 za, this county. The lin I girl screamed for aid as she felt t !solf being drawn toward tin4 in. ehlnery and her moth c, w o \\ ' ljearhy, sprang to aid p r. She, too j was caught and the baby, which w | in lior arum, was minnl ,, j floor and killed Inslan ly. Tiic mo. ! or and daughter booh perished a Re being torn from the shat'tin . LiUie Sniloi or Ibivsos. The one year-old infant of Proi. 'a. II. MeCraeken, of Spnrtnnbnr .turned a koit.le of boiling water over on itself several days ago and died Sunday as a result of burns. The entire body of the child was covered with blisters and death put an end to the unbearable suiT' 0 The Democrats in Congress ought i to let the dead past bury its dead, and press on to victory. Their votes > in the last Congress should not count against any member. We believe all Democratic Senators and Repreaenta\ tives will do their duty when the time comes. fj Gonwa # ( Has largest capitaland surplus of t than the combinech capital and surf CAPITAL fttCi&K',. ' /} SURPLUS, ... PlXM LITIES STOCK SECURITY OF.PEP.OS DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, 3. L. Buck, ' Gteorge J. Holiday, , i 11 j ' vr < i- <* We offer our customers every acc | will justify, and we *ob?rt b. scarborough, i President. We continue to pay 5 pe Ifirst natk A\ CONWA 2? CAPITAL* STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS /|\ TOTAL ASSESTS is ^ DIREC J. A. MCDormori, juiiu i A\ B. G. Collins, H. L. 1 I? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui ^ Successor to the Bank ol jli Horry County, and a pioneer (vJ ly allied with the recent dev Republic. Backed by the 1 ;TC United States Bonds, we are i ' toniers any reasonable acconu * ?H. A. SI'IVKY, Cashier. \V'UNLESS TELLS OF BATTLE. .Many Killed and Wounded Near Oeilm is Reported. That Commandant Guerrero and thirty soldiers were killed and fifty others wounded in a battle, which lasted two hours near Ceiba, Honduras, was information contained in scraps of a message picked up by the local wireless station at 1 I o'clock Thursday night. The revolutionists in the depart ment of La, Pase, Honduras, under the leadership of (Jen. Solo, were routed by Government troops yesterday, according to dispatches received Thursday by Consul General I'Uoa, of Honduras, at New Orleans. No details of the battle, which occurred near the Salvadorean border, were given. (Jen. Clloa expressed the belief that (Jen. Guitterex, vice president and commanding general of Government troops in the field, would shortly strike -t telling blow against the rebels commanded by Gen. Lee Christmas. I!" expects the two armies to meet in the vicinity of San Pedro Sulla, about 2a miles south of Puerto Cortez. doped on One llorse. P.oth riding astride on one horse rom their home near Xuckols, Ky., Marv Kllon Tirhonor, aged lb, daughter of Magistrate Golem.n ennnr, and her hoy lover, William Wells, I rt, wc re arrested Wednesi..> in midllght on their way to .ouisville to lie wed. The fugitives re caught by ofheers who had be m warnetl by the girl's father of the eiopenieii t. Will Itehuild at Once. A dispatch from Cameron to The State says if is understood that Geo Timer, who ie t his new dwelling u\ lire a week ago, will take steps to rebuild at oiu-e. Although he had no in-are' e. i t saved $200 or $ftoO v?ori of m Me nil from the burning hutldin , J his, with several hun(io i an rously contributed oy 1 s. trieni.s, will help him consid era 1)1 y. .. ?? -+ ?.? Sena t of v mine, of New Jorseyj gliVo out a si n i i 'ui after .his 'ion in wiir h b said his can <1 iiif-v i. f an t iernal trnta i?, ?> ? \ i was vitalized iiv rali r (.i ! i . I it victory, Ik of in individual t *??I Vj the 'i ;,i and .i!)i v)|! til (it be di- t, r i 11 oim dollar in soohin;; Ms pi on. ' > ? <>- ? ' ?? Wo r .n i u w t t o the Torrem law' woi)lo it i ; o?-* i .k vers If it wat Wnaotd . I \w.n !d e? eve them ol 11 o. iT.-m mlliy of searching foi nud t;u ir.i t,.voiii?; titles to laud, uj under the I o. reus I nv tho i>iat< . would do i'ant. We see no reastii , v\ i v ain lawyer ihould op nose t.i< bill tor fear of its hurting lus busi mss. Tho Columbia itocord says "th< babyish conduct of tho Uopuhlicai senators in tho West Virginia gen eral assembly, in absontlng them , solves from the sessions in order tha Democrats might not be elected t< the federal senate, merely empha sizes the necessity for the electioi , of senators by popular vote." Wei said. ,,, v '. -m ' HORRY, ttjffi -yj. S. C. -JB ,'i 1 ' ' *\ > ! ft) tv'j ' iny bank in Horry county. More >lu? of all other banks in; the county. 150/000 . j .12,60.0 , . :holdeks .. .. 50,000 ? cms 112/500 4 1 :ioks _ _ r D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Freeman, ommodation which their accounts j solicit your business. *' * * "'*? t . rn trpuite ), V . l(I(,HAKI)>?UINf vy 1 liij a n^ Vice {'resident Casbibb " " /T 'nit>H L x cent, on yearly deposits. - ->j i.u ?a * DNAL BANK?! % y I $25,000.00 f 2,500.00 m I 125,000.00 M?j; h TOK8: ?, J 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, /ft hick, W. H. Lewis, L). r Evttlebauiri, D. A. Spivey. *1^ C Conway, the oldest Bank in Mk o., . ..I {,, ? Clnao. Ill I'iiiai' in v_.cn ^?n ???? ... elopment of the Independent Government and secured by A >repared to extend to our cua- 5KV iiodations. Cv hi It. O, COLLINS, A jjl President. I'j - - - ?^ A PROFESSION A L CARDS. ?? I H. H. WOODWARD b attorney and Couucelor At Law. CONWAY, S. O. ftt. B. SCARBROIJGH h CONWAY, S. C. Attorney at Law. A. It. BURROUGHS ? Physician and Surgeon. CON WAV. 8. C. ,1mA ' 1r * ' I. J V B. WOFFOItl) WAIT. ' ^ Attornoy nt La> . ' I Hank of Iforry lluildini;. CON WAV, H. O. | j (HE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE ' k jLIGHT RUNNING NBffloMr (fyon wnnt either a Vlhmtlni^Hhuttlo, fe Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain&Uilch\ Sewing Machine write to m NEW HOME 8EWIN0 MACHINE COMPAIf Orange, Mass* JiswrseMrlnsrmachinrs am made to sell regardlessdf but tlic New Home is made to west. Out guaranty never runs out. *?* *9 authorized dealers snlf*' sad dai n km* ' ' ?w" ?? M{KOI'(.Hs tv i(M/lAN8 OO., 1 Umw?y, <). oolin ; \\ i; h (?nsolInc. At V/adeira, Cm 1.. Mold Miner, aged 1 S years and Horace Russet, age{l < in, were burnc<l to death when a i fifty -lion gasoline lank was ex- ?J i ploded by matches with which they I 4 were playing. Roth boys ran three blocks with their clothes tlazing. : Then they were stopped arid Che lire j extinguished. > < ? i Door Kno'dis Farmer Against Saw. " | A circular saw, a gust of wind ai^d ", a barn door combined to flepriyo I Schuyler Wiley, a farmer residing 3 j near Pottstown, Fa., pf his right af^n u below. the elbow*. ..The wind picked 1 II the barn door off its hinges, and J 1 hurled it upon Wiley when, he ^s j near the saw. (i , , ; ? ,1V/ u i I