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I WILL HELP SOME * What ike Reciprocity Af reemal Wil De fer the Ctaiuers. . WILL CHEAPEN GOODS Some of the Benefits that the Reel- ( procity Agreement with Canada < c Will Confer on the Great Mass of ' ] Consumers in the Cities and I 1 Towns and Country. ^ In presenting the prospective ben?fits of the reciprocal trade agree- ( ment between the United States and Canada, it Is necessary to consider i that under the present tariff law ( many of the duties have been whol- 1 ly prohibitive. The present amount e of importation o-r the present income 1 /* United States through the me dium of the custom house is, except in a few instances, no index to * the future trade in any particular article or commodity. The restrictions of the past re- ^ moved, certain articles, to-day only nominally upon the list of imports i from the United States Into Canada and from Canada into the United ( States, must, in the immediate fu- { ture become important articles of e trade in one direction or the other I and in some instances in both direc- t tlons. The following are among the important changes in the present j trade conditions with Canada, which { the agreement ratified by the bill > passed will put into effect at once. * The question, then, is What will rec- t Iprocity accomplish? It will? 1. Admit to the United States free , of duty articles to the value of $3 9,- ( 811,560 under which the Payne-Aldrich tariff law there is now a duty. , In return Canada by a remission of ' her duties, will admit free, products , of the United States to the value of ( $21,957,605, according to the sta- K tistics for last year obtainable for , purposes of calculation. J 2. Place upon the free list wheat, i rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, dried < neas and beans, and corn upon which the United States at present imposes a varying schedule of duties ranging from ten cents per bushel : for rye to 45 cents per bushel for I dried beans. All this benefit to the consumer being accomplished at a revenue cost to the United States of less than $300,000. 3.'Place upon the free list cattle, horses, mules, sheep and swine at present dutiable at rates approximately 25 per cent., but at a revenue cost to the United States of less than $275,000. 4. Place upon the free list vegetables of all sorts, including potatoes, cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes and yams, now taxed at from 25 cents to 40 cents per bushel, and all other fresh vegetables not enumerated at 25 per cent advalorem, and at a cost to the United.States of $380,000. 5. Relieve from the tariff of 1-4 cent per pound the annual importa ? - ? t r o ~ ~,. ? ,1f r-na Vi tlon or 31,54J.,J.UO jiuuuuo w J. it vu? water fish, and from the tariff of from 3-4 to 1 cent per pound of 13,W 341,921 pounds of mackerel, ells, W smelts, halibut, and herring; 17,l 085,091 pounds of cod, hadock, hake and other dried, smoked and salt fish, and 10,000,000 pounds of salted ( and smoked mackerel and herring, I at a revenue cost to the United Sta/tes of $380,000. 6. Remove the existing tariff on | pulp wood and print paper, thereby | admitting to the United States free [. 160,217,569 pounds of pulp wood I now dutible, and 86,766,027 pounds of print paper, according to the Importations of 1910, at a revenue cost to the government of $3 00,000, and 75,446,109 pounds of chemically prepared unbleached and 19,345,312 pounds of bleached pulp wood at a revenue of $175,000. 7. Place lumber upon the free list thereby relieving the American consumer of the tariff of $1.25 per 1,000 feet upon the 975,975,000 feet of sawed lumber imported last year at a revenue sacrifice of $1,21 9,970. 8. Reduce the present tariff on fresh meats from 11-2 per pound to 1 1-4 cents per pound for the return concession on the part of Canada of a reduction of 3 cents a pound to 1 1-4 cents. Reduce the tariff on bacon and hams from 4 cents per [ pound to 1 1-4 cents per pound, on i all other dried and smoked meats / from 25 per cent, advalorem to 1 1-4 cent per pound, in return for a reduction on the part of Canada from 12 cents per pound to the same figure. These changes in the meat tariff to be effected at a revenue loss to the United States of less than 9. Reduce the duty on canned vegetables from 40 per cent ad valorem to 1 1-4 cents per pound, at a revenue loss of $6,000. 10. Reduce the tariff on flour from 25 per cent ad valorem to 50 cents per barrel of 196 pounds, at a revenue loss of $18,000. 11. Reduce the tariff on maple sugar and maple syrup from 4 cents per pound to 1 cent per pound, at a revenue loss of $72,000. 12. Reduce the tariff on lathes from 20 cents per 1,000 to 10 cents per 1,000, and upon shingles from SO cents per 1,000, to 30 cents per 1,000, at a revenue loss for the two DREADED DISEASE ? ASIATIC CHOLERA IS KNOCKING AT OUR VERY DOOR. Some Facta About Tills Awful Plague that Will Be of Interest Just at the Present Time. Six deaths In New York and one n Boston of victims of Asiatic cholera give warning that the United States is seriously menaced by the plague which is so serious in Italy hat the authorities of that country ivilJ not permit any information as ,o actual conditions there to be sent ut to other countries, says the Washngt/on correspondent of the Charlotte Observer. It does not follow that the plague s likely to become epidemic in this jountry, for proper precautionary neasures will preclude that. However, the plague is at our doors, and mblic health authorities, both Federal and State, realize that they have i serious problem to handle. That hey have the situation well in hand, s generally recognized, but it is also ecognized that conditions might develop such that the United States vould have a genuine cholera scare. Fortunately the Federal health ofIcers have been preparing for this jmergency for more than a year. Cholera is a world disease and moves n cycles. For eight years the present pandemic has been spreading over \sia and Europe and it was expected o reach the United States this year. V year ago the United States public lealth and marine hospital service ssued a bulletin on "Cholera: Its Mature, Detection and Preventation,' vhich gave warning to the coming of he plague and told State and munici>al health authorities how to deal tvith the problem when it reached ;hem. This is by no means the first time be United States has been threatened with this plague. For centuries there have been epidemics of cholera In India, but it was not until sarly in the last century that it assumed pandemic proportions and swept over the world. Since 1817 there have been six great pandemics of cholera, as follows: 1817-1823; 1826-1837; 1846-1862; 1864-1875; 1883-1896; 1902-1911. The first pandemic spread slowly, involving India, Java, Borneo, Mauritius, the Phillipines, China, Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Syria and Egypt. The second had a wider spread. Europe became infected from Persia and Turkey and it was carried to Encinnd. Canada, the United States, Cuba and South America. Since then each pandemic has covered practicalIf the entire world. The fiftn pandemic was perhaps the most serious. It is estimated that In two years, 1892-94, over 8 00,000 people died of the cholera in Russia, and a terrific outbreak in Hamburg in 1892 cost the lives of 8,600 persons. In 1 893 the disease reached the port of New York in the person of immigrants from Europe and a few cases occurred in Jersey City. The present pandemic began in 1902 and spread through farther India and China to the Phillipines. In 19 03 it spread as usual by way of Afghanistan, Persia and Arabia to Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor and the Black Sea. In 1904 it followed the caravan routes from Central Asia and the following year spread over Russia and Poland and appeared in Prussia. No great spread of the disease has occurred in the German empire, because of the constant vigilance exercised by the German sanitary authorities, although the continued persistence of the disease in Russia has furnished Germany new infections almost yearly. The presence and spread of cholera in Italy, a country from whiqh this country receives more immigrants than from any other country, makes the menace of cholera to the United States more direct and threatening than at any time since 1892-3. WANTED TO KII/L EVERYBODY. wwii lUflA Ttnn A murk ill Illllllll ?? 1111 jrnmmm.m.'Ks Crowded Chicago Street. While the police were planning to send him to an asylum for criminal insane, N. Hausin, a Hindu, and former member of the British army, who wounded five persons and caused a panic in Chioago's crowded downtown street Wednesday by discharging a rifle at the passing throng, sat in a cell and jeered at his guards. "I bought the rifle to kill all the bad people in Chicago," the said, "I hate all of your white American faces. You have been cruel to me, and I wanted to kill everybody." Hausin came to this country from India four years ago, and worked in a steel mill in Piitsburg before comig to Chicago. Poerty and loneliness are believed to have affected this mind already possdbly deficient from a wound he sustained while a soldier. items of $200,000. 13. Articles to the value of $47,333,158 are affected by the new reciprocal agreement. Upon these articles the total tariff levied at present is $5,649,826 per annum. Of this revenue the United States will remit duties to the amount of $4,849,933. MAY MEAN WAR Prearier Asqoilh Makes Plaia Eaglaaa'a kUidade Abaat Moracca. WANTS ISSUE SETTLED Speech Delivered in the House of Commons Indicates Nearness of a Crisis in Dispute Between France and Germany Over the Morocco Matter. A cablegram from London says the most pessimistic view regarding the acuteness of the Moroccan situation was taken Thursday in the comment of the prime minister, when he delivered a speech o the House of Commons which had been carefully prepared. He stated that Great Britain proposed to stand for what she considered her rights and to maintain the balance of power in Furope. Further testimony to the gravity of the situation Is given by the fact that the prime minister had taken the leader of the Opposition into the Government's confidence, and Mr. Mr. Balfour's declaration was no less firm than Mr. Asquith's. The prime mjnisterte statement is couched in strong terms. At the very opening he said: "It is obvious that this 'Moroccan question has reached a point at which it will become increasingly difficult embarrassing and anxious unless a solution Is found." Later he said: "We thought It right from the beginning to make clear that failing of a settlement such as I have indicated, we must become an active party In the dis cussion of the situation. That would be our right as a signatory to the treaty of Algeciras, as It might be our obligation under the terms of our agreement of 1904 with France. It might be our duty in defense of British interest directly affected by further developments." In promsing the support of the oposition to the government Mr. Balfour said: "If there are any who supposed that we would be wiped off the map of Europe because we have our differences at home, it may be worth while saying that they bitterly mistake the temper of the British people and the pariotism of the opposition." Such plain speaking on a question frought with possibilities of a great European war has not been heard in the British Padliament in a great many years. The outcome of the siuation appears to rest almost wholly on Germany's shoulders. If as some German papers say, Germany has reached the stage of national development where the necessities of her population demand that she enlarge, and imjposes conditions on France which Great Britain think threaten her interests, the only result, so far as those best informed ?* ...in Mna, riftrpjiIfinftd and II) Will IJ\J illV V/l. V v __ long: averted European war . The. majority of the German newspapers -profess to think that Mr. Lloyd-George warning was not addressed to Germany, but a sort of general proclamation of principles. The prime minister made it plain, however, that Great Britain would not consent to some of the ideas of Germany. Great Britain feels that Germany thought she could take advantage of the crisis, and that England was busily engaged in home affairs?too busy to pay attention to other questions. The politicians and the public earnestly hope that Germany's programme is not one which may be impossible. The British prime ministers statement in the House of Commons was greeted in Paris with the greatest. satisfaction. The opinion expresed to-night is one of confidence in a satisfactory settlement of the controversy between France and Germany. Premier Caillaux conferred with M. Desolves, minister of foreign affairs, and afterwards with the ministers of war, marine, public works and finance. Later M. Caillaux said that prudence and cool heads were morethan necessary to all parties. The Temps say that although the French ambassador to Germany, and Baron Von KIderlen-Waechter, the i _ i. Gorman foreign secretary nave uiKeu on a tone of greater cordiality, the> have not resulted in advancing the situation. .? ? Rain Hurt Crop. The excessive rains recently hav< destroyed Georgia's chances of pro ducing a bumper crop of cotton, ac cording to State Commissioner of Ag ricuRure Hudson. "There has bee! entirely too much rain all over th< State,' declared Commissioner Hud son, "there is no question but fcha much damage has been done to tin crop of cotton." ? ? ? Three Were Drowned. Charles Dixon, of Kansas City, hi; son, aged 16, and daughter, aged 14 were drowned by the upsetting of i , oanoe in Lake Michigan at Maoatawi > Park late Monday. One son, age< ; 11, was rescued in time to resusci tate (Mm. i i GOOD FOR IRE SOUTH THE RACE PROBLEM BECOMING LESS OPPRESSIVE The Census Figures Show Unmistakably that the Whole South Is Growing Whiter. The fear has often been expressed that the farming sections of the South are coming increasingly into the control of a negro population. "The white people are moving to the towns and leaving the country to colored farmers and tenants," is a cry that has been 'heard in some quarters. For these reasons we have .been looking forward with the i 4tn tho announce KjC'l'llt'Sl Illusion w v.. v nient of the census figures as to the relative increase of white and colored population in the South during the last decade. The first peep at wtat these figures are going to show was furnished by Mr. Lewis W. Parker in his commencement address at the South Carolina State University a few days ago. In the course of this address Mr. Parker gave the following figures as having been furnished Mr. Theodore II .Price by the Director of the census. These are advance figures, and while final computation may change them slightly, they may be accepted as in every respect substantially and approximately correct. We quote from Mr. Parker: "Per cent increase in population living in places of over 2,500 inhabitants, and in country districts, respectively, front 1890 to 1900, and from 19 00 to 1910, in nine cotton States: Places over 2,500 in 1890? Increase Increase. 1890 to 1900 1900 to 1910. White. ..... 27.6 46.6 Negro 23.3 30.5 Country districts in 1890? Increase Increase. 1890 to 1900 1900 to 1910. White 18.7 17.3 Negro 17.5 8.3 In commenting on these figures Mr. Parker said: "It will be noted that the white population in communities of over 2,500 in population increased in percentage between 1900 and 1910, 46.6 4 A" A. Z? per cent as against z7.0 per cem m 1 1890 to 1900. During such period, the negro population in these communities increased 30.5 per cent, as against an increase of the preceding period of 23.3 per cent. On the other hand, the white population increased in the country districts, 19 00 to 1910, almost identically the per cent as from 1 890 to 1 900; whereas the negro population shows a much lower percentage of increase, as the increase in the country districts in the later period is only 8.? per cent, as against 17.5 per cent in the earlier period." In commenting on the above figures the Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. C., says they indicate unmistakably that the whole South is growing whiter. If we recall that the country places in 1 890 embraced over 80 per cent of the population of these nine states, and that the small negro rural increase of 8.5 per cent applies to about four times as large a body of population as the negro's ' larger urban increase of 3 0.5 per cent, another fact becomes apparent; The white population of the whole South is increasing a'most exactly twice as fast as the negro population ?probably more than twice as fast. And we are frank to say that we heartily rejoice that this is tiue. We have no ill will to the negro. We certainly have no desire to keep him poor. Even from a selfish standpoint we realize that the best Interests of the whole South demand that he be made more intelligent, efficient, and prosperous. Rait at best the process will be slow; and the proportion of negroes to whites in the South has been too large oven for the negro's own good. The best Interest of everybody will be helped by a greater relative increase in the white population. The coming of good settlers from other sections should be encouraged, and the hope should be that the tides of migration and immigration will i ultimately equalize matters until the proportion of negroes in no Southern > Sta.to will exceed 2 0 per cent. Then will it be easier to develop thickly > settled white communities. i Prosperous small white farmers, > owning their own homes, and enjoyi ing all modern comforts?good r roads, good schools, rural telephones, ) water works, trolley lines, etc., etc., things it is often hard to get where a large part of the population consists of negro tenants?will develop 3 In the South the most splendid type - of modern rural civilisation, and a - kindlier feeling for the negro him self will develop as his influence bei comes less oppressive and his num3 hers better distributed through the - whole country. t The Soutehrn white farmer hae sense enough to see that with intelligent scientific farming he has far better chances for making money and for enjoying life working as his owe b boss on his own land than he would , have as somebody's hireling In iom< i city factory or shop. Consequently i he Is going to stay on the farm; and ! for every negro who goes to tow? -1 we may oount on getting in the end some thrifty white settler from some BANK OF Conwai ? Hat largest capital and surplus of ai than the combined capital and surpl CAPITAL STOCK* . SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK 8BCURITY OF PBPOSIH DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, Gteorge J. Holiday, We offer our customers every accc will justify, and we s ftobrrt b. scarborough, d, President. 1 We continue to pay 5 per > '999 999 999m9 {'"FIRST NATK OONTVA^ CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSBSTS ? DIRECT! ' J. A. McDermott, John C B. G. Collins, H. L. B J M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua \ Successor to the Bank of C Horry County, and a" pioneer J ly allied with the recent dev< y Republic. Backed by the G L United States Bonds, we are pi * tomers any reasonable acoomn ^?*wtrntr ?H. A. srivrjx, Caehier. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD 4ttornay and Councilor At Law. CONWAY, a o. K. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, a G. Attorney at Law. \ H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. CONWAY, 8. C. I B WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/? Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. C. HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE ajJGHT RUNNING,^ MCWmhML M9oa want either a Vibrating Hhnttle, RotaiS fttwUlfior > Mingle Thread [ChainStitch^ Sewing Machine write to M SCW HOME SEWINC MACHINE GOMFASV Oranoe( Mass. 'IB*raew1esmachines are made to eellrecardle*St fnliqr, but the New Home Is made to wsaa Oar ruaranty never runs out i (Mi AM aatkorlsed dealsrs mmMgk] POM SALS m J BURROUGHS * COLLINS OOh Uonway, S. C. other section. Being very much interested in these figure* we sent them to the Director of the Census for confirmation as to their correctness, and also to ascertain what "nine cotton States" are referred to. From him ( we learn that the nine States included in this preliminary estimate given Mr. Price were: North Caro1 line, South Carolina; Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The questlon of ."Saving the Rural South to f the White Race" seems to be solving itself. * I "Don't talk bo me about advertisl lng"?just like the man that is dead 1 and doesn't know that the tombstone > la over <hls grave. II I HORRY, 7 fl ly bank in Horry countv. Morn II ut of all other banks in tlie county* I lt?6tt HOLDERS .... 69,SOS >R8 *112,600 D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, .> Will A. FrMBOUL tmmodation which their account* II olicit your business. , V. Richardson, will a. fbbbmaw i /iob President. Cashibb cent, on yearly deposits. ^ )NAL BANK | I A H . . $25)000(00 2,500.09 %W ... .. 126.900.90 I POR8: JP . Splvey, D. t. McNeill. /ftw I I uck. W. R. Lewis, D. 7 ttlebaum, D. a. Splvey. jy Conway, the oldest Hank in In Eastern Carolina. Close- jL ilopment of the Independent W' Government and secured by Jlk repared to extend to our ens- zf lodatlons. B. G. COLLINS, X President. |[ H = - H B Noah's LI n m n t is the> beet remedy for Rheumstism, Sciatica, Lame Back,. S11 ff Joints and Muscles, Soro Throat, Colds, Strains,. Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Colic, Cramps, Neuralgia, Toothache, and all Nerve, Done and Muscle Aches ' and Paine. The genuine has Noah'e Ark on every h package and looks Uke this j cut, but hits RED band on J H front of paokage and J "Noah's Liniment" always H In RED Ink. Beware of imitations. Large bottle-. 25 cents, and sold by all dealers lnmedlcine, H Guaranteed or money re funded by Noah Remedy Co., Inc., Richmond, Va. V A FIKNI) LYNCHED. He Attempted an Assault on a ^ 9 Young Woman. jl Following! an attempt to assault a I young woman in Mount Croghan, a I small town near Cheraw, a negro from North Carolina, whoso name I has not been learned, is believed to- I have been lynched. II The attempt at assault was com- Jfe I mltted at noon (Monday, and all day 1 and part of Tuesday parties of fren- I zled men searched the woods for the- I criminal. ll Parties of men returning Tuesday I morning were non-committal as towhether the negro was caught or not, j but It is thought from the bearingof the pursuers, that the negro was^ captured and put to death in the- ? woods somewhere. The victim of the attentpted assault is one of the most prominent and well connected young women of that section, and the crime stirred up unusual excitement and anger. f Sheriff Douglass, of Chesterfield1 County, was on the scene and?sought to capture the negro, but was unsuccessful. DOX'T BELONG TO THEM. + Pudgett Unknown to South Carolina^ Methodists. From the Atlanta Constitution: cornes the report that the {lev. B. L. \ Padgett, claiming to be a Methodist ? preacher from Greenville, S. C., was apprehended in a little Madison ave>nue hotel as being unlawfully in th& company of a young lady, also from the South Carolina city. ^ "Rev. Mr. Patgett says that he has been a Methodist preacher a number of years and that last year and year before he was president of the South Carolina Conference. He declares * that his record is above reproach and that when the local authorities arewired about him they will release him." ? ? Very Old Town. Near Osimo, in Italy, Professor Dall 'Osso, has discovered the re1 mains of an important Gallic settlement dating back as far as the year 1600 B. C. The buildings are circular in shape find contain numerous domestic utensils, weapons, earthenware objects, etc., denoting the pas' sage from the neolithic to a more ad- ^ vanced stage of civilization. A well known minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of ' Columbia, says that he d-oes not know of any such Rev. Mr. Padgett. Ho Is not a minister of the authorized Methodist Church. We have no such - thing as president of the Conferences. 1 He must be a member of on? of the > sects that Inhabit the mountain parte , of the State." ; ,