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m NONE LEFT ALIVft Tie Ckiieie Spare Neither Age Nor Sex in Missac e of Mtnchos THE DEAD ARE PILED UP * Consummation llcKiogitcri at file Capital All Hay Thursday, and Rofti gees from (ho Fighting Zone Toil of Horrors of Chinese Revolutions at Hankow and War Chang. A cablegram from Shanghai, China, says six packed steamers arrived here from Hankow today carrying refugees. The steamer Belgravia was occupied exclusively by ft>reign passengers who were given free {accommodations at the directions of he consul in Hankow. The ship was so crowded that 111 nay of the ?as? ~ nn +Viq flnrtv n f fhft tft'lllgUi a BlCjJV Wl* IUU hold. Most of the foreigners* were Russians employed in the tea factories and Belgian iron workers, employed in the steel works, the Han Yang arsenal, and on the PekingHankow Railway. The refugees declare that the whole Yang Tse Valley, from Hankow to Shanghai, is in the hands of the rebels with the possible exception of one or two of the larger cities to which provincial ofllcials have retired with their available troops. It has been insistently stated hero that Kiu Kiang, 15 miles below Hankow, is under revolutionary control. This is denied, however, by foreign oflicials and by the representatives of the Chinese I custom service. Accounts of the revolutionary attack on Wo Chang as given by the refugees emphasize particularly the massacre of the manchus in that city. In the slaughter neither age nor sex was regarded and it is doubtful, the refugees say, whether a single representative of the Mnichu race was left alive there. Similar slaughter of the Manchus followed in Hankow and Han Yang, when those cities fell. Copies of the Central China Post, which arrived on the lielgravia, describe the early progress of the revolutionary movement. "The revolutionary leaders," the pa/per says, "displayed secrecy, promptitude and thoroughness ? qualities seldom shown by the governing classes in China. But the massacre of the Manchus in our three cities is a ghastly blot on the reputation of the revolutionaries." Shanghai is a hot bed of revolution and rumors of plots and counter plots 'are numberless. A formal appeal issued by the revolutionary a gents here today says: "Wo appeal ror tne cooperation or cur brethren throughout tho world. Those with money should contribute funds; those with wisdom should devise plans; those with information should secretly report the enemy's condition. We expect that our movement will succeed. If it fails, the ten days' massacres of Hang Cliaw and Kiating, when the Manchus subdued China, will be repeated. "It is hoped that our patriotic brethren will respond from all directions and with unanimous minds will turn this universe about." A proclamation credited to tho revolutionav leader in Hankow is as follows: "I come to save the Chinese people . 1 have no idea of acquiring personal profit or preference but aim only to pull you out of the fire and cure your cankering maladies. Hitherto you have been bitterly Oppress ed. You have been drowned in a sea of misery by a government of aliens* Your rulers have treated you like bastards, not like children. "Let whoever is animated by patriotic sentiment come quickly and join our ranks. With us he will obtain unending glory by delivering his country from the Mancliu barbaian who hitherto has eaten our fiesh. From now on we shall sleep in his skin. "I^et us be merciful even to our enemies. Our soldiers must be careful not to recklessly kill the Manchus. Lot us give them an op portunlty to surrender their uniform and weapons. If they do not then yield and Continue enemies of the revolutloary movement, they must be killed. The official announcement this morning that telegraphic communication with Ilankow had been interrupted since sunset last night, caused consternation throughout the capital today. The wildest rumors of reverses to the imperial arms spread like wild fire, although no definite facts to support them were available. Much significance was attached to the fact that the government has refrained from issuing any official ansouncemenf of a victory In yesterday's engagement with the rebels. ? e ? Three Natives Were Koten. News comes from the New Met* rides that a French trading, vessel made a raid and a number of na* fives were kidnapped. The naClvef I it revenge attacked the steamer and captured three of the crew, all na PEOPLE ARE ROBBED FOK THE BKNKFIT -OF WOOL TKUST WHO OWN MILLS. ? The Americans Pay Over a Hundred Million Dollars in Taxes on the Clothes They Wear. The people of the United (States pay a subsidy to the wool industry of at least $104,400,000 a year, acicording to calculations of the Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, chairman of tlio Ways and Means committee of the house of representatives, who discussed schedule K before the Industrial club, of Chicago, recently. ^ After relating the history of the tariff on wool which he said had been recommended in 18C7, after a meeting of the wool growers of the west and the wool manufacturers of the east, Congressman lluderwood undertook to show the actual tax imposed on the individual through the tariff. "An illustration of the extent of the burden is afforded by a study of a typical article of comparatively cheap cloth such as enters the ordi?-j nary men's suit worn by the great masses of the people," he said. "The article is an all worsted fancy fabric, the wholesale English price per yard of which is seventy-seven cents, and the freight to New York, one cent. "The compensatory duty is fortyfour cents per pound or twenty-three cents per yard, the ad valorem duty forty per cent or thirty-eight cents 1 er yard in addition, or seventy-eight i ~ o ii. /? : ?~..4- Tf per cent ui mu impute pi n;;. 11 idquires three and one-half yards to make a man's suit. There are at present 92,000,000 persons of the United States. It is estimated onefifth are heads of families, or men making 1 8,400,000 such splits used a year. There are doubtless an equal number of women wearing woolen making a total of such cloth, which with the children's suits makes a total, figured at the small estimate of one suit a year, 171,200,000 yards. "The taiff tax of 61 per cent per yard, to say nothing of any increase in tax as it passes to the jobber, makes not less than $104,4 00,00 paid each year to subsidize the wool industry of America "On the other hand, the entire duties paid the United States on all imports of woolens and worsteds in 1910 amounted to a total of less than one-fourth of one per cent of $1 5,5 00,000 for the use of the government and over $100,000,000 subtracted from the pockets of the people. Is it fair or just or right to maintain these enormous taxes unduly to foster the business of less than oneand three-fourths to stagger under this enormous burden? "I do not believe the American people will justify the president in Ms veto of the wool schedule. He does not say the rates of duty fixed in the bill presented to him were too high or too low, but says that congress was not informed and that they minst wait the decision of the socalled tariff hoard. , The congress had all the information it had when it passed the revision of the tariff schedule, that the Ways and Means committee had when it drafted the Payne bill, which the president signed. "The chairman of the tariff board does not seem to agree with the president as to the ability of that board to secure facts that will aid congress in rewriting that schedule. He said at a banquet of the American Association of Woolen and Worsted manufacturers in New York last December "there are certain things that are difficult to get and one thine is to try to get cost of production." ? MrilDttHUIlS TO HK HANUKl). Two Negroes Will He Kvceuted for Killing Negroes. At the conclusion of the Court of General Sessions at Chester on Wednesday, Judge Watts passed sentence on Henry Kee, for the murder of Sam Dye; and Mack Hood, for the murder of Walker Dunlap, sentenc ing thoni to hang on December 8. These will be the first legal hangings in Lancaster county in twentyone years. The last hanging was that of Roach Catoo and Will Clyburn, for the murder of CI us Hemnis. Out of the twelve murder cases to come up at this term, all except two were tried. Two were convicted , of murder in the first degree, one . with recommendation to mercy, and . one of manslaughter. , ? ? Was Killed on Street Car. i At. Montgomery, Ala., A. C. Jaml[ son, a fruit vender, shot and killed . .John Dice, a street car conductor, on i the rear end of a street car in the ; heart of- the city. Circumstances I leading to the killing are unknown, - Jamison has been arrested on a charge of murder. ? Killed a Huge Ilattler. A rattlesnake that had as its . caudal appendage 23 rattles and a L button was killed In Saltkehatchfc ? swamp, several miles from Barnwell, i by D. B. Aldrtch, last week. The t. rattles were cut off and brought tc > Darnwell. They measured five inchef . In length. , AWFUL STORY Millitas Arc Starviig ia Ckiaa asi Ciaibalisa Is Canta. SEEN UPON EVERY HAND Heaps of Decaying Dead Piled in ?Streets and Other Places and Sights are Sickening Horror of Devastations Produced by Vast Flood Which Swept Central China. Advices from Shanghai say that millions of people face starvation in Central China. Parents are eating their children in the flood-stricken districts. Marauding bands are in control and head the fight for the survival of tho fittest. .Missionaries coming from the interior state that tho situation surpasses anything within the history of the country. From Ichang to the sea, a dis<tance of a thousand miles, the valley of the Yangtse is bordered by heaps of decaying dead, while the black flag and canibalism holds undisputed sway. The flood-devastated villages are overrun with starving Chinese. The water-sodden ground is past all cultivation. The rice crop is completely destroyed, and even the grass along the river .bank has been utilized for food. Not a dog, rat or hinl tli{if- nmilfl lift rantiirftd lins liftftii spared. The same conditions prevail in all the valleys of Central China. Reports from the interior proclaim a state of ananchy. All trade is sus1pended and the principal cities will soon be in a state of siege, with their inhabitants facing starvation, the government is unable to cope with the conditions. Millions of dollars in food are needed at once. Driven from their homes by the floods, thousands of refugees iled to the hills and camped on the sides in little mat sheds. Here they have been making pitiful efforts to preserve their lives until the subsiding flood gives them an opportunity to return to their homes. They brought with them in their ilight small stocks of rice 'but in the weeks of waiting this has been exhausted and now they are eating anything that holds nourishment. On the hillsides they are digging into the ground with their Uare fingers to get roots of weeds and grass and some have mixed clay with tueir rice in order to give it more bulk. In Anhui province the refugees have overrun the wheat fields which were recently harvested and are gleaming the stubble of every grain which was left by the harvesters. Those who have been able to reach the larger eities are offering their children for sale, many little girls hoimr fr?r a fpw dollars and the boys for a slightly larger amount. In the smaller villages which have been cut off from any food supply for weeks canibalism is the depth to which starvation has driven the flood victims. Many parents have eaten their own children. Ordinary flood statistics are insignificant in ^comparison to those which are necessary in enumerating the extent of this flood. For a thousand miles the Yangtse i? a vast inland sea, its former course serving only as a channel in the stream which stretches away to the horizon or the hills on either side. For two hundred miles to the north of the Yangste the Han is out of its hanks and south of Hankow, Tung Ting lake is so far out of its banks that it has flooded villages fifty miles inland. In one village six hundred were drowned, in another three hundred. At least ten thousand were drowned in the villages and towns alone. An area as large as a European country, is under water, its crops ruined, and its population nomeless. As to the number which are starving, two millions is as conservative estimate, the most conservative of any which have been made. After a ill roe-weeks' trip through the flooded region, it is my opinion Uiat the number will exceed 2,500,000. In Anhui province alone the homeless number half a million. In the Tung Ting lake region there is an equal number and these two sections cover only a small part of the vase area of the flood. From American standards thoir necessities of life are ridiculously small. A dollar will supply a whole family with food for a week. A hundred dollars will keep a village in comfort for a month. Poverty such as is ever present in China, is unknown in America, just as suffering such as is caused by this flood is unknown here. There may be hungry people in America but none is ' starving. In Changteh and in other 1 cities in the flooded district, they I 1 are dying by the hundreds daily of actual starvation. In all of these cities you may see linn/la Af raf n (ynna cn nroulr frnm i;auuo vi. i vluowp ov tt vm? ? v starvation that thoy can scarcely lift their hands to receive the penny you give them You can see dozens of those who retain some strength of body fight like madmen over the possession of a bit of rice whfch has been spilled In the mud. Rats, cats and dogs are being eaten just as any other race would eat them it driven to it by the pangs of hunger. SAYS HEU WIN A New Yark lea flualn Gamaar Wisaa Will Break All Becaria THE COUNTRY FOR HIM Sentiment as Seen by the New York cur on a Business Trip of Ten Thousand Miles Makes Him Be. . lieve that Gov. Wilson Will Sweep the Country Next Year. J. W. Binder, of New York, writes as follows to the New York Times concerning the presedential election next year. Editor of New York Times: The next President of the United States will be a Democrat. His name is Woodrow Wilson. His majority in the electoral college will be greater than that given to any President ever elected. These are strong statements. Det m? tell you why I believe them to be true. 1 have, within the past two months traveled more than ten thousand miles in the United States. I have talked with some of tho biggest men in the country. I have also talked with workingmen, commercial travelers, small merchants and others. Tlio spntinip.nt in favor of Wilson is simply tremendous. J lis administration in New Jersey since his election as Governor has made friends for him by the thousand. Business men feel that in the hands of such a man their interests would be conserved, while the working men hail the New Jersey employers' liability law, enacted at his urgent demand, as one of the best laws ever put on our statute books. A CS'ichigan manufacturer, many times a millionaire none of whose fortune has been made by security juggling, said to me: "I am for Wilson because I believe he recognizes that the government of this great nation should be put on a business basis. The business men of the United States have accustomed themselves to regard government as something asidc something mysterious, in tang ible, in which they had but a passing interest, and to which plain business principles could not be applied. Hence, for the past fifty years the functions of government have been largely in the hands of lawyers. Now, while I have the highest regard for law and for its exponents, I have yet to see the lawyer whom I would make tho general manager of my business. If this be true of my own personal business, involving a capitalization of less than $10,000,000, on what grounds can the people of this country possLbly justify their placing the control of the greatest business in the world?the government of these United States?almost entirely in the hands of lawyers? I have no hesitation in saying that the post office department of the United States should be made to bo selfsupporting, if, indeed, it cannot be made to show a profit. I believe it r>nn if it. is administered without ;<? g<ard to politics. It should be the buisness of the President of the United States to see that it is so administered. I believe that Woodrow Wilson would insist that it he so administered. Hence I am for him." One of the men I talked with was vice mayor of a large midwestern city. He is an enthusiastic Wilson supporter. I asked him what objections he had heard to Wilson's candidacy. He could name only one. That was that Wilson changed his mind on the matter of the initiative, referendum and recall. It is true. He did. He says himself that for fifteen years he taught his classes in Princeton that neither of these doctrines would work. He says, further, he can prove today that they von't work. Then he adds with native frankness, "but the trouble is they do work," and, recognizing that practice is always better than theory, he adapts himself to the changed conditions, and faces conditions as they are, not as he theoretically believed them to be. "This," continued my Democratic friend, "is in my estimation, the best indication of Wilson's strength." J. W. Hinder. Deadly llot Supper Hcgin. Walter Cobb, colored, lies at the point of death as the result of four pistol shot wounds received at the hands of one Jim Howland, also colored. The shooting occurred Saturday night some two or three miles south of Aiken, and fo-llowed a dispute which had arisen at a hot supper at the homo of Howland. Mayor Seriously Hurt. Mayor W. M. M^Intire, of Mullins, met with a serious accident Thursday. Mr. Mclntyro was directing the loading of the town's large safe which was being removed to the clerk's new office. The sale fell from the dray and pinning him underneath terribly mangled his leg. His leg was broken In two places and otherwise badly crushed. BAJNK Of C'onwa; Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp CAPITAL STOCK.. .. SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, EL L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc will justify, and we bobebt b. scarborough, E President. We continue to pay 5 pe J]g&&99 99999919 | FIRST NATO % ??NWA ? CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS ?I)IRKC J. A. McDermott, John C JK B. G. Collins, H. L. E a? M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui #T /A Successor to the Bank ol it Horry County, and a pioneer ^ ly allied with the recent dev ^ Republic. Backed by the < % United States Bonds, we are r ? tomers any reasonable acconu jL H. A. SPIVEY, f|S Cashier. BODIES FOUND rhcy Hay Be These of the Crew of a Schooner Lost in tic Gale. ? ARE BURIED ON BEACH Party ' Cone From Charleston to liearn Whether the I)en<l Men Floating Ashore Included ('apt. Jurvis, of the Margaret A. May, and His Two Brothers. The News and Courier says Collector of the Port R. W. Durant, Jr., President John G. Cherry, of the North State Lumber Company, and Capt. McGee, master of the schooner Collins W. Walton, and others left the city Monday aboaid the Govern ment boat tsumter ror iviawan island to investigate reports to the effect that several bodies of white men drowned at sea were either recovered from a wreck or washed up on the beach of the island some time ago and buried by the inhabitants. The gentlemen who compose the party going to Kiawah Island beflieve that among the bodies may have been the remains of Capt. Kdward L. Jarvis, master of the schooner Margaret A. May, which was lost during the storm of August 27, supposedly in the neighborhood of Cole's Island or Kiawah Island. The only relic of the wreck was the stern of the vessel, which washed up 011 Cole's Island beach after the storm. A Mr. Grimball, living 011 Kiawah found a scarf pin on the beach after the storm, bearing the initials "Ii3. L. J." This pin is supposed to have been the property of the master of the ill-fated schooner. Grimball stated that he found the pin in the end of a piece of piping attached to a portion of the wreckage from the deck house of a schooner. It is said that Capt. McNeill, who is working on the wreck of a schooner at Kiawah Island, believed by many to be the schooner Margaret A May, discovered dead bodies in ^ ? 1 - ^ ? i 4- i ? n a l /I Q j LHO WrUCK, 1 I1UHU, it in nam, uuiv been temporarily buried in the sand, pending further investigation. The bodies will be examined by Mr. I)mrant and his party. When the bodies were found Magistrate Ilill, of Kiawah Island, is said to have ordered them interred. Capt. E. L. Jarvis was a member of the Commercial Club, and of the Carolina Yacht Club. He was one of the youngest and most popular skippers on the coast, and his death was a great shock to his many friends. He was beloved and honor?w nil who knew him. Aboard f? - ? the Margaret A. May when she was destroyed were two brothers of the master of the vessel. George L. and Raymond Jarvis. The party going to Kiawah to make investigation of the report that bodies wore found from the wreck are hopeful that the remains of Capt. Jarvis can bo found and turned over to members of his family. The anti-trust law, like the Chinese statute, forbids all improper conduct. ' HORRY, y. S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. .. . $60,000 12,600 HOLDERS .... 60,000 ORS ..112,600 hors D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johiitoii, H7;il A PVoAmnn. T T AAA (J* J. . ommodation which their accounts solicit your business. >. V. Richardson, will a. frebmaji Vice President. Cashikb r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK | kT* s- ?* A . . ..|25,000.00 T . .. . 2,600.00 .... 125,000.00 jffk %ljr TORS: JP r.fr 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, A luck, W. r. Lewis, D. JL ittlebaum, D. A. Spivey. ! Conway, t.be oldest Hank In in Eastern Caroliua. Close- jL elopment of the Independent ^ Lrovernment and secured by irepared to extend to our cu?- jLi nodations. B. (*. COLLINS, A President. ^ PROFESSIONAL CARDS. U. H. WOODWARD attorney and Councelor At Law. I CONWAY; S. C. R, B. 8CARBROUGH CONWAY, s. a Attorney at Law. .4 H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Sorgeoi. I CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFOKD WAIT. t Attorney at Law, I Bank of Horry Bnildlng. j t. CONWAY, g. O. klPUIAItl MA AHFITTAV APIINUA II *11111# NlLirUMLUdlMUtltdl dCWIMJ MAblHHK ttfUU want either a Vibrating Shuttle, flot?Wj ^ AtUlttleor a Mingle Thread [Chain / i Sowing Machine write to "1 jMH ?fW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mas** AAMWtowViur machine* are madetoaeH recardleaaOW , fnby,but the New Home U made to vwa 1 ? Oar guaranty never run# oat. MNS Aw Mlhorli?4 d?*Un ?#jl j C 9WMI?IVi BORROUOHs * OOLLIN8 C6h Uonway, 8. O. FLAPS OVER TO WILSON. A Republican Newspaper Holts It# Party for Him. A Sacrameno, Cal., dispatch says the Sacramento Union has ccmo out 4 strong for Governor Wilson, Demo- ^ orat, of New Jersey, for President ill 1012. The Union .ras always been Republican and was still supposed to be Republican at least, but It has. announced that it is independent and believes the best thing for the nation ip to defeat the Republican party. It extols President Taft, but doubts the wisdom of re-electing him. The country needs a staple and a responsible government and in the present condition of the Republican party this can only be obtained through the Democrats.