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BANK Oi Con wa Hat largest capital and surplus of than the combined capital and surj ~ CAPITAL STOCK. . .. ^ SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC1 SECURITY OF DEPOSE 1)1 KB Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, H We offer our customers every ac< will justify, and we ? ? ? ??? n/<iinn/\nf iTTOU f uusm v. DUAttDi'nwuur, President. We continue to pay 5 p< ? FIRST NATI ^ CON \Vi ViC f CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS f m uniKi J. A. McDermott, John J||y B. G. Collins, il. L. M. Burroughs, C. P. Qu /|S Successor to the Bank o jfi Horry County, and a pioneer flp ly allied with the recent de1 ^ Republic. Backed by the United States Bonds, we are toiueru any reasonable accom 2i H. A. SPIVEV, 9? jf|) Cashier. r"- ~ :? = PROFESSIONAL CAKOB. 7 ' - n llf< w klUL A Itll o* n? w? WJ / *f ?M Attorney and Couiieelor At Lan CONWAY, 8. C. Ifjj K. B. 80AKBKOUUH | ***'' CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. Iv' j a. H. BLItllOUOHtt (Pbjoiciaii and Surgeon. tL* CONWAY, 8. C. ? % M. WOWOltJI \V AIX. Attorney at Lav/. < Hank oI Horry Building. I ? r CONWAY, H. C. ME WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE h 1LIGHT RUNNING ^ IfPUU want el ther a Vibrating Bhnttlo. Rot*? battle or a HIngle Thread f Chain &titohl / , ' Sewing Machine write to ' 9KKW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE CQMPMt Orange, Mass* IVHBTMnrmff mRcntnes are maaetoaeu mawtaw A i tmHiy, but tha New lloiue is made to wnnl |k ' Ottfr ffuaranty never runt out. ' i If Miborlzed lealen ?# ] * r ?*J BU KitO U (a rto ^ OO., (Jonway, 8. O. One Dead, Another Injured. f At Waynesboro,x Ga., Tollen Law rey was fatally and .Tale IL Reynolds very seriously hurt when tfieir auto niobilg tin no 1 a somersault near thai phie&* Wednesday. Reynolds, while driving, attempted to light, a cigar etto and lost control of the car. Lowrey lived several 1 ours. Reynold} was injured about the head and sev eral of his ribs were crushed in i Lowrey originally was from Colum Ma, S. C., but recently has resided in Augusta, Ga. ? ??, ^ ,? A news dispatch from Demarest Oa., days:' "A McCoy, 22 a basebal player, who was on the Johnson Cit: (Teun.) team in tho Appalacliiai I League last season, was accidentally I hoi and killed .it that plaoo Thurs day. No details of tho tragedy art 1 available." < v?..- ^ . r /*K i* ?/' . . ? > <4_ . v ' ' " ? HOKKY, y. S, C. any bank in Horry county. More plus of all other banks in the county. $60,000 12,600 CHOLDERS .. .. 60,000 | TORS 112,600 C'lORS I D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnnou, Will A. Freeman. :ommodation which their account} solicit your business. 3. V. Richardson, will a. freema; Vice President. Cashibj =?r cent, on vearlv deposits. 1 ONAL BANK 1 I YY, 8. . ^\ /i\ , $25,000.00 2,500.00 W 125,000.00 rrous: f C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, # liuck, W. R. Lewis, D. iji attlebaum, D. A. Spivey. f Conway, the oldest Bank In xjjj In Eastern Carolina. Cloae- ^ /elopment of the Independent W Government and secured by it/ prepared to extend to our cu?~ ^Iinodatlons. W II. G. COLLINS, 52 President. DiVi KtlPik'S WILL ONCE NOTORIOUS WOMAN GAVE BIG SUM TO CHARITY. Six Months Ago She Gave Her Former Itcsort to City lor an Emergency Hospital. Miss Anna Wilson's gift of practically $500,000 to charity, the acJ cumulation of 40 year's profits from | the most notorious dive Omaha, Neb., I has ever known, has brought out nor0 reminiscenscB and caused more .alk than any single event in the MidHe West in years. Miss Wilson was sixty years of age .vhen she died a lew days ago, and .n her will slio makes no individual git'ts, except of a trust fund, but .eaves all that she had- saved to the jity as her greatest possible restitution. It is the second largest gift to charity ever made by an Omaha i*?sl(lf>nt Six months aero Miss Wil son closed her dive and presented tho building, with $75,000, to the city as ati emergency hospital. Anna Wilson went to Omaha when it was a frontier town several years before thG Union Pacific railroad was completed in 18 07. Iler first appearance was on a music hall stage. She was bright and pretty. Also she was well educated. Just who she really was has always been a mystery. She frcoly acknowledged that "Anna Wilson" was not her true name, but her real identity has never been revealed. The young girl remained on the stage only a short time. When the music hall went to the wall she was without an engagement. In the emergency fliho took lip with a noted "square" gambler, Dan Allen, and became his common law wife. This relation sho sustained for 20 years until Allen died. Allon is said to have furnished tho money with which Miss Wilson opened the most notorious divo in tho city. In tho 40 years of its existence, however, there wero few arrests made there. When Allen died he left a $10,000 policy, made in favor of Miss Wilson. [She notified his brothers that at her death the money would bo handed 1 over to them. Some years ago one of them 'asked Miss Wilson for a portion of the money and was given $1,000. In her will $9,000 is left to ' Dan Allen's brothers. Six years ago Miss Wilson leased her home, purchased a $15,000 residence in Krountzo place, an exclusive ^ residential district, and went to live ? in her new homo. With her, she t brought ono of the best Shakespear- 1 ian libraries in tho Weat. r I V Among her books is an illustrated r Hible, which cost many thousands of 1 dollars, and which Miss Wilson is 1 said to have been fond of reading and a studying. Her library ran into thous- t andfl of volumes, and pictures and i works of art fairly filled her home. ^ Her flower garden anci home were the * wonder of the town. ^ ? Wise or Otherwise. Some peoplo are always talking of rense but somehow the supply neve) i becomes exhausted. People would never known yoj I lad a temper if you didn't lose It \ >ccasionally. v .. .? 4 - ' v. I PAR1Y UNITED (lump Clark Says Hope Succeeds Dispair io D mocralic Hearts. TARIFF IS THE ISSUE After Years of Ijuhor, Declares Speaker, Replying to Bryan's Criticism, Efforts of Himself anil Other Leaders Have Entirely Eliminated Discussion Within Party's Hanks. Speaker Champ Clark, who is in Washington, declared Monday that he had devoted the last three years chiefly to getting the House Democrats together and holding them together, and that, after seventeen years of factional fighting, the Democrats are "united, and, by the blessings of God, will remain so." "1 did not do it all by a long shot," he added. "I had lots of help, and every Democrat who participated in that troublesome, laudable work doserves his full share of the honor. Wh'lle there was once despair in Democratic hearts, there is high hopenow." In this way the titular head of the Democratic lower no use 01 vyuiigret>& made indirect reply to criticisms of former Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, as to the Speakership no longer carrying the leadership of the House. Mr. Clark referred to the great importance of unity and wisJom among the Democrats to draw voters not belonging to the Democratic party. "The most important feature of the extraordinary session of Congress from a political standpoint," said 1:? "was the fact that wo pulled together, worked together, fought together and won together. We replaced the old habit of defeat with the new habit of victory, the bad fashion of quarrelling among ourselves with the better fashion of taking counsel together and then presenting a solid front to astonished enemy. , "The trend of public opinion Is toward the Democrats. President Taft's long trip seems to have left things in statu quo." The speaker says the recent election proved that, wherever the tariff was the solo or the principal issue, the Democrats won, and that when Mr. Taft vetoed the tariff bill3, it was inevitable that the tariff would be the leading issue next year. "One of the most preposterous canards put into print since Guttenberg invented movable type," added the speaker, "is the charge that 1 am in favor of the forcible annexation of Canada. There is not a fact in the universe on which to base such a slander. I never at any time or place stated, or even hinted, such a wicked and kuixotic scheme to any human being. 1 have never dreamed of such a thing, and would oppose it to tlio uttermost. "I havo frequently for years expressed the hope that there might be a union of the two countries by mutual consent and for the good of both. It always seemed to me a friendly suggestion, because wo are neighbors, of the same blood and speaking the same language, but as ' h /"I nnn/linnn /-I ? ? r\ t # /\ nr r\ n LUC L/auauiuuo kx\J IIWL ouuiu tu n am that, there is an end to it." HANGED HIMSELF IN BARN. Lifeless Body of Oconee Cohiity Youth Found. ( Th? body of a young 16-year-old J son of John F. Pice, who lives several miles from Walhalla, was found ' hanging from tho end of a rope in the barn on Mr. Pice's place Saturday afternoon. Young Rico had ncv- ' cr been strong mentally, and it is 1 thought that in a temporary fit of in- : panity ho ended his life, ills body 1 was found bv his brother, who went ( to the barn late in the afternoon and 1 tho body was still warm, though life J was extinct. Tho body was taken down with tho assistance of neigh- 1 bora, who were callod in. Tho rope used was a long one, and when found * the unfortunate youth's feet were 1 touching the floor. 1 ? ? WOMAN CLOT!IKS CHICKEN. c ? Cuts Coats ami Pajamas on Fowls to "Keep Them Warm." Rather than seo her chickens, r ;vhich had molted late in tho season c md were running about featherloss cl hoHo frosty mornings, suffer, Mrs. s 0. Stocker of Colorado City, Col., has c nado neatly fittings red coats, which v >utton under tho wings, and soft p flannel pajamas and caps tastily fas- e ened with ribbons under tho beak, v nd now Her flock gives "Jack i^rost" n ho laugh. The chickens strut about, pparently proud of their clothes. Jrs. Stoker says that the hens, to how their gratitude, >iv. lying o?gs tl very day. fj ? ei f Kills His Wifo and Self. g, While his five children, the eldest d; god 11, lay asleep in an adjoining T oom, O. C. Allison, a farmer Mon- w ay shot and killed his wife and shor cr imself to death in his home at Ne- m ada, Mo. 01 T1IK DYING PINE?THE KEMEDY. Hquiroments for Success in Protecting tlie Living Pine. 'The requirements for success In any effort to protect the living pino from tho destructive attack of the Southern pine beetle is the destruction of the broo Is of the Southern pmc beetle in the bark of tho main trunks of the dying infested trees before they leave tho bark. This is accomplished by clio adoption of one or more different methods of direct utilization of the infested trunks or treatment at direct expense in cases where the wood cannot be utilized, us specified in Part IV. of this. The attachments of the best success from the practical application of any of these methods will depend on their adaptation to local conditions and requirements lor disposing or the infested timber and strict adherence to certain details which are absolutely necessary to the destruction of the broods. The period in which to locate and mark the trees that are actually infc sted and in which tho marked trees should bo utilized or treated to kill tiie broods is between tho 1st of November and the 1st of the following March, but in some cases the period may he extended to the 1st of May. The adoption of the method of destroying the broods,, which in each case is the most economical and effectual, can be determined by tne owners: in erich oonimunitv if they arc sufficiently informed on the essential facts. Detailed advice, recommendations or conclusions as to the most economical and effective method of procedure for any given area should be deferred until certain information is at hand in regard to the local condition is to : (a) the character and extent of the infestation; (b) the interest manifested by the people of the community in tlie value to them to the pine and the Importance of protecting It as the source of future revenue; (c) tho assurance of tho majority of the owners that concerted action will be taken according to a definite plan and purpose, and finally, i* a demonstration is desired, that local facilities will be offered for its successful prosecution. If the owners of pine will consider the protection of tlieir timber from tho standpoint cf a common interest and will realize the necessity for concerted action in the control work, success will bo assured. MOH LISTENS TO REASON. ? Delivers to Sheriff Laurens Boy Charged With Serious Offense. Tho prompt action, Wednesday night, of Sheriff Ow'ngs, Deputy Ueid and Rural Policeman Sullivan, and the cool conduct of the olllcers after arriving upon the grounds, probably saved Robert Moody, a 16-year-old negro boy from the hands of an angry crowd of citizens bent on meeting out ot tlio negro summary vengeance for bis alleged conduct towards two girls of Laurens. Tho trouble occurred in tho vicinity of Watts Cotton Mills, near the city, and after an appeal to tho crowd to let the law take its course, Moody was delivered to the oilicers and by them lodged in Jail. It coems that Moody late Tuesday afternoon accosted the young girls as they wero returning home in a buggy from the mill, where tho older of the two is employed. Springing from hiding on the roadside the negro, so tho story goes, seized the mule by the reins and bringing the team to a stop, sprang to the side of the buggy and demanded with oabhs that the young ladies get out. Without waiting, it is said, tho boy then nade an effort to force them to alight, when the sareams of both frightened him away. Driving hurriedly to their home, iho1 girls reported the matter. Cjuickly, tho news of tho alleged attempt of the ngero spread and soon i crowd collected for the purpose of running down the offender. Suspicion pointed to Moody and he was Found at home and promptly taken p hand by the members of tho man muting crowd. The negro was taken beforo the girls and positively < dentified as their would-be assailant. Woody denied anything, but it is said i hat there is strong proof that he is ] hn rlrrhf man NIm n( hnr rr^nhlr* lu ^xpectod, and tho law will tako its 1 :ourso. ,< I Frozen to Death. A flock of ducks, their feet frozen ^ o the ground, was found in a Hold tear Williams, Ind., during the re- j ent blizzard. It is believed the . lucks had alighted in tho field to \ peiul the night and that tho sudden ( hango in temperature caused the j ^et ground to freeze holding them y rlsoners. Many of tho birds were aught by farmers in the vicinity, j ho cut them loose from tho ground f rith axes. t , Kludos Dogs and Men, Though all the county officers and s irco nunarea volunteers searched ir and wide Wednesday, T. H. Walk- 1 r, the negro condemned to die on the allows at Washington, Cla/, Wednes- j ay, but who escaped from oflicera s uesday night, is yet at large. He a as handcuffed securely when ho osiped. Dogs followed his trail for o lies, only to lose It, and there Is no t uq now as to where he is. t BOUGHT TEDDY Philadelphia Banker Tells a Sensations Story Abool Election. STARTLING STATEMENT Says Roosevelt Made a Corrupt Bargain With the Railroads and Big Business for Their Suppoit in His Race for President of tho United Suites. Wharton Barker, a retired banker, of Philadelphia, sprang a sensation on the State committee on Interstate commerco Tuesday, when he alleged that a New York financier told him in 19 04 that tho financial interests would support Theodore Roosovelt for President, because Roosevelt had "made a bargain with them on the railroad question." Mr. Barker's statement came in the midst of a vigorous attack on the "Money Trust," in which lie alleges also that President Roosevelt had been given the details of the impending panic of 1 907 se\eral months before it happened, hut took no action to prevent it. Mr. Barker also declared that the Aldrich currency plan was the handiwork, not of former Senator A1 .rich, Ki?t r\ f \l t? YY 'irhii" f\ f fli.? 'm nlf i lie firm of Kulin, Toeb &. Co., of Now York, and that a fund of $ 100,000 had been started to secure its adoption. "Three or four weeks before the election in 1 904," said Mr. Barker, "I was walking down Broadway when I met one of the most distinguished money kings in New York, a man now dead. He said to me: 'We are going to elect Roosevelt.' 1 expressed surprise and asked if ho had given up th0 support of Parker. Ilo said yes, that they had frightened Roosevelt so he bad made a bargain with them. "lie is to holler all ho wants to,' he told me, 'but by and by a railroad bill will be brought in by recommendation of tho President, cutting off rebates and free passes, which suits us who own tlio railroads, pt flitting the railroads to make pooling arrangements and providing for maximum rates.' " Tho railroad man added, said Mr. Barker, that under the latter authority it would bo possible to add from $3 00,000,000 to $400,000,000 to tho total freight charges paid by the American public. "I told h'im I did not b'ellelve Roosevelt had made any such agreement," said Mr. Barker, "but when the annual message of 1905 went to Congress ho recommended most of those things. I wrote to President Roosevelt and told him what 1 had heard, and that 1 had thought the man lied, but now I must believe he had not. It was the only letter of mine iMr. Roosevelt ever failed to answer." Members of the committee asked Mr. Barker to give the name of the financial man who had told him that Roosevelt was to be elected. "1 cannot do it," said Mr. Darker, "but subsequently somebody was alleged to havo stolen some correspondence between Mr. Harriman and the President, telling of $250,000 put lip for election expenses in the city of New York." Referring to tbo panic of 1507, Mr. Barker said a man who was present at a conference at J. P. Morgan's house in May, came to him in Philadelphia and wanted him to use his influence with President Roosevelt to stop a plan that had been mapped out, he alleged, by the financial leaders. This fnau was a captain In the Rough Riders, he said, and had used his own influence with the President, but without avail. "The plan," said Mr. Barker, "contemplated the curtailment of loans.) the withdrawal of credits, the putting jrtvay of money by thoso interested I where they could get it when they needed it to stop the panic, and the 1 enforcement of the various State laws ' regarding the holding of cash reserves by tho banks and trust com- \ panics." Mr. Barker said that in October, ( when tho financial nnhoaval rcaehfld ( its crisis, ho urged President lloose- ( /elt to distribute the $145,000,000 1 if cash in the treasury among the " ianks of Chicago, Philadelphia, Ros.011 and other largo cities. "lie wanted to do it," he said, "but * 10 called in Mr. Knox, Mr. Cortclyou tnd Mr. Root, and instead of deposit- ( ng in the outside cities, I10 plunged he whole amount into Wall Street, t broke the counry, but It saved the ' gamblers." The Philadelphia man. whose bank- 1 ng house at one time was fiscal agent 1 or the Russian Government, declared ' hat thoso who backed the Aldrich nonotary plan had been a "propaganda" In which it was proposed to *s pend $1,000,000 to secure the en- * 'orsement of the proposed currency 1 egislation. "Yesterday a banker in Phlladelihia started to collect that city's hare of the money, $100,000" he r aid. C He declared that the great "money s llgarchy" of Now York controlled all a ho lines of finance, industry and o ransportation, and that no legisla- o ' 1 . . . i.. . - < a . ; ... ... . ! ' \ LthS litAVY BY ME ?*? ABOUT TWO IIUNDKED AND SIXTY MILLION YEARLY. Carelessness Is the Chief Cause, and 1*001)16 Should Be Taught How to Prevent Fires. Present indications are that the Are losses in iiie miiea biates ana uanada for 1911 will exceed $200,000,000. The figures for the first seven months of the year show a total of $154,992,900, as compared with $ 1 20,070,800 during the buui^ period last year. The losses for lulO were $234, 100,050, and if tho present ratio of increase continue throughout the year, the 19 11 losses may approach $3 00,000,000. This will exceed any year in the history of the country, except those of the San Francisco and Baltimore con Hag rations. Government otticials, underwriters and firemen agree that the majority of these fires are due to carelessness and are easily preventable. All of the recent fires, which have attracted public attention because of the heavy loss of life with which they were accompanied, were due to the carelessness and indifference of the owners, occupants, or municipal authorities. New York has been spending $10,000,000 a year for fire extinguishment and only $ 10,000 for fire prevention. The recent shirt waist factory tiro aroused the public and the authorities, and fire prevention is to be made much more prominent hereafter. The most Important consideration is the development of a sense of personal responsibility on the part of property owners for the excessive fire waste, which is daining the resources of the country and weakening its insurance capital. A score of tiro iimiirnn nniniin n:na Iuiva from th0 hold already this year, because of the heavy losses last year and the unfavorable outlook. Disasters like the recent factory fire at Newark, N. J., in which 20 girls were killed and 5 0 seriously injured, are chiefly due to carelessness. In this case both municipality and owner are responsible. The city had not seen to the proper tire escapes I and exits, although the owners had been frequently warned by tbo hazards by the insurance men. The public should be brought to realize the excessive danger Involved in the handling of gasoline and the fact that the greatest caro is required at all times. Its increasing domestic use renders more important tbo education of tlie public in this regard, as there arc hundreds of distressing fatalities each year in tho smaller cities and towns u hich never get headlines in the pape? 3, because only one or two persons were burned to death. DRINK TOO Ml CI! LIQUOR. ? Remarkable Statement Mado by tho Commission. Royal E. Cabell, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has mado some remarkable statements in his annual report showing that tho internal revenue receipts last year were the best in the history of the Government, amounting to $3--,f>20,291). Another very remarkable statement of Mr. Cabell is that last, year the production of distilled spirits in the United States was 175,402,395 gallons, or nearly 7,000,000 gallons more than in 1907, tho previous banner year. The production of beer, ale, etc., aggregated 03,2 1 0,851 barrels, or nearly 4,000,000 barrels more than in tho previous banner year, 1910. There arc now in the bonded warehouses of tho United States, ripening for lire, 2 49,279,340 gallons of intoxicating liquors. Still another very remarkable statement in Mr. Cabell's report is that there has been a very largo increase in the illicit manufacture of liquor in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee ind Virginia. The first four of these States aro supposed to bo prohibition and in Virginia tho stuff is sold only in injorporated cities and towns and then Duly in towns in which tho question )f tho sale of the stuff has been subedited to tho qualified voters. ion designed to break up the trusts tvoiild strike at the root of the trouble. "Few people appreciate bow, by ontrol of the money of trust compares, savings banks and Stato banks his trust throttles individual enterprise," he said. Ho urged a law that would compel national banks to hold their legal eserve in cash instead of having tho lower to redeposit part of it in tho Kinks of New York, "Nothing but those immense roerves, varying from $550,000,000 to >350,000,000, makes New York tho noney power it is," said Mr. Darker, ? ? , Convict Sees His 1 v? ing Rnbe. Thomas Edgar Stripling, former ioIIco chief of Danville, Va., and now leorgla convict and inmate df the tate farm at Millodgeville, In bhatnft nd under guard, reached t*?e home f his wife at Columbus, oa., and mbraced his dying baby. 41 ? j? ' ?' v ? i. ii ; . :. : I. . a'.a