Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. *: BEFORE THE INDIAN i / RACE OF HEN LIVED HERE BE/ FORE THE RED HEN ! < ? WINS WITHOUT LIMIT livtd Aloag th? Miwoorl River aad What Became of Them is a Mys? |vfe taj. THey Disappeared Leaving Paraphernalia Behind Them.? Houses Built Partly Within the around. A strange prehistoric civilization has heen discovered on the western bank of the Missouri River, and Harvard University authorities have annAiinna<l thai thav will orvnn mndllftt extensive research worn in an effort to establish something definite concerning the race which antedated . both the Indians and the forerunners rr V of the red man in the Missouri Valley. The work will be under the personal direction of Prof. F. H. Stern, of Harvard, who, says an Omaha dispatch in the Washington Post, has already spent some time among the prehistoric town sites in this vicinal ity, and who, last summer, sent a large collection of crude implements of agriculture, chase, ana warfare to the Peabody Museum, at Harvard. Prof. Stern was formerly connected with the Gilder archaelogical survey of the western bank of the Missouri River, and it was his personal acquaintanoe with the field which decided Harvard to undertake the exploration. , So numerous are these prehistoric remains that Dr. R. F. Gilder, well known archaeologist, who has spent eight years on a survey within 25 miles of Omaha, recently announced that in his opinion the population of the (Missouri Valley is not so great nor so dense as was that of the civilization which passed away thou<. sands of years ago. Both Prof. Stern and Dr. Gilder were struck with the absence of anything showing, or even indicating, the fate of the people who so thickIly inhabited this country. They simply disappeared. Rut they left their oaraDhern&lia behind them. Their | crude agricultural implements remained in the corners of their houses Ii which finally rotted and fell in, but they were not destroyed by force. The pots and rude cooking utensils were, in many cases, left boiling on the fires which burned In the centre of the lodges. Their bone fishhooks were left hanging to the walls. Their instruments of war?their clubs, their bows and arrows and their spears?remained in their accustom ed places. Their little ornaments of personal adornment etays in the family cache, and even their articles of feed were left in the burrows used as larders. The thousands of people seem to have simply gone out of their homes tfor a moment and then failed to return. The Indians do not know where ihey went, ana they have not a single tradition as to who they were. They lived in the Missouri Valley ages before the red man came. The ruins which the Harvard men .v will excavate and explore are scat1 tered up and down the Missouri River for miles and miles. They consist altogether of "house sites". The houses were partly within the ground and partly without. The roofs were of clay, and when, after the great tragedy, which wiped out the nation, the supporting timbers rotted, the dirt fell down into trie excavations, covering everything the fleeing people left behind. In time dust and dirt sifted in and filled these house sites until they were almost level with the surrounding ground. (Now, the old houses are indicated ny a slight depression, only a few inches deep. In numbers these old ruins are almost without limit. According to Dr.- Gilder, every hill between Sioux City and Kansas City is simply a vast house site. And in every one explored there are the same indications of a hasty flight and a great tragedy. Theso ruins do not appear on the Iowa side of the Missouri, but are confined altogether to the Nebraska side. However, there are remains of an entirely different people and another civilization on the Iowa hills. That the two races lived in entirely different ages Is shown by the fact that none of the implements common on one side of the river is found on th? other side. In many respects theso ancient people were entirely foreign to any other whose remains have ever been found In America. This is shown by -??? imrniomnnffl inft hAhind when lilt) IU1]#IVIIIVIIVU >v. v -- ? they took their flight. Among these 1s a beautifully carved head yith distinctly Bgyptian features, including the rectangular ear guards worn by them, entirely foreign to anything ever before found on the American continent. Of it James Mooney, of the American bureau of ethnology, oaid: "It is the greatest archaeological find in America in a century, and nothing like it has ever before been found/' Harlin I. Smith, head of the archaeological survey of Can gin, nffl rnw the little head some TAXES MAY BE HIGHER STATE LEVY MAY BE IN CUE A HE I) TO EIGHT MILL** Sources of Income Will Yield Only i $1,821,875, While $450,256 More Than That Lb Being Asked For. I The state revenue for IB 13 from taxes, estimated and hased upon the present assessment of $291,000,000 f at a rate of six and one-fourth mills ' on the dollar, would be $1,821,870. . To this add the estimated income from other than taxes, of $300,308, ' and wo have a total estimated revenue of $2,122,183.'' This statement is made by A. W. Jones, comptroller general, on the financial situation, in a statement to be sent to the aeneral assembly during the week. The comptroller general says that the levy of six and one-fourth mills would he one-half a mill more than last year, and is rendered necessary to carry out the plans for building the new State Hospital for the Insane He says that if a half a mill is levied for this particular purpose, every year it will give about $150,000 a year and that it will take about six years to pay for the buildings, which are estimated to cost about $1,000,000, or the amount of the bond issue proposed last year. "It will thus be seen by the Special report," says the comptroller general, "heretofore made to your honorable body that the appropriations asked for, $2,578,430, exceed the estimated revenue of the State, under a levy of six and one-fourth mills, by $456,256.00, and if you make all the appropriations asked for, it will be necessary to make a rate of eight mills on the dollar to raise the appropriations. For section 2, article 10 of the constitution requires a levy sufficient to pay the ordinary expenses of the state, together with any existing deficiency in income to meet the appropriations or the expeses brought over from tuo proceeding year. It therefore seems that appropriations should not be increased more than absolutely necessary until the system for the asessment of pro perty has been so reformed as to . equalize tho burden. "in any event. Deioro ine taxes 01 1913 are available, the state must ' borrow $500,000,00 to meet current ' expenses. "The state has taxable property off i the tax books escaping taxation, . which if discovered and taxed, would help in the bearing of this burden i and place the state's operation on a cash basis and avoid the paying of ' unnecessary interest and expenses on i loans." COTTON GINNING REPORT. Crop Nearly Million and a Half Ifehind Last Year. The ninth cotton ginning report of the census bureau for the season, issued at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, announced that 13,091,264 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1912 had been ginned prior to Thursday, January 16, to which date during the past seven years the ginning averaged 95.3 per cent, of the entire crop. Last year to January 16 there had been ginned 14,515,799 bales, or 93.3 per cent, of the entire crop; in 1908 to that date, 12,666,203 bales, or 96.8 per cent, and in 1906 that date 12, 176,199 bales, or 93.8 per cent. Included in the ginnings were 78,892 round bales, compared with 97,654 bales last year, 11 1,079 bales in 191 0, 146,378 bales in 1909 and 232,510 bales in 1908. The final ginning report will be issued Thursday, March 20, at 10 a. m., and will announce the quantity of cotton ginned prior to Friday, February 2 8. Up to January 1C, 1912, South Carolina had ginned 1,1 92,207 and 1,536,085 up to January 16, 1911. The indications are that tlio entire cotton crop this year will bo over one and a half million bales less than it was last year. TITANIC HOIlKOltS IlETOIJ). Claims Amounting to Over Five Million Ikillars Filed. Stories of death, suffering and permanent physical injuries; accounts of utter financial destitution and re ritals of loss of costly gems and laces and gowns are to bo found set forth in the normal phrasing of tho - law in tho 279 claims thus far filed i with tho United States commissioner i Gilchrist at New York for damages duo to tho Titanic disaster. The - total amount is $5,500,000. Death ' claims constitute tho larger part of this sum. Then follow claims for ' loss of bnggago and personal effects. Many European countries and most ' States of the Union are represented. ? various parts of the country, will attend tho Corn Show, and he le making preparations to give them a hearty welcome. timo ago, announced that he was entirely unable to classify it, and that certainly it belonged to a culture of which archaeologists and anthropologists in America knew absolutely nothing Mixson's Iligh grado seods gi profits for you. Actual tents sh< w Our large stock includes all varietie V Corn, Sorghum, Cotton, etc. Sp< m freight rates. Don't fail to write ft I SON'S HIUII GRADE SEEDS to-d W. H. MIXSON SEI CHARLESTON, S. Classified Column Hartford's ltoup? Cur???Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Sneads, Fla. Duroc-Jerseys?Rich breeding, high quality. Moderate prices. C. G. Oak?55, Asaumption, 111. Victoria?The beet hog that grows, large litters, fast growing. S. M. Goodman, Mooresville, N. C. For Sale?Fresh Carolina Rice, meal, the best stock food. West Point Mill Company, Charleston, S. C. Wanted?To buy peas, quote prices f. o. b. your station. Palmetto Brokerage Co., Greenville, S. C. Cornish Indians, white and dark stock for sale. Egg orders booked now. C. T. Miller, Hartsville, S. C. For Exchange?Nice apples for peas, chickens, pigs, calves. What you have to offer. A. B. Dills, Sylva, N. C. We pay the postage?Send your collars by mail to the largest laundry in South Carolina. Capital city, Columbia, S. C. Sweet Potato Plants?Leading varieties, $1.50 per thousand. Send for free Culture Methods. C. W. Waughtel, Homeland, Ga. Frost Proof Cabbage Plant.s?Sure headers, make large heads. Price $1.35 per thousand delivered. Enterprise Plant, Co., Meggetts, S. C. Hair Switches, Braids, Puffs, made from your combings or cut hair. One stem $1, three stems $1.50. Work guaranteed. Mrs. Emma Rogers, Selma, Ark. For Sale-?Black Minocras young and old stock, 75c to $1.50. White Orpington Pullets, $1.50 to $2, Cockerels, $1.50 to $3. Coctts, $2 to $5. Robert L. Shirley, Lavonla, Ga. Fifteen Eggs and one year's subscription to leading poultry journal for $2. ftuff Leghorns, Anconas, the great egg machines. W. H. Williams, Durham, N. C. Pocket Sewing Machine?Wonderful thing for agents to sell; every farmer needs and will buy one; Bend price, $1, for sample. Agents wanted. Address J. L. Wnatley, Savannah, Ga. For Sale?-1,000 bushels "Moss Improved" cotton seed. Also 200 bushels "Covington-Toole" blightproof seed. $1 per bushel f.o.b. Cameron, S. C. Jas. M. Moss, St. Matthews, S. C. For Sale?Just a few of my improved Keenan long staple seed, at $1.50 per bu., f.o.b. Dunbar, S. C. Also prize winning S. C. Buff Orpington eggs, at $2 for 13. J. T. Lee, Dunbar, S. C. Cheap Farms of all sizes for sale in the coming section of South Carolina. Good stiff clay lands, where we make three money crops. Cotton, tobacco, berries. Iteaves & McKenzle, Ix>ris, S. C. Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. WantcHl?A man or woman all or spare time to secure information for us. Work at home or travel. Experience not necessary. Nothing to sell. Good pay. Send stamp for particulars. Address ?M. S. I. A., 681 L Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Huff Orpington Ducks aro the greatest layers known, small eaters, large carcass, hardy and vigorous the coming duck. Investigate them Eggs for hatching, breeding stock and day old duckling for sale at all , times. J. H. Wendler, Lakeland, Fla. (Joul>oy,8 Triumph Hwoct Potatoes la ready for the table 60 days after planting. Yields twice as much as any other sort. Unsurpassed In quality. Keeps all the year around. Is absolutely Blight Proof. I grow vegetable plants of every description. Prices right. Catalogue free. H. K. God boy, Waldo, Fla. Cow Peas?We have several hundred bushels good ciay peas we offer at $1.90 f.o.b. Memphis or $1.85 in car lots, samples upon application. We alee want to buy a ear i i 1 VJ J J jWJ.l >r Truck, row largest crops and make more V ?wthey are best for Southern soils, m s of Beans, Cucumbers, Cabbage, I acial prices on large orders. Low >r catalog and prices on MIX* Lay, before you forget it. I loud of Mammotb Yellow soy ueane W. Honey & Co., Memphis Tenn. Selected eggs for hatching?Crysta white Orpington yards. $2.50 to 15; prize pens, $5. White Leghori yards, $1.50 for 15; Prize pen $2.50. Cockerels for sale. Fou prizes State Fair Raleigh. Beverl; Poultry yards, Kittrell, N. C. Jouannet's Frost-IVoof Cabbag Plants?No better to be had any where. $1 per 1,000; 5,000 aa orer, 85c per 1,000. Jouannett Pellagra, Rheumatism, Eczema cure* by Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy. Thirt; years of cures recorded. Teetirnon lals unquestionable. Rest tor'r oi earth. Six bottles for $5. Expres prepaid. Mrs. Joe Persons Remed; Co., Kittrell, N. C. Rest kidney pill on earth, 25c postpaid. Wanted?Fine pieces of very old sol id mahogany or veneered furniture sideboards, beds, secretaries, chain footstools, mirrors, etc.; old pistoli relics, stamps, pewter, brass. Fur niture don't have to be in good con ditlon. Address k. uugour, 11 West Saint Clair, Indianapolis, In<j Rggs for Hatching?S. C. White Leg horn, $1 per IB. $5 per 100. Faw: and White Indian Runner Duckf eggs $2 per 12. $ 12 per 100. W sell you eggs from prize winneri We win wherever we Bhow. Agen for X-ray Incubators. W. F. Dun nington, Augusta, Ga., Route 2, Bo 18. Frost Proff Cabbage Plants. Strictl; first class, hardy and toughened b: the snows and frosts. Ouly best o seed used. Send 7Bc for 500; $1:21 for 1,000; $3:25 for 3,000; $5 fo 5,000; $9 for 10,000. Cultivatloi suggestions and price list free Wakefield Farms, Charlotte, N. C. Sweet Potato Slips?My slips ar< guaranteed true to name and of th< best quality. Seed are carefull; selected and bedded under irriga tion, and no effort is spared to pro duce slips of quality. Book or sweet potato growing free to pur chasers of 5,000 plants. Write a: once for catalogue. J. R. Davis Bartow, Fla. Delicious Hotne Made Candies?Sen' you by parcels post. Write us foi prices on any of the following: Walnut creams, Cream Cocoanut Cream Walnuts, Almond, Filbert Walnut, Butternut Bars, Nut Crean. Caramels, Cream Mints?all colors Buttercups, Brilliants, Peanut Brittle, Butter Toffee, (Molasses Candj or anything that suits your fancy No trouble to answer inquiries Hahn and Co., Charleston, 8. C. Makers of the "Purity Ice Crear^ and Candies." FARM AND PECAN LAND! Dark loam, red clay subsoil. Any size farm you wish, near railroad, schools and churched. Prices from $tn to $50 per acre. See me. Goode Price, Lees burg, G?. Killed by Fast Train. Leon Malphaus, of Ridgeland, S C., was instantly killed by a west bound Atlantic Coast Line passenge train at tho Satilla river, just eas ot Why cross, Ga., Sunday morning The remains were taken to Ridge land for interment, early Giant Argenteull Asparagu rrots, $4 per 1,000. Get tho besi Alfred jouannet, uox iv, ait. rieai ant, 8. C. ? Man Shot Own Head Off. Whilo, it Is alleged, under tho in f.ucnco of liquor Tuesday at Tampa Fla., Theodoro H. Thoil, a widower seized a long stick and drove hii three children into tho yard. Thei using the same stick to press th< trigger of a shotgun, the mnszle o whloh he placed In his mouth, ht lit rally Weir his head off. f BANK Of Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surf CAPITAL flTOOT.. . * , SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF 8TOOH 8DCURITT OF DEPOSIT DIRE( >bert B. Scarborough, . L. Buck, I ?org? J. Holiday, Wc]Jotfcr our customers every acc will justify, and we ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, E Prebidbbt. I. We continue to pay 5 pe ; GLAZE ELECTED JUDGE i, ? \ WHNT IN BY GOOD VOTE OVER BENATOR DENNIS. 0 # ^ Had Repeatedly Declined to be a 8 Candidate, but Finally Yielded to 3 Pleadings of FricndN. iMajor William L. Glaze of this city, was elected on Wednesday 11 morning by the Legislature of the 8 First Circuit to succeed Judge Copes y who resigned some months ago. He 8 was in Columbia when this election took place, and was warmly congratulated by his many friends. ^ Major Glaze was elected over senator Dennis of Berkeley County, on !' the third ballot by a vote of 87 to 7 2. Solicitor P. T. Hildebrand, of [# Orangeburg, dropped out of the race ? on the second ballot. The name of I Mr. Octavus Cohen was withdrawn . asa candidate on the first ballot, and ,? that of Mr. Connor on the second q ballot Major Glyaze Is a fine lawyer and e will fill the responsible position to 1. the satisfaction of all interests. He 1 was in no sense a candidate for the l" position, as he had repeatedly declin1 ed to allow his name to bo used in connection with the position, but " was prevailed upon at the last minJ ute to accept the honor. y The news of the election of Major * Glaze was received in this city by 8 his friends with pleasure. They r with one accord agreed that he would a fill the position with credit to him' self and honor to the State. He will qualify and enter upon his duties as - soon as he can arrange his private e business. 0 ? ? * WASTE OF ANIMAL LIFE. ? ? i t Sulphuric Acid Poisoning Cause Death of Fowl. t , Investigations of the causes for the en >rmoua mortality among ''Id I 4?? Vw. nnlnhKnpkA.\,1 A t QQ ? U UVIVn 111 tUO u^lgua/vi uw * v/?. ./w i w t Lake City, Utah, which wore iuutir gated by the American Game Pro: tective and Propagation Association, , have revealed the fact that sulphuric , acid poisoning, and not a contagious i disease as was believed, was respon, sible for the death or two million water fowls in 1910 and nearly as ' many during the past season. The Association solicited the aid of the Biological Survey at Washing? ton and through its offices Dr. Buck1 ley of the Pathological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry was * sent to the scene of the supposed epidemic. All those who have given the matter attention now concur in Dr. Buckley's conclusion that sulphuric acid discharged into the marshes by industrial plants has destroyed the birds. This discovery paves the way for legislation which should be immediately enacted to prevent this great waste of valuable animal life. 1 RICKS TRAP A BURGLAR. ? On His Way to Rob Farmer, Thief Stumbles Over flive 2 Driven into spasms of agony by the stings of a hive of bees, an armed burglar, trapped in the yard at the home of John Sampson, a farmer of Fallington, Pa., yelled at l,|a .rz-vi n r? it U 11 r r<>Tl ft AfflH \ III* ii/ji u l ilia y v/1 \yv> nitu v. v.. ^ ? in gratitudo when his tormentors ~ were driven away. "For God's sake, save me! Please ;t do something! 1 came to rob your . house, but fell over the hive and r these devils attacked me." t After making this appeal the robber dropped his revolver and lan_ tern. Sami>son picked them up, quieted the bees and led his prlsa oner to the town jail. It was no , cessary to call a physician to rolievo h ".he victim's agony. Six Men Shot or Out. A fierce pistol and knife duel took - place at Glen Alpine, a small placo m 4 1 ao from rthnrlntte. N. C.. Moil-i I D'A till i^n jl vam -w , day night, in which six men receivod s what is thought to be fatal wounds. 1 Dr. E. A. Hennessoe, a prominent 5 physician of Burke county, was one f of the combatants, and was shot . through the head and lungs, and cannot lire. ! HORRY, y. S, C. my bank m Horry county. Mtra Jus of all other banks in the rtumyv ise.ooo 12.60# IHOLDKRi .. .. 60.000 *ORS 112.600 DT0RS it ARD3*N, W. A. John Mm, WiJLIA. Freenaa. ommodation which their accounto solicit your busiacss. >. V. Richardson, will a. febkmaw Viok Pbbbidbht. r cent, on yearly deposits. ????? ?hp?? I iill UWIONAL VARM, E H. WOODWARD AtlNMy aad Oouncalor Al UE CONWAY; a O. ML ML BCAIIBROUGM CONWAY, a c Attoney at Law. IK. H. BUIUtOUOHl ftgriicUa and Burgoo*. CONWAY, 8. O. W. E. McCORD, Dental Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. \ RZDNK KAVENKL IjaxmI Surveying and Drainage Spivey Building Conway, B. C. RE WORLDS WHITEST SEWIN8 NAOMI 09tmwant either a Vibrating Bhattlejfoti?t' battle or a Single Thread [Chain?UUcJ^ a Sewing Machine write to MKVHOME SEWINO MACHINE CtMPMH. Orange, Mass, ' MR^reewfnvmaclktne^ ?rr m?de to cell rcfadbaW gnRlcbat the New,llouie U madoutMaa ? Our manmtr DeverrtMOQi 9* Nf MUiorlMd deal? a#* j '? mam. malm an I BURROUGHS 4k OOliMXfl OB^ Ooiwftj, ft. O. SLAUGHTER OF LEPERS. Chinese Officials Shoot and Bum * Band of Outcasts. Thirty-nine lepers recently were I put to death in an atrocious manner by order cl the provincial authorities of NnuVing, province of Kwang PI. Tn0 Eufr*^cr& from the dread disease first were shot and tho ntheir bodies wo's 1 uri ed in a huge trend . A Catholic mission had sought permission to build at its own expense a sion to build at its own expense a lazaretto for tho lepers, and the provincial authorities, pretending to consent, dug a pit, in which was placed wood, soaked with keposene. At the point of tho bayonet the lepers then were driven into tho pit and shot and the pyre was lighted and their bodies burned <n tho presence of a large crowd. Tho authorities offered rewards for the discovery of other lepers and this resulted in the*, shooting of one 11101*0 man afflicted with tho disease. * # Wrote Him Many Letters. Alleging that he had reeoivrwl 7no annoying letters from (Mary Streamer, a Staten Island school teacher, during the past four years, Dr. Henry Goodwin, a prominent Staten Island physician, obtained a summons Friday for the young woman's appearance in Court at New York. ? ? ? No honest newspaper should deny any man misquoted in its colftmne tho space to set himself right, and we do not hellere any honeet newspayer will.