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nan OFFICIAL REPORT ON HORRY'S CHAIN GANG State Board of Charities anci Corrections Gives Result of Examination. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AN I) CORRECTIONS Columbia, S. C. Official Report on tlie Horry County Chain gang, Aug. 4, 1916. Mr. T E. Wise, Foreman of the Chaingang. Our score card report on this Horry County Chaingang, based on our inspections and attached hereto, shows a total score of 622 out of a possible 1,000 points, grouped under two main heads. 1. County Commissioners and the Chaingang. The County Commissioners are responsible for conditions scored under this head. We wish to commend the County Commissioners heartily for having provided, between the time of our first and second inspections, new sleeping quarters for white convicts on the Gang, and for having adopted the practice of keeping white convicts apart from negro convicts in abeyance to the law requiring separation of the races on chaingangs. The County Commissioners are to be commended for the readiness with which they have upon occasion acceded to our request that a tubercular prisoner be transferred from the chaingang to the Tuberculosis Hospital at the State Penitentiary. i vi ciiuuic tiic vi/unv/ly n^uiiiiuiodiuners to improve their score, we suggest that they (1) Provide larger sleeping quarters for the convicts and equip them with decent beds. Discontinue the use of quilts for bed covering, using Klfmlra^u u ) A ? V-? wiMimuvo utUIIU, 1 H/YIUC UIIC WclMi basin for every four convicts. (2) Provide a soil bucket to be used under the cage of the negro convicts. (3) Have built for chaingang a kitchen, preferably a wooden car mounted on wheels, screened against flies, and equipped with a stove oi the United States Army type withj sufficient cooking utensils. In the kitchen make a place for storing the food supplies for the gang. (4) Require the following professional services of the County physician, paying him for performing same; Make a physical examination of each convict within forty-eight hours after commitment to the chain i gang, unless he has been uhvsicallvl examined while in the County jail; vaccinate each convict against small | pox; and visit all convicts once a week. (5) Have all tubercular convicts"j transferred to the Penitentiary tu ! berculosis hospital within six day. after diagnosis. (6) Give the convicts fresh meat t ,ST ATE BOARP OF CHAR] Columbia, S. C., HORRY COUNTY CHAINGA1S I.?COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A> 1. The Camp and Its Equipment (1) Guard's quarters (2) Convicts' quarters . . (3) Kitchen (4) Storeroom (5) Stock adequately shelterei 2. The Convicts. (1) Medical attention (2) Records of convicts (3) Convicts' food and feedini (4) Classification as required (5) Ten per cent off for good 3. Miscellaneous (Total score under section I.) II.?FOREMAN'S MANAGEMENT: 1. Camp and Efuipment: Gondii (1) Camp grounds (2) Guard's quarters (3) Convicts' quarters . . (4) Kitchen and equipment . (5) Storeroom (6) Stock 2. Camp Sanitation. , , (1) Water supply: source ur (2) Disposal of sewerage.. . (3) Dispossal of manure.. .. } ' (4) Disposal of kitchen refui 3. The Convicts. (1) Personal hygiene % (2) Discipline (3) Records Total score under Section II] COMPLETE SCORE ON THIS CH We are revising our list as we art compelled to do. Come in and make the necessary arrangements to gel back on the list. It is easy to do. HKli' oat twije a week aiui more fresl vegetables and wneat oreau than a; present. (,i) Make an effort to increase thi interest tuKen by your citizens it your c.nui.ga: g. Maintain religioiu services at the <.amp once a weeu .uake tne records m your office shov adequately tiic amount of work done oy tile ckaingung, its cost, and sup plies bought, received, used and o. hanti lor tiie chair.gar.g. (8) Provide a pump for the chain, gang camp. I 11. Foreman's Management, Meth* ods and Results. The Foreman is responsible foi conditions scored under this head. He deserves praise for the good conditions found in the Guard's quarters ami for his methods in general ol disciplining the convicts. But for th fact that the Foreman is handicappec. by the lack of equipment, notably t kitchen and store room, his score would have been higher. To enable the foreman to increase his score we suggest that he (1) Have the brush around his camp cut down, and exercise great care to choose a site where the drain age is good. (1) When the pump is provided by the County Commissioners, sink it at least 130 feet deep at each camp. (3) Have the blankets and beddings used by the convicts washed once a month. (4) Until a kitchen is provided, house the perishable food supplies in the Guard's kitchen. / r: \ t a :.._ a- .1, ? r yo f ui mi' scweiage irum the convicts' "Cage" the manure from the mule pen, and the refuse from the kitchen as follows: (a) Sewerage; Before the tub is put under the convicts' "Cage" at night, have the bottom covered to the depth of three or four inches with water. To this water, add about a tablespoonful of kerosene oil. In the morning have the contents of the tub emptied into a pit at least 150 yards from camp. Cover the sewerage immediately with dirt, and burn the pit out with oil and srtaw once a week; (b) Manure; Have the manure piled up each day in one corner of the mule pen. Have it hauled away from the camp regularly once a week. Dump it at least a quarter of a mile from camp; (c) Kitchen refuse; Keep it covered until removed, and use lime around the kithchon as needed. (6) Keep the extra blankets for the convicts ashed up and stowed away. 4-u:^ ?i ? i?. * : u i iv/iii litis v.iL'u11 t?u[jjjiy, luriu&n eai'ii new convicts with a pair of blankets. (7) Provide convicts with syphilis v/ith separate beds and bedding, separate tables and utensils, and separate drinking cups. (8) To the records now kept of convicts, add race, sex, and age of each of them. Report monthly to the County Board of Commissioners on supplies received, used, and on hand, making at the same time a written requisition for supplies needed during the coming month. STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION Albert S. Johnstone, Secretary [TIES AND CORRECTIONS August Jth, 1916. ;c, MR. T. E. WISE. FOREMAN SCORES. JD CHAINGANG: Possible. Actual 25 23 105 52 50 12 15 5 4 5 5 65 23 30 29 g 70 50 htr loit* ^ o r?/\ 17 t iun V)U l)U conduct 50 50 25 5 500 314 METHODS & RESULTS: lions: 10 8 10 10 80 5G 15 12 10 7 5 5 isuspicious 30 5 50 12 30 0 *e 10 6 75 45 150 126 25 16 > 500 30$ AIN GANG .. .. 1000 62$ ALBERT S. JOHNSTONE, Secretary. Robbie Stalvey of the firm of J 5 M. Stalvey & Co., of Socastee, spent t a clay or two here last week on business. THE HOBBY HI I REMEDIES THAT CURE ONLY WHEN THEY Kill A Glimpse of the Horrors o Heathen Healing?Tortures Inflicted. The non-Christian world is a sickworld. Nowhere is there a science of medicine except where Christiai civilization has gone. China, witl four hundred million inhabitants? one-fourth the human race?nevei had a hospital till Christian missionaries went there and began to buih chem. Africa had no doctors bui "'devil doctors," whose chief remedies were charms to overcome disease-producing evil spirits, and hideous masks, war paint and tom-toms U scare them away. The "chim," a long needle to be stuck into the ailing member "to let the evil spirit out," and the "sook," a cone of sulphur and dried leaves to be placed on the diseased spot and set on fire, are favorite.*, of Korean medical practice. "I have heard," writes a ohvairinn I from Yeung Kong, China, "of a now ' cure for inflammation of the throat, namely, eight cockroaches, each as large as your thumb, taken raw. A woman attempted to remove an ulcer from her leg with quick-lime; the ulcer disappeared as well as most of the j leg." Another writes: "A woman brought her month-old babe, saying it could not nurse. Examination revealed the fact that its tongue had been burned with a red hot needle, to prevent its crying. Another baby was brought whose tongue had been burned and its tonsils gouged out. Then, to prevent a return of the inflammation, a place had been burned on top of its head. A young woman was steamed over a kettle qf boiling water to cure rheumatism and was so horribly burn ed that she died. Dr. Woolbridge Johnson, of Taiku, Koroea., recounts the experience of a Mr. Li who was brought to his hospital. Li had been troubled with dyspepsia and a sympathetic friend fasi_ 1 ? ' tt'neu a swaD to a reed two and a half feet long, and pushed it down his throat as far as possible, "in order to drive the food beyond the sticking place." The reed broke and left ten inches of the swab in the stomach. Li suffered tortures for five days, then was taken to the Presbyterian hospital. The stomach and abdomen were opened and the reed and swab extract ed. These are typical cases and illus-1 trate fairly the jgnorance, supersti-t tion and cruelty that pass for medical skill everywhere in the heathen world. Going among such conditions with t gospel of good will and human welfare, the missionaries early and inevitably felt the necessity of doing ;omething to relieve the afflicted mul dtudes, both for humanity's sake and i . lso incrder to get a hearing for their I ' message. Such was the genesis of nedical missions, which have abundantly justified themselves from every .Landpoint. To the ignorant and -uper&titious heathen, the medical missionary is a miracle worker, and hia ability to cure human ills is the most convincing evidence of the truth of his message. j o The Rev. E. L. McCoy, pastor of the Conway Methodist church returned to Conway the latter part of last week after spending several months away on his vacation tendered him by the congregation some time ago, He was benefitted by the rest. ft CITATION. For Letters of Administration. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry. By J. S. VAUGHT, ESQUIRE, PROBATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, Miss Ruth Watsor made suit to me, to grant her Letters of Administration of the Estate ol and effects of S. P. Watson. THESE ARE. THEREFORE, t( cite and admonish all and singulai the kindred and credidtors of the sak S. P. Watson, deceased, that they b< and appear, before me, in the Couri of Probate, to be held at Conway, S C., on the 7th day of September, 191< next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to shev cause, if any they have, why the sak i administration should not be grant - ed. GIVEN under my hand, this 22n< day of August Anno Domini, 1916. Published on the 24th ^nd 31s . days of August,-1916, in the Horr: t Herald. J. S. VAUGHT, Probata Judge. * IE A LI', OONWAY. 8, O. !?J RE: J. J. Soalo,?Asoicjne To a!l and sinrr:'?.r t! Yo\\ are hereby notifi f creditors in accordance witi i | the 23rd day of August A. D., signee; and that the deed pr due pro rata proportion, afte off his homestead exemption, signee within CO days froifi tli \ sharing in the assets of the ei i A meeting of the cred way, S. C., on the 9th day o; i purpose of electing an agent f< j estate. If no agent is electee capacities alone. Claims duly sworn to i claim in consideration of shar that the assignee has under tl over $75.00 and a quantity of $434.8 8. He owes $300.00 Deutschland to Return. iierim, Aug. Z&.? (By Wireless).? Preparations for another voyage of the submarine Deutschland to the United States are well underway. Freight is being received for this trip. The amount of cargo now ready is larger than had been expected, the Overseas News Agency says. All the members of the crew have expressed readiness to sign for the next voyage. LOCALS Mr. G. Small is spending some time with friends and relatives in this county. CONWAY ASTONISHED BY SIMPLE MIXTURE Conway people are stonished at the INSTANT action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL removes such surprising foul matter it relieves almost ANY CASE consti pation, sour stomach or gas. Because Adler-i-ka acts on BOTH lower and upper bowel, a few doses often relieve or prevent appendicitis. A short treatment helps chronic stom ach trouble. Conway Drug Co.?adv o The paper was filled with political matters last week and did not carry the usual amount of local and State news; but this was understood. Politics are a necessary evil, and there is no subject more interesting to the people of this county or any other. >! tj Prince Albert it tot J every w her* in toppy red bag*, 5c; tidy re4 5 tin*j tOc; handsome pound and | half-pound tin humidors ? and? [ that clever crystal.glass pound humidor with sponge-moistens i ' t top that keeps the tooecco in seel j i splendid condition. ? >RIN R. J. R?fmlda Tobacco Cos NOTICE. c! Estate: ie creditors of J. J. Scale. ed that J. J Seale has made an i the statutes of the State cf So * f ,1916 conveying' all his prcpert ovidcs for the distribution of his r paying the expenses of admin that is to say among all credito e date of the deed, their release slate. itors is hereby called at the off f September A. D., 1916, at 10 < :>r creditors to act with the assy I, then the law provides that th< may be filed with the assignee ing in the estate. This is a vci le deed is a small stock of groc small store accounts, none con; iu round numbers. H. H. WOODWARD. Assigi Caught in Net. New York.?The New York City News association quotes "an officer _r i.i. _ 1 * * ui iiiu nnisn mercaant marine, wno arrived here today aboard the White Star steamship Baltic as authority for the statement that the German submarine Bremen has been captured by the British and 33 of her crew of 35 made prisoners. The Bremen, ac| cording to the account was captured in the Straits of Dover in a steel net on August 2. Two members of her crew lost their lives. The Bremen, it was said^ while enmeshed in the net, was sighted by a British patrol boat, her stem under water and her bow high above the surface. After endeavoring for a time to extricate the wreck, the patrol boat steamed away for Dover with her prisoners. According to the officer quoted, the British government has maintained silneco in regard to the cap j- A i.i ? buiv a.! amnuci utimaii n<tu?-ni.iitiith submarine, the Amerika, was sai'l to be on the way here, and it was hoped to capture her also. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. 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Woodward, as asassets among his creditors in isterlng the estate and laying rs who shall file with the asot* claim in consideration of ice of the undersigned at Cons' clock in the forenoon, for the gnee in the disposition of the 2 assignee shall act in both by mail, as well as release of ry small estate indeed. All ?ries which will not inventory sidered good, amounting to lee. iejiyi&a^&g&ggsEgsasaeaig] m m p AT THE CHURCHES. gg ?5 S CONWAY BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday SchooL at 9:30 A. M. B. Y. P. U. at 3 P. M. Prayer Meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The pubiic is cordially invited to attend all of these services. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. E. L. McCoy, Pastor. Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. Divine services every Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7:45 P. M. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services. ST. PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH W. L. Holmes, Rector. Divine Services every Thursday before the 4th Sunday, and every Fifth Sunday. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. J. M. Lemmon, Pastor Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30 P. M. The public is cordially invited to attend all of these services. Preaching pvprv Snn^nw ?*- ii.tR Q ^ J UU XI !.</ A. M. at 7:30 P M. \ . A. puts new joy ito the sport of uoking! yOU may live to t be 110 and never sel old enough to ote, but it's cerlin-sure you'll not now the joy and ontentment of a iendly old jimmy ipe or a hand rolled on talking-terms :co! al reason for all the >ffers. It is made by ves bite and parch ! hard without a comerays been sold without 1 prefer to give quality! lest pipe and cigarette r and fragrance and it sounds. P. A. just smand for tobacco :k-backt ert isn't any harder rest place that sells y of P. A." You pay re, but it's the cheermade! BERT ' R. J R?ynoM? Tobacco Co.