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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
Wife of Prisoner is a $4,000, 900
HeiresS.

New York, Aug. 2.-The Russian
secret police are securing America
In search of the Countess O'Brien
de Lacy, wife of the Russian noble
man who was sentenced to a Siber-
ian prison for life at the conclusion
OF the most remarkable trial in the
history of the Russian Empire. The
Wlfe OF the convict prisoner has
fallen heir to $1O,O0O,0OO left her
by her aunt, Nine. LIE Lazard, who
Tor some unaccountable reason,
tailed to change her will subsequent
70 the horrifying revelations of the
De Lacy trial.
The convicted count who planned
wholesale murder for fortune pal
try by comparison with the great
sole heir of his wife under the Rus
sian law, and in case of her death
will have the distinction of being
the richest life prisoner in the
world.
Immediately after Count De Lacy
was sentenced 10 penal servitude in
Siberia for life his wife was re-
ported to have lost her reason. She
had been forbidden to return to
the home of her father, General
Borturlin, whose death her husband
sought so that she could inherit the
generals millions.
De uacy's fellow-conspirators, DIR.
Pantechenko, confessed that he had
brought about the death of the
countess brother, Count Vassilli
Borturlin, by inoculating him with
cholera bacteria. The life of Nine
De Lamart was also attempted, and
1t was planned to remove all the
countess relatives so that there
would be no contest of the will,
leaving all of the De Lazard mil
lions to the Countess De Lacy.
The old general persisted in the
belief that his daughter had assist
/ ed in the plot, though she was not
directly accused at the trial After
the conviction her father spurned
her. Practically penniless, disown.
ed by her former intimate friends
the beautiful and talented young
woman was reported to have gone
out of her mind.
Her father ordered an inquiry in
to her sanity and made provision
for her removal to a private sani-
forum, but when his agents be-
gan to search for her they were
unable TO find any trace Of her.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
Injunction Against Prayer.

The story goes that the father of
Jerry Moore, the champion corn
grower of the United States, who
raised 22S bushels on one acre, is
Methodist minister. He had oc-
casion during the long dry wealth
er to pray for rain. The rain
came In torrents, and it lasted for
several days, whether or not in
answer to the prayers of the Meth
odlst minister is not stated, but, at
any rate, it rained and rained. A
woman in the neighborhood COM
planned that her cotton was ruin
ed by the long precipitation, and
made plans to go into court to get
an injunction against Jerry's
father, seeking to enjoin him from
praying for more rain. Jerry, like
Or. Hallman, of Spartanburg, be-
heVes that the rain came of it's
own accord and not in answer to
prayers, adding that he believed it
would have rained whether or
not any prayers were offered.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
When Dreams Come True.

Monday afternoon Messrs. w. L.
Linkhaw and A. w. Prevatt were
out driving and when about three
miles from town Mr.. Prevatt MOTTO
ed that his watch was missing. How
ever a thorough search did not re-
veal its hiding place. The matter
was forgotten for the time being or
rather until Tuesday morning. 1t
all happened this way. Mr.. Linkhaw
has been having many dreams Of
late and Monday night when he had
retired and closed his eyes in sleep
he dreamed a dream and the dream
was about the watch. The dream
was even more explicit as he was
told the exact hiding place of the
watch. So early Tuesday morning
Messrs. Linkhaw hied themselves
back out on the road and 10 and
behold the timepiece was right
there waiting for them to come and
pick it up. 1t had been in a wheel
rut and was slightly damaged where
a buggy had run over it,
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
MIR. L. +. Hargrove Insane.
Pee Dee Advocate.

Pee Dee Advocate.
Tuesday night of last week a
white man was seen driving a horse
to buggy through the town of
Blenheim and acting in a strange
manner. He drove into private
lots during the night, just before
day he drove into Mr.. H. c. Camp
bells lot, went into the barn, got
some corn and forage, drove back to
the depot and fed his horse. Constable
Began Hainey started in search of
the strange man, tracked him to the
neighborhood of Mr.. w. ]. Stubbs,
two and half miles south of Ben
nettsville, he turned around sever
al times in the road and drove his
morse on several rods. Mr.. Hainey
failed to find him, but on the next
night Mr.. Wallace Evans found this
man, who was lost and walking, on
his plantation and brought him to
town and placed him in jaid. From
papers and letters found in his
pockets 1t was ascertained that his
name was T. f. Hargrove, of Marion
county, S. G.. He could give no in
formation as to the whereabouts of
his horse and buggy. as his mental
condition was very bad. 1t was
learned that he lived with DR..
Jernagan and that he had a wife
and brothers in Marion county.
Saturday morning Mr.. Eason
found the horse and buggy in the
Pee Dee Swamps and brought them
to Bennettsville and turned them
over to Sheriff Patterson. His fam
lily in Marion, was communicated
with and Sunday morning two of
Mr.. Hargrove's brothers arrived in
town. They said that he had two
or three times before been men,
tally unbalanced. Drs. Kinney and
Crosland visited the unfortunate
man in jail, and after a thorough
examination pronounced him insane.
The papers were turned over to
Judge of Probate McLaurin and
will be forwarded to Columbia with
instructions to be returned to Mar
ion. One of the brothers took Mr.
I. F. Hargrove on the Sunday after
noon train to his home in Marion.
the other brother remained until
Monday and took the horse and.
buggy back through the country.
When arrested by Mr.. Evans he had
in his pockets bank book which
showed that he had $500 to his
credit in the Bank of Marion, he al
so had pistol, matches and a full
now box of raugh on rats, and
while in Jail begged to be liberated
that some one intended to drown
and kill him.
He was in a most pitiable con-
dition and seemed to improve when
his brothers were admitted to the
Jail where he was. After leaving
his horse and buggy in the swamp
he waded crooked creek near it's
mouth, and walked for a mile up
and down the river
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
ROBT. GRANGER Is CONVICTED

For the Murder of bud" Mobiles
in Columbus County, n. c., and
Is Given 80 Years i'm Pen.
Last evening before the ajourn-
ment of court says the Whitesville
correspondent Of the Wilmington
Star, Judge Whedbee called before
him Robert Granger and Missile
Marlowe, convicted of murder in
the second degree. He sentenced
Granger to the penitentiary for 80
years giving him the extent of
the law, and Missile Marlowe to
the penltentiary for 15 years. Af-
ter sentence the prisoners were
carried back to Jail, where they
viii remain until final ending of
the case. The Stars correspond
ent asked II. l.. Lyon, Esq, coun-
sci for the defense if they intend
TO apply for new trial. Mr.. Ly-
on stated that they had not as yet
decided what would be done. He
said they had 80 days in which to
lille an application, and the coun-
sci for the prisoners would confer
and decide what steps to take.
Both Granger and the young wo-
man accepted the verdict with sto-
zeal demeanor. 1t was quite a sur
prise to them, for the impression
mad gone out that a person in
columbus county could shoot down
a man and the jury would acquit
him.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10

Asheville. Aug. 3. Two pitiful
cases which have recently come 20
the notice of the Salvation Army
here serve to illustrate the careless
ness and danger of allowing young
girls to go to any town or city, when
their parents have not already made
arrangements for them to go into a
home, Within the past few days the
management of the Salvation Army
has taken two girls from houses of
i'll fame
One of the girls, aged only Is
years, came here from South Caro-
lima with an older sister. The sister
went on to Waynesville to get work
and told the younger girl to stay
here and try to get work. The girl
tells that she could find nothing to
do and sat down in front of a store
and was crying when a woman came
along and hearing OF her plight, tol
her that she would give her work.
She went with the woman and a few
days later was sent to a house of i'll
fame where she stayed five weeks.
She stated that she was charged $40
week for board. A short time ago
the girls mother came here to look
for her and the girl was finally 10
Gated by some of the Salvation army
workers and was taken from the
house where it was claimed that she
owed $5 for board. She was placed
in her mothers care.
The other girl too came from
South Carolina and is about 16
years of age. She had been in a
house of i'll fame for six weeks and
came of her own accord to the head
quarters of the army. She came
here on the invitation of a friend"
who wrote that she was married and
wished the girl to come and visit
here. This girl was an orphan but
had relatives near the Tennessee
line and she was sent to them by
the Salvation Army.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10

hear even that stentorian voice, sis
10 raise more produce at home and
stop buying so much from the
Northern States. Take the average
Mississippi farmer. He buys can
ned and dried fruits - likewise
canned and other foods. He gets up
at the alarm OF a Connecticut clock,
fastens his Chicago suspenders to
his Detroit overalls, washes his
face with Cincinatti soap in a Penn
sylyania wash basin, sits down to
a Grand Rapids table, eats Indiana
hominy, fried with st. Joseph la I'd
on st. Louis stove and puts a
st. Louis bride on a Tennessee
mule. He sits down at night to
read Bible that was printed in
Chicago, kneels to say prayer
composed in Jersulem and covers
himself with a New Jersey blanket
only to be disturbed all night by the
bowling of his dog which is the
only home-raised product on the
place."
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10

load entering the back of the head
and scattering the brains over the
bed. Jenkins CAN'T, better known
as 'Dink" CAN'T, denies any
knowledge of the killing. He is
about 27 years old and has been
farming with his uncle. The de-
ceased lived in a house just be-
yond the Mollohon Mill village,
with his mother and aunt, and the
nephew, who is charged with the
killing.
1t was stated tonight that the
old negro woman who worked
an eyewitness to the killing and
that the nephew got up from the
supper table, walked into the
room where his uncle was in bed
and picked up the gun and shot
him.
Young CAN'T was found by
Sheriff Buford at the house of
James Porter, across the street.
He said tonight when seen in Jail,
that he was at Porter's house at
the time of the killing and knew
nothing of it. Sheriff Buford Sc
cured at the CAN'T home a single
barrel shotgun, with which, it is
thought, the killing was done. The
only motive which has been assign
ed in connection with young CAN'T,
so far as is is known is that he and
the deceased had some words about
the young man driving a horse of
the deceased to Columbia on last
Saturday night. 1t is also said that
Doth had been drinking a good deal
during the past several days. The
young man said he had driven the
morse, but that there had been no
about it.
Young CAN'T is a son of Wilbur
Can't, who moved to Maxwell, Fla,
some time ago. His mother, he
said tonight, lives near Columbia.
Coroner Felkner is tonight holding
an inquest over the body of Mark
Can't, and it is expected that fuller
details will be developed at the
inquest.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
Making the Farm Pay.

When David Rankin, the worlds
largest farmer, was asked to tell
the secret of his success che be-
gan by borrowing Sc and died worth
$6,OO0,000, all made in farming) he
answered promptly: Success in
farming consists in making every
minute, every cent and every seed
count. A good workman is cheap
at any price and a shiftless, care
less man is dear il he works for
nothing"
Not long before he died Mr..
Rankin amplified his views ITO
make a profit the farmer, just as
any other manufacturer, must re-
duce the cost of production" he
said. Il saw this long ago and
when / saved a hands wages by
the use of a new piece of machin-
cry l felt pretty good; that was
making money for me. We farm
ers must not only keep eternally
ar reducing the cost of production
out plan way to get most out or
Cur product. Use your heal as
we'll as your hands, for it is lit
tie savings that make up the prof
its at the end of the year. 1t
takes sharpening of the wits all
the ti:nn.'
The fertilizer problem Is one OF
the mos; serious confrohting the
t;:rnler u day. Shall he opeL Up
lis fields to the commerc az arti-
Gle or shall he husband his own re-
sources and maintain the fertility
or the soil by returning to it the
elements of which it was robbed
in producing a crop? The answer
Is simple. A ton of average fresh
manure contains ten pounds of
nitrogen, five pounds of Phosphor-
ic acid and ten pounds OF potash
At the prices which these elements
OF plant food would cost in COM
mercial fertilizers the value in ma
nure would be $3.50 a ton. This
does not take into account the
value OF the organic matter fur
ntshed, which may be greater than
that of the plant food. That this
theoretical valuation is very con-
servative is shown by the result of
many field experiments; by various
experiment stations and by practical
farmers. The value as shown by
the increased crops has equaled |
and often exceeded this theoretical
An experiment conducted in Jas
per county, Missouri, resulted in
an acre which had been treated
with eight tons of manure. yield |
ihS Sihly-liNe DuSHelS OF corn, Wnlle |
an acre Immediately adjoining u
which had not been treated with
natural fertilizer yielded only
twenty-ntne and half bushels
experiments conducted in Colum-
6ia. in the same State, resulted as
follows: tract on which corn
mad been grown continuously for
twenty years yielded only three
bushels to the acre. Immediately
ad1olnlng, tract planted to corn
Tor twenty years but which had
been literally manured, yielded 80
bushels to the acre. Another
tract, likewise, adjoining on which
corn had been rotated with oats
and clover yielded forty-nine bush
eIs to the acre. Still fourth
tract" Immediately adjoining on
which scientific management had
been practiced to the extent of
Doth rotating crops and manuring
the field, yielded sixty bushels o
the acre
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
SELLS HER BRAIN.
Georgia Woman, According to
Story Gets $4,000 in Queer

Georgia Woman, According to
Stcry Gets $4,000 in Queer
Way.
Miss Celeste Parrish, who was
for years head of the department
of pedagogy at the State Normal
School, director of the Muscogee
Elementary Practice School, and
much sought writer for the educa-
tional and psychological journals,
has sold her own brain to a North
ern institution of medical research
for purposes of examination and
analysis after her death, says an
Athens, Ga, special. Miss Parrish
has been noted for her remarkable
powers of mind and scientists have
remarked also upon the unusual size
of her brain. Miss Parrish sold
her brain to the medical and scien-
tific institution, it is said, for $40,-
900.
Miss Mary Mashburn. a teacher in
the Hall county schools this sum-
mer in charge OF the Mountain
school in that county, heard Miss
Parrish tell of the trade some time
ago and this week when reached by
the newspaper correspondent and
by phone reiterated the story sup
planting her substantiation of her
SIdlSlHSHIS Dy IuTIner informing the
newspaper man that Miss Parrish
has been using part of the money
which she has already received and
given her contract for, in the edu-
cation of the adopted children of
her brother who died some time ago
and left two children orphans.
So remarkable have the psychologi-
cal powers of this woman been rec
ognized that the institutions have
sought to contract with her for her
brain. The unusual talent of men,
ory is also likewise developed to a
degree not possessed by one man
| in million - she can read a chap
ter of ordinary length from a vol
ume she has never. seen and after
the one careful reading can repeat
the chapter by memory Miss Par
rlsh Is a prominent woman in the
State and national councils of the
mothers congresses. She has had
in mind also a model settlement for
some time and planned with Mr..
Wycliffe Rose, of Atlanta, a COM
munity for young woman where the
daughters OF the rich could be train
ed to lives of natural service with
the conditions of the poor so far
as simplicity is concerned. She says
that the young women of the veal
thy families will not learn how to
live until some such manner of
training them is adopted.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
Vacation.

A little grip,
A little trip,
10 mountain, lake or shore,
A little tan,
A tired man,
He'll do the stunt no more.
Dalton Argus.
Without the dough-"
You stand no show,
No matter where you go,
So pack no grips,
And take no trips,
TO mountain lake or shore.
Rome Tribune Herald
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
BURIED TO HIS MOUTH

Peculiar Accident BefaIIs Column
bia Laborer - Rescued Practi-
calIy Unhurt.
Columbia, August 4. - Special:
John Lee, negro laborer, had an
exceedingly narrow escape from suf-
location this afternoon, when the
banks of a deep ditch in which he
and others were working, on Gerva-
is street, opposite the police sta
ton, caved in, burying him to his
mouth beneath large blocks of hard
clay
He was able to direct the work of
rescue and except for bruises ap-
pears to be all right.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
Nardaman a Philosopher.

A few days ago at one OF the
senatorial campaign meetings in
mississippi while ex-governor James
r.. Nardaman was speaking and
discussing the needs Of the south,
ne showed himself TO be a philoso-
pher by the following utterance:
What we need" shouted Gov
ernor Vardaman, wniis mis- support
ers howled and his opponents
screamed until one could scarcely
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
CHARGED WITH KILLING UNCLE
Mark CAN'T Slain in Bed, Jenkins
CAN'T Arrested.
TeWberry. August 2.

Mark Il. CAN'T, a white farmer
about SO years old, was killed in
his bed, at his home on the south
ern outskirts OF the city, at about
$3.50 O'Clock this afternoon, and
A. jenkins CAN'T. his nephew, is in
Jail charged with the killing. CAN'T
was killed with shot gun the
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-10
TWO PITFUL CASES.

Salvation Army Rescues Girls From
Degraded Life.
Smyrna times., 1911-05-03
NEW STATE SCHOOL BOARD

Supt. G. w. Twitmyer, President, and
Theodore Townsend, Secretary.
The State Board of Education ap-
Pointed under the new law, consti-
tuting new school system for Del
aware, met at Dover yesterday for
oganization and elected George w.
Twitmeyer, of Wilmington, president
and State auditor Theodore Town
send will be secretary ex officio.
Mr.. Twitmeyer, who is superinten-
dent of public instruction of Will
mington, took hold with enthusiasm
and gave promise of working out
with the new board many modern
methods for the school system.
Henry Ridgely, of Dover, moved
that all the rural districts be asked
to raise at least $25 more by taxa
tion for each district than last yea,
owing to the necessarily increased
State appropriation this wear by
reason of increasing Wilmington s
quota from 165 to 200 teachers. Mr..
Ridgely said something about it be-
ing surprising surrender on the
part of those having the rural dis
tricts at heart, and President Twit-
meyer, noticing the Dover man smil-
ing retorted: "You should say, sir,
a far more equitable distribution. -
Mr.. Ridgely's motion was carried,
and the colored school districts will
also be included in the advice to
raise more local tax. The board
adopted a long preamble and reso-
luton relieving from examination
for a year all persons teaching il
this State who hold college or nor.
NAL school diplomas or who have
taught satisfactorily for a period o.
five years, applying also to teachers
of the second grade. Examination
will, therefore, only be held for be
ginners and those not college grad
yates who have not taught fiv
years. Much of the work of tn
board will have to be tided over un
til the new school code commissio
gets it's proposed laws passed.
Smyrna times., 1911-05-03

Mrs. Lillian Cloak, Mrs. ]. Har-
vey Speakman, Miss Bertha Smith
ers and Miss Eba Wilds attended on
Thur sday tea given by Mrs. James
L. Wolcott at Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Hopes and
MIR. and Mrs. Gilbert S. Jones, of
Wilmington, came to Smyrna in Mrs.
hoops Stoddard-Dayton touring car
Sunday adm spent the day with
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wesley Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noman Coleman at
tended last Friday evening the silver
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph C. Jolls at Middletown.
There were over $50 invited guests
and the affair was an important So
cial event.
Miss Venables, of Salisbury, was
entertained over Sunday by Miss
Mildred Hudson.
Miss Mary Fisher of Dover, is
visiting Miss Lillian Speakman and
incidentally attended the meeting OF
the Tuesday Club which was enter.
tanned by the Speakmans last even.
ing.
Miss Henrietta Prettyman, Of
Wilmington, is the guest of Miss M
Elizabeth Hall.
Smyrna times., 1911-05-03
FARMERS DAY AT NEWARK

Delaware College Farm, to Be Made
an Interesting Feature Next Month
Arrangements are being made for
Farmers Day at the College Farm
during Commencement Week of Del
aware College. Professor w. A.
Waugh, of Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College, will be the speaker
of the day. Prof. Waugh is 9
horticulturist of National reputation.
He is the author of several books
on Agricultural subjects and reg.
ular contributor to the Country
Gentleman and other agricultural
magazines. He is reported to be 6
pleasing speaker. Being familiar
with Delaware conditions, his ad
dress will probably be on some so
Geological or economic phase of oul
life here. Other speakers will
probably be secured later on. Shor
talks will be given by those carry
iug on experiments on the farm. 4
special invitation will be extende'
to the members of the General AS
sembly. 1t is hoped that the worl
and improvements for which approp
riations were made will be project
ed by that time. The Farmers Da
is an institution of only few years
standing, but has proven to be
great pleasure and profit. NJ
gathering of the year is so repre-
sentative of the State as this fiel
meet of the sgriculturists. Nor
people have interested themselve
| in the college from this movemen
than any other Of the exercises
the commencement.