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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

Since he formation of the govern
ment South Carolina has had 50 rep
resentatives in the Uni,ed States sen
ate. Some of these names are Illus
trious in national history as well as
beloved and revered at home.
There are eight of this number
who died in Office: John Ewing Cal
houn, John Gaillard, John C.. Cal
houn, Franklin H. Gilmore, Andrew +.
Butler, Josiah j. Evans, Joseph H.
Earle and Asbury c. Latimer.
John Gaillard served longer than
any other senator from this state,
nearly % years continuously. Frank
lin H. Elmore, who succeeded John
c. Calhoun, served 90 years before his
own death.
Among those senators who also
served the state as governor are
Charles Pinckney, John Taylor, S. D.
Miller, George McDufie, j. H. Ham
mond, Wade Hampton and B. K. Till
man.
There were several senators who
resigned. In the early days OF the
republic it seemed to be the proper
thing for a senator to resign before
his term expired. Those who fom
one cause or another resigned are
Pierce Butler (twice), John Hunter,
Charles Pinckney, Thomas Sumter,
John Taylor, Robert Y. Hayne, Ste
phen d. Miller, John c. Calhoun, D.
+. Huger, William c. Preston, George
McDufle, r. B. Rhett, James CHEST
nut. Jr., and James Fl. Hammond.
Some resigned to become governor.
Mr.. Calhoun resigned to become vice
president.
The largest number Of senators in
any one year was in 1850. Calhoun
died March 81, Gilmore died May ~,
Barnwell was appointed June A. ana
was succeeded by Rhett DecemDer
18th. Judge A. P. Butler was the
Junior senator who was the contelr
porary of these senators in that year.
There were from the beginning
two senators. Pierce Butler was al
lotted the f%our-year term and Ralph
lizard the six year term. AT the en-
Diration of the four-year term II 100
became a six year term. rms was
i'm order to keep the two offices from
being coterminal.
Pierce Butler served seven years
and resigned. Later he served Two
years and resigned again. William
Smith served seven years. Later ne
served five years. John c. Calhoun
served ten years and resigned. His
successor, after two years service,
resigned and Calhoun was returned
TO his old seat, serving five years
until his death. These are the only
cases of senators being returned al
ter once retiring from the senate.
Senator Tillman today occupies the
seat once held by Pierce Butler and
the late Senator Latimer succeeded to
the chair of Ralph lizard.
Following is the list OF senator's
who succeeded Pierce Butler:
Buffers Successors
Pierce Butler, service commenced
March d, 1889, reelected 1I93; re-
signed 1896.
John Hunter, Dec. 8, 1886, resigned
1898. ,,-oo.
Charles Pinckney, March 4, 1893;
elected for full term in 1899; resign
ed 1910. :.
Thomas Sumter, Dec. 3, 1901, in
1905 elected for full term; resigned
1910.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

in his vigorous prosecution of one Of
you, was shot five times. The sher-
if in the act Of taking you, Floyd Allen,
into custody, was shot six times, fall
ing where he stood when your de-
fiance of the law was uttered. One
juror was shot in his seat. These four
and one woman were the persons
killed. A second juror was shot as
he retreated and the clerk was shot
very near at his desk. 1t was all done
in less than a moment of time; done
by you and your associates, done with
a QuickneSS and an accuracy OF aim
and action impossible to men acting
under the impulse of surprise. Yet
the law which has suffered 80 great
an outrage has, out of regard for her
own inherent principles Of right and
justice, accorded each Of you a pa
tient and unbiased hearing, has ex-
tended to you every protection, a
made available to you every safe
guard, has yielded to you upon every
point Of doubt or possible mistake,
has submitted the question Of your
guilt separately to juries of your fell
low citizens, who have heard with pa
thence every statement and convention
offered in excuse or mitigation OF this
terrible accomplishment. ...
Il am not saying these things to
reproach or distress you. This hour
Is too solemn for you and for me to
permit any impulse Of telling to be en-
tertained towards you except OF the
deepest sympathy. want you each
to realize that no man has by his
will or choice selected your punish
ment; that no man has done you
wrong or dealt with you otherwise
than as the law, to which all OF us
must yield unQueStioning obedience,
has demanded of his conscience; that
the judgment OF this court is no mans
judgment, but is the judgment OF the
law, and that l am but the m~outhplece
of the law when l speak to you these
solemn words.
1T is the judgment Of the court
that each Of you be remanded to the
custody Of the sheriff Of Wythe coun-
ty, there to be detained until the SUI
p~erintendent of the penitentiary OF
this State shall come or send for you,
when you will be taken to that pris-
on and there, on the 22d day of No
vember, 1912, within the hours, in the
manner and with the means prescriD-
ed by law you shall each of you be
put to death, and through your own
sincere repentance and mediations OF
our Savior, may each OF you receive
mercy upon the measure OF a full ror-
giveneSS.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE
SENATE OF UNITED STATES

John Taylor, Dec. 10, 1910, elected
in 1911 for full term; resigned in
1916.
William Smith, Dec. 1, 1916. elected
in 1917 for full term.
Robert Young Hayne, March 4
1922, reelected 1929 and resigned in
1882.
John C. Calhoun, Dec. II, 1882
elected for full term in 1885, re-elect-
ed 1871; resigned 1912; reelected
1845.
Daniel Elliot Huger, Dec. Is, 1912,
resigned in 1845.
John c. Calhoun. Dec. 26. 1845, to
fill out Huger's term; elected full
term in 1S4T: died March 81. 1850.
Franklin H. Gilmore, April II, 1850,
appointed temporarily by governor to
fill out Calhoun's term and died May
20.
Robert w. Barnwell, June 4, 1850,
appointed temporarily by governor to
fill out Elmore's term.
Robert Barnwell Rhett, Dec. 1S,1S50,
elected by Legislature to permanently
fill out Calhoun's term; resigned In
1852.
VIM. F. DeSaussure, May l0,1S52.
Josiah j. Evans, March 4, 1853,
died May =, 1858.
Arthur P. Hayne, May II, 1858, ap-
pointed by governor temporarily.
James Chestnut, Jr., Dec. 3, 1858,
elected full term in 1859; retired
from senate Nov. 10, 1860.
For the next four years there was
, hi,t,,e l,r;r, tho Nor patuInnn
the States. Senator Chestnut's term
would have expired in 1865.
Benjamin F. Perry and John l..
Manning were elected in 1865, but
never qualified.
Then followed the period of recon-
struction. Thos. j. Robertson and
Frederick A. Sawyer were elected on
June 25, 1868. Robertson had the
seat which came down from Pierce
Butler and in 1871 succeeded him
self, serving until 1877.
NJ. C. Butler, March 4, 1877; re-
| elected 1883 and in 1889.
Il. R. Tillman, March 4, 1895, re-
elected in 1901 and in 1907, and due
again in 1913.
lizards Successors
Ralph lizard, March 4, 1889, SIX
years.
Jacob Read, March 4, 1876.
John Ewing Calhoun, March 4,
1901; died Nov. 3, 1902.
Pierce Butler (who had resigned in
1866, Nov. 1902, resigned 1904.
John Gaillard, Dec. 6, 1904, elected
for full term in 1907; in 1913, in
1919; and in 1925. Died Feb. 26
1926.
William Harper, March 8, 1926, ap'
pointed by governor to succeed Gail
lard.
William Smith, elected by legisla'
ture to succeed Gaillard. NoV Is
1926.
Stephen D. Miller, March 4, 1881
resigned in 1888.
William C.. Preston, Nov. 26, 1883
elected for full term in 1887. resigned
in 1912 (at the same time with Cal
houn.)
George McDuffie, Dec. 1912, elect
ed in 1S43 for full term; resigned II
1876.
Andrew Pickens Butler, Dec. Il
1916, elected 1849, for full term, an
! again in 1855, died May 70, 1857.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
FLOYD AND CLAUDE ALLEN TO
DIE on THE SANE DAY.
~ Father and Son Will Be
EIectrocuted for the Shooting Up
of Virginia Court Room.

Wytheville, Va, Sept. 14.-Floyd
and Claude Allen, father and son, are
in the Wytheville county Jail await
ing the day of their fate, November
%, when they must give up their lives
for the sin they committed against So
ciety. These ringleaders in the shoot
ing up of the tiillsville court house
appear to be resigned to their fate.
They say they will accept the SEN
tence as best they can.
The sentence that they must die
on November % was passed upon
them Wednesday by Judge Staples.
The prisoners stood up while the
Judge imposed the sentence. Floyd
supported himself with his clutches,
and was deeply but silently moved.
Claude was apparently unconcerned.
During the adjournment of the jury
for dinner after the crowd had left the
court house Judge Staples had Floyd
and Claud Allen brought into court
and he sentenced them to death, fix
ing November % as the date OF cleo
trocution. Floyd said he did not mean
to defy the law and had nothing
against them over there except Dex-
Ter GOdu, anu tldl lC was SUNG w
I take his sentence as best he could.
Judge Staples, in pronouncing the
death sentence on Floyd and Claude
Allen, said:
Each of you has, by a grand jury
of your county been charged with the
murder of four men and n woman
as the result Of one plan and pur-
pose for the murder Of one of these
men. You have been separately tried
and convicted. A court Of justice sit
ting for the enforcement OF law ana
protection of society has been in n
brief moment almost entirely de-
stroyed. That this was done by you
and your associates has not been and
could not have been denied.
The judge. a mar pure IN char-
acter and steadfast in purpose, IN
capable of wrong toward any man,
was shot three times, where he sat
HELPLESS and undefended. The attor-
ney for the Commonwealth, fearless
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
HOW SMALL FARMER CAN
RAISE BEEF CALVES
Progressive Farmer.

Progressive Farmer.
AS l was leaving a farmers insti-
tute meeting recently,-after having
urged strongly the need Of more live
stock, and especially. beef cattle on
the billy farms of the farmers COM
prising my audience-I heard one
farmer remark that he knew what l
had said in the meeting was the truth,
but that he had only a hundred-acre
farm and the children needed all the
milk the COWS he could keep would
produce. Well, l remarked to myself
that he was keeping a very small
number Of cows for the size OF his
farm or else he had an unusually
large brood Of children; for on a farm
only q little more than twice the SAGE
of his we have maintained more thai
an average OF IS cows.
mistrust, however, his farm was
like thousands Of other Piedmont
farms in that only about one-hftn OF
the area OF the place was IN cultlVa-
ton and in reality he was WORKING
only about 20 acres, instead OF ~
to 80 acres that he could be using
were these extra acres cleared OF
brush and briars. Were hall these
waste acres cleared and well set In
pasture grasses, they would amor
grazing for more cattle than his zo
cleared acres would produce winter
feed for. This Is q hint at what !
think this farmer should be about
during the coming winter, clearing
his waste acres and getting In posi-
ton to make use Of more OF the cap
ital be has invested in land.
But yet, at present with his lin
tied area there ought to be a way ne
could produce on his farm nor milk
than an ordinary-sized family could
make use OF and have a surplus WIN
which to feed a few good calves. VI
course, il he Is maintaining the or
binary scrub cow that produces about
a gallon of milk per day, he need NOT
expect to do much better than ne IS
doing. But there are plenty. OF SCRUB
COWS in his county that will produce
three or more gallons of milk per.
day If given good grazing; and were
he to have six of such cows his ram
ily would have to be q larger one
than the writer would care to look
after In order to consume more than
one-half Of the Is gallons OF milk
produced. Well, just suppose that
three of these COWS would produce
milk and butter sufficient for n
needs of the family, what would
there be to hinder this farmer rais-
ing six beef cattle per year on the
milk of the other cows Of the herd!
Good scrub cows nursing two caves
each will make Of these good big
husky calves by the time they are Six
months of age if given a little corn
meal during the last three or four
months of the nursing period; keep
ing the calves in a small pasture by
themselves and bringing their dams
to the calf lot at the same time the
other COWS are brought to the stable
for milking. Or suppose all the COW
are MIXED, the milk u through a
hand separator, and part OF the sweet
fed to the calves, the bal
ance set in the spring house to be
kept cool for family use.
Surely one Of these ten or IL chill
dren could be induced to make IT MS
business to feed these six nice sleek
calves four to five times per day u
ing the first month, then twice per
day for the remaining five months.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

This boy or girl could, I am sure,
after a little teaching, be depended
upon to scald the tin buckets from
which the calves. drank their milk,
making every thing sweet and clean
twice a day. And l believe, from my
own experience, that the boy or girl
would really enjoy having the entire
charge of the work and realizing that
the responsibility of the calf herd
rested upon him. .
These calves fed in this way-were
they sired by a f1rst-class beef sire
would make big strapping fellows by
the time the first frost was seen down
in the hollow in the fall and be worth
at least $3.50 for feeders. They would
need besides the milk and pasture
a handful each per day of corn meal
or cracked corr for the first three
months Of their lives, which amount
should be increased to q pound per
day each for the balance OF the sum-
mer.
This corn meal should be fed in &
fat bottomed trough about a foot In
width 30 the calves would be COM
PEELED to eat slowly.
The milk should always be fed at
blood heat and always in clean tin
buckets and the calves should not
be overfed in the beginning, n and
one-half quarts at a feed, four feeds
per day, would be an abundance for
the first two months, then a gallon
per feed, two feeds per day, would
bring them through the balance OF
the summer in good condition. The
calves should have before them In
the pasture at all times a mixture
of salt and tobacco dust or stems
in the proportion Of n part OF salt
to four of the tobacco; this to guard
against the danger Of stomach
worms. Many a boy or girl in the
South would really enjoy a few min
utes work Of this sort each day and
many dollars would be added to the
farm increase each year, besides
the land to grow fat.
A. L. FRENCH.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
MANY Driven From Home.

Every year, in many parts OF the
country, thousands are driven from
their. homes by coughs and lung dis
eases. Friends and business are left
behind for other climates, but this Is
costly and not always sure. A better
way-the way of multitudes-is to
use DR.. Kings New Discovery and
cure yourself at home. Stay right
there, with your friends, and take this
safe medicine. Throat and lung
troubles find quick relief and health
returns. Its help in coughs, colds,
grip, Group, whooping-cough and sore
lungs make it q positive blessing. 50c
and $1.OO. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by P. B. Speed and McMurray
Drug Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
Cheap Paint

The cheapest paint is the one that goes
fal thest and wears best; there is most In
q gallon Of it..
What Is a quart OF milk worth! De-
ponds on the milk.
So of paint; depends on the paint.
Deyoe Is worth the top price, whatever
1t is. Poor paint is worth nothing at all
you've got to pay your painter $3 or "a q
gallon for putting 1t on; and it isn't worth
1t.
Devoe goes twice as far and wears twice
or three times or four times as long.
The cheap paint is Devoe at the top OF
the market. ,,op
L. B. Speed sells it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

Antoine Deloria, postmaster at Car
den, Mich, knows the exact facts
when he speaks Of the curative value
of Foley Kidney Pills. He says:
From my own experience l recon-
mend Foley Kidney Pills as n great
remedy for kidney trouble. My father
was cured of kidney disease and a
good many of my neighbors were
cured by Foley Kidney Pills. Nc
Murray Drug Company. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
L. b. Speed sells it.

Free trial package of Conkey's Lice
Powder and Big sO-page Poultry Book Tor
one week only at The McMurray Drug
Company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

Silks, Silks, see our Silk. Haddon-
Wilson Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

See US for Dress Trimmings. Had
don Wilson Co.
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STATEMENT
Of the condition OF
The Bank Of Calhoun Falls,

located at Calhoun Falls, S. c., at the close
OF business Sept. 4th, 1912.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

OF the condition Of
The Bank Of Mt. Carmel,

located at Mt. Carmel, S. c., at the close
OF business September 4th, 1912.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-25
QUESTIONS MOTIVE
OF COL. ROOSEVELT
Senator Cummins Declares
Against New Party

WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator
Cummins Of Iowa, Progressive Repub
lican candidate for the Presidency al
Chicago, formally declared recently
against the new party movement led
by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and an.
nounced his allegiance to the old
party. In SO doing, Mr.. CummiRs said
bosses could not be escaped by organ
ization of new parties and thai
those Republicans who after inteiii-
gent inquiry concluded that President
Taft's denomination was the result OF
fraudulent votes, '.the nominee OF the
convention is not the nominee of the
Republican party He pointed out,
however, that disappointment or indi-
vidual dishonesty cannot form the
foundation of a new party.
John G.. Capers, South Carolina
member of the Republican National
Committee, who supported Col. Roose-
welt at Chicago, also formally an
nounced his intention to support
President Taft's candidacy Mr.. Cap
ers, in a statement, said the work of
the majority il the National Commit
etc was not one whit more severe
than the steam roller methods Of four
years ago.
AT that time he said, ain behalf Of
Candidate Taft and under the direc-
ton Of President Roosevelt, was one
of the engineers of the machine and
helped fiatten out the minority Of the
committee. who were in the same con-
dition when we got through with
them as were the fifteen men at the
Chicago convention. at this time. |"
Mr. Capers was one Of the fifteen.
Senator Cummins' statement was
his first public HtteraEce since the
Chicago convention Fenominated Mr.
Taft. Mr. Cummins pointed out that
throughout his public life he had heen
lighting to make the Republican party
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-25
SOL DER KILLS
WHOLE FAMILY

WALLA WALLA, Wash. July 81
Sergeant j. Proctor, of the Coast Ar
tillery Corps, Fort Worden. Wash.
late yesterday afternoon shot and
killed his divorced wife. Ada Proctor.
aged %; his daughter. Nellie. aged II /.
and his son, Everett, aged 3, and then
committed suicide in the rooming.
house in this city conducted BY the
woman. He came here two weeks ago
on a furlough and since that time
boarded In the house where his d.
Yorced wife lived.
The couple was divorced last Christ
mas. the woman charging cruel treat
ment, and since that time she has
feared violence, though he has never
been known to make threats Some
time ago when she lived at the Odd
Fellows Home here. Mrs Proctor re-
fused to see her former husband, and
when he asked that she come to the
window so he could see her. she re-
fused, fearing that he would kill her.
There were not witnesses to today's
tragedy, friends Of the woman calling
at her house finding the dead bodies
of the four.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-25
U. S. NAY Use
Continues from Pas. y


deal of comment in army circles. the
general opinion being that unless
something is done to relieve present
conditions in the transport service, this
move will of necessity be made.
1t was learned today that the mat
ter of securing a more equitable adj
justment between Manila and Homo
lulu will be taken up with Washing
ton, and that at the same time the
proposition of a separate and distinct
run will be investigated But it costs
money, big money TO run transports.
and the government could better af-
ford to pay the passage of its en-
ployes on liners than to maintain a
separate boat, unless the freight bus
mess warrants the outlay.
From the Coast to Honolulu Uncle
Sam does enough freight business of
his own to fill one boat a month, but
on the return journey the transport
would have to go back in ballast, which
would be out of the question from an
operative standpoint Hence the .sug-
gestion that for the Honolulu San
Francisco run the quartermaster's de-
the commercial lines, and carry any
body's goods for the regular tariff.
1t is believed that this departure
would require a special act of Con-
gress, and, of course, storm OF pro-
test could be expected from the ship
ping interests. But if the government
interests demand a special transport
to Honolulu. it's quite likely that, pro-
test or no protest, the freight PROPOSE
ton would be put through
At the present time the transports
accept commercial cargo for Guam,
but, then. there is no other means of
communication between that island and
the outside. world. with the exception
of desultory Japanese schooners.
The cost of operating the army
transports on the Pacific is 1925 per
day, SO il is apparent that from a
passenger standpoint alone the ven
ture would not pay the government
Considered from the standpoint of army
supplies and forage to Honolulu, and
a full general cargo back to the Coast,
however. the plan becomes business
proposition which may go through in
the near future.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-25
AbsaIOm Bars Shingles
Dog From Canine Who's Who

houn dawg of Honolulu was not "a
vorably impressed by the visitor. One
reason for this is the fact that the
nav arrival makes little reck Of food
supplies. He was gambling with q
three-link sausage when he stepped
to the dock, but instead of devouring
the Juicy meal dropped it when he
sighted Absalom. The latter after
greeting him with a soft Southern &C
cent derived from South Carolina
his home-ate the sausage. "Wilful
waste makes woeful want" is his
motto.
II was the garlic that caused the
breach between the two dogs. Absa-
'lom once worked as a sleuth on a
case in which bag of garlic import
ed by an immigrant from Spain fig
nred. His delicate sense of smell
was offended at the time. Since then
he has had no use for the odoriferous
vegetable. So when he learned that
the German dog had been living on
pea soup favored with garlic during
his voyage, Absalom scratched him off
the canine who's Who"
Shingles dog bears the name of
Lord" and cost $3.50, but that doesn't
make an difference with Absalom. He
is an unreconstructed Southerner and
a Democrat.