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VOL XLIV. NO. 44. NEWBERRYi 8 . Y MAY 31, 1907. TWICE A WEEK. 1.50 A YEAR STATE ASSESSORS RAISE THE ROADS TRUE VALUATION TO BE PLAC ED UPON ALL OF THEM. Many Protests Expected-Hearing to be Had on Increase of $30,000, 000 in Valuation. The State. The State board of railroad asses sors decided at a meeting yesterday to place the valuation of all railrkid property in South Carolina on a bas is of 100 per cent. or at its true mar ket value. This ,means that the valua tion upon which all assessments upon ra.ilroad property are made by county and state will be over $62,000,000 as agaiinst $32,000,000 last year. The board, consisting' of Comptrol ler General Jones, chairman ex offi cio; Secretary of State McCown, State Treasurer Jennings and Attor ney General Lyon, has been in ses sion two days and went over all of the returns and figures for previous years. Attorney General Lyon moved that the law, as expressed on the sba tute books, be carried out. This law calls for all assessments at a true valuation of property. The motion was unanmiously adopted and the board proceeded -to consider the val ue of all railroad property in this state. The results are as follows: Comparative Figures. Alcolu railroad, valuation last year $1,500 per mile; this year $2, 500 per mile. Total valuation $62, 500. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, value last year, per mile , $19,800; this year $50,000 per nile. Total val uation $6,249,500. Atlantic Coast Line system, value mile -lut -yeir $11,095; this year $25,000. Total value in South Car olioia $19,747,750. Bennicttsville and Cheraw, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500. Total valuation $50,750. Blue Ridge railroad, value per mile last year $3,850; this year $13,000. Total in state $572,000. 1 Branchville and Bowman, per mile last year $1,500; this year $2,800; 'total $30,800. Carolina and Northwestern, last year $5,000 per mile; this year $15, 000, total $444,000. Carolina and Western, value per mile last year $1,800; -this year $3, 000; total $21,000. Charleston and Western Carolina, value per mile last year $7,679; this year $12,800; -toal $388,750. Chesterfield and Lancaster, value per mile last year $2,500; this year $6,000. Total valuation $108,000. Conway Coast and Western, value per mile last. year $1,500; this year $3,500. Total valuation $106.960. Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, valuation per mile last year $6,000; this year $10,000. Total in state $825,000. Georgetown and Western, per mile last year $4,000; th.is year $8,500. To a~l valuation $360,000. jGle,nn Springs, value per mile last ~ar $2,000; this year $3,500. Total nation $35,000. ampton and Branchv'ille, value mile las t year $1,200; this year 000. Total for state $63,000. ancaster' and Chester, value per elast year $3,02.5; this year' $5, ;' total in state $143,000. Northwestern Railroad of Soutn 'arolina, value per mile last year $3, 00; t;his year $5,000; total, $457, 0. Piekens railroad, value per' mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500; to tal for the state $31,500. Seaboard Air lmne system, value per mile last year $11,595; this year $20,000, total for state $6,835, 700. Southern railway, value per mile last year $11,548; this year $22,500; total for state $10,246,500. Sou thorn rail aw~y, operating the Carolina division, value per mile last year $11,626; this year $25,000; to tal for state $12,987,250. Union and Olenn .Springs, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3500; -total for state $66,500. 4harleston Terminal company, val ue -last year per mile $11,000; this a, $30,000; toal, $158,400. Raleigh and Charleston, value per mile last year $1,500; this year' $3, 500; total for state $58,440. Seivern and Knoxville, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $2, 500; total for state $52,320. Union station, Columbia, last year, $66,000; this year $100,000. The total assessed value of proper ty of the railroads for this year will aimount to $63,500,000 in round fi gures, against $32,040,319 for 1906. The board, in anticipation of any pro -tests made by the roads, had fixed June 19 as the dily for a hearing and in the meantime another meting will be held to consider the assesments of express companies, telephone and te lepyhone and telegraph complanies, street railway companies, and the Pullman Car company. Trhe action of the board is consider ed of the greatest inl)ortance because of the anticipated protests on the part of the railroads and the hearing on June 19 will probably be largely at tended. Long and Loud. A noted evangelist was preaching 'the other (lay in an uptown church. The family who entertained him had a son who was unusuauy fond of at tending service when his parents were ready little Cahrles flatly refused to go \vith tihem. "I don't want to go to church," he declared. "What's the matter?" asked the mother, much surprised, ''are you ill?'' "No but I -heard Doctor - be-. fore, and I don't like him," confess ed the child. "Oh, Charles, that's a wicked thing' to say," gasped the mother. "Tell mother why." ''Well,'' sa<id Charles, "lie preaeh es so longi)jbatI cap't keep awake and he )reaches so loud that I can't go .to sleep.''-Ph ilatdelphia Public Ledger. He Wanted them Dead. From Linpincott's. Mrs. Black was to meet her hus band at a certain store. After stand inz around for some time she grew very impatient, and, thinking that he misht have forgotten: to meet her, etled him up on the 'phone. Suppos ing that "Central" had given her the right number she exclaimed: "Hello, Frank! Is that you? I'm nearly dead !'" "Well, madam, I think you have the wrong man. I'm an undertaker and want them all deadl" School Curios. The follawing excuses are known to have been received .by icachers in publie schools, says the Sheridan Ad vance: "Please excuse my Jennie for to day, as we wish to take her to the nicture man this afternoon and get her~ pretty likeness struck. -Mrs.-." ''Please let my Olive bring my John,.ie -'s Ibooks home, as 'le is sick wvith -t:he discussion of the gra.in and the doctor don 't think hme will re cover to olige his aunt. Mrs. ''T am his mother's sister, who is ''Please excuse Henry for being ah sent .two days; he stayed out to go to his grandma 's funeral. T will try not let it happen again. tfesp. T am yours qund oblige. Mrs. Must Hold up Something. ''Down in my state,'' salid the late Renator Vance of North Carolina, ''our e'ourts are particular about form and eeremonies. For-example, in a court in Asheville a soldier who had been battered considerably in thme war wans brioulgh't in as a witness. The indThe told him to 1ho(1ldip his right hand. ''Can't (10 it, sir,' said the man. '' 'Why not?' '' 'Got a shot in. that arm, sir.' ''Then hold up1 y'ouri left.' ''The man siad that his left arm had been amputated. ''Then.' sa,id -the judge sternly, 'you must hold up your leg. No man can be sworn, sir, in this court unless ha holdsa nn somathinngI'' THE NEWS OF PROSIRfY. Moquent and Institictive Address of Hon. A. F. Lever-Other News. Prosperity, May 30.-The city ill was crowded Tuesday night to icar the address by 1Hon. A. F. Lev 3r, congressman from the seventh listriet, to tle graduating class of he Prosperity graded school. Mr. Bever was introduced by a classmate, Ur. R1. C. Counts, in a. happy speech, elling of some of t-he college prainks' )f the "boys." Mr. Lever 'had as his ubject, "Wanted, a Boy.'' He show d the kind of boy the.home wanted, le town, the state, the nation-self i-eliant, honest, truthful, consientious >oys; boys who were not afraid- to vork; hoys who rise, round by round, Mle ladder after defeat; boys who We the last defeat as a stepping stone to victory; boys -whose efforts are [heir best monuments; boys who are working, struggliig to attai!). the goal of success, even though it be adver sity's route. Mr. Lever paid a glowing tribute to Gen. Wade Hampton. He said that Hampton's most'enduring monument was the one he had builded .in the hearts of his countrymen and that when that bronze statue in Colum bia had moulded into dust Gen. Hamp ton would live on and on. In clastb language he pictured him as soldier, statesman, citizen. The climax was reached when lie -told of Hampton as lie stood on the plaza at t'ie state house in '76 and faced the thousands of Red Shirts willing to dare and to (ie for their old leader, and how he afterwards told -President Hayes: "'I have been elected governor of South Carolina and by the eternal help of God I will be governor or 40,000 of her sons -will rise in de fense of my cause.' This was the kind of boy wanted. Mr. Lever spoke for over an hour and held the closest attention of his aidience to the close. Mr. Lever goes from here to Den. nark to address the graded school here. The primary and intercollegiate classes had their commencement Wed nesday. The tenth grade had their ex ere.ises at nigit, at which time diplo mas were awarded. The county superintendent of edu cation ordered an election for a high school under the recent act of the legislature, to abe held June 14. Crop prospeets are poor at this time owing to the cold. Cotton is dy ing and much has been planted over. Mr.,Jacobl Miller had the misfor tuine to get his hand eamlt in, the chain on his reaper Tuesday. It was badly manled but. his physician thinks lie will be able to save it. Mrs. T. Arown of Monroe, N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. 0. Counts. Mrs. P. N. Livingston is visiting her daughter, Mr's. F. E. Schumpert. Jas. D. Quattlebaum has gone to Ander'son to attend meeting of Grand Lodge IKnights of Pyt-hias. Misses Mat tie and Lillian Fellers are a-ttending commencement. Mrs. Tom Gallman and SOnl V. L., of the Caldwell sect ion, are v'isit ing 12. S. Boweras' family. Dr. T. F. Littlejohn, of Union, spent last Sat urday and Sunday in Miss Frances Sout herla.nd. wh'lo has benin chlarge of the millinery de 'pareme'nt of Moseley Br.os. store, will leave Satur iday for her' home in North Carolina. Miss Ma rgamret Leekie will go to Due WYest Satu mrday to at tend comn m'ecemnent of Due WVest Female col lege. Miss Villa Kibler, of Newberry, is visiting hem' s,ister, Mr's. ,Jno. A. Simp son. F. HI. Shecaly, of Whit mire, is vis iting t.he home folks. Misses Emula Rac Shigh, --- i3edenbaughi, of K'iblers, and Ban-na 3rieen, of Newherr'y, am'e visiting Miss Julia Schiumpert. 1Hon. A. F. Lover was the guest of L,. S. Bowers while in town. Misses Reb)ecca Mahoni, Rosalin Sumnmr, of Newvberry, and Mr's. C. F. Lathan pmnd 'Miss Toy Lathan, of Little mountain, are guests at the Hotel WVise. SNisses Alice Aull, Pauline Perry, 4t Homscal, of Newberry, and Mar it UItth-, of Little Mountain, are Vis1tng the Mi isses werts. Afiss Nainnie Simpson, who has beelt t.ahimg at Clinton camte home yesterday to spend ier vacation. Misses Marie uiidriek and Annie Rentz, of Pomaria, are 'visiting friends in town. Miss Lucile Fellers, of Newberry, Is visitin Miss Annie Laurie Lester. Miss Annie Higgins, of Newberry, is with Miss Lahlage and Lucy Wheeler this week to atten( coin tmicolent. Miss I,u.ie Hunt, of Newberry, is visiting .liss Erin Kohn. The ciniineneeieit exercises of the Proserity graded school were well attenled this week. The address on Tuesd4ay eVening by Hon. A. F. Lever was just grand. Ile held thej large aidieice spellboulld for one hour an( ten miiniutes. We have had many de-lghtful lectires and d(lres ses by very prominent speakers on con)TIlecelent occasions but I can searely recall one who gave our peu ple On evening of. purer and more genuine pleasure. His subject was, ''Wanted, a Boy-A genuine, true American boy.'' He handled his sub ject in a very able manner and com mrtided the very closest attention hitrig the entire evening. We have never seen a larger crowd attend the annual commencement address and the behavior was just excellen'. You could have heard a pin ra!2 almost any time during his address. The exercises of the graduating class were held last night. Program carried out as previously printed. A C-. ter the exercisces it behalf of the class of .1007, Dr. C. T. Wyche mnade a. short talk and as a token of their este4A., .tid love for Prof. Counts presented him with a beautiful foun tain pin. Prof. Counts was talkent by suirprise but responlded with a few verv touching remarks. The diplomas to lie class as fol lows: Herbert Lan1 ford, AlIen Les ter. i'illius Siipson, 'iaiville Wyche, Willie Mae Wise. Clara Ofibson, Blanch Galliman and Annie Moseley were preseted by Prof. J. S. Wheeler. He also imade a very excellent ad dess to the class before delivering same. Dr. W. F. Bedenbaugh was called home by the serious illness of his mother Mrs. W. P. Bedenbaugh. Mr. Win. Crosson and sister Vie toria, of -Leesville, have been on a visit to thtir .brother Mr. Jno. Cros son of our town. (Co.. J; L. Sense, of Wheelan(l, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. C. T. Wych1e. r. A. M. Counts, of Newberry, b.as hen enjoyi,11g tle pleasure of a visit to Prosperity. Mr. F. Mathews and sister, Miss Juliil are visit Ithelir aiut, Ms. J. W. Hartman who' has been quite sick for some -time. Dri. WV. M. Blakemore left for his home in Alabama on Sunday. After visiting his parents he will go to Chat.. tanooga, where he will go into the drumr businesi Dir. (Hlakemnore had miade nmany friends during his stay in Pr'osper'ity. Dri. Palmer of ('eorge town succeeeds him as phar'maciest at the Pr iosperity Dr iuig Co. Woman and the Home. Washi'ton Post. ''I 've' found a new inite'rest in this weary old wor'ld, after all.' said a eray ha:iried, mot herly' looking wo man, ''aind it threatens to supersede my" f';b: for fiorirn missions, whist elinbs, miother congresses and all thle otlher i iv'ers5ions of a lonely woman. To make a long story short, or v'ice ver'sa, T have nndl(ertakenl the heroie work of restoring to my other'wise charminrg grandchildren their lost il lusions and imaginations. Who knows, indeed but that. I shall wind up by founding some sort of a ''Childr'en 's Anti..Ennui Society?'' ''Parents complain becanse no onei invents new toys and new amuse ments for' tots scarcely ont of p)er ambulha trs and short socks, wvho, b)less me. o' care for their expen siv'e French dolls, elaborately gowned and cuoiffred and find their minia lure engines and automobiles a p)all on the spirit after all. D)ear me, wrhen I 1(nnk back to the doll of my ib days, a crooked neck squash co luettishly arrayed in a kitchen dish towel and with a num'erous progeny of cute little green cuebilelhrs for a raimily, I ai stricken with a deep and lasting pity for these young beings L)o tihle present period, who having realied tile age of seven or there ai.bouts have lost all their childish il lusions and have no more enthusiasm to live for. New toys are not needed, believe me, but a .new kind of old fashioned children, with lively imagi nations and that gift of the gods, ability to amuse themselves. ''Last summer, as an experiment, I volunteered to give a 'house party' to this youllg brood of iconloelists, at the delight ful old country homei place far from the fashionable summer re sorts, where I was born more years ago than I am going to tell you. jo lie various parents went ofl on an autonobile tour l.nd left. ime with Orir-teen modern youngsters, rang in-, inl year., froin five Io 12. most of whom had never been to a sure enough country farm before. ''Well, we had gay times, I can tell you. There was the great, roomy, rambling old house, with its story book attic full of hidden mysteries, green meadows and woods to roam about in, animals aglore, from colts to tiny chicks, to pet and become ac quainted with, and every delight that a country lad or lassie knows so well. But not one ready made game did they have nor a single story book, except on Sundays or rainy days, When home sickness threa,tened to create a panic. "No nurses traipsed after them from morn till dewy eve, for it was part of the scheme to inculepte in my noble young descenda.nts a few well defined streaks of self reliance. Every chick and child of 'em learned to dress themselves and had some lit tIe duties imposed upon them in tle care of their roois, and all hands had to turn to in helping to get Sunday supl)port. and wash the dishes after ward. Dresses were changed but o(c a1 daV except inl ena " f direct accident and nothinl.g dressier. thaln pretty little ginghams were tolerated on this cointry jpuni. "They went picnie.king, boating, 'and fishing, rode horseback and gave parties u.nder the big spreading trees, gathered posies and romped about, barefooted and bareheaded anid when twilight came and supper was over and faces washed and sore fingers and toes inspected and bandaged, we gathered round on the lig porch anld watched the great moon come ip be hind the trees mind I told stories of tle sport ald t-he advolnure, and sometirmies-ShI!-a fairy tale, for down in lie leart of liearts T soonl learned they had that, childhood han kering for wonderfiul thinigs. 'We went down in May to spend the month, but. tarried through tihle entire summer, and it.'s still a qlles tion in my mind as to which enjoyed the summer tihe most, the children or their grandmother, for I almost felt as if I had discovered the fountain of eternal youth ini their mischief and .prankish fun, and whlen at the end of the experiment 'I retuirned to the b)osoms of their families a bevy of tannied, freckled and( healthy young animals, minus a few isms, buit pIlus 'onisijlerab)le sense0 and nionsenise mind childish enitusiasmn and simle)l de lighly, I f'el thatn I hadi miot growni too4 01(d to a l(compIli h lishsoehg afterci all ; and( manylbe some *hay,' whni I aim only an anicest or, thley' will a risc and1( revere my memory and14 (call mn bless ed. XWe are goiniig aigin iithis su i A certaini aiftrlon in tis~ Ieown has5 been ini the hiaii of' appropriatlingt her bettecr half''s nobb)icsl necktlies, en ffhut.tons, slick pins and any other article of personal adornmnent that struck her appreciative eye. Like all good Amciericani hiushaid hie has he come resigned to his fate, but the worm t urned on the occasion of a reentii MnieU' affir ii w I hih Itook lacl(e wit.h all iomnp andi glory. Thle ihsand is a1 thiirty-thlird dlegree Mas on and when one gels to bie a real big mystic shlrine(r, or something of thle sor't, one0 acquires a noble1 uni form and( 8 peeculiar' form of' head dlress wvhieb calls for a long, flowing ostrict fearthier. T is all veriy impres sive, nd, to the writer's mind1 thn feather lends an almost coquettish look to the manly cointonances. Ostrich feathers has been the slo gn of the spring milliners and you don't hiqve to be a mind reader eith er to guess what had happened. With airy unconcern, the lady in question had despoiled her good man's bonnet ofI his gorgeous plume, for which lie had parted wit.h eighteen real dol lars, hied her fair self to Mme. Mil liner, importer, who had dyed it a beautiful shade of London smoke or Pittsburg atmosphere and stuck it on the cutest little mushroom-shaped cliapeau iiahgintlble. Her husband admired that lint effusively, especial ly when lie learned that it had only cost $10, and when lie came to don his Masonic headgear she couldn'L imagine why he flew in such a rage iboit it, especially As she offered to tack tle Pittsburg smoke phluie on again, from her street hat. Men are <Iiver animals and I am afraid in elined to be selfish. 4 The manufacture of buttons should present some interesting phases to women nowadays when they are used quite as much for ornamentation as for utility. The invention of a new button cos'ts the manufacturers many months of thought and labor, and thousands of dollars. In Birming ham, England, where lie manutac ture of buttons is an important in dustry, 100,000 yards of linen and fifty tons of metal are used by one firm alone the making of the linen buttons that are so much used *Qon lingerie frocks. Every kind of met al, from gold to iron, pure and mix ed, is utilized and tons and tons of every natural production capable of being turned, eut or pressed, such as clay, slate, vegetable fiber, resin, wood, horn bone, ivory, jet and pearl. Thirty-five tons of shells are eit Ip weelkly by one firm that man ufietiures tle earl buttons, anid thou sands of people are employed in their man0facture. Snoiltellomie, le lit.r, i liell(lilg old worn out bool,s :1ii shoes, pnpier ma11cie glass, and pwrelain en r in to the hillt olt in ailuileture, while many be:11tifill lttolls are made from the hIfofs of cattle, eut into form,l dlyed andl( pressed inlto Various designs. No womanii can he weli dressed unless she has a sense of humor. For example, listen to this bit of con versation over heard in a street ear recently: Dramnatis personae a lar -e ponderous looking woman of eie phliantine grace and a wistband that "knew Io dissimulation,'' to a small slriveled-up bit of femnioity, who hung on to her every w "rd: Yes, I've ahoutf decided to buy ie one of those light eolored .tjumper suits this yr YI ods and littlv fishes, as the poets say, pietire 0that dear miisguided, too, too solid person in a "jumiper!' "ilave you 'a good( dleniti frie?'' asked thle ('ustomer. "Yes, ma 'am,'' answered the drug gist 's young son, who had been left in) t-emporairy charge of the store, says t he'I hica-go Tr'zibun11e. Turninrg to thle shlv es back of' him he took dlow.n. a half pini bot the of some05 kindt of' hiair restomat ivye anid handehtd i1 to hemr. "This isn 'I whlat T want,'' saidl thei cutsIitomir. "T'lhiis is for the hair. What. I ami hlak in-. for1 is a lprepariat ion for the teeth.'' "That 's alt i'ighit, ma 'am,"' Iho boy' assured('. "It's just ais good for one( ats thed4 the, aind it 's onlly 50 Irretrievable. "G (eorige,"' shiarmply dernminded Mirs. lFergumson as thmey sat at. breakfast a fewmonigsag, whnat dlid y'ou (do .with that letter to Auant Rachil I 2'ave y'ou to mail last WchdsdalTy ?"~ Mrfi. F'riguson elappedf hris hand on t he 1breast pocket. of' hiis coait. ''Was it 1to Anua.t h?aciel' 7he ask ed, hastily extr'ati-ing from the pocket a handle of' teers and miscellaneous dIoenmentis and hooking them over'. "'Of couriise it was. I wrote to ask lier'1 ('o com4 anid spend( thle nex t six w~eekl with Iims." "--. mailed Mt"- rCh..a-o Trbum