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ASSESSORS FIX VALUES BTATB BOARD OF KQU1LJZATIOX TO MEET SOON. ? Matter of Placing All Property on Bof True Valuation Will Be Dbcumrd. It is anticipated that Comptroller General Jones will announce soon the date for the meeting of the State board of equalization. The meeting is held during rhe summer, usually, In the month of June or July, and the work of the board is to act upon the findings of the county boarde and to take any action on tax question!; that is deemed necessary. fThe most important resolutions that came before the board last year was that affecting the assessing ot property at full value. This resolution, introduced by Jeremiah Smith, of Horry, was defeated by a vote of 2 8 to 8. As this is the year for the reassessment and as the county board have been busy with the tax question in the several counties of the State, the meeting of the board this year is of special Interest. It is thought that the tax question will receive more than ordinary consideration. The tax question has been brought into the campaign very forcibly this year. The Taxable Property. As shown by the comptroller general's report for the year 1910 the following is the amount of taxable property in South Carolina: Total value of real aetata $136,438,358 Value of personal property 92,664,198 Railroad property.... 271,106,302 State faux, 5*4; .Us .. 1,423,308 For cosnty purposes, taxes 960,664 State Board of Assessors The State Board of assessors, consisting of State officials, assesses laaiuiui aiiu imt- |JiA/|K9i ij. The Southern Express company property in South Carolina last pear was assessed at a valuation of $277,$67. The total value of the Pullman care operated in this State was $140,282; the total valuation of telephone and telegraph companies was placed as follows. Western Union, $522,427; Altnatic Postal Telegraph-Cable company, $103,613; American Telephone and Telegraph Company of South Carolina. $205,750; Southern Bell Telephone company, $571,848; local companies, $1 25,665. The actual value of cotton mlllB as fixed by the State board was $51,260.605. The actual value of cottoa oil mills was placed at $2,853.418. The assessments for fertilizer plants was placed at $3,164,477. The value of railway property waB fixed at a little over $44,000,000. | OKDKltS AGAINST CLUBS. \ Temporary Injunction Issued Agu'usJ Tmee in Columbia. At oClubia Judge DeVore In the circuit court recently granted three orders on motion of Attorney General l.yon, requiring th-se social clubs in the city to show cause before him on July 1 why they shoulo not be perpetually restra.nol from the sale of spirituous liq-or*. The o-dere were grunted upon r.ff. avlis made that liquors had been purchased at the three places In violence o? the dispensary law. Those against whom the orders are directed are the Savoy club, situated at 12 19 1-2 Taylor street, of which P. W. Bessingor and Heyward B. Smith are named as in charge, and J. L. Shall as the property owner; the Jackson Hub, at 914 Gervais street, L. E. Levin and Everland being named as in charge, and S. L. Sweeney as tho property owner; and the third order being directed againBt G. H. Oeiger, Harry Lehman and William T. Thompson for violation of tho dispensary law at 912 Gervais street, G. H. Geiger being also the owner of the premises. Unless an adequate defense is made to the orders granted a perpetual injunction restraining the use of the premises for the illegal purposes charged will be passed by the court. l>eatli from Lockjaw. Tho little 8-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langford died at tho home of her parents in the mill village at Lexington Sunday evening rrom tocKjaw. un ins Tuesday the litle girl rnn a nail in her foot, but little attontlon was given, the parents thinking of course, that ahe would soon be well. On Saturday she was taken violently <11 and Sunday morning lockjaw set in. The little one was the pride of her parents and her death has cast a pall of sorrow over the entire household. Her remains were laid to rest in the Lexington city cemetery Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Smallpox Epidemic. Nelson oounty, Virginia, has a smallpox epidemic. Fully 150 casaa are now In quarantine In a territory five miles long and tree miles wide. No deaths have occurred. THE STATE CAMPAIGN ITENRY. Schedule of Meeting* to Be Held in This State. The itinerary for the campaign is as follows: Winnsboro?Saturday. July 2. Lexington?Wednesday, July 6. Saluda?Thursday, July 7. Edgefield?Friday, July 8. Aiken?Saturday. July 9. Bamberg?Monday, July 11. Barnwell?Tuesday. July 12. Hampton?Wednesday, July 13. . Beaufort?Thursday, July 14. ; Walterboro?Friday, July 15 Charleston?Saturday./ July 16. I St. George?Tuesday. July 19. Orangeburg?Wednesday, July 20. i St. Matthews?Thursday, July 21. Manning?Friday, July 22. Monrks Corner?Tuesday, July 2 6. i Georgetown?Wednesday, July 27. King6tree?Friday, July 29. Florence?Saturday, July 30. Dillon?Tuesday, August 2. i Marion?Wednesday, August 3. Conway?Thursday, August 4. Columbia?Saturday, August 6. Union?Monday, August 8. Spartanburg?Tuesday, August 9. G-affnoy?Wednesday, August 10. Greenville?Thursday, August 11. J Pickens?Friday, AuguBt 12. i Walhalla?Saturday, August 13. Week off to attend reunion of Confederates ?*.nd Red Shirts at Spartanburg, if desired, on August 17 and 18. Arderson?Monday. Augus' 22. Abbeville?Wednesday, August :'4. Greenwood?Thursday, August 25. L<aurens?Friday, August 26. Newberry?Saturday, August 2 7. COTTON MILLS CLOSED FRIDAY. Will Cut Off One-Twelfth of Cotton Goods Output. The great curtailment movement among the mills of the Piedmont began Friday, July 1st. Mills in North Carol.na, South Carolina and Georgia will close down until the morning of the 15th. Out of 3,000,000 ,Bpindles 2,7500,000 have signified that they would Join in the curtailment which will be at least a month in all during the summer. The movement will mean a cutting off of from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 pieces of cloth or one-twelfth of the output. Mr. AtlETUSt. W Smith nr?>niil?nt of the Woodruff mills, when asked Thursday night about the cloning down of the mills said: "There Is a loss in every pound of cloth we are puttin out and we have to curtail to cover In part this loss and create a demand for our goods. I should say the output will bo cut down one-twelfth by the curtailment which will be done this summer, and which will amount to in all about four weeks' time." Mr. John A. Law, president of the Saxon Mills said: "There will be the largest curtailment among the cotton mills of Spartanburg county ever known. The price of manufactured goods is out of proportion with the price of cotton. A great many of the mills will close down on the first of July and others on the 25th." "FAVOR1TK SON" 1>KA1>. Senator Daniel, of Virginiu, Passes Away at Lynchburg. John W. Daniel, senior Senator from Virginia, and for more than thirty years Virginia's "favorite son," died at the Lynchburg Sanitarium at 10.35 o'clock Wednesday night, his death being due to a recurrence of paralysis. The immediate cause of his death was a cerebral hemor i unfic, siiBinuifu hi noon, m me rignt portion of his brain, involving the right side. This was in addition to the Paralysis i* the left side, which was sustained last winter, while in Florida for his health. The statesman's illness began with a slight attack of apoplexy, in Philadelphia, last October, which kept him from being in his seat at the opening of Congress last December. Only once since that had he appeared before an audience, and that was for an informal talk in January. The end came almost without a struggle. Indeed, the family present could not notice the slight struggle which was noted by Dr. Waugh. TAKKS 11IS OWN LIFE. Prominent and Wealthy Citizen of Charlotte Suicides. James W. Wads worth, one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Charlotte, N. G'.. committed sui cldo Wednesday afternoon, at 3.30 ocloek. The weapon used was a .3 2 calibre Colts pistol and death resulted within two hours after the shooting. The excessive use of stimulants and worry over business matters were given in a statement issued by the family as the cause for the act. A brother of Mr. Wadsworth, ook his life in a Greensboro hotel last year. Military Prisoner's Fate. Lieut. Adolf Hofrichter, of the Austrian army, has been sentenced to be publicly cashiered and to serve 20 years in prison for sending poison capsules to officers In the General Army staff. Capt Mader died from the effects of the poelon. < . .JJL. ... | INJURED BY AUTO WHICH WAS DKING DRIVEN BY THE PRESIDENT'S SON. Italian Laborer Struca by AotomobiW Being Driven by Robert Tuft. ] ?Slight "Chance for Recovery. The serious condition of Michael Thistowolla, an Italian laborer, who was struck Monday by an automobi.e operated by Kobert Taft, son of President Taft. at Beverly, Mass., has caused a .hurried change in the plans of the Taft family, who were prepar ing to depart on the Sylph for New Hondon to attend the Harvard-Yale regatta Thursday. Instead of attending the races the family will remain in Beverly unless there is an unexpected change tor the better in the man's condition, The report from tne Beverly Hospital was that he had only a slight chance for recovery. Dr. J. S. Mixter of Boston sent at Lhe request of the President,, arrived and is working with the hospital authorities, doing all that can be done for the injured man. Robert Taft is badlv broken up over the affair, and spent much of the afternoon at the hospital. Chief of Police has received instructions, through the Taft attorney, to see that the wounded man is given every attention. President Taft arrived in Beverly early Wednesday morning. A dispatch from Washington says President Taft was greatly distressed when he learned through the Associated Press dispatches, of his son's unfortunate accident at Beverly, Mass. He immediately sent a long telegraphic message to his son. which, it is said, contained instructions to do everything possible for the injured man. The following telegrum was sent to an old college friend of the President: "Samuel Carr, Boston, Mass: By an unfortunate automobile accident at Beverly my boy, Robert, struck a street laborer, fracturing his skull. He is at Beverly Hospital. Will you not call up by telephone the best surgeon in Boston and have him visit the hospital at once end I tender services to the resident nliv sician and do all he can for tho injured man." The President then sent a personal telegram to the injured man, expressing his profound regret over tiie accident and conveying to the victim his earnest wish for a speedy recovery. KILLED IN Dl'EL Two Cubans Meet in Woods nn?l End Differences. Armed with knives and keeping their word to meet at sunrise in the woods near MacFarlane park, in the western part of Tampa, Fla., Tuesday morning, Marco Adalo and another Cuban, whose identity has not yet been established, fought until both had fallen from loss of hioou. Adalo dying after proceeding a short distance from where the bloody duoi took place. The unknown man was able to make his way to a nearby street, where all trace of him was lost. Two men were seen going into the woods a siiort distance from the park at an early hour, both gesticulating. The demeanor tow arils each other was such as to arouse suspicion among the cigar workers who saw them and at the noon hour a search was made with the result the evi^ dence of a bloody struggle was s? -a, and later the body of Adalo. KIOTOIS SC'KNKS. Police Charge Carlists and Nationalists in Spanish Town. A dispatch from Bilbao, Spain 011 Thursday says there were further disturbances growing out of the strained relations between the government of Premier Canaleias and of the Vatican. A crowd composed of Oarllsts and Nationalists suirounded the palace of the Governor of the province and shouted: "Down with the Governor!" The police were summoned and charging the demonstrators with tixed bayonets, wounded a number of them. The capitol .has been the scene of many civil clashes. in 1 87 4 it withstood a long seige by the Carlist8. Auto Pitched. Rev. E. E. Rashly and Ralph Riedler a hardware man from Fostoria, O.. were instantly killed Friday, and M. A. Stoneburier and James McOonnell were probably fatally Injured when their automobile jumped into a ditch near Sandusky. The steering gear got out of order and the chauffeur lost control. Joy Ride Ends in Death. Harold Backus, a chaffeur, aged 22, <*nd two companions whom he took on a joy ride at 3 a. m. Saturday were injured when the machine crashed into a telegraph pole at Sinejhort. Harold McCarthy, one of the party Is in a critical condition I and Frank Purtell. the third mem| ber bears severe cuts and bruises. WW1 STATE AUTOMOBILE LAWS. Provide for Use of Cars on Country Road*.?Speed Limit. Magistrate B. F. Wlfsot, of Anderson. said the other day that there were many people who owned automobiles and who did not know the Btate laws regulating them while on the country roads. It seems to. be the impression of most people that they can operate their cars as fast as they want to once out of the city limits, but this is a mistake. Following are a few interesting bits of in<-> uuui me iitis ui ine Keuerai assembly. "No person shall operate a motor vehicle ou a public .highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper at the time and place, having due regard to the truffle and use of the highways as to the condition or so as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person or in any event at a rate greater than flften miles an hour." Upon approaching a crossing, bridge, step descent, or a curve u person Bhall have their machine under control and operate it at a rate of speed not greatc than six miles an hour, and in no greater than is reasonable and proper, having due regard to conditions. "The driver of a motor vehicle shall give notice by blowing a horn, bell or othrwise so as not to frighten the animals and to use precautions to insure the safety of persons and property. it is also necessary to bring the car to a stop if it is seen that the horses are frightened. "It is necessary to stop the car at a signal from one who is in the highway and who is driving a wild animal. The raising of a hand may be considered a signal to stop. It is also necessary to remain stationary until such an animal could be removed. It is necessary for an automohilist to give the right of way to the driver of a horse or a mule and he shall go to the right of he road. "Violators of these acts shall l?e fined from ten to one hundred dolars or imprisoned not more than thirty days." Hefore operating a car in any county it is necesary to secure from the clerk of court a certificate saying which is numbered and this number must be placed on the bark of the car. T.he owner's address and u brief description of the car must be Klven. The registration fee is $1. Ten days are allowed an owner in which to register his car. A TI.MK ri.'ZZLK. Hesidcut.s of August* llothered by Four Times. Augusta. Ga.t is the only city in the country having four difTer ent times and all of them in use. It is on the ninetieth meridian, and he railroads i Georgia use Central time, while the Carolina roads enmeridian or Kastern time. To try to avoid confusion the city .has a local time of its own. which is halt way between the two. Hut what really adds to the complicated sitution is t.he fact that farmers in the surrounding country nearby all use "sun" time, which is different from all the others. This last named time is controled by the almanac that is in every Southern farmer's home, especially that of the colored farmer. /\ mi-anger nas same otmeult and amusing experiences if he stops the average Augusta person on streets ar.d nsV? the hour. He is probably to'J, "It's ten o'clock b> Georgia raili. ail time, 30 minutes to ten city time and nine o'clock h" you art going out into Carolina." If the person asked is a farmer the strungei if he will wait until the calculations and an astronomical observation are made, probably w-.ill be iurnished with an answer of, ' Well, I reckon stranger, it's about nig-ii on to haifpast nine o'clock. At TO KILLS TWO. Vwh'uc Collides With Freight With Fatal Kesult. Mrs. A. C. Freeman and son, aged 7, of Arcadia. Kla., are dead; Dr. Uobie. of Monticello, is injured to such an extent that ins recovery is doubtful; L. L. Camp, negro chauffeur, will die, and the other occupant of the car, A. 0. Freeman, husband of the dead woman, is seriously hurt, as the result of an automobile collision with a Central of Georgia freight train, near .Monticello, Ga., at seven o'clock Monday afternoon. Tiie train was en route to Athens, and it was thought that the party, on its way to Macon in a big touring car, after picking up Dr. Robie, at Monticello, did not notice the train or else tried to beat it across the crossing, with fatal results. Three Will Die on Same Gallows. The four negroes convicted of the murder of Moterman S. T. Drown, in DeKalb county Ga., on April 23, have been sentenced to hang by Judge Hoan, in the DeKalb county jail. It is probable that all will be hung on the same gallows. The negroes are: Charles Julian. Jim Black and Ed Weaver and Charley Walker. THE TALKING TABLE. Alibard loved Musora. but Mubora did not love Alibard. 1 do not know wby, but probably It was because she was pretty and he ugly, though pretty women often fall in love with veryugly men. Nobody knew anything about Muaora's antecedents, where she came from or what her real ?i3tne was. She was a fortune teller. She was probably .between twenty-five .ana thirty, with a wealth of golden hair; her eyes were iarg?, brilliant and deep blue, and her mouth a poet's dream of loveliness. Her voice and mautiers were charming, and as the people of our town are very superstitious she soon work'd up a splendid business. Alitard had met her on a Bteainer which brought him bark to France after a very disastrous tour in South America. He was a comedian, but possessing no talent he had never oeen successful and while abroad he had been forced to exist ever since the company was left stranded in Itio de Janeiro, on his talent as a ventriloquist, which was marvelous. Since his return home he hounded the p.ettv fortune teller's seances, and as Musora had repeatedly warned him to stay away, he had to resort to strategy in order to be near his beloved, whose heart he was determined to coniuer at any cost, as life was not worth living without her. One evening he was present at one of the beautiful sorceress' seances disguised as an old lady, and luddeu away in the last row of seats. After a few preliminary feats of chiromancy and fortune telling from cards, during which an old colone' hud cuusmI considerable trouble by Ills skepticism, the principal muniier of the program?the famous dancing table?was announced. The room was darkened. Musora sat down at a small table and placed her hands flat on top of it. There were a few moments of breathless suspense, then the table began to rock and sway in a strange maimer, denoting the unmistakable presence of spirits. Musora asked the slo-ptlc colonel to kindly address any question he wanted to th' spirits, and he did so with the utmost politeness: "Spirit, who are you? Instead of the reply that was expected in the usual knocking language to which all spirits hitherto known have been wont to answer, a voice coming from oue end of the legs of the table replied: "Moliere/' The audience was still dumfouitded when another voice that first seemed to come from lar awaj but gradually drew closer interrupted: "He is not telling the truth; it is not .Moliere, it is Regnard." The colonel looked ai Musora, who % as quite pale as she replied: "There must be two spirits. It very often happens when the audience is sympathetic." Her face remained calm, but she v.as very much perturbed at the phenomenon of the talking table, which had never been heard of before, neith ir at her seances nor anywhere else :n the world. The colonel, who was now greatly impressed, asked in his most solemn voice: "Whom of the two great and illustrious spirits may 1 be permitted to address?" "None of them." came the answer. "You will please address me" "And who are you?" "Beaumarchuis." It seented then as if the three-legged table was now inhabited by three great spirits, one in each leg. "Sir, :nis is indeed an unexpected 1 onor," the colonel stammer* d. "That is about enough,' came a fourth voice, "perhaps someone else may get a chance now." There came a noise as if a number of people were quarreling, not only in th< room, but on the stairs nid even !n the sueet. The audience beban to gel uneasy and restldss. "One voice at a time?This Nrpo loon is unbearable?now do not push co, Beethoven?I lies, your pardon, I am Frederic I.email re?ami 1 Jim 'I roppenauner?Did you ever see such people??I'lease behave li'te Frenchmen, i am .loan id Arc, the Maid ot Orleans- And I am George Sand? Musset, will you please be qui?t?Flias Howu ? Gutenberg ? Robespierre ? Please wait until your turn comes?1 am smothering." By this time the audience was panic 1 stricken. Big dogs were heard burk i ing, cats were mewing, and the plane ni the corner was playing "Ach du i iieber, August in," though no one i touched it and not a key wa in.clng i Women were fainting and the col < < nel had fled, leaving the door wi le 1 open behind him, while from the iiall was heara a chorus ol spirit voices: "You are riu-ht, my dear Vviiliam the Conqueror, these people are very < rude?Why, are you here, too. William 1 Yell After yon, Mahonuuet This 1 v ay. please, George Washington." < Kveryone had tied now and in tht i room were only Mussora, the table and 1 the old lady, all YipparenMv paralyzed I "1 am ruined," sighed the sorceress "Nobody will eome here i.ny more un, wnat nas happened? What has happened?" "Nothing very serious," replied the t c Id lady in Alihard's voice. " You know i how dearly I love you, and I only want- i ed to show you that ventrilo iuism is ( rn art." I Now the two are married, she calls ( herself Mme. Alihard, and is making a fortune with her new spiritualistic phenomenon?the talking table. Tips. , It Is stated thai a Delmonico waiter | accumulated a half million In t is 1 I'erhaps some of them were t ;?s on < the rares?horse as well as human. | ADVANTAGE OF TRAIIjKRS. * I Cur System Which Wurkt I Well la Denver- I in the West, where electric tract- I Ion has reached a high stage of 4e- I velopment. trail ears to take care of I the rush-hour loads have become 1 regular features. 1 The g.eat advantage of the trail 1 car from the standpoint of the over- I atlng company is Its small operating V cost compared to a tripper, since the "platform cost" is only one-half, and V the power consumption for a car '/'"l eating practically the same number I of people as the motor car is tesa than 60 per cent, additional. I To the public it means ex,>erlenc- Cj ed men to handle the motor car aud regular schedules. In Denver, where this system is In vogue, center doorway cars hate been adopted. It being claimed for them that the conductor la always within half a car leugth ? of the door, and the pusen^era can 9 get out or In in about half the usual time, since they only have to travel H half the diBtance required by end B doors. S Want itogu* Mining Stork. W "Wildcat mining stocks are not B altogether useless?or worthless. |h either." said a New York broker who Jj| baudles cheap mining stocks the B other day us he bang up the tele- IS phone receiver. "Here's a man who yX Just offered me 150 for enough coin- Is lng stocks to have a face value of $60. B 000. He wasn't particular what H stocks he got If they only had a paper ^ value of $50,000. 1 closed the deal and shall make money on it. too. B What did he want with such stocks? Well. I haven't the slightest doubt ?j but that he Is getting ready to go fl Into bankruptcy court aud wants to B show his creditors where his money B has been dropped. We often get such requests aud are usually able to fill them." How Anarchist's Work. ? A Russian Journal tells the story of how the murderer of General bunnltz, prefect of St. Petersburg, obtained admission to the semi-olficlal party at which the deed was committed. After the crime all the guests were detained aud their tickets were examined. There was one ticket the rightful owner of which ^ was not present. It was no other than that of Premier Stolypln himself. The murder was committed under cover of, the Invitation ticket of no less a personage than the Prime 1 Minister. The Premier had not been I able to go and his ticket fell Into the hands of a member of the secret po- I lice uamed Nakolene. He resold It I to the revolutionists for SI 6.000. \Voij*lit SunUIikh) by licatnu. It has been estubilbhed tbut a. I load, may break eventually If the wooden beam, which for a ahort period will Hiuilalu safely a certain load remains. For Instance, wooden wa r beams have been known to break after 15 months under a constant oad of only 60 per cent of that re- > quired to break them Ir. an ordinary short test There is little definite and systematic knowledge of the Influence of the time e'ement on th? behavior of wuod under stress . Ways ?.f Moorish Ci\ i|[/:it!?nA writer lu National Review says of Moorish civilization: "It Is something ho apart so alone, this Moorish civilization; these great houses, this luxury of horses, servants. living anil leisure, this beauty of architecture, creating buildings Impossible to reproduce anywhere else; this literatuie. bigoted and restricted as it Is. but existing utterly self-sufficient." In the Ka scr's Stable. The Kaiser has recently got after his master of horse and Is looking after his stables a bit himself He found that he warf employing four men whose only dutj was to braid the tails and manes of the Imperial horses. He dismissed all four Then he found that 4 00 men were employed to care for 350 horses and 24 0 carriages, and more heads fell. Pretty Marriage Custom. A pretty little ruBtom 1b observed In the British navy whenever an officer geta married. Two wreaths are hoisted In the most conspiseuous manner, and Interlocked w,th then and hanging from them are colored ribbons These bang from 8 a.ru till sunset on the wedding day. The oh: of me wreath Is ge erally subscribed by the officer's shipmates. Borneo Superstition's The natives of Borneo place rudely carved Images of female figures by the side of the entrances to their hots. The Image represents a goddess, which protects the house from my harm or elcknes. If there should be Illness previous to the placing of the building at the entrance she prevents It from becoming worse. W ?rld's Silk Industry. The ancient city of Lyons, the third city In France, with a population of 500,000, vies with Milan In Importance In the world's silk Industry. No fewer than 40.000 people, men, women ond children, are _i....J i. #?. ?i ? 9iU^IV/^CU HI IUC IOVIUI ICB, ^ F<>k? and Sandbank*. Foga are common over sund-banks becauae ahallow water covering land-banka la oolder than the deep Ma. The Banks of Newfoundland foga are aggravated by the warm utalf Btraam running into this layer if oo|d watar. ^ a