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5. 4 RAILROADS PAY TAXES. ? ______ i [Their Aggregate Value Has Been Re-, porte<J at $41,952,520. Columbia, Aug. 27.?The com*>ila-! 4 tion of railroad assesments for the I present year, made recently by the! State board of railroad assessors, shows that the aggregate railroad T?rr>n<artv in Smith Carolina is $41. 952,520, as compared with $41,882,332 for the year 1908, an increase in valuation of $70,1SS. It was noti ? expected that there would be a large increase in the assessments this year, because of the fact that railroads were very big losers by the August floods of 1908. and they have not fully recovered from the effects of the flood yet. In this connection last year there was an appeal made to the board- and the general assembly - was informed of the reasons for the deductions in the assessments of 1907 and 1908. I The report just compiled shows the following facts as to the railroads of this State: Total value, $41,952,520; total value of tracks. $40,630,838; miles of track, 2,811; value of depots, |v- $582,044; value of wood and water etotinne <t 1 A 5 Q1 9 mnr'hi'nP fihnns ! $30,200; value of stationary engines, r ? $900; value of tools and machinery, $62,169; value of buildings, $262,101; value of lots, $150,530; value of lands, $124,826; total value of all items, save trackage, $1,321,682. The aggregates are as follows: ' Southern, $19,821,956; Atlantic Coast Line, $15,73S,170; Seaboard, I \ $4,403,189; other lines, $1,946,640; t grand total, $41,952,520. r In 1908 the report of the comptroller general shows that the Southern's assessment was $19,820,815; ; Coast Line, 15,751,938; Seaboard, $4,403,189; other lines, $1,946,640; : ^ V among which the Augusta-Aiken j 5 road assessed at $127,658. Kissing Mother. A father, speaking to his careless daughter said: "I want to speak to you of your mother. It may be that L \ you noticed a careworn look upon her face. Of course, it has been brought there by no act of yours; 4 still it is your duty to chase it away. 4 I want you to be up tomorrow morning and get breakfast. When your mother comes and begins to L express her surprise, go right up and I ^ kiss ner on tne mourn. iou can t I % imagine how it will brighten her dear face. Besides, you owe her a s kiss or two. A long time ago, when you were a little girl, she kissed you ? when no one else was tempted by your fever-tainted breath and swells len face. You were not as attrac^ . tive then as you are now. Through i * . years of childish sunshine and shadt ows, she was always ready to cure by the magic of a mother's kiss, the P little dirty, chubby hands whenever | * they were injured with those first skirmishes with the rough world." f Prohibitionits. \ v Over at Newaygo, near Big Rdpids. r *? where it is so dry that the "boys" habitually "spit cotton," there seem !'} to be some mighty dry prohibition4 v ists, according to a story that comes i from the desert. > A Newaygo citizen recently receivi ed a letter from a Kentucky whisky ;; house requesting him to send them the names of a dozen or more persons who would like to get some fine * whisky shipped to them at a very low price. The letter wound up by saying: "We will give you a commission on all the orders sent in by parties v whose names you send us." The Newaygo man belonged to a praotical joke class and filled in the names of some of his prohibition t friends on the blank spaces left for that purpose. He had forgotten all about his supposed practical joke when Monday he reeived another letter from i , the same house. He supposed it was k a request for more names and was just about to throw the communication in the waste basket when it nrv?nrrprl tn him to send the name 0 of another old friend to the whisky house. He accordingly tore open the envelope, and came near collapsing ? when he found a check for $4.80, representing his commission on the sale ; . of whisky to the parties whose names I* he had sent in about three weeks t before?Detroit Free Press. Carried Xo Samples. A New York lawyer stepped from | ir the train to the platform of a little f Virginia station. A negro porter advanced and touched his hat. "I know yo' is a drummer, suh. Show me where yo' grips is and I'll carry them up to de hotel." ; The lawyer smiled in a quisical way. "I aqi a drummer," he said, "but a drummer of brains." The porter sniffed suggestively as he said: "Huh, first time ever I seed a drummer as didn't carry no samr ? pies." Fight Duel Across Table. Poulan, Ga., Sept. 4.?Seated across a narrow table from each * other William Rouse and William \ i Bailey fought a duel with pistols to; day that ended when Bailey received a bullet in his heart. Rouse telephoned the sheriff to come for him. T>?!1 norf Ioanev lives in cue uv/icueiu v of Worth county.' He had an old A grudge with House. Today he went to House's home and renewed the K i quarrel. Rouse was sitting at a m.i- table writing. Bailey sat down oppol site him, drew his pistol and began firing. Rouse drew and returned the i . fire, one of the bullets killing Bailey J instantly. ; Hampton Officer Dead. Hampton, Sept. 4.?Mr. W. R. Anderson, deputy sheriff of this county, i- . died at his home, at this place, at < about 2 o'clock this afternoon. He had a two weeks' illness, having been stricken with paralysis while perV forming his official duties on a trip V to Georgia. In the death of Mr. Anderson Hampton county loses one of ^ her best citizens and noblest officials. The deceased is survived by a - widow. He was liked by all who knew him, and has a host of friends who will learn of his death with ' _ sadness. TWO MEN* KILLED. They Jumped From Moving Car in Order to Avoid a Falling Rail. Spartanburg. Sept. 1.?Rome Wilson, of Euford, N. C., assistant foreman of the track laying gang of the Meadors Construction company, contractors for the C., C. & O. track laying. and Sam Henderson, colored, of Newberry, a laborer on the gang, were crushed to death yesterday when they jumped from a train that they were aboard, trying to get out of the way of a falling rail. Wilson's body was cut in half and Joe Henderson was crushed to pieces. J. C. Turner, colored, who was aboard the train, also jumped and was injured. He got among the wheels of the moving train and one leg was so badlv injured that he was brought to the colored hospital in Spartanburg and the injured member was amputated. The falling rail was the cause of the death of the two men. A work train of seven cars, loaded with rails with the men on top. had just passed over Paeolet "iver. The train was movins at about three miles an hour and had passed the river about three-quarters of a mile when one of the steel rails on the front car slipped beyond one of the standards and an end fell. The rail swept over the car on which the men were seated and to dodge the great steel bar in its terrible blow Wilson and Henderson jumped. Wilson tried to step on the the next car, but in some way his footing slipped and he fell between the cars and was crushed to death. Thp train was stopped as soon as possible. The .Bane of Cigarette Smokers. (By Orison Swett Marden.) "Anything which impairs one's success capuai, wnicn cuis aown ms achievement, and makes him a possible failure when he might have been a grand success, is a crime against himself. Anything which benumbs the senses, deadens the sensibilities, dulls the mental faculties, and takes the edge off one's ability, is a deadly enemy, and there is nothing else which effects all this so quickly as the cigarette It is said that within the past fifty years not a student at Harvard university "who used tobacco has been graduated at the head of his class, although, on the average, five out of six use tobacco. An investigation of all the students who entered Yale university during nine years shows that the cigarette smokers were the inferiors, both in weight and lung capacity, of the non-smokers, although they average fifteen months older. Dr. Fisk, of the Northwestern academy, has asked all pupils who will not give up cigarettes to leave the academy. In one year, not one of the boys who used cigarettes stood in the front rank of scholarship. "This is our experience inteaching more than fifty thousand young people," says the principal of a great business college. "Cigarettes bring shattered nerves, stunted growth, and general physical and mental degeneration. We refuse to receive users of tobacco in our institution." Cigarette smoking is no longer simply a moral question. The great Viop it nn oc UUdlilCdd VVUliU uao tanvu ii< u?s a deadly enemy of advancement, of achievement. Leading business firms all over the country have put the cigarette on the prohibited list. . In Detroit alone, sixty-nine merchants have agreed not to employ the cigarette user. The symptoms of a cigarette victim resemble those of an opium eater. A gradual deadening, benumbing influence creeps all through the mental and moral faculties; the standards all drop to a lower level; the whole average of life is cut down, the victim loses that power of mental grasp, the grip of mind which he once had. In' place of his former energy and vim and push, he is more and more inclined to take things easy and to slide along the line of the least resistance. He becomes less and less progressive. He dreams more and eats less. Hard work becomes more and more irksome and repulsive until work seems drudgery to him. "Smoking in the faces of ladies fair, Poisoning all the ambient air, In coaches and cars, where the children ride. The room of the sick, the home of the bride; Oh, what shall the harvest he? Oh, what shall the harvest be? "Sowing the seed of a poisoned brain, Sowing and reaping both palsy and pain, Forging the chains of your slavery; Sure, ah, sure, will the harvest be." Political Allegiance. A matron of the most determined character was encountered by a young woman reporter on a country paper who was sent out to interview leading citizens as to their politics. "May I see Mr. ??" she asked a stern-looking woman who opened the door at one house. "No, you can't," answered the matron, decisively. "But I want to know what party he belongs to," pleaded the girl. The woman drew up her tall figure. "Well, take a good look at me," she c-oiH tVio norttr ho holfinirs t<~? " Train Kills Three in Motor. Reading, Pa., Sept. 2.?An automobile in which were riding Wm. L. Graul and wife of Temple, Pa., and Dr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Schlegel of this city was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train at Douglasville, near here, this evening and all but Dr. Schlegel were killed. The train was running at high speed when the collision occurred and the machine was thrown some distance down an embankment. Mr, and Mrs. Graul and Mrs. Schlegel were dead when picked up and Dr, Schlegel was unable to move, bott legs having been broken. Almost simultaneously with the collision of the automobile the gasoline tank exploded and the wreckage took fire. The clothing of the victims was ignited and had the bodies not been removed promptly the3 would have been burned. Dr. Schlegel was conscious and gave the names of his companions. FIVE DAYS IX A DUNGEON. Suffragette Holloway's Experience in a London Prison. On Monday, July 12, I was sent to prison for six weeks for the part I had taken in the women's demonstration on June 29. On Monday last I was set at liberty. For five days and six hours I have been without food, and for five days I have been shut up in a punishment cell in Holloway, a cell which I can only fitly describe as a dungeon, and which I do not believe any one outside of the officials of Holloway could believe to exist in civilized England in the.twentieth century. When we got to Holloway <?n the night of Monday, July 12, we determined to protest against being imprisoned in the second division as common criminals. On Tuesday, as we were not placed in the first division, we decided to break all the prison regulations. We sang aloud. "The Marseillaise." When the governor came to see me on Tuesday morning I said to him. "Can you not let us have any air in these cells?" and he said, "It is impossible for you to have any more than you get now." I said to him, "We shall, then, have to find a means for ourselves." The wardress came to me and said I was to clear up my cell. I refused. When they had left J = broke three panes of glass in my cell J windows, and in that way I was able I to get air to breathe. 1 On Wednesday afternoon our cell I door was flung open. "Come at I rn-ioo " T txtqc T tnr?lr nn mv hner I to bring that with me, but it was taken from me by force. I was then taken down stairs, and found in a room a committee of some 20 magistrates, and I was asked whether I had any reason why I should not be punished. I explained to them that 1 had taken part in a political act and I refused to be treated as a common criminal. They sentenced me to seven days' solitary confinement in the punishment cell. I shall never forget the horrible place into which I was taken. When I saw the damp, underground dungeon into which they led me I could have cried bitterly, but somehow the spirit always comes to you when you are fighting for principle, and I determined to stand my ground. The place was horribly dirty and seemed full of all kinds of germs. There was scarcely any ventilation and no light except that which came from a thick skylight in the ceiling, so that the place was nearly dark. The only bed in the room was a piece of wood let into the wall. The whole place seemed to me as though it had not been used for a very long time and was dark and damp. I saw that all means of protest had been taken from me except one, and that was to do what Miss Wallace Dunlop had done and refuse to take any food. The hardest time was the first 24 hours. Milk was brought to me, which I felt I could have taken very willingly, but I put it from me. Then n - J 1 l-A - me waruress uruugui uie m ?umc food. I said to her, "Will you please take that out?" She refused. I therefore took the tin in which it was and rolled it out of the cell, and what was in it went upon the ground. On Friday I took to my bed, and the doctor told me that if I persisted I should get fever, but I was absolutely determined to do my part at whatever sacrifice. On Sunday night I was taken to the hospital, and there a fresh effort was made to get me to take food. Medicine was brought to me, which1 I absolutely refused, knowing that it was either food in another form or else intended to aggravate my hunger. On Monday afternoon my head was exceedingly bad, and I felt that I hardly knew what I was doing, but I determined that I would not give in. In the evening the governor came to me and said. "I have orders to release you."?Florence E. Cook in London Mail. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they ~ will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in- | ternally and made in Toledo, O., by I F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials I free. Sold by druggists. Prices, 75c per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Was Woman Poisoned? Lancaster, Sept. 3.?The woman in Union, N. C., who charged J. Wilson Avcoth with committing a criminal assault on her on the 22nd of August died at her home Tuesday after a few hours illness. It is ! thought that she died of poison. Avcoth, who is in jail at Monroe, where he has been confined since his capture in this county by Sheriff Hunter, attempted to commit suicide in his cell day before yesterday? the day after the woman's death? by hanging himself with an improvised rope. He was discovered suspended by his neck by a deputy ! sheriff in time to save his life. Fleet Criminal Sentenced. Durham, N. C.. Sept. 4?Chas. Cari roll, said to one of the most fleetl footed and elusive criminals the au thorities have encountered in this or . adjacent States, was sentenced to 15 I 1X1 Uil til ill tn^ pcuntutiui ?? ivi t4.o - | . sault with a dangerous weapon. Car- I l roll told the court in pleading for ' leniency that he had been shot twice " i before his recent capture while out running officers in Virginia. He } boasted that he had outrun even a - horse behind him, and that he had > broken jail every time he was imr prisoned. Carroll is said to be the - fastest runner in North Carolina. i He is of muscular build and is over six feet tall. i I H niYONl a. m. m. a. m. v a -* Machinist and Engineer . ? i General Repair Shop. ^ ; 3 We repair all kinds of ma- j chinery and^arry a full line of j Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Valves, In- 3 jectors, Lubricators, Oilers, etc. i j Bring your engine and have the ' cylinder bored. Make it run like J new and give you more power. : Bring your cotton gins and i press parts and have them re- ; paired before the busy season. j A stitch in time saves nine. We : repair saw mills, grist mills, < cane mills; in fact we run a j hospital for sick and disorder- j ed machinery. Bring it in and ; have it cured. Gas engines and j automobile engine cylinders bored, and new pistons and i rings made that won't leak. | Gives you more power and bet- : ter efficiency. We repair and'l : charge storage batteries. Call H , when in trouble and see what * we can do. I i I || j ARRIVALS I i # Curtis Brand Peas, per | can 15c. ? Jumbo Tomatoes, 3 lb. . can, 10c Mackerel, fine, 2 for 25c. i Misletoe Hams, per pound . 16c. ' Good Old Country Syrup, i In barrels, 50c. per gallon. ( In quart bottles, sealed, 15c. a quart. t Just received fine line of . 10c. packages Lowney's Chocolate Candies. I The finest lot of Fresh . Prunes that ever hit the town. i Seeded Raisins on hand . all the time. Have you ever tried our i Butter? We only ask 35c. , the pound. ] . Don't forget that we 1 handle Snowflake Flour, the I best that is put up, in sacks. Don't forget to ask for 1 anything in the grocery line. I We come mighty near having it. 1 E. BART PRICE < BAMBERG, S. C. Remember the Place! ^ to get polish for the brass .work on your car. ^ Top dressing for your top. = Compression grease in a density that will suit you. Automobile Oil that will please you by elimi- 1 nating half the trouble you J are now having. ] Remember that the winning car in the New YoMcto-Paris race run 21,000 ' miles without carbonizing, ] on this oil. We have oil for ] air cooled engines, too. Say, have you heard about our gasoline contract to automobiles? Fifteen cents a gallon, put in he car. We also rebuild any kind of automobile and sell new tops. I The Delk Motor Co. 11 I' I i DR. 0. D. FAUST S DENTIST ' BAMBEBG, S. C. jj Office in Telephone Building. I mbmmihmmbmbbhh "*r*. " . ^ ' ?-?* - :;j5 . Up! Get Busy! Cotton Getting Ripe! | For Free List Address V The Marjenhoff Company Charleston, S. C. ' State Distributers Cents, 10 Cents; One-Half, One, Two Pound Packages. ;ive Pound Boxes Fine Assorted Almonds, Nougatines, ^hips, Cherries, Pineapple, Chocolates or Bon Bons. When you buy from us you are not expected to buy more than your needs require ; 'MSB M mm | urana, upngnt ana riayer nanos a || FROM FACTORY TO YOUR HOME J| g| M Boardman & Gray Pianos, Albany, N. Y. Es- j? if tablished 1837. || Briggs Pianos, Boston. Established 1868. [I li Merrill Pianos, Boston. || 11 Norris & Hyde Pianos, Boston. Established | j ;f|| l| Clough & Warren Organs, Detroit. Established I || ^ A line of Pianos and Organs which will please the most criti- i 11 cal, from which selection may be made to. suit anybody, both in I |g quality and price. 2 I REMEMBER I keep no store and have no expense attached to C S |i the sale of any Piano except what is absolutely necessary, viz: 0 0 31 Freight from factory to your home, one drayage from your depot, 01 11 and cost of stool and scarf, which I give you. y 0 ^ MANY YEARS in the Piano business as tuner and salesman 93 | | taught me to have to do with only good instruments, and my 9 5 11 methods of business enable me to give you Fine Pianos at very g 5 ' || reasonable prices. Inquiries will receive prompt attention. y| 1 TUNING CAREFULLY DONE. || | G. A. LUCAS, {I . Jfj| ?? P. 0. Box 490. Augusta, Ga. 11 I Bill STILL DOING BUSINESS AT SAKE STAND t '' Jgj l| True, my front shop was destroyed by fire *Si jm Monday morning, but 1 am still turning out L Y work just as promptly as ever in the shop f & in the rear of the one that was burnt. I have ? .5 all new tools and am just as well prepared as JL J before the fire to do your work. Come see! y }j. b. bricklef i Z The Repair Man Bamberg, S. C. |? Southern States Supply Co. | H. L. HARVEY, President, rv^ d i ^ m Plumbing Supplies J OF ALL KINDS I] 10 to 818 Gervais St. Columbia, South Carolina In my new Store ? V I have moved into my handsome new store, and I have opened up a bran-new stock of everything in the hardware line. All bought for cash, md you will make a serious mistakeif you buy hardware without getting my prices. "* I have one of thehandsomest stores and stocks in town, and my fix- . tures are new and in keeping with my store and goods. We are rather proud of onr display now, and we cordially ask you to visit us whether you buy or not. J. A. HUNTER I CITY HALL BUILDING. The Hardware Man, Bamberg, S. C. DPP J E B Mes Marvelons Cures in Blood Poison, Rkiatii and Scrofula. P. P. P. purifies the blood, builds up the weak and debilitated, gives trength to weakened nerves, expels disease, giving the patient health and appiness, where sickness, gloomy feelings and lassitude first prevailed. In blood poison, mercurial poison, malaria, dyspepsia, and in all blood nd skin diseases, like blotches, pimples, old chronic ulcers, tetter, scald cad. we say without fear of contradiction that P? P* P? is the best blood 'urifier in the world. Ladies whose systems are poisoned and whose blood is in an impure conition due to menstrual irregularities, are peculiarly benefitted by the wonierful tonic and blood cleansing properties of P. P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke loot and Potassium. F. V. LIPPMAN, SAVANNAH, CA.