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Obtteerie* aad tributes of respects rATC IMCOMK RFDfJCKD. ?opt 11.?The State rs has completed Its ng the railroad prop* of the State, having adjourned afternoon after a two day's The board ibado red notions r t* the nsMSsmonts of the trank Unas. 4has to the decrease la business and rsJaaOoao gas rally on account of the of mat fait The total railroad meat for 1107 was I48.IS7.148 and) for 1901 It will be 841.774.ttt. f\>r the next ton days or two weeks |%the force la the Comptroller General's otto* will bo kept hard at work dis? tributing the assosssnents for the dif? ferent sections of roads throughout the State and sending out the figures to the auditors of the different wun? den This work la delayed about six for various unforseen reasons. The assessment of the Atlantic Una Is reduced by $811,8*4 from total assessment of 811,611,111 of last yeer. being a reduction of six par coat The reduction In taxes to be paid amounts to about 114,000. it Too Southern Railway Is reduced F*y tt04.HI oa the 1107 assessment of 88**486.060. or about 4 per cent The redaction la taxes to be paid Is about -eVLVt* ^ The Sasbeard 4lr Line Is reduced bp tilt678 or about 8 per cent oa kOaa 1807 asssssment of 14.600.000, bo tag a reduction of about 18.880 In hues to be paid. All of these redactions are to be distributed In the various sections of the frank linos In different counties ef the State. The reductions are con la the three trunk lines, the as nts of the small Independent left the same aa last year. The total reduction In assessments amounts to 61.788.818. and ths re? daction In Uses to about 880.000. There were no protests from the tel ? ? phone, telegraph. Pullman and ex? press companies and the assessments of last year stand. Tu Chester and Lancaster Road aas made no return for taxation this year at all, though several times noti? fied to do so, and the board placed f aa ths eighteen miles which was as? sessed last year at 88.80t per mile, the penalty of fifty per cent for non? return, la addition to the assessment of bast year; on the line from Ruby to Pagebaad. completed within the year, sjjflajsnssssnent ef 68.000 per mile was with the penalty of fifty per The board endorsed a petition to the Comptroller General for a refund of the It per cent. Density placed on the Atlantic Coast Telephons Com? pany, of Chsrleeton. last year for fall are to make returns, the endorsement being based on a proper showing to be mads to the Comptroller Gen laford White lies In his grave, bo which he came under clrcum staaoas that make svsn'hls own fam? ily reluctant to have his nsme men? tioned. Harry Kendall Thaw Is In an Insane asylum. To get himself sent there eras his only alternative to go lag to the electric chair as a murder? er. Ev-lyn Nesblt Thaw la in a ssnl tarium. a physical and moral wreck, living on ths charity of friends. The moral of the tals l* the old. old one as old as humanity Itself?and yet one thst nsver grows old. since In every generation there sre thone who will not lesrn It until too 1st? The lesson of It all Is plain snd ch ar be? fore us every day. But It needs ever to be reiterated and enforced upon the minds of the young, and to be taken to heart by young and old alike.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. Hubby (while dressing)?That confounded trial balance was running In my# head all night. Wlfey? John, y >u musttell the msnager and maybe ha will giro you extra pay for work? ing overtime.?Boston Transcript ?lied April. ISO?. 1. SUMTE! BRYAN REPLIES TO ROOSEVELT RIDICULES THE PKKSIDKNT'S LETTER ENDORSING TAFT. * Says It is Irrelevant and Invmaterial? People Wan. Republican Candi? date's Position Defined and Not Let- I tars of Approval From Sagamore Hill?Mors Trusts Now Than When Roosevelt Was Nominated. Baltimore. MJ. Sept 14.?Replying to President Roosevelt's letter com? mending/ Mr. Taft w. J. Bryan to? day Issued the following statement: "It was expected, of course, that President Roosevelt would support Mr. Taft' Ho could hardly do less In view of the tact that he selected him as the Administration candidate and supported him with all the Influence that the Administration candl date could bring to bear. The I President's letter* however, may be objected to as Irrelevant, im? material aad not the beat ayi dsaos. If Mr. Taft were deed* it I would be Interesting to know from Mr. Roosevelt what he knew of Mr. Taft's opinions and work, but as Mr. Taft is alive and able to speak fori himself It is hardly necessary for Mr. Roosevelt to tell us what Mr. Taft will do. j "Mr. Taft Is running upon a plat? form which was so unsatisfactory that he had to amend it in several Import ant particulars, and yet even as I amended it gives the public no definite Idea as to what Mr. Taft stands for. I Mr. Taft also has made some speeches and promises to make more. The! oaes he has already made have not thrown any light upon the political situation, but It la to be hoped that he will yet conclude to define his no- I sltlon with sufficient clearness to en able the public to know what he stands for. , "It is not sufficient for the President to say that Mr. Taft is a friend of la? bor?that is a subject upon which the! laboring man Is entitled to an opinion, and Mr. Taft's friendship Is to be de? termined not by the President's en dorsement, but by the measures which Mr. Taft advocates. Mr. Taft be? lieves that the labor organisation | shonld come under the operation of anti-trust law, thus dealing with the men who belong to the labor organl- I satlons as If they were merchandise, for the anti-trust law deals with the monopoly of products of labor. "Mr. Taft Is opposed to trial by jury In cases of Indirect contempt, thus denying to the laboring man a safe guard which is guaranteed to every man tried in a- criminal Court. Mr. I Taft does not adore the laboring man in regard to the injunction In labor disputes. No words of praise from the President can change Mr. Taft's I attitude on this question or make that attitude more acceptable to the wage earners. "Mr. Taft's position on the trust la I not changed by the President's en dorsement. The President himself has not succeeded la putting any trust magnates in the penitentiary and only I a few of the trusts have been dls turbed. If Mr. Taft Is no more sue* I easeful than ths President In his at? tacks on the trusts he will not satisfy the expectation of ths public. There are more trusts In the country today! than when Mr. Roosevelt was Mu> I guraten, and Mr. Taft favors a w\ak-1 enlng rather than a strengthening ofl anti-trust law, for he has advocated I an amendment that will limit the op nation of law to an unreasonable re- I stralnt of trade." On the tariff question Mr. Tart has failed to express himself with clear-1 ness. The Republican platform does net use the word reduction, It only I promises revision, and Mr. Taft has construed that to mean that some schedules would be lowered and some raised, but there Is no Intimation whether the average wll be lower or higher than It Is now, and so in re? gard to all the questions which are at lanue. Mr. Taft must make his position known. He cannot rely upon the President's endorsement. An endorse I ment of the note Is not necessary If the maker of the note is good and the en? dorsement Is only good when suit can be hrught against the endorser to en? force It. If Mr. Taft had a reform record of his own he would not need to be endorsed by the President, and the President's endorsement Is of no vslue unless the President will ugree to stay In Washington and see that Mr. Taft makes good. The people ought to have some definite statement as to what the public Is to expect from Mr. Tsft No such definite statement appears In the platform and no defi? nite statement can bo drawn from Mr. Taft's speech, and It do?-s not answer I the purpose for the President to say he feels sure Mr. Taft will do what Is right or what Is Just, for there Is a id Fear not-^Let all the ei da Thou Aln L S. C WEDNESDA wide difference of opinion as to what 1h right and as to what is just. Plain, simple sentences from Mr. Taft , would be worth more than the eulogy jthat the President pronounced." SLAIN AT SUNDAY SCHOOL. Girl Stabbed by Crazy Lover While Playing Closing Hymn. Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 13.?A spe? cial to the Observer from Newton says tht.t a demoniacal murder was committed near that place this morn? ing, when Miss Willie Bullinger, nine? teen years old, was stabbed to death by Lon Rader. aged twenty-one. The girl was seated at the organ playing the closing hymn at Sunday school when suddenly Rader leaped across several benches, and, with his pocket knife, stabbed her once in the hack and twice in the breast. She died almost instantly. Rader was arrested and is now in tne Newton jail. Some months ago he was committed to the State League asylum, and In his ravings often men? tioned Miss Bulllnger's name. Recent? ly ho was discharged from the hos? pital as cured. The deed was probably prompted by unrequited love, as seems to have been well planned, as the knife used was bought new yesterday. In Jail this afternoon Rader said he killed the girl "because she was a witch." REPUBLICANS CARRY MAINE. Plurality Cut to Less Than 10,000, However. Portland, Maine, Sept. 14.?Al? though the Republicans came of victo? rious in the State election today, Bert M. Fernald, of Portland, being chos? en Governor over Obadlah Oardiner, of Rockland, the Democrats had the satisfaction of seeing the normal Re? publican plurality cut to less than 10, 000 votes, for the first time in a Pres? idential year for more than a quarter of a century. All four Republican candidates fqr Congress were elected rind for State Auditor, Charles P. Hatch, of Augusta, Republican, de? feated his opponent. At 10.30 o'clock retrns for Governor from all the cities and 400 towns and plantations out of 199 gave Fernald, Republican, 68,300, and Gardiner, Democrat, 61,616. The lame places In 1904 gave Coob, Re? publican, 70,882, and Davis, Demo? crat, 46,712. This shows a Republi? can loss of 4 per cent, and a Demo? cratic gain of 32 per cent. On this basis the Republican plurality in the State was estimated at about 8,000. KILLED BY CRAZY NEGRO. Rmanuel Carver Shot Down In Cold Blood. Saluda, Sept. 14.?Emanuel Carver, a young white man about 30 years of age, living six miles south of Saluda, was shot and stantly killed this af? ternoon by Will Herrin, colored. The killing took place in a field where he was picking cotton and the negro Herrin, who did the killing, It la claimed was of unsound mind. Herrin went to Carver's field and without warning or notice shot him down. Information received here Is that after killing Carver he also tried to kill Carver's wife, who, it appears, was In the field. Mrs. Carver grabbed the gun and saved herself from a sim? ilar fate to that of her husband. News of the shooting rapidly spread In the community and a posse was quick!" formed and from reports Just received they had captured the negro and are supposed to have lynch? ed him. DRAWS COLOR LINE. Des Molncs College Decides to Ex? clude Negroes. Des Molnes, Sept. 12.?The High? land Park College, of Des Molnes, has drawn the color line. This Is the first Iowa educational Institution to exclude negroes, and the action has caused resentment among the negroes In the State. The Negro Baptist Association of Iowa and Nebraska, in session here yesterday, condemned the college's ac? tion and declared It the greatest set? back the race has bad In Iowa. "It seems to me that I have heard most of the ideas advanced In your speech before." "That," said Senator Sorghum, "merely goei to show that they are good Ideas, winch will stand wear and tear."?Washington Star. Mr. Nowlywed?But, my lote, why are you weeping? Mrs. Newlywed? Oh, John, John! I Just peeped Into the kitchen and saw the cook has on her traveling gown.?Harper's Week, ly. is t at be thy Country3, Ttiy God's an Y. SEPTEMBER 16, NEGROES HELD IN CONSPIRACY. AX ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST WHITES DISCOVERED AT GREENWOOD. Blacks at Nlncty-Slx Said to Have Conspired to Kill Prominent White Citizens?Negro Instrumental in Detecting Plot. Greenwood, Sept. 14.?Eleven ne? groes were broght here Saturday, Sep? tember 12, about noon, from Ninety Six, In the custody of Sheriff McMillan and Deputy Sheriff Charles Dukes, under a warrant charging them with conspiracy. The arrest of these ne? groes was the outcome of an' investi? gation on the part of the local author? ities and certain citizens in Green? wood. Saturday evening another ne? gro awB arrested and brought here on the same charge. The negroes first arrested are: P. B. Dean, S. T. Jack? son, a preacher, Jas. Stephens, Ander? son Stephens, Ned Harris, Tom Bishop, Davega Williams, Wayman Jackson, John Calhoun, Zeke Chappell, anoth? er preacher, and Wade Williams. The j negro brought Saturday night was Press Goodwin. These negroes, who are members of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Ninety Sla, are charged with conspiring to kill several prominent white men of thgt town. The plot was discovered by a letter falling Into the hands of a negro who was not a party to it, and he turned the letter over to the Chief of Police of Greenwood. GEN. SUM TER MEMORIAL ACAD? EMY. Prof. Ira W. Williams Will Deliver an Address Thursday Morning. ? f Please let your readers know that Prof. Ira W. Williams will commence work at the General Sumter Memorial Academy on next Tuesday morning the 17th, as a representative of the Uuited States Agricultural Depart? ment in a demonstration farm system which Dr. Knapp inaugurated there on the 14th of August last, and at 3:30 P. >&., he will make an address to the farmers and their families in respect to his school work. The members of the Stateburg Improvement League will be out In full force, and all farmers and their families and all friends of agricultural enterprises are cordially invited to hear this address which will be de? livered in the Assembly hall of the Academy. It Is expected that a large number of persons will be out to un? derstand more fully the character of this work undertaken by the govern? ment in Sumter County. J. J. Dargan, Principal, G. S. M. A. DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY "BLUES Georgetown Boarding House Keeper Puts Bullet Through His Brain. Georgetown, Sept. 14.?Samuel M. Thompkins, 45 years of age, com mi t mltted suicide this morning at 6:30 o'clock by blowing out his brains with a 32 calibre revolver. Mr. Thompkins kept a boarding house on the corner of Prince and King streets; he had a wife and two children, a daughter of 14 and a son 12 years of age. At the coroners inquest the fact was developed that Mr. Thompkins was driven to suicide by worry over finan? cial difficulties and inability to pay his debts. LOST WAGER; MUST QUIT STATE. Manager of Evans Spartanburg Headquarters to Become Exile. Spartanburg, Sept. 14..?Election bets are now being paid. One of the freak bets made before the Senatorial election was that of S. C. Little, man? ager of John Gary Evan's headquarers. Mr. Little wagered that if Smith beat Evans by over 20,000 he would leave the State. Mr. Little will leave here tomorrow morning ior parts unknown. As there was no limit in the wager it is thought that he will return within the next several weeks, though he may make his home indefinitely in the. West. He?If you refuse me I shall go out and hang myself to the lamp-post in front of your house. She?Now, George, you know father said he wouldn't have you hanging around here.?Life. Learn the lesson of thanksgiving. It 1h due to God, it is due to our? selves. Thanksgiving for toe past makes us trustful in the present and hopeful for the future. What He has done is the pledge of what He will do.?A. C. A. Hall. \ \ d Truth's.' THE TRTJ. 1908. Sew Sei TA IT ANSWERS BRYAN. Bitter Attack on Ncbraskan for Crit? icising Roosevelt's Letter. Cincinnati, Sept. 14.?William H. Taft devoted himself today principal? ly to political compositions. He wrote an answer to Mr. Bryan's omment on President Roosevelt's Taft letter, after which he spent the latter part of the day In the preparation of the two speeches he Is to make tomorrow? | the first to a delegation from Green- | field, Ind.; the other to the Methodist negro preachers of Ohic, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. When Mr. Taft was first shown j what Mr. Bryan had said, the spon- j taneous answer was short and terse; then Mr. Taft dictated a formal reply, as follows: "In my notification speech and In other speeches made since, I attempt? ed to make clear my position on all the Issues of the campaign. If Mr. Bryan has heen unable to understand them I cannot make them clear. I stand on my record In office and what I have said. Mr. Bryan should devote a little time to his own record, from which he seems to be strug? gling to separate himself, with all the adroitness acquired in a 12 years' hunt for an issue on which he can be elected president. The read? iness with which Mr. Bryan in suc? cessive presidential campaigns passes from one paramount issue to another shows that the chief consideration which has affected his selection of an Issue has been its possibility in at? tracting votes. He presents the re? markable spectacle of one who has been seeking the presidency for 12 years without success and without of? ficial responsibility, and without the opportunity to test the various propo? sitions which he has advocated for re? forms, and yet of having the events demonstrate what a colossal failure he would have made in each instance had he been permitted to carry out his proposals In the policies of the country. He does not now say wheth? er he Is still in favor of free coinage of silver. He does not now answer the question whether, if he were president, and an exigency should arise in which he would be called upon to exercise his discretion affirm? atively to maintaining the parity be? tween gold and silver, he would ex? ercise that discretion. He has not permitted hismself to discuss in this campaign the issue of anti-imperial? ism, which was the paramount issue in 1900, as he declared, and in regard to the policy of the Republican party has been vindicated by the event, so that tranquility and a good govern? ment exist in the Philippines and even the Independents prefer Repub? lican victory to Mr. Bryan's promises. "He now says that he favors the rigid regulation of the railroads. In 1896 he expressed the view that the railroads could not be regulated be? cause the railroads would own the regulators appointed by law and therefore he was In favor of govern? ment ownership. Instead, by de? scribing his platform not only as an indication of principle, but as a pro? tection against uncomfortable issues, he has attempted to give bond to keep the peace with respect to government ownership, which by its mere an? nouncement shows It lack of the vote catching quality. He professes to have been the father, and now to be the heir, of the Roosevelt policies, and yet in no campaign of three in which he has taken part, two of which he led, did he make them the paramount issues. Indeed, in the Parker cam? paign he took occasion to charge Mr. Roosevelt with militaryism and being completely subject to the influence of corporations, only to see him win the greatest peace triumph of the world, and secure such an effective stamping out of corporate abuses as to elicit the admiration of the entire country. "Mr. Bryaa professes to be the great friend of labor, and yet he was one of the chief supporters in the passage of the Gorman-Wilson bill that made labor helpless for four years. He then proposed as a remedy for the disasters to which labor was thus exposed the issuing of a 50-cent dollar, which would have cut in half such wages as there were and would have led to the hardest kind of strug? gle on labor's part to restore Its wages to its proper level under the gold standard. The country h:is been most fortunate that the fallacy of Mr. Bry? an's railroad proposition has been ex? posed without the cost of putting them into actual governmental prac? tice and it will eb fortunate indeed if the danger of four years* depression, to which It would be exposed in case of Mr. Bryan's election, may be avert pd, and if by Republican success in November and subsequent prosperity and by a clinching of the Roosevelt policies, he may again be shown to be a prophet without honor." K SOUTHRON, RMtMUni Juno, 1866 les?Vol. XXVIII. *?i|{V EUROPE Hm AMERICAN IDEAS OF MONEY. Mrs. Astor Declares Her Relief in Her Country. f I believe in a republic, says Mr?. Astor In the November Delineator, and I believe in a republic in which money has a great deal to say, as in ours. Money represents with us en? ergy and character; it is acquired by brains and untiring effort; it is kept Intact only by the same means. It were well if Europe were imbued with the American ideas of money power? I do not say Ideals?that is another thing. But American ideas about de? veloping the natural resources of the country and their common-sense no? tions about work would bring about I great things in Europe. Best of all, I there is the American idea demon Istrated about us every day, that each man can bring happiness and comfort I to himself and to those he loves if he will only set about it, and that educa? tion, books, pictures, travel, are all within his reach. I I can speak with authority about our young people. I have always I kept in close touch with them. They are of a new age and of\*n have ideas I different from my own old. conserva? tive ones. And they are full of health land abundant spirts, embodiments of I the new age of athletic development land out-of-door sport. It is perhaps I true that they frequently go into ex Iceas in amusement, but they are not (degenerate and they are not vicious. I Our young men enter seriously upon I the business of taking care of their I large financial interests, and they of I ten taken up an individual business or profession In addition, going in for I healthy sports only as a well-earned I diversion. I Our young women are easily train? ed in domestic matters and taught to appreciate their responsibility toward I the poor. There are no such barriers I between the very rich and the very I poor as some newspapers would have I the world believe. All of my friends I do a great deal for the poor, and their Idaughters are brought up from infan? cy to look upon their charity work as I an important part of their lives. When I our girls marry, they take up the man? agement of establishments in town land country, they rear large families I of children and personally supervise I their education at home during the I critical early years. They are in love I with their husbands and devoted to I their interests. Yes. I have heard that our young I women smoke and drink and do other I terrible things. I know a great many I of them and know them very well; I' I have known them since they wen I born, and I am quite sure there is not I one in my circle who is a cigarette I fiend or who drinks to excess. SPECIAL WEITHER FORECAST. Bureau Announces That West Indian Storm is Approaching Southeastern Coast?Disturbance in Pacific. Washington, Sept. 13.?The weath? er bureau late this afternoon issued a special forecast as follows: "The first well defined disturbance of the present season is approaching the North Pacific coast and a West Indian storm is advancing toward our southeastern coast. This combination should produce abundant rain in the dought-stricken district of the north central and east central sections be? fore the close of the present week." A Contribution From Ute Steel Trust. The Republican parade at Young town, Ohio, last Saturday was an in? teresting affair. The number of work tngmen In line is estimated at from 4.000 to 13,000. "Most of these," the account before us reads, "were em? ployes of the United States Steel Trust and kindred corporations which the giant monopoly controls. So as to swell the procession the steel mills were all closed, and the employes each received the amount of a day's pay as a gratuity. Besides this out? lay the workingrnen were uniformed at the expense of the trust the better to -spot* them. What with the pay and the uniforms it is estimated that the cost of the holiday to the steel mills of Youngtown was not less than $;r>.ooo or $100.000." ?*.?-'o." remarked the boyhood friend, "you are in the swim." "Moth? er and the girls think I am," an? swered Mr. Cumrox. "but my per? sonal feelings are those of a man who has fallen overboard and ought to be hollering for help."?Washington Star. Kangaroos are still plentiful in some parts of Australia. One flock owner boasts of having killed several thousand in eighteen months.