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?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.
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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.
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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.