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THxC SUMTE It WATCHMAN, Eetahlb MhtilMatti Aug. Ig 1881 Cbe Wattlnm nno Stoatbrtu I Published Wednesday ami Ss "inlay ?BY? OSTEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY SUMTBR, S, C. Term**: 11.50 per annum?in advance. Ad v ert toementa: One Square flrsr Insertion.tl.tt* Every subsequent Insertion.60 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which sub? serve private Interests will bo charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. ST\TE MEDICAL, ASSOCIATION. Dr. Walter Osryn? Left This Morn? ing for I*wrens to Attend It. Dr. Walter Cheyne left this morn? ing to attend the State Medical Asso? ciation, which convenes in that cltv oa Wednesday Dr. Cheyne had to go abend of time to make some pre? liminary arrangements, he being sec? retary. A very Inscroctlve programme will be carried out at this meeting. Among the prominent physicians to attend from a distance will be Dr. Charles Hunter D:inn. of Boston; Dr. Southgate Leigh, of Norfolk, Va., who will read a paper on "The Pres? ent Status of Cancer Education," and Dr. John L. Dawson. Dr. Allen J. Jervey, of Charleston, will make a re? port on the epidemic of Beriberi which has broken out in Charleston feunty. Warring Against the "White Plague." New York City. Boston, and Lon? don have already cut in half their death rate* from tuberculosis. Why should not the smaller cities and rural communities, where condi? tions are more favorable, do like? wise? To out in half the death rate from tuberculosis in New York State, out? side of New York City, would mean an annual saving of 3,000 human Urea Even to stamp out this tease nnd to snve f.000 human lives per annum In the Empire State 13 within the range of possibility. This Is the excuse for the strenuous efforts which are being made to secure the fullest and heartiest co-operation of every Agency, public and private, and of atpagy cltlsen In our State to carry out the programme of No Uneared for Tuberculosis in 1915. Mg Tubennlggsl In 1920 is put forth aa a hope only. Yet some are opti? mistic enough to believe that it ex pggpses .i h->p,? gpMM to I'Mini' as rouir as may be possible to its realization A Roll of Honor has been established Including those cities and counties ? hl.'h are making provision for the control of toben ulosis, and to the people of the Empire State the Com mitt.n Prevention of Tuberculosis r of the State Charities Aid Association la saying: "Let your city and your county be the next on the Roll of Honor. Why welt five years? Human lives are at stake. No other opportunity for social well being compares in Impor? tance with the prevention of tubercu? losis. Duty Is measured "oy knowl? edge and opportunity. Every day of delay means death."?From "No Tu? berculosis In New York State in It20!" by John A. Klngsbury. In the American Review of Review for I April. What Knowledge Really Is. When "Josh Billing*" said, "It's better not to know so many things than to know so many things that sln't so," he crystallzed one of the greatest truths of all philosophy. I wish that he could be called back to squeese Into another sharp-pointed little bur for the memory the fact that It Is less Important to know things. Knoweldge ought not to be thought of ns building a prison about the mind, but as tearing down old Jails and letting the sunlight into dark places Wisdom Is not walls but wings.?The Delineator. Snow In Middle Mate*. fhlcago. 111., April 17.?Midwinter weather, with a fall of snow, preval ? ? I In m tin parts of tie- Middb< Sf 11 ? -s today. He hopes the Demo.-ia's will earry Indluna with a tremendous sweep that Is. Congressman Dalsell hopes J so. And this Is the sort of RepublJ ran harmony one finds In Washing t >n.?Springfield Republican. Italy never had quite such a splen? diferous time In all Its life before. t?nh RICHARD I MANNING WILL NOT SEEK. GOVERNORSHIP. Announcement That Ho Will Not En? ter the Race- Made to the Dally Item Monday Morning?With Mr. Manning Not in the Rare the Line? up of the Candidates Will Re Ma? terially Altered. That Mr. R. I. Manning would be I candidate for governor in the pri? mary this summer has been a State? wide belief for many months, and the fact that he had not formally an? nounced his candidacy has not caus? ed any of his friends and supporters ?nor his opponents for that matter ?to doubt that he would be a can? didate. But now that the State con? vention is only a month distant, It appeared to Mr. Manning's friends and neighbors that the time had ar? rived for him to make a positive de? claration of his intentions, and for the purpose of obtaining an authori? tative statement, a representatative of The Item Monday called on Mr. Manning in his office in the Bank of Sumter and asked if he had reached a decision as to his candidacy for the governorship. He replied that he had been asked the same question wherever he had been in the State; that he had re? ceived many assurances of support; that he was very grateful for the kindness of his friends, but that he had decided not to enter the race. In answer to a further question he added that he was not now prepared to discuss his future poltlcal course. TRAPPED BRIBE TAKERS. How the Exposure of, Fittsburg Grafters Came About. Bishop Guerry of the Episcopal church paid his annual visit to An? derson last Sunday, and in conversing with some friends while here he told of the plan laid to expose the graft? ing in Pittsburg, which Is now being %'red in the courts, the man who planned the exposure and who direct? ed the accumulation of evidence be? fore the exposure is .*i friend of Bish? op Guerry. His name Is Daniel and he is a brother of the former presi? dent^ of St. Andrew's Brotherhood. Bishop Guerry said that Mr. Daniel was sure that grafting was going on among the aldermen of the city coun? cil of Pittsburg, and he decided to make an exposure. He decided to ac? cumulate the evidence In a systematic way, and In such a way that there ?ould be no flaw. Stenographers were placed behind closed doors and took down the conversations of the alder? men when opportunities were pre? sented. And in one instance a flash? light photograph was made of an ald? erman while he was reaching over to receive some money. When Mr. Daniel and his small band of assistants had gathered what they deemed sufficient evidence they secured warrants against the graft? ers. The city was thrown into confu? sion. The public was not aware that the evidence was being collected for the indictments. In fact few besides the bankers who gave the graft and the aldermen who received the graft money were aware that graft was go? ing on. The issue of the warrants naturally, then, caused a lot of ex? citement and surprise. At first the councllmen treated the charges lightly and attempted to put on the face of matyrs. They ridi? culed the idea of any one accusing them of grafting! They held their heads high and defied the law to show Its hand. They retained this way of acting until Daniel and his associates showed their hand. Then there was a rush to soe who could tirst confess. The evidence had been so wall sec ured, that there was no ? hance to be acquitted if a trial re? sulted. While collecting his evidence Mr. Daniel cams across a trail which led to the door of one of his best friends. They had been friends for a life time. Mr. Daniel's daughter had recently waited with this man's daughter in a kilns;. The Iwo families were the host of friends. This would have caused s<?me men to turn back, to quit the trial. But Mr. Daniel was not Of that class. He bad entered the fame to a finish, and he- went ahead collecting the evidence. It Wai a sad blow to him, and he says that he staggered when ha found thai his friend WaS in the web of graft, The result Of Mr. Daniel's work is that some fofty-One or forty-two councllmen have confessed to graft? ing, and many of them have been sent to penitentiaries. <>ther sentencei ir< to follow.- -Anderson I >;*i 1 >- Mail. hod April 1850. 'l e Just ai i. suiv IS HOI A CANDIDATE. Has Plnchot "the smllo that won t come off?" id Fear not?Let all the ends Thon Alm ITER. S. Om WEDNE SOUTHERN BUYS STEEL GARS. PLACED ORDER FOR SEVENTY CARS OF NEW TYPE. Ry Using Pennsylvania Tracks and Tunnel Will Land Passengers From The South in Centre of Hotel and Shopping District. Atlanta, April 16.?Seventy all steel sleeping cars of the most mod? ern type, electric lighted and equip? ped with every device for the com? fort and safety of passengers which the ingenuity of the world's leading car builders has brought out, are) I now being constructed by the Pull? man company for the use of the Southern Railway Company on its through trains from the South to New York City. It is expected that these cars will be ready in Septem? ber or October of this year and as soon as they are delivered to the Southern, the company will operate its through trains to New York, which now stop at Jersey City, into the magnificent new terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on Manhatten Island, located between 7th and 8th avenues and 31st n.nd 33rd streets. To reach this terminal trains will pass from the Jersey shore under the Hudson river through the Pennsyl? vania tunnels which are in reality steel tubes, driven beneath the river. By their use the Southern instead of landing passengers in Jersey City will enable them to step from their sleep? ers in the heart of the hotel, theatre, and shopping districts, thus elimin? ating the ferry trip from Jersey City which has been a feature of all tra? vel to New York from the South since the beginning of railroad ser? vice. The construction of these terminals with the purchase of the necessary land and the boring of the tunnels cost the Pennsylvania millions of dollars. Never In the world's his? tory has such valuable realty been purchased for railroad terminals. The new station will be the most magnificent in the world and will combine architectural beauty of the highest type with every facility for the safety and comfort of passengers and the expeditious handling of traf? fic. The Pennsylvania hopes to have this station open soon after July 1 but no trains will be operated into it except those made up of solid steel equipment and lighted by electricity. All trains will be drawn through the tunnels by electric locomotives. On account of this provision the Southern will not be able to operate its trains into this station until the new sleepers are delivered to it by the Pullman company. Every effort Is being made to rush the work on these cars which will represent the highest degree of comfort and beauty combined which has ever been known in sleeping car construction. The steel cars are not only fire proof but carry an element of strength impos? sible to obtain In wooden construc? tion. This expensive character of equipment has been adopted In the interest of the safety and protection of the traveling public nnd the cars will represent the result of years of experience and the expenditure of large sums of money in experiments as to the best and most satisfactory equipment. The opening of the new terminal in New York city will mean not only much greater convenience for pas? sengers bound from the south to the Metropolis is being landed In the heart of the city proper but will add greatly to the comfort and safety of the trip from the South. Trapped. The perpetually clever man listen? ed solemnly to the tramp's hard-luck story. "That's the same old yarn you told me last week," he said, winking at Iiis companion. "Maybe it is," admitted the weary one as he started on. "I'd forgotten having met you. I was in the peni? tentiary last week."?Success Maga? zine. "Bj their deeds they should be known," says 'resident Taft. They are. There stand Nelson it. Aldrlch, Joseph <;. Cannon. Sereno B. Payne, and John Dalsell, declaring their ad? miration for one another, and the United states is "next" to the bunch. Louisville < Jourler-Journal. However, it will be some time he lore the country can be brought to regard the Hon. N. Longworth as the official spokesman for bis illustrious father-in-law, I take the true definition of exer < las to be labor without weariness.?? Johnson, a't at be thy Country's, Thy God's anc 1SDAY. APRIL 20, 1J KILLED AT BCRANTON. Mr lice Was Unloading C ar ol Brick and Evidently Jumped Directly in Front of Passing Train. Scranton, April 17.?This town was shocked last night, when It became known that Robert E. Lee, a well i known citizen and business man, had j been struck and instantly killed by! the second section of the southbound passenger train No. 89, passing here about 10 o'clock. Just how the tragic accident occur? red can not be clearly explained, as there were no eye-witnesses. Mr. Lee was supervising the unloading of a car load of brick and was working late in order to complete the Job. The car was standing on the side track on the east side of the main track and a gang way extending from the door of the car across the main track was being used in the unloading. When the train blew the station sig? nal one of the laborers left the car to remove the gangway, leaving Mr. Lee in the car. When the train had pass? ed, Mr. Lee was missing and on in 1 vestigatlon was found lying dead against a telegraph pole, some dls i tance away. It is supposed that he attempted to leave the car and jumped imme? diately in front of the rapidly moving train and was killed. VIRGINIA'S OLD DEBT. Report of Special Master Is That West Virginia Owes Virginia Between $3,000,000 and $9,000,000. Washington, April 16.?The States of est Virginia and Virginia today filed in the Supreme Court of the UnUited States exceptions to the re? port of Charles E. Littlefield, special master to ascertain facts as a basis of arriving at the propostion of the debt of Virginia before the organization of West Virginia, that the latter State should pay to the former. Ac? cording to the report, West Virginia may be called upon to pay between $3,000,000 and $9,000,000 to the mother State. The principal exception tc the re? port Is that made by West Virginia objecting to the master including in the aggregate amount of ordinary expenses of Virginia from 1823 to 1860 the sum of $18,000,000 as in? terest on the public debt. Y. M. C. A. BUILDING ASSURED. Columbia Jubilant Over Success of Movements?$85,100 Raised. Columbia, April 15.?There was prolonged applause In Craven Hall at 11 o'clock tonight, when the an? nouncement was made that $85,.00 had been raised for the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building. The brilliant |y lighted clock on the Carolina Na? tional Bank building a few minutes later blazed out the limit of its ca? pacity in figures?"$8.r),000." It was a whirlwind finish, for up to 2 o'clock nearly $15,000 was needed to reach the $8 5,000 mark. Mrs. Woodrow announced today that she would give an additional ten feet of land for the building. The largest subscription tonight came from A. E. Gonzales, president of the State Company, who gave $1,000. BANDITS IN CALIFORNIA. Bandits Rob Mall Train and Turn Loeomotive* Loose. Benecla. Cal., April 17.?The Chi? na-Japan mail, which left San Fran? cisco over Southern Pacific for the East at 9 o'clock Saturday night was held up by two masked men at Spring, two miles east of here, at 12:30 o'clock this morning and rob? bed of nine pouches of registered mail. The train carried no express mat? ter. Four of the pouches have been recovered, but the robbers rifled the idlers and now are hiding in the hills and canyons between Martinez and Oakland. Sheriff's posses from two counties, detectives and postofftce inspectors on horses and in automo? biles are engaged In the man-hunt. The robbers were well armed, and a battle Is expected. The passengers on the train wa re not disturbed, and sev? eral of them did not learn of the rob? bery until this morning. Alter getting tin- sacks, the rob? bers cut the engine and .sent it wild, the throttle open, down the main track to the Bast. The engine was thrown into a ditch in the nick of time to prevent its colliding with an east-bound train. The train robbers- is the first in California iti several years, it was planned and executed in a most dar? ing manner. If Roosevelt runs j^galn, so will Unole Joe Cannon. I Truth's." THE TRU New Seri RIOTS IN CHINA. FOREIGN BUILDINGS IN CHANG SHA ARE DESTROYED BY MOB. Provincial Governor Killed?His Son Meets Same Fate?Three Germans Said to Have Been Drowned Wb' Fleeing From City. London, April 17.?The Times' Shanghai correspondent in his dis? patch on the Chang Sha riots says: "Three American missionaries are missing. Their fate is unknown." Chang Sha, China, April 17.?All the foreign owned buildings in Chang Sha have been destroyed by fire with the exception of the British consul? ate. The buildings rented by for? eigners have been looted. The Chi? nese officers issued a proclamation that they were unable to protect life and property, and thereupon foreign? ers made haste to leave the city. So far as is known, no foreigner haa lost his life. The governor, Hu Nan of the province of Wu Tehung-Slu, and his son, were killed and several other government officials fled. Even yet a section of the city Is in flames Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed here and a few of these protected the governor's house for a time, but soon all joined the roiters The riots began on April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice shops. A captain of police was wounded while trying to restore or? der, but thousands crowded arounc him and his assistants, and he was obliged to flee to the yamen. The rioters followed him there anc besieged the place all night. The following day the disturbanc? became anti-foreign, this being ? strong anti-foreign province. Th( China-Inland mission and the Nor? wegian and Catholic missions wen burned. The other missions were de stroyed on April 15. The mission? aries attached to the American Epls copalian missionary alliance, the Uni? ted Evangelical church and the Wes leyan and Yale missions, numbering 41 in all, took refuge In boats. The: left all of their effects. The destruction of all forelgi property, including the Japanese consulate and the British warehouse: followed. The fate of the Standarc Oil Company's newly erected tanki is unknown. """he British consul detained twe steamers for the refugees, who in elude 70 Japanese. Owing, however to the shortage of provisions and th( hopelessness of the situation, it wa: decided to start for Hankow. The official buildings were destroy ed the same day, the troops joininj the roiters, who numbered not lesj than 24,000. Eight Germans attach ed to the Liebenzoll mission were ir Chang Sha when the trouble began They fled from the city and it is re? ported that three of them while pro? ceeding to Hankow in a junk withoul lights were run down by the British gunboat Thistle and drowned. An? other report says the men drownec were Americans but this is not con limed. The cause of the riots was th( scarcity and high cost of rice. According to one report the gover? nor of Hu Nan committed suicide af? ter notifying the government that he was responsible for the rioting. ENDORSE TUBERCULOSIS SUN DAY'. President Taft Heartily In Accord with Worthy Movement. New York, April 17.?President Taft approve* of making next Sun? day." In a letter received here today day." In aletter received here today by Livingston Farrand, executive secretary of the National Association <or the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, President Taft writes: "l sincerely hope that the move? ment whic h you have inaugurated to make Sunday. April 24, a 'tubercu? losis Sunday,' on which day ministers are requested to call the attention of the congregations to the importance of the tuberculosis problem and to give such simple information regard? ing it as may be feasible, many prove to be successful. "The amount of good that can be done In saving human life by a uni? ted effort in a community and in re? spect to such a disease as tuberculo? sis can hardly be exaggerated." Rock Hill, April 16.?In a quarre l this evening at 7 o'clock S. H. 'White, a printer, shot M. Simes, an insur? ance agent working for a George? town concern. White was cut in the breast. White is painfully hurt and Simes is seriously, but not fatally wounded. )10. E somiKOX, Established June, MM es-Yol. XXXI. No. 16. AFFECT All "ORATIONS. GREEXW' .ssessors PRO POr AC Ali CHANGE. Ix?t ^T" i County Auditor Inquires . v **d Can Reduce Rate of As ^ .tent on Bank Returns to For Per Centr?Comptroller Replies * Any Change Must Be General. Columbia, April 15.?"If a propo? sition advanced by the Greenwood board of assessors through the audi? tor of that county to assess bank property at 40 per cent, of its true ?value?and if bank property is so as? sessed all other property must ab? be accordingly assessed?would be put into effect," said Comptroller General Jones today, "the reduction; in the valuation of property in this State would be something like $35, 000,000." The following letter was received by Comptroller General Jones: ?"Dear Sir: Can the county board of assessors for Greenwood County reduce the rate of assessment from 60 per cent, as heretofore, to 40 per cent on bank returns, one-third Please tell me. "Yours very truly, J. W. Watson," Mr. Watson is county auditor for Greenwood county. Taking the postion that if one class of property is assessed, Comp? troller General Jones addressed the following letter today: "Mr. J. W. Watson, County Audi? tor, Greenwood, S. C.?Dear Sir: You I j ask to be advised if the county board of assessors can reduce bank returns from 60 per cent to 40 per cent of their value. "I beg to call your attention to the law?see Code, South Carolina, Ar? ticle VIII, page 45, 'Special Rules as to Assessment and Taxation of Bank? ing Corporations, which requires that all shares of bank stock shall be as? sessed at their true value in money. "It is clearly seen that there is no authority under the law for boards to lix any per cent of the value of bank shares for their assessment. Howrever, as I have repeatedly said, boards of assessors have heretofore set aside the assessment laws in this State, and in the case of banking cor? porations have attempted for several years to assess them at 60 per cent of the true value of the shares. The banks cannot be assessed on one per? centage of their true value and other corporations or tax-payers on a dif? ferent basis. Equality between tax? payers must be observed. Should the j board of assessors of your county ar j bitrarily reduce the assessed value of bank shares to 40 per cent of their . true value, then railroad property, r textile industries, cotton seed oil s mills, telegraph, telephone. Pullman . palace car, express and all other cor i porate property, which is now as j sessed by the State board of assessors .1 and State board of equalization at 60 i . j per cent of its true value, as a matter tj of right and justice, should also be ,! placed upon the same basis of 40 per .' cent; this would result in a reduction [ of the asserted, value for taxation of . corporate property of at least $35, j 000,0 00. With these facts before ? your county board, they should heat* j t?te before adopting such a basis for assessment of banks and other cor? porations. It would necessarily re? sult in increasing the tax on the gen? eral mass of individual taxpayers. "W. A. JONES, "Comptroller General... Comptroller General Jones said to? day that the object is to equalize the 11 taxes this year on the basis of last > ear's assessments. WOUIjD oust harvester trust. Missouri Attorney General Files Brief in Proceedings. Jefferson City, April 17.?Attorney General Major today filed with Spec? ial Commissioner Judge Theodore Brace the State's brief in the pro? ceedings to oust the International 'Iarvester Company from Missosri. In his brief the Attorney General says: "It is well within the power of this company, in the absence of any nat? ural or business cause, to Increase ;..e price on binde rs and mowers to any extent it sees fit, and the public is powerless to do other than raise its hands that its pockets may be looted. "If this bo not monopoly the term is meaningless, and but a catch word, valuable only for lulling people into a seilst? of security while they are in the midst of danger." The respondent company has thirty days ir. which to file is brief, and a report of the special commissioner is expected before the Supreme Court adjourns in June. The case has been set for argument at the October term of Court, sitting en banc.