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THE NEWS.
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The Cartersville Printing Cos.
D. 1. FREEMAN Editor.
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Hard Times a Myth.
Theory of hard units has been indulged in and
kept up, because of politi sand other things, un'
til the cry has grown almost chronic. It would
be hard to ell prosperity now if we were to sud
denly meet it in the road. True there has been a
depression iu all parts of the country came of
natural causes and natural causes are fast help ng
to di sipue that dep-ession it man will only turn
abnut and do his part m bringing things around
true again. In Georgia there has been a great
cry of pank, \vh n the truth is Georgia has suff
ered perhaps less than a**y state in the Uuifm.
The Albany News, in a recent issue says:
After all the talk of hard times in Georgia
lias been indulged, and after the business de
pression which has existed for several months (
is duly weighed, the further fact must be taken
into consideration that Georgia is perhaps in
better condition, as to business and financial
affairs, than any state in the south or
-than nine out of ten of the rest of the states of
tne union. A prominent south Georgian writes
home from New Jersey, where he has been
spending some 1 time, that conditions there
have been worse than in Georgia and are men
ding more slowly. Similar reports come from
other states. When the hard times were ush
ered in they found Georgia pretty well for
tified against their attacks, thanks to the pros
perous conditions that had prevailed and* the
rapid development of her resources which had
been in progress for a number of years.
If everybody will quit thinking of what might
seem like hard times and turn their eyes and their
efforts in the direction of accomplishing everything
that might be accomplished in the way of
progress and development, the old cry would be a
song that was,dead and we would find ourselves
again on the sure road to better things. Talk
prosperity anfi act prosperity and prosperty will
not on'y come but will linger with us.
■‘Jr 8 * 8 *? Great Political Thought.
The following editorial paragraph from the
commoner is good for a Saturday evening political
thought: “The greatest political thought in the
world is that embodied in the declaration of in
dependence, name’y.tliat all men are created equal.
This is the basis of popular government, and pop
ular government is spreading. It does not mean
that men are, or will be, equal in physical strength
in intellectual ability, in moral character or in
wealth —it simply means that God never gave to
one human being a natural right that he denied to
to any other human being, and that in the con
templation of government, all must stand equal
before the law. Out of this basic principle all
other political principles grow and by it all meth
ods of government and all policies must be meas
ured.”
llow Newspapers May Help.
That weekly papers of the south may benefit
their localities and themselves by devoting space
to matters of local interest instead of wasting it in
hashing over political discussinon is indicated by
the following letter written some time ago to the
Southern Farm Magazine from a resident of Pitts
burg, Pa., who was thinking about making his
permanent home in the south. He writes:
“J want to express my appreciation of your Mag
azine and to particularly endorse the article,
'“Strength for T eekly Papers,” in your issue for
August.
“I had my attention directed to the resources of
the south nearly one year ago by seeing the ex
hibit of the Southern Railway at the Pittsburg
Exposition, and began to try to get all the infor
mation regarding different sections indifferent
places where I thought I might like to live. I
wrote and su ascribed for one or more of the local
papers published there, thinking I could, in the
course of six months, be able to form a more accu
rate idea of the place. I wanted to get items about
dhe weather, crops and such as extremes of heat or
or cold, and of frosts which did damage; also of
extreme wet or dry spells and news of the differ
ent industries that might be located there. In
.nearly every instance I was disappointed in get
ting what I wished, but instead I got long editor
ials- on politics, state and national, doings at Wash
ington, etc., nearly every one of which I had read
in my own Pittsburg paper, and at the end of six
months I knew nothing more about things I ex
pected than I did at first. New settlers will build
r ft? values, and the more papers can of honesty sav
of their sections the more settlers will be attracted
to *Jte place. I have just returned from a tour of
Virginia and North Carolina and think the out
look for the future is very bright, though I have
not yet decided where I wish to locate. I was
raised on a farm in this state, but am tired of the
, cold and think strongly of going where winters are
not so severe.
“I am taking several Southern papers—yours
amongHhe number—and I would like to go at once
, but do not want to go and then wish I had chosen
some other place; but want to select a situation
which I would like better after moving on to it in
stead of one I would grow tired of.
“Please excuse this lengthy letter. I do Lop e
THE CARTERSVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1908
the country papers will all notice your article and
adopt it for their own.”
There is a world of truth in this letter which
many Southern newspapers by no means confined
to the country districts would do well to apply
practically. It will require work. Something
more than scissors and pastepot will be necessary,
but the result will be surprisingly beneficiai to ev
erybody concerned.
Great is the American Farmer.
America is the great farming nation. She is the
store house for the world for the products of the
soil. When the American farmer views
his fellow-countrymen of other call callings
and imagines them so great as to discredit his own
calling he should reflect and think calmly of what
American farming and the American farmer
amount to. Herbert N. Cason, trying of “The
New American Farmer” in The American Reviews
of Reviews, says:
If the American farmer went out of business
this year he could clean up thirty thousand
million dollars. And he would have to sell his
farm on credit; for there is not enoutrh money
iu the whole world to pay him half his price.
‘‘Talk of the money-mad trusts! They might
have reason to be mad if they owned the farms
instead of their watered stock. When we re
member that the American farmer earns
enough in seventeen days to buy out Standard
Oil, and enough iu fifty days to wipe Carnegie
and the Steel Trust off the industrial map, the
story of the trusts seems like ‘the short and
simple annels of the poor.’
‘‘One American harvest would buy the King
dom of Belgium, King and all; two would buy
Italy; three would buy Austria Hungary, and
five, at a spot-cash price, would take Russia
from the Czar.
“Talk of swollen for unes! With the setting
of every sun thfe money-box of the American
farmer bulges with the weight of twenty-four
new millions. Only the most athletic imagina
tion can conceive of such a torrent of wealth.
“Place your finger on the pulse of your wrist
and count the heartbeats, —one, —two,—three,
four. With every four of those quick throbs,
day and night, a thousand dollars clatters in
to the gold-bin of the American farmer.
“How incomprehensible it would seem to
Pericles, who saw Greece in her Golden Age, if
he could know that the yearly revenue of his
country is now no more than one day’s pay for
the men who till the son of this infant Repub
lic!
Ur, how it would amaze a resurrected Chris
topher Columbus if he were told that the re
venues of Spain ant* Portugal are not nearly
as much as the earnings of the American far
mer’s hen!
“Merely the crumbs that drop from the far
mer’s table (otherwise known as agricultural
exports) have brought him in enough of foreign
money since 1892 to enable him, if he wished,
to settle the railway problem once for all, by
buying every foot of railroad in the United
States.
“Such is our New Farmer,—a man for whom
there is no name in any language. He is as far
above the farmer of the story-books as a 1908
touring-car is above a jinrikisha. Instead of
being an ignorant hoemau in a barnyard world
he gets the news by daily mail and telephone;
and incidentally publishes 700 trade journals
of his own. Instead of being a moneyless
peasant, he pays the interest on the mortgage
with the earnings of a week. Even this is less
of an expense than it seems, for he borrows
the money from himself, out of his own banks,
and spends the bulk of the tax-money around
his own properties.
“Faming for a business, not for a living,—
this is the motif of the new farmer. He is a
commercialist, —a man of the twentieth cen
tury. He works as hard as the old farmer did
but in a higher way. He uses the four Ms, —
mind, money machinery, and muscle; but as
little of the latter as possible.
“Neither is he a Robinson Crusoe of the soil,
as the old farmer was. _His hermit days are
over; he is a man among men. The railway,
the trolley, the automobile, and the top buggy
have transformed him into a suburbanite. In
fact, liis business has become so complex and
many-sided that he touches civilization at
more points and lives a larger life than if he
were one of the atoms of a crowded city.
‘All American farmers, of course, are not of
the new variety. The country, like the city,
has its slums. Hut after having made allow
ance for exceptions, it is still, true that the
. United States is the native land of the new
A farmer. He is the most typical human pro-
T duct that this country has produced, and the
most important, for, in spite of its egotistical
cities, the United States if? still a farm-based
nation.” „
Every year adds to the comfort, convenience
and prosperity attending American farm life.
While conveniences increase in the cities, so do
they increase on the farm and the farmer and his
family can enjoy comforts that were unheard of
twenty, forty and fifty years ago. What of the
rural deliveries, the telephones, the better high
ways, the finer schools, the improved church-going
facilities, the better lighting of homes, the labor
saving farm tools and machinery, the access to
books and libraries, and numbers and numbers of
other things that could be named. The great
rural postal delivery systems are making up-to-date
thinkers of all the farmers and eften j-ou find
the most thoroughly posted men on general affairs
among the farmers of the country. Truly, the
farmer lives an ideal life and there is no reason
why he shouldn’t fully realize it. American far
mers are America’s backbone and sinew; they are
the best that exists ®f the human family. The
farmer feeds them all and it is fast getting to
where the farmer leads them all.
lion. M. L. Johnson.
Hon. M. T. Johnson, who led the ticket for
representative in the late primary, is an experienced
and able legislator and will be a strong figure in
the new body, before which are likely to come
many important measures for consideration that
will require judgment and courage in disposing of
them. Mr. Johnson is a farmer and having been
at the head of one of the greatest of the farmers’
organizations, the Southern Cotton Association in
Georgia, will be well capacitated to take care of
(he farmers’ interests at all points. Johnson and
Price make a strong team for Bartow.
The street force under overseer Caldwell are
doing some street gardening this week. Those
weeds are more beautiful in their absence.
THE LAST CONGRESS.
What the Body Did and Did Not Do
During the Last Session.
Following is a record of congress
achievements and failures this ses
sion:
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE
Prohibited child labor in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Prohibited race track gambling in
the district of Columbia.
Increased widows’ existing pen-1
sions from $8 tosl2 per month; grant
ed pensions of #l2 a me nth to prac
tically all widows of Mexican and
Civil war soldiers.
Authorized expenditures of #30,000,- '
000 for public buildings.
Authorized general appropriations
amounting nearly to a billion dollars. !
Ordered a currency commission to
report on revision of financial and
banking laws of the country.
Reclassified the consular service.
Passed employers’ liability law to
take place of one declared uncon
stitutional by the Supreme court of
the United States.
Permitted free operation of foreign
vessels in trade with Phillippines.
Established a range for breeding
American buffalo.
Started the machinery for tariff
revision bv the appointment of an in
vestigating commission.
Authortzed the|construction of two
battleships with the promise of two
more next session.
Raised the pay of all officers and
men of the army and/navy, marine
corps, and revenue cutter service.
Passed a militia law making every
able-bodied man between the ages of
18 and 45 years of age liable to ser
vice.
Adopted arbitration treaties with
nearly every country in Europe and
Japan.
Continued the work of the water
ways commission.
Provided for the defense of Philli
piues and Hawaiian ports by sub
marine mines and fortifications.
Appropriated #1,500,000 for parti
cipation by the United States in the
Japanese Exposition of 1910.
Passed emergency currency bill
providing issue ol #500,000,000 to allay
panics.
WHAT CONGRESS HAS NOT DONE
Refused to place wool pulp on the
free list.
Declined to accept President’s four
battleship preposition.
Pigeonholed amendments to Sher
man anti-trust law.
Failed to adopt postal savings bank
plan.
Passed up until next December the
bill to reinstate discharged colored
troops.
No anti-junction bill.
No national child labor law, but
date set for its consideration next
session.
Refused to give interstate com
merce commission authority to pass
upon proposed increased railroad
rates before they go into effect.
Granted no increased powers to
prohibition states over interstate
shipments of liquors.
Enacted no law requiring publici
ty of campaign expenses.
Made no provision for the “spank
ing” of Castro, the Venezuelan presi
dent.
Failed to put wireless telegraphy
under government control.
Failed to relieve the coal-carrying
railroads from the necessity of dis
posing of their mines.
THE OLD COMMANDERS.
A List of the Generals of the Confederacy
Who Are Now Living.
Few there are who realize how
small the list of survivors of the lost
cause is growing. All of the full
generals are dead and gone. They
tvere Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney
Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E.
Johnston, P. hr. T. Beauregard, Brax
ton Bragg, E. Kirby-Sinith, and J.
B. Hood.\
Of the nineteen lieutenant generals
there are but two surviving. They
are Gens. Simon B. Buckner and A.
P. Stewart.
Of the major generals, who were
eighty-one in number, there are only
nine living. They are William T.
Martin of Mississippi, Samuel G.
French, of Mississippi, Robert F.
Hoke, of North Carolina, Camile J.
Polignac of France, Lunsford L.
Lomax of Virginia, Matthew C.
Butler of South Carolina, Thomas L.
Rosser, of Texas, G. W. C. Lee, of
Virginia, Evander M. Law of Ala
bama.
There were 3C7 brigadier generals.
Out of this large list the survivors
number only thirty-seven. They
are: E. Porter Alexander of Georgia,
Frank C. Armstrong, of Louisiana,
Arthur P. Bagby, of Louisiana,
William R. Boggs, of Georgia, Pinck
ney D. Bowles of Alabama. Rob
ert Bullock, of Florida. William L.
Cabell, of Virginia, Ellison Capers,
of South Carolina, Francis M. Cock
rell of Missouri, George B, Cosby, of
Kentucky, William R Cox, of North
Carolina, John Z. Cox, of Tennessee,
Alfred Cumming of Georgia, Samuel
W, Ferguson of Mississippi, Richard
M. Gano, of Kentucky, George W.
Gordon, of Tennessee, Daniel C.
Govan, of Arkansas, George P. Har
rison, Jr. of CJeorgia, Eppa Hunt on
of Virginia, Alfred Iverson, Jr., of
Georgia, Adam R. Johnson of Texas,
George D. Johnston, of Alabama,
Robert D. Jqjinston, of North Car
olina, Thomas M. Logan of South
Carolina, Robert Lowry, of Mississip
pi, .John MqCausland, of Virginia,
William Macomb, of Tennessee,
Thomas H. McCray, of Arkansas,
William R. Miles of Louisiana, Wil
liam Miller. Of Florida, John C.
Moore, of Texas, Thomas T. Munford,
of Virginia, Francis T. Nicholls, of
Louisiana, Roger A. Pryor of Virgina,
William P. Roberts, of North Caro
lina, Beverly #l. Robertson, of Vir
ginia, Felix H. Robertson, of Texas,
Thomas B. Smith, of Tennessee,
Allen Thomas, of Louisiana, Henry
H. Walker, of Virginia, Marcus J.
Wright, of Tennessee.
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A. -A Vf W CHERRY PECTORAL.
INCREASE IN VALUES.
Comptroller Wright Issues Report, Which
Shows Condition of Property Yalnes.
The property of the state of
of Georgia is worth $699,536,879.
This is shown in the annual report
of Comptroller General William
A. Wright. This report of the
taxable preperty is an increase of
$72,004,340 over the previous year,
that is the year 1906. The public
utilities show an increase of $32-
725.985-
The report shows the receipts
and expenditures of the state
during the year, the total assessed
value of the whole taxable prop
erty of the state, the taxes paid by
negroes, the composition of the
state school fund, the taxes paid
by corporations with the result of
all the arbitrations had during the
year, and ell the details of tax
matters, county by county. It
also gives interesting figures as to
the business of insurance, both
life and fire with the premiums
collected by the companies from
the people. The reports conclude
with a number of important re
commendations.
Comptroller General Wright
urgently recommends a thorough
revision of the entire revenue of
the state. He says that the pres
ent and disjointed loose machinery
for assessing property for taxation
permits much property in the
state to evade taxation altogether
and much more to evade the pay
ment of its just and equitable
shemg of the public buidens.
To correct the trouble, Comp
troller Wright recommends the
establishment of boards of arbitra
tion, one board which shall have
the power to fix valuations of
property of all corporations, which
under the law are required to
make their returns to the comp
tioiler general, and also county
board which shall have similar
power in regard to the property in
each county.
Mothers p totaling
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Advertising for Federal Building
Site.
Treasury Department.
Office of the Secretary.
Washington, D. €., June 5,1908.
Proposals will be received, to be open,
ed at 2 o’clock p. m., July 9, 1908, for the
sale or donation to the United States of a
suitable site, centrally and conveniently
located for the Federal building to be
erected in Cartersville, Georgia. A cor
ner lot, of (approximately) 120 bv 130 tfefet,
is tfe(|tiired. Each proposal must give
the price, the character of foundations
obtainable, the proximity to street ears,
sewer, gas, and water mains, etc., and
must be accompanied by a diagram in
dicating the principal street, the north
point, the dimensions and grades of the
land, whether the alleys are public or
private; and whether or not the city owns
land occupied by sidewalks. The ven
dor must pay all expenses connected
with evidences of title and
deeds of conveyance. Improvements on
the property must be reserved by the
vendotu but pending the commencement
of the Federal building they mav remain
on the land upon payment o'fa reasonable
ground rent. The grantor must, however,
remove all improvements on thirty days
notice so to do. The right to reject aiiy
proposal is reserved. Each proposal
must be sealed, marked “Proposal for
Federal building site at Cartersville,
Georgia,” .and mailed to the SECRE
TARY OF THE TREASURY (Super
vising Architect). Washington, D. C.
No special form of proposal is required
or provided.
. GEO. B. CORTELYOG',
3t Secretary.
Early Rrsers
The famous little pills.
Petition for Incorporation of “Atco
Stores Company.”
STATE OF GEORGIA—County of Bar
tow. S S.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petitiorfof K. L. McClain, W. M.
McCafferty, L. Hannon and H. I. Gray
respectfully shows:
First. That they desire for themselves,
their associates, successors and assigns
to be constituted a body corporate under
the narhe and style of “ATCO STORES
COMPANY,” for the term of twenty
years, with the privilege of renewal at
the expiration of said time.
Second. Petitioners desire for said
corporation the right to buy, sell,' hold,
encumber and otherwise dispose of all '*
real and personal property which may
be necessary or advantageous to the
purposes of said corporation; to sue and
be sued; to have and use a common seal;
to make by-laws for its government,
elect directors for the management of its
affairs, and confer on them the right to
elect officers and appoint employees, to
gether with all other rights, powers and
privileges incident, usual or necessary to
like corporations under the laws of said
state.
Third. The object of said corporation
is and will be pecuniary gain to its stock
holders.
Fourth. The particular business to be
carried on by said corporation is as fol
lows, to-wit: To conduct a store or
stores for the purchase and sale, at retail
and wholesale, of dry goods, groceries,
crockery, glassware, queensware, har
ness, trappings, articles made from
leather, notions, millinery, shoes, boots,
toys, confectionery, wall paper, decora
tions, furniture, hardware, carpets, grain,
meats, flour, meal, cereals, canned fruits
and vegetables, and all other articles or
merchandise necessary or convenient for
consumption or nse, or that may be ad
vantageously bought or sold in a general
store.
Fifth. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Ten Thousand
($10,000.00) Dollars, divided into shares
of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars each;
at least ten per cent of which is to be
paid in before commencing business.
But petitioners desire that said corpora
tion shall have the right to increase said
capital stock to any amount not exceed
ing Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars,
■whenever the holders of a majority of the
stock may so determine.
Sixth. The principal plaee of business
of said corporation shall be in the village
of Atco, county and state aforesaid, but
petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the right to establish branch
offices or agencies at any other places,
either within or without the state of
Georgia, as the holders of a majority of
the stock may determine upon.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that after
this petition has been filed and published
in accordance with the law, an order be
Eassed by this court declaring them a
ody corporate, under the name and
style aforesaid, and granting to said cor
poration all the rights, powers and privi
leges set out and prayed for in this ap
plication, or wldch my be incident
thereto, or usual, or promotive of the
purdoses of their incorporation as afore
said.
And petitioners will ever pray, etc.
J. M. NEEL,
Petitioner’s Attorney.
GEORGIA—Bartow county:
I, J. R. Anderson, Deputy clerk of the
superior court, in and for said county do
hereby certify that the above and fore
going is a true and correct copy of the
original petition this day filed in this
office of the clerk of said court by the
above named petitioners for the grant of
a charter by said court, for the incorpor
ation of said petitioners under the name
of “Atco Stores Company.”
This June 3, 1908.
J. R. ANDERSON, Deputy clerk.
Men Wanted For United States Marine Corps
An opportunity to see the
World. Service afloat, ashore, and in our
island possessions. Age 19 to 35 years.
Salary 813.00 to 847.00 per month; 8237.00 clothing
allowance. Board, lodging and medical attendance
free. Excellent opportunity for promotion. For
full Information apply in person or by letter to
U. S. MARINE CORPS RECRUITING OFFICE,
Cor. Peachtree and Aubaro Ave., Atlanta,Ga. Pot Office
Building, Rome, Ga. Cannon Building, Dalton, Ga.
$25.00 REWARD.
A standing reward of twenty-five dol
lars Is offered and will be paid cash, by
Bartow county for the arrest and delivery
to the sheriff at Cartersville, Ga., for
each and all escaped convicts. This offer
of reward stands good until January 1,
1909. A. G. WHITE, Chairman,
G. H. GILREATH, Clerk.
Louisville & Nashville Railway.
Arriving and Departing at Cartersville, Ga.
all train daily.
Arf Lv.
Cincinnati & Louisville 5:31 pm 11:09 am
Etowah Acoom’dation 7:00 pm 9:40 am
Atlanta Aecom’dation 11:09 am 5:31 pm
Effective Sunday, January 19, 1908.
Libel for Divorce, _ :(fI
John L. Abernathy vs. Pearly F. Ab
ernathy.
Georgia— Bartow County:
Notice to the defendant in the above
stated case, Pearly F. Abernathy, a non
resident of said state:
You are hereby notified and required
personally or by attorney to be and ap
pear at the next superior court to be
held in and for said county on the second
j Monday in July 1908 then and there to
answer the Plaintiff's demand in an ac
tion of libel for divorce. In default
thereof the court will proceed as to jus
tice shall appertain.
Witness the Hon. A. W. Fite, Judge of
said court, this the sth day Of May, 1908.
W. c. WALTON,
clerk.
Notice of Dissolution.
Cartersville, Ga., May Ist. 1908.
To the Public:
The partnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned, under the firm
name of Neel & Peeples, hat ihg this day
expired by limitation, we hereby give
notice to our clients and friends, that all
pending eases and business in our hands,
date of dissolution, will receive our joint
attention until fully disposed of.
Each of us will receive new ousiness
for himself alon6.
Our association together, in the practice
of law, has been mutually pleasant, and
our dissolution occurs as previously
agreed, in order that Mr. Neel, fnav, at
an early date, associate with himself, in
thO practice of law, his son J. M. NeAl, Jr
J. M. NEEL, ,
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