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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIV
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908.
NO. 5.
FLOUR!
Four hundred barrels Flour, bought before the rise. We
offer this lot, while it lasts, at wholesale prices. We have
also a car-load of Bran and Shorts.
COFFEE & TOBACCO
For the next thirty days we will sell S lbs. best BULK
ROASTED COFFEE for $1.
We have on hand 2,000 lbs. TOBACCO, and will make
a run on this lot for the next thirtv days at WHOLESALE
COST.
THE PEAK AND THE BLOOM.
A beautiful peak reared its head to the sky,
And a little flower bloomed at its foot very shy;
The peak was patrician, and haughty, and said.
As it touched the white clouds with a toss of its
head;
"Those travelers are coming: to graze on my height
And bask in my grandeur and bathe in my light;
They’ll leuve the low valley, and scorn the pale
flower,
As they climb to my g ory and sing of my power.
It waited and waited, afar and alone.
With its head in the snows of its difficult zone,
While the travelers dismounted beside a clear
stream
At the base of the mountain to rest and to dream,
And all that they told of at home the next day
Was the beautiful flowers that they saw by the
So modest and gentle and dainty and shy,
At the foot of the peak with the dew in its eye !
STATE IN FINANCIAL STRAITS.
SHOES.
We have as strong a line of Shoes as was ever offered in
Newnan. They were bought direct from the shoemaker’s
bench, and represent the very best productions in stylish
and serviceable footwear.
Our leaders in men’s everyday wear are
“Hickory Calf,” while “Americus” men’s
are unquestionably the best.
For ladies, our “High Point” and “Dixie Girl
equals. None are superior.
“Dri Sox” and
FINE SHOES
have few
UNDERWEAR.
Doubtless these cool mornings remind YOU that you’ll
need some heavy Underwear, and WE wish to remind you
that we have what you want at SI per suit. Nothing bet
ter ever offered you at the price.
Flower Pots
All sizes; prompt delivery
on telephone orders—201.
A new line of Heating
Stoves just received, and
some of them are beauties.
Coal Scuttles
IS - inch
17 - inch
16 - inch
Largest size,
galvanized 45c.
Medium size,
galvanized 40c.
Ordinary size,
galvanized 35c.
Largest size, 18-inch ja
panned 35c.
Medium size, 17-inch ja
panned 25c.
Coal Vases, S3.
Fire Sets, $1.
Fire Shovels, 5c. to 25c.
Coal Tongs, 20c. to 25c.
See our SI Safety Razor.
Kirby-Bohannon Hardware
Company, ’Pohne 201
T. G. Farmer &Co.
Gov. Smith Will Bequeath to His Succes
sor an Empty Treasury and a
Big Deficit.
Atlanta, Ga.. Oct 24.—Not in a score
of years will a State administration
have begun under such financial em
barrassment as will be probable with
that of Gov. Joseph M. Brown. Un
less some unknown sources produce
considerable revenue between the pres
ent time and June of next year, Mr.
Brown will go into office facing a prac
tical deficit of about $800,000, maybe a
million dollars, in the State’s revenue.
It is probable the first work the next
Legislature will be called upon to do
will be the providing of some means
for meeting the obligations of the
State, and owing to the Constitutional
restrictions surrounding the levying of
taxes the problem will tax the ingenu
ity of the ablest members of the ad
ministration.
The last State Legislature has re
duced the revenue of the State nearly
a half million dollars, without, so far,
adding any to the same. Through abo
lition of saloons approximately $250,-
000 was lost; through the new convict
system about $100,000 will be taken
from the State Treasury, making a to
tal of about $350,000 shortage in the
1909 revenue. In addition to this the
school appropriation alone has been in
creased $200,000 for 1908 and $250,000
for 1909. meaning an incresae of ap
propriations over and above those for
last year to the amount of the de
creases made by two fell swoops in the
revenue of the State.
At the last session of the Legisla
ture approximately $125,000 was added
to the obligations of the State for the
present and next year,
To make it plain : There will he a
reduction of $250,000 in the State’s in
come for the present year; and for the
coniliitf year, in case no provision is
made for meeting the situation next
year, the income will be $450,000 less,
and Dossibly half a million less than
for 1907. The expenses for 1908 will
amount to nearly $300,000 more than
for last year, and for 1909 the same in
crease will be in evidence, even if no
new appropriations are made by the in
coming Legislature.
It will be up to the new administra
tion to raise between $800,000 or $1,-
000,000 revenue outside of present es
tablished sources in order to keep the
affairs of the State going at the pace
fixed by the present administration.
When the Legislature of 1907 lopped
off the whiskey revenue and added
$200,000 and $250,000, respectively, to
the school funds of 1908 and 1909, over
and above previous appropriations to
that source, it was expected that prop
erty values would keep the rate of in
crease as was shown for that year. On
this hypothesis—and, at that time, it
was a reasonable one—the law-makers
calculated that the deficit made proba
ble by the prohibition act would be met
by increased revenue from dircet taxa
tion.
The panic came and values dropped.
come in from the hire of convicts. The
State’s income will be so much less
and its obligations so much greater
than for 1907, that Mr. Brown will
have to face an unprecedented deficit,
unless an unexpected remedy is found.
There is no hope from the Wise near-
beer license act. If the income from
that source is even large, and indica
tions up to the present do not bear out
such a conjecture, it will have to be
expended on convicts, and cannot go
into the general coffers.
Appropriations have been made for
this year on the basis of present tax
levies. The expenditures were in
creased in the hope that the ad valo
rem tax returns would grow to meet
them. As is shown, there will be no in
crease this year. Prospects for next
year are even less promising. If cotton
remains down in price the tax digest is
apt to be lowered during the coming
yeur, because of the depreciation in
farm property.
If Gov. Smith sees fit to meet all the
State’s obligations as they fall due dur
ing his half of the coming year—and
such would be in the realm of both
right and propriety—he will exhaust,
according to State officials who know,
not only the available accumulated re
sources of the Treasury, but the bor
rowing power of the State as well.
The recent Legislature re-enacted the
annual pension payment plan. These
obligations, amounting to pearly a mil
lion dollars, will fall due before the
Governor’s term expires, and he will
doubtless try to meet them. About a
year’s back pay from the State will be
due the public school teachers. No
doubt but that he will endeavor to meet
them as far as possible, Should he en
deavor, even by borrowing the $200.-
000 permitted by the Constitution, to
meet all the obligations falling due be
fore the expiration of his term, it is
doubtful if the Govrenor could succeed.
The bulk of taxes for 1908 will come
in during December and January.
Practically all will have been paid by
the time the life of the present admin
istration expires. It will be December,
1909, before any appreciable amount of
revenue will again be forthcoming.
It is possible—in fact, highly proba
ble—that when the next General As
sembly inducts Jos. M. Brown into office
it will be with an empty Treasury, with
many pressing bills unpaid, and, may
be, with the borrowing power of the
State already employed to the Constitu-
Country Swept by Tidal Wave of
Democracy.
New York. Oct. 24.—National Chair
man Mack authorized a statement to
day. in whicli he claimed the election
of William J. Bryan by a landslide.
Mr. Mack announced that his reports
showed that Mr. Bryan would receive
at least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more
than is necessary to a choice. Mr.
Mack’s forecast of the election fol
lows ;
"The rumblings and thunder of the
Bryan landslide in the West are already
heard in the Eastern States, and to-day
I can confidently predict the election
of Mr. Bryan. That landslide in the
West will extend to the shores of the
Atlantic. It means that the Demo
cratic national ticket will carry every
doubtful State in this section, nnd in
rock-ribbed Republican districts the
majorities of that party in recent years
will be reduced to a minimum. Basing
my forecast on the most conservative
lines, in view of the optimistic reports
1 have received from all sections of
the country, I figure that Mr. Bryan
will have at least 301 electoral votes,
or 59 more than is necessary to a
choice. This comfortable majority will
be increased, rather than decreased,
when the vote is counted.
"In addition to the 160 votes of the
Solid South— and in this I include
Maryland—I am confident that Mr.
Bryan will carry New York, New Jer
sey. Connecticut, Idaho, Montana. Col
orado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana,
Ohio, Delaware, Kansas and South Da
kota—a total of 301 votes. All over the
country there is a change of 25 to 50
Of
tional limit—with the runnfng expenses
of the State government to be met for
the succeeding six months, and practi
cally not a single unexhausted definite
source of revenue available.
Then it will be up to the General As
sembly to aid the Governor in handling
what will be a complex situation. And
difficulties will be met there. The Con
stitution limits the tax rate to five
mills, at which it is now fixed. It also
limits the borrowing power of the Gov
ernor. Neither can be changed except
by approval of the people, and to ob
tain that would require three or four
months.
Out of the situation is apt to grow a
new form of special taxation.
It is the Comptroller-General’s esti
mate that it would require an ad valo
rem tax levy of 6J mills to place the
State on a reasonably sound financial
footing in 1909.
But the levy cannot go beyond 5 mills.
Election Complications.
Mroe complications have arisen over
the returns from the recent State elec
tion and those to bo made for the na
tional election next Tuesday.
It has developed that for the latter
two separate returns will have to be
Instead of about $30,000,000 increase ; maf j e> The law requires the vote for
in property values for 1908, as was the ] ConKrcssmen and Presidential electors
case in 1907, the authorities will count
the State fortunate if the digest retains
its 1907 standard of returns.
The reports of Tax Receivers show
an increase of about $5,000,000 in the
returns of property as made to them
for the present year. This will be
more than met by the decreases in the
returns and fixed assessments on corpo
rate property. Practically no big cor
poration will pay taxes on a larger as
sessment than was paid in 1907; the
assessment on a large majority of
them will be less than for last year.
Many have contested the assessments
of Comptroller-General Wright, fixed
in nearly every instance at the figures
of last year, and have carried the
quarrels to arbitration boards. In no
case has a board of arbitration fixed an
assessment at a figure higher than that
prevailing for 1907, and in a large ma
jority of the cases passed on the ulti
mately fixed valuation has been much
lower than that of last year.
The Central of Georgia railroad alone
will pay taxes on more than $1,000,000
less property this year.
The income from the ad valorem
method of taxation will be just about
the same as in 1907. There will be lit
tle if any increase in special taxes.
Nothing has been collected from sa
loons, and after April 1, nothing will
to be made known to the Governor,
who supervises their consolidation.
However, for the first time since the
present Constitution was adopted two
amendments to that document are to be
submitted to the people at the national
election. It is provided that the returns
on the amendments shall be made to
the Secretary of State.
The Attorney-General has held that
two different kinds of blanks must be
sent out and one returned to the Gov
ernor and the other to the Secretary of
State.
The two amendin nts provide for ser
vice pensions for Confederate veterans
and their widows, and the other will
authorize counties to levy taxes for po
lice and sanitary purposes.
Wood’s Liver Medicine is for the re
lief of Malaria, Chills and Fever and all
ailments resulting from deranged con
dition of the Liver, Kidneys and Blad
der. Wood’s Liver Medicine is a tonic
to the liver and bowels, relieves sick
headache, constipation, stomach, kid
ney and liver disorders and acts as a
gentle laxative. It is the ideal remedy
for fatigue and weakness. Its tonic
effects on the entire system felt with
the first dose. The $1 size contains
nearly 2J times the quantity of the 50e.
size. In liquid form. Pleasant to
take. Huffaker Drug Co.
per cent, from the Roosevelt vote
1904 to Mr, Bryan.
"The result is no longer in doubt in
New York. The 89 votes of that State
are assured for Mr. Bryan, lie will
win by a substantial plurality. The
Empire State can no longer be included
in that territory called the enemy’s
country." I speak from information
gained from a thorough canvass, and
reports from every county In the State,
"From Connecticut 1 have received
very encouraging report*. Judge Rob
ertson, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, will carry the Stute by about
20,000 plurality, and the national tick
et, backed by a united party, has the
best chance in years for winning the
seven electoral votes.
"New Jersey sounds an optimistic
note, and there is every reason to be
lieve that that State will be in the
Democratic column. Few, if any
States in the Union, have a better or
more effective organization than Now
Jersey.
"The internal dissension in the ranks
of the Republican party in West Vir
ginia and the swing of the labor vote
in that State to Mr. Bryan, are power
ful factors for his success.
"Delaware we expect to win. The
people are hot with resentment against
a party branded with Dupontism.
Thou, nnds of Republicans there will
either vote for Bryan or not vote at all.
"In Ohio and in Indiana every ele
ment is working for our success, and
despite the great Republican majorities
of previous years, 1 am confident that
both States will be in the Democratic
column. They are for Bryan to-day.
and there is no reason for believing
that the next week will witness a
change of sentiment. Eighty per cent,
of the labor vote in both States, and
fully as large a percentage of the Ger
man population, are for Mr. Bryan.
"Illinois is doubtful, with the
chances in favor of Mr. Taft, but if he
wins it will be by a greatly reduced
plurality.
"The Pacific coast States all show a
Bryan trend and a disgust for the ex
travagant, destructive policies of Mr.
Roosevelt. In each, particularly in Or
egon, State issues are an important
factor.
"The mountain States, from infor
mation I have received, will. I am con
fident, be counted in the Democratic
column.
"In fine, I figure at the present time
Mr. Bryan will have at least 301 elec
toral votes. I include in my estimate
the following States:
Solid South 100
Idaho 3
Montana 3
Colorado 5
Nebraksa 8
Nevada 3
Indiana 15
Ohio 23
Delaware 3
Kansas 10
New York 39
New Jersey 12
Connecticut 7
South Dakota 4
The Editor.
A SMALL BOY'S ESSAY.
"I don’t know how newspapers come
to be in the world. I don’t think God
docs, for He ain’t got nothing to say
about them. A editor is one of the
missing links you read about, and must
have stayed in the bushes until after
the flood, and then came out and wrote
the tiling up, and has been here ever
since. I don’t think he ever dies. I
never saw a dead one, and I never
heard of one getting licked. Our paper
is a mighty good one; but the editor
goes without underclothes all winter
and don’t wear any socks, and paw
ain’t paid his subscription since the
paper started. 1 ast paw if that was
why the editor had to suck the juice
out of snowballs in winter and go to
bod when he had a shirt washt in the
summer. And then paw took me out
into the woodshed and he li’ekt me aw
ful. If the editor makes a mistake
folks say he ought to be hung, but if a
doctor makes any mistakes he buries
’em, and people dassent say nothing,
because doctors can read and write
Latin. When the editor makes a mis
take there is lawsuits, but if a doctor
makes one there is a funeral, cut flow
ers and perfeck silence. A doctor can
use a word a yard long without him
or nobody knowing what it means; but
if the editor uses one he has to spell it.
If the doctor goes to see another man’s
wife he charges for the visit; hut if
the editor goes he gets a charge of
buckshot. When the doctor gets drunk
it’s a case of being overcome by heat,
and if he dies it’s from heart trouble ;
when an editor gets drunk it’s a case of
too much booze, nnd if he dies it’s the
jim-jams, Any old college can make
n doctor; a editor has to he borrt/i
Pineules fir Backache, little golden
globules, easy and pleasant to take.
Act directly on the kidneys, purify the
blood and invigorate the entire system.
Best for backache, lame back, kidneys
and bladder. 30 days trial $1. Guar
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Nobody really believes that the elec
tion of either Bryan or Taft will stop
the wheels of industry or prevent seed
grain from sprouting in 1909. It is fol
ly to try to fool workingmen out of
employment into the belief that if the
election goes one way or the other merf
will cease to buy themselves new shirts
and build new houses, and that the
wheels will cease to turn, and there
will be no more buying or selling or
going about. The real thing to consid
er >'s whether the Republican party, in
trusted with unrestricted management
of national affairs, has succeeded in
justifying further popular approval.
There is a very general feeling abroad
in the land that the party has earned a
vote of censure, and that a change of
administration is desirable. The effort
to prevent such a change either by
plot, purchase, prejudice or persuasion,
we believe is doomed to failure.—Phil
adelphia Record.
A LIBERAL OFFER.
The taste of success is better than a
mouthful of defeat.
Total.
.301
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The thing that inspires a man to
want a public office is how he hates
to work for his living.
The Holt & Oates Oo. Guarantee to
Cure Dyspepsia. If They Fail,
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To unquestionably prove to the peo
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dyspepsia is curable and that Rexall
Dyspepsia Tablets will effect the cure,
we will furnish the medicine absolute
ly free if it fails to give complete sat
isfaction to anyone giving it a trial.
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Bismuth subnitrate and pepsin are
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The pepsin used in Rexall Dyspepsia
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The carminatives add properties
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The perfect combination of these in
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on our own personal guarantee that
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Ga.
One application of ManZan Pile Rem
edy, for all forms of piles, relieves
pain, soothes, reduces inflammation,
soreness and itching. Price 50c. Guar
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