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NEWNAN HERALD & ADVERTISER VOL. X LIX. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1914. NO. 36 /I Special Sale of Laces! P. F. CUTTINO & CO. will hold a special sale of laces on Monday, Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday, June 8, 9, 10 and II If FOR FOUR DAYS ONLY, in which they will offer their entire stock of laces at very great reductions from regular prices. Included in this sale are the latest patterns in lace flouncings, all-overs and other fash ionable laces—all new and seasonable goods. Coming as this sale does, in the height of the demand for laces, an extraordinary opportunity is afforded for buying these goods at very low prices. Prices /8re For the Four Days ONLY 7 H.P. Twio, Two TwoBty-Fivo Model, $225.00. F.O.B. Factory Any point within a 25 mile radius reached in an hour’s time — and reached comfortably and at small expense upon an Indian Motocycle. MOTOCYCLES FOR 1914 retain the famous Cradle Spring Frame and Folding Footboards, the great comfort features which made Indian Models the sensation of the 1913 season. In addition, the new Indian line is improved at 38 points. 38 Betterments — refinements in de sign, in working parts and in equipment—make a truly remarkable group of motorcycle values. All standard Indian Models are equipped with electric head light, electric tail light, electric signal, two sets storage batteries and Corbin-Brown rear drive speedometer. Longer wheel base, trussed handle bars, internally rein forced frame loop and increased power are but a few of the betterments described in detail in the new Indian catalog. They are features that command the careful consideration of every prospective motorcycle buyer. Ask us fot illustrated catalog. It will help you to form a correct idea of the improvements and equipment to which the buyer of a 1914 motorcycle is ekititlcd. R. L. ASKEW, Sole Agent Jackson Street - - Newnan, Georgia CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY GO. CURRENT SCHEDULES. ARRIVE FROM 11:10 A. M. uiattanootfa 1:40 p. M. lAtlartown 6:39 a. m. ColumbuB ... 9:05 a m. DEPART FOR OrifBn 1:40 1*. m. Griflln 6:39 a. m. Chattanooga li :io a. m Coilartowu 7:17 p. m. Columbus 7 :40 A. M |DR.KING’S NEW DISCOVER* New Life Pills Will Surely Slop That Couch, i The h-t tn the world. 1 V t. . ONE OP US TWO. The day will dawn when one of ub shall hearken In vain to hear a voice that has arrown dumb. And morns will fade, noonB pale, and shadows darken. While Bad eyes watch for feet that never come. One of us two must some time face existence Alone with memories that but sharpen pain. And these Bweet days shall Bhinn back in the dis tance Like dreams of summer dawns in nights of rain. One of ub two, with tortured heart half-broken. Shall read long-treasured letters through salt tears— Shall kiss with anguished lips each cherished to ken That Bpeaks of these love-crowned, delicious years. One of us two shnll find all light, all beauty. All joy. on earth —a tale forever gone— Shall know honcoforth that life means only duty;— O God! O GodI—have pity on that onel Millions Added to Georgia’s Tax Values. Atlanta, Gl., May 30. The information coming to this office from throughout the State is very grat ifying. In several counties the boards of equalizers and assessors have met and completed their work of equaliza tion, and did not have a single arbitra tion. The result is—and this in some of the smaller counties, too—valuations increased from three-quarters of a mil lion to a million and half dollars. I am especially pleased with a letter I re ceived this morning from a member of the board of equalizers of Wilkes coun ty. The returns there indicate an in crease of valuations of approximately a million dollars, and $250,000 of this increase is the result of property now put on the digest which heretofore had never been given in for taxation. The balance of the increase is the result of equalization between the taxpayers. The members of that board are Messrs. K. A, Wilheit, D. S. Standard and J. H. Griffin. These gentlemen report that whilst the board anticipated great diffi culty in their work of equalization, that really it became a work of pleasure when they realized that the taxpayers generally were anxious for a fair valua tion of property and a just equalization amongst the taxpayers. The taxpayers co-operated with the board, with the result the work of equalization became a pleasure, and of great arid substan tial benefit to the State and county. Another letter was received this morn ing from Heard county. The board of equalizers in that county consists of Messrs. A. C. Ware, J. D. Bledsoe and H. G. Moore. Heard county is in the western portion of the State, untra versed by railroads. It is a small coun ty, but as a result of equalization there the increase is approximately three quarters of a million dollars. Not an arbitration waB had, and everyone satis fied. Throughout the State the information comes that the local boards of equali zers are busily at work endeayoring to see that all property is put on the di gest, and that each man takes his exact part of the public burden. The success of the law depends, as I stated the morning I first saw the equalization tax act, upon the claBS of men appointed on the local boards, and I urged the appointment of men of the very higheBt character. I don’t believe the State ever had a body of more pa triotic men in its service than the body constituting the local boards of equali zers and assessors. They have met a delicate situation with intelligence, with patience, with courage, and with a pa triotism unsurpassed. It is too soon yet for me to predict the probable increase of taxable values, the result of the work of equalization and discovering heretofore unreturned property, but I am indulging confident ly the hope that the State this year will discharge its current indebtedness of over a million dollars, and the Gov ernor and Comptroller-General be able to cut the present high tax rate. I also received this morning a letter from the hoard of tax equalizers of an other county, asking whether a citizen of that county who owned $200,000 worth of railroad bonds should have re turned them for taxation. This very letter indicated that the owner of the bonds himself did not know they were taxable, and never heretofore returned them for taxation. A letter received on yesterday from the board in another county informs me that there had been a return by a tax payer of 4,000 acres of land for taxa tion, and upon investigation the hoard found that the taxpayer really owned 9,000 acres of land. The owner had overlooked and failed to return this large area for taxation. A money-lender in this county re turned $800 as all the money, notes and accounts owned by him. He was sum moned before the board of local asses sors. was sworn and examined, and as a result was assessed by the hoard as the owner of $58,000 worth of money, notes and securities. When told by the local board that if dissatisfied with this assessment he could arbitrate, he re plied, "that if the board was satisfied he was." This inqtjlry comes from the board of local assessors in a Middle Georgia county: "In our county is a minister who owns a farm which he returns at $20 per acre. His neighbors return their land at $6 per acre. The land is of equal value. Can we lower the minister’s land?” I replied, by all means lower the minister’s land. .The very object of the tax equalization law is to place like values on an actual equality. I call atten tion to these matters as illustrative of the work of the local assessors. I am pleased with the situation and am ex pecting from the operation of the law great results. The opposition to the law has greatly disappeared, and when the people understand its object and its possibilities they will zealously cham pion the law. The citizen generally is willing to bear his part of the burden of government, hut he insists that his neighbor should hear his burden also. When the work of local equalization between individuals has been completed it is my duty to equalize between coun ties. This is done by raising or lower ing counties. In other words, the ob ject of the law iH to see thut each man fears his part of the common burden, according to the ability of the man to curry it, and every county to take itH part, he it much or little, according to its ability. If this iH done, us the tux equalization law contemplates, the State will pay her debt this year, re duce the high tax rate prevailing, and become a conspicuous example to the world of prosperity, thrift and honesty. Georgia's financial condition of rigrit ought to he, and in fuct will he, hh a re suit of this law, the very best of any State in the Union. John C. Hart, State Tax Commissioner. As Tige, the dog who belonged to the Spink household, wuh finally detached from the trousers leg of the new ice man by Mr. Spink's vigorous efforts, the victim of the onslaught began to ex press his mind with unlimited freedom. "That iH a fine pup of a dog to have running around loose! I—’’ But Mr. Spink broke in before he had time fur ther to give vent to his feelings. "He’s only playful, that’s all,” in sisted the master of the dog, at the same time pressing something into the iceman’s hand. The man glaaced at the wad of green, and then oh he enclosed it safely in an inner pocket his expression softened remarkably. "I guess I can take a little fun as well as the next feller," he said dryly. "But till you explained it I had a no tion that the dog waB in earnest when he bit that piece out o' my pants.” The Mean Thing! It was a cold, dark night, but Sandy and William were happy, because there sat between them the most charming young lady in the district. It was a spirited horse they had hired, and the trap bowled merrily along o’er moor and fell. Sandy, noticing that the side of the muff next to him waB vacant, softly Blippcd his hand in. William held the reins, and bb he dimly perceived, in spite of the dark ness, that his side of the lady’s muff was unoccupied, he slipped his own dis engaged hand into it, and—well, two hands were very soon tenderly pressing each other. And ao the happy moments flew, and the drive homo came almost to an end. "When you gentlemen have done with my muff," Haid the young lady, presently, "I trust you will not fear to tell me, as iny own hands are becoming quite numb with the cold.” Then dark suspicion fell upon her two admirers, fur things are not al ways what they seem. And William and Sandy are now sworn enemies. The British and Foreign Bible Socie ty was founded in 1804 for tho transla tion and world-wide distribution nf the Holy Scripture. The opening of 1914 found tho society engaged in a new translation on revisions of Holy Scrip ture in over one hundred languages. Industry is a potent power in pro gress, civil and religious. Absolutely Pure KQALUM.N0 LIME PHOSPHATE