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DADE COUNTYTIMES —PUBLISHED EVERY \¥Rl DAY HUNT & TATUM, Proprietors B. F. TATLJkI, Editor OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DADE COUNTY Entered atQtbe Post Oflae a# Trenton Ga., as second class mail matter. Terms SI.OO per year in advance. Advertising rates reasonable asnd will be -Bade known upon application. All commttttications mwst be accompa Die with the rkae name of the writer. Address all correspondence to The Ti mks, Trenton, Ga. Hon. William J. Bryan,Dem ocratic nominee for the pres idency, has made an appeal to the Democrats of the cou ntry for contributions to the Democratic campaign fund, suggesting that Democratic newspapers act as solicitors and forwarding agents in their localities. THE TIMES will recieve all contributions and promptly forward them to the treasurer of the Nat ional Democratic Campaigm Committee. CONVICTS AND GOOD ROADS There can be no doubt, as the result of the practical experience .which Fulton county has had in employing convicts upon its roads well as other counties which have similarly employed them, that the use of convicts for road building is most effective and ex tremely economical. It is not necessary to say more as to the effectiveness of convict labor on the roads than to point to the ex cellent raads which have been built by them in Fulton and oth er counties of the stste. The question of economy is largely determined by the cost of keeping and working the convicts, and the cost of maintaining the convicts is governed somewhat Roth by the management and the number of convicts employed. In the matter of management, it is econamical to employ a su perintendent to have charge of the convicts and general direction of the road building who has suffici ent ability to avoid wasteful ex pense, sufficient administrative ability to manage men, and suffi cient knowledge of road building, lk>th to make the best use of the ti material at hand and to so con struct the roads as to give them the highest degree of durability which the conditions permit. Convict cast 45 cents a day.— The experience of Fulton county, under careful management, is that with an average of about 400 con victs, the cost to the county per convict, per day, is now approxi mating 45 cents, This includes every expense incurred by the AN INVITATION * 1 exhmd a cordial invitation to the inhabitant? of the < *'bite of Dude Cos call on me when in (JhatUinooga and inspect my stock of hewing machines. Peerless patterns, Scissors and Shears, Hall's lloichert Dress Forms, Needles, Attachments and all parts tor all machines. When your old machine needs repairing send it to me. When yon want anew machine come to me. MACHINES FROM $2.50 TO SSO-00. Domestic, White, Davis, New Home Standard. Crown Sunder, Yimlex Special. (oodlicit It. Wilcox U*qeton and Ilihhard Tree. H. H. SOUDER, Street. Sign; The Raloon and Souder. EVERYTHING stock of the right goods. GOODS THAT- YOU WANT. v * s Will buy if you see them fiist. Prices art guaranteed to be satisfactory for cash or its ''• - * ■ equivalent. J. C. ROBERTSON county in connection with the maintenance of the convicts and ol the building of roads; that is, it includes the cost of feeding, clothing, housing and guarding the convicts, as well as superin [ tendence, medical attention, maintenance of live stock, repairs to machinery, purchase or con straction of wagons, purchasing of new stock to take the place of those that become disabled, and road material, and providing an annual depreciation on all the machinery owned by the county l of 10 per cent per annum; that is to say, that when all these items are considered and the total sum is divided by the number of con victs held by the county, includ ing the disabled ones, as well as the able-bodied ones, the average cost per-capita per day of each convict does not exceed 50 cents. Since some of the items, such as superintendence, wear and tear, and depreation in machinery, and other similar items, which may be easily thought of, can not be re duced beyond a certain point, the cost of maintaining a small camp would be. per-capita, proportion ately greater than that of as large a one as Fulton has employed, but I estimate that, under reasonably good management, a gaiig of 25 men, supplied with such machin ery, such stock and such tools, implements and road materials as that number of men could effec tively employ, ought not to cost any county, including all of the items which I have above men tioned, more than 75 cents per day per man. Indeed lam mak ing a liberal estimate in making this figure. The ratio of cost, per capita, of course, decreases in pro portion to the increased number of men employed. Superiority of convict labor.— Convict labor is far superior to such free labor as could be pro cured in Georgia for this purpose, because the labor is always at hand; the laborer works a whole day; he is so trained as to under stand exactly what is expected of him; lie is well clothed, well fed and well attended, so as to keep him in the best physical condition. The figures above given show that the actual cost, per-capita, including all expenses connected with the rogd building, is from one third to one half of the cost of the labor alone where free la bor is employed. It is not necessary for me to re fer to the benefits which the conn - j ties receive as the result of em ploying their convicts upon the roads, liecause all concede the value of good roads to every com munity, but it will not be out of place in connection with the eco nomical phase of the question to remind you that: A good road greatly enhances the property that it reaches. In my experience in Fulton county, the enhancement in value imme diately following the completion of a first-class road has ranged from 100 to 300 per cent—that is to say, immediately upon the v ompletion of a road constructed properly, the lands, say situated from five to fifteen miles from At lanta, have become marketable at from 100 to 300 per cent more than they could have been sold lor before the road was completed. The lands lying nearest the city, having a greater value before, showed the least percentage ol in crease and those at the greatest distance from the city, having small value before, showed the largest percentage of increase, Oi course, these percentages in in crease would not raach the high est figures in a county that did not have a large city m it, but l do believe that in any county the percentage of increase would be less than 100 per cent —that is to say, where lands were selling from ten to fifteen dollars per acre prior to the construction of a first-class road from the county site, through or near these lands, they would immediately thereafter become worth from twenty to thirty dol lars an acre. This is due to sev eral causes but prominent among them is that the grade on the road being placed at a minimum, the farmer can haul from his home to the county site or shipping point three times as much produce as he previously could, depending upon previous conditions of the road; he can haul more rapidly and occupy less of his time in going and re turning from the shipping .point, and it becomes profitable for him to raise many things that before that time he could not raise be en use lie could not market the product; and in addition to this the increased comfort and pleasure in getting back and forth induce people to seek investments in farms and suburban lands, who would, without the good roads, never consider the subject at all It makes it easy for the children to go to school, and both adults and children to go to church; the school population and churehgo e s are increased, with the result that the degree of civilization and culture in the commit ity is en hanced. Corollary to the en hancement in values thus pro duced is the increased amount c l taxes which the county receives .ml the consequent increased abil ity on the part ol* the county t > maintain the convicts. Small squad not so efficient.— With a small squad of men, say twenty-live or less, it would be difficult to accomplish much more than an easy grade and the keep ing of them in repair; and even this work would necessarily pro gress slowly with so small a force, but would nevertheless be a great help to the country and would be of a benefit proportionately much larger than the cost. To construct a first-class road would require a larger force of men, depending somewhat upon what material was employed* in the road building. A macadam roa , the kind of road which we tue building now a'most exclusively in Fulton county, say sixteen feet in width, where the county owns its own machinery, tools, iniph men Is. stock, wagons and other necessary apt dances and quarries and crush es its own stone, would require not less than fifty men employed on the work lot its construction, though a macadam road, where the more primitive methods are employed in its construetio could he laid with twenty five 01 thirty men, but the progress would be slow, and the result m.ire or less unsatisfa *!o y Still, any progress is better than none, an . Ij would not advise a countv to r - fuse to work its convicts on its loads even though it could not accomplish the most scientific re sults with the force at its com mand.—Den. ‘ lifiord I . Amier so . in Atlanta Georgia •. CASTORS A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Sought Bears the Signature of TAX MATTERS State of Georgia, Dada County Court of Ordinary sitting for county purposes October 20th 1908* Whereas, NY. P. Pace Tax Col lector elect for said Counnv for the years 1 907 and 1908 having filed his bond, as required by law, with approved security and the court of ordinary having accepted the same as solvent, it is therefore ordered by the court of ordinary that said W. P. Pace. T. C., he and is here by authorized and required to col lect and pay to the county Trea urer as the law requiresanddirecG for the following purposes, to-vvit: Taxable valuation of property on Digest for 1908 $1168,611 Taxable valuation of Railroad property $719,997 Taxable value of Telegraph and Telephone property $5,448 To’al valuation $1,889,086 Jury and Halids oAc $1.038 99 Pauper fund 4c 755.63 Jail fund 2Jc 42*2.27 General fund 3c .666.72 Fees fund l|c 236.14 Commission fund 3 1-4..., 613.94 Fuel and Stationary 4c ....94.55 Road fund 15c 2,883.6 Making a total 1 ate of 35c on oh SIOO.OO for all county pel pose for t lie yenr 1908. And the Suit rate is 50c on the SIOO 00 for tin year 2908, making a total rate ol 85c on the SIOO.OO for state and county purposes for the year 1908. The railroad, tdegraph and tele phone valuations are taken thorn the assessment of 1907 a* the val uation of said properties are under going arbetration and I am inform ed hv the Comptroller General that it is not likely to tie st tiled soon. The amount assessed for commis sions is intended to cover the con mission on t he w hole am >mt ievie for Die year 1908. Giv-n under my hand and offici al signature. \\ n.. 0. Reesv, Ordinary. Tfip aiticle from the pen of Gen. Clifford L. Anderson, of Atlanta, on ‘‘Convicts and Good Roads," is the best thing we have read on the subject. Nl. Anderson is thoroughly fa miliar subject and points out (deal 1 ity of working con lie roads in the smalb r count w.'ii :b (dciss Dade is painfudy it his ideas aie correct, this applicable to us. This paper has been inclined to favor convict labor for road bu ild ing, but since reading Gen. An- dersoti’s article on the subject, an 1 the law creating, regulating and governing convict labor on roads and other public works of the State, our views have been changed and we now believe it would be impractical and very expensive for as small a county as Dade to work convict labor. Dade county is only entitled to I’ve conviets as ber share, without cost, other than expense of work ing them; and if she were to get a greater number, all ovet five would have to come from other counties at the expense of SIOO.OO per an num each, and the expense of bringing them here. There are many good reasons vhy this county cannot afford t> work convicts on her roa D, hut enough to know that it won't pay. Hoads can be built in Da h county cheaper than by convict labor, under a plan which will be published in ibis paper next week. F. J. WILLIAMS FINE WATCH REPAIRING Fifty cents for cleaning. Reasonable price for .ill work. Will reeieVe orders bv inni! aiut p:iv postage on all orders one wav. v Mice address, RISING FAWN, U.\. ft 2? fafli hU £h f 1 i: FORMATION 1 Snfh*3 1 t. J E \ Par's cr &xslae3& Jj {or sp’-?. Not rorticroe" about location. I *3 \,i;h to lic.u from <* ; oer only who M S5 will s<s>! 'Hr --t to -r. Give price, 3 Gj and icriptv.’!i unu ctai-s ' : * ctl possession Q &a Ss?M | FOIETSfIONEr^T/i^. •stosss ts>© ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Congress. HON. GORDON LfCfc For Judgeot Superior Court Cl er okne Circuit Judge A. W. Fite. For Solicitor General of Cherokee Circuit. Col. T. C Milner. CITATION. Georgia, Dade Oonntv: Whereas, Win. Gross sul in inist rat or 01 Mrs. lhbie Morgan de< eas and, represents to the court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully ad ministered said estate. This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to s'*o\v cause, if any they can, why said administra'or should not be dis charged from his administration, and re ceive letters of dismission on the first Monday in November 1908. This Goto her 7th 1908. W'm. O. Reese, Ordina ry. HAD A CLOSE CALL, Mrs. Ada L. Croons, the widely known proprietor of the Groom Hotel, Vaughn, Miss., says: “For several months I suf fered with a severe cough, and consump tion seemed to have its grip on rue, when a friend recommended Dr. Kings New Discovery. I began taking it, and three hollies affected a complete cure” The fame of this life saving cough and cold remedy, and lung and throat healer is wotld wide. Sold at all drug stores 50c and SI.OO. Trial hot tie free. WHERE LI CL LETS FLEW. David Darker, of Fayette, N- Y., a vete- I ran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettvshurg, says: “The good Electric hitters have done is wor h more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much mom y doctoring for a laid case of stomach trouble, to little purpose- I then tried Electric hitters, and they cured me. 1 now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong ami well.” Sold at 50c a bottle by all druggists, WOULD MORTGAGE THE FARM. A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire, G;i., W. A. Floyd by name, says: “huck letds A mica Salve cured the two woist sores I ever saw,one on my hand and the other one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to im.rig ge the farm to get it.” Only 25e at ali dmggi fs. A HEALTHY FAMILY. “Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King's Nt w Life Eiils, three years ago,” says L. \. Rartlet. of Rural Route 1, Guilford, Maine. They dense and tone the system in a gentle wav that docs you good. *_sc at till dt uggists. —grr ♦- YOUNG MEX ! 11’ you want to Jknov why you should become tel operators and what school write to SOUTHERN SC'IIOF TELEGRAPIIY Newnan, Ga,, tor tree Catalog-A' 7 EVERY BOY should read it. Pos itions postively guaniseed. RUSSSLI, F, LAWYER. Special Attention Given to Collections and Administration of Estates AGENT For the Franklin Life Insur ance Company. Insure your life and make it worth some thing after death. AYe write all. forms of policies. Office Trenton, Georgia. Agent for all Legal Blanks at lowest price. FRIEDMAN 830 MARKET ST., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. MEN AND YCUNG MEN’S OUTFITTERS THE POPULAR “SHEET’’ ATTAW6Y IS HERE 10 CATER TO YOUR WANTS IN CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS. US A CALL.*#- imnonMai foieisbiwhm^ ‘ire-'’ Os tec u£3t* XicaXs ? ar child*en: sa/4. wre* <u? iat9 The Times’ Clubbing Off.. Other Pa ; r ; #? Read the List, The Times one y ear American fanner, m,e' v ßr ! -° or IT PRICE FOR BOTH jj'J- The Times, one year.. ° Southern Agriculturist ' <M| Ol’R PRICE FOR ROTH tit Llie Times, one year Tl,e Weekly 11ia,),. , $2 (x> Ol R PRICE FOR BOTH.. 4, T Re Time., one year 1 he v ommoner,J(ifri;an x 3) $2,00 OUR PRICE FOR BOTH . 4j -. The Times, one >e;ir (l() The Atlanta Semi-Weekly j ()() M "‘ Tim OUR PRICE FOR liOTII 4 lie Times, one year (|() Chattanooga Weekly New- jj l(1 OUR PRICE FOR BOTH.'. lE,^ This is a complete and nttmctiw list, at the cheapest possible p r j,. t , Hook it over and send in \our m*. der. Address, '1 be I iim s, Trtui,. rr Georg a. Live and let LISE We are still h re to st y To Farmers and Friends ot North emi of County Try your homo Store be fore voii vsit the City For your GROCE LIES AND NOTIONS. J will Save You Money. Our Motto is LIVE AND LET LIVE The World Over. J. H . WILSON Morganvillo, Georgia. LIVE AND LET LIVE STORK. CASH $ 1,000.00 Contest opened Sept. Ist, 1908. Closes February 2Sth, 1909. The Journal Cos. has appropriated this Ohe Thmwnd ($4,000) W la is in eash to ho divided among the agents who do the best woik in addition to the usual cash com mission. AYe want an active, host ling agent at every post-office thr oughout the south ami on over} rural route. For full particulars of the eon test, terms to agents, outfit, sand * copies, etc. write The Semi- Weekly Journal Atlanta, Ga. “*ls