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Summerville, Ga., .July 20, 1909
Butter from kerosene is on<- of the
latest by-products promised by the
Standard Oil, at least so It Is said.
If it should prove true and vegeta
rianism also replace the ordinary diet
of most people, the cow will ultimate
ly find Its vocation gone. But as
yet farmers show no disposition to
sell their herds at a sacrifice and the
price of butter and beef steadily rises
Not for a faction hut for the state.
Is a maxim that will apply just as
well to a community as to a common
wealth. Many towns have been ruin
ed or seriously Injured because of
faction feeling. Any place can be
built up and made to prosper when
Its citizens Intelligently work to
gether for Its welfare. On the other
hand the natural advantages which
a place may possess are often neut
ralized by lack of harmony and pub
lic spirit.
Last, year 156,000,000 was spent by
the railroads of the United fates for
cross ties. The average price of
the ties was 60 cents each. Only
six per cant of the ties was used by
electric railroads. Forty-three per
cent of the ties were of oak, and
nineteen per cent of yellow plnC. flw
ing td the growing scarcity of suit
able timber, other woods are being
used after treatment with various
preservatives, and It has been found
that those treated woods outlast the
more expensive untreated oak ties.
Prof, Osler, who was alleged to
have said that every man reaching
the age of sixty should be chloro
formed because ho was of no more
use in the world, has himself re
cently reached the fatal age. if he
ever did say it he has eveldently
changed his mind for he shows no
disposition to resign his office. As
a matter of fact age and usefulness
are frequently mu ?o ""oh a ques
tion of years as of disposition. Some
men are old nt forty with usefulness
greatly Impaired while others do
their best work late in life.
An additional appropriation of $22,-
331.25 has been asked of the General
Assembly for the maintenance of the
State Sanitarium the coming year,
looking the total appropriation for
the support of the Institution $446,753
25. This seems a large sum yet it
was shown in a statement submitt
ed by the officials of the institution,
that the cost of maintenance is only
36 cents a day for each patient.
There are thirty-three hundred, pa
tients in the institution.
Senator Wright of Stewart coun
ty has introduced a bill in the sen
ate to make it unlawful for any fe
male over 12 years old to ride astride
any horse, mule or other animal, up
on any public street, road or high
way within the state of Georgia. Vl
o'rtions are to bo punished by a fine
of from $lO to SIOO for each offense.
Representative Moss, of Cobb coun
ty, has introduced a measure to place
coca-cola on the drug list. The bill is
stringent in its provisions, requiring
that the beverage be classed as a pois
on. and sold as such.
The Farmers' Union of Walker
county is planning to have a coun
ty fair at Lafayette sometime in Oc
tober.
AN OLD ADACE
SAYS
“A light purse is a heavy curse”
Skkness makes a light purse.
The LIVER is the seat of nine
tenths of all disease.
Tutt’sPills
go to the root of the whole mat
ter, thoroughly, quickly sciely
and restore the idion . .he
LIVER to normal vonditi-'j.
Give tone to the sv*»tet.; t.r.d
solid flesh to the bx
Take \o Substitute
TAX EQUALIZATION
There is no burden more unjust
to the average citizen than that which
he is forced •> bear when he, from
a profound sense of honesty, puts a
fair valuation on his property when
giving it. in for taxes and another
man who gives his in at a sum
less than its true value,' thus caus
ing inequality in the aggregate val
uations.
Judge Fite in his charge to the
grand jury the other day as the
law requires him to do, charged the
ujry on this matter and urged them
to see to it that the tax values on
the digest should be equalized. A
committee was appointed for this
duty.
The law provides that the grand
jury shall examine the tax returns
and wherever they find an underval
uation to correctly assess the same,
according to the market valuation of
the property, which shall be binding
upon the tax revision and the own
er of the property for the next, year,
unless changed by arbitration. The
law further provides that, the Judges
of the superior courts at each fall
term shall give these provisions in
special charge to the grand juries.
The laws of the state are lame ‘
which allow such unfair valuations
as the tax books yearly show. What
few laws we have on this line are I
antiquated and Inoperative and the
legislature should pass a law fitting
the case at present.
Anybody who will suffer themselves
convinced of the low valuations some i
men put on their properties while I
others value theirs at true valuation
have only to examine the digest.—
Cartersville News.
SENATOR RUDICIL
THROWN FROM A CAR.
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Dr, It. Y. Rudicil, senator from the
forty-second district, was thrown vio
lently from a Capitol avenue car Just
as he was about to alight to go into
liis boarding house. The accident oc
curred about 10:15 o'clock Tuesday
night directly In front of the capital
building. He was taken up and ear
ried into his boarding house. The sen
star sustained bruises to both his
left arm and leg to a very painful
degree. However they are not se |
rious and he will probably be up
within two or three days.—-Constitu
tion.
GEORGIA MAY BE FIRST
TO APPROVE INCOME TAX
Atlanta, Ga. —Georgia may be the
first state in the union to approve ths
constitutional amendment to author
ize the national congress to adopt
an income tax law. A bill author
Izlng the submission ot such an
: mendment to the Federal consti
tution to the states, has been pass
ed by congress. President Taft will
within the next day or two send out
notices to this effect to the various
chief executives of the states. As
the legislature of Georgia is now
in session, thia state may be the first j
to ratify the amendment.
As soon as Governor Brow n re- !
reives the official notice from the 1
president he will submit it to the gen '
oral assembly. It will then be in or
der to Introduce a bill to ratfiy the
amendment.
Many members of both houses ap
prove of the law, say it is a good
democratic measures and that the
i.ix ought to be laid and collected.
There will be some opposition to the I
measure, however, as various mem !
bers of the legislature think it would
be better to deny to congress the
right to lay this special tax. and re
tain that right in the states. They I
think the income tax principle is a
good one, that It would be better for
Georgia to lay the tax than for the
national government to collect it. Th<
amendment must be approved by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the
states to become effective.
A bill to provide for a tax on in
comes in this state made its appear
ance in the house or representatives
Tuesday. It was offered by Messrs
Anderson of Chatham and Ault of
Polk. It adds a proviso that there
shall be no double taxation.
It proposes to amend paragraph
1. section 1. article 7, of the state
constitution so as to permit "the
levy of graduated oro ther taxes on
incomes.”
FOR RENT.—Crop to good white
man for 1910 with or without stock.
Good house, pasture, etc. One mile
west of Silver Hill school house. Ad
dress me at Lafayette. Ga. D. \V.
Herndon.
if people with symptoms of kidney
or bladder trouble could realize their
danger they would without loss of
time commence taking Foley s Kid
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stops the pain and the irregularities,
strengthens and builds up these or
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1909.
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
Dr, Rudicil Writes About Some of
the Measures Before the Gen
eral Assembly.
. I
It would be now, as it has hereto
fore been, a great pleasure to me to j 1
write a letter to The News for pub
lication each week, but am a little
changed In my official position in the
general assembly, and a greater num- '
her of bills than usual are coming
up for consideration. Even when j'
senate is not in session I am anx
ious to study all house bills. I learn
and sec many of them from and by
their authors. A few of the seven j
hundred house bills will pass the''
house and come to the senate for i
ratification or nonapproval. These
bills refer to agricultural, education, i
manufacturing, merchandising, rail
roads, appropriations, prohibition,
professions, indeed every occupation .
that our citizens pursue, are repre- j'
sented in some bill, hence it takes |
almost all my time to study and in
vestigate the necessity or nonnecessi
ty of passage of a bill for benefit of
the great state, and the good peo- ]
pie I have the honor of represent
ing. I am determined to help im
prove the present financial condition
of the state while here if it is possi
ble.
The bill to increase pay of appli
cants for marriage license from one
and a half dollars to two and a half,
was defeated by a close vote. I am
satisfied our ordinaries all over the I
state are satisfied and even glad to i
get the $1.50 for the marriage li . ‘
' cense, hence 1 voted against the in
: crease of pay for marriage license.
The bill to forbid the merchants i
I from giving small checks or trading
' stamps to their customers, was de
' seated. If merchants want to give
f their customers something I don’t ob- |
I lect -
The bill to raise the pay of vetina
: ry surgeon, for his services, in treat
! ing all kinds of stock, cows, horses,«
i mules, hogs, etc., for farmers and
I teaching them the various modes of
stock protection from disease, from
five hundred dollars to twenty-five
hundred dollars, including one assist-
I ant surgeon, was passed. This is for
tlie protection of farmers’ stock and
I believe it is our duty to have the
disease of the stock studied as well
as all other causes, such as ticks,
worms etc., looked after. Stock rais
ing in Georgia will yet be a great
profit to our farmers.
The lilll to abolish teachers’ insti
. tutes was defeated in the senate. I
think we should keep up the insti
, tutes for at least a few years loti
. ger. I think it is a benefit to school
teachers in each county in the state
to meet in their own counties once a
year under the supervision of county
school commissioners. Teachers get
information and It is pleasant to
meet and hear from each other, their
modes of teaching. The whole state,
its continued upbuilding and rapid
growth in prosperity depends in its
incoming years is it has up to the
; present, of its past years, upon the
teaching of the educated
female and male teachers of the state
So lets not prevent them having their
I happy yearly meetings and their great
benefit to the rising generation of
the state.
The McLendon case will come be
fore the senate Monday, the 26th. I
have heard some of the testimony. 1
j do hope we can get through with it
’ without an extra session.
A bill, really a condemnation act,
■ more Injurious to the citizens of the
state than the present law of emi
nent domain. This bill while local
in its present statement, condemning
j water powers in Columbus. Ga., is a i
general bill and if it should become a J
i law it would affect the water right
of every person owning water power
in the state of Georgia. It even con- |
demns property and land, to estab
lish electric lights, street railways.
Indeed, every machinery and mova
ble structures that can be operated
by electric currents. I don’t think
the bill will pass the senate. It is:
a bill originating in the North, and
I fear that too much of our river
rights will be taken from us by pay
ing too small amount of money and
held by northern corporations, * but
never utilized. I thing it is a bad
bill. We want enough cotton facto
ries built in Georgia to manufacture
all our state raised cotton and if we
hold our water power for our own
citizens the time will come when this
will be done and Georgia will still be
the most progressive state in the
South.
R. Y. RUDICIL.
Many people with chronic throat
and lung trouble have found comfort
and relief in Foley’s Honey and Tar
as it cures stubborn coughs after
other treatment has failed. L. M.
Ruggles. Reasnor. lowa. writes:
"The doctors said I had consump
tion. and I got no better until I
took Foley's Honey and Tar. It
f stopped the hemorrhages and pain
in ray lungs and they are now as
sound as a bullet. Sold by all drug
gist*.
FROM UNCLE JIM FOWLER’S BOY
Mr. Editer: Mars Geo. Ragland,
he bin writting to de News las week
how as Mr. J. L. Jones and Mr. Hen
derson bin chargin him $2.85 for
100 lbs. of flour and dat he gwinter
go up to Dick Days and git it at $2.-
35. I wish Mars. George bin com
plaining long time ago bout dat, kase
us folks up here ould hab bin down
dar gittin sum of dat flour fer we
bin payin $4.00 per 100 up dis away,
sho. Hanna say as how it don’t
make any difference now wid us
bout what dey gwinter charg folks
fi r flour, as she specks to eat home
made flour biskits fer de nex 12
months, shortined wid home made
lard. She say as how uncle Jo Pat
tersqn kin korner all de wheat he
wants tu, dat it aint ginter pester her
nun. I kin tell yer dis yer thing ob
habin home made flour, home made
meal, home made lard, home made
syrup and home made meat ginter
make both ends meet and its mity
nice way ter farm, sho. If folk were
in dat fix dis year kotton wud be
wuf 25c a pound. Some ob mi na
bors bin mity humble lak lookin to
de murchint fer $4.00 flour and 1.10
meal, but since black berries done
cum in dey gittin mity upity. Dis
blackberry bizness gettin to be
mity serious dese days. Dis no fence
law am a doin away wid de vines—
folks wurkin de berry patches and
fence korners. Arter a while folks
be komplainin bout yer pickin da
berries. Be lak de man what gib
way to de briars til he jess wukin
a little groun in de middle ob his
field. His farm was known fer and
wide as de blackberry farm and folks
wud fetch da dinners and cum dar
from away off to pick berries. Arter
awhile he got monstrous tired ob it
and said da had to quit qkummin dar
| arter his berries, dat any body mout
j hab berries es da wud but half try,
St want nuffin but rotten laziness, dat
dey didn’t hab plenty. Mars. Geo-
Ragland bin tellin de people dey bet
ter go to makin a llbin at home and
I specks he is rite. Den dey wont be
pesterin bout de price ob flour or
who gwinter korner wheat, de price
of meat or or pallagra from eatin
dis western meal, whedder bulk
meat was got frum a live hog or a
dead one or dis alemargerine or Rock
efeller’s kerosene oil'butter, nor kot
ten seed oil lard. Armours by product
he calls lard, chemicalized sorghum,
and sich lak. Mars George bin tell
in’ de folks to quit, dis all kotten biz
ness, but dey hab got dey heads sot
dat away and I specks he be doin
bout as much good es he was preach
ing virtue to a jack or singing solos
to a dead horse.
Yourn truly,
Uncle Jim Fowlers’ Boy.
A Story That Varies.
There Is a story more or less dif
fused of a young bride on her wedding
day playing the game of hide and seek
and concealing herself iu one of those
ancient carved chests of large size.
After she had got in the lid closed.'
and she found herself unable to raise
it again, for it fastened with a spring,
and she was shut In. Search was
made for her in every quarter but the
right one, and great perplexity and
dismay were caused by her disappear
ance. It was not till years after, when
chance led to the opening of the chest,
that the body of the young bride was
discovered and the mystery of her dis
appearance solved.
The story is found in so many places
that ft may be questhmed whether it
is true of any one of them. Rogers
tells it of a palace in Modena. The
chest in which the poor bride was
found is shown at Bramshill, in Hamp
shire. the residence of Sir John Cope.
Another similar chest with precisely
the same story attached to it was long
shown at Marwell Old Hall, between
Winchester and Bishop’s Waltham.
The folk tale of Catskin or Peau
d’Ane represents the girl flying with
her bridal dresses from a marriage
that is repugnant to her. and as this
tale is found nil over Europe It may
have metamorphosed itself into that
of the bride who got into a chest and
died there.—Cornhill Magazine.
Detecting a Thief.
Some of the stories in the "Folklore
of the Holy I-and" seem to lie at least
founded on fact. And. indeed, when
we come down to quite recent times
we find undoubtedly genuine stories
that might have been told of the days
of the caliphs.
Here is one of Ibrahim Pasha:
A goldsmith of Jaffa complained
that his house had been robbed and
remarked that the Egyptian occupa
tion had not brought security.
The pasha promised redress.
The next day he came to the man’s
shop and in the presence of a great
crowd ordered the extent loner to give
the door a hundred lashes.
Then he stooped as if to listen. "The
door tells nonsense.” he cried; “an
other hundred!”
He stooped again.
"The same tale; the door persists
that the thief is somewhere in this
crowd of honest people and that he
has some of the dust and cobwebs
from the shop on his tarboosh.”
He had his eye on the crowd and
saw a man hastily raise his hand to
brush his fez.
The man was arrested and confessed
his guilt.
Smiles are like oil. they make
things go along a great deal easier.
LYLE JOHNSON. W. M. JOHNSON.
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EVERY SATURDAY IN CONES OR DISHES
Ice Cold Drinks a Specialty.
HALLEY’S COMET.
Coming to Revisit Us After a Seventy- ■
five Year Trip.
After an absence of seventy-five
/ears and after visiting a region that
is perhaps 50,000,000 miles more dis- :
tant than the outermost planet of the
solar system, Halley’s comet is again
approaching us, and even now is •
nearer to us than the planet Saturn.
After Oct. 1, 1909, it will probably be
visible to the naked eye.
The return of this clebrated comet—
the first known to move in a closed
orbit—causes it to be an object of ex
traordinary attention. Its brilliancy,
its sensational size, the records of its ;
returns extending back nearly 2,000
years, the consternation onee spread
throughout the world by the belief (
that it would destroy the earth, make
it the most famous comet in history.
In 1682, during the reign of Charles 1
IL, a comet appeared of extraordinary :
size, which was observed by Newton,
Halley and other astronomers of the
time, Halley followed its course
among the stars and. comparing ills
observations with the records of pre
vious comets, came to the conclusion
that the comets of 1456, 1531 and 1607
were but different appearances of the
same object. He staked bis reputa
tion on a prediction that the comet
would return in about seventy-five
years. True to this prediction, it did
appear in 1758, when Halley had been
sleeping In his grave for sixteen years.
The reason that the name of Palltsch,
a Saxon peasant, has been preserved
to posterity is that Mis eye was the
first to catch sight of the returning
comet. —Popular Astronomy.
Possible Complication.
“Pawl”
“Well, Tommy.”
“Do you believe there’s people
living on Mars?”
“I see no reason to doubt it.”
“Well, wouldn’t it be a good joke
on ’em if they should find out after
we get to talking to ’em that they
don’t know that’s the name of their
planet ?” —Chicago Tribune.
Did You Ever Know
that Chinese children play
“ Blind Man’s Buff” and lots
of other games, just like our
own American “ kiddies ”?
And that there are some
bacteria so good for us that
they’re called “indispensable”?
See the
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NOTICE
All parties interested in the Grave
yard at South Carolina camp ground
will please meet there on Thursday,
August the sth, for the purpose of
cleaning off the same. Please come
early in the morning prepared to
stay all day, as the yard is bodily
grown up.
A. W. McNeal,
W. B. Anderson,
Committee.
Columbus just landed; meet
ing a big Indian Chief with a
package under his -.rm, he ask?d
what it was. “ Great medicine,
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea,’
said th* Injun. 3b cents, Tea or
Tablets.
—Summerville Drug Co.
Mr. D. B. Scott of Dirttown was
here Monday.
Dr. Jack Bryant made a business
trip to Lyerly Monday.
Tortured on a Horse
“For ten years I could’nt ride a
horse without being in torture from
piles,” writes L. S. Napier, of Rug
less, Ky., “when all doctors and
other remedies failed, Bucklen’s Ar
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Fever-Sores, Eczema, Salt Rheum,
Corns. 25c. Guaranteed by Sum
merville Drug Co.
Proper Treatment for Dysentery and
Diarrhoea
The great mortality from dysentery
and diarrhoea is due to lack of prop
er treatment at the first stages of
the disease. Chamberlain’s Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is a
reliable and effectual medicine, and
when given in reasonable time will
prevent any dangerous consequneces.
It has been in use for many years
and has always met with unvarying
success. For sale by Summerville
Drug Co., Summerville, Ga.
Children Cry
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