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■ 1 GENTLEMEN’S, LADIES’, MISSES’ and BOYS’ MACKINTOSHES: Ail new - i-||'
I J Sty las and to be sold for LESS than COST FOR CASH! L ijf
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MirAVCfUI ISi ’ USt r . ece ' ve d a Sample Lot of Mens’and Boys’ Fine Over Coats and all of them
■) V* are good and most desirable styles. We will sell the lot at one-half regular prices.
Iv‘ CAPES AND JACKETS- gr
■ Sample Lot of Jackets and Caqes In all the Latest JgiF A
IftfFW STALES rVISTID COLORS!
■A "'• \ These Beautiful Goos just received and the entire lot
KM Will be sold 33 I=3 per cent less than original cast
to manufacture.
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kT'’" Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery and all kinds of notions, you can
E*iJn»»sM""always find here at the very lowest prices, and very best qualities. A-
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I Ladies, Misses and Infants, knit underwear, wool and cotton, you will find w Bsrwt&VW
■here at prices much lower than any other house in Georgia, and you will get the
lery best qualities, no shoddy old goods in the line.
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fctetson Hats
Have Brains tn Them
| Yes, there are brains in Stetson
■tots—brains in making them and
brains in wearing them.
New Fall Styles in Stiff and Soft
Hats on'sale. It’s a .wise head
'that wears a Stetson Hat.
IJM BRABHAM 1
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hrites Interestingly on the
ffljecl of Tax Reform.
THE BRILLIMT JURIS’
Goes to the Meat of 'he Matter
in an Entertaining Mariner,
Editor Constitution —A pros
perous state is a stale of prosper
ous, happy families, owning and
bring in their homes. If their
homes are covered with mort
gages that they nre unable to
P a y> or if the tax rate is burden
some and the tax fi fas are in
The hands of the money lender
Un paid, and there is no surplus
t° improve or embellish the
home, or for bread, the family
18 not prosperous, and to that
e *teut the state’s prosperity is
impaired. If the tax rate ex-
Cet ’ds the net income es the
Property and the owner has to
Bu Pplenient that income from
°uiher sources to hold the prop
erty the sooner he lets it go the
better.
Many of our poople have been
paying taxes on property for the
last ten years in excess of its net
lnc<, nae, hoping it would recov
*r part, at least, of its value,bjit
jt has not done so. A gentleman
ln tllis city a few days ago grew
tired of the burden and deter
tpihed to sell his real estate at
HATS!
We carry by far the
largest and best line
of Hats in Rome, and
we can sell them at
( less than other hous
es pay for them.
Byul] means come
and see them.
less than its assessed value for
taxes. He called in a real estate
agent.and made known his wish
es to him. The agent said: “Why,
everybody snows what you do.
I cannot-sell xeal estate until
the burden of ’taxation is lifted
from it. Capita! here is being
invested in tax fifas. I know of
thousands of dollars so invested,
and most of it is at 8 percent.
The back .taxes for four or five
years for some men; to my
knowledge, is being so "carried.
If you deduct the taxes and nec
essary repairs from the income
cf most real estate there is very
little left; and in many' eases
there is nothing left, and in
some there is a deficit..”
No state can prosper if its
realty is depressed by taxation.
To lessen income is to lessen
value. Capital demands income,
and if our lands will not pro
duce it, their value is lost, and
the State’s principal source of
revenue is gone. Besides this
our population will decrease,
because the people must go else
where for support.
It is conceded that our tax
rate is too high, and two meth
ods of relief have been suggest
ed—a reduction of expenditures
and the increase of the tax roll
by bringing in in tome way
‘■ unreturned invisible property
as it is called. I believe it is
claimed that the taxable proper
ty of the state may be increased
in thia way from about $415,000,
000 to about SBOO,OOO, 000.Those
who oppose reduction of expen
ditures rely u P on this conte,n *
CHILDREN’S CLOTHING.
Knee pants 16c
Child’s suits 650
$2.00“ “ 81.00
$8 00“ “ $1.50
$4.50“ “ $2 25
Boye SS,OC. ui tss2.so
“ $7.50 “ $3.75
“ SIC.OO “ $5-00
J KUTTIMER
plated increase of return for re
lief.
Certainlyall property of every
kind should be returned and
made to bear its share of the
public burdens, b ut, unfortu
nately, it is not ;ll returned and
the hope that it will may not be
realized. It is too uncertain for
a practical business man to de
pend upon. Most of the mort
gages on our lands are h Id by
non-residents and cannot, there
fore, be taxed in Georgia. Many
bonds held by residents are ex
empt from taxation, and there
are many ways hard to find out
of covering up the owiurs’iip of
other securities, to hide them
from heavy tax ition.
Still it may be possible to
reach most of the property se
creted from the tax receiver if
we can find enough men inter
ested in the subject willing to
work honestly and dilligently
to that end,..
We should limit the tax rate
now by statute, and so soon as
we can, by a constitutional
amendment to nit exceeding
four mills on the dollar. Out of
the sum of money to be so rais
ed first pay the interest on the
public debt, all other fixed
charges and the expenses of the
government, and then let the
pensioners and public schools
prorate the .balance, whatever it
may be among themselves. Then
make the teachers of each coun
ty returning board, whose duty
it shall be to aid the tax receiver
and collector in finding “invisi
ble property,” and subjecting it
MEN’S SUITS.
i $6.00 Suits for $1,50
i $7.00 “ $3.50
i $9.00 ‘‘ •* $4.60
> $ll.OO “ “ $5,60
i $15.00 “ •* $7-70
i All wool pants 760
> SS.OO- “ $1,50
- “ $2,50
to taxation.
As they and the pensioners
who may co-operate with them
if they desire will get the in
crease of tax on invisible proper
ty now unreturned, the effect
will be to make them assistants
to every tax receiver and collec
tor in the state, and they will
unearth this class of property if
anybody ean do it. I understand
there are G,OOO teachers in the
public schools in tne state of
Georgia. There are about two
hundred in Floyd county, white
and colored, male and female-
It they will but organize, what
a splendid committee they will
m ike to spy out and uncover
all the hidden treasure and sub
j *ct it for their benefit, to taxa
tion. If these recalcitrant ras
cals can be reached at all they
will reach them . 1 am in favor
of letting them have the taxes
on all unreturned invisible prop
erty they can find. There are
some people I am sure who will
hunt day and night for such
property if they can get d>4 out
of every SI,OOO they find. Judge
Underwood once said that one
of his favorite brand of cigars
was the “O P’s.” that is “Oth
er People’s.” It is easy to spend
other people’s money. It is en
joyable. The restraints of econ
omy and its plans are not in the
way.
The financial affairs of a state
are like those of an individual.
If a man’s expenditures exceed
his income he falls into band
ruptCy and ruin. If he is wise
he will live within his income.
UNDERWEAR- I
Undershirts 150
‘ ‘ 500 kind 250
“SI.OO wool 50c
Canton flannel
drawers 180
Heavy Canton flan
nel drawers 25c
_ worth 50c
He must not spend more than
he receives, and he must not
contract a debt unless he is sure
his inecme will be able tn meet
it.
The same simple rule applies
to tbe state, but it is harder to
enforce it, because so many
people, thoughtlessly or from
interested motives and without
regard to consequences, vote
away the funds of the state. A
hand once in the public crib is
never willingly withdrawn.
Cut down expenditures to a
limit that can be provided for
with certainty by a tax rate of
not exceeding four mills, limit
the right to tax to that rate ex
cept in time of war or pestilence
by constitutional amendment
and you will find that our lands
will rise in value and investors
will buy them, instead of put
ting their money in mortgages
and tax fi fas and our people
will be able to sell their surplus
lands and will become prosper
ous once more.
J. Brabham.
Rome, Ga., Vov. 21, 1898,
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GAVE LIFE FOR
A Sixtken -Ybar Old Boy Dbojn
bd To Save Otbbf.s.
■Suffolk, Va., Nov 28.—C barite
Johnson. 16 years old, end peter
Tebo, Luther Oliver, Robert Nor
fleet and Walter Dean were tailing
on the Nansemond River this as»
ternoon when the boat capsised.
Tbe rescuers say Charles was near
ly gone, but be told them to save
his comoanions first. When they
turned to help him he had sunk.
I SHOES!
For m Q n,boya, ladiM
and onildr®n- Wa
ffiya you th* very beat
quality for the the
very lowest price.
Ladidi good ehoea 75c
Men’ts * “ “ 81.00
They at* solid leather
FATALLY BURNED
Hrs. landon, an Aged Lid|
of Adairatille.
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WILL DIE FROM EFEECT
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Os Burn*, Received by Hor ’•
Clothing Igniting.
Adairsyille, Ga , Nov., 23.
Yesterday afternoon gra. Kato
Blanton was severely, if not
fatally burned while working,
arouyd an open fire. She ia Ogjb
enty-four years old, and 'w
lived for years with her sag,
B. F. Blanton, She also hat two
sons in Atlanta,
Tbe flames caught her apron,
and in a second or so she was
enveloped in-flames. The beroie
work of Mrs. B. F. Blanton saved
her from instant death.
The severest burns are on' the
neck and face ; >ho hands and
arms are also badly hurt, but
that region aboutthe neck it the
deepest, as she had a handker
chief and bonnet Jied there.
Her age makes the result doubt
ful.
The younger Mrs. Blanton it
painfully burned about the
hand* and arms, above the writ!
being blistered.
Bum AL
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