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knifing Ev'vrytb.lnGP I FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYgs S M ■ 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 KT ~~ ~ ; - I *igj i f 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. ■ ' ’ " ‘ ——— ——— _ -■ ■ - - -■■■ . 11l jjgjgggj . f ;.<•*” * “ 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- K-k * —-—• ■" ■ .. I flSißt 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. I V 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 | . ' / 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, _ 11 L"L 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. ■> ’R'" ■ WILL DIE FROM EFEECT r* ■ 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 "i. k•' ■