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I *ECIALSFOR HE NEXT TEN DAYS: >'
GENTLI EN’S, LADIES’, ISSES’ and BOYS 5 MACKINTOSHES: A|l new C.T
Sty las ami to be sold for LESS than COST FOR CASH! I -I
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vprCMi?> Ireceived a Sample Lot of Mens’and Boys' Fine Over Coats and all of them 4 <s?t
▼ a L e good and most d b able styles. We will sell the lot at one=half regular prices.
IT Satins, Velvets, Ribbons, Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery and all kinds of notions, you can
y find here at the very lowest prices, and very best qualities.
■ Ladies, Misses and Infants, knit underwe r, wool and cotton, you will find
Bere at prices much lower than any other house in Georgia, and you will get the
Kry best qualities, no shoddy old goods in the line.
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■telson Hats
■ Have Brains In Them
■ Ye'-. tL.ere ore brains in Stetson
■ab—brains in making them and
■sirs in w.. an ng them.
■ ' Htfl Styi. ;in Stiff and S- ft
Mais on sale, it’s a wise head
Miat wears a Stetson I ;ac.
■WiWHiM
fctslrlerestiiiyiij on the
I HLf Tax Reform.
IW BRILLIANT JURIS’
■Cots to the Meat of the Matter
■ In ar Entertaining Manner,
I® Editor Constitution—A pros
perous state is a state of prosper
-0,l8 > happy families, owning and
in their homes. If their
homes are covered with mort
gages that they are unable to
P l J’> or if the tax rate is burden-
B °me and the tax fi fa* are in
l ' ie hands of the money lender
Ull Paid, and there is no surplus
to impr Ove or embellish the
10 me, or for bread, the family
18 not prosperous, and to that
exte,lt the state’s prosperity is
’mpaired. If ih e tax rate ex-
Ce ®ds the net income es the
Property and the owner has to
Bu Pph.ment that income from
° u ther sources to hold the prop
®rty tli e sooner he lets it go the
better.
Many of our people have been
P a ying taxes on property for the
ast ten years in-excess of its net
’nc me, hoping it w< uld recov—
er Part, at least, of its value,but
has not done so. A gentleman
14 this city a few days ago grew
tilo d of the burden and deter
-IFUedF Ue d to sell his real estate at
CAPES / \IU JACKETS-
Sample Lot of Jackets and Caqes in all the Latest
> CkHSTID COLORS!
these Beautiful Goos just received and the entire lot
Will be sold 33 i«3 per cent less than original cost
to manufacture.
HATS!
We carry by far the
•largest and best hike
of Hats in Rome, and
we can sell them at
less than* other hous
es pay for them.
By a ] means come
mnd 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 Knows what you do-;
I cannot sell real estate until
the burden of taxation is lifted
from it. Capita; here is being
invested in tax fi fas. I know of
thousands of dollars >*o invested,
and most of it is at 8 per cent.
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 leftand in many cases
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 some way
‘ unrettimed invisible property
as it is called. I believe it is
claimed that the taxable proper
ty of the state may be increased
in this way from about $415,000,
000 to about sßoo,ootr,ooo.Those
who oppose reduction of expen
ditures rely upon this contem-
CHILDREN’S NOTHING.
Knee pants 15c
Child’s suits 65c
$2.00“ “ SI.OO-
83 00“ “ $1.50i
84.50 “ “ $225
Boys $5.00 J ai.5i.50
“ 87.50 “ $3.75
“ $!(. .CO “ $5-00
g . -
' plated increase o re u n for re
nlief. «•
Certainlyall property of every
‘kind should be returned and
made to bear its share of the
j public burdens, but, unfortu
. nately, it is not returned and
■ the hope that it will may not be
realized. It is to > uncertain for
a practical busin ss man to de
pend upon. Most of the mort
gages on our lan Is are h Id by
non-residents an i cannot, there
fore, be taxed in Georgia. Many
bonds held by r dents are ex
empt from taxation, and there
are many ways 1 trd to find out
of covering up tn > ownership of
other securities to h'de* them
from heavy tax . on.
Still it may b » 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 dilligeutly
to that end,
We should limit the tax rate
now by statute, ind so soon as
we can, by a constitutional
i amendment to n>t exceeding
four mills on t' e 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, anu then let the
pensioners and public schools
prorate the balance, whatever it
may be ambng he instives.Then
make the teach> ;•-< of each coun
ty returning bod, whose duty
. it shall be to aid the tax receiver
and collector in finding “invisi
i ble property,” and subjecting it
MEN’S SUHS.
$5 00 Suits for $1,50
$7.00 “ “ $3.50
■ $9.00 “ $4.50
• $11.00“ “ $5,50
$15.00 “ “ $7-70
All wool pants 75c
SB.OO “ " 81,50
#5-00 “ “ $2,50
I 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 oollec
tor in the state, and they will
unearth this class of property if
anybody ean do it. I understand
1 there are 6,000 teachers in the
public schools m tae 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
make 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 unret urned 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 J-4 out
of every $ 1,000 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 baud
riiptcy and ruin. If he is wise
he will within his income.
UNDERWEAR-
Undershirts Iscl
‘ 50c kind 25c!
“$ 1 .OO wool 50c
Canton ’ flannel
%
drawers 18 j
Heavy Canton flan
nel drawers 25c
worth 50c
He must not spend mere than
he receives, and he must not
contract a debt unless he is sure
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his iuccme will be ab'e to meet
it.
The same simple rule applies
to the 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. Branham.
Rome, Ga.. Vov. 21, 1898,
GAVE LIFE FOR CHUMS
A Sixteen-Year Old Boy Drown
ed To Save Others.
Suffolk, Va ~ Nov 28.—Charles
Johnson. 16 years old, and Peter
Tebo, Luther Oliver, Robert Nor- ,
fleet and Walter Dean were sailing ,
on the Nansetnond River this as-»
ternoon when the boat capsiz d. I
The rescuers say Charles was near
ly gone, but he fold them to s»ve
his companions first. When they
turned to help him he had sunk.
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L , >I^OTROUBLE.®
SHOES!
For o, boys, ladies *'
and & nil dr an* We
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elye you the very best
■-«?
quality for the the
very lowest price.
Ladids good shoes 750 .*.
! Men’s “ " SI.OO ’ ;
They are solid leather
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FATALLY BORNEO
, • •i. >,i
N'S. landon, an Aged Lady
nf Adairanille.
WILL DIE FROM EFEECT
—- . , ; .
Os Burns Received by Her
Clothing Igniting.
Adairsville, Ga , Nov. 23.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Kate
Blanton vras severely, if not
fatally burned while working
around an open fire. She is sev
enty-four years old, and has
lived here for years with her son,
B. F. Blanton. She also has two
sons in Atlanta .
The flames caught her apron,
and in a second or so she was
enveloped in flames. The heroic
work of Mrs. B. F. Blanton saved
her from instant death.
The severest burns are on the
neck and face; the hands and
arms are also badly hurt, but
that region about (he neck is the
deepest, as she had a handker
chief and bonnet tied there.
Her age makes the result doubt*
ful.
The younger Mrs. Blanton is
painfully burned about the
hands and arms, above the wrist
being blistered.
SPINAL stssaact
b UQlig