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Subject of Interesting Article by
State Treasurer Parks
| Having Taxable Values Worth $1,400,
000,000 Comparing Favorably ‘
With Other States.
Atlanta, Ga.—Captain Robert .
Park, state treasurer and bank exam
fner, recently contributed an interest
fng article to one of the leading finan
eial journals of the United States,
dealing with the growth and pros
perity of Ceorgia In recent years.
*fhe article details many interesting
and pleasing facts relative to the de
velopment of the state, as indicated
by the continued growth of the bank
ing facilities within her Dborders.
“Oeular demonstration and stern
statistics both show that no other sec
tion of the United States is exhibit
ing more significant progress at the
present time than the south, and no
portion of the south is more prospei
ous than Georgia,” says Captain Park.
“The south has come at last to be
recognized as a firancial and indus
trizal power. The growth in banking
fin Georgia has continued apace dur
fjng 1908, and has grown from 448
state banks in active operation Jau
uary 1, 1908, to 490 state banks 10
January 1, 1909. This number will
be increased as shown by application
for charter in the oifice of the secre
tary of siate.
*January 1, 1909, found the bond
ed debt of Georgia to be $7,031,000,
moesly incurred by the extravagance
of the reconstruction and “carpet bag”
administration (see history). Each
yenr SIOO,OOO of this debt is paid
off, and there are annual appropria
tions for the amount of interest, about
15300,000 per annum,
*“The state owns a railroad 138
mmiles long, frem Chattanooga, Tenn.,
40 Atlanta, Ga., which has valuable
germinal facilities in both cities, and
jwhich in 1908 was estimated to be
rworth fully ' $14,000,000, nearly twice
the amount of the bonded debt.
. “Banking in Georgia is in a pros
percus condition. The largest class
of depositors are the farmers, who
‘Jook more and more to their banks for
help instead of the merchants and
cotton factors, hence the number of
small banks in agricultural districts
is imcreasing.
“The rapid increase in cetton man
ufacturing has been especially re
markable, and the income in the way
of dividends has been most satisfac
tory. Despite the so-called panic new:
cotton mills are being erected and oid
‘ones sre heing enlarged along our wa
ter courses and in our cities, towns
and villages at an unprecedented
rate.
«Ip 1861, before the civil war, the
entire taxable values of the state of
Georgia amounted "to $671,000,000. Of
this amount more than $300,000,000
was invested in slaves, and of course
ecmpletely lost by the result of the
war, In December, 1908, the total
taxable value of Georgia from 2l
‘sources amounts to $706,962,353,which
§s the largest amount ever reached
fn the history of the state.
=according to the method of the
United States in making assessments
as taxable values, the state of Georgia
would now be worth $1,490,000,000.
KO STATE INTERFERENCE.
Governor Smith Believes Savannah
Officers Will Enforce Prohi Law.
Atlanta, Ga.—The effort to enforce
sbedience to the prohibition law in
Qavannah and Chatham county will be
Jest entirely in the hands of the local
iguthorities,
This was, in effect, the statement
made following a conference in which
governor Hoke Smith, Solicitor Gen
ieral Walter 'C. Hartridge of the east
ern circuit and Attorney General Jno.
. Hart took part in the governor’s
office.
8o far as the governor is concerned
ft may be accepted as a fact that
there will be no state interference at
the present time.
Following the conference, Governor
®mith gave out for publication this
Brieg siatement, at the same time de
¢hining to add anything to the infor
mation which it contains:
“My conference with Mr. Hartridge
was entirely satisfactory. I have con
§dence in the officers of Chatham and
Savannah, state, county and munici
‘,‘l“l believe they will take all action
\necessary to suppress violations of
ithef law in their midst, and I believe
the gooed people of the county and city
ywiil sustain their efforts.”
WONEY EOR PENSIONS
mn Be Sent Out About the First of
February.
Atlanta, Ga.—The state treasury has
.on hand now enough money to pay all
the pensioners of the state, but it
mwill he about February 1 before the
pensions will be paid, since it will
take until that time to get all the
papers in shape.
Commissioner Lindsey is hard at
work now on the pension rolls, and
by the first of the month will be
yeady to pay all of the $950,000 pen
gion money in a lump sum. The pen
siomers will not be paid by counties
on different dates, as formerly, but
qne checks will be made out and
‘mailed to the ordinary in each county
“the same date, and the pensions
be paid by the ordinaries.
There is now in the state treasu
re than $1,000,000, and it is ex
i the returns from taxes ahd oth
ces will run this amount up
e next week or ten days to
üble that sum,
~ THROUGHOUT THE
The friends of Dr, and Mrs, B. 8,
Burton of Valdosta who have been In
Europe for the last eight months. and
who were traveling in Italy after leav
ing Paris, have been apprehensive ut
thelr safety since the earthquake
which devastated that section, The
fact that nothing has been heard
from them for two or three weeks has
caused their friends to fear that thuy
were in the earthquake zone when the
terrible disaster overwhelmed the
country.
County School Commissioner Bacon
has received notice from the sta.@
school commissioner that Oglethorpe
county is entitled to $2,000 more this
vear than last from the appropria
tions made for the pnblic school fund,
The state school commissioner
‘men~ht, however, that it would be im
possible to deliver the money for the
reason that the state would not like
'v have it on hand.
A train load of wagons and horses
were recelved at Fort Oglethorpe,
Chickamauga Park, from Cuba. Fort
Oglthorpe, Ga., is now filled to its
capacity and no more recruits for the
calvary wiil be bronght here until the
property of the Thirty-eighth infan
try is moved,
The first steps looking to the ex
tension of the Western and Atlantic
railroad from Atlanta to the sea were
taken when the extension commission
appointed by Governor Smith met at
the state capitol, elected Hooper Ai
exander chairman and aspointed a
committee to gather information con
cerning the . feasibility and advisabil
ity of carrying the project into effect.
It was agreed by the commission
that the main- features of the propos:
ed extension which it is called upon
to investigate are the prohable cost,
the direction the extension will take,
whether the work can be done by con
victs, and whether, as a general prop
osition, it will be advisable for the
state to continue its policy of own
ing a railroad. The committee indulg
ed in a general discussion of these
questions, but no definite action was
taken.
A letter from Congressman Thomas
M. Bell states that the national bu
reau expert, Dr. Shamel, has announc
od that J. M. Whichel of Hall county
has won the first prize and other
prizes at the contest at Omaha, Neb.,
over all contestants for the corn
nrizes in the southern zone. Mr.
“Whelchel’'s corn was in competition
with the product of Texas, Oklahoma,
southern Kansas and other southwes
tern states in addition to all the eas
tern south.
When asked about the report that
pools were being sold regularly on
horse races now being held at Thun
derbolt, mnear Savannah, Governor
Smith said that he had not officially
heard of it and that while there was
nothing wrong in horse racing in it
self, pool selling or bookmaking is a
violztion of the Georgia law.
The sale of the Gainesville Elec
tric Railway company has been post
poned from the first Tuesday in Feb
ruary till the first Tuesday in March.
The road is in receivers’ hands.
Sumter county begins the new year
with every dollar of indebtedness can
celed and money in the treasury,
which is a gratifying condition of af
fairs. Recently the county incured
heavv indebtedness in building the
Third District Agricultural and Me
chanical college, but the entire in
debtedness has since been liquidated.
Prohibition has affected Rome per
haps to a greater degree than any
other city in the state of Georgia. The
police books show a decrcase of 61
per cent in arrests for the year 1908.
In his report to the city council,
Mayor Dunbar of Augusta suggested
the extension of the city limits so that
the city could keep pace with the oth
er cities of the state, and not drop
back by holding to its old boundaries.
The confederate monument, erect
ed by the Daughters of the Confed
eracy of Morgan county, was unveil
ed here with most impressive cere
monies. The chief attraction at the
unveiling was the presence of Generul
Clement A. Evans and Honoranie
Hoke Smith,
Secretary of State Philip Cook has
granted an amendment to the charter
of the Georgia and Florida Railway
company, now completing the coi
struction of its line from Augusta to
the gulf in Florida, permitting it 10
construct a branch line three miles in
length from the town of Sparks to the
town of Adel, both in Berrien county.
Leonard Ward, an aged and respec
tabie farmer, was remanded to jail at
Americus for violation of the state
prohibition laws in having made a
few quarts of blackberry wine of the
fruit gathered from his fence corners,
probably selling a small quantity to
his neighbor.
Attorney General John (. Hart has
rendered an opinion holding that the
term of office of the state school com
misioner begins at the same time as
that of the governor. In order to be
certain when his new term should
properly begin, School Commissioner
Jerre M. Pound sought a ruling from
the attorney general.
~ Augusta is on the verge of a contro
versy regarding its system of gas
lighting which bids fair to end in the
state legislature, if the ideas of May
or Dunbar are carried out. The may
or in his annual message, read to the
city council, bitterly attacked the Gas
Light company of Augusta, for the
quality of gas being served its pa
trons, and declared that there exist
ed an absolute necessity that the cit
izens should have some protection in
the matter.
William C. Cole has been named
postmaster of Lawrenceville, and Wil
liam G. Watson postmaster at Li
thonia,
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LATENEWS NOTER.
France has decided to recommend
restrictions in the application of the
denth sentence,
Efforts are being made by the Penn
sylvania Child Labor association to »0
enthuse the residents of the entire
statn with the spirit of the fight it
Is making for the abolition of the
“child Jabor evil” to induce Goveru
or Stuart to do for Pennsylvania 1n
1909 what Governor Odell did for the
state of New York in 1903,
The German government is about
to farm out for a series of years the
right to mine diamonds along the
right of way of the rallwvay in the
South African zone of German influ
ence, The dlamonds are small and
of good quality,
The national child labor committee
is sending a request to clergymea
thronghout the country o observe
gunday, January 24, as child labor
ay. ‘
An official report gives the value of
the mineral products of the United
Kingdom for 1907 as $657,000,000, aa
increase of $143,000,000 over 1906,
The Southern Pacific Railroad
eompany is to build an air line from
Denison, = Texas, through Topeka,
Kans.,, to Lincoln, Neb, connecting
with the present main line at Central
City., The new line is expected to cut
out Kansas City as a clearing house
for Nebraska and Kansas ?rain, and
will give the Harriman system two
routes from the Pacific coast to tae
Gulf of Mexico.
That the fight of the doctors of
medicine against Christian Scientists
and all others who profess to heal
without medicine will be renewed
vigorously this year, has hecome ap
parent with the appearnace at the
Massachusetts state house of the an
nual report of the state board of reg
istration in medicine.
John T. Milliken, the millionaire
brother-in-law of Albert T. Patrick,
now serving a life sentence in Sing
Sing prison, New York, for the slay
ing of Millionaire William M. Rice,
has gone to Texas to take what is\
‘reported to be a death-bed confession
of the valet, Charles F. Jones, recant
ing the confession which convicted
Patrick of murder and gained free
dom for thg valet,
The religious riots between Moham
medans and Hindus, India, have tak
en a more serious turn again, requir
ing the active intervention of British
troops at Titaghur, who fired upon
the Hindus mob,
Twenty-two years after leaving
Brockton, Mass.,, a poor man, Albert
Moore has returned rich, to find that
his wife had secured a divorce, re
married and is now a widow. He will
take her to his new home in Califor
nia. :
For his payt in the dispatching of
the steamer Goldsboro to Honduras
last spring with SBO,OOO worth of
goods said to have been obtained un
der false pretenses, Albert W. Bailey,
former secretary and treasurer of the
defunct Export Shipping company of
New York city was sentenced to,
state’s prison for four years.
Washington.
The president has sent to the sen
ate the nomination of Colonel George
H. Terney to be surgeon general, med
ical corps.
Rear Admiral Casper Goodrish
i\ia: been transferred to the retired
St,
N. J. McArthur, former president of
the Interstate Cotton college, and an
expert cotton sampler, has written a
letter to Secretary of Agriculture Wil
son, criticising the proposed plan of
a committee, acting under his direc
tion, to establish a new standard of
cotton grading, Mr. McArthur thinks
that the attempt to redvce about
thirty distinet points of cotton classi
ficaion to nine grade designations
would work great injury to the cot
ton grower. He shows that the points
of difference in any two gradse
«wanld thus be increased, and that all
intermediate half and quarter grades
of the present standard would be vir
tually eliminated. He asserts that the
orower with cotton only the slightest
shade under any given classification
would have it graded at the next low
er grade point.
That Judge Taft has mistaken the
gentimer* of the peonle of the south
and that he could not expect political
preferment there because giving such
preferment is against the principles of
the people of that section, 18 the
statement made by Representative
James Hay, of Virginia. Mr. Hay de
clares the sonth the land of the dem
ocrats, and he assures the renubli
cans that it is as impossible to
change the principles there as it is to
change the spots of the leonard. “The
attitude of Mr. Taft toward the peo
ple of the south is a matter of sur
prise and disappointment to all self
respecting southern men,” said Mr.
Hay. :
The TUnited States produced $90,-
437,700 worth of gold and $37,299,700
worth of silver in 1907, according to
ctatements obtained from mints, as
say offices, smelting establishments
and the product of mines. As com
pared with the previous year. 1907
showed a decrease of $4,000,000 in
gold production and about $1.000,000
decrease in the silver production.
John W. sGates wants wood, iron,
dteel and coal placed on the free list.
Ambassador Griscom cabled #h°
state department that the bod
jes of Consul Cheney and his wite
are buried under tons of debris at
Messina, Italy. and it would necessi
tate two hundred men at work for
days to exhume them. He also stated
that telepraphic communication witn
Messina is practically impossible.
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When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain
remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't
any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would
also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble ? y
Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Red Banks, Miss. —“Words are inadequate to express what
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I
suffered from & female disease and weakness which the doe
tors said was caused by a fibroid tumor, and I commenced to
think there was no help for me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vezctable J
Compound made me a well woman after all other mea s had '
failed. My friends are all asking what has helped me so much,
and I gladly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com=
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Hampstead, Maryland.—* Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound I was weak and nervous, and could not
be on my feet half a day without suffering. The doctors told
me I never would be well without an operation, but Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done more for me than all
the doctors, and I hope this valuable medicine may come into
the hands of many more suffering women.” — Mrs. Joseph H.
Dandy.
We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will
prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful
—or that either of these women were paid in any way for
their testimonials, or that the letters are published without
their permission, or that the original letter from each did
not come’to us entirely unsolicited.
What more proof can any one ask ?
For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound has beén the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made e:u:clusivelt)7 from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit.
F Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
NANCY.
When I was about five years old
we had a dog we called Nancy. I
would sometimes wander away into
the wood which bordered on our home,
and Nancy would always walk in
front of me to protect me and ‘“keep
off the enemy,” as mamma always
gaid. One day my sisters and I were
playing house under the large pine
trees in front of my home, and Nancy
lay in front of me, as usual. The
milkman, intending to frighten us,
came up the path and hid behind the
trees. But Nancy spied him and made
a jump for him. He dropped the miik
cans, spilled all the milk and ran
down the path as fast as he could.
Nancy would wander away for days
at a time, and then come back re
pentant to stay for a few weeks. But
one of these tramps cost our dear dog
her life. It was a stormy night, ana
everything was wet and cold. Nancy
wanted to come in the house to spend
the night. Mamma made her go out
in her kennel in our old-fashioned
back kitchen. Nancy hung her head
and went out in the storm. The next
morning we could not find her. She
was gone for weeks and weeks, and
one day a workingman told us he
found her on the railroad track cut
to pieces. She had been struck by
a train. We were very much shock
ed and grieved, as we thought a great
deal of her.—Ellen Ranger, in the
New York Tribune.
Pedantry is an icle compared to the
warm comfort of wisdom.
ROSY AND PLUMP
Good Health From Right Food.
“It’s not a new food to me,” re
marked a Va. man, in speaking of
Grape-Nuts,
“About twelve months ago my wife
was in very bad health, could not
keep anything on her stomach. The
Doctor recommended milk half water,
but it was not sufficiently nourishing.
“A friend of mine told me one day
to try Grape-Nuts and cream. The
result was really marvelous.. My
wife soon regained her usual strength
and to-day is as rosy and plump as
when a girl of sixteen.
‘““These are plain facts, and nothing
I could say in praise of Grape-Nuts
would exaggerate in the least the
- value of this great food.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Rea
son.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
cone appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest, : ;
Good resolutions are timely at any
season of thg_year.
Itch cured in 3) minutes by Woolford"
Banitary Lotion. Never fails. ’:At drgg:ist:
Human ingratitude is the thunder
storm which sours the milk of human
kindness. |
The Best Laxative—Garfield Tea! Com-|
posed of Herbs, it exerts a beneficial effect’
upon the entire system, regulating liver,
kidneys, stomach and bowels.
Seeing the humor of a situaticn
helps to tide one over many rough
places.
Piles Cured in 6to 14 Da):.s‘.’ !
Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to ciré; anyt
rase of uching,Bling,nleedingorpjtr-l{ding ‘
Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refun: ed.
Hesults obtalned 1n tests of
Maxim silent firearm before the U
ed States Army board are report!
to have been encouraging, the &
plosion being only faintly audib
The muffling is obtained at some e
pense of velocity.
/< SIOO Reward, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will bepleased
learn that there 1s at least one dreaded d
ease that science has been able to cure in
its stages,and thatis Catarrh. Hall'sCata
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the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a co
stitutional disease, réquires a constitutio
treatment. Hall’sCatarrhCureistaken int
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ing tbe foundation of the disease, and givin
the patient strength by building up the co
stitution and assisting nature in doxng it
work. The proprietors have so much fait
in its curative powers that they offer On
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails t{
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Addres
F.J. CHEXEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold bv Drui‘gists, Ts¢. Pk
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Race Suicide in France. |
The depopulation of France is proe
ceeding at an amazing rate, The
vital statistics for last year show 2
peduction in the birth rate even be
low the figures of 1908, with an in
crease in.deaths. There were 32878
less births in the entire country in
1907 than in the preceding. ¥year.
and 13,693 more deaths. There was
an excess of 19,920 deaths ovel
births. In 1906 the ratio of births
was 215 to 10,000 of popula+
tion; in 1907 it fell to 207. The falls
ing off took place in 82 departments,|
while five showed a slight increase.
The decline of births in the outa‘
lying rustic regions is most alarm
ing. The excess of deaths occurrec
in 55 departments, that in the Seine
which is practically Paris, peing thcl
Jargest. From 1901 to 1905, inclusive
the population of France showed an
average increase of I§' a year for each
10,000 inhabitants. ‘ln IS)iOSOhthisi
dropped to 7, and last year it chang
ed to a decrease of 5 in 10,000. This
is race suicide with a vengeance.
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