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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-05

New Orleans Feb 4.-The steamer
Montreal cleared to-day for Cape Town
with ] 800 mules
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-05
TWO WE'RE DROWNED.
steamboat Used In Government
Work sunk.

Montgomery. Ala, Feb. i.-The steam
boat Daisy, used in government work on
the Warrior river. was sunk to-day and
the engineer J. w. Glover. and negro
were drowned.
She had four barges Of stone IN tow and
the high wind carried her over the falls at
lock No. T.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-05
"0Hh OF FALLEN WIRE.

'iied and Fourteen Injured in
London.
IN, w. o'-During a severe snow
=, liverpool some telephone wires
.s., me me- London road and came into
o 80 an overhead electric wire.
Ia ''e We're killed and fourteen in.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-05
JOHN MARSHALL DAY
DISTINGUISHED AssEMBLAGE AT
THE CAPITOL.
WAYNE MAC VEAGH'S ADDRESS
PRESIDENT. CABINET AND DIPLO-
MATS PRESENT.

Chief Justice Fuller the Presiding
Omcer-He Reviews MarshaII's
Record as an EXpOunier of the
COnstitutiOn--Wayn NAacNeaG'h
Tells of MnrshaII's Great work in
Establishing and Developing the
COnstftutiOn-The Occasion Gener-
ally Celebrated Throughout the
United States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
WIZARDS ABLE PAPER
No Trouble to Collect Tax in North
Carolina.
PERSONAL PROPERTY THAT ESCAPES TAX
Two Taxes That Fall More Heavily on the Pool
Man Than The Man of Considerable Pro-
perty. A Strong Plea FOR an [qu-
;Iization of Taxes

To the Editor:
In the first place an inheritance tax is
pre- eminently a tax suitable for State
revenue. 1t is true that the National
Government in its last War Revenue
Act imposed tax on inheritances, but
the National Government levies no d.
rect tax on property put leaves that TO
the states, and an inheritance tax on
personal property is great equaizing
tax 10 remedy the defects in our State
assessment and tax laws by which we
may secure portion of the tax which
personal property has escaped on ac-
count OF their defective administration.
Mr.. David A. Wells in his latest and
most striking book on The Theory and
Practice of Taxation (page $3.50 writes
But where there are so many sources
available 10 the national government for
obtaining revenue, it would seem to be
impolitic for it to encroach on those
methods which are particularly applica-
Die 10 the States--as income taxes. taxes
on legacies and SUGGESTIONS, which are
governed and protected by State laws.
and franchises, which are almost ex-
SidhtCu ny lU6 states ana
rarely by the Federal Government"
And 1T has only been in cases of en-
Urgency when it was necessary to large
~ and quickly increase the revenues of
the Federal Government that resort has
been made to any other sources of rev.
enue than those which are specially set
aside for this purpose, viz: excise and
customs duties. All writer's of any
note in constructing a proper revenue
system assign income and succession
taxes to the State governments. Prof.
Adams in his advanced work on FL
nance" after learned discussion of a
proper revenue system for local. State
and national purposes has this to say as
to the proper assignment of the tax on
inheritances and professional incomes
(page 504:)
ut is a little difficult to say what
grade of government should receive the
proceeds of succession or inheritance
duties. The Federal Government ought
to be excluded because, under the rule
imposed by the Constitution it cannot
between the State and local govern
ment it might perhaps be necessary, in
strict logic. to inquire respecting the
origin of the property, and to grant the
proceeds of the. succession duty TO that
government which gave protection to
the business during the accumulation
of the property, or which stands for the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17

citizens whose business activity render
ed the accumulation of the property
possible Such suggestion is scarcely
pertinent, however, because of the
many embarrassments that would arise
in it's application. All interests would
be fairly well satisfied were succession
duties assigned to the State govern
ment with, however, the understanding
that the States were use the pro-
ceeds of these taxes, not for the pur-
pose of paying current ordinary ex-
penses, but for the rendering of some
particular service of interest to all cit
liens. Why, for example, should not
the States assign the proceeds of sue
cession duties to the service of higher
university education?'
So far as ] have been able to learn it
is universally conceded that taxes of
this sort are strictly appropriate to
raise revenue for State purposes, for the
chief reason that all matters pertaining
to the disposition of property are un-
questionably under immediate control
of the State. A few years ago an able
committee of the Bar Association of the
State of Illinois made a report on the
law governing inheritances and in their
report had this to say: page SID: LAS
to whether the disposition of property
upon the death of the owner was with
in the control of the legislative power
of the State, it should be SaiG that
there never was a time in the history
of the law when such disposition was
not regulated by the State. No State,
as far as known, had seen fit to impose
any constitutional restriction upon the
exercise of this power"
Both in England and in this country
the power to dispose of property by
will " as the creature of the statute. The
statutes of wills of the different States
were almost as variant as the statutes
of descent. There was no constitutional
restriction uponYthe right of the legis-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17

; direct heirs and increasing rs re &C.
gree of relationship becomes Tess al
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application
will be made TO the present session Of
the General Assembly for charter for
a railroad to begin at some point on
tho Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad
and to extend to some point on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad in the State
of Virginia. Jan. 30, 1901
JAMES A. BRYAN.
2-2---1-mo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
SOUTHWARK.

-IN EFFECT JANUARY 27TH. l90l.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
NOTICE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
an application will be made to the
present General Assembly for a char
ter for a banking institution at Louis
burg, the specific name thereof to be
adopted when the charter is granted.
Feb. /. 1901. / mo.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17

so dark and yet so light" said the
funny man as he looked at a ton OF coal
the driver had lust delivered.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
w. A. MYATT.
G. L. HUNTER.
January 16, 1901.

AS successor to the above firm. I take
great pleasure in thankig my frirnds
and the pubic generally Tor the liberal
patronage heretofore given them. and
hope by st;rct attention to business
to have a continuance of the same.
shall carry large stock Of heavy and
fancy groceries, and will make prices
satisfactory to command your atten-
ton.
Ve.y respectfully,
w. A. MYATT.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-17
NorIcE or DIssoLurIoN.

The co-partnership heretofore exist
ing between W. a. Wyatt and G. Il.
Hunter under the firm name of Wyatt
& Hunter, is this day dissolved. by
mutual consent. All parties indebted
10 the above firm will please come for
ward and pay promptly, otherwise, coll
lection by distress will become neces-
Sary.
RrNr A rNyf
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30

Ihere are naturally, some good things in both
the Salons; but. the whole the sweetest
thought they bring to a traveller lying in a
steamer chair on the hurricane deck in the sun,
IS that he is not at the moment within the
boundaries of either of them. There is perhaps
another comfortable reflection. 1t is pleasant to
think of how much better the sculpture courts
look now than they did in 1900 when crowded
with the productions of all the nations Plenty
OF room around each piece gives it a chance to
display itself TO the best possible advantage,
10th In painting and sculpture the Salons weary
through repetition Rodin, In his extraordinary
Victor Hugo" in which his daring treatment
of his subject in the nude has been productive
OF results not wholly persuasive but intensely
interesting nevertheless, is at the head of
lamentably small band of unmstakably creative
artists. For the rest, it is noticeable that even
the leaders keep on saying the thing in
exactly the same manner. A distinguished
Novelist whose versatility is not the least of his
gifts declared 10 the other day that he
considered no mans art to be growing when it
failed to produce works essentially new. NJ.
Claude Monet, explaining some of the crucial
points of his impressonistic theory TO me in
his studio at Giverny, put much the same idea
in different words remarking that light
changes the color of an object, so it also changes
out of the same motive many wholly different
pictures. The trouble with the confirmed Salon
nier. whether he be a brilliant painter or
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30

ing at the foot Of the Escalier Daru to glance
FOR moment at the Venus Dc Milo, far down
the corridor, Of then mounting past the great
Victory Of Samothrace TO the antce hamber
which contains the Source" OF Ineres. and
leads TO the Salon Carre, with its amazing
body of artistic riches.
The Salon Carre, alas, is not quite what it
once was. Last summer the dstract.ng in
nuence Of the Universal Exposition made it easy
g. overlook the changes that had taken place in
the ADVANCEMENT of the pictures. one entered in
4 state II cXhaustion; one departed with no very
clear idea of what had happened. But now there
j. nothing TO deprive Of tranquil mind. and
tn full effect Il the changes is thoroughly ap-
yrcc!atcd. HoIbeiu's Erasmus hangs now in
the long corridor that opens out Of the Salon.
\ dozen other pictures have followed it, The
emotion excited is precisely like that which
ensues when room IN some familiar house is
entered and articles Of furniture that had long
since found their natural places and had there
endeared themselves to the friends Of the house
are discovered in totally different corners. The
decorative integrity, 50 to speak, of the Salon
Carre had been preserved fer 50 many years
that its partial transformation communicates
something Ike shock to the behOlder. How
ever. he has compensation in the splendcr
Of the two halls in which this shaking up of the
Louvre's treasures has permitted the authorities
and Van Dyck. The gorgeous compositions ex-
ecuted by the former for Marie de Mcdics
at last presented in a becoming manner their
amplitude Of form and opIence Of color being
set in the walls within massive frames the
whole series Of aegorical pictures receiving
just the setting that they needed. The Rubens
Salon is one of regal stateliness The Van
Dycks, if they have less space around them,
are at all events better housed than they ever
were before. Both painters worked in the grand
manner; both were much at court and produced
the bulk of their works for the DWELLINGS of
wealthy and powerful noblemcn and princes
Both seem now peculiarly at home in the
Louvre, and wake. as VeaZqueZ does in Madrid.
vague dreams of what the galleries of the world
will he like when the pictures in all of them
have been rearranged and hung after an ideal
fashion. The two rooms over which they pre-
side contain works known Of old to the student
but they make quite the most interesting scenes
In Paris Just now.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30
AN ORNAMENT.
(By r. LaliqueD

full of jewelry shown by Nj. Lalique, a crafts
man who has struck out upon an entirely new
line, and is skilful he is inventive. Half
the jewellers in Paris are initiating the graceful
lines, the delicate cOors and the rather bizarre
but always tasteful ideas which he brings to his
work. None of his followers begins 70
equal him. He designs ornaments that seem
when in place to have glided into position like
exquisite lizards or chameleons, fabricated of
strange metals and of stones sometimes cloudy
and sometimes brilliant. If ne avoids the ex-
tremes to which many of the latter day
craftsmen in Paris have gone, like the furniture
carver Carabin, and scores of others ne Will
achieve an international repute. The other itera
that is perhaps worth noting is the latest de-
velopment in reproductive processes. An artist
showed a fac-simile Of pastel he had
lately drawn. The plate a miracle Of eX-
actitude l congratulated him, and said l sup
posed lot of that sort Of work would soon he
on the market. He sighed, and answered that
the process was indeed perfect. hut expensive
che first cost Of each impression amountins 10
seventy five francsl that he doubted if many
plates would he produced Perhaps the wood
engraver will come into his own again. after
all
In London. as in Paris. the mcderus make just
enough commotion to compel attention one
must go the Royal Academy and 10 the New
Gallery one goes. Eut one does not spend de
votional hours IN either place though Mr.
Sargent has CONSIDERABLE, group of portraits
at Burlington House and the New Gallery
show includes "A few striking things. notably a
portrait by Mr.. j. J. shannon of himself his
wife and his daughter. NJ. Sargent. if not at
his best is. any rate Mr.. Sargent; dazzling
in technique, and with the distinction OF style
that makes even his least inspired canvases
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30

weak one is that he attacks the same motive
again and again, makes always much the same
picture out Of IT, and. when ne enters
new field preserves So many of the tricks that
have made him successful that ne gives sort
Of inert, bloodiess, family likeness to everything
he produces There is picture in TIE Grand
Palais hy NJ Bail a large study Of servants
at dinner in a curiously lighted chamber. which
may serve illustration. 1t is engaging
piece OF painting. In its transparent shadows
and in its Illuminated portions it has certain
fine quality For u moment one murmurs,
What charming echo Of De Hoogh, But in
the next instant one is saying that it echoes
no one so slayishly as it echoes NJ Bail. and a
second visit To the room in which il hangs sends
the observer away completely disillusoned
This experience is too common 10y half. in the
Salons this year. Decidedly ii is soothing not
to be there.
Across the avenue, in the Petit Palais where
an exhibition of portraits Of children and mis-
cellaneous objects relating To childhood is be-
ing held, the earlier painters leave more
varied impression There are some fascinating
things there by Fragonard and other eighteenth
century men. The Sleeping Child by Colson
FOR example, is a positive gem. and there is
nothing else quite like it in the category in
which it belongs. The French. English and
other masters of past times all seem to have
their pictures. But the moderns wear a Won
dcrfully artificial and stereotyped air. After
ward | strolled among the nurses and children
in the gardens of the Tuieries and the Luxem-
bourg. to see if French children were really un-
like their fellows everywhere else, to find
models that would remotely suggest some of the
portraits | had just been examining. The
youngsters | saw were all, however, healthy,
laughing little human beings with very little
if any sclf-consciousness In the Petit Palais all
the modern boys and girls seemed though
presenting themselves with uncanny apomb be
fore the same painter. They all looked alike
and all uninteresting. The value of the
show rest ii solely upon the old paintings and
upon the relics, like the clothing worn by the
Dauphin in the Temple, and the cradle of the
King of Rome Mention of these latter exhibits
which take away from the paintings and
statuary, remind me of two interesting matters
Nothing in the two Salons is more attractive
nothing has much individuality as the case
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30

very much worth while The big portrait of
Sir Charles SitweH and Family is far less
brilliant than the family portrait with which
he made such a sensation in the Royal Academy
a year ago; and. like that notable but vastly
Overrated performance, it suggests that he IS
qualified paint portraits of this class. the
class in which the old masters would appear 10
have said the last word. The Mrs Meyer and
Her Children of several years ago. was
triumph; one or two of mis- double portraits are
fine. but the number Of figures with which he
can felicitously deal is apparently limited. All
the same. il is joy 70 see how he looms head
and shoulders above everybody else at the
Academy
The collection Of Spanish pictures, ancient and
modern, at the GuiIdhan. possesses a special
significance for the student, inasmUch it en-
braces a number of things not exhibited in many
years, if at all For the present writer, after
a syste matte examination of practically all of
Fortuny's paintings in Europe and America, it
was rare and precious privilege To see the
spanish Marriage" that for years. like every
thing else in the collection Of the NIarquise de
Carcaro has been mace, ssibIe 70 the public 1t
is broader in execution than The Choice of the
Model now we'll known in Nev-York and in
color shows a ro Iss brilliant but slightly
richer and more serious more harmonious quail
ity- Among the old pictures the works of velaa-
qU, Z stand first, and the rest are nowhere, with
tte exception of Goya. who holds his own well.
Many Of the examples in the VeIazquez room
seemed unworthy Of him. and some seemed quite
incredible as products OF his brush. but the
specimens Of his early period, like the famous
Water Carrier of Seville lent by the Duke of
Wellington. alone gave one a sense of being re-
paid for the journey from America 20 also the
Lady with Mantilla, from Dey>nshire House,
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30
ART IN PARIS AND LONDON
A SHEAF OF NOTES ON COLLECTIONS
OLD AND NEW.

EEEN ART-A NEW JEWEI-LER-THE
ROYAL. ACADEMY -vELAZQUEZ AND
SOME OTHERS-ApSLEY HOUSE
AND GROSVENoR HOUSE
IrRo. A CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRTBUNE.l
AT Sea June 12-1S 1901
'~ne important thing this year for every one
In America Interested in matters of art is the
collection of pictures and statUary by our coun-
trymen brought together at the Pan American
FNposition at Buffalo Nevertheless il is pleas
ant and perhaps profitable, TO approach that
collection by way of Paris and London. The
author of that saying which has been repeated
n thousand times. When a new book comes out
/ read an old one" may nave intended to gibe.
but his words erlhody a sound idea. 1t is al
ways helpful to look at cid pictures before you
look at modern ones. The experience is freshen-
ing and disciplinary; it clarifies the mind.
strengthens the taste, reYves the full power of
old and tried touchstones. The atmosphere of
great gallery is never stagnant; the masters
never cease to give new impressions and deeper
instruction No matter how often one visits the
Louvre for example. there is invariably some
lhing tonic in the sensation of once more paus-
New-York tribune., 1901-06-30
AND GRosvENoR HOUSE.

IrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENTS OF THE TRIBUNE.l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-16
BRONCHITIS

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chronic incurable infamma-
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The quickest relief, for a
cold, is also the most effectual
balm for the worst condition
of wind-pipes and lungs.
1t takes the edge off a cold
in night, and relieves it pro
gressively-one forgets it after
a little.
An old bronchitis, however,
is obstinate. Nothing re-
stores the tissues, when once
destroyed; and an old bronch-
tits has gradually impaired and
partly destroyed the lining of
those small pipes between
throat and lungs.
SCOTS emulsion of cod-liver
oil is the balm; it sooths if it
cannot restore.
We1lsend you little to try, you ike
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-16
Sumter Sheriff Sales.

VIII be sold before the courthouse door. in
the city OF Americas. Ga, between the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in Ma Ch,
1901, the following described property, to-wit:
A certain one acre residence lot known az
the 2. n, Williams residence lot. beginning
at the northea asst intersection of Church and
hampton streets. in the city OF Americas,
Sumter county, Ga, and running thence east
along the north N argin OF Church street two
hundred and sixteen and one half (2l6 1-2
feet, thence north parallel with
Hampton street two hundred and twenty
nine and three-tenths (229 3-i0) feet, thence
west parallel with Church street two hundred
and sixteen and one half (2l6 I'D feet TO
Hampton street, thence south along the east
margin of said ampton street two hundred
and twenty-nine and three-tenthS (229 3-iO)
feet to point of beginning. Said lot is bound
ed on the north and east by property of Jud-
son A. Keudrick, deceased, and is the same
property conveyed to G f. W1lnams by +.
Il. Williams on the nth day OF June, 1894, by
deed of record in II ONCE OF the Clerk OF
the Superior court of Sumter county, state
of Georgia, in book 'Z' page l02. Levied on
as the property of c. K. Williams and p. h.
Williams to satisfy an execution issued from
Sumter Superior court in favor of the
National Building and Loan Association OF
Montgomery, Ala, versus Q Z. Williams and
2. H Williams. Property pointed out IN
said fla and tenant in possession notified In
terms of the law, Levy made August Sth,
1900 by J. o. Macarthur, then Sheriff of
Sumter county.
Also at the same time and place will be
Maud. Levied on as the property of Erving
Brady to satisfy an execution issued from
the City Court of Americas, Sumter county,
Ga, in favor of e. ). Pryor VS.. Erving Brady.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorney.
and tenant in possession notified in terms OF
tie law. This Jan. 9th, 1901
Also at the same time and place viii be
sold, one house and lot In the CITY of Amert-
cue, Sumter county, Ga, situated on the
west side of Lee street, at the corner OF Lee
and Church streets, extending seventy five
f75) feet on Lee street, and bounded east by
Lee street, and extending on Church street
ninety (90 feet and bounded on the north
by Church street, bounded south by the va
cans lot of Mrs NJ H. Tower, between the
lot of w. c. Carter and the premises hereby
levie upon, and bounded on the west by lot
on which Mrs. NJ H. Tower now resides. The
street mum Der of the house on the premises
being III Lee street, according to the street
numbering of the city of Americas. eyied
on as the property of Mrs. NJ. II. Tower to
satisfy an execution issued from Sumter
Superior court in favor of the Z. II. Hall
Comm Co transferees VS.. Mrs. NJ. H. Tower.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorney
and tenant in possession notified in terms OF
the law. This February 9th, 1901.
E. L. BELL, Sheriff,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-02-16
THIS SCOOP" A GREAT FAKE.

The New York Journal seems to be
able to secure the services of the most
accomplished falsifers in modern jour
nalism It's latest exploit IN the d1rec-
ton of flake" news was the positive
declaration in its issue of last Monday
that King Edward VII had par
doned Mrs Maybrick, and its London
opium eater even specified the exact
hour-10 q. m-When she was to walk
out of prison a free woman. This news
% was exploited by papers in Chicago,
st. Louis, Cincinnati and other places,
the Journal having peddled it out at so
much per, and alleged pictures of Mrs.
Maybrick looked out complacently
from beneath headlines that were Inn
tied by the width of the sheets. The
yarn was promptly punctured by the
British authorities, and now the yellow
press will have to do whole lot of ex-
planning. The moral is the same old
Crockett apothegm = be sure you're
right, then go ahead The Journal has
made itself ridiculous on more than
one occasion, but this last scoop
seems to leave it no other world of
falsehood to conquer.