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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-28
JAPS LOST HEAVILY
AT PORT ARTHUR
Over a Thousand Killed During
Night Attack.
OTHER FAR EASTERN WAR NEWS
Emperor Nicholas, In State, Returns
Call at Petersburq-Russia Cele.
brates Holy Festival of Asuncior
Cross-SpeciaI Services Held.

London, Sept. PA telegram to a
local news agency from St. Petersburg
says dispatch has been received by
the official news agency there from
Harbin, saying that the Japanese lost
1,3O0 men killed during the night at.
tack on Port~Arthur, Sept. 1S. The
Russian warships, it is added render,
ed valuable assistance in repulsing
the Japanese.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
"She Wears Me All Out"

"She might be very attractive if she were mo-
so fippant." 1t was remarked of a young high
school girl. "But she turns everything off in a
light way. You can't get from her a simple
unaffected answer to the most ordinary question;
she always tries to treat it humorously."
All of us know such girls. Deep in their hearts
they may have their full share of seriousness and
earnest purpose, but from habit or a mistaken
idea of wit they keep it well hidden. The light
heartedness of young girlhoood is singularly at
t~ractive and something that should be cherished
through the years. 1t is entirely different from
the %fippancy which leads to meaningless exag-
g%erations of speech, or silly, tinkling answers to
chance remarks.
Sometimes this ~fiprancy is more than merely
crude and silly. Weak as it is, it may lessen or
destroy what might otherwise be a helpful infu-
ence. 1t does not hesitate to stake OFF, the awk-
ward gestures of an earnest speaker; or a tender
song that might have carried a message straight
to other hearts is thrown into ridicule by a sim
gle, fippant phrase.
cit wears me all out to be with her." a friend
of one of these fippant girls confessed in a burst
of confidence. 81 like her very much in some
ways, but when I am a little tired or not feeling
we'll, keep out of her way. It's a mental rest
to go from her to a girl that knows how to take
things eriously."-Young Peoples Weekly.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

Says I: "Things look differently from up there
than what they do to us-it is a more slightly
place. And you talk about looks, Josiah Allen
I don't go on clear looks, I go on principle. Will
the Lord say to me in the last day, Josiah Al
lens wife, how is it with the soul of Tirzah Ann +?
AS for Thomas Jefferson's soul, he being a boy,
it amt of no accountY No, I shall have to give
an account to Him for my dealins with both of
these souls, male and female. And I should feel
guilty if I brought him up to think that what
was impure for a woman was pure for a man. If
a man has a greater desire to do wrong, which I
don't dispute" says ], looking keenly on to Josiah,
che has greater strength to resist temptation.
And So" says I, in mild accents, but firm as old
Plymouth Rock, eff Thomas Jefferson hangs,
Tirzah Ann shall hang, too"
I have brought Thomas Jefferson up to think
that it was just as bad for him to listen to a bad
stor.- or song as for a girl, or worse, for he had
more strength to run away, and that it was a
disgrace to him to talk or listen to any stuff that
he would be ashamed to have Tirzah Ann or me
to hea.. I have brought him up to think that
manliness didn't consist in having a cigar in his
mouth, and his hat on one side, and swearing and
slang phrases, and a knowledge of questionable
but in layin' holt on every duty that
comes to him, with a brave heart and a cheerful
face; in helpin' to right the wrong, and protect
the weak, and maxim the most and the best of
the mind and the soul God has give him. In
short, / have brought him up to think that purity
and virtue are both feminine and masculine, and
that Gods angels are not necessarily all she ones.
Allen.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
She Had Lost Her UChild.

A sweet old lady, of the sort that is always
young, went shopping the other day with her
daughter. They visited a great department store,
and there, by some chance, became separated.
It was ~"bargain day." and an immense crowd was
surging back and forth. The daughter had the
memoranda and the purse.
The dear old lady grew distracted. She ran
this way and that, peering into strange faces and
following false clues.
"What is it, madame" asked a sympathetic
foor-walker. "Can I help youw
"Oh, l don't knoww she cried. "But I do wish
you'd try"
"Have you lost something's"
Give lost my child!'
GLOW old was itw
"Fifty-two!"
Then they both burst into laughter, and a
minute or two later the well-grown "child" came
into sight.-Exchange.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
THE HOME CIRCLE
In Harbor.*

I think it is over, over,
l think it is over at last:
Voices of foeman and lover,
The sweet and the bitter have passed:
Life, like a tempest of ocean
Hath outblown its ultimate blast:
There's but a faint sobbing seward
While the calm of the tide deepens leeward,
And behold like the welcoming culver
Of heart-Pulses throbbed through the river,
Those lights in the harbor at last,
The heavenly harbor at last!
I feel it is over! overl
For the winds and the waters surcease;
All, few were the days of the rover
That smiled in the beauty Of peace,
And distant and dim was the omen
That limited redress or release!
From the ravage of life, and it's riot,
What marvel / yearn for the quiet
Which bides in the harbor at last
For the lights, with their welcoming culver
That throbs through the sanctifed river,
Which girdle the harbor at last,
This heavenly harbor at last?
l know it is over, over,
/ know it is over at last!
Down sail! the sheathed anchor uncover,
For the stress of the voyage has passed:
Life, like a tempest of ocean,
Hath outbreathed it's ultimate blast:
There's but a faint sobbing seward,
While the calm of the tide deepens leeward;
And behold! like the welcoming culver
Of heart-pulses throbbed through the river,
Those lights in the harbor at last,
The heavenly harbor at lastl
Paul Hamilton Hayne.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
A Touch of Daintiness.

There IS a dainty way and a careless way of
doing everything, and most of us are apt to fall
into the careless way because we think it takes
time which we cannot spare, or that it is a little
more expensive to be dainty.
lake the simple instance of tying up bundle,
says a writer in the July Housekeeper. Most wo-
men do 1T abominably, some few fairly well. and
yet 1T requires but a moment care to do it we'll.
a careful pressing down of the ends to 90 under.
and with appropriate paper and string, surely it is
an easy thing to accomplish.
Have the material ready. Don't trust to luck
that there is paper the right kind and size
crushed In among the paper bags and strings that
come about bundles from the store. Have q roll
OF white paper ready where you can get it easily.
linen nave a ball OF twine ready-not a loose bun
die OF knotted strings of all lengths. but 90 to the
extravaganza of buying a ball of string, or Irvine.
Does the country housewife, whose yard is full
OF green shrubbery, ever think of picking a few
sprays to lay here and there on the table at meal
time! The effect, especially if one can obtain
terms, is very lovely and especially grateful on a
not day. Striped grass, which grows in nearly
every old garden, is really a very pretty decora-
ton.
One day, and oh it was so hot, I was ners,aded
TO stop to a MONDAY meal. There was no hustle
IN getting ready, no odor of steaming dishes. bnt
wnen entered the dining-room, which was shaded
oy partially closing the outside blinds, the table
looked so pretty and refreshing.
lnere was a large glass dish of blue berries q
plate heaped with mullins, which had been baked
WINE the day was yet cool, a large pitcher of ice
coiu MIX and some sponge cake, while in and ont
among the dishes lay delicate green ferns, T.
an unexpected touch and gave an air of dainti-
neSS 10 the whole thing that I shall never forget.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
One Standard for Both Sexes.

Josiah Aliens children have been brought to
think that sin of any kind is Just as bad in a
man as in a woman; and any place of amusement
that was bad for a woman to go to was bad for
a man.
Now, when Thomas Jefferson was a little fell
low, he was bewitched to go to circuses, and
Josiah said:
Better let him go, Samantha; it hain't no
place for wimmen or girls, but it won't hurt a
boy"
Says I: Josiah Allen, the Lord made Thomas
Jefferson with just as pure a heart as Tirzah
Ann, and no bigger eyes and ears, and if Thomas
j. goes to that circus, Tirzah Ann goes too"
That stopped that. And then he was bewitched
to get with other boys that smoked and chewed
tobacco, and Josiah was just of that easy turn,
and would have let him go with 'em. But says
1: Josiah Allen, if Thomas Jefferson goes with
them boys and gets to chewin' and smokin' to-
bacco, I shall buy Tirzah Ann a pipe"
And that stopped that.
"And about drinkin'," said I: "Thomas Jefer-
son, if it should be the will of Providence to
change you to a wild bear, I will chain you up
and do the best / can for you. But if you ever
do 1T yourself, turn yourself into wild beast by
dr1nkln, L will run away: for / never could stand
it, never! And" I continued, eff I ever see you
hangin' round bar-rooms and taverns, Tirzah Ann
shall hang, too"
cit doesn't look so bad for a boy as it does for
a girl"
Says /: Custom makes the difference; and
we are more used to seeing men. But" saws 7
when liquor goes to work to make a fool and
brute of anybody, it don't stop to ask about sex:
it makes a wild beast and idiot of a man or a
woman, and to look down from he ven, I guess
a man looks as bad layin' dead drunk as a woman
does"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Keeping In Touch With Oneself.

It's good to have money and things that money
WILL buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in
a while and make sure you haven't lost the
things that money won't buy. When a fellows
got what he set out for in this world he should
go off into the woods for a few weeks now and
then to make sure he's still a man, and not a plug
hat and a frock coat and a wad of bills.-Satur-
day Evening Post.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

ter when it says: "a man who recently loved
to this place to put his children in the cotton
mill, was asked the other day if he wouldn't send
his children to school. No. said he, Z took care
of my children when they were small; now they
must support me-" The Charlotte Observer pays
its respects to this class of vampire parents"
by saying that every mothers son of them ought
to be breaking rock on the roads.-Marshville
Home.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Children to Be Pitied.

There are two classes of children that are 70 be
pitied. One is that class who are raised un to
manhood and womanhood without knowing what
it is to work. The other class are the children
of the contemplate, INDECENT, worthless rarent
who moves to a cotton mill, puts his children 70
work without the opportunity of q single soho,1-
day in the year, while he loafs around IN tho
streets and spends their earnings for whiskev and
such necessaries as they are bound to have Tho
Sanford Express tells about this kind of oh,.ao
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

ibis Is No. Of a series of Southern Poems selected es-
the Editor. N@n' "
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22

word has become
wealth really the minor
material prizes attainment of noble ambition
obstacles the living close to an IDEAL and the
the
President Cornell University has made such
bacwoods Prince Edward
hardship where
his
the
position double
possessions0 OF savings ana
college, and forty
hghscoo studying day and night TIL his
competition OF the
and stood first OF
all whole island.
years of teaching he entered Acadia
taking and
graduated taking several money prizes;
the University London the first man
Political Economy winning Two
the HILBERT Travelling Feosnp worth
heads OF Sixty Oh tne
froma a. British universities
Philosophy Cornell
President at the hrtyegh man Oh rare
inspiring
himself
= = Copyright, B Hamlin, Jr
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
Crooked Willie.

When the circuit clerk administers
the oath to a witness he swears him
to tell the truth the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, but when
merits OF the new lax law his evidence
is lie, whole lie and nothing but q
lie.
Crooked Willie says that every re-
taller of shot guns would have to pay
500 license. The law does not saw
any such thing, so who lies in this
instance? And likewise in regard to
the farm left to the heirs of Daniel
Stuckey. IT'S present valuation is
$24 the present state levy at 80 cents
per 500 woold make the takes S.4
per acre. The first tax under revalu-
alton will be in 1906. AT $50 per acre
the state levy will be 10 cents and
state tax 7.8 cents. In 1907 and there
after, at $50 per acre valuation, the
state tax on 5 cent levy will be B
ceuts per acre, showing a saving OF
ga cents ON each acre of said farm.
We have taken the farm and valuation
as presented by crooked Willie and
applied the reductions on state tax as
per bills past by the last session OF the
republican Legislature which shows
that they give positive reduction on
state taxes where the republicans
have control. but please don't hold us
responsible for the actions of the pre-
sent democratic county court and it's
mode Of administering the affairs of
this county. It's wavs are past find
ing out and is methods far surpass the
heather Chinese. Tue democratic
party must be responsible for its
actions.
A few more points about crooked
Willie. He saws, "the levy in that
district for all purposes is now say
about $40" Why use this "now"
The books show that in ,Gerrardstown
is located tue levy in 1908 was 81 90
and he could have gotten truth it he
had DESIRED He also said that the re.
ductlon ON state tax will be IL cents.
The truth is thatswhen the $50 valu-
alton is levied the reduction will be
% cents in 1906. Now Willie, can not
you tell the truth about any thing.
Our advice to your readers is to
look the tax question up for them
selves, for you either don't know
the truth or will not consent to tell
it.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
Reply ToTaxpaYer.

W. vish Ia review the article in the
Berke g Democrat signed taxpayer d"
Tie writer used a double column
and half in his attempt to confuse
aud &c i've the tax PAYERS. tIis great
agonv as caused by short plain
mott tbe first page OF this paper
If last GEEK where several business
men made .. opJsition to indemnify
Iaxpav BIS from the so called additional
tax eo by the acts of the last leeis-
la 4 IS notice was publiheos
{, eople that n ere was no
% Il fear the republican tax
law fee I is administered hy re-
pnrbo
Til pr msition was fair Que.
CIR i live stock which we're ex.
emit r' lie old law, but not by
tile / W, ONE under the head
OF co.'s thu new law. and "tax-
Pave 50 ovs it too Well The class
OF pr p ~ that IS meant to be ex.
smut bv the clause in the propo-
sit'o only on the increase on that
pronf IS with which the taxpayer is
alrrad IS ssed, 1t is the property
Of tax odger, the man who has
$500 wnr , Of property. and by some
pla let TIE assessor find $500. 1t
lie IA hIh tax dodger that this
law ails ~, ana when his property is
ass, { fair valuation the honest
MAJ u tanner will be- relieved of
one ali tie ba den Of taxes
Taxi ,e refers to thu exemption
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
Respectfully,
Taxpayer No. 2
Let the Truth Be Known.

Captain Colston. editor OF The
Ber kelley Democrats. ID to this time
has be publishing creditable news
pape His statements have been
mostly co rect. But in his last issue
he departed from his lofty ideals and
stopped so low as to try and fool the
taxpayers of this county by willful
Misrepresentation of facts 1t is.
however. willful Misrepresentation
or his nowledge of the new aw is
very limited indeed.
1t is correct that high valuation
lowers the lew. Each county has so
much money to raise for its necessary
expenses, and thls money must be
raised either by high lew on a low
valuation or a low levy on high
valuation. The Captain surely must
be perfectly familiar with this prinoi-
pie, 1t does, we confess, "put the
people in the hands Of the levying
power. and this is exactly why we
should have a republican county court /;
in order 10 be free from extravaganza
and wastefuluess "There il danger
in affordinR an opportunity to pile up
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22

The Legal gentleman who so recently
came ON the woods and VINO is too
cowardlv 10 SIGN his name but sails
under the signature of Taxrayer in
attacking the notice on the front page
of tie Herald evidently was laboring
under a SURPLUS of words and a deficit
of ideas. He has succeeded in show
inc ju.t what the object of these gen.
1euer Were and that was to prove
that uDlt IS taxes we're reduced by the
new ar, it would be because the
democ ate county curt kept On in the
past. No sane man would guarantee
against dt mi cracv.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22

hlf UDl lUfN UuUNll llUhLl,
For Sheriff,
II H. RUTHERFORD.
For Prosecuting Attorney,
w. B. LINDSAY.
For County Surveyor,
GEORGE w. VAN METRE.
Assessor, First District,
f. s. GETTLE.
Assessor, Second District,
ZEPH MORGAN.
Representative in House of Delegates,
JACOB SITES
AND
w. b CLENDEN
For County Commissioner,
C. w. STUCKEY.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22

surplus in the county treasures. =
Who eyer heard Of democratic counts
court having surplusf The county
il greatly in debt now and the Cap
tain knows it too we'll
sThere is nothing to prevent the
county commissioners from going to
the limit of the legal levy regardless
81 tie valuation Does not the Cap
tain know thar there is nothing TO
prevent the court from going 10 the
limit Of the legal levy under the old
Law? Does he also not know that this
present democratic county court bad
not tie nerve to levy . sufficient rate
70 run the expenses Of the county?
Under this new system Of TAXATION
the farmer will be relieved Of the
burden Of taxation ard it cannot be
successfully disputed.
Yes, "the report Of the tax com.
mission was in favor Of relieving
real estate from all takes for state
aud state school purposes. The
Iegislaetnre relieved the taxpayers
from state taxation with the exception
of 5 cents on the hundred dollars, ard
the Captain is we'll aware that Tire
last vestage Of state taxes would have
been completely wiped ont had IT not
been for democratic opposition led by
John J. Cornwell, the democratic
nominee for governor. 1t is untrue
tbat the corporation will go 'scot-
free. " This new law provides for
new system OF taxation. and all coal
and gas companies, telegraph lines.
pipe lines, etc. will be assessed at their
true aud actual value. Don't get
away from the truth, CAPTAIN.
We would not have thouaht that the
Captain would have tried TO deceive
the voters in such manner; he be-
ing a reputable citizen Of long stand.
ing. The above is certainly mislead-
ing, but when he penred the following
we are appalled, indeed He says, 1T
is true that the new law proposes to
take ii rents from the 30 cents per
500 which is the present levy for
state purposes, leaving "a cents on the
500 to be provided for. +" Does not
the venerable Captain know that no
taxes will be levied upon the values
made by this re-assessment until 1866
when the state tax will have been re-
duceu from 35 cents to 10 cents, and
that in 1907 and thereafter they will
be only cents and this for school
purposes only? Practically all the
taxes paid after 1907 will be taxes for
county and local school purposes. No
tax payer, therefore. will pay "a cents
on the 800; he will only pay IL cents
on the 500 in 1906, and cents
thereafter.
For the sake of honor and respect
able past record. don't misrepresent
facts in such manner. "God knows
the people need all the safeguards,
these days, that can possibly be
afforded them,'' from democratic mis-
REPRESENTATIONS.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
Presidential Election VIII Make no
Change.

No matter which candidate is elected,
Foley's Honey and Tar will remain the
peoples favorte remedy for coughs, colds
and incpient consumption. 1t cures
colds quickly and prevents pneumonia.
A ]. NusDaum, Batesville, Ind, writes:
a suffered for three months with Sc
we're cold. A druggist prepared some
medicine, and physician prescribed for
me. yet did not improve. | then tried
Foley's Honey and Tar and eight doses
cured me" Sold by all druggists.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
PARKER5AjR|1. v. VA.

The ocation Of the big Pottery
Plant ana the Plate Glass Fac
tory at Park ersburg will greatly
enhance the value Of real estate
and improve every line of bust
ness. 1t is generally Admitted
that ParkersbGrg has more at
fractions and the brightest flu
ture of any city in West Vir-
ginia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
FARMS.

Twenty-Five acres of LAID with
eight-room dwelling and all
necessary outbuildings, only
fifteen minutes drive from the
business part of the city. Price
$4,000 90.
A fruit farm of six acres just
two miles from the city. There
are more than a thousand choice
fruit trees on this land in full
bearing. Five hundred bushels
of peaches were sold from the
farm this year. 1t is improved
with neat, six room dwelling,
all necessary outbuildings. Price
$2650 CO.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
The Original.

Foley & Co., Chicago, originated Honey
and Tar as a throat and lung remedy, and
on account of the great merit and popu-
larity of Foley's Honey and Tar many
limitations are offered for the genuine.
Ask for Foley's Honey and Tar and re-
fuse substitutes offered as no other prep
aration will give the same satisfaction
1t is mildly laxative. 1t contains no OPT
ates and is safest for children and deli
cate persons, Sold by all druggists.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22

Entered at the Post Once Of Maninsbug, W. Va
second class nail matter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
REPUBLICAN STATE lltlE

For Governor.
WIN. M. o. DAWSON,
OF Kanawha.
For Auditor,
ARNOLD c. SCHERR,
of Mineral.
For Treasurer,
NEWTON OGDIN,
OF Peasants.
For Attorney General,
CLARKE MAY,
of Lincoln.
For Superintendent of Schools,
r. c. MILLER,
of Marion
For Secretary of State,
{ ". SWISHER,
OF Marion
For Judges of Supreme Court,
FRANK cox,
of Monongalia
JOSEPH Nj. SANDERS,
OF Mercer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
Wanted.

To buy farm, near MartinsbuIg, W.
Va. State lowest pr zee and locality
Address X. w, this office. l0-22-3t
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-22
LOTS

Twenty lots fronting on the
beautiful Country Club grounds
and Golf Links. Street car every
fifteen minutes both to Parkers :
burg and Marietta. Each lot
50X150 feet. Price $4,000 terms
800 900 cash, balance 6, II, and
Is months.
WEST VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE CO.,
222 Fourth Street,
Parkersburg, w Va
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-09-20

La aperture de la Exposition esco-
lar de trabajos hechos por los discipu-
los de las escuelas de Bayamon, resul.
to un acontecimiento.
La banda de la policfa insular ame-
nizo Ell acto, siguiendo despues de la
aperture dos discursos del A1ca1de don
lose r. Tibot y del Presidente de Ia
Junta don Enrique Ramos. Tambien
tomaron parte en- la fiesta pronuncian-
do discursos los Sc nores Gobernador
Winthrop, Secretario Regis H. Post. CO.
misionado seflor Lord, Inspector Wood,
y el senior professor Principal don Ma
nuel Gaetan Barbosa, lego un poema
de don Ramon Negron Flotes.