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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18
INCREASING TAXATION.

The Wrightsville Chronicle wants
to know why it is that in the face
of tremendously increased tax re-
turns Every year there is never a
lowering OF the tax rate It says ::
lone of the mysteries of modern
government 10 the expense attach
ed thereto.
We don't understand it. The
people don't understand it. Do
the office-holders even understand
it?
Values have increased More
people pay taxes. Thousands of
dollars more taxable property are
returned for taxation
Yet, the per cent. of taxation
constantly grows. Will it always
grow? Will it never cease grow
ing?
Why is it? When more people
pay taxes, and larger amount of
property is taxed, pray why does
the rate of tax constantly go up?
Why should it not decrease?
Why should it not be less than
ever before? Why should it not
grow lighter and tighter?
The fact of the matter is that
State and county taxes ought new
er to exceed one per cent, and
and sometimes one per cent. would
be mighty hard to pay. If you
don't believe it, ask the fellows
who have to dance when the tax
collector pipes the public call"
Our contemporary is easily an
swered. Increased appropriations
for the various State institutions
and departments, and the constant
creation Of new Offices, with more
pie eaters to be fed, takes every
cent of the money that is brought
in by the growth IN tax values.
At every session of the Legislature
the capitol is crowded with the
representatives Of these institu-
tions who are there pulling and
pleading for more money. There
are those there, too, who are urg-
ing the creation of this and that
new Office, which is too often
done, and others who want more
clerks in their departments or the
salaries of those they already have
increased. Between it all, the man
who bears the tax burden has q
mighty poor chance. 1t is always
q hot chase after the tax-bearing
animal, but not with the idea of
lessening the tax burden, but for
the purpose of providing funds
with which to meet larger appro-
priatiol.s and pay increased sala-
ries, and new salaries made neces-
sary by the creation of more Of
fees.
Aid all the money that is COL
lected and spent is not raised by
direct taxation, either. The State
is getting to be almost as bad as
the towns iu levying specific or
liceIse taxes, and there is hardly
thing these days that escapes.
1t is now found that the recently
created district agricultural col
leges must have more money, and
bills have been introduced IN both
the senate and the house providing
that hereafter the inspection fee
on fertilizers shall be 25 cents per
ton instead of 10 cents as at pres
ent. The enactment of such q law
would more than double the re-
ceipts from fertilizer inspection,
and would be all additional tax on
the farmer, as everybody knows
that he and not the manufacturer
pays for this inspection.
In our humble opinion, it is time
to economic. 1t is time tc let up
in the hunt for somebody or some
thing TO tax. AS we have before
said, unless there is relief of some
kind, the citizen will only be re-
garded for his revenue-yielding
qualities. Dawson News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

Lightning struck three oil tanks
at Bridgeport, Ind. Each tank
contained 81 800 gallons of oil,
which was set on fire The entire
town was threatened for a time,
but entertainments were hastily
thrown up and kept the burning
oil from spreading The loss was
&10O 600.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

The fruit growers around Fort
Valley have been getting fair re-
turns for the peaches shipped,
ranging from 81 to IS per crate.
The Elbertas are beginning to
ripen, and already few shipments
have been made. The canning fac
tories are doing lively business.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

There are 800 actresses engage d
in the shows at Cohey Island.
These actresses, it is said, own
nearly 800 pet dogs. The dogs
have become such a nuisance that
the show owners have been obliged
to order them left at home or be
killed
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

The State Supreme court has
handed down a decision in which
it is affirmed that street railway
company is responsible for the
acts of its employees.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

Kansas waits about 1000 able
bodied men at 81 to So per day to
help harvest the wheat crop. I'm
fortunately, few other states have
workers to spare.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

The annual reunion of the Thir-
tieth Georgia Regiment will be
held ct Douglasville on July Goth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

Frank Norton, lineman of At
lanta, was killed by an electric
current.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

Every man is entitled to a lin
tied number of faults, but most
men exceed their limit.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-07-18

Most men would be happy if
they only had sense enough to
know what it was they wanted.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
A Great Bonfire,

The biggest bonfire ever seen in
this vicinity was the burning Satur-
day night of the old Portsmouth, N.
H., government drydock, which was
lowed to the Point of Pines a few
weeks ago to be broken up for junk,
says the Hartford Courant.
The immense structure, which cost
100000, went up in smoke for the
amusement of about 10000 people.
The old dock was fired at 1880, and so
solid was the timbering that after
blazing for six hours the frame still
stood. It was $50 feet long and 10
feet wide, and contained millions Of.
feet of heavy timber. Great sheets
of flame shot up hundreds of feet and
the column Of smoke made a beacon
that was seen far out to sea- Scores
of yachts and launches took out
pleasure parties and lay in the vicin-
ity to watch the burning.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
ELK PRESERVES IN T.
WILDS OF COLORADO
Where Hundreds of Noble Animals Roam, About in
Their Natural Surroundings
"Co' Dick! Co. Dick"

eco Dick! Co. Dick"
AS the lusty-lunged Colorado ranch
er sends the cry echoing up from the
quaking asp bottoms there is a sud-
den crashing in the underbrush A
tinkling bell draws nearer, and soon
there flashes into the open glade
magnificent COW elk. About her neck
is bell, but otherwise there is moth
ing to hint that she has not sprung
from the wilds. The cracking of the
underbrush grows louder and soon
more elk break through into the open
and stand staring at the human in
truders. They make a magnificent
picture against the green bushes of
the creek bottom, and soon across the
rushing trout stream, outlined against
the sky, appears row of antlered
heads.
If it were not for the fact that in
the early summer most of the elk re-
main in hiding with their young there
would be from one to two hundred Of
the animals gathered in the creek bot
tom or watching proceedings from the
OppOollS O4uu, LUZ ILLS Is Lu0 great
Littlefield elk ranch of Northwestern
Colorado,-the most magnificent elk
preserve in the world.
Fourteen years ago Barrett Little
field, a veteran cattleman on the Lit
tie Snake river, saw that elk in the
Rocky mountains would soon be ex-
terminated unless some steps were TAX
en- to preserve them. Mr.. Littleield's
ranch is an ideal mountain retreat at
the headwaters of the Little Snake.
Here was the natural home of the elk
years ago. There we're few ranches
in that part of Colorado at that time,
and great bands of elk would come
down from the mountains in winter
to forage at lower levels where the
snow was not so deep. They caused
losses among the ranchmen owing to
the fact that the hungry animals
would break through fences to get at
the stacks of hay.
But as the country grew more set
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

has supplied the markets of Denver
with elk meat in the holiday season,
and he has sold many live elk to pub
lie parks, some even being sent to
Antwerp, for the public gardens there.
For his market trade he keeps num-
Der of steer elk. These magnificent
creatures keep their antlers all the
year round, while the bull elk shed
theirs in the spring. 1t astounds men
who are familiar with elk in their ma
tive haunts, when a group of antlered
creatures is seen in summer.
1t is estimated that in the course Of
ten years, if the present rate Of
slaughter is continued, there will be
no elk In Colorado, and comparatively
few in Wyoming, where most of the
survivors have fed. Poachers are
even killing elk in Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, running down the animals
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Why the Notes Lost.

When the late Lord Goshen was
chancellor Of the exchequer under
Lord Salisbury it was proposed to
bring out 81 notes. Mr.. Goschen, as
he was then, was rather doubtful OF
the value of such notes, and he con-
suited well known fnancier as to
the advisability of the innovation.
1T would be grave mistake,' said
the financier.
Why queried Mr.. Goschen.
well, you see, you can toss with a
sovereign, but you can't with e1
note" was the reply, and the 81 notes
were shelved.- Leader.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
GOLFERS CURIOUS DRIVE.
Playing from Tree-Top-BalI That
Bounded Back to Starting Point.

An odd incident occurred during a
match at the Golf Club de Paris, near
Versailles, France. Two players in
the open amateur championship were
at the" fourteenth tee, when one sent
his drive up a tree. The ball re-
manned fixed between two branches;
a caddie, climbing up, discovered it's
presence there.
A great consultation arose as to
what should be done. The commit
tee was hastily summoned and stood
beneath the spreading branches of the
tree, much in the fashion in which
st. Louis dispensed justice in
primitive France. Evidently the ball
was not out of bounds. Finally the
judges decreed that either new
ball should be dropped on the tee,
counting two, or the ball should be
played from the spot. To save the
point, the golfer bravely Skinned up
the tree and played his ball from the
embedding fork, making, indeed quite
a stroke.
Later in the afternoon from the
same tee witnessed curious Incl
dent. The player had driven, and
his ball, striking the sand box of the
ladies' tee, so yards ahead, bounded
back to it's starting place. The player
then drove into the bunker with his
second shot, which is also something
of performance.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

In winter, when the police protection
in the park is inadequate. Only few
weeks ago several Of these elk
poachers were caught by the authori.
ties and heavily fined. They admitted
they had slain hundreds of elk and
had left the bodies to rot after knock
ing out the tusks, which are valuable
as the Insignia of a certain secret or
der.
But, thanks to the forest ght of Mr..
Littlefeld, the elk are not doomed to
total extinction. AS long as he main
talns his magnificent herd the wapiti
family will always be safe from total
elimination, no matter how shameless
~ the hunters carry on their work of
destruction.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

the Union two scholarships yearly at
$1,000 each, had the further effect of
directing American attention to the
thousand-year-old university that ev-
cry Englishman most desires for his
alma mater.
The English father of means re-
CARDS it as part of his sons education
In the art of being gentleman that
he go to Oxford, and mingle with 9TH
er young men, whose parents rank
with the elect of the land.
Each of the Oxford colleges is dis
tlnct, although the entire number
come under control of the vice chan
cellor
The costume of the Oxford student
has become famous in picture and on
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

the stage. The caps and gowns are
worn when the men are at study, in
the chapel or at table. They can be
worn at other times at the option of
the student. Most Oxford men have
pride in their historic garb, and don it
as much as possible.
Life at Oxford is pleasant, and it is
highly expensive.
Oxford's history can be traced back
without break to the eighth century,
though the start of the university is
not so definitely known. The modest
building in which the original temple
of learning was located is said to have
been burned by the Danes when they
overran England in '979, some seventy
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
MAN WAS A MISFIT|
NOT BUILT FOR THE ORDINARILY
PARK BENCH.
Girl Tells Of More or Less Amusing
Adventure in Which She was
Somewhat Unwilling.
Participant.

'They never think of trying to make
these park benches to fit people," said
the girl who sometimes sits awhile in
the park. THAT is, people of ex-
traordinary size. The other day at
about six o'clock was sitting near
the fountain at Union square when a
man who must have weighed about
300 pounds and was about seven feet
tall came and sat down at the other
end of the bench I was on. He fitted
mighty snugly in the chair-you know
how those benches are divided into
about six chairs-so snugly that kept
looking at him, wondering to myself
how he ever was going to get up.
II looked at him till he thought I
was flirting with him-imagine flirt.
ing with a man so large he could
pitch you into the fountain if he hap
pened to take a dislike to you-and
tried to flirt back.
Discovering there was nothing
f1irtatious about me, he began to try
to get up. I was waiting for it. I
knew what was coming. The bench
stuck to him and he to it, and over I
went
Il picked myself up and sat down
again, and he tried to look as if moth
ing had happened. Then very quietly,
his eye on me, looking out of the cor
ner, he made a second move to get up
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

two years after the time when it is
said that pious priests had humbly
started to teach on the site of what
in a thousand years was to become
perhaps the most famous place for the
dissemination of knowledge in the
world.
One thousand years of history have
not caused Oxford to fall behind in
the procession. It starts it's second
thousand year among the worlds lead
Ing places of learning.
It's fame has gone beyond national
bounds and is now possession Of the
whole world, for there are Oxford men
in every known country.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Pencils Still Plentiful.

Where do all the lead pencils come
from $50, 100000 of them a year?
Mostly from red cedar, which is al
most indispensable for the purposes,
since no substitute for it has yet been
found possessing the necessary quail
ties. Pencil cedar is the only wood
which is always sold by the pound,
and it is getting scarcer while the de-
mand for pencils increases rapidly.
A fortune awaits the man who shall
hit upon satisfactory substitute.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Kept an Early Appointment.

Kept an Early Appointment.
Lord Alverstone, the lord chief jus.
tice of England, who has a salary of
$4,000 year, when at the bar used
Invariably to get up between 5 and 6
In the morning, except when he had
been late in parliament. On one oc
casion he wanted to talk over a Ger
tain point in brief with one of his
Juniors. He asked the young man to
call in the morning. "At what time
Sir Richard?" asked the young bar
rister. AT $3.50, at my house." was
the reply. The young man arrived on
the stroke of the moment. In order
to do it, however, he sat up all night
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
JackdaW's Thefts.

Following che loss. of numerous
wooden lab is attached to the plants
in the city park the Turro corporation
issued numerous solemn warnings to
children, says the London Daily
News. :
At a Chapel near at hand, however,
a large pile of the missing labels has
just been found under a hole in the
roof, having been carried there by
jackdaw. = -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Wise Bard.

"Who is that swell looking chap
sauntering along the avenue in broad
cloth, silk hat and patent leathers?"
why, that is spring poet"
what? You mean to say spring
poet could make enough to wear
broadcloth and diamonds?"
"Oh, yes; you see, this chap writes
poems advertising in glowing language
the medicated spring at a big health
resort"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

will not come out. But in the fall and
winter, when feed is getting a little
short, the elk will come at my call to
get hay"
Mr.. Littlefeld has been compelled
to resort to many expedients to keep
his herd from growing too large. He
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

he sold of all his cattle and now de-
votes himself entirely to the preserva-
ton and propagation of these noble
creatures of the wilds. :;
II like to handle elk" said Mr.. Lit
tlef1eld to a visitor "They are the
cleverest and most knowing of ami
mails. You can't handle them the way
you would handle COWS or horses, how
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

ever. If you clout an elk over the
nose to make him move away as you
would a horse, he will never forget it.
He will give you wide berth forever
after. 1t is hard for stranger to get
near the elk here except late in the
fall or in the winter. In the spring,
when the young have come, the old
elk hides in the creek bottoms and
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

An ~impression.

An impression.
."The street car companies E}eport
that they carried several milliolmore
passengers last year than ever be-
FORE" e.
Eyes, and it seems to me they car
ried them in a smaller number. Of
cars. Brooklyn Life. = -. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

The Bench Stuck to Him, and He to
1t, and Over ! Went.
with the same result. Over I went.
When this happened a third time I
began to get trifle tired of it, so I
got up and walked around the fountain
to where tall cop was standing.
eff you don't get a shoe horn
told him, and pry that man out of the
chair he'll stay there all night -
N. Y. Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
An Advantage.

An Advantag &c.
"A life Of temperance and self-de-
NAL tends to promote cheerful CONVEX
sation," said the philosopher.
Il suppose it does," answered Mr..
Dustin Stax; ut may disappoint your
stomach some, but it will keep your.
physician from talking to you about
your liver" SWashington Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

The One Best Bet.

Whats that sign over at the Bump
kins house dinner IL to 1?' -
!, That's the odds on your getting out
aliye."-Cornell Widow. = =: :E n :; +. :
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

Good Reason.

Good Reason.
Little girl, do you always say your
prayers when you go to bed?"
"Yessir."
Can you tell me why you say
them?"
"Yessir; SO ma won't spank me-
Houston Post.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
OUGHT to Be Satisfied,

Ought to Be Satisfied.
Il declare, john" exclaimed Mrs.
Cabs, II don't believe you are listen
ing to word say!"
We'll, I'm letting you do all the
talking" rejoined her husband. What
more do you want?"-Chicago News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

Fans for italian Legislators.
In accordance with established tradi.
tion the Italian parliamentary report
ers have presented Signor Marcora,
president. Of the chamber OF deputies,
with large and handsome white Jap
anese fan covered with journalistic
designs and. autographs. i
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Too Heavy.

But my good fellow" said the d.:
vine, did you ever take a bath?"
mo, SIR" the tramp: answered,
humbly. st never took nothin' big
germ teaspoon" - 7 4 III K, ,,.:ts II
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

$780, 600 for Horse Show Gowns.
It is estimated that the gowns worn
at the New York horse show repre-.
scented . total cost of 100000. I, -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Full of Knots.

Full of Knots.
The lanky tramp removed his tat
tered hat and displayed his intellectual
brow.
"Ah, lady," he confided, II have
brains to burn. There is nothing I
like better than to tackle knotty prob
lems.'
The busy housewife reached for
the ak.
Indeed" she said. well, go down
to the woodpile. You will find that
last load the most knotty problem you
ever tackled during your career"
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

The heights never are scaled by the
top-lofty. a 3 .s .3ss. F. - = e1~<
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

,~- Just .5Retween1Womsn :
p Ella have seen twenty-five sum
mers. -
Stella-1 wish | was as nearsig hted
as you ars.--lllustrated Bits. H..
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

tied the elk were killed off. To-day,
in land where one could see bands of
thousands Of elk ten years ago, one
can travel for weeks without seeing
one of the noblest animals of the
Rocky mountain game country. The
elk are practically exterminated as
far as Colorado is concerned, and it
is only a question of few years until
they are exterminated in Jackson's
Hole, Wyoming, their last stand.
Fortunately, however, Mr.. Littlefield
had begun to work out scheme for
a large elk preserve. From a small
beginning fourteen years ago. his elk
herd has increased until he has mag
.nifcent herd The animals thrive here
as they will not thrive in a city park
because they are in their natural sur
roundings. The Littlefield elk ranch is
in the heart of their old-time feeding
ground. Part of it is in creek bottoms,
thickly covered with the delicate quak-
ing asp, on which elk love to feed,
and part of it is mountainous Here
the elk wander, over hill and dale, get
MS IAO 1NCA IANy llNc DcSI, duu DeluS
molested very little by man. IN the
background are the snow-capped
peaks of the Sierra Madre range. and
one cannot wander over the elk pre-
serve without getting some pictures
of surprising beauty when elk are sur
prised in their favorite haunts or come
at Mr.. Littlefeld's CALL
The man who carried out this
unique idea with such surprising re-
suits is a typical Westerner. In early
days he was a cow man, and old time
cattlemen in Colorado say Barrett Lit
tletield was one of the most daring
riders and expert judges of cattle in
the West. For years he conducted a
cattle ranch in Route county, but
when his elk herd began to increase
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21
Always Broke:

Always Broke.
Hewitt-Are you. ever pinched for
money?
Jewett-Yes, I'm black and blue
most of the ttme.-Town Topics,
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