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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-06-15


Public Buildings.
We visited the county jail and
found the conditions Laat have been
reported from time 10 time by pre-
Zieass grand juries have ma been
zaggerated at all. We cd too
Earnestly recommend that com
missioners Of roads and revenues
take such steps as is necessary to
secure the erection Of a new Jail at
the earliest possible moment. as it
is punishment and confinement com
bined to be in the present Jail.
The Mansfield school building was
found to be in good condition with
the exception Of a few minor re-
pairs which we do not doubt will be
done by the proper parties.
DHrt,f-
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1907-06-15

We visited the county jail and
found the conditions that have been
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
FAILED TO PROVIDE FUNDS
Legislature Forgot the Agricultural Schools
And Consequently the Schools May Be Unable to Open Their Doors to
Students in January

The Third District Agricultural Col
lege in Americus, as well as those sit
uated in the ten other congressional
districts, may not be able to open
their doors in January, because of a
lack of funds wherewith to pay the
operating expenses. The schools were
forgotten by the legislature.
The situation is explained in the fol-
lowing press dispatch.
ATLANTA, August 21.-The legisla-
ture at its present session failed to
provide one penny for the support and
maintenance of the State Agricultural
College at Athens, and the eleven dis
trict agricultural schools located in
other sections of Georgia, one in each
congressional district.
1t is possible Gov. Hoke Smith may
call an extraordinary session of the
legislature at an early date to make
some provisions. for the educational
institutions mentioned.
The governor says he will not take
the matter under consideration and
advisement until the appropriation
bills have reached him, and he has
had an opportunity to study their
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

detailed provisions.
He would not discuss the matter
this morning, nor would he engage
in any extra session talk. An exami-
nation of the general appropriations
and deficiency appropriations bills
fails to discover a single provision
for either of the state agricultural
schools.
Inasmuch as no money has been set
aside for these institutions by legis-
latiye enactment, it will of course be
impossible for the state to contribute
a penny towards their support.
The plight in which the institutions
have been placed is due to the failure
of the senate to concur in the action Of
the house in passing the Martin fer
tilizer tag tax bill. This measure pro-
posed to raise the revenue with which
to support the state colleges an, the
subsidiary district schools.
The bill provided that fifty thous-
and dollars of the two hundred thous-
and dollars raised by the sale of ferti-
lizer tags should go to the state agri-
Gu tural c5i.ege and that each of the
districts should receive ten thousand
dollars
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
POLICIES GOOD IN AMERICUS
None Cancelled Here By Companies as Is Done in Other
Cities.
Cities.

here on their stocks and barron fix
lures. Policies which have recently
expired have not been renewed, and
other policies which have not ex-
pired have been cancelled.
Prohibition in Georgia is given as
the cause of this action on the part Of
the insurance companies, and doubt
less what is true in Albany is also
true in other cities throughout the
state where liquor is sold
Whether the insurance companies
fear that among the liquor dealers
there may be some INSCRIPTIONS ones
who will try to "sell out to the insur-
ance companies" or whether some
other reason is at the bottom of the
matter, is not known.
1T is not believed that any Albany
liquor dealer would resort to such
method to dispose of his stock, but
the officials of the big insurance com
panies seem to be afraid that the pro-
hibition law has increased the fire
risks in the liquor business.
And as they cannot do any busi
ness with the liquor trade in Georgia
after January 1, anyway, they are not
taking any risks.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

Not single Americus saloon keep
er has had his fire insurance policy
cancelled by order of the insurance
companies, nor is there any possibility
of such contingency. Upon the con-
trary, all insurance policies here are
to remain of force until they expire.
Americus insurance agents have or
ders to this effect.
In view of the fact that such in
surance is being Cancelled in other
cities, and not here, reflects the high
standing of the men engaged in the
saloon business in Americus.
An article in yesterdays Albany
Herald regarding the cancellation OF
policies there caused the Times-Re-
corder to make inquiry regarding in
surance here. He was told the com
panies had ordered that all existing
policies remain in force.
Every saloon in Americus is thus
fully fire protected,
The Herald'S article regarding the
cancellation of saloon insurance in
Albany is as follows:
Insurance companies are cancel
ling policies held by liquor dealers
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
ROADS WONT ENJOIN RATE
Revising the Passenger
viii Accept the Decree the Commission Relative to Reduced Passenger
Rates in Georgia.

cluding the time required for the
printing.
1t is reported that the Seaboard Air
Line and the Southern railway have
both given up any intention to fight
the order of the commission. These
two roads are in class &C." and under
order would operate upon 1-2 cents
a mile basis.
The additional roads in this class
are the Alabama Great Southern, the
Central of Georgia and the Georgia.
Southern and Florida railroads.
The Seaboard is said to have so far
signified its willingness to submit to
the order that it is now rewriting its
tariffs for North Carolina and Georgia
upon the reductions ordered. 1t is
said that the tariff department at
Portsmouth has been busy for the
last several days, arranging the rates
in Georgia at 1-2 cents a mile.
1t is believed that the roads will
submit to the order rather than face
the judicial contests and disastrous
results similar to those in Alabama
and North Carolina.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
Already

Rumors to the effect that the ma
jority of railroads in Georgia will
not enjoin the passenger rate reduc-
tions by the railroad commission, eff
fective September 2, are gaining in
circulation, until officials now give it
as positive opinion that nearly all
of the roads, if not all, will accept
the order
1t is true, that, with the exception
of the Seaboard Air Line, none of the
railroads has undertaken the gigan-
tic task of revising the tariff ched-
ules on the new basis, but this is said
to have been delayed until the ad-
journment of the legislature.
1t had been believed by some that
the general assembly would reduce
passenger rates to a fiat basis of two
cents a mile, and the roads were wait
ing until this was proved or disprov-
ed.
While the revision of the tariff will
require some time, it is known that
during the recent fight in North Car
olina the Southern railway changed
its tariff lists in eight days, this in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

ATLANTA, August 21.--While the
Governor and Comptroller General
have not yet met and passed the form
al order, It is a foregone conclusion
that the State tax rate tn 5 year will
be five mills or $5 on each 900 of
property returned for taxation. With
tax returns aggregating a total of
$500 100000, this will give the State
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
'REFAWM' AND HIGH TAXES
The ''PeepuI" Will Be called Upon to Pay the
FreQht.
Freight.

SO, 500 900 less the cost of collection
which is Z per cent. This will leave
the State from direct taxation $3,255,-
600. The States revenues from other
sources, now that the liquor tax is
gone, is about $1,30O,OO0, so that the
income this year will be about $4,550,-
600. The States total expenditures
will be approximately $4,770,00O.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

Consequently the second and third
causes set down above which relate
to the $4,QOQ,OOO,OOo wasted in wars
and in over-eZpansion in industries
are really the reasons for the first
cause and may be treated as part of
it.
Mr. Rockefeller contends that capi-
tai is locked up because it is afraid
The reason it is afraid, says the Stan
dard Oil king, is because of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's policies.
There is not a responsible banker
in New York or anywhere else who
will not laugh at this astounding as
sertion. If capital were only dear
in America and plentiful in London,
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, there might
be some plausibility in what the faith
er of the worlds greatest trust says.
But money is relatively just as dear
in these other places as it is in the
United States
The proof of this is found in ac-
tual figures. The Bank of France last
Winter put up its discount rate to
the highest point in over six years
and it is there today The Bank oi
England raised its discount rate al
the same time to per cent, a fig
ure unprecedented in a generation ex
cept during the worst stress of Eng
lands war with the Beers, Germany''
official" rate is 1-2 per cent, ant
was considerably more than that.
Only last week the Bank of Eng
land again increased its interest rate
as a means to prevent the expectation
of gold. All foreign government bonds
are lower than for sixty years past
Russian As sell at 72 and Japan was
unable to float 5 per cent. bonds ii
London to the bankers.
If, as Mr.. Rockefeller says, Ameri
can capital is locked up because it il
scared, what is causing foreign capi
tai to be locked up? The action of tn
United States cannot control the Fl
nances of Russia or France or Enc
land
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
a Bold Step.

To overcome the well-grounded and
reasonable objections of the more intel
ligent to the use of secret, medicinal com
pounds, DR.. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N.
Y, Some time ago, decided to make a bold
departure from the usual course pursued
by the makers of put-up medicines for do
mestic use, and so has published broad
cast and openly to the whole world, full
and complete list Of all the ingredients
entering insS-the composition OF his widely
celebrated hedicMes. Thus he has taken
his numer9LS patrons and patients into
his full g0nii6ence. Thus too he has re.
movedhisInedicines from among secret
nostrEmSof doubtful merits, and made
themLf Remedies Of Kn0l0ll Composition.
BY this bold sten Dr. Pierce has shown
that IIs formulas are QL such excellence
thai he Is mot AFRAID to subject them 70
the fullest SCRUTINY.
Not only does the wrapper OF every bottle
OF DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. the
famous medicine for weak stomach. pid
liver or biliousneSs and all catarrhal diseases
wherever located. have printed upon it, in
plain English, full ana complete list of all
the ingredients composing it, but a small
book has been compiled from numerous
standard medical works, Of al the different
schools OF practice, containing very numCr-
GUS extracts from the writings OF leading
practitioners IT medicine, endorsing in tic
strongest possible terms, each and every ingrc-
dent contained in Dr. Pierce's medicines.
One Of these little books will be mailed FREQ
to any one sending address on postal cara or
by letter, to Dr. X. V, Pierce, Buffalo, y, y,
and requesting the same. From this little
book it will bo learned that Br. Pierce med,
icines contain no alcohol, narcotics, mineral
agents or other poisonous or injurious aEShts
and that they are made from native, medlcf
nal roots of great NG.ue; also that some ot
the most valy allie iEESedicnis contained IN
DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

echo Springs" Vvhiskey.-Our lead
err $I.0O per quart. Also other higt
grade wines and whiskeys. Orders
given prompt attention.
I9 @. o. d. If w. b. HUDSON
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22

LOST BRACELET.-Baby's, en-
graved Jane" Finder return to this
office for reward.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
FOR RENT.

Nice, new, 5 room house; also front
rooms up stairs, in my building on
lamar street. LEE ALLEN.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
CO.
BANK BUILDING

We will move to our handsome
new store in the Holiday building
on Lamar street opposite Windsor
Hotel about August 18th. Our buy
ers leave for the eastern market July
.3Ist. Just three more weeks to close
out our present stock. Everything
goes;nOthing reserved.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-08-22
DEPRESSION DUE
TO MANY CAUSES
Roosevelt Only One Element
in the Situation
TIGHT WORLD OVER.
Corporations Issuing New Bonds and
English Liquiddting American Se-
CuritieS to Meet Demands at
Home Do More to Hurt Mar
ket Than Trust Prose-
CutiOnS.
MONEY TIGHT WORLD OVER.

NEW YORK, August 21-John D,
Rockefeller has given his reasons for
the tremendous shrinkage in security
values during the present year. He
boldly puts all the blame upon the
President of the United States.
Is it true that Mr.. Roosevelt's ac-
tions have caused one of the most
remarkable declines the stock market
has ever witnessed? Have the eff
forts on the part of Federal and
State authorities to compel the cor
porations to obey existing laws or
their attempts to create new laws that
will curb the trusts been responsible
for shrinkage of about $4,000, ,0O0,-
600 in railroad and industrial securi-
ties in 1907.
An examination of the financial
conditions existing in all parts of the
world proves beyond any possibility
of doubt that there are causes far
more potent than anything President
Roosevelt has done which have COM
bined to depress securities every
where.
1t is true that the activity of the
Federal Government and the State
authorities has caused some liquida-
tioD of ctoolyC h,,t fbic oa4;,,;ty bo-
been a minor rather than the major
reason.
Some Reasons for DepressiOns.
What, then, are the reasons for the
sick stock market Is there any
thing radically wrong with the c0un-
try and If SO, what is it? In order of
their Importance the causes for the
worldwide financial depression now
existing can be set down as follows:
First. almost unprecedented
scarcity of capital in every civilized
land on the globe.
Second-The losses by wars and
earthquake in the past seven years
amounting to more than $4,000,00O,-
000.
Third.-OYer expansion in the indus
trial and trade affairs of all the lead
ing countries.
Fourth.-The disclosures in the Uni
ted States, first of the life insurance
scandals and later in some other
big corporations, followed by anti
corporation laws in many states and
by the activity of the national authori-
ties.
Fifth.-Fear in Europe that Russia
may default it's bond interest and very
great uneasiness over Japan's fina-
cial condition.
Any student of financial affairs and
every banker or capitalist who takes
the trouble of informing himself will
agree that these five reasons, and not
the fourth alone, have combined to
depress security values not only in
Europe, but in America, There are
besides many minor and local causes,
such as an unfavorable crop out
look in the United States.
But the first cause and by all odds
the most important one is the univer-
sal scarcity of capital. Money is
dear everywhere. 1t is relatively as
scarce in France, Germany, England,
Russia, Austria, Brazil, Argentine and
Japan as it is in the United States.
In every one of those countries there
has been an unusual development in
trade or industry, or else a fearful
drain of capital owing to wars.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19
Native or Eoreian.

We are convinced, however, that the
greater number of the serious crimes, in
this state at least. are committed, not by
the foreign born population. but by the
deteriorating native stock, of which there
is little in every community.
For sixty Year,, beginning about 1890,
a good share of our best native stock
went West. The result was that in al
most every county in the state there has
been left one or more little communities OF
physically, mentally and morally inferior
people of Yankee blood. In'this county
such a community existed for years in the
town of Sandgate, and another in what is
known as the east road section of Shafts
bury. The recent Fairbanks trial showed
up similar community in the town of
Grafton and the writer of this knows OF
similar conditions in Washington, Frank
lin and Lamoille counties.
From these sore spots as centers there
have radiated weak and degenerate fami-
lies and we believe that much the larger
half of the serious crimes in Vermont
during the past thirty years can Re
brought home to this native class. From
memory alone we might instance the
Mary Rogers case and the Mshan case
here, the Johnson case in Ninhall. the
Fairbanks case from Grafton, the East
wood case from Middlebury, the Bell
case from Fairfax, the Marsh-Buzzeli
case from Mortified, the Caswell case
from Montpelier, the Noakes case from
Worcester, the Meeker case from Water
bury, the Shaw case from Windsor conn
ty, Sargood case from Arlington, the
Mears case from SYNDICATE, the Reed case
from Rupert, the Moon cases from Shafts
bury, and many others.
Our foreign born people are responsible,
more than the native, for a certain class
of crimes. They are more prone to bick
erings and petty rows. As class they
are more given to intemperance and the
resulting from intemper-
ance, but when it came to felony, rape
and murder, the weakened branches of
Yankee families are alarmingiy promi-
nent in the court records of the state
Banner.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19
BROAD BROOK

Charlie stoddard OF South RoyaIton i
working for NJ II. Lovejoy.
Mrs. Mary spauiding has been more
comfortable for the past week.
Ida G.. shortt OF STAFFORD spent nst
week Sunday with her parents.
Lawrence ID. Burke has been in sharon
the past week working for his brother.
Msnde Hinkiey of South Royaiton re-
Gently visited her aunt, Mrs. George W.
Brown.
Wesson Allen Is at Ebert Woods I'm
Barnard saving wood with his gasoline
engine.
Mrs Lucy ID. Allen has had a very had
nnger the past week, caused by gettiag
silver under the nail.
Mrs. Lucy ID. Allen and son. wesson.
were in Sharon Sunday 70 see Mrs. III =
Preston, who is slowly improving.
wesson Allen butchered a spring n;y
which dressed 1924 lbs. and Benton Lamb
OF Sharon killed one which dressed 3es
lbs. 40
Miss Elizabeth Freeman. who il te.ch-
ing In the graded school at Rochester \
H., came Saturday to spend the HOLIDAYS
with her parents
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19
An ilI-Ter,peree A,.se!s.

AS the self-appointed critic Of The Proc
tor family and herewith the conservator
of some political state preferments for
other families, the Rutland Herald has
undoubtedly filed an important niche in
journalistic life of Vermont. Much Of its
effort has been effeotuaily put forward
and some of it has been properly ground
ed, receiving appreciation according as it
merited. But The Herald's strained
effort of yesterday to discredit Senator
Redfield Proctor in connection with the
gift of the state sanatorium for tuhercr-
losis at Pittsford was both poorly coz
ceived and in miserably poor taste. Sen
ator Proctor gives quarter of a million
to erect and endow sGnatorium .or care
of the states sick; whereupon The Herald
turns about and delivers itself of a most
scathing personal attack, based on the
assumption that he and his family have
received everything of the largesses of the
state and have given in return one sana-
forum and "one life of self-sacrifcing de-
votion? :? (" Whatever feeling of per
sonal vindictiveness The Herald may have
against the Proctors, it belittled itself ex-
ceedingly in the ill-tempered exhibition
of it in yesterdays issue.-Barre Times.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19
STEPHEN WILTON, JR.

One of these sleek rascals who adver-
tise from the city for country produce to
be sent them which, when sent, they fail
to pay for, got his deserts last week.
In the spring of 1906, one stephen Whit
ton, Jr., of Utica, N. Y, gave notice
through several Vermont newspapers
that he wanted to buy maple sugar and
syrup. Many producers responded, and
to these he offered top-notch prices,
promising to pay promptly by check or
receipt of goods, referring them to ''any
bank in Utica' as to his financial stand
ing. He used an attractive printed letter
head by which it was made to appear that
he did an extensive business, occupying
two street numbers and having tele-
phone. Several tons of nice Vermont ma
pie products were sent him, and the sell
ers waited for their pay. They are still
waiting.
Finally one of them made complaint to
the government postoffice authorities,
who sent an inspector to investigate. lie
buckster, dealing in fruit and vegetables
part of the year, which he took direct
from the freight depot and peddled out
from one-horse cart; that his supposed
place of business lay on the very outskirts
of the city and consisted of vacant lots,
back of which were some greenhouses
that he conducted; that his telephone was
located at his dwelling house, on another
street; that he had no financial standing
or credit with Utica banks, and that he
was in no true sense the "wholesale COM
mission merchant that he represented
himself to prospective sellers.
Whitton was arrested, charged with
fraudulent use OF the mails. He was
tried at Utica last week in United States
district court, Judge Ray presiding. Sew
eral Vermont newspaper publishers and
persons who had sent him maple goods
went there to testify. It developed on
trial that whitton enjoyed reputation
as a dead-beat throughout that part of the
state, and that his Vermont victims were
not his nrst ones. Inc jury convicted
him after fifteen minutes deliberation.
The penalty is imprisonment or heavy
fine
Two lessons may be drawn from this
case list, we publishers ought to exercise
the most scrupulous care as to advertising
matter we admit to our columns, tie
effect of which may be to cause financial
loss to our readers; I'd, owners of produce
should be thoroughly assured of the relia-
bility of concerns they sell or consign to
by special personal investigation. A
third lesson might be added, calculated to
deter scamps like Wilton from playing
this game-the Willingness of the govern
ment to protect it's mails from such per-
verted use.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-19
PRESS NOTES.
Joke Wa. Based on Untrue aepo

Editor johnson, like many others, gets
distorted view of conditions in Barre
from reading accounts under Barre date
line, sent out by correspondents in other
places, who are never on the ground and
do not know the actual facts. In this
case there was no mob of 500 men who
undertook to rescue a drunken Swede
from the hands of policemen" although
there were several hundred people attract
ed By the excitmente which was stirred up
by about dozen men Gas would be natur-
al in any communiiy); the only hurts re-
ceived by the officers were from the fight
ing Montpelier man who got arrested; ;
aud the only man thus far tried for inter-
fering with the officers is a native YER
norter, who came here from Orange
county. These are the plain, actual facts
about the so-called "riot" in Barre two
weeks ago. And we feel sure that th ?
fair-minded editor of the Randolph paper
would not attempt of bis own accord to
spread distorted, and hence distas.eful,
story of an affair which has been pagni-
fed far beyond reason ai-eaoy.-Barre
| Times.