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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04

The Carth"ginians and the Tyrnns
regarded Spain as I'll Dorado. 1t is
but poor country today, but potential
wealth lies in its rock bound hills, just
as in the days of the ancients. When
those acquisitive mariners, the Phoe-
nicians, first set foot in the country
they exchanged their commodities,
says Aristotle. "for such immense
quantities of silver that their ships
could neither contain nor sustain the
load, though they used it for ballast
and made their anchors ana other inn
plements of silver" SO rich in silver
was the country then that the people
are said to have made their commonest
domestic utensils of the metal and
even their hangers. The Romans
found that their greedy forerunners
had sadly diminished the precious
store, yet enough was left to satisfy
not few proconsuls.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04

nomics and political science, State
University of North Dakota, Grand
Forks, N. d.
Taxation of Incomes" BY Charles
Lee Raper professor of political econ
omy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Unit Rule" BY William o. Ma
thews, attorney of Ohio Tax league,
Cleveland. o.
"The Single Tax" BY C. B. File
brown, president of the Massachusetts
Single Tax league, Boston, Mass.
Relation of Taxation to the Credit
System" BY W. G. Langworthy Tay-
lor, professor political economy and
commerce, University OF Nebraska,
Lincoln, Neb.
Taxation of Money and Credits"
By Frank G. Pierce, secretary of the
League of Iowa Municipalities, Mar
shalltown, la.
The National Tax association in
cludes in it's membership prominent
persons in almost every state in the
Union. who are interested ia the sub
JVCI VI ldNdiIOH. ne are. AL
len Ripley Foote, former editor of
Public Policy and commissioner of the
Ohio State Board of Commerce, presi-
dent; Lawson Purdy, president of the
department Of lxes and assessments
of New York city, vice president; Fos-
ter Copeland, president City National
bank, Columbus, treasurer; Mary C.
Snyder. Columbus, secretary.
In addition to those who will take
an active part in the conference, and
besides the delegates to be appointed
by the chief executives of the several
states at the invitation of Governor
Harris, there will be present many Of
the governors of the states and prom
inent officials of the state and national
governments, who will participate i'll
the discussion and profit by the pro-
ceedings.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
ENORMOUS VALUE OF REALTY IN
NEW YORK.

In his report to the mayor. President
of the Tax Board Lawson Purdy makes
this interesting comment on the land
values of New York city.
"The value of land today in New
York city is so enormous that it is
hard. to realize its amount without
some comparisons. The assessed
value of land alone, exclusive of i'm
provements in the city of New York,
is greater than the assessed value of
all the real estate, improvements In
cluded iii the state of Pennsylvania
and nearly twice as great as the value
of all the real estate, including i'm
provements. in the state of New York
outside the city.
"The assessed value of the land for
six square miles of Manhattan in the
neighborhood of Central Park is great
or than the assessed value of all the
real estate In the state of Missouri"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Its Fire and Its eirdIe Cakes.

The Chequers inn, Osmotherley, is a
relic of the old coaching days, but 1t is
now famed for its fire, which has new
er been out for more than 100 years
and over which girdle cakes are baked.
This huge fire is kept continually burn
ing by peat or turf from the Yorkshire
moors. An excellent tea is provided
for visitors, the chief dainty being the
girdle cakes. The peat glows like req
embers on a red tiled floor, the girdle
being suspended from bar above, tie
whole looking most quaint and pictur
esque. The exterior of the inn is most
unpretentious and old world looking,
as it nestles alone on the Yorkshire
wolds.-I.ondon Standard.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
| TAX LAWS
Will Be the Subject of National
Convention In Ohio.
Governor Harris Invites Execu-
tives of Other States.
To Name Delegates to the Confer
enCe In November Speakers
of Note Will Be Heard.

Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 81, 1907)
Governor Harris has extended invi-
tations TO the chief executive of each
state in the Union to appoint three
delegates to attend national confer.
ence of the National Tax association
next November.
The tax laws of the several states
are as. varied as they can possibly be.
The object of the conference is to call
attention to this lack of uniformity,
and to suggest ways and means to
remedy the apparent evils.
The president of the association,
Mr.. Allen R. Foote, has invited all
auditors or comptrollers of state; all
members of state tax commissions.
boards of equalization and state tax
commissioners; the president and pro-
fessors of economics and public
finance of all universities, and a large
number of persons prominent in pub
lie and business affairs throughout the
country to attend and participate in
the deliberations of this conference.
list OF subjects proposed for dis
cussion and of persons who, up to
date, have accepted invitations to pre-
pare papers discussing specific
branches of the subject, is given be-
low. Other leaders of economic
thought and experienced administra
tors of state and local tax laws will be
added to the list of prepared papers
from time to time until all arrange
ments for the conference are COM
Dleted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
RECON- MEN DATIONS
OF UNITED STATES
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Signed by Governor Harris and
Twelve Commissioners.

. l. That the states abandon the
general property tax and raise
their revenues by taxes upon cor
. porations, inheritances and in
come, supplemented when neces-
. sary by indirect taxation; that To-
cal revenues be raised by taxes
on real estate and personality un-
der the general property-tax sys-
. TEN as at present.
2. That oorporations, public
. service and other, be taxed by
. state boards, at rates fixed by
!. legislation, upon the value of
their franchises assessed ac-
cording TO the actual value of
their stocks and bonded debts,
. less the valu OF their real estate
as assessed locally, and that the
real estate owned by them be
. taxed locally as other real estate
. is taxed.
. The revenues received from
public service corporations
. should be returned to the mu-
inequalities where the properties
. of said corporations are located
or operated.
8. That the system of levying
graduated taxes upon inherit
. ances be adopted by those states
which do not now employ it, and
; that it be abandoned by the fed
eral government.
. 4. That taxes upon corpora
tions, inheritances, ETC., be sup
. plemented by graduated tax
. upon incomes, to be levied and
collected by the state.
. 5. That notes, mortgages, and
other like property be taxed by
. the state at full value, but at low
fixed rates, through an appropri-
. ate listing and recording system
similar to the Pennsylvania meth
) cd, and proposed by the New York
legislative committee of 1899.
; 1900. Such taxes and other rev.
enues of the states in excess of
; their needs should be distributed
. to counties or localities upon
; some equitable basis.
. 6. That to promote greater unl-
formity in state taxation and to
. consider Interstate problems con-
nected Herewith, the states pro-
vide for national conventions of
fiscal officers.
7. That the general property
tax upon real estate and tangible
. personality be supplemented by
special taxes or licenses upon
. any business tnat is not by the
. general property tax made to
bear its just share of the local
. public burden.-Q902, Vol XIX
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Agreed.

Justice Pickford, when a barrister,
was once speaking before couple of
judges when disagreement arose.
After long discussion on Il point Of
law one of the judges said: We re-
peat that the statement you make is
not good law, and this court does not
sit to eXpoInd the law to you, Mr..
Pickford We have neither the wish,
the time Nor the ability, your
lordships," interjectcd the barristcr.
"Quite so; quite so. Now, as to para
graph 3."-London 1'it-Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS
Don't Mistake the Cause of Your
TbubIes--A Perrysbnrg Citizen
Shows How to Cure them.

Many people never suspect their Xxi d.
neys. II suffering from lame, weak or
aching back they think that 1t is only
IA muscular weakness; when urinary
trouble sets in they think 1t will soon
correct itself. And so it ls with all the
other symptoms of kidney disorders.
That is just where the danger lies. You
must cure these troubles or they lead
to diabetes or Bright's disease The
best remedy to use is Doan's Kidney
by weak or diseased kidneys. Perrys.
burg people testify to permanent cures.
Christopher Knerr, living at corner
Sixth and Hickory streets, Perrys.
burg, Ohio, says: Before had the
good fortune TO learn OF Doan's Kidney
Pills some three years ago, was suffer
ing such severe attacks OF backache
that 1t was difficult for me to attend to
my work. 1t hurt me to pick up n
thing from the floor and to add TO the
annoyance, was bothered good deal
with weakness OF the kidneys, caus-
ing me to arise several times during
the night which greatly disturbed my
rest, The secretions were not only too
frequent but were painful in passing |
had been troubled more or less in this
way for twenty years and during that
time had taken several kinds OF med
icines but received little benefit. Some
one advised me to try Doan's Kidney
pills and about three years ago | had
my first experience with them and they
proved SO satisfactory that | never had
any desire to change to any other
remedy. / keep them In the house all
the time and when feel little out OF
sorts, ! take few doses OF Doan'e Kid
ney pillsand they quickly help me. |
know OF others who have used them
and were cured. can't say loo much
In praise OF them.
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 cents
Foster-M ilburn Co.. Buffalo. New York.
sole agents Tor the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's and
take no other.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
LEGAL NOTICE

Cora ophelia Jones, Plaintiff VS.. Leon
e. Jones, Defendant.
The defendant, Leon E. Jones,
whose last known place of residence
is Oregon City, Oregon, will take no.
tice that on the goth day of Septem-
ber, 1907, said plaintiff filed her petit
ton in the court of Common Pleas,
Wood county, Ohio, praying for di-
vorce from Leon e. Jones on the
grounds of willful absence for more
than three years last past, and gross
neglect of duty.
Said cause will be for hearing on
and after the 9th day of November,
1907.
JOHN H. OLEARY,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
a Criminal Attack.

on an inoffensive citizen Is frequently
made in the apparently useless little
tube called the appendix" It's gen
orally the result of protracted consti-
patton, following liver torpor. DR..
Kings New Life Pills regulate the
liver, prevent appendicitis and estab-
lish regular habits of the bowels 25c
at VIM. Comstock e Sons drug store.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
TOLEDO URBAN G. lNTERURRAN
RAILWAY.
TOLEDO DAYTON LIMITED,

Cars stop only at Toledo, Maumoe,
Bowling Green, Portage, Cygnct,
North Baltimore, Mortimer, Findlay,
Bluffton, Lima, Wapakoneta, Sidney,
Piqua, Troy, Tippecanoe and Dayton.
Leave Toledo-7:20 a M, 9:20 a.
m, 11:20 a. m, 1:20 p. m, 1920 p,
m. ,5:20 p. M, 1920 p. m, 9:20 p. IN.
Maumee south-7:5G a. m., 9;56 a.
M, II: Sc a. m, ] SO p. m, SO p. m,
$3.50 p. m, 1856 p. m, 9:56 p m,
Bowling Green, South-S;1S a. M,
1918 a. m, 1918 p. m, 2:1S p. m.,
4:1S p. M, G:1S p. m, S:1S p. m,
1918 p. m.
Bowling Green, North--6:16 a. M,
SIG a. M, 1916 a. m, 1916 p. M,
2:1G p. M, 4:16 p. m, GIG p. M,
SIG p. m., 1916 p. m.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Homeseekers Excursions
(oct. and t5)
(Nov. and 1917
WEST, NORTHWEST,
SOUTH, SOUTHWEST
Low round trip excursion rates on
the first and third Tuesdays of Octo'
ber and November via the
OHIO CENTRAL LINES

Low One Way colonist Rates to
the Pacific Coast, Every Day during
September and October.
Round trip tickets will be sold via
the Ohio Central Lines to the fol-
lowing points:
Lexington, KY. Fall Races. Ken
lucky Trotting Horse Breeders AS
sociation, October Sth, to 18th.
Chattanooga, Tenn. Reunion of The
Army of The Cumberland, Oct 10
and II.
Chicago, III. National Corn EXposi
ton, October 5th to 10Th.
Secure your tickets to the above
points via Ohio Central Lines.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Toledo, Bowling Green & Southern
Traction Co. Tine Card.

South 1ound-First car leaves
Maumee at 7:11 a. m, Eagle Junction
at 7:17 a. m. arriving at Bowling
Green at 742 a. m, and every two
hours thereafter. The last car leav.
ing Maumee at Ill a. m, (nighD.
North Bound-First car leaves
Bowling Green at Sis a. M, Eagle
Junction at SAB; Maumee, 5:49 a. M,
nd every two hours thereafter until
HIS p. m.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Chance to Prove Hinself

She--1 would never marry mao
who was a coward. He-About how
brave would it he necessary for him
TO he in order to win your approval?
Sbe-Well. he'd have to have cournge
enough to-er-- propose. Chicago News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
Obstinate Parents.

Reginald" said the head of the
family. 81 have told you again and
again that you are not to pull the cats
tail"
Reginald eyed him sadly. You are
getting very Obstinate, father" he said
2eprovingly.-Lon Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04

Had dyspepsia -or Indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what | did
cat distressed me terribly. Burdock
Bloos Bltters cured me."--J. ii.
Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04

Rats. according to q government hui.
ietin. eat S100000,000 worth of grain
annually. and yet in spite of rats and
ates the farmers manage to do pretty
cell. Kansas City Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-04
The Proposed Reforms.

The Proposed Reforms.
The purposes of the conferences are
thus announced:
To secure an authoritative and an
exhaustive discussion of the subject
of state and local taxation in all of its
details.
To produce volume of proceedings
containing the best thought of those
who, by reason of their special educa-
tional training and practical expert
ence, are qualified to speak with au-
thority upon the special branch of the
subject they may elect to discuss.
To furnish to the members of the
legislatures of the several states
concrete, up-to-date statement of the
economic and business principles that
should be applied in state and local
tax legislation, to be used as a guide
for their action when considering pro-
posals to improve the tax laws of their
respective states and in the admins
tration of the same.
By this means to secure the applica-
tion of correct economic and business
principles in all tax legislation, and
thus develop high degree of uniform
ity in the tax laws of the several
states.
By securing uniformity in state tax
laws, to eliminate the evil of changes
in legal residence and in the location
of business undertakings induced by
differences in state tax laws, and to
create conditions of high value in aid
of the effective and economical man.
agement of the financial affairs of all
state and local governments.
The following partial list of papers
and their authors shows that the dis
cussions at this conference of the
many branches of the subject of state
and local taxation will command the
attention of the intelligent public
throughout the country:
The Topics Proposed.
Separation of State and Local Rev
enues." BY Professor Edwin r. A.
Seligman, Columbia university, New
York city
Separation of State and Local Rev
enues." BY Professor t. S. Adams.
Wisconsin university, Madison; Wis.
Taxation of Public Service Cor
porations." By Carl C. Plehn, profess
sor of finance and statistics, Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, CAL; Ak
pert on taxation and public finance,
state of California;; commission on
revenue and taxation.
Taxation of Public Service Cor
porations," BY Professor Adam Shortt,
Queens university, Kingston, Ontario;
member OF tax commission, province
of Ontario.
"Outline of a Model System of State
and Local Taxation" BY Lawson Pur-
dy, president of board of taxes and
assessment, New York city.
Home Rule in Taxation" BY Solo,
mon Wolff, member of Louisiana state
tax commission, New Orleans, La,
"Enoch Ensley's Contribution to
Taxation Literature" By M. e.. In
gals, chairman executive committee,
c., c., c. & St. L. Railroad company,
Cincinnati, o.
Incidence of Taxation" BY A. G.
Pleydell, secretary of New York Tax
Reform association, New York city.
Substitutes for Personal Property
Tax" BY Harry G, Friedman, New
York city
"The Economic and Statistical
Value of Uniform State Laws on the
Subject of State and Local Taxation"
BY l.. G. Powers, chief statistician of
the bureau of the census. Washington.
ID. C.
Methods of Assessment.
Methods of Assessment. as Ap-
piled to Several Glasses of Subjects"
BY James 70. Boyle. professor OF es4
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-14
DEATH OF MRS. LAURA SIMS

DEATH OF MRS. LAURA SIMS.
Wednesday morning while engaged in
the cheerful performances OF her house
hold duties, Mrs Sims was seized with
a sudden Understanding quickly In
the change that we call death, but to her,
who had been long waiting for the hour
il was only transition from the weary
rth-pilgrimage to the life immortal.
Mrs. Sims was woman widely
known and beloved in the community
Her patience i'll sickness, her cheerful
ness in adversely, her accomplishing &C
ceptance of life's hard lessons, will leave
sacred memories in the hearts of her
friends
Unable for many months past to leave
her home, and actively participate in the
good work she longed to do, friends
would come and tell her of things and
her interest and mite were given, She
was shut in, but not cut off. her bright,
sympathetic intelligence was always &C
tive and helpful Her sitting room
cheerful with Gid's sunshine and her
own sunny presence. with books and
flowers. was little temple of devotion
on Friday afternoon, when friends came
for the hour OF prayer and song.
She has gone from earth, and into the
eternal sunlight where aspirations joys
hopes will be quickened and fulfilled
Friends will miss her; and the dear
son whose companionship and guide she
was is lonely and sad without her. May
our heavenly Father comfort his grleved
heart
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF
A Budget of Interesting Items Gathered
by a Caucasian Representative.


Little journeys to the homes of great
reformers' are among the recent Roy
croft publications of special interest
Weak-hearted people who fail to ac-
complish things should read the sketch
of John Wesley, the greatest of modern
reformers.
John Wesley was the fifteenth child i'll
family of nineteen. And yet the moth
er did her own work, and found time to
preach better sermons to larger congre-
cations than did her husband.
Four of her children became famous
John, Charles, Samuel and Martha John
Wesley rebuked and challenged the
SNUG. self-satisfed and formal religion
of the time; had every church door
locked against him; synpathized with
the American colonies in their struggle
| for freedom and founded powerful de-
nomination.
Charles Wesley was the greatest pro-
Queer of hymns the world has ever seen
having written over six thousand songs
| and rewritten most of the Bible in lyric
form He was the brother of John Yves
ley, and delighted all his life in being
so-called. No one ever called John Wes-
ley the brother of Charles. John had Z
will like rope of silk-it slackened but
never broke. He was resourceful,, pur.
poseful. courageous. direct, healthy
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-14

Sc said: q must go, for my kinsfolk
pray
In the little gray church on the shore
today.
Twill be Easter time in the world-Ah.
mel
And / lose my poor soul. norman, here
with thee.
| said Go up, dear heart, through the
waves;
Say the prayer and come back to the
kind sea caves.
She smiled, she went up through the
surf in the bay.
| Children dear. was it yesterday?
Children dear. were we long alone?
The sea grows stormy, the little ones
Long prayers" | said, Sin the world
they say.
Come r | said, and we rose through the
surf i'll the bay.
| We went tip the beach by the sandy
down
Where the sea-stocks bloom, to the
white walled town,
Through the narrow paved street where
all was still,
To the little gray church i'll the windy
hill.
From the church came murmur OF folk
at their players.
| But we stood without in the cold blow
ing airs,
We climbed on the graves, Oh the stones
worn with rains,
And we gazed up the aisles through the
| small loaded panes.
She safe by the pillar; we saw her clear.
Margaret, hist, come quick, we are
here
Dear heart. said, I'VE art long alone
| The sea rows stormy, the little ones
| milan.
| But all she gave me never look,
For her eyes were sealed to the holy
book.
Loud prays the priest, shut stands the
| door"
Come away, children, call no more
| Come away, come down, call no more
| Matthew Arnold.
PERSONALS.
Mr.. A. P. Williams of Alexandria is
the guest of his cousin, Mrs. A. J.
Murff.
The friends of Mrs. Annie Ford Vance
are grieved to hear of her serious i'll
ness.
Mr.. Thomas T. Land of Benton was
| in town during the week.
Mrs J. w. Soady, who has been with
Mr.. Soady in New Orleans during the
spring, enjoyed a brief visit home last
week
Mr.. J. B. Ards and Mr.. John Skannal
are enjoying the woods and trout
streams of Bossier.
Mr.. Bob Hanna visited his parents ii
Monroe last week.
The Bazaar of Nations, which ran al
: last week for the benefit of the Athletic
club, was a great social and financia
success,
| Mrs. J. P. Ford, accompanied by hel
, mother. Mrs Josephine Ford, left fo1
New Orleans Saturday.