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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
INCREASED PERSONAL TAX
Opinion Of Ex-Commissloner That
More Should Be Raised
ASSESSMENT is NOT EQUAL
Railroad and Corporations Possessed
More in Proportion Than
OTHERS.


Charleston, W. Va, April BIN the
opinion of ex-Tax Commissioner
Charles w Dillon there ought 10 be
a very large increase in the amount
of value OF the personal property as
sessment this year. He SO states in q
circular Of instructions recently issned
to the personal property assessors.
who are uged TO get all the property
on the books at its true and actual
valne.
Mr. Dillon tells the assessors that
most of the railroad companies appeal
ed to the courts from the assessments
on their properties by the board OF
public work and one of the complaints
was that the railroad property was as
sessed higher in proportion to its
value than any other property in the
state.
This complaint he says is a thrust
at the personal property assessors,
and that each assessor should DO his
best to see that no ground for such
complaint any longer exists in his
county He points out that IL should
be a pleasure for the people to pag
taxes because Of the low rate levy.
Most Of the changes made by the
legislature in the assessment law are
not effective until next year and are
not discussed in this circular for fear
that to do so would cause confusion.
But there are several new points for
thu. assessor to consider.
The section requiring assessors u
furnish each taxpayer with blank
on which to make his return has been
repealed. These blanks We're sent b.
mail and as no provision was made
for the payment of the postage it
proved quite expensive for the asses
sors. The good accomplished was
not commensurate with the cost.
In the opinion of the tax commits
sioner the new Jaw, providing in
creased salaries to the assessors will
apply to those now in Office after the
law goes into effect on May %. In
discussing this feature, Mr.. Dillon
says:
ut might be said that this law does
not apply TO the assessors this year
because it does not go into effect I'M
til after the beginning of the assess
ment year l am inclined to the
opinion, however, that the increase
would apply from the time the law
goes into effect. That is that the as
SCISSORS should be paid at the increased
rate from the time the law goes into
effect until the close of the assess
ment year. For example: II the
assessors salary before the present
dred dollars year and the new law
increased it to one thousand dollars
year, he should be paid at the rate
of eight hundred dollars from January
!, 1907, to May %, 1907, and from
May %, to the close of the year at the
rate of one thousand dollars a year
THE salaries provided in this sec
ton for assistant assessors does not
apply until the beginning of the as
sessment year of 1909, Any assist
ant assessors which the assessor en-
ploys for this year and the next will
be employed at his own expense
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
A FINE FUNERAL CAR.
A. kogeIschatz & Son Add Handsome
Hearse TO Their Equipment.

Messrs. A. Kogelschatz & Son, flu
neral directors and liverymen,. have
just received a handsome new funeral
car. This is one of the handsomest
pieces of equipment to be had. 1t is a
massive car and elegantly finished.
The woodwork is all carved and the
design is the latest. 1t has rubber
tires and is elegantly upholstered
There is probably no handsomer
hearse in the state and few establish
ments in the cities have anything that
is any handsomer The car will be
put into use at once This adds great
ly to the already large equipment Of
this firm.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
Another Bio Break.

Another big break in the water
main on East John street yesterday.
The work along this street is progress
ing, two blocks being already finished,
and another will be today What re-
lief it win be when the laying of all
the pipe is done.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
In Honor of Miss klmmeIl.

Miss Sallie Russell gave charm
ingly appointed dinner last Friday ev-
ening in honor of Miss Nellie Kimmel1,
of MarSinsburg, w. Va. who is the
guest of Miss Blanche Boice. The
table decorations were yellow and
white. Miss Russell WIS assisted in re-
ceiving her guests by Mrs. H. M. STAN
Review.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
STOOD THE GALE 60 HOURS.
Steamer Battered by Storm OFF Cape
Hatteras.

New York, April 6.-The steamer
Virginia arrived in port this morning
in crippled condition. She was bat
tered by the heavy seas for 60 hours
while off Cape Hatteras. Seven of the
crew were injured and when she ar
rived in port those of the crew who
were not injured were utterly exhaust
cd
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
LAST TIDE WATER MILL.
Fire This Morning Causes Death OF
Two in Chimney.

Sangus, Mass, April 6.-The last
tidewater mill on the Sangus river was
burned this morning. 1t was operated
by New Hall Company. Two men who
were asleep in the chimney were burn
ed to death.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13

Working Out Fines.

Thomas Walker and Robert Moore
were arrested on Saturday night for
disorderly conduct They are working
out their fines today on the John
street Improvement.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
Special Session Of County Court.

County Clerk |. L. Bender will call
a special session of the county court
Tuesday, April 16, for the considera-
tion OF applications for the sale of
liquor and the issuing of other II.
censes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
BATTLESHIP STRIKES ROCKS.
NO Loss of Life Reported-5ut So
rious Damages to the Ship.

New York, April S.-The British
Battleship Trafalgar, storm-tossed. was
dashed against the rocks at Devils
Point, this morning and seriously
DANCED.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
Moved His Office.

Attorney r. H. Boyd has removed
his Office from the Peoples Trust Co.
building to the public square, in the Of
fee with Prosecuting Attorney Noll.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-04-13
Entertained Friends.

Miss Rhea Fahrney entertained
number of her friends at her home on
West Burke street Thursday evening.
A delightfl time was spent Refresh
ments were served during the evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
mOruan's Memory

All that Is mortal of Alabama's s senior senator has been laid to rest in the soil of the state he loved so well and served so long. As the years go on he will stand out as a picturesque figure of the Old South. Sixty years age he met and learned to revere John c. Calhoun and history will almost surely say that he himself bridged the America of Calhoun and democratic simplicity and the America of today, in which money-getting prevails and class rule begins to creep In. To his great honor be 1t said modern methods never changed his character or his ideals. He stood member of the old school of statesmen, and he died as he had lived.
 What do we owe to the memory of this grand old Roman? He deserves a place In the hall of fame, but in the one on the banks of the Harlem no name can be accepted until the holder of it had been dead ten years. Be- sides, too, the jury of one hundred seems disinclined to honor southern names.
 There is no need of waiting upon the committee of one hundred. Let 1t go its way, and let the legislature of Alabama, when 1t meets next month, order a statue of the dead senator to be set In the hall of statuary in the capitol at Washington. Each state is permitted to place there two statues. One to the memory of Jabez l.. M. Curry was put there by order of the legislature of 1903, and Alabama would honor herself by having statue of John Tyler Morgan set there also. It would cost about $2O, ,O0o, but from a full treasury this state should not hes itate to expend that amount No ex- penditure was necessary when the statue to Jabez l.. M. Curry was set up, and the state should not hesitate in the case of senator who, coming from the pre-commercial age, passed through the temptations of modern ism unscathed. To him we owe a tribute and statue in the national capitol. would certainly meet public desire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
Dying Disgraced

It is becoming increasingly difficult tion. Andrew Carnegie says those who die rich die disgraced and Dr. Wiley, who Is a part of the govern ment says that anyone who dies from disease is reprehensible, if not i'm moral and criminal He does admit that death from old age is inevitable, and he thinks that that is the way all should go out of this world. He inti- mates that this plan would, if adhered to- fill the world with centennarians.
 Those who take in disease germs and neglect to cast them out, and those who get in the way of motor cars die disgraced. The former acted foolishly against the known rules of science, and the latter were flung into the next world because they were stupid, or at least not alert Both died disgraced. The list is long and Dr. Wiley Is un- compromising. He holds that death should overtake no one until the de- cay of old age comes.
 And yet he does not tell us how we can escape the disgrace of death by disease. He does not tell us what to eat or when to eat 1t and least of all does he tell us what to drink and how much of 1t to imbibe at sitting. Just so long as Dr. Wiley and his brother professional scientists do not tell us how we can escape death by disease amateurs surely should not be greatly blamed if they slip away now and then disgraced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
From the Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald.
 ENATOR JOHN TYLER MOR- @N GAN of Alabama was one of the O veterans of the United States Senate with respect to both years and service. He would have been s3 years old on the 10th of this month, and was there fore next to his colleague, Senator Pettus of Alabama, in age. MT. Pettus was born on the 26th of July, 1921, and is thus ap preaching his Seth birthday, though the fact would not be suspected from glance at his massive and stury frame and the vigor with which he moves. Next to Senator Morgan in age comes Sem ator William Pinkney Whyte of Mary land, who also was born in 1924 and who, like Senator Pettus, is a living refu- tation of the popular idea of octogena- rian inactivity. Following these veterans are Messrs. Allison of Iowa, Cullom of Illinois and Stephenson of Wisconsin, all born in 1929, Teller of Colorado, born in 1S3o and Proctor of Vermont, born in 1881.
 As Mir Morgan was second among the senators in age he was second in service
 
 as a member of the upper chamber. The Iowa senator began his service In 1873, the Alabama senator in 1877. Next, In 1881, came Hale and Frye of Maine, and fifth 1t will surprise many Rhode Island people to the told-Senator Aldrich of this state MT. Aldrch Is not yet 6s. but he has been a member of the Senate since the 9th of October. 1881, outranking in length of con- tinuous membership such veterans as Cul- lom, Teller, Daniel. Proctor, Lodge Bur rows and Bacon. Excepting the Senators from Maine, he is the senior member from New England; excluding those two and Senator Allison of Iowa, he is now the senior for the entire country How swiftly time brings in It's changes!
 Senator Morgan retained to his latest years remarkable physical and mental virility. His impassioned defence of the Nicaragua canal project, his fulminations against the Santo Domingo treaty and railroad rate bill, will De recalled as ex- amples of his vehement and powerful rhetoric Those who differed from him friends to testify to his intellectual and oratorcal equipment. He was versatile by reason of a long experience great shrewdness of observation and wide in- formations he was equally ready and tena- cious. He had the courage of his convic- well. He was the product of the ante
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
Two Far-East Plans

Captain Hobson is a prince of jim goers, and in St. Louis on Wednesday last he thus endeayored to fire the American heart:
 Japanese offcicers are teaching mili- tary science in important schools of China, and under their guidance China is founding arsenals and raising armies in each of her provinces It is natural the Asiatic people, now that they are on the theatre of the world, believe the white and yellow races are to have titanic struggle for supremacy. The contest nat urally will include a struggle for com merce, and Japan wishes to control the low races control the commerce of the Pacific Because of our having neglected to fortify our Pacific possessions and failed to build an adequate navy, Japan could take our possessions eastward with out any material resistance. Therefore, it is important for the people to realize
  bring about war with the United States at the earliest possible moment. Not wishing to fly into the face of the worlds opinion Japan must create plausible pretext for war. Every incident, no mat ter how triaing. is seized upon for this purpose"
 Captain Hobson wants our navy sent to Hawaii and the Philippines, and he wants above all else a greater navy. But the Springfield Republican has plan that beats the Hobson plan block. The Springfield plan calls for the slipping of the Philippine gold brick onto the unsuspecting Japs when they are not looking. This would take all the wind out of their sails-all the incentive to war out of their lingo pro- gressives. The AgeHerald regrets to say that 1t vastly prefers the Spring field plan to the Hobson plan. It would cost less, and it would strength en the national position in a twinkle. Our one weak spot-weak physically, morally and constitutionally-is the Philippines. Let us unload the archi- pelago on the island empire, the only empire in the world that knows how to handle little brown folks. The Japs are built that way themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
Real Estate Active.

"The Birmingham real estate market has become very active within the past two weeks" said a prominent agent When l say the Birmingham market, l mean, of course, the Birmingham dis trict.
 q have never known so much eager inquiry for lots in the suburban towns In Bessemer and Ensley and between those cities and Birmingham realty Is wonderfully active. It seems to be dawn ing on the investing public that Birmng- hams rapid growth means rapid increase in real estate values. While booms have collapsed and investors have lost in times past, this district is so far ahead now that 1t is only question of ten years when it's population will be almost, if not quite doubled. One large enterprise alone-the Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantio railroad-with It's auxiliary, the Birmingham Iron company, will bring millions of new money and an increase in population of 10000 or more"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
From the Washington Post

from the Washington Post
 NM AIDE HAMPTON was the last
 N/ of the barons and John T. Morgan the last of the doctri- naires of the old south. Pettus, too, Is of the old south. but he is jurist and soldier, rather than politician and states man. Daniel, Money, McCreary, Bacon, McEnery, McLaurin and Mallory were all Confederates; but they were cadets and understood little, and cared less, as to what 1t was all about when the bombardment of Fort Sumter echoed around the world.
 It was in the 40s, but previous to the war with Mexico. that John c. Calhoun made a tour of the then southwest and tarrled some time in Alabama. He was the idol of the cotton south; the greatest intellect that section ever produced, with a character as lofty and as pure as mankind of all ages and climes can show. More than any other figure in our history the ideal Roman senator was reincar- nate in John c. Calhoun.
 In Alabama, MT. Calhoun found Will liam L. Yancey and John T. Morgan, and he would have been content that his mantle should fall on either Though Yancey, like Jefferson Davis, rejected the idea o. nullification, he was now become the follower of the great South Caro- linian upon the vital issues that divided the north and south. Morgan was an equally distinguished disciple of the Cal houn school. The three conferred to- gether. and from the visit John T. Nor gan was a leader of political opinion in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
THE PASSING OF MORGAN

When the supreme test came he went to the front private and returned a general. He helped to dispel the night mare of reconstruction and restore civil liberty to his people In 1877 he became senator in the American Congress and was one of the less than half a dozen men who have been elected to six terms in that illustrious body. As a senator he was Tn the front rank, eminent for intel lectual capacities, distinguished for solid attainments, conspicuous for lofty char acter.
 The last fifteen years of Morgan's life he aid not participate actively in politi- cal strife, but devoted his great talents to foreign affairs and the project to con- nect the two great oceans by means of a canal constructed in this hemisphere. On these subjects the speeches he delivered anu the reports he made would fill many large volumes. Nobody can conceive the tremendous intellectual and physical ener- gies of the man who has not read some, at least, of these productions. His mind was cmnivorous in its grasp and seems to have clutched all knowledge. In gen. eral and in detail he was master of every subject he debated. His command of language was as happy as 1t was uni- versal, and the future historian of the American Congress will find fabulous gems of speech and profundities of thought in John T. Morgan's speeches that are embalmed in the Congressional Record.
 Save Pettus only he was the last of the old south in the American Congress. All honor to his memory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16

letin boards in Delaware, but the long persistence of Addicksism in Delaware has no doubt deeply corrupted the voters of that state.
 Outside of Delaware the republicans have no more opportunity to carry a state in the south than they had twen- ty years ago. There is no swing, no tendency, in the other fifteen south ern states towards the party that is nothing if not plutocratic. It believes in centralization and the destruction of the rights of the states in order that 1t may have more scope for turning this government into a plutocracy in which the classes will thrive and the masses will sink lower and lower in condition and a degree of happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
YEARS! YEARS!

By Julia Nicely Finch. Yearsl Years! What have ye done to
 me, years? Ye have graven my brow with a pencil
 of gloom; Yelled my bright eyes and wrapped them
 in mist;
 Sapped my red lips, that lovets have Of their ravishing roses. their subtle per- Robbed my light step of it's rythmcal
 glee
 Turned from riotous, rapturous flood Of delight, to slow, sober tides, my blood, And set close about me, who loved to be
 free,
 Environment, circumstance, heredity. Years! Years. What have ye lent 10
 me, years? Ye have lifted and set to my lips A cup filled with fair fragrant wine, Beaded by fancies fantastic and fine. True, ,~twas shaded and darkened by fears And the dregs of 1t tasted of tears But I held 1t in frail finger tips And the gifts of the go . were mine. Little rocked I what else ye might bring, While my lips to this cup could cling. Years! Years! What have ye given me.
 years?
 Lovei Lovel Love ever finder and true. Friends! Friendsl Friends that are faith
 full if few. A book of fair memories, sweetest, And of all good gifts completest. True, some pages are blistered with tears Where a little white flower is pressed. That was lifted from some quiet breast; And some are twisted and torn With sorrowful things hardly borne. But Years! Years! Close-crowding
 yearsl
 With harvest of hopes and of fears Ye have brought to me nothing but good. Some of 1t scarce understood Some of 1t scarcely yet cured Some of 1t over endured And I look out and on to the end. When neither with lover nor friend I shall stand at the outermost gate And for its outswing, there wait And waiting I think of the years And I think ye have served me saved mo From much that the human part craved
 me.
 And as the Eternity hears I feel kindly to ye, oh, my years! And my soul taketh courage, and cheers The poor finite part half afraid. I am what the years of me made. God given the center, spark, part of The great. inexhautible heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16

Fifty-ninth Congress, and he supported the law that was passed in the days of John Sherman for the suppression of monopolies of the Standard Oil sort. He keeps step with public sentiment on these great economic questions.
 The chief question of the age is the destruction-not regulation-of pri- vate monopoly, and the promotion of competition in every possible form. No other question is so far-reaching, no other so important, and upon this question MT. Bankhead will be found to be in strict accord with advanced public sentiment.
 The railroad regulation bills passed by the present legislature are not as drastic as the public utilities bill of New York. The Alabama legislation is more in keeping with the federal rate bill, and no doubt it will presently appear that MT. Bankhead has been a warm supporter of the Alabama bills ever since they were proposed and en- acted The democratic national plat form of 1904 commits every democrat to the principle of railroad regulation, and MT. Bankhead stands with both feet on that platform.
 Those who say otherwise without a particle of evidence in hand say that 4S,362 Alabama democrats were either grossly ignorant or afflicted with lun- acy when they went to the polls last year and cast their votes in favor of the selection of John H. Bankhead to fill the first occurring senatorial va- cancy. The 4S,362 deny the allega- tions even if they do not defy the al legators. The truth is the verdict of the 4S,962 is a verdict that the demo- cratic party cannot afford to ignore, and there are no indications that it in- tends to do anything of the sort
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
The TraveIlnd Men.

John W. O'Nelll left yesterday for Nor folk to attend the annual meeting of the Travellers Protective association. He is chairman of the Virginia delegation and will extend cordial invitation Ito the as- sociation to meet in Birmingham next year.
 T will make an earnest effort to secure the 1908 meeting," said MT. O'Neill. "Other cities will press for the prize, but I have hopes of winning it. Should Birmingham not be selected for 1908 l feel confident that we will have the meeting in 1909.
 ''The Travellers Protective association is, as every one knows, great institu- ton. Few conventions are so desirable as that of the travelling men. The annual meetings are largely attended by members and their wives. Drummers are good fel- lows and good spenders."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16
Fairbanks corrects Report.

Before Vice President Fairbanks left Birmingham yesterday for Selma to at- tend the funeral of Senator Morgan, he denied the story which caused wide com ment in the south. to the effect that he recently said Tn a speech at Chattanooga that General Joseph Wheeler told Presi- dent Mckinley in his Fairbankso pres ence when applying flor service in the Spanish war, he had followed "the Con- federate flag under mistake"
 What General Wheeler said.' declared MT. Fairbanks, was that under the die tates of his conscience he had once fought against the United States flag. and de- sired to fight for it before he died"
 The Vice President said he regretted what he had said had been garbled.