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MERRIMAN AND
 HOVEY IN FINALS
Continued from First Pagc.)

the hole In four after Hovsy had miss- ed slx-foot putt. Both made long drives almost to the bunker for the eighth hole and both ov4rplayed the green, Jackson to the rough and Hovey just short of the rough. Hovey won the hole, to 5.
 For the ninth hole both r ade long drives against the wind. lIoN ey tried the bunker and bound ad over it. Jackson played short of he bunker with an iron. Hoyey won the hole. to 5. This made Hovey three up at the turn, having gone nu: in 35 to Jackson's SS.
 Coming in both made long drives for the tenth hole and pulled into the rough. Hovey was snort on his second, and Jackson was m ,he green. Hovcy made good approach and Jackson overplayed his putt. He re- covered in a good putt ani they halv- ed in four,
 Both made very long drives for the eleventh and were on the green in two with short iron ,h,ts They halved in four.
 Approaching the twelfth Hove, made long drive to the right, Jack. son pulled into the rough. but made a beautiful recovery onto the green Ilovey was short on his second. bu made q good third. He then misset four-foot putt and Jackson wo' the hole, to 5.
 Both made long drives and halve' the thirteenth hole in three. Tryinl for the fourteenth. Jackson pulled tn trees. Hovey sliced his l,ll, escapini the trees. Hovey's second was jus short of the green. Jacksons secon' from difficult lie struck tree an bounded straight back. His thir struck another tree and bounded bacl again He played his fourth over tn tree onto the green. Hovey's thir shot was short. Jackson made a goo try for q long putt but missed, Hove winning. 5 to 6.
 Trying for the 18th hole Hovey mad long iron shot and had n perfect Il short of the ditches. Jackson pulled hi ball to the rough and was out In two He was short of the green howeve while Hotey was on the lreen in tw, Jackson overplayed his third and mis; ed four Hovey had two for th match and his ball hung on the lip the cup, just missing a three Hove won the hole 10 5. The match close up to play. The cards read
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try. AS their activities as scavengers
are checked by unnatural destruc-
ton, nestilence and death will sure
ly follow. The birds stand at the
foundation of all our natural resour-
ces and our very existence as WELL
To take up this hard fight against the
monied interests that are killing our
country's birds we need the individ-
ual suvport-moral and financial
OF every man, woman and child in
the country. 1t is reported that we
have been endowed with a million
dollars; but this is untrue, as we
depend solely upon the interest of
less than third of this sum, and
the annual five dollar bills Of our
sustaining members. Many millions
are behind our opponents, the bust
ness bird butchers
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render or see that property is rem
dered at its true market value then
its intrinsic value There are certain
classes of property such as live
stock, farm products and staple ar
ticles, on which the market price
can probably be ascertained, but
farms are not listed in the market
quotations, and city blocks are not
sold at so much per block. There
can be no market without a buyer,
and with the bulk of the property
other evidence than the market will
have to govern the descision of the
assessor, The full rendition law
places upon those who have in charge
the valuation of property renewed
responsibilities which this year must
be solved without precedent or COM
parison and may result in as many
systems of assessment as we have as
SCISSORS, and the operation of this
law will undoubtedly be to destroy
uniformity A number of states in the
Union have state board of equali-
cation, which, if composed of rep
resentative business men from num-
erous sections of the state, should
have a tendency to better conditions,
as it would result in a careful COM
parison of assessed values with the
true value, as well as comparison
of any one section of the state with
that of all other sections, and with
the assistance of the press and pub
lie sentiment it might be possible
to approach ideal conditions. 1t is
not SO much a question of multi
plying statutes and affidavits as of
arriving at a uniforms understand
ing of what constitutes tax values
and realization of the duty of a
property holder to the state govern
ment.
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Brown Mule at McDuff1e Grocery
so
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OF Interest to Democrats.

The national democratic congress
sional campaign committee has be-
gun active operations at it's head
quarters at Washington, D. C. In
addition to it's regular work, it is
now preparing campaign hand
book which it hopes to have ready
for distribution by July 1.-TWO or
three months earlier than hereto
fore.
The committee is charged with
the duty of assisting, in every way
possible, the election of democratic
congress. We wish the active coop
Grafton of every voter in the United
States who believes, with US, that the
election Of a democratic congress
would greatly benefit the country.
We must rely upon the people to
sustain our work by giving informa-
ton as to local conditions, and sug-
gestions for our guidance.
Each individual can at least aid
us by making contribution. viii
he not do SO and interest others in
helping us, too?
We wish our campaign handbook
distributed as generally as possible,
and we will furnish a copy as soon
as published, to everyone who con-
tributes to our committee.
Send remittances to me at Wash
ington, D. c. JAMES r., LLOYD,
Chairman
Brown Mule at McDuff1e grocery
go
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COUPLE HAPPILY REUNITED.
After Separation of Many Years
Husband and Wife Meet.


Husband and Wife Meet.
Spokane, Wash, June 11.-Twen-
ty-seven years search ended in Spo-
kane when Mrs. Elmira M. Smith, 81
years of age, until recently of Mime
apolis, and John F. Smith, IS years
of age, a resident of this city, both
deaf mutes, were reunited through
the efforts of Mayor C. Herbert
Moore. Ben H. Rice, chief of police,
and local newspaper Smith left
his home in Minnesota in 1881 to
make his fortune in the west, leav-
ing his wife and babe to care for
themselves. He sent two letters and
postal card to his wife during the
first seven years of his absence, but
failed to write her in the last 20
years. After the first year, during
which her babe died, Mrs Smith sup
ported herself selling books and
pictures and travelling over the coun-
try in the hope of locating her miss
ing spouse. She also communicated
with practically every sheriff and
police department in the country,
but failed in every effort until she
sent letter, containing descrip-
ton of her husband to Chief Rice,
who recalled John Smith as an at
tache OF Doc" Browns gambling
hall in the early days. The man was
located at Deep Gulch, Wash, south
OF here, and came to Spokane. The
meeting Of the aged couple was
touching. Eyes, this is my husband, ;"
the woman wrote on a slip of paper.
while the husband traced these
words below, This is my wife.
recognize her" They were remarked
and will make their home in Spo-
kane.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-12
THE FULL RENDITION LAW
The Effect Multp yng Statutes and Ahdavs on Assessed
Valuation VIII Soon Be Demonstrated


following article from the CONNER
cial Secretaries Association, on
Full Rendition" gives figures which
measure the difficulties we must
overcome in arriving at uniform rem
dition. The county assessors are now
completing their labors, and press
reports indicate that we will still
have wide variation between the
assessed valuation of property in diff
ferent counties. All citizens should
join in an effort to arrive at a solu-
ton of this complex problem. The
article follows:
The Thirtieth Legislature passed
what is commonly known as the Full
Rendition law. 1t provides that prop
erty shah be rendeded under oath ac-
cording to the reasonable cash mar
ket value of such property on the
market at the time of it's rendition"
and if the property has no market
value, then the real or intrinsic
value. lie dSSCSSOl 10 uIlutl O6lu
''to inspect all the real estate and
improvements thereon subject to
taxation" and make a true esti-
mate of the cash value" and the as
SCISSOR has authority to substitute
his own valuation for those of the
property owner. The MEMBERS of
of oil
under the following oath: II will
not allow any taxable property to
stand assessed on the tax rolls of
said county for said year at any sum
which / believe to be less than it's
true market value"
In some counties In Texas real
property has been rendered at s23
per cent of the value and other coun-
ties at "A per cent of the value, the
average being 40 per cent of the true
valuation 1t requires about $4,000
900 annually to run the state gov
eminent, and all property should
stand it's proportion of this amount,
and whether property is rendered
at 10 per cent or 100 per cent of its
value is wholly immaterial SO far as
the amount of tax paid on any given
property is concerned. The man who
owns one thousand dollars worth of
property will pay just one-tenth the
amount of tax that the man who
owns ten thousand dollars worth of
property pays, no matter what the
per cent of assessed valuation may
be, provided all property is render
ed on a uniform basis of value.
What we need is uniform rendi-
ton as between the estimated true
value of property and the assessed
value. The Full Rendition Law
would, of course, give us uniform
rendition if it could be enforced. No
state in the union has been able to
enforce full rendition and only one
county in the United States is credit
ed with full rendition (Suffolk,
Massachusetts,
The following table compiled by
Solomon Wolff, tax commissioner of
Louisiana, and read before the Ma
tional Tax Association at Columbus,
Ohio, November Is, 1907, was taken
from the government reports on the
estimated true value of real proper
ty and improvements and the assess
ed value OF the same kind Of proper
ty, will give the highest and lowest
ratio between estimated actual and
assessed value for tax purposes
which obtain in the respective coun-
ties:
Gfpi
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Three Lowest.

One will observe that the average
variation in the~highest group is 81
per cent and the average variation
In the lowest is s per cent.
Illinois has the lowest assessed valu-
alton of any state in the union, Is
per cent, and is the only state in the
union that has uniform rendition
except Rhode Island, and the area of
this state is too small for COMPARE
son.
New York furnishes the other ex-
IRENE, with an average assessed val
uation of 80 per cent and an extreme
variation between counties of from
"a to SO per cent.
The average assessment of all
states is 81 per cent and the average
variations range from "a per cent
to sc per cent of the full valuation.
In Texas the average assessment
is 40 per cent of the values, which
range from 23 per cent to "A per
cent. Our average compares favor
ably with other states, but our var
iation is out of line However, Ark
ansas, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia have wider
variations in their assessments than
Texas.
Live stock should have a much
more uniform value than real estate,
as the market price can be more
readily ascertained. The difference
in assessed valuation as compared
with the true valuation of this class
of property is, perhaps, greater
than that part of real estate. AS
shown by the Reports of the Comp
troller of Public Accounts published
August 81, 1907. table rs, Horses
and Mules, Oldham county has sos
head assessed at $500, or $40 per
he'd, while Upshur county has
1854 headsassessed at $3S5,4s0, or
$40 per head. There are 1,5O6,060
head of horses and mules assessed
in 1907 at $65,525,521, or an aver
age valuation of $43.50 per head.
In the cattle column Motley coun-
ty has 42,784 head assessed at
$172,845, or 81 per head, and Gray
son county has 1878 head assessed
at s271,745, or SIG per head. There
are 6,504,056 head of cattle on the
assessors rolls, valued at $59,13S,-
381, or 5000 each. =
The dogs, however, show greater
eccentricity in value than any other
class of live stock. Lamar county
has 364 dogs, valued at $4,000, or
$34 per head. and Lavaca county
has 3,153 dogs, valued at 1912,
or little more than 81 per head.
There are 33,141 dogs on the as
SCISSORS rolls, valued at $391,25O
or $11.S0 each. Dogs are worth an
average of san per head more than
cattle. Land is rendered at an aver
age of $4.31 per acre, and an aver
age dog Is worth three acres Of land,
and good dog is equal in value to
farm. In Brazoria county, dS are
assessed at $35 each, horses at $33
per head, and cattle at IS each. A
dogs in this county is worth as much
as four cows. Some counties have
more money in dogs than they have
on deposit in the banks. We, per-
haps, lead all states in the Union in
the quality and quantity of our dogs
The effect of the recast of our rem
dition laws upon uniform a ssess-
ment values remain to be seen. All
parties connected with the assess
ment of property are under oath to
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Odd Fellows Meeting.

Regular meeting of Waxahachie
Lodge No. 80, I. o. 0. F., tonight
Let every member be present. All
visiting Odd Fellows are requested
to meet with us.
Work in second degree
E. Q. VESTAL, N. G.
G. r. GIBSON. Secy.
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Average. -. "a Sc 81
The following is comparative
statement of three states showing
the highest assessed valuation with
three states showing the lowest as
sessed valuation
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Plenty of Brown Mule at McDufie
Grocery company's. SO
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26
WATT FOR THE RETURNS

Judging by the number of fertilizer
tags sold the cotton acreage for the
coming season will be reduced from
last season. This course has been
urged on planters by their two or
CARNATIONS and it is gratifying that
appearances suggest that the advice
is being taken
But it is yet too early to judge alb
solutely as to the amount of fertilizer
which will be sold. Some of the deal
ers in Savanna hhave stated that buy
ers are probably a little late in orders
this year on account of the money
stringency. The dealers do not care
to oyerstock themselves with tags
until the orders are in sight, so that
there is yet a chance for the demand
TO pick up to such an extent that the
| seeming decrease may be made good
Then the large number of idle cars
which railroads have insures speedy
delivery, whereas last year orders had
to be placed early to insure delivery
in time for use
There is need to sound this warning
lest some of those who have decided
to cut down their cotton acreage will
be led to the belief that the
yield will be cut down greatly, anyway
i and that they had as we'll slip in a
few extra acres and get the benefit
of the better prices which the reduc-
tons by other planters will insure A
moments consideration will lead to
sthe conclusion that if all the farmers
were to thus try to take advantage OF
the reductions supposed to be made
elsewhere, that the crop would be as
large as ever.
When producer has given out that
he intends to plant just so many acres
in cotton for the coming season, ii
should be question of honor not to
increase that number later. To say
the least of it, the season is yet too
| early for any farmer to expand his
acreage on the supposition that the
| general yield will be greatly reduced
his belief being based on the sales
of fertilizer tags.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Chairman Tawney, of the appro-
priatiOn Committee, has warned his
fellow members that the country is
confronted with a probable deficiency
of $1O0,O00,O0O. Economy is a word
which has fallen into disuse in Uncle
Sans vocabulary. 1t will be some
thing of a shock to the old gentleman
to be informed that he is not making
expenses.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Savannah lumbermen have at last
gotten a restraining order against
the coastwise steamship lines prevent
ing the defendants from handling cot
ton and naval stores while leaving
lumber behind on the wharves. For
some years the lumbermen of that
city have been complaining that they
couldn't get cars, and when the rail-
roads have cars now to spare, the al
legged determinations of the steam
ship companies are taken up. If the
lumbermen could only get better
prices in the East, they ought to feel
we'll satisfied with themselves.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Uncle" Henry Gassaway Davis is
going to get married in spite of his
coy denials that such an event was on
the boards And it is to the very wo-
man the newspapers picked out for
the centenarian months ago. Uncle
Henry was at one time Senator from
West Virginia, and met the to-be Mrs
Davis in Washington, where she was
engaged in newspaper work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

The Model License League, in ses-
sion last week at Louisville, has put
forth it's platform by which the liquor
men hope to stem the tide of prohibit
ton. One plank is that all licenses
shall be self-renewing, another that
licenses shall not be more numerous
than one in every 500 of population,
and that licenses shall not be so cost
ly as to destroy the value of the re-
tailers' business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26
III AGIuOIy vi
MAJOR HENRY WIRZ. C.. s.

porn IN Zurlch, switzerland,
Tried by illegal courtmartial under
false charges of excessive cruelty
to Federal prisoners, sentenced and
judicially murdered at Washington,
d C., November TO- 1865
That the United States Government,
not Major Wirz, is chargeable with
the suffering at Andersonville, there
is abundant proof furnished by
friend and foe. Let the fact that
he chose an ignominous death rather
than bear false witness against Pres
ident Davis, speak for his high quail
ties of honor, fortitude, eand self-sac-
rifice
To rescue his memory from the
stigma attached to it by embittered
prejudice and ignorance and to restore
it to its rightful place among men,
the Georgia Division of the United
| Daughters of the Confederacy have
raised this shaft.
SECOND TABLET.
Had the efforts of the Confederate
| Government for an exchange of pris-
| Oners been successful, there would
have been no prison at Anderson
vile.
The following words of the COM
4 u1duu0I VI Tie L Su6Idl AEulN SNOW
why these efforts failed:
1T is hard on our men held in
Southern prisons, not to exchange
| them, but is is humanity to those
left in the ranks to fight our battles
At this particular time to release all
rebel prisoners North, would insure
| Sherman's defeat and would compro-
| mise our safety here
THIRD TABLET.
"Confederates in Northern prisons
100000; Union soldiers in Southern
| prisons, 100000; excess of Union
| prisoners, $4,000; deaths in Northern
prisons 1886; deaths in Southern
| prisons, 22,056. "-Stanton report, July
10, 1866.
Twelve per cent of all Confeder-
ate prisoners died in prison: less than
nine per cent of Union soldiers died
in Southern prisons. Facts are eter-
nal"
FOURTH TABLET
Letter of President Davis:
Il have often felt with poignant re-
greet that the Southern public have
never done justice to the martyr, Ma
| jor Wirz-he was tempted by the
offer of a pardon if he would crimi-
nate me and thus exonorate himself
from charges of which he was limo
cent and with which l had no con-
nection.
Respectfully and truly yours,
JEFFERSON DAVIS"
October 5, 1888.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Russian officials justly resent the
petition of historical Americans in
behalf of Tschaikoysky, the reyolu-
zionist. The accused was known as
the Little Father during his visit
to this country, and when news Of his
arrest was received a movement was
started among the Russians in Am
erica to petition the Car to turn him
loose Nothing but failure could
have been justly expected of such a
petition.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Nothing like being the first to dis
cover great truths. Now comes the
Marion County Patriot and declares
that the people of Georgia are be-
ginning to realize that prohibition
does not prohibit" And this too was
issued just % days after the new law
went into effect.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Shopkeepers at Newport, where the
fashionables congregate in the sum-
mer, are much worried owe r their
inability to collect grocery bills from
the rich, some $4,000 being on their
books. To be suspected of being poor
means that payments must be prompt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Baltimore had another notable fire
Friday in which three fremen were
killed and sixteen injured While
the fire loss did not compare at all
with that of 1904, the toll of life
placed the blaze in the same class
for that phase.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

As a penalty for forming an ice
trust, three Ohio men have been SEN
fenced to a years Imprisonment each.
The old query, How would you like
to be the ice man. receives a mega
tive answer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Says the Meriweather Vindicator
"One of the dailies states that Gov.
Smith would not attend a banquet in
Atlanta because wine was served.
Hoke is getting powerful squeamish
since selling out his Piedmont bar. .
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26
SHAFT TO MAJOR NIRz I
TO TELLsTHE STORY
Illegal Trial and Murder
of Hero.

The marble shaft to be erected at
Andersonville to the memory of the
hero-martyr MajorHenry Wirz, c.
S. A, is being completed at Clark S
monumental works here in Americas.
and the Inscriptions to be placed upon
it will tell to the world the story
of his noble duty we'll performed,
though he died victim of fanatical
hatred.
The monument, cut of which re-
Gently appeared in the Times Recorder
will be reared at Andersonville, near
this city, in June.
The inscription was written by
Captain Louis G. Young and has been
submitted to Captain R. E. Park of
Atlanta state treasurer of the Veter-
ans and a member of the auxiliary
committee to the Georgia division ;
to Mr.. William R. Boyd, of Atlanta,
also member of this committee and
Captain George B. Lamar of Savannah.
Four tablets will contain the inscrip-
ton, the first of which will be placed
on the front of the monument The
inScriDtiOn reads as follows
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Next to having money, the most
important thing is how to take care
of it-how best to invest it.
A Banking Institution of this kind
cannot only care for your financial
interests in a careful, conservative
way-giving YOU abundant banking
facilities in every department of fin
ance-bUt can also give you valuable
aid and advice about investments and
securities. Open an account with
the Bank of South Western Georgia s
Savings Department and enjoy the
advantages that. accrue
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Savannah is still wrestling with the
prohibition laws. A heavy tax on
blind tigers has been proposed by the
Mayor. If the law must be violated,
Savannah is going to charge high for
the privilege.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

In explanation of the fact that Bry-
an and Harmon spent a day in Allan
ia, it is stated that they missed their
train. The explanation is a satisfac-
tory one
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-26

Does the Columbus Enquirer-Sun
mean to accuse the coal man of be-
ing a "bootlegger" when it says: See
the man with the smile? He is the
coal man"