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The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Tax Reform In Kentucky.

There is a general misunder-
standing among the people as to
the proposed tax reform in Ken
lucky, which is being strongly
urged by many of our leading citi-
zens. Instead of being for the
purpose of protecting capital, as
is enormously supposed by many,
it is really for the purpose of max
ing capital invested. in stocks,
bonds and other forms of person.
atty pay the just proportion of the
expenses. of the state. Under our
present constitution the very prin-
ciple of equal taxation is Destroy
ed by our tax laws, and the farm
lands and other real estate pays
about three-fourths of the taxes of
the state, county and municipality,
while the personal property, by
hiding out, pays less than one
fourth, when it should pay at
least one-half. Kentucky is not
only drying capital out of the
state by it's miserable and an
tiquated tax laws, but it is putting
most all of the burden of taxation
upon the farmers who have any
thing in. sight. Kentucky can
never develop up to its pOssibih-
ties until we amend the Constitu-
tiOn so that we can have a more
equitableisystem of taxation. The
Tax Reform Commission is labor
ing to that end, and seeks to have
a law modelled after that in most
of the progressive states. Its
plan is that farmers shall pay only
taxes on their farms for county
purposes, and that their real es-
tate shall he exempt from all state
taxation; that the state shall de-
rive its entire revenue from per-
;Onal property and corporations, !
md that the real estate of cities
shall only pay municipal taxes.
This is practically the law in New
iork and Pennsylvania, and it
las worked admirably. \ tax re-
Orm which will reduce the bur-
lens from real estate and bring
,ut of hiding the hundreds of
Millions of personality without
making the rate too heavy is tax
eform that should have the sup
'ort of thinking people.-Eliza-
,ethtown News.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Country School Branches.

We have received a bulletin from
the State Educational Department
giving ! list of the branches to be
studied. in the various grades in
the coantry schools, as outlined
by State Superintendent Crabbe.
They are as follows:
First eirade-Reading, spelling, writ
ing. language, arithmetic, physical cul-
ture, music and oral instruction.
Second Grade-Reading, spelling, writ
ing, Language, arithmetic, physical cul-
ture, muIie and oral instruction.
Third tirade-Reading, spelling. writ
ing, language, arithmetic, physical cul-
ture, music and oral instruction.
Fourth Grade Reading, spelling, writ
ing, LANGUAGE, arithmetic, geography,
physical culture, music and oral instruc>
tiOn.
Fifth Grade-Reading, spelling, writ
ing, language, arithmetic, geography,
physical sulture, music and oral instruc-
ton.
Sixth Grade-Reading, spelling, writ
ing, language, arithmetic, geography,
American history, physical culture, mu.
sic and otal instruction.
Seventh Grade - Reading, spelling,
writing, language, arithmetic, geography,
Americana history, physical culture, mu-
sic and oral instruction.
EighthHrade-Reading spelling, writ
ing, Language, arithmetic, geography,
hygiene, physics, American
history, clvics, physical culture, music
and oral obstruction.
The oral instruction through the
entire course is on nature studies,
choice literature and such text
books and reference books as i'm
prove the mind.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Senatorial Convention.

Pursuant to a call of the chair.
man of the 34th Senatorial dis
trict, composed of the counties of
Breathitt, Magoffin, Morgan, Ows-
ley and Wolfe, the Committee of
said district met at Camel City,
Ky, July Ii, Tor the purpose of
setting the time and prescribing
the manner in which a Democratic
candidate for the State Senate
shall be nominated. 1t was order
ed by SAID committee that a mass
meeting be held at the county seat
of each county comprising said
district on Saturday, July 81, at
O'Clock p. m, for the purpose of
nominating such candidate, and
that the Chairman of the respec-
tive counties shall call the meet
ing to order and proceed to take
the vote of the Democrats present
in such convention, and the can
dIdate receiving the majority of
votes present shall receive the cleo
tOral vote Of said county, and the
Chairman of the Democratic Ex.
ecutive Committee for said county
shall certify said vote, and dele
gates shall. be appointed to cast
same at the general convention
which cOnvenes at Jackson, KY,
Aug. 1, 1909, at 1 O'Clock p. M.
All known Democrats possessing
the legal qualifications of a voter
in the county wherein he offers to
vote shall be allowed to partici-
pate in said convention.
o. w. wOMAcK, Chm.
A. B. Cox, Sec'y.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Wife Desertion a Felony.

A bill is to be introduced in the
next Legislature making wife and
family desertiOn penitentiarv of.
Tense. The proposition strikes us
as a good one, and will no doubt
go far to stop an evil that has long
worked a great hardship on help
less women and children of the
state. No punishment is to severe
for the brute who deserts his wife
and dependent ones when they
most need his assistance, and a law
similar to the one suggested will
no doubt be passed. .-Cadiz Tele-
phone.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
MAGISTRATES COURTS;

District No. &c; NJ. Fallen; third Friday
in March, Jung, September alds Decem
Der.
District No. 2-Rbbert Brooks; Purth Fri
day in February, May, August And No
vember.
District No. 3-S4F. Allen; secohd Friday
in February, May, August and November
District No. 4-P: K. Legg; first Friday in
March, May. August and NOvehber.
District No. 5-Ti G. HOllOn; second Fri.
day in March, .gune, Septembet and De-
eember.
District No. 6-R9y Hurst third Fridav in
February, May, August and NoS,smber
District No. -7R. T. Helton; fourth Fri.
day in March, June, September and De-
cember. II
District No. S-JI NJ. Lovelacei srst Fri.
day in February, May, August and No
vember.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Party Organization.

The Denaocratic party leaders are
Dreparlngi to effect one of the
strongest State organizations the
party has sver had in its history.
The Committee which was created
by the State Central Committee for
the purpose of establishing and
maintaining permanent headquar-
ters and ofganIzlng the party IN
the state, Are determined to work
solely in the interest of the party
and let no tactlonalism or any kind
of ism enter into it. In a few
weeks quarters will be procured
in Lexington, all necessary Office
furniture sinstalled, and head
quarters tn rown open permanently.
when the matter of state organiza-
ton will be taken up. The purpose
OF this committee is to eliminate
all differerEc ices which have hereto
fore proven 80 injurious to the
party III tho state and organize the
party as a Democratic party, keep
ing out all ianimosities which may
have ariseh, There will be 10
Beckham spd anti-Beckham or any
other foolish and foolhardy isms
recognized by the Committee in its
work. Its work will be in the
interest of the Democratic party,
and to that end it will bend every
ensrgy.-Ssmerset Journal.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29

The greatest race ever offered by
a fair association for two-year-old
trotters is the Thousand Dollar
purse, which has been hung up by
the Blue Grass Fair to be contest
ed on Tuesday, August 10, the sec
Ond day of the fair. Entries tor
this event recently closed and 1T
was favored with splendid list Of
twelve nominations. There are
apparently more good baby trot-
ters out this year than at any pre-
vlous time and this great contest
between them over the famous
Lexington track is being looked
forward to by every lover of a
good horse in the middle west and
south. The Blue Grass Fair asso-
citation has done a splendid thing
for trotting horse interests by Of
fering this liberal purse. Other
associations will be encouraged to
follow It's lead and the result will
be that the so-called baby trotters
will have many more opportuni-
ties to show their prowess and to
assist their development than have
ever been given them before.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29

The first aerial company IN: the
world was last week incorporated
in New York. 1t is known as
"The New York Aerial and Manu-
featuring Co., of Brooklyn,p land
its object is to transport passen-
gers, animals, fir eight, baggage.and
other commodities by such !air-
ships, aeroplanss, aviators, land
whatever for aerial navigation. "
The capital is s25,OOOi
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Farm for Sale.

Farm of 100 acres, 80 acres in timber,
balance in grass and cultivation; scarcely
any rocks; all fenced and cross fenced;
everlasting fine water; plenty of good
fruits; fOur-rOOm house, cellar, outbuild
ings. Twenty-Five acres of tobacco land,
If put in tobacco would pay for the farm
the first year, Close to town, good schools
and churches. Price, reserving five acres
(Part of whice is in ginseng), $1,000.
Write, J. ii. MIzE,
Vaughns Mill, XIV.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
A Cause of Crime.

In no civilized country on the
face of the globe are there as many
homicides as in the United States
1t is estimated that 10000 mur.
ders occur in this country every
year, and that only one in ten OF
those committing the homicide:
are ever punished, and seven of the
ten receive only prison sentences
1t is a rare case for a man sen,
fenced to life imprisonment tC
serve out his term. Pardon inter
venes in nearly every case. HUI
man life with us is held very cheaE
and courts and iuries will lister
to almost any plea set up by the
defendant. 1t is claimed that the
record for the first six months OF
this year will show that where the
death penalty has been executed
once three murderers took their
own lives after the commission of
their crime. Many murders re-
main unsolved, no arrests follow
ing, but when an arrest is made it
is a difficult matter to bring the
accused to trial owing to the delays
engineered by the attorneys. Thus
months and sometimes years elapse
after the commission of the crime
before a trial is had. In such
cases it is not very difficult to Sc
care an acquittal.
We frequently try to find an ex-
cuse for the prevalence of the
crime of homicide by attributing
it to the large foreign element
among our population, that ele-
ment being largely composed of
the low and vicious, with brutal
instincts and in whom the instinct
of revenge is uppermost. 1t is
possibly true that a ma ajority of
the homIcides are committed by
persons Of foreign birth, but native
born Americans have come to the
point of looking on human life as
of very little consideration. But,
after all, the real cause will be
found IN the fact that punishment
does not follow, or if 1t does fol-
low 1t is only after months of de-
lay, and then as a rule is made
1uate TO the crime. Punishment, |
swift and sure, is a greater deter
rent of crime than severity of pun
shment. The man who contem-
plates a crime can readily calcu-
ate, under our system, that he has
line chances to wholly escape pun.
shment to one to be convicted.
Hence, in the pursuit of revenge,
IT for whatever motive, he takes
he nine chances.
The laws give all the advantages
% the man accused of crime, and
he prosecution is hampered at
very turn. Continuances can he
obtained on almost any kind of n
)lea. Changes of venue can be
and are seldom denied.
'ury challenges give to the defend
mt many advantages over the
Then the trial is
by the Court to drag
long day after day, week after
Teek, and in some cases for months,
he time being frittered away by .
eedless questionings of witnesses,
utile arguments over motions and
hort hours OF court sessions.
Lynch law is one of the direct
utgrowths of this lack of swift
nd sure punishment through the i,
lediums of the courts. The GRIM .
lal laws of the various states
eed an Overhauling, and this =
Mould be followed by a remodel :
lg of the court system which now :
revails. The road to escape from
unishment is too easy, and Just :
} long as the chances to escape
are nearly all in favor
the criminal, human life will be
leap.-Cincinnati Enquirer. :,
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The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
DEMOCRATIC TIGKET
WOLFE COUNTY.

For County Judge W. b. D,.FFj
For County Courts iClerk-P L. CARROLL
For Circuit Court: CLERK j. c. LYNDON,
For Sheriff ". SALLHG.
For County Attorhey-S. G. SAMPEE.
For Assessor. T. CENTER.
For Jailer-J. c. j. LITTLE.
For Co. Superinteh hUent-J. ". TAGLBEE
For SurveyOr-E. +. CREECH.
For CorOner-J. crank SAMPLE,
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29

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The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29


bladder remedy, be-
cause of it's remark
able health restoring
properties. Swamp
Root fulflls almost
every wish i'll over
coming rheumatism,
pain i'll the back, kid
neys, liver, bladder
and every part of the
urinary passage. 1t
COTrRCfS Inhhi1ifu IN
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
WOLFE COUNTY COURT;

G. T. CENTER, Judge.
G. B. STAMPER, County Attorney
Robert l.. CARkOLL, Clerk.
Meets first MOEday in each month.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
NOTICE.

G. T. Center, County Judge of Wolfe
county, and q B. Stamper, County At.
tcrney: You are hereby notified that 1
will make application to the Governor
of Kentucky, on August 10, 1909, TO
pardon Frank Center, who was convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year, at the April term, 1909, of Wolfe
Circuit court. \, II. STAMPER.
This July 20, 1909.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29

For Sale-A Victor graphophone
with SO records; will be sold for
less than the cost of the records.
Apply at this office.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
WOLFE county COURT OIRtcTORY
WOLFE CIRCUIT COUNT;

JAMES p ADAMS Judge.
KELLY KAsH, Gomm0nwealth's Attorney.
l. r. HOLLON, Clerk.
Meets third Monday in Janhafy, first
Monday in MAY, bird Monday p :Septem-
Der.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
WOLFE FISCAL COURT

Meets first Tuesday in April, hrst Tues.
day in OctObef. i;
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
nR. G ii. WILLIAMS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
HAZEL GREEN. KY

Offers his professional services to the citi
zens of Hazel Green and surrounding coun-
try, and will answer all calls of affection,
Green Bank.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29

hold water and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects following use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to 90 often
through the day, and to get up MANY
times during the night.
Swamp-R0ot is not recommended for
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or bladder trouble, it will be found lust
the remedy you need. 1t has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
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readers OF this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have sample bottle
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more about Swamp-Root, and how to
hndoutif you have kid a.
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but remember the name, Swamp Root.
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The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
4 Bare Opportunity.

l offer for sale my residence, consist
ing OF seven.room cottage, good lot and
garden, and Outbuildigs. One of the
most desirable locations in Hazel Green.
Also my blacksmith and general re-
Palr shop, which is superior to anything
of the kind in the country, being fur.
nished with complete outfit of tools
and stock OF materials and supplies; also
equipped with power and machinery.
VIII sell all together or separately.
For further particulars call on or ad-
dress, JOHN H. ROSE.
March ii. Hazel Green, Ky.
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer's s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
The Hazel Green herald., 1909-07-29
MORGAN COUNTY.

For Circuit JudgeI 52nd District
j. B. HXNNl
New-York tribune., 1909-03-25
ART BUILDING SETBACK.
GrGdg Bill Tabled - Opposition
GrOring.
fRr Telegraph to The Tribune. J


Albany. March 24.-Vlgorous opposition from SEN
ators who feared the spoliation Of Central PARK
forced Senator Grady to-day to table his bill per-
nittng the Academy of Design to alter its charter
so 1t could accept as gift from the city the site OF
the Arsenal in Central Park for It's proposed ne"
building Senator Grady said he would not press
the measure until he obtained from the membership
OF the entire Academy a document stating that II
was the desire OF the Academy TO have the central
Park site.
The debate at times was stormy. Senator Grao!
resented remarks made by Senators Agnew ana
Newcornb as filings at him because Of his politics
and retorted in sarcastic vein. The three Repup-
liCans from Manhattan Agnew, Brough ana New
comb protested vigorously against turning any part
of Central Park over to a private concern Sen
ators Schulz and Wagner, of New York and Bayne
Of Richmond all Democrats. also opposed the DILL
demanding proof that the membership OF the Acad-
emy and not the board Of control really wanted
the proposed site.
At the end Of the debate Senator Ratnes went to
Senator Grady's aid maintaining that the bill couid
not be considered merely local measure, nor IN
any sense political measure. The upstate people,
he said were as interested in Central Park as New
York City inhabitants. and probably visited It more
than the average New Yorker. What they really
went there 10 see was the landscape or the
park but the exhibits in the museums or to near
the band music in summer. The protests from Ne"
Workers are beginning TO tell in the fight to pass
the Arsenal bills and Senator Grady and his asso-
ciates were distinctly on the defensive to-day IN
the Assembly there is much doubt whether the
Francis bills will be reported from committee, ana
the opinion seems to be that If reported they VIII
be defeated though after hard fight
New-York tribune., 1909-03-25
TAX REPORT LAXITY.
CHARGED That State Lost Through
ErtenSion to Corporations.
TRy Telesraph 10 The tribune ]


Albany. March 24-At hearing to-day before the
Senate Committee on Taxation and Retrenchment
Frank White. formerly Deputy Attorney General,
charged that one New York corporation had Oh
tained an extension of two and One-haif years and
another OF five years in which 10 file tax report
and that one had filed a report through which the
state had lost about 81 40 The other. he asserted
had been so inadequately taxed for the five years
IN which il failed report that the state had lost
81 GO year.
Mr. White appeared in opposition TO a bill intro
duced bv Senator Meade and said to have the sup
mort Of Controller Gaus which makes sweeping
changes in the franchise tax laws. Among other
things II would permit the Controller, in his dis
cretion to extend the time in which any corpora
ton should make tax report The various
changes Mr.. White contended, would permit dis
honest clerks 10 practise corrupt manipulation Of
tax affairs practically unchecked
Another provision which Mr. White criticised
takes out Of the existing law the requirement that
the Controller shall send written notice 10 the
Attorney General reductions of taxes of
tons ''The largest of publicity possible in
matters of this kind can work injury while
concealment and secrecy may result in serious i'm
pajrnnent TO the revenues OF the state and may
open wide the doors for corruption and graft" he
said.
John J. Merrill, CHIEF OF the corporation tax bu-
reau appeared in favor of the bill He said that
II was drawn entirely with reference 10 the sd-
ninisration the corporation tax law and to clear
away conflicting provisions which practically nul-
lily assessments in some cases.
Mr. White at time flied charges against Mr..
Merrill with the Attorney General. alleging favor
itsm with respect TO certain corporations. but the
charges dismissed.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-25
TWENTY SHOTS FIRED IN STREET.
italian storekeeper Shot Down-Wife Tells
Police of Quarrel with Saloonkesper.

Joseph Gennaro. who kept a cigar store ana
lived al 40 1lsis Van Brunt street Brooklyn was
sno1 and killed as he leaving his store yester-
dsv morning His wife told Of quarrel between
her husband and Joseph Cincotts, OF No 1so Co
lurnhia street who keeps saloon at No. loo De
Graw street. over a sum OF money. which Gennaro
believed Cincotta should pay him After listening
10 Mrs Ciennaro's story the police arrested Gin
Gotta
According to spectators more than twenty shots
were fred after Gennaro out OF his ciscr store
but when Patrolman Raynor ran to the scene he
found the street nearly deserted and Mrs. Gennaro
bending over the body Of her husband
The police say they intend to examine Pietro
Furia. Of No 40 De Ciraw street. whose home is
near that OF Gennaro He taken 10 the Long
Island College Hospital later in the day suffering
from a bullet wound in the foot.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-25

1922 this morning for Cleveland. accompanied hy
several friends and detectives. returned tonight
fully satisfied as 10 correctness Of the identtd
cation Of the persons under arrest by the boy.
Attempts Of the relatives OF Willie Wh1tA 70
identity the woman held in Cleveland wers useless
according TO a statement made BY Harry torker'
an uncle OF the boy. here tonight
''I do not know the woman he said "NF.
whitIa HIS wife. daughter Salina and closely
scrutinized the features of ths woman to-day IN
Chief Kohler's once. and none OF US knew her
4 delegation OF ''WiIlie's'' schoolboy churns nlsc
him ar the station here tonight They chsered and
vbistIsd when he stepped out OF the day coacn-
One urchin who stood near the train. watched tne
+rfuuphant entry Of Willie into Sharon. ara
then. kicking the OF his shoes into the station
-1stforr, remarked sadly: Gee! II must be great
IN he Kidnapped