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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

october was a dull month with us.
Nearly all of our sub-agences were yell
ing hard times, saying that the farmers
could sell no cotton and so forth, and
we did little business. November, how
ever, shows a decided Improvement. The
agencies in the smaller cities of the state
are selling cars and that shows that the
condition there Is better. And when the
farmer and the man In the smaller cities
begins to spend money, business depres-
sion is doomed to perish"
Charles w. Tray, southern sales man.
ager of the Haynes Automobile COM
pany. Just returned from a 10 days trip
visiting Nashville, Louisville, Indianapo-
lis Kokomo, Cincinnati, Knoxville and
| Chattanooga and reports the business OF
| the Haynes company very encouraging
| Already q nice business has been done
by the various dealers. Mr. Tway left
| for Montgomery Friday to close con-
| tract there and will leave Sunday for a
| trip through Virginia and North Caro-
lima. being absent about 10 days. Imme-
diately after January 1 Mr.. Tway VIII
drive from Jacksonville, Fla, down the
| ca st coast and sail from Key west ioi
Havana. where a new agency Will De
| opened for Haynes cars. Mr. lWay VIII
| ship one of the light skies to havana &c
use while there ana Will DC aosei' az =.
| three weeks on this trip, returning III
| time to attend the automobile show al
Chicago January %.
studebaker dealers are receiving the
frst samples of a 10-passenger car OF con-
vertible type, mounted on the studepaker
-Four delivery car chassis. me seats
run lengthwise and are collapsiple' per
hitting the cars also TO be used for Dag
gage or other loads.
Buick truck was sold during tne
past week to the Birmingham Coia,Sli
company by the local agent, the fiien'
land garage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

sensation in the Grand Prix race in
France this year. 8 hours, 81 minutes
and 81 seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

Ruick truck was sold during tne
mast week to the Birmingham Coia-Nip
company by the local agent, the Hieh-
land garage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

Dodge. 1916 model, cars have been re-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-07-01
lust FACTS

"The State Board of Equaliza-
ton has increased the assess
ment of property in Kentucky
$I8,ooo,ooo over last year, nearly
all of which has been added to
real estate, and issued a circular
In which the statement is made
that our peresent tax laws, if
rigidly enforced, are adequate to
produce sufficient revenue for
the expenses of the Government.
This is true in theory, but
has not been found so in practice.
| Under the general properly tax
law the revenues have been suf-
6cient, and by attempting to en-
force its provisions much capital
has been driven out of the State
and much more prevented from
coming in.
after nearly twenty-five
years experience with the pres
ent law, Kentucky finds itself
powerless to raise sufficient rev.
enue and is confronted with an
annual deficit and millions of
dollars of accumulated indebted
ness, with no prospect of pay
ment.
Every attempt at a stricter
enforcement of the present law
will merely result in repression.
People who are already paying
more than their share of taxes
will have to pay still more, and
those who own securities will
conceal or remove them from
the State. This is inevitable.
"The State Tax Commission,
in its report 70 the last Legisla-
ture, made it very plain that ev-
cry attempt to enforce the law by
more stringent measures result
ed in the closer hiding or remov-
al of intangible property from
the State and adds:
"Outside of the United States
no civilized government in the
world thinks of levying such
heavy taxes upon property as
mobile and as readily concealed
as money, credits and securities.
"The State of Kentucky re-
ceived more revenue for the year
1912 from the tax on dogs than
it did from bonds, moneys and
stocks.
Advocates of strict enforce
ment do not seem to realize that
tax of 3 per cent. upon the fair
cash value of good securities is
equivalent to tax of Is per cent.
on the income, and as this amouts
to practical con6scation, very
little revenue is derived from
such sources.
mot many years ago, under
the same general property tax
we have in Kentucky, the assess
or in the city of Baltimore could
find only 100000 in taxable
securities, because the owners
refused to list them and submit
to confscation. The law was
changed and the present assess
ment is over $I6o,ooo,ooo and
the revenue from this source has
increased from $4,000 to $780,
900 per annum.
"The term uniform taxation
deceives the best people, but the
word uniform means conform
ing to one rule and in assess
ment of property in Kentucky
no such rule is observed.
Property is assessed on a diff
ferent basis in almost every |
county, and real estate in several
ways, and personal property in
as many ways as the owners can
devise and the assessors sane
ton. There is no uniformity at
tempted.
Taxing ourselves to death is
moral and material suicide.
eff you want to see wealth and
enterprise disappear tax it be-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-07-01

The Advocate for Printing.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-07-01

cages, stocks, bonds and notes,
farming implements, machinery
and crops, the State not only
loses much revenue but inserts
a knife in its very vitals."
The State Tax League has
made no new discovery. The
facts which its statement sets
forth have been admitted by ev-
cry tax commission that has
studied the question and by the
trainers of the Constitution. The
present system has been given a
twenty-five year trial. Its de-
fects are too patent for defense.
And yet, whenever the General
Assembly meets, any effort to re-
wise the tax system is met by
the declaration that it is a device
to saddle more taxes on the farm
er. AS the professed friends of
the farmer have always been in
the majority, every attempt at
revision has failed.
The Tax League is composed
of 1000 members who are at
work to bring about the adoption
in 1915 of constitutional amend
ment that will permit of Ken
tucky's putting into effect sys-
TEN that is uniform for all prop
erty of the same class.
The league has all the facts on
its side of the argument. There
is little doubt that the amend
ment will carry. But, unless the
league can convince the farmers
that there is no friendship in hav-
ing their taxes raised, the next
General Assembly is more like
than not to repeat the perform
ance in which its predecessors
have so frequently engaged to
their political advantage and the
farmers hurt.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-07-01
WHAT COUNTS

1t isn't the things you are going
to do,
Or the things you say you have
done,
That will bring in the shekels
this morning for you,
Or finish the work that's be-
gun.
The past or the future won't
tighten the load
That you have to carry today /;
You can't reach the wonderful
bend in the road
Without TRAVELLING each foot of
the way.
The work you will do in a month
or a year,
Won't scatter the clouds that
arc gray
The difficult tasks this moment
are near
Depend on your courage today.
And it isn't the things that you're
going to do
That will win any wreath for
your brow,
Or gather prosperity shekels for
you,
But the things you are doing
right now-Exchange.
The Advocate for Printing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
Admiral Mayo, Who Started Tampico Af-
 fair, 58 Tomorrow

\ In musing over the sade fate of a. dictator in exile, and in considering the causes of his downfall, Victoriano Huerta doubtless gives due credit to a certain son of the Green Mountain state who answers to the name, of Henry T. Mayo. This distinguished Vermonter is a. rear-admiral in the navy of Uncle Sam, and he will pass his hfty-eighth milestone tomorrow. Little was known of him outside of the boat crew of an American vessel we're arrested and thrown into jail at Tampico by one of Huerta's officers The crew, composed of marines, had been sent ashore in a launch from the gunboat Dolphin, their mission being the peaceful one of negotiating the purchase of some gasoline. When the incident came to the attention of Ad- miral Mayo, who was in command of the fleet division charged with looking things happened. Sandy-haired peo- pie are not safe to monkey with, and Mayo has sandy hair. Gen. Zaragosa, the Federal commander at Tamplco, was informed without red tape or waste of time, that he had to do. First, he was to release the mariners. This he did at once. Sec ond, he must make &n ample apology
 zaragosa promptly admitted that apologfzing was one of the best things he did. Third, the gunboat zaragosa, of the Mexican navy;-one might ai- most call it the Mexican navy-must fire salute of twenty-one guns to the Stars and Stripes before the sun went down on that day. There zara- gosa. baked. He said it wouldn't be compatible with his honor or that of the great nation he represented. It is generally believed that Mayo was all for going after that salute, but ad- vices from Washington urged an ex- tension of the time limit. The salute was never fired-bIt Huerta was, which was perfectly satisfactory to Mayo and the administration. Ad- mira1 Mayo is the youngest man of his rank in the United States navy. He entered the Annapolis naval acad- erny at the age of fifteen, and he has been wearing the uniform of Uncle Sam ever since. He graduated in 1876, and began his sea-going career on the old monitor Tennessee. Until the Tampico incident there was lit- tie of the spectacular in his career. He was commissioned a rear-adInira1 about a year ago, and he has four years yet. to serve.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
LARGE COLLEGE REST

A RESIDENT ARTHUR T. Hadley expresses opposition third college at Yale The proposition the idea that students would get along beer smaller bodies taught under teaching
 adley objections will the most part thoughtful A most serious objection declared the small college requires build and other things the proporonae1y greater for small than for number of pupils
 Then after the had been incurred it is would be made greater graduated into the world.
 Occasionally with strong gift for personal relation might efficiently the strong in the other hand, the small class copes the gift iparting instruction by speaking take fewer than he could benefit
 tendency Of the almost everything, is for larger industrial teaching units all larger only point this development pcted where the unit becomes too unueldy it's purpose
 deed universities that might mentioned
 university probably large university,
 and teaching facilities in accordance with its size
 The preference colleges from habit memory the of helpessness which individuals sometimes feel in the of large numbers of 4 Their fellows struggling in large class should wish small But the logic events to competition eTnuation the largest field Since institutions conducted in large it would should get their training the scale the things they to
 Tn when army numbered but a well enough for leaders to get their training or village formation But that march by millions the generals must have practical training with units large several
 for the small college
 need warrant trisecng to get three of them,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

poraons to Arthur B Wheeler, for fund to be used aiding the election of E. j. M has been made by the New York World with the following significant result:
 
  
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

The will of Judge Charles E. Gauth- reaux of New Orleans leaves several thousand dollars to hi< negro nurse entirely cutting off his family.
 Robert II. Jones. a graduate of the University of Texas, and a student at CoTurabia University, committed sui eide by shooting himself in New ' Eork hotel
 The Paris Journal states that Gen era1 Diego Gutierrez. elected Mexican President at the Aguas Calientes con vention. was formerly a waiter in OF1edo, Spain.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

when monarchy was on trial in the eastern hemisphere.
 Those westerners who have come back to Congress are surely an opti- mistic lot.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
CENSORSHIP AND THE BATTLE OF LODE

XKTH HAT IS THE with reports of the in Europe? They start in with even break for the Germans, gradually the wall
 trap from which the Germans cannot possibly and fol low with the announcement that the Germans Lodz and thus only straegica railway leading to Warsaw
 It the censorship letting much mat through fortunes the allies bad state until it is absolutely
 Such incidents with the facts permitted o bep rnted about the battle Lodz the ordinary question if ae United States actually very esprogress the war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

The United State naval collier Jason arrived at Marseil1es and i1n- loaded 50 wagon loads Of Christmas gifts for the families of men at the front.
 Mrs. Clara Kfsbaugh of Wilkes Barre, Pa, was granted divorce from her husband, Isaac Kisbaugh after he had placed market price of $35 on her.
 Professor Fitz-Roy Darlington of Harvard was arrested and held for wireless station at his toD.a-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
nmEs nnWS

GLOVES, GLOVES.
 We are headquarters for Gloves, Mems Work Gloves, Dress Gloves, Boys Gloves, Wool Gloves, Cotton Gloves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
ARTFCs AND OVERsHOES
 csc to SAYS.
FELT BOOTS AND OVERS
 $2.39 to $3.39.
RUBBER BOOTS

RUBBER bOON5
 Short Boots, Storm King Boots, Hip Boots, Leather Soled Boots, All styles for Men, Women, Boys, Girls, and Chill dren.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
Cbe Dm Read co
 Established 1857
Oriental Rugs

A new collection bought for the Holidays A very fine assortment selected with great care by buyer who is learned in Oriental rug These Hanadans and Moussouls in rich shades of old rose % an blue, coppers ta1ls and browns.
 Hamadans best known and most reasonable of all Persian Rugs and these at prices that will surprise rug buyers
 Moussous of skiest texture dull shades that change with the light pear patterns the field in old blue gold medallion centers and many borders.
 Prices from $25 % $6OJOO Small Hamadans, threshold szes large assortment $7.5O each
 Carpet store, first floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

The1 schooner William DonnelIy of Baltimore, sank off Thinble shoal, Chesapeake Bay. Two men were drowned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
Rubber Footwear

Our stock comprises a large variety Of Footwear in many styles in light weight Rubbers to the Hip Boots. Our quality the best and our prices are low.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

Prince Nicholas RadzwiII, a captain Lodz.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
Christmas I E1andkercIiefs for Boys and Girls.

Boy Scout Handkerchiefs three in a box regular size for boys, with Scout Eblens and figures printed borders, g cts Chdren's plain white Handkerchiefs or fancy, with tiny embroidered spray white colors printed borders Mother Goose Circus, t'Brer Rabbitt, and Dutch Boys and Girls.
 Three in box, 15 cts.
 Printed hems with co1ored figures 19 cts a box White Hemstitched, embroidered in white
 with GreenaWay figures in colors. Colored Hemstitched and embroidered 25 cts a box White Hemstitched hand embroidered corners o1. 1- itials, 50 cts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

A woman suffering from aphasfa was admitted to the workhouse al Ormskirk, England. In her valise was found a New York poIiceulan's uni. form.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

The Department of Agriculture sent warnings to farmers in the middle Att lantic and Southern States to buy no seed potatoes without. the white label of the government inspection service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07

Farmers from the country around Washington refused to accepted Fed. era1 reserve notes in payment for pur. cTases, looking upon the notes a. spurious.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
ChiIdfen, s Furs.

MuR and Tippet Sets for the lit tlest, the right kind for all ages up to 12 and 14 years.
 Imitation Ermine, Lamb and Angora, white Moufflon, Tmbet and Coney for the youngest.
 Natural Russian Lynx. Blue. Coney, Kit Coney, Leopard and gray Chinchilla for the older cla5l- dren.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
THOSE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
 FROM OFFICERS OF CORPORATIONS

ND ANALYSIS of oontributions made by officers of porations Arthur Wheeler, for to be used n aiding the election of F. J I has been made by the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-07
Fancif ul Neilings.

TanCfuI Veil1ngS. "Foly veils", very captivating and instead of the vanity spot there posy of flowers caught vel vet neckband.
 Silk Berege Motor Wells with velvet strap and snap Vanity ves with oetogar resh vanity spot n just the right place These fasten comfortably about neck with velvet band, 90 cts. Silk Shetland Lace Wells, $1OO Silk Mesh veis chenille cluster dots and dotted bor der $225
 Yelling Section main floor
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-15
Cass Convicts Effected by
Pardon Board Action
'EEF8sI'E:lt,

Bismarck, n. D.. Dec. Is. - Peter
Lazoe, sentenced from Cass county on
conviction of manslaughter to eight
years in the penitentiary has his
sentence commuted to six years and
Thomas Kelly, who came to the peni-
tentiary from Cass county, having
been sentenced to one year for petty
larceny, was given conditional
pardon at the December meeting of
the state pardon board. Harry Will
son of Cass county received restora-
tion of citizenship, following his ap-
rKlication for the favor.
Peter Lazoe was found guilty by a
Jury in the district court of this coun-
ty of manslaughter in the first de-
gree as the result of shooting
scrape on the south bridge in this city
on the evening of Saturday. Oct. 15,
1910, in which Lazoe wounded man
by the name of Sam Ballidge so seri-
ously that he died the following aft
ernoon.
According to the accounts of the
shooting at the time of it's occurrence
the two men had trouble while at
work for the Fargo Metal and Iron
Works and that LaZoe had threatened
to get Ballidge. The evidence show
ed that Lazoe had purchased a re-
yolver and cartridges from al Front
street establishment. The two men
met on the south bridge and Lazoe
fired three shots into the body of his
victim. At the time there was some
controversy as to whether the crime
had been committed on the Minnesota
or the North Dakota side, the shoot
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-15
ESt#iH

ing taking place near the center of the
bridge.
Lazoe, who was known by several
other names, has now served about
half of his eight-year sentence and
with the committing of the sentence
will be out in about two years.
Following is given the results OF
the deliberations of the December
meeting of the pardon board. Only
those applications which met with
favorable action are given. /. There
were about 100 applications before the
board:
M. ID. Kirchner, Bowman county,
four years, arson, conditional par
don.
Leonard Leary, Bowman county, four
years, arson, conditional pardon
G. G. Eide, Stark county, five years
statutory offense. Sentence made
indeterminate sentence of from one to
five years.
James w. Morrison, Morton county
one year, obtaining money under faise
pretenses, conditional pardon.
Peter Lazoe. Cass county, eighty
years, mansIaughter. Sentences COM
muted to six years.
| Harold Brown, Mckenzie county
| forgery. Sentence commuted to ex-
| pire Dec. 18, 1914.
Fred Hamlin, Steele county, fifteer
years, murder second degree. Condi-,
| tional pardon.
Charles Cox. Ward county, one year
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-15
Andrew Bonar Law Says
the Germans Have Failed


London: Dec 1A letter sent by andrew Bonsr Law and the
Prime AS
decision the
whether participate in the doubtful was read by MT
meeting Unonist chaien agents
terday foIows
inform that in
opinion well as that Of all our colleagues whom we have
to
y Of the United Kingdom to hesitate supporting france and
the they may consider necs-
object
the letter Mr. Bonar Law in
/. . ~ +
party nnamed to
be disastrous
to a the whole situation was changed
instance parliamentary
engaged
action
That the of Marlborough
struggle against Napoleon
the last which this country en-
gagged. S .#
quite made the mistake not
crising lit
mistake had to be prefer that it be made in
direction" I. ..
could future with hope and
confidence.
Germany" They crushed France
struggle in the
is which
upon us as a the is
truthuy that nothing did or ean upon that
memorable scene" ~ .. e. /, r# Is
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-15

Berlin, Dec. Is, by wireless to Say
vile, l.. I.-Among the items issued
yesterday by the official press bureau
for publication are the following:
"The Temps, a Paris newspaper
estimates the Russian losses at over
100000, of whom over 100000 have
been killed
THE Austrian general staff reports
that in the Carpathians and near
PrzemysI 2,700 Russians have been
made prisoners.
"The board Of the Milan corn ex-
change has addressed protest to the
Italian foreign minister charging
arbitrary seizure by the British and
French of eleven Italian steamers,
''rhe Gazetta del Popo1o Ga Turin
newspaper) reports from Dunkirk that
an enormous percentage of the Indian
and North Africa troops have been
severely wounded because they were
used as food for powder by the
English and French
s'rhe week end finds no change OF
importance recorded in the west and
in the east only the excavation Of LODI
by the Russians, although there is
reason to believe the German attack
has been gaining ground
.'Southward of Cracow the Austrians
still are repulsing all attacks and
further to the south have succeeded in
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-15
Austro- German Armies Make
Progress Against Russians

, clearing a number of the Carpathian
passes of the enemy.
/ "The position of the Germanic allies
in Poland is y generally considered
favorable, an especially favorable
point being the fact, that the Russians
appear to have assumed the defensive
everywhere without the power OF
energy to assume an aggressive ad-
vance in any section.
There have been no developments
so far as advices disclose in the
Servian operations.
"The German and Austrian bulletins
| issued Sunday combine to show that
both armies are. making progress
against the Russians. While the Ger
| man statement omits to say whether
| the capture of 1000 prisoners and
| forty three machine guns. previously
reported, occurred In the region OF
LODI or Lowicz or north of the Vistula
| by the army which last week took
| Przasnysz, the Austrian statement
renders 1t practically certain 1t was
north of Lowicz where successful at
ltacks continued upon the strongly
/ fortified Russian position
Austria further reports the defeai
of the Russian southern wing Saturday
at Limanowa and the advance OF
Austrian forces over the carpathian
lpasses.'