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NIAGARA FALLS TO BE ILLUMINATED Fifty Searchlights And Color to Produce Wonderful! Effects. Tho night illuiiiination or the mighty torrent at Niagara Falls is now assured and tho plan lor lighting tho mist anil water in tho groatoitt foal over in electrical illumination. The great falls, bathed in dazzling light surpass in grandeur atid spectacular alleot anything of its kind ovor ween boforo. W. 1). A. Hyau, illuminating engineer, has tho work in charge and the falls were illuminated for tho first time tho night of Aug. lf, Hi 07. Tito lighting schomo for this enormous undortakiug is on a scale never attempted before and a now invention, the color scintillator, is utilized for producing color olfoots which make the falling water far more boautifiil and impressive by night than by day. A battery of noarly fifty largo Moarch lightB, several of them thu largest of their kind and capable of throwing a boam of white light miles, aro located below the falls. A portion of the projectors aro set down noar the water's edge opposite Goat Island to as to play a rising illumination on both the Amorican and Canada Kails. Another battery is plaood on tho high ground on tho Canada side to throw a plunging light on tho falling water and flying Hint. The projectors aro poworful enough to over crory iuoh of tho torrent with a brilliant whits tight. All alone the big seathliglits are u:i exhibition worth travling far to seo, but when used in ootiuection with the new scintillators the wonderful otlect which can bo produced beggars description. Tho oolor scintillator consist of a network of stonm pipes which will be used to augment the cloud elf acts of the Hying mist. In front of the I'm light projectors aro mountod wheols containing large gelatin disks which aro revolved slowly. Willi tho changing of tho oolor disks the beams of light aro variogated with kaleidoscopic otfoct producing a oolor scheme on the mist and water only exocllod by the Groat Northorn lights. This apparatus was but rocently perfected by the onginocrs of the General Klcctric company and has never boon used before here or abroad, although it was given a thorough tost a few months ago. Tho color attachments tint tho waters carmine, crimson, orango, yellow, grocn, blue and violet of tho purest shades and the rising clouds of mist blend the colors into hues and tints liko a glorious sunset. It is oven possible to an artificial aurora boroalis and the colored beams reaching far into tho sky will bo visible in Toronto and Rochester in such "oluuio as to oauso comment. Tho program for illumination will be changed every night and in tho winter timo tho color effects on the ico, snow and frost coated trees of tho surrounding country will bo spectacular, indeed. The ontirc proposition is to illuminate Niagara in a distinct and digni iiod manner on a scale in keoping with tho surroundings. The possibilities of the apparatus installed aro limited only by thu imagination of the manipulators, it is possible to produce colored figuros, suakos, dragons, flags nnd a thousand and ono dilToront novelties. Tho apparatus posscssos the spectacular cited of fireworks on a grand scale without tho fire hazard nnd danger. Pain nnywhero, pain in the head, painful porioda. Neuralgia, toothache, nil pains can bo promptly stopped by n thoroughly safe little Pink Candy Tab-lot, known by druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Headacho Tablets. Pain simply means congestion -undue blood pressure at tho point where pain exists. Dr. Shoop's Headacho Tablets quickly equalize this unnntural blood pressure, and pain immediately departs, Write Dr. Snoop, Racine, Wis., and got a free trial package. Large box 25 cts. Hayncs & Taylor, druggists. DeWitt'a Little Early Risow are good for any on) who poivlp ,i p'll. Sold by J. II. Oroie. Hogwallow News, A crow has Icon setting on tho haystack pole ovor on tho hill behind tho postotfice sinco Thursday. It is thought by many that the crow h thinking o f building a uost somewhere noar by. Ono of the wheols run otl of Tobo Mosoloy's wagon whilo he was coming down Musket Hidgo this wcok and rolled on ahead. Tho wheel beat him home and whon he got (hero he found it loaning against a tree. Sim Flinders has something tho matter with the inside of his head. This is a very common ailment and Sim is not bothorod. Washington Hocks! is going to havo such a big dinnor Sunday that he will have to build an addition to his kitoheu. Haz Harlow got so dospondent a few days ago that he got up on u stump and doolarod that ho wouldn't care if the world would como to an end. Mrs. Isaac Holwangor loft today for Thundoration to visit hor socond cousin. She took part of tho young onus and will bo back tomorrow after the balance Poke Kazley set in this wcok to straighten out tho straws in his straw stack. Thoy have booomo badly tauglod, and it will be quite a jb to gat thorn iu ordor again. JofTersou Pollocks says his head has been swimming over since he loamod that tho earth is travelling around the sun at tho rate of over IS mi I os a second, It has boon obsorved that a largo pael of red flowers havo sprung up in the Dog Hill graveyard. This cannot be acoonnted for unless it is oaused by a largo numbor of red headed poople being buried there. A person's mind is back behind his eye. theroforc it is not possible for him to see all that ho boliovcs. The blaokaunth at Hounding Billows died a few days ago and was buriod among tho blaokborry bushes of the Gander crook graveyard. He ordorod a headboard put up with his name on it so that the public will know that he is doad. lollorsou Pollocks has built a foundation under his house. It ox-tends from the ground to tho wood work, and tho building is now resting all its woicht on the foundation. Gander creek is up high now on account of a surplus flow of water. The bridges have also rose about three foot. Tho rain has been very heavy this week, and on this account Fit Smith's cistern is so full that the sides aro swcllod out to twice their usual size, and the water is standing almost two feet above the top. Prof. Sap Spradlcn got his foot hung in a crack while reciting the Charge of the Light Hrigado at the Wild Onion school house Friday and was wounded on the ankle. Fillick Hclwaugcr has dccidod to go to sec Miss Flutio Belcher Sunday if it doesn't rain. Iu the meantime she is praying for it to rain. Miss Fruzic Allsop has hung some artificial chorries out on tho peach trees to fool the jay birds. Frisby Hancock had tho to lose his poekot knife this woek. At tho time ho lost it he was whittling on tho fence in the midst of a long snako story and his hoarors arc helping him for tho knife so that ho can finish telling it. 1. C. Orders 3,000 Cars. To meet any shortago in freight cars, that is in prospect for the fall season, the lllnois Central railroad yesterday ordered 3,000 freight cars. Now that tho sonson is drawitig near when thcro will be a big traffic movement iu all directions, the railroads arc beginning to place orders for box cars and engines. Several weeks ago tho Southern railway placed nn ordor for fifty onvirum and vav. ' hi i hux mr. Co me Jot. Il UiuVrniCYm I'Ttl IVM;". i W mm r i i y - i ?''' THE MARSH MARIGOLD CulM.a piliiitrus the Hllr hs It leftvps unfold. Yellow nnd blight! I.lktt n nunt glnw, CarpetH iht marnli whoro the zephyrs blow' Caltlin palimtrun tho innrlgolil, Stlrrfth within mo wot mnm'rles old' TlioiiKlitu or u maiden, with true blue eye. I'lutklriK thoin Utoro 'neath the halcyon ikies' Caltha puluatrus the marigold, o a day when one'n liou: was IhjI(1. TrlU of it tlnw when tho hoort wns IjRht, Throbbing In I'nlth, with no thoughts of night ('ultha Kiluitnm the marigold Knlnt from thy rtoUiln of fairy mold. Waft o'er tho chasm of years that llee, lnrense of youth, and Its grace, to me. Byron Williams. Copyright. FAITH. Williams. lp , Tolling along, with your load apack, This Is the answer, my friend, for you! Ooil made the path for your feet to tread He knows the way and will seo yoi through! jfcCF" ru&'SPs - i mjtji mjrj r r? qW YflVKSO, WITH ft HULKY, tJULKY LUNCrT Af (SHjN'ARD A-Wl&HIN WITH A BIO BITE HUNCH? DlD YER EVER GO OH WHAT MADDER,SADDER FATE TO GO AND AND ccrjiT VFP I IOIIID RAITf Dvron Wllllamii. "-... Copyrlsht. in .I'ilii'a '- - - , V MISSOURI CASE If LIKE KENTUCKY'S In the Matter of Trouble With Tax System. A Tax Commission Has Just Made a Report Thai Is of Interest tn TWs Slate. Missouri has boon InDorlmj under a dffllculty In Its tax system nenrly similar to thnt of Kentucky. A tnx commission has been nt work in Missouri nnd In lino with tho tax commissions of other progressive stntes it has found no solution of tho difficulties of tho situation short of a constitutional amendment that will give the legislature greater liberty In dealing with tho question; but it also points out that such an amendment is chletly desirable because it will load to separation of the sources of state revenue from tho sources of county revenue Tho comments of tho Missouri tax commission are so pertinent to the sltuntlon In Kentucky that tho following extracts will bo found of Interest "Wo nil agreed that tho first step in any tax reform is tho separation of the sources of state and local revenue This change would not require the exemption of any class of property from taxation. Tho proposed change may be effected by the adoption of a single constltutlonalamondmont. "Tho general features of this separation of the sources of Btate and local revenues mny bo briefly summarized. The state would discontinue the levy of a general property tax upon the real and personal property of the state, leaving the assessment and collection of this tax to tho counties and municipalities for local purposes This would make a saving of tho large expense Incident to' tho present dual system. It would also dispense with the work of the State Hoard of Kquallzatlon connected with the attempted equalization of assessments of real and personal property among the counties of the state. The state would thereafter derlvo its revenue through Its Inherent general power of taxation upon general subjects of taxation, as by licenses, corporation taxes, Inspection fees and such other forms of taxation as the general assembly may determine. "The different rates of assessment In the different counties, enforced by the different demands for local revenue, would no longer produce Inequality In taxation with reference to the state tax The remedy proposed Is, In our opinion, the only effective remedy Each community could fix Its own rate of valuation as Its local needs may require, without subjecting its citizens to the Injustice of being compelled to pay an undue share of state taxation. "There is now a certain kind of home rule In taxation, which consists in the vnriatlon of the rates of assessment upon property according to the local needs of the community, some counties paying taxes on 70 or 80 per cent of the real value of property, and others only 20 or 30 per cent. The report of the Tax Commission of 1903 says: It is In the bounds of truth to say that no two counties of the stato have the same rule for the assessment of all classes of property, and generally speaking, there Is absolutely no uniformity as to the proportion of the cash value taken as a basis of the assessed value. Some counties value real estate, so far as our reports show, as low as 30 per cent of Its selling price, while others have a 90 per cent basis. Some assess real estate at 33 per cent, and tnnglble personal property at 50 per cent The commission concluded that there was an absolute want of equality In taxation. "This Inequality can not be remedied by the State Board of Equalization, for the obvious reason that tho high rate of assessment in certain counties, Including the city of St. Louis, is enforced by the pressing demand for revenue for local require- ments. The board can not raise the assessments of the counties which make a low valuation, as that would be imposing nn unnecessary burden upon those communities. "Wo see no remedy for this existing inequality nnd resulting Injustice, except In the separation of the sources of state and local revenue. "Under the plan proposed, the state would retain all of Its Inherent powers of taxation, except as to the goneral property tax upon real and personal property, which would bo assessed and collected by counties and cities for local purposes The state now levies a tax upon insurance companies, dramshops, express companies, sundry corporations, license and inspection taxes, and a collateral Inheritance tax. What other forms of taxation may be adopted will be for tho Gen oral Assembly. In its discretion, to determine The system proposed requires no change In tho existing limitations upon the tnx rates of the counties, cities and school districts. "Tho chnnge recommended requires no modification of the methods of assessing the property of railroads and other public service corporations by tho State Board of Equalization. That system is statutory and its continuance or modification Is subject to tho control of the General Assembly Should the present system be continued, whereby the assessed valuation made by tho stnte board is apportioned to the counties, the General Assombly should continue tho present state tax upon such valuation and provide for its direct payment Into the etate treasury." KMMMMMMMWMMM IMMMMI $ TOTAL LOSS ft NO INSURANCE! Is the oft repeated expression which tells its own tale of putting off till tomorrow that which should have been done today. Neglecting to i n s u re f causes a loss of many millions of dollars every year to property owners. Don't be one of them, but get your insurance now. 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Mosstnl with the age of a stolid sphere, God made this song for my rills to sing. He knows the way and 1 havo no fear!" Copyright. , .... DID YER EVER CO IN THtR HUY, MAZY GO ,. AHOYERWKE YER FISHIfi TACKLE Af YER VkDRNIl(SQUIRMltfCflN. GO AKD MAN! i) t! ' .' $J-- - O ' F 1 ,1 -41 fl f'l i ? ? w ' i