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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
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The Crafty Turk.
The Hullsn of Turkey I* decidedly j
a Terr f in the elevation of the Am
erlean legation at hi* rjipltol from
the rank of a ministry plenlpnten ,
tlary to that of ambassadorial rank
The reason for hi* Turkish majesty'* !
aversion I* not difficult to fathom.
Indeed there Is no fathoming what
ever necessary for the reason la on
the surface to everyone conversant
with the privileges of the ambuss*
dnrtal rank.
The status of an ambassador give*
him the unusual right to an Immcd
tate audience with the chief of the
state to which he la accredited, neith
er time nor season. Including all In
volred eicuaea being operative to
prevent compliance with his right,
An ambassador may go directly to
the residence of the chief of aisle
and must have admission to that
functionary With officials of a low
er rank In the diplomatic service It
Is quite different, even with the rank
Immediately nest to the amhaasa
dorlal. The gentlemen occupying the
position of Charge d'affaires, mints
ter or minister plenipotentiary must
make known through the Foreign of
flee their desire for an audience and
await a reply through that channel.
Now. just here Is where the situation
at Constantinople harms up.
The United State* government has
had. during recent years, sev'ttl
causes of dissatisfaction with the
Sublime Porte. There are large In
demnities to he paid over to this gov
eminent and the Turk Is in no hurry
to make payment. In accordance
with the present diplomatic atntns
of our representative an audience
with the Sultan may be Indefinitely
postponed. Should our minister he
come an ambassador that delay
would he terminated and the Turk
would he cornered. The Turk Is a
wily, a erafty diplomat.
How Great the Change.
The situation la clearing up splen
didly in the civic affairs of the coun
try. <>nly a few yeara ago the tend
ency of discussion in the press was
attains!, Instead of for. the people's
Interests. The man who spoke or
wrote against the criminal uses of
wealth was unanimously Jumped on
as a startling Innovator, an enemy of
the established order of things. With
the security thus obtained "the es
tahllahed order of things" Jogged
along contentedly regardless of
whose rights It would Invade or
whose Interests It would thwart. "The
established order of llilngs.” which
mcsnl the privilege of wealth to do
as it pleased, has now run its course.
It has been a k'tig and ruinous
course. The former of these char
acterisations belongs to itself and
the latter, In a pre-eminent degree,
to the irreat men who have given
their nights snd dsys, their Industry
at home and thetr vote In the logls
lature to subserve Its purposes.
The materlsl fact Is that the
change haa come. Thought cannot be
strangled. It may be curbed, diverted
on to wrong courses and temporarily
held up even by the highwaymen of
privilege These things may happen
to it during a period of years, hut
ttoy do not prove that thought has
abdicated It* function*, that It bn*
lain down In ahject surrender to ter
rorism. Quite the reverse. These
thing* an to show that the struggle
was on and that the ascendancy for a
brief spe, was on tho side of hostil
ity.
The American citizen Is rapidly
coming Into ...a Inheritance, a «ov
ernment by, for and of the people
The Senate at Washington may be
the last civic body to become aroused
to this truth, and many regret* will
be felt therefor. But the fact la cer
taln.that there Is an omnloua awing (
about In the current of public opinion
The speaker or writer of this day i
who stands up manfully for the or j
ganlc. Idea of cltlxcnsiiip a* defined i
In the constitution 'it nature anti
bodied forth In the aspirations ofj
Atiofrli an life m«ed care but little
should he be called by nicknames j
That la the last feeble utterance of
desperation. Tho thing to be glad
si,nut Is that the change I* coming, j
Her Hoodoo Days are Over.
The battleship Texas, the "hoodoo
boat" of tho American navy, haa
been placed on tho retired list. Hho
has .been sent to the navy yard at
Charleston. H. C, to serve there a* a
station ship, and unless war should
break out which would necessitate
the bringing Into service of every
available vessel, her active days are
past.
The Texas Is not. old. She was
completed In 1*95. But she waa
never a good steamer, though she
consumed tremendoua quantities of
coal, and 111 luck so persistently at
tended her that she came to be re
garded ns "hoodooed.”
Once in her career the fatal spell
departed from her. during the battle
off Santiago do Cuba. Her noble be
havlor during that struggle under
command of Captain Jack Philip Is
fresh In memory. But the hopes to
which that momentary rolnvlgora
lion gave rise were shortly after
shattered and she resumed her wont
ed ctmrse of awry action.
When she was out for her first
trial, one of her propeller blades cut
Into a passing schooner and sank It.
Placed on a dry dock for the first
time, she could not hear the strain
of her own weight, and had to be
overhauled at great expense. Later
••he ran ashore In Norfolk harbor.
In 1R96. while she was lying In the
Brooklyn navy yard, one of her sea
cocks became unfastened and she
sank. In February of 1897 she went
ashore at the Tortugaa, and In Do
comber of the same,year In the Wal
luhout channel. In November of
1902, while she was at target prac
tice. her big guns broke Ihn recoils
and wrecked the surrounding works.
That was her Inst accident, but there
I Is no telling what more would have
| happened to her If she had been re
-1 qulred for somewhat nctlve service.
It Is altogether likely that her hoo
itoo days as well as her active days
j are over. Her six-inch guns hnve
1 nlreadv been taken from her. and
her turret guns will be taken as soon
as use can be found for them. She
will remain quietly at her dock until
at some time In the future she will
Join other forgotten vessels In the
naval graveyard.
Wheat and Prosperity.
This .war's wheat crop Is going to
he Immense unless something un
foreseen happens to It. From slatls
ties coming In the officials of the ag
rletiltural department are confident
that the wheat yield will net 525,-
000,000 bushels, or 100.000,00(1 (
bushels more than last year. This
means about 160,000,000 more for the
lucky farmers of the United Slates,
and Is promise that prosperity In all
lines of business will be helped by
wneat.
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware .he rrop la exceptionally
large and fine. flood reports are
coming In from the west, particular-!
ly In Nebraska, where the farmers
are working In the fields hv moon
light until 2 o'clock In the morning
weighing and loading their grain.
Everywhere farmers are working
hard with extra forces and latest and
most Improved harvesting machinery
In garnering the crop. Texas mill
ers report their winter wheat to ho
yielding well and that the quality of
ihe grain Is generally better than It
was last year.
The public will hear a great deal
more about It when the congress
ional campaign gets in full swing.
The president and his cabinet and
thousands of republican spellbinders
of lesser caliber. In their character
istically modest manner, will tell the
voters that such a crop of wheat and
such prosperity as It brings could
not be possible under any other than
a republican administration at Wash
ington. If anyone in a back seat
suggest* that Providence had some
thing to do with it he will be told
blandly that Providence Is acting for
the republican party.
A Notable Achievement.
A notable achievement of American
seamanship, surpassing the famous
cruise of the battleship Oregon and
the conveyance of the monitor* to the
Philippine Island*. Is the towing of
the massive drydork Dewey from
Hparrow's Point, Baltimore, to Olan
gopo, P. I, a distance of 13.000 mile*.
The dock I* 500 feet long and 131
feet broad, over all. Its height I* 42
feet. It contains more than 11,000:
ton* of steel, and moro than 2,000.000 j
rivet* were used In It* construction.
For a elngle coat of paint, 130 tons of
lead and oil are required. It carries j
116 anchors weighing 4,000 pound* j
each. To ral*e them Is a task requlr- j
|ing two day*. It can raise a vessel
weighing 20,000 ton*.
| The task of towing this massive, un
wleldy structure *o great a distance
whs an undertaking that was regarded
with some misgivings by the navy de
partment, but It had to be tried. The
powerful collier* Caesar and Brutus
were picked out to do the towing. The
naval tug Potomac and the refrigera
tor and supply ship Glacier were sent
along. These were used to hold the
Immense bulk on a straight course In
channel* where there was not ample
sea room.
The task wa* accomplished In 193
days. Twice the drydock broke Its
cable*, but each time was quickly
picked up again. No other mishap oc
curred.
Heretofore the United States had
no docking facilities worthy of the
name In Philippine waters. When
ships stationed there needed cleaning
or repairs they had to be taken to
Hong Kong or a Japanese port, there
to await a time when a dock was
otherwise In use. And charges for the
use of docks were heavy. In a possible
time of war. foreign ports would be
closed against this country’s war ves
sols and the fleet In far Kastern wa
ters would have been badly handicap
ped.
The drydock was all that was yet
needed to make the Asiatic squadron
effective at all times.
A* to the Doctor.
The reverend doctor, railed Crapsey
Is easy to rhyme, though, perhaps, he
, Is something too hard
For an out-and-out bard;
For us he's a regular snap. See?
—New York Kvenlng Mall.
Yet why should ye nag Dr. Crapsey,
Ye rhythmical newspaper chaps? He
Has leaped Into fame
In spite of tho name
11s Inherited straight from his pap.
See?
- Chicago Tribune.
Statehood's Wine Bath.
(Toledo Blade.)
The biggest Individual statehood
celebration In Oklahoma was at Guth
rie, say* the Guthrie correspondence
of the Kansas City Star. It has been
described as a "symphony of song,
champagne, and stringed Instru
ments.”
I The owner, manager and paymaster
of this celebration was "Jack" Tear
ney, a pioneer citizen of Oklahoma,
known In most of the southwestern
states, and territories.
When news came of the senate's ae
eeptanco of the conference report
Tearney announced that his eelehra
! tlon had begun, and that It would eon
tlnue until the bill was signed by the
president. Ho employed a hand of
singers and musicians, and the first
round of champagne was 100 bottles.
Guthrie had witnessed spectacular
champagne drinking at sessions of the
legislature; the flood thnt sparkled
and formed In Tearney* wake may be
come historic. There was champagne
for everybody that cared to drink It.
At night Tearney'a musicians serenad
ed citizens everywhere In the town.
"She was worth the money," said
Tearney, for statehood comes Jyst
once. And then, think of the fun we
hsd!"
Aaron Burr In Prison.
(Harper's Magazine.)
Even to his jailer Burr was the
grand seigneur, whose rights there
was none to dispute.
"I hope, sir," ventured that official,
at their first encounter, "that It would
not be disagreeable to you If l should
lock this disir after dark."
“By no means," graciously return
ed the turnkey, "to extinguish all
lights at 9 o'clock. I hope, sir, you
will have no objection to conform to
that?”
I "That, sir." answered Burr, "Is Im
possible. 1 am sorry to sav, for I never
go to bed until 12, and always burn
two candles."
"Very well, sir—Just as you please,"
agreed the Jailer. "I should have been
glad If It had Iwen otherwise, but as
you please, sir."
Assimilation Day In Egypt.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)
It is un«er no imaginary handicap
! that the I'nlted States labors in its
■ endeavors to pacify and to assimilate
our little brown brothers In the Phil-
I lpptnes. Our government is denied
all tht approved and raiiomtl meth
: ods of striking terror to the hearts of
the natives that are indulgently per
mitted the English suzerainty in
i Egypt, where four natives were hang
ed in the presence of an audience of
wailing women, and five were lashed
j for participating in an attack upon
British soldiers. By contrast we are
j poor empire-makers.
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Pre Shakespearean Plays Come High.
(New York Herald.l
lam don. —The sale of pre-Shakes
pearean plays at Sotheby's Saturday
produced a remarkable bidding.
ITbough the owner at the time of their
discovery would, it Is said, have sold
them for 5 pounds ($25). Mr. Qusrttch
had to expend 2.602 pounds ($13,010)
j before he could obtain the collection.
THE AUGUST* HERALD-
CAT'S EYE SIGNAL LIGHTS.
Outer Consequence* of Fallna Wander
Inga on Railroad Tracks.
(Boston Transcript.)
"Did you ever see a black cat's eye*
i when they were In tha line of an
electric llitht?" asked Ben Woodllef,
'traveling engineer for the Missouri di
vision of the Burlington msd. "If one
| step* on the rsllrosd track ahead of
'the engine and looks tip the engineer
isees two vivid lights shesd of him.
'** Isrge and clearly defined as sny |
signal lights on the rosd.
"Hontetlmea they sre red. but most |
generally green or white. In the night i
lime, of rotirse, the engineer ran't set- I
the eat, and all he ran do Is to run j
In obedience to the rat’s eycslgmtl*.
i "If they are while he goc* ahead
without slacking; If green, he is can 1
Itlous; If red, he applies the air to
make a stop. Hnmetlme* a train Is
brought to a dead halt before the en
glneer learna what's up against him
“The running men tell me that the
eye* of polecat* and rabbit* are al
most a* perfect algnal* ><■ cat's eye*.
No, there's been no talk of training
eat* to act as signalmen. Engineers
wouldn't stand for It, because they
bate rat* on general principle*, and If
ihey had their way would be happy
to lay the feline family on the rails
ahead of their locomotive* and crowd
on all *team."
Bad News from the Cowboy Country
(From the Washington Pn«t.)
This latest news from the Trow
reservation 1* discouraging. We do
not like to hear that the genuine cow
, hoy la dying out, and that, solemn,
i useful, commonplace persons from
the middle west are taking up the
new lands, thus transforming a scene
'«>f gayety Into one of plain, everyday,
: humdrum Industry and thrift. Hard,
plodding work, vulgar opuleTfe. and
orderly conduct are wel Itsoueh in
I their way. No doubt, organized so
ciety and cut-and-dried civilization
1 must have some such basis upon
| which to build. But we cannot sit
content while bourgeois respectability
effaces the color and submerges the
i festivity of our national life
Surely, a country as vast in extent
| and as gigantic In material resources
'as the I’nlted States can afford to
pcrpetsiate a Midway Plaisanre, so
to speak—a sort of free zone, as It
were -where the cowboy and his
broncho may forever cavort, and
where the flannel shirt, the sombre
ro and the eruptive gun can have a
happy and unrestricted home The
esteemed Denver Republican tells us
that the cowboy belt is narrowing
every day; that as fresh territory is
reclaimed hy Irrigation, the settlerß
steadily reproduce the stiff conven
tions of the settled districts, extend
ing the dead level of organized socie
ty. and crowding Innocence and irre
sponsibility to the wall. Slowly hut
surely, the freedom of the Individual
Is subordinated to the welfare of the
community. The shack saloon Is lorn
down to make room for the farm
house and the barn. And, by the
same token. Moccasin Charley and
Hyena BUI will soon be breaking
stones upon the turnpike, and Birdie
Annnndale, shorn of her plrrk tights
and her welcome smirk, will stop
singing "Down In the Valley" In the
Red Eight Musle Hall, anu take to
wasmng hickory shirts for a
steady livelihood.
Tho outlook is far from pleasant.
Of course, we want to see the coun
try prosper and hear It hum with
progress. But we should like to pre
serve at least a lilue of the pictur
esque, the Impulsive and the prime
val. It Isn't necessary to erase the
cowboy utterly, to quench his thrill
ing whoop and to suppress hi sbelch-
Ing gun. We might pasily set aside
a reservation where Col. Jack Aber
nathy can catch wolves with his
hands and the hoys shoot the lights
nut whenever they g*t gay. The
buffalo has been extermlnat ' There
Is hardly a hear left thnt w t eat
out of your hand If you let hhn. Are
we to put Cinnamon I’cte to driving
street cars and hire gunflghters to
feed pigs?
Hudson Bay Co. Stock.
(From the Boston Trnnscrlpt.)
Hilda /i Bay Company'* stock of a
nominal value of Ift pounds is selling
hi efi pounds per shnre In London and
paying a dividend of 81) shilling*. It
in a good thing" to have and 1* ap
parently pretty closely held. This
venerable corporation is now In its
237th year, and many times in the
past has been supposed to have
reached the zenith of It* fortunes.
Only seven years ago Its shares with
a nominal value of 13 pounds did not
go above 25 pounds, but thencefor
ward they have kept stop with the
progress of Canadian development.
The company still deals In furs, and
does a large general trade, hut Its
great profits are derived from its
land sales. Tntrt.v-alx years ago it
gave up its territorial right to the
Canadian government In considera
tion of )t,500,000 In cash and tue
right to claim one-twentieth of tin
land In any township or district sur
veyed for settlement In sft years after
187 ft. This at the time may not have
been deemed a consideration of great
value Canada was very different
then from the Canada of today, but
that a long-ranging and clear-seeing
optimism governed the company in
making the agreement is proved by
the fact that it Is now estimated that
tne land to which it will .e entitled
will amount to about 7.000.00 ft acres.
It has already received more than
4,000,000 acres and has disposed of
about ,600,000 acres. Its trading
profit last year approximated $950.-
000, while It netted $1,110,000 front
its land department. Its total net
profits aggregated $2,060,000.
All Lost But Dishonor.
(Springfield Union.)
Count Boni de Casteilane has lost
wife and her money and his seat
in the French chamber of deputies
lull he still has his reputation. He
icouldn’t lose that if he tried.
, , tr - r
Found a New Epithet.
i ‘lf you go in swtmmin'" said Tom
my's younger brother, “111 tell maw!'
' Tell 'er. If you want to, you nasty
little muck raker!" blurted Tommy,
plunging into the water.—Chicago Tri
bune.
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What Is the Matter With ToJstoi?
(From the Boston Transcript.)
Cotint Tolstoi's denunciation and
ridicule of the Douma have shocked
and all hut exhausted the patience of
most Americans who do not take into
consideration the fact that the great
writer and apostle of liberty Is a pro
fessing and consistent anarchist of
the idealist sort, and hence would
probably consider the proceedings of
the British Parliament or of the Con
gress of the ITnited States equally fu
tile. An anarchist of his stripe con
siders it Immoral In any man to sub
mit to the will of another man. He
denies the power of any dress of brief
authority to clothe any man or set
of men with rule over the community.
He holds all the crimes of history to
he summed up In the words, "abuse
of authority," and that all progress is
made through protest against usurpa
tion, prlvelege and injustice. No na
tion In history has shown more fright
ful examples of the abuse of authority
than Tolstoi’s native country. Other
tvran *i's and scourges of mankind
have exterminated some conquered or
inferior people; Russia has ruined its
own. But Tolstoi strikes not so much
at the abuses of officialdom as at the
evil Inherent, as he believes, in the
fundamental nature of all government.
Tolstoi's philosophical anarchism is
set. forth in a most lurid and Interest
ing manner by William Bailie in the
preface to the new book on Joslah
Warren, the American social reform
er of the early half of the 19th. cen
tury. a scion of the Boston Warrens,
who, as a young man "went West."
Tolstoi happened to be born and pass
his life in a land where the state has
not yet divested Itself of its original
barbaric character. Against a despot
ism so brutal In Its methods, clumsy
in its organization, regardless of hu
man rights and human life Itself, the
most lawless form of terroristic oppo
sition has been developed. But Tol
stoi condemns both the existence of
the state and the recourse to the dyna
mite bomb. He preaches that the vi
cious and dangerous principle is the
same In the most democratic of re
publics and In an autocracy. Social
ism the nnarrhlst of the Tolstoi type
considers as intolerable and galling as
autocracy itself. "Censure, expulsion
and excommunication are as neces
sary to the orthodox socialist party
discipline as to the Church of Rome,"
says Mr. Bailie. The social organiza
tion based on the voluntary principle,
co-operative and non-coercive, such as
la exemplified In the churches not es
tablished by the state, voluntary as
sociations In commerce and labor, sci
ence and art. and even in sport—ln a
word all human activities, for govern
mental organization embraces hut a
fragment of man's activities carried on
by associtfted effort—i« the construc
tive Idea aimed at in the Idealist an
archism of Tolstoi.
Tolstoi has In his mind ever the per
fected humanity and citizenhood
which take for their constitution and
statutes the golden rule and the ser
mon on the mount. To any man in his
state of spiritual exaltation the Dou
ma. were it the United States senate
itself, would be but an impertinence
as coming between man and man and
between man and oGd.
Safe.
(Philadelphia Press.)
Puffer—Phew! this cigar you gave
me—
Subbubs —That cigar, sir. was made
,bv a very' worthy man out my way
who —
Puffer—Oh! that's all right, then.
I was afraid it might he for 3ale In
Isome store downtown that I might
happen into.
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Home-Coming Week,
Oct. 29. Nov. 3, 1906
Wanted by the Chamber of
Commerce of Augusta, the name
and present address of every
man, woman and child,, former
residents of Augusta and vicin
ity, who have moved to other
locations since 1860.
MONDAY, JULY t*.
Foaming Hofbrau,
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k A A
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ening Ingredient*, has established It
In the highest favor with Invalids,
—Made by—
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ALEXANDRIA, VA.
JACK OVERTON, Manager Au>
gusta Branch.
TIN ROOFING
CHEAPER THAN SHINGLES
at No. 317 Jackson Street,
F. WAYLAND WRIGHT 1
Will convince you.
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Another Lot
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REMEMBER,
One Pound Package 25c.
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This is good, too. Try it
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