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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 JAS. T. BOTHWELL, PAUL MUSTIN. f. L. FULLER, President. Vice-President. Sec. & Treas AUGUSTA GROCERY COMPANY. WHOLESALE GROCERS — s- AND COFFEE ROASTERS. i t AUGUSTA, ■ GEORGIA. TRIANGULAR SLOCK. D. P. O’CONNOR SCO. WHOiesAie fißoceas. it ! Provisions, C", in, ,• Hay, Plour, Etc iS\ ■ • Best Market Prices fto Always Quoted. 1( r 1 # ce ints for Saborosa Cigars. The ” best 5 cent Cigar in the World. M - : 25 Eenwick St. Augusta, Georgia. AUDLEY HILL. ARTHUR H. MERRY. HILL <& MERRY, Wholesale Produce Provisions • AND General Commission Merchants. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Tropical and Domestic Fruits, Produce and Provisions. Established In 634-636 Mclntosh St. 1693. Triangular Block. AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA. new m cooes FIRM IJJUGUSTA Mr. James McElwee and S. P. Thomas Will Open up at J. Willie Levy’s Pres ent Stand. Augusta is to have another new dry goods firm within a very short time according to plans that have just been made public. Messrs James Me- Jilwee and S. P. Thomas, backed by ample capital will open up in the store now occupied by J. Willie Levy. Mr. McElwee was formerly connect ed with the original J. B. White Co. and was a charter nu mber of the firm of Burton. Taylor, Wise Co., but sold out his interest and went west In search of health. Since his return he has been connected with Von Kamm Vaughn & Gerald. He is one of the best known dry goods men In the city. Mr. Thomas came originally from South Carolina and has made for himself a large number of friends on this side of the river. He Is also an experienced dry goods man antj at one time was buyer lor the P. D. Hor kan Co. There are many who predict a great future for the new concern and it adds one more store —a little more evidence of progress and ex pansion—for Augusta and the increas ing trade now coming to this city makes It an easy matter for all the new stores to maintain a splendid business without detriment to those already established. RAILROADS MUST DELIVER PROMPTLY ALL UNCLE SAM’S MAIL On the dally bulletin sheet, mailed to postmasters throughout the coun try from the headquarters of the post office department at Washington, ap pears the following regulation, regu lating the method of remunerating railroads for the transportation of mails, In case of delay: Unless It is shown to the satisfac tion of the post office department that the failure to operate a train or trains was' unavoidable, the deduction will be made at pro rata, or 100 per cent of the amount due to be earned by the railroad between the pointß of failure. If the failure was unavoid able, the route reopened without nec essary delay and the mails not di verted. the mail being re-established promptly, 50 per cent of said amount will be deducted. Where, however, there has been a total suspension of mail service over all or any part of a route for a period of sixdays or more, deduction will be made for the entire period at 100 per cent of pro rata, without regard to the cause of the failure or diversion of malls." Since First Steamboat Piled Waters ot the Savannah Trattic on the River Has Contributed to City’s Prosperity (Continued from l’age 3.) and the R. K. Lee within a mile of Savannah; the Eclipse blew up at Mili Stone Landing, and the J. O. Lawton at Gunn Stump Landing. The vessels which lived out their lives were the Washington, on which La Fayette vis ited Augusta; the Ivanhoe, Forester, Santee, Hancock, Fashion, Columbia. Union, Express, Inez, St. Claire and | Ilaudry Moore. The Charleston line, or the one ply ing between Hamburg and Charles ton, had fifteen boats; the Henry Shultz, which blew up at the Au gusta bridge from an explosion of powder In her hold; the William Lowndes, which burned at Flour Gup; Cain, which burned at the foot of Campbell street, near the present lo cation of the Riverside Mills; the Caledonia, which sank about the same place; St. John, which sank at Gray Point; Edgefield, whlci sank at Horton’s Ferry; Duncan McCralg, | which blew up at the dock; the Pen dleton, Liberty, Andrew Jackson, John D. Morgan, John fitnney, William Reabrook, Clargeston, and Augusta, of Charleston. It will be seen that about seventy steamboats navigated the Savannah from about 1820 to 1865. As many as fifteen In a week would arrive and depart, but the dangers of .he voyage were many. About thirty wpre de stroyed, some thirteen burned, six blown up, and eleven sunk. Three were lost at Gray’a Point, two at Blanket Point, the rest were scattered along the river. The names of most If not all the steamboats navigating (he river have been presented to us, and we have pretty full accounts of the catas trophes closing some of their careers. The Steamboat Company of Georgia had at various periods some thirteen boats: The Enterprise, Sant Howard, Savannah, Augusta, (No. 1.), South Carolina, Georgia, Tugalo, Cherokee, Tennessee, T. H. Metcalf, D. L. Adams, Augusta (No. 2), Chatham. The boats’ named Augusta had Ill luck, the Augusta No 1 being dee troyed by tire at the elty bridge, and the Augusta No. 2 burned at. Gray's Point The I) I, Adams, was sold for use on a South American river, and the Chatham was captured while running Hie blockade during the war. Since the war the boats put »m the river have been the W. T. Who less, which was burned nt ..avannah; the Alice Clark, which wis lost, on the Carolina coast; the Mary Fisher, which eank at Paraehuela; the Katie, the Ethel, New South, Progress and Advance, The boats at the present time run ning on the river are; The Two States and the Augusta. THE AUGUSTA HERALD Wholesale Grocers of New Orleans Declare Railroads Not Frank in Rates Raise NEW ORLEANS.—Geo. P. Thomp son, president of tho Wholesale Gro cers' association of New Orleans, dis cussing the situation regarding tlit proposed advance in rates, said: “Tho railroads have met with onr commercial people and have promised :hem a 'square deal' and we have been given their assurance that no discrimination will be shown either in present advances or those to come. "This looks beautiful oil the sur face, but is in reality a waiver of tho main issue—to raise or not to raise rates. "The railroad managers are In trenched behind the plea that higher rates will mean prosperity lit every walk of life—a complete rejuvenator, as It wove—that everything springs from the loins of the railroads, and once the coffers of the railroads are replenished the car of commerce will resume her triumphant march which has been somewhat interrupted by lack of the usual axle grease during the past year “The direct question was put to tho railroad representatives at the .conference of the Board of Trade last week, to wit: If you advance rates, as contemplated now, will you make tho same proportionate reduc tions when freight movements are again in full swing?' "This question was unanswered. Not one of the representatives of fered any relief for the future. "In mitigation of the contemplated ,action the railroads offer the solace that tho advance is exceedingly in finitesimal; in fact, so small it will Texas Complains Against Rate Increase Which Costs Texas $2,600,000 Annually WASHINGTON—If tho hearing on the complaint filed by the Texas rail, j road commission against tho railroads in the Southwestern territory shall disclose such conditions of combina- ! Hon in restraint of trade as sro set forth in the complaint It is expected that the interstate commerce commit)-1 slon will certify so much of the com plaint as relates to the alleged com | hination and conspiracy to raise rates to tha department of Justice for tho prosecution of the railroads under tho Sherman anti trust law. The reason for this aetlon Is the fact, that, the complaint filed with the commission, growing out, of the recent advances on all lines of freight traf fic Into Texas from St. Louis, Kan- Isas City and Arkansas points asserts that the Increases arc not only so un reasonable and unjust as to bn viol ative of the provisions of the Inter state commerce law, but also that the sixty-seven roads that are made de fendants, together with the Santa Fo and Rock Island in that territory, have entered Into a conspiracy to raise rates, and are engaged In a combination to restrain trade In viol ation ,of the provisions of the anil trust law. The complaint Is signed by Allison Mayfield, chairman of the Texas rail road commission, and by R. G. David son, attorney general of that state. It undertakes to compare the alleged cost of maintenance and operation of the railroads with the actual cost and the claimed Indebtedness, which Is supposed to Justify the increase, with th e actual Indebtedness. Thu railroad commission of Tc:as, It ap pears, has appraised the cost of con struction and operation of the roads as well as the actual Indebtedness upon which the rates may be futrly based. Among olher points made In the complaint Is that In 1891 the rate on first class traffic from St. Louis to Texas common (mints was 81.113 per 100 pounds; that by 1903 these rates had been advanced to $1.37 and that the rate effective August 10 makes advances fully 10 cents higher. As Illustrative of the volume of traffic Anarchy Struggles With Anarchy in Movement For Russia's Reform BERLIN—The tragic struggle of re form and faction In Russia moves forward In its slow, lumbering way, crushing Its many victims like the Car of Juggernaut. Anarchy struggles with anarchy. The wild anarchy or the desperate revolutionaries Is oppos ed by the calculating anarchy of cor rupt officials and drumhead court marllals. Wild pal riots, oppressors, governors and tyrants perish togeth er. The assassin's knife and the hangman's rope dally claim their vie tlms. From the midst, of this terrible strife tlmre comes a passionate en treaty that those things shall cease. On the startled ears of reactlonarlcs and revolutionaries alike fall the pow erful accents of the eountgeoim old man, Tolstoy, who still dares to preach and to practise before an In credulous world the fundamental max im:. of Christianity. How shall the long agony of Rus sia be ended? From Tolstoy's herm itage routes the same answer »ti came centuries ago from Galilee "if a man smite thto on one cheek, turn to him the other " Impossible and Impracticable ld< al- Ism! many will exclaim after read ing Tolstoy's noble manifesto against government by executions" In Run sla Jeans of Nazareth was despised and rejected not only by the Romans but also by tbs l< w», and it la Tol stoy's late to be both hated by the re actionaries and reject# d by tbs rev- Olutlonarles. lie plainly tells the revolutionaries that "boßld'-s b' lng terrible they a#e also stupid, tv-fanse of the blood thirsty methods they adopt—all these bombs and tunnelings and these re volting murders and theft* of money.” Force is no remedy on either sld>*. Thai Is the essence of hIH gospel. You cannot make men free by such only mean about (wo dollars por per son and will hardly be recorgnlxed by the consuming public. A little multiplication of this little tax of two dollars by the population of the llni ted States will reveal that someone will ho called on to pay tribute to tho railroads of approxiately J! 80,- 000,000 per annum! Not such an In fantile proposition after all, Is it? And after this has soaked in please an swer the question: Who will assume this burden, the merchant, the manu facturer or the consumer? "The commercial element fools that the slogan of tho railroads, ‘Ad vance rates or lower salaries,’ is posi tively unwarranted. Were it clearly demonstrated that one of these alter natives was unavoidable we would naturally and quickly respond by ac cepting the lesser of the evils high er rail's rather than sen the compen sation of employes cut with the pres ent high-priced foodstuffs and other necessities of life. But neither of ilieso extraordinary measures is Im perative at this time. Co-operation on the part of the transportation companies and the people Is essen tially the key to the situation Rates In a number of Instances are nl ready too high, and equalization where discrimination exists would set free the channel of business where congestion chokes off movement, en abling the merchant to Increase dis tribution, thereby Increasing transpor tation and adding to tho revenues of the railroads. But an additional tax will only retard tho easiug up of de pression which has begun afti r weary waiting." affected In these advances, it is shown that tho 40,000,000 tons of traffic Into i oxas In 181* 1 has bee Increased more than 400 per rent; that the gross earnings of the toads leading to that territory had Increased from $35,000,- 000 to $00,000,000 while the cost of operation decreased from 80 to 73 per cent. During the same period tho gross earnings per mile lllcroasod from $4,000 to s7,n>B and the net earnings Increased from $7Ol to sl, 906. The complaint shows In detail the earnings and operating expenses of the roads leading from the Mis sissippi and Missouri territory to Texas common points. It Is claimed that the rale advances which go into effect August 10 amount to an In crease on Iho aggregate traffic af fected in Texas of $2,600,000. In addition to tho allegations of conspiracy on tne part, of the rnnds complained of to restrain trade In violation of the anti-trust law, it Is further set forth In tne complaint that ill violation of the railroad rutn law tho proposed advances are un just, unreasonable and excessive. Eight freight, schedules which have recently been filed with the commis sion are made the basts of tho com plaint, and all are claimed to have been .ou k „t about, by an unlawful agreement between the defendant, car ilors and tho Southwestern Traffic , association, of which they are mem bers, or whose members represent, through power of attorney, those who are not. It declares that the increased rates will fall primarily upon commodities 1 of prime utility and dally necessity; that they will seriously disturb trade relations, causing loss to shippers and the consuming public. The interstate commerce commix slon will tomorrow notify railroads concerned In the Increased ratcß to Texas common points to reply to the complaint tiled today by the railroad eomnilHHlon of Texas within fifteen days. It Is usual to give twenty days for the filing of a reply to a com plaint, but in this case the commis sion, In order to expedite the consid eration of the esse, reduced tho lime. external prftcesHWsi. It Is In their In-art that, the change must he wrought, and It Is to the heart and conscience of the nation of governor and revolutionaries alike, that Tol stoy make his appeal. Ilia vivid pictures of the horrible realities of the present situation, of all the sordid and hatefiil dotal:* of mi execution, stir one with sin me and remorse even thousands of miles away. The highest official must blush to hud his own direct responsibility lor the hangman's work so clearly r#-veali-d, and the most comfortable citizen must grow restless as he realizes that these d#-e#|i, are done professedly on his behalf. For the moment the physical force revolutionaries have been beaten down, but Tolstoy Is kindling a great, or revolution In the hearts of his fellow countrymen of all classes. WRIGHT WILL COMPETE I’AKIH Wilbur Wright stinoiinos bis Intention of competing very short ly for the prlz#- of $60,000 offered by thi- Dully Mall to the aeronaut who succeeds In Hying In a machine heav ier than ulr from London to Man chebter In one day, and without stopping more than three times to replenish his fuel tank*. A Oran# F amity M.Olein.. "1# giver me pleasure to apeak .1 good word for LP-etrlo ItUtter.," write. Mr Prank t'onlaii of No. gt#i Monro,n t-,, N< w York "li « u grand fnrnlly melt clr,c for dysp-palc snd liver oomptl-’u Mona, while fin In me bark ami wc-ik kl-hicya II cannot lu. 100 lilgldy racorn oieitded.” Electric Hitlers regiilai# too dIK-a#lve functions, purify the blood, tfi'l Impart renewing vigor mul vitmity to the week and doldlMated of both .* xea Hoi* Under guarantee at all driigfl.ts. ftOe, For R'-al Estate call on or write Hacked, Hell Hr Dendy. Planters l/oau in Havings llank Bldg Allen l Baxley Wholesale Grocers Special Brands of Flour: “Easter Lilly” “Challenge” and “Pastry Cream.” Sole Agents For “Ralston’s Purina Stock and Cattle Leeds.” ALLEN Augusta, Ga. b Sxuey W. B. BRIGHAM, Sr. W. B. BRIGHAM, Jr. W. B. BRIGHAM & SON, WHOLESALE Groceries and Provisions, Plour, Meat, Grain and Hay. LEADING BRANDS OP PLOUR: Pure Gold, Water Lily, White Swan Jersey Lily and Vanity Pair, Tobacco, Cigars and Specialties. AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA. Office and Warehouse on Ga. R. R. track, 9.32-934 Walker St. MOSES C. MURPHEY. MUXEDCE MURPHEY. JOHN *. MURPHEY. MURPHEY <Sb CO. Wholesale Grocers “THE OLD RELIABLE.” ESTABLISHED 1644. I Every order given our sales man is filled-—Every article we ship is guaranteed : : : : : Warehouse and Shipping Cor. 7th &. Fenwick St OFFICE 628 BROAD STREET. PAGE FIVE