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Th e non-advertising merchant can no more compete with one who advertises than the old hand press can com pete with the modern web-per fecting cylinder press. VOLUME XIII., No. 233 ILLIIJ. BRIM IN GUO IS GREETED BY A MULTITUDE OF HIS ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRERS BUSINESS MEETING HELD Party Leaders Discuss the Plans of the Coming Campaign CHICAGO.—Hon. William Jennings Bryan arrived in Chicago today to pay a two da "s' visit to his political triends and campaign managers. The presidential nominee was greeted at the railway station by National Chair man Mack, Colonel Wetmore, in charge of the iinances of the cam paign, and a score of party leaders and prominent Democrats trom Chi cago and elsewhere. A rousing cheer wont up as he stepped down from his sleeper and grasped the hands that were out stretched in welcome. Mr. Bryan looked refreshed and via! after his night on the road, ah'’ declared that he felt line. Greet'. having been exchanged all around the party proceeded through the sta tion, where throngs of Democrats had gathered to catch a glimpse of the great Nebraskan. Their number had been augmented by the patrons of in coming trains, until the station was packed to its utmost limit with an en tnusiastie, encoring crowd, through which Mr. Bryan and his escort pass ed along the lane marked out by the policemen detniled to guard the per son of the illustrious visitor, who bowed to .he right and left in smiling acknowledgment of their tribute. Arriving at the Auditorium, Mr. Bryan lest no time in getting down to the business that brought him to Chicago, but plunged into a series of conferences over' plans for the fight to ho waged between now and No vember 3d. All the heads of the various com mittees had been summoned to Chi cago, and before Mr. Bryan leaves on Monday for Indianapolis the whole scheme of warfare is expected to have been mapped out in detail. One of the most important ques ttons to b P taken up is the speaking part Mr. Bryan is to play in the cam paign. Some of the officials of the national committee are opposed to any extensive tour o. the sort made four and eight years ago, but it rests with Mr. Bryan to decide. Another subject which will come in for full discussion is the money ques tion—how to raise the cash for the campaign. The campaign in the East will also claim attention from the nominee, and it was for the purpose of taking up this subject that Senator Culberson, of Texas, as head of the advisory com mittee ,was summoned to the confer ence by Chairman Mack. Among the party chiefs who came to Chicago to meet Mr. Bryan are Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, and Governor Patterson, of Tennessee. DBM Kill SPEAK Oil MGTIOKS Will Address the Working Men on Labor Day. —i ■ i • CHICAGO.- —The Injunction Reform League was formed at a meeting of the labor leaders and the members of the labor organizations, the object being to start a "Campaign of educa tion” on the injunction question. This league will be in charge of the labor day meeting, at which Mr. Brvan will speak r" the r.ntt-lhjunction plank in the -ratic platform. JAPAN FACES REVOLUTION. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—S. K. Friedman, a newspaper man connect ed with the Chinese Daily News of this city, returned from the Orient yesterday and declared that Japan was ripe for a revolt. Zola's "Paris ' and Tolstoi's ''Resurrection," he said, have been suppressed because trou ble among soldiers in several bar racks has been traced to those novels. Tillman Says Bryan's Chances Of Winning This Time Arc Good I/JNDON. Senator Benj. Tillman of South Carolina, who has been traveling in Europe for some time, see- democratic success In Bryan's nomination. "It may be that the wish is father to the thought." said Senator Till man, when encountered at the office of the American Express company, "but it looks to me as if Bryan has a powerful good chance of cleaning up the other crowd this time. “In the first place he has been nominated in spite of the best organ laed newspaper fight against him TH E AUGUSTA HERALD BUNK BOOK KEEPER PLSYED BICES INTO_PRISDN NEW YORK.—Because he believed he had evolved a system to beat the races, Harold 11. Kohler, bookkeeper in the National Park Bank, who lives at No. ,390 Seventeenth street. South Brooklyn, is a prisoner in the Tombs, awaiting the action of the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement. Kohler devised a system of placing favorites for place, which looked so well on paper that h e could not wait to save up capital for the gamble. In stead he took S3BO from the bank and went to the race track. He played, won. lost his head, and became a Broadway sport. He plunged reck lessly. lost ail he had won, and the bank's money besides, and faced ruin. The bank discovered his defalcation and lie confessed. The cashier, Mau rict, H. Ewer, turned him over to the police and made A charge of em bezzlement against him, on which he was held. SCHOOL TEICHER IS HESTER HAGERSTOWN.—-Carl V. Mong, a lormer school teacher of Washington county, was arrested here by secret service men. Charles E. Wright, of Baltimore, and W. P. Walsh, of Pittsburg, on the charge of raising $1 notes to $5 notes. After teaching school here for several >ears, Monr, v.as dismissed by the school officials because of his conduct.' Later, while in jail here awaiting trial for engag ing in an affray, he broke tall and fled to Pittsburg. In the latter city lie and his wife were arrested last week on the charge of raising bank notes, blit the charge could not be proven. The officers now claim to have posi tive proof against Mong. WINES URGE SUM FDR LITRE DOG WASHINGTON.—PIacing the value of her blooded fox terrier at SI,OOO Beulah Bouknight, of 121 Maryland avenue, N. E., has entered suit against the A/Kntlc Coast Line rail road for this amount. She declares she gave the railroad officials her little doggie on June 20 to be sent to Jacksonville, Fla. The dog, she says, got lost, strayed or was stolen on the way. THIS DOCTOR. TAKES HIS OWN MEDICINE Head of Pasteur Institute Inoculates H i m s e If Against Deadly Disease. CHICAGO. — Dr A. I.agorio, who is at the head of the Pasteur Institute, 228 Dearborn avenue, has been Innoc ulated with hydrophobia germs and is taking his own treatment to ward off the disease. Two days ago while the doctor was experimenting with a guinea pig that he was dissecting after having Innoc uiated It with the germs of rabies, he ran a sharp sliver of bone under his finger nail. It penetrated some dis tance and made a painfu' wound. It was in experimenting with an eight-day rabies culture that the innoc ulation occurred. FIFTY DEPUTIES GUARD RACE TRACK OPENING NEW ORLEANS), La With half a hundred ext .-a deputies under com mand of Sheriff Marerro, of fefferson parish, the Suburban race trad; »i'i open this afternoon for tht- first tl # Since the passage of the Locke ami betting bill. While Individual bet ting is permitted, anything that ap proaches bookmaking, Paris mutuals or lystematic gambling Is barred, an l will be followed by the arrest of the ilolators. ever known, thus demonstrating bis Innate strength with the rank and file of the democratic party. Taft, on the contrary, has been nominated solely at the dictation of Roosevelt, and against the wishes of the ntassea In the republican party. While Taft is a lovable character in every way, and I don’t w-lsh to be construed as saving anything against him as a man, hia self-obliteration and what. 1 should call the element of subgervlen. cy, shown In his visit to Oyster Bay to get his speech revised, are not in hia favor." Forecast for Augusta ami Vicinity—Showers tonight and Sunday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNO ON. AUGUST 22, 1908, Cordova , His Wife and His Affinity J. Frank Cordova, the former Methodist Episco pal pastor of South River, N. J., who has just finished his term in the New Jer sey State Prison. The young woman in the upper picture is Miss Julia Bowo with whom Cordova eloped in 1905 and on acount of whom he was sent to the penitentiary. The lower picture is that of Cordova’s wife. WRIGHT SETTLES BIDET MCRITT Expells Two and Suspends Six For One Year. WASHINGTOIN.—Secretary of War Wright, with the approval of the president, today directed the dismissal from the West Point Military Acad \ enty of Cadets William T. Rosseli, I Jr., an honor, man of the first class, and son of Lieut. Col. Rosseli, of the army engineer corps, and Harry (!. Weaver, first class, of Illinois, for par- I ticipating in hazing. The other six cadets, convicted of hazing, arc sentenced to suspension with loss of all pay and allowances until June 15, 1909, when they will I join the third class. The six suspended cadets are: George Chase, Jr., of New York. James A. Gillespie, of Pennsylvania. Byson Q Jones, of New York. William Nalle, Jr., of Virginia. William Prude, of Alabama. Isaac Spalding, of Oklahoma. The secretary holds that Rossetr and Weaver, beeauße of their age and experience at the academy, were | more guilty than the others. lie also , holds that actual “hazing" according I to dictionary definition, did not occur, and that in the absence of a con gressionai definition of tue term in the act which requires dismissal as I punishment therefor, the young men were not guilty, technically, of any. thing but violation of regulations. DETECT! CAPS THIEVES WORK Robbed Building in which Detective Slept. WASHINGTON Burglars broke lnt'> tin- Washington county court house early this morning, ransacked every room of every county officer, looted decks and flits and leaving a trail of wreckage and broken furniture. While the thieves worked undis turbed with electric lights glowing in all parts of the building. Chief Coun ty Detective William McCleary slept peacefully In th« private office of the dihtrtct attorney, tht- marauders work ing on all sides of him and from ap pearances wlhln a few feet of bis couch. BURGLAR STOLE LACES AND CANS OF SARDINES I\NNIRTON. Ala The pt t office and store of W. M. Thwon't, at Me- Fall, near h< re. was looted last night It was stated over the long distance telephone this morning that only a revolver and J2O in stamps were se titr-d from 'he post office department of -he store, but every yard oi lacs-, ribbon, embroidery and Insertion in ihe stock was appropriated bv the cracksmen, who airo took a few can* of sardimi*. Cordova in Philadelphia Penniless and his Mind is Giving Way NEW YORK J. Frank Cordova, the unfrocked minister of South River, N. J., recently freed from the penitentiary at Trenton where be 'served a commuted four year term for deserting Ills wife and running away with Julia itowne, a beautiful choir singer In Ills church, was seen in Philadelphia today. The former friend wlio saw him declared that Cordova Is penniless and without work and that Ills mind Is giv ing away. It was also learned today that Immediately after Cordova reached Philadelphia from Trenton, lie wrote to Miss itowne. who Is living with her father at North Asbury Park, rearing the three year--old hoy of whom Cordova is the father. In tils letter he said he was coming for her. but he received a reply from her father, threatening to kill him if he ever appeared at North Asbury Park. The man who sav Cordova In Philadelphia wrote to some of the members of his old Hock at South River, declaring that the ex minis ter ought to he examined to determine his mental condition. The Great Mcrrimac Victory Caused By Frequent Prayer MONTOOMKRY, Mo.—Captain Hob son sale! before a larger audience here* yesterday afternoon that because he was going up ami down the* country declaring for a big navy and warning lh<* people? of an approaching war Canned Oratory Will Be Used in Presidential Campaign WASHINGTON “Canned oratory" was used for the first time In the presidential campaign at a meeting, here last night by the District of Co lumbia democr; tic association. William J. Bryan's voice was re produced in a dissertation on "the publicity of campaign contributions." ROOSEVELT RECEIVES PERSONAL GREETING AiifttraliauH Express Con tinual Friendliness to Americans. OYSTER BAY, * N Y President: Roosevelt received today, through the British charge d'affaires, who Is sum mering in Manchester, Mass., the fol lowing telegram from the governor general and government of the com monwealth of Australia "Australians, hundreds of thousands of #bom gathered on the shores of Sydney harbor to welcome the bat lb-ship fleet of the l ulled Htate» at this moment entering the eastern gate oi this continent, unite In a cordl.il greeting to ’’resident Roosevelt. The people of the common wealth faith fully appreciate the generous re sponse to their invitation by the pres ident and citizens of the great re public and rejoice in the opportunity afforded tiy Gils demonstration of the might of American naval power to express their sincere admiration of the sailors and their esteem and as faction for the country whose giorl oils Hag they hope to see floating beside that of their mother laud." with Japan, Kranc thought ho was not In full xympathy with tlio ClirlHtlan spirit. Ho RRHured his audience If It hurt not boon for prayer there would have been no Morrlmac victory. "InTTiiortalliy." from his lecture "Tile Prince of Fence," a speech on tho 'election of Untied Stalls senators by direct vote of the people," and a homily on trusts The gramaphoiie used will la a feature of the cum pali,n in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia, GOV. MAGOON CONFERS WITH SECRETARY OF WAR WASHINGTON ('bag s (■; y. tl . goon, provisional governor of Cuba, arrived boo- yesterday. lie culled oil the secretary of war, and had an exo-nebd confeicncc with him Gov < rnor Magoon will go to Oyster Bay fuesday. Jfc expects to la- back 111 Oubu by Sepiember I. Governor Magoon said lie iw no 'ikellhood of difficulty in turning over the island to the Oubaii govern merit. lie spoke 111 the highest terms concerning the island lei tin Cabin KOVe.Vinienl ll' spoke in blghesi concerning the general conduct of Ihe people of the; island MEXICAN AMBASSADOR TO RESUME GOVERNOR’S DUTY WASHINGTON. Henor Enrlejuo Creel, Mexican ambassador to the United States, left yesterday for his native state- eif Chihuahua where lie will resume his elutles as governeir, to which office lie was ek-cted lin t fall Governor Grccl stated upon his el - part me that h<- had accomplished the mission ot arranging with the United States for th'- punishment of Mexican revolutionists who crossed Ihe Amerl can border. DAILY AND SUNDAY, SO.OO PER YEAR II PENNSYLVANIA TYPHOID F[IEO IS EPIDEMIC I'l 11!-ADKl tPMIA Typhoid fever is now epidemic in many IVnnsyl \ania towns and apodal safe guards are bdiiK taken here to prevent the spread of the disease. Bathers are urg**d to retrain front s vimming in the rivers In the I’hoenixvllle I Ins pistal there are twenty thrc«* eases in (’arbondale, in the heart of the coal region, seven case* develop as a daily average. In the Morgam&a Iteform school, near rittshurg. 2H of the inmates are afflicted. EORMER GOVERNOR I GAMBLER Several Prominent. Men in Guthrie are Implicated. GDTII MK. Okla. It took a jurv only five minutes to convict Chhhlus M. Barnes, former governor of Okla homa and now mayor of Guthrie, of , gambling. The mayor war- arrested ] several weeks ago with other proi:.i > nenl men ills computrons plead al i guilty. Judge Strang, who will sen- j tence Barnes, was appointed hy the defendant as attorney general during his administration as governor. WHO WILL RUN WITH GOVERNOR HUGHES His Companions on State Ticket Not Yet Known. NKW YORK. There being nc longer any dould about the re iiomi nation of (Inventor Hughes, the ques tion arises, who will be Ihe governor's companions on the republican stale ticket? Several highly prized honors are to la* aw iriled el the slate convention and there will lie keen .•Hairy m capture them. For lieutenant governor, Senato,* Horace White, of Synenm Is men tioned. •Senator White is Onondaga county's candidate for governor. He has been In the •enaie since 189 ft A boom Ids been started for Sena lor Seth i j. peacock, of IHon, for lieutenant governor. I! is said lie would be willing In run cm the ticked v/lth Governor Hugh' s. DISTRACTED WIFE MAKES APPEAL Diauiipearance of Huabaiul anti Drniitnliii; of Soil Distracts Wife. NEW YORK. In tl pathetic appeal to Chief Inspector Cortrlglß, Ml*. Edith Cagey, the wife of James Ca rey, proprietor of tho Princeton hotel at. Ni'W Orleans, who disappeared sev oral week* ago, asks that a general alarm bo sent out for hint, Since Carey's mysterious elisap peaianci', Willie. Iliolr nine year old son, was drowned and the distracted wife begs that her husband, If a)lv«, return home The chief Inspector ini mediately bud a description of Opt missing man hciil to every precinct In ibo city and the machinery of the entlrc department Is in work |u an effort to locate the man. ACCIDENTLY KILLED WHILE CLEANING ROOM HAGKRH'I OWN, Md Miss Mac. Ilrlnlii'iii, IS ve;.is old, daughter of Robert Brltihum, ot Mapicvl'le, Uilh county, was shot and almost Instant ly kllbil by Bn accidental dlsclmige of a shot gnu at her home i stei day. Tim loud intend her breast, tearing a great hole In her body. Mr. Brlnham had used ‘he trim and reloaded tin weapon, and placed It finder ihe bed. His two daughters were '(caning the room, wlteb the younger om- nilempti d to otiil the gun from mid' r tin- lied. The ills charge killed her sister, COTTON IN SOUTH GEORGIA IS POOR Deterioration of Twenty- Five Per Cent is Noted Within the Past Few Days. COLUMBUS, <la A rapid and mar ket deteiloratlon In Ihe mud 11 lon of the cotton crop In west Georgia In the laid two or three weeks Is re ported Up to August 1 prospects for n fine crop were excellent, but a canvass of the situation In this sec tion of the Bate shows that ihe crop has deteriorated all along G,, line and In som* cases Is off 20 and 2a per cent as compared with Its condi tions two weeks ago. Advertising is the motiv* power of business. Stop adver tising and your business will be as dead as an engine wltheut steam. STATEI RITE IS IDENTiCII WITH ERST TERR’S N ATLANTA, On. Governor Smith and Comptroller General Wright have fixed the stale tax rale at five mills or five dollars for each thousand dol lars’ worth of property for all stnto purposes for the y ear 1908. The rate corresponds with the rate of last year. l» FOLLETTE UK PUT UNDER FIRE BA I .TIMORIS, Md. Declaring that the interslaiu commerce commission’* order requiring railroads to report violation* of the no-called DalAdlotte law. regulating the hours of labor of railway employes, is uucouHtituttmml, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to day filed a bill in the I nit. d States circuit court here asking that the or d< r be temporarily suspended until \ hearing can In* had in court on the point. the court will I»»■» asked jo make the suspension order permanent ufler Die heal ing. No action was taken t< day on the application. The order, according to the hill of complaint, violates the fourth and • lft ti amend.neats to the ccnatßttttnfli of the* t'tilled States, h ’cause it mnkog It Incumbent ijpon railroads io fepori to Mu’ commission their own vlolat'oiis of Ihe law, violation* of whlen, according to the hill of <*om plniniH, are Inevitnhlo from time to time on even the best regulated rail- REVOLUTION NOT EISILJJBEIIED NKW YOHK. Asserting that thU Him* he revolution will not be ao • isMy qiirlled w . the one before and lbut the end v. 11l he Ihe overthrow of President Nord Alexis and his follow* eis. General Fred<*r|cpie, a Haytlan exl'e, left till! v city today for S». Thomas, where M. Flrmin, leader oS the last expedition against the Hay tlmp government e* waiting him Gone ml Frudcrlqne declared before lie left that tiler* was absolutely no I ruth in Hi** Interview given out by M ('hartiiant u.< to the' reported mean ing between Secretary Hoot and M. ihinin. The* veucral says that Ghaa uiani bar inner been true to any parly and deserts ft Just ns soon ns It appears to him le> be losing ground. He further Tinted that the- next Cx pedltion to 11 *. f l vqiild result in the complete overt* f*)\v of Nord Alexis. CONFEDERATE VETERAN GETS RISE IN RANK WASHINGTON. Because, as he said, lie bail served In the Civil war, I,lent. Col. Junius L. Powell, retired, yesterday, In a leltor to the war do partineut requested that Ills retiring rank be boosted one notch and that lie be given the rank of colonel In stead of a lieutenant colonel. The war department, Investigating Mr. Powell’s war record, found, they say, that he served iim a private In the Confederate forces. The eleva tion In rank asked for will not ho granted, as the luw contemplates re warding only services In the union army. Col Powell was retired May I. and was connected with the medical de partment. during his long service. OFFICERS ELECTED ATLANTA The Mouther.i Nursery men's aasoclutlon which met In At bin-it has elected the following offi cer! for the •tmiliig year: Henry B Chase, of Huntsville, Alt., presi dent; J. C Miller, tiff Rome, vice, president, aid A I Hmlth, of Knox ville, Tenn . secretary and treasurer, Th« next pl.-iei of meeting will ho at Huntsville, Ala., in August, l»09. WINDOW ..ASHER KILLED. NEW YORK While standing on • lie sill and trying to wash the out side of the window on the fourth floor of her home. No. 2u lleed ave. fine, Brooklyn today, Mary rady, a 1 2-year-old girl lost her balance and tell to tin- brb k pavement belhw. Hbu was Instantly killed. DIPLOMATIC CORPS CHANGES. WASHINGTON It has been an nounced ul the Venezuelan legation that Honor N Velos-Goltlcon, first s-eretary and charge d'affaires of Venezuela, has been sent to Berlin as charge d'affaires at that place. INHALED GAS LAST ORANGE, N. J Mrs Mary Ft billet it cars old. Ihe wife of Walter Hehlller, a Jeweler of Newark, committed suicide hist night at her borne, s:i Houlh sixteenth atreet, bv Inhaling Illuminating gas. No rea son bus been assigned for the act, except that ale was suffering Uvm a nervous disorder.