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Yes; a want ad. campaign, if persistent enough, will find a !ob for you—perhaps in one lay, perhaps in ten days; BUT wen in "dull times" there is fork to be had by the detfir nlnfid seeker. VOLUME XIII., No. 225. HI UOLIH ram of julv NUMBER OF LIVES LOST OVER THE COUNTRY IS APPALING MAN-MADE SLAUGHTER Could Be Prevented By The Proper Enforcement Of The Law CHICAGO. —Five thousand, six hun dred and twenty-three men, women and children killed and injured—this j is the slaughter that went to wake an! American holiday. Five thousand, six h'. l dred a’>J twenty-three men, women and chil dren, and mostly children, maimed for life or dead—this Is the indictment tiip.f ihe American medical as ocit lion, through its official journal, in grifii rows of statistics and a biting editorial, brings today against ti.e Amercan people before the Irr ot b :- nianity. The bull fights with which the American taunts his Latin neighbor, into insignificance, the tragedies of the football gridiron which hare raised such a storm of indignation, are trivial in comparison, and only [ the gladiatorial conflicts of pagan Rome rival the carnage of the Am erican Fourth of July. And ths Romans did not kill children. The terrible loss in some places is all the more shocking because of the low statistics in other places, which shows that the loss is not an inevit able one, but that it is a man-made daughter, preventable by the making and enforcement of laws. F3HUIEIIT USE BE IILSM6ED Postmaster And His As sistant Are Regular Dead ' Beats. BIG STONE GAP, Va.—One of the cleverest pieces of fraud in the an nals .of this section of the state was that discovered by Postoffice Inspec tor Robinson, when he arrested David McCiunahan and Elijah Stacey, on the charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses and of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. McClanahan was postmaster and Stacey his assisiant at Golden Spring. Buchanan county, a little place in the wlds and a great distance from any railroad. The men, it is charged, had been ordering goods by mail from mail or der houses in Chicago for the last two years, sending money with the orders by registered mail, and the stores looked upon them as good cus tomers Most of the orders were for high grade watches and jewelry. When the article arrived, it is al leged a cheap imitation was seeured and mailed back to the house with a letter claiming the company had not seDt what was ordered and requesting that ther money be returned, atfd it is charged that not until they returned a paste diamond ring to one of the houses, requesting that the money be refunded on account of the ring not being as represented, did the mail or der people have any suspicion that they were being defrauded. PROGRAM FOR IRE BANKERSJVIEETING NEW YORK.—Advance proof* of the program of the annua! conven tion of the American Banker*' asso ciation to be held in Denver, Septem ber 28 to October 1, give, among those who will make addresses to the savings bank section, the following: Monday, Sept. 28—Address by Hon Pierre Jay, bank commissioner, of Boston. Mass., on "The proper treat ment of savings deposits when taken by state banks and trust companies.” John C. Griswold, secretary Excel sior Savings Bank, New York, on "The effect of the recent panic on the eastern mutual savings banks." On Wedneeday, September 30, ad dresses will be made by B. E Wal ker, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Ont.. "Abnor mal features of American banking." Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., "The banker and the nation.” On Thuredt' October 1, there will be addresi oy Alexander Gilbert, prrident of ihe New York Clearing House, and president of the Market and Fulton National Bank, New York. The banquet of the executive coun cil of the association given by the banker* of Denver will be held at the Dearer club, Monday evening, Sep tember 28 Are you Doing Your Share to Notify the World that Augusta is Ready for Business Once More? THE AUGUSTA HERALD MARTIAL LAW DEIGNS IN RAWHIDE RAWHIDE, Nevada.—Martial law reigns today following the fire yester day which almost totally destroyed the town. Three thousand people arc homeless and many without food. The loss in property is $750,000. The fire started in Dr. Gardner’s of fice in the Rawhide Drug company’s building and spread quickly as the town was practically without fire fighting apparatus. The volunteer fire department and 500 miners work ed heroically, but the buildings, most ly built of wood, were soon in ashes. More than a ton and a half of dyna mite was used in demolishing build ings in the effort to stay the fire's progress. A report that two commercial trav elers had been burned to death can not be confirmed. All hut one gro cery store went up in flames and a famin e "’as feared, but late last night a relief train from Reno arrived with a supply of provisions that will last for several days. CUTTING FOREST USED AUGUSTA FLOOD. ATLANTA, Gn. —A report has been made by V M. Schoen, chief engineer of the Southeastern Underwriters’ as sociation, in which he states that un less the forests of the southern Ap palachians are better presPrved, fresh ets such as overwhelmed Augusta may be expected with increasing fre quency. It was the depleted forests along the banks and at Ihe rise of the Sa vannah river that added materially to the Hoed which swept over Augusta, he says. Every year that, aves con tinue to hew at these forest the dan ger of similar floods will increase. In the end. unless there is a check, the timber wil Ibe goi.e, there wi'l be no restraint to the water in time of heavy rain, all wil; pour down to the rivers, and such catastrophes at the Augusta flood will become quite com mon . In concluding his report he says: "There is reason to believe, that heavy freshets in rivers taking their rise in the southern Appalachians are to be anticipated more frequently in the future titan in the past, owing to the rapid cutting away of the timber on the water, sheds comprising tha drainage of "(hose streams which means an increasing probability oi such occurrences as that which over whelmed Augusta last week." Engineer Schoen spoke warmly Fri day morning of the need of protecting the forest of the Appalachian range. -it is a tiling ot the gre*est In portance,’’ tie said. "The continued destruction of Ihese forests will work irremediable evil. When once they are gene, there wit he no protection agains floods. They must be pre seved." COTTON SEED CRUSHERS EXHIBIT AT THE FAIR ATI.ANT&. Arrangements have been perfected tor the Cotton-seed Cruahers' association, of which W. H. McKinxie, of Montezuma, is prest dent, to have an exhibit of the pro ducts of cotton seed at the State Par to be held in Atlanta, October Bth to the 24th. This arrangement follows the sug gestion of termer President L. A. Ransom, of the Interstate associa tion, In his speech at Louisville, Ky. At this exhibit there will he experi ments In cooking with cottonseed oil, reasoning food with cotton-seed oil and washing with soap made from the same oil. Tne exhibit Is being gotten up by Fielding Wallace, chairman of the publicity committee, of Augusta; W . M Hutchison, of Atlanta, and th» other members of the committee. It will be ready for the opening ot the fair. universalisT*church HAS REVIVAL SERVICES ATLANTA, G*.—Rev. E D. Ellen wood. pastor of the Harris Street Unl versalist church, has just recently closed a very successful revival In the Universal church at Camp Hill, Ala During this service, which las'ed for five days, a handsome new church was dedicated. The church was erected at a cost of IIO.OOU and Is one of the handsomest in Alabama Dur ing the revival 47 new members were added to the church, 24 ot whom were men. During Julv and August Dr. Klien woed attend'd the University of Chi- Forecast so r Augusta and Vicinity— Showers Tonight and Sunday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 5. 1908. CLAUDIA, WIFE OF CAPT. HAINS 1 1 '' * /'$ ■ i- V, Mrs. Claudia L. Haius, Wife of Captain Hains, from a recent Photograph. Attempt To Lynch Old Man Who Mistreated Little Girl NEW YORK.—An infuriated mob of a hundred women, aided by a few men, attempted to lynch Peter King, 75, for mistreating 8-year-old Eleanor Blood, in the- basement of an apart ment house at One Hundred and For ty second street and Eighth avenue, today. The police reserves of the West HUGGED IIWOMAN THEN GOT JAILED ATLANTA, Ga.—An alleged offer to hug a young lady is worth $17.75, ac cording to the ruling In the case of E. T. Randall, a contractor, tried In police court Friday morning. Randall was arraigned In court upon complaint of Mrs. Jessie Simp son, of llti Lowell street, who claim ed that Randall had insulted her bv offering to hug her while she was 4* her own home and talking in him on a purely business matter. She stated to tne court that she was talktng with Randal In regard to making some re pairs on her house, when he sudden ly remarked that he would like very much to hug her. She then call'd Id the polic- and had a case entered against Randall. When called upon to make his statement Randall denied that, lie had made anv sueh statement to Mrs. Simpson. He said that the case was entered on account of a rnlsuu derstandlng Randall told the court that Mrs Simpson had stated to him that her husband, being dead, she missed hi* hugs and caresses very •nttfh. Mrs. Hlmrson denied making such a statermnt cago. Much to the delight, of his en tire congregation Dr Kllenwood will fill hi* own pulpit on Sunday morn ing, September 13th. On this dav he will preach on "The Religion of Labor. 1 ' One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station had to charge the women with drawn eluhs to bring King off alive. He was badly beaten and bleeding and his clothing was in rags when he was landed at Ihe station. The mob was led by Mrs. Anna Blood, the mother of the little girl. The girl said King had enticed her to the base ment by promises of candy. HDUSEANQSENATE STILLJISAGREE ATLANTA, Ga.—The committees appointed Friday by I lie house and senate on convict, bills could not. agree and n--w committees were ap pointed this morning. They went into conference at noon and had reached no conclusion, the house mem bers of new conference are Hall, Wise and Slater; the senate member* are Senators Stephens, Farm and Willi ford: the house members of the firs' conference were w.illng to concede the lease system should end April, !‘»OS, provided In the opinion of the Governor of the state bus sufficient fund", at that lime to make ehange The senate conferees were unwilling lo aeeept 'his, holding out for un conditional abolishment of system Boosters’ Club meets at Elk’s hall to-night at 8:30 p. m. By or der of the presi dent. BODY OF NEGRO FOUND FLOATING IN lEO Coroner Ramsey held an Inquest Saturday morning over tire remains of the negro man who wan seen float, ing down the river Friday. Mr. Meal ing caught the body and notified the coroner. The man lias not been ident ified. The Jury returned a verdict of death by accidental drowning. THIEF WAS MARKED WITH MANY BUCKSHOT Found Several Days After He Received The Wound. ATLANTA, Ga.—Almost'(lead from the effects of a load of buckshot which took effect la his face, Rob ert Janies, colored, was found at 115 Thurmond sireet Friday afternoon by Officer Rowan and sent to tin Grady hospital for treatment. Upon belryt located at the home of one of his friends James admitted that he was shot on Thursday morning while rob blhg the chicken house 01 J. N Wtl li* at 234 t'hapcl str< • t. The shooting occurred Thursday morning .at 4 o’clock The shot was fired by Mr. Willie .as (he negro was coming out of iris hen house, the pro prletm- of Ihe house being awakened by a burglar alarm which went off us I hr* chicken hour- door was opened Officers were railed to the sr-r-ne It. mediately after the shooting and fol lowed the ti'-rro several blocks by means of a trail of blood. James when found Friday morning was tinashle ts open either eye and bis face was torn into bits by the heavy load of buckshot which hit him. He will b" held at the Grad/ hospital tintll his wounds are well, at which time h« will he placed on trial for burglary. DAILY AND S UNDAY SG.OO PER YEAR. GUN-SILENCING DEVICES IBE TESTED HARTFORD, Conn. Minim Percy Maxim hau returned from Springfield, where final tents were made of Ills gun-silencing devices. Me expresses himself as more than gratified at the results of the experiments, which showed that a firing party in ambush could not be detected at 250 yards. The tests have been conducted be for© a board appointed by tin* com manding officer of the Springfield armory. Mr. Maxim said: “The principle I make use of is applicable to heavy ordnance, and I am arranging to equip ft modern 3-inch field gun with a si lencer. 1 believe l am right when I say that, making the locating of a position of Hindi a gun Impossible, will altogether change conditions in war fare.” E.P. EARLE HUNTING HIS SEGfIND WIFE MIDDLETOWN, N. Y After having offered rewards varying from SSO to $260 for informal lon as to the where about* of Wife No. 2, Ferdinand IMu ney Earle atarted for New York on n clew that ho received that his wife was there. Since Ills arrest on a charge of an sault In llie second degree, la having beaten his “affinity," Earle lias kept very dose to bin minnuer home a' Monroe. He apparently expected that Ills "affinity" would return to him. Thursday, however, hearing nothing of her, he went to tlcnlral Valle, and Highland Mills, and in each of Ihe places offered a reward varying from, SSO to $250 for Information lead lug to the discovery of Mrs, Earle's whereabouts. Nothing was forlhcom lng and ho returned here, where h < received a telegram from New York which, il. Is believed, told him. SPERRY’S FLEET AGAIN SAILS i ______ MI'TPOI'RNK Amid the booming of salutes from shore batteries arid ships In the harbor, the din of whistles of scores of stuamboats, and the ent.hu Hlnstie cheering of thousands of spec liters along Iho water front, lift* n of the American battleships, led uy Rear Admiral Sp'*ery’s flag.hip, the Honnecticut, started promptly at 8 o'clock tills morning o». Its I,:; Id mile cruise to Albany, W'hi Australia The New Jersey remained nehlnd to await American mall for the Med which Ih expected shortly. The fleet was accompanied down the bay as far as the head lan< »* by Phonograph Lectures On The Tuberculosis Question NEW YORK The phonograph, Tor a number of years a source of pleas ure to great numbers, Is now to cu tor upon a new and serious role. A Leach county fair visited by one of the tuberculosis exhibitions of the slate charities aid association a large talking machine Is to be used lu conned loti with the exhibition The people, will hear a voice telling them that In this country every day through out Ui*’ year over 400 lives are yielded up In tribute to the great white plague, more than were lost at th* 1 awful Iroquois#- theatre (Ire several yearn ago, and It will tell them that There’s No Way To Reach More Quickly To Reach More People In the City of Augusta and The People of Georgia and South Carolina Than Through the Columns of the Daily and Sunday Herald- If You Want Results - Use The Herald. If you have any kind of work to offer, to any kind ot a work er, your want ad. will find more eager readers than the most interesting news dispatch in the paper. CHINESE AMBUSH FREAO TROOPS BETWEEN FIVE AND SIX HUN DRED CHINESE WERE IN HIDING WHILE FRENCH WERE IN OPEN FRENCH LEADERS KILLED Chinese Decapitated Them Carrying Off The Heads Amid Cheers. VICTORIA. B. O.—Nows was re reived by the Empress of India from South China of nn ambush of 100 French troops. Tirailleurs and Le gionnaires on the Tonkin border. Captain Floury, leader of tho force, and Lieutenant Dolattre wore shot down soon after the fight, opened. Be tween 600 and 000 Chinese had po sition on the low hills at each side of a guiley through which the French troops entered the village. Tho French captured tho village twice, It being retaken by the Chi nese. Kinds were exchanged during the greater part of the tight, at from 20 to 50 metres. When Captain Floury and Lieutenant Delattre, who went to assist their leader, were Hliot the Chinese threw thcuiselvoH upon their bodies not yet dead and decapitated them, carrying away their heads amid cheers. SEGRDEVNCHED IN EfiBEV COUNTY ATLANTA, Oft. A apodal to tho Georgian from ('nlrpitt, f]a., hh.vh: "Nowh reached here thia mornng of a lynching that took plan* at Host br. ICarly county, hist night. John Towiih, negro, an ex-convict, Ih al loged to have entered th«• homo of a Mr. Wheeler, a respectable whlt«» man, I hurHclay night, ami attacked Mih. Wheeler, whoso screams frightened him away. A posse ruptured him and ho was coffined in tho calaboose at Kestlcr. I jiihl night a crowd of cltl -7.«iiß cuiotly took him from tin? caln boo* o arid hanged him to a tree ono no north of tin* town. "il Ih «ald ho confessed to entering th«. Wheeler yard to steal chlckenH, but hr denied entering tho hoimo and attacking Mrn Wherlrr.” v-cores of excursion boat* «.i laundicH, all loaded to fulled, capac ity by cheering well wishers of tho fleet who watched until the last whip of il*c great armada had disappeared from sight. iiion! of these deaths from the dlswtsn were unnecessary. The voice will fell Ilium how to prevent the spread of the disease, eie. It will warn the luliahltnnt* of the rural) districts that to nail their windows shut is to drive a nail In their coffins. They will be asked to (brow open the olofd shut up parlor which Is used only for an occasion like u wedding or a fun oral to let In the fresh air and sun shine They will he told how the dis ease may be cured, how It may be prevented, etc. detections from comic opera and popular airs will be Inter spersed to Interest the visitors to the exhibition.