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REGIMENT READY TO
MOVE ON AUGUSTA
Col. Gordon Tells the Men What a Fine Camp
They Will Have.
The .attendance of the mrabt.s of
the First Regiment upon the encamp
ment in Augusta will be very large.
The consideration which the employers
of the men in the commands have
shown in this connection has been
marked, and the officers expect a rec
ord-breaking attendance.
At a meeting of the regiment last
night the men discussed the approach
ing trip and instructions were given in
guard mount and guard duty. Blue
flannel shirts and khaki trousers were
issued to the local members of the reg
iment. The country regiments Had al
ready received theirs.
Col. G. A. Gordon has returned from
Augusta, where he inspected the work
being done in preparation for the
camp. While at the camp there was
a heavy rain, and in less than five
minutes the ground was dry. The com- j
pany streets are broad and the build
ings accessible.
“The site is an excellent one. The
ground is the finest I ever saw',” said
he, in addressing the men at the armory
last night. “It is level and smooth, and
extends along the side of the Wholes*
road. The kitchen and mess hall have
already been erected, and the '\ 4 a‘er
JUNE NOT FAR
OFF ITS AVERAGE.
About Right fn Rainfall Though It May Have
Been a Little Cool.
June is hardly likely to be a record
breaker, either in temperature or rain
fall. A good many people have been
thinking that it would break the rec
ord in both. Up to last night the av
erage temperature for the month was
77 degrees, equalled or beaten half a
dozen times since the Weather Bureau
was established. The rainfall so i'ar
has been S inches, a fraction less than
the average for June. In one respect,
however, June has come within one
of being a record-breaker. There nave
been but four days on which the tem
perature was not ‘above 90 degrees.
This has been beaten by but one year.
In 1884 there was only one day in June
that mercury did not get above the
90 mark.
The records of the Weather Bureau
show the mean temperature for June
for thirty-two years to have been as
follows:
1871 80 | 1888 77
1872 79 | 1889 76
1873 79 1 1890 80
1874 81 1891 SO
1875 <9 1892 78
1876 -81 1893 79
1877 r.... 81 1894 77
1878 79 1895 79
1879 ...jrtL 80 1896 80
1880 .<4. 82 ; 1897 82
1881 - 88 1898 80
I|R3 81 1900 78
/1884 76 1901 79
1885 80 ; 1902 80
1886 80 i 1903 (28 day5)....77
1887 77 1
The number of days in June since
1874 with temperature 90 degrees or
above is as follows:
1874 14 1889 6
1875 , 10 : 1890 18
1876 13 1891 10
1877 16 1892 2
1878 10 1893 6
1879 8 1894 15
1880 15 1895 15
1881 . 19 1896 11
1882 14 1897 20
1883 11 1898 16
1884 1 1899 15
1885 11 1900 5
1886 6 1901 7
1887 10 1902 12
1888 16 1903 4
CONSERVATISM IN
BUSINESS, HIS SUCCESS.
On the directory of the new Atlantic
National Bank which will be started
in Jacksonville. Fla., with a capital
of 1350,000, are a number of the most
influential men of the South. The dis
tribution of the stock alone shows how
the business men of the section are
interested in this large enterprise. Of
the directors is Mr. Lawrence McNeill,
capitalist and director of the Citizens
Bank and also of the Peacock, Hunt
& West Cos., and president of the
Chattahoochee Lumber Company of Sa
vannah, Ga.. in the business world of
which he has been an active figure for
some time and has been identified with
various movements which have been,
in one way or another, of advantage
to the community. He has displayed
excellent judgment in whatever he
has attempted, and it is but natural
in view of this fact that those who
know him should repose confidence in
the correctness of his opinion. Con
servatism has been characteristic of his
business movements during his career,
and probably this accounts in a large
measure for the success he has
achieved—the Financial Review.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
Mr. Charles F. McKenzie of Augusta,
is at the De Soto.
Mr. R. C. Ward of La Grange, is at
the Soreven House.
Mr. R. F. Samp of Atlanta, is regis
tered at the De Soto.
Mr. H. 8. Reynolds of Thomasville is
stopping at the Dc Soto.
Mr. W. L. Cary of Macon is regis
tered at the Pulaski House.
Mr. W. F. Scott of Herndon, Is reg
istered at the Pulaski House.
Mr. William F. Bamber of Naylor, Is
a guest of the Screven House.
Mr. B. Man tone of Charleston, Is reg
istered at the Screven House.
Mr. H. H Burns of Americus, is reg
istered at the Pulaski House.
Mr. James K. Maupin, Mr. William
Vj* '* p,n “ n ' l 1 w Butt* Nor *
u* 1 ""° n * the guests of the Hu*
McLendon of Thomasville,
Wrrrnin* wa * * a* the
don* frW>,d, r ‘ l *Y' Mr. M>Len
health ts “ U/ ’ ,r * kn,r " *hst hi*
Mr Jotn. k .j m * >r * M, * J *'
of the Matrls, Vic* president
More. *• **"•. * West Ms<al
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Itt *‘ea " Mr haru"u
Hiitj. g| ■* ' of
connections made. There was a fine
breeze blowing, and It was very pleas
ant the whole time I was there.
“The trip on the trolley cars via
Summerville is delightful, and there
are many handsome residences along
the way. The Monte Sano pavilion
has arranged a special programme for
the men in camp. A cannon will be
lent us by the arsenal close by."
A strong effort is being made to
have the Springfields substituted for
Krags during the encampment, and it
now looks as if the movement would
be successful. It is urged that by ex
changing them at camp, transporta
tion will be saved, and that the men
could then be instructed in the care
and use of the new rifle during the
encampment. Col. Gordon has asked
Col. Mills to co-operate with him in
the matter.
The First Regiment Band wdll go
with the regiment to Augusta, as an
nounced in the Morning News, and
will act as brigade band. The band
has been very much strengthened of
late, and it is thought that they will
carry a good turn out.
There will be two guard mounts,
each regiment having a separate
guard. Cos!. Thomasson and Col. Gor
don have prepared everything in de
tail. and everything is ready for the
men to move on Augusta at the ap
pointed time. The Augusta people are
waiting to welcome the two regiments.
The average number of days in June
with .01 inch or more of rainfall is,
12; thus far during the month the rec
ord shows 16 days, and taking into
consideration the traces, there has
been some rain on 21 days, and this
unusually large number of days with
rain has probably caused the impres
sion that this June. has been a rec
ord breaker in rain.
The June rainfall since 1871 has been
as follows:
1871 7.16 | 1888 2.59
1872 9.52 1889 9.73
1873 4.64 ! 1890 4.38
1874 4.85 i 1891 1.98
1875 4.10 ! 1892 6.06
1876 18.79 ; 1893 8.50
1877 8.62 I 1894 2.97
1878 6.99 | 1895 6.08
1879 5.86 j 1896 5.31
1880 2.30 j 1897 3.94
1881 0.91 i 1898 4.58
1882 7.95 ! 1899 1.07
1883 5.93 I 1900 6.31
1884 9.37 I 1901 6.78
1885 8.11 i 1902 2.10
1886 7.24 i 1903 (28 days.. 6.00
1887 10.76 i
What July may bring is something
of a problem. The records show that
for 32 years the mean July tempera
ture at Savannah has been 82 degree*.
The warmest July during that time
was that of 1875 with a temperature of
85 degrees. The coolest was that of
1888 with a temperature of 78 degrees.
The highest temperature reached was
105 degrees on the 12th In 1879. The
lowest was 63 degrees, on the 12th 1898.
The average rainfall for July is 5.82
lnohes. The average number of days
with .01 of an inch or more, is 13. The
greatest July rainfall was 13.18 inches
Hn 1894. The least was .82 inch in 1888.
The greatest amount recorded in any
24 consecutive hours was 4.11 inches
on the 9 and 10th in 1894.
The average number of clear days is
8; partly cloudy days, 16 and cloudy
days, 7.
The prevailing winds are from the
Southwest.
It is hardly probable that to-day,
even though it may be an extreme
both in rain or temperature will alter
, the standing of the month.
Street School, has obtained the highest
average in her class. Her average for
the year is 97.28. She also ties with
Willie Lebey in the same grade, in hav
ing the distinction of being present
every day in the school year.
CITY BREVITIES^
The committee having in charge the
matter of anew exchange for the city
will hold a meeting this afternoon at
4 o'clock.
DENY CHARGES OF THE
GEORGIA PEACH GROWERS.
What the Itullwny* Answer to the
Complaints.
Washington, June 29.—The Central
of Georgia, the Atlanta and West
Point, Georgia Southern and Florida
and Western and Atlantic railroads
have filed answers with the Interstate
Commerce Commission to the complaint
of the Georgia Peach Growers' Asso
ciation, alleging excessive and dis
criminating tariffs.
The roads deny that the rates to
New York and Eastern points are ap
proximately one-third greater per mile
than to Ohio river crossings, and say
that the peach producers in Texas,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland, Dela
ware and California have to meet the
competition of the Georgia peach in
both Eastern and Western markets,
and the lines between those points
have necessarily been compelled to ac
cept exceptionally low rates on this
class of traffic in order to enable pro
ducers to compete with Georgia pro
ducers.
Ilanna for Thoinnavllle.
Chattanooga, Tenn.. June 29.—United
States Senator Marcus A. Hanna will
spend next Sunday at Lookout Inn,
near this city, on his way to Thomas
ville, Ga. it is understood that local
Republicans wiil giv# him a rousing
reception.
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the large crowd that had gathered In
addition to those who came from the
church service.
Dr. Goofhrr’n Aildrria.
The address delivered by Dr. J. F.
Goucher at Trinity Church, at 11
o’clock, was in part as follows:
Greatness of character, personal or
national, is to be determined by its
contribution to human well-being.
Largeness is not necessarily greatness.
Judged by this standard the greatest
race of modern times is the Anglo-
Saxon. I use the term “Anglo Saxon"
to designate not only those who trace
their descent back directly to the An
glo and the Saxon, but those also who
having descended collaterally, or. as
sociated with them, have helped de
velop and perpetuate their character
istics.
They were not always a maritime,
commercial, industrial, world govern
ing people. Though of Teutonic origin,
they had gradually withdrawn from
the continent of Europe and for a
thousand years till the close of the
sixteenth century, their activities were
insular and England was their home.
They had undertaken some voyages,
adventures and polar exploration
which yielded considerable return In
personal development of seamanship
and audacity, but the first generation
of great European discoverers had
passed before the Anglo Saxons made
any valuable contribution to world
knowledge. Three-quarters of a cen.
tury had elapsed since the epoch-mak
ing achievements of Columbus and
Vasco da Gama, transferring the cen
ter of human interest from the Medi
terranean sea to the Atlantic ocean,
before Chancellor explored the White
sea. Drake circumnavigated the globe,
or Frobisher sought for the "north
west passage.” But these men had
their preparation in time to defy and
help destroy the Spanish Armada.
When the sixteenth century closed the
Anglo Saxons were without a single
possession outside of Europe and had
dominion over only half their island
and a part of Ireland.
* • •*•••
From 1688 to 1815 England was en
gaged In seven great wars. Five of
these started with France, one started
with Spain and the other with Eng
land’s colonies, but both ended with
France. "It was more than an in
veterate Jealousy. ”
• •*••••
Though France preceded England in
colonizing enterprise, she laid her chiei
stress upon European expansion and
was always entangled with the na
tions about her. England, with hey
personal initiative rapidly developing,
sought with her characteristic persist
ence the new fields, America, Asia,
Australia and Africa. She had a few
colonies along the Atlantic coast, but
France had possessed herself of the
two great rivers, the St. Lawrence and
the Mississippi, and was in position to
dominate the continent.
When "the Great Commoner” said
he "would conquer America in Ger
many,” he disclosed the weakness in
the policy of France. Subsidizing
Frederick he caused France to divide
her fortes and exhaust herself in Eu
rope, while her possessions in Ameri
ca passed defenseless into the hands
of the Anglo Saxons. '
Fought for New World.
In the three wars between 1740 and
1783 the struggle as between England
and France was entirely for the New
World. In the second, the seven years
war. France was defeated. In the third
she sought for vengeance. We as a
nation should be grateful to France
for the recognition of our young and
untried republic and for the material
support which she gave us. yet we can
not forget her motive was revenge
rather than love. So later, Napoleon,
conscious that with her inferior naval
strength France could not protect Lou
isiana from the British, preferred to
have it pass into :he hands of the
United States rather than have Eng
land seize it. France's jealousy of
England enable us. without firing a
gun, to double our area at a price
equivalent to less than three cents per
acre. It was another victory in the
same campaign, the Anglo Saxon dis
placing the Latin. We continued at
Manila and Santiago what England
had so gloriously begun at Alx la
Chappel, Quebec and Arcot. Spain,
Portugal and France, all Latin nations
and all world powers at the beginning
of the eighteenth century are in their
reminiscent stage to-day. No one of
them has any empire in the Western
World.
When the eighteenth century closed
it left England without one of her orig
inal American colonies and a war debt
of $4,200,000,000. But a sister Anglo
Saxon nation was well established on
this side of the Atlantic, Canada had
become an English possession, the Lat
in civilization had been started at a
double-quick upon its evacuation of
North America, the Britain was more
manly, the Anglo Saxon was more
Christian, and the foundations of the
empire of manhood had been laid in ev
ery continent.
Knee for Supremacy.
The race for supremacy upon which
England fairly started when she de
feated the Spanish Armada in 1588 was
awarded her by the treaty of Utrecht
in 1713, which secured the Protestant
succession in England, the separation
of the French and Spanish crowns and
the enlargement of the British colonies
I and plantations In America. This
caused her to be considered the first
state in Europe. But "her *uc< ru
had secularised and materialised her
■ as nothing had ever done before. Cyn
| idem and corruption -had set in Never
| war* sordid motives so supreme, nv.
cr was rehglop and every high influ
! pure an much discredited ss In lly
thirty years which followed "
Urea* Spiritual ixakrnlna
In the middle third of the eighteenth
I century or*ut'fd "the great agdritual
• wakening" Is England end "the seven
; rears wnr." two epoch-making event.
which are still unfolding their con
structive Influence throughout the
world. These relegated the Lat
in civilization to tthe back
ground and determined Anglo
Saxon supremacy. When the relig
ious and social life of England were
most deplorable and before she entered
upon her great decisive struggle with
France, John Wesley returned from
America with one passion possessing
him. He desired and purposed above
all things to prove the conditions, ex
tent and power of a knowable salva
tion. Nearly four months afterward,
on May 24, 1738, he writes: "About a
quarter before 9 fin the evening), I felt
my heart strangely warmed, I felt I
did trust in Christ —Christ alone for
salvation: and assurance was given me,
that H<* had taken away my sins, even
mine, and saved me from the law of
sin and death.” That was his Penial.
There he entered into the experience
of personal acceptance with God
through Christ, of personal purity
through the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit, and of personal abnegation in
the service of others. This was the
power of the new life. He and his fol
lowers, “for their number Increased
dally," believed themselves thrust out
to raise up a holy people and their de
votion, industry and efficiency fully
justified their belief. In the latter part
of 1739 the first Methodist Societies
were organized, and the old Foundry in
London was consecrated and opened for
regular public worship.
John Wesley at Work.
Thus the great revival of the eight
eenth century was launched. It was
no local, spasmodic or superficial mat
ter. It was not a reformation within
the Established Church. John Wesley
and his associates, both ordained
clergymen and local preachers, itiner
ated through England and Ireland.
“Their voice was soon heard in the
wildest and most barbarous corners of
the land, among the bleak moors of
Northumberland, in the dens of Lon
don, in the long galleries where in the
pauses of his labor the Cornish miner
listens to the suffing of the sea," and
from the green knoll at Klngswood,
where 20,000 colliers, grimy from the
Bristol coal pits, with penitential tears
"making white channels down their
blackened cheeks," testified their re
sponse to the message. "Their lives
were often in danger, they were
mobbed, they were ducked, they were
stoned, they were smothered with
filth” as they witnessed by public
statement, by private virtue, by per
sonal sacrifice and patient endurance
of hardships and persecution, witness
ing with their blood if need be, to that
which they had experienced and knew
of the power of God to save from sin.
Signs and wonders attended their
preaching in the awakening of the ob
durate, the conversion of penitents
and the sanctification of believers.
So far as the converts were willing
to identify themselves with the move
ment, they were organized into bands
or classes and placed under the watch
ful care of local pastors oc class lead
ers who counseled them in spiritual
things and conserved their spiritual
growth.
Francis Aibnry.
About 1762 Robert Strawbrtdge was
preaching in the colony of Maryland
and a few years later Philip Embury
commenced to preach in New York.
The Conference at Bristol in 1771 sent
to America, Francis Asbury, whose in
defatigable and apostolic labors have
rarely beeh exceeded. He crossed trie
Alleghenies on horseback sixty times,
threading the forests, swimming the
rivers, penetrating the savannas,
preaching, exhorting, counseling in sea
son and out of season. He soon devel
oped a heroic band of consecrated, spir
itually minded men and the marvelous
results of the great spiritual awaken
ing In England were duplicated in her
American colonies. The Classes were
organized into Conferences In 1773. In
less than a month after war had been
declared with England, the .Methodist
Conference ordered a fast to pray for
the peace of America and the prosper
ity of the Church, and the Methodist
Church was the first to express ap
proval of the Federal Constitution and
to give President Washington assur
ance of loyal sympathy and support.
The spirit of Methodism is the spirit
of liberty. Though organized under a
monarchy it has especially flourished
in this republic. In fact, Methodism
and the republic have developed to
gether and the progress of the one has
been the measure of the Other.
A Colonizing Nation.
The United States is the great colon
izing nation of modern times. To pos
sess unoccupied land or to defeat par
tially organized tribes is one thing, to
develop civilization, and national life is
quite another. We multiplied our pop
ulation by sixteen in the nineteenth
century, founded more than thirty
flourishing colonies, saw them develop
into sovereign states and accepted them
as full members of the Union. While
the foundations of these empires were
being laid and their constitutions elab
orated the forces and ideals which
dominated, were Anglo Saxon, for
rarely, if ever, in any of the early
years of the century, did the emigrants
to the United States exceed 6,000. The
work of the pioneer in taking posses
sion of the Middle and far West, com
cencing at the close of the Revolution
and still in the full sweep of its activ
ity, has been more than occupancy or
reconstruction—it has been creative
and constructive.
During the past century Methodism
multiplied its communicants in Ameri
ca by ninety-nine. At the opening of
the nineteenth century all Protestant
ism in the United States had one com
municant to fourteen, and Methodism
but one to eighty-one of the entire
population.
In the In the
U. S. World.
1800 Methodist com
municants 65,000 116,000
1900 Methodist com
municants 6,437,461 7,659,000
The Methodist revival in England
commenced before "the seven years,
war;" in America it commenced before
“the Revolution;" in India its 'agents
were on the ground before the British
authority was finally established. In
each case, as elsewhere, the rise of
Methodism was coetaneous with An
glo-Saxon supremacy. At the dawn of
the twentieth century Methodism in
cluded in its various branches 48.359
ministers, 104.836 local preachers, 89,189
churches, 7,267,511 Sunday-school
scholars ‘and 7,659,285 communicants,
and the Methodist population num
bered about 30,000,000, which is more
than twice as many as there were An
glo-Saxons in the whole world, of all
creeds when John Wesley went to Ox
ford.
Anglo-Saxon* in the Van.
The Anglo-Saxons, and they only,
have kept in the van of the world's
progress during the recent centuries.
Their supremacy is manifest In that
more than one-quarter of the land
surface of the globe is coni rolled by
them, one-third of the entire popula
tion of the earth is. under their au
thority and more than one-third of
the resource* and capitalized wealth
of the world belongs to them. They
have colonised in every continent, they
occupy the strategic points of the
earth, they < ,/mmand the highway.
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of the oceans, they dominate the
world's commerce, they transmit the
world’s news, they are teaching all
men their language and institutions,
and they make every land they touch
the realm of the Bible and the Sun
day-school.
They are the governmental force of
the world, not only In controlling sav
ages and directing the semi-civilized,
hut among the most advanced nations
their policies are respected, they give
direction to councils and determine re
strictions.
The most remarkable fact in the cen
tury Just passed is the extent to which
the world has become in thought, habit
and ideal, as well as governmenthlly,
Anglo-Saxon. But the marvel of all
centuries is the evolution of the Anglo-
Saxon himself. His present trend is a
long call from his earlier characteris
tics. He who in an earlier stage was
exclusive and predacious, cruel, indo
lent and of domestic vir
tue, has come to stand for personal in
itiative, constructive intelligence, civic
righteousness and domestic probity.
Anglo -Saxons Christianised.
All movements must be judged by
their tendency, as all ideals must be
judged by that which inheres. While
Anglo-Saxon ' expansion has been se
cured ofttimes by cruelty and rapacity
and cannot be justified even when
compared with others of their age, yet
|the tendency, .never more nVanifest
than in public sentiment to-day, is to
wards justice tempered with mercy.
Of the five states, and as between
the three races which competed for
the New World, and indeed for world
supremacy, success has not fallen to
that one which showed at the outset
the strongest vocation for coloniza
tion, nor to the one which surpassed
all others in daring, invention, energy
or the ability to marshal and command
great armies, but to that one which
responded to the transforming im
pulse of the Divine life, and exceeded
In moral earnestness. While there are
marked and rrfany individual excep
tions, as a race, in ideal, tradition and
trend, the Anglo-Saxon has been
Christianized and more than any other
stands for purity, progress and peace.
If the coetaneous rise of Methodism
and Anglo-SLixon supremacy were sim
ply a coincidence, only a fact passed
and expended, still it would be worthy
of our study. But if the past is pro
phetic of the future, if history is not
only a narration of facts, but the sug
gestion of problems, if "when you
study English history you study not
the past of England only, but her fu
ture,” and if the coetaneous rise of
Metriodism and Anglo-Saxon supre
macy were consequential, it is a fact
of supreme importance, challenging
most careful consideration.
Methodism is individualizing, co-or
dinating, altruistic. It deals with the
unit and correlates him with the whole.
It has promoted the development of
individuality, personal initiative and
organized effort by co-ordinating the
soul with God. It Has raised the
standard and fostered personal puri
ty, Fivic righteousness, official jus
tice by proclaiming the law of the
Lord. It has safeguarded and elevat
ed the sanctity of the home and every
thing’ pertaining to childhood, wom
anhood and manhood in their mutual
relajiqms by keeping Christ in the
midst. The awakening and develop
ment of the chief Anglo-Saxon charac
teristics, the prime elements of their
strength, is concentric with the propa
ganda and quickening which Metho
dism brought to the race.
Wesley and Methodism.
As our Lord said in the first century,
“Among them that are born of women
there hath not risen a greater than
John the Baptist,” so it might be said
in the opening of the twentieth cen
tury of John Wesley. None has made
more valuable contributions for the en
richment of human well-being. What
Capurnicus did for astronomy, what
Sir Isaac Newton did for physic*, what
Lord Bacon did for philosophy, Wesley
did for religion. He co-ordinated it
with its true center, he organized its
various manifestations, formulating the
law of'its great attractive force-love,
he remanded every pretense to the bar
of experience and proclaimed that to
be the unanswerable demonstration. He
exemplified in his life the power and
beauty of a personal knowledge of God,
“Whom to know aright is life ever
lasting,” and heralded the experience
to be accessible and essential to every
man, woman and child who would
please God.
His work is imperishable. His mem
ory should be ever green. On this
two hundredth anniversary of his birth,
in this fair city of Savannah, hallowed
by his residence, ministries and wrest
lings of spirit, memorable as the scene
of his humiliation, where he became
convinced that austerities, vigils and
works are inadequate to procure peace
—chat they are but results and not the
cause of salvation—we do well to mark
in enduring bronze the places especial
ly associated with his sojourn in Amer
ica, as a memorial for the generations
to follow.
But above all, let us as Anglo-Sax
ons thank God for the life which he
lived, let us emulate the virtues which
he exemplified, let us contribute to the
extension of the glory of his God and
ot|rs, co-operating personally, heartily,
continuously and devotedly, according
to cur ability, with the onward march
of “Christianity in earnest.”
ON AUGUSTA CONTRACTORS
Heavy Demand* Are Made by the
I'nion Labor.
Augusta, June 29.—The bricklayers,
plasterers and stone masons union No.
2 of Georgia, the local union of these
trades in Augusta, has served copies on
the contractors of Augusta of a con
tract the latter are required to sign.
It provides, first, for an increase in
wages of 35 cents per hour for second
grade and forty cents for first grade
work; second, for the steward and
deputy of the union to inspect working
cards without interference from bosses;
third, work begun by non-union men
can only be finished by union workmen
with consent of union and at 60 cents
per hour; fourth, provides double pay
for work on legal holidays and Sunday;
fifth, sixth and seventh covers matters
of administrative detail; eighth fixes
nine hours as a day's work; ninth, de
mands that bosses over bricklayers
shall be practical bricklayers; tenth,
provides that any workmen required to
lose time waiting on material or other
workmen must be paid as If working;
eleventh, fixes eight hours work with
nine hours pay on Saturday; twelfth,
thirteenth and fourteenth, restrict con
tractors to employment of union men,
and provide for execution of foregoing
contract between contractors and a
committee of the union.
Every contractor has been served
with a copy of the foregoing contract,
and it is stated that if their demands
are not complied with every union ma
son in Augusta will strike and all
brick and stone work in the city will
stop.
Wnbitfth Dividend*.
New York, June 29—The directo-*
of the Wabash Railroad Company to
day declared the regular semi-unim u
dividend of 3 per cent, on the deben
ture "A” bond*. No iteclaratlon re
carding the “B" debenture* was made.
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Constipation zzrrss*.
Mull’s Grape Tonic Cures Constipation.
When the sewer of a city becomes stopped up, the refuse backs
into the streets where it decays and rots spreading disease
sr- creating germs throughout the entire city,
b f An epidemic of sickness follows. It is the
same way when the bowels fail to work.
xhe undigested food backs into the system
WglS, **%s£'&*** and there it rots and decays. From this
festering mass the blood saps up all the dis
germs, and at every heart beat carries
them to every tissue,just as the waterworks
of a city forces impure water into every
house. The onlv way to cure a condition
like this is to cure the constipation. Pills
and the ordinary cathartics will do no good.
MULL’S GRAPE TONIC
is a crushed fruit tonic-laxative
yyljß which permanently cures the fiction.
vlj&Mk The tonic properties contained in the grape
g 0 into every afflicted tissue and creates
strength and health. It will quickly restore lost flesh and make
rich, red blood. Asa laxative its action is immediate and posi
tive, gentle and natural. Mull’s Crape Tonic Is guaranteed or money back.
Send 10c. to Lightning Medicine Cos., Rock Island, 111., lor large
sample bottle. All druggists sell regular sized bottles for 50 cts,
For Sale in Savannah by the Lippman Drag Company
LINDSAY & MORCAN
1793=THE BINGHAM SCHOOL=I9O3-04
I .orated on the A-hevllle Plateau .lneo IK>l Military. VoR HALF-TF.?tM’ t!ltC ' aDd CUbar< ’ Pn> ‘
nte£ 48 only mmia, Hof the School, during 110th year. *1*5.00 lOK Mar,* - Ar-r-rr-
Address, COL R. BINGHAM, Supt., Bo* 651, Asheville, N. C.
CONDITION OF COTTON
Xo Improvement Is Noted Over the
Last Report.
New York, June 29.— Investigation of
the condition of the cotton crop has
been made by the Journal of Commerce,
and direct reports received from 1,300
correspondents, located in practically
all counties of the belt.
The reports bear the average date of
June 25, and indicate that the condition
on that date had not measureably im
proved during the month.
The average condition figures 74.9,
which compares with an average of 75
last month, and 86.5 and 77 In July,
1902, respectively. It is be observed,
however, that the remarks of other
correspondents show an appreciably
better feeling than is contained in their
formal statement of percentage, and It
is difficult to dispel the impression that
correpon4ents have allowed the late
ness of the season and the smallness
of the plant to enter as too strong a
factor in their figures.
Furthermore, the fact deserves notice
that since the average date of the cor
respondents' reports, the weather con
ditions have been quite generally fav
orable. There have, it is true, been
rains along the Atlantic coast, where
the smallest part of the crop is made,
but from the big cotton states the re
cent reports have shown good growing
weather. It is probable, therefore, that
an average of 74.9 is rather too low If it
is to be understood as representing the
present condition.
The following is a statement of the
condition by states: North Carolina
77.7, decline 4.2; South Carolina 74.0,
decline 3.5; Georgia 74.1, increase 5.2;
Florida 80.7, decrease 1.8; Alabama 74.9,
decrease 0.9; Mississippi 75.8, decrease
2.4; Louisiana 74.3, decrease 4.2; Tex
as 77.7, increase 5.4; Arkansas 69. de
crease 7.9; Tennessee 75.1, decrease
11.3; Missouri 77, decrease 7.7; Okla
homa 68.5. decrease 4.6; Indian Terri
tory 66, decrease 15.3; average 74.9, de
crease 0.1.
FAIR FOR WAYCROSS.
Date I* Fixed for Nov, 17- 21—New*
Note* from Wayero**.
Waycross, Ga„ June 29.—The officers
and directors of the Waycross Fair
Association have definitely decided to
hold a fair and have selected Nov. 17-
21 as the time. The contract for print
ing the premium list was given out
to-day, and the stockholders will be
gin preparations for the fair at once.
Judge J. L. Sweat is president, Lee L.
Sweat secretary, and John S. Sharp
general superintendent.
The plan of the fair officials is to
hold the fair this year on entirely new
lines. Much more attention will be
paid to the agricultural feature. The
races, which formerly were the prin
cipal attraction at the Waycross Fair,
will be almost excluded, the total
prizes amounting to less than S4OO.
Judge Sweat has appointed committees
in every county in the Brunswick Ju
dicial Circuit, and it is expected that
every one of these counties will have
an exhibit at the fair.
The wheels at the car factory will
turn for the first time to-morrow
morning. There is still about two
weeks work before the factory will be
ready to begin operation, and the fir
ing up of the big boilers to-morrow is
for the purpose of testing the machin
ery. All the buildings at the car fac
tory have been completed, and most of
the machinery is in place.
Mr. M. J. Young will return to Cuba
in a fetv days. He will not remove his
family from Waycross for
but may do so the latter part of the
vear.
Sears & McClellan have leased the
McGee stables on Albany avenue, and
will move from their present location
on Tebeau street during the present
week. Mr. H. A. Cannon, who own*
the Tebeau street stables, will tear
them down and commence the erec
tion of a brick block in a short time,
Mr. W. F. Humphreys is seriously
ill at the home of his brother, Mr. J
C. Humphreys, on Gilmore street.
COLLIER’S ESTATE TO BE
HELD INTACT TEN YEARS.
Atlanta, June 29. The will of the late
George Washington Collier was filed
for probate In the Court of Ordinary
to-day. It provide* if,,, t r z„|
tale on IVa.htree road *hall be sold
for the purpose ~f paying the debt* ~f
the leceuaed and for improving the city
ptoiaoiy Tile Hlstr. A allied *4 „boUt
It MW.OOO, la to be kept inlgi i tor tel)
Mr *‘(j’tlirr c (iv> tit I#) ,
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J. CARTF.R WALKER. M. A.. Orange, Va.
Mutual Grain and Supply Company,
CORN, OATS, HAY AND BRAN.
Correspondence solicited.
Small Profit* and Quick Return*.
520 River Street. West.
Bell 'Phonel33o. Ga. Phone 212
TIFTON AND NORTHEASTERN
To Be Operated Hereafted ly the
Tlftoii, Tlmninsville and Gulf.
Tifton, Ga., June 29. —The Tifton and
NortheAsterh railroad, a litre twen
ty-five miles long, from Tifton to Fitz
gerald, has been sold to the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company. The money
was paid and the stock trans Or-ed in
Atlanta Saturday, President H. H. Tift
making the transfer to attorneys rep
resenting the trust company. The cash
price paid was $243,750, and the stock
was transferred in blank.
Beginning July 1, the Tifton and
Northeastern will be operated by the
Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf, that road
assuming the management. Through
trains will be operated from Thomas
ville to Fitzgerald, arrangements hav
ing been made with the Atlantic Coast
Line to use their tracks here for trans
fer purposes.
The Tifton and Northeastern was
built in the spring of 1896, when Fitz
gerald was in its infancy, by Mr. H. H.
Tift, who utilized thirteen miles of his
saw mill tram road, already built, in
completing the line. Since then it has
been one of the best paying pieces of
railroad property in the state, consid
ering its length, its net earnings for the
past five years having been between
$25,000 and $40,000 a year.
Traffic Manager F. G. Boatright, who
has had the management of the road
since a few months after its comple
tion, will hereafter devote his time to
his rapidly growing law practice. Mr.
J. L. Jay, Jr., at present auditor of the
road, will remain with it for geveral
months, until all the old business has
been wound up.
Funeral of Col. S. Y. Finley.
Gainesville, Ffa,, June 29—The funer
al services of Col. Samuel Y. Finley
were held Sunday afternoon from Holy
Trinity Episcopal Church. It was one
of the most largely atended funerals
held in this city for a long time, Col.
Finley being one of the most highly
respected and widely known men in the
state. The services were conducted by
Archdeacon Gray. The floral decora
tions were handsome.
Col. Finley w'as one of the oldest
residents in this city, having resided
here for many years. He was a native
Floridian, and about 67 years old. He
leaves a wife and several daughters.
He was spoken of as a probable can
didate for Congress from the Second
district—in fact, had on one occasion
announced his candidacy. The remains
of this distinguished jurist were laid
to rest in Evergreen Cemetery.
Work on the new public building
for this city will begin in earnest in
the course of a few days. The build
ing is to be a magnificent structure,
and when oompleted will be occupied
by the land office and postoffice. ThS
location of the building is the finest
in the city.
Thron*rh Sleeper* to Sun Frnnelnro,
Dally from St. Louis via Missouri
Pacific Railway and Denver and Rio
Grande. Through the Rockies and Salt
Lake City en route. Low rates to meet
ing G. A. R. in August.
Ticket* on sale July 31 to Aug. 13,
with final limit of Oct. 15, with privi
lege of diverse route*, ot* sa m e route
going and returning. Rate from Sa
vannah $64.70.
' fj ot illustrated pamphlet*, maps,
folder*, etc., of the *< enlc line of the
world. M rite I. K. Rehiander, travel
" P“**enger agent. No. 18 West
Ninth street, Chattanooga. Tenn.—ad.
A■■■■! Meeting Grand Lodge 11. P.
O. Elk* Rain mure, Md.. July jtl-St*.
Atlantic Coast Line will *,|| round
trip ticker* t one far*, plus fl.Oo for
he round trip. For porllrr „t twenty
live or mot*, going tog■ i her on aped
lied train returning separately one
larr for the round trip Atlantic
' 'V** 4 Line Mill probe Illy ululate *u
' ll) IQ
scrvlpr tVkrlg to lx *oPi July Jg. ID
and Mi until return limit Ju4 11. t'ugd
pagrtMd.i of j <* Jom , M
inon* go sateuaiun of return JmM
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