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THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK.
The demlgnurn of women'll outer
gnrnieiite have been stumped. They
have been ricocheting with their
styles until they have reached tho
limit. They have taken off from the
female frame until there remains
merely an outline above and an X-ray,
diaphanous piece of nothingness be
low. Having gone from one extreme
to the other, from the crinoline to the
hobble, from the bobble to the Hilt,
It la now elti «-r to emulate Mother
Kve or go back toward the days of
the dungllng. bounding hoops ami
fringed puntalo, tea. Owing to Uie
severity of this climate, and the jkib
►lble unpopularity of the flgleaf, the
national cloak. Milt and skirt manu
facturers’ ns social ion will probably
settle upon models that will carry
iheui slowly buck to the crinoline or
the bustle.
When a theatrical manager puts on
a risque play, be says tbe peui lu de
mand it. It Is a running way he has
for endeavoring to capitalise some
thing which the stage should hot ex
ploit. Now the garment makers, just
as cunning, make tbe Imld assertion
that, bowing to the demand of modes
ty, they acquiesce to the demands of
the women's organizations unit there
fore there will be a radical change In
the fall style*
The dress goods manufacturers will
utter a word of joy alt u they learn
about It, became the models 'if the
pant, requiring innn < nc-ltalf to one
yard of material tor a dress, has well
nigh pet them Into bankruptcy and
their mills Into the idle class.
liut modesty and agitation have
had little to do with It. If the styles
had not been changed, there would
he plenty oT women who could have
worn their last season's suits just as
well as not. That would never do.
There are many stockholders clamor
Ing for dividends. The fashions must
be so radically different that all tbe
old garments, though "perfectly good"
must be sent to tbe Salvation Army's
second hand store.
Agitation does help, of course It
may be that tbe turn would not have
been taken quite so soon If there had
not been so great a clamor lor de
cency. Hut if agitation and action Is
to be taken in the luture let ll be di
reeled against the unnecessary and
costly changes In styles that make a
woman look like she lmd come out of
the «rk unless she buys a new outfit
each spring and fall.
THE GIBT OF MELLEN’S STORY.
The gist of Mr. Mellen'e story be
fore the interstate commerce com
mission Is this:
The New Haven Railroad was bnd
ly managed, not by railroad officials,
but by two or three financiers, who
tinkered with It to make money for
themselves.
That it was a railroad, tnstend of a
stesouhlp company or a mining cor
poration, has not lung to do with the
case. It represented large Invest
ments and offered an opportunity for
manipulation which was too attract
lve to resist.
The acandal connected with its
name, and the consequent disasters
and discomforts visited upon Its
stockholders, did not come about be
cause It was a railroad, but because
Morgan and his associates dipped
their fingers into the pudding
As a railroad president Mr. Mollen
was admittedly one of tbe most aide
and elflcleut this country ever had,
but as the htMtd of the New llaveu
company be was little more than a
pawn in the hands of the financiers.
All this suggests that the trouble
with many railroads Is not lu any way
due to the nature of their business,
but Is rather traceable to the methods
by which they are financed and ma
nipulated by speculators, who see In
them not the common carrier, and
public vehicles which they really are
so much as channels through which to
increase private fortunes by playing
the stock market.
It is all too obvious that the late
Mr Morgan and his associates had
little Interest In the New Haven a,
a railroad, but were slim ly concerned
with It as a large aggregation of
vested Interests which they were ably
to mold to their own purposes by the
system of gambling and stork-jobbing
which we have permitted to grow up
In thia country.
If tbe railroads could In any way
he separated from the stock market,
and if they could be financed and
operated irreapectlve of exchange
'notations, as legitimate Institutions
should Ire, It Is more than probable
that little difficulty would be exi«>ri
onaed In making them reasonably
pro liable Institutions and satisfying
the public at the same time.
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ON THE ROAD TO MEXICO CITY
7.800 American Lives Were Lost in First Mexican War. The
Climate, the Mountains All on Side of the Defenders. And
Huerta. Too, is Not in Such a Desperate Condition As
Santa Anna —There Are Three Lines of Attack
Washington—More thnn »ovon thou-
Hnnd American liven were lout In the
Him Mexican war. How many will
he lying on the field of battle before
United Hiatt n forces uKuin triumph
antly enter the Vule of Amdiuac and
seize ChupultepeC and th# I‘alaeio
NrtelMml ?
It is rtot a pleasant topic to dis
cupH. Mexican methods of warfare
«re not pleasant in themselves. Then
the climate, the mountains and other
peculiarities of the country will war
on the side of the defenders.
"Hut. Scott did not have much trou
ble,” one hears.
No, unless you call lon*, weary
months of waiting; and fighting, thous
ands dead of bullets and Illness, and
other thousands in miserable field
honuitals "trouble.”
Tfleit, in counting the cost this time
It must be remembered that Huerta is
In no such desperate position as was
Hanttt Anna. The latter had already
been soundly whipped at Palo Alto,
and in several other battles in the
north. He had to hurry south to op
pose Scott in the days when railroads
were mostly known by books and pic
tures to Mexico. He hud no such
means for raising volunteers and
rousing the populace as has the Indian
dictator now In the seat of power.
7,800 Americans.
To be exact, the Rovernment arch
ives have records of the death of 7,800
Americans lYi the first Mexican war.
The larger part died by disease. The
Mexican losses have been (estimated
at 25,000. The total cots to both sides
was about $250,000,000. The Mexicans
put 100.000 men in the field. There
wore 112.2H0 American soldiers en
gaged, of whom 73,776 were volun
teers.
General Leonard Wood has superin
tendence here of the preparation of
plans to invade Mexico. This is not
necessarily a war measure, however.
General staffs cf every army are al
ways at work figuring out exactly how
they could selr.e upon some perfectly
friendly nation’ll chief cities. But the
plans for Mexico have recently been
revised and enlarged minutely. Kx
perts on Mexican roads and camping
conditions have been consulted. Noth
ing has be. n left undone.
There are to be three lines of at
tack. The first, already initiated, Is
the movement from Vera Crus to
Mexico City. The second Is the seiz
ure of Tampico and perhaps a move
ment from there to the capital. The
third Is a man’ll from the north, prob
ably through Kl Paso and Juarez down
the route taken by Villa, Madero and
numerous other conquerors.
The invasion from Vera Cruz will
be the most Important, ns in Scott s
time. There are two lines of railroad
from Vera Cruz to Mexico City, the
Interoceanlc of the National Hallway
system and the Mexican Hallway
These branch away from the const,
the Interoceanlc to the north and the
Mexican further south, but in the
mountains they converge and finally
orojix at San Marcos to come together
again at the capital.
Th© Interoceanlc follows Scott's old
line. For rtH’k*. mountains, difficult
passes and easily defended spots there
Is little choice between the two lines.
The InttroceaniO takes much the same
route ns the ancient highways. Per
haps for this reason it will appeal to
the army tacticians. This railroad Is
narrow gauge, ancient, and with not
enough rolling stock to furnish trans
portation for more than a few regi
ments.
Recall Scott.
Its stations mall the Scott cam
paign Antigua. Rlnconada. Jalaps.
Igis Vi gas. Pueblo and or unit do To
the eastward of Jala pa is the great
National Itridge. for both raitmut and
foot traffic. The United States troops
had a fight for that bridge in 1847
and it would he an Important strategic
point now.
The climate varies all the Way from
semi-tropical Jalaps to the cold Pue
bla and San iauvnzo. The rivers to
be crossed are many.
The Mexican Hallway Is so met I men
called by its advertising men the
scenic route of Mexico.” This may
appeal to travelers hut soldiers would
Just as soon fight over more level
country. The nad is standard gauge
and modern. Where it n not crossing
rivers 500 *e«t down in a canyon It is
INDOOR SPORTS <£ <£ <£ By Tad
(dinging to the side of a mountain or
burrowing through it. Beginning in
a tropical country it crawls danger
ously near the snow line, then up and
down and through narrow passes until
It reaches the Mexican central plateau.
From Vera Cruz, which lies four feet
above sea level, It rises to heights
more thun a mile and t, half above the
waters of the seaport. It is 203 miles
long.
Beyond Vera Cruz.
Just beyond Vera Cruz, where sand
dunes alternate with marsh lands und
wild fowl rend the air with weird
cries and shrlekings, lies the Laguna
de Cocos (oocoanut lagoon) where the
Mexican army that defended Vera
Cruz in the former Mexican war sur
rendered to Gen. Scott. Across the
jungle top ranges high blue hills and
the Pico de Orizaba against the north'
ern sky. A little further on the Am
erican troops will pass Soledad, where
the peace treaty between the Spanish
General Prim and the Mexican Gene
nil Dohludo was concluded in 1862.
Here they will cross a bridge of 400
feet over the Rio Jama pa, on the right
n deep gorge and the remains of an
old Spanish causeway. The country
is broken wlth*hills and valleys.
A few miles beyond Paso del Macho,
76 kilometers from Vera Cruz, 1,600
feet high, the railroad crosses the San
Alejo bridge of 31s feet. At Chiqui
hlte siding Is another bridge 220 feet
long, and a little further on a third
bridge spanning the AtoVac river, a
roaring, leaping torrent in the wet
seasons. The ascent becomes steeper
and steeper, the railroad following a
grade of 4 per cent that makes the
engines snort Hid wheeze amid the
hills. The elevation ascends from
1,510 feet to 2,710 feet within 20 miles.
At 106 kilometers from Vera Cruz
the line passes through Cordoba, a
town of 7,000 population.
Wsirdly Grand.
Hard by Cordoba Is a little fortress.
Here amid weirdly grand scenery, the
railroad pass©* one of the most fear
some points on the line, slowly and
cautiously gliding down one steep side
ol the deep Metluc Barranca. On the
other side of a yawning ravine in
the depths of which a tropical river
churns its wot, is another line of rail
way on a terrace cut from the side
of the precipice and at an angle sim
ilar to that of a toboggan slide. Five
tunnels interrupt this line before it
reaches the higher level and turns the
Hank of the hill. The train glides
slowly across the Metlas bridge, a
skillful piece of engineering work, 350
feet long, built on a curve of 325 feet
radius on a 3 per cent grade, 82 feet
above the river. Fight cast and
wrought iron pillars uphold it. Train
men dread the pass and consider it the
most dangerous on the line.
After leaving Metluc bridge, the
train passes through tunnels so nu
merous that often the locomotive will
be in one and the last car of the train
In another. From the last of these
tunnels the train emerges on an ex
tensive table land.
Orizaba, a quaint provincial city of
35.000 population, 4.028 feet above sea
level and 134 kilometers from Vera
Cruz, is the next big town.
The Little Hell.
After leaving Ortzatm the railroad
fitters a gloomy barranca culled Kl
Itiflcrnlllo (the Little Hell) and cross
es dizzy acclivities, passing through
tunnels and over streams that have
worn deep chasms Into the traprock.
Black crosses hard by mark the last
resting places of unfortunate* who
have fallen there, and warn wander
ers of a similar fate if they slip from
the winding track above.
On raln> days the train often pass
es through low*-lying clouds. A lit
tle further on it approaches Winner’s
bridge, ninety feet long, one of the
utopt dangerous on the line, spanning
u yawning chasm that gives a view of
surpassing grandeur of a valley many
colored and rich with vegetation. 3.000
feet below.
At Boca del Monte the railroad has
attained an altitude of one and lint
half miles above Vera Cruz and the
fortress of Sun Juan de Ulua. The
next station is Ksperanzn. Then comes
San Andres. 203 kilometer* from Vera
Crux from which point the run to
the Mexican capital Is across the Cen
tral Plateau, which ia practically level
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
thereabouts. Forty kilometers further
on the road touches San Mgr cos. There
follow the stations of Apizaco where
there is a junction of the branch rail
road to Puebla und the station of Gua
dalupe, 300 kilometers from Vera Cruz
and the highest point on the line, 8,-
333 feet, 886 feet higher than Mexico
City.
Fiercest Battle. ,
At Irolo, 347 kilometers from the
starting point, the road meets a branch
of the Hidalgo and Nordese Railroad.
Twenty-two kilometers further it
reaches Otumba, on theplain near
which was fought one of the fiercest
battles between the Indians and tbe
Spanish invaders after Cortez and his
men had been ignomintously expelled
from the Aztec city and were retreat
ing to Vera Cruz to recuperate.
At San Juan Teotihuacan, ten kilo
meters further on, the great ancient
pyramids can be seen on the right of
the road. Ouadelupe, 420 kilometers
from Vera Cruz and the sea, by its
squat and dreary-looking houses and
neglected churches used as store
rooms, advertises the suburbs of the
Mexican capital, and soon after reach
ing it the train draws up in Mexico
City at the Buena Vista station.
ST. PATRICK'S
FINE EXHIBIT
Youngsters of Commercial
Class Astonished Audience
Last Night With Their Ef
ficiency in Stenography and
Typewriting.
A public exhibition of the work that
is being done by the boys of the com
mercial class of the St. Patrick's Com
mercial Institute, under the tutelage
of Brother John, was given at the
school on Telfair street last night to
the delight of a large audience. The
young hoys, most all of whom were
15 years of age or younger, astonished
the audience by their accurancy and
rapidity at the typewriter and also in
taking dictation In stenography.
The stage was arranged to depict a
class room of the commercial institute.
There were seven typewriter tallies
with typewriter* and a double black
board Mr. I. J. Henry of the Rem
ington Typewriter Company, was pres
ent on the stage and assisted in the
demonstration.
Interesting Paper.
After an essay of two hundred words
was copied on the blackboard In short
hand by Jos, M. Klnchley and Robt. A.
Bresnahan and then each reading the
other's notes, a paper on "Rducational
Value of Typewriting” was read by
Howard O. Smith Smith, Jr. The pa
per was exceedingly Interesting and
showed tn more than one way why the
art of typewriting Is an Important
factor tn business. It further asserted
that should every typist stop working
It would simply paralyse the business
world, because of the almost total
amount of business correspondence
that is done on the typewriter—the
time-saver.
A business tetter was then taken
down on the blackboard In shorthand
t»y a member of the class and copied
on the typewriters by Jno. A. Rresna
han. Joe l.ee, Joe Ktchley, Howard
Smith. Chas, A. Meyer, Jr,, Jas. W.
Mura and Julian Wettch. Carbon
copies were made anti distributed
among the audience for Inspection.
Dictation on Machine.
Howard Smith. Joe Klnchley and
John Rresnahan then took business
dictation directly on the typewriter,
after the suggestion of Mr Henry.
An essay on "Who is the Hreatest
l.lvlng Stenographer?" was read by
Joe Klnchley a short spelling contest
followed, and the exhibition was clos
ed by an address by father Patrick H
McMahon, who highly praised the
brothers and sisters for thetr work In
training In such an efficient manner
the boys and gtrls of the church. Af
terward some of the work of the boys
was Inspected.
FLOUR makes
liahter. whiter and better
biscuit than any other. Try it.
The comfort of clothes
wearing is not only
in the feel but in their
appearance.
A man, accustom
ed to the niceties of
dress, isn’t comfort
able in a thin suit if
it doesn’t hang right.
11010 Cloth gives
every comfort of
lightness and cool
ness, and it looks well
on all occasions.
It looks the dressy
suit it is and doesn’t
get out of shape.
DORR
Tailoring
For Men of Taste
Augusta Herald
APRIL CIRCULATION
DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD.
The circulation of the Daily and Sun
day Herald for the month of April, 1914,
was as follows:
April 1 10.485
April 2 10,499
April 3 10,495
April 4 11,037
April 5 10,630
April 6 10,439
April 7 10,738
April 8 70,743
April 9 10,739
April 10 10.476
April 11 11.0*8
April 13 10,635
April 13 10.484
April 74 10,428
April 15 10,510
April 16 10,444
April 17 10.509
April 18 11.202
April 19 10,625]
April 20 10,893 i
April 21 10,619
April 22 12,149
April 23 13,618
April 24 13.986
April 23 12,501
April 26 11,325
April 27 12,279
April 28 11.834
April 29 11,740
April 80 11,473
TOTAL APRIL ...334,474
DAILY AVERAGE 11,149
The Augusta Herald, Dally and Sun
day, haa a circulation tn Augusta ap
proximately twice as large as that of
any other Augusta newspaper. Adver
tisers and agencies Invited to test the
accuracy of these figures In comparison
with the claims of any other Augusta
newspaper.
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envelopes to match. Pads, Ink, Pens, Pencils.
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