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FRIDAY, JUNE 19. FIRST RAIN IN OVER 4 MONTHS Precipitation Over One Inch All Day Yesterday. Heaviest Rain Since February 6th. More rain fell in Augusta yesterday, most of it late yesterday afternoon, titan the city has had since February Hth. more than four months ago. Yes terday's total rainfall aggregated 1.01 inches. It was the heaviest precipitation since the snow storm on February 25th and 2t6h, which amounted to 10.5 inches of snow and, with the slight sleet that fell with it. approximately the enuivalent ot 1.13 inches of vain, every bit of whidh tile ground absorbed. Effect of February Snow. Forecaster Emigh stated this morning that had it not been for this snow, the conditions would have been a great deal worse, as a result of the continued dry leather. All of the moisture from the snow, he said, went into the ground, and the long drought would have been more severely felt than it was but for the February snow. The rain was quite a novelty at first, even ns was the remarkably cool weath er it brought with it—cool in compari son with the terrific heat which has been breaking reeovds for high tempera tures right along for the past several days. Could Hardly Be Realized. Augusta didn't know quite what to make ot it. Here it has been roasting under .100 degrees of temperature and more for weeks, with only an oscasional thunder shower appearing for a moment and dVylng up before it could be said fairly to have rained. But yesterday down came the rain drops, and citizens regarded them as su spiciously at first, as if they traitor ously meant to run away In a minute. But when it seemed to be a steady down pour yesterday afternoon after 4 o’clock Uigusta accepted It for what it was— the first real rainfall of the summer. Mercury Sags. The mercury has nearly had a fit to crowd Itself down Into as little space as possible near the bottom of the tube. This morning it succeeded in reaching as low as 62. the same as yesterda’s minimum temperature. The clouds yes terday held it almost steady, and it lose only seven degrees all during the day. A maximum yesterday of 69 degrees shows up In extreme contrast to a maximum of only a elay or so ago of 100 degrees. The sunshine today had things moving toward the upper end of the column. TO CLEAR SEAS OF DERELICTS Two U. S. Revenue Cutters, Seneca and Miami, Start July Ist on International Patrol. Washington. D. C. —To free the North Atlantic of derelicts, the revenue cutters Seneca and Miami early in July will es tablish* an international patrol in those waters as authorized by the international maritime conference in London last year. jOne of the cutters will make its head quarters somewhere in the Azores and confine its duty to the European end of the trans-Atlantic routes. TW others will iflake its headquarters eirnev in New Fpundland or Nova Seotia and limit its efforts to the American end of the well traveled courses. This will be "the first time an effort has been made by international co operation to (*lear the hiprh seas of derelicts. The patrol service will be paid for by all the powers which par ticipated in the international maritime conference and signed the treaty groov ing out of it. A majority of the derelicts in the North Atlantic are carried from the shores of the United Staes by the gulf stream and other currents toward Eu rope and deflected south by curents off the European cost. A cutteV off Nova Scotia or New Foundland will be able to destroy wrecks thus carried eastward and another cutter in the Azroes can In tercept southward hound wrecks which escape the Nova Scotian outlook or originate off the European coast. The two cutters Will use gun cotton to demolish derelicts. They are equip ped with wifeless. U. S. SENATOR WEST OF GA.; “FIGHTING RECORD” Atlanta, Ga.—The old “fighting rec ord” of United States Senator W. 8. West, of Georgia, has been recalled In ■• n Interesting wav by bis near-war with Senator Vardaman. of Mississippi. Though Senator West ts a mlt-manner rd and scholarly gentleman, hot blood flows in his veins, and the paeprs are recalling the vivid story of the part he played in the national convention In I'enver In inaß, when terrific efforts were made to stampede the convention to Bryan. According to the story, the Georgia delegation alone from the South remain ed immovable. The hand began play ing “Marching Through Geea-gla," and the delegations beg n to march around tie hall. . Some slalwart westerners broke for the Georgia delegation, for the purpose of trying to capture their flag. Senator West saw what waa up and ran to the rescue. Clasping the flag with one hand and pulling his knife from his pocket with the other, opening tile blade with hi* teeth, he defied those who were trying to capture the flag. “The scoundrel who touches that flag will get his throat cut. Now try It!" he shouted. The band continued to play, amt -the delegations kept moving around the hall, hut the Georgians stood firm around tlielr flag, while the would-be captors quietly dls- I creed. • Just What She Needed. There Is an old saying that “There is a remedy for every 111.” It is sometimes years before you find the remedy exactly suited to your case. Mrs. Rachel Gribley, Beaver Dam, Ohio, was sick Tor two years with stomach trouble and constipation. She writes, “My neighbors spoke so enthusiastically of Chamberlain's Tablets that I procured a bottle of them. A few days' treatment con vinced me that they were just what T needed. I continued to use them lor several weeks and they cured me.” For sale by all dealers. 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REMEMBER This is for the largest number of new subscriptions turned in during this period, not the largest amount of money turned in on new subscriptions. “SHOWER OF GOLD” Dept. The Augusta Daily Herald With A. A. Thomas Piano Co., 639 Broad St Open Evenings Augusta, Ga. Phone 236 Make All Checks Payable to The Augusta Herald. ELEVEN