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SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 With Probably Fatal Stab Wound in Heart, Negro Reels Into Broad Street Drug Store, Creating Much Excitement Negro Who is Said to Be Dying Now at Hospital Fell to the Floor in Presence of Many People at Gardelle's-- Had Been Cut By Another Negro in Up-town Saloon WTii]© groups of ladles and gentle men, at 10:45 o’clock last night, were sitting around the tables at Gardelle’s drug store and enjoying drinks of soda water and ice cream, chatting gayly all the while, a negro snatched open the scr'?n doors and entered. This act would not have attracted s*> much attention had not there shown Plainly on the face of the black man that he was suffering terrible torture. He half staggered, half walked and half ran between the tables in the front of the store, with eyes that stared with the blank staxe of death, ladies became frightened, men stirred from their seats realizing something serious was the matter yet for the momenr standing almost transfixed through astonishment at the strange sight. Thought Ho Was Drunk. Some who had not observed the At MOPJESKA A Great Novel t One of the most fasci nating stories of love and adventure—full of human emo tion, throbbing with excitement — is Harold MacGrath’s new novel, “The Million Dol lar Mystery,” appearing now in The Au gusta Herald. THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY By Harold MacGrath Tkanhoaser’i Million Dollar Motion Pictnre Production Motion pictures por traying vividly each chap ter of this new novel are now being shown at Modjeska Theatre every Friday. Go see them ! SIO,OOO will be be paid for the best 100-word solution of this mystery. Full conditions In Today’s Sunday Herald An installment of this story in The Herald every day this week. Don’t miss any of it. look on the face of the poor darkey thought that he was merely a drunk en negro, who had gone into the drug store, mistaking it for some other place. However, no one was held in suspense but for an instant, for the negro fell to the floor with a crash and with him there came down the marble top of one of the tables. For tunately no one was sitting at this particular table as he would have been baptized in blood, for, cut in the region of the heart, T. S. Bignon, a negro farmer residing on Butler's creek, near Grace Wood, was lying in a pool of his own blood on the floor. The man spoke not a word; he laid on the floor and when equilibrium was fully restored to the startled people inside the drug store it was decided that pie negro was dead. Then it was seen that the stream of blood which covered the floor in the vicinity of where the body lay made a trail out through the front door and to a buggy in which was Murphy Thompson, a negro boy lt> years of age, Bignon’s companion on his trip to the city. Telephoned Polioe. The employes of the drug store tel ephoned the police immediately after the negro fell to the floor and offi cers came with the auto patrol on a hurried call, for Mr. Robert Lewis had informed the police that the case was serious. They took the limp and apparently lifeless form of Bignon and placed it in the patrol and shattered speed records on the way to Lamar Hospital, where surgeons discovered, upon examination, that Bignon was suffering from a terrible stab wound in the region of the heart and at np early hour this morning they declared that his recovery was doubtful. In the meantime other officers questioned Thompson, the negro boy in the buggy, with the result that they secured the following; that Big non and Thompson live close togeth er; that they came to the city yes terday afternoon, driving Bignon’s mule; that they went to see Mr. Geo. Bee in the Rathskeller under the Dyer building and that Mr. Beck paid Bignon some money for farm work done for him; that they went up Broad street and stopped at a saloon. Told Him Was Cut Nearly to Death. Thompson stayed in the buggy and went to sleep very promptly, while Bignon entered to take a drink. Soon afterwards Thompson was awakened by Bignon who told him that he was cut nearly to death and Bignon seized the lines and drove rapidly down Broad aiming, presumably, to find a doctor. Whether through some knowl edge of Gardelle’s drug store or wheth er it was a mere accident that he stopped there is not known, but he did and with the result that he fell exhausted before he was able to ap peal for aid. The police investigated the case with promptness and soon had under arrest Fred Miller, a negro, whom they accuse as the assailant. From the facts the police have gathered it seems that as Bignon was leaving the saloon Miller, who was also there, complained of some one stepping on his foot and he accused Bignon. The latter denied it and Miller repeated the accusation, accompanying it with an oath and drew a big knife which he plunged into Bignon just over the heart. Miller is said to have tried to escape on a bicycle but he was caught The dramatic affair at Gardelle’s created considerable excitement and a large crowd gathered. PAUL MOSS ORPHANS’ HOME EXHIBITS WORK Making Preparations For An nual Contest and Asks Aid of Public---What the Home is Doing The Paul Moss Orphanage and In dustrial Home is preparing tor their annual working contest—this is to show what progress the home lias made during the year in training the wayward children. There will he many selections of work to display. The articles will be on sale, each ar ticle being useful In some way. The home asks the public for their financial encouragement. The man ager makes a special appeal to all who are charitably Inclined. Ts tills institution is assisted in its present attempts there are many things seem ingly impossible that Paul Moss, the manager, has accomplished and wishes to make a general demonstra tion of in the near future. The home is partly supported by the Orphans' band and the many sources of the home industry. The home res cued one boy two months old, and two additional boys from the Juvenile Court; the boys seem to he bright and intelligent and there are hopes of making useful men of them. There ar many others who have nothing to do hut idle their time away and receive no training. The manager has applications from more than one hundred desiring to come to this home, leaving their par ents in order to become inmates of this home. The manager asks the public to aid this work that there may he in the future some place convenient to con fine the idlers from the streets and give their parents an opportunity to work. There are a number of mothers and fathers who report to this home of the many disadvantages befalling them, and their salary is not of such that they are able to pay anything for the rescue of their chil dren, yet they desire the protection. TURNS HUNGARIAN ESTATE INTO HOSPITAL Slf idtfcjtk COUN i £BB BZECHNYI, FORMER LY GLADYS VANDERBILT Vienna, Auetria.—Word ha* bean received here that the Count and Counte** Hzeehnyl have turned their Hungarian, estate Into a huge hospi tal and that the count*** h** already left to vl»lt h*r relative* In the Unit ed State* until the war I* over. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA. Troops Cheer As Queen’s Babe Is Held Up to Their View QUEEN WILHELMINA. The Hague—Cheer after cheer went up from the regtments of Dutch troops marching through the palace when Queen Wilhelmina’s daughter, the little Princess Juliana, was held up to their view. The Dutch soldiers were marching on their way to meet the German troops which'have invad ed their territory. The queen, stand ing on the palace balcony, sang with the soldiers the national anthem. WEEK IN*COTTON New York.—While two weeks have passed since the cotton futures markets were closed, no definite steps have yet been reportd toward any lmmdlate re sumption of businss. Members oi the exchange are still hard at work on the problem of closing out all old commit ments on the basis of ttie last official quoation and efforts are now being made to transfer all the remaii ing interest here into December, with a view to fs - cllitating liquidation. Otherwise and with the exception of some small transactions in spot cotton practically no business is reported and while many plans are be ing discussed for the relief of the situa tion, no material change in the general position of International trade appears to have occurred during the week. The hope is still expressed in practically all quarters that means will be found of re suming exports to neutral countries and such ports as may be open to cotton shipments before the new crop mov ment reaches its height. More reliable Information as to the funds avahabl for financing cotton held off the market and the attitude of bank ing interests in that connctlon is ex pected within the next few days. Lo cal spot people report that domestic mills are holding off for lower offers To Prevent Sacrifice of Cotton Crop, Georgia Business Men to Have Meeting in Atlanta Monday Call Issued By Mr. John D. Walker, President of the Walker Banks---Farmers Need Organized Financial Backing in the Present Crisis AN OPEN LETTER To the men of Georgia and especial ly Bankers, Farmers, Merchants, Warehousemen, Cotton Men and oth ers interested in the business welfare of the state. Gentlemen:—Thirty days ago Geor gla had the best business prospects In ten years. Everybody was feeling fine. The outlook for fall trade, due to good cotton crop and good price, was excellent. No sign of business trouble was vis ible anywhere. Then the kaiser got busy and but ted in—and he has played thunder. Today our prospects for a good crop are the same, but we have no market and no staple price. Our Opportunity. Tet I believe this war is America’s opportunity and ours, but we must act. with great wisdom and unanimity, or it will produce disaster rather than blessing. Shall we act separately, each town and county and individual trying an independent plan? Or together, every one of us combining for the common good? Together, by all means, for In union there Is strength, and we will need all the skill and finesse of the best business experts to prevent aw ful loss to our section, and the nation We Stand to Save Millions. Georgia’s two million bale crop will be worth less by ten million dollars if sold for eight cents, than a million and a half bale crop would be if sold for 12 cents. In other words, Georgia could, If necessary, throw away 500,000 ales of this crop which cost her farm ers twenty to thirty million dollars to produce and still have more money to spend, If her farmers can get 12c per pound for what is left, than her farmers would get if the entire crop Is saved and sold at from 8 to 9 cents, or less than It costs to make it. If the crop can be sold for 12c and not Bc, we stand to make or save about eighty million dollars. Surely it is time for business Geor gia to sit up and take notice and pre pare herself to fight. Opportunity Is knocking at our door. Are we ready to take advantage of her gifts and responsibilities? Delay is Dangerous. The great, clanger at present is that many of our farmers not being fully advised of what is being done to aid them, will conclude that they must look out for themselves as heretofore, and will proceed to sell their cotton at ruinously low and inadequate* prices. To save this unnecessary loss and sacrifice, the best business men of Georgia must combine for the good of farmers, the state and themselves. We cannot say It is the farmers Every Lady Musi See Our Uptown Window Monday For the Climax in Shoe Bargains In this window are our regular line of Ladies” $5.00, $4.50, $4.00 and s3*so. You may have your choice of these Monday only, at $2.95 Gun Metals Colonials, Patent Colonials, Flat Bow Pumps in Gun Metal and Patents. English Walking Shoes in Tan, White and Black. Satin Colonials. Baby DoHs in Gun Metal and White. A new fad: White Colonials with Black Buckles. WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP C. A. NICKERSON, Manager business to look out for himself, anr) ourselves escape the penalty of self ishness. In saving him, we save our selves Tt is an awful fact, that no hurtful thing can he done in one part of the state that does not also hurt, indirectly though it may be, every other part of the state. The reverse, thank God, is also true. We cannot do a good thing in the smallest town In the state that: does not indirectly benefit and bless every part. If we help the farmers of Wayne county directly, we are adding indirectly to the wealth and prosperity of Rabun county or Fannin. As Georgians we owe it to our state and to each other to assist, when possible, every move ment for the betterment financially, morally, or otherwise, of those in need of our aid. Farmers Need Our Aid. If the farmers had organized finan cial backing, they could travel aJone. but In an emergency like the present one, they need and must have the hearty co-operation and help of all business Interests in order that they secure What is Justly theirs. The business men of the cities and especially the hankers thereof should rally to the need of the farmer, since the prosperity of the city Is absolute ly dependent upon the men In the country. If they go down, the city does too. Conference Called. A conference of farmers, hankers, merchants, manufacturers, warehouse men, railroad magnates and all others interested in Georgia’s business wel fare Is therefore called for Monday, August 17th, at the state capitol, At lanta, 10 o’clock a nr, In the hope and for the purpose of agreeing, If possible, upon some sane and feas ible plan that will not only prevent needless sacrifice of the present, cot ton crop, but how It may be held so that the best price possible can be obtained. The farmer should be there and the banker. The big merchant of the city and the small merchant of the town. The manufacturer should attend and help, and the railroad officials, for the more we get for cotton, the better off w f e will all be. The only Georgian not needed at this conference is the poli tician. This is to be a business men’s conference for business ends exclu sively. We hope the smallest, hamlet 1n the state will be represented, as well as the largest city, and may every man who attends do so with his mind made up to do his best for Georgia, so dear to us all. Eternal vigilance Is still the price of our commercial liberty. JNO. D. WALKER. FIVE INVESTIGATION OF FOOD PRICE IS PROGRESSING Increase in Shipping Rates to Foreign Ports From ’Frisco Has Been Prevented Washington,—Report* to the de partment of Justice today show the investigation Into food prices progres sing In every slate and almost every large city. The United States attorney at San Francisco telegraphed that the Inves tigation there already had preventtd an Increase In shipping rates to for eign ports on canned gxiods. William J. Youngs, district attorney at Brooklyn, telegraphed that he had subpoena* for a grand Jury lnqulrv beginning next Wednesday. Other district attorneys asked for special agents to supplement their own ef forts. The district attorney at Baltimore wants three special agents because of inflation of prices there. The department of justice Is gath ering comparisons of food price* on July 1, 1913, July 1, 1914, the prloee before the, first declaration of war in country. ilpSI THERE is nothing batter—nor quick** in sedan ■ lor the removal of sunburn than Mni. Ue'belTa Turkish Hath Oil. It is soothing nod haajbp •nd leave* the skin cool and refreshed. ■ ■ u»ed in place of map and water at any tuna, and il fas ■lanlly remove* the duat and *nmr from the skin, hi* ideal alter motonn*. *olGn* or any ontdoor sport. 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