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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6. SURPRISE NIGHT ATTACK; 48 DEAD AT TSING-TAU German Officers Give Orders for Destruction of All Bridges Along Line of Chinese R’way. Peking, 7 :15 a. m.—A communica tion received here from a German ■ouroe in Tsinp-Tau sets forth that !n a German sortie last Friday night the Germans lost one man killed and TRIPPE®, LONSFORD Dealers in Best Grade Native Meats. Chickens and Eggs Our Specialty Quick Delivery to Any Part of City. 703 Mclntosh street. phone 3155. COAL AND WOOD We are the only Coal and Wood deal ers in Augusta whose sales slips are good for votes in M. & M. Contest. B. A. DIAL Phone 25-J and 2701. 639 11th street. The Greater Augusta Pharmacy NO. 1281 HROAD ST. Prescription Specialists. Try us and be convinced. A trial Is all we ask. No need for this PANIC about high prices in DRUGS. We SELL YOU if you come and give you the BEST at the lowest prices. Yours for Greater Augusta, Greater Augusta Pharmacy No. 1281 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. BtX Bridal Trunks \ Our new Trousseau Trunks are ready r Jill tor the happy bride’s selection. *f/]l PRICEB THE LOWEST. (Hh»f*ry Trunk has a five-year guar ■‘•Av TRAVELING BAG 6 AND CABEB. Beautiful Selection. Augusta Trunk Factory B .fw* 736 BROAD STREET. _ ill. 7' OPPOSITE MONUMENT. It will cost you nothing' extra to have your Coffee sent Parcel Post when ordered from Kenny’s to be sent anywhere. Try Kenny’s High Grade 4 Pounds for SI.OO Guaranteed to give Satisfaction. C. D. KENNY CO. 1048 BROAD ST. PHONE No. 601 Augusta, Georgia. WANTED and Women To prepare for Bookkeeping, Banking. Salesmanship, Telegraphy, Civil Service, Shorthand and Typewriting positions. Always open ings for trained men and women.. Positions secured graduates. Per sonal Instruction in both day and night schools. Night school Mon days, Wednesdays end Fridays. Special opening rates. Lessons by mall It dewirvd. STACK’S BUSINESS COLLEGE 6th Floor Harreon Building. Elevator Bervioe. BCHOOL NOW IN OPERATION. i FURNACES It you are thinking of Furnaces, Past, Present or Future, Just call us over the phone. Then let us take you around to see Hlx New In stallations. Let us take you to a home where one of our Furnaces has been in use for Five Years, with no Smoke or Fumes, and with not one cent of Repairs in that time. ROOF REPAIRS Just call us over the phone, and tell us your Troubles. We will do the rest. We can understand what you are up against and we can take your view. Mantels, Tils, Grates, Paints, and Full Lins of Building Materials. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. McCARREL SUPPLY CO., Phone 1626. 643 Broad SI. three wounded while 25 Germans were missing:. The British battleship Triumph, ac cording: to this same information, has participated in the bombardment of Tsingr-Tau. A German torpedo boat which was recently engaged with the Japanese has returned to the harbor undam aged. The German gunboat Jaguar was slightly damaged. To Destroy All. Information has been obtained from a reliable source that last night the German authorities gave instructions for the destruction of all railroad bridges and stations still under their control along the line running east and west through Shan-Tung pro vince. The Germans endeavored fur ther to transfer all the rolling stock of this line to the Tien-Tsin-Pukow road, hut the Chinese board of com munications issued instructions to prevent such transfer. The Russian government, it is re lated here, has undertaken to find capital for the Chinese government for the construction of a railroad line front Harbin to Blagovieshtehensk, with a branch to Tsitsikhar, in Man churia. A recent Tokio despatch says that in a surprise night attack against the Japanese before Tsing-Tau the Ger mans had 48 men killed. This same despatch said that four Japanese shells had struck the German gun boat, litis, a sister ship of the Jaguar, which retired to the inner harbor after the exchange of shots BLESSTiSSAGE OF 75,180 WORDS South Carolina Assembly Con venes in Special Session to Consider Emergency Legis lation. Columbia, S. C.—The South Caro lina legislature convened in extraor dinary session here today to art upon a program of emergency legislation intended to relieve the troubled busi ness conditions in this state regarded as a result of the European war. A joint resolution provides referendum on the advisability of floating a loan of $1,500,000 to liquidate the state’s indebtedness. Other proposed legislation provides the establishment of a state system of cotton warehouses, extension of the payment of state taxes and the or ganization of an emergency state banking system. Reading of ports of the 75,000 word message of Governor Blease required the greater part of the legislative day. cotton, FOOD CROPS CONGRESS Delegates Return Home From Atlanta Conference. Confi dent Success Will Attend Action Taken. Atlanta, Ga.—Delegates attending the Southeastern Cotton and Food products Conference which met here to devise means for reducing cotton acreage and increasing food crops production in the South, returned home today confident that the action taken at yesterday’s sessions would meet with success. Charles J. Haden, prsident of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and through whom the conference was called, announced to day that all business had been com pleted and that no more meetings would be held at present. It pre viously had been announced that the conference would continue In session today. ■ 4' RATTLER OVER SIX FEET LONG, 14 RATTLES, SHOT Waycross.—The biggest snake story of the year is told here in the killing of a rattlesnake six feet and seven inches long, with fourteen rattles, as reported. Lewis Anthony discovered the big snake on his farm and urged his ne gro workman. Walter Given, to catch the reptile. The negro was a bit white around the cheeks but he nervely agreed to help and the two men went after his snakeshlp. The rattler tried to escape, however, and Mr. Anthony found it necessary to use a shotgun instead of his hands. SPENDING MONEY AT HOME THIS YEAR AND IN THE SOUTH (From the Philadelphia Ledger). The usual estimate is that Ameri cans spend $2,000,000 a week in for eign lands. That two millions will now stay at home, because It has no where to go. Some of the money will very likely he spent In American travel. The "show places’’ throughout the coun try are already making advertised bids for tourists. It would seem as If the railroads and hotels ought, during the next half year at leaHt, to get a great deal of money they never would have seen had the hundreds of European hotels and railroads there got that $2,000,- 000 of American cash every week. It Is also worth while for pessimistic Americans to remember that keeping thot money at home will aid very ! powerfully in setting aright our gold | balances with Europe, because tour | ists had always to produce the equiv alent of gold. When It comes to measuring the 111 i winds of war that two millions a week for the IT. S. A. Is not to be Ignored as a mere zephyr. THE MAGNITUDE OF LATIN AMERICAN TRADE. We are almost astonished by the figures of Latin-American commerce. ] They make us respect many of the ! southern republics and peoples, even if some other Influences may not he iso favorable Last year the twenty southern neighbors of the United States, through sheer strength and .capartty, pushed up the total of their foreign trade to the huge sum of near ly $8,000,000,000. This was divided almost equally between exports and | Imports, with the actual balance of trade In their favor. Argentina, for example, with an ambitious, vigorous and prosperous people numbering about nine millions of souls, conduct ed a foreign commerce valued at the surprising total of $000,000,000, which makes an average of about SIOO per head. Chile, a land of achievement and promise, lying on the Pacific Coast of South America (ITke the states of California, Oregon and Washington, on the Pacific slope of the United States) covering an areu of nearly 800,000 square miles, or more than that of Texas, and direct jly tributary to the Panama Canal, bought and sold in foreign commerce | products valued at nearly $2*2,000,- ! 000. “From “Our Trade Opportunity In ■ Ijitln-Amerlca.’’ by John Barrett, in I the American Review of Reviews for I October, THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. “Recovery a Miracle’* MISS GILKEY "I wrote you last September and described the condition of my daughter at that time.” writes Mrs. Ixjura (iillcey, of Alamo, Ind. “She was then a nervous wreck, so weak she could scarcely stand alone, suf fering: from stomach, liver, kid ney and womanly troubles and weighing: only 76 pounds. It ueemed that there was nothing: for her but the grave. She be gan taking ‘Favorite Prescrip tion' and Pleasant Pellets' at my first, writing. Has taken each as prescribed, and today is the picture of health. She now weighs 126 pounds—a gain of just 60 pounds. Her recov ery is a miracle to the people of this place as her getting well was never thought of.” GIBBS H CATSUP "ALWAYS USE GIBBS CATSUP!" Good Cooks praise Gibbs Catsup. It’s Absolutely Pure. NO PRESERVA TIVES in it! Only Choice Ingredients are used-Blended by Experienced Chefs. It has an agreeable Tomato Taste! It’s fine for Cold Meats Soups,—Sandwiches, Salads. Order it, and show YOUR daughter how to improve a meal with a good Catsup! 8 os. Bottle-lO cents. GIBBS TABASCO OATSUP Made with • little more seasoning, for those who like • HOT Catsup I 8 oz. Bottle—lo cents V' jßt mk SmU Jhk mmmmSmmmmmmmSSJmmmmmSmmLmSSmmamtmmmmmmSSmSSS From CAN to CUP! Just A “Pinch” in A Cup Add Hot Water and Serve Make it instantly. Drink as much as you like. Its real roasted coffee with the “sting” removed. Scientifically prepared and exceptionally well roasted—* really a delightful drink. No coffee pot necessary —no coffee grounds to discard. Make as much as you like when ever you like—its most economical. Phone Your Grocer for A Trial Can Today PHONE 2036: AND SAY SEND ME THE HERALD. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription (In Tablet or Liquid Form) has helped thousands of suffering women to Better Health, Greater Strength, Brighter Spirits, Better Looks. The Favorite Prescription is pre pared from the natural remedial herbs growing in our native forests —without alcohol, without narcotics. It is a re storative tonic. It corrects nervous irritability, exhaustion and the dis tressing symptoms of derangement of the feminine organs. The Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription has been sold in liquid form for over forty years. It dan now be had from all dealera in medlcinea in either tablet or liquid form—or aend BO cents in one-cent atampa and obtain a trial box of tablets by mail. Address: DR. PIERCE, Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigor ate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. GIBBS PRESERVING CO. Baltimore, Maryland. a GIBBS APPM JELLY Made from the pure )uioe of Northern Apple# No fVeaarvatives are used! 8 oe. Glean- .10 cento No Woman Has she Right to SUFFER! when she can obtain relief safely, certain ly and promptly. Suppose you do have headaches, back aches, extreme nerv ousness, low-spirits and general good for-nothing feelings at times? Your case is not hopeless. These symptoms are evidence that the delicate organism of the feminine body has become out of order and needs the help Nature’s reme dies can bestow. ARE YOU MOVING? < < i *.tYfel ||V * Mai uiFPHC" r yyj JF you are moving this season be sure to give us at least ten days' notice so your telephone may be moved promptly. Call at the office to day and sign an order for the move. __ Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company BLANCHARD & Ca UNDERTAKERS & EMBALMERS 1888 Broad Street. Phono 8188. Efficient Service flwramfl QABDEXT BOSS Large shipment of Garden Hose Just re ceived direct from factory. Hose keels, Hose Pipes. Leave assortment Lawn Sprinklers. THEO. 6. McMIUFFE 116 Jackson Street. omvtinmf piaci 800 Rooms" '2oo with Bath) Safety First WHICH? are you looking for Bar-. gain Counter Glasses. are you willing to w.nr cheap glasmw Just beoatme they are cheap, do you consent to having your eyea tampered with at the risk of their Permanent Injury- Then thle meeaaga Is not fbr you. Hut If yon value the J’rerkone girt of eight. If you wish to retain It, If you Appreciate eklll, then it is for you. and you are asked to ootne when Absolute Accuracy. In oar rooting eye defeats, is placed above evte-y other Consideration. We take ae much Interest and pride In fitting glasses to the fees a a we do In fitting lenses to ean-oot defects, frame fitting Is an art, you get the beat hare. PROF. P. M. WHITMAN, Assisted by Mr. L. A Williams, Optometrists and Opticians 214 Seventh St. Established 1888. At Retail Counters I>awn Grass Seed, Onion Sets, Garden Seed, Turnip Seed, Cabbage Plants Hyacinth Bulbs. Note—Get our Fall Cata logue. N. L. WILLET CO. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. THREE