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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ?. Best Live Stock Show in Southeast at the Fair < BRING YOUR HIGH GLASS LIVE STOCK TO THE GEORGIA-GAHOLINA FI This Year, As Never Before, the Attention of the Farmers of This Section Has Turned to Live Stock---The Experience of Mr. Gilchrist With Holstein Cows and of McKie & Sons With Poland China Hogs Shows What the Fair Will Do. At the Georgia-Carolina Fair, which will open a week from next Monday, some of the choicest livestock in this section of the country will be exhibit ed. The livestock exhibit will be lar ger than ever before in the history of the fair association and all those who have fine breeds of stock should get in touch with Secretary Frank E. Beane at once and make arrange ments to place them on exhibition. Last year Mr. R. L. McKie & Sons, of North Augusta, S. C„ had a num ber of Poland China hogs on exhibi tion. So great an impression did the hogs make that these gentlemen have been unable to supply the demand. There have been requests for Poland China pigs ever since the fair last year and many orders were taken dur ing the fair. Mr. J. C. Gilchrist, a local dairy man, had. some Holstein cows on ex hibition and since the fair last year he has not been able to supply the demand for calves. There is no reason why the Geor BIG PLANTER OPPOSES PUN OF ASKING PEOPLETO“HEIPFARMER” BY BUYING COTTON AT 10 GENTS He Intimates That Farmers Should Be Too Proud to Want People to Pay Them 25 Per Cent Above Market Price. Claims Entire System is Wrong and Says Diversification is Solution. The Herald presents below a communication from one of the leading farmers of this section of Georgia who takes a position so unique that it will be of tremendous interest not only to farmers but to the people gen erally. He says it is a form of bankruptcy for the farmers to ask, or even allow', creditors to give ten cents for cotton when the commodity is worth only eight cents per pound. He says, among a great many other things, that if there is not a general reduction in acreage in the South the peo ple who are now buying cotton at 26 per cent above the market price will face a big loss because Interest charges, storage and Insurance goes right on and they may have to sell the cotton at a much lower price than they gave for it. He also says that the creditors of the farmers who are hold ing ootton for them will also lose by reason of the fall In the price and the people of this country will have less respect for the farmers as a class. In other words, we deduce f rom our correspondent's words, that a farmer should be too proud to ask people to pay him more for cotton than It is worth on the market. The sentiment as expressed by The Herald's correspondent may be con sidered lese majeste by some of the enthusiasts in the “buy-a-bale-of-eot ton-at-ten-eents“ movement, but this gentleman’s devotion to the farm ing interests of Georgia has never been questioned. He says the entire system is wrong and that the farmers have been putting money into high priced guano, high priced negroes and high priced mules and straining themselves by advancing too much money for making cotton. He favors rotation of crops, with generous purchases of wire for • wire fences to raise stock and to use less guano and advance less money to drunken, gambling negroes. Here is what be says: The financial condition of the Soutn Is bad. It is embarrassing to us as well as to our creditors. It is em barrassing to our representatives in congress and also President Wilson for us to ask the government to make ad vances credit on cotton receipts. A commodity is worth no more than it will bring. If cotton is worth seven cents (7c) we can't expect to borrow more than five or six cents (5c or 6c). This “buy-a-bale” movement is doing a great deal of good as it takes that much cotton from the present market. However, it will eventually be on the market and become a burden on this or next year’s crop. This "buy-a bale” plan is a patriotic, or more of a charity, movement. Less If Not Reduction. If the reduction in cotton acreage is not general in the South the people who ere buying cotton now 25 per cent above the market price will suffer a great loss. Because there will be no interest, paying storage on it, etc.; then they will probably have to sell it for less than the price paid for it. Our creditors who will bold cotton for us will do likewise. If this is the case, people will lose respect for us as a class. It is a form of bankruptcy for us to ask, or even allow, our cred itors to give us ten cents (10c) when really the price is only eight (8c) —or AUGUSTA MASONS TO MACON 01 OCT. 26TH To Attend Meeting Grand Lodge of State---Frank Cof fin Only State Officer From Here. A party of Augusta Masons, includ ing Messrs. Frank W. Coffin, T. Miller Morris. L. G. Bates. J. H. Flytha, H. B. Marston, W. F. Bowe and probably Bryson Crane, will leave here October 26th to attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the state October 27- 80, at Macon. Ga. Hotel Lanier has been officially designated as the Masonic headquar ters, and already Robert L. Coldlng, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Georgia, and other officers have engaged rooms, The state fair at Macon has been placed at a later date In order that the Masons might have the city to themselves. There will be nearly 1,500 promi nent Masons In attendance from all parts of the state besides many others working in the Interest of Masonry In Georgia. , Secretary W. A. Wollhln, of Macol,* and other officers of tbe Grand Lodge I gia-Carollna Fair shouldn’t be the scene of great trading in livestock. If a farmer in Edgefield County has on exhibition especially high-class hogs and a farmer from Emanuel County wants some of those hogs the most natural thing in the world is to make a trade right on the spot and if the Edgefield man has sold out the hogs he has at the fair hecan take the orde r and ship the hogs after he returns home. This is the year of all years when livestock put on exhibition at the fair will pay. The attention of the farm ers of the South is being turned to livestock as never before, for cotton will be raised In smaller quantities next year than in many years. What every farmer wants to do is to di versify his crops and get the very best breeds of livestock possible. So those who have livestock for sale should exhibit it at the fair. It is one of the most attractive forms of ad vertising that can he had as is evi denced by the success of McKie & Sons and Mr. Gilchrist. a 1 088 of 25 per cent. Next year the people will say, “I can’t deal with a bankrupt on credit.” Our whole sys tem is wrong; heretofore we have been running a race as to whom could buy the most guano, the most expensive mules ($250 or $300) also hire the high priced negroes. We have been strain ing ourselves by advancing from $26 to $l6O to a drunken, gambling negro. It’s All Wrong. Now all of this is wrong. If we will put a part of this guano, mule and negro money Into wire and fence our farms Into pasture we could rotate our crops and thereby lessen our expenses on the above lines. We could have all our supplies that we need and some to sell. We could also Improve our land and have money to bank. Not un til then will the South come into her own. The law of supply and demand controls the price of commodities. The manufactories of Iron, steel and tex tile shut down when prices become too low for a profit. They remain down until prices get up high enough for it to become a profit. That Is what the cotton producers should do. "No man llveth to himself,” for we are our "brother’s keeper." There Is only one solution to this great prob lem—and that is the reduction of cot ton acreage. The South will have to, not through choice but necessity, re duce the cotton crop 50 per cent. Rre preparing the program for the sessions and will Issue them to the delegates and local lodges shortly. Reduced rates have been granted on all railroads leading to Macon and many visitors will take advantage of these rates to come to the city and do their shopping. Officers of the Grand Ijodge who will be In attendance at the conven tion and be at their respective posta are: Robert L. Coldlng, Savannah, grand master. N. H. Ballard, Brunswick, deputy grand master. F. O. Miller, Fort Valley, senior grand warden. W. G. England, Cedartown, junior grand warden. James M. Ruahln, Boston, grand treasurer. W. A. Wollhln, Macon, grand secre tary. Henry G. Edenfleld, Mlllen, grand chaplain. John R. Wilkinson, Atlanta, senior grand deacon. Frank W. Coffin, Augusta, Junior grand deacon. Frank F. Baker, Dalton, grand mar shal. B. L. Patterson, lawrencevllle, first grand steward. Geo. H. Fields, Balnhrldge, second grand steward. W. A. Capps, Athens, third grand steward. Lee Wages, Macon, grand tyler. Big sale on at F. G. Martins: All ,Suits and Overcoats 25 per cent off; all other goods 10 per cent off for I cash, SI.OO for Carhartt’a Overals. THIS IS THE DA! TO GET IB STORY Part One Now Ready, Will Be Followed With Another Part In Two Weeks This is the day that will go down in history as the War Book Day. Readers are urged to lose no time, but join the rush of the wise ones who seek to take immediate advantage of the Herald’s offer of the greatest war story ever put into black and white. At the same time there are also blue, and red, and yellow, for many of the illustrations in this splendid work are printed In colors, some of the color plates being reproductions of famous paintings by artists of world-wide eminence. Be sides, there are hundreds of photo graphs of unusual scenes at the front, which are accurate representations of events that are now making history for future generations. Taken as a whole, this is altogether the most sumptuous display of the printer’s art ever attempted in a work of this character. When it is taken into consideration that only two weeks intervene between the publication of the various parts, it will he realized that the publishers must have an Im mense equipment and unusual facil ities in order to turn out such a su perior piece of workmanship. The editorial department is as fully equip ped, a trained staff of writers and artists now being busily engaged in sifting the truth from the enormous mass of false reports that come over the wires. Ro today is the day, and now is the time. Flip your coupon from another column of this issue and get part one without further delay. HOTEL ARRIVALS Hofbrau Hotel. G. A. Coman, Charleston, S. C.; W. E. Walters and family, Morgantown, N. C.; J. A. Wells, Palm Branch, S. C.; P. L. Lofton, Ga.; T. L. Morgan and wife, Jacksonville, Fla.; T. Quarles, Wilmington, N. C.; J. O. Crawford, S. C.; J. R. Mueas, S. C.; E. C. Ware, Ga. Genesta Hotel. A. C. Murdock, Atlanta, Ga.; L. T. Miller, Atlanta, Ga.; J. A. Klimber, Atlanta, Ga.; L. S. Morrison, Atlanta, Ga.; E. C. Williamson, Columbia, S. C.; R. Moble, Charlotte; J. P. Kenne by, Philadelphia; J. J. McKellar. S. C.; .1. K. Hanls, Athens, Ga.; W. H. Holmes, Boston; J. J. Baldwin, An derson, S. C. Planters Hotel. G. M. Blewett. Ga.; A. M. Ebersoe, N. Y.; B. F. Chapman, City; F. A. Williams. Greenwood. S. C.; G. A. Bunch. S. C.; J. R. Williams, Green wood, S. C. Albion Hotel. ,T. A. Sams, Atlanta, Ga.: A. L. Terrill. Ga.; C. Taylor, N. C.; H. A. Race, Boston; A. Rosenthal. N. Y.; S. Rradley, Atlanta, Ga.; ,1. E. Bosevell, Ravbnnah, Ga.; A. S. Tsbry, N. Y.; S. L. Swann. Atlanta, Ga.; C. W. Knuggs. St. Louis: C. J. Dufoe, Ind.; R. C .Harrison. Atlanta, Ga. BAY ST. PROPERTY FOR LEVEE PUT AT $114,000 A resolution was adopted by the River and Canal Commission at a meeting Tuesday afternoon asking the mayor to provide for the money with which to resume the work on the levee, which was stopped several days ago on account of lack of funds. It Is evidently felt by the commis sion that the city Is better able to gj ahead with the work now than before, hence the asking. The levee Is about complete as far down the river as Washington Street, and It Is now the wish of the commis sion to start the work there and carry It to Sand Bar Ferry. All that re mains to be done above Washington Street is putting on the concrete facing. The committee named to estimate the value of the property between Center Street and East Boundary on Bay Street, which will have to be pur chased by the city, reported that it is valued at $114,000. The matter of purchasing the property from the re spective owners will he taken up at once. The committee was Messrs. R. Roy Goodwin, H. H. Alexander and H B Garrett. SIMPLE WAY TO END DANDRUFF Stop Falling Hair and Itching Scalp. There Is one sure way that has never failed to remove dandruff at once, and that 1s to dissolve It, then you destroy It entirely. To do this, Just get nbout four ounces of plain! common liquid arvon from any drug store (this Is all you will need>! apply It at night when retiring, use enough to moisten the scalp and rub It In gently with the finger tips. By morning, most If not all, of your dandruff will he gone, and three or four more applications will complete ly dissolve, and entirely destroy, every single sign and trace of It, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find all Itching and digging of the scalp will stop Instantly and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glos sy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better If you value your hair, you should get rid of dandruff st once, for noth ing destroys the hair so quickly. It not only starves the hair and makes it fall out. but It makes It stringy, strag gly, dull, dry, brittle and lifeless, and everybody notices It, CHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. Here is a Study in Circus Contrasts * '■'- A i* -V 'kMj^^'*.' ■|*wP'' <V s .f< - *,’ 1 ,v «\vv, ;,^r k iV' v > * •' V> W** ' ' /»\ '^« <,f ;'^l&^ m .’’'. ' iiy 'x** ?&*"*s* ■ <&* v s%3S3mt ■ 4 <:7 ; * THE “LONG AND SHORT” OF RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS FAMILY. Here Is a picture of the biggest and littlest members of Rlngllng Brothers’ circus. Baldy Is famous as the largest elephant in captivity. Princess Tiny Is known as the human doll. Baldy weighs eight tons, drinks 80 gallons of water a day and consumes a bale of hay as a break fast cereal every morning. The "Princess” weighs 15 pounds, drinks two cups of milk and nibbles at a lady-finger. She is 21 Inches high, while Baldy grazes the top of the car In which he travels. Only the giant giraffes, "Long Tom" and his mate, "Molly," can look down upon this giant paohyderm. He and Princess Tiny are the two ex tremes of Rlngllngvllle. They, are the “long and the short" of a moving municipality of 1,370 men. women and children, 41 elephants, 785 horses and enough wild animals to start some latter-day Noah In the flood and ark business. All are coming here Saturday, October 10th, on the five red and yellow trains that carry the wonders of Rlngllng Brothers' circus from place to place. While the Princess is a bit exclusive, you will have several opportunities to see Baldy. He will appear In the street parade, await your pleasure and peanuts In the menagerie, and, covered with burnished trappings take part in the newly added 1,250-character specta cle of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the gigantic production which opens the circus program. ILL THE ILLS EXCEPT ONE HAD TO STOP So Low Was Water During Portions of September---Re port of Mr. Nisbet Wingfield, City Engineer and Commis sioner Public Works. The report of Mr. Nlsbet Wingfield, city engineer and commissioner of public works, for the month of Sep tember contains many Interesting facts, especially Interesting Is what he has to say In regard to low water In the river. It was read at council meeting Monday. Here it Is: Department of Public Works. Augusta, Oa„ Oct. 1, 1914. To the City Council of Augusta, fla.: Gentlemen: The following work was done by the Department of Public Works for the month of September, 1914: Canal. The water In the river has been ex ceedingly low all of the month of Sep tember, reaching the extremely low limit of 80 Inches below the dam. During lowest flow all of the mills were stopped except the Augusta Fac tory and the City Pumps. The rain of the past few days has brought the river hack to a 10-foot stage and all mills are now running. Water Works. A full head has been maintained In the reservoir during the entire month. The pumps supplied an average of 10,548,8311 gallons per day. Hprink llng has been partially resumed. In order to lay the pipe extension on Htovall and Camille Streets as ordered by council, It Is necessary to take up from Aumond extension the 4-lneh pipe and about 1,200 feet of the fl inch. Contracts have been made with Hallahan dr. Costello to do this work. Fifteen taps were made for neW con sumers. Streets. Wingfield Street, Central Avenue to Richmond Avenue, Winter Street from Central Avenue to Wrlghtsboro Road, Wrightsboro Road from Winter Street to Troupe have been surfaced with I clay and gravel taken from the reser voir. The masonry bridge on Twiggs Street was completed. Bridge on the second lever of canal reconstructed. Drains were laid on Talent arid Fen wick Streets. A number of streets were worked over with scraper and j holes patched where necessary. Hew ers were repaired on several streets. Curbing and Sidewalks. Slone curbing was laid on Chafee Avenue from Walton Way to Pope I 9venue and concrete curbing has been constructed on Ron Air Avenue and Metcalf Street by private contract. Fill has been put around No, 7 ICnglne House on Central Avenue and drive ways sre being constructed Health Sewers. Contract has been let for sewer on Stovall Street from Central Avenue to Wrlghtsboro Road and on Krnrnett Street from Central Avenue F.OO feet, north Plans and specifications have been prepared for the extension of the Wrlghtsboro Road sewer, and this work will be let by October 20th. Twenty-seven connections were mads to existing sewers. Building Inspection. One hundred and twenty-six per mits were Issued for work amounting to $26,223, and 73 Inspections were made; 92 permits were isaued for electric wiring and 139 inspections made. Scavenger, Three thousand and sixty-seven loads of trash and garbage were removed from the streets. Municipal Wharf. Work of tearing down the old wharf has been discontinued until such time as wo will he able to commence the erection of the new plant. In order to allow the Barge Line Company to operate In the mean time, it will he necessary to overhaul the present elevator which is now out of com mission. River and Canal Commission. The earth work has been stopped for the present. The construction of the sewer to change the outfall from the river to Beaver Dam ditch Is be ing pushed, and this work will prob ably ho completed on or before De cember 31st. Surveys to determine the exact location of the levee below the city are being made. The work of paving the river hank below Fifth Street has been retarded on account of the extreme low water making It Impracticable to get barges near enough to the bank. Respectfully submitted, NISBET WINGFIELD, City Engineer and Commissioner of Public Works. (UNARY COURT The Ordinary's Court was held on Monday hy Judge Walton and the fol lowing orders were Issued: Estate of Mary E. Walton, order j granting leave to sell rpal estate to ! Wilson Jefferson, administrator. Estate of J. B. James, order grant - \ lng year’s support to Mary C. James, ! widow. Estate of W. R. Htafford, year’s support to Katie Carroll Htafford, ! widow. Estate of Charles Goodwin, year's '■ support to Cora G. Goodwin, widow. Estate of Wm. H. Doughty, letters of dismission to Wm. M Butt, exe cutor. Estate of Christine M. Itoessler, let ters of dismission to John F. Roessier, I guardian. Estate of Emma Murphy at a!., or- I der granting leave to encroach on cor* pus of estate to Chas. H. Pitts, guar dian. Estate of R J. Mitchell, order dis missing application for year's support I by Mary Mitchell, widow. Estate of Clarence K., Jr , Thomas I H. and Mary Jsne Clark, leave to sell real estate and to encroach on cor pus of estate to Nelly Wadley, guar dian. Estate of A, D. Bargeron, perma nent letters of administration to T. C. Bargeron. Estate of Ned f'stterson, perma nent letters of administration to Jan* Patterson. Estate of Mary Bltssheth Cloud, leave to sell real estate to fl W. Cloud, administrator. Estate of Gertrude 1,. Boyd, perma nent letters of administration to Ran dolph B Boyd. Estate of Mary Anne Moss, tempo rary letters of administration to Robert 11, Moss. Estate of Bessie and Timothy Cal- Inhan, leave to encroach on corpus of estate to Mary Goings, guardian. EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP OF FIGS If feverish, bilious, consti pated, give fruit laxative at once. Don’t scold your fretful. peeVlsh child. See if tongue Is coated; this Is a sure sign Its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste. When listless. t»le, feverish, full of cold, breath had, threat sore, doesn’t eat, sleep or act naturally, has stom ach-ache, Indigestion, diarrhoea, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs,” and In a few hours all the foul vnete, the sour blfe and fermenting food passes out of the bowels and you have a well and playful child again. Children love this harmless “fruit laxative,” and mothers can rest easy after giving It, because It never falls to make their little “lnsldea” clean and sweet. Keep It handy. Mother! A little giv en today saves a sick child tomorrow, but get. the genuine. Ask your drug gist for a 50 cent bottle of “California Syrup Of Figs,” which has directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Remember there are counterfeits sold here, so surely look and sen that yours Is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company." Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. ADVANCE REFUSED. Jefferson City, Mo. —The Missouri public service commission today re fused to grant the petition of trunk Mne railroads for permission to in crease Intra-state passenger rates to three cents a mile and their freight rates by from fit) to 226 per cent. WORLD’S GREATEST TRANCE CLAIRVOYANT AND SPIRIT MEDIUM A —* •W . # fm , * •I if >V -•• £& r*h ' : v •>• MRS. MONA DUMOND Judging from the crowds that nr* non stantly waiting: In the parlors of this remarkable clairvoyant and spirit me dium, the truth of her wonderful work muHt hav© been heralded from mouth to mouth. Rome of the moat noted men and women of this city and state have gone to tier for advice and left more than convinced that she Is truly a great mentaloglst. Hhe comforts the well and cheers the sorrowing advises you with a certain Uy higher than any huimn power. Khe never falls to reunite those separated, helps you to win the man or woman you love, tells you whom and when you will marry, settles lovers' quarrels, family troubles, tells you of your secret troubles, the cause and rem edy. This stVange woman of mystery, gives you power and good luck end never-falling help and odvloe In busi ness speculations, lawsuits. Investments, tells you when to buy or sell, overcomes stumbling blocks, lifts you out of your sorrow and trouble .and positively makes you no charge unless you get the truth relief and help you seek Is not this most fair? Hours, 9 *. m. to * p. m. Hpedal readings. 50 cents and SI.OO. lx suited In strictly private home. 1107 GREENE STREET Near Eleventh. Positively no Letters Answered. CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY Bring Thi* Ad for Reference. AT BIJOU FAMOUS KEITH VAUDEVILLE Today Matinee and Evening LOWELL AND ESTHER DREW "A» the Drug Store.” GRIFF AND DETREICH “The Sweetest Story Ever Told.” WALLACE GALVIN "A Study in Eggs.” LADY SEN MEI Petit* Ptkines* Prims Donna. P*rformane*s at 3:30, 7:30 and 9:30. Change of Program To morrow, Thursday. No Advance in Prices. FREE a (0 o (/) tn mmm M o o J* (0 O a> N (f) _ <0 5 % a ® o 0 S 0 o a M 0 m “ g 5 0 2 to Z. g 2 o o n O ° g 2 « m 0 |g D £o •“ >• c o < a 3 O O Lil bJ DC Ll. O O as s SWEETHEART TOILET SOAP FREE FIVE