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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. To My Swedish friends Everywhere I Wish to Say That Peruna Is the Best Household Remedy In the Whole World. Mrs. Elm Malvngren, 133 Frederick St., West Manchester, N. 11- , writes; “Every spring and fall for eleven years, I have been troubled with catarrh in my throat and nose and hoarseness, and I am very pleased to state that at last I found a medicine, Peruna, from which I received great benefit, and I will hereafter use and recom mend it. I always keep it in my house in case of sickness. I recom mend your medicine to all my friends and every sufferer, as an ex cellent medicine for colds and for building up strength. We have many Swedish friends in Boston who use Peruna and think a great deal of it. If all the Swedish people in this country could know what an excellent family medicine your_ Peruna is I am sure they would been it in the home,” Speaking ... THE... Public Mind MAETERLINCK ON THE WAR. To The Herald: Forgetting that one cannot indict a nation, Maeterlinck, the poet and phi losopher, has undertaken to “weigh guilt” and has tried and condemned the whole German people. He blames the essential . spirit of Germany for the present war and advocates the de struction or taming of that spirit. The Maeterlinck version of the war story would be tragic and hopeless if It were true, hut fortunately it is not true. As a .iodge and analyzer of evi dence our Belgian poet is a failure. There is not a scrap of evidence that the German people wanted the war, whatever may he thought of the act ions of the military element and the autocratic government.. The people. Including their intellectual, religious and moral leaders, believe that their gpyernment was driven to fight by Russian aggression and British jeal ousy and fear. Had there been time for reflection and better machinery for the mobilization of public opinion the real and true spirit of the nation would have asserted itself. It is noteworthy that Maeterlinck says nothing about governmental diplomatic machinery lie doubtless understlmates its im portance. That is why he has indicted the wrong parties. No, it will not be necessary to de stroy or tame the spirit of the whole tierman people; that spirit is no men ace to liberty and to civilization. The war should lead to the liberation of Thoughts are Sparks flashes of the mind that decide for success or failure. The question is, what kind of sparks does your brain generate? The brain, like a battery, must be supplied with certain elements to generate thought properly. These brain elements are water, albumen and phosphate of pot ash. If any of these are lacking in the daily food, brain and body energy are vitally icsscnca • Are any lacking? Listen! Water and albumen are plentifully supplied in ordi nary food, but phosphate of potash—together with other mineral elements—is almost wholly lacking in white bread and all white flour products. Grape=Nuts —containing all the nutriments of wheat and barley,including the precious phosphates so essential to perfect bodies and active brains, provides a food at once delicious nourishing and economical. ’ A morning dish with cream furnishes POWER for accomplishment that many a man has come to appreciate. Common sense goes a long way toward success. To eat right often means to BE right. “There’s a Reason” Grocers everywhere sell Grape-Nuts. that spirit and the curbing of auto racy and irresponsible power. R. S. C. THE COTTON MILLS OF TEXAS. To The Herald; Comparatively few people know that there are 16 cotton 'mills now in suc cessful operation 'in Texas. One of these mills, located at Post City and established by the late C. W. Post, is unique in the number of processes to which it submits the cotton. Most mills are devoted to a single process or at most two or three. The Post City cotton mill takes the seed cotton from the farmer's wagon and carries It through every process of .manufac ture until it is converted into sheets and pillow cases of highest quality. The cotton Is ginned, spun and woven, bleached and hemmed, the finished product being ready for the ultimate consumer. It is stated that this mill pays Its women employes from sl2 to S2O a week, competes in the markets of the world with the best products of the eastern mills and makes a hand some profit under an efficient man agement. If such a mill Is a profit able investment in this West Texas town, it would be well for Texans to study its methods and management and plan to establish mills over the state to handle the biggest money crop of the state. I write as a former Texan interested in my native state and the south. J. 1,. W. RAISING THE RATE TO AIKEN. To The Herald. I do not know the exact condition of the finances of the Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation but I think a mistake is being made to raise the passenger fare between Au gusta and Aiken 100 per cent. When the road was built the fare was fixed at 25 cents and there should be no In crease of 100 per cent now. For a good many years the road has been operated with apparent satisfaction on MAMMOTH SPECTACLE COMING WITH CIRCUS ks~~; IV 'Z?/r?g ) /z/7Cy/'//fa> a cent a mile basis and it strikes me as being a rather late date to be in creasing it at all and 100 per cent in crease as being entirely too much even if any increase is granted. Now that the road has become a thoroughly estab lished institution it should be getting more and more travel each year ami should also be getting more and more freight each year. But suppose the freight and pas senger business is at a standstill, not gaining and not losing, this Is no time to be talking about raising passenger rates —to any such extent as is being planned. The business certainly is not showing any failing off from year to year. I do not know what is the solution, THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. assuming that the railway company is entitled to make some increase, but 100 per cent is far too much. CAROLINIAN. WHAT LITERATURE 18 OB SCENE? To the Herald; I have the following from West Publishing Company, which treats very interestingly to me on Just what is obscene literature: Judge Hand of district court, south ern district, New York, In the case of United States v. Kennedy, 209 Fed eral Reporter, 119, in overruling a demurrer to an indictment for the publication of obscene matter in a book, applies the old test as to what is "obscene, lewd, or lascivious,” lie cause that test, is so firmly estab lished. He says, however: “I hope it Is not improper for me to say that the rule as laid down, however consonant it may lie with mid-Victorian morals, does not seem to me to answer to the, understanding and morality of the present time, as conveyed by the words, ‘obscene lewd or lascivious.’ I question whether In the end men will regard that as ob scene which is honestly relevant to the adequate expression of innocent ideas, and whether they will not be lieve that truth beauty are too precious to society at large to be mutilated in the interests of those most likely to pervert them to base uses. Indeed It Hems hardly likely that we are even today so lukewarm In our Interest In letters or serlouH discussions as to he content to reduce our treatment of sex to the standard of a child's library In the supposed Interest of a salacious few, or that shame will for long prevent us from adequate portrayal of some of the most serious and beautiful sides of human nature. That such latitude gives oportunity for its abuse Is true ! enough, there will he as there are, i plenty who will misuse the privilege ! as a cover for lewdness and a stalk ing horse from which to strike at purity; but that Is true today, and J only Involves us In ths same question jof fact which we hope that wo have the power to answer. “Yet, if the time is not yet when men think innocent all that which Is honestly germane to a pure subject, however little It may mince Its words, still 1 scarcely think that they would forbid all which might corrupt the most corruptible, or that society Is prepared to accept for Its own lim itations those which may perhaps be necessary to the weakest of Its mem bers. If there be no abstract defini tion, such as I have suggested, should not the word ‘obscene’ he allowed to Indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now? If let ters must, like other kinds of conduct, he subject to the social sense of what Is right, It would seem lhat a Jury should In each ease establish the standard much as they do In casea of negligence. To put thought in leash to the average conscience of the time Is perhaps tolerable, hut to fetter it by the necessities of the lowest and least capable seems a fatal policy." I* H A. EOIBON TO BEE BUBMARINE. Washington, D. C,—Thomas A, Kdl son, whose genius has contributed in many ways to the efficiency of the United States navy, will Inspect a modern American battleship and sub marine, for the first time, next Satur day. Secretary lambda Saturday will accompany the Inventor to New York to look over the battleship New York and a sub > nrlne which will lie or dered to New York for that purpose, Nero has watched his Rome burn to a cinder beneath the encircling folds of a circus tent, Pompeii has fallen to ruins In the scattered sawdust of the ring and Cleopatra taken her last look at Egypt Just before the clown's entry for the big arentc numbers. And now, the wise King Solomon and the Quern of Sheba have been made the hero and heroine of a circus spertaclo surrounded with all the gorgeous pa geantry and lavish costumes that the wealth and Ingenuity of master show men can devise. The good old public like some things all the time. One of these Is the spec tacle and It must be "massive.” ir It 1s under canvas the public want it just as much as It does the clowns, the elephants or the beautiful lady rider In pink and fluffy tarletons who, with her spangles and smiles, seems the quintessence of fairyland. And so Ulngllng Brothers' are this season featuring a mammoth spectacle production wherein the wisest of klngH Is the center of the most glittering ar ray of pantomimic magnificence ever offered in clrcusdom. Planning a spec tacle such as that which will he seen in Augusta when the shows of the famous five brothers exhibit here next Saturday is a tremendous task. It means the massing of more than a thousand actors and hundreds if horses Into great ensemble groups. Fortunately the show grounds have not the limitations of the theatre stago and, for the purpose of roofing their gigantic production, Rlngltng Brothers have had made a specially constructed tent measuring 529 feet In length by 280 feet In width the largest streten of canvas ever carried. "Solomon ad the Queen of Sheba" is produced under the persona) direc tion of Al. Ulngllng, assisted by a corpse of stage managers headed by Ottokar Bartlk, ballet master from the Metropolitan Grand Opera House. The spectacle Is made a part of the elrciib program and opens the afternoon and evening performances. Its pageants are marvels of brlUancy and the pro cessions presented when Solomon and Sheba's queen vie with one another in their contest for supremacy In riches are said to he the most remark able displays of their kind ever seen In America. A gigantic wordless play enacted upon a stage bigger than that of a hundred ordinary theatres, it has been pronounced the most magnificent spec tacle ever presented In America. It requires a cast of 1,260 characters, a ballet of 300 dancing girls, and a cara van of camels. It depicts the glory of Solomon and the beauty of Balkis In a succession of scenes that picture the pomp and splendor of ancient Israel with strict regard for historical accuracy. Five trains are required to transport the wonders of Rlrigllngvllle, and one entire section Is loaded with special scenery, costumes, accessories and, electrical effects used In the "Solomon i and the Queen of Sheba” production. There is a chorus of a thousand voices I and 90 musicians augmented by a ca thedral organ. The grand procession- I al, in which Solomon goes to the gutes of Jerusalem to greet Sheba's queen j Is s pageant of grandeur enlisting the 1 entire cast of characters, almost 100 horses, elephants and correctly ca-j parlson*-d desert camels. Bfc I HLhHfcM LOWEST BIDDER. Washington, D. C.—The Bethlehem, j Pa., Steel Company, was the lowest j bidder yesterday for 22,122 tons of j side art).or for three new battleships. | The Md was $436 a ton. The Mid vale Steel Company of Philadelphia \ made the lowest hid, $484 for turret i armor. Secretary Daniels estimated that, had first bids been accepted, the ar mor would have cost the government $517,422 more than the present bids call for. U. 8. RED CROBB BHIP. The Hague fvia London, 2 p. m.)— The American hospital ship Reil Cross came into Rotterdam last night, from Fram e Six Ah erlcan surgeons ami 25 nurses, with 41 tons of medical supplies, left Rotterdam today for hospital work among the troops of Germany and Austria. 1 .WRIGLEYSw I doublemint i HEWING GUMf j } AT sr/ess/cr// /kavo# 7% A New Pleasure! A new chewing gum with a DOUBLES strength Peppermint flavor that you can’t chew out! It rolls into your cheek deliciously and makes every “taster” in your mouth cry “JOY!” It is wholesome chicle—smooth and springy. Every time your teeth bite in, the Peppermint comes out —for it’s THERE! It takes away thirst—it soothes the throat —it’s good for the stomach. Every package is DOUBLE wrapped and sealed —to keep that mouth-watering Peppermint in— to have you get ft always fresh, full-flavored and clean. With each package is a United SHARING Coupon good for valuablepresents. Don’t let today get by without sampling WRIGLEYS WRIGLEYS SPEARMINT KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD DEAD FROM THE POISON. Dodgeville, Wit- Julian Carlton, nn gro chef, who murdered Muhah Borth wlck and five others at the bungalow of I'Tank Lloyd Wright, wealthy Chi cago architect, near Spring Green, Wls., August 16th, died today from the effects of pol Hon which he took Immediately after the murders. LEFT HER SBOO,OOO. New York. The sum bequeathed l>y Mrs. Frank Ijeslle, who died recently, to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. the suf frage leader, is In excess of SBOO,OOO In the opinion of Wm. Nelson Crom well, one of the executors of the es tate. The will was filed yesterday afternoon. The entire residue of the No. Six-Sixty-Six This is ■ prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS 4. FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as ■ tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not (ripe or sicken. 25c STOMACH OUT OF FIX'? N If you rafter with dyspepsia or In digestion telephone your grooer to send you one dozen pints of SiirVAR OINGIOR ALE. I>rtnk one pint with each meal and, If not re lieved. your »roo«r la authorised to charge It to the Manufacturer. SHIVAR GINGER ALE TONIC, DIGESTIVE, DELICIOUS <■ l»<Var»d with the celebrated Hljlvar Mineral Water Bold under * positive guarantee to relieve any eaae of dyepepsla or Indigestion, or your money refunded. . V £•"*■ tfocer has none In etoofc tail him to tolophon# M» wLolomlAo grocir. Bottled Only by SHIVAR SPRING SHELTON, SOUTH OMOUNA. In e beautiful woodland dell. fEijft/ nr? a BUILD WITH BRICK GEORGIA-CAROLINA BRICK COMPANY AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA Made by tha Manufacturers of the famous S estate Is left to Mrs. Catt with the ex pressed desire that it. he used In the furtherance of woman suffrage.. Spe cific bequests to Individuals, mostly relatives, total apprucximaloly $130.- 000. v 11TB STRICT i Y UNIVERSITY PUtil Blook West es Bmukny NW YORK CITY modern *riP»iu>or SOO Roocm (200 with Bath) I*ATM • 1.00 PER DAY UP 6 hm J At Retail Counters. I .awn (Trass Seed, Onion Rots, Garden Seed, Turnip Seed, Cabbage Wants Hyacinth Bulbs. Note—Oct our Fall Cata-. logue. ] N. L. WILLET SEED CO. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Bridal Trunks Our now Trouseeau Trunks urn randy for ths happy bride’s selection PRICES THE LOWEST. (Brery Trunk hag a five-year guar antee.), TRAVELING BAGS AND CASES. beautiful Selection. Augusta Trunk Factory 735 BROAD STREET. OPPOSITE MONUMENT. THREE ip!