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SIX AUGUSTA HERALD. Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Augusta Poatofftoo aa Mall Matter of the Second-claa*. SUBSCRII > TION "HATES; Dally and Sunday. 1 year 0® Dally and Sunday, per week II Dally and Sunday, per month Sunday Herald, 1 year I 00 *“ PIToNEB: Rualne* Office 297 I Want nd phona S' l * Society 2Clf> l Manng'g Editor 291 n m 299 ! Clr' ulaMon .. FOH ETON I enjamln A Kent nor Co.. 225 •• New York City. 1211 People'a Oai Build ing; Adams St., and Michigan Blvd.. Chiraro tTTaVTCLTNG repres • J K inck and W D M Owena are the only authorized traveling representative* for" The Herald Pny no monev to othera tinleee they can show written authority frorri Btialneta Manager of Herald Pub- Uehing Co. • -r.» ’• THL AUGUST /■ HERALD. 715 Broad St . Augusta Oa No , .h ■ I'*ri \‘ i 1 ! « published In The Herald unl« e* the name of tha writer la algned to the nrMrla. <gS)dN .*£mb'?l> The Augusta mb a larger o|ty circulation, and a larger total circula tion than any other Augusts l»aper Thla haa hern proven by iha Audit Co., of New York. The ) teraid Guar* ea * r * 60 per cent, more Home Carrier City Or culatlo. in Auguata than ia given by inv other Augusta paper. Thle guarantee will be written In every contract and jhe Herald will be rer.dy and willing at all times to give full ac- Cesa to ita records to all advertisers who wjah to tee* the accuracy of thla guarantee in comparison with tie claim* of other Augueta newapapera THE WEATHER Forecast* till 8 p nr tomorrow. .. Augusta and Vicinity. loudy tonight and Thursday, probably with rain. For Georgia. Cloudy tonight and Thursday, probably with rain. Comparative D.ita. Dec. 28, 1914. Ilighcat temperature record. 7t» In ISB9. temperature record, 21 in 1900. I a) west thle morning. 17. Precipitation yesterday, .02; normal, .14 River Stages. Hlver atnge at N a. in., 11.9 feet. Rise In 24 hour* ending nt 8 a. m., 0.8 foot. E. D. KMIGH, Local Forecaster. HOW WAR MEANS SLAVERY FOR THE PEOPLE. Since the wnr began, the national debt* have boon Increased ns follows: Great Britain, from $3,500,000,000 to $4,500,000,000; Germany, from $5,- 000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000; Francs, from $6,500,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. The war has added already mors than $1,000,000,000 saeli to the debts of Gsr many and England, and $500,000,000 each to ths debts of UtiMsiti ami Francs. Of course thess enormous debts do not include either state, nm nlrt]>al, corporate or personal Indebt edness, much of which Is the result of war and of reparations for war. Neither do they include the waste of war or the losses occasioned by ths hindrances of wnr. .lust how much more wnr and ths penalties of wnr will add hereafter remains to he declared later. But this Is only one Item In the charts against the war god. The, debts already due by these nations are merely war debts They come either as the direct penalties of It or aa the cost of preparations for It; and arc l>> no iiH'.um the whole coat of It, in that they do not include the huge cash appropriations and expenditures upon armies nnd navies that always constitute the main charges in gov ernmental burdens If all the appropriations and riuih expenditures nnd all the bonded In debtedness and extraordinary costs of war were added, of course, the sum shown in these debts would he doub led over and over again, but even that would not represent one-half, one fifth 01 even a tenth of the actual coat of war The sacrifices of the people In lives, property, peace and oppor tunity can not he estimated accurately or even approximately. They have been eo overw helming in the past that, as history shows, no nation has been strong enough to survive them. They are penalties that pass on front gen eration to generation, from age to age, from <'id World to New World, and then back again—this main burden and curse of the human race. It has been asked whether these war debts can ever ho paid, or whether they must rest as an Interest burden upon the people for nil time to come. I'Yance has already marked the great er part of her bonds irredeemable, and, with the eonstnnt increases that are going on the other nations might at well do the snme. A much more pertinent question Is how long will it lie barely possible for the people of any one of these countries to pay the Interest on such overwhelming and oonatantly Increasing burdens. The nation 1 especially referred to are the leading nations of ICurope, in their prime, alive with industry and commerce and enjoying all the best means of prosperity and progress. If they are unable to rid themselves of the curse and of the penalties that come of it, what must we expect of the Aslntie nations, or with countries like Mexico, which it flooded with the honda and currency of four or more different and rival governments In a single year, and whose people are raided and robbed continually as the result of ibis game we call war? WHAT MURRAY SAID. "Reprr sentatlve Murray, of Okla homa, supported the amendment. "We I ave been told that the vota hare tonight mean* political death for many of ua,” aald Representative Mur ray, “but we ean choose whether we *•111 have the preacher and the church choir chant a benediction over the re main*. or whether we will have a grave decorated with saloons, brewer ies and distilleries" Representative Hobeon took the floor to make a concluding speech In support of the amendment. He ar gued particularly against the Morrison imendment, asserting that congress already had all of the authority which that measure sought to confer Kx tracf from speech In house yesterday on the liquor amendment. /vets vac M*VE humidor \ / ww- VfT- N fl i , I' illii II Hill 111 / OM «E G€Ti A CHAasOE WU-UTir. ( | 0 LIK £- iOMtTHIAJCr “ ‘l!HJiliiiiui f TOsnA/T OH DArs^i ES A«uwO ' C/CrArfi. CAiSt S. v_M 0U 1 -O 1 you l^' jOW ' / / ■ /- H Tveff-wsAAX AOi-'OAyj jl\ V oo i_itc<r 7T> see OVR- J*>'■ewrT-y Ao» k aT~ ) ( «oeoov momf' | V Lf-r-paH POOR Fu-rwerM> Ow A '' ' " cu m> hAGv. • THE GOBLIN’S STORY. .lack was corning homy through the woods one moonlight night when he saw a goblin hopping behind bushes and trees unit acting In the strangest manner possible. "Hello, there!" said Jack, “what is the matter with you? Are you afraid of being seen?” "1 am not afraid of being seen by you," lie said, "hut I wish to keep out nf the moonlight." "What Is the matter with the moon light?" naked .lack, seating himself on the rock behind which the goblin was v*. £jf,v r- t/** ** standing . “If you Imd ever walked along the path which leads to the moon," said the goblin, "you would not be wo anx ious to sit In his light, but being a mortal, you may never have to ex perience that I did." "Wlmt happened to you?" asked Jack. “Tell me about it.” The goblin looked at the moon, nnd, finding a plane where the rock made a dark shadow, he began his story. "One moonlight night," he sitid, "I * The advertising oolunnis of this newspaper are a prosperity index.* They refleet the spirit of aggressive merchandising, fighting for business. They voice the doctrine of free, fair, open competition. The advertiser is a good man to deal with. His prosperity d pends on his keeping his printed promises. He must deal as lie preaches. lie must keep faith with the public. It is safer to deal with an advertiser than a merchant or mnnufaetur r who does business in the dark. No time to prove thw better than the Christinas season. INDOOR SPORTS - - By Tad was running through the forest with my brothers, when I noticed a very bright streak of light, which looked like a path leading from the edge of the forest to the moon. "So 1 slipped away from the other goblins and hurried to where the [.right path began. The path was so narrow 1 was afraid some of the time that I should fall off, and the light gww brighter and brighter until all ut once I found myself face to face with the man in the moon. “'Hello!' he said. ‘What do you want up here?' "1 told him I came up hoping to see strange sights.” “ 'You shall,' he said; 'go behind ray back.' “How shall I get there?’ I asked; there Is no path, and if I step off this path tint will he the end of me.’ " ‘Climb over,' he said, “Now, I am nil expert climber and there is no height I cannot reach, but when it comes to climbing over moons, even the goblins will have to confess they are clumsy. “I slipped all over the face of that moon, not able to get a hold or a foot ing anywhere. The edge was so smooth 1 could not keep my fingers on It ,utid the old man was laughing at me nil the time. "Hut after a while he opened his mouth very wide to luugh at a very awkward slip I made, and 1 put the toe of my shoes on his lip and hoppea to the top. "I havo moved very fast in my time, hut the swiftness with which 1 moved or was removed from the top of that moon was beyond my swiftest experi ence. "A long, lean hnnd reached out and whisked me from the top of that moon and into a house that stood behind It before 1 could catch my breath. "There were old women with broom sticks and old women with black cats under their arms, and old women leaning on canes, with chins nnd noses so pointed and crooked that they met. “They wore tall, peaked hats with narrow brims, and they all wore long capes. " ‘We have got one at last,’ said the old woman, who had whisked me off the top of the moon. “We better take hint with us to night.' said another, ‘and teach him to ride a-broomstick through the air.' THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. "By this time I had recovered from my fright, and I asked why they were going to teach me to ride a broom stick. " ’We are the witches of the air,” said one old woman, ‘and we have long wanted a goblin to help us. To night we induced the moon to let us make a bright path, thinking that one of your number might be tempted to walk up to the moon.’ " ‘We want to teach you to ride a broomstick and dust the stars, and keep the clouds bright and clean.’ ”‘l am sure it must be great fun dusting clouds,’ I said, ‘hut if you will let me try on something nearer the ground first, I am sure 1 can dust clouds as we.l its any one in a short time.’ ■ “The old witches were so pleased to think I wished to learn their art of dusting that they consented, and down they flew to the top of a small tree. “ ‘Dust the top branches,’ said the old witch, giving me the fluster, and she, took me by the shoulder and put me on the top of the tree. “Of course I was perfectly at home In a tree, and 1 shook the duster about, hiding under the leaves, and when 1 thought they were not watching me closely I slipped through the branches of the tree to the ground. "I did not venture outside our land for a long time, and now I am very careful, for the spell of the moon might tempt me again, and l feel sure If those witches ever get their long, lean hands on me again they will not let me escape, and I shall have to go on dusting the clouds and stars the test of my days." Copyright 1911, by the McClure News paper Syndicate, New York City. Tomorrow'r Story “The Spotted Mouse.” ThFaVERAGE GEORGIA FARMER The following Is going the rounds of the press: (lets up at the alarm of a Connecti cut clock; Butttons his Chicago suspenders to his Detroit overalls; Washes his face with Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania pan; Sits to a Grand Kupids table; Kats Chicago meat and Indiana hominy fried with Kansas lard on a St. Louis stove; Puts a New York bridle on a Ken tucky mule, fed with lowa corn; Plows a farm covered by an Ohio mortgage with a Chattanooga plow; When bed time comes he reads a Bible printed in Boston; Says a prayer written In Jerusa lem; Crawls under a blanket made in New Jersey only to he kept awake by a Georgia dog, only home product on the place; And then he wonders why he can not make money raising cotton. OUR RUNAWAY LANGUAGE. The ordinarily Intelligent man has a sort of visiting acquaintance with, say. 7,000 words. He is on familiar speaking terms with, say. 3,000 of these. The man of some pretension as an educated person probably speaks 5.000 words, writes 2.000 more, knows in all about 10.000 to 15.000. The scholar- if he Is a very thorough-go ing student —may meet without em barrassment any one of some 30,000 words of the language. Yet the latest of the big dictionaries contains 450.- 000 terms and Us publishers state that they have examined and rejected 60,- 000 terms In addition. M ean While every science, every art. every human activity is busily padding the common speech with newly Invented words and phrase*. Literally, the language is running away with us. Fanciful as It may seem, this development doubtless ; means that the time 1* coming when language, taken as the means where with to express thought, will be di vided into the language that is spok en. a son of shorthand of dialect, and that which is written, a far more | technical and exact species of learn ing than we now know. In a clumsy : wirt of way. the slang phrase Is al ready approximating this symbolism of speech. As the language Itself be | comes cluttered with words, thought will hunt Its simpler mediums fitted j for a busy existence. BAD COMPANY. Mother - Johnny. stop using such ! drradful language! Johnny—Well. mother. Shakespeare use) It. Mother Then don't p!*v with him; ha* uo tit companion for you.—Tu-UUs Official Postoffice Proof of The Herald’s Supremacy in Augusta’s Trade Territory “Average number of copies of each I Issue of this publication sold or dls trlbuted through the mails or other wise, to paid subscribers during the six montns preceding the date of this j statement:” —Postoffice requirement. RECENT GOVERNMENT REPORTS OF AUGUSTA (GA.) NEWSPAPERS: | October, 1913 —Herald 9653 October, 1913—Chronicle 8797 ( HERALD’S LEAD 856 April, 1914—Herald 9906 April, 1914—Chronicle 8837 HERALD’S LEAD 1069 October, 1914—Herald 11,179 October, 1914—Chronicle 9,125 HERALD’S I.EAD 2,054 The AUGUSTA HERALD'S daily average for November, 1914 —12,209. The AUGUSTA HERALD guaran tees all advertisers the largest circu lation of any Augusta newspaper. Ad vertisers and Agencies are invited to test the accuracy of these figures in comparison with the claims of any other Augusta newspaper. AN EDITOR'S EASY LIFE. It is easy to be an editor, the Normal Bulletin says. To run a newspaper suc cessfully a man has merely to be able to write poems, discuss the tariff and money questions, umpire a baseball game, repeat a wedding, saw wood, de scribe a fire so that the readers will shed their wraps, make $1 do the work of $lO, shine at a dance, measure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test whiskey, subscribe to charity, go without meals, attack free sliver, wear diamonds. In vent advertisements, sneer at snobbery, overlook scandal, appraise babies, de light pumpkin raisers, minister to the afflicted, lead the disgruntled, fight to a finish, set type, mould opinion, sweep out the office, speak at the prayer meet ing. and stand In with everybody. And in addition to the above essentials the poor editor lias to print a paper once a week. —publishers' Auxiliary. HOW THE JAPANESE ADVERTISE. The Japanese have an original way of advertising, and they apply to the art all the poetry that ttietr Oriental lmagl tlon Is capable of. They have recourse to the most varied and Improvised meth ods nnd their combinations aVe some times as picturesque as they are origi nal. A Japanese merchant informs his customers that his good* are sent off with the rapidity of a shot. A sta tioner calls his knowledge of natural history to his aid thus. “Our wonderful paper is as durable as the hide of an elephant.” A Tokio grocer borrows from psychology, anil in mordant lan guage, announces that “Our vinegar of extra quality is sharper than the bitter ness of the moat diabolical of mothers in-law." HIS OWN FAULT. I “Sir, youv daughter has promised to j become my wife.” | "Wall, don't come to me for sympathy; i you itight know something would hap pen to you. hanging around here five | night-i n week." —Houston Post. i AUGUSTA HERALD. NOVEMBER CIRCULATION DAILY AND SUNDAY HERALD. The circulation of the Dally and Sun day Herald for the month of November, | 1914. was as follows: Nov. 1 11.407 Nov. 16 12.265 Nov. 2 12.345 Nov. 17 12,231 Nov. 3 12.350 Nov. IS 12 311 Nov. 4 12.350 Nov. 19 12.365 Nov. 5 12,405 Nov. 20 12,465 Nov. 6 12,435 Nov. 21 12,654 Nov. 7 ... .12.650. Nov. 22 11.115 Nov. 8 11,425 Nov. 23 12,390 Nov. 9 12.345 Nov. 24 12 455 Nov. 10 12.350 Nov 25 12.236 Nov. 11 12.230 Nov. 26 12 120 Nov. 12 . ...12,344 Nov 27 12.493 Nov. 13 12.115 Nov. 29 12,505 Nov. 14 12.445 Nov. 29 11.126 Nov. 15 11.395 Nov. 30 12.H1 TOTAL NOVEMBER 366.270 DAILY AVERAGE U.2o* The Augusts Herald. Pally and Sun day. has a circulation In Augusta ap proximately twice as large as that of any ot er Augusta newspaper. Adver isere and agencies Invited to teet the accu racy of these figures In eomperieop with the claims of any other Augusta news paper. BE SURE THAT # IT COMES FROM DORR'S Everything for men and many things for women. All of them of high class at moderate price. DORR Good Taste Appanel Morrison, Satisfactory Contractor A gentleman who Is one of Augusta’s large realty owners said to me the other day, "Go out to a certain number on a certain street and put me on a good roof. Charge me a fair price and a fair profit” You can bet your life this customer will get the best in the shop At the Fair Priae. Telephone me your orders for repair work or new work. I will take best care of you. Morrison, Satisfactory Contractor 102 Ninth Street. Phone 2475. Before Shopping Read Herald Ads Going to Build? If so, get the right ma terial and right price. Lumber orders for rough or finished stock. Mill work or estimates are all carefully supervised by officers of this company, and you can make no mis take in sending the busi ness here. SASH, DOORS,BLINDS, SCREENS,MILL WORK Let us know your wants by mail or telephone and we will do the rest. The Perkins Manufacturing Co. Phone No. 3. 620 13th St. Norris’ Delicious Chocolates and Bon Bons in Five Pound Boxes—and in fancy Baskets, and Christmas boxes. GARDELLE’S See our assortment of Baby Sets to give the little ones for Christmas. THE CHRISTMAS GIFT Hurd’s Fine Stationery, best made, in Christmas Boxes. ’Waterman’s Fountain Pens. Leather poods, as Lap Desks, Music Rolls, SANTA, the infallible judge of Christmas Pres ents, would say: Buy at RICHARDS and SAVE MONEY. RICHARD'S STATIONERY CO. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 Modjeska Today • “ZUDORA.” The fourth episode of this great mystery. "THE OLD MAID.” A Majestic play in two parts. “FATTY’S MAGIC PANTS." Another Keystone Comedy. “THE LEVEL.” A Vitagraph Play. “A HORSE ON SOPHIE.” An Essanay Play. REMEMBER, MONDAY. WED NESDAY AND FRIDAY ARE KEYSTONE DAYS. FORD IS THE CAR The Wife and Bovs and Girls can drive as well as the men. See Lombard. STEAM HEATING SYSTEMS and Hot-Water Heating Plants repaired and put in first-class working order. Valves, Automatic Air Valves In stock, the very best quality. Expert steam-fitter for this work. Telephone us today Phone 472. THE HENRY HUTT CO.. 611 Broad Street. READ HERALD WANTS Looking Around for Holiday Gifts Never before have we had so attractive an assortment. We beg to mention: Carvers . . .SI.OO to SIO.OO Pocket Knives. 25c to $3.00 Skates 50c to $1.50 Safety Razors SI.OO to $5.00 Scissors 25c to SI.OO Foot Balls . . SI.OO to $5.00 Thermos Bottles $1.50 to $2.50 Thermos Cases $1.25 to $2.50 We try to make it pleas ant for all lookers who visit our store, and you will be surprised to find such a va riety of articles that make very suitable gifts. BOWEN BROS. 865 BROAD STREET. Men’s Letter Cases, Pocket Books. Bibles, Prayer Books, Hymnals. Books for children. Toys, Toys. Games, Games.