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PAGE FOUR IHt AUGUSIA HERALD 731 Broad It., Augusta, Qa. Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CD. Entered at the Augusta Postoffice av Mail Matter of the Second Claes. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally and Sunday, 1 year $6 0 Dally and Sunday, 6 months . 3CK* Dally and Sunday. 3 months ...... Dally and Sunday. 1 month ........ .30 Daily and Sunday, 1 week .ti Sunday Herald, 1 year .. ...... I.UU Weakly Herald, 1 year M TELEPHONES. Buimtii Office •• * • ' • Clt> EdllOf Soolety Editor No communication will be published in The Herald unlees the name of the arrltr le signed to the article. NEW YORK OFFICE—Vrr« l .nd lt'-ri Jnmin A*nnry, liruiiawlhk Butkffnff. Mfth Avenue, New York CM tv CHICAGO OFFICE Vrre«:i«4-BebJa min Aff»nry W 11. Keninor, Ms** . I lot . Jtoyre HulMlna Chicago. 111. The flrrnld la the offlrlal ndv*rtl«lng medldn <>t the rity </ aupjnlh «nd t i the County nf Hlchmend fur all I‘Su nu- i tloea »nd ndvrrMalf .g Addreea all business communications to | THE AUGUSTA HERALD. 71: Bread M . August*, Oa •'lP YOU WANT THE NEWS , YOU NEED THE HERALD.' August*. Ga Tuesday, B«pt. 10, 1903 Circuliition of Ihe Herald lor 7 Months. 1908 feliruary 210,198 March 226,57* April 222.012 May •• 242,868 June 211,629 July ... 241.202 AtiluW . ™ 219,700 DAILY AVERAGES. for 7 months 7.M* |7>r Atigtiat., ~ .. .. 7.H4U Thnr»* Is no better way to mttrh th»’ homi'K of t.h« prosjM’roua i>« <» pin of thin city and section than through th« columns of The Hsr sld Dally and Sunday. Parties leaving Augusta can have Ths Herald sent them by mall each day. Phone 297, Circulation Depart msnt, if you leave Augusta, so that The Herald osn reach you each day. Oh. thf* ms In ears of Maine! What better could have been expected of them? And then another advantage th< aeroplane* will have 1* that they have no tire* to get punctured? • Hetwecn the Devil and the Ha lonic Dancers“ rcrrcctly mtpresaea thi* prey ent thcg rlmi condition of New York A MaesarhuHctta man la mid to have swallowed a hox of tncka on a weger Perhaps they were hard tucka lit 11iat if you don't i!fc< It pom It bad into the jug That * what the house has been doing with the senate a convict bills Also It should he remembered that the fiend* dldtl t con e and tear Up th«. railroad* so until after Joe Drown had been elected Mr FafrhnnkK in announced soon to ntske a long tout but this should oauss no surprise, sines he is bui.t Just thst way. Why U Hherman called "Bunny ask* the Miron NtlVl hm' know, unless to . plain that there u a ahady side to him. Man h want? are many, and if told Would number many a score, And wer* each one a mint of gold He Mill would want some more When Dm nt» wrote “Some hook* lire lie* from eo(I to end wonder if he hid In tulnil the bonk* mndc by thr bo.>k maker* m the no'. »; A republican |Htper predict* that Taft wilt win In n walk \n<l thi* I* true. for It I* either win In h walk nr ton with mm, for hr can't run. Would It be correct to call tho ehl. dmi ot Mi> Wood splinter* n >'■ tho I .awrem ovillr Now* Herald O. oMcdl) no, Thoy should bo deal*, tinted "chips.** It ta reported ihni a rennavlvatiia do* enteher caught hvitropliohla. Hut waan't thi* alatlng It wrong? It mint har c I"'i'll hydrophobia which caught him, through the teeth ot a dog. It mar tie true a* reported that T*fp and Koiaker have hurled th. hatehot. but an obaerrant es change not<*a that they ha*on I been ob atrepemusly doing the ttanion and Pythian act Auut Hotly Ureen »»'* that women are reaiMinaihte tor hard Him* Still women aUo are ro|won*lb|e for the beat of brtghtneaa there I* In life, an Aunt Hetty a charge will not be book <*l agalnat them It wouldn’t acein at range If the man tn the moot> ah.mid tie noticed to wear a broader smile aim, the it.ing marhlnea have been Invented He mti think Ida long aolltude I* noon to he broken. “If fate 11* sari us a lemon, let a *c Copt It and start a lemonade stand any* IClbert Hubbard Uut the trouble )• that fate, when she give* a lemon, never gives w ith it the sugar tie*<. Miry to make the lemonade Simultaneous with the disappear after of the sheath gown In IClberton th. bright paragraph* In The Star reappeared Now could there ha»a been any connection between these two events, and If ao, that was KT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP VERSUS SOCIALISM "Concerning Municipal Ownership" j will not agree that there la a wide dtffcrenc, between inunleipal owner 1. hip of municipal utilities and aoelal j lam. Replying to a recent article on ! that subject In The Herald it says: The Augusta, On,. Herald ob jeet* to our characterisation of municipal ownership a« incipient i orlallam. The Korlallata of Eng land ar,. clearer-headed In a bmik recently published by them the author, V p. Henson, says: The Hue of least resistance to ward:- collective ownership Is by mean- of municipalization and na tionalisation, and we find tills form of communal ownership Is growing fast throughout th e na tion." The editor of T he Herald Is op posed to socialism; yet he and many other writers arc uncon sciously rendering to socialism lb" greatest of all services, that of blinding th,. people to Its In sldlous attacks upon our limtltu- j lions. The Creeks finally over threw Troy by getting the Tro jans to lake Into the city a wooden horse. In which rome of the bravest Creekh were concent cd Municipal ownership Is the wooden horse by means of which the socialists hope to compass the overthrow of our democratic In stitution*. It Is the mission of "Concerning ' Municipal Ownership” to nrevent this I Idea from growing In public favor, and It Is the mission ol The Herald, edl- j torlally, hy discussion to aid In the appreciation of truth. Truth and right are the same and as It Is un questionably right that municipalities should own the public utilities they require. It m not possible that these two advocates of opposites should ever agree Nor is this necessary. It I Is discussion of questions thSt will eventually develop the truth, when It j Is not clearly undcrstoodshence these | disillusions, If carried on without hit- 1 terncsH, are good. Municipal utilities are Instituted and operated because they are neces sary to modern municipal life. Tho various municipalities must Institute them If nobody else does, and this they Invariably do We find that of these utilities some are Instituted and operated hy the municipalities and some by private corporal lona. Why Is this? Simply because private corporations will not do It unless there Is money In II for them; and this Is all right A private cor|ioratlon has no other Interest In th,. business Foreign cap ItmlintH form a corporation to operate, say an electric railway system, In a city, not because they feei the need of It for themselves or primarily de sin In promote the Interests of I bat cltv but because they see In It an op port unity for profitable Investment. Hence It is that private corporations do in>t lay sidewalks, or construct health si wers or provide municipal utilities of this class. And for the - line reason also they do not Insti tute electric lighting plants, etc.. In smaller towns, which offer little or no profit upon urh an Investments They will Invest only In public utili ties In the larger cities upon which there Is prospective profit. This Is all right, so far as concerns these corporations It Is a legitimate business upon which thus,, who In vest In It have the right to expect to make a profit And this they almost Invariably do. To the extent of this profit they are levying tribute 141011 that city. This the municipality would save by owning and eperatlng Its own plAnt. Then' are other rea son* why municipalities should own and operate all their public utilities but this one Is enough 10 establish the contention that municipal utilities should bp owned by the respective municipalities Ami It is but a ipies lion of time when this will be the Municipal ownership Is not social Ism tier a step In that direction It Is true that aoelallsm contemplates the wiping out of private ownership of public utilities, along with theabol Ishmenl of private ownership of ev •rylhlag else except articles of strict ly personal use. hut this doesn't make the two alike Thp man favoring the unrestricted operation of barrooms and the man who tiellevea that the good housewife should not be barred by iaw from making blackberry wine for medicinal us*, for the family may both oppose the present drastic pro hthttton law of this state, but In re sard to the liquor traffic they may be as far apart in their views a* the poles That socialtele themselves de no' regard municipal ownership as a step tow ards socialism I* proven by the fact that socialists do not support the municipal ownership party, but on the contrary denounce It with equal If not greater bitterness than they do other so called capitalist” part lea Kvir It should tie understood that socialism I* opposed to all Indlvldua. endeavor It would p'ac,. all men on an absolute equality, the laiv shiftless vagabond with the eonsetonttou* worker, and It would place every In ' do-try or businews completely under! the control of tho*,, operating It do j clalism would not only do away with the ownership ot a street rat.way by , a private corporation, but It would j place Its operation, the regulation ol j the service and everything pcrtaluiug j to It, under the absolute control of the men who ran the cars. This shows the difference between municipal own crshlp and socialism. One would change only the owner ship and thereby prevent the exploits | tlon of the people; the other would j Introduce chaos. THE DRINKING GOURD Mr Bryan Is made the recipien- of i all kinds of presents from admiring - partisans. They run (he wide gamut! from live trick mules to dead rah bit's feet. They are presented as tokens of esteem and well wishes In 'his race, and If the donors expect to I be remembered In the distribution of ; pie this is rather to be implied than expressed. Mr. Bryan is receiving enough of this kind of present* to stock a big museum. Among thoae recently received is j a drinking gourd, of peculiar shape ! To this novelty Mr. Bryan has taken quite a fancy, and it Is to he put through the regular process for tnak 1 Ing II a drinking vessel. As such It ! Is to be used In the Bryan home, as . a great novelty, and visitors to Fair- , view will probably be treated to a drink out of the gourd, which will constitute It a sort of a campaign loving cup. Who knows but what quaffing the pure water from this gourd will Inspire those who drink from It with the spirit of victory! At and rate, they will have had the most pleasant drink that may be given to thirsty man. In deathlesa verse the excellencies of the old oaken bucket has been sung. It, was well, for the old oaken bucket deserved it, and It Is fast pass ing away. Nobody has yet been In spired by tho muse to sing of the old gourd; yet no less than the old oaken bucket In the old gourd worthy of it. It too. Is passing away. Our section of the country Is the favored home of the gourd. Nowhere else do they grow to greater perfection than here. In the olden times they were general ly grown, and there were gourds In every house. Now, alas, a gourd Is i rarely found The glass goblet Is now the proper drinking utensil, besble the water cooler. The coconut or shining tin dipper hss taken Its place on top of the brass bound cedar bucket. And beside the spring, wherh something | more valuable or ornate cannot be kept, an old tomato can is made to do servlet' Th« good old gourd Is discarded, lost In the shuffle of tho march of progress which esteems nothing that hasn't been bought in n store. and only in the homes of a few old fogies here and there may the old fashlonod drinking gourd be found And yet In the whole world there j never was a drinking vessel thrl j was fully Its equal. From the golden chalice of the royal palace to the shell used by barbarian Islanders there was nothing to Impart a flavor lo pure water 11s the gourd. Hitter in Its growing stage, throwing off a rank ordor that was far from agree able. when fully ripened and flavored hy the frost, subjected to a treat ment of boiling and polishing It mad" a drinking vessel which imparted Just enough of Its peculiar virtue to the water to make it moat satisfying With the drinking gourd the other uses to which gourds were put have disappeared. Only as a relic of the i past could now be found tho powder or shot gourd, which formed a part of every old hunter's outfit. Only by (Hiking with some good old grand mother can one now lesrn of the soap gourd. In which ihe stock of family , soft soap was kept In a corner of ; the smoke house. The great gourds that were used as family wash tubs ihe gourds that were used as weavll ■ proof receptacle* for seed, Ihe long handled gourd that reached down In to the spring, and the tiny gourd that served as a baby * rattler, all have disappeared A gourd vine has be come a curiosity The many uses to w hich Its products were put must now all he filled by store bought goc's, the best of which are Inferior to those supplied by nature from the gourd vine Clone are those good old times, and the loss most to be regretted is tie old fashioned drinking guard, whirl* doubled the cxcelfc-nco of water drank out of It. For truly, to know and experience Ihe most satlsfyln as well as the most pleasant sod healthful drink In ihe world. It tnvst be a drink of water fresh from Un well or spring, drank out of a gourd THE TAX ON NEAR BEER. The legislature has passed a law which place,! a s ate license tax on near beer It la a peculiar tax, which \ more than all other Uws on th s *u! ! ‘ect point* ihe drift toward ex'retnc j puritan!*in in Its direction In oer 1 state at this time The state ts haul) In need of adit , Mona! revenue The constitutional tax limit has been r* sdicd. and the rev« Inue [\ yield* I* barfly *ufflclent to meet the ordinary fixed expenses of THE AUGUSTA HERALD the state government. Yet. with this knowledge before them, the legisla 'ure recklessly added to the state's expense, doubliiq the already heavy pension burden at one clip, and mak ing other like 1 r.kless expense ac counts In large number. Hence the necessity ex pet- tor raising moo money by i.ixation without increasrr.g the tax rate. And by putting a spec ial tax on something seems about the only way jhis could be done. But why should near l-eer have been tingled out for this tax? Why, if it had become necessary y raise by new t'T-.-itlon the amount that this lax on near brer was expected to yield, v.as not the burden divided among all the soli drinks? There aro many such sold. All of them are palat abb -to some palates. All of User,: arc refreshing—or believed to be so. Marry of them arc entirely harmless —except to the boys who have to stand treats for thirsty git Ib. But some of them are believed to be more or less Injurious Certainly some of them are more injurious than near beer. Near-beer Is Che *?ang nan"- given to a beverage made In Imitation of beer. It resembles the real stuff In looks, In taste and other qualities, it differs from real beer only in Its non Intoxicating quality, containing a per centage of alcohol so binall as to be held non-intoxicating by the authori ties. it |s a beverage which may be lawfully sold, as any Other none-ln toxlcating drink, under the severest constnw-jyon of our drastic prohibi tion law Why, then, should this ono beverage be singled out, from among the whole long list of popular bever ages, to bear a lax almost equal in weight to that put by Ihe state upon the straight product ot the still in ante-prohibiiion days? And the near-beer tax law goes even further than that. It does not allow pro-rating. The license tax must 0" paid for «n entire year even It only used lor a part of the year. The law imposing the tax was on'y recently passed, and it was made op erative at once, although January 1 la the day set for its regular fiscal be ginning. This means that In order to legally sell near-beer for the remaind er of this year, four mo.rths, the dis penser must pay a full year's tax, or at the rate of J6OO per annum, near ly as much as the entire state and municipal taxes on regular old red j eye before this prohibition wave j broke loose. And under all this j cstoundlngly heavy tax on near-beer I j other beverages, some of them more [ harmful, escape lax free. Why Is It? Can It be for any other reason than the name? Qur people are prohibition mad. The bare name of liquor or bc-ar exerts an influence upon them llko the waving of a red lag In ihe fact- of ft mad buh. With out reasoning they are ready to rush to any extreme, not stopping at the palpably absurd, to vent their raga against the object of their hatred. But there Is nolhing to he done but to grin and bear it. Popular feeling is given to this sort of emotion. The old Puritans carried It to the point of burning witches, under which worthy old ladles were consigned to most cruel death -in the accusation of Ignorance or personal spite. But these crazes run their course and rea son Is restored. They do not now burn witches In Massachusetts. The i descendants of tho old Puritans are i ashamed of this record made by their j lathers. And so will it be in Georgia. The saloon will probably never be 1 ' restored, but the lime will come when j ihe people will retreat from the other I ttxlr* -me which they have nbw reached, when they make themselves rldlru-! j lous by branding as criminal the 1 housewife who makes a bottle of j i blackberry wine for her medicine 1 cliest. ard put. ihe highest license tax lever put"on nny beverage upon a: , drink whose only cause of offense Is , i that II bears 'he name of beer. "THE MERCY OF COMING EVENTS." We t ust .ill wonder, for a mom* ft * now and then, what strange new brew Is being prepared for us by ; the busy forces which we name "Clr cmpstances." . In the home life the exit of a ser vant; In the store, "something hap pens" to our best clerk*; In every business venture something ''upsets" i our favorite plan. If we own prop erty, our best tenant leaves, or our neighbor Is his property at a big profit while we hold on" to ours, not willingly. Emei .-n expressed It:: ‘ Man, Int prisoned In mortal life, ltej open to the mercy of coming event*.” And the truth hss led us to ron ieider wavs and means for "taking th*- sting out of" these coming events — for turning them Into endurable bur' dens. And cf thc*f way* and means w hich we have created, the chlefest! Is WANT ADVERTISING. A wise U-" of thi* modem corxenlenee. this NOT ON 1 MAKES COMING EVENTS MERC] Fl':. It • ak a us to contemplate them without trepidation. The sheath skirt Is the old Mother i * Hubbard salltns cli se hauled under * | tight revfr Newbury IV«t Ueraid. j • ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦a ♦ « ♦ TALKS ABOUT THE HERALD. « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* Not One of the Nature Fakers. The Augusta Herald arises to re mark that airships are unlike truth, when crushed to earth the: never rise again.—Thomasvllly Times-Entei prise. From a Practical View Point. The Augusta Herald Is cruel enough to say that the money spent by the Rockefellers in hunting up their French pedigree would have been better expended in paving ,be fine Judge Landis Imposed.—Americus Times-Recorder. A Cheerful Optimist. Trust The Augusta Herald to see the bright side of It. Thai journal boasts. “Our old river sure Is a mighty giant when It rises and stretches lt teif." —Mobile Herald. As Bright as Ever. The appearance of The Augusta Herald does not Indicate that there is anything the matter with Augusffa.— Waycross Herald. A Booster of Boosters. The Augusta Herald prints a car toon, "Be a Booster," yesterday. Don’t seem to need a club to build (hat city hack—Fitzgerald Leader. Like Causes Produce Like Results. Apropos of the Importance whisk ers have taken in history, the Augusta Herald quotes a chapter of French history, telling how a former queen of France ascended the Ktfglish throne because her husband "cropped his hair ar d shaved off his beard." And then It tries to make the parallel be tween the Freifch kings, ex-whisker* and those of Mr. Kern and Mr. Sher man. What’s the answer, please? Brunswick Journal. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ TALKS ABOUT AUGUSTA <* ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦ Wrong; to Hold it in Check. A friendly newspaper says that Au gusta wi/l rise again. What they want up there is the assurance that the Savannah .river will not rise again. --Savannah Press. All Helping Augusta. Mauy ol the towns of the state are still sending money to Augusta tor relief cf the flood sufferers. Georgia responded nobly to the appeal.—Al bany Herald. And For Other Uses. ft is rumored that the bri/lgcs at Augusta hive been repaired sufficient ly lo permit the systematic resump tion of pilgrimages to a certain inti tutlon on the South Carolina side of ihe river.—Atlanta Constitution. It Also is Open Again. Poor, old Augusta seems certainly to be having a hard time of It. The flood waters have hardly subsided und now the North Augusta dispens'liy is closed for three days.—Cot unit us En quirer Sun. Progressive Augusta Any city that places a toll on a bridge adopts a "penny wise and pohnd foolish" policy. Be it said to Augusta's credit, the does not belong to this class. —Edgefield Advertiser. Keep Your Eye on This Town. Whatever may or 'nay not be Au gustas shortcomings, Augusta is just about the spunkiest town in hailing distance. Augusta has had her Dou bles. she has suffered, and hardiy a week has passed since the flood waters held the people of that city prisoners marooned in tipper sfo n s. The lose was great, a blow that would stagger most towns the s ?e of Au gusta, but not Augusta. Don’t you ever think it. Augusta is on'y a stronger, better, more substantial town for all that she has suffered, and to prove this and set ati ex tr.plo for other towns to follow, she is go ing to have a fair this r a'*. The Georgt,Carolina fair had been scheduled, plans had t een laid, Au gusta was looking forward o the fair, and having lived throuvh the v.-orst flood In her history will not In terterc with the holding of the fair.— Columbus Enquirer-Sun. ♦ ♦ ♦ WITH OUR CONTEMPORIRIES ♦ « ♦ A Facetious Explanation. The Atlanta Georgian unm unces a deadlock In the Georgia legislature. From what we have learned about affairs In the Georgia Stale house, a deadlock Is probably a condi.ion occasioned by tho absence of th" member with the corkscrew. Hous ton Post. Uncls Ross Wjvj Wis* Man. Fancy the rich picking* Alienist* and rx|>er!s w ltd have bad if I’ncii Russell Sage had mixed up in this as Unity bu*in*< or '-ado a 'arse- rt another man for flirting wi h Mrs. Rage, t'ncle Bun left ►!:. y-f'-ur mil lions of dollars. —Brunswl.-lt Join nal. John Temp's Will Get T cm IlUren '1 . t the kb-—. <. but I"!-: wait until John IN tuple's bouquet Is handed out. There arc none who can compare whh our Johnnie when H comes lo beautiful ihoticbts * it- Rnntlv expressed.—Washington True CBlien. An Important Question. With Arthur* Brisbane •>• furnish the brain*. John Temple Graves to supply the hot air and political cheap talk. Tommy liisgcn tho element of mystery, and William Randolph Hearst to finance the scheme, the independence I ague js a welt-con structed highly-organized political trust, with one except urn- who'll fuf nlsh the votes and* where are they coming from?—Richmond Times Dis patch. V « Ok 4m. ”” 1 Have You Seen Our Selwyn Stripes 9 ■ They're the newest feature for Fall Clothes. But our stock is not confined to any one style of goods. With ample capital we command t the choice of all productions. COME IN NOW FOR FALL CLOTHES. Avoid the rush that's sure to come and tak e first pick of our beautiful goods. DORR Tailoring, Furnishings for Men of Taste For Sale 31! acres, near Wrightsboro road, seven miles from Augusta. 15 acres cleared balance pine, oak and hickory. Four room house and barn. Bold spring and branch. One mile from Graigs Crossing, price $1,000.00 APPLY Clarence E. Clark 842 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA. READ HERALD WANTS. DO YOU BELOINQ TO THE Want=Advertising “Four Hundred” UN AUGUSTA ? If you could mak* a list, in this city, of the four hundred peo ple who make the most effective uses of the want ads., you would have a list of the most alert, thrifty, practical, up-to date, prosperous people in town. No other test would so surely include the people who have most to do with the practical things of the city's daily life —who promote its activities—who boost and boom it—who create all about them that optimism whioh makes for healthful activity in all lines of buiness. If YOU belong, already, to the city's “want ad. four hundred,” you are prosperous, enthusiastic about life and the business of the day, and are "making money.” You are in touch with all of the little opportunities to “earn a dollar” (or a hundred dollars) which come to the careful reader and answerer of the classified ads., and you • turn naturally and quickly to the use of the small ads. whenever you want anything, or have anything to sell. As in New York society, the ”400” consists of at least a thous and people, so, in this city, the “want ad. four hundred” may be stretched into an indefinite number. Perhaps, if you “wake up” promptly you may become the four hundred and first member of the "want ad. 400.' Herald Wants Reach the People You Want To Reach- “Be A Booster!” 0^) 5.n; '/ftjjiy ST ( Throujh the courtesy of the A reh Booster. Mr. Samuel Craydon, of the Boost club,'' o f New York.) The Booster Club of Augusta IS Doing Great Work in the Present Emergency. Get in the Game. Be a Booster. TUESDAY, SEPT. 15 50c for One Quart —of— Chloro Naptholsum* Makes 25 gallons strong Disenfectant—the thing to sprinkle in cellars, yards and everywhere about your premises kills all germs. L.A.GARDELLE DRUGGIST 620 Broad St. T. G. BAILIE & COMPANY 832 BROAD ST, Large assortment of Wall Paper and Compe tent Force of Workme to do Prompt Worl Big Stock of MATTING, CARPET! AND RUGS. REASONABLE PRICE?j ON EVERYTHING