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PAGE FOUR THf AU6USIA lit RAID 731 Broad Bt., Augusta, Oa. Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Augusta Postoffice as Mall Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally and Sunday, 1 year $6.00 Dally and Sunday, 6 months 3.00 Dally and Sunday, 3 months . .... 1.50 Dally and Sunday, 1 month 50 Dally and Sunday, 1 week .. ...... .13 Sunday Herald. 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald. 1 year 50 TELEPHONES Business Office 297 City Editor 299 Society Editor 290 No communication will be published in The Herald unless the name of the writer Is signed to the article. NEW YORK OFFICE Vrreland-Ben Jamln Agency, Brunewlck Building, 225 Fifth Avenue. New York City. CHICAOO 'OFFlCE—Vreeland-Benja min Agency W H. Kentnor, Mgr., 1108 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. The Herald Is the official advertising medium of the City of Augusta and of the County of Richmond for all legal no tices and advertising Address all business communications to lilt AUGUSU HERALD, 781 Broad St,, Augusta. Qa. **IF YOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED THE HERALD." Augusta, Oa., Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1908 Circulation of the Herald lor 8 Months, 1908 Febf nary 210,488 M**r<h .. .228,6/8 April 222, 012 May 243,666 June 241,829 July 241,202 A uffuat 210,700 H*|<! < rnher 232,495 DAILY AVERAGE FOR 8 MONTHS. 7784. DAILY DETAILED STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION FOR IHL MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. 1 .7(789 j 18 7,808 2 7,750 | 17 7,64, 8 7,6 12 \ 18 7,522 4 .7,616 10 7.V 6 8,161 j 20 7,844 6 8,350 21 7,63 , 7 7.865 22 .7,543 1 • 7.842 ! 23 7,82*3 9 7,801 24 7,611 I 10 7.842 26 8.332 I 11 7.635 26 ... 8.1/7 If . . . . 7.653 27 .... /,/33 13 7,88 f 78 7,rUj 14 7.UU2 , 24 ' 11 7,55 7 30 7,865 J Total for September . 232,496 There Is no better way to reach the j homes of the prosperous people of this i city jnd section than through thn I coiutnr * of The Herald Daily anti i Sunday. Pnrt.ee leaving Augusta can have The Herald sent them by mall each day. •phone 29 7, Circulation Department, il you leave Augusta, so that The Morali can reach you each day. TtilF Ik it bs<l yssr for orlop!, Even tdoh k«*i»i in thi* New York infUaiium U»ve diet!. Mi Hrarot hut* advanced hitusolf In 'hi* fon’in »ai |ioaMt<>i> In thin com try mm m man oT lottort. Thl» iteroplßtiinK also la anoihe, bueiiH’da In which there In always room higher up. They do titty that ihe mayor of Huffttln. N. Y , Ih named Aduui llm wr don’t car* Adam for that Wonlei If ('ol. Klevvitrt la not a supporter of Bryan, and has been In* dlscret enough to talk It out? At any rat#» Yancey t arter car. nut wall let I blue ovei It Ih drf.it, It cansF It wan done by the Ilrown procsia. The hon*e Mhos hi At lan la wna it preiti aticcoaa. boxen were flowing withy exquinlte coaUunea u;ul radiant with beautiful fares" The vote cant for Joe Hrown In the election wan about the name a* .the vote cant for hint In the pri 'mar>. hut Ills majority wai «■ erably Increnaed . Who would have believed that Teddy could have been kept Mtent s’» long, and during auch a airenuoua time at that? Thla la urely a aitf ntftrant pb« nomenon A great landalide in expect* i In th* November election And yut the poor old water wagon candidate nutaf continue to make a nolao iik*- a can dldat# * The Kngltah prime mhilater aav4 that Austria la guilty of grtMti when she 'grabs and Hertegovhta If that Isn't worse than pot calling kettle Mack, what la It? H *»» m Tlrnov* whore the Ilulgv rlstis declared thotr Imt.-p, i»l<-no<- At thla diatAlice that would iu to be a good place In which to "turn over” a new leaf Tv Cobb ha* shown them again whs* he can do. The fellows who thought that Chicago bad that rhutu|>- rhaiuplonahip cinched have another gueaa coming to them The satisfaction f*lt on auxins the lawn mower In the woc«lhoua%* <* given a diuo»*er when It la nA'ssstry to pull out the coal scuttle to make room for the mower Now Candidate Chaftn has also come nosing around lit Georgia Me hsant much dlererment If he did not quickly discover that there Is nothing doing for him here In Brunswick the ladies seem to take their promenade* on the real dene* streets. Tha Journal mv« "pom* of the marvels of paint prop erly applied may b»* seen t \ taKYng g walk through some of our residence attest* PENSIONS AND GRAF-. What Ik graft? This Is a new word, m recently colm-i. that tli.• dic tionaries have not a* yet adopted It and supplied an an hentlc definition. But everybody knows its meaning. A grafter Is a person who by Horne pro cess secures payment to him out of the public treasury for tervlces not. rendered or for something that was not delivered. And graft Is the se curing from government of money, under the form* of law, which the beneficiary eotild not In Justice claim and had not the moral right to take. There are various forms of i -afl- Ing, some but little removed *om downright stealing, and other ft' ms showing less culpability on the ..art of he grafter, and Just placing him ‘n the class of the accessory after the fact in crime, in being the ready benellary of a grafting system which was Instituted by others. To this class of grafters belong many pen sioners of the government, Onr federal government has adopt ed a pension system which In theory provides a pension to soldiers and uilors who have been disabled In Its service, but which in practice pays it pension to thousands of others also who have no such claim upon the gov i rnrnent. That old soldiers should he cared for, If they ate Infirm of needy, Is only right, aud the pension, which are paid these men are really much smaller than they should he. Thai dependent children or widows of such men should also be provided for by the government Is a just claim. Hut there Justice ends. When there are a million pensioners on the rolls, to whom $160,000,0110 Is paid a year In pensions, il Is only too apparent that our national pension system Is In large part an Immense game of graft. The (tension office was recenlly surprised by Ihe return to It of a Mttn of $1,172 paid out to a pensioner or the civil ear, with the explanation that his conscience would not permit him lo keep this money. Ho great, hie this grafting evil, in ihls form, bcooinu both lit amount of money and I In the lowering of the moral lone >f the people, (hat the officials thought It tin act of a crazy man to return any of il, Httd they ordered an invug ligation of litis unprecedented luel - I hey found that Ihe mall was sane enough. He yvas well fixed in i life, and though he hail been a so 1 I titer he had not been disabled by run ! i win If this service. Me had for years j been drawing a pension, ae t'noiisuiids of others do who are nit disabled, until his conscience rebelled, and he relumed Ihe entire amount together I with his pension certificate It I* too much to expect this ex ample to be followed largely by other pensioners. Custom, long followed. In regard lo this form of grafting has 1 'ird ih pnblle eon elonre 4 1 re, i id to II Yet Ihe demoratlz.V* In fliietii ot paving men what theyV— ■ i "i e.M'i-al and to which thej • moially no claim, la well under*!* 1 . The man who would accept B i doled mil in him i anitol lime ■ true spirit ol msnllnea*. and n'i paving of pensions to men wh-t should net receive them must have In a measure the same effect upon them. Ily this gigantic (tension grafting the government is lowe 'nsg the nvirsl tone or the people I* Il Is lime to esll n hall to II Pay pensions, and larger onea, to ihos" who have a moral claim upon the government lot support. And cut off (he grafters. Voiceless singing has been intro duced m it Brooklyn church If now Mil? houltl he followed by voiceless imnn:i what wonderful Improve mens would be credited to (he ser vices in some of the churches. Leap year has been very fatal to Georgia editors. WUaon Hardy of the Home Tribune Herald in the Ini i at victim who was led to the sacri ficial altar. lint Sliope. the Invin cible. Mill holds (he fort of single blessedness In a manner to Inspire the weaker brtthren. THE LOCATION OF THE WIR2 MONUMENT The time draws near when the t,uesilon of where the Wtrx moti'i moat shall stand must be settled but as yet there is not unanimity m opinion Several cities of the stale «ro making efforts to get It, as even (e ergls v> would be proud to have (his monument stand In Its most ptitilic place Hut troni whai can be learned It seems that the choice of location has now narrowea io two places. Vnderaonvtllc and Am ericas Andrrsonvtllr is favored because Hi. name and fame of t'apialu Wlrs is Indissolubly linked with that place and Its sad association Those who favor the placing of the monument in a city have now appeared to units In favor of Amerirua, as the city near est Atulv rsonrtlle. If there is any good re ason tor not placing the mono mrut at Anderaonvtlle and that It should be placed within a city, (hen Amerlcus would certainly tu the place. \merlons is so near \nd*re •onvtlle thst the ttag upou the tall pole at Hit old pusou site tk alnioss visible from the city, end the greater Part of tourists and visitors to An derson ville pasts through and stop in Arnerlcus, where the monument would fall under their notice. But The Herald remains of the opinion that. Andersonvllle is the most appro priate place to erect the monument |to this martyr of the Lost Cause, and victim of animosity of the victors which demanded the sacrifice of blood In the Intoxication of hard-won victory, which the Daughters of the Confederacy have labored so long and so arduously to erect In Ills honor. It appears that this conviction Is shared by nearly all who are Inter ested in this monument, and that those who object to Andersonvllle do so because they fear that at. Ander sonville the monument might fit- de faced or injured by vandals. There should he little ground for this an prehension. Andersonvllle Is too oe cluded to he visited by any except travelers of the better class who visit, it for Its war prison associa tions, and the people of lfs vicinity— j with ftte exception of the annual no- j gro gathering at that plaee. The lat- j ter Is only lor a day, when a proper j guard Is provided, which has been 1 found necessary anyway. Northern * visitors to Andefttonvllle are not of the vandal class, and the presence | of a watchmau oil the grounds would j rest ruin any who might feel disposed to vent spite against a people on a shaft of marble. But if, the Wirt monument having been placed In Andersonvllle, some j vandal should ever deface It, the dam age done by this desecrating hand would not be permanent. It would be promptly repaired, even to Ihe rearing ol a new and grander monu ment, for such an act would enlist the sympathy of many who are now IndllTeren* regarding the monument, and (o Ihe spirit which prompt**! fts erection. To plaee the monument In » city, because of apprehension as to Its inviolabtty In the open country, would seem to Indicate a misgiving on the part of those who erected it | as to the justice and right of erecting’ ihls monument at all. Let the Wlrz monument stand with j Ihe other monuments that have been set up to commemorate Anderson- i ville and its sad history. Rome is said to he "a pleasant field of operation" lor Imrglurs. But the trouble is that there Isu't much to burgle In Rome, so this news will hardly cause a great Inllux of yegg. Ilteu, A Florida editor claims to have dis covered a spring whose waters will restore hair to a bald head. It’s no use. Mr, Rucke.elleT will winter In Augusta despite alt efforts to lure him lo some other piaee. A man In Texas testifies thst ,-i’ter j having contributed to the democ/atlc! campaign fund an old wen on his neck disappeared. This should have (he same effect as a patent medicine certificate, Good also for old sores and other ailments. A CASE OF SOUR QRAPEB. The prize in the steer plowing eon •test in Home belongs to The tlerald, (milder all the rules of contest. The I judge admits this, but before ha de livers up the trophy, and with the scarce concealed purpose of being re lieved of (he painful necessity of yielding It to another city, ho Inter poses obtectlons In the shape of Inter ! rogatories. Not because we expect over to have the rhsnee to quaff! neai heer out of that cup, but to leave him no fair loophole of escape, wo an swer them: First A stale of oxhllirßtlon pre ! duced perhaps by anticipating tho vie jiory he wss sura to win. Second—Hearsay testimony, which can be admitted In no court. Third The telegram Itself fs prlma facte evidence, and Its genuineness | was acknowledged by the T.-H. when It published the same without rais ing a quest lon of doubt—before The Herald presented Its claim for the cup. Fourth A bridge should never he crossed until It Is reached Evsiy body must be supposed to attempt to cross a bridge ho mar meet In the road he ts traveling Having now satisfactorily answer, ed all questions, will the cup be sent? j" e frankly confess thst we regard (it a* a case of "sour grapes,” which all our urging of our claims mil never reach Our North Georgia friends have the holdon spirit oo strongly developed, holding on like j death to a dead African whether the j object be an ottlce or a championship ,!rophy. and who will not allow this i magnificent sliver lineup to come to ! East Georgia In proof of thla there if* Rhone's suggestion to put a atop jto these contests— as soon as it w it plain that North Georgia could not j hold the championship. The Herald regrets the mishap - which prevented It being on the spot, i as far more thaa healing them .»• ihe i |dcw It would bave been pleased to j visit "the places of Interest In ;»e city." with thst coni" Ith- of big | hearted and nimble fingered pencil [pushers. SHE AUGUSTA HERALD Echoes Of That Steer Plowing Contest. Putting Difficulties in the Way. As will be seen from the above the , editor of the Augugta Herald claims the by reason of the fact that I he made an honest effort to be pres ent at the steer-plowing match for j the purpose of contesting for the prize. In accordance with the well I known rule of court never to pro claim a man guiity until he is prov en so, we are presumed to believe that if he bad been present he would have appeared to plow at the appoint ed time, it really appearing that the other contestants fled or disappeared when the appointed time arrived. Un der this ruling the editor of The Her ald would have been entitled to the silver loving eup (with the accent on the silver.) But before the judge can I decide to propound the following ques tions for consideration, as is usual In equity cases. And we must re ! quest the chief judge Editor John C. fleeae, of the Atlanta Georgian, to make his findings thereon: j First; What caused the editor of The Herald to take the wrong train, when he shouid have started to Rome, and if the evidence shows that It was I through no fault of the Herald edi tor, what was his mental condition jat the time, and what caused such i mental condition? Second: Our suspicions have been ■ aroused by statemens of his rela i tlveß in Rome in regard to the unre i liability of The Herald man. We de i R ire this matter investigated, as his; character for reliability should be fully established before it will he de ; monslrated that he made an honest effort, to reach Rome In time for the plowing contest. Third: The genuineness of the tel egram to Col. Johnson should be ful ly established by competent evidence as it is a most Important piece of evidence, 1n establishing the fact that The Herald man attempted to reacT Rome, and his failure thrpugh no fault of his own. Fourth: We would also *lke to have some evidence produced, as to whether or not if The Herald man had reached Rome, he would bona fide In good faith have attempted to plow. Would he have been willing to have, faced five thousand people alone on, the field, the other contestants having fled? If these matters are settled to the satisfaction of the court, and he re ports favorably, we will seriously con sider awarding the Herald man the i cup. We will state further that on the morning on which the plowing con test was to have occurred, a commit tee was appointed to meet The Her ald man as he alighted from the train and escort him around to places of Interest In the city, and great dlsap-; point ment was expressed on ali sides at his failure to arrive.—Rome Trib une-Herald. Let's Relegate the Steer. For a year there has been going the round of the press much about steer plowing by Georgia editors. In fact the subject seems now as live as it was when It first flashed in the lime light at Augusta, November 1907, j where there was real plowing and much sweating and where reporters and photographers were as thick as millionaires and grafters In New York After the episode it was thought by ♦ ♦ ♦ POINT AND COUNTERPOINT. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Literary Men. No. Pauline, paragranhers are not llterarv men. It will bo well to remember this if vou should read whst the New York lady said: that literary men make poor husbands.—Augusta Herald. Yon don't call Rowell, Shop*. Ottlnger, Armstrong, Paul Cook, Frank Adams and the rest of the hunch literary men, do you?—At lama Georgian. Can’t Do Otherwise. Wonder If Mr. Hearst takes his party seriously?— Augusta Herald. Sure! It's bad medicine.r-Hartwell Sun. A Melancholy Pleasure. lion. Thos. E Watson ts now taking hand votes at his meet, ings. This is better than straw ballots because it will not allow repeating, but in the end will prove equally disappointing.— Augusta Herald Pont begrudge the deserted one of this small satisfaction. It Is sooth to the vanity of any man to see that some people, no matter how few, i agree with him sometimes.— Thomson Free Lance. True as Preaching. Nevertheless. The Augusta Herald says: "An , Augusta man saw Orville Wrtght j make his greai record-breaking flight In his aeroplane. Few im portant things happen in which Augusta Is not represented In sonic way," Don't believe a word of It; for the j claim discounts the Atlanta man—and •list'll never do—Balcbrhlge Demo crat. Not a Fact. Solomon said In his hast*, all men are liars If he hadn't been In such a hurry he would have said what he probably meant: all politician* are liars.—Augusta Herald. Which leads us to make this In quiry: Is It not a fact that the odttor o. The Herald is a noted politician j —Commerce Newt. ♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ a ♦ a a MEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE. a ♦ a ♦♦♦♦aaaaaaaaaaaaa MARION BUTLFR. [This presidential campaign Is cer tainly resurrecting sonic dead on os We not* that .Marlon Butler cam* to the participants that plowing by the Georgia editors would die of inani tion; but not so. Rome put forth strenuous advertising to the effect that a steer—no, by the great horn spoon—a bull—a sacred one from Egypt—would be plowed by editors and lawyers at the Rome. fair. And i but for the timely moving of Judge j Wright and John Reese no doubt we I would have been up against it goo J j and proper. Bowdre Phinizy w'as not present, owing to a serious mishap j which landed him In Washington in i stead of Rome, We do not know I whether it was the North Augusta dls i pensary or the Georgia railroad that caused him to board the wrong train. At any rate he failed to show up at Rome, and message,* received indicat ed his presence in Washington. Jack McCartney, of the Tribune- Herald, one of the principal plowers, was not to be seen at the fair grounds : and It is supposed that he was safely esconsed In a cyclone cellar, or hid den away in some oblivious plaee so common to the Roman city. Clair Rowell, while present, was also hiding, Editor J, Lindsay John son heing the only one remaining steadfast unto the end. So' the Rome affair has passed into history, and with Itß passing let’s pass the steer. He has furnished us much amusement, and no doubt has others, and while we would not attempt to impeach his faithfulness and his uni , form stubbornness, we suggest a long and unitermittent rest for him, with the added suggestion that he also rest In peace. Those in favor of our motion will please stand until they can be count ed.—Dalton Citizen. A Most Delectable Performance. The steer-plowing contest In Rome 1 Is attracting many of the editors to try their skill. The Augusta Herald Is contemplating taking the whole force over to entj- the contest and Editor Shope has been practicing for the past month in anticipation of the 1 event. With Col. I.lsdsey Johnson In line also it should prove a most delect- j able performance—Thomasvllle Times Enterprise. What Backed Him Out. Shope, of Dalton, went down to Rome to enter the steer-plowing con test, but as soon as the steer saw Shope It climbed a fence and escap ed.—Atlanta Georgian. Ripping Up the Earth. That steer-plowing contest between a number of Georgia editors recently j pulled off at Rome appears to have been a great success. Indeed, the j Georgia editors seem to be quite as i apt at ripping up the earth as they* are at ripping one another up the j back. —Washington Herald. A South Carolina Growler. The Georgia editors are having their annual steer plowing contest. They would use mules, but mules walk too fast. —Anderson Mall. Looks Like It. The Augusta Herald slurrlngly re fers to the magnificent loving cup. offered as a prize to the successful contestant at the steer-plowing con test as a “silver tin cup” Is this an other case of sour grapes?—Rome Tribune-Herald aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa • a a SOME POLITICAL DOPE. a 4 « aaaaaaaaaaaaaa Straw Ballots on a Steamer. It was stated in our dispatches yes terday that ’the passengers on a steamer coming across took a straw vote for president and that, 61 were lor Taft while only 11 were for Bry an. A straw vole is the only way Taft will be elected this year.—Co lumbus Ledger. Straw Ballots in a Hotel. In a hotel in one of the smallest towns of New York state the pro prietor, who is an ardent republi can, took a straw- vote of hU guests, there being twelve present. The en tire tv/elve declared that they would vote for Chanler for governor, and eleven slated they would vote for Bryan for president. The other one was for Taft. The hotel man had a n'ghtmare that lasted him all night. —Columbus Ledger. life the other day and made a speecn in some -Maryland town. We look for Mark Hanna and Janies K. Jones to come along at any time.—Bruns wick Newts. JOSEPH B. FORAKER. When It Is all over Mr. Foraker can enjoy a quiet laugh, all to hlmseit, dreaming of Teddy and Big Bill Taft gnashing their teeth In Impotent wrath.—Athens Banner. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. The more one ponders the riches of John l>. Rockefeller the more in comprehensible their Immensity, for every day brings forth the news of his ownership of someone else.—Lou isville Courier-Journal. NICHOLAS LONCWORTH. What a pity Teddy cannot banish Nick Lougworth to the seclusion of some country home as his friend Bill Hohenzollern does the prlnedk of his house when their mouths get to work lug automatically.—Macon News. WILLIAM J. BRYAN. A speech that Bryan never spoke, delivered in congress at a time when I congres* wzs not in session, is the I latest republican fake The G. O P | is evidently hard put to It.—Amerlcus I Tlmes-Recorder. ■ JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. The Baltimore Sun deelarea that If John Temple Graves la elected the i heavens will leak molasses." A* I long as there ts not the slightest j chance of Graves belns elected why • The Sun ts safe In now running any j risk at -isvlng Its prediction proven J false. —Wilmington Dispatch. 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It is safe to predict that the uemocrntic electors will be elected by a large majority over the combined opposition.—Hart well Sun. Telephone Girls J| Who give you telephone service are trained op erators.. They are citizens of this city and are faithful, earnest workers. But they are human beings. Their eneraies are bending toward giving you good service. Their mistakes arc mistakes of the head and not of the heart. »ned t ' .0 tha they EFFICIENT SERVICE. REASONABLE RATES. For Information Call 9050- Southern Belt Telephone de Telegraph Co. TUESDAZ, OCTOBER 1! HOT WATER BOTTLES 2 quart capacity, Mo roon Rubber, guaran teed for one year 4 $l5O x Every family should have one for comfort and emergencies. GARDELLE’S 620 BROAD STREET. WHY HAVE A DOCTOR? If you are not going to have his directions followed. We are equipped with all licensed pharmacists, and all our prescription work is done by them. Our prices are as reasonable as compe tent service permits, and we guarantee satisfaction. 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