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Augusta, Ga. f Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1909.
T.ter© Is no better wiy to reuioh the
homes of the prosperous people of this
elty and section than thr- gh the col
umns of The Het lid Daily and Sunday.
Parties leaving Augusta can have The
Herald cent them by mall each day.
'Phone 297, Circulation Department, If
you leave Augusta, so that The Herald
can resch you each d ;y.
It took the Waynesboro True Cltl
sen to discover that T-o A uausta F-or
T-aft spoils Taft.
Love still toughs at locksmiths. A
Couple has just been married In the
Birmingham jail.
The question “What shall we do
with our ox-presidents?" should never
be a perplexing one again. Send them
to Africa.
What connection is there between
the hipless fasaioil and the low price
of cotton? Why, decreasing demand
lor the staple, of course.
It has been ascertained that one'
person out of each 281 In Knglmid
is Insane. And this was before tie
suffragettes broke loose, too.
TCilltor Pullt/.iT Ih a groat traveler,
but you may bet your bottom dollar
tlun ho will not travel tn certain
parts of Africa the latter |>art of the
present year.
Now they nay that a vacuum auto
mobile has been Invented. Vacuum
headed drivers have been ill use some
time, and are something entirely dif
ferent.
1
Castro is reported ao bo much in
teres!ed in aeroplanlng. He probably
realizes that the only way he will
ever be able to gel hack to Venezuela
will be to fly there.
New York suffragettes have been
Incorporated. One advantage this of
fers Is that they may now be cussed
collectively Instead of having to do
so Individually.
Tom Longboat, the Indian long dis
tance runner, has been married He
may find out that a Ixmgboat with
a double crew will have stormy sail
lug sometimes on the matrimonial
sea.
The pool rooms In Brunswick were
raided the other night to discover
whiskey and none was found. So
even the pools have gone dry in that
city or / were the raiders near
sighted
The report that Miss Klklns Is to
become a trained nurse and that
Abrueel will go to climbing the Alps
makes those who are wise In such
matters predict that It Is now cer
tain to end In a wedding.
A shipload of blhles has just been
shipped from Honolulu to the South
Sea Islands Wonder If the cargo was
not completed with a consignment of
rum. which used to be the. regulation
combination for such vessels?
Mr. Gompers dislikes the dose given
him by the courts as much of John
I), did when Judge l<andU handed him
that big fine. And Mr. Gompers will
ntlnage to have hi* sentence reversed
just as John D. did.
Strangely enough the almanacs. In
noting the eclipses that will occur
during the year, have overlooked the
greatest of ali. It will begin on
March 4. and will be visible only to
portions of Africa during Its most in
teresting period
It cost Vncle Ham *IBO.OOO to pay
for the passage of his battleship fleet
through tne sue* canal, nut he will
get even when the Panama canal Is
completed, and other folks warships
pass through It on their cruises
around the world
It was the paragrspher of the Bir
mingham Age-Herald who discovered
that the sentence: "Pack my bo* with
five dosen liquor jugs," contains all
the letters of the alphabet. Wonder
how he was led to make this dis
covery ?
Harry Thaw has begun another ef
fort to get out pt his bughouse prison.
Harry Is a firm believer in the doc
trine that "If at first you don't suc
ceed, try, try again" He evidently
intends to keep trying until he shall
get out.
COL. W. W. OSBORNE
AND THE BRIGADIERS.
Col. W. W. Gabor IK', of Savannah,
has broken loose again. Since. the
memorable crusade he starter] by his
[famous epistles seme three j-urs ago
Ihe has remained in his 1; tie, at it
were, hut now as a prospective con
ic: tant for Senator Macon's seat he
tomes forth again and, naturally,
launches a letter the first thing.
Something may be expected to he
doling—for experience has taught
that this must be looked so
Col. Osborne takes his pen in hand
and begins to write letters.
His letter deals with the political
situation, of course. He has heard
of the efforts that are being nlade,
and planned to hr: made, to break the
solid south. So notorious are these
efforts that even in Savannah, en
grossed as it is with automobile race
matters and near-beer complications,
the people aro beginning (o sit up
and lake notice. To Col. Osborne
the breaking of the solid south is no
bugaboo, or at most it. Is a dead one.
As he explains, "Our proud boast—
Bolld South—ls a thing of the past
Missouri has twice gone republican.
Maryland has for the second time
given a popular leptibllcan major
ity. Kentucky has a republican gov
ernor.’’ The bolid south Is busted
already, so It Isn't worth while to bo
afraid of the happening of a thing
that has already happened.
Having thus made his position
dear at the outset ho proceeds. Me
attacks "our political brigadiers."
These he doesn't name. Whom he
has in mind when h ■ excoriates ihe
'brigadiers” can only be guessed
from the context and such veiled in
limatlons as are given. Hut those
brigadiers are "in a large measure
responsible for our present plight. I
say that In the past th• • > have failed
to measure up to their responsibili
ties it the time the opportunity of
fered." Then Col. Osborne specifies,
and the i.harge Hint lie makes Is lint
when In the spring of ’.907 Mr. Ilrynn
Med Mm:,ell to Washington “the
brigadh rs became suddenly stricken
with pariii.\Hts." LiHie id of tc ling
Mr. Bryan to begone i i y listened trf
him, and the result was Mr. Bryan’s
nomination.
From this we learn that the tirign
diets were In Washington, and that
the great offense they committed was
in not opposing Mr. Bryan’s candl
dacy tooth and nail. It iff consoling
to learn that the brigadiers all were
in Washington—for this makes the
task of political extermination that
the colonel Nets us lighter. All those
leaders at home who favored Mr.
Bryan’s nomination in common with
tlie rank and file of the party, are
held blameless, even though It was
I.vcaitse the brigadiers In Washing
lon held their ear to the ground, and
the attitude of their constituents
probably had much to do with thelt
not telling Mr. Bryan to go to Hall
lav when he consulted with them in
the spring of 1907.
Hut the brigadiers did more. They
not only refused not to antagonize
the masses of the democratic party
who favored Mr. Bryan as the candi
date of the party, but they antagou
ixed the republican president in a
course of action he had adopted. Col.
Osborne refers to the discharge of
the negro troopers who refused to
tell what they knew of the crime that
\v»s committed in the shooting up of
Brownsville. Since not all the demo
crats in Washington lined up with
Senator Foraker on this question, or
gave aid and comfort to the cause he
represented, tire number of brigadiers
who are marked as tit subjects for
political slaughter is still further re
duced. Senator Tillman was the
men conspicuous among tlre arch of
fenders and, let’s see, doesn't Sena
tor Bacon belong to this class?
On three points Col. Osborne seems
to make himself perfectly clear. The
first is that the solid south is al
ready a thing of the past, and Is
therefore a matter that deserves no
further consideration. The next is
Hint a democracy which preferred or
loyally supported Mr. Bryan is no
good and the leaders who did It are
brigadiers and should be ousted from
office and leadership. And the last
is that everything that Is republican
is not to be opposed, for sometimes or
in some things republican principles
or action may be exactly what the
south believes or wants.
And this pronuuclamento, coming
coincident with the efforts of repub
lican leaders to gain a stronger foot
hold for their party in the south, is
important, if not for the information
so eloquently imparted, at least for
what may ho read between the ltne6.
MR. TAFT AS A GOLF PLAYER
When Mr. Taft came to Augusta it
was understood that the purpose of
his visit was to come here to rest
and recuperate from the strain of the
campaign, and in preparation of the
work which he is soon to assume. He
had prescribed for himself the golf
treatment, believed by many eminent
doctors to be the best in such cases.
and this he lias diligently taken.
Since his arrival in Augusta he has
been on the golf links almost dally
' —and it may bo said in passing that
| the treatment is doing him an im-
I inense lot of good. There isn't any
| thing in the world so good to make
I a man strong physically and mental
ly as a few hours daily on the An
gusta go|| links during the winter
season.
So Mr. Taft has been in Augusta,
and he has played golf. Now golf,
like poker, Is a game that requires
an opponent to make it interesting.
An old rnald when she feels like play
ing a game of cards may be content
| to jday solitaire, but a big man wants j
an opponent to sit facing him with
whom to match skill. So it is with '
golf. Mr. Taft, a big man, when tv
plays wants an opponent with whom 1
to match skill. This lie has had in .
all the games he has played. And )
he hasn't always been the victor in ,
l hose games.
Whenever he played and lost a game '
the news has been sent out over the .
wires, by one or Ihe other of the !
corps of correspondents who are hon
fatly trying to earn their money. Tin |
result of these reports has been a I
growing belief among the people of |
the country that our president-elec:
Isn't much of a golf player. The
Brunswick News for instance, Just to
cite one out of many similar com- j
ments, Is led to remark that:
Every time we pick up a news
paper we see where some fellow
has beat the steam out of Taft
at golf. What s the matter with
Bill, can't he do the golf stunt?
Bo easy now. .Mr. Taft can do the
golf stunt all right. In 'fact he is a
greut.player. In proof of this it may
be mentioned, (confidentially) that ho
heat Major J. B. Gumming of Augus
ta in a great game they played the
other day. Major Gumming is one of
the world’s golf champions, if he
would claim this distinction which
he is too modest to do. But he is i
great player, and Mr. Taft beat him
to a frazzle, as President Roosevelt
would express it. This shows what
Bort of n player Mr. Taft is.
The little amateurish players conic
and beat him, greatly to their de
light, and then the watchful corres
pondents send out the report, and it
is heralded to the farthermost parts
of the country that Mr. So and So
lias beat the president at a game on
ihe Augusta golf links. But as it
was said of Hamldt'a nmdntss that
there was method in It, so there is’
method In the golf playing put up by
Mr. Taft.
Mr. John D. Rockefeller considers
himself the cock-of-the-walk of the
Augusta golf links. He has played
on them for successive winters. He
knows every inch of it, better than
he knows Standard Oil affairs —ac-
cording to his testimony. He just
thinks he can beat anything on the
Augusta golf links that can swing a
stick. Mr. Gamegie, who believes
that he is a great golf player and
pretends to bo anxious to meet Mr.
Rockefeller on the links, doesn’t dare
to come to Augusta and meet him on
the Augusta links. And Mr. Rocke
feller has been afraid to tackle Mr.
Taft on these links, for he would al
most as lief pay that $29,000,000 fine
imposed by Judge Landis as to be
beaten by Mr. Tuft on the Augusta
golf links.
Mr. Taft is just baiting him. Theso
successive reports of how Mr. Taft
lost games, as they reach Mr. Rocke
feller, will encourage the old gentle
man. They will feed his confidence
In himself, and he may come in time
for a battle royal on the links with
Mr. Taft before the latter must de
part to Ball over the Charleston bar
for Panama. And then just bet your
money on Mr. Tuft.
This is a tip, given confidentially,
to The News and others who have
expressed the same disappointment.
Don't you believe for a moment that
Mr. Taft is not a great golf player
because sonic amateurs have won a
game or two front him.
THE AUTOMOBILE HONK.
Since killing by automobiles has
become so common in Atlanta, to con
trol them and reduce this slaughter
has become a pressing problem In
that city. All kinds of suggestions
are being made, looking to this end.
all of them of more or less value.
Among these Is one In regard to the
"honk." A clttien makes the follow
ing suggestion in The Constitution:
"Owing to so many accidents, '
and many of them fatal, too, by
automobiles, would It not be wise,
on the part of council, to pass
an ordinance not allowing auto
mobiles the use of whistles,
horns, bells or any noise-making
signals; but simply let them look
out for the public, as do drivers
of vehicles drawn by animals?
As the city law now stands, the
automoblltst is a preferred class
of riders The tooting of the
horns rattles the pedestrian, and
he run*, unwittingly, out of one
danger Into another."
There seems considerable merit la
this suggestion. Some years ago,
whsn bicycles were first Introduced
and became popular, they were al-
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lowed to run on the sidewalks. By
ordinance of council each bicycle was
then required to carry a bell, the in
tention being that the bell be rung
,to give warning cf the approach of
;a bicycle. It had exactly the effect
J indicated above; pedestrians became
! rattled by the sudden ringing of a bi
■ cycle bell behind them, and not in
frequently jumped in the way when,
by the bicyclist passing quietly
around them, a collision could have
been avoided without any difficulty.
Bicycles are no longer allowed cn the
sidewalk, but if they were they would
he better equipped without bells than
with them, providing them with bells
seemed to give them a privilege
which cannot be accorded them.
And this applies with equal force
to thfe automobile honk. What does
the "honk, honk" of the automobile
means if not “I>ook our, I'm coming.”
A:: the fastest moving and most dan
gerous vehicle it is, or should be, the
duty of the automobile driver to look
i out. If he passes a vehicle or pedes
trian from the rear it is his duty to j
[make this passage the best way he
can without, demanding the right of
way. If he passes a cross street or
a place from which a vehicle or pe
destrian may suddenly appear to
cross his path, it is his duty to go !
In such a manner that a collision
will he avoided. Hence he has little
use for a honker, unless It be claimed 1
f.jat the automobile is a privileged ;
vehicle which under all circumstances
has the right of way.
However, the honk of the automo- i
bile may be useful at times. It gives I
a warning which is recognized and
which sometimes may be necessary !
In this way it is being used in and 1
around Augusta, where for all the !
large number of automobiles In use
the honk is rarely heard. From the
suggestion of the Atlanta man quoted
above it would seem that in Atlanta
It is different; and it may he that ex- |
eesdlve and unwarranted uso of the j
honk is in part responsible for the ;
many automobile accidents that have j
occurred.
For it is certain that when the au
tomobile honk is used very freely the
driver is possessed of the idea that
he has greater rights on the road
than others.
The Georgians’ Admiration.
Those Georgians are quarreling
over Taft. The smiling statesman is
breaking them all up. The Augusta
Herald never gets done talking about
what a big catch Augusta made in
securing him for the winter, whilst
the Charleston News and Courier is
so jealous that It still insists that
Mr. Taft made a big mistake in not
selecting Charleston. .
The latter paper refers the presi
dentelect to government statistics
to prove that Charleston has preempt,
’ed all the sunshine on earth and that
the mean temperature in December
is 51 degrees In Charleston and a|t
unlly 48 degrees in Augusta.
All that is enough to make a Flor
ida alligator shed tears of laughter
as it rolls over in its warm water
with the temperature for the same
month at 65 to 75 degrees and the
sun shining ali but a day or two. But
f lorida is not jealous, knowing full
well that Taft is trying to break up
the solid South by starting in on
Georgia. And as we have stated, they
ure already all broken up over him,
in fact they are really "daffy” and
as the girls say of a fellow, they are
"simply crazy over him.”
T aft s good nature has permeated
their solidity and they are becoming
liquified with admiration to the ex
tent that we shouldn’t be surprised
If they would permit the great “lid”
[sitter, sit on them.—Orlando Fla
Star.
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PRESIDENTELECT TAFT.
After Mr. Taft has feasted on ’pos
sum and 'tatgjr at the Atlanta ban
quet it will not be necessary for any
one to ask "upon what meat doth this
our Caesar feed, that he is grown so
great?"—Charleston Post.
JUDGE EMORY SPEER.
Judge Speer is spoken of in con
nection with the office of Attorney
General. He would make a good one
—Columbus Ledger.
HON. W. J. BRYAN
Bryan is still undecided as to
whether he will ever l>e a candidate
for president again. One thing is
pretty certain, however, and that is
ho will never be nominated by the
democrats again. He can put that
fact in his pipe and smoke it. —La-
grange Reporter.
HON. W. W. OSBORNE.
Billy Osborne already puts out for
the senate against Raoon. And they
say that this is going to be a dull
year. Watch your P's and Q's bovs
or somebody will get it just below
the chin— Thoniasvtlle Tlmes-Enter
prlse.
SENATOR FORAKER.
Maybe when Senator Foraker's
term expires, the everlasting Browns
vllle question will take a back seat
in congress. Notyidv wants to ven
tilate the matter except Foraker. and
he does it for purely political pur
poses.—Rome Trtbune»Herald.
SULTAN ABDUL HAMID.
The Sultan of Turkey has decided
to build a new parliament house for
the accommodation of the two
branches of the legislature at his
own expense. He will doubtless so
construct the building as to be able
to entrap the members at will. —
Rome Tribune-Herald.
CALABRIA THE LAND OF DESOLATION
Galabria is a region untraveled and
all but unexplored; scarcely more
conventional today than when a hun
dred years ago, it welcomed the ar
mies of Napoleon with ambuscade,
assassination and an endless intes
tine turmoil. Railroads pierce their
way in manner tentative and apolo
getic; they seem to respect the frown
ing fastnesses, the "Sturdy independ
ence, the hardy, stubborn clannishness
of these mountaineers; they observe
no schedule and may be said to ar
rive nov.hither. Local customs, lo
cal costumes, local manners prevail.
A certain leaven of suspicion, a na
tive contempt for the stranger, a
rugged regards for the plainer vir
tues, the primitive truths, is the herit
age of all. With it goes, too, a quite
noticeable and candid understanding
of certain trails of character, at once
Calabrian and highland. "Rogues to
the core,” is the verdict of one indig
nant observer, a victim too clunisv
to make good sport; the local phrase
gives the savor in form no loss com
prehensive; "if you would not be
pricked by a Calabrian you must first
prick him.”
Where culMvable at all the land
is wondrou3ly fertile; out of a purple
sky the sun beats down with pitiless
directness; the little red roofs lie
snug and close, nestling together
alike for company and protection; a
picturesque peasantry clad indiffer
ently in dignity and rags, gladdens
the picture with a splash of color,
ox carts move slowly; bandits and
fever supply the conversation. The
olive woods; the corn fields punctu
ated with popples; the turgid, tawny
streams; the hum and drone of a
myriad insect life; an occasional ber
sagliere with waving plume and uni
form steeples or tingle from the pa
tient necks of driven kine; surely a
very paradise to fascinate and hold
the artist. Life is lived in the open;
secrets are hard to keep; a peremp
tory lowliness of demeanor seems to
have come down from an ancestry of
bluest blood; all things are of palpi
tating interest to a teeming popula
tion devoted to the fantoccini and
respectful to the saints.
In ;he good old days of Bourbon
tyranny the country teemed with con
ventual establishments; most of them
have been secularized, but the
churches remain, a wondrous arsenal
of imagery and decoration, bizarre
and but barbaric. And to these
churches a devout population lookc-d
in the day of terror for comfort, and
refuge, mindful of the Tlorientine’s
sounding line: “In la sua volunt-ade
e nostra pace.”
Burly mountains, impenetrable and
frowning, frame the landscape on ev
ery side; from Monteleone, in the
A Strike In jP> fegypt.
Recent investigations in Egyptian
history disclose the details of a labor
difficulty at Thebes in the year 1400
B. C. The strike was in the building
trades and the strikers were masons.
They were paid in rations, and they
claimed that these were insufficient
to sustain them and their families un
til the following pay day.
On the 10th of the month they laid
down their tools and gathered behind
a chapel. “We are hungry,” they
said, “and there are eighteen days
before tne next pay day.” They
charged the paymasters with dishon
esty, saving, that they gave false
measure. The paymasters charged
the men with want of foresight in
feasting too well while the rations
lasted.
After long discussion the men de
cided to return to work on condition
that Pharaoh himself invesiigati the
matter. Two days later Pharaoh came
to the temple and decided that the
masons should have their wages
raised at once. For a little while all
went well, but evidently the pay
masters did not live up to their agree
ment, for on the sth of the next
month the strike was again in full
force and for three whole days not a
tool was lifted.
Tile strikers decided to go out to
the public with their troubles, but
they found themselves locked in the
temple. Then they broke out and rush
ed into the streets, frightening pedes
trians as they paraded the thorough
fares. —Chicago News.
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Matrimony and Alimony.
The Baltimore Sun having asked
whether a man can marry on $6 a
week the Augusta Herald relieves its
suspense by answering “Yes, but he
can’t pay much alimony on that sal
ary.”—Amertcus Times-Recorder.
The Proper Place To Do It.
The Herald calls on Augustans to
make a new year's resolution to let
booze alone. And this, mind you.
In a prohibition town. —Anderson
Mail.
Big Hats and Long Stockings.
The big hats have gone out of
fashion, but it would have been of
more practical benefit to those ex
pected to do the Santa Claus act,
thinks the Augusta Herald, if those
long stockings had gone first. —Fair-
burn News.
Plenty of Good Samaritans.
Thirsty fellows saved a blind tiger
from being caught In a South Geor
gia county, by drinking all his stock
on hand. And this leads the Augusta
Herald to remark that there are kind
hearted men in every county ready
to extend the same sort of help to a
tiger in distress.—Rome Tribune-Her
ald.
A Man's a Van, For A' That.
The Augusta Herald says: “Of
course Mr. Taft will put at least one
Southern man in his cabinet. Y'ou
may just bet your sweet life on that,
for he has promised to give the South
a square deal." lr Mr. Taft really
must have a Southern man la his
cabinet, let him get one who has al
ways been a republican. The South
does not wish to be represented by
renegades. Jacksonville Times-
Uniou.
heart of its cinquantina, one clambers
incessantly; li'tle brown villages dot
the verdant vallejs sheer five hun
dred feet below; ancient citadels,
reluctant converts to the ways of
peace, perch on pinnacles of jutting
rock; smoking Sfromboli threatens
and hovers in the mist forty miles
eastward.
History and legend, fable and myth,
jostle in an indistinguishable mel
ody; Normans and Saracens. Greeks
and Levantines, Bourbon and Savoy
ard have painted the panoplied page
of memory with the deeds of their
heroes; Calabria has been the canvas
of the chronicler. Here it was at
Pizzo that Joachim Murat, erstwhile
King of Naples, came on October 13,
IBl's, to a tragic and untimely end
For seven years he ruled, reformed
and toiled; his ic-ign bristles with
achievement, he had -a. genius for
great deeds, a very hunger ol crea
tion. He cannot be said to have
been tried, hardly so much as heard.
A Bourbon in a panic was no stickler
for forms. At Catanzaro he outri
valed Gibraltar and put Ehrenbreit
stein to the blush; where today is
place more peaceful? Its cases are
no less gilded, no less frequented
than those of Naples, the Brescia has
a reputation among the fastidious,
you will find ihe Times in the read
ing-room. From the days of Robert
Guiscard to ihosfe of Murat-time
touched it lightly; but yesterday it
was the center of wealth and luxury,
the favorite child of thrift; today a
scorched and tortured mass of smold
ering ruin.
From Catanzaro to Cosetija the
road lies arduous and precipitous
through scenery of unexampled wild
ness and impressive grandeur; oaks
and chestnuts fringe the pathway,
ravines and canons 'yawn and threat
en; the purl of mountain streams
gladdens and cheers. Right in a hoi
iow of the hills, where two rivers join,
lies Cosenza, whose reputation for
unhealthiness is not to be matched in
a land of, insalubrious notoriety. Its
mildewed churches; narrow, crooked
byways and frowning citadel are an
unforgetable picture, its miasma a
lingering horror. Here may ofie see
the picturesque Calabrian costume at
its best; here is a robust peasantry
unchanged and unchangeable, brave
in scarlet and white; its women wear
ing an oddly freakish hat, comical
and all but Welsh. Earrings and um
brellas convey a sense of incongru
ous decoration; chains of gold and
the mantila of mystery are at once
national and local.
Today they wake or sleep with the
enduring dead; earthquake has “jarr
ed their battlements and towers.” —
Edward A. Jonas, in Louisville Cou
rier—Journal.
Georgia Again to the Fore.
The commonwealth of Georgia can
| always be depended on to pull off
some kind of a stunt to astonish the
natives and keep herself in the lime
light. Not satisfied with the remark
able degree of success which has at
tended her untiring efforts to keep
both pro and anti bureaus of sis
ter states, groaning for the truth,
fully informed according to their lik
ing respecting the workings of pro
hibition within her borders, she now
comes forward with a court decision
in which the right of a no account
husband to demand support at the
hands of his wife is denied.
The decision in question was hand
ed down by Judge Pendleton of the
Fulton superior court in the divorce
suit of Mrs. Mary J. Simmons vs.
Almand Simmons. In the answer filed
by the latter he set forth the claim
that at the time of the wedding he
j was about 40 and his bride about v
I years of age, and that the controlling
influence with hint in proposing mar
j riage to the ancient dame was her
private estate valued at $15,000 or
more which she intimated needed a
man of about his size and shape to
look after it. Furthermore, he claim,
jed that he is largely dependent, upon
-his wife for support and asked for
temporary and permanent alimony,
j The judge as before indicated, refus
[ ed to see it that way and denied the
defendant’s claim for alimony.
Should this decision become a pre
cedent Its effect is destined to be far
reaching in limiting the opportunities
!of elderly women to contract mar
riage with gushing and confiding
youth, and may, therefore, be account
ed a crushing blow to those tender
i impulses of the heart which, as it
| never grows old, reckons not with
I age.
I Thus one by one are the cherished
(ideals of the past being overthrown.
—Houston Post.
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♦ MR. TAFT AND AUGUSTA. ♦
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Mr. Taft has taken to automo
biling in Augusta, it is to be hoped
he wont- exceed the speed limit.—
Rome Tribune-Herald.
Strangers are flocking to Augusta
to see the next president and Au
gusta. according to all reports, is tak
ing them in strictly and mercilessly
on a cash basis.—Houston Post.
Mr. Taft by getting aboard the
water-wagon ahead of time must have
relieved a lot of ,embarrassment for
prohibition .Augusta—Wilmington Dis
patch.
Those visiting newspaper corre
spondents must find it quiet in Au
gusta, since Mr. Taft has not built
a new cabinet in about a week.—
Brunswick News.
Taking him out to hear a prohibi
tion sermon is an indication that those
Augusta people must have been
afraid that Judge Taft's “swear off"
wouldn t stick.—Columbus Enquirer-
Sun.
Mr. William Howard Taft appears
to have upset the entente cordiale here
tofore existing between Charleston
and Augusta. A most unusual rol?
for the big Ohioan, we believe
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
NO BETTER CLOTHES
ANYWHERE, AND
FEW AS GOOD
AS DORR’S
>■
We’ve a number of clients —
men who spend their winters here,
and who, every year, wait until
they return to. Augusta to have
their Clothes made by us.
They’ve long since found out
that Dorr Clothes represent the
highest type of tailoring, that
Dorr style and Dorr make-up are
superior to the great majority of
Clothes made by the best tailors
in their home cities.
t
Tailoring, Furnishings
For Men of Taste.
For Sale
Store and dwelling on
lot southwest corner of
Walton Way and Chaffee
Avenue.
$2,000.00
Apply To
Clarence E.Clark
Just In.
New lot of those 2 qt.
Hot Water Bags (Maroon
Rubber) every one guar
anteed for 12 ai rfr
months. Price .. .mUOU
You don’t know v;hat
solid comfort, these bags
afford on cold nights.
Gardelle’s,
Druggist,
620 BROAD.
GOME TO ALEXANDER'S
For Good Soda Wat
er and Creams.
So many people
tell us our’s tastes
better and is better.
«
Try it yourself and
see what you think
of it. You may not
be getting yonr mon
ey’s worth now.
Prescriptions a
Specialty.
Alexander Drug Go
708 Broad St.
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AUGUST A. GA.
Announcement.
EMPIRE WATER METERS
and Other Meters Manufactured
By Tha
NATIONAL METER COMPANY.
HENRY HUTT, Agent
Phone 472 611 Broad St.