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Por Rent.
Six room house in North Augusta. This cot
tage is new and attractive and well located, on a
large lot.
Price, s2o Per Month.
WM. E. BUSH
A and 5 Library LSuildinjg.
SAFE INVESTMENTS
900 Block Reynolds, brick house, annual rental, $360.00. Price $4,000.
Corner Walker and Fifth streets, brick house on 40 foot, lot and 40-
foot lot adjoining. Price $6,000
Corner Taylor and Fifth streets, 7 room house and three lots.
PRICE SI,BOO
Lower Telfair street, 9 room house, on very large lot
PRICE $1,750.
AT art in & Garrett
STOCKS
Orders executed to buy and sell stocks, bonds
and investment securities on the New York Stock
Exchange. We solicit'-your business.
ARGO & JESTER
7 Ltbrary Building. Phone 12.
BULLET BOUNDED
OFF NEGRO’S HEAD
Ed Sheppard Glad Because
Ke is a Hard Headed coon
While approaching ihe Georgia
end of the Southern railroad trestle,
Friday night, Ed. Sheppard, n negro,
was ahot In the head by Home un
known person. The negro's head
was so hurd. that. Instead of pene
trating It the bullet bounded off
and dropped to the ground.
The negro was stunned by the
shock and he was tßken to the
mar hospital, but tn a short time he
was able to leave and walk to Ills
home. There la no clue to the would
be assnssln.
Father L J. Vaughan,
ON
“Power of Love."
Auaplecea City Lyceum and
Knights of Columbus,
The Grand, Friday Night,
Jan. 15th.
Reservation open at Ives'
Jan. 12th.
PRICES: SI.OO, 75c, and 25c.
INTEREST NOTICE
Regular Six Months Interest has been placed to credit of de
positors and will be compounded from January Ist, 1909.
Deposits made up to and Including January the 10th, will bear
Interest from January the Ist.
The Augusta Savings hank
“Where Savings Arc Safe.”
PERCY E. MAY, DR. THOMAS R. WRIGHT
President, Vice President.
J. G. WEIGLB, Cashier.
«
Eureka Roofing
The Roof without a fault, you can put It on right over shingles
For sheds, barns, etc.; It has no equal. You can use It In the Are
limits. We will give you a little booklet telling all about this roof.
Come, write or telephone, us
Augusta Builders Supply Co.,
643 Broad Street. Telephone 321.
BLANK BOOKS
and Office Stationery
Fit your office and counting room with a sup
ply for the New Year, at
PENDLETON’S BOOK STORE
Large Collection
Of Ante-Bellum Gold Jewelry. Atlver and Sheffield ware, will
be on exhibition at our store, beginning January 4th. Mr. Victor
Stem, of Asheville. N. C., will be in charge of this deiairtraent.
who will be pleased to show you through this department.
L. .1. SCMAUL & CO.
840 BROAD, ST.
I CAN’T LEAVE MONEY
TO KEEP GRAVE GREEN
Brooklyn Judge Says that
the Hungry Living Needs
More Than a Grave Does.
NKW YORK While there are heirs
laround, metropolitan justice will nvi.
uphold a will wlileli devotes a man’a
fortune to keeping his grave green.
Thomas Driscoll, a Long Islander,
tried to do tills, leaving $10,060 In
trust to a Roekaway eliurch, the pro
ceeds to he devoted to raring for his
hurlel polt. A Brooklyn Judge upset
the will because It violates the sta
tute against perpetuities and the
money Is not Intended for a charit
able- use,
"On general principles," said the
Justice, "it Is better that the hun
gry living should be fed than that
dead men's graves should have flow
! ers on them.
; "A neglected graveyard Is a more
j effective lesson to pride and selfish
| ambition than the smug anil self-sat
i isfled decency that speaks of mer
jeenary care.”
MICHIGAN MEN SHOW.
DETROIT, Mich. —An exhibit of
several hundred birds by the National
Single Comb Rhode Island Red Club
Is the feature of the fifteenth annual
hen show of the Michigan Poultry As
sedation, opened Saturday In Detroit.
Poultry from nearly every state of
the Union Is on exhibition.
Force of Ninety Road Hands
Prepared Way For Taft Auto
Several Dubious Places on
Sand Bar Ferry Road
Were Thoroughly Work
ed Over Saturday Morn
ing, and President-Elect
Steamed His Way to
Beech Island.
In order that the Taft, automobile,
a big White steamer, might pass with
absolute safety over one or two du
bious places on the Sandbar Ferry
road, Judge Eve turned a force of 90
men loose on the three-mile stretch
Saturday morning, and within four
hours the laborers had accomplished
a remarkable feat.
It was at first thought Mr. Taft, and
his party would be compelled to ride
to the Beech Island Farmers’ club
house in carriages, in case the road
gang failed to finish their work,, but
at II o’clock word came in that, tho
road was clear, and the steamer was
driven out to the Terrett cottage.
Visiting newspaper correspondents
were also the guests of the club, and
left In carriages at 11 o'clock.
Quite a large delegation of Augus
tans attended the club meeting, some
of them being regular patrons of the
monthly ’cue and debate, others at
tracted there by the distinguished
presence of the president-elect.
ALL NEARLY READY
FOR TAFT BANQUET
Committee May Finish
Saturday The Seating
Diagram Ready—Build
ing is Formally Tendered
ATLANTA, Ga. —Saturday after
noon the committee on arrangements
of the chamber of comerce hopes to
complete all preparations for the Taft
banquet of next Friday night. There
was no meeting of the committee
scheduled for Friday afternoon.
A diagram of the seating arrange
ments has been prepared and will be
used In distributing the banqueters in
their proper places without confusion.
The tables, forking from the speak
ers’ table that will stretch across the
south wall of the smaller auditorium,
will be designated by letter, and the
seats will he shown by number, each
table being numbered from 1 to 00,
the odd numbers being on the east
and the even numbers on the west
of each table.
The speakers’ table will he planted
on an elevated platform one foot high
er than the main floor, and will be
backed up by a sloping bank of ferns
and palms.
Besides those who sit at the speak
ers' table with the guest of honor,
there will be 472 banqueters seated
in the hall, eight seats being lost In
the genornl arrangement by the in
terference of four pillars. The total
number of banqueters will be about
600.
Carnations. It is believed, will be
the fnvors at the banquet, though
this has not yet been decided.
The directors of the Auditorium-
Armory company. In whose hands the
structure will continue till ft Is turned
over to the city, met In the offices of
the chamber of commerce Friday
morning and formally voted to extend
4o the chamber the use of the build
ing for the occasion.
A committee to wait on council and
ask for a city appropriation to help in
decorating the banquet hall was ap
pointed by the Auditorium-Armory di
rectors as follows: John E. Murphy,
chairman; James H. Gray, Col. W. L.
Peel, R. S. Weasels and Gen. Clifford
Li. Andurson.
USE STEAM ROLLER TO
HOLD PATIENT DOWN
With Young; Butchor
Knives Doctors Will Cut
Cataract Off Rhinoceros’
Eye.
NEW YORK.—A unique operation
for cataract of the eye will be per
formed in this city within the next
week, and a steam roller and 100 men
will be list'd to hold down the patient
while the doctors ply their knives.
If you have ever owned a rhinoc
eros pet that played around your
floor room flat this Item will be of
particular Interest. Mogul Is the big
gest rhino In the Bronx Zoo. He has
a cataract, which If his sight Is to be
saved, must be removed. The author
ities of the zoo are up against the
proposition of taking It off The steam
roller Is to be attached to Mogul’s
hlinl legs by a rope, and an engineer
will keep the machine going to pre
vent the animal from getting up. The
front feet will be anchored to a spile
driven In the ground. A body of men
will sit on the beast’s back as an ex
tra precaution Tnon the doctors will
go to work with young butcher knives
for scalpels.
AFTER NINE YEARS
MAN GETS PARDON
Served Under a Death
Sentence for Killing His
Father But Will Now Go
Free.
TOPEKA, Kan.—-After nine years
behind prison bars, under the shadow
of a death sentence. John Henry Col
lins, the Kansas University student
who was convicted in 1899 of slaying
his father, is a free man. On Mon
day he wUI apply to Governbr Hoch
for a full pardon, and the chief exe
cutive. as the last important official
act of his administration, will restore
to ColUns bis absolute freedom and
the full rights of citizenship. So will
end the most important murder case
lu the history of Kansas.
THE AUGUSTA
FARMERS WIVES TO
HOLD CONFERENCE
Will Meet at the State Ag
ricultural College at
Athens and Discuss Time
ly Topics.
Special to The Herald.
AaLANTa, Ga. —Invitations have
been received in this city and
throughout the state to ‘‘A Confer
ence of Farmers’ Wives” to be held
at the State College of Agriculture,
in Athens, January 19 to 23, coincid
ent with the Farmers’ Conference to
be held there then under the direc
tion of President A. M. Soule. This
invitation is extended through Mrs.
Walter B. Hill, wife of the late be
loved and distinguished chancellor of
the University of Georgia. With the
invitation there is sent a program of
the various addresses to be given be
ginning Tuesday morning January 19,
and concluding Friday afternoon at
2:30 p. m. The list of subjects to be
touched upon are both varied and in
teresting and the speakers include
both men and women who are the
recognized authoriiies in the South
upon the topics in hand.
One of the most interesting fea
tures in connection with this confer
ence will be the exercises on Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 p. m., when Miss
Mary Creswell of the Slate Normal
school will deliver a lecture on "The
Principles of Cookery,” which will be
follewed by a demonstration in cook
ery by Miss Meigs, a student, teach
er of the State Normal school locat
ed at AI hens. During the past few
years it is claimed that the greatest
advancement has been made in this
department and it is believed de
monstrations to this effect will be pre
sented. Visitors to the recent state
fair in Atlanta recall with pleasure
the cooking demonstrations shown
there where cottonseed oil com
pounds were used instead of tho
common hog lard as a shortening and
the wonderful results produced. This
form of shortening is becoming gen
eral throughout the country, now, and
is contributing mainly to the success
of the new style of cooking.
Another interesting lecture for this
conference will be that on Thursday
afternoon, when Prof. M. P. Jarnigan
will make a talk on "Pure Milk. The
outlook for dairy farming In our
state.” He Is a recognized authority
on this subject and will give them
good pointers on this subject Since
the use of cotton-seed meal mixed
with hulls as a cattle feed for dairy
cows as well as work stock has come
to lie general the interest in this in
dustry has increased and the results
proving most satisfactory. The cream
has been richer, the yield greater
and the general health of the stock
improved. There will be a large
gathering at this conference it is
; thought.
HORSES. COWS. POULTRY.
Buy quality foods of N. H. Willet
Seed Co., 309 Jackson St. Horses
(Otto Weiss; cows (Maz-aflora) and
poultry (.Willet’s brands.)
BLACK HAND BAND
LARGE IN NEW YORK
America Seems to be a
Sort of Promised Land to
Italian Criminals.
Nli YORK—“America seems to
be a sort of promised land to Ital
ian criminals," says Police Commis
sioner Bingham in his annual report.
The report is the first real round up
the metropolis has had of the pro
portions of Black Hand crime. It
shows That there were 424 Black
Hand cases, 44 of them bomb ex
plosions, in 1908, and thajr there were
215 arrests and 3t> convictions, an im
proving, but not a satisfactory show
ing.
Other authorities have estimated
that the “mano nera’’ cleans up $lO,-
000,000 a year in Greater New York
and levies blackmail on a majority
of the Italian population. One writ
er puls tlv> membership of this bank
as higi e $40,000. but that is ob
vously an exaggeration.
Cheney’s Expjctorant cuts coughs
and colds short. Cures babies and
grown people. 25c.. all druggists.
JUDGE SPEER ASSIGNS
CASES SATURDAY
Real Work of the Term
Will Begin Monday
Morning.
Judge Speer opened the second ses
sion of the IT. S. court and district
court Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
Cases were assigned for the term and
motions were head. One or two bank
ruptcy cases were adjudicated and
admissions to Federal bar practice
were duly granted.
No other business of importance
was transacted. The real work of ;be
tevm begins Monday morning, when
court takes up the trial of cases as
signed for that day.
DUNN’S PLACE WAS
RAIDED FRIDAY
Fonr Barrels of Half
Pipjs Were Fonnd on
P/n lises.
"Hi'e near beer saloon of John J.
Dunn's on the corner of Broad and
j Marhury streets, vras raided by Ser
! grants Peebles. Reynolds. Whittle
and Officer J. H. Wilkins Friday
night. Four barrels full of pint and
holt rdnt bottles of whiakey were
found.
GERMAN FOREIGN
OFFICE REFORMED
Clerks Are Now Appointed
For Their Fitness and
Not Because of Family
Connections As Before,
BERLIN. —Herr von Schon, secre
tary of state for foreign affairs, has
begun with the promised reform of ,
the foreign office. An attempt will
be made to abolish many practices
borrowed from the circulocution of
fice. Men will be appointed as
clerks, not because of their family
connections, but because of their fit
ness. Work will be simplified, and
in certain departments the British
foreign office is to be taken as a
model. ,
The Frankfurter Zeitung draws at
tention to the fact that among a hun-}
dred odd diplomatic appointments j
abroad, only four are men who do j
not belong to noble houses, important i
four fill offices in small and unim-1
portant countries. Every man in all
the great embassies and ministeries
ihroiighout the world is a prince of
a count or a baron or is entitled to
prefix his name with “Von.” The
Frankfurter Zeitung wonders wheth
er the recent revelations of incapac
ity in the German foreign office an!
diplomatic service have anything to
do with the state of affairs.
BECAUSE GIRL DIED
MAN KILLED HIMSELF
German Doctor Thought
That He Would Be Ac
cused of Sweetheart’s
Death and Committed
Suicide.
BERLIN. —A doctor named Ligo
wski, of Elbing, has just committed
suicide under singular circumstances.
He fell in love with a young woman
named Bertha Klein, but certain al
legations which his friends made
against the girl affected him so much
that he made up his mind to commit
suicide.
Bertha Klein heard what he was
going to do, and, seizing a bottle of
prussic acid in his surgery, drank it
and died. Her death deeply affected
the doctor, who imagined that lie
would be accused of her death. A
friend of the doctor informed the po
lice authorities, who sent him with
the object of giving him friendly ad
vice. Itelieving that he was going
to be arrested, Ligowski committed
suicide by shooting himself.
THOUSANDS OF MEN
ARE WITHOUT JOBS
Despite the Feeling of
Prosperity the New York
Bread Lines are Packed
With Shivering People.
NEW YORK.—Despite the feeling
of prosperity that has been constantly
growing in New York for more than
a year, there are still thousands of
men without jobs. The “bread lines"
are packed with shivering persona
nightly, and the park benches are
dark with huddling figures when
evening comes. To cope with such
conditions the Bowery Mission, famed
for its numbers of converts fiom the
slums, will give a daily breakfast to
the hungry and homeless who apply.
There wili be food for 2,000 empty
stomachs each morning in s he future.
The first of the free meals for 2,000
men will be given January 10th.
PROMINENT NEW YORK
MEN TO FIGHT DUEL
Will Use Wax Bullets to
Shoot Their Opponents
With. No Real Harm is
Feared.
NEW YORK.—Prominent men of
this city are preparing to meet each
other in a series of duels with pis
tols at 20 paces. Of course the fam
ilies of the combatants hole there
will be no blood spilled, hut it is
doubtful if the seconds of the duel
ists will allow bouts between real ene
mies.
The duels are to be held in the
New York Athletic club with regular
duelling pistols imported from France.
But instead of lead the bullets will
be made of soft wax. Duels with wax
bullets have become the fad of Eu
rope, but this is the first introduction
of such combats in this country. The
duellists are covered with a loose
sheet of canvas to protect them from
Injury and on the robe is painted a
red heart at which the opposing com
batant will aim.
Perhaps the “all-America” confer
ence will prove another step toward
the “Parliament of man."
Castro must be more than ever con
vinced that he chose the phycholog
ical moment for disappearing.
WANTED.
The hardest cases of MORPHINE.
OPIUM and LIQUOR addictions to cure
In ten days by our new PAINLESS
method. No extreme nervousness, ach
ing limbs, diarrhoea or loss ot sleep.
Only sanitarium in the world giving UN*
CONDITIONAL GUARANTEE. Money
can be placed in bank and paymant
made after a cure is realised. Patients
who cannot visit Sanitarium can be
cured privately at home. References:
Any Ranker. Minister, City Offtcal or
Cititen of Lebanon. Write today for large
free booklet of particulars. Address
Cedarcroft Sanitarium
Dept. H. a. LEBANON, TENN.
THE SAVOY’S
past record of being reliable in qualify of syrups
and in polite service, is an assurance that
we will retain all of our old friends
and gain many new ones.
Howard's Savoy, on the corner
The Finest and Most Artistic *
Diamond Jewelry At The
Lowest Prices. We
Invite Inspection.
Wm.SCHWEIGERT&CO
JEWELERS.
MORE EARTHQUAKE
SHOCKS COMING
Scientists Declare That
Devastating Quakes will
Visit Italy Again This
Week. !
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NEW YORK. —Scientists predict i
that the 'quakes that have devastated
southern Italy are not at an end.
Prof. Frank A. Perrett, of Columbia
University, who recently returned |
from Italy, said that further heavy j
shocks might he expected this week, j
This statement excited the liveliest 1
interest among Perrett’s associates at j
the university. The professor is re-!
garded there as one of the most re-:
markable masters of physical phe-!
nomena in the world. Prof. James K. :
Kent, of the geological department, I
referred to the prediction made last j
August by Perrett in Science, when
he named the date of the seismic
wave which has devastated Calabria
and Sicily.
MRS. VINA HUDGENS
DIED FRIDAY
Funeral Took Place Satur
day Morning—lnterment
at West View.
Mrs. Vina Hudgens, the widow of
the late Richard Hudgens, passed j
away at her residence. No. IX3 Greene I
street, Friday. She is survived by I
one daughter, Mrs. L. P. Stansel, and j
one son, Mr. John Hudgens. The fu- |
neral took place from the residence
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. i
P. H. Mears conducted the services
The interment was in the West View
cemetery.
THE GRAND.
TONIGHT
Mr. Harry Beresford, in
“Who’s Your Friend?"
SEATS NOW SELLING.
PRICES:
Night 25c to SI.SC
SCHOOL CHILDREN AT MATINEE 25c to any part of HOUSE.
“GAGER’S WHITE LIME”
is a little higher In price than other Limes, but is PURE LIME, and
by far the best and most economical for Brick Work and Plastering.
Cheap Lime Is dear at any prlcel
Write us for delivered prices.
CAROLINA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY.
SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTORS. CHARLESTON, S. C.
READ HERALD WANT AT>S
“The Last Sign of the Flood ”
We will sell Ceiling for $lO and up; Floor
ing for sls and up. Spot Cash. Come Quick
INDUSTRIAL LUMBER COMPANY
Phone No. 282.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9
Quality Feeds
For Horses: Otto Weiss
Alfalfa for stock food.
For Cows: Maz —aflora
Hays: Alfalfa, Timothy,
Vetch, Johnson, Ber
muda.
For Pou 11 ry: Willet’s
Scratch, Chick, Laying,
Developing, Forcing
■ and Pigeon Food.
N. L. WILLET SEED CO.
309 Jackson Street.
GET PRICES.
Engines
AND BOILERS
Saw. Lata auri Shingle Mill., lajaalora.
Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Spllttsrs.
Shafts, Pnllsys, Belting. Oasolina Bagla as.
LARGF i? TOCK LOMBARD,
FoutCjf, MnLlm Boilsr Wsrki mi s•yytf
AYftWftTA. QA.
NEXT TUESDAY,
MATINEE AND NIGHT.
“The Cat & the Fiddle’’
Pretty Girls and Catchy Music
SEATS READY TODAY.
PRICES:
Matinee 25c to SI.OO
Night .... ..... 25c to $1.50
Coal Weather
Is here and we're here with the
Coal. There is heat in every
ounce of Coal we sell because It
is clean Coal. See us before you
buy. whether you want a ton or a
carload.
CONSUMER’S ICE
DELIVERY CO.,
JOHN SANCKEN,
Phones 332 and 333. Manager