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PAGE SIX Hit AUGUSTA HERALD r*ublUh<-<i Every Afternoon During the Week nnd ori Sunday Mamin* ><r THE HERALD I'l;n*JSHlK‘i <<>- Enter'd n( the AucuiiUi Poatolftoe a* Midi Manor of the Second Ola**. ’ Sl-BSCKIPTION KATES. Dally a t>d Sunday. 1 year * B O' 1 Daily and Sunday. t» mouth* 2.0 a Daily and Sunday. 3 mom ha .. .. lou Dally and Sunday, 1 month .. ... .50 Dtily and Sunday, 1 week .. •••• .!•»; Sunday Herald, 1 year .. .. <« •• **o- ) j ■ 1 Office, Telephone 297 , City Editor J" Society Editor • • FOREIGN KEIKGSKN'TATIVES The j Benjamin & Keninoi f’o., 225 Fiftlt Ate.. Now York city. 110* Boyce Building. Chicago. Addjcs ,t!| hualneas comma h ten ttona to THI AiJGLiS IA HLKALD 731 Broad Street, AUgufttH Oa. *'!F YOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED THE HEKAUD.' Auguflta, Oa., Thuradey, March 11, 1909. No will .»«? puldlMhed in The Herald unlena tJ»e name ot the writer la Bign*'<l to the article. The Herald 1* the official advert tala* medium of tho City of Auguata ami of the County >f Kklunomi lor all legal notices and adverUsing. There la no l*etter way to reach the home* of the prosperous people of this city and mumlon than through tho col umns of The Herald, Dully and Sunday. Telephone the Circulation Department, Phone 297, when leaving Augurta, and arrange ‘.o have The Herald aeul to you by mall each day. The August;* Herald has a larger city circulation than any other paper, and i larger total circulation than any oUier Augusta paper. Tide hue !»♦•« n proven by the Audit Co., of New York. THIS IS THE LAST WEEK SEND IN YOUR SUGGES TION. A Chance for 5 Yearly Subscriptions to The Daily and Sunday Her ald Free. FREE. For Biiggontlonn from any of Its readers and subscribers, The Herald offer* tree lor one year five yearly subscriptlona to The Dally and Sunday Herald THE HERALD wants It n renders and subscriber* to take an Inter eat In me growth and progress and development of the paper. You can help by wrlllng ua your Idea of how The Herald can he Improved during tho coming year. For the live heal and moat helpful suggestions, either In nr out of Augusta will be awarded ••ucli a year's subscription free. Write tie your suggestion. We want It. Add reaa q EDITOR OF THE HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA. Wtuader if It 1* really true, ns some people clsim, that Little .loo's per egrinations around the state of right belong to the gum shoving class? In »ome of the Wtetern statva hyp notism Is to bo Outlawed, But It will require more (lih.ii a statute to pro vent pretty girls front hypnotising susceptible youths. Succeeding the campaign against liquor and hissing comes the crusade against corsets. That ■seems to be carrying the reform movement Into lit* waist places. A Memphis preacher thinks that Sunday baseball Is no worse than so ciety gossip. Realty, It Is itot ns bad, for the said gossip doesn't even have tut umpire to hold it to the rules. The Daughters of the Confederacy are having a little love feast, set tltng the question of the location of the Wlrs monument. That comes of not making the proper choice the first time. If anything more was needed to prove that President Taft has a for giving spirit It was found In the fact that he has forgiven the chief of the weather bureau for what he did on March 4. Profesyor Frederick Starr predicts that Mr. Roosevelt w'lll succumb to the "sleeping sirkm ss" In Africa, l’rof. Starr may be a knowing savant but he ccrtaiuii doesn't know Mr. Roosevelt. How unreasonable some people can •*>! Here comes the Jacksonville Timos-Unlon asking that President Taft give the South u square deal. Being so round, how can he do things on the square? Cooper's attorney admonished the jury to remember that !t was not common malefactors they were trying, but gentlemen murderers, or words to that effect. That should bring in a verdict of not guilty. The discovery has now been made that In all of President Roosevelt's voluminous messages the word "econ omy” doesn't appear once The eon ditlon of the national treasury also shows that It had no part In his ad ministration. Th* Am or Sous Tlmes-Recorder wants to know whether it h> the man or the woman who gets drunk, since he has been told rhat a kiss Is In toxicating. Why doesn't he make the discovery by a practical test. Instead of trying to lead others Into making the experluieutt THE STATE’S FINANCIAL CONDITION There are few people, even among the citizens of Georgia, who are aware of the faet. that Georgia 1a Probably of all the sisterhood of states in the best eondlllou financially; yet auch la the case. It Is tan- that there are several states whlclv have no bonds out standing against them, while our state has a debt, including all outstand ing obligations, of $7,127,202. But. to offset this, Georgia has productive or Income bearing property of great value, such as no other state pos st-sM.s. riiia la the mate s railroad, the Western arid Atlantic. This property Is now leased out for a term of years, at an annual rental price of $420,012. Just what this railroad Is actually worth no body knows, hut since the Income It. yields at s'per cent wouid repre sent a capital of $K,400,210. and aft! per cent a capital .*f $7,000,200, It Is plain that'the real value of the state railroad at thte time is greater than the state's de|,t. This places Georgia ahead of those states which have no public debts but at the same time have no Income yielding pub lic property. Rut this is not all. Out of the state's regular annual income SIOO,OOO Is set aside each year to he applied to the liquidation of the state debt. This may look like a glow process, but it. will eventually result In the liquidation of the entire debt. Then, if the present policy bft con tinued, of adding SIOO,OOO per annum to the sinking fund and of issuing no new bonds, Georgia will be added to the list of bond-free states, and at the same time be the owner ol productive property of great, and Increasing value. It Is well to think of this sometimes, for it means less taxes re quired for the support of equal state government than will be required by any other state. THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF THE SOUTH Responding to the toast "The Future of the South,” at the twenty third annual dinner of the Union League club of Chicago on Washing ton's birthday, Mr. .1, .1. Willett delivered an address which com press es within a narrow compass a of information about -the South, and deductions front this as to the future which makes this address one of the most notable contributions to the present discussion of this absorbing subject. The -address Is being circulated In pamphlet form, and its reading combines pleasure with profit, for not only is the subject matter presented In a way to give a better appreciation of the glowing material future of the South, but It Is told In an Inimit able way that makes It entertaining from beginning to end Discussing the political aspect of the situation, Mr. Willett points otit how (tie great West Is the daughter of the South. The fight to subdue the Western wilderness was begun by Virginia. The lands of Ihe Ixmislana purchase and all the great Western domain were ac quired through the Influence of Southern leaders t'hen in control In Washington. Lewis and Clark, both Southerners, first blazed the way Into the Northwest. Tho West Is tho true daughter of the South, and the object of her true pride. Hut now, Mr. Willett points out, the times hnve somewhat. roversedN tilings. "We now sea our presidentelect, himself a son of the West, going South among the benighted savages of opposing political faith, to do some blazing and missionary work. He has eaten of our 'possum and has drunk of our ’slmmon beer, local substitutes for oriental salt, and Is now one of us. By his genial frankness and whole-heartedness, he has shown us that he understands our idoals and aspirations, and personally, lias won our hearts.” j Mr. Willett happily Illustrates the difference between the Taft meth od of winning tho South and that employed by his predecessors In office, by relating the old fable of Aesop about, the contest between the north wind and the sun in nn effort to make a traveler on the highway -take off bis coat. What the north wind was unable to accom plish with his fiercest blnsts was easy of accomplishment for the sun, smblng In genial warmth upon the traveler. So also what all the methods of force of previous administrations fatted to accomplish In driving tho South out of her position of political isolation may be ac complished by Mr. Taft through his sympathetic conciliatory policy. This does not necessarily mean that the South will become repub lican, but ns again illustrated by a humorous sketch, the South will await developments and at the proper time Indicate her preference. The brains of the South,” says Mr. Willett," which were once through self defense In politics trying to preserve Its vested Interests, nro now engaged In business. They are building railroads, cotton factories, iron Industries and all other kinds of manufacturing establishments. In com plete control of its own affairs at home, the South Is not caring very much who are holding Jhe offlcea at Washington, dooming It best that her Rons bo more profitably employed In building up the home and developing Its matchless resources, than being mere officeholders. AU we ank Is that our president-elect will stand by his generous expressions of friendship uttered at Augusta and Atlanta, nnd give us clean, honest and high-class men to hold offices under hint, nnd men tor whom wo have respect and confidence. VVe are entitled to this and we ask for nothing else.” TAKING IN THE SUBURBS A movement Is being pushed in a half hearted sort of way to an ucx to the city some of Its southern suburbs. These should have been a part of (he city years ago, since only an Imaginary line separates them from the city of which they are In reallf* a part. And why this annexa tion proposition Is not vigorously pushed to osrly consummation Is hard to understand, In view of the Importance of thlß action to the city. The regular decennial census Is to be taken next year. According to the imputation figures of this census the various cities will be classi fied The larger their population the more consideration will they re ceive at the hands of the government. When a city desires the best pos sible postal service, is in need of public buildings and has a number of other things which It desires the federal government to do for it, the population figures it hss to present is the first thing considered. This shows the advantage nt all times of being in condition to make the hest possible showing In this respect. There Is a special reason at tilts time for Augusta to be actively moving In this matter. Macon is making desperate efforts to gain third place in Georgia, by taking In all her suburbs. The rankftf a city Is a matter of Importance. Not merely Is it an advertisement the nearer a city can be to the head of the Hat, but It brings material good things, which It Is not necessary to point out. Augusta has always ranked third of the Georgia cities, and for her now to allow Macon to capture this position would do our city real Injury, Yet this may happen, unless our people shall bestir themselves and consummate the annexation at least of these southern suburbs before the next census enumeration begins. The Herald had directed attention 1o the necessity for this annex ation. and to Macon's design for getting ahead of Augusta, which has riled the Macon News. It makes dally flings at The Herald, not out of pure 111 temper so much as to spur Its people to action. So It says In its last Issue-. , The \ugustn Herald continues in a choleric condition about Its collar on account of the threatened ascendency of Macon Into third place among the cities of Georgia and the consequent loss of the place by Augusta. Really The Herald is a good paper and its lack of knowledge of conditions tn and about this city Is all the more astounding for that reason. It then proceyds to tell how. after all the systematic annexation Macon has pursued for several years. It has not yet taken tn its largest suburb. South Macon, which "has more folks living tn it than Summer ville. NelllevlUe and Hnrrtsonvllfe combined ever Augusta way, and is as densely populated as Is Greenr'slreet, Dublin. Canaan. Shake Rag, Pinch Gut and many of the other component parts of Augusta as at pres ent constituted." All this ts absurd vaporing, of course, but It shows how desperately In earnest those Maconltes are trying to steal Augusta's place in the census tables. Of course fltyv cannot succeed. If we shall also take on a few suburbs, since Augusta and her suburbs Is at least 25 per cent more populous than Macon and her suburbs. But If Macon annexes everything In sight, as she ts trying to do, and Augusta annexes none of h>r suburbs, there ts great danger that Macon will usurp Augusta's rightful place. « This should spur our people to immediate action THE AUGUSTA HERALD THE RAILROAD SAVINGS IN GEORGIA During the Panic Year Their Net Earnings Nearly Equaled the Previous Year's Earnings The first work of the new rate ex pert, George F. Montgomery, of the railroad commission of the state, was to pre;iare and make public the rec ord of railroad earnings in Georgia so rthe fiscal year ending June 30, ! 308. He shows that the gross earnings of all the railroads in Georgia for the period In question were thirty eight million five hundred and seven ty-six thousand seven hundred and six dollars ;the operating expenses were slightly less than thirty millions, and that the net earnings were eight mil lion five hundred and seventy-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars. The net earnings, therefore, during a panic year, when all the railroads of the country felt the general stag nation, were only one hundred and THE LAW BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun Will sweep on Its course till the cycle Is run. And when into chaos tho systems are hurled, Again shali the builder reshape a new world. Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal, Move on, for the orbit is fixed for your soul. And though it may lead into darkness of night, The torch of the Builder shall give it new light. You were, and will be; know this while you a 2, Your spirit has travelled both long and afar. It earne from the Source, to the Source it returns; The spark that vras lighted eterntnly burns. It slept in the Jewel, it leaped In the wave; It roamed in the forest, it rose from the grave; It took on strange garbs for long eons of years, now in the soul of yourself it appears. From body to body your spirit speeds on; It seeks a new form when the old one Is gone; Ami the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought On the loom of the mind, with the fibre of thought. As dew is drawn upward, in rain to descend Your thoughts drift away and in destiny blend. You cannot escape them; or p<<ty, or great, Or evil, or noble, they fashion your fate. Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow, Your life will reflect all the thoughts of your now. The law is unerring; no blood can atone; The structure you rear you must live in alone. From cycle, through time and tftrough space, Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace. And ail that you ask for, and all you desire, Must coine at your bidding, as flames out of fire. Y'ou are your own Jevil, you are your own god. You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the spirit within. Once list to that voice and all tumult. Is done, Yogi- life Is the life of the Infinite One; In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause, With love for the purpose and love for the cause. THE BIBLE ON INAUGURATION DAY President Roosevelt was sworn into office four years ago on a now gilt edged Bible bound In red morocco. He was following the precedent by which the Clerk of the Supreme Court furnishes the book for the case. Mr. Taft took his oath on the cen tury-old frayed and stained Bible of the supreme court itself. At his first inauguration McKinley used a monster Bible presented by bishops of the African Methodist church Mr. Cleveland used on both accessions to office a Bible inscrib ed "Stephen Grover Cleveland, front his mother." Followers of the prophets and soothsayers will be Interested in the chapter and verse which Mr. Taft's lips shall touch as the Clerk of the Supreme Court holds the open hook before him. It Is of record that on his first Inauguration McKinley bent to these words: "Give me now wisdom that I may go out and come in before this peo ple; for who can judge this Thy peo ple that is so great?" On his second installation, six months before the tragedy at Buffalo, Mr. McKinley kissed these lines in Proverbs xvi.: "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whose trusteth In the Lord, happy Is he. “The wise in heart shall be called prudent; and the sweetness of the lips inereaseth learning." Usually the Bible on inauguration day opens near the middle. It was ’‘ltrch 4. 1905, prophetic remtador front 11 Kings of one whose progress was "like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nlmshl; for he drlveth furiously.” —New York World. HERALD ECHOES Augusta, which contributed to th" list, says through The Herald: "The greatest disappointment tn the in auguration ceremonies was the failure of the 'Beauty Squad’ to parade owing to the inclement weather." —Savan- nah Press. In order to keep The Augusta Her ald tn a state of editorial jlmjants The News is going to announce for the sieenth time that Macon is head ed for third place in the list of Geor gia cities.—Macon News. in the view of The Augusta Herald Macou's new soap factory should help clean the politics of (he later city.— Amerirus Times-Recorder. In a South Georgia town they re cnitiy held a voting contest to find out who was the ugliest man in town. Another way to find thi out. Suggests The Augusta Herald, would be to re quire who was the most disappointed when the Jag iratn arrived, with his order unfilled. —Oglethorpe Citizen. ; fifty thousand less than during the previous fiscal year, and the deficits were only one-half as large as they were during the fiscal >ear ending June 30, 1907. It should never be forgotten that during a period when the cry was going up teat railroad regulation In (Georgia was ruining the railroads, they were In reality fariqg Just ten times better than the railroads of the country as a whole. This is to say, the decrease in net earnings of all the railroads in the country was ten times greater than the percentage of decrease in net earnings for the rail roads of Georgia considered alone. These facts and figures, as to the earnings of railroads in Georgia, giv en out by Rate Expert Montgomery, are authoritative and official and de serve to be kept clearly in mind by j tho general public.—Atlanta Journal. DOWN IN A SUBMARINE In describing the sensations under water in a submarine, one of a crew said: “The first sensation that yoir feel when she goes under the water is the compression. The farther doWn she goes, the heavier the compression becomes. This is noticed mostly in the ears. A ringing sensation comes j to you, and as you drop the ringing becomes more pronounced. It is sim ilar to hearing a bnzz saw in the dis tance, and then as you get nearer the sound is heavier. When the boat stops sinking and starts ahead, the feeling becomes less pronounced, artd In a short time you pay little atten tion to It. This is the case every time we submerge. Under the water and below the level of the water there Is aboslutely no motion. When the wave line is 10 feet below the level of the sea, the boat goes below this, as everything is done to give the en gine all its power to run the boat without any interference from the waves. A speed of about six to seven miles an hour is maintained while submerged.” The longest the boats stay down is about six hours, and then the bat teries must be recharged. This is done by the gasoline engines. The principal objection to a submarine boat is the noise. The engine is placed right in the room where the men eat and sleep, and the noise from the engine not only makes conversation very difficult, but It also Interferes wits sleeping. According to the men who have made several cruises on this type of boat, the noise of tire engine is the one thtng that they can not get accustomed to. When the men try to sleep o n their first night out It is nearly impossible. After sev eral days they become partly accus tomed to the noise, but their sleep Is broken This is the same on every trip. The men selected for service jon a submarine must first serve a full enlistment on one of the large ■ boats The service, on account of its | many hardships, pays better than for any other branch of Lhe navy. The ] men are allowed $1 every time they submerge and $R extra a month.— Philadelphia Press. SOME POLITICAL DOPE- Making a Gum Shoe Run. If Little Joe runs— But isn’t Little Joe pounding the pike right now k)‘ that quiet and unobtrusive little way of his?—Macon News. Too Previous by Far. Those gentlemen around whose ears the gubernatorial bee is buzzing are most too previous. “Little Joe" will serve the next four years as chief ex ecutive.—Merbweatber Vindicator. No Fuss and Feather.s Governor-Eieot Joe Brown has given out that he doesn't want any "fuss and feathers" at his inauguration. The affair wiil be "simplicity" itself. Perhaps he remembers the Hoke Smith inauguration, and has taken a SHIRTS DE LUXE Just the most artistic de signs ever brought out in men’s shirrs—just the highest class shirt mak ing to suit the excellence of material. We’ve all the best makes of shirts, but it matters not who the maker may be, if it comes from Dorr’s you are asstrred of the best both in make, material and selection. sl, $1.25, $1.50 $2, $5.00 Tailoring, Furnishings For il/len of Taste FORTUNES are made ori land near cities, with fifty thousand or more LiffiTTbitants Augusta is rapidly growing West ward. Land for sale by the acre: / Summerville, High Point, near Country club, Monte Sano, David son, Fairmont. Wheless. Apply to Clarence E.Clark REAL ESTATE. 842 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA. warning thereby.—Rome Trtbune-Her aid. Space Rates Campaign. Four months before the governor elect of Georgia has been inaugurat ed those newspaper correspondents in Atlanta are trying to start the campaign two years hence. But those correspondents are evidently writing at so much per column.-—Brunswick Newt. Biennial Session. The dallies have taken up the bien nial session movement, in fact Gov ernor-Elect Brown has signified his intention of suporting the measure which means, possibly the matter will be brought to the attention of the general assembly this summer through the medium of the governor's message. If we mistake not Editor Dick Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, should have the credit for this move ment, if successful for with but little aid he has kept the matter before the people of Georgia for years with scant encouragement. —Montezuma 1 Reriord. /'\ SHELBY COUNTY. ALABAMA IS FAMOUS FOR ITS SUPERIOR LIME ROCK, AND THE HIGH-GRADE LIME IT MAKES, and the KEYSTONE WHITE LIME KILNS Did more to earn this enviable reputation than all others combined. KEYSTONE is THE LARGEST PRODUCER of High-grade Lim» fn the entire South. Let us tell you about it, and about the distinctive "KEYSTONE" COOPERAGE. We are also the largest distributors of TENNESSEE LIME, which, of course, we can sell you at less. Write us. } Carolina Portland Cement Co., SOLE DISTRIBUTORS. CHARLESTON, S. C. “CHIROPODY.” AND MANICURING AT HICKEY'S HAIR DRESSING PARLORS. ROOM 21S HARISON L 'ILOING. “Hickey’s Barber Shop.” 221 EIGHTH STREET. THURSDAY, MARCH CT, Want to Contract —FOR— -3,000 tons of Tomatoes SB.OO Per Ton 100 tons Sweet Potatoes $9.00 Per Ton 100 tons of Beans *► 300 tons of Peaches Price not fixed on Beans and Peaches yet Augusta Canning Go. FRANK ROUSE Pres, and Treas. PHONE 477. Baths Turkish *. SI.OO Russian 75c Shampoo 50c TURKISH BATH HOTEL, HARISON BUILDING. SODA WATER Ice Creams THREE KINDS, Hot Chocolate WHIPPED CREAM. Everybody says we make the best. Try it yourself and see what you think of it. NEW PERFUMES, JUST'OUT Select Lily of the Valley, $1.50 per ounce. SOMETHING VERY FINE TRY IT. Alexander Drug Go. 708 BROAD. PORATABI.E AfTO 3TATSQNARI AND BOILERS law. filth »u<s Stunsle ail la. Injeotwie, Pumps and Fitting., WoodSlw*. Spltti.re, Shifts, Pulleys. Betting, Quotln. It n glass uAOßjTocg LOMBARD, fatulij, (its-An and Boiier Writ wd Scjpij Sink AUGUSTA, QA. 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 (iardelle's Infallible bed Bug Poison the same that almost every family in Augusta has been using for 10 years—absolute protection for 12 months. 25c BOTTLE AND BRUSH. Use This Month, 620 BROAD ST.
