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rorawg, april 11. IMAGINATION VS COMMON-SENSE Around us in her mest constant and most fAnQJar nature very rar«ly acts according to eonttnon sense. "What could be more senssless than her waste ©f esistcnee? What more unreas onable than tuose billions of g&ms blindly- sQ-nandere.l to*achieve the chfence birth of a single being? What more il logical than the untold and useless com plication of her means (as. for instance, New 8 Room =HOME= In Summerviilß Just one block from car line, in one of the most desirable locations on the Hill. Lot is 100 by 161 feet, beautifully graded. Perfectly fresh, new house, good architectri cally, with all modern con veniences. It is a most desirable place and price is reason able. Inquire about it TO DAY. John W. Dickey f Phone 207 Ifish American Bank Bldg HIGH POINT .. orv.. HIGH STREET, Fronting Country Club on East side. Reserved for High Class Residences. Lots rapidly in creasing in Value. Also Lots on Broad, Greene and Telfair Streets, near Lake View Park. Lots 60 x 160 from $250 to SI,OOO each APPLY TO Clarence E. Clark 842 Broad Street. Maurice Maeterlinck in the life of certain parasites and the impregnation of fbrwers by insects) ts attain the aUuplest ends? What mad der than those thousands of worlds which perish in space without accomp lishing a single work? Ah tills goes beyond our common sense and shows that it is not an agreement with general life' and ttau is almost iso lated In the universe. Need must it argue against itself and recognize that w e shall not give it in our life, which is not isolated, the preponderant place to which it aspires. This la not to say that we will aban don It where it is of use to use, but It is well to know that common sense can not suffice for everything, being itself I almost nothing. Even as there exists without ourseives a world that goes beyosd it, so there ex ists within ourselves another that ex ceeds It. It is in its place and performs a humble and bleseesd work in Ks little village, but it must not aim at becoming master of the great cities and the sov ereign of the mountain and the seas. Now the great cities, the efrties and the mountains occupy infinitely more space than the lfttle village or our prac tical existence, which 13 the necessary agreemest upon a smaller number of inferior, sometimes doubtful, but Indis pensable truths and nothing more. It Is a bond rather than a support. We must remember that nearly all of our progress has been made, in spite of the sarcasms anu curses with which common sense has received the unreas onable. but fertile hypothesis of imagina tion. Amid the moving and eternal waves of a boundless tiniverse let us not, there fore, hold fast to our common sense as though to the one rock of salvation. Bound to that rock, immovable through every age and every civlization, we should do nothing of that which we may perhaps become. DR. GOODRICH HAS STARTED NEW HOUSE Will Be One of the Pret tiest Residences on Lower Broad Street. Dr. W. H. Goodrich has started work on his new home on the cor ner of Broad and Elbert streets'. The house will be completed during the Spring and will be two stories high. Concrete is the material used in the construction. The house will he one of the nret* tiest on lower Broad street. There will be a large porch and a 30 foot lawn, on the Broad street side of the house-. 0. E. S. INSPECTION. The annual inspection of Elizabeth Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, will take place next Friday evening, at 8:30 o’clock. Members and visitors are cordially invited to attend. ALL COUNTRIES LOOK FOB PEACE International Arbitration Will Take Greater Part in Preserving Peace and Settling Difficulties than War. CHICAGO, 111.—Secretary of War Dickinson, responding to the toast, “The Progress of Peace" at a banquet given by the Hamilton club in this city tonight, called attention to the fact that man kind was always hoping for the fulfill ment of the prophecy that strong na tions "shall beat th*ir swords igito plow shares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any moro." 11© said that the time and strengthening of the forces that make for peace that its advocates are boldly aggressive, knowing that they hav© potentially that comes from the quickened universal conscience of an en lightened age. ” The present status, in the progress of pence, he said, is the product of centuries. International ar bitration which entered upon a new era about 1816, he said, ‘ has so progressed In our time that no one can doubt that it is the most powerful force now working upon the nations for the tem poral happiness of making. Internation al arbitration, as we know it, Is no more the product of the lajrt hundred years than was the federal constitution of 1789 a product of that era. it is the flower of our time. Steps in Progress. Secretary Dickinson cited various steps In the progress of arbitration and said “the formation of, our federal con stitution creating for the first time a court with full and final power to settle all controversies between sovereign states, was the greatest step ever taken toward substitution of judicial procedure for appeal to arms." Three separate boards of arbitration were created under the Jay treaty of 1794, he said, which contained provisions for adjusting by arbitration three questions which threat ened to involve us in war with Great Britain. A general reaction prevailed in all civilized countries, after the over throw of Napoleon, against barbarous methods of settling disputes. “Peace Ideas,” h e , said, “were fostered and pro moted In every way. Peace societies and peace congresses constantly stirred the conscience of the world.” United States Treaties. Speaking of the various treaties made by the United States declaring this country in favor of arbitrable settlement of international disputes, he said, that the treaty of 1848 between the United States and Mexico provided that the two nations would in the future adjust their disagreements by pacific negotiations and by arbitration. The sena.te commit tee on foreign relations Tn a resolution reported to the senate in 1851 declared fhstt it was desirable to secure In treaties a provision for arbitration. The years 1854, 1872, 1874 and 1888 found similar resolutions introduced. Most Influential Treaty. “The treaty which profoundly influence the ida.R of the world,” con tinued Mr. Dickinson, “was that of Washington in 1871, which provided for four arbitrations. Tn 1868 during the preliminary negotiations, Mr. Adams as sured Lord Russell that there was ‘no fair and equitable form of conventional arbitrament’ to which America would be willing to submit.” The secretary of war said that Lord Russell was accred ited in the beginning as saying that England would not be disgraced forever if a foreign power were left to arbitrate whether an English secretary of state has been diligent or negligent in the dis charge of his duties. “Mr. Adams rose again to a great height and saved the treaty by getting his colleagues to make an extrajudicial but effective declara tion that certain claims ought to be ex cluded from consideration, Mr. Adams declaring that he wou.i be assuming a great responsibility, but that he did not so do as an arbitrator representing his own country, but representing all na tions. Achievement Great. “These long, painful, hut successful negotiations,” continued the war secre tary, “during which so many irritating questions arose, which resulted in the end of such a great achievement, fully attest the Axed purpose of both nations to use every effort to avoid conflict of arms. The next in Importance were the arbitration held in Paris In 1893 in the fur seal case,'and the arbitral tribunal, which decided the Alaskan boundary dis pute.” “National Honor.” Taking up the declarations that had been made that certain questions can not be settled by arbitration, he said: “Although it has often "been said that questions of national honor cannot he submitted to arbitration, experience has shown that the term 'National Honor’ Is variable and In -some degree shadowy, and that many questions which, under a former rode, would have been cata logued under 'National Honor,’ which have been submitted and settled in this way, even though at the outset, as was said by Lord Russell in regard to the Alabaam claims, such a submission was thought to be incompatible with nation al dignity.” First Hague Conference. Mr. Dickinson discussed the great work and the outcome of the first Hague eonference, which, he sard, aws by far the most notable e\*ent In the history of the world, which was attended by all governments having dlplimattc repfesen tatlves In St. Petersburg. The pope, while omitted from the conference, ex pressed his sympathy with the move ment in a letter to the Queen of Nether lands. Twenty-six nations participated, represented by 100 members. The first convention was “for the peaceful adl histment of International differences." The signatory powers to the conventions agreed to use their best effort* to Insure ■CE AUGUSTA HEBALD MORE DEW ME THAN REPAIRS The building penult record for the last of the week shows that more money has been spent in the erection of new houses than for repairs, which is the reverse of the case during the last few weeks. Among the buildings now' in prog ress will be noted the new house of Henry Cohen at 836 Fenwick Street, the general repair work of Mr. Geo. R, Lombard, at a cost of $900; and the erection of a handsome residence at Elbert and Broad streets by Dr. W H. Goodrich This last, however, has not been put down on the but'dlng inspector's nootc yet. The permits since Wednesday were as folows: Henry Cohen, build one-story frame house, at 836 Fenwick street, $200; J. P. Smith, build fence, at 1717 Wal ton Way, $5; J. W. Cumming, repair work, at 1529 Plcquet avenue, $6; Au gusta Baseball Club build chimney at Warren Park. $1; George R. Lom bard, remodel and repair at SS6-3S Philips street, $900; Maurice Walton, patch roof at 916 Miller street, $6; W. J. McKeon, patch leaks at 1485 Jones street, $6; J. Lee Etheredge, patch roof at 814-19 Hopkins streef, sls; Mary E. Scott, put on fire proof roof at 1218 Thomas street,s; L. T. Schaul, put sill under porch at 1011 Kolock street, $5; Ellen Muullgan, re pair fence and leak at T2ll Kollock Street, $10; S. Baker, build fence at 1242 Moore avenue, $3. * LETTER IN HERALD LOCATED MAN FOR HIS WIFE Ensign Robins, of the Salvation Army, who received a letter from Mrs. W. Duncan of Hull, England, sev eral days ago which was published in The Herald Thursday, inquiring of the whereabouts of her husband, whom she lost track of In Augusta some time ago, has learned of the whereabouts of Mr. Duncan, through the publication of the letter in The Herald. Mr. E. S. Johnson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, read the let ter in The Herald and recollected hav ing assisted Duncan to get a job here. Duncan, however, would not take It and went to Charlotte, where he now is. This Information will he furnish ed Mrs. Duncan. THEO. PATRICK M’AULIFFE PASSED AWAY SATURDAY The death is announced of Then Patrick, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. McAullffe, which occurred Saturday afternoon at 6 o’clock, at the family residence on Greene street The deceased was 15 months old, and passed away after an illness of two weeks. The funeral services will be con ducted front St. Patrick's church on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and interment will take place at the Cit;/ Cemetery. the pacific settlement of International differences. “All the power* represented at the conference,” he said, “signed It. They govern nine-tenths of the world,” repre senting a population of 1,400,000,000 out of the total of 1,600,000,000 of the earth's inhabitants. America's Proposition. “As Amricans, whose government has always been in the advanced guard con tending for human itari n .n principles,” continued the secretary, “we take a laudable pride in tne fact that the Uni ted States proposed to our sister repub lic of Mexico to submit to The Hague tribunal the pious fund controversy, the first case brought under its authority. That Japan and Russia, two of the signal powers, plunged into war without restorting to The Hague tribunal, no ground for serious concern as to the future of arbitration. No ne but a dreamer ever expected all war to be ablished. It was manifest that there was no place for arbitration between Russia and Japan.’ All Powers Meet. Speaking of The Hague conference of 1907, which was called by the czar of Russia upon the Initiative of President Roosevelt, the secretary of war said It. was participated in by forty-four sov ereigns and w'as the first general con ference of practloally all the powers of the world. At this conference thirteen conventions, four declarations and three wishes were adopted. Mr. Dickinson dis cussed the recent conventions, one of which wns that signed in February, 1909, at London by delegates of ten of the principal maritime powers of the world, which wns for the regulating of warfare at «ea. A distinct triumph for the cause of international arbitration, continued the war secretary, was gained when France and Germany agreed to submit to The Hague the question arising ont of the Casablanca affair. The questions involved were more or less of what Is termed “national honor.” A special agreement was signed by the United States and Great Britain on January 27, 1909, submitting to arbitration to The Plague the controversy as to the North Atlantic coast (or northeastern) fish eries. Public Sentiment Growing. “There can be no disarmament until the greater powers agree upon a system of concurred action,” said Mr. Dlckin son, in concluding. “TThe tide of public sentiment all over the world is setting strongly in this direction. Looking to the progress in peace measures of the last hundred, and especially the last twenty years, the hope may well be en tertained that, disarmament will become a reality, and that the people may en joy not only the blessings of fleace, but the blessings of peace without the crushing burden of preparedness for war." Place Year Small Savings — Where the ===== Profits Are Largest And There’s a QUICK, SURE, STEADY VALUE INCREASE. Lots Selling For $ 100 to $250 THINK OF IT!! On Instalments of $lO Monthly THIS IS THE PROPOSITION -- Lots owned by the I rinh American Investment Co., and forced on the market by the dissolution of the Irish American Investment (Jo., will be sold at prices that will permit of practically any one owning one or more of them. They will he sold on small cash payment, and very small installments per month —almost your own terms, you might say. Not a lot that isn’t worth right now from 25 to 100 per cent, more than we are asking for them; in fact, a lot only a few feet away from some of these rcently sold for SI,OOO. Easy access to both Summerville and Monte Sano car lines, and in a section that is rapidly growing. Lots that you’d pay SIOO for now, will doubtless be worth S2OO one year from now. Augusta property is rapidly and surely increas ing in value over the entire city and suburbs, and with the city grow ing westward, as it now is, there is nothing to keep these lots from en hancing in value very rapidly. Within two years’ time, in all probability, the Twin City Power Co. will be in a position to offer inducements to new industries to lo ate in Augusta. When this happens, there will be a tremendous de mand for home sites, for manufacturing cites, etc., and there will then be a very quick rise in the prices of all Augusta properties. Don’t wait until the prices go up! Do YOUR buying now. You might as well profit by the misfortune of the Irish American Invest ment Co. The lots must lie sacrificed, as the Company will go out of existence within ninety days. Lots are selling in a hurry—so don’t delay too long in making your selections. Call on Mr. McAnally, Mr. Callahan or Mr. Gehrken AT ONCE, and make terms with them. No matter how small your salary is, you can arrange terms. You can’t afford to miss this op portunity. these lots present the BEST RI AL ESTATE VALUES EVER OEFERED IN AUGUSTA. Out, of Auguster Investors If it is impossible to come in at once, don’t hesitate to drop a line to any one of the Committee, asking for particulars. Your in quiry will be given immediate and conscientious attention. No mat ter where you live, this is a live investment’ offer —one vou SHOULD ORAHP AT ONCE. P. F. McANALLY, Dyer Building F. GEHRKEN, Corner Greene and Elbert Streets. M. J. CALLAHAN, Callahan-Dobson Shoe Co. COMMITTEE PAGE FIVE
