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PAGE SIX W AUGUSTA HERALD PubUahnd Every Afternoon During the Week and oa Sunday Morning t>y THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Pogtoffic* ae Mali Matter of the Second Claea. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily and Sunday. 1 year 16.00 Daily and Sunday. 6 mon’ha 3.00 Dally and Sunday, 9 moniha .. .. 1.60 Daily and Sunday, 1 month .60 Dally and Sunday, i week 13 Sunday Herald. 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald. 1 year .60 su*ia*&s Office, Telephone 267 City Editor 266 Society Editor . 236 FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES- The Benjamin it Kentnor Co., 226 Fifth Avo., New York City Uuß Boyce Building, Andreas all hueinese com muni cat lona to IHE AllGtS (A HERALD 281 Broad Street, Augueta Ga. IF YOU W ANT THE NEW a YOU NJSKJ) THE lIERALD.’* Augusta, Ga., Friday, June 25, 1909. No comrnunicailon will piiblianed In The Herald unle*« the name of the \r»-it*r in eignr-d to the article. The Herald !e the official advertising medium of the City of Auguata and of the County of Richmond lor all legal notices and advert imng. There is no belter way to reevL the homes of the prosperous people of this city and section than through t*e col* umni of The Herald, Dally and ,*unduy. Telephone the Circulation Department. Phone 287, when leaving Augueta, and arrange *.o have The Herald sent to you by mall each day. The Augusta Herald Min a larger <tty circulation than any other paper, and a larger total emulation than any other Augusta paper. This Ims been proven Uy the Audit. Co., of New York. 7614 COPIES, 16 THE DAILY AVERAGE ISSUE OF THE AUGUS TA HERALD, FOR A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS, ENDING APRIL 30TH, 1909. Have you noticed how the thermo meter besom to rise as soon aB the legislature met? All Is not Gould that glitters. At lea*t that I* believed to be Howard Gould's opinion. The failure of the jury to agree in ; the Calhoun case la generally under stood to be a Scotch verdict. The next census Is expected to | show the largest population gains, i proportionately. In the southern stales Joy-rldlng and trouble-lumtlng are not exactly synonymous terms, but they amount to very nearly the same thing. The King of Spain also Is an anti race HUlclder, although he preaches the doctrine more by example than by precept. The English keep on building Dleadnaughta with a haste that pr<Wes that they dread something very much. "Graft" contains all the letters there are In "tariff" but one. In other ways also the resemblance Is quite as close. Evidence accumulates that Atlanta In losing Its grip. None of (ho wit nesses In the Gould case are claimed as former residents of Atlnnta. The Anderson Mall points out an other evidence of Tittle Joe Hrown’s patriotism. In the fact Hint he bought a pair of Kentucky carriage horses. e »ee» » Georgin also has had another lynch ing. which wsh not only most or d( rly but assures one convict not be ing pardoned out of the penitentiary. The Sandersvllle Progress thinks thst ChsJrtnan Mrl.endon was taken up on the mountain top. Now what could put such an Idea Into people's heads? The Sugar Trust and the Georgin railroad are alike In that both of them think thst public opinion should not be considered, In considering their csss Cuba should make an effort to pay at least a part of that Spanish claim, seeing as how Alphonses family is growing and the expense of his household Increasing. Some waggiah paper* love to reft> to Georgia as "Jaw-Jaw.*' From what is now expected to break loose In Atlanta it is to be feared that the appellation will fit. Now a scientist claims that dogs think. It would he interesting to know, then, what some of the pets of society women think of their mis tresses who kiss them. Cotton continues to rise, the crop tn the fields is growing to de light the tanners' hearts, Good for tune, as well as misfortunes, some times comes in droves. According to the rules In Mattes- i wan It appears that Harry Thaw must j go to bed at 9 o'clock If he had been made to do that before, h/* would not be in Matteawan now. Mrs Annis claim* that It wa» so: her boys that she took to the vaude ville stage. And she may really think so, for nobody takes a wrong , step without some Justification for it ! in their mind Mrs. Belmont advises women not to marry until they are allowed to vote. But women usually do not marry now until after they have voted aye on the question that has been presented to them. “When poverty comes in through the door love files out through the window " The proverb doesn't indi cate the mode of love s exit when ex ressive wealth enters the door, but experience teaches that almost lnva rlably it gets out In some way. AUGUSTA’S NEXT MAYOR, HON. THOS. BARRETT With the closing of the entries for the coming municipal primary, and with no opposition of any kind, Hon. Thomas Barrett will be the unani mous choice of the white primary for Augusta’s next mayor, and will In due course be elected at, the regular election Augusta is to be congratulated tn having one of its beat and most successful citizens and men of affairs at the bead of the municipal gov ernment for a period of three years, commeprtng January Ist, 1910. The city 1b entering upon a period of its greatest development and prosper ity, Big things are a..--a of Augusta and all its people, and the times cal! for a progressive, business administration that can and will prop erly handle the big problems that Augusta rnus» face. The day of small things in Augusta is fast passing away. The city is growing and must constarffly meet larger and larger problems and these problems must be handled in the best., biggest possible way for the future of the city. The Herald along with the people of the city believes that in the ad ministration of Mr. Barrett as mayor of Augusta the city is bound to take many a forward step, that whenever possible the movement will bo forward, on big/substantial lines, and that the future as well as the present wHI be ably cared for and fostered under his administration. Much has been done along this line in municipal affairs in the past few years, and when Mayor Dunbar turns over the reins of government to his successor, he will be able to give a good account of his steward ship. Municipal Augusta today is one of the biggest, business institu tions and otn? of the most successf<W there is in Georgia. Augusta is fortunate both in the well recognized business ability and enterprise of Mr. Barrett which will be devoted to the service of the city for the next three years, and also In the unanimity of the city’s choice in this matter. LAST DAYS OF HON.HOKE SMITH AS GOVERNOR Tomorrow will bring the end of Governor Hoke Smith's administra tion. At noon h‘" will retire and be succeeded by the man elected by the people to succeed him, Hon. Joseph AI. Brown. The administration of Gov. Smith has been a strenuous one, continuing so up to the very lus|. He was elected as a reform governor, the special reforms which con stituted the Issues of (lie campaign, and which the people elected him by an overwhelming majority to institute, being the correction of evils that have grown upon the management of the railroads in the state. In the correcting of these abuses considerable progress was made, while In other ways Hoke .Smith’s administration will stand as one of the most fruitful of good the state has bad. Of course, frojn the day of his election to the present, Hoke Smith has been bitterly opposed by the railroads, their organs and their cham pions. They were persistent not o»l.v In their opposition to him, hut ( agerlv ready at all times to vilify him. In an evil hour for Georgia a combination was formed, of otherwise antagonistic elements, to effect his political downfall, and this combination proved strong enough to elect "Little Joe” Brown governor by a small majority, after one of the hottest gubernatorial campaigns the state has had. Nnl content with this, the railroad element of the opposition to him continued their fight on him after the election. They had heat him, tint they showed how they feared him by continuing their efforts to dis credit him with the people aftor tho fight wus over. Rarely has there been anything more disgusting in politics than the way the railroad or ciiiih and their allies have bound'd llnke Smith, and sought to turn ev ,.ry opportunity to jircoimt to bring discredit upon him. Through all this Gov. Smith has borne himself with splendid equi ppise He has continued to discharge the duties of his office with an .ye to the good of the Btnte, without regarding the snarling pack at bis heels Circumstances conspired to bring important questions to the rrmi l during the Inst dnvs of his administration, and while these gave in creased opportunity to bis enemies which they improved industriously, Ihcy also presented Hoke Smith In a way to win the admiration of ali except those purposely blind, to all that is good In the man. During the Georgia railroad strike, how fiercely he was assailed and denounced by these enemies because he would not order out the troops (ti hhoot the strlklug firemen into submission, yet by his wise course all serious trouble was averted and the question at issue settled in the right way. \nd following this, on the very eve of his retirement, came the pop rate decision of the railroad commission by a vote of three to two ill favor of the railroads. What this port rate question really is few understand only that there Is a side favorable to the railroads „i,d ,1 Hide favorable to the people. Chhlrruau McLendon east the deciding votl , against the people, and Gov. Smith promptly suspended him. Aritln ibis is used by his enemies in a lust effort to discredit him. It is claimed that this was spite work on the part, of the governor. Doubt let-s he disliked to take such notion on the eve of Ills retirement, but it was right, and Hoke Smith was man enough to do what was right to the very last. Tills issue of port rates wns one which figured in the election of railroad commissioner, and Mr. McLendon was elected because he took the position which lie has now repudiated. Gov. Smith has suspended h;:i, leaving It to the people through the legislature to pass upon the commissioner's uot. lust as lie sent a last message to the legislature full of wise rec ommendations just us he will escort his successor to the capltol to take Hie <mth of office so as almost his last official act he suspended a rail lo id commissioner who has failed to keep his pledge to the people, as a great executive who is conscientiously trying to discharge the duties of his high office. BARGAINS IN COFFINS. Old Ben Franklin, as Poor Richard, probably gave as much epigrammatic advice to his fellow ettlrena as any man who ever lived. If all the ad vice he gave were generally taken there Is no doubt that pooplo would live happier lives. Unfortunately his advice Is not generally taken. To this there Is however ono exception. When he advised to "Never buy any thing that you do not need, just be cause It is cheap," It Is advice which is almost unanimously accepted as re gards coffins. No man of normal mind will buy a coffin for his future use just because It Is offered him at bargain counter price. These reflections are Induced by an advertisement recently noted in a pa per, of a bargain sale of coffins, in which tbo Inducement is held out that great discounts and bargains are to be had in both coffins and caskets. The editor of tbo Statesboro Times, commenting on this ad in a reminis cent mood, relates hi* experience. He says the ad reminds him “of the time wheu the editor of this paper en gaged tn the manufacture of cofTtn* and caskets. The year we were in business was the most distressingly healthy period ever known in this sec tion of the country. All manner of means were adopted to push off some of the stock, but they wouldn’t go. i S-'olk* who were not dead didn’t want I them, and there being no other classes jio appeal to our stock lay dead on jour bauds, inducements were offered 1 hut it wouldn't work. So we are in j a position to sympathise with our j friend who resorts to printer's ink to push the sale of a line that will j not bear pushing, and we are inclined j to admonish him to jus: wait till the fellow dies then he will have to have ! it at the other fellow's price." He has learned from experience j that it .» ueeleas to try to rush bar gains In this line on folk* before they I get read: to take advantage of .them. Even those who have not read Poor j Richard's advice will act on It so far 1 as it applies to coffins. ■ ... A, WENT TO A WNCT\ A*o 4turi! SLfEp |S VCR A /iD AWYTHINqTOCfoV /, , n BETTI? ftS /* cnotev / la <, t niqht ano i A ( «ecessarv. partt you } (T° sleep n oaf 1 ( nc goulLs.-' j [ CALLfR TOMtOrHT - ] l riao 7 \ -p-hjaikso? / V Ican HArßiOt-V HOiortr ] . —, " L M.MHI Mjnutt W. Unu* W* GCfiD IWW ■STEfcP iNCLiNg coui-ON'T NEGOT'IXTE -SAiQ Mg.MONk "YQU'RE oN'’sAipfr;pa%l 1 DESERVES "OftO IN A BUSH 1 THE AUGUSTA HERALD THE HOKE SMITH ADMINISTRA TION. Most Remarkable in the History of the State. The Lasting Good Which It Has Accomplished With this week the Hoke Smith ad ministration comes to an erid. In many respects it has been the most remarkable in its history that this or any other state has ever wit nessed. It was remarkable in its success and in its reverses. It went In on an unanticipated tidal wave of revolution and ft went out on a still more as tounding ebb-tide of reaction. And it suffered this reverse despite the fact it came nearer carrying out absolute ly the pledges made to the people than any administration of which we have cognizance. It was remarkable for the multiplic ity and magnitude of the constructive achievements that it crowded Into the brief space of its existence—prac tically into the work of one session of the legislature. The Hoke Smith administration. Abolished the convict lease sys tem. Enacted the prohibition law. Brought the railroads and other pub lic utility corporations under legisla tive and administrative regulation. ihe axe was laid to three prime economic evils, rooted in the very bed rock and fibre of the state, in the course of one legislative year. Can anyone recall from experience or point out iri history a parallel for it in yeoman service? What part of this was due to Gov ernor Smith primarily and what, part to the determination of the long-suf fering people who had reached the limit of forbearance we shall not un dertake to say. It remains that it was accomplished under his administra tion, and if it be said that he did more than he was elected to do and in so much was unfaithful to some who sup ported him, still it xvas in the line of the master’s work and akin to that of the servant who said he would not perform a certain task, yet went and did it. All great revolutions are attended with temporarily untoward or disas trous consequences. All great revolu tions by reason of the momentum nec essary to impel them overshoot the ♦ HERALD ECHOES ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Patches for the eJans Breeches. The Augusta Herald Inclines to fear that “Little Joe” Brown may grow to be too big for the jeans breeches ol his inauguration suit. Well, we can not say with certainty, of course, but xve suspect ‘ Tittle Joe” knows there Is more jenns where the original sup ply came from.—Washington Herald. In the Cause of Truth. Now comes the Augusta Herald and breaks in like this: “Isn’t. It a typographical error to call the latest fashion freak the pettiloon frock? Isn’t it ‘pretty loon,’ named after the class that Is pxperted to wear it?” The Herald man will be in great luck if he isn’t classed as a plain loon without frills or flounces.—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. The Fish Liar. The Augusta Herald says “the fish liar Is no joke.” That is giving it to him strnight.—Columbus Enquirer- Sun. A Good Democratic Quartette. The Savannah Press, Macon News, Atlanta Journal and Augusta Herald take the position that our representa tives should be consistent and vote against any proposition whose effect is to prohibit the importation of arti cles of necessity and to breed and foster monopolies in this country.— Dupblin Times. mark of wise moderation. Desperate diseases require heroic remedies. The people have seen and felt more of the discomforts and criticism arising from the new adjustments and the distur bances occasioned by the movement made, both state and federal, to con trol and regulate the railroads than they have seen and felt of the bene fits, which are largely in the nature of the negation of growing evils, for the curbing of which present and future generations will have cause to bless the railroad movement of the twentieth century to the end of time. The unrestricted power of the rail roads to make rates, issue stocks and float bonds that practically exists in Georgia and the other states prior to the Hoke Smith campaign was one the possibilities for the abuse of which were as illimitable as the temptations to abuse it were inevi table and irresistible. It invested the railroads with the power of govern ment to tax our entire southern coun try without the responsibility of gov ernment to tax it wisely or justly. When frenzied financiers found them selves in position to issue bonds ad libitum, put the money in their pock ets or buy other railroads with it and saddle the debt as a fixed interest charge on the earnings of the roads to all future time it was inevitable that there would be found those to do it, as well authenticated railroad history has shown that there were those who did do it, and the result must necessarily have been either to wreck the railroads or to have drain ed the life blood out of the country through which they ran in exorbitant and confiscatory traffic charges to an swer for revenues from which they had received no benefit. If the Hoke Smith administration had done nothing more than to place upon the statute books of Georgia the law which will forever, in its present or in amended shape, stand between the people of the state and the possi bility of such oppression and abuse it would have commended itself to the lasting gratitude of the people.—Ma con News. ♦ NEWS AND VIEWS ♦ ♦ ♦ The Style of Those Breeches. “Little Joe” is to be inaugurated in Georgia jeans breeches. Are they to he opened and shut like a cellar door, with the old-fashioned flap in front?—Alpharetta Free Press. The Pie-Hunter*’ Uniform. Brown jeans for the inauguration? Contrary to his wish, Joe Broxvn’s friends are going to be there with their suits of Georgia material for the affair. —Thomasville Times-Enter prise. An Interesting Subject. The Joe Brown jeans has given the newspaper fellows something to write about if nothing else has been ac complished.—Columbus Enquirei^Sun. Sample of South Carolina Hail. It is reported that hailstones as large as turkey eggs were 3een in South Carolina a few days ago. But then a man who is crazy enough to live in South Carolina is likely to see most any old thing—Columbus Enquir er-Sun. Did Not Lose Their Heads. It is said that neither the mayor of Philadelphia nor the governor of Pennsylvania ordered out the mili tia during the street car strike. Neith er did Governor Smith of Georgia, during the Georgia railroad strike.— Waynesboro True Citizen. The Gimlet Club Misiit Rhymes OF COURSE you’ve noticed the difference in men’s appearance on a hot day, how the clothes of some look heraggled and limp, while others have a neat style that’s refreshing to see. f It takes tailoring of the Don’ kind to properly treat a tropical weight goods and it takes goods of the Doit kind to make an ideal summer suit. That’s why there’s such a difference between Dorr clothes and the or dinary. May we not try our clothes on vou % Dorr Tailoring, Furnishings For Men of Taste. FOR SALE That desirable Lot, corner Telfair and McDowell street, Summer ville, 100x150—PRICE $1,200.00. Apply to t Clarence E. Clark REAL ESTATE, 842 Broad. He Will Be Speechless. We wonder what excuse the Geor gia road’s arbitrator, Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, will seize upon as justifying the employment, of negroes in prefer ence to white firemen? Seems to us the Hon. Hilary will find himself in rather an embarrassing position.— Dublin Times. Doings of the Smart Set. Honest, now, as you read aoout the doings of tne ultra-smart set these days, don’t you sometimes have mis givings as to whether they are worth all they cost the community to main tain—Washington Times. WHEELER HARDWARE COMPANY. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HARDWARE DEALERS. Dillon, S. C., June 8, 1909. CAROLINA PORTLAND CEMENT CO., Charleston, S. C. Dear Sirs:—We are highly pleased with “KEYSTONE” LIME. It Is just the Lime we have been trying to get for years. We believe It to be the equal of any Lime on earth, and superior to any we have ever handled. As long as "KEYSTONE” holds the standard of quality it now has we do not want any t Yours very truly. (Signed) WHEELER HARDWARE CO., C. L. Wheeler. FRIDAY, JUNE 25. GARDELLE’S Family Drug Store is on the 600 block of Broad street, but if yon reside on the one hun dred or twelve hundred block his store is as near to you as if you were on the same block. A telephone order brings a boy on a wheel to your door in a few minutes. Try one of Gardelle’s Special 2 quart Fountain Syrin ges. Rapid flow guar anteed. Price SI.OO. Telephone No. 2328. Alexander Drug Co. The Rexall Store Those who ai’e troubled with falling hair and ir ritation' of the scalp should try the Rexall Hair Tonic No. 93. Rexall Skeeter Ccoot, 25c will rid you of mosqui toes. 708 Broad Street. Good Soda Water and Nunnally’s Candy. Ice Cream. PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGINES AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, tors, pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines, Mill Supplies and Repairs. I STOCK AT LOMBARD Foundry, Machine and Boiler Worki and Supply Store, AUGUSTA, GA.
