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PAGE SIX Hit AUGUSTA HERALD PuMUbed Ev»*ry Afternoon During th* Week and ou Bundny Morn'a g by THK HERALD PI BLIBHINO CO. Entered at the Aufusiu Poaiofflce stu Mall Matter of the Second Class. SrHSCKIPTION RATES: Dally and Sunday. 1 year 96 00 Dally and Rnrmay, 6 mon’ha 9.00 Dally and Sunday, f months .. .. I.&0 Dally .ind Sunday. 1 month M Dally and Sunday, 1 week .. .... .13 Sunday flersld. 1 y*nj 1.00 Weekly Herald, 1 year 90 liuHm-.to Office, Teleph>ne .. .... *97 City JSdltor 299 Society Editor 294 FOREIGN REPRBBKNT ATIVRB rhe Benjamin A Kent nor Co.. 22G Fifth Ave., Now York City. 110* Boyce Building, Addrese all bualneaa communications to Tilt AUGIS(A IILKALD 291 Broad Ktreat. Avgust* Oa. "IF YOU WANT~T HK NEWS YOU NKKD THK HERALD." Augusta, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1909 No communication will published In The lioruld unleaa the name of the srrti*** m tilgnrd to the article. The Herald Is the official advertising medium of the City of Augusta and of the County of Richmond tor all legal notices end advertlslng. ‘There Is no better way to reach the hOT.fs of tho prosperous people of tills city enc. *o- 'ion than thrnugn P*e col ilinnA c* T ie Herald. Dslly and ..onduy. TeUphone th« ‘.’irrulaMon Uj»«nm»mt. Phone 29 1, when leaving Augusta, and srraiiff o nave The liersid Milt to you l*y mall *noh day. Tin igusU Herald h»«s n larger city elrc*ilnllon that* any other paper, and a larger tgtai C'xiilullon than any other Augusta paper This has been proven by th«- Audi Co., of New York. 7014 COPIES, IS THE DAILY AVERAGE ISSUE OF THE AUGUS TA HERALD, FOR A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS, ENDING APRIA. 30TH, laoa. YOU WILL ENJOY your vacation all the more, If you have The Herald with you. ’Phone No. 297, or drop a postal to the Circulation Man ager and have The Herale sent you while you are away from Augusta. The day of Jubilee has come —the Georgia legislature must adjourn to day. "You'll like Augusta"—lt* the city with one of the world'* tiiuiouu bridge*. j’rofi'Ksiouui driver* of automobile* are culled chauffeur*. Now what should propositional sutlors.of airships Go called? Every man who makes older to sell I* required lo pay a tax ol SSO. For tbu'l price he should make roal uid bard elder. Alberta, CnnadH, I* the first city that ha* operated a baseball team ou the municipal ownership plan. It's a good Mui, too. They say thill all things come lo hlj" who waits. Tills may bo true, lan that doesn't prevent the waiting from being a weary business. The compilation or Georgias his torleal records will continue. (>t course, eX-Goternor t uiidler must bo provided for ns long as he lives. According lo our new dog law a dog who doesn't pay the required tax may be arrested, but lie must not be killed That may incline them to pay the tax The married women of Spokane re cent l> held a husband show And you may bet Hint every one of the exhibitors thought she hud the prize exhibit. An Irrigation congress Is to be held in Spokane What a mistake tlint Is. Jf It really Irrigates tt should be held at some central point In one of these dry states. They should hsve left th« mUtulH of th" designer on those Lincoln pennies. If I'nole Ham should go tmnkrupt, hearing an endorsement might keep up tlietr value The Alabama legislature Is also sil ting In extra session during the dog. days, and it is passing some J/ws as freakish us the most freakish ones batched by our soloua. Strange that almost an soon is Now England repealed the last oi r bins lans lilt* South begun stt, ;H( way to enact new once. Does that show progress or retrogression? ■ 1 mi i ii In Connecticut tt has been insde lawful to last for u man to ktaa hts wife on Sunday That will deprive gay husbands of a loyal excuse lor kissing nine other mans ante. A tax of f,’>o a year has been put on each hand of gypsies for each county they vtatt. Thla will increase the price ot fortune-telling, and so all the uecct-sarle* ot lifts grow dearer. The pastor of a church In Cleveland says that Sunday school picnics ought to be abolished Hut some picnics give pleasure enough to he worth be. lng bit by the r<«dbugs who seem to He in wait always for picnicker*. The Darign iQexette says that If tt was in Atlanta Just now tt would sprinkle loving kindness around—the Journal and Constltugon offices. The tiasetie »..onld remember that the Innocent bystander usually gets hurt at that sort ot business. The Columbus Ledger again fired off a eolnmn of paragraphs each one of which began with "Cointubus." Very diplomatieallv tt avoided allud ing to the people, so it didn't have to choose betweeu Cultiuibusters and Colunibusians. Kkku the warding ot the new Ala bama prohibition law that state will now be tearfully and wonderfully dry But unless It’s unlike every other law tt will have sufficient loop holes m it to allow some moisture to percolate through tt FARMERS SELLING COTTON FOR FUTURE DE LIVERY. What may in the end revolutionize the entire cotton growing in dustry seems to be within the possibility of an innovation in the selling of their cotton by the farmers which, although not new, has this year assumed significant proportions. This is the selling by the cotton grow ers of their crops on the future delivery plan. In the very Interesting and instructive collection of reports from farmers in every part of the Savannah valley, printed In The Herald last Sunday, It will have been noticed that this selling of cotton fol future delivery has become very extensive, some counties reporting ab much as GO per cent of the prospective crop already sold, and only a few reports indicating that in the localities covered by these report* no such ssles had tut yet been made. The average price for which these future .delivery sales were made seems to be twelve cents', and as showing how already this new departure will affect the cotton business is the prediction of on» observant farmer that cotton bales this season will average lighter weight than ordinarily. This conclusion is drawn from the belief that the price of cotton will be above the contract price, and that naturally the farmer will make the bales he has contracted to deliver at a fixed price as small as possible, In or der to nave as much left as possible to sell for the expected higher spot price. While this would seem hardly fair to the buyers it would be quite natural, and if future selling for actual delivery by the farmers becomes the established rule this could easily be prevented by adopting a stand ard weight for bales. The trading In cotton futures Is being strongly condemned, and efforts are being made to suppress it by law. In view of this it may he objected that, the farmers are Inconsistent in objecting to the trading In cotton futures, as they do, and theu sell their cotton for future di/lvery, as muuy of them are doing now. But there is a difference. The trading In cotton futures as It Is being practised under the Inspiration of Wall street is wrong. It Is gambling pure and simple. It does not contemplate the actual delivery of a single bale of cotton, and this betting on the price of cotton, which is all that this kind of dealing in futures is, can only tend to lead to fluctuations in price not us supply and demand would regulate tt, but as this might be effected by tricks employed by men with big money at stake. This pernicious system has not only led to the financial ruin of many of these gam blers, hut It hits caused a loss of millions to the cotton growers. It Is wrong and should be suppressed. The selling for future delivery by the farmers is entirely differ ent It contemplates the actual delivery of cotton, and Is legitimate business for both buyer and seller. The buyer Is the manufacturer or commission men acting as his agent*. When the manufacturer knows the price of the raw material he tequtre* for a year's operation Of his plant he knows exactly where he Is "at.” He can make contracts for the delivery of goods at. specified times and for a specified price, and the element of chance or of gambling Is eliminated from his! business. If all cotton manufacturers should make contracts for future delivery to them of raw>p'otton us they needed it, a stability would be given to this business which It has never hud before. It would also enable cot ton manufacturing lo be conducted on less capital, because cotton would he delivered and paid for as needed, whereas under the old sys tem prudent manufacturers would try to lay In their year’s supply as early as possible, a plan which kept a large amount of capital idly lied up For the manufacturer the contract system for future delivery of spot cotton would be a good thing. It would be n good thing also for the farmer. He would know exactly what he was to get for the cotton he produced, which would enable him to cut his garment according to his cloth. Just as the manufacturer, he could go ahead and run his business on an assured certainty, which would save him from such losses as are inevitable where ihe future price Is an element of doubt. Ho, from every standpoint, the new system of farmers contract ing forVhe fulur,. delivery of cotton seems not only right but wise. It Hie plAn proves successful (his year ll will probably grow in favor and will he more extensively adopted and perfected. And If a large purl of the crop of cotton grown each season could be contracted for tn this way at or before planting time, which might be done, It would come very near fixing the price of cotton at the right figure, and prevent those violent fluctuations In prices, due to gambling;' which have so Injuriously affected the cotton growers, and other bust ness us well. THEY WILL BREAK FAITH. If there be truth in the old saying that whom the gods would destroy I hey first make mad, one would know that the prohibitionists of South Caro lina were doomed to destruction. For certainly they are mad. This Is readily apprehended from the published Interview of Hon. John (! Richards, of Kershaw. Mr. Uich ards was the prohibition leader on the floor of the house lust year, when the law was passed under which the prohibition elections are to he held In each of the present wet counties next week. Thut law was a com promise. The prohibition >w could not he passed, but the anti-prohibi tionists readily agreed to the law providing for these elections because they believe in the principle of home rule. If the people do not want liquor sold In their counties it should not he sold. If they do want it sold, and Indicate this by a majority vote, then the sale should not be prohib Ited. The prohibitionists subscribed lo the principle of home rule which is expressed in local option, when they agreed to the law ordering the pending elections. But now comes Mr. Richards and says the fight will again be started tn the legislature, when It meets in a lew mouths, for the passage of a general prohibition law for the whole state. Although the personnel of the next legislature will be the same as that which refused to pass a prohl bttton bill a few months ago, Mr. Richards declares that such a bill would pass easily now, and that the same old prohibition hill w ill be In troduced again, and passed next win ter without a doubt. Is not this madness? Why should\ I such a course be taken following so soon after an election In which the I people had declared themselves In I favor of retalutug the dispensaries i in a number of counties, ss they will I certainly do? The time of the legis i ianire will be consumed In wrangling over this question, to the exclusion of other more important matter, and an agitation will he kept up over something that could not be possibly settled in a better way than has been done. The prohibitionists are morally bound to abide the result of these elections, and when they introduce a prohibition law Immediately fol lowing an election which decided that several counties should remain wet It is a violation, of their faith. And when this is done, and useful legis lstlon held tip at the same time, tho attempt to force prohibition will ap pear i like unbridled fanaticism than intelligent effort to better existing conditions HOW A&OUT B'LTAONICO S ) WE'D BETTER GO A BIT E>lOW AmAIN'FERD’ WE STiLL ) PCRC .WE FED UP HFtETTYSIROWi HAVE ABOUT 2b BUCKS ) tAST NIGHT. LET'S GO OVER TO LIFT FROM OuHC-p: -nS VYANbCOOPtRS AND SEE THE COM'SH r ) f CA-D BUNCH. THEN WE CAM WHICH T~\ LAT IN A STOCK Of WE MADE\ Sy .. ’ EATAW-Es>_ hot 5aT ISN'T IT SHITHERS. I HEARD TDC/ HAD A Run IN W'TH THE BOSS . THAT PURPLE ONE IS RATHER CLASS?. LET'S Xt WHAT TOU HAVE IN THE fOUfl-IN-HRNQS . j ,__^ a _3jJHOW~Do'TOU PfUAE SELLING, TIR • C~\ j I ir'fTTT ? r . A K* T (dC'm'Y Rt-tEMREH HO*! ‘ 5 THE AUGUSTA HERALD A HOLY WAR IN MOROCCO Th« Characteristic Look of Sadness Worn By the Moor Traced To His Expulsion From Spain According to recent reports, the fanatical leaders of the Moslems in Morocco are preaching a holv war; and in the event the fires spread, the whole northern coast of Africa, includ ing Algeria and Tunis, may be drawn Into the fight. Spain is in no condition to invite such a menace or to meet such a foe. *—- Arid this may prove the eventful moment of which the Moor has long dreamed. Hundreds of years have elapsed since the dark-skinned Arabs looked for the last time upon the broken arches of the old Alhambra. But the catalogue of woes which culminated in the downfall of Grenada is still fresh in the memory oi the Moors; and from the distant shores of Africa they have never ceased to look with 'tear-dimmed eyes to the far-off lands which they once pos sessed beyond the Mediterranean. At one time the Moors were great and powerful. They crossed into Spain in the earlier centuries when Mohammedanism was in the ascend ant. They drove the Spaniards into the mountains of Asturia; and, cros sing the Pyrenees, they encountered the hosts of Christendom under Charles Martel on the famous field of Tours. The issue was Joined be tween the cross and the crescent, and Europe was the prize of battle. But victory perched upon the ban ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ NEWS AND VIEWS ♦ •♦♦♦»*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« Oliver as a Hypnotist. A man named Oliver who recently succeeded in swindling credulous Georgians out of about one hundred thousand dollars is said to be “a hyp notist of marked ability.” Many of those gentlemen with get-rlch-quick schemes to exploit are, it seems.— Washington Herald. A Valuable Asset. The optimist is the best asset any community can have. He lends in spiration to all who come in contact with him. —Llncolnton Journal. A Ironical Subject. In order to demonstrate conclusive ly that the new tariff law will lower prices, a correspondent writes to the New York Times; “Every family using iron ore, pig iron, scrap iron, steel rails, cash registers, linotypes, type writers, steam engines and wood pulp will now be able to buy them far less, and the cost of Hving will be reduced. Taft has kept his promises; the tariff Is reduced.” The writer seems to be ironical.—Charleston News and Cou rier. Increased Railroad Earnings. The .Centra! of Georgia railway re ports for the fiscal year just ended net earnings of $3,009,773 above operating expenses. This does not take into ac count betterments, taxes, dividends, etc.—Sparta Ishmaelite. Counties Should Tax Automobiles. The Bibb county commissioners are not opposed to the state license of $25 on automobiles, but they believe the money should come back to the counties In proportion to the number of autos in them. This is the correct idea. But the easiest way to do it would be to require the counties to Impose the tax and have it paid di rectly into their treasuries. And then It should all be expended on the roads.—American Times-Rocorder. A Joyless State. "You are making Georgia a Joyless state!” exclaimed Representative Boyd, as he viewed the many bills to tax out such pleasures of life as pre vious legislatures had overlooked. When this job is successfully perform ed, Joe will doubtless move out, and wp are going with him.—Griffin News. The Hall Room Boys ner of the Christian knight, the fol lowers of the prophet were driven back into Spain, and Europe was sav ed from the infidel. But for nearly a thousand years the Moors continued to rule the Iber ian peninsular. Nor was the period of Moorish su premacy in Spain an unmixed evil. For the Moors possessed learning and culture. They reared magnificent buildings, embellished with the most exquisite adornments of oriental art. They also fostered the sciences and introduced into the schools of Spain the Arabic letters and figures which have since been almost universally adopted by Christian countries. Civilization owes much to the Moor. > (The ruins which he left behind him in Spain have inspired the gen ius of Prescott and Irving, and have been the admiration of lovers of the beautiful the world over. Had he been willing to accept Christianity, 1 e might have retained his clutch upon Spain; but he pre ferred to kneel at the shrine of the prophet; and in the final grapple be tween the true and the false relig ions he lost. It is said that the look of sadness which characterizes the Moor of the present day is the heritage of sorrow which has come down to him from the fall of Grenada—the grief has been made perpetual.—Atlanta Geor gian. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ HERALD ECHOES ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Accept It by Faith. The fashion papers tell us again that tassels on the hose will be the style. But in that case how is any body to know who is stylish and who is not?—Augusta Herald. Just take it for granted and go along.—Carters ville News. They Are a Nuisance. The tariff on hooks and eyes elso has been increased. The Augusta Herald thinks that some people would not have cared if this tax had been made prohibitive.—Houston Chron icle. Jabs at Georgia. The Augusta Herald has a depart ment which it calls “Jabs at Geor gia.” If there is another state in the union that can stand as many jabs as Georgia, we have yet to hear of it. Georgia’ is all right, and her people know it.—Thomson Free Lance. t The Reason For It. “Governor Brown has now been governing a month, and that he has been doing so well may be ascribed to the three newspaper men whom he has chosen to be his assistants,” says the A»gusta Herald. —Hawkinsviile News. More Appropriate A statue is to be erected in honor of Senator Carmack. The Augusta Herald suggests that carrying out the sentence of the court on the men who murdered him wduld be more appropriate.—Raleigh Times. Build Automobiles in the South. The Augusta Herald says there have been 80,000 automobiles built in the United States during the past year and comments very favorably upon the remarkable growth of this industry during the past ten years. The one objectional feature 'to it all is that all of these machines are be ing made above the Mason and Dixon line and the south is not sharing in any of the immense profits accruing from this great industry. We want to see southern people supplied with automobilxs from manufactories lo cated in the south. —Sandersville Her ald. HELLO ME ALT - STILL OH THE JOB t SEE. WHAT'S ALL Tfitl THE HEAD FLOORWALKER 06 IS iH BAD NOW. HE'S BEEN ROLLERS SINCE ill B£- OeR JETTING A ] HELLO TESNE . SEE US BOTTLE OF CHEAP* PCRC.I AGAIN AREN'T TOO. WASN'T THAT DON'T FOR<*T TO <SeTC- / <AREAT ABOUT THE FLOORWALKER SOME PLUM PUOCXNEi J G>NE ME A PACK AC, E OF SHREDCED \VICL t New Hats, Caps and Neckwear Just a little freshness to your attire to spruce you up between seasons. Hats, soft and stiff, $3.00 to $3.50. all shapes and shades, up to the minute. Neckwear, 50c. - New Patterns, new shades, new styles. Dorr Tailoring, Furnishings For Men of Taste. FEMININE STRATEGY During a bargain sale rush that took place yesterday in a downtown estab lishment, contrary to all the rules of football, one woman secured an un fair advantage in her grabbing ex pedition by holding an umbrella un der her arm in a horizontal position, so that those who crowded in behind her took the chance of being stabbed in case of a front attack, and scraped xj. the approach came from the flank. For several minutes she stood off the assaulting column that was form ing in her rear, but the sight, of her pawing over the wares offered for sale so enraged the shopping sister hood that one dame, holding a stout, but somewhat worn shopping bag be fore her like a shield, charged the po sition, and won a glorious victory, the umbrella being pushed forward un der the owner's arm so violently that she lost it altogether—or, at least, until it could be recovered for her from the far side of the counter. And by that time all the best things she had been looking over exclusively, were gone.—Cleveland Leader. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« ♦ JABS AT GEORGIA ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ A couple of Georgian ministers fell out over the prohibition question the other day, and one referred to the other as “a loud-mouthed, long-haired freak.” Prohibition fights certainly do develop an occasional elegant line of 'talk between friends. —Washing- ton Herald. Compulsory education in Georgia might in the course of time cause the people of the benighted state to quit calling it "ni-beer.”—Anderson Mail. Down in Georgia there is a singu larly mean specimen of humanity. He has publicly stated that kerosene oil is a cure for snakebite. —Albany N. Y. Journal. Georgia passes a law making it a misdemeanor to speak ill of a woman, and then passes another law prohibit- They Celebrate Their Good Luck by Gloating Over Smithers AND ROB IT IN ) CxeTTTm^ j ON THE Floorwalker First- 1 Lq.ao he. ) WE'LL MAKE HIM SHOW US^ I r-pi/ JHE NECK. Sj n SURE WAS A FIRE FEEO ALL RIGHT. THWAS-AftE OUR WAT A RAIN. GEE * I CAN XUS.T J IMAGINE. OLD SnnrrS FEELINGS when He t —, CtOT LET oowh. Tee-hee . j ——* ■ 1 FI NISH these peaches. Thetu ... i "yf.-- ---1 1 —i y < WEDNESDAY, AUG. I** SELECT LILY OF THE VAL LEY EXTRACT by Spiehler SI.OO Ounce AZUREA EXTRACT k in bulk 75c Ounce Gardens 620 Broadway. For Fine , Perfumery and Toilet Requisites. Summer Time is Soda , Time at Our Soda Fountain, And soda here is perfection. Cold, snappy, bubbling soda of marked purity, and served ex pertly and cleanly. We have all the old time favorite flavors as well as the newest. Each soda drink represents all that is best as an appetizing thirst quenching, satisfactory drink for a hot day. Drop in and try one of our drinks. Alexander Drug Co. 708 Broad THE REXALL STORE. FOR SALE That desirable Lot, comer Telfair ar.d McDowell street, Summer ville, 100x150— PRICE »1,200.00. Apply to Clarence E. Clark REAL ESTATE, 842 Broad. ing trading stamps. Consistency is only a Barrios gem in Oeorgia—Co lumbia State. Moreover, when a Georgian travels abroad nowadays he always provides himself with sufficient funds to pay a li'ttle excess baggage tariff on the re turn trip.—Washington Herald. A Georgia legislator proposes that pistol carriers in that state be com pelled to wear tags reading, “I am loaded.” Such a tag might be mis leading unless It stated wha’t the wearer was loaded with.—Orangebury Times-Democrat. Copyright. 1909. by Amort cao-Jouruß-ICuuntng.
