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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1909)
PAGE FOUR W AUGUST A HERALD Published Ev«ry Afternoon During tL* Week and on Sunday MornTg by THK MKRAI.D PUBLISHING CO. Eater, d fit the August • po*«otflre * ■ Mall Mattsr of the Seeord Class. BUBHCKIPTION RATbS: Dally and Hu:tday 1 year fft.OO Dally ai.d Hunuay, 6 months 3.00 Dally and Sunday, 3 months .. .. 1 so Daily .mil Sunday, 1 month XO Dally find Sunday, 1 w»i<?k 13 Bunaay Herald. 1 year 1.00 Wsskl y Herald. 1 year AO Bn Off! os, Tekphms u City Elitor jo# Bot:ety Editor 2'J6 FORCIIiN REPIIESENTATIVKS—-Tbs Benjamin ffc Kentnor Co., 1 25 Fifth Ave.. No tv York City 11 uh Boyce Building, 4rtdre-h all huslttes communications to Hit Alois f A HUMID <ll Street, AttffUtiU* Ga. •Ts you* want the news YOT T N KKD THE f IRkA ED.' Sugufcta, Oa, f Monday, Aug. 23, 1909. Nl, communication will psounuvU In The Herald unleaj* the name ar the writer i* Mlgned to the article. The Herald Is the official advertising medium of Uie City of AuaimUl and of the County of Richmond foi all legui notices end advertising;. There Is no better way to reach the homes of the projp*roua people of this eitjr and aoction than through t l *e 00l umns of The Herald, Dally and .»undu> *~Telephono ts.« Circulation Depariment, Phone 297, when leaving Auguata. and arrange *.o have The Herald sent to you by mull each day. The Augusta 1 hit aid has s larger elf , circulation than any otl»* r paper, and I larger total cjr'oul/ Hon than any oth* > Augusta paper. This has been prove , by the Audit Co.. of New York. ~ 7614 COPIES, IS THE DAILY AVERAGE I&3UE OF THE AUGUS TA HERALD, FOR A FERIOD OF 12 MONTHS, ENDING APRIL 30TM, 1909. YOU WILL ENJOY your vacation all the more, If you havo The Herald with you. 'Phone No. 297, or droo a poatal to the Circulation Man ager and have The Heralo sent you while you are away from Augusta. THE AUGUSTA HERALD. IN NEW YORK CITY. On Sale at: Tlmea Square Station, Sam Coben. Broadway Theatre Staud, R. Toporoff Be mire and ask for The Herald when In Now York. Hel ler mill, telephone your New York address and have (he Her ald sent you. "You'll like Augusta"—lt ta the common exie-rlunoe of everybody who has ever boon in ihe city. The people of Coving:ou are a fast lot The Nows says 'that new houses are built iu the town "almost dally. It is a mistake to think that riding through the alt makes Orville Wright'* hair stand on end. He Is baht headed. Another Atlanta man Is said to have written u play. Does that Indicate thnt ho Ims a guh«rnntorinl bee bus sing under his hat ? Pellagra Is raid to he epidemic in Durham, N. Better allow the dam aged com to be distilled, than to cat it undistllled and take pellagra. In AUauta It is reported that a bachelor was arrested the other day tor wife-beating. It takes the Allan ta spirit to accomplish such a feat. Mr Hsrritnsn is on hla way back to this oouutry. If you havo a rail road that you don't want gobbled up you'll bo wise if you'll now nail it down. / I a ... n i in Aanlaton an ice man was fined fit) the other day tor giving short weight. The public debt could be easily paid if this example were gen •r&Hjr followed There »re only two women editont In South Carolina, and one of them was for prohibition and the other for dispensaries. But that doesn’t seem strange, doe* It? Prohibition in Alabama must surely \># a farce. A Sunday school super intendent In Montgomery bus been reguested to resign because he made this assertion President Tatt Is taking boxing les sons He probably proposes that If nd one else will try to take the cham pionship away from that negro pugil ist he will do It himself. The Norfolk l andmark ssys that the democrat* should act tn concert That may he good advice, but the trouble Is that none are willing to Play second fiddle The Alabama legislature is now considering a hill to prohibit the selling 6f coca-oola. Good bye, Ice cream, *c see your finish If the pro hlbitlon wave keeps on. The Rt. Louts Globe-Democrat says thit there are fourteen approved methods of Irrigating. If but one of them were readily available In Geor gia it would give a rosier hue to life In coining money the die Is given a pressure of 160 tons to tin sguare inch. This is done probably to keep the eagle from squealing as he would Otherwise be Inclined to do when some people get a grip on the coin. Taxe. are certain no longer since \ie dog tax was pas .d and left op tional to pay or not as the dog owner prefers. Now If death could only be fixed that way there would be no occasion to <lrt*d death and taxes any longer THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA. China is represented as the sleeping giant, just, waking up. It has an area of over four million sguare miles, larger than the total area of Europe or more than on third larger than the United States. It has a population of 432 millions, larger than the total population of Europe, and nearly five times as large as the population of our country. And China Is correspondingly rich In n atural resources. Truly a giant nation, and just now waking up from her slumber of centuries, during which no progress was made. Her great re sources are practically undeveloped and largely unexplored, but with the awakening of the country has come to exploration and the exploit ation of these resources. What immense producers of wealth these will prove may be anticipated by the size and population of the empire. Railroads are being built, and coal, iron and other mines are being opened. And there Is a desperate rivalry between the so-called great nations to "assist" In the development of China. This eagerness had re sulted in a hitch which at one time threatened serious consequences, but which has now be. p settled by an agreement between the generous helpers. To build a new Chinese trunk line, the Hankow Sze Chuen railway, some $27,500,000 wer, required. English, French and German capital ists cavi-n- proffered the money, and the loan was to be con summat'd, when our government Interfered. We could not afford to let lies'- other countries outdo us in generosity, and as we had Morgan ami other philanthropists who were ready to lend money, our govern ment Insisted thnt they should be let Into the deal. After much negoti ating it was finally agreed to lend China S3O 000,000 or $2,500,00 more than she wanted, and that this loan should he divided between the three European powers and our country. As tin- Washington Herald comments: "China has achieved an unique distinction. The nations of the earth are getting mad with one another over the question of which shall lend her all the money she wants, and In h hurry." This is an example of modern Christian philanthrophy, assisting the sleeping giant to develop his resources, and In the moment of his awak ening to place bonds on him At 5 per cent this loan will require $1,500,000 annually for Interest, which the philanthropic great powers will divide among their Investor citizens, an annual tribute from China for all time to come, Ko, as China awakes and is being developed the country Is being placed in bondage. All the South American and smaller European countries are already under such bondage. Japan and our country also are In like bondage to Ihe European powers.' This explains why countries ns smalt and as poor In natural resources as are Germany and England can spend so much money for maintaining armies and build ing monster warships, without being at once bankrupted It Is the tribute they collect from th e smaller countries through the means of loans and Investments, that allows them to spend hund teds of millions a y< ;tr for armament* to enforce the collection of this tribute, if such a course should ever become necessary. PROHIBITION AND MOB LAW. Mob law, or the enforcement of what is conceived to bo law by un lawful methods, is to be condemned under all circumstances. Prohibition Is supposed to bo synonymous with temperance. When therefore a new field for the exercise of mob law is entered, In an excss of zeal for prohi bition, It is to be deplored not only on account of the contempt for law while It Indicates, but also because It shows that prohibition Is far from being temperance In action. In the recent prohibition eleotlon In South Carolina, Orangeburg county was voted dry by a laige majority. It developed after the election that In the express office at Springfield, lu that county., there was case of liquor consigned to J. ti. Rlngllng. There being no person or that name living in the town It was assn mod that the liquor ua ordered by some citizen under cover of a fictitious name. In consequence a mob, said to have been joined hv the sheriff of tho county and the mayor of tho town, marched to the express office, seized the liquor, and pound It out In the at:not after having smashed the bot tles. This was certainly an emphatic way of declaring In fuvor of prohi bition, but it was an intemperate and reprehensible manner of expressing it. To ship liquor Into the state Is not contrary to law, and whether tho .1. G. lUngltug In this case was a ficti tious name to hide the Identity of some old hypoorite who professed to bo a prohibitionist hut was not, or whether he, was a living, honest man unknown to any of the mob, to des troy the liquor tn this manner was an unlawful proceeding. Of course iho express company will have to make good the loss of goods which it received and did not deliver, and the town will have to make good the loss sustained by the express com patty by the action of the mob. Sucb exhibitions of disregard for law and of the mob spirit cannot help the cause of prohibition. The cause of temperance cannot be promoted by Intemperate outbursts. When tin liquor traffic Is being outlawed as fast as Is being done by successive laws In this entire section surely there Is no need for a resort to mob law, and when this is done tho effect can only react on the movement lu whose behalf mob law was Invoked. "The first chapter of prohibition in the town of Springfield,” as this in cident ha* been called, is nothing to command that town to good people anywhere. THE STRONG DEFENSES. Mr. n V. Yoakum, chairman of tlu> executive committee of tho Rock Island Frisco linos of railroads, made an address Tuesday lo the Oklahoma Farmers' Inlon at Shawnee, In which many Interesting facts and some great truths wore presented. While (he purpose of the address was to cul tlvate a closer feeling of friendship for the railroads by the farmers, and the various points were chosen with that purpose In view, some matters of political economy were presented which are otherwise worthy of the most careful consideration. Referring to the fast increasing ex panses of our government, and the large share iu these growing expenses which must he charged to our military and naval establishments, Mr. Yoa ktuu said: "Our advocates of greater military expense* tell us we are too great, too rich and too strong to fear any trou hie over government expenses, hut we art' now running behind and not only devising new methods of taxa tion hut are selling government bonds to take care of the deticit. The question is not oue of the future, hut of the present. Wo are making (he Initial mistake of older coun tries across the sea The extension of tin- grain and cotton fields of the Mississippi Valley and of the West are strouger military defenses than are the war ships. Secretary of Agriculture Wilsou recently said that the moat pressing needs of the I’nlted Stales are a greater proportion of farmers and more farming land In cultivation We would better speed more money we huru up in powder In ntakiug new farms A 40-aer*- farm of Irrigated land will comfortably support a family of five. It cosfts $55,000 to make a 12-inch gun. The money that goes to pay for this gun would reclaim 1,571 acres of land, providing homes for 190 people. When all the guns on all the battleships are shot one time, the government blows off in noise and smoke $150,000. This would reclaim more than four thous and acres of land, giving homes to more than 500 farmers and their fami lies. The money consumed In powder is lost to all future. The farmer who buys the reclaimed land must pay the government back in ten years, so it does not cost the government anything to build up the country bv helping the farmer. We should make more homes.and not so many fighting machines." The world seems to have gone war mad. Not that there are more wars now than formerly, but in the prepara tions that are made for war. This is an enormously expensive business, iust how expensive can be appreci ated by the fact that it costs $55,000 to make one gun for one of the big battleships, and to fire eaoh of these guns only once In target practice ne cessitates to collection of $150,000 tn taxes from the people. From the other so-eallod great pow ers this craze of preparing for war has communicated Itself to our gov ernment, and like the rest we are fearfully increasing the tax burdens of the people to gel money to waste in such preparations. One of the groal guns that costs $55,000 can only bo tired about ono hundred times before it becomes useless, and one of the great hatfleshtps that costs six or eight million dollars to build and equip, will be useless junk In ten years. Then there will be noth ing to show for the money except the poverty caused uy the wasted expense. Wealth is a stronger defense than battleships and fortifications that, prodigiously expensive to provide become obsolete in a few years. The money expended by our government for great battleships and strong for tifications would. If expended for in ternal Improvement, irrigation, drain age and the reclamation of otherwise unproductive lands, make our coun try much stronger. “More homes and less fighting ma chines", would be the best defensive preparations /our government cqtnld make. Why should we yield to the craze which has seized the countries? of the old world and Is driving them to bankruptcy? Cong t-Cap.QET AQAITj,N. LET 5 GET out AND f HEAVENSt IT'S Q.YVHATAWAD coMINS —U It ir 11. O —i -’ if—l( * I IHCRE WSThTIAST I \UPSTMRS I BET HE'S AFTEftTHAT 1, 3 \OF THE SARDINES fERC 1 h LITTLE BUSINESS. ( MONET HE LENT US LAST WEEK. J | —hT~~ _ \ , r ' 1 AND OUR SANK 15 FA WE YE TO (qET « £j& L QUiCH FERD UPSTAIRS '—-Hi. H cf& ■ -VL-. . OclprtETTT LOW. HOPE I (.SOME MORE U j WE'LL GrET OUT THE .—ft I! '\\ 1 ' I U || — AS 1 ~k i\ la Pn r H ~ i t C- : I VVHY HEUO HALL-ROOti- | WAS OVER to TOUR HOUSF ’ l it/K ' ' y VVELU srt°oß Htd I [iTTAnes-US J HEARINCt TOU WERE W'.TH THE! S J'^D vl j f (U L) , , ' A ,HI WAY. r— ACCIDENr INSURANCECO. I INTENOEO tyVltvlE YOU THF TC6 JsnsrVxVß—\r 1 WAa /W f v.-\\. fL tzk THE AUGUSTA HERALD PRESIDENT TAFT’S LUCKY NUMBER How the Number Four Seems to be Most Important Figure in the Chief Magistrate’s Career. Four Is President Taft’s lucky num ber. He has four letters in his name and he was born In Ohio, a state of four letters. The president also Is one of four brothers. He was gradu ated from the Woodward High school in Cincinnati In 1874, and went to Yale which bears a four-letter name. Mrs. Taft then lived in Pike street, Cincinnati. The four letters the name of that tsreet bore luckily upon the president’s courtship. The wed ding ceremony was performed by a preacher whose four letter name was Hoge. Good luck of the num ber extended from them to Helen Taft, the daughter. She won one of four scholarships at Bryn Mawr and entered upon a four-year course. In 1894 Taft was appointed presi dent of the United States Philippine commission. On July 4, 1901 he be gan his career as the first civil gov ernor ended on February 1, 1904. Secretary of War Root and four let ters in his last name. That argured well for Taft. He succeeded Root as Secretary of War in 1904. Ten years before that, in 1894, Taft had made his famous decision against Phelan in the labor strike case. Taft could not help making a record as Secretary of War because he had to deal chief ly with the army, which is another four-letter Institution, Coming down to his election as president for four years, with four more years In prospect, It is iiiterest WHEN THE CHINAMAN IS SICK It is the custom for a Chinaman to visit the barber every week to have a general overhauling. First, the head and face are shaved; second, the erars are scraped and cleansed with a small brush made of duck’s hair; third, the upper and lower eyelids are scraped with a dull-edged knife, all granulations being smoothed away, and then an application is made with a duck’s hair brush of salt solution. This is the reason why you will find so much blindness in China. They take no antiseptic measures whatever. Finally the patient’s back Is mas saged, and after paying a fee of three rents and no tip, he leaves the shop, feeling clean outside, but now must consult his regulaiNphysician. After going through the usual ex amination, which is a form of mili tary inspection, the doctor diagnoses the case and treats it unless a devil happens to jump down th e patient's throat. If this has happened the doc- 1 tor can do the patient no good until he promises to set off one hundred firecrackers and to make a daily visit to the joss house. This done, he re-1 ceives the usual pills for those va-1 cated by the devil. These pills may consist of spotted rhinoceros horns, said to be a wonder ful cure for intestinal troubles. Thei HERALD ECHOES Finding Investment Here. "More and more each year is the idle money of the North and East seeking safe and profitable invest ment in the South," says The Augus ta Herald.—Columbus Ledger. Those Wise Greeks. All the Greeks in this country pro fess a great eagerness to go home and help their country to fight tho Turks. Which goes to show, thinks The Augusta Herald, that the Greeks do not regard war between Greece and Turkey very imminent. —Shreveport Times. Can Take Care of Himself. The lion and the lamb may now be expected to lie down together The Macon Telegraph has turned it self loose defending Tom Watson.— Augusta Herald. We have always had a suspicion that Tom was rather capable of d r ‘ fending himself. Wo have alwavs noticed that your friend Hoke doesn't bother Tom much?—Rome Tribune-Herald. ing to note how largely the figure 4 and four letter names entered into the campaign. On April 11, 1908, it was announced that 241 delegates were pledged to Taft out of 41G select ed in states entitled to 654 delegates selected to the republican national convention, and 42 were instructed for other candidates. In that week 46 delegates were, selected and 42 con tests had been noted of which the four Oklahoma contests involved Taft men. Maj-Gen. J Franklin Bell, the presi dent’s friend haß four letters in his name, and the president’s military aid is Capt. Archibald W. Butt, another four letter man. The number also carries into the president’s sports, as golf, his favorite indicates. Pru dent Uiaz, of Mexico, who is to meet the president in El Paso on October 15, also belongs to tie four-letter fra ternity. Root, as United States senator, sug. Rests something. So does Loeb for collector of the port of New' York. Parr, who has been appointed deputy surveyor here, and Wise, the United States attorney all have fallen be neath the four-letter luck of Taft ad ministration. It even extends to the organization of the custom house po lice force in this city. Lutz, a four letter man, who formerly was chief of police in Porto Rico, has beaten all competitors for appointment by the four-letter collector—New York Press I spotted rhinoceros horns come front southern China, and in the market at i Singapore a single specimen will | bring $25. j Tiger bones when ground to a pow der and mixed with Chinese wine make a gre&t blood tonic which is used by all classes of Chinese in northern China. The recipe is held by | a firm in Shanghai that has become ! very wealthy by the sale of this ! tonic. Old deer horns are boiled down to make the medicinal glue which binds J the fifty ingredients composing the average Chinese pills. As in these you may get anything from a pinch of gunpowder to powdered cobra tail j dust, it is not the fault of Wong-Kik j Chee if just the right kind of specific | escapes the patient. Equal in medicinal efficacy to the above are three high-grade tiger rem edies, the eyeball, liver and blood. As may be imagined, tiger eyeball, ’the genuine article, can be pre ’ scribed for only the exceedingly wealthy Chinese. Similarly the liver, when dried and reduced to a powder, is worth its weight In gold all over China. Tiger blood, when evaporated |to a solid at a temperature of 110 degress and taken as a powder, is believed by Asiatics to transform a i craven into a hero—Medical Record. EDITORIAL FUNNYGRAPHS In the case of Harry Thaw it is probable that he is not very favorably impressed with the manner in wnicit the Mills grind out justice.—Colum bus Lnqulrer-Sun. Up in Lumpkin county two thirds of the farmers returned all of theii agricultural implements at sl. Ev ery ou c of them is probably howling against the corporations for not mak ing their tax returns larger.—Amer icus Times-Recorder. "Georgia’s latest puzzle,” the Nor folk Landmark says, “is, what will Little Joe Brown do about the Little Brown Jug?” He won’t have to do anything. The legislature poured the stuff back into the jug and didn’t pass ii to him.—Savannah News. An umpire in Pennsylvania was rha; ed up a tree during a baseball game and held prisoner for several hours. In the meanwhile The game went on under another umpire, for umpires are a necessary evil —Bir mingham Age-Herald. Soft Hat or Derby ? of whatever style is suit able to your tastes or figure, we have the best that’s made. Derbies in nobby shapes for young men and more conservative styles for others. Soft hats in the newest blocks and most correct shades. *3, $4, $5 Dunlap Opening Thursday j DORR' Tailoring , Furnishings For Men of Taste. '•>'*>*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦444 ♦ SOME SOCIETY NOTES ♦ ♦ ♦ M4<<4<4<<4<<<« MISS MARY MANNTRING. Miss Mary Mannering has with drawn her suit for divorce against her husband, James K. Hackett. It is probably, however, subject to revival should the needs of the next theat rical season, in the way of advertis ing, demand it.—Wilmington Dispatch. MISS EMMA GOLDMAN. The Birmingham News thinks this country should give Emma Goldman "an indefinite leave of absence." We think the country would be only too glad to, if Emma could only be in duced to accept it. —Washington Her ald. MRS. ANNIE BESANT. Mrs. Annie Besant, theosophoist, here on a lecture tour, gravely an nounces her belief that Christ is soon coming back to earth and thus gets on the newspapers' front page. Foxy Annie.—Savannah Press. MISS IDA TARBELL. Miss Ida Tarbell has been created a "doctor of literature." Mr. Rocke feller, doubtless, does not know what that means for him, but, even more doubtless, he suspects It is something uncomfortable.—Washington Herald. MISS WRIGHT. it- mat Miss Wright was so busy inspecting her borthers’ aero plane the other day that she did not notice the president of the United States, who was inspecting it also, and only saluted him after he had asked, "Why, don’t y° u remember me?” She appears to be the sister of her brothers, all right.—Washington Herald. GIN cctsrs. Pipes, Valves and Fittings, l ight Saw, Shingle, and Lath Miils, Gasoline Engi*s. Lane Mills in stock. LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPPIV COMPANY, Augusta, Ca. MONDAY, AUGUST 23 SEE THE 2 QUART RAPID FLOW 3 HARD RUBBER PIPES FOUNTAIN SYRINGE For SI.OO Fresh goods and every one guaranteed. : : L. A. Gardelle Druggist Augusta, Georgia Will mail this Syringe for 18c extra. : s : Ice Cream Our Ice Cream is firm, rich, creamy and lus cious—made of the pur est ingredients. Leaves a taste for more. All popu lar flavors. Soda Wafer Made from pure fruits- Sparkling, ice cold, re freshing. Alexander Drug Co. Fountain The Rexall Store. COOK’S Goldblume Tits Best Brewed HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT. Contracts for another year ah being rapidly closed. Would liki to'add a few more houses to nr list. Clarence E. Clark REAL ESTATE, 842 Broad St. REPAIRS SAWS, RIBS, Bristle Twine, Babbit, &c., far any itaka of Gin ENGINES, BOILERS and PRESSES and Repairs for same. Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, in-
