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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1909)
MONDAY, AUGUST 30 IHt AIGUSIA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During tL-- and ot» Sun&ny Morn'ni; by THK HERALD PCBLIKfnNQ CO. Catered at ihe Auku . *<<:* nirio *. Mall Mat tar of tha Second CUaa. SUBSCRIPTION HATES. Dally and Sunday 1 yw M-00 Dally and flunaay, 6 mon’.ha 3.00 Dally and Hurd../. ? month* .. .. l»o Daily and Sunday, 1 month (0 Dally and Sunday, 1 week .13 Sunday Harold. 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald 1 year 60 Sui>ln«N Office Telephone is 7 City Editor m Sooiaty Editor 294 FOREIGN RKPKICSEN i • I IVES iH •« Benjamin ft Kentnor Co., 226 Filth Av*.. Saw York City. 1108 Boyce J.uMdtng, Chicago Addreas all huatnean communion*lona to Tlit AIGUSIA IIIKALD Jteoad Street, Auguuta Ga -IF YOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED THE MEnALLV Augusta, Ga., Monday, Aug. 30, 1909. No corn.nunlcnt ion will published In Vh* Herald unleaa the nunio of the writer is signed to tha article. The Augusta Herald h«a a larger city clrr iiatlon than any other paper, and a larger total e.Jecillation than any other Augusta paper Thla ha* been proven hy tha Audit Co., of New york. “you'll like Augusta" because It him the finem atit-el, for uutomobillng In the country. Whatever may bo Kald agalrmt Sen ator Tlllmau It muHt be admitted that he fumllbea lilk full Hharo of good copy for the newspaper!. Among (lie fool klllern the automo bile la In the front rank. H'k a pity that It doesn't coniine Its killing to th:a line. Since the ntrlct prohibition law ha» been panned In Alabama it will prob ably In unlawful to give the bottle to bablcH. Dr. Eliot's new religion hlho ro le'"* the glory of the whale swallow ing Jonah. Who wants such a re ligion. whan so much attention Is given to submarine navigation? The secret is out now. That mimic wnr ut llOHton wag culled off before a decisive result hart been reached because the supply of bcann had given out. It 1e pointed out fhui the prosperity wave even includes the squirrel* among lt» beneficiaries. The hickory nut crop Is said to be uncommonly fine. In Atlanta it Is reported that 1,241 dogs have been killed this year But j wasn't It strange for Atlanta to keep ao quiet about the establishment of a sausage factory tn that city? Sometimes It happens Ihilt a man doth protest too much. Editor Pen dh toll lisa given the name of every stockholder In the Macon Telegraph, to prove that It Is not owned or con trolled by rHilroud Interests. That lug of Georgia liquor Mr. I Roosevelt carried with hint to Africa la now among the has hocus. A re- - cent report states that the Roose velt party spent the night In n dry camp A Clovt land judge has ruled that a husband need not wash tile dishes, lie should have gone Jusl a little fur ther and decided that n husband also need uot kindle the fire Iu the morn ings. Shades of Wllberfopca! English statesmen declare that there Is a color question which makes It Inex pedient to give the brother tn black the rights of full citizenship iu Eag laud's Afrt an colonies A girl In Patterson Is sab! to be a human pincushion. But really, the girl who Is dressed without a liberal assortment of pins disposed In vari ous parts of her make-up wouid be a rara avis. The Jacksonville Ttmes tinlon con ! tlnues to boast about the quantity of j water In that town. Amt this is con sidered strange by some of the pat rons who have been ordering goods shipped tn jugs from Jacksonville. Those Venetians, when they see the motor boats which are taking the place of the gondolas, will have aorne Idea how our cowboys felt when the locomotive took the place of the <oid stage coach. There are said to be twelve million miles of telephone wires Iu this coun try That being the case isn't It a shame to be told "Lino’s busy" when you want to talk to a fellow In a hurry ? A new paper has been startod In North Augusta The New Era. May It prove a great success For a tow n of Its age North Augusta probably , leads In the number of papers It has started and seen go under. It Is declared that the auto has come to stay Hut this is a mistake. While sometimes you may meet an auto which seems to be In that condl- i tlon somehow It t* always moved In sonic way. In Columbus. Ohio, a man allot and killed his wife when he discovered that she had negro blood in her veins. Whatever may be said of this deed. It was certainly a practical way of causing her to get rid of the objeo I tlonable blood. It Is estimated that President Taft i will travel more miles and meet more - people on his projected trip tbau any j other President has done. And out of i this great multitude he will meet j more home people In Augusta than! In any other city. If It s indigestion that ails Mr. liar rlman h* should find encouragement j In the lact that Mr Rockefeller has Buffered from the same for years. I Like Mr. Rockefeller he should come to Augusta every Vinter and plavj •alt, to live to be a centenarian. THE INCOME TAX AMENDMENT Without a doubt the most Important question that Is now up for ac tion upon It by the American people Is the proposed sixteenth amend ment to the Constitution, which provides for a tax on incomes. Beside this question all others shrink In Importance. The tariff, the Panama canal, good roads, prohibition, child labor, compulsory education arid all other question:; that are being hotly championed and stoutly conteded for and against are of lesser importance. A't best they only purpose a little progress In established ways. Hut the income tax Is radical and revolutionary. Jts effect will be to change our government, by making wealth hear It proper share of the cost of government from which un der the present order It Is exempt. With taxi- on Income* added to the present constitutional methods for raising th< government revenues there may be a revision of the tariff downward, which without such aid must remain a physical Impossibility. This would open the way for the proper adjustment of the tariff ques tion and ail the brood of evils that have grown out of this sys'tem. Then, also, could a return to a properly economics! government be ex pected. If the rich, who largely control legislation, be made to foot the Idlls when useless expense is Incurred, there would be strong and able watchdogs placed over the treasury. So long as the money Is collected by indirect methods principally from the working people the rich will remain Indifferent to governmental, extravagance. So It Is that this income tax Is a matter of the most vital import ance, and the amendment should be promptly ratified. But will this be done? The action of our Georgia sßnate makes it plain that It will not. To become operative the amendment must be ratified by 35 states. If only twelve states fall to take action—and such failure Is equal to adverse action In Its effect —the amendment will fall. And it Is only natural that wealth should combine to prevent favorable action being taken by the various legislatures. Georgia was the first stale which could have ratified the amend ment, because its legislature was In session at the time. A hill to this effect was Introduo d In the senate, but action on It was postponed un til the next session. This failure to act promptly has greatly weak ened the chances of the amendment to be ratified, since Georgia was counted ns one of the states that would surely ra'Ufy it. In all doubt ful states the non action of Georgia Is being used for all it is worth to prevent action, and will doubtless have Its effect. This failure of our senate Is charged to sinister influences by some, but tills Is wrong. The legislature was in Its last days, pressed for time to dispose of other pending matters, and as this question came up lute, and our legislature will meet again n«*xt year before moat of ’the other state legislatures will meet, It was felt that there was no cause for hurry. That the amendment will be ratified at the next session should not be a matter of doubt. Still It must be noted that a campaign Is on even in Georgia against the ratification of this amendment. Such notes as the follow ing from the Moultrie Observer may he seen now and then In the state papors: The Georgia legislature is going slow In the matter of an in come tux resolution. The opinion seems to prevail tha't Georgia would prefer to tax Incomes on her own account. Why turn tho money Into the federal treasury to pay Yankee pensioners? From Ihese It appeal's that a sentiment antagonistic to the income tax is lo bo worked up. Hut it will be unavailing. The amendment will bo ratified by Georgia despite these specious pleas and cunning appeals to prejudice. A federal tax on incomes will not prevent a late tax on the same if this be desirable, but a federal tax on Incomes will make northern millionaire's pay their part of the pension and other government expenses from which they are now exempt, causing their share of this burden to full on sou'thern farmers. By the time our legislature meets again this matter will be so well undeislood that the amendment will he ratified speedily and with a de cisive majority. THE HENPECKED HUSBAND. I tow deeply versed tn the law some ol our learned judges may be. and yd how blissfully Ignorant tn the practical affairs of life, Is shown by a recent decision of Judge Romjue, of Macon. Mo. In u case where the defendant had deserted his wife, but plead in justification of this act that he did so because she made life un bearable to him by her continued nagging, the judge ruled that hen lucked tn<-it must assert themselves, that It Is their prerogative to rule the roost, and when they fail to do this they have no redress nor sympathy coming to them. In delivering his decision Judge Romjue said: "The whole trouble between these two people seems to ho a want of self-assertion on the part of the hus band. He is really the party at fault, because when his wife hail made a household nuisance of herself by her continued fault-finding nml cri ticism. It was his duty to shut her up. She got so much In the habit of lec turing him that it became a sort of second nature with her. and she did it mechanically, uot maliciously, but because It was the customary and natural thing to do. "All the evidence shows the defend ant In this case Is an unusually quiet man. you might call him subdued, j guess he is But a subdued husband Is a mighty unpromising piece of fur niture in a happy home. Tha hen pecked gets no sympathy at home or abroad and deserves none. 1 be lieve the Lord intended men to gov ern the house, and when they fall to assume the responsibility they do it ou the peril of t-elr donu 4 happi ness." Al! of which ts doubtless good law, but it shows that the judge knows lit tie about the subject about which be is delivering an opinion. "Taming the shrew" ran be worked out admir ably tn a play, but it doesn't work out in real life Socrates will all his wisdom found It impossible to assert himself when Xantippt took the floor, which she occupied continuously, and the wise and unwise from that day to this have found themselves equal ly helpless when once they had been moulded hito henpecked husbands. It may not be good law, but It is good common sense and mercy to a class of long suffering victims to al low such men to find relief tn self given liberty. Joyful News In Augusta. The news that Aiken county would hold on to the dispensary was no doubt joyiul news to msny thlrvy souls in Augusta, who have boon drinking blind tiger poison long enough to yearn for some of the chem ically pure that will soon be dispensed si North Augusta again.- Orangeburg THE BILLBOARD MUST GO. The commissioners for the District of Columbia have recently taken ac tion In the matter of billboard ad vertising that will put before the district courts the question aa to how far billboards constitute a public nuisance; and It Is possible that In the e»d there may be an abolition of them in the district. Commission er Macfarland says that the develop ment of esthetic Ideas In recent years here In America, particularly in con. nectlon with the beautification of cit ies, has made the billboard an anach ronism —"while nearly everything else has felt the uplift, the billboard keeps fast to its pristine hideousness.” They are hideous enough In every nook and corner of the country, as every body knows. Still, they may serve a useful purpose, but the trend of advertising judgment is away from them, not to them. "Not only Is ‘he day of the billboard passing In the cities," says the Washington Post, “hut there is also evidence that the smaller towns and the countryside are awakening to the necessity of action in the way of either abolition or strict regulation. Railroads are refusing permission for the erection of billboards upon their rights of way; and wh*>n the thrifty Jersey farmers are better educatnd perhaps a trip from Philadelphia to New York will less resemble a Journey through a tunnel of horrors." Traverels over any of the lines of railway are impressed, and this ap plies particularly to the neighbor hood of the larger cities, with the fact that a vast amount of money must be absolutely’ thrown away In billboard advertising There are some things that obviously catch public at tention through billboard "art"— whether or not they actually bring business to the advertiser Is an open question; but there are others that billboard art" actually makes offen sive and must tend to kill rather than to create business The billboard Is bound sooner or later, to become a matter for legislation in all the states —for it is something to be reasonably "regulated," If not abolished. ELECTROCUTED FOR WITCH CRAFT The number who perished in the period of the witchcraft delusion will never be known In every country, through fifteen centuries, the super stition went on piling up Its victims In Geneva 500 were executed in three months, 7,000 were burned at Treves. 600 by a single bishop of Bamberg, and SOO in a single year at Wurti burg At Toulouse 400 perished at one execution. A judge at Reunv boasted that he had put to death HOO witches tn sixteen years. A thou sand were executed in a single year In the province of Como. “Witch,*" were executed in Spain as late as X7IO. —New York American. THE AUGUSTA HERALD SPREAD OF PELLAGRA IN OUR COUNTRY Ihe Symptoms of the Disease; How it is Caused and Where it Seems to be Most Prevalent. There is a new disease. It is pel lagra. It comes from eating corn af fected by mould. This mould is de clared to be a deadly poison that kiils its victims by slow degrees and in great agony, it tortures his skin, un dermines his strength, weakens his mind, converts him into a gibbering Idiot and finally brings death. Pellagra has probably existed in the United States for many years, but American physicians know little of It. as yet. The public health and ma rine hospital service have at last awakened to Its existence and are making Inquiry about it In the light of what is known of the disease in Europe. A letter was recently ad dressed to superintendents of state hospitals for the insane throughout the country. It asked a report as to pellagra patients. Pennsylvania reported 1 case, Mary land 2, Virginia 1, North Carolina 75, South Carolina (estimated) 500, Geor gia 225, Florida 12, Alabama 154, Mis sissippi 3, and Louisiana 3. The best authorities estimate 1,500 cases In the south at present. Since: the receipt of these reports informa-1 tlon has been received from Illinois; to the effect that 20 cases have been found In an institution in that state. The disease is in no way contagious or infectious. There is nothing about j it that need alarm any community in which it is found. It may be cured, and it can assuredly be prevented. The latter fact is the important mat ter in connection with its discovery. Pellagra has existed to a great ex tent in Italy and Roumania for 100 years. It appeared soon after the introduction of corn Into those coun tries, following the discovery of America. The medical men of Italy have proved beyond reasonable doubt that it is caused from the eating of moldy corn. One hundred thousand people in Italy are suffering from the disease and 50,000 in Roumania, it is said. When corn is picked too green and WHAT DIXIE’S DOING The sugar in your coffee an’ The clothes upon your back. The fruit you have for breakfast The rice they "puff" and crack, The very bed on which you sleep, Your furniture—“per se”—l It’s made in Dixie for you From Texas to N. C. They buirt your house of Georgia pine, It's roofed with Georgia slate You bought the nails in Birmingham, If you were up to date. The rugs you laid upon the floors, The curtains, towels and sheets Were probably made in Southern mills, Whose products can’t be beat. Your horse that steps in "two O three,” The “brand" you love the best — The first one comes from Tennessee, Kentucky does the rest. And when you've dined on Southern frui v. Aud roasts of Texas beef, The smoke you smoke or your “chew ing" plug Is fine Virginia leaf. Your food is cooked in cotton oil, It has hog grease "skinned a ruile.” The folks that use it regularly Wear no dyspeptic smile. We're lighting half the continent V\ ith Texas kerosene; They’re burning it ‘neath boilers, from Fhoenix to New Orleans. We're selling shirts to Chinamen And oil to “parlez vous," But when it comes to cotton bales, Well, Europe takes a few. Four hundred million dollars Was, last year, the export sum And adding what wo used ourselves, 1 You'll find we're “going some.” Dixie's doing all of this— She's very much “on top,” Everybody’s hustling, And hasn’t time to stop. But when you're dead and done for, Just to show our sentiment, We’ll pile Georgia marble on you. And there's your monument. —W. U. C. Smith in September Southern Engineer. SOME POLITICAL DOPE Can it he that Hoke Smith will have a unanimous call back to the gubernatorial office. His late oppo nents are putting him in nomination noleus volens,—Macon News. Pactional politics in Georgia is to continue. The next elections will be fought on about the same lines as were those of last year.—Marietta Journal. " Brown and Bread" has had a shake at It. Dear common people do you see anything they have doue to make good the cry they' raised last year?—Swainsboro Forest Blade. The opinion that Hoke Smith will be In the race for governor again next year seems to be steadily gaining ground. His friends say that he is too big a man to be as easily buried as his political enemies seem to think. If Joe Brown does not oppose him Guyt. McLendon will be sure to do so. which bids fair to make Georgia politics next year just about as live ly as they have ever been in the his tory of the state.—Sandersvtlle Her ald. Alabama was the first to ratify the Income tax constitutional amendment. This was as it should have been. Ala bama is first on the roll.—Washington Herald. Speaker Cannon has removed Con gressman Tom Heflin of Alabama front the committee on agriculture. It Is the opinion that Heflin was re moved because he took such a stand against gambling in cotton —LaGrange Reporter. i put in the barn it is likely to develop mold. When it is defective and damp | ir. will do the same, it often molds I w hile being shipped, in closed cars. ; The mold on it is a poison that, while defying analysis by chemists, is none j the less deadly in its effects. It is merely known that it is a vegetable poison and that its effects upon peo i pie eating it is most disastrous. The disease in its eariy stages is detected by an eruption on the back of the hands and on the face—these portions of the body exposed to the sun. The skin blisters and peels off. The appearance is very much like that of scalaed flesh and is the ex planation of the constant recurrence of the charges made against attend ants in insane asylums to the effect that they have scalded their patients. There is no doubt in the light of the discovery of the new disease that many of these charges against attend ants have been wrong. At the first appearance of the dis ease there is inflammation of the mouth, difficulty in swallowing, and kindred annoyances. The attacks are felt most in the spring and fall. There is a gradual undermining of the con stitution and the mind. The patient becomes stupid, fretfui, emaciated and finally insane, sometimes. violent ly so. Death may not come for many years. Recovery is possible, a com plete change of food and proper nour ishment being tn e greater aids. The department of agriculture has become alarmed because of the pos sible effects of tha news of the wide spread nature of the disase upon the market for corn. Half a dozen scien tists have been set to work on the supposedly affected corn with the idea of determining whether or not the charge xagainst it is true. When the facts are in hand, if they point to moldy corn as the cause of the dis ease there is little question that the department will enforce regulations that wili prevent the milling of any corn that is molded.—New York World. HERALD ECHOES Iced Drinks With Warm Welcome. 1 You’ll like Augusta"—because it a!"’ays has a warm welcome for ev erybody.—Augusta Herald. t\ e have an idea that something cool would offer greater attractions to the country at large, just now.— Eiberton Star. An Expert Opinion. A Paris girl has allowed herself to be kissed twice for scientific pur poses. But doubtless other girls would be as willing to serve the cause of science even more than that. —Augusta Herald. Who is it that wouldn’t forego the scientific kiss for one of the good old sparkling kind that soaks- in and thrills a few?—Cartersville News. “Hickey’s Barber Shop” 1 - 221 Eighth Street :■■■. ■■■■■ ■■■■- THE BEST OF ALL GIN rrtars Pines. Valvaa and fittings. Light Saw, Shingla, ar.d Lath Mills. Gaseline Engines. Cane Mills In stock. LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPPIV -r r* nig y. Augusta. Ga. Why All Men Are Not Harriet;. 0 AM I f home AQAIN ! 1 ARUE- N'Owl MUST l?uN| ■ |ifi COfltNtJ /->. RIGfHT OUT AN» Br to s ££ Charlie HA6SOW ’ jf'fjf : &RIDE ~ ■/oh WHAT R! igctA OH WHAT BLISS Better Order That Dress Suit Now Be prepared before the season opens. The old suit has seen long enough service; and you’ll find, when you take it out of moth balls, that it’s hardly suitable for a dress oc casion. Get one this time worthy of the func tions you attend —get a Dorr Dress Suit. It takes the finest workmanship to make a proper dress coat any tailor can make the waiter kind—but none in this locality can equal Dorr Dress Clothes. DORR Tailoring , Furnishings For Men of Taste. They Will Be Empty. In the opinion of the Augusta Her ald, “Q I C U R M T will be appro priate initials to write on the door of certain dispensaries in South Car olina in a short time.”—Savannah Press. Not What She Wanted. The Augusta Herald tells of a Kan sas girl who sent 50 cents to Chi cago for a recipe to keep her hands soft and white got it all right. It read: “Soak them three times a day In dishwater while your mother rests.” —Shreveport Times. Seems to Be Needed. The Augusta Herald thinks there should be organized in this country a “Fourth of July Survivors’ Associa tion,” since the fatalities of the lait fourth were more than were caused by the Spanish-American war.—Dal ton Citizen. Points to the Millenium. The Augusta Herald says the lion and the lamb may be expected to lie down together now: The Macon Tele graph has turned itself loose defend ing Hon. Thoa. E. Watson. —Fairburn News. REPAIRS SAWS, RIBS, Brittle Twine, Babbit, &c., for any make of Gin ENGINES, BOILERS and PRESSES end Repairs for same. Shafting. Pulleys, Belting, In- PAGE FOUR NOTICE The new tariff has advanced the price of all Rubber Goods, like Combs, Hot Water Bags, Fountain Syringes, etc., about 15 per cent, and al! Imported Soaps, Toilet Water and Ex tracts from 10 to 25 per cent, the heaviest advance being on Soaps. As long as my present stock of all these goods lasts, they will be sold at the old price. No advance. I have in stock only four bot tles of Houbegant’s Ideal, at $4.00. The next lot will sell for $4.50. L, A. Oardelle Drugsist, 620 Broad. T russ THAT DOESN’T SLIP. We handle ten or twelve dif ferent makes of trusses; each is a truss that we have selected be cause of its peculiar adaptability to certain conditions. Wa can fit any figure for any kind of hernia so 'chat the truss will not slip when put to severe strain by the movements of the body. • We guarantee a perfect fit in every case. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Private room for fitting. No charge for the fitting. You don’t have to buy the truss unless you are satisfied with our fit. Prices very reasonable. Alexander Drug Co. FAMILY DRUGGISTS. 708 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. THE REXALL REMEDIES. COOK’S Goldfelume Tiie Best Brewed HOUSES AND STORES FOR RENT. Contracts for another year are being rapidly closed. Would like to add a few more houses to my list. Clarence E. Clark REAL ESTATE, 842 Broad St.
