Georgia Historic Newspapers

    MONDAY, AUGUST 30
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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.