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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Senator Albert B. Cummins
of lowSl
State Legislator, Governor Three Tin s, .. ted
States Senator, All In Twenty ,ne Years.
A Looming Figure In National Polities.
JF Senator Aldrich were asked who
save him the most concern in hi?
marasemcnt of the tariff bill he
would probably name Albert
liaird Cummins, the new United States
senator from lotva. The man who
i»tands for tile "lowa Idea" has one
characteristic that has brought him
where he is—he never shows it when
he is hit He has bad that trait
ever since he went into the political
game This might be construed as in
dicating secretiveness There is noth
ing of that kind ir> Senator Cummins
Quite *u the contrary, be Is noted for
f ranitnesf and independence. Such
men are apt to be brusque. Not so
Cummins He is always suave. He is
•artful in spite of his independence.
And his wife is one of the cleverest
women of the country. This is a
stron™ combination in politics; but.
.aside from his faithful and able as
sistant. the fact remains that Senator
Cummins i: one of the most interest
ing figures in the political game, and
he would be forceful if he stood alone.
lowa is as safely and surely Repub
lican as Texas is certainly Democratic
While other states regarded as Repub
lican have wavered and taken the op
posite chtd 1 quite often and some
times unexpectedly. lowa has been the
western citadel of the Republican
party. It did once break the rule, be
cause it voked up with an untried is
sue-prohibition. Then Cummins, a
young man in the state, one who had
been a surveyor, civil engineer, rail
road messenger in Pennsylvania and a
lawyer afterward in Chicago, drifting
from the latter place to lowa, told his
party that prohibition in lowa would
not work. The state went Democratic.
Just as Cummins said it would. It was
a new departure In lowa. Cummins
did not have enough influence in his
party to be nominated for an office, so
he announced himself as an independ
ent candidate for the legislature, and
he was elected. The first thing he did
was to prepare some sort of legislation
that would rid the state of its prohi
bition laws. An independent didn't
have much standing in lowa in those
days, but Cummins stuck to his con
tention. The state returned to the Re
publican column Cummins got the
credit for it, and it is the general opin
ion that he deserved it.
The Fight For Gear’s Toga.
There was a man in lowa some years
ago who had been the pillar of the Re
publican party in all of its contests,
from a crossroads meeting to a na
tional convention. His name was John
Henry Gear. He was the “grand old
man" of his party in lowa. He was
governor until he got tired of the job,
and then they sent him to the United
States senate, and he remained there
until he died Nevertheless, reckoning
as the life insurance agents reckon, the
“old man’s” time was nearly up. and
the wrestle and race for the toga be
gan long before the “old man” quit.
The giants of the state were in the
RELIGION IN “HOLY RUSSIA”
; HAS MOST PECULIAR PHASES
ST. PETERSBURG.—One of the first
things that strike the foreigner who
crosses the Russian frontier is the ec
clesiastical atmosphere of his new sur
roundings. While his boxes are being
ransacked for new clothes, revolvers,
playing cards, bombs, and the hundred
things on which duty must be paid, he
has time to notice an icon of the Virgin
and her little Babe with a giant taper
burning before it, or a picture of St.
Nicholas with hand raised in benedic
tion. He has left the utilitarian West
and Is in the land where the Church
weaves the golden thread of its teaching
into the dull fabric of social life. Every
where he goes he will find evidence of
its hold on the nation. At the railway
stations are sacred Icons where the pious
light tapers for a safe journey, in the
streets, In restaurants t shops, merchants’
offices, bedrooms of hotels, in private
houses—everywhere gleam pictured
saints in a setting of gilded metal.
But in spite of this show of religion
there is no country in Europe where the
clergy are so lacking in culture. They
and their wives and families form A
caste, and members of clerical families
have inscribed on their passports the
fact that they belong to the duhovny,
that is the spirtual class. They keep
to themselves, and I have only heard of
one priest who was ever admitted into
good St. Petersburg society. At the
seminaries everything Is done to prevent
their assuming the manners of gentle
men. A student must put his hands to
gether and bow his head if he salutes
r i yone, and he Is rebuked If he bows
like a man of the world. 110 probably
eats like a peasant but it would be con
trary to orthodox tradition to teach him
not to shovel food into his mouth on the
blade of his knife. He is taught a
smattering of theology and Instructed
in the complicated ceremonies of the
Church, but modern thought and modern
culture are unknown to him.
These priests and deacons with flow
leg hair and beards and curiously
shaped cassocks of black or grey or pur
ple, and in summer of white or light
brown or green, are, as a rule, mere
performers of ceremonies, whose office
is venerated, but for whose persona no.
body has ary particular respect. Nor
do they make up in devotion for what
they lack in education.
The monks of the great monastery,
with Its numerous churches, its sliver
- .rlne of St. Alexander Nevsky, and its
enormous wealth, do nothing but eat and
s v ep and attend long and wearying ser
ices. O’his was a depressing account
iof their lif". hut it helped me to under
stand the cause of the blight In the Rus
sian church. All the bishops are chosen
from the monks, or black elergv, as they
are called in contradistinction to th"
white or secular clergy. They five in
n world of their own, thev are anach.
ronisms of the eighth century with no
contest. When the last term .. ore
was closing the contestants gathered
at Des Moines, where the legislature
had met to elect a soccessot or re
elect the "old man.”
It was a splendid tight. Each man
had all the resources he could com
mand. The 'old man” had the rail
roads ot the west at hit tack, but he
never loet a minute, day or night. Old I
as he was in years, we was the foxiest
candidate in the field. Just at a tima
when it seemed on the face of the sit
uation that the candidates were ready
to knife each other in the dark the
Cummins family did a smart thing.
They lived in L»et> Moines. Mrs. Cua-
'VSr 1,, . ...... , AStrsSrV
CUMMINS, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM IOWA.
mins gave a dinner to the candidates.
It wai at her home. The invitations
were issued in her name. Every can
didate was there. It was about the
swellest. affair from a social outlook
that ever happened in the state capi
tal. When the caucus got down to
work in the legislature it renamed the
“old man.” ’but Albert Baird Cummins
had come within three votes of getting
knowledge of ordinary life and pro
foundly ignorant of modern thought.
The present Metropolitan and Arch
bishop of St. Petersburg, Anthony, is an
exception to the general rule. He was
formerly a professor at the ecclesiasti
cal seminary in St. Petersburg, and is
a man of considerable learning. Ijis
story is a sad one. I never see him
In St. Isaac’s, his cathedral church,
without recalling it. This venerable
looking prelate, like a figure from a By
zantine mosaic, performing rites of Im
posing magnificence clothed in tissue of
gold and attended »y a train of priests
and deacons and acolytea, told his story
to the people when he was consecrated
bishop. ,
“My wife and my son and my daugh
ter died,” he said., "God took all whom
I loved from me, so I knew that He
meant me to serve Him atone, and I be.
came a monk.”
I was presented to him In the sanc
tuary of St. Isaac’s, and was particu
larly struck with his gentle but digni
fied manner. Not knowing precisely
what was expected of me, I knelt on
one knee to kiss his hand, as is the
custom in saluting Roman Catholic bish
ops. The Russian who presented me
expressed his gratification at my per
formance, but informed me that strict
etiquette demanded that I should have
bowed very low and stretched one hand
to the earth.
MONTAGUE—RASPONI.
Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Montague, of Chat
tanooga, announce the engagement and
approaching marriage of their daughter,
Caroline, to Count Nerino Rasponi, of
of Ravenna, Italy. The wedding will be
celebrated at the home of the bride in
this city the last of October. The bride
to-be is the youngest daughter of Mr.
anu Mrs. Montague. She was born and
reared here and attended the schools of
this city, finishing her education In Wel
lesley college and in Florence, Italy,
Count Rasponi is a member of a very
old and wealthy Italian family, descend
ants of the German Longboards, or Lom
bards, who were the founders of the Ital
ian provinces of Lombardy. Among his
direct ancestors was that Lanfranchl, of
Florence, who is mentioned by Dante
in the Dlvina Commendia. He is also
a member of the Corslnl family, long
prominent in the history and politics of
Rome. Among the possessions of the
present members of the family are large,
highly cultivated estates near Ravenna,
to which Count Nerino will take his
bride, Miss Montague’s eldest sister, Mil
dred become the wife two years ago of
Count Rasponi’s cousin. Count Pasolino
Pasolini also of Ravenna, Mrs. Montague
and daughters. Misses Genevieve and
Caroline are spending the summer in the
White Mountains, but will return to this
city the last of September.—Chattanooga
Time*.
the -oca That was in 1889 Right
then and there Cummins announced
liir.self ar a candidate for governor,
-übject to the stat* convention in 1931.
”he same crowd that had gathered for
he ‘oga was lb the race It was
• mminr against the fltld He stutnp
■■d tlio state He won 1" the conven
tion of l.soo delegates by a majority
ot eighteen. He served hie first term
and was renominated and re-elected
He had not accompllsned what he
wanted He had announced that he
must smash the state machine He
was tor reform lust at a time when
reform was hitting It up high ia a
number of places It got under great
headway in lotva. Cummins was in
the lead, and as a candidate for the
third time, with the cry ot reform, he
swept the state with an old time ma
jority that made him master of the
party He had in his last campaign in
vaded the horn? county of one of his
opponents and carried it In broad day
light
Cummins Succeeds Allison.
The sage of the state, William B.
Allison, who had so long and ably rep
resented the state in the senate and
who had been a presidenMal possibility
more than once, died In 1908 Cum-
mins was elected to serve out the un
expired term of Allison He was re
elected to the full term in January
last, the term expiring In 1916 All
this has been done in twenty-one
years, for Cummins did not go to lowa
until 1888 This Is n great record in a
conservative state like lowa—a state in
which c'd men are k.-pt on guard.
When the tariff Degan rising again,
Divorce, a Growing Fashion
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
To do what is "common” or "ordi
nary” is abhorrent to the minds of
many women, especially so to the
minds of the women who essay to be
smart and fashionable.
But what today is more common or
ordinary than to divorce one husband,
to obtain another? It is the very
acme of vulgarity.
Divorce is a necessary evil in the
present state of our society.
There is nothing more immoral
than the continuance of the marriage
relation between people who entertain
only hatred and disgust in their
thoughts of each other.
But the divorce court should be
sought as the last door of escape
from an intolerable question—not the
first.
Instead, i't has become the fashion
able exit from the house of Impulse,
and marriage has become a summer
day’s pastime, to be participated in
for a brief season and put aside at
the call of any wayward passion or
transient fancy.
Over in many foreign lands the wo
men of the half-world are licensed by
layv ’to follow their promiscuous ca
reers, and these women exhibit their
licenses with pride.
Growth Appalling.
The divorce papers of many of our
women of the smart world are to be
regarded in much the same light as
the licenses of the deml-mondaine.
Each values it as a permit to obtain
a new lover
To fly from an intolerable situa
tion as the wife of a faithless, a bru
tal or a drunken husband, and to be
protected by the law from his ap
proach, is the right of every self-re
specting woman. But there Is some
thing appalling in the growing ranks
of women who divorce good and de
cent husbands in order to indulge a
new amour.
Not infrequent are the cases where
two, or even three, of theße pro tem,
husbands give place to a third or
fourth; and one woman rejoices in
the possession of ten living husbands;
nine divorced and one awaiting his
turn.
Men are becoming weak and effemi
nate through this process, and the ali
monied husband, whose wounded as
sections are healed by dollars, is al
most as frequently found as the wife
who is paid for a man’s freedom.
The human race cannot advance
with such standards regulating our
social system.
When people in high places follow
a certain line of conduct it is always
emulated by the masses, and In all
ranks of society In Europe and Am
erica today the divorce evil is gain
ing ground.
To be exceptional one must live
happiiy with one husband or one wife
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
a year or more ago, Cummins stood up
and said things which started what
became known as the "lowa idea.” The
idea meant a reduction of tariff on
monopolized products He got the
original letters patent on this plan. Da
Fcliette and others followed Cum
mins is the man who said It first, and
!t rather appealed to the west. Cum
mins was for giving protection to
American Interests without granting a
shelter to monopolies He had no
sympathy with the war on corporations
—a wise political move—-but, on the
other hand, he had no sympathy with
the corporations' war on the consum
er Kino sailing between Scylla and
Charybdis!
He was always Independent, but in
a way that fitted the times lowa is
old 'ashloned, and when Cummins first
appeared in a frock coat and trousers
that were creased Just right soma of
the old school undertook to muke capi
tal out of him It did no good. Some
how the lowa farmers and others as w ell
rather liked the way Cummins got
himself up. When he met Aldrich in
the senate and measured lances with
the Rhode Island knight, looklDg as If
he could chide the thunder if at him
it roared. lowa, some of whose leaders
h d been waiting f~r the time to ooiue
when they would attend the burnin.;
of Cummins at the political stake, rose
up and shouted, “Bully for Cummins!”
Senator Cummins represents t in
slderable of the element In the middle
went and farther west that thinks the
tariff bill was not revised down as
much as was promised. It is early to
whisper of presidential possibilities
But if there were to be a Republican
national convention in the next six
months it would require a strong com
bination to head off Cummins This is
largely an lowa idea, but It has 'riends
elsewhere. HOMER RIVERS.
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
London’s Tube System.
How huge Is the cost of underground
railways is shown In a comparison of
the total cost of all the tube railway
systems of London with the total cost
of the railway system of Ireland. The
latter includes 8,363 miles of road, and
Its totftl cost was 822:1,600,000. The
railway tubes of London, which aggre
gate eighty-one and one-half mites,
have cost about $137,500,000.
Lighthouse of the Mediterranean.
Rtromboli, which pomed out streams
of lava during the Italian earthquake
disaster, then played a most unusual
part, for this aeollsn crater vomits
flame persistently and cinders spas
modically. The “lighthouse of the
Mediterranean" has been known to
stick to its function of torchbearer
for the space cf 2.000 years
Spindles of the World.
Spindles at work and In course of
construction throughout the world
number 130,796,827 for tho former and
3.017,492 for the latter The United
| Kingdom has 63,600,000 In use an 1
' nearly 1.R00.000 In construction, the
[United Ttates nearly 25.000.000 in use, j
Germany nearly 10,006,000 and France,
6,700,000.
Australia’!! Fertilized Soil.
Time was when th-■> rich sol) of Aus
tralia bore crops from year to year
■ without artificial aid During the last
| decade the area of .soil which needs
j fertilizers has increased from 12 to 63
i per cent.
for many years.
To be commonplace and ordinary i;;
to divorce at least one mate and to
rush into the arms of another.
Effort Would Halt Menace,
it seems to occur only to the ex
ceptional nature today that marriage
Is meant for life, and that the great
est work given any man or woman on
earth is the perfecting of the mar
riage relation and bringing harmony
out of life which so easily produces
discord, if not tuned by the hand of
love.
in eight divorces out of every ten
a little patience,,much love, and con
tinual effort to adjust the difficulties
as they occur in daily life would have
done away with the necessity for di
vorce.
All happiness on earth must be
earned. Marital happiness most of
ali.
QUESTION.
Have you followed the ways of vaca
tions?
Have you sat ’neath the drip of the
rain
In the shed they describe as a station,
Awaiting the next, local train?
Have you sped where the cinders, swifl
flylng,
Would ruthlessly sting and smart;
Have you bumped o’er bad roadways
while trying
To balance yourself in a cart J
Have you slept in a hallroom so narrow
That at night when you went to your
rest
You’d have to lie straight as an arrow
A.nd stand on one foot while you
dressed?
Have you met the young woman who
simpers,
Or the rounder who hangs ’round the
bar,
Or the Infant who constantly Whimpers,
Or the young man who twangs the
guitar?
Have you joined in the vast fascination
That fearly Impels rnen to roam?
Have y u followed the v/ays of vaca.
tlon—
And aren't you glad to get home?
MARRIAGE CUSTOM WHICH
IS WORTHY OF ADOPTION.
Among the peasants of Russia there
is no sucii thing as divorce. Two of
their proverbs are as follows "The
wife Is not a shoe, that can be cast away
as will. The knot Is tied, and it wfl] not
come untied until after 10b years." Nor
is intermarrying permitted until after
the fourth degree of kinship Is reached
and the deceased wife's sister Is also
barred. In Russia marriage is one of
the most sacred offices, and the two
proverbs are pointed to with much rev
erence.
Business is Going to he Good
This Fall, But The Man Who
Goes Filter if is Going to Get
Most of it
Interesting and Encouraging News
Shown By The Herald’s Canvass of the
Augusta District and Trade Territory
The Herald has recently-made* a thorough canvass
of over fifty towns in Georgia and Smith Carotina in
the trade territory of Auignsia. You doubtless have
noticed the results of this*canvass and the write-ups
in The Herald of such towns as Edgefield, Tivmton, •
Johnston, Ridge Spring. LeesmiMe, Bateskamg, Mc-
Cormick, Parksville, Evans, Mk#4oc, Harlem, Hearing,
Carnal:, Norwood, Warreman, Fickien, Washington,
Sharon, Tignall, Thomson, Milien, Milled/gewLUe, Ten
ni lie, Gibson, Wrens, Spreads, KeyswilVe, Matthews,
Mitchell, Sandersville, Barnett, Hephraiibah, Barnwell
Blaekville, Williston, Aveva, Blythe, Arppliyg, Agrico
la, Waynesboro, Orangeburg, El teuton, Allendale,Fair
fax, Brunson, Yorkville, Maxerys, Union Point, Wad
ley, Rocky Ford, Statesboro, S mans boro, Graymont,
Summit and others. . v
The Herald has a large and growing circulation
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hundred each, or more. All of them receive The Her
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Each afternoon and on Sunday morning The Herald
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nouncements—to all these good people, a number that
is constantly increasing and growing as The Herald
grows. We confidently expect 10,000 circulation for
The Herald before January Ist, 1910. The Herald is
now printing over 7,700 copies daily, and over 8,000
Sunday. V”
Special crop and business reports from some repre
sentative farmers and business men made for The
Herald in this territory, indicate that businoss will
be mighty good this fall. Remember these people
ought to trade with Augusta more largely and they
probably will do so this fall.
This is the time to go after this business and we
know The Herald, reaching these people in their
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business campaign.
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tising with The Herald can be made to bring in ten
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would like to talk it over.
Yours vary t ruly,
The Augusta Herald
T. L SHERON, Business Manager
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