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Augusta, Ga„ Monday, Sept. 13, 1909.
No communication will b« putollsheu
In The Herald unless the name of the
writer ie signed to the article.
The Augusta Herald has a larger city
circulation than any other paper, and a
larger total circulation than any other
Augusta paper. This has be«*n proven
by the Audit Co., of New York.
"You’ll like Augusta”—and you’ll
like it better every day the more you
learn to know It.
News from Africa la dull asd un
interesting whilo we have such hot
news from the North Pole.
A severe winter may he expected,
with ao much arotlc dlaeusalon go
ing on.
Since reading Peary’s atory of hia
Journey to the pole it doea not appear
probable tnat It will become the alte
of a auinmer reaort very aoon.
The Tourists have started out all
right to win In the dual tug for the
pennant. Watch them win It in
grand style.
When Ilr. Conk stood alone on the
North Pole where every direction
was south he certainly was complete
ly lceolatod.
Mavbo lit time, when the good
roads movement shall he advanced far
enough, we shall have a good road to
the North Pole.
Greenville Is to have horse races In
the fall, and lualau that after that
she can’t he called a one-horse-town
any more.
there seems to be an excellent pros
pect for a reduction In the price of
oil. Mr. Rockefeller has stated that
he wili give no more money to the
Chicago university.
A funeral In North Carolina was
stopped the other day by an lujunc
ton. This certainly comes very near
running the injunction business into
the ground.
It la said that Clyde Fitch made
upwards of $50,000 a year from his
plays. He certainly must have had
a lucky hand quite often, and known
how to play It.
A Boston specialist asserts that
men and women can love each other
well enough without kissing. Ho
doubtless meant platonic love, which
Is a delusion snd a snare.
"How to tight the la*y disease" Is
a question that Is now being dis
cussed in some of the papers. No
better way has yet been discovered
than to use the strap for a weapon
and to lay It on well.
llut Just wait until next year, when
Wellman shall make his trip to the
ttolo by balloon, and then you'll get
a story right about It. Neither Cook
nor Peary are newspnper mon, and
can't do the subject Justice.
An exchange remarks that there are
no chorus gins at the pole. Of course
not; a chorus girl all bundled up In
bear skin could not he a chorus girl,
and other costumes are not worn In
that section
A bank In Albany, Oft . has $54,000
locked up In Its vault which cannot
be opened Nevertheless It will be
wise not to neglect keeping a look
out for burglars They sometimes
can do what bank officials cannot
Did you attend sendees at the
church yesterday? The gracious as
surances and hopes inspired on Sun
day may wonderfully brighten the
way through the labors and duties of
the six days thut follow.
Peary was on the government pay
roll the entire time he sj>ent In die
covering the po'-e, while Dr Cook
footed his own bill* This mak<is
look's achievement all the greater by
comparison.
The circus posters were put up Just \
as tile boys were preparing to resume
their school duties It Is a mystery
pussling the schoolboy i mind why it
Is that circuses never come while
vacation is on.
A Pennsylvania man has petitioned
the oourt for a divorce on the plea
that he married the wrong woman
But that was s self-evident fact. If
he hadn’t married the wrong woman
he would not have desired >o he
parted from her
The discovery of the North Pole
-» warned one good purpose, at least
**■»tng situated In an open nea it could
not possibly have been the site of
the Garden of Kieu, Ks some people
have claimed r hi* clears the title
of Richmond county to this disiiuc
tion to this extent.
COTTON COMING TO AUGUSTA.
Augusta is growing as a cotton cen
ter. Although the cotton crop in this
section last year was light, Augusta’s
cotton receipts reached the high-water
mark. And the indications are that
this year's receipts will be far ahead
of last year's.
This Is natural. The price of cot
ton in Augusta is alwayr higher than
an where else In this section. It is
generally as high as it is in the near
er port cities, and often it is higher
than at either of them. And some
times the price of spot cotton Is high
er in Augusta than it is in New York.
Being thus assured always of the
highest price for their cotton In Au
gusta it is but natural that growers
and shippers In a constantly extend
ing teritory should ship their cotton
to Augusta for sale.
In addition to this the cotton ware- j
housing facilities have been largely
Increased and improved In Augusta. 1
This insures economy in handling and i
Storing, better facilities for com- j
pressing and cheaper insurance, all |
of which makes this city better as a ’
market.
This Is being realized, as is shown
by tho fact that the receipts this year
are considerably ahead of last year’s.
Although the new cotton year has
just bigun, and the season openeo
some ten or fifteen days later than
last year, the receipts this year al
ready exceed last year’s receipts up
to this time by several thousand
hales. If this same ratio of gain is
kept, up to the end of the season Au
gusta's cotton receipts year will
reach a half million bales.
There is another feature in Augus
ta’s cotton receipts this year which is
significant, and that is the large
amount of cotton received by wagon.
This Is beating all records. In one
day last week the receipts by wagon
were over nine hundred hales. What
this means is obvious. Cotton that
Is brought by wagon, when sold, will
all go Into local channels of trade.
This does not apply to a large part
of the cotton that is shipped here
by railroad. Tho more cotton is
brought In by wagon the Tnoro will
tills benefit the retail trade of the
city, and for this reason every effort
should be made to Increase this class
of cotton receipts.
Good roads no doubt are the cause
of these increased wngon receipts.
The roads of Richmond county are in
splendid condition, over which any
kinds of loads can bo carried easily.
This road Improvement has extended
to adjacent counties, and having bet
ter roads than formerly the farmers
from a greater distance have no hesi
tation In bringing their cotton to mar
ket by wagon.
Road improvement will continue,
and this effect will Increase. It is
a mistake to believe that good roads
are for the benefit principally of au
tomobiles. The farmer's are quick
to avail thomsolvoß of the advantages
which good roads hold out to them,
and tho time will soon come when
automobile road wagons will be bring
ing cotton Into Augusta.
And then who Will dare to estlmato
what Augusta's cotton receipts by
wagon will be?
DISPENSARIES AND TAXES.
I-ast Saturday the North Augusta
dispensary sold over SSOO worth of
booxe. That wasn't a big day’s sale,
under ordinary conditions. The sales
often exceed SI,OOO In a single day,
and will do so again. But when It
Is considered that the dispensary had
born closed a month, that nobody
knew when It would be opened again
and that, when It was opened Saturday
morning nobody knew It except as the
news spread incidentally, the sale of
SSOO worth of stufT was really re
markable.
Standing at the dispensary door a
short while before It was closed, j
watching customers depart with bulg- i
Ing pockets, a man remarked: “Here
was a profit of over S3OO. w hich means
thts amount saved the tax payers of
this town and county." That was a
profound observation. The profits of
the dispensary go Into the public treas
ury. Whatever money may be need
ed by town or county for the mainte
nance of their Institutions must be
taxed out of the people. If, however,
there be a dispensary the profits of
which went Into the public treasury,
an equal amount less would require
to be raised by taxation.
Suppoae the taxnh'e property In a
town amounted to $1 000,000, snd It
required SIO,OOO to provide for the
oost of the town government. This
| would require a tax levy of one per
'cent. If then that town should oper
ate u dispensary the profits of which
went into the town treasury, and that
I dispensary made a profit of only SIOO
a week, the lax rate could be reduced
:to one half of one y*r cent. If the
I dispensary mvte i profit of si<)o a
week, municipal taxes could bs re
: Hnqutshed altogether
This illustrates the point. In a city
I Ilka Augusta enough ntoue\ ;s spent
I for hooxe during the course of the
, year for th- - profits on these sales to
! exceed the amount collected In city
! taxos. 11 the city of Nugnsta on.ld
I operate dispensaries .Ike .nr neigb
l bora lu Aiken county do, municipal
' taxes in Augusta could be abandoned
| altogether. And how the city would
grow > there were no
itaxes to w
Strange, isn’t It, that with the case
| so plain the sale of liquor should be
prohibited in Augusta? It is done, of
| course, with the idea of making peo
' pie better by keeping them from drink
ing booze. But prohibition doesn’t do
I this. It has never had this effect any
where. It can only prohibit the legal
sale. It makes blind tigers flourish,
| and it increases the sale of liquor In
other places where it can be legally
sold. The SSOO spent in the South
Carolina dispensary Saturday W'as
largely Augusta money. Mail order
liquor houses in a dozen or more cities
in other states do a turiving business
in Augusta. And the blind tigers
never turn away a thirsty applicant
I who has the price, and they can be
i readily found. Prohibition has not de
creased the consumption of liquor in
Augusta, and never will. Nor will it
I do so In any other place.
Then would not dispensaries be
best, places where liquor could be le
gally bought without being drunk on
the premises, and with such other re
strictions as would rob these liquor
stores of the evils they caused when
operated as salooDH?
Men must be educated and morally
! elevated not to misuse liquor. This
cannot be accomplished by legislation.
And until they are so educated and
elevated isn’t it far better to let the
liquor be legally sold and the profits
applied to the reduction of taxes, than
to prohibit the legal sale and have
local blind tigers and foreign dealers
supply the demand?
MAN PROPOSES, GOD DIBPOSEB.
In the brief story conveying the
news of the death of Mr. Harriman
the other day there was one passage
which forcibly directed attention to
the vanity of the most ambitious plan
of men. The Bible tells us of the
man who had proa* ai exceedingly,
and whose crops w*i»> so bountiful
that he had not sufficient room to
store them in his barns. In thinking
of the best manner to dispose of his
fortune he decided to build bigger
barns, and In the midst of this work
the summons came to him which must
come to all men. - “Thou fool, this
night thy soul shall be required of
thee.”
Mr. Harrlman had prospered ex
ceedingly In business. He had amass
ed an Immense fortune. And in his
later years, surveying his wealth and
thinking over plans as to the best, dis
position to make of It, he decided to
build himself a palatial residence. And
jthls he did. At Arden he built a
palace which surpassed In splendor
most of the palaces of royalty. The
building had just been completed, and
Mr. Harrlman occupied It on his re
turn from Europe.
It is stated that several million do>
lars had been spent on the building,
aud the plans included a transform
ation of the grounds to be In keeping
with the splendor of the building. Al
though the owner was 111, he did not
stop the work on this Improvement.
A small army of landscape gardeners
was employed, who were at work on
the day he died, his death coming un
expectedly. While the great man was
sinking. In their distress none of the
family thought of these workmen, but
as soon as he was dead a page was
sent out from the house, to Inform
"the hundreds of workmen engaged
on the uncompleted estate of thetr
master’s death." He did It by an
nouncing simply: "You may all quit
work, Mr. Harrlman Is dead."
A parallel case to the Bible story.
"What proflteth It a man though he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul.”
It Is not for men to Judge the dead.
Before a Just Judge nil men must
stand at last, to be Judged according
to the deeds done In the body, and
God, who reads men’s hearts. In many
cases no doubt will Judge far different
from what would be the Judgment of
men, with their finite vision which
cannot possibly see the motives of the
heart. Mr. llarriman was devoted to
business. He could raise great cam
paign funds when he thought his in
terests would be promoted thereby.
This is known, and it is not known
that he devoted any part of his wealth
to charitable or philanthropic pur
poses. This he may have done In
such a quiet way that the public never
heard of it, or he may havw believed
in his heart that the greatest good
he could do was to devote himself
wholly to building up great railroad
systems. At any rate he had in mind
his responsibility to his Maker, who
would require an account of his stew
ardship, for he kept employed a pri
vate chaplain, the only man In the
country so far as known to do this.
Yet, bearing this in mind, the pathos
of tiie story remains: "You may all
quit work; Mr Harrlman Is dead."
In the midst of his plans for com
! fort and splendor to surround him
In his later years God's finger touched
him. and he was called away even
before the work was completed.
It Is a lesson which all men should
;take to their hearts. There is great
‘danger that we all think too much
of worldly plans of self aggrandise
ment. which win appear only as dross
iu the presence of death.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
UNPARALLELED PROSPERITY AHEAD
Quickest Recovery From a Panic on Record. The Year 1909 Will
Go Out With Prosperity in Full Swing.
The short time it has taken this
country to get away from the effects
of the panic of 1907 is as remarkable
as it is cheering. It has been less
than two years since Wall street ex
perienced the most violent crash in
its history. In many respects it was
the worst panic on record. The en
tire business world wag paralyzed. In
many manufacturing centers the
wheels of Industry came to a full stop
and with few exceptions the mills,
factories and mines that continued in
operation during the winter of 1907-08
were running on half time or less.
The railroads were among the first
sufferers of the panic and yards and
side tracks were soon crowded with
idle cars.
The business depression resulting
from the panic was so far-reaching
that the most hopeful of men were
slow to predict an early revival.
Judge E. H. Gary, president of the
United States Steel corporation, was
one of the few persons In the pub
lic view who talked as an optimist.
Soon after the panic he began to
make reassuring statements. He
pointed out that the panic might have
been worse and that the industrial
situation would soon improve. But
even Judge Gary, broad-minded, far
seeing and optimistic as he was, did
not look for any large degree of in
dustrial activity within lg months of
the date of the Wall street collapse.
Recalling the course of former
panics there was little to encourage
the public to think that hard times
would be passed Inside of three or
four years. Every panic had been fol
lowed by several years of depression.
GROWING CHURCH
It is an error to assume that in
this practical age church membership
is declining. The census of reli
gions shows that the churches grow
faster than does the population. From
1880 to 1906 the total population grew
68 per cent. The Protestant church
members alone more than doubled.
They grew from 9,263,234 in 1880 to
20,287,742 in 1906, or 126 per cent.
From 1890 to 1906 the total population
grew 35 per cent, and the Protest
ant church membership '44 per cent.
Either for twenty-six years or sixteen
the Protestant enrolled church mem
bership by itself grew faster than
the total population, which includes
all—Protestant, Catholic, and Israel
ite. The Catholic membership, in
addition, which includes all those
baptized in the church, almost dou
bled, growing 96 per cent in sixteen
years, and still more rapidly In the
twenty-six years from 1880 to 1906.
Taking the country together in 1890,
one person In three was a member
of a religious body. In 1906 two
persons in five were church members.
—Washington Herald.
HERALD ECHOES
The Very Thing Happened,
Suppose Peary should also now re
turn with the Information that he
had nailed Old Glory to the pole
wouldn't that be a pretty kettle of
fish? —Augusta Herald. And he has
done It. —Columbus Ledger.
A Pertinent Question.
The Augusta Herald wonders
whether all the plays that have stage
drinking In them will also be cut out
in Alabama now. —Shreveport Times.
Where They Wore Their Garters.
The women who were once mem
bers of the Order of the Garter in
England wore the garter on their
arms. The Augusta Herald says the
millions of women in this country
who are members of the order wear
the Inslgna elsewhere. —Americus
Tlmes-Recorder.
News Copy and Jaw Material.
At any rate, the newspapers of the
land are under undying obligations to
Senator Tillman for the large amount
of raw material he has furnished
them.—Augusta Herald.
He has been furnishing jay material
for some time. —Cartersville News.
They Can’t Sooner,
“When should girls marry?” asks
the Augusta Herald. The proper an
swer is “when the men ask them,”
adds an exchange.—Madisonian.
EDITORIAL FUNNYGRAPHS
Corn Is about to be cornered and
wheat was cornered In the spring. A
good threshing-out Is what the grain
situation needs. —Atlanta Journal.
Wonder if Dr. Cook 3aw anything
of Leon IJng up about the north pole?
He has been seen everywhere else. —
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Chickens are the most pious birds
known, because more of them enter
the ministry than any other kind.—
Atlanta Georgian.
A Chicago physician says a grouch
is a mental monstrosity. Maybe he
never had a motor car throw gasoline
smoke in his face.—Columbia State.
The chief of police of Norfolk Is go
ing to round up the flat wheels In his
bailiwick; that Ib, he is going to ar
rest the flat wheels and make the
street railroad companies round them
up.—Savannah Press.
Corn is awful, according to scien
tists it produces delirium tremens
when taken In the liquid state and
pellagra when eaten In the form of
bread. —Fitzgerald News.
The meanest man on earth has been
discovered. He makes a specialty of
telling girls on the streets that their
shirt waists have become unbutton
ed and then watches in riotous glee
their frantic efforts to button them
up.—Laiorlcus Tlmes-Hecorder.
Many men now engaged In business
pursuits were business men in Sep
tember, 1873, when a serious panic
struck the country. Everything was
depressed from that time until 1878.
In 1881 there was another financial
flurry and general depression prevail
ed until 1885. In 1893 came a partic
ularly bad panic. Many fortunes were
swept away and it was fully five years
before capital regained confidence
and industrial operations began to ex
pand. Prosperity made high records
in 1906 and in the summer of 1907.
In tne latter year it reached Its high
water mark. But there had been
over speculation, and perhaps over
production and because of the very
fact that prosperity had been run
ning at high pressure experienced fi
nanciers feared that we would have
to wait for at least three or four years
before seeing normal times again.
This is a great country; great in
natural resources, great in its men of
brains and energy. And since its pop
ulation has largely increased and its
wealth has multiplied 'fast there Is
every reason why it should more
easily forget panics and get back to
normal conditions without long waits.
Well, we have had an object lesson
to show what can be done in that di
rection. Since the early summer con.
ditions have been improving at a
great clip. And as we approach the
last quarter of the year old-time pros
perity can be safely forecast. Tne
year 1909 will pass out as a good
year and if we have fair crops in
1910 we will then witness unparallel
ed prosperity.—Birmingham Age-Her
ald.
LOUISIANA’S BIG CORN CROP
The fact that Louisiana is raising a
40,000,000-bushel corn crop this year,
not only the largest ever grown in
this State, but twice that of last year,
officially reported by the State depart
ment of agriculture as 20,000,000
bushels, Is significant of the new con
ditions that have arisen and will call
for new methods and new markets to
meet these changed conditions.
The big com crop is not due sole
ly to favorable weather for growing
corn; but to the boll-weevil invasion.
The farmers of Central and North
Louisiana seeing the probable advent
of that pest and its devastation of the
cotton fields, showed commendable
foresight in preparing for the invasion
by devoting more acreage and more
time to corn. They planted a big
crip, and the weather proving favor
able, raised one; and not only is is a
big crop, but the quality of corn is
of the best.—New Orleans Tiraes-
Democrat.
PRESIDENT TAFT.
President Taft will get into trouble
if he discusses the tariff on his west
ern trip, and he will get into trouble
If he doesn’t. He had better come
South and play golf.—Spartanburg
Journal.
Never Again!
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Another
Advantage
in buying Dorr Clothes Is
that our stock of woolens
Is quite the largest in the
Southern states —in fact
there are few tailoring
houses anywhere whose
stock is as large, as va
ried, as fine as ours.
Of course everyone
knows that Dorr Clothes
are the best that can be
made —that good taste Is
expressed in every Dorr
garment.
Come in NOW
DORR
Tailoring , Furnishings
For Men of Taste.
LOTS
On High, Broad, Greene, Telfair and
Walker streets, and Georgia-Caro
lina Avenue, near Country Club,
Lake View Park and Fair grounds.
Rapidly Increasing in value. Will
sell on installment. Liberal dis
count for the cash. Apply to
CLARENCE E. CLARK
REAL ESTATE. 842 BROAD.
EX-SENATOR PLATT.
Ex-Senator Tom Platt declared that
nothing can destroy his Interest in
politics. It has seemed for years that
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MONDAY, SEPT. 13.
TO MY
PATRONS
In view of the recent cuts and
demoralization of the Patent
Medicine business in Augusta, I
simply make the statement to
my friends and patrons that you
need not go elsewhere for your
medicine in this line, but I will
meet any cut price and sell
them for CASH as low * the
lowest, and you know that you
will get the genuine goods from
me and no bogus or Imitation
goods.
L. A. Gardells
DRUGGIST
ALEXANDER’S
DRUG STORE
By reason of prevailing local
conditions is meeting the pricss
set by others.
Its standard of sxcsUsnos,
however, will not be lowered ae
long as It continues In business.
Our prices are oash on ell
reduced articles.
The Rexall Store
Alexander Drug Co.
he has always looked after hi* "In
terests” through politics.—Columbia
State.
REPAIRS
SAWS, RIBS, Bristle Twine, Babbit, Ac., far any make
of Gin ENGINES, BOILERS and PRESSES
and Repairs for same. Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, la*
