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PAGE SIX THE AUGUSTA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Augusta Postofflce aa Mail Matter of the Second Ci&s*. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily «ind Sunday, 1 year $6.00 Dally and Sunday, 6 months .. .. 1.00 Dally and Sunday, $ months .. .. 1.60 Daily and Sunday, 1 month So Dally and Sunday, 1 week .13 Sunday Herald, 1 year 1. 00 Weekly Herald, 1 year .. .. .. .. .60 Business Office Telephone 29/ City Editor 289 fioctery Editor 286 FOREIGN "REPRESENTATI /ER-'The Benjamin d Kentnor Co., 226 Fifth Are., New York City, 1106 Boyce Building, Chicago. all business communication# tc THE AUGUSTA HERALD 721 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. "IF TOO 'IV A N’T THE NEWS TOU NTEEK THE HERAT,D." 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! f CO*e ON FELLOWS) —s f'HARRICAN^ ( LETS qo Hunting j j. . A ( w> uf> \% _ Jr y THE Quhs ANDqo \o Ah awdrua\up A^IoHoRTwO^ 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 GIN lectors. Pipes, Valves and Fittings, Light Saw, Shingle, and Lath Mills, Gasoline Engines, Cane Mill* In itock. LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPP.IV COMPANY, Augusta, Go. --- —• You FEU.QVMS CARRY quNS amo ahoAv) I CARRY THEWftmNS IMJT /jV/ Jiifst- 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*
