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PAGE FOUR THE AUGUSTA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered at the Augusta Post office aa Mali Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Daily and Sunday, 1 year |6.00 Daily and Sunday, 6 months .. .. *OO Dally and Sunday, 8 months .. .. 1.60 Daily and Sunday, 1 month 50 Dally and Sunday, ’ week 13 Sunday Herald, 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald, 1 year 50 Business Office Telephone 887 City Editor 298 Society Editor 296 FOREIGN REPRESENT A TIMES—The Benjamin & Kentnor Co., 225 Fifth Ave., New York City, 1108 Boyce Building, Chicago. Address all business communications to THE AUGUSTA HERALD 731 Broad Street, Augusta, Go. ■BF YOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED THE HERALD.'' <SZBI^^SE> Augusta, Oi., Saturday, Oct. 16, 1909. No communication will be publisheu In The Herald unless the name of the writer Is signed to the article. ~The Augusta Herald has a larger city circulation than any other paper, and a largsr total circulation than eny other Augusta paper. This has been proven by the Audit Co., of New York. The ' Georgia ■ Carolina Fair AUGUSTA NOV. BTH TO I3TH INCLUSIVE Bigger and Better Than Ever One of Dr. Cook's Eskimo boys was named I-took-a shoo. But the boy Ih not as had ns his name, for he dis claims that he Took a-pole. A man in Pittsburg the other day killed his wife after he had prayed all night. The good Book warns against long prayer*, but few people thought they were ns bad ns that. Phonographs are suppressed In Itußsla by law, the same as other In fernal machines. So it must he ad mitted that In some things the Rus sians are ahead of us. Unless you really mean business you had better not court a fat girl. A Ptttiburg girl is suing a man for 125,000 damages for breach of prom ise becsuse sho lost twenty-live pounds of her weight in grieving over it The peanut, orop Is reported short this year. However that will not have tlie effect of diminishing the crop of peanut politicians that is now sprouting next year's elec tions. Judge Qaynor, the democratic can didate for mayor of New York, has announced that ho will not spend any money on this race. This will be understood as a confession that he doesn't expect, to be elected. It does look strange that Dr. Cook should be so averse to presenting his records to the Geographical Society when it Is cold facts it wants, and If he was really at the Pole he should have them cold enough. If the doctors could only agroe on some kind of an operation for pel lagra people would not have such an aversion to it. But they will prob ably soon devise a knife cure, as they have done for almost all other diseases. The Greenwood Journal suggests a national holiday In honor of Dr. Cook. Better wait awhile, aa It majr.be pos sible that the people would celebrate It by burning him In effigy if com pelled to celebrate It In some way. The Anderson Mall wants to know If you would not vote for Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt for congress, if you were living in Colorado? But how could you. when she la not a candi date. and expects to go to Europe to remain there sererai rears? A Texas sheriff In Pittsburg the other day witnessed a moving picture show in which masked robbers held up a stage, and the scene was so realistic that he pulled his gun and began blazing away at the road agents. But it takes quite a dose of bug Juice to make even a Texas sheriff act that way. It must be gelling disagreeable to live in Rome. The Tribune-Herald says nobody leaves that city because they want to but because they have to. When forbearance ceases to be a virtue, it seems, they pack up aud shake the dust of that city off their feet. Mr. Wu Ting Fang is now great ly Interested In spiritualism, and is asking a lot of questions about It. If he were in this part of the coun try It would probably be spirits in which he would bo most interested. And he would also experience less trouble In getting In touch with them. HOW PROVIDENCE HAS FAVORED AUGUSTA The great destructive agency in this section of the world this year has been the power of the wind. It is yet fresh In mind how the en tire country trembled with anxiety over the fate of Galveston, when the fierce West Indian hurricane s’ruck that, coast, and cut ofT commu nication with the outside world for many fateful hours. The new sea wall saved the island city, hut many other towns suffered greatly. The destruction of property reached into the millions, and the los3 of life was correspondingly great. Only a few days ago another of those hurricanes struck the Florida coast. The city of Key West bore the brunt of that storm, which laid the city in ruins and did heavy dlun&ge over a large stretch of terri tory. And almost immediately following that gale came the great In land storm which on Thursday night swept over a large part of Geor gia into Alabama and Tennessee. So far as the records go. never before has such a storm visited the state. It was not a cyclone, which spends its tremeuuously destruc tive force within narrow limits, but It was a violent storm which ex tended over an area of many thousand square miles. This storm com bined all the elemental terrors of wind, rain and hall with a most pow erful display of electrical energy. A kind Providence so spread the destructive forces that at no single place did it approach total annihi lation, and yet the aggregate destruction, scattered as it was over a large arua, was probably greater than the destruction wrought by the two West Indian hurricanes. Augusta felt this Htorrn. The lightnings flashed, the thunders rolled, the wind blew and the floodgates of the skies were opened for a time; but no serious damage was done in the city or the near sur rounding country. Other cities however were not so fortunate. At lanta experienced the lull force of the storm, being bombarded with hailstones as large as goose eggs, which broke thousands of dollars' worth of plate glass and windows, and* did other damage In proportion. Similar stories have come from many other cities and towns and from the intervening country, of loss of life, of destruction of property and of the devastation of the fields with their remaining crops. While deeply sympathising with the sufferers, what a cause for thankfulness we have In the fact that our city was spared in this ex tended destruction. That Providence has so kindly watched over Au gusta should fill our hearts with thankfulness, and Inspire greater tope to lead to stronger efforts. THE INDIAN SUMMER The almanacs fail to set the date when the Indian summer begins, ns they publish the dates for the beginning of the other seasons. That is perhaps the reason why there Is a difference of opinion regarding the beginning and ending of the Indian summer. But in regard lo the season Itself there Is no disagreement. It is (lie season bet;wee n (lie summer and the winter, peculiar to this portion of the United States, which partakes of the best of the qualities of both seasons. It begins when (lie first light frost has fallen, and the leaves In the woods start to garb themselves In variegated hues. The sultriness of tbo summer air has passed, but in the freshness and crispness of the ozone charged air there is none of the chilliness of winter. The sun rises in pale golden splendor each morning, pursues his diminishing eourse through the vault of smiling blue, and sinks slowly into gathering haze as if loath to leave. II is the time when the chrysanthemums unfold their gorgeous beauty, when the roses give us their most perfect blooms, when the golden-rod nods tls head to the breeze In constant happy salutlngs, and when all late flowering plnnts and shrubs put on their last and best adorning before they must yield themselves to winter's cold embrace. It is the season when animal life is most buoyant, when the squirrels scamper most nimbly In the trees, when the colts and calves are most frisky, and when men step most lightly. It Is the season of the year when the joy of living is greatest. Tin- breath 1h drawn deeper to Inhale more of the Invigorating air. A new urlghtness is given to the eye. A fresh elasticity comes to the Htop. A greater heartiness Is added to the handgrnHp, Unconsciously all animate creatures nnd all nature becomes more fresh and at Its best. This glorious season la now upon us. Differ as men may about the exact beginning of this Joyous season, none doubt that it ts now here. We have had the first light frost. In a grand electrical storm summer had bid us farewell. And in all the glory of Indian summer nature Is at her best. There Is the throbbing of quickened life. There Is Increased joy In living. There is everything In nature to call ine n to action, and to clothe everything In the brightest colors of hope. Who can be Idle under such inspiration? Who can be content with the achievements of the past? Who will not be Incited to greater ef forts, ami to put forth the very best that is in him, under the Inspira tion of this glorious Indian summer season? INCREASING USE OF AUTOMOBILES The Wall Street Uasttte Is in real distress. It takes note that fruui various parts of tho country, and particularly In the rural districts and small towns, questions are asked as to tho great number of auto mobiles that are seen on the roads. It is declared that In many qnses the money the> represent is that which formerly was saved up to buy comfortable and modest homes, and it means that thousands of persons will be rent payers Instead of home owners In years to come and that many of them may be forced down in times of dull business from a life of moderate comfort Into the class of the permanent poor. It is seal kind In the Wall Street organ to bo so much concerned about Just plain, common peoplo. But this Is one time when It is wor rying without sufficient cause. For the sake of Its clients, the Wall Street operators, It Is to be hoped that It Is better Informed concern ing stocks nnd bonds and affairs of the Street, than it is about automo biles and their use among the people. According to Its view, tho keeping of an automobile represents an outlay of fGO a month at the least. According to its view “the life of such a machine, to the average man, is five or six years. Admitting that a oar ts run for six years, and that Its original cost was $1,200, this means an outlay per annum of S2OO. To this must be added the inter est at ti per cent, on the investment, or $72. Then there is the re pair bill, which after the first year Is apt to be quite heavy, with the necessity for new tires, etc. If the average man gets off with $lO a mouth for the small repairs, tires nnd necessary attention to his ma chlne he Is a marvel. But that makes another $l2O a year. Ami then there comes the operating expense, and S2OO a year will easily be eateu up In that. Here is SOOO gone lu a year, and It ts tho exeepltonal man, Indeed, who keeps the Items down to these figures." Figures can t lie, but there are figures and figures, as there are au tomobiles and automobiles. The cost to Mr. John D. Rockefeller, one of the winter residents of Augusta, of keeping up either of fits fine automobiles which are fami liar to everybody In Augusta, ts without a doubt more than S6O a month. But there are many autos In use here and elsewhere which do not cost nearly so much. To begin with a plain but serviceable automobile may now be bought for less than double the price of a good horse and buggy, and quite a number of people, who have not been considered recklessly im piovldcnt lu keeping a horse and buggy, have come to the conclusion that tho keep of an automobile Is cheaper thandhe keep of n horse and buggy. The purchase and use of automobiles by this class of people accounts in a measure for the Increase of automobiles noted in small towns as well as In the larger cities. These automobile owners and autolsts are not of the Joy-rider class. They use their machines as they did their horse and buggy, in a sen sible way. and they find pleasure in It. which does not exceed the cost of she same pleasure under former conditions, concerning which no watchman On Wall Street's watch tower raised his warning voice. There may be some people who Invest in automobiles which are beyond their means. These are people of moderate Incomes who in vest in high power machines capable of being put to great speed and who, having such a machine, delight themselves with taking Joy-rides. It Is this class which causes all the trouble about automobiles, but is comparatively small. The majority of automobile owners, whether of highprlced or popu lar priced machines, are people who can afford It. The automobile is nArsrtleal machine, and as such us use will be constantly extended. Street Gaiette will probably within a few years And cause and groan because even progressive farmers will carry their truck to market in automobiles, Just as progressive merchants will use them for delivery wagons and progressive business and professional inen find them preferable to horse-drawn vehicles. THE AUGUSTA HERALD THE NORTH POLE AND THE TALMUD Ancient Jewish Book Pointed to the Pole as the Depository of Gold and Started Gold Hunters Poleward Ages Ago The following article, by Naphtali Herz Imber, was published in the New Y«rk Amercian by courtesy of Abra |ham Unger, of New York, gives an antiquity to polar exploration which is ! interesting to consider Just at this i time. * The whole world is ringing now from Pole to Pole and the names of :Dr. Cook and Peary are on the lips iof every human being. They both are worthy of the laurels of fame which Dame History has bestowed upon those two heroes. The Pole was the goal of many scientific people in centuries gone by. It was not a scientific inspiration which moved the multitude of heroes toward the Pole; It was gold they were looking for. Moses, the greatest scientist of his age, says in the Book of Job: “From the North comes gold; (he Lord is surrounded with a majes tic gloriole of beauty” (alluding to the aurora borealis and Its glorious splen dor). The Talmud remarks; “He who will get wise, let him go south, but he who will become rich, let him go north,” Indeed, all tnose ice-bedecked coun tries, Alsaka and Siberia, are produc ing gold, while In the warm climates gold Is not to be found. The reason Is a simple scientific one, namely, the heavy layer of Ice pre vents the vaporing out of those gase ous elements from which the gnomes In the workshop of nature are manu facturing that precious metal. That in centuries gone by there Let us all raise our hats to Ben jamin West, near-centenarian; let the bunds play "Dixie” for him, as he is a Southerner, and let the raucous “rebel yell” rasp our throats In his honor. He has bridged the gulf between North and South better than com merce and polities and religion. We can shake his hands and call him “Brother,” In the best acceptance of the term. Pie is the bridge to such confraternity. As agile as a mountain goat; as ruddy as a Britisher, save for his abundant white hair; as straight as an Indian and as energetic and untiring as an African lion hunter, Mr. West is ninety-seven years old. When he was young he was sickly, and thirty was fixed as his time limit. Now he Is going to round the century mark, and he owes It, he says, to p-i-e. And to no one kind of pie in par ticular. The fabled Kentuckian’s in dorsement of whiskey applies to this Southerner's approval of pie. It has been his staple diet all these years. He has had It morning, noon and night —“kivered, unklvered and cross-bar i red”—and it has served him as well |ns if he had discovered the Fountain of Youth. Lot dyspeptics and difetarlans gnash their teeth at him for upsetting their code of life and their wonderful the ories. He will not answer back. He WARDROABES OF ROYALTY Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan, was notorious for his carelessness in eating. His clothing often showed the signs of menus, yet it is reported that his wardrobe in the Yildlz palace contained, for example, 2,000 waist coats. His wardrobe Is to be sold, but It must first be cleaned. The wardrobe of King George IV, when •sold after his death, brought $75,000. Gerville narrates that It contained all tho coats he had bought In fifty years. Besides, there was a profusion of other articles. This George never paid his tailors, nor did his attend ants ever dare give away any article of his apparel. Queen Victoria pre served every dress and bonnet that she had worn. Nearly all of her ward robe, after her death, was discreetly distributed by her daughters.—Wash ington Herald. HERALD ECHOES j Sufficient Unto the Day. The Augusta Herald notes that un der the new ta'iff law there Is a heavy duty on brimstone. nut the Herald needn’t worry. I* win get all tbit’s coming to IL—Columbus En quirer-Sun. The Whole Hog at the Pole. “What was Peary's reason, any how, for sending all his white com panions hack before he reached the pole? This is one little matter, among others, that seems to require explanation.”—Augusta Herald. He meant to be “tho whole cheese.” if nothing worse.—Macon News. Making the Thirsty Suffer. Now that we have got rtd of our tieir beer joints, will not The Au gusta Herald agree that Dublin is >tally leading in doing good things? —Dublin Courier-Dispatch. Real Warm Love Letter. Fire broke out in a letter box in New York the other day. If It was a love letter that started this spon taneous combustion It must have been extraordinarily warm. —Augus- ta Herald. And If It was a love letter which war destroyed, there were probably enough tears shed ovet; its uon-ar rivai to have extinguished the fire.— F.lberton Star. A Much Needed Invention. The Augusta Herald thinks that the Marconi who can Invent a system of wireless politics will M one of the world's greatest benefactors, pro vided* he comes before the mlllenium. —Waycross Journal. was a mighty rush and dash to the Pole lured by the yellow devil—Gold — I have living witnesses. The Eskimos, who, to my mind, are offspring of those mighty gold hunters, who by frost and hardship have been degener ated to pigmies. I was forcibly struck by reading the statement of Dr. Cook that the North Is an open door. He verifies the opinion of the Pole as stated In the Talmud, which was com piled eighteen centuries ago. The Talmud asks: “Why is the North Pole open?” And explains that the Almighty threw His gauntlet to the daring sons of Adam, as if to say, "The door is open; let him come in who dares.” Indeed, many scientific men were sacrificed upon the altar of science and their numberless bodies are strewn upon the white wastes of ice, while others have been devoured by the terrible ice monsters or per ished by privation and starvation. Who can count those who died to defy nature? At last, there were two daring heroes who broke the ice gate of nature and planted the Stars and Stripes upon the Pole as a sign of the victory of the children of man over the gods. If I were younger and strong I would write in the Homeric strain a poem entitled “The Fall of the Gods’ Fort ress,” but alas, I am hearing on my shoulders the burden of more than half a century and am chained to my sick bed,, and I leave it to the other poets to help on the victory of Hu manity. PIE AND LONG LIFE will not even show his teeth. He is setting them deep In pie. And let the news go to that school superintendent out West who argued for pie on the menu of children because It made them brawny and brainy. With such a shoring up of his belief, that teacher will be invul nerable. Uet the good news go whooping along, too, until it reaches the ears of the doctor who, in session with his fellows, argued for pie on the break fast table, in the good old New Eng land manner. He pointed out the stal wart men and the strong and sensi ble women who ate it every morning, and his argument was powerful. When he finds out that Mr. West, a Vir ginian, can he used as an even more vigorous example of his views on the wholesomeness of pie, the world will begin to look at it through his rosy spectacles. And Into this category should come Mrs. Wyman, aged seventy, of Pitts field, Mass., the Greatest Piebaker of the Universe, bar none. One day last week she broke her own unapproach able record. She made seventy-two pies of nine different varieties, as fol lows; Custard, apple, cocoanut, prune, raisin, squash, chocolate, blueberry and lemon. Mrs. Wyman did the work alone, and had it finished by noon. Imagine the health and happiness that would spring from them!—Cleveland Leader. A WONDERFUL CLOCK An electric clock without hands Is exhibited in Chicago. Its pendulum weighs more than 3,000 pounds. It contains 5,485 colored bulbs and over a mile of wire. Tho minutes are In dicated by sixty series of lights, each series containing thirty-two globe covered bulbs, radiating from an or namental centerpiece to the outer edge of the dial. Shorter rows of dif ferent colored lights indicate the hour, and these change their position twelve times during each sixty min utes, or once every five minutes. The seconds are shown by sixty lights placed at equal distances around the extreme outer edge of the face. The hour figures are three feet high, out lined in colored lights. Each second the Illumination in the outer circle of light moves forward one bulb, and when the dial has been entirely cir cled, the lights indicating the minute also advance, and the hour hand, formed by lights, makes its slow jour ney at five-minute Intervals.—Wash ington Herald. State-Wide Prohibition. The dispensaries in the dry coun ties might aR well be making prepa rations to close, as It seems certain that we will have state wide prohibi tion after January.—Bamberg Herald. Tobacco in Florence. If the Florence tobacco market hag not been doing the business as It should have been doing recently we might find the explanation in the fact that the other markets have been ketTiTfig up a persistent advertising. Advertising pays.—Florence Times. South Carolina Cotton Pickers. Picking cotton requires a sleight of hand that every person does not possess. That sleight is exhibited to a marked degree in the personal of Mr. O. H. Cochran's family. One day last week five of his boys, all under age except one, picked 1918 pounds, and it was not much of a day for picking cotton either. —Abbe- ville Press and Banner. The HresWent at Sumter. President Taft probably never heard of Sumter, but If he accepts the invitation of the City council and the chamber of commerce to stop here enroute from Augusta to Flor ence, he will remember that there is such a place on the map when Post master Shore asks for re-appoint n:ent. —Sumter Item. The Dispensary Grafters. We have several times expressed doubt as to whether the courts were strong enough to punish the dispeu- SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES The man who wears Dorr Clothes has that air of un conscious content ment that comes with the knowl edge that his tire is absolutely correct in every de tail. Let us make you a really fine suit. TAJLORING--FURNISHINGS FOR MEN OF TASTE Try a bottle of GRAPE JULEP made from the finest Chautauqua County, Concord Grapes. Dixie Carbonating Co., Augusta, Ga. Germicides and Insecticides. N. L. Willet Seed Company Sun Sanitary Fluid —The Ideal disin fectant. True deodorizer and germ icide, a powerful antiseptic and purifier for the sanitary purifica tion of dwellings, schools, hospit als, water closets, sinks, slaughter houses stables, etc. Pint, 20c; quart, 35c; gallon, SI.OO. Mix 50 of water to 1 3. S. F. Animal Parasite Killer—For Killing Fleas, Lice, Mites, Ticks, and all insects on animals, Parasite Scabs, Itch and Mange. Pint, 30c; quart, 50c; 1 gallon, $1.25. 25 parts water to 1 A. P. K. “Lion Brand" Cold Lime Sulphur Wash (prepared in bbls), 50 gal. to bbls., mix 1 gal. of Sol. to 10 gal. of water. Get special prices on car lots, 60 bbls, or less. Spray Machines All Kinds. sary grafters. One great trouble is that there are too many former pais of the grafters in control of the ma chinery of justice.—Yorkville En quirer. A Course That Will React. The failure or refusal of the Char leston grand jury to find a true bill on even one of the 24 Indictments given It by the the solicitor will cause intenser feelings in all the dry counties in favor of the passage ot a state-wide prohibition law at the next session of the legislature.— Barnwell People. Selling Cotton for Future Delivery. It Is not likely that there will be much cotton sold In Bamberg county hereafter for future delivery. We think the farmers have enough of selling ahead to last them for some time to come. One of the best farm ers In this section told us a Tew days ago that he never sold cotton ahead, but that he had been holding cotton until spring for the last ten years, and so far has always made money by so doing.—Bamberg Herald. HERE’S THE WAY THEY WRITE AFTER USING “OLD DOMINION’ "All of the cement piling used in the Brunswick Terminal vat made of ‘OLD DOMINION’ CEMENT, and the fact of our using this Cement In preference to all others, we feel Is the highest recom mendation. This Is the first wharf ever built in this country with Concrete Piles, and we were anxious to secure the best cement In the market for It —after the most exhaustive tests, we concluded that ■OLD DOMINION’ was ’it’” Carolina Portland Cement Company SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTERS. CHARLESTON, S. C. GIN y®* uciuiiv, Hl* lectors. Pipes, Valves and Fitting*, Light Saw, Shingle, and Lath Mil'*, Gasoline Engines Cane Mill* in stock. LOMBARD IRON WORKS AND SUPPLY COMPANY, Augusta, Ga. 1 Particular People Patronize “Hickey’s Barber Shop” 321 EIGHTH ST. SATURDAY, OCT. 16. JAPALAC— I can furnish almost any color In Japalac. L. A. GARDELLE, Druggist. BLACK LUSTRE— Beautiful Lustre for fire places; In pint bottles; dries over night; 25c bottle. L. A. GARDELLE, Druggist. FURNITURE POLISH— Hygiea Polish and Liquid Ve neer, In 25 cent bottles; makes your furniture look new. L. A. GARDELLE, Druggist. GOLD PAINT— Our Favorite Gold Enamel, in boxes, 25c; is almost equal to gold leaf; on any surface it retains its brilliancy for years and Is -washable. L. A. GARDELLE, Druggist. HOUSEHOLD PAINTS— Small cans of different color ed paints for use about the house. If you need anything to decorate and beautify your home, come Iftre. L. A. GARDELLE, Druggist. Good Goods Good Service These have been the pur pose, policy and guiding spirit of the Alexander Drug Store-- and on this foundation the store has been built and pro gressed for over a quarter of a century. It is weil known that we carry the best and most complete stock In Au gusta. We Invite your patronage. Alexander Drug Co. 708 Broad St. LOTS On High, Broad, Greene, Teirair and Walker streets, and Georgia-Caro llna 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. COOK’S Goldblume The Best Brewed E. SHEAHAN, 1141 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. L, A. DORR. North Augusta and Belvidere REAL ESTATE office. Phone 1184—Irish American Bank Building. HOTEL RICHMOND, 70 WEST 46TH ST, Near sth Av. NEW YORK CITY. A high class fireproof hotel, for per manent and transient guests; two and three room Suites, handsomely fur nished; very attractive rates to per manent guests by the year. Transient rates 11.50 to $5 per day. REPAIRS SAWS, RIBS, Bristle Twine, Babbit, &€., for any make of Gin ENGINES. BOILERS and PRESSES and Repairs for same. Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, In,
