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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1910)
THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XV., No. 22, CAROLINA’S BUDGET MAY BE LITTLE LESS FOR 1910 \ 4 'ays and Means Commit tee of House Hard at Work on Appropriation Bill For Current Year. COLUMBIA, S. C—'The ways and means committee of the house will probably turn in the appropriation bill by the middle of next week, which will be a very considerable achievement. This committee has been working hard and faithfully, every legislative day from 4 to 6 or 7 o’clock, and the bili would be reported earlier but for the trip to Charleston. From all that can be gathered from the leaks that come through the key hole of the door, it is learned that the appropriation budget this year will be about the same as last, possibly a little smaller. There will be several matters cut off from the bill as passed last year, the item for inthrop’s new dining hall and oth er improvements, but to match these will be appropriations for the Citadel, the rebuilding of .the negro college, and other matters, which will maintain the average. The state levy will be the same no provision being made to get the state on a cash basis. Tsx Equalization. In this connection it is interesting to note the propositions that are be ing made to get taxes equalized in the state. There is the proposition of the comptroller general for the appoint ing of a state commission to equalize the taxes, and several other bills in the same line presented by members of the house independently. It is thu very evident desire of the members of the legislature to get property in the state equalized, the differences in tax es are apparent to any one who gives a little study, and the greatest diffi culty that .assessors meet with is in tlie feeling of the taxpayer that ev erybody except himself is dodging taxes. The comptroller general will urge the publicity feature of the as sessments, giving a list of the tax payers in each community with the property and value that they return. He urges that this will make every man a member of the board of equal ization. Something will be done along this line if the general assembly has time to do it after getting rid of the liquor question. State Wide Bill. That brings us to another matter, the matter of the state wide bill. It looks very much as If that bill is go ing through. A number of represen tatives of the counties that went dry last summer are getting the Idea that if they do not stand for prohibition their counties will repudiate them in the coming election, and there Is a great deal of the dog in the manger sentiment to be seen, dry counties do not like the looks of the dispensary profits in wet counties. There will be several votes lost to the local option men by reason of the election last summer, though it Is a fact that the representatives of the newly dry coun ties are In a quandary how to meet the expenses of their counties without levying an exorbitant tax. One coun ty will have to increase its tax levy ten and a half mills to make up the loss. In most instances the represen tatives will just not stand for the tax which they know will bring them Into bad favor at home, but will levy a lower rate and let the county fight with a deficit. The prohibition situa tion has caused more men to declare that they would never again enter the race for the house than any matter that has ever come up before the gen eral assembly, and the indications are for the greatest confusion In the af fairs of the counties In the state. The state wide men are very much encouraged over the prospects and if the men who oppose It want to stave off the arbitrary action of the general assembly they need to get very busy att at once. Doar’s Bill. In this connection it will be of In terest to note that Mr. Doar of George town has a bill which levies a tax on all imported liquors In the state, and makes the railroads and express companies the agents for the state for the collecting of that tax. It will be an Inspection tax, which Is supposed to provide that the people of South Carolina shall not be humbugged with counterfeit liquor, but that every gal lon that comes into the state shall be inspected by a duly constituted offi cer and pay Its contribution to the school fund. It Is thought that this law will make the losses good In some counties. ATLANTA TO HAVE A CRICKET CLUB ATLANTA. —Atlanta Is going to have a cricket club. Real English cricket—whatever that Is. There are a dozen or more sportsmen here who think they know, and they are going to try to show the community. A meeting for the purpose of organiz ing the club will be held at the Ara gon hotel tonight; grounds have al ready been secured. < THE WEATHER ' < rr Georgia fair, continued cold < weather will be experienced to- < night, and fair and warmer < weather on Sunday. < [Min ns ELECTJFFICERS Roster of Swainsbaro, Summit and Graymont Lodges o£ Masons and K. of F. SWAINSBORO, Ga.—The secret or ders of this county, which are all in a flourishing condition, have all re cently elected officers for the ensuing year. Swainsboro Lodge A. F. & A. M. has officers as follows: W. W. Curl, worshipful master. Lee Godfrey, senior warden. D. L. Smith, junior warden. F. H. Stafford, senior deacon. J. M. Nunez, secretary. John R. Flanders, treasurer. J. B. Page, tyler. Aaron Lodge. Aaron Lodge A. F. & A. M. have officers as follows: J. B. Fields, worshipful master. J. R. Gay, senior warden. R. L. Fields, junior warden. C. B. Aaron, treasurer. B. H. Fields, secretary. J. D. Hendrix, tyler. Y. H. ‘Williams, senior deacon. J. IX Parrish, junior deacon. P. C. Johnson, chaplain. Knights of Pythias. Swainsboro Lodge, Knights of Pyth ias, will be officered this year as fol | lows: ! L. AV. Ponder, chancellor command er. George S. Rountree, vice chancel lor. P. W. Wilson, prelate. J. B. Compton, master of works. J. M. Nunez, keeper of records and seal and master of finance. W. H. Proctor, master of exchequer. Allen Brown, inner guard. n. H. Filingin, outer guard. Summit and Graymont. Aaron Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Summit and Graymont have chos en the following officers: J. R. Gay, chancellor commander. C. B. Aaron, vice chancellor. Rev. W. E. Mills, prelate. R. L. Fields, master of works. G. S. Lanier, master of exchequer. J. B. Fields, Inner guard. Frank Davis, outer guard. Burt Scarboro, keeper of records and seal and master of finance. The Increase In numbers of both these orders during the past year has been greater than during any year be fore. There is much enthusiasm among the members and the outlook for a successful year is bright GEORGIA HORTICULTURALISTS MEET IT SPARTA JIN. 2BTH Addresses By P. J. Berck mans, of Augusta, I. M. Fleming, of Atlanta, and Others. ATLANTA, Ga.—President I. E. Murph, of Marshallville, and Manager I. M. Fleming, of Atlanta, the heads of the (Jeorgia Fruit Exchange, have accepted the invitation of the Geor gia State Horticultural society to be present at the annual meeting of that body in Sparta on January 26th and 27th, and will then, in all proba bility, outline the splendid work of the Georgia Fruit Exchange as a co operative organization. Manager Fleming spoke along these lines at the meeting of the farmers and farm ers’ wives, in Athens, last week, and made a decided hit. There is prob ably no organization in the state so closely allied as that of the Georgia Fruit Exchange and the State Horti cultural society, each being vitally Interested in the peach crop of this state, which has come to be such a valuable one. The Horticultural so ciety, looking after the orchards to the maturity of the fruit, and the ex change caring for the fruit from the time it ripens on the trees until mar keted thoughout the United States. As a result of the splendid success made by the exchange last year, al ready seventy per cent of the year’s pach crop has been pledged to the ex change for distribution this year. Manager Fleming, Assistant Manager Marks and Assistant Secretary Raoul have been In the field this week se curing additional pledges and meet ing with Bplendid success wherever they canvassed. Manager Fleming will work the vicinity of Sparta dur ing this week. The program arranged for the meet ing at Sparta is a splendid one. Since the program was published the so ciety ha 3 received word that Prof. Walter P. Swingle, connected with the U. S. department of plant industry, will attend and will speak on “Citrus Breeding Work as of Interest In Geor. gia,’’ which will prove most interest ing. Mr. P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, the pioneer in the horticultural in dustry in this state, is to read a pa per on “The Review of Fruits and Flowers Introduced in Georgia in the Last Fifty Years.” Commissioner of Agriculture Hud son, State Entomologist Worsham and a number of other state house of ficials will attend this meeting. VANDERBILT AT SAVANNAH. * SAVANNAH, Ga. —Frederick W. Vanderbilt, who is here on his yacht, "Warrior,” leaves In a few days for an extended cruise. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1910. Heiress Who Eloped and Dog Who Accompanied Her on Trip frj<r • ir jn &^i Roberta de Janon, the Philadelphia heiress and her dog Tootsie, w’ho ac companied her on all of the wander ings incidental to her two weeks elopement from Philadelphia with Frederick Oohen, the waiter, who claims he was hypnotized by her. When asked whether she preferred a separation from Tootsie to one from Cohen, the girl seemed in doubt for a moment, but finally indicated that she wanted the dog badly. She will be brought home from Chicago and forgiven, but it may go hard with Cohen. STITE PURE FOOD UR IS MPLim N EXPERTS Dr. Stallings, Georgia State Chemist, Will Ad dress National Food Of ficials at Washington. ATLANTA, Ga.—Dr. R. E. Stallings, state chemist of Georgia and a recog nized authority on the operation of both state and national pure food law, has been invited to deliver an address in Washington City on January 26th before the feed officials of the United States upon the operation of the "Pure Food and Feed Law in Georgia.” The object of this meeting, which is to be held at the Raleigh hotel on the date mentioned, is to secure a draft of a uniform feed law which can be en acted Into a law in all of the states of tnS union, greatly facilitating the matter of Inspecting and passing up on the feeds so generally used in this country. There is a national pure food law, but, unfortunate for the animals, this law does not regulate the matter of feed stuffs, except that tbe package must carry no misleading siafements, while the Georgia law prohibits the use of all worthless materials In a feed. On account of this strict enforce ment of the Georgia law, In regard to feed stuffs, and Its satisfactory in terpretation by Dr. Stallings, he has oeen named upon the special commit tee to draft this measure. At the Capitol this Is considered a high honor for the Georgia law and a deserved compliment to Dr. . Stal lings. Previous to the enforecement of the law in regard to feed stuffs in this state, Georgia, according to Dr. Stal lings, was tbe acknowledged dumping ground of all feed manufacturers in ihe coutnry, and many misbranded and adulterated feeds were shipped and sold in this state. Since this law went into effect, however, this condi tion has ceased and Georgia is con sidered the leading state in the union In the matter of pure feeds, as well as pure foods. As a result of the strict enforce ment of this law, cotton seed meal, a by-product of the Southern cotton seed, has come speedily into its own, and the records of the department Bhow that its use as a cattle feed, which It Is acknowledged to be not only the richest in point of protein, hut also the most reasonable in price, Is increasing by leaps and bounds. A uniform law pitched along the lines of the Georgia statute, it is felt, will work still greater good for cotton s»ed meal and will Inure greatly to the benefit of the South as well as Its users. EARTHQUAKE REPORTED. ST. LOUIS. —The seismograph of the St. Louis University registered an earthquake Saturday morning which lasted 42 minutes. The move ment was from the west with traces from south. EMANUEL FARMERS’ SLIGHT COTTON LOSS Crop Matured Early and Was Marketed at About Highest Prices. SWAINSBORO, Ga—The landslide In the price of cotton did hot catch many of Emanuel county’s fanners as the cotton crop this season matured earlier than usual, was soon gathered and ginned, and pretty much all of it marketed when cotton was selling ,ut its highest and the consequence is that Emanuel county Is in the best finan cial condition that she has been In for years, if not the best in her history. The farmers all have money enough to run them and are feoling happy. They, are, however. Investing pretty heavily In mules, horses and wagons, and it is to be feared that they are really buying of these more heavily than this spurt of prosperity justifies and are really preparing to plant the world in cotton and for a slump in their good feelings and financial con dition next fall. The horse and mule dealers In this city have had the best trade in mules and horses they have had and they all bring unusually high prices. ATLANTA MAN LANDS GOOD GOTHAM OFFICE Joseph H. Johnson is Ap pointed Deputy Fire Commissioner at Salary of $3,000 in New York. ATLANTA, Ga.—Joseph H. Johnson, Jr., an Atlanta newspaper man well known throughout Georgia, has been appointed deputy fire commissioner of New York city, with a salary of *3,000. News of the appointment was received here Friday afternoon by Mr. John son's father. The office is one of the most Important plums bestowed by Mayor Gaynor, who recently appoint ed Robert L. Adamson, another Geor gia newspaper man, as his private secretary. GOV. BROWN FAVORS ANTI-SPEED LAW Is Joined By President Slaton of tbe Senate For State Restriction of Fast Automobile Running. ATLANTA, Ga. —Governor Brown, at Washington, and President John M Sl#ton of the Georgia senate, here in Atlanta, have simultaneously declared themselves in favor of some state wide legislation to regulate the fast running of automobiles, and it Is al most. certain that some sort of law will be enacted at the next session of the general assembly. “We want a law that will he both fair to the pub lic and to automobile owners,” says President Hlaton, and he personally wfil probably have something to do with framing the bill. ONE CHANCE LEFT [OH OIK'S LIFE ATLANTA. —George Burge, the con victed wife-murderer, whose execution has twice been staid by respite of Gov. Brown, will have his last chance Sat urday to escape tlie nooso, when his case will be taken up for final consid eration by the state prison board. Burge’s lawyers have accused another man of the crime, but the man has not located. So far as can be learn ed there is no material change in the status of the case since a new trial was refused by the supreme court. YOU! ROME HUSBAND PLEADS UNWRITTEN LAW AS DEFENSE ROME, Ga. —Weeping bitterly as she heard her husband denounced as a red-handed murderer by attor neys, Grace Rossi, the 18-year-old American wife of Frank Rossi, an Italian restauranter, was an interest ing figure in the superior court room here. Young Rossi, himself only 20, is accused of having shot Edward Harris, a cotton mill employe, and is on trial for his life. The taking of testimony consumed most of the day, but arguments have been begun and the case went to the jury Friday afternoon. After the man's trial is over the woman will be put on trial as an accessory. This situation led to an unusual de velopment. The testimony In the two cases will be Identical and Judge John W. Maddox requested the newspaper men to refrain from printing or send ing an account of the evidence to any paper tuat will reach Rome before the woman’s trial is begun. Only a small number of men are eligible for jury duty In Floyd county, and the judge feared that the reading of the testimony In the man’s case would cause opinions as to the wo man’s guilt to be formed in the minds of prospective jurors and thus make It impossible to secure a Jury. All the men on the jury list were barred from the court room and ho details of the testimony were printed. The evl aence was sensational in some phases, but the judge ruled out testimony as to Grace Rossi's character, upon which the slate had expected to make an attack In response to the defense’s plea of the unwritten law. EMORY STUDENTS WATCH FOR COMET EMORY COLLEGE, Ga.—The ap pearance of Halley's comet Is being eagerly awaited by an enthusiastic band of Emory students who have formed a society to watch the move ments of the planet. Emory has one of the few astronomical observation* In Georgia and Is splendidly equipped for the study of the planets. The study of Halley’s /’omet will be under tbe direction of tbe professor of pure mathematics and astronomy, Professor M. T. Peed, who has given much study to the subject and Is one of the best Informed gentlemen In the state on the expected phenomon. The op portunity to study the comet under such an authority is a rare and the so ciety for observing Its movements Is becoming so large that. Professor Peed will probably be compelled to limit the membership. Recently, on invitation of President Pearce, who is an Emory graduate, Professor Peed lectured to the stu students at the P.ren.m College Con servatory at Galnesvife on the sub ject, "Our Approachlng Visitor," hav ing reference to tbe comet which expected to appear soon- DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR. GEORGIA ENTERS BOYCOTT WAR ON HIGH PRICED MEATS PEEBLES IIS ESCAPED FROM IHSIE ASYLUM Former Augustan, Who Killed Wife Last May and Was Adjudged In sane, Left Friday Night. NORFOLK, Va. —Eugene Feeble*, formerly of Augusta, Savannah and of Aiken, the man who murdered his wife in Norfolk last May, and was sent to the Eastern State hospital, Williamsburg, Va., after the Norfolk jury adjudged him Insane, escaped from the asylum Friday night. ATLANTAN WOULDIO ON MORSE'S BOND Faithful Wife of Former Ice King is Again in At lanta Working For Hus band’s Release. ATLANTA. A prominent capitalist of Atlanta has promised to sign the bond for Charles \Y. Morse, or put up the cash, if necessary, in the event the convicted banker and Ice-king can get out of the Atlanta Federal prison on ball. Mrs. Charles \Y. Morse, who is working indefatlgably for her hus band’s release, is in Atlanta’ *> *• in. registered at the Piedmont, and ac companied by the Indy tru< ; i w, who has been helping her In the office which she opened in New York. WHITE SLAVE CASE IN ATLANTA COURT Lillie Daniel, White Wo man, Before Recorder Charged With Trapping Two Girls in Decatur Street Resort. ATLANTA -Lillie Daniel, a white woman, will be tried Saturday by the city recorder in a "white slave” case growing out. of the alleged trapping of two little girls, 1 \ and 15 years of age respectively, Hattie Brooks and Beulah Tatnum by name, into a resort on Decatur street. The Brooks girl has a mother living at Red Oak, Ga. The other Is an orphan. AUTO IS SMASHED BY PASSENGER TRAIN Fort Valley Man, With Little Soil, Narrowly Es caped Death At Crossing MACON, Ga.—Frank Hardin, a prominent citizen of Fort Valley, nar rowly escaped death In front of a pas senger train on the Central railroad Thursday afternoon as he was on his way to Fort Valley in Illh automobile with his little son. The machine was struck on a crossing and smashed Just as father and non had time to jump to safety. The automobile was delay ed in getting over the crossing and the engine struck it as it rounded a curve. MR. DOOLEY ON ADVERTISING He Buys Magazines For the Ads They Contain “Well, sir,’’ HahJ Mr. Dooley, "I won der how much It costs to have a pome or a story printed In wan Iv these pop’lar magazines along with all th’ good advertisin'? I suppose It comes high. Th' fellows that runs thlm mag azines must, he grow In’ rich out lv th’ potes an' novelists. Hut I think they’re go In’ too far in their freed f’r gold. There must be a. limit to their avarice, f don’t abject, mind ye, to their rnakln’ a fair profit out lv their husinesH lv 'idjacatln' ’ people where to get th’ best breakfast food or th.’ most sparklin’ hair dye or what kind lv revolver to shoot themsllves with. That’s all right. Hut what I object to Is whin I pay 10 or 15 clnts f’r a magazine expectin' to spind me* avenln' improvin’ me mind with th’ latest thoughts in advertisin’ to find more thin a quarter Iv th’ whole book de vot'd to lithrachoor. "ft ain’t fair It's kind Iv a eon fldence game they play on their read ers. f don’t want thlm to be philan thropists, mind ye They've got to make a livin’. Hut there ought to be j some plaee lv stoppln’ half way. Th' first thing ye know there won’t be as many pages In advertisin' as there a.re lv lithrachoor. A man don’t want to dodge around through most Impen ethrable pomes an’ reform articles to Fight Spreading Rapidly Over Country. Hotels Cater to Meat Abstainers —More Vegetables Being Sold. Woodmen Join Fight. GOVERNMENT WILL PROBE BEEF TRUST. WASHINGTON. Proceedings will soon bo lnsfiluted by the department of justice against the so-called beef trust, with head quarters at. Chicago. Complaint of alleged operations of the trust in restraint of trade have been Investigated by the department. Sail probably will be brought under the Shernmn anti-trust law. ATLANTA, Ga. —Atlanta will join the boycott on high priced meats, which already embraces nine states of the union, and it is probable that or ganized labor unions here will send out special communications to labor federations throughout all Georgia, urging concerted action. President William Van Houten, of the Federation of Trades, and Jerome Jones, editor of The Journal of Labor, went Into conference yesterday after noon immediately upon receiving tele graphic dispatches telling of the na tional boycott. A special meeting of the thirty odd local lodges of the va rious labor unions will probably be held tonight and suitable resolutions passed, enrolling Atlanta with other great American cities In the crusade against high-priced food. The work ing classes of Georgia’s capital are vitally interested in the situation, and the meeting Saturday night will be a big affair. Sell More Vegetables. READING. —Farmers have reported an increased sale of vegetables in consequence of the moat boycott. W. of W. in Fight. LOUISVILLE. -Meat Is getting too high for members of the Woodmen of the World in Louisville, who adopted a resolution to refrain from eating moat .or a month. Hotels Help. PITTSBURG.—A new phase of the meat boycott enters into the situation here through the hotel men catering to meat abstainers. Chicago Abstains. CHICAGO. Organized labor has joined actively in the war on high prices of meat and other commodi ties. ATLANTA STREETS COVERED WITH SNOW ATLANTA, Ga. —Atlanta was in the whirling: grip of a real snow-storm Friday morning, when the flakoa fell no heavily that tlie roofs were clothed In white and the streets covered so deeply that the children were able to engage In snow-ball fights. The scene was ho unusual In the Georgia capi tal that many older citizens left their homes and offices, to patter around In the street, enjoying the strange occur rence, as If It. were a holiday. The flurry came quite unexpectedly, as the weather man had predicted a clear sky and moderate temperature. LIGHT SNOWFALL AT STILLMORE STILLMORE, Ga.- —Thor was a light snowfall recorded hero Friday about 3 p. m„ driven by a heavy northwest ern wind, with the wind changing to a northern direction, with a falling thermometer. Indications ara for freezing weather later. find a pair of susplnders or a shavin' soap. Another thing th’ magazines ought to be compelled to mark all lithrachoor plainly so that th’ reader can't he deceived. They ought to put two stars on th’ end lv It or mark It ‘Heading Mather’ or print a line at th* bottom: ’Persons answerin’ this poms are requested t o mention Nobody/ As It is now many lv these articles will fool nine men out lv ten. Ye pick up a magazine an’ ye see some thing that looks like an advertise ment It Is almost as well printed an’ h.usthrated. Only an expert cud tell th’ dlffrents at th’ first glance. Hut whin ye get to th’ end ye find to ye’re disgust that ye’ve been wastin’ ye’r time read in’ a work iv fiction. It's very annoyin’. “Still there are some magazines that respect th’ best thraditlons lv th’ pro fession. They keep lithrachoor in its proper bounds. It i. not allowed to encroach on th’ advertising space. Hoth are Tn their proper proportions— eight pages iv advertisin’ to wan lv lithrachoor. This Isn't bad, but I hope th time will come when there will he some publisher bold enough to pub lish a magazine entirely devoted to advertisin’. Still, I don’t know that (Continued on Market Page.)
