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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.
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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
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