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MONDAY, JANUARY 12. THE CITY COURT BEGINS SESSION Many Pleas of Guilt This Morning. One Acquittal. Oscar Slade Tried on Charge Selling Cociane. Judge Eve began the criminal ses sion of the city court at 10 o'clock this morning. There werg a consid erable number of pleas of guilty. John Myers received SSO or six months for larceny front the house. Cbas. Thomas, alias Eli Eanham, was given eight months for being an escape. Moses Harden received eight months for simple larceny. Gilford Williams, alias Cock Robin, was given ten months for simple lar :eny. Paul Allen was given eight months lor vagrancy and sentence suspended. L. A. Cox, also charged with va grancy. pleaded guilty and was given a similar si|itence with a suspended sentence. John A. Watkins pleaded guilty to cheating and swindling and was given S4O or six months. Ed Harper was found not guilty of simple larceny. Albert Williams, charged with lar senrv from the house and malicious mischief, went on trial at 1 o’clock. The jury in the case against Oscar Slade, charged with selling cocaine, had not agreed at 2 o'clock p. nt. Worms The Cause of Your Child's Pains. \ foul, disagreeable breath, dark cir cles around the eyes, at times feverish, with great thirst; cheeks flushed and then pale, abdomen swollen with sharp cramping pains are all indications of worms. Don’t let your child suffer — Kickapoo Worm Killer will give sure relief—lt kills the worms—while Its laxative effect add greatly to the health of your child by removing the dangerous and disagreeable effect of worms and parasites from the system. Kickapoo Worm Killer as a health pro ducer should he In Vvery household. Perfectly safe. Huy a ho- today. Price 25c. All Druggists or by mail Kickapoo Indian Mod. Co. Phiia. or St. Louis. BUSINESS TRANSACTED IN ORDINARY’S COURT The following business was trans acted in the ordinary’s court this morning: The will of Mr. Matthew Rice was probated in solemn form. In the estate of J. J. McCarthy, let ters of dismission were granted to T. F. McCarthy, administrator. In the estate of Elizabeth Vandyke letters of dismission were granted to L. A. Vandyke, administrator. In the estate of D. B. Dyer, admin istrator was directed to make titles to Nellie G. Lawhorn. Wonderful Cough Remedy. Dr. King's New Discovery is known everywhere as the remedy which will eurely stop a cough or cold. D. P. Dawson of Eidjnon, Tenn., writes: "Dr. King’s New Discovery is the most wonderful cough, cold and throat and lung medicine, I ever sold in my store. It can t be beat. It sells without any trouble at ail. It needs no guarantee." This is true, because Dr. King’s New Discoyery will relieve the most ob stinate of coughs and colds. Lung troubles quickly helped 'by its use. You should keep a bottle in the house at all times for all the members of the family. 50c and SI.OO. All Drug gists or by mail. H. E. Bucklen \ Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. SAIER SIGNS WITH CUBS. Chicago.—Victor Saier, the Chicago National's first baseman, w r hose de fection to the Federal League has been rumored for a week, set doubt at rest today when his contract for three years,with the local team was received by President Murphy. IRE MORNING WITH THE RECORDER At 10.30 Saturday night there was a sensation on Broad street near Kol lock, when Moody Holmes, a negro, appeared round the corner flourishing a razor. He proceeded down the mid dle of the sidewalk slashing right and left as he went and cleared Augusta’s peaceful pedestrians out of his way as the wind scatters leaves. A serious panic was averted only hy the timely arrival of a policeman who, with the aid of a gun, forced the man to throw away his razor. He Is a quiet and sober enough citizen this morning, re members nothing, and refuses all com fort. He will have time to reflect on the nefarious effects of alcohol for sev eral weeks In the ennobling atmos phere of the Jail. Arrested While "Hunting for Her Children.’’ Melinda Holliday came before the recorder this morning on a charge of being drunk. When asked if she had violated the 6901 h section of the code, she hesitated and shifted to the other foot. The recorder: "Are you guilty or not guilty?” Melinda shifted back again and was much disconcerted. "Yes. sir, I'n guilty of being sort of In here.” she said, pointing to the officer who had arrested her (laughter.) ■’But, white folks, I declare I wasn’t drunk. He thought 1 was drunk, but I wasn’t. I was out huntin' for my children. He says: 'Move on den’. I sajs ’Wait till I find my chlllun,' and de nex' thing he had me in de Control Wagon, an«J here I Is.” The usual sentence of 13.00 or six days for drunk enness was. In her case, held over for Investigation. Another case of mis- FOR UPBUILDING OF AUGUSTA PLANS MOST CAREFULLY LAID % Difference Between New Methods Outlined and Past Per formances. Work is Contemnlated in Advance, Nothing Left to Chance. Success Surelv Ahead if Definate Plans Carried Out by the Organization. If there were any sceptics In Au gusta as to the ability of the M. & M. Association to build a greater Au gusta through tho new methods out lined and formulated hv the McKeand workers, all were converted yesterday when the scheme was outlined in the papers. The difference between this and past performances of the kind is that this is builded properly. Nothing Is left to chance or opportunity. The old organization seldom had any defi nite policy that was concrete. All was vague and left to chance. The work wag performed as it came .up. Now the work is laid out in ad vance. Each day each employe, offi cer, committeeman and member knows exactly what is expected of him. The whole scheme is co-ordinated and all parts fit together Into a definite whole, making an organization that is bound to succeed if there is anything be hind it. Old Story of Advertised Goods. In the case of the M. & M. Associa tion, Augusta is behind it. It is the old story of advertised goods. If the product is right the advertisement need only to get the people to give it one trial to ensure the ultimate suc cess. So if we can get the people of the country to look into Augusta ev eryone of us knows that its attract iveness from various viewpoints will make it an easy ‘'seller.” One old-timer in public service, a man who has been identified with ev ery movement of this kind that Au gusta has begun within the last gen eration stated yesterday that now for the first time he began to understand why success had not before been real • ized. “We meant well,” he said, "and R. J. HOME COMPANY ALLEGED BANKRUPTS Petition Filed in Office of U. S. Commissioner Skinner This A. M. Petition Also Against Keysville Merchants. An involuntary petition In bank ruptcy was filed this morning at 10:25 o'clock in the ofifee of IT. S. 'Commissioner C. J. Skinner. Jr., against R. J. Horne Company, of this city, by Attorney P. C. O’Gorman or the Carter White Lead Co., Standard Oil Company and Palstergon Wall Pa per Company, creditors, alleging un paid debts of SI,OOO or more, and also that the R. J. Horne Company is guil ty of an act of bankruptcy. A schedule in the matter will prob ably he tiled in a few days. An involuntary petition in bankrupt, cy was filed in the office of Commis sioner Skinner Saturday night at 9:45 o’clock Adkins Bros., mer chants of Keysville, Ga. The credit ors in this matter are W. B. Brigham & Son, R. ,T. Bates & Co., and Smith Bros., all wholesale grocery houses of Augusta. RESIDENCE IS ROBBED OF CLOTHES SATURDAY NIGHT Henry Roberts, living at 512 Sibley Street, Saturday night reported to the police that his house had been en tered by burglars and a suit of clothes, and a brown vest had been stolen The parties, it Is understood, gained an entrance to the house through a window. The detectives are working on the case but as yet have made no arrtsts. understanding was when John Mack came up for being drunk and cursing. Lula Brown, a witness, was asked: "And Lula, you say he was cussln’?” She replied quickly: “No, sir, he’s my brother-in-law.” Two young negroes, aged 14 and 15, were each sentenced to one hundred dollars or ninety days for throwing a brick into a church and hitting one of the congregation. The brick was aim ed at a colleague who, when hotly per sued, had sought Sanctuary. one of the boys had also been flourishing an old pistol which he claimed to have found. The mother ot one of the boys was in court and pleaded eloquently from the hack of the room, but only succeeded in extracting a promise of Investigation and possible remittance on good conduct. Walter Berry, colored, will also serve ninety days for wife-beating, which, it appears, he has indulged in freely during the post two yearse. From his expression as he left the court, we should like to recommend to his wile to the "out of town” ninety-one days from today. A leal transfer company will be held responsible for damages to a buggy which was run into and almost de stroyed Saturday by one of their driv ers with a big cotton wagon. The driver was sentenced to pay ten dollars or serve twenty days on the chaingang. An Incident of the case which brought out a smile was when one of the wit nesses had occasion to say. discredit ing the testimony of another cotton I driven for the defense, “Why Judge, [them two cotton wagons was at least a hundred feet in front of each other!” tried'to do but did not have the ad vantage of experience and trained di rection. After looking over the scheme and diagram published this morning 1 am convinced that a definite plan carried out by an organization such us this seems to be will bring success if anything cam No Lack of Faith. "There is no lack of faitli in Au gusta. We all believe in it and al ways have had, else we would no; have so repeatedly tried. I doubt if any city ever had more unselfish de votion than has been shown in pre vious commercial organizations here in Augusta. Time of the most valu able sort has been given by our busi est men and money has been forth coming in generous volume and I am one of those who proclaim that it has not been wasted. We have 1 had to learn, as other cities have, and now we seem to be on the eve of getting aJiead properly.” And this sentiment is manifest all over Augusta. The live wires in tho M. & M. Association have the faith of the people behind them and under the trained men now here are getting the support they deserve. The week-end will see one feature of the work completed. It is believed ttiat the funds necessary to finance the organization for three years will have been pledged before the cam paign is over. Augusta is just the same as other cities. It has all the elements of growth in it if only the proper culti vation is needed. And now- under the M. & M. Association this cultivation is assured. Success Is most probable because it is being sought properly and determinedly. 01MIGBIBT BACK Oil JOB Mexico City.—Nelson O’Shaughnes sy. American charge d'afaires reach ed the federal capital from Vera Cruz early today. He suffered no incon venience by his fifteen-hour wait at Orizaba while the track was cleared after a freight train has been burned. Rebels Mutinied. Vera Cruz.—Today’s reports show that the cutting "of the Mexican Rail way between Esperanza and Maltrata on the line from Vera Cruz to the capital during the night of January 10th, was not done by rebels but by part of a battalion of regular troops garrisoning Orizaba. The troops mu tinied and some of them atacked a freight train from which they obtain ed a quantity of provisions and other supplies. They fled to the mountains after burning the freight train. ANNUAL MEETING OE MEMBERS OE Y.M.C.A. The members of the local Y. M. C. A. will meet in annual session at the association building at 6 o’clock Tues day afternoon. The hoard of direc tors for the year will he chosen. Re ports in the various departments will be submitted. Immediately after the members’ meeting adjourns the new hoard of directors will convene and elect of ficers for the year. It Is understood that there will be a few changes made In the board and that the number of members on the board will he increased. The corps of officers will remain about the same, according to unofficial reports. The directors will be served a sup per by the Ladies’ Auxiliary in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. immediate ly after the business meeting. This lather really soothes your face WHEN you use Shaving Stick there are no tense, smarting after-effects, no annoying shaving rashes to fear. That is because its creamy lather is full of the same soothing, healing, antiseptic balsams that make Resinol Ointment and Res inol Soap, so effective in the treatment of skin affections. 25c. *t must druggists, or mailed on receipt of price. For trial size stick free, writs to Dept. 21-S, Retinol, Baltimore, Md. Resinol Shaving me AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA. Daysey Mayme And Her Folks The woman never lived who put us much faith in her husband as she put in the holding qualities of a step ladder. With a pail of hot soapy suds In one hand, a scrubbing brush In the other, and a grim determination to conquer a fleck of dust on the picture moulding, she will climb* to the top steps of a ladder us wabbly and in firm and treacherous as the more talked of ladder by which one reaches social distinction or fame. Neither did any woman ever own a step-ladder that hadn't the spread ing qualities of a hen. A step-ladder belonging to a man has a greater sta bility than its owner; one belonging to a woman shows Its utter disregard of her by falling opart the day after she buys it. Neither does any woman ever own a step-ladder If there lives a neigh bor within ten blocks who has nnk to lend. Mrs. Lysnnder John Appleton has kept house thirty years and never owned a step-ladder; she always bor rows from her Most Intimate Friend. As a result of the blind faith every woman puts in a step-ladder, Mrs. Appleton h«s brought suit against her Most Intimate Friend for $50,000 dam ages. With her arms and legs done in piaster casts, and a bandage tied across one eye. giving her the appear ance of winking the other, she re lates the following grounds for com plaint: "For thirty year* I have borrowed a step-ladder from my Most Intimate Friend, and though 1 broke it the first time I borrowed It, she lias never Apol ogized to me for having such a poor ladder to lend. "It was so rickety when I borrowed It last spring that I had to hold on with both hands and wash the win dows with my feet. I have had to use It six years upside down, and last month when I borrowed It to stand on to reach rny preserves I found the only way I could climb it was by balancing myself on rny head. I have had to become a contortionist; I have lie-n " • . NEW =YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY 346 BROADWAY, NEW YORK SIXTY-NINTH YEAR TO THE POLICY-HOLDERS: Our sixty-ninth was, in some respects, our greatest year, Some of the notable facts are these: New Business (109,763 Policies) $232,800,000.00 Gain over 1912! 34,000,000.00 Rieka in force Jan. 1, 1914(1,101,655 Policies) 2,273,000,000.00 Gain over Jan. 1, 1913 103,000,000.00 Dividends allotted (1914) 17,600,000.00 Increase over 1913 2.200,000.00 Income 124,000,000.00 Disposition of Income: Death claims 26,000,000 Matured Endowments, Surrender Value, etc 25,000.000 Dividends 15,000,000 Expenses, etc., including Taxes ($1,352,956) 15,000,000 Added to Reserves 43,000.000 $124,000,000.00 THE INVESTMENTS OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE OF LOANS ON POLICIES) WERE $41,740,459.14 INVESTED TO PAY 5.07% As followi: Domestic and Canadian, State and Municipal Bonds $8,421,095.17 INVESTED TO PAY 4.78', Representing thirty-four cities, ten counties and five school districts, located in twenty-two States, and two Provinces. Foreign State and Municipal Bonds 7,149,471.41 INVESTED TO PAY 4.40% Representing eleven oOuntries. Railroad Bonds 9,856,651.23 INVESTED TO PAY 5' Loans on Business Properly 15,189,078.66 INVESTED TO PAY 5.58% Loans on Farms (New Department) 920,885.17 INVESTED TO PAY 5.50% Miscellaneous Bonds 203,277.50 INVESTED TO PAY 4.88% ANALYSIS AND EARNING POWER OF LEDGER ASSETS ON DECEMBER 31. 1913: Railroad Bonds (4.27%) $311,949,214.47 Foreign Government and Municipal Bonds (4.19%) / 83,022,625.44 Policy Loans (5%f) 133,507,619.52 Premium Notes '(5% +). . 4,598,039.71 Mortgage Loans, including Farm Mortgages (4.97%) 152,970,898.44 State and Municipal Bonds (4.04',) 53,177,784.79 Miscellaneous Bonds (6.67' I ) 7,003,132.23 Stock (Received from Reorganizations) 284,046.88 Real Estat, Owned (4.36%) 9,196,586.10 Cash (2.50%) 7,140,755.82 TOTAL $762,850,703.40 AVERAGE EARNING POWER OF ALL ASSETS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1913: 4.54' u INCREASE IN EARNING POWER SINCE DECEMBER 31, 1905: 0,32 TRANSLATED into income, this increase, if maintained, will yield an added income, in 1914 and annually thereafter, of $2,441,000.00 LIABILITIES: Reserve to cover contract obligations $642,598,782.00 Other reserves (taking securities at Market Values) 105,898,958.00 . $748,497,740.00 The low price of bonds and the high rate obtainable on real estate mortgagee made the year a good one for investment. The wording of the Federal Income Tax was materially improved and polioy-holdere generally bene fited by the intelligent responso to our letter to policy-holders, sent out lait April. The united protest of policy-holders against unfair legislation is something that all legislatures, Federal and Stata, will have to reckon with in the future. A statement consiating of 168 folio pagaa, giving in minute detail the transactions of the year, schedules of the Company's assets, and a vast deal of additional information, will be filed with the department of Com merce in Washington, with the Government of each State (except one) of the United States, and with the Governments of all the leading Countries of the world. A brief of this, containing important details, will be sent to policy-holders during 1914, and will be mailed to any one oa request. January 8, 1914. DARWIN P. KINGSLEY, President. deluged with jam and hot Burls, and hove been the target of diMhpans and bars of soap and scrubbing brushes thrown tit me by the top round; but I remembered thut Friendship is a Priceless Pearl, and never complained. "Yesterday, when I was on the top round, the ladder spread without pre liminary warning and landed me in a Jar of apple butter. Then I deter mined to tiring suit for damages, and I have decided further than that—un less this woman gets a new step ladder to lend, we will drive her from the neighborhood.” At The Grand “Officer 666.” That the tastes of the large army of amusement seekers In America arc leaning more and more toward plays of a farcical nature, is the belief of nearly every firm of theatrical pro ducers. The public wants tp be amus ed rather than Instructed, Is the way they figure the situation, and the pres ent season would seem to bear out this assertion. Take the hits of the New York state during the past sea son. Ninety per cent of them were musical farces, comedy dramas, straight farces or musical plays, all constructed with the one Idea—to cre ate laughter. "If you have a play that has good comedy lines and sltuHtlons," they any to would-be authors, “let us read It If It contains bright lines—ls tt has speed and action If It Is dean. In short, If It has a punch In It we will produce It for you.” In “Officer 866,” which will he pre sented here at the Grand Wednesday, matinee and evening, Is found a farce that contains all these desirable at tributes. It was written by Augsetin Mac Hugh, an author heretofore in known to fame ns a playwright. Tha!, however, need not count against Mr. Mac Hugh. A man need not be the author es » long string of hits to l,s able to produce one more. It's the first one that counts. After that he may add to his string as fast as he Is able to turn them out. Get them pro duced, too, If he first write* one suc cess. "Officer 686” Is an odd title. The title of the play constitutes fifty per cent of Its attractiveness. One of the first problems that. Geo. M. flohan seeks to solve when he has a play idea Is an attractive title, and few men In this branch of human endeav or tiave been more successful In their selections than has this famous young author. Beats now selling. Society THE FLOWER TOUCH. The big velvet flower* of the mo ment are charming when they give Just the requisite touch of vividness to a gown which is subdued In tint, but when you begin to place them «t the waistband or on the corsage of m frock that Is a decided shade you must use discretion In your choice of a bar motilslng color, for you can spoil the Whole effect of your toilette hy this one Jarring note. Most of these flow era are fashioned In velvet and are of the r>se, dahlia, or Iris variety, snd the dahlia in black with gleaming rhinestone center Is perhaps the most effective of all, TO STIMULATE SOUTHERN GENIUS. The Dixie Club of New York, presi dent. Mrs. Henry Pearson, Is a club composed of Southern women living In New York and It has for Its ob ject the preservation of the traditions of the Mouth, Its hospitality, Its music, art and literature. In order to foster literary talent In the Mouth, and to help it to find ex pression, the Dixie t'lub Offers a pre mium of SIOO for the best e* my on "The Woman of New Mouth,” written hy a Mouthern woman. The following conditions will con trol the competition; The essay must be 3,000 words long, but must not exceed this length. It must bu typewritten, urni bo written > on one side of the paper only. A fictitious name must he signed to the essay, with the writer’s real nans In a sealed envelope accompanying It. No essay will bo returned unless stamps for the purpose are returned with It. The winning essay will become th* property of the Dixie Club. The Judges will be three eminent literary men end women of New York selected by the committee having the competition In charge. The competition closes on the first day of March, 11)14, and the reading of the winning essay ha made the feature of the annual breakfast at Delmonlco's of the Dixie (Hub In May. All contributions must be addressed to Dixie Literary Contest, 440 River side Drive, New York City. Mrs. O. O. Gilmer, Mrs. A. M. An derson, Mrs. O. D. Batchelor, commit lee. DAY IN CONGRESS Senate. Met at noon. Henator Ashhurst introduced a res olution for a congressional investiga tion of the Michigan copper strike. Houss. Met at noon. Republican Leader Mann absent be cause of a slight Illness. Representative Nolan of California Introduced a bill to pay a minimum wage of $3 a day to every federal civil service employe. Representative l-Vmtar of Illinois In troduced a bill providing for the res ervation of rights to mine radium hearing ores on all public lands and development through the interior de partment. Representative McCoy of New Jer sey Introduced u hill prohibiting inter locking directorates In federal hank* and financial Institutions. Various member* presented a flood of petitions urging congressional In vestigation* of conditions in ths Mich igan copper field and the Colorado con) strike district. • **■* mtt i. FIVE