The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19??, April 21, 1911, Image 2
MR. B. W. HUNT
ON RABIES.
Mr. Hnnl Whose Experence In-
Both America and Europe and
Has Seen Rabies In Men and
Dogs Replies to The Macon
Telegraph ol April 10.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
Regarding “Mad Dog Scare” in
yours of April 10, I feel that some
reply is necessary on the part of a
Southern resident, who has observed
rabies in both dogs and men, and
whose personal experience includes
America and Europe.
That no rabies exist in England is
likely, true, but if so it is because
of the exceeding care and precaution
now taken. Acquaintances of the
writer were bitten by mad dogs in
the city of London, and others in
the rural sheep-raising section near
the northern border some years ago.
These men from England were ac
tually taking the treatment at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris when the
writer was a patient therein. One
of these men was sent at the expense
of the city of London.
If I were to ask every physican
in Georgia if he had ever seen a case
. of bubonic plague, or of sleeping
sickness, he would answer no. I
could then print the statement that
the scare of these diseases was the
cause of death and not the disease
themselves. Such a statement is
misleading and calculated to do in
calculable harm. The Northern
physicans that I have personally in
terviewed have never seen a case of
rabies,not because it is non-existent,
but for the reason of its rarity in
their location. In civilized centers
like Pari| and New York, where
wandering dogs are unknown, an
epidemic of rabies is impossible,
with us in the rural South where
the poorer the occupant of a cabin
the more dogs are found, and they,
unrestrained id their wanderings'
the case is quite reverse^*. Onb rab^
ic dog here usually spreads the dis
ease for miles. The club of which
I am a member in New York has the
cattle imported from the Island of
Jersery tuberculine tested. Not a
case of tuberculosis has ever been
found on the Island of Jersey. Shall
I say that liovine tuberculosis is a
“scare disease” and not a reality?
Such reasoning would correspond
with the article to which I object.
In Georgia many Jersey cows haye
been tuberculine tested, reacted,
been slaughtered and the actual tu
bercular deposit found in the car
casses. 1 have personally sent many
dogs and cats from Putnam county,
that a portion of the suspect’s brain
might be injected in
to rabbits to prove whether or not
the suspect was truly suffering from
rabies. This test is the only sure
one known. Generally the result,
of the injection sustains the scienti
fic observer’s diagnosis. Many of
the suspecG prove hydrophobic.
Enough are found truly rabid, not
to cause a scare, but to prevent any
unnecessary alarm by taking a pre
ventive treatment originated by
Pasteur.
Those who deny the existence of
rabies think they have the argu
ment on their side, becauie only
a few people or animals bitten by
rabid dogs develop the disease, and
those who die await weeks or
months of incubation. Only a few
persons of the many bitten die from
the strike of a rattlesnake, but those
Tha 8oft Answer.
Two men were occupying a double
eeat in a crowded car. One of them
was a long distance whistler and the
.... ...... ... « uutmusu othpr was evidently annoyed. “You
>vho die expire promptly, and there ' t seein t0 llke “Y whistling?” said
. ....... .• 1 . . the noisy one after a five minute eon-
is no possibility of denying the
cause of their death, hence we as
yet are saved the denial of the ex
istence of rattlesnake venom.
There is a school of thought that
petitions the English parliament
and the legislatures of the states to
enact laws to prevent the inocula
tion of variola, which discovery of
Jenner has doubtless saved the lives
of millions. The same spirit is be
hind the opposition to the accept
ance of the scientific recognition of
rabies.
1 ask space to answer the article
in your paper, not to champion any
side to a controversy but because
valuable lives are lost every year
through disbelief .in hydrophobia,
or from ignorance of the proper
preventive treatment.
The loss of life and property from
want of exercise of good judgment
is a frightful burden to society. My
advice to any one bitten by ani
mal suspected to be rabic is to im
mediately consult the physician,
who upon application to the State
Board of health, will obtain the
serum free of charge for only effec
tive preventive treatm ent of this
dread disease.
Benj. W. Hunt.
Eatonton, Ga., April 14.
99-YEAR LEASE ON
GOVERNOR’S MANSION
Favored by Committee. $1,628,-
000 Will be Slates Receipts lrom
Property
The legislative committee ap
pointed to consider proposals of
the present executive mansion, at
a meeting held last Friday de
cided unanimously to make fa
vorable report on the bid of B
M. Grant & Co., an Atlanta real
estate firm, which offers for a
99-year lease of the property,
$12,000 for the first five years,
$15,000 for the next ten years,
$18,000 for the ten years after that
$22,000 for each year remaining
of the lease period.
The committee gaye out a state
ment in which it said that the
highest cash bid for the property
was $851,000, or more than $2,500
per front foot.
Another lease proposition was
received at a higher figure, but
as it contained an option to buy
the property at $401,100, plus
$5,000 for each year elapsing be
fore the option is exercised, the
committee turned it down.
The committee declined to give
out other bids or the names of
the bidders.
No satisfactory proposal as to
a site for a new mansion or for
an annex to the state Capitol was
received. The proposal
accepted for the lease of the
mansion provides that there shall
be no taxes collected on the pro
perty, through which the state
wilHose $2,000 or more a year,as
the property increases in value.
It will net the state, if accepted
by the Legislature, for the ; first
five years just 3.4 per cent, of
the present value; in the next
ten years 4.2 per cent., then 5.1
and 6.2 respectively of the pre
sent value for the remainder of
the lease. The reason a lease
proposal was favored by the com
mittee is to prevent the money
from going into the public pro
perty fund, where it could be
only ir. the payment of the public
debt.
T«nnyw>n'B Tactlo*«ne»».
Bovoral stories are told of Tenny
son’s thoughtless speeches. "What
<teh Is this?” he once asked fils hostess
where he was dining. "Whiting," she
replied. "The meanest fish there Is,”
he remarked, quite unconscious that be
rould have wounded any one’s feel
ings.
Yet his kindness of heart was such
that when his partridge was afterward
given him almost raw he ate steadily
through It for fear his hostess might
be vexed.
On one occasion Tennyson was v«®
rude to Mrs. Brotherton, a neighbors!
Freshwater. The next day he came to
her house with a great cabbage under
each arm.
"I heard you like these, so 1 brought
them,” he said genlaly. It was his idea
of a peace offering.
Women's Time Schedules.
Few women speak of a train starting
slightly off the even hour, as the 3:03
train, for example, or the 3:12. “Three"
wlU do. It bothers a man a hoap t«
go hunting for a 3 o’clock train by
feminine directions when it Is a 8:12
train. For some women "3" will do
for the 2:54 train; It’s near enough.
Then the man following feminine dl
rectlons, unless he is on his guard
against these pitfalls, Is lost Prob
ably If It weren’t for his business train
lng, which teaches a man that 3:02 la
not 3, not 3:01, not 3:01%, not 3:01%,
but 8.02, he’d be better natured about
women's time schedules.—Boston Post
the noisy one after a five minute con
tlnnous performance. “No, 1 don’t,"
waa the frank reply. “Well," contin
ued the’Other,..J'maybe. you think you
are' man .enough io stop it?" “No. I
don’t think T <rin," rejoined the other,
“but 1 hope you are.” And the whist
ling wa^ discontinued.—Argonaut
Tax-NptAce, 2nd Round.
I wi|( the following named
places, on data's designated, for the
purpose of receiving tax returns:
Spence court house April 24,a. m.
Pope’s store. April 24, p. m.
Merritt’s store April 25, a. m.
Shivers store April 25, p. m.
Rigsby’s store April 26, a. m.
Pine Park April 27.
Duncanville April 28 and 29. ■
Ragan court house May 1, a< m.
Reno May 1, p. m.
“Millie” Rehberg’s May 1, night.
Calvary, Carr & Elarbee’s store,
May 2.
Whigbam court house May 3.
Spring Hill court house May 4.
Lime Sink court house May 5, a,
m.
Coker’8 store May 5, p. m.
Blowing Cave court house May 8.
Cairo May 9 to 12.
Please bear in mind that you can
give in your piuperty anywhere you
see me, also that everybody can’t
be waited on the same day. So
please take advantage of the rounds.
Respectfully,
J. W. Cannon,
R. T. R.'G. C.
Judge C. B. -Conyers has sent
about twenty cases from the super
ior court to the Brunswick city court
for trial. Practically all were in
dictment for violation of the pro
hibition law.
Clean
Hats are
Essential to
good health and
keeps dandruff
out of the hair
and keeps the
hair alive.
Pannamas, Straws and
Soft hats cleaned,
blocked and re
handed at rea
sonable
prices
Out of town orders giv
en prompi attention.
R. W. Ponder
Phone 81.
Give in your city taxes. The book
are now open. B. M. Johnson,
39 tf Cleark and Treasurer.
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And the coming of Spring brings the detestable,
filthy, germ-soaked fly. Screen your home against
these invaders, who are armored with disease and
death. We have just received a large shipment
of screen doors and windows.
We have also received a car
of SASH and DOORS.
Come into see us and let us show. Our prices
are right and we’ll certainly please you.
Remember we handle lime and cement also in
carload lots.
Yours to Please,
Wight Hardware Co.
CAIRO, GA.
Attractive
Bugg ies, that the prices and long-
wearing Qualities make more
Attractive
How many times have you accepted the deal
ers word about a so-called “Best-Made” buggy
to find that after a few months running it was
absolutely NO GOOD?
And you PAID good money for them too.
We deal in Buggies that are in strict keeping with the
words ALL RIGHT and it is NOT neccessary for us
to misrepresent them. In other words our buggies are
GOOD ONES and you needn’t take our word for it.
We’ll sell you wagons, harness, fertilizer and feed
stuffs too, if you’ll consider meritable values.
W. G. Baggett & Son,
\ Cairo, Reno, Cranford, Calvary.
NYAL’s SPRING' SARSAPARILIA
For the Blood And Skin
It is better by far than most so-called
remedies. It’s better for the simple reason that
it performs it’s work.
It’s the most powerful remedy on the
market,
100 Doses $1.00
Wight & Browne,
Leading Druggists.
Are Your Clothes Used For ’
DOG BEDS?
Did you ever have an occasion to “follow your clothes” to
the pressing? If you should have an occasion to do so at an
expected hour/you'll find that the “‘nig’pres’n clubz” are
no respecter of persons, in. their filth-reeking dives, and you
likely to find some big dirty buck (or. a dog perhaps) at calm
repose on your best suit. You’ll find nothing of this sort at
our shop, eyery thing is clean, sanitary/»nd your clothes will
found hanging on clothes trees.
it’s SfSn?he^n<f FE * Patrpnize a white man, because
Phone 81 CITY PRESSING CLUB Cairo, Ga.
FANS fit YES! our line of Advertising " Fans
■“ here » that is, part of them. The pri<
makes them doubly attractive. Progre
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