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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
VOL XXII.
makers of the
HOFFMAN
BICYCLE, which is reinforc-
ed with rian.nlar tubing
throughout .the whole
length ot the round tub
ing. making it the strong
est Bicycle in the world.
For sale by
W. D. Alexander,
39 N. Pryor st., Atlanta, Ga.
PARKER’S CINCER TONIC
abates Lung Troubles, Debility, distressing ttomaeix and
female ills, and is noted tor making mres when all other
treatment fails. Everv mother and irva’id should have it.
PARKER’S
iJM HAIR BALSAM
Jgjg Cleanses and beautifies the hair,
tapl promotes a luxuriant growth.
== Never Fail® to Eestore Gray
1 Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures sea p disease* ft hair falling.
JOc,and jtl-Qii at Druggists 1
HINDERCORNS Theonlyimr.Oor.fcr
Corns. Stops all pain. Makes walking easy. 15c, at Druggist*.
FuN^gs
«ptAKING
f and health making
Yfflf are included in the
HklUW' making of HIRES
w! Wn Rootbeer. The prepa
\j§W ration of this great tem
perance drink is an event
a Hi °f importance in a million
iMj well regulated homes.
1 HIRES
jCfiM Rootbeer
jB 1 ' al is fell of good health.
■<'! MV Invigorating, appetiz-
P| is! ing, satisfying. Put
IH some up to-day and
If! |j : || p have it ready to put
f!J down whenever you're
i jjjiiri L Made only by The
IMiKU Charles E. Hires Co.,
iIM ' H Philadelphia, A pack-
a K e makes 5 gallons.
Sold everywhere.
l?CP V of Kmk: l>j V«?
1 "When 1 rfin y ” ir
A treatment 3 mo*. ago ( was so f \ If
•zhaasted by ailments that I could to t Betore. After. Low.
do any work. The accompanying fig*,V\ eight 3» lb* 195 ih* 50 lbs
ores show the result of 3 months' treat-Bust 46 in. 3? .n. 11 in.
meat I now feel like a new being. Ills! Waist... 40 In. « n. 11 n.
and pains are all gone. My friends are)Hips .... 5' In. 48 In. 9 in.
surprised. Will cheerfully reply to in-jiiiries with stamp inclose^”
PATIENTS TREATED BY MAIL CONFIDENTIAL.
Harmless. No Starring. Send 6 cents hi stamps for particulars to
DR. 0. W. F. SRIDER. M VICKtR S THEATER. 6HICKO. ILL.
Bis. Geo. & Edw, TI GEER,
ISENTIMTS'
Grant B’ld’g, Corner Broad and Marietta
streets, Atlanta, Ga.
Will be in ttcir office at McDonough, Ga..
from the 21st a. nt. till the last ol each
month.
G. I». CA«PBKI.I,
DENTIST.
McDonoi oh Ga.
Any one desiring work done can be ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
JT BLUEST 11. SMITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Business promptly attended to.
Loans negotiated on real estate at rea
sonable rates.
Office up stairs in Stewart building.
p .1. KKACJAU,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
Othercollcctions. Will attend all the Courts
At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
-yy A. HKOHM
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
yUUI»ERSOU A STErIDEAS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Office over Star Store, south side square j
A 1 business carefully and promptly at- j
tended to
tMT Am prepared to negotiate loans on ;
real estate. Terms easy.
yyn. t. mcKin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court I
of Georgia and the United States District
Oannt apr27-ly
Wanted-An Idea 2SES
Protect your Idea*: thsv may bring you wraith.
Writ* JOHN WEDDERIitRN ft CO., Patent Attor
ney*, Waablnffton, D. c.. for their (1,800 prlaa offer
(M Uh ot two hußdrsd lu eotloos wssisd. _ .
An Insurance War.
There is a contest going on in Geor
gia just now which deeply concerns the
public generally and yet the people are
n< t paying much utteuti >n to it. It is
a war between what are termed the old
line fire insurance companies and what
are known as Georgia inutua's, the lat
ler beiug companies recoutly formed by
parties in the State to write fire iusur
auce on a mutual plan; or the plan of
the well knowu Southern Mutual of
Athens, which stands to the head of
the list of American insurance compan
ies as to safety and cheapness.
The old line companies are almost
without exception located in other
States and foreign countries They te
long to a combination kuown as the
Southeastern Tariff Association, and
for many years they have bad a clever
field in Georgia, and by reason of the
combination between them have fixed
the rates of insurance at whatever they
saw fit, there being practically no com
petition to check them. When the
mutual companies came into existence
a fow years since these old line compan
ies saw at once that they were threat
ened with a loss of the mouopoly they
bad so long enjoyed and at once de
clared war which is now being waged
fiercely and releutlessly, and. we might
add, to a great extent unfairly.
Rcrders of the daily parers have no
ticed for the past few weeks many ar
ticles on the subject of insurance in all
of which sureptitious attacks have been
made upon the Georgia companies-
Several cards have appeared from the
Comptroller Geueral of the State, who
is also insurance commissioner for
Georgia, in which it is made to appear
that the Georgia companies, by not be
iug required to conform to the laws
governing companies located elsewhere
doing business in the State, are not
having such safe guards placed on them
as the people expect them to have.
Ihe publication of all this matter is
beiug paid for by the old line mono
polistic compauii s, a fact the people
should kuow aud bear in miud when
reading these articles. They are at
tacks made on the Georgia companies
with a view of scaring patronage from
them.
VVith these facts in view the/people
of the State will readily see how much
they are concerned in the war being
waged. All who have been carryrg
insurance know how arbitrary the
mouopoly existing between the old line
companies Las been; how exhorbitant
the rates in almost all instances, and
how they have thus been oppressed be
cause of the absence of formidable com
petition. In most localities they are
beginning to see wbat changes have
been brought about by the formation
of the Geoigia Mutual companies.
This is the monetary interest the pub
lic generally has in the war. Besides
the State pride in wanting to see home
institutions successful should be and is
aroused.
Some weeks since an article appear
ed in these columns showing that there
is an amazingly large difference be
tween the amounts that go out of Geor
gia for insurance and that returned in
lossages. Those figures covered both
life and fire insurance. It can be safe
ly said that half of those figures be
longed to fire insurance. The figures
referred to show that the premiums
paid amount to about four and a half
millions of dollars while there are re
turned to the State one and three
quarter millions, thus showing a drain
age of two and three quarter million
dollars, or that much profit to foreign
companies doing business in Georgia-
Allow half of this for fire insurance
and we have in the neighborhood of a
million and half dollars contributed by
the property owners of Georgia to the
pockets of foreign concerns. Patron
age of the Georgia mutual companies
will not only keep this money in the
State, but, by the plaus on which these
companies are conducted it will be ac
tuallv returned to the pockets of the
patrons of these companies, they divid
ing the profits after paying the actual
expenses with their policy holders.
Are these facts not sufficient to throw
the sentiment of every citizen of the
State with the Georgia companies?
True these compatri a cannot make
as big figured showiDgs as the old line
| companies. They are all young as yet
and have not had opportunity to pile
l up as long rows of figures in their re
ports aB can the old line companies
| which have for years been extorting
high rates from their Georgia patrons.
But that does not in the least augur
that they are not safe. Almost with
out exception they are planned after
the Southern Mutual of Athens, which
we all know to he one of the safest
companies in the world. With honest
management and the patronage they
deserve from the people of Georgia
McDonough, ga.. Friday aim, t<>, ihot-
there is no reason why they should
not off'-r as good guarantees against
lossage as any companies. Being Geor
gia concerns, the laws of the State do
not make the same requirements as are
made of foreign concerns. The fact
! that they and their managements are
I directly amenable to the laws of the
State makes the enforcement of the
special laws for the foreign companies
unnecessary, and there is no reason why
there should be any distrust of them as
the oid companies are arduously trying
to create.
'lbis article is by no means aud ad
veitisrment of the Georgia Mutual
companies. We publish it as a matter
of justice to Georgia enterprises and to
warn the people against being misled
against their own interests by the war
fare that is going on between them and
one of the largest aud most exacting
monopolies in existence today. The
press of the State and the people
should take decided stands in the con
test, of course on the side of the local
companies. As we say, both their
mouetary interests and their State
pride should impel them to do so. If
they will the Georgia mutuals will
whip the fight and, with proper patron
age, will afford the people of the State
absolutely safe insurance at a cost
greatly reduced from what they have
been paying. And the outward flow
of a large stream of our money will be
stopped.—Ogethorpe Echo*
No mystery abont it. When the
Shakers offered some time ago to give
away a bottle of their Digestive Cor
dial to any one who might call at their
New York office, there was a great
rush and a great many people thought
they were crazy.
Subsequent events proved it to have
been a very clever advertising transac
tion, for altbough they gave away
thousands of bottles, it was in the end
profitable; nearly every one that took
a free bottle came back for more aud
paid for it with pleasure, saymg they
had derived better results from its use
than from auy other medicine they had
ever used.
There is nothing so uniformly iuc
cessful in the treatment of stomach
troubles as the Shaker Digestive Cor
dial, and what is better than all, it re
lieves at once.
Laxol, the new form of Castor Oil
is so palatable that children lick the
spoon clean.
They Will Never be Forgotten.
In denouncing Senator Morgan as
“one of the small class whose chief ar
ticle of political faith is distrust of
everything English,’’ our contemporary
the independent, makes the extraordi
nary discovery that “the vast body of
Americans believe that the wars of
1770 and 1812 or over, and that it is
time they were forgotten.”
This, we suppose, may be accepted
as one of thesocalled “new patriotism.’’
The wars of 1776 and 1812 will never
be forgotti n while the shaft ou Bun
ker Hill stands, nor, after that crum
bles, so long as the Declaration of In
dependence exists in history or the
memory of Washington remains in
mankind.
Bo far from its being trne that the
vast body of Americans wish to forget
our two wars with England, there has
been a distinct revival of organized
measures to perpetrate their memories.
The various societies of descendants of
the Revolutionary patriots, sociiies not
only of sods but even daughters, attest
this fact. Year after year statues of a
Stark or a Herkimer are set up, and
shafts raised on a Concord or a Mon
mouth battlefield, duly the other day
it was proposed in congress thus to
commemorate the victims of the British
prison ships. And we are not less
mindful of Perry and Lawrence and
Hull.
So long as America exists, neither
the wars of 1776 and 1812 tor the les
sons they have for us will be forgotten.
—N. Y. Sun.
A woman, Mrs. Murphey, and hus
band was turned out of a house in New
! York City last week. Her husband
had been unable to obtain work. Mrs.
Murphey walked the streets unable to
get work, food or shelter. She broke
a glass in a drag store window and
was arrested and thanked the Lord
that she would now get something to
eat and a place to sleep. She commit
ted crime upon the principle of self
preservation.
Don't Tobacco Spit And Smoke Your Life Away.
If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take N o-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days,
j Over 400,0U> cured. Buy No-To-Bac of your
druggist, under guarantee to cure, 50c or
(1.00. Booklet and sample mailed free Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Millions I‘aldfor <&£■
According to the, Ewflil -
tion, the farmers of GoepJl
commercial fertilizers 'tol|)bA9Hß of
§7,000,000 this veer. S'N *
There are 1,300 brands Hflljjl, mar
ket, an increase of 30Q-O¥(flHHft£ar.
Over 4,000 samples iutrapfaeodsor
warded to the
ture to be anal} zed jjy thtjmrfwqkpinist
and his .
One chemist and tWo aiHKte have
beeu as husy as bees all the an:l
winter and they are
, behind at this writing im
possible for them to do the any ■
faster, aud : f the work keengrincreasing
there will have to be provision made
for more assist nts iu that department.
Uodcr the new aims
at giving equal justice to dgr manufac
turer and consumer, seven?eeu inspec
tors are employed for fourtMuonths in
the year visiting different sections of
the state where consignment have been
shipped to farmers or dexifirs, and sam
ples are taken on the ground and for
warded to the department for analysis.
When a manufacturing company
sends out a consignment the depart
ment is notified at once and by that
means a run is kept of the distribution
of goods. '
The tags sent out are not like they
nsed to be, certificates ot inspection,
but merely show that the manufacturer
has registered and paid the required fee
of ten cents per ton to the depart
ment.
This little fee of 10 cents on the ton
yields a revenue sufficient to pay the
expenses of inspection and a considers
hie surplus, a little over oue third,
which is turned into the state treasury
This is in fine contrast to the law iu
Alabama, where a fee of 50 cents a ton
is charged, and in North and South
Carolina, which require a fee of 25
cents a ton.
When the inspector is sent by Mr.
Hardeman to inspect a consignment of
fertilizers in some distaut part of the
state, the samples are forwarded to the
department. They take precedence
according to the date of their reception
at the department office as otherwise
there would be discrimination. That
is why the work cannot -be done at
once, as there are no special cases now,
as formerly, and each must take big
turn.
Twelve of the inspectors are only
employed four months iu the year, but
the others are kept busy all the year
rouud.
The work of analyzing has been so
systematized that it bas been accelerated
wonderfully and the chemist and his
assistants are going bravely ahead with
the examination of the samples, as they
come to them, but they will not get
entirely through with the work by the
time to issue the fall bulletin, which
Commissioner Nesbitt sends out before
the Ist of October so as to give the far
mers the benefit of the analysis before
paying for the fertilers.
It is a big job and one that requires
careful and systematic work, and in
spite of the conscientious efforts of the
chemist and his assistants there are oc
casional kicks from manufacturers who
cannot understand why the analysis of
their goods fall below the printed state
ments ou the sacks as to their constitu
ent and commercial value.
Sand Town, Ga., March 16th, 181)7.
—lt affords me great pleasure to rec
ommeud Hood’s Sarsaparilla to all
who are suffering with any blood dis
order. I was afflicted with humor in
my blood which caused my body to be
covered with sore*. After taking six
bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla 1 was
completely cured and I think Hood’s
Sarsaparilla is the greatest medicine on
earth. J. H. Brock.
Hood’s Pills are the only pills to
take with Hood’s Sarsaprilla.
The common error of men and wo
men is that of looking for happiness
somewhere outside of useful work. It
has never yet been found when thus
sought, aud never will be while the
world stands, aud the sooner the truth
is learned the better for anyone.
The negroes of Concord, N. C., have
subscribed $75,000 toward a cotton
mill to be erected there and and oper
ated exclusively by negro labor. All
the officers of the company save one,
are negroes.
Ten million dollars worth of Georgia
marble is now used in the construction
of three famous buildings. The state
capitol of Rhode Island, the cathedral
of St. John and St. Luke's hospital,
New York.
PISO’S CURE FOR
2 5 CTS'
CURLS Wrtiftk A*l ELSE FAILS. _
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
In ttme. Bold by druggists.
CONSUMPTION
.tioitui* uiiovi:,
(Last Week's Letter.)
On Monday the sth inst. a terrible
hail storm passed over this section,
br eakiDg out wiudow paues and split
ting shingles from the house tops. The
! earth was white with hail, there was a
j terrible roaring overhead—and we will
I never forget the sth day of April.
\ e scribe had a large baru with six
stalls raised Tuesday, and is under ob
| ligations to his frieuds for tbeir kind
I help.
Mr. Bud Evans’ horso which was in
the run away gang last week is nowdead
from its injuries.
The dogs are playing havoc with
Mr. E. A, Flake’s sheep.
Some thief broke into Mr. Singleton
•loues’ smoke house a few nights ago
and stole about seveuty five pounds of
meat.
Messrs. Ford, Thurman and White
have done a large lumber business this
season.
Rev. Mr. Hemphill of Griffin preach
ed at this place last Sunday.
Don’t forget the Sunday School cel
ebration the fifth Saturday iu May.
Arch.
A Daring Encounter.
Tuesday Startliug 11 >bert, E. Mer
rideth and C. D. Hughes weut over to
Dawson county to capture a still, which
was Known to be under the hank of the
Hightower river. They slipped dowu
the side of the mountain and grabbed
their man, but the man decided to go
in another direction, so he took Hughes
under his arm aud plunged into the
sweeping river, telling him that a bath
would help him. The recent rains had
swelled the river until it was a surgiug
torrent. Roberts aud Merrideth stood
powerless aud awe strickeu when the
two men were seen to plunge tuto the
mad waters which looked so terrible.
Hughes, however, proved equal to the
emergency, aud nettled by the act of
the mooushiucr, he made his way' to
the opposite shore and followed his
man for one half mile after they had
landed, but never again got so close to
him as when he was called on to take
an unexpected bath. Twenty stands
of beer and mash aud other stuffs were
found and thrown into the river. The
still was cut to pieces, which was all
that could be done after the escape of
the stiller.—Gainesville Eagle.
The two year old son of W. L. Fur
gason, of Holton, Miss., had whooping
cough. “After several physicians had
prescribed for him, without giving re
lief,” writes Mr. Furgason, “I per
suaded my wife to try a 20 cent bottle
of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The
first dose had the desired effect, aud in
forty eight hours he was entirely free
rom all cough, I consider your reme
dy the best in the maiket, especially
for children and recommend it at all
times.” The 20 aud 50 cent sizes for
sale by 1). W. Scott, Druggist, Mc-
Donough, Seaborn Lawrence, Locust
Grove, Ga
The Cartersviil American says:
“The farmers of Bartow county have
formed a plau which is proving of im
mense benefit lo them in their agricul
tural operations. They have formed,
in various parts of the county, clubs
which meet alternately at the home of
the members. At these meetings ideas
are exchanged, practical plans sugges
ted, experiments and experiences given
and a rich fund of information is gath
ered by the members.”
One of the pleasantest features of
the inauguration of President McKin
ley, says the New York Journal, was
the public iuterest taken in his aged
mother. Her picture appeared in all
the papers that undertake to illustrate
the eveuts of the day, and very re
markable that picture was—of an
American mother—showing, as it did,
in its venerable and rugged ftc ■ most
of the characteristics which have made
her sop eminent. Still more remark
able is it that public attention should
turn aside in a political heyday m r sly
to take au tuteiest in the unknown wo
man who had the least to do with the
formal festivities and the most to do
with the formation of the President’s
character. Nothing could be finer. It
s the first time that the mother has
beeu recognized by the nation, with a
deep, silent respect, that she could not
have won if she hid spent her life on
the platform or made clamorous per
sonal appeals.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
3.
25 CTS
A Democratic Ti<|al Wave.
Elections were held throughout
Ohio and Illinois ihis week, and the
democrats swept the field with crushing
majorities.
One of the most notable victories of
the democracy was won in the city of
Chicago, which gave McKinley a rna
joritv of 56,000 last November. At
last Tuesday’s election the democratic
candidate for mayor receiver 84,000
majority over the republican n omioee.
ami democratic alderman were elected
iu twenty six, out of the thirty waida
in the city.
Elections were held iu all tho towns
and cities of Ohio last Monday, aud
the democrats carried 70 per cent of
them, which places the election inachiu
ery of that state in their hands for the
election of governor, legislature and
congressmen next year.
The oity of Cincinnati gave McKin
ley a majority of 20,000 last fall, but
the democrats not only wiped that out
last Monday, but elected tbeir candi
date for mayor and council by 7,320
majority.
Canton, the home of McKinley, was
carried by the democrats by 400 major
ity and uearly all of the loading cities
of the state were captured by them.
These suprisiug victories have cre
ated cousternation in the republican
ranks, and is a pretty sure indication
that the democrats will elect a govern
or and a majority of the legislature
next fall, which would iusuro the defeat
of Mark Uanua for the Senate, and
the electiou of a democrat to the seat
which John Sherman has occupied so
many years.
The elevation of Hanna to a position
iu the cabinet has seriously hurt the
republican party in Ohio, because he
is the notorious advocate of monopoly,
anil identified with some of the most
obnoxious trasts in this country. His
enmity towards all labor organizations,
his harsh treatment of employees in
several instances, have made him ex
ceedingly unpopular with that elemout,
aud th y will leave no stone unturned
to encompass his defeat.
The tariff bill receutly passed by the
house of representatives will do no
more to defeat the republican party
than auy other issue upon which the
next battle will be fought, as it about
doubtless the costs of necessaries to
consumers, without giving them any
corresponding benefit.
With money scarce and farm pro
ducts selling for about the cost of pro
duction, aud the prices of what the
farmers, aud others - who are not
interested in manufacturing enterprises,
are compelled to buy, are doubted, it
cau be takeu as grauted that a tremen
dous'howl will be sent up all along the
line, aud that the indignation of the
great masses who are being robbed to
swell the income of bloated monopoly,
will make itself felt at the polls.
The next house of representatives
will be democratic, aud McKinley’s
successor will be a democrat.
"Ifow to Cure All Skin *
Simply apply “Swaynk’s Ointment. ” No
internal medicine required. Cures tetter,
eczema, itch, all eruptions on the lace, nose,
hands, etc., leaving the skin clear, white
aud healthy. Its great healing and curative
powers are possessed by no other remedy.
Ask your druggist for Swavne’a Ointment
Some men would rather win a dol
lar on a wager than to earn five at lion
ost work.
You Can't
t a White Plume from a
Crow’s Tail, nor a good
Bicycle from Castings.
( the^
We want bright (•
I business men < * 3*BB^
| to represent us * |
| everywhere.
\ MONARCH CYCLE CO.,
Chicago New York London.
5 CENTS A COl’Y
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great levening strength
and liealthfolness. Assures the food against
alum aud all forms of adulteration common
to the cheap brands.
Royal Baking Pownza Co., Nkw York.
Bryan Culls on McKinley.
A Washington special says: There
were some important callers at the
white house Tuesday morning before
the cabinet assembled at 11 o’clock.
First came Senator Hauna, of Ohio,
who had just returned from Cleveland,
whither he wont to cast his vote at the
I municipal elections. He was with Mr.
McKinley half an hour. When he
emerged he said, commenting upon the
elections, that they were without any
save local significance.
While Mr. Hanna was still in tbe
white house, Mr. llryau, late democrat
ic candidate for president, called with
Representative McMillin, of Tennes
see, aud Attorney General Smythe, of
Nebraska, to pay his respects to his
successful rival. They were immedi
ately ushered into Mr. McKinley’s of
fice. The president who was talking
with a group of gentlemen, advanced
and the president and the ex-candidate
shook hands cordially.
Mr. Bryan remarked upon the pres
ident’s apparent good health and the
latter spoke of the fact that he had
seen by the newspapers that Mr. Bry
an was here to argue a case before the
supreme court. He also said he had
received a copy of Mr. Bryau’s book a
few days ago, but as yet bad not bad
time to read it.
After a further exchange of courtesies
and pleasautries, Mr. Bryau retired.
College Bred Convicts.
'There are 15 college graduates in
prison stripes on Blackwell’s island.
This fact was learned by a clergyman
of this city, who recently conducted a
Sunday morning service at the peniten
tiary, and it was elicited by his remark
ing to one of the keepers that there
were a great many intelligent faces in
the group of prisoners confronting him.
The clergyman made mental notes of
some of the faces, and after the ser
vice he pointed thorn out to the keep
er and asked if they were not college
graduate. Out of the five men indica
ted by him only one was a college
graduate, and, to the clergyman’s dis
may, the keeper designated as college
men three of the most repulsive and
vicious looking prisoners in tbe group.
Oue of the most intelligent faces in
the throng was described by the matter
of fact keeper as belonging to “a tough
’un, who’s been on tbe island off and
on ever since be was a kid.”—New
York Times.
l’oeple who are not able to take care
of their private conduct are hardly fit
to presciibe rules for others.