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HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
J. A. FOUCHE, Editor.
Entered at the postoffice at McDon
ough, as. second-class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
The Cincinnati girl who married u
poor young man who thought her poor
also ami then informed him after mar
riage that she is worth $500,000 seems
to be of the good old American va
riety of girl who was not in the mar
ket for counts of no account.
Official statistics printed in Havana
show that in 1902 the death rate v/as
21.99 per thousand, a fair lower rate
than in the days of General Weyler.
The methods of cleansing and of san
itation enforced by the Americans af
ter the Spanish war worked wonders
Tor the healthfulness of the city.
Most of the principles for which
Herbert Spencer contended have be
come commonplaces; but they had to
be insisted upon and expounded and
demonstrated to be truths before they
became generally accepted. The
struggles and the disappointments of
the pioneer were the great philoso
pher’s lot; but ho had also the cour
age and persistency required of an in
novator, and he lived to see his sys
tem of social and moral philosophy
completed and firml. established. He
will stand beside Charles. Darwin as a
leader and director cf human thought,
and in many respects he must be re
garded as the greater of the two in
augurators of evolutionary science.
Writing in the Independent on the
law’s delay, Justice David J. Brewer
says: “It was assured by one in a po
sition to know that in a single state
one of the great railroad corporations
by appealing every judgment against
it to the supreme ccurt cf the state —
that court having a crowded docket —
made enough in compromising the
judgments against it in the trial courts
to pay the entire cost of its legal de
partment.” Justice Brewer has de
voted considerable thought to this
subject, and while few will, we think,
be inclined to agree with him con
cerning the denial cf the right of ap
peal in criminal cases, it cannot be
doubted that marked improvement
must be made with respect to the de
lays in all cases.
At the close of the fiscal year of
1603 there were 2935 railway mail
routes in use by the postoffice depart
ment, with an aggregate length of
192,852 miles. The cost of transpor
tation or “annual rate of expenditure,”
was $30,607,524. Twenty-six years
ago the annual rate of expenditure
was $8,403,197, or less than a quarter
of the rate last year and only about
a fifth of the amount which the de
partment will ask for the fiscal year
ending with next June. Moreover,
$5,279,323 was expenses in 1902-03 for
railway postoffice cars, and the ag
gregate of all transportation costs cf
1902-03 was $65,186,715. The esti
mate for 1904-05 of $75,128,000 is a
striking demonstration of the rapid
growth of the postal business of the
United States.
Most of the preaching and advice
current today counselling fclk to live
a simpler life and banish worry seem
to fall on receptive ground—on ground
that has been made ready to a con
siderable extent by the increased cost
of living, wo may say, comments the
Boston Transcript. Because it is a
universally accepted fact that it does
cost more to live now than it did a
few years back and that in many cas
es incomes have not grown propor
tionately. Consequently some plan
had to be devised for maintaining a
balance between expenditures and re
eipts in order that the mental and
moral poise might remain undisturbed.
So the not unwholesome doctrine of
“going without” and the precepts for
living a life after one’s own ideas and
possibilities rather than according to
he pace set by neighbors, are being
accepted in places where, five years
back, they would not even have got a
hearing.
In the Santa Clara valley, Califor
nia, five square miles are devoted to
th< raising of onion seeds.
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COTTON SOARS
TO 17 CENTS
The Highest Point Reached in Past
Twenty-Nine Years,
TRADING IS ENORMOUS
Excitement on New York and New Or
leans Exchanges at Strenuous Pitch
Over Phenomenal Flurry.
The speculation in the cotton market
carried May and July cotton options
above 17 cents a pound on the New
York market Monqay for the first time
in twenty-nine years.
Cotton has not passed 17 cents per
pound in New York since 1875, when it
went to 17 1-8 cents. It touched 18
7-8 in 1874, 21 3-8 in 1873 and 27 3-8
in the year of wild speculation, 1872,
when the crop, as aganst 4,347,000
bales in the previous season, turned
out only 2,974,000. The high price of
war times, when the south was block
aded, was $1.90 per pound, in 1864.
The rise on Monday’s market was
scored in spite of heavier receipts and
the failure of southern stopt markets
(save New Orleans) to advance.
There was the same wild and over
burdened market as on Saturday.
Brokers despaired of executing their
orders according to book. There was
intense confusion and enormous vol
ume of trading.
The market opened excited and
higher. Notwithstanding the sensation
al advances of Saturday Liverpool
again cabled higher prices than expect
ed and the opening v/as strong at an
advance of 6 to 20 points, carrying
July through the 17 cent mark and
making new high records it this sea
son. Following the call the market
advanced still further, though in a
somewhat irregular fashion.
Notwithstanding the heavier receipts
indicated for Tuesday, the market af
ter reacting to within a few points of
the opening figures, was rallied again
chiefly as a result of aggressive buy
ing by New Orleans and was soon
selling at a level still higher than that
of the early morning. March in the
late trading sold at 17.04; May at
17.46 and July at 17.55, a net gain of
65 to 70 points and an advance since
Friday’s closing of nearly a cent and
a half a pound. Trading was active on
the second advance including contin
ued buying for public accounts. The
close was firm at nearly the best, with
the more active months 47 and 82
points higher.
Pandemonium in New Orleans.
A New Orleans special says: Mon
day was a day of unusual excitement,
even in this season of extraordinary
occurrences in the cotton luture mar
ket. When the opening of the session
of the cotton exchange was announced
pandemonium apparently broke loose.
Advances in Liverpool and New York
had already been posted on the boards,
and the first call of the local market
showed an advance of 18 to 41 points.
The fluctuations during the session
were frequent and at times very wide,
but prices were always well above the
closing figures of Saturday, with an
upward trend predominating, the day’s
trading resulting in net gains of 80 to
84 points. The market closed very
firm. Although the range of prices ap
peared to create an ideal condition for
the scalper, it was said about the ring
that this class of traders for the day
from some cause almost invariably
“caught on the wrong way.”
The bull leaders in New Orleans ad
vise buying, notwithstanding the pres
ent high levels.
Leading houses have reports from
their traveling men in Texas, who now
express the opinion that the Texas,
crop will not exceed 2,500,000
bales, and that there is now but little
cotton in the interior of the state.
A cable from Bremen reports that
spinners in Germany and Auustria
were carrying very light stocks and ex
pressing the opinion that this crop or
its equivalent has already been sold.
VETS TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER.
Reunion Committee at Nashville Departs
From Custom in Naming Date.
At a meeting in Nashville, Tenn.,
Friday night of the joint committee on
confederate reunion, it was decided
to hold it in September the exact date
to be named later. This is a depart
ure. past reunions having been held
generally in June.
Canton people informally but gener
ally observed McKinley’s birthday Fri
day. Special patriotic programs were
held In most of the schools, and the
pink carnation was everywhere in evi
dence.
Saved Her Life from Pneumonia
“My wife had a severe attack of Pneu
monia which followed a case of La Grippe
and I believe that FOLEY’S HONEY
AND TAR saved her life,” writes James
Coffee, of Raymond, Missouri.
PNEUMONIA
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Cured of Terrible Cough on Lungs
N. Jackson, of Danville, 111., writes:
“My daughter had a severe attack of
La Grippe and a terrible cough on her
lungs. We tried a great many remedies
without relief. She tried FOLEY’S
HONEY AND TAR which cured her.
She has never been troubled with a cough
since.”
guAlias ASIA national aid.
•lemtrial to Congress Adopted at Conven
tion at St. Augustine, Merida.
The committee on resolutions made
its renort at the Tuesday morning ses
sion of the Interstate National Guards,
in session at St Augustine, Fla.
Briefly, it is recommended that con
gress he urged to provide for the es
tablishment of proper camp grounds
in such number and at such places as
will facilitate the holding of camp ma
neuvers. to increase the appropriation
for the organized militia from one to
two million dollars.
SPIRITED DISCUSSION IN HOUSE.
Thayer Condemns President in Panama
Matter While Grosvenor Approves.
The proceedings in the bouse Mon
day were enlivened by a spirited dis
cussion of the Panama question. Mr.
Thayer, democrat, of Massachusetts,
declared the course of this government
in Panama to have been contrary to
the provisions of the treaty with New
Granada. Mr. Grosvenor. republican,
of Ohio, made a vigorous defense of
the administration.
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Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., writes:
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Cured When Very Low With
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J. W. Bryan, of Lowder, 111., writes:
“My little boy was very low with pneu
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The result was magical and puzzled the
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