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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1907)
lENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. ,1. \. li'Ol'CliK, I üblisliei-. ii. L JOHNSON Editor. Entered at the postoffice at McDon •nucii, ta second-class mall matter. Advertising Rate*: SI.OO per l»ck p«r r.onth. Reduction on etaadlag eaatrtr'fi.o t* by special agreement. meaer l ——— rmr McDonough, G» , April 2fi, 1907 There is no sounder doctrine than of good roads. No money ex pei'Kiotl in the improvement •:<£ public highways is wasted, and county whose roads are mecad has an advantage over the *aiia*ty whose roads are not that is rural* stable.—Albany Herald. The ■greatness of General fl. E. Lttr increases as the years go by— sail the world now are becoming to st*" mud know as the gallant hand tSaat followed him for four year— s*,nd now after the lapse of forty two years his greatness and fame more towering than at Appomat tox when he spoke these words to Ibis gallant soldiers and comrades : ■"‘Men, we have fought the war to grethor; I have done my lest for you.” When till the nations and warriors of the ages have been as :-v mbled for the Great Assize, none will equal in true greatness, gallant vakor, bravery and arduous forti •.' nde the gentle and matchless Lee, 'nb < forty-two years ago surren «3emi at Appomattox. Pr»vf Lawrence DufTey, Henry's officient and ]>rogressivo county ffsfchooii commissioner, is paid a high «ouxipliment iti the current issue * s<" ; the Golden Age, in which fcs t. modern development of the ■.sschoiiis of the South are shown. Tiie illustrations are those showing The okl school house at Pleasant <G.rove and the new, modern build i-\ now in use, which is shown as m model country school building 'These illustrations are used in the article to show the wonderful ad xraneemi nt in the public schools of fl-’.e South have made in recent .years, and incidently shows that in tills onward march that Henry bounty stands right in the front ranks of all this great educational Hurrah for old Henry axnd her model schools. The people of Conyers are going Ao erect in their enterprising little **.ity a (’on federate monument Wcmikl that every hamlet, village, ■town and city in Dixie would do likt ‘wise. There ought to be a .handsome monument in our own city. Our people are patriotic, and ef tho ball was set in motion the funds could soon la* raised. Let ■every little tot in Butts contribute .-something, and every citizen, man, woman and child, esteem it a great privilege to help build a monument ito our Confederate dead. Lot some rsput in our city have erected in it a .beautiful monument—one that our children wi’l point to with pride, " bus encouraging them to perpetu ate the memory of our boj's who wore the gray.—Jackson Argus. Conyers is not the only town that is raising funds to build a monu meat to the memory of the gallant boys who wore the gray. McDon ougn and Henry county are now much enthused in the work of se curing funds for a Confederate monument in this city, to be lo cated in the public square. PANAMA CANAL-ERIE CANAL. Machinery is digging the Panama Canal a bimusand times quicker than tne shovel vlug the Erie. Machinery produces L. & M. Paint at -NO times less cost for labor, than if made by hand. The L. & M. gives the N>t job in the wo Id, because L. and M. Zinc hardens L. ■it M. White Lead and makes L. & M- Paint vo ar like iron for 10 or 15 years. It only requites 4 gallons of this celebra ted paint and 3 gallons of Linseed Oil at «yvts. per gallon, to paint a moderate sized house. If any defect exists in L. & M. Paint, •arill repaint home for nothing. Sold by H. J. ( ope land Mercantile Co., IMcDonough. llaiqp on Buggy Co., Hampton. LAW AND ORDER REIGN SUPREME IN OLD HENRY. Its not till an individual or a people are put to a supreme test that unstinted praise and commendation of their every action should be given—that test has been made in this grand old county of Ilenr}, and The Weekly wants to com mend each and every cittzen of this grand old county for the calm and impassioned manner in which the}- have insisted that law and order should guide tlttir every action in meet ing out a just and a rigid punishment for one ol the most heineous crimes ever committed, not only in this county, but in the entire state. The tiial of Buck High, the 14-year old negro who so savagely and cruelly assaulted a little four-year o d girl a few weeks ago, was allowed to pass of} as quietly and orderly on Tuesday as one of the most insignificant cases of the entire term of the court —and why? Because the people of Henry county believe in the su preme majesty of the law, the honesty and fearlessness of its officers to enforce the laws and meet out a just and quick punishment to those who so flagrantly and wantonly break the laws of the state as Buck High, the negro who was tried on Tuesday lor criminally assaulting a little innocent four year old child. None save a royal, loyal true Fo therner can know and feel the intensity, depth and breadth ot such a crime as this as the men ol the South, and no where in this fair Southland will one find a grander, nobler example of the true Southern er than in this grand old countv of Henry. While the death of hosts of negroes could never expiate this one deed of Buck High’s, yet when on the 29th ot May when he will be legally executed tor his crime, all will be done that is possible to be done in this as an expiation for this most heinous and hellish crime. The people of Henry dounty and will have riffid en forcement ot the laws, which has been very forcibly^ shown here this week—not only for one crime, but lor all violations ol the criminal laws of the state. A PHI L 26 AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. Confederate Memorial Day draws near and the South prepares to pay tender tribute to the memory of her well beloved heroes. It is a sad, sweet pleasure which comes to ns each April, when flowers blos som, skies smile softly urd nature’s mood is gentle—a pleasure which wo would not surrender for the privilege of placing the laurel of the victor on every grave which wo soon shall decorate again with the willow of the vanquished. For with the Nation's great war more than forty years in the past, tlie South would not exchange her heritage for that of tlie section with whom she clashed in four long years of bitter fratricidal strife. When the North honors her soldier dead, she remembers their triumphs. When the South pays tribute to her heroes she re members—their triumphs?—yes, for God knows these were won; hut there is also the though of the bright star which went down for ever forty-two years ago, and of tli > bitter disappointments which it left behind. If the South could go back to Appomattox, she won’t! not have the result of that historic battle different from what it was, for the section’s heritage—the her itage we acknowledge anew next month—is one the character of which the South would not have changed if she could.—Herald. Prevent Headache. Force them:- No—aids them. Ramon's j treatment of Liver Lilb and Tonic Pellets] strengthens the liver and digestive organs ' so that they do their own work and forti- j hos your constitution against future trou- j tile. Entire treatment :25c. Locust Grove Drug Co. , FROM FACTORY TQ YOUR HOME AT FACTORY PRICES—NOT DEALERS, * a FELT MATTRESS FOR SIO.7S—RETAILS FOR $15.00. We guarantee this Mattress to be better tliau auy sold or advertised at $15,00. ship ped direct to vour home from the largest and best equipped factory in the South You save the dealer’s profit when buying from us. Our large illustrated catalogue, sent free, shows an immense line to select from. Write for it to-day. JOHN FOSTER CO., 265-271 Decatur Street, Corner Moore, ATLANTA, GA. INTER SE. Tuesday afternoon April 9th, marked one of the most charming of the Inter Se gathering. At the atteractive home of Mrs. E. J. Rea gan, made more attractive by hot plants and dogwood scattered throughout the house. Mrs. Rea gan entertained the circle in a most delightful manner. On arriving the guests were re ceived in the library, where hot coffee and wafers were served. They were then invited into ti e parlor where each guest was pre sented with hand painted dards representing acorns, the object be ing to give the name of nuts, Mrs. Gall proved to be the successful winner. After the game, the inner man was then refreshed with a tempt ing salad course, followed with and ice course served by Mrs. Reagan, and Miss lone Price, qinite a num ber of tho members were present and enjoyed this gala occasion, and were loath to leave, bidding good bye to tho gracious hostess, when the eyening shadows warned them the day was done. I oing Business Again. “When my friends thought I was about to take leave of this world, on account ot indigestion, nervous ness, and general debility,” writes A. A. Chisholm, Treadwell, N. Y., and when it looked as if there was no hope left, I was persuaded to try Electric Bitters, and I rejoice to say they are curing me. lam now doing business again of old, and am still gaining daily.” Best tonic medicine on earth. Guaranteed by all druggists, and A. H. Price, Lo cust Grove. A“Ei!ious Attack.” SymptOlTiS. Sour stomach, nasty taste in mouth, sick headache, sallcw complex ion, the world your enemy. C3US3. Constipation, inact ive liver, overflow of bile into the system. Rslicf. Treatment for two nights before retiring with /.va TONIC PELLETS One a night, don’t worry, sleep well and Nature’ll do the rest. E.ntire Treatment 2 5 Cts. Locust Grove Drug Co. and get voui money back if not satisfied. Sample tul>e and Booklet by mail ioc. BROWN MF'G CO.. at. Xovis. .10. Greer.cvilU-.Temi, A Policeman’* Strategy. When Captain W. E. Weber waa a patrolman a clothing store upon his beat was robbed oue night. The thief had taken off his own old clothes and left them in the store. He had put on a new suit and worn it away. The old suit was that of a boy about fifteen years old. Weber gathered up the clothes and took them to the old fire patrol house at Seventh avenue and Wyandotte street. He put them upon the fioor and, turning the hose on them, drench ed them with water. Then he went down to the junction, where at that time the newsboys congregated in great numbers. He gathered a dozen of them around him. “Boys,” he said, “the police found sAme clothes down on the river hank this morning. It looks like aj oy had been drowned. I want all of you to come up to the fire station and look at the clothes, Maybe you can tell me who they belonged to.” No sooner had the “newsies” gath ered around the pile of water soaked clothes than oue little fellow spoke up: “Thera’s Nifty Smith’s. I seen him wearin’ them red galluses, an’ he sew ed that patch on the knee there his self.” Other boys corroborated this story. In less than an hour the officer had corralled Nifty and made him confess to tlie robbery.—Kansas City Star. Poisoned Wit’i Food. If one were to say that thousands of people regularly and almost system atically poison themselves with food, it would strike the average layman as extravagant. The opinion of the lay man, however, cuts no figure when compared with the scientific deductions of one who has carefully observed the facts. How many people are there who select their food with care, eat it at the right time and in the proper way to secure good digestion and sub sequent absorption of just the physi ologically correct amount of nutriment required to repair the waste incurred by the duties of everyday life? There are very few. Some starve themselves, but the great majority go to the other extreme and constantly overeat. One eats too much at regular mealtimes, while another eats less, but feeds more frequently. In either case the diges tive apparatus is overtaxed.—A Phy sician in New York World. A Robust Gliost. John Leech and a member of the Millais family once stayed a night at Cowdray liall, in England, where, many guests being present, the two friends had no alternative but to accept rooms in an isolated wing supposed to he -haunted. In the middle of the night Millais awoke, believing that some giant was shaking him violently by the shoulder. This was supposed to he the favorite device of the ghost. He rushed into a corridor and found Leech sitting there trembling lind declaring that lie would not for the world go back to his room. They spent the re mainder of the night in the corridor, but in the morning said nothing of their experiences. In the afternoon there arrived an evening paper telling of a violent earthquake in the locality. The earthquake was what the two vis itors believed to be their ghost. Valuable Pebbles. Between 4lie northern point of Long Island and Watch Hill lies a row of little islands, two of which, Plum is land and Goose island, possess a pe culiar form of mineral wealth. It con sists in heaps of richly colored quartz pebbles, showing red, yellow, purple and other lines, which are locally called agates. They are used in making stain ed glass windows, and there is a suffi - cient demand for them iu New York to keep the owners of one or two sloops employed in gathering them from the beaches, where the waves continually roll and polish them, bringing out the beauty of their colors. 11l Dorado. The modern meaning of El Dorado may be traced as follows: One of Pl zarro’s men said that he bad discov ered a land of boundless wealth be tween the Orinoco and tlie Amazon. This country was named El Dorado, and many adventurers, among them Sir Walter Raleigh, endeavored to find it; hence the name has come to mean a golden country of the mind, a fabu lous land of fabulous wealth, much as Cockaigne, a fancied land of luxury and idleness.—New York American. Happiness uml Hangrr, “My idea of perfect’happiness,” said the seedy philosopher as he made his fourth round trip to the free lunch counter, “is to be in a position to gi into the swellest restaurant, put my band over the price list of the menu and order what my taste dictates, irre spective of the demurs of a diminished wad.” A Correction. Bertie—Father, what is an egotist? Father—He is a man who thinks he is smarter than any one else. Mother— My dear, you are scarcely right. The egotist is the man who says that lie Is smarter than any one else. All men think they are! Will Agal»«t Will. A certain prosy professor of physics is so great a misanthrope that he de liberately announces liis lectures for the days when he has reason to think that his students will least want to at tend. He commanded their presence on an election day once and drove them nearly wild by delivering a tedious es say 011 will power. “If 110 wills it. a man may accom plish anything.” he droned. “Let him make up his mind not to die, and he will live in spite of disease; let him decide that life is not worth living, and 1 lie will drop peacefully out of it. I I challenge any student to cite an in j stance in which the power of the will lias not triumphed over everything.” Up shot the reprobate 01 Idle- class, a youth beloved by all his companions for his daring humor. “Sir, I accept your challenge. You are wrong,” he said. ‘Tray mention an example,” retort ed the professor dryly. “With pleasure, sir. An hour ago I willed that this lecture should he brought to a speedy conclusion. I’ve willed the same thing sixty times since, but up to now it hasn’t come off ” “Nor will it,” said the profes jr. “for I have not only willed that this lecture should last another hour, hut am per fectly willing that it should do so.” And it did. A Miss and a Find. It was the habit of the Rev. .Tames Spurgeon, grandfather of the great preacher of that name, to pray each evening under a certain oak tree in a secluded wood in Honeywood park. One night he dreamed, the story goes, that Satan appeared and threatened to tear him in pieces if he followed his 1 accustomed route to the tree. There was another path by which he might j go in safety. Remembering his dream, ; Spurgeon felt sorely tempted the next niglit to take the route in which Satan was not. But ibis would he to capit ulate. Trembling in every limb, he made his way by the path in which the danger lay. He reached his goal in safety and in prayer and song returned thanks for delivery from peril. When his prayer had ended he rose to re turn. In his path lay a piece of solid gold “as large as a curtain ring.” All inquiry failing to discover an owner, he retained it and when he married had liis wife’s wedding ring made from his curious find. "A Desperate Wnger. Driven to desperation by their heavy losses, gamblers have often sought by some coup either to repair tlieir shat tered fortunes or to bring down utter ruin upon themselves. One of the most curious instances of this kind comes from England. In the eighteenth centu ry a notorious gambler bad been los ing steadily in a game for high stakes with Lord Larne. Exasperated by his continued ill fortune, he suddenly sprang up from the card table, seized a large and costly punch bowl and, balancing it above his head, called out to his opponent: “For once I’ll have a bet where I have an equal chance of winning! Odd or even, for. 15,000 guineas!” “Odd!” replied the peer placidly, and the gambler hurled the magnificent bowl against the wall. When they counted the pieces Lord Lome had won.—Tuesday Magazine. Warmed l»y Their Pel-fame. According to the results of experi ments by Dr. .Jean Chalou. afomatic plants charged with essential oils which exhale a perfume that spreads like an atmosphere about them when touched by the rays of tlie sun are to a slight degree warmed by the pres ence of this agreeable atmosphere. It acts in retaining the solar heat like the glass covers of a hothouse, al though of course far less effectively. Professor Spring has shown that the relatively high temperatures of large cities is probably due, at least In part, to the carbonic anhydride In tlie air above them acting as a retaining screen for heat rays. Spots oji Leather. Oxalic acid in weak solutions is the best thing to nse when removing spots from leather. Two or three crystals of oxalic dissolved in warm water, then applied with a bit of cloth to the spots, will do the work. Watch close ly. and when the spots begin to disap pear apply clear water to overcome the acid, which is a powerful bleach. Dry the leather with a clean cloth. For bright leather make the solution weak er.— Philadelphia North American. Idjflit In His Line. Irate Father—l’m getting tired of this nonsense. You've been engaged to that young man for six months. Does he ever intend to marry you? Daughter— You must have patience, papa. Re member, he’s an actor. Irate Father— What has that to do with it? Daugh ter—He’s fond of long engagements. lie Mmlo Them I tend It. Daughter—Have you found out yet what it was that papa cut out of the paper ! .Mother—Yes. I bought a copy. I’ve read it all through, but to save my life I can’t see anything wrong in it. Its an article on the vulgarity and silliness of buying gowns that are beyond one's means.
