The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, June 28, 1907, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textk „ Am MILLIONAIRE S SON, DYING, WEBS WEEPING GIRL I«!e bvertakes Him on Evn of Bate For Fash ionable Marriane-Forlune 1o Young Willow. Father of Bridegroom-Elect Arrives Barely in Time For the Death bed Ceremony. Louisville, Ky.—Six hours before his death here Robert Horner, twen ty nine years old, son of Samuel Hor ■er, a multi-millionaire of . Philadel phia, married Miss Elizabeth Dallam Burnett, a member of one of the most prominent and wealthiest families ir this city. The wedding of the couple had been set for Tuesday, and •everal guests already had arrived. Horner died of blood poisoning caused by a carbuncle. The young man came here three yeare ago as manager of a cement company owned by his father. He felt In love with Miss Burnett at first sight and their engagement was an ■ounced last winter. The wedding was to have been one of most fashionable of the early summer. Horner was preparing for the union, end had arranged for a wedding trip •f two months. A week ago the carbuncle developed in his neck and he grew steadily worse until his icalh. At first Horner made light of the carbuncle, but on Thursday evening lilts condition had become so serious that he decided to go to the Norton Memorial Infirmary. There the phy sicians said an operation should have heeu performed at least twenty-four Fours before. They placed him at •ace on the operating table, but the knife gave no relief. Instead, the patient was attacked by blood pois oning. and early in the morning it became apparent he could not re cover. Horner read his fate in the face •f his fiancee, and he bore it like a Spartan. The doctors tried to hide the truth from him, but he silenced them by his questions. Then he coked that Miss Burnett become his bride, and the girl consented. The young man s father, expecting to at tend the arranged wedding on Tues 4ay, arrived from Philadelphia bare ly in time to be pye-ent at the hur ried ceremony. He was accompanied ky his second son, Charles, who was pledged by the dying man to care far the widowed bride. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. G. Minnegerode. Horner vu so weak that the physicians re fused to prop him up with pillows. He* gathered strength, however, to make his responses in a full, clear *«ice. Miss Burnett was so overcome her voice hardly could be heard. Sev-, •cal nurses were affected so deeply that they left the room. Charles Horner broke down and cried, but the father stood without the move ment of a muscle looking straight into the face of his stricken son. After the wedding Mrs. Horner bent •ver and kissed her husband, then '■he took a chair at the bedside and held his hand on the counterpane ■sltl death came. Only ten days ago Horner took out c life insurance policy for $25,001' for Miss Burnett. It is believed that •U his estate, amounting to several ‘hundred thousand dollars, will go to the widow. Des Moines. lowa.— Emily Haven, a baby orphan, has the proud dis tinction of having twelve mothers, and all college girls a; BABY HAS that. A DOZEN For a lark the girls MOTHERS. visited the lowa Chil dren’s Home and ail fell in love with the baby and decided to adopt her. They will “mother" the child on the instalment plan, each taking her for a month at a time. The baby is to-day getting ac teainted with the home of Edna and Amy Symires, two of the dozen girls •bo have adopted her. She is to •lay there six weeks, and will then go to the home of Miss Alsit, and then on around the circuit. The mother of the child died when ft was an infant. CUPID’S BUSY SEASON. / MWM/ rimr ■ / X/ / ck\ '> , ,sz* v\ /* I \ t»-|gg^ 'artoon by Jamieson, in the Pittsburg Dispatch. Boston.—That babies deformed or otherwise physically unfit should be put to a painless death was the the ory advanced here STATE OUGHT by Dr. Andrew TO RULE Christian, one of MARRIAGES. the most promi nent physicians in this city. Furthermore, the doctor advised that there should be a Gov ernment control of marriages, re quiring a clean bill of health of every man and woman before they might approach the altar. "The world would be better,” said Dr Christian, “if mothers would con sent to havv their deformed or raen t:i !y deficient children quietly put to sleep. If I myself had a little child born and it was deformed or showed that it would be mentally weak I would be willing that it should be P : t to death with no suffering, and it would be*the prudent thing to do, because it would save it from untold suffering later. This may seem harsh, but it really isn’t. "A board of overseers of marriages appointed by the State is what we want. The race is degenerating and some radical change must be made soon or we will in time have only idiots and imbeciles. Just take, for example, what Luther Burbank has accomplished with the flowers. Even more can be done with human beings and greater results obtained. "Only the fit should marry, only those who are mentally and physical ly normal and sane, those whose an cestors were clean of life and well oalanced mentally. To be born un der right conditions with as nearly perfect mother and father, mentally and physically, as possible, is the heritage of every child, and the man or woman who cheats a child of that heritage is committing a double crime, one against the child and one against society. "The board of overseers I suggest should understand thoroughly physi ology, psychology and sociology. I should think doctors, appointed by the State, would be best. These could have lists of people in that State and so far as possible of their ancestry. They could fix a period of time to look the individuals up be fore deciding whether two persons were fit to marry.” Washington, D. C.—Washington society is beginning to speculate on the possibility of Miss Ethel Roose velt, now ETHEL ROOSEVELT’S in her sev “COMING OUT” enteenth PLAN'S. year, be ing pre sented New Year's next. Although she will not have finished her school course here in the National Cathe dral for Girls, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, it is said, feel she should see as much of White House events ar.d entertainments as possi ble. and she will appear more fre quently. Miss Ethel is budding into a very handsome woman, and has all the frank charm of her sister. Mrs. Long worth. with added vivacity. She is a devotee of horseback riding and, with her mother, is often to be seen on the boulevards and in the parks around the city. Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel are among the best horsewomen in Washington, and are quite as*much at home on a good horse as they are in a drawing room. Mrs. Roosevelt invariably wears the plainest of black broadcloth habits, made with a severely plain tight fitting jacket and rather a short skirt. She usually cars a sailor hat, although through ihe winter she appeared with a derby. Over her hat and face she always wears a thin black chiffon veil, which is tied down closely over the hat and about the neck. Miss Ethel frequently wears a. Mack suit with white shirt waist and I a black and white sailor hat. LOVING TRIAL BEGUN. Another Case of “Unwritten Law” Before a Virginia Court to Be Decided By Jury The trial of former Judge W. C. Lov ing for the murder of young Theodore Estes, the sequel of a buggy ride which Estes took with Loving’s daugh ter, moved rapidly at Houston, Va., Monday, and when court adjourned in the afternoon the prosecution had rested and the defense had begun its case. The progress of the trial was remarkable. Before adjournment of the morning session, a jury had been secured, mostly middle-aged men and all but three of them married; eleven of them being farmers, the lone ex ception being a merchant. The taking of testimony began upon the recon vening of court, and late in the after noon the commonwealth rested its case, and Judgo Loving, whose de fense is the unwritetn law, had taken the witness stand in his own behalf. The widespread interest in the case was manifest. A large crowd w’as pre>seiit, but perfect order was ob served. The trial eclipses in interest and sensation the McCue and the Strother- Bywaters case in Culpeper. Judge Lov ing, armed with a double-barreled shotgun, instantly killed young Estes, while he was unloading a car of fer frllzer in Oakridge, on April 22, follow ing a buggy ride on the evening be fore of E3tes and Miss Elizabeth Lov ing, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Judge Loving. The girl, when brought home, had been drinking, and it is al leged that her escort had maltreated her. Acting under the impulse tha: his daughter had been drugged and as saulted, Judge Loving immediately went in search of Estes. After the shooting he said: “I shot to kill. Ev ery drop of blood in my body called for vengeance. I would have gone a hundred miles to kill him.” The trial is one of the most inter* es:ing in the annals of criminology in Virginia. Judge Loving? a politician a man of wide prominence, a former jurist, had the unique distinction of standing at the bar on trial for his life in the same court over which he himself presided for a number of years, when an. indictment of murder in the first degree was returned against him last month at Lovingston. On that occasion a change of venue was granted on account of the bitter feeling existing in Nelson county, Judge William H. Barksdale of Hali fax county, who had been designated by Governor Swanson to try the case in the place of Judge Bennett T. Gor don, who declined to sit on account of personal feelings existing between himself arid Judge Loving, transfer red the case to Houston, the county seat of Halifax. The history of the case itself is in teresting because of the obscurity that surrounds the main points at issue— whether or not Judge Loving was jus tified in takiug the life of the young man whom he believed to be guilty of a grave crime against his young daughter On this point, as on the ultimate outcome of the trial itself, Nelson county is split in twain. The social prominence of the ‘two families involv ed conduces greatly to the strain up on the feelings of the rival factions, the political aspects of the case bend ing the minds of the populace as one side or the other gains the ascend ency. CONSUMPTIVES BARRED BY TEXAS. State to Quarantine Those Suffering Acute Stage of the Disease. All persons suffering from tubercu losis in an advanced stage are to be debarred from entering Texas. Dr. Brumby, state health officer, has stat ed that within, a few days he would issue a proclamation establishing a rigid quarantine against all persons afflicted with the disease in an acute degree. FRENCH TROOPS DESERT POST. Walk Out of Barracks Because of Sympa thy With Wine Growers. A battalion of the seventeenth in fantry regiment, stationed at Agde, in the department of Harault, France, has deserted with its arms and ammu nition and joiued the insurgent wine growers at Bez'.ers, the headquarters of tha regiment. The mutineers, who mostly were re cruited among the wine growers, num ber about four hundred men. They marched into Beseers, which has ibou; 50,000 inhabitants, with drums beating and coolrs flying. NEGRO VOTERS MENACE TAFT Result of Anti-Administration Feel ing Over Brown svillje Affair. RALLYING TO FORAKER Effect of Colored Ballot in Several States Will Be Something of an Enigma in the Ccming Campaign. A Washington spccal says: In ex planation of the failure of the Ken tucky republican state convention to endorse Secretary Taft, it is said that fear of negroes bolting the ticket this fall has prevented this action. This is interesting in view of the fact that Senator Foraker was rallying Ohio negroes to his standard at Wiiber foree university Thursday with the Brownsville riot for an issue. It is interesting, too, because the republi can state convention of Kentucky was the first to be held after the an nouncement that the Taft managers had started out from Ohio after other 6tates. They went after Kentucky first and there is no doubt bu: they expect ed an endorsement. This is the second republican state convention to be held this summer, Pennsylvania leading off with an en dorsement of the Knox boom. The only other state organization that has taken any action whatever so far is Kansas, where the republican state committee declared for Taft some time ago. The Taft men claim to have Ken tucky, and the newspaper reports of that convention credit them with pass ing a resolution which declared for "the selection by the next national convention for president of one in full accord with these (Roosevelt) poli cies” over the determined opposition of anti-Taft men. The latter were able to secure the insertion of the phrase, "without expressing a preference for any candidate,” where the Taft men had hoped for a specific declaration in his favor. Kentucky, unlike most of the south ern states, has a negro vote. So have her border sisters, Maryland and West Virginia. The negroes of Baltimore were said in a Baltimore dispatch to have contributed to the recent defeat of the republican candidate-for mayor of Baltimore for whose success At torney General Bonaparte had made himself personally responsible. Here, too, it was the Brownsville issue. Keenly interested politicians are pricking up their ears and asking how firmly and how far the “black bat talion,” as Foraker and his negro sup porters themselves call it, will march through this campaign. A letter writ ten by Charles a well known Foraker lieutenant, advising Ohio ne groes to bolt republican tickets this fall in localities where the county committee have declared for Taft, has already been published. The negro vote in Ohio is nearly as large as the normal republican plurality in that state, and the same thing is true, or nearly so, in Indiana, while Illi nois, Pennsylvania, New York and Kansas particularly have a multitude of colored citizens. It is now clear that Foraker bases his strongest hopes of compelling the Taft camp to come to terms on this club of the negro vote. There is no doubt as to the negroes of Ohio and the country at large being with Foraker. What effect this attitude of the negrees will have on white voters remains to be seen. It is tolerably evident from some late developments that the %egro re volt against President Roosevelt for his attitude on the Brownsville mat ter is going to cut more of a figure In politics than has been expected. IMMIGRATION WORK INDORSED By Georgia Industrial Association in An nual Convention. At the annual convention of the Georgia Industrial Association, held at Warm Springs, ilie past week, wich sixty cotton manufacturers from all sections of the state in attendance, emphatic endorsement was given the movement to induce European immi grants to locate in Georgia. The convention adopted by unani mous vote a resolution heartily indors ing the work of the immigration as sociation. SULPHUR BATHS AT HOME They Ileal the Skin and Take Away Its Impurities. Sulnhur baths heal Skin Diseases, and give the body a wholesome glow. Now you don’t have to go off to a high-priced re sort to get them. Put a few spoonfuls of Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur in the hot water, and you get a perfect Sulphur bath right in your own home. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur to the affected parts, and Ezcerna and other stub born skin troubles are quickly cured. Dr. It. 11. Thomas, of Valdosta, Ga., was cured of a painful skin trouble, and he praises it in the highest terms. Your druggist sells it. Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur Ointment is the best cure for Sores, Pimples, Black heads and all inflammation. Gives a soft, velvety skin. "What do you tmnK of socager 3 last book?” “Well, I thought it wa3 the driest, thing I ever rkad, but I managed tot wade through it.’ The Sketch. The grocers are handling Argo Red Salmon because it takes no argument to sell it, and the customers come back for more. A Remittance. A Southern lawyer tells of a judge in Arkansas who had several “tiffs” with a law’yer retained by a woman who had instituted a breach of prom ise suit in the court presided over by the judge in question. After each exchange of repartee be tween his Honor and the imprudent counsel, the judge would say: “Clerk, just enter another fine of $lO against Mr. Mitchell for contempt of court.” When this sort of thing had pro ceeded further than counsel wished, he addressed his Honor in this wise: “If your Honor please, I am a good citizen, and, as such, intend to obey -the orders of the honorable Court in this, as in all other inoi.ances. Now, your Honor, it so happens that I have not about me the sum of S3O for which 1 have been mulcted for contempt. Therefore, I shall be com pelled to borrow such sum from some friend; and I see no one present whose friendship I enjoy so much as your honor’s. So I make no hesita tion in approaching your Honor for a loan to square the fines assessed against me.” With just the faintest smile about his lips, his Honor looked first at counsel and then at the clerk. "Clerk,” said he at last, “remit Mr. Mitchell’s fines. The State is better able than I to lose S3O.” —Harper s Weekly. SHE WOULDN'T CONCEDE IT. "But,” said the lawyer, “your case seems hopeless. I don’t see what I can do for you. You admit that you beat your wife.” “Yes,"’ replied the defendant, “but my wif'.’s testimony will discount that. She’d never admit -that she 'was beat en.” —'Catholic Standard and Tiuiea. SHOULDERS OF THE WORK HORSE. One of the strongest points in pre paring horses for spring work is in having their shoulders in good, sound condition. With this to start with and soft, well-fitting collars, there need be but litle fear of any difficulty in keeping them all right, no matter haw hard the labor the horses have to endure. By* keeping the collars w’ell cleaned of any dirt which may have accumulated upon them, from the sweating of the horse and by bath ing them daily with cold water, there need be but little fear of had shoul ders.— Epitomist. DOCTOR’S FOOD TALK. Selection of Food One of the Most Important Acts in Life. A Mass, doctor says: “Our health and physical and mental happiness are so largely under our personal con trol that the proper selection of food should be and is one of the most im portant acts in life. “On this subject, I may say that I know of no food equal in digestibility and more powerful in point of nutri ment than the modern Grape-Nuts, four heaping teaspoons of which is sufficient for the cereal part of a meal, and experience demonstrates that the user is perfectly nourished from one meal to another. “I am convinced that the extensive and general use of high class foods of this character would increase the term of human life, add to the sum total of happiness and very consider ably improve society in general. I am free to mention the food, for I personally know of its value.” Grape-Nuts food can be used by babes in arms or adults. It is ready cooked, can be served Instantly, either cold with cream, or with hot water or hot milk poured over. All sorts of puddings and fancy dishes can be made Vvith Grape-Nuts. The food is concentrated and very economical, for four heaping teaspoons are sufficient for the cereal part of a meal. Read the little book, “The Road to Well villa,” In pkgs. “There’B a Reason."