The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, September 20, 1907, Image 3
GOING HOME. From t|je Realm of Toil and Trouble, Toward the sunset keeps of Spain, Rolling iron miles behind us Westward speeds the lurching train. Fades the city' s ragged skyline. Steepled roof and garish dome— And 1 m going home to Mary, Going home, going home! Grayness veils the whirling valley; Darkness sweeps across the gray; Lanterns red anu green and golden Glint and glare along the way. Every ringing wheel and bearing Holds a jolly little gnome Singing, “Going home to Mary, Going home, going home!” And I hear the chant re-echoed In the grinding and the jar, In the clanking of the coupler, In the clatter of the car: While the engine bears a burden. Through a cloud of billowed foam Calling, “Going home to Mary, Going nome, going home!” —Arthur Guiterman. jf THEIR \ FIRST ! QUARREL "I felt really sorry for Emmeline,” said the woman visitor. ‘lt made me feel uncomfortable, of course, being a guest, but I was sorry for her, any way. They seemed to get along quite well at first, and everybody said what a happy couple they were. Of course, he was polite, but anybody could no tice the sarcastic t-orfe of his voice, and although she laughed at what he said her cheeks were pretty red. I guess it wasn't their first spat by a good many.” “I always thought they got on well together,” said Mrs. Wachilope. ‘‘He always seemed very nice to her, I know, and she seemed devoted to him.” " ‘‘You can’t always tell,” said Wac llope. ‘‘No, indeed,” agreed the visitor. ‘‘Whenever I see a couple so particu larly loving and sweet I always say to myself, “Look out!” I make up my mind that it isn’t all honey and molasses.” “Well, you mustn’t think that of ns,’ laughed Mrs. Wachilope. “Oh, dear, no!” said the visitor, with tremendous emphasis upon the “dear.” “Because,” said Wachilope, with conscious pride, “we haven’t man aged to accomplish our first quarrel yet.” “Isn’t that lovely!” said the visitor. “Don’t you believe him,” said Mrs. Wachilope. “We quarrel dreadfully. He’s the worst tyrant.” “My dear!” remonstrated Wachi lope. “You know you are,” said the young wife. “Don’t you remember when we were going to the theatre the other night how fearfully savage and impatient you were with me be cause you were afraid we were going to miss the train?” “Oh!” said Wachilope, with sud den enlightenment. “You allude to my action in throwing you down the stairs and then dragging you out to the vestibule by the hair of your head. I admit that I was a little impatient then.” "Why, darling!” “But then you exasperated me by throwing boots at me as I ca,me up the stairs.” “Henry, dear, I don’t think it nice of you to say such things even in jest.” “Well, perhaps it was only one shoe and it hit me in two places.” “It really wasn’t any such thing,” explained Mrs. Wachilope, turning with a distressed air to the visitor. “He’s telling stories.” “Now, that’s a nice thing, isn’t it?” said Wachilope, likewise appealing to the guest. “A lady in her own house and not married six months coolly and deliberately tells her friend that her husband’s addicted to untruths.” “Hush, my dear, or Mrs. J’unker son will think that we are quarreling now.” “Oh, no; I’m sure you are net,” said the visitor, rising. “Well, I de clare I’ve been here for nearly an hour and I didn’t mean to stay- more than twenty minutes at the outside. I really must go. I’m ever so glad to have found you at home. Now, you and Mr. Wachilope must come soon and see us. My bag? Oh, yes. Well, good-by. Now, don’t forget to come soon. Good-by.” Wachilope noticed that his wife had more than the usual color in her cheeks as she came back into the parlor. “Well, the old lady went, did she, sweetness?” he called, cheerfully. “Yes,” said Mrs. Wachilope, with a slight chill in her voice, “and she’s gone off to spread it all over the neighborhood that we have had a quarrel.” “A quarrel!” “Why, certainly. I’m sure you did your best to give her that impres sion.” “My dear, what did I say?” “How can you ask me? You know very well what you said.” "About dragging you around by the hair of your head? My dear, why Ha, ha! You don’t mean to say you think she had any idea of taking that seriously? Ho, ho! That’s a good joke.” “You said it seriously enough. You ought to be ashamed of your self, Henry, dear.” “My own, I wouldn’t have men tioned it, but don't you think it was a little hard on me to say I was a. tyrant and savage and impatient to a stranger? I wouldn't have minded with anybody else, but that old hen ” “I don’t think it’s nice to call a lady a hen. Besides, she had just said she suspected things when people were too nice to each other, and I thought you would have seen that.” “Oh, I’m dense, I know—and coarse. That’s twice this afternoon you’ve accused me of not being nice.” “I don’t think it was nice.” “Just because I joked a little and —oh, what’s the use of trying to ex plain?” “And because I joked a little. That was to be taken in earnest, of course. You know I never thought of such a thing as our quarreling. You know we never quarreled yet. Why did you try to make out that wa did?” “Why did you?” “I’ve already told you.” “Well, I was just following your lead. Come, don’t let’s lose our tem pers.” “Oh, I’m perfectly calm, but you are red in the face.” “You shouldn’t bite holes in your lips to show your tranquillity, you—■ there’s the doorbell again!” “Henry!” “Beatrice!” “This is going to be the very last.” “It was all my fault.” “No, it was mine—quick!” “There’s the bell again.”—Chica go News. HOW TO GET MORE SUNLIGHT. » Englishman Wants Clock Hands Pushed Forward in Summer. An interesting discussion has aris en in the English and French press as to how a man can make more use than now of the available hours of daylight. William Willett has just published a pamphlet on the subject. He writes: “For nearly half a year the sun shines for several hours each day while we are asleep and is rapidly nearly the horizon when we reach home after the work of the day is over. Under the most favorable cir cumstances there then remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short leisure at our disposal. “Now if some of the hours of wasted sunlight could be withdrawn from the beginning and added to the end of the day how many advantages would be gained by all, and particu larly by those who spend in the open air, when the light permits them to do so, whatever time they have after the duties of the day have been dis charged. “By a simple expedient-these ad vantages can be secured. ,We can have eighty minutes more" daylight after 6 p. m. every day during May, June, July and August, and an aver age of forty-five minutes more every day during April and September. The expedient which I propose is that at 2 a. m. on each of the four Sunday mornings in April the standard time shall advance twenty minutes, and on each of the four Sundays in Septem ber shall recede twenty minutes. “Another means of arriving ap promixately at the same end would be to alter the clock thirty minutes on six Sundays, the last three hi April and the three in Septem ber. We lose nothing and gain most substantially. Having made up our minds to be satisfied on four occa sions with a Sunday of twenty-three hours and forty minutes long, or twenty-three hours and thirty min utes long on three occasions, the ad vantages aimed at will follow auto matically without any trouble what ever. Everything will go on just as It does now, except that as the later hours of the day come around they will bring more light with them.” Mr. Willett calculates that on an average 210 hours of daylight are wasted every year by every person. The expense of the artificial light used in this time will be saved bod ily. A man who left work at 5 p. m. would have as much daylight before him as a man who leaves now at 3.40. Saturdays if he left at 12 o’clock it would be equal to stop ping under present conditions at 10.40 a. m. Effect of the Weather. Bishop Sanford Olmstead, of Colo rado, at a dinner in Denver, said, apropos of Sabbath breaking: “I was talking to an Eastern clery man the other day about his church attendance. “I suppose,” I said, “that in your district rain affects the attendance considerably.” “He smiled faintly. ‘lndeed, yes,’ he said; ‘I hardly have a vacant seat when it is too wet for golf or motor ing.’ ” —Kansas City Journal. . , WORKING FORCE IS CURTAILED Southern Lays Oif ISO Mn in Its Shops at Atlanta, LEGISLATION THE CAUSE Order of Suspension Was Indefinite as to Time, and Came as Surprise to Many. A., B. & A. Also Cuts Down Force. One hundred and fifty men, four fifths of whom are trained workers, men who have served a long appren ticeship and who are earning an ex cellent grade of pay every day, walked out of the Southern shops in South Atlanta Thursday afternoon, carrying with them an order of suspension for —how long none of them can even conjecture. Not one of the men had the slight est thought of a cessation of labor. Since the season of vacations and rests had passed and the men trained to their several trades were anticipat ing a long winter of money-making work. But, as the men entered the shops Thursday morning, there was a fresh sheet of paper on the bulletin board. Its brightness attracted the attention of every man with his dinner pail upon his arm. All stopped to read the board and to every one it was a surprise. It was brief, but it was plain and unmistakable. It simply announced that when the day ended there would be no work the next day for some of those who read the bul letin. While short and plain, the order indicated those upon whom idleness came. It apprised twenty-fliree ma chinists, whose average pay is $23 to $25 a week; one coppersmith who makes $3 and more a day; three boilerma-kes whose scale is $3.10 a day; fifteen helpers at $1.30 a day; two blacksmiths, who without trouble earn $3.20 a day, and one hundred carpenters and car builders, out of a force of 500 men and who earn $2 every day, that when the day’s work was over they might call at their fore man’s office for their time, as their services would not be needed the next day—Friday. No reason was given the men for the order, but it didn't take them long to figure out a reason. One of the number —he has been with the South ern shops since Pittsburg, as the At lanta shops are designated, was start ed —spoke for the crowd who are laid off: “When I say that the order was a surprise to the men, I tell you the exact facts in the case. Still, among those who are in charge it has not been a surprise recently. We have ascertained that some of these fore men have been working for this or der for more than a week. If they knew any reason for it, however, they have not given it out. But among the men who are touched by the order, as well as among their companions, who still remain in, there is now an understanding. Recent legislation is the cause. And do you know there is »ot a man not bit by the order »f today who feels that he has a certainty of a day’s work. That order which came today may come again tomorrow —it may come at any time and when it does come we will then know, and not before who is next to be let out.” At the regular meeting of the ma chinists of Atlanta Thursday night, it was announced, not in an official way, but in a manner wholly reliable that at Fitzgerald one hundred men, $3.40 a day on the wage scale, had been let out by the Atlanta, Burning ham and Atlantic railroad. No reasons were assigned for that iet-oui. L. & N. SELLS REBATE TICKETS. Plan of Road to Technically Comply With Alabama Rate Laws. The Louisville and Nashville rail road, in seeking to comply with the new 2 1-2 cent passenger rate law in Alabama, has begun the sale of tick ets within the state with coupons at tached which entitle the passenger to a rebate of half a cent a mile in case the suit which the railroad has brought against the state railroad com mission to prevent the enforcement of the new law is decided against it. VERY LOW RATES TO NORFOLK, VA., AND RETURN Account Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition VIA Southern Railway Season, 6o clay and 15 day tickets on sale daily commen cing April 19th, to and including November 30th, 1907. Stop Overs will be allowed on Season, Sixty-day and fifteen-day tickets, same as on Summer Tourist Tickets. For fall and complete information call on Ticket Agents Southern Railway, or write: For rates, routes and schedules or any infor mation, address, C. R. PETIT, Trav. Pass. Agent Macon. Ga. JOHN B. WATKINS, VETERNARY SURGEON. Office at flack Goodwin’s stables below county jail. Office hours: 1.30 to 2.30 p. m., Friday, Saturday and' Sunday. All calls promptly attended to. Office Phone 44; Residence Phone 131, Jackson, Ga. FOR SALE-LOTS IN LOCUST GROVE, GA. 1 Acre, $l5O. Dicken Street 165 ft lront, 500 leet lrom Southern Railway depot. I*4 Acres, SSOO. Clevelrnd Street 100 ft front, facing Railway Crossing. 400 feet from Southern Railway depot. JOHN S. CLEATON, 408-9 Peters Bldg, Atlant a SOLD 13V RELIABLE MtRGHANTS ONLY jPgi pl|M. C. Manufac turers^^^S STATE FAIRi a, Oct. 10th to 26th inclusive ( | ie Sport of Kings” |J vlll be five intensely thrilling running raees. This ex- 111 <1 courage of horseflesh will bring together many of ing horses of America. 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