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Henry County Weekly.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the postofflce at MeDon*
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Hates: SI.OO per inch
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
The Christian Register exclaims:
Two waves of population meet in our
cities: the one starts from foreign
shores, the other flows in from the ru
ral districts The result is conges
tion and misery. The cure is evident.
Says the Milwaukee Sentinel:“Of
course, raising freight rates $100,000,-
COO a year will help prosperity to come
sooner by putting a little extra bur
den on business men who are already
in bad straits for profits. When our
little line of business is prosperous,
then the nation is well fed.”
Two French duellists fought the oth
er day for an hour and a half, and
then had to break off because of the
approaching darkness. One of them
w'as scratched on the arm. Duelling
in the Paris suburbs is becoming
about as harmless a summer even’s
diversion as sprinkling the grass and
running the lawn mower.
The committee for the prevention
of tuberculosis had the posters which
it sent among the Italian tenements
recently printed in English instead
of Italian, <on the advice of Dr. Stella,
an Dalian physician, chronicles the
New York Tribune. His reason was
conclusive; “90 percent of the Italian
immigrants read no language, and 90
percent of their children read, but
only English.”
There are in New Haven about four
thousand persons • who have come
from a single province in Italy, learns
Youth’s Companion. They pride them
selves —and well they may—on the
fact that during the last twenty years
not one of them has been sentenced to
jail in New Haven, there has not been
a single divorce case, no one has been
implicated in a murder case, and there
have been few civil actions among
them. It is evident, either that these
Italians are most uncommonly good
people by nature, or that there is
something in the air of Connecticut
which makes it still the “land of
steady habits.”
Some years ago before his death
Charles A. Dana predicted that l.y 1920
New York would be a Jewish commun
ity. Probably he set the date too early,
but that the event is destined to come
is shown by some facts collected by
Dr. Joseph Voorsanger, who died In
San Francisco recently. These are that
New York’s aggregation of Jews is the
largest in history or tradition, repre
senting as it does, 10 percent of all the
Jews in the world. It is larger than
the aggregate Jewish populations of
Vienna, Budapest, Berlin, Vilna, Am
sterdam, Lemberg and Ixmdon. It is
ten times larger than the entire Jew
ish population of France, twenty times
larger than the entire Jewish popula
tion of Italy, twenty-five times larger
than the population of Jerusalem, and
fifteen times larger than the entire
Jewish population of Syria and Pales
tine.
The city of Rochester, already wide
ly cited for its example in the matter
of milk inspection and distribution, is
about to give further evidence of an
active civic spirit in the way of sani
tary progress and popular comfort,
announces the New York World. Un
der the direction of the Chamber of
Commerce, plans were invited recent
ly for the construction of two thou
sant six-room modern cottages for
workingmen. There have been re
sponses from nearly a thousand archi
tects of this country and of Eurdpe.
The selection of designs is now' going*
on and the business of putting up the
houses will follow the naming of the
winners in the competition. Working
me nalready in Rochester will gain by
this undertaking, for such a precedent
in wholesome building will surely be
followed. Profit to the city is expect
ed through the attraction of new- man
ufacturing plant 3 whose employes may
look for most convenient housing.
ARMY OFFICERS REPORT
Crops Were Completely De
stroyed in the Section Be
low Augusta.
SCHOOLS ARE NOT OPENED
i
Temporary Canal Bank* Collapaed—
Spartanburg, S. C., Man Misting
Since Flood.
Augusta, Ga. —Captain A. H. Hu
guet, United States Army, here in
connection with the flood conditions,
has returned from a trip of inspection
down the Savannah valley. He was
accompanied by Congressman J. O.
Patterson. He reports that the sec
tion below Augusta suffered greatly.
Crops are completely destroyed, and
a number of houses W'ere washed
away. The people, mostly negroes,
are in extreme distress. In some
spots the damage was worse than at
Augusta. Captain Huguet has order
ed government supplies sent there.
At Robins, 40 miles down, the water
was 36 feet deep. Robins is in a ba
sin, ordinarily protected from flood
waters by a high ibank. Water got
over this bank and did great damage.
As a result of the recent flood, the
public schools will not open until the
first of October, two weeks late. The
enrollment of pupils was made Mon
day morning, and the schools were
closed until the call of teachers is
made. This measure is occasioned by
a lack of water, and the consequent
complications of crowded buildings.
The work of cleaning up the city is
progressing well, and nearly every
vestige of the work wrought by the
flood has been removed. The im
provement of the streets has been
rapid and will continue until finished.
William J. Oliver is now busily at
work on the canal, and it is probably
that the waterworks will be in op*
Oration in a few days. The tempo
rary canal bank, at the break, 400
yards- above the pumping station, has
collapsed. The collapse has caused a
distinct disappointment. Meanwhile
there will >be a 2,000,000 gallon supply
dally, just as there has been during
the past. /
Spartanburg, S. C. —It. is feared that
D. S. Whitt of Macon, Ga., who trav
els for the Southern Granite and Mar
ble Company of this city was drown
ed in the flood in Augusta, Ga., during
the latter part of August, as nothing
has been heard of him since August
22, when he wrote a letter to his com
pany from Aiken, saying he expected
to ieave within the next few days
for Augusta. President Dodgen of
the Southern Granite and Marble
Company, is at a loss to account for
the disappearance of Mr. Whitt unless
he was caught by the flood in Augusta
and drotvned.
JtAILROADS DO NOT CONNECT.
Citizens of Fitzgerald and Other
Towns Appeal to Commission.
Atlanta, Ga. —Chairman McLendon
of the railroad commission of Geor
gia has received numerous complaints
from citizens of Fitzgerald, Abbeville,
Rochelle and Ocilla about the failure
of ,the Southern and Seaboard to con
nect at Helena.
It seems that the Southern, which
carries the mail from Atlanta and all
points north, east and west, leaves At
lanta about midnight and arrives at
Helena at 5:45 a. m. The Seaboard
train from Savannah to Americus
passes Helena at 5 :'lO, or just thirty
five minutes before the arrival of the
Southern. The result of this failure
to make connection is to cause seri
ous inconvenience to all the people
west of Helena served by the Sea
board and to cause an extensive de
lay In the delivery of mail.
These facts have been reported to
the railroad commission. Chairman
•McLendon declares he is unable to
make a ruling offhand on this point
or until a full hearing before the full
commission. He is willing to call this
hearing, if desired.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER
Is Candidate for Pension Commission
er of Georgia.
Atlanta. Qa. —W. W. Wilson of Bu
ford. Ga„ candidate for pension com
missioner, is believed to be the last
surviving non-commissioned officer of
the confederate army. Mr. Wilson
was for more than ten years editor of
The Plow Boy, which paper was given
a state and national reputation for its
defense of the rights of the old vet
erans. He has been a member of the
house* of representatives for the last
two terms. His friends are sanguine
of his success in the October elec
tion.
DEMOBEffTwAS SELECTED.
jtjorth Georgia Association of Con
gregational Churches Adjourns.
Oxford, Ga. —At the annual meeting
of the North Georgia Association of
Congregational Churches, which was
in session at Cardis, 6 miles north of
this place, it was decided to hold the
next meeting of the association at
Oemorest on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday preceding the second Sun
day in September, 1909. Rev. W. O.
Phillips, pastor of the Congregational
Church at Demorest; Rev. C. C. King,
of Atlanta, and Rev. J. C. Forrester,
pastor of the Congregational Church
at Hoschton, were named members of
cfce new business committee.
STATE SEWS BRIEFLY TOED.
People in the Moultrie section are
watching Dry lake just now. Dry
lake is a large body of water near
Pidcock that has a habit of drying it
self every seven years. This is the
year for the lake to dry itself, and
the water is now disappearing through
an opening in the bottom of the lake.
The process is a little slow, and it
will take a week or ten days for it to
get low enough to catch the many Ash
that it contains with nets and seines.
The fishermen are getting daily re
ports from it, and at the right time
will swoop down on the fish that are
said to be in great size and quantity.
Elbert county, Georgia, will rebuild
wooden bridges recently destroyed
by the flood with steel structures.
The Georgie and Alabama Industri
al Index says: “In the industrial de
velopment of Georgia in recent years
a feature that ha 3 been prominent is
the great progress made in wood
working industries turning out pro
ducts of a highgrade character. Con
tract has just been closed to furnish
several of the modern high school
buildings being erected in Alabama
with desks and other school supplies
made in Columbus, Ga., right in the
heart of Dixie. The shipments made
by a show case company in Columbus
during the mid-summer month of Aug
ust were the heafviest for any month
in its history.” * f
In Dorougherty county, Georgia, a
company has applied for charter with
$40,000 capital to engage in peach cul
ture.
The Merchants and Manufacturers’
association of Atlanta, have asked the
Northeastern Passenger association
to allow stop overs of three to four
days on all travelers passing through
Atlanta. It is believed the request
will be granted.
By omitting the final letter “r” from
the word manufacturer in the Wise
“near-beer” bill the bill was made to
require the “manufacture” of the im
itation beer to have his name appear
on the label. The legislature passed
the bill in this shape without any
change, and the lawyers are now spec
ulating on what effect the strange
omission of a letter will have in case
a manufacturer chooses not to label
his bottles sold in this state.
Work will begin within the next
month or so on an extensive mill fac
tory that Is to toe established in At
lanta by a number of capitalists, from
Lynn, Mass., the big manufacturing
center. The new enterprise will be
devotetj to the manufacture of cotton
mill machinery. It will represent an
initial investment of about $75,000.
Sam T. Whitaker, Jr., who was in
charge of the ginnery at G. W. Tru
itt’s plantation near West Point had
his arm literally torn from his shoul
der bv machinery and physicians say
there is no chance for his recovery.
E. H. Cannon, fi. young man em
ployed as a piano player in a vaude
ville house at Savannah was stricken
blind while en route home. He is said
to have a nervous trouble which ef
fects his optic nerves.
Judge James A. Pitman, re-elected
ordinary of Douglas county for a sec
ond term, makes a unique, in fact, a
startling announcement in a Douglas
ville paper. He puts the voters of
the county on notice now that he will
not be a candidate for re-election at
the end of his present term. While
the judge does not intimate that it is
a case of “turn the rascals out,” he
believes in the Andrew Jackson pol
icy of rotation in office.
New ginning companies have been
organized at Broxton and Lavonia.
The bond commission of Fitzgerald
opened bids for the $130,000 bond is
sue recently voted by the city of
Fitzgerald and awarded the bonds to
the Providence Savings Bank and
Trust company of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The bonds were sold at $101.62 1-2,
making the total of the sale $132,-
112.50.
Postmasters appointed for Georgia:
Gaddißtown, Union county, John C.
Cavender, vice S. E. Jones, dead; Kin
law, Camden county, Ada Roberts,
vice G. R. Gowen, resigned.
R. W. Bishop, patent attorney, re
ports the issue of the following pat
ents to residents of Georgia: Over
shoe fastener, J. T. Hearn, Victory,
electric heat unit, G. H. Wade, Atlan
ta; anchorage for telegraph poles, J.
D. Seif, Hamilton; window, B. A. War
lick. Atlanta; feed and quick release
valve, J. A. Hicks, Atlanta, assignor
to Hicks Improved Engine Brake com
pany, same place.
The sum of $184,64.00 has been ap
propriated by the Bibb county boaid
of commissioners for operating expen
ses this year. This is an increase of
about $7,000 over last year. It will take
all of the above amount to run the
different departments of the county
through the year, as there are more
bilte to be met now than before. The
commissioners raised the county tax
from 7 1-2 mills to 8 mills, making
a difference of 50 cents upon each
thousand dollars of property.
Atnens has awarded contract to?
a handsome high school building.
The commissioners of roads and rev
enues of Dougherty county have de
cided to carry forward the extensive
road improvements to be made in that
county during the next few years. The
commissioners have immediately
available a fund of $30,000. About
$5,000 of this amount will be utilized
for the purchase of a heavy steam
roller and other machinery to supple
ment that already on hand, and the
remaining $25,000 will be expended
upon actual work. Two of the main
roads leading out of Albany have al
ready been built up with the hard
limestone similar to that to be used
in the further improvements, and
have proved in every way satisfac
tory.
UNCLE SAM TAKES TO AVIATION.
The National Birds—AV. Ha! We Have a R val!
—Minneapolis Journal.
AMERICA HAS PLENTY OF MONEY
Treasury Vaults at Washington, D. C., Are Too Small to Hold
Government Cash.
Washington, D. C. —Uncle Sam, en
riched $500,000,000 by the provisions
of the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill,
now has so much money on hand that
he cannot wait for the construction of
new vaults in the Treasury Building,
but has rented rooms in a storage
building and placed relays of guards
on the inside and outside. This vast
amount of money may never be used,
but so large a sum is necessary to
supply the 6824 national banking in
stitutions in the United States in case
of a financial stringency.
Deputy Treasurer Bentz reported
that the available cash reserve in the
Treasury was $190,000,000, the high
est figure it has reached this year.
He is of the opinion that the possi
bility of a stringency this year is over,
VILAS PLANS A $30,000,000 GIFT
Leaves Estate in Trust to Multiply For Wisconsin University^
Madison, Wis. An eventual en
dowment of $30,000,000 for the Wis
consin University is provided for in
the will of Colonel William F. Vilas,
former member of the Cleveland Cab
inet and United States Senator, who
died here recently.
The will was filed for probate and
provides that the estate, valued at
from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000, be
placed in the hands of four trustees
to he held in trust as long as Mrs.
Vilas shall live. During her life she
is to receive the net income from the
estate, and upon her death the entire
property is to be turned over to the
university, subject only to a charge
of $30,000 a year to his daughter,
Mrs. L. M. Hanks, and some minor
charges. The bequest to Mrs. Hanks
THE WARSHIP OF THE FUTURE.
Prediction of an Engineer of the Geological Survey-—He Believes
Uas Engines Will Be Installed In Naval Vessels In the Next
Kew Years. Which Will Hake Them Smokeless.
Noiseless Craft and Reduce Coal Bill.
Washington, D. C.—The war vessel
of the future will be a swift, smoke
less, noiseless craft, lying low in the
water, with every vulnerable part be
low the water line, the entire deck
being for the work of the guns. There
will be no smoke, because there will
be no smokestacks' In the night
time there will be nothing to betray
the presence of this invincible fight
ing demon to the enemy.
This prediction was made by Rob
ert Heywood Fernald, mechanical en
gineer, who has for several years
been connected with the fuel investi
gations of the United States Geologi
cal Survey. Mr. Fernald believes
that the gas engine, or internal com
bustion motor, as it is called by engi
neers, will be installed in naval ves
sels of the United States within the
next few years.
"I expect to see the United States
ahead cff every other nation in this
innovation,” said Mr. Fernald. “The
gas engine, in my opinion, is feasible
on any vessel because of its economy
over the steam engine, but it is espe
cially desirable on the fighting shjp
for the reason that it makes no
smoke. The gas is generated in a
producer which has no chimney and
needs none. The coal is turned di
rectly into gas, which goes straight
to the engine.
“The elimination of the smoke is
sufficient to call for the installation
of the gas engine, vet there are many
other features in its favor. The ves
sel would have a free deck for the
play of its big guns. There would be
no towering stacks to be punctured
or destroyed, thus crippling the boat.
Then it would be unnecessary to
carry as much coal, for the same
power can be developed with one
third less than the steam engine
and that the crops can be moved with
out the slightest difficulty. “Condi
tions are vastly different this year,”
he said, “not only in New York, but
throughout the country. New York
banks have millions and millions of
surplus on hand, while a year ago
they were struggling with scarcely
the legal requirements. Money, in
stead of being in great demand at
high prices, is very easy on call at
from three-fourths to one per cent.
In the West the banks are all well
supplied with currency, and will be
able to do more than their usual
share toward moving the crops. From
every direction signs of increased
prosperity are seen. Small bills are
in great demand, which is always a
good sign.”
is to continue during her life time.
After the property is turned over to
the university one-half of the net in
come is to be expended until the prin
cipal with increment shall reach
320,000,000; then one-fourth of net
income will be laid aside and added
to the principal until the property
shall reach the sum of $30,000,000,
when the entire income can be used
by the university as provided in the
will. The purpose of Colonel Vilas in
leaving his wealth to the university
in such a manner that it will even
tually create an enormous fund was
to accomplish a permanent source of
revenue for the advancement of
knowledge and place the university
in the foremost ranks of .the great
educational institutions of the world.
uses. The gas producer and the gas
engine would take up less room and
weigh less than the same power
Scotch boiler and steam engine. The
vessel would have a radius of travel
far greater than at present.
“Of course I do not expect to see
the gas engine confined to the use of
the navy. The fact that it shows
such economies will compel its instal
lation in all sorts of vessels. One of
the big items of expense to a modern
ocean liner is its coal bill. These
vessels will consume 10,000 tons of
high grade coal on a round trip. With
the gas engine this could be reduced
to 6000 or 7000 tons, a saving of
several thousand dollars.
“One of the big steamship compa
nies of the great lakes is about to
take the initiative in this movement.
Plans have made for a freighter that
will use a 2000 horse power gas en
gine. This company is making the
experiment to test the economy of the
gas engine over the steam engine.”
The I nited States Geological Sur
vey has been experimenting with the
gas producer and gas engine for sev
eral years and has demonstrated that
this type of engine in a stationary
plant is capable of generating from
twice to three times as much power
from a given amount of coal as the
steam engine. It has also shown that
the gas engine can develop more pow
er from a low grade coal.
The purpose of the Government has
not been to develop the gas engine,
but to increase the efficiency of the
coal supply of the countrv, which is
now being depleted. The Govern
ment spends $10,000,000 yearly for
coal, and it was primarily to get the
results from this expenditure
t>mt the investigations of the gas pro
ducer and gas engine w>as taken up.
