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Henry County Weekly.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
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An eminent bacteriologist, after
searching investigation, says the dan
ger from germs in our paper currency
is much over-estimated. Notice, ob
serves the New York Herald, a grow
ing belief in many circles that there’s
no such thing as tainted money.
The automobile associations might
do more than they are doing, believes
the Philadelphia Press to check ex
cessive speeding, and the officers of
the law must do everything possible
to check this disgraceful and danger
ous running. Whether the occupants
of the machines should be protected
from themselves or not, the people
who use the highways are entitled to
protection.
It may be possible that the ordi
nance against automobiles entering
i
parks using gasoline, therefore inevi
tably emitting bluish streams of
smoke, is not altogether justified by
the facts, suggests the New York
American. Vapors from machines
consuming oil are offensive to the
olfactory sense. So are turpentine
and assafoetida, yet both are invalua
ble as germ destroyers.
It is estimated, by the New York
Mail, that 20,000,000 Americans
change their residence for a week or
more every year during the vacation
t ason, and that in making the
ckange they spend in railroad fare,
board, recreative amusements and in
cidentals something more than $300,-
000,000. The vacation habit has
grown up during the last forty years,
in great measure since the Centennial
exposition of 1876. No other country
approaches our own in its summer
phenomena.
The news that Earl Robert’s illness
In Montreal was caused by the ex
cessive heat will be Interesting read
ing to Mr. Rudyard Kipling .author
of “Our Lady of the Snows,” explains
the St. John (N. B.) Sun. The British
Field Marshal has spent a great deal
of his life in the hottest parts of In*
dia and is doubtless able to stand
heat fairly well. But the bßmd they
handed out to him in Montreal was
evidently quite as warm as anything
he had met with across the Atlantic.
We hope “Bobs” will not forget to
mention this fact to his friends when
he returns home.
The London Times has been pub
lishing letters from this country on
our coeducative system, the general
conclusion of which is that the
schools are feminized; that a greater
number of girls than boys attend and
that the virtues emphasized are those
of the girl and not the boy, and that
this is at the expense of manly char
acter. Dr. Stanley Hall, of Clark Uni
versity, recently emphasized the same
thing, dwelling on the presence of too
many women teachers in the public
schools. The Philadelphia Press,
commenting on these things, says:
It is open to every man’s observation
that the last thirty years, in which
•women have taken the place of men
until they are three-quarters of the
teachers, where once they were only
a fourth, have seen the entire ad
vance of the American boy in athle
tics. Initiative, quickness, invention,
resolutions ,the general capacity to
rise and to organize are noted by
every observer from abroad, and was
never more diffused. The manners of
the American have improved as never
before. School attendance has grown.
National progress is apparent at all
points, moral and material, aesthetic,
athletic and intellectual. If “femini
zation” in the schools is injuring ihe
American, as Dr. Hall charges, the
practical results in the popular ad
vance are envied by the world. Every
nation desires what has come here,
where the children of the state have
in the public school the care of that
universal mother —the American
wom-a teacher.
I Electrocution the |
| Only Humane filling j
By Dr. E. Ji. Spiizka, the Eminent Ji
Brain Specialist
R- SPITZKA, the eminent brain specialist, read before the
» X opening session of the American Philosophical Society, at
T I J Philadelphia, last week a paper which was virtually an out
♦ * an< *' out declaration for electrocution as the only humane
J x method of inflicting death, and he urged its adoption in all
States and countries. His paper, from which the brief ex
♦ • stracts presented below were taken, was based upon the
results of thirty-one electrocutions, which he witnessed in
the Sing Sing, Auburn, Dannemora, and Trenton prisons,
the method being employed in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts
and Virginia.
Ihe history of electrocution covers a period of only twenty years. It was
first introduced in New York in 1888. In its operation, the electric current
8 tur ned on and reduced and increased alternately. From seven to ten am
p< res pass through a body. The time consumed in strapping is about forty
fi\e seconds, and in sixty to seventy seconds the victim is shocked to death.
Consciousness is blotted out instantly. In only two cases of those I have
o served was there respiratory effort after the current was turned on.
A Post mortem examination of the body reveals much interesting phe
nomena. I here is a rising of the temperature, in one case as high as 129 Vi
degiees I*. Ihe lungs are devoid of blood and weigh six or seven ounces av
olrdupois. Jhe blood seems to be under a chemical change and is of a dark
brownish hue, almost black, and it rarely coagulates. On the nervous cells
then; is no apparent effect, although there is a molecular change.
I have witnessed a number of hangings at Moyaraensing Prison, and
would recommend a reading of Oscar Wilde’s poem “Ballad of Reading Jail,”
to illustrate the unpleasantness of the dancing feet in the air.
The preparations in hanging are about as quick as in electrocution, but
the heart beats for some time after the drop, usually thirteen minutes. And
there is a spasmodic movement of the body after the shock of the drop, due
to a partly conscious effort to stop the choking, lasting for about one and
a half minutes.
In only one case w'as there no movement of the body after the drop, and
that, was a Chinaman, who, it is believed, died of apoplexy. Of five bodies
which I examined at the Jefferson Hospital, ;n every case death was due to
strangulation.
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£ The Meaning of a Smile
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By Winifred Black.
N old man died in Michigan the other day and left $25,000 to
I jj ft a young woman who was no kin to him.
■ I l n the old man’s will he said: “I leave this money to this
■ 1 woman for the sake of her bright smile. She comforted the
I ft * ast mon ths of my dear wife’s life, and I never saw her when
1 V A/ I she was not ready to smile.”
■ M ■ Twenty-five thousand dollars for a smile.
Well, it was cheap at the price.
It was a smile that came from the heart. If it hadn’t
been it would never have made the impression that it did.
A smirk is not a smile, neither is a grin. You can smirk with malice
and you can grin when you feel like slamming the door, but you can’t smile
to save your life, unless there is kindliness and love in your heart.
The young woman who took her youth and her vitality and her cheerful
smile, and gave it to a sick old woman, did it because she was good and she
couldn’t help smiling.
I am glad she is going to get that money.
It isn’t what we do that counts so much, after all; it’s what we are.
I’ve been given a present with such a mean spirit showing in the eyes of
the giver that I felt like throwing the gift into the fire.
And I have been refused a favor by some one who looked at me with
so much kindness that my heart was light in spite of the refusal.
Hypocrisy doesn’t pay—it never deceives any one long.
I never knew a man who lived for himself alone who could deceive peo
ple into liking him for longer than six months.
I never knew a woman who was at heart mean and envious who could
make even a little child like her when she smiled.
Beware of the man who’s smile is a mere twist of the mouth.
IX)ok out for the woman who looks as if she had been eating something
sour when she tries to smile.
GiVe me the woman who smiles because she can’t help it and the man
who laughs and doesn’t know it.
They’re the sort of people to live with.
| The Criticism That Helps ?
> Ey Ellen Terry. >
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* WAS once asked, “Are you affected by adverse criticism?”
i X I answered then, and I answer now, that legitimate adverse
criticism has always been of use to me, if only because it
£ I 2 “gave me to think” —furiously. Seldom does the Outsider,
♦ ♦ however talented as a writer and observer, recognize the
actor’s art, and often we are told that we are acting best
♦ ♦ are showing the works most plainly, and denied
any special virtue when we are concealing our method.
Professional criticism is helpful chiefly because it induces
one to criticize one's self. “Did I give that impression to any one? Then
there must have been something wrong somewhere.” The “something” is
often a perfectly different blemish from that to which the critic drew atten
tion.
Unprofessional criticism is often more helpful still, but alas! one’s
friends r.re to one's faults more than a little blind and to one's virtues very
kind. It is through letters from people quite unknown to me that I have
sometimes learned valuable lessons. During the run of "Romeo and Juliet”
some one wrote and told me that if the dialogue at the ball could be taken in
a lighter and quicker way, it would better express the manner of a girl of
Juliet's age. The same unknown critic pointed out that I was too slow and
studied in the balcony scene. She —I think it was a woman—was perfectly
right.—McClure’s Magazine.
The Canny Scot.
“I hear yer frien’ Tamson's married
again.”
“Aye, so he is. He's been a dear
frien’ to me. He’s cost me three
weddin' presents an’ twa wreaths.” —
London Tit-Bits.
The prejudice against hospitals is
disappearing among the Parisians. At
present about one-half of the cases of
illness are treated in them, whereas
ten years ago the proportion was only
one-quarter.
Speaking of Ills.
Peopde aggravate their illnesses by
talking about them; certainly they
influence other folks’ by dwelling on
their own, and we all know that we
can talk ourselves, and other people
can talk us, into headaches, nervous
attacks and fits depression.
And Custom Dies Hard.
She I suppose you will commit sui
cide if I refuse you?
—that has been my custom!
—The Sketch.
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE,
I will be at the different preeintson the days mentioned fer the
purpose of collecting the State and County, and Local School Taxes
for the year 1908
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER.
Hampton i and 29 18 10
2 and 30 19
Flippen 5 2 & 20
Stockbridge 7 4& 23 14
Shakerag 8 5& 24
Brushy Knob 9 • 6& 25
Loves 12 9& 26
McMullens 13 10 & 27
Beersheba 14 11&30
Sandy Ridge 15 12 3
Tussahav/ . 16 1} 4
Locust Grove 22 16 7&16
Lowes 23 17 8
Snapping Shoals 10 oclock, A. M. 2
Island Shoals 1 oclock, P. M. 2
Woodstown 2 oclock, P. M. 2
McDonough: Court Week, First Tuesdays
and Saturdays until Books are closed,
DECEMBER 20TH.
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
Georgia, nenry County.
Notice is hereby given to all creditors
of the estate of J. B. Price Jr, late of Hen
ry county, deceased, to render in an ac
count of their demands to me within the
time prescribed by law, properly made
out. And all persons indebted to said de
ceased are hereby requested to make im
mediate payment to the undersigned
Thi# the 3d day of Aug. 1908.
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