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Henry County Weekly.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
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ough as second class mail matter.
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per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
For some time we have been reli
ably informed, affirms the New Haven
Register, that "the watts have ears.”
Cut the assurance from a scientific
source that ‘‘the plants have eyes”
would seem to make it unsafe to
spoon even in the park.
There are few finer sights, to the
New York American, than a mounted
policemap of New York bestriding
his splendid bay horse and riding in
coolness and calm Into the thick of
the city tumult. And there is hardly
any spectacle of peace or war equal
to the run of the New York Fire De
partment racing against llames and
death!
To get germs, even of the most
dangerous diseases, Is the daily lot of
every man, woman and child. The
surest safeguard, insists the New
Haven Register, against harm from
these germs is not any toxin, but its
opposite, perfect health. How to get
good health is pretty generally
known. To escape meeting the dan
gerous germ is practically impossible.
The necessary thing to do is plain.
Will some wise philosopher explain
wiiy most fat men like fishing while
most lean ones like hunting, inqures
the New York Press. Is It because
most lean men like the more strenu
ous sport of beating through the
woods in pursuit of game? Your fat
man will sit happy in a boat a whole
day without groaning; your lean
brother wants to go ashore in an
hour unless he gets a bite every two
minutes.
Now, the ' doping” of a racehorse is
against the rules. These rules are
imperative. The horseman who is
caught with a hypodermic syringe to
give abnormal fleetness to the entry
under his charge, is shut out, states
the Boston Post. Is there any reason
why the "doping” of our amateur
athletes with oxygen should be
placed In another category? It seems
to be very much the same, indistin
guishable. us stand for the es
sentials. The part of science in the
development of modern sport is not
-to furnish means of evading its laws,
but in prescribing such methods of
wholesome training as shall hold
American manhood to the fore, where
it stands today.
m
Among the first centenaries we
shall be called upon to celebrate next
year is that of Edgar Allan Poe, born J
January 19, 1809. It is to be an event
lul year so far as centenary celebra- I
Hons are concerned, observes -
ndianapolis News, for In 1809 were also
born Darwin, Chopin, Lincoln, Glad
‘•stone, Fitzgerald, Mendelssohn and
'Tennyson. The list is wonderfully
Impressive, and, when we pause to
consider, though only in a general
way, what these great names stand
for and what these men accomplished
in their lifetime, there is cause indeed
to celebrate the one-hundredth anni
versary of their births. Among them
all, none was a stranger genius than
Poe. He was among the first of the
eight to die, yet his position in the
-world of English literature is hardly
less secure than that of the two
other poets, each of whom lived long
er than the allotted three score years
and ten, who came into the world
with the author of “The Raven.” Poe
was forty years old when he died,
and, if one were inclined to give
weight to coincidences, it might be
remarked as strange that the most
musical poet of his century, whose
theories of melbdy are everywhere
apparent in his verse, died within a
few months of the two great musi
cians born in the same year as him
self— Chopin and Mendelssohn. Of
these three, Mendelssohn died young
est, at the age of thirty-eight; Chopin
and Poe were both forty when, only
ten days apart, they died in October,
1819.
It
Builds
Force
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BUSINESS INTHE SOUTH
Improving-People Taking Hope
ful View of Future.
JOBBING TRADE RESTRICTED
Sayi President of the Southern Railway
After Inspection Trip Through
the South.
Washington, D. C. —President >:n
ley, of the Southern Railway company,
who has just returned to Washington
V’rom an inspection trip of two weeks
over the lines of the system, found
evidences of improvement in business
conditions and of a general disposi
tion on the part of business men
throughout the south to take a hope
ful view of the future. Speaking of
the information he had gathered on
his trip, Mr. Finley said:
"Prices for pig iron are firmer,
southern furnaces, as a rule, have
sold their product up to the end of
the year, and the increasing number
of inquiries for iron warrant the ex
pectation that orders will soon be
placed for business during the coming
year.
Lumber is more active than for
some months past. Especially is this
true of the grades shipped in box cars.
The present demand will be augment
ed by increased requirements from
railways, principally for car repairs,
as some of the railways are contract
ing with car companies for some of
their heavier repair work.
"One of me most encouraging signs
of reviving industrial activity is the
increasing movement of steam coal to
industrial centers. The unusually
warm weather of the present fall is
retarding the movement of domestic
coal.
"The cotton crop is early, and the
fibre is moving to market in larger
volume than at this time last year, al
though, as a result of the stagnation
which has prevailed in the cotton
goods market, prices are lower than
a year ago. The demand for cotton
seed products, is good and they aro
moving freely.
"The domestic market for cotton
goods shows indications of gradual
improvement. Owing to the accumu
lations of large stocks and to other
causes affecting that market, there Is
at present little demand for cotton
goods in northern China. Aside from
this, the export demand is fairly good,
and those mills interested in the
north of China trade are looking for
ward hopefully to a renewal of sales
for that market.
"Grain traffic Into the south—es
pecially corn—is light. This is due,
in part, to the relatively high price of
corn and the low price of cotton, and
in part to the fact that at this season
of the year the south is consuming its
own grain.
"Merchandise stocks, which had
been permitted to run low during the
business depression, are being replen
ished conservatively. Retail trade in
the cities is good, but as a result of
the low price of cotton and of a dis
position on the part of retailers to buy
cautiously for the present, jobbing
trade is still somewhat restricted.
"While some lines of business
not yet shown as much Improvement
as might be wished. I believe that
conditions generally are decidedly bet
ter than at any time since the begin
ning of the business depression a year
ago, and that we have reason to look
forward to a gradual return to a high
er level of prosperity.”
BY-LAWS UF NIIiHT HIDERS.
X
Have Been Placed in Hands of Special
Grand Jury.
Union City. Tenn. —The constitution
and by-laws of the night riders have
been placed in the hands of the grand
jurv.
This constitution and by-laws,
among many other things, provides
that no bank or trust company will be
permitted to make any loans, large or
small, for a* greater rate of interest
than 6 per cent, and further that after
the first day of July, 1909, no farme’-
will be allowed to employ any colored
help on his farm, and that all ne
groes will be notified to leave the
country under penalty of death; that
all merchants shall sell their goods
and merchandise at not to exceed 10
per cent profit, and otherwise regulat
ing all wages to be paid by the farm-
help and regulating the price of
all farm products to be sold, cotton,
corn, etc.
These by-laws show that the organ
ization does not only comprise the
night riders cf Obion county, but in
cludes all night rider organizations all
over the country. This document is of
inch importance that a verbatim copy
cannot be had, as it is said that it is
very valuable as evidence.
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THE
GEHM STATE
FAIR
For This Year Will Be Held at
MACON, GA„ OCT. 21 TO NOV. ]
BY THE
iVACON GEORGIA STATE FAIR ASSOCIATION,
Under the Auspices of
Georgia State Agricultural Society.
While Agriculture will form the leading feature of the exhibition, the
commercial and manufacturing interests of the State will be fully represented
in the various displays.
Among the best attractions to be offered, will be included Fireworks,
Balloon Ascensions, Horse Racing, flilitary Displays, and other first-class
amusements.
Premium List will be forwarded to all who wish them.
For all other information in regard to space for exhibitors, prices, and
terms for privileges and concessions, please write to
BEN. L. JONES, President.
BRIDGES SHITH, Secretary.
R. L. McKINNEY, Treasurer.
W. A. HUFF. Gen’l Mgr.
SONS OF GEORGIA MEET
In New York City at First Social
Affair of the Season.
MEMORIES OF HOMELAND
Revived and Friendships Were More
Firmly Cemented—Thomas McGuire
of Atlanta President.
New York City.—Loyal sons of old
Georgia, with guests from various
parts of the country, gathered togeth
er here at the Waldorf-Astoria in a
convention of good-fellowship and a
conclave of congeniality. Georgians
were present from almost every poi
tion of the state, from Rabun Gap to
Thomasville; and it was a time when
fragrant memories of the homeland
were revived, when friendships were
more firmly cemented, and state’s
brotherhood was put upon a stronger,
surer footing, and, above all else, it
was a time when thoughts of Georgia
w'ere in every heart and a toast to
Georgia was on every pair of lips.
The occasion was the first social af
fair of the season of the Georgia So
ciety of the City of New York. It
was designated as a smoker, and is
to be followed by three receptidns and
dances on Tuesday. November 24; Fri
day, January 29, and Tuesday, March
9, and by another smoker on Friday,
April 30.'
Thomas McGuire, formerly of At
lanta, is president of the Georgia so
ciety, and presided. A happy fea
ture of the occasion was when he in
troduced James F. Allen, formerly of
Warren, who in a neat speech pre
sented a gavel to Bedell Parker, ex
president of the association and orig
inally a citien of Hamilton, Ga. The
gavel was made of Georgia pine.
TO HOLD FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.
Dates and Places of The:: Meetinngs
Announced.
Atlanta. Ga. —Word has been receiv
ed by Commissioner of Agriculture T.
G. Hudson at the state capitol that
Dr. A. M. Soule, president of the State
College of Agriculture at Athens, and
director of the Farmers' Institutes,
will resume the holding of these in
stitutes throughout the state. Simi
lar institutes were held in a number
of counties during the summer of
j this year with gratifying results. It
worked up a great deal of interest iu
1 regard to agricultural education, the
result of which was felt at the open
ing of the agricultural college at Ath
ens this fall.
The places for holding these insti
tutes and dates, as announced by Dr.
Soule, are as follows:
Cedartown, November 5; Buena Vis
ta, November 5; Lawrenceville, No
vember 6; Arlington, November G;
Lexington, November 7; Pelham. No
vember 7; Mcßae, November 12; Xew
nan, November 12; LaGrange, Novem
ber 13; Baxley, November 13; Barnes
ville, November 14; Lyons, November
14; Dublin, November 19; States
boro, November 20; Meldrim, Novem
ber 21; Madison, November 28.
Much attention will be given in
these lectures to the industries of cat
tle raising and dairying. Dr. Soule is
a great advocate of cotton seed meal
mixed with cotton seed hulls as a cat
tle feed and as a dairy feed. It, has
been demonstrated that cattle will fat
ten more readily on this feed than an
other feed. As a food for dairy cat
tle, it is held to be not only the cheap
est, but the best, and the results ob
tained from dairy cattle fed upon it
are most gratifying.
At these institutes will be given
theoretical talks to practical farmers,
the combination of which will do a
great deal toward developing the con
dition of the Georgia farmer.
COMMISSION WILL RIDE FREE.
When Inspecting the Railroads of the
State.
Atlanta, Ga. —Regardless of the crit
icism levelled against them by an At
lanta paper for using a special train
furnished by the railroad in inspect
ing railroad property, ‘the railroad
commission announces that they are
determined to continue this policy.
The members of the commission
are now planning the itinerary of oth
er trips of inspection. They are anx
ious at an early date to visit Savan
nah and Brunswick and inspect the
terminals and wharves at these points.
The question of a special charge for
shipside delivery of cotton, which was
recently raised, though not within the
jurisdiction of the commission, has
whetted their desire to make a per
sonal inspection of existing conditions
at these seaports. Under the law,
wharves and terminals are within the
jurisdiction of the railroad commis
sion.
While on his way home from States
boro Abe Bird, a prominent citizen
and farmer of Bulloch county, was
waylaid and shot at with a shotgun
loaded with bird shot. Bird ran his as
sailant down and gave him a beating
which he will long remember.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Officers were elected by the grand
lodge of Masons in session at Macon
as follows: Thomas Jeffries, Atlanta,
re-elected grand master; Henry
Banks, LaGrange, deputy grand mas
ter; J. ,M. Russhin, Boston, Ga., grand
treasurer; W. I. Wollihin, Macon,
grand secretary, and R. L. Childing,
Savannah, grand senior warden.
Engineer Charles F. Pease of Atlan
ta and his negro fireman, Watts Par
due, were killed when a northbound
freight train on the Southern railroad
crashed into an open switch in the
outskirts of Rome. The switch had
been thrown during the night. The
lock had been broken and is missing,
The wreck appears to have been the
work of train wreckers, and officers
are now on the case, though no clew
has been found to the identity of the
perpetrators.
In view of the effort being made by
several southern cities to secure some
of the troops which are soon to be re
turned fro mCuba, a letter received by
Congressman W. G. Brantley of
Brunswick, from Adjutant General F.
C. Ainsworth, states that the troops
upon return from Cuba will be sent
diiectly to their stations in the Unit
ed States. The letter to Congressman
Brantley says: “I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt today of your
letter of October 22, 1908, in which,
with reference to newspaper state
ments that the troops now in Cuba
are shortly *o be returned to the Unit
ed States and that they will probably
be stationed at some southern point
or points, you ask whether some of
them could be stationed at Brunswick,
Ga., and in response thereto to inform
you, by the direction of secretary of
war, that, upon the relief of the troops
from duty in Cuba, they will be sent
directly to their station in the United
States.”
The Gress zoo at Grant park, At
lanta, will have added to it a water
buffalo and a female elk. The park
board recently agreed to let the Van
Amberg show and the George Rollins
show winter at Piedmont Park. The
former will contribute the buffalo, and
the latter the elk. There are said to
be only three water buffalos in this
country, and Atlanta is to have one
cf them.
Thomas Darlev, eldest son of Rev.
T. \V. Darlev of Wrightsville, was fa
tally hurt by the accidental discharge
of a ’gun with which he was playing.
The bullet took effect in the right
temple, going through the head and
breaking a mirror on the opposite side
of the room.
