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Henry County Weekly.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
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People don’t seem a milionth part
as crazy to break into heaven as so
ciety, insists the New York Press.
Francis Darwin has a theory too. He
Insists that plants have memories. If
that be so, argues the New York Tel
egram. you can’t blame the overripe
tomato for hitting some actors.
Says the New York World: Every
cloud-piercing structure in the world
that is accessible to visitors is safe
guarded for the protection of those
who may be inclined to yield to the
impulse to cast themselves to earth.
A woman in Paris seeks divorce be
«ause the color of her husband’s hair
doesn’t harmonize with her furniture.
It’s a long lane that has no turning,
shouts the New York Telegram. The
hairless man has had quite a number
of boosts of late.
There is a leper cure institution
maintained in Louisiana. But it is
difficult to get persons there, affirms
the Pittsburg Dispatch. The railroads
refuse to transport them and people
flee from them en route. The first
care of a law establishing a leprosar
ium will have to be a provision for
moving the victims to the camp.
There are some obvious reasons
why the trolley roads are better able
to avoid casualties, but on the other
hand there is no reason why the steam
railroad corporations cannot also avail
themselves of many devices which
prevent accidents, declares the New
York Press. There is plenty of tes
timony to show that at least half of
the American railroad accidents could
be easily prevented by proper expen
ditures on mechanical precautions.
It la reported to the Washington
Post, that many letters have been re
ceived already pointing out some of
the handicaps under which farmers
labor and suggesting more or less
novel remedies. Among the farmers’
grievances are bad roads, excessive
charges by middlemen, poor educa
tional facilities and scarcity of compe
tent labor. Doubtless a few Bcore ad
ditional drawbacks to perfect farm
life will come to light as the commis
sion pursues its inquiries.
So long as the marking of civil serv
ice examination papers is perfectly
uniform it is no injustice to any one
lhat it is severe. There are far more
applicants than places; only a few of
those who submit themselves to the
test can be gratified, and they should
be the ones who pass at the head of
the list. It does not matter, protests
the Philadelphia Record, whether a
severe examiner, taking notice of
punctuation and capitalization, marks
them 75, or whether an easy examiner,
who does not pay attention to small
errors, marks them 95.
One of the most valuable discoveries
#ue to vivisection is the antitoxin
which has proved so efficient in the
treatment of tetanus. We quote what
Dr. M. A. Starr says on this subject;
“Lockjaw', or tetanus, is quite common
in this country, where in certain spec
ial localities the germ of the disease
is constantly present in the soil. This
is particularly tme along the seashore,
in Long Island, in New Jersey, in the
Southern States and all about the
Great Lakes. It has been thought that
the fertilization of the ground by de
cayed fish or fish bones and shells was
responsible for the presence of the or
ganism causing lockjaw. This germ
can be inoculated into horses, and
from the serum of their blood an an
titoxin can be obtained which if in
jected into the blood of a person suf
fering from tetanus at once relieves
the symptoms. Formerly there w’ere
several hundred deaths from lockjaw
in America every year. Now such
deaths are rarely recorded.
Serious Books vs. Fiction
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By E. S. Martin. nrh^f^j
OHE habit of reading the more substantial books seems to have
taken hold of a much larger proportion of the people of the
British Isles than of us Americans. And even that is not all.
We seem not to be gaining the habit, for the proportion of
light reading in the current mass of new literature seems »
be increasing.
Why that is, and whether it is a temporary condition or
something more serious, is matter for discussion. I suspeet
it is one of the habitual complaints of literate mankind that
the readers of the generation just passed read better books than those of the
generations in being. It is no fault of the publishers, for there are plenty of
publishers who are eager to print the best books they can hope to sell. They
won t print many books that no one will buy, because such a practice as Uiat,
if it became habitual, would be incompatible with continuance in the publish
ing business. But they have an interest, which is more than a mere pecuni
ary interest, in what they publish, and would much rather find their necessary
profit in a book that they can be proud of than in one which can never do
credit to their name, however much it may help their pocket.
To be sure, the more substantial books are in competition wtih all the
great books that ever were printed. If readers neglected the good new books
in order to read the good old ones, we might regret it as something detri
mental to the book publishing business and the interests of living authors,
but we would not find in it a sign of decaying culture or degenerating taste.
But it is not the competition of the old books that limits attention to new
ones, for whoever has learned to read the one is by so much the likelier to
read the other. Who has the habit of good reading and the appetite for it
will read what suits his appetit* if he can get it. The trouble is that the
appetite is not oftener formed.
If you are to make a silk purse, you must have the silk. You cannot
make a reader of good books out of any human material that comes along.
You must catch a mind proper for the job. Not all good minds are adapted to
much reading. You find very able people who read few books, mostly trash,
and people of less ability who read more, and much better ones. You find
also interesting differences in the facility with which different people take in,
the sense of printed words. Some people from childhood read very much fas
ter and with less effort than others. Their eyes seem to connect quicker witli
their brains, and their perception of words and rows of words is almost instan
taneous. Other people never entirely get past the need of pronouncing, men
tally, each word. —Harper’s Magazine.
| The 400 is J\[ou> I
j : : : : “The 1100” j
By F. Townsend Marlin. $
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<♦* HAVE been interested in society ever since I was eighteen
I' * £ years old. New York society has gone through its forma
♦ tive stage. Its society now resembles that of London, the
2 oldest and most absorbing society in the world.
♦ People say, casually, “The great balls of the past have
■ [fttttifbeen discontinued because the city is too large.” That is
♦ ♦ not the point. Society is too large—not the city. Society
grows with the city. I should say there are 1,100 persons
in society. I daresay this figure is staggering, revolution
ary, but I believe this number is accurate. Yet I know some women who
would say that 100 covers completely the number of persons they would care
to know'.
New York society is beset by a new idea, which is as unsatisfactory as
it is perilous. It develops a narrowness of thought and the most extreme
boredom. Society is set-ridden. There are the Meadowbrook set, the Tuxedo
set, the Southhampton set, the Winchester set, the Lenox set, the Aiken set,
the set that meets in Palm Beach, in Aiken, and in Paris.
Mrs. William Astor’s retirement as the leader of society marked a new
epoch. There has been chaos since her influence and her annual entertain
ment have been discontinued. There is no social leader in New York today.
Perhaps there will never be another, because the requisite qualifications are
rare. Each little set has its leader, who rules arbitrarily and is looked up to,
even idolized. But it is manifestly difficult to think of a woman who can
unite the little sets. Leadership, like monarchy, carries with it endless work
and endless responsibility. All of the important women in society w-ould na
turally like to succeed to the popularity and prestige of Mrs. Astor, yet there
are limitations to each, which cannot be denied.
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There sauooa l ime v*
? =eee Coming - t
By United States Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, l
OHE Republic of the United States is in no danger of ruin in
a business or in any other way. The resources of the
country are greater than they ever w'ere before. The en
ergy of the people, if it is not paraylzed by too much sub
stitution of government for individual effort, if it is left to
march along the old roads which it followed from the days
of small things to the present days of greatness —the road of
independence, the road of individual enterprise, of determi
nation to succeed in the battle of life —will assert itself.
Let those old American habits continue to dominate in the United States and
tread the doctrines of socialism under foot. The wealth of the world is hare
in our soil, in our mines, in our factories. This decline of values is but a
passing ripple on the surface of the great sea of American life and action,
and all we need to do is first to try to prevent a recurrence of that alarm
which so paralyzed business last autumn, then to aid in the restoration of pub
lic confidence, and lastly to perfect a banking system worthk of our time and
country. I believe that the Aldrich currency bill will tend strongly in this
direction and serve our initial and immediate purpose. I believe it will bring
back in a large measure the confidence which has been impaired, and help to
set the great car of American business moving once more upon the pathway
of triumphal progress which it has followed for more than a century.
A Diet of Apparel.
A southern congressman tells of a
darky in a Georgia town whose best
quality is his devotion to his aged par
ent.
Once the congressman asked Pete
why he had never married.
“Why, boss." explained Pete, “Ise
gdt an ole mudder. I had t’ do for her,
suh. Ef I doan’ buy her shoes an'
stockin's she doan’ git none. Now,
boss, you see*ef I was t’ gu married
I’d have t’ buy ’em fo’ mah wife, an’
dat'd be takin' de shoes an' stockin's
right outer my ole mudder’s motif.’’—
Harper's Weekly.
A Nava! Voice.
“What do you think of my voice?’’
she asked after trying a selection
from "II Trovatore.”
“It makes me think of sailors,” he
replied.
■'Of sailors? Why should it do
that?”
“It has a tendency to die at C.”
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Two Seasons.
Teacher —Johnny, can you tell me
how many seasons we have?
Johnny—Yes. ma'am, two. Baseball
and football. —Chicago News.
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE.
I will be at the different precints on the days mentioned for the
purpose of collecting the State and County, and Local School Taxes
for the year 19C8. t
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER.
Hampton i and 29 18 10
Sixth 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
Tussahaw 16 13 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.
JSEAB HARKNESS, T.C
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R. 0. JACKSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
McDonough, ga.
Office over Star Store.
E. M. SniTH,
Attorney at Law,
Me Doxough, Ga.
Office over Star Store, south side square.
All work carefully and promptly attended
to. Am premared to negotiate loans
on real estate. Terms easy.
Notice to Debtors and Creditora.
Georgia, Henry 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
This the 3d day of Aug. 1908.
S. S. PRICE, Administrator of
J. B. PRICE, Jr.
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