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Henry County Weekly.
J. A. FOUCHE, Publisher.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the pestofflce at McDon*
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: 51.00 per inch
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
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Make a noise like a 55 bill, con
tends the Boston Post, and the world
will give you a smiling face.
Prophesies the Chicago Inter-
Ocean: "We shall have a great and
Comprehensive waterway system when
we reach the point of resolution to go
on with the enterprise, and thus make
it, in the broad sense, a non-partisan
national work.’
Suggests the Boston Transcript:
The cold era which Dr. Steinmetz
foresees with the exhaustion of our
coal supplies might be relieved by the
wholesale migration of the popula
tion, spring and fall, to follow the ex
ample of the birds.
Referring to the American fleet the
Troy Times says: What a record
these splendid vessels and their offi
cers and men will have made in their
42,000 miles of travel! Not a serious
accident yet, good feeling among the
nations stimulated and proper respect
for Uncle Sam increased.
In this fast age we should be care
ful to condense all our writings—let
ters, briefs, wills, manuscripts of
plays, prose, poetry, etc. Only 10 per
cent of the stuff that we write these
days is read, insists the New York
Press. And white paper is going high
er. Why waste it, and why waste
time? An old style fellow, now in his
eighties, wrote a six-page letter to a
friend and had the courtesy to add
this postscript: “Excuse me for mak
ing this letter so long, but I really
have not the time to make it shorter.”
Almost every state legislature,
north and Bouth, east and west, has
had a scheme of highway improve
ment before it this year; the most
ambitious schemes of waterway and
highway improvement are those of
the Empire state, boasts the New
York Mail. Railroad managers have
abandoned their old attitude of indif
ference or tacit opposition to inland
waterways and improved highways,
and are agitating in the agricultural
state-s in behalf of scientific road
making. The use of slag, of molasses
refuse and of various tar preparations
as a road foundation or binder is be
ing tested here and in other lands,
and today an international congress
will meet in Paris, with 24 countries
represented, to discuss means for the
preservation of the highway. The rap
id spread of automobile traffic has
made such a conference urgent, for
the plain lesßon of this traffic is that
our roads must be made much better
or they will get much worse.
The public schools receive from
time to time more or less criticism,
which is doubtless on occasions de
served, but, contends the Boston
Transcript, is quite as frequently be
stowed because they are public insti
tutions and therefore considered fair
game by those who help to support
them. But President Eliot’s tribute to
them at the reunion of the English
high graduates last night is testimony
on as high authority as the country
affords, not only that they do good
work but among the secondary schools
the best work. Of course there are
exceptions to all rules, but his report
ed statement that “the boys who do
the best work at college come from
the public schools,” seems to be un
equivocal. Next in order he rates the
endowed schools, and last the private
schools, and this, he declares, “is a
very encouraging result for democra
cy.” He has formed this opinion in
college examination tests not only at
entrance but subsequently, and more
convincing testimony it would be im
possible to obtain. It is the duty of
the public schools to keep striving for
improvement, but it is gratifying to
learn that they already stand in the
forefront of our educational system.
RULES FOR DRUGOISTS
State Board of Pharmacy Speci
fy Lawful Drugs.
REPORT OF DR. CHEATHAM
Narcotics Can Be Sold Only on the
Prescriptions of Physicians Dentists
orVeterniary Surgeons.
Atlanta, Ga. —Regulations govern
ing the sale of drugs, particularly nar
cotics, were promulgated by the state
board of pharmacy through Tom G.
Hudson, state commissioner of agri
culture.
The board was called upon to act
as advisors in forming definite rules
for the enforcement of the new pure
drugs act. Dr. T. A. Cheatham, state
drug inspector, submitted a report of
the work so far done, and discussed
with the board many of the problems
that have arisen.
It was decided to give 30 days warn
ings to all druggists who upon first
inspections were found to not be com
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plying strictly with the law. If af
ter that time, they have not so com
plied each will be prosecuted.
The labelling of cotton seed oil as
sweet oil, or refined cotton seed oil
as what is commonly known as sweet
oil was declared to constitute “mis
branding” and to be in violation of
law.
It was held in the case of paregoric
that the label should state the amount
of opium and not the per cent of mor-
Veterinary remedies cannot be sold
hereafter except upon the prescrip
tion of a veterinary surgeon, physi
cian or dentist.
Most important of all is the stand
ard fixed for narcotic preparations.
The board “certifies that habitina, an
tikamnia and heroin tablets, acetanil
id and codeine tablets, al codeine tab
lets, all tablets containing heroin and
codeine, somnos, bromida, cerebral se
dative compound, hypnobromi com
pound, elixir hypnotic compound,
bromo-ehloral compound, bromadyne,
bromide chloral compound and all pre
parations that pontain more than 20
grains of chloral hydrate to each fluid
ounce; also anti-mahy and all prepv
arations that contain cocaine consti
tute violations of the narcotic law
when offered for general sale, and
cannot be sold legally except on the
prescriptions of physicians, dentists
The following rule \Vas promul
gat ed:
“The sale by general dealers, mer
chants and druggists who do not keep
poison registers of such articles as
Paris green, London purple, rat pois
ons, red bug poisons, tincture of iodine
and carbolic acid, except where used
solely as a disinfectant, will be con
sidered later, no definite action being
takon.”
It was decided that wholesale drug
gists and Jobbers, who manuufacture
and manufacturers of all drugs, phar
maceuticals and preparations made in
accordance with the United States
Pharmacopia, shall be required to have
a man licensed by the state board
of pharmacy in charge of such work.
LAST CONVICT LEASE MONEY.
State Gets $93,162.20 From Convicts
for Final Quarter.
Atlanta, Ga. —There will be paid to
the state this month the last money
it will receive from the hire of con
victs, or from the lease system.
The amount due the state for the
quarter ending March 31, 1909, which
also witnessed the end of the lease
system, as figured out by Secretary
Goodloe Yancey of the prison com
mission is $93,162.20. This money
must be paid within ten days after
notices are sent out.
This amount will not, as has been
usual, be distributed to the counties
not using convicts, for school pur
poses. The current expenses of the
penitentiary department will be paid
from it, and if there is any left a
distribution may be made later.
PAROLES AND PARDONS.
Gallows Yawns for Two Condemned
Men; Others Are Pardoned.
Atlanta, Ga.—The prison commis
sion, in its report to Governor Smith,
has declined to recommend clemency
for Lewis Millirons, a white man,
sentenced to be hangtd in Clay coun
ty for rape, and Sam Taylor, a negro,
convicted of murder in Coweta ccoun
ty, and given the death penalty.
* The commission recommended a pa
role for John Blasingame, the young
white man of Murray county, who is
serving a life sentence for the mur
der of Will N. Osborn.
The prison commission has also
sent to Governor Smith the following
recommendations for parole and com
mutations of sentence:
.Nat Carswell, Fulton county, bur
glary, five years; commutation to
present service.
Thomas Kemp, Marion county, mur
der, life; parole.
Felix Bell, Oglethorpe county, bur
glary, twenty years; commutation to
present service.
Sally Johnson, Hart county, attempt
to murder, eighteen months; commu
tation to present service.
A. L. Frierson, Lowndes, voluntary
manslaughter, ten years; parole.
Ashley McDuffie, Wilcox, voluntary
manslaughter, ten years; parole.
Will Morgan, Jasper, burglary, ten
years; commutation to present serv
iC6.
Andy Hollingsworth, Liberty, mur
der, life; parole.
Light Locckett, Polk, voluntary
manslaughter, four years; commuta
tion to present service.
Eugene Kumney, Bibb, bigamy, four
years: parole.
Helen Drew', Mitchell, concealed
weapons, etc., twelve months; com
mutation to present service.
SOUTHERN MUSICAL FESTIVAL
Railroads Have Granted Reduced
Rates to Atlanta for Occasion.
Atlanta, Ga. —Preparations are now
complete in every particular for thf
peat Southern Music festival that
is to be held in Atlanta next May,
the 4th, sth and 6th. Contracts have
been signed with Enrico Caruso, the
world's greatest singer and ten oth
er musical artists renowned on both
sides of the Atlantic. Besides these
there is the Dresden Philharmonic
orchestra, of Dresden, Germany, con
sisting of seventy men and a local
chorus of five hundred voices.
The city’s new auditorium in which
the five performances of the festival
will take place, has received its fin
ishing touches. This is one of the
remarkable buildings in all America.
Its seating capacity is little short of
eight thousand, thus making it the
largest public building in the south.
Throughout its vast area there is not
a single column to obstruct the view
or hearing. The roof which covers
practically a whole city square is
supported with giant trusses of steel
It has been lighted with a new de
sign of electric burners that diffuse
a radiance more like sunlight than
anything else ever invented. Besides
this the hundreds of different lights
are so arranged that not one of them
shines directly in the spectators’ eyes
or produces anything like a glare
The opening of this building will be
within itsellf an event of state-wide
and sectional importance.
During the festival season Atlanta
will be decked from one end to the
other in flags and bunting. Mer
chants will put on extra displays and
the whole town will be flooded in a
holiday spirit. There will be five per
formances. They will take place on
the evenings of May the 4th, sth and
6th, and on- the afternoons of the
sth and 6th. Caruso will sing on the
evening of the 4th and the 6th.
The fact that the price of admis
sion tickets has been placed within
everybody’s reach and that the rail
roads have granted reduced rates
over a wide stretch of territory prom
ises to bring the biggest gathering of
southern people yet known.
GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Dr. J. A. Bonsteel will visit Savan
nah on April 19, in response to the
request for a soil survey of Chatham
county. Dr. Bonsteel is an expert
from the United States agricultural
department, who is in charge of the
soil surveys in the eastern district of
the United States. He will make an
inspection tour of the southern states’
this month.
Dr. A. J. Payne of the federal de
partment of agriculture, who for a
year or more has been in charge ol
the government’s tick eradication
work in Georgia, has been transferred
to North Dakota, and Montana, where’ 1
he will work in future. Dr. E. M
Nybert has been placed in charge of
the Georgia work.
Two Insurance companies have
been barred from the state by Comp
troller General W. A. Wright, who is
also ex-oflicio state insurance com
missioner Colonel Wright has declin
ed to issune a license to the Royal
Casualty company of St. Louis, Mo.
He claims that of the $190,000 capital
stock of the company, $47,500 is not
invested in stocks or bonds or mort
gages in real estate, as required by
the laws of this state. For similar
reasons the Lumber Underwriters’
association of New York has been
barred. Tt is on the order of Lloyd’s,
agency. The comptrolller says that
none of the assts of the company (it
has no capital stock) are invested in
stocks, lands or real estate mort
gages, as the law of Georgia requires
but is on deposit in New York banks
He has others under consideration
and says he is determined to exclude
all that do not comply strictly witfi
the Georgia law.
A conference was held in Atlatf.a
between the independent fertili/.er
manufacturers of Georgia and repre
sentatives of the J. P. Morgan syndi
cate, looking to the taking over by
Morgan of all the independent fartil
izer concerns in Georgia.
It is probable that a bill Will be
introduced in the legislature this sum
mer providing a special medf.l for
Ben Futral of Griffin in recognition
of his long service as a soldier for
the state. Mr. Futral has forty-five
years’ continuous service to his cred
it, and is still an act/ve ruamber of
the ranks.
Fire, which broke out in the resi
dence of C. W. Cason at Warrenton,
destroyed the county cojrt house,
anti laid in ruins the residence of W.
L. Wicker and the c-ffices of Dr. R. J.
Lockett. The loss will aggregate
more than $60,000, acccrding to con
servative estimates.
Contracts that call far an expendi
ture of over $200,000 have been let
by the Hebard Cypress company for
the construction of mills in Waycross.
The mills are to be reinforced con
crete, to have two band saws and a
resaw band saw. The total expendi
ture in getting to the Okefenokee tim
ber will reach $1,000,000.
Georgia farmers use more German
kainit and muriate of potash than
those of any other state, it is said,
and the proposal to put a 20 per cent
tariff duty on potash salts which
would result in a large increase in
the cost of fertilizing materials, Corn
miss renoiorifgActda cdhiryert 6aln
missioner of Agriculture T. G. Hud
son says, w'ould cost the farmers of
this state alone about $400,000 annu
ally. Commissioner Hudson has tak
en the matter up with Georgia repre
sentatives and senators in congress
and urged them to fight this Increas
ed duty.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
“Ee-ah” has been discarded by
Hughey Jennings.
First baseman Harold Danzig, the
giant of the Boston team, is known
as “Babe.”
Minneapolis claims the scrappiest
catchers in the minor leagues in
Rapp and Block.
St. Louis writers predict that first
baseman Tom Jones will have a good
year with the Browns.
Outfielder Clyde Engle, the Newark
recruit, is doing some great work
with the New York Americans in
practice.
President Dreyfuss has issued an
order forbidding cigarette smoking
among the Pirates during the train
ing season.
Seven Boston American players
claim Harry as their given name,
namely, Lord, Niles, Gessler, Hooper,
Danzig, Wolter, Morgan.
Manager Stallings isn’t permitting
any player of promise to slip away.
He doesn’t want to hear any one ask,
“Why did you let him go?”
The Anderson (Carolina Associa
tion) Club has signed outfielder Leo
McHugh, late of the Hazleton Club,
of the outlaw Atlantic League.
An Indianapolis dispatch states
that the local Methodist Ministers’
Association will test the constitution
ality of the new Sunday ball law.
Manager Jack Dunn, of the Balti
more (Eastern League) Club, has
signed Joseph A. Lewis, a promising
young West Philadelphia player.
Clark Griffith is drilling the Reds
in batting against the spit ball. Griff
says that pitchers will shelve the elu
sive thing when his eager youngsters
show their skill against it.
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TENNESSEE.
Double Daily Service to Florida and through
Pullman Service to and from important Cities of
the East and West, Dining Car Service on all
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For complete information regard
ing rates, schedules., write to,
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G. W. MORRIS, Pres. J. G. WARD, V-Pres.
J. T. BOND, V-Pres. C. M. POW ER, Cashier.
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Women as Well as lien Are Madu
miserable by Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upop the mind,
discourages and lessens ambition; beauty,
# vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when the kidneys are
out of order or dis-
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncom
mon for a child to be
born afflicted with
weak kidneys. If the
child urinates too often, if the urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi
culty is kidney trouble, and the first
step'should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of
the kidneys and bladder and not to a
habit as most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made miser
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold
cent and one-dollar rflpljirjaV^
size bottles. You may IflisSiSjjjf E fff Lxftj
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a Homo of Swamp-Root,
pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root,
including many of the thousands of testi
monial letters received from sufferers
cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton N. Y., be sure and mention
this paper. Don’t make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every
bottle.