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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1909)
MESSAGE FROM BOOTH| America Asked to Join in Rescu ing the Pershing Multitudes. A REMARKABLE CELEBRATION Eightieth Birthday of Founder and Com mander of the Salvation Army. Messages From Governors. New York City.—A message from General Booth, rounder and comman der of the Salvation Army, was read at a remarkable celeoration in Car negie Hall in honor of his eightieui birthday anniversary. Miss Eva Booth, the general’s daughter and commander of tne sal vation Army in America, read the message to a packed nail. It was as follows: “London, England.—To the Ameri can People: On, America! How vast is your opportunity ior making a last mark for good on the entire human race! Endowed with measureless ma terial resources, enjoying the un bounded confidence ot your own peo ple, tavored with the concentrated light of earth and heaven, possessed or an influence covering like a shad ow all the world beside; what a pow er you must be destined to become! “What will you do with this mighty magic force? rf you are permitted to realize your ambition to lead the world, whither will you lead it? To utter abandonment of faith in the Eternal and neglect of every duty flowing out of It, to senseless worship of mammon, to useless frivolities? No. I am sure you won’t and I blush at the very mention of sued things and denounce them with all my soul. “Where else can you lead this poor, blind, stumbling world of ours but to the mighty, just, holy God and obedi ence to His commands; to the prac tice of righteousness, purity, honor, kindness and simplicity to self-sacri ficing service of mankind? “On, America! I invite you to the actual realization of the Christian principles you profess and to practi cal imitation of Jesus Christ, who came out of His heaven to seek and save. "Come along, then, let us gird up our loins and go out of our heaven and put our arms around perishing multitudes and bring them to Christ, purity, peace and paradise. “I invite you to take our common Christianity an ungainsayable reality, and thus wipe out the reproach fast gathering about us that it is nothing more man an exploded tradition, a fasmonable association or a lifeless ceremony. Then, when the wonder ing world asks: ‘ln what country can I iuid the thing described by the let ter of the Bible and set forth in the life of Jesus Christ?’ the answer shail be ‘America.’ “WILLIAM BOOTH.” Messages cabled by various govern ors and mayors in this country to General Booth, in England, congratu lating him on his birthday anniver sary and paying tribute to his work were read from the stage. RAILROADS LOST MONEY. Panic of 1907-08 Caused Loss of $330,000,000. Chicago, 111. —An advance abstract of statistics of American Railways for the year ending June 30, 1908, as compiled by the bureau of rail way news and statistics, was made public here by Slason Thompson, the manager of the bureau. Tne report says; “Instead of a decrease of only $164,464,941 in gross earnings as the result of the ‘temporary financial de pression’ of 1907-08 as set forth in the preliminary income report of the in terstate commerce commission for the year ending June 30, 1908, the panic of 1907 resulted in a loss of over $330,000,000. This statement is based on a table giving the earnings for the twelve months ending November 30, 1908, when the full effect of the busi ness depression became evident, com pared with the preceding twelve. This avoids the error of including the fat test months in railway history in the same year with the lean months that followed it. “In the same way, the loss is net earnings is shown to have been $129,- 540,460, instead of $111,051,106, as given in the commission’s statement. The 2-cent passenger fare legislation caused a loss of $25,000,000 in gross earnings, although .more passengers were carried. This is accounted for by a reduction in average receipts per passenger mile on 94 per cent of the mileage from 2,014 cents in 1907 to 1.932 in 1908. The heavy loss in net earnings is partly accounted for by the expendi tures of approximately $32,000,000 ne cessitated by arbitrary innovations in accounting methods and requirements in regard to the hours and conditions of labor of certain classes of em ployees.’’ $590,000 FIRE LOSS. Several Sections cf Rochester, N. Y., in Ruins. Rochester, N. Y. —Swept along in the face of a 25-mile gale, fire destroy ed several sections of the city and did damage estimated at $500,000. For a time it was thought that a great portion of the city would be swept, and aid was summoned from Buffalo and Syracuse. The out of town firemen responded promptly, but before they reached the scene the local department got the flames under control. One hundred families are homeless, and militiamen camped in the burned district and are guarding what little the people saved of their household effects. CASTiIO fORCEI) TO MOVE. Ex-Cictatcr Expelled From Martinique By French Government. Fort de France, Martinique.—Cipri ana Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, was ignominiously expelled from the Island of Martinique by the French government. He protested to the last against his expulsion, but his protests were in vain. He is now on board the French line steamship Versailles, bound for St. Nazaire. The removal of the former presi dent of Venezuela from the hotel to the steamer was not without its piti ful aspects. Immediately on the an nouncement by the medical commis sion, who made a lengthy physical ex amination of Castro, that he was en tirely capable of making the voyage, the commissary of police, with an es core of gendarmes, invaded the hotel and proceeded to his chamber. They found the ex-president lying in bed, and, although he still protested that he could not move, they carried him down stairs in a mattress, the pa tient all the while moaning dismally, and placed him on a stretcher. Offi cers from the United States cruiser North Carolina, in civilian dress, help ed to make him as comfortable as possible, and then the stretcher was picked up by four negroes and taken to the steamer dock. The ex-presi dent was furiously indignant; and, prior to being taken aboard the steam er Versailles for deportation to France, prepared a writteii protest against the action of the French gov ernment, which has been submitted to the authorities here. It reads as follows: “I hereby pro test against the action of the French authorities of Martinique in having me put by force on board an outgoing vessel. First, because I was ill at the time, and because the act imper iled my life; second, because I have committed no offense against the gov ernment of France and the authori ties of Martinique during the time that I was permitted to remain on that island, and, finally, because the decree of expulsion which orders my deportation out of French territory compels me to take passage aboard a vessel which will again land me on French territory. “Moreover, these conditions aside, the case constitutes a breach of inter national laws and a denial of the rights of individuals. That such a thing should have come to pass in the land which saw the birth of Jo sephine, and from which came the inspiration and presage of liberty, and at the hands of a people who •shed their blood by torrents hardly a century ago to maintain unimpaired the rights and prerogatives of man, is inconceivable.” Paris, France. —The return of Cas tro is not regarded here as of great importance, ihe principal object of the French government being to prevent the use of French territory as the headquarters for a revolutionary movement, and a campaign by Cas tro to recapture his lost power in Venezuela. There will be no oppo sition made to his landing, or even to his remaining in France, provided he lives peaceably. It is regarded, however, as more likely that Castro will disembark at Santander, where he will try to charter a ship. Copenhagen, Denmark. —The gov ernment has instructed the governor of the Danish West Indies, under no circumstances to permit ex-President Castro to land in that territory.' These instructions were issued in response to a cablegram from the colonial of ficials inquiring as to what measures they should take in the event of Cas tro’s attempting to take up his resi dence at any of these ports. Dug Up Treasure. Lexington, Ky.—While making a post hole in an abandoned lot, work men discovered a brass kettle con taining $8,500 in gold and silver that apparently had been buried for half a century. The lot formerly belonged to J. C. Dewitt, an aged pensioner, who died several years ago, and it is the suppo sition that he buried the money. The lot was sold at a commis sioner’s sale recently for sll6. May Get More Salary. Washington, D. 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