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Henry County Weekly.
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The decision of our highest court,
explains the Atlanta Constitution, is
that debts to the trusts are all in the
air—but that’s exactly where the
trusts are doing business.
It requires a smart man to handle
purebred stock with profit. The first
cost is greater, and to get back the
money he must be business man
eough to sell the young stock at fair
prices, warns the American Cultiva
tor. But good stock is the cheapest
stock for the right man.
A New York chemist tells the Ameri
can Chemical society he has discov
ered a new fireproof substance which
is as noteworthy for its beauty as for
its utililty. He must have forgotten
about the beauty part, retorts the
New York Herald, when he named the
new chemical “oxybenzyl-methlylen
glycolanhydride.”
The shafts of wit of the professional
jokesmith harmlessly expend them
selves upon the polished crowns ol
those destitute of their proper share
of capillary covering, assert the Phila
delphia Ledger. Wit, like death, loves
a shining mark, and the bald-headed
man is an easily vulnerable target.
These light shafts of humor do not
strike deep, and have no reentrant barb
to create a ranking wound. But when
a man of science stands up and tells
as assemblage of servants that bald
headed people are degenerate, It
makes all bald-headed people every
where feel badly.
Whether tlie Commissioner of
Health succeeds in elleting from the
dairymen a workable scheme for pro
moting the purity of the milk supply,
he will be pretty sure to contribute to
that end by inducing the dairymen to
study the subject, insists the New
York Times. Those entering the com
petition are not likely to ignore the
pecuniary interests of their class. If
they can see their way to reconcile
these with the supply of really pure
milk, the benefit is obvious. We
think Dr. Darlington has hit on a
happy Idea, and we shall watch its
outcome with much interest.
Another death in Chicago of an es
timable woman because a man In a
neighboring fiat was explaining to the
maid servant how to handle a revolver
in case burglars came. It is admitted
that it was a deplorable accident.
But it was homicide also. And yet
the man was not even arrested, ex
claims the Indianapolis News. The
woman is dead, oh, yes! But so little
do we think of human life that “acci
dent” suffices to wipe out the event.
We must still allow r men to go free
with loaded revolvers and give object
lessons with them if we do occasion
ally slay a wife and mother. Great
country!
Seismologist Jaggar of Boston thinks
it very likely that the disturbance
which caused recent shocks was in
the bed of the Indian Ocean. “With
refernce to the eastern coast of
North America,” he says, “w'e need
not expect any such violent earth
quakes as are frequent in Japan and
in Southern Italy. Reports of a re
cent lecture of mine misrepresented
a comment regarding New Y"ork city.
It was not my intention to predict
any serious results in New York city.
Certain parts of New York, however,
are geologically as likely to have a
shock as Charleston. New York city
is on an island and on the bedrock.
Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island
and New Jersey are on a different
foundation and in a similar geological
position as Charleston, much of it
presenting two rock formations. The
Hudson Valley is a fissure of the
earth’s crust and was formed by an
earthquake condition. Let there be
no popular fear, however, that such
disturbances as the one at Messina
.will be duplicated on our coast.”
A
Bad
Sign
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SMUGGLING SCANDAL
$260,000 Offered Government
to Stop Investigation.
SOCIETY WOMEN INVOLVED
The Government Want* the Smuggler*
and Names of the Prominent Women
Connected With the Case.
New York City.—The smuggling
syndicate, which first offered Collec
tor of the Port Loeb SIOII,OOO to drop
the government's investigation of the
smuggling of “sleeper” trunks, con
taining $55,000 worth of Paris gowns,
has increased its offer to $260,000,
according to Mr. Loeb.
"The amount now offered the gov
ernment to drop the investigation and
probable prosecution is $260,000,” said
Collector Loeb. “The amount repre
sents what would be penalties of fully
$200,000 above the appraised value of
the goods. All offers have been re
fused. We want the smugglers.”
It is believed that worry over this
case so affected the mind of William
Is. Bainbridge, confidential agent of
the United States treasury depart
ment in charge of the customs bu
reau in Paris, that he committed sui
cide. The treasury department had
fully approved Mr. Bainbridge’s
course in this case, but he left a note
declaring that he was the victim of
a plot.
Collector Loeb stated that in the
negotiations for the abandonment of
the investigation started by him, he
had been approached by several re
putable lawyers, but refused to re
veal the names of the attorneys be
cause he said that‘even they did not
know the identity of the smugglers
and had been retained by intermedia
ries.
Mr. Loeb’s investigation so far
shows that the smuggled gowns bad
been made ill Paris by tamous de
signers for many women of excep
tional social prominence and wealth
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and
Washington, and that the reason for
offering such a large sum to sup
press the investigation was to shield
these women from the unpleasant
publicity threatened by the coming
disclosures.
In Paris it was understood that the
treasury department had Instructed
Mr. Bainbridge to obtain the names
of the makers of the smuggled gowns
and the identity of the American wom
en for whom they were made.
Tjjg collector does not believe tbesc
women knew that their gowns were
to be smuggled into the country, but
had purchased them, like many Amer
icans buy other goods abroad, with
the understanding that they were to
be delivered to them in America “duty
paid" or "duty free.” This saves
the purchaser all customs annoyances.
Collector Loeb will sell the seized
gowns at public auction next month,
and will employ dressmakers and
models to display them.
FOUR WHITE MEN LYNCHED.
Oklahoma Mob Did Its Work Very
Quickly.
Oklahoma City, Okla. —Four men—
Jesse West, Joe Allen, E. E. Brown
and J. B. Miller —were taken from
jail at Ada and hanged in a barn
across the street from the jail.
The guard at the jail was over
powered and the hanging was done
so quietly that nothing was known
of it until after daylignt.
These men were being held in con
nection with the murder of A. A.
Bobbitt, killed on February 27. Bob
bitt was formerly a United States
marshal and incurred the hatred of
Miller and others, who, it is said,
had violated laws. Allen and West
are said to be prominent cattlemen
of Canadian Texas and were wealthy.
At the preliminary hearing a nephew
of Miller held as an important wit
ness, it is understood, turned state’s
evidence and told how Miller had
committed the crime, shooting Bob
bitt from ambush as the latter was
passing .by in a wagon.
Miller fled to Texas, where he was
arrested two weeks ago.
URDER OF b’NAl’ B KITH.
Officers Elected at Annual Conven
tion in New Orleans.
New Orleans, La.—The seventh di
vision of the Older of B'N'ai B'Ritk,
comprising the states of Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennes
see, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida,
iu annual convention here, elected the
following officers: Charles J. Haas,
Memphis, Tenn., president; E. R.
Bernstein, Shreveport, La., first vice
president; Henry J. Dannenbaum, of
Houston, Texas, second vice presi
dent; Levy Pfeifer, Little Rock, Ark.,
treasurer; Nat Straus, New Orleans,
secretary; Leo Schwartz, Mobile, ser
geant-at-arms.
Irregularity is bad in every department of life, in meals, in sleeping houiS,
but especially when it is a question of womanly habit. Not only is it a sign oi
female disease, but, unless cured, it will cause dangerous troubles, oi
the poisons thus allowed to remain in the system.
If you suffer in this way, get a bottle of
Wine of Cardui
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iarity, causing great pain. At last 1 tried Cardui, and now lam cured.” At all druggists, in 51 Dottles.
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TAFT ATTENDED BALI GAME
President Taft Rooted in Vain for the
Washington Team.
Washington, D. C.—President Taft
went out to the baseball game, saw
Washington walloped 8 to 4 by the
Boston American Leaguers, was ini
tiated into the mysteries of the “spit
ball,” shared a 5-cent bag of peanuts
with Vice President Sherman, who
sat in the box next to him; wished
hard for Washington to win, and said
sadly that he hoped he wasn’t a
“hoodoo.”
No one in Washington could recall
the day just when a president of the
United States attended a ball game
in this city. With all of his love for
outdoor lire and sports, Mr. Roose
velt did not go within the ball
grounds during his seven years at the
white house.
President Taft arrived at the game
at the beginning of the second inning.
The game was interrupted by the
cheering, which spread in a great
wave from the grand stand to the
furthermost corners of the wide
reaching bleachers, as the crowd
quickly recognized the president, and
saw him greet, the vice president. The
latter, a dyed-in-the-wool “fan,” had
gone directly to the grounds from the
senate chamber.
Mr. Sherman kept a detailed score
of the game, supplying the president
with such statistical information as
he asked for every now and then, and
caused some one in the party to re
mark that if he ever lost the job of
vice president he might get a place
on Ban Johnson’s scoring staff.
The president’s arrival and the
brief interruption of play had the ef
fect of giving “Dolly” Gray, a Wasn
ington pitching recruit from the minor
leagues, a bad case of stage fright.
Before the last Bostonian was out in
the inning two runs had been scored.
In the fourth, the Washington play
ers got so rattled they could not pick
up the ball after stopping it, and Bos
ton got away with four more tallies.
It was then that the president said
he hoped he was not a "hoo-doo.”
President Tom C. Noyes of the
Washington baseball team, who sat
wtih the president during the last
four innings, when the locals played
much better ball, assured Mr. Taft
that “hoo-doo” or not, he would al
ways be welcome.
Mr. Taft was as interested as all
the rest. He knows baseball thor
oughly. The president was accompa
nied to the park by Captain Archi
bald W. Butt, his military aide, and
two secret service men.
Four close base decisions against
Washington in the fourth inning, when
Boston made four runs, set the crowd
in something of a frenzy. Captain
Butt was “rooting” hard with the rest
of the Washington crowd. “No, sir,”
he said to the president, “they never
kill the umpire until the seventh In
ning.”
WOULD TALK WITH MASS.
It Would Cost $10,000,000, However,
to Flash Messages.
Boston, Mass. —If mankind cares
enough about it to put about $10,000,-
000 into it, there is no good reason
why the human race should not be
to talk with Mars —and that so
soon as next July—according to Pro
fessor William Henry Pickering, Har
vard University’s celebrated astron
omer. Communication with the Mar
tians will be made possible, Profes
sor Pickering declares, by adopting
his method of flashing messages when
Mars approaches the earth to within
35,000,000 miles, or about 5,000,000
miles nearer than ever before.
Professor Pickering’s plan contem
plates the use of a series of mirrors
presenting a single reflecting sur
face turned toward Mars aAI occu
pying more than a quarter of a mile
surface.
•'Supposing,” he says, “ with such a
signal in operation we began a series
ol hashes, cutting off the sun’s rays
for an instant and then throwing on
the reflection again, repeating this at
irregular intervals, forwarding, say
the telegraph code of dots and dashes.
1 have no doubt that, providing there
were intelligent people on Mars, the
light would at once attract attention
and would lead eventually to an an
swering signal. • If we received such
an answer it would be a comparative
ly easy matter to establish a code and
transmit messages.”
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. .
A bill providing for the working
of Arkansas state convicts on the
public roads, modeled after the Geor
gia law, which recently became oper
ative, was passed by the Arkansas
house. The bill, which has already
passed the senate, will become a law
immediately after it is signed.
It is given out on high authority
that the salaries of the New Haven
! railroad employees, which were cut
J 5 and 10 per cent a year ago, will
Ibe restored in May. Salaries between
SI,OOO and $2,000 were cut 5 per cent
I and those above, 10 per cent. Pres
{ident Mellen’s cut was io per cent.
TAFT IS PLANNING TRIP
Congress Is Asked to Grar t
$25,000 For Expenses.
WANTS TO VISIT ALASKA
President Will Make Swing Over the
Lntire Country During the
Late Summer.
Washington, D. C. —President Taft,
who believes that the chief magis
trate of the nation should keep in as
close contact with me people as the
duties and requirements of the office
admit, is planning a notable trip dur
ing the late summer and early autumn,
provided congress decides to contin
ue the annual appropriation of $25,-
000 for traveling expenses allowed
during the closing years of the Roose
velt administration.
The president's plans for the sum
mer as far into the neated term as
August 15 have been completed. Mr.
Taft will leave Washington as soon
as he can arrange matters after ad
journment of congress, and has been
told that the extia session will end
June 1. He will go direct from the
white house to his summer home at
Woodbury Point, Beverly, Mass., and
will spend two months or more there
as quietly and as free from official
worry as possible. Mr. Taft will de
vote most of his vacation to golfing
and motoring, and will take short
cruises along the northern coast. The
reassembled Atlantic fleet of sixteen
■battleships will maneuver off the
New England coast during the sum
mer, and the president undoubtedly
will want to this.
This trip the president desires to
make to the west during the late sum
mer will be entirely too expensive
to be paid for out of his own pocket.
An outline of the proposed itinerary
has been given to high railorad offi
cials and an estimate requested. It
is said the cost would be in the
neighborhood of $15,000 to $17,000. If
he goes west at all, the president will
include Alaska in the journey, sailing
from Seattle probably on a vessel
of the naval revenue service. No
president has ever visited the far
northern territory which for so long
has been a part of the United States.
The president has been invited to
and is particularly anxious to attend
the following gatherings;
The annual encampment of the
Grand Afmy of the Republic at Salt
Lake, Utah.
The Trans-Mississippi Conference
at Denver.
The National Irrigation Congress
at Spokane and the Alaska-Yukon-Pa
cific Exposition in Seattle.
In addition to his proposed visit to
the Rocky Mountain States and to
the Pacific coast, the president’s ten
tative plans include a long swing
through the southwest and the heart
of the south.
Mrs. Taft, who is as fond of travel
as her husband, would accompany the
president on the tour.
Western and southern senators and
representatives are particularly anx
ious to have the president visit their
sections, and will do all in their pow
er to provide the necessary funds.
They believe with the president that
such a tour as he proposes to make
should be regarded as an essential
factor in the universal desire to keep
tlie people in close touch and sympa
thy with the central government.
They believe that the president’s
trips through the country and his ad
dresses are as much of a benefit to
the people as to himself.
President Taft makes no secret of
his fondness for travel. He believes
it to be the only way of securing a
proper idea and a proper perspective
of such a big country.
“GRAFT” IN LIVIL SERVICE.
Senators Charge All Manner of Wrong
Doing in Census Bueau.
Washington, D. C. —The census bill
was sent back to conference by the
senate in order that its amendments
relating to the civil service law and
requiring the construction of a build
ing for the work of the census in
this city might be further considered
and insisted upon. The conferees
had agreed to strike out the senate
amendment requiring domicile in a
state for one year as a prerequisite for
the establishment of residence as a
basis for apportionments among the
several states, but they were instruct
ed to further insist upon this pro
vision.
Senator McCumber of North Da
kota, in criticising the conference re
port on the census bill, made the
charge that the census office has in
its employ in one bureau the wife of
a representative in congress, the
wives of two officials of the war de
partment and the wife of a promi
nent official of the treasury depart
ment.
CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION.
Work i* Outlined By Great Conference
in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga.—With the adoption of
resolutions asking larger federal ap
propriations for me support of edu
cation, a better system of county su
perintendence throughout the south,
better training for teachers, more lo
cal school improvement leagues, ad
vising work for compulsory educa
tion where practical, and rejoicing in
the greater dignity and power now at
taching to the office of superintendent
of schools in southern states, the Con
ference for Education in the South
brought its twelfth annual meeting to
a close.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Rob
ert C. Ogden, New York, N. Y.; vice
president, B. J. Baldwin, Montgomery,
Ala.; secretary, Wickliffe Rose, Nash
ville, Tenu.; treasurer, William A.
Blair, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Executive Comm-iitee Wickliffe
Rose, chairman, Nashville, Tenn.; S.
C. Mitchell, Columbia, S. C., president
University of South Carolina; W. H.
Hand, Columbia, S. C.; University of
South Carolina; S. A. Mynders, Knox
ville, Tenn., superintendent of
schools; G. J. Ramsey, Frankfort, Ky.;
Harry Hodgson, Athens, Ga.; James
K. Kirkland, Nashville, Tenn., chan
cellor Vanderbilt university; Paul H.
Sounders, Laurel, Miss.; James H.
Dillard, New Orleans, La.; John H.
Hineman, Arkadelphia, Ark., presi
dent Henderson College; J. Y. Joyner,
Raleigh, N. C., state superintendent
of education; J. B. Aswell, Natcito
ches, La., president State Normal
School; Edgar Gardner Murphy,
Montgomery, Ala.; H. B. Frissell,
Hampton, Va., principal Hampton In
stitute.
“The Relation of Education to In
dustrial Development” was the sub
ject of the address by Dr. A. Caswell
Ellis of the University of Texas. It
the program of Friday evening. It
proved to be not only interesting to
the audience, but a paper which might
well be put upon the conference rec
ords as one most valuable to students
of economics as related to education
Dr. Ellis reviewed the progress of
agricultural development as related
to education in the various states
affording striking examples. The
state of Illinois was quoted as invest
ing $250,000 in university investiga
tion in the field of agriculture. Pro
fessor Montgomery has done a sim
ilar work for the corn farmers In Ne
braska; Professor Holden in the agri
cultural college in lowa. The values
of seed testing were referred to, the
method used for testing wheat, bar
ley, oats, peas, alfalfa, cotton and
other crops, with just as valuable re
sults as with corn. In an interesting
vein he reviewed the results to ag
riculture that had come through the
investigation and scientific treatment
by the government of the ravages of
the white scale ruining the orange
crops of California; the boll weevil
in its attack upon the cotton; the
splenic fever, commonly called Tex
as fever, and ravages upon cattle life.
No paper of the conference had cen
tered in it more lively interest than
that of Charles L. Coon of Wilson,
N. C., whose address on “Public Tax
ation and the Negro,” was replete
with facts, statistics and general sug
gestion, that made It invaluable.
Briefly summarized, he drew atten
tion to the fact that the south is
spending $32,068,851 on her public
schools. Of this amount $23,856,914
is paid for teachers, white and col
ored, or 74.4 per cent of the total.
Negro teachers are receiving about
$3,818,705, or 12 per cent of the total
expenditures for all purposes, while
white teachers are being paid 64.4
per cent. The amount being spent
on negro teachers is by far the larg
est item of expense of the negro pub
lic schools. In addition to the ex
pense of the negro teachers, the south
is paying about $917,670 each year,
making the total aggregate cost of
the negro schools near $4,736,375.
No session of .the Conference for
Education in the South proved more
vitally interesting than the next to
last one, when the group of speakers
included Dr. Caswell Ellis of the Uni
versity of Texas; Superintendent
Coon of Wilson, N. C.; Mrs. B. B.
Mumford of Richmond. Va.; Dr. Lil
lain Johnson, Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs.
Robert Emory Park; Dean Lida Shaw
King of Brown University, Provi
dence, R. I.
SECRETARY WILSON’S'OPINION.
Says There is Sufficient Wheat to
Last Till Next Crop Comes.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson said of the Chi
cago wheat corner:
“There is sufficient wheat in the
country at normal prices to make
bread for the American people up to
the time when the new crop comes
in, and those who attempt to keep
prices up at present rates expect to
get their money out of the common
people—the consumers.”
