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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1909)
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: SI.OO per Inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. ■ * -• 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 J-23 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 Mrs. Lucinda Johnson, of Fish Creek, Wis., writes: I suffered for fourteen (14) years with ta’Sgii iarity, causing great pain. At last 1 tried Cardui, and now lam cured.” At all druggists, in 51 Dottles. liiniTT 1!C a I I I r* Write today for a free copy of valuable 64-pate Illustrated Book for Women. If .you need Medical ifekriTF I A I FIIFD Advice, describe your symptoms, stating age. and reply will be sent in plain sealed envelope, nKI I L U J ft L.L I 1 Lit Address: Ladies Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tcnn. 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.”
