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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the pestoffice at McDon
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
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The worlds' force today, insists
the New York Press, is personality,
just as in the time of Julius Caesar,
Napoleon Bonaparte and Oliver
Cromwell.
Aside from the protection to public
health the protection afforded to
property by exterminating the rats
is incalculable, asserts the New York
World. An eminent British medical
authority estimated recently that
there was one rat to every acre of
land in Great Britain and that the an
imals destroyed $75,000,000 worth of
property a year.
Abel B. Bliss aoMfies the Florida
Yimes-Union that at Long Key he
caught a tarpon 6 feet 9 inches long
and weighing 175 pounds. “Without
considering the size of the fish, it
was an exceptional catch,” he writes,
“as after about 15 minutes’ playing,
my pole broke and made it necessary
to transfer the line to another pole
and reel, which was done and I still
saved the fish and have it in my
office here.
In 1915 Boston will have many an
aeroplane mart. In this she is pecu
liarly well situated. Our Back Bay,
boasts the Post, beyond the riding
school, has many an ideal spot for
aeroplane stations. The question is
one of launching and alighting. When
that is finally conquered, then one
will be taking no more chances flying
in the air than touring in an automo
bile. Before we know it the airship
mart will be opened right under our
eyes.
The National Dental association
has determined that pyrrhoee, a dis
ease of the gums, is more prevalent
among artificial blondes than among
any other class of people, and dental
science has traced it down to the
point where it is claimed that near
ly every woman whose hair is arti
ficially colored is a victim. It is com
municable by kissing, declares the
New York Press, and the dentists
are advising against salutes of per
oxide beauties. This sounds a death
knell to the peroxide blonde.
Judge Kersten of Chicago, recently
sentenced three highwaymen to im
prisonment in the penitentiary for
life. The trio had been arrested for
holding up a citizen with revolvers
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and demanding his money. He al
lowed them to make a search, and it
yielded just 46 cents. The severe
sentence, explains the New Haven
Register, was made possible by an
act passed two years ago, providing
life imprisonment for highway rob
bery whenever deadly weapons are
6hown to compel the victim to sur
render.
Why is a loafer, anyway, asks the
Leavenworth Times? If the loafer
at the very best does no good for
himself he certainly harms those with
frequently heard the remark that
there is but 15 cents difference be
tween the man who works and the
man who doesn’t,- and that the lat
ter has it. When particularly the
young men of a town see a loafer
who somehow manages to get along
on no income, they are inclined to
believe that the world owes them a
living also and work becomes objec
tionable to them, when it should be
a pleasure. We have too much pa
tience with loafers. We should learn
from the bee, which, when it can se
cure conclusive evidence against the
drone, drives him out. A loafer is a
vagrant. He ought to be treated as
such unless he can be compelled t.o
6tance, there are loafers, and this in
spite of the fact that there is an
abundance of employment here. If
under these olvcomstances these
loafers refuse to w«*k, they should
be compelled to go out of town, or
stay at home, where they could not
exert a bad influence upon others by
tSt-ir idleness.
(J. S. AFTER BLACK HAND
Headquarters of Gang Discover
ed at Marion, Ohio.
OFFICIALS MAKE ARRESTS
Pottoffice Inspector* Secure Evidence
Which They Soy Will Break Up the
Society in This Country.
Cincinnati, Ohio. United States
poatolflce inspectors from Cincinnati
believe they have discovered the
headquarters of the “Black Band” in
this country, at Marion, Ohio. This
belief is based on documentary evi
dence found when Sam Lima of Mar
ion, Ohio; Antonio Vicadio of Colum
bus, Ohio, and A. Marfis of Dennison,
Ohio, were arrested.
Arrests are said to have been ma(Jo
also in Pittsburg, Pa., and inspectors
left for Bellefontaine ro make several
more there.
inspector Oldfield states that when
the whole story is known the country
will be astounded.
It was on January 1 last that Ami
con's wife found at the door of their
home in Columbus, Ohio, a box con
taining dynamite and fuses, and tack
ed on the outside a Black Hand note
demanding $15,000 and threatening
death if money payment was not made.
The money was to be paid at the Black
Hand rendezvous in Pittsburg.
The case was turned over to the
government secret service and later
given to the postoffice inspectors
Acting in harmony with the govern
ment officers, the Pittsburg, Pa., po
lice recently raided the Black Hand
headquarters there and made twenty
one arrests. The men arrested were
charged with attempted extortion un
der the federal statutes.
The Black Hand gang recently or
dered Fred Cianeiolo, a Cincinnati
fruit dealer, to give up SIO,OOO on pen
alty of death for himself and his fam
ily if he refused.
Ciancolo gave no thought to the let
ters, and a few nights later a dynamite
bomb was exploded in the doorway of
his home. No one was injured, but
an adjoining saloon was wrecked.
Joseph Annarino, a Cincinnati fruit
dealer, was warned to give the Black
Hand SIO,OOO, or his child would be
kidnaped.
The postoffice inspector* insist that
the handwriting of the letters to the
Cincinnati men is the *ame a# that
in the Amicon letters.
PROSPERITY IS CERTAIN.
Boom Times WH! Be Hers by October
17, Say Pittsburg Manufacturers.
Pittsburg, Pa. From a canvass
made of the principal iron and steel
manufacturers, it is apparent that a
wave of prosperity equal to any ex
perienced in this country is about to
take place.
The recent stagnation in the iron
and steel business is described to the
Associated Press as “the industrial
rest.” From a majority of the inter
views obtained here, the fear is ex
pressed that wants in the iron and
steel business will return with such
a rush as to cause congestion.
The steei and plate department of
the National Tube Company’s works at
Wheeling. W. Va., have begun opera
tions, double turn, giving employment
to 4,500 men who have been idle sjnee
November, 1907.
Announcement was made of the fol
lowing orders:
One hundred and sixty-five thousand
tons of steel rails, 2,000 freight cars,
jOO pteel passenger cars and 100 loco
motives.
It is also said that before long some
thing may be done to restore the price
of steel products. According to steel
manufacturers of Pittsburg boom times
will be here in their fullness by Oct. 1.
TARIFF WILL DEFEAT G. 0. P.
South Carolina Senator Says People
Will Understand Disastrous Effects.
Columbia, S. C. —United States Sen
ator E. D. Smith of South Carolina
gave out an interview' in which he
expressed the opinion that the tariff
bill if passed will cause the defeat of
the republican party.
The discussion of the present tariff
bill has. he said, "made it apparent
that the republican tariff policy has
at last reached it-s logical outcome.
The principle has been applied and
its disastrous effects, understood when
this bill becomes a law, will de
feat the republican party. And, in or
der to prevent this logical result of
their outrageous policy, the republi
can press is attempting to magnify
what seems to be the disloyalty of
some democrats.
“By holding this up before the pub
lic they are hoping to distract atten
tion from the disastrous effects of
their own applied policy.”
FATAL ELEVATOR RIDE.
Tragedy Occurs in the Flatiron Build
ing in New York.
New York City.—Her first ride in
an elevator ended fatally for Miss
Lena Soboormaker, aged 19 years, of
Saugerties, N. Y., who came to this
city with a party of a dozen girls on
an excursion under the chaperonage
of Mrs. Charles M. Hall of Kingston,
N. Y., a daughter of Judge Alton B.
Parker. The accident occurred in the
Flatiron building. Miss Schoormaker
fainted and fell as the elevator in
which she was descending with Mrs.
Hall ami four companions stopped
suddenly, and her head was crushed
against the wall of the shaft as the
car unexpectedly shot up again.
COTTON CONDITION 81.1
Government Report Shows Reduction in
Acreage.
Washington, D. C. —The growing
crop of cotton on May 25 was 81.1 per
cent of a normal condition, against
79.7 a year ago and ten year aveiage
of 81.4.
Tne area planted this year is about
95.6 per cent ot the area planted to
cotton last year and aggregates snout
31,918,0ut) acres, a deciei.se ot 1,450,-
000 acres or 4.4 per cent from the bu
reau s revised estimate of years
planted area. This is the report of
the agriculture department.
The revised estimate of last year’s
planted area was 33,370,000 acres.
The figures for the area planted Ujis
year includes that already planted
and expected to be planted.
By states the area planted, in acres,
in 1909, and the contrition on May 25
respectively by states follows:
BUREAU Bf STATES.
State Acre- Condi
age. tion.
Virginia 28,000 85
North Carolina.. .. 1,436,000 83
South Carolina .... 2,498,000 83
Georgia .. 4,763,000 84
Florida 266,000 91
Alabama 3,552,000 83
Mississippi 3,244.000 78
Louisiana 1,155,000 74
Texas 9,716,000 78
Arkansas 2,304,000 84
Tennessee .. .. 7554,000 85
Missouri 90,000 93
Oklahoma 2,112,000 84
Total acreage 31,918,000 vs. 33,370,-
000 last year.
June condition 81.1; last year 79.7;
year before 70.5.
Average for ten years 81.4, against
82.3 last year, 83.6 year before.
Immediately following the publica
tion of the government report cotton
broke seven to nine points, as the
condition figures were considered
rather bearish. On the other hand,
the decrease of 1,452,000 acres in the
area was a bullish factor and furn
ished the basis for heavy buying by
traders.
EXPENSES EXCEED RECEIPTS.
United States Spent, in 1908, SIOB,-
315,056 More Than Received.
Washington, D. C. —A comparative
statement of the receipts and expendi
tures of the United States for the fis
cal year ending June 30, has just
been issued by the treasury depart
ment. It shows the following re
ceipts: Customs for the month of
May, 1909, $27,872,095; since July 1,
1908, $272,829,790. National revenue
for May, $19,296,029; since July 1
last, $222,889,463; miscellaneous for
May, $6,165,186; since July 1, 1908,
$50,641,048.
The expenditures for May, and the
fiscal year, since July 1 ’last, are:
Civil and miscellaneous, $10,642,524
and $145,515,095; war, $10,230,8999 and
$120,838,514; navy, $10,414,005 and
$106,789,869; Indians, $888,324 and
$14,789,009; pensions, $14,887,107
and $149,965,423; public works, $9,-
359,867 and $86,173,520; interest, $2,-
364.089 and $21,647,972.
The totals for May, 1909, and for
the fiscal year to June 30 are: Re
ceipts, $53,322,311 and $546,360,301,
respectively. Expenditures, $58,786,-
266 and $6444,218,402.
National bank deposits, during the
month amounted to $944,290 and the
redemptions to $4,186,460.
The public debt statement shows
the aggregate, including certificates
and treasury notes, to be $2,636,992,-
527, on April SO, and $2,633,550,7887
on May 31, a decrease during the
month of $3,4441,740. The cash bal
ance April 30, exclusive of trust and
reserve funds, was $127,433,835 and
on May 31, sll9/901,309, a decrease
during the month of $7,532,526.
REUNION OfWard BRAT.
“War Passions Are Gone’’ Answers
General Evans.
Minneapolis, Minn. Telegrams
from leaders of the Grand Army and
Confederate Veterans all over the
country are being received by the
Minneapolis Journal in approval of a
campaign for a great reunion of the
Blue and Gray to be held ndxt year
in Washington under the supervision
of the secretary of war.
Commander-in-chief H. M. Nevius,
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
thinks the plan should first come be
fore the encampment at Salt Lake
City in August.
General Clement A. Evans, com
mander-in-chief of Confederate Vet
erans, replied:
“I have no authority to speak offi
cially. I can say personally that war
passions are gone in the south.”
Newsy Paragraphs.
The Illinois legislature passed a bill
declaring void apartment leases which
prohibit children in apartment hous
es. The governor has announced his
intention of signing the bill.
E. H. Harriman and Mrs. Harriman
sailed from New York city for Bre
men. Mr. Harriman announced his
intention of spending a three months’
vacation abroad. He is going to Par
is and Vienna, but further than that
the details of the trip have not been
arranged.
Vice Chancellor Garrison of Jersey
City refused to grant an injunction
restraining the organization commit
tee of the Southern tSeel Company
from proceeding with the organiza
tion of the Southern Iron and Steel
company. The court dismissed the
order to show cause which was ob
tained by Harrison H. Schuler, a mi
nority stockholder. The Southern
Steel company is an Alabama corpor
ation and was run independently
FOUND FINE TRUCKING LANDS
Soil Expert Recently Mads Trip
Through the South.
PREPARING SPECIAL REPORT
Dr. Bon*teel Found Land in Vicinity of
Savannah, as Adaptable for Truck
Growing a* Other Sections.
Washington, D. C. —Dr. J. A. Bon
steel of the bureau of soil, United
States department of agriculture, has
just returned to Washington from an
extended tour of the south, which was
for the purpose of investigating the
adaptability of different types of soil
lor certain kinds of Crops, especially
winter and early spring vegetables.
Dr. Bonsteel is enthusiastic over the
results of his trip and is preparing
a special report. When seen Dr. Boa
sted said:
“The first trip was to the city of
Savannah, in order to investigate the
possibility of developing the land of
Chatham county in and around the
City of Savannah for an extensive
trucking Industry. 1 found there the
same types of soil which have made
Norfolk, a., Newuern and Wilming
ton, N. C., and Charleston, S. C., fa
mous centers for the production of a
great quantity of winter and early
spring truck crops. Of great import
ance in this connection, also, is tne
tact that all of the lower lying land
of the vicinity of Savannah is so sit
uated that Artesian water in large
quantities is easily obtainable, and
could be used on soils of the Ports
mouth series for the irrigation of cel
ery. Thib one fact will enable truck
growers in the vicinity of Savannah
to compete favorably with the Florida
celery growers in the production ot
this important and valuable truck
crop. Celery, when properly irrigat
ed and otherwise handled, produces
from SI,OOO to SI,BOO worth of the
plant to the acre, and is one of the
most valuable trucking crops which
can be produced anywhere. In addi
tion the Norfolk fine sand, which ex
ists in profusion in the immediate vi
cinity of Savannah, is one of the best
soils along the Atlantic coast for the
production of early Irish potatoes, to
matoes, sugar corn, green peas, ex
tra early strawberries and a consid
erable variety of minor trucking
crops. In my opinion, so far as soil
and climate are concerned, there
would be absolutely nothing to stand
in the way of the development of
thousands of acres of truck gardens in
the vicinity of Savannah.
“From Savannah I went to Barnes
ville and Pike county, Georgia, where
a soil survey party of the bureau of
soils is investigating the soils condi
tions of that county. I found a con
siderable variety of soils, particular
ly those of the Cecil series, which
occupy practically all of the Pied
mont section of Georgia; investigated
the peach industry, which is develop
ing around Barnesville, and also saw
the pecan groves and nurseries, which
have been started in the vicinity of
Barnesville by some of the enterpris
ing citizens of that section. Contrary
to the usual belief, that pecan culture
is practically confined to the coast
section of the United States, I found
that excellent results, and early ma
turity of trees were obtained on the
Cecil sandy loam in the immediate
vicinity of Barnesville, and at a few
other points in Pike county. This is
practically a new industry for the
Piedmont section of the United States
and the profitable development of
these groves will undoubtedly be
watched with a great deal of interest
on the part of all horticulturists and
nut growers. The prospects so far
are excellent for the development of
the pecan industry as a high grade
of agriculture in Central and West
Georgia.
“I also visited some of the soil sur
vey parties working in Alabama, and
held a conference with Commissioner
of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson in re
gard to future operations in the state.
The state of Alabama is expending
SIO,OOO annually in co-operations with
the bureau of soils, which is expend
ing a like amount in the completion
of soil survey work in the state of
Alabama. This co-operation has been
in effect less than two years, but by
January 1, 1910, a larger area of soil
survey work will have been complet
ed in Alabama than in any other
state in the United States. Four soil
survey parties are at present engaged
in the work in Alabama, and surveys
are in progress in Tallapoosa, Ooffee,
Baldwin and Hale countie* The work
in at least three of these counties
will be completed during July or early
in August, and additional work will
then be taken up in the north central
portion of the state. The soil sur-
NO VETO BY TAFT.
President Says No One Has Authority
to Say He Will Veto Measure.
Washington, D. C. Senate and
house leaders who are directing the j
course of the tariff bill, and who will j
be members of the conference on the !
bill after it has passed the senate, i
took ineasures to ascertain whether !
there was any foundation for reports i
that President Taft would veto the J
bill. , . J
They have reached the conclusion
that there is no basis whatever for
such reports.
The president told one of the repub
lican leaders that no one had author
ity to suggest that he had in mind
the veto of the tariff measure.
veys thus far completed in the state
of Alabama have shown a wonderful
diversity in the soils, and the surveys
are laying the foundation for an agri
cultural development in the state,
which in due time will be no less
marked than the industrial develop
ment of the coal and iron fields in
■orth central Alabama.
“I also visited the soil survey par
ty which is working in Jackson coun
ty. Miss., in the vicinity of Scranton
and Ocean Springs, Miss. The native
pine timber has not yet been cut from
the greater part of Jackson county,
and agricultural development is in its
infancy. Only a few thousand acres
of land are actually under cultivation
in the area surveyed, but the soils
and climatic conditions are such that
there are exceptional opportunities
for the development of the trucking
industry, of pecan culture, of the pro
duction of the Satsuma orange, and
eventually for the production of cot
ton, both the sea island and long sta
ple upland varieties, within the area.
“From Ocean Springs, Miss., I went
to Marianna, Fla., where a soil sur
vey of the western portion of Jack
son county, Fla., is nearly completed.
In addition to the soil's usual in the
coastward section of the United
States, there are also in this county
soils of considerable extent, which
are derived from the underlying lime
stone, and constitute some of tho
most fertile cotton and corn soils of
the South Atlantic section. The land
is generally held in large bodies, sin
gle owners controlling from 20,000 to
100,000 acres. The subdivision of
this land into small farms and home
steads will eventually bring about a
rapid development of the great agri
cultural resources of that section, and
the production of cane syrup, cotton,
corn, oats and probably tobacco, is
possible under the soil and climatic
conditions existing within the Mari
anna area.
“I returned by the way of Jackson
ville, Fla., more enthusiastic than
ever over the possibilities for devel
oping the unusued agricultural lands
of the south, not merely for the pro
duction of staple crops, with good
average returns per acre, but also
with regard to the development of
special industries, where from the
production of fruits, nuts, garden veg
etables and tobacco the soils may
be made to aggregate from SSOO to
$2,000 per acre, under intensive forms
of cultivation.”
DEATH ENDED LUNG SLEEP.
The Case of Louisiana Piette a Mys
tery to the Doctors.
Lowell, Mass. Louisiana Piette,
Lowell’s so-called “sleeping sickness”
gill, died after lying on her bed prac
tically unconscious for thirty-two
days. During that time the only nour
ishment which passed her lips was
the milk forced through her teeth.
The girl had four other similar
spells, lying unconscious for days, and
each longer than the former. A
sleep last fall of thirty days was end
ed by electric treatment given by
physicians.
KILLED WIFE WITH ACID.
Man Told the Court He Tried to Mar
Her Reauty.
New York City. Because he
thought his wife the most beautiful
woman in the world, Gasper Zittinick
poured sulphuric acid over her face
as she slept in their home, intending
to mar her beauty and make her unat
tractive to other men, hut the acid
got into her eyes and penetrated her
brain, killing her.
Zittinivk pleaded guilty to man
slaughter. He was sentenced to not
less than 10 nor more than 20 years
in prison.
ADVCIE OFTgeD SPINSTER.
“Women Mustn’t Marry If They Would
Live Long.”
New York City.—A novel recipe for
longevity is given toy Miss Mary Cum
mings, who is facing death at Belle
vue Hospital at the age of 100 years.
“If you are a woman never marry
and never for a moment lose your in
dependence.”
These, she claims, were her two
rules of living and she never let an
opportunity pass cf expressing her be
lief in their efficacy.
FATAL DUEL FOUGHT.
Prominent Young Spaniards Fight
With Knives Until Exhausted.
San Antonio, Texas. —Locked in a
room where they had fought a bloody
duel with knives, Joseph Salinas and
Carlos Sauza, prominent young Span
iards, were found clasped in each oth
er’s arms, lying on the floor, which
was covered w ith their life blood when
the door was burst open by the po
lice here. Salinas had a cut over the
heart, and may die. Both men are
covered with stab wounds.
Man Found In Swamp.
Pensacola, Fla. After wandering
about the swamps in the vicinity of
Bayou Chico for ten days, George
Holmes, 83 years of age, was found by
parties who had been searching for a
number of days for the old man who
is partially insane. He is in a crit
ical condition from exposure and bites
of insects.
France to Spend Millions on Navy.
Paris, France —The naval program
approved by the cabinet involves an
expenditure of $600,000,000, covering a
period of ten years. Six battleships
of the Danton type, six of the Repub
lic type and four armored cruisers are
included in the estimates.
