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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the pestofflce at McDon
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch
p#r month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
Poetry, defines Puck, is the art of
putting words together in such a way
as to give them their least possible
commercial value.
A New York magistrate has decided
that an experienced chauffeur knows
when he is. going to run over a pedes
trian. This seems to imply, to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, that chauffeurs
have almost human intelligence.
A Pennsylvania scientist found that
a common horsefly was not affected
by an electric shock strong enough to
kill a horse! Hardy bird, the horsefly.
Try it on the boll weevil, suggests
the New York Herald, and see where
he ranks.
The “unspeakable Turk’’ has been
dethroned and put under guard, but
they are irrational optimists, Insists
the Christian Register, who expect the
Young Turks to succeed In bringing
order out of chaos within the limits
of one generation.
“Somebody,” says the Boston Globe,
“wants to know wbat to do about
avoiding the danger of being stabbed
by women's hatpins. What's the mat
ter with keeping away from the wear
ers?” It may be possible, retorts the
Louisville Courier Journal, for men in
Boston to keep away from hatpin
wearers, but is it always possible for
him to keep the hatpin wearers away
from him?
Says the Pittsburg Gazette-Times:
Those who sigh for world peace can
not charge, at least, that the subject
is being neglected at the present time.
Through a variety of active agencies
it is engaging the earnest thought of
the world and there is no cause for
discouragement in the fact that the
advocates of peace are unable to
agree regarding the best method of
bringing about that happy condition.
Ur
* st
Mr. Guglielmo Ferrero, the distin
guished historian, sums up his Amer
ican experiences by questioning the
wisdom of the American’s custom of
laying aside all business thoughts and
cares when he leaves the office for the
day. He seems' to prefer the habits,of
the continental European who “is al
ways thinking about his business, his
affairs, even when he is at home with
his family, with his friends, and on his
holidays; and this enables him when
he is working to work more comfort
ably and more slowly.” Mr. Ferrero
confuses cause and effect, so far as
the American business man is con
cerned, replies the Boston Post. The
latter is enabled to rush through vast
amounts of work in a few hours daily
simply because he does leave business
details locked up in his office instead
of taking them home with him.
Defenders of tipping, together with
those who simply endure it, will get
small comfort from a recent report
of the state superintendent of em
ployment agencies in Illinois. He dis
covers that, in Chicago, change left
with employes in hotel and theatre
cloakrooms does not stay with them,
even in part, but must all be turned
over to the boss who gets them their
jobs. One man. says the New York
Evening Post, has the contract to op
erate the cloakrooms of a large num
ber of the foremost hotels and the
atres. The boys under him receive a
fixed wage of $5 to $7 a week, and if
their gratuities do not average up to
a certain standard, they are dismissed.
The superintendent estimates that,
with 50 boys turning in an average of
$5 a day, the contractor’s profits
amount to as much as SIOOO a week.
This tallies with New York experi
ence. It was discovered at the time
of the hotel porters’ strike last year
that most of these men worked for a
contractor, and turned in to him the
tips received. Is not this a natural
consequence of the unregulated and
extravagant habit of tipping that has
grown up in this country?
ARE READY TG FIGHT
Argentina and Bolivia Likely
to Go to War.
DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY
Argentina Order* the Bolivian Minister
to Quit Buenos Ayres and Wires Her
Minister to Leave Bolivia.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina.—The Ar
gentine government has sent his pass
ports to the Bolivian minister here,
ordering him to leave Buenos Ayres.
The government has also telegraph
ed Senor Fonseca, Argentine minis
ter to Bolivia, to leave La Paz.
The action of the Argentine govern
ment follows the refusal of Bolivia to
accept the decision of Argentina in
the matter of the boundary dispute
between Bolivia and Peru. The Boliv
ian minister advised the Argentine
government that Bolivia had decided
to submit to parliament for consid
eration the arbitral award rendered
by President Alcorta, which, in itself,
was considered sufficient reason for
breaking off delations. In addition,
however, the Argentine republic has
taken offense at the action of the
president of Bolivia, who, it is as
serted, has sent circulars to the pre
fects throughout the country, casting
reflections on the Argentine govern
ment.
La Paz, Bolivia. —Conferences con
tinued in diplomatic quarters with
reference to the three-cornered dis
pute between Bolivia, Peru and Ar
gentina. No statement on this sub
ject was made public.
Two thousand Bolivian.' have peti
tioned the government that they be
enrolled in the army. They offer un
conditional support to the cause in
case of an international conflict. Large
numbers of Peruvian and Argentine
residents continue to leave Bolivia.
$23,000 FOR DUING NOTHING.
Former Graft Prosecutor Had Strong
Pull on United States Treasury.
Washington, D. C. —That Francis J.
Heney, special counsel of the depart
ment of justice and also assistant
prosecutor in the so-called graft cases
in San Francisco, received from this
government last year $23,000 for which
he performed no service, was the
frank admission of Chairman Tawney
of the appropriations committee in
the house.
"How much did Heney receive dur
ing the year 1908?” demanded Mr.
Murphy, republican, of Missouri, “and
what service did he perform?”
Mr. Tawney: “He received $23,000
and performed no services for tne gov
ernment whatever during that year. ’
Subsequently Mr. Tawney said: “Asa
matter of fact, Mr. Heney has not
performed any active service in the
last three years. He was appointed
November 7, 1903, and his active ser
vice continued for about three years,
and for which he received in all $69,-
000.”
Mr. Tawney stated, however, that
Mr. Heney’s salary had nothing to do
with the $27,000 deficiency for the de
partment of justice, for which pro
vision is made in the urgent deficien
cy bill. Mr. Heney, he said, had re
ceived in all from the government
$69,000.
Asked by Mr. Cox of Indiana if any
of this deficiency was due td the em
ployment of special counsel to prose
cute any trust, Mr. Tawney, answering
In the affirmative, said the suit against
the tobacco trust had occasioned some
of it.
Mr. Bennett of New York added that
the prosecution of the turpentine trust
also was responsible for some of it.
Mr. Clark of Missouri denounced
the appointment* of incompetent dis
trict attorneys, necessitating, as he
said, the employment of special coun
sel. The practice had grown into a
fad, he said, and an expensive fad.
He declared that if there had been
a competent district attorney or two
in the west there would never have
been so much stealing of public lands.
MRS. EDDY 88 YEARS OLD.
Prominent Woman\ Had Trunk With
False Bottom.
New- York City.—An indictment for
smuggling was handed down by the
federal grand jury against Mrs. Fre
mont B. Chesbrough of Detroit, wife
of the owner of the Chesbrough
coastwise line of steamers. The case
was placed in the hands of the United
States district attorney for the district
of New Jersey, following the discov
ery of a double bottom in one of the
trunks which Mrs. Chesbrough brought
to this country with her last May.
Wearing apparel appraised at several
thousand dollars was found in this
hidden compartment, together with
bills and invoices indicating the pur
chase abroad of a pearl necklace val
ued at $23,000. The necklace was
turned over to the customs officials
by Mrs. Chesbrough’s attorney.
HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL OPENED.
Jersey City is Now Within Three
, Minutes of Broadway.
New York City.—Jersey City is
within three minutes of Broadway,
the result of the formal opening of
the two downtown tubes of the Hud
son and Manhattan Railroad Compa
ny. The New York terminus of these
tunnels under the Hudson is at
Church. Cortlandt, Day and Fulton
streets, and the Jersey City terminus
is at the Pennsylvania station.
It is planned to open the connection
on the New Jersey side with the Erie
and Lackawanna stations, and it is
promised that within two years the
New' York extension to the Grand
Central station will be in Operation.
21 PERSONS DROWNED.
Boat Capsizes in New York Bay-Launch
Sank in Ohio River.
New York City.—Sixteen persons,
five of them women, met death by
drowning in the waters, either sur
rounding or in the vicinity of New
York.
Ten of the victims perished after
the capsizing of the excursion sloop
Roxana, carrying twenty-two pas
sengers, which was struck by a sud
den squall in lower New York bay. Of
the survivors, one woman, Mrs. C.
Knu'dsen of Brooklyn is in such a
serious condition that she probably
will die. Her two daughters were
drowned.
The other drowning, with but one
exception, were swimming accidents.
Stephen Ernst, 28 years old, of Brook
lyn, was drowned off Coney Island
while learning to swim. Chas. Hen
dricksen, 42 years old, of Brooklyn,
met death in the same vicinity by the
upsetting of a row boat. Wm. Yaeger,
a 16-year-old boy, of New York, slip
ped on some rocks and fell into the
Hudson to his death.
Off Bell Moore, L. 1., Chas. Conn, 32
years old, got beyond his depth and
sank; Giane Rizzo, a laborer, 21 years
old, perished while swimming in the
Harlem river. Lastly, Edward Wall,
35 years old, of East Orange, N. J.,
was seized with cramps and drowned
in the Morris canal near Newark.
Cincinnati, Ohio. —A gasoline launch
carrying a pleasure party from a day’s
outing up the river, capsized off Coal
haven, Ky., on the Ohio river, five of
the occupants of the boat drowning.
AMERICANS WASTEjI,SOO,OOO,OOO.
That Sum Thrown Away Annually,
Says Prof. Fisher of New York.
New York City.—That the people
of this country are annually throwing
away a sum of money that represents
30 per cent more than it costs to op
erate the government—in cold figures
*1,500,000,000 it is statistically
shown In Professor Irving Fisher's
new work issued by the government
printing office, and entitled "A Report
on National Validity.”
Professor Fisher is a member of
the faculty of Yale university, and a
nalional conservation commissioner
appointed by Theodore Roosevelt. He
is also a member of the committee
of 100 on national health.
In the connection of national waste
in lives. Professor Fisher shows that
there are three million persons need
lessly and continually ill in the United
States, and that this condition might
well be prevented by strict attention
to even the simplest hygienic meas
ures. He shows, also, that tubercu
losis alone is responsible for 500,000
persons annually ill, and that it is
entirely possible that this scourge be
wiped out within one generation. The
typhoid alone costs the country $350,-
000,000, and this is a disease that can
be wholly wiped out by attention to
neglect details.
HADE $30,000 HOLDING COTTON.
One Thousand Bales Sold at 12 1-2
Cents.
Columbus, Ga. —C. Schussler and
Sons, a mercantile firm of Lafayetts,
Ala., have sold to the local mills 1,-
650 bales of cotton which they have
had stored in the Columbus ware
houses since last fall. The cotton
sold at 12 1-2 cents, the lot bringing
over one hundred thousand dollars.
The firm made about thirty thous.,nd
dollars by holding the cotton.
FrOimuiliS uifGF6u Fuf Mure Cables.
New York City.—The owner of a
big tenement at 69 to 75 Rivington
street, on the east side, gave notice to
his tenants that he will pay $l5O to
the first family of eight children in
which a boy baby is born, SIOO to the
family of fewer than eight children
in which a boy baby is born and SSOO
to that family in which twins next
appear. There are now in the ten
ement house sixty-eight families, and
they have only 199 children.
Twins have never been Lorn in the
building.
Nurses in Convention.
London. —Nurses from all parts of
the world are attending the sessions
of the International Council of Train
ed Nurses, which opened at Church
house, Westminster. Mrs. Bedford
Fenwick, founder of the council, wel
comed the representative leaders from
the United States, Germany, the loy
al dominions and colonies. Mrs. Fen
wick and Miss Isla Stewart acknowl
edged their election as honorary mem
bers of the American Federation of
Nurses.
Fay bonds Issued During War.
Montgomery, Ala.—An example of
fealty to obligation is given by the
town of Greensboro. Ala., which has
just paid SI,OOO on bonds issued just
after the w r ar to help build what is
now a part of the Southern Railway.
They were given the great cavalry
leader, Gen. N. B. Forrest, who was
erecting the Cincinnati, Selma and
Mobile, the total for the town being
$20,000. This payment reduces the
amount to $1,750.
New Flying Record.
Washington, D. C. —Establishing a
new record for aviation in America,
Orville Wright, in the Wright aero
plane at Fort Mver. made a spectac
ular flight of one hour twenty min
utes and forty-five seconds,
The longest previous flight was of
seventy-four minutes, made by Mr.
Wright at Fort Mver last fall.
Little Shah Wants to Quit Throne.
London, England.—A dispatch from
Teheran to The Times says that the
little shah will hold a durbar in the
city to make the acquaintance of his
faithful subjects. He is pathetically
unhappy, and would willingly ex
change his honors for his mothers lap.
NORMAN BUGGIES.
Oar motto for 14 years has been—not how cheap bnt how good our
Vehicles are built for the man who believes the best is the cheapest,
in the long run experience teaches that cheap buggies are the most
EXPENSIVE!- If yon agree with ns on this point ask your
dealer to show yon a NORMAN. We believe today we build the best
buggy in Georgia, and want yon to know it. Built on correct propor
tions of best material, beautifully designed and finely finished. Top
Buggies, Runabouts and Stanhopes. If your local dealer cannot sup
ply you, writo direct to
NORMAN BUCCY CO., Inc., Crffin, Ca
AVIATOR IN THE OCEAN
Latham Fails to Fly Across the
English Channel
PICKED UP BY TORPEDO BOAT
After Making About 12 Miles Mono
plane Refused to Work and Dropped
Into the Sex.
Calais, France. —Herbert Latham,
the French aviator, made a daring,
but unsuccesful, attempt to cross tiie
English Channel in his monoplane.
He got away splendidly, under per
fect conditions, from the top of the
Chalk cliff, aC Sangatte, ind had cov
ered over half the distance, at an av
erage height of 500 feet, when the
motor slowed down and he was oolig
ed to descend.
The air space of the wings, how
ever, kept the machine afloat, and
the monoplane, lying like a wounded
bird, was stretched out on the water
when the French torpedo boat de
stroyer Harpon, which had kept
abreast throughout the journey, came
alongside, and picked up the aviator.
Mr. Latham was not wet and still sat
on the saddle, which is located above
the wings and behind the motor, calm
ly smoking a cigarette.
He immediately announced that he
was not discouraged by the failure,
and would try again as soon as the
machine was repaired.
The watchers on both shores had
,pn anxious hour after the machine
was lost to .view behind a thin veil of
fog on the French side, and apprehen
sion was not allayed until the sema
phere at Calais reported that the Har
pon was returning with M. Latham,
uninjured, aboard. On landing the
aeronaut was given a frantic recep
tion. *
The failure of the motor is at
tributed to a bad carburetter on the
monoplane, which, when four hundred
feet in the air, began to descend.
When the machine was 200 feet above
the water, Latham shut off the power,
and the machine glided down gently,
alighting on the waves with hardly
a splash.
TD ADVERTISE THE SOUTH.
Steps Taken by Committee of South
ern Publishers’ Association.
Nashville, Tcnn. —Definite steps
L ve been taken for the inauguration
of the proposed southern publicity
campaign recently put on foot at a
meeting of the Southern Publishers’
association.
At that meeting a committee was
appointed to devise a plan for adver
tising the south all over the country.
The idea was to give general publicity
for the south, acquainting the entire
business world with the many advan
tages of the south for location and
investment; to tell the world of the
unlimited resources of Dixie land; to
show that the south is awake, is up
and doing, and is making rapid
strides in every field of human en
deavor. This committee is composed
of Messrs. Alfred Sanford of The
Knoxville Journal and Tribune; Ed
gar Foster, of the Nashville Banner;
Victor Hansen, of the Birmingham
News; Curtis B. Johnson, of the Chat
nooga News and Knoxville Sentinel;
James Thompson, of the New Orleans
Item, and W. M. Clemens, of the
Memphis News-Scimitar.
This committee has been in session
at Tate Springs, Tenn., and worked
several days on general plans for the
proposed publicity campaign.
NEW SOUTHERN HEADQUARTERS.
Railway May Move Its Offices to
Atlanta.
Washington, D. C.—The directors of
the Southern Railway company have
made an appropriation for the pur
pose of renting a building in this city,
to be occupied by some of the execu
tive officers and the entire auditing
department. The general office build
ing of the Southern is one of the larg
est structures in Washington, but it
only accommodates one-half of the
general office force, and new quarters
are made necessary.
The fact that the directors decided
to rent a building instead of pur
chasing ground and erecting their
own structure is regarded here as con
firmatory evidence of the report that
the Southern intends, in the not very
distant future, to move the general of
fices of the company to some point on
the central portion of the road.
Officials of the Southern here who
have heard this report say that, after
the road has been double-tracked
throughout, and the extensive im
provements which were started about
four years ago have been made, the
headquarters will be moved from
Washington.
While a number of southern cities
are suggested for the general head
quarters of the Southern, Atlanta, is
most generally discussed in this con
nection.
TAFT THREATENS VETO.
President Tells Republicans That They
Must Revise Tariff Downward.
Washington. D. C. —All doubt as to
where President Taft stands with re
gard to the downward refision of the
lanff was swept away when a state
ment was given out at the white
house setting forth in detail what
the president had to say to the 23
republican members of congress who
called to protest against putting raw
material on the free list.
The president declaies that the re
publican party is committed to a
[downward revision; that he has never
j had any other idea of the Chicago
j platform, and that he personally has
piomised a downward revision to the
! people.
This statement is interpreted in
some quarters here as a direct noti
fication to the conferees on the tariff
bill that if the measure they finally
agree on does not constitute a ma
terial reduction in specific duties, the
president will veto it.
The following official statement wms
made at the white house:
Mr. Young of Michigan opposed free
ore; Mr. Mondell opposed free coal or
reciprocity with Canada and free
hides, each on the ground that the
policy would injure the interests in
his state. The president replied that
he was not committed to the principle
of free raw material, but that he was
committed to the principle of a down
ward revision of the tariff, which he
had promised, and that he was obliged
to look at the matter not from the
standpoint of any particular district,
but from the standpoint of the whole
country, and also from the standpoint
of responsibility for the entire repub
lican party.
He repeated the platform of the re
publican party and said that he had
always understood that it meant a
downward revision in many instances,
though perhaps in some few' instances
an increase might be needed; that he
represented this construction of the
platform on what he understood to be
the principle of protection and its jus
tification namely, that after an indus
try was protected by a duty equal to
the difference between the cost of pro
duction abroad and the cost of produc
tion in this country, including a fair
profit to the manufacturer, the energy
and enterprise of American business
men and capitalists, the effectiveness
of American labor and the ingenuity
of American inventors under the im
pulse of competition behind the tariff
wall, would reduce the cost of produc
tion and that, with the reduction and
the cost of production, the tarili rate
would become unnecessarily high and
ought to be reduced.
This was the normal operation of
the tariff as claimed by the defenders
of the protective system—not in every
case, but as a general rule—that of
course a revision of the tariff could
not be perfect, must have defects and
inconsistencies, but insofar as his in
fluence went, when called upon to act
in connection with .legislation, it
would be thrown in the direction of
performing the promises of the party
is he understood them, and that if
iron ore and oil and coal and hides did
not need protection and the conditions
were such as to enable the ore pro
ducers and the oil producers and the
coal producers and the producers of
hides to compete successfully without
reduction of wages, with the produc
ers from abroad, then they did not
need a duty and their articles should
go on the free list.
The president asserts for the first
time his authority as the titular head
of his party. As such, he announces
his conviction that the party platform
meant a revision downward and that
no other interpretation can be placed
upon it.
The president’s statement was
shown to Senator Aldrich. He made
no direct comment upon it, but said
that the conferees had decided to let
Mr. Taft deal with schedules on which
they could not agree, it being up to
the president to secure the votes nec
essary to pass the measure in the
form in which it would be presented
out of conference
POPULAR WOMAN JUDGE.
When Marrying Couples She Omits
the Word “Obey.”
Beloit, Kan. —So popular have be
come the marriage ceremonies per
formed by Probate Judge Mary Coop
er, who is said to be the onlv woman
probate judge in the United States,
that It has become a fad for young
women to insert the proviso that
Judge Cooper shall officiate at the
Judge Cooper's popularity
has come about through the omission
of the word “obey" when tving the
knot.
Newsy Paragraph*.
Within one hundred yards of the
grave of John Alexander Dowie, fifty
Methodists will soon erect a church
in Zion City, 111. This is the first
demonstration against Dowieism in
the city of its founder, and a fight
to a finish is expected. Overseer Vol
iva is said to have declared that he
would rather have a saloon in the
confines of Zion City than a Metho
dist church.
