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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON, Editor.
Entered at the pestoffice at McDon
ough as second class mall matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch
por month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
Speculating, observes the Chicago
News, enables a man to Bave a lot of
money by not doing it.
Says the Troy Northern Budget: Of
all things deadly in the hands of their
owners the automobile takes the lead.
It is more fatal in the killing of rich
men than a stock market panic.
William G. Knoeig, honor man of
the naval acadmy, was denied by his
superior officers the right to marry,
but he did not despair. By shifting
from the navy to the army, relates the
Philadelphia Ledger, he acquired an
other set of superior officers, who had
not yet presumed to umpire the game
of love.
Warns the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle: The ownership or posses
sion of an automobile does not con
fer the privilege of overriding the
rights of other citizens. The sooner
this principle is recognized the quick
er public sentiment will be placated,
and the remedy is in the hands of au
tomobile owners.
Immured in buildings filled with
baked air we seek to dodge the rigors
of a fine cold day—nine of us out of
ten —although a temperature of 15 de
grees, or even less, laments the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, is tonic to any
one in health who will venture into
it and remain long enough out of
doors to recover from the first shock
of the change from the baked air of
an over-heated office or home. Even a
January rain eating upon a raincoat,
provided care is taken to keep the feet
dry, has no other effect than to brigh
ten the complexion, increase the appe
tite, and bring the realization that
most of the really dangerous weather
1b indoors rather than out of doors,
and most of the winter ailments that
ocertake ordinarily healthy persons
are traceable U* our ways of living
rather than our climate.
—
In New England mill villages, where
it is common for the women of the
family to work, the result has been to
lower men’s wages both at the trades
at which women work and In the
trades at which only men work. The
effect of carpenters, blacksmiths and
bricfllayers allowing their daughters
to work in the mills and their sons to
go to work at an early age has been
to reduce the pay of the men’s trades
and to tend to keep the family’s finan
cial condition about the same as be
fore. According to the old orthodox
books on political economy this is
what would happen, declares the New
York World. It may be that the
change in women’s social and econo
mic status may work out differently in
large communities from small towns.
But if the conclusions of these char
itable investigators are sound the av
erage man will have to look out for
himself. So far men, though en
gaged in the same work as women,
get higher wages than women.
r :
There are some plays which, no
matter how admirable in a technical
sense, treat of the lives and deeds of
brutes and wantons in a manner re
pugnant to the taste of this era. It is
a poor excuse for their existence to
point out the Shakespeare wrote
"Measure for measure,’’ insists the
New York Times. There are exhibi
tions of dancing and nakedness in the
limelight that would be out of place
except in the criminal haunts of Pa
ris and the private bathroom. The in
decency grows, and fully two-thirds
of this public are indignant about it
The police might well prohibit some
of the shows and suppress some of
the plays. But we are all restive un
der the interference of the police with
such matters. The only other way lg
for all decent folks to express their
belief in the bad influence of such ex
hibitions frankly and freely, and make
persons not quite so decent ashamed
to countenance them. Decency will
have its way if it i 6 alert and militant
ALABAMA TIGHTENS LID
Carmichael Bill Providing For
State-Wide Prohibition Passes.
WILL CLOSE UP THE CLUBS
The Bill Provide* That There Shall Be
No Sale of Intoxicants Containing Over
One-Half of 1 Per Cent of Alcohol.
Montgomery, Ala. —The Carmichael
bill providing for state-wide prohibi
tion was passed by the house by a
vote of 75 to 19.
The first real struggle of the pres
ent extra session came in the debate
on the Carmichael bill —a basis meas
ure for a chain of prohibition bills to
be enacted this session.
The bill provides that there shall be
no sale or manufacture of intoxicants
in Alabama, or any beverage contain
ing over one-half of 1 per cent alco
hol. It shall not be kept in clubs and
distributed to members as a regular
thing; all classes of drinks, like near
beer, hop-jack, hop-weiss and the like,
are interdicted, and every kind of
violation under the act is minutely
described so that the courts cannot
be mistaken. Conviction may be fol
lowed by line of SSO to S2OO, with six
months' hard labor, at the discretion
of the court, like amount being pos
sible under each offense.
Places of reputed violation may be
reached by injunction secured by offi
cers or citizens of the chancery court,
by which doors can be closed and the
burden of proof put upon the accused
to establish innocence. Places of sus
picion may be declared a nuisance in
the same way and closed up, and in
every case the possession of a United
States license to sell is prima facie
evidence of guilt.
Liquor men, under advice of attor
neys, believe that the bill will stop
the sale of intoxicants and close up
every club other than those of a pure
ly social nature, cutting out from the
real social organizations systematic
distribution of drinks. Any club break
ing the laws will have its charter
taken away, having agreed prior to
being chartered that it will not sell
or give away liquor in its rooms.
There were scenes of greatest en
thusiasm in the galleries.
prohibifion is Expensive.
United States Whiskey Tax Receipts
Decreased Over $5,000,000.
Washington, D. C. —-Uncle Sam’s
pocketbook suffered a big shrinkage
because eft the prohibition wave* dur
ing the fiscal year ending July 30,
last, during which period there was a
decrease of $5,290,773 in whisky tax
receipts, as shown by the preliminary
report of the internal revenue bu
reau, just issued by Acting Commis
sioner Robert Williams, Jr.
Whiskey tax collections last year
were $134,808,034, as against $140,-
158,807 for the preceding year. The
receipts of beer and other fermented
-liquors amounted to $57,450,411, a de
crease of $2,351,205 compared with
1908.
The nation’s tobacco bill, however,
showed an increase. The government
tax on all sorts of tobacco aggregat
ed $51,887,178, an increase of $3,024,-
423 over the previous year.
Internal revenue receipts from all
sources were $24G,21p,719. The gov
ernment expended approximately $4-
976,000 in collecting its internal rev
enue.
CONTROLS SPEED OF AUTUMUBILES.
Invention Reported by Consul Bying
ton Works Automatically.
Washington, D. C. —A device has
been invented bv which the speed of
automobiles may be automatically
controlled. A report to this effect is
made by Vice Consul H. M. Byington
of Bristol, who describes the device
as it has been attached to English
machines.
The atachment removes the clutch
when the speed of the car slightly ex
exceeds the arranged limit. When
necessary the brake is automatically,
applied so that the speed is reduced
to just below the arranged limit. The
brake is then quickly but gently re
moved and the clutch again put in.
The apparatus is put in action or out
of gear in an instant. It fits in a
compact aluminum box and takes up
but little space.
SOUTH CAROLINA “URE."
State Wide Law Has Gone Into Force
in That State.
Columbia, S. C.—■-South Carolina has
been added to the field of state wide
prohibition territory which now em
braces all of the southeastern states.
However, the drouth in this state is
to be temporary—unless the voters in
the twenty-one wet counties that are
to hold local option elections on Tues
day, August 17, declare for perpetual
dryness.
ROOSEVELT BANQUETED.
Elephant Tusk Was Given to Him at
Reception.
Nairobi, British East Africa. —Theo-
dore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit,
were the guests of honor at a public
banquet given in Nairobi.
An address of welcome to the former
president of the United States was
read and afterward handed him, en
closed in a section of elephant tusk
mounted in silver and with a silver
chain.
American residents of the protecto
rate presented Mr. Roosevelt with a
tobacco box made of the hoof of a
rhinoceros, silver mounted; the skull
of a rhinoceros, also mounted in sil
ver, and a buffalo head.
COTTON GRADES FIXED.
Set* to Be Pieced on Exhibition for the
Information ot All.
Washington, D. C. —In the act of
making appropriations for the depart
ment of agriculture for the year end
ing June 30, 1909, the secretary was
authorized •'to establish a standard
for the different grades of cotton,
calling to his assistance for that pur
pose expert cotton classifiers, by fix
ing a stand.,rd of middling cotton and
using the tame as a basis, establish
ing a standard of nine different
grades to be designated middling fair,
strict good middling, strict middling,
middling, strict low middling, low
middling, strict good ordinary and
good ordinary.” The secretary was
further authorized to prepare in prac
tical form the standard of said grades
and furnish the same upon request to
any person.
A committee which included depart
ment experts and prominent represen
tatives of the cotton trade, was ap
pointed to fix the grades.
The committee has just submitted
a leport, which the secretary approv
ed, fixing the grades and making cer
tain recommendations in connection
I therewith.
In view of the fact that contracts
are made for cotton in advance of the
j ensuing cotton season, the committee
recommended that the grades agreed
upon by the committee be not promul
gated for general use in trade trans
actions prior to September 1, 1910.
Jn order, however, for the cotton
trade to become fully acquainted with
the grades, the department of agri
culture will in a short time place sets
with associations, organizations .and
agricultural colleges for inspection.
These will enable the cotton produc
ers, merchants aud spinners to be
come familiar with them.
TAFT URGES GUUO RUAUS.
President Wants a Great Highway
from Washington to Richmond.
Washington, D. C. —President Taft
has again indicated his. interest in
,good roads, the latest expression be
ing elicited in connection with a
movement for belter highways in Vir
ginia, this taking shape in an imme
diate plan for a good road from the
national capital to Richmond, lu a let
ter on the subject, the president says:
“I regard this as a part of the gen
eral good roads movement in the
country, and I have pleasure in say
ing there is no movement that I know
of that will have a more direct ef
fect to alleviate the difficulties and
burdens of the farmer’s life, will stim
ulate the traffic and add to the gen
eral happiness of the people more
than the establishment of good roads
throughout the country. 1 do not think
that because this may have been stim
ulated by people using automobiles it
is to be frowned upon* for, while per
sons using automobiles are by no
means the most important in the com
munity, the fact that their sharp in
terest has focused the attention of
the public on the movement entitles
them to credit.
"I have no doubt that within the au
thority which is his, the secretary of
agriculture will be glad to assist by
recommendation and practical advice
the methods to be pursued in good
road building in Virginia.”
NICHOLAS VISITS EDWARD.
Warships Cluster About the Yachts
of Nicholas at Cowes.
Cowes, England—The first official
visit of the Russian Emperor Nicho
las to England was one of the most
impressive and spectacular events
that Cowes, accustomed to naval pa
geantry, ever witnesed. The British
had 150 ships aligned in three files
between Cowes and Spithead.
The measures taken to safeguard
Emperor Nicholas make him seem
like a prisoner of state when com
pared with other royal personages
who have visited Cowes during re
gatta week. The Standart dropped
anchor between two battleships of
the Dreadnought type, which are sur
rounded by other naval vessels, while
small boats patrol about the visitors
constantly. Scotland Yard has 100
detectives at Cowes and the Russian
police department has an equal rep
resentation.
CASHIER SHORT $50,000.
Calhoun Harris of Anderson, S. C.,
Put Under Arrest.
Anderson, S. C. —Secretary and As
sistant Cashier Calhoun Harris of the
Orr Cotton Mills of this city has
been found short in his accounts ap
proximately $50,000.
Harris was arrested on a warrant
which charged breach of trust.
Mr. Harris stoutly denies, however,
misappropriation of any of the funds,
and says that the deficiency is due to
clerical errors.
Kidnapers Demand $25,000.
St. Louis, Mo. Kidnapped from
their homes here, Grace Viviano, aged
five, and Thomas Viviano, aged two,
children of wealthy manufacturers,
are being held for $25,000 ransom.
Flood In Tennessee.
Nashville, ■Tenn. Nearly every
business house and at least one-third
of the residences at Rockwood, Tenn.,
were flooded as the result of a cloud
burst. The rain descended for about
an hour, and was accompanied by
constant lightning. The extent of the
damage done by the storm cannot at
this time be estimated.
SIO,OOO Left to Dogs.
Orange, Mass. —By the will of Mrs.
Mary F. Snow, of Hartford, Conn.,
Miss Phila C. Miller, a spinster living
here, will receive the income from
SIO,OOO for taking care of Mrs. Snow’s
two small imported dogs. The deceas
ed left her husband but $2,000.
ERADICATION OF TICK
Encouraging Progress Is Shown
in Government Report.
QUARANTINE DISCONTINUED
71,336 Square Mile* of T » rritory Hav
Been Released From These Trouble
some Parasites.
Washington, D. C. —Encouraging
progress has been made in the eradi
cation of cattle ticks from the South
ern states. This work, which was be
gun in the summer of 1906 under an
appropriation by congress of $82,500
“to enable the secretary of agriculture
to undertake experiment work in co
operation with state authorities in
eradicating the ticks transmitting
southern cattle fever,” is no longer an
experiment. The results already ac
complished demonstrate that the ex
termination of this costly pest is not
only possible but practicable, though
several years may be required for
the completion of the work. From
January l to October 31, 1907, there
were released from quarantine or
prepared for release in the near fu
ture, areas aggregating over 40,000
square miles. This means that the
cattle of an area almost as large as
the state df Tennessee are, for the
first time in years, to have an unre
stricted market.
While for the most part the state
authorities have co-operated, it is un
fortunate that in some sections the
bureau’s work has met with a lack of
support and even with active opposi
tion, this condition probably being due
to a failure to realize the benefits to
follow from the work. It therefore
seems best not to resume operations
in such localities until public senti
ment changes, as more can be accom
plished by using the available funds
in sections where the work is ap
preciated and supported by those
m.osi directly interested.
The work of exterminating the ticks
which are such a detriment to the
cattle industry of the south has been
continued vigorously and with good
results. During less than three years
of this work nearly 64.000 square
square miles of territory have been
freed from these troublesome para
sites. This is an area somewhat
larger than that of the state of Geor
gia. This gives assurance of ulti
mate success, although many years
will probably be required for the
completion of the work. Much de
pends upon the amounts appropriated
for this work by the states, as well
as by the federal government, but
more upon the assistance and co-op
eration of the cattle owners them
selves, for without a fair degree of
co-operation the eradication "of the
tick can never be accomplished.
Much of the bureau's work for the
control and eradication of contagious
diseases of live stock has been done
in co-operation with state officers. In
a few states the authoritites are pro
vided with both laws and funds for
such work, but in a large majority tf,
the states this is not the case. The
bureau has recently collected the laws
of the various states bearing on this
subject, and it is found that in most
of the states the laws are very inad
equate for the protection of live stock
against contagious diseases and "that
in most cases the appropriations are
entirely insufficient for effective work.
While many of the states have co
operated very effectively with the
federal government in the eradication
of sheep scabies, cattle mange and
the southern cattle tick, the lack of
ability on the part of other states
to do their share in such work has
resulted in delaying its progress. It
is very important for the success of
such work, especially with regard to
the cattle tick and tuberculosis, that
the states concerned should enact
laws giving adequate powers to their
officers and should make sufficient ap
propriations for the work that is to
be done. In work of this kind it
seems reasonable and proper that
the expense should be divided equally
between the states and the general
government.
It is a good plan to mix cowpeas
and soy beans half and half. The
more erect character of the beans will
help to hold up the peas and the crop
will be more easily harvested. Try
sowing a bush variety of peas among
the corn, and when the leaves be
gin to fall sow crimson clover among
them, and you will have a fine crop
to turn under for cotton the next sea
son. Also sow crimson clover among
the cotton and have the crop to turn
for corn. But where peas are sown
alone among the corn the best plan
is to cut the corn off and shock it and
then disk the peas down and so*w
oats in September to be fololwed by
peas for hay and crimson clover for
cotton, and then crimson clover
among cotton for corn.
CANCIiI CASES INCREASE.
Dr. Foote Says It Is the Most Dreatted
Scourge in the Country.
New York City.—One man in every
thirty-two and one woman in every
eleven die from cancer, according to
Dr. Milton E. Foote.
”1 have no hesitancy in declaring
cancer the worst physical scourge
with which we have to contend to
day,” said Dr. Foote in an interview
"Cancer is far more dreaded than
tuberculosis, for although the death
rate from cancer is not vet so great as
that from tuberculosis, it is steadilv
on the increase,while the great while
plague hae been partially conquered
by medical experimentation and is on
the decrease.”
20,000 HOMES BURNED.
Osaka, One of Japan’s Largest Cities,
Swept By Fire.
Osaka, Japan. —Confusion prevails
here as a result of a disastrous fire.
Thousands of persons are homeless
and hunger is ttaring many of them
in the face.
A system of relief has been ordered
ky the municipal authorities, but it is
inadequate to supply all needs. Out
fidc cities and towns are generously
sending in contributions to be used in
alleviating the sufferings of the home
less and destitute.
The number of casualties has not
yet been determined, but hundred’s of
injured persons are crowding the hos r
pitals.
The latest estimate is that 20,000
buildings are destroyed, these includ
ing banks, the stock exchange, the
museum, government edifices and fac
tories. While at present it is impos
sible accurately to state the losses,
these are given roughly at several
million yen. It is feared that some
of the insurance companies will fail
as a result of the heavy losses they
will have to pay.
The conflagration lasted more than
twenty-five hours and the burned sec
tion presents a deplorable sight.
An area of over four miles square,
containing some of the city’s hand
somest structures, including the Bud
dhist temple, the largest in the world,
was entirely burned.
inventioFmill change warfare.
American Has Worked Out a Plan to
Paralyze All War Engines.
London, England.—From an excel
lent source it has been learned that
the reason that the American govern
ment remains apparentlyso little con
cerned about the advances in aero
navigation made by foreign experi
menters, is that an officer of the Amer
ican navy, stationed at Fort Omaha,
has worked out an electric invention,
which is likely to paralyze all other
existing or proposed engines of war.
The invention, he says, is to be ex
clusively the property cf the United
States, ar.d, up to the present, tne es
sential details are carefully guarded.
The machine is said to project
through the air a column of electric
energy of almost any desired strength
at any given object for a distance or
many hundred yards. The informant,
who himself is an expert m
said:
“Such an electric column would
queer every mechanism on a warship,
stop the engines, annual the dynamos,
kill the signaling apparatus, make the
guns unworkable, slay hundreds of
men by shock alone, and might even
explode the magazines. Its possibil
ities for offensive warfare are almost
unlimited.
LINCJLN PENNIES ISSUED,
In Honor cf 100th Anniversary of War
President’s Birth.
Philadelphia, Pa—The Philadelphia
mint issued the new “Lincoln” pen
nies, which the treasury department
has caused to be designed and struck
off in honor of the one hundredth an
niversary of the late president’s birth.
The head of Lincoln, which appears
on the coin, was designed from a pho
tograph in the possession of Charles
Eliot Norton. The face is relaxed and
smiling, the artist having sought to
reproduce particularly Lincoln’s ex
pression when talking to children.
The artist, Victor D. Brenner, is 27
years old, and is a Russian who came
to this country as a boy and sold
matches in the street and studied art
at Cooper s Union.
WHITE WlirH PLAGUE.
New York City Again Visited by the
Little Pest.
New York City.—What appeared to
be a heavy midwinter snowstorm but
was really myriads of small white
moths visited New York. The little
pests swarmed into the brightly-light
ed hotels and restaurants and clouded
the street lamps, but this time they
were accompanied by millions of large
brown moths, some of them five inch
es from tip to tip, and as these flut
tered about the lights they looked
like bats. A strange feature of these
visitations which this summer are
worse than ever before and which
the entomologists are trying to fath
om, is the vanishing of the moths at
break of day. No one has found
where they go.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Contracts were awarded in Pitts
burg by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for freight ears to cost be
tween $8,000,000 and $9,000,000.
Just what the public wants to get
in its newspapers, it gets, according
to Dean Shailer Mathews, of the Uni
versity of Chicago Divinity sc&ool,
who answered some critics of the
press in a lecture on modern soc®
conditions before the Chautauqua as
sembly at Chautauqua, N. Y “The
rank and file of editors and publish
ers are only too eager to print what
their readers want to see in nrint ”
said *)r. Mathews. p ’
Parachuting his balloon by loosen
ing the appendix cord and allowing
the lower part of the balloon to rise
into the netting. Dr. S. S. Stowell of
Pittsfield, Mass., on his first trip as
pilot, made a parachute drop to earth
in the balloon Pittsfield, it probably
being the first time such an experi
ment was ever tried in this country
A perfect landing was effected with
out the valve cord being touched.
While Mrs. Anna Pillsbury was
bathing at Marine park. South Bos
ton, Mass., she stepped on & crab
which immediately seized her foot.
The woman became hysterical and
would have drowned but for the
prompt work of Captain Freitas, of
the life saving corps, who draeaed
her from the surf.
