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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. , Entered at the pwstoffice at McDon* ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch par month. Reduction on standing oontracts by special agreement. ■ —— —— —— -« The Boston Post, thinks the men who have nothing to live for can af ford to loaf. A young lady named Helper was married to a man named Lord in a Western Kansas town, and all the newspapers out that way headed the fctory "Lord-Helper.” Mr. Wilbur Wright should fly high er now. He has a belated college de gree. This may account for his winged words, muses the New York Post. "Gentlemen —The only bird that makes a good speech is a parrot, and he itf not a good flier.” "When the angler stands knee deep In a mad brook, waiting for a trout to switch his fly under,” asks a true Waltonlan, “do his thoughts run in dactyls or spondees?” Never thought of it in that light, pleads the N»w York Herald, but have heard fisher men saying words like those. This eleventh hour spasm of virtue, this revolt against the obnoxious, this awakened recognition that after all the stage may be made to serve mo ral ends is, as the Louisville Courier- Journal sees it, far more of a re proach to theatregoers than to their purveyors; and the renewed cry for a censor is raised by those who, when it is too late, descern the needs of some protection for and from them selves. What a shameful thing it is to be caught smuggling, exclaims the New York Times. We have no fair word for the iniquities and inequalities of the tariff, but smuggling is a form of lawbreaking as contemptible and rep rehensible as any other, and de serves all the punishment it receives. The worst of the punishment, in the case of private smuggling by weal thy persons is the indignity of being detained, searched and published to the world as a cheat and lawbreaker. It surely is not worth while to incur humiliation and disgrace for the sake of bringing through, without duty, a few personal adornments. Yet other wise decent people are frequently caught smuggling. , > • * \ _ 1 .......... ' *t " * "To keep what we have got,” is the first of the objects of New England named by Sir Edward Grey, head of the British foreign office, in his ad dress to the Imperial Press confer ence. What England has got, explains the New York Mail, is 11,433,283 miles of the earth's surface, nearly all of it fertile, as against Rusisa's 8,660,395, much of it moss-covered, sub-arctic territory; and Germany’s 1,140,290. It is England’s policy, dictated by the circumstances, to preserve the status quo. It is not necessarily the policy of its less wealthy neighbors to do so. That is the key to the present trou bled outlook of Europe—that and the satanic “endless chpin” Involved iD the competition of armaments. New bridges, a municipal court building and other municipal struc tures are practically certain to be erected within the next few years, now that the city borrowing power has been increased by about ?16,000,- 000. It is highly desirable, thinks the Chicago News, that they be construct ed along lines which will render them not only useful but artistic. Pro vision for securing beauty in muni cipal construction was made in the bill passed at the recent session of the legislature to amend the art cominia 6io nlaw. That the governor found it necessary to veto the measure be cause of an unconstitutional provi sion contained in it is unfortunate. Efforts to secure the enactment of a valid law strengthening the art com mission and enlarging its authority should be made at ehe earliest oppor tunitq. It is doubtful, however, if legis lation of this 6ort can be secured be fore work is begun on some of the proposed city structures. PRESIDENT TAFT PLANS TRIP Itinerary of Chief Executive’s Swing Around the Country. IS A 13,000 MILE JOURNEY Many Southern and We*tem Point* Are Included in Schedule Announced By the President. Washington, D. C. —Off for his sum mer home at Beverly, Mass., Presi dent Taft left Washington. He will not return to Washington until the middle of November next. Remain ing at Beverly with his family until September 15, he will start west that day on a tour that will embrace all but eight or ten of the states of the union and both of the territories in the far sotuhwest. Various members of the cabinet will visit Beverly during the summer. The president also expects to have several of the cabinet officers with him at different times during his long journey through the west and south. Secretary ol War Dickinson, for in stance, probably will be with the pres ident during practically all of the southern end of the tour. Before his departure, the president made public a tentative outline of his trip through the west and south this fall. It will be a wide swing around practically the entire United States, embracing a journey approximating 13,000 miles—as long as the cruise of the battleship fleet from Hampton Roads, through the Straits of Magel lan to San Francisco bay. The trip will he one of the most notable ever made by a president. It will he as diverse as could well be imagined, and no “Seeing-all-America” tour could be devised to embrace as many points of interest in so brief a space of time as President Taft will give to his jaunt to the Pacific coast and back through the great states of the south. During his tour the president will traverse the royal gorge of the Rocky Mountains, will visit the Alaska-Yu kon exposition at Seattle, will spend three days in the famed Yosemite val ley, will stop off at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and follow the trail down into the depths of that giant abyss, will greet the president of Mex ico on the international bridge over the Rio Grande at El Paso on October 16, will take n four days’ sail down the Mississippi river, from St. Louis to New Orleans, with various stops en route, and will spend four days on the ranch of his brother, Charles 1 . Taft, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Starting from the rugged shores of the north coast of Massachusetts, the president goes direct west from Bev erly. He will motor into Boston the morning of September 15 —his fifty second birthday—and there board the car which practically will be a roving white house for two months. The president has accepted practically all the invitations that could be crowded into the sixty days set aside for Ihe trip, and his acceptance book is clos ed. There naturally will be many five and ten minute stops not included in the regular itinerary, and many brief little car-end speeches, but the tour as now announcer is to all intents and purposes complete. President Taft will spend two days, September 30 and October 1, -doing” the Alaskan-Yukou exposition. Visiting Houston the forenoon of Saturday, October 23, the president proceeds to Dallas that afternoon to spend Saturday evening and all of Sunday. From Dallas, the president proceeds direct to St. Louis to begin his four days’ trip down that historic waterway. He reaches St. Louis at 7:27 a. m. the morning of Monday, Oc tober 25, and will leave at 4 p. in. on the steamer assigned to him by the Deep Waterway A*sociation, which is to hold its convention In New Orleans upon the president’s arrival there. Fol lowing tbe president’s boat will be a spectacular flotilla river craft. One of the trailing boats wil be assigned to the thirty governors of states who have accepted invitations to make the trip down the river and to attend the convention. Another boat will be as signed to a congressional delegation of more than one hundred members. The first stop on the river will be at Cairo. 111., at 8:30 a. m., Tuesday, October 25. The second stop will be at Hickman, Kv„ at 2:30 p. m„ the presi dent making brief addresses at both places. Arriving off Memphis, Tenn., at 8 a. m., Wednesday, October 27, the president will make an address at 3 a. in., and that afternoon at 5 o'clock will speak at Helena. Ark. On Thurs day. the 28th. at 2:30 p. m.. the presi dent will make a speech at Vicksburg. New Orleans will be reached about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. The river Journey also will include short stons EXPOSITION BROKE BANK. Traders' and Truckers’ Bank of Nor folk, Va., Closes Its Doors. Norfolk, Va. The Traders and Truckers’ Bank, doing a large bank ing business here among uptown mer chants and country truckers, closed Us doors, announcing that, owing to its Inability to realize upon its paper the institution had been forced into liqui dation. President Gordon attributes the fail ure to unwise loans made during the Jamestown Exposition period and in ability to realize sufficiently to meet demands since. The bank officials say that the deposits amount to less than SBO,OOO and that depositors will be paid in full. at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Natchez, Miss. The president will remain in New Orleans from Friday afternoon, the 29th, to Monday morning, Novem ber 1. He will address the waterways convention October 30, at 2:30 p. m. From New Orleans the president goes to Jackson, Miss., spending prac tically the entire day of November 1 there. He will spend three hours of the following day at Columbus, Miss., and will arrive at Birmingham, Ala., that evening at 7:45 o’clock. The pres ident will remain in Birmingham un til the afternoon of Wednesday, No vember 3. when he proceeds to Macon, Ga., arriving there early the morning of the 4th. After spending the fore noon of the 4th at Macon, the presi dent proceeds to Savannah to spend the evening of the 4th and half of the next day. , Charleston, S. C., is next on the list for a stop, the evening of November 5. From Charleston, the president pro ceeds Saturday morning, November 6, to Augusta, where he will spend Sat urday afternoon and Sunday. The president wants to have another game of golf on the links where he spent so much time last fall as president-elect, and to renew many of the pleasant ac quaintances he made in Augusta. Columbia, S. C., will be visited the afternoon of November 8, and Wil mington, N. C., will claim the presi dent for the entire day of the 9tb. The president will spend twelve hours in Richmond, Va., from 5 a. m. to 5 p. in., and will return to Washington at 8:35 o’clock the night of November 10th. The president leaves Washington again, probably on the 11th, for Mid dletown. Conn., to attend the Installa tion of the new president of Wesleyan University. He also has engagements at Norfolk and Hampton, Va., Novem ber 19 and 20, so his travels will not be done until the morning of Novem ber 21, when he reaches Washington for the winter, and to put the finish ing touches on his annual message. IILONDt PEDDLE HANDICAPPED. New York Doctors Says American Cli mate Does Not Agree With Them. New York City.—A startling warn ing to blue-eved, Hght-complexioned New Yorkers is uttered by Dr. Chas. E. Woodruff, surgeon and major in the United States Army, who has just completed a private tour of the pris ons and asylums of the city and state. The jails and institutions, he says, are full of blondes, who, unable to stand the struggle for existence in a climate to which they are unfitted, have fallen into poverty, disease and crime. What is true of New York, he says, is irue of the country as a whole and unless the blonde American finds or adopts some better means of survival than she has at present she will be wiped out as a type in favor of the brunette. The great trouble is the sunshine. There is too much of it in America for blondes, says Dr. Woodruff. It breaks down tlieir nervous system, renders them unstable morally as well as physically and makes them pecu liarly liable to the ravages of con sumption and other deadly ailments. POWEKS WILL KEEP PEACE Turkey and Greece Won’t Be Allowed to Fight. London, England.—The acute stage reached in the dispute between Tur key and Greece over Crete is causing anxiety in the European capitals, such as always accompanies any dip lomatic difficulty in that section of Europe; but as M. Iswoldky, the Rus sian foreign minister, said, in an in terview; ‘‘lf there is any awkward development in the situation, we will see that no mischievous effects re sult therefrom,” there is no idea that hostilities will result and there is ev ery belief that a satisfactory settle ment will be arrived at. Turkey has not presented an ultimatum to Greece. BODY BURNED TO CRISP. Half-Crazed Man Ran Through Street Yelling With Pain. Cincinnati, Ohio. —A man half-craz ed. half-clothed, with his flesh burned to a crisp, in places, and running through the streets, yelling with pain, was the unusual spectacle that fol lowed a tenement house fire here. The suffering man. Michael Hoff, fell unconscious at the door of the city hospital, and died soon afterward.* Edward Jacobs is dying from his burns. Cut Off His Own Arm. Springfield, Mass. Lying face downward in a pool of blood. Alvin Niles was discovered in a strip of woods with his left arm hacked off just below his elbow*. Later he said he had cut off the member himself be cause it was maimed. He said he had been unable to obtain work because the arm was useless, prospective em ployers turning him away when they saw it. Alabama Woman Murdered. Florence, Ala.—The body of Lola Rose, a white woman, was found un der a pile of hay, with a large cord wrapped around her throat twice very tight aud tied in a hard knot. Pren tice Johnson is uuder arrest charged with the crime. A roll of money is missing. Killed By Foul Tip. Cincinnati, Ohio. —Word was receiv ed here of the death of William Bai ley Altman, a traveling salesman of this city, while attending a ball game at Moorehead, Ky. A foul tip hit him on the chest, and he died shortly af terward. ROBERT EJ.EE STATUE Stands in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART Virginia Also Places a Bronze Statue of Washington in the Hail of Fame. Washington, D. C. —Bronze stautes of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Virginia’s contribution to the nation's "Hall of Fame,” wore placed in statuary hall at the capitol. For mal ceremonies attending the unveil ing will take place at some time yet to be determined. Both statues are beautiful works of art. Lee is pictured in the uniform of the south, and his statue stands between those of Robert Fulton, in ventor of the steamboat, and J. L. M. Curry of Alabama. Near the statue of these are those of Genera! James Shields of Illinois, and Philip Keany of New Jersey, In the uniforms of the union army. The Lee statute was designed vy Edward V. Valentine of Richmond, Va. Washington’s statue was placed in the southeast end of the hall, between the statues of General Ethan Allen of Vermont and General Peter Muhl enberg of Pennsylvania, a distin guished soldier and statesman of rev olutionary times, and a brother of the first speaker of the house of repre sentatives. The Washington statue is a replica of Houdon’s famous master piece now at the capitol in Richmond. Elliot Woods, superintendent of the capitol, said that formal acceptance of the two statues is not required, al though presentation of the statues may be formally made with elaborate ceremonies at the instance of the Vir ginia statue commission, and with the permission of congress. JANE ACDAMS FOR PRESIDENT. Boston Will Be Starting Point of the Unique Campaign. Boston, Mass. —"Jane Aijdams of Chi cago, future president of the United States,” will be the slogan before many months have passed, according to the advocates of equal suffrage. Boston has been chosen as the start ing point of the startling and novel campaign by which the women hope to gain prestige, if not actually a pres ident. When William Dean Howells con fessed in his characteristic fashion that he "had no doubt whatever that our national keep could be in no bet ter hands than those of our national housekeepers,” he little thought that already the suffragettes were prepar ing to elevate a woman to the high est office in the nation’s gift. WORKMAN WANT BEER. Employees at the Gary Steel Plant Object to Prohibition. Chicago, 111. —Workmen at the Gary, Ind., steel plant, declare that beer is a necessity and that unless they be allowed to purchase what they need in Gary they will go where the bev erage may be h..d. Since the closing of the “blind pigs,” which were running in defiance of law, which provides that there shall be no saloons until next spring, there has been much dissatisfaction among the workmen. Scores of the men have left town and gone to work in South Chicago and cities in the Calumet steel belt, where the liquid is yet to be had. HEAT MM INFANTS. Intense Heat of the Metropolis is Slaughtering the Innocents. New York City.—lnfant lives are going out by scores under the heat and humidity. Seldom since the day after the General Slocum was burned has the morgue at the Bellevue dock held so many tiny bodies as one night this week, when forty lay there, 27 sent from the New York foundling asylum and the others from various hospitals and other institutions. Co ney Island, whose hot sands were un swept by the light westerly breeze, added three to the heat’s toll of baby hood. ON RAMPAGE. Eleven Runaway Elepehants Terrorize Kansas Town. Clay Center, Kans.—The people here were terrorized by eleven ele phants which escaped from a show and stampeded through the streets. The trouble started when a small dog bit the heels of one of the elephants. The beast at once began to trumpet and ran away. The other elephants followed. Before the elephants were finally eaptured a showman was knocked from a horse and seriously hurt. During the excitement the peo ple of the town kept off the streets. ASKED RANSOM FOR RAILROAD. Man Threatened to Destroy Pennsyl vania R. R. Unless Given $45,000. Philadelphia, Pa. —"This is a decla ration of war. My life is openely staked on the result, for I am pre pared to meet you at any time and place you may name. The weapons I shall use are dynamite and other high explosives.” Thus wrote Abram C. Eby, mayor and referee in bankruptcy of Burke ville, Va.. to the "President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia,” on July 23. naming $45,000 as the ransome for the safety of the rail road and the traveling public and oth erwise threatening the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was arrested. THE CROP HAS INCREASED. Cotton Bolls Are Beginning to Open. Much ‘Spotted Cotton.” Memphis, Tenn.—The Commcrcial | Appeal’s weekly cotton summary says: Moderate showers fell over north ern and eastern Texas on Saturday and Sunday. No other rains of con sequence fell during the week, and the crop suffered severely. Central and middle west Texas is exceedingly dry, and it appears doubtful if rains now could repair more than a part of the loss that has been sustained. Owing to the very dry, hot weather, the plant is shedding, and the bolls are beginning to open. With contin ued drought, considerable cotton whl be ready for the pickers in ten days or two weeks. In sections where rain fell the crop was benefited, although in some cf the territory the precipita tion was light and entirely insufficient to put a "season” in the ground. Fair crops are promised in eastern and western counties. The great central belt has suffered most severely. Out side of Texas the entire west ern belt, with the exception of south ern Louisiana, is in need of moisture. In Oklahoma, the progress of the crop has been arrested and rain is imperative to prevent deterioration. Jn Mississippi rains were scattered and insufficient, a general rain being badly needed. In all states.east of the Mississippi the rainfall was abundant, and with the exception of North Car olina, where some excess fell, was beneficial. The crop in Alabama has improved wonderfully, and in South Carolina and Georgia promises well. Montgomery, Ala. —Based on re ports from the cotton counties of Alabama, The Advertiser says:. The cotton crop in Alabama is in an un settled condition, from very good to very bad, all depending upon the amount of attention and cultivation given it, and ifn? amount of rainfall received. Nevertheless, the crop, on the whole, made some improvement during the past week. The weather was generally favorable, but com plaints were heard from some sec tions toward the last of the week that the crop had too much rain. The term "spotted cotton” is embodied in almost every report, and character izes the crop in almost every county. Caterpillars are giving some trou ble, but with this exception cotton is free of insects. New Orleans, La. —Generally favor able reports as to the condition of the cotton crop in Louisiana and Mis sissippi have been received bv The Picayune from several hundred cor respondents in these states. In summarizing the conditions, it is stated: The rapidly maturing cotton crop in Louisiana and Mississippi en joyed a favorable week. Complaints of boll weevil continue to be received, though the ravages of the pest have been more or less dscounted. The crop in Mississippi is holding its own, with the reduced acreage well culti vated and the plant rapidly approach ing maturity. Some complaint is made of the boll weevil in several of the extreme western counties. PHILIPPINE TOBACCO liUAKANTEED. Government Wil! Inspect the Weed as to Quality and Cleanliness. Washington, D. C. —Purchasers of Philippine tobacco will hereafter have a government guarantee as to its quality and cleanliness as a result of an arrangement made by the bureau of insular affairs, with the Philippine government, designed to insure the strict enforcement of the new tariff bill providing for the admission into the United States, free of duty, of a limited quantity of cigars and tobacco produced in the islands. All tobacco factories in the archi pelago are to be placed under the Etrict observation of the islands in regard to revenue bureau and health department, so as to make certain that the tobacco used is of native growth, or if any of the foreign pro auctions manufactured, that the quan tity may be definitely ascertained. The intervention of the health offi cials is to assure the public that the manufactured tobacco will be made in sanita/y factories by healthy opera tives. Every package of Philippine tobac co or cigars imported into the United States which has undergone the in spection provided for, accordingly will be labeled. Furthermore, the Philippine government will attach to each package of tobacco or cigars a certificate indicating the quality of the material used and the class of workmanship. Newsy Paragraphs. Objections to the new Lincoln cent are being heard although the coin has been in circulation only a few days. Coin collectors assert that the initials of Designer Victor D. Bren ner have no legal right to be on the coin, and it is understood that the director of the mint will be asked to rule upon this point. There are those who contend that the face is expressionless and lacking in the dig nity which is always associated . the former president. In recognition of services at the time when Canada was threatened with an invasion by the Fenians in 1866, the Canadian government is about to award to the one hundred and seventy-five living members of the impromptu “army” of Toronto, giants of one hundred’ and sixtv acres of land each. The grants are all from the public lands of the Canadian northwest. It was announced that November I 2 and 3 had been definitely decided on as the dates of the lakes-to-the gulf deep waterway convention to be held in New Orleans this fall. The latest change is made in order to con form with plane of President Taft who arrives here from gt. Louis tober 31.
