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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
per month. Reduction on standing
oontracts by special agreement.
One smile of fortune, to the Boston
Post, is better than a dozen of her
laughs.
The worst feature about nailing a
lie, whines Puck, is that you are so
apt to hammer your fingers.
A good reputation adds to a man’s
resources, the support of all who
know him, contends the American
Cultivator. But the man of ill repute
has few and poor helpers.
Growing children, says a writer on
household topics, require occasional
change. Yes, indeed, agrees the Louis
ville Courier-Journal. Some of them
require it faster than pa can earn it.
Recently the London Spectator, one
of the ablest and most influential pub
lications in the world, made the fol
lowing remarkable assertion in its
leading editorial article: "Business
men, like politicians, at heart always
dislike the press; it is so often inter
feres with their plans and profits.”
The fact seems to be overlooked,
protests the Schenectady Gazette, that
it is not alone the violations which
cause damage that need severe pun
ishment. The thing to do is to prevent
such occurences, and to this end the
man who knowingly violates the speed
limit should be punished severely for
the sake of the example.
Farmers are in the main honest, as
sorts the Epitomist. They have
learned that nature cannot be cheat
ed, and the lesson leaves them in no
mood to cheat in any other direction
—except by putting little peaches in
the bottom. Only one farmer ever
went to the devil, and that was for
putting small strawberries in the bot
tom of the box.
The disbarment of one big lawyer,
propounds the New York World, would
do more to purify the bar than the
conviction of a hundred ambulance
chasers. Were the distinguished bar
association to purge its own member
ship even to the extent of two or three,
the public effect would be many times
greater than if the whole Essex Mar
ket Bar association were to be dis
barred.
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The Christian Powers, opines the
Utica Press, may hope and pray that
the better day that is dawning in
Turkey may mean greater enlighten
ment and liberty, greater prosperity
and security for Turkish subjects of
every race and religion. In such reali
zation alone lies the safety and hap
piness of these unfortunates. Europe
will not protect them, though every
dictate of humanity should impel her
to.
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The Washington Star contends: We
need not w'onder that men of sub
stance and activity—the very kind
most desirable for jury service to the
public—try to shirk. The duty calls for
a heavy sacrifice —now in the matter
of money, now in that of health. A
business man must withdraw his eye
from his own affairs for weeks. This
counts against him, even if his subor
dinates are competent and faithful.
No eve can take the place of the mas
ter's eye.
In its origin "anxious” has a note
of suffering in it, defines the New
York Wbrld. It comes from a classi
cal root meaning to cause pain, to
choke. It is a cousin of "anguish” or
“extreme pain.” It is closely related
to "angina pectoris,” which. Webster
informs us, is "an extremely painful
disease, so named from a sense of suf
focating contraction or tighting of
the lower part of the chest.” It may
be said of a man on the scaffold that
he is “anxious to live.” "Eager” is a
better word, even though the diction
aries give it as one of the synonyms
of anxious, even though Macaulay, in
one of his characteristic balanced sen
tences, gives the same value to both
words, as witness: He sneers alike at
those who are anxious to preserve and
at those who are eager for reform.
TO THE WOMEN OF DIXIE
Monuments Will Be Erected in
Every Capital of the South.
DESIGN OF THE MONUMENTS
Beeutiful, Elevating Portrayal of Self-
Sacriticing Devotion of Noble Wo
men to the “Lott Caui«."
Atlanta, Ga. —Befitting in nobility of
conception and beauty of execution,
the subject it is to commemorate, th*
design for the monument to the wom
en of the Lost Cause has been com
pleted. It is the work of a Dixie
gill, Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville,
Tenn., and has been accepted by sev
eral states. It is probable that all
the states which left the union iu the
civil war will adopt the design and
that replicas of the monument will be
placed in the capitols of each.
The design for the proposed monu
ment is very beautiful, of heroic size,
is the Goddess of Fame. At her
right, the reclinjng figure, delicately
featured, beautiful, but with an ex
pression of exquisite sadness, repre
sents the self-sacrificing southern
woman of the war time. Fame is rep
resented as placing a wreath upon tlie
southern woman’s head, while she
supports, at her left, a dying and ema
ciated confederate soldier, to whom
the southern woman is extending
even in death, the palm of victory.
The design is such that it readily
lends itself to reproduction either of
marble or bronze.
A year or more ago the Daughters
of the Confederacy and the Sons of
Confederate Veterans decided upon
the erection of these monuments in
every state capitol in Dixie. The
work was to have been done by an
Italian sculptor. When his design
was submitted at the late Confeder
ate reunion in Memphis, It raised a
storm of protest. The artist had pic
tured the southern woman as a mili
tant and amazonian figure, carrying
in one hand a sword and in the other
the banner of the Lost Cause. This
conception was so foreign to the gen
tle, suffering and patient woman of
the southland as those who loved her
had known her, that the design was
rejected by an overwhelming vote.
The artist declined to submit another
and Miss Kinney was appealed to.
Tennessee has appropriated $#,500
through the Daughters and Sons of
the Confederacy for a bronze cast of
the design. Other states tfte raising'
funds for the puriK>se, and it is be
lieved by fall each of the former Con
federate states will have followed
suit.
Miss Kinney, the artist, is but 22
years of age and is already a sculp
tor of more than national fame,
CRETANS DEFY GREAT POWERS.
Allegiance Sworn to Kingdom of
Greece.
Canea, Island of Crete. —The pro
visional administrative committee to
which the administration of the island
was entrusted when the Cretan cabi
net resigned took the oath of allegi
ance to the king and kingdom of
Greece.
The action of the provisional ad
ministration committee in Crete in
swearing alegiance to Greece appar
ently indicates that it is not its In
tention to meet the demands of the
protecting powers to haul down the
Greek flag, and that therefore the
powers wil lagain be forced to land
troops to insure the autonomy of the
island.
Washington, D. C. —Mr. Einstein,
the secretary of the American em
bassy at Constantinople, has cabled
the state department that the situa
tion here is endangered owing to the
pressure which is being brought to
bear on the sublime porte to demand
fresh categorical explanations at Ath
ens regarding Orete and Macedonia.
While the possibility of hostilities
is said to be by no means removed,
hopes are expressed of a peaceful so
lution of the difficulties.
THREE PRESIDENTS MAY MEET.
Executives of Cuba, Panama and the
United States Shake Hands.
Washington. D. C. —Three Presi
dents may meet in New Orleans on
Mr. Taft’s visit there about Novem
ber 1. They are Jose Domingo De
Obaldia of Panama; General Jose Mi
huel Gomez of Cuba and William
Howard Taft of the United States.
Should the executives of Panama and
Cuba accept invitations, the United
States may show them the courtesy
of placing a man-of-war at their dis
posal, to bring them to this country
and take them home. It is deemed
eminently appropriate by the officials
that such a meeting take place, be
cause of the interests this govern
ment has manifested in the two re
publics.
GODE MESSAGE RATES INCREASED.
Announcement is Made by the West
ern Union and Postal.
Chicago, 111.—An increase of rates
on code messages was announced by
the Western Union and Postal Tele
graph Companies. The new schedule
goes into effect September 1. General
use of the code system, the compa
nies argue, has had a tendency to
complicate traffic.
By the terms of the dictum, cipher
messages will be charged at the rate
of five letters to the word, instead of
ten letters, unless the telegram is
built of words which appear in the
dictionary. Domestic messages only
are affected by ihe new rule, cable
ciphers escaping the increase.
EARTHQUAKE \\ JAPAN.
Seismic Shock !• Fatal to Many—Over
400 Home* Destroyed.
Tokio, Japan.—Reports received
concerning the earthquake in Cen
tral Japan show that there were a
number of fatalities and that great
damage was done to property. The
dead at present is said to be 3U,
though it is feared that the fatalities
will be greatly increased when the
outlying districts are heard from.
The number of persons injured is 82.
Thus far 32 buildings, including many
temples, are reported to have been
destroyed and more than 1,000 others
badly damaged.
The shock affected a wide area in
the Shiga and Gifu prefectures. The
town of Ozaka in Gifu suffered terri
bly.
The banks of the Hida river there
broke and the surrounding country
was inundated.
The people of the district fled to
high ground and remained in the
open all night.
The mountain Ibuki, a short dis
tance west of Gifu, emitted smoke
in the early stages of the earthquake
and then collapsed with a thunderous
roar. The formation of the mountain
was completely changed. Much dam
age was done at Nagoya to the south
ward of Gifu and neighboring vil
lages.
WEEKLY COTTONCHOP HEPORT.
Marked Improvement is Shown in the
Far East.
Memphis, Tenn. —The weekly cot
ton crop summary of the Commercial-
Appeal says;
In practically all of the territory
east of the Mississippi river there
was a marked improvement in the
condition of the cotton crop. The
showers that fell were moderate and
beneficial. The plant is small, and
still late, but is growing nicely and
is well fruited for its size. Many
correspondents note that the pros
pective yield is better than was at
one time thought possible.
In this territory conditions are best
in Georgia and South Carolina and
poorest in Mississippi. Rainfall was
scattered and deficient in Arkansas
and Oklahoma. There are sections
where no rain has fallen in five or
six weeks, and tfie plant is shedding,
but while this is true other sections
of these states have had rain and
prospects are fair.
Rains have retarded opening of the
bolls, and as the plant is growing
rapidly, picking will not become gen
eral for fully two weks yet.
Montgomery, Ala. —Reports from
the cotton growing counties of Ala
bama indicate varying conditions of
the crop, but on the whole the past
week has brought improvement. The
extremely hot weather in some sec
tions has retarded the plant and near
ly all reports speak of its "spotted"
condition. Insects have not appeared
and the fruiting season is well on.
It Is not expected that the real mbve
ment of cotton will begin until the
middle of Sepember.
MAN ROBBED THjfGOVERNMENT.
Mint Employee Allowed Melted Gold
to Splash on Clothes.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Charged with
one of the rarest offenses committed
against the government—that of ab
stracting gold from a mint —Charles
W. Dakin, a trusted employee of the
mint at Denver, Colo., was arrested
in this city by a secret service agent.
Dakin is said to have made confes
sion of his guilt. He is alleged to
have sold gold to local dealers, dis
posing of it in small lots.
Denver, Colo. —Charles W. Dakin
had been employed as a smelter in
the local mint for the four years pre
vious to taking a month’s leave of
absence June last. Failing to report
for duty at the end of his vacation
an investigation started. He was
located at Los Angeles and further
inquiry disclosed that he had been
selling refined gold there. In all he
had disposed of S6OO worth.
A method was discovered by which
an employee allowed the melted prod
uct to splash onto his clothing while
at work in the mint and then scrape
it off and keep it for his own use.
Dakin has a wife and family here.
CHINESE WOMAN MURDERED.
Most Beautiful Oriental in New York
City Killed.
New York City. —Chinatown boiled
over again on discovery of the mur
der of the most beautiful of the few
Chinese women in New York, Bow
Kim, 21 years old, who came here
from San Francisco about a year ago
with an Americanized Chinaman,
Chin Lin, 31 years old.
Newsy Paragraphs.
The Standard Oil company has
been hard hit in Bayonne, N. J.,
where it has its largest eastern plant,
by the valuations placed on its fac
tory by the new city assessor, Henry
Hinse. Assessor Aries P. Brooke last
year increased the valuations in Bay
onne $4,000,000. Hinse has added $7,-
000.000 this year '
Herman, son of John Lynch, aged
17, was drowned at Steamer Fer
ry larding, Alabama, in the Coosa
river. The boy deliberately drove his
horse into the river as the ferry boat
approached, less than forty feet away.
It is thought the boy was asleep. He
had been to singing school with a
lady friend..
His sixteenth successful flight with
the Curtiss aeroplane was made at
Mineola, N. Y., by C. Foster Willard.
Flying close to the ground, Mr. Wil
lard essayed to make a circle about
a mile and a half in circumference,
but was not able to complete the cir
cuit owing io elevations of the ground
and trees, for which he had not cal
culated. He made five long, curve
flights, however, at high speed.
GREAT HEAT IN SCUTA
Veg etation in Louisiana. Wilted
Under Scorching Heat.
ill DEGREES AT FT. WORTH
Cotton Grower* Are Rejoicing, a* They
Say the Intense Heat Is Rapidly
Killing (he 801 l Weevil.
Memphis, Tenn.—The heat wave
which swept the country from coast
to coast is still rampant, and new
records were established. From all
over the south and southwest come
reports of Intense heat. The cotton
growers are rejoicing over the heat
wave, as they claim that it is rapidly
destroying the boll weevil.
From reports reaching here. Fort
Worth, Texas, was the hottest city
in the south or southwest. The gov
ernment thermometer went as high
as 111 degrees, while instruments in
the business district registered as
high as 120 degrees. The mercury
climbed as high as 100 degrees in
many other Texas cities, and at Deni
son it reached 106, breaking all pre
vious records.
Although the mercury only reached
99 degrees at Vicksburg, the records
of the weather office show that it was
the hottest day in the past seven
years.
At Natchez 108 degrees was record
ed, while at Jackson the mercury
stood at an even 100.
Not since July l, 1901, has the heat
been so intense throughout middle
Arkansas. At Little Rock a tempera
ture of 105 degrees was recorded, and
two prostrations were reported.
Vegetation throughout the Shreve
port territory of Louisiana wilted un
der the Ecorching heat, the maximum
of 104 degrees being reported. All
Tennessee is In the grasp of the hot
wave, and the weather bureau ther
mometer here recorded a maximum
temperature of 95 degress.
Kansas City, Mo. —Seveijp warm
weather throughout the southwest
gave way to a limited extent before
Cooling breezes. The heat was the
most trying Kansas, Missouri and Ok
lahoma . had experienced for years.
Despite the excessively high temper
ature, however, there were compara
tlvly few prostrations.
Two deaths were recorded in Kan
sas City.
Government thermometers at Mc-
Alester registered 113; at Vinita lib;
Ardmore ill; at Oklahoma City,
Guthrie and Tulsa 106.
From Kansas points ccmes the re
port that the heat is not damaging
corn seriously. Recent heavy rains
put it in such good shape that the
crop is practical}' "made.”
Little Rock, Ark. —With a maximum
temperature of 105 was the hottest
day Little Rock has experienced since
July, 1901. The temperature of S 4
recorded by the weather bureau was
the highest recorded. The humidity
read only 17 per cent when the aver
age humidity for the month is 70 per
cent. Two prostrations were record
ed. A hot wind swept the city during
the entire week.
Shreveport, La.—With the ther
mometer at 104 degrees in the shade,
Shreveport sweltered in the hottest
weather recorded in 11 years. There
was a breeze from the northwest, but
the wind was hot and vegetation
wilted. Cotton planters are overjoy
ed, as the intense heat will destroy
the boll weevil.
New Orleans, La. —The first death
in New Orleans this summer as a re
sult of the heat occurred. Davis
Griffith, a seaman, on the Morgan line
steamer Antilles, died within an hour
after being prostrated. The maximum
temperature recorded at the local of
fice of the United States weather bu
reau was 95 degrees.
Fort Worth, Texas. —The weather
bureau thermometer registered 111
degrees, and street thermometers in
the business districts recorded 120
degrees. It was the hottest day in
the history of Fort Worth, so far as
there is any record. Suffering of
man and beast was intense, and busi
ness to a large extent was interfered
with. Scorching hot winds sweeping
across- the prairies added much to
the general discomfort, but no pros
tration was reported’.
CORN AND COTTON BEAT WARSHIPS.
Railroad Magnate Says Bumper Crop
is Stronger Defense Than Army.
Shawnee. Okla. —Deprecating the
growing expenditures which the Unit
ed States is incurring in connection
with the maintenance of the army
and the navy, and declaring that the
grain and cotton fields of the Missis
sippi valley and the west are strong
er military defenses than warships,
B. F. Yoakum, a prominent railroad
man, delivered an address here be
fore the Farmers’ Union of Oklahoma.
FLAMES SWLLP liLASGGW.
Fire Caused $1,250,000 Loss in Big
Scotch City.
Glasgow, Scotland. —Fire gutted a
great portion of the industrial center
doing considerable damage to the
mercantile district and entailing a
loss of $1,250,000.
The fire was one of the worst which
has virited the city in many decades
and the firemen were powerless for
a long time in the sweep of the
flames. The loss from merchandise
destroyed may greatly augment the
first 'estimate of damage.
It is estimated that fully five hun
dred persons are homeless in the
tenement district. Many of them were
employed in the burned factories.
16 GOVERNORS TO GO WITH TAFT.
There Will Be a Great jaunt Down the
Mississippi River.
St. Louis, Mo. —Sixteen governors
have accepted invitations to join the
party of President Taft in his trip
down the Mississippi river next Oc
tober, according to an announcement
| made by the Lakes to the Gulf Deep
! Waterways Association.
Tfce members of the presidential
I party vho wil go to New Orleans for
the annual convention will also in
clude several cabinet members, about
forty congressmen and numerous del
eeates from various river towns. It is
expected the flotilla of river craft on
! tbis occasion will surpass in size that
| which escorted President Roosevelt
two years ago.
The southern governors who have
i accepted invitations are R. B. Comer,
I Mabama; G. W. Donaghey, Arkansas;
\. E. Wilson, Kentucky; J. Y. San
ders, Louisiana: E F. Noel, Missis
sippi; H. S. Hadley, Missouri; G.
Currv, New Mexico; C. N. Haskell,
Oklahoma; M. R. Patterson, Tennes
see; T. M. Campbell. Texas.
GREAT BUSINESS FOR RAILROADS.
It Will Break the Record, Says
Chairmah Knapp.
Washington, D. C. —A heavier busi
ness than ever has been known in a
single year is looked for by Chair
man Knapp of the interstate com
merce commission, for American rail
roads during the present fiscal year.
The serious situation anticipated,
not only by Judge Knapp, but by oth
er .officials of the commission and by
operation railroad men generally, is
that there may be a shortage of cars.
The crop prospects are considered so
bright that it is probable that the
railroads and other transportation,
companies may be taxed beyond their
capacity to handle the freight that
will be offered to them.
Already, according to figures sub
mitted to the interstate commerce
commission, the railroads, in consid
erable number, have recovered from
the low business pressure of a year,
and a half ago, and now are handling
almost as much traffic as they han
dled in the rush months of 1907,
which was the banner year in Ameri
can railroading.
"The railroads learned a good les
son in 1907,” said Chairman Knapp.
"Then they were absolutely unable
to handle promptly the traffic that
was offered to them. Since that time
they have added materially to their
equipment, have improved their road
beds and in every respect have in
creased their facilities. I do not
doubt that this year will be a red
letter period for them and for the
country.”
Generally, it is expected, however,
that a shortage of cars will result
this fall from the increased business
of the carriers and some embarrass
ment to shippers may be looked for
as a consequence.
AMERICAN CITIES CROWDED.
They Are Years Behind Progressive
Germany.
New York City.—American cities
are pronounced twenty-five years be
hind progressive Germany in a bul
letin issued by the committee on con
gestion of population in New York.
The worst evils of unsanitary, im
moral and crowded housing are to be
found, according to the bulletin, in
New York, with Chicago a close and
gaining second, and Philadelphia, St.
Louis and Cleveland following in the
order named.
Though the average density of pop
ulation in Chicago is only 21.09 per
sons to the acre, the nineteenth ward
has a density of 93.76 to the acre,
the sixteenth 101.11, the seventeenth
107.38 and the single blocks by the
score run as high as 150 with two
that reach 200. The most crowded
block in New York had a density in
1901 of slightly under 400.
Philadelphia has less congestion to
the acre, because there are fewer
five and six story tenement houses,
but in one block there were found
104 single room housekeeping apart
ments,” in five of which seven per
sons of all ages and both sexes slept
and cooked, six of which had six oc
cupants each, thirteen five each and
twenty-seven four each. The bulle
tin comments:
In St. Louis out of a district cov
ering one hundred and twenty-five
acres 50 per cent of the houses occu
pied by negroes were pronounced un
fit for habitation and in the Polish
quarter the average population to the
single room was 3.27 persons.
Boy Loses His Life in Niagara.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. —August Spo
rer, an 18-year-old boy of this city,
went to his death in the whirlpool
rapids, after a gallant battle with the
giant waves between the lower
bridges and the pool. The boy strug
gled for a time against the current,
but to no avail. Not in all the history
of the river has such a brave effort
been witnessed.
Series of Tragic Deaths.
.Lake Charles, La.—Murder, suicide
and accident, each claimed a victim
in and near Lake Charles in one day.
The lives of two men residing here
were snuffed out, one by his own
hand and the other by a ponderous
fly wheel. A woman living a few miles
from the town fell dead before the
attack of her lover.
Curtis, the Aviator, Injured.
Rheims, France.—With Glen H.
Curtis, who will represent America
in the international flying contests,
suffering from a sprained ankle and
his aeroplane damaged the chances
of the United States winning the cup
are slim.
