The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 20, 1909, Image 2
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. ip" 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. > 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.