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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON. Editor.
Entered at the pastoffiee at McDon
ough as second class mail matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch
per month. Reduction on standing
‘contracts by special agreement.
A woman specially likes a man's
compliments, confesses the New York
Press, when probably he doesn’t mean
them.
Abdul Hamid turned over $5,000,-
000 to the Turkish government. This
is undoubtely the largest life insur
ance premium recowrd, thinks the
New York Evening Post.
"One reason why de Declaration of
Independence Is sech a fine docu
ment,” remarks Uncle Eben in the
Washington Star, "is dat dar wasn’t
nobody aroun’ shootfn’ off firecrack
ers to disturb the folks dat was writ
in’ it.”
Says the Boston Herald: When civ
il and criminal law is applied to reck
less automobilists on the same basis
that it is applied to other persons who
kill or maim in the pursuit of their
own passion or pleasure there will
be less occasion to seek special law
for the restraint of all automobilists.
For lack of clean amusements a
great many bad boys are turned out
every year, In both city and country,
who might otherwise be beguiled into
more safe and decent ways, complains
the Philadelphia Record. The vicious
youths of the land are the raw ma
terial out of which later on criminals
are developed and the population of
the jails kept overflowing.
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The Frenchman’s foot, observes the
Argonuat, is long, narrow, and well
proportioned. The Scotchman’s foot,
according to anthropologists, is high
and thick, strong, muscular and cap
able of hard work. The Russian’s foot
possesses one peculiarity, the toes be
ing generally “webbed” to the first
joint. The Tartar’s foot is short and
heavy, the foot of a certain type of
savage, and the toes are the same
length. The Spaniard's foot is gener
ally small, but finely curved. The
Englishman's foot is, in most cases,
short and rather fleshy, and not, as a
rule, as strong proportionally as it
should be.
Man has been born of woman for
centuries upon centuries, yet he is as
little wise to the control of weather
conditions as he is to the truth of
what comes after death. Must it ever
be so? shouts the New York Herald.
Is prophecy, even as it may some
time be perfected, to remain the in
effective substitute for the power to
regulate? The air throbs with won
ders. It affords the medium of wire
less telegraphy, perhaps of telepathy.
The mystery of how It absorbs and
restrains or lets loose the elements
that make for storm or sunshine is
infinitely better worth attention than
are the shortcomings of a forecaster.
Let some earnest seeker find a key to
this riddle and see how the farmers
and sailors and baseball players and
Easter belles and all the sons and
daughters of time sit up and take no
tice.
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Members of the butter trade who
ought to know better, pleads the
American Cultivator, are talking of
farmers getting rich out of the pres
ent dairy market. One of them de
clares that it costs very little more
to produce a pound of butter now
than it did ten years ago. However,
his neighbors, who are better in
formed, were not long in correcting
his wild statement. They quickly
snowed him that the advance in grain,
labor, milch cows, farm supplies in
general, had increased the cost of
butter about as much as the price had
advanced. The dairy trade, as a rule,
is pretty well informed of conditions
prevailing in the producing sections,
and is not particularly surprised at
the high prices in the dairy markets.
It i« plain to them that unless the
prices of butter anti cheese were rath
er high the-farmers would have to
stop producing them under present
conditions, especially with grain as
high as it has been the last few rears.
RURAL MAIL RELIVLRK
13th Anniversary of It* Inaugu
ration Approaching.
40,919 ROUTES IN OPERATION
Some of the Good Influence! That the
Rural Free Delivery Routes
Have Had.
Washington, D. C. —On October 1,
19(d), the thirteenth anniversary of
the installation of rural delivery in
the United States will be reached. In
commemoration of the event some
suitable recognition is suggested, as
no branch of the postal service ha 3
had to recent a beginning with equal
ly remarkable results.
The honor of the first attempt to
test the practicability of such a radi
cal broadening of the operations of in
dividual delivery rests with five routes
from three postoffices in West Vir
ginia.
The innovation was so great that
it took some lime for the people to
be benefited to realize the advantage
in store for them. By the end of the
third fiscal year after this service be
gan but 391 routes were established,
at an annual expenditure of $150,912.
The convenience, as well as ethical,
economical, commercial and educa
tional benefits incident to this par
ticular public utility were now so
forcibly demonstrated that expan
sion went on rapidly, the cost aggre
gating up to the present time no less
than $170,000,000. The 40,804 car
riers in covering their 40,919 routes
every secular day of the year, except
ing New Year's, Washington’s Birth
day, Memorial oE Decoration, Inde
pendence and Labor and Thanksgiv
ing days, or the Monday following
should those days fall on the Sab
bath. in making their daily round,
more than 20,000,000 rural residents
are served.
In looking back over what has been
accomplished during the brief period
of its existence, it is apparent that the
rural delivery service is a great pub
lic convenience. Results are the best
commendation and these are sustain
ed by unanimous expressions of ap
proval of patrons.
From an ethical point of view the.
utility of the service is evident in
many ways. It brings the rural pop
ulation into neighborly relationship
and promotes intercourse with near
by communities, and through them
with cities, great and small
As a commercial proposition facili
ties are afforded to keep tab on the
markets as to prices of products and
commodities for sale or purchase. In
this respect farmers especially find
themselves greatly benefited by con
stant knowledge of the conditions of
trade.
In an economical sense the public
has derived advantage from the im
provement and maintenance of roads
over which rural delivery routes are
laid, this being a condition precedent
to the establishment of mail facili
ties. In addition good roads insure
greater frequency and regularity of
mail delivery. With respect to roads,
since the inauguration -of this serv
ice, it is estimated that more than
$75,000,000 has been expanded in re
building, repairs and maintenance.
As a means of education, the widen
ing of the utilization of the mails bv
rural free delivery has largely ex
tended the circulation of local and
metropolitan newspapers, magazines
and general- literature, besides hav
ing proved a stimulus to more ex
tended personal correspondence.
The popularity of rural delivery
among farmers and others living away
from communities having city mail fa
cilities is shown in a summary of
this service that Postmaster General
Hitchcock ordered prepared in the of
fice of the fourth assistant postmaster
general up to August, 1909.
This exhibit gives 40,919 routes in
operation served by 40,804 carriers. Of
the total number of routes 622 are tri
weekly. In bringing the service up
to its present high state of organiza
tion and efficiency, 60,180 petitions
were received and investigated. Of
this number 17,163 were reported upon
adversely. At the close of this renori
1,432 petitions were pending, of which
202 have been assigned for establish
ment between August 16 and October
1, 1909, leaving 1,230 unacted upon.
The seeming discrepancy between
the number of rural routes and car
riers is accounted for by instances
where there exists tri-weekly service
on more than one rural route out of
an office, one carrier serving two
routes alternating each day.
The state having the largest num
ber of rural delivery routes at this
date is Illinois. 2,284. There are seven
states with more than New York (1 ,-
841- first in population, and four with
more than Pennsylvania (2,168) sec
ond in number of inhabitants.
NORTH CAROLINA FEUD FIGHT.
One Man Killed and Five Wounded
in Fight at Hutnsville, N. C.
Charlotte, N. C. —As the result of
one of the fiercest feud fights in the
history of Mecklenberg county at
Huntsville, Reece Hucks, a prominent
young farmer of Croft, is dead; Les
ter Hucks, a brother; Charles Cox
and Gilreath and Batte Davis, neigh
bors cut and shot, and several others
slightly wounded.
For a year there has been bad
blood between the Hucks brothers
and the Coxs, growing out of the
shooting of a dog belonging to Batte
Davis, a friend of the Hucks brothers,
by Charles Cox. The fight occurred
on Main street in Huntsville.
DEADLY STRIKE RIOT.
State Troops and Strikers In Fierce Fight
at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa. —One state trooper
and one deputy sheriff and three for
eigners were shot and killed in a
wild riot at the Pressed Steel Car
Plant in Schoenville, whose employ
ees are now on strike. At least a
score of persons were seriously
wounded, ten fatally. The rioting
followed a day of quiet and broke
without warning.
The riot scene was practically inde
scribable. Mounted state troppers gal
loped indiscriminately through the
strets with riot maces drawn, crack
in the heads of ail persons loitering
in the vicinity of the mill. Deputy
sheriffs and troopers broke in the
doors of houses suspected of being
the retreat of strikers, and wholesale
arrests were made.
During the early stages of the riot
ing women were conspicuous. Some of
them were armed, others effectively
used clubs and stones. These women,
all foreigners, insane with rage, were
mainly responsible for inciting the
men to extreme measures.
A mob gathered about the Schoen
ville entrance to the Pressed Steel
Car Works, and made a concerted at
tack upon the big swinging gates
of the stockade. The attack was re
sisted by state troopers and deputy
sheriffs:, who used friot maces. In the
melee, Harry Exler, a deputy sheriff,
aged 50 years, was shot and instantly
killed by a bullet fired, it is said, by
a strike sympathizer.
In an effort to arrest the man pick
ed out of the crowd as the one who
did the shooting, State Trooper Smith
was instantly killed by a revpvlver
bullet.
For the first time since the incep
tion of the strike, the state troopers
then opened volley fire on the mob.
Six strikers fell at the first round.
The members of the mob then open
ed fire with rifles. Two mounted troop
ers dropped from their horses
fatally shot. They were taken to the
Ohio Valley hospital in a dying con
dition. As an ambulance made its
way from the car plant to the hospital
carrying wounded troops, the vehicle
was attacked and the driver forced
to flee for his life.
Shortly afterward, a deputy sheriff,
not yet identified, was surrounded by
a crowd of strikers. In a last des
perate attempt to save himself, the
officer drew his revolver and emptied
its contents into the crowd. Then,
throwing the gun away, he yelled: “I
give up; I am all in.”
The next moment five bullets were
fired into his body. Not satisfied even
then the crowd beat and kicked the
body until the features were unrecog
nizable.
BEE’S STING HIKED PARALYSIS.
Man Allowed Bees to tSing Him on
the Bare Arms.
Boston, Mass. —B 1 allowing swarms
of bees to sting him on the bare arms
and legs, J. B. Webster of Roxbury
is recovering from an attack of paral
ysis, and already has regained the use
of his left arm and can walk a mile.
Four months ago Webster coulld not
walk at all, and had no use of his
left hand. He had heard that bee
stings were an efficacious cure for
paralysis and rheumatism.
He hesitated for some time to try
such extreme measures, but finally de
cided to do so, and now apparently is
a well man.
Mississippi Railroad Sold.
Jackson, Miss—The Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City Railroad was
sold under foreclosure at Decatur,
Newton county, the purchase price be
ing $3,200,000, and Neil A. Withers
the bidder.
It is reported here that the road
was bought in by the bondholders,
and that it is the intentios of the new
owners to change the name of the
road to the New Orleans, Mobile and
Chicago Railroad Company, the char
ter for which was recorded here sev
eral months ago.
Injunction Stopped burial.
Goshen, Ind. —When the funeral cor
tege of Charles Crary reached the
cemetery it was met by C. B. Stiver,
an undertaker, and his attorney and
several policemen, who prevented the
coffin being lowered into the grave on
the contention that Crary, six years
ago, entered into a contract with Sti
ver to have his body cremated in
Chicago.
Newsy Paragraphs.
Fifteen skeletons, lying together in
a position such as to indicate hasty
burial, and three English copper
coins bearing the date 1729, found
with the skeletons during the exca
vation for the United States Medical
School hospital, near Washington,
bring to light, it is believed, some
Indian or piratical tragedy of early
American days. History sheds no
ray on the case.
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Deshon died at Frankfort,
Ky., but it lived long enough to save
for Mrs. Deshon and Mrs. Clark,
nieces of the late James A. Holt,
SIOO,OOO, which otherwise would have
gone to a Jeffersonville Masonic lodge.
The infant was called the $100,out)
baby.”
Alonzo Hardin was killed with a
hoe near Charlotte, N. C., by Mary
Bennett, a mountain amazon. The
trouble grew out of a case in court
in which Hardin testified.
The missing seaman of the wreck
ed schooner Arlington, was picked up
ten miles off Atlantic Highlands, by
the fishing schooner Irene and Mary,
after having drifted without food,
drink or sleep for twenty-seven hours
on a crazy raft of lashed spars
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