The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, August 27, 1909, Image 6
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. \ 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. j- 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 itficS M s . HE? cltante c Pjehca do Soxo. NEW YORK. 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