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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. R. L. JOHNSON. Editor. Entered at the pastoffice at McDon ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. Crooked paths, confesses the Home Herald, come from trying to‘walk to heaven while looking on the other country. “Are our lakes shrinking?” asks a Sunday paper. The part that was raved up for our refrigerators is, an swers the Cleveland leader. The list of principal stockholders of American railroads, published in New York a few days ago, was chief ly interesting to the Houston Chroni cle for the abseace of the names of the widows anti orphans who, as we have so often been assured, own those properties. The jurisdiction of a country ex tends a cannon-shot from shore. When that was fixed three miles Vas regard ed as the potential limit of such a ehot. Now it may be several times that, muses the Boston Transcript. Will like bounds be set for the air ships in order to clear them of the offence of trespass? Westerners who are sometimes sus pected of exaggerating the force and performances of cyclones, will be in terested in',the statement of the Lon don Express that during the great cy clone near Lyons, France, a man caught in the rush of wind was blown six miles out of his way, and then, falling on his face, was able to stop. The “Casenla” citron —its Hebrew name is “Ethrog”—grows in Albania, and Consul Nathan (Pratas) tells us about it. “It is » small citron,” he says, “weighing not more than 25 drams, large enough to be held in the hand, and is thus used in religious ritual by the Jews all over the world during the celebration of their Feast of Tabernacles. Such a citron, suf ficiently small, without blemish, and possessing a somewhat extended noz zle, is valued at from $4 to $lO. These citrons are mostly exported from Par ga, Turkey, and not from Corfu, as is generally supposed. A few are said to grow near Diakovto, Greece.” The Prison Reform League is Inves tigating the treatment of prisoners in prisons and camps. While there has been great improvement in the treat ment of prisoners, comments the Christian Register, there are many places where the most brutal methods of discipline are still in force, and, worst of all, there are localities where there is dicker and trade in prisoners. It is alleged that in some cases this descends to the level of the most bru tal traffic in women, who are made slaves in some of our large cities. The relations between a brutal prisoner and a jailer who gets his place be cause he likes the job and has a pull with the lowest order of politician, tends always to reduce the jailer and his victim to a common level of brut ish depravity. It has heretofore been the general opinion that Charles XII lost the bat tle of Pultowa by reason of his infer ior strategy and inferior numbers. At the bicentennitl of Pultowa, relates the Boston Transcript, the Russians exhibited an “Ikon” or sacred image, on which Sewedish soldiers played on which Sewedish soldiers played checkers just before the battle and strategists and historians may be call ed upon to revise their opinion in con sonance with that of the Russian peas antry, who say that an army that thus improvised a checker-board sim ply got what was coming to it. Stu dents well remember that there was a Roman admiral who would not be dissuaded from fighting a battle by the augurs’ report that the sacred chick ens would not eat. “Let them drink, then,” laughted the admiral, and caus ed the chickens to be thrown over board. He was badly defeated, anl augurs agreed that the moral was ob vious. MESSAGE FROM DR.COOK Discoverer of North Pc»!e Tells How He Baffled Peary. PEARY WILLING TOARBITRATE “Tell the People of America to Have the Fullest Confidence of My Con quest of the Pole,” Says Cook. On Board the Steami-hip Oscar 11, at Sea, via Marconi Wireless Tele graph to Cape Race, N. F. —“Tell the people of America to have the fullest confidence in my conquest of the Pole, I have records of observations made by me which will prove my claim. 1 shall be glad again to set mv foot on American soil.” This was the brief message Dr. Freuerick A. Cook a*ked the Associa ted Press to give to his countrymen as he nears home on the steamship Oscar 11, bound from Christiansand, Norway, to New York. Dr. Cook discussed freely with the Associated Press correspondent the assertions of Commander Peary that he (Cook) had never reached the North Pole, and drew from him a de tailed story ot the causes that brought about dissensions between the two explorers. When he departed for the north, Dr. Cook said, he left u depot of pro visions at Annatok, north of Etah, ir* charge of Rudolph Fruneke and sev eral Eskimos. Francke had instruc tions to go south, aboard a whaler, and 1 eturn laier. This be d.d, but missed ttie returning vessel owing io a slight illness. He was then taken a boa: d Peary’s ship, the Roosevelt, and proceeded north. “Commander Peaiy found m> sup ply depot at Anomok.” Dr. Cook con tinued, “and the Eskimos in charge told him that I was dead, which they fully believed to be true at the time. ‘ Peary placed two men iu charge ot the depot, Boatswain Murphy and an other. Harry Whitney, the New Ha ven hunter, also remained there. Mur phy had eiders not to search for me, but was told he could send Eskimos northward the following spring -from the relief depot. “When 1 returned from the pole, un expectedly, Harty Whitney was tlfe first to see me, and tell me what had occurred. “Whitney was placed in possession of the facts concerning my journey to the pole on condition that be would not intorni Commander Peary or his men of them. At the same time the Eskimos who had accompanied me noun were told to maintain the very strictest silence. “When 1 went into the depot there was a dispute between myself and Murphy, who delivered to me written instructions he had received trom Peary, although Murphy himself could neither read nor write. These instruc tions showed that he was making a trading station of my depot, the con tents of which had been used iu trad ing for furs and skins.” Dr. Cook sa.d he was instantly an noyed at this alleged wrongful use of hrs supplies, and threatened to kick out Murphy and his companions. Fi nally, however, he consented to their remaining at the depot, as there was no other shelter i*. the vicinity for them. Said he: -On one occasion, Murphy asked me abruptly, ‘Have you been beyond 87?’ “But 1 was determined not to let Peary know of my movements, and replied evasively that I had been much farther north. From the state ment has been connected the decla ration that 1 had said that 1 had not leached the pue.” Dr. Cook declared that neither Har ry Whitney nor his (Cook’s) records are on board the steamer Roosevelt, and that, therefore, Peary’s informa tion concerning him emanated from Boatswain Murphy, who knew notic ing of his movements. Dr. Cook said also that he had made arrangements tor the two Eskimos who wont wkh him to the pole, and Knud Rasmus sen, whom he met in Greenland, to go to New York and connrm tne story of his discovery. Dr. Cook is thoroughly enjoying his reat aboard ship alter the strenuous days at Copenhagen. He sleeps ten hours each night, and spends a long lime daily in writing Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Marco ni Telegraphy to Cape Ray, N'ew toundlana. —Commander Robert E. Peary consented to talk turtner con cerning his dash to the North Pole. He dwelt particularly upon the ob servations taken at th* apex of the world, and the movements of Harry Whitney, the sportsman of New Ha ven, Conn., who has been described as the bearer ot records substantiat ing Dr. Frederick A. Cook’s claim to have reached the North Pole, "Was there more than one observa tion at tire pole, and by whom?” the explorer was asked. "There were several observation,” he replied, "and 1 took tnem all my self. You must understand that the pole is a theoretical point, without length, breadth or thickness. Its ac tual location depends on the accuracy of the instruments employed and the conditions under which the observa tions are taken.” “You have stated, Commander Pea ry, that a copy of your records aad polar observations was wrapped in a piece of a silk American flag and de posited in an ice cavity at ihe pole; did any person witness this act?’ To this question Commander Peary declined to make an answer WILL OF L H. HARRiMAN. All of His Property Is Bequethed to Mrs. Harriman. New York City.—A hundied brief woids, weighted each with approxi mately $1,000,000, and containing in their entirety the last testament of E. H. Harriman, make his widow, Mary Averell Harriman, one of the wealthiest women in the world. It is, perhaps, the briefest will on record for the disposal of an estate of such magnitude. All his property is lett Mrs. Harriman. Wr.ll street efetimates that Mrs. Harrtenan will inherit in realty and personal property between s7s,bOO,uuv and $100,000,000. Mr. Hat* man’s private fortune is suppose*, to have been greater than this by many millions, but there is leason to believe that his unmarried daughters, Mary and Carol, his mar ried daughter, Mrs. Robert Living stone Gerry, and his two sons, Wil liam Averell and Roland, a boy of fourteen, together with his surviving sister, Mrs. Simons, and other rela tives, have all been substantially pro vided for in gifts out of hand and trust funds set aside by Mr. Harri man during his lifetime. The will is dated June 8, 1903. Mrs. Harriman was Mtes Mary Averell, daughter of W. J. Averell, a wealthy banker of Rochester, N. Y., who made his money in the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railway company. She brought her husband financial aid in his early struggles If the estate measures up to expec tation. Mrs. Harriman, according to common estimation here, is the wealthiest woman in the .world. Mrs. Hetty Green’s holdings have been es timated at $40,000,000; those of Mrs. Frederick Courlland Penfteld, who was Anne Weightman of Philadelphia at $80,000,000, and those of Mrs. Rus sell Sage at a like amount. LOST UF^AKMAMLNT. Europe Has Spent $111,000,000 on Armament in 25 Years. New York City.—Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, who had viewed the Eu ropean attitude toward armament during his recent trip abroad, preach ed at the Metropolitan Temple. “During the last quarter of a cen tury, a period of incomparable peace, the armies and navies of Europe have enforced an expenditure of $111,000,- 000,000, enough money to pay for the education of every European child and put an end to the tragedy of pov erty. “A great responsibility rests upon England and the United States. They have it in their power to put an end to these war preparations and drive the war dogs back to their kennels, arid to usher in the reign of the mil lennium of peace.” - CUKE LINES DISABLED. 8. S. Carib Anchored Off Hatteras With Her Machinery Disabled. New York City.—A wireless mes sage received at the Fire Island sta tion reported that the Clyde Line tSeamship Carib was anchored off Cape Hatteras with her machinery disabled. The Clyde Liner Comanche also re ported by wireless that she had left the Carib anchored near Hatteras, with her machinery disabled. She tied to tow the Carib to port, but the line parted. The Carib left New York for Wilmington, N. C., and George town. S. C., with merchandise and passengers in command of Captain Packer. DRINK CAUSED DESIRE TO BURN. t Roy Kennedy Confesses to Starting 13 Fires in Six Weeks. Nowata, Okla. —Roy Kennedy, in an alleged confession to the county au thorities here, is said to have admit ted that he is responsible for thirteen fires at Nowata during the last six weeks. Kennedy said; “When I have a dr*.k in me I have no other de sire than to burn something.” Nowata has sustained two hundred thousand dollars’ loss by fires very recently. New Japanese Ambassador to l). S. Tokio, Japan.—Official announce ment as been made of the appoint ment of Y. Uchida, former minister of foreign <»Taii-s and now ambas sador to the court of Austria, to suc ceed Takahira, Japanese minister ot Washington. Washington, D. C.—Mr. Uchida is spoken of at the legation as the lead ing diplomat of Tokio, and is espe cially versed in international law and political science. He is about 45 years of age. Halley’s Comet Seen. Chicago, 111.—For the first time in seventy-four years Halley’s comet has been observed witu the naked eye. The observation was made by Pro fessor S. W. Burnham of the Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva. Two pho tographic negatives weer •secured. 573,561 Allens for America. \\ ashington, D. C. —A net increase of 573,561 in the population of the United States by the arrival and de parture of aliens was scored during the last fiscal year, as against an in crease of 209,867 the previous year. There was a falling off in immigra tion from 782,870 to 751.786. U. S. Treasurer Resigns. Washing n, D. C.—United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat sent this resignation to President Taft to take efTect in October. Mr. Treat has been treasurer since July 1. 1905, being pro moted at that time from the office of the collector of internal revenue at Xew York City. STORM SWEEPS COAST Pensacola, Mobile, New Orlean Are Harried By Hurricane. FOUR DEAD AT NEW ORLEANS At Mobile Street* Were Flooded By Wind Driven Water*—Many Washouts on Railroads. Memphis, Term.—Fragmentary re ports from points in southern Louis iana and Mississippi evidence that a severe tropical hurricane swept along the Missitsippi-Louisiana gulf coast, damaging snipping, wrecking the more fiail tmuctuies and seriously impeding i abroad traffic. New Or leans was apparently the storm cen ter. From Biloxi and Scranton, on the gulf coast of Mississippi, meager re ports tell of the damage to snipping and builuings along the beach ana, so far as can be ascertained there has been one life lost. The wind attained a velocity of 50 miles an hour at Natchez, Miss., the power plain was out of commission, putting me city in darkness. A num ber ot trees were uprooted, and sever al fbaildiiiss unrooted. Along the Texas coast no damage has, so far, been reported, and this section appaiently nas escaped the force of the storm. In western Lou isiana at Crowley and Jennings, con siderable piopertj damage has result ed. The greatest, damage is to the rice crop. Two-thuds of the unhar vested crop is beueved to have been ruined. New Orleans, La. —After attaining a velocity ot 60 miles an hour at New Orleans, the West Indian hurricane which struck the Louisiana and Mis sissippi gulf coast is reduced in its intensity. It left in its wake four dead at New Orleans and perhaps others along the gulf coast., though no definite advices or mortality in other sections have thus far been received here. The property loss in New Or leans will exceed SIOO,OOO, and many houses were unroofed and frail build ings in numerous instances were par tially destroyed. Considerable property damage was done along the river front. The storm apparently moved inland to southwest ern Louisiana. Velocity of wind at New Orleans was the most intense in the history of the local weather bureau. * Mobile, Ala. —Mobile was in the throes of the tropical storm for a day, but only mildly till after nightfall. There was a heavy and continuous rainfall all day. The new Louisville and Nashville depot at the foot of Government street was inundated, and Commerce street, through w hich trains enter and leave the city, was inundated for its entire length along the city water front. No trains were • operated out of Mobile over the Louisville and Nashvilel Railroad. The Louisville and Nashvilel tracks for a distance of about six miles, three north and three south of the center of the city, were under water. Biloxi, Miss. —The gulf storm struck this city, with the wind blowing for ty miles an hour, continuing to in crease in intensity till it reached 60 miles an hour. It is estimated that the high tide and the wind wrought damage to property between forty and fifty thousand dollars. Between Beauvoir and Debuys 500 feet of the track of the Gulf Coast Traction Company was washed away and another hundred feet is gone near the Soldiers’ Home, and to the east ward of Gulfport another 150 feet were washed away. All t-he bath houses and piers aLong the beach from Gulfport to the home of United States Senator Money, a distance of four miles, were swept away. Three hun dred feet of the electric car line at Long Beach, Miss., were swept away A pen containing 5,000 diamond back terrapins, valued at $5,000, lo cated on the back bay of Biloxi, was threatened by the incoming tide and many men worked to save the terra pins. Twenty shrimp boats were out in the storm, but a boat arriving here reported that they had made for Lake Borgne canal for harbor. The schooner Ruby and a wharf recently built by W. M. Hampton were wrecked. The driveway, known as "the Beach Road,” along the coast in front of Biloxi, was destroyed,- en tailing a loss of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. Pensacola, Fla. —Blowing steadily all day at a velocity between fifty and sixty miles an hour, the wind at night fall increased to hurricane velocity. Shortly before dark the weather bu reau displayed the hurricane signals and all vessels in the bay that had or could g«t up steam hurried across the bay to a cove for shelter. Ocean going steamships anchored in the bay, REFUSED TO SAVE WIFE FROM PRISON. Cleveland Brewer Would Not Pay His Wife's SSOO Fine. Cleveland, Ohio. —Rather than loan his former wife SSOO, which would have kept her from going to prison, Jacob Fickel, a brewer, saw her sen tenced to’ the penitentiary for two years. Sentence was suspended. Mrs. Fickel embezled $593.76 from the estate of Bertha Bosenhardt while acting as guardian to the woman. Judge Vickers scored Fickel because he would not pay the amount. "Any man who is halt a man would do as much as is asked of Fickel to save the mother of his children, even though he has no regard for her as his wife,” said the judge. BANKERS CONBEM POSTAL BANKS. Lfgitlatation I* Pa*sed Guaranteeing, Bank Deposits. Chicago, 111. —After five days’ con sideration and discussion of financial problems of gieater ,or lesser import, ih * delegates to the thirty-fifth an nual convention of the American Bankers’ Association selected Los An geiee as their next meeting place, and adjourned uaiil the fall of next year. Among the results of the confer ence ot bankers, numbering close to s,Out), and representing a very state in me union, me practically unani mous condemnation of postal savings banks and legislation guaranteeing bank deposits stands out distinctly. On the affirmative side, strong sen timent favoring the establishment of a central hank for the entire country ieeeneq approval from many bank ers, and was advocated in the annual address of ihe president, George M. neynolds of the Continental National naal: of Chicago. Different gioups of the bankers in the section meetings came out very strongly in lavor of permitting na tional banks to establish separate sav ings bank departments with funds segregated liom the other interests ot the bank and saving deposits spe cailly protected. A resolution pledging the associa tion to seek legislation looking to the establishment of such secregaied sav ings departments laded of passage, a ad was referred to the currency coin-* mission for consideration. In the opinion of some of the offi cers of the association, one of the greatest results accomplished was the awakening of interest in the need of co-operation between the comptroller of currency, the federal bank examin ers, tne state bank examiners, the clearing houses and the directors of banking institutions, cn the careful and intelligent examination of banks, both national and state. The need of constant vigilance and increased exactness in batnc examina tions was the burden of an undress oy James B. Forgan of Chicago, in which he declared his perfect accord with the plea tor co-operation in bank examination made by Comptroller Murray earlier in the convention. The movement tor the establishment of uniform bills of lading,which would be safe as negotiable instruments, re ceived impetus from the convention and strong endorsement of the neces sity of an ample cash reserve in bank ing institutions was voiced. Before adjournment the standing law committee made its report recom mending that the association advo cate legislation in all the states to punish the making of a false state ment to obtain credit; to punish the making of derogatory statements af fecting a bank; to define the crime of burglary with explosives and fix the punishment for it, and legislation rel ative to the payment ot deposits in trust. Without opposition, Lewis E. Pier son of New York, former vice presi dent, was elected president of the as sociation, and F. O. Watts of Nash ville was made first vice president, being advanced from the chairman ship of the executive council. Secretary Fred Farnsworth of New York; Treasurer P. C. Kauffman of Tacoma, Wash.; Assistant Secretary William G. Fitzwilson of New r York, and General Counsel Thomas B. Pa ton of New York were re-elected by a unanimous vote. No definite date was fixed for the convention in Los Angeles next yar. The 1910 convention will be held, however, between October 15 and No vember 15. FOREIGN MONt* FOR THIS COUNTRY. Hundreds of Millions of Dolalrs Are Coming From Europe. Washington, D. C. —"Hundreds of millions of dollars are in England, France and Germany awaiting invest ment in American railroad securities as soon as the investors can be as sured of absolute federal regulation.” This statement was .made by Com missioner Franklin P. Lane of the interstate commerce commission, who has just returned from a trip of near ly three months in Europe. He visit ed England, France, Germany, Switz erland and Italy, and studied the rail road situation in all of those coun tries. "Men of money abroad,” continued Commissioner Lane, "are satisfied that America is on the eve of a phe nomenal era of prosperity, and are ready to invest their money in any stable enterprise in this country; but what they want is some assurance from the government that their in vestments will be protected in a fair way. They would like to see the cap italization of our railroads hedged about by federal legislation, so that the purchaser of stock would be as sured of getting what he paid for. With the enactment of a law to pre vent overcapitalization, American railroads would have no difficulty in obtaining in Europe all the money necessary for their development.” Bishop Seth Ward Bead. Tokio, Japan. —Bishop Seth Ward of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died in Japan. The bishop ar rived in Kobe last month on his reg ular tour of inspection of the Method ist missions of Japan, and he was taken ill shortly after his arrival. Last week he was reported as grad ually sinking, and the fatal termina tion of illness was not unexpected. No Wine at Taft Banquet. Jacksctt, Miss. The Protesant Pastors’ Association of this city has decided to protest against serving wine or ,r.y alcoholic beverages at the banquet to President Taft on No vember Ist.
