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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor, Entered at the pestoffice at McDon ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch por month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. The law of supply and demand as It applies to coal, explains the Chic ago Record-Herald, amounts to this: Mr. Baer supplies as much as we find it necessary to use and demands what he pleases for it. 1 "r '■ “I won’t say a word to anybody either in confirmation or denial,” re plied President Tuttle of the Boston and Maine when asked if he was about to retire. The New York World com ments: “Tutt, tutt, Tuttle!” There are times when the Courts, backe.d by public opinion, can send unworthy bankers to prisons, but the time has yet to come when these two agencies can keep them there, moral izes the Philadelphia J.edger. Why so large a proportion of the executive clemency afloat, should settle on un worthy bankers is a chronic mystery. Rural carriers are under contract to deliver mail only when the roads are open and passable, and routes are not allowed where roads are well made and kept in good condition the greater part of the year. The move ment for better highways, claims the Hpitemist, is backed up by on in creasing number of important consid erations. Discoursing on morals, the New York Journal says: Honesty would take all the conductors from the street cars and from the trains and give them better and more profitable work. There is no real wealth in this world except human intelligence, and all human intelligence employed to check the dishonesty of human be ings is absolutely going to waste. In former times debtors were put in prison. That sentiment on the sub ject has gone from one extreme to another, thinks the Baltimore Amer ican, is illustrated by the case of a man in Pittsburg, sent to jail for dunning another for a debt. It was the man who borrowed money who used to be punished. Now it i 3 tl>e man who lends it, and maybe it serves the latter right. Education it is, not research, main tains the Louisville Courier-Journal, for which our colleges are organized! in an era of specialists it is well to hear that in mind; well, too, to re member that much may be said in favor of that old-fashioned “liberal ed ucation’’ which made men, not prigs. Such a problem is one, after all, in which the laity have most at stake; if the college is in a formative state, and it is, by confession of the experts, plain people must help mold it wisely and with discretion. It seems, to the New York Tribune, as if the Transvaal system of “trek king” had overtaken our American millionaires as regards their country homes, for scarcely is one beautiful estate completed (which brings neigh bors of lesser*wealth, though perchance of greater importance) than they pull out, sell or close up indefinitely and push on, developing some other wild tract into a luxurious domain, with velvet lawns and formal gardens. The call of the wild seems to have entered the soul of the composite American c itizen. His ancestors broke their way through the wilderness to some spot where the first home was built, and have bequeathed their spirit through generations of thrift and toil to these wealthy spendthrifts. Even to the Far West are good oitizens of the Eastern 6tates “trekking'' to build new pal aces on reclaimed prairie lands, and the day may soon some when one may motor by way of a chain of stately mansions where friends reside from sea to sea. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind You Hate Always Bought Facts About Lightning By Garrett P. Serviss IGHTNING is still more or less a mystery. We can lb i-ni- St~ 7 tate it on a small scale in the laboratory, but its gigantic __ 'w? manifestations in the sky, and its wonderful vagaries, make (tj the wisest savants shake their heads. We know, at any jf rate, that lightning is the electric discharge at high ten sion between masses oppositely electrified. Eveiy little particle of moisture in the air carries a charge, and when the particles coalesce in a cloud their electricity collects on the surface, until the tension becomes enormous. if two clouds are oppositely electrified they will bombard each other until equili brium is established between them. If the opposition is between the Sa>- charged cloud and an object on the ground, a terrific bolt passing between the earth and the sky will relieve the electric strain without regard to the well-being of any creature that stands in the way. A lightning flash often darts for miles through the air. It begins with a discharge between two adjacent particles. The next particle receives 'he shock and transmits it to its nearest neighbor, and thus it rushes on, zigz g ging along the line of least resistance, until the unbalanced energies are i<- stored to equality. The way of lightning is a crooked way, when the path is long, because the distribution of the electric charges in the clouds is irregu lar. The positive seeks the negative, and rushes to its embrace wherevei it r.mls it. The eye is not quick enough to unravel a lightning stroke, but photog raphy can do it to a certain degree, and photographs prove that the path of ihe discharge is a waving line. No discharge occurs until the tension has reached the breaking point, i. e., the point where the resistance of the air can no longer restrain the force Of the gathering charge. What might be called the inner structure of a lightning stroke is a mar vel. Prof. Henry proved that every stroke is an alternating cu.ient, .be oscillations occupying but a few millionths of a second, while the duiation of the flash may be a considerable fraction of a second. Terrific strokes sometimes occur in clouds which hug the ground. A his toric instance happened at Adinont, in Syria. A lightning stroke entered the great oonvent of the Benedictines in the valley of the river Ens and killed two young priests at the altar. A philosopher who chanced to be in a castle on a rock above the convent saw what happened. Even the gilded cross on the convent was above the fatal cloud. But 2,000 feet above that cloud hov ered another, invisible from below, and between the two the lightning placed, only it was the lower cloud that bombarded the upper one. “Give Me Neither Poverty J\[or Riches” Sy Theodore Roosevelt ST is to be wished that some of those who preach and practise a gospel of mere materialism and greed, and who speak as if the heaping up of wealth by the community or by the individual was in itself the be-ail and end all of life, would learn from the-most wddely read and oldest of books that true wisdom which teaches that it is well to have neither great poverty nor great riches. The movement whioh has become so streng during the past few years to secure on behalf of the natios both an adequate supervision of and an effective taxation of vast fortunes, so far as their business use is concerned, is a healthy movement. It aims to replace (pnlleu discontent, restless pessimism, and evil preparation for revolution, by an aggressive, heaithy determination to get to the bottom of our troubles and remedy them. The multi-millionaire is not per se a healthy development in this country, flf his fortune rests on a basis of wrongdoing, he is a far more dangerous ■criminal than any of the ordinary types of criminals can possibly be. If his fortune is the result of great service rendered, well and good; he deserves respect and reward for such service—although we must remember to pay our homage to the service itself, and not to the fortune which is the mere reward «f the service; but when his fortune i 3 passed on to some one else, who has not rendered the service, then the nation should impose a heavily graded pro gressive inheritance tax, a singularly wise and unobjectionable kind of tax. It ‘wonld be a particularly good thing if the tax bore heaviest on absentees. From The Outlook. The Dread of Leprosy By L. Duncan Bulkeley, M. D. OHE great dread of the disease has undoubtedly been fur thered by many writers of fictiou, and such books as “Ben Hur” have had great influence; on the other hand, there has been very little said or done to check or lessen the pop ular prejudice in this direction, which hag been too often shared by physicians, who, not having devoted special at tention to the matter, accept thoughtlessly the general verdict. Undoubtedly this popular prejudice against lepresy has also been fostered by the fact that in many countries it has seemed advisable to provide special hospitals or asylums for lepers, where they ean be better cared for than in their poor, crowded homes, and also by means of which the slight possibility of the spread of the disease, by methods thus far unknown, may be minimized. So that today it may safely be said that the word “leprosy” strikes more terror into the heart of Its victim, or suspected victim, and also into the mind of the average layman, or even physician, than that of almost any ether di sease known: and yet, to those who are really well informed, it bears no com parison to either cancer or tuberculosis in the mental distress which it should cause in those afflicted, while syphilis and many other diseases should inspire afar more dread of contagion. Few realize that, in this climate at least, lep rosy is really a harmless affection to those who may come in contact with it. .—From the Medical Record. Singing Abroad. “Do you think it is an advantage for a young singer to go abroad to study?” “I dunno as it’s any advantage,” an swered Mr. Cumrox, ‘but it’s mighty considerate of the borne folks and the neighbors.”—Washington Star. Chimneys we-re first used in Europe in the 14th century. None of the Ro man ruins shows chimneys like ours. The wealthy Romans used carefully dried wood, which would burn in the room without scot. Why He Led. The angel was making up the list. “1 never asked my fellow man if it was not enough for him,” remarked Abeu Ben Adhem. And, 10, his name came in under the wire first.—New York Sun. Speaking of Petroleum Butter. “Why. Manda, where’s all that Standard Oil butter?” “Please, ma’am, I was in a hurry an’ started de fire wid it.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. iCastoriAi The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has homo the signature of , ./? and has been made under his per- sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” Sire but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. 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