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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.
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“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. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea —The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You fee Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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G. W. MORRIS, Pres. J. G. WARD, V-Fres.
J. T. BOND, V-Pres. C. M. POWER, Cashier.
BANK OF STOCKBRIDGE
STOCKBRIDGE, GA.
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