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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1909)
Henry County Weekly. R. L. JOHNSON, Editor. Entered at the pestofflce at McDon ough as second class mail matter. Advertising Rates: SI.OO per inch per month. Reduction on standing contracts by special agreement. The fact that talk is cheap doesn’t prevent people from making extrava gant assertions, insists the Philadel phia Record. John H. Wrenn, hanker, on re turning from a trip to Europe, says: “Europe, to my mind, has turned to America for its investments, and is placing a vast amount ot funds here. Therefore the socialistic scare in England should prove beneficial for the United States." It may be that some day the more a man steals the more quickly will he go to Sing Sing and the longer will he stay there, hopes the Ne-' York World. When tiiat day comes there will be more vacant cells and fewer little thefts than now, because there will be less poverty and more justice. Words are easily spoken, announces the Milwaukee Journal. There are some who are speaking them all day long. They talk, talk, talk, and, when done, neither they nor any one else could tell a single thing they said worth remembering. The gift of speech is to be highly valued, but it should be used with care. When one talks very much little attention is given to what he says, for no one can talk all the time and give due thought to his conversation. When talk comes in a constant stream there will be little sense in it. A silence now and then makes what one says more impressive. Every one likes a sociable man, one who has something pleasant to say, who has intuition as to the mood of his listener and the kind of talk most appropriate to the time. There are times when the si lent companion is tlie one for whom you are most grateful. It is a great thing to know when to be silent. The marines represent the army on board ship and the navy on land. They are amphibious fighters, whom no one now seems to want. In the present state of efficiency of our “jackies” it does not seem that ma rines can do anything that the sailors cannot do, protests the New Haven Register. Our seamen are thoroughly capable of serving the guns, board ing, preventing boarders and occupy ing territory either for acquisition or for the preservation of order. Their drill is military as well as naval. To detach these 2100 marines from our cruisers and to station them at our naval bases is to turn them into soldiers. They might then be called “terriers," possibly shortened to “ter rors." Seriously speaking, in our complicated and highly specialized naval life, the reason for the marine corps has passed away. Why not recognize the fact and absorb it into the army? They could then be dis tributed over our coast fortifications. That is where they are needed. Acting under authority conferred by the legislature, the state highway commission of New York institutes proceedings for the abolition of a number of toll bridges. Other states have a like duty to perforin. Toll bridges, explains the Boston Post, are relics of a time when private enter prise came to the assistance of states and municipalities young and poor. Such help long ago ceased to be nec- Since that time toll bridges have been retained simply because they are profitable to owners reluct ant to let go. Their existence is un just to the public. Where travel re quires a bridge it should be public property. New England states, how ever, still tolerate a considerable number of roads and bridges main tained for private profit. Between Portsmouth, N. H., and Kittery, Me., for example, the only bridge spanning the Piscataqua is owned by a rail road. and within 10 miles of Ports mouth three other toll bridges ar<* found in public highways. They ought to be taken under public control, with Uk® structures elsewhere. TAFT AND DIAZ MEET Presidents of Two Republics Visit Each Other. TRAGEDY MARS MEETING President T»ft is Lavishly Entertained at Banquet and Eats From Dishes of Emperor Maximilian. El Paso, Texas—The long expeel ed meeting beeween President Taft and President Diaz of the Republic of Mexico, took place here. Outward ly It was attended with a display of soldiery, a flare of trumpets, a boom of cannon and a pomp of cere mony suggestive of supreme author ity; but in the actual handclaps of the two executives and in the ex change of courtesies words which pae.sed from lip to lip there was sim ple but cordial informality. President. Diaz was the first to speak. He assured President Taft of his warm personal regard and his high esteem of the man who had ac complished so much in the Philip pines, in Cuba and elsewhere, and who had now the honor to be the chief executive of so great a nation as the United States. President Taft, in simple American fashion, declared he was glad to meet President Diaz. He was glad to know the President of such a great nation; especially glad to know the present president, who had made the nation great. Both presidents dwelt upon the cor diality of the relations existing be tween the United Slates and Mexico. President Taft declared that the meet ing was not necessary to mane the bonds of friendship stronger—it mere ly typified the strength of the bonds as they already exist. There were less than a score of per sons permitted to witness the meet ing of the two executives. Even these were excluded later w'hen Pres ident Taft and President Diaz with drew into an inner room of the Cham ber of Commerce building, where the historic- meeting took place, and were only attended by Governor Creel of the state of Chihuahua, former am bassador to the United Slates, who acted as interpreter. The scene of the ceremonies shift ed from time to time from this thriv ing little American city across the shallow', wandering Rio Grande river to the typical little Mexican settle ment of Ciudad Juarez. In the customs house there Presi dent Diaz received a return call from President Taft, and later entertained the American president at a large dinner party at a state banquet.which, in all Its surroundings of lavish dec orations of brilliancy in color, of the wealth of silver plate, handed down from the time of Emeperor Maximil ian, and in every carefully considered detail was probably the most notable feast ever sewed on the American continent. It was at this banquet that the more formal and public expressions of regard between the two executives as the representatives of the people of the United States and Mexico, were unchanged. The day was marred by but one un toward incident. A lad of fifteen years was stabbed to death bv a school com panion just as President Taft was stepping from his .special train upon its arrival in the center of the city. MORGAN NOT RKLEASI D BY BRIBERY. Confederate Burrowed Way Out of Federal Prison. Frankfort, Ky.—Charlton Morgan, a brother of the celebrated Confederate general, John H. Morgan, emphatical ly denies the story sent out from To ledo, Ohio, that the release of his brother and other captured Confeder ates was secured from the peniten tiary at Columbus through bribery of soldier guards by two southern women who paid $30,000 to the guards. Charlton Morgan was in prison with him in Columbus. He says he is thoroughly familiar with all details of the escapade, and that the party burrofed out of their cells as history has it. TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS 10,000 IN N. V. Committee Asks the Mayor for $437,- 000 to Fight the Disease. New York City.—Distinguished phy sicians and philanthropists, constitut ing the anti-tuberculosis committee, appeared before Mayor McClellan and urged that $487,000 be set aside by the board of estimate to reduce an estimated annual loss to this city of $15,000,000, caused by tuberculosis. Robert W. DeForest, president of the Charity Organization Society, de clared that of 44,000 tuberculosis suf ferers in New York, but 16.000 were receiving proper medical aitendance and that 24,000 new cases and 10,- 000 deaths occurred each year. CHINA STIRRED AGAINST JAPAN. Feeling is Fomented by Circulars of Chinese Association. Tokio, Japan.—Copies of circulars issued in China by a body of Chinese calling themselves the “Popular As sociation of Three Eastern Provinces,” and spread broadcast, created a sen sation upon their receipt in Japan. The circulars contain inflammatory statements against the Japanese. They bear upon what is called the weakness of poor China and the “in sulting aggression of Japan." Efforts are being made to prevent the spreading of their contents among Japanese of the ignorant class, be cause of the danger of arousing feel ing at this time. HET WEST NEtEJS HELP lm nediate Awiatance Appealed For By M. yor Fogarty’ Key West, Fla. —Mayor Fogarty ol Key West, in announcing that the city was forced to suspend work be cause of the lack of funds, said that immediate assistance from the out slue wend is nececoary to carry on tne work of cleaning up the city and caring for the victims of the hurri cane which left more than half of Key West in total ruins. Sewers are broken and clogged throughout the town and unless they can be repaired shortly it is feared an epidemic of sickness will result. Great distress and suffering already is reported among the employes of the targe tobacco factories, which suffer ed heavly by tne storm. Hundreds are out of employment. Many streets have been left impassible, filled with the wreckage of houses and uprooted trees. The lons of life on the tug Sybil includes, besides Captain Parker, En gineer Fox, Pilot Wnitmere, 'i ngineer r'eterson and seven decy hands. The loss of life on the Florida East Coast extension is limited to the crew of the tug Sybil and Timekeeper Brown at Marathon, a total of twelve personal. BILL CtNStIR tiIRLV LUIiIUMES. Chicago Department Store Employees Must Dress Simply. Chicago, 111.—Mrs. G. Hcinville has been appointed official censor of the costumes of feminine employees of one of the largest Stale -street de partment stores. Her edicts for the attire of the young women were is sued last week. Simplicity is the keynote of the or ders issued to the girls. Now the sales women must appear neatly attired in a black or white shirtwaist, black skirt, hair done neatly without arti ficial adornment, and minus all exag geration's of fashions. Here, are some of the things Mrs. Hoinville has eliminated from the at tire of women and girl employees of the store. Hair puffs, rats, false c urls and hair bows. ( Low-neck collars and short or ex tremely long sleeves. Peek-a-boo waists or sleeves. Powder, paint or other "make-up.” Flashy rings, buckles and pins. Waists of an.'- other colors than black or white. Skirts of any other colors than blade or white. Skirts of any other color than black. Every employee who fails to dress accoiding to the standard adopted by the store is notified by the censor to call at her office the following morn ing before for work, and is sent home if she has not complied with the request made of her the night before. STUDENTS ARE POOR SPELLERS. Appalling Showing is Made by Fresh me" at Notrhwestern. Chicago, ill. —Freshmen at North western University were called upon, after having been divided into eleven sections, to spell words in common use, each section having 100 words. Here are some of the words pro pounded, with the spellings given : Irregular—Eargular, iregeler, iregea lor. Accessible—Excessable, assessa ble, axsessable. Counterfeit —Coun- terfit, eonterfite, counterpheet. Ap prentice—Apperentace, aprentis. Chiv alry—Shivalrey, shivelery, chifalery. Magazine Magazeen, magazean, magizene. Plumage—Plumnage, plu meage, plun*aeg. Anthracite —An- thresite, anthrisight. Adage—Addage, Municipal munisipple, municiple. Glacier —Glassear, glashier. Intelli gence—Enteli’gance, intelagence. s Professor J. Scott Clark, head of the department of English, said after the test that the present mode of education in grammar and high schools are responsible. 5 EEUSED TO PAY RENT WHEN DEAD. Warren Foster Left Instructions to Get Around Landlord. Salt Lake City, Utah. —“I have paid rent all my life; 1 mean to quit when I die.” declared Warren Foster, a well known newspaper man, in a let ter expressing his last wish, which was opened after his death in Og den. “Fbr the final disposition of my old body," says the letter, “my first wish is that it be cremated. If inconven ient or expensive, then lay me away in what is known as the ’Potters’ Field.’ But in no event, under any condition, am I to be buried in a cemetery where they buy and sell lots or charge a rental of any kind for keeping the lots in condition.” Indian Desperado Kills Self. San Francisco, Cal. —Willie Boy, the Piuie Indian desperado, was found dead on the summit of Bullion Moun tain, where he had been making his final stand. He had killed himself with the last shot in his rifle and had been dead several days. Seaboard Goes Back to Owners. Asheville, N. C. —United States Judge J. C. Pritchard approved the plan of reorganization cf the Sea board Air Line Railway Company, and signed a final decree directing Re ceivers S. Warfield Davies, R. Lancas ter Williams and E. C. Duncan to de liver the property to the railway com pany November 4. 7 Killed in Boiler Explosion. Eldorado. Ark. —Seven employees were killed and three other persons were seriously injured, when a boiler at the plant of the Griffin Sawmill Company exploded. The steam reg ister, it is declared, failed to indicate the over-pressure. OPPOSE RATE INCREASE Shippers Adopt Strong Resolu tions at Meeting in Cincinnati. ADVANCE IS NOT JUSTIFIED I . . Figure* Presented to Show the Grea Profit* Made By Railways in the Lai t Ten Year*. Cincinnati, Ohio.—That any propos ed general advance in freight rates will disturb the existing business con ditions and that such an advance is | not justified and will be vigorously j contested by the leading shippers’ or | ganizations of the country, was the | tenor of resolutions adopted at the | meeting of representatives of ship ! pers and other commercial organiza j tions from many points of the coun- I try held in this city. The day was devoted to a discussion of the freight situation and it was de j termined to at once inaugurate a very strong movement in opposition to the contemplated advance in rates, a com mittee being created whose duty it shall be to propagate a campaign of education of the public on freight rates and to have all of the powers of the general conference in dealing with that subject. METHODISTS PLlfilME MISSIONS. Ministers and Laymen in Session at Charlotte, N. C. Charlotte, N. C.—Prominent Meth odist ministers and laymen from eleven southern conferences gather ed here for the home mission confer ence of the southern church, called to consider the relation of the church to the industrial problems. The conference was called to older in Tryon Street Church, Rev. Dr. John R. Nelson, secretary of the home de partment of the board of missions, presiding. Dr. Nelson, who delivered the opening address, /‘The Problems of Homo Missions,” stated the object of the conference, and gave a com prehensive review of the difficulties that beset the laborer in the home mission field, laying especial stress upon the problem of reaching the peo ple of the cotton mill settlements, which is just now the most serious one confronting this department of the church. ATLANTA’S GREAT TWO-MILE AUTOMOBILE SPEEDWAY ' ■ 7 ■ 11 ■ —* Dieted r rd at th s30 fl o,o ? 0 two ' mil< r speedway at Atlanta is com pleted, and the first race meet will be held November 9-13 1909 at which time all of the world’s greatest drivers will be seen in the world's fash •?st racing cars. This marvelous course has been constructed by the business men and sportsmen of Atlanta, and not a dol'ars worth of stock is owned S a£y one in any way connected with the automobile industry. Every nossible precaution has been taken to protect spectators and drivers against possible accident The home stretch, which is 100 feet wide, is located m a cut 15 feet deep, and should a car run wild, it would be absolute ly impossible for it to come in contact with spectators, as the grSd stand and b eachers are located on the banks of this cut. The -raSd stand and bleachers are 1,800 feet long, and have a seating capacity of The cash prizes offered for these races are the largest ever Over on «6o“oo7 obi ' e e,e "' : '"»«-* “” d Information regarding the detailsof this great meet can be had hv addressing the Atlanta Automobile Association. 720-721 Cardler Ii h ins. Atlanta, Ga. ’ ( “ ai ’ aier Build- City 6,000 Tears Old. Paris. France. The expedition which has been excavating on the site of the Shusan of Bible times has uncovered the remains of three an cient cities, one above the other, and the lowest dating about 4000 B. C. In a monument was unearthed the fig ures of two men and records of the Chaldean era, which will throw new light on the Old Testament. CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD. Pittsburg Baseball Team Defeats Detroit. Detroit, Mich. —Pittsburg won the world s' baseball championship at Ben nett Park by defeating Detroit by the overwhelming score of 8 to 0 in the seventh and decisive game of one of the greatest battles ever fought for the world’s title. This gives the Na tional League champions the victory by the count of four games to three. To Charles Adams, the phenomenal young pitcher, belongs the lion's share of the credit for the victory, although Wagner, Clark and Leach helped The total attendance for the seven game- was 145,444 and the total re ceipts $188,302.50. 46 HILLED Ot STORM. Town* in Alabama, Georgia and Tenne*- *ee Are Total Wreck*. Memphis, Tenn.—The total death death list of the destructive wind storm was increased by the detailed reports of forty-six, eleven more dead being discovered. The storm swept Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia with a fury seldom, if ever, equaled in this section of the country. If rumors of death at various outly ing points are to be believed, -sixty eight people were killed by the storm. These reports have not been confirm ed, as tney come from distant sec tions of the storm area, and it will be some time before they can be veri fied. . . . ... „ Rumors have been received telling of the death of 15 people on Second Creek, Wayne county, but no names are given. This report has not been confirmed. Every indication now points that the damage done by the storm to prop erty and crops will go far above the first estimates. Three persons are rei>orted killed nt Russellville, Ala., and four at Wood ville, Ala. Both are unconfirmed. From all sections of the storm area came reports of heavy property dam age and destruction to crops. Cotton in particular suffered great damage, and whole fields were laid in waste The storm was probably the worst that this section of the country has ever known, and it will .be days before any correct estimate can be given ot the actual damage it did. TAFT WILL INVESTIGATE. Government Land Office Affairs Said To Be In Bad Shape. ..Washington, D. C. —At least one de partment of the government will re ceive the personal attention of Pres ident Taft when he returns from his western tour. The general land office of the department of the interior is declared by attorneys in this city who practice before it to be practi cally in a state of chaos. The heads of this bureau have been making every effort to keep secret the state of affairs in the general land office, while every expedient that could be thought of has been used to remedy the system and put it on a practicable basis. The office is declared to be behind at least three months with its work, and to be hopelesslv entangled in an effort to replace the old ledger rec ord svstem, which has been in vogue for years, with a new and complicat ed card index system. Newsy Paragraphs. Ihe United States need not worry about prosperity,” sa id Benjamin Gugenheim of the smelter trust on his return from Europe. “Rather it snould worry about a scarcity of ?rade labor and a possible famine in the transportation facilities” He convinced that prosperity was coming on with a rush and that it would in elude Europe as well as America. The Illinois food commission start ed a crusade against dealers deceiv ing the public with artificially colored and smoked fish hams, bacon sau sage and other edibles. Examination showed that most of the “salmon” in the market was carp from the Fox mer and other near-by streams Thev were first given a bath of pink and then subjected to treatment in q? quid smoke." Ruth Bryan Leavitt has announced her candidacy from the First Colora do district on the democratic ocs As president of the Jane Jefferson club, she hopes to command the sun port of the women voters, as well as many of the men. It is said that the republicans intend to nominate a woman in the same district.
