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
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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.
