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Henry County Weekly.
R. L. JOHNSON. Editor.
Entered at the pestoffice at McDon
ough aa second class mall matter.
Advertising Rates: SI.OO per Inch
per month. Reduction on standing
oontracts by special agreement.
The wqges of sin, declares the Chi
cago News, are promptly paid by wo
men but men try to repudiate the
debt.
It is a good deal easier to get a
reputation for being a good fellow,
thinks the Dallas Netvs, than to keep
it up.
When a man admires a woman, ex
plains the Philadelphia Record, she
always In turn admires him for his
good taste.
A man and woman that have less
Bense than a rat about eating are
natural-born fools, out of the line of
nature’s religion, blessings and suc
cession ,and the sooner they and
theirs go to the limbo of fools, the
better, shouts the New York Press.
Whether "whisky” is whisky or not, ii
a grocer or butcher or fishmonger
ever does dirt to fool you cut him
dead and tell all your friends. Id
the line of evolution all who do not
meet the common, sense and common
senses, requirements for survival
much perish in spite of all laws and
paternalism.
It Is gratifying, for the Chicago Tri
bune, to note that the officials of the
American Automobile association
have gone on record as opposed to
any further races or 260 or 300 miles
until tho conditions permitted in the
past are radically changed. The kill
ing of five people at Indianapolis was
decisive. The dangers which have
been discovered are to be minimized
if not entirely removed. No driver
will be permitted to engage in a long
contest without careful physical ex
amination, nor will one be allowed to
drive a car the whole distance in the
case of races of several hundred
miles. Furthermore, when drivers are
changed, time will be taken for thor
ough inspection of the condition of
the racing machines, to be made by
experts. Under the most favorable
circumstances automobile racing con
tests are certain to be attended by
great danger. The rate of speed is ex
cessive. The excitement of contest
makes one forgetful of restraints. The
chance of a break in the machinery or
of a momentary loss of control is
ever present. Death keeps near by,
ready to grasp any one of many op
portunities to manifest his presence.
There have been too many killings in
these races as they have been con
ducted. The slaughter at Indiauapolis
should remain the limit in the records
of motor racing.
A lieutenant, writing in a London
newspaper and treating of the status
of officers, says that the explanation
of the shortage of officers and the
falling off of applications for admis
sion to Sandhurst is found in the
fact that the army as a profession
"does not pay,” bluntly speaking. It
is, to quote a British authority, “a
preposterous profession,” if the pay
is compared with the Investment. The
writer asks in what other profession
would he, a well educated man of 32,
after an expenditure of SIO,OOO capi
tal and 12 years service or experi
ence, be expected to be contented
with a "salary” of $2 a day? Answer i s
not easy, and apparently none is at
tempted beyond the vague assurance
of a minister that the government
hopes at some time to give the whole
subject of officers’ pay consideration.
The reference by this British subal
tern to the expenditure of capital is
enlightening as to the difference ex
isting between the method of officer
ing the army in his country and in
ours, remarks the Boston Transcript.
Not only do we pay officers a wage
calculated with some reference to the
expenses which the service entails,
but we pay young men to go through
the four years’ course at West Point
In Gjieat Britain the exactly opposite
policy is followed. The cadet at Sand
hurst pays for the instruction he re
ceives.
GAMBLING IN COTTON
Government to Investigate New
York Cotton Exchange.
REVEALS CROOKED DEALINGS
That Farmers and Spinners Are Both
Defrauded Is Proven By Facts
Presented By Government
Washington, D. C.—Gambling on a
stupendous scale; gambling which
plays fast and loose with weaitn
which it does not produce; exploita
tion of friend and foe to make gamb
lers’ profits; reckless manipulation of
a great crop for personal gains; eva
sion of speculative risks while taking
speculative profits, are some of the
unsavory practices shown to exi3t on
the New York cotton exchange in a
report just issued by Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of corporations
of the department of commerce and
labor.
While the commissioner does not
undertake to denounce in detail these
practices he shows them up in glaring
light in parts four and live of tue gov
ernment report on cotton exchanges.
That the New York cotton excnauge
is more dangerous than a bucket
shop, because patronized by the non
speculative public engaged in grow
ing and spinning cotton —men who
would not be caught dead in a bucket
shop; and because of its widely de
moralizing effect upon the cotton in
dustry, its depression of prices to
cheat the producers, and its uneco
nomic plan of “fixed differences’’
which defraud merchants and lhanu
facturers who wish to “hedge” in or
der to avoid speculative chances, is
shown in an absolutely convincing
way in the latest disclosures.
That the New York exchange is
playing both ends for the benefit of
the middlemen, defrauding the farm
ers and cheating the purchaser, is
proven beyond question by the facts
and figures presented in Commission
er's Smith’s report.
This report has been in course of
preparation for the past two years.
The investigation into the exchanges
of the country was originally under
taken under a resolution introduced
by Representative L. F. Livingston of
Georgia and Albert Burleson of Tex
as. Three parts of the report have
already been published. Parts four
and five are now in the hands of the
public printer, and a summary haß
been given out for publication.
In view of the startling disclosure.*
made, and the widespread baneful ef
feet of exchange practices upon the
cotton industry of the country, Pres
ident Taft has directed a careful in
vestigation by the department of jus
tice into the case with the view to
criminal prosecutions under the Sher
man anti-trust law. If that law is not
sufficient to cover the offense, the
president will ask congress for addi
tional legislation under which the ex
change gambling can be reached and
stopped, and guilty parties punished
MODEL OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
Professor Lull of Yale Bases It on
Remains and Relics.
New Haven, Conn. The model
representing the full size restoration
of the primitive man partly idealized,
but based mainly on the remains and
relics of the primitive man found in
various parts of the world, chiefly in
Europe, has been made by R. S. Lull,
professor of vertebrae paleontology in
Yale University.
The restoration is of the gorilla
type, about 5 feet 6 inches high, a
stooping frame, bowed at the thigh's
with large feet and hands and long
arms, great muscular development,
the lower part of the head and face
somewhat refined, but the upper head
of a low development and the whole
an intermediate link between man
and ape. The restoration is said to
be the first of paleontology in Yale
University.
FIGHTINGTHTwoBD "HEBREW.”
Jewish Societies Object to Designa
tion in Immigrant Reports.
Washington, D. C.— Appealing to
the immigration commission for an
elimination of the designation of “He
brew” in the immigrant reports, Si
mon Wolf, representing various Jew
ish societies, and Julius W. Mack,
of Chicago, appearing for the Immi
grants’ Protection League, addressed
the commission in favor of their con
tention.
They both claimed that the desig
nation “Hebrew” was religious in its
nature and had no place in the re
ports of immigrants coming here.
They desired Jews to be known as
Germans, Russians or other nation
alities, according to the country from
which they came.
“DRY” GOVERNORS TO MEET.
Call is Issued by Gov. W. R. Stubbs
* of Kansas .
Topeka, Kans. Governor W. R.
Stubbs has sent letters to governors
of prohibition and local option states
initiating a movement for stricter en
forcement of the federal revenue laws
applying to liquor.
Governor Stubbs’ plan is for the
governors to unite in a protest to
congress against conditions which he
alleged in a formal letter to the pres
ident exist in Kansas —failure of fed
eral collectors to post revenue lax
licenses in conspicuous places and
failure to prosecute “bootleggers
who pay their licenses when appre
bended.
GOOD TEAR FOR FARMER.
1909 Most Prosperous of All Years in
Agriculture.
Washington, D. C. —Secretary Wll**
son, of the department of agricul
ture, in his annual report Just issued,
says the farmer prospered more in
1909 than in any previous year.
“Most prosperous of all years is
the place to which 1909 is entitled in
agriculture,” is the way the secre
tary puts it. The value of farm pro
ducts was $8,760,000,000, a gain of
$869,000,000 over the preceding year.
Of great popular interest are the
results of a unique investigation con
ducted by the department, which
shows that in fifty cities tne total
retail cost charged to consumers for
beef above the wholesale cost paid
by the retailers averaged 38 per cent.
The lower the grade of beef, the
greater the percentage of gross profit.
In the upward movement ot beef
prices, the farmer, the report says,
nas not shared equally with the
packer, retailer and wholesaler; but
as to hogs, the case is different, the
larme-r receiving his fair snare of the
higher prices or pork in the increased
price of his unfed hogs.
Secretary Wilson notes a great for
ward movement in enforcing the food
and drug acts, the willingness of man
ufacturers to comply with the laws
and to co-operate with tne depart
ment making the work largely edu
cational.
Secretary Wilson says in part:
’Eleven years of agriculture, be
ginning with a production of $4,417,-
000 and ending with $7,760,000. A
sum of $70,000,000,000 for the period
It has paid off mortgages, it has es
tablished banks, it has made better
homes, it has helped to make the
farmer a citizen of the world, and It
has provided him with means for im
proving hiss oil and making it more
productive.
“The most striking fact in the
world’s agriculture is the value of the
corn crop for 1909, which is about
$1,720,000,000. It nearly equals the
value of the clothing and personal
adornments of 76,000,000 people, ac
cording to the census of 1900. The
gold and silver coin and bullion of
the United States are not of greater
value. It haß grown up from the soil
and out of the air in one hundred
and twenty days—sl6,ooo,ooo a day
for one crop, nearly enough for two
dreadnaughta daily for peace or war.
This crop exceeded in value the aver
age of the crops of the five preceding
years by 36 per cent.
“Cotton is now the Becond crop
in value, and this year’s cotton crop
1b easily the most valuable one of the
farmer that has been produced. With
cotton line selling at 13.7 cents on
the farm November 7 and with cot
ton seed selling for about $25 per
ton, the lint and seed of this crop
are worth about $850,'>00,000 to the
farmer. No cotton crop since 1873
has been Bold by farmers for as high
a price per pound as this one.”
TRANSPORT DIXIE SAILS.
There Are 700 Marines on Board the
Cruiser.
Philadelphia, P. The transport
Dixie, with the 70 marines and all
the equipment transferred from the
stranded transport Prairie, passed out
to sea on her way to Central Amer
ica. Admiral Kimball and the ma
rines who are bound for Colon, and
may possibly be sent to Nicaragua,
are three days behind the schedule
set by the navy department.
UTENtWsYuitT
General.
The department of state is advised
by the British ambassdor that in con
sequence of representations made to
the governor of Jamaica as to the
prevalence of rabies among dogs in
the United States an order has been
issued prohibiting the importation of
dogs into Jamaica from the United
States and the Republic of Panama,
including the canal zone.
Partly as a result of now economlo
conditions and partly as a result of
those causes which brought about the
curtailment movement among the
cotton mills in the south, a silent
but widespread and general revolu
tion is setting in among southern
manufacturers that may have the ef
fect of the determination of manufac
turers to make finer goods in both
yarns and in cottons. This will be of
value, because it will reduce the out
put of coarse yarns. On the other
hand, the better grade of goods and
the finer yarns will bring to the pro
ducer quicker buyers and better
prices.
Washington.
Under a recent ruling of the com
missioner of internal revenue, drug
gists who put up alcoholic medicinal
compounds must pay a special tax
as rectifiers if the compounds are not
sufficiently medicated so as to be un
suitable for use as a beverage.
Louis Greenberg, a diminutive
New York newsboy, came to Wash
ington to see the president. The boy
was plainly disappointed when told
that the president, who was at a cab
inet meeting, was too busy to see
him, and declared he would remain
here until he does see the president.
"You see,” he said, “I have already
met such prominent gentlemen as
Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Gotch. I also
want to meet Mr. Taft.”
A proposal that the government
shall enter suit against the state of
Colorado to recover the value of thir
ty-five thousand acres of mineral
land, which, it is alleged, passed into
state control through misrepresenta
tion, is under consideration by the
department of justice.
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Back?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everyone knows of Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
H .. _ bladder remedy, be-
1 1 cause of its remark
g 11 a^ie restoring
£ L* properties. Swamp
- b R OOI fulfills almost
„ y ,r>7 every wish in over-
I f fjH coming rheumatism,
, )§=\, | ||l[ pain in the back, kid-
f < .'ff = ', u[jji neys, liver, bladder
1, 3 r and every part of the
f]_ urinary passage. It
• corrects inability to
hold water and scalding pain in passing it,
or bad effects f ollowing use of liquor, wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
through the day, and to get up many
times during the night.
Swamp-Root is not recommended for
everything but if you have kidney, liver
or bladder trouble, it will be found just
the remedy you need. It has been thor
oughly tested in private practice, and has
proved so successful that a special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers of this paper, who have not al
ready tried it, may have a sample bottle
sent free by mail, also a book telling
more about Swamp-Root, and how to
findoutif vouhavekid
neyor bladder trouble.
When writingmention
reading this generous SUUSSSESa
offer in this paper and
send your address to
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Homs c l owamp-Root*
Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don’t make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
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AUAUSTA. SA.
Kennedy’s
Laxative
Cough Syrup
Relieves Colds by working them out
of the system through a copious and
healthy action of the bowels.
Relieves coughs by cleansing the
mucous membranes of the throat, chest
and bronchial tubes.
“As pleasant to the taste
as Maple Sugar”
Children Like It*
For BACKACHE—WEAK KIDNEYS Try
DeWltt's Kidney and Bladder Pills —Sure and Safe
Weak Kidneys
Backache, Lumbago
and Rheumatism
immediately relieved by
Pineules
Delays are dangerous. There
is no more common complaint
than Kidney complaint.
Nature always
gives due wam
ing and failure to
/■vvheed same may
\ iml result in Diabetes,
\ f Lumbago, Bright’s
A-qi Jy Disease, or some other
"Jr serious affection of the
BT / Kidneys. A trial will
Jk convince you they
are unequaled. Pine
-1 ules are quickly ab-
BnV. \ sorbed and readily
/ but naturally elimin-
I m I ate poisons due to dis-
I i/ organed condition oi
141 I Kidneys and Bladder.
They purify the blood
and are a tonic to the
entire system. Do not suffer from
Backache, Lumbago, Rheumatism
or Kidney and Bladder trouble
when you can get Pineules.
Two Bizes. tl.oo and 50 cents. The dojlar siz«
eon tains 2i times aa much as the 50 cent size.
Pineule Medicine Company
Chicago, U.S. A.
Z. D. Ward, Stocfcbridge.
Horten Drug Co.
GEORGIANS PROSPERING
Bulging Vaults of State Banks
Show Prosperity.
$100,000,000 ON DEPOSIT
Bank Statements Show a Gain of Ona
Hundred Per Cent in Cash Wealth.
Result of 15 Cent Cotton.
Atlanta, Ga.—ln approximately 500
state banks doing business in Geor
gia today, there is deposited to the
credit of Georgians nearly $100,000,-
000, an Increase in deposit accounts
of more than 100 per cent in twelve
months.
A splendid illustration of the dif
ference between 9 and 15-cent cot
ton;
This marvelous increase in actual
cash wealth in the state is indicated
in the official bank statements show
ing the condition of the Georgia banks
at the close of business on November
16, the majority of which have been
received in the office of State Treas
urer and State Bank Examiner J.
Pope Brown.
The last official statement of 1908
bore the date of November 27 some
ten days later than that of the state
ment called for this year, but tne
dates are close enough to admit of
interesting comparison.
The total deposits in state banks
November 27, 1908, were $46,970,-
609.68. The accurate figures for 1909
wil not be available for several weeks
yet, as all of the statements have not
yet been received, and the compila
tion of them is a tremendous work
after they are all in hand.
But from the figures furnished the
bank examiner it has been found that
the total deposits subject to check in
128 state banks, about one-fourth of
the entire number, aggregate $25,717,
053. These 128 banks were selected
at random, and each of them is in a
different Georgia county; so it will
be seen that the state's prosperity is
widespread and general.
Upon the basis of these figures,
which do not include deposits in the
shape of time certificates, amounting
to a considerable sum, it is apparent
that the total deposits in Georgias
state banks will reachHhe figure stat
ed —nearly $100,000,0#.
In adidtion to the foregoing Geor
gia has about 110 national banks. In
1908, November 27, the total deposits
in these national banks approximated
S3O 000,000. There is every indication
that their deposits have increased in
like proportion, and that the total
cash deposits in Georgia today, or
upon November 16, to be more accu
rate, aggregated the magnificent sum
of $160,000,000.
In other words, Georgians have just
about twice as much available cash
today as they had twelve months ago,
all of which is a remarkable tribute
to the agricultural productivity of the
state.
This growth is not confined to any
one section. The bank Whose depos
its do not show a heatlhy increase
take it wherever you will in the
state, is a rarity. Naturally, however,
the greatest percentage of increase
is found in some sections of South
Georgia, where crops met with no un
favorable conditions, and there was a
full yield of cotton ready for the mar
ket at highest cash price.
GEORGIA LEADS.
This State Holds the Palm for Illicit
Distilling.
Washington, D. C.—The annual re
port of the commissioner of internal
revenue discloses almost startling
facts bearing on the prohibition law,
which is supposed to be in effect in
Georgia. This report furnishes the
very interesting information that the
federal government through the bu
reau of internal revenue, issued re
tail liquor license for the fiscal year
ending June 30 of the present year
to 1,091 dealers. But this is not all.
la prohibition Georgia the report dis
closes the fact that 18 wholesale li
quor dealers’ licenses were issued dur
ing the past year.
A resort to the records of the com
missioner of internal revenue shows
that there has been comparatively lit
tle diminution in the issuance of fed
eral license for the dispensation of
booze since the operation of state
wide prohibition. In 1907, which was
prior to the enactment of the state
prohibition law, the number of retail
liquor dealers licensed by the federal
government numbered 1,427, and the
wholesalers were 105. In that year
the retailers of malt liquor authoi
ized to do business in the state were
only 207. Prohibition laws seem to
make this class of wet goods dispen
sers thrive. Last year the retail malt
liquor dealers authorized to do busi
ness in the state had reached the
grand total of 1,521. From a group
of 207 to more than 1,500 within a
period of two years iB surely going
some.
But the 18 wholesale liquor dealers
and the 1,091 retailers, who made a
mockery of prohibition in Georgia latt
year, do not tell the whole story. The
report of the commissioner of infer
nal revenue discloses the fact that
two grain distilleries were registered
in the state last year, and, in addi
tion, one more was operated.
Georgia holds the palm for illicit
distilling, while North Carolina runs
a close second. In Georgia last year
394 illicit distilleries were seized and
623 destroyed. In North Carolina
were seized and 374 destroyed. Ala
bama is third in the race, with 173
seized and 231 destroyed. There were
24 registered distilleries reported foci
seizure in North Carolina.
