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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
per month. Reduction on standing
contracts by special agreement.
We don’t like to see a woman worry
over what’s in the newspaper, laments
the Atchison Globe, so long as there is
anything in the oven.
The fellow who is looking for trou
ble, submits the Philadelphia Record,
will find that it is the most accommo
dating thing in the world.
Sayß the New York Herald, we are
quizzing all candidates for office as
to their attitude on woman suffrage.
If the suffragettes will postpone their
Inquiries until they get the ballot they
will fin dthe answers much more sat
isfactory.
Rodin’s statue of Victor Hugo, which
was the subject of much criticism
when it was exhibited at the Paris
Salon, has been erected in the garden
of the Palais Royal. The poet is shown
resting against a massive rock in a
ruminating attitude. “In conception
the work is as daring," writes an ar
tist from Paris to a Brussells paper,
“as the Balzav by Rodin, but while
the latter represents the poet wrapped
In a gown so completely that only the
head Is visible, Hugo’s form is devoid
of clothing of any kind.”
A certain well known member of
congress has a house in Washington,
D. C„ relates the Argonaut. One of the
fixtures of the place is an old negro
servant named Sally Ann. In the con
gressman’s presence on Sunday morn
ing she broke a big cut glass dish at
the sideboard, "What have you brok
en now, you black mushfinger?’’
yelled the member, who possesses a
v '
very expressive vocabulary. Sally Ann
was quite unnerved, but she replied,
very humbly, " ’Tain’t de fo’th com
mandment, bress de Lawd!”
“Rinkez-vous?” In the current slang
of Paris, the slang of society, more
over, that signifies, “Come on, let’s
skate,” explains the Boston Tran
script. Society, skilfully led by two
American promoters, who have opened
a i dozen large rinks, has taken to roll
er skating, and finds the environment
as well as the sport very much to its
taste. Military bands provide the mu
sic to which the skaters roll; uni
formed attendants of unexceptionable
deportment are at hand to give in
struction and rescue the fallen; after
noon tea is served; and evening dress
is, by request of the management,
worn by most of the men who patron
ize the rinks at night. Not for many
years has roller skating been a popu
lar pastime in this country. Had it
been introduced with the elaborate
accessories that attend the Paris ven
ture society might have chosen, per
haps, to gain some relaxation and
many black-and-blue spots by this
means.
The report that the Illinois Cen
tral railroad company is preparing to
use electric locomotives in and about
its Chicago terminal on the lake front
suggests to the Providence Tribune,
that it is not improbable that motive
power in that form will soon be ap
plied by transportation companies at
all the more important terminals.
From the point of view of the public,
at any rate, there is much to be said
for the change. In most large cities
the smoke nuisance for which steam
engines are responsible is becoming
more and more intolerable, while the
crusade against the noise that has
been begun in many communities
makes it reasonable to suppose that
the weight of popular opinion will be
on the side of electricity and opposed
to steam. Furthermore, the experiment
has resulted in improving the suburb
an service of the railroads and adding
to real estate values. It is said that
the increase in passenger traffic on
the so-called short-haul routes has
proved to be very profitable, and al
though the first cost of the rolling
stock is considerable it has been en
tirely covered in some instances by
the receipts from the new territory
that has been opened.
SENATE INVESTIGATES
RACE TRACK GAMBLING
Gambler Tells National Solons
How to Stop Betting.
BETTOR HAS SMALL CHANCE
Big Delegation of Reformer* Visit Sen
ate Judiciary Committee in Support
of Burkett Bill.
Washington, D. C. —With a support
ing cast of reformers galore both
male and female, Henry Brolaski, of
Monrovia, Cal., who professed to be
a gambler upon race tracks, was the
star feature of a hearing before the
senate judiciary committee in support
of the Burkett bill to prohibit the
transmission of race track betting
odds over telegraph or telephone
lines.
Mr. Brolaski gave details of the
gambler's life and showed the poor
chance of returns for money invest
ed w'hich is given to the gambling
public. He was one of the owners ot
a Mexican track which was put out
of business at the instance of the
department of state through co-oper
ation with the Mexican government.
He is now seeking to have tracks, in
which he has no interest, dealt with
in like manner.
Brolaski said he had worked in his
line in St. Louis, Chicago, Worth,
Roby, Atlanta, Charleston, S. C., New
Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Latonia, Louisville and Bcnnings
tracks and had had twenty-one years
experience. He roughly estimated
that there were now in the United
States between sixty and seventy pool
rooms. He calculated that there were
in operation nearly 1,500,000 hand
books. He said that in New York
city there were at least 100,000 hand
books and pool room players and that
the evil was growing daily.
Pointing out the poor chance given
the bettor for a return of any part
of his wager, the witness said that
in a pool room the percentage against
the player would run from "25 to 150
per cent and in a handbook the per
centage was from 5 to 15 per cent.
Common sense will tell you that
from 5 per cent up will eat up anj
man’s capital if taken out six times
a day," be declared.
“There is only one means,” said
Mr. Brolaski, “of putting this evi.
out of business effectually, and that
is by the United States government
enacting a law prohibiting the trans
mission of pool room and race track
information over telegraph or tele
phone wires and prohibiting the use
of the mails to newspapers that pub
lish race track prices or results.”
SUUTHtBN BOV REWARDED.
Diplomas of Merit Awarded for Agri
cultural Proficiency.
Washington, D. C. Diplomas of
merit were presented by Secretary
Wilson in his office at the department
agriculture to Bascomb Usher of
South Carolina; DeWitt Lundy of
Mississippi; Elmer Halter of Arkan
sas and Ralph Bellwood of Virginia,
all under 18 years, for special profi
ciency in agricultural pursuits. The
recipients are among the 12,500 en
gaged in the boys’ demonstration
work in the south. Each planted one
acre of corn and cultivated it under
instructions from the department of
agriculture. Dr. C. G. Knapp, who
has charge of the park demonstration
work in the south, offered a trip to
Washington to the boy in Mississippi
who should obtain the best results.
The State Bankers’ Association of Ar
kansas offered a similar reward in
that state, while citizens of Virginia
and South Carolina duplicated the of
fers in those states.
Thousands of dollars of prizes were
awarded this year throughout the
south, the basis of the awards being
the profits, written records, exhibits
of products and yield per acre.
All southern states are making ar
rangements to send the prize winners
to Washington next year.
In a brief address to the boys, Sec
retary Wilson declared that they and
the boys engaged in like work are
“the only hope we have for the con
tinued greatness and prosperity of the
country.”
He pointed out that the south now,
in agriculture and manufacture, was
prosperous as never before, because
the men and women of the south had
put into the work their own energy
and ability, and, in no sense, were de
pendent upon the capital or the in
dustry of the people from other parts
of the country.
“These diplomas,” he continued,“are
unique. No boys ever have received
a similar recognition of their merit.
Nothing I have done since I have been
secretary of agriculture has given me
more pleasure than to present them to
you. You have earned them. You
have begun right.
LUKTOM IS APPOINTED.
Tennesseean Nominated for Supreme
Court Judge.
Washington, D. C.— Ihe president
nominated Horace H. Lurton of Ten
nessee to be an associate justice of
the U. S. supreme court.
Judge Lurton is Tennessee man,
and was appointed judge of the sixth
circuit by President Cleveland March
27, 1893. He was a democrat in pol
itics at that time.
President Taft was himself a judge
of the sixth circuit at the time he
was appointed governor of the Phil
ippines in 1898, and it was his asso
ciation with Judge Lurton that gave
him such a high'opinion of the legal
nuaiiflcations of the Tennessee jurist.
BILLS OF INTEREST TO SOOTH.
Clark of Florida Ha* Introduced Many
Measure* Affecting Thi* Section.
Washington, D. C—A large number
of bills, all of which are of consider
able interest to the southern states,
have been introduced in the house
by Representative Clark of Florida.
Among the most important of these
are the following:
To prohibit the receipt of money
in payment of special taxes as deal
ers in intoxicating liquors by inter
nal revenue officials of the United
States, except in certain cases, and
to provide punishment for its viola
tion. Mr. Clark would have any per
son or firm produce evidence that the
city or town where it is proposed to
carry on the liquor trade has given
authority to do so. Such person must
first procure a license in the place
where it is proposed to carry on the
business.
To credit and pay to the several
states and territories all monies col
lected under the direct tax levied by
act of congress of July 1, 1862, and
at later dates.
To extend to the veterans of the
several Seminole Indian wars and to
the widows of veterans of those wars
the benefits of the act of congress
passed February 6, 1907.
To amend an act to provide for the
collection of abandoned property and
the prevention of frauds in insurrec
tionary districts within the United
States.
To levy an Import duty on Egyp
tian cotton and other long staple cot
ton imported into the United States
from foreign countries. He proposes
that after September 1, 1910, there
shall be levied upon all Egyptian and
other long staple cotton brought into
the United States from foreign coun
tries, in the lint, an import duty of
6 cent* per pound, and upon all such
cotton imported into the United
States, from foreign countries, in the
seed, an import duty at the rate of 2
cents per pound.
These bills have been referred to
their proper committees, and will
probably be acted upon immediately
after the holidays.
TAFT A HARD WORKER.
President Puts in More Hours Than
. Did Roosevelt.
Washington, D. C. —President Taft
is proving to be one of the hard
working presidents, according to
those who closely observe the habits
of great men. While he does not
work so intensely nor as fast as did
his immediate predecessor, he puts in
more hours each day than did Mr.
Roosevelt.
Mr. Taft’s working day begins at
9:30 a. m. and lasts until 5 p. m. Be
fore he goes to the executive offices
he takes his mftrning exercise and
has a bit of breakfast. As a rule the
president takes little time for lunch
eon.
President Roosevelt did little work
after 4 o’clock in the afternoon, es
pecially when it was a good for
tennis or a fine drizzly time for
wayking through Rock Creek Park.
Mr. Taft differs in that he usually
does much work after luncheon, fre
quently returning to the executive of
fices for special conferences with
cabinet members or transacting bus
iness in the executive mansion.
Mr. Taft has formed a habit of
working at the mansion after dinner.
On several occasions during the prog
ress of the annual message the pres
ident remained up till very late dic
tating and revising his first big state
document. Notwithstanding all the
time he revotes to work he still
takes some exercise. He never miss
es the morning calisthenics, and,
whenever possible, takes a walk or
ride, however short it may be.
TEXAS FARMEKSTDLEAVE UNION.
Secession From National Farmers'
Union is Planned.
Houston, Texas.— That the seces
sion of the Texas Farmers’ Union
from the Farmers’ Educational and
Co-Operative Union of America is
planned is indicated in circulars sent
out by officers of the Texas branch.
After asserting that alleged exorbi
tant salaries for the national officers
Have been proposed and that the con
stitution of the organization has been
misconstrued, it is urged that char
ters be returned and applications be
made for new charters under the
name of the “Farmers’ Union of
Texas.”
Objection is voiced to the recent
action of the national convention at
Birmingham, Ala., in September, pro
posing an increase in the duts of 8
to 16 cents per annum, an advance in
the salary of the president of the
national union from S6OO to $3,000 per
annum, an increase in the salary of
the national secretary from $1,200 to
SI,BOO and other expenditures.
7 Dead In Tenement Fire.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Seven persons
are dead and several others injured
as a resutl of a tenement fire at Syc
amore and Third streets in this
city.
Entombed Miners’ Bodies Recovered.
Madisonville, Ky.— A rescuing party
found the bodies of the seven negro
miners entombed in the Baker mine
of the West Kentucky Coal Company
and all were removed from the mine.
The men died from black damp. They
had been entombed since Saturday
afternoon.
Clay Not To Leave Senate.
Washington, D. C. —Senator Alexan
der S. Clay emphaticaly denied a re
port from Georgia which said the
senator is about to resign his seat
and run for governor of the state.
“Outrageously false; never h&ard of
such a thing ” said the senator, when
told of it.
EVIL TRAFFIC PROBED
Report Made on “White Slave’
Trade By Commission.
REVOLTING DISCLOSURE MADE
Sensational Evidence Given Showing
the Extent of the Importation of
Alien Women.
Washington, D. C.—All but incredi
bly revolting are the disclosures of
an international system of traffic in
•women, containing in the report on
the so-called “white Slav* trade ” sub
mitted to congress by the United
States immigration commission.
When the report was presented iu
the house of representatives by Con
gressman Bennet of New York, Champ
Clark, the minority leader, objected
to its being printed as a house doc
ument, but later withdrew his objec
tion. It was promptly renewed by
Mr. Sabbath of Illinois. Mr. Fitzger
ald of New York wanted to Know if
the report contained sensational mat
ter like he implied was contained
in the report of tho Roosevelt homes
commission, upon which Mr. Bennet
evoked laughter by the tart reply:
“Ail matter calculated to appeal to
your mind has been eliminated,”
The report begins with an intro
duction explaining the nature of the
“white slave” traffic, and concludes
with a series of recommendations,
mostly of an administrative charac
ter.
The commission says that the effect
of the importation of immoral women
into this country is one of increased
degradation and death for the women
and of contamination and corruption
by means of the spread of disease to
others.
The importations came from ai!
countries, France leading, and the
Chinese and Japanese making up the
majority of these coming in by way
of the Pacific coast. Most of Lie
procurers are of foreign birth. The
“market” price varies from S3OO to
SI,OOO for each alien woman. Some
times they are not sold outright, out
their procurers continue to live from
their earnings after their arrival nere.
The commission recommends that
efforts be made through government
agents abroad and on board steam
ships to prevent the importation m
women to this country; that more as
siduous efforts be made in the United
States to arrest women known to be
engaged in immoral practices and tc
deport all possible; that the limit of
three years after landing within which
such persons may be successfully
prosecuted be removed; that any ue
ported persons returning to this coun
try be imprisoned; that the keepers
of immoral houses in which alien
women are found be subject to de
portation, and that the state and mu
nicipal governments be urged to co
operate for the stamping out of the
evil.
BECOMMENBS AN ETHICAL SUNDAY.
Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta in Ses
sion Three Days.
Atlanta, Ga.—The Episcopal Dio
cese of Atlanta was in session
here three days. Right Rev. Bishop
C. K. Nelson presided, and'made a
strong address, in which he deplored
the encroachment of modern business
life upon the proper obse-rvance of
the Sabbath. He made the point that
every worker was entitled to one day
in seven which he could call abso
lutely his own, be it Sunday or some
other d? v . The bishop, of course, con
tended Sunday was the logical day
of rest, because it had been set aside
by divine authority, but insisted that
at all events a surcease of 48 or 36
hours from labor was an
economy of energy profitable alike to
both employer and employee. The
address was ordered printed 'in the
minutes, and each clergymen urged
to stress the necessity of the church
doing its full duty for the workers.
Great interest was manifested in
the missions of the diocese, and great
improvement shown.
20DEAB IN \rStCK.
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20th Century Limited Strikes Rear of
Another Train.
Erie, Pa. —The Twentieth Century
Limited, the New York Central train
en route from Chicago to New York,
collided with the rear end of pas
senger train No. 10, on the Lake
Shore Railroad, at North East, Pa.,
16 miles east of here. At the time
of the collision the Twentieth Century
was easily making sixty-two miles an
hour.
Six bodies have already been taken
from the wreck, and it is believed
there will be many more fatalities.
Twenty are reported dead. The en
gine of No. 26 reared up, turned over
and fell upon the coaches following
KNIFE BELIEVES KINIi LEOPOLD.
Successful Operation on Aged Belgian
Ruler.
Brussels, Belgium. King Leopold
underwent a most serious operation
for obstruction of the intestines, and
astounded science by the manner in
which he withstood it. His remarka
ble recuperative powers manifested
themselves directly he regained con
sciousness, and the optimistic spirit
which he has shown throughout his
illness returned to him. He expressed
satisfaction when informed of the de
tails of the operation.
The king is making a plucky fight,
for life. He was even strong enough
to sign the new military law, just
passed by the senate.
GEORGIA NEHS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Sixteen of Butts county’s twenty
odd schools are now open for the fall
and winter term. The attendance
fa uniformly good and good work la
being done In all the schools. County
School Commissioner C- S. Maddox
states that more college men are at
the head of the county's schools, than
ever before. The report of Mr. Mad
dox to the state school commissioner
for last year showed that there is a
very low rate of illiteracy in this
county, less than twenty white chil
dren in the entire county being un
able to read and write. This is said
to be one of the best reports ever
made in the history of the state.
Pension Commissioner John W
Lindsey finds, after careful figuring,
that there will be a decrease in the
pension rolls next year of approxi
mately 213 names. He has added 91k
new names to the rolls for 1910, and.
as the result of experience estimates
that the death rate will be 6 3-4 petf
cent, which will mean a total of 1,127
deaths during the year. This will
give an approximate total of 15,5(6*
pensioners to be paid in 1910, the
pensions averaging S6O each, or a
total of $934,666
The railroad commission has grant
ed W. F. Bailey, an ex-slave, who i»
working in the interest of the Ex-
Slaves’ Benevolent Brotherhood, the!
right to travel on free passes wher
ever the railroads extend him the
courtesy, holding that as his work!
is purely charitable, and there is no
gain or profit to him, such use of free 1
transportation would not be in viola
tion of the commission’s anti-pass or-,
der. Similar action was taken in tl**l
case of the petition asking the right
to accept free transportation from, the
Southern Express company for any,
articles used by the Anti-Tuberculo
sis and Visiting Nurse League, it bc-|
ing held that this would not be vio;
lative of the anti-pass order.
A bronze tablet to the memory ol
Miss Junia McKinley, founder of tb«
Piedmont Continental chapter of thd
Daughters of the American Revow
tion, was unveiled In the state libra
ry at the capitol. Honorable Hugh
V. Washington of Macon who gave
the tablet to the state, made the pre
sentation speech, and appropriate re
ply accepting it was made by the gov-;
ernor.
That the National guard of Georgia
will go Into camp next year, prob-j
ably about August, is the announce!
ment made by Adjutant General Ai
J. Scott. The plans and details arej
not yet known, and it will be somej
time before they are worked outJ
Much will depend on the aetion of
congress at the coming session, butj
in one shape or another, there is noj
further question, according to the ad- 1
jutant general, that all the troops of
the state will get a taste of camp llfej
Governor Brown has granted a par
don to Dr. A. E. Salley of Augusta,
who was convicted of malpractice!
and sentenced to serve six months!
in jail. Dr. Salley Is suffering frojnj
acute Bright’s disease, and it is said
confinement in jail would hasten hia
death.
The volume of Georgia laws
1909, which has just made its appear-!
ance, is about the largest yet pub
lished, containing a total of one
thoussand six hundred and twenty
pages. Of these only one hundred
and ninety pages are devoted to gen-,
eral laws or laws of general appli-j
cation, while the balance of one!
thousand four hundred and thirtw
pages is taken up with purely local
laws, largely city and town
and amendments to charters.
There are one hundred and seven
applications for executive clemency
on the prison commission docket for
this session, despite the fact that!
nearly a hundred were disposed of
a month ago. Some of them are iff!
capital cases, and the commission
will probably be busy with them all
the month.
Governor Brown has paid Cato Al
len of Wayne county a reward
S2OO offered by the state for the ar
rest of George Roberson and Bob
Banks. They beat up Jailer Madrea
of Jesup and escaped from
Allen was out on a fishing expedition
when he made the capture. The gov
ernor also paid Philip Lord of Du
val county, Florida, SIOO for arrest;
lng Charles Reeves, wanted in Bald
win county, Georgia, for the alleged
murder of a negro woman.
With an increase in drunkenness
over last year of a little over fifty:
four per cent, Atlanta’s second year
of prohibition is rapidly drawing to
a close. Comparative figures for the
years 1908 and 1909 up to the sixth
day of December of persons arrested
for drunkenness and tried in record
er’s court show that there were two
thousand two hundred and sixt>
cases in the first year, and three
thousand four hundred and ninety
three in the second, making an in
crease of one thousand two hundred
and thirty-three cases. The total
number of “drunks” for 1908 read
two thousand six hundred and fifty,
while in 1907, the last year of legal
dampness, there were six thousand
four hundred and ninety-eight.
Some Christmas money is in storq
for about eight thousand rural school
teachers of the state—over $200,000
of It to he distributed among them
all some time before Chrismtas eve.
The machinery of the state govern
ment was started in motion toward
this end when the state school de
partment filed with the executive de
partment its requisition for $247,000,
in round figures, and the executive
department began preparations for
drawing the corresponding warrant
upon the treasury.
Van Amberg & Howes London
shows will winter in Valdosta.
