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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1911)
THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY FRANK ItF.AGAN, Editor. Entered .at the postofficeat McDonough, (la., as second-class mail matter. Advertising Rates furnished on appli cation. Obituaries. One obituary, not more than one hundred words in length, will la* published free; only one obituary for each death. All containing more than one hundred words must be accompanied with one cent i>er word for ail in excess i»f one hundred words. We cannot under take to cut them down to the one hundred woru limit. Manuscripts not accompan ied with postage will not Is* returned. Warning. No statements purporting to come from The Henry County Weekly are genuine unless they have written on their face the signature of Frank Reagan, Editor, or are presented by Idm in person. Any person receiving such a statement will please notify Frank Reagan, Editor, McDonough, Georgia. Official Organ of Henry County. McDonough, Ga., August 11,1911. Send the Veterans to Macon. The General Reunion of Con federate Veterans will be held in Macon in 1912. It may be the last general reunion. It seems to us that all the vete rans of Henry county ought to be there. Many will go and pay their own way. Some perhaps cannot afford to go for lack of means. The dis tance is short and the fare will be low. A small amount will carry and keep there many men. Let the people of Henry county come forward and subscribe the money necessary to enable every veteran to attend. There are not many acts of gratitude we can do to these he roes. They will more highly prize this trip than whole fields of Flowers in which to sleep their last sleep. What do people think of it? The Weekly will do all it can in the movement. YACHT FOR GOSPEL WORK. Pastor Russell to Work Among Sailor* In the Port. [From the New York American, June 4, 1910.] Pastor Russell, president of the Peo ples Pulpit Association, was yesterday presented, for Christian mission work, the fully equipped and seaworthy Angel, a naphtha and sailing yacht. She is fybout 12.1 feet over all. has seat ing eapnabty in dining saloon for seven ty persefls and is prepared for main dock meetings in fair weather. As indicated by Pastor Russell in tils acceptance of the vessel, unique work will be undertaken in New York liar bor. It is said the meetings on board the Angel will be advertised from day today, stating her moorings as well as the language of the speaker. Thus all who desire may keep in touch with this witness of the “gospel of glad tid ings to all nations.” “Fortunately, my friends, this gift is not wholly a surprise to me,” said Pas tor Russell in accepting it. “1 had intimations and was in touch with some of you respecting the Angel Nevertheless 1 am at a loss for fitting words .wherewith to express my appre ciation of your loving zeal In following a suggestion 1 dropped respecting the soul needs of the sailors of all nation alities visiting this great port. “Let me. then, briefly say 1 accept your gift, not in my own name, but in the name of the Peoples Pulpit Asso eiatiou—as its trustee, if you please May the Angel always and in every language sound forth the praises of the God of all grace! Had Her Doubis. Mamma—You should be polite, dear and offer to share your candy with papa. Little Margie—l would, mam ma. If I was sure he'd be polite and re fuse it.—Chicago News. A Literary Coincidence. “Mr father. W. Clark Russell,” said Herbert Russel! In telling of a literary coincidence, “had finished maturing the plot of his novel, ‘The Death Ship.’ which is a version of the legend of Van derdecken. I was his amanuensis at the time. He said to me. ‘Tomorrow we will begin the story.’ On the fol lowing morning when I entered his study to take liis dictation of the open ing lines be showed me a letter he had Just received. It was from W. S. Gil bert. the well known dramatist, asking him why he did not write a novel about the FTyiug Dutchman." BACK FROM PALESTINE. Pastor R ussell’s Return From Visiting Holy Land and Egypt. [From N- Y. Herald, Sunday. June 6. 1910. | Pastor Russell of the Brooklyn Tab ernacle has returned from a trip to the Holy Land and Egypt and will address the public today at the Brooklyn Acad emy of Music. Mr. Russell has cer tain interesting Ideas regarding the Great Pyramid and its symbolic teach ing and believes the time is at hand for the return of Israel to Palestine. He Is a very pronounced believer in the Zionlstic movement. The present is the second visit to the Pyramid and to Palestine, the land once Israel’s. In one of his works pub lished more than twenty years ago Mr. Russell applied certain measurements of pyramid passages, an inch for a year, as symbolically showing the length of divine favor upon the Jews from the time they became a nation down to the year A. D. 70, when Jeru salem was destroyed ana the Jewish polity ended. In the same work he declared also that certain passageways symbolically indicated the length of time during which the nation of Israel would be cut off from any and all special mani festations of divine fevor, and when this would end tin- favoi of God would again return to them. Mottled Butter. Question —Hon. O. B. Com Agriculture: Dear Sir: I am trou bled in my dairy business with waht Is known as “Mottled Butter.” Please give me the cause and remedy for it Answer —In reply to your inquiry we beg to state that the answer to your question is quite difficult, since the opinions of dairymen differ widely on this subject. The peculiar spotted appearance which we find in the uneven coloring often seen in butter, is called “mot tles” by dairymen. The chief char acteristic of mottled butter is that some portions of the same piece are much lighter colored than others. This condition is only noticeable when it has stood a few hours after being worked. The white specks that are often seen in butter caused by small pieces of dry curd, can hardly be termed “mottled butter.” They can be prevented by passing the milk through a hair sieve strainer. Mot tles occur more frequently in the months of May, June and July, and are oftener found in private dairies than In the larger ones or in creameries, because the proprietors of the small dairies do not generaly have the best machinery for handling butter. The cause of mottles, however, is yet in dispute. Our own opinion is that uneven distribution of salt is the chief cause. Care should always be taken to salt the butter when first taken from tho churn and none but the very finest wnd cleaneßt salt should be used. It •hould be thoroughly worked into the butter while yet soft. ‘While It is true that butter may be overworked, some of the best dairy men suggest that, after it has beeD worked, it should be set away in a re frigerator and then be given a final working. Some dairymen claim that the effect produced by two much cold water and ice in handling milk and butter is also a cause of mottles Just why salt causes mottles has not been satisfactorily explained Bui, most dairymen now agree that the sait drives out the buttermilk along with excess of water In butter, and the fact that unsalted portions appear to have excess of buttermilk rvould suggest this as a possible good expla nation. GA. DEP’T. OF AGRICULTURE. Sorrows of n i! 11 morint. “This thing of being :t humorist is about the saddest thing 1 know." sigh ed Simeon Ford. "An ordinary person can have his moods and humors as he pleases, but 1 must always be on the job. I am constantly being invited out. not because I'm liked for myself alone or because of'my manly beauty, but because I am expected to entertain the assemblage. The rest of the company may be as dull as dishwater, but if 1 do not shake up the gathering with a few jokes the hostess glares at me and really feels resentful. 1 may be sunk in the slough of despond, but as soon as I take my seat all lean forward and eye me expectantly. My son, nev er get q reputation for being funny. It Is the most mournful thing on earth.” —New York Press. of Chnmlirrniaida. Have you ever noticed that every chambermaid who has been taking care of the hay and feathers for a number of years is usually devoid of a few teeth of the upper “ease?” Vet ar:»ti chambermaids ran seldom show a full set of upper teeth. The absence >f the ivories is explained as follows >7 a downtown dentist: “The teeth of the maids which I replace with arti ficial ones are pillowcase teeth. They are constantly used In putting on pil lowcases and are not strong enough to •it »ud the strain. Their work is a con stant wear and tear on the teeth.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. AMERICA’S “SPURGEON.” England’s Leading Daily’s Opinion of Brooklyn’s Graat '’-eacher. IFrom the Lomion Daily Mail.] One of America’s most remarkable men. Pastor Russell of Brooklyn tab ernacle. who is by common consent the most prominent pulpit orator In the United States, has recently arrived in London. He Is the Spurgeon of Amer ica and is visiting in England in con nection with the May meetings. GREEK ATHLETES. The Way They Hun and the Style of Track They lied. “in the foot races of the ancient Greeks,” says a writer, “the shape of the stadium caused a great difference, since it was not circular, but long and narrow', with one or both ends semicir cular. Consequently the runners had to take a sharp turn at the end of each lap, while except at the turn they were running a straight course. Evidently this turn needed much practice, for the pictures on the old vases show athletes practicing this one part of the race as a kind of drill, taking eqch movement separately. “In early times, when all the runners turned round the same post, the turn gave opportunities for foul play, and there are stories of one competitor trip ping another at the post or seizing him by the hair to prevent his winning. But later, in the shorter distances at least, each runner had his own track and post to turn round, and probably the separate courses were roped off in much the same way as they are now in sprint races. For the start elaborate arrangements were made and at Olym pia the stone slabs are s 1 ill to be seen, with the grooves at regular intervals that had to be toed at starting. “Greek long distance men ran in the most approved style of the present day. But the sprinters apparently em ployed a considerable amount of arm action and took very long steps, rising well on to the toes. Then there was the race in armor, an event highly praised by several of the Greek writers as a valuable preparation for war and which is supposed to explain the fa mous running charge of the Athenians at Marathon ’ Monster Spider (Wabs. “I have collected specimens of crabs In all parts of the world,” said a nat uralist, “hut I shall never forget the pleasure I experienced in securing a monstrous specimen of the Japanese spider crab, the largest ever found. The combined length of the feeding arms of this monster was more than twelve feet, while the body portiois was about twenty inches across. When alive, it weighed about seventy-flvo pounds. One of the oddest things about these creatures is their ability to assume a disguise. This feat they are able to perform owing to the flexi bility of their pinchers and to the hooked hairs and spines with which their numerous arms are studded. By means of their pinchers they tear off small fragments of sponges and sea weeds. After first putting these to their months, which contain a glutinous saliva, they place them on the sur face of their limbs and bodies b} sticking them fast with a rubbing movement. By this method the crab succeeds in completely changing its appearance and rendering itself indis tinguishable from the materials com mon to the bottom of the sea. While crawling along it seems as though a portion of the ocean bed was in mo tion, so eiose is the resemblance.” Agricultural Progress fr the South. Secretary Wilson, of the United States department of agriculture, in a survey of agricultural progress in the south in the same publication, urgfes a greater average yield pel acre than a greater acreage Of cotton, the return, as far as possible, <o the soil of the fertilizing ingredients of cotton seed and greater attention to live stock industries, and be adds: “I be lieve that the south will not much longer be known and thought of pri marily as the land o’ cotton.’ but a# a great and prosperous region of va ried agricultural industries. With the great industrial progress of the south ern states and the development of their wonderful mineral and manufac turing resources comes the best of all markets for the farmer —the great home market. More and more I hop# to see the agriculture of the south di versified as this great home market expands. Let the cotton crop continue to increase in total production, but let its growth be rather by a higher average per acre than by a very large extension of the area under this crop. Let southern farmers keep the , ant food at home and send the product of the farm to market in the form of manufactured articles (manufactured on the farm by nature’s processes) rather than in the form of raw matfr rial. Let them grade up their flocks and herds and keep many more of all kinds of domestic animals. Let then: renovate the soil by the use of legumes and save all the fertilizing material that the farm itself produces. Ther will the agriculture of the south show In the census' to be taken in 1910 ad vances greater by far than even the I ain now carrying a the well Inown Eastman Kodaks Ranging in price from $2.00 to $12.50 These KODAKS are here for your inspec tion. Also have all the different sizes of films to fit your Kodak. Let me have your films developed and finished for you. P. B. CHEEK, Jeweler, McDonough, ga. The Georgia Trading Company, S: Offers for Sale and on Easy Terms the Following Property in Monroe County. A 7-rootn house with large barn, servant house, and other outhouses on 5 acres of land, about four blocks from the Court House in Forsyth $2,500 100 acres of land three-fourths of a mile from railway station, land w dl watered, with 7-room dwelling, barn, tenant house and other im provements - * $2,000 300 acres of land on Central rail road between Smarrs and Bolin broke - - - $2,700 271 acres. 7 miles from railway station, level land,7s acres of fresh hind, 6-horse farm open for culti vation, considerable amount of original woods, 2-story frame resi dence of 8 rooms, 2 new 4-room houses, 1 3-room and 1 2-room ten ant houses with barn at each set Cement. A splendid place and can be easily sub-divided - $10,500 03 acres of land three miles from Forsyth, 2-room frame dwelling with barn, wagon shelter, etc SI,OOO Write for list of other Lands and prices. WE SELL DIRT CHEAP. THE GEORGIA TRADING COMPANY, Forsyth, Georgia. 0-22, 12. great progress made in the last twen ty years of her history.” The course of the south is onward and upward. Let it be the ambition Pf ever> farmer to help on the good eause u Georgia. Profligate Spendthrift*. The wealth of many of the ancient Romans was reckoned far into the millions. Mark Antony during his somewhat checkered career squander ed no less than $735,000,000, and Ti berius left at his death over eighteen millions, which Caligula spent in less than a year. Records show that this spendthrift paid $150,000 for One sup per. Horace tells us that Pegellus. a singer, could in five days spend $40,- 000, and Clodius on a small wager swallowed a pearl worth nearly $40.- 000. The estate of Crassus was valued at $8,400,000. Lucullus dined at the rate of SB,OOO a meal for several weeks. Lentuius was worth not less than six teen millions, and Apieus squandered nearly five millions of dollars in a few weeks. Must Be Good. Plaisantln offered in payment of a bill a gold piece which had a suspi cious ring. “Here, you've given me one of those false coins that the coun terfeiters have just been arrested for making." said the merchant. ‘‘lmpos sible," answered Pluisautin. “It is dat ed 1863. If it were false, surely it would have been found out before this."—Gaulois. Three "Wives. The Beggar—Please, sir, will you kindly assist a poor man who has three wives to support? The Pedes trian— Why. do you mean to say you are a bigamist? The Beggar—Oh. no. sir. Two of them are the wives of my sons in-law. 300 acres of land one-half mile from railway station with 4-room dwelling with hall.and four 2-room tenant houses, good barn, crib, etc. $0,500 100 acres of land 5% miles from railway station in g >cd community, near schools and churches, with 4-room dwelling, 2-rootn tenant house, barn, etc. - - $1,500 400 acres 6 miles from railway station, ] 5-room and 1 4-room, dwelling with good barn at each settlement, 3 tenant houses, about 30 acres of bottom and a quantity of saw timber - - $5,250 500 acres 1% miles from railway station, well watered and on the place is a 7-rootn dwelling, 1 4-mom, 1 3-room, and 4 2-room tenant houses with 4 good barns, $9,000 20 acres of land on which is a splendid wafer power and a flour and corn mill, 2% miles from town. On the place is a 6-room dwelling with cribs, etc. - - $4,000 For Twelve Months' Support. Georgia, Henry County. Mrs. Bettle Mosley, having made appli cation for twelve months’ support out of the estate of J. B. Mosley, all persons con cerned are hereby required to show cause before the Court of Ordinary of said county on the first Monday in September, 1911, why said application should not be granted. This 7th day of August, 1911. A. G. Harris, 9-1, 4. Ordinary. For Leave to Sell. Georgia, Henry County. To whom it may concern: Joe P. Thompson, administrator of rhe estate of Mrs. M. C. Thompson, deceased, having in due form made application for leave to sell the lands belonging to said estate consisting of 195 acres in Love's district, of said county and state. Said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said county to he held on the first Monday in September, 1911. This 7th day of August, 1911. A. G, Harris. 9-1, 4. Ordinary. For Leave to Sell. Gt-oigia, Henry County. To whom it may concern: W. H. Hopkins, administrator of the estate of W . P. Hopkins, deceased, having in due form made application for leave to sell the lands belonging to said estate, consisting of 35 acres in Tussahaw district of said county anil state. Said application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary for said County to be held on the first Mon day in September, 1911. This 7th day of August, 1911. A. G. Harris. b-L 4. Ordinary.
