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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1908)
A WET YEAR IN SOUTH GEORGIA. The rninfoll in Southwest Geor gia in lfX)7 wan greater than in nnv year us the lasi quarter of n cent ury, if official ami semi-ofli cial record'* at Albany are to •>« relied ii|kmi Then* was but one dry month in the year, the total precipitation in October being the banner month, with a total of 11. f>4 inches. The total for the year wnsfl! ft7 inches, an average of 5,880 i»eh< *> per month, or but slightly le»s than one-fifth of an inch per Ha v. Tho ruin-full for the year by month* was a a follows, us shown by the official record of the I'nited Mates Weather Bureau at Albany January, 2.51: May, 8. 15: .line . ft d<»; .Inly, b.lMi; August, II.til; September, 0.12: Ocpiliur, <t If*: November. l.iMi; December, 7JHH. Kir the three months of .Inly. August and September the total preciptation was 20lUi; inches, a record unprecedented in this sce t ion. The mean annual ruin-fall in tins section is 50 inehe.*, hut thl -> average Wits exceeded during the year just closed by more 11 in 11 II inches. IN MEMORIAM. Noble and big-hcurted A .1. I’oulnot, the beloved and almost idolized husband of Mattie tiray I'ollluol, fell oil sb-ep oil 1 ><-<*!• 11l - her t?7tli, 1007. Mr. I'oulnol was*horn in Oco nee county on May 11, lt*>o, and moved to Montgomery county in Imo2, and on February 25th, Mod. was happily married to Miss Mat tie Gray. He leaves a heart-brok en w ile, a sweet find charming lit tle son, Douglass Gray, an aged mother, eighty years old, and one brother to mourn Ins untimely dent h. For the last throe years lie has been a citizen of ('iiimb n county, where he was very successful in a financial way. He was in the prime of young manhood and it seems sad Hub ed to sec such it no ble, pure, manly and st mug young man stricken down at such an early age. He was such a comfort and help to his wife and child, who vied with each other in show ing him t heir love and attention on all occasions! He was a model and loving husband uud father, a good oitizon. a loyal companion and a man respected and honored wherever he was known. Why should such a man he called hence*.’ (bid called him. lb needed him in Ins divine plan. Some day we w ill understand. le t us not complain, but remember that our t bid is too wtse to make a mistake and too good to be un kind. His greatest concern prior to his death was about Ins wife and child, lie knew he had to leave them. It was indeed a sad partittg on earth, bet us all live so t hat “Some sweet day," we will all meet in that “Land of bliss beyond such a world as tins, where there will in n i more partings, no more deaths, no more henrt-aches, Imt all is peace and love and sweet content ment”— Where the angola shout and sing. And where Jesus reigns, our king. A.-I. I’oulnot lived for those who h«yed him. For those who loved him true. For tile heavens that shone alsive him And waited It incoming too; — For the rights that needed as*i-l nuoe, For the wrongs that needed re* 8 1st a tree. For the future m the d ist a nee. For the good that he could do! Friknu Wm. H. American Foiut*. 1 have just received a carload of the Fatuous American Wire Fence that I shall a**ll at very close cash prices. This car will no* last but u few days. If you need f• • 11 - ciug. iiom is the time to get it. A. B. Hutcheson. KEEP YOUR JOB, “Keep your job and your job w ill ke< p you,” said Franklin 150 years ago, in Philadelphia. This was never more true than today. Any man who leaves n j joh now w ill find it hard to get an thei. In New York 150,000 men are out of iniployinent. This jis in Progress all over the land. The output iii all manufactures hlls b< ell cut down about llil<- third, and the total amount paid to operat iv<*s has been cut down in proportion. The rule PI wages has not been cut. but either hours liase I cut from ten -to eight or six and lie total of wages cut in [import ion or | In* out put of loom or machine i* reduced or the number of men at work is cut a I bird. All extra men are being drop ped. 1 In* “last man, the slack man and the uneasy man arc ail bejng In id aside. There were more jobs than men a year ago. There were as many jobs as men Inst Juim*. There were le-H jobs tliilli III* ‘I, this I>e eeinber. Kill'll week sees I ess* jo bn. It vou have a job, keep it and it w ill keep you. Drop it and you will in t get. another.—Kx. WHEN THEY BECOME RESIGNEO. A young lady living in Atlanta visited tin* home of her fiance in New Orleans, says tin* Philadel pli ni hedger. On her return home an old negro “mummy,” long in the service of the family and con sequently privileged to put the quest ion, asked : “Honey, when is you goin’togit ma rried?” The engagement not having been announced, the Atlanta girl smilingly replied : “Indeed, can’t say, it untie'*’ per haps I shall never marry.” l’(ie old woman’s jaw fell. “Ain’t data pitv, now!” sin* said.mid after reflection she added, consolingly: “Deydo sav dat ole maids in do happiest critters doy is, once dey quit strugglin’.” Sp.der* Sst a Styla In Lac* Making. Some 200 years ago missionaries taught the natives of Paraguay to make lace by hand. The art lias been handed down from generation to generation, and in some of the towns hue making is the chief oc cupation. Almost all the women and children and many of tho men are engaged in it. A singular fact about Paraguayan laces is that the designs arc borrowed from the curi ous webs -pun bv the semitropical spiders that abound in that coun trv. For this reason the lace is called In the natives nunduti, an Indian word that means spider web. St. Louis Republic. Th# Rifled Gun. The gnat advantage tgained by the rilled gun is that.the bullet dis charged from it, by having a rotato ry action imparted to its axis coin cident with its line of (light, is pre served in it- direct path without be ing subject to tin* aberrations that injure the precision of aim in firing with the smooth bore gun. \- a necessary coii-oquence of the pro jectile being carried more directly in its line of aim, it' length of range as well as its certain! v in hit ting the mark i- inatcriallv in creased. The first rifled gjn was made by Augustin Kostcr of Nu remberg in 1520. Th* Sponge. It has been proved lieyoud doubt that the sponge i- an animal with a complete digestive organism. As a matter of fact, the sponge as pre pared for toilet and other uses is but the drv, flexible skeleton of the creature, t'hcmically its fibrous ma terial would appear to be closely al lied to the substance spun by tho silkworm. When first removed from its stronghold on the bottom of the sea and observed in a liviug state the sponge bears not tho faintest ißVssible resemblance to the domes tic article. Wide World Magazine. MI LES FOR SALE. SWE USTS ONE WEEK LONGER. W • have Forty-Five Head of Good Mules, suitable for Farm and timer purposes, to l>e sold at a sacrifice. Set* tin* stock at the Ocbwalkee Mill at once, as sale will continue only a week longer. Cash or approved notes, with con venient terms. Hilton A* l>on»;K l.rsi. Co., j Ocbwalkee, Ga. i JIIE Mb* TGOMI f; Y >D'MT*»I; Til' i! L* AV, J A , 10, U“ WASPS AS PAPER MAKERS. Wonder* of a Neit—Havoc Wrought by the Intecte. It i.? the !.i-t loving act of the common wasps in every colony to elect a certain number of their lady fellows and go through the* proves * of “fowling them up,” for a wasp queen I'iirn tljat title simply by rea son‘of Iter'size and not becatise of .iii’. Haim to aristocratic descent. TljD jfncdijig'-fii-t' 4 the queen wasp ill the winter through,during which ii hi in nate in some* warm •nniej ii it. of .* he way of frost and now. *av : .« the Fall Mail Gazette. \ bo.Vif'• Mari'li they' come forth •in • more and proceed to look about for a nesting place. Having chosen h site for "this—generally in a hol ies tree or,.hi some sheltered and sunny corner among dry rubbish— flu* qifecrt forms a cocoon of “wasp i.'iper," when• iri she constructs about a dozen cells arid lavs an egg ii each. In due time the eggs be come gridi*-, and these are fed a*- -iduo. -Iv by the queen mother until tliev completely till the cell. The latter i- then scaled up. and in a few days each grub, which meanwhile ha- developed wings and legs and • hanged from white to yellow and black, emerges us a full grown wasp. The real work of nest building now begin.-, and the whole party go tiff together in search of a comm ent hole in the ground for the per manent headquarters. This at least is what the coYniuon wasp does. 'l’llere are several varieties in Great Britain. and some of them build on the brunch of a tree or in the grass of a bank. The little family works very hard to manufacture the ma terial of which the nest is made—a wonderful substance of the texture of paper pulped up from (he hark of trees in the wasps’mouths. The wasp was- making paper from wood pulp for centuries before man thought of it. This nest proper contains a large amount of comb, and in each cell the queen lays an egg. Things- now proceed apace, flu* feeding of the grubs and sealing them up in tlicir cells going on as before, hut the queen is now assist ed in her labors by her dozen or s<> original subjects, and the others join in the work as they hatch out. As the summer advances the nest gets stronger in numbers until the very end of the season, and even then some of tlie grubs never sec the light. A wasps’ nest may contain as many as 10,000 wasps, but an average nest Would be about half that number. Wasps are such hardworking lit tle creatures that it seems a sin to destroy their wonderful labor; for the ucst is a triumph of architec tural skill. At the same time they commit sttclt havoc in orchards and are si) troublesome everywhere where food or drink is to he found that every man’s hand is against them. They seldom sting unless molested or touched by accident. A certain amount of good is done by wasps in killing noxious insects, especially house flies, but this one good act is quite overbalanced by tlicir maiiv deeds of evil. All sorts of methods are adopted, therefore, to destroy them at nighttime in then n*'sts, but the very best plan of all is to procure some cyanide of potassium, a deadly poison, from a chemist and place a teaspoonful within (lie hole that leads to the nest, afterward sealing the entrance with a sod of turf. Next morning every wasp will he dead, and the nest may he dug out and destroyed, brood, i onib and all. No Precedent. "Otic of tiic queer characters of Independence some years ago.” said an old resident of that town the other day, “was ah o'd fellow whose most treasured possession was a >i\ pounder cannon. On all festive occasions he hauled this forth to the town square and celebrated noisily as long as the powder last ed. One Fourth of July be was feel ing unusually patriotic and cram med the ancient piece of ordnance with such a heavy clrttrge that it burst. The old fellow was for a time overwhelmed by this disaster and sat down with his elbows on his knees and bis chin in his hands and •tared gloomily at the fragments. Alter aw hile he shook h.s head as if the matter were beyond bis compre hension and muttered: “Well, it’s denied funm ! The thing never did that before!”— Kansas l tty Times. National Aire. The national airs of great coun tries are short, while those of small er ones are long. “God Save the King" is fourteen bar-: the Russian national hymn i< sixteen bars. “ITail.VoJumbia!" has twenty-eight l»ars. Siam's national hymn ha seventy-eight bar-, that of Frnguav seventy, and Glide's national hymn bos forty-six. 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