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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1908)
A HARD WON BET. Carrying Four Brick* Half a Mil* Is Not an Easy Task. ‘The hardest won bet I ever made,” remarked the traveling man , as he shook the ashes off his ciirar. ‘ was to carry four bricks h* i' a ; mile. That sounds like a simple thing to do, doesn't it? Well, you try it and you will find out whether it is or not. Os course the manner of carrying the bricks is important. A man bet me that I couldn’t earn two bricks in each hand from where we were back to the hotel and put them up on the counter. The bricks were to be put side bv side and grasped, two in each hand, be- j tween the thumb and fingers, the I fingers pointing down. 1 was not allowed to stop and rest nor to put ! the bricks down. “Well, thought 1, that’s $2 easily earned, so 1 took the bet and start ed. For a quarter of the distance it was easy, and I already felt that $2 in ray pocket. But then nv\ fingers began to grow tired. The ' muscles between my forefingers and 1 thumbs were soon aching terribly. My arms began to pain me and to throb like mad. 1 found myself setting my teeth together, and the ! cords in my neck were in a high state of tension. When I came within a hundred yards of the hotel there was scarcely an inch in my whole body that was not aching as if I had been stuck full of pins. “1 don’t know how 1 managed to go that last little distance. I could no longer stand erect, and I was trembling like a leaf, and yet the j other fellow was alongside, laugh : ing as if to split his sides. And when 1 got into the hotel it was ail 1 could do to raise first one hand and then the other and put the bricks on the counter. I know that I couldn’t have gone fifty feet far ther. I got the $2, but the next day 1 could scarcely move, and I didn’t get over the soreness for a week. It looks easy, but just you try it.” —Detroit Free Press. Some Queer Shoes. We are all familiar with the j wooden shoe of the Chinese, with I its dark cloth top. The Portuguese i shoe has a wooden sole and heel. ! with a vamp made of leather, fanci fully showing the flesh side of the skin. The Persian wears a high | shoe made of light wood richly in- j laid, with a strap, extending over the instep. The Muscovite shoe is hand woven, on a wooden frame, and but little attention is paid to the shape of the foot. Leather i 6 sometimes used, but the sandal is generally made of silk cordage and woolen cloth. The Siamese shoe has the form of an ancient canoe, with a gondola bow and an open toe. The sole is made of wood, the upper of inlaid wood and cloth, and the exterior is elaborately ornamented in colors with gold and silver. Lincoln’* “Hos*” Trad*. When Lincoln was practicing law in Illinois, he agreed with a certain judge that they should make a horse trade at 9 o’clock the next morning, neither to see the other’s horse un til the time of the trade and the one who backed out to lose $25. The judge was on time, leading the sorriest looking nag ever seen in those parts. In a few minutes Lincoln arrived, carrying a wooden sawhorse on his shoulder. The crowd laughed uproariously, but it was nothing to the din that went up when Lincoln set down his saw horse, walked solemnly around the sorry nag produced by the judge and exclaimed pathetically, “Well, judge, this is the first time 1 ever got the worst of it in a horse trade!” Superstitious Fishermen. JTerring fishermen in the old world are many of them remarka bly superstitious. For instance, on some fishing boats whistling is for bidden, and neither milk nor burn ed bread is allowed on board. Fur thermore, not even the name of that unlucky animal, the hare, may be mentioned, and a common meth od of punisliing an enemy is to throw a dead hare into his boat. Some of the fishermen believe in i luck attending an odd numbered | crew, but the good fortune may be neutralized should one of the num ber have red hair. A Mean Trick. Some sordid soul who wanted to cause distress and suffering among his friends entered his club the oth er day and wrote on the bulletin board the name of a town over in ! Wales and offered a prize to any body who could pronounce it. Here’s the name of the town: Llanfairpwll gwyngyllgogervebwyrndrobw! lantsy iliagagogooh. Than th* Quarrel Ceased. They were having the usual fam ily quarrel. As was also usual, she could not convince him that she knew whereof she argued. “Didn’t I go to school, stupid?” she screamed. “Yes, dear, you did,” he replied calmly, “and you came back stupid.” ( —Bohemian Magazine. HIS RIVER. - Th* D'.t es Doors Man Cherishes Fjndly Som* Special Stream. 1 believe that every out of doors , man comes to have one stream that is more beloved than any of the others, says a writer in Forest and Stream. There is something about it which makes the days spent on that patticular stream just a little nicer than on any other and which makes it linger in the memory until sooner or later one goes to all of the trouble of packing up and traveling over mountain roads to get hack to it. it is the spirit of the water. When I say spirit 1 mean the ap peal of the intellectual pose of one entity to another. The judge, who has lived on its bank all his life, is also possessed by it. This year he and his wife took a rather extensive water trip, embracing the great lakes, the St. Lawrence, the Hud son, the Atlantic and Chesapeake bay. The judge’s wife told me that he would stand on the upper deck of one of the streams, look at the expanse of water and exclaim, “Give me the Black!” So, as 1 say, evety man to his river, and here was mine. Now, mv companion bad never run the rapids of a mountain stream or cast a fly. He and the river were total strangers, but it was interesting to see their ad vances toward each other. First came lhe exhilaration of “running down hill” over water and the fas cinating study of how to run such places without having the boat hit the inevitable obstruction at the outside of the curve, the stump, or the log, or the rock, or the drift wood with the current speeding be neath it. After a day or so he learned that he could not steer a boat in a rapid, but that he has to simply pick it up on his paddle and throw it. Then he quit hitting the stump in the curve, and 1 was able to fish without a paddle in one hand to fend the bow from the place. His closer intimacy with the water began by going in swimming, but that does not count for much. The | real advance was when he stepped j over the side of the boat and waded I in the shallows with his shoes on. j Finally, after swimming a place, where the river darted through a j narrow place, he deliberately put on I his clothes and plunged in head J first. “I wanted to see if I could swim straight across with my clothes on,” he said. Then T knew that the river had enticed him away from his lares and penares; that he would journey thither with me again. Australian Girl* F*arl*s* Ridar*. Many Australian girls live right up in the bush, or “stations." which are miles away from any I own or village, and their time js largely occupied with riding and driving. They are as much at home on a tiorse as a duck is in the water and think nothing of riding twenty miles or so to pay a visit. House hold duties claim a share of their time, however, and any day they are liable to be left without serv ants and with a house full of vis itors, but are in nowise daunted by such an occurrence. Then the bush girl comes down to the capital for the seeson, and, far from appearing a country bumpkin or u tomboy after her free and open aiv life, she is as much at home in a ballroom as any town bred girl, as neat and well dressed as if she had never rid den bareback over wild tracts of country with little thought of ap pear^m*?.—l>oDdon Woman. Bird* •* V*ntriloqui*l*. Many birds form their sounds without opening their bills. The pigeon is a well known instance of this, its cooing can be distinctly heard, although it does noi open its bill. The call is formed internally in the throat and chest and is only rendered audible by resonance. Sim ilar ways may be observed in uisdv birds and other animals. The clear, loud call of the cuckoo, according io one naturalist, is the resonance of a note formed in the bird. The whirring of the snipe, which be trays the approach of the bird to the hunter, is an act of ventrilo quism. Even the nightingale ha« certain notes which are produced internally and which are audible while the bill is dosed. Oick*n* and th* London N*w*. Dickens was the originator of the London Daily News. The paper was started on Jan. 21, 1846. At that time Charles Dickens was ed itor, his father, John Dickens, was the manager, Douglas Jerrold was assistant editor, and Bradbury and Evans were the printers. Albany; Fonblanque and John forster were leader writers, “Father Prout”! (Mahoney) was Roman correspond ent, and George Hogarth, Dickens’ father-in-law, was mueica! critic. 1 Sir William Jackson, Sir Joseph Watkins and Mr. (afterward Sir) Joseph Paxton were among the principal proprietor*. The MOntuomkky monitor —thlusday, may it Or SOME OF THE DEFECTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, They arc many ! But, he it understood by the reader, that the pointing out of some of these de-; sects by the writer has in view I the stimulation ot those interest ed, yet related to the school sys tem, so that they one and will use united efforts to abolish these de fective parts. The custom is being fixed of i teaching till 1 or 2 o'clock, p. in. and dismissing the school children for the rest of the day. This cm tom is sure to sow seeds of cor ruption out of the school and thus react to the detriment of the school inside. But teachers find it a respite! from labors that are irksome.! rasping on the brain; hence the custom comports with their com fort and income. They are “paid back"’ by an increase of disorder, misrule, vicious luibits, and im moralities acquired by boys, es pecially, which find vent in the school, and must be checked or I anarchy prevails and teachers are] swept, under in the chaos and ruin ! which threaten the death of the whole school system at this age of! the world. Children should he kept at work j and not allowed to roam at will] and follow their own pleasures, | which mean moral death to them, lipneo to dismiss schools earlier than the old established order, 4 p. m. means ruin to hundreds of hoys in towns and cities. “Don’t believe it.” All right ! Timej will convince the most skeptical.! The Montgomery Monitor and the Union News One Year for Sl.7*>. VTrTVTTVTVTTVYVVVVTYfVTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY* i 3 ► wp a ■■Am ■ N ZK* am■ mm A •* "‘a, SHOE BUSINESS j £ Realizing Hie great importance ot the shoe department iu our ► business we have s' rengt heued our stuck and have decided to liuudle q r exclusively the Brown Shoe ('o.’s *.*>* specialties. These shoes are £ all made in St. Louis, the greatest shoe inamifaet tiring city m the 4 ► world, and in buying a full line from one house wo are enabled to q r offer various grades of merchandise at better priees than we could w possibly offer were our lines mixed. 3 ► ' < ► SPRING STYLES ARE HERE. WE SHOE THE WHOLE FAMILY. * p We have recently received a We do not coniine our bud- £ new shipment of these shoes ness to men’s or women's trade ► which embodies all the pteseni ()|| . t . II)TV , iIM . K „f boys and q ► season’s styles and shape.- in . q ► Oxfords or High Shoes. Yon (drls,Mi-se H and * liildren.An.v « £ should not fail to look at these member of the family can be * ► lines before buying. supplied at. our store. 4 l : ► DRESSY LOW-CUTS SHOES FUR BOYS. MENS’NEAT 2 ► FOR WOMEN. show us the i,oy SUMMER OXFORDS, 2 \\ e feel that ue that, doe not get ou r showing of 4 t have the dressiest wear out of „ Me,,-’Summer Ox- 2 Z hue of Women s 4 ► Low Cuts and Ox- pairol the,Blister lord-i- the snnppi- J ► fords that have ever Brown Shoe- than est by far that we £ been shown in this he got out of the have ever made. To 4 ► locality and we are lasi pair he had.and in<| eel the line < ► anxious to have you we will give him a means to hoy a £ inspect, them. new pair free pair. * ► 1 4 l STYLISH FOOTWEAR FOR MEN, WOMEN'S ATTRACTIVE STYLES « s If the new arrivals in Mens’ ••Alt ractive Style,’’ that is J t footwear pleases you ns well as ,eall, the feat me of the -hoes < fc they do ns, you wilt own a pah w|ljch hav „ jllM „„ our 2 ► before long. J here 1- a lug va ► riety of styles In all leathers. selves for sale to women. 4 M C RAE & BRO. Mt. VERNON, i ► 2 » nrfVVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY* • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa • vvvmvrnmTvv TmrnTTf»TTmtmT»TTmmfmH I HRS. M. H. FOUNTAIN, | t Ailey, Georgia. 5 SEWING and DRESS MAKING j ► Lot of Fine Hats Bought for Cash 2 t AND WILL BE SOLD AT VERY LOW PRICES. l IWHATS MADE TO ORDER. Quick Sales. Short Profits. ; i F•AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA? I MONEY TO LOAN ON FIVE YEARS TIME I | At Seven Per Cent Interest On Improved Farms in Montgomery and adjoining ft counties in amounts ot SI,OOO and over, and til 8 jhm fit cent, on loans of less than $l,0(X). NO COMMISSION *4 or brokerage charged. Expenses of borrower tor nb !§( stract and drawing papers are -mail. NO DELAY . e Loans promptly secured. | Geo. H. Harris, Attorney, Mcßae, Ga. | Inside school work will now ht punctured. We do not turn out readers tronp. our, schools.*!?| Re suits; We have no scholars,[lot , reading is the hast of all scholar j ship. We Jin ven racejjuf people coming on and now here, grown to adult life who do not read with intelligence the public news of the day. Nay, do not read at all. They never learned to read at i school. They never learned the meaning of words. Thai is, they lean not, did not grasp the thought embodied in the words ; hence wo ! have a people devoid of under standing, and our chi Id re 11 going 1 to school arc just as deformed in 1 J j I heir minds. The whole hasp of economic sale land making of books, of issuing newspapers, of advertising and of | sale of manufactured products is 1 found in the scope and power of intelligent reading. The public schools do not give the power. They are failures 1 Consequently books nor libraries do not consti j Into the belongings of the masses jofl he people. Newspaper veil- I tures swamp, because the people I cannot read. The merchants ad j vestise m vain because pimple de ] not read their advertisements,and | thus the world of intelligente lau- Iguishos in a desert, of non-intelli | gent, people, because they cannot n ad and do not understand when they do road. The school culture is at fault and unless this is changed wo go back faster anti faster til! chaos is our intellectual hind moral doom. Lycurqus. I Kibbee, Ga. I WE ARE NOW READY | . i | WITH OUR FALL AND WINTER LINES ( .1 1 1;: jfl p i|; OF I MEN’S, WOMEN’S j 'clothing I • I Hats and Furnishings. Orders by Mail are Carcfullv I* ; • ‘l and Promptly Filled. A complete Catalogue, covering all our Lines, sent fret* upon request. B. H. Levy Bro. & Co., SAVANNAH. GA. 1 V ' \ * }? S£5 MrWwWwssS>>>>Wsv>v^>s2sy>s/9>>y>!l i wv\wwwt*v\Mtw*vv»**w iwmtvmiwutviwtMwwmtwM jj New Spring Hillinery. jj Our Superb Lino of Spring nnd Summer Millinery Now Being Opened Up tor the Inspection of the Ladies. jj IV<» ( l|,| Cf.w.L No old oi'sli tp-worn stock is to he .j; jj! * * * found in our estnbliihmeui. jj 1W e invite those interested in Millinery to on 11 and inspect I; ; i our stock. Attractive nnd Pleasing Line. ;j j; MRS. J. I. ADAMS, IS 7 |jj! Mt. Vernon, Oa. j: i j i« I I jhj T. S. 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Money Loaned ; ; |j| to Colton and Naval Stores Shippers on Approved Security. jj SHIPMENTS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED, j ij 120 Bay Street, East. SAVANNAH, GA. j j W ivruii^'>i^ —- l
