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TY\e Monitor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL OWJAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Entered «t fF.e Pnstoflflce in Mi. Vernon. (Ja. hh Second-Class Mail Mutter. H. B. FOLSOM, Editor aid Pro*. $■ a Year, in Advance. •4-Legal ailvertUftmenU aunt Invariably be paid in advance, at the lrg»l rate, and an tbe law direct*; and mnat lie in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the tirat week of insertion Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Sept. 10, 1908. LIFE ON THE FARM. Uncle Toliey. in the last issue • of Home ami Farm, says: “Life on the farm is a good deni wlmt we make it. It is pretty mtieli that way in the cities and the towns, except we have more freedom on the farm. The happi est duys of my life have been on the furm. It ih there we breathe the pure tur, hear the song of bird* anti tin* bubbling of brooks mid Hi e the blue sky unclouded by hinoke. It in there we get ac quainted with the noises of na ture and enter into her mood a. I would rather hear my little crick et (ell of the shrill notes of the owl lliun listen to n description of the efforts of the finest ojmth singer. There is something in country life that, is soothing in its effects. The noises are those of nature and have not the jarring effect on the nerves as those of the city. lam not cranky. There lire some things in the city that I admire, and there are many good people living there. Many of the buildings are mas terpieces of art, and the decora tions grand beyond description. Hut everything is in a whirl; ev erybody chasing the almighty dol lar. or seeking their own pleasure. The sign of sin ami wickedness are eyer present. Wickedness is licensed, and the privilege to sin is sold for so much a year, For real enjoyment the old-fashioned spelling school can knock the HOC ks off' of a city hull, where women can wear long skirls and low-necked dresses. There was more enjoyment to the square inch of an old-time singing school than there is in a whole block of city amusements. A country boy can unbutton live buttons, take off his clothes and jump into the water in seven teen seconds hy the watch. It would take n city hoy longer than that to take off his starched col lar. When l see a country hoy with nothing on hut a straw lint,a shirt or waist, and a pair of pants rolled up to his knees, and an honest look from Ins clear, bright eye, my heart warms toward him, and I feel u firm and encouraging hope for the future of my coun try.” They have placed a collar on Bryan’s trick mule, but what that animal needs is plenty of rope.— Atlanta Constitution. An exchange says: “The con tributions to both campaigns are almost as cheap as tlie oratory.” This is rating it awfully low. From nearly every section of the country one nan rend of the great increase in tax values, and of how this, that and the other tow n is building up so rapidly,yet on the other hand you hear people raising a yell about hard times and the scarcity of money. If money has passed the '‘get at-able” point, why don’t the prices on groceries, dry goods, etc., come down a notch or two. It's a poor rule that won’t work both ways. Think of cotton l»*- ing below 10c and meat at and above 15c. There is something radically wrong somewhere. NOTICE! To thk Patrons ok Mt. Vkhnon Postofficb: Ou and after Aug. 510, 1908, the geueral delivery hours will be from o to 0 o’clock, p. m. Please do not call when general delivery is closed. The above applies to Sunday hours only. Respectfully, Chas. Bkcunot, P. M. ONE OF THE BEST ON THEfROAD'QUESTION In the Atlanta Constitution’s isHiie of the stli inst., appears un der head of “Georgia’s Road De linquency,” one of the most ably written, and practical editorials it has ever been our pleasure to read, it reads as follows: “It is apparent from the facts presented in n communication i which The Constitution publishes today from President Fred L. White, of the Good Roads Club of Georgia, that this state is one of the “juvenile delinquents” in the matter of good roads progress. Georgia lias never contributed oik dollar, either in money, ma | lerial or lulior, to the improve ment of her public highways. President White presents a list of fifteen states, some of which have contributed millions to this progressive movement, while oth ers make siibsluiil 111 •niiiual ap propriations to keep lIk» work go mg. Less t han !! per cent of the pub lic roads of Georgia are improved and these are found in the pro gressive counties and municipali ties which have taken upon them selves the whole burden of the ex ile use. To he exact, the percentage of improved roudH in Georgia is 2.8 per cent of t.lm ent ire public road mileage—a showing which hardly speuks well for our vaunted oivil iz at 1011. Georgia owes it to her people, particularly to the agricultural element, but as well to every class, for all have an j interest at stake, to get back of 1 lie good roads movement to the full extent of her ability ami opportunity. The state cannot reasonably do less at this juncture than to pul i the entire body of telony convicts, without reservation or exception other than the separale confine ment of women and invalids, at the work of improving Georgia’s public roads just as soon us the present lease contracts expire. The legislature has, in effect, determined to end the lease sys tem when these contracts expire, j March HI, 1909. Fulfillment of its duty requires that it shall follow this w ith the most liberal provisions possible looking to placing, not a part, but ALL of the convicts at work on ! Georgia’s roads. This is now the most important question confronting the confer ence committee between house and senate, and ill straightening out the detailed differences between the two bodies, the committee will fall into grave error should it lose sight of the road improve ment proposition. Not only should the conference committee keep it wholly in view, hut it should examine carefully to see that no essential detail look ing to the fullest and freest em ployment of the convicts for this important purpose is omitted. In it is involved Georgia’s agri cultural and industrial future; extension and maintenance of ru ral free delivery of mails is at stake; the farmer’s hope ot pro gress ami development ;s wrapped up in it; every interest, from one end of the state to the other.criea aloud for “Roads! Better Roads!” Georgia cannot afford to suffer longer the approbrium of a delin quency that tends to barbarism, A great opportunity confronts the conference committee 111 the final shaping of convict legisla -1 lion. If it will so shape the measure as to insure the earliest and most extensive improvement of the pub- j lie highways of this state it will 1 well have won its spurs. THK MONTGOMERY MONITOR—-TH URSD AY, 8 KPT. 10, 1008. Ü BI6 GUNS 1 ’ FIRED FOR W. J. BRYAN IN ATLANTA The Democratic campaign in the state was given a great send off Friday night last at the Grand Opera House in Atlanta when the first big gun was fired by the Young Men’s Democratic League of Fulton county. Over 1,200 men were present, and listened wit, ll interest for two hours to speeches delivered in the interest of William Jennings Bryan and the Democratic party by Governor Smith, Senator Steve Clay, Clark Howell, Charles W. Bernhardt, ex-president of t lie Federation of Trades; EbT. Wil liams, Hewlett A. Hull, Aldme Chambers, president of the Young Men’s Democratic League, and others, 'ihe addresses were all in warm support of the Democratic nominee, and everyone of the speakers declared that the Nebras kan should he elected this year more than ever, as the country was m great need of such a char acter at its head, after tin* domi nation for the past eight years ot the tyranical republican party. Mention was made, ami with the utmost stress, on the fact that never before in its history bail the labor organizations come out so strong for one party as they are this year. Cheers were heard whenever the Nebraskan’s name was mentioned. Hud it not been for the great rainfall just before the time for the meeting, it is thought there would have been ut. least 2,5(H) men present to listen to the pro ceedings. Among those who were present on the stage and in the audience were Speaker John M. Slaton, of the house of representatives; R. A. Broyles, Judge W. A. Coving ton, Walter McElreath, Alex Ste phens, Marcell us Anderson, Jus. L. May son, Carlos Muyson, J. N. MacEarchern, C. Brunan and Charles Donaldson. The meeting, in its entirety, was a great success. MONUMENT TO GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE A special from Montgomery, Ala., dated Sept. 1, reads: “Friends of the late General Stephen D. Lee, commander-in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, after the death of Gor don, ere getting up in a quiet way u fund to erect a monument to Ins memory in the national park at Vicksburg, Miss. Gen. Lee was one of the park commission ers when he died, and fought his brigade 111 the very grounds where the monument is to be erected. The total cost is to he about $lO,- 000, one-half of which will be given by u son of the dead man, Blewett Lee, of Chicago. It is proposed that the monu | inent shall be of bronze, a stand- I ing figure, on Confederate avenue, near where his brigade was during the siege. All classes of citizens have been given an opportunity to contribute. 111 a letter to Dr. Thomas M. Owen, of this city, the chairman of the committee writes that SSO has come from a union veteran. The matter will he submitted to the local camps ot Montgomery and Alabama, as well as the daughters and the sons and later to the Alabama division of both the veterans and the sons at the Mobile reunion in Novem ber. General Leo was in Mont gomery shortly before his death, which took place early in June last. _ Notice. On and after Sept. Ist all work turned out must be paid for upon delivery, and no charge will he made on Iniok. All work is exe cuted in correct and workmanlike • manner, and warrants prompt payment. MT. VERNON REPAIR SHOP, Jas. P. Duffle, S2otf Mgr. MONEY TO LOAN. i Money to loan at 0 and 7 per ceut. on improved farms. A. B. Hctchkson, 1 Mt. Yeruou. Ga. THE NEAR-BEER TAX PASSED BY THE HOUSE The house of representatives) took up Wednesday the Wisk near beer bill providing fora license of S2OO for retailers and SSOO for manufacturers and distributing j agents, the money to he placed in , a special fund for the mainten ance of the convict system and for the purchase of lands and equipment for the system. Several amendments were offer ed to this bill and a substitute for it was offered by Mr. Adams, of Chatham. This substitute was umilur, but placed the tax at SIOO | for retailers and S4OO for manu facturers and distributing agents. 1 To consider this bill, the sub stitute and the amendments, the, house resolved itself into u com mittee of the whole, with Mr. Candler of DeKalh in the chair. | Mr. Wise, author of the bill, ex-1 plained it thoroughly and urged its adoption. He argued that the bill did not tax malt or spirituous beverages, but a tax on imitations or substitutes for malt or spiritu ous beverages. This explanation ■ lie gave in answer to objections! that the constitution provides that the taxing of malt or spirit uous beverages should go to the school fund. M. Hines, of Baldwin.while de siring to tax the sale of near-beer, declared that if the bill did not tax malt beverages it could not j he enforced, and if it did tax such beverages it could not be taken up at the extra session. Mr. Adams, of Chatham, made an argument against the bill. He j was in the midst of this argument j when 12:H0 o’clock, the time j scheduled for reporting hack to the house, arrived. A motion was made hy Mr. Wise that the house remain in session until the bill was disposed of, and mi this Mr. Blackburn called for the ayes anti nays. The motion was carried by a vote of 70 to 7H. Then began another filibuster ing movement, started by Mr. Blackburn, of Fulton, who moved |to reconsider and called for an ■ aye and nay vote. The motion to reconsider was j lost by a vote of Off to 48. On the motion of Mr. Wise, the ! house resolved itself into a coni mittoe of the .whole, with instruc tions to begin voting at 1 :ffo o’clock. Mr. Dunbar, of Rich mond, took the floor and spoke in favor of the Adams substitute for the Wise bill. The various amendments were voted down and the Wise bill re ( ported tp the house with the rec ommendation that it pass by sub* i stitute. The house accepted the report of the house in committee of the whole by a vote of 85 to 24 . The bill was passed by a vote of 99 to 82. The Monitor office is headquart ers for the finest job printing. - Road Notice. Ocnrgia—Montgomery County. It. N. WOOl l . et. al.,having applied Tor the I opening ami eatahUxhtnent of a new public road, coinmeneiug at a point on the Spring Mill and Al net public road about midway b-- , tween tile residence ol t\ A. Mcltae and O. N. Martin and running in a westerly direction dong the laud tines of C A. Mcltae and G. N. Martin, C. A. Mcßae and It. N. Wood, J. J. Kltoii and It N. Wood, and thence through the lands of It N. Wood aud C. H. Wootten, intersecting me Scotland road near the corner of C. H. Wootten n Inline field, in the MOO Mi litia lli-trict ol said county, Sant road to lie about two miles long and thirty foi t wide. Notice ia hereby given that said application -will be 0 11 ally granted on the 6th day of (Vto tier, lists, next, it no aiutb ient eauae i* shown to the contrary. Sept. 1, I'.IOS. W. W. Pope. U. I). Oillis, J. C\ Conner, Win. Ll.and. HOUSE FOB SALE. A 6-room house, new and well painted. Good barn, garden,etc. Also, 8i acres ot land in Mt. Vernon. All going at a Bakuain. For prices and terms see 11. J. Gibbs or A. B. Hctchkson, ff-5-tf Mt. Vernon, Ga. BLACKSMITH - SHOP. All kinds Repair Work, Iron and Wood. Fine line of Bicycle Material on baud. High-Grade Repair Work on Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Guns, Revolvers and i Clocks. See me before placing I your work; I will save you money. Work promptly and neatly done !j. SELLERS, : : AILEY, GA. iW\WV^VVWWVWVWVVWVWW WW— | !.'. MID-SUMMER SPECIALS| I IN j! Hillinery !jj During the Summer Months my Entire Stock of Millinery is \\ ;; .offered at greatly reduced prices. All goods ot late pattern and j! j| Strictly First-Class in Every Particular. jj ]| M.v line will appeal particularly t" tin* Particular ( lass of j| '[ Buyers who do not. have opportuuitv of visiting tin* Larger Cities, i| ! j anti should be seen before purcnasing. Ladies and l hildren invited <j ! to call. ...ii. I! MRS. J. L. ADAMS MT. VERNON ii i OWHWWWWmwmmiHtIMimMWWMtWWWWMWVVWWM f — - '■ ' ■ It FALL! WINTER? Our Fall and Winter lines of ready- ii \ to-wear Clothing and Furnishings for Ij: I Men, Women and Children are now ij! ready. jj; We have a large mail order depart- jj: ment, in the hands of competent repre- jj; sentatives, who will make your interests ij; II I their own. | A complete catalogue, covering our ij; various departments, will soon be ready i|j and will he mailed upon request, free of jjj charge. Write for samples and self-measurement Blanks. i B. H. Levy Bro. & Co., j SAVANNAH. GA. John H. Hunter. Wm. K. Pearce, Frank C. Battey. ]j HUNTER, PEARCE & BATTEY |j Cotton Factors Naval Stores ij EXPERIENCED Portfire Ii HANDLERS OF I clllUl & j; Upland Cotton, Florodora jj Allen Silk & Other Extra Staples jj Sea-Island Cotton & Naval Stores jj OVER THIRTY YEARS IN BUSINESS One of the Largest Factorage Concerns in the South. Each !> I Commodity handled in a Separate Department. Strictest. Attention to Each. j; Nitrate of-Soda and Other Fertilizers jj Upland and Sea-Island Bagging Ties and Twine Liberal Advances made on Consignments. Money Loaned || to Cotton and Naval Stores Shippers on Approved Security. SHIPMENTS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. 120 Bay Street, East. SAVANNAH, GA. j; | SEABOARD j AIR LINE These arrivals and departures published only as information, ami are not guaranteed. |; Ij Schedule Effective January sth, 1908. ; Lv. Mt. VERNON all trains daily. IU:2S a. m. For Helena, Abbeville, Cordele, !' Americus, Columbus, ; | ' | 8:28 p. m. Montgomery, and all points west. || 0:47 a. m. For Lyous, Collins, Savannah, ]| 14:51 p. m. and all points east. I For further information, reservations, rates, etc., see your |; nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent, or write CHARLES F. STEWART, A. G. P. A., jj Savannah, .... ... Georgia. ;