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THE PROGRESS OF THE PANAMA CANAL After a 'thorough investigation of conditions prevailing in the Istiinni3 of Panama and an in spection of the work hy the sjyou inl commissioners, it is announced that the progress has been won derful. and the hope is expressed that within five years the Panama Canal will be finished. ll was a great undertaking, dis cussed for centuries, originated by the great De Lesseps, whose fail ure constitutes one of the most, se vere disasters in the financial his tory ot France. It was revived by American statesmen. Finally Congress, after years of debate, acted definitely, putting upon the President ot the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, the responsibility for the selection of the route. Under the advice of the most competent engineers of the world, President Roosevelt abandoned the Nicaragua route, carried on negotiations with the countries directly interested, got rid of all obstacles, secured sovereignty over the canal strip und put all the forces of modern civilization to work. Every form of disaster was im agined and predicted. The great difficulty was the climatic condi tions. Medical science achieved her greatest work in regenerating the Isthmus of Panama, making labor safe and life attractive. Now it is said that within five years the canal will lie finished. That alone would be an achieve ment sufficient to distinguish the ad ministration of President Roose velt. The effect of this canal up on the commerce of the world can only be imagined. It cannot be in adyance determined. The build ing of the Suez canal had effects that no one conceived of in ad vance, practically destroying the value of all the sailing fleets of the world and calling for the re construction of every commercial navy. Men have tried to forecast the influence of the Panama canal upon the general commerce of the world, but all their deductions have been theories based upon unknown elements in the problem. Experience alone will determine what influence this work is to have upon the world, and that influence w ill not be immediately manifest. But it can be said with some certainty that it will go far to promote the commercial and in dustrial interests of all the Gulf States, the States of the South and the cities of the South. This it is that gives special interest for the Southern people in this great undertaking.—Home and Farm. Friendship. Special Correspondence. (For Last Week) Miss Bertie Crossby and Mr. Mina Gray attended preaching at Longpond Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Clifton, Miss Maude Gibbs and Messrs. Duncan Kelly and Hiram Johnson spent last Sunday at Tybee, and all re port a good tune. Mi§3 Bettie Byrd is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. R. L. Morris. Mrs. E. J. Johnson spent last Sunday with her brother near Hack Branch. Mrs. L. A. Crossby spent Sun day with her father, Mr. VV. F. Gray. Mrs. li. L. Morris spent last Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Byrd. E. S. Gibbs came over from the other side of the river and spent Saturday night and Sunday at home. Frank Gibbs spent Sunday as a guest of his uncle, John Gibbs, of near Spring Hill. Remember Rey. Green will fill his regular appointment at Friendship next third Sunday. Everybody invited. Brown Eves. Keep up with news and happen ings of the county by reading the Monitor. |1 a year, in advance. UNCLE TOBEY'S THOUGHTLETS i Hypocrisy is the religion of the | devil | Gall is often mistaken for busi ness tact. Hold fast to that which is good, I even if it is your best girl. This old world would l>e lone some without the fools. Every man is entitled to the fruits of his toil. A fool is one who keeps on do ing foolish things. The wings of monopoly fan the flames of hell. Below all creeds and platforms is the principle of human rights. Avarice and greed are always poor because they are always in i want. Trusts are the pirateß of com merce. When the people are at the bat the shortstops may expect to be blistered. There is a man down in Texas who is so particular as to “What’s in a name,” that, he won’t kiss a grass widow for fear of catching hay fever. Prejudice is the halter by which the devil leads the ignorant. What your enemy wants you to do is usually the thing you ought not to do. There are some church members who, if they had a praying ma chine, would forget to wind it. Gratitude is one of the greatest of virtues, and ingratitude is the worst of sins. Modern politics seems to consist principally of the art of lying. The biggest fool in all creation is the man who wears his life away accumulating something he don’t need, and makes no practical use ot it. “Is married life a waltz ?” asks a writer in the New York Herald. Well, no, it is hardly as smooth as that. A good deal of it is made up of hoedowns, and occa sionally both parties realize that the “jig” is up.—From Home and Farm. Dog Lost. A black hound puppy, eight months old; white breast and legs and white on tip of tail; scar on point of left shoulder. Seen last at Troup’s Ferry afternoon Aug. 16. Suitable reward for informa tion leading to recovery. Dog answers to name of Bob. J. F. WRIGHT, R.F.D. 4, Glenwood, Ga. OLD CONFEDERATE MAJOR SENT UP AS VAGRANT New York, September 4.—A movement has been started to ob tain the prompt release of Major Francis D. Walker, a confederate veteran, from Blackwell’s island where he was sent recently as a vagrant for six months. The homeless old man’s com mitment followed his application for a night’s shelter at a police station. Thomas Murray, a member of U. S. Grant post Grand Army of the Republic, became interested in the case and wrote to Edward Owen the commander of the only confederate camp in New York, saying that he and other Grand Army men from Brooklyn stood ready to help theold confederate j veteran if it could fie shown that he was deserving. Mr. Owen then made an inves tigation and found that Major Walker appeared to tie a southern gentleman who has outlived all relatives and friends, and was thrown upon the charity of strangers. It has been decided to have the old man transferred to an insti tution where he will receive medi cal attention, or if this is impos sible, the confederate camp will ; care for him, THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, KEI T to. tOoH. PLOW POINTS IN THE HOME AND FARM A well-manured garden may be kept busy until frost. Gardens iu constant use must he well fer tilized Timothy Iniv cut in August is poor stutY for winter feeding. The more clover mixed with the tium | thy the more valuable will the hay lie for feeding cows. Should the calf not seem to thrive, give it a half pint of wheat bran, with a pinch of suit, scalded with a teacupful of hot water. Give this with the usual amount of and always keep some corn, oats and hay, with pure water handy. The Pennsylvania Experiment Station has discovered that rye meal as a parr, of u properly bal anced ration tor milk cows is as efficient in milk and butter pro duction as an equal weight of corn meal. No injurious effect upon the quality of the butter was no ticed. | The pad will make a big collar fit a little better, but the lest, plan is to have a collar that fits without a pad. The latter is apt to irritate and chafe a horse much more than a leather collar. If the hames are properly adjusted on the collar many horses may be saved sore necks and sore should ers. The largest tobacco farm in the world is said to be located near Amsterdam, Ga. It consists* of 25,000 acres of land, on which is grown about one-third of all the Sumatra tobacco used for wrap pers in the United Slates, and gives employment to about 11,500 persons. SECRET PRICE FOR MEMBERS OF UNION A special dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex., dated the 4th inst., says: “A secret minimum sell ing price has been settled upon by the selling committee of the Na tional Faomers’ Union. This price is being guarded earnestly, and no one outside of the Union is to know. “It may lie 12, 13, 14 or 15cts,” said Chairman Neill, ot the com mittee, today. “I cannot tell. This secret price will be given to all farmers, members of the Union who will each be asked to guard the secret carefully, and sell for no less. President Barrett refused to be interviewed upon subjects relative to the business of the mi* ion. The sessions of the body on the 4th were well attended. SHERIFF SALE. GEORGIA, Momtgomrrv County.! Will be sold at the court house door in said county on the first Tue- | dav in October. 1908. within the le gal hours of sale to the highest bid der for cash, to-wit, One 7xlo Water town Engine; one 15 horse power portable boiler on wheels; one No. 1 Taylor Saw Mill with .Stiff.carriage; three head blocks; one 40 inch in serted tooth saw; and ‘to feet of eight inch bel,; said property levied j on as the property of F. J. I)avi.s to | satisfy an execution issued on Hie oth day August, >9OB, from the city court of Mt. Vernon, in said county, in fa vor of Mallory Bros. Machinery Co. vs. P. J. Davis. Said property being macninery and being cumbersome j and hard to move, will not be oxhib- j ited or produced at the coiut house! door, when the sale is had. The prop erty, however, is now located at !So perton, Georgia, in the brick, cotton j warehouse at that place, where pros- j pective purchasers may examine trie i same before the day of sale. Tills 1 the Bth day of August, 1908. A. J. Burch, Sheriff Montgomery County. BOND ISSUE. Georgia—Montgomery Comity. To the qualified voters ot xaid comity:—No. lice in hereby given dial an election will he hel<l on Wednesday the 7tli day at October, j 1908, at all the election precinct* in said coun ty lor the purpose of determining whether or j not bonds shall be leaned for the puri one .it rai.ibg money with which to buil t a el eel bridge and approach*-* to the name aero** the Oconee River at or near Rainon’* Ferry in *aid : county. If the requisite legal vote in aaid | election ih cast in favor of the issuance of , hondx, bond* to the anrnmit of 136,000 will be iexiied for said purpoae. Said Isnntx will bear - interest at the rate of 0 |,er cent, pci annum, the accrued interest to be paid on the di et of each January xneceeding the dale of lxxtiance until said bonds are paid off. Taxes will be : levied and collected each year succeeding the ixxiiance of aaid bonds xiiflieient to pay off the accrued intercut and S9,SUO of the principal The 13,500 collected annually for the purpose of paying off the principal will create a fund j for the purpose of paying off and retiring aaid bond* at the end of t<-n year* from the date they are ixxued. Said bond* arc to be come due and payable at the expiration of 10 yeara from the date they are ixxued Thi* Sep tember lat, 1908. W. W. Pope, J. C. Conner. David Oil.'i*, Wm. Bland, Court’* R. and 8., Montgomery County. \ Your Every Need | \ FOR THE FARM Kid HOME | \# * jg. >|t * Will ho ably cared tor at my place, and in prompt manner I £ Myjine of Staple Goods is Always Complete, but at present £ * a Spring Freshness pervades the entire establishment, ami & the Season’s Specialties are on Display, but Going Rapidly J * * J SPECIALTIES: i jjf* * 11 HARVARD BRAND CLOTHING fj * ;# (The Boat Mailt 1 (lurnn'iit for M'*n) |jg * * ii NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES || * T ('© ©> (The Sltuulurd of the World) 0 © $ II OSBORNE’S FARM MACHINERY II t © 0' (Too Well Known For Comment) ©0 | II COOK STOVES AND FURNITURE II % * wffi (u«« >d ICuough to Go 1 11 to Ao_\ Holin') ©’©> t II DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES |l $ $ II FARM SUPPLIES IN GENERAL || $ a ©0 (Still Supplying the Funnels of this Section) 0 © • A ©<ot' 0 © ' H lw. h. mcqueen, I l MT. VERNON, GA. % * * # * (The Store Where You Get Full Value for Your Money I’welvo Mouths in (ho Year.) # * For Rent. My place at Ailey, (la., consist ing of five-room house, garden, one and half acre patch, harii,&c., good condition. Address J. F. Hali,, M. !>., 9-8-4 t Box 8. r >, Mt. Vernon, (la. - I*,. /j. * /•, ./• JPROFESSIONAL MS •/' •/ X&/- t»/ • ■ C/ •/. »v •-/ {'/ M. E. CALHOUN, Atty at Law, Mt. Vernon, Georgia. J. R. WATSON, Dentist, Soperton, Georgia. A. L. Lanier, Attoni(*y at Law, MT. VERNON, (lA. Will Practice in ull the Courts of the St ate. * Hamilton Burch, Attorney and Coun selor at Law, fIcRAE, OA CrimiMl I.*wr uid OoUectU*iin, Including tail i load Tort Canon, a Hpeciulty. I i Eugene Talnmdge, Atty. at Law. Practitioner in all Courts. Mt. Vernon, Oa. i •fXJi' X.}. iff. /}. AJ. Z 5-. * * /J. ' v " ;■ L. C. UNDERWOOD, : ATTORNEY AT LAW. V Practitioner in all Courts, Ht»te and Federal. i Real Estate Agent, Farm Lands a Specialty. , . . MT. VEkNON, aA. J, V * lit ms/sz. ■stitS.-i -J.-7 ■ r .z i4z t- BOILERS. mmmmmmKmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtemmmcmmmmmm Do You Need One? We arc? offering for Immediate Sale the following Horizontal Tubular Boilers: One 12 feet x 4 feet 0 in., 70 tubes. One Hi ft. 0-in. x 5 ft. 10-in., 64 tubes. One 16 feet x 5 feet, 64 tubes. One 16 feet x 4-ft. 2-in., Bl tubes. All Boilers Complete with Stack, Water Columns, Fronts, etc. Sec them ut plant at Ochwullkee. All in Good Condition. Hilton &. Dodge Lumber Company, Ochwalkee, Oa. nwvtvMWWVMWViMmvwivMwwmwwwMMwmwmMWm QORGO. i OOROO is a Black Stallion, 4 years ij 'i old, 10 bands high, and weighs 1,300 Lbs. j j; Will make t lie season of this grand Stallion at ;! Stable of Fisher &. Lowry, for the year 1908, at i TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO INSURE A LIVING COLT. | il| Fisher & Lowry, Soperton. j i . 1 MONEY TO LOAN ON FIVE YEARS TIME j r i> i t t At Seven PerCcnt Interest | 3 cj On Improved FarniH in Montgomery and adjoining counties in amount* of .fl/KXI and over, und ut 8 per cent, on loans of less than sl*ooo. NO COMMISSION or brokerage charged. Expenses of borrower for ab stract and drawn,g pa tiers are small. NO DELAY. % Loans promptly secured. 2 | Geo. H. Harris, Attorney, Mcßae, Ga. | wp»>e«ex''SVfe»ef?x »*»**#«•#*(***#£ & The Montgomery Monitor and the Savannah Semi-Weekly News, one year, $1.75.