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WHAT ABOUT THIS
PLAN OF FARMING.
Columbus Ga., .January 24. —
The experience of J.A. J. Hender
son on a farm near Ocilia, Ga.,
shows what he accomplished by
farming in Georgia according
to modern,thorough and scientific
methods. With 15 mules on 504
acres of land he grew in the year
1908 the folloming: 481 bales of
c tton the bales averaging over
l 0 ) pounce each ; 8,500 bushels of ;
cirn, 2,000 bales of hay, 2,000
bushels of potatoes and enough j
peanuts in the corn field to fatten ;
100 hogs. The big farm is almost
as level as a floor and ever}’ stump
has been removed from it by Mr. j
Henderson who employs in his
farming operations the modern
machinery of the type so gener
ally used in the west.
TAFT TO STOP REFEREE
PLAN IN THE SOUTH.
President-elect Taft has decided !
to discontinue in his administra
tion the referee system of distrib
uting federal patronage in the
South. This step, in his efforts
to spread Republicanism in the
South, has been presaged by his
speeches since he came to Augus
ta and now the men who ha\o
talked to him on the subject say
his mind is fully made up.
Under the referee system in
Georgia, all applications for fed
eral jobs had to be submitted to
three referees, Walter H.Johnson,
United States Marshal at Atlanta ;
Harry Stillwell Edwards, post
master at Macon, and Major J. F.
Hanson.
It is assumed that the plan of
appointments which Mr. Taft will
follow are those suggested in his
banquet speech in Atlanta, where
in he said he would appoint
thosef men who have the indorse
ments of the leading men in then
community.
LOCAL ITEMS FROM '
TOOMBS COUNTY LOCAL.
Mrs. Godwin of Mt. Vernon
was a visitor in the city Sunday,
guest at the home of Mrs. M. A.
McQueen.
Miss Etta Gibbs a charming
young lady of near Longpond,
was a visitor to the city Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T Johuson,
who reside down in the Longpond
section, were visitors to the city
Saturday.
Mr. 1... B. McLemore, a prom
inent citizen of Mt. Vernon, was
a business visitor to the city last
Saturday.
Mr. Henry A. Johnson a popu
lar young man of Longpond, was
a business visitor to the city Sat
urday.
Mr. Walter B. Jones, a pro
gressive Toombs county farmer
who resides down near Cedar
Crossing, was a visitor to the
city Monday.
Mr. Cleve Allcorn of Ailey came
down Sunday add spent the day
with home folks here.
Mr. N. L. Williams of Alley
caine down Monday and spent
the day with friends.
Judge W. M. Lewis, a promi
nent attorney of Mt. Vernon, was
a visitor to the city Monday.
Mrs. T. J. Thompson of Mt
Vernon came down Sunday and
si eit the day in the city, guest
of her brother, Mr. G. L.Johnson.
Col. Win. B. Kent, one of the
leading attorneys of the Mt. V ar
non bar was in the city Monday
attending to legal business.
Mr. Joe Brantley, a progressive
saw mill man of Stuckey, spent
Sunday in the city with friends.
Rev. J. D. Rabun, a former
pastor of the Lyons Buptist church |
was a visitor to the city Monday.
Dr. J. C. Brewton of the Union
Baptist Institute was a Visitor to
the city Monday.
LORE OF THE METEOR.
Divine Honors Have Been Paid the
Wanderers of the Sky.
It is only within the last hundred
years that science has taken up the
study of the meteor seriously, but
I in all ages its fitful gleam has cap
| hired the imagination of men.
In Asia in early times a fragment
| was picked up which probably bore
j a very rude resemblance to a liu-
I man figure. It was looked upon as
an image of Diana, sent down from
Jupiter. A great temple was built
at Ephesus in its honor—the Tem
ple of Diana of the Ephesians.
| There from all parts of Asia people
; flocked to worship a meteorite.
The Romans, too, at certain
j epochs of their history, fell under
| the spirit of the meteorite. Aeneas,
| the mythic founder of the race, is
j said to have carried one with him
to Italy, and one of the strangest
| pictures in the wonderful gallery of
| Roman history is that of the Em
peror lleliogabalus paying divine
honors to his meteoric god, for the
head of the imperial city was high
priest in a temple whose god was a
rude fragment of meteoric stone.
A magnificent temple was built
for it in Rome. Every morning
| hecatombs of bulls and sheep were
offered, firkins of the richest wines
were poured out and much costly
incense was burned. Every year
the meteoric god was carried with
gorgeous ceremony to another tem
ple in the suburbs. The chariot in
which it rode glittered with gold
and precious stones and was drawn
by six white horses in golden trap
pings. The emperor himself held
the reins, walking backward, so as
to keep his eyes fixed on his god.
On either side the people ran, bear
ing torches and throwing garlands
of flowers as they passed.
On another occasion a meteoric
stone played an important part in
Roman history. It fell in ancient
times in Phrygia and was worship
ed at Pessinus by the Phrygians
and Phoenicians as Cybele, “the
mother of the gods.” To it had
been ascribed the victory of the Ro
mans over Hannibal in the first
Punic war. So when in later years
the Carthagenian general had cross
ed the Alps and maintained his place
in Italy for twelve years the trou
bled Romans wished for the won
derful stone.
They had learned from the Sybil
"line books that an enemy might bo
expelled from Italy if the stone
were brought to Rome. So they
went to King Attalus, asking that it
might be sent. It was carried with
much ceremony to the Temple of
Victory on the Palatine hill, and.
sure enough, Hannibal was present
ly compelled to return to Africa.
Having surmounted incredible diffi
culties, he w r as yet forced to yield to
a meteorite! —London Globe.
Little Helps For Awning Makers.
“Our greatest benefactor,” said a
local manufacturer of awnings, “it
the office man who sits and smokes
and throws his cigar stubs out of
the window. If it’s at the time of
year when awnings are up on the
big office buildings it is not im
probable that the cigar will fall on
an awning and burn a good sized
hole. Possibly it will fall against a
roll of the canvas and burn througl
several folds. Look at some of the
awnings over the stores on tin
ground floor of buildings and notice
the little round holes that have
been caused by the falling cigar
stubs. These holes, of course, groat
Iv hasten the time when the awning
must he replaced. Nearly every of
ficc building in town has suffered
this same damage.” Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Wooden Water Pipes.
Wood pipes are better than iron
pipes for carrying water supply, ac
cording to a report issued by the
United States forestry bureau. It
says that timber saturated with wa
ter and protected from outside in
fluences is practically everlasting.
There is a line of two miles of wood
pipe at Fayetteville, N. C., laid in
1829, which is sound and in con
stant use at the present time. Wood
pipes cost only one-quarter as much
j as cast iron and one-half as much
as steel, they have greater discharg
ing capacity, they are not affected
by electrolysis and they are poor
conductors of heat, thus keeping
the water cooler in summer and
warmer in winter. —Chicago News.
Disillucioned.
I was once at a ball where a lady
to whom I had just been presented
said: “Ob, Mr. Barrington, my
j daughter has fallen madly in love
| with you! May I introduce you?”
j I murmured an embarrassed “Cer-
I tainly,” and she turned to a very
; pretty girl who was standing near,
j saying, “Marjorie, this is Mr. Rut
| land Barrington.” The girl’s face
| lit up with excitement and pleasure.
| She took a good look at me and
turned away, with a long and disap
pointed “Oil!” That mother knew
something. From “Rutland Bar
rington,” by Himself.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1909.
THREE PAINTERS.
Th» Story of • Murder Committed In j
the Name of Art.
Three painters, Andrea Castagno, j
Alessio Baldovinctti and Domenico J
Veneziano, received commissions
from Foleo Fortinari, the father of
Dante’s Beatrice, to decorate the
refectory ami chapel of the Church
of Santa Maria Nuova. Baldovinet
ti, seeing that the young foreigner,
Domenico, had brought to his work
a new medium, watched him closely,
and, nothing daunted, he. too, con
cocted a formula which he thought
the same as Domenico’s, and, for
saking the classic tempera, with
which up to that time all Floren
tines had painted, he covered his al
lotment with figures done so that
they were most beautiful for a
; short time, but soon faded away.
This departure caused the jealous
and intollerant Andrea Castagno to
ridicule poor Baldovinctti, but in
his heart he was sore over the tri
umph of the young bov Venetian,
and he determined to find out the
secret of his medium. To this end
he made friends with Domenico and
suggested that, since they were en
gaged upon the same work, they
might conveniently share a lodging.
Castagno, who was known to be of
a morose and surly disposition, as
tonished people by his change of
manner. He learned to play the
lute, in which art Domenico was
also an expert, and, donning the
jaunty habit of a Florentine dandy,
the two went about serenading and
taking part in the gay pranks Do
menico had learned in Venice. But
the secret of the medium remained
unknown, and Andrea was only able
to discover that Domenico ground
his colors in oils.
As Domenico’s pictures neared
completion they attracted more and
more notice for their brilliant lus
ter, which seemed to make the flesh
of men and women throb and pul
sate. His draperies, too,, were paint
ed in colors which the tempera
painters could not produce. All
Florence went mad over Domenico,
and Andrea was forced to listen to
the praise and admiration poured
out for Domenico while he worked
unnoticed upon his “Last Supper”
on an adjoining scaffolding. Andrea
was much the greater artist. This
was conceded. Ilis drawing was
more perfect, but for the moment
no lines could make up for the bril
liant color which Domenico pro
duced.
Andrea grew more gay, more af
fectionate in his treatment of Do
menico, and the latter, suspecting
nothing, opened his heart to the
older man. One evening when, as
usual, Domenico took down his lute
and threw his long cloak across his
shoulder preparatory to a stroll he
called to Andrea in vain. An ex
cuse that a commission of some mo
ment had to be completed and the
lateness of the hour finally satisfied
Domenico, who went off alone. He
had scarcely left the door when An
drea dashed out and, slinking along
a dark alley, met Domenico at a
street corner. Crashing into him |
and shattering the lute, he brained j
him with a plummet which he had [
snatched from his designing table, j
—Helen Zimmern in Metropolitan, j
Her Correction.
“Father, I wish I knew why they
laughed at my corrected sentence in
English class today,” exclaimed a
high school girl recently, ller fa
ther looked up from his evening
paper and asked what the sentence |
was.
“Well, Miss West gave us each a j
sentence to correct, and mine was,
‘I went to the tonsorial parlors to
get a hair cut.’ ”
“And how did you correct it?”
asked the father.
“Why, I corrected it the only
way you could correct it, of course,
and Miss West just doubled up
laughing when she read it, and then
she read it aloud, and every one in
the class shouted. They didn’t
know it was my sentence, hut I
did.”
“But what did you write?”
“Why, father! What would any i
! one write? I wrote, ‘I went to the
tonsorial parlors to get my tonsils
cut,’ of course!”—Youth’s Compan
ion.
What He Caught.
“When I was a hoy,” said a rail
road official, “I was awful fond of
( fishing. My father had a rule of
I letting us go fishing Saturday after- 1
noon, provided we split up enough
i cord wood to do over Sunday. I
shall always remember one particu
: lar Saturday afternoon, when the
sport was the finest I ever had. The
water was blue under the Junej
1 skies, and you could look Into the
limpid depths and see the big bass
moving about, just aching for a
hook to strike them. I never knew
fish to bite better in my life. Why,
they actually”—
“But what did you catch?” asked
a listener impatiently.
‘ Who, me? Oh, I caught a lick
ing. You see, I had failed to chop
! the wood.”—lndianapolis Star. I
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gels Co., Savannah, Ga., for genu
ine Texas Rust Proof Seed Oats
land Georgia Grown Rye. Also
j Hay, Grain, Apples, Potatoes,
Cabbage and other produce.
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MONEY TO LOAN.
Money to loan at 6 and 7 per
cent, on improved farms.
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