The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, January 28, 1909, Image 5
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 , 111 I WISDOM SEEKS SAFETY! * and SAFETY Means Contentment £ * This Bank stands for SAFETY, first, last and all the time. ■jji It is Rigidly Inspected, and tlio Officers nre in Touch with Every Detail ot all Times. 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