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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1909)
T Y\& r\or\tgorr\&ry Monitor PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Kilteri'd at Hip PoHtofflce in Mr. Vernon, (in. ns Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Prop. $1 a ' ear » in Advance. **-|.c|{al nlvertim rnoiita must invariably be paid t» advance, at tin- le«»l rale, ami w the law | direct*; and must be in hand not later than Wedm *dav moriiiiiK of the rtral week of inaertlon , Mt. Vet non, Georgia, Thursday Morning, July K, 1909 J, GEORGIA MUST CONTROL I HER WATER POWER. One of tin- most important xub j(»ctM before our people to-day is < tint proper conservation of our 1 water power. Our national an- ‘ thonties are working ulong this ( line and a few of our states have |, awakened to the critical danger , we art! in from monopolization. | Our magazines have for sortie time Inteii devoting a good deal of 1 attention to this subject. Here in Georgia our water power | is fast, passing into the hands of companies to be used for their own individual profit. They are taking our people s S land and water power for nothing if they can get it, fora song if the people will accept the offer, and by threat or the use of emi nent domain, they are taking much of our property without j just, compensation. lly the charters we give these companies we are giving away for ever the rich inheritance we havei in our water courses, for it is: shown that in the future who ever controls the water power of our land will control all our railroads ull our manufacturing enterprises, all our farming interests —in fact | our very bread and meat will con tribute to enrich the corporations while our people us a whole will become poorer and poorer under tli« iron hand of this monopoly. \V * * do not want to retard develop ment of our state, but develop, moot of a section does not mean merely the use of its powers, but the use of them to the best pur pose and the best advantage, for the greatest good to the greatest | number, and development that j looks toward the future for the people as well as to the present j benefit. Mr. John 1.. Matthews, an ex pert on water power and its use, | is writing in Hampton’s Maga zine a scries of articles on this subject which all our people would do well to read .The Outing Magazine devotes a department to the same interest, and our thinking men all over the country j are t rying to awaken our people | in our own interest. Last year in the Georgia Legis lature a bill was introduced to give away even more effectually all our claims to our wealth as it is contained in our streams. The bill was tabled, but the interests of monopoly and greed are doing all they can to accomplish their object at tills session. It is to be hoped that our legislators upon whom the responsibility rests will keep their eyes open and not allow any such bill to bo hauled over 1 their heads. EDITOR FACKLER’S PLAY PROVED GREAT SUCCESS. llazlehurst, Ga., July B.—The ( play gotten up by S. A. Faultier, editor of tin* llazlehurst News, entitled “The bps and Downs of •i Country Editor, Mostly Down*," was pulled off at the school audi torium last uight to a large au dience. It was indeed the best show that this town has had. The play is original from start to fin ish, and while several pathetic scenes touching the country edi tor’s life was enacted, yet there was sufficient- mirth mingled with it to elicit spontaneous applause. Home talent altogether put on the production. The play will l»e reproduced at Douglas, Fitzgerald, Ocilla and Valdosta, and then be taken to the larger cities. GEORGIA’S EDUCATION AL INSTITUTIONS. There is no feature in the life of the people of Georgia which has shown greater improvement j during the past new years than j Ihi- educational institutions of* the state which have increased in j number and efficiency until they j now occupy an important posi tion. Georgia has long enjoyed the unique distinction of having with- j in her borders the oldest insitu tion in the world for the educa tion of women, and whild this in- 1 dividual college has continued to j llourish and gather str"iigth, oth er schools and colleges have 1 sprung up throughout out the; stutc until now this devotion to the cause of education, not only in the common school curriculum, but in the higher branches, has begun to bear fruit and we have a; system of which we may well be proud. It would be difficult to say whether the universities for the education of young men or the I liigest order of intelligence, sem inaries for young women have made the greater progress. Each j has easily kept pace with the march of educational advance-; iiient along all its various lines. 1 The faculties consist of men of the highest order of intelligence, selected for their special fitness for the work to which they ure called. The latest developments’ in pedagogy are at once adopted, and year after year thousand of j graduates are leaving these halls of learning better equipped than ; they would have been even ten j years for the battle of life. Due attention is paid to the literary courses, but there is an ; increasing realization of tne fact ■ ■ | the end and aim of higher oduca-; lion is along practical lines, j Hence has come an increase in i tlns number of school or depart- | innnts in which the trade and * handicrafts are taught. Techni- ! cal training has reached a high degree of perfection, and tin* grad i nates of these schools find a ready demand for their talents. The agricultural schools have had a notable influence upon the development of thut. branch of education which makes two blades grow where but one grew before, j land the statp is offering substan-1 I tiulencouragement to this depart-1 j meiit in every congressional dis trict of the state as well as in the j parent college at Athens. The science of domestic eco- ! noiny is likewise receiving due at tention. Tin' housewives in Geor- 1 gia homes have a better grasp of ; the little problems which means' so much to the well-being of the : citizen, and tins improvement is* relieded in a conspicuous degree : in the rising generation. There is adequate training for the young women who must face ; the battle of life m the business j world. A score of avenues are iopen to her today where but one! existed a few years ago, and at a normal cost she is able to obtain t t his industrial t raining. On the whole, Georgia has good ; reason to bo proud of her educa tional institution in every depart ment. There was much to lie done when the attention of the people was first turned in good earnest to th ese questions,but we have made marked progress already, and be hind the movement lies an earnest purpose to carry forward the work to an even higher state of effi ciency. A number of these educational institutions are represented in the 1 edition which The Journal presents to its readers today. It is well worthy of careful perusal and preservation for future reference.* 1 —Atlanta Journal. i THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, .IDLY 8, 1000. THE SLY FOX. Dead In tha Dairy, but Lively When . He Got Outeide. Several years ago at an old sash- j joned farmhouse culled Tittle Hall, I in Boxted, a small village lying lie- i tween Sudbury and Bury St. Ed- j inunds, Suffolk, England, there lived a farmer and his wife who j Thought much of their cows and ilniry, but they were rather pestered with foxifs. as the squire of Boxted j Hall, an ancient mansion, being lord : of the manor, did not allow them s to be molested, as they were re- : served for sporting, and so it hap- j pencil that the farmer’s wife on j going into her dairy one morning was horrified to see a fox of an enormous size lying dead, as she supposed, on the floor. The dairies at that time were large iyid airy, with large lattice windows and floors paved with clinker bricks, which were often scrubbed down with a birch broom and much wa ter. A brick was left out of the wall level with the floor for a sink hole, where all the refuse was wash ed out. The fox in his nightly prowls around the house appears to have scented the cream through the windows or sink hole and, as he would like to taste it, squeezed himself through the hole into the dairy and made his way to the cream pot, and as it was so very nice lie ate it all up. lie swelled himself up to such a size that he could bv no means get back through the hole again, and, hearing footsteps coming, he lay down on the floor and feigned to be dead. The lady, suspecting what he had been doing, looked into her cream pot, and, finding it all gone, she was so exasperated that she took him up in a rage, thinking he was dead, and with an ugly word threw him out into the back yard; but, to her great consternation and dismay, as soon as revnard found he was at large and once more free to use his legs he bounded off at full speed, leaving the lady to grieve over the escape of the audacious and crafty thief. Flower Trade of the Scilly Islet. The Scilly isles, five in all, lie out. in the Atlantic forty miles off the Cornish coast. The develop ment of their flower trade has changed them from poverty strick en spots into islands of the blessed. Not many years ago the inhabitants eked out a precarious and scanty living by potato culture, but one day a man of wise forethought named Trevelick came to the con clusion that flowers would bring a richer harvest. He could see them growing riotously in the little gar dens, and he collected a few bulbs here and a few there until he had j enough to start business with, and ! the first consignment he sent to j Covent gardens brought prices that i are now spoken of with something like reverence. With the passing of the years flower culture has set tled into a well organized trade, providing occupation for everybody who wants to work on the islands.— From a Tarring (England) Letter to New Orleans Times-Deinocrat. Explanation Called For. Alfred (whose sporting opportu- j nities have been limited by parental degree)—Papa, what does it mean 1 ‘ bv base on balls? Papa (who is reading an account of the latest heavyweight fight)— 1 . Alfred, you could better employ yourself with your Sunday school lesson. I'm too busy now to ex plain. Alfred (still thirsting for knowl edge)—Did it mean the same as base on balls when you telephoned j last night that as mamma was away \ you were going out on a bat? i Mamma (who is always listening) —Benjamin Ridgely, you will take time right now to make two expla nations, with the most important i one coming to me. —Exchange. Flogging tKe Bridegroom. The singular custom of the bride groom being flogged by the rela tions of the bride on the marriage day still obtains among at least three peoples of the world—in the extreme northeast of Siberia, in Borneo and among some of the Arab tribes of the Nubian desert. In ail three cases the idea seems to 1 lx* that the bridegroom in order to prove himself “a man’’ must lie able to undergo a considerable amount of physical suffering with out flinching. Not Quito Certain. “How many children have you?’’ said the tourist affably. “I dnnno exactly,” answered the tired looking woman. "You don’t know ?” “Not for certain. Willie’s gone fishin'. Tommy’s breakin’ in a colt. Georgie's borrowed his father’s shotgun to go huntin’ an' Esmeral da Ann is thinkin’ of elopin’. I never know how many I've got till •upper time comes, so’s 1 can count 'em." — Washington Star. r Stop Pain [headache Take NEURALGIA ONE “Dr Mites' Ami of the Little p * 10 p,lls b *‘* bwn used by me for rheu- , Tablets I marie paint, headache I and pain in back and J iL a tides, and in ever> and the ctse chey vc n • • _ satisfaction.” Pain IS Henry Couner, boonton, N. Y. . Gone ? AMI THE PAIN! OF ? RHEUMATISM \ >r,J SCIATICA I 25 Doses 25 Cents j Your Druggist sells Dr. Miles’ Pills 2 and be it authorized to return the price of the first j package lonly! If It falls to benefit you. J MoneytoLoan I On improved farms on the north j side of Montgomery County, for jj the term of live years at low rate j of interest. 5 Bring deeds when making apj>l i- | cations for loan. Write or see me j at once if you need money. 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For Helena, Abbeville, Cordele, j; Ainericus, Columbus, ;! jj p. m. Montgomery, and all points west. !> 5:17 a. in. For Lyons, Collins, Savannah, |! ;! 4:58 p. m. and all points east. !; F<>r furtlier information, reservations, rates, etc., see your ]! j; nearest Seaboard Ticket Agent, or write R. II STANSELL, A. G. P. A., jj jj Savannah, - - - ... Georgia. ;! imww** If you use High-Class Stationery, you can get it at The Monitor office—The Very Best;
