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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1909)
SOUTH GEORGIA IS GOOD ENOUGH. Lawerenceville, Ga., June 28.’09. Editor Monitor: Many are the people here who seem to lie amazed when I tell them of the possibilities of South Ga. They ask me such questions as, How is the water? How are the people?\Vhat is the price of land? etc. There is not a correct under standing among these people about the condition of that sec tion known as South Georgia. There is more wealth and lux uries in North Ga. than South. Land here sells for $25 to SBS per acre and land too, which is not level and is very rocky. The homes are filled with finer art and the people own more au tomobiles and buggies, even the people who do not own homes en deavor to control stock and ve hicles. Every young man who works for wages or rents land must have a~Bhggy, It is very sel dom that you enter a home here without seeing an organ or piano. I have tried to convince several of these young men that it would be so much easier to own a home in South Georgia where land can be bought for five to 10 dollars per acre than to pay SBS here. They say if they knew that it was healthy and would have good water in South Georgia they would make the sacrifice and go at once. Many people have gone to that section and was sick while there, possibly from no local cause and came back and told their neigh bors that South Georgia was a death hole or grave yard. It is true that section has not luxuries or as many beautiful homes as this older section but when we consider the price of land and the possibilities of that section there is no further argument in favor of swinging on to“mother’s apron string”. The unsatisfactory features of South Georgia are the bad roads, and poor stock, and cattle, whieh could he improved and will be soon. I found the people all clever jtmd friendly. Montgomery county piasgiod patriotic citizens. The pride of the county is her public school system. I know of no abler or energetic school comm is sinner than Col. Hutcheson. 'file thing most needed is con* eolidatioo of the public schools, which would give longer terms and more efficient seryice. The people should congratulate them selves on having seven months p«bj;c term while inanv counties pave o nly five. The teachers here ill Gwinnett county have just pad their institute followed by the teachers examination j# which j there were Beventy-eight teachers AMMpdmd for license. I observe that ihere arc too many childaen try ing to teach and making it a step (to some other profession as law, medicine etc. I/'t ns fcftye pay enough to keep teachers who are prepared in the work. J see that the male teachers wlio arc competent can secure bet ter pay in soiother line of work sand hence given pp teaching, which leaves all this uftpoytant work of training the young idea (to shoot to younger and unexper •enced hands. ft is laudable in every young 1 lady or gentleman to educate themselves but there should be proper inducements in a pecun iary way to keep them in the j teaching profession. It is conce ded by all that there is no other opening which offers more oppor tunities for doing good, but many are forced to leave this noble work to others on account of the meat and bread proposition. I will close with aeontinued re gard for all your readers. Very truly, YV. A. Wood. BRITISH AUDIENCES. Thslr Habit of “Booing” Plays Thay Do Not Lika. It is a difficult thing for theater goers on this side of the water to understand the temper of audiences which attend the first performances of plays in England. Apparently the British first night audience noi only understands full well that it has the power practically to make or break a play, a manager or an actor, but is invincibly determined to exercise that power to the very utmost. At all events, the frankness and candor with which a Loudon au dience expresses its opinion of both play' and players are wholly unknown in this country. A player who is so unfortunate as not to please a London audience is not allowed to escape, as here, with a liberal sen tence of cold and contemptuous si lence or an occasional half hearted outbreak of ironic laughter—uot at all. He is liberally “booed,” while the outbreak of this typically Brit ish form of censure at the fall of the final curtain of a play that has not pleased is of so vindictive and poisonous a character that nobody who has heard it once is ever likely to forget it. Nor is the British audience al ways merely frankly and candidly brutal in its behavior toward those who have been so unfortunate as to fail to please it. Occasionally it exhibits a subtlety in its cruelty that is quite marvelous, considering that it is shown by not one person or by a small group of persons, but by a majority of a large assembly. This mob subtlety bikes the form of luring the author of a new play by means of spurious applause to make his appearance in front of the cur tain, only to he instantly greeted and overwhelmed by a perfectly cy clonic storm of furiously angry “booing.” “As for the ‘booing,’" said an American actress who played in London, “it is an old custom. There is no doubt that it is cruel. It is brutal and merciless, and no mistake, but there is this to say for it—it has done a lot to keep utter trash off the British stage and to keep the English theaters of the first class from swarming with incoippefept players who ought to be working as stenographers or ribbon clerks or at some other wage earning task in stead of being foisted upon the pub lic in positions for which they have no natural aptitude and for which they are totally unable to acquire the necessary skill. I think nobody at all acquainted with the facts will contend that the general average of ability among players in America is anything like the equal of that shown by the English. I don’t pre tend that the ‘booing’ custom is the nn}y pause of the British superiority in this respect, but I am firmly con vinced that it has a very great dual to do with the fact that in Loudon one seldom sees a grossly incompe tent player set forward to play a leading part requiring finished skill, #nd that certainly is not the case in Amerjc#. ‘Booing’ is heroic treat ment, but it results.” —New York Sun. Old and Blind and Stupid. No one could say a sharp or bit fey thing with more absolute cool ness than JLprd Westbury. After retiring from the office of lord chancellor he took a very active part in the house of lords sitting as a .court of appeal, where his colleagues were Lord Chelmsford and Lord Co lonsay. Lord St, Leonards, who was senior to them ali, never ub tended. One day Lord Westbury chanced to meet him and said to him, “My dear St. Leonards, w'hy don’t you come down and give us your valuable assistance in the house es lordg?” “Ah,” said Lord St, Leonards, “I should he of no use! I am old and blind and stupid.” “My dear lord,” said Westbury, “that does not signify in the least. I am old, Chelmsford is blind, and is stupid; yet we make the very best court pf appeal which has ever sat in that assembly."—Lon don Mail. j Specially Selected. A mild faced individual entered j the postoffice. •“j)o you keep stamps?” he asked, i “We do, sir,” answered the polite clerk, somewhat surprised. “What sorts do you keep?” pur-j sued the customer. “All the values that are issued, atv ” replied the official, “from a halfpenny upward.” “Could I see some penny ones ?” Promptly the office clerk pro- 1 duced a twenty shillings’ worth; sheet of penny perforateds and i spread it out upon the counter. “There you ale, sir,” he said. “If j you want penny stamps there are « few.” The mild faced individual looked i them over and then pointed to the j center stamp in the sheet. “I think,” he said, producing a p*gny, “I’ll take that one, please!” —London /Scraps. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JULY .8 1010. SHAKESPEARE’S LAW. Citations to Show That Ha Was In thi Fashion of His Time. No ordinary reader of Shake speare’s works can fail to he strucl bv the copious and ever recurrin< legal phraseology' witli which they are filled. Not only are law terms frequently employed with an a! most professional correctness ti give color and intensity to his sen tences, hut whole scenes are taker up with allusions to or discussions on purely legal matters, as in “The Merchant of Venice,” “Henry V.’ and the grave scene in “Hamlet, ’ not to mention other plays. Sr profound indeed is the knowledge displayed all through that no les? an authority on the subject thar Lord Campbell has told us that “tc Shakespeare’s law, lavishly as In propounds it. there can neither hr demurrer nor bill of exceptions nor writ of error.” To this marked feature of the works more than tc any other one might perhaps witli justice attribute the very origin of the whole Baconian theory'. The point is naturally of extreme im portance in the eyes of those whose only knowledge of the literature of the period is confined to Shake speare’s writings. But that impor tance shrinks rapidly to insignifi cance after a course of reading through the general dramatic liter ature of the time, in which, as n matter of fact, legal similes and al lusions are found to occur with about the same frequency us in Shakespeare’s works. So strong in deed is the legal coloring of all stage writing at the time that one is forced to believe that law talk must have been more common among lay men in those days and especially among laymen of a playgoing dis position (haq it has ever been dur ing any period since. There are in dications besides that some critics were getting tired of all this legal jargon, Dekker, for instance, who writes : “There is another ordinary at which your London usurer, your stale bachelor and your thrifty at torney do resort —the price, three pence; the rooms as full of com pany as a jail. If they chance to discourse it is of nothing but stat utes, bonds, recognizances, lines, re coveries, audits, rents, subsidies, sureties, inclosures, liveries, indict ments, outlawries, feoffments, judg ments, commissions, bankrupts, amercements and of such horrible matter.”—Gull’s Horq Hook, lUO9. Tourneur also: There ure old men at the present That are so poison’d with th’ affectation Os law words, having had many suits canvass’d. That their common talk Is nothing but barb’rous Latin. They cannot so much as pray, but In law, that their sins may he remov'd with A writ pf err<r *nf| tpelr sums fetch’d up to heaven with a rertturart. —Revenger's Tragedy. There is therefore no more diffi culty in Shakespeare’s case touch ing his knowledge of law than in the case of anv other playwright of his age.—Nineteenth Century. A man whose wife found much fault with him—probably with jus tice—on account of His untidiness, went to a tailor to order a suit of clothes. “What kind of goods do you want?” asked the tailor. “All wool and madly of tlii color.” replied thp customer, pre sen ting a sample. ‘‘lt is hard {o tell just what color this is," rejoined ttie* other, inspect ing it. “Where did you get it?” “1 cut it from my last suit.” “It doesn’t seem to have any fig ure.” “No. This is where some grease got on it. I cut out the entire spot. 1 w/mt something a grease spot won’t show on. See?” After a lengthy explanation the tailor succeeded in convincing him that there was no cloth of that kind in the market.—London Mail. A G r * n d Mercery. A highland girl who had been in •erviee in Dundee and had gone to a place farther south called upon her old mistress on her way north to visit her friends. She was invited to take dinner with the family, and her master tpked a blessing on the meal os usual, when the girl said: “My maister, ye maun ha’e a gran’ memory. That’s the grace ye said when I was here sax years syne.”—London Telegraph. So It Would Beem. They were talking about silver ware down at the general stire the other day. Farmer Bellows mi id he] thought this firm turned out more silverware than any other, and some of the rest disagreed with him. It was Farmer Stubbs settled it. “Reoms teh me.” sa’d Fanner] Stubbs, "these here Sterling people do a lot o’ business. Voh see their name on most everything.”—Sub urbanite. 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