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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1909)
NEW CODE FOUND TOiBE CORRECT. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. fi.—The code commission, appointed by the last session of the legislature to exam ine the Hopkins code with a view to its acceptance by the state, has finished its work for the time being and the members have ‘ re turned to their homes. The code prepared by Judge Hopkins was carefully gone over, section by section, and compare* 1 with the code of 1890 and the or iginal statutes. The commission has taken special pains to know what the law is in each/case and it is believed that the |new code will be found to contain fewer er rors than the last, one. The work of Judge Hopkins has been found to be accurate and padns-taking. Judge Hopkms has some addit ional work to do on the code in finishing it up, now that the code commission has examined, after which there will be another meet ing of the commission to finish up and prepare a report to the legis lature. Tile commission has decided to publish the new code ill two vol umes. As the supreme court an notations are to be left out , the code will not be as bulky as the present one, although it will con tain more law. f As the impression has been cre ated in certain quarters that the code aunt mission is responsible for leaving out the annotation, it should be stated that, in this mat ter, the commission had no dis cretion. The matter of including or leaving out the annotation was thoroughly threshed out last sum mer, both in the general judiciary committee and on the floor of the house. And it was, after thorough discussion of all phases of the question, that the general assem bly decided to leave the anno tations out of the new code, and the joint resolution creating the commision makes it mandatory upon them to do so. DISFRANCHISED. A young man went into the tax collector’* office this morning to pay taxes. When his receipt was properly filled out and registra tion books .were opened to him,lie signed his name in a very legible hand, then answered the required questions which the collector pro pounded. ‘‘Can you read?’’ “'1 can.” “Can you write?” “Yes, sir.” “And you own considerable property, judging from the amount of your taxes,” continu ed the collector. “Well, how old are you?” “I will be in May.” The collector scratched his name from the registration books and said : “1 am sorry, but you cannot vote in the October elec tion.” Disfranchised! This is the result of the new registration law. When this man becomes of age,which will be next May, he will be an eligible voter but the law says he can not vote. When the election is held in Octo ber he will be bordering onto years of age, but he can’t vote. This man, and Ik- is in the same position with others throughout the state, is deprived of Ins right'. He is disfranchised ! The law says a man must be of a certain age on the day of the election must own a certain amount of property, must be able to read and write intelligently. II be does not fill these require ments, he is disfranchised. So fur so good. This tends to eliminate the buying for a song, the vote of the ignorant voter —and surely a man who cannot read, nor write! has no property, is not - capable of saying who must fill an office. but when a man can do uli these tilings, owns property and is of the required age, surely he owns a vote. And there i- not a man living who has the right to take it front him—yet they have done this very thing. —Griffin Daily Herald. * | GAME ANIMALS OF MEXICO. j . They Include Nearly Every Species Found In North America. it may he said that every specie' of game-animal found on the North ’ , American continent anywhere south >’ |of the fiftieth parallel north, ex , cept moose, caribou and elk, i- j , found in Mexico. The siber tip hear ranees all through the high Sierra Madres wherever there are : good feeding grounds, and w her ' ever there are grizzlies one may ex . | pent also the huge cinmymon hear. | I the grizzly’s close neighbor. The common brown hear is not so nu j merous, hut the black bear is quite 1 plentiful. The white faced hear is more rare, though it is sometimes I ; found in the coast mountains. I ! could not learn that this species had ever been seen in the Sierra j Madres. ‘ ! The higher mountains nt all ele • ’rations and even the lower foot I hills abound with white tail. deer, i -I On the Pacific side they are mi , | merous almost to the coast. I saw , | them just outside the city of (’uli | ! acan. They are very plentiful in I Tepic territory, and 1 can vouch ■ t from personal experience for the i I I quality of their venison. At many ; . I mountain cabins where I slopped j i thev were household pets, where a fawns they had been found ami I 1 : raised by children. The mule, burro or blaektail in : - habits portions of the states of Phi . I luiahua, Coahuila and Sonora. , ! The mountain lion lurks in all j ‘ the high country, and along with ; him is sometimes found, but sel- j dom killed, the American panther. - All the American great eats, in fact, - inhabit both the Pacific and gulf J coasts and the foothills. The small American leopard is very numerous all along the hot country coasts, and the Mexican jaguar, known lo - rally by foreigners as the tiger, r preys upon cattle and ranch uni 5 mals to such a degree as to he very much of a nuisance. There are some timber wolves, but they are not; dangerous. The ■ one animal that is rcallv dangerous i is the javalin, or Mexican wild hoar j . j It runs in large bands and w ill kill j both man and horse. If a javalin is ' j wounded the whole hand will turn : j upon the hunter, and woe to him if j I 1 he has not provided for escape or safety. The javalin is very numer ■ • I ons in some sections, luit if not mo lested it 1* not likely to attack. Dillon Wallace in Outing Magazine A Scheme That Failed. “Did you hear about. Samuels ?’ j ‘j asked Mrs. dray mare's husband. 1 j “Xo, l didn’t hear about Sam i - uels,” the lady answered. “When . : you have anything to tell why don’t ; you tell it ?” “Yes, dear. Wei}, Samuels was ] ’ | going home the other night when a 1 ’ foot pad shot at him, and the ball hit ■ a latchkey in Samuels’ vest pocket, j , and his life was saved. S<»you see i | what good a latchkey is.” “Indeed! If Samuels had been j | going home at a reasonable hour lit j ! wouldn’t have met anv footpad; I second, he carries iX'.OOO insur ance, payable to his wife, and if it had it not been for that key she would he a rich widow now. So if , you are hunting around for a latch ’ key you will have to bring home I | ‘•unite better story than that one, ! i that’s uli. I’m going to bed now. and out goes the gas in two ticks Latchkey, indeed!”- London (ilobe I Playing the Part. An official of the United Slates : bureau of fisheries said recently of ; a fishing excursion : “I once made a fishing excursion to a stream that flowed behind a lunatic asylum. As I sat and smoked on the bank, watching my cork, I noticed a '•(range object flouting down toward me with the current. 1 I saw that it was a man. He had all hi- clothes on, and he was swim tiling in the strangest way. I vt-ri ly believe every part of him was submerged but one nostril. “ ‘Hi !’ 1 shouted. ‘What are you doing there?’ “He lifted his head from beneath • the surface, and then, before draw | ing it underneath again, he snap ped : “‘Sh-sli! Don’t interfere! I’m a submarine!’ ” ♦ Tiny Screws. \\ underfill skill is displaced in , the manufacture of miniature time pieces that are used to ornament : i bracelets arid other pieces of jewel- ! rv. The part' of the-e miniature watches are iiece--arily as perfect as tlio-e used in a much larger time piece, but much smaller. Thev must be examined under a powerful mi croscope. . J Some of the 'mall screws are onlv \ ■ one twclve-hundred-aml-fiftieth part < of an inch in diameter and seven > one-thousandth part of an inch in l length. An idea of their size can > 'be formed when it i- estimated that i it would require about 100,000 of £ 1h» -e delicate parts to fill an ordi- >i nary thimble. , i i l Till’ MONTGOMERY MONITOR TMI'HSDAY. DEC tOnd J The BANK OF SOPERTON I if r | Capital Stock. 5i.>,000.00 § Surplus and nmli\ ided profits 50.000.00 | Total resources over 5|00,000.00 » v is General Hanking Husine" Ci.nductcd, Accounts Solicited, « | | | Interest on Time Deposits | $ DIRECTORS: « sS *•* » N. L. (iillis, M. I>. llillis. .1. I! (i ('.Miner, \V. ('. l’utrill, $ W. D. Martin, M. II V-w-nm, \,.1. Williamson. ' » Ol I 1C I RS: & J; N. L. Gill is. President .1 II (>'('■• 11 imr, V ice-l’ivsiiimit. 8 .1. K. Hall. Ca'hier. | SO Pl'! I {TON, < i L.( )li(« I A. | 8 I I 'or I!I ’.ST It LSI' I,’l S, Ship Your | COTT O N 1 T<* | THE mu i FLANNERY CO. | COTTON FACTORS I .SAVANNAH, (iA. TlMin V vcars expert experience | M in selling col ton §2 IINiIIKST market pi ices i»uaran- fc t? Iced a? j|j LII>LIL\L advances on consign- || §? molds fe S k j|j ALL business nil rusted tons "ivon j| prompt attention j|j i % w | We have 1 | no schemes § to promote £ i OUR PRICES I % ® as t bey can consist- (*, % ,m ‘ i,s LOW' cut I v be | Quality and Service | I Considered | ® (#} i & | A TRIAL SUFFICIENT | i MOUNT VERNON DRUG CO. I l ® .1 W . F. ( I IUMK, M'.ii. {*> ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND! \ S We bn ve Hi is sum (.* H * i.d 1 1 ) • *)) lo Iciel on Montgomery » » Count v Farms. I’ropert v must ■•* ;.■ <• *t and o<cnpied by g owimr. Have loaned throng!:! aid South Curolina tc>r Jff years. Write at once d y>n i*< <<i luml-. » I 1 .las. Lrank & Son, Augusta, Ga. | Ki' 1 The Panic is Over! 1 Slj As an indication that th* pttnie is over, time# tire prosper- is ; fclj mis. and money more plentiful than ever, we note with fS gg pleasure t lie numhor of new accounts that are jgC I jS being opened. We’ve opened more I new account# since Sept. 1 than : gr ever before in the same ffl | period of time n | jjr? Let This be Your Invitation g ; tv to open an account with us if you have never before done n 1 m so. \\'e will appreciate it, and yon will appreciate SEX ; m it, when von have tried us a while jg \ If You Have a Deal inf Prospect j| ; and have not enough money to swing it, call on us. We K i will help you out . We are now making loans CjX due in the fall of lUIO : | THE MT. VERNON BANK | I Mt. Vernon, <i«. pjj _ i Horses and Mules. i CARLOAD JUST RECEIVED. . See Them at Our Nw Barn AND TAKE FIRST CHOICE. ■ Nothing hut High-Class Stock to be Found i in the Lot. Call at once. There Going. Mcßae & Bro., MOUNT VERNON, GA. 1 I—i1 —i -i — l Patrick & Company l l VAX "'J*™m«,'. Tarrytown, Ga. j \ Staple and Fancy Groceries \ > Dry Goods, Notions, c i 4 > Fruits, Produce i > ... 1 > Fresh and Reliable Goods at Fair Prices j > A Trial is Solicited jj w<VVUW vmM»VVWWni««VWWWVVvvt UMMtiMUMMMMMWIMMII ! SEABOARD AIR LINE R’Y, ' These arrivals and depart ores published only a# iidormat ion. and are not guaranteed. j! \ Sclicdul(‘ Effective .lannary »‘kl, 1909. ij * —1 1— »"■" I; ]j v . Mt. VK It NON ALL TRAIN’S DAILY. ; j0:28 u. m. Fur Helena, Abbeville, Cordele, || Amerieus, Columbus, j; 8:22 p. rn. Montgomery, und all points west. i j: \~ a. in. For Lyons, Collins, Savannah, •1 f,Ji p m, and all points east. ! i I For furl her informal ioii, reservations, rates, etc., see your ; nearest Seaboard Ticket. Agent, or write ! ! j: R. 11 ST AX SELL, A. G. L’. A., j | j! Savannah, - * * ... Gkoroia. 'mmhwwvwmmwwumwS
