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Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Mar. 3, 1910.
DON’T BE AN IDLER,
Th«* world is no place for idler*. !
(iod has 11 mission lor everything!
he has created. Nature's great,;
warm heart is full of life anti!
purpose, and wo see in budding!
plan! and flower and tree 1
how her highest aim is ever t<>
reach upward, to climb, to bud'
to bloom and to bear truit for the
glory for her all-wise Maker.
So must we st rive, body, soul,
and mind,as we have opportunity. !
If the body is weak and incapable !
of active labor, let the soul gar
den have greater culture. Let its
leaves of thought spring into!
freshness and verdure every day.
Let. its flowers of love anil kind-,
ness blossom into sweetness and
beauty, and make glad the world’s
wayside. Lot its fruits of joy and
fuilli and peace reach ripened
fruition and crown a life Mjwnt in
the Master’s service. Oh, improve
time! Let this thought take poss-j
essioii of the mind: Time is pass- 1
mg : and the years are going; let |
every busy little moment have its j
weight with you. Don’t be an 1
idler. How many, many hours !
are wasted in thinking that wo;
might have been, or planning
what we hope to be, instead of
working ourselves up to what we 1
ought to be. Opportunity is one
of Clod’s most precious gifts. Take
care of it. Awake to effort while ,
the day is shining, for the time to
labor will not always last. He-j
member that no regret, no repent-'
mice, no repining can bring back I
again to us t he buried past.
Today is the day of bat t le. The j
brunt is perhaps hard to boar;but j
remember that tomorrow may not i
be for us. All winter long the j
plants have been apparently sleep
ing; but they have not, been idle, j
Soon we see them bursting forth |
into blossom and bloom, reaching!
up to Clod’s heaven and his glori
ous light.. Let us, like them, '
reach up from our darkened homes j
into realms of light and beauty
mid peace, into a world of glon- 1
oils endeavor, knowing that the
light of the pi rleet day awaits tht*
earnest striver at the end. —Se-
lected.
LITTLE MISTAKES.
We W ill go back to the days be
fore you worked for your living,"
says Anna Steese Richardson 111
the Woman,s Home Companion
for March, “when you were a
kiddie wiih a perfectly normal
lear of pain. You ran a sliver j
deep into your linger. You goug- j
ed at it with a needle, but drew
only a little blood for your pains, j
So you made a secret t rip to the
medicine-closet, rubbed salve over
the spot and trusted blindly that
the sliver would come out some- j
how and the wound would heal, i
Os course, it you Imd gone at once
to “mother” and had her take
out the splinter, there would have
been no need forsnlveor bandage. 1
“Hut you said ‘mother’ would!
hurt and so you endured the irri- j
tat.mg little ache until one day
‘mother’ saw the dirty bandage. !
removed it and found an ugly in-1
thiminod spot on your linger. It
was a sickening moment w hen the i
wound was opened and the bit of
wood drawn out' but you had had
your lesson. Never again did yon
allow a splinter to fester.
“Our little mistakes in the bus
iness world are like splinters in
the linger ot childhood, and it wo
never let them tester more than
Once, we are at least faced toward
success. \\ e can t score success
until we have learned never to re
pent a mistake, never to score
lailure on one line a second time.
“And what inexcusably foolish
little splinters hold us back! 1
dropped 111 to see a business friend
tlie other day, aud missed a cer
tain bronze-haired girl who had
been taking dictation during my
last visit.
“Oh,l simply had to let her go,'
remarked my friend, w ith obvious
regret. ‘She was extremely satis
factory in many ways, but she
never could remember dates or
addresses. She was forever ask
ing me the day ot the week or the
date. The idea of keeping a calen
dar ut baud never gripped her.
And 1 never dared trust her to
look up addresses. The telephone
book seemed full of blauk pages
to her!’
“A peculiar phase of inaccura
cy winch that bronze-haired
stenographer must overcome be
fore she can hold a position, let
u loue take u step toward success 1 ' I
Kditor Sam Fackler of the Ha
/.lehurst News expresses what
should he the policy of every
1 weekly newspaper, and daily as
well, in not openly and above
! board supporting any one man for
public office. We have had but j
! few appeals of this nature, while
our <1(1 county puts out more than
an average number of candidates
each campaign. We are in the |
country newspaper business for
what, there is in it, just as a iner
•limit sells goods for a legitimate
profit, and during the past fifteen
<r -ixt<-en years have done enough
charity work to establish a Salva
tion Army poet. Hut it is rather
monotonous.
'
Don't judge a man by his!
'clothes, (bid made one and the j
, tailor made the other. Don’t !
iiidg'* a man by his family, for :
1 Gain belonged to a good family, j
Don’t judge a man by his failure!
in life, for many a man tails lie- 1
| cause he is too honest to succeed.
Don’t judge a man by the house!
I he 1 iv*•, in, for a lizard and a rat
{often inhabit the grandest struct
(ll re. When a man dies they who
* survive him ask how much life
insurance and property he left
1 behind. The good angel who 1
bends >v< r the dying man asks j
what good deeds he had done. —
Dawson News.
Now the advent of the spring
! poet and other summertime evils.
CHRISTIAN WORKERS
TO MEET AT DUBLIN,
so the Preachers and Christian
Workers of Montgomery County:
Permit me to call your atten
tion to tin- coining Laymen’s Mis
sionary and Christian Workers’
Convention to be held in Dublin,
Ga., March l. r )-20, inclusive The
! list of speakers and subjects to be
discussed oiler a rare opportunity
|to tins immediate community.
The program committee has spar- j
eil neither time nor money in its
el fort to furnish such speakers to I
present pertinent subjects to all
a ho avail themselves of the meet
| ing.
Permit me to call attention to
the fact that, to the Sunday school
workers this convention offers spe
ieial inducements, for the entire
afi.ernoon session of each day will
i bi» devoted t > some phase of the
, Sunday school work and also a
-'lies ol talks by Dr. R. C. Gran
| berry on the Gospel of Matthew,
{ which is the book from which the j
i Sunday school lessons will be tak- {
- n for the year. The advantages
that this meeting idlers to the
laymen upon the liveliest ques
tions that confronts the Christian
1 church today, namely, missions,
is unusually fine. Every phase
->f home and foreign missions will
I be handled by competent men,
j for it is the purpose of those hav
ing the meeting in charge that
| every needy field shall receive its
j due consideration. To those in- 1
(■wrested m the question of person-;
ial evangelism and deepening of!
spiritual bfe, either personally or ;
in the church, we most heartily:
-•oinmond t he various sermons and
scries of talks presented in tho
1 program. It is the desire of those
in charge that each church shall -
send a delegate, whose entertain-;
1 merit will be furnished free and
that every pastor attend from the
opening night of the banquet- to!
the dose, whose entertainment
will also be furnished free.
W - are glad to announce that
the railroads will furnish cheap
rates, the exact fare to be an
nounced later, and should the
crowds warrant it. we toel sure in
stating that special trains can be
- cured in order that they might
remain over for the evening ser
i vices.
There will !».- no fees attached,
t-> any of the >ervices, save a small
i< e for each plate at tho banquet-,
which will be held on Tuesday
veiling, at which time three of
the strongest speakers on three of 1
the livest questions will be pro
s.-nted t the banquet. Believing
that this meeting present* a rare
opportunity, and earnestly desir-j
ing the attendance of all men and
women interested in the further
ance ot the work of Christ, 1 take
this method of speaking thus
frankly and freely to you Fra
ternally.
KF.V. JOHN M. HI TLER.
Pastor Methodist Church,Dublin,
•Oa. {
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1010
CAN’T BLUFF GOV. |
BROWN THAT WAY.
»
The latest political gossip to
corne out ot Atlanta is that ex-}
Gov. Hoke Smith w ill run for gov
ernor this year, if Gov. Brown of*
fers for re-election; but if Gov.
Brown will content himself with
one term and allow entirely new
candidates to take the field, the
former governor will refrain from
entering the race.
So many canards are originated
in Atlanta, that we are inclined to
label this as a story of this char
acter. But it is quite possible that ;
it may have emanated from
friends of the former governor or
| even perhaps from the office boy
in the ante-room to his private
law office. Its purpose may be to
frighten Gov. Brown, to discour
age him from entering ihe com- 1
ing contest. It is a covert threat
that the Smith interests will make
it hot for the present executive if
he has any ambition to succeed
himself, and that the best thing
for him to do is to retire graceful
ly, without the trouble of a second
j campaign and its possibilities of
1 defeat.
That, at least, is what one may
.apparently read between the lines
[of this latest gossip; but if that is
; the intent it is a pretty safe asser
i tion that it will signally fail to ac
i complin!) its purpose. “Little Joe”
l was not afraid to tackle the Goli-
I ath of Georgia politics two years
1 ago, when everything seemed hope
less, when no one was at first in
clined to take him seriously. He
certainly will not be afraid to
come 111 > to the scratch again,with
the Smith prestige so tremendous
ly weakened and his own so vast
ily increased. Governor Brown is
no braggart: but he is neither a
political craven. Some people
doubtless think because he is not
bombastic, continually boastful,
indulging in fireworks and threats
or persistently raising a clamor
! about what he has done or propos
es to do,that Gov. Brown is timid,
I fearful and easily to be driven;
! from the field. But such people)
j were never more mistaken in their!
lives. When the time for nomi
nations come, “Little Joe” will be
right in the center of the field;!
and back of him will be 110,000 j
voters who supported him two
years ago, plus many, many thou
sands of those who did not sup
port him then, but are now
staunch Brown men.
Those who are so industriously
! trying to drive Gov. Brown from
the field as a probable candidate
; for another term,are wasting their
| efforts; they will accomplish noth
ing. The people of Georgia will
demand that Gov. Brown enter
the race and then they will pro- |
ceed to re-elect him with a major
ity that will make the last one |
sink into significance.—A meric us J
Times-Recordcr.
And the purchase of Western
grain goes on, with thousands of
acres practically idle in the South.
! We say idle, for the average farm
;is not cultivated to its utmost
| yielding capacity. When our peo
i pie loarn the importance of raising
foodstuffs at home, they can pro
claim themselves independent of j
the trusts and high prices, but!
when, O, when, will this time ar
rive?
NEW ENGLAND WILLOW.
There is an enormous willow j
tree on the estate of the late!
; Thomas Groom, Humphrey street, i
Dorchester. Probably it is the!
largest willow in the common
wealth and perhaps in all New j
England. More than breast high
from J,he ground or. to be exact. 5
feet, ins girth is 28 feet 2 inches
and its tallest twig is about 70
j feet from the ground.
It is a great shadow maker on
sunny days, having a branch
spread of 110 feet, and its limbs,
all of which have been broken by
vents and the storms of years, are
greater in diameter than many
j old trees. Nobody knows the age
iof this ancient willow. Seventy-}
j five years ago, when Mr. Groom i
acquired the place, this huge tree
was one of the neighborhood at
tractions. and was mentioned as
the big w illow.
WIFE WOULD NOT PRAY,
HUSDAND DIVORCED.
Topeka, Kan., —Because his
wife would not pray, A. K. Barker, j
73 years old. was granted a divorce
by the district court here yester
day. Mrs. Barker is 03 years old.
Barker testified that for 15 years
he had prayed and read the Bible
after supper, but his wife wbuld
1 not bow her head.
Bhe told me she was a Christian
when we were married, said Bar
ker. but the Sunday after she
would not go to church, nor did
she go on the Sundays following.
After supper she would not kneel
when 1 prayed. When 1 asked
her to kneel she said, “it hurts
i my knees.” 1
RELEASED AFTER THREE
YEARS IN HOSPITAL.
New York, Feb, 28—“Typhoid 1
Marv,” whose real name is with-,
! held at the request of the New
York health authorities, is a free,
woman again, after having been
confined in city hospitals off and
on, tor three years, because phy
sicians said that she was a living
receptacle for typhoid germs and
a menace to public health.
She is a cook and is considered
particularly daugerotts in that ca
pacity as likely to transmit dis
ease, but with the understanding
' that she is to cook no more, the
health commissioner has announc
ed that the department hus decid
| ed to release her.
The case is unique in medical
records. Repeated cases of typhoid
i were discovered in families for
whom the woman had cooked. The
authorities made an investigation
which resulted in her detention on
the theory that she was a walking
receiver for typhoid germs, harm
less to herself, but easily commu
nicated to others.
BIG SALE SURE
FOR FERTILIZERS.
Following the action of the
state convention of the Farmers’
Union of Georgia in urging the
use of 600 pounds of commercial
fertilizer per acre during the com
ing Bcason, it is expected that the
sale of commercial fertilizer in
Georgia this year will break all re
cords and that the yield ot lint
cotton per acre will be corres
pondingly increased.
Reports from all sections of the
state are to the effect that the
farmers of Georgia are reducing
file cotton acreage but are increas
ing the amount of commercial
tertilizers used per acre, with a
view to making an even better
showing in the net-result this year
than last year, which was perhaps
the most prosperous crop in the
history of the state.
The sage advice given at this
Farmer’s Union convention was
as follows:
“Take an acre in good heart;
give it proper preparation, plant
ing and cultivation, apply 600
pounds of commercial fertilizer
and it will yield one bale of cot
ton ; deducting all cost and the
net profit at present price will be
about $50.”
It has been repeatedly urged
that fertilizers cost less than labor
and it now seems that the Geor
gia planters are going to put this
sage saying into active practice.
Commercial fertilizer is composed
of cotton seed meal, kainit and
! phosphoric acid, which chemical
tests and analysis have proven to
be the best that can possibly be
used on the old red hills of Geor
gia.
The fertilizer season is just
opening up now aud the indica
tion is to the effect that there
will be a great demand for it
throughout the state,
BLACKSMITH - SHOP.
All kinds Repair Work, Iron
and Wood. Fine line of Bicycle
Material on hand. High-Grade
Repair Work on Bicycles, Sewing
Machines, Guns, Revolvers and
j Clocks. See me before placing
your work; I will save you money.
Work promptly and neatly done
J. SELLERS, : : AILEY, GA
A. L. Lanier,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON, GA.
Will Practice in all the Courts of
the State.
MONEY TO LOAN
i On Improved Farms in
Montgomery County at a Small
Rate of Interest.
J. E. Hall, Soperton.
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