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The /'■'lontgorriery Monitor.
PUBLISHED EVERY THIiRSOVY. OFFfCUI OMAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Knferod at the Postofflin in. Mt. Vernon. (la. a* Second-Glass Mail Matter.
H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Owner. J* 8 Year, in Advance.
mlvcrUfwmimlwi must invariably Ik paid in o<h im'e, nt tin- lepal rate and «« »be !■.»
directs; an.l mil«t hr in hand no! later than WednemU'- mnrnintr of the first k .1 iiis.-r'i'.n
Mt. Vernon. Ga., Thursday Morning, May st.h, 1910.
With the advent of Marin
again, Montgomery futili
ty candidate* are on the move
and the prospect* for n fttii crop
are very promising.
Kx-<iovertmr Hoke Smith lias
promised to notify the public in a
day or two of his intentions as to
the gubernatorial race. Strong
pressure is being brought to bear
on him to enter the race against
Mr. Brown, but we believe Mr
Smith is a wiser man —otherwise
he will lea wiser man utter the
election. Mr. Smith is a strong
factor in Georgia jKilitios, but lie
cannot defeat Governor Brown,
and a campaign this year would
be very similar to that of two
years ago, when Mr, Smith met
With such cruel reverses.
Editor K. /., Byrd of Blacksh ar
advocates tie- planting of the
public highways of Pierce
county with rows of shade trees.
Phis is m grand idea, and would
make the public roads & veritable;
paradise; lint, strictly speaking,
most ot the roads of Georgia need
a little more clay and sand plant
ed on them. Possibly Mr. Byrd's
mind is turning to pastures green*
and other inviting scenes where
the country editor may enjoy a
little rest without having to scrap
up the necessary chink to pay the
railroads for the privilege of rid
mg on red cushions. Mr Byrd
and ins faithful helpmeet have
labored long and faithfully for the
interests of t heir town and county,
and we hope some day to return to
the scenes of our boyhood and ride
with them over the shaded high
ways of Pierce county. Brother
Byrd, when your automobile ar
rives. send for us. We saw you:
tnakmg goo-goo eyes at them m ;
Savannah a few days ago.
Judge Topi Parker has in the
Eleventh district many warm
friends who will appreciate his
w ithdrawal from the race against
lion. Win. G. Brantley, even
though Judge Parker has never
really announced his candidacy
His friends in this county did not
suppose that Judge Parker would
defeat Mr. Brantley, but through
a very kindly feeling and high re
gard for the splendid gentleman
that he is, desired to save him the
political embarrassment which
would liavi been his lot had he
entered the held as mi opponent
ot the able statesman Hiid politi
cal giant so well known by the!
people of this district and admired
for his ability and loyalty, lion
W. G. Brantley. Judge Parker is
a man of lofty character and j
splendid ability, and as a life-long |
friend we admire him greatly for |
Ins splendid worth, and agree with I
other strong friends w hose opin- 1
ion is that hts present field of use- i
fulness is on the bench.
NtGRQ ASSAULTER CARRIED
TO MACON FOR SAFEKEEPING.
Macon. April 29—llarvey Har
ris, the negro who plead guilty in :
Thotnasville for criminal assault,
arrived m Macon at tin early hour
this morning and wis placed m
the county jail for safekeeping un
til the date of hi* execution June
20 th.
The negro was delivered to the
Macon sheriff by the Thomas
county sheriff and also accompa
nied by a dozen members of the
Valdosta and Thomasville mili
tia. Win n the negro was brought
back to Thomasville from Florida
where he was captured, great
crowds surged around the court
house and a speedy trial and con
viction saved him from a threat
ened lynching.
An Improved clipper at Hicks'
fcstables, Mt. Yeruon. *
ANOTHER CAUSE
OF HIGH PRICES.
- Khznlteth II ewes has collected
in the form of a very n foresting
article in The April American
Magazine, the various answers she
received to her inqtiry: “What
Has Gaused the Increase in The
Cost of Living?” The explanation
of a mill owner to whom she put
the question, she gives as follows: .
“My next attack was on a mill
owner, a man of tin* widest ex
periences in our American life.
He was fresh from Gary, 111., and
full of til*- subject himself. But
' before I give Ins reasons, please
notice what a variety of causes
for high prices we are amassing—
tariff, cold storage, overcapitali
zation, increased gold supply, in
creased demand, increased land
values, greatly increased stund
lardsof living, and now for still
allot her reason.
“The tariff is a wrong econo- i
mio trail,” said tin* mill owner.
It has made the manufacturing
of luxuries and in ill life too pop
ular for the real health of the ns*
■ i.iou; it. combined with other,
causes, has carried u- too tar
from the soil. I* has made us
! get rich quick, but it will not
keep ii h rich forever. Wealth
| conies out of the soil. 1 here is,
your real mother. And how if
Vou please, are the American
people treating this mother of a
' nation’s health and wealth. He
i hen proceeded to draw the fol
lowing picture of America. 'ln
Ihe east,' lie said, ‘we have left
tin* land to the ne’er-do-well; in
tin* w* st we have given our land,
our forests, everything, to men
without vision, who have robbed;
(me set ot fields only to go on
lint roll tile next. All this in the |
face of mi ever-increasing demand
and a lately decreasing supply!
—'Never were such a near-sight
ed set of spendthrifts as this
American people!, —and where
are our men of jamer,’ said the
mill-owner, ‘the men with tin
brain to cherish and conserve our
| soil at its gift-a. These short
-ight-ed creatures are just as far
from the soil as they can get;
hey are down in our big centers,
manipulating the wealth that the
brain of their forefathers lias!
created.
Too much city life is the matter, j
too much capitalization of wealth ;
and not enough creating of it. |
Two great potencies have got to j
meet again, the soil and the brain j
if man; that alone can give us l
our great need—oceans of grain,!
grain that in its abundance defiles j
all storagedoin and manipulation.’ |
“This country can be saved!
mly by rapid conservation, es- I
peciallv the conversation of its;
land. Agriculture must become!
a god. !’ ”
COMET NOT THE CAUSE OF
RECENT COLD WAVE.
N.*w York, April do— S. A.
Mitchell, associate professor at
Oolumbin Tniversity, has come to j
' the defense of Halley's comet
with the assertion that the fiery
I visitor is no wav to blame for the
1 remarkable series of weather dis
turbances which hnve been cotn-j
monos late throughout the coun
try-
“No,” smii the professor, “it
is an iibs.dut-c certainty that the
coned is as innocent as 1 am of the
i weather offenses. It can have ab
solutely no cffe.-t on w ent her con- >
■ litmus."
NEGRO BOY KILLS PROMINENT
8188 COUNTY FARMER.
Macon,April Ik'—K. lb Middle
ton. a prominent farmer living
nine miles from Macon on the Co
lumbus road, was shot through
the heart yesterday afternoon neur
his home, after spending the day
in Macon on business.
Boss Menton, a negro boy about
Iff years old, is held by the coro
ner's jury as the guilty one. Of
ficers on the case hint that there
ip some mystery in connection
with the case. Another negro bus
also been arrested in connection
i w itb thv case.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THI'RSDAY. MAY 5, 1910
THE WOMAN WHO WORKS.
The woman who does not work
is the exception rutiier than the
rule. To work, in some manner or
other, is the common lot of man
kind. It mav !>e that the woman
does not sjs-nd her time in what
is commonly <'h 1 led a “gainful oc
cupation,"-but is constantly em
ployed about her house, sweeping,
dusting, patching, sowing on but-i
tons, watering the flowers, mind
ing the babies, and so on. The
old proverb runs that a man works
from sun to sun, but a woman's
work is never done, und there is a
lot of truth in it. The army of
women workers doesn’t lack much
if anything of being as large as
that of men, and those who are
enlisted or conscripted into it are
valiant soldiers, in many instanc
es displaying tin* highest qualities
of heroism.
Meanwhile there are not a few
women who won’t work ; who
never earned a crust of bread in
their lives und who never will.
They regard labor of any sort as
menial and undignified, and a.i
beneath their stilt ion. They are.
in effect, pensioners and parasites,
no matter what t heir social posi
tion. They add nothing To soei- 1
ety’s mental or material wealth,
but are merely consumers, exist- j
itig upon the efforts .of others
There are men of that sort, too, to
be sure. But men are easier to j
reach than women. Probably ev
ery state bus its vagrancy lawn,
which may be made to reach
out and catch a man, but
these laws are very much restrict- '
jad in their application to women, j
Cardinal Gibbons preached a
sermon on the “woman who
works” the other day and what he
said in it had the ring of true
; metal. He declared without qual
ification that the woman who toil
ed for the benefit of herself or her j
family was much more to be ad- ;
mired than the woman who wast
ed her time doing nothing. “It is |
an honorable thing to work,” said j
the cardinal; “it is honorable to)
be industrious. Never lie asham
ed to work, and always be ever i
ready to do your share when tile
time comes. Men alone should j
i not be industrious. Working wo
men can always command, and
i should always demand, more re
spect than idle women."
Because a woman’s husbamd or
father is rich is no reason why
she should spend her time in idle
ness or frivolity. There are a
great many ways in winch she can
employ her tune industriously
and profitably. These ways need
not be pointed out; everybody
knows them, and best of all the
women know them themselves. In
a poor family it is inexcusable
that there should be idlers, of
) either »e\ ; but mere is probably
; is large a percentage of idlers
iin the homes of the poor or the
moderately well-to-do as there are
j in the homes of the rich. The va
grancy laws cannot reach them.
| because they have “visible means
of support” in their families; uor
| could these laws possibly be en
| forced if they did reach the idlers.
I because of protest that would he
raised by any attempt at enforee
! incut
The kernel of the Cardinal’s
sermon was that industry was al
! ways honorable, while idleness
I was not: that everybody should j
j endeavor to be useful, gainful !
and helpful; that no woman!
should ever be ashamed to work
Rat her should it be her pride to J
j work and be willing to do it.
Tanglefoot, lib cents a box.
Alt. Vernon Drug Co.
BAD WEATHER WILL SPARE GEOR
GIA.
Washington, I>. 0., May 1—Coo! j
weather m the norfhern and mid
, die district ot the Tinted States
during the first part of the week
is predicted In the weather bu
reau, and the frost lint it is add
ed, is likelv to extend over the
lower Missouri, Middle Mississip
pi and Ohio valleys l usettled
weather will prevail during the
j next three or four days in the
middle districts of the country)
from the central valleys eastward,:
but precipitation will hardly ex-'
tend over the extreme Southern!
states.
Over the Western portion of
the country the weather will he
comparatively settled until the
latter part of the week, when a
disturbance of moderate strength
will appear in that district, and
advance eastward, reaching the
Atlantic coast bv the middle of
*
next week.
Ohloro-N tphtholeum and Daisy
Kiy Killers. 15 cents. Mt. Yer
iuoti Drug Company.
5 j|
$ In the sewing machine business in
*3 am leafier—have been for many years. The New Home
Tells the Secret of my success in the machine business. j|
1 $ OJO7OMO. '©' 0!© .0: 00 • •;■©■ 0© 0::©; MBBSKS 1
6 6. "M $|
I Do not Fail to See our | &
gx ® • • §| B
| | line of American Gen- | I
I I tleman and American I pj
I Lady Shoes, made by p j|
I Hamilton Brown Shoe || 1
| Co., the Largest Shoe |j j|
| Makers in the World | i
HHMimiM ■ - 3a
«
You will l>e safe in making my place the base of your farm
supplies and merchandise for this year—as before.
ra ram am mm am mm am ss f t asm t£m oast am mm am am am mm vtk
jw. H. McQueen, I
| MT. VERNON, GA. |
Chufa Seed.
Home-grown and free from peb-j
hie*. $3.60 per bushel ; if 1.00 per
peck. Write M. K. Bray,
3-24-41) Jeeup, Ga.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Money to loan at 0 and 7 per
cent, on unproved farms.
A. R. Hutcheson,
m i
iR I*. CANON W. O. HAHN WELL
CANON & !j|
BARNWELL
i; Cotton Factors and |!
Commission
(Merchants
220 v t: SAVANNAH, OA.
(Member* S*vaon»h Cotton Exchange) i|
I Handlers of Upland, Se- j|
Island Florodora Cotton
Special Attention (liven to
F. 0. B. Cotton
Handlers of Upland and Sea- 1;
Island Bagging, Ties I
| and Twine j[
DU. J. K. MAS ROW
Uefractionist
Glasses Corrivetly Ground and
Fitted to the Eyes. Consultation
Free. 26 West Broughton Street
SAVANNAH. GA.
Eugene Talmadge,
Attorney at Law,
MT. VERNON. UV.
K. M. RACK LEY
Dentist
Otlice over Mt. Vernon Drug Co,
MT. VERNON, ti A.
Hamilton Buhcii,
\ttornev and Coun
%
sc lor at Law,
TcRAE. GA.
Criminal L*w and CoUectiona, Including Bail
mad 1' st Caaea. a specialty.
I
The BANK OF SOPERTON
| Capital Stock, $15,000.00 1
i Surplus and undivided J
| profits SO, 500.00 |
| Total resources over $100,000.00 |
!« General Banking Business Conducted. Accounts Solicited. «
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Interest on Time Deposits 1
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II OFFICERS: |
$ N. L. Gillis, President. J. B. O’Conner, Vice-President, l|
$ J. E. Hall, Cashier. L. A. McCrary, Asst. Cashier j|
\ DIRECTORS: jl
i N. L. Gillis. M. R. Gillis, J. B. O’Conner, W. C. Futrill, ;|
W. D. Martin, W. H. Fowler, J. E. Hall. if
I SOPERTON, GEORGIA. j
I The Heyward- T -“ HE ' r "‘“h*. §
-v w j m * « • Secretary
Wiihams Co. : §
(incorporated) CftPliflL SIOGK $50,01)01
Cotton Factors & Commission Merchants
120 Bay Street , East, VANNAH, GA.
Bagging and Ties at Attractive Prices —Ready for Shipment. I
The officers of this company are veterans in the cotton
business. Its facilities for baudliug and
selling cotton cannot be matched. fd
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Most Progressive Commission Merchants in the South in the H
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