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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1910)
MIDDLE NAMES. They Used to 3o Illegal According to Old English Law. Middle names, hard as it is to credit in this generation, were once ' illegal. The old English law was | very definite as -to the naming of | children and, according to Coke, j “a man cannot have two names of I baptism.” “It is requisite-,” this law goes on, "that the purchaser he I named by the name of his baptism ! and his surname, and that special j heed be taken to the name of bap tism.” Royal personages have always been allowed to have more than one given name, but as late as lUOO, it j is said, there were only four persons in all England who had two given names. In IG2O the Mayflower sail- ; ed for America, and there was not a man or woman upon it who had a middle name. Even a century and a half ago ; double names were very uncommon.j The English used to dodge the law at times by ingeniously compound ing names. Thus on old parish reg isters in England there is occasion ally seen such combinations as Fan nasabilia, which is Fanny and Sibyl joined together, and Annanteriar, made up of Anna and Maria. Maris is one of the earliest middle names j of record for boys. It was given in ! honor of the Virgin Mary. As much* as they dared, beginning along in ] the eighteenth century, parents evaded the “one name law.” But even as late as 100 years ago custom was against the middle name. If the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence he looked over it will be found that only three of them had middle names. The first five presidents of the United States had only one name each—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Before Grant, eighteenth of the line, there were only three double jumed executives —John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison and James lvnox Polk. When midifte names got going and became the fashion, the law having dropped into disuse,.parents went to work combining names for their offspring enthusiastically. One custom was done away with in Eng land in consequence of this, the plan of naming the eldest son for the estate, particularly when he suc ceeds to that estate through his mother, 'l itis old idea is still fol lowed to some extent in this coun try by the mother's maiden name being given to the eldest son. It identifies the boy when he grows to manhood and so lias a positive val ue.—Harper's. Force of Habit. In the furniture department of a big store chiffoniers with a patent drawer that could he opened with out pulling it out were on exhibi tion. All day long the clerk packed and unpacked the drawers of that chiffonier, showing how easy it was to stow away gloves, veils, blouses and men’s shirts and collars. Dur ing one of the demonstrations the manager of the department stopped to watch him. “Why don’t you distribute things a little more evenly?” he asked. “Whv do you devote the four top drawers to women’s apparel and chuck everything belonging to men in the bottom drawer?” “I guess,” said the clerk, “T did it from force of habit. You see, I have been married for fifteen years, and I forgot there was any place except the bottom drawer for a man to put his clothes.” —New York Sun. First Type Printed Book. The first book printed with type, according to Pettigrew, was the Latin Bible published by.John Gu tenberg at Lavenee, about 1455, but Haydn is inclined to assign a some what dater date to this, making the book of Psalms, by Faust and Schoetfer, printed on Aug. 14, 14.17, the first book. The Gutenberg book is called the Mazariri Bible, having first been found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin. There are only twenty copies of this first edition known to exist, am: the workmanship in type, ink and paper far exceed 1 that of any of the subsequent editions for 200 years. ■—Exchange. Tale" of a Bird. A little four-year-old boy living in a country town disturbed and took some eggs front under a sittihe lien belonging to a neighbor. The neighbor complained to the boy’? mother, who later called her boy to her and began to reprot <■ him when he broke in with the question “Who told you ?” The mother said: “A little bird told me. Now. tel] me, how man l eggs did you take?” The little boy. stammering, said “Well, well! Why didn’t the bin 1 tell vou the whole of it?” —St/. Stories. POWER OF .HYPNOTISM. Remarkable Cure of a Persistent Cas* of Hallucination. Writing in the American Maga zine of the remarkable cures ef fected by four great medical experts through the means of hypnotism, 11. Addington Bruce describes a case which was successfully treated bv Dr. l’ierre Janet, the noted Pa risian specialist: “The patient suffered from a per sistent hallucination of seeing a man in the room with her. Her relatives believed that she was in sane and wished to place her in an asylum, as she occasionally mani fested suicidal tendencies. But Dr. Janet diagnosed her case as one of hysteria and with the aid of hvpo tism made tije interesting discovery that the hallucinatory image which she thought she saw was the figure of a lover who had deserted her several years before. It appeared that every time she thought of her faithless sweetheart his image rose before her. “To Janet it seemed a perfectly simple matter to ‘suggest’ away the hallucination by impressing upon her during hypnosis the idea that when she awoke she would no longer see the imaginary form. But he found that for some reason the sug gestion would not ‘take.’ Day after day he patiently hypnotized her, al ways without success. Finally he began to suspect that at bottom she did not want to he cured and that th l passionate desire to see her lov er, if only as a phantasm, constitut ed too strong a ‘self suggestion’ to overcome by direct attack. An other method would have to be tried. “‘Very well/ he one day said to her while she was hypnotized, ‘if you want to continue seeing your lover, you shall see him. But, re member. you will always see him with the head and face of a pig.’ “lie then brought her out of the hypnotic sleep into her natural state. Five minutes later she ut tered a cry and covered her eyes with her hands. “ ‘What is the matter?’ inquired Dr. Janet calmly. “‘lt is terrible! Terrible!’ she exclaimed. ‘1 see a man standing in the corner of the room, and his face is like a pig’s!’ “‘How absurd!’ said Dr. Janet. “After this he left her to her own devices, no longer hypnotizing her. For a few days she complain ed that everywhere she went she saw the man with the face of a pig. Gradually the hallucinatory image faded and at length entirely disap peared, leaving her restored to per fect health. As Dr. Janet afterward explained, the grotesque hallucina tion which he had succeeded in im pressing upon her had brought about a profound revulsion of feel ing. Manifestly she could not love a man with a pig’s head. .She no longer wanted to see her sweetheart or to think of him, and in propor tion as she ceased to think of him the hallucination disappeared.” Mixed as to Names. A young woman who has a treach erous memory for names had a droll experience not long ago. She had encountered in a railway sta lion a face that seemed familiar to her. She remembered that she had met the young man at the house of a friend some weeks before, hut for the life of her she could not at all recollect his name. Finally, howev er, when the voung man stopped to shake hands she asked: “Surely this is Mr. Tombstone, whom I met at Mrs. Walker’s.” The stranger smiled. “You’re right as to.our place of meeting,' ’’ said he, “but somewhat twisted as to the name. I am Mr. Stone grave!”— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Not Easy to Wed In France. It is no easy' matter to he married in France, savs F. Berkeley Smith in Success Magazine. One great thing in favor of so sacred a .cere mony is an event requiring months of preparation, of the signing of endless papers, the certificates of ; birth and the consent of parents, until at last the wedding day, which lias been arranged for to the entirt satisfaction of every one concerned, including the legal authorities, ar rives. If marriage is difficult, di vorce is oven more so. There are no such romantic and youthful ad -1 ventures as eloping on a twelve dol- Isw capital, handing ten to the ac commodating parson and wiring for forgiveness with the change. When Whistler Was Late. Whistler, the artist, was one day invited to dinner at a friend’s house and arrived at his destination two hours late. “llow extraordinary!” he exclain - ed a3 he walked into the dining room, where the company was seat ed at the table. “Really, I should think you might have waited a bit. Why, you’ie just like a lot of pigs , with-vour eating!” * THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 8, 1910. LIFE OF A WATCH. Deponds Largely on the Timekeeper and the Man Wearing It. The life of a watch, jewelers say, depends largely on the person car rying it and the care taken of it. As to the care of a watch some jewelers sav that it should he oiled onee a year, some onee in two years; perhaps once in eighteen months would be about the right-thing. All jewelers say that a watch should always be wound at the same time daily. This is essential to make it give the best and most uni form results. If a watch is permit ted to run down it may on rewind ing keep different time and require regulating. With the watch wound regularly and kept running there is set up and established in the main spring a certain tension. If this strain is wholly released by letting the watch run down the spring may on rewinding take on a somewhat different tension. This difference may be extremely slight, hut it may he enough to affeet the running of the watch. While some watches are long li\ ed, many are short lived, the long lived watches being of course those of fine quality that are also well cared for. But there is a limit to the life of any watch that is kepi constantly in use. The best of watches, like the best of anything, will wear out in time. A watchmaker had lately brought in to him for repair a watch 125 years old that had been running practically continuously. It might be difficult to say of just, what dura tion its intervals of rest had been, but it was supposed to have been run practically continuously, and. though it had stopped at least once, it was still in fairly good condition and good for some future use. But this was an extraordinary case. Mosl watches, however excellent they may have been originally, would with constant use wear out in far less time. Sometimes there are brought in to jewelers fine old and once val uable watches whose owners, desir ing now to buy a new watch, wish to offer the old watch at some price in exchange, but it is of no value except for the weight of the metal contained in its cases. Every jew eler has an accumulative collection of such old works, which are of no value whatever, except that at long intervals-there may be found among them a wheel or a part that may | serve in some other old time watch | brought in for repair, j So watches do wear out, and as to \ the life of a watch, a jeweler said, a good average watch with fair care j ought to wear from thirty to forty ! years and a tine watch fifty years; ! it might last seventy-five, but fifty years would probably be nearer the figure. It may be thought that a superior watch would last longer than that, but really the wonder is that this delicate piece of mechanism run ning year after year ceaselessly should run so long. -New York Sun. A Matter of Opinion. “Mary!” Father’s voice rolled down the stairs and into the dim and silent parlor. “Yes, papa, dear'” “Ask that young mart if he has the time.” A moment of silence. “Yes; George has his watch with him.” “Then ask him what is the time. “He says it is 11:48, papa.” “Then ask him if he doesn’t think lit about bedtime.” ✓ Another moment of silence. “He says, papa,” the silvery voice announced impersonally—“he says i that he rarely goes to bed before I, ! but it seems to him that it is a’liiat - ter of personal preference merely | and that if he were in your place he i would go now if he felt sleepy.”— Harper's Bazar. Fruitful Florida. Os the states east of the Mis sissippi, Florida is second in area by only a very small margin, being over 59,000 square miles in extent. She has over 1,500 miles of sea coast, embracing what is probably the most wonderful system of land locked harbors in the world. Her whole surface is dotted with wide . rivers and broad lakes, guarantee ing her, in conjunction with a net work of state canals, cheap trans portation for all time to come. Her soil can produce practically every known fruit of the earth, most of | it in abundance.—National Maga j zine. Cautious. A member of the faculty of ji ; New England university tells of a freshman who was asked by one of the professors whether he had prov - ed a certain proposition in Euclid. “Well, sir,” responded the fresh man, “ ‘proved’ is a strong word. But T will say that I have rendered it highly probable.” mmrnmmmsmmm&mmmMmmmmmmmmammmia 1 || f'Mt3 || I 111 6?%j?' i I 1 I© 0 iillll i.P H i§ v\u i ll 1 XS © \f fV T' *■( © & m '.& © /fi [ ! m ' W/7 'o' © » © © /rk I' \l).i/ *fcsi"' ;©: © S 3 gs P © v ;f#r ': Pr- 1 © © |: g I© Wl /\i © © | Bill )pf ft II | © m J! t\ © © g m k © / )• ' k.© g | Time’s Up--Bring in Puzzles I i? Make a special effort, girls, and if you haven’t quite g I. finished, do so at once, and bring it to our Store together gj with your “Five Reasons Why” slip tomorrow afternoon g before 4:00 o’clock. || •Ilist as soon as the Judges can look them over and g pick out the neatest Puzzle and best “Five Reasons Why”, || we’ll award the prize and announce it in The Monitor. g Don’t forget girls, contest closes tomorrow afternoon g at 4:00—No Puzzle accepted after that time. &! Who’s the winner? That will la* answered in a d y g or two. Do your best to make 1 tin* little stove you s. S| W. H. McQueen, 1 I MT. VERNON, GaT I A New Method. To those interested in the train ing of the memory by the associa tion of ideas the following will ap peal. A young lady of the south was teaching the alphabet to a little pickaninny who seemed unable ever to recognize the letter F. One morning, however, after hav ing successfully named the first live letters, he passed on to F, which he called out at once without the usual preliminaries. “Well done, Caesar!” said his teacher. “But how did you manage it ?” “ ’Twas mammy, Miss Ella,” Cae sar explained. “She say tub me, she say, ‘Caesar, es you tries, you kin remember.”’ — South’s Com panion. The Point of View. A Mississippi judge relates this occurrence: Uncle George Snow, an old ante bellum negro, was introduced for the state. The counsel asked Uncle George which side of Souchatouchec creek he lived on, to which he re plied : “Which side of the creek do I live on, boss ?” “Yes.” “(twine up or down the creek, boss?” —Case and Comment. Money! Money! Long Term Loans negotiated on improved Farm Lands and also on City or Town Real Estate in Montgomery County at a low rate f interest. \\\ >|. Lewis, Mt. Vernon, Ga. M. H. CALHOUN, Atty at Law, %1 Mt Vernon, Georgia. Deiioni 'ffTTs 1 Copyright* Jfc. 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