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ALASKA A LAND
OF GREAT PROMISE
Col. Dan C. Kingman, United
States Engineer of the Savan
nah District, talks interestingly
in an interview in the News of a
recent visit to Alaska to see his
son in the army stationed there.
Col. Kingman went by rail as
far as Seattle, where he took a
steamer to Skagway. “Fort
Gibbon is in the geographical
center of Alaska,” said Col.
Kingman. “I went from here
to Seattle and took a steamer at
that port, through the inside
route along the coast to Skagway.
The scenery throughout the
length of the journey was very
picturesque, the glaciers espec
ially being very impressive. The
boat stopped at the Taku glacier,
which is a cliff of ice, as high as
a tall office building, a half mile
wide, coming down a valley be
tween two mountains, and stand
ing, an ice precipice, against the
sea.
“The sea cuts under the gla
cier and frequently great pieces
of ice break off and are carried
away, making icebergs. On the
top of the glacier is a white cov
ering like snow, but the pieces
that break off are blue in color,
which can be looked into like
glass. The trip from Seattle to
Skagway is 1,000 miles. Skag
way was the point from which
many thousand people departed
at ithe time of the rush to the
Klondike in 1897-8. At that
time the trip was a fearful one,
leading over White Pass. It is
now easily made by rail.
DAWSON IS CHANGED CITY.
“I went over White Pass
through very picturesque scenery
to the town of White Horse, 111
miles away. White Horse is sit
uated on the river below the
rapids. These rapids are very
dangerous, many lives having
been lost there during the rush.
Steamboats are unable to navi
gate them. From White Horse I
went to Dawson, a distance of
460 miles downstream, in two
days on a very comfortable
steamboat.
“Dawson is situated at the
mouth of Klondike creek, the
great gold field. At Dawson
nothing remains of the old dance
halls and gambling houses of
1897-8. A detachment of Canad
ian mounted police is stationed
there, and the town is as quiet
and orderly as a New England
village. There is still a large
amount of gold being taken out
of the gold fields there, but the
work is being done by great com
panies by the expensive hy
draulic method or by dredges. I
visited one of these dredges in
the creek which was working in
a place where the gold deposit
was small, but it was taking out
about $4,000 a day. Other
dredges were doing much better.
LAND OF MIDNIGHT SUN.
“I was struck in Dawson, as
well as in other inhabited por
tions of Alaska, with the great
profusion of flowers growing out
of doors. The sweetpeas were
the most beautiful I have ever
seen. From Dawson I descend
ed the river by steamboat for 700
miles to the army post of Fort
Gibbon, which is situated at the
mouth of the Tanana river. In
going down I passed the site of
the old Fort Yukon, which is
north of the Arctic circle, and is
indeed the land of the midnight
suns.
“I was too late to see the mid
night sun, as that must be ob
served in the latter part of June,
and I was not there until August.
However, I did not see the sun
set far to the northwest, and the
glow of sunset moved around to
the northward and became sun
rise in the northeast. I saw the
moon make a complete circle, and
not set at all. It was exceeding
ly cold, and the display of north
ern lights was very beautiful.
From Fort Gibbon I might have
descended the river for 900 miles
and have taken a steamboat from
St. Michael’s directly back to
Seattle but the sea voyage at
that time of year is not at all
pleasant in the far north and I
preferred to return the way I
went in. * * *
“Alaska has been an enormous
wealth producer and will con
tinue to produce in the future.
The mining wealth has hardly
been touched. If I were a young
man in good health ami without
special ties I would go there, for
it is a land of glamor and a land
of promise. ’ ’
CLEVELAND AND THE COOKS.
President Cleveland went to
visit General John B. Gordon at
the Gordon plantation in Georgia.
The dinner was superb and Pres
ident Cleveland asked who cook
ed it. General Gordon told him
his cook was an old negro mam
my who had been a slave in the
Gordon family before the war
and had continued as cook.
“I’d like to shake hands with
that cook,’’ said the president.
General Gordon sent a servant
to ask the mammy to come to the
dining room. The servant came
back with this message:
“Tell Marse John ah won’t
come. ’ ’
“Did you tell her what I want
ed her for?’’ asked the general
sharply.
“Yes, sir,” replied the servant.
The servant hesitated. “Go
ahead!” commanded the general.
“She said ” replied the ser
vant. Then he stopped, shuffled
a bit and looked appealingly at
General Gordon.
“Out with it!” commanded the
general.
“She says: ‘Tel Marse John
ah’se not a-comin’.’” The ser
vant stopped again.
“What else?” asked the gen
eral.
“She said,” blurted the ser
vant, in an agony of apprehen
sion— “she said: 'Ah’se not
a-comin’. Ah’se lived wif bettah
people than Mistah Clevelan’ all
mah life.’ ”
President Cleveland shouted
with laughter. “That, ”he said,
as soon as he had composed him
self, “is the most beautiful ex
ample of loyalty I ever ob
served.”—The Evening Wiscon
sin.
PIERCE COUNTY TO HAVE FAIR,
We wish to serve notice on ev
ery citizen of Pierce county that
we are going to boost a fair, The
Pierce County Fair, to be held in
Blackshear next year.
Our idea in mentioning this
matter so early is to give the
farmers and all interested in such
a thing an opportunity of prepar
ing themselves for it ahead of
time.
Having recently spent several
days at the Tifton Fair, we are
convinced that with some effort
on the part of all the good people
in the county, a most creditable
showing may be made of pro
ducts raised or made up in Pierce
county.
This fair of which we speak
offers a two fold advantage; it
will attract the attention of those
from a distance, and will at the
same time have a far greater in
fluence upon those taking part in
such an enterprise. It is this
last advantage that will make the
effort worth while.
It is to be hoped that every
Pierce county citizen who reads
these lines will determine to take
some active part in making the
Pierce County Fair a success.
What do you think of the sug
gestion? —Blackshear Times.
KNEW SHE WOULD.
A minister who was noted for
his absentmindedness in a small
country village was once ob
served to stop suddenly in the
middle of his sermon and heard
to murmur: “I knew she would.
I knew she would. ”
After the service some one
j asked him the reason. “Dear
me,” said he, did I? Well, you
know from the pulpit I can just
see old Mrs. Smith’s garden, and
this morning she was out pulling
cabbage, and I thought: ‘Now,
. if that cabbage comes up sudden
jly she’ll go over,’ and just then
it came up, and over she went.”
—ldeas.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, OCT. 19, 1911.
SPEAKS IN A WHISPER
HEARD IN ACTIONS.
The Valdosta Times says: “The
Saturday Evening Post once said
: that Little Joe Brown was so qui
et he would turn in a fire alarm
in a whisper. That may be so,
but when he does turn in the
alarm in Georgia the people all
respond to his call like the bucket
brigade in a small town.
MCDONALD’S MODESTY.
At dinner in a small town in
Scotland, says Tit Bits, it was
found that everyone had con
tributed to the evening’s enter
tainment except a certain Dr.
McDonald.
“Come, come, Dr. McDonald,”
said the chairman, “We cannot
let you escape.”
The doctor protested that he
could not sing.
“My voice is altogether un
musical, and resembles the sound
caused by the act of rubbing
bricks along the panels of a
door. ’ ’
The company attributed this to
the doctor’s modesty. Good
singers, he was reminded, always
needed a lot of pressing.
“Very well,” said the doctor,
“if you can stand it, I will sing.”
Long before he had finished,
his audience was uneasy. There
was a painful silence as the doc
tor sat down, broken at length
by the voice of a candid Scot at
the end of the table.
“Man!” he exclaimed, “your
singin’s not up to much, but your
veracity’s just awful. You’re
right about that brick.”
AN EXTENSIVE PRAYER.
James H. Stewart, director of
the agricultural experimental
station at Morgantown . was in
Pittsburg the other day. He is
an exceptionally big man with all
the native American fondness of
big men for humor, love to listen
to a good story, and love to tell
one. Here is his latest:
“I attended a negro camp
meeting in one of our West Vir
ginia counties where there is a
large negro population, and while
there heard a powerful prayer by
one of the missionaries. ‘Oh,
Lawd,’ he prayed, ‘extend dy
perfecting ahm ober de mission
aries in all pahts ob de wul; in
Asia and in Persia; in Europe and
in Africa; in de land ob be mid
night sun, and in de islands ob
de sea; and espeshully, oh, Lawd,
guard and watch oberde mission
aries in dat fah off land whar de
foot ob man has never trod and
dat de eye ob Gawd has never
seen.”
WHERE THE TROUBLE LAY.
“James,” said his mother, ac
cording to the sketch, “you eat
and eat, and never seem satis
fied. Here is one more helping
of pudding, but it must be the
last.”
James started on the pudding
with delight.
“Once upon a time, James,”
went on his mother, “there was
a little boy who ate and ate until
one day he ate too much pud
ding, and he burst.”
“There ain’t such a thing as
too much pudding!” grunted
Jimmy, as he finished his help
ing.
“There must be,” said the
mother, “or why did the little
| boy burst?”
“Not enough boy!” replied
.James and handed up his plate
1 for a fifth helping.
ADAM’S VAIN REGRET.
The first parents were leav-J
ing the garden together, when I
Eve suddenly stepped behind
Adam. “Age before beauty,”
she remarked, according to Puck.
“Huh!” muttered Adam, with ,
a boastfulness that was surpris
ing. “If that order had been
followed when the serpent was
interviewed, I bet we wouldn’t
be walking out now!”
Full line state-adopted school
1 books, crayon, dustless crayon,
( pencils, tablets, inks, pens, etc.,
1 at Mt. Vernon Drug Co. ’s.
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the use of these tools, thereby enabling us to 0 ’ * (*)
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FIRST ROUND OF |
TAX COLLECTOR.
I will be at the following named 1
precincts for the purpose of col-1
looting State and County tax, viz. j
McArthur Oct. 9th from 1 to 8 o'clock p. in.
E. B. Wttrnock’H at nlttht.
Spring Kill Oct. loth from 9 to 11 a. in.
Erick “ “ “ 1 to X p. rn.
Alamo *' 11th " ft to 10 a. in.
Glen wood " “ “ 12 to 8 p. in.
Landslxirtt " 12th ** ft to 10 a. m.
Mt. Vernon “ ** ** 1 to 2 p. m.
AlHton u 10th M Ito2p. m.
IfittttHton “ 17th “ ft to 10 a. rn.
Kihbee " “ " 12 to 2 p. m.
Orlami “ lftth “ 2t06 p. in.
Soperton " 10th “ 8:20 to 10 a.m.
IjoOiait " 20th ** ft to 11 a in.
Tiger “ 21nt “ «toll a. in. I
Sept. 2Xth, 1011. 13. P. Warnock, T. C.;
Montgomery Go., Ga. !
Rale Nisi.
1,. I). Powell and Jan Hickw vh Emma ChcHtnutt
and li. C. Chctitnutt.
In the Superior Court of Montgomery County,
July Term, 1911. Rule NiHl. Mortga.ge Kore
cloHure. j
To Emrna Chentnutt:
It. Ixdng reprenented to the Court by the petition
of L D. Powell and Jhh. 11 i«*h h that by deed of
mortgage, dated 12th day of December, 1909, Em
ma OheHtnut and L. C. Chentnut con
veys! to the naid L. I). Powell and Jhh.
Ilickn 4 acren of land more or Ichh in the town of
Soperton, Montgomery county, Georgia, Ixiunded
on the north by the run of Titter < 'reek, on the
ea»t by Bruce MclxmxJ, on the Month by Mth. M C.
Horn, on the went by Htreet and lienj. OilliH, alwo
frame dwellintt located on the name, for the pur
poHc of nccuring the payment of u promiftaory note
made by the naid Emma CheHtnut and L. C. Cheat
nut to the Muid.L, 1). Powell and Juh. Hickndue on
the firHt day of December, 1910, for the Hum of
two hundred and forty four dollarn, which note Ih
now due and unpaid,
It iH ordered that the naid Emma Chestnut and
1,. C. Chentnut do pay into thin court by the Oral
day of the next term the principle, interent and
coHt.H due on naid note and mortgage, or «how j
cauHe, if any Hhe haw to the contrary, or that, in
default thereof forocloHure lx- granted to the Maid
Ij. I) Powell and Jan. Hickn of said mortgage, ami
the i*|uiLy of redemption of the «aid Emma Cheat
riutand L. C. Chentnut therein be forever barred,
ami that aervice of thin rule lx: perfected on naid
Emma CheHtnut and L. C. Chentnut according to
law.
Done in open Court this July 22, 1911.
J II Martin, J. S. C. O. J C.
A true <x>py from the mimiteH.
M L. O'Brien, Clerk.
A. C. Saflord, Atty. for PUT.
Improved Ginnery.
The undersigned have formed
a partnership for the purpose of
operating the ginnery at Uvalda,
and in this we wish to ask the
patronage of the public. The
plant has been thoroughly over
hauled and improved, and it will j
be our desire to give perfect ser- j
vice to the public. Arrange-’
ments have been made for suffle-j
ient water, and no delay will be!
occasioned by this in the future.
Bring us your e tton, and have
it turned out on the minute.
J. W. Calhoun,
H. J. Gibbs,
The Uvalda Ginnery.
If you want money quick, write >
Lyons Ixwin & Abstract Co., Ly
ons, Ga., for they are loaning
money cheap. 1
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IStudebaker Wagons ||
Indiana Stoves c|)
These tliroe items represent the Best ®
in tlieir respective lines. We have gg
a liberal stock of all in a variety of
sizes and styles, and sell them for
Cash or on Easy Terms , and f)
(Guarantee Satisfaction with every gj
purchase. See ns before buying.
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AI LEY, (jIA. J
NOTICE TO DELEGATES.
All delegates and others who
attend the ensuing session of the
Daniels Association which con
venes at Oak grove church on
Wednesday before the fourth
Sunday in October and expect to
come on the trains will Ik; met
at Alston and at Ailey on Tues
day evening, Oct. 17. and on
Wednesday morning, Oct. 18.
This Sept. 25. 1911.
Dennis O’Brien,
W. D. Peterson,
M. J. Brantley,
Committee.
For prices on Mowers, Rakes,
Hay Presses and Stump Pullers,
write the Vidalia Machinery and
Farm Implement Co., Vidalia, Ga.
Petition L>r Injunction.
State of Georgia, Montgomery County.
J. B. Canady vh. James MrNatt and Bro., Edith
p. Reynolds, J M Yeomans, J. M. Yeomans,
Admr., Robert l***‘ Yeomans, Terrell E. Yeo
mariH; Elijah M Yeomans, and .Martha E.
M* Millian.
Petition for injunction, and Interpleader, Mont'
gomery Bupvrlor Court, Nov. Term, 1911.
The defendants J. M. Yeomans, J. M. Yeomans,
Administrator of Robert Lee Yeomanh, Terrell E.
YOornans, Elijah M Yeomans, and Martha E. Me*
Millian, are hereby required, personally or by at
torneyH, to lx* and appear at the Superior Court,
to lx- held in and for said county, on the* first Mon
day in NovemlxT next, then and there to answer
the plaintiffs demand in an action of complaint,
as above set out, as in default thereof the Court
will proceed as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable J. H. Martin, Judge of
said Court, this July 22, 1911.
M L. O’Brien, Clerk.
A. G. Salford, Atty. for Plff.
For Quick Sale.
One hundred and one and a
quarter acres of land near Alamo,
Ga. For description call on or
write B. J. GUEST,
9214 t Alamo, Ga.
