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Mount Vernon, jGa., Thursday Morning, FEB. 29, 1912.
Have yoi registered yet? Bet- !
ter see about it before the crop
of candidates is thinned down to
a stand.
Teddy and Taft will divide the
Republican vote all right, but
Bryan anti the Bullheads will do
alwiut the same stunt for the
Democrats,
Don’t be uneasy about the crop
situation. The hand behind these
•dark clouds holds great gleams
of sunshine, and seed time and
harvest shall not fail.
It is now proposed to fight the
boll weevil with the boys’ corn
clubs. That, is better than the
hammer and anvil method, for
we will have the corn extra.
We believe in education with
abigE., but the two girls who
set fire to a house at Warren,
Va.. that they might be arrested
and put Jn school, rather overdid
the thing.
Now that Atlanta and Augusta
have gone against the commission
form of government, some of the
smaller towns that were about to
contract the commission itch may
not need the remedy of adverse
votes.
We have worked nine years for
the upbuilding of Montgomery
county’s moral, financial and ed
ucational interest. It has been a
labor of love, and we have no re
grets for the part we have
played.
Make the sessions of the legis
lature biennial, and the terms of
the governor and all county offi
cers four years, and you will give
a hundred thousand Georgians
time to think and plan for agri
cultural and business success.
Tedd\ Roosevelt threw his hat
in the ring last week and now
puts both feet in. Will Demo
crats throw away the brightest
prospect they have ever had for
electing a president? if they
don’t it will be one of the world’s
wonders.
It is one of otir strong points to
aid struggling genius. If the
boys of Montgomery county will
come forward and organize acorn
club, ami the girls a canning
club, we guarantee that hand
some premiums will be offered,
and will lend them all the assist
ance possible.
All Georgians, and especially
members of the Weekly Press
Association, will hear with regret
of the loss sustained by Wm. G.
McAdoo of New York in the
death of his wifd last week
at their home at Irvington-on-the
Hudson. Mrs. McAdoo was also
a native of Georgia.
And now comes Mr. E. M.
Bailey of Bryan county and claims
the Kel log trophy of SI,OOO fori
the best ear of corn in the world,
the prize now held by Fred C.
Palin of Newton, lnd. If Bryan
county can make ears of corn
eleven and a half inches long, •
Montgomery countv ought to
make them two feet long.
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There is entirely too much
courting in Montgomery county.
We refer to the legal variety.
Four terms a year and a possibil
ity of five or six is getting be
yond a reasonable limit. The
more courts the more litigation
is an established fact in this
county. Cut out half the litiga
tion, much of which is an at
tempt to settle all manner of set
tlement feuds by legal process, i
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Perry Home Journal: —Bryan
and Roosevelt are in the same
jtolitical attitude toward the par
ty each professes, respectively,
to represent, Each declares he
is not a candidate for the presi
dency, but each is active in giv
ing ‘advice, and the friends of
each are striving to create senti
ment favoring his nomination.
At this distance, it seems that
either would prefer to wreck his
party rather than fail to rule it.
Macon Telegraph:—The New
York Evening Post, which usu
ally solves problems for itself, is
worried because the packers con
tend hides are worthless and yet
oppose free entry of them.
Whether hides are free or taxed,
shoes have gone up in price, and
the consumer would like to know
why.
Americus Times-Recorder:—
Labor should be the first to ap
plaud the activity of the Govern
ment, in bringing the dynamite
offenders to justice. It is as
much to the interest of labor as
of capital that the laws should
be obeyed and that the govern
ment remain supreme over any
private combination, either of
men or of money.
Savannah Press: —Theodore
Peters, “the man with a broken
neck,” who was arrested in Sa
vannah several weeks ago for
drunkenness, has pulled off the
same stunt in Jacksonville and
has been pulled by the police. It
seems to bike a lot of irrigation
to keep Peters’ dislocated neck
lubricated.
Dublin Courier-Dispatch:
When the fanners of Georgia
raise enough corn, meat, hay,
small grain, etc., to supply the
needs of all the people of the
state and make cotton a surplus
crop the golden age for Georgia
will have arrived and the land
will literally flow with milk and
honey. We hope to live to see
that day.
Clinch Co. News: —Kind read
ers, don’t fail to register. It
may mean much to you in the
elections this year. There will
be candidates from President on
down to bottle-washer, and you
may have a particular choice that
you wish elected. Get busy and
register.
Douglas Enterprise:- The peo
ple of the Eleventh need not fret
about a change in congressmen
for the next session. However,
when Bill Brantley gets thru
with the job, Coffee county will
probably furnish his successor.
There’s Dickerson, Lankford,
Quincey, Dart, Ward, McDonald,
O’Steen, Bryan, and many oth
ers. who would be eligible and
make splendid timber.
Savannah News:- A dispatch
from Boston says that shoe prices
are going up fifty cents on the
pair. Oh. well, let the prices go |
where they please! It will soon
-be spring o’ the year, then the
good old summer time; and who
needs shoes when the sunshine
is warm and the grass soft?
Atlanta Journal:—A lot of
these northern editors makes
flings about this time of the year
about the southerner and his
mint julip. whereas there are a
lot of southerners who don’t like
the taste of mint.
Darien Gazette: The Gazette
is gratified to state that a hard
fight will be waged in the legis
lature the coming summer for bi
ennial sessions. Let the people
of Georgia rally to the support of
the men who are pushing this
movement. Talk to your legis
i lator. I
TI7E MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, FEB. 29, 1912.
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OLD PUFFS AND SWITCHES
Ladle* of Twenty-Five Centuries Age
Made* Liberal Use of Bor
rowed Hair.
Caesar’B wife may have V s -h above
suspicion so far as her morals were
j concerned, but the same could not
! have been said about her hair, any
/ more than It could about the hair ol
the fashionable matron of today.
The Greek, Egyptian, Carthaginian
! and Roman ladies of twenty-live cen
! turles ago made use of the most as
tonishing quantities of borrowed hair,
and the Roman women of the time of
1 Augustus were especially pleased
; when they could outdo their social
rivals by piling upon their heads a
greater tower of additional tresses.
| They also arranged curls . formally
around the head.
An extensive commerce in human
hair was carried on, and after the con
quest of Gaul, blond hair, such as
grew originally on the heads of Ger
man girls along the Rhine, became
very fashionable in Rome. Caesar did
not disdain to mix a little commercial
ism with his military enterprises and
collected a vast amount of hair from
the vanquished Gauls, which he sent
to market at Rome, and In the Roman
provinces a cropped head was regard
ed as a badge of slavery or at least
of subjection.
The hairdressers of Rome were per
sons of real importance and charged
exorbitant prices for forming the hair
Into fanciful devices, such as harps,
wreaths and diadems.
WHY THEY LOVE THE LIBRARY
Such a Nice Place to Sit, Especially
If One Has Agreeablo
Company.
While pleasant weather lingered the
stone benches in front of the New
York public library were occupied by
couples whose presence could not be
attributed wholly to their Interest in
the architectural scheme. They re
mained too long and their eyes spoke
of other things.
Since rnin and chill wliFls have
made marble benches out of doors un
comfortable, even for ardent sweet
hearts, they are to be found on simi
lar seats which are placed for decora
tive purposes in the long corridors in
side the building.
"Don't you love the new library?”
one girl said to another.
"No; It takes too long to got the
books.”
"Well, I don’t knew about that. I
aaven't drawn any bonks yet.”
"What do you go there for, then?”
"Oh, It is so lovely Just to sit there.”
"Alone?”
"No, not alone.”
Had His Eye On the Boat.
Alexander Carr has a reputation as |
a wit and story toller only equaled by 1
his reputation as an actor. His latest j
story was told the other night and
runs as follows:
Two Hebraic gentlemen, friends of
long standing, went to the lake and j
each hired a rowboat for a trial of I
skill and strength. In the middle of I
the lake one tipped over his boat and !
sank from sight. Coming to the stir j
face close to the bow of the other j
boat he shouted:
"Ikoy, Ikey, save me, T can’t swim!”
Carefully holding the boat a few
feet away from his drowning friend,
the other looked on unmoved.
Again the unfortunate one sank be
low thg surface, and as he came up
for the second time repeated his cries i
Tor help.
A third time he came up, and then,
as he started to disappear from sight
for the third and last time, his friend
shouted:
“Able, if you don’t come up again
ran I have your boat?”
Wanted to See It Bloom.
Mabel Parr, Just turned six, lives
In Lauderdale avenue. In Lakewood,
says the Cleveland Leader. Tier
mother, a Scientist, has been trou
bled for some days with a cold-sore,
much to her little daughter’s concern.
When she could not longer restrain
her sympathy she turned interroga
tion point.
"Mother,” she asked, pointing to 1
the slight disfigurement, "what is •
’.hat you’ve got?”
"That's a rosebud, dear,” said Mrs.
Parr.
Mabel was silent and thoughtful all
the rest of the day. When she yield
ed to pressure she confessed she’d
been worrying about her mother.
"I’ve besn thinking about that rose
bud.” she said, “and wondering why
that flower never blooms.”
Not a Monotheist.
What might have been Oliver Her
ford’a last witticism was delivered ot
the poet artist in a recent attack of
typhoid, when the malady was near
ing Its crisis. A frequent visitor was
a clergyman of his acquaintance, who,
leaving the sick room on this occa
sion, remarked cheerfully:
"Good by for the present, and God
be with you.”
Mr. Hereford was unable to lift his
head from his pillow, but ho respond
ed feebly:
"The same to you—and many ol
’em.”
Primitive Reasoning.
"Did you sell your vote?”
"No, slree! 1 voted fur that fellet
'cause I liked him.”
"But 1 understand he gave you
$10?"
“Well, when a man gives you $lO
'taint r-> more'n natural to like him.
i L it?" —v. ashington Star.
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