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DUBLIN SCOUTS TO
TRAMP TO MACON
Dublin, April 26.—N0 Veteran
of the war between the states is
more enthusiastic over the 1912
reunion to be held in Macon next
month than the boy scouts of
Dublin, who are preparing to
march to Macon and attend the
reunion in grand order. Friday |
night, May 3, they will camp at |
the courthouse square. Early
Saturday morning they will be
up and eating breakfast. At 5 j
o’clock Saturday morning they
will start their foot journey of
fifty-four miles. Saturday at
dinner they will be guests of i
J. L. Gilmore at Dudley.
That night they are to camp in
the grove about Congressman
Dudley M. Hughes’ home, this
side of Danville, where Rev. J.
L. Gilmore will preach a special
sermon for them on the boy scout
work and where they will spend
Sunday night. Breakfast Mon
day at Jeffersonville, dinner at
Pike’s Peak and then a final dash
for Macon. The boys will spend
a week in Macon, camping on the
fair grounds under the charge of
Col. J. A. Thomas.
Mr. Bryan’s Ambition.
It seems the impression that
Mr. Bryan made on Democratic
senators on the occasion of his
visit to Washington this week
was that he would like to be his
party’s candidate for President
if Col. Roosevelt should be named
by the Republicans. We have
suspected all along that Mr.
Bryan is hankering after the
nomination. He can’t get it out
of his mind that the people want
him for President, notwithstand
ing the fact that they have said
three times they didn’t.
We give him credit for sincer
ity when he says that he isn’t a
candidate, but he hasn’t said,
and he isn’t likely to say, that he
wouldn’t accept the nomination
if it were offered to him. He
has a hope that the situation will
so shape itself when the Balti
more convention meets that no
one of the candidates will be
able to get the nomination, and
that the convention will turn to
him to break the deadlock.
The fact that he is going to
Florida to speak for Gov. Wilson,
although a Clark delegate to the
Baltimore convention, is an indi
cation of a purpose on his part
to try to prevent the nomination
of any one of the recognized can
didates, not because he is against
either Clark or Wilson but be
cause of the hope that by making
the nomination of either impossi
ble he may be the nominee. We
are not prepared to say that he
is playing that sort of politics,
but it seems fair to say that, be
ing a Clark delegate from his
own state, there is no call for
him to go to Florida jn the inter
est of Gov. Wilson.
However, we do not undertake
to ascribe a motive to him which
he does not admit. It is his
privilege to go to Florida and
make speeches, but it is fair to
raise the question whether he
isn’t secretly hoping that the
nomination will come to him.
And if he entertains that hope
may he not find some satisfaction
in trying to equalize the strength
of Mr. Clark and Gov. Wilson in
the convention so that it would
be a rather difficult matter to get
the delegates supporting one of
them to support the other, thus
increasing the chances of a dead
lock. It is hard, however, to
conceive of any situation in the
convention that could be utilized
to his advantage. It doesn’t
seem probable that the conven
tion would give the nomination
to a candidate that had been
three times defeated.—Savannah
News.
Dissolution Notice.
The firm of Mcßride & Adamson
has this day been dissolved by
mutual consent, J. A. Mcßride
buying the entire interest in said
business and assuming all obliga
tions and collecting all accounts
due said firm, J. B. Adamson re
tiring. J. A Mcßride continues
the business. This the 13th day
of April, 19i2. J. A Mcßride,
J. B. Adamson.
Companions by the Way.
“To keep your footing in a car;
or on a boat, walk with your feet
wide apart. This is all there is
to ‘sea-legs.’ ”
“Never ‘blow up’ the grocer.
It fatigues you and infuriates
him. Simply state what went
wrong, and let him blow himself
up.”
“If the pit of the stomach
seems to drop out when the ele
vator starts down, you can pre
vent the discomfort by stepping
across the elevator at the mo
ment of starting.”
“People say that ‘growling re
lieves their nerves.’ On the con
trary, it doubles the strain by
fixing the growler’s attention on
annoyances, and increasing their
power to do mischief.”
“Smiles go a long way toward
reducing the difficulties of shop
ping. People behind counters
respond to a smile, whereas a
worried, distressed expression
puts them in wrong mood at the
outset.”
“To make sure of courtesy
from a policeman, address him
as ‘Mr. Officer.’ If you have to
call him in an emergency say,
Mr. Officer, we need your head
over here. ’ The effect is mirac
ulous. ”
“In restaurants it pays to have
a favorite waiter. Go to his ta
ble regularly, and make a friend
of him. Many a small exaspera
tion is thus avoided, as the
waiter is grateful for your appre
ciation of his abilities, and will
do his utmost to deserve it.”
“In a crowded public convey
ance, go at once to the front end
of the car, giving the men on
board a chance to notice your
plight. The gentleman among
them will give you his seat. The
surest way to remain standing is
to stay close to the rear door,
where no one observes you.”
“Don’t say to a salesman, ‘I
want’—this or that. Say, ‘Would
you kindly show me’—this or
that. When you lay stress upon
his importance, not your own,
you imply that, of course, he will
be obliging. After that, his am
bition is to show you how thor
oughly he has mastered the
graces of salesmanship.”
Stemming His Eloquence.
During a recent campaign
meeting a speaker, noted for his
eloquent discourses, was ex
pounding the praises of his fav
orite candidate for Mayor, says
the Kansas City Journal.
“This man,” he shouted, “is
the one who can most fittingly
govern this haven for the op
pressed, with its countless myri
ads of happy homes, their-ver
dant lawns and flowers scintillat
ing in the sunlight.”
With outstretched arms and
gazing fervently upward, he ex
claimed in a passionate voice:
“If I had the pinions of a bird
I would fly to every ward and
precinct in this wonderful city
and disseminate the glad tidings
that”
Then a voice from the back of
the room piped out:
“You’d he shot for a goose be
; fore you had flown a mile.”
Jail Birds Paying Way.
In Connecticut the state offi
! cials seem to have come out of
their dream and are waking up
to the fact that it hardly pays to
keep a lot of criminals in jail eat
ing their heads off, instead of
putting them to work to help out
the taxpayers. Many a God
fearing, law-abiding, hard-work
ing man has to work twelve or
fourteen hours a day to keep
shoes on his children’s feet and
bread in their mouths, and his
: wife may work just as hard, or
! even a grain hai*der than her
man. There certainly can be no
mistake made by putting prison
ers out on the pike with picks
1 and shovels. They do not come
in competition there, to any ex
tent, with other laborers, because
nowadays real hard jobs calling
i for main strength and making
the sweat run are not sought
| even by the so-called army of
' the hungr yand homeless.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1912
PEST VICTIMS LIE THERE
Grave of Five Who Died of Smallpox
In 1811 Found In" Bellerica,
Mass.
Closely adjoining the site of the
Boston & Maine oar shops in Billerica,
the surveyors discovered a gravestone
marking the spot where 100 years ago
five persons, victims of smallpox, were
buried.
The stone is still in good condition,
although mossy with age. The foot
stone as well as the headstone is
solid, giving evidence of careful work
on the part of the ones who placed it
there.
The grave w r as evidently chosen a
century ago as a secluded spot, and
when found trees, underbrush and
shrubbery nearly hid it from sight.
The words on this headstone are:
Erected in memory of and to desig
nate the place where Asa Grost, Jr.,
Levi Frost, Eleanor Farmer, Sarah
Hodgman and Samuel Batchelder
were buried, who died of smallpox,
August, 1811.
At first the Boston & Maine con
sidered getting the consent of the
state to remove the stone and the
dust of the bodies, hut it has been de
cided to let the grave remain where
It is.
So these five persons will rest
where they are and their bed of the
last century will not be disturbed. No
relative of the ones burled seem at
all concerned about tho grave and it
is doubtful If any descendants of
JJiem are living In Billerica or Lowell
at the present time.
SOME ODDITIES IN SIGNS
They Do Not Mean Just What They
Say, but Certainly Attract
Attention.
"Teeth extracted while you wait,”
is the rather superfluous announce
ment of a dentist; while another ad
vertiser appeals to ladies in this se
ductive manner: “Ladies having old
feathers can be re-dved and made
equal to new.” Equally open to mis
construction are the following no
tices: “All gloves in this window 50c
per pair. These won’t last long at
the price.” “Dine here once, and
you’ll never dine anywhere else;” and
“A competent person wanted to un
dertake the sale of a new medicine
that will prove highly lucrative to the
undertaker.”
But perhaps the best of these am
biguous advertisements is that of a
Japanese laundry, which runs thus:
“Contrary to our opposite company,
we will most cleanly and carefully
cheap prices as follows: Ladies, $2
per 100; gentlemen, $1.50 per 100.
After these one reads without a
shock such notices as the following:
Under a pair of hob-nailed boots —
“TTnwearable, $2;” In the window of a
small store in Portland —“New milk,”
and on a card immediately underneath
—“our own make.”
Izaak Walton. «
The customer had -waited fifteen
minutes for the fish he had ordered.
He was very quiet as he sat there,
hut internally there was a seething.
At the end of the sixteenth minute
the waiter, who had been in total
eclipse for fifteen minutes and a half,
bustled up.
‘‘That fish will be here, sir, in five
minutes.”
Five minutes elapsed three times.
Then the waiter hustled up again.
“The fish will be here, sir, in a
minute.”
The customer turned to him.
“Tell me,” he said quietly, but with
a certain emphasis, “what bait are
you using?”
Masterpiece of Advertising.
A physician of Montpelier, France,
was in the habit of employing a very
Ingenious artifice. When be came to
a town where he was not known, he
pretended to have lost his dog, and
ordered the public crier to offer, with
beat of drum, a reward of 25 louis to
whomsoever should bring it to him.
The crier took care to mention all the
titles and academic honors of the doc
tor, as well as his place of residence.
He soon became the talk of the town.
“Do you know,” says one, “that a fa
mous physician has come here, a very
clever fellow? He must be very rich,
for he offers 25 louis for finding his
dog.” The dog was not found, but pa
tients were.
Blow Progress.
A friend met a youthful and lazy
author on the street.
“How is your novel getting along?”
he asked.
“Oh, I’ve begun it,” answered the
author proudly. The two did not meet
again for several weeks. At the next
encounter, the friend again asked;
“Well, how’s your novel?”
The author paused a moment.
“Let me see,” he said, “where did
I tell you I was in it when I saw you
the last time?”
“You said you’d begun it,” answered
the friend.
“Well —I’ve still begun It,” con
fessed the author, guiltily.
Goods and Goods.
At the approach of the angel with
the flaming sword Adam bent upon
Eve a glance of profound consterna
tion.
“We are caught,” he exclaimed,
“with the goods on!”
“Not dry goods, at all events!” gig
gled the first mother, nervously, as
with a consciousness that it. was too
late for a bon mot, however clever,
to save tho situation. —Puck.
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Citation.
Georgia—Montgomery county.
11. T. Taylor, administrator of
j the estates of Geo. W. Taylor and
' John Taylor, late of said county,
■ deceased, represents to the court
m his petition, duly filed and en
tered on record, that he has fully
administered said estates, this is
therefore to cite all parties con
cerned, to he and appear at my
office on the first Monday in May
and show cause, if any they can
why his application for letters of
dismission should not he granted,
as prayed for. Given under my
hand and official signature this
the Ist day of April, 1912.
Alex McArthur, Ordinary.
