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Senator Bacon as
U. S. Vice President.
Following the death of Vice
President, Sherman, Senator Ba
con of Georgia, according to the
construction of the law by Con
gressman Edwards, becomes in
fact the vice president of the
United States.
This is by virtue of his being
the presiding officer of the sen
ate. Senator Bacon was desig
nated by Vice President Sher
man as the presiding officer of
the senate until December 16,
and the appointment was ap
proved by the senate. At the
same time Senator Jacob H. Gal
linger of New Hampshire was
designated to preside after De
cember 16, and this also was con
firmed by the senate.
Congressman Edwards says
that, therefore, Senator Bacon
first and then Senator Gallinger
will be president over the senate
and be in fact the vice president
until Mr. Sherman’s successor is
chosen.
The senate and the house of
representatives meet on Decem
ber 2.
Mr. Edwards is discussing Vice
President Sherman’s death said:
“While I differed in politics from
Mr. Sherman and never liked the
name of Sherman, for obvious
reasons, he was one of the finest
men I ever knew. I served in
the house with him for two
years. He was greatly liked by
both sides of the house and was
a very popular man. His death
removes one of the most genial
men in public life.’’ —Savannah
Press.
Huge Ant Hills.
West African ant hills are ver
itable giants, frequently stand
ing forty feet high. These ant
hills are shaped something like a
sugar loaf and are divided inside
into hundreds of tiny rooms.
They have, needless to say,
myriads of inhabitants, and these
are all busily occupied in various
ways—forming tunnels, making
roads, gathering food and watch
ing over the eggs and youngsters.
The natives are afraid to touch
these hills, except from a dis
tance with firearms. The ants
often make their strongholds
around around trees and they are
built very solidly, with sides
sometimes twenty inches thick.
The inside is hollow and at the
top there is a sort of attic. The
royal cell, where the queen ant
lives, is always found on the
ground floor. This good lady is
prisoner but is carefully fed by
her busy subjects, the eggs she
lays being immediately carried
away and deposited in rooms set
apart for the purpose.
Resolutions of Respect.
Whereas, Our great order
mourns the loss of one of its most
worthy members in the death of
Brother George Dickens, who de
parted this life the 11th day of
September last.
And, whereas, It can most tru
ly be said of him that he was a
true Mason in his heart; because
he plumbed his life and squared
his dealings according to those
rules which circumscribe the life
of all true Masons. And he nev
er failed to answer the sign for
help made by any worthy broth
er after he was raised to the ex
alted position of a Free and Ac
cepted member of the ancient
order of Masons. Therefore be it
Resolved, 1, That in the death of
Brother Dickens our order has
lost a very valuable member, and
2. That our country has lostj
a good and faithful citizen, and
3 That a copy of these resolu- 1
tions be recorded upon the min
utes of our lodge, and one be
sent to the family of the deceased
and one sent also to the Mont
gomery Monitor for publication.
Done by order of Harmony!
Lodge, No. 405, F. \ & A. \ M. \ I
J. W. Hutcheson, >
N .L. Gillis, / Committee. I
*A. Macon, )
Ed Brown is out;
Watch for your fowls.
Atlanta, Oct. 31. —Warning:
To all Georgians who are happy
in the possession of a hen-coop or
a chicken yard: This is to inform
you that Ed Brown, the ablest
and most notorious chicken thief
anywhere south of Staunton, Va.,
has been released from the Ful
ton county jail and is now at
large.
Ed is wearing a pair of cordu
roy trousers perforated with
bird-shot until they look in spots
like a sieve. His anatomy is also
peppered with bird-shot and fat
bacon, and he may thus be iden
tified. He doesn’t remember him
self how often he has been shot
scrambling over a back fence, but
shot or not he usually gets away
with the chickens, and the re
cent sentence he served here
was one of the few cases in
which he was caught.
Ed was released from the jail
at 9 o’clock this morning and
when last seen he was going due
south.
Livestock Saves the Soil.
Feeding crops to animals does
not take away the fertility of
the farm nearly so rapidly as
when grain is sold. Moreover,
livestock farming requires that a
variety of crops be raised and
this means crop rotation. Clo
ver, alfalfa or some other legumi
nous crop is usually raised when
animals are kept on the farm.
These crops have a very bene
ficial effect on the soil, increas
ing the organic matter, adding
nitrogen to it and at the same
time furnishing a rich feeding
stuff for all kinds of livestock.
Professor Geo. C. Humphrey re
cently made the following re
marks regarding livestock farm
ing and soil fertility:
“The farmer who owns a rich,
fertile farm and keeps as many
productive animals, of two or
more classes, as the farm will
support is in this position to en
joy a lifetime of continued pros
perity and to leave his sons a
goodly heritage. Too often men
fail to enjoy such a prosperity
and do not leave their sons the
splendid heritage of a fertile
farm.
“Without any intention of do
ing wrong, many farmers have
enjoyed a limited degree of pros
perity at the expense of those
who are to farm their fields af
ter them. This has been accom
plished by the continued growing
and marketing of farm crops to
such an extent that the soil fe
tility has become exhausted and
the farms have been practically
worn out. A retired farmer once,
when invited to attend an agri
cultural meeting, boastfully re
marked, “There isn’t much any
one can teach me about farming.
I have lived long enough to wear
out three farms and I doubt if
many men have had any more
experience than I.’ As a result
of this kind of farming, many
farms which were at one time
fertile and productive are, today,
too poor and unproductive to of
fer any inducement for anyone
to own and operate them.”
Tart and Tarter.
When James T. Brady first
opened a lawyer’s office in New
York he took a basement room
which had been previously occu
pied by a cobbler, says the New
ark Star. He was somewhat an
noyed by the previous occupant’s
callers and irritated because he
had few of his own. One day
an Irishman entered.
“The cobbler’s gone, I see, he
said.
“I should think he has,” tartly
responded Brady.
“And what do you sell?” said
the visitor, looking at the solita
ry table and a few law books.
“Blockheads,” replied Brady.
“Begorra,” said the Irishman,
j “ye must be doing a mighty fine
business; ye ain’t got but one
left.” 1
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, NOV. 7. 1912.
TRAINING FOR THE FIREMEN
Sedalia Alderman Wanted Them to
Practice for Two Day a Before
Each Blaze.
“A number of years ago,” said an
ex-Sedalian, “a substantial German-
Ameriean citizen was elected to the
council in Sedalia, Mo. His sound
business ideas soon made him easily
the strongest member of the body in
point of influence, but there were
times when his ideas became tangled.
“About the time the alderman in
question was completing his first
term there arose a somewhat general
and severe criticism of the town’s
fire protection. After the matter
had been thoroughly discussed the
alderman came to the conclusion
that the trouble was due to ineffi
ciency on the part of the firemen.
“ ‘llaf it all fixed oop,’ the aider
man confided to his colleagues at
one of the meetings. ‘You vaste no
more dime in dalk. You ehoost vote
for mine ordinance.’
“The aldermen had sufficient faith
in their associate’s ability to cope
with the municipal problems to wait
for the ordinance, which was to be
introduced and passed under a sus
pension of the rules. They expect
ed a satisfactory explanation when
the measure should be introduced. It
came.
“ ‘Misturr Bresident,’ said the au
thor of the measure, ‘der troubles
mit His town iss dat der fire depart
ment don’t bractiss enough yet. I)is
ordinance vili cure der troubles. It
says dat der department shall brac
tiss for two days before efery fire.’ ”
—Kansas City Journal.
THESPIAN RECOLLECTONS
The Baseball Crank—You do not
take much interest in baseball ?
The Actor—No, indeed. 1 never
could understand why it should be
so hard to throw a ball straight when
it is so easy to send an egg straight
to the mark.
WERE NOT ON HIB LIST.
The late Rev. Horatio Stebbins of
San Francisco was a man of largo
mind and noble powers, but more
familiar with the world of intellect
ual and scholastic interests than with
trivial and timely things, says the
Cleveland Leader.
His household was blessed with a
charming daughter, who grew up
tall and beautiful, commanding the
admiration of all who saw her. One
day a visitor said to the good doctor:
“Doctor, your daughter grows
more charming day by day. Why,
she’s a regular Gibson girl.”
“Ah, thank you; thank you,” re
plied the doctor in his best manner.
When the visitor had gone, turning
to his wife, the doctor asked : “My
dear, who are the Gibsons?”
IN APPREHENBION.
“I gave her a plush album on her
wedding aniiversary. It was one 1
had about the house for some time,
but it looked like new.”
“Well ?”
“Now she has found that I have
an anniversary soon.”
“Well, no doubt you expect her
to reciprocate.”
“Reciprocate is not the word. I’m
afraid she will retaliate.”
QUITE 80.
“Who reads poetry?”
“Numerous people.”
“Bah! What good is it?”
“Do not sneer at poetry, my friend. ;
Poetry has risen in the estimation
of many since they began using it on
the baseball page.”
AQUATIC SPOUSE.
"Poor Benders! He has a hard
time.”
“Why so?”
“If his wife isn’t keeping him in
hot water about some of his indis
cretions, she is throwing cold water
on hia schemes for getting rich.” |
WHY GREEK REPUBLIC FELL;
Work of Corruptions and Dissensions
Rather Than of the Man
of Macedonia.
The old world has already re
vealed to us, in its unsealed books,
the beginning and end of all its own
marvelous struggles in the cause of
liberty. Greece, lovely Greeee, “the
land of scholars and the nurse of
arms,” where sister republics, in
fair procession, chanted the praises
of lilterty and the gods—where and
what is she? For two thousand
years the oppressor has ground her
to the earth. Her arts are no more.
The last sad relics of her temples
are but the barracks of a ruthless
soldiery. The fragments of her col
umns and her palaces are in the
dust, yet beautiful in ruins. She
fell not when the mighty were upon
her. Her sons were united at Ther
mopylae and Marathon, and the tide
of her triumph rolled back upon the
Hellespont. She was conquered by
her own factions. She fell by the
hands of her own people. The man
of Macedonia did not the work of
destruction. It was already done
by her own corruptions, banish
ments and dissensions.—Judge
Story on “Our Duties to the Repub
lic.”
JOKE ON ARTHUR BRISBANE
Wilton Lackaye, the Actor, Wat As
tonished to Learn of Editorial
Conferences With Hearst.
Arthur Brisbane, who is Mr.
Hearst’s close confidante in the man
agement of the New York Journal,
was in company with Wilton Lack
aye, the actor, on upper Broadway
one afternoon. The time passed
quickly and it was nearly six o’clock
when the editor suddenly bestirred
himself and said he would have to
start downtown. Lackaye urged
Brisbane to accompany him to the
Lambs’ club and be his guest at din
ner.
“I would like to,” said Brisbane,
“but there is an editorial conference
called at six o’clock every evening
and it is imperative that I be there.”
“What is the idea of this editorial
conference?” asked the actor.
“A conference between various
heads of departments,” explained
Brisbane. “We get together and
shape the plans for the next day’s
paper.”
“Do you mean to imply,” said the
actor, pretending amazement, “that
you and Hearst get out the Journal
deliberately ?”
MAY CLEAN UP MYBTERY.
The mystery concerning the birth
place of the Venerable Bede, Eng
land’s first historian, has a prospect
of being solved if the ecclesiastical
scheme for excavating the founda
tions near the ancient tower of St.
Peter’s monastery, Wearwouth, is
successful. The monastery was
founded in the seventh century, and
is now part of the fabric of Monk
wearmouth parish church. The foun
dations of the building, believed to
have been part of the monastery, are
situated near the west side of the
tower, and they have never been ex
plored. The unearthing of the crypt
and of interesting tablets and memo
rials is probable, and this may throw
light on the birthplace of the Vener
able Bede.—London Graphic.
A CONSCIENTIOUS DOG.
“I’m afraid, ma’am, that dog of
yours would just as soon bite me as
not.”
“Well,” answered the lady of the
house to the wandering one, “Cae
sar is such a nice dog in his habits
that I am sure he would rather not
bite an unwashed stronger, but, on
the other hand, his sense of duty is
j so strong that he is more than apt
to bite you.”
BETWEEN GIRLB.
“I haven’t received a love letter
from Jack in three days. I think
I it’s a shame. I shall positively be
: ill unless I get a love letter by to
! morrow.”
“Well, my dear,” said the other
I girl, “if you need a love letter from
Jack as badly as that, I have forty
or fifty I’ll be glad to let you have.”
CAN THIB BE TRUE7
“I can’t understand it, don’t you
know, old chap.”
| “What can’t you understand?”
“A fellow I was talking to a little
while ago said some of the greatest
men in the history of the world had
died without ever having seen a j
I squash court.”
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MACON, DUPLIN & SAVANNAH RY.
Schedule Effective Oct. 22, 1911.
NO. 18 No. 20 ST a ..| ( \ v s No. 19 No. 17
A. M. P. M M A. M P. M.
700 1 00 Leave M icon Arrive 11 25 1 28
714 414 Swifi Greek 11 12 il 27
728 428 Dry Brunch 11 08 404
727 427 Atlantic 10 59 400
7 81 4 81 Pike’s Peak 10 65 8 50
. 789 489 Fitzpatrick 10 48 849
744 444 I pley 10 48 844
750 450 Jeffersonville 10 81 882
800 600 Gallemore 10 19 821
810 510 Dimvilb 10 09 811
821 621 Allentown 10 04 800
881 581 Montrose 954 250
842 542 Dudley 948 245
848 548 Show make 987 289
854 554 Moore 980 282
910 010 Ar. Lv. 915 217
Dublin
915 015 Lv. Ar. 910 212
917 017 SM I) <fc S.l 908 210
9 21 0 21 N M I) & 8 J 9 04 2 00
9 81 0 81 Gatlin 8 64 1 50
9 41 041 M inter 8 48 1 45
951 051 Rockledge 881 188
950 050 Orliind 825 127
10 11 711 Soperton 810 112
10 22 722 Tanytown 768 100
10 80 780 Kibbee 76012 52
10 45 745 Vidal in 78512 87
CONNECTIONS:
At Dublin with the Wrightsville & Teiinillo and the Dublin & South
western for Eastman and Teniiille and intermediate points
At Macon wit li Southern Railu . from and to Oinciimatfci. Chattanooga,
Rome Birmingham, Atlanta and intermediate points. Also the Central of
Georgia Railway, G. S. *F. Railway, Macon and Birmingham Railway
and Georgia Railroad.
At Rockledge with the Milieu and Southwestern for Wadley and in
termediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Milieu and Southwestern for Milleti,Stillmoro and in
ermedlate points.
J. A STREYER, G. P. A., Macon, Ga.
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Plenty on Hand for Prompt
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Prices Prevail. Write for Prices.
ocor EE BRICK YARD
J. A. McBRIDE, Proprietor
Mt. Vernon, Ga. I
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Plenty of Money to Lend j
On Improved Farms at Six p‘-r Cent. Interest Any Amount li
From SBOO Up. Re-payment Allowed Any Time. Prompt g
[Service and Courteous Treatment.
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McRAE, GEORGIA. 1
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