The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, August 21, 1913, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTF\e pi 111 ism 1) I MR! THURSDAY. OIUCIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Knteml at tin- Poatoflice in Mr. Vernon. Oa. an Second-Class Mail Matter. h. B. loi sum. Editor and Owner. $■ a Year, in Advance. advm tiHi mfiiiti* must invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, and aa the law dircctn; and muat be in band not later than Wednesday morning of the tirat week of insertion Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning Auk. 21, 1913. Now that Harry K. Thaw has escaped, if he will take Evelyn and join the haby in London this country will not lose anything. It really seems like Congress has gone into winter quarters in Washington. If Mexico can’t keep up a little excitement indi cations are for a dull season. The glory of bringing in the first bale of cotton fades away long before the last bale has to be sold to finish payment of the run bill at the store or the guano account. Turpentine arid lumber have about had their day in this im mediate section, but the sweet potato industry is assuming great proportions, with the possibility of alfalfa still ahead of us. Any small factory or enter prise that pays wages weekly to a dozen men is worth more to a small town than a court house. Any town with a live board ol trade can secure such enterprises. If there could not be another election or another session of the legislature in Georgia in four years, and the people bad a chance to get together lor ma terial advancement, it would be a fine thing. A Mississippi man was arrest ed Sunday on a charge of steal ing 700,000 gallons of water. It would be interesting to know what that man was doing when the Mississippi river was on its last rampage. It would doubtless surprise Col. Dan Bradley, chief promo ter of the Savannah and Western railroad, if lie were to see us coming along some day clearing out the right of way from this end of the line. Every farmer in Montgomery county ought to see the State Eair in Macon, October 21 to 31. No practical information on farming can be more thoroughly or economically acquired than by a visit to this great agricultural exhibit. There is but one thing that prevents Montgomery county from becoming the garden spot of the unniverse—a failure of its people to unite and pull for thej common good. A principle that has not failed since the dawn of creation would not fail now. The plea that the banker should help the farmer is probably cor rect. But the farmer who uses his brain and depends on crops j that are made and Harvested with less than the expense of picking the cotton crop after the expense of making it, will not have to lean on the bank to any great extent. It is gratifying to note that Georgia leads all the states in the manufacture of fertilizers. It will be a happy day for us when stock raising will be so combined with agriculture in Georgia that our fields will be permanently enriched; for not until then will our people become jiermancntly prosperous. The appointment of Hon. John C. Hart as Georgia’s first state tax assessor seems to meet with universal approbation in the state. We hope that State As-' sessor Hart will visit every sec-, tion and see for himself the necessity of quick relief for those who have been carrying more than their share of the burden so long. * £ < ► Gleanings From < ► Wisdom’s Field. J ► < •AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Americus Times-Recorder:—lf only the dear little flossie, flippy, dolly girls of today could realize that housework makes women beautiful! Fitzgerald Press:—Shadow skirts, transparent skirts, slit skirts, etc., are all the rage now lin the cities. Why not abolish j these new fangled skirts alto gether and go back to the simple dress of Mother Eve? Wouldn’t that be shockingly cool? Graymont Hustler:—One of the Balkan nations has advertised for bids for 3,000 wooden legs. ; This is another proof that Sher man was rignt, when he said that “war is hell.” This is a silent, but strong appeal against the foolishness of war. Lyons Progress:—One more week before court convenes and the civil docket is about as heavy as we ever have. The four terms a year don’t seem to help very much except in spending the money. The writer favored four tfflrns a year and no city court, but we are beginning to see where we were wrong, as it costs some money to run a term of Su perior court, at least four times as much as a term of city court, ; would cost. Hawkinsville Dispatch-News: “Prayers for the Legislature of Wisconsin cost that state $843 during the session of 1913, ” says a news item. It would be a waste of money to spend that much for prayers on the Georgia legislature. Darien Gazette: —If Mr. Bryan should resign it would be a hun dred to one bet that President Wilson would appoint Senator A. O. Bacon as secretary of state. There is no statesman in either party better equipped for the po sition than our own distinguished Georgian. Nashville Herald: No weekly newspaper enrolled in the mem-1 bership of the Georgia Press As- ; sociation carries whiskey adver tisements is an interesting fact brought out at the recent annual meeting held at LaGrange. | Tattnall Journal:- The tradi tion about its raining during dog J days if it rained on the first of : those days, might have proven false, but it would not take many such rains as fell Sunday night to make up for the days it fails! to rains, in point of water. Adel News:—Georgia took a great step forward Tuesday in the tax matter when the Ander-1 son-Miller tax revision measure was passed by the Legislature. The vote was a tie, but speaker i Rurwell voted in favor of the passage of the bill. Valdosta Times: A half a day was spent by the legislators yes terday in discussing whether or not the average Georgia parent thinks more of his calf than he does of his child. The calf prop osition is hardly fair. The solons ought to substitute pointer dogs. (Jreenshore 11erald-Jonrnal: If President Wilson dosen’t shake that plum tree a little faster 1 there are a lot of us Democrats who cannot survive. Perry Home Journal:—With more than fifty county tax di gests showing decreases in tax valuation, and others showing large decreases, the need of tax equalization is very much empha sized. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1913 A Queer Lake A short time ago The Compan ion told of a Swiss lake, Lake Marjelen, which at regular in tervals completely disappears, and does not begin to refill until ihe following winter or spring. On these occasions it empties it self so rapidly that the Rhone rises several meters in a few hours? and overflows its banks. A Companion reader writes that it is not necessary to go so far as Switzerland in order to find a freakish lake. There is a pond in the center of Long Is land, at the present end of the Motor Parkway, called Lake Ronkonkoma. It has neither in let nor outlet, and lies at the foot of the hills that form the backbone of Long Island. Round its shore are many pretty sum mer homes. The trees about it are much larger and more beau tiful than elsewhere on Long Is land. The waters of the lake are very clear and cold. In some jilaces it seems bottomless. The strange thing about Lake Ronkankoma is that it has a tide. Not a tide like the ocean, that tises and falls every twelve hours, but one that takes seven years to rise and seven more to fall. The difference between high water and low water mark is between thirty and forty feet. Many scientific men have studied the curious phenomenon, but no one has found out what causes this mysterious tide. Neither long-continued rains nor severe droughts affect the quantity of water in the lake. The Indians used to hold the lake in great awe, and few dared to cross it in a canoe. There is a legend of one brave who, while fishing, was drowned in the lake; his body was found six months afteiward nearly ten miles away, in Long Island Sound. —Youth’s Companion. COULD SCARCELY WALK ABOUT And For Three Summers Mrs. Vin cent Was Unable to Attend to Any of Her Housework. Pleasant Hill, N. C-—“I suffered for three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter Vincent, of this town, ‘‘and the third and last time, was my worst. 1 had dreadful nervous headaches and prostration, and was scarcely able to walk about. Could not do any of my housework. I also had dreadful pains in my back and sides and when one of those weak, sinking spells would come on me, 1 would have to give up and lie down, until it wore off. 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The co-operation of all cotton raisers is desired so that the effect of withdrawing the cotton from the market will be more quickly felt. Contracts can be secured from Mr. Willie Gay, Soperton, Ga., Rev. C. M. Ledbetter, Mt. Vernon, and J. B, Brewton, Ailey. Everything Ready For Tattnall Camp Meeting. Reidsville, Aug. 16.—Practi cally all arrangements have been completed for the annual Tattnall countv camp meeting which will be held at the camp ground be ginning August 28. It is under stood that several noted speakers and preachers have been invited to assist in the services during the week it will run. Among the more widely known are Bishop W. A. Candler. believe I would have died if I hadn’t taken it. After I began taking Cardui, I was greatly helped, and all three bottles re lieved me entirely. I fattened up, and grew so much stronger in three months, I felt like an other person altogether.” Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle acting. 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