SOUTH’S OPPORTUNITY
FOR CATTLE RAISING
If It Would Pay The Wes
tern Man Here It
Is Profitable.
Whether or not the South real
izes its natural resources for live
stocks production, shrewd ob
servers in other sections evident
ly do. A Missouri syndicate is
planning to buy ten thousand
acres of land in Louisiana, where
it expects to establish a great
cattle range. Similar enter
prises, financed by outside inter
ests, are being promoted in other
Southern States. In divers fields
of agricultural and industrial
development, the entire country’s
thought is centering upon the
South’s latent treasure.
This friendly invasion, so long
as it is free from monopolistic
designs, deserves and will receive
a hearty welcome. The South’s
door is open to new workers and
new capital, if they come as true
Americans and in a spirit of
wholesome business: for here is
a vast empire whose abundance
of natural wealth and opportuni
ty is sufficient for all who would
take an honest, constructive part
in its development. “We should
greet the new-comers from the
West and North and East,” says
the Charleston News and Cour
ier, “as valued friends, but at
same time we should not be idle
ourselves. ”
This latter counsel is particu
larly apt. If it is possible for
the Westerner to enter the South
ern field of stock raising, certain
ly it is possible and profitable for
the Southerner himself to do so.
If investors from other sections
are awake to the rich advan
tages which this good land af
fords, surely we ourselves should
no longer sleep over our oppor
tunities. And there are cheer
ing omens that we shall not. The
truths of scientific and business
like farming, as proclaimed and
demonstrated by institutions like
the Georgia College of Agricul
ture have fallen upon fertile
ground and are already bringing
forth a plenteous harvest. In
this State, as in neighboring com
monwealths, a vast deal remains
to be done in promoting live
stock industries but there can be
no doubt that a fruitful begin
ning has been made; we are at
least moving in the direction and
we shall arrive.—Atlanta Jour
nal.
Registration.
With a view to the city elec
tion, voters are registering right
along. They will trouble them
selves to register when the ex
citement is sufficient to draw
them out.
All Georgia voters have reason
to thank the Legislature for do
ing away with the nuisance of
registering six months before
every general State election. It
was a cumbersome arrangement
—a silly requirement demanded
of voters. The new law, which
was a plan submitted by Gov.
Slaton, provides that when a vot
er is once registered he will re
main registered unless disquali
fied by his own act. Under this
beneficent and sensible system
one may send his tax dues to the
collector by a neighbor or through
the mails, and the tax receipt j
will be his registration certificate. ,
Os course payment of all taxes is ,
a condition precedent to casting |
the ballot. But the registration \
oath need be taken only once. (
This new law will be such a cor.-j
venience to those who reside
some distance from the poling:
precincts. The old law requiring
annual registration and six
months before the election was
autocratic and cruel. To look
back upon it, one wonders why
the electorate permitted such a
nuisance. Thanks to Gov. Slaton
and a sane legislature for the
sensible change.—Macon Tele
graph.
Vidalia Gets First District
Masonic Convention
Waynesboro, Ga., Sept. 4. —
: Officers were elected and Vidalia
was chosen as the next meeting
place at the First district Masonic
convention which ended its ses
sion covering two days here to
day. The following officees were
. chosen:
M. A. McQueen, Vidalia, wor
, shipful master; J. A. Lee, Rocky
. Ford, deputy master; R. J. Tra
vis, Savannah, senior warden;
iW, M. Howard, Dover, junior
t warden; John T. Lane, Stilson.
- treasurer; B. F. McCoy, States
boro, secretary; S. Moore, Swains
boro, tiler; E. H. McElmery,
Waynesboro, senior deacon; W.
5 T. Green, Clio, junior deacon;
1 F. E. Bolton, Bay Branch, senior
s steward; D. F. Shejard, Daisy,
2 chaplain.
Tonight the delegates who
r came from all parts of the First
- congressional district, had left
? for their homes. The Savannah
s delegation left early today and
1 arrived in Savannah tonight.
? The following composed the dele
f gation: R. J. Travis, J. J. Car
-3 nell, J. G. Kennedy and Robert
3 Colding.
* Farm Progress Comes by
j Enterchange of Ideas
3 Amid all the study of agricu!
3 tural science and improved meth
- ods there is one factor that is but
’ little understood. That is tin
? human nature factor, the “man
behind the farm.” He is the
- real puzzle in the case. How
f shall we study the farmer? How
- shall he be influenced toward
- right ideas, right practice and
i' true progress.
Certain facts seem to be ad
3 mitted as true. One is that the
- best progress in farming along
- any line is seen where the farm
i ers work together as much as
- possible, where they come to
- gether frequently for council dis
? cussion and that mental attrition
- and friction so well expressed in
1 that passage of Scripture, “Iron
1 sharpeneth iron, so man sharp
- eneth the countenance of his
i friend.”
r ■ T. Greiner, a veteran farmer,
j writing in the Tiibune Farmer,
- says of the Niagara County (N.
Y.) Farmers’ Club:
-| “This club probably has no
3 peer among eastern local societies,
- keeping up its high membership
and attendance year after year.
I so that there is hardly a rural
- church large enough to afford tin
needed standing room at some of
the monthly meetings and sur
prising the chance visitor by the
remarkably high grade of th<
discussion.
There is not the least doubt
that there is a powerful educa
tional effect in such contact.
Nothing takes stupid and mislead
ing conceit out of a farmer more
I 1
than to mingle studiously with
. his fellow farmers.
Why are there not more clubs,
cow testing and other associations
among farmers? Is he so tre-
I' mendously independent that he
'cannot be depended upon to work
with his fellow farmers for their
common good? And right here
do we find the secret of his brain
growth, the broadening of his
judgement and comprehension,
the making of the man and far
' mer. Just in proportions as he
subjects his mind to the attrition
of other minds, does he grow in
mental ability. Niagara couni .
community must have done a
large amount of schooling of one
kind or another in times past to
have risen to the ability to crea!
' and maintain such an organiza
tion.—Hoard’s Dairyman.
Much Honey From Hive.
Mr. J. D. Corbett of Pine Val
ley, gathered eighty-one pound
of honey from one bee hive one
day recently. This is an unusual
amount and Mr. Corbett, who
has had much experience in that
line, says he has never before
gotten anything like that from
'one hive. —Adel News.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1913.
Live Boy In The Coffin
While members of the family
and relatives and relatives were
grouped about the open coffin of
Mrs. J. R. Burney’s three-year
old son at Butts, Cal., listening
to the funeral service, the body
moved and presently the child
sat up and gazed about the room.
His eyes caught those of his
grandmother. Mrs. L. P. Smith,
eighty-one years old. The aged
woman stared at the child as if ‘
hypnotized. Then she sank into
a chair dead.
As she fell the child dropped I
back into its coffin, from which 1
it was quickly taken by the!
mother. A physician said there i
was no hope for the boy and
death came a few hours later.
The following day there were',
two coffins in the Burney home, j
Double services were held and;
the child and its grandmother
were buried side by side.
Romance of Advertising.
Some day we shall have a book
on the romance of advertising.
It will be as interesting and as
full of thrills as ths story of the
Klondike, for advertising and
the hunt for gold have much in ,
common. Both have their great i
“strikes,” in which the pick or
the pen lays bare a fortune al
most at a stroke. When the;
book appears, we shall look with
confidence for the picture of the '
late Gen. Edward F. Jones ofl
Binghamton, and an account of |
the golden flood that poured in ,
upon him because he had the wit i
to say a commonplace thing in a i
tew way. “Jones, he pays the j
freight,” is one of the most!
remunerative pieces of writing)
ever wrote. —Youth’s Companion.
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIRING WIFE
After Four Years of Discouraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.
Catron, Ky.—ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock
writes as follows: “I suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, I could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere at
all. At times, I would have severe pains
in my left side.
The doctor was called in, and his treat
ment relieved me for a while, but I was
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Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 4. —
Reports from all parts of the
state indicate that the second of
Arkansas “good roads” days,
fixed by proclamation of Gov.
George W. Hays, was observed
today just as enthusiastically as
was the first yesterday,
j Gov. Major, of Missouri, who
who yesterday made good his
promise to “give an exhibition in
I plain and fancy shovelling,” in
| tended putting in another full
■ day on the Arkansas roads, but
found it necessary to return to
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While definite figures are not
! available, tonight’s reports show
j that at least 300 miles of the
i state’s highways were “worked.”
All but twenty of the seventy
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