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TIDE OF PROSPERITY
RUNS HIGH IN SOUTH
Wave Reaches Southeast
And Business Moves
Swiftly.
There are many indications
that the*South is entering upon a
season of perhaps the greatest
prosperity in its history. This is
a far-reaching statement, but the
conditions seem to justify it.
Crop prospects were never
better.
A large yield of cotton is as
sured practically; good prices are
being paid for cotton and there
are substantial reasons for be
lieving that these good prices
will be maintained throughout
the marketing season.
Crops in this section have been
made at. less cost, this year than
in many years, and, in addition,
greater quantities of corn will be
harvested, so that farmers will
have a larger surplus of cash to
place in circulation at. home.
Confidence is a great factor in
bringing about prosperity. Con
fidence does not increase the
acreage yield or the factory out
put, but it brings capital from
the idleness of seclusion to the
activity of investment. Thernan
who contemplates erecting an of
fice building or a structure for a
hotel, establishing a manufactur
ing plant or investing money in
some other wav is certain not to
place his plans in execution, as a
rule, when the outlook is un
promising and confidence is want
ing.
There was never more cheer
and confidence over the business
situation and outlook in this sec
tion than now, and this confi
dence is an important factor in
the situation, along with the big
crops and good prices.
Another important fact should
be considered in this connection.
Not many years ago the chief
volume of money in the South
came from the marketing of its
one great crop cotton. Now,
the manufacturing industries
have so multiplied that the value
of factory products in some
states is becoming a close second
to the value of the farm pro
ducts. When the factory pro
ducts values and the farm pro
ducts values that art; unusual are
combined there must be great
prosperity. There were never so
many factories in this section as
now and the crop outlook in the
Southeast was never better.
It appears that there is noth
ing to stop the oncoming of the
wave of prosperity.—lndustrial
Index.
She Saw Him Passing By.
That the aged are not easily
roused to enthusiasm or excite
ment is well known, but they are
not often as calm as the old lad>
that the Windsor Magazine tells
about.
An old man fell from a second
story window into the street,
where an anxious crowd imme
diately gathered to see whether
he was set iously injured. One
of his daughters rushed franti
cally into the first-floor room,
where his wife sat knitting, and
cried:
"0 mother, mother, father’s
fallen from the top of the house
into the road! O dear! O dear!”
‘‘Yes, my child,” answered the
old lady, placidly, looking up
from her work, “I saw him pass
the window.”
Heavy Load of Cotton
Pulled by Two Mules.
Additional proof of the advan
tage of good roads was had yes
terday when Abram Dowdle, a
worthy negro farmer, drove to
Americas with a load of six heavy
bales of cotton, the whole drawn
by two mules and carried to Har
rold Bros'. warehouse. The
bales weighed over 500 pounds
each, or a total weight exceeding
3,000 pounds, which two mules
pulled a distance of six miles
without fatigue, over one of
Sumter’s good roads. Americus
Times-Recorder.
Soperton.
special Correnpond<;nee. #
(Intended for laat week.) {
Miss Nora Belle Denton spent <
the week end with friends in l
Vidalia.
Miss Mamie Rabun left last
Monday for Milledgeville, where j
she goes to enter the Georgia
Normal Industrial College.
Miss Pearl Gordy returned to (
her home in Gatlin, after a pleas- ;
ant visit to her sister, Mrs. W. j
j Martin. ]
Mrs. Rippie Cox of Dover is s
j visiting her mother, Mrs. J. R.
I Durden. 1
Little Gladys Calhoun of Tar
! rytown is visiting her friend, J
Mary Sue Futrill, of this place.
Mr. Anthony Phillips of Gillis c
Springs spent Sunday and Mon- ,
day here. j
Miss Amenda Jones of Bremen, t
Ga., is the guest of her'friend,
Miss Blanche Mishoe, this week, i
Miss Jimmye Futrill left Tues
day for Rome, Ga., where she *
goes to enter Shorter College at ‘
that place. ,
Miss Jimmye Futrill entertain- (
ed a number of her friends last
Tuesday evening. A few games ■
were played after which she l
rendered some choice selections 1
of music on the piano, after the j
music delicious refreshments .
were served. 5
Those enjoyed the occasion
were: Misses Claudie and Lavo
da Durden, Willie Mae Ivey .
and Flossie Chivers; Messrs. .
Earnest Poole, John Thigpen, t
George Kight, Tullie Lee, Aaron I
Pipkin, Walter Lowe and Tom f
Ivey.
Lines to a Slain Swine.
A North Missouri farmer whose !
hog Was killed by a train wrote
the company’s claim agent for a!
settlement, says the Kansas City |
Star. Being somewhat of a
“poet” he penned his communi
cation thus:
Dear sir:
My razorback strolled down your
track
A week ago today
Your Twenty-nine came down the j
line
And snuffed his light away.
You can’t blame me—the hog
You see, slipped through a cat
tle gate.
So kindly pen a check for ten,
This debt to liquidate.
He was rather surprised a' few
days later to receive the follow-!
ing:
Old Twenty-nine came down the j
Line and killed your hog, we |
know,
But razorbacks on railroad tracks i
Quite often meet with woe.
Therefore, my friend, we cannot
Send the check l'or which you
pine.
Just plant the dead: place o’er j
his head
“Here lies a foolish swine.”
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Golden Precepts.
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The late Robert C. Ogden, i j
merchant, philanthropist and j
millionaire, whose life was notab- j
ly successful from every point of j
view, left behind him in writing jj
this set of good and tried rules. |j
Keep faith in humanity. >
Do not mistake a prejudice for !
a principle. |j
Be energetic, wideawake, i
pushing, but be patient.
Use the book of Proverbs as a j
guide in business. «
Honor womanhood. j
Believe in yourself, then other j
people will believe in you. i
A vigorous, healthy man has {
really only one right in the J
world, onl> one thing to demand, i
and that is a chance to work. {
Wo recommend these precepts i
to the youths of New England, j
who are just now beginning ca- J
reers in commerce, industry and i
the professions. If they be obey- {
ed, they will lead on to happiness J
and good fortune. Boston Globe. J
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A number of train wrecks have »
occurred this week in the North- |
west. In a derailment at Fort {
Madison. Ohio, a collision at »
South Norwalk. Conn., a wreck \
by falling through a bridge at J
Booneville, Mo., several were »
killed and injured.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR--THURSDAY. SEPT 18, 1913
Value of Dreams.
There is a certain little Scripture
that is not noticed much. It is
this: ‘‘Where there is no vision
the people perish. ” That would
be true even if it was not in the
Bible. It is true of an individual
as well as a people. There must
be a hope, an aim, an upward
look, a realization of better things
ahead to awaken aspiration and
quicken endeavor. So many peo
ple don’t have this. They live
from hand to mouth and never
look out from wffiere they are
standing. That’s the animal’s
way. They don’t dream. They
have no visions
There are communities some
times that have no inspiring out
look. They settle down to
amusements, prisons, politics,
sports and the passing show, but
never unfold the future and see
in it the nobler life. They have
nothing to live for but today.
There is no inspiration in tomor
row. They buy and sell and talk
and laugh and eat and drink and
go to bed, and tomorrow is the
same. There is no vision. No
high mark to press forward to.
No Heavenly vision, as St. Paul
expresses it.
Now there is something in a
vision or the Bible would not say
the lack of it would destroy a
people. This lack constitutes
the dry rot we hear of —no incen
tive, no life, no hope. And when
an individual gets that way and
sees no vision, he is a dead duck.
Ohio State Journal.
Mrs. Betty Killinsworth of
Pittsburg is sueing her husband,
a prominent oil man, for divorce,
the main grounds being that he
tickled her feet and she couldn’t
sleep.
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While a building was in process
.of construction two of the tiler
became engaged in a violeni
quarrel. So violent was it tha
the police were called in and th
offenders taken before a magis
trate. Both of the men wer
sober and industrious and goo:
workmen; this, according to th
testimony of the foreman ii
charge of their work, who ha<
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to intercede for them.
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tonishment, the cause of the
quarrel. It seems that one mar
had accused the other of stealing
his coat.
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“How?” asked the magistrate.
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pocket,” said the man.
The policemen were directed
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‘‘Gimme my coat,” said the
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him. He took two dried peas
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my card.”
He got his coat.
Duty to Land and Stock.
If you do not sow a winter
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patch of some winter-growing
j legume this fall, you will not be
doing your duty by your live
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to argue the question; you know
you should do it. Knowing this,
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