The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, September 18, 1913, Image 4
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.” i 11 Golden Precepts. 11 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 ■ i 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. 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