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THE MONTICELLO NEWS
MONTICELLO, -~ - = GEORGIA
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FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1915,
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He is muchly alive—the red-bug.
eetelet et e,
We are drawing nearer and nearer
~10 War,
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After you get on the water wagon
sprinkle the streets,
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What of Bryan's chautauqua pros
pects—but that is his fight and not
ours.
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The time is almost here when the
Jegislators will have their say and do
their do.
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“This is a good time in which to
spread lime and the like around your |
premises, t
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Of all the foolish things of this day
and time, the craziest act is that of |
W. J. Bryan. |
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If wisdom is the best part of vnlor,'
then you must hand it to your uncle
William Jennings, ‘
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We feel sure that the Macon Tele
graph’s paragrapher need have no
fear of losing the office of President
of the Gumps.
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William Jennings Bryan is now eli
gible to membership in Long's ex
clusive and preferred order of amal
gamated Gumps,
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If this year had not been a bad one |
financially we believe that evoryone‘
in Jasper county would have bought
automobiles this summer.
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Besides a plenty of grass, the re
cent rains brought hordes of mos
quitos to our town. And they are
right on the job o’ nights.
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Some enterprising Eastmanite |
might do well to establish a tempo—i
rary sox factory during the visit of
the press crowd next month, ‘
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Who said picnic and fried
chicken ?—Madison Madisonian. ‘
What are you trying to do, Furlow,
precipitate a riot among ye scribes‘.’i
William Jennings Bryan has skid
ded. Was probably wearing nobby
tread shoes which were too sleek for
the requirements of the govermental
epeedway.
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Notes are as popular today as they
were when we were school children.
The only difference is these kind of
notes may cause a great deal of
gerapping.
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“In Leaving Department Bryan Be
comes Emotional,” says a headline.
It is quite unusual for a corpse to “sit
up and take notice” but then Bryan
should not be denied that farewell
privilege,
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Eastman should not worry. Even
though thronged and tested to its
capacity by the approaching on-com
ing of the Georgia weekly press ag
gregation, it is being well and wide
ly advertised.
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The pastor up in Frederick, Mo.,
who preached upon the subject, “Takoi
Unto Thyself a Wife,” must have
been trying to prepare his congrega-|
tion for the nuptials which followed
immediately after the sermon. 1
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Jackson [s having a boosters’ club
chautauqua this week. All of the
small cities and towns in Georgia are
recognizing the value and benefit of
“getting together” in such a manner
and many of our sister towns have
already gone through a three days’
geason of pleasure and profit.
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" The educational rally, which will
‘be held in Monticello June 3, promises
to be one of the most enjoyable
events of the summer season. An ex
tensive and appropriate program is
being arranged for the occasion. Ev
eryone is invited to be present on that
date. Prominent speakers will take
part in the day's exercises.
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Everyone, whether pedestrian or
auto driver, should stop, look and
listen before crossing a railroad
track. The lives of two excellent
young ladies were snuffed out near
Macon by a locomotive which was
plling a passenger train into that
city Tuesday about noon. These
young ladies were out riding in an
auto and took a chance and lost.
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Butts county has within its borders
a newly erected roller mill, whieh, it
is claimed, will grind out 30 to 35
barrels of flour per day. The new
concern was built by Dr. R. B. Thomp
son and iz located at Cork. From all
accounts it is a Corking good outfit,
and should take care of the present
crop of wheat being grown in that
county as well as serve to induce the
farmers to plant even a larger crop
next year,
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We hope that the war cloud will
not darken the hopes and expecta
tinns of those of the Georgia editors
who will assemble in Eastman next
month at the annual convention. So
many of them have gone to the ex
pense and trouble of practicing sock
wenaring that it will be a real disap-\
pointment if anything should happen
to deprive them of the opportunity to
participate in the glorious festivities
which we know the people of East
man are going to afford their guests.
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A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
The day is immeasurably long to
bim who knows not how to value and
use it.—~Goethe. oot
i HOW DARE YOU! /
The Macon Telegraph's para
grapher is trying to “bust” the
Weekly Press Association. He's
agitating the wearing of silk hose
at the press meeting. The old
Georgia Press Assoclation was
put out of business by Henry Cab
niss by insisting that each editor
should carry S3O with him to the
association meeting. The coun
try press rebelled and formed the
weekly press; and Sterling Rob
erts, of Sparta, was made secre
tary, and Sterling only required
30 cents to be carried by the edi
tors. The Georgia Press went ont
of business and the city paper
~ had no usocluf:n. and by some
~ hook or crook they have got the
~ bars in the weekly down, loped
into the weekly pasture and are
now attempting to set the style of
dress one should wear. We are in
favor of lynching the aforesaid
seribe.~—Ocilla Star,
Why go to that trouble? Give him
enough rope and he will soon hang
himself.
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One of the greatest obituaries
which we have ever read was the one
on William Jennings Bryan in The
Macon Telegraph of Wednesday
morning. The closing paragraphs
contained thege forceful and beauti
ful words:
“Had he courteously but with
calm pride handed back the port
folio to whence it came today he
would be the Great commoner of
the land, immune from effective
attacks by his enemies, a lord ab
solute over his friends. But
‘my love she heard the sound
of the violins’
and entered the house.
‘The spectacle is sad. A man with
the elements of greatness in de
gree given to but few men, he saw
the bubble with the sunbeams in
it and, reaching for it, stumbled
over a world at his feet.”
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There is both fame and wealth
awaiting the man who devises
some plan to get the products of
the farms and truckers of this
country to the consumer without
s 0 much handling and several
charges of buyer, wholesaler, re
tailer, added to its original cost.
What is wanted is some effective
but cheaper plan of distribution
from the farm direct to the con
sumer, that will give the con
sumer practically the conveni
ence of buying from a retailer,
yet giving him an opportunity of
getting his needs supplied with
out paying several men to handle
it between him and the farmer.—
Exchange.
Help help! Lavonia’s chau
tauqua will be on hand on the
game days the Weekly Press As.
gociation is in session. What are
- we (o do? We had misgivings
~all the time about the date set
- for the Press meeting, and we
~ blame editor Benns for the whole
~ trouble, too.—-Lavonia Times,
i Hold on a moment. Benns has
‘enough trouble on his hands now
without adding any more to it. Did
n't you see what he did about that
‘snake siory? He's busy explaining
the whys and wherefores thereof.
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| We don't mind being *“Moon
~ light” to the Monticello News. but
we don’t like it all by ourselves,
(Can't you be kind and find some
one to share the moonlight with
us.—Morroe Advertiser.
What, is it true, Bloodworth, that
you were sitting alone in the moon
light all the times of which you have
made mention in your paper? If so,
then, you'll waste your money wear
ing silk socks down in Eastman,
However, we will Camp on your trail
until you are mated.
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Point to a town whose citizens
count every dollar gotten from
their neighbor as gain; and every
dollar given to a school or college
or church or library or Chautau
qua or lecture course as loss, and
you point to a town on which®
there rests a business and social
blight which will be known |
throughout your state as a “good |
town to move FROM,” says The
Washington Reporter.—Madison ‘
Madj=onian,
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Politics are calculated to make
some people close their eyes for
the public’s good, forget fair
promises, ignore right and show
to the world of what material
they are made. How unfortunate l
for some people that they are |
ever brought into the limelight.
--Jones County News, ‘
Perhaps the above was intended for
some U. 8. senators who were elected
in these parts last year. ‘
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The Brunswick News offers a
reward for the man in Georgia
who will tell it from what sort of
trouble the -paragrapher on the
Macon Telegraph is suffering.
We have been trying to decide,
but for the life of us we can't tell
what hurts him—Griffin Daily
News and Sun,
That's easy, Duke, he is suffering
with gumpitis,
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The oft-auoted advice: Go to
the ant, thou sluggard! isn't at
all neceseary, Juet go to a pie
niec and the ant will come to you.
~-Monroe Advertizer,
Ye«, but the red-bug generally beats
him there and remains longer on tue
job,
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College graduates should re
member that a sheepskin covers
only a small vortion of this world
of ours.—Exchange, :
That is true. But if it is meri
toriongly gained it will serve to open
the doors of suceess and opulence to
its proud and untiring owner,
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Kind of on the fence about or
ganizing the Goats. You for it
or against it?—Macon Telegraph.
Now here’s where we shine, We've
been the goat for a number of years.
INFERIORITY OF THE NEGRO.
Our friends down South, being
sure that the negroes are inferior,
deny them um and pro
vide inferior lor negro
children in oraer that will
continue to be inferfor and thus
prove the correctness of the con
tention of the sclentists and sen
timentalists that the negro is in
ferior, After all, there is nothing
quite so satisfying as the feeling
that you have got things fixed to
that you will always have an in
ferfor race in your midst.—Life,
The best answer to this is from
the negro himself, who realizes
that the South has done for him
what the North neglected to do
when he had his freedom thrust
upon him. An address by a ne
gro leader in the South on Eman
cipation Day sets forth some
very pertinent reasons why the
negro has preferred living as an
inferior in tne South rather than
to seek the exalted (?) station
which the North was so eager to
give him. This address by one,
Dr. Wilkins, at Little Rock, Ark.,
has been going the rounds of the
country. Among other things
he said:
“l say here now, once for all,
if we are to celebrate this occa
sion (Emancipation Day) we can
not in any conscience forget
those who, in anguish and pain,
still held out to us a hand without
which we must have perished
from the earth, our freedom a
travesty, and Lincoln's proclama
tion would have had no place ex
cept as an epitaph of what might
have been.
“Let us, then, celebrate this
day in memory of their helpful
friendship and in gratitude that
we had the good sense to prove
our worthiness of their benefac
tions by not resorting to torch or
anarchy, and with a blush of
shame that anywhere in our be
loved Southland any negro’s pre
tended friends supposed that Lin
coln’s proclamation ever contem
plated the immediate elevation of
the ex-slave to place and power
that meant not only the humilia
tion of the negro’s best friends
but the destruction of that mu
tual reliance which was the most
important element in the remark
ing of this Southland.
“l remember well, as if it were
but yesterday, when old mistress
came into the kitchen and told
my mother: ‘Aunt Jane, you are
free, as free as 1 am. And you
can go.” She wore a large gray
shawl, and as she turned to go |
saw tears on her pale cheeks.
My mother caught hold of her
shawl] and, with streaming eyes,
said: ‘Mi=s Jennie, where shall
I go? What shall I do? I have
nine children and I Xnow no one
but you. Why must I leave you?
We were all erying now. ‘O no,
Aunt Jane,’ she said, ‘you need go
nowhere. You can stay right
here if you wish, and as long as
1 have a crust of bread you and
your children shall eat. I will
pay you what wages I can. And
%0 long as I live and you stay, if
you suffer 1 will suffer too.’
“We stayed, and she did suffer,
much more than we. This scene
was at that moment being enact
ed in thousands of homes all over
this broad land. Those words
were as the star of Bethlehem on
that dark night to every negro
then on the plantations of the
South as he stood dumbfounded
at seeing old mistress in tears.
“And when old master came to
his dilapidated home from the
war, he said ‘Amen’ to every
word that old mistress had said.
And all was well till the carpet
bagger came and, with his damn
‘able practices, preachings and
promises, hatched the hell into
which the South was plunged
from '65 to '76 and out of which
the negro came rest of the friend
ship and help of those whom he
knew and who knew him, those
whom he loved and who loved
him. And the scamp fled with his
All-gotten gains to safer quarters
and left us to shift the best we
could. Today I wish you to cele
brate the release of our friends
from a worse slavery, a more
galling yoke, than we ever wore,
And let us celebrate by returning
to our first and best love, and let
us join hearts and hands with
them and sing with all the soul:
“I never will leave nor forsake
thee.
Where you live. I will live;
. your God shall be my God:
And where you die, there will
I be buried.”
“If this celebration shall mean
this to us, then ere long we shall
have occasion to shout ‘Free at
last.’” 'This is the only kind of
blow that we may strike which
will mean liberty and freedom.
In this way, and this way only,
will the negro in America ever be
free. Let us first free the white
man from the impression we
made on him under vicious lead
ership of false friends, and then
we may hope for him to free us
from the bonds which our own
hands have welded about our
feet. And not until that day ar
rives can we have an emancipa
tion celebration that will mean
anything.”—Exchange. !
It is refreshing to note that the
old time dances are on the way
back again.—Exchange,
They are already here, the kanga
roo, turkey trot and Before Adam
kind.
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ARE YOUR EYES DEGENERATING?
B b, i e T
This question s frequently aske
by people who observe closely )
who are dismayed by the re
large number of people who wear
glasses today, as compared with a
generation or so ago. Our eyes are
not degenerating. The eyes of the
present generation are in no wise
poorer, weaker, or inferior, to those
of our ancestors, notwithstanding the
fact a far greater percentage wear
glasgses than formerly.
The probabilities are that the eyes
of the human race are neither weaker
nor stronger today than were those of
our forefathers, unless it can be prov
en that the whole physique of the
race today is weaker or stronger. As
is the whole physical body, 8o are the
}eyea.
- But much more is required of our
eyes now than was ever required of
our ancestors. The strenuous strug
gle for existence today, the ever in
creasing complexity of our modern
civilized life, the multiplying knowl
edge of the world in all lines of hu
man endeavor, knowledge that must
be mastered if we would rise and a
chieve success, put far greater strain
on the eyes of this generation than on
those that have gone Lefore.
Our schools are far more exacting
and severe, the business and scientific
world require closer application and
more painstaking care than ever be
fore. Electricity has turned night in
to day, and much more work is now
done by artificial illumination than Inl
the past. Sharp competition in every
line makes it necessary to have the
best vision obtainable.
Because of these exacting demands
on our eyes latent imperfections, er
rors. of refraction causing eye-strain,
are brought out and made manifest
by symptoms of discomfort and dis
tress, compelling us to seek the im
provement of vision and the comfort
afforded by properly fitting lenses.
Investigation has shown that prim
ftive races of men have the same ir
regularities in shape and form of the
eyes as are found in civilized races.
The difference lies in the occupation,
out of door life, and the limited use
made of the vision by the savage
races,
Examination of the eyes of the In
dian students at Carlisle and other
Indian schools shows that about 30
per cent. of them have refractive er
rors, and need correcting lenses. This
is approximately as large a percent
age as is exhibited by the white races.
Even the lower animals show the
game irregularities and imperfections
in shape and form of eye which gives
rise to the discomforts caused by re
fractive errors in man.
Some years ago, an enterprising
and intrepid oculist in New York
City, succeeded by means of the reti
noscope in measuring the refraction
of the eves of many of the wild ani-|
mals in Bronx Zoological Park of that
city. He found a considerable per
centage of them with the same im
perfections as exist in man. It is not
reported, however, that he fitted them
with glasses.
~ The percentage of people wearing
glasses, in a community, or group, or
society, is an index to the education
al and scholastic attainments of that
group or society. The more the eyes
are used for prolonged study and
irlose work, the more necessary it be
comes to wear correcting lenses for
‘any existing refractive errors. It will
frequently be found in any group of
.professional and scientific men,
Isxcholarx-x. professors, teachers, law
\yers, doctors, etc., that from 30 to 60
'percent. of them are wearing glasses.
-——The Journal of the American Medi
cal Association.
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Macon is preparing to send a
record-breaking delegation to Atlanta
to see that Judge Nat E. Harris is
'properly and well broken in as Geor
igia's Governor the latter part of this
month., Well, we have no doubt but
that Mr. Harris will make our state
a splendid executive. Coupled with
‘xnatlve ability, he has a long number
of years of legal training and ex
perience which will stand him in good
istead while at the helm of the affairs
of this the grandest and greatest
commonwealth in the South. Here is
to Governor Harris’ health and suc
cess. In the words of old Rip, “May
he live long and prosper.”
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