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About The Morgan monitor. (Morgan, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1898)
THE By the Monitor Publishing Company* orneiAL nm or mm com? w. c. THOMAS. I*roprle1or. Idlitor and UATi:S or StJRSCRirTION. , Ono copy one year . $ 1 . 00 One copy six months One copy three months . 2 Advertising rates made known Am ap plication. Entered nt the Post Offl at Morgan n second-class mail matter. MORGAN. GA„ FEB. 18, 1CH. Stick to t rue, honest, democracy. That's next to hog and hominy. With plenty"of Img and out farmers are Mire of making meat and bread. ‘‘Bell cords” and dinner horns seem to be taking a very proiniueni part in Georgia politics this year. More people make a sos of them selves through envy of successful rivals than from any other one cause. Cattle raising could be made to pay very handsomely in C.illiour, county, and at less expense than 5c cotton. What has become of tho artesian well question? Things are getting mighty “dry” in this neck of the woods. Wo want no office; no prize fight¬ ing and no war, hot, we will take a good 'possum with a ft w raters around on tho edges. We’vo hcanl of the '‘One-eyed plow hoy from Pigeon Roost;” but where is tho “Two-eyed mulo-gnidor v,. from Chicken Roost?” Tho street corner whitlers are in hopes that the weather this summer will he pleasant and agreeable, as hot weather and hot politics don’t go well together. Editor Geo. 1, Keen, of the Leo county Journal, is making things hustle in his part of the country. He is giving tho people of Lee couu t.y a Meat, country weekly on a regu lar city style. The mctropulitmulfe'’ , as well as tho pfdlTieinnR, are clamoring war fvlui some nation. While yon are counting your soldiers kindly leave ns out, ns wo haven’t, time to “mank- oy” with such small matters. Tbo farmers in this section are not worrying themselves about, poli¬ tics or tho price of this fall’s cotton. They are figuring on how many bushels of corn and how many hogs they are going to raise this year. Why is it that a person always weep when they are tolling tho con¬ gregation that their sins have been forgiven and they are heavenly bound? It seems to us that they would rejoice at being aide to release themselves from tho clutches of the devil. lion. Phil. Cook, of Leesburg, who lias announced himself a candidate for Secretary of state, seems to bo the choice man of the entire state press. Somehow or other this scribe is a little partial to tho senator, and when the time comes wo can be found up in tho front ranks. Georgia politics lias already begun to simmer, and if ono !s to judge from tho present outlook, there is going to bo hot times in tho old stato on election day. Candler now has tne field all by himself as Joe Terrell is out of tbe race. Candler will doubtless make a safe home run. It is understood that Terrell will run for re-election to tho office he now holds. Candler will proba¬ bly be, succeeded by Phil Cook for Sectetary of state, and O. B. Stevens is wanting the oilico of Commission¬ er of agriculture. Wo think it would be a hard matter for the Dem¬ ocrats of the state to select a better team. Here’s to their success. Judge Spencer U. Atkinson is u candidate for the democratic nomi¬ nation for governor of Georgia Ills announcement, was no surprise to his friends, since it was known for several days prior to his announce- ment that Judge Atkinson was like¬ ly to take the stop he has. Judge I Atkinron is at present a member of the state railroad commission. He j resigned recently from the supreme I bench, and several years ago was a! superior court judge, from which po- > sition he resigned to make the race j for congress against Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks. Hon. Alien I>. Candler has sent in his resignation as secretary of state. Colonel Can¬ dler claims that he can’t make a lively race for one important office, while bolding another. Thus things Now 1,1 ,l, e gubernatorial situation. *0". cut your “di-does," gentlemen. Prince I fern y of Orleans is report • l to have htartf'l on another .Vovssi in expedition !! " t - Q \ exsoldirrs of t lie — foil.:;t ar.nv, 33 frier.<ls. 12,030 ri.1 w, -/) ) /,0 )3 C:UV tridf !-s, 2 chine cT'i-- and other •: Wiiv SUppli/ •« His intention is, if is reported, tf tbo tipper Nile . coutilrv claimed by lviglanil and es- tablisb h kingdom of hi o \v 11 . ; Th© black plague is raging in So* Cbue i, China, ab Hit. twelve iuindred miles up the River Fitngtso. In one villiig«j GOO deaths have oecmed aud the y<*;m*ii v of coffins i I - ho great that in some instances the bodie a re thro \ m to t lie d%s* Klondike Kolored Klttli, j Of Cliokco. From the L»e comity Journal we I li,; ' 1 ,h,! f ‘*r<> ‘ j n2* comph-to account jollim organization of tho alcove sty!' (1 club: j President. I oclo Bob. Secretary, Pitch: Henderson. ! Master and Grand U b.-r, , Matron, Mary J me. IJY LAWS, 1st. Hbrv member of dis bigb and important convalescence of Afri¬ can distraction is and must be pt'i'.S- cut if lie is in ile room. 2nd. Do white man is do conse¬ quential (bit, brings about, do implo- rabie condition ol do free American ob African distraction, darfore it, i.s our implacable duty as ancestorIans of I lam, to use our most, unsavory efforts to contratiatul Ids condition'. 3rd, All and ebry one ijiit cur- tails demself to di.s high and co’i- demnal>!o body, must al'tavs and forebei have de greatest stigmatize for do white race. •4(1). We are de children oli do promise, as A irham who doriveted do shackles from our most unworthy limbs, said is sepulchral undo, in ms- ness, did forty Acres and a mub i was de di.-iinhurit.nnco ob de contraband ob secession; darfore we must not be weary ui de well doin, but continue our utmost, and salubrious effervos- mice to contract de circumference of de white man. 5th. Chickens dat roost, low and [ugs dat ramble are do natural and nocturnal consequence of our lust, 'andjlcveloper ob our corporosity, in consequence therefore all an ■! such nre do delight, and support ob our race. ’J bo president arose and said as dar was no object to do preamble as refld by de i Ion. Secretary, and do attend was .small, day would sojourn until de next uieetin. lhe matron then sang tho closing hymn,‘‘New Coon in Town,” and the convocation adjourned. it Pays Well. Ah Oklahoma giil has proved be¬ yond argument that advertising is a good investment. She advertised for a husband and got him. Total cost of advertising, wedding on* fit. and railroad faie, $103,55. In elev- on months the hu-shand died, leaving a life insurance of $5,030. Net prof¬ it on tho investment, $4,899,45. Now, read this to tho chap that don't advertise.—Selma Times. A Financial Right. A Macon lad takes tbe cake for fiuau- ciering, and if bis future deals are as shrewd as the one out. of which ho made a quarter as slick as a button yesterday ho will get a* rich an Croesus, even though , tins whole , , should I country be ! : eomo a School Democracy colony before lu‘gets grown. The lad wanted to run away from home. He went down to tho Southern railway ticket olliee and asked for a ticket. He hud oulv 75 cents and found that ms lionet would cost $ _ 1 . so he , couldn’t buy it. Ho walked out of tbe oilico siuPy disappointed, but after thinking awhile be figured out a scheme which marked him as one of tlie greatest business men of the age. lie went up to a pawnshop and asked if he could leave 75 cents aud get an advance of 50 cents on it. “Of course, replied tlie pawnbroker, as he threw tbe 50 cents down and drew in the 75 cents. The paw n broker then gave the lad a pawu ticket for the 75 cents. With the ticket for the 50 cents in cash the boy went down the street to a merchant and asked if he could sell the pawn ticket to him for 50 cents, “Of coarse,” replied the merchant as ho threw down 50 cents ;U1,i iu llu ’ l " %n 11 tK,kot ‘ *ow hoy had secured the two hMf dellars. tho exact amount his rail road ticket would cost him, so he went his way r> j doing. | Who lost by the transaction?—Ex. There are three little things which do more work than any other three little things created they are the ant, the beo mid DoWitts Little Early Misers, the last srre Henry Turner, Edison. I*. E. B 0 yd, Leary. j h;u*i*cssf:il Farming. 1 The following article is clipped from j one of our exchanges and credited to { the Home and Farm as a prize letter j written by J. II. Jones: '1 cotutuc. o <1 *evc*n years ago at the ! '’'dtorn of the ladder. 1 had 100 of land, and one scrub of a horse, aud oo money. j **I bought another 100 acres of improved land on credit; gave $1,000 for it. “i went to work, cleared land, bought horses, and built, tenant bouses (of coui.sc had to borrow money.) ami ( now f have a fine, fiveliorse farm opened np, mid my laud, horse* and bouse 1 Paul fur. 1 Imv, always made it a rule to nilike more of everything than I con j Kiirnud, und have no trouble in khIo f„r it “A* •«* W'F «f farming, I i see that my land is anil terraced. j “1 sow ten acres of oats to the horse, i lm,t ii„it it., " Mjfull r u U,au j | , *' • n '1 ,,U, - K- > : them undue uni, mg one hor.se turners very deep. I never fail to make oats. “1 make all the manure I can I,,. , keeping • my lots and stables littered .... , with ... pine straw, because it m the best ah* umber of the urine. t compost with cotton seed and acid for coin, aud broadcast cotton seed under n„ gram, ‘•1 sow stubble in peas soon as gram i.s cut off. I sow ni}’ corn in peas, when i laying by in the full, “I pick What peas 1 I need for sod and feuding . purposes, and turn the balance under. By this means the peavines arc well rotted for the next crop. I think this tbe cheapest and best plan for build¬ ing land np I have ever tried. “1 believe in using guano freely, not less than 200 pounds to the acre. 1 get the best results from cotton seed meal and acid. 1 used 300 pounds of this mixture last, year to the acre, and intend to increase it this year. I try to use tbe latent improved seed of all kinds. 1 have tbo Jones improved big boll cotton, which tbe experiment station claims to lie olio of the most prolific. “I rent on the half system. By this means I superintend ray whole farm, and my land is improving every year. I see that t hey do not plow when ground is too wot; that is one great mistake farmers make. It injures land worse than anything. “1 never have any trouble with hands, they always pay up when crop is gath¬ ered, and have something left to live on. So by making my supplies at home 1 make farming a success and pleasure. “Last year I made eighty bushels of wheat, 500 bushels of oats, plenty of corn to do mo, 1,100 pounds of meat, 125 gallons of ribbon cane syrup, good as you ever eat, 7 twoborse lends oi potatoes, peas enough to sow my land broadcast this year, with the hot dry fall we bad in this section, aud 53 bale's of cotton, to say nothing of tbo patches ! gave iny tenants, What 1 Lave done and other farmer may do if be will but put his energies into it, which lie will have to do it he makes fanning a success,” I’isc Thnv Sisters Who Lisped. Tliere were three sisters who lisped very badly, and their mother, who was solicitous about finding husbands for thom to hold their tongl , e8 . This is ditll- cult for girl . that 1 impediment a ms no « "I"**. 1>llt 11 » impossible for one that stammers. One evening the three lispers were invited to “a quilting” at a neighbor’s. 4lV “;Sow, mind, • i girls, : , •. said the anxious mother, “some nice young men are going to be there, ami yon must not sav a word, or they will learn that you lisp, and won’t care to make up to yon.” They promised to be silent, and went to the quitting. When they reached the house they sat down and quilted diii gently in silence, and nothing could iu- ditoe them to tak part in the conversation At last tbe eldest wanted the scissors and tried to make signs to her next sis- ter to pass them to her, but could not attract her attention. Losing patience, she stammered oat: “Thither, path me tbe thilorth.” The other replied with indignation: 1>iliu ' t m “ llia v lhut 00 ““»‘>du t tlmy - anythin’?” This was too lunch for the youngest, , , excUiraed . . , m . a self ... cougratula- tory tone: ‘ Bletli God, 1 nin' timid nothin’!” --Ex. C " ilJrCn mU ’ 1W t0, ' tm '° d by l " UTO ‘ scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases am J’ secure, instant relief by using DeWitfs Witch Hazel Salve. It Is the rT*; H ' m y Turner, ’"*• Edison. - * P. K. Boyd, Loan CLAY CHALLENGED CHOATE, Kentuckian Danced a ISreakdnvrn t .nd Choate ( nt i\ Pigeon Wing;. In tbe long ago antebellum days, when southern aristia-aey made its summer headquarters at the noted Virginia Springs, where the planters came up from the Carolina*, Ken- lucky, Georgia and Mississippi in their carriages, with great baggage | trains and a retinue of servants, and i when they came the 1 st of June aud staid until frost fell, those were gay old times at the mountain resorts, When life was worth the pain of liv- * j n , r Beginning with the first register bi lb 05 and coining on down to 1800, «ue linda a succession of historical names. 1 here are the Snmters, the p iekfc . I1HeH nit( , lhe Hamptons of the Carolina,s; the Clays and Marshalls and Crittendens of Kentucky ; Cor- win and Ewing and Trimble of Ohio; 11 io Choates and Webs tors and Pjerce8 of N( . w England; Dickinson, Marey and Dallas of the middle states; Cass and Douglas and Benton from the then far west; the Floyds, Cabells, Prestons and a galaxy of bright namea from Virginia; the Carrolls from Maryland, and a host of others whose names have render- ed American history J„ illustrious. ^ notnW in tbejr ghadbellied coats and sideboard col lars, and a'proper, dignified time they bad of it as they mingled their ^ sulphur water and mint juleps J to aml taJM J)fliitic8 was away back in 1837, when there must have been .something in the wind of importance to tho Whig party. On * ol<1 l> a 8 « ol the hotel regia- ter of that year, in flue, almost feminino handwriting that is fa- miliar to all, we find this inscrip- tion, “H. Clay, Kentucky,” while among the next day’s arrivals are Rufus Choate,Massachusetts; Thom- as Corwin, Ohio; William C. Rives, Virginia, and Millard Fillmore, New York. Those were the days when tho making of a julep was an art as well as a domestic accomplishment. The night before Mr. Clay’s departure from the Springs he gave a banquet in his cottage to his friends. For- tnnatcly there is still a living eye- witness to that entertainment, and, if his description can be relied upon, it was a gala event that transcends all modern blow Outs. Old Uncle Jimmie Patterson, tho venerable gatekeeper, who has been an attache of the White Sulphur from time im- memorial, was the floor servant on the row in which the Clay cottage was located and helped to serve the banquet. He says that tho deport- ment of tho host and the guests was eminently proper until about tho hour of midnight, but from that tirne of the night until the morning dawned there was a high old time on the premises. When the cloth had been removed and tbe Powhatan pipes were brought in— thedegener- ate practice of cigar and cigarette was not in vogue in those halcyon clays—some one called for music, and a messenger was sent for a ne- gro fiddler, who soon appeared with j,j s 0 j t | fashioned instrument. The old tiddler started in with “Money Musk” and then played “Sugar In the Gourd,” but when he touched up “Mississippi Sawyer” Mr. Clay step- ped into the middle o{ the floor and gave them a Kentucky breakdown. Tliis was a fair challenge for Mr. Choate, who followed with a Now England pigeon wing. When tho old negro struck the chord of “Ok! Virginia Never Tire,” the Rives, afterward minister to France, felt that the reputation of the Old Dominion was at stake and, shedding his coat, executed the double shufila with a skill that would make a min- strel man envious. And thus the fun grew fast and furious until tho gray dawn peeped over the moun- tain tops.—Louisville Courier-Jour- nal. Au Actor’s Excuse. After his first great successes Mr, W. tl. Pcnley had to act in many plays which somehow did not seem to please the public. Some of these bo just kept alive by his brilliant “gagging.” On one occasion, when a wretched play had been going for some weeks in this manner, the con- eeited young author came behind and asked Mr. Penley why he “gag¬ ged” so much. “The play will be all right,” ho said, “if you will only speak my lines quietly and wait for the laugh.” To this Mr. Penley replied prompt- ly: “That's all very well for you, old man—you live in town, but, you see, I live in the country and have to catch the 12:15 from Waterloo!” —London Tit-Bits. What Delayed Her. Mrs. Darley—You nro so late. You should have been hero two hours ago. I got so tired waiting for you. Mrs. McBride—I’m very sorry, dear, but 1 came as soon as ever I could. You see, Jack gave rue his coat to sow a button on this morning before he went to the office. Mrs. Darley—I seel Were tho let- tors so interesting as that i—Harlem Life. Whooping cough is the most distressing malady; but its duration can be cut short by lhe use of One Minute Cough C is also tho best known remedy for S. T. Clayton, Morgan. Henry I i Edison, P, E. Boyd, Leary, FREAKS OF THE EYES. A Remarkable Illustration of a Case of Collective Hallucination. Example;! of collective halluciea- i tions are very numerous. Let hi I dt0 one that certainly is not gen- ’ lieu¬ erally known, and of which a tenant in the French navy, M. Lea* tonnat, was the victim. “In May. 1S81,” said he, “I was on board the bark Caroline. We had just left Iloilo, in the Philip¬ , aud tr aveling toward | pines, wo were morning the Sunda strait. One we were moving slowly, at the rate of j about tour or when' five the knots, rn a very the light wind, man on 1 lookout shouted to me that be saw n pirogue or sharpie on the star- board qi.artu. Lverytliju-, KVprvtbi,.* that that we i j . see at sea. however ir.-igmfieant, is always interesting. Consequently, I placed myself m a position to see the ol) 3 ect that tho man reported. But, on account of* the lower-sails, a j was obliged to go forward. From there I saw, at about two points to starboard, tho pirogue, which seem- ed as if she was about to cross our | bow. Suddenly the mate shouted: ‘It is not a pirogue. It is a yawl- i boat.’ Then the sailor came down ' from the rigging and reported that he saw distinctly a man standing in the boat and that he was making signals, “ ‘It is not necessary to be aloft to see that,’replied the mate. ‘1 can see him distinctly here.’ “After having observed the boat with attention, 1 saw as plainly as possible, and all tbe crew saw just as I did, a man making signals with something in his hand that we could not yet recognize, but which evi- Gently was a gaff or ail oar at the end of which was fixed a piece of cloth, “There was no longer any doubt. We had discovered an unfortunate shipwrecked man, whose vessel doubtless was lost upon the rocks of the shores called, if my memory serves mo correctly, the Thousand \ isles. I immediately reported to tho i captain, who took his glasses and • followed me to the forward deck, | i He recognized, just as we did, a boat painted white, and in the bow there was a man dressed in a blue gauzy, who was waving an oar, at the end j of which was fastened a piece of sail- | cloth, “ ‘That poor devil is lucky,’ said 1 the captain; ‘for if we had had nioro j wind yesterday we would have passed him in the night, and, of course, we could not have seen him.’ “But as the current was drawing the boat away from us he gave tho order to the man at the wheel to let the vessel fall off so as to get the I boat well on our starboard. In this way we could easily reach it with- out tho necessity of lowering a boat, which is always a tedious operation on board sailing vessels. The man, seeing that we were coming for him, ceased to signal, and sat down iii tlie stern, and with his oar he steer¬ ed the boat toward us. We could distinctly see the boat’s mast was broken at about three or four feet above tbe sailing thwart. When she was about 300 meters from us, tbe captain, who was on the poop, asked the mate if everything was ready, and, on the latter’s affirmativere- ply, lie gave the order to head her up a little to starboard. At this mo- ment the emotion on board the ves- sel was intense. The entire crow leaned over the rail. Then sudden- ly, as if we all had been aroused from a dream, the man and the boat turned into a block of pumice stone on which were several branches of banana trees. After drifting slowly along the side of the vessel before tbe stupefied sailors it vanished out of sight. The men were so utterly astonished that several of them could not help crying out: ‘But, by jingo, there was a man on it, sure I We all saw him!’ “If the sea had been rough, so that we could not roach that little floating island, we would certainly have been convinced that a fellow creature had been left to perish. “Nevertheless our mind was free from all anterior preoccupation. Notwithstanding the spontaneity of the thing that had started it the suggestion was none the less vivid. Its intensity was as strong in the mind of the officer as it was in tho mind of each sailor, and this goes to prove that in the case of a-crowd the mental quality of the individuals that compose it is without any im¬ portance.’’—Paris Cor. Courrier des Etats Uuis. LADIES '<■ ■■ . L j.-. jfc u A ‘ * ;■ If you desire a clear, fresh, velvet like complexion like au infant’s, FREE from pimples, freckles, redness, blotches, roughness or coarseness, use ♦ It has no equal. 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