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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1908)
THE TILLER OF THE SOIL IS BLESSED. BLESSED IS THE FARMER. Mr. Wilnnt), (III* Sr-crrtnry "I Agro-tilt tire, blesses the tnfiner for liia* product of ln*t your amount mg to seven mul » half billion* ot dollnr* in addition to the one hi I lion'two )iit ll <l»‘<*< 1 mid M-runty millions worth ot animals sold and slaughtered. Although the tunnel - is not a beneficiary of the pro-|»erity-di*- pending Dingley timtV, Mr. Wil son shows tlmt the exports of farm products exceeded our im ports last year by four hundred and fort y-foiir millions of dollars, that our foreign credit is sustain ed mainly by our farmer*, and that a great stream of riches has flowed from our farms to foreign lands to offset t ho adverse balance of trade in commodites ot her than agricultural, to pay the ocean freight costs on imports conveyed in foreign-owned ships and to pay tlie interest, dividends and prin cipal on investments in the I'nit ed States hy foreigner*. ‘‘lt is the farmer, M any* Mr. Wilson, “who Inis m nt cr< dil to expatriat ed Americans: it is he who Inis provided the immigrant with mil lions to send every year to tiio loved one* in the old countries* and, if there is still any credit to dispose of, the farmer has provid ed the American traveler in fore, ign countries with his pocket money.” Y It is plain that the farmer doe* much for his count rv, tmt when* he himself cmnea in is not so clear. Comment ing on Mr. Wil son’* showing, tli« Baltimore Sun Ventures theoppinimi that “the lemon ought not to be the only fruit” of the farmer’s industry which a grateful Government is willing to hand him. “For in stance,” t»«ys the sun, “he is pro bably the greatest user of'machin ery in the land. Yet the fnrim r in Argentina or almost any other far-away land can buy a selfbin dor, n mower, a plow, harrow , or oven the humble hoe, for less limn the farmer in the State in which it is made lias lo pay. But then the farmer is so rich he real ly should not mind being taxed so that his poorer brother who is a manufacturer may huv steam yacht*, automobiles, divorces, Slew wive* aml ex|w-nsivH homes , for them in foreign lamia, as well u* other trifle* necessary to Ins happiness. The farmer, being rich, could g\it all of these things, but ho doesn’t want them, lie leads the simple life, gets up nl I in tlio morning, deans out his stable, feeds and eitrrii-* down hi horses, milk* the cows and dean* t heir stalls, teed* the hogs and then washes up at the pump and i is ready for breakfast and his day’* work. The obi horse that bus done Ins work for war- on the farm is all the autmobile lie needs when he wants to take tin* road: the traction engine at threshing time i* n* near as In got* to steam yachts, and the wife he married in his youth, who has grown old with him, born his children, shared his toil and trou bles, whose bonds are hard and w hose fuoc is furrowed with age and care is all the 'affinity' lie need*." Though lie is a modest man without expensive tastes, undm-o who asks no favors, the Sun l*»- lieve# there are a few little thing* the farmer would reallv be glad to have. “He would like a tariff » law that would take from Ins shoulder* some of the burden* of others that lie has been carrying for year*. He would like his ru ral mail carrier t* * have the privib ] ego of carrying small articles for delivery on Ins route, whether the express companies want him to do •oornot. He would like garni-; ling in the product* <>f his lundj brought to un end. lie would ' like toll road* abolished in the State, all the highways made tree and have the State build trunk roads." But of course it is too much to expect that n contented represent* , alive of th** g. n. p., such n* Sec retary Wilson, could understand such desires as these or he able to I comprehend that the Govern ment’* fost oring care is needed by anybody except tariff-fed monopo lists w ho have been employing * lie “infant industry’’ dodge for fifty year.-. —Kx. MADAME NAZIMOVA. “Madame Nazimova came to America in the spring of 19<)n with o company of Russian play ers. who met with such scant ap preciation here that they almost starved before they were sent back to Bussia bv public subscrip Woman’s Home Companion. “A New 'Hoik manager offered to j place the leading woman on 'Broadway ‘il she could learn j English m a year. She learned !il in six mont li* Well enough to ; appeal - in Ibsen’s ‘lledda Gaoler' 1 j at a series of matinee perform anee- in Novenjlter, 1900, and . 1 literally took tlm town by storm. During the winter she produced 'another Ibsen play, "A Doll’s House,” and a comedy from tho 1 i Italian, ‘ComtcHse Coquette, both of which she stage-managed hor ijselt. She has been interviewed . and photogruped and praised more than any other actress oft lie day; but lu r great success has left lor a- unspoiled as when she ami her company were struggling in a i dingy little t heater on the Bowery, scarcely knowing w here their next meal was coming from—il it came 1 at all. The contrast between those days and her present posi tion in uni strike her when she . puls on l In- simple little sailor -wit, which as Hilda Wntigel she wears in'Tlio Master Builder;’ for n i»\ the same costume she wore 1 when she gave the play here in Russian and she proudly told me that -In- had made every stich of it herself. *1 am so full of nmbi j tii'ii and the longing for great liew things,’' she said in a letter written the day niter her first success in ‘The Master Builder,’ and it is this ambition and long ing which make her worth seeing in any play sin- undertakes.” Seed Chufas. I have n nice lot of carefully se lected Chtifa Seed for sale; supply is limited; first come, first served. -You’ll have to hurry if you want the chufas. 1 also have some Spanish Peanuts for sale. Call on or write .1. F. Mu.i.s, U F I) B. Mt. Vernon, (ru. Mortgage Sale. Ol'OitOl \ MaiUg-uni n County: t’lutiT Hint l-y \ irtnw nt * po«<-i of -sis in * <-\rrulml l-v Jonh ('olliim amt t.aura Collin*, (l*t*(| Um -111 iUi Os .l/u-li, 1S;HI, amt rec el, .1 iii tlie olfi. i- nt tli<- Clt-ik of tin- Su m'l inr i .uirl nf M-itiluoitti-w - oimiiiy, m Ikiok l>, i.ilien :ri7, :t:t- 111111:11'.*, on On- JOth day --f .inni, A>ol. llu- unilt-i nailed will ell al pnl>- ;In niit, iy, at tin* o<-iiif li'iia* itnor in h i,t 1 i-nii. i) .it Mimiamui i v.ilui i'-s the tog*l hour* ,-l -all' a- I lie bid-tor fnroa-li, on Vlio lie-1 ! - ni- il»v in Man li, l'.Hi-.ilii follovvi ig -•Iiln-1 l»i-'l"'ii\ 10-rtu: Out- liuii'liA-l acre* til lain), mini or li-mk, -itmitc, lying and Intua in ilu I'“|M lii-trittl. S|., ni iuiid county oi Mom -timoiy, -an! -late »t l»i-*raia, is'uudmt ii'trlli In l*iul- ot .loKO|<h William-, cant to Mr*, luliii K< i y, •-•>uili I" J. k. Iln-k'ioUli, ami west by 11 A. Viwlti, known *.» tin- |il*co wacu'tlit -aid Collin- n >.» ro-ntc, loaotbci «illi all imorov. un m- tlicrcmi, for tho pur lKiiu of * conaiii |iromiH*<u v note fur f.'OJ Jiv MriUril »ml delivered I* \Villi*m amt I . •/ lYiichet, mi tin- Stli dav of March, ISW, util hi I a tin* fin ui-Ci.-i linm maturity »i rate t>l sj , i m j,, , annum anil ten per ceut at loinev'* feo, the total amount due oil -aid note now In mx U7I -J. pnneipa!.- f'JiVi.o l iu td eol u|t in I lie in-I d*v of Mal-cli, ItSM, and the fnrlln-r sum of SB7 :t6 attorney'* fi—( and fur «iteh —uni a> may he iMVi-Miry to pay the l»v> - tlier.-.m rn-x due. together with tin coal* ot this proceeding, a» provided in mid morii,:.ge. A deed to the pnrvlii’-er will lie m*di In tin-in di I'Higui d. Ttiia, the l-t day of tXtober, 1907. ttIU.UM .1 T. J. i'IUTCHEr. Have, A Aiiamm, Attorney■ for l'Uiuii®». Sheriff Sale. j rioortsia- Moiii|{omery Cottwly: W ill hi » >id hef'ire the court iton-e door in , Mt. Vi iuou --n llo* limt t'u*» tav in March, pats, in t M*-( n the legal honiM of malc, to the j lily-l t-iddii for va-h, ra ruin pro|<Tty, ot which the h-ls wing n* » ('omi Uieih -criptjon: All ibin tract or parcel of land -if iiated imd In-ing in the Seventh I.a mi di-i: let id -aid county - and known a l.ot No. Itiv. containing b)| and l-g acres more or lc— . Said land levied ou a- llu inopcrtv of Sandy Hy als in -ati-fy an execution i-siieu from the t'ity Court «*f Mt. Vernon lit favor of Cowart Itios. agttin-i Sandy Ky al and J. J. liyaU. I'roneriv being in j the po—cs»ion of Sandy Hy al- and Iw>itiled out by pfuintiffs. This *fh ! day of Feb., lists. A. J. Amvh, Slu-f. t - . L'. : XV. At. l.ewi*, Any. /■ THE MONtOOMEftY MOKIIOR -TfIC&sDAV, FLU. -0, Jkf - . KING OF THE BUZZARDS. Th» California Condor la Rapidly Fol losing tho Crest Auk. One nigiit in the eighties a heifer from the Murietta ranch, in south .-rn t'alifornia, was killed bv a (iiountain lion that lived tn the fast ! ness back in the San Bernardino range. From our camp the next day we noticed several buzzard* on a dead pine up the hillside. One of the rancheros pointed out a lone speck floating in the summer sky. - “King of the buzzards,” he said. An hour Inter the speck had increased in size, and he pointed to another speck just within the scope of vi sion. The next day the old Mexican tool, me up the arroyo, and 1 count ed seventeen buzzards and two other big birds that seemed twice the size of a buzzard feasting on the carcass of the heifer. I was intere»ted in tin - big birds, but the only inforraa i tion I received was a gesture back toward the highest peak of the range. Year- later, as my interest in bird- grew, I could get comparative ly little information about this "king of the buzzards,” or Califor nia condor (Cathartes califomia uu»h for not many people had ever seen the bird, and very few had first hand information as to its nesting habits. The report that it was rapidly following the great auk and that the -pecies would soon become extinct was not without some foundation, for the California condor has a range more restricted than any oth er bird of prey. In the early part, of the last century it was reported fairly common as far north as the Columbia river region. But now it eccms to have entirely disappeared from that locality. Once it. was re ported in Utah, and Dr. Elliott Cones saw it in Arizona in 18t>5. ! With the exception of a record in southern Oregon, the habitat of the 1 California condor now seems to be j the region from Monterey county, I Cal., south’ through the mountains I of the coast range and the exten sion of the San Bernardino range in Lower California. There is no record of the bird in Mexico. It i* not surprising that collector? have searched the mountains and that museums are willing to pay big prices for the eggs, for after a cor respondent e of several years Mr. W. Lee Chambers has found that there are now’ only forty-one California ■ condor eggs (twenty-six first clas.- and fifteen M-coml class) in the va rious museums and private collec tions of the world, while there are about seventy eggs of the great auk. which is now extinct. There are only half a dozen of the birds in j captivity, and that number is not i likely to be increased to any extent at present. —(.’eulury Magazine. An “Unfortunat* Exptrianca.” I The chief constable of Manches j ter in an after dinner speech told a queer story of a Newton Heath workman's “unfortunate experi i enee” with a policeman. The work | man was absent from his work for a fortnight, and when he reappear ed his employer wanted an expiana | tion, and this is how the man gave ; it : “Well, sir, a fortnight ago I had a great misfortune. 1 was going home along street when 1 fouud a policeman leaning against a wall. He seemed to be drunk, ami 1 thought the best thing 1 could do wa* to take him lo the Newton Heath police station. 1 did so, but the moment I got him there he earn* to hiiuself and charged me with being drunk, and the magis trate believed him and gave me fourteen days.” An “unfortunate experience’’ indeed!—Westminster Gazette. Myatarioua Figure*. Put dow u the number of your liv rng brothers. i>ouble the number. Add three. Multiply the result by five. 'Add the number of living sisters Multiply the result by ten. Add the number of dead brothers aud suters. Subtract 150 from the result. The right hand figure will be the number of deaths. The middle figure will be the number of living sisters. The left hand figure will be the number of living brothers. Strange freak of figures, isn't it? Chaatiaad One* Again. When Judge Coffin was a young lawyer and about to plead his first (ase in New Bedford, r.ot being pre pared and not wishing to acknowl edge being unprepared, he arose and asked the court to excuse him. as he had been called to the siek l>ed of his mother In the mean time his mother, wishing to hear her son’s first plea, had come from Nantucket and was in the gallery of the courthouse. She leaned ovei the railing aud in great indiiruati©!: j called down. “Timothy. Timothy, how often have 1 chastised thee for lying!” i j : A Prosperous | \ New Year!! * * * £ * % + *F | 1908 I * t * £ * * i Is going to be a Banner rear and will be espcially profitable # I t J to you if vou are a regular customer of J 3 * 5 * !W. H. McQUEEN,! 5 * * % $ MT. VERNON, GA t 4> #* * f # - —~ —■■■".' & (The Store Where You Get Full Value for You" Money Twelve Months in the Year.) jL Sheriff's Sale. Georgia -Montgomery County: Will he H"1<1 before the court house door in Ml Vernon on the first t'neadav in Mar-h, 1908, between the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, certain property, of which the following is a complete description: One certain tract or parcel of land lying and be ins in the Higgston dis trict G. M. of said county and bound ed on the north by tlie McQueen estate, on the east by lands of W. L. Wilson, Rich Johnson and Robert Lee, on the south by the town of Higgfon and S. A L. Ry. and on (lie west by lands of Conner and A. A. Peterson, and containing 475 acres more ar loss. Haiti property levied on as the property of G. N. Mathews to satisfy a tax fl fa issued by K. Newton Wood, Tax Collector, vsti. N. Mathews for state anti county taxes for the year 1907. This 3d day of Feb.. 1808. ' A. J Burch, Htief. M.t . Sale as Mortgaged Property. Georgia—Montgomery < ‘ounty. Under nud by virtue of a power of sale contained in a mortgage execut ed by Mary Roberta to the -Mount Vernon Hank, dated the 27th day of December, 1905. ami recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of M ontgomery county in Rook Y. folio 75. tiie undersigned will soil ar public outcry at the court houso door in said county, during the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, on the first Tuesday in March, next.l9oß.the following prop erty, to-wit: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the 1667th district, G. M.. of said county and state, and bounded as follows: On the north by lands of Jack Williamson; on the east by lands of the Tony Moselyestat. ; on ♦he south by lands of Jack William son and on the west bv lands of Law soil Moseley, containing twenty (20) acres, more or less, for the purpose of paying certain promissory note for the sum of $46.46, executed and de livered by Mary Roberts to the Mt. Vernon Rank, on tiie 27tli day of De cember, 1906,and due on the 20th day of Dec. 1906, stipulating for interest from maturity at rate of 8 per et per annum and 10 per ct attorney's fees, the total au.out due on said note being $46.45 principal. $6.50 interest and $4.64 attorney's fees, together with the costs of this proceeding. a~ provided in said mortgage. A deed to the purchaser will be made by tit. undersigned. This February 4t1i,1905. The. Mt Ver.nox Hahk. t Atty. in Fact for Maty Roberts, » \V. M. Lewis, Attorney. FUR TAX COLLECTOR: Once more I ask the office of Tax Collector of Montgomery county ; and if elected, will do un best to give satisfaction for one term. Leaving myself in the hands of my friends, ami thank ing the people for past favors . and earnestly asking the support of all voters, l am Yours truly , D. M. Currie. Citation. Georg i a—Mont go me ry Co u n ty. The appraisers appointed upon application of Abbie L. Mason, administratrix of the estate of A. J. Mason, for a twelve months support out of tiie estate of A. J. Mason for his s"vph minor child ren, having tiled their return, all persons concerned are hereby re quired to sh*>w cause if any they can at the next regular term of this court to be held on the first Monday in March why said ap plication should not be granted. I'his :ld day of February, 1908. 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This is to cite all per sons, kindred and creditors, to snow cause, if any they can, why said ad ministrator shouid not he discharged from his administration and receive letters of dismission oa the first, Mon day in March. 1908. This 3d day of February, 1908. Alex McArthur, Ordinary M. C. M. B. CALHOUN, Atty at Law, Mt. Vernon, Georgia.
