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KING OF THE BUZZARDS.
Th« California Condor Is Rapidly Fol
lowing tha Great Auk.
One night in the eighties a heifer
from the Marietta ranch, in south
ern California, was killed by a
mountain lion that lived in the fast
ness back in the San Bernardino
rnnge. From our camp the next day
we noticed several buzzards on u
dead pine up the hillside. One of
the ranehcros pointed out a lone
6peck floating in the summer skv.
“King of the hazards,” he said. An
hour later 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
took ine up the arroyo, and I count
ed seventeen buzzards and two other
big birds that seemed twice the size
of a buzzard feasting on the carcass
of the heifer. 1 was interested in
the hig birds, but the only informa
tion I received was a gesture buck
toward the; highest peak of the
range.
Years Infer, as my interest in
birds grew', I could get comparative
ly little information about this
“king of the buzzards,” or Califor
nia condor (Oathartcs california
nus), for not many people hud ever
seen the bird, and very few had first
hand information hs to its nesting
habits.
The report that it was rapidly
following the great uuk and that the
species 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 fur north ns the
Columbia river region. Hut now it
seems to have entirely disappeared
from that locality. Once it was re
ported in Ctali, and Or. Elliott
Cones saw it in Arizona in 1865.
With the exception of a record in
southern Oregon, the habitat of the
California condor now seems to be
the region from Monterey county,
Cal., south through the mountains
of the coast range ami the exten
sion of the San Bernardino range
in Lower California. There is no
record of the bird in Mexico.
It is not surprising that collectors
have searched the mountains and
that museums are willing to pay big
prices for the eggs, for after a cor- ]
resjHindeneo of several years Mr. W.
Lee Chambers bus found that there
are now only fortv-one California
condor eggs (twenty-six first class
and fifteen second class) in the va
rious museums und private collec
tions of the world, while there are
ulxuit seventy eggs of the great uuk,
which is now extinct. There are
only half a dozen of the birds in
captivity, and that number is not
likely to be increased to any extent
ut present.—Century Magazine.
An “Unfortunate Experience.'’
The chief constable of Manches
ter in an after dinner speech told a
queer story of a Newton Heath
workman’s “unfortunate experi- |
ence” with a policeman. The work
man was absent from bis work for
a fortnight, and when he reappear
ed his employer wanted an explana
tion, and this is how the man gave
it:
“Well, sir, a fortnight Hgo I had
a great misfortune. 1 was going
home along street when 1
found u policeman leaning against
a wall, lie seemed to be drunk,
and 1 thought the best thing 1 could
xlo was to take him to the Newton
Heath police station. I did so, but
the moment 1 got him there lie
came to himself and charged me
with Wing drunk, and the magis
trate believed him and gave me
fourteen days." An “unfortunate
experience” indeed!■—Westminster
Gazette.
My«t«riouf Figures.
lNit down the number of your liv
ing brothers?
Double the number.
Add three.
Multiply the result by five.
, Add tne number of living sisters
Multiply the result bv ten.
Add tne number of dead .brothers
and sisters.
Subtract 150 from the result.
The right hand figure will be the
number of death*.
The middle figure will lx? the
number of living sisters.
The left hand tigure will be the
number of liviug brothers.
Strange freak of figures, isn’t it? I
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Cha*ti**d Ono* Again.
When Judge Cofliu was a young!
lawyer and about to plead his first
case in New Bedford, not being pre
ferred and not wishing to acknowl- '
edge being unprepared, he arose
and asked the court to excuse him,
as he had been called to the sick
bed of his mother. In the mean
lime his mother, wishing to hear
her sou’s first plea, had conic from
Nantucket and was in the gallery
of the courthouse. She leaned over
the railing and in great indignation
called down, “Timothy, Timothy,
how often have 1 chastised thee for
lying!”
CAUTIOUS UNCLE JERRY.
H* Would Taka No CHanc** Evan For
a Goodly Fortun*.
A lawyer hud traveled all the way
from California to pay a SIO,OOO
legacy over to Uncle Jerry Hope
field, who had lived all his life in a
little town in Ohio, und after break
fast two or three of us were invited
| to go along anil witness the trans
fer. When we reached the house,
Uncle Jerry was tightening up the
hoops on the rain barrel, while his
wife had gone to see a sick neigh
bor. They had been fully identified
the day before as the proper parties,
and now the lawyer said:
“Well, Uncle Jerry, I want to
band you that money and get a re
ceipt and be off this morning.”
“i’rn kinder busy just now,” said
the old man as he stopped hammer
ing for a moment.
“Yes, but I have SIO,OOO here for
you. 1 don’t believe there’s a man
; in the world who wouldn’t stop work
| long enough to sigp a receipt for
! such a fortune.”
' “Mebbe not, but it looks like rain,
nnd I want to git this bar’l fixed
right away. Can’t you come over in
about an hour?”
“Look here, man, but did you
ever see SIO,OOO in all your life?”
asked the lawyer as he opened the
satchel and displayed a big package
of new greenbacks.
“No, 1 never did,” replied Uncle
Jerry ns lie pounded away.
“Did you ever have SI,OOO of
your own?”
“Lands, no!”
“Never had a hundred all at once,
did you?”
“Never! Durn that hoop, but it
don’t want to go on!”
“1 must usk you to get this busi
ness over as soon as possible,” con- j
tinned the luwyer as the old man
kept at his work.
“Hut it’s going to rain.”
“Yes, hut here’s your money.”
“And I’ve got to get this lmr’l
fixed.”
“It won’t take over ten minutes ;
to fix up our business. Hun along |
and fetch your wife.”
“See here,” said Uncle Jerry as
he laid down his hammer and wined
the back of Ins neck, “Muriar has
gone over to Blodgett’s to be gone
nn hour. Before she went she said
1 must tinker up this rain bar’l.”
“But can’t you stop your tinker
ing to handle SIO,OOO in cold cusli?” I
exclaimed the lawyer in indignant !
tones.
“Yes, yes. 1 kin stop work, but
what about Muriar?”
“Well, what about her?”
“Why, slieM come home expectin'
this bur’l to be nil tinkered up, and
if she found it wasn’t them SIO,OOO
wouldn’t hold her no more’n a tow
string would hold a boss. She'd jest
shove me clean down among the
cabbages and jump on the bar’l with i
both feet nnd squash it all to |
squash, and fur the next week I’d i
hev to walk around on tiptoe and j
eat my meals in the wood shed.”—
Washington Star.
Way* of the Cuban.
Without doubt the best index to
Cuban character is to be found in j
his conversation. Standing in the
-treets of his native village, sober,
discussing with his neighbor crops
the weatiier or other like common
place. he habitually uses an excited
manner, florid language and exag
gerated gesticulation that elsewhere
in the world would cause perhaps
bis reproof for disorder or put him !
under suspicion of being drunk or i
a lunatic. A popular and oft re
peated proverb, “A man has no j
small enemies,” affords almost asj
good a pointer. This means that of j
equal importance in his view is the
threat of a pin prick or of the dead
ly stroke of a dagger. Such an emo
tionul, unselfcontained nature, such |
in exaggerated, strained view of [
things, can but constantly lead to
foolish extremes. Army and Navy
I .ife.
Fruit Cur**.
“Grapes are wonderful things,”!
»aid a wine grower. “In Switzer
land they have in the autumn a
grajH' cure. Thousands of anaemic
and nervous persons are benefited
by this cure. Fating a huge bunch
of grapes every ten minutes all day
long, their checks soon bloom, they
soon recover their health again.
“Fruit, all fruit, is medicinal. As
a drink cure and as a blood purifier, j
what is there lietter than an apple?
Did you ever hear of currant leaf
poultices for gout? They are excel
lent, 1 assure you. And black cur
rant jelly in water is a remedy for
sore throat.
“Pineapples are good for diphthe
ria, straw lorries for rheumatism,
mulberry j a ice for fevers, elderber
ry for chills and lemon for colds,
for headache and for bile.” —Cincin-
nati Enquirer.
atutiou is ifooi! win*il tne gram is one
and tbe fat is white, the Itsui more iu
cllned to a dark lhau a Orient red; tUet
wtilch Is clammy to ttie touch Is un
wholesome, probably diseased. Small
lamed and short leased muttou I* the
best eatltiK: pule colored aud lean tuut
| tou U Inferior meat.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG 27, 1008.
PRESCRIPTIONS.
Reason* Why Th*y Ar* Written In
Latin by Physicians.
“I don’t see,” said the man who
was leaning against the drug store
counter, “why a doctor can’t write
his prescription in English instead
of Latin.”
The druggist said: “You think, I
•upjiose, that the doctor writes his
prescriptions in Latin so it can’t be
read so easily-—*o the layman can’t
steal his trade and learn what he is
giving him. But that’s wrong. Jn
the first place, Latin is a more exact
and concise language than English
and, being a dead language, does not
change, as all living languages do.
“Then, again, since a very large
Eart of all the drugs in use are
otanical, they have in the pharma
copoeia the same names that they
have in botany—the scientific
names. Two-thirds of such drug
haven’t any English names and so
couldn’t be written in English.
“But suppose a doctor did write
a prescription in English for an un
educated patient. The patient reads
it, thinks he remembers it, and so
trie* to get it filled from memory
the second time. Suppose, for iu
stance, it calls for iodide of potas
sium and he gets it confused with
cyanide of potassium. He could
safely take ten grains of the first,
but one grain of the second would
kill him as dead as a mackerel.
That’s an exaggerated case, but it
will serve as an illustration. Don’t
you see how the I>atin is a protec
tion and a safeguard to the patient?
Prescriptions in Latin lie can’t read
and consequently doesn’t try to re
member.
“Now for a final reason. Latin
Is a language that is used by scien
tific men the world over, and no
other language is. You can get
luitin prescriptions filled in any
country on the face of the earth
where there is a drug store. We
hud a prescription come in here the
other day winch we had put up orig
inally and which hud since been
Btsmjied by druggists in London,
Puris, Berlin, Constantinople, Cairo
md Calcutta. Wliut good would an
English prescription be in St. Pe
tersburg?”—New York Herald.
A Delicate Distinction.
The architect of the new town
hull, which was almost finished,
wished to know wliut people thought
of it. So he strolled over to “Jer
rold’s Livery Stable, Hoarding and
Baiting,” nnd nodded to the propri
etor.
“Fine town you have here.”
“Ee-ah, pretty fair.”
“llow do you like the new hall?”
“Fine, now that I’ve got used to
it. Looked u little queer at first.”
“What do people think of it?”
“Most of ’em are satisfied, I
guess.”
“Do they say good tilings about
it?”
“Pretty fair. When the walls first
began to show up und we could see
what it was going to look like a
good many folks was disappointed.
That was ouly at first, though. Now
I guess you’d find there’s more com
ment tliun criticism.”
What Happened to Jones.
One day a tall, gaunt woman,
with rope colored hair and an ex
pression of great fierceness, strode
into the office of a county clerk in
West Virginia.
“You air the person that keep?
the marriage books, ain’t ye?” she
demanded.
“What book do you wish to see,
madam?” asked the polite clerk.
“Kiu you find out if Jim Jones
was married?”
Search of the records disclosed
the name of James Jones, for whose
marriage a license had.been issued
two years before.
“Married Elizabeth Mott, didn’t
he?” asked the woman.
“The license was issued for a mar
riage with Miss Elizabeth Mott.”
“Well, young man. I’m Elizabeth.
1 thought 1 oughter come in an’ tell
ye that Jim has escaped!”—Har
per's Weekly.
Want to tn« Koini.
The boy who goes straight to the
point may make a few technical
blunders, but us a rule lie is about
right when it comes to anything
practical. A story told of the boy
hood of General Leonard Wood il
lustrates this fact.
“I remember one day in school,”
said a friend recently, “Wood was
called up in the grammar class.
The teacher said:
“ ‘Leonard, give me a sentence,
and w e’ll see if we can change it to
the imperative mood.’
“ ‘The horse draws the cart,’ said
Leonard.
“ ‘Very good. The horse draws
the cart. Now change the sentence
to an imperative/
“ ‘Get up!’ said young Wood.”—
Home Magazine.
M. B. CALHOUN,
At tv at Law,
Ut. Vernon, Georgia.
I Notice. I
On and after Sept. Ist all work ,
turned out must be paid for upon
delivery, and no churge will be
made on book. All work is exe
cuted in correct and workmanlike
manner, and warrants prompt
' payment.
NIT. VERNON REPAIR SHOP,
Ja.s. P. Dufße,
S2otf Mgr.
Dos; Lost.
A black hound puppy, eight
months old ; white breast and legs (
and white on tip of tail; sear on
point of left shoulder. Seen last'
iat Troup’s Kerry afternoon Aug.
Hi. Suitable reward for informa
tion leading to recovery. Dog
answers to name of Bob.
J. F. WRIGHT,
jIt.F.D. 4, Glenwood, Ga.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Money to loan at 0 and 7 per
cent, on improved farms.
A. B. Hutcheson,
Mt. Vernon. Ga.
HOUSE FOIi SALE.
A C-rooin house, new and well
painted. Good barn, garden, etc.
Also, B.J acres of land in Mt.
Vernon. All going at a Bargain.
For prices and terms see
H. .1. Gmus or
A. B. Hutcheson,
B-5-ts Mt. Vernon, Ga.
BLACKSMITH - SHOP.
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and Wood. Fine line of Bicycle
Material on hand. High-Grade
Repair Work on Bicycles, Sewing
Machines, Guns, Revolvers and
Clocks. See me before placing
your work; I will save you money.
Work promptly and neatly done
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L. C. UNDERWOOD, f
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
V Practitioner in all Courts, State “Jj
.1. and Federal.
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... Real Estate Agent, Farm A
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HcRAE, GA.
Criminal Law am! Collee'iotm, Including Rail- |
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Citation.
() corgi a—Montgomery County:
R. F. Mcßae, administrator on the
estate of John Kell, late of said !
county, deceased, having filed his \
petition for discharge, this is to cite |
all persons concerned to show cause !
before ire against ihe granting of j
this (list It urge ar the regular term |
of court of Ordinary for said county j
to he held on Inc lirst Monday in
September, IROB. This the Rd day of j
August, I DUS. AI.KX Mt’AHTHllk,
Ordinary of Montgomery County.;
Citation.
tleorgia—Montgomery County:
Notice is hereby given that S. F. I
Reynolds, administrator of the es
tate of Jas. L. Morrison, late of said
county, deceased, lias applied to the j
Ordinary of said county for leave to
sell all of the lands of the estate of
said deceased: and said application
will be passed upon at the regular
term of the court of Ordinary to be
held on the first Monday in {Septem
ber, IMOS. This the 3d day of August.
t!**y AlexHoAnhos,Ordinary.
Sheriff’s Sale.
rgi* —Montgomery County:
Win Ih> »"I<l before the court house door in
Mt. Vernon on the tirat Tuesday in September,
UKM, between the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder tor cash, certain property, of
which the following is a complete description; I
One certain tract or parcel of land situate,
lying and being in the 1634th district, G. M.,
•*f said iMtinty ai d state, oontaiMng la) acres
more or less, and bounded a* follows : On the
north hv tends of Ktuahetli Dailey, on the
;ist by lamls of 0- S. Hamilton, on the west
by lauds .<f F. 15. and Mary J. Calhoun and on j
the-imth by lands of J. B. O'Conner, said
land levied on as the property of Mary J. Cal- !
Itottn to satisfy au execution issued by R-
Nrwron Wood, Tax Collector, for state and >
county taxes for the year 1907. Property ;
prill ted out by F. B. Caltioun, and levy nia.te ;
and returned to me by C. T. Braddy. consta- j
ble This Ur. Mb dav of Jnlr.
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