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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1909)
TF\e r\or\itor. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. | Entered at the Postofflce In Mt. Vernon. Oft. an Second-Class Mail Matter. H. B. FOLSOM. Editor and Prop. 5' a Year, In Advance. •0-I.c(!»l KlvertlaemeiiU most invariably be paid in advance, at the legal rate, aud aa tlie law direct**; and must be in hand not later than Wednesday morning of the first week of inaertlon Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, April i, 1909. _ _ AN INCOME TAXiPROBABLE. The indications arc that the President in his annual message next Ditcemher will recommend an income tax. A story has been . in circulation for several days in Washington that the President hud directed the Attorney Gen eral to frame an income tax bill, and that lie presen tative [Stevens of Minnesota hud already pre pared such u hill on his own ac-: count. In our dispatches yester day, however it was stated that the President denied that he hud us yet taken any position in re spect to an income tax and ihu Attorney General dented that he had prepared or been instructed to prepare an income tux bill. The talk of an income tax meas ure, however, means that the question of increasing the income of the government by that means lias been and is under consider ation. The Payne tariff bill con tuins a provision for an inher itance tux, and it is practically certain that it would have pro vided for an income tax if it hud j not been for the fact that it was! believed that it would greatly hinder the pmstigo of the tarill hill. It is the desire of the Presi dent to get the tariff Jjill out of the way as quickiv impossible be cause, it is halting business, and the longer there is uncertainty as to what the tariff schedules are 1 to lie the longer dullness in busi ness will continue. If business is halted too long a business panic may he brought on. A business panic might last through the pre sent. administration and that would mean tho defeat of the Re publican party. The mam reason for thinking that this Congress will bo called on to pass an income tax bill is thut the pending tariff hill will not great ly increase the revenue of the government and it is cer tain that there has got to be a great increase in the revenue or u big reduction in the govern ment’s expenditures. If the tariff bill doesn’t wipe out the deticit it is almost certain that an effort will lie made to increase the reve nues by means of an income tax Such a tax would be unpopular and the passage of an income tax bill would be strongly resisted. People of small incomes cannot afford to pay an inaoine tax and people of large means don’t want their business and monetary uffairs inquired into. But, how ever unpopular an income tax may be, it is almost certain that j u bill w ill be passed in the near I future levying such a tax.— Savannah News. WILCOX PUPILS SNGAGE IN ORATORICAL CONTESTS. | Rochelle,Ga., March 28.—There was a lively tune in Rochelle yesterday when the schools of Wilcox county came together ami contested for two gold medals offered by lion. K. S. Hamilton, county school, commissioner one for tho best declaimcr among the boys and tho other for the l>ost recitation among tho girls. Nearly ail the schools were present by representatives and interest was intense. The medals were award ed to Mr. Robert Wesley, of the Koelielle High School, and Miss Susie Hughes, ot the Rock Curve School. These pupils will repre sent Wilcox county ut the clmti luuqua at Albany next mouth. GOOO ROADS LEAD TO GOOD TOWNS. After all the arguments for good roads aro condensed, they simply mean in their results good roads Irom good farms to good towns. —Ex. Good roads lead from good farms to good towns. There never was greater truth expressed in a | fewer words. That is what we want right here in Sumter county 'good roods, leading from good farms to good towns. We have some good farms, hut they can be made l etter. We have some poor furrns, and they can he improved mightily. Wo huvo a heap of land thut is not under cultivation and that can be con verted into productive and profit able farms. The way to.do it is to build good roads. There is nothing thut does more to develop a coun try than good roads. They are as necessary as railroads. It is the common report of men I who have traveled to any extent | that whenever they find a section with good roads they find fine looking farms, they find attract ive farm houses, they find good stock, and they find good towns. They all go together. You can not separate them. It is just us impossible to have measly farms, decrepit stock, and run-down-at j the-heels towns inn county that is crossed in direction by up-to-date highways, us it is to find clean, high toned, prosperous gentleman in tho guise of bums. Good roads are an incentive to j improvements that speedily build up the county in which they are built. They give a stimulus that not hing else can do. Let ns have the report go out] that Sumter county is to have good roads from one end of it to ! the other. Let all progressive citizens work in that direction. 1 Let us have another bond election and tins t ime let us carry it. There will not be a citizen 111 Sumter county one year after good roads aro built who would vote against such a proposition.—Americus Times- Recorder. NEWSPAPER SUPPORT. A newspaper, if it has any brains, conscience and muscle | hack of it, must continually de cide between doing its duty and injuring its pocket. In any po sition but that of editor the pub lic is able to separate the individ ual home from the collective citi zen. But if an editor does not please them it is at his pockets I they aim. Thus it is tho news papers learn who their friends are. [The inun who reads a newspaper! and admires it all the year round, j yet gives his business support to ; , some other concern,is not a friend jto the former newspaper. Admi ration alone will not run a news paper. There are too many men | who expect an editor to slave in defeuse of their pet notions and hobbies, advocate their views against the strongest opposition and cooly withhold their business support, by which alone a country newspaper can live. Talk about a paper having a public duty to perform and an ( editor having to work for Ins prin ciple is cheap when others stand back anil extend a luke-warm neutrality.—Ex. Soeil Cane Wanted, j Must have three thousand at ! once. See or address J. B. Adamson, 3lMf Kibbee, Ga. I THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THBRHDAY, APRIL 1, mi. THE FATE OF A THIEF That Harry Maitland, who laid sailed 1 six years la the Living Dragon, should | j have been accused of stealing froui his ! > messmates was something almost tn ' credible, for lie was well liked and a thorough seaman. Yet the evidence seemed Indlsputa- j Me. Ned Flicks' pipe had been found In his kit, and petty thieving had been going on for some time. Ills accuser i was Gus Gaines, known ns "KauaLu | Gus,” who had formerly been a petty 1 chief among the Maoris. He was a man of sullen nature and revengeful disposition. Mucking laughter followed Harry as : he went Into the forecastle after his i kit. No one would help hlin, and In tugged his chest on deck aud placed It 1 where It would be out of the way. His clothing had been tumbled about In utter confusion, and as he stooped to arrange It something fell from (In folds of a jacket. He picked it up with a cry and shouted to the mute: ‘‘Mr. Foster, will you come here?” The mate approached, and Harry held up u ring of bone, carved In the shape of “a death’s head.” “Kanaka tins” made a leap and tried to snatch It from tils hand, hut Harry dealt him a tdow which sent him reeling to the deck. ‘‘You sec this, mates?” cried Harry. “Every one here knows that 'Kanaka Gus’ never parted with this ring will ingly. Now, ns I have been openly accused, t ask Justice. Let the chest of ‘Kanaka Lins’ lie searched, and If more missing articles are not found I give you the right to call me n thief If you will. “It Is only fair.” replied Mr. Foster. “Send n whip down Into tlie forecastle and hoist Gus Gaines’ chest on deck.” The chest was hoisted on deck and opened, and one of the men began to hand out the articles It contained, making running comments as he did so. “Why. It's a regular curiosity shop. Mr. Foster. Here's ttiat pair of braces you lost and thut six bladed knife. Here’s a can of cavendish with Harry Maitland’s mark on the lid. Catch bold of flits sheath knife. Isen Brace, and if you was to sink it Into ‘Kanaka Gus' two or three inches nobody would be very sorry. I guess we may as well beg Harry Maitland's pardon, for tills black and blue cuss Is the tlilef.” There was a rush of furious men at •‘Kanaka Gus,” hut the mate waved them back. “Take hold of him. Ben Brace. Hur ry! Take him on the other side and bind him to tho lee ratlines!" The villain was quickly tied up, and the mate went Into the cabin and enlled out the captain. He heard the story quietly. “Give him forty." he said. "Flog ging may be played out in the mer chant service, but I'll take the law into my own hands.” Ben Brnce took tho cat ami handed | It to Harry, tmt he shook tils head. "I won’t touch the thief.” he said. “Give me tho cat," said Foster. "I'll touch him.” The cat whistled through the air and alighted upon the bare hack of the thief. A yell of agony broke from his lips as tho cat rose and fell. At the fortieth stroke (lie captain raised his liaud aud the man was let down. Harry sent Ills kit back to the fore castle, uud “Kanaka Gus” took his place on deck. Two days passed, and not a word was spoken to the detected thief. The men passed him with averted faces, and his life was made a very hell to him. Harry never looked at him, and tilts cold scorn of Ids former messmates cut him worse than the cat. The second night came, and a sudden gale called all hands on deck and sent them aloft. It was pitch dark, and they could only feel tlicir wjjy along the yards. But the heavy sail was furled, and the men sprang upon the yard to reach the top. In the dark ness Harry could not see who was working next to him; hut. to his hor- I ror, ns he grasped the hand rope and bore his weight upon the foot rope un derneath he heard a hissing execra tion. nnd the rope parted under his feet. The weight of his body tore the hand rope out of one of the rings, and he hung suspended by his bands alone three feet below the yard. Just then tlie lightning flashed, and above him. crouching ou the yard, w ith Ills knife j In his hand, was the ominous tlgure of | "Kanaka Gus." *'My turn!” he hissed as the blade of the knife approached the rope. “Down you go!” Harry uttered a erv for help. wh»Mi I the sail suddenly flapped and struck ! the crouching form of the would lie I murderer, nnd before he could seize anything to stop himself he plunged j head fore most Into the darkness below, i | At the same moment a strong hand I grasped Harry by the collar and raised him so that be could roach the points and drag himself up. "Get Into the tops.” said the voice ot Mr. Foster. "1 saw the whole thing j ! and If ever a villain deserved death 'Kanaka Gus' was the man. Let hiu go.” The first time Captain Foster sailed a ship ou Ills own account Harry was hU first officer. Patient Audience. "Say, who's your friend?" ‘‘l really dou't know his name.” "But you have been talking to him f*>r au hour.” “Yes; he seemed such a good lis tener.” “Well, Jinks jnst went by and told me that be was deaf and dumb.” j Literary Classification. "Is that new dialect story a best seller?’ "No,” answered the publisher, “more j ly a worst speller.”—Washington Star. ; FOR THE HOUSEWIFE Ammonia In the Laundry. No housewife ever should be with out a bottle of ammonia in her kitchen and laundry, for ammonia cleans al most everything that It touches. Spots ! on towels will disappear If u little ammonia is put into enough water to soak the articles in. They should be left iu this water for au hour or two before washing them. A cupful of auunouia should be put Into (he water In which the clothes re to be soaked overnight, aud the lotlies will be easily washed, aud rbeu dried they will be us white uud •ear as could be desired. / Stuffing For Fish. An excellent stuffing for baked fish Is made by soaking the crusts of dry bread iu cold water; then squeeze as dry as possible. To this add the grat ed interior, a high seasoning of salt, pepper and suge. Chop n large union flue uud fry in n little dripping until lightly colored. Mix it with the bread crumbs. Add six tablespooufuls of melted beef suet, turning the mixture over mill over so that the fat may he well distributed through it. Do not have the dressing wet or soggy when putting It into the fish. Baked Bean Soup. Put three cups of the cold beans into six cups of water nnd half a small onion cut In slh-es and two stalks of , celery cut in small pieces. Cook half an hour and rub through n strainer to make a pulp. Add one and one-half I cupfuls of canned tomatoes cooked ten minutes and strained and season with •salt and pepper. Add two level table spoonfuls each of butter and flour rub bed together uutil smooth. Cook five minutes and serve with croutons. Keep the Kettle Clean. Always empty the water out of the teakettle after using it and till again with fresh water when the kettle is needed, always rinsing it out first. It is not healthy or sanitary to use water that has been standing In the kettle from one meal to another, for the wa ter is stale from standing so long, and even If it has been boiled germs have collected in it. This also will keep a sediment front forming on the bottom of the kettle. Attachment For Beds. No cribs are required iu households which are equipped with one of the bed gates recently invented by two Connecticut men. The gate is of metal and is composed of crossbars pivoted GATE FOK BEDS. at their poiuts of intersection so that the whole can be stretched out to the length of a bed or folded up In a small compass at the head or foot. Iu the center Is a vertical bar to bold the gate ugainst outward movement. To Clean Wall Paper. The best way to clean wall paper Is to first brush the walls thoroughly by means of n duster tied over a long bandied broom. Wipe with cleau cloths uutil nil the rust has boon removed. Cut a loaf of stale bread iu four pieces and with this lightly wipe the paper, beginning at the top of the wall and rubbing downward, never up or across. This cleans wall paper sat isfactorily. An Idea In Fastenings. In buttoning little girls' dresses sew the buttons ou the wrong side of the upper piece and make the buttonholes hi the under piece so as to button wrong side out. Iu this way the catch ing and breaking of the little one’s hair are avoided, and one cause of an noyance aud ill temper Is removed. Remedy For Chilblains. Those afflicted with chilblains may find a very good remedy lu the follow ing salve; Tannic acid, thirty graius; carbolic acid, thirty grains; tincture of iodiue. thirty drops, and simple oint- ] meat enough to make two ounces. It j should be applied ulght and morning. A Use For Salt. Many times things spill on the stove and the cook finds a disagreeable smoke and odor as a result. If she will take some table salt aud sprinkle j it on the grease, the smoke and odor ] wiil cease, aud the grease may be re- * moved more easily. — To Clean Kid Glovas. Beat up the white of an egg with au equal quantity of water and a little sugar. If well made this compound Is transparent aud uot at all sticky. It is good fur all kinds of fine teailier, espe cially kids. Birthday Cake Candles. The fashion in birthday cakes has ! changed, and now one candle for the I whole life is the thing iustead of a canule for each year. The candle is used hi the center of the cake. j i | John H. Hunter, Wm. K. Pcarcc, Frank C. Battey. ; HUNTER, PEARCE & BATTEY, || Cotton Factors Naval Stores j EXPERIENCED FaCtOTS ! HANDLERS OF j ||i Upland Cotton, Florodora, l! 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If poor land will show a normal increase when fertilizer is used, good land will show at least double the increase. Use Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers to increase the quality , as well as the quantity of the crop—and you will increase the profits from your land. “I have been using your fertilizers for a number of years” says Mr. William Fraiser, of Glasburg, La “andfind that it not only flays to fertilize , but to do plenty of it, and use the best fertilizers to be had, such as your brands. I have used a number of them and found them to be as recommended and to give better results than any other fertilizers that I have ever used.” Every planter and farmer should have a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers’ Year-Book. Get a free copy from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Sales Offices Sales Offices Richmond, Ya- Durham, N.C. Norfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C. Columbia, S. C. KwfgllliaLiin(l Baltimore, Md. Atlanta, Ga. 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