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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1911)
Barrett Says Parcels Post Will Soon be a Reality. Union City, Ga., March 2. — The following statement has been issued by President Charles S. Barrett to members of the Farm ers Union: To the Officers and Members of the Farmers Union: Your national and state officials who have been working in Wash ington this winter in behalf of the Farmers union have found that congress is growing more responsive to the demands of the American farmer than at any time in its history. That we have not written de mands of the Farmers union in to legislation is due not to lack of influence, but to the conges tion inevitable with a short ses sion and the demoralization con sequence upon pending political changes. So far as a parcels post is con cerned, I am convinced that that measure, in a national and not a rural sense, is nearer than any of our members or than any of the political magines. The lobby against the parcels ; post has shot its bolt. It has^ex-! hausted its ammunition. If an extra session is called, congress , will in all probability enact a general parcels post. It there is no extra session, the chances are strong that a general parcels post will be authorized at the regular session next December. If you will dig up the letters I published last winter from con gressmen, you will find that in nearly every instance they gave non-contmittal replies to the ques tion regarding a parcels post. But the situation has changed. At any moment you may ex pect a battalion of statesmen to proclaim loudly that they have all along been in favor of a par cels post. Next you may expect them to work for it with a vim. The expiation of this singular about-face is an easy one. The congressman has heard from the farmer! Representa tives and senators from nearly all the states have been literally bombarded with letters from their farmer constituents. The power of the farmer, long j held in “cold storage,” has been brought forth! The result was inevitable. I regard this spectacle as a vindication of my often repeated declaration that the farmer has only to make himself heard to have his wants supplied in a congressional sense. It takes the spur to make the congressman live up to his cam paign promises. The farmer is finding out how to use the spur. In this connection you ought to know the strange effect that officer-holding and life in Wash ington has upon congressmen. We have particularly noticed during this season the mild and tame conduct of some of the rep resentative who were genuine fire-eaters on the stump. While they were appealing for your vote they pawed dust like a stallion, promised to reform everything over night, and to “start something” the moment they were sworn in. But, lo! the change the moment they get in congress. Then, with many of them, the principal ob ject is to panhandle a few little jobs for constituents, sneak up on some little committee assign ment, keep free seed going, glut the mails with agricultural bul letins and free government pub lication, and have a good time themselves. It is true that semi-occasional ly they rear up on their hind legs and bellow thunder. But inves tigate closely and you will gen-, erally find the subject is a trivial one: that it won’t hurt anybody, and that all the sand-raising is to make the folks at home be lieve their faitful servant isn’t asleep at the switch. There are some strong, ener getic and loyal congressmen, it is true. I believe their numbers i are incresing. But they need to be increased still more rapidly, if the farmer wants to get the service to which he is entitled. The country gets no better or more active congressmen that it deserves. If your are not satis fied with the brand of statesman ship being ladled out from Wash ingson, just search your own soul as to how far you are person ally responsible for electing an incompetent. If they kill the anti-cotton gambling bill at the present ses sion we have good prospects to pass it at an extra session or next December. It is certain to be eventually enacted. I have the assurance of some of the best informed congressmen for this assertion. I For their ability and loyalty and tireless co-operation, I owe a debt of thanks to your national and state officials and other prom inent workers who have assisted in our dealings with congress this winter. Chas. S. Barrett. Union City, Ga., March 1, 1911. FORMER COUNSEL TO FIGHT FOR LIBERTY OF STRIPLING. ; Americus, Ga., Marchs. —There is an “Americus end” to the human tragedy enacted at Dan ville, Va,, a day or two ago, i when Chief Thomas E. Stripling, of that city, was arrested for an ; alleged crime committed in Geor gia a dozen years ago, and this “Americus end” is going to play I an important part therein. The whole sad story is well I known, except the Americus end of it, developing yesterday, j Among the four attorneys who ably defended Mr. Stripling when in defense of his life, he shot and killed a man,his neighbor, in Harris county in 1899, was Char les R. Winchester, then a resi i dent of Harris county, but since ! a resident of Americus, and member of the local bar. j Mr. Winchester is the only surviving attorney of the de i sense in that famous trial, which created widespread interest at ' the time. Mr. Winchester talked inter estingly of the case yesterday and doubtless regrets the recent | turn of affairs. Stripling killed a man at Ham ilton, Harris county, for grossly insulting his wife, Mr. Winchest er states, and was given a life sentence. Pending motion for a 1 new trial, he escaped and went to Virginia. His wife and chil dren followed, and the since lived there happily. Under an assumed name, that of R. E. Morris, he had led an exemplary life, and for five years past has been chief of police. Mr. Winchester is thoroughly convinced of the fact that Strip ling was justified in shooting the man who had insulted his wife, and if the case is to be tried over jigain in the courts of Harris '’county, the Americus lawyer, familiar with all the facts there in, will again be in the fight. As the only surviving attorney for Stripling at the first trial, and being entirely familiar with all the facts in the case, his ser vices, which he has already free ly tendered the unfortunate man will prove invaluable. DUNN RE-NAMED. Brunswick, Ga., March 5. — Telegrams from Washington have been received announcing the confirmation by the senate of the appointment of Colonel H. T, Dunn as collector of customs for the the district of Brunswick. The appointment was sent to the senate by President Taft several days ago. Colonel Dunn has been collec ts of i his port since 1898, hav ing be. i appointed by President McKinley. He was reappointed twice by President Roosevelt and , this is his so rth term as collec tor. He served as special depu ty for this city for eighteen years i being appointed collector. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THPRSPAV, MARCH 9, tSHI. j SOUTHEY’S GUILLOTINE. It Did Not Servo the Purpose For Which It Was Made. Lord Southey once in a fit of dis gust with life had a magnificent guillotine erected in the drawing room of his magnificently appoint ed house in the Rue de Luxem i bourg, at Paris. The machine was an elaborate affair, with ebony up rights inlaid with gold and silver. ! The framework was carved with j |geat artistic skill, and the knife, of | immense weight and falling at the touch of a spring, was of ornamen tal steel, polished and as sharp as a razor. The spring which liberated the knife was placed within easy reach of any one kneeling upon the scaf fold. In fact, every detail was ar ranged with a view to the conven ience of the would be suicide. The j day that the engine of death was entirely finished Lord Southey com pleted his testamentary disposi j tions, shaved, had his hair cut and, clothed in a robe of white silk, knelt upon the platform under the knife. The guillotine was placed before a large mirror, wherein the person j committing suicide could see his ! own image until the last. Murmur ing a short prayer, Lord Southey placed his head in the semicircle and pressed the spring. The next morning he was found calmly sleeping in his bed. The spring had failed to work, and after several fruitless efforts Lord South ey was compelled to relinquish Lis attempt upon his life. Thoroughly cured of his spleen, he presented the guillotine to the Glasgow mu seum, whence he made an annual | pilgrimage to see it until the end j of hia life. The Pumpkin. Despite the fact that the puinp i kin in all itß forms has found its fullest meed of popular apprecia tion in the United States, il. is hv no means certain that 1 lie plant had its first home on this continent. Some authorities claim that il did and produce evidence to' show (hat I the aborigines of North America planted it among their maize. Ofli ! ers contend that it is of Asiatic origin, and still others point out that pumpkins have been cultivat ed either as a curiosity or as an ar ticle of food in England since the year 1570. Even today we have not a monopoly of pumpkin culture. The orange hued orbs of joy are grow r n in various European coun tries, notably in France, where the market gardeners in the vicinity of Paris go to the trouble of sowing their pumpkin seeds in April in a hotbed under glass and nurture them carefully until they arc trans planted in May. —Christian Herald. Greatly Changed. In a litlle town where it is still the custom for the residents to at tend the funerals of those whom they may have seen only a few times in their lives, regarding the event as a sort of social function, the un dertaker was somewhat puzzled at the actions of one woman, who gazed in the coffin, shook her head sadly and returned to her seat, sav ing, “How changed l” only to re peat the process several times. After this had been gone through three or four times the undertaker realized wlmt was the trouble and, stepping up to the caller, said: “Madam, I think you must have made a mistake. This is John Saw yer that we are burying from here. Maria Brown’s funeral is being held from a house on the next block.” — j New York Press. SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS. ARE COMING TO GEORGIA. Americus, Ga., March 5. i South Carolinians coming this j way, who are delighted with Sumter county, but find that land values are higher than they anticipated, are in some instances going further south into counties not so highly developed as this, and buying lands there either for speculative investments or for the purpose of settling upon them. Such was the case with J. B, Westbrook, of Chester, who came here some time ago and was shown over the county by Lee Allen, He went down to Cal houn county with Mr. Allen and there purchased 865 acres near Leary, part of the P. E. Boyd estate, paying $12.50 an acre for the property. Farmers, insure your crops for the year by using Armour’s fer tilizers. They bring the stuff, as no other grades do. Now is the , time to get ready to put it in the ground. Double your yield by using Armour's. 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