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Costs Farmers Too Much
To Market Crops.
It costs the American farmer,
and particularly the Southern
farmer, too much to market his
crops. The transportation com
panies and the middlemen get
too large a proportion of what
the 'consumer pays. This is a
field for most useful and effec
tive work on the part of govern
mental agencies and co-operative
farmers’ organizati ns. The work
of the Farmers’ Union and other
forces has at last had an appre
ciative effect in starting thought j
and action towards improvement
in this line; but the farmer suf
fers great losses in the market
ing of his produce with which the
middlemen and the transporta
tion companies cannot be charg
ed. The farmer has given little,
and too frequently no attention to
market conditions or demands.
He has not given sufficient at
tention to putting his products
on the market in an attractive or
convenient form or package.
The manufacturer and the mer- j
chant study the wants and the j
fancies of the consumers or buy
ers. No wise merchant buys an
article because he thinks his cus
tomers ought to want it. He
seeks to buy what they want and
give it to them the way they
want it. If they liny red apples
best, he gives them red apples,
or if the Southern farmers want
one-horse plows, the manufactur
er gives them one-horse plows.
Many farmers have insisted on
putting molasses in jugs, apples
in crates, butter in cloths and
numerous other articles in forms
which the buyers have shown
they did not want.
We have also too often been
satisfied with the marketing of a
low' grade or cheap product. r l he
proportion taken as their toll by
the handlers is always greater on
a cheap product than one a high
priced one. It costs little more
to transport and s II a pound of j
good butter put up in a desirable]
package than it does a pound of
poor butter tied up in a /ag or
packed in a jar. Wo must give
more heed to what the huyers
think they want and to the
marketing of our produce in the
most convenient and attractive
form.
We must put higher quality'
products on the market, strive ]
more to please t lie consumer and
think loss of our own eon von-j
ienee.
If 1 hire to “work” for anoth
er. I do what ho wants mo to do
and in the mam or he wants it j
done, just so long as these are
honorable. The grower of farm
products is simply working lor
the consumer and he should pro
dure what the cons imcr wants
and market it the way he wantsi
it. —Progressive Farmer.
Plays Seven At One Time.
Albany, .lime 11. —At a fid-j
tilers’ convention which is to be
held July I. in Gwinnett, and ad
joining counties, a I eat ure of the
entertainment will Ik* the playing
of no less than seven musical in
struments at one time bv one
musician. That musician is IjU-
Fayette Morris, and it requires a
one-horse wagon to carry the
performer and all his instrumets
to the scene of action. He will,
at one and the same time render
orchestra numbers on a fiddle,
banjo, guitar, drum, harp, bass
violin and dulcimer.
Both In Same Boat.
A mission worker in Now Or
leans was visiting a reformatory
near that city not long ago w hen
she observed among the inmates
an old acquaintance, a negro lad
long thought to be a model of in
tegrity, says Lipincott’s.
“Jim!” exclaimed the mission
worker, “is it possible 1 find you
here?”
“Yassum.” blithely responded
the backslider. “I'se charged
with stealing a Darrel of sweet
potatoes. ”
The visitor sighed. “\ou.
Jim!" she repeated. “1 am sur
prised.”
“Yassum," said Jim. "So was
I, or I would’t be here.”
Doctors Operate On Grace.
Eugene Grace, shot March 5 in
Atlanta and pronounced incurably
paralyzed by prominent surgeons
of Atlanta, has a chance for com
plete recovery. After operating
upon the wounded man yesterday
] afternoon at his home in New
rum. Ga., Ur. W. M. Turnerstat
ed that there was a chance of a
! complete return of sensation in
the lower limbs, which were cut
from the nerve centers by the
bullet. His spinal cord is not
severed.
In this statement he is hacked
up by Ur. T. S. Bailey, who has
attended Grace ever since he was
| carried from Atlanta to Newnan,
land Ur. JohnS. Derr, of Atlan
ta.
Dr. Derr declared Grace was
the nerviest man he has seen in
all his experience.
Said Ur. Turner:
“The patient is doing well. He
has not yet reached the stage
where accurate predictions can
be made, but I am convinced that
he has a chance to recover his
health and not be crippled in any
I way. ”
For several days the operation
had been contemplated. The
doctors kept constant watch over
their patients physical condition
and determined, after noticing
of a returning sensation near the
knee, that the probe would be
made. Grace himself was eager
for it..
For more than three months he
had lain upon his back unable to
do more than lift a glass of water
to his mouth. Often he had cried
out against it and urged his
physician to do something. When
told that the operation would be
performed he seemed very glad.-
At 1 o’clock yesterday after
noon he was put under the
anesthetic.
An entrance was made at the
ninth dorsal vertebra. In the
course of the operation it was
discovered that the spinal cord
was not severed, but that the
paralysis had resulted from an
j extreme pressure. The bullet
was also located, but owing to its
inaccessibility it was not removed.
The pressure was relieved con
siderably, however.
The first thing Grace asked af
ter returning to consciousness
was: “Is it coming out all right,
I doc?” He received very encour
aging assuranse. — Atlanta Geor
[ gian,
Irish Potatoes And Money.
It is being demonstrated that
in the Southeast the Irish potato
can be made a very valuable aid
to the bank account. A Bryan
county, Georgia, man, who plant
ed (it) acres in Irish potatoes has
been harvesting them at the rate
of 150 barrels an acre and selling
! the potatoes at $1.50 a barrel at
his railway station. In Volusia
county, Florida, a company has
refused an offer of $25,000 for
tin* yield from 175 acres in i>ota
toes. In southern Alabama a
man planted 12 1-2 bushels of
Irish potatoes and harvested 105
barrels, which he sold at $4.75,
net. a barrel.
Pretty good returns on invest
j ments?
These are but illustrations of
what can be done in the South
east. Industrial Index.
Weber Finally Got It.
During the financial depression
of lfiOl. savs a Milwaukee man,
according to Lipincotts, a Ger
man farmer in Wiseon went to
his bank for some money. He
was told that the bank was not
paying out money, but was using
cashier’s checks. He could not
understand this, and the officers
of the bank took him in hand.
: one after another, with little ef
fect. At last, the president him
self tried his hand, and after
long and minute explanation some
inkling of the situation seemed
to bo dawning on the farmer’s
mind. Much encouraged, the
president said: “You understand
tin* idea now, do you not, Mr.
Weber?”
“Yes.” said Mr. Weber, “it’s
like dis. ain’d it? Von my baby
vakes up at night and vants some
1 milk, I gif him a milk ticket.”
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
WAS JUST A HOME WEDDING
How the Colored Woman Arranged a
Second Marriage Without Troubling
About Divorce.
William L. Bodine was called upon
at a recent banquet given for sociolo
j gists at the Sherman, and he told
| this as a true story:
“A colored woman was brought be-
I fore Judge Ooodnow in the munici
j pal court. She was there to appear
against her supposed husband, ar
rested for abandonment. The su|>-
posed husband claimed he had de
serted the woman, hut he was only a
second husband.
“‘ls your first husband dead?’
asked the judge as ho turned to the
woman.
“ ‘No, sah ; lio’h simply husky with
health, hut I ain’t lived with him for
five years.’ came the answer.
“ ‘Then were you divorced ?’ asked
the judge.
“‘No; dat man wasn’t worth no
divorce.'
The judge became interested and !
asked : ‘You say this is your second
husband. Were you married by a
minister or a judge ?’
“‘No, sir; it was jest a home wed
din.’
“‘Just n home wedding. What do
you mean by a home wedding?’ asked
the judge.
“ ‘Well, you see it was jest dis
nway. Yo’ honah, aftah mah hus
band deserted me and 1 waited five
years I met this man. We took a
shine to each other. Wo decided ter
git married. We made up our minds
ter git married at home. So I jest
went and got the marriage ’tificate I
had when I was married de fust time
and scratched out de fust man’s
name and I wrote in the name of dis
man.’ ”
WHAT AILED HIM
—— -vc * Jl.iui
The Lion —Wliat’s the matter,
Mr. Snake? It looks as though you
had experimented with some hair
grower.
The Snake —No, I swallowed u
porcupine.
FATE OF THE POLARIS.
The Polaris, with Charles Francis
Ilall in command, had been sent out
by the United States government on
a scientific expedition, and had
reached the most northern point ever
attained by a vessel. In the autumn
of 1872 the Polaris ran into an im
passable ice floe, and remained there
for two months. Nineteen persons,
including some of the crew T and some
of the Eskimos on board, left the
ship, which was leaking badly. They
took supplies and camped on the
ice, intending to make for the land.
They had not gone far when a ter
rific gale blew up and they found
themselves unable to reach either
the ship or the land. Then the ice
split and they were set adrift on the
floe. Having supplies, they were
able to live, but they faced the pros
pect of certain destruction in case of
a severe storm, and the ieo floe be
gan to diminish in size as they drift
ed southward. However, they were
all rescued. They numbered, in fact,
one more than when they had started
on their strange voyage, for the Es
kimo Hannah had given birth to a
girl.
HIS APOLOGY.
“Sorrv, old man, I called yon a
fool. 1 should have remembered the
well-known injunction.”
“You mean the verse which says
that he who calls his brother a fool
is in danger of everlasting fire?”
“No, I mean the saying: The
truth should not be spoken at all
times.’ ”
A COLLECTOR.
Howell—He is always under the
doctor’s care; what is the matter
with him?
Powell —Nothing; he is just get
ting a collection of surgical opera
tion*
GRACE OF THE EAST INDIAN
No Matter How Old or Poor, the Wom
en Always Carry Themselves
Well.
Describing the women of India, a
writer says: “Even the most with
i ered toil-worn hag has a dignity of
i carriage and a grace of motion that
the western woman might envy. The
‘sari’ is draped in an easy flowing
style and adjusted as it slips back
w'ith a graceful turn of the silver
bungled arm; the skinny legs move
rhythmically, and the small feet fall
with a silent and panther-like tread.
It is the beauty of natural and un
trammeled motion and says much in
favor of the abolition of the corset,
for the Indian women retain their
uprightness and suppleness of figure
till bowed with age.
“Tho commonest type is the coolie
woman, who undertakes all sorts of
rough work, carrying heavy burdens
on her head, and she is perhaps tho
least attractive, for her workaday
garments are usually faded and
dirty; yet even among this poor class
of burden bearers we see many with
handsome, straight features and sup
ple, well proportioned figures.
“No matter bow poor their gar
ments, jewelry of some sort is worn
—necklaces of gold or beads, colored
glass or silver bangles and heavy sil
ver anklets.”
LED OFF AS AN EXAMPLE
After the Collection Box Was Passed
Deacon Smith Withdrew Tem
porary Loan.
A negro preacher of Richmond re
cently “exchanged” with a brother
divine in an Alabama town. Shortly
after the assumption of his new
charge the Richmond minister was
much scandalized by the action of
one Deacon Smith, who, in the ves
try after service, was observed de
liberately to withdraw a 50 r cent
piece from the contribution box and
to substitute therefor a dime.
“Deacon Smith 1” exclaimed the
newcomer. “This is downright dis
honesty 1”
Deacon Smith was in now’ise per
turbed. “It ain’t nothin’ of de
kind, pastor,” said he, quite con
scious of his ow n rectitude. “De fact
is, I’s led off with dat half dollar for
de last six years. It ain’t no contri
bution ; it’s a temporary loan as a
noble example I”—Lippincott’s Mag
azine.
“BEAUTY SPOT" SURE. *
“It had to come—there was no
w’ay by which its advent might have
been averted.” This wail in a l’aris
newspaper did not refer to a great
catastrophe, but to the “beauty spot,”
the speck of black plaster “which,
worn on cheek or chin, or both,
makes natural tints (real or other
wise) more conspicuous.” The
writer adds that when pannier skirts,
high heeled shoes and many puffs in
the hair were fashionable the “beauty
spot” was a necessary accompani
ment, and that when the makers of
fashions consulted old prints this was
found to be so, “and a few wax ■
heads in the show windows of the
hairdressers decorated w;ith the black
spots 'did the rest. The fashion was
established, or rather revived.”
RADIUM’S WONDERFUL POWER.
Suppose that the energy of a ton.
of radium could be utilized in thirty
years, instead of being evolved at its
invariable slow’ rate of 1,760 years
for half-disintegration, it would suf
fice to propel a ship of 15,000 tons,
with engines of 15,000 horsepower,
at the rate of 15 knots an hour for
thirty years —practically the lifetime
of the ship. To do this actually re
quires 1,500,000 tons of coal.—Sir
William Ramsay in a London Ad
j dress.
TITANIC'S MODEL TO ENGLAND.
A large crate stands on the White
; Star pier awaiting shipment to Eng
land on the Adriatic. It contains a
30-foot model of a giant ocean liner
and cost $16,000 to build, but it is
i not of any use for exhibition pur
| poses now. It is a model of the Ti*
: tanic. The replica is an exact dupli
-1 cation of the sunken ship down to
tho minutest detail. It was sent to
this country to be exhibited as a
i specimen of the unsinkahle ship.
JOHNNY’S RECOMMENDATION.
“The teacher didn’t seem able to
say much in Johnny’s favor.”
“Well,” replied the devoted moth
er, “she had to admit that he keeps
all his school books remarkably
clean.”
| Have all Valuable Papers i
I Safely Protected
Fire and life insurance policies, receipts for insurance pre- i I
miums, notes, deeds, mortgages, leases, contracts, bonds or j>
stocks; j|
Certificates of deposit, pension papers, army discharge 11
papers, naturalization papers, valuable private correspon- j|
dence, warrants, savings pass books, marriage certificates, j|
abstracts or securities of any nature. j!
1 low are they protected from fire, loss, burglary or pry- j >
ing eyes? # l!
A Safety Deposit Box
I at The Mount Vernon Bank will afford you the best protec- j;
tion. A limited number of them still available. j|
MT. VERNON BANK, MT. VERNON, GA. jj
*MT. VERNON, GA. if
| l’(i(n(la mo, c "(( day
Grasp the Opportunity #
by ordering Ice-Cold Sundaes for two, naming the pure
I fruit juices that best please your fancy. Cooling to blood
and cuticle. We have them. Open day and evening.
During the summer season we shall devote special atten
tion to this branch of our business, and the festive reason
will be made especially enjoyable to our patrons.
Suinerford Drug; Co. I
Proscription Druggists ||
Ailey, Georgia a|
Money! Money!
Money!
We lend money cheaper on f arm
lands than any person making!
loans in Montgomery County. All
we ask is to get our rate before
making application to some one
else for we can save you 1 to 2
per cent, interest. Loans closed
without delay. Write us and we
will come to see you.
The Lyons Loan i nd
* %j
Abstract Company
LYONS. GA,
M. L. CALHOUN,
Att v at *jaw,
Mt Vernon, Georgia.
For Long Term Farm
Loans.
I ant negotiating some very,
attractive Long Term Farm Loans
for the best companies doing bus
iness in Georgia, with I nvest rates
of interest and the most liberal
terms of payments
I have several years experience
in the loan business, am located
at the county site and believe that
I am in position to give you the
best terms and as prompt services
as any one.
If you need a loan see me before
application.
A. B. Hutcheson,
1 Mt. Veruou, Ga.
COURT NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given to all
parties concerned that at the ad
journed term of Montgomery-
Superior Court beginning on the
fourth Monday in July that no
criminal cases will be tried hut
the entire week devoted to the
trial of civil cases. At the regu
lar term on the first Monday in
August the criminal docket will
lie first taken up and disposed
of. This the 9th day of May,
11)12. J. H. Martin,
J. S. C. 0. J. C.
DWELLING AND
LOTS FOR SALE
I offer for sale the
\V. I>. Langford dwel
ling in Mt. Vernon.
Five-room house and
large lot and barn con
veniently arranged.
Four town lots and
garden. See me for
quick bargain on this
properly.
\V. F. McAllister,
Uvalda, Ga,
