The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, June 20, 1912, Image 4
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,