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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1913)
COTTON SEED VALUABLE Millions of Dollars in Capital and Thousands of Per sons Employed. Forty years ago cotton seed was regarded as a nuisance. Southern legislatures enacted laws prohibiting the dumping ot it into running streams. It was suffered to accumulate and rot until it could be used as a ma nure. Slowly it was put to other uses. It was crushed and some use made of the oil but the product was gummy and therefore un available as a lubricant. By ISSO the annual product was of the value of $7,000,000 but most of it still went to waste. Now the cotton seed is fulfill ing the prediction of Edward Atkinson, who said, in 1885, that “the cotton seed, weighing twice as much as the fiber, would some day be worth quite as much.’’ The Boston Monitor in an ar ticle on the wonders of cotton seed says: “People now eat and wear cotton seed products and do all manner of things with them. The lintel's yields batting, wad ding, stuffing for pads, cushions, comforts, horse collars and up holstery, mixing for shoddy, for wool in hatmaking and for lambs’'wool in fleece-lined un derwear; also for felt and low grade yarns used in making lamp and candle wicks, twine, rope and carpets, also- cellulose used in making artificial silk and writing paper, and as a basis for explosives. “But this is not all. The hulls are used in feed, fertilizer, pa per stock and stuffing. The cake and meal are also used in ferti lizers, in dye-stuffs, in feed for cattle, poultry, horses and swine, as well as in confectionery and flour. The oil enters into the manufacture of lard compounds, white cottolene, butter oil, cook ing oil, salad oil, ‘olive’ oil and eleomargarines. It is used in the packing of olives and sardines, in miners’ oil, in lubricating oil, in mixing for putty and in auto mobile tires. It is an ingredient of soap, washing powders, etc. Altogether there are fifty-three products. Millions of capital and thousands of persons are employ ed in the industries growing out of the use of cotton seed.” Steals Wife’s False Teeth. The ultimate limit in stealing has been reached. On Monday a negro woman called upon Sheriff T. S. Holland of Monroe county with the request that he have a warrant issued for her husband, Henry McCarthy, for stealing; but it was not ordinary stealing, dear reader! He had stolen her false teeth! Great Jehosephat and Jumping Jupiter but that’s what we consider the ne plus ultra of larceny. There must be some mistake, some horrible mistake. No one would really steal false teeth— for it cannot be denied that some body else’s false teeth are the most useless things in the world. Perhaps Henry was appalled by the high cost of living; perhaps the appetite of his spouse was growing daily greater and in or der to keep bis expenditures from getting beyond his income he thought it necessaay to confiscate his wife’s teeth. But whatever the motive, if he did steal the teeth, it was the limit in larceny. Monroe Advertiser. Came Right Back at Him. An official of the Midland Railway coming from Glenwood Springs yesterday was telling a young married woman on the train how wonderfully produc tive Colorado’s irrigated ground is. “Really,” he explained, “it’s so rich that girl’s who walk on it have big feet. It just simply makes their feet grow.” “Huh,” was the young wo man’s rejoinder, “some of the Colorado men must have been going around walking on their heads.” SCREEN YOUR KOI ftOftlNST MALARIA Disease Transmitted by One Kind of Mosquito May Be Avoided by Screen and Other Pre cautions. Atlanta, Ga.—That screens and mosquito nets are an absolutely ef fective safeguard against malaria, and that if proper precautions were gen erally taken the disease would be come practically extinct in Georgia within a few months, is declared by the Georgia State Board of Health. So far as is known to modern medi cine, the only means by which malaria can enter the body is through the bite of a certain kind of mosquito. The scientific name of the malarial mosquito is “Anopheles,” which means in English “harmful” or “dangerous.” It is shown in Figure 1 accompanying this article, and is easily recognizable by the fact that it always stands on its head, so to speak, with its body stuck up at right angles to whatever it lias alighted oil. The common mosquito, on the other hand, as shown in Figure 2, has a body bent in the middle with each end pointing down toward the object on which it has alighted. The ordinary mosquito alights in the attitude of any common fly or bug, while the malarial mosquito always alights head down ward and tail stuck straight up. Thus they are easily distinguishable. Fig. 1. Fig. 2. ANOPHELES CULEX (Malarial Mosquito.) (Common Mosquito.) Malaria was known to the ancients and as early as 500 B. C. the relation between marshes and swamps and malaria was recognized. Until very recently it was believed that the dis ease was usually contracted by breath ing bad, or miasmatic, air from marsh es and stagnant pools, but in 1880 a French army surgeon, named Laveran, discovered the parasite which causes tlie disease, and in IS9B, Ross, of Eng land, proved that these parasites are carried by the malarial mosquito. This disproved the bad air theory. May Breed Almost Anywhere. Furthermore, the malarial mosquito does not have to come from a swamp. It can breed in your own attic, or your cellar, or your stable. The first time it. happens to bite sombody who is already suffering from the disease, it sucks up a quantity of the malarial parasites, which breed In its body. Then, when it subsequently bites other healthy persons It transmits these par asites to them. The malarial mosquito is pre-emi nently a house creature, scarcely ever seen in the woods or open, but present in great numbers in dark corners of rooms or stables in all malarial local ities. This mosquito bites only in the dark, it then goes back to some dark corner where it remains quiescent for 48 hours, at the end of which time it again descends to feed. Contrary to general opinion, mosquitoes bite many times and frequently remain alive for months, sometimes throughout the en tire winter. The malarial parasites which the mosquito has sucked up breed in its body and make their way to its venom gland. Then they are injected into the body of the person whom the mosquito bites, just as poison is injected by the bite of a snake. After they get into the human blood, the parasites attack the red blood cells and multiply with incredible rapidity. Then the new subject of tlie disease becomes a source of danger to others through the intervention of still other malarial mosquitoes. Importance of Screens. It is therefore obvious, says the State Board of Health, that the way to avoid malaria is to screen houses so that mosquitoes cannot enter them. Persons in malarial districts should not sit on open porches at night, and should be careful to sleep under prop erly constructed nets, if a home is protected adequately against mosqui toes, there Is absolutely no danger of catching tlie disease. It can be trans mitted in no other way. Persons who already have the dis ease should be equally careful not to be bitten by mosquitoes, as every mos quito which bites them becomes a source of danger to other people. It is furthermore their duty to have the disease treated vigorously under the direction of a competent physician. In malarial-districts many children have malaria without showing symp toms; if they are allowed to sleep without being covered by a net, they may infest a larger number of malarial mosquitoes. The blood of children In malarial localities should be from time to time examined, and if the parasites be found they should be treated until a cure is effected. The State Board of Health calls particular attention to the fact that al most all negroes In malarial loealities harbor the parasites, though very few of them show symptoms of their pres ence. It is therefore very important that they he treated properly, and their white neighbors should see to it for their own safety that they do not sleep in houses unprotected by nets. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, AUG. It, 1913. No Reason to Work. A large slouchy colored man went shuffling down the road whistling like a lark, says the Washington Star. His clothes | were ragged and his shoes were out at toes and heels, and he ap peared to be in the depths of poverty for all his mirth. As he passed a prosperous looking house a man stepped from the doorway and hailed him. “Hey, Jim! I got a job for you. Do you want to make a quarter?” “No’m,” said the ragged one, “I done got a quarter.” The King Saw Richard. A dear old Irishwoman is the proud mother of successful poli tician who, no matter how busy he may be, never fails to write to the old lady regularly. When he was in London last year he kept his mother duly ad vised as to every thing that was going on. Finally there came a letter wherein he described his presentation to the king. The old lady read it with eagerness, hardly able to restrain herself until she had told someone what had happened. When at last she got through the letter, she has tened to a neighbor’s house and announced: “I have just got a letter from London, and, do you know, the king has seen Richard!” Ex. Lesson in Good Manners. Many of our humble immi grants from Europe can give us lessons in good manners. A well-dressed American woman was walking in a park with her four-year-old daughter, when she saw’ a poor Italian beginning to divide a very small contaloup among his eight children. She stopped to look, whereupon the Italian, thinking the little girl w'anted some, too, with a most gracious bow handed her the first slice. The mother protested, but to no purpose, and rather than hurt the feelings of so true a gentleman, she permitted the little girl to accept. It hurt her to think that her carelessness had reduced the already inadequate feast, but she retrieved her er ror in the only possible way. — Youth’s Companion. New Equipment For Seaboard. The Seaboard Air Line has placed in service on all through trains the handsomest diners ev er built. The cars are inductive to cool traveling as well as to safety. Paddle fans really cool the passengers without buzzing. The tile Hour is cool, sanitary and does not contain odors as car pets do. 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