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. The sunken electric
lights give sufficient light with
out being glaring, and the venti
lation of these modern cars re
moves the sting of summer. The
service is aia carte, offering the
best the market affords.
In addition to this, they have
also put in service new steel
coaches, elaborately finished
which makes them the pioneers
in solid steel trains operating in
the South,
For full information relative
Seaboard schedules, etc. write
C. W. Small,
J)iv. Pass. Agent,
ad. Savannah. ’
A. L. Lanier,
Attorney at Low,
MT. VERNON, GA.
Will Practice in all the Courts of
the State.
I [amp Bukcii
Attorney fit Law
MoRAE, GA
Practices in all the Courts.
W. B. GRIMES,
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Works,
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A Note to You:
Jan. 23, 1913. j
We have no regular delivery
wagon as yet. Within a few i
years air ships will come into!
general use, and many of ourl
patrons will have deliveries made!
from our place in this novel and
rapid manner.
In the mean time, should you
not live directly in touch with
our drug store, many of your j
purchases can be forwarded by j
Uncle Sam’s new mail service—:
the Parcels Post —delivered right
at your door. That class of goods
commonly known as merchandise
will be forwarded at our expense,
free to your door, and we should
be glad to have our patrons take
advantage of this new and eco
no nical method of shopping.
P. S. School books cannot be
forwarded at the Parcels Post
rates.
Mt. Vernon Drug
Company.
FARM
HACHINERY
If you want Best
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Brices on Mowers,
Bakes, Disc Harrow’s,
Grain Drills, Buggies
and Wagons, see
D. S. Williamson,
Alston, Ga.
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