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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1913)
How Old English Juries Were Made to Agree. Not always enviable was the lot of the old time juryman, for there w T as always the prospect of trouble if the verdict did not gratify the higher powers. Thus the failure of a jury to convict Sir Nicholas Throckmorton made Queen Mary “ill for three days,” and she came out of her sick; chamber to fine the disobliging jury (meanwhile confined in pris on) the su m of SIO,OOO a head. Elizabeth followed the same plan, and the practice of fining English juries did not cease until 1670, when a fine inflicted by the notorious Jeffreys was rescinded on appeal. In some old time “courts of quarter sessions” the injunction to lay their heads together had to be carried out by jurymen in literal fashion. When they be gan to consider the verdict they were supposed to dive beneath the level of the jury box and re main in that cramped position un til a decision was reached. Meanwhile the court usher stood near the box armed with a long wand of willow. If any juryman ventured to emerge above the surface before the twelve minds were agreed down came the w r and on the head of the offender.—Chicago News. Banana Eaters. Americans used to be called a nation of pie eaters. Today a more appropriate term would be a nation of banana eaters. The United States takes more than two-thirds of the bananas ship ped to the handlers in the world. Part of this pre-eminence in banana consumption is due to geography; the source of supply on the Caribbean is almost at our doors. Part is due to accident; a Boston skipper introduced the American public to this tropical fruit while it was still unknown in Europe. Whatever reason one may choose to give, the United States is the world’s chief ba nana market, and though the use of this fruit is increasing abroad, the American boy re mains the Jamaica grower’s best friend. A Problem in Identity. A fishwife entered a tram-car, says the Scottish American,' and thought she recognized another passenger as an acquaintance. Accordingly, she bent forward, and with an ingratiating smile, said, “That’s you, isn’t it? I hardly kent ye.” “Aye, that’s me,” replied the other, “and that’s you, isn’t it? How are ye? “Oh, A’m nae that bad,” was the reply. After this, silence ensued, and the first speaker on furthur scru tiny, became convinced that the woman opposite was not an ac quaintance, after all. Again she bent forward with an apologetic gmirk, and remarked, “But that’s nae you at a’ 1” “Nae,” replied the other. “It’s nae nane o’ us!” That Paper Mill. Now all of you who said, “I told you so, the paper mill will never be a go,” take a rideout to the old car factory site and ask Mr. Logan to show you the process of making paper, the Waycross way of making it from banana plant pulu. You will certainly have to take a back seat. We are actually making paper in Waycross. This is a real enterprise and it is worth seeing. The machinery is all set and being tested out. Some paper has been made al ready, but the plant will not be running full blast for thirty days yet. However, it would tickle us to see the “knockers” go out to gether. We would enjoy watch* ing them fade away. It’s there all right. Go see for yourself. —Waycross Herald. We Place Flowers Only After They Are Dead. A few weeks ago Herr Bebel, the dean of German Socialists, died, after a long period of par tial disability. The statesmen and journalists of the empire, without distinction of party, agreed in paying tribute to his fine qualities. During his life time his political opponents fought him bitterly and without quarter, but after he was dead they found much good to say of him. The incident is not unusual. It has happened a hundred times in our own experience, and will happen hundreds of other times. When Mr. Reed was Speaker, nothing was too bad for his polit cal enemies to say of him. He was called “Tsar,” and denounc ed in the most opprobrious terms as an embodiment of political ar rogance. But when he died, his party foes were as emphatic, and doubtless as sincere, in praising him as were his lifelong party as sociates. President Cleveland was cruelly attacked by his polit ical opponents; but when he came to die, even those who disagreed with his policies had only respect and admiration for his character. These examples have been chosen merely because they are recent; they might be duplicated in every decade of the country’s history. They ought to teach us the need of tolerance and dis cernment in forming opinions, and temperance in expressing them. There are public men liv ing today who have at times been the objects of violent censure and depreciation. What will their present opponents say of them when they die? In our hearts and in our words we ought to anticipate the verdict that hereafter we shall surely pro nounce upon such public men as Theodore Rossevelt, William Jen nings Bryan and William H. Taft. —Youth’s Companion. It Will Pay to Pick the Peas. A reader wishes to know whether it will pay better to gather peas at a cost of 75 cents to $1 a bushel and plow the vines under or plow under both peas and vines, peas selling for about $2 a bushel in the spring. Estimating the cost of picking and marketing the peas at $1 a bushel, the question simply re solves itself into whether one bushel or 60 pounds of peas is worth tl as a fertilizer. Accord ing to Van Slyke, “Fertilizers and Crops,” there is 1.86 pounds of nitrogen, .6 pound of phos phoric acid and .72 pounds of potash in a bushel of peas, and these amounts of plant foods may be purchased on the market at from 40 cents to 45 cents. It is plain, therefore, if a pro fit of $1 a bushel can be made by picking the peas, this will pay better than to plow them under for fertilizer. Looking at the proposition from another viewpoint, ic may be stated that 30 pounds of cotton seed meal contains a little more nitrogen and phosphoric acid and nearly as much potash as 60 pounds of cowpeas, and since 30 pounds of cottonseed meal may be purchased for about 40 cents, it will pay better to pick the peas, and sell them at a profit of $1 per bushel and buy cottonseed meal to replace the plant foods removed.—Progressive Farmer. A Worthy Immigrant. When you think of the dangers of immigration, think also of the pluck, the thrift, and the loyal, loving hearts of some of the im migrants. Six years ago a Rus sian girl, Ida Alper, then sixteen years old, came here, unable to speak a word of English, She got work in a Massachusetts shoe factory. 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