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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OFFICIAL ORUAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
Entered at the Poßtoflice in Mt. Vernon. Ga. as Second-Class Mail Matter.
H. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Owner. a Vear, in Advance.
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directs; and must lie in band not later than Wedm adey moriiiiiK of tlie Unit week of iusertion
Mount Vernon, Ga., Thursday Morning, Sept. 25, 1913.
Near-frost brings the smile to
the wood chopper as well as to
the cotton grower.
It would be difficult to figure
on the result if Thaw had gone
to Mexico instead of Canada.
These bright autumn days are
almost as refreshing as the rest
we are having from election tur
moils.
We hope the boys of the Mont
gomery county corn club have
not grown weary in well doing.
Gut it is alniut time to figure on
the result.
When you have done the State
Fair in Macon don’t fail to see
the exhibit of the Twelfth Dis
trict, Fair in Dublin immediately
following.
The cotton lift is all right if we
don’t slip a cog. As a safety
ratchet plant oats, and don’t let
the next thirty days go by with
out sowing.
It is to be hoped that tariff and
currency reform will be actual
facts in time to be out of the way
for the big wedding at the White
House in November.
It is a matter of regret that the
millions of lines used toadvertise
Thaw and Hans Schmidt and
other murderers could not be
employed in a more worthy cause.
It is too bad not to have an op
portunity to see the auto prize
races in Savannah in November.
Can’t Savannah give us some
kind of an excuse for spending
Thanksgiving there?
Where are those fellows who
covered our office floor with
"first" cotton blooms last spring?
Send us a sample bale of your
cotton and we can tell more
about what your success has
been.
Thirteen cents for cotton in
Mt. Vernon last Saturday was
not so bad. But when the South- '
era States Cotton Corporation '
makes it bring fifteen cents don’t
let oven that high level turn
your head from a big acreage in
oats.
It is time for Atlanta to sit up
and take notice when the La
Grange Reporter comes to the *
front with a man who actually 1
had the spelling of a word in the ,
old Blue Back speller changed
after it had run forty years as a <
typographical error.
The reassuring information is
handed out by an Alabama man
that a small portion of the ker- ,
nel of a pecan set on fire will
give out the odor of broiled
steak. We knew Georgia was
doing the proper thing to plant
freely of the pecan nut.
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A Brooks county government
demonstrator, who has just re-1
turned from the boll weevil in- j
fested section, says the most *
effectual way of dealing with the ;
l>est is to pick them off by hand.
A hammer and an anvil should
l>e added to the outfit, according
to instructions given by an old
German farmer some months ago.
A Chicago girl committed sui
cide last week after living six
months on 20-cent meals, and
her dying testimony was that
life was not worth living. Long
years ago, before any one ever
heard of the high cost of living,
they told us of an Irishman who
complained of the loss of a
valuable horse after he had
learned the animal to do without
eating. '<
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Graymont Hustler:—Editors
and printers are noted the world
over for their mistakes, but one
of the gravest, in our opinion, is
I selling their paper on time.
Atlanta Journal:—An authority
says we spend more for automo
biles than for furniture. Well,
going further into the subject,
we discover that we spend more
for liquor than for shirts; more
for tobacco than for shoes; more
for peanuts than for socks, and
so it goes.
Greensboro Herald-Journal:—
A subscriber wants to know what
a deficit is. Well, dear sir, it is a
word that is pronounced three
ways and is the aching void in
the average Georgia weekly edi
tor’s bank account. We also
have one of these holes in the
state treasury and the governor
has asked Judge John C. Hart to
use his best efforts in filling it.
Next!
Monroe Advertiser: —We have
,no desire to be Pharisaical and
|to thank God that we are not as
other towns, but we do say with
a feeling of pride that Forsyth is
one of the best towns in Georgia
and that her criminal record can
not be beat in the State.
Way cross Herald:—Some peo
ple claim that the Americans who
are now in Mexico are in no
danger. A man sitting upon a
keg of powder and smoking a
pipe is in no danger either, but
he is taking some long chances.
Telfair Enterprise:- The most
important fair this fall locally
will be the Telfair county Fair.
Next will be the Twelfth District
Fair. Os the most general in
terest will be the State Fair at
Macon. Present indications are
that the State Fair will be the
best ever held.
Eastman Times-Journal:—An
other university professor has
again figured that married men
live longer than those who re
main single. Now listen for
some one to say that it just
seems longer to those who are
married.
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Pembroke Enterprise:—The
farmer who has a few bales of
cotton to sell at 13 cents, plenty
of corn to do him until next
year, and a peanut patch full of
hogs fattening up for winter
don’t even know the cost of liv
ing is high.
Clinch Co. News:—Faith will
move mountains but it will not
budge an old worn-out, dilapidat
ed, treacherous, sneezing auto
mobile.
Adel News:—The pistol toter
is a menace and must go. The
mountain of crime in Georgia is
not anything for us to be proud
of. Fewer weapons will make
less crimes.
Atlanta Constitution:—O f
“course, we’ll be resigned to the
adjournment of congress, though
in the busy season a fence-fixing
congressman is very much in the
way.
Fitzgerald Press:—Prominent
citizens of Milledgeville acted as
pall-bearers at the funeral of
"Old Bill” Minor, the noted
train robber and bandit. A sick
ening exhibition of maudlin sen
timentality. No doubt the par
ticipants are already ashamed of
themselves.
E. A. Hanley, president of
Franklin College at Indianapolis,
whipped his father for the ill
treatment of his mother, and the
affair has got into the court.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THUKSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1913.
Concerning Coffee.
The custom of coffee-drinking
is relatively recent among the
peoples of Europe and their de
scendants in America. Mr. Har
ry W. Van Dyke, in "Through
South America,” says that for a
long time after it made its way |
west from Arabia and Turkey,
coffee was under the ban of the
church. It was not until 16.52
that the first house that made a
specialty of serving coffee was
opened in London, and a littie
later it was introduced into
France.
Thence the practise has spread,
until the amount now consumt d
the world ovei is simply enor
mous, especially in the United
States. We take nearly half of
all that is grown. At first coffee
came only from northern Africa,
Arabia and Turkey; then the
1 utch began experimenting, and
succeeded in cultivating in Java,
and the French in the West In
dies. For a while these were
the principal sources of supply.
The story goes that in 1760 a
Portuguese, Joao Alberto Gastel
lo Branco, planted a bush in Rio
de Janeiro. Thanks to the pe
culiarly favorable soil and cli
mate, Brazil soon outstripped all
other lands in the production of
coffee, The uplands of the state*
of Sao Paulo produce more than
half of ail the enormous amount
of coffee that is consumed in the
world today. There are between
fifteen and twenty thousand
plantations, employing hundreds
of thousands of laborers, and
some of the plantations are so
vast that they grow millions of
trees. Here it is that most of
the immigrants flock. There are
a million Italians alone. No more
beautiful sight could be imagined
;han one of these plantations in
full bloom. The flowers are
white, and grow in clusters, and
the air js fragrant with their
perfume,
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says Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., in
writing of her experience with Cardui, the woman’s
■gw tonic. She says further: “Before 1 began to use sQsl
Cardui, my back and head would hurt so bad, I
thought the pain would kill me. I was hardly able
to do any of my housework. After taking three bottles ioB
of Cardui, I began to feel like a new woman. I soon
BOH gained 35 pounds, and now, I do all my housework,
as well as run a big water mill.
I wish every suffering woman would give B»Qfj
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ryj a trial. I still use Cardui when I feel a little bad,
and it always does me good.”
Headache, backache, side ache, nervousness, I®*
tired, worn-out feelings, etc., are sure signs of woman- gfezsd
90S ly trouble. Signs that you need Cardui, the woman’s
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wQfl for your trouble. It has been helping weak, ailing
women for more than fifty years.
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A man in France, we grieve to
note, has got the poor foolkiller’s
goat. Arising in his monoplane
above the winding River Seine,
he gives the signal with a whoop,
and nonchalently loops the loop.
, The poor foolkiller, hard behind
goes sailing after like the wind,
but when the Gual, w’here else
they met, evades him with his
somerset, the whole blamed po
pulace in France begins to laugh
and sing and dance. Belike a
bat this fellow' flies, a moment
gliding through the skies, and
then, with taking up his slack,
goes sailing down upon his back.
The poor foolkiller, in despa : r,
goes aviating here and there, but
to the audience’s glee, as well he
tried to catch a flea. The safe
and sane, who ride upright, he
catches every day and night, and
hurls them whirling from the
skies, but this high flyer takes
the prize. He has the poor fool
killer crazed, and all the uni
verse amazed, but still we are
disposed to bet our friends F. K.
will get him yet.
A Square Deal.
Give the people a square deal. !
We have done this the past two
seasons, and as a result so far
this season we have received more
cotton than ever before. We
give the correct weight, tell them ;
the grade and show them the
market price, and knowing what
it cost to handle, they refuse any
but a fair offer. We represent
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