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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
Xh\e /lontgornery /Monitor. 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. advertinomcnt* must invariably be paid is advance, at the lc«al rate, and an the law 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. - 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. '< Tf??▼▼▼▼▼▼?TYfTVTfV?f^ ► a ► Gleanings From « t Wisdom’s Field. 5 ► a • A AAAA AA AAAA A A A A A AAA AA A A At- 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. I 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, H It Always Helps W 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 y The Woman’s Tonic g 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. 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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 the Southern States Cotton Cor poration. Bring your selling cer tificate. Vidalia Warehouse, 'ad Vidalia, Ga. 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