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VOL. XXII a ' N OPPORTUNITY ou r Whole Sec tion Interested A fide In the Affairs of Madison County. Every subscriber of the Moni tor should read this article carefully through as a duty to our county and section. The writer will not mention anything hut your interests and so will not be imposing on your feelings or citizenship. Read. See to it that your neighbors read it. Then let us act all together. On the seventh day of Septem ber, less than two weeks fiom now. the Danielsville School will open. A chapter in the school history of this section will he written, good or bad. That is your concern and responsibility. Let us admit for the moment that Madison county and the bounding counties need a Cen tral High School. Let us also argree for the present that Danielsville is the best place for it. Right now the people of Danielsville are earnestly in the mind to develop such an enter prise. They are enthusiastic So much so that most of the fam ilies have agreed to take student hoarders at a low rate until a dormitory can he built and the citizens have promised liberal contributions for new buildings. This present interest constitutes a tide in our affairs, a tide that will pass if disregarded. What should be the response of the section? Simply to begin using the school —all who need it now, Write to any acquaintance in the town or to the school prin cipal and ask for information, write at once; the time is just sufficient, no more. The fitness of Danielsville and the needs of the section have been recognized by an organisa tion that can help and will in the near future—if the town and the section act at once on the en couragement already offered. At Cornelia in July the Metho dist Conference for the Elberton District endorsed Danielsville as the site lor a Central High Hchool for Madison and sur rounding counties. This' pres ent readiness to endorse us means a readiness to help when wo prove worthy and is a tide in our affairs that will pass if dis regarded. The proper respons'e will be for those who need a Central High School to begin using the Danielsville school as their Cen tral High School. The institu tion cap develop only fcy the prompt patronage of those who need it in fact for their children. Tseof a thing helps to prove its necessity. The necessity of the school when proven will make it flourish. This should he rec ogni;-od soberly, especially by the Madison county people. l! your children have finished the home school or if the home S ( i,onl is not satisfactory, and if .VOur childreu are too young for college and you cannot pay col ioge costs - send them to Daniels ville this fall. • iuen when the people of the Ui-vp see what you expect of llicm < they will respond nohly. rti e.V will improve their school Piant, they will build dormito r,es where hoard can be had dose to bare cost, they will show ■ u that pature meant Daniels- V!i ' e tor a school town, which is a Plain fact. i hen when the interest of the '' tion and of the town is shown lQ practical way, our school will Ufe incorporated in the great um- TheDanielsMlle Monitor versity system recently begun m Atlanta and will become a stable unit in the system. The result will be vastly bet ter education and more of it for the new generation. What this amounts to you must imagine for yourself. Consider how the imperfection of your own train ing has hindered you and how you have seen others advance because they surpassed you on ly in school opportunities. We have fastened our efforts upon ttiG task of building a school system in the south that will abide until its walls receive the ivies of a century that out lives cannot reach-and beyond that. We have a present oppor tunity to get our school built into this great system that has begun with a million dollar gift from a Georgia man and a five million dollar heart in the heart of our state. Will we do it or will we neglect the readiness of Danielsville un til she shall neglect the leadi ness of the conference? See how siinplg it is: If you need the school for your child, use it this fall for him and there s by help save it for his children when you are gone. Electricity on the Farm Atlanta, Ga., An exhibition now in Peachtree street is calu lated to bring wonder aud envy to the farmer boy who has to turn the cornsheller and the grindstone and to his overworked mother who breaks her back over a washboard. It is an elec trical, appliance show, and its principal feature is a machine with one fair sized motor sur rounded by a corn sheller, a washing machine, a grindstone, an ice cream freezer and a wheel ay be used to drive any piece of machinery on a farm. By moving a lever or two the motor can he coupled on to any of the machines in an instant. They are being sold rapidly, too, and so are the electric irons, electric stoves, electric sewing machine motors and all the ap pliances, and remarkable feature is that they are going to folks from the country and the small towns, Elver since the Georgia Rail way and Power opens its great Tallulah E’alls plant, reduced the price of electricity,and stretched its lines through more than a hundred miles of country, the people along the line have been waking up to the fact that elec tricity is sometimes cheaper than manual labor, and they are coup ling their share of Tallulah to churns and their pumps. Rural Georgia rapidly one of the principal users of current. Atlanta, Ga., The Annuity Messenger, the official organ ot the Masons annuity, which is just off the press, shows tnat the organization has assets of more than seven hundred sixty live thousand dollars, One ieature, showing the safety of its invest ments, is the item of registered bonds of nearly six hundred ninety thousand dollars. Its home in Atlanta is valued at fifty eight thousand dollars, though worth considerably more. These figures will he gratifying to masons throughout the South. The Masons annuity is £n or ganization for the protection of widows and orphans of deceased Masons. H. S. f'TUGH Diamonds, Silverware And Novelties. Repairing a Specialty KOYSTON. —GEORGIA Danielsville, Georgia, Thursday, August 27th 1914 Cases Set for September Term 1914 Madison Superior Court. Monday, September 7th, 1914 Garithers vs Thompson . . Page 144 Wright vs Wright . . . 3 Comer Bank vs Carithers . “34 Jordan vs Jordan ... “40 Adams vs Adams ... “94 Woodruff vs Scoggin , . “ Carlton Bank vsColdwell . . “ 9^ Williams Ad, vs Williams . " 109 Flanigan vs Flanigan . , *• Hopkins vs Williams , ( jjp Burroughs vs Burroughs . . “ 120 S. 0. Oil Co', vs Carroll , . “ 122 Beasley Shoe Cos. vs Smith & Adams “ 123 Webb & Crawford Cos vs Williams “ 124 Flem ing Bearing Cos. vs Williams “ 128 vs Williams “ 129 King Hodgson Cos. vs Black . “ 130 Hardman & Phinizy vs Williams “ 132 Citizens B. Trust Cos. vs Smith “ 134 McCullum vs Berryman . “ 136 Callaway Gro. Cos. vs Williams “ 137 Georgia Chemical Cos. vs Williams “ 140 Noell vs Wood .... “ 141 Southern Refin’g Cos. vs Rone , “ 142 Rowe & Cos. vs Patten . , ‘ 143 Georgia Chemical Works vs Williams “ 144 Carmichael vs Drake . . “ J 45 Cook Bros, vs Latimer , . “ 147 Bray vs Cox .... “ 148 Hendricks vs Powers . . •* 149 Porterfield vs Johns . , Page 128 Loony vs Bragg ... No 6 Dean vs Bragg . . . Page 147 I he Criminal Docket will not be called before Wednesd iy--This does not effect the witnesses who are subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury. ...YOUR HOME SCHOOL... Has done ail it can for your son and daughter. Send postal for Catalog The Danielsvflle School .1. W. CANTRELL, Prin. Danielsville, Ga. IF WE COULD EAT COT I ON (By VV. T- Anderson) It is a poor time to say ‘‘l told you so.” It> was about tifteen years ago that the lamented Mr. Pendleton took up the work thr,u the Telegraph of trying to induce Georgia farmers to grow their own feedstuff's. One thousand dollars in good American gold was distributed as prizes for best yield of wheat, and every one was convinced that Georgia could grow wheat phditably. But how well that advice was heeded is demonstrated by the statistics showing that Georgia $172,000,000 worth of feedstuffs in 1911, and sold her entire cot ton crop for $140,000,000. That’s what you call making progress backward. Suppose Georgia corn barns were full, and her smokehouses strung with old fashioned Geor gia cured hams and shoulders? What would Georgia care how long they fought in Europe? But now we must sell cotton to pay for our $172,000,000 worth of feed we used in making it. We are going to get out of the present difficulties. . But how many farmers have made the resolution that they will never again be caught with nothing to eat? It is said that farmers are compelled to grow cotton, be cause the supply man will not lend them any money except on a contract to grow so many hales of cotton. Tuis is a lame excuse |in anybody’s mouth, it is the I excuse of the man who is not j satisfied to “get along.” It is ■the refuge of the mao who is proud to say at the end of his crop year, "I think I will pay out.” It .is the apology of the man who is willing to take his child ren out of school and put them in the cotton field without a dollar for t4ieir labor, to have his wife do the drudgery from daylight until long after he is snoring. The farmer who wants to over come this condition can do it. The city man who succeeds counts no hours. On rainy days he works harder than when the sun shines, lie yields to no ob stacles. lie w t ins by the rule of “I will.” The farmer who now linds himself loaded with all cot ton and nothing to eat is hoping prayerfully that something will lie done by somebody, to pull him out of the hole. The farmer who has for sever al years made it a practice to produce a surplus'of feed has $.1.25 corn and 25c bacon to sell to his neighbors, and this farmer isn’t very much worried about selling his cotton the day he gets it ginned. He can hold his cot ton without help from the goyer rnent or any one else. He is the master of his affairs, and no body’s slave. It would be great if we had a law putting farmers on the chaingang if caught buying feed, and it would also be great jf we had another law putting the city man on the chaingang if caught buying feed not grown in Georgia. The war’s a good thing if we learn our lesson. —Macon Tele graph. fOLEYS IfONEY^TAK W Htitei. fuili. Mm mmlatm* Willbauks vs Nelms . . “ 151 Lumpkin vs Lumpkin . . No. 11l Lumpkin vs Lumpkin . “ 113 Moon vs McKinzie ... “ 121 Shields vs Risner et al . . “ 133 Chandler vs Bone . . “ 135 Lord vs McGee et al “ 150 Brown vs Dean ... “ 125 Tuesday, September Bth, 1914 Davis vs Scots .... Page 121 Peoples Supply Cos. vs Scott . No. 101 Langford & McWhorter vs Scott “ 20 Royston & Nelms vs Scott . “ 139 Royston Bank vs Berryman et al “ 02 Dickerson vs Pa-ham etal . . “84 Rice vs Rice . . . . “88 David & Cos. vs Latimer . . “ 90 Peoples Bank vs Gholston et al . “ 75 Murry Adinr. vs Gunnells etal “ 93 S. A. L. Railway vs Dt vid Page 150 Barnette vs S. A. L. Railway No. 44 Patton vs Stodghill ... “ 105 Gordon vs Seymour ... “ 110 McKenzie vs Patten ... “ 148 Slaton # Gov. for Glenn vs Chandler “ 138 Carithers vs Scott ... “ 140 Wednesday, September 9th, 1914 Glenn vs Wood .... Page 144 MeWhirter vs Alewine . No. 153 Broach & Cos. vs Moon etal . Page 155 Carter vs Gully . . . No. 71 Gholston vs Carrington et al . “ 80 King Hodgson C 6. vs Cunnells “ 131 Ballot Corrupted By Money. Comparatively few people have any idea as to the quantity of money that was spent in the election held in this state yester day. It is true that under the law, candidates must submit sworn statements as to the amount of money spent, but it is equally true that the expense accounts they submit, in many instances, do not cover any thing like the amount of money ex pended. Money, and quite a deal of it can be used legitimately in prosecuting a state campaign. Railroad fare, hotel bills, adver Using, stationery and stamps and in many other ways, money can be used legitimately. There is nothing whatever, not the sem blance of wrong in such expen ditures. The evil exists in buy ing votes. A purchased vote de feats the will of the people and corrupts the man that sells and the the man that buys. Both are equally guilty. The law prohibits such uses of money in elections, but some people have but* little regard for law. It was alleged when the disfran chisement hill was under con sideration, that if the negro was disfranchised, we would gel rid of the purchaseahle voter. Not by any means. On the contrary. there is much more money used in elections now, than when the participated in the elec tions. Some white men are as ready to sell now, as some ne irroes were then. The only per ceptible differeifce is that it take more, money to buy the white man than it did the And instead of getting better, the evil is tfrowini' worse. It is alleged that in a certain county a certain candidate sent two thousand dol lars to insure his -election in that county. In another one thousand is said to have been ex pended by another candidate. It is equally probable that other candidates for other olfices sent equal amounts in these same counties. It is alleged that one candidate sent the sum of four hundred dollars into one nualitia. i We do not intend to leave the impression that such conditions are cbargable to any faction in this state. It is fearful to con template, but we fear the prac tice is general. It has already been practiced to the extent, tnat no poor man can run for office and hope to be elected, provided he has opposition. And al! this in the face of a prohibitory statute. It would appear that the law intended to prohibit the unlawful use of money in election actually legalized the practice, for it is a well known fact, that the practice was almost un known, prior to the passage of the law. Wo have no sympathy for statement sometimes made that every man has his price. The great majority of voters are unpurchasable. The suggest ion would bo an insult to any honest man, and there aro more honest men today, than anv time in the worlds history. But it is nevertheless a fact, a lamentable fact, that there are some pur chasable voters, even among white men. Wo try to live on the sunny side of life. We try to he an optimist. We want to believe that the people of this world are getting better all the time. But sometimes we come in contact witli conditions that tend to shatter our faith in that theory. If the use of money in elections increases in the future, as it has in the last decade, we entertain grave fears for the sacredness of the ballot and the stability of out- jroyernment, state and national. EMPIRE LIFE SAFE AND SOUND. Atlanta, Ga The victory of the Km pi re Life Insurance Cos. of Atlanta in the noted case just concluded in the E’ulton Supe rior court wiii be of especial in terest to the thousands of policy holders in that and ether South ern life insurance companies. It places the home companies on a firmer footing gives the public a renewal of confidence, in their integrity and security and pred ages a most successful year for the Km pi re Life and other home companies. Judge W.l). Ellis handed down the decision in the suit brought by James R. Brown, a small stockholder, who asked a re ceivership for the company be cause of certain financial trans actions winch failed to meet his approval. The court denied the petition for receivership after a three weeks hearing in which the affairs of the company were gone into thoroughly, and ex pressed the opinion that it was entirely solvent and should he permitted to go on and carry out its business as before. Insuraifce companies have in the past several years boon fre quently harassed by groundless suits brought by disgruntled minority stockholders or other persons and have been caused considerable loss of prestige while the suits were iwmding, even though the companies won out at last. The new bill passed by the legislature is designed to prevent such practices in future. It provides that a person desir ing to throw a life insurance company into the hands of a re ceiver must first lay his case be fore a commission formed of the governor, the attorney gen eral and the insurance commis sioner. Oucklen’!> Arnica halve The fWt Salve in The Woild. Dr. Miles* AnU-Pata PUls stop pain n lost a few minutes. Bold by dnmtsta NUMBER 14