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VOL. XXII The Last Great European War History repeats itself—but w j t h variations A hundred ears a go Prance alone, under the leadership of Napoleon, faced Germany, Austria. Italy, Russia and Great Britiau—and won. At thirty six, Napoleon had conquered every nation of Eu rope. and in the battle of Auster litzin IHOS, practically brought the continent under the subjec t j on of the French Army. Then Austria, Germany and Russia termed the great coalition against France, only to be beaten in battle after battle until they nere compelled to sue for peace. England, thanks to her inpretrna p|e navy, was the only nation not forced to acknowledge Napo leon’s rule. It was the snow covered steppes of Russia rather than the military science of Europe that finally turned the tide against him. The present European crisis gives a particular opportuneness to the offer of Napoleon’s Me moirs, together with the Daniels ville Monitor and Collier’s Week ly for $3.50. Few books throw a more illuminating and inter esting light on the underlying causes of those years of conflict than the faseiating story of the man whose meteoric careei left Europe sown with the seed of discontent. “Within a hundred years,” said Napoleon, “Europe will be either Cossack or Republican,” The present conflict will go far towards determining the truth of that prophecy, and day by day it'' ill be furnished an ab sorb" ,g illustration of the ad the art of warfare since the days, only a century ago. when Fiance alone had Europe at her feet.—Colliers Weekly. Comer Mass Meeting Endorse Peace Move Comer, Ga , Sept. 14—At a mass meeting of farmers and business men held here resolu tions were adopted asking that the Legislature of Georgia be called together for the purpose of passing some laws for the curtailment of the production of cotton for the year 1915. Resolutions were also passed endorsing the Hearst peace movement, President Wilson’s peace proclamation and urging the farmers to sow grain crops and cut down the cotton acreage. NOTICE There is going to be an all day Farmers Union rally at Daniels ville, Madison County. Georgia, September, 2Gth 1914. Every body invited to come and bring full baskets. Those ot sister nounties specially invited to at tend. Stop in Atlanta at Hotel Empire Opposite Union Depot on Piyot street Renovated and refurnised throughout Reservations made on application. Hot and co water, private baths, electric lights and elevator. First-class accommodations at extremely low rates. European plan, 75c up. DO IT NOW ) Ihe__Danielsvilie Monitor OLD 808 JONES (By A. L. HAIRSTON) The subject of this sketch was born in Orange county, Va. His father was a wealtny farmer. Bob was a bright boy and re ceived every advantage of an ed ucation. Was sent to Emory & Henry college where he com pleted his education. He was given a splendid recommenda tion from the head principal of the college for his good deport ment and good examination he stood. Boh was now in nis 20th year. He now commenced the study of law under Judge Chambers as there were hut few law schools in that day. Hob made rapid progress in acquiring a knowl edge of law. in so much that once after being examined by his preceptor, he said: “Boh you could be admitted to the bar if you were 21 years of age.” As soon as Bob was old enough he applied lor admission and was admitted. Judge Wist said, af ter the clerk gave Bob his )i cense, “Young man, you have passed a good examination. I predict a bright future for you” Bob hung out his shingle at Orange and at once began the practice of law. llis father sup plied him with a sufficiency of money to start and maintain a good library of good books, etc. Bob, as predicted, soon made his mark, and in a short time be came one of the leading lawyers of that section. Bob, as he liked to be called, was of amiable dis position, tine personal appear anc—a natural humorist and a gifted orator. The presiding Judge said to Rob once while your flow of wit keeps up so much laughter in a court room ” In that day that was about the only way alawyer was addressed - just Esq r. —now it is very dif ferent, every little pettifogger is called Col. Bob could never be employed to assist in the prose cution of a criminal. Be would always say, “the state furnishes an attorney. 1 am ever in sym pathy with the bottom dog.” Bob at length became so popular, after much urging by friends became a candidate for the State Senate and came within one vote of being elect ed. Be could never be induced to offer for any otlic.e any more. It was during court at Hanover court ground, the presiding judge, who lived a mile from town, ask Bob home with him after court, the invita tion was accepted and there met, • lS lie said later, the only woman except his mother, lie ever loved. Bob made frequent visits alter wardstothe jidge’s, and ever met with a wa, m welcome >.V ,he entire family- H-s love was returned by the judge’s beauti ful daughter, and soon a wed ding was set at an early day The beautiful bride elect, drove to town as she was accustomed to do, alone, to purchase he. wedding apparel. O.i return in g home the horse that she was driving became frightened and dashed into a piece of woods, throwing the unfortunate lady against a tree with such force that she was instantly killed Jones was at once informed of the sad occurrence (fobe Continued) Farm and City proper ty bought’ sold and ex* changed. See Sam B. Swilling. Oen. Mgr. New South Realty Cos.. Roys ton, Ga. i Danielsville, Georgia, Thursday, September 17 IM I4 ....The Danielsville 5ch001.... 128 ENROLLMENT I'IRST WEEK Lall Incidental Fee 75 cents-payable on entrance. Luitinn payable at month end SAVE SEPTEMBER FOR YOUR BOY AND GIRL timely suggestions from the STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY COTTON SEED SELECTION important to the farmer Valuable Suggestion* Offered Georgia Planter* By State Board Of Entomology. Atlanta, Ga.— Georgia farmers have already begun to select their cotton seed for next year’s planting, and tlie State Board of Entomology is offering its aid by furnishing rules and sugges tions bearing on this important work. All of the Board’s rules are based on practical experiments, and if care fully followed by the farmers will ma terially help in increasing individual acreage yields and in eliminating plant pests and diseases generally from the fields of this state. The important points to be consid ered, says State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham, are resistance to black root or wilt disease; resistance to root knot and anthracnose; fruitfulness and earliness; percentage, length and strength of lint; type of plant and dis tribution of fruit on the plant. The best place to make selections from resistant strains is in the spots where the ordinary cotton dies the most, and then select the hardiest and best developed plants. Hoot knot or nematode worms may be starved out by rotation of crops, while the best way to guard against this pest in selection is by choosing stalks which are not stunted. Anthracnose is to be especially avoided. This is a fungus disease which causes the bolls to rot. Crop ro tation and careful seed selection are the best protection against this dis ease. A plant affected by anthracnose should not he selected even though it is resistant to wilt and well fruited. • urges the selection'of the most fruitful stalks with a view to increasing the acreage yield. * , In the face of the boll weevil ad vance it is of vital importance, partic ularly in Southwest Georgia, to plant early varieties. Karly resistant cot ton may he obtained by selections from wilt resistant strains of the ear liest maturing varieties. While in upland cotton length of staple is not so important as in long staple, the staple should not be less than 7-8 of an inch long. Thc> strength can he tested by hand. N> t alk should he selected which yields less • han 33 1-3 per cent of lint. The only satisfactory way to determine <iuali V of lint is to gin each stalk separately with a hand gin. , MUST P LA NT WHEAT J^q US DAMAGE If Planted Oft*'h“^ 1 . tiw.v imve freouently been seen Hying Atlanta. Ga.-Plant your wheat late, | not earlier than Oct. 20, if you would j avoid serious damage to the ( -rop j from the Hessian fly, is the advice glv en Georgia farmers by the State De partment of Entomology- Wheat planting in Georgia will he more extensive and general than ever before, according to advices coming to [he department. Winter wheat should be planted late, says State Knto.no o „i„t E. Dee Worsham. It should - planted from October 20 to 30, ** r Her plantings will subject the crop to serious injury from this pest serious inju-y j In addition to late plantinK - hoard urges also in order to avoid th esian dy, which is found all over wheat fields should he burned, tliat a foSUr lt Bhould l r *<! under not later than November 1. that rotation of crops be practk . . that good seed should be planted “M 7 .Sr erear..d .<■ properly SXd. -™.” ™!“. “IS , course, to rye and barley as well as wheat, as they are similar plants I The foregoing are the general rul to be followed in fighting the ravages of the Hessian fly ’ a j HRe insect supposed to ha j brought to this country by Hessian ji„rs in 1770. It has spread all ov r Se country Contrary to the imoression, cold weather and bea y frost do not always kill therm ‘ times they disappear after frosty We appreciate your business and will please you or your money back. ROYSTON 5 & 10c STORE G. C. WILDER, Manger. . -'n. V' Gpe of plant, the best stalks to select are those having long fruit ing limbs close to tlie ground with joints close together. The fewer large stalky branches tlie stalk lias, the bet ter, providing the fruiting brunches are more humerous. it is best to se lect the plants that have most of the fruit on the lower part of the stalk, for such begin fruiting early. To maintain tlie resistant quality, roguing should be practiced. That is, the diseased and stunted stalks should be cut out about July Ist and August Ist to prevent crossing with the resist ant plants. The proper ginning of cotton select ed for seed is very important. A hand gin should be used, If possible, as (his does away with danger of adulteration or mixture with diseased seed. If the seed cotton is ginned in a public gin all the seed should he removed from the breast of the gin and other parts before the cotton is run through, and the seed should be allowed to drop on the floor or in a sheet; it should never be run through the seed-carrying auger. The State Board lias a small gin run by electricity and will gin free any in dividual selections the farmer may send. The hoard will also be glad, Mr. Worsham states, io assist any farmer in making individual selections, l’ar ties desiring to secure some of thd State Board’s resistant seed this winter should write to the office of the State Entomologist here, curs - of Entomology, through Mr. a. C. Lewis, assistant, has de “ veloped anew cotton called ”l>ixa dti,” which is a combination of Dixie and Egyptian, and makes a long staple, upland variety. This cotton grown from seed furnished by the state depart ment, has a staple 1 14 inches long, and is now in good demand at 14 cents a pound. It will bring even more The department lias a small quanti y of tills seed on hand which it will sup ply to growers as long as it lasts. if any cotton grower making a spe cialty of seed selection, desires it and will write to the department, a special representative will he sent to his farm and will render all possible assist i they have frequently been seen flying in wheat fields several days after frost.. The lute planting and not the frost Is the real preventative. There are two broods of the Hessian | fly in Georgia. The spring brood emerges between Feb. 21 and Mardi 23 ami the fall brood between Sept. 28’ and Oct. 30. Experiments in Geor gia have shown that where wheat was planted even as late as Oct. 21, some of it was infested. The only plantings or it was iuiww:u. * , in these experiments which allowed | practically no infestation at all, were made after October 20. The lirst effect of the larvae or the Hessian fly, noticed in the fall about Pec. 1 or shortly afterward, is that the infested plants are darker green. The leaves are thicker and stand up straighter than on the healthy plant., i Pater in the spring the plant turns yel low and dies. The larvae of the spring brood are generally found under the culms at the first or second joint. Ihe (?UWin y-L m > " • effect is to weaken the straws, caus lug many of them to break and all over so they cannot he caught by the hinder. It has been found that the yield from Infested straws is usually about one third less than from healthy All this crop damage can he avoided, in large measure hy late planting of wheat, rye and barley and by follow ing carefully the suggestions given hy the entomological department for elim inating this pest from the fields. 11. S. '’ IRCIJ. •* Diamonds, Sipvkkwakk And Nov TCI.TIPS. Repairing a Specialty. ROYSTON, GEORGIA Orphans’ Home Work Day September the 20th lias been set apart as Orphans’ Home Woi k Day. This Work Day has proven to be the salvation of Or phans Home work in the south. It not only brings in a Rood sup port for the orphan children but cost the individual so little that lie hardly misses it, whereas be fore a few had the burden to bear. The value of one day’s work out of 818 work days in the .Year is missed by none and yet when all contribute the orphan children get a support and hence I a square deal and a fair chance along with the other more fortu nate child ren. 1 have met no one in all my experience in Orglianage uoik who objected to paying the value nf one day s work and yet a groat many bo not even do tins much; not because they object to the contribution but because they do not have their attention called toil, henco this card in your county paper. Let all who road this not only contribute but work up an inter est for the children in his com muiiitv. If vour Sunday School Superintendent seems to be in dillerent call his attention to Work Day exercises and see that your church and Sunday School observe the day. If not Sept. 20 27. sometime in the fall before Nov. Ist. It is useless to call attention to the (act that we are in the midst of a very hard time be Cause of the war in Europe. Send all contributions to lie eatur Orphans’ Home, Decatur, Ga., or pav same through your Franklin County Honored by the State Convention Our count.'/ lured well :it till 1 State Convention held in Maeon, last week, by getting one of tl.ie places on tilt; State Democratic Executive Committee. I Ids prize went to Mr. l>. T. Barnes, of Canon, who is a young man, well qualified to discharge the duties of said oilier*; a sterling Democrat and in perfect bar mony with the present Woodrow Wilson administration. Mr. Ba! nes well'deservos this signal 1 honor, as ho is one of the original Woodrow Wilson men in this section, supporting him. both in He; primary and general election and has always been an ardent supporter of Senator Smith. Tn irii i the corn weevil TO KILL Ihl U se CARBON BISULPHIDE n rlll , Will Do The Work, Says The State Th„ Ordinary Drug " )( E „ lomo|ogy . . . i nlaced on top of the corn. The Atlanta, Oa. -Georgia farmers, and especially those who have devoted more acreage to corn this year, will learn with interest that the State Hoard (/f Entomology has a simple and effective process for destroying He corn weevil, a pest which lias done a good deal of damage to corn crops In this section. Li) in i **' nun. The corn or rice weevil, State Ento mologist 10. I.ee Worsham points out. hu . been one of the great drawbacks to growing corn in Georgia. Home times they eat up the corn in the -nli b<-foru thu inulen, liofc* aiul Hii* k‘ n-i K H a chance at it. The corn weevil multiplies very rapidly if given the op portunity. The effective remedy, declares the State Hoard, Is the simple process of fumigation with carbon bisulphide, a volatile iiifuld obtainable at any drug M The time to do this fumigating Is immediately after the corn Is katlK red It is best to have a corn crib with bottom and sides airtight or nearly so. The lliju'd carbon disulphide bould be placed in large, shallow pans and from 15 to 20 pounds of the Hi'i 1 should he used for each 1.000 cubic feet of space in the corn crib. Ih‘ pans containing the liquid should be NUMBER 17 BIRTH DA V DINNER for r. r. fit rs. On the morning of the ninth day of September, 11)14, tlie chil dren, grandchildren, and I reck on the little great grandchildren, of the noble neighbor and Chris tian gentleman, Mr. T. It, Fitts, began early to bestir themselves preparatory to coining together at, the house of their worthy an- cestor to surprise him with the very best they had to eat as a birthday dinner. Little did the old gentleman think’ of such a happy greeting as was in store for him. About the hour of ten a. in. the earliest began to arrive buggies, wag ons and automobiles —with boxes tilled with the very best things loving hands of children could prepare for their worthy and af fectionate father. Not only were they there in per son, but their affection for each 'other was dearly demonstrated by the joyful greeting of each other. After the bountiful din ner was spread and God’s bles sing invoked by the venerable father it soon became evident that there was something pres ent besides affection for each other and that was some of the keenest appetites, especially the two Bobs that happened to boo up about twelve o’clock. But we were invited, and very cor dially indeed. It would be use less to try to 'enumerate the good things that were there to eat, besides some fresh home made cider. In fact, everything there I think, was home made. These people have a reputation for making their own supplies ml mu firm ’t Imnuthn #> ♦ said about this worthy family hut they are so well Known it would he useless to say more hut that others would imitate their oxamploof living at home. Hoping all may live to see ma ny more happy reunions and that one the Bobs, if not both, may he present. I am, Sincerely your friend, Li. A. T. The other members of this Com mittee from the Hth Congress ional District are: Percy Middle brooks, of Morgan, li. L. Taylor, Newton and li L. Mcuommons, of G reene. tOLEYSM©NEY">TAR f nr if malm, rurtfm JNo uuiuia* Ej jr*if *b ' trj ■ | I• i l‘< 141’fS 1 l f ( )Jl n LtOl Kil/ jnuorsNKSrt ■ RITTPOR AM< I,IJ>NKV>. placed on top of the corn. The ll,,uid evaporates very rapidly, and the gas which Is heavy and penetrating inks and spreads through the corn crib It is a ftood plan to cover the lop of the corn with old sacks or bur lap and leave It covered from 24 to 4X hours while fumigation Is in process. It may he necessary to repeat this fumigation in three or four weeks. There 1s a double reason for kill ing the weevils In the corn cribs. They not only feed on the grain In the cribs in the winter and early spring, bui just before the corn matures In the holds the adult weevils leave the nearby cribs and fly to the cornfields nujiruy • here their egg ; are deposited on the ripening corn. Thus frequently when the corn is gathered, a large number of the larvae the weevil in its early luge are already in It. Varieties of com that are hard and flinty, and that have the shuck extend ing beyond tile car and closing tightly over It, have a tendency to resist the weevil. In planting corn farmers should always have this in view and make an effort to plant those varieties which are resistant. Any further in formation desired on any of these EUb jjects, will be gladly furnished upon application to the State Department of . Entomology, State Uapltol, Atlanta, Ga.