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good editor who is so kind to publish
my letters year after year. May God
bless each and every one of you, and
may the new year bring you every
good gift that tnis world is capable of
bestowing. Hoping, if we are still on
earth, that you will attend my letter
party again next Christmas, I will say
good-bye. Your grateful friend,
Thos. F. Lockhart,
Wellington, Mo.
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NOVELS ABOUT MARRIED LIFE.
I am interested in the talks about
old and new books. In the line of fic
tion I like the new novels better
than the old. They are more enter
taining and have a more rapid, lively
movement. When I finish reading
them I feel as though I had become
acquainted with a lot of people, whose
affairs were interesting and whose
lives were full of action and romance.
But these lives, so far as portrayed
in the novels, all ended where the pair
of lovers got married and lived hap
pily forever afterwards. Now mar
riage is not the end of life by any
means. It seems to me it would be an
improvement to have the story keep
on and tell us how the young married
folks get along—give us their lives
in detail —with their ups and downs,
and tell how they constantly grew to
love each other better as they learned
to adapt themselves to each other,
clear down to the time of snowy locks
and dim eyes. Several years ago, I
saw in one family three ages repre
sented — seventeen and seventy.
It was a beautiful picture. I believe a
novel that treated of married life in
this way could be made interesting
and helpful to boys and girls as well
as to married persons.
Jack Wirick, Jr.
Lloyds, Florida.
THEY DEMAND BETTER MATES.
Why are there so many unmarried
young women in our towns, and also’
in refined country neighborhoods?
Few of the men who ask this question
consider that the fault may be with
themselves. They like to imagine
that it is because the women had no
opportunity to marry. But this is true
in only few instances. Nearly every
MaKing More Money Out of
Cotton Crops
is merely a question of using enough of the right
kind of fertilizers.
Virginia-Carolina
F ertilizers
are the right kind.
The cotton plant cannot feed on barren land. Study
your soil. Find out what it lacks. Then apply the
necessary fertilization and the results will surprise you.
See what Mr. W. C. Hays of Smith Station, Ala., did. He says:
“I planted about 30 acres of some ‘gray sandy land’ that had been in
cultivation for over 20 years, and used 300 pounds of Virginia-Caro
lina Fertilizers per acre, and I expect to gather 30 bales from
the SO acres.” This is why we say it is the right kind. We have
hundreds of letters like this, and even stronger, in praise of Virginia-
Carolina Fertilizer for cotton.
Get a copy of the new 1909 Virginia-Carolina Farmers’ Year Book
from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office and a copy
will be sent you free. It contains pictures of the capitals of all the
Southern States.
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
Sales Offices Sales Offices
Richmond, Va. 7 . ' Durham, N.C.
Norfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C.
Columbia, S. C. tVirginiaCarollnaj Baltimore, Md.
Atlanta, Ga. Columbus, Ga.
Savannah, Ga. Qp' Montgomery, Ala.
Memphis, Teno. Shreveport, La.
■woman has, at some time of her life,
been asked to marry, and if the man
who proposed to her had come near
measuring up to the reasonable stan
dard that her judgment and her culti
vated instincts demand in a life mate,
she would have gladly joined hands
with him.
The young woman today is wiser
than was her grandmother. She will
not allow sentiment and emotion to
run away with judgment. She looks
beyond the impulse or the passions
x of the hour, and gives the final deci
sion not to heart, but to her head.
“As the husband is the wife is.’’ Our
women are only being true to their
better instincts when they refuse to
marry men they cannot honor. Give
the world better men or less sensible,
pure and keen sighted women and
there will be more marriages and
fewer women in business.
Home, husband and children are
st’ll regarded by women as posses
sions of most worth in the world, but
as long as so many men are of inferior
quality, women will relinquish the
hope of these envied possessions
rather than step down from the moral
and intellectual heights they have
won to mate with- those who are not
their equals, knowing that such yoke
ship can only drag them down. By
continuing to demand nobler men,
women must inevitably raise the
standard of manhood, and lift our
country upon a higher plane.
Vernie Barrington.
San Saba, Texas.
GAMBLING AT LUMBER CAMPS,
TURPENTIINE STILLS, ETC.
When a fairly educated young man
gets along well in business, his good
fortune tends to give him too much
confidence in himself. He is apt to
overrate his power to resist tempta
tion and to think he can indulge in
a drink or a game of cards without
the slightest risk of its becoming a
habit, but there is a subtle fascina
tion in all evil, and in these two,
drink and cards, particularly. You
may laugh at the power of these over
others, and think you have too strong
a brain and will to be so foolishly en
snared, but before you know it, the
The Golden Age for January 28, 1909.
insidious snake of habit has wound
about you and grows stronger every
day as your own moral strength is
slowly, but surely, undermined.
Young man, do not begin the busi
ness of playing cards for “treats,”
drinks, though the drinks be “soft and
cigars. There is no one thing a man
can do that will so severely injure
his career as gambling. The fever of
gambling is the most malignant, that
ever infected a young man. It pulls
down the finest characters ever built
by a mother’s prayers and a man’s
own endeavor. To close saloons helps
to do away with gambling in the cities
but does not feaze the gamblers
around the sugar plantations, lumber
camps , turpentine stills and saw mill
towns. At these places labor is more
or less difficult to secure and the man
agers institute or tolerate gambling as
an attraction to and for labor. In
many instances several white men
“bach” together and gamble until late
in the night, and many Sundays, and
the negroes gamble, drink and scrap,
and in many places, I am sorry to say,
the white men gamble with the ne
groes, and soon after pay-day, the
luckiest gambler has all the money
from both whites and blacks.
These evils are a menace to the pub
lic good. If the state government does
not take cognizance of them, then it
behooves all good citizens and Chris
tians to do all in their power to
stem the increasing current of de
generacy. There is urgent need that
patient, tactful kindly Christian men
should go to these lumber camps,
sugar plantations, turpentine stills and
saw mill towns and strive by moral
suasion, prayers, and warnings and
good example to effect a change.
Those who go among these people for
such purpose must be strongly pano
plied against temptation. I know
some fine natures, who believed they
were strong, but w’ho are slowly suc
cumbing to the insidious influences
that environ them. These evils ex
ist all over the South and now is the
time to set counter influences against
them that may save many fondly
loved and fervently prayed for moth
ers’ sons from filling criminal cells
and dishonored graves.
TESSA WILLINGHAM RODDEY.
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I How Do You Feed Your Crops? |
■ Do you know just what your Cotton and Com need—and are you furnishing it in
■ such quantities as required and in such shape that the plant can use it ? ■
Suppose you should place the food for your stock in a box, nail it up and put it in
■ the’r trough—would you expect them to thrive and grow fat ? Hardly 1 . ■
Well did it ever occur to you that when you use wet, lumpy, improperly mixed
■ fertilizers you are putting this same proposition up to your crops—offering them
■ plant food in such shape that they can’t get to it? . ■
Fertilizers, to do your crop any good, must dissolve in the soil waters, lheseare
■ constantly in motion, rising to the surface during the day and sinking at night, pass- ■
■ ing and repassing the roots of the plant, which absorb the rood contained in the ■
water. And this is the ONLY way in which the plant can feed ■
Therefore, when you buy fertilizers you should be absolutely sure that they not M
only contain the Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash in the requisite amounts for ■
the crop you want to grow, but, ABOVE ALL ELSE, these should be in soluble form.
■ The safest, surest way is to place your order for
■ Armour’s Animal Ammoniated Fertilizers ■
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If our readers want to set their
cabbage plants and their tobacco and
sweet potato plants at less than half
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Farm help is getting scarce and
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particulars, as their ad. may not ap
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