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Newspaper Page Textf HADLER NO MONEY 1/V ADVANCE Organ Offer to Pay M. -Jl.p.v Err- Tr .’ N-M'-cvD'w-i —Breaking Al'. Records SC GreilcM Oiler Ever Mede Tb« v*. ’< of «- • Ont* n vo-r own r>m« ear rerer be measured tn <iol*r» ar I rer'« Be ea.ee I want riery far:..) to know th- <Mew n,- power and the <Mi«hts of sweet music. 1 bev- onc.r.a’rf the wonderful ' an of •»..- B < onrane which bas rrs.lr lbs "AuaT" ahouse- bold word—more than W. I **’ of thew famous cgaas are m the homes of the [*!' Send today for tar.handsomely illustrated Free Organ Cotalof. iJearn how y<n can have the W«M*S Beet (Swan »rmo- o' htghttt Easy Ixw/s Tl'orid ’a Fj*r. alto of GoU S—ln Sf«S.J at WtH.tn.tl Cootortonon lafoli- /W HO* AnneWUe. Tram.. I*l3. scot to year I, g B home without payings eent for a SSESX FREE 30 Day Trial Send no morey Hove it a moruft free—if it docs not nn’.tl youdeeaie pcuve all I ciaim ju«t ship it baek to to buy. 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I send me—FßEE—your wooderfui I Organ Book. | HASE ! | ADDRFSS _ . | SBod Spread Free Thislarre extra heavy white “Honey Comb ' Bed Spread sent free for se.finc only fk«i werth of King s'Velvet Fs-e Powder and other ; n nesrawe soumwruvwv NO MOXF Y Simply send year name * address • we w-ll mail yon the outfit. * be* sold, send us the scs. y * tee Spread is yours. King Mfg. C«. Dept 260 St. Louis. Ms Fish Fish Fish Pmp ns ■ rani and uee will put you 1 on to aoroetiilng with whi.-h yoi ••an turn yonr neishbor green with envy by catchtag ( •lead load* of them In streams w .cre he has become disgusted trying to catch them the idd-faahi.-ned way. It will ,rl<kle you to see it catch bouse and muskrats, and will soon clear your fishing place of terrapin* and crawfish. It catches at all roasotia. mmethtng no other tackle will do. EUREKA FISH NET CO. GRIFFIN, GA. • mimmabimmmmammahamhMi ; Tube Rose (Sweet) Scotch Snuff t Comes in the Tin Can with the Green Label sc. for oz. 10c. for 3 oz. • Tube Rom Snuff has been E • aged to mellowness and pleasing K ■ fl avor many months before it is K I kZ*" —placed in the package. K r-- ' pjJ*’ s^rec f rom ßr>t an< if° r - E » , e ‘B n particles, and has a smooth, BJ velvety feeling. I L If your dealer cannot supply E ■ ESy/pirffix hsjT? l n!l*i > ou » f° r a tr * s * ze or | 60c for 12 cans. ScforiHw. 10cfor 3o*. BROWN 1 WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CO. E Save the Green label, Good foe Premium*. Wina ton-Salem, N. C. I . - r ~~~j? T3T x; ; .> ,’<Sc_ ■* st ( L. _.' ‘ \' f An Unusual Year ' I 'HIS may be the last year you will have a chance to market your small grain at such i high prices. Naturally, you will do everything you can to secure a good crop and to harvest every last grain of it. The size and quality of the crop may not be entirely I under your control, but the harvest is yours to make or break. It depends almost entirely upon the binder you use. If your binder is not in nrst-class condition, get genuine i IH C repairs for it at once and put it in shape. If it is too • far gone for that, buy a new Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne, or Plano binder now, while deliveries can be made and the machines gotten ready for work before harvest time. See your local dealer early in the season and arrange with hirn to have your binder delivered in plenty of < time to assure the complete harvesting of your crop. i 1 The twine situat.on this year is complicated by a number of unustfal features, but we are furnishing our customers with twine of as good quality as ever. Quality in twine is more important than price. At the same time, just as a matter of insurance, it will be wise to make your twine, perchases as i early as possible. The dealer will appreciate any aid you can give him by placing your orders for I H C repairs, twine, ahd harvesting machines at the earliest possible moment. i i International Harvester Company of America 1 f Uacerparatad) _ I /fTh CHICAGO . V U s A/T> I I Champion Deering McCormick Milwaukee Otborne Plano vl V I ® Sample Watch Free Ml 3K.MJ gA?. «*- •( r i rtt rata or cRa-.kE. am. r.*a>«.i.aa<u. w<. •! U01..|..*,».««1 r*<U I, r,w r>»aaw4 «-iM <"iw-»"~».nw *" “Sia *aark eaa r'aaa hMwr aaeriaa T-a<t«a..» kaaSwaaX aiaka naw fri.aaa • UABaOTft w.l • -••.!.«.< -w* a, tnallMa, paM I, UlM* t-, ,- .im ~.- L , ■ - - - . uotna aaareaa W. g. * CO- BBS tea. DM<tara»<.,yKii.a Education Im , '^-a SUCCESSFUL U This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed 10 Dr Andrew M. Soule, president State Agri cultural College, Athens. Ga. Georgia As a Live Stock State Viewed in the perspective, the possi bilities of animal industries in Georgia are very great as compared with pres ent attainments. Among the conditions which favor this industry are a mild and equable climate with a growing period of from seven to nine months. In this length of time a great variety of crops can be seeded and brought to maturity. In many Instances, two crops may be grown on the same land and harvested within the time limit men tioned. The length of the growing sea son lessens the period during which live stock must be fed in the stable, which should result in reducing the cost of finishing them for market, as stall feed ing is always expensive. Modest build ings requiring a minimum outlay of cap ital will provide the protection needed against inclement weather; hence the cost of equipping the farm or ranch need not be as great as in many other parts of the country. The soils of Georgia are varied and so adapted to the growth of practically every field crop which can be cultivated with success in the United States. While some of our land areas would not be classed as rich in plant food, they are adapted to the growth of both winter and summer growing yegumes. and hence can be rapidly built up under a judicious system of farm management. The state as a whole is very well watered and is abundantly supplied with springs, par ticularly north of the fall line. The water is of fine quality and is naturally pure and wholesome. A variety of shade trees grow with great rapidity, so that live stock may be adequately protected from the sun in the heat of the day. Bermuda grass thrives over the greater part of the state. It does par ticularly well on the red lands of the central and northern half. The quality of the grazing can be readily improved through the use of Japan and bur clover, which grow admirably in association with Bermuda grass. In the southern part of the state other grasses may be substituted for Bermuda or the farmer may depend on the use of grazing or semi-grazing crops, not only in the sum mer, but during the fall and winter sea son. The climate -there is milder than in the northern half, and the land being rather sandy in most localities, dries odt readily and is not Injured by tramping. Thus, nature has compensated one sec tion of the state for an advantage which another may appear to enjoy. Forage crops can be grown with suc cess in all parts of the state; thus, it is possible to produce silage or rough age in great quantities at a moderate cost. In south Georgia. Japanese cane, kafir com, sorghum, corn and velvet beans, cowpeas, soy beans. Sudan grass, millet, and the leading winter-growing cereals are among the crops which may be used to advantage for the production of silage or dry roughage. In the north ern part, the same crops can be grown with advantage with the exception of Japanese cane. Yields of ten tons and upwards per acre can be secured. The quality of the silage is number one, and THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., EKIDAY, MAY 11, 1017. it can be preserved and fed for just as long and with as great a degree of satisfaction and success as is possible in any part of the United States, while the cost of production compares favor ably with that prevailing in other sec tions. Ils use for nine months of the year is not unusual. The silo obviates the necessity of using the costly soiling crops so extensively relied on in many parts of the north, particularly by- dairy men. As to supplemental feeds or concen trates to use with silage and for ani mals which may be running on pasture, the state is fortunately situated. At the present time nearly seventy million bushels of corn, about eighteen million bushels of oats and one million tons of cotton seed are raised annually; and an undetermined but rapidly increasing amount of velvet bean and peanut meal is manufactured. It is certain that, there will be a very great and general extension of the acerage devoted to pea nuts, velvet beans and soy beans in the immediate future. The oil from these crops will first be expressed by the oil mills and the resulting- meal rendered available as food for live stock. That the by-products thus obtained are of ex cellent value for the nutrition of farm animals has long since been demonstrat ed, not only in this country but abroad as well. The velvet bean will shortly be planted in every acre of corn, there by not only enriching the ground but resulting in the farmer harvesting from twelve to twenty- bushels of a most val uable concentrated food per acre in ad dition to a good yield of corn. Certain strains of velvet beans are so weather resistant that they will keep in good condition even when left out in the field all winter, thus enabling certain classes of live stock to do the harvesting at a great saving of labor. It is quite certain that 1n sections which the boll weevil has invaded that farmers will emphasize the cultivation of peanuts and soy beans, and hence the amount of concentrates of every- kind available for feeding in Georgia will be materially increased in the next few years. As it is. including the area grazed over by hogs, the state is prob ably utilizing for feeding purposes the nutrients equivalent to a crop of 200,- 000,000 bushels of corn annually. There are only a few states which produce corn in excess of this amount, a sacs which is probably not generally appre ciated by- our farmers at its true face value. Under proper incentive, there is every reason to believe that Georgia could in the course of a few years raise concentrates which would be equivaleufir in feeding value to a crop of 300.000.- 000 bushels of corn. It has been demon strated that no single concentrate has greater possibilities or can be put to a greater variety of uses in the nutri tion of beef and dairy cattle than cot ton seed meal. It combines in the most happy manner Imaginable with silage for the economical production of beef and milk, thereby enabling the corn, oats, peanuts and such other crops tA be reserved for the maintenance of the ever-increasing numbers of horses, rtiules and swine which the state is now producing. In the matter of con centrates, therefore, Georgia is fa vorably situated. To some it may appear that this pic ture is exceedingly rosy, and they may naturally inquire if there are any dif ficulties to be overcome in the mat ter of promoting live stock husbandry in the south. In fairness to all. it Is proper to say that they are certain difficulties to cope with in Georgia as elsewhere. Probably the most serious obstacle Is the presence of the cattle tick. Fortunately, it has been cleared out of fifty-two counties since 1908. and even at the present rate of progress, the state should forever be free of this pest in five years. In the tick-free areas any class or race of cattle adapt ed to the temperate zone can now be handled with facility and success. Hogs can be grown .successfully in all parts of Georgia, but probably more econom ically in the southern part of the state than elsewhere because of the greater variety of grazing crops which can be raised’ by reason of the longer seasons and the sandy nature of the soil which obviates any danger of puddling from tramping when wet. Hogs in this state as elsewhere are attacked by cholera, but since the state has pro vided for their protection through the manufacture of serum at a minimum price by the Georgia State College of .Agriculture, the destructive Influences of this disease seem to have been great- Iv minimized. One o's the drawbacks to our live stock industries at present is the lack of a sufficient number of high-grade animals, and the failure therefore on the part of many of our citizens to appreciate what constitutes a thoroughly good draft horse or a desirable type of beef or dairy animal. The grade of live stock is being improved very rapidly, but there is still much to be accomplished in this direc tion. It is also necessary that our peo ple undertake to acquaint themselves with the varied and complicated prob lems of animal nutrition in a more thor ough and complete manner than has ever been done in the past. We are still los ing a considerable number of animals from irrational feediasr, and many of our cattle, horses and hogs fail to mature and develop as rapidly as they .should because of this fact. It is not surpris ing that this condition should prevail because the state has been essentially dexoted to cotton cultivation, and live stock growing until recently haft re mained a subsidiary interest. Now that the boll weevil has entered the borders of the state. It is clearly evident to all thinking citizens that the farmer can best and most quickly recoup himself for any losses which might occur through the reduction of his cotton acreage or the damage the weevil might work in his fields through the emphasis of animal Industries, and it is believed that the campaign of education which has been Inaugurated by the Georgia State College of Agriculture with refer ence to instructing the people in the ele mentary principles of animal nutrition will rapidly bear fruit. Since there is a good deal of cheap land, and not much of it devoted either to the profitable production of trees or the growing of farm crops, it would be an easy matter to maintain and mate rially increase the present yields of our Georgia soils, and still leave an abun dance of land to be devoted to grazing crops and for the purpose of reforesta tion. Probably there are few sections of the United States which today afford the opportunity for establishing animal industries on a considerable scale for a more modest outlay of capital than would be required in Georgia. • • • USING VELVET BEANS AS FF.fl- TIbIZKRP J. A. C.. Swainsboro, <•».. writes A* I have <pine a lot of -el-et bean meal, I would it ;iay ine Io mix It in equal part* with IB lx- cent acid ct.,| u««. n* ferti liter or v.-oul I it be oest f> well the meal and buy fertilizer? Velvet bean meal could, of course. I he mixed with 16 per cent acid phos- I pliate and used for fertilizing purposes. Il would not make a high grade fer tilizer. however, as velvet bean meal contains only about 80 pounds of nitro gen, 20 pounds of phosphoric acid and 34 pounds of potash per ton. Mix vel vet beans and acid phosphate in equal amounts and you will get a formula containing about 2 per cent of nitrogen, 8.5 per cent of phosphoric acid and about .75 per cent of potash. if you use cotton seed meal of a high grade in association with your 16 per cent acid phosphate you will secure a fer tilizer containing a much higher per centage of nitrogen. Most of our Georgia soils require a formula running rather high in nitro gen. On this account we advise the use of a larger amount of this element than you would obtain through an ap plication of the combination suggested in your letter. Three hundred pounds and upwards of a mixture of cotton seed meal and add phosphate would provide a good standard formula, for use under corn and cotton. Naturally this formula Is low in potash, but at the present prices it is doubtful if the farmer can afford to buy and use this material in any considerable quantity and profit himself materially thereby. PLANTING THE CALIFORNIA RLACK-RTBB PEA. J. W'. 'I.. Gaillard, Ga., write*: I want to plant several acres in the California bla<-k-ejred pea. When is the be*t titnc to sow th»m? t am planting them for peas. The California black-eyed pea will grow well in Georgia. Peas produced in this state are not. only of good size and ap pearance. but excellent in quality as well. Os course the grain weevil attacks them as soon as they are mature and if allowed to work inside will quickly les sen their value for food purposes. It is a comparatively simple matter as soon as these appear to treat them with car bon-bisulphide and thus effectively de stroy the weevij and allow the person to keep the peas in first-class condition for food. One should not hesitate to grow them in Georgia, for they should be in great demand this fall at remun erative prices. They constitute one of our first food crops, for they are rich in protein and if properly used can be made to take the place of the meat we are using at the present time. We could plant these peas in rows varying in width from fifteen inches io three feet. On rich soils we would plan* them closer. Under conditions we think we would prefer to plant them in three-foot rows. The seed should be drilled in, as you can economize in the use of seed when planted by this meth od. We would give them light culti vation until they begin to sprout. The black-eyed pea should be fertilized with at least 20J to 300 pounds of acid phos phate and it would be an advantage if the land could be limed. One thousand to 2.000 pounds of raw crushed lime rock can be used to advantage. Plant the peas as soon as seasonal condition® will insure their rapid growth and de velopment. PREPARING BORDEAUX MIXTURE. W. E. G.. Graymont. Ga.. writes: 1 wnuld like a formula for making Bordeaux mixture? 1 wtuld also I'ko a formula for killing notat.) br.gs. Bordeaux mixture may be made by dis solving three pounds of copper sulphate in twenty-five gallons of water; slake six pounds of quicklime and make up to twenty-five gallons with water; pour together in a barrel through a fly screen. Bordeaux mixture is valuable for use against fungus disease*,. Arsenate of lead is useful against bit ing insects and those that eat the leaves. Arsenate of lead is prepared by mixing one pound of powder or two pounds of paste with fifty gallons of water. It is generally considered good practice to use equal parts of quicklime with arsen ate of lead. Arsenate of lead or Paris green may be used effectively against potato bugs as a spray in the propor tion indicated. It will have to be ap plied several times at intervals of a few days in orddl to effectively control this pest. GROWING MILLET FOR HAY PRODUCTION. S. M. W. Pulaski, GZ., writes. I would Ilk® io get some dzt* from you on a mixture tor hay. Pea* am so high that I was thinking of using sorghum eane and German nil!<. r . mixed. I would like your advice ,m Hie subject. One can. of course, sow red head sorghum or any other of the standard varieties along with German millet for hay production. If millet is sown by itself it should be read* to cut In about sixty days and it will make you as early and satisfactory a hay as you can obtain under existing conditions, makes a good hay for horses and mules provided it is cut when it is in the early dough stage. This is an im portant matter to remember. When mil let forms seed, or,-in other words, is allowed to approach maturity before it is harvested, the seeds contain a principal which acts on the urinary or gans of horses and mules disadvanta geously and hence the use of millet, when it contains a great many seeds, is objectionable This is a difficulty which you can easily control, however, by cut ting the hay at the right time. Personally, we like to grow millet and peas together for hay. The peas supply the food element 1n which mil let is most likely to be deficient. This combination crop is most extensively cultivated in Tennessee The peas are often sown in drills ahead of the mil let and the millet is then broadcasted and worked into the soil with a culti vator. Sorghum will not mature as soon as the millet and it is much harder to cure for hay. This is the only objection, however, to your usin ; it with millet for hay. f* B i Hurrah! How’s This | I Cincinnati authority say* corn* i dry upland lift out ! | with finflera. ? Hospital records show thai everx time you cut a corn you invite lock jaw or blood poison, which is need less. says a Cincinnati authority, who! tails you that a quarter ounce of a drug called freezone can be obtained; at little cost from the drug store, but is sufficient, to rid one’s feet of every | hard or soft corn or callus. You simply apply a few drops of! freezone on a tender, aching corn and soreness Is instantly relieved. Short ly the entire corn can be lifted out, root and all, without pain. This drug is sticky, but dries at once and is claimed to just shrivel up any aern without Inflaming or even irritat- j Ing the surrounding tissue or skin. If your wife wears high heels she ; will be glad to know of this.—(Advt.) Many arr makini $14.00 and up p<*r day, ean mnt Fruit and Vryrtablra for market, licitb bori and home use with a * ' “FAVORITB” HOME CANNER KTIQ M»de better. laM lonyer. no wMte. tive» beet K —\ nsulta. urea leaa fuel, eaay to operate. fHLj \ Pnce*. $2.30 and up. We furtuab eana jg and label*. Write for FWFF BOOKLET. The Carolina Metal Products Co., Post Off lee Bex Wilmington. 1 V LIZZIE a THOMAS IN THE WEE SMA HOVHS. So often have I written on the im portance of an occasional visit into other territory that there are some who think I am obsessed by the idea. I am not, but I do maintain my position and I do know that nothing clears the mental ho rizon like a cnange of scene and cir cumstances. • When that telegram came to me it found me immersed in home duties. There were innumerable hens to hatch their chickens nefore the first of May, turkey eggs under hens, a young puppy to care for and train amidst young chickens, a kittten that Beautiful lately j presented to me. Young chickens just ready to put in the rape patch and to teach them to consider a new shelter as their home. A turkey hen to watch and to keep her from systematically hunting the sitting hens and pulling them of their nests. Neighborhood in terests, such a»« Children's day and a canning club. All of you know the countless things that seem to tie us to the place. The farmer had his time as thoroughly crowded —spring time is seeding time and verifies’ the proverb "well begun Is half done." He knew in a general way that I had over a hundred eggs I ex pected to hatch pretty soon, that I was everlastingly sending off baby chicks and eggs, that I had eggs worth 40 cents each under hens at the barn, for he fed those hens for me! but the idea of feeding, watering or housing the chickens no more entered his brain than the idea, of my taking his plax:e in the management or work of the crop. But I took him to the calendar and showed hint the memoranda. I always write down the place and various items around the date the eggs are to hatch. Laura promised to remind him every day that a hen or some hens were to come off and there I left the matter. I know that things will be done to the best of his ability. Mrs. Grimes and Mrs. Wal den prpomised to help him and Mrs. Walden took home the butter I had just ta-ken out of the churn. She is an expert along that line for she has a Jersey cow that is a wonder. These women have frequently been a. blessing to me. lam ont worrying in the least. My dear mother is still with u®. het* strength is wonderful and these days in the midst of the loved ones from whom I’ve been so long separated have been too precious to be spoiled with anx iety about how things may or can "hap pen" in Alabama. Many of you know that the worst bridge that, you ever crossed mentally never did materialize. As soon as I can I want to go over this farm and tell you of the tobacco, the forty-seven varieties of cotton that the United States government has planted here and is studying so as to tell the farmers which will do best under the usual conditions and beat the boll weevil. The government expert who has the cotton in charge has thousands of bugs in his laboratory. I want to tell. you about the hogs that Madison county [ ships—twenty-five carloads went last i winter. There are Shetland ponies raised here, and a lady from north Georgia said a few days ago that the I sleek cattle, fat mules and horses and! •the herds of hogs made her think of aj land of plenty. It is astonishing how some counties forge ahead and so quiet- ! ly take a new line of procedure that her) neighbors know nothing about it till she) accomplishes so much that she “gets! her name in the papers." 1 am proud of. my old home, and rejoice in her pros perity. I wish that she may continue i to forge ahead in all that’s beneficial. As a county, as a unit in the southland, | and a factor in the uplift of the world, ■ I want her citizens to ONE WOMAN’S STORY 1 CHAPTER XXII. O Holland Lansing discussed Rob ert and me with Myrtle. I was thankful that my pride had kept S me from screaming the truth at Myrtle, telling her that I was jealous of .Rob ert, that I was jealous of his friendship for Holland. I knew that I had never felt as they supposed, but I resolved I would hereafter. “Holland said.” Myrtle continued, "that she couldn't see how you could help being just -a little jealous of a handsome, brilliant man like Robert. But I told her he was too much in love with his profession to waste time doing anything to make you jealous, and that when he was busy you had your boy. Ned says he never saw a man work as Robert does; that he nev er talks or thinks of anything not di rectly in line with his ambitions. He'll be a big man some day, Margaret; and | then I suppose you’ll be too proud and haughty to notice us.” 1 laughed with her. but I thought of what Mrs. Mulhany had said. She. too. though Robert would be a big man , some day. Well, perhaps he would. But I would have had him more of a lover, less a lawyer. And feeling so I hadn’t the same delight in his achievements that I might had I been more unselfish. The night before Robert had been very late in getting home. "Did you wonder what had become of your lord and master last night?” Myrtle rattled on. "Holland told me she hoped you wouldn’t mind. She was on her way to Robert s office In her new car—you must see it, Margaret, it s a beauty—when she met him coming home. She wanted to consult him about some important matter, so took him for a npln into the country while they talk ed. Our dinner was cold when she got • back, and I expect yours was, too.” “No. 1 didn't worry about Robert. I I never question him. so I did not know he was with Miss Lansing "Bully for you. Margaret! I'll tell | Holland she needn't fret about you! 1 You're game, all right.” and Myrtle left, me just in time to escape seeing the■ angry tears I couldn't keep back a ‘ moment longer. I mused bitterly over Robert's ride i with Holland Lansing. He might not i havb known she was coining to his of-, flee, probably not, or he would have waited for her. But she might let him come home to me early for once! He J must have intended to when she met | him. What had they talked about dur- I ing that ‘spin into the country?’ Was [ it all of business? Why hasn’t he men- I tioned It? I acquitted Myrtle of any desire to i make trouble, or to bring me sorrow, she was too good-natured for that. But | the trouble had been made, and when dinner time failed to bring Robert and I knew that I had a long lonely evening j before me. I called up Tod Freeman, I and asked him to take pity on me and come up "I shall be delighted—was just won- . dering what I should do with myself.” he replied. "Will be up about half! past eight." | After I had put Bruce to bed. I went i to my roox to fix my hair. Then sud-1 denly came the thought. “1 will dress ! "Think truly, and thy thought • Shall the worlds famine feed; Speak truly, and thy word Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life . Shall be a noble creed." Yesterday a man immersed in state affairs came to my mother. When he was a small boy he always came to see her, and as youth and early manhood came and wove impressions on , his active brain he used to talk them over with her. When he entered she was sleeping: we roused her. and she was so pleased to see him. He told her that a letter telling of her illness reached him in Tallahassee, and he came as soon as he could. She never fails to bring her mind back to the present when she is spoken to, and to say something to each individual. When he started away, she was again asleep, and he leaned over and kissed her, saying such tender things about her. Trifles light as air pile up as the years pass, and turn many a mind in the way of honesty, trust and charity, or plajit seeds of distrust in hearts that are ripe for good or evil. It is not always a pleasant thing to stand up for one's honest conviction®. To follow the line of least resistance more often wins a host of fair weather friends but when the end approaches, when the chilling waters almost bathe the weary feet, when the hands that are scarred with toll for others are taken from active service, and the mind that has been a storehouse for a multitude begins to loosen its hold on every-day problems it is a blessed thing to know that counsel given and example after example has fitted more than just one's Immediate family to buffet with the evils that almost overwhelm the in experienced or the untaught. All of us know that character is not formed in a day, all of us know that exercise strengthens the bones and sinews and makes the individual strong er if the life is normal, but a secret sin can sap the vitality just as surely as a tiny leak in the dam may grow' to such proportions that the valley mfiy be submerged. Do you recall the story of the boy who found the leak In Hol land's dyke and thrust in his arm? Bravely he held it there till help came and his beloved land was saved. The story may have no real foundation, but every day there are breaks in the dyke around us. Too often we say, “I will call so-and-so's attention to this” in stead of thrusting in a hand and saving the day. Frequently we follow the line of least resistance and say we will get no thanks for our Information. I ad mit that the line between helpfulness and offtciousness is very faint, but if we really try to help people and do not resent their refusal to see matters a<i we do, or their indifference to our ef forts to help them we can usually stop before we become officious. In after years our efforts may be seen from a new viewpoint and appreciated. These things come to me very clearly as I sit hour after hour in a silent room watch ing a loved sleeper, and frequently feel her pulse to be sure that she has not opened her eyes for the last time on terrestrial things. Every day should be a new beginning and if we have not started on the right path, the upward and‘often thorny path, let us begin now. Our days are in God’s hands, but our reward will be as we tise these days, and when the night cometh let it find us doing our very best for the ones who need us. be ginning early and continuing until the Master calls us home our reward will be “Well done thou good and faithful servant.” Faithfully yours, LIZZIE O. THOMAS. By Carolyn Beecher this evening.” It had been a long time since 1 dress ed unless we were going out. So I selected a soft white crepe, a little out of style to be sure, but very appropriate for receiving at home, and then pinned a cluster of violets Tod had sent that morning at my waist. I had dressed my hair as I did before I was married, and flushed to see how young I looked. “You look stunning!” Tod exclaimed with his usual elegance, as I greeted him. "Not a day older than you did before you were married. What have you done to yourself "Dressed up!” I laughed. “You al ways see me in a sober afternoon dress now, and that makes a woman look older, you know.” "Well, if that's it, you should wear things like that all the time. No. by Jove, on second thought, you better not; every man that sees you. even your hus band. will be falling in love with you.” I felt as if a cold hand had gripped my heart. “So you don't think my husband al ready loves me?” I asked in a bantering tone. 1 would not take him seriously. "Oh. yes. in away! but he doesn’t half appreciate you. He’s too busy. By the way. Margaret. I never thought of it be fore, but busy men have no business marrying—unless they marry some strong-minded female —they should leave the butterflies to idlers like myself.” "So. Mr. Wise Man, you consider me a butterfly, do you?" "Yes. aren't you? Your wings are clipped now. but it won't be long before you'll be trying to fly again, or 1 miss my guess." “If I ever fly it anil be in an airplane,” | 1 jested, determined not to be serious. “Would you like me to play for you?”: I asked to change the subject. "Broth er Philip sent me a lot of new music the other day. and I Jaave been practicing quite faithfully.” "Yes. do. No one plays quite as you do" still flattering. I played for an hour, then just as I was rising from the pialno Robert came in. He shook hands wi-th Tod. said something about being tired to death; gave me a perfunctory kiss, and said that if we'd excuse him he'd go to bed. “Don't go. Freeman! It's early yet. and Margaret doesn’t look a bit sleepy." he said as he left us alone. "No. Tod. don’t go!” I repeated, as he stood uncertainly regarding me. “I shan’t go to bed for hours! Why should I spend them alone Just because Robert is tired and sleepy?” "That’s so. why should you?” and he sat down again. For another hour we laughed and chatted and—flirted. T am ashamed even after all these years that T deliberately flirted with Tod Freeman because I was piqued at Robert. I wanted him to sit with us a while, and I also wanted him to notice that 1 was dressed un and' looked well, and tell me of it. Rut in stead he had gone off to b»d careless! of me or my desires. Rut is imnossible to touch fire and not get burned. A tiny blister has re mained to remind m» that T was ex tremely foolish in leading Tod Freeman to think me careless of mr wifehood. TRAVELS 22,560 MILES IN BUGGY Jeff Dari* Co., Mis*. -B. 8. Miskell writ** M follow*: “The $4» Golden Eagle Top Bnsay which I ordered from you for my aon to carry trie R. F. D. mail in has been in daily aervica for two years and seven months: has run 22,560 miles, and with ■light repairs on tires will run for two more yean. That’s from the father of a rural carrier who uses his buggy every day. This buggy at $49 would have cost $75 at the dealers. The $25 saving is because the buggy is sold direct from the factory without any profit or expense for traveling sales men, jobbers or retailers. To buy right and satv from JIS to $45 on a buggy, send for the handsome big FREE buggy cata logue, containing 150 buggy bar gains. GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGIES BEST FOR EVERY USE GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY CO. 23-1 Means Atlanta, (*a. Atax-ii rUB A. GOOD-«IZED FAIttLY. Twenty-odd years ago a young man with only a common school education and a wife and three children was out of a job in Pennsylvania, not far from the town of Reading. He bought a small, run-down place, with a briok house on it, an old barn and tifro acres of worn-out land. He bought on a credit, at 83,300 with interest. He had in hand onlV JSOO. so he bought a milk route, six cows for J 350. He had to buy his cow feed, and for the 100 chick ens that he also purchased as a crop prospect. Every pound of the fertilizer produced by the six cows and 100 chickens was strewn on the open two acres ’of ground. In six years he was able to sell his cows and milk route and get down regularly to truck farming. You would like to know what he raised on those two acres? From 7,000 to 8,000 heads of lettuce, from 30,000 to 50,000 small onions for bunching. He placed from eight to ten in a bunch and sold for 5 cents. Be sides enough onion sets to plant again, he averaged $143 from little onion bunches alone. He raised red beets for 2,000 bunches. 5 cents a bunch. Aspara gus that brought him 500 bunches season. Endive that netted him S3OO annually. He got as much from his lettuce, had 500 stalks of fine toma to plants, and his celery, 12.000 stalks, he sold at 5 cents a stalk. He raises every year from 50,000 to 100,000 of these celery stalks. His plants are ready to set early in June, and he covers between the rows with old sacks to retain the moisture. He never uses a plow on this two acre farm. From July through August he continues setting the celery plants for coming winter. The plants are set thirteen inches apart, and he sets 850 square feet in these plants on level cul iti vat ion. He raises some peaches and I apples, and his poultry yard is contin ually full. He sells his young roosters at 30 cents a pound. He averages dur ing the year 139 eggs to each hen. He expects t 6 make every hen bring him in cash $1 per year. He has one cow. milk and butter for his own use. and no other live stock. His Income lit from $1,200 to $1,500 annually on these two acres. He has long ago paid for the land. The family have had good health and are fond of the life, where they can go to bed when they please, get out of bed when they please, and ' nobody to find fault. “ “ ■ TKE VALUE OF GOOD CHAJIACTEB TO A YOUNG MAX. The times we live in at the present 1 are very unsettled, and dangers are many to careless youth as well as to men of maturer years, because we know not what an hour can bring forth, eith er in business or health. Under these strenuous conditions strong men are stricken down in a moment of time and pass out into the Great Beyond without an hour's warning. It is a common oc currence and the newspapers are filled with the destruction of human life across th« water beyond the power of our imagination to appreciate or com prehend. In our own country the demand for reliable workers was never before equa led. Good mtn. with good morals an-I good maners. are in urgent demand. It has reached a place where a man who tipples cannot secure a position in a bank, on a railroad train or in any other situation, when his Intemperate habits are discovered. And'a young man who has stepped aside from th* path of honest dealing will not be accept able. no matter how competent he may be In mental acquirement. In truth, there is nothing that will stand the storms and liabilities of hu man Jife equal to good character. I am not including reputation 1n this es say on good character. There Is a vast different* between good character and good reputation, taken separately. Ther«e may be integrity and all things honest in good reputation, but they may be missing and yet a fair outside will be shown to the casual eye. Rut good character cannot do without these essentials of rectitude and hon esty. They are the basic stones of good character. I have known people in my long life who sat on the amen bench es in the church that I knew also to be as crooked as a ram's horn’ In busi ness transactions, actually unfit to be trusted in dealings with their neigh bors. and sometimes with their nearest of kin. They were "whited sepulchers” —fair on the outside, rotten on the in side. They have often been wealthy and prominent. But nobody that knew them had a stiver of respect for repu tation. If a young man has good char acter he has a fortune, no matter if he is only a plain day laborer. -ZY WOOD PRESER VA- 5 i / 4£A' TIVES and stains= = /I 10 Creosote (crude). E = colodeaa; contains 20% to: C 10'*’ naphthalene. No. 1 I Creosote, = clear and free from naphthalene:add own 5 LZ color to makeataina. No. 7 Creosote;: 3 dark brown atain. No. 15 Roofing Paint, bghteaa : = and reatores old ahingle roof. Crude Coal Tar. = : Atlanta Gaa Light C0.,75 Marietta St.. Atlanta,Ga. = niiiiiiiliiiiiiaatiiiiiiin iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiditiiiniiiiiiaiiiiiittiiK 5