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—THE GIGANTIC-
Going- Out-of -Business Sale
Is now going on. The crowds have been large, to get their share of the bargains at this sale. Come and get your
share, for everything will be sold in this store in the remaining eight days. One dollar spent here will do the
work of two spent elsewhere. Merchandise to be had at this sale at your own price. This is the greatest sale ot
this kind ever held in Jackson county. This entire stock of new and up-to-date merchandise will be distributed into
the homes of the people for a radius of thirty miles. Come, everybody, to the Great Gigantic Going-Out-oi-Busi
nes3 Sale.
H. MENDEL & CO., WINDER * OA --
PRESIDENT TAET ON COUNERY LIFE.
“I congratulate the people of
North Carolina, that next to the
stale of Mississippi it has a popu
lation more devoted to the soil ant
its cultivation than any other state
in the United States. You do not
have large cities, and I do not think
that a defect at all in your civiliza
tion. The fact is that the tendency
toward concentration of population
in the cities is a tendency that
ought to he restrained.
!‘Country life ought to be made
Flanigan & Flanigan
Have sold more Pianos, more Organs, more
Buggies and more Automobiles within the
last twelve months than any concern in
Georgia north of Atlanta. These ’are facts,
and we are willing to compare records.
Pianos, Organs, Buggies, Automobiles,
and yet do more business in each line than any concern—even
those who sell only one'line. For instance, there are threeftnusic
houses in Athens who sell nothing else, and we have sold more
Pianos than all put together.
We do not charge our expense to any one [line, and this is
where we can undersell any competitor and yet make the same
profit. Isn’t this common “horse sense”?
.
Thanking you for the many favors of the past, and for the
consideration of the above facts, we are, -
Yours to please,
and to largely increase our business for 1910,
Flanigan & Flanigan .
more comfortable and attractive.
T 1 ie puisuit of agriculture, the pro
fession of farming to-day, may well
attract the mental and manuel ac
tivity of men of the hightest edu
tjon, of the highest culture, and
the highest ambition.”
It was in these words that Presi
dent Taft, in the course of his
famous “swing around the-circle,”
addressed the people at Wilming
ton, North Carolina. With the
facility of all public men for touch
ing upon something locally of vital
interest, he picked out a subject
FOUR LINES
that is very near the hearts of the
great rural population, lie was
following the lead of bis strenuous
predecessor in office, who focussed
public attention upon the farm prob
blem less than a vear ago, when he
appointed a commission to investi
gate and report upon conditions of
country life.
In the opinion of many, Mr.
Taft, is again awakening the farm
life problem, has “lnt the nail on
the head-”
How to keep the boy on the farm
—this is but one phase of the great
question that has so long occupied
the attention of men in public and
private. The movement to the
city of boys born and bred in the
country has always been viewed
with considerable alarm. Such a
movement if it became too general
would result in two great evils —
overcrowding in city slums, and
lowering the standard of work on
the farms.
What’s to be done? If young
people are discontented at home,
and think more opportunities are
to be had in the cities; if they find
farm work a diudgery and the so
cial life of the country irksome and
monotonous, is there lint some
remedy? To remove the cause of
discontent would seem to be the
best solution. It may be recorded
here that so successful have been
efforts to make life on the farm
more profitable and attractive that
danger of any serious exodus to the
cities is a thing of the past.
The farms to-day have many
advantages that a generaton ago
were not known. Most of them
are reached by the rural mail, the
good roads movement has spread
wonderfully, newspapers and farm
journals have extended their educa
tive influence, and the rural tele
phone has organized the great body
of farmers and brought them to a
better knowledge of each other-
This one agency, the telephone,
has done more, perhaps, than any
thing else lo promote the business
and home welfare of all the farm
ers. Through all the great medi
ums of publicity the truths con
cerning its power for good have
been told to tie* country popula
tion. The Western Electric Com
pany, the largest manufacturer of
telephones in the world, distributed
instructive literature on the farm
telephone subject throughout the
rural districts. Farmers ware
shown how easily rural lines are
constructed, and how great a return
such a line gives when viewed only
from the standpoint of an invest
ment.
For not only does a rural tele
phone pay; there are times when
its presence confers a benefit that
could never be gauged in teimsof
dollars and cents. For intance,
when a physician or a veterinary is
wanted in a hurry, the telephone is
the only reliable and* a'quicker than
lightning messenger. The tele
phone really increases the efficiency
of the farms.
President Taft is merely empha
sizing the stand of Mr. Roosevelt,
who said:
‘‘lf then* is one lesson taught by
history, it is that the permanent
greatness of any state must depend
more upon its country population
than anything else. No growth of
cities, no growth of wealth can
make up for loss in either the num
ber or character of the farming pop
ulation.
Qualifications.
Editor —Have you ever done any
work on a newspaper?
Applicant for Position —Yes. sir;
for nearly six months J contributed
to a column in our home paper
under the head of “For the Uplift
of Mankind.”
Editor —(Jo to the office of the
building on the top floor, and see if
they want an elevator man. —Chica-
go Tribune.
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The biggest bore is the man whom
everything bores.