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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. # The biggest bore is the man whom everything bores.