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W. P. DeLaperriere’s
Large mercantile business has continued to grow from the date of its organ
ization, by honest, fair dealing. He is now adding to his immense business a
Thorough, Up-to-Date Milinery Department,
under the supervision of one of the best trimmers in North Georgia. 'The
beautiful line of ladies’ head-wear will be on display in ample time to select
your Easter hat. It will pay you to visit this department. Also the most at
tractive line of Dress Goods ever brought to Hoschton, in all the latest fabrics
and weaves of the season. Be sure to call and inspect this beautiful line.
Clothing and Gents’ Furnishings.
The best the Eastern markets can afford. Shoes and Oxfords, that embrace style and quality, are always to be
found here. We also keep a full line of Groceries, Hardware, Stoves Furniture and Coffins, and can save you
money. Can make you attractive prices on Buggies and Wagons. We manufacture the highest grades of Fertil
izers—the best made—with testimonials showing a yield as high as two to three bales of cotton per acre. We
cordially solicit your patronage, and when you consider the superior quality of our goods, you will find we have
the best in all lines. Can save you money.
W. P. DeLAPERRIERE,
HOSCHTON, GEORGIA.
The Lions in tie Way.
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I tnnf you*§ man who lack
*'ginger/* or what
ever veu ray term it. often reaeon
Ihoaly : “If jt had no* been for id,
end auch and tuch a things I oould
have achieved miocws” , The lion*
in the way of the average yoang
naan and a eueraesful career, are
the and the '"Vnde” thaWan
ter into h daily Life and 10b him
of hie aim and ootirage. They are
he breastworks thrown mo hf the
weal and which beg*
oil! and deceive and which are
offered as etcuse for many failures.
The lions in the way are nothing
more than ft lack of Courage,
steafastnesa of purpose, and a
determination to go in and wim.
Young people who lack these
qualities, need our help- Our life
work is to train young people in the
laws and customs of commercial life
develop their latent talents, quicken
their perceptions, teach them Book
keeping, Shohrtand, and Type
writing. (Business Law, Grammar,
Writing, Arithmetic, Rapid Cal
culation, Spelling, and the use of
Adding Machines, Mimeographs,
the MeCaskey Register, etc., are
free with these courses.( —and give
them a steadfastness of purpose and
enough “gumption”to accomplish
it. With such training, the lions
in the way are mastered and made
sub —servient to the will. We
have traind thousand of others who
are on the road to success, and we
can do the same for you. Will you
let us? Write Athens Business
College, Athens. Ga., for catalog
and full particulars.
We are in position to give you good
value for your money on Black
smith Tools, Farm Tools, Plows and
Farm Machinery.
Woodruff Hardware Gd.
Tlnoafe fctw AJ*
I lat in the tender gloaming*,
The thro* puroed low.
And the earth and the handing
kemrm
Vf*n hashed in its softened glow.
Looking Wyon4 the unsatr'
Kyetical, purple bar*
X tap in a twifl, eweet instant
The yearly gates- ajar.
Did X sleep? Wm It a vision,
aupengaliy strange and fair?
Was it wrought by the spell of
fancy?
fltnew not; I did not care*
My soul was filled with longing
For one who had passed from
earth.
For whose loss the sun seemed
darkened
And the world a scene of dearth.
<Come lack!” I prayed in my
yearnings,
“Come back, fur my heart is
lone;
Heaven has so many angels
And I ask for only one.”
And, as if to my wild prayer’s
answer,
Wide opened the gate afar,
And I saw the face of my darling
Shine forth as through a star.
And, awed and still, 1 listendd,
While a voice, like music low,
Came floating down through the
silence
And the twilight's silvey glow.
“Would you called me back,
beloyed one,
From this home of pure delight?
Would you wish to keep me
longer
From my savior's loving sight?
Would you bring me back among
jou,
Where, though dear was the love
you gave,
Yet pain walked ever beside me
From the cradle to the grave?
“Would yon give me the narrow
vision
That belong# to mortal eyas.
When throagh apace amid worlds
•nnunobered,
Hr fetterUw* spirit flies?
Live out the years God allot* you,
And mast me, beloved, above.
Where together we’ll join the an
them
to praise of the Waster's bve.’’
Hashed was the voice, and softly
The sweet face faded from sight
The Ulotriee of tinset vanished.
The twilight deepened to night;
But*lra wa* my wild repining:
That one sweet vision sufficed.
And, resigned, t gave up my dar
ling
To the arms of the living Christ,
LISETTE CLAYTON HOOD
Charlotte, N C.
SOUTHERN FARMERS’ OPPORTUNITY
The stock of money in "this coun
try is today approximately $3,130-
000,000. Ten years ago it was
$2,340,000,000. This is a gain of
$79 ),000,000,0r approximately 30
per cent.
Authorative statistics show that
the 1909 wheat cropjwas 8.3 bushels
per capita, against 8 83 bushels per
capita ten years ago; the corn crop
dropped from 34.9 to 30.9 bushels
per capita: the oats crop from 12.4
to 11.1 bushels per capita; the hay
crop from 1 ton to 3-4 of a ton per
capita; and the number of food
animals, swine, cattle and sheep,
fell from 2.5 to 1.9 per capita,
flln the matter of meats the gov
ernment returns issued on the 25th
of January show, under the head of
swine (hogs.) that the total supples
iu 1900, of 54,000,000 fell to 47,-
00 000 in 1910, a deciease of nealy
15 per cent. Other cattle, in 1909,
49,000,000, fell to 47,000,000 in
1910.
The number of cattle killed un
der tba inspection law in the United
States in 1907 wa* 7,621,717, in
'1909 it had fallen to 7,825,887;
dariu| the nm period there was
an iacreage in the number of calves
killed from 1,763,874 to 2,048,718.
Tha feoepte of hog* at the aagrknt
fell 18.8 per e*at from 1908 to 1909.
Whan the panic of 1907 eaame oa
many of the farmer* in the West
sold their hogs food w*a tno.
high to teed them and thee# brood
ing herds have not been replaced.
In the matter of the production
of fruits, the leader end standard
(because it keeps longer) apples,
in the United Bttes, have fallen
from 68,000,000 barrels in 1866 to
21,000,000 barrels In 19091
Here is money, per dollar,
decreasing in its purchasing power
because of a 30 per cent, increase
in volume. Here is an increasing
deficit in the field food crops per
capita. Here is a marked decrease
in hogs and cattle supply. Here is
a decrease in the leader among all
the fruits (apple) of approximately
70 per cent.
On the top of all this is an avearage
tariff of 6)p -r o -nt on all foreign
food stuffs.
As result of all these things—the
increased supply of monev, the
decreased supply of all food stuffs,
and the tariff—the prices of beef,
pork and its by-products, mutton,
chickens, eggs, butter and milk,and
all other food products —taken on an
averag* —have never been as high
as now, lairring of course the war
prices of the ’6o’ Is not this the
Southern farmer’s golden oppor
tunity?
The Telegraph has shown in pre*
vious articles that in 1860, when
the population in Georgia was 1,-
057,286, there were in this State
2,036,116 hogs. In 1907, with a
population of 2,700,000, there were
only 1,599,000 hogs. With the
population more than doubled, the
numher of hogs has been reduced
nearly one-half!
The Telegraph has shown that.
to 1860, there were, 299,688 milch
oows. Ia 1907.—808,QQG-*wn in
crease of only 8,312. That in 1860
there were oxen and other cattle,
706,184. Io 1907. 680.00[>-<le
ortmm of 26.1847 That in 1860,
there were 512,618 thewp. In 1907
269,000—a decrease of 248,fe1!
The#* iigar<*re aat!
yet they are hewed on actual •C&fciati
eal return#.
The Tetegrogh has shown that' Id
1890, when Georgia’# population
W# 1,837,353, Georgia forrtnre
owned 1,627,008 swine. In lftJT,
when the population hod increased
to 2,700,000. the #wine owned by
Georgia farmers decreased to 1,599-
000—a loss of 28,008. That in
1890’ the sheep owned by Georgia
farmers numbered 411,876. In
1907 they had decreased to 269,000
a loss of approximately one-half.
That in 1890, Georgia owned 354-
618 milch cows. In 1907 the num
ber fell to 308,000—a loss of 94*
618-
All of these figures are amazing |
but they are collected from the most
reliable sources. They call to the
farmer with irresistible eloquence
and force. They cry aloud to them
to plant less cotton and more grain;
to raise more cattle and hogs —not
as a patriotic thing, but as a profit
making business. It is the farmer's
opportunity. His day has come
if he is wise enough to read the
signs of the times and take advant
age of it-
Food is the first and the last of
the natural man. All men must
eat. Everything else is secondary.
W'e can go naked and live in tlr*
woods as the heathens do, but we
must eat. It takes a pound of cot
ton to buy a pound of meat. A
pound of meat can l>e raised more
cheaply than a pound of cotton. V
farmer can eat his meat but he can
not eat his cotton.
The money supply has grown
faster than the food supply. The
farm production for the lat four
years have been low in comparison
with the increase in other forms of
value Manufacturing enterprises,
manufactured materials, stock and
bond corporations have more than
tripled in value in ten years. The
farmers have not kept pace.—Ma
con Telegraph.