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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. —■ 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.