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In Letter to Members of the Union He Advises Them to Fight Shy of the Wily Gents Who Have Axes to Grind. To Officials and Members of the Farmers' Inion.: In the nVrn years 1 have been identified with the Farmers' Inion, most of the time as head of the National Or ganization, [ have traveled maiiv thousands of miles, visited prac tically every State in the I'nion addressed hundreds of meetings and vast numbers of people, have come intimately in contact wjit.h farmers of all sorts and condi tions, and I give it my matured judgment that the thing most the matter with men who till the soil is the ease with which they are fooled. And, unhappily, he is fooled ninety-nine times out of a hun dred by tin* fellow wiith an axe to grind. He who ownes the axe puts you at the grindstone handle and tells you to turn, mayhap making some vague promise of reward. And you trusting and hopeful, turn and turn until yom hack is aching, your hands blis tered and sore. Alter awhile the axe gets a sharp edge and you are told to go your way, as the axe-owner has no further use for you. You insist on your promised reward. He's amazed at your cred ulity and wonders when? you got the impression of anything for your good offices. Ho you gulp down your dissa pointment, r, *h your aching hack, grease your blistered hands and swear you’ll never trust another one of ’em, so help you. And you 4?o away breathing fire and venge an.ce. Presently the next smooth guy conies along, smiles upon you pats you upon the weary old Intel makes a lot of fresh and hollow promises and you grab the grind atone handle and go at it for deai life. And the fellow getting tin edge on his axe, grinds shyly to himself, and thinks what an easy, gullible, eredulus, unthinking old simpleton you are. Now this may sound like pretty liarse ae,elisions.hut 1 make them after matured refleet ions and in absolute certainly that no living man refute them successfully. You know me well enought by now to understand that I don't soft-soap, trim, quibble, or dodge. I have the deep-grained and old fashion idea of calling a spade by its right name. I don't believe in darning with faint, praise; 1 don believe in avoiding the wit pleasant things if they tire neces sary to handle for the ultimate good. So 1 want to lambast you a haul this grievious, tormenting trait of character you so unhappily possess- believeing tin* tricksters, the man with tin* axe to grind,tin mean, selfish man who pats you "With one hand ami robs you with the other. Heaven knows,l don”t want to make you a pessimist to any greater extent than you are but I want you to use your intel ligence in learning tin* difference between your real friend and tin chap who fools you only for his own selfish ends. The difficulty lies largely in tin* fact the sort fooling you is sinoot! plain ible, smiling, genial. It is h's stock in trade. He tells you of Ids profound interest in v.our wel fare his sleepless nights, and m u tnl travail in studying out your problems, and, having minted tin out of his brain agony, he comes to offer them as your s-dvath n. ,He m k *s you a beautiful e leech, fairly dripping with homy ami. golden promises. All necessary foi your complete and absolute email cipation is to listen, heed, act. And you listen, heed, act, and find indeed that it is a wonderful scheme- for tin* man who present it, but worse than nothing to you and your well-being. My dear brother, when will yor put the boot to this type of a | scoundrel 1 Legislative halls arc. j filled with them, the kind who use you for his own purpose and forget you as soon as the returns are counted. IIoW long, Oh Lord, how long, will you continue t< thus blindly boost that rascal's game 1 As I have said repeatedly, I am normally and naturally an optimi tic, hut sometimes I butt my head into this wall and almost despair of your ever waking up. Over an. over the trick victimizes you, and no ripened knowledge of caution comes of your experience. Yoi only feel hope and courage sink to the vanishing point. Yet, my brother, you are in a measure to blame for your predicament. In this day when progress marches swiftly and surely to def nite goals; when big forces com bine in purposeful and genuine wprk of uplifting humanity in broad arid sincere way; when the drone, tin* vagabond, tin* trick ster, the ingrate are being crowd ed out are you to be kliowta as | last and sole easy victim of self ish rascality? Wake up my friends and show tlie world you know your true friends, and can tell a schemer I who wants to use you for self- I isli intents. We an* going to see some of these selfish kind out at the old tricks next year. They are going to make you all .of the dlo-time pre-election promises, im plore to stand to them just this otui time and proof will be forth coming of deap seated interest in you and your affairs Art you going to be fooled again Not if I can help it; not if 1 can show you the difference between tilt 1 worthy and the unworthy, the real man and the sycophant wlitli his cunning, plausible, empty, promises. Read and think this over a lit tle. 1 want it to soak in.Then per haps I'll hit you with some sledgt hammer facts. f C. HL BARRETT. l T ni< n City, (la., .June 11, 195. A Pinch of medicine goes farther than a bushel of food, for sickness in stock and poul try. When you need a med- icine to act quickly and v/ork thoroughly, try Bee Dee STOCK & POULTRY MEDICINE It is all medicine, no food. A\ade from pure con centrated medicinal herbs, of true curative merit It acts quickly and drives out disease poisons. Try it Price 25c, 50c and $l.OO per can. ** “11 is excellent (o prevent disease and as a tonic ior poultry."—Ella Burroughs, R. F. D. 3. Scottsboro, Ala. P. A. 12 | should be "nipped in t!e boci”, fer if allowed to run unchecked, serious results may follow. Numerous cases of consumption, pneu monia, and other fatal dis eases, :an tc traced back to a cold. At the first sign of a cold, protect yourself by thoroughly cleansing your system with a few doses of THEDFORD’S BLACK DRAUGHT the old reliable, vegetable liver powder. Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o* Madison Heights. Va., says: "1 have been using Thed ford’s Black-Draught for stomach troubles, indiges tion and cclds. and find it tc be the very best medicine 1 ever used. It makes an cld man feel like a young one.” Insist on Thedford’s, the original and genuine. E-67 Where Our Mcney Goss. From recent statistics, we learn that Georgians now own more than twenty thousand automobile more than any southern state. Of these machines have been pur chased at an average cost of one thousand dollars each, the sum total amounts to twenty million dollars that Georgians have in vested in automobiles. But this is not all. Commerce alone consumes seven thousand gallons of gaso line every month. Practically all of tin’s is used in operating auto mobiles. At 25 cents per gallon the price paid, this town expends the sum of .+1,750.(10 per month, or .+21,000 annually for gasoline. There are 818 towns and cities in Georgia, and these have a total population in round numbers, of 900,000. The average population is in the neighborhood of 1.- 100, so that the average popula tion of the Georgia cities and towns is ust.j half that of Com merce. If Commerce expends +21,000.00 annually for gasoline, as has been shown, and other Georgia towns use it proportion ately, then the people of this state a,re spending annually f• gasoline the immense sum of $8,898,000.00 annually for gas dine alone. But this is nof all. The average upkeep of the twenty thousand machines must be in the neighborhood of SSO per year. If so, we spend an ad ditional one hundred thousand an nually for repairs. When 1 does all this money go? Every dol lar of it leaves the state with tin* exception of the one hundred I thousand we spend for repairs, land much of that leaves the state for fixtures. The twenty million j invested in the machines goes 1< eastern factories. Tile nine mil lion for gasoline goes into the pocket of Mr. Rockefeller. Now what do we get in return? Lit tle lmt leaves. With these fads staring us in the face, is it any Wonder that money is scarce. And remember the automobile is hut one of the luxuries for which wv* are spending so much money. Commerce News. Take Dr. M. A. Simmons Liv er Medicine for heartburn, sour I belching or constipation. It cleanses and strengthens the liv jer, stomach and bowels. Price |25 ets. per package. K o ld bv Dr. •J. T. Wages Drug Go. “Tim G ;>?:<• la Crack'r an j element in Southern lif *> whicl i-anmk be ignored. The Or ? -*r • ; the wjor i is shroud *d in : ‘story tradition assigning it to the In * whips carried by cattle d-'v-: ?r the old days, which, with enor mous crackers, gave the name 1 this class of men. The “Ciacker’’ t't,!e has been given by c minon "nsnt to a class of people in the country who, by the Way. have made a succ* ss in the cot ton factories and who compose about the only reliable and skill ful labor to be obtained. So en tirely is this true that cotton factories in localities where the Cracker does not reside are far from being a success. Happy is the mill man who has been able to secure this class .of labor. Tin Cracker grows in Georgia, Flor ida, Alabama and the Carolinas. From a distinctive class the name has finally been given to all pimple from the interior, es pecially by seacoast cities, and the city of Savannah, largely built up by people from the up country, h a s come to dub a part ol its population as Georgia and Florida Crackers. To this must be added, of course, the North Carolina Cracker, wjho came here with the naval stores business: wh.o has made good in his work, and who has helped to make Sa vannah prosper. “But the Georgia Cracker is shrewd, industrious, full of' hu mor and courage, a trifle ungain ly perhaps, but with the elements of strong citizenship. The Crack ers really drove the Cherokee?. cut of Georgi a and insisted up on settling on their land.. The chief justice of the Georgia col ony declared that the Crackers came from the western parts o? Virginia and North Carolina, and predicted that they would in time overrun the rich part of this country The courts in the early history addressed itself to this Cracker element. Bill Arp sug gested that the term “Cracker" was a Scotch term, and was early conferred on the rough and un cultured men who came from other colonies. The word is a corruption of the term used an ciently in Scotland to designate a certain yeomanry, independent as woodsawers, “who were obnox ions to the aristocracy.” “But in spite of chief justices a nd governors, the Indian has disappeared and the Cracker has come to rule the country. The name as a distinctive class has finally lost all primeval signifi cance, and in Savannah it has come to refer to the natives of the hill country and of the wire grass who have flocked to this city by the thousands and who in many respects have changed iP complexion and ruled its destiny. Tin* Crackers were really tb<* men who, starting in Liberty county, insisted upon separation from England in 177t>. The mountain Crackers followed An drew Jackson in the Rattle of New Orleans in 1812; they were back of Old Hickory when In* wrested Florida from Spain and forced the Cherokee and Creek Indians back from Georgia. TJio no slave-holders themselves, they were among the best fighters in the war for secession and swarm ed into the regiments that enlist ed during the Spanish-American war. In times of peace they pursue their way quietly, wheth er their work consisted in run ning a cotten factory, driving a will call for it by that time. Please 1,.,ve it ready end where we can find it. Should vie fail to find it l*e and send it to Woodruff's ctme with your name on it. Shiit3 10 and 12 l-2c. Colh.rs - - 2 l-2c Cuffs - 4 and 5c Spreads -10 c Hubert Jacobs, Winder, Ga. Tombstones I can save you money on all grades or Tomb stones. I have a plan by which I can divide prof its v/ith purchasers. Call on or address J. L. MARLOW, WINDER, GA. C. S. Hulls and Meal I have just received a ear e>f meal and hulls. They are scarce and hard to get and this will probably be the last car that 1 can get. See me at once and place your order before they are all gone. Remember, my terms are strictly cash. C. C. GREGORY, Winder NOTICE To My Friends and Patrons I take this method of thanking you for your loyal support during the term that has just closed, and I solicit your patronage during the summer months,promising you my best efforts. 1 especially want pupils who are not able to take music along with their school work, as they can give it all their time now. If you want my special sum mer rates, ring me at 199 or 85. Yours truly, W. E. Cot PER. PROFESSIONAL CARDS G. A. JOHNS, Attorney at Law. Winder, Ga. Office over Smith & Carithers’ Bank. Practice in all the courts except City Court of Jefferson. W. IL QUARTERMAN. Attorney at Law Winder, Ga. Practice in all the Courts Commercial law a specialty. SPURGEON WILLIAMS Dentist, Winder, Georgia Oil ice over Smith & Carithers hank. All work done satisfac torily, Phone 81. W. L. DeLaPERRIERE Dental Surgery. Winder, Georgia Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work done in most scientific, and satis factory way. street car, presiding over a bank or figuring in retail trade or real [estate deals. Fop the Cracker is thrifty and far-seeing. In peace and in war he can be counted upon to hold up his end of the load. Asa rule he is a foe to privilege of kinds, a demo crat by nature. Whether he fought the feudal chiefs in Scot land. or the Tories in Virginia, or tjhe protection barons in Amer ica, the Cracker believes in his soul the truth of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created free and equal.” To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE P.ROMO Quinine. It stops the- Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it faiis to cure. E. W. UP.OVE’S signature on each box. 2k.