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SNAP SHOTS.
(By Rev. W. H. Faust.)
Very few people seem to have
any idea of truthfulness when it
•comes to keeping engagements
"What is a half hour anyway?
These windy days are drying
out the lands. Land that was so
wet in February that the shadow
of a bird flying over would mire
is so hard that a pair of bull ele
phants can scarcely pull a thumb
lancet thru.
There are a number of boys
who live under the very shadows
of our schools and colleges, who
are as green and ignorant as a
persimmon and it unfrostbitten.
Girls would do well to find out
what their fathers and brothers
know about their future husbands
It would free them at least from
many a foolish notion and blun
der.
If some folks don’t know any
more in the outside world than
they do in the witness box testi
fying in blind tiger cases, the
world is in a deplorable shape.
Avery wise theologian lias de
cided that a converted prize fight
er in the pulpit is a regular gospel
1 ‘ expounder. ’ ’
Sermon's used to be the leading
feature of the Sunday service.
Now they are sandwiched in be
tween organist and choirister as
it pleases them.
Girls today are on the lookout
for-soldiers, a few years from now
they will he hunting for silk hat
fellows with fat bank accounts.
A word of advise to the oppos
ers of the League of Nations.
People opposed the anti-saloon
League but we have prohibition
just the same.
Some husbands under the influ
ence of anaesthetics don’t know
anything, others are just natural
ly foolish.
When a neighbor begins to keep
chickens it is a sure sign that fam
ilies are going to have a row and
fall out.
The flrer has been serving as
foreman of the grand jury; hence
the following - from the
American Medical Association ;or
dinary men say “I give you this
orange—Lawyers, I hereby give
and convey to you all and singu
lar, my estate and interest, right,
title, claim and advantages of and
in said orange, together with all
its rind, juice, pulp and pips, and
with full power to bite, cut, suck
all rights and advantages therein,
and otherwise eat the same and
give the same away with or with
out the rind, skin, juice, pulp or
pips, anything herein before or
hereinafter, or in any other deed
or deeds, instrument or instru
ments of whatever nature, a kind
whatsoever to the contrary in
.anywise notwithstanding.
One would infer from reading
the tombstones in the ordinary
cemetery that all men are saints
and women angels, but as a mat
ter of fact such is far from the
truth.
There is a lot of moarning at
the bar, since the glittering drink
has gone to sea.
In America 2.500.000 babies are
born each year. Suppose they
were all together and should de
cide to cry at the same time? Big
noise. •
Some women seem to not to
specially care for beauty, that is
judging by tlieir choice of hus
bands.
Some of our would-be leaders
hav’nt sense ennf to get out of au
April shower of rain or a dusty,
windy. March day.
Girls, better not marry a fel
low who doesn’t treat his mother
and sister right. Such a one will
sure mistreat bis wife.
The man who didn’t warm his
cold feet where the cows had laid
down for the night, has missed
one of the genuine joys of life.
SOUTH CAN NEVER RAISE
COTTON AT PRE-WAR PRICES
Now let us get one point very
clearly in mind. That the scale of
wages or profits for farm labor
(as shown by the foregoing ta
ble) also indicates the scale of
wages or profits for the working
farm-owner himself.
He has had to get pay for his
labor out of his cotton, and it has
been on just such a wage-basis as
the laborer has received.
For this reason the big fact
which the consuming world might
as well make up its mind to ac
cept is this:
The south not only can never
afford while things are high, to
make cotton on the before-war
price basis, but even if future
years should bring other prices
back to these before-war levels,
the South could not then afford
to accept such before-war prices
for its cotton.
And why? Simply because cot
ton was then made on the basis oi
an abnormally and unjustifiably
low-wage scale—a lower wage
scale than North or West offered.
That low wage cannot and should
not be restored.
Civilized men, in fact, cannot
exist on that low wage - scale.
Does somebody say, “Well you
did exist on it in the early 90’s.”
I answer that we did not. What
happened then was that we man
aged to keep soul and body to
gether by taking the price paid
for cotton and mortgageing the
farms we owned to make up the
difference between the price of
cotton and the cost of living. I
know because my father and I
were making cotton then, as 1 am
now, and the old farm which had
been in the family for three gen
erations had to be mortgaged to
meet living expenses. The period
from 1890 to 1900 was the period
of a wholesale, heart-sickening
change from land-ownership to
tenancy in the South, and this is
the explanation. We were simply
selling cotton for less than cost
and paying for the privilege of
giving away our .homes to boot.
—The Progressive Farmer.
LET’S BEAT OUR OWN EEST
RECORDS IN 1919.
TO EVERY Southern farmer,
whether large or small, white or
black, landlord or tenant, we
should like to say: The good
name of the South—its record for
enterprise, progressiveness and a
chievement—is partial in your
hands this year. The record
which you make in 1919—the re
cord you alone, personally and in
dividually make—will tell either
for good or evil in the whole
South’s agricultural standing
these next ten years.
We say this because next year
MORE cotton and more corn —but raise them
on less land. That is the way to make
money this year. Fertilize as usual and then
top dress with
Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia
at the rate of 100 pounds per acre. Write for
Bulletin No. 69.
ARCADIAN Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known
standard article that has done you good service in your
mixed fertilizers for years past. Especially kiln-dried and
ground to make it fine and dry. Ammonia 2514% guar
anteed. Made in U. S. A.
The Great American Ammoniate
For sale by
Empire State Chemical Company, Athens, Ga.
For information „ New York
a, (o vplica. The QsfabWl Company N . Y .
tion, write AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Atlanta, Ga.
is census year, and the crops made
this year will be the ones reported
in the census —and what the 1920
census says about the South will
largely determine our standing in
the world for ten years to come.
Let’s resolve therefore to beat
our own best records in 1919. Let
each state seek to outdo other
states, each county other counties,
each neighborhood othre neighbor
hoods—and let each farmer seek
to outdo his own best record and
make 1919 the banner crop year
of his life.''
From 1909 to 1917 the Souli in
creased its food and feed crop
acreage as follows: Corn, 28 per
cent; hay, 105 per cent; oats, 87
per cent; wheat, 143 per cent ;po
tatoes, 67 per cent; and in 1918
we made an even finer record—
but none of these figeures have
yet gone into an American census
table. By what we do this year
Uncle Sam stands the South up,
takes it’s measure, and marks
down the results as our official
census grade for the next ten
years.
Big acre yields are what we
should aim at with every crop.
Even if cotton is 30 cents a pound
there is no profit in one-third-bale
per-aere crops, but the bale-per
acre man is practically predes
tined to profits from the time be
plants the seed. A few years of
good farming aimed at richer
lands would fit the South to grow
all of its present cotton crop on
half the acreage, and release the
other half to feed itself and its
growing flocks and herds; and
while we can’t get to this in this
single year, let’s aim at the long
est stride forward it has yet made.
Commercial fertilizer is high,
but judiciously used, liberal appli
cations will still pay handsomely
(it’s cheaper now than hired la
bor), and every possible ounce of
barnyard and stable manure,
woodsmold, leaves, ashes, etc.,
should be put on the soil. Then
with the best possible methods of
preparation and cultivation, and
with a still further stride towards
making the South a real livestock
section, let’s go into the new crop
making season with “a long pull,
and a pull altogether” to make
the South stand head of the class
after Uncle Sam’s 1920 census
yard-stick lias measured all sec
tions of America.—The Progress
ive Farmer. :
BOKS SUCCESS.
Edward Boke gets the biggest
salary of any editor in this coun
try and is married to the daugh
ter of a multi-millionair.
A few years ago he was a poor
Dutch immigrant in New York
city, selling lemonade from a buck
et. Then he carried a newspaper
route, cleaned windows, worked
in a bakery, ran errands—any-
thin# to make a living. He left
school at 13 and studied steno
graphy at night.
Young Boke began to take
down the sermons of Henry Ward
Beecher. Then he printed and
sold them. This led in time to the
publishing of the Brooklin maga
zine.
He sold the magazine and start
ed in to learn the publishing busi
ness. He started a newspaper syn
dicate. Publishers kept an eye on
this hard-working young man.
Mr. Curtis, of Philadelphia, offer
ed him SIO,OOO a year to edit one
of his publications. Seven years
after be began with Curtis he mar
ried the latter’s daughter.
Asked by the interviewer, who
got the foregoing facts, concern
ing the secret of his sucesss, he
answered: “Work. 1 worked
like the devil. ”
Not a nice thing for the editor
of a woman’s paper to say?
Mr. Boke simply meant to em
phasize the word work. But he
added afterwards: “Work for
the delight of it. ”
That’s better.
He got into work that delight
ed him. He found his place. For
the joy set before him he did his
work. There is no finer thing in
the universe than to feel you have
found your place and can do some
thing with your whole heart.
Young man:
There is no other way. First
get into your right place. Then
w-o-r-k. Work is genius. Work
is brilliancy. Work is success.
Find the job you delight inand—
Work!
Nothing rattles a married man
quite so much as having his wife
agree with him on anything.
Optimistic Thought.
No revenue is more heroic then that
which torments envy by doing good.
1
Daily Thought.
Nothing will ever be attempted tf
ill possible objections must be first
overcome,—Doctor Johnson. .
MONEY TO LOAN
Money to loan on FARM or CITY PROPER
TY at low rate of interest.
Applicants wanted for BONDS, LIFE, ACCI
DENT, HEALTH, AUTOMOBILE, LIABILITY,
TORNADO and OTHER LINES of INSUR
ANCE.
We representYmly HIGH-CLASS OLD LINE
LEGAL RESERVE and TARIFF COMPANIES.
For further particulars call on
I. E. JACKSON
Manager Insurance and Trust Department
North Georgia Trust and
Banking Company
WINDER, Phone 82 GEORGIA
TORNADO INSURANCE
Your neighbor’s home burned only a few days or months ago, and a
cyclone is likely to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with US
anl lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind. Don’t
DELAY. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can build a home
once. A WISE man Insures his property in a reliable insurance company
so that when calamity comes he can build again. He owes the protection
that it gives, to ihs peace of mind and the care of his loved ones.
%
Kilgore, Radford & Smith
ICE CREAM
Since remote antiquity, man has found pleasure in the eating of frozen sub
stances. The Bible speaks of the people of Palestine appreciating the refrshing
qualities of snow in harvest time. The ancient Jews, Greeks and Romans were
accustomed to its use for the cooling of beverages.
Alexander the Great relished a substance much like our sherbets today,
frozen with snow brought from a mountain top by a swift running slave.
But about the first real ice cream over made was placed before Louis XIV,
King of France, by his chef, who used cream in the ice of his invention, and
thereby made icc cream.
In our own country ice cream became popular before the Revolution. Tho
manufacturer of this dainty obtained a high price in those days as the recipe
was kept a close secret. The first advertisement of ico cream in this country
appeared in a New York paper dated Juno 8, 178(i, and reads: “Ladies and
Gentlemen may be supplied with ice cream every day at the City Tavern by
their humble servant Joseph Crowe.” The article furnished by the humble
Joseph was surely a luxury us it cost a dollar a quart.
Ice Cream is not only one of the most delicious of sweets, enjoyed by old
and young, but it is also a very nutritious food. It has several times tho food
value of candies; a quart is worth nearly as much ns three pounds of beef
steak. Because it is so nutritious and so easily digested physicians recommend
it to invalids and convalescent patients; athletes in training eat it; and, if
home made so that you know it is pure and freafrom harmful adulterations, it
is the best of food for growing girls and boys. ,
I manufacture Icc Cream of all kinds, for any occasion—on just a few
hours’ notice. Mail orders given prompt attention.
Telephone No. 337 P. O. Box No. 175
H. L. Bentley , ccottZ
BUY A BUSH CAR.
Four Cylinder,37V2 horse power motor for $1175.
Six Cylinder, 40-horse power, 5-passenger, $1375.
For designs and description call on Fred J. Fuller, or write the
Bush Company, Bush Temple, North Clark stret, and Chicago Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
Just say I am in the market for an automobile and wish designs
and prices.
My territory is unlimited. A9O days guarantee against defects
and workmanship.
FRED J. FULLER, Agent.
Bethlehem, Georgia.