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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.