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A SUCCESS TALK FOR FARM
BOYS.
By Clarence Poe In Progressive
Farmer.
My Dear Boy:
You wish to know how a hoy
may get ahead in the world. You
say that you wish first of all to de
velop a worthy character, hut you
also wish to be a success in mater
ial things.
1 am glad you have this ambi
tion. A boy who has it will he a
better man, a better citizen, a man
of greater industry and prudence,
than a boy who lacks it.
First of all, be sure you make
good use of the capital you al
ready have. But perhaps you say
that you have no capital. Your
father is a poor man and you will
get no property from him.
This may be true and yet you
may have far better capital than
some boy inherited herds and
flocks, stocks and bonds and broad
acres.
A sound body, a trained mind, a
disciplined spirit—these three con
stitute any man’s most important
capital. Out of this capital some of
the world’s wealthiest men have
carved their fortunes. Lacking
this capital, many a young fellow
inheriting millions has gone
straight into bankruptcy.
The main thing, as I have often
said, is to see to it that you are
boss of yourself, your whole self—
body, mind and spirit—so that
you can control each and make
each count for most in useful liv
ing.
Have you not heard the expres
sion used concerning some man,
that he is his own worst enemy?
The man has lost self-control, lie
is not boss of himself. An appetite
for drink has gotten control of
him. On the throne where the Al
mighty intended that the man
should sit as sovereign, this terri
ble appetite sits enthroned like a
tyrant and usurper. It bosses the
man ; he no longer dosses it. Or it
may he some vice or an ungovern
able temper, which dominates the
man—“possesses” him, as the old
phrase has it. lie is not boss of
himself. And no boy or man can
get ahead in life unless he knows
“the king-ship of self-control.” “I
Emperor of myself” is the proud
boast of one of the great figures in
literature, and it is a phrase worth
remembering.
How many a man, as I have sug
gested, is boss of himself in part,
but is not boss of bis whole self.
Consequently, lam emphasizing
that word “whole.”
And this remark brings to mind
a boyhood memory 1 have once be
fore mentioned in The Progressive
Farmer. My father and I were
standing at the gate of the old
country church and two of our
neighbor farmers were talking. “I
am not lazy with my muscles; I
don’t mind doing any hard work
that comes to hand,” said one of
them, “but Ido mortally hate
mental work. When it comes to
sitting down and figuring and
studying out some problem, I al
ways dodge it if I can. ”
Tt has been many years since I
heard this conversation, but it has
lingered in my memory ever since
This man was only half boss of
himself—boss of his muscles but
not of his mind. And one great
reason why farming doesn’t pay
better and progress faster is that
too many other farmers are like
our neighbor. The man who is to
succeed at farming or anything
else must be boss of himself—boss
both of his muscle and his mind.
He must he neither lazy-bodied
nor lazy-minded. He must he able
to look at any necessary job on the
farm and say: “This job ought to
be done,” and straightway make
•himself do it; and be must be
quite as ready to say of some mat
ter about which he needs informa
tion: “This lesson ought to he
learned,” and straightway make
himself learn it.
A disciplined spirit, a spirit of
which the boy is master, is the
third element of his natural capi
tal which any boy may use in get
ting ahead in the world. No mat
ter whether he works for other
men, or has other men work for
him, he needs to be boss of his
spirit.
I think right now of two men
who illustrate my point. Each man
is boss of his body and seemingly
boss of his mind. Each man works
hard and uses his head. But neith
er man is boss of his spirit, and for
this reason each has failed to
make the success in life he ought
to have made. One man lets his
temper rule him, and this makes it
with other men or for other men to
almost impossible for him to work
work with him—and no man can
get very far in life without an
easy faculty for teamwork.
The other man is not boss of his
spirit because he lets worry rule
him. He has the unhappy faculty
of making the worst of things. He
looks back at any mistake and
worries about it instead of saying:
“Well, 1 made a mistake there,
but 1 have learned a lesson from
it and will not make that kind of
error again.” Xo matter whether
you are driving an automobile or
driving your business, you can’t
make progress by perpetually
looking back, and Lot’s wife may
well teach us a lesson in this res
pect.
If you are going to make the
most of your natural capital, you
will do well to remember an excel
lent phrase of a country doctor 1
know. “A man,” he says, “must
learn to cooperate with the inevit
able.” In other words, he must use
all of Lis energy in' changing
things that can he helped, instead
of wearing himself out in futile
fighting against things that can’t
he helped. Some folks remind me
of calves. When 1 was a boy and
would tie the calf to the fence
while 1 milked the cow, thedittle
rascal would almost choke out his
tongue and eyeballs pulling
against the rope, when he might
have made himself perfectly hap
py and comfortable by cooperat
ing with the inevitable.”
When I say a boy must have “a
disciplined spirit,” it goes without
saying I hope, that 1 mean a spirit
schooled in honor and principle.
“He is a hoy of principle” is
about the finest thing that can he
said of a hoy, and no boy has even
laid the foundation for true suc
cess until lie has said in his heart
of hearts: “Nothing that savors of
any dishonor is worth while, no
matter how great or alluring the
advantages may seem to be.”
When some opportunity to do an
unworthy thing, when some temp
tation to make a false statement,
presents itself to a hoy of princi
ple, he doesn’t have to argue with
himself about it. Jle doesn’t have
to inquire whether the seeming
alvantages out weight the disad
vantages. lie is boss of himself. He
is a real ruler and king by eternal
principles, and not a cringing,
cowardly slave of seeming tempo
rary advantage, driven this way
or that by every wind that blows.
What I have so izx has been
simple for the purpose of emphasi
zing the idea thal there are just
fair kinds of capital you can use
IIVER DIDNT ACT
DIGEST{ON WAS BAD
Say* 65 year OU Kentucky Lady, Who Telia How She Wat Relieved
Alter a Few Doses of Black-Draught.
Meadors vllls, Ky.—Mra. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, says: "At
my age, which is 65, the liver does
not act so well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn’t act My digestion was bad, and
it took so little to upset me. My ap
petite was gone. I was very weak...
I decided I would give Black-
Draught a thorough trial as I knew it
was highly reoommended for this
trouble. I began taking it I felt
better after a few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
Bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a tow
in getting ahiad in the world:
(1) A sound body.
(2) A trained mind.
(3) A disciplined spirit.
(4) Money or property.
The fourth item which some
people seem to think most impor
tant, is really least important, but
it is nevertheless important
enough to deserve mighty serious
consideration.
Do you remember that phrase in
Tennyson’s poem, “The Brook,”
about “how money breeds”? Well
anyhow the phrase suggests an
idea w hich a boy who expects to
get ahead in the world had better
keep in mind.
Money breeds. Money multi
plies. Iron doesn’t. Brass doesn’t.
A rock doesn’t. A silver or gold
nugget doesn’t. But money does.
Consequently if you wish to have
a competence in your old age, you
had better set some money breed
ing pretty early in life.
And remember when you spend
a dollar needlessly now you are
throwing away not only the dol
lar, but also throwing - away the
interest on that money every year
as long as you live. Suppose you
could invest your wasted dollar so
it would bring in only 6 per cent
compounded. Very well, before
you are an old man, your .+ 1 would
he $lO before you are seventy
years old, assuming that you are
yet in your teens, your $1 would
have become sl6. Or in other
words, if you before you are
twenty years old, waste SIOO that
you might have saved, you have
wasted what would have become
$1,600 to you in your old age. Or
SI,OOO saved now would become
$5,000 in your forties or $15,000
before you are seventy.
Whenever you are tempted to
waste a dollar, therefore, remem
ber that you are wasting not only
sl, but the five, ten or fifteen ad
ditional dollars which that one
dollar would make you if you only
gave it a chance—if you let it
breed. A boy’s money is his, “seed
corn” money. If you have only
just enough seed corn to plant in
your cornfield, you take care of
every grain. Plant it and you will
have more corn next year. In the
same way, if you have just enough
money to epuip yourself for life,
take "are of every penny. Invest
them wisely and you will have
more next year and every year
thereafter. Money breeds.
I don't mean, of course, that
you ought to he a miser. I pity the
man who doesn’t cultivate “the
grace of giving.” 1 am sorry for
the man who isn’t willing to give
to worthy causes and to spend
money for things that enrich life
—books and music and beauty
and a reasonable degree of whole
some recreation.
But what you as a boy ought to
try to do is to save money from
useless expenditures and useless
habits—cigarettes, tobacco, the
soft drink habit, extravagant
“showing off,” and all spending
of money just because somebody
else is spending it. or because some
sliek-tongued agent with some
newfangled proposition expresses
doses of Black-Draught"
Seventy years of successful use has
made Thedford’s Black-Draught a
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught can
give In cleansing the system and re
lieving the troubles that come from
constipation, Indigestion, laey liver,
etc. You cannot keep well unless your
stomach, liver and bowels are in good
working order. Keep them that way.
Try Black-Draught. It acts promptly,
gently and In a natural way. If you
feel sluggish, take a dose tonight
You will feel fresh tomorrow. Price
25c. a package—One cent 0 dose
▲H druggists. J. Cft
a willingness to separate your
money from you. In all such cases
just call to mind the wise, wise
saying of old John Ploughman’s:
“Learn to say, No. It will be of
more use to you than to be able to
read Latin.” Resolve that no mat
ter how much courage u may take,
you will save money from all such
foolish expenditures and set it to
“breeding” until you have the be
ginning of your future fortune.
The question of how to invest
your savings—how best to make
your money breed—is one we shall
dismiss in a future letter.
Sincerely your friend,
(’LARENCE POE.
Take the Short Route.
When you talk, observes an educa
tor, whether in conversation or In
meeting, use short words, of which
there are more than there are of long
ones, and to'ae the most direct road
to your meaning. Your meaning’s the
same.
CALOMEL SALIVATES
AND MAKES YOU SICK
Acts like dynamite on a sluggish
liver and you lose a
day’s work.
There's no reason why a person
should take sickening, salivating cal
omel when a few cents buys a large
Irot.tle of Dodson's Liver ’Tone—a
perfect substitute for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just -as
surely as calomel, but it doesn't
make yon sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson’s I.ivor Tone, because it is
perfectly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug. It
is mercury and attacks your bones.
Take a dose of nasty calomel todav
and you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated tomorrow. Don’t lose a
day’s work. Take a spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone instead and
you will wake up feeling great. No
more biliousness, constipation, slug
-gishness, headache, coated tongue or
sour stomach. Your druggist save if
you don’t find Dodson’s Liver Tone
acts bettor than horrible calomel
your money is waiting fur you.
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WINDER, Phone 82 GEORGIA!
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1 w ill he in position to furnish your supply
of Coal for the coming winter by June Ist.
I have fifteen cars of Blue Gem block Coal
for gratfr purposes, and several cars of nut and
egg Coal for furnace purposes.
I WILL SELL YOU BLUE GEM
at SB.OO per ton
City Coal Cos.
Geo. Thompson, Mgr.
Land For Sale
160 acres, 4 1 /> miles south of Dacula, Ga., 4-room house,
3-horse farm, barn, good pastur. 25 acres of original forest,
plenty of wood, public road divides it. Selling for only
$40.00 per acre.
40 acres red land, good house and outbuildings; 4 miles
east of Winder, at $90.00 per acre.
330 acres,Hancock Cos., Ga. farm open, 3 tenant
3-horse farm, barn, good pasture. 25 acres of original forest,
houses. Thousands of feet of second-growth pine and hard
wood timber; 90 acres in bottoms, at $25.00 per acre. Easy
Terms.
785 acres in Hancock county; 6-room dwelling; 7 ten
ant houses, large barn. 3 miles hog wire fence, on public
road and mail route, phone line. In D/2 miles of schools,
churches and stores. Gin and corn mill with 30-horse pow
er engine and boiler goes with this. 10-horse farm open, and
over a million feet of saw timber. Sold together at $25.00
per acre, or will cut and give choice at $30.00. Other farms
at attractive prices.
See me before you buy
City property for sale and rent.
Loans made.
W. H. QUARTERMAN, Atty.