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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. MONEY TO LOAN 1 ■■ .isiH 1 J99lffc 8 >hd Money to loan on FARM or CITY PROF^lSe* l .BfriiiHA % TY at low rate of interest. i 1 -oil HJiw n jpbtiiH noebi Applicants wanted for BONDS, LIFE, £ss£<}■-„ DENT, HEALTH, AUTOMOBILE, LlAßffidlf* TORNADO and OTHER LINES of msmX fnob isliaol AXTr T 7 ,IU,L 1 A.ll W'.Lj. turij *mdi b .7 1J Xl'J . We represent only HIGH-CLASS OLD LEGAL RESERVE and TARIFF COMPANIES* vow Vo < nm loi For further particulars call on ri'ilrfv nod 7) I. E. JACKSON z >1 l tt Manager Insurance and Trust Department a i b 1 At rw North Georgia Trust and£ - - . Mil Banking Company - jjr WINDER, Phone 82 GEORGIA! "jre 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.