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HILLTOP FARM NOTES
By Clarence Poe. In The Progres
sive Fanner.
“Aaron Finished Paying for His
Land Last Winter.’’
“Aaron finished paying for his
land last winter.” This was the re
mark 1 heard about one of my
young neighbors the other day,
and the phrase kept coining back
to my mind. 1 hadn’t known much
about Aaron, built after this re
mark, I felt that I knew a good
deal about him. And I kept think
ing about him.
Aaron is evidently a young man
of ambition, lie did not inherit
land, but he did inherit—or deve
lop—a wholesome desire to get
ahead in the world. He was not
content to remain a landles tenant.
He had ambition, which is about
the first essential for progress.
In the second place, Aaron had
industry. A man may have all the
ambition on earth, but it will take
him nowhere without industry.
And in the third place, Aaron
had thrift. That is to say, he knew
how to take care of his money af
ter he made it.
Of these three things I feel con
fident —namely, that Aaron has
ambition, industry, thrift. If he
had lacked any one of these three
qualities, I should hardly have
heard about his rising to the dign
ity tff a freeholder. And 1 strongly
suspect that Aaron has another as
set equally as.valuable an any of
the other three—namely, a good,
sensible wife. While Aaron is “di
ligent to know the state of his
flocks and looks well to his herds,”
his wife on the inside of the home
no doubt helps as only a thrifty
v/ife can do. She no doubt knovf.s
how to avoid all waste, how to get
the most service out of clothing,
the best results from food, and by
encouragement and advice has
steadily helped Aaron on to the
happier station they have now
reached.
Why Landlords and Agriculture
Leaders Should Do Farm Work.
All of these reflections eame to
my mind as 1 worked*in my blos
soming cotton field the other day.
Which reminds me to say that 1
believe every demonstration agent
every agricultural teacher, every
agricultural college president, ev
ery head of an agricultural organ
ization, and every leader in any
line of agricultural effort ought to
be made to spend at least two
weeks each year doing actual
manual work on the farm. Such a
plan-will do much, both actually
and figuratively, to keep him
“near the soil” and with a genu
ine understanding of the farmer’s
problems.
1 also believe that every import
ant landowner, whether he lives in
town or country, outfit tn spend at
least two weks each year doing
farm work. I once heard a great
preacher explain the difference be
tween mere belief and conviction
by saying that a man may have all
his life a belief that hornets have
not tempers. Some day be acciden
tally breaks up a hornet’s nest
and ever after his belief is a con
viction! Now in the same way, a
landowner bay have a belief that
be ought to get rid of rocks and
stumps in his field, but when he
actually gets behind the plow-han
dles, the belief becomes a convic
tion—and the conviction is likely
to get results. And once a man
makes up his mind that he is going
to get rid of stumps or rocks, it is
astonishing how last the work can
be done. 1 proved that to my satis
faction this spring. .Moreover, if a
landlord works a day or so every
now and then with wornout, anti
quated, labor-wasting tools and
machinery, the belief about the
value of improved machinery will
also become a gonvictiou. And so
on.
Turning to the broader aspects
of the farm work question, I am
also interested to see how many
men of thought and leadership are
turning to the idea expressed
sometime ago by Mr. Arthur M.
Judy •
“Well may we question whether
any .?i\ilization will permanently
endure until one comes into exis
tence which calls every man, wo
man, and child, part of the day to
physical toil in the open, part of
the day to mental toil within
doors. That only can be the com
plete life of a human being, that
only the perfect life of a nation.”
Watch the Weather' Report.
This rainy spell in May I have
just mentioned taught me another
lesson. This is as to the value of
watching the Weather Bureau re
port. And by this 1 mean not only
the weather man’s daily or weekly
prediction, but his “pionthly sum
mary” as well. The flrst of each
month, or oftener, ye* ;; J 1 remem
ber, he issues a statement showing
what is the year’s “excess” or
“deficiency” in rainfall up to that
date. That is what 1 have learned
to watch. Whenever 1 notice that
the “accumulated deficiency to
date” is (i or 7 inches—that is to
say, that up to date, we lack 6 or
7 inches of having had as much
rain as tlie average for this period
of the year—l look out. The Lord
has a way of evening things up as
Tie goes along, and w hile such a
deficiency may be carried along
for several months before the debt
is .settled, the safest thing is to get
ready for a sudden settlement at
any time. It’s a good idea to watch
the weather report.
Making Farming a Fine Art.
I took a Sunday dinner the
other day with a farmer-acquain
tance of whom one may well say,
“May his tribe increase!”
To this man farming is a fine
art. lie bought most of his land
land years ago when it was galled
and gullied, almost “worn out”
as most of the neighbors thought,
lie has made it his life-work to
nurse these acres back to health
and fruitful comeliness. He has
thought of himself as truustee for
the Almighty, the responsible
care-taker for a portion of God’s
footstool. He lias had for his ideal
the saying of Carlyle’s: “Oh, it
is great and there is no other
greatness, to make some nook of
God’s creation more fruuitful, bet
ter, more worthy of God!” And
this truest greatness of our friend
has most assuredly won.
It was an inspiration to walk
over his beautiful fields and find
with what surgeon-like skill lie
had healed a bleeding u" fly-wound
at this point; how carefully he had
laid off a land-saving terrace on
this Hillside; how wisely he had
brought yonder water-seeped bot
tom into beauty and productive
ness by means of tile drainage;
how happily he had made straight
a crooked stream and thereby
made more shapely a promising
field; how prudently he had con
verted a tract unfit for tillage into
a fruuitful pasture: and with what
concern for the beautiful he had
nurtured the giant oaks and the
flowering vines and shrubbery
which surrounded the fair home
and gardens.
As we walked and talked with
this man, we found in him the
same glorious, ennobling passion
which dignifies the true artist, no
matter in what work he may he
engaged. No sculptor working out
his dream in marble, no painter
striving to put a God-given ideal
on canvas, no great-hearted sur
geon seeking to heal a broken hu
man body and make it whole
again, has more truly the artist
soul than this farmer. For him life
has a meaning, and this meaning
has comforted him. The ancient
prophet said. “Where there is no
vision, the people perish;” and
the same thing is true of an indivi
dual. Where there is no vision, the
man perishes. This farmer has had
u vision. Years ago lie caught a
vision of whet his farm ought to
i>c. and year by year, bp prudence
and economy—not by any waste
ful expenditure, for he has never
been wealthy—he has worked to
ward the realization of this vision.
Training Sons to Carry on One’s
Work.
And as this man sat under
great oaks and talked with his
sons, another illustration of the
fine spirit of the true artist spoke
itself out. This man, wishes his
work to live on after him. It will,
of course, live in some fashion, but
he wishes it to live worthily. Do
you remember that wonderful
“prayer of Moses, the man of
God,” in the tK)th Psalm —how in
his ripe old age the burden of
Moses’ heart utters itself in the un
forgettable petition, “And estab
lish Thou the work of our hands
upon us; yea, the work of our
hands, establish Thou it!”
In like fashion our farmer
friend spoke of his work. He wish
es his sons to take up the task
where he must sometime drop it,
and carry it on. And it gladdens
his age to feel that they will do
so. Jn this man’s love for the soil,
in his genuine appreciation for
the very earth of which lie has
been God’s caretaker, and his
earnest wish to have his sons carry
it on after him, one finds the spirit
back of the ancient estates and
country homes of England; tlie
spirit, too, which reveals itself
among the ancient nobility of Ja
pan who have a hitter work of re
proach for which there is no ac
tual equivalent in English, but
which means “a seller of the an
cestral land.” In the philosophy of
Old Japan, the love and labor
which one’s father and mother,
and their fathers and mothers be
fore them, have put on a piece of
land have hallowed that land. It,
has become too personal, too sa
cred, to be regarded as a mere
commodity to be sold for gain. We
need more of tLis spirit in Amer
ica. V
YOUR COUNTY HOARD
OF HEALTH.
Every county in Georgia has a
County Board of Health. Some do
not seem to know it. Yet it is true.
If we were to judge by the reports on
Venereal Diseases that are received
at the State Board of Health, we might
not make the statement so emphatic.
Yet it is true.
Under the Ellis Health Law the
Chairman of the Commission of
Roads and Revenue and the County
School Commission are made the
Board of Health for their county. This
is a legal board for the transaction of
business. It is enjoined upon the
Grand Jury to select a physician,
who completes this board of three
members. So ycu see you have a
Board of Health. You should use
them. These Boards of Health should
organize, and be active. They are
supposed to receive reports from the
physicians of their county and trans
mit them to the State Board of
Health.
In epidemics they have active
charge and shonld be ready to func
tion. A copy of this law will be
sent to any one asking for it.
GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH.
Clean Army
Perhaps the cleanest body of men
ever assembled was General Per
shing’s army when ready to go over
the top. The life of continence is es
sential to the athlete, the soldier and
under all conditions where manhood
in its fullest sense is demanded.
Is that demand any more urgent
to the army than to every day life?
The boys who went “over the top”
have taugh'; the lesson; will you heed
it?
Packing the Soil.
It has been estimated" by authorities
that a man weighing 170 pounds, wear
lng No. 8 shoes, creates a pressure of
14 pounds to the square inch of surface
where he steps. A horse weighing 1,-
400 pounds creates a pressure of ap
proximately 18 to 33 pounds per
square Inch under his hoofs while pull
ing an average load. A tractor weigh
ing in the neighborhood of 1,800 pounds
exerts a pressure only about ten
pounds to the square Inch.
Famous Old English Castle.
Warwick castle is said to have been
hullt by the Saxons before the first
William landed on Albion’s shores. One
of its old towers has seen a thousand
sutnmers come and go. while the other
portions of the structure belong to the
fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries.
It Is one of the mo* romantic and
picturesque edifices In England and is
associated with the memory of the
great “kingmaker” of the wars of the
roses. Count Ouy and other heroes who
have clanged in heavy artwn through
the spacious rooms and in the banquet
hall drank the health of the beauteous
ladles of their line.
HEROES OF GRAY TO HOLD
REUNION MERE, OCT.-! ?
Atlantans Will Be Asked to Open
Their Homes to Vetrans of Six
ties During Four Da;’’; Meeting.
October 7,8, !) and 10 was set as
the date Friday afternoon by a
special organization committee on
which Atlanta will extend her
warmest hospitality to the Confed
erate vetrans of the south in an
nual reunion.
Atlanta’s great body of citizens
w ill he asked to open their homes
to these gray-dad heroes of the
sixties during their four days’ of
sojourn in the city. Plans are to
be made for their entertainment
on a scale which could not he ex
ceeded if this were her last oppor
tunity to honor the south’s glori
ous old warriors, as indeed it will
be for many of them.
More than 8,000 vets, survivors
of the Confederate army, will
come to Atlanta, and in addition
sons and daughters of the Confed
eracy and Hie Confederate Mem
orial association, making a grand
total of something more than 50,-
000 aside t’mn other visitors who
will be entertained by Atlanta on
the occasion of the reunion.
Will Care for Overflow.
Should the number of private
homes prove inadequate to care
for the veterans while here provi
sion will be made for the overflow
by the erection of a tented city,
probably in Piedmont park. Those
in charge of •entertainment plans
realize that being host for four
days to so large an assemblage is
a big undertaking and they are
planing accordingly.
To aid the comitee in this re
spect the services of General Na
than 11. Forest, of Biloxi, Miss.,
which lmvc 1 e n of .••.•cat assis
tance to committees in other cities
where annual reunions have been
held, will be sought. He will be
asked to come to Atlanta and ad
vise with the committees in per
fecting arrangements for the
event.
For
Weak
Women
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for women.
There are no harmful or
habit-forming drugs In
Cardui. It is composed
only of mild, medicinai
ingredients, with no bad
after-efiects.
TAKE
CARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
You can rely on Cardui.
Surely it will do for you
what it has done for so
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“I was taken sick,
seemed to be . . .
writes Mrs. Mary E.Veste,
of Madison Heights, Va.
“I got down so weak,
could hardly walk . . .
just staggered around.
. . . I read of Cardui,
and after taking one bot
tle, or before taking quite
all, I felt much better. I
took 3 or 4 bottles at
that time, and was able to
do my work. I take it in
the spring when run
down. I had no appetite,
and I commenced eating.
It is Uie best tonic I ever
saw." Try Cardui.
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Blunders.
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accomplishment.
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clear the way for Progress.
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The National Bank in this vicinity.
UVER DIDN'T ACT IN
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Say* 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Telia How She Was Relieved
After a Few Doses of Black-Draught
Meadorsvllls, Ky.—Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, nays: “At
my age, which Is €5, 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 recommended for this
trouble. I began taking it I felt
better after a few doaes. My appetite
Improved and I became stronger. My
oowele acted naturally and the least
kraubU was soon righted with a Caw
An Underwater Swimmer.
A beaver can swim 200 yards un
der water without once coming to th*
surface nnd can remain under water
from five to ten minutes.
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Title of Admir.
The rank or title of adni'ral did not
exist in the United States navy until
1806, when tt was created t.y congress
and conferred or David G. Farragut.
He held it until his death, in 1870, and
tils successors have been: David D.
Porter, 1870 to 1891, George
Dewey, from 1800 till his desth, Janu
ary 10, 1. 17. With his death the tltl
lapsed nnd has not been revived.
J doses of Black-Draught*
| Seventy years of successful use has
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member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught caa
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Try Black-Draught. It acta promptly,
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