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A PLEA FOR BEAUTY ABOUT THE FARM HOME. Mr. French Talks About T rees, Green Grass and Flowers and How They Add to the Joy of Living. While this may not be the best time for destroying weeds over the greater part of our territory, it is a g time for ridding the pastures, diteb banks and Jenee row s of hushes and briers. This is a work we should not no jgleet, because o! the effect briers and bushes have upon llie farm and the fanner. We all realize what it means to a farm to be overgrown with soil-robbing plants. (, l'teii onothird of the land on w hich taxes arc paid is abso lutely useless on account of being covered with plants that are of no value to the farmer. However, as I see it. this is not the Worst effect of bushes and briers on our farms, the worst effect being the spirit of slackness engendered in the farm folks through constant contact with things that shouldn’t be; conditions that were brought about by some one’s backing oft' from tasks that lie knew should have had his attention. Easy going is second nature to Ilie most of us, and if indulged in too often becomes lirsl nature, •which means simply a lowering of manhood. The head of a farm busi ness infected with this easy-going germ becomes in many cases a source of infection to his family and often to his whole neighbor hood. I low different it is with the man who keeps a firm grip on things all the time! Eoree waves fairly radiate from him in all di rections. 11 is children grow up under an influence Hint breeds strength of character. 11 is neigh bors instinctively draw from him something that tends to make them builders rather than drift ers. So mattocks and mowing ma chines used at odd spells on a farm may lie not only great farm hcautitiers and improvers, hut character-builders as well. Now, too, is a good time to lay the foundation for a pretty door yard (I use the word dooryard ra eountry smell of that name.) It is flier than lawn, because I like the the whole yard is an ugly hole— ugly holes—to plow and harrow if the time to haul in soil to fill the and give the soil time to become thoroughly settled by the middle of September mi lirst of October, whichever time is best for sowing grass seed in thf section where the yard is located. ff’!.**' The farm needs a pretty grass covered yard, because such a yard is a thing of hcautv, and beauty breeds character in folks. It is a strong force for raising humans above the ordinary. Children) nat urally love beauty'. I am being eon stnntlv reminded of this fact. Oulv ;i few days ago, <1 tenant funner accompanied by bis two little boys drove up to our bouse on a matter of business. The father and I were talking when the smaller of the boys exclaimed. “Papa, isn't that a pretty yard!” The father paid no attention, so the boy called attain, and the third time. The yard, in question is nothing elabo rate, —simply a half-acre nicely graded, covered with a dense sod, and bordered by trees and shrubs. * A good lawn, like a good mea dow. is dependent for its life upon very rich soil. Rich soil retains moisture to a far greater degree than does poor soil, because, prin cipally, of its greater depth and more generous supply of organic matter. So. in the preparation of the dooryard. work into the soil! all the stable manure that can be! spared. Plow it in first, then top dress with a liberal coat of the! most-thoroughly rotted manure.' and several Inn In 1 pounds per 1 acre of acid pliospi ate. After the seed is sowed or ,! Itermnda set or both, roll thoi ■ ghiy with ihe heaviest roller to In had. Next spring topdress i\ith 1(H) pounds! per acre of nitrate o Main. < hit the! grass once per week and let all j clippings remain on tiie land. This work will cost only three or four days of labor of man and team, and a very few dollars. It will be worth S2OO to many a farmer’s self-respect and will add SSO worth to the pleasure of his wife and children, and over SI,OOO to 1 lie value of tlie farm. If the yard is now covered thick ly with trees, dig out enough of 1 lion to let the sun get to the ground over the greater part of the yard, retaining those with the best leaf development and best shaped tops and that are located near the outer edge of the yard. While trees ar beautiful by them selves, trees and grass combined make for greater beauty. And grass in the South cannot flourish where the trees are closely set. Better far have from three to ten beautiful headed trees and a fine sod of grass than 50 tall tree trunks with bushes at the top and bare ground beneath. If a man is living on the land simply to dig out dollars, he ought to change to a coal mine or stone quarry. Farms, if we may judge from their possibilities, were in tended for homes where people can really live and where children may be developed who will be higher-class citizens than were their fathers before them. Person ally, I am all “fed up’’ on this spirit that is so very common in the world today—that of fighting and scheming for dollars which are in turn spent for tilings that add nothing to the joy of living; which are all too often used to court the things that tend to de grade that most wonderful thing a human being created in the image of Almighty Hod. A. L FKKXCir. In The Progressive Farm err. MARTIN INSTITUTE OPENS FOR TERM AT JEFFERSON Jefferson, Ga., September 6. Martin Institute opened for the fall session Monday morning with over 300 pupils enrolled. The teachers are: L. F. Elrod, super intendent; (\ B. Ingram, vocation al; Miss Eva McElhannon, voca tional; Prof. O’Rear, principal; Miss Ethel McConnell, high school. Misses Ruth Whitehead. lama Mac Harrison. Marguerite Holder, Mir iam Uennctt, Ernestine Dadisman, Blanche Jarrott. The sixth grade and music teacher are yet to he .supplied. LOST KEYS. f •% * 1 lost my hunch of Keys, had my name on tag. Finder will please return to me and oblige.— W. IT. Quarterman. G. M. C. The World’s Standard Truck. Sold by Smith Hardware Cos. jßbju We are just as anxious to see you at our store, whether you come o buy or jus to look about and investigate our values. We are running a hardware store for you. Our constant aim is to meet your wishes in our line. It is a pleasure to show you our goods to sell them to you, or to serve you in any other way. Come in as often as you will. • WE GUARANTEE YOU YOUR MONEYS' WORTH ■ Woodruff Hardware Cos. Winder. Georgia. ■ A WORD FROM THE BLUD WINE PRESIDENT A progressive BLUDWIXF bot ller has asked me what 1 thought of the strikes and threatened strikes, and how they would affect Ids business and mine. -My answer to him, and to every other business mail is—forget it! This country was never so pros perous as now. There was never so much money in the hands of spenders. There was never such de mand for everything—especially soft drinks. Will strikes come? Sure they will! Strikes in the mines, strikes in shop and factory, strikes on railroads; and in some sections riots and other ugly things of greater or less .serious ness. These things are to be ex pected—are almost necessary— while the country is adjusting it self to the new conditions, while the world is getting back to its senses after being on a long nerve racking spree, and while those who are scheming and evil-minded have better opportunity to work their mischief. Strikes and lic-ups and riots here and there may discommode us. But so did the war, and so did the “Flu.” Now that the war is won and the first (the worst) “Flu” epidemic is conquered with only slight disarrangement of bus iness, why be afraid? Inconveniences will come, sure, but they will he temporary! Even il thy should become so serious that you have to shut down for a week, what of it? You more than make up for it the week you are in operation, when the demand for vour product is more than double the demand in dull times. If some of the railroads are tied up for a time, remember, it can’t last always—and the fellow who is alert for big business will get big business, and will not he seriously upset by temporary ineonvenees. Our government, the spirit and brains of our best people, have al ways been equal to trying periods, and will he found more than equal to the troubles we may need to go thru. Get busy! Be prepared both for the little troubles that may come and for the big business during and following them. 11. C. ANDERSON. Athens, Ga., August 27, 1919. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM LANDS. At 6 Per Cent Interest I make farm loans for five years’ time in amounts from $500.00 to SIOO,OOO. I have an office on Hie 2nd floor °f the Winder National P. Building, and am in my W office on Wednesday and each week. S. G. BROWN Attorney. Lawrencevdle, (V —gia. Here ; . 1 !';• " ■ ■.. . , " ■ WHETHER YOU LOOK OR BUY the Kitchen Cabinet that saves miles of steps Give your wife a square deal Give her as efficient time and labor saving equipment as you expect in your own work. And don't expect her to be con stantly cheerful if she works without these helps. She will tell you that kitchen work tires her most —that her time and strength are wasted in walking to and fro, gathering up this and that while preparing and clearing up after meales. That means she needs a Hoosier kitchen cabinet —the saver of W. T. ROBINSON Telephone 146 WINDER, GA. “EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL” From the smallest bulb to the largest motor, at lowest possi ble prices. “Quality” House Wiring. . ————— r v r age C. Gregory Electrical Contractor. Phone 364 or -10 INDIGESTION LOSS OF_APPETITE And Similar Troubles Helped by Ziron Iron Tonic, Says Alabamian. "1 pot a bottle of Ziron”, writes Marshall Rhordee, of Eufaula. Ala., "and took It for Indigestion, nervous ness. loss of appetite and similar trou bles. It helped me very much. My mother-in-law suffered with the same troubles, so 1 gave her a dose or two of Ziron, and she says It helped her greatly. I will always keep a bottle of Ziron In the house and will speak a good word for It whenever I have the opportunity." Ziron Is anew combination of Iron, with the bypophosphltes of lime and soda, and otiier valuable tonic Ingre dients, which have been found to build up the enemlc, weak, worn-out system. Ziron puts iron Into your blood when you need It. If you are pale, weak, nervous, depressed, have no appetite, It Is probably a sign that your blood needs Iron. Take Ziron. Your druggist sells It, on a guaran tee. See him about It. ZN 6 \our Blood Needs Old Familiar Discovery. Every’ now and then there comes a substitute for gasoline, amply filling he place of the old discoveries of per* >etuul motion. —Ntw York Sun. A Fine Farm for SALE Near Winder We aave for sale a fine farm of 149 acres five miles out from Winder, on the Public Higeway to Jefferson. This farm has a nice 6-room residence and two 3-room dwellings. This price and terms make this an at tractive proposition and you have an oppor tunity that is seldom offered for so desirable a farm. Lamar & Perry Winder, Georgia OLD TIME SINGING. There will be an old time sing ing on the second Sunday, Sept. 14th, at the First Methodist Church of Winder, beginning at 2 o'clock eastern time. health, the maker of happiness. Hoosier is a scientifically ar ranged, finely constructed de vice for saving time and labor. It contains over 40 inventions and conveniences. It has a place for over 400 articles —all within arm’s reach. And its cost is low. Easy payments if you desire. Bring her to our Hoosier de partment, Let her select the model that pleases her most. Give her square deul! Old and young are invited to come and,take a part in singiirg those gospel songs our fathers and mothers sang and rejoiced over. We are looking for good singers from a distance.