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BIJI lb CUIJNIY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONEW, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter, Novem ber 8,1907, at the poatoftire at Jackson, C; i. Telephone No. 166. Communications are ’velcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ;’OO words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. W rite on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR. If there ever was a time for clear thinking and sane living in our day it is now. The world is passing through a volcanic uphea val, and while we are out of reach of the flames and smoke we are not beyond the reach of the earth quake shocks. But we certainly ought to be thankful and accept whatever comes gladly. Our bus iness affairs may be temporarily disturbed and we may suffer a small amount of inconveniece, but what is that compared with the woes whieh have fallen on the unfortunate countries of Eu rope? Poor Belgium finds itself swept by all the horrors of medie val conquest for no other reason on earth than that she happened to lie between Germany and France. The blight of this mon strous war—a war precipitated by the selfishness and greed of monarchs who still live in the middle ages—has fallen on mil lions of homes in France, Ger many, England, Austria, Russia and even far away China and Japan. How many homes happy and prosperous two months ago are now black with sorrow and the shadow of death! What count less sons and fathers have been snatched from their loved ones with a swiftness and brutality that is shocking beyond human words, and what millions of moth ers and children are left to face a future which is all blackness— a future which for thousands of them is worse than death! For us, who are left at home in peace with our loved ones, to complain about the slight inter ruption of business or the slight decrease in the price of things we have to sell or the slight ad vance in the cost of what we must buy—for us to complain and wor ry is simply childish and contemp tible. If we should not be able to sell one pound of cotton for the next year and had to live abso lutely without sugar, coffee and other things which come from abroad it would not kill us and might do us a lot of good. We can wear our old clothes and for the great majority of im ports now held up by the war we can live without them. It is a good thing for nations just as with individuals to be forced sometimes to stand on their own feet—to live on their own resour ces. Nothing so develops the manhood and resourcefulness of individuals and nations as to be placed where it is a case of root hog or die. When that time comes every hog that is w'orth while will get out and root up a living somehow and be a stronger, bra ver and better hog for having stood the test of adversity, but the few pusilanimous pigs who willdo|nothing but squeal may die and the world will lose nothing when they are out of the way of the vast throng who are willing to face conditions as they come— who are able and glad to fight adverse conditions to the end. For America and Americans the future looms big with promise. After this war is over we will stand forth as the one great world power whose hands are free and whose strength is unimpaired. Vast fields of new business will be opened to us and if we do not! profit by them it is our own fault. The thing for us to do now is to live sanely, simply and cheaply —to save what money we can and go about business cheerfully and with thankful hearts. —DeKalb New Era. MACON CONVENTION. Words are inadequate to ex press our opinion of such farce conventions as the one just held in Macon. If the will of the peo ple is not to be considered why have primaries? This convention failed to nom inate the man whom the people endorsed by a plurality of both popular and county unit votes. It endorsed the wisdom of the Tax Equalization Law and repu diated the man who gave it to them and nominated a man who had fought it bitterly. It endorsed the Parcels Post and nominated the man who was its most bitter enemy and was a tool of express companies. It to tally disregarded the national law which provides for the nomina tion and election of United States Senators by popular vote. It was a farce from start to finish and was wholly dominated by fac tional politics that would be less than creditable to a bunch of ward politicians. Douglas Coun ty Sentinel. How To dive Quinine To Children. FBBRILINE is the trade-mark name given to an improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and doei not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try it the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The name FEBRILINB is blown in bottle. 25 cents. lO Cents COTTON TO OUR CUSTOMERS We will allow our customers on their notes and accounts due us, 10 cents for their cotton, good middling grade, until Odt. lsff., 1914. The old saying is “prepare for war in time of peace.’’ We ap preciate your business and are willing to show our appreciation and make you a price in time of war. Sept. sth, 1914. BAILEY & JONES COMPANY. REMEMBER YOUR LAST DOSE OF CALOMEL? You probably recall the bad af ter-effects of the calomel more than the sickness you took it for. You need never go through with being ‘ ‘all knocked out for a day or two by calomel.” Next time your liver gets slug gish and inactive, we urge that you go to Slaton Drug Cos. for a bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone, a splendid vegetable liquid medi cine that will start your liver as surely as calomel ever did and with none of the after-effects of calomel. It is absolutely harmless both to children and adults and demands no restriction of habits or diet. A large bottle of Dodson’s Liv er Tone costs only fifty cents and the druggists who sell it guaran tee it to take the place of calomel, and will refund your money if it fails in your case or if you are not satisfied, adv 10 CENTS PAID FOR COTTON HERE BAILEY £ JONES THE FIRM Movement Started Here This Week 10 cents a pound for cotton! Announcement by Messrs. Bai ley & Jones that they would pay that price to customers on account has created the keenest sort of interest all over the county. The news spread like wildfire and the result is they are getting stacks of cotton. The offer holds good to the first of October. Other firms are giving a pre mium over the market price, but this enterprising business house was the first in Jackson to offer 10 cents a pound for cotton and their action has been the sensa tion of the local market so far. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Can Be Reduced if you Have a Good Garden. YOU CAN Have a Good Garden if You Get Your Seed Here. SEED FOR FALL PLANTING Turnips, Cabbage, Rutabagas, Beets, Collards, Radishes A COMPLETE LINE. SLATON DRUG CO. he Store Undertakers and Embalmers Oldest and Most Efficient Undertakers in this Section Expert Licensed Embalmers Our Undertaking Parlors Modernly Equipped to Furnish the Best of Selections in Caskets and Robes The J. S. Johnson Company Day Phone 121 Night Phone 84 A Time to Economize 1 MAKE YOUR OWN PAHWd Vou will save 56 cts. per gal Mthb is how Buy 4 gals. L,& M. Semi-Mixed Real I at $2.10 per gal. - - $ 8.4 J And 3 gals. Linseed Oil to mix with it - - 2.40 4 You then make 7 gals, of pure paint for SIO.BO \ ■ Ifs only $ 1.54 per gaL Anybody can mix the OIL with the PAINT. Made In a lew minutes ere 4 if you buy 7 gals, of ready-for-use paint io> CANS, you pay $2.10 a gaL or $14.70. SEMI-MIXED REAL PAINT is PURE WHITE LEAD, “' I ZINC and LINSEED OIL, the best-known paint. materials for 100 years. L Use a gaL out of any IL&M. PAINT you buy and if not the best paint made, return the paint and get ALL your money back* | Newton-Carmichael Hardware Cos., Jackson, Cj m and