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BUIIS COUNTV PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter, Novem ber 8, 1'.*07, at the post oft! cc at Jackson, fia. Telephone No. 166. Communications are welcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to ftOO words, as communications over that length cannot be handled. Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Patronize the R. F. D. service. No better time to pay up than riprht now. Cut out war talk and talk bus iness. It’s more profitable. What has become of the old fashioned man who said, I’ll pay as I go?” If the price of wheat continues to soar corn dodgers will soon take the place of biscuits. Macon claims to be a city of 55,000 souls-to say nothing of blind tigers and beer saloons. How would you like to be the weather man and get all the cussing and abuse being heaped upon that individual? The weather has prevented the farmers from doing much plow ing to date. Another point in favor of a smaller cotton urop. General. Robert E Lee’s birth day falls on next Tuesday and the day will be appropriately ob served throughout the country. While the most of us are won dering whin the war will end here comes Lord Kitchener and says the war will really begin in May. This is the year of all years when the people want to see an economical administrotion of the public business and a lower tax rate this fall. Well informed citizens declare the quantity of fertilizer used in 1915 will be much less than last year. This, of course, will make for a smaller cotton crop. Butts county ought to take up the Pig Club work in a determin ed sort of way. There is need of all the hogs that can be raised. Hogs make an excellent substi tute for cotton. A preacher in Thomson, Ga.. voluntarily reduced his salary S3OO a year, giving as his reason the fact that he wanted to share in the hard times forced upon the people of this section by the war. During his four years as gov ernor Blease of South Carolina has pardoned more than three thousand criminals. He turned loose over a thousand felons at one stroke of his pen a few days ago. Mayor Davant of Savannah has had his salary raised to $6,000 a year and is now the best paid mayor in the South. He will de vote his entire time to the office and his friends say he is worth | the price. The people of Georgia did not warm up much to Belgian immi gration. The fact is all of the cities are full of families who would like to get a few acres to cultivate under the same condi tions as were offered the Belgians We felicitate The Butts County Progress on its thirty-third birth day. Editor Doyle Jones has one of the brightest and best week lies in Georgia and we always look forward to its coming. May the new year bring even greater success to Editor Jones and his excellent paper. Monroe Adver tiser. Hearing From the Farmer It is gratifying to observe the protest of the farmers of Butts county against any curtailment of rural free delivery service. There has never been anything done that meant more to the productiveness, attractiveness and success of the farm than the “R. F. D.” The tendency toward the city life is largely due to the isolation of the farmer—his inability to have companionship for himself and family or communication with the outside world. The tel ephone is a great modern asset to the farm, but the mail service brings the the world’s doings to the farm door daily. Millions of money is spent by the government and the news papers to place before the people information which is of benefit, and of all the people whose wel fare is most important and to whom the information is most essential the farmer heads the list. The R. F. I>. gives the far mer in addition an express ser vice that enables him to send to the market at small cost any pro ducts from the farm as they are ready, thus providing another very desirable and in time popu lar convenience for both the pro ducer and consumer. The farmers of Butts are to be congratulated on taking an inter est in the suggestion of curtail ment of the R. F. D. service and filing a protest. The service should be improved and increased in every way possible—not re duced.—Macon Telegraph. Save the Breeding Stock. In making settlement this fall and winter we fear the breeding animals in the south may suffer a depletion, which we can ill afford at this time. It is not unusual for the mortgages on which sup plies to make a crop are obtained to include the cattle and other live stock on the farm. If the merchant or landlord is not able to collect what is due him he may take the sows and other young female stock, and when this is done it is usually shipped out of the South. While we cannot de ny any man the right to take the stock covered by mortgage in or der to collect what is due him, this is a time when every effort should be made, both by the creditor and the debtor, to save all the female live stock now on the farms of the south. Non producing animals may be sacri ficed, but surely every mare that will bring a colt, every cow that will produce a calf, and every sow that will furnish a litter of pigs from w T hich the farmer may make his meat supply shuld be spared. In the long run this will not only be the best for the farmer, but it will also result in benefit to the merchant and land lord. By all means, the creditor "10 CENT CASCARETS” IF BILIOUS OR COSTIVE For Sick Headaches, Sour Stomach, Sluggish Liver and Bowels—They Work While You Sleep. Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, In digestion, Sallow Skin and Miser able Headaches come from a tor pid liver and clogged bowels, which cause your stomach to be come filled with undigested food, which sours and ferments like garbage in a swill barrel. That’s the first step to untold misery indigestion, foul gases, bad breath yellow skin, mental fears, every thing that is horrible and nausea ting. A Cascaret tonight will give your constipated bowels a thor oughcleansing and straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep—a 10-cent box from your druggist will keep you feel ing good for months, adv should spare the females on the farm, and every one of them should be put to work by the farmer, for the increase will be needed as a “money crop” or to increase the home food supply. — The Progressive Farmer. State of Ohio, cfty of Toledo, Lucas County, ) Ha " Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is Benior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Cos., doing business in the City of To ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and ev ery case of Catarrli that cannot be cured by the use of HALL’S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. (Seal) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Curo is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces of tho system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The year 1915 is here, and watchman what of the night? A lot of grain is sown but not as much as we would like to see, but it isn’t too late to sow oats yet until the 15th of March. Burt oats will make fine on good land sown that late. If you haven’t sown a good supply, by all means sow more. This is one year the farmer must take hold of the sit uation as rough as pig iron by making a crop as economically as possible. And the way to do it is cut expenses in every way that is in keeping with common sense. Go to work and make a crop and then we wont owe it when we make it. Plant such crops as will mature early and that will hedge us against the hard times, j Don’t fail to plant a big crop of corn. The time has passed to make big crops of cotton to be given away. There is a lot being said at pres ent about what it cost to ship a bale ©f cotton to Germany, but they fail to tell you what they get for it after they get it there. Now just hold your breath while we put down a few figures. The lowest estimate to make 500 pounds of cotton is S4O and the average price the farmer gets is $35. So you see the farmer is $5 behind in the transaction. Now let’s figure a little and see what the cotton buyer gets out of it. He buys your bale of cotton at $35, he pays $18.75 to get it to Germany. So he is out $53.75. He sells it for 18 cents per pound, which brings him S9O and when he deducts $53.75 from it he has a clear profit of $36.25. Now these are figures I dare anybody to de ny. But some smart Alex will stand on the street corner and tell you it is such a risk to get cotton to Germany, when the TO OUR CUSTOMERS On accounts due us we will take Wheat, Corn, Oats, Cotton Seed, Baled Hay, Peas, Hogs, Cows, etc , at market prices. If you haven’t the cash bring us your produce and we will credit your account. We our customers will take advantage of this opportunity to settle what they owe us. This offer is good until further notice. SLATON DRUG CO. The *&GKoJIL Store The Man Who Knows How jfl to put an auto in shape “is not nu merous” but there are plenty who ffys\ practical mechanical knowledge is 1 absolutely necessary, and it takes time to acquire the necessary skill. W e make a specialty of Automobile repairs of all kinds, and also keep a 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 whole truth is the cotton buyer runs no risk at all. For his cotton is insured against all loss before it leaves the American port. Now with all these facts and figures that stand out as bold as a towering mountain over a laugh ing valley that cradles the even ing shadow, ain’t it time for we •farmers to try to see if we can’t have some sense?. Plow Handles. /nvigoratlnr to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVB’6 TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives crat Malaria.enrichea the Mood,andbuilds up the ira te m. A true tonic. For adults and children. 56c