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BUIS COUNTY PROGRESS Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter, Novera **r 8,1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Communications are velcomed. Cor respondents will please confine them selves to JMJO 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 Write on one side of the paper only, sign your name, not for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. The rain crop is prolific all right Now is a good time to pay what you owe. Cotton has reached 8 cents. Let her climb. The tax fi fa will soon be num bered among those present. To prove that he was yellow, Blease resigned under fire. You cannot possibly raise too many hogs and cattle this year. Plant a hog. Raise some chick ens. Try some cattle, too, and swat the cost of living. Mr. Rye is governor of Tennes see. Whether the straight stuff or blended we can’t say. The stork having made Presi dent Wilson a grandpa another squall is due at the White House. How about building a flour mill in Jackson this spring? Such an enterprise is needed to encourage wheat production in Butts county That lynching at Monticello was a most disgraceful affair and does no credit to the law-abiding and God-fearing citizens of Jas per county. If you are going to do any building now is a good time to begin. Material and labor can be secured for less than they will cost later on. Go the limit in raising food crops, Mr. Farmer. The mer chants of Jackson will buy all you have to sell. Don’t be afraid of glutting the market. The daily papers are paying cable tolls on a lot of war stuff that couldn’t get by the desk of the editor of the Bingville Bugle ordinarily. At that we under stand it comes high. The chicken editor of The Ma con Telegraph is growing enthu siastic over poultry. He should come up to Jackson and see the yellow-legged pure bred chickens that have made Butts county fa mous. Raise hogs. Everybody raise hogs. Raise all the hogs you can. Raise as big hogs as you can. Make this a hog year in Laurens county. You may lose some of them by cholera; but, then you know', you may make only half a crop of cotton on account of un favorable weather conditions and lose, also in that manner. We wish we could shout it from the house-tops-“RAISE HOGS.”- The Dublin Courier-Herald. The Toll of Death in War In countless homes throughout Europe are heard lamentation and bitter weeping. Millions —yea, hundreds of millions —refuse to be comforted because their loved ones have gone down into the Valley of the Shadow of Death, from which many will never re turn. Husbands, fathers, brothers, sweethearts have said good by, and to millions perhaps it will be earth’s last good-by to all that they hold dearest, to all that is more priceless to them than all material things. On many a battlefield the Grim Reaper will take his heavy toll. Thousands, perchance a million or more, will die in awful suffering without any loving hand to ease the pangs of torture, while many other millions will be maimed for life —some with limbs shot away, some with eyesight gone, some doomed to agony as long as life lasts. When our loved ones pass from us after everything that science can suggest has been done to lengthen their stay and ease their pain, we bow before the awful visitor. Death, and with burdened hearts and bowed heads, even though we have an abiding faith in that eternal life beyond the grave, take up life’s work again. But on the battlefield the dying, torn and shattered by the awtul power of the weapons that man’s ingenuity has furnished for killing man, must suffer the tortues of agonies of pain and the horrors of the dead and dying around them. For every death of the body on these battlefields there are many deaths of the hearts broken by the fearful strain and the overwhelming sorrows of mothers and wives and sisters and sweet hearts and other loved ones who will go down to the grave with bitter weeping, unable to find comfort in any thought of tender ministrations or last words of love and hope of a meeting beyond the grave. This war, so unspeakably unnecessary, so awful in its magni tude, so incomprehensible in any real reason for its exestence, ought surely to give pause to the nations of the earth, and men and women ought everywhere to unite in prayer that in some way its fearful march be halted and in some way peace be brought back to Europe and tens of millions be made to rejoice that their loved ones are to be saved from the useless sacrifice which has already cost so many lives and broken so many hearts. And surely we should pray that this country may forever be saved from any spirit of war, and that its people and its officials may forever remember that a soft answer turneth away wrath, and that the world is to be conquered not by might, but by right. Worthless is the commerce and the wealth of the world when weighed in the balance against death and broken hearts. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, and the victories of peace lift mankind to a higher life; they bring joy in stead of sorrow to every heart and home. Well may this nation and every other on bended knees pray that peace may soon come to Europe, and that we shall forever be known as a peace-loving and peace-preserving nation. —Manufacturers Record. Things are getting better. A number of mills that have been closed down are opening up and others are running on full time. Cotton is looking up and better times are coming. Look for the silver lining and be a booster. Adequate market facilities must be pro', ided for the pro ducts of Georgia farms before crop diversification proves much of a success. The marketing conference to be held in Macon is an important one and should be largely attended. Mr. Lincoln once said: “I don’t know much about the tariff, but I do know that if my wife buys her cloak in America, we get the money and the cloak, and that American labor is paid for pro ducing it; if she buys her cloak abroad, we get only the cloak; the other country gets the money and foreign labor receives the benefit.”—American Economist. This is something to think about when you are buying your mater ials. Put vour money where it will do the most good, and keep as much of it as you can on this side.—Exchange. The Home Paper. Ex-Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri once said the following of newspapers: ‘‘Each year the local paper gives from SSOO to st,ooo in free lines to the com munity in which he is located. No other agency can or will do this. The editor, in proportion to his means, does more for his town than any ten men, and in fairness he ought to be supported—not because you like him or admire his writings, but because the local paper is the 10 GENT “CASGARETS” FOR LIVER AND BOWELS Cure Sick Headache, Con stipation, Biliousness, Sour Stomach, Bad Breath—-Candy Cathartic No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable you are from constipation, indi gestion; biliousness and sluggish bowels—you always get relief with Cascarets. They immediate ly cleanse and regulate the stom ach, remove the sour, fermenting food and foul gases; take the ex cess bile from the liver and carry off the constipated waste matter and poison from the intestines and bowels. AlO cent box from your druggist will keep your liv er and bowels clean, stomach sweet and head clear for months. They work while you sleep, ad best investment a community can make. It may not be brilliantly edited or crowded with thought, but financially it is of more bene fit to the community than the preacher or teacher. Understand me, I do not mean mentally, and yet on moral questions you will find most of the papers on the the right side. Today the editor of the local papers do the most for the least money of any peo ple on earth.’’ One reason why the American navy costs so much more, in pro portion, than other navies is the fact, as everybody knows, that our sailors are paid so much more than sailors in foreign uniforms. And yet there has been no loud cry from anybody for a reduction of their pay. If there is any change in the amount of the money they get it will be more likely an increase than a de 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 *RgKoJISL Store The Man Vi ho Knows How to put an auto in shape “is not nu merous” but there are plenty who claim to have the ability. Expert, practical mechanical knowledge is absolutely necessary, and it takes time to acquire the necessary skill. We make a specialty of Automobile repairs of all kinds, and also keep a full line of the “right kind” of sup plies, on which you may depend. Wagner’s Garage. Undertakers and Embalmers w*f ' - ‘ 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 crease. An American rear ad miral gets twice as much as a French admiral and will likely keep on getting it until France increases her rear admiral’s pay. An American ordinary seamen, third class gets more than four times as much as a French sailor of the same standing, but there is no demand on the part of Americans that our ordinary sea men shall get no more than his French counterpart. —Savannah News. Does the label on your paper read *©-1916? If not, pay up.