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Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters sf Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Be up and at it all the time.
Don’t waste too much time making
,up your mind.
Makers of the future—the hoys and
.girls of today.
Rather calloused hands than cal
loused hearts.
No man who is continually at odds
with his neighbors can be at peace
with God.
A hole in the fence is like a hole in
the seat of one's trousers —it demands
Instant attention.
Even a slovenly woman with a tidy
sum in the bank looks like a neat
catch to some men.
We should always keep looking for
happiness. Troubles will find us with
out looking for them.
It used to be considered a joke when
a young man got drunk —now it is
considered a disgrace.
If we give the truth a chance it will
always take care of us and save
many a bitter hearbumlng.
Some men try to put their guilty
conscience to sleep by a sort of hyp
notism —but it seldom stays put.
The man who gives good measure
in bushel and barrel will get good
measure in the esteem of his neigh
bors.
If you have tried to do business on
short measure you have found it did
not pay, and that your reputation was
badly hurt at that.
While it is true that the farmer
must lean on Providence for the
weather, it isn’t wise to lean too long
on the handle of the hoe.
ALL TOGETHER FOR FREEDOM
Opportune Moment for Farmers to
Free Themselves From Oppres
sion and Secure Harmony.
Brothers and friends of the labor
anions, and farmers especially, no.w Is
the time that we farmer#-can drive
the peg of freedom, deeper and fur
ther at one lick, thai' any time be
fore, for last year wa s a failure and
not a half crop now stop and think.
They had the chops and we had to
give just what they asked. Now we
-•hgvg the cotton, they want it, writes
H. Martin of De Leon, Tex., in
the Co-Operator. Now let us make
cotton compete with $2,25 chops,
which would make cotton about 18 or
20 cents. Right is right, and right
will wrong no one, and the very God
of heaven will give us a blessing for
tearing down the hellish combines
and trusts, and building up n union of
peace and happiness and live and let
live. There is too much big “I” and
little “U” for the start the people have
got. Let us think lam just as good
as the business man and make a
business man out of ourselves, by
making our business to hold on to
our cotton and produce till the prices
meet what we have to pay. If we
won’t ask for anything we won’t get
it. The Bible says ask and you shall
receive; seek and you shall find;
knock and it shall be opened to you.
Now let us knock at the doors of the
combines and seek for a good price,
land then ask Unle Sam for a few
[protective laws.
Now, brothers, let us watch and
hunt freedom just where we lost it.
We lost it at the polls and now lpt’s
find it at the polls.
Don’t cuss the other fellow, let’s
cuss ourselves, and don’t do so any
more. Ask yourself: “Does these big
fellows that you go through the rain,
sleet and snow for, help you out of
debt?” Yes, over the left. Do they
make laws in favor of you ? Have
you stopped to think about it? If you
haven’t, stop and ask yourself, have
we got a good law in favor of us?
Now, brothers and friends, the farm
ers at large are after the wrong man
yet. We try to dig our own class
too much, and let the big man dig us.
Let’s do unto brothers as we would
like to be done by and do unto oth
ers as we have been done by, and at
tend to our own business, and let the
other fellow find out if he can. Now,
brothers, let’s watch the polls and
see how the biggest majority of our
laborers vote and go with them if
Ithey have labor men running for of
jflce.
| Feed a Variety of Foods.
Experiments in feeding cattle for
gain in weight show that those receiv
ing a variety, increase in weight at a
cheaper ratio than others fed a single
grain. Besides it helps the health of
the animal. Sameness of feed, day in
and day out, clogs the appetite and
without a good appetite no animal will
thrive. If you have nothing but corn
on the place, sell off some of your corn
and buy oats, bran or some other
change of feed for your cattle.
Queen of Importance.
The best beekeepers realize that
success or failure in a honey'crop is,
to a great extent, dependent upon the
queen. It is folly to disregard this
most vital point of having good
queens.
SOLVE THE RURAL PROBLEM
President Barrett Points Out Ways in
Which Farmer Can Improve Con
ditions by Co-Operation.
(By C. S. BARRETT.)
To the Officers and Members of the
Farmers’ Union:
I have pointed out upon several re
cent occasions that the organized
farmer is facing the most progressive
era in American history, and that the
keynotes of this era were to be those
of business methods and of genuine
co-operation.
There is but one way to hasten and
make National the benefits of that
step forward—and that is in every
farmer in America, whether or not
he is affiliated with the Farmers’
Union, constituting himself a mission
ary for the improvements of condi
tions in his own locality.
The soundest thinkers in America
are agreed that the rural problem is
the greatest one today facing the
country, and that upon its proper
solution must depend largely the safe
guarding of prosperity and of ad
vancement.
Each farm in America presents a
rural problem today. Every farmer
in America, whether the Lord of 1,000
acres, or the poorest "cropper” in the
southern states, must be an individual
solver of that problem as it applies
to himself and to his friends and his
families.
Fqr though the National govern
ment and philanthropists and con
scientious publicists may spend mil
lions in the country districts, their
united efforts will be futile unless the
individual farmer goes about the work
of betterment as though he were re
sponsible for the whole job.
Let that creed be adopted as a na
tional slogan, and the next ten years
will see rural America offering les
sons and models in prosperity and
living conditions to every nation un
der the sun.
To promote this end, it is indis
pensable that every farmer should
make up his mind to the fact, and
act upon it, that he is his brother’s
keeper.
First, look about improving the
lot of your own family, for better
ment like charity always begins at
home. Then when you have adopted
such methods as will make your land
return a maximum of its products,
when you have introduced science
instead oi guess work, and given the
sqirarest of deal in recreation,
education, refineiflent, and social
pleasures to your wlie'-SlldLchildren,
you can turn to and help your heigJt
bor with his burden.
Don’t get too easily out of patience
with the man next door, whom you
may think is a quarrelsome, conten
tious fellow. Bear with him, maybe
his pessimism and sour looks are due
to conditions you can help to remove.
Anyway, don’t forget that every
growler In a community, every knock
er or back-biter, is standing in the
way of progress not. only for him
self, but for yourself, your wife and
your family.
If you insist upon more and better
schools, more and better roads, more
and better social facilities and social
organizations, and increasing of the
rural free delivery service, more ware
houses for the storing of your cot
ton, more co-operative farmers’ enter
prises of every nature, and do your
share in getting them, others will be
led to follow the same program.
If you see that only competent and
faithful officials are chosen to ad
minister the public business of your
community you will be building an
addition to the superstructure of gen
eral advancement.
These things I have outlined may
be a trifle difficult for you to under
take, if you have been going along
on the theory that progress takes
care of itself and that you have no
personal responsibility in the prem
ises.
But I promise that only as every
farmer in America views the solution
of the little problem at his door as a
part of his own business, will the
country population of this country
reach those improved conditions upon
which the highest destiny of this na
tion depend.—Texas Farm Co-Opera,
tor.
“Selection.”
"Selection” is the key-note of prog
ress the world over. It is by the pro
cess of "natural selection” that, in all
her kingdoms, Nature continually im
proves upon the quality of her gifts to
men. It is by selection that the speed
of the race-horse has been developed;
that, in the place of the inferior cat
tle of our sires, we have the superb
Short Horns, Jerseys, Guernseys and
Herefords of today. Selection has
given us the Berkshire, the Poland-
China and the Chester White hog in
the place of the razor-back of old.
Equally, selection is capable of giving
us better crops on our fields, if only
its methods are intelligently and per
sistently pursued.
Uniting Bee Colonies.
Queenless or very weak colonies
may be united with others by placing
them on top with a newspaper be
tween, leaving a hole so but one bee at
a time can pass from one hive to the
other. In a week or two the top hive
may be taken off and stored away.
Some hives will be found with more
honey than others, and equalizing of
stores may be practised, taking care
not to move any combs from diseased
colonies or the light hives may be fed
with syrup or liquid honey in a feeder-
ROSY AS
YOUNG GIRL
I. W. Church, the Notary Public,
of Summit, N. C., Tells How
Cardui, The Woman’s
Tonic, Helped His
Wife.
Summit, N. C. —“My wife had been
ailing for nearly 12 years,” writes Mr.
Church, “and at times was unable to
leave the house. She suffered agony
with her side and back. We tried our
family physician for many years, with
out relief. After his treatments all
failed, she began to take Cardui, and
gained in weight at once. Now she is
red and rosy as a school girl.
“Mrs. Church recommends Cardui
to all suffering women.”
Cardui is more successful than oth
er remedies, because it is "different.”
It is in a class by itself.
In over half a century, more than a
million women have been helped to
rosy health and happiness, by using
this well-known and scientific wom
an’s remedy.
Cardui acts specifically, on the weak
ened womanly organs. It helps to re
fresh the worn-out nerves and is the
ideal remedy for young and old.
As a tonic for women, it has brought
remarkable results.
As a remedy for women’s Ills, its
friends say it has no equal.
Try Cardui.
N. B.— lyrittto: Ladies’ Advisory Dept.,
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn., for Special Instructions, and 64-
page book, “Home Treatment for Wom
en.” sent In plain wrapper on request.
RATHER FAST.
"What is the fastest run your auto
ever made?”
“It ran me S2OO in debt the first
week I had it.”
The Test of Time.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt and U. S.
Epperson of Kansas City were motor
ing in Long Island the other day and
stopped at Evan’s hotel in Douglaston.
They ordered large quantities of raw
oysters, some of which were thrown
aside by the oyster opener.
“How do you determine when an oy
ster is bad?” asked Epperson.
“You wait a short time and if you
have ptomaine poisoning the oysters
were bad,” said Mr. Burt. "If you are
not ill they were good. That’s the
only safe way to tell good oysters from
bad ones.”
Good Arrangement.
A genial looking gentleman wanted
an empty bottle in which to mix a
solution, and went to a chemist’s to
purchase one. Selecting one that an
swered his purpose he asked the
shopman how much it would cost.
“Well,” was the reply, “if you want
the empty bottle it will be a penny,
but if you want anything in it you can
have it for nothing.” “Well, that’s
fair,” said the customer; “put in a
cork.”
Knows Tetterine Cures Eczema.
Mocksvi lie, N. C.
I have a friend In the country here who
has suffered for years with Eczema, and
I told him If he used Tetterine he would
soon be relieved, for it Is the only thing
that I ever used that would kill it.
P. S. Early.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm, Itching Piles and every form of
Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c;
Tetterine Soap 25c. At druggist, or by
mall from the manufacturer, The Shup
trine Co., Savannah, Ga,
With every mail order for Tetterine wo
give a box of Shuptrine’s 10c Liver Pills
free.
Can You Blame Him?
“Pa, what does ‘skeptical’ mean?”
“That describes a man’s feelings
when a woman tells her age.”
For HEADACHE—Micks’ CAPIBINE
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous Troubles, Capudine will relieve you.
It’s liquid—pleasant to take—acts immedi
ately. Try it. 10c., 25c., and 50 cents at drug
stores.
When a woman begins to tell a man
how nice looking she thinks he is he
immediately develops unlimited faith
in her judgment.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
Sugar-coated, tiny granules. Easy to >ake
as candy.
And many a man’s reputation for
honesty is due to his having put aside
•emptation that didn’t tempt.
You Look Prematurely Old
B9OOUBO of thosa ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Uso “LA CREOLE” HAIR RESTORER. PRICE, SI.OO, retail.
TAINLESS.
First Chauffeur —I ran over a man
yesterday and it didn’t hurt him a bit!
Second Chauffeur —How was that?
First Chauffeur —It killed him in
stantly!
HIS HEALTH RESTORED.
Terrible Kidney Trouble Cured After
Physicians Gave Up Hope.
Edward Gelston, 82 Wallace St.,
Bridgeport, Conn., says: “So painful
were the passages of the kidney secre
ttions that neighbors
heard me scream two
blocks away. Every
doctor in town treated
me. I was in three dif
ferent hospitals and had
two operations but was
finally taken home to
• jj. - die. A physician made
affidavit that I could
not live six months. As a last resort
I began taking Doan’s Kidney Pills
and soon noticed improvement. Under
their use I gained in weight from 134
to 177% pounds, more than I ever
weighed before. Doan’s Kidney Pills
saved me from the grave and restored
me to perfect health.”
Remember the name —Doan’s.
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
On Authority of Teacher.
A quick-witted boy, asking food at
a farmhouse too recently ravaged by
other hungry fishing truants, was told
that he was big enough to wait until
he got home.
"Of course, if you have children
with you ” hesitated the kindly
woman of the house, and was imme
diately informed that there were six
children in the party.
“No, I don’t tell a fib, neither,” was
the indignant protest later drawn
forth by the condemnation of one who
had shared the good bread and butter
ihits .secured. "Fib nothin’. We’re
children six'" tßses over. We’re chil
dren of our father and 'mother, chil
dren of God, children of our country,
children of the church an’ children of
grace. Teacher said so last Thursday,
and I guess she ought to know.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
A Sure Sign.
“I understand, Mr. Reuben,” said
the visitor, “that your son is devoted
to the turf.”
"Ya-as, I reckon he is,” said the old
man. “Jabez kin lay down on the
grass for hull hours ’thouht makin’ no
complaint.”—Harper's Weekly.
ED GEERS, "The grand old man,” he
is called for he is so honest handling
horses in races. He says: “I have used
SPOHN’S DISTEMPER CURE for 12
years, always with best success. It is the
only remedy I know to cure all forms of
distemper and prevent horses in same sta
ble having the disease.” 50c and $1 a bot
tle. All druggists, or manufacturers. Spohn
Medical Co., Chemists, Goshen, Ind.
Cheap.
Howell—Every man has his price.
Powell —Well, I wouldn’t have to
borrow money to pay yours.
What Murine Eye Remedy Does to
the Eyes is to Refresh, Cleanse,
Strengthen and Stimulate Healthful
Circulation, Promoting Normal Condi
tions. Try Murine in your Eyes.
Collateral.
“Can you offer any security?”
“Well, I’m willing to leave my
wife.”
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take the Old Standard GKOVBS TASTKI.KSS
CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking.
The formula Is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste
less lorm. The Quinine drives out the malaria
and tne Iron bullas up tbe system. Sold by all
dealers for HO years. Price 50 cents.
There is said to be a professor of
languages in an eastern college who
has mastered all the modern tongues
—except his wife's.
Sore throat leads to Tonsilitis, Quinsy
and Diphtheria. Hamlins Wizard Oil
used as a gargle upon the first symptoms
of a sore throat will invariably prevent
all three of these dread diseases.
The average man would not per
jure himself If he pleaded guilty to
the charge of amounting to but little.
Silence may give consent or It may
give offense.
Woman’s Ills U|
Many women suffer needlessly from girlhood to woman- /jff*
hood and from motherhood to old age—with backache, jLgg’ffij
dizziness or headache. She becomes broken-down, sleep- 'SajAf [fjl
less, nervous, irritable and feels tired from morning to
night. When pains and aches rack the wGmanly system at Ball
frequent intervals, ask your neighbor about
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This Prescription has, for over *IO years, been 1,1 *
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Ini to submit to Indelicate questionings and JH I
offensively repugnant examinations.
Sick women are invited to consult in confidence by letter free. Address
World’s Dispensary Medical Ass’n.R.V. Pierce, M. D., Pres’t, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. Pibrcb’s Great Family Doctor Book, The People’s Common Sense
Medical Adviser, newly revised up-to-date edition—-1000 pages, answers in
Plain English hosts of delicate questions which every woman, single or married,
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THE MALARIA MONSTER
If the mosquito were as big as it is bad, it would darken
tbe air like a gigantic death-breathing dragon. Each sting
of a mosquito sows the germs of malaria. These germs
multiply with wonderful rapidity. Then come chills and
fever with other forms of malaria that undermine the health (
-nd sap the strength. j
OXIDBNE A
—a bottle proves.
It is the modern malaria medicine and the
antidote for malaria poisoning. It kills the chilgfl
quenches the fever fires. It stamps out the
consequences of the disease. That’s only
helpful healing work of OXIDINE. It builds up thejH
revitalizes the system, enriches the blood, tones
stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys. OXIDINE puts the
body on a fighting footing of superb health.
The tonic qualities of OXIDINE make it the best
medicine for all weak, run down, thiu, pale persons. It is
the best body-building tonic money can buy.
50c at Your Dealer’s
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