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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 Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription fpF 4 This Prescription has, for over *IO years, been 1,1 * curing delicate, weak, pain-wracked women, HjSN* by the hundreds of thousands and this too in I Jj the privacy of their homes without their har » HI I# 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, ought to know about. Sent free to any address on receipt of 31 one-cent stamps to cover cost oi wrapping and mailing only, in French cloth binding. J Household Lubricant li THE ALL-AROUND OIL IN THE HANDY, EVER-READY TIN OILER g.if Is specially selected for any need in the home. Saves tools from rusting. Can can- HgK not break. 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