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Luther Bond Answers Mr. Bingham, County Agent Dear Mr. Editor: — Mr. Bingham, Hart County Agent, has followed all the “Turner County Plan” boys in saying that I say some thing I do not say. That is all the way even a city editor can pretend to answer me. He would not quote a sentence from one end to the other. Mr. Bingham got his dope from a little note I wrote to the Atlanta Constitution on May sth. He speaks of me as being ignorant about farm, ing. Let’s see who is the ignorant one. Ido not quote men as having said so and so without first docu menting my facts. WHAT MR. BINGHAM SAID: WHO TO BELIEVE Recently the president of the Georgia Country Bankers’ Associa tion stated that there were so many pigs in Georgia that you could not drive a car in the streets. Just show us some of them. In fact just go to the freight office and see how much meat has been shipped into Hart county, and nearby communities. Go out and look at the pig pens of 800 farmers in Hart county. Because a man is a good banker, or good law yer, or a good business man in his own line, does not mean that he knows everything. The pitiful thing about it all is that such a man quite often expresses his views about things on which he is ignorant, and then so many farmers listen at it, simply because so and so has made money. Make a study of the business. You will find that the farmer who makes his own meat and bread and other supplies at home is the man who is prosperous. It is true that there are farmers who are prosperous by raising none of these, and only cot ton. And too often these same fel lows talk too much, and the little fel lows all try to do like them, both talking and farming. If more of our influential farmers and business men who have made money could learn that when we said raise hogs, that we did not mean ten thousand head, that when we said raise corn, that we did not mean abandon cotton, that when we said grow more hay, we did not mean to sell it, then we could make some rapid progress in Georgia. When you say hogs to some folks they begin to sell big fields of them. In fact he forgets he likes meat at home. He is thinking of shipping them away in big car loads, for the other fellow. When you mention cows to many folks, the first thing they think of is a barn about an acre big, and a crowd of cows and calves calling for corn and feed continually. They forget that 500 farms in Hart county have not a single cow, and that many farms do not get enough butter and milk.. WHAT MR. BOND SAID: “Is Georgia Slipping.” Editor of Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia. Dear Mr. Editor:—Under the above heading in your good paper I saw what the Johnstown (Pa.) Dem ocrat had to say about our agricul ture. I also read your gobd editor ial on the same subject. You have for a long time used a phrase “bal anced system” or “balanced farming” which I like better than diversifi cation. The Johnstown man is right but is it not for the wrong reason? He has the old saw about cow, hog, and hen. I believe if he will look up the hog he will find out that Georgia has as many pigs as all of the New England States, Delaware, New Jersey and his own state of Pennsylvania. If hogs would save any people we are nearer Heaven than they. You cannot drive a car through South Georgia without running over hogs. We had four million one hundred and fifteen thousand acres in corn last year and Texas five times as big did not have any more. We had three million two hundred and eighty thou sand acres in cotton and Texas had sixteen million acres in cotton. We made as much and can make as much any year per acre of cotton as Texas. But Texas had five times as many acres in cotton and made five times as much cotton as Georgia. Texas is happy and we are not. We have diversified as no other state has ever done. There are three things that ruined Georgia and they were all done al most by acclamation and unanimous ly and a wave of majority approval at the time. I did not do any of them —fought all of them at the time. First buying high land up to 1920. Second holding cotton. Third lis tening to the man who said that poison would not kill the boll wee vil in 1921-22-23; that is to say lis tening to the man who said it could not be done. We were forced to ask some of our summer visitors from other places in Georgia to please hush talking de feat on our streets and give our farmers a chance. We raised two million one hundred thousand bales of cotton seven years ago and Texas raised only one-half million more. Then we were happy and we will not be happy until we raise a million and a half again. His charge against the bankers of Georgia was just the common clap trap customary in such cases. My experience is that bankers in Geor gai have put corn ahead of cotton. I offered a resolution at the’Geor gia Bankers Meeting asking farmers to plant as many acres in cotton as they did in corn and was asked to withdraw it. Yoqrs very truly, In the first place Mr. Bingham should have put his heading “Whom To Believe” instead of “Who To Be lieve” if he is going to cal! some one ignorant. He said that I said: “there were so many pigs in Georgia that you could not drive a car in the streets.” I said: “I believe if the Pensylvania man will look up the hog he will find \ out that Georgia has as many hogs |as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and ; Delaware and all of the New Eng ; land states thrown in for good mea sure.” Mr. Bingham then said: “Just show me some of them. In fact just go 'to the freight office and see how I much meat has been shipped into [ Hart county—and nearby communi- | i ties.” I say: “You can not drive a car , I through South Georgia without run ning over hogs.” Mr. Bingham mis takes the “streets” in Northeast Georgia where there is stock law for i a “through South Georgia” where ; there is no stock law. The College of Agriculture did not teach him this kind of Geography. Mr. Bingham continues: “The piti ful thing about it all is that such a man quite often expresses his views about things on which he is ignor ant.” I say: “The pitiful thing is, it seems to me that when a man docu ments his facts between Penncyl vania and Georgia to do justice be tween two states even a County Agent refuses to understand or quote them.” Mr. Bingham laments that people can not understand and that if he says “raise hogs that he did not mean ten thousand hogs.” I say: “I lament that when I get my facts firm and write about South Georgia and say so that a County Agent in Northeast Georgia will twist them so that you will not know them. When I say “corn and oats, meat and milk for yourself but not for some one else” I expect to be misunder stood even by a County Agent who is intelligent and no doubt a good farmer. Because I believe that a farmer can only afford to raise these things for himself and not to sell I expect from my experience, to be misquoted and to have men say (may I say ignorantly) that I would have no ‘corn and oats and meat and milk’.” This is what is going on all over Georgia. I am defending what my community is struggling toward do ing and the “Turner-County-Plan-of- Farming” fellows are saying I say what I do not say. A man can not begin every sentence with “Cow, Hog, Hen, and a little cotton now and then” just to please them. Let’s give the farmer credit for a little sense and agree to help him do some of the hard things he is trying so hard to do and quit falsifying the words of our neighbors when they write about Pennsylvania and Geor gia. In the same Royston Record in which Mr. Bingham’s article appear ed is a speech made by me at Savan nah. I go after the peanut propa gandist. Nobody n*v will advocate peanuts for Franklin county, Madison county nor Hart county nor even for Elbert county and get a hearing. As a business man I have always addressed the farmer as another busi ness man. His home affairs, a few of them I have held sacred—the size of his potato patch I have left to him while the “Turner County Plan” says 3 acres. I gave away several tons of 20 per cent potash last year for potato patches but did not advo cate 3 acres. I advocated ten acres to the plow in cotton and helped them to make it and did not help them to sell it because I had a hired man at $2.00 per day who sold sev eral hundred bales of cotton for me and could beat me selling it. I had him to sell every day and put it on what I owed which I thought was an honorable thing to do. l am not trying to teach the farm er what to do. It is not becoming in me to do so. It is becoming for a farm agent to do so. It is only with reluctance always that I go into the domestic affairs of any man. It is only after a man gets out of his own yard that I feel free to discuss the good of our country with him. I do tell him to not raise potatoes for me. I won’t pay him what they ,will cost him perhaps if the weather is dry and it sometimes is very dry. I think it is good for him to raise sorghum if he likes for himself but I do not choose sorghum, and tell him truthfully that I will not buy his | sorghum nor potatoes and all the city I bankers speaking in this country and organizing “put-over plans” for Georgia can not make me fool the farmer by telling him I will make a market for these things. A County Agent can talk more confidentially with a farmer about internal affairs than a banker. It is perfectly prudent for him to talk garden seed even or chicken feed and because I do not do this please do not believe that I de not value them and hold up an agent’s hands when he talks heart to heart to farmers about their home affairs. When he gets out into world markets , and has something to sell or wishes to have something to sell them, if he desires, and invites me I will help him to make the things he wishes to make and might try to help him sell what he has to sell. I am not teaching a primary school. I refuse to talk first reader talk all I day long to high school students, i When a County Agent goes to a freight office to see how much meat I has been shipped in will he not please also see how much food has been shipped out? Hart county in her (4,000) four thousand tons of cotton seed shipped out for others to eat 300 pounds of rich red gravy per ton, or to be con servative (1,200,000) one million two hundred thousand pounds, and (3,000,000) to (4,000,000) three million to four million pounds of cot- ( ton seed meal, most of which meal to i be fair and honest I must admit and perhaps as many hulls were shipped back. This would leave over one mil lion pounds of potential lard and ’ gravy gone out to feed other folks out of their cotton crop. Did Hart THE HARTWELL SUN, HARTWELL, GA., JULY 3, 1925 Spring Month Named • After Greek Goddess Maia, the Greek goddess for whom I ;he Romans named the lovaly spring I month, was the oldest of the Pleiades, ’ 3r seven daughters of Atlas and Ocw I mid Pleione. She and her sister, who were born on Mount Cyllene in Arca dia, according to Greek mythology, are sometimes called the goddesses of the mountains. Mala became the mother of Mercury, md was greatly loved by the old Ro nans, who, on the first day of May, nade sacrifices in her name. In Italy she was known as Maa Alnpesta, the goddess of spring. If you will watch the sky on a spring ■■venlng, you will see the six stars which form the Pleiades. The old | Greeks believed that Jupiter pia.vl Maia and her six sisters together in i the sky, and that they formed for a ; long time a group of seven. One day Myrope married a mortal named Sisy phus, who in some way displeased the joda. For punishment he was con temned to spend eternity rolling a stone uphill, so that Myrope bid her face from her sisters in sorrow and shame. That is why we see but six of the daughters of Atlas shining In the sky; for Myrope’s face is still con ?ealed behind one of her sister stars. — Chicago Daily News. Scottish City Goes Far Back in History The city of Glasgow, the metropolis of Scotland, had its origin In the Sixth century, when St. Kentigern founded a small religious establishment on the banks of a tiny stream which flows Into the Clyde at a point where the Scottish city now stands. Christianity wes then unknown in that part of Scotland, and Kentigern was the first to introduce the faith among the rude people inhabiting that section. Beside the clearing in the forest where he built bis home he hung on a tree a bell which was rung to summon the savage inhabitants to worship, and thus it came about that a tree with a bell appears on the arms of Glasgow. The saint had trouble later on with the king of the Strathclyde Britons and had to flee to Wales. Later be re turned, and after bla death, at an ad vanced age, was buried at the spot where now stands the great cathedral bearing his name. As “Will” Would Say It Jones and Jenks were arguing a boot Shakespeare. Jones contended the bard was a genius, and Jenks scoffed at It ‘’Genius, nothing,” be said. ”All he bad was a big vocabulary. Anyone that applied himself to It could duplicate Shakespeare’s stuff. I could do It rnyeeif.” At that moment two very bow-legged men turned, the corner and walked toward the dispu tants. "Here’s a chance to show bow good you are," said Jones. "How would you describe those two fel lows?” "That’s easy,” said Jenks. “There’s only one way to describe them; Shakespeare himself couldn’t say anything but ’Here come two bow legged men.’ ” It was what Jones was waiting for. "He couldn’t, eh? Shakespeare would have said: ’Ho! What manner of men are these, with legs that could serve as parentheses’ 1” Famous Roman City The name "Hadrian’s Villa” is given to a great number of superb struc tures, now in ruins, erected at Tivoli, 18 miles east of Rome, by the Emperor Hadrian (117-138, A. D.), who wished to reproduce the most striking objects he had met with in his extensive trav els. According to antiquarians, the space enclosed in this way was about eight or ten miles in circumference. When, about 70 years after the time of Hadrian, the Emperor Caracalla built at Rome the celebrated baths that bear his name, the famous build ings of Hadrian’s villa were rifled of their superb marbles for purposes of decoration.—Kansas City Btar. Odd Entries Into Life Many babies are born at sea, but It Is doubtful If any entered such a trow blous world as a German baby girl born in mld-Atlantlc during a recent ter rible storm. Steerage babies often provide an event for passengers to talk about. A subscription Hat is al ways opened, with the result that the baby receives a substantial start-off In life. The record in strange birthday sur roundings is surely held by the baby boy who was born 6,600 feet up in the air. His mother was traveling by airplane from Budapest to Naples when the event took place. Ocean Area The oceans of the world have an area of about 139,000,000 square miles and their combined volume is about 302,000,000 cubic miles. The average depth Is two miles and the ■ deepest known depth is five miles. A gallon of ordinary sea water contains about one-quarter pound of salt From a study of the beds of rock salt un derlying Strassfort, Germany, New York state, Ohio, Michigan and Kan sas, and Cheshire, England, it is sup posed these areas are all dried-up inland seas. o Demosthenes, the great orator, in his youth stuttered and stammered. ! - ship any more lard and meat back? Hart is feeding others as much as she is being fed by others. I am prouder of Hart county than her own Agent is. LUTHER BOND. Royston, Ga. Mouth Organ Really Old Musical Device The probable ancestor of th« mouth .organ was the Greek syrinx, one of ancient of musical Instni ments. It was formed ot a number of short hollow reeds of graduated lengths, fixed together by wax. The lower ends were closed and the upper ones open and on a level, so that the Ups could pass from one to another. The modern mouth organ Is the inven tion of Christian Messner, of Tros singen, Wurtemburg, Germany, about the year 1830. The factory that he founded still gives employment to 5.0U0 workers, not counting 3,000 home workers In the town. Messner got the idea after buying a child's trumpet at a fair, to place a number of trum pets side by side, each giving a dlf ferent sound. He produced a piece of wood with breathing holes In it, to which was fixed a lead plate with !>rass tongues. From Trossingen the industry spread to other places In Germany, notably Klingenthal in Saxony. During the World war attempts were made by Jther countries, such as Japan and the United States, to gain a footing in this Industry, but Germany soon re covered her trade. Skilled workers, •heap production and an old estab lished Industry give the German fac tories the advantage. “Flip-Jacks'* Made No Appeal to This Poet Taylor, the poet who lived and wrote early in the Seventeenth century, evi dently failed to fully appreciate the Shrove Tuesday pancake, or flip-jacks. Dealing with the pancake custom he wrote: “There Is a bell rung, called 'the Pancake Bell,' the sound of which makes thousands of people distracted, aid fbrgetful either of manners or hu manity ; and then there Is a thing called wheaten flour, which the cooks do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and other tragical .ud magical enchant ments; ami the.* they put it by little and little in..* .. trying |miu of boiling suet, where it makes a cumlned dis mal hissing, like the Lethear snakes in the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or Phlege thon, until at last, by the skill of the cook, It Is transformed into the form of a flip-jack, called a pancake, which, with ominous incantations, the Ignorant people do devour very greedily." Melanchthon The original name of Philip Me lanchthon was Philip Schwartxered. He was born in 1497 and died In 1500. He was a German Reformer. In early manhood be was professor of Greek at Wittenberg university, but became a fellow-worker with Martin Luther. He drew up ths Augsburg confessfon, and managed with consummate skill the conference with the opponents of the reformed religion held at Worms and Ratlabon. By his skill and wis dom he did much to save the Refor mation from excesses. On the death of Luther he became the leader of the Lutherans. His most popular pub lication was a book that is regarded as the first great Proteatant work on theology. The Objective Mind Can you bring ail your faculties to the front, like a house with many faces at the doors and windows; or do you live retired within yourself, shut up In your own meditations? The thinker puts all the powers of his mind in reflection; the observer puts all the powers of his mind in perception; every faculty Is directed outward; the whole mind sees through the eye and hears through the ear. He has an objective turn of mind as opposed to a subjective. A person with the latter turn of mind sees lit tle. If you are occupied with your own thoughts, you may go through a museum of curiosities and observa nothing.—John Burroughs. Boiling Water in Bag Here is one from Australia on a novel way to boll water. The old fisherman la speaking: "1 left my william-can at home one day. The prospect of dinner without tea did not appeal to me. Fishing in the tucker bag, I found a sound paper bag. Making a fire, I propped the bag, full of water, near it By con stantly pouring water into the bag, the top of it waa prevented from burn ing. The water boiled, the tea was made and there was no prouder man in all the land than I." Try this some time when you haven’t anything elae to do. Japanese Constitution The constitution of Japan was not patterned after that of any other country. It was promulgated In 1889 and waa formulated, by Prince Ito, who, after investigating the constitu tions of the various nations, modeled the constitution of Japan largely after the Prussian. It is divided Into 76 articles and provides for a law-making body of two chambers, the house of peers and the house of representatives. The emperor convokes, opens and closes the diet, has all executive au thority, and all laws are submitted to him for sanction. Rough on the Preacher The Sunday school girls of a certain church put flowers in front of the pulpit each Sunday. One was asked by an elderly per son what they did with the flowers after the service. “Oh, we take them to people who are sick after the sermon," waa the innocent reply. ■ Thousands of Years of Prayers Answered I met him some eighteen years ago in the Alps on the Great Saint Ber nard. about, ten miles.from the top of the pass. Here I found my : tall old monk. As I Joined the group around him I beard him say to one of I them: "How much finer and better it Is to i cross the range up here by the Pass l than to go through the amoky tunnel below. And even In snowstorms now it is safe. For you see that telephone on the wall. The wire goes to an Inn ten miles lower down the pass. And in times of storm, when a traveler ! leaves the Inn, they telephone up to us here and one of us goes down witli the dogs. Sb we reach him before he Is overcome." “Bvt are no lives lost in winter?’’ inquired a young American. “No—not a life In many years.” The tall ohi man was silent a moment. Then in a reverent tone he said, “For over a thousand years, my son, we have prayed for the safety of travel ers here. And He has answered our prayers at last.” The smart young American asked, "Or was It the telephone?” The old mountain climber turned and looked at the Yankee with quiet eyes. “Yes,, my son —that is how God an swered our prayers."—Ernest Poole In Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan. Tributes Genius Has Paid to Human Voice Shakespeare says: » "Her voice Waa ever soft, gentle and low; an excellent thing in woman.” Charles Lamb says; “How often you are drawn irre sistibly to u plain, unassuming woman, whose soft, silvery tones render her positively attractive! in the social circle, how pleasant It 1» to hear a woman talk In Unit low l ev which al ways characterizes i.n ; hue lady. In the sanctuary of h»» iu e, bow such a voice soot lies the fretfql child and cheers the weary husband 1” Longfellow says: "How wonderful is the humnn voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul I The Intellect of man kits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and lu his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself In the vpice only, as God revealed Himself to the prophet of old, In ’the still, small voice,' and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man la audible not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain. Invisible to man!” Famous French Palace The Louvre Is a famous palace in Paris originally the residence of French kings, bnt since the French revolution used as a mqseum of art and antiquities. The Louvre derives its name from an ancient hunting chateau that stood on the site of the present palace, in the midst of a for est infested with wolves and known as the Louverie. It is said to have been a royal residence in the time of Dagobert (628). The foundation of the present building was laid by Fran cis I In 1541, and the structure wtis enlarged and adorned by stcc<aslve kings, particularly Henry IV and Louis XIV, the latter being the last king to live In it. Tlie work of uniting the Louvre and the Tuileries in one struc ture was completed in 1857; and the combined Louvre and Tuileries covers an area ot 48 acres.—Kansas City TlmeA Recognized Jokes The Scots are making an effort to stop the hoary old joke that they never spend any money. Scientists who have gone into the antiquity of jokes and made a study of the sub ject say that there are only about six original examples and that all humor Is based on them. Old jokes come back Into style or else appear wearing new habiliments. Excursions into new fields sometimes are dangerous and un profitable. The plumber joke may not have been one of the early sextet, but It has been a favorite not only with the almanacs, but with the comic strippers and the higher class weekly funny magazines. If the plumber joke has to go, the joke writers merely will understand that they have one less subject upop which to work. Value of Courtesy Courtesy Is the one medium of ex change that is always accepted at par by the people of every country on the globe. Courtesy radiates a spirit of good feeling and suggests that we are not working entirely for the material returns of work, but for the friendly human associations as welj. Life is not too short, and we are never too busy to ba courteous. Courtesy Is the outward expression and an Inward consideration for oth ers is always an effective lubricant that smooths business and social re lationships, eliminating friction.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. Squirrel Pest Despite his pretty appearance and amusing ways, the common red squir rel is said to be one of the most de structive pests found in the woods to day. Ornithologists claim that his depredations among birds rank second only to those of the hunting cat, and that he not only MBs young birds, as does the cat but he will destroy the eggs before they are hatched. Around farm buildings he is considered a nui sance because of his propensity for chewing a hole through some building which he has selected as a likely place to store his winter’s supply of food. —OUR— WEEKLY SMILE (C.J.T.—Phila.,Pa.) When is a man honest? Or, to put it another way, how many of us are really honest? The thing that caused me to write this was an incident which occurred a few days ago at Gimbel Bros'. Department Store, here in Philadelphia. A wo man, apparently a refined, well-to-do woman, came up to me and said, “I want a refund of SI.OO for this prin cess slip.” "Where is your sales slip?” I Inquired. “Why, there was none in the package,” she answered. AfU?r questioning her further, I learned that the delivery man had delivered three of these princess slips at SI.OO, C. O. D., but had failed to collect the money for the package. This happened two weeks before she came into the store de manding a refund of SI.OO for one of them which didn’t fit. Now, here was a woman who had gotten three dollars’ worth of merchandise for nothing and had the nerve to come in and demand a dollar refund for one of the garments. Os course I refused to give it to her and as I had secured her name and address at the beginning of our conversation I immediately notified the credit de partment and they sent her a bill for $3.00. The telephone directory listed her husband as a doctor so there is a possibility that the firm will collect the $2.00 due for the two garments which she kept. 1 put the one which she brought in for a refund, back in stock. This woman was just as guilty of stealing as if she had robbed a bank or stolen someone’s purse. The prin ciple was the same. The intent to steal was there and, in the eyes of the law, the intention plays a big part. A large retail jewelry concern in Philadelphia which is owned and operated by a crowd of Jews, adver tises that they sell all of their jewel ry on the cost plus 10 per cent plan. This is the lowest type of all crook ed schemes. There is a wholesale concern in New York City which cooperates with crooked retailers in fooling the public into buying, thinking that they will only pay a profit of 10 per cent above the wholesale price. This wholesale con cern in New York sends the retail er two invoices, one to put on his file and one to show the customer. Os course. the one which is shown to the customer is a higher-than wholesale-price on which the 10 per cent is to be based. This is a worse form of stealing than holding up a man with a gun for they not only steal but they deceive at the same time. Beware of any such crooks. What about the merchant who writes $2.00 on a price tag and draws a line through it with a blue pencil and writes SI.OO under it? What about the merchant who saya in his advertisements, “These shoes formerly sold for SIO.OO- our price now only $5.00,” when, as a matter of fact, they never sold higher than $6.00? This deceives the people and the crooked intent is there just the same. One form of stealing Is just us bad as another. What about the man who has the opportunity to overcharge a man a dollar without his knowing it and does it. There are numbers of peo ple who would not go out with a gun and hold up a man and take money from him, who, if they have the opportunity, will take advantage of people if they can get away with it secretly. One is just as big a crook as the other and thanks to the law of equal justice which is forever working, they will receive their reward. The Bible tells us that if a man digs a ditch for his neigh bors to fall in he will fall in that ditch himself. ’ One of the most enjoyable social affairs ever held in Philadelphia wos the birthday party at which Mrs. Chas. J. Teasley entertained Mr. Chas. J. Teasley on Saturday evening of last week at their apartment on North Broad street. A large birth day cake, baked by Mr. Teasley’s mother and sent to Philadelphia by parcel post, adorned the center of the table’ and after an appetizing Teas ley meal which included the usual Teasley trimmings, lemonade, on ions, etc., the birthday cake was cut into and it was learned that the ic ing contained Georgia pecans which made it more tasty. Mayor W. Free land Kendrick, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday on this same day, but the writer feels positive that Mayor Kendrick could not have en joyed his birthday any more than did Mr. Teasley. Those present at the Teasley celebration were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. J. Teasley. More about “Cedar Rock.” “Ce dar Rock” is the spot I told you about some time ago. It is situat ed on top of one of the Pennsylvinia hills. My wife and I joined a party of sixteen friends and spent last Sun day at this wonderful place. Nature certainly outdid herself when she placed this beauty spot on old Moth er Earth’s cheek. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Craven, of Oaklane, Philadel phia, purchased this one hundred and ten acres of hills, whereon sits an old rock house, 100 or more years old. Mr. Craven being the accom plished architect that he is, succeeded in making mother nature’s charms even more attractive and today his place is attracting hundreds of peo ple. The house is right on top of a small mountain and the view from his front porch, which is uncovered, with the exception of a small rustic shelter, which covers the door, is beautiful beyond description. It is on this porch that picnicker friends of the Cravens are permitted to spread their lunches. This Teasley appetite, which is always good, af ter enjoying about a gallon of goed spring water, is usually “primed” for the feast that is spread, and does its duty.