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THE BEST LETTER
You may write a thousand letters to the
maiden you adore.
And declare in every letter that you love
her more and more;
You may praise her grace and beauty in a
thousand glowing lines,
And compare her eyes of azure with the
brightest star that shines.
If you had the pen of Byron you would
use it every day
In composing written worship to your
sweetheart far away;
But the letter far more welcome to an
older, gentler breast
Is the letter to your mother from the boy
she loves best.
Youthful blood is fierce and flaming, a? d
when writing to your love
You will rave about your passion, swea t
ing by the stars above;
Vowing by the moon’s white splendor
that the girlie you adore
Is the one you’ll ever cherish as no maid
was loved before.
You will pen full many a promise on
those pages white and dumb
That you can never live up to in the mar
ried years to come.
But a much more precious letter, bring
ing more and deeper bliss,
Is the letter to your mother frtup the boy
she cannot kiss,
Bhe will read it very often when the lights
are soft and low,
Sitting in the same old corner where she
held you years ago.
And regardless of its diction or its spell
ing or its style,
And although its composition would pro
voke a critic’s smile,
In her old and trembling fingers it be
comes a work of art,
Stained by tears of joy and sadness as she
hugs it to her heart.
Yes, ohe letter of all letters, look wherev
er you may roam,
Is the letter to your mother from her boy
away from home.
Hope of the Nation,
Will you have some corn meal
mush and milk for supper tonight?
No? Then how about some johny
cake? Don’t be backward. With
a bumper corn crop harvested
and on the way to the mills or
stored in thousands of corncribs
and elevators all over- the land,
there is no danger of running
short. Besides, the food experts
tell us that corn is the best all
round food ration for the body of
man.
On account of a wheat shortage
it is predicted that before another
summer rolls around the Ameri
can people of necessity wiil be
come a corn fed race. War-de
vastated Europe is in crying need
of wheat, and Uncle Sam, like the
generous - hearted, sympathetic
he is, is going to divide up and
send as much of his 1917 wheat
crop across the waters as he pos
sibly can spare.
But why should any wide awake
American citizen view the situa
tion in the light of* a calamity?
Your old fashioned American is
not in the least alarmed over the
prospect of eating corn two or
three times a d ly. In fact, he
will praise his Maker because
there are nearly three billion
bushels of the goiden grain on
hand to feed both man and beast
during the coming year. “Golden”
is the name for it, too, for the 1917
crop of corn is worth more than
three times more than all the gold
that was dug from the earth dur
ing the past year.
Furthermore, your old-fashion
% ed American will tell you of the
delicious dishes which his mother
used to make out of corn. He
will smack his lips when you men
tion corn bread and Johnny-cake.
Long ago he learned that the na
tion gloriously can survive any
crises as long as the farmers raise
plenty of corn. He knows what
the nation has done in the past
and has no fears as to the future.
—Chicago Standard.
NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT
IN STOCKBRIDGE.
There has never been anything
in Stock bridge with the INSTANT
action of simple buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler
i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL flushes the
ENTIRE bowel tract so completely
it relieves ANY CASE of sour stom
ach, gas or constipation and pre
vents appendicitis. The INSTANT,
pleasant action of Adler-i ka sur
prises both doctors and patients.
C. H. Pinson, druggist at Stock
bridge.
HOW GOVERNMENT
PAYS IIS SOLDIERS
Provision is Made for Families
of Men Who Are Left Be
, hind.
Ask the first ten men you meet
what Uncle Sam pays his soldiers.
It will be safe to bet they won’t
know.
Half of them may have some
hazy idea about a “dollar a day”
and you will find lots of people
who think Uncle Sam still pays
the old scale of sl3 a month, but
few outside the armv know the ins
and outs of the wage scale, even
for private soldiers.
The whole pay system of the
United States army has been rev
olutionized since the war started.
A private in Uncle Sam’s armies,
regulars. National Guard or Na
tionnl army, receives in cash, as
long as he is in the United States,
$33 a month, in addition to food,
clothing and medical attendance.
When he is sent to Europe he
gets 20 per cent extra, whether
in training or in the trenches,
which brings the minimum cash
pay up to $39.60 a month, or $1.30
a day.
The revolutionary part of the
pay system, however, about*which
most people are ignorant, is the
scale of allowances made bv the
government to the soldiers de
pendents. We are thus breaking
away from the old theory of pay
ing soldiers a flat wage for fight
ing to the new theory that the na
tion is responsible for the welfare
not only of the men in service,
but for the dependents whom he
left behind him.
Wives Get Part.
Under this new scheme if
there’s a “wee wife waiting” she
receives each month direct from
Uncle Sam sls a month, which is
virtually an addition to the fight
ing man’s wage and brings his to
tal compensation up to S4B a
month while he is in the United
States and to $54.60 abroad.
If there is one child with the
wife the allowance is $25 a month;
two children, $32 50, and so on up
the point where with a wife and
six children Uncle Sam pays SSO a
month to the family.
It may not be enough to sup
port them, even with what the'en
listed man can send home out of
his wages, but it is at least a rec
ognition of Uncle Sam’s responsi
bility and bulwark against depend
ence on charity.
Allowances are also provided
for dependent parents, $lO a month
for each, and for brothers, sisters
. -a ,—dbc. n w Anlb
it i ill fu a iitwniii ioi
each, with the proviso that in any
case the government will not pay
to the dependents of any man
more than SSO a month.
Had the Grip Three Weeks.
With January comes lagrippe.
Lingering colds seem to settle in
the system, causing one to ache
all over, feel feeverish and chilly,
tired, heavy and drooping. Mrs.
Tyles, Henderson, Ky, writes: “My
daughter had lagrippe for three
weeks. I had the doctor and
bought medicine and nune of it
did any good. I gave her Foley’s
Honey and Tar and now she is all
right. I have told all my friends
about it.” Insist on the genuine
Foley’s Honey and Tar. .The Me
Donough Drug Co.
SIOO Reward, SIOO
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces of the System thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease,
giving the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting na
ture in doing its work. The proprie
tors have so much faith in the curative
powers of Halls Catarrh Cure that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fail 3to cure. Send for list
of testimonials.
Address; F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. 7»c.
Sandy Ridge News.
(Last Week’s letter.)
Ready for the New Year?
Mr. Derretle Hardy of Atlanta
spent Xmas with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Hardy.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Willard spent
Sunday with their parents.
Little R. W. Jenkins has been
very, sick, but is better now.
Mr. Thurber D. Trainer snd
Miss Leola Haynes® were married
Sunday evening at seven thirty
o’clock at the home of the bride’s
parents.
Mr. Paul Cawthon and Miss
Myrtice Bunn were married at
Mr. J. L. Savage’s Sunday evening.
Mr. Cloma Garner and wife took
supper with Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Savage Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Hand of At
lanta spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Savage.
Mis. Sallie Carter spent Sunday
afternoon with Mrs. Leola Savage.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Rape of Cov
ington visited Mr. and Mrs. Enoch
Hooten Sunday.
Miss Rosie Thompson of New
ton visited Mrs. Nettie Cowan,
Sunday.
Mr. Fred Cowan of Jenkinsburg
speni Sunday with Mr. C. W.
Cowan.
0 *
Mrs. Eliza Jenkins spent Sunday
afternoon with Mrs. J. L. Savage.
Did you sing “America” on
Xmas morning?
Mrs. Estelle Jenkins and child
ren spent Sunday with her moth
er.
Hope everyone enjoyed them
selves Xmas.
-We are expecting a better school
i after a long vacation.
Happy New Year to all.
Lap Wing.
Prevent Hog Cholera.
The*B. A. Thomas Hog Powder
has a record of 95% cures of Hog
Cholera. If you feed your hogs as
directed you need never fear hog
cholera nor any other hog disease.
And the directions are very sim
ple, just about what you are doing
plus a few cents worth of B. A.
Thomas’ Hog Powder in the feed
twice a week.
Usually, though, cholera gets in
before we know it. Then it re
quires close attention to each hog
—each hog must be dosed —and if
you will dose them as directed,
you will save better than 90 per
cent. If you don’t, the B. A. Thom
as medicine costs you nothing.
We —not some distant manufac
turer —pay your money back. The
Henry County Supply Co.
The Southern Mortgage Co.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $300,000
Established 1870. Gould Building— lo Decatur Street-91 Edgewood Avenue.
• FARM LOANS
Negotiated throughout the State on Improved Farm Lands in sums
ot SI,OOO to SIOO,OOO on Five Years’ time at reasonable rates. Our sources
ol money are practically inexhaustible. We have a strong line ot customers
among individual investors and Savings Banks and Trust Companies in the North,
East and Middle West, and we number among our customers the
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
with assets ot more than a hundred million dollars.
J. T. Holleman, President W A. Thompson, Abstracts of Title
W. L. Kemp, Vice-President f <>• Work, Abstracts of Title
t nr a , L. A. Boubghrn, Auditor
j. w. Andrews, Secretary S . R Cook, Secretary’s Clerk
E. V. Carter, Attorney T. B. Dempsey, Abstract Clerk
A, d’Antignac, Inspector C. W. Felker, Jr., Abstract Clerk.
W. A. Howell, Abstracts of Title Horace Holleman, Application Clerk.
For information, call on or write to
BROWN & BROWN
M’DONOUGH, GEORGIA.
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and ready to give you a whole dayful |
of pep and go.
The flavor is wonderfully good and
ths aroma—get it?—oh, ma honey!
Better run quick and get a bright, clean
tin of Luzianne while it s there. If you
don’t like it—every bit of it—then your
grocer will give you back every cent you
tt paid for it. Try Luzianne today apd see
When It how mighty good it is.
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American farmer will be called upon to feed the major por
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servation.
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feed itself but have something more for our sorely needing
friends across the Seas.
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