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A CEMETERY—AND A SERMON It was a neat little country te^y, much like most little country cemeteries, yet there was queer about it. There was the arched gateway and the customary weeping willows by it. The clipped hedge was like most cemetery hedges. The tomb stones were baout the average run of tombstones. But, withal, there was something queer—even shocking, Then you discovered what it was. These were truthful tombstones. Consolating platitudes—“Too pure for earth,” and that like—found no place. Instead, there were such epi¬ taphs as these: “Mother—walked to death in her kitchen;” “Sacred to the mem ry of Jane—she scrubbed her¬ self into eternity;” “Grandma— washed herself away i t Susie— swept, out of life with too heavy a broom. »» The people who saw that ceme¬ tery—and there were thousands of them—may have been shocked for an instant, but they came away with the htought that one might be bet¬ ter for seeing such a cemetery. For, "you see, it was a miniature ceme¬ tery, 3 feet square, and it was part of an exhibit at the Montana State Fair. Such levity with the most sol¬ emn thing that mankind knows could not be justified merely on the theory that the htings said were true—but those who saw it came away with the belief that it was justified by way way of keeping just those things from being true. And that was the purpose of the exhibit, placed there by the agricultural extension de¬ partment of the State Agricultural College of Montana. It was meant to emphasize the need for home con¬ veniences, for lack of which many a fram woman has gone to her grave before her time. There were other exhibits design¬ ed to drive home the same hard truth. One was a model showing a bleak farmhouse on a bare hill. At the bottom of the hill ran a little stream, and by the stream were barns and cattle. Struggling up the hill toward the house with two heavy pails of water was a bent old woman. And the legend was; Convenient for the cattle—but not for mother/’ Then there was a farmhouse with the water supply as it should be, the woman in the yard sprinkling her flower beds with a hose. And the inscription read: “Convenient for mother—and the cattle, too.” An¬ other model showed a kitchen as it 7, 'SJa \ l 'l I a It Is The Season Ot Inventories While taking stock of our material assets and accounting our financial gains or losses, we are not unmindful of those assets that can not be reckoned in dollars and cents-the Good Will of our customers and friends. Our appreciation of your liberal patronage of the past year emanates not merely from considerations of mutual material gain, but also from recognition of the cordial relations and good will which prompted that patronage. We pledge our continued best efforts, thru the medium of 100 per cent values in merchandise, fair prices, efficient service and courteous treatment, to merit your con¬ tinued confidence, patronage and friendship during 1920 and the years that may follow. GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL WORKS m FURNITURE a THE QUALITY STORES »» HARDWARE ■ L N? is . THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT V ALLEY. GA., JANUARY 1, 1920. should be, and another a kitchen aa it should not be. And there was the legend: A long-distance kitchen j shortens life. rt The lesson taught by the ebhibit is one that the 8tate Agricultural colleges and the United States De partment of Agriculture are trying to teach by every means at their command—greater convenience and a larger measure of comfort in the farm home. ■o WHAT AILS THE Chance* are lt'a WOUMS—if the child la languid, irritable and rentles* In sleep. You cun And out with Dr. Thacher’a Worm Syrup Perfectly prescription harmless. in Old doc¬ for I 1 tor's use j 60 years. At your drug store. i THACHER MEDICINE CO ! Chattanooga, Tenn., U. S. A. 18 FOR »ALE BY DR. F. G. HOBBS Fort Valley, Ga. 0 BUG TO BITE MOTH BORER a The little bugs that bite our crops Have other bugs to bite ’em. The other bugs have lesser bugs, And so, ad infinitum. >» The old verse, somewhat para¬ phrased, is recalled by the state¬ , ment of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agri¬ culture, that the best hope for the control of the moth borer of sugar cane now seems to be the importation and establishment in sugar-cane re¬ gions of parasites which eksst in Cuba. Bureau experts have been s.ent twice to Cuba for the collection of the parasites which reduce the ef¬ fectiveness of the moth borers. The parasites have been imported amd every effort is being made to pro¬ pagate them in the Louisiana cane fields. ■o The absence of fire works is a decided improvement over former years at this season of the year. © (©) (©> AS TO FIRE INSURANCE [@ m (@ [©) (§ the (©) <D Our 1919 business shows a modt gratifing increase over ® volume done in 1918, for which we thank you. ® ' m m C©) During 1920 our aim will be to please you . Representing only the best companies. (©) (©) The service render he excelled. m ©3 we you cannot © c©j AND WE Af PRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS. Wishing all a prosperous New Year and expressing gratelul appreciation to our ' w patrons. Very truly, Kinney Loan & Investment Co. vv Phone 107 Fort Valley, Ga. THE TELEPHONE BUG _ When the telephone girls in Cal ifornia find their wires “shorted, »» a bug may be on or in the wire, for California has a wood-boring beetle that goes thru wood and also thru alloyed substances considerably hard¬ er than lead. Th“ beetle has put hundreds of telephones out of com¬ mission by boring holes in the lead cables that carry the wires. Water enters the cables, making wire con¬ nections useless until the bored places are found and repaired. The problem of control of this metal¬ boring beetle is still unsolved, ac¬ cording to the Bureau of Entomolo¬ gy of the United States Department of Agriculture, and it will bediffi cult to find a practical way. O HOW TO SELL LAMB CUTS The extent to which the public's habit in meat eating may be influ¬ enced by local butchers is illustrated by information received by the Uni¬ ted States Department of Agricul- , ture. Fair dealing and good I are the basis by which the sale lamb carcasses in one locality been increased four or five within a few years. Following the policies responible for the worthy increase; Selling only lamb—neither ton nor goat meat—when ask for lamb. Selling mutton as mutton stead of as lamb), thus customers to make comparisons. Making special sales of “a string of fat lambs” at prices, but not with reduced In the hands of local largely rest changes in the eating habits of the public, the formation indicates. Considering the health of and the nutritive value of the a much greater proportion of and lamb might be consumed at the present time. ■o Smile if you face doing it. I 1 f S. BASS, Jr J. P. LUBETKIN I J ( ■ Bass & Lubetkin 1 f * Plumbing & Electrical 1 CONTRACTORS 1 i H 1 1 See either kinds member of plumbing of firm and fo; all h $ electrical work.