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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE i c Relation of Yields to Profits The purpose of this article is to point out some of the fearful economic losses we suffer because of our failure to understand and place a correct value on education, accurate, scientific knowledge and the following out of correct process es in the handling of many of our farm crops. It is another illustra . tion and confirmation of the fact that “a stitch in time saves nine.” It exemplifies most beautifully the importance of providing the rising generation with essential knowledge * bo that they may possess the ability to serve acceptably under the pecu liar circumstances of any environ ment by which they may be con fronted. This privilege, education Os the right kind never fails to con fer on the capable individual. We suffer many great losses Which are not -properly understood or appreciated. In the first place, average yields are unprofitable, and tt makes no difference to what crop we apply the result. In 1914 a very careful cost survey of cotton yields Was made in Georgia. It was shown at that time that when 172 pounds of lint were harvested per acre, the cost was 11.6 cents per pound. When the lint yield increased to 258 pounds, the cost decreased to 7 1-2 Cents per pound. Our whole energy and effort must, therefore, be di rected toward correcting the fallacy 80 commonly accepted that average ?’ields may be regarded as satisfac ory. We can never place our agri culture on a satisfactory basis un til we Increase average yields by 40 . to 50 per cent. Even then, we will s- be conducting our operations on a x narrow margin of profit. We must at least double average yields to get on a safe and sane basis. 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Lint Cot. 172 11.6 cents 258 9.1 cents 456 7.5 cents On this page are shown types of plants which will either hold down the yield or enable us to increase it materially. The poor type of plant represents a stalk of cotton not dis similar to millions of plants grown in our Georgia fields. This plant is characterized by the paucity of its fruit which it set on and de veloped late and is scattered about the plant. A good part of the plant’s time and energy has been taken up in the growth of vegetative limbs which yield no fruit. This plant is like the beggar on the street corner, an idler, a drone, a thing to be abhorred and destroyed. Average Yields of Com Results of 1914 Survey Yield per acre Cost Per Bu. Bu. 8.2 bushels 80 cents 10.1 bushels 74 cents 16.7 bushels 57 cents We cannot increase much above average yields until we instill into the minds of the farmer and tne rising generation of boys and girls the necessity of cultivating a type of plant that has the inherent he reditary ability to yield freely even under relatively adverse conditions Contrast this type of plant with the one at the bottom of the opposite page. Notice how freely this plant fruits, how closely the fruit is set to the ground, observe its compact ness. It is like a trim, well-riggged ship, ready for business. There Is no surplus' of stalk or limb, no evi dence of wasted energy, but only of serviceable purpose. If this sort of cotton plant were cultivated on every acre of land in Georgia devoted to cotton, our yields would increase per acre from 40 to 50 per cent. Yet we exercise no surveillance over, the sale of cotton seed. It may or may not be true to name. It may convey disease to the fields of the planter purchasing it. It may or may not be adapted for growth un der boll weevil conditions. It may or m*y not be resistant <.o the wilt fungus. We have not thought these things worth while in the past, but now under a new and changing eco nomic era, they become the very cor ner stone of a successful agricul tural practice. Importance of Seed Selection College No. 4, lint, first and sec ond pickings, 660 pounds; lint, first and second pickings, 69 per cent. De Soto, lint, first and second pickings, 259 pounds; lint, first and second pickings, 37 per cent. As an illustration of what may be accomplished through plant breed ing, the college has developed an early maturing type of cotton known as College No. 1. It has been grown in the same field for some years with many other varieties of cotton. In 1918 this cotton yielded 669 pounds of lint from the first and second pickings. Sixty-nine per cent of the entire crop was harvested be fore October 1. De Soto, grown un der the same conditions, yielded 259 pounds of litn from the first and second pickings. Thirty-seven pet cent of the crop matured before Oc tober 1. What chance had the farm er who grew De Soto to meet the onslaught of the boll weevil? Strains of College No. 1 have been found to vary in their ability to yield oil from 17 to 22 per cent. This Is a difference of 5 per cent in oil yield. Yet the highest oil yielding strains proved to be the easiest and the most desirable type for Tffeld cultivation. There are simply millions of dollars to be added to the wealth of Georgia through the utilization of better strains of seed. Good seed, like good citizens, pay an increment on any investment it .may take to secure them. BUI.ES and regulations gov erning GEOBGIA CALF CLUBS The purpose of the Georgia Calf club is to demonstrate the value of better methods of feeding and breed ing cattle and to furnish instruction to boys and girls in the feeding of calves. Any boy or girl between the ages of ten and eighteen years living in the state of Georgia is entitled to membership in the club. The Georgia Calf club shall con sist of county and state clubs. The county clubs shall make up the state club. In counties where there is a county agent, he shall be active ly in charge of the clubs, co-operat ing with the Georgia State College of Agriculture and the United States department of agriculture. In coun ties where there are no county agents, the work shall be done by the district agents. Each county club shall hold an annual show. The calves winning the county contest will be exhibited at the annual shows held in Macon and Atlanta. 1. It shall be the duty of each member to obtain at least one grade calf and to provide Sufficient feeds with which to properly fatten the animal. 2. It shall be the duty of each member personally to feed and other wise care for the calf according to directions outlined by the Georgia State College of Agriculture and the United States department of agri culture co-operating. 3. It shall be the duty of each member of the club to make a final report to the Georgia State College of Agriculture -at the county show. USING A DIPPING VAT AS A SILO J. 8., Jeffersonville, Ga., writes: I wish to know if I could use my dipping vat as an underground silo. It is made of concrete. I will have lots of peavine hay, and wish to know if I can put it in the vat and preserve it in this way. Your dipping vat for cattle would not make a satisfactory storage place for silage. It would be entire* ly too shallow for this purpose. The silo pit should extend into the ground to a depth of from fifteen to twenty-five feet. For convenience it should be circular in form and have reinforced concrete walls finished on the inside in such a manner as to make it practically air and water tight. It is cheaper and better from our point of view to build a silo above ground because you can ele vate the silage by machinery into such a structure. In the case of a silo built below the ground you would have to lift the silage out of it by means of a tackle and pulley, thus involving a great deal of labor cost. Peavines do not make a very sat isfactory silage, and I am quite sure they could not be kept in good con* dition in a dipping vat. Peavines will prove more profitable if made Into hay than if made into silage. The best crops from which to make silage in so far as quantity, quality and cost are concerned will be eiether sorghum or corn ground singly or in combination. Os course, you can use one of the saccharine sorghums and kaffir corn. This is the best drouth-resisting silage crop with which we are familiar. These crops combined give the largest yield we have yet obtained, but we do not con sider the quality as quite equal tn that obtained from a combination* of corn and one of the saccharine sor ghums. The growing of legumes in silage crops has not pfoven profitable from our point of view simply because we have not been able to secure as large a yield owing to the semi-shaded con dition under which they are produced as is desirable. We have tried cow peas for silage, and our experience indicates that it is better to cut and feed them as hay. Finishing Cattle off a Gross A. C. W., Cedar Grove, Ga., writes: I have some range cat tle that I have fed through two winters on high-priced feed. Will it pay me to dry feed these cattle and ship them or sell them as grazers? It appears that if I take present prices I can not break even much less make anything. In your situation we would do our very best to finish off the cattle and market them this summer or fall as soon as the good, natural grass range is exhausted. We would not attempt to carry cattle through a third winter under existing cir cumstances. If we did, it would be on the condition that we had plenty of silage available and a reasonably good crop of corn, some of which you could afford to feed to cattle. We could combine this corn with cot tonseed meal or peanut meal on the basis of equal parts of each. It should then be fed along with silage at the rate of about one to one and one-half pounds to one hundred pounds live weight. This makes an excellent ration to finish off cattle with when they are to be lot or stall fed. Such a feeding period would probably continue from 120 to 150 days. In our experience cat tle can be made and finished cheaper on grass than in any othr way. It may be that it will pay you to feed a little grain while they are on grass. Everything depends on the nature of the pasturage and seasonal conditions. When the grass is lush and abundant, grain feeding will not pay. If the pasture is, only fair in size and the season is dry some grain can often be added with prof it. We have not found it desirable to feed more than two pounds of grain per head per day to cattle on grass. The grain feeding period may extend over a period of from 90 to 120 days. Treating an Inflamed Udder T. M. H., Draketown, Ga., writes: Would like to know what is the matter with my cow and what to do for her. One of her teats near the udder swells, but it does not seem to be caked and does not affect the milk. In case such as you describe in your letter we would proceed as follows: Knead the affected part of the udder very thoroughly and gently. The treatment may be kept up from ten to twenty minutes at a time. This may help to reduce the infla matlon and cause a better circula tion of the blood, thereby absorbing the temporary swelling in the udder about which you write. This treat ment may be followed by bathing the affected parts with hot water. The water should be just as hot as the hand can bear. It should be ap plied for twenty minutes at a time. Bath towels can bq used to very good advantage. Wring the water out of them and apply to the udder, thus simulating a steam bath. The udder should then be rubbed with any oily ointment which will tend to keep it soft and prevent it from chafing. The repetition of this treatmen', should affect relief in the course of a few days. If it does not, the trou ble ig of an organic nature and is not likely to yield to any simple form of treatment. Should this prove to be the case, we should advise you to consult a veterinarian so ’as to prevent further injury to the udder or its loss of function altogether. How Long Does it Take Stubble to Hot* A. B. L., Atlanta, Ga., writes: What is the average length of time for stubble to rot after being turned under with the plow before it becomes avail able for plant food? The length of time it will take stubble to rote depends a great deal on seasonal conditions. During a dry spell such as that through which we have just passed decomposition proceeds very slowly. This is due to the lack of moisture in the soil. If a wet stubble is buried to a consid erable depth, it will decay in from thirty to ninety days. The season of the year, temperature and rainfall all exert a material influence. The meth od of handling the land is the de termining factor in the rapidity with which decay sets in and proceeds. As soon as the land is powed, if it is rolled and then harrowed fine, fermentation and decay will pro ceed much more rapidly than if it is left in a light, porous condition after breaking. Plant food supplies of stubble land would ordinarily not become available to growing crops under from sixty to ninety days. Dusting Cotton in a Poach Orchard S. E. 8., Fort Valley, Ga. writes: I have cotton planted in a young peach orchard, and the weevils are in the cotton. Will the powder that is used to poi son the weevil be harmful to the trees? A normal grade of calcium arsen ate can be used for spraying the cotton in your peach orchard with out damage to your fruit trees. By a normal grade of this article, I mean that which contains no less than 42 per cent of arsenic pentox ide and no more than 75 per cent of water soluble arsenic. As the ma terial varies from this standard there is danger of Its burping the foliage not only of the cotton but of the peach trees as well. There is a good deal of inferior calcium arsen ate now on the market. This ma terial should be applied with a spray gun according to the rules and regu lations worked out. There is little danger from its use. One should of course, do the spraying in the late afternoon or early morning, when the dew Is on. Do not use over 5 pounds per acre at a single ap plication and repeat the applications about once a week or ten days. Trouble in Churning imd its Correc tion • L. S„ Thomson, Ga., writes: I wish some information in re gard to my butter, it is so oily I have to use a spoon to skim it off in the churn. When tak en out of the refrigerator it melts before we finish a meal. I have had the cow four vears and never had this trouble be fore. I feed her on cotton seed meal and hulls and wheat bran and graze her a little. It is not surprising that butter should be soft and oily at this sea son of the year. The temperature has ranged very high lately, and, on that account, it is difficult to handle milk to the best advantage. We sug gest that you proceed as follows: As soon as the milk is drawn aerate it by pouring it from one pail to another several times. Do this in a place where the air is clean and as cool as posisble. Next, re duce the temperature of the milk by setting it in a spring where the water is running or in a can of the coolest water you can secure. The water should be changed several times. Just as soon as the milk be gins to turn a little acid, churn it. Do this early in the morning. Just before the butter breaks or comes, pour a small quantity, say one-half gallon, of ice cold water into the churn. This helps to chill and con geal the globules of butter fat and makes them gather together more readily. Wash the butter after the buttermilk has been drawn off and while it is still in the churn with an additional quantity of ice water. Then place it in the granular form in the refrigerator to harden. Work it the next day into prints. Take out of the ’refrigerator only the amount of butter needed for a given meal. Keeping the milk and butter on ice or near it will help the con dition about which you complain. There is nothing wrong with the cow or the feed you are using. As a matter of fact, cottonseed meal should tend to harden the butter very much. If you will make a mixture of equal parts of bran and cottonseed meal and feed with hulls and grass and other green feeds you can make available, you would im prove the ration you are using very materially. I AUNT JULIA'S LETTER BOX \ r- 1 “Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All Dumb Things'* RULES No unsigned letters printed. No letter written on both sides of paper printed. All letters not to exceed 150 to 200 words. Dear Children: While on my vacation this summer I revived my interest in cro quet, and it occurs to me to ask how many of you children have cro quet sets and whether you enjoy the game, it is quite popular in the east, and if there was a good court in a community, no end of fun and healthy amusement would be found in having croquet tourna ments, you could earn some of benevolent society money by having benefits. Write me about it if you are interested, it would be a mighty nice way for the young people to get together, and I assure you it is anything but a slow game if played right. Lovingly, AUNT JULIA. Thank you, Eula Pethel, for your picture. I appreciate it very much; also the flowers from Emma McDaniel, and the cypress seed from Loyce Ford. Thank yfcu, Willie Mae Arnold, for the crochet and Julia Dorsey, for the tatting for the baby. Hello, Aunt Julia! How are you 'and the cousins feeling this nice spring day? Fine, I hope. I am a new cousin, but have been reading the letters in The Journal for quite a while. Charlie G. Coker, I think your letter was very interesting. You must come again real soon. I see Aunt Julia looking at the wastebasket now, so I will describe my self and go: Brown hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, weight US pounds and my age is between sixteen and nineteen. Aunt Ju lia, I surely hope you will print my letter. Would be very glad if some of the cousins would write to their new cousin. PAULINE MECKLIN. Mulat, Fla. Dear Aunt Julia: This is my second at tempt to write you, and I hope to see this in print. What have you all been doing this rainy weather. As for myself, nothing much. I will describe myself; so, cousins, don’t get angry: Black hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, fourteen years of age. Some of you cousins write me, as I am lone some. Say, cousins, can you tell me where Frances Garrett is, as I have lost her address. Cousins, please write me one and all. Sincerely, LARA L. FISHER. Cave Spring, Ga. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Let a Georgia girl join your happy band of boys and girls. I live in the country and like country life. My father takes The Journal and I'.like it fine, especially the letter box. I go to Adrian High school arid like it. I will be in the eighth grade next term. I will describe myself and go for this time: I am thirteen years of age, brown eyes and hair, brunette, and four feet seven inches tall. If any of you cousins wish to write to a jolly Georgia girl, let the let ters fly. Your new cousin, MATRA DRAKE. Adrian, Ga., Route 2. P. S.—l am sending live cents to Yvonne. Dear Aunt Juia and Cousins: I am a stranger to all of you, but you are not «> me. I always read your letters and enjoy them very much, I wan’t to be admitted to your happy band. I am a blonde, and will enter the high school next year; am between the ages of ten and fifteen; am five feet two inches tall and weigh 102 pounds. I am going to be a telephone op erator. I thought-a few years ago I would be a musician, but have changed my mind. Hope I haven’t stayed too long with you. Would like to correspond with some of the cousins. Love to Aunt Julia and all. Your new cousin, LUCY LOCKHART. Maysville, Ga., Box 53. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Have been thinking for quite a while that I would write, so have time now and will make an attempt. What are all you boys and girls doing these hot days? I live on a large farm and have to work pretty hard. Well I will try and describe myself as the rest do, so here I go: I am five feet three inches tall and weight 118 pounds, aged sixteen, have dark hair, black eyes and fair complexion. Well I will write more next time if this escapes the wastebasket. All you boys and girls write me. I will answer all letters. Yous cousin, ' PASCAL BATSON. Perklnston, Miss. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Have you any room to spare for a lit th: farmer? Thanks, I’ll just sit over there on the. floor by the girl with the big apron on, as I have on my overalls and it won’t hurt them to get dirty. Don’t have to be so ’ticiilar as those dolled-up boys and girls. I be long to the overall club and always wear them on Sunday to Sunday school and preaching. All the little girls say I look cute, too. Am going to try to be an ideal farmer when I’m grown, but I’m considered lazy now by my brothers and sisters. I have a watermelon and muskmelon patch planted and if some of you cousins will come this summer, what a jolly time we will have eating melons, fishing and going swimming. Now I hope Aunt Julia’s letter box is a large one and that this letter can be packed in it somewhere. I’ll assure you cousins that if you will w-rite me there will always be plenty of room in my letter box for your letters. Love and best wishes to all. Your new cousin, KERMIT TRAYLOR. Lamar, Ala. • Tap, tap, tap. Aunt Julia won’t you let me in? I guess you will, for I knocked once before and didn’t get ip. If Thelma Potts will move over just a little I’ll take a seat by Virgil Haile. Stop laughing, Charlie Coker, and you, too, Clem Chappell. As it is the rule, will describe myself: Dark brown hair, fair complexion, five feet seven inches tall, weigh 145 pounds, age 21. Don’t run, cousins, I won’t bite you. What do you do for pastime? I am a farmer; so I guess you know I have plenty to do. Aunt Julia, please print this if it is worth while. If any of you cousins want to write to a Georgia boy let your letters and cards fly. I will answer all. JAMES B. CALDWELL. Gaggansville, Ga., Route 1. Hello, Aunt Julia! Will you please let me have a seat in your happy band of boys and girls? I live in the country and like it fine. I am ten years old and in the fifth grade. We live in a very beautiful coun try near a small creek and enjoy fishing fine. I like to hunt wild flowers and wade in the branched -and play with dolls and cats. I have, three of each. I have two married sisters in Atlanta; one of them has two of the sweetest kids I ever saw and the other has one, and their names are Jimmie, Opal and Gerald. Well, I will ask you all a riddle, as I can’t think of anything else at this moment. What it it I have not and don’t want but if I had it I would not take, a million dollars for it? I will write to the one who guesses this riddle. Aunt Julia, please print this be cause I want to get acquainted with some other girls about my size for I get lone some sometimes. I will not describe my self, as I do not think descriptions inter esting. Who likes to read? I do. My fa vorite book is “Pollyanna.” I have lots of flowers and I like to plant them. I will close with best wishes to Aunt Julia and Yvonne. From MILDRED NORTON. Doerun, Ga., R. F. D. 3, Box 88. P- S. —Inclosed find 5 cents for the French baby. Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: WU you let another little Georgia girl join your band of boys and girls. I enjoy reading the letter box. I live on a farm two miles from the little town of Adrian. It is a nice town. I go to school there, and will be in the sixth grade this fall. I sure want an education. I think every boy and girl should try to get an education and be interested in work and stop so much foolishness and talking about loving the boys. For pastime I cro chet and read. For pets I have two little sisters, two little puppies and a grand old Tomcat; he is some cat. I also help with the baby chicks. We have a nice little bunch of them and also have a nice gar den. Well, I will describe myself and go: Fair complexion, blue eyes and dark hair, am 5 feet 2 inches high. You all know I am a peach. I will leave my age for you to guess. I will answer your letters if you girls want to write me. MYRTLE a. *.L LOCKHART. Adrian, Ga. Dear Aunt Julia: Here I come once more after my long spell of silence, for I am by no means a new cousin. Please, Aunt Julia, have you seen or heard anything from W. E. Hullender or Daisy Ward? I think Dasy must have been somewhat shocked by photo, as I sent it in my last letter to her. As for Mr. Hullender, I have not heard from him in a year or more. I am planning to go on a camping trp this summer and know I will have a fine tme fishing, swmming and cooking, of course, for that has to be done ,no matter how much we dread it. Wish all the cousins could go. We would have quite a large party. Guess I must close if I ever want to return. GLADYS HULLENDER. Ringgold, Ga. Helio, Aunt Julia and Cousins! Wil you please let an Alabama girl in for a chat? I have been a reader of the letter box for a long time. I live on a farm. I like farm life. How many of you all like flowers? I do for one. I have roses blooming. Well, I will describe myself: Gray eyes, fair com plexion, thirteen years old, weigh 98 pounds, 5 feet /high. What are you all doing? I haven’t been doing anything snce school stopped. I am in the sxth grade. If this is printed I will come again. If any of you cousins write to me let the letters fly to your new cousin, ORRETHA WILSON. Asheville* Ala., Route 3. The Tri-Weekly Journal’s Fashion Suggestions MISSES’ OR SMALL WOMEN’S DRESS. The exaggerated blouse effect is particularly becoming to slender girl ish figures, and It Is shown here in a new version for fall. The sides of waist in design No. 9399 show the same lices at the front and back. The misses’ and small women's •/WW" sap™ htr!? i / / rrh ’ w-feZ’wW / I \ MW? ill, ■ dress No. 9399 is cut in sizes 14 to 20 years. The 16-year size requires 3 yards 44-inch material, without up and down, % yard 36-lnch lining and % yard 30-inch contrasting ma terial. Price 12 cents. Limited space prevents showing all the styles. We will send our 32- page fashion magazine containing all the good, new styles, dressmak ing helps, serial story, &c„ for sc. postage prepaid, or 3c. if ordered with a pattern. Send 15c. for maga zine and pattern. In ordering patterns and maga zines write your name clearly on a sheet of paper ad inclose the price, in stamps. Do not send your letters to the Atlanta office but direct them to— FASHION DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA JOURNAL, 32 East Thirteenth st., New York City. MARY MEREDITH’S ADVICE I TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME Please give a lonely girl some good advice. Tell me, does a boy love a girl if he sends her costly presents and says he loves her? This boy has broken up with all his sweet hearts. He says he loves only me, and I love him better than any one in the world I know. Would it be any harm to kiss him? Please print fny name. I want him to see It. A lonely girl. KATIE W. Usually a man thinks some thing of a woman when he show ers costly presents upon her. But I do not think a girl should accept expensive gifts unless she is engaged to be married to the man. She places herself under obligations to him, and will cause herself to be talked about if she allows a man to do so. I do not recommend kissing, though I know it is indulged in. However, ‘do not permit familiarity. It les sens a girl in a man’s eyes. We do not prize anything we get so cheaply. I am a girl of seventeen coming for advice. I have been going with a boy of twenty-three for over a year. He never mistreated me until a month ago. I asked him about going with a girl that is not nice, and he gave me his right hand that he wasn’t going with her. The jiext time I saw him with her he didn’t make much of an apology about it. I was with him since then, and he came, to see me one day. Did I do right, and is it right not to want him to go with her? Is he too old for me? There is another boy who has been visiting me, and he seems to like me very much, and I do know I love him with all my heart. He is twenty two. How can I get him to write to me, as I love him with all my heart. My father and mother are very cruel to me. I have thought of running away when I am eighteen and earning my living. Must I do this, or can he make me come back home after I am eighteen? Please tell me what to do, as this is my third let ter. Hope to see it in the next paper. A BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL. First of all, you belie your name. You aren’t broken-hearted at all. You cannot possibly love two men at the same time with a heart-breaking devotion Get over being silly, and try to get something else in your head be sides boys. If your friend still keeps company with the girl who isn’t nice after he told you he would stop, then have nothing more to do with him. Let him see that you are at least a lady. It won’t hurt you to give him up as badly as you think. Your father can make you return home until you are twenty-one. Then you are legally free, and are sup- ' posed to be clothed in your right TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920. The Country Home BY MRS. VV. H. FELTON Have System in Your Work You and I have seen people in our daily experience who are always be hind in their work—and yet all the time making frantic efforts to catch up and get even with their daily ob It Is needless to repeat here what everybody knows, that they not only make poor efforts but hinder every body else that is connected with them. Os course you understand that help may be scarce, or not possible, that the most industrious people can get water-logged and unable to get things done, but I am talking now about the sort of housekeepers who have no system and their work is al ways piling up ahead. until they don’t know how to manage it. Sometimes sickness hinders, and that is unavoidable in the best ar ranged households; but the home or the business that is without system is continually in a state of chaos. In my youpger days, before I had a sewing machine, I always tried to cut o.ut some, but no more garments on Monday or the early part of the week than I could finish up by Sat urday afternoon, with buttons on and each hook and eye in its place. If they dragged along over time, I took a distaste to them, and the work be came positively irksome. However, I confess that I sometimes put off the beginning much longer than I in tended at the start, for the same reason. When the work table was cleaned off and the house put in order for Sunday, I found it heped my spirits greatly. So I put in all the spare time in getting my work squared off by Saturday night. In this way I accomplished so much more than by allowing my work to drag on my hands. Children should have some system also with their little jobs, and. espe cially In getting them over on Satur days if they go to school. It is pos itively necessary to give children something to do, and compel them to the doing of it in good time and or der before they are allowed to play and thus shirk their duties. It adds so much to their happiness to have their alloted duties assigned and to discipline them Ip doing It regular ly. When I see a lot of school chil dren idling their leisure time I feel sure they are making a lot of need less work and worry for the mother at home. System and regular duties are good for us all, young and old. Good Character —For Representatives Money is a. great factor in our so cial fabric. The man or woman who is rich in the common acceptation of the word, can do and dare a great many things that the poorer classes would be ostracized for doing, and their weaknesses are in many cases overlooked; and they can be invited to places, that would be locked against humbler erring members of society. Nevertheless, there is a value In good character, that will win out and and which will be worth more to the memory of “such good people after death than all of a millionaire’s money, who is lacking In that asset. When people qnter public life and offer their services as representatives of the constituents, it is meet and proper that such people should pass in review before those who are to vote for, or against them. It is need less to say they should have educa tion —that goes without saying. That they should give evidence that they are capable of managing their own business. This is self-evident. But it is just as necessary that our public officials should be persons of good and decent character first, because they become examplars to younger persons, and second, because an un clean individual is not to be relied upon either in church or state. No bad man can be a self-respect ing man; and this alone makes him unworthy to do your voting in mat ters pertaining to life, liberty or the protection qf There is a serious flaW'lh his ntfaite-up. It will show itself Under’ strain. A com munity is known by the people who live in it, and who take part in its public business. The Bible tells us, ”No man liveth to himself.” We might go further and say that a com munity, a county or a state, is esti mated by the people who are selected to represent them. If our voting population cannot go to,the polls and select proper repre sentatives, it is because they under estimate their privileges in our free republic, by the protecting power of the Almighty Giver of all good. The people have a choice and can express it, in a tangible way, by the ballot. I heard a man say, some days ago, that politics had become so rotten that he had made up his mind not to vote any more. 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