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FOLLOW THOII ME
Message of the Savior Reveals
the Power Which He Claimed
Had Been Given Him.
Christianity cannot he understood
without Christ.. And it cannot be lived
apart from him. The two go together,
because Christianity is more than a re¬
ligion and that religion is bound up
with a life, the most remarkable and
powerful ever lived on this earth.
When Jesus, therefore, says, “All
power hath been given unto me iq
heaven and on earth," we want to
know what that power was, in order
to acquire some of it and obey his
command, “Go ye, therefore, into all
the world and make disciples of the
nations.”
The first source of Jesus’ power
lay in his teaching. And it was pow¬
er because it had these qualities:
It was simple. “The common peo¬
ple heard him gladly.” The old phi¬
losophies common in Jesus’ lifetime
were obscure and the language was
such that the ordinary man could not
grasp them. Jesus taught so that day
laborers understood. That was power,
and it always will be.
Jesus’ teaching was fundamental. It
went to the center of men’s sins, needs
and hopes. In the Sermon on the
Mount, which can be read aloud in fif¬
teen minutes, Jesus talks about anger,
adultery, hypocrisy, murder, injustice,
revenge, covetousness, anxiety and
selfishness. He did not teach school¬
room abstractions, impersonal philoso¬
phy, but the groat basic sins of com¬
mon daily life and their remedies.
First to Teach Love.
Jesus’ teaching was revolutionary.
Take four of his teachings: “Love
your enemies.” This would and does
create an upheaval in society. It was
not like anything in the old pagan
teaching. “Resist not evil ” This is
distinctly upsetting to ordinary world
belief and practice. The observance
of it would completely change civiliza¬
tion. “Ho perfect, even as your heaven¬
ly Father Is perfect.” This destroys
at one blow the easy complacent
morality of a world that would like
to be "as good as it can be under the
circumstances.” It sets a standard
for human character that stops no¬
where short of divinity. “The meek
shall inherit the earth.” This teach¬
ing contradicts every wordly maxim
of “suceess.”
When we ask, “What did Jesus do
that made him powerful?” at first we
have to say, judging from worldly
standards, he did not do anything.
■He made no money, put up no build¬
ings, wrote no books, organized no
party, constructed no public works—
in short, he did nothing.
But he did do two things. We have
mentioned the first—teaching. The
second was healing. “He went about
doing good.” In Mark’s Gospel the
account says ho healed every known
disease--blindness, lameness, paral¬
ysis, leprosy, deafness and dumbness,
insanity, consumption and lie even
raised the doad to life. This was an
exhibition of power over disease and
physical weakness which is unparal¬
leled in human history. And it was
clone for the purpose of revealing to
cojnmon everyday humanity the tre¬
mendous truth that the Divine Being
is deeply interested in human happi¬
ness and wants to relieve humanity
of pain and make it well and strong.
It was a great power to possess and
gave Jesus a groat hold in the affec¬
tions and memories of thousands of
people.
Co-Operation With the Divine.
What does the Prince of Peace, this
powerful Ono, want of us? Ho wants
of us what the divine has always want¬
ed of the human. He wants his disci¬
ples to co-operate with him in estab¬
lishing justice and righteousness in
the earth. “The government," as
Isaiah says, is “on his shoulder." Yes,
wo do not have to bear that awful and
majestic and divine burden, but we
can help him hear it, wo can share
it with him, and that is the great work
of tho church today. It is for us to
bring our gold and frankincense and
myrrh and lay them at his feet.
It is for us to consecrate to him
the best we have. What will you. liis
disciple, give to establish peace on
the earth through tho power of the
Prince of Peace? What will the
church give to the Wonderful, the
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Ever¬
lasting Father, tho Prince of Peace?
Come! Let us give him our means,
our talents, our time, our enthusiasm.
He, our Prince of Poahe, has wrought
wonders in the world movements for
world betterment. Come! Let tig go
to meet him as he comes confident and
strong over the hills of the centuries,
and, wasting no long time over tho
tears of our repentance, lot us greet
him with a shout of rejoicing. But—
aro we going to help or hinder the
coming of his triumph? Make an¬
swer, men and women of the church,
as ye know ye shall stand some day
before his judgment seat to give ac¬
count of tho deeds done in the body.
For he is waiting to see what his
disciples will do. All power has been
given him. Will the church ‘'go" with
that power and give it to the world
and make disciples of the nations?—
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. D. D.
In God’s Keeping.
God can keep a man just as cer¬
tainly in this world as he can keep
him In any world. He proved it with
Daniel in the lions' den, with Wes¬
ley among the stones, and with John
in the Isle of Patinos, with more com¬
pany than he had ever had before.—
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GIVE BOAR GOOD ATTENTION
As He Matures, Litters Will Be Strong¬
er and Larger—Keep Him Sep¬
arated From the Sows.
It is not best to let the boar run
with the rest of the herd. It Is too
common a practice to sell the boar
when the season is over. This is
largely the cause of so many small
litters and weakboned pigs. It is best
to get a good hoar, and keep him for
a few years, and as he matures his
pigs will be stronger and litters larger.
Have a small yard of grass if possi¬
ble, hog-tight and away from the sows,
so be will udt be worried. A quarter
of an acre will afford plenty of exer¬
cise in the open air. When grass is
not available, give him cut clover or
any other good green feed that he will
eat.
Feed sparingly of fattening feeds,
hut give him feed that will keep him
growing if lie is not fully developed,
r til stuff, skim milk, clover, alfalfa
r anything that furnishes protein is
advisable. At all times keep a supply
of ashes, salt and charcoal where he
can obtain it at will. It will do much
toward keeping him in good health.
RAISE RAPE FOR PASTURAGE
Splendid Feed for Sheep and Hogs—
Good Use Can Be Made of the
Temporary Fences.
Rape is a splendid feed for sheep
and hogs an well. It is usually pas¬
tured, but when the acreage is small
and one wishes to got the most from
the crop, it is cut and fed to the
stock and then when it grows up
again, is pastured.
Rape is generally broadcasted in the
early spring on weil prepared ground
at the rate of five pounds of seed per
acre. When the plants are about eight
inches high turn the sheep into the
field. Most pasturage can be ob¬
tained if temporary fences are used
to allow only a part of the field to
bo pastured at a time.
BREEDING CRATE FOR SWINE
Device Is Easily Transported and Is
Splendid Combination for Carry¬
ing or Ringing.
A splendid crate for handling swine
and for use as a breeding crate is
made according to the accompanying
drawing. Any ordinary light mat iff la?
may be used. It is easily transported
and is a combination for carrying or
ringing and adjustable to both large
and small boar or sow in mating,
writes George W. Brown of Hancock
Practical Breeding Crate.
county, Ohio, in Farm and Home. It
meets these demands with hut slight
adjustments.
The bridge serves as well to close
up the rear end in confining an ani¬
mal and by inserting in varied slots
readily admits the use of different
sizes of animals in breeding. Tho
false floor which hangs upon hooks
over the slats makes a support for
small animals in the crate and also
is used as a top in shipping. Hook
and eye devices hold the top and rear
bridges together in transportation.
FEEDING THE IDLE HORSES
High-Priced Feeds Should be Avoided
In Order to Keep Animals In
Best Condition.
In the feeding of idle horses the
high-priced feeds should he avoided
in order to keep them in proper con
i uition at the lowest cost. It has been
| found that idle horses do very well on
a winter feed consisting of all the
j hay, oat straw, cornstalks or sorghums
they will consume, so that little grain
• is necessary. Idleness also permits
i of a more thorough mastication of the
I feed, thus insuring proper digestion.
FRST INDICATION OF SCOURS
Feed Should Be Immediately Cut to
One-Half the Usual Amount—Give
Dose of Formalin,
The first sign of indigestion scours
is a foul-smelling dung. The feed
i should be immediately cut to one-half
the usual amount. For two or three
feeding periods add a tablespoonful
| one-half per pint of milk fed of a mixture of
ounce formalin in 15.5 ounces
water. After two or three feeding pe
I riods the milk may be again increased
to the regular amount.
Avoid Tainted Food.
No animal is thrown off its feed so
quickly by unclean or tainted food as
a sheet).
THE CLEVELAND COURIER, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA.
USE UP MUCH BRASS LEAF
Natives of Southern India Employ It
for a Peculiar Form of
Decoration.
One of the most interesting uses
to which brass Jeaf is applied in
southern India is for gilding limes,
the decorated fruit, according to a
local custom, being exchanged by na¬
tives on festival occasions in token of
esteem. The origin of this practice
is apparently unknown, but it dates
from a distant period and is a recog¬
nized feature of Indian life. The ex¬
change of lime3 takes place on New
Year’s days, of which there are sev¬
eral in this country. Besides the
English anniversary observed by the
natives, the Mohammedans and the
Tamil and Teluga branches of the
Hindus have special New Year’s
days. A native calling on New
Year’s day on a person to whom he
or she desires to show’ esteem pre¬
sents the host with a lime, in the
case of the well-to-do the lime is al¬
ways ornamented with brass leaf or,
in a few cases, with gold leaf. The
poorer classes, as a rule, give undec¬
orated limes. The custom sometimes
extends also to the ordinary “tarn
ash” or social reunion. Thus a good
deal of brass leaf is used for gilded
limes and the bazaar trade in this
line throughout southern India is
really considerable. The loaf is also
used to some extent in the manufac¬
ture of gilded caps or “topi,” worn
generally by Mohammedans in south¬
ern India on their holidays and for
decorations on the dresses of Mo¬
hammedan women.
NOTHING DOING
Jack—Well, Willie, what admis¬
sion do you charge to your game ?
Willie—Well, if you want to know,
il’s three cents, but you can’t work
me fer passes just because you come
’round to call on sis, and burn our
gas.
SEA CHANGES LANDMARK.
Martha’s Vineyard, on the Atlan¬
tic coast, has long had a split rock as
a landmark. Recently the action of
the waves in continually washing
through the cleft sucked out the sand
and allowed the tops of tlje two
pieces to come together again after
being separated for years.
A LOT OF LOTS.
“Will you share my lot ?”
“Just one lot?” queried the girl.
“1 have another proposal from a man
who owns a subdivision.”
TIME’S CHANGES.
K nicker—After the war the rich
will be richer and the poor poorer.
Booker-—And those who are
neither will be neitherer.
THAT TIRED FEELING.
He—But doesn’t my devotion
arouse in you some feeling for me?”
She—Oh, yes; the sort one takes
a tonic for in the spring.
HIS VIEWS.
“Dear me, I forgot to send her an
invitation to our wedding.”
“It won’t make much difference,
We won’t miss one pielde fork.”
THE TERM.
“Mhy do they call the
U boats?”
“Because they mean to each ship
they meet, ’ You next.’ ”
HAS TO.
“How is this, Jones? They tell
j ting me your son is in the big cities hit¬
all the high places.”
So he is. He’s a steeple-jack.”
DAD’S REASON.
“Your father refused his consent.”
“He did. Did he give any reason
“Only that he insists on
his own son-in-law.”
Live Stock Progress
Being Made In Georgia
Tick Eradication And The Introduc¬
tion of Pure-Bred Animals First
Steps Of Greatest Importance
(ANDREW M. SOULE, President Ga.
State College Of Agriculture.)
Remarkable progress has been made
in developing animal industries in the
South in the past few years. This has
been brought about by the genera!
campaign of education carried on by
the State Colleges of Agriculture and
their extension divisions and the vari¬
ous bureaus of the United States De¬
partment of Agriculture. I recall quite
distinctly when the proposition to erad¬
icate the cattle tick was considered a
joke and yet there are forty-two coun¬
ties free of this pest in Georgia alone,
and in a comparatively short time the
whole state will have been cleaned
up. The prosecution of this campaign
by state and federal authorities
means a saving and an addition to the
average wealth of the state of Georgia
of fully one million dollars a year.
The introduction of pure bred sires
is changing the character and quality
of our beef cattle, not only in Geor¬
gia, but in the southeastern states as
well. About 1?600 pure-breds, mostly
of the beet types, were brought into
Georgia last year. You can appreciate
what a ievening influence they are ex¬
erting on our live stock industries.
Several years ago the College pur¬
chased scrub cows at $17.60 each and
crossed them with pure-bred sires.
The progeny from the third cross have
made steers weigning 1,400 pounds at
about thirty months. We have been
offered 10 cents a pound for some of
these animals, or $142.50 each. Com¬
paring this with the original price of
the dam, the infinite possibilities of j
live stock production in the south arc I
well illustrated, provided we use the |
right type of sire and develop pastures
of bermuda grass, bur clover, Italian
rye grass and Japan clover, and util¬
ize our forage and hay making legumes
such as corn and sorghum, and alfalfa,
cowpeas, velvet beans to proper ad¬
vantage. When our cotton lands aro
devoted to the production of winter
oats and other cereals to supplement
our cotton seed meal, the state of Geor¬
gia will have two or three times its
present carrying capacity of live stock.
Die-Back Disease
Severe On Peaches
Many Georgia Peach Trees Seriously
Affected By Disease This Year,
Especially Less Thrifty
Ones
(T. H. McHATTON, Prof, of Horticul¬
ture, State College Of Agr.)
Die-back, a fungous disease has be¬
come more serious in Georgia peach
orchards this year than usual. It gets
its name from its characteristic way
of attacking tips of branches, causing
them to die hack as the disease pro¬
gresses. Unchecked it often kills
trees. At this time it is felt witn
special severity because of hardships
which the trees have suffered during
the last year or two from unseasonably
early and late freezes and by reason
of heavy demands upon the trees’ vi¬
tality by unusually large crops. The
weaker trees are suffering in many
orchards from tho disease while the
more vital ones are resistant.
Pruning away infected parts Is rec¬
ommended. The pruning tool should
be disinfected after each severance
of a diseased limb. When very seri¬
ous, three sprayings with self-boiled
lime-sulphur should he made, the first
about September 1 and the last in
October.
Inexpensive Cotton Cultivation
(LOY E. HAST, Cotton Industry Dept.,
Ga. State College Of Agriculture.)
Shallow cultivation of cot¬
ton is economical, it con¬
tributes most to the growth of
the plant, it conserves the moisture in
the soil better than deep cultivation.
Deep cultivation with a plow common¬
ly used throughout the cotton grow¬
ing belt, means unnecessary loss of
the moisture needed by the plants: it
means the disturbance of rootlets
through, which the plant is feeding,
thereby robbing the plant of some of
Its food, and it means plowing one
furrow at a time when the same en¬
ergy might be used to three or four
furrows at a time as deep as they
ought to be plowed.
Shallow cultivation not only means
j rapid and inexpensive cultivation, but
it means that the planter can cultivate
more often. The oftener the cultiva¬
tion—if it be shallow—the more the
moisture is held for the plants and
the more they grow ami the heavier
the fruit. More frequent cultivations
thus justify themselves with more
j profitable returns.
During the past spring there was a
drouth. Springs drouths are coming
to be common. A very harmful prac¬
tice generally used in the cotton field
of Georgia is to “bar” off the cotton
before chopping it out. This means
that the cotton is left on a ridge with
a deep furrow on either side. It
means that the ground under and
around the cotton dries out in a
drouth and leaves the young plant in
poor shape if it does not die outright.
Had the soil been harrowed only, this
heavy loss of moisture would not have
occurred, the plants would have con¬
tinued to grow and so much replant¬
ing would not have been necessary.
What Jim Price Has Done
For The Farmers Of Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture J. D.
Price submits his candidacy to
voters of Georgia, upon his record
service in making the department
institution of positive value and
fulness to the farmers of this state.
Commissioner Price has not
given his time and earnest attention
to the well recognized duties
ing upon the department, but he has
done other things for the benefit
Georgia farmers and at a saving to
state, not attempted by his
sors.
He introduced the plan of
ing to Georgia farmers nitrogen
teria for their leguminous crops at
25 cents per acre, or actual cost,
where private concerns were charging
$2 or more for the same product.
He has had taken for analysis more
“home” samples of fertilizers, direct
from the barn of the consumer, than
any oilier commissioner, thereby as¬
suring protection to the individual.
He has had taken and analyzed
more samples of fertilizers at a less
cost to the state than his predecessor.
The actual office records show that
the cost per sample under his prede¬
cessor was $2.88, and in his first
term immediately following it was only
$2.40, an actual saving to the state of
48 cents on each sample.
Adheres Strictly To The Law
He has rigidly enforced the pure
food and pure feed laws at all
times to the advantage of the farm¬
ers and the consumers of Georgia.
He has gone further than any other
commissioner ever attempted in the
effort to provide markets for food
crops. The records will clearly show
this.
He has disseminated more and more
accurate crop reports and has supplied
the fanners of Georgia with all avail¬
able information of value to them.
He has kept in personal touch with
the farmers of Georgia insofar as the
duties of the office wouid permit, has
absolutely adhered to the laws of the
state, and yet has shown the farmers
of Georgia as many of them have nev¬
er known before, that THERE IS AN
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT IN
GEORGIA.
Recently there appeared in the At¬
lanta papers an advertisement that
said this:
"Everyone dissatisfied with the
present administration of the
state agricultural department,
please communicate with J. J.
Brown campaign headquarters."
“It will be aeon from this,” said
Commissioner Price, “that my oppon¬
ent is hard put to it. to find anything
against me, since he has had to ad¬
vertise for complaints in order to find
them. This is a new plan in politics.
WHY CHANGE GOVE
Governor Harris: Confederate Sol¬
dier; Jurist; Christian Gentle¬
man; Statesman.
Shall We Dishonor Such a
Man, a Man Who Has
Done His Duty, By Fail¬
ing to Pve-elect Him?
Your Governor, the Governor of
every man, woman and child in
Georgia, is on trial and stands before
the people of a state that he has loved
and served for half a century. He
asks that they re-elect him to the
office of Governor, one which for a
year now he has held honestly, fear¬
lessly and conscientiously; asks them
only to do for him what Democratic
precedent has made a custom in
Georgia—to give to every Governor
four years and which is now advo¬
cated by the majority of the candi¬
dates running.
Will you reject a man w'hose ex¬
perience and ability as an able jurist,
and whose long and valuable service
in the legislature amply qualify him
for the position?
Is it wise to substitute now an in¬
experienced man, one who has never
been tried as Governor, for one who
has consistently devoted every day
for over a year to the position ?
Can you afford to neglect a man
who has carried on a splendid busi¬
ness administration, and who, for the
first time in history, had a thorough
audit made of the state's books, thus
establishing a precedent for efficient
management of the srtate’s funds?
Can you conscientiously dispense
with the services of a man whose
work on the Western & Atlantic Rail¬
road Commission makes him best
able to handle the present crisis that
has arisen with respect to this, the
state’s greatest asset?
Can you afford to help defeat a
man who has thus far successfully
fought the L. & N.’s efforts to destroy
the W. & A. R. R. property? Don’t
be deceived about the opposition to
your Governor.
Can you deliberately hurt the man
who established the Georgia School
of Technology of and is still f hairman of
the Board Trustees; who is a Trustee
of the University of Georgia (his alma
mater) and of the Wesleyan Female
College, and has always been a leader
in Georgia’s educational progress?
Can you reflect on a man who has
paid the school teachers of the state
promptly’ and is doing so now for the
first time in the history of Georgia,
a Governor who has fought more for
J. D. PRICE,
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
but whatever he finds he is certainly
welcome to.
That Travel Expense
“My opponent seeks to make a point
of the fact that the travel expenses of
the department for two years were
$32,120.83. I have a letter from tho
legislative committee which investi¬
gated the auditor’s report, showing
that this amount covers all the usual
expenses provided for by law, that it
is a regular expense under every ad¬
ministration of the department, and
that it includes the cost of travel, ho¬
tel bills, purchase of samples for
analysis, bottles and express charges,
for 74 j employes and attaches of the
department. This is a small average
of $18.U9 per month per man.
“In criticising expense accounts he
does not tell you that he made trips
to biB home near Elberton at the ex¬
pense of the state, and also to his
farm at Baxley, which the records
show, and that he rode in chair cars
at the state’s expense, a thing I never
did in my life, because I always want
to get with the people.
“Referring to the fertilizer and oil
inspectors, my opponent says the de¬
partment lias a 'political machine.’ It
is the same ‘machine’ that was here
when he was assistant to Mr. Conner.
I have never made a single appoint¬
ment that was not authorized and re¬
quired by law. But before talking
about political machines, he should
tell the farmers and people of this
state why Mr. Conner and he carried
blank commissions to Macon, and of¬
fered them in the effort to trade me
out of the office of commissioner of
agriculture.”
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the common schools of Georgia than
any other has ever done before?
Do you think for a moment that
there can be any truth in the mali¬
cious charges against the courage and
backbone of a man who fought glo¬
riously for the South, and who made
the Prohibition acts possible in the
face of tremendous opposition and
threats ?
Will you deny to Georgia the priv¬
ilege of having as her Governor, for
the last time, a man who honored his
gray uniform beneath the grand old
stars and bars of the Confederacy?
We do not believe that you can say
“yes” to any of these questions. We
believe that you and thousands of
other patriotic Georgians, will honor
your state, your governor and your¬
selves by voting for Governor Harris.
Please help in this good fight by sign¬
ing and sending in the coupon below.
Governor N. E. Harris,
State Capitol,
Atlanta, Ga.:
Dear Governor—You can count on
my vote and influence.
Name ...........................
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