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VOLUME 23 WATER VALLEY, MISS., MARCH 29, 1917 NUMBER 20
Plant Delinted Cotton Seed.
When the soil and air are warm
and the soil is in good condition,
the plants from delinted seed will
come up several days earlier than
the plants from ordinary seed.
When the soil is damp and cold,
dry and cold or poorly prepared, a
good stand will frequently be se
cured from delinted seed where
land planted with common seed
will have to be replanted, Replant
ing is seldom profitable, it means
failure where there is boll weevil.
One weeks difference in earliness
often means a difference of a
quarter of a bale an acre.
Delinted seed drops evenly like
corn or grain, There are no skips.
Ordinary seed mats . up in .the
planter aDd the skips are frequent.
This eveness of planting from de.
tinted seed increases the yield 10
to 25 per cent. When a hard crust
forms on the soil after planting,
the plants from delinted seed are so
thick and evenly placed that they
will usually lift the crust and grow
The plants from seed having short
lint generally start unevenly and
are spaced unevenly so that they
die before they can get through a
- _ :d crust.
Many oil mills will delint seed
for planting for the lint. Several
gins in Eastern Arkansas have put
in delinting maohines.
H. M. Cottrell, Agriculturist,
Bureau of Farm Development,
Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. J. A. Vaughn has returned
to her home in Memphis, accom
panied by her mother, Mrs. J. W
MoLarty, Who will be her guest
for a couple of weeks.
Mrs. C. H. Hammond left
Monday for a visit to relatives and
friends at her old home in Natch
ez, where she will be the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Annie Y. Junkin.
Optimism.
Get all the good there is today,
Don’t fret about tomorrow;
There’s trouble ’round us all the time,
What need is there to borrow?
The wise man gets what joy he can.
And leaves the fool his folly;
He knows too much to waste his life
In gloom and melancholy.
Look on the bright side every time,
Don’t waste your days repining;
W’hen any cloud looks dark and dull,
Turn out the silver lining.
Be wise! Be cheerful, bright and glad,
Leave to the fool his folly,
And let your motto be: “Cheer up!”
Your rule of life: “Be jolly!”
—Selected.
If there is some one in the family
who “rubs us the wrong way,”
whose opinions irritate us and
whose personality rasps us, it is
not altogether a matter of regret.
There are young people who grow
up in households where harmony
and affection bold such sway that
they are quite unprepared for the
friction and unpleasantness in
evitable as life progresses. Some
are orushad by a harsh word simply
because harshness is new in their
experience Some lose their selt
control in the face of injustice be
cause they have never before en
countered it. And while it is true
that if we had our way our homes
would be free from this vexing
element, there is at least partial
compensation in the fact that be
fore we go out into life we may
learn the lesson of forbearance.
And thus we get paid for forbear
ance.
The Test ot a Gentleman.
The gentlemen will betray him
self as quickly at any other occu
pation as when driving a oar.
But the man who shows as much
consideration for the pedestrian
on the street, for the driver of a
wagon, or for the motorist in the
other car, as he does for the young
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woman beside him will not long
conceal the fact that he is one of
that constantly lessening number
who may be called gentlemen.
—Houston Post.
“A rather long and complicated
sentence to say that the test of a
gentleman is the consideration
shown to other people.” says the
Dayton (Ohio) News. “There is
no other test. It matteas not how
well educated he may be; it mat
ters not how well graced he is in
art or literature, if he lacks con
sideration for other people—for all
people—be is not a gentleman.
“So it all resolves itself into one
word, ‘kindness.’ The kindly man
is a gentleman. The fellow who
is unkindly is not a gentleman.
That is all there is to it—whether
one is driving a oar or sweeping
a street.”
In other words, one of the evi
dences of a real gentleman is con
sideration for others, and it applies
to womankind as well as to men.
The woman who has no oonsidera.
tion for others lacks a great deal of
possessing one of the great virtues
that is essential to the ideal woman.
It is manifested in many ways,
and especially in the boy or girl
in their teens. For instance, it ia
often that a bunch of girls will be
parading down the street, and
think that they are entitled to the
whole side-walk, it never, in their
self centered thoughts, having oc
curred to them that they should
always give half the walk to those
they meet in passing.
This is simply one of the many
evideuces of selfishness and lack
of good breeding, and is an index
to their character. You can not
be a real gentleman or a real lady
without giving the proper consid
eration for others —Panola Coun.
ty Democrat.
Mr. H K. Hunter, Cashier of
The Peoples Bank, spent Friday
in Grenada on business.
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