Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-14
BETTER BE SAFE THAN soRRY.


L saw some goldenrod Friday. 1t was
my first real intimation of the passing
of summer and the advent of autumn.
How time flies. Many of you remember
how Tom and Maggie Tolliver, in The
Mill on the Floss used to accuse old
Father Time of Judging" Time Judges
on us to this good day. 1t seems but
yesterday that the Farmer, Eva and 1
met some friends at old LAGRANGE and
spent a very happy day. Then 1 saw
the first goldenrod for 1916, and noted
the gradual changes in the forest leaves
as we climbed the mountain. For sew
eral days I've been noticing the thin
ming of the peach leaves and how rusty
some of them looked, and there is more
rustling in the trees.
School opened today, and the children
that last year were starting into the
new life. the school life, and timidly held
the hand Of parents or older sisters, are
today encouraging other timid nOviti-
ates.
Eva could not be with US this term,
but we have her sister and the children
have promised to try to love her. cause
Miss Eva wants them to do So One
has timidly confessed to me that they
would love Stella any way even If
she wasn't Miss Eva's sister" So that's
the beginning of a successful year, to
learn to love the teacher and learn to be
the best in all the classes.
September sees the fruition of the
years work, or it's failure. Good seed.
good ground, good seasons avail little
if the workman is not faithful and his
work is not first class. An earnest de-
sire to succeed and a true hand to guide
koll
on the job is as much needed as the
soil and the season.
There has been bountiful crop made
throughout the south, but how about the
harvest? Have the farmers made ade
quate preparations for its safe keeping?
Will there be place to put the corn.
and will IT be put away early enough
for the stock to enjoy the pasture?
Thrift means looking after the little
things. 1t Is not what you make but
what is actually saved that makes a
man or woman successful 1 do not
mean for you to get the idea that L
would have you stingy, or penurious.
But it's the person who is saving some
thing to divide when misfortune falls
on a neighbor. l used to know a man
and woman who were called generous"
'hospitable," and good" by the unthink-
ing, but one day l heard brother-in-law
say IF Henry and Jess would work
all the year, as I do, and take care of
what they make they would be comfort
able and I'd be rich. If they fill their
barn and smokehouse they call in every
body they can find and soon eat II up,
or feed 1T away and then they Dor
row" from me for six months 1 am
the one that has to suffer for their
iavishness."
remembered that they had sent four
beautiful hams as presents to people
who could have bought all they had in
their smoke house. And knew that by
July they would send to "Billies" to
borrow CD a side or two OF meat. BE
just before you try to be generous" is
a good rule for all of US. Do you re-
member the fable of ant, or was 1t a
bee? And the grasshopper. When cold
weather came the grasshopper went to
the thrifty one and wanted a comfort
able home. What were you doing all
summer was asked him.
4 was singing" was the reply.
well, you can dance now. was the
answer.
Carlyle says: There is always hope
in a man that actually and honestly
works In idleness alone is there per-
petual despair"
Talk not of talents; what hast thou to
do?
Thy duty, be thy portion five or two.
Talk not of talents; is thy duty done?
Thou hadst sufficient, were they ten or
one"
And our precious Book says. go to
the ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways and be wise; which having no
guide, overseer. or ruler. provideth her
meat in the summer and gathereth her
food in the harvest
/ would not have you unduly follow
the example of the ant There is GER
tain portion of everything that belongs
to God, and as His servants, or children,
we must Tend 1t to the poor" or cast
1t on the waters" But IT is extrava-
gance, wastefulness. that L want you to
avoid
How many Of you have thought Of
Joseph and his Egyptian storehouses
this year? The lean years are almost
sure to come. and the bountiful supply
we may have this year should be care
fully stored away so that none may be
wasted. You remember the lesson of
thrift that our Saviour taught when He
gathered up the fragments.
The south has come up to our most !
sanguine expectations in making the