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I TIM EL Y TALKS WITH FARMERS Conducted By C. H. Jordan + Subscribers are requested to ad- ♦ ♦ areas all tnqutrtes for Information ♦ ♦ on subjects relattn* to the farm. ♦ k+ field, garden and poultry to the ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. All inquiries * ♦ will receive prompt and careful at- ♦ + tention. No Inquiries answered by 4 + malt Please address Harris Jordan. ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Ga. ♦ ♦ ♦ THE NATIONAL FARMERS’ congress; The farmers generally in the south know but little of the work and influence « of the National Farmers* congress, first from the standpoint of wide discussion ds sc ted to all departments of agriculture tn its meetings, and secondly its influence upon state and national legislation. The meetings are generally held in the west and northwest and Its membership large ly made up of delegates from those states north of the Mason and Dixon Bne. The recent session at Sioux Falls. S. D., comprised a delegation of prominent ag riculturists from as far east as Massa s tar west as Montana and as farWouthW borders of Missis sippi. The personnel of the recent delegation was. generally speaking, of the highest order. From the list of speakers, as shown on the program which is given below, will be noticed some of the ablest men from the northwest and east. In order that our readers may more fully understand the scope of work covered by the congress at Its recent session and be able to form some idea of the good work it is doing in behalf of the varied interests pertaining to agriculture, I will present herewith a copy of a part of the program nreeentirg the subjects which were under discussion, and the speakers from the different states: •The State Department of Agriculture; Its Mission and Organisation.’* by Hon. John Hamilton, of Pennsylvania. •"Some Problems Confronting the Ameri can Farmer.” Hon. Eugene Secor .of lowa, "Social Life for the Farming Communi ty." Hon. O. C. Gregg, of Minnesota. •The Rice Industry. Its Relations to the Other Agricultural Interests of Our Country." Hon. J. B. Foley, of Louisiana. • The Nicaragua Canal; Its Importance to Farmers of the South and West,” Hon. Harrle Jordan, of Georgia. •The Truth About the Oleomargertne Business.” Hon. Charles V. Knight, of Tlltnols. „ t Discussion of last subject, by Hon. J. Sterling Morton, ex-secretary of United States department of agriculture, and by Hon. W. D. Hoard, ex-governor of Wis consin. _ • _ •The Farmstead Beautiful, by Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska. ••State Control s|of Animal Diseases. Leonard Pearsoy B. 8. V. M. D., state veterinarian of Wnnaytvania. •The Farmer’s Opportunity." by Presi dent J. W. Heston, of the South Dakota Agricultural college "Soil Culture in the Semi-Arid West, Professor H. W. Campbell, of Kansas "Ancient American Forests. Living and Petrified.” Hon. J no. P. Brown, of In diana. • •Thw Americea Cdrt and the Homa.' Mrs. Bertha Dahl Laws, of Minnesota "The Farm Home and Life.” Hon. M E. Greely. of South Dakota. "Present Status of Wool Growing, Hon. J. R. Dodge, Washington, D. C. •The Relation of Mining Industries to Farming.” Hon. E. W. Martin. South Da kota All the speakers above named were present and delivered addresses on the va rious subjects named. Discussion of Subjects. At the close of each address, the sub ject was immediately taken up and dis cussed. each delegate who cared to pre sent his views being allowed ten minutes The presentation of the entire program required four days, three sessions daily. No delegate can receive the recognition of the congress, or take part In its pro ceedings. who does not present his cre dentials of appointment by the governor of the sta*e from whence he goes. Where national legislation is deemed essential, resolutions are drawn calling upon con gress to lend its aid In the enactment of such laws as are needed to advance or promote agricultural interests, and a committee Is appointed to go before con gress and advocate the wishes of such de mands. The resolution which I presented to the congress on the needs of the Nica ragua canal received the unanimous in dorsement of all the members, and at the next session of the federal congress a committee from the Farmers’ congress will go to Washington tn the advocacy of •thia important measure. It may be readi ly seen that such a course will have its influence upon the members of congress, and they will be able to more intelligently -.enact such laws as will meet the wants of the agriculturists of this country. The delegates to the congress, comprising sev eral hundred in number, were an earnest, active set of men. deeply interested in the work for which they were called together. Ths Election of<Officers. • Before tie close of the session on last Friday, the following officers were elected to serve during the next two years: President. George L. Flanders. Albany. N. Y.; first vice president. Harvje Jordan. Monticello. Ga.t Secretary. John M. Stahl, Chicago. III.; Treasurer. Dr. J. H. Rey nols. Adrion. Mich. These are the princi pal officers, aside from the five members of the executive committee. There Is also one state vice president from each state, and upon my recommendation, Hon. Dud ley M. Hughes, of Danville, was chosen vice president for the state of Georgia. The selection by the congress of their first vice president came in the nature of a AGENTS WANTED! The Semi-Weekly Jour nal wants good men to act as local agents at their re spective postoffices. A lib eral commission is given and we have many inducements as helps to secure new sub scribers. Write now for in formation and an agent’s out fit. surprise, was unsolicited, but was unani mous. and I took it as an appreciated courtesy extended to the south, as all these officers have heretofore been select ed from the west and east. The next annual session of the congress will also be held at some place in the south, and a cordial good feeling was manifested during the meeting by all the members ,oward bring ing about a more fraternal relationship be tween the farmers of the east and west with the farmers of the south. The exec utive committee will decide upon one of the following southern cities for the next annual session: Richmond, Raleigh, Ma con or Jackson, Miss. They want to meet in a typical southern city, and I know of no better place for that purpose than in the Central City of Georgia. The building in which the session was held, a large auditorium, was beautifully and artistically decorated with the various grains and grasses raised in the north west. The citlaens of Sioux Falls were ex tremely courteous and did all in theft power to make the delegates feet at home. The Farmers' National Congress is the only agricultural association .in this coun try which has an established reputation in Good Roads cAre Necessary To Rural Free Delivery The Journal has before called the at tention of the farmers of Georgia to the necessity for good roads, and, in season and out, has urged the wisdom of paying greater attention to this most important matter. But here is a point brought out by CoL A. W. Machen, superintendent of the United States free delivery system, that will appeal to every farmer who appre ciates the rural mall delivery. It is fully explained in an article in The Louisville Post, which says: The policy of the postoffice department with regard to the establishment of the service has changed. At first rural free delivery was an experiment, and the re strictions were not regarded as in place. But the system has passed to the perma nent stage. Now no route will be put in pending the improvement of the roads. No route will be permitted to open until all the roads upon the route are In good con dition. The mail carrier is not to be forced to make his way through mud hub deep and almost impassable, as in some cases during former winters and wet sea sons. The policy of the department is to see taat the roads are good before free de livery of mail is granted to any com munity. The policy of the department, more than that, is to see that those routes now in operation, pending improvements of roads by landowners, are not neglected by those who are pledged for their better ment. If it is found that roads remain unimproved a reasonable time, the rural carrier will be called off the route, and the dally mail service will be abandoned on the neglected roads. The officers in charge of the rural free delivery system are as much interested in good roads as is the good roads bureau of the agricultural department at Wash ington. Good roads are a necessity where the rural carrier must*pass. If a county does not possess good roads, that county will in future have a hard time securing routes, and will have a hard time keeping routes that may now be operating over poor roads, poor roads make the mall service very unsatisfactory, and it is the tendency to blame the service and the department rather than to lay the blame at the proper door. The following letter was recently writ ten to the Hon. Geo. W. Steele, congress man from the Eleventh district of Indi ana, from the Hon. A. W. Machen, gen era! superintendent of the free delivery system. It is official and will be read with interest: MR. MACHEN’S LETTER. •The temporary suspension of service last winter and spring on a number of rural free delivery routes In the western states on account of the Impassable con dition of the roads brought forcibly to the attention of the department the ne cessity of good roads in connection with the rural free delivery service. At that time the local authorities were Informed that unless the roads were improved be fore the return of winter there would be danger of a permanent withdrawal of the Seal free delivery service. Reports show at the advice of the department has been heeded tn many instances. In one locality, which I recall, favorable action was taken by the township trustee by appropriating an amount of money for the Improvment of roads over which the rural carrier travels. "While the actual suspension of ser vice on account of impassable roads were few. comparatively speaking, there were a great many cases in which the poor condition of the roads made it very dif ficult to provide an efficient service and In which the service was performed only by dint of perseverance on the part of the carrier, backed up by the determina tion of the department to deliver mall whenever It was possible. It Is readily seen that the condition of the roads be comes a very important consideration in the establishment of rural free delivery. Where the roads are good a route twen ty-seven or thirty miles in length may be more easily served than another route of eighteen or twenty miles over poor roads. “In the first case more people are served, the service is performed more expeditiously and with much more ease by the carrier and his horse. The car rier. too, can establish a regularity of service enabling the farmers to know just about what time every day he will CBBBf There was an old woman lived under the hill. And if she's not gone she lives them still. Find her two sons and her dos- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1901, all parts of Europe, and the position which it takes upon all national questions carry with them great weight. The congress has been in existence for twenty-one years, and if operated on the right lines is capa ble of doing a wonderful work for the cause it represents. I am writing this ar ticle while traveling at the rate of fifty miles an hour on one of the elegantly equipped vestibuled trains between Chica go and St. Louis, on my way to attend the sessions of the Southern Commission ers of Agriculture, which meets on the Bth Instant at Hot Springs, Ark., and where an effort will be made to draft a uniform law on the sale of commercial fertilisers that will be acceptable to all the southern states, and which will fully protect the farmers against fraudulent and worthless goods, which in some instances are palmed off on them. I will in my next article fully describe the methods of life and agricul ture in the far northwest, which I have been investigating in that section of the country during the past week. Later on I want to describe in detail the business of the great packing houses and stock yards as I found them in Chicago. HARVIE JORDAN. arrive in front of their premises. “In the second instance, with the short route over bad roads as much time is consumed in serving a smaller number of patrons, the regularity of the service varies with the changing conditions of the roads, the work is more trying on botih the letter- carrier and his horse, and unsatisfactory to the patrons, especially when It becomes necessary to suspend the service on account of Impassable portions of the route. "Reports from all parts of the country indicate clearly that the people are wak ing up in order to obtain the establish ment of rural free delivery, and in this way It is seen that the rural service be comes a great factor in the good roads movement, which of late years has been agitated in many of the progressive states. "A. W. M.” The letter of Mr. Machen brings out the policy of the postal department by intimation rather than by direct asser tion. Rural free delivery will go to where the people either have or are will ing to provide good roads. It will take several years to spread the delivery sys tem over the entirely fairly well popu lated portions of the country. These por tions which have at all time or at cer tain times of the year such roads which make the service expensive, will be de nied the luxury of having the mail brought to the house every day." Dally the representatives in congress are being more strongly Impressed with this fact. When a good case is made out In favor of a certain route, the depart ment acts upon the report of ths special agent, and “bad roaas In the spring” is certain to cause the petition to be held up for a time or sometimes for good. 1 is understood that the department will enforce a ruie to the effect that carriers report their inability to cover a route on account of the condition of the roads, it will be abolished and mail service be given from the village postoffice. • saveTraylor, spencer & CO.’S TOBACCO TAGS. The following brands of tobaccos man ufactured by Traylor, Spencer & Co., of Danville. Va., "Ballot Box,” “Maybelle,” "Plumb Good,” “High Life,” "Right of Way,” “No. i," "Dob White,” "Natural Leaf.” Spencer's Special” and “Good Will.” / 1 ' By saving the tags of the above brands (containing the name of Traylor, Spencer & Co.), and sending them direct to The Journal, Atlanta, Ga., you can realise two-thirds of one cent for each tag in subscription to The Semi-Weekly Journal, as follows: 75 tags will pay for six months* subscription to The Semi-Weekly Journal This amounts to 6 cents per pound on tobaccos containing nine tags to the pound, in payment for subscription to The Semi-Weekly Journal. Traylor, Spencer & Co.’s tobaccos are sold direct from factory to best merchants in all southern states. Bundle rhe tags carefully and send by mail with your name to The Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga. ••• WASHINGTON, Oct. U.—Five members of the cabinet were present at yesterday’s meeting of the cabinet which was devo ted largely to the consideration of ap pointments under the various depart ments. The question of the southern ap portionments generally again came up and president reiterated his policy of ap pointing Republicans if suitable appli cants could be found, and if not of ap pointing gold Democrats. His policy in this respect meets the approval of the cabinet. The appointment of Dr. Clayton for the eollectorship for internal revenue in South Carolina was considered in this connection. Queer Comrades: A True Story I ZORA CHANDLER <• ...... - **--*-- "Hello! What have you there?” cried the big brother, and somehow the ques tion took the courage all out of the small boy who had been so proud and happy only a moment before. “Only—only but a pup,” he very meek ly answered. Then the blow fell—“No pups allowed here!” Small John, disconsolate, fled to the man of all work, who suggested that Master Rover—the small boy had named his new possession during the fifteen min utes of ownership—should have a chance at life In the stables, not with the horses, where the big brother ruled alone, but in the manger of a very respectable cow. When spring brought the beautiful green grass to cover fields and roadsides the cow was turned into a great pasture. By this time Rover had grown into a long, lanky creature —he was a Newfoundland —with nothing at all fascinating about him, but the cow thought him lovely, and the two wandered about the pasture to gether day after day. If the cow lay down the dog lay dewn near her. When the cow got up the dog got up too. Occas ionally he scampered off to try his legs, ♦ TARGET_RING. * « a game for girls. ♦ ♦ 14 ■■♦♦♦♦♦■•■■ fl I '»♦♦♦♦ I I I This game (target ring) Is something like quoits, only it is more fun and you can play it without soiling your clothes. You might get your brother to help you make the principal article necessary, but it is very simple, and you can do it your self if you try. k Take a piece of boaraitwo feet square and one inch thick. Put\a red dot about one inch in size in the centre, with paint or colored chalk. Then draw a circle three inches wide around the dot and color the circle with blue. Draw a red circle three inches wide aroilnd this and then another blue circle three inches wide around the red one. You may use any colors you wish if you have not red and blue. Now take some tenpenny nails and drive them through the board from the up painted side until the heads are close against the board. Drive one nail exactly through the centre of the dot in the mid dle of the board and drive the others so that there are two rows of nails about one inch apart on each ring. When this is done your, target is complete. Get two dozen iron washers from a hardware store. They will cost two cents a dozen. A washer is a flat piece of iron shaped like a penny, with a hole in the centre. Select the largest size you can get—three inches in diameter if possible. Paint one dozen of these any color you wish and leave the other dozen plain. These are the rings for your target and and now' the mechanical parts of your game are complete. The girls must choose sides and each should select as many on her side as the number of washers will permit. Lean the target uplagalnst the side pf the school house and draw a line on the ground 15 feet away from the target. All the girls must stand behind this line, and in the order in which they were chosen throw their rings at the target' Os course one side must have the colored rings and the other the plain ones. If a ring falls on the nail in the centre of the red dot in the middle of the board the side of the girl who threw it counts five; the ring next to the dot counts four, the next ring three and the outside ring one. All the players on one side throw first; then after the points they have scored are counted the rings asp removed from the board and the other side has an in ning. The game is 25 points, but in case the bell rings telling you that recess is over before the game is ended the side that has scored the largest number of points in even innings wins. Every Healthy Boy likes to get himself into places of danger. Hence bruises, strains and sprains. Mother scolds and brings out the bottle of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer and rubs it on the Injured spots with an energy and frequency depend ing on the seriousness of the Case. There is nothing like Pain Killer to take out the sore ness. There is but one Painkiller, Perry Davis’. Price 25c. and 50c. MAN WHO FOUND MONEY. Picking up a pocketbook containing over 13,500 is not an every day occurrence, but this is what J, C. Millican, a flusher in the employ of the sanitary department, did last Friday night. Soon after making this find O. P. Lane, of St. Paul, Minn., appeared searching for the lost wealth. Millican, after learning that Lane’s state ment was true gave the pocketbook and its contents to the owner aqd continued his work. Lane went to his hotel and t'he next day, desiring to reward the finder, tried to remember the name and address of Millican, but failed to do so. He report ed the matter to The Journal and Milli can was located and told the story of t'he find. “I was on Peachtree street, about 10 o'clock Friday night and while between the Capital City club and the governor's mansion, I saw a dark object on the side walk. I picked it up and saw that It was a pocketbook. Going to a nearby light I began counting the money and had reached $3,340 w'hen Mr. Lane appeared and asked if I had seen anything of a pbeketbook on the street. “I replied that I had and asked him to describe it and also tell how much money it contained. This he did, saying there was $3,751 in the purse. I counted the money and finding the amount as stated returned it to the owner and he walked away.” , Mr. Lane had the money in an inside pocket of his overcoat and was carrying the coat on his arm when the book dropped out. The money was not his, he stated to Millican, but had been collected for a firm by which he was employed. RECRUITS TO FILL THE RANKS. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10.—It has been determined at the war department to send troops to the Philippines to take the place of those whose term of enlistment expires. Where the re-enlistments were not large in any one regiment their places will be followed by separate detachments of re cruits. If any considerable number of enlist ments expire in a single organization it is probable that the organization as a whole will be returned from the Philippines and another regiment sent to take their place. Speaking of Economy How much does ft cost to shoe your family? Not how cheap can you buy one pair, but how many pairs a year and the total cost. If you buy for cash, you should get the most for your money. You’ll find this in RED SEAL Shoes, and you’ll find them only with the best mer chants. A postal inquiry will bring our illustrated catalog. It will prove a money saver. J. K. ORR SHOE CO., Atlanta, Ga. and the cow always attempted to follow him, but in this she was not a success. By this time Rover had won favor with the entire household and was often in vited in, but when let out he always went directly to the pasture, where he received very affectionate greetings from the cow. Sometimes he accompanied his master or another member of the family upon a ramble, and then the difficulty was to get him without his fourfooted friend. A whistle brought him at once from the pasture, but it was a strange sight to see the poor cow coming a long way behind, snorting, galloping, with her tail flying. Rover could vault the fence, but she only came against the rails, to fall back helpless. If the pasture gate was un latched the dog took the cow out for a stroll through the town. If he went off with some of his sporty companions, and the cow could find a weak place in the fence, she insisted upon accompanying him, which was rather awkward. One day in the winter when the cow was being milked in the yard, a sleigh passed with driver and dog. Two ladies were in it. Rover, as usual, was loung ing about, superintending the milking. HOW THE NORTHERN PRESS VIEWS MOVEMENT TO BUILD MONUMENT TO M'KINLEY IN SOUTH ATLANTA IS THE PLACE FOR SUCH A MONUMENT. Louisville (Ky.) Commercial. The movement to erect a monument to the late President McKinley at Washing ton was suspended by those having it tn charge when it was learned that some of his nearest friends had projected a monu ment at Canton, which will probably be built on an appropriate site already se lected and of appropriate dimensions. In the meantime the Atlanta Journal urges that the south should build the first mon ument to McKinley, and that it should be located in Atlanta. It is nearly three years since President McKinley, In an ad dress in Atlanta, said: "The time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God, when, in the spirit of fraternity, we should share with you in tne care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers. The cordial feeling now happily existing be tween the north and the south prompts this gracious act, and if it needs further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so con spicuously shown in the year just passed by the sons and grandsons of these he roic dead.” These sentiments found lodg ment in every southern heart, as in every northern heart, and their utterance did niore to obliterate sectional prejudice and passion than almost anything done or said since the close of the war for the Union. Under the circumstances Atlanta would be a very appropriate place for a monument to the great pacificator. SOUTH MOST THOROUGH AMERICAN SECTION. Boise, Idaho, Statesman. The noteJ that has come up from the south since the attack on President Mc- Kinley has been true and strong, recall ing the magnificent demonstration that was given by that section when the war clouds broke in 1888. Nothing is more gratifying than these constantly recur ring evidences of the perfect loyalty of the southern people to the flag and all that it represents. President McKinley did a great work in completing the reconciliation of the two sections. He won the heart of the southland at once; the advances made by him on behalf of the entire nation were met in the spirit in which they were con ceived, and the last lingering clouds of distrust and bitterness vanished from the eky. When the Spanish war came on the south responded as freely as any other section, if not more so, and sectionalism is no longer known. It was to be expected that the south, under any conditions, would denounce such a crime as the murder of the presi dent, but there is that about the utter ances of the southern press and people that is suggestive of the restoration of perfect harmony between the north and PRECESS GAME FOR THE BOYS. This game is called a "kangaroo race,” and is a great deal of fun for those who take part in It, and still more fun for those who look on. It needs about 20 boys to play ft properly, although it can be played by four. There is no limit to the number who may play, and the more there are the more fun the game is. Two captains must be selected, who choose up sides, just as they do before a ball game, but they can each choose as .many players as they wish, as long as they have an equal number on both sides. After the sides are complete the first boys who were chosen stand behind their captains, placing their hands on his shoul ders. The boys who are chosen next stand behind those two in the same posl- Curiottsly Produced Wax. “Do you know how this Chinese white wax is produced?” asked a druggist of a friend who stood near, as he was weigh ing out half a pound of t**e article refer red to at my request. The friend answered, "No,” and I show ed my interest by asking “How?” “Well,” continued the druggist, “the In genious Chinamen make a curious use of the insects from which they get this wax. They are found in brown pea-shaped ex crescences attached to an evergreen call ed insect tree. These excrescences or galls are gathered in May and placed on what is known as a wax tree, which is a stump with many willowlike branches rising from its top. Twenty or thirty galls are made into a packet inclosed in a leaf of the wood oil tree, fastened to gether with rice straw and suspended to the branches. ‘On emerging from the galls the insects creep up the branches, to Which they at tach themselves, and at once begin form ing a coating of wax that attains a thick ness of a quarter of an inch in three months. “Then the branches are cut off. and, after the removal of as muen TTV •©,**>»- He tore down the lane, as dogs will, to meet the other dog. There was a fight at once. The cow stood as long as she could; had an attack of nerves: let go her heels; over went pail and milkmaid, and she flew down the lane. The next thing seen from the window was two dogs fighting furiously, the cow charging madly between, the horses rear ing; the ladies, wild with fright, striking out right and left with their muffs as the dogs, followed by the cow flew round and round the sleigh in a perfect whirl wind of snow. One day the mother of John started for a walk to the centre of the town. Rover thought he’d like to go. too. but was or dered back. He turned and went, duti fully, into the pasture, and John’s mother considered the incident closed. Alas! the pasture gate was not closed. The dog knew very well that he and his friend must not approach at once so they ambled along until far enough to become bold, when he left the road and took the side walk. The cow also thought the sidewalk better and followed him. When a con siderable distance from home the dog came up pretty close. The first thing the south, and ft is highly gratifying. It has often been suggested in reesnt years, especially since the early days of McKinley’s administration, that ths south is more thoroughly American than any other section of the country. This seems to be borne out by the at titude of that section at this time when the nation is under the shadow of this terrible crime. All the Intense Ameri canism of that section has been aroused by the act of the anarchist; the people have been shocked so deeply by this bloody result of the foreign propaganda that they have scarcely been able to find words in which to give expression to their feelings. As an illustration of the intensity of the sentiment of the south, the fact may be cited that so prominent a paper as the Atlanta Journal has published a call for the south to raise a monument to the late President McKinley, which is. happily, meeting with a generous response. FITTING THAT MOVEMENT SHOULD COME FROM SOUTH. Indianapolis Journal. The Atlanta Journal follows up its sug gestion of the erection of a monument to President McKinley “in grateful recogni tion of his services to the country as a great pacificator.” It urges the south to take the initiative “in this movement to honor the memory of a president who did so much to destroy the spirit of section alism and bring the north and south into fuller fraternity." The proposition has been heartily approved in many sections and The Atlanta Journal says “plans are maturing for its practical inception.” We trust nothing will occur to obstruct the movement, but that it will grow steadily from the suggestion to consummation. It is peculiarly fitting that the south should lead and The Atlanta Journal is to be felicitated on being the first to sug gest it. As it well says: “We erect monu ments to our heroes of war and we Should also honor the memory of the apostles of peace and reconciliation.” It was Pres ident McKinley’s good fortune to have a great opportunity which he improved. The event of the sspanlsh war, which nothihg that we did produced or could have prevented, came under his adminis tration. and by its welding influences fus ed south and north as they had not been since the civil war. They were in the con dition of union, and they would have grown together; they were growing to gether, but the opportunity of standing shoulder to shoulder, fighting for the old flag was the one thing needed. This came under President McKinley’s administra tion, and it opened the way for him to speak the words of reconciliation as one having authority. He spoke these words at the Atlsnta peace jubilee In 1898 and on other occasions, bo It is his happy chance to occupy a peculiar place in his tory In this respect as he will in other re- tlon, and so on until there are two long strings of boys, all facing the same way, and each standing with his hands on the shoulders of the fellow In front of him; all but the captains, who ha\e no one in front of them, as they bead the lines. Then the race begins. A*n umpire who stands near the front of the lines cries “Kangaroo!” and both lines start. Kach boy must keep his feet close to gether and go ahead In jumps. If one fellow forgets and walks or runs, or takes his hands from the shoulders of the fellow in front of him. the umpire must stop him at once. Then the line must form again, and in the meanwhile the other line will be some feet ahead. But soon it will be sure to fall down, walk or sible by hand they are placed in a kettle of hot water, when the remaining wax floats on the surface, and rhe insect’s career of usefulness is ended.” The Reason. As soon as there comes a suggestion of frostiness in the air there is an excuse for the smartly gowned woman to swathe her throat in some one of the many pretty and becoming boas she is so fond of wearing. For some occutt and feminine reason she does not consider her costume complete without this finishing conceit— a conceit which goes through slight changes with the coming of each season, but which, in the end, is a mass of soft and fluffy chiffon or lace of a color that sets off to the be’st advantage a woman’s features. It is not so much on account of the warmth possessed by these airy accesso ries that they are so well liked, nor for the comfort of having something high at the back of the neck, though it is a fact that after once wearing a ruche or a bca a woman doesn’t feel quite chic if she appears on the street without one. The real reason they are so popular—if you could get a woman to explain her poor lady noticed was‘that she seemed to be attracting considerable attention, and ths next was the tramp of hoofs upon the plank sidewalk behind her. She turned to face the dog and the cow, surrounded , by a crowd of amused pedestrians and small boys. No amount of driving or coaxing would get them back. When Ro ver saw that he was discovered he bolted to the front, the cow after him, and left the mother with the crowd. There being nothing else to do, she turned about and went home. The dog dutifully turned and trotted at her heels, the three forming an interesting proces sion—so very Interesting that certain of the small boys joined. For $1.40 we will send The Seml« Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline Toilet Articles and any one of the premium paper* offered with The Beml-Weekly at SI.OO. Tht* I* the greatest offer ever made and you should take advantage of it without delay. spects. Hs will stand out distinctly as the president under whom and by whom ths complete reconciliation that had long been foreshadowed was made. It is fitting, therefore, that there should be a menu-' ment to this aspect of, his character, to this phase of his memory; and it is dou bly fitting that the initiation of the move meet should come from the south. HE HAD THE SOUTH’S INTERESTS AT HEART. Concord N. H., Regfeter. The Atlanta Journal is urging the south to build a monument in Atlanta to the memory of President McKinley. A great deal of interest, it appears, ie being tak en in the subject. The Journal calls at tention to the fact that ft was in that city at the peace jubilee on December 15. 1898, that Mr. McKinley spoke the noble words that have been so powerful in abating sectional prejudice between the north and the south. The president bn that occasion said: "The time has now come in the evo lution of sentiment and feeling under the province of God when, in the spirit of fraternity, we should Share with you in the care of the graves of the Confed erate soldiers. The cordial feeling now happily existing between the north and; the south prompts this gracious act, and,; if it needs further justification, ft is found In the gallant loyalty to the union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just passed by the sons and grandsons of these heroic dead.” It is very commendable on the part of the southerners to be thus thoughtful and they could not do better than to be the first to build a monument to the man. who. above all others, had the interests of the entire nation at heart. WILL BE A MOST" ENDURING MONUMENT. Fort Wayne, Ind., News. The Atlanta Journal follows up its sug gestion of the erection of a monument to President McKinley “in grateful recogni tion of his services to the country as a great pacificator.” It urges the south to take the initiative “in this movement to honor the memory of a president who did so much to destroy the spirit of section alism and bring the north and south into fuller fraternity.” Tne proposition has been heartily approved in many sections and The Atlanta Journal says "plans are maturing for its practical inception.” If this enterprise is carrieo on to a success ful termination, the act itself will be a mofe enduring monliment to the great man whose services it memoralises than any shaft of granite that may be raised to mark the evert. Note premium li*t In this issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. run instead of jumping or be unable to keep his bands on the shoulders of ths fellow in front of him. The race should be from one end of the school playground to the other, or if there is not much room, back again to the starting point. Os course, the side which arrives first at the finish wins, but if the umpire fifids that a line will not stop and reform when he tells it to he may give the race to tho other side. It is very hard to keep your hands on the shoulders of the fellow in front of you and to progress only by jumps, and to do it successfully the whole line must jump at the same instant. This is almost Im possible to do, and consequently there will be many mishaps and a few tumbles, but that is where the fun comes in. very evident fondness for boas and other neck creations —is because they add to the attractiveness of any face, be it young or old. 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