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I TIM EL Y TALKS WITH FARMERS
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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
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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. •
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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
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"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. ♦
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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.
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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
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run instead of jumping or be unable to
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fellow in front of him. The race should
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“Certainly; but first let me call attention
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