Newspaper Page Text
6
I THE COUNTR Y HOME
Women on the Farm
Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton.
* Corrsspondsnrs ob boms topics or ♦
* subject* of tntsrsst to wo- ♦
4. son to Invited. Inquiries or letter* ♦
* should bo brief and clearly written ♦
la Ink on one side of th* sheet. ♦
* Write direct to Mrs. W H. Fol- ♦
O ton Editor Homo Department Berni- ♦
* Weekly Journal. Cartersville. O*- ♦
* No inquiries answered by mall ♦
*
I ♦♦♦
THE TRAVELER.
From the poor home that x»»« hjm blrth -
And Hardship's lap forlSm.
He brought me tiding* of such worth,
I Joyed that he was born
Not to far lands hie rath had led.
To storied earth and aea.
Th* oM. hard highway all man tread
Must serve for such aa he.
•Tis but the soul and mind of man.
With unknown Issue* rife.
Can much enrich the appointed plan
Os common human life.
Ood ho had seen, and bowed hie head:
Seen Death, and bent hl* knee
ToU In Ms youth came by and said.
■ Henceforth walk thou with me.
Th* voice of Love that traveler heard:
Love's sorrows him befell;
Hl* the brave deed, the manly word
Whose tale were long to tell.
Beauty ho served, though poor In birth.
And Truth, though nursed forlorn
Who rounds a Journey of such worth.
■Tk well that he was born.
-Dora Read Goodale, in the January Era.
Divorce in the United States.
Statistics go to show that while In one
year's record in France, therp were 6.245
divorces granted, in Germany. C.MI; in
Russia. l.T»; in England. 5«: there were
tn the United States. tt.C2 divorces graft
ed for various reasons. What reason can
' we give for this Immense number as com
pared with other similar civilisations?
What excuse can be rendered?
If this record is not disgraceful what
shall we call It?
Do Americans hold the marriage rela
tion more loosely than others or do our
laws permit indiscriminate marriages to
be followed by the same sort of divorces?
W hat doe* it mean?
This evil is becoming one of terrible
growth and magnitude. In looking over
the records of New York city a few years
ago It was stated there were 13.000 divorce
cases handled in the regular divorce
courts in one single year. Thirteen thou
sand homes broken up. children’s lives
saddened, grass widows thrown out on
the world, quarrels over property and
new marriages, or immoral lives contin
ued. Among the “W it is not uncom
mon for married men and married women
to form new entanglements in society
and get divorces and marry among them
selves and all go along leading society
just the same as ever.
What does such society, really stand
for? Money will do all these things for
the rieh. and It sets the pace for those
not so rich, and it is only the low down
who get berated for the immoral features
of this divorce business.
Much of it grows out of the haste and
silly love making of silly people. Any
fellow that can get a dollar and a half
in his pocket to buy a license seems able
to marry any silly girl who is bent on
marrying and getting away from home
that she thinks or believe to be disagree
able to her happiness.
Much of ft grows out of the disregard of
the authorities tn granting such licenses,
and the carelessness of ministers and le
gal officers in performing the marriage
ceremony. Love at first sight sometimes
turns out to -be no love at all. and we are
told of a Chicago judge who ordered a
divorce because a man slammed the door
and hurt his wife's hand within ten min
utes after the application paper was filed.
Something must be done to put a stop
to hasty marriages if no check can be put
on divorces. A marriage certificate ought
to be a health certificate always. It is
Dot fair or just to unborn children to al
low them to come here with such a load
of disease added to inbred sin, as some
diseases entail. A drunkard should never
be granted a license to marry, because
he is too much married to liquor to be
a suitable husband for a wife. Fully two
thirds of divorces are granted for cruelty
and neglect of wife and children.
All marriages should be published at
least a month ahead of time. Secrecy is
a poor Ingredient in the marriage mixt
ure. When a woman consents to a se
cret marriage she is risking everything
she holds dear. The inference is natural
that there Is something to be complained
of or something to be ashamed of in such
bidden affairs.
Os all the things in mortal life, marriage
should be best understood. If you are not
sure, dear girl*, wait until you are sure;
and while parents' counsel is not always
pure and disinterested, it is both in ninety
cases out of every hundred.
In my opinion, a marriage should carry
a bond for performance of contract. No
man can handle public money unless he
makes a legal bond. A girl well raised
and respected ought to be equal to the
value of a postofflce or a revenue position.
There must be something done about the
mating of all sorts of folks in the mar
riage relation.
It is doubtless the slackness, the loose
ness. the indifference and the unconcern
of our marriage license system in Amer
ica that produces such an avalanche of
annual divorces.
There seem* to be very little saeredness
tn the business according to general ex
. perience. A wedding means a frolic, fine
clothes and a start off. to end where—no >
man can tell, as a certainty.
I lok on a wedding to be almost as
serious as a funeral. In many cases, it is
, really more' so. because death sometimes
stops divorce praeedinga. for one or the
other, and weddings seem to be a supply
place to furnish them. Ignorance and in
difference are at the bottom of many of
them. Something must be done to make
a better showing in America.
The Training School at Luray, Va.
The New York Sun gives an interesting
account of a Training or Industrial school
located at Luray. Va.. conducted by the
Episcopal church of Luray, and has for Its
Is an ordeal which all
m S[ gs 9ff B tlB 9 9 women approach with
indescribable fear, for
iM g| Agf T 1 W 9 nothing compares with
jyy S'-Jfs BJB B f"9 gs" the pain and horror of
• W * " ■ child-birth. The thought
of the suffering and danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother
of all pleasant anticipations of the coming event, and casts over her a
shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women
have found that the use of Mother’s Friend during pregnancy robs
confinement of all pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother
«nd child. This scientific liniment is a god-send to all women at the
time of their most critical trial. Not only does Mother’s Friend
carry women safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use
gently prepares the system for the coming event, prevents “morning
sickness.” and other dis-
comforts of this period. fUf "T SUf/T gn 9
Sold by all druggists at 077 77jbTa O
• si.oo per bottle. Book
containing valuable information free.
The Bradfield Regulator Co.. Atlanta. 6a. 7" bJS
object the bettering of the conditions of
mountain girls.
"These families.” says the Bun. "are
known aa the mountain white girls, who
are usually very poor, and these girls live
lives of drudgery in their poor homes, be
side which favorable domestic* service
would seem a very paradise.
It is the girls of this type that the
wealthy cltisens of Luray are attempting
to bring into a more congenial field of la
bor. with improved opportunities for edu
cation. The money for the school was
raised by private subscription.
The girl* must know how to read and
write, have physical strength and good
character. All the cost of training is de
frayed by the institution but the student
must obligate herself at the end of six
months to take a position selected by the
managers.
They are taught all Improved methods
of housework, and are prepared for gen
eral housework. They are taught to be
neat and the suitable clothing needed is
enjoined. Particular effort 1* made to In
still Into them a right appreciation of their
relation to their employer, with self re
specting knowledge of their own place,
and the need of respectful and cheerful
services.
A housekeeper who wishes a graduate
must pay (5 for the privilege, but she
can get another servant if the first is not
satisfactory, without more expense.
The girl can either pay her own fare
to the city or the employer can pay it and
take it out of her wages.
Whenever a girl intends to leave she
must notify her employer and also the
training school.”
It is stated that the scheme has been A
Success from the start. Girls are eager to
come tn, and employers are plentiful.
The managers could only accommodate
20 pupils at the beginning, but they have
moved into a commodious place where 250
can be accommodated. .
Two hundred have already been prom
ised to Pittsburg and more could have
been booked there.
There seems to be a healthy and enthu
siastic spirit in the Luray venture and
the country home readers can turn the
idea over in their minds and find out how
such a scheme would work down this
way.
If our country girls in remote rural dis
tricts could be properly trained in the
same manner, arid only worked six months
afterwards for an employer, they would
be real missionaries to their own people
when they went back to their homes. The
best charity in the world is that which
makes the object self-supporting and self
sustaining. Otherwise the waste is im
measurable.
Hog Raising.
Hogs are high. They are bound to be
high until another corn crop Is made, be
cause hog feed is scarce and high.
Anybody that has pigs to sell will get a
good price for them during the coming
year, for reasons above stated and be
cause sows are very scarce.
In raisins hogs for fatted pork, some
prefer Bentshires, some Poland Chinas,
some Chester Whites, and some Duroc
Jerseys.
Berkshires perhaps please a greater ma
jority of people, for the meat is fine
grained and they fatten easily.
Chester Whites are good hogs, or we
found them to be.
Poland Chinas are large and thrifty,
but the sows bring small litters, or we
have found them so.
The Duroc Jerseys are the giant hogs
but complaint has been made as to their
coarse quality.
But all sorts of hogs will bring good,
money for a whole year ahead of us
(who ever may live to see it.)
Chicago is the big hog market, and
shote* are selling In Chicago at five and
stx cents gross weight.
Southern farmers want a healthy hog
with frame enough to pack two or three
hundred pounds of meat on its bones and
one that will fatten rapidly, say in ten
months.
When you keep a hog until he is two
years old he simply eats his head -off.
that is. if corn is scarce and ntgh, as at
present.
We are going to try the Duroc Jerseys
for a spell. My good friend ex-Railroad
Commissioner Crenshaw, gave me two
pigs, and I have watched their growth
with most pleasing anticipations of what
they will do for us, always remember
ing the kind neighbor who divided pigs
With me last winter.
They are beauties to be sure, in size
and color.
I have but one fault to find with them.
As did the x>erkshires and Poland Chinas,
they like the taste of chicken too vtell.
oomebody said. "Y*ou will find all fine
breeds are chicken eaters.”
Maybe so, but I am going to try poultry
wire to keep ckickens out before I quit
the hog business for good.
1 had a great idea that I could raise
pigs on skim milk, but I have had some
to die suu,enly under ths treatment.
Nothing can beat good corn that I have
ever seen, but mouldy wheat Is not bad,
if you soak it well, as we have done this
year.
If you have a grist mill then grind all
the hog feed and sour it. before the hogs
eat it. It does make a sound healthy
hog grow and fatten in a hurry..
And if there is anything that pleases the
average farmer it is a hog lot reasonably
full of hogs, shotes and little pigs, and
waen my new pigs arrive I’ll tell our
Country Home readers more about them,
if I have good luck.
DO YOU SUFFER WITH PILES?
Do they protrude?
Do they bleed?
Do they pain you?
Do you have mucous or bloody dis
charges?
I can certainly cure you. Advice free.
Dr. Tucker, X? N. Broad street. Atlanta,
Ga. •••
Who Wants Turkeys?
A friend of mine, who is going out of
the turkey-raising business, has two pairs
of fine bronze turkeys to dispose of and
as the season is now here to plan for a
turkey crop, perhaps some of our Coun
try Home readers are anxious tp secure
turkeys for raising purposes. Three dol
lars a pair will take them delivered at a
nearby depot. An order sent to me will
reach the owner.—Mrs. Felton.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16. 1902.
I The Demon in the Canon I
BY HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS
’ •<
(Probable misquotation of old couplet.)
"I know not where the truth may be;
I tell the tale as ’twae told to me.”
There was once an earnest missionary
who went to the trouble of learning the
Sioux language, in order to be of more use
in his chosen field. He spoke it with a
strong Boston accent. One day he labored
with a big Uncapapa brave long and
eagerly. The Injun listened to all he had
to say with grave attention. When at
great length silence finally fell, the "Red
man finally spoke.
"Have you any tobacco?” said he.
"Why, no!” returned the missionary..
"Hugh! So long!” said the Injun, and
rode away on a trot.
Now, there may be those who will object
that the plain, unvarnished tale of my
friend, “Hy” Smith, which follows, is
lacking in the fobust qualities that truth
alone can bring; to them I recommend the
attitude of the Injun. But I must add this;
Heaven forbid that I should have to stand
good for any of "Hy’s” stories'. Still,
some of what I considered his most out
rageous lies -afterward received strong and
unexpected consideration. For instance,
the manner in which he earned his sobri
quet of "Hydraulic” Smith I thought was
pure fable, but no less a man than his
former employer said It was fact in every
essential. Smith got his front name while
I working in a big hydraulic camp in Idaho.
He was nozzleman. One day in an unusual
ly merry mood he turned the monitor loose
on a crowd of Chinamen who were work
ing over tailings.
“And if ever you saw felt shoes and pig
tails flying in the air 'twas then,” said Hy.
“It looked for all the world like Old
Faithful had spouted in a poll-parrot
cage. I dont' know why 1 done it, no more
than the man in the moon—it was one of
them idees that takes hold of you, and
gets put through before you ean more’n
realise you’re thinking of it—but it was
the greatest success of its kind I ever see.
We had a two-hundred-foot head of water
and a six-inch stream, and I might say
that there was a yaller haze of Chinamen
In the atmosphere for the next ten sec
onds. I piped one Charley-boy right over
the top of a tool shed. Well, our boss was
a mighty kind-hearted man, and when
that crowd of spitting, foaming, gargling,
gobbling Chinamen went to him and begun
to pour out their troubles like several .
packs of firecrackers going off to onct, ;
waving all the arms and legs I hadn’t'
knocked out of commission, he was het up
considerable. He never waited to hear my
side of the story, but just rolled up his
pants and waded into me up to the hocks;
he read me my pedigree from Adam’s
wife’s sister down to now, and there
wasn’t a respectable person in it according
to him. /
“I didn't like it, and I made a swipe for
him with a shovel, but he was too soople
for me, and of all the lickings I ever got
that is the one I don’t want to remember
the most. He did a sort of double-shuffle
on my back, while he brought my legs
into the argument with a sluice rake.
"When he asked me if I had had enough,
I told him I thought it would do for the
present, because, as d matter of fact, if
all I had more than enough was money in
the bank, I wouldn’t have done no more
work for the rest of my days.
“So then he calls me up and gives me
my time, and I must say the treated me
square a hen he said good-by.
“ ’You’re the best darn man on a mon
itor lever that I ever see,’ says he. ‘but
anywheres else you're the foole:>t combine
of small boy and dare-devil, and some
other queer thing that I don't seem to be
able to find a name for. that ever cum
bered this earth. Now, get out of this and
good luck to you.’
"I didn’t feel a bit sorry for them China
men—they’re only hairless monkeys that
don’t even know enough to wear their tails
in the right place. Their arijhmatic proves
that. It’s regular monkey figuring. They
haven’t any numbers that look like num
bers at all. Suppose you want to multiply
twenty-five by thirty-six, Chinese system?
First you put down a rooster’s foot track;
that's twenty-five. Underneath that goes
the ground plan of a small house; that’s
thirty-six. Then you take an hour off
and work out the sum with a lot of little
balls on wires; then you put down the
answer, and what do you think it is? Why,
it's a map of Chicago after the fire!
Shucks! And they call themselves men.
I’d go old Job three boils to his one
rather than have any Chinks around me.
“Well, the boys labeled me Hydraulic
Smith from that on, and I went prospect
ing. Took up with a feller named Aga
memnon G. Jones. Aggy was a big, fine
looking man. with a chest like a dry goods
box and a set of whiskers that would start
him in business anywhere. They were the
upstandlngest, noblest, stralghtforward
est outfit of whiskers I most ever saw,
and how they come to grow on Ag is a
mystery; but they stood him in many a
dollar,* now, I tell you that!
"He was a man of pretty considerable
education in some ways, and he could
make you believe that today was last
Thursday a week ago If you weren’t on to
him. At this time he was kind of under a
cloud like myself, and the way lt*come
about was this:
"He started an assay office when he first
struck the gulch, and he used to bring in
results. according to the looks of the cus
tomer. If the man looked tender around
the feet. Aggy’d knock it to him, and
probably tne shave-tail would be so pleas
ed that he would fork out an extra ten,
but if he was plainly vented as one of the
boys, there would be just enough pay in
the return to encourage him. Now. Jones
did everything shipshape and in style.
Here’s the paper that made him trouble.”
Hy fished a slip out of the bundle in his
old pocketbook and handed it to me.
Agamemnon G. Jones, Assaver,
Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses.
Sample left by Mr. Idaho Kid No. 36,943.
Value per ton.
Gold 1362.13
Silver 186.90
Plantlnum 14.77
Lead 2.06
Iridium 02
Osmium 00003 X
Copper 18.54
10:36 a. m. 3-16-81
(Signed) ’ Agamemnon G. Jones,
Assayer.
"Now that was the worst that Aggy had
ever sprung on anybody, because this
Idaho Kid looked as if he hadn't been
three weeks away from his mother; in
stead of which he was hootin’, tootin'
son-of-a-gun in reality, and you might
say he'd cut his teeth on a miner’s can
dlestick.
"When the Kid saw that miraculous re
sult. his eyes bulged out; then he took a
long breath and wrecked the place. Aggy
left at one that morning for fear that
worse might follow. He fetched this paper
with him to remind him that ‘genius has
its limitations.' he said. But he didn’t
seem Uo learn ay thing by it. Next he
took up engineering. He hit a blamed good
job on Castle creek in the Black Hills.
The people wanted to turn the creek
through a tunnel, so that thej» could
work the bed, and at this point it
was rather an easy business. The
stream made a ‘U’ about three-quarters
of it mile long, the bottom prong being at
least a hundred and fifty feet below the
krater-level on the top one—a smashing
good fall—so Aggy started in on the down
side to bore the hole up. Well, everything
went lovely. He’d come around with his
plans and specifications twice a uay, and
draw his hundred once a week regular for
his great labors. At last, aowever, the
chift-boss said they must be getting pret
ty near water; he could hear it roar
through the face of the tunnel, he said.
But Aggy told him not to be alarmed;
he had it all worked out. and they weren't
within forty foot of breaking through.
"So at it they went again, as cheerful
as could be. and the next news they got,
down comes the face, and they were being
piped through 400 .oot of black-dark tun-
nel. trying to guess what was up, bump
ing and banging against the walls, and the
whole of Castle Creek on ,op of them. My
Chinamen weren t a circumstance. Aggy
said they boiled -»jt the lower end of the
tunnel where he was standing, so fast he
couldn't recognize them, and, as a matter
of fact, three or tour of 'em were washed
a mile down creek before tney could make
land. Aggy gathered that it was time to
move again, so he pulled back for Idaho.
There wasn’t anybody ready drowned, ex
cept old Tom Olley, a cousin-Jack whose
only amusement in life was to wear out
his pants laying low for cinches in the
student poker game, and you couldn’t
rightly say he was any loss to the com
munity. So Aggy used to regret some
times that he hadn’t stayed to face the
music. They might have playeu horse
with him for a while, but ’twould soon
have blown over—miners not being re
vengeful by nature—and he was to have
had an eighth interest, besides his salary,
if the thing was a success.
"But there was no good of crying oyer
spilt milk, and us two went prospect
ing.
"We located for a permanent stand
down on Frenchman’s Creek, near where
three of cap’ Allys's greaser sheep herd
ers had their camp. They did our hunt
ing for us, and as there was nobody but
them around, and they were the peaceful
est people in the world, we didn't feel the
need of any gun except Ag’s old six-shoot
er. That was the cussedest machine that
ever got invented by man. When you pull
ed her off she'd spit fire in all directions,
filling the crotch of your hand with pow
der burns, and sometimes tyro or three of
the loads would go off at once, when
she’d kick like a Texas steer, Ti.ere was
much talk of bear around, and we were
always going to buy a real gun, some
day, but we never got at it.
"Well, we prospered pretty well, consid
ering how little we worked. A large part
of the time was taken up with playing
monte with the herders, and still more in
arguing questions about religion and
things like that; but we had a decent cab
in built—with the kind assistance of the
herders—and as we struck a rich little
streak that run out ten ddllars per man
a day with no trouble at all, we were in
clover.
"At last our stock of grub ran low, and
Jones slid us to Salmon City to load up
again. It was quite a trip, and as I didn't
think it was square to work while Aggy
was away, I took up with the herders.
They were the folks I ever
struck. Play a little music on the guitar,
sing songs that always wound up where
a man’s songs would begin, and tell sto
ries and smoke cigarettes—that was the
layout for them. Old Cap’ Aliys was a
Christian, and he wouldn’t let a man herd
sheep all by himself—surest way to get
crazy that ever was invented—so he sent
the boys out three in a bunch.
“Those fellers had the darndest lot of
fairy tales I ever did hear. And super
stitions! Great Jupiter! Any little blame
thing that happened meant something;
this thing was good luck; that meant bad,
and if you tried to josh them out of it,
they’d shake their heads and look at you
as if they thought you weren’t, truly re
ligious. One of their yarns was about El
Diablo de Fuego. ‘The Devil of Fire.’
which Miguel said ran in his family.
Seems that when anything wrong was
about to happen.this blazing,ripping mon
ster showed up as a warning. I told Mee
that I thought the monster was misfor
tune enough, without anything else, but
he was scandalized. . ,
" ‘Psst!’ says he. ‘Do not spik sooch
t’eeng as dthat! Ay 41 ml! Jesu-Maria
ml-Cristo! Jesu . muy dolce y poquito!
Dthat mek heem arrrrnrive dthat een
stant, eef djoo spik weez dees-rrree
speck!”
“ ‘All right) Mee,’ says I. ‘We'll let
her go at that—todo el mismo por mt,
sabe? But how’s the bear crop?’
“ ‘Ay, cara! Is plenty ba-re!’
says Pepe. ‘Keel three—four ship las'
nigh'! That mek that two mus’ sect oop
for watch, an’ all ship mus’ be in clos
corrall! I speet on the soul of that
ba-re!’
“Gad! that wasn’t cheerful news a little
bit. If there’s anything in this world I
more than don’t like, it's a bear—he’s so
darn big and strong and unreasonable, and
unless you can catch him sitting, you can
pump lead Into him until you’re black in
the face, and it’s all one to him. Well, I
thought I might as well camp with the
herders until Aggy came back.
"When he did show up he was rather
under the Influence of strong drink, and
from the looks of the wagon he'd brought
with him, I should say he’d bought about
everything that was movable in Salmon
City. I ain’t easily astonished, but I must
admit that some of the trucK got the best
Os me. I kept asking ‘What in blazes is
this, Ag?’ and he always answered, ’Ask
the driver. Well, now, if there was any
choice between the two, the driver was
drunker than Aggy. so you can imagine
what a lot of satisfaction I got. There
was one thing that I simply couldn’t
make head nor tail of, and I stayed with
him until I got an answer on that.
" 'Why, it’s an alcohol cooking-stove,’
says he, ‘great medicine —no trouble to
cook now at all. Just light her,’ says he.
waving his hand, ‘and whoop! away she
goes! Where’s that can of alcohol? Here
she is! Have a drink, Hy?'
"I took a small swig of it tn a little
water to please him, but there weren't
stlmmhants enough in the country to raise
my spirits that night. I put all the plund
er that I could lift up in the cock-loft,
and the rest I left setting around.
“ ‘I don’t exactly know where you fel
lers are going to sleep,’ says I. trying to
be sarcastic. ‘Pity you aidu’t order a
folding beu, Ag?’
“ ‘I did ” says he.
" ‘A foldln’-bed? ’ I repeats, not believ
ing my ears.
" ‘And a piano,’ says he. ‘What is home
without a piano? Answer; It’s a place
that can’t hold the forte—good joke—
keno—go up to the head, Jones.
" ‘Well,’ says I, after some other things.
‘Who’s going to pay for all this?’
" ‘God knows!’ says he, waving hts
hand again, ‘Good-night!’ and with that
he fell down between a new bureau and a
patent portable blacksmith’s forge, and
putting his head on a concertina, went
sound asleep.
“I couldn’t follow suit for some time;
it's one thing to come home full of budge
and animal spirits yourself, and it’s-quite
different to have your pardner work it. on
you. At last, however, I concluded it would
be ail the same next century,and turned
in but I was so rattled that I forgot the
bears, and didn’t lock up with the usual
"It must have been about two in the
morning when I woke all in a tremble. I
had the feeling that things were away off.
but I couldn’t place what was the matter,
until I looked at the square of moonlight
on the floor that came through the win
dow. and I was near to screech like a
tomcat, for there was a monstrous black
shadow bobbing 1 back and forth in the
patch of light. I drew on my bank for al
the sand I had and raised my eyes. By all
the Mormon gods! My heart fairly knock
ed my ribs loose. Nicely framed in the
window was the head of a grizzly, and I 11
take my oath it wasn’t over a size smaller
than a beer-barrel!
“ Now.’ thinks I, ’if I can only get that
gun before he sees me, and if the cussed
thing will only do the right thing by me
this once!’
"So out I steps, and the first rattle out
of the box I stumbled on a few dozen of
—g
iS biIHES WHERE ML ELSE FAILS.
bd Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, use 13
copyrighted.
printed
BY SPECIAL PERMISSION X
from the
‘•‘JANUARY M’CLURE’S MAGAZINE. g
the purchases Ag had brought home, and
down them and me came like an earth
quake. It scart the bear so he drew back;
no use trying to work a sneak now.
I jumped for the holster, and
turned the gun loose for general results.
I guess every load went off, from the
noise, and she flew out of my hand and
vanished behind me. Lord! The place
was full of smoke and the plunder that
was scattered around, so you could neith
er see nor walk, and that bear was swat
ting the door in a fashion that showed
he was going to give us a call any old
how, and I was plumb distracted—for the
life of me I didn't know what to do.
“ ‘Don’t make such a. noise!” growls
“ ‘You’d better get cut of that!’ I yells.
‘You’ll get noise enc.ugh in a minute!’
But he didn’t pay the least attention.
"Just before the door went down I
broke for the cock-1 >rt; it was the only
spot that seemed to hold the teeniest bit
of safety. I dim up the wall like a hop
per-grass. but I had no more than made
it when my friend was in the house.
‘Twas me he wanted to see, too. appar
ently; for he never noted anything else,
but headed straight for the loft. I had
’ kind of hoped the other two would amuse
him for a while, but It wasn’t to be. With
the door down, the moonlight streamed in
ao it was 'most ns light as day.
■" ‘Keep your big feet off me!’ says Ag,
very indignant, as the bear walked on
him. It’s a great thing not to know who
you’re talking to sometimes.
"Well, brother bear upends himself, and
reaches for the loft. He could just nicely
hook his front toe-nails on the board, and
when I saw that, I would have sold myself
out hide and hair and good-will of the
business extremely reasonable. ‘Here’s
where jny esteemed friend Hydraulic
Smith gets piped out,’ I thought, and I
tried to meet my finish like a man, but
there was something about winding up as
filler for a dirty, smelly bear wrapper that
took all the poetry out of the situatidn.
“I saw that Aggy had got on to the sfate
of affairs at last; he was crawling back
ward very cautious, and had a look of
pained surprise on his face that beat any
thing I’d aver seen on the phiz of man
or beast before. For all I was so scart
that I was Sweating icicles. I couldn’t help
but snicker. Howsomever, at that mo
ment brother bear threw his weight on
the board, and she snapped like a tooth
pick. and my merry smile took a walk.
Lord, I was »n a desperate fix! He had
only to keep on pulling down boards to
the last- one, and then, of course, I’d come
down with it. Something had to be done.
I grabbed a sack of flour and heaved it
at him; the sack caught on a splinter and
ripped, so beyond covering him with pow
der it had no particular result. He did
stop and taste the flour, but heavens, he
had lots of time! There wasn’t any good
in that. But as I reached around for an
other weapon my hand struck the can of
alcohol, and right then I had a genuine
three X inspiration. I pulled the plug
from the can and poured the spirits
down. The bear howled murder
as the stuff ran into his eyes, and
■ plunking himself on his hunkies, he be
gan to paw and scrape it out. There was
my chance! I fumbled through all my
pockets as fast as my hand could travel
—no matches! Then cussing and praying
like a steam engine, I tried it again; found
a handful in the first pocket; dropped
most of ’em, being so nervous, but
scratched what was left and chucked ’em
on Mr. Bear. Great- Moses in the bul
rushes! Events began on that Instant.
I’ve seen a cyclone, and an earthquake,,
and a cloudburst, and an Injun outbreak,
and a Democratic convention, but roll ’em
into one and that bear would give ’em
cards, spades, big and little casino, a
stuffed deck, and the tally-board too, and
then beat ’em without looking at his
hand.
"I simply can’t begin to tell you all
the different kinds of pure, unadulterated
hell he raised with the stock of curiosi
ties Aggy had bought in town. And the
looks of him! White with flour half
way, spouting flames and smoke,
apparently three times as big as he was
when he started! He was something be
fore the people now, I tell you! And the
burning hair smelt scandalous, and the
way he ripped and roared made the
ground tremble.
"When he finally broke through the
door, I was so interested that I forgot to
be afraid, and hopped down to watch him
go, and then I saw the last act of the
tragedy.
"Miguel had heard the shot, and know
ing we were in trouble, he was coming
up the trail on his old buckskin, fairly
burning the earth.
"He rounded a little clump of trees,
and came plump on my bear, roaring,
foaming, blazing, smoking, ripping and.
flying! Well, sir, you can believe me or
not, but I want to tell you that that cay
use of Mee’s jumped right out from un
der him, and was half-way up Wilkin’s
Hill before the Mexican touched the
ground. He was headed due west, and
ne must haye reached the coast the next
day, the gait he was traveling. Anyhow,
he vanished from the sfght of man for
ever, as far as we know.
"Mee sat froze just as he had landed,
scart so there wasn’t no more expression
on his face than a punkin pie, and the
bear hopped right over the top of his
head. Then I reckon Mee thought his fam
ily friend had come for him, for he jump
ed ten foot in the air, and when he touch
ed ground he was in full motion. It’s only
fair to say that Miguel bould run when he
pht his mind to it. ‘EI Inflerno esta suelto!’
he yells. ‘Santiago! Santiago! Ten qul
dado conmigo! Madre mal! Salvame! Sal
vame pronto!’ Lord, I can see him now.
scuttling over the fair face of the Ter
ritory of Idaho in the bright moonlight
like a little bird—chest out; hands up;
head back; black hair snapping in th«
breeze; long legs waving like the spokes
bf a flywheel, and yelling for Santiago
to keep an eye on him, and for his moth
er to save him quick, as long as he was
in sight. And when he passed, he passed
out. He took a different direction from his
horse, so it ain’t likely they met, but
neither one of 'em was seen no more
around our part of the country.
"Still, by and by there floated back to
us a story of how a greaser had been chas
ed by a horrible white devil that stood 20
feet high, with teeth a foot long, horns,
hoofs, claws, and a spiked tail; which
traveled at a rate of speed that made a
streak of lightning seem like a way
freight, scattering red fire and brimstone
as it ran: which chased said greaser 40
miles over hill and dale and gulch and
mountain top and badland district, after
polishing off his horse in one bite, and
finally sank into the ground with a re
port like a ton of giant powder.
“And I’ve often wondered what really
become of that bear."
The Semi-Weekly Journal reaches
the subscribers twice a week, and the
New York Wcrld three times a week,
which will give you five papers per
week, all for $1.50. Address The Jour
nal. Atlanta. Gs.
A Gruesome Proposal.
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Grogan—What a power o’ funerals they
do be havin’ at ttye church these days. Shure,
it’s shtarted me thinkins.
Miss Casey—Thinkin' av what?
Mr. Grogan—That whin it come toime fur
my funeral would you be the wlddy?
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw met' the governor of
lowa, now appointed Secretary of the Treas
ury, when they both became interested in the
' Methodist Sunday School at Denison, la., tn
1874. They were married three yeaYs later
1 and have three children. Enid, Earl and Erma.
I the oldest »f whom is just out of college.
cMen and Women Together Attain
The TSest, Says Dr. cMcGlauflin.
When a man of thought and conser
vatism advocates woman suffrage, it is
interesting to know what he has to say.
It is usually well worth while.
So it is in the case of Dr. W. H. Mc-
Glauflin, who made a talk on the subject
at the last meeting of the Atlanta Equal
Suffrage association.
Dr. McGlauflin first spoke briefly of
traits Os Character most needed in those
who advocate reform measures, and the
kinship of genuine reformers in all ages
and lands, whether the m&ttSTS in»vlved
are social, political, moral or religious.
Then he came to t.ie pith of hiS sub
ject:
“Virtue and vice, order and anarchy,
wisdom and ignorance do not divide along
the line of sex.
"Some lecturers leave the impression
that God exhausted His store of all
things worthy when He create# woman;
that'men for the most part are monsters,
whose chief delight, as whose persistent
purpose, has been and is to tyrannize over
the opposite sex. *
"On the other hand, there are both men
and women who advocate the contrary
view and tell us that the gentler sex Is
weak, wicked, and woe-producing. John
J. Ingalls declared that woman, as com
pared with man, is inferior and defective,
physically, intellectually and morally;
that she originates nothing; that instead
of courage she has craft; that she sup
ports candidates for office, not on princi
ple, but .on account of becoming dress;
that in her own callings shS is surpassed
by men, as men are the best cooks, musi
cians, dressmakers and* nurses.
"The appeal to facts seems to disclose
that men and women have walked togeth
er in the attainment of what is best, and
together they have sunk to the lowest
depths of infamy. When one has suffered,
the other has suffered; if one has re
joiced, the joy has been imparted. Wo-,
men and men are weak, wicked and woe
producing; women and men are heroes,
prophets, sages and martyrs.
“In the industrial world, woman now
as never before, stands with man in the
production of wealth and administration
SOME CHOICE RECIPES FROM
CHARLESTON HOUSEKEEPERS
BY ELLE GOODE.
I have succeeded in getting a number of
Charleston housekeepers to give me thslr
recipe for their "brag” dishes. Having
tasted all of these, I can assure you that
they are excellent, so recommend them
highly.
Mrs. Warring P. Carrington excels in
the following:
ORANGE STRAWS.
Let the orange peel soak In waiter two
days, changing the water. Then boll till
tender and cut in straws with scissors.
Make a syrup, pound for pound of peel
and flavor with green ginger. Boil till
peel is clear. Use fresh water for syrup,
not that in which the peel was boiled.
CHEESE OMELET. '
One’ teacup of boiled milk, take from
the fire while hot and add a teacup grated
cheese, a tablespoonful creamed butter.
Let it become well dissolved in the milk,
then add two eggs, beaten together. Pour
in a baking pan anil bake quickly.
WINE JELLY.
One box of Cox’s gelatin. Soak in a
pint of cold water. Add a pint of boiling
water, a pint of sugar, a pint of sherry,
two dozen cloves, one-half stick cinna
mon, a lemon quartered, the whites of two
eggs well beaten, egg shells. Boil three
times and strain in flannel bag. Serve
with wnipped cream. .
Mrs. Louis D. Simonds offers the follow
ing receipts:
STUFFED TOMATOES.
Take out the centres of the tomatoes;
shop them up in a dish with shrimp, bread
crumbs, mustard, salt; pepper and vine
gar to taste. Stuff the tomatoes, sprinkle
bread crumbs over the top. and bake till
brown. Can use veal, deviled ham, etc.,
in 'place of shrimp.
OKRA SOUP.
1 1-2 quart okra; 1 small can tomatoes;
2 ears fresh corn; salt and pepper to
taste; rich soup stock.
Mrs. Henry P. Williams recommends
this receipt for chicken croqets:
CHICKEN COQUETS.
801 l a chicken till tender. Out of stock
in which chicken was boiled make a sauce
by thickening with flour.. Season with
pepper, salt, onion, and parsley. Add
chopped chicken. Put on Ice over night.
Make into croquets by rolling in the yel
low of egg and bread crumbs, and fry in
very hot lard.
OYSTERS A LA NEWBURG.
2 cups milk. While on the fire season
with butter, pepper arid salt, thicken to
taste with flour or cornstarch. Add oys
ters, and do not let them stay long enough
to get tough. Just before serving add 2
tablespoons sherry. Use the same sauce
for cream salmon.
Mrs. George W. Wil’iams, Sr.„ one of
the best housekeepers in the state, offers
the following:
SWEET WAFERS.
Two-thirds cup of butter, same of su
gar, 3 eggs, teaspoon rose water.
WEDDING OR BLACK CAKE.
One teaspoon of cloves, allspice ground,
grated lemon peel and nutmeg dissolved
in a tumbler of brandy and wine (over
night), one pound flour, stir in Dutch
oven; 2 pounds raisins, 2 pounds currants.
1 pound citron, 1 1-4 pound butter, 1 pound
sugar, 10 eggs; bake 4 hours.
SHRIMP PIE.
One plate tomatoes; take off the skin,
and cut out the hard core; put on fire
with one large tablespoon butter and red
pepper to taste; when it begins to boil put
the shrimps on for a little while; pour in
a baking dish; add a large glass of wine,
a little mustard and nutmeg: put a thick
layer of bread crumbs on top with little
pats of butter; bake; garnish with par
slep.
Mrs. Frank Evans is not to be surpass
ed in making salad dressing and nut
candy.
MAYONNAISE.
Yolk of an egg well beaten, add salt
enough to make it stiff, then add 1-2 tea
spoonful of mustard and a little cayenne;
mix these well; then add gradually about
1 pint of salad oil, thinning with a few
drops of vinegar whenever t-e mixture
gets too thick. When ready to serve add a
light teaspoonful of sugar and a little
more vinegar.
NUT CANDY.
Two pounds dark brown sugar. 1 pound
walnuts, chopped fine, butter size of a
walnut, vanilla to taste; put sugar and
butter in a saucepan and cover with wa
ter; boil until it will harden when drop
ped into cold water. Then add nuts and
cook about two minutes longer. Take
from fire, add flavoring and stir rapidly
until it begins to thicken. Then pour Into
buttered pans, and when cold cut into
squares. ,
Mrs. G. H. Williams. Jr„ Is noted for
her delicious stuffed eggs. The recipe is
as follows:
One dozen hard-boiled eggs; mash yel
lows with a fork; season with tablespoon
of butter, salt, pepper, mustard and Wor-(
cestershire sauce; stuff the whites with
the mixture; sprinkle with cracker dust
and brown in the oven.
Charleston’s Early Fire Companies’
Rules and Regulations.
In looking over an old “Year book of the
City of Charleston,” I was very much im
pressed with the early laws about fires.
Some of them are so amusing that I re
produce them.
1 1. Each householder was to kqep one
bucket in each room in case of fire.
Churcjies, public halls and buildings were
also required to have buckets. When an
alarm was rung each citizen was to re- *
of affairs. It is said that not less than
4,000,000 women are now wage-earners in
the United States. Whether as doctors or
dentists, as surgeons or sculptors, as
preachers or painters, as architects or ac- ;
countants, as stenographers or secreta
ries, or scientists, as writers or waiters,
woman has compelled the acknowledg
ment of her great ability even from the
most prejudiced opponents.
"As woman works and earns, so she
saves and owns. Being an owner and a
taxpayer, she is not only entitled to take [
her place with those who administer af
fairs through the ballot box, but it is to ••
the interest of affairs that this should be
so.
“As to her intellectual ability, It has
been noted that the bureau of education
shows that In every part of our country a
much greater number of girls are being,
graduated from the high schools than
boyt. The circumstance that college grad
uates are for the most part men, does
not argue against woman’s ability, but
reminds us that woman has not generally
been allowed entrance to these institu
tions. Wherever she has been given the
opportunity, she justified the wisdom
of those who opened the door.
"In competitive studies she has as of
ten won the prize as has the male student.
"Universal suffrage for woman would be
a calamity. The same is true of men. Cit
izenship with the powers and preroga
tives should not be thrust upon any one
because the mark on a calendar has been»
reached. Better than the attainment of.
years are attainments ethical, educa-’
tlonal and financial; and these should
be required. These are conditions that
should be applied today to the dlsfran- ’
chlsement of some million of men, and
the enfranchisement of some millions of
women. Equal rights to all who are wor- ‘
thy, regardless of sex—special privilege to
none.
Note premium list in this issue,
make your selection and subscribe at
once.
pair with his buckets to the fire or to send
some trusted servant with them to report
to the "fire master” in his place. As soon 1
as he reported he was to fall in line and ;
go to work by passing the buckets of
water to the fire or to pass them back to
be refilled. Ladders were kept at the
market and guard house and it took from :
15 to 20 men to carry them. Each house
holder was to put a light in the front win
dow for the benefit of those going to the
fire.
Box fire engines were later introduced,
to which no suction hose was attached, *
but which were filled by buckets drawn .
up to the pump ahd filled and then taken
to the fire; this was kept up, this filling
of buckets and taking them on an engine
to the fire, till either the fire burned out
of itself or was accidentally extin
guished.
The suction engine was then Introduced
and prior to 1810 a “steamer” built. But
the prejudice against it was so great that
it Vas refused by the fire department.
In 1865 one of the aidermen of the city
made a motion before the city council
that they encourage the purchase of a
steam fire engine by the volunteer fire
companies. He proposed to do this by |
making a loan to each company of $2,000
and by offering a prize to the first coin- ,
pany to purchase one. Now the chief of
the fire department opposed this motion
for the simple reason that hahd engines
would not exhaust the water supply for
eight hours, while a steam engine would
.exhaust it in two. The aiderman then •
turned to -him and .asked if it would not
be better to put the fire out in two hours
than in eight? A little "hacked.” the
chief I replied: “I never thought of that
Don’t tell it on me.”
During the great earthquake in 1885 fires
broke out constantly all over the city,
and many unique ways of putting them
out were resorted to. Several years ago
there was a fire in “dark town,” only one
little shanty, and the firemen were pre
paring to turn on the hose. But the chief,
who was a German, called out; "Stop!
Don’t vaist dot vater on dis house! Give
me a fire extinguisher!” and he proceeded
to put it out himself afid -to save the
water.
For $1.40 v/e will send The SemL
Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline ‘
Toilet Articles and any one of the
premium papers offered with The
Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. This is the
greatest offer ever made and you
should take advantage of it without <
delay.
LOVE’S SEASON.
When i* Love’s season of bloom, my dear?
Is it when buttercups yild the field
And violets delicate perfume yield?
True Love lasteth through all the year!
When is Love’s season of bloom, my dear?
Is it when roses their sweets unfold
And the lily reveals her heart of gold? «
True love lasteth through all the year!
When Is Love’s season of bloom, my dear?
It is when maples are vivid red
And oak leaves brown on the earth outspreaar
•True love lasteth through all the year!
What is Love's season of all the year?
Is it when snow on the ground lies white
And stars pierce the «ky with keen, cold llghtT 1
—True Love blooms ever wnere you are. dear!
—Rene 8. Parks, in the Bookman.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Negotiations for the release of Miss Ston* i
have been reopened by W. W. Pert, treasurer
of the Missionary Society in Constantinople,
who has succeeded In establishing communica
tion with the brigands.
The battleship Missouri, which has been sue- |
cessfully launched is a splendid war vessel .
which will have a speed of eighteen knot*. 1
Under the contract the ship is to be completed
and ready for service March 15. 190 S.
During the present year 5,057 miles of rail
road track was laid, the greatest number
since 1800, when there were 5,670 mile* laid. .
Almost three-fourths of the total number of .
miles of track were constructed in fifteen ‘
southern and six southwestern states, Texas
and Oklahoma taking the lead.
The new census of the German empire shows
a population of 54.367.178, or an increase of pver
4,000.000 in five years The greater part of this
increase is due to the births which places Ger
many strongly in contrast with France, a coun
try which has notably fallen behind in national
population increas*.
Among the prominent people who died in
the year just closed were President McKinley
and ex-Presldent Harrison. Other notables who
died were Victoria, queen of Great Britain-;
Prince Von Hoherilohe, the German, ex-chancel
lor; Francisco Crispi. the ex-premier of Italy;
Li Hung Chang, the great Chinaman: Dow- '
ager Empress Frederick, Abdur Rahman Khan,
the ameer of Afghanistan, and Milan, the dis
solute ex-king of Servia.
v**^f^*x**A in *be balance
\ found—
W J L—\ standard.
/Ikvh ’ Time has
I nSrFcl proved
k?EAR ‘ LiNE S
-Ti claims and given
| it its place—the leading wash
) ing powder. Why is PEARL
-1 INE imitated? Why are those
1 who have used it for years
I still using it? Why are nil
I willing to pa.y a. little more
I for it? 661