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I . Women on the Farm
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THE REAL ARTICLE.
He »as dressed In his work-a-day clothes.
A figure that spoke of the ark.
And as he reposed by the potato rows
He whistled as blithe as a lark.
On the other side of the big gate
She stood on her tiny tip-toes
And watched him. alone, with sunbonnet
blown
Away from her face like a rose.
Unconscious and free as the shine
That fell from the summer day sun.
He calmly reposed and whistled and dosed
Still leaving bls labor undone.
Then suddenly broke a remark—
•• Where 'bouts did you get that old hat?
Tour clo'es are the funniest green I have
seen.
Tour shoes are all ragged and fat!”
The fellow jumped up in surprise—
“ Tea, get right up out of the damp.
But come back tomorrow for I’d like to
borrow
Tour do’es, when I go to play tramp.”
—M. A. CRAWFORD.
The Difference Between City and Coun
try Boys.
An interesting article in the Southern
Farm Magazine on this subject is well
worth reading. It is too long for repub
lication. but the points made are well
worth noticing tn all our agricultural pa
pers.
The entire subject revolves about the
farm as a training school and practical
discipline for young and receptive minds.
Here is what is said of the city boy:
"He lives in a house that is simply one
little piece of a block of houses. It is
like a brick raised on its edge. He has
only two ends of the house exposed to
the air—for it is shut in on both sides.
"Nevertheless, that house is provided
with all of what we call conveniences. It
has every convenience for comfort. Even
the heat is brought in from some outside
source—which can be turned off or turned
on at pleasure. Light is so furnished
that when an illumination of the rooms
is required. It is only necessary to strike
a match or turn an electric switch and
the thing is done.
"The boy knows but little about how
the food is brought in. The milkman, the
butcher and baker may deliver while be is
asleep in the morning, and he goes to the
table and eats, without the necessity of
knowing more than the situation requires.
He knows that everything is brought to
the bouse, without knowing how it grew
or got to him.
"He walks out of the house, goes to the
corner, steps on a street car and pays five
cents for his trip. He goes to school or
wherever he is going, then be gets on the
car. pays another five cents and goes back
to the house. Everything is provided to
his band. ,
"In the evening, perhaps, there is a
place of amusement or entertainment. He
goes to sleep and gets up and goes again,
as he did the day before.
"Let us see what the country boy has
been doing. He is called up in the morn
ing to make fire, draw water, feed stock,
or maybe bring the cows up from the pas
ture. Maybe he ts barefoot and the
ground is cold He brings them up in the
evening and stands where some old cow
has been* lying down, to get a little
warmth. Maybe old Brindle won’t drive,
and he must fix a plan to make her. This
is one of the best things that can happen
to the boy. He is thrown on his own re
sources. Perhaps the cows must be fed.
At different seasons they need different
foods. These cows have •to be milked,
milk vessels made clean and there is a
why and a wherefore to all his work, and
he must understand it all.
"Maybe he must chop wood, and do a
dozen things before he sits down to eat
his breakfast. He Is not like thq city
boy who has everything made ready for
him. The country boy is surmounting
obstacles all the time, and all the time
learning something by experience. It
makes him self-reliant and resourceful.
"Take these two boys when the get
to be men and put them at the same
kind of work. One will be resourceful
and the other’s faculties are dormant, be
cause of disease. Granting equal mental
ability to both boys, the test wil come in
the ability to encounter and overcome ob
stacles.
“The eity boy goes along finely in the
groove. So long as no accident happens
he runs easily in the groove. But acci
dents are reasonably sure to happen, then
he has no experience with difficulties to
aid him in solving difficult problems.
"When the country boy goes to the city,
into a factory or in an office, this train
ing in self-reliance is prominently help
ful. One day on the farm is hardly like
any other day. Each day’s work brings
new issues and new contingencies. He is
being taught continual discipline and self
reliance.”
Running Out Vagrants from Cities.
If Atlanta would do as Memphis is do-
namely, authorising the police of the
city to run out the vagabonds or take
them to the rock pile, there would be
hopeful signs of relief ere long—in Georgia
chain gangs.
There is absolutely no excuse for idle
ness in this country. There is work for
all. and money to pay for it. and when
vagabonds infest the city or country they
become a nuisance and should be so
treated.
It is not pleasant to say so. but there
are a great many low dives kept by white
men who permit black and white loafers
about them to attract their money (that
should go to better purposes) into their
own tills.
The stringent laws against anarchists
which will pass congress at the present
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session, will be in large measure inef
fective unless the tramps and loafers and
low dives are suppressed.
One of the most objectionable features
of the saloon is the loafer class which in
fests it during the dark hours of the
night. Czolgosz was a saloon keeper, and
it is reasonable to suppose that anarchist
doctrine* were listened to if not taught
about his premises.
The United States will be entirely un
able to deal with the dangerous class al
ready here unless strict police regulations
are carried out to manage them, and it
will work a hardship to prevent immi
grants from landing when there are much
worse people domiciled among us who are
roaming at large
If every vagrant was commanded to give
an account of himself, and a penalty was
attached for failure, the problem of good
roads might be solved by enforced labor,
under state or municipal authority.
It has reached a place that country folks
are obliged to keep fire arms in every
dwelling, because nobody is safe from
the thieves, burglars and Incendiaries
that are privileged to tramp the big road
unmolested.
A Pig Experience.
Last spring our good neighbor and most
enterprising citizen, Hon. Thomas C.
Crenshaw, gave me two baby pigs of the
famous Duvoc Jersey strain.
The day after new year s we had the
pleasure of looking at five beautiful little
pigs of our own. but the young mother
sow ate up three of them and I have
taken the remaining two In the kitchen
to keep alive if possible, until they can
drink slop* or crack corn or maybe die a
natural death. .
I expect I am in for a tiresome job that
nobody need envy me. Indeed. I am sor
ry for myself when I think about the long
stretch that must be bridged over with
warm sweet milk, to be followed with
gruel and with only my two hands to care
for the baby pigs. I fixed up a bottle
with a quill and a rag wrapped about it,
but the young pigs said “no.” and one
grazed my hand with a sharp little tooth,
so I held each squirming squealer as hard
as I dared to with my left hqnd and fed
piggy with a teaspoon in my right hand
like a sure enough baby. They drank the
milk and were soon ready for a nap.- I
keep a slow fire ih the stove and put the
box holding the piggies near so as
to keep th«m warm. They snuggle under
the hay. and seem quite contented, but I
can hardly expect to> raise them under
such untoward circumstances.
Now. I want somebody that knows, to
tell me what to do about that fine young
sow. that 1 value so highly.
Will she continue to be a cannibal and
eat pigs forever?
For ten months I have fed her faithful
ly. hoping to be recompensed with a fine
litter of pigs (and surely you never saw
finer), but the sow liked pig meat better
than corn and went actually to eating the
third one this morning when It was large
enough to run all about and squeal like
a big pig. When she breakfasted from
this last one. before we took the remain
ing two away, her trough was full of good
warm slop with meal stirred in it. and a
half dozen ears of sound, nice corn lying
by the trough. .
To kill her seems a pity, because she is
a splendid looking sow. but I guess she
had better go in the pen as the only cure
for her cannibal appetite. If I save the
pigs I’ll tell you all about it, but do give
me a remedy for a pig eating sow.
A Substitute for Fruit Cake.
An exchange furnishes the following
substitute for more expensive fruit cake:
One cup of molasses, two cup* of sugar,
one pound of clear fat pork, one pint of
boiling coffee and seven cups of flour.
Chop the pork very fine and pour the cof
fee over it. Add to this the molasses and
sugar and stir in one tablespoon of soda.
One teaspoon of cloves, one teaspoon of
allspice, one nutmeg and one tablespoon
of cinnamon will give the spicy flavor.
Stir in a pound of seeded raisins and a
pound of currants. If you have preserved
cherries, they can be added, remember
ing to make allowance for their moisture
by adding a little flour. When all is well
beaten, sift in the flour. Line the tins
with oiled paper and bake two hours, or
more, in a cool oven. This cake will keep
for months. Both of these cakes are Im
proved by the addition of a glass of bran
dy. whisky or wine. When this cake is
iced, it cannot be told from an expensive
fruit cake.
Dear Mrs. Felton.
Enclosed find a receipt for making soft
gingerbread. Try it.
Stir a teaspoon of soda into a cup of
molasses and add a cup of boiling water
or coffee. When cool, add a half cup of
dripping, two teaspoons of ginger, one of
cloves and one of cinnamon. Stir in as
little flour as will hold the cake, and bake
at once. Too much flour will ruin it, but
enough to make a thin batter will give
the desired result.
Jenny Lind and Daniel Webster Again.'
CARTERSVILLE, Dec. 26, 1901.
Dear Sister Felton:
I have just read in The Atlanta Journal
your interesting account of Jenny Lind
and Daniel Webster in Washington city.
As it has come to me, the sweet singer
had rendered but a few notes of “Home,
Sweet Home," when Mr. Webster joined
her in a deep, mellow, bass that moved
the audience and the singer so deeply
that she recognized the accompaniment
most gracefully.
This, if true, does not interfere with the
singing of the "Star-Spangled Banner"
and Its wonderful effect upon Mr. Webster
and the audience, but adds a beautiful in
cident to the rapturous occasion. • '
How do you manage to keep your fing
ers and pen so nimble? You are almost
up with the old Hardshell preacher and
his "harp of a thousand strings” over in
the “mountains of Hepsadam.”
I hope this note will find you and the
doctor enjoying the passing of the first
Christmas of the new century.
By the way. did you know that the thor
oughbred Jersey cow* all kneel at Christ
mas eve? Mors devotional. I fear, than
a heap of folks. Very truly your friend
and brother.
GEORGE W. YARBROUGH.
Parsonage.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23. 1902.
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ExperiencesWith.MentalTeieQraphii
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And Wonderful Psychic Phenomena
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THIS i* a day of.the annihilation
of space.
The telegraph began its fight
against that great elementary
obstacle In the last century. The
telephone later continued the conflict. And
now the wireless telegraphy, with all its
wonder, is pursuing the work.
All that is in the world of matter.
What of the world of mind?
What of mental telegraphy?—the tel
epathy of the modern psychologist?
If thought, urged by Marconi’s great
electrical apparatus, can without even
wire speed across the Atlantic and utter
itself at a given point; may not thought,
urged by the electricity of feeling, wing
itself over the miles and utter Itself to
a soul charged with the same feeling?
Could it be so? Dare any one say it
could not? Are there not , “more things
in heaven and earth than are dreampt of
in your philosophy?”
Did you ever pursue this subject for a
week or so, leading the conversation of
friends persistently up to this topic, just
to see how many singular experiences
you might glean?
I have. I did it just this last week. It
was very interesting. To several persons
I telephoned. And here printed below are
the stories of strange happenings 1 se
cured:
Bishop Morrison Relates
A Very Singular Incident
I give the following incident In my life
just as it occurred; neither understanding
nor attempting to explain it.
It was in the autumn of 1864. I had re
ceived license to preach and had been
appointed as junior preacher on what was
then the Clinton circuit, in the western
portion of Kentucky. The circuit had
twenty-seven appointment* and was 150
miles in circumference.
I had left my parents at home in the
northwestern part of the state, both in
good health, my father having never been
sick up to that time.
I had an appointment for every day in
the week and had perhaps gone half
round the circuit. I was passing the
night in the comfortable home of a
brother at whose church I was to preach
the next day for the first time.
Very naturally the good brother and
family were anxious, if not curious, to
hear the new preacher.
During the night I received a strong and
almost strange impression that I should
return home. My home was nearly one
hundred miles distant. I was neither in
reach of railroad nor telegraph, while
postoffices were few and far between.
My faithful horse was my only means
for making the almost two days’ journey.
But why go home? I was neither ill
nor homesick. My appointments were be
fore me, and the people were expectant.
Why this seeming silly notion to return
home? I could give no answer, but the
deep conviction, as if a messenger had
been sent to me, rested upon me in such
manner that I could not resist.
At the breakfast table the next morn
ing the family talked of the service to
be that day at the church and the ar
rangements to attend, while I sat in si
lence thinking how I should manage to let
them know my intention. I could not ex
plain, because I did not myself under
stand why. or how, the impression.
At last I said to the good brother, “Will
you kindly have the servant bring out
my horse immediately?" With much as
tonishment he asked. “Why do you wish
yqur horse so early?” I replied. "I am
going home at once.” He seemed confus
ed and vexed at my course. But I soon
escaped the embarrassment and was alone
en route home.
Almost two days of lonely travel and
the ever recurring question, “Why?” But
no' answer could I frame in my mind.
Finally coming into the vicinity of home.
I inquired of any whom I met. "Can you
tell me anything of affairs at my home?”
I could hear nothing. Coming at last
in sight. I approached and dismounted,
and with quickened pulse I entered the
silent home. It was a stillness like the
grave. I passed the doorway and through
the first room, and entering the room
next adjoining, there I met the answer
to my strange impression.
My father, whom I had left in robust
health, lay prostrate upon the bed before
me, ill to a point beyond speech, and was
but partially conscious of my presence.
Then, and not until then, I knew why I
was supernaturally called home.
H. C. M.
Mrs. Hoke Smith Tells of
A Remarkable Impression
“Yes,” said Mr*. Hoke Smith. “I had one
very remarkable experience in my life
one *o strange that I really never talk
about it. I cannot explain it, of course,
but these are the facts of the case:
“When I was a young girl. Captain and
Mrs. Harry Jackson, my brother and sis
ter. invited me on a summer outing at
’Old Sweet.' Va.
“I wished naturally to go, and only hes
itated because of the illness of my little
niece, about two years old to whom I
was especially devoted. Tho little thing
was teething, and became very ill. But
she grew better —so much better that I
decided to go. So I went and bright letters
about the little girl came every few days.
One day an especially cheering letter
came, and we were very happy over Ju
lia's returning strength. .
“ ‘Now, we can make that trip over to
Greenbriar.’ said Captain Jackson; and
in great spirits the packing began. Mrs.
Marsh Johnson, of Macon, I remember,
was to be of the party, and we were to
have a good time. I was dancing about in
great glee, getting out such things as I
would need tor a week's jaunt, and I re
member I was just reaclyng down for an
evening dress to take with me, laughing
as I did so—when suddenly, such a vivid
impression came to me as I could never
forget I lifted my head and the tears
began to rain down my face. ‘Little Julia
is dying/ I said to my sister.
• " ‘Why. what on earth do you mean?'
she said. ‘You are Just anxious. And with
all that good news today, too. Why, Bir
die, you ought to be ashamed.’
“‘Oh. but I see her,' I exclaimed. And
I did. The little form, prostrate and al
most lifeless, was as vividly before me as
though she were there.
“I tried to thake it off. All the arrange
ments for the trip had been made. It was
a mere fancy. I told myself. But in spite
of everything it weighed me down. I went,
but it was a week of misery to me. I felt
as if the child were dead. I could not hear
because our mail all went to Old Sweet,
and I was at Greenbriar. At the end of the
week we returned to Old Sweet. There
were no letter*. ‘No news is good news,'
said my sister. Still I was anxious. In
two hours more the mall came by stage
over the mountains and there were two
letters from my mother. I hastily broke
tho seal of one, and the first line I read
was—‘We laid her to sleep beside your
father.’
“That told the story.
“The strange sequel came later when
I found that the child died at just the
hour and minute or that day when I had
so suddenly seen the little dying form.
"I don’t understand it.” she concluded,
“but those are the fact* of the case.”
A purser on one of the Cunarder* ha» retired
after completing hl* nine hundred and twen
tieth voyage zero** the Atlantic,
Dr. Lucius D. Morse Relates Some
Queer Stories of 'Psychic Phenomena
Prof. Crawford, of San Francisco, told
me in 1892 that the year previous, while
he was in New York city, he succeeded
in organizing a “materialization” seance
with all the conditions satisfactory and
that the result was decidedly startling.
The professor, a well known medical
man, had been investigating so called spir
it phenomena for some time and. after de
tecting various frauds in this line, prose
cuting the perpetrators in the courts for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
and, incidentally, getting a big scar on his
fine Intellectual forehead, received in a
melee which resulted from his seizing one
of the materialized “spirits” in his arms,
while a friend who was with him turned
up the lights and disclosed the buxom
medium playing the role of spook, very
naturally came to the conclusion that the
materializing branch of the business was
a humbug.
However, just before leaving New York
in 1891, for his return to the Pacific coast,
he heard of a medium of whom such as
tounding things were related that he de
termined to make one more trial to satis
fy himself that there was nothing in it.
This last test, however, resulted in a man
ner so different from what he anticipated
that the story is worth relating.
The seance was in a small private sitting
room belonging to a suite in the Fifth
Avenue hotel. The cabinet was formed by
pinning up a sheet in one corner of the
room, shutting off just enough of the
angle to hide a chair with the medium in
it.
The medium came alone to the hotel,
was carefully searched for any parapher
nalia which might be used to deceive, was
placed in the chair, tied hand and foot
and body to the seat and legs of the chair
by means of small whipcord, while over
all the ligatures, w>»irever knotted, long
strips of surgecu's plaster were wound
and securely glued. A large plaster was,
likewise, pasted over the medium’s mouth.
The hands, also, were secured by strips
of plaster. The doctor’s friend had pro
cured a half a dozen fish hooks and lines
for use on the occasion. The hooks were
inserted in various portions of the medi
um’s clothing and the lines were then
brought out taut from behind the curtain
and held in the hand, so that the slightest
move on the part of the medium would be
betrayed by the straining or slackening of
the cords.
When all was ready, the gas was turned
down, so that a species of twilight pre
vailed in the room, objects, however, be
ing readily distinguishable. The time was
9 o'clock at night. Present the medium,
Professor Crawford and his friend. The
one door of the room was solidly locked
and near it the two investigators occupied
seats. The room itself was in the fourth
story of the hotel.
About three or four minutes after the
sheet in the corner had been adjusted, so
as to screen the medium, and while the
professor and his companion were watch
ing that portion of-the room and chuck
ling audibly over the igenulty of their
arrangements and the little likelihood of
anything happening, their attention was
attracted by blue flames which started
from the floor just in front of them and
went flickering up towards the ceiling.
An instant after, two white robed figures
glided out from the sheeted corner.
"My wife!” gasped the professors com
panion. as he fell in a partial faint against
a near by sofa.
The professor, himself, startled beyond
measure by the suddenness and unexpect
edness of the apparitions, quickly turned
up the light, sprang to fne corner where
the medium was seated, tore down the
screening curtain and beheld a corpse oc
cuping the chair. At least it seemed so
to the frightened investigator. The body
Rockefeller s Royal Benefactions.
The Chicago Chronicle places John D.
Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king, at the
head of the list of benefactors to edu
cational and other benevolent institutions
in our time. It says:
It is not only since he became rich that
John D. Rockefeller has been a giver of
money. He commenced, as is shown by
his private account book, with his start
in life. In 1855, when he was spending
$9.09 per year for clothing for himself, he
gave $7.30 to the church for charity and to
church societies.
One of the few friends of Mr. Rockefel
ler who was in a position to talk intelli
gently on the subject said recently that
in all about $20,000,0(0 had been given
away by the millionaire during the past
eighteen or twenty years.
It is a difficult matter to estimate in
dollars and cents the sum total of Mr.
Rockefeller s philanthropy during the past
twenty years. His gifts to the Chicago
university have amounted to over $lO,-
000,000, the first of them being made in
June. 1890, In the sum of $600,000. It was
followed by $1,000,000 in September of the
same year, and in the February following
he gave ahother $1,000,000. The first gift
was for the endowment of the college
work, the second for the work of non
professional graduate Instruction, and, the
third for general purposes of instruction.
In December, 1892, he gave $1,000,000 more,
and in May, 1893, he promised $150,000 so
that the gift of Martin A. Ryerson, on
condition that $500,000 more be raised
should come into the college treasury. In
November. 1893, Mr. Rockefeller gave $500.-
000, with the proviso that not more than
$175,000 be used for running expenses, the
rest to be used for the general purposes
of the university. In January, 1894, he
made a contribution of $50,000 for the pur
chase of books, and in January, 1895, he
gave $175,000 as a New Yea-’s present. In
the fall of 1895 he gave the Institution
$3,000,000 in a lump sum.
At the close of the year 1900 his gifts to
the Chicago university had amounted to
over $9,000,000, and since that time this
has been added to.
His gifts have been mainly to Baptist
organizations. He has been interested In
the religious education of negroes In the
south, and gave the building for the Spell
man Institute—named for his wife—at Sel
ma. Ala., which is under Baptist control.
He built the Rockefeller hall at Rochester
and his gifts to that university have
amounted to more than SIOO,OOO. Substan
tial gifts he has also made to the Cook
academy at Havana, N. Y.; the Peddie
institute at Hightown. N. J., and Vassar
college, the latter receiving SIOO,OOO.
Some of the Rockefeller donations other
than those to the Chicago University are
these:
When the Rochester university was
joung and the Rochester Theological sem
inary (Baptist) was struggling to gain a
foothold he erected a building for the sem
inary, which is known as Rockefeller hall,
at a cost of SIO,OOO. His benefactions to
the Rochester university and the semin
ary extended over a .considerable period,
amounting in all to about $150,000. He pre
sented Strong hail to Vassar college some
years ago at a cost of $15,000. In 1897 he
erected at Poughkeepsie for the use of
Vassar college a building known as Rock
efeller hall, which cost SIOO,OOO. For years
he is said to have been interested in
Christian missions to Japan and to have
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BY
EMEL JAY
was breathless and cold, pulse gone, heart
still, head dangling forward upon the
chest—not a symptom of life could be de
tected.
The ligatures confining the medium were
quickly cut. the body stretched out upon
the floor and with nitrate of amyl and
other stimulants, together with artificial
respiration the work of resuscitation was
instantly inaugurated.
It was’ several minutes before the first
of the returning pulse could be
detected, but. finally, respiration was es
tablished and life gradually came back
Fully three-quarters of an hour elapsed
before it was deemed prudent to allow
the medium to leave the hotel.
“Well, professor,” said I, “I suppose
this experience was convincing.”
“By no means, sir,” he replied. “I am
not sure, after all, that I saw anything
more than a hallucination conjured up by
expectation. But one thing I will cheer
fully grant you: I was never so scared be
fore in all my life.”
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My old partner in the practice of medi
cine. Dr. John R, Allen, of Kentucky, had
a most beautiful and accomplished daugh
ter. At the time of which I am writing
she was about nineteen years of age and
had but recently returned home from an
eastern boarding school. None of her
family or her large circle of friends sus
pected that she possessed psychic powers.
The young lauy herself was as Ignorant
as the balance.
One autumn evening about 8:30 o'clock,
the doctor and his family were all gath
ered in the sitting room. There was some
talk regarding spiritualism and the won
derful things said to have been done by
medicines, when, in the midst of the con
versation, the daughter said laughingly:
“Papa, let me see if the spirits will really
write for me.” She procured a large
sheet of foolscap paper, placed it upon the
center table under the chandalier with
the gas burning as usual, and then seat
ing herself at the table placed her
hand with a pencil in it at the
head of the paper as though in the act
of writing. Almost immediately the hand
began to move in a jerky way and pres
ently set in to write. The young lady di
rected her gaze to the other side of the
room—not looking at the paper after the
movements began—and laughingly re
marked upon the queer sensations which
she experienced in her arm, hand and fin
gers. *,
Presently the writing movements ceased.
The doctor took up the paper and this is
xj'hat he read:
""Ve are all here in a home together
and little Dossie is with us.
“MARTHA.”
The writing was all joined together.
From the time the pencil began to travel
across tne page until it reachea tire last
letter of the name signed the point had
not been raised from the paper.
Martha was the name of the doctor’s
deceased sister who had passed away
some twenty years before, but who was
“little Dossie?”
Not until the next day and after much
cudgeling of the brain did he remember
that in boyhood he had lost by death an
infant sister, only a week old, who had
received no name but the pet name,
"Dossie.’’ That was half a century be
fore. None of the doctor's own family
had ever heard this name. He himself
felt sure that he had not thought of it
for twenty-five or thirty year*.
I was shown the paper with the*message
upon it next morning, at once grasped
the possibilities which might lie in so
conspicuous a medium. However, aH
tests were barred, the mother moved by
religious scruples securing a promise from
the daughter that she would not lend her
self to any investigations along this line.
(DR.) LUCIUS D. MORSE.
contributed SIOO,OOO annually to their sup
port, in l all $500,000. Once, when Dr. Mac-
Arthur. a Baptist pastor of New York
city, was in straits to carry on the work
of his church (not the one which Rocke
feller attends), he made up a deficit of
SIOO,OOO. »When Barnard college, the wom
an’s branch of Columbia, was in sore need
of SIOO,OOO Rockefeller was approached.
Thirty-five thousand dollars nad been rais
ed. “If you will raise $40,000 more,” said
Rockefeller, “I will give the remainder.”
In less than thirty-six hours the $40,000
was raised and Rockefeller gave $25,000.
When SIIO,OOO was demanded for Barnard
he put his hand in his pocket and con
tributed SIO,OOO. The Kindergarten mission
among the Italians in Cleveland was seen
to need a new building in 1897. His daugh
ter Alta was interested in its work and
Mr. Rockefeller ordered such a building
as she desired erected. It is known as the
Alta house. No exact figures of total cost
have been published, but it is not less
than SIOO,OOO. The American Baptist Home
Mission union found themselves in debt to
the extent of $486,000. On condition that
$236,000 should be otherwise raised John D.
Rockefeller said he would give the bal
ance. The condition was fulfilled and Mr.
Rockefeller contributed $250,000. In 1893
Mr. Rockefeller put up a building for the
Cleveland Young Men’s Christian associa
tion at an expense of $25,000. He gave
$200,0(0 to Oberlin college.
Sheep on thfe Farm.
Wool Market and Sheep.
We frequently hear it stated that sheep
are the most profitable stock on the farm,
and when we take into consideration all
the circumstances I see no good reason for
questioning the truthfulness of the state
ment. Those who carry on the sheep
business extensively find it profitable if
they give it the requisite attention and
skill, while a small flock on nearly every
farm is found to be more profitable. I
believe there is no animal that will con
vert the weeds and wastes that grow on
the farm into money like sheep. They will
eat almost every kind of a weed that
grows, and if they do not clean the fence
corners, lanes and bush patches it is be
cause they do not get a chance. Where
wild mustard has a good hold In a lot
there is no way of exterminating it so ef
fectively and easy as by feeding sheep on
the land. Sheep are also noted for keep
ing up the fertility of the soil. This is a
very important matter and one of the
great advantages in this kind of stock
raising. A pure-bred sheep is always as
good as a grade for the drover or butcher
and an extra good well-bred sheep will al
ways command an extra price. At any
rate the sires used in every flock should
be of some of the pure breeds of sheep.
It is the little extra care and attention to
breeding and feeding that makes the
profit.
Christians in India are increasing in num
bers rapldlv, according to the recent census in
south India, where the Christians now, number
over one million.
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SUGGESTIONS FROM
OUR CORRESPONDENTS
CONSOLIDATION OF
RURAL SCHOOLS
Consolidation is the order of the day.
It prevails in almost every branch of our
body politic. In its mighty grasp it holds
the commercial world and dictates to a
helpless people. It wields over the world
of politics a scepter strong and unyield
ing. In its gigantic folds are held, as
powerless and submissive as a lamb, the
professions of almost every name. In
its aggressive strides revolutions are
wrought and achievements wonderful
accomplished. Its power is unlimited and
its possibilities incalculable. As an en
gine of destruction it is merciless and
complete; of helpfulness, a blessing and
a benediction. In the hands of zeal con
secrated to public weal it becomes a
wealth of blessing; vice versa, a curse
as black as Egyptian darkness.
And now comes a demand sos the con
solidation of rural schools. And the de
mand is the natural offspring of condi
tions. In this, as in other exigencies,
“necessity is the mother of invention.*'
Existing rural conditions unfavorable to
the proper development of the public
school work must be compassed and ren
dered effective; and to meet this demand,
consolidation, with its rich promises of
relief, has been brought prominently to
the front and urged by leading educators
as a remedy par excellence. By reason of
density of population and great aggrega
tion of wealth the cities and larger towns
possess conditions that make possible a
systematic concentration of educational
forces and an economical subdivision of
labor that produce the best results, results
that are hopelessly unattainable in the
country districts in their present and,
what might be denominated, normal con
dition. City consolidation is not the result
of force or legal enactment; it already
obtains, and its rich advantages are se
cured and enjoyed without friction, with
out effort, made possible only by favor
able conditions which cannot possibly ex
ist in the country naturally.
Because it doe* exist naturally in popu
lous centers, no principle is violated in
consequence of City consolidation. In the
realization and enjoyments of its benefits,
no obnoxious paternalistic methods are
practiced to become a menace and stumb
ling block to the sensitive consciences of
burdened tax payer.
Not so in the country. Movements in
rural districts looking to the securing of
conditions that wiU make effective con
solidation a possibility, is met wlth.biind
opposition from about every quarter. The
fact that the necessary conditions, if se
cured at all, must be obtained through
artificial methods, and by departing from
old beaten "paths, and at public expense,
is ground sufficient to justify the bitterest
and most stubborn opposition On the part
of the average citizen. And, strange as
it may seem, no amount of argument fa
voring consolidation will for a single mo
ment be considered. It is urged that the
children of our forefathers “got along
without all this tomfoolery and ours can
do without it.” They are blind to the
promises of improved facilities as a result
of consolidation. They refuse to consider
the increased thoroughness as to results.
They close their eyes to every argument
that would show a stronger and more
efficient school system in consequence
of a judicious consolidation of schools.
These they minify, but the fact that con
solidation is secured through the use of
methods which they consider objectiona
ble is magnified a thousandfold. And
why objectionable? Is it because any
standard of propriety or principle will be
violated? Is It because any methods will
be inaugurated more paternalistic than
those already underlying the free school
system? Nay, verily. Not these; but, re
duced to its last analysis, it is because
the old ruts must be abandoned, new
methods inaugurated.
What unafvorable conditions do we find
in rural districts demanding a change
that would be remedied by consolidation?
Most counties have too many schools—
some of them twice too many. As a re
sult of this the following unhealthy condi
tions obtain:
1. The enrollment in many instances is
too small for the best work. Nothing is
more devoid of wholesome results than
a small one-teacher school lacking in in-
Useful Hints For the Home;
Simple Menus and Recipes
THREE CHEAP MEALS.
Breakfast—Stewed dried peaches, milk
and sugar, fried ham, bakeo potatoes.
Lunch—Soup meat sandwiches, cup
cakes and buttermilk.
Dinner—Bean soup, corn bread, pickles,
veal croquettes with stewed tomatoes, ap
ple pies.
Stewed Dried Peaches—Wash the fruit
thoroughly in several waters. Put it to
soak all day and in the evening stew in
the water in which it soaked until it is
soft. Less than half the time for cooking
is required if the fruit is well swelled be
forehand. Evaporated peaches and apri
cots may be soaked all night and eaten
with milk and sugar without cooking at
an:
Soup Meat Sandwiches —Chop fine the
meat from a soup bone and any other
scraps of cold beef or ham. Season with
pepper, salt and chopped onion, soften
with butter and spread thick between
slices of your good home-made bread.
Bean Soup—Put the beans or peas to
soak at breakfast time. It dinner is to be
at 6 put them to boil at 5. 801 l an hour,
season with salt, pepper and a little butter
and do not strain, as the beans are too
good to throw away. This soup requires
no addition of meat to make it good as
beans and peas have so many properties
common to meat.
Apple Pies—Apple pies should be made
of dried or evaporated fruit stewed and
pressed tnrough a strainer. They may be
served with milk and sugar or flavored
with lemon juice and nutmeg or cinna
mon. The paste should be made in the pro
portion of one part of water and one part
of lard with flour to make a dough. This
is not the richest paste, nor is it so poor
as to be tough.
RECIPE FOR FLANNEL CAKES.
A request for a recipe for flannel cakes
comes frem Mrs. W. H. Shaw, of Car
rollton. Here is one that is very good:
Two teacups of flour, two eggs, a table
spoon of lard, a teaspoon of soda (level),
salt and butter, milk to make a batter.
Beat the eggs well, add the buttermilk and
stir in the flour slowly; melt the lard and
pour it in and beat all well together. Just
before cooking the cakes dissolve the soda
in a little water and stir it into the batter.
Very little grease is needed in cooking
them. -
ANOTHER REQUEST.
Another request comes from Mrs. B. W.
Hunt, of Eatonton, asking for the name
of the baker referred to in this column
of January 4th.
Nathan’s bakery was the one in ques
tion.
WHAT CAUSES CROUP.
Some women will be surprised to |tnow
that common oroup is not caused by
“catching cold” in the ordinary sense of
those words, but is, like pneumonia, due
to congestion. Hence anything that tends
to relax the system is a cure for croup.
This also accounts for the suddenness
with which the attack usually comes on.
terest; wanting in enthusiasm, and with
out any lively competition among pupils.
The teacher, ever so alive on assuming
control of such a school, if he remains
there any length of time, will die of in
ertia. A school so small as not to .re
quire the enforcement of disciplinary
regulations looking to good order and
system is largely a failure and cannot
turn out- men and women who will fight
the battles of life successfully. Consoli
dation will remedy this.
2. The fund prorated among so large a
number of principals reduces the salary
of each to a point below the possibility of
employing the best talent. The country
districts are thus rendered powerless to
compete with the cities and larger town*
in employing teachers and as a conse
quence the better class of teachers turn
their backs upon the country when
searching for employment. Consolidation
will remedy this.
3. The number of school houses to be
built and kept in repair is entirely greater
than good business economy would re
quire. Fewer school building* and better
ones, fitted with proper furniture and
apparatus, would be more in accord with
the spirit of the times and consolidation
will secure this.
4. The employment of more than on*
teacher for a single school is impossible
as well as impracticable under the present
system. The need for more than one may
not be appreciated by the great bulk of
the people, for the want of information
bearing upon the detailed workings of the
schools; but. all the same, the need ex
ists and constitutes one of the most seri
ous problems connected with the work.
The average country teacher may not
have more than twenty-five or thirty pu
pil* enrolled, but the number of classes
to be heard each day will jjot allow mor*
than eight to ten minutes to--each -class
Jn recitation.
As a rule an enrollment of twenty-five
to thirty pupils means at least seven
grades, and with eight branches to teach,
each grade reciting five recitation* a day.
it means thirty-five daily recitations. No
one finite being can take a school of thia
sort and do justice to either himself or
pupils. And yet such conditions must be
tolerated, because after each county’s
quota is divided among so many
each receives barely enough to employ
one teacher. Consolidation is the remedy
for this.
5. Under the present plan the uniform
.classification and gradation of pupils is
impossible. The variety of conditions in
these particulars is limited only by the
number of individual schools. A one
teacher first-class country graded school,
then, as a rule, is impossible. In other
words, without a change in our present
system to meet the rural conditions that
are unfavorable to consolidations, the
country schools need never hope to ap
proach the city schools, but must be con
tent to plod along at a distance consid
erably in the rear.
.Viewed, then, from any standpoint not
beclouded with prejudice, it must be «pn
ceded that consolidation of county
schools is of vast importance. Upon it de*<
pends the success and efficiency of these
schools. Upon it depends the proper and
thorough Instruction of the country chil
dren. Upon it hinges the correction of
most of the evils with which our school
system today is afflicted. Upon it depends
the possibility of graded schools in the
country.
How, then, can consolidation be secured
and made practicable? The transporta
tion of children ko hhd fropi «<ffieol will
secure It. It becomes at once and com
pletely the solution of the question. In
its workings in this and other state* it
has proven practicable and satisfactory,
and has completely aajswered every argu
ment against it? Its coming to stay is a
matter of short time. Why, then, retard
by opposition and doubt the approach of
that which is inevitable?
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, 15 N. Broad street, Atlanta,
Ga. ..
and the ease with which it ir relieved. So
one of the best physicians of Atlanta says,
and he also says that eating too much,
eating improper food, and a lack of fresh
air and exercise are some of the chief
causes of this congestion.
I heard him say thds to a lady of some
intelligence and pretentions, and when he
was gone She said she knew that could not
be so, for sometimes when her children
had croup and she gave Ipecac, she had
seen them throw up a large lump of
phlegm.
I suppose this “phlegm” was a lump of
starchy food which the little stomach had
struggled with in vain and no doubt this
mass of compressed paste was the chief
cause of the congestion. So much has been
said recently against white flour as a food
that it seems everybody would have stop
ped its use by this time. Yet it is still
the chief article of diet in many homes,
and croup is one of the slightest evils
that may be traced to -its use. Crackers
frequently form a leathery substance in
the stomach that can hardly be cut with
a knife; yet crackers are considered by
some people a suitable food for infants.
It is true that rice and potatoes are pure
starch, but they have not the same ten
dency to form in a compact mass that
flour, made into a dough and cooked, has;
and consequently they are • wholesome
while the flour is not. To clog and congest
the system is the tendency of white flour
and so long as it is used as a principal
article of diet a certain kind of diseases
wiP prevail. 8. A. S.
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