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8 I STORIES OF KENTUCKY LIFE By Gov, W. O. Bradley. Copyrighted by Hughes & Ousley, Louisville, Ky. A Kentucky Love Letter. 1“ N the spring of 1875 I was em ployed in an action for slander, instituted in the Rockcastls cir cuit court. The petition alleged that the female defendant had written and published of and concerning the plaintiff that he had poisoned his wife, who had died a short time before. The woman admitted the speaking of the words and charged them to be true. It is unnecessary to repeat all that took place on the trial, though there were many amusing occurrences. In justice to the plaintiff it should be said that the proof showed that the wife had. after having taken a dose of creo sote. been given a glass of vinegar by another than her husband without . any felonious intent, and that the two constituted a deadly poison, from which she died. The defendant under took to show thit the man was In love ( with a young lady and had been trying to obtain her consent to run •way with him and that this was his motive for killing his wife. Among other things the following letter was introduced on the trial and Identified by the man as having been written by him: ••Pinehill. Rockcastle County. October is. is:*. •‘Nancy Jane: •*i am going tew rite tew you won time moarfiew let you no taht I ha not furgot you. and 1 hoop yu hav not fur got me. mi deare. 1 think about you fhoar and enoar awl the tyme. 1 am •orri to think that you have treat me so ml darlin'. it griefs mi hart to think that yu wood be leave what other peo ple say befour you wood belief me. i bas bin a trend to yu awl mi life, and hav alius told yu how to do. and i am agotn tu tri yoar fathe won time more. 1 luve ye mi dartin’ still, and i shall never halt yu. but there is won thing that 1 bait, mi dearey, to think of and that is yu hav treat me so. •1 am a-goin’ tu rite tew you and ask yu tew rite tew me one tiam. and tell me what yu hev hered. plese bonie. •’lf you hev hered that I hev herred yu have hered you heve hered a dinged Ue. I don’t kare who toald it tew yu, ml darlin’. i want yu tew speak tew me, mi bonie. when yu see me. let it be nite or dal. if yu love me 1 no that you can’t bait me. •’now if yu want to go I will tak yu and marrie yu. and bring yu back borne llak a ladle, bonie. An’ 1 want yu tew tell me whether yu told i had asked yoar pappy for yu or ijot. yu told me yu would lovd me if i was the last man in the worl. if yu tnent this, yu aught tew prove it in some way. yu was mistaking when yu told that 1 had asked for yu; i hav not, but can es yu say so. "did you tell thet jon cromer and kid eromer an me had beswaded yu tew go with me, honle. yu must not tauk so much, yu will get even body to halt yu honie. 1 want yu tew tel me what yu want me tew do with them close that i baut fur yu. If yu want them, ml bonie. yu can hev them, fur i love yu. mi darlin. nancy jane. 1 ast yu to let nobodaie sea this letter onlie the wun thet red it tew yu. honie. I want to say tew yu tew give me a gude nalm to evryboddy an i will give yu a good nalm * am shoar tew dew thet much fer yu honie. enyhowe. . •’Now remember it is mortle fer yu to lay this body down tew dye. so mi honie, remember me until yu sea the pail boss of deth an his rider a-comln. and may the lard git yu an the devil mis yu is mi hummle prair, mi honie.** At this point appears a large spot of blood upon the page and the letter con tinues as follows: ••here is bludd. it is frum the sentar of mi hart, i will send it tew yu tew let yu noe thet mi hart is broke in-too, mi darlin. This is the best i can do naow. an Nancy Jain, i want yu tew prae fer me. mi darlin. at hoam an •brawd. 1 am going tew be a gud boy, an I shant say whut yu tole me not tew sae the other da enny more, mt honie. 1 will prae fer yu ml dearie, if 1 cant be with you an hev yu in this worl 1 can meat yu by up in hevvin Miscellaneous. 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Use full address as follows, COOK REMEDY COMPANY, _ 671 Masonic Temple, CHICAGO, ILL, « ‘lf Yu Hev Hered What I Hev Hered Yu Hev Hered Yu Hev Hered a Dinged Lie.’ ” wher partin’ will be no moar, ml honie. so may god bless yu an the deavel mis yu. honie. so hear I will make a round ring o tew shoe yu that mi love fer yu wll neaver end. when this yu sea remember me fer this yu kin sea when yu kant sea me, mi honie. "Nancy Jain 1 will ask yu tew go tew Bud adameses or sam Oweneses and tauk tew me about 10 or 15 min- Its. es yu please mi darlin*. an i want yu to rite tew me, if yu pleas ml honie. Get sistor tew rite it fer yu, god bles yoar sow], mi honie, an tel me some of the questings 1 heve asked yu, ml honie. so 1 must come tew a cloas. 1 kant tel yu haff mi mind, honie. God bles yu, ml dearie, pray fer me'and speake tew me and shaik hands with me mi honie. "Marion to Nanceye Jalne.” < After the defendant had read this letter he was asked by Chas. Klrtley, a little hunchbacked lawyer of won derful acuteness and ability, who was shaped like an interrogation point and whose wit was as keen as a Damascus blade, whether all he said tn that let ter was true. This he answered in the affirmative. "Is the statement that that drop of blood came from the center of your heart true?" asked Klrtley. "No,” gasped the witness. "Then from whence did it come?” demanded Klrtley in the shrillest tone. "I got it outen a chicken’s laig,” re sponded the defendant. It is perhaps proper to add that the plaintiff obtained a verdict for 1 cent damages. Handwriting of Judge Boyd. Judge Boyd, of London, Ky., enjoys the reputation of being a bold, up right and courageous judge. He had but one fault, and that was that his handwriting was very difficult to read. Indeed, a sheet of paper with his chl rogrophy on it presented more the ap pearance of the wanderings of an un fortunate spider that had fallen In an Ink stand than anything else. But like all men who write miserable hands, the judge was extremely sensi tive on thia point, and on one.occasion inflicted a flne upon a lawyer who un dertook to reflect upon his handwrit ing in an argument before the Jury. In the case immediately following. Elijah Hurst, of the Pineville bar, in attempt ing to read the Instructions of the court, found himself involved in a hopeless labyrinth. Not desiring to meet a fate similar to the attorney who had just preceded .him, he re marked to the jury: "Gentlemen, I am not able to read Judge Boyd’s writing, not because he does not write well—because we all know to the contrary—but on account of a serious defect in my education.” Judge Craddock’s Retort. Judge George W. Craddock was a famous lawyer and Democratic politi cian of Frankort. He was the origi nator of the title conferred on Gen. Grant. "The Man on Horseback." He was a very stow, deliberate man, well balanced, learned, and generally speak ing. good natured. He was noted for great tardiness of speech. At the same bar was Judge Thomas M. Lindsay, father of Gen. Dan. Lindsay, another lasp-er of distinction, a most persistent lighter, who never failed when he lost a case to ask for a new trial and, if re fused, who generally took a successful appeal. . < On the last day of one of the terms of the court, when nothing was being done except that the clerk was now entering the orders, the judge anti bar, for amusement, organised themselves into a sort of convention, making motions and speeches. At length Judge Craddock got the floor and commenced one of his deliberate and painfully slow harangues. Judge Lindsay be coming worn out with him, quickly arose and said: "Sit down Craddock, when the judge ment day comes, the Lord will admit you into Heaven rathen than be in flicted with your unending defence of past actions." A roar of laughter followed this sal ly. For the only time in life the voice and manner of Judge Craddock were accelerated. He turned quickly. "Yes. Tom Lindsay," he responded, "and what will happen to you? Your defense will fall and the Lord will con demn you, but the last that will be heard of you then as now. will be that, failing in a motion for a new trial,’ you will pray an appeal to the Court of Appeals.” An Interruptious Old Daddy. "Billy Moore,” as he was familiarly called in Somerset, w'as one of the most remarkable men Kentucky ever pro duced. He read no books, and did not apply himself in any way. but never theless now and then astonished the best lawyers with some unique defense. Attorney General James apd Major Bradley once instituted an action for breach of promise for a very deserving THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 3, X902.’ [ HANDWRITING OF JUDGE BOYD. $ [ JUDGE CRADDOCK’S RETORT. g [ AN INTERRUPTIOUS OLD DAD- g ! DY—A KENTUCKY LOVE STORY. •:• young lady against a wealthy young man In the Pulaski circuit court. They expected a large verdict in the case. When Moore filed an answer, they re tired to the jury room to examine it and found it to be in these words: "The defendant admits that he promised to marry the plaintiff at the time • and place mentioned in the petition, and this he says he wquld have done but for the intermeddling of that Interrup tious old rascal, her daddy. He is ready, willing, able and anxious to carry out the contract, and hereby of fers to discharge same and tenders himself In open court for that pur pose. The result was that the couple were married and the attorneys for plaintiff recovered no fee. Find Bostrom’s Improved Farm Level advertisement and see what you get free. WELCOME GEORgTa INTO THE TEMPERANCE LINE. The governor of Georgia has just sent Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, superintendent for World’s and National Woman's Temper ance Union of Boston, the pen with which he signed the last of these laws now pass ed by the legislatures of every one of the forty-five states of the United States and by the national congress, all of which re quire temperance physiology to be taught all pupils in all schools under the state and federal control. So says The New York Sun. "Is it true?” Governor Candler was ask ed. "Yes, a little girl a steed me for the pen, and I gave tt to her.” “And it was sent to Mrs. Hunt?” "Yes. it was sent to her.” “Well, it was a good thing that pen did. Governor,” remarked the woman at the other end of the phone. “Yes, it is a good movement. The only thing I don’t like much about it is the great prominence the*people there have given to the fact that Georgia is the last state to fall In that temperance edu cation line. There’s no use throwing that at us and so often!” As a matter of fact 'Georgia, grand in so many respects, is slow to act in these reforms. Even those who love her best must acknowledge that and wish it were not so. This temperance education movement was started in Vermont nearly twenty years ago. It was through the instru mentality of one devoted woman aided by noble workers, especially the Wom an's Christian Temperance Union, the first temperance education law in the world was enacted in Vermont. As state after state placed similar laws upon its statute books, they were represented in white on the map of the United States as an object lesson, while the rest of the union was drawn in black. A company of distinguished people gathered informally in Mrs. Hunt’s par lors Saturday evening. January 25th, to witness the removal of this last "black cap” from the national map, and to wel come Georgia to the white sisterhood thus made complete. Delightful reminiscent speeches on all phases of the work were in order, and congratulatory letters were read from Mrs. Stevens, president of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Livermore, Governor Candler of Georgia, who as a member of the house committee on education in 1886. gave valuable aid in securing the national temperance education law. and others. This study that gives with other laws of health the scientific reasons for total ab stinence is now legally engrafted upon the educational system of this entire country, and is. fast spreading to other lands. Its beneficent results, already manifest in the greater sobriety of the American work ingman, and in the Increased length of human life, are destined to become more and more apparent. Their thorough en forcement will mean a new generation of citizens too wise to stultify themselves with intoxicants, and thus the peaceful solution, through education, of the tem perance problem. Don’t tie the top of your * 'PtL Jolly and preserve Jars in (Ml c? tboold fashioned way. Seal jk -- f thorn by the now, quick, a. -7” J absolutely sure way—by ■ « J* a thin coating of Pure Refined Paraffine. Has ■. w? 1 V taoto or odor. Is L* a,r ti?ht and acid Ift. • F? proof. Easily npplled. K Hr ' Useful in adozen other 1 ways about the house. )/? K Full directions with I VWc • each Sold everywhere. Made by » STANDARD OIL CO. EjsSlißH There was more hay grown at the south the past season, ir*is safe to say, than ever before in her history. Many a farmer can look with pride on his full barns and numerous hay stacks. He has a very comfortable feeling as he sees the price of hay and corn mounting higher, for he knows that even if his cotton does not bring what he expected he will be all right anyway. But while the south has produced this year a comparatively large crop of hay, the Industry is yet in its infancy. The majority of our Tanners do not yet real ize that hay can be grown more profitably than cotton, or that it can be made to fill out a rotation which will help to increase the yield of cotton per acre. As a rule it is not considered good econ omy to sell hay off the farm as the crop carries with it a large amount of plant food. At ordinary prices it would un doubtedly pay better to feed the hay to cattle on the farm and return to the soil the grater part of the plant food in the manure. At present’ prices, however, it will pay better to sell the hay, and even in ordinary times we can make hay very profitable as a market crop. While it Is true that it removes a large amount of fertility, the crop helps the land by preventing it from washing and leaching, thus* utilizing a large amount of fertility which would otherwise be lost. This is especially true on those crops which hold the land in winter, such as the Gray Winter or Turf oats. These oats make excellent hay if cut when in bloom, and they do well on any ordinary up-land. We sold them last spring in Atlanta at 118.00 per ton, and the price will undoubt edly be still higher this year. The fertility removed from the soil by a ton of this oat hay is as follows: nitro gen. 23.8 pounds; phosphoric acid, 13.4 pounds, and potash, 50.8 pounds. The ni trogen used by this crop would in a large measure have leached out of the soil and been lost with the winter rains if the oats did not use it. It is worth on the market about 15 cents per pound and therefore the $3 57 worth of this element used by the oats is really saved, instead of removed from the soil. The othfer two elements of plant food are not so expensive, being Great Opportunities At the South For the Farmer. BY F. J. MERRIAM. The south is just now entering upon that stage of her industrial development which offers to the farmer a golden oppor tunity. The influx of capital and its In vestment in manufacturing enterprises is giving employment to labor at good wages and creating, a market for all kinds of food supplies. The money brought into our territory for this purpose, together with that received for our cotton, peach and melon crops constitutes the bulk of our income. Now what becomes of It? Does It remain In the pockets of our farmer, laborer or business men? Are the savings of these individuals increas ing more rapidly than heretofore, or is the money paid out and sent away to pur chase those commodities which we require, but which are produced in other portions of the country? So far as the farmer is concerned he is in as bad a sis as when cotton was 5 cents a pound. The advance in the price of cotton has not kept pace with that of other things he has to buy and he is find ing himself in an embarrassed and help less condition.He hardly knows what to do or which way to turn. In many cases he is unable to provide for his laborers, and they are leaving him. He is told to con centrate his efforts, but how? He has never done any intensive farming. • The idea of making a good living, on 25 or even 50 acres of land appears to him who has been accustomed to cultivate hundreds as ridiculous, if not impossible. While It is true that Georgia has a large number of successful farmers scattered here and there over the state they are but a drop in the bucket compared with the great majority, a large part of whom never even see a farm paper. How to reach this latter class and instill into them fresh enterprise and show them how to successfully take hold of new lines of farm work Is the question which presents itself to the intelligent people of Georgia During a Conversation with ex-Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, when on his visit to Georgia, the question was asked him, “What ought we to do in this emergen icy?” Replying the governor said, "Your conditions here in Georgia are very simi lar to those which confronted us in Wis consin before we started our farmers’ in stitutes and agitated the subject of dairy ing. The principal difference is that you grow cotton and we grow wheat. The only way that I know of reaching the mass of the farmers is by word of mouth through these farmers’ institutes. That is the way we did It and the movement :: GREATER SPEED :: :: THAN EVEN TIME:: •• • > •• « t (I • » • • Marvelous Invention • • IVhich Has pjev> t <• < > ;; olutionized Tel* I ’ ;• egraphy and Is ;; Perfected. * • ; I BY ROYAL DANIEL. ’ J How far we may talk is no longer a question of Interest with scientific men. It has already been demonstrated that we can communicate with all points with in reach of any wire, with the promise from Marconi that a message, in no long while, may be transmitted to the ends of the world and back by sound waves. It is now the question of how fast we can get the messages through to their destination. How can time be saved? How quick can the answer come back? These are the problems that are now before the electrical wizards of the age. There are doubtless several persons in Georgia who remember when thirty miles a day was good time for the deliv ery of a message. That was in the earli est days of mall transportation by rider. When the roads were fairly good even fifty miles were made between suns, vV hen steam came into practice and trains hur ried along at a twenty-five-mlle-per-hour gait, the old Inhabitants believed that the climax in transportation of messages had been reached. The telegraph, born fifty years ago. brought the speed of delivery to ten words a minute! That was ’ tart,,n K ’ l " t - The operators became better acquainted with the key and graduAly the speed was increased unt’J a few >’ ears as Pr _ first telegraph it was P°’ s,b,e . , messages at the rate of twenty- . thirty words per minute by hand so that the operator at the other end of the wire could not read the dots «nd dashes and was compelled to depend entirely up on the tape. „ _ ... Even ten years ago twenty-five or - ty words a minute was remarkable time. It’is a good record now by hand, but was not fast enough for the demands o the times. .Wires cost too much money and salaries were too heavy to permit of any leisure In the telegraph business An Inventive genius came along and said he believed he could fix up the wires and Hay Growing At the South. BY WM. R. MERRIAM, DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS. worth only about five cents per pound. They are seldom leached out of any soil and may. therefore, be considered as re moved by the crop. Os the two, potash constitutes by far the largest amount of the plant food removed. We can. how, ever, well afford to return to the land in the shape of a chemical fertilizer the $3.11 worth of fertility represented by the phos phoric acid and potash, especially on a crop which pays as Veil as a hay crop. Another advantage of tfae oat crop for hay is that it can be harvested in time to sow the land to cow peas and thus grow two hay crops on the same land inside of twelve months. The oats also come in in June and reach the market at a time when the price 6f hay is at its highest point. At this time it will sell for as much as timothy at other seasons. With the cow pea the principal element of plant food removed from the soil is nitrogen. A ton of this hay contains $5.85 worth of it, but it cannot be claimed that this is really removed from the land, for the cow pea obtains its nitrogen from the air and actually leaves the soil rich er in this element than it found it, even though the vines are cut and removed from the land. There is also about $1.47 worth of potash and 25 cents worth of phosphoric acid removed in a ton of this hay, or with a crop of two tons per acre, about $4 worth of fertility. The main thing in growing those hay crops profitably for market is to see that the mineral elements in the soil are kept supplied. If the cow pea hay crop is well fertilized each year with at least 600 pounds per acre of a fertilizer analyzing 10 per cent phosphoric acid and 10 per eent potash, and the oat crop is also fer tilized in a similar manner, there will be a steady gain in the fertility of the land while producing paying crops of hay. If your soil is a very stiff red clay the potash in the above fertilizer may be reduced about one-half, as such land contains more potash than loamy or sandy soils. It is needless to say that the land for these crops must be thoroughly prepared. We cannot expect results from the appli cation of fertilizers on land which is merely scratched over. There is one thing which is just as necessary as fertili- has been wonderfully successful.” To give the reader some idea of the practical nature of these institutes I give below a letter from Mr. O. C. Gregg, su perintendent of Farmers’ Institutes in the state of Minnesota. Mr. Gregg is consider ed one of the best institute managers in this country. His letter is as follows: LYND, Lyon Co., Minn., Dec. 26, WOL F. J. Merriam, Esq., Battle Hill, Ga. Dear Sir: We acknowledge receipt of your letter dated the Hth instant. I sin cerely hope that your state will pass a bill for the maintenance of farmers’ insti tutes, because I have great faith in the future of this country provided improved agriculture is advanced as it should be. We have our mines and manufactures, but we must care for our soil and be as great in agriculture as in everything else. Our Institutes have had such an effect in our state and the measure of confi dence has grown in the work that at the present time the legislature adds to our fund from session to session in accord ance with our wishes. When we first com menced our work it was a fight in the legislature, but that has become a thing of the past. As a result of the institute work it ia safe to say that the improved agriculture, which includes dairying, fruit raising, rotation of crops, improvement of cattle, and kindred topics has been greatly stimulated and there is an awak ening along this line all over the state of Minnesota. Our audiences are continu ally larger and there is a growing inter est in the work by reason of the work done upon the institute platform. We would not, of course, state this to be the only cause, but every one recognizes It to be one of the great causes ty which this desired result has been attained. I cite one individual Instance. The ’ general freight agent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad asserts without hesi tancy that the increase of dairy work which has brought the increase of cream eries along the line of their road has of Itself been of sufficient value to fully re imburse the state for all the money that ever has been expended over the whole state at large. I also cite one letter lately received from a single farmer, who said that by reason of the institute work and its teachings he had during the past year received SI,OOO more for his farm than he otherwise would have received. I could multiply cases, but these two will serve as samples of the testimony that we have received. The improvement in agriculture has advanced real estate decidedly. The business men of our state without excep tion, so far as I know, back the Institute charge the battery and make certain kind of Instruments that would hurry things along. He was not taken seriously at first, since the best operators could not in crease their speed, and who ever heard of a wire doing more than • the operator could ?l But this young man went to work while others laughed. He constructed what is now known as the “quadruplex,” mean ing, the name implies, four. Four men work a “sqiad” at each end, making eight men on a single wire and four mes sages at the same time. How the same wire carries four messages at one and the same time is still a mystery with the men who do the work. The made it possible for one wire to carry four times as much as It had ever done before. In other words. It increased the speed ca-/ paclty of a single wire to 100 words per minute. This was a saving of three wires. A wire is supposed to be worth about S2O a year per mile. To build a new wire from Atlanta to New York would mean as. outlay of about $50,000. Thtis it will be seen the great economy in saving wires by making one wire do the work of sev eral. "The “quad” was good enough as far as it went, but there was a growing de mand for haste in the delivery of busi ness. A few weeks ago the Western Un ion office in Atlanta found it had more business than wires. There are always a surplus of operators, but wires are too busy. Then it was determined to put in a very expensive and delicate instrument, known to the telegraph world as the “wheat stone.” This Instrument, or set of instru ments, is now in operation in Atlanta. It is one of the wonders of the present cen tury. Its speed is 250 words per minute—a speed so great that the instrument works perfectly noiselessly, there being no time for the "Bounder” to respond. It defies in its speed all human energy find skill to compete with it. The messages to be sent are handed a corps of men who punch the Morse char acters on a tape. The punching requires long practice and absolute correctness. The tape, after being perforated with nu merous large punches and small ones, is inserted in the transmitter of the machine. A switch is thrown, opening the circuit and then the wire catches up the dots and dashes and hurls it to New York, or-where ever the wires ends, at the phenomenal rate of 1,160 words every four minutes." To keep the “Wheatstone” busy, eight men are required to make the tape ready and two men are necessary to feed the machine. Ten men could send the same amount of business by hand, but it would require ten wires, if each were at a single wire, or It "quads” were worked, it would take two of the latter a “duplex.” By the new labor-saving device many thousands of dollars will be saved annually In wire construction and maintenance. Gradually the brain of the telegraph op- zer to a crop, and that is water, and un less our land is broken deeply and worked fine it will not hold yater. This tillage also makes a comfortable bed for the plants to grow in and helps to liberate the dormant plant food in the soil. With proper attention to preparation and fertilization we should be able to grow easily four tons of hay per acre in one year, two tons of pea vine hay and two tons of oat hay, or in the neighbor hood of these amounts; some crops may run over and some under, according to the season. At $lB per ton. and these hays will easily sell for that, if not mpre, this coming spring, we have a gross income from one acre of land of $72 per year. With such figures as these we can easily afford to fertilize and prepare our land in the best possible manner. Os course if the hay is to sMI readily it must be cut at the right time, well cured and neatly packed in uniform sized bales. The trade demands this, ar.d in fact it is the only way in which hay can be profitably handled. There are numbers of excellent hand and horse hay presses on the market, and any farmer who con templates growing hay should have one. I have given here the two crops which seem to me, judging from the experience I have had with them, to give the best chance for successful hay growing oa our southern uplands. And not the smallest item of advantage is the fact that under their culture as I have outlined, the land will continue to grow richer from year to year, and the crops larger. It may be advisable in some instances to rotate these crops with cotton and corn, but they can be grown in the same land year after year with the most beneficial results, one crop coming off in time to plant the next and both contributing to the preservation and improvement of the soil. If your subscription has expired and you wish to get our next issue send us a money order or register us sl, select your premium, and your subscription will be renewed for one year. Don’t delay. without qualification. VeYy truly yours. O. C. GREGG. Now why should Georgia be behindhand in this great movement for the education of her . farmers? Mr. Gregg says, truly, that we must care for our soil if we hope to be as great in agriculture in thia coun try as we are in everything else. Our supremacy, however, along this line can only cOme through education. Intelligent work is the only kind that pays. The time is particularly opportune for a work of this kind to be started in our state, because there are so many lines along which t|ie farmer may profitably di rect his efforts. The writer recently took dinner with a friend In Atlanta and was struck by the conspicuous absence of Georgia product, on the table. The steak came from Kansas City, the Irish pota toes from North Dakota, the flour -of which the bread was made was ground in Ohio, while the butter my friend buys comes from a creamery in Illinois; the sweet corn was grown and canned in In diana; only the sweet potatoes could claim Georgia as their native state. Go Mown to your grocery store, friends, and take a look around. How many among the multitude of food products of fered for sale will you And produced in Georgia. And yet our farmers have the advantage of this market which must pay high freight rates on these commodities frorti other pasts. I claim, and I think every thinking man will admit th%t it is high time some concerted jetton was tak en in regard to this matter, A great many of these things which we are now purchasing In other parts of the country can be produced here successfully. We can raise our meat, flour, butter, potatoes, everything which my friend had for din ner can be grown In Georgia successfully and profitably—possibly with the excep tion of the coffee. Then why not do it? The matter must necessarily be one of education. There is a great opportunity awaiting the farmer in Georgia, but we need the farmers’ institute to point out the way. Fpr $1.40 we will send The Semi- 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 da lay. erator is being substituted fer his brawn. He can accomplish more, in these days of electrical advancement and phenomena, by thinking than he can by plodding. In years gone by tne operator who could re main longest at his key and pound the hardest and fastest was the highest paid and most appreciated. Now the intelligent, thinking man. who can abbreviate words and curtail sentences without destroying their meaning, is the particularly sought after. To spell out and send thirty words a minute is a flne average for hand send ing today. But an operator who can do nothing more than this would find him self all alone. He must do more. In send ing thirty words, the human hand makes many times one hundred and fifty Morse characters, sometimes as many as a thou sand, for he must not only make the letters, but each letter is composed of several characters. The letter “p,” for instance, is five dots. To make a period the operator makes six characters on his key. In spelling out the word “have” eleven dots and dashes are necessary." 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Sienkiewicz came to Amer ica about the middle of September. 1876, with a party of thirty Polish immigrants, not such as we usually picture to oup selves as landing at New York, but ladies and gentlemen of culture, many of them persons of national reputation in Poland. They had been imbued with a desire to live in the land of liberty by Modjeska and her husband. Count Bozenta. And in due time they found themselves in ths beautiful Santa Ana Valley. Here they lived in perfect contentment, but In time their funds grew low. and one after an other they drifted back to Poland, Sien kiewicz among them, leaving behind only the great actress. A Girl’s Letters Are Private Property. "Do you think a girl’* letters should be the common property of the whole family? Th* letters other girls write her read aloud, com- mented upon, and made fun of because she is only sixteen?" Indeed I do not think so. 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