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For the Mission Basket—Court Plaster
Cases.
There are many little articles that can
be prepared for the mission sale an<J find
wllitnc buyers if one only has a largo
emount of that sift-called ingenuity. The
odds and ends can be turned to good* ac
count by the woman who “knows how.”
Court piaster in dainty cases will find
ready sale and can be made as follows:
Fill a large mouthed bottle half full of
tslng glass, then fill nearly full of the
best whiakv and let stand until dissolved.
Vse black silk, fine white linen And
cream and flesh colored silk If desired for
the foundation. With a soft brush ccver
the material with two or three coats of
the solution, letting it dry thoroughly be
tween the coats. Cut to the required sire.
1 1-2x2 1-2 inches is about right, and place
five sheets hi each case.
Cases for the court plaster may be
made of celluloid cut the desired si*-.
" hand painted and laced together with silk
cord or ribbon. Some may be covered
with; silk or satin and an initial embroid
ered on one side. Cases for gentlemen
may be made of cardboard or the cellu
loid frem discarded cuffs, covered with
kid The cuffs may be well cleaned with
warm peartine suds, then cut In the shap*
of an envelope, and. after heating with’ a
warm flat iron, folded and pressed in th.'
desired shape with the iron. Have regdy
a piece of kid from an old glove cut the
same shape as the celluloid, brush the
celluloid with gluo and immediately cover
it with the kid. smoothing it carefully to
remove any wrinkles or creases. When
dry and hard trim neatly any that may
project beyond the edge qf the celluloid.
Color the kid any color desired by apply
ing a solution of diamond dye with a
small sponge or brush.
. A blue case may have the edges of the
envelope, where one laps over the other,
••dabbled" with diamond gold paint. On
the front of the envelope put diagonally
with the gold paint the words. "I cur? all
wounds but those of love.” or "I’ll stick
by you.” One may have the label ‘‘Stick
to-tt-lveness."
After the case is decorated fasten all
but one flap by‘applying a little glue and
pressing with a warm iron.
PRISCILLA.
—— ——
Stock in the Philippines.
The horses are ‘very small, and were
brought there from Mexico. Spain and
China, but the work animal is the buf
falo. found in the islands by the Span
iards
It is large, strong, easily managed and
indispensable to the country. So much
of the country is under water during the
rainy season, that there would be little
travel except for the buffalo. They ford
large rivers and work in marshy lands.
A buffalo is broken to work at four or
five years old. and lives to 30. It feeds
voraciously and drinks often. The com
mission reports a million and a half of
_these animals on the Islands. It does all
the agricultural work and hauling, traffic
of the eouatry.
Sheep are not suited to the climate,
goats do better in the hills than sheep. A
great many pigs are raised, the Chinese
breeds. Almost all the families raise a
pig. while chickens and turkeys arc
scarce.
Doubtless all tropical vegetation will
flourish tn the Philippines, but it will be
years probably before the newly imported
plants, that will be sent over, can make
a decided impression on the exports of the
country.
As soon as the natives are taught the
use of labor-saving machines there will be
seen a vast difference In conditions.
There is estimated to be territory about
the size of Italy, and a Ittle less than
England and Ireland.
It would seem that the United Stites
paid a large price for this wilderness of
marshy lands and neglected wilderness of
wood and vines.
Duck-Raising in the Philippines. i
Duck eggs are hatched in a novel why.
They are placed in layers on rice husks
and covered with bags containing husks
also. The latter are heated every day
to keep up the proper temperature. Just
before hatching time tne eggs are spread
out on a table, covered to exclude a strong
Mxht. and as the young ducks batch out
they are collected in baskets until they
dry off. and then the feeding process be
gins. Rice Is boiled soft, and mixed th
the meat of small crabs. JThe little ones
have a pen. floored with woven cane, and
as they grow they are turned into little
enclosed ponds, where they paddle and
feed The older ducks are fed on rice in
the husk
The male birds are sold in market, but
the females are kept for eggs.
Thunder Storm* and Snow.
A fewvnights sinfce I was awakened from
sound sleep by toe patter of sleet on the
roof and against the windows. I raised
up in bed to look at the fireplace (for we
generally prepare for next morning by
ebvertng up a good sired stick of oak
wood with the coals* and sure enough the
sleet was coming down the chimney and
hissing on the hot embers.
As I listened the thunder rolled heavily
in the south, and soon the lightning began
to flash like mid-summer storms. I de
cided to light a lamp and stir up a bl**e
because sieet and thunder storms are not
generally due at the same time. While
I was opening up the coals a steely blue
- flash filled the room, and a stunning crash
of thunder came at the same instant, and
strange to say. after the thunder blap
there was no more snow or sleet, but the
weather developed into a small melting
shower later on.
The deepest snow I ever saw in the
south was accompanied by low. mutter
ing thunder as a starter, but the thunder
died away and the snow plied up every-
■W J to l° ve children, and no
Wilk/ mft ■* 9ft Xn HP home can be completely
happy without them, yet the
ordeal through which the ex<
pectant mother must pass usually is
I so °f su^er ‘ n b r > danger and fear
that she looks forward to the critical
* hour with apprehension and dread.
Mother’s Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties,
ail ays nausea, nervousness, and all unpleasant feelings, and
so prepares the system for the
ordeal that she passes through /fr % (fa
the event safely and with but gßj E
little suffering, as numbers ’.TBX” "■ WrE
have testified and said, “it is ’
worth its weight in gold.” st.oo per hT STU 1 4j| fl X|
bottle of druggists. Book containing B g'
valuable information mailed free. 21 I
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. Ga.
where during the following night.
One of the heaviest thunder atorms I
ever witnessed, when our piasxa Was Ht
i erally covgred with the shivered bark (
from a green giant oak tree in the back
yard, came upon us in January, shortly
after noon one day. The shock of the
lightning bolt was terrific, and the flash
wax described by one whodsaw it as a
ball of fire falling In the tree top and
rending the body of the tree In twain.
But it is not a frequent occurrence to
see snow and lightning, or snow and thun
der, in the midwinter months. It seems to
be out of season, if it is not really a
strange occurrence, at that time of the
year.
Chicken-Eating Sow* Will Eat Pig*.
Dear Mrs. Felton:
I have just read with much interest your
article on “Pigs." As you artt for infor
mation. I will give you my experience
with chicken-eating sows.
They will always eat their pigs. I have
been obliged to kill some vety fine Berk
shire sows on account of eating their
pigs, and I have never known one to be
broken of the habit.*
When I read your previous letter about
your fine sow’s liking for chickens I felt
sure she would eat up her own pigs. The
only’ way that I know to*break*her of tjie
habit is to kill her.
My wife raised one by hand, as you are*
doing, and it was the finest pig 1 ever saw.
Her plan was to feed a little at a time,
but often.
1 enjoy reading your letters very much.
I continue to take The Semi-Weekly for
your letters more than everything else. I
do appreciate yot*r kind words of cafnfort
and advice. Surely! I need all the help I
can get to help me to raise the six prec
ious ones God has given to us<
May you be spared for many, many
years of usefulness, is the wish of
A PLAIN YOUNG FARMER.
(Perhaps’this is a good time, and place
to tell our 'readers how I prospered with
the two young pigs that I rescued from
the pig-eating sow-motner.
Both did finely until a gawky lout of a
darky servant let a stick of wood fall on
one and killed it—much to my regret. The
survivor, which answers to the name of
"Bobs,” named after the British Lord
Roberts, who was too smart for poor Oom
Paul, down in South Africa, is a blooming
specimen of the royal Duroojfersey thor
oughbred pig He is the-smartest young
animal I ever petted in my life. He is as
nimble with his feet as a v girl’s fingers on
a. typewriter, and never fails to respond
when he sees me or hears my voice. He
eats and sleeps well, and has learned to
jump up steps like a cat.
He Is eating his “white bread.” as the
saying goes, for he must be shut out
whenever the severe weather ceases. He
is a perfect beauty of a pig. yes I
knqw I can never break him from-coming
to the whenever he gets a chance, if I
keep him here at home. 1 must either
give him- away’ or sell the little \fellow
into some kind home, which I aim to do.
Like my farmer friend. I-know now that
little baby pigs can be entirely raised ty
hand. It is a tough experience for several
days, until they do learn to drink from a
shallow pan, but they are all right after
they once learn to feed themselves.
If n© accident befalls “Bobs" Jie will
make a magnificent thoroughbred stock
heg for whoever gets him.—Editress.)
Young Sows Often Eat Their Pigs.
Mrs., Dr. Felton, Cartdrsvllle, Ga.:
I see the old sow is eating the pigs and
you ask for a remedy to prevent it. I
beg to suggest that you use a wire mul
ti? made to fit with a ring in each aide so
a leather collar can be run through it
around the neak and fastened with a
buckle. She can eat or sug the slop
through It. Or put her in a cage Inside
the pen with a partition to it to shut her
off from the pigs, leaving the sides open
so they can suck. Give sow a good feed
of beef blocd or tripe. After four to six
weeks you can give her the run of the
pasture with the pigs. Young sows often
eat their first litter of pigs. Respectfully,
W. H. WALKER.
Chamblee. Ga., Jan. 27. lfo2.
Raw Beef for Brcod Sows.
Dear Mrs. Felton:
In your department in The Atlanta
Journal of the 23d ult.. you gave us an
experience you had with an unnatural
hog that made way with her young pigs,
ar.d requested suggestions of treatment,
tte.
' A few months past I had a similar ex-;
perlence with a fine Berkshire, and recol
lected reading many years ago in the
Southern Cultivator where It was recom
mended to give some raw beef at short
intervals for a few weeks before the lit
tering time. I am now using the btef
treatment on my offender and confidently
expect good results.
E. L. McTYNtf. M.,D.
Thomasville, Ga.
The Journal Has Wide Circulation.
FORT PIERCE. Fla.. Jan. 24. 1902.
Mrs. W. H. Felton:
Dear Madam—The note I white you In
regard to shallott bulbs is certainly bring
ing forth, not fruit, but shalloft bulbs in
plenty. I find that Georgia is full of them.
I find furthermore that The Atlanta Jour
nal has a wide circulation. With many
thanks for your kindness, I am very
truly. J. T. GRAY.
P. S.— As an advertising medium The
Journal has no superior. A friend of mine
had two pairs of turkeys to dispose of.
Inside of a week at least two doxen appli
cations came in. Could have sold that
many pairs inside of a week.
MRS. FELTON.
Sows Eating Pig*.
“Dear Madam—l have bred and sold
Dursc Jersey hogs for a number of years.
I I must spy they are a fine kind of hogs.
■ I had a fine sow that farrowed eight or
ten pigs. She began eating them the next
mornings. As soon as I discovered what
she was doing I got the head of a large
hog which was salted down and gave it to
her. She never ate another pig. Take from
the bed immediately all dead pigs, and
they will not take up the habit of eating
their own. Truly and respectfully.
“X. X.”
The gold mines of Mysore, India, are worked
by American electrical devices, the power be
ing from the melting Himalayan enow.
IHE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, Oh-OKGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1902,
What Are Women To Do?
SHALL WE VOTE?
BY BELLE ALLEN ROSS.
I was rocked in a Confederate cradle,
in dradle of the Confederacy, so of
course I cannot go back to the full round
one hundred years.
Tradition and lingering memories from
voices of the fading past, whisper south
ern chivalry and a beautifully rouijded
womanhood that cannot be surpassed, if
equalled.
All sorts and conditions of life has
changed woman’s sphere. Not so much
in the south by the march of commerce
as by the march of the "two-step” do
.mestlc. unbleached, not a yard wide, but
guaranteed a little wool. In other words,
plain English—the negro.
Our homes are fuller of occupations
today than ever before. This is a self
evident truth. It needs no word demon
stration. How wonderful is the south
ern woman, who can and does today
seise occupations one by one and master
them with her own hands and active
brain. We will never run out of a job,
we will always find something to do. It
is a lamentable and undisputed fact, wo
men do throw men out of work. Are we
not today where we dared not tread,
years ago? Why is this? Life is more real
and woman’s high sense of honor, con
scientious scruples, ability and lastly the
cheap pay thus scales wages. The busi
ness avenues are broadening daily for
women, so many a man has to hustle to
get a place and ’to keep it. There are
but few women in the south who have
gone out into the business world for pin
money. Necessity in the grim guise of
death or disease at home has made it so.
God bless the woman who goes out to
tattle for a living thus heavy-hearted.
The smile may be there, but it is only
“skin deep,” its seat is not In the heart.
Why is it the salary is not equal pay.
Merit and not sex should be the stand
ard.
“Genius knows no sex." j
Why. should commerce? ,
How long before this condition of af
fairs is changed? There is no echo—not
a sound. _ ..
It is far better to let the man of the
house go and make the full salary than
for him to divide it by one-third with
the woman who goes to help; unless it
be that necessity drive her. .
What are women to do?
Why we have so much to do we can
hardly get there.
Even the rural sisters are “double step
ping” for their country’s cause. Charity,
In glancing over a late issue of The
Union Signal, the official organ of the
National Womfn’» Christian Temperance
union. I read the announcement that the
34th annual convention of the National
Woman’s Suffrage association would be
held in the First Presbyterian church of
Washington, D. C.. February 12 to 18, 1902.
This paper has always good words to
say for the Suffrage association, which is
not surprising, for every state YT. C. T. U.
has adopted the franchise department rec
ommended by the National W. C. T. U.,
except six southern state unions, and they
are afraid to do so because the preachers
are so’ “down on” woman suffrage.
The wopderful thing to me is that a
Presbyterian church should open Its doors
to Aunt Susan B. Anthony and her de
voted followers.
But why wonder, when in the latest
daily paper we read that the Presbyterian
committee on 'creel revision declared, on
February Bth, that no man is condemned
except on the ground of his sin, and there
is no damnation for babies.
Then, we all know the Methodist Epis
copal churchmen have lately voted that
women can serve as delegates in the gen
eral conferences, and women members of
the Episcopal church can vote for vestry
men.
It is a far call from the time when
Surtullian declared “Woman Is every one
a devil!” to this day and time, when wo
men compose three-fourths of the church
members and the same proportion of
school tpachers. while more than three
fourths of the criminals in our prisons are
men.
In a series of sermons on “The IX oman
of the Future.” lately preached by Rev.
Dr. Herbert Foss, successor of Bishop
Simpson, of the Arch Street Methodist
church, of Philadelphia, he discussed the
question. ’’Ought Woman to Have Full
Suffrage?" In part. Dr. Foss said:
“It is those women who are fighting the
evils of society, the devoted Christians,
who favor the right to cast the ballot.
They are doing it. not because of notori
ety, but because they see in it the only
Useful Hints For the Home;
Simple Menus and Recipes
RECIPES.
Oysters on Toast.—Wash a pint of oys
ters. Put the liquor to boil with a half
teacup of milk and salt and pepper to
taste. When this bolls thicken with a
teaspoon.of flour rubbed smooth In a ta
blespoon of cold milk. Drop in the oys
ters and when the mixture boils again
take off and pour over six thick pieces of
toast.
Minced Chicken.—Grind the meat from a
chicken together with a few scraps of cold
roast or soup meat. Season highly with
mustard, pepper, salt, vinegar, a cupfull
of stock and a cupfull of chopped celery.
Serve on lettuce.
Poor Man’s Pudding.—Two eggs, half
cup of butter, one and a half cups of su
gar, three cups of flour, a half cup of
sweet milk and a teaspoon of baking pow
der. Make this into a small three-layer
cake. Between the layers put canned
peaches on strawberries mashed and
sweetened and serve with a boiled custard
sauce.
TO CLEAR SOUPS.
Soups are cleared very much as coffee Is.
First strain, then add the white of an egg
or some egg-shells; boil and strain again.
Where certain vegetables are to remain in
the soup make up the stock separately,
strain and clarify it; cook the vegetables
and after straining the liquor in which
they were boiled add to the stock and
boil together for a short time. Do not
throw away the water in which the veg
etables were boiled, but add it, too, to the
soup, as it contains much of the flavor
and nourishment of the vegetables.
RECIPES.
Tomato Jelly.—Stew, without adding
water, a large canful of tomatoes until
thoroughly cooked. Mash until quite
smooth and stir into them a cupful of
hot water and a half-cUpful of sugar.
Have half a teacupful of gelatine soften
ed in a half-cupful water and when the
tomatoes have boiled a few minutes with
the water’ and sugar add the gelatine,
take from'the fire and stir until the gel
atine is dissolved. Set it aside to con
geal, stirring occasionally to keep the
tomatoes from settling at the bottom.
If preferred the mayonnaise may be
mixed with the jelly or it may be merely
served with it.
Plain Salad.—Plain lettuce salad is a
relief to the palate after oyster cocktails
and mayonnaise. Use only the tender
leaves. Wash them well and garnish lib*
erally with rings of hard boiled eggs
Season with salt only.
Hot Chocolate Sauce.—Boil a teacup
full of milk with a half teacup of sugar.
Beat an egg. mix it with a little cold
milk and turn it into the boiling milk.
Stir the mixture constantly and as soon
as it boils again take it from the fire.
beijevolence, patriotism, education, "lit
erary llteratll,” etc., etc., are ablaze,
with glory, flame and fame. We are,
many of us, dating back to kings of Eng
land, royalty, etc., family coats of
arms and such. There may be some of
us that will have to be content with the
family firmed coat.
With it all. we are doing valuable work
for our country in a wealth of noble
deeds, enshrining heroes and heroines, and
preserving history.
Pray, don’t let us vote. To our country’s
grace and honor we now belong. We are
in a position now to ask favors and have
them granted, because we do not vote.
If we voted, how truly it will be said of
us by the men:
“Once our superiors, now our equals."
This grand United States has been suc
cesfully run without our votes: now
don’t let’s put it on the run with our votes.
If it did not need such woman’s as Dolly
Madison's vote it will not need ours.
There will be war. the most cruel, of all
wars, woman will be against woman,
wives will be against husbands, sisters
against brother, Every one of us would
be a carididate and a dark horse, too.
To vote would break more home ties
than anything in the world.
Can it be I am unpatriotic? I, who
it is said have the patriotism of the whole
family—three sisters and one brother?
And the own granddaughter of the found
er of the first soldiers’ home of the Con
federacy—Sara Bozier Hails Bellinger
To our country’s grace and honor we
now belong. Let us ever be “Os all God's
gift the best. O, gentle woman!” Let us
trust the welfare of our nation to the
men. Let us ever be the dainty lace, silk
petticoat, blue stocking women. It does
seem the hour is ripe for a southern
aristocracy of our own as in the days of
soutnern chivalry.
Let us not rob our home of its bloom
by placing our vote in the ballot box,
taough it be a free ballot and a fair
count. It is well for us to keep in touch
wtih the political world, and many of us
do, but I again cry, don’t let’s vote!
Thanksgiving day in Alabama removed
the black birds, with lew exceptions,
from the polls; and of course it is a more
healthy atmosphere,, but we are still
afraid of germs.
wt us remember It'is* the hand that
rock* the cradle that rules the world, and
are not those hands now pure and white?
• V- BY M. L. M’LENDON.
way to solve the great moral questions of
the day. It is those women who devote
their time to frlvolties who manifest no
interest in this question of woman suf
frage. • \ .
“The woman of the future will be a cit
izen In t*>e full suffrage, because It is just
and right. England cut no sorrier figure
Jn taxing her colonies without giving them
a voice in the management of their own
affairs than we do in taxing women and
then withholding the franchise from them.
“If woman is fitted for th* high duties
of motherhood and wifehood, she can be
trusted with tl\e ballot."
Philadelphia and Washington are some
distance from Atlanta, but there are
preachers of “orthodox evangelical
churches in Atlanta who have expressed
themselves in much the same way. per
haps not quite so publicly. As I said be
fore. queer things are happening these
days. To those who are afraik the babies
will be neglected when Georgia women get
a chance to vote, we will ask who takes
care of the babies when so many of the
mothers go to the cqurthousg and city hall
to give in their taxite and then work to
get the money-t* pay-them?" Women, lu
natics, idiots, criminals and Indians are
about the only classes that are not per
mitted to have a Vdlce in the government
under which they live in Georgia; but
queerer things have happened than that
all this should be changed, as has been
done in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and
Idaho, where women have equal rights
with men.
*“Bronco,” in the New York Press, de
clares: “Woman might waste some time
finding out how to fold the ballot, but
the vote in that ballot would be what she
honestly thinks >t ought to be. and not
what was suggested by the man who
bought the last round of drinks for the
: crowd.”
j They have tried it (woman suffrage) in
a partial way in New York state, and it
has not brought on a revolution in the
Empire State of the North. Why should
it do any harm to the Empire State of
the South? M. L. M’LENDON.
Add a saucer full of grated chocolate
and flavor with vanilla.
WARNING FOR TEACHERS.
A recent issue of the Medical Record
states that the number of school teach
ers—women—ip insane asylums is dis
proportionately large. No reason is as
signed for this, but no person who visits
some city schoolrooms and notices the
irritated, jaded appearance of some of
the teachers will be inclined to question
the statement, nos are the little humar.
machines that the teachers operate in
much better plight. They all need more
freedom and out-of-door exercise.
FAT OR LEAN?
If you are fat and wish to grow thin
do the opposite of what you are advised:
if you are too thin do what you are ad
vised not to do; for you may have noticed
people who are trying to re
duqe their flesh are growing fatter all the
time, while the lean people although con
scientiously drinking a glass of hot milk
before breakfast and taking gentle exer
cise with the dumb bells at stated inter
vals throughout the day grow thinner
and thinner. Indeed, to grow either fat
or lean at will requires too much ex
ertion and concentration of purpose. The
best way is to eat wholesome, simple
food, take healthy, natural exercise, and
be content, either fat or lean. Rest as
sured if you are healthy you will not be
abnormally fat or lean.
PREPARATION OF FOOD.
A writer in an exchange says: “Two
thousand years hence we will no doubt
be considered the most barbaric of people.
Consider the fact that the most vital of
our necessities, the preparation of food,
is left to an untrained class. . . . After
the results of the work of all the world
Who Defined
“Soatp
qL* Zf<l powder”
11 in the
CTA) (da/id Sta.nde.rd
Dictionary?
| 'J J Sounds as
f if some old
V fashioned
Ik v soap-maker
had written it. Used
tin aish-water I Yes, and when
it is PEARLINE, used in
everything where soap ca.n be
used. PEARLINE is modern.
vp-to-d&.te soa.pt a better
soap t it has revolutionized
the soap trade. 666
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are brought together in the home, they
-are meted out at random, with little if
any regard to the complex structure of
the human organism by people who know
practically nothing of the principles un
derlying healthful living."
"And in conclusion, she says: "Years
hence, when we shall have become an en
lightened race the maid of all work will
be studied by the authropologlst as an
extinct species, for our food will all be
prepared by specialists and brought to
our homes by pneumatic tubes if need be.
How long, oh how long?”
We cannot know, of course, what will
ultimately happen to our race, or pene
trate the profound mystery that envelops
our presence on the earth; but guessing the
future by the past 1 it is not likely
there will be any great change in our
methods of living. In the days of ancient
Rome some people lived extravagantly
and sought to outclass each other in the
variety and peculiarity of viands set be
fore their guests, while other people
thought this was a wrong principle of
living and themselves practiced economy
and abstemiousness. It is true they had
whole wheat bread in those days and
no electric lights and no railroads; but
these gigantic inventions only go to show
the unalterableness of human nature
which goes on doing the same old things
in the same old order in spite of every
thing. The people who today advocate
bean soup and whole wheat bread in the
days of Rome ate black bread and soup,
while the present-day eaters of apples
with salid dressing and stuffed olives in
those days would have been the ones who
ordered nightingale tongues, pearls dis
solved in wine and other hash.”
Some things have been invented that were
never invented before but that hasn t
made any vital difference in the mental
equipment of the great “common run of
people." They are just as- much "on the
level” as they were two thousand years
ago.
It would be interesting to this writer,
no doubt, to know that two or three
the Roman emperors throughout the his
tory of Rome, changing the republic into
an absolute monarchy to suit their con
venience, tried the experiment of serving
national sotfp and bread, and the nobility
who did not like to eat with the common
people were compelled to do so at the risk
of having their property confiscated. I
have no doubt that many sanguine peo
ple of that day thought the most difficult
problems of life were solved; but in a
short time these rulers died, or were as
sassinated—a fashion still it) vogue—and
the people, deprived of this leadership,
went back to their natural and inevitable
wav of doing things. It may be, as the
poet tells us. that the “thoughts of men
are widened with the process of the
sunr,” but my experience of the matter is
that certain minds grasp certain things
certain ways; they always have done so,
and they always will do so, and no
amount of travel, or electricity, or whole-
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Twin Humorists of cAmerican Democracy.
The Literary Digest.
‘ilE forcing-bed of American
journalism has produced a
crowded ertp of writers of
such luxuriant wit that pre-
T
eminence in humor must. hereafter
form a principal element in arranging
the precedence of our authors. Never
has natural selection a fuller field for
her weeding-out process. It takes a
“fit man” to survive. Most of the
humorists who sprang into prominence
suddenly have died as quickly, "‘be
cause they had no depth of earth.
Many wrote on. tolerated because of
their former fame. They were "better
dead.”
Finley PMer Dunne and George Ade
are unquestionably the greatest of the
later crop of American humorists.
They have received their training in
the same school, for both are Chicago
newspaper men. Each has been want
ed by the critics, who have pointed to
the ending made by Artemus M ard
and Bill Nye. with the injunction
“Respice!” The fate *f the creator
of the immortal "Showman,” who
died at the zenith of his fame, has
been wished for them in all kindness,
rather than the fate of the editor of
The Boomerang, whose wit grew labor
ed as his life began to wane under the
killing contract to supply humor to
the American nation by the column in
weekly installments.
Yet Dunne and Ade still flourish.
Their humor is equal to every emer
gency; it expands, like the constitu
tion, ex proprfo vlgore. And the rea
son is that it has “depth of earth.”
The roots of Dooley’s philosophy sink
through the paving of the “Ar-rchey
Road” deep into the continental soil
beneath. A son of the city as Mr.
Dunne is, seeing only the public side of
life as it is- presented’ through the
newspapers, hg is thoroughly Ameri
can In his shrewd wit and sirnpte yet
profound wisdom. Every discussion
ends with a homely epigram which is
worthy •of Dincoin. We quote a few
from the present collection:
"I think.” said Mr. Dooley, “that if
th’ Christyan Scientists had some sci
ence an’ th’ doctors more Christyani
ty. it wudden’t make anny diff’rence
which ye called in—if ye had a good
nurse.”
"No matter whether th’ constitution
follows th’ flag or not, th' supreme
wheat bread will make them do otherwise.
You may give them the best ideas imag
inable, and they will fold it up and put It
away so that It looks exactly like the old
idea’that was in there before. It is in
stinct—the average prescribed for humans,
from which there is no escape except in
a future and better world.
coort follows th’ llictlon returns.” ■
“I shud think Schley’d thry an’ prove
an allybi,” Mr. Hennessy suggested
pleasantly.
‘He can’t,” said Mr. Dooley. “Hl*
frind Sampson’s got that.’’
“Ye can lade a man up to th’ uni
versity, but ye can’t make him think.”
Mr. Ade's more umbrageous if less
aspiring humor derives its sap from a
less stubborn soil. Its ground has been
mellowed by the generation* of humor
ists who have worked it over and
over again with a rotation of various
and generous crops. It is a provincial
life and manners as opposed to met
ropolitan. His field Is the country
town where live the good folk of bud
ding social aspirations who ape the
customs of the city. t
Great American humorists before
him. “Max Adler,” and the “Danbury
News Man” and H. C. Bunner, have
“chronicled the small beer” of village
life and decanted It to us without a
tang of unkindliness. But Ade’s tap
has the wholesome bitterness of satire
In every drop. He is as stanchly true
to the Democratic ideal as Dunne, and
flummery and fluhkeyism are punctur
ed by his pen as effectively as im
perialism and plutocracy are hammer
ed by Dooley’s bungstarter.
He has the same intellectual power
of epigram, with the added artistic ele
ment of phrase making. What car
toonist could draw a more vivid sketch
in fewer lines than this? “Aunt Em .
. . was two kinds of a Widow, Grass
and Bod. She had buried one Hus
band and came out in Black. She had
tied a Can to No. 2. and cam* out in
Bright Colors.” a What could be an
apter pun than “he had heard that one
is permitted a certain Latitude with
Widows, and he went in for the whole
180 Degrees"? And as for insight into
human nature, certainly the contrast
between the realities and idealities of
life was never more tersely epitomized
than in the account of “The Girl Who
Could Compromise in a Pinch”:
1 “ ‘The Man who wins my cardiacal
Regard must be Tall and Dark, with
' Raven hair tossed from a Brow of
Alabaster Whiteness,’ she said as she
reached for another Ollv*. ’He must
be Brave, yet Gentle. I would hav*
him a Chesterfield as to manners, and
as bright as Winston Churchill. In
Thought and Speech he must be pure
and unsullied. Withal, he IS to be
Strong and Manly. He who would
hold down my Rocking Chair must be
a Chivalrous Gentleman, and don’t you
forget It.’
“That evening a Red-Headea Boy,
wearing striped Flannels and smoking
a Bulldog Pipe, came to the Front Gate
and Whistled. She upset four Flower
Pots in getting to him.”