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THE CURE OF THE FIELDS.
I went adown the great green fields.
Weary and spent with care;
My heart was sad. and my spirit had
A burden sore to b*ar.
But they led me to pray in their own grand way
And I left my trouble there.
Great and green and calm were they.
And they hade me be at rest;
For God was above, and His wondrous love
In them was manifest;
And to me there came, at a tired child s claim.
A benediction blest.
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••Faith." said the grasses soft and low.
Oh. but the sound was dear!
"Hope." said the light of the sunshine bright,
•How could I choose but hear?
"Love.” said each voice, "and so rejoice.
Child of the earth, nor fear.”
I went my way from the great green fields.
And I left my sorrow there;
For the> had taught my puttied thought
The spirit of their prayer.
And I Joyed to know that I could not go
Beyond our Father's care.
—L. X Montgomery, in S. 8. Times.
Wny Sows Eat Their Pigs.
••Why does a sow sometimes destroy
and eat her pigs?" There are a good many
reasons given for this habit. Among them
the following: "Hysteria, something sim
ilar to puerperal mania in the human fam
ily.” “An unnatural craving produced by
an unhealthy condition of the body.” "An
acuti thirst due to too much grain being
fed and an insufficient supply of water.”
I might give a half dozen other reasons,
but If investigated to the bottom they
will all be found to be due to one cause.
•"Improper feeding of the mother during
pregnancy.” No sow when farrowing in
summer, running In good pasture with
plenty of water to drink, ever eats her
pigs. It is only when she farrows in win
ter quarters or in the very early spring
after being in winter quarters that this
trouble occurs.
It makes me tired to read, as I did a few
days ago in a western paper devoted to
the swine industry, such advice as to be
sure to “feed a pregnant sow for a few
days before farrowing a piece of fat pork
dally and if costive to gite a dose of salts
sufficient to move the bowels and cool
the blood.*’ What nonsense. Why not be
sensible and tell the owner to make the
conditions a« near like summer as possi
ble and then feed the sow. not only for a
few days or weeks before farrowing, but
during the whole period on a succulent,
cooling diet. I will stake my reputation
as a farmer that no sow kept in a roomy,
warm pen and fed liberally on roots,
wheat middlings with a little linseed oil
meal added and plenty of skim milk, will
ever eat her pigs
I last winter put 12 sows into a roomy
basement and fed them on nine bushels of
culled apples and 29 pounds of wheat mid
dlings daily, and the 12 raised 100 nice pigs
and never a moment was lost in watching
them: nor did they show any tendency to
cannibalism lam this winter keeping 20
on a diet of mangels, wheat middlings and
skimmilk with a little oil meal occasional
ly. and I am not the least afraid any of
them will have a craving for young pork
at farrowing time. When a breeding sow
to wfiiterrd. as so many of them are, on
what hay she can pick up in the barnyard
and a daily feed of ear corn. and com
pelled so sleep in the straw or finder the
bam. she becomes constipated And fever
ish. and when the family arrive there is
do milk for them, but on the contrary the
udder is caked, badly inflamed and sore
and not being able to reason from cause
to effect it is no wonder that instead of
eating the owner, who by his foolish way
of feeding is the responsible party, she
has hysteria and eats the pigs. The won
der is that she Ilves through'the ordeal of
farrowing
Os course, it is better not to meddle with
the sow at this time unless assistance is
absolutely necessary, but every sow from
her youth up should be handled and made
ao tame that the presence of her owner
will not annoy her, so that he may be
around, but if she be fed properly as above
indicated she will need nothing until she
is through, when in a short time she
should be given a drink of quite warm
water and then left until she comes from
her bed of her own accord, which will
sometimes not be for a full day or more.
Os course, it will not do to feed so much
succulent and laxative food as I have in
dicated. and then compel the sow to en
dure zero cold or sleep in a snow bank or
wet straw. But every man so foolish as
!to keep his sows in such quar.ers ought
to know enough not to try to have them
raise a family until they have had time to
run in pasture so as to fully overcome the
evil effects of such a suicidal system of
wintering.
Homesickness in Animals.
When I was a child we moved from the
village to the plantation at one time,
when we owned a great big white, shaggy
dog that was named Brutus.
He was a devoted watch aog, and we
were fond of him. When the family
started off Brutus declined to follow, and
the neighbors told us afterwards that he
howled all night long for two nights, re
fused food and was very unhappy. He
did not want to quit his home, and a
good old neighbor who was very nervous
became restless about the dog s life. She
went across the street at bedtime and
tried to coax him to her house, but he
did not go. She told us about it when we
children went to see her later on.
We were twelve miles distant at bed
time. when she tried to comfort Brutus,
and while we were breakfasting next
morning at the plantation home. Brutus
walked to see us. He had traveled the 12
miles in the few hours over a strAige
road with all the love of his old home in
hts memory to keep him away, and where
he did stay until he could bear his trou
ble no longer. This homesickness is very
noticeable in horses and cows. A horse
that is away from home will try to get
there again. The distance may be long,
and rivers to cross, but he will come.
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pass, however, is so fraught with dread, pain, suffering and danger,
that the very thought of it fills her with apprehension and horror.
There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either painful
or dangerous. The use of Mother’s Friend so prepares the system for
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sometimes neighing down the road and
sometimes Jumping a tall fence to get
back in the old feeding ground. I never
shall forget the pain I felt when a good
.old mule that we had sold to what we
Considered a clever hardworking darky,
when one stormy day with sleet and
snow on the ground the good old friend,
tut now illtreated mule, had come back in
his grief to his old home. 1 could not
keep .back the tears when his owner
came for him. I saw. however, that the
mule had one good ration before he left
the lot.
I was told of an occurrence that illus
trates this homesickness in animals. A
tine horse was stolen and five days later
the owner heard him coming as hard au
he could gallop, neighing at every leap,
though he was starved and illtreated. Ev
ery act showed his delight at reaching
his old stamping ground.
If a cow is sold and moved away, she
will fall in her milk, sometimes for a
week or ten days.
Many times this falling off in milk dis
satisfies the new owner. Always make
due allowance for homesickness for at
least a week, when you buy a cow and
move her from her home. If a litter of
pigs are partly raised in the bed before*
they are moved out or penned elsewhere
and they get put, you may be reasonably
sure they will take a straight line to the
old bed where they first saw the light.
Fowls are affected the same way. Tur
keys are hard to break from their usual
haunts and peafowls become a positive
nuisance. They should always be sold
or rented with the land, for they are
bound to stay where they are willing to
live and you might buy them or sell
them to a dozen owners, but the chances
are they will continue to do business at
the same old stand whenever they are
emancipated from coops or enforced pris
on bounds.
A deg's attachment to his old heme is
an oft-repeated sbrry. They are fond of
their human associates rather than at
tached to the soil. Dogs have been known
to grieve themselves to death mourning
for those who love them.
How To Make Cooks Scarce.
. Sometime last summer the people of
Meridian. Miss., engaged the police to ex
amine what they called the “bucket brig
ade."
An editor of a Mississippi paper said this
effort for police interference would surely
result In making all housekeepers do their
own cooking. Let him tell it in his own
words:
The police of Meridian have set an ex
ample which if carried out to the letter
will have the tendency of breaking up the
bucket brigade and forcing white women
to do their own cooking. It is a well
known fact that whenever a "colored
lady" cooks for the white trash she steals.
She has six children and two husbands to
feed and she must get the grub -from
some source. Hence every night just be
fore starting for home she hauls out her
two gallon bucket and fills it with the
best on the place—grub she was particu
lar in saving out for herself and folxa.
police of Meridian now propose to
arrest these cooks as they emerge from
the kitchen well loadeu for black bucks,
and make them give an account of the
grub contained in their buckets. The
other day two were arrested and the
mayor fined them for stealing.
That is the proper way to do it, but a
very serious question comes in here. If
they are not allowed to steal, which they
consider is understood when they are
employed, they will quit cooking at all
and the white women will have to take
their places. Everybody who has ever
hired a colored woman to cook knows she
will not eat on the premises, but takes off
her meals in her bucket, and what it
takes to'feed her is governed by the ca
pacity of the bucket or the fact that the
grub is not on the place.
Os course In this instance the police are
right, but cooks are going to be mighty
scarce in meridian hereafter.—Hatties
burg Progress. ,
How the Chinese Became Laundrymen.
Some one interviewed the Intelligent
Chinese consul in New York city and what
he said was printed in the New York
Times. He thinks Chinamen could fill
clerical positions and do many other
things excellently well besides doing laun
dry work. He was asked why so many
of them became laundrymen on arriving
in America. He thinks he found the rea
son.
"When my countrymen first began to ar
rive in this country in any numbers min
ing was the great business of California,
and they drifted into mining towns.
There, it is supposed, they had to do their
own washing, and being less robust than
some others for the heavy work of mining
they gradually undertook to do washing
for the miners. They did their work so
well that it paid well, and gradually they
adopted the profession.”
Laundry work, he said, was never done
by men over in China.
When He Set the Pole.
An amusing experience is traveling the
rounds in the newspapers.
A lazy man undertook to set a pole in
the ground while his overworked wife got
out the family wash. He dug and sweated,
hitched one end of the line to the smoke
house and the other to the garden gate
post. The pole he set up midway and
when lie saw the line on top of it. requir
ing considerable effart. he went in doors,
a proud and happy man. After a smoke
he decided to take another look at the
erection and expected to see it pointing
skyward, like a small telegraph pole, but,
instead, saw the pole lying out on the
onion bed.
The son and heir was also looking' on.
In fact, gave the alarm to his mother, all
of which Irated the pole-setter.'
“You pushed it down, did you?" cried
he. wrathfully.
“No. sir, ’deed I didn’t. One of them old
English sparrows lit on the end of it and
pushed it down. Didn't it, mamma?”
Who Wants “Bobs,” the Thoroughbred
Duroe Jersey Pig?
"Bobs” will be six weeks old and over
when you see this notice. His mother is
a thoroughbred sow. ditto his sire, pure
strains. I raised him by hand and he will
be a fine stock hog when he Is six months
old. Four dollars will get him. boxed and
delivered to office. The first order will take
him. MRS. FELTON.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEO GIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902.
The definition of pedology is this: Pais,
paldos, child, and logas, the science of the
child. It is a pure science whose duty ft is
to inquire into the life, the growth and the
nature of the child.
It is only in the last few years that the
need of such a science has been recogniz
ed. Since women have learned to think
and to know, they have become conscious
of the limitations of their knowledge and
are striving to enlarge their views in re
gard to this little-thought-of, but most
important science, the study of the hu
man race ere sin and artificiality have
brought to bear their blighting influences
upon it. "The purpose of this science is
to inquire into and study the child in all
his phases, in a scientific manner, which
will offer material for a scientific appli
cation of pedagogical principles, for medi
cal practice, for a proper manner of car
rying theology to the child and as an aid
for the home-training and care of the
child."
When a man or woman decides upon a
life-work the profession or trade is stud
ied tn all of its bearings; perhaps a course
of several years at college is necessary
for a thorough preparation. Yet women,
thoughtless and inexperienced and igno
rant, undertake, without any preparation,
the most important work that is in the
world, the rearing of young children, the
molding of the embryo characters and
training them for lives that are worth the
living. .The result is often deplorable. It is
true that the mother-love which nature
furnishes is a great help toward finding
the way, and a woman’s own character
is of the utmost importance in determin
ing that of her child, but often igporance
produces carelessness in the child’s wel
fare, and thoughtlessness overlooks the
need of hts moral training, and love causes
unwise Indulgence.
And then, nature’s fitness has a limit,
without further knowledge. Love and
patience and kindness and a noble char
acter in a mother should be supplemented
by a well-stored mind that can under
stand the wants, physical, mental and
moral, of her child, and be capable of sat
isfying them. A woman should have a
thorough knowledge of anatomy, hygelne
arid the chemistry of food, especially, so
that she may give to her children bodies
robust, supple, bodies that can ward off
and conquer diseases, bodies that will en
dure long lives of happiness and useful
ness. An ignorance of the simple laws of
health, proper nutrition, different food
values, etc., on the mother’s part has
ruined the health of millions of childden.
There is a frightful lack of knowledge
on subject among the mothers of
the country, and one of the important re
sults of a universal study of paldology
Would be a wonderful increase in health
and strength of the human race.
It is a well known fact that even as a
child’s body may be perfected or ruined
by its early care, so may its mind and
nature. A wise and judicious course of
study, a well-directed step into the road
that leads to knowledge, a careful train
ing of the mind in the beginning will set
the young student learning the right
things in the right way. And a mother’s
wise and loving mind can do this better
than anyone else. It is a sad fact that
children of 6 and 8 years of age go to
school. I
Most important of all, who can ques
tion the need of any preparation that
will help a mother to build up the moral
life of her child? It is in this particular
that the mother’s own character counts
State School Commissioner Glenn, in his
letter of announcement for re-election,
adopts the following language:
“Every dollar that the legislature appro
priates (for common schools) goes imme
diately back into the pockets of the peo
ple.”
This is a plain and emphatic statement.
There can be but one version—a plain
English version. This tax money goes
back or it does not. The question comes
up: Can the statement be verified? Does
the tax money, collected for school pur
poses and appropriated by the legislature,
go “back Immediately” into the pockets of
the people?
That‘word “back” puts an emphasis on
the whole business. If it goes “back" at
all then it is obliged to go "back” into the
pockets of the people who produced the
amount, but when it goes "immediately
back” the emphasis is quadrupled and
twice intensified. The commissioner pub
licly avers that the people who pay this
school fund into tax collectors’ hands “im
mediately get it back into their own pock
ets.”
If it is true (and Mr. Glenn's high char
acter would forbid that he would say any
thing he does not believe to be true) the
only question to be now considered is,
“Who are the people?” and “Who are
those who get it back?” It cannot mean
every taxpayer, because there is general
complaint that little or nothing comes
back to a great many people's pockets.
Numbers of taxpayers not only do not get
back a dollar, but they are obliged to pay
out many more dollars to enter and keep
their children at school in the sections
where they live. Let me Illustrate: We
have flve neighbors that send to school or
have children old enough to send to
school. Mr. G. lives four and a half miles
Hints For the Home;
Useful Hints and Recipes
ASPIC JELLY.
Aspic jelly may be made by any direc
tions for making gelatine only substitute,
in this instance, strong beef stock for
water or wine and sugar and when it be
gins to congeal stir into it enough salad
dressing to make it quite hot.
NUT-RAISIN SANDWICHES.
Nut and raisin sandwiches are very good
for children to carry to school, as well
as for the lunch at home. They are made
by chopping equal quantities of nuts and
stoned raisins and spreading thickly be
tween slices of bread.
VERMICELLI AND TOMATO SOUP.
Cut the meat from a soup bone, break
the bone and boil altogether from two
hours to one day. Soak the vermicelli.
Fry two slices of ham until quite brown.
Turn into the frying pan with the ham
a can full of tomatoes and stew without
adding water until they are done. Add
these and the vermicelli with salt to the
stock and boil for about an hour. This
soup may be clarified but it is far better
for everyday use if it is merely freed of
superfluous grease. Much nourishment
is lost from soups by clarifying.
IF YOU ARE POOR.
If you are poor, or a miser, or a sensible
person, who prefers plain living and fine
dressing. I can tell you how to manage
tn the matter of groceries. Your children
are growing; they must have a nourishing
diet. Therefore, buy no flour, no sugar—
pray do not murder me forthwith—and no
salt meat. Buy no coffee, no tea, no but
ter and no milk, except buttermilk,
enough to make bread. With the money
usually spent on these things buy pretty
shoes and stockings, hats and little dresses
for your children, and sometimes take
them to an ice cream parlor or a soda
fountain, or a church.
Every week purchase:
Four pounds rice, Be per pound 20
PAIDOLOGY
Where Does the School Money Go)
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
more than knowledge. Who can teach
self-control and self-restraint that has not
learned it? Yet many good women have
reared sons who are drunkards because
they did not realize the Importance of
teaching and cultivation through the
years when character was being formed
these virtues in their sons.
A woman, who is not cheerful and
hopeful will not impress upon her chil
dren’s minds the beauty of such qualities.
Helpfulness and usefulness cannot be
learned of one who is idle and useless.
Honor and faith and love and truth can
be truthfully presented to a child’s mind
only by one who is within the courts of
the inner temple.
Yet. though a woman have all of these
virtues, she can, by thoughtful inquiry
into the child’s nature and disposition
learn how best to impress his growing
moral nature with.these qualities. The
very study and thought on the subject will
strengthen a mother’s influence and en
nable her to realize more fully the import
ance of her work in life.
This child-study has only lately received
attention. All other sciences have been
studied thoroughly and have advanced;
but this most important knowledge of
all has been neglected. Even now many
people laugh at the idea of organized
motherhood and scientific child study.
They say it is no good, because they do
not know. Let any woman who has been
placed in the position of mother without
any thought or preparation for her work,
and provided she has a mind capable of
realizing her responsibility—testify to a
need of such study!
As long as the world stands, women will
be the power that makes or mars the
lives of the future men and women of the
world, and the Influence of wise, good
women will be always the surest way for
making useful citizens out of the little
ones. At home and at school women are
pre-eminently fitted for this work. Not
withstanding an opinion to the contrary,
recently expressed by an eminent di
vine, I believe that the force and author
ity of men can never compete in teaching
the true lessons of life to a child with the
reason and love and confidence of wo
men. All great men have great "‘others
and the best way to make the world ?n*eat
is to prepare the mothers of the world for
their work. , . . ..
“When character building begins in the
cradle and is given the greatest promi
nence in all education, all work, then
will principal rather than policy dominate
the lives of men and women and truth
and Justice, twin attributes of character,
will sit enthroned in . human conscious
ness.” When the need of a trained parent
hood is realized and insisted upon, as is
the call for trained and skillful workers
In every other field, the foundation of
all civic and industrial greatness will be
laid and a thousand vexed questions that
now torment the world will disappear.
Interest is being awakened in this new
science, that is the application to home
life of all the sciences, physical, chemical,
psychological. theological. Chairs, of
paldology have been established In several
colleges; physiology and domestic econ
omy are being noticed, and “As I doubt
not through the ages one unceasing pur
pose runs,” I predict that before this cen
tury is ended people will live to under
stand that the science of child study is
the most Important that can be studied,
and that "As the thoughts of men are
widened, with the progress of the pun,”
all will acknowledge the inevitable great
results of such study.
from Cartersville, has two children to
send to school. He pays heavy taxes to
the'state and county. He told me he paid
$4 on the first day of every school month
for the privilege of sending his two chil
dren to Cartersville, and there is no school
nearer to him that would furnish accept
able tuition to his children.
Mr. B. sends three children to Carters
ville, pays $4 for the three. He pays taxes
to the state for the school fund and gets
nothing back in his pockets immediately
or later. Mr. S. has four children and
pays W, as I understand, and sends to
Cartersville. He priys taxes. Mr. H.
sends three children across plahtations to
another settlement, across a turbulent
creek, and If his children study Algebra
they pay extra for the privilege. Mr. F.
has a little boy in primary grade and has
no school nearer than Cartersville to pat
ronize, and if he sends to Cartersville he
pays 11 a month for a school seat. Now,
who gets their money back? A gentleman
who Ilves near river says there is no
school hear his summer dairy farm, and
you may go miles and never hear of a
school. This is in Bartow county, con
sidered one of the best in the state. In
1900 we had 58 white teachers and 18 col
ored to pay out of tax money, raised from
tax payers’ farms and other property sub
ject to taxation—ln all, 76 teachers em
ployed'.
Some people do get tax money back In
their pockets very quickly, but they must
be commissioners, members of school
boards, teachers or persons who sell
school supplies at enormous prices to the
patrons.
If they are the “people” they may verify
Mr. Glenn’s declaration as to the “getting
back Immediately into their own pockets,”
but the great majority who pay taxes get
nothing and less than nothing, as will be
One bushel of meal GO
Four dozen eggs... 60
Lard - 20
One quart of syrup 10
Two gallons buttermilk 20
11.90
And every day get:
Fresh meat 1....................... 10
Beans, cabbage, turnips, squashes or
any preferred vegetable 10
Fresh or dried fruit 10
>2.10
I 1.90
Total $4.00
Make up the meal with eggs and butter
milk and soda into muffins. You will find
this diet wholesome and far more nutri
tious and satisfying than such a one as
this: •
Flour 11.00
Sugar 1.00
Coffee 50
Lard 1.00
Butter .... 50
Buttermilk.. 40
Salt meat 25
Syrup 40
Potatoes ; 30
Cabbage 20
Canned tomatoes 15
Total per week.... ..$5.50
There are a few little things—salt, soda,
soap and the like, that must enter into
either account, but the proportion is the
same—the cheaper diet the more whole
some and desirable in every way. On
Saturday or Sunday, when the father of
the family is at home to enjoy it. have an
ice mate of buttermiiK sweetened and
frozen, or a boiled custard; or in winter
purchase a pretty cake from the Woman’s
Exchange for a special treat. Here are
BY
MYRTLE PAINE
PASTEY.
PROTEST AGAINST "PAIDOLOGY;”
OLD SYSTEM THE BEST
Last night while reading The Journal,
as is my usual custom, I became much in
terested in the article entitled "Paidology,”
by Myrtle Payne Pastey. Now I do not
know whether she is Miss Pastey or Mrs.
Pastey; a bachelor maid, an old maid, a
grandmother, a mother, a step-mother, a
mother-inlaw or even a childless widow,
but the article set me to wondering. I
love an argument, anyhow, so I will argue.
Now, if paidology is such a fine science,
such a new science, such an Important
science, how in the world did our grand
mothers ever raise their children, to say
nothing of our great-great-grandmothers?
Men were certainly raised, and grand and
glorious men at that, and the dear old
mothers who brought them up never did
hear of paidology, and even now in glory
land they would not know what it was
if they were told that their great-great
grandsons were being raised under such
a system. . • .
I am not an "old fogy,” neither am I a
“new woman," but I do believe that a
true,good mother, an earnest Christian and
a well educated woman can raise as good
and noble a son as any paidologist who
has studied books and sciences world
without end. For example look at George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Edward
Everett Hale, Henry Clay, Daniel Web
ster, Henry Grady and a host of others
whose names written down would fill a
special edition of The Journal, and please
do not say their mothers had nothing to
do with their raising.
I also believe that any mother with four
or five children (and any more than that
in these times is counted a disgrace) who
leaves them to the tender mercies of a
colored or even a French nurse, whjle she
goes “down town” or to the city to
paidology, will do those boys or girls a
greater wrong than if she went to her
grave without that science. Then, like
enough, if she doe* go and graduate in
paidology (I love that word) when she
has finished her education on the subject
she is too worn out and rundown in health
to use her knowledge; or she suffers an at
tack of nervous prostration and by the
} time she recovers she hears of something
| new and very important that must be
I learned, and off she goes again.
I So that, when she is ready to give her
1 flock the benefit of her study, she finds
that they have already “raised” them
selves the best they can, maybe very
well, maybe hot so well.
No, paidology may be a grand thing, but
is it a necessary evil, and why establish
chairs of it in colleges, where they do
not need it anyhow?
A house to house professor of paidology
to go around and give hour lessons iqight
be a pretty good thing, but I hope our
legislature won’t make it compulsory in
Georgia.
Let’s go on raising children in the good
old way a while longer, and when we
raise a generation in which there are no
great, good or successful men, then it will
be time to study paidology sure enough.
MARION TEMPLE.
Winder, Ga., Feb. 19. t
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seen from the facts as shown in one
settlement, where there has been no school
house owned by the county since the
present system begun 30 years ago, and
yet these tax payers have been forced to
pay tax money for the supposed privilege
all these years, with meagre returns.
If a person feels doubtful of my figures
let them ride out of Cartersville and go
north |on the main road of that section,
and they will travel nine miles until they
strike a, free school for the white children
along that road.
In the year 1900 the expense to the tax
payers reads thus:
County commissioners in state..| 62,074.50
Boards.of education 10,827.41
Postage, etc 10,282.97
School supplies, etc 71,028.67
Teachers 1,396,681.91
This is the common school account, not
local system, not state colleges, nothing
but the commonest kind of very common
schools, and this expense account is as
suming formidable proportions, with
much dissatisfaction.
It is unnecessary to say that a revolt is
obliged to come, and that before many
years. ,
Unless the majority of the tax payers
get some return for their tax money the
thing will eventually break down with its
own weight.
OUR FRIENDS, THE DRUGGISTS.
It is a pleasure to testify to the generally
high character of druggists. But because
of a few exceptions to the rule, it is neces
sary to caution the public to be on guard
against imitations of Perry Davis’ Painkiller.
See that you get the right article, the sooth-'
Ing, helpful Painkiller that was used In
your family before you were born. Don't be
taken into buying a substitute. There is but
one Painkiller, Perry Davis'.
two menus taken from the two courses of
diet:
DINNER.
Fried Steak.
Rice. Cabbage.
Cornbread.
BREAKFAST.
Apples.
Hash. Poached Eggs.
’ Cornmeal Gems.
SUPPER.
Bananas.
Cornmeal Battercakes and Syrup.
The other:
BREAKFAST.
Biscuits. Butter. Coffee.
Fried Meat.
DINNER.
Middling, boiled with Cabbage.
Biscuits. Potatoes.
Tomatoes stewed with Sugar.
Syrup and Biscuits.
SUPPER.
Coffee and Biscuits.
Os course a person likes to have sugar
and coffee and such seeming necessities,
but if you have them and are poor, you
must give up the fresh fru.c and vegeta
bles that are so necessary to your health.
If you make any addition to my preferred
bill of goods let it be more meat and
vegetables. It is the overwhelming pre
dominance of starch and sugar in our diet
that causes the bad health and imperfect
development of children.
The war tax repeal bill which has been
passed unanimously by the house will
probably-be amended in some respects by
the senate. There is Indicated a disposi
tion in the upper house to restore the
brokers' tax and also to make the reduc
tion of the tax on beer 30 cents instead of
60 cents. The revenue produced under the
law as it stands from July 1 to December
1. 1901, was $37,982,872, which would make
for the current fiscal year about $77,000,000.
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Address
The Journal,
Atlanta, Ga.
A' Little Lenten Sermon.
We are all engaged in the game of life.
There Is no escape. Willing or unwilling,
all must engage in this game, and for the
majority, it is a work of make believe,
as children play. We deny its limitations
and its unavoidable penalties, and seek
from life more than life has to give!
Recently the editor of one of our great
dailies published the views of two men
whom the world called eminent! The
first, a politician, was termed a states
man; he had long worn the harness, and
battled sometimes for the right, some
times for that which was of doubtful
value; and now, weary and sick of all,
he uttered the truest, clearest note of his
long life, as Swans are said to sing the
sweejest in dying. This was his utter
ance:
“The tendency of the age is retrogres
sive. The two greatest nations of earth,
each called Christian, are carrying on an
unnecessary war against a weaker neigh
bor, with hardly a plea of Justification.
The military spirit is rampant, there is
danger that usurpation and tyranny will
prevail, and liberty will disappear.
There was much more quite true, but
not a welcome message to- those who
wished not to hear.
The other man with views on this sub
ject of life was to many hearers a preach
er of righteousness, a bearer of good
tidings, an optimist who created his
world and peopled it with bright beings;
and his message was “Life is joyous.”
all that we need is to afllrm, and the work
NISBET TO OPPOSE
0.0. STEVENS FOR
COMMISSIONER
MARIETTA MAN WANTS TO BE IN
CHARGE OF THE AGRICUL
TURAL DEPARTMENT
AGAIN. ’
Colonel R. T. Nisbet, of Marietta, is
squarely in the race for commissioner of
agriculture, and will oppose the present
incumbent, Hon. O. B. Stevens. Mr. Nis
bet has already begun sending out circu
lar letters asking support in the race, and
it is likely that within the next few days
these circulars will have been scattered
throughout the state.
The circular which is being sent out
compares the present administration of
the agricultural department to his admin
istration. He says the present adminis
tration is extravagant and is spending too
much of the state s money. He claims
that it is costing thd state thousands of
dollars more now to run the agricultural
department than It did eight years ago,
when he was in office.
As a footnote to the circular the follow
ing appears: "I will be in the race for
commissioner, and ask your support in
bringing about a different line of policy
in the management of the department of
agriculture.”
Mr. Stevens defeated Colonel Nisbet for
the office several years ago, and since
that time Mr. Nisbet has served one term
Is done.” | J
The editor gave praise to the latter,
and to the former only blame; for he
was one of the players and this was hla .|
rule, to deny the existence of sadness or
any cause therefor. So he built altars,
crowning with flowers when he could.!
covering with ashes when he must.
But we who face the problems of life'
realize that we must endure pain, sorrow]
ahd death which is the last enemy, and ,
“blessed is he that endureth unto tha ■
end," for we have a hope (not a certainty,
but a sustaining hope) that in the great
beyond all that is.evil will disappear, and ;
good prevail. !
It is well to face the ills of life bravely,
not complainlngly; yet we need not affirm .
that evil is good, nor that sadness is joy! 1
We hold no earthly good firmly; sorrow is
our portion; and all the denial of ths f
optimis'tic, the enthusiast, cannot set
aside this truth.
Sorrow is our heritage no mortal may
escape. It is well to face even this brave
ly, yielding nothin#, hoping that beyond
the vail there may come to us all that
seer and prophet have foretold, all that
man has dreamed of, all that he has hoped
for.
But for the present there is need for
patient endurance, hoping all things, fear
ing all things; yet in the main, hoping
more than fearing. For, if there appear
before us the shadows of calvary, be-;
yond these there is the open tomb, a
risen Lord. And there is rest.
W. R. B. <
in the state senate. He is going to make
the attempt, however, to recover the office.
which he once held, and his friends say 1
that he will make a splendid ■ campaign.
It is said that Mr. Nisbet intends mak
ing his formal announcement in the news
papers within the next few days.
Mrs. Rorer’s Twentieth Century Bread.
Put one pint of milk to heat into a double
boiler. When «hot remove from the fire, and
when lukewarm, 98 degrees Fahrenheit, add a
pint of water. Add half a teaspoonsful of salt,
a small compressed yeast cake dissolved In a
quarter of a cupful ot cold water. Stir in
sufficient whole wheat flour to make a batter
that will drop from a spoon. Beat continuous
ly for live minutes. Cover and stand in a
warm place, 75 degrees Fahrenheit, for two
hours and a half. Then add slowly sufficient
flour to make a dough. Take this out on a •
board and knead continuously for ten minutes. I
Add a little flour from time to time to prevent
the sticking. When the dough is sufficiently
elastic, springs back upon pressure, make it
into four loaves. Put each loaf into a small
square pan. Cover and stand in a warm place
for three-quarters of an hour, or until the
dough has doubled its bulk and Is light.
Brush the top with water: this softens the
crust, allowing the gases and moisture to
escape. Bake ten minutes at a temperature
of 380 degrees Fahrenheit, then lower the tem
perature to 300 degrees, and bake thirty min
utes.—February Ladies’ Home Journal.
Railway Commission-to Meet Friday.
The regular monthly meeting of the Geor
gia Railroad Commission will be held Fri
day morning, at 10 o’clock. The most im
portant case to be heard is the petition from
the merchants of Savannah to allow them
ten days to unload lumber from cars before
paying demurrage on cars, instead of three .
days as heretofore. No answer to the petl- ■
tlon has yet been filed by the railroad com- I
panics. Commissioners Atkinson. Brown, and '
Jordan will be on hand at the meeting.
Crazed from Fright.
COVINGTON. Ga.. Feb. 24.—One night last
week Mrs. Cicero Titshaw was awakened from
sleep by some one at the window of her bed
room and since that time she has been craxy
from the shoek. It seems that a negro at
tempted to enter her room but was frightened
away. It Is not known who the negro was
but all efforts are being made to find out
who he was. Mrs. Titshaw is the wife of Mr.
Cicero Titshaw, a well known farmer of Wal
ton county, and was carried to MilledgeviUo
for treatment Saturday.
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