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6 | THE COUNTRY HOME Women on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. + Subscriber* «r* requested to ad- 4 ♦ dress all inquiries for Information ♦ ♦ on subject* relating to the farm. ♦ ♦ field, garden and poultry to tbo 4 4 Agricultural Editor. AU inquiries * 4 win receive prompt and careful at- 4 4 tention No inquiries answered by 4 4 mail. Pleaae address Harvie Jordan. ♦ ♦ Agricultural Editor. Monticello. Ga. 4 V44444+444444444444444+444 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. t ••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. WZftF-w. No wom “ n ’ 8 h *pp i - Wjnty fflk EWb CtF *SSr ness can be complete tr ■* Raft! BK H without children ; it is her nature to love BBS** I*4***» . andw “u t ,hem NlUntmarC “Lx: beautiful and pure. The critical ordeal through which the expectant mother must 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 the coming event that it is safely passed without any danger. This great and wonderful remedy is always A ££ RR appliedextemally.and go/S BF has carried thousands wWt RKjR ft Rb Ba of women through the trying crisis without suffering, Sent! for free book containing information 2SruO JtG? rwrTw of pricelesa value to all expectant mothers. f® pf St aa 3N BB t 3 Zv The Bradfield Regslator C«.. Atlanta. Ga. "* w w 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 If your subscription has expired and i you wish to get our next issue send us I a money order or register us sl, select j your premium, and your subscription will be renewed for one year. Don’t I delay, i 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. LURtS WtiLKt All ELBLFAILS. 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Send at once before the supply gives out ~ 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. f
