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Newspaper Page Text6 f THE COUNTR Y HOME | I Women on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. W. H. Felton. 4> Correspondence on home topics or ♦ + subjects of especial interest to wo- + (- men Is invited. Inquiries or letters ♦ v should be brief and clearly written ♦ A in ink on one side of the sheet- ♦ 4> Write direct to Mrs. W. H. Fel- ♦ a. ton. Editor Home Department Semi- + 4> Weekly Journal. Cartersville. Ga. ♦ 4. No inquiries answered by mail. ♦ <1 I I IH I I I I I I M I I I I I > *♦♦♦* ‘ THE OLD FAMILY TROUSERS. Jfow dear .to my heart'are the pants .of childhood When fond recollection presents them to ▼lew. . . The pants that I wore in the deep tangled wildwood. And likewise, the groves where the crab apples grew. The wide spreading seat with Its little square patches. The pockets that bulged with my lunch eon for noon. And likewise, with marbles and fish worms and matches. And kite strings and gum drops from March until June. The little patched trousers, the made over trousers. The high water trousers that fit me too soon. No pantaloons ever did nobler service ■ In filling the hearts of us youngsters with joy. They made the descent from Adolphus to Jervis Right down through a family of ten lit tle boys. Through no fault of mine known to me or to others. I'm the tenderest branch of our old fam ily tree. So having done service to nine older " brothers They came down to me slightly bagged at the knee. The little patched trousers, the often worn ’ . trousers. ' . The old family trousers that bagged at . - the knee. —Zeb Vance. The Georgia Industrial Home for Des titute Children celebrated Its third anni versary on the 33d of February. It has been organised and engineered by Rev. W. S. Mumford since Its inception, and now has over a hundred inmates. The home depends entirely on the gen- I eroalty of the people who appreciate such 1 philanthropic charity. It is non-sectarian and stoops down to the most needy and helpless. It should be well supported and given a word of cheer at all times. It is a work that cannot be too highly praised because It reaches out and takes Into a safe shelter the helpless white children d/ our land and rescue them from lives of vice and general degrada tion. A»y best wishes are tendered for the success of this industrial home. A Beautiful Life. Lady Henry Somerset, of England, has written a most Interesting character sketch of Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, the authoress of "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life.'* Mrs. Smith was born In Philadelphia; is of Quaker descent; her father being a well known merchant of that city. She is the mother of several sens and daugh ters—an elect lady In deed and in truth— wherever she resides. —ady Henry Somerset heard of Mrs. Smith through her own sister, the Duchess of Bedford, and sought her ac quaintance. Mrs. Smith's fine face and sweet tender words won her heart from the start, as she relates. Mrs. Smith and Miss Frances Willard were great friends, and Lady Henry Som erset says: Mrs. Smith brought two oth er congenial friends together. Lady Somerset tells of a bible reading that Mrs. Smith gave, to which she listened from the verse: • •The Lord Is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer—my God. my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower." She tells of Mrs. Smith's wonderful ex position of, God's loving care of those that trust in Him. which made an Indel ible impression on her own mind, in con nection with this text. As I read Lady Somerset's paper pub lished in Zion's Outlook. I called to mind my own impressions of Mrs. Smith, when 1 saw her in Nashville, about fourteen or fifteen years ago. She was then with Miss Willard at a national W. C. T. U. convention. She removed to England af terwards. - Mrs. Smith gave a bible reading at Mc- Kendree church one evening which I was privileged to hear as one of her audience. Her exposition of the word "keep." I shall never forget. The care of the heav enly father for those who trust. His lov ing kindness was worth a trip to Nash ville to listen to. She seemed to be able to explain the fatherhood of God in the clearest way. After the reading was over 1 heard a lady say to her: "1 came thirty miles tnis evening to look in your face. Your •Christian s Secret of a Happy Life' has been such a blessing to me. I felt con strained to come and thank you.” She was entertained at the Maxwell house and so was I. When I reached the hotel I waited at the ladies' entrance to thank her for the pleasure she had given me. With those searching eyes which seemed to look one through, she looked in my face a second, then she said: "You are careful about many things. Seek that good part, that implicit faith which will take out of your mind these anxious cares, for God is ever ready to give you perfect rest in his love. God tells you to trust everything in his care .and you know you are unable to make it easier fbr yourself. Why not give your life and all it stands for unto his keeping? He can give you perfect rest." She was like a vision of angelic grace and serenity, witfr her little fine lace cap on her beautiful brown, wavy hair, and the peace that passes all understanding radiated from her sweet and beautiful features. Those who knew her home life told us it was ideal in its real gomfort and Chris tian repose. She is a rarely gifted person and as I read Lady Somerset's interesting account of her life in England I could easily re alise her influence over earnest seekers after Christian truth who are hungering for the rest that she preaches about so Beautifully. Her "Christian's Secret of a & Great Mistake M * ny women are WC X •‘down" on washing Wu if K i —7l ‘hey tried VK/ • < j | *"** some, were **»“* dissatisfied, J *=7 • and claim J. * 1 ders are poor. This is wrong. I PEARLINE is not like other 1 powders. Test it for washing. 1 Compare the soap paste made ■from PEARLINE with that I made from any other soap I powder or washing powder. 672 I ASK A FRIEND Happy Life,” has carried comfort into thousands of homes whose Inmates were “weary and heavy laden." Modern pulpits too often forget this universal longing for the "rest." the blessed rest she dwells upon so earnestly. How I Would Like to Equip a Kitchen. No carpenter, mason, plasterer, or even farmer ever thinks of doing acceptable work for himself or anybody else without appropriate tools for doing his work. Who can expect a cook to do first class work in a kitchen with no conven iences to make her work comfortable and expeditious? The pathway of the average housewife is not generally strewn with roses. When she is obliged to do, she will put up with things that she is far from pleased with, and the make-shifts sometimes cast a gloomv shade over her daily treadmill Ilfs, which ought to be remedied whenever it is possible. I have stood in a butcher's shop and seen the clear, clean cutting of meat. That memory came back to me in disgust when I have sawed away on a ham or shoulder of bacon with a dull knife, and left ragged edges all abouL I’d have sharp knives if my kitchen was well equipped as I’d like to see it. I am tired of cheap tin, and I'd use granite or aluminum if I had the choosing of utensils. I get out of sorts with the skillets and frying pans that are black to start with and stay blaek to the end. or until the old stove is replaced with a new one and a change occurs. I'd have a range—and double boilers, fruit cleaners, potato mashers, cream churns, raisin seeders, sugar sifters, fruit strainer, devices to make the butter come quickly, and every other thing that would make the work easy, when I had to be "chief cook and bottle washer” in my own kitchen, if I had matters arranged as I would like them. I know a farm that spent over two hundred dollars last year in hardware to make a very poor crop, and from what I gather, about the business the house mother cooked all the year, without more than a dollar's worth of new kitchen ap pliances. Os course tne farm must have every improved thing that is talked about and southern farmers have spent millions in what is talked about as improved ma chinery, with the most of the things rot ting and rusting out in the barn yards, after a year's trial, hardware men get ting rich, farmers growing poor. rd have brushes in my kitchen for cleaning potatoes, for scouring tins, and molding boards, a'model cooking table covered with zinc, kitchen floor warm, and I’d have a place for every brush, and save my hands from soap and chaps, if I could. I'd have flour and meal blns, spice and knife drawers, a place for the cut meat, in shape for cooking, and then I would not be chasing about as I now do, to get meat at one place , lard at another, and, meal at another. I’d have covered roast ing pans, for fowls, for meat and for bread raising, wi«e frying baskets, and I’d have a sink in the kitchen that let down the dish water into pipes and took it clear away from the house without my trotting about With a sloppy dish pan, and with chickens, cats and little pigs mak ing a mess about the slop buckets; as too often happens, and as it is too often per formed in farm homes. Don't understand that my wishes and my performances are running parallel I wish they did. But I'd have every young housekeeper remember that her privi leges should be equal and commensurate with the management of the general farm business. I never expect to see my own kitchen in the finely equipped style here suggested, but if I was young again, I'd try to have it so. Agriculture the Firet Profession. Agriculture was the first profession adopted by mankind. There were no law yers, doctors, manufacturers or trans porters of goods when men begun farm ing. On the farmer's work all the rest of them built. And the first farming was stock raising. There was much grass and the cattle multiplied amazingly. With meat there came a call for bread stuffs. Then the tiller of the soil appeared at the front, but the early farmers were herd ers and drove their flocks up and down, hunting grass pastures and running water for cattle, sheep, goats and swine. The camel was the early beast of bur den.' The camel was strong, subsisted on grass and lived to a good old age. The first clothing was made of skins and flax and hemp. Tradition has it that silk was made in China a thousand or more years before Christ. There was no cotton known until about Homer’s time, and oats are first mentioned about the time of Christ. We are told that sugar‘and coffee first came from Arabia, but coffee was not used as a beverage until the sixteenth century, even in that country. When the first settlers arrived in Amer ica they found that the Indians lived al most entirely by fishing and hunting. The squaws worked the corn patches and the malse has always been known as In dian corn since that time. They found tobacco, a new plant to them, on this continent Sweet potatoes were also found in America. Wheat was brought over here after Columbus discov ered America. Arabia and Abyssinia were the coffee districts of the country until Brazil stepped in and largely absorbed the markets. Spain was for several hundred years the wool growing country of the world. Now Australia has taken up the lead and keeps it. Farming on large plantations in the south with slave labor was the largest exhibit of farming known to the world until the great west after the war went upon prairie lands with machinery and revolutionized grain growing on this con tinent. In my opinion the system of agriculture in this country will change gradually. Lit tle farms around towns and villages will take the place of large and sparsely set tled plantations. Then the children can go to school .their elders will have church privileges and the yihing and old will see more of each other in recreation and Im provement societies. Farming is obliged to be and will con tinue to be the greatest industry in this world. Only the soil of the earth will bring forth the meat and bread that the nations of the world must have for sub sistence. * Let nobody feel inclined to look down upon agriculture as a profession. It was blessed of God and will continue to bless mankind. Appreciative Word* of the Semi-Week ly Journal. Dear Mrs. Felton—For a long time I have been a close reader of The Atlanta Journal .and I am especially attentive to the "Country Home” page. I particularly desire to express my grati tude for the good I have received from your department In The Journal. May God bless you in the continuation of your suc cessful work. MRS. F. T. 8. MIDDLESBORO, Ky. Mrs. W. H. Felton—l always read every thing you write for The Journal and enjoy the articles more than anything I read in the paper. I do wish you great success and happiness in your work. MRS. J. F. P. From a young lady at boarding school: Dear Mrs.‘Felton—l do enjoy The Semi- Weekly Journal so much. I read your page with greatest pleasure. Let me thank you for all the good you have done me. Your Girl Friend. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1902, WHERE THE SCHOOL MONEY GOES ’ "FURIOUS CRITICISMS’ BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. / For several weeks nearly every issue of the Journal has contained some article or communication in which my name has been called, and my motives discussed, and my words garbled, in relation to vari ous matters connected with our common schools. One would suppose I was personally con nected In some way with the business, or Intimately concerned In the conduct of the mataimoth school system of Georgia, from the furious criticisms which have been hurled at me by certain parties, who have used the writers to pull some chest nuts out of a very hot fire. I hasten to say I have no Individual or prospective interest in a single dollar of the school fund, after it reaches the treas ury, and have not a single expectation or intention of having any more to do with the pecuniary feature of the business hereafter than I have at present. I am absolutely and emphatically disinterested In this discussion and have not the slight est objection to listening to the bark cf "Tray, Blanche or Sweetheart,” that have been set on my heels. This barking -goes to show that some body is listening to the discussion. It means that the public is getting awake to the Issues involved. The people are beginning to think. Ar rest of thought always precedes a reform. The taxpayers are asking themselves where all this school money goes; and while I might, like Jonah, be effectually silenced when "swallowed by a wha“ I certainly do not Intend to be "nibbled to death by minnows,” that are pushed for ward in this nibbling business, as before stated. If anybody questions the unrest that prevails all over Georgia, in regard to the vast expenditure of tax money raised for common school education it would cer tainly be a person who knows nothing at all about the very poor results which are subjects of daily criticism. The expenditure, as copied from the state commissioner’s report in the year 1900, which I hold in my hand as I write, is as follows: "Salary of county school commissioners 162,074.50. “Salary of members boards of education $10,827.41. "Postage, printing and other incidentals $16,282.97. "Amount expended on school supplies and buildings 171.628.67. "Amount paid to teachers, >1,318.512.15." The Peabody fund allowed to Georgia in the year 1900 amounted to the neat little sum of $7,686.86, and I presume that The Agricultural and Mechanical College At Athens. Colonel W. L. Peek has an article in The Southern Cultivator of March 15th in which he discusses the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 'which is run in connection with the university at Athens, Ga. His contention is that the land scrip fund and the Morrill fund appropriated by the congress of the United States should be used for the establishment and maintenance of agricultural schools, apart from and away from the University of Georgia at Athens. Friends of the university claim that these funds, together with all appropria tions that can be obtained from the Geor gia legislature, are actually needed to maintain the university up to a reasonable standard, and that farmers’ sons are yearly getting the benefit of practically free tuition, that thJ theory of agriculture is fully taught in the university, and that the teaching of practical application can not be successfully taught. Colonel Peek says: "Our friend who has written to me says, 'I am familiar with the university situation, and the universi ty has no funds aside from the Morrill fund, and to remove it the people have to be taxed to replace it.’ ” In reply to this Colonel Peek says: “Let us examine Into the matter with all fairness to the university and to the farmers of Georgia, and see if my. friend’s statement will bear the turning on of the x-rays for Investigation of the Morrill fund, and In so doing I want to sdy in the beginning that I am a friend of the state university and love and honor the many great men it has sent forth to shape the affairs of our state and nation. I am also a friend to the farmers of my native state and I am pleading for justice that our sons may also become great and good men, masters in agriculture and a bless ing to themselves and to those who con sume the fruits of our fields. "Here are the facts and figures. In Mr, O. B. Stevens’ new book of 1901, 'Georgia: Historical and Industrial,’ we find besides the various gifts for specific purposes and the annual appropriations by the state, that Dr. William Terrell bequeathed $20,000 to the university in 1854 as a perpet ual fund. In 1883 Governor Joseph E. Brown gave it $50,000, and almost from its birth our state has paid to it SB,OOO inter est on SIOO,OOO of the state's bonds. This SB,OOO is nearly as much as the income from the endowment funds of Emory or Mercer. "The acts of our legislature are full of appropriations year by year for the main tenance of the university. If the reader will examine the appropriation acts of 1900 and 1901, he will find that the last legislature appropriated $145,900 to this in stitution and its branches. Mr. O. B. Ste vens says in his book on page 575 that the above appropriation was for each fiscal year of 1901 and 1902. The same legislature reduced the appropriation of the common school to SBOO,OOO annually. Now, we come to the Morrill fund of $25,000 a year, which my above quoted friend says is the life of the University. If my friend had not stopped his investi gation soon he would have found that away back of this, for thirty long years the State University has been receiving $16,954.30 a year. A sum total of $508,620, including 1902, from the Land Scrip fund. (See advance sheets United States Bureau of Education, 1901, of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts). If the same reports are correct they have had the use of the Morrill fund for twelve years to the amount of $245,000 (see page 95, report of secretary of the interior, fiscal year ending June 30. 1901). Aside from the Land Scrip and Morrill funds the facts show that our Stafe Uni versity has been cared for by state appro priation in that liberality due such an in stitution, and it ought to flourish now without a cent of the Land Scrip or Mor rill fund. HERE IS THE LAW. Let us see how those acts read or what their captions are, for all men of legisla tive experience know the caption of any act has to contain the purpose of the law. Thus reads the caption of the Land Scrip Act, approved July 2, 1862. "An Act, do nating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleg es for the benefit of agricultural and the mechanic arts.” Under this act Georgia .received 30,000 acres of land for each senator and repre sentative in congress, which gave our state at that time 300,000 acres of land, which was sold under the act and the an nual proceeds net an Income to the state of $16,954.30 annually. This is a perpetual fund, / WHAT WAS DONE WITH MONET. In 1872 Governor Smith passed an order transferring this fund to the trustees of the university. At this act of the gov- Hi cures WMEHE ALL ELSE FAILS. Es Ums Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use B 3 in time. Bold by druggists. amount does not include the $4,000 contrib uted by the agent. Dr. Curry, to Normal School at Athens, also to Milledgeville and Dahlonega in 1900. There is no item ized account of the use to which that Pea body money is applied in this report for 1900. When I made inquiry I was inform ed by a person who was once a teacher, that it was largely used in employing teachers, white and colored, for insti tutes. I know nothing of my own knowl edge as to its disbursement. But these figures show the expense en tailed on the state year before last, and the school fund apportioned for 1901 was as follows, taken from report of state school commissioner dated October 1, 1901: Direct levys 800,000 Poll tax 250,014 Half rental W. & A. R. R 210,006 Liquors 132,343 Fertilizer fees, net 16,592 Convict hire 81,297 Georgia Railroad stock, dividend.. 2,045 Show tax 4,636 Oil fees, net ... 8,193 Aggregatesl,sos,l27 Peabody funds 7,900 Now the readers of The Journal will un derstand how the money flows in, and I stand in my humble place to say, that I heartily agree with the statement of some of the candidates for state school com missioner's position, th'is year, when they point to these figures and say this money has been extravagantly expehded, judg ing by the results. In the year 1900 the local systems, which we understand to mean the town and city schools were allowed only $198,964.73 of this amount, less than $200,000, as the pro rata for children who attended school un der these local systems. The rest of the fund went to common country schools and the money went really into the pockets of the persons who are commissioners, boards of education, in postage and incidentals (whatever that may mean), and teachers, as copied in this article. Postage and printing went up to over $16,000 dollars, a large sum. I notice in the state school commission er's report some figures pertaining to school books that are mysterious to me. I hope somebody can tell us how the school book business Is managed. In table No. 6 of the report for 1900 there is a list by counties of books bought prior to July 1, 1899, and books bought after July 1, 1899. The sum total foots up $235,- 399.29. There is a good deal said about this school book business and there is common complaint about the frequent changes ernor much adverse comment was made as all men of close observation know that classics and agriculture would not har monize and the final result would be that the State University would absorb the whole thing to the detriment of the sons and daughters of farmers, consequently in 1887 when the Hatch Act was passed giving each state and territory $15,000 an nually for the support and maintenance of an agricultural experiment station, the governor was making preparations to or ganize the station at Athens. To this a strong disapproval of the masses went up and In December; 1888, the .legislature passed an act putting the location and direction of the station under a board of directors and they located It at Griffin. Now the Morrill bill approved August 1, 1890, the caption of which reads as fol lows: AN APPROPRIATION. “An Act to .apply a portion of the pro ceeds of the public lands to the more com plete endowment and support of the col leges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July, second, eighteen hundred and sixty two.” This bill appropriated $15,000 the first year and increased it SI,OOO a year until it reached $25,000. Then to remain a perpetu al fund of $25,000 a year, said money to be applied only to Instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries <bf life. In Mr. Hill’s write up of the A. and M. college for Stevens’ book, Com mercial and Industrial,” chapter 13, page 365 to 373, he falls to mention this Morrill fund and so far as we have examined it Is not mentioned within -the book. Mr. Hill was too conscientious to name it another Integral part of the State University. Neither have we found out how it was dropped into the University bag, but it is there all the same and made another in tegral part of the University or the "tegral” part, “the t£il that wags the dog.” But in that write up Mr. Hill does say that "The trustees have recently appro priated $5,000 to the department of agricul ture and it is expected that with this lib eral expenditure there will be a rapid de velopment and growth in this depart ment.” To this we tip our hat. Possibly MRS. M’FADYEN TALKS OF CHILD LABOR QUESTION Mrs. Irene Ashby Macfadyen, who has been in the south for the purpose of en listing public interest in child labor leg islation, is in the city on her way to New York, whence she sails shortly for South Africa, via England. She was interviewed on the sub ject in which she has taken so great an interest. She first became known in the south last year as Miss Irene Ashby. Since October, 1901, when she returned from Europe on her wedding trip, she has been busily engaged in working for the movement under the auspices of the Cen tral Committee of Alabama and Georgia, the respective chairmen of which are Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy, of Montgomery, and Judge Henry B. Tompkins. Her husband, Alfred Macfadyen, who is secretary to the prime minister of Cape Colony, was compelled to return to his post in December, and she is on her way to rejoin him. “I am not all discouraged,” she said, "by the failure of the child labor bill to pass either the Georgia or South Carolina legislatures this winter. In the latter state its failure by three votes was so close as to be a promise for the future. "I feel,” she continued, “now that the matter has been taken up by such men as compose the Central Committee of Georgia and South Carolina that I am no longer needed. "I had a talk with Judge Thomas G. Jones, of Montgomery, two days ago, and he assured me that public sentiment in that state is greatly In favor of the legal protection of children from the greed of parents and the corporations, and he be lieved the bill would pass the next legisla ture. "Rev. C. B. Wilmer, of this city, tells me that the committee is preparing for an active campaign, and he asked me to leave him all the facts that have come to my knowledge. The farmers' clubs throughout the state agree to co-operate with the Central Committee, and it is cer tain that organized labor will do the same. "1 was In Chicago a few weeks ago and arranged with Miss Jane Addams. of Hull house, for her to bring the subject before the biennial conventloh of Women’s clubs to be held in May at Los Angeles, Cal., as I am unable to go myself. "The fact that the south is the last spot in the civilized world to allow the ex- that are made from one book to another and those that complain in my hearing say they must buy these new books con stantly. If one-half of the complaints, rumors, dissatisfaction and direct assertions are true, then the people would like to know something definite about the book busi ness. !Who buys these books that are set down in this table No. 6, and who sells them, and who makes the profit? Turn on the light. As before said, I have no interest in the matter save the interest of the tax-pay ers. I know we are paying enormous tax es for state and county purposes in the county I live in and I know my neighbors have no free school in their reach to pat ronize. Either they must send to Carters ville and pay for the privilege or go across creeks and plantations which are unsafe to young girls as we all know, to reach a rural school for white children. The fault may all lie in the system, but the time has come to change the sys tern if it works an injustice to the people wno raise this money. The local systems are much thought of but the poor schools in the country are eating up the patience as well as the money of the taxpayers. I would humbly suggest that every county should publish once a year the names of all persons drawing school money in that county with itemized statement as to the number of scholars and teachers employed, /he people should see for themselves. The treasurer of Bar tow county has to itemize his account and the grand jury investigates. Now this big outlay for schools demands care ful attention. Let the people have it. A gentleman remarked In my hearing a few days ago: “While folks are talk ing so much about trusts, why don’t they get after the school teaching trust?” I do know that Georgia has many ex cellent teachers. I intend to »glve them dud credit always, but It looks like there is a well organized effort to make posi tions of profit, whether the state has any common schools or not. Stop the taxa tion or give the people the right sort of schools. DO YOU SUFFER WITH PILES? Do they protrude? Do they bleed? Do they pain you? Do you have mucous or’bloody dis charges? I can cure you. I also cure varicocele and stricture. Advice free. Dr. Tucker, 16 1-2 N. Broad street, Atlanta, Ga. ••• this “liberal" donation is the wonderful harmonizer of the "nineteen ages” and “snore coming” who are now writing home such good news and glad tidings of the winter course in agriculture. Now, is the money arising from these two acts being strictly applied to the pur pose and intent of the law? If so, the ef forts of "Uncle Sam” to educate his sons of toil is futile, a failure, a farce, and we will prove It by the reports of the presi dent of the A. and M. at Athens, of the years IS9B and 1899 on page 1739, advance sheets United States bureau of education. President White reported sixteeen stu dents studying agriculture. In President White's report of 1899 and 1900, page 2058, advance sheet United States bureau of education, we find that at Athens there are seventeen students of agriculture and at the colored college, located at Savan nah, there is not one who thinks of tick ling God’s green earth for a living. If our state wduld see her University again as she was in the days of Toombs, Cobb and Hill, she must render unto the farmers the money that belongs to the farmers. No man with a mind legally unbiased can rdad the Land Scrip act, the Morrill bill, without coming to the conclusion at once that these funds have been misap plied. That the general government In its wisdom saw the necessity for educating the farmer In the science of agriculture and mechanic arts and appropriated this money by these acts for that purpose and no other. • ••••• Now, give back our Land Scrip fund, $16,954.30 a year; give us our Morrill bill fund, $25,000 a year; give us the Hatch act ftmd, $15,000 a year; give us the in spection fees, which for the past three years averaged $25,000, and we will have an experiment station and an A. and M. college in south Georgia, in middle Geor gia, in north Georgia and educate one thousand girls and boys annuallly without one cent of expense to the state. For $1.40 we will send The Seml- Weekly ene year and the Five Vaseline Toilet Articles and any one of the premium papers offered with The Semi-Weekly at SI.OO. This Is the greatest offer ever made and you should take advantage of It without delay. ploltatldn of her little children under 12 In mills is becoming so widely known that it cannot be long before this blot on fair Dixieland is removed." In reply to a question Mrs. Macfadyen stated there are over 120,000 white chil dren under 14 toiling out their lives in the textile mills cf the south, and It would be conservative to say that at least 81,000 of these are under 12. A child labor bill has just been passed by the Kentucky legislature, prohibiting the employment of children under 14 in factories. Mrs. Macfadyen was in Louisville at the end of February and spoke on invitation to an influential gathering of women at the home of Mrs. John Castleman, wife of the distinguished general, John Castle man. She was also at Frankfort, Ky., and found that the statement of the case of the children working In tobacco factories and textile mills In that state called forth a very strong interest. She thinks that the newly enacted law will now have the support of public opinion. While in Frankfort, Ky., she saw at 7:30 a. m. white children under 12 working in the hemp mlLs and two hours later little negro girls on their way to school. This is a sample of the state of affairs throughout the south. "It will be the salvation of the cotton industry as a southern enterprise,” said Mrs. Macfadyen, "to enact a law which will give the children of the new industrial class, at least a part of the chance for education and growth that the northern capitalists who are so anxious to prevent It have for t..e children of their own states." Mrs. Macfadyen emphasized the fact that it was a misrepresentation on the part of the mill owners to call this a •'labor agitation.” “it has become a general movement EIGHT DOLLARS >—l.'trF »lnHy-0»e eent» buys ibis SEKOCO, FIVE-DBAWER, DROP H£AB G , AJ . 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KENNEY, VYI3, Commercial Union Building, Philadelphia, Pa. backed by some of the fairest men of the south," she said, "and I am confident that they will not permit any one class of the community coached by outsiders who wish to make money out of the southern chil dren, to prevent the enactment of a just law of protection for these helpless little one. It hardly does credit to the intelli gence of the mill owners or their at torneys to represent such men as Judge Tompkins, Hon. Hoke Smith, Bishop Nelson, *sishop Candler and Governor Candler, who are publicly supporting the measure, as labor 'agitators.” Mrs. Macfadyen will stop for a few hours In Columbia, S. C., to put the sup porters of the measure there into commu nication with the central committees of Georgia and Alabama. "We intend to form a cordon around the south,” she said, "and sweep this wrong away." Traveling Libraries In the South. Literary Digest. A system of circulating libraries that promises much for the educational devel opment of the south has recently been organized in Georgia under the name of the “Andrew Carnegde Free Traveling Li braries.” The plan has secured not only the interest of Mr. Carnegie, but also the co-operation of a great southern railway, the Seaboard Air-Liner which gives free transports!* 5n to the libraries over Its lines, extending through Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Mrs. Eugene B. Heard, who is organizing the movement from Middle ton, Ga.. writes to the editor of The Lit erary Digest: "These libraries are intended princi pally for the small towns and stations, and we have recently added A number of school libraries composed of juvenile books for the rural schools that make the required effort necessary to secure them by the improvement of their schoolhouses and grounds. 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