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6 'fa THE COUNTR Y HOME Women on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. 4. Correspondence on home topics or 4 q> subjects of especial interest to wo- 4 + men is invited. Inquiries or letters 4 * should be brief and clearly written 4 + tn ink on one side of the sheet. ♦ 4 Write direct to Mrs. W. H. Fel- 4 4 ton. Editor Home Department Semi- 4 4 Weekly Journal, Cartersville, Ga. 4 ' 4 No inquiries answered by mall. 4 4 4 »4 HI >44444 A Breezy Note from the Northwest. Some much-appreciated friends of ours settled tn the far west a good many years ago. They decided to change their farm ing operations from Georgia cotton rais ing to stock raising in far-off Kansas. They live not a great ways from the Col orado line, airi their children are growing up wfth the cWuntry and they are identi fied with all its Interests. They were excellent citizens In Georgia, they are equally as good in their adopted • state. \ 1 K visit to the old home place In Georgia and home friends of the long ago gave me an opportunity to hear of-their adopted home and its opportunities and draw backs. They Itve on prairie land, all the timber they own they must cultivate and plant out for themselves before thehy get it. They burn coal altogether for that reason, but they have coal saving heating stoves that make a little coal do a great deal of house warming. “If I lived in Georgia now I’d use these stoves.” re marked my friend. “Ton get so much , more comfort, with so much less labor, and they are cleaner." Coal is high—M W a ton. but is of first rate quality The whole country is cover ed with native grass and cattle are herded on the range The cows bring calves ev ery year and the steers are sold at fatten ing time, or market time. The heifers are kept to raise from.'Gown and calves run together on the range and take care of themselves. These careful farmers em ploy herders, and the cattle are driven home for water, which is raised by wind mills tn plenty for an purposes Wells are dug at various depths from 90 to 130 feet. An frrigatfbn company brings in water for these farmers to irrigate their cultivated lands, and they use water leather than fertilisers, as we do in Geor gia) to bring crops along rapidly. It costs these farmers 75 cents an acre to make a crop with irrigation. The wat er that our friends use comes from the Arkansas river and is carried ten miles into the settlement they Inhabit. This Irrigation question is the great problem of thd northwest. With an abun dance of water those prairie lands would bring fabulous prices and yield enormous crops without fail every year. It will be come a burning question in all arid re gions in the next century. If Georgia could utilise the water that goes to waste or flaws unchecked into the open aea. there is no measure that can be applied to the increase in profit which would follow. The Arkansas river led along by these managers or owners of irrigation plants, is making these grass lands worth now JW an acre and up ward a "How about schools?" I asked. "Ex cellent schools and absolutely free to the Cplla No paying of taxes and then pay [ for a seat in a school room as your neighbors are doing around here. We have good teachers, good school houses, and every child of school age under four teen years, is compelled to go to school four months in the year, or their parents are fined 150 for Jhis non-attendance.” How do you like thia compulsory at tendance? I Inquired. "It Is a good law. It makes the business k stable one. because the scholars are hept full and up to the mark in attend ance. "We have the best of roads, and a drive of eighteen miles to our principal mar ket town la nothing to stop our going, as to trouble. My girls and myself drive in to any cantata or fine entertainment and can get home by 1 o'clock afterwards without hard driving." Have you negroes out there?" "None in the country, some few tn towns. We have not a lock on outhouses, poultry houses anywhere against tMevee or burglars." "What do you get for steers?" "In dull times sl6 or sl7; last year from ta to 06." fl thought to myself, about the cost of producing a bale of cotton and a steer that fattened on prairie grass, and made a mental note of the difference in cost ) Z*How about health?" I asked. "Fine, could not be Improved on, have had a doctor only twice in about 13 years, when the two baby girls first came to make our acquaintance and live with us. But the doctors put a price on their vis its you may be sure; when they get a chance at you you pay for it. "We go to preaching regularly. We en joy it. good roads, good churches and we »rv -always ready and anxious to attend »n Bundays." "Do you want to come back to Geor gia?" "Oh. I like to make you all a visit, and see your faces, but there is nothing in Georgia tn a business way. that would bring us here to live. It takes so much more labor to make a living tn Georgia than where we live and we have tested both sections very thoroughly." "We have ( exceJent gardens. At this Very time we have an abundance of nice white cabbage of our own raising, now, stored awa/ like turnips or potatoes, have plenty of beets, etc. "We live as well as any farmers in Georgia, and wh*>n the gardens are irri gated the yield is Immense in vegetables. "I have suffered as much or more with cold since I have been out here this win ter ak I ever did in Kansas." I do not know when I have been more Interested than in the recital concerning my friend's western home and their sur roundings. It was a story of pluck, en ergy. perseverance and united effort, a long pull, a strong pull and a pull alto gether. When I think of the hundreds of people who are herding about our towns and rittea. with no future but poverty and oftentimes destitution. I do wonder why they do not try the west with its pros pects. Excellence of the Temperate Zone. One of the most enjoyable pieces of writ ing. containing more real information of its kind than anything which has fallen under my eye for a long time, was a bril liant speech from a Kentucky member of congress concerning the superiority of the temperate sone and its effect on civiliza tion. He boldly declared that no permanent civilization is possible in the torrid zone. Beginning with the civilization of Egypt, he instanced the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the temple of Lexnor and Baalbec. So long as Egypt worked under her own laws, lived under the rule of Egyptians proper, she progressed, and the cities, monuments, literature and history of Egypt and Car thage were the work of their own popula tion and under a temperate sone, making their own Jaws. In connection with this plain proposition, he announced another, namely: that no nation ever retained its Improved civilization when overrun and jrjj ImS li.rtLsFTA<&. F 3 Ka Beat Ccujh syrup. Taatea Good. Ver M tn time. 8* id • kept in close subjection by its conquerors, instancing the decay of Egypt. Under a temperate zone and with a civilization evolved from their own laws, and under their own religion, nations in the temperate zone are uniformly great in progress. Look at Japan! Fifty years ago. before Commodore Perry went over to the is lands, they were semi-barbarous and half civilized. They were afterwards encour aged to help themselves and nobdy en deavored to thrust our civilization down the throats of this people, ahd behold the result! Spain and Portugal carried guns in one hand and prayer books in the other all over Mexico and Peru, when the Aztecs had shown the most wonderful progress, but which the invaders utterly destroyed as they ravaged. « The Moors in Spain, for 800 years, with their own laws and their own religion, had thrift, independence and magnificent pro gress. They had splendid cities lighted with lamps, paved with cut stone, with fountains playing and parks full of flow ers. The Spaniards came, attempted to force upon them their religion and laws and destroyed the Moors and their works of architecture. Mexico has done more than she has ever done in previous cen turies. We, or more properly, the United States government, is now proposing to do for the Filipinos what the Spaniards did for the Moors in Soaln and the Aztecs in Mexico, namely, cram them with our laws, our school books and our religious views, and unless the Filipinos are exterminated as were the American Indians in the west, they will deteriorate into an inert, indiffer ent and degraded civilization. Under a torrid zone the white man cannot labor and live, and whenever the white man de termines to cram his laws and civilization down the throats of an unwilling people the nation or country thus overrun be comes a degraded nation with a decay in civilization. . The administration should retire from Cuba and the Philippines, except as to coaling stations and supervision of their interests, until they become self-sustain irtg. It will be best for both countries. Bfshop Candler aptly expresses the situa tion in Cuba. While the administration in Washing ton “grasps, the Cubans gasp.” To help some sugar planters the whole island of Cuba is prostrated in poverty and ruin. The Hawaiian Island were an nexed to give the sugar trust free entry Into this country, after Americans like Spreckles Invested their money in sugar plantationa It would really seem as if the “trail of the serpent is over" us all! The limits of this article forbids • fur ther review of the effect of climate and( the genuine civilization which comes from helping a people to sustain themselves. It is really a subject that would in terest all patriots everywhere. Avoid Violent Exercise. Teddy Roosevelt's sick spell and the suspension of Groton school because of an epidemic of pneumonia have brought forward a number of stories as a basic cause for the epidemic. It is said by some that the boys ran for hours bareheaded with the thermome ter at a depressed figure, and getting ex tremely moist with perspiration took vio let cold with serious results. Others say the boys gave Teddy’ a ducking in a cold icy pond because Prince Henry was ducked when he was initiated Into some school’ or society. Xn it is told that the boys indulged lent gymnastic exercise and then race around across the halls and draughty passages in the building thinly clad. All the stories are connected in some way or other with violent exercise in and about the school grounds. .» Some children may stand such tough methods, but a great many will be fatally injured, and stilEanother story goes that “little" Teddy has contracted spinal dis ease by inordinate love of violent running, leaping, ducking, etc. It would seem that some schools and colleges have literally gone made on ath letics. Baseballlsts, footballists. bicycle racing, boxers and a lot of.other doings (that now escape my mind), are filling modern col leges with a class of students who attend because they can have a good time in ath letics. not because of study. Education used to stand for application to books. In these days it means so many other things that I cannot hunt them all up to tell you about them. But there should be a limit on such rabid and violent exercise as we suspect made the Groton school popular enough to capture the son of the president as a pupil. By the way, the president himself has likely been trained to rough-ride, hunt and indulge in violent sports. Doubtless the little boy inherits a taste for it very legitimately, but the human frame is a very delicate and intricate machine that needs as much care as it does exercise. * a It that young lad was ducked to be treated like Prince Henry the whole busi ness becomes ludicrous as well as dan gerous. The idea of ducking the boy in an icy pond in zero wearner is preposter ous. How Do You Treat Your Bedsteads? Old-fashioned housekeepers in ante-bel lum times "scalded and scoured” on the 10th of March and felt like they could be set down as delinquents if they did not pack away hams before the middle of March and take a running start on bed bugs about the same time of the moon. Wth iron bedsteads the chinch-bug has been considerably "cornered” in his oper ations on sleeping contrivances, but some of us have good looking bedsteads that we don't want to throw away or barter off for a trifle, so there are in use many bedsteads that should have systematic attention in the spring and fall of the year. I will open a correspondence column for any helpful suggestions for keeping hams or Joints through the heated term, and for the complete subjugation of that most odkis of all night prowlers, the common bed-bug. If you ever change houses you are more than apt to get a sight of them or if they evade the sight, the smell will be there. ALL READERS oFt)TiS Publication will receive free and prepaid a trial bottle of * Vernal Saw Palmetto Berry Wine, if they need it and write for At. Every reader of Weekly Atlanta Jour nal who is distressed by stomach troubles or tortured and poisoned by constipation or kidney troubles should write immedi ately to Vernal Remedy company. Buf falo, N. T., for a free bottle of Vernal Saw Pal-netto Berry Wine. It Is a spe cific for complete and permanent cure of catarrh of the mucous membranes, dys pepsia, flatulence, constipation, conges tion and disease of kidneys, inflammation of bladder and enlargement of prostate gland. One small dose a day does the work and the most desperate and stub born cases yield quickly to this potent medicine. Halifax leads all Atlantic ports in the shipment of apples to Europe this season. The figures show that the~Furness, Allan and Donaldson lines of steamers have car ried. since the gathering of the fruit crop, a total of 187,555 barrels of apples. In ad dition many shipments were sent via St. John. Montreal and Boston, so that the to tal shipments from Nova Scotia this year will exceed 200,000 barrels. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1902. ♦ SOME SIMPLE RECIPES; * HINTS FOR THE HOME* 4 ♦ 444444444'44 44444 I 1 14444444 Cornmeal Gems—Take 1 cup of corn meal, a tabjespoonful of lard, a teaspoon ful of salt, one of yeast powder, 2 eggs and milk enough to make a batter; make up and bake in a moderate oven until brown and thoroughly done. To prevent them from sticking to the pans set the pans over the fire while batter is be ing poured in. Corn Soup—Boil a quart of water, add a can of tender corn, salt, and pepper and a tablespoonful of butter. Let this boil until the water is reduced one-half; then add a pint of rich hot milk; thicken with a little cornstarch and serve. Beans may be quickly prepared to re semble baked beans in the following way: Soak the beans after washing them all night or half the day. using about half a pint. When they have swelled, put them in a large stew pan and fill the pan with water. Put them over the fire and let them boll until all the water is boiled away. Put some bacon into a frying pan and let it cook rather slowly until it is brown. Add the beans to this aqd continue to cook them until they are dry and soft, stirring occasionally to prevent burning. Add a little syrup to give the required flavor. Miss Frances Pfleffer, of Gainesville, contributes the following recipes from hdr scrapbook: Chocolate Pudding—Reserve one gill of milk from a quart and put the remainder on the fire in a double boiler; mix three tablespoonfuls of corn starch with the cold milk. Beat two eggs with half a cupful of sugar; one-fourth teaspoonYui of salt: add this to the corn starch and milk and atir'it into the boiling milk; beat well for a minute; -shave fine two ounces of chocolate, put in a small nan with four tablespoonfuls of sugar and two of boil ing water; stir over a hot fire until smooth and glassy; then beat into the hot pud ding. Cook the pudding in all 10 minutes, counting from the time the cornstarch and eggs are added. Serve cold with whipped cream sauce. Oysters a la Maryland—One dozen oys ters, opened from the shell to the chafing dish (this secures all the natural juice necessary), salt to season sparingly, as the oysters should be salt water oysters which require little salt; a strong pinch of black pepper, a dash of cayenne pep per, a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, a generous lump'of fine table but ter. and a large wine glass (not less than four ounces) of good sherry wine. Light the spirit lamp, and when it is heated thoroughly and simmers all over the dish it is done. Stir occasionally during cook ing process with a silver spoon. Tomato Salad—Break three eggs into a bowl and over this pour sufficient pepper sauce to cook eggs, (beating together all the white. Add one can of tomatoes and thlfcken with crackers. S. A. S. Successful Gastrotomy on a Monkey. Buffalo Commercial. • The Commercial of Saturday told how the celebrated boxing jnonkey that belongs to Dan Quinlan swallowed a watch and was taken to the hospital. Dr. Wilson tried to avoid an •operation, but Sunday he saw that the opera tion known to surgery as gastrotomy would have to be performed in order to save the monkey's life and recover the watch.', A number of prominent physicians and surgeons were present. Dr. Davidson, of Columbus, Ohio, was called upon to administer the ether. When placed on the table the monkey seemed to realise what was about to take place. It shed tears as it shook hands with persons it recognized; It was in every respect like a human being. It willingly took the ether. Dr. Wilson ap plied the knife. The watch was found in the stomach and. was removed. It was very bright, having been highly polished by the gastric Juices and was none the worse for the strange trip it had taken. The monkey' was sewed up by Dr. Wilson in approvd style And will recover. ' After coming out of the sleep produced by the ether the monkey smiled and shook hands with and bowed to Drs. Wilson and Davidson. THE BOOK THAT'WILL NEVER BE CLOSED. To sages long forgotten, To a light in the distant pait, Bo* many voices beckon ’ Us for life and hope at last. Our life’s ideal’s been given; For Improvement we never may look. For sure a decree from heaven Forbids us to add to the book. Tet the world Is adding chapter > After chapter to the book, And never—ah! no, never. Will it close this sacred book. More gentle and more tender. And truer hnd as brave. If the life of every chapter With love-lights to the grave. Sure the world is moving upward, “Ever upward" be our cry! As our life’s ideal moves upward. Far o’er earth or heaven or sky. Then, when through life’s blue gateway Our soul so sweetly goes. We’ll add brighter chapters in that day To the book that will never close. —ALGERNON HERMAN DAVENPORT. FRENCH HUNT FOR HEIRESSES London Globe’s Paris Letter. ' The ordinary young Frenchman of aristocratic family breaks loose from the priests who have educated him as soon as he attains his majority, and then, having no occupation—unless he be In the army, In which case he has that of Jew baiting in addition to his ordinary duties —and np ideals, goes In for spending his moniy on lovely la dies, who give him his conge as- soon as he has nothing left to spend. Then comes the business of looking after a rich wife, and this Is done with an ef frontery which has at least th6 merit of being in no way hypocritical . I read in the papers of a few days ago the an nouncement of the marriage of a well known young French nobleman with a certain foreign heiress, and the an nouncement —which was a particularly florid one—made me smile, for I knew what trouble the young man had expe rienced In finding an Jielress and how many wits had been set to work in search of one. He is a—well, let us say a Marquis; his title is a very old one, and his name one of the historic names of France. He is udder 25, very good looking, exceedingly stupid and .is one of those “noceurs” who have not the slightest intention of mending their ways after marriage. , “He will marry,” said his most intimate friend to me a few months ago, '‘a humpback, aa idiot, or a girl who squints, so long as she has money.” And I know of two of his attempts to marry heiresses that were quite comic. One of his prospective brides was an American girl of 17, whose parents are fabulously rich and spend a considera ble portion of their time in Paris. They are simple people, who have not been long enough in Europe to realize the difference between one title and anoth er title, -one set and another set, and they had yet to learn some few months ago that a young French nobleman in pecuniary difflcuties does not pay his addresses to a rich young American girl “pour ses beaux yeux.” They therefore welcomed our young friend in much the same hearty and unembarrassed man ner as they would have welcomed the son of an ennobled dentist, for a Mar quis was a Marquis in their eyes, and a "beau” was a “beau.” Nor when the young man presented to them all the gay set of the noble Faubourg—a band of young married women who are al ways ready to help their male adorers ANOTHER VIEW OF HEAVEN IN ANSWER TO MR. CARLTON Editor of The Journal: Being a subscriber, and the importance of the subject, I hope will be sufficient excuse for, asking space in your columns, for a few remarks. I noticed in The Jour nal of March 24th, in an article by J. C. C. Carlton, the statement that the word •’heaven” in scripture, did not always refer to the celestial world; and which fact is clearly demonstrated in the following self-explanatory passage. “For. behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for behold, I-create Je rusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.” Isalh Ixv, 17, 18. It is evident from Peter’s allusion to this promise, that the phrase, “new heavens and a new earth," is metaphorically em ployed to designate the order of things to be established in the kingdom of God during the millfenial age. Peter says "nev ertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” Peter alluding to the dissolution of the old heavens and earth of the Jewish con stitution of things, which had not oc curred in his day, said, “the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word, are kept in store, reserved with’ fire against the day of judgment and per dition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter, ill, 7. They were not long reserved after these words of Peter were written, for in a few years the Romans entered the coun try and destroyed the Jewish common wealth to its very foundation. The liter al earth will not be destroyed, for “the earth endureth forever.” Ecc. 1, 4. Heav ens and ear.h in the political sense are destined to pass away (see Isaiah xlli, 13 to end of chapter; referring to the over throw and destruction of Babylon.) It is necessary to recognize these principles; otherwise the application of the literal principle of interpretation will in many cases mar the results of scriptural study. Now many passages of scripture reveal a state of things in connection with Je rusalem, which will admit only of a fu ture application; when the Jews will be gathered from their present dispersion anu restored to their own land—the land promised Abraham. Isaiah xi, 12, Jer. xxxl, 10, 27, 28-xxxll, 42-xxxiil, 14; Zee. vili, 7; Ezea. xxxll, 21, 22,-xxxvl, 22-24; When the land will be restored to a con dition of general prosperity and Edenlo beauty and loveliness. Lev. xxvl, 42; Joeb li, 18, 21: Ezek. xxxvi 33-87; Isaiah 11, 3,-lxl. 4,-lxil, 4; Matt, vili, 11. When Jerusalem will be chosen again, Zech, li, 12, 1, 16, 17; "At a set time." Psalm ell, 13. "No stranger pass through her any more. Joel ill, 17; . . . No more come into her the ( unclrcumclsed and the unclqan. Isaiah ill. 1. When the throne and tabernacle of David will be re-established. . . . “As in the days of old.” Amos lx, 11; Acts xv, 16; with Christ as king. A<?ts 11, 30. Luke 1, 30-33; Isaiah, lx. 7, xxiv, 23; Dan. vll, 13, 14, 18, 22, 27* When the saints will, reign with Christ in the new order of things. Dan. rii, 18-22, 27; Rev. ill, 21, v, 10, il, 26. 27; 2 Tim| il. 12, iv, 1; Luke xli, 32, 36. xxil 29, 30; Matt, xli, 28. All these things in fullfillment of |ho promise made to Abraham. Gen. xli, 14-17; Gal. Hi, 16, 20; Rom. xv, 3; Luke I, 68-73. When? “And the seventh angel sounded; and j there were great voices in heaven, saying, “xhe kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever. Rev. xl, 15. Will not this be the new heavens and earth wherein dwelleth righteousness; the inheritance of the saints. Yea verily. "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Matt, v, 5. R. L. BRAMBLETT. Athens’ Ga. .< , OF GENERAL INTEREST. Great Britain's import of copper during Feb ruary Increased 59 per cent in quantity and 46% per cent in value/j' The British army "coats over 1500 per man per annum; the Russian army |HS, while the Swiss costs only 835 pej man. The amount of gold coin tn actual circulation .in the world Is estimated by the Bank of Eng land officials to be about 865 tons. ( With the exception of the Amir’s body guard none of the Afphan troops have received any pay since Habibullah’e accession. Elongated rifle bullets are made from leaden rods A machine cuts them Into the required length, stamps them into shape by means of steel dies and drops them finished Into a box at the rate of 7,000 an bou.. In all but one of the Berlin hospltale the serum treatment of diphtheria is in use. In these the mortality is from 12 to 13 per cent, whereas in the one hospital .where It is not used the mortality is 64.7 per cent. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. An arid heart makes an acrid soul. A widow, like ripe fruit, is attractive; when she la rtot ripe fruit she is irresistible. When It comee to expansion, there is nothing in the world that can keep up with poverty. The more sisters a man’s wife has the more he wonders how ho came to pick the one he did. It is hard for a’ girl to have any respect for a man who kisses her hand when she has a pair of lips. on to an advantageous marriage, and they were made much of by ladies who are not prodigal of the smiles they give to foreigners, did they suspect any thing. Then came the denouement. The formal demand in marriage was made, and refused, and the young Duchesses and Countesses showed what an excel lent bringing up they had received by failing to appear at a dinner given the next night, and for wh|ch they had all accepted. Moreover, the young man went and told everybody that he- had not proposed, because he and his friends had finally decided that the little girl in question had not the prestige which would be required in a Marquise. The other matrimonial adventure was of an even more entertaining sort. The young man was informed one day that there was an enormously wealthy heir ess in Vienna who was not yet engaged, and before nightfall he had engaged his berth on the Orient express for the following evening. But when he arrived at the station he found another friend awaiting him with the information that the young lady was all that she had been represented to be, but that there was a difficulty in the way of his nupy tlals with her. She was but 12 years of age. But, after all, the man who looks upon marriage as a career does not ex ist in France alone. I met lately in the South ah Englishman of good birth, good looks and who is received by ev erybody, and particularly petted by the fair sex. He married a woman old enough to be his mother, had his debts paid and an allowance made to him, and now goes about saying that al though his wife is a dear, he cannot possibly live with her, as he hates old women. Now, curiously enough, al though a man may hunt heiresses with impunity in France, in this country a man who in such circumstances ex pressed himself in such a manner would not be very long in becoming a social parian. Indeed, I doubt very much whether the very fact of a man having made such a marriage at all would not put him outside of the pale of so ciety. “Austres pays, autres boeurs.” LIKE DAISIES BEFORE THE SCYTHE, Raby lives are destroyed in summer by chol era Infantum. The attack of the dlseare Is sudden, its progress is sometimes terribly rapid. Mothers who have given their children Perry Davis* Painkiller In water with a few drops of brandy added can tell how this treatment has checked the diarrhoea and vomiting, and put the little patient out of dancer. 25 and GO eta. ♦ CHINESE EDUCATION. * 4 By Mrs. W. H. Felton. ♦ 4444444444 1444444444444444 The Chinese exclusion bill being under discussion before both houses in congress we may learn a £ood deal of their ways and methods therefrom. They are not ig norant-far from it—as a nation. They are an educated people. Representative Clark, of Missouri, thus addressed the members last Friday: “I confess I have learned a vast amount while the committee has been making its investigations. In the first place, to my utter amazement, and I actually believe to the amazement of every man on that committee, except the chairman, who has had large experience, but to my amaze ment, at any rate, I found out that pri mary education is well nigh universal in China—there are but very few Chinese who have not had primary education; that they have compulsory education and they .have a provision that if the-Chinese child does not go to school they thrash the daddy for not sending him to school, but they do not thrash the child. "If I had been called on two months ago to give an off-hand opinion of what pro portion of Chinese could read or write, I would have been willing to risk my head on the fact that not more than one in a thousand could read or write or had any education at all. “I have increased my stock of knowl edge on this subject at least.” ' The Chinese are not ignorant of primary education as these gentlemerf assure the country, and the Chinese minister who speaks and writes the English language like a college professor is doubtless amused at the prevailing ignorance of the American people on the scope of Chinese education. We might learn something in Georgia from the China plan, because less than 40 per cent of children of school age in Georgia, in the year 3900, went to school, and that left the enormous per cent of sixty which failed to attend. I/get these figures from the official re port of that year. Chiriese children must ( go to school, and nearly all can read and write, according to the statements made in the house of rep resentatives. . The fact of the whole business is, fatal legislation was authorized by the adoption of the fnirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the United States consti tution which (according to Mr. Justice Miller, of the supreme court) passed for the sole benefit of the negro,” and while this country is fighting against the entrance of the Chinese into America, the fatal legislation has planted the negro into the very heart of our civilization in de fiance of al! racial instincts and the dangers of mixed races. Mr. Clark says “we annexed over twen ty thousand Chinese when we annexed the Sandwich Islands. We took in a million and thre-quarters when we took in the Philippines.” And with emphasis he re peats: "If we do not speedily unload these accursed islands, especially the laborers of the land will in agony of soul exclaim, ’Who will deliver us from the body of this death?' I fought the annexation of the Sandwich Inlands on this proposition. I fought the annexation of the Philippines on this proposition, and I want it written on my tombstone that I was one of the 35 men in this house out of -o7 who had the courage, the patriotism, the nerve and the good sense to vote against the payment to Spain of $20,000,000 for the Philippines." If the Chinese exclusion bill passes, then the whole Pacific shore must be studded or lined with coast guardsmen to catch and punish the Chinese who are bound to come in on ships sailing from our new possessions, which Mr. Clark calls "ac cursed.” 4 And it seems that illiteracy wHI “cut ©o ice” in the controversy because these Chi nese can read and write, by a large ma jority. And Christianity will cut no figure, because the exclusion bill will state in plainest words that the Chinese are unfit for association with even American toughs and negro desperadoes, and much more must the white intelligent cltlxens be pro tected from such contact. "Oh! what a tangled web” we wove, when fanatics and sectionalists declared the negro, the black man, to be fit for citlxenshlp and office holding in this south ern land, but who are now denouncing the Chinese and Japanese as unworthy peo ples. The cheering pews comes from New York that the clean plays are taking well in New York. This may be because there is so little competition in that line, or because the people of that city are always eager to see something new. The Semi-Weekly Journal’s j Seed Offer for 1902. I ■ ■■■ W« have arranged with a reliable seed firm of Atlanta, Ga., to supply our subscribers with their vegetable seed. These packets are the regular flve-cent packets offered by reliable dealers, but by agree- Ing to use a large number we are enabled to secure for you a very great reduction m price. The following twelve varieties of seed are included in each packet: - Hastings' Improved Blood Turnip Beet. The most popular variety. Color a deep red with fine form and flavor, very tender and free from stringiness. Early and very uniform in size and shape. Hastings' All-Hesd Early Cabbage. It is well named, haring but a few loose teaues. It is an extra early flat-headed va riety, fine for an early medium sized cab bage for family use throughout the south. It's a sure header with half a chance and always gives satisfaction. Improved Long Green Cucumber. A standard variety for southern family gardens. The cucumbers are extra long and of good size, holding the dark green color until well matured. They are ten der, crisp and free from bitterness. Fine for slicing and make excellent pickles if picked when S or 4 Inches long. Hastings' Drumhead White Cabbage Lettuce. A favorite wherever known. Large, solid heads, weighing two to three pourfds. Crisp, tender and free from bitterness. Leaves outside are a light green, inside almost white. Has but little tendency to run to seed. Fine for family use. Ponce de Leon Cantaloupe or Musk melon. Os rather large »lxe. Strong vigorous grower,, medium early. Melons are of the finest flavor. Flesh very thick and of light green color. Melons regularly rib bed, densely netted. Skin green but turns to a beautiful golden yellow when fully rips. For sl.lO we will aond you The Semi-Weekly Journal one year and in addition send the twelve PaP Now is’th. P t°ime P to d .«:ure your garden wed for early planting. We invite your attention towbat the firm save regarding the quality and quantity of the seed. OFFER— The Semi-Weekly Journal one year The Twelve Papers of Garden Seed r 00 , ■ . 1.1. - $1.60 Our Price for All.. - A Saving of 50 cents TO YOU. The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlanta, Ga. -A-I SUGGESTIONS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS ANOTHER GOOD WOMAN ENDORSES INEBRIATE ASYLUM To the Editor of The Journal: In vesterdav’s Journal I read the letter of Mrs. Callie Ellis, of Jesup, in refer ence to the establishment of an inebriate asylum, and I do nqt agree with her. If she was the .mother of a beautiful son. who from heredity or association had succumbed to the drink habit, woulji she be willing to make drunkenness a crime, and hire her boy to the state? In her own words we will say “a thousand times no." There is not a true mother under heaven who would echo the sentiments of Mrs. Ellis, and if this dreadful affliction was brought home to her own heart and .life, she would be a very unnatural moth er, indeed, to desire to have her boy sent I to the penitentiary or chaingang, to come out at last from the daily association of hardened criminals, lowered in his mor als and humiliated to such an extent, that he could never aspire to associate with his former friends and acquaintances;, she is not like a mother in our city who was a widow with an only son. He was the joy and pride of her heart, and on him she could lean for support and com fort tn his beautiful young manhood, but one Saturday night not many months ago when he was returning home with his wages in »his pocket, he was hailed by some of his friends who over-persua ded him to go to an entertainment of a very prominent and popular military com pany, and in the course of the evening so-called sofe . drinks were indulged in; befote tasting, however, he inquired re peatedly .if there was anything intoxica ting in the beverage; and on being assured there was not, he drank freely and on reaching his home at a late hour he fell in the yard dog drunk, with his half months’ wages gone. If this boy had con tinued drinking, lets say to Mrs. Ellis, put yourself In his heart-broken mother's place and methinks she would be willing (as this mother Is), to make any sacrifice to help establish an inebriate asylum for the purpose of not only redeeming her own boy, but the others mothers' fallen [ boys all over the state. According to my idea of getting rid of the cause of drunkenness. I think the salpons would soon have to go out of business. If every minister of the gospel, and every doctor in our state would start a crusade against liquor, there would not be any new drunkards coming on each year, and we would only need the asylum to cure the old drunkards that are now on hand and I am quite sure they wodld get all the help from the good Christian men and women, that they desire, but until that time eomes, let’s have the sanitarium and seek, with the charity that suffereth long and is kind to save our fallen brother. MRS. JULIA NIX. ANOTHER PHYSICIAN FAVORS INEBRIATE ASYLUM BARWICK. Ga.. March 25, 1902. To the Editor of The Journal:— I am in favor of a state Inebriate hospi tal and believe it would be a blessing to the entire state. There is no such in stitution in the south, and why not Geor gia have the first? In other countries these classes of peo ple are much cared for by legislation. In nearly all the providences of the Domin ion of Canada have passed effective leg islation for the care of the An institution of this kind would en lighten and stimulate the heart of many broken-hearted women and make happy the hearts and homes of many poor chil dren. , I bellve the medical association of Geor gia would give this their most hearty endorsement, at its next session in Sa vannah, which will be next month. I fully agree with the views of Dr. 1 Willis B. Parks, and that of Dr. T. O. Powell, but do not agree at all with the i views of Dr. Gibson. We as physicians are often asked what is insanity and what fs its cause—heredity is a very Important factor. Insanity which is a lowed vitality of the nervous system, due largely to al coholism, from an inherited predisposi | tlon towards mental decay. Chronic al ’ coholism is a condition very difficult for [ a general practitioner to treat, especially those cases of t marked hereditary ten- Florida Favorite Watermelon. A splendid melon for family use in the south. Medium size to large and very prolific. Early and of the finest flavor. Melons weigh from. 20 to 40 pounds and are of a dark green color, slightly striped with lighter green. Flesh red, crisp, ten der. melting and very sweet A sure and heavy cropper. Whits Velvet Okra. A splendid variety for home use. Our special strain of this is especially desira ble wltn its medium size, round smooth pods, free from ridges and not prickly to the touch. Very early. Hastings’ YeEow Globe Onion. Splendid variety for early ’ plantings in the south., No prettier, or larger finely shaped onions than this can be grown. Color, a very light yellow or straw color. Flesh firm and good keepers. Early Long Scarlet Radish. A favorite In most home gardens. Roots long and of a bright scarlet color. Flesh crisp and tender and when rapidly Igrown U entirely free from pungent tazte. | Mammoth White Bush Squash. Every one knows the White Bush or "Patty Pan” squash, grown so generally in the South. This Is identical with that variety except tn size, our Mammoth, be ing nearly double the size of the other, giving twice the quantity of squash from the same vine. dency. The treatment of those cases that has the hereditary taint iz most effec tually accomplished in an institution of this kind, where he can be carefully watched from a period off 12 to 36 months. A large per cent of morphinism is due indirectly to alcoholism. We cannof Ignore that a great many organic diseases are due io chronic alco holism. As Dr. Powell has already said the moral effects of alcohol are to be found visited upon,the succeeding generations of drunken parents. Alcohol seems to effect the parts of tha brain which were most highly organized and developed, by so doing it effects the highest centers, then the intermediate centers and then the lower centers. By so doing this leads to alcoholic insanity. In ninety-five per cent of persons, sent to the asylum present themselves of stig mata of degeneration, brought about by this drug Inaccurately used. This is a small per cent of cases seem directly, but over a vast majority of cases are seen in the ancestral type. Hoping to soon see an inebriate hospi tal in the state, yours truly, 8. E. SANCHEZ, M. D. SOUTH CAROLINIAN WANTS FARMERS TO COMBINE ROCK HILL, 8. C., Adfll IL 1902. To the Editor of The Journal: Hon. Harvie Jordan’s timely article on "Combination of Interests” in The Journal, of the 3rd instant, should have wide pub-, llclty. It shows up the present situation exactly and should be read by everyone who is interested in the welfare of the y south. This work of organization should be commenced at once In every township, and should get as close to the people as possible. The condition of the southern farmer can be very greatly Improved by such an organization as he intimates, pro vided the politicians are kept in the rear, and the influential planter takes the lead. The thoughtless will immediately object scornfully that such enterprise is doomed to defeat, because so many like efforts have been failures, but such articles, con tinually kept before the farming classes, will put them to thinking and tend to ward educating them up to the possibili ties. Now is the time to start this move, and a plan should be prepared that will commend itself to the leading men in that business. And it seems- to me that Mr. Jordan is the proper party to outline a scheme for organizing, and the combina tions in other lines of .work certainly af ford a strong incentive as well as object lesson. DAVID HUTCHISON. . WHAT WILL WE HAVE AFTER THE WHIPPING POSTf To the Editor of The Journal: • In a recent issue a correspondent, who signs “Subscriber.” advocates a rehabil itated whipping post, not so much for the benefit of public morals as to provide a scarecrow for the idle negroes who Infest the city and render life and property in secure. We all recognize the magnitude of the evil and agree that there should be a remedy provided, but is the whipping post in any sense educative, reformative or permanent as a deterrent to crime? . Your correspondent has failed to "touch the heart of the question, and’ is content to touch only the surface. A degrading penalty is harmful not only to the recipient, but it tends to degrade those who Apply, those who witness and those who advocate. Do not shirk the re- — sponsibllity resting upon you. “To whom m,uch is given from him much will be re quired,” and we who have the vantage ground will be guilty of a crime if we consent to resort to brutal methods tn dealing with these derelicts who have never known wisdom’s ways and who are not likely to acquire any valuable lesson through the brutalizing influence of a pub lic or private pillory or whipping post. There is a nobler path in which we need to tread if we would move forward and , not back. WILLIAM RILEY BOYD. Those who have real merit are the last ones to see it in themselves and the first to see. it in others—Josh Billings' Allml- New Stone Tomato. The heaviest yielder of all tomatoes in this section. Fruit very large, smooth and firm and of the finest quality. This variety uoes not rot or split easily and lasts Veil Into summer. Good for either > slicing raw or for canning. , H. G. HASTINGS A CO., . WHCLI.’BALB AND RETAIL SEEDSMEN, NO. 4 WEST MITCHELL STRBET. ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. U. 1902. Atlanta Journal Co., Atlanta, Ga Gentlemen: In reply to your inquiry e> to the col lection of seeds that we are furnlehlng you / for premiums with the Semi-Weekly we would state that we hereby guarantee that the seed used in these collections is the same that we furnish our own customers and that the packets are of full else and that the seed contained therein la of the very highest quality obtainable. This col lection of seeds that you are furnishing your subscribers is Identically the same that they would have to pay us 60 cents for if they sent orders to us direct or purchased same in person at our store. Through you. they are not only getting the best there is to be had, but the full quantity that they would get if purchasing for cash. Yours truly. Signed. H. G. HASTINGS A CO. Early Red Top Turnip. One of the favorite spring varieties to come In before everything else In tho garden. A quick grower, flesh very fine grained and sweet flavored. The dark red or purple top extending down to where the bulb rests In the soil adds greatly to its appearance.
