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Tuesday. March 22, 1910.
Xaybe Cannon will be only a small bore,
after all.
Where are the senate Insurgents? And
Beveridge ‘.a silent.
WUI there be any Cannon salute for
Roosevelt when he comes home?
-'Shortage of babies felt In New Or
leans.” Spasmodic or contagious?
wm it take the "Big Stick" of Roose
wait to beat down the Mace of Cannon?
dust hid New Orleans on the
same day Roosevelt left the desert. Anals
gous.
To the divorce suit of Virginia Hamed
Both era only another sidetrack on the
Southern ?
The chanticleers on women's hats this
season win be principally on a high fi
nancial roost.
The Massachusetts hen. who laid the
nine-ounce egg. must have been born
near Plymouth Rock.
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The man who sued his wife because
she would not cook hts meals proves the
exception to all rules.
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The western minister, who dresses as
Mephisto in the pulpit, beats the devil,
so his congregation says.
F"" Taft won t comment on Cannon, says
news story. Taft e4ems to be silent on
' many things at present.
Rsoaevelt declares that he prefers a
hippo to a camel. Has the G. O. P. ele
phant grown restive In his stable?
MISS SQUIRRELS PARTY.
The Gray Squirrels were the oldest
squirrel family in Central park They
had a fine home in a large maple tree
beside the lake. This winter the young
daughter of the family was ready to come
out in society, so they wished to give a
. grand party for her.
They had been saving nuts all the fall,
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I sn they could have a splendid feast. But
« Mias Squirrel had set her heart on serv
ing almonds at this party, and they had
none All the people who came into the
park with nuts for the squirrels had pea-
F, • n«t»—always peanuts. For several days
the whole family had been scouring the
perk on the lookout for almonds, with no
Success
Now there happened to be In the park
a dashing frisky young squirrel who
had admired this belle of squirreldom
for many months, but he was not invited
to the party. He and Mr. Gray Squirrel
had had a quarrel last summer over a
bsg of nuts, and none of the family
I would speih to him.
He had heard some chattering gossip
about Miss Squirrels distress over ths
lack of almonds, and he was sorry, be-
I cause he was a kind-hearted chap. He
was frisking about among the benches.
I when an old gentleman came along and
sat down. This man was very fond of
feeding the squirrels and always bad hta
t pockets full of nuU. This day he had
brought almonds. When the little fellow
[diecovered this he had an idea. It he
A could take to Miss Gray Squirrel al
monds enough for her party, may be she
i, would forgive him and be friendly. He
waa very busy the next half hour car
rying almonds to a hiding place.
Then he went to the mansion by the
lake and offered them all to Miss Squir
. rel She was so pleased she forgave
g him at once He was invited right in
rand be found hlmeelf the guest of honor
; «t this great "coming out” party.
HOW THE STATE WOULD PROFIT
BY THE' BLECKLEY PROPOSITION
We publish elsewhere today a communication from Hon. Bar
ry Wright, of county, a member of the general assembly,
in which he expresses doubt that the construction of a civic center
for Atlanta, in accordance with the famous Bleckley plan, would
prove beneficial to the state.
We take pleasure iu calling particular attention to Mr.
Wright’s views, first, because we are sure that he voices them
fair-mindedly, but especially because he has thus opened for us
an opportunity of showing wherein the state of Georgia as well
as the city of Atlanta will profit by the carrying out of this
splendid enterprise. And we believe that when Air. V right
has studied the details of the plan he will become one of its most
ardent supporters as a representative of the state.
There are four parties directly concerned in this civic center
proposition. They are the owners of property adjacent to the
railway tracks, the city of Atlanta, the railway companies and the
state of Georgia. The interest of the property owners is self-evi
dent, for the value ofjheir holdings would be increased by millions
of dollars if this sewer of smoke could be bridged over and hid
den by a beautiful plaza stretching fromt the Forsyth to the A\ ash
ington street viaduct. The city is as obviously interested because
the construction of such a plaza would unite her now dissevered
north and south sides, would augment tax values, abolish the nui
sance of smoke and noise and would exalt her incalculably among
American cities. As to the railroads, they would be relieved of
the problem of grade crossings and would acquire terminals far
more modern than those now in use.
Mr. Wright is in thorough acquiescence until he reaches a
consideration of the state’s interests. There he begins to dissent.
Yet, the state will share an equal, if not a preponderant good with
the property owners, the railways and the city. Just what the
state would acquire under the Bleckley plan is this: It would
come into permanent possession of a twenty or twenty-five-story
office building from which, in the course of a few years, it would
enjoy a kingly revenue; it would become sole and perpetual owner
of the proposed plaza; it would secure vast improvements on its
railway property so that its rental of the state road and the ter
minals would be greatly increased. And the state would acquire
all these advantages practically without the expenditure of a
dollar.
A closer glance will show how this is true. •
At the outset of his communication Mr. Wright declares:
It would leem that the idea of a civic center for Atlanta to be
made at the expense of the state of Georgia, should and does appeal to
everyone except the state. The adjoining property owners would be
greatly benefited, the smoke nuisance would be eliminated and the city
of Atlanta beautified but the state would be involved Tn expenditures
and in the annual loss of a revenue of a hundred or so thousand
dollars. I
But under the Bleckley plan, the state would not be involved
in any expenditure and would certainly not suffer the loss of a
dollar. It is not proposed that the state should bear the cost of
bridging over the railway tracks or constructing the office build
ing on the site of the present Union depot. Such an idea has nev
er entered into any of the plan? suggested for financing the civic
center. One of these plans may be set forth as follows:
A syndicate of business men made up largely if not entirely
of the interested property owners might undertake the building of
the plaza and the erection of the office building. This syndicate
might issue bonds, a portion of the bonds to be taken by citizens
at large, a portion by the city and perhaps a portion by the state.
With the money thus secured, the improvements would be made,
on the state's property. The tracks would be bridged from For
syth to Washington street. The giant office building and rail
way passenger station combined would be built, all on the state’s
property, to be held forever by the state. The money to be spent
would not come out of the state’s treasury. The only thing the
state would be called upon to give would be a franchise for a terra
of years sufficient to pay back by means of revenue from tie of
fice building the sum required for carrying out the plan. When
the syndicate should be recouped for its expense, then all the
improvements would be the unencumbered property of the state.
Nor would it require more than comparatively a few years to
produce in the way of office rent an amount amply sufficient for
that purpose. It is estimated that the total cost of carrying out
the Bleckley plan would be between four and five million dollars.
Let us assume the maximum figure. The car shed of the present
Union depot covers a space approximate one hundred and ten by
three hundred and fifty feet. A building of twenty stories on this
site would furnish a net floor space of some five hundred thousand
square feet. Figured conservatively on a basis of Atlanta office
rentals in general, this space would bring a grjss income of five
hundred thousand dollars annually. Deduct from this five hun
dred thousand dollars annually fifty per cent for operating ex
penses and there will remain a yearly net revenue of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, which would be apportioned to the
payment of interest on the bonds and also to the retirement of
the bonds from time to time. If the cost of the project should
be five million dollars it would require only twenty years, at the
rate of a quarter of a million dollars net revenue yearly, to pay
the total cost. And thenceforth the state would not only own one
of the most valuable office buildings in all the country and own the
plaza besides, but it would reap through all the decades to come
a magnificent annual income.
To find a better bargain would be impossible. Without spend
ing a dollar, the state of Georgia has the opportunity of acquiring
a five million dollar investment. Surely her interest in the Bleck
ley plan is as large and vital as is that of the city, the property
owners or the railroads.
The foregoing plan, it should be stated, has not been adopted.
It is but one of a number being considered. But it serves to illus
trate the immense possibilities for profit offered the state by the
civic center plan.
Mr. Wright suggests in his communication that the state it
self should erect an office building on the site of the Union depot.
Under the Bleckley plan, the state would acquire such a building
without any outlay of money. We do not believe the legislature
could be brought to appropriate money for the construction of an
office building. But it should gladly accept the offer of a syndi
cate to present it with a building. He also suggests that buildings
v could be erected in the center of a concrete bridge over the rail
way tracks along the entire distance from Washington to Forsyth
street. But such a plan, if executed, would render the heart of the
city as unsightly as the railway tracks now do. Besides, from an
engineering and architectural standpoint it would doubtless prove
impracticable.
In the achievement of the Bleckley plan. Atlanta’s interests
and Georgia's are dne. Whatever makes for the comfort and
comeliness of the capitol become the pride and blessing
of the entire commonwealth. That the people of the state at large
so regard this brilliant undertaking is manifested through scores
of letters received by The Journal and by Mr. Haralson Bleckley,
letters of congratulation and approval. We believe it is the wish
of the people of Georgia as well as their practical concern that the
state should grant a franchise for the proposed improvements.
We welcome most cordially Mr. Wright’s discussion of the
civic center plan, knowing as we do his integrity as a legislator and
his loyalty to all that make for the betterment of the state. We
trust that he may come tn see this particular issue in a different
light, fnr his counsel and influence are of far-reaching value to any
cause he espouses.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, MARCH 22. 1910.
OVERFEEDING AND
vJ UNDERWORKING
IN THE CHURCH
In St. Paul’s farewell address to the
Elders of Ephesus, assenbled on the sea
shore at Miletus, is preserved a saying
of the Saviour whict) is not found in the
Gospels, but which is of the utmost
value, and which has manifold applica
tions. The Apostle said "remember the
words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It
is more blessed to give than receive.”
The primary application of these words
is doubtless to the giving and receiving
of material benefits, but the principle in
volved in them is applicable to higher
things than money or any thing that
monej- can buy. It is not the most
blessed attitude for one to assume to
any good when one is always seeking to
get rather than to give. To receive good
is well, but to give it out is better. The
life Into which all good pours, but from
which little or no good issues becomes a
sort of moral dead sea for lack of a
suitable outlet.
Herein is the source of no little trouble
in the churches of today. There is a
dragon in the pews demanding to be fed
with services and week to
week with no purpose beyond being fed
with what it calls for. There is an over
feeding and an underworking upon the
part of thousands wno call themselves
Christians and who rest their claim to
be called Christians on the fact that they
habitually attend public worship. Noth
ing seems to come of the sermons which
they swallow so voraciously except the
demand for more sermons more highly
spiced with piquant sayings and enter
taining novelties. No agonizing purpose
for loftier living is sprung by the dis
courses heard and no quickening of zeal
on behalf of the salvation of others
arises from what is spoken from the pul
pit.
Multiform are the evil effects upon
both preachers and people which spring
from this sermon guzzling habit. It re
duces the preacher from the position of
a servant of God to that of a mere en
tertainer. TMs explains the painful and
pernicious effort to be always saying
something new which characterizes many
preachers. Some fall to discussing the
shifting theories of science or the muta
ble speculations of philosophy in order to
be "fresh” to their people. Others af
fect literary airs as if the pulpit were a
lecture platform. Still others attract at
tention by playing the part of censor
morum of municipal officers and political
affairs, prating much of what they are
pleased to call “civic righteousness.”
And there is another class who use the
pulpit for the treatment of current events
as reported in the newspapers, making
themselves leaders in what might be
styled a “current topics chib.”
All these men are to be more pitied
than condemned. They are more weak
than wicked. They have abdicated their
high functions as ambassadors for Christ
at the bidding of an imperious demand
that they be entertaining or get out,of
the places which they occupy. They
speak not with authority, for they have
ceased to have authority. They are be
fore their people like waiters in fashion
able cases to take orders for palatable
products.
If the result is bad upon the ministry it
is far more hurtful to those who fill the
pews. They become peevish and restless,
and all their religious convictions become
unsettled by an eager desire to be enter
tained rather than editied. They do not
attend church to find guidance and help
in Christian life, or to be the better fur
nished for Christian work: but to be
pleased with the ' performance of the
day. There never has been and never
can lie but one outcome from such hab
its. In the days of the prophet Ezekiel,
six centuries before Christ, this sort of
thing became common, and the effect
then was what it is now. We read these
words of the Lord to the prophet: "Thou
son of man, the children of thy people
still are talking against thee by the walls
and in the doors of the houses, and speak
one to another, every one to his brother,
saying, Come, I pray j'ou and hear what
is the word that cometh forth from the
Lord. And they come unto thee as the
people cometh, and they sit before thee
as my people, and they hear thy words,
but they will not do them: for with their
mouth they shew much love, but their
heart goeth after their covetousness.
And lo thou art unto them as a very
lovely song of one that hath a pleasant
voice, and can play well on an Instru
ment: for they hear thy words and do
them not.” (Ezekiel xxxiii:30,31.32). This
evil habit of turning a prophet into an
entertainer and perverting preaching into
a pastime resulted then in moral paraly
sis as it does now.
Among the heathen nations there were
no prophets, but there appeared among
them great philosophers and moral teach
'ers. Os all places Athens was most cele
brated for such men; but when the Ath
enians went to hear them simply to be
diverted by them the Athenian character
became frivolous and shallow, and Ath
enian morality perished. In the Acts of
the Apostles St. Luke gives us in one
brief sentence the root of their flippancy
and their moral degeneracy. He says,
“All the Athenians and strangers which
were there spent their time in nothing
else, but either to tell or to hear some
new thing.” (Acts xvii:2l). After that
statement we do not wonder at their
treatment of St. Paul, the greatest
preacher of the ages. When they first
heard his message of "Jesus and the
resurrection” they hurried him “unto
Areopagus, saying, May we know what
this new doctrine, whereof thou speak
est, is”? But when he called them to
repentance and pointed them to a day of
judgment when God would “judge the
world in righteousness by that man
whom He hath ordained” they mocked
him. From that city of novelty mongers
we read of but two converts by name.
The impression made by the narrative of
St. Luke is that in Athens the great Apos
tle made few converts. How could it have
been otherwise? There was not enough
moral earnestness in the city to take hold
of Paul’s message of unearthly truth.
The only use they had for him was t >
tell them something newsy. Such men
would turn the harpers of heaven into a
minstrel troupe or an opera company.
One of the worst things which comes
to pass with such people is the impatienc*.
which they come to feel witli ail those
great fundamental principles of life upon
which character rests and destiny turns
They call such principles “common-place
platitudes”; and such truths are com
monplace. They are like the common air,
the common sunshine, and the common
seasons of spring-time and harvest. But
by them men live, and mankind can never
hear them too often.
These solemn and indispensable com
monplace truths are not much heard In
the present-day pulpit except in incon
spicuous churches to which earnest men
and women go seeking God seriously. Let
any man read the themes advertised be
fore hand by certain preachers and say
whether he would likely hoar such truths
in the places to which the advertisements
invite him.
And this pulpit advertising manifests
many phases of the evil under discus
sion. It Is like the show-windows which
are arranged on Saturday nights to
catch the eyes of the street strollers on
Sunday. Sometimes it gets as low down
as the level of the advertising of bargain
counter sales. It expresses the ambition
of pulpiteers begging for patronage from
a whimsical public. It is both cheap and
cheapening.
Among some classes of men advertising
is accounted unprofessional. Some things
are so precious and sacred they He quite
By Bishop
Warren
A. Candler
outside the advertiser’s range. Beputable
doctors and decent lawyers do not adver
tise. They simply announce themselves
In a plain card and office address. They
are right. Sensational efforts to bring to
public notice the services whicli they of
fer would be the surest evidence of their
Incompetency and unfitness. So also the
preaching of the gospel is not a thing to
be exploited in the market place. The true
messenger of heaven has nothing to sell.
Salvation to a lost world is not to be
offered by the arts of a patent medicine
vender. Sermons are not to be proclaimed
noisily “for sale” in the tones of the
street peddler or with the tricks of the
auctioneer.
These reprehensible methods of church
advertising could never have become com
mon if preachers seeking patronage had
not become common. They will pass away
when all preachers resume the position of
ambassadors of God and spurn the posi
tion of congregational caterers.
But there will always be caterers in
the pulpit as long as there are people
who want that sort of thing. Men some
times say, “like priest, like people”; but
this is to misquote the Scripture and
to reverse the true order. Hosea said,
“like people, like priest”, (Hosea lx:9)
and Isaiah before him declared “as with
the people, so with the priest”. (Isaiah
xxlv:2) As long as there are multitudes
of people who do not go to Church to
find the way of salvation and the path
of duty, but to be entertained and to
hear something new’ there will be a sup
ply of men to meet the demand thus
created.
St. Paul foresaw and foretold these
things, and warned his son Timothy
against them saying. “The time will come
'when they will not endure sound doctrine:
but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having Itching
ears; and they shall turn away their
ears from the truth, and shall be turned
into fables." (II Timothy iv:3,4). Cer
tainly; and why not? Fables are far more
entertaining than serious truth which puts
a strain on the moral nature, rebuking
sin and calling one to strenuous efforts
for holiness. Truth is no more capable of
use as a means of mere entertainment
than healing medicines are of use as pal
atable beverages. When a congregation
demands a brewer of pulpit beverages
rather than a healer and helper of souls
they can always find him. He is a good
"mixer” all sorts of stimulating aromat-
I ics. and instead of a white apron wears
a white necktie. He may be guaranteed
to be always “up-to-date”. He will please
at all costs. To entertain he will offer
for sale, if the market calls for it, decoc
tions of “near-scepticism.”
The remedy for the evil, in both preach
er and people, is found in religious earn
estness,—in real concern for a vigorous
spiritual life. If all hands would go forth
wdth the burning purpose to save the
world from sin. themselves included, en
tertainer Ln the pulpit and the entertained
in the pew would vanish from the earth on
the same day. This whole unadmirable
and unwholesome condition is a gouty
condition arising from, overfeeding and
underworking.
I 1
Story Teller
A friend of James Whitcomb Riley tells
of an occasion when the humorist, who
usually dislikes social functions, was in
duced to attend a “literary” dinner in
Indianapolis ghen in honor of one of
the novelists w’ho live there. Mr. Riley
had been told to take in to dinner a
sister of the host, an excellent woman,
but not literary.
The conversation touching upon the
beauties of Chaucer, about whom a cer
tain set of the city was then cultivating
a fad, a spirited discussion ensued, dur
ing which the bewildered sister caugTt
from time to time only the name
“Chaucer.” At last she w’hispered to
Riley:
“Who is this Mr. Chaucer they're talk
ing so much about? Is he very popular
in society?”
“Madam,” solemnly responded Riley,
“that man did something that forever
shuts him out of society.” »
“Mercy!” exclaimed the worthy woman.
“What was it?”
“He died several hundred years ago,”
said Riley.
SHO'RT STORY
Dining as honored guest with the gov
ernors w’as Private John Allen, of Mis
sissippi, whose very whimsical, way of
saying things makes people smile. He
himself told what happened when he was
once called on to speak:
“I got up and said,” explained Private
Allen, “that I came with the understand
ing that I was not to speak during this
trip. Then someone cried from the other
end of the room, ‘Yes, and I came with
the same undertsanding.' ”
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T\e President and the Speaker
Dancing in the House
The chief executive and the speaker are
the two leading men in the United States.
All legislation in congress is directed by
the speaker and all authority is centered
in the president to execute the laws.
So It would seem that we. as a nation,
are in a hilarious mood, and driving dull
care away if the late hop in the White
House Is an indicator. The chief men
in the nation have been doing a dancing
stunt, and the newspapers have an item
that will be copied all over the United
States and across the ocean. The cartoons
are something worth while to look at,
and we are advertised as a dancing race
of people, whatever else we may lack in
lesser and more common practices.
The speaker, who is away up in the*
70’s, has shown to our younger men that
he can dance a regular “hoe down.” (I
guess it is the nigger name for “double
shuffle”) and the president danced the
"Highland fling.” or something of simi
lar agility. Men and angels! Wh_t a scene
in high official life!
Here we go, up, uppy.
Here we go, down, down, downy.
Oh! what dear, sweet creatures we be
As here we go round, round, roundy!
King Edward sets the fashion in the
clothes he wears. He is presented with
a fine hat by some one of the notable
hat makers. He wears it as he drive*
about London, on some sunshiny day. Im
mediately the news is telegraphed to
Paris. Vienna and the United States and
the hat is at once the fashion, and the
hat-man comes Into his fortune.
The president arid the speaker have
opened wide the doors to all the dance
halls in two hemispheres, and we are
suddenly entered upon a lively crusade for
and against dancing. All the pulpits in
the United States have had a setback,
the preachers must now hunt some new
topic, some other thing to warn with,
some other evil to thunder against, for
Terpsichore has come into her own!
Because I am an. old lady and have
seen a good many days in life and have
had tnany experiences, good, bad and in
different. I hope I may be indulged in a
few words in this connection, for, of
course, I shall not dare to further rebuke
this pair of world-famed statesmen and
politicians, who are dancers, per se, and
have set the fashion.
I Th trouble with dancing halls is tho
I promiscuity of the people who congre
igate and continually participate. A
I dance in your parlor may be a perfectly
i harmless recreation, while a dance in a
large public assemblage, where people can
enter by favor or through money s power
or by any other scheme, good or other
wise, exposes the people, men and women,
who go there to many and various (well, I
will say the word) passions.
To make the dance very’ animating you
must have the two sexes and unless you
have women dancers the men will not
care to dance longer than the continuance
of a "hoe-down" or a “double shufflle, ’
at a single performance. The president
and the speaker were careful to lead off
alone, although as rival dancers they
have set the fashion and the pace for all
sorts of dancing in all sorts of places, and
with all classes of people. With a trip
ping fantastic toe they have kicked away
all the barriers against dancing in public
that w’ere built up by a century of warn
ing and entreaty by the pulpit.
The question that comes up now is a
serious one, for we must ask ourselves
in all seriousness—was it prudent—is it
sefe—to thus enthrone Tepslchore? An
excitable people who have been under
the domination of Bacchus—for so long a
time and who could not overthrow this
domination of liquor—so long as dance
halls were in alliance are now flung
back to dance halls, again—and the re
straining effort is again to be recom
menced.
The objection to pool rooms—less In the
infatuation that begins and grows and
continues, until it develops the insatiate
appetite for gambling—ln these pool
rooms—among men and boys.
The objection to public dances, lies in
the infatuation—that begins, grows and
continues until any sort of company is
acceptable if based on superior dancing
(and nothing else) and young men and
women who do continually dance togeth
er will in time (and short time very
often) become very familiar and pro
foundly infatuated with the dance and
the nimble dancers.
Some time ago, the police raided a mag-
nificent mansion in New York city where
a rich young man celebrated his ap
proaching marriage by a revel, an orgy
with his mates and associates who had
hired a dancing woman to appear—and
display herself in sensuous dances as the
chief feature of the pro-marriage func
tion.
Had she the right to dance in tha!
private palatial apartment—if there ii
no harm in the White House dance, led
by the president and the speaker?
Why did the police raid that million
aire’s mansion, if there was no harm iu
the woman’s agile feet? I leave yoiJ
to answer the question for yourself.
Ah! I hear you remark “there is nt
comparison between the hired dancing
girl and these very high officials.” No
comparison at all, except as to the dif
ference between their opportunity and
her own. Both were violently infatuated
with the amusement, and I have mon
sympathy with a poor girl who hired he:
feet for a fancy price for one evening!
entertainment, than I have for a graj
headed legislator nearly 75 years old.
who is a recognized leader of other men
—in high places—who w’antonly occupied
his spare time. In whirling around like a
dancing Dervish, over ■ White Housi
floors—when strikes, murder and violent*
are convulsing the progress of the United
States, and millions of people are going
hungry, because they cannot maki
enough by day's wages to feed an 4
clothe and shelter themselves under pres
ent conditions.
We are all acquainted with the storj
that has come down the ages—along
with Nero—the musical emperor of Rorni
who played the fiddle while the imperial
city was in conflagration.
Nero, knowing very well what was go
ing on outside, his crime lay in his in
difference to a suffering people’s condi
tion. If he had been prudent enough tc
sir still, and conceal his Indifference bj
silence, Nero would rank equally higl
with many of his class and kind, but h<
desired so much to fiddle that he over
flowed with the infatuation for fiddling.
Our national dancers—so overflowed
•with the Infatuation for the dance—thal
they couldn’t help their hilarity, I sup
pose, but they have placarded them
salves as simply dancers, so Infatuated
that their high positions could not curt
nor age and dignity control their passioi
for the dance.
Some Talk About Hens
There is an item going the rounds of tM
newspapers to the following effect:
“A St. Lonis woman has disco»ered that l
sure way to discourage a sitting hen Is t<
place a Teddy bear in the nest. She deelarey
she has tried it more than a hundred timei
without a single failure.
That ia a good one on the ben. If it is tougl
on Teddy. If this recipe Is reliable then then
will be a market for the banked up Teddj
bears that drugged the toy market so hear
ily some months ago—because an obstinate set
ter is poor property. I bare had some hen*
in time past, that would set nearly all theii
feathers loose, and never hatch a living chicken.
But It takes a turkey hen to beat the whok
fowl tribe —when it comes to cleaving to hei
near, after the eggs get away from her. Sb«
will turn over atones and chips and wear he»
under parts as bare as your hand—when th<
notion to set gets Into her turkey brain—ani
if you put her In a close pen. and she hap
pens to get out. she will make a blue streak,
going to ter coveted nest. That’s where we
get the proverb, “Run like a turkey.”
But in all seriousness—the chicken and tub
key business has reached enormous proportions.
The egx market Is not yet so great as the meal
market, but it Is fast catching up with it. and
us they have been storing eggs, by the million,
we already find corners In the egg market—
the same as in the meat market. They not
only store eggs, but I read of liquid eggs,
that are used to cook with, and I prcstim*
these are condensed eggs, something like con
densed milk and cream are put up for buyert
in little cans.
This condensed milk la nice for tea and cob
fee. but there Is so little In a can.* that it ii
certainly dear In price at 6 cents a can.
We cannot buy a hen In Cartersville to eel
or to lay eggs today for less than 45 centi
eaeb. and some of them look old enough t<
b* pensioned as veterans. When you considel
the small outlay that Is needed to feed •
flock of laying hens, it Is a wonder that chick,
en farms are not sprinkled thickly along th«
byways and public highways—and they will be,
as soon as onr farm women wake up to theii
opportunity. Five or ten acres well cultivated
In grain will feed a large number, and otri
southern climate is so mild that they need bul
little expense as to buildings. The manure W
as good as Peruvian guano, as far as it goes,
and If there Is green picking and clean water,
the chicken will scratch and grow to frying slu
in a few weeks—with little grain.
Now that dogs ar»- curtailed by a general
tax law. we may raise fowls all about—an!
a family with a few acres of ground and ons
horse to plow and drive to market with th«
eggs, should soon make a decent living.
Then the eggs and chickens are in demand
all the year around. The money is really cash,
and sometimes egga and poultry bring nearlj
famine prices, they are so high and scarce.
