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6 The Semi-Weekly Jonrnal «Br»rwl at th* Atlanta Pnatofftc* aa MaU Mat ter of tke Second Clean. ♦ JAMES R. GRAY Editor and General Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Twelve month**‘J*? Sht montan ' Three 3>«att>» J#c The aetnl-Weekly Journal la l’” bl ’* t,e ? " n Turning end Friday, and i» analled by the snort evt roetee for early deliver* It contains newt from all orer the wmld. brenght by apeclai leaaed wire* into onr office. It hae a etaff of distinguished contributor*. with »troag departments of special yalue to the boina and the farm A rente wontad at svcry poatofflce. liberal eatnsnlartm allowed. Outfit free. The only trareliny repreaentatlena we bate are J A. B F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle and M H. Gilreath We will be responeible only fee n>»ney raid tn the abets named traveling repsiaintatl res. ♦ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ♦ ♦ The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ subscription expulres. 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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. ■i" '■ - - . The man who sued his wife because she would not cook hts meals proves the exception to all rules. *- 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, MSB#’ - - - S' .. 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.' ” New and Old Subscribers Notice Your Paper will be stopped as soon as your subscription expires. Look at the Label on your Paper now and see when your time expires. 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Enclosed please find One Dollar, and send me: The Semi-Weekly Journal My Name is The Gentlewoman Magazine rhe Metropolitaji and Rural Home Town State The Southern Agriculturist R F D All 4 —One Year $1 Former Address I / timely Top/cs.-' i 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.
