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| | Friday. Apnl 22. 1910
Ljj Earthquake in Costa Rica Earthquake,
gr simple revolution?
The cheapness of Incomes is to blame no
less than high prices.
*, It’s hard on President Taft, having to
see the Washington team play.
♦ When the Roosevelts arrive in Vienna,
they can test the real Vienna rolls.
♦ No hope of ever returning to the fall
aseaions of the legislature, with the team
»* vt got.
The lady census enumerators ought to
have no hesitancy in asking other ladies
their ages.
I Gaynor has also been mentioned as
Democrat> s hope, but we still think it
will be Hr>an.
The pen that writes the baseball dope
Is mightier than the typewriter that clicks
off the editorial
•Taft may advocate woman's suf
frage." an item says. Even if he did. Al
dnch wouldn't let him put it Into effect.
E It ftf remarkable that while Colonel
RorAfveTt remains silent, his views.
agYgrtheless. manage to leak Into the
dispatcher
A scientific authority says there is no
use of worrying, the comet won’t hurt
us No use of worrying even if it should
bu us. for that matter.
BACHELOR’S BUTTONS
BT PAUL FKJU-L
* "leant* to re you’re looking unusually nt
tbl« •eeaiag," remarked Mr*. Brer*.
Cawood grloteu rather consciously oetore ne
replied: "You are ao >jtnpathetU- and belpflit.
Mrs. Bears. I dos t wind telling you taingr.
Vow. don't yen think tbta get up ougbt to nave
some affect' I'os bound tor him Heatu a now.
If yon think 111 do 1 U go uu wits au ea-y
■lad."
Mrs Bren levied him over thoughtfully.
, "BUjblv ’ abe said, at length, "you re an
right froac the haberdasher* point of view: out
•o are doaen* of other boys tnat go to toe
Reath* There * a Until to the perfection <r
a man's drea*. Wny doo t you try eumetning
; erigittal’’
. -I dos t understand ’’ aald Enw.xd. "Mtouldn t
a fellow look hla beat wh-n Be goe* counts
"Ob. It dore no barm: .but masculine gar-
!
M*4
•Ten poor thing: ' cr.ed Mu Meats, immedi
ately interested
meet* don’t const for muca. especially wnn a
girl Ilk- Gertni.le Heath. Gertrude I* dome*
tl.- She alga* for somebody to iook alter, a
eple and *<>** youth, ruddy with health ami
spirits, duaoa't appeal to her a* mu- b aa a
brelraggied kitten or a bomele** dog ’
There a Utile mote conversation. *n-l
Knwood did not go Mralgbt to the Heath*.
Flrat. be returned to hl* own room* and *t>»ni
a busy half boer. He arrived ia Gertfhd*
Heath’s parlor a decided contrast to several
. *4t.er ToutbOil fashion plates already gather'd
at that goal. Hi* new suit bad beeu discard**
for on* of las’ year’s vintage. well brush. <1
and prea*ed. hut ahowing unmi*ta»...e sign*
as wear.
bwood gained a seat nearest ms nosre** ano
after a few remarks took along urea tn ano
swelled bl* chest with quite tne u-aireti result.
Tw-- buttons popped off the front or nt* coat.
In-lead of pretending to ign-.-v the t<»*. a*
oth<r* might hate oon-. Robert threw him-.-ir
on the nor* an derawleu about until ne na-i
retrieved the br'tn* from under the table.
Ip ean't seem to make tn-m atay on • ne
Observed to the girl be*!<le him.
1" “Too poor thing.” -Tied Mis* Hearn, imra-
• dlateu tntereated "lx» you really *ew tn- m
an yowtwlfr’
Ft "Well. I’m ent mu-6 of a land at sewing.
h- renfeaaed "There are other wav* m-Kti
.1 n-lcker ' A* h» spoke he threw back toe
Mjapel of hl* coat and revealed taat an nut on*
|■ ut the rvmatning buttons bad o-en secured t.y
’*» bent pin* sklllfullr ti-riiai tbrougn toe tor-nu
Mr'Asia* and fastened tn the clotn.
4 s Mis* Reuth gave a little exclamation of pur
"Aren’t men b.tple**: lit nave tne mv i
bring reu one of father a coat* to »itp on wnn*
! sew these button* on tor you. I jn*t lore
to **w.”
After tb«t Mire Heath discovered anccesatvejy
that two fingers of Knwond’s gto-e* were rip
P pad. that fee bad a bad cough and had roegotren
I hla *v<-rev*t. -nd several other fact* cqnarty
Calculated to prove that <ie*f.|te ni* six te-t
of sturdy physical manhood he waa -OHonsiy
» ’ tneai-abie of taking cate of bintoeir
B Rbwood waited until bl* mala bad tai:eh
t thetr departure, on after th* oilier sulkily.
M wonder!eg what Gertrude Heath saw in a »oi
tenlv drvAee.! bounder with no letter tasie
; to talk of hi* own health. men ne ptvs rir*.
Brers’ theory to the final test and it prov-d
tr .
After they were married yonng .Mr. Mtwoas
foimd some <.ifftculty in mustering en-aign
ache* and Ills to aaitaty Bl* wire a passion tor
tiktug care of pvople. but Fobert Knwoou.
■Pun U»* Ihli MUOS.
TEST AND A PROPHECY.
To the Grand Old Party of today. “One woe upon another's
heel doth tread, so fast they come.’’ Just a few weeks after
the Fourteenth district of Massachusetts Hung off Republican tra
ditions old as Plymouth Rock itself and elected Eugene N. Foss,
a Democrat and a free trader to congress, the county of Monroe,
in New York. Tuesday swung into the Democratic column by a
change of more than sixteen thousand votes.
George W. Aldridge, who until yesterday, had ruled the coun
ty as aristocratically and securely as ever old Abdul Hamid ruled
his harem, backed by a well-oiled machine and all the boodle he
wanted, was beaten to a frazzle by James S. Havens, a Democrat,
who took the Held only seventeen days ago. The latter's plurality
was five thousand, nine hundred votes.
Tilings are happening in a hurry in the country's politics to
day. But they are the outcome of long Years during which
popular intelligence and conscience have been awakening. The
great change has been moving silently like a glacier. It is now
ready to rush like an avalanche. *
It is particularly significant that both Mr. Foss and Mr.
Havens won largely on the tariff issue. And they both won in
communities that rely for business chiefly on manufactures. Mon
roe county presents a specially interesting test of how the people
of the nation at large have come to feel and to think. Rochester,
its principal city, abounds in factories. The outlying territory is
studded with farms. Thus the laboring man and the farmer were
called upon to register their opinions of the present tariff and
of Republican methods. In their action, the thought of the whole
country is reflected and the will of the whole country presaged.
If there was ever an unalloyed specimen of (’annonism and
Republicanism stand-pattism. it is George \\ ashington Aldridge,
erstwhile boss of Monroe county* New He has held in his
four and fifty years of life almost every political office within the
power of his machine. In behalf of special interests he has been
as shrewdly calculating as Aldrich and toward every progressive
movement he has been as defiant as Vncle Joe. He is not simply
a chip of the old block; he is an old block all to himself. In the
campaign he ran on a general proclamation indorsing the Republi
can regime, national and local.
Havens, on the contrary, stood for a tariff reduction on wool
and woolen goods and a removal of the duties on hides, lumber
and iron ore and independence 6f machine domination.
Between these two the people of a great representative
American community have chosen. That choice is a test and a
prophecy.
PROBING THE COTTON POOL.
Sometimes the hero of the play unwittingly truckles to the
villain. '
In the minds of many cotton manufacturers and cotton grow
ers there is a strong suspicion that Attorney General W ickersham
has fallen into such a snare. Suddenly and doughtily, the attor
ney general has Hung the full force of the departmnet of justice
against an alleged pool of the bull interests on the New York cot
ton exchange. He proceeds upon information, he says, that a con
spiracy is on to acquire a monopoly of the raw product and to
boost its price to such a high and artificial figure that mills will be
closed and thousands of workmen thrown out of employment.
That all sounds very fine and no doubt the department of
justice feels the burden of a great moral conviction. But the cot
ton manufacturer aud the farmer, particularly in this part of the
country, present good reasons for believing that this sudden cam
paign is inspired by a number of bears who have sold cotton for
May delivery at a price less than the present market allows, and
;Who have instigated this attack for the specific purpose of de
pressing the market to suit their individual and toppling interests.
Mr. Fuller E. Callaway declares in a communication to The Jour
nal :
I am an officer of several mills that have bought cotton on the New York
exchange cheaper tuan it can be bought in the south. We intend to take up
and manutacture uits cotton this summer, lhe bears hope by this attack
to scare the mills out of this legitimate trade and further demoralise the
cotton and cotton goods market. In my opinion this movement will prove
a boomerang for tne bears as it only accentuates the shortness of the last
cotton crop and betrays the predicament they are in through having sold
something they -di not own.
Mr. Jack J. Spalding, president of the Georgia Industrial as
sociation. adds to this cogent testimony by declaring that the
present price of cotton is equitable, and that the government’s ac
tion in proceeding against the so-called bull movement is so di
rectly in the interest of the bears and against the mills, their oper
atives and the southern farmers that it suggests that the depart
ment of justice is unconsciously being employed as a force in the
bear raid.
Certainly, it would seem that the federal authorities should go
most cautiously in this matter, and should be sure that their zeal
against an imaginary evil does not betray them into alliance with a
real evil. •
EDISONS NEW STORAGE BATTERY.
Tn fulfillment of a prediction which he made ten years ago
and which then was derided. Thomas Edison has perfected a storage
battery street’car capable of running an entire day on a single
charge. The invention has aroused keen interest in traction cir
cles and also among automobilista, for Edison claims that his new
battery is thoroughly adaptable to the automobile.
The cardinal advantages of this device are its economy and
convenience. Under severe tests its operation expenses have
proved to be less than half a cent a mile, which, on the particular
New York line where the experiment was made, amounted to less
than thirty cents a day. The New York Times reports the test in
part as follows:
In the three weeks the experimental car has been making Its runs it
has left the car barns at 6:30 forenoon and has stayed constantly in oper
ation on crowded streets until 8:30 o’clock at night. It has not missed a trip
in the entire period and not a single repair has been necessary except those
regularly made to any street car. Its regular daily run was 66 3-4 miles and
there was life enough left in the charge at the end of each day to run it
20 miles further if it had been desired.
The operation of the ordinary street car costs for electrical
energy about five cents a mile or ten times what the Edison car
costs.
It is, therefore, obvious that this battery will work a revolu
tion in the automobile world if its practicability for automobiles
is demonstrated. Edison firmly believes that such will be the
ease. *■
THE PRESIDENT'S RAILROAD BILL.
President Taft’s railroajl bill, which he has striven to press
unaltered through congress, is provoking one of the liveliest tilts
of his vexed administration. And fortunately so.
This measure, framed by the attorney general, contains among
other objectionable features a clause which in effect would make
the attorney general sole judge of the interstate commerce com
mission’s actions and the absolute master of the public’s interests
as opposed to the railroads’ interests. In providing for the estab
lishment of a court of commerce the bill designates that in cases
where a ruling of the commission is appealed from, the attorney
general and he alone shall defend the ruling before the proposed
court. Thus, the shippers and the public, the parties most vitally
concerned, are practically debarred from the court of commerce.
This would have a tendency at least to nullify the efficacy of
the Sherman anti-trust act. It would place within the department
of justice a power that would often be absolute and which could
be subject to autocratic abuse.
The effort of the administration to pass the measure without
modification has widened the breach between the regulars and
the insurgents, particularly in the senate. When Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham, in his speech at Chicago a week ago, reminded
the insurgents of King Henry's admonition. “He that hath no
stomach for the fight, let him depart.’’ he was understood as
referring directly to those who opposed this railroad bill. And
the insurgents declare that if cringing acquiescence to the details
of a measure which they believe dangerous and unfair is a test
of loyalty, they are not eager to wear the stamp of approval.
The bill seems destined for many changes or for straightout
defeat, •- • - -
. i GEORGIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910.
The National American Woman Suf
frage association meets today In Wash
ington in its 42d annual convention. Next
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock the Ameri
can suffragists will move on congress
and will present a petition signed by
more than a half a million American
citizens, men and women, praying foi
the submission of an amendment to the
constitution giving women the right to
vote. Vv hen the English suffragrettes
"rushed” the house of commons the po
lice became very active, many women
were injured, and many were sent to
jail. The house of commons has not yet
acted on the question of “votes for wo
men.’’ The American congress will be
much more polite and courteous, and the
American suffragists will be much more
gentle and womanly. Americans have
much better political manners than Eng
lishmen, anyhow, and this superiority will
be demonstrated in Washington during
this week and next.
• ♦ •
Congress has made a habit of being
polite and courteous to advocates of wo
man's suffrage. For more than 30 years
the senate has maintained a committee
on woman’s suffrage. The members of
this committee are regularly elected with
as much gravity as are those of the
finance committee. The chairmanship, by
one of the unwritten laws of the senate, is
given always to a minority member. Ev
ery senator on the majority side is chair
man of some committee, gaining thereby
the use of a more or less palatial com
mittee room and the services of a clerk
and messenger paid by the government.
Only a few of the older minority sena
tors have chairmanships. One of these is
Senator Alexander S. Clay, of Georgia,
chairman of the committee on woman
suffrage. His committee will awake from
a hibernation of several years next Tues
day and will hear the Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, president of the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage association plead
for another amendment to the constitu
tion giving the ballot to women. Then
the committee will go to sleep again and
pay no further attention to the subject.
On the same day, the judiciary commit
tee of the house of representatives will
give the suffragists a hearing, and will
listen to arguments presented by repre
sentatives of workingwomen. The judici
ary committee will listen, and then do
nothing else.
• • •
Probably the good women who are at
the head of the suffrage associations
do not expect anything to be done by
congress. The suffrage fight in America
must be waged in the states first, but
the agitation for a constitutional amend
ment and the storming of congress will
have an excellent effect in stirring up en
thusiasm in the several states. The
cause of woman suffrage is advancing—
it is impossible to deny that fact. And
in the United States the women will get
the vote just as soon as even half of
the women of the country seriously de
mand it. And that without throwing
bricks through the skylight of the house
to hit Speaker Cannon on the head, or
without any woman going to jail and
being fed with a pump through her nose.
• • •
The National ‘ Woman s Suffrage asso
ciation. ' having for its sole object the
amendment of the federal constitution
to permit women to vote, was organized
in 1868 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Su
san B. Anthony, and other women who
already were famous for their victories
In the cause of woman s rights in other
spheres of activity. There was some di
vision of sentiment at the time and an
other organization, The American Wo
man Suffrage association, was organized
in 1870, with Henry Ward Beecher as
president and Julia Ward Howe and Lucy
Stone as moving spirits. The organiza
tion sought to obtain its end by amend
ments to state constitutions.
Both associations held annual meetings
regularly, but as time passed by the bit
terness of the original difference was
diluted and in 1890 the two organizations
merged under the present title, National-
Amerlcan Woman Suffrage association.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected pres
ident, Susan B. Anthony vice president
at large, and Lucy Stone was made
chairman of the executive committee.
Since that time the association has pur
sued its work along both lines, fighting
for both federal and state constituttional
action.
• a •
In 1892 Mrs. Stanton retired from the
presidency because of advancing years
and was succeeded by Carrie Chapman
Catt. Mrs. Catt retired in 1904 and was
followed by Anna Howard Shaw, the in
cumbent. The convention now meeting
In Washington is being attended by
scores of the most prominent women in
the country.
• • •
Women enjoy full rights of suffrage on
a basis of absolute equality with men
in four states, Colorado. Wyoming, Utah
«ud Idaho, .The cause is much more
PROSTITUTING LAW TO POLITICS.
Governor Patterson’s pardon of Duncan B. Cooper is the
prostitution of a high and sacred office to the payment of a low
political debt. It is doubtful if in all American history there can
be found a more brazen insult to public conscience or a deadlier
betrayal of the law. If ever a slate had cause for shame and in
dignatibn, it is Tennessee today.
Through a long and impartial trial Duncan B. Cooper and
his son. Robin B. Cooper, had been convicted of the murder of
former Senator F. W. Carmack. That conviction was upheld by
the supreme court of the state. Yet before the higher tribunal
had fairly finished the delivery of its opinion, Governor Patter
son, without the grace of a* moment’s deliberation, trampled the
work of justice to fragments.
Evidently the pardon was as coldly premeditated as was the
killing.
Such acts were customary and expected among Asiatic oli
garchs a thousand years ago. But among an Anglo Saxon people
and under a Democratic government in the twentieth century they
are amazing. It is hard to say whether the boldness or the bad
ness of this governor’s conduct is the more conspiSaous. One
might have thought that prudence for himself, if not regard for
his office would have deterred, or at least, have delayed him for
a respectable season. But before the words were out of the judge’s
mouth, before the decision of the court could be transmitted, he
stepped in, as Malcolm Patterson rather than as governor of
Tennessee, and freed absolutely a man convicted of one of the
gravest crimes against the state.
When politics supersedes law. when political machines are sub
stituted for courts, then surely the people of a commonwealth
have cause to be alarmed. It is true, according to the record, that
Colonel Cooper was a staunch ally of the Patterson camp and a
close friend to Mr. Patterson himself. No doubt Malcolm Pat
terson the man. owed Duncan Cooper a debt. But Malcolm Pat
terson, the governor, owed the state a duty. That duty, according
to every evidence, he has audaciously flung away. He has re-en
acted in the state’s eapitol the very lawlessness which he con
demned through regiments of soldiers in the region of Reelfoot
lake.
’ It is from such official acts that bloodshed and mob rule
take their rise.
V ot |or Women
By
Frederic
J. Haskin
popular in the west than in the east.
The monster petition to be presented to
congress next week, said to be the larg
est single petition ever presented
to a parliamentary body, is signed by
quite as many men as women, and from
the western states the men are in the
majority. The petitions are arranged by
states, and 13 of them are headed by
the signature of the governor. The gov
ernors of Colorado. Florida, South Da
kota, California, Minnesota, Michigan,
New Hampshire, Maryland, Idaho, Wy
oming, Utah. Washington and Oregon
pray for the woman suffrage amend
ment. It will be noticed that all hut
three of these suffragist governors hail
from the west.
• • •
Although woman’s suffrage is further
advanced in some other countries than
in America, It is recorded that the orig.-
inal ‘‘suffragette” was an American. She
was Mistress Margaret Brent, of Mary
land, and her demand for votes for wo
men was made in 1647. Mistress Brertt
was the heir of Lord Calvert, brother
of Lord Baltimore,, and executor of the
estates of both in the colony. Repre
sentation in the Maryland legislature at
that time was based upon property. By
virtue of her holdings she demanded
"place and voice"—two votes—in th*
legislature. Her petition was debated
hotly and finally declined.
• • a
Under the old province charter of Mas
sachusetts women voted for all elective
officers from 1691 to 1780. The consti
tution then succeeding excluded the wo
men from voting for governor and mem
bers of the legislature, but gave them
the right as to all other officers. The
badot w s hedged a.out with many re
strictions, however, and not one-fourth
of the men were eligible. In 1895 the
Massachusetts legislature submitted the
question of admitting the women to the
suffrage to a plebiscite of the women of
the state. Os the bZs,t>oo women of vot
ing age, only 22,204 were sufficiently in
terested to go to the polls and demand
the ballot for their sex. The legislature
concluded that -e women didn’t want
it and they didn't get it.
• * «
A few months before the Declaration
of Independence in 1776, Abigail Adams
wrote to hdr husband, John Adams, in
Philadelphia setting forth ’he political
claims of the women. She said tnat she
longed to hear the news mat. congress
had declared the colonies independent
of England, but she reminded her hus
band that the women ought to be con
sidered in tlie question of representation,
even threatening to -oment a rebellion
they were excluded. Mrs. Hannah
Lee Corbin, sister of Richard Henry Lee,
of Virginia, in 1778 presented a petition
demanding the right to vote. Thus the
sister of the mover oi the Declaration of
Independence and the wife of its princi
pal auvocate were among the first suf
fragettes.
• • •
The continental congress left the ques
tion of suffrage entirely to the states.
New Jersey was the only one which gave
women tne right to vote, equally wltn
men. its constitution conferring tn*
franchise on "all inhabitants worth 1250.
etc. In 1790, when the federal gov
ernment under the constitution had been
set-up, a revision of the New Jersey
election law used the words "he or she/’
in reference to electors, tnu 1 confirming
women in the right to vote. A suffici
ent number of womer availed themselves
of the privilege to incur the enmity of
the politicians, and in 1897 the legisla
ture passed an act limiting the suffrage
to “white male citizens." This was in
violation of the consttution of the state,
but the women, apparently, were not suf
ficiently Interested to make an effective
protest.
* • *
n 1826 Frances Wright came to Amer
ica from Scotland and began a crusade
for woman's rights. This was the be
ginning of the movement which has re
sulted in the amelioration of the laws of
so many states which piaced women un
der disadvantages. The movement, how
ever, was absorbed in the anti-slavery
agltfition. and it was not until 1869 that
it took definite shape as a demand for
the suffrage.
* • •
The first organized general movement
was begun in 1848 when a woman’s right
convention was held at Seneca Falls, N.
Y., "to discuss the social, civil and relig
ious condition and rights of woman."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann Mc-
Clintock, Lucretia Mott and others of
almost equal prominence were the guid
ing spirits of that movement, which is
the same represented today by the con
vention in Washington.
THIS OYSTER HAD’
FIFTY-FOUR PEARLS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. ,T.. April 20.—The most
valuable oyster ever opened in Atlantic City
wns found yesterday by a local restaurant
owner.
It contained 54 pearl*, all of small Rise, but
good quality. Experts say that eight is tue
iilgbeat number ever before found in an ova tan.
JUS
K JeSeSßw '■ ' 7/vz-zy Top/cs.-\
The Smell of Guano is Over
the Land
If I saw one wagon loaded with guano
today, going various ways out of town I
think I must have seen fully 50. The air
is odorous with the scent, and it means
many dollars to guano makers next No
vember. Os course there are some things
in the guano sacks that will stimulate
the early growth of the cotton plant, but
nobody knows how much of cinders, dirt,
etc., has been hauled out in the sacks that
were piled high on those loaded wagons,
nor is there any knowledge of how many
fortunes ■which have been made by sell
ing a little phosphate, a little kainit and
a little something else beside the cinders,
that makes up the weight of the ton of
so-called fertilizer.
Yes, I know this is plain talk and it
is a plain writer that is setting down
the facts. If farmers would buy the 10-
2-2 in separate bulk and mix it at home on
a close floor or platform, they would not,
have to pay for the dirt and cinders or
the old rotten Mcks. t
If they would make frequent compos,
heaps and put the acid In with the othet
ingredients of the heap, they would save
untold dollars.
If they carefully utilized all the ma
nures that can be saved In Stables, from
horses and cows, and mixed it along
with the 10-2-2, who can tell how many
other dollars that need never to be spent
at all—they would keep in their wal
lets?
But It is only experience that will teach
our people, and It has to be a hard ex
perience for prosperity makes our peo
ple wasteful and careless.
There are numberless loads of leaves
that could be raked up in the fall, to
litter the stalls and hold the manure,
until the mass could be piled and mixed
in these compost heaps, but they are
fired by hunters, and the cow and horse
stalls go bare.
Therefore the smell of guano is all
over the land.
Bring Down the Pullman
Charges
Enough Os a good thing is enough,
says the old proverb, and the Pullman
coaches have been raking In the cash for
a long time with both arms up to the
elbows in the pockets of the traveling
public.
A little narrow bed. with two weakly
little pillows, two narrow little sheets
and a small pair of blankets costs the
them, and nearly as much for day-time
privileges, and that must be added to
his railroad ticket, which makes luxuri
ous travel costly.
The Pullman company doubtless has a
valuable patent on sleeping cars, but they
have had it a long time, and their reve
nues are so enormous that the interstate
commerce commission is discussing the
necessity for a reduction as to prices,
and I hope the reduction will be order
ed very soon.
Not that I anticipate any benefit to
myself, as my traveling days are lim
ited, of necessity, but an overcharge is
always a bad thing and will bring a re
action, sooner or later. I have also
thought that the close berths should
have better ventilation, especially in
summer. Those pent up places cannot be
well aired while the cars are on tha
route, and the revenues are so large
that they are not long idle at any point.
Just think of a berth that has held a
diseased person night and day for a
long trip, and what might happen when
a newcomer goes Into the same sleeping
quarters, with only clean sheets and pil
low cases?
Why no have some woven wire effects
and sanitary mattresses along with
cheaper rates?
Veteran Going to Mobile
i Broxton, Oa.. April 2, 1910.
Dear Mrs. Felton:—l take The Atlanta
Semi-Weekly Journal and I see in it let
ters from some of the Confederate vet
erans and it inspires me to write also.
I was a private in Company K. 25th
Georgia regiment, Stevens’ brigade.
Walkers division, Johnsons army. I
was in several battles. I was in the
Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. I sur
rendered with my command near Greens
boro, N. C., at a place called High
Point, April 26, IMS.
I am going to Mobile. Ala., to the
Confederate reunion, April 26. 27 and 28.
Hope I will meet some of my old com
mand. With best wishes to you and
The Journal, I remain, yours truly.
MAJ. A. D. BURKE. Adjt.
Camp Spivy, 1539, U. C. V.
The boys can look for my sign when
they meet me in Mobile: Co. K, 25th Ga.
A Portable Fence
SENOIA, Ga., March 21. 1910.
Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville, Ga.:
In Friday’s Journal you asked for a
portable fence. No doubt you will re
ceive many letters and drawings much
better written and executed than mine,
but I will show a willingness by doing
the best I can. The fence can be built
and handled by two boys large enough
to handle a team. May you be spared
many more year| to give good sensible
advice to the farmers of the south.
Very truly ypurs.
WILLIAM E. HARDIN, a farmer.
(By the Editress. —This portable fence
is to be 16 feet square made of Ix 3 stuff.
36 Inches high, with sharpened posts
2x4. and driven into the pasture soil, or
can be made of No. 2 barbed wire where
it is braced on top with woven wire at
the bottom.—Mrs. Felton.)
April Showers
When I went out into the yard this
morning to feed a hen with young chick
ens, I noticed that a gentle shower had
dropped down on us some time during the
night; while It fell so gently that It did
not wake me. although I am a light
sleeper.
It barely showed on the ground, but it
fell on everybody's garden truck and made
the lltle birds sing as briskly, as if they
were high-priced opera singers.
Every young leaf and blade of grass
was rejoicing, and all nature smiled be
cause the Heavenly Father sprinkled a
little water on the dutsy earth, while
we were sleeping too soundly to thank
Him for it.
I noticed the dust on yesterday as the
distributors and cotton planters were go
ing across the fields of freshly plowed
land, and I said to myself: It will be a
long time before cotton seed will sprout
and show up in a bed of dust, but the
gentle shower will now raise the mois
ture and the young sprouts will soon
show up green on the long cotton rows.
This little shower is like the most of our
Heavenly Father's constant blessings—
ouiet, gentle and too often unnoticed.
They come when we need them most, and
in the best possible waj’ for us, who are
ignorant and cannot see even one day
ahead without His qverruling mercies,
about and around us.
With gentle April showers to bring up
the corn and cotton plans and a dry May
to hoe them clean, the hardest part of
the crop year is over, and done with, be
cause the entire year’s profit depends on
the April showers and the May sunshine
to bring up a ’’stand” in the fields, when
the farmer can get ahead with his work
in due season, and give the young plants
a clean and thorough working before the
grass gets ahead of him. If we have
continued showers, not too much to stop
work, but enough to moisten the loos*
dust, we will see a good stand.
GIRLISH JAUNTY SUIT
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This suit of pale gray serge is trim
med with lines and covered buttons •-
silk braid in the sain* color.
The smart cut of the coat and skirt
should be noticed.
The new clown collar and cuffs ar*
worn with this suit, and a jaunty ban*
of ribbon adds a pretty finish to th*
neck.
From s Cook Book
Mint Jelly: Pour two cup* boiling water over
freahly bruised mint leaves. Simmer for 10
minutes, strain, aud to one pint of the liquid
add a package of lemon gelatin. Sweeten to
t**te, stir well and cool. When cool pour Into
Individual mold* to harden.
• • •
Plain Cookie*: Cream one clip of shortening
with two cup* sugar. Add one well beaten
egg one cup milk, three teaspoons baking l’O*->
de? and flour enough to make a soft doug >•
Holl thin, cut In cake* and bake In moderate
oven.
Rice Waffle*: Mix and sift one and
quarter. cu|« flour with three »•>“"«
powder, one-quarter teaspoon salt and two
bleapoun» sugar. Add two-third* cup rhe
and one baif cupa “>'^ eB ° n ; c ‘“ b^X‘ B on wan
ing »nd one well beaten egg. vow
Iron.
Beef Liver Stew .-Cut one J** J*'?'
in .mall piere* and scald. Drain and put n
kettle with one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth
res.Hxm pepper, one slice of onion a t^ le *P^ n
catsuo and enough boiling water to cover. Sim
me‘r ,>n?il tende?’ Brow’n flo-r
In aaiue quantity butter, add gradually the
liqnor from the stew snd atir until *£d
the liver. Simmer s few minutes longer, and
on toast, garnished "itb parsley.
stuffeil Eggs.—Cut hard boiled egg* in two
lengthwiae aud remove yolk*. Maah X“* k ’ “"'J
mil with them one-bait the quantity of finely
chopped boiled ham. Moisten with cream
enough to mold into round balls. Put one m
each half of white. Serve with paraley.
LITTLE HINTS
To extinguish a candle hold It aloft and
blow upward. No pease will then be scattered.
* * *
A clever woman has made a discovery.
She uses an ordinary scrub brush in her
mop stick to scrub her kitchen floor—
thereby saving the wear and tear on her
knees.
• * •
It is said that a cloth wrung out of
hot vinegar and water and laid on the
forehead as hot as can be borne, will
soon relieve a headache.
Almond m*al paste keeps the complexion clea*
and clear. Mix enough hot milk with a table
,WH>n almond meal to make It * fairly stiff
paste. Smooth carefully over the face, and in a
few momenta massage off.
• • •
Before sweeping floor*, sprinkle tb»m with
dry coarse salt, which lay* the dust and clean*
the carpet*.
The right way to brush th- hair 1* this: Tae
a brush with long stiff bristle*, one ’hat will
reach clear through the hair as a whole. Then
separate the hair into strands and brisb each
one from the root* to the tips.
» • •
If clothespin* are heated in the oven before
hanging out the clothes, the fingers will not
become so chilled.
• * ■
To remove oil stain* front carpets spread on
the spots a paste made of fuller's earth, pow
dered magnesia and boiling water. Leave for J 4
hour* and then brush off.
• e •
If the heels of your new shoes rub, wear a
piece of adhesive plaster on the baek of your
heel until the shoes are settled down to a bat
ter fit.
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♦ TRIBUTES PAID TO WOMIIJT. ♦
-* Woman is the masterpiece.—Con- ♦
♦- fucius. ♦
♦ Women teach us repose, civility ♦
♦ and dignity.—Voltaire. i ♦
Shakespeare has no heroes, he
♦ has only heroines.—Ruskin. -*•
♦ If woman lost Eden, such as she ♦
alone can restore it.—Whittier. ♦
*• Woman is the most perfect when ♦
♦ the most womanly.—Gladstone. •*■
*■ Heaven has nothing more terder ♦
♦ than a woman’s heart when it is ♦
-* the at« »de of pity.—Luther. -*
*- For where is any author in the ♦
world who teaches such beauty as ♦
-* a woman's eyes?—Shakespeare. ♦
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