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“Nature-s Gift from the Sunny South” Ol r Ig jBlSiCb / Shortens your your life The source and making of Cottolene insure its purity. From the white, tufty tops of The Sunny South land’s cotton the seed is removed, the oil extracted and refined by our exclusive process. Front Compare the source of Cottolene with the source of lard, and draw your own conclusions as to the comparative cleanliness, purity, and healthfulness of the two products. Made only by THE N. X. FAIRBANK COMPANY «\Tb e M *’ (O UNTRY Llz 14 ET ’TIME.LY topics BYjnPS.'WIH.FELTOA. TXB VAST KOVSS Wk KKAXX. OC CUTT „ My Roose I have a little house somewhere; ▲round It, thick and long. The cool grass stands, and nightly there rw’fi The cricket pipes his song. KjThe stars, through still and dewy hours Lean /O'er the quiet place. While fairy hands festoon the flowers With shreds of silver lace. The door la narrow, rjde and low, Yei takes the dawn's first kiss; Before it the June roses blow, Anu the wild clematis. ▲hove its lintel, year by year. The sparrow builds and sings. And there, on sephyrs borne, career ▲ thousand filmy wings- There oft a wild, shy music wakes. Winds many an elfin born; And there flash into amber flakes The footprints of the morn. I have a Uttle house somewhere; Sole tenant shall I be; ▲nd when at length I rest me there, I shall sleep dreamlessly. James B. Kenyon, in Harper's Weekly. Not many of us are anxious to " view the ground Where we shall shortly lie”— Nevertheless there is such a place reserv ed for us, and "come day, ge day." we are stepping along toward that house, and it is always waiting for its own tenant. It may not be in the place we have selected, because the “sea will give up its dead" at the appointed time, and the restless waves may carry the last of the body Into many and divers places; but while everything is uncertain as to the time, the place and the disease, there is no question but that "our house'* is waiting for its owner. The birds are singing over it and the bland airs are circling all about It in springtime, and the cold winds whistle over ft in winter time, and ft is quiet and serene, because we are going toward this six feet of earth as fast as rolling suns can revolve ue toward It. It is our certain possession, and the only one. that is not taxable, and the only one perhaps that nobody wants to take away from us. It belongs to us; it will be “our bouse.” and God grant that when we rest ourselves there our sleep shall be dreamlees' . CnaTMTriITTUL btibihcb While I suppose nearly all newspaper readers have formed an opinion as to the Schenk trial, khere Mrs. Schenk was accused and tried for poisoning her husband. Last night's paper says there would likely be a mistrial—one juror was for hanging the woman and elevon for acquitting her. If the mistrial is declared, then there will maybe be another trial, but this de claration would indicate would indicate SOCIAL LIFE ON THE FARM ST C. A BABMS. A beautiful home la a magnet which needs only the additional centripetal force of a richer social life to bind to the farm the young life which now flows in a steady current to the cities. To the multiplication of such homes and the development of such richer social life, then, the efforts of all governmental and educational agencies may well be direct* ed. An additional incentive to such ef forts is found in the fact that in rural society alone is real American democ racy now to be foudd. Our cities have become examples of social stratification —a plutocracy on top. the laborer on the bottom; between them, strata diatin gecwned by me possession of larger or ■steadier incomes Among the farmers re mains the old-fashioned equality born of individual independence. There is not the wide difference in pecuniary circumstan ces that is seen in the city, and the su perior wealth of the large land-owner is often more than matched, so far as offi cial influence is concerned, by the supe rior education or intelligence of his poorer neighbor. AU mets in the Farmers' club. as in church or school, on a plane of perfect equality. This is a condition to be especially appreciated by women, who are invariably more sensitive to social distinctions than men. The movement of farme-s—now "well to-do' in the country’ acceptation of the term—to the cities would be materially lessened if they and their wives fully realised the extent and hatefulness of the social stratification there to be met. The average Income of such a farmer is not greater than that of the well-paid that the woman could not, in the judg ment of the jury, be condemmed to death on circumstantial evidence alone. I recall a cause celebre in the year 188S-S7, when a young man named Cla verius was hung in Richmond, Va.. for killing hia cousin, Lillian Madison, a descendant of President James Madison, and, although he was convicted on cir cumstantial evidence, there were some things connected with the murder that made his guilt, aa well confirmed, as "declaration of Holy Writ.” The young woman was a school teacher, and left her country home to go to the school where she was engaged. A good many days elapsed before her people became uneasy as to her absence without any letter from her. She was traced to the city of Richmond, and to a boarding house where a young man. afterwards identified as Cluvenius, was seen to leave the boarding house with her. Among her effects at home were found some letters from him to her, and it was evident from the tetters that she had compromised herself—and the search for him was as persistent as In other directions. The body was drugged from a deep reservoir, and it was evident that she had been choked and flung in—before she was dead. In her corpse hand there were tufts of grass and mud—that showed she had been drowned as well as choked. There had been a violent struggle on the rim of the reservoir, and there was found a watch charm which had been recognised as worn by Cluveriun. That watch charm and those letters convinced the jury that Cluverius had a motive for murdering the young woman—who was before long to become a mother. The watch charm had been wrung off by some one in the scuffle on the spot where the Madison girl was pushed into the reservoir. Everything else was cir cumstantial. I have no intention of go ing over the Schenk trial—because any thing that was so nasty that the court felt Obliged to close its doors to the populace is far too nasty for these col umns, but it is plainly -vident that the jury eound not find the Immediate con nection between the woman and the poi son. More than that. Mr. Schenk is not dead, and in spite of sdl this hurrah, it is still a question, if he is not well satisfied, to get rid of Mrs. Schenk, and allow her to be exposed In the effort to make a new deal. There are more ways of killing a dog than by choking him with sweet hot dumplings. I have not the slightest desire to shield this woman who has been under trial for so long a time, and who is certainly vain and silly (If no worse) but she has so many enemies and their enmity Is shown to be so virulent that It will be well to go slow In making her out the worst sinner In the lot, for fear Chat she may be the Injured In stead of the tnjurer. Circumstantial evidence is not the safest thing in the world, and has led many innocent peo ple to the slaughter pen. city wage-earner, be the latter mechanic or clerk. Coming to the city, then, he and his wife are at once "stratified” along with the city's “hired men - ’ and their families. From the homes of the alleged "upper classes” they are smiling ly and informally, but effectively, ex cluded. To a couple "accustomed to go with the best” In the country, this rever sion from democracy to class distinctions is not a little galling. Really, had they chosen to cultivate more freely the social instinct Ip their country homes, they would there have found enjoyments which they seek in vain in the city. The gospel of the large, full life as better than the long, full purse; of a broadened intellectual vision as better than acres broadened beyond need; of social contacts and culture as among the primary necessities of human nature, and of woman's mission as primarily one of ministry to these needs, quite as much as to' the physical wants of her family —this gospel it is, the preaching of which is to uplift the country life of America, make the farm attractive to those whom it now repels and preserve in our nation the ideals of American democracy. Com fodder should be sown thickly, either with a grain drill or corn planter, at the rate of 30 to 60 pounds per acre. Cultivate one way, but with a corn bind er, shock in the field and allow to stand until fed or hauled to the barn. Variety and succulence add more to the ration for stock than the chemist can explain. , THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1911. This Woman Knew / Two young ladies who had been brought up In the city, while visiting at a farm in Ohio last summer, were much interested in the milking of the cows. “Which 1b the oow that gives the butter milk?” innocently asked one of the girls as she inspected the herd with a critical eye. "Don’t make yourself ridiculous,’’ replied her cousin, who had boasted that she had been in the country before. Goats give buttermilk.” TEACKXHG DOMESTIC SCIENCE Domestic science is that part of a girl’s education which specially pre pares her for a home maker and ren ders her a constant dispenser of good cheer. The object of the science Is to promote universal good health and ban ish drudgery from the house, to which the girls must be led to constantly ap ply the facts given in educational lines to special home needs, whereby home duties can be raised from irksome tasks to pleasant occupations and interesting experiments. Domestic science shows the evil effects which result from im proper habits of life in the matter of food and drink, and shows the ideal home conditions. It shows the pro cesses of breadmaking, the spoiling of food, the possible prevention of disease, etc. It k a most excellent thing that this important branch of study is now in cluded in most of the agricultural uni versities. It gives the farmers’ daugh ters an equab chance with the farm lads to become proficient in the particu lar work which falls to their lot. PLAHKIMG THE EABM HOME Something of beauty, as well as of order, convenience and good x sanitary conditions is needed to make| a farm home attractive. In planning such a home, let this not be forgotten. A wide sweep of lawn between the house and the road; a background of trees and shrubbery; low flowering bushes planted close to the foundation and serving, as it were, to bind the bouse to the soil; vines over the porch or bordering the window-frames—all these do much to beautify the house. From the erection of the first house, however modest, the home-maker should plan for the future as well as for today. He should avoid building too near the road; remember ing that prosperity may ere long enable him to build a larger home, which may often be most satisfactorily placed in front of the old one. Barns and other buildings should be located in such re lation to one another as to allow for im provements which will result in a har monious whole. “/Is the Snu Goes Down "As the sun goes down,” “As the sun down” In the golden glowing west, And the moonlight gleams—ah, so eerie gleams O'er the purple mountain crest— Through the hush and hue of twilight blue The tangled stars are peeping To halo fair the green mounds where Adell, my own, lies sleeping. Where the daisies grow—where the daisies blow As in olden, golden days— And their blossoms white, in the wan ing light, • Are paeans of peace and praise! There zephyrs stray, through twilight grew, , Through grasses blown, dew-gleam ing. In sweetest sleep—in sweetest sleep, Adell, my own, lies dreaming. With the rising sun, with the rising sun Far beyond the morning skies— On the other side, oh, my angel-bride Lx>oks down with her waking eyes— Across the Bar, through "Gates Ajar” By faith I see my crown— Sweet be my sleep—sweet be my sleep, When the sun—my sun goes down!” —Augusta Wall. TAe Kingdomc/* Slender Swords S3y Hallie Erminie ‘Rtves Author of "Heart* Couragecu*,” "Satan Sanderson,” Etc. Copyright, WIO. The .Bobba-Menrill Company. Continued From Last Issue. CHAPTER XVI. A SILENT UNDERSTANDING. Phil descended from his rlck’sha at the Tokyo club and paid the coolie. The building faced an open square be tween the Imperial hotel and the parlia-| ment buildings, along one of the smaller picturesque moats, which the fever for modernization was now filling in to make a conventional boulevard. A motor shed atood at the side of the plaza and an au tomobile or two / was generally In evi dence. The structure was small but com fortable enough, with reading and card rooms and a billiard room of many tables. The door was opened by a servile bell boy In buttons. Phil tossed his hat on to the hall rack and eretered. He strode through the office and entered a large, glass-inclosed piazza where a number of Japanese, some in foreign, some In na tive costume, were watching a game of Go. Frowning, he passed Into the next room. Here his eye lightened. Sitting In a corner of one of the huge sofas which sank under his enormous weight, was Doctor Bersonin. A little round table was before him o>n which sat a tall glass frosted with cracked ice. “Sit down,” said the expert. "How do you come to be In Tokyo? The Review, 1 presume.” He struck a call bell on the table and gave an order to the waiter. Phil lighted a cigarette. ’’No,” he said, I’Ve come to stay for a while.” “You haven’t given up your bungalow on the Bluff?” aaked Bersonin quickly. There was an odd eagerness In his color less face—a look of almoet dread, which Phil, lighting his cigarette, did not see. It changed to relief as the other answer ed: "No. Probably I shan't be here more than a few days.” The expert settled back in his seat. “You’ll not And the hotel everything It should be, I’m afraid,” he observed more casually'. “I’m not there," Phil answered. "I— I’ve got a little Japanese house.” “So! A menage de garcon, eh?” The big man held up his clinking glass to the light, and under cover of it, his deep-set yellowish eyes darted a keen, detective look at Phil’s averted face. “Well,” he went on, ’How are your affairs? Has the stem brother appeared yet?” Phil shifted uneasily. "Nq,” he replied. “I expect him pretty soon, though.” He drained the glass the boy had filled. “You’ve been tremendously kind, doctor.” he went on hurriedly, “to lend me so much, without the least bit of security—” Pzhaw!” said Bersonin. "Why shouldn't I?” He put his hand on the other’s shoulder with a friendly gesture. “I only wish money could give me as much pleas ure as it does you, my boy.” Phil moved his glass on the table top in sullen circles. "But suppose one hasn't the ’wherewithal’ you talk of? What’s the fun without money, even when you’re young? I’ve never been able to discover it!" "Find the money," said Bersonin. "I wish some one would tell me how!” Bersonin's head turned toward the door. He sat suddenly rigid. It came to Phil that he was listening intently to the talk between the two men in the next room. “I needn’t point out”—it was a meas ured voice, cold and incisive and deliber ate —“that when the American fleet came, two years ago, conditions were quite dif ferent. The cruise was a national tour de force; the visit to Japan was incident al. Besides, mere was really no feeling them between the two nations—that was all a creation of the yellow press. But the coming ot this European squadron to day is a different thing. It is a season of general sensitiveness and distrust, and when the ships belong to a nation between which and Ja pan there is real and serious diplo matic tension—well, in my opinion the time is, at best Inopportune.” "Perhaps”—a younger voice was ■peaking now, less certain, less poised and a little heeitant —“perhaps the very danger makes for caution. People are particularly careful with matches when there's a lot of powder about.” “True, so far as Intention goes. But there is the possibility of some contre temps. You remember the case of the Ajax in the eighties. It was blown up in a friendly harbor—clearly enough by accident, at least so far as the other na tion was concerned. But it was during a time of strain and hot blood, and you know how narrowly a great clash was averted. If war had followed, regi ments would have marched across the frontier, shouting. ’Remember the Ajax!’ As it was, there was a panic in three bourses. Solid securities fell to the lowest point in their history. The yellow press pounded down the market, and a few speculators on the short side made gigantic fortunes.” A moment’s pause ensued. Berso nin’s fingers were rigid. There seemed suddenly to Phil to be some significance between his silence and the conversa tion—as if he wished it to sink into his, Phil’s, mind. The voice continued: "What has happened once may hap pen again What if one of those dread naughts by whatever accident should go down in this friendly harbor? It doesn’t take a vivid imagination to pic ture the headlines next morning in the newspapers at home!” The ice in the tumblers clinked; there was a sound of pushing-back chairs. As their departing footsteps died in the hall Bersonin's gaze lifted slowly to Phil’s face. It had in it now the look it had held when he gazed from the roof of the bungalow on the bluff across the anchorage beneath. Phil did not start or shrink. Instead, the slink ing evil that ruled him met half-way the bolder evil id that glance, from whose sinister suggestion the veil was for a moment lifted, recognizing a tacit kin ship. Neither spoke, but as the hard young eyee looked into the cavernous, topaz eyes of Doctor Bersonin, Phil knew that the thought that lay coiled there was a thing unholy and unafraid. His heart beat faster, but it warmed. He felt no longer awed by the other’s greater age, standing and accomplish ments. He was coscious of a new, half-insolent sense of easy comrade ship. "Suppose,” said Bersonin slowly, "I should show you how to find the money T’ A sharp eagerness darted acres Phil’s face. Money! How much he needed it, longed for it! It could put him on his feet, clear off his debts, square his ridge-balance, and —his brother not withstanding!—enable him to begin an other chapter of the careless life he loved! He looked steadily into thp ex pert’s face. "Tell me!” he almost whispered. Bersonin rose and held out his hand. He did not smile. “Come with me tonight,” he said. “I dine late, but we'll take a spin in< my car and have some tea somewhere be forehand. Tell me where your house Is and I’ll send Ishida with the motor car for you.” Phil gave him the address and he went out with no further word. A great, brass-fltted automobile, with a young, keen-eyed Japanese sitting be side the chauffeur, throbbed up from the shed. Bersonin climbed ponderously in. A gray-haired diplomatist, entering the club with a stranger, pointed the big man out to the other as he was whirled away. Continued in Hext Issue. Barge Is Raised NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2ft-After hav ing been sunk in from 50 to 70 feet of water, the dredge boat Barataria, of the United States engineers’ department, was successfully raised from the bottom of the Mississippi river yesterday. Chills, Backache, Nearly Ended Life A Lady in Highwood, Mich., Has Strong Faith in Benefit Obtained From Cardui Highwood, Mich.—ln a letter from this place, Mrs. Enos Avery says: “I suffered for years, with womanly trou ble, but for the last two years I had such dizzy spells, chills and backache, I was hardly able to drag around. I wss in a serious condition. My sttength was nearly gone, and I was so bad, for weeks, that I was sure I was going to end my life. My daughter got me a bottle of Car dui, and when I took it first I had no faith in it. But before I had taken half the bottle I was better. Now 1 can do my own work again, and I will never cease to praise Cardui." If Cardui was good for Mrs. Avery, it certainly should be good for you. And It is. We know this, because for more than half a century Cardui has been helping other sick women back to health and strength. Cardui strengthens, builds, restores and relieves or prevents unnecessary pain and suffering in womanly trouble. In the past fifty years it has helped more than a million women. We urge you to try it. N. B.—Write to: Ladles’ Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Inatructaons, and (M-page book. "Home Treatment for Women," *ent in plain wrapper, on request. PREPARING SQUABS FOR MARKET ’ ■■ ■ ■■■'■— ■■ ' ■'■■■ Properly Selected Birds, Sanitary Buildings and Care in Killing; the Secret of Success in Squab Raising The majority of failures in this busi ness are due tc the fact that most breed ers do not start off with properly-mated stock. They have either bought cheap stock, or else having paid enough for good birds, they have been swindled by dealers. It you cannot start with first-class stock, do not start at all. A pair ot common barnyard pigeons, raising squabs that will weigh from six to eight ounces each, will eat and feed to their young as much feed as a pair of good homers which will raise squabs weighing from 9 to 14 ounces each. If possible, make it a point to see your birds before you buy them. If you can not afford the time or money for this, insist on getting a guarantee from them that the birds are as represented, or that your money will be refunded. The sanitary condition of the lofts has much to do with the success. Wo do not advocate running through the plant all the time looking for filth. The manure from a pigeon pen is worth about 60 cents a bushel as fertilizer. In cleaning, two' rounds are made of all the pens. In the first the manure Is all gathered, care being taken to keep it as free from feathers as possible. It should then be bagged up and sent away. On the sec ond round the nests are all cleaned and the floor thoroughly swept. Where the squabs are very young, or there are eggs, the nest must not be disturbed. If a nest has squabs In It old enough to get along by themselves, the nest is cleaned out and the squabs replaced. After a thorough sweeping, spray the inside of the pens, covering every crack and crevice with a solution of one part carbolic acid and two parts water. There should be regular days for kill ing. Before feeding in the morning, every squab of the size fit to kill should be gathered up and taken to ths killing room. If any of the birds have a little feed left in their crops, make an Incision with a sharp knife and was the crop clean. / As a rule, squabs are ready to dress at four weeks old; but some parents do not care for their birds as well as Others, and it will, therefore, take their squabs a few days longer to mature. If the breast is well filled out and the DIGESTIBILITY OF THE PRICKLY PEAR The Increased use of the prickly pear as feed for all classes of ruminants, especially for range and dairy eattle, makes it important for the proper prep aration of a ration that the feeder know how much digestible nutrients to expect from feeding a given quantity of the plant either alone or mixed with other feeding stuffs. Many chemical analyses have been made of a number of different mem bers of the cactus family to determine their value as feed for animals, and while this data gives, with a fair de gree of accuracy, the amount of the various nutrients contained in the dif ferent species of the cacti, no reliable jxiilSwgSPgf Tw- ’ -gb record of digestion experiment s has been found, so that It has been Impos sible to say just what proportion of the different nutrients were available to the animals. In order to determine the digestibility of the prickly pear and thus guide the feeder in the preparation of rations from this plant, extensive investigations have recently been made In Texas, New Mexico amd other southwestern states. The principle of conducting a diges tion experiment is very simple. First, the animal is fed the feeding stuff the digestibility of which is to be deter mined until all other feeds have been removed from the alimentary canal. The animal is then placed in a stall specially designed for feeding and for collecting refuse without waste. It is then fed a weighed amount of the feeding stuff, the composition of which is determined feathers under the wings have started to break open and split at the points, the squab Is ready for market. The wings of each squab should be locked behind it by crossing them twice, and the bird hung by the feet head down* ward between two nails driven closely together. ▲ sharp pointed knife in serted in the mouth up to the base of the skull severs the jugulgr vein and the squab quickly bleeds to death. The bird must be thoroughly bled be fore picking, cr else the blood will con geal in the spots under the skin where the hand of the picker touches it, and the bird will become "blistered," as ths breeders term it, and its value greatly reduced. Wing and tail feathers should be pulled first, then the neck, back and breast, care being taken not to tesr the skin anywhere, as torn squabs spoil appearance of the shipment. After picking, the bird should l>e alrMi lowed to cool in ordinary cool for Half an hour or more. It must thsM|g be thoroughly washed, the crop out, and place in a tub of ice-water frozen, then they are ready for Pack in a clean box or barrel. the sides and bottom with a clean, paper. In the bottom place a layer two inches of ice, then a layer squabs, then another layer of one of ice. alternating until within Inches of the top, and the space should be filled with ica - w qgn Squabs Ready for Market. The express companies allow 20 per cent off the total weight for ice from the first of March until the first of No vember. Place clean, white paper over the top and cover with burlap, nailing it firmly to the barrel. Place a tag on the burlap top and another on the side and ship in the evening whenever possible. by anaylsis. All the refuse is collected, weighed, analysed, and the amount of the several nutrients which k is found to contain is subtracted from the amount of the corresponding nutrients fed. A good idea of the stalls used in these experiments may be obtained from the illustration. They are made of proper length and breadth, so that the animals may lie down comfortably, but not wide enough to permit *bem to turn around. The experiments developed the fact that animals scour badly when fed prickly pear alone; besides, other feeds are needed to supply the proper amount of proteids. For these reasons it is better not to feed it alone. When prickly pear is fed with cured fodders or grains the digestibility of both is increased. In feeding a mixed ration of prickly pear and alfalfa, or prickly pear and cotton seed meal, the general effect is to increase the digesti bility of all three feeds. If the ration of prickly pear will in crease the digestibility of all feeding stuffs, as It apparently does that of al- ' salsa and cotton seed meal, then this feed has a greater value than is shown by its own digestible nutriments. The probabilities are that the addition of this green and gCcculent feed to any dry feeding stuff will increase the diges tibility of both. , During the experiments the animals being tested, when fed prickly pear alone, seldom drank water. In fact, in feed ing a ration of 100 pounds of this feed per day the animal obtained from the feed over eight gallons of water, which is more than was usually drunk by them when fed cured fodders alone. A ration for a 1,000-pound milch cow of 60 pounds of prickly pear, 10 pounds of wheat bran, and 10 pounds of alfal fa, would furnish about the correct theo retical amount of nutriments. In the prickly pear region of Texas a ration consisting of this feeding stuff with cotton seed meal is very common. It is customary and better to give the cattle either the run of a dry grass pasture or some coarse fe< in connec tlon with this ration, as it will serve the double purpose of widening the too narrow ration produced from too much cotton seed meal and tend to check the scouring which results trom the use of ■ these two alone. 5
