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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Watered at th* Atlaata PoMoffle* aa MaU Mat ter at th* Second Class. JAMEB B. GBAT, Bdttor aad Gsnsral Maoogsx. bVBSCXIPTIOM PBXCX TweJr* month* • •“* hte •* Ibra* meath*. ■B>* Memi-Weekl/ Journal la pobUabad aa Tnoaday and Friday. and la malted by tea abort *«t rn«t«9 for early delivery. It contains new from all over th# wort®, brmwht by sped*! l***ed wire* tote o«» offlca It baa a atafr ot dtotiagtoabfd eoatrlbators. with strong darartmeata of apaeial nlo* to tt» *Otoo and the term. Agent. wanted at arery peatofflee. Ltberal eaaamtaKtro allowed. Ootftt free. Write to “• B. Baadaiph. ClrealatMm Manager. ( The rely trarellng rerreaentatteea we ha»* •re J. A. Btyan. B. F. Boltoe. C. C. Ctayte and M. H. 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It is at least no fauk of Senator Luke Lea's that his name is alliterative. Where is the old-fashioned, punctilious illiterate who pronounced it '‘furnltoor?" This cold weather is doubtless part and parcel of the Canadian reciprocity plan. The back to the farm movement is no dream. It is the automobile sulky plow now. ’ , Why ere the magazines attacking the Mormons? Are the Mormons necessarily I Btdck-rakers? It wasn't exactly August weather early Thursday morning, but, then, the weather man promises relief. "Peach crop cut 30 per cent. - We hope this isn’t true, but even if it were, 70 per cent hi some crop. The new Japanese treaty is being held up. Probably want to consult Hobson about the probability of war. , w 5 I/?wyem and doctors often disagree, but tn the matter of fees they generally are of the same uniform opinion. ■■ ■ - The • trouble with the average legal holiday, as far as the average worker is concerned. is that they are legal only. H»s no one thought to make a raid on f the possum preserves in anticipation of the president’s visit to us next month? A 90-year old man in Arkansas has been admitted to practice law. Sage counsel he should be and a sage coun- The fact that Joe Cannbn opposes re ciprocity makes the outlook for that de parture rather more hopeful than it had b *‘" Bailroad securities persistently refuse to decline very greatly, tn price, in spite the railroads’ positive prediction that they with And to think that the harem skirt is nothing more than the divided skirt. And we had been expecting something revolutionary. Fresh eggs are so plentiful now that they have ceased to be a novelty. To think that we should ever have eaken any other kind. With all his faults, no one has denied that Senator Bailey is oae of the ablest men the United States senate has seen tn many a day. The per capita wealth of the United States shows a reduction, and this In H the face of these magnificent benefactions from millionaire*. The automobile is becoming more and . more desirable. Here is a man who stole a tire from a machine while the chauf feur was eating supper. _ It la hard to see how Luther Burbank could improve on the strawberry, as ke prom'sea. unless he makec two grow where only one grew before. » •' T The baroness who Is engaged to an Ohio man named Hutt will marry no poor man. although the name somehow suggests the humble cottage. Latest disturbance from the cost of liv ing center is that plum pudding will ad vance tn price. Oh, well, that won't concern us until next Christmas. And strange to say, none of the enter prising yellow papers have thought of E offering a reward for Miss Arnold. One, though, has started a guessing contest. The Mexican government announces, through Minister Creel, that it has the revolution well In hand, but it seems more likely that the revolution is in the bush. It is denied now that J. Pierpont Mor gan acquired a portrait of Philip IV. The correction Is welcomed. People the world over had been mislead into believing this report. . - Perusal of belated exchanges shows that George Washington's portrait got pretty fair space on the front pages, al though Mias Arnold's Is still a live pic torial feature. “As to mural decorations, if you see them tn the city hall, they're art," says .the Indianapolis News. From which one would infer that the city hall in In dianapolis is not like other city halt a “Mr. and Mrs. James Detrick, promi nent members of the younger set in Bellefontaine. proud-parented for' the 11th Hme last Monday. It's a boy of 1911 model, and with 10-older-sister equipment'—Ohio State Journal. "Proud-parented" is good. A Friend in Need When you have headache Heartburn, coated tongue Gas-belchlng, incipient cold, Take Hood’s Pills FOUR TEAMS FOR ONE. A Thomas county farmer declares that in the future he will be able to haul four bales of cotton to town with the same team that a year ago could carry only one. The mules and wagou and the cotton are unchanged but the public spirit of his community has wakened to the meaning of good roads. The highways themselves have been transformed and that is why one team can now do the work of four. This testimony might be gathered from scores of Georgia counties where the good roads movement is being pressed. In every portion of the state popular sentiment is growing stronger each month for the development of highways. A number of counties have issued bonds in order that the work may be expedit ed. Every class and calling of the people are alert to the need and the importance of this enterprise. No one, however, is more interested in its advancement than is the farmer. For to him the value of a good road is in practi cal and continuous evidence. To him, it means the saving of mon ey and time, the enhancement of his property’s value and the en richment of his children’s opportunities. It brings him nearer the market, the school, the church and the homes of his neigh bors. The fact is Georgia can never reach the full measure of agri cultural possibilities until every county of the state is netted with smopth and durable roads. Whatever enables one wagon to *do the work of four and makes one trip to town a.ccmplish the results of four will leave the farmer more money in his pocket at the end of the year. The good roads movement that is now so earnest and wide spread in Georgia must never be suffered to lag. It should be the constant concern of merchants and chambers of commerce in the towns and the individual interest of every man in the county. For upon the extension of this movement depend the whole state’s growth and prosperity. A SUPREMELY IMPORTANT CONVENTION. It is deeply gratifying to note that the cities and towns of Georgia are planning to send large delegations to the Southern Commercial congress which meets in Atlanta on March 8, 9 and 10, now less than a fortnight away. Every county should be well represented, for a gathering of such magnitude and importance has never been known in the south nor any other part of the union. Georgia is fortunate and honored in having been chosen as the seat of this great convention and it is the duty, as well as the op portunity, of her people to give it their most cordial support. Sixteen southern states will be represented in this congress by their governors and by deputations of business and civic leaders. Every board of trade and every citizen of importance in the sec tion will send representatives. In addition to these, many men of national and international note will be present. President Taft and Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will be among them; Secretary Dickinson, William G. McAdoo, of New York; Chancellor Houston, of Washington university, St. Louis, Mo.; Colonel Roosevelt, Hon. John Barrett, director of the Pan-American union; Secretary James Wilson, of the United States department of agriculture, and others distinguished in the world of industry, agriculture, finance and education. , The attendance at the congress will not he less than five thousand. These facts afford a glimpse into the importance of the con vention, an importance that springs from the splendid and timely purpose it represents. To qificken the south's sense of the power that is stored up in its manifold resources and to make the worid’s estimate of the south a true one—these are the aims of the South ern Commercial congress. The approaching convention will be a rallying ground for new ideas and new endeavor. Every man. no matter what his occupa tion or interests may be, will find in these sessions keen inspiration and practical help. j OUR RAILROADS' PROSPERITY- The railroads of Georgia are to be congratulated that their net earnings for the past fiscal year show the substantial in crease of two million, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand, three hundred and seventy-one dollars. Better evidence of the state’s sound and prosperous business could not well be found. The reports just completed by the railroad commission are rich in interesting details. For the year ended June 30, 1910, the combined net earnings of the railways operating in this state amounted to thirteen million, eight hundred and thirty-three thou sand, three hundred and forty dollars. For the preceding year their net earnings were eleven million, one hunded and forty-four thousand, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For 1907, then considered the pinnacle year of railroad prosperity, their net earn ings were only eight million, seven hundred and twenty-five,, thou sand, nine hunded and ninety-seven dollars. Thus within three years the net earnings of our railroads have advanced more than five tnillion dollars. It is noteworthy that this gain has been made despite an appreciable increase in operating expenses. For the fiscal year of 1910, these expenses amounted to more than thirty million dol lars while for 1909 they were about twenty-eight millions. This fact serves to emphasize the gain in net earnings. The record is not confined to one or a few but to practically all the carriers of the state, the only exception being in the case of one or two very short lines. Such a showing is a credit to the management of the railway companies and alsp to the conditions and the laws of the state. It was once predicted that certain needed reforms in legislation would discourage, or even injure the investment of capital in Georgia. Time and results have most happily belied this ground lesa prophecy. The state has never held out more golden or in viting opportunities to honest business and those progressive laws, far from intimidating capital, have but fortified and broad ened the conditions finder which it may rightfully operate. JUST TO SHIPPERS AND THE ROADS, TOO. In only one narrow little nook of this whole country is there any real cause for'uneasiness over the action of the interstate commerce commission in forbidding an increase in freight rates by the eastern and western railroads. That nook is Wall street. The carriers themselves, the practical railroad men, will soon adjust themselves to the conditions entailed by the commission’s decision. As suggested by Louis D. Brandeis, the attorney for the shippers, the roads will learn to look within, instead of with out, for relief. They will avail themselves more earnestly of those modern economic methods whereby manufacturers and other in dustrial interests have grown and prospered. Earnings will be applied to the needs of transportation service rather than to the capricious greed <rf speculators and high financiers who know nothing and care less about the real business of railroads. And so, while certain interests in Wall street may have cause for anxiety over the commission’s ruling, the railroads themselves will, in the long run, find it truly beneficial. The New York World comments aptly i The chief function of a railroad is to be a common carrier and not to aerve as security for new issues of stocks and bonds. Rates are not to be raised whenever a financial group in control of the property wants more money. The necessity for the advance must be proved and it must be an operating necessity, not a atock-ticker necessity. The shipper ;s not to be mulcted until reasonable processes of economy and intelligent man agement have been exhausted. The American public wants to see the railroads prosper along with all other lines of legitimate business. But the public doesn’t want to bear the burden of Wall street speculations. Our carriers must be allowed a reasonable return upon the cost and value of the service they render. But they should be perverted to the exigencies of games in high finance. It is to the interests of the railroads as well as the public that this just and stable principle should have been emphatically set forth by the interstate com merce coitifliission. _. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1911 Is Christianity True or False The Real Issue in Missions Bt. Augustine says, "He who conceals a useful truth Is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.” The proposition is self-evident; for the concealment a truth, which, if publish ed, would dispel error, shows that he who conceals it is not deeply devoted to truth nor profoundly opposed to falsehood. Buch a person lacks both faith in truth and love for truth. He does not regard it as ah indispensable thing to be sought at all cost, nor does he esteem it as a sacred thing to be defended with all courage. He does not look up to it as having a sovereign right to occupy ex clusively the whole domain of human in telligence; he is ready to concede certain areas to falsehood for occupation by er ror. In his Inmost soul such a man really has no reverence for truth, nor aversion to falsehood. These principles are applicable to truth of every sort in all its forms. There Is no useless truth nor useful error, and a truth-loving soul stands for the truth in all fields and opposes error every where. But some truths are higher than others; some are more indispensable to life than are others, and more influential iu shaping human destiny. Mathematical truth, for example, is important; but there are mathematical truths of which men may be ignorant without impairing their characters or imperiling their wel fare. This, however, is not the case with moral truth. In the region of moral and religious truth there is not a prin ciple of which men may be ignorant without Injury to their lives In this world and in tne world to come. Moral and religious principles concern our rela tions to persons, both divine and hu man, and Ignorance of them or indiffer ence to them is fatal to life. To with hold moral and religious truth from those who have It not, is, therefore, treason to God and Inhumanity to man. It is to deny to human souls the vital atmos phere without which they can not breathe and live. It is to allow suffocating false hood to do its deadly work of stifling vir tue and smothering hope. In the consideration of these princi ples we find the basis of the work of foreign misions, and in them we dis cover the nature of the issue involved in that work. It proceeds on the theory that the Christian religion is true, and that the faiths of heathendom are so far false that they mislead and destroy men. If w« doubt the truth of Christian ity, or if we accept pagan cults as true, we can have no interest in the work of foreign missions. At bottom, therefore, the real issue in foreign missions Is whether Christianity is true or false, and the great enterprise of foreign missions is bringing this issue home to the hearts of professing Christians as never before. It is a testing issue which reveals the very inmost thoughts of men as to the religion which they profess to believe. It uncovers shams and hypocrites In that it shows through their opposition to foreign missions their utter lack of faith in Christianity. The doubt which they have disguised to friends and neighhprs is disclosed by their unwillingness to have the religion of Christ propagated throughout the whole world. If they real ly believed In their hearts that Christian ity is true, they would desire its speedy proclamation in all lands and its prompt acceptance by all souls. Nor would they stickle about “preaching the gospel at home first before going to other lands with it” A man who believes that he has In his possession an important truth, never seeks to hold it within geo graphic limits. A statesman having an economic or governmental truth, which he genuinely believes, will not tarry in HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS-THE CACKLE CLASS Lesson I—A1 —A Start in Hen Business It pays to raise chickens in the city. There’s nd doubt about it. For a long time it was the generally accepted theory that a hen needed about 180 acres in which to roam and scratch, a-nd that a big barnlike house was need ed for just a medium sized flock to roost. Wrong.' One well tested system gets excellent results both in eggs and meat by confining chickens in very close quar ters. In little back yards of city lots a flock of hens will grow and ( lay, and fatten for the market or your table just as if they were on the farm. If the largest plot you can give to chickens 'is only eight feet by four, that will do for a half dozen hens and a rooster, and with right care you ought to get 50 dozen eggs a year. Multiply that by more space and more hens and see how it will cut down your cost of living. Olso it will make you free of the cold storage product, and what is almost as good to the city man, the larger the productio nos eggs and poultry the less the demand for pork, beef and mutton, and correspond ingly lower prices for all mea'ts. Any one who has tried it will tell you that it’s mighty nice to go out to the nests in your own back yard and get some fine fresh eggs, eggs that are eggs. Maybe the klddiee won’t like those fresh eggs! Maybe they won't take to those chickens! And maybe the wife won’t enjoy the baby chicks and the fluffy grown up brood! In succedlng articles a study of the chicken raising business will be made from the standpoint of the individual who wants to raise them in the limited space most city people have. • Now, before you decide upon any plan or anything in connection with chicken' raising, let this sink deep into your cra nium: Don’t have scrub chickens around the place. Get good chickens, good breeds. Os course, that will cost a lit tle more to begin with, but they will pay and pay you well, while with the scrubs you will make a failure nine times out of ten. There are many good breeds of chick ens. Many poultry fanciers like the Leg horn best, and both white and brown Leghorns have their advocates. They say that the Leghorn is the best layer and that being small they require less room, less food, and produce more eggs In a year than any other breed. But there isn't much flesh on the Leghorn and as many people like a chicken dinner once tn a while, a larger fowl is bet ter. For meat alone the Brahmas ar e good. .For good, all-round layers and meat pro ducers. Orpingtons, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Rihode Island 'Reds each have their admirers. Personally, I like the Orpington best. It's a .big chicken, lays well during the cold weather, can accommodate itself to limited space. Anyway, whatever breed you select, the big part of chicken raising comes after wards. For the novice it would be best if he starts small. Every expert poultry By Bishop Warren A. Candler ' SB ; At ... . .. . BISHOP WA.BREM A. CAMDLEB. Georgia until every Georgian accepts hW views before he goes to other states to proclaim his political doctrine. On the contrary, by spoken word and printed page he will seek to bring the iVhole nation to his way of thinking. In this he acts as every Christian should act who really believes that Christianity is the only true religion which all mankind should accept. The men and women, who profess to accept Christianity, but who would confine it to any one land, in their heart of hearts do not believe it. They would have Christ to be a provin cial deity of a fraction of a world, whereas he demands for Himself domin ion over all the earth. To offer him a provincial kingdom, instead of universal knlghtshlp, Is to dishonor and Ineult him. It Is to put, as did his cruclfiers, a mocking reed in his hand for a scepter, and a crown of thorns upon his head. In the end the people who seek restrict his sovereignty to their own reduce him to the level o# a mere household deity for the sole use and benefit of their own family and in their souls offer to him dally that prayer of infinite and infamous selfishness which he prayed who said, “Lord bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife; us four and no more.’’ This explains why the opponents of foreign missions do nothing for the work in the home land about which they prate so much. They care noth ing for Christ's kingdom at home or abroad. They do not believe that Chris tianity is a system of truth which Is indispensable t 0 mankind. They are not concerned for the welfare of humanity nor jealous for the honor of God. In de siring to withhold from the world the knowledge of Christianity, they proclaim their own religion to be a quack nostrum compounded by a secret formula. If Christianity is true it must be preached to all men. If it is no more true than Buddhism or Confucianism or Mohammedanism, it is not worthy of be ing sustained in any land—our own land or any other land. It should, If it is false, be abandoned. • The real and ultimate issue In the matter of missions is whether Christian ity Is true or false. Let all parties face the issue fairly and squarely. If Christianity is the final and full truth about God and deity and destiny, It Is such a truth as constrains us to give it to all men. If it is not true, let us have done with the empty delu sion. The time has come for all men to have It or ?or all men to renounce It. raiser will preach that to you day and night. And there’s a reason. You must get practical experience, must have your failures and successes before you can think of making money on a large chick en farm. One other thing to remember is when you start with a particular breed stick to that breed. If they don’t come up to snuff as layers, change the strain, but keep to the breed of which you have al ready learned something. More will be said about layers in later articles. Before you get the chickens get the house for them to live in. The size of that depends altogether upon the size of the flock you will wunt to keep, and upon the space at your disposal. The main things to be remembered in building chicken houses are these: They must be dry, well ventilated, both winter and summer, and room enough for each fowl; roots need not be more than 18 inches from the floor; plenty of light is also necApsary. Every effort must be made to prevent drafts, therefore*place the roots near the back of the hopse, and except on real cold nights burlap coverings for doors and windows are enough. Fresh air can get through while drafts cannot. The house need not be expensive. A boy handy wih hammer and saw ought to be able to put up a good one. Rough wire netting can be used to enclose a run way where the chickens can have their needed exercise. Nbw having built the house and decided upon the breed, the next thing is to be gin. This you can do with eggs, young ' chicks, or with hens. If you decided to buy young chicks the problem of incubation is removed, but : if you intend to keep that chicken house 1 in active operation for years you will find it to your interest to learn how to hatch ' your own chtcks. Jn tomorrow’s Journal the writer will discuss natural and artificial incubation; matings, and how to get the best layers. Every one of us to a certain extent has a responsibility of some sort, and the fact that one is not married does not make it a foregone conclusion that there is no big-hearted, clear-brained Christian gentleman to whom she cannot go with out embarrassment and talk over her per plexities. I know one man in Atlanta that is never too tjusy to help any woman who really needs his advice. I have two cousins right in this city, as different in their dispositions as it is possble to be and it never strikes me that they are not delighted to smooth mjTpath. Their wives are as thoughtful as they are and I have never felt the “unprotected” con dition that old German proverb, “He who gives gets” 1% applicable here. Give love, give your time, give your substance if you have any, and as sure as the sun shines you may expect to find love and the lesser gifts. Sell all the scrub fowls and put the money into pure bred roosters —no mat ter if you do have to pay from 115 to 125, . , Ia£TSABWTTHE I4hagswf| HXXiPFUL BAXBT MOTHS On the dairy farm a short system of crop rotation removes old fields, puts all crops nearer to the manure and fer tilizer used, increases the variety of the feeds, adds to their value through an increase In their protein content and to their palatabillty and ease of digestion. Food and food production for the dairy lies at the foundation of successful dai rying. Unless the foundation is well laid the business will be a failure. Dairying today is the leading branch of farming, bringing to the farmer the most money and leaving the land In the best possible condition to continue its production. Cows for market are as much a prod uct of our dairy business as milk and butter, and many farmers are finding good profits in growing and selling good dairy cows to their brother dairymen who are not in a position to raise their own cows. » PLAHTHTG AMD TBANSFLAHTTHTG The best method of- handling young plants is to transplant them to two inch flower pots at a very early age, keep them in a protected place till set tled warmer weather, then transplant to the open garden. In this way, the young plants are not affected by the change. The ball of earth from the pot com pletely binds all the roots together so that there is no drying out no? any check In growth. Transplanting from small flo#er pots may be done at any time of the day, clear or cloudy The pots are good for a or till broken. Improvised, pots of various kinds may be used for starting and transplanting young planta The best of these is a wooden quart berry box. With It, box, plant, and all may be set In the perma nent garden space, the box soon rotting away. Tin cans with the ends melted off and the seams unsoldered make fairly good transplanting pots. A string is , tied around to hold the can together while the plant is growing and removed at time of transplanting, allowing the cyl inder of earth to easily slip out. Sim ilar results may be had by making pots of card board of of heavily oiled paper. —H. H. Shepard. FEEDING AND CANING FOB GOS LINGS As soon as dry our goslings are plac ed-in brooders. When 24 hours old they are fed four times dany “by measure”; Bran 1 part, rolled oats 1 part, corn meal and shorts 1 part, blood meal 1 tea spoonful to each quart of food. This ration is dampened with skimmed milk or water until it will crumble. Green food, grit and water are always before them. Water is given in fountains, so they caWhot get into it. Heat in brood er is gradually reduced from 90 degrees until they need no heat, when they are removed to other quarters and fed three times a day by measure: Bran 1 part, rolled oats and shorts 1 part, blood meal 1 tablespoonful to each quart of food. Corn meal and cooked vegetables are added frequently. This ration is mixed with skimmed milk or water until it will crumble. Grit and water are before them alwaya They are not allowed In water until they are full feathered. Their quarters are kept clean and well littered with straw.—F. D. Fowler, Car linville, HI. IN TM® SNEEFFOLD Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt and foul odors affect sheep quickly. It is the farmer who keeps sheep for a number of years that finds them most profitable. Some years they win return a much better profit than others and it la hard to sell and buy at just the right time. Feed that will keep the bowels open is the best for this time of the year. Wheat bran helps to do it. | Sheep will dig pretty close to the grass roots In the early spring if you give them a chance. They like a taste of something fresh. If you feed them plenty of turnips this will help to satisfy their appetites. VENTILATE THE SHEEP-SHED A building devoted to sheep should be arranged so as to give the desired fresh air and prevent the beating rains from getting inside. Ordinary door arrange ments will not afford this protection. Windows or the upper part of the building may be fixed with strong hinges so as to be pushed out and prop ped open, allowing the fresh air to enter at the bottom of the opening. The top of this kind of a shed may be left open the greater part of the time without harming the flock at all. Damage to trees by rabbits gnawing th4 mark can be stopped in the follow ing way: make a thick whitewash, slacking the lime overnight improves it. To each pailful of the whitewash Ttdd three tablespoonfula of Paris green and paint the trees with it. Stir fre quently when applying it. Statistics indicate a great development of the canning and preserving of fruits and vegetables in Hawaii since the islands were acquired by the United States. Ten establishments, giving em ployment to 553 wage earners, were re ported for last year. Big Money in Raising Fruit You ougnt to make big profits on your fruit crops by pro R ducing perfect and pretty fruit, free from worms and other defects, if your spraying is thoroughly done and you have ' been otherwise attentive to your trees. To increase your yield per tree or per acre of fine fruit Use Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers at the rate of ten or fifteen lbs. per tree, spread around the ! tree and thoroughly worked into the soil around the roots. i Ask your dealer for a copy of our handsome this season’s FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or almanac, or write us. The book is worth many dollars to any farmer. sales offices Richmond, Va. Charleston, S. C. Norfolk, Va. Baltimore, Md, * Atlanta, Ga. Columbus, Ga. ~ Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. J| Columbia, S. C. Memphis, Tenn. Durham, N. C. Shreveport, La. Mglßgk COT ' Aicxandn*, V*. SWINGING PEED TKBODGH FOB POULTBT Take two pieces Ixß inches, three feet long, two the same width, one and a half feet long; nail them together for the sides and ends. Put on a bottom of matched boards, make a frame of Plaths, cut in one-foot lengths. Make the frame fit the inside of the box. Put on a. cov er of poultry nettting, and attach a strong wire to e-.h corner. Swing this from the rafters and adjust to hang about two inches from the floor. Ar range the netting so one side ms.y be raised to put in the food. WOMANLT WISDOM * V» ish rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies; Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise;— March! Potpie will never be heavy of yoi put in two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with the flour. When you are in danger of getting rattled, just stop and think that it :> the empty kettle that rattles most Add a large onion to a pot of cooking cabbage. It will take away the gat and any ill effects of th* cabbaga Have you ever tried an old paint brush with which to blacken the stove? If you haven’t, you have a joy coming. Think every day of beautiful tilings. If you do not you will soon get so that there will be no beautiful thlmt* to think of. Make some crack and crevioe filler by mixing glue and fine sawdust F«t it in soft and warm, spread down well with a knife and let it get hard. It will be all right Nearly all cooks have a cake fall sometimes. Don’t worry. I know a young man who won his wife by say ing when her cake fell: “I always did like cake that had fallen.” Better buy one good book for the fam ily than three or four cheap story pa pers. Boys and girls acquainted with great thinkers of great thoughts will not seek the society of loafers or read the frothy, enervating novels. ; Whenever you bring a wet umbrella into the house always set it to drip han dle down. It dries more quickly that) way; otherwise, which is more important I to consider, the collected rain-wa*eri rusts the hinges and rots the cloth or 1 silk. Some think they must have the oven' !"zling hot when they put bread tn toj bake, and then they wonder why a thick crust comes on the loaves, while the: middle is not at all well baked. The best way is to have the oven just hot) enough so that the loaves will take on a nice brown in, say, 10 or 15 minutes. Don't be in a hutry to take them out too’ soon, either. An hour is not too long to I bake bread t have it just right. When you pack away hams and should ers for summer use, be sure that they! are well smoked and thoroughly dried: out. Powder each piece with pulverized slip it into a paper flour sack,, tie each sack tightly, then pack, nc< too. closeiy together, into a bin or large i tight box filled with oats. We pack' them each year in this manner in our. as we use the meat. No worms, mag gots or other pests attack our meat sup ply.—From March Farm Journal. AMEBICAN POTATOES IN PBASCB | The shortage in the French i>otato crop has created a deficit which is being I filled by large importations from other i European countries, notably Great Brit-1 ain, Austria, Germany and Belgium. Importations of potatoes from the I United States to France had been pro hibited since the decree of 1875. which' was inspired iby fear of the Colorado potato bug, until that wan an-1 nulled on October 15, 1910, opening the French markets to potatoes from the United States, provided they are clean, free from the soil in which they were grown, and the packages in which they are shipped contain no stems or, leave* of the potato plant As a result of this long prohibition American potatoes are practically un known in France, and French impor ters have no acquaintance or establish ed relations with American exporters < which would enable the trade to be promptly taken up since the withdrawal of the prohibitory decree. Partly for this reason, and partly because many French people havs still a lingering dread of some possible disease In Amari- , i can potatoes and do not even know that the prohibition against them has been. withdrawn, they have nnt yet appeared in any appreciable quantity on the Paris > market.—Consul General F. H. Maaon. • To get rid of the red spider, dust the leaves of fruit with powdered flowers', of sulphur after moistening to mate the powder adhere.
