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Newspaper Page Text4 THE SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GA., 5 SOITH FOBSTTK ST. Entered at the Atlanta Pom office as Mafl Matter of the Second Class. .'AMES B. GRAT, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75 ® E Six months * <>c K Three eoDAhs * sc The Semi-V*eekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and Is mailed by the shortest routes for f earl delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments ■ of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffica. Liberal com mission allowed Outfit free. Write to R. R. BRAD i | LEY. Circulation Dept. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Klm- ■ bro ugh and C. T. Tates. We wIU be responsible only ' for money paid to the above named traveling reprcr- sentatives. I NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. Tn ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with , back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. L Atlanta. Ga. ( HOJF WILL GEORGIA ’5 VOTE BE USED? The Journal shares with thousands of good Demo crats the opinion that if Georgia's delegates to the Baltimore convention are called upon to express a 'f second choice, they should vote for Woodrow Wilson. Thia view has sorely nettled some of our Underwood contemporaries. They grow red in the face and call It “political idiocy.” Naturally they are peevish , whenever the question of a second choice is broached, for it is just there that the right of the politicians to trade away the state’s vote to some unknown or un considered candidate becomes involved: it is just there that the horns and tail of their long-laid scheme appear. The Interests that never have expected Mr. Un derwood to be nominated and that have proceeded from the very outset upon the theory that he would retire from the contest after a preliminary ballot or two, thus leaving them untrammelled to drive their own bargains and carry out their own original design—these Interests naturally resent any sugges tion which would interefere with their chertshed plans. Having bagged the state’s vote, they consider it their divine right to use it just as they please. The Journal is not disposed to argue the right of , Governor Wilson to be declared the second choice of the Georgia delegation just as he was declared the second choice of the people, whom these delegates are suposed to represent. For, we realize that the scheme which was contrived many months ago, and * which was foisted upon the state under the guise of | the Underwood candidacy is going to be carried to its finish. Mr. Underwood will no doubt be given the Georgia vote with much ado until at the proper .mo -4 ment he .withdraws and then our politlciarfa, stnflftig complacently, will enter into their own; which means that the state’s influence will go to some man whom no appreciable number of our people have approved but whom, on the contrary, they emphatically disap prove, or whom, perhaps, they have not even remote r ly considered. Be this as it may, the fact remains that Woodrow Wilson was as clearly the second choice of the voters \ who went to the polls in the Georgia primary on May the first as Mr. Underwood was the first chice. {There were four candidates before the electorate. Congressman Underwood received sixty-eight thou sand, two hundred and seventy-three votes; Governor , Wilson, fifty-three thousand, eight hundred and sixty tig votes; Speaker Clark, eight hundred and eighty * two and Governor Harmon, four hundred and eleven. What do these figures signify? What would they they signify in any contest? .Simply this: that Mr. Underwood came first in popular preference and that - Governor Wilson came second; and furthermore that the strength developed by Speaker Clark and Gover nor Harmon was so slight as virtually to eliminate them from consideration. If, then, the Georgia delegates to the Baltimore Convention should be called upon to express a second I choice and, if in doing so they should make an? pre tense of earning out the popular will, they could not refuse to support Wilson. No one has ever sug gested that they should abandon Mr. Underwood’s cause until it is demonstrated that he has no chance of being nominated and has retired from the contest. He is entitled to the delegation's loyal support so long as there remains any opportunity of his winning. But, if he is eliminated whom should the Georgia delegation then stand for? For Clark, who received only eight hundred and etghty-two votes at the polls? For Harmon who received only four hundred and I eleven votes? Or for Woodrow Wilson who received nearly fifty four thousand votes? It is simply a question of whether the Georgia delegation shall carry out the clearly affirmed choice . of some fifty-four thousand Democrats or the secretly nurtured scheme of a political clique. It is simply a question of whether the state’s 'vote shall be applied in the convention according to t the popular will at the polls or shall be smuggled i and trafficked to suit the interests of a few bosses. It is against this latter sort of deal that The * Journal'protests. As we in the outset, there is no evidence to expect that any heed will be given the mandate of the people. But the facts in the case, the right in the case remain nevertheless and, if I Georgia's delegated vote in the Baltimore convention is traded, contrary to the people’s intention and I against their expressed wish, the state will take note I es the deal and will bear It in mind for the future. Food prices may be up, but the blackberry crop, from all reports, will be a fine crop. It is a hard world to satisfy. The farmers say that If It doesn't rain soon, crops will suffer. La Follette says that neither the president nor - the colonel has succeeded in busting the trusts, and I Bob is about right. President Taft is a little more modern than some of the other critics of the colonel, who compared •him to Caesar. The president mentions Louis XIV. LET SOUTHERN STATES UNITE AGAINST THE BRISTOW MENACE SOME of our Underwood contemporaries would have it appear that The Journal has criticised the Bristow amendment because Congressman Underwood supported it. That is just the reverse of the truth. We have criticised Congressman Under wood because he supported the Bristow amendment. A proposition that threatens to rob the individual states of essential rights and, particularly, to rob the southern states of those protective suffrage laws on which they depend for their political integrity is of vastly greater concern to our people than the for tunes of any candidate. And any congressman that lends his influence to the furtherance of such scheme is, whether wittingly or not, allaying himself against the South’s vital interests. The Journal is no recent convert to this convic tion, despite a contrary assertion by the Macon Tele graph and other organs of Its ilk. If the Telegraph’s memory were a little longer or its partizanship a bit more scrupulous, it would recall that over a year ago, long before Mr. Underwood was remotely men tioned In presidential politics, The Journal protested as emphatically as it could against just such an amendment as that which has recently passed, and which Congressman Underwood sanctioned. Not once only, but time and again did we point out the perils of taking the manner and method of electing United States senators entirely out of the hands of the individual states and of allotlng to Congress exclusive authority in determining the qualifications for suffrage in such elections. On February the twelfth, 1911, the Journal said editorially: "What this would mean to the douth in times of heated politics may easily be surmised. With a large Republican majority in Congress and with a bitterly contested senatorial election tn a southern state, the protective measures of our negro disfranchisement laws might, er forcibly overriden and our grcs&ot bulwark for pure ballots and good government swept to naught.” We went further and declared that the South could better afford to reject entirely the plan for the popular election of senators than to accept it at the risk of losing its disfranchisement laws and of facing again the political bondage of Reconstruction days. Such was our view long before Mr. Underwood’s par ticular role in the Bristow amendment ever entered the discussion; and we expressed it, as we have said, not only once, but repeatedly. So much for the record in the case. The import ant consideration of the present hour is that the Southern states should stand stalwartly united against the effort to thrust this dangerous plan upon them. However much we may desire to see the popular election of senators established the country over, we can ill afford to sacrifice rights and principles that involve our own people’s welfare. The Bristow amendment is an inseparable part of the proposed Constitutional change that is to be submitted to the states for ratification. Under that amendment Con gress is specifically empowered to fix the qualifica tion of voters, to supervise the elections and if it so wills, to enact a force bill to lash the states into submission. Georgia, along with most of the other southern states, has prescribed certain qualifications for suf frage in order to safeguard itself against the corrupt and ignorant negro vote. If those qualifications did not meet the approval of a Republican majority in Congress, they could be peremptorily swept aside and should we refuse to acquiesce, Congress would then be empowered, under the Bristow amendment, to place . federal marshals or troops at our polls and take complete charge of the election. It is beside the point to say that this authority would never be exercised in a manner distasteful or injurious to the South. The Baltimore Sun, a news paper distinguished for composure and conservatism, aptly remarks in this connection: "Borne of the gentlemen who votid for the resolution with the Bristow amendment said they had no fear Congress would ever make any attempt to take charge of the elections. There is no indication now that it will do so. But it is never safe to confer power upon the theory that it will not be employed.” When this pernicious amendment was recently before the House the Southern congressmen voted almost as a unit against it Every member of the Georgia delegation, it is gratifying to note, opposed it Mr. Underwood, House leader, advocated it and it was largely through his influence that it passed. As matters now stand, therefore, the South’s only recourse is to join in a determined fight arainst the proposed change in the Constitution when it is sub mitted, as it soon will be, to the state legislatures for their approval or rejection. Let us, then, realize to the full the menace we face and unite in defeat’ng this scheme that strikes at the very root of our stability and freedom of government. Would that the summer resorts were only a third as attractive as their folders. The president qeems to think that the colonel was a friend of the harvester, if not of the farmer. I The Cobb case was settled too soon to be made an issue in the presidential primaries. The more times a woman gets married the more surprised she is to find that it is different from what she expected. Generally warmer weather is predicted for this week, and it is safe to say that there will be more warm weather during the summer. A CORNER IN COFFEE. If one had a mind to, he could imbibe political economy every morning with his cup of breakfast coffee. We pay twice as much for coffee now as we did a decade ago; and when it is reflected that the United States consumes about forty per cent of the eighteen million bags of coffee used in the world every year, the weight of this fact becomes evident. The increase in price has applied not only to the individual but also to the retailer and to the whole saler. What has been the cause of this? The government is now seeking to make a pract cal and effective answer through a suit to require the open sale of some nine' hundred and fifty thousand bags of coffee alleged to be stored in Naw York. It is one of the most interesting suits ever brought un der the Sherman anti-trust act because the monopoly at which it aims is not limited to America or even founded here but is centered in Brazil and is of an international character. While this government has p»a s £d ]pws ,tq THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1912. trusts, the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil has enacted legislation to foster the principle of monopoly. Bra zil, is is well known, produces the major portion of the world’s coffee. The growers of Soa Paulo per suaded their state to back them in establishing a limit to the amount of coffee that might be produced and in holding up its price. To accomplish this a seventy-five million dollar syndicate was formed. Foreign bankers financed the scheme. All the coffee produce beyond a fixed margin was subjected to a prohibitive tax. Thus it became easy to deter mine by artificial means the price which households the world over should pay for their breakfast beverage. In the United States, the plan has been carried to minute execution. The amount of coffee allotted to this country is stored away and tenaciously held out of the market until the price reaches a figure agree able to the promoters of the trust. The government will hardly be able to reach the seat of the monopoly in Brazil but it is believed that it can put an end to the practice of holding in re serve great quantities of the staple in this country; for that is clearly in restraint of trade and violates at least the spirit of the Sherman anti-trust act. If the suit is successful, it may be expected that there will be an appreciable decrease in the present exorbi tant price of coffee. It looks like President Taft would have to consider what" to do with ex-presidents. As far as any connection with the money trust is concerned, our skirts, thank goodness, are clear. There will be a surplus of whiskey in Kentucky this year, showing that those who can have it always have more than they want. PATROL OF THE ICE REGIONS Mariners will long remember the spring of 1912 for the many icebergs which imperiled travel in the North Atlantic'. The great floe encountered by the Titanic was but on among scores that have been sighted in the vicinity of the New Foundland banks. They seem to have drifted farther south than ordi narily and to have called for unusual caution on the part of ocean liners. The navy department has recognized the demands of such a situation by ordering the crusier Birming ham to patrol the ice region, keep a sharp lookout for bergs that invade or approach steamship routes and give prompt warnings of their presence. The commander of the Birmingham will send wireless reports to the navy department twice every day, and these will be transmitted in turn, to the steamship companies. Such service will be of inestimable value to the safety of ocean travel in a region famous for its dangers. Vessels will be supplied with accurate and almost continuous information as to just how far north they may venture. These warnings will no longer be, as they are now, more or less haphazard; they will be systematic and authoritative. It is believed that the example of the United States will.lmpel other countries to join in the im portant work of patroling ice fields, so that in time no realm of the sea that is used for travel will be without Its due patrol in seasons of possible jeopardy. Thus one of the grim lessons taught by the wreck of the Titanic is being applied. If it is to count for what it should, ocean liners must promptly heed the warnings they receive. They must not rashly dis regard messages telling them of the presence of ice bergs and risk destruction for the sake of a speed record. They must also be adequately equipped with wireless appliances and duly supplied with efficient operators. They don’t kick any of these mad dogs around. The next thing on the program may be a drought. The disappointed vegetable gardener may find some degree of comfort on a roof garden. Now is the time to get that bathing suit. “Swat the fly" will soon again be the familiar slogan. Whether to go to the seashore or to Piedmont Park is the problem that besets us now. He is a successful farmer who is able to raise a mortgage. And some people wouldn’t recognize what they want if they got it. RECIPROCITY REVIVING. The friends of reciprocal free trade between the United States and Canada have never doubted that this liberal policy, though defeated for the moment would eventually triumph. There has been a di vergence of opinion as to how soon or late that might be, but recent political turns in the Dominion would seem to indicate that will come earlier than had been expected. The New York Times construes the outcome of the election held last week in the province of Quebec as distinctly heartening in the outlook for a renewal of the reciprocity plan; for the party favoring the free trade agreement won a decisive victory. “In Ottawa,” says the Times, “the result is taken as a clear indication that Sir Wilfrid Laurier will again appeal to the people for approval of his policy, in which reciprocity is foremost.” The fact is the people of Canada, the country be ing considered as a whole, realized long months ago that in having repudiated the Liberal government they had turned their faces from an administration that had been efficient and constructive and that de served their earnest support. They realized fur thermore that in having refused assent to the reciprocity pact, they had sacrificed to ground less suspicion and prejudice, one of their nation’s richest opportunities. We say “groundless” suspicion; the term is per haps too strong; for, such wild utterances as Speaker Champ Clark indulged in when the reciprocity pact was in the balance were certainly alarming to a people who did -*ot know, as well as we on this side of the border, how to take Mr. Clark’s platform oratory. When he advocated the annexation of Can ada by the United States, the Canadians failed to dis criminate between a serious statement and the Speak er’s characteristic persiflage. It is to be hoped that when the reciprocity issue is again vital, as undoubtedly it will be, Mr. Clark can be induced to hold his loquacity in leash. \ Too often love is adulterated with money. Any chimneyJn never smokea, ' A LOVE OF PRAISE By Dr. Frank Crane One of the keenest pleasures of existence is to be able to do something, to do it, and to get praised for it. Half of the fun of writing a book, said Frank Nor ris, is to read what people say about it. I. Sk Mi k EL W ions? So, if you love me tell me so. If you do not like me, please go away. It’s a roomy world. And even if we both go to heaven I doubt not there will be stars enough so that you can dwell among the Seven Sisters and I can /wag along somewhere in the tail of tue Big Dog. Not doing a thing, nor doing a thing poorly and get ting praised for It, does not taste good to a healthy man. For that reason one would imagine that kin-rs and people with nothing but money would sout in their souls. To be eternally kow-towed to, and to be called your majesty, when you know perfectly well you are not majestic, that would make a man want to take the woods. The most rational princesses would seem to be • those that elope with coachmen just the sake of being treated as a woman. But to do a thing, something worth while, t« put through a business deal, to make a perfect instrument, to shot a horse well, to bdke an ideal batch of bread, to paint a picture, or chisel a statue, or compose or perform a piece music, or to preach a sermon, or to act a part upon the stage, and to feel that in any one of these ways you have 'Wcceeded—there's a fine, healthful glow about that. Ad then when the ap plause comes, when bouquets are thrown, when your friend hurrahs, and even when your enemy is forced to say it’s not half bad, that is one of the sunlit peaks of bliss here below. Happiness has been defined as the pt~ect use of one’s faculties, the free expression of one's personality. But that is only one-half of happiness; the other halt is to have people appreciate what you do. The servant in the parable doubtless was susta><d all along- by the consciousness of industry and probity, but his joy was like a bulb in the -arth, growing se cretly; it neevr burst into bloom and fragrance umil he heard his master say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant! Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.” Os course, the love of praise can be carried too far. but what good thing cannot? Some persons overfeed, but shall we then have no more cakes and ale? Love is good, but love returned raises it to the Hun dredth power. Kindness is good but, gratitude blows its pleasureableness from a spark to a flame. They tell us that even God likes to be thanked. 1 Nations That Come Back New York Press. The principle In the life of individuals, whether they be prize fighters, authors or prophets, that once they have passed their best they cannot repeat or come back level with their former power or achievement seems to be reversed in the case of races, though It has been customary to regard some of the nations of Eu rope as having survived their greatness, as if toe course of empire on its westward way had touched them in sequence and then passed on to fresher soil and younger peoples, never to return. Evidences are now cropping up among the supposedly effete or ex hausted nations of Europe and Asia to prove that when decadence has overtaken an old civilization it is as if from its very decay, as in the lower orders of nature, a rich soil were created out of which should spring, in due season, the vital seeds of regeneration. Italy is a case in point. France is another; and even Spain is beginning to show unmistakable symp toms of a renaissance. And this is not all. For sev eral decades Europe, as it looked toward Asia, uas comforted itself with the thought, so aptly phrased by Matthew Arnold, that "the East bowed low be fore the blast in patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, then turned to thought again.” But the East no longer bows; Japan came up with a rush out of a dead past to take her place in the front rank of modern nations, and China, asleep for 1,000 years in a senile decay, has astonished the world by the quickest awakening in history. People who have visited Spain in recent years are united in their various impressions of the revitalized character of Spanish institutions and the Spanish race. Thrown back upon themselves and concentrated after the loss of their empire in South America and the fi nal humiliation of the Spqnish-American war of 1898, the people of Spain, old historically but still young ethnically, are developing a new and more vigorous life. The most recent instance of this reawakening is found in the active new educational movement, less striking but quietly more potent than military dem onstrations or political upheavals. With the aid of government subsidies hundreds of Spanish students are now In residence in foreign universities and technical schools, and many thousands more, under the over sight of the government, are prosecuting the same kinds of studies in the various provincial schools and colleges of Spain. The new and vigorously practical education is in the interest of national development, and thus the work of the schools and colleges and of the students sent abroad is imbued with the flavor of constructive patriotism. Glints from Goldsmith No man does little things more solemnly. Men who desire to cover their private ill nature by pretended regard for all; or men who, reasoning themselves into false feelings, are more earnest in the pursuit of splendid than of useful virtues. My insensible crew could sleep, though rocked by an earthquake and fry beekstake at a volcano. When all is said, life is but a froward child that must be humored and coaxed a little till it fall asleep; then all the trouble is over. THE RESTLESS MAN •I’m truly sorry for the gent who, when the toil some day is spent, won't by his fireside linger; who can’t serenely sit and read "Re bellion,” “Money Moon” or “Queed,” or t’othermost humding er. The fireside pleasures he will dodge; he says: “I have to go to lodge as outside guard, dear Sal lie; tomorrow night I have to go to act as usher at a show, next night I ’tend, a rally.” His pa tient wife just heaves a sigh and wipes the briny from her eye, and, sad and discontented, she murmurs now and then: “I wish that husbands and that kind of fish had never been Invented! I used to let my fancies roam, and pictured such a happy home, with evenings long and cheery; alas! ILfc ™ I W-K my husband’s brains turn sour if he must stay here half an hour —it surely makes me weary!” For pleas ant evenings by your side perhaps the girl you made your bride is yearning, too, and panting? Disgusted with her Moated Grange It will not seem so passing strange if she goes gallvanting. Methinks that many of the dames who play the frantic suffrage games are there by husbands driven, who, when they toddle home at all. go much like Dobbin to his stall, to eat y- Saw what you please about the love of praise, if there is any thing that just tastes better t» a man or woman I don’t know what it Is. Quite aside from the questions whether it be naughty, or sinful, or low, or selfish, or what not, concentrate your mind for a moment on this one point— that it tastes good. Oh, better than honey in the honeycomb, better than chocolate creams and, champagne waters and other things that are not good for you, as good as tobacco, almost as •:uod as kisses. Lt is very grand and herds to o a noble deed and let no one ’. put it's a deal more ••atisfactory to be caught and ex posed. And what is it to iove >raise but a keen of appre n of our fellow-men’s opin- TWCS UT tfOUjS, aOME. I have a letter from a young lady who lives on I farm and whose father is so engrossed with his faim farm implements and getting more land, that he doel not fix up the house as she wishes he would do, an. she writes me concerning the necessity for making th< home attractive to the mother and children who worl hard to aid the father in his undertakings. I understand the dear girl’s appeal, and the timl has been when I made many personal appeals to farnr ers and their wives when Hon. Harvey Jordan conduct 1 ed the farmers' institute work in Georgia. Some ci the sweetest of my recollections are connected wits the immense enthusiasm which prevailed when farmeri would come to me and with tears streaming down the» cheeks, they would say: "I never saw it before thal way, Mrs. Felton. I am going home and from hence forth I am to show my family that I will give al much time to their comfort and satisfaction as anj other husband or father in our neighborhood.” Why that part of the farmers' institute work wai abandoned I cannot tell. There are lecturers gofnj over the state all the time, as I am told, but the nee I for attention to farmers’ wives and daughters Is still apparent, as this young lady’s letter proves. The state appropriates a large sum each year to tn< stltute work, but I heard nothing of the work for farm ers’ wives and daughters, and I trust there will bl some effort made when the next legislature assemble! to take it up again. . I have seen splendid farms, well cultivated, bragged about, and bringing good returns, where the women kind had to tote water from a far off well or sprinii and where the women had to rise before day to get d hot breakfast for the owner, who made everything gi with a hop or a jump when he begun to growl like a bear at the delays. Maybe that wife had been worry ing with a sick child for 24 hours and needed rest bad ly, but the “boss man” saw but one side of the ques tion and that was his side. When dinner time ap proached no matter how cold it was or how hot th4 weather, that woman had to be on time and have whai the bear wanted to eat or he would growl again. This sort of work went on for 365 days in the yean and the woman was glad to know she could go oul and pick up good stove wood to cook with, and thal she didn’t have to pick up sticks or chips or chop it herself. When the boss man wished he could go t<J town and buy all sorts of new-fangled implements al a fancy price. She could work with an old cook stove as long as it did not fall down and set the kitchen floor afire, no matter how cracked or poorly it per formed. Have you not seen it? When Saturday noon arrived the boss man. John, cleans up, goes to town, and brags on his crop and plays the big Ike generally, while Sallie does a stunt of cleaning up and cooking so that John shall have a good dinner on Sunday. If a whole lot of John’s kin comes over to spend Sunday Sallie puts In another day «f hot or cold work as it happens, and John, the boss, after a day of rest, gets up at 4 a. m., Monday morning, and Sallie gets a "move on her.” Sallie’s girls get tired sometimes. They want some thing better and something nicer in their homes. May be they beg for it, and maybe they don’t get It. Then they will marry some fellow that John and Sallie don't like, and maybe he will do better than John has done, and maybe he don’t. But he can run off and let the girl go back home, and maybe carry, a baby or two extra. Haven't you seen It? There was an old-time law on the statute books in Georgia. _and it stayed there nearly 100 or more years, which allowed any man to beat his wife, provided the hickory withe was not larger than his thumb. early law makers drew a line on a club or a fence rail, but he could make bis Sallie step lively if the withe was as big as his thumb. There was a law in Georgia until after the civil war that a wife couldn't own any property that her father gave her at marriage. She belonged to the husband and what she had belong ed to him, and we were surfeited on oratory, the per fection of southern chivalry, so-called. What a farce it was! It was the raising of these men that male them tyrants. It is still in their blood, when they can’t afford to spend as much on their wife’s clothes as they'spend in tobacco to chew and spit around and about. ‘‘lt’s mine. I'm the boss man!” —Haven’t you seen it? I lectured one time In a big Georgia town to a rent full of Georgia men and women. One old codger was invited to come under the big tabernacle tent and lis ten. “No, no,” he said. "Es that ooman was my wife, I’d rope her, take her home and make her behave her self.” So honors were easy between he and I. I took particular pains to paint his picture so far as words might do it without calling his name. I am moved to write this artcle because I read last evening of a decision made by a Georgia supreme court on yesterday, that a child belonged to Its father, but not to its mother. I felt the hot blood surge in my old veins when I read it. There's the “old boss man” again! When Georgia women get to voting there will be a new code in Georgia, and the hickory withe and the daddy’s ownership of Sallie’s child will oe revised and maybe strek out. The dear girl that wanted something nice in her home will, maybe, get a chance to get it. TILTON. Ga., Whitfield County,'April 2, 1912. Mrs. W. H. Felton, The Country Home, for The Jour nal, Cartersville, Ga.: Dear Mrs. Felton: I am inclosing you some need of the old-time Two o'clock weed for destroying house flies in the summer time. When planted in rich ground it will grow almost as large as tobacco. Get the leaves and bruise them and sprinkle sweet milx on these and set where flies are thickest. It will get them. We arrange it this way on the back porches in summer and it kills so many fles our chickens get fat on them and it don’t seem to hurt the chickens either. We have tried it for years and it’s the best fly de stroyer In the world for country folks. All The Jour nal readers that want seed, I will mail them a Iberal amount for two stamped envelopes and I will send di rections with the seed. Papa takes The Semi-Weekly Journal and we all like it fine. Does any of The Jour nal readers know of any good truck farms near good sized towns that could be bought for cash this fall? With kindest regards to Mrs. Felton and all Journal readers, I am Yours truly, BENNIE TEASLEY. PROM ▲ COJTYEDEMATE SOXd>XZB. KEENER, Ala., Route 3, May 13, 1912. Mrs. W. H. Felton, Cartersville, Ga.: Dear Madam: I looked for your letter when our Atlanta Journal came today, but I could not find It. I call to mind so many of the old veterans getting weary and suffering in our locality It makes me very anxious about your health. So I endeavor to write you this note of appreciation, hoping It will find you yet enjoyng God's richest blessings. I was made glad in heart to read General Walker’s speech to the old sol diers. How my old heart did leap when I read about those two old boys hugging each other, and how hu miliated I did feel because I was not financially able to attend. I have not been able for several years to work much, and having no income I am forced to read what the papers say for my Information, humbled I may fel about my financial abilities, it does not hurt like the lick that Governor Comer and his pet legislators hit me when they disfranchised me like a negro, not only me but every other old Confederate. I shall still cherish your able counsel in all things, and hope you will be spared yet many years to counsel' the reading public. God bless and save you. G. W. C., An Old Confederate. Stole Many Tails Kansas City Journal. A man from Grantville relates a strange story. For the past two years all colts, calves, pigs, dogs and cats within a radius of five miles of that town have been unfortunate enough tp get their tails cut off. At first it was believed to be the work of wolves, and nu merous traps were set. Last week a robbery was traced to a young man living near Grantville, who had been considered a most exemplary character. When the cellar of his home was visited the walls were cov ered with the tails of hundreds of animals of all kinds. One Was a Stranger Indianapolis News. The old Scots were going home one night after a convivial session at a public house. The affair was in the traditional manner as immortalzed by Bobby Burns. Fearing trouble ahead as the light in the distant cot tage window became apparent, Sandy said to Donald: 1 "Donald, I’ll walk ahead of ye, and ye tell me ts I’m walking stret anecht.” Donald watched Sandy carefully, and then remarked: "Sandy, mon. ye’re walkin’ fine; but who’a that I drunken loafer with ye?"