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ATX.SJTTA, GA.. 5 MOUTH FORSYTE ST.
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SENATOR JOSEPH. M. TERRELL.
The death of Joseph M. Terrell, former United
States senator from Georgia and twice governor of
th« state, is lamented by all as that of a man whose
Jame will be prominently i&sociated with the political
history of Georgia. Governor Terrell passed away
Sunday morning in his Atlanta hbme, after an illness
of several days. His health had been failing for over
a year, since he was stricken by paralysis while in
the senate at Washington filling the unexpired term
pf Senator A. S. Clay.
Multitudes of close personal and political friends
throughout the state are mourning Senator Terrell
today; and their grief is keen. He was a man who
hhew how to make bis friends care sincerely for
him. He was loyal to them, and he treasured the re
gard in which they held him. He numbered his
friends by the thousands, throughout every section
of the state and in other parts of the south where
he was known and held in high regard. The success
which he achieved in his profession of law and in his
political life was hardly greater than the heights he
attained in the regard of his friends.
In the death of Senator Terrell there passes a
leader from ahnong the counsels of the state.
Now that the Balkan war is practically over, there
Will be no tgst of some of these big navies.
NOW FOR THE TARIFF.
President-elect Wilson's announcement that he
Will call congress Into extraordinary session about
April 15 to revise the tariff, demonstrates that the
Democrats meant business when they pledged the
party to eliminate protective schedules whose cost
• the people paid.
Senator McCumber, a Republican, is quoted in
komment upon the president-elect’s announcement, as
saying that he believes the Democrats do not dare
put through such a measure as the party’s platform
calls so the party’s platform declaration “was
all right to go before the people with, but —” etc.
That's the old-time and utterly unfasionable pro
tectionist point of view. It discerns a subtle distinc
tion between party platform promises and party obli
gations.
The Democrats do dare; and what's more, they
are going to* set about it early, that the benefits may
pot be postponed a couple of years.
Long investigations by congress have cleared
much preliminary work out of the way. The rotten
spots of the tariff have been made plainly apparent
by the light of those investigations. The Democrats
know where to prune and cut. The nation has en
trusted the party with control of both houses of con
gress and of the executive office. There is nothing
to enforcq delay, and there is no reason for delaying
the work of carrying out the party’s promises. On
the qther hapd. there ai'e strong reasons why the
tariff revision should be acomplished as early as pos
sible so that uncertainty may tg 1 ended and the busi
ness of the,country may readjust themselves.
It cant be said that the weather man isn’t doing
his duty by Atlanta now. 7
A foolish girl makes a husband out of her
Jover; a wise one makes a lover out of her husband.
HONOR FOR DR. SOULE.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule received a merited tribute
when at the Atlanta session of the Association of
American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions he was elected vice president of the associa
tion. The presidency itself would have been none
too great an honor for the head <•- Georgians agricul
tural college—the man who as much as any oAer
in Georgia during the past five years has contributed
to the state's material development. ' Dr Soule is
„ the agricultural editor of The Semi-Weekly Journal.
Dr. Soule's work at the state college of agricul
ture in Athens began to bear fruit a couple of years
ago when the first of the students trained under his
direction and imbued with his fervor were graduated
from the college and went home to their fathers’
farmr or entered the ranks of agricultural teachers.
Nowaday the benefits of the new ideas in farming
are growing more and more evident throughout
Things have come to the pass where the
achievements of the farmer who uses his brains as
well as his back are appreciated by his neighbors
and are analyzed by them that they may go and do
likewise. The spirit of emulation is abroad in the
land, and the leaders are at their task of showing
the way in every community.
Dr. Soule's work reflects great credit upon the
material which was once latent in Georgia for the
making of good farmers, farmers that could hold
their own with any others anywhere, but it re
dounds to his own honor as well. The dignity which
bls fellow-workers in the national association con
ferred ''upon him in Atlanta Friday is one which
fits him well.
GEORGIA'S DAY AT WASHINGTON.
While the echoes are yet resounding, The Journal
wishes to reiterate its call to Georgia to awake to
the honor that is hers in the inauguration of Wood
row Wilson as president of the land. It is a signal
honor that a Georgian bred, adopted son of the
state, has been chosen by the nation as its chief
executive. No less is the honor that wom
an will be the next mistress of the White House and
that two of the daughters of that distinguished pair
were born in Georgia.
It is a Georgia family, in short, that is going into
the White House next March.
And the whole of Georgia should be represented
by her best men in hundreds in Washington on in
auguration day in fitting asknowledgirent and ap
preciation of the honor.
How many are there among us who have wit
nessed the Inauguration of a president? Few, in
deed; and in proportion to the whole population, their
number is very small.- It has been twenty years
since a Democrat was inaugurated into the presi
dency. Sixteen years ago, twelve years ago, eight
years ago, and four years ago, the new presidents
fcere Republicans in whom neither Georgia nor the
south felt intimate interest. Consequently few south
erners saw any of them inducted into office.
It has been more than half a century since a
southern man was made president.
It has been nearly seventy years since a southern
Democrat became president.
Never before has even an adopted son of Georgia
been inaugurated into the presidency.
Never before has a daughter of Georgia become
mistress of the White House. Never before has a
Georgia family been at home there.
March 4 will be Georgia’s first day in Washington.
Let her best men celebrate it appropriately.
Let the Atlanta chamber of commerce accede to
The Journal’s suggestion already voiced, that it as
sume thKactive leadership of a state-wide movement
to rally jfll the leading Georgians in every walk of
life and to muster them at Washington on inaugura
tion day.
The spectacle of our president’s inauguration is
hardly less elaborate and is no less impressive than
the crowning of a king of England.
All the nation will be there.
Georgia is more closely knit with the rest of the
nation by Mr. Wilson’s election than she has been
since the days away back in history when she joined
with twelve other states and declared the Indepen
dence of the American republic.
Georgia has come into her own again.
Let Georgia be in Washington on March 4.
AN OPEN DOOR PRESIDENT.
Some one asked Governor Wilson at Trenton
the other day whether, when he becomes presi
dent, he will continue the “open-door" policy which
he inaugurated in the New Jersey executive office
and has followed with such success.
‘‘l am going to try to,” the president-elect’s an
swer is reported to have beem He added the hope
that be would succeed at It.
Since the dispatches told pt that, the leading
Republican newspapers have been alternating be
tween satire and alarm at the thought of a presi
dent receiving his callers indiscriminately and
transacting his business in plain sight of every
body. Even some of the Democratic papers have
expressed skepticism that it can be done.
No one holds a brief for the president-elect.
He is admirably equipped to make his own posi
tion clear on any point. But there is often much
more meaning tn his words than a hasty reader
sees there. It may be that Mr. Wilson is not so
entirely “mooney” as some of the wise old news
paper martinets around Washington have inti
mated.
In New* Jersey Governor Wilson has dis
patched business rapidly and well at the/ executive
offices. entered those offices he found
that some of his visitors insisted upon talking to
him behind their hands. They were uncomfortable
at the thought of an open door behind them. But
a new type of leader had come—and either they
transacted business out in. the open with him, or
they did not transact it at all.-
President Wilson will succeed .with his “open
door” policy. Those who have followed his course
in New Jersey know that he will. No one who is
reasonable about it. expects that during his admin
istration President Wilson will dispense with the
services of secretaries or secret service men. His
position would make a move like that simply dan
gerous. The secretaries must be there as buffers
to keep the casual visitors with no business away
from the president, and as bouncers to get the
long-winded visitors out of the executive office.
The secret service men must be to guard
against the crank menace, as a matter of common
safety. But a reasonable interpretation of Mr.
Wilson’s expression is simply this: that he will
have no secrets from the people, no whispered con
ferences, no hugging matches with pestiferous poli
ticians of a type that we have here in Georgia; no
star chamber agreements with men of big interests.
He will continue the president’s daily reception pe
riod, doubtlessly, and will limit his actual greet
ings to the casually visiting throngs to that. It is
very probable that senators and congressmen will
have access to him at all times, instead of being
compelled to make engagements a day ahead as at
present. In other words, he will discharge the du
ties of president as openly and freely as possible
under the conditions which surround a president.
The alarmist views of the opposition press must
be amended to a more modified interpretation of
what Mr. Wilson, a very intelligent man, meant
when he answered the question that some visitor
addressed to him casually.
ANOTHER MONARCHY FALLING?
In the aftermath of the news about the assassina
tion of Premier Canaiejas in Madrid the other day,
comes an intimation that Spain’s monarchy was
shocked to its very foundations by the deed, and that
the shock leaves it tottering and swaying unsteadily.
Between the lines, it is made to appear that thg old
monarchical structure calls for a visit from the build
ing inspector. It has grown unsafe.
General Weyler, known among us as “the butcher
of Cuba.” was picked by the king; it was reported, to
succeed Premier Canaiejas; but the threats of a rev
olution against that appointment grew too loud, and
Count Romanones, another liberal but a more popular
one, has been designated. The policy of the govern
ment stands unchanged, therefore. The difference lies
In its personnel
Canaiejas’ assassination removed “the one man
who stood between the throne and a republic,” as he
had become known in Europe.
Whether he was the sole prop under the mon
archy, remains yet to be seen.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912.
FIFTY YEARS OF
SCIENTIFIC -FARMING
It is very pleasing to those Georgians who appre
ciate the great value of farm training, that the semi
centennial of scientific farming's recognition by the
national government should have been celebrated in
Atlanta, Thursday, by the Association of American
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. In
1862 Congress enacted legislation, which made the
state agricultural schools possible by offering them
liberal financial support.
More than one hundred of the nation’s leaders in
scientific farm training have been gathered in At
lanta in attendance upon the sessions of this impor
tant. association. Their adjournment Friday after
noon leaves their science a little nearer the solution
of many of its problems. Their work, from year to
year, is one of the most important in the world’s
scheme of eqpnomy, for its aim is the increase of
the soil’s yield to man. Their association has be
come the .clearing house of their newly acquired in
formation. The semi-centennial of the real beginning
of their work found them in Atlanta, the heart of
the south, center of a great and growing section
where realization is just now dawning of the rich
increase made possible by intelligent farming.
THE COM IN (g OF PARCELS POST.
With the nearer approach of the date, January 1,
when the nation will have its first service by parcels
popt, it is interesting to note that an express official
predicts that the government will prove no danger
ous rival to the express companies because it will
not be, efficient enough. ~ «
Th£ Jansas City Star quotes express heads as de
claring that they are takipg no steps to meet the
competition of parcels post. Any further reduction
in express rates depends on the interstate commerce
commission, they are quoted as saying; and in no
degree upon parcels post. The expressmen are quoted
as declaring that the government cannot give the
service, and that shippers will still prefer the express
companies. The postoffice department hasn’t the
equipment, say the express men, and can’t get it
without tremendous initial expenditure. Moreover,
they declare, the government will deliver the parcels
no more promptly than it now delivers firstclass mail,
if as promptly.
Another view of the question is that which it is re
ported the speakers before the National Federation
of Retail Merchants are going to take. The federa
tion opens its first meeting on Noxember nineteen in
St. Louis, with five thousand delegates. The speak
ers are expected to attack parcels post, the federation
fearing that eventually it will annihiliate the small
merchant “and result in the greatest and most pow
erful trust the world has yet seen, the distribution
trust.”
These views in anticipation of the coming of par
cels post are interesting. However, the policy of the
postofflce department will change somewhat radically
on March fourth, and there is reason to hope that
both views will prove unfounded.
GEORGIA'S APPLE CROP.
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In Atlanta, last week, there was to be seen an exhi
bition of Georgia apples grown on the hills of Haber
sham and Rabun counties in the northeastern part of
the state. It was presented by private interests—
yet their display could not lose its public merit.
The apple display in Atlanta should have been
part of a big exposition of Georgia apples from every
part of the state where apples are grown. This is
one of Georgia’s resources which has been left to
develop .almost of itself without public spirit be
hind it.
In Spokane, Washington, the other day, the fifth
“national” apple show in that section was opened,
amid the blowing of steam whistles and the ringing
of bells, by Governor Hay with a formal announce
ment that King Pip V had ascended the throne. Up
wards of 2,500,000 apples were in place in the expo
sition.
Yet Georgia’s possibilities as an apple state are
said to be greater than those of either Washington
or Oregon.
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REFORM IN DIVORCE LA WS.
‘■Coincident with the news from Nevada ‘that the
great majority of the voters out there, getting no
benefits from the divorce mill, but sharing the stigma
of it, have overridden their prospering fellow-citizens
who attended court or kept hotels or ran boarding
houses, |||d indicated their will to change the
Nevada law, comes the news from London that the
Royal Commission of Divorce has reported, urging
reforms in the British law in this regard. On oppo
site sides of the earth, two agencies are at work for
similar results.
It is interesting to note the conclusions of the
Royal Commission of Divorce, which was appointed
and set to work three years ago. Its investigations
have been very deliberate and thorough. It recom
mends that the sexes be placed on equal terms before
the law; that an extension be made in the grounds
of application; and ttyat the present magisterial pow
ers respecting separation be restricted.
The recommendation regarding equality of
sexes will excite most interest everywhere; but an
other section of the report, urging methods whereby
the cost of litigation will be reduced to bring di
vorces within reach of the poor, is hardly less inter
esting. To this latter section, the minority of the
commission disagreed. The majority, however, took
the position that the present stringent regulations
and costliness of divorce are productive of" im
morality. The minority, disagreeing, contended that
“at a time when in America, to name but one
country, where divorce has been easier and wider,
there is a strong reaction in favor of greater restric
tions, England should not relax the marriage laws.
The entire commission rejected “unconquerable
aversion,” “incompatibility of temper,” and “mutual
consent,” as grounds for'divorce.
The report recommends that the judge alone shall
hear divorce eases; that he be empowered to close
the- court during hearings; that the publication of
any of the details be prohibited; that no report at
all on divorce cases be allowed in the public prints
until they are finished; and that the publication of
the portraits of the parties to any divorce suit be
prohibited.
All of which is very interesting, as none would
deny.
But how much more would be accomplished if the
wise legislators would only make it harder to get
married!
The First Virtue and the Last
By Dr. Frank Crane
When the Apostle Paul gives a list of the “fruits
of the spirt’’ ’he begins with love, runs through the
list of joy, meekness and the like, and ends with tem
perance. This word temper-
ance is one of those terms
whose meaning has been al
tered by time and customs.
When we use it now we usually
imply something in regard to
alcoholic liquors. No such
connotation was ir. the mind
of the people who employed the
Greek word -Paul wrote in his
day. They meant simply "self
control.”
Love, then, is the first and
self-control the last virtue in
the order of development.
This is psychologically true.
We are full, more of less, ac
cording to our make-up, of
forces. Out of the soul come
desires, like strong currents of
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electricity, streams of power. It is foolish to cal!
any of them bad. The Creator made tnem.
Love, passion is the steam; self-control the ■Tap
tain or pilot of the soul.
A man, therefore, is like a mariner steering hts
boat between rocks and shoals, keeping the Safe mid
dle channel. There is no substitute for a wise pilot.
There is no safe and sure and easy method of at
taining character. Every minute we must weigh and
judge and decide.
There are a good many imitations of self-con
trol on the market. For instance, there is stupidity.
Many a fat head has gained a reputation for being a
“safe” man, when, as mtter of fact, he neevr couid
be anything else. He is praised for self-control when
he has nothin- to control. Dr. Hale tells of a man
who became famous for his wisdom in the legislature
simply by, confining his’ public utterances to two
speeches. One was, “There has been so much said
and so well said that I can add nothing." The other,
"I quite agree with the gentleman on the other side
of the house."
There are / many persons who are spoken of for
their goodness who in reality are nothing. They have
no force, no passion, no strong desires, no fire and
no go. Their heads are stored with choice mutton-
It is a travesty upon virtue to call such as these
virtuous.
Let the storm tossed and driven take comfort.
You are the real kings. For you the fires of crea
tion were kindled. For you the wind blows and the
stars shine. Sail on. Os course, you must fetand at
the wheel day and night, while the derelicts float by
without a lookout, peaceful in their living death. Be
neath you are strong waves and sea monsters, around
you are storms and. huge ocean craft like yourself
freighted with responsibility; above you is the light
•ning. But it’s life, life, life!
The world has too long praised mediocrity in char
acter and worshipped at the shrine of the moral
weakling. Goodness is eternally defined as being
purely negative. A man is rated high morally by
the things he does not do.
You have always been taught to look up to the
Honorable Leading Citizen because he does not drink,
nor smoke, no go to theaters, nor attend horse races,,
nor gamble, nor dance, nor swear. Far be it from me
to intimate that these things are not wholly repre
hensible. But why should the honorable gentleman
boast that he does not these? Neither does a fence
post. /
What is it that he does? Virtue is positive, not
negative. Does feel for others, doe” he work,
care, suffer and live for others? Are the strong tides
of altruism running through him? Does his virile
’helpfulness encourage the weak, or his Icy rectitude
give them despair? Is he a town stimulus or a town
bromide?
\ There has never been enough passion in the w’orld.
It is a great passion that makes a great man. It Is
the control of that assion that alone entitles nim to
be failed a good man. The old earth is boosted for
ward not by the jellyfish, who feel nothing and avoid
everything, but by those in whose hearts are a." Pa
ssion for justice, a passion for truth, a passion- for
humanity. Love is first and greatest of all. Add
self-control it becomes a joy forever.
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs; •
The world uncertain comes and croes,
The lover rooted stays.
Artemus Ward's Library
(From the National Magazine.)
As we sat on the old-fasaioned porch at Waterford,
Me., and talked with “Uncle Daniel” Browne, a cousin
of "Artemus Ward," he revealed many quaint'glimpses
of his own career as village justice of the peace. His
daughter owns the library of “Artemus Ward." In hts
will it was awarded to the brightest girl in the old
Waterford school house, which he attended, and the
prize was won by an own cousin. Thereon hangs the
love romance of his life. The blue-eyed girl died a
few years after. The remains of Charles F. Browne
had been brought to the old Elm Vale cemetery In
Waterford, and thus ended the earthly love of the cou
sins. Today in the, quiet cemetery the grave stones
stand in the stern military array and carry dates reach
ing back for more than a century. Under the granite
shaft, beside his brother and mother, sleeps “Artemus
Ward” under a simple slab on which the inscription
reads; “Charles F. Browne, known to the world as
Artemus Ward.’’
Saving and Investing Talks
SAVING ON SSO A MONTH.
BY JOHN M. OSKISOK.
There is a family in Kansas City which Is living on
the man’s wages of |SO a month and saving money be
sides. In four years this man and his wife have saved
$144, and they are regularly add
ing $3 a month to that sum.
A correspondent of the Star of
that city explains how it z is done
by these two people:
“That couple’s grocery bill, in
cluding everything they eat, av
erages $26 a month. In the sum
mer they have their own garden.
They watch for the grocery sales
-—do not run bills— and do not
buy things when they are out of
seasoh. They have plenty of
good, substantial food to eat.
Their clothes amount to S9O a
year, or $7.50 a month for the
two of them. They dress neatly
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and respectably on that amount. They buy things
when they? are on special sale whenever they cgn.
“That leaves $282 a year, or $23.50 a month, for
household, expenses. Rent is $lO a month. So, $13.50
a month goes for car fares, newspapers, stamps, col
lars, laundry, gas bills, doctor’s bills, and other inci
dentals. It takes plose figuring, but this family
does it, and there are occasional shows, too, as well
as church dues. They keep an itemized account, and
balance their accounts at the end of every month.”
You may be sure that this, family would agree
with you that it is hard to save money—very hard.
But worth -while, too. Interest on the amount al
ready saved has had the effect of adding, two months
to the length of their year. That is, in twelve
months, counting interest on the sum now in the sav
ings bank at 4 per cent, they have have fourteen
tinges $3 to deposit. In a, few years the interest wilt
more than equal the monthly savings.
Hard to save. Yes, but not “impossible." how
ever small the Income.
Modern Electrical Progress
By Frederic J. Haskin
No modern science hag been so rapidly developed
in so many channels of practical usefulness as elec
tricity. This is demonstrated in the numberous elec
tric exhibitions and displays
which have been among th« im
portant events of this fall in
a number of the lEU’ger cities.
Some of these exhibitions rep
resent millions of dollars of
value and have presented hun
dreds of thousands of working
models adapted to a seemingly
endless variety of industries
and objects.
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Onh of the most noteworthy
of these exhibitions took plac»
in Boston and was a fitting ad
junct to the International com
mecial congress, which called
visitors from every civilized
country to the New England
metropolis. Preparations for
the electric exhibition had been
in progress for two years ana
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the result was the highest culmination of electrical
■kill the Naw England states could mass. Both the
interior apd the exterior arrangements won hearty
applause from the foreign visitors who were not ac
customed to such lavishness in their own countries.
The entire building was outlined on the exterior with
cables of electric light, while special designs in col
ors were liberally displayed. In addition, special
street lights were provided for several squares to add
to the brilliancy of the scene. Inside over five miles
of electric cable lights were used as a foundation for
the illumination, r t to mention the innumerable
decorative designs, many of them being specially ar
ranged for the displays in thq different booths.
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The New York electrical exposition which has just
concluded differed from most of the others held in
the country in that it was designed especially to dem
onstrate the historical ride of the electrical industry.
This was partly in honor of the completion of the
thirty yeare central station existence which is being
celebrated by one company. One of the opening fea
tures of this exposition was the luncheon given In
honor of Thomas A. Edison, the father of electrte
power, who, with pardonable pride, reviewed the elec
trical advance of the last three decades. As a part
of the exhibit many of the oldest machines and elec
trical engines in existence were including the
one surviving old and original "Jumob” which had
been brought out of its time-honored retirement for
the occasion. A m xiel’ of the old Pearl street elec
trical station erected in 1882 also was shown.
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Important features of this show were
arranged by the government which were presented by
special arrangement. The bureau of navigation and
the electrical school connected with the Brooklyn
navy yard took active, part. The navy men set up
the very newest type of wireless telegraph apparatus
with which the fi’st wireless message will be sent to
the Panama canal. The canal Itself was represented
by a large operative model of the Gatun dams, locks
and spillways, showing the operation of the gates by
electric power. Similar to this, upon a smaller scalo,
was the model of the electrical machinery operating
the Mohawk river dam, which was supplied by the
state ,of New York. /
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The use of electricity in expert accounting Is one
that has not suggested Itself to many people, and yet
there were any number of adding machines operated
by electricity showti in the electrical exhibitions of
the present season. A feature of the government ex
hibit at New York Included that by the bureau of
census in which census cards were sorted and tabu
lated by a wonderful complex machine driven by elec
trical motor. The army corps, the bureau of
mine- etie- department of agriculture, through several
of i .anches, and the coast defense division of th«
United States army and the National museum ar«
all employing electrical power in ths operation of
thsir various activities.
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One of the newest developments in the use of
electricity is for agricultural purposes. A New Eng
land firm recently equipped a missionary farm to
demonstrate the many uses to which electric power
could be put in connection with the daily work of
the farm. On old "Fairfields," near Boston’ a. com
plete set of electrical agricultural implements was
set up several months ago and the machines have
been in actual demonstration since, showing the
actual work of the farm. The outfit included forty
large pieces of machinery and innumerable small
tools. Among them were an electric truck for haul
ing farm produce to market, a cider mill, reaper,
threshing machine, horse clipper, grain driller, milk
tester, bottle washing machine, hay unloader and
packer, wood splitter, oat crusher, grindstone, corn
and clover cutter. Perhaps the most inter
esting of all, however, was the electric milking ma
chine, which is a device to be attached to the udders
of the fine blooded cows belonging to the farm. This
mllklbg machine has now passed the experiments*
stage and is receiving the hearty indorsement of many
of the leading farm experts from different parts of
the country. It will demonstrated at many agri
cultural fairs during the next month where it will no
doubt so thoroughly shqw the practicability of sub
stituting electricity for human power, that it wilt
become a valuable adjunct to the . farm an!
show many a farmer’s wife hq.w t(Overcome what
most persons consider one of the most disagreeable
parte of the farm work.
• • •
The Installation of electricity In the modern home
has led to many labor saving devices which the ac
commodating architect puts in the first plans for a
house. One of those most recently adopted is the
electric washing machine which may be set up in
the home laundry for about >SO and is being installea
in the better grade of houses erected by a number of
progressive real estat* dealers.
• • •
The popularity of electric appliances in the home
Is so generally acknowledged that a prominent home
magazine gives a page of its current issue to the il
lustration of various electrical devices to be used in
the home, and suggests their desirability as Christ
mas presentß. Among these are inculded an elec
tric toaster which may be utilized for several other
purposes than toasting bread, an electric motor to b«
attached to the sewing machine, an electric hot paa
to take the place of the hot water bag in soothing an
aching toodth or other ailment, a radiator for Seating
a room, a curling iron lieater and an electric fan.
The electric iron, by the way, may serve for several
purposes. Its top comes off as a lid and in that cass
it may be made to serve as a stew pan. The possi
bilities of use for the electric toaster includes pop
ping corn, as well es of marshmallows.
An electric waffle iron is shown in practical dem
onstration, while an electric metal polisher suggests
great possibilities in the way of relief from disagree
able labor.
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Perhaps there is no electric convenience being
more generally and 'increasingly used than the elec
tric vehicle, and every week .pees new improvements
and additions to the numbers of these. In the large
cities the horse has almost entirely superseded
by the motor, and In many Instances the motor power
which a yeAr or two ago was supplied by gasoline ’»r
steam js now being furnished by electricity. The dif
ficulties of shor* charges, sudden exhaustion and
kindred troubles are receiving the* consideration of
experts and are being overcome to a surprising de
gree. A recently published test of the comparative
costs of a delivery operation show the diminished
cost of operation to be secured by electric over that
