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pga AND SUCCtSirUL EMMNG ■ m AhdrwM Joule This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information. Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesident State Agri cultural College, Athns. Ga Teaching Boys and Girls About Cotton The importance of elementary instruc <U-i in agriculture in the public schools was never more generally appreciate than at the present time. Lex the gooa worx go on for this phase of our school work has been neglected too long, and yet it is more fundamental than many! of the subjects whicr are taught at great expense and effort. A general knowledge of agricultural principles is the most important asset with which we can endow our boys and girls, and while the subject has always been regarded as a very difficult one to teach, this con clusion has doubtless been reached on account of the supposed difficulty of se curing the texts desired and the mate rials needed for illustrative purposes. These facta in themselves show how thoroughly our educational system has become of the “rule of thumb’’ type, and indicating a l&ek of initiative on the part of our instructors. In other words, the beaten path blazed out many years ago wheat conditions were essentially different from those existing now has been followed with unerring faithful ness. The courses have jeen easiest to go with the crowd. Thus it is that the .method of instruction in the rural school has fallen grievously behind the times, and we have neglected the fun damentals upon which a proper course of instruction for the boys and girls living in a rural environment should be founded. Hence, instead of instilling into the minds of these young people some of the principles concerned in the production of plant and animal life and a love and appreciation of nature, we have been cramming their heads full of doubtful facts which we are pleased to call history, and which chiefly deal with the number of men killed on this or that occasion, and thereby portraying in gen erous terms the high degree of barbar ism which prevailed in that particular era of the wofld's history. The idea that we can not teach some of the fundamental principles of agri culture without encountering most se rious difficulties is a notion and not a fact. For instance, what more impor tant topic could be discussed with Geor gia boys and girls than that of cotton, a plant which is grown on virtually evert- farm in the south. There is a wealth of material at hand to make the necessary studies, and it is useless to say that the children will not be interested and benefited by holding a series of con ferences with nature and the products from the soil from which they are ex pected to draw their livelihood in the near future. It has been pointed out over and over that we need earlier and better matur ing vanities of cotton, and plants free from disease and which do not possess too many vegetative limbs. Certain types of lint are much to be prefrred to oth ers. and there is a marked difference in the size, color and character of the seeds. How many teachers are pointing out even as simple and elementary facts to their children as these? How many are explaining why the wide variation in varieties of cotton exist? How many toachers have made a study of cotton production in the vicinity of their schools? In other words, what varie ties of cotton are grown in the given community concerned: which one of them seems to he best adapted to the soil and climatic conditions existing there; which is the least subject to d‘s ease; which produces the largest num ber of bolls in proportion to the size of stalks; which opens its bolls the earliest; which strain contains the largest num ber of seeds per lock, and shows the least variation as to color and size: which strain has the best length and strength of staple? Would not an inventory of this kind be worth a great deal to the boys and girls in the rural community? It would interest the fathers and mothers as well and it would tend to inform the com munity about many simple though fund amental facts relating to varieties of cotton and those qualities which are most desirable. It would not be neces sary in taking up this work to have a textbook or to study the subject from a highly scientific point of view, or even to bring to the attention of the children any special facts relative to the botany of cotton except those of the most gen eral nature. It is needless to say that there is a wealth of material at hand, and that the boys and girls will be intensely In terested in bringing samples of typical cotton plants produced on their farm and to provide the needed laboratory material. Certainly, there would be an intense interest in the study of subject matter of this character. Work of thia kind would teach the community to • [ Red Devil Lye ■f-y : Destroys Filth A Filth Makes Disease Genas azd Flies Carry Them to the Henze I- I A clean fly is harmless but they infest ' L filthy places and pick up disease germs on 1 I y.’.’ ‘‘ their feet. These germs are left on what | I ever the fly touches —baby's bottle or food, meat » vegetables even on our person. STOP THIS FLY ROUTE and save your loved ones from disease. iia jnuil ■ Typhoid fever has its origin in germs s———— —-■ gathered by flies In outhouses. The filth of these uMMnmaMaamamaaa places is wholly destroyed If RED DEVIL LYE is Write for our Booklet applied freely —and the uauel cleaning and moving <4 CX/CMT » of such places Is unnecessary. No smell nor odors rlx t V tDi 1 after using RED DEVIL. that telle hew to use The coot is trifling and the benefits esnnot be mees- Red Devil Lye in fifty ured in dollars end cents. Nor can you afford not to different money, labor do it. Think of being able to clear out flies, filth. ,nd health-eav Ing odors and disease germs for just a few cents —the ways—such as rotting coot of a cen of eompoot, ogreying. RED DEVIL LYE WM. SCHIELD MFC. CO., 611 North 2ad Street, a—aw ST. LOUIS, MO. (Copyright Wm. Schleid Mfg. Co.) think along new lines, a process which is always essential to progress along any line. Moreover, the beginning of studies of the character delineated would simply constitute a foundation on which to build a more elaborate system of ele mentary instruction in agriculture. Ev ery day boys and girls w-ould make new discoveries about the cotton plant and the influence which certain soil types and situations exert on its development. Then, there is much important informa tion to be gathered from a study of the size and shape of the leaf as affecting the rate and time of maturing of the bolls. The bolls themselves are quite different in form. Some of them open more readily than others; therefore a study of the bracts which enclose them will be found interesting. Then, there is a comparison of the seed of the differ ent types to be made. In some instances there will be found green and black seed showing that there is an admixture of strains, that a true hybrid has not been developed. It will be a very interesting and simple matter for the boys and girls to comb out the fiber of a number of seeds of the different varieties. These might then be mounted on a sheet of cardboard. All that is necessary for this work is a small bottle of glue, and a little comb which will not coat over 5 cents. The boys and girls will be as tonished to find how the length and uni formity of the staple varies with different seeds. They should be encouraged to compare the characteristic growth and development of plants of the short and. the longstaple varieties. There are also big-boiled and small-boiled sorts; and large and small-fruiting types; cluster and non-cluster varieties, and early and late-maturing strains to be examined and compared. / In the cotton field we find beautiful illustrations of life. There is the in dustrious, fruitful, hignly profitable plant, small and compact in form, *aud using all its energy tor the production of fruit, and there is the large, spread ing type of plant which has put most of its energy into the production of leaves and limbs, thereoy constituting itself the drone of the cotton field. There is tlie upright growing plant and the strain that fruits near the ground. Could not a consideration of these plants provide the basis of the written reports and observations made in the field by the boys and girls and consti tute thereby language lessons of the most desirable character. Excellent work can also be done in the matter of drawing and mounting specimens, as al ready pointed out. Delineation intensi fies boservation most effectively. One can not reproduce on paper something which he has not correctly seed and ap preciated. Moreover the drawings need not be confined to the list of topics al ready enumerated, but should be extend ed to include insects and weeds which infest cotton. The blackboard may be used for these drawings, or sheets ’of ordinary paper, such as the average school tablet provides can be used to good advantage. Crayons may be used to color the work and thus heighten tile interest in the task. Much valuable history can be taught through a study of the origin and devel opment of the cotton plant. It will not be difficult for the teacher to obtain bulletins giving information along this line. Cotton has been a valued plant for many centuries, and is intimately associated with the. history of India. Egypt, Persia, the West Indies and Bra zil. The influence of cotton on the commerce* of thre world will furnish thfi basis for instruction in commercial geography in a most interesting man ner. Maps can be prepared on the routes taken by cotton ships and the ports they visit. The cotton manu facturing centers of the world will thus be made familiar to the boys and girl?, and the characteristics of the people who manufacture and distribute cotton and wear the cloth produced from its fiber can be protrayed to them in an In tensely interesting manner. The study of arithmetic can also ba simplified and promoted to advantage by studying cotton. A hundred problems can easily be formulated. For Instance, how many plants at a certain distance can be grown on an acre of land? How much cotton will be obstalned there from if it takes sixty bolls to make a pound of seed cotton and the crop yields 37 per cent of lint? These are but Illustrations of how arithmetic may he taught successfully in association with the study of the most important crop growing in the south. Let us hope that our teachers will take this matter under advisement and make cotton the THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1916. WHAT IS THE USE OF THE CHURCH? BY BISHOP WARREN A. CANDLER This is the age of specialism. In some sjfheres of life it means good, al though it is in any and all spheres at tended with more or less narrowness, which is neither admirable or useful. There are medical and surgical spe cialists who have rendered the highest services to mankind —services which would have been impossible without spe cialism. In the sicentific world there have been specialists like Mr. Thomas A. Edison, whose discoveries and de vices have promoted greatly the wel fare of the human race. Closely allied with these have been many useful men who have done much special good in the realm of the Industrial arts. But the “specialists" in the region of moral and religious endeavor do not de serve the same approval as the special ists in medicine, surgery, and the indus trial arts. There is not the same room for specialism in this region, and men who narrow their efforts to one line of moral reform are scarcely worthy of the name of "specialists.” They deserve rather to be called "hobbyists;" and no class of men are more lop-sided, dicta torial and dangerous. They are espe cially fond of lecturing the church be cause it pursues its supreme spiritual mission and refuses to bestow all Its energies and efforts upon the particular schemes to which these “hobbyists" have committed themselves. An accusa tive cry which is raised frequently by each of them is. “What Is the use of the Church, if it will not espouse this cause of mine and carry it to victory?” Now one, and now another, raises this cry. Today one cries, “What is the use of the Church, if it will not proceed at once to put down all wars and rumors of wars?" Tomorrow another shrieks, “What is the use of the Church, if it will not, or can not, settle the issues between capita) and labor?" And still another screams, "What is the use of the Church, if it will not instantly eradicate ‘the social evllT " Now, all these evils, and many others like them, must be cured but their eradi cation would be postponed indefinitely if the Church made a hobby of any of them, and turned aside from the fulfill-, ment of its supreme spiritual function in order to give itself wholly or chiefly to the promotion of mere “schemes of social reform.” There is no sentiment in the world today for “peace on earth” which has not issued from the Prince of Peace through His Church, and if ever wars cease utterly and forever on our war-torn planet, it will be because the Church has continued to make of the sons of men followers of Jesus Christ by calling sinners to repentance. Not a truly spiritual service of the Church is held which does not tend di rectly to the curing of the “social evil," and the healing of every other running sore of society. Wherever and whenever a revival of religion prevails temperance is promoted more effectually than by any scheme of the reformers. In truth, but for the religious work of the Churches there would never have been any movement for temperance reform in this country. . All the services of the Church, by their very nature, protest against all evil and promote all good. , Such being the case, the Church can not narrow its mission to the lines of any sort of ho*bby or moral specialism. It is not engaged as a specializing re former among men, but as the regenera tor of a lost world through the saving grace of its divine Redeemer. Its supreme function is that of a dis penser of salvation to a sinful world; but as sin is universal in its extent and multiform in its manifestations, the Church is called upon to render, as Christ’s representative vast and varied services to a race of sinners. Schemes for human improvement which ainx at the cultivation of some single virtue or the eradication of some special vice, or humane movements which look to the advancement of some particular social interest or the amelioration of some spe cific evil, doubtless -accomplish some basis of the instruction in agriculture which me must of necessity foster and promote through the medium of our public schools in order that our boys and girls may be taught to think intel ligently about nature and to master the fundamental principles conected with the successful management and adapta tion of plant life to the needs of hu manity. • • • BREEDS v- BEEF CATTLE FOR THE SOUTH. G. H. N., Augusta, Ga., writes: I desire to raise cattle chiefly for beef. Which breed is more preferable, the Hereford ot Shorthorn ? There seems to be room for the devel opment of beef cattle industry in Geor-' gia to advantage. You no doubt observe that the price of meat last year in creased about 16 per cent in the United States, the increase to the producer be ing about 8 per cent. Naturally we have not given the attention to the develop ment of cultivated pastures which the importance of this subject merits, there is a tendency for beef animals to de crease in numbers in the united States. As Georgia has between ten and twelve million acres of land classed as unim proved and yet not in woodland, there would seem to be a considerable oppor tunity for the development of the beef industry in this state. One desiring to take up this line of farming should of course select a breed well adapted to Georgia conditions and in this respect we think there is little to choose between the Hereford and the Shorthorn. In other words, more of the success attained will be chargable to management than grade. The Hereford are more extensively disseminated in Georgia than the Shorthorns at present though this breed is rapidly coming to the front. The Hereford breed is prob ably a little better adapted for use on small farms or where the improved pas tures are available than the Shorthorn. In other words, the Hereford has prob ably better rustling ability under range condition-s. The Shorthorn is a little larger than the Hereford and is red, white or roan in color. This is a\won derfully fine beef breed, being blockier and compact, maturing well and killing out to advantage. They have not the striking color markings of the Here ford though probably they are a little squarer and deeper in the hind quar ter. Personally I would not hesitate to select either one of these breeds for beef under Georgia conditions. I would be much more careful about the charac ter of animals selected and the manage ment accorded them tnan the breed. WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH AL FALFA. F. W.. Savannah. Ga.. writes; I would like some information In regard to your ex;>erlence with alfalfa What is the av erage yield obtained: how many cuttings do you secure per year? What is the av erage price you receive for the hay? Alfalfa has been grown successfully for several years past on the college farm here at Athens. Our land is known as a Cecil clay and is familiar to the public as the red clay land characteris tic of north Georgia. We are certain that alfalfa will maintain itself on the same area of land under proper man agement for a period of several years. Also that from four to five cuttings will be obtained in the average year one half to two tons of cured hay per cut- benefit; but they are small things in comparision with the superhuman en deavors of the Church of the living God; and the forces upon which such earth-born and earth-bound enterprises must depend, however Imposing may be their systems and however ingenious their machinery, fade into insignificance when compared with the heavenly pow ers and resources which are employed for the upbuilding of the kingdom of God. The Church comprehends within the scope of its purpose and plans the ex tirpation of all vice and the propagation of all virtue, the healing of all ills and the promotion of every worthy interest of mankind. Voluntary associations which devote themselves to special re forms and particular schemes of relief constantly fall back upon the ministry and membership of the Churches for their support. Without the Church they can do nothing. It does not and can not follow them; but they must, and do, de pend upon it. Such being the heavently mission of the Church, the cry, "What is the use of the Church?” is something worse than Impudent. It amounts to an unjust ar raignment of the only institution that proposes the redemption of mankind from all sin and the only institution that is capable of accomplishing such a bless ed result. Let this impudently accusative ques tion of "What is the use of the Church?” be answered once for all, “The use of the church is to seek and to save the lost." Such was the mission of the Lord of the church, and it can aspire to nothing higher than that which engaged all Ids divine power. Hence the church will not heed the crazy cries of those in our day who as sume to command and correct her, un dertaking to contrain her to renounce her position, contract her mission, and consent to exchange the service of God for what they are pleased to call “the service of humanity." They would have her abandon her high calling in Christ Jesus and give herself exclusively to all sorts of pretentious programs of a “so cial betterment,” “improved environ ment," and the like. They conjure her to rely upon eugenics rather than upon rt generation by the Holy Spirit for the making of a new and nobler race, and to bring to bear upon man, the free agent, stockraising expedients and plant culture devices as the most efficacious means to improve the species. But she may not heed the voices of these spu rious renovators of mankind, who have framed their systems according to the postulates of a materialistic philosophy and not according to the pattern shown to her by her -jOid in the mount. As he is in the world, so she Is in the world "to seek and to save that which Is lost.” Recognizing man as a being made a lit tle lower than the angels, and not simn ly a little higher than the brutes, she approaches him in the altitudes of his nature, with saving powers from above, and not with soothing potions from be neath. She knows full well the dispo sition of a fallen and prodigal race to get away from the Father, provided Ills goods may be enjoyed after His pres ence has been escaped; and she under stands the excess of riot to which such departure from God leads, and the dread ful degradation in which it ends. Hence she refuses to spend her strength in merely carrying more modish apparel and more wholesome food to wayward souls and arranging more refined as sociations and elegant environments for them, however good such things may be; she can be. satisfied with nothing less than bringing the wanderers back to the Father’s house, where there is for them not only “bread enough and to spare," but a banquet of love overflow ing with heavenly joy. She believes that “THE SOUL OF ALL IMPROVEMENT IS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOUL,” and that social progress can never go in advance of the regeneration of personal character by the power of God and its perfection through the grace of Christ the Redeemer. ting. In Georgia the first cutting is ■generally nqicle in April, depending on the location and the last cutting ordi narily between the Ist and loth of Oc tober. The yield from five cuttings va ries between five and seven tons. Some area on the college farm which have now been cut for several years have yielded better than five tons per year. We have never sold any alfalfa hay because we naturally regard it as an in valuable feed for our live stock. We could have easily secured 325 per ton for it, however, if we had been dispose; to sell it. In growing and establishing alfalfa In Georgia it is necessary to first put the land in good physical condition by growing a couple of crops of cowpeas in succession Os course velvet beans could be used for this purpose as well Crops of this nature shade the land and smother out weeds very effectually. At least two tons of ground limestone rock should be used previous to the seeding of the legumes. Two hundred to 300 pounds of acid phosphate can be applied at the time of planting the legumes to good advantage. NV -en the cowpeas or velvet beans are turned under in the fall, say not later than the middle of August to first of September, not less than two tons more of ground limestone should be applied. The seeding should be done about September 15th to Octo ber 15th, depending on location. Twenty five pounds of carefully inoculated west ern seed should be planted. The use of 500 to 1,000 pounds of a formula con taining about 4 per cent nitrogen, 10 to 12 per cent phosphoric acid and 5 to 7 per cent potash would be considered ad visable. The fertilizer is best applied shortly before the seeding is done. It should be well harrowed into the ground. The seed should be distributed with a seeder and covered with a weeder We have found it good practice to apply 500 pounds of acid phosphate to the alfalfa land every spring and to cultivate the alfalfa once or twice during the season with what is known as the alfalfa har row. This crop promises to do well in Geor gia under rational management. It ran certainly- be grown successfully- and will enable Georgia to become one of tl e greatest live stock producing states in the union. • • • FOOD VALUE OF GREEN CORN STOVER. A. J.. Ktceboro, Ga., writes: What is the value of green corn stalks without the ears put into the silo? What is the relative value of matenred corn and peas for feeding to hogs? I wish to preserve all the food value In the vegetation I pro duce as it is needed her for cattle, horses, • swine and human consumption. Corn stover in a green condition con tsins about .5 per cent of digestible pro tein, 12 per cent of digestible carbohy drates and .2 per cent of fat. By corn stover we mean the stalks from which the ears have been removed. The com position of corn at the stage indicated v ill vary much, depending on the season, soil conditions, fertilizer used and the degree of maturity at the time of cut ting. Green stover will make a very good silage One would probably need to feed a little more cotton seed meal or other concentrates with it since the ears have been removed, but it could be fed to very good advantage, and, in fact, where sweet corn is largely grown and canned, the stover is now used in QBICIRCU, (Continued fr m Last Issue.) Eagan, his work of vengeance done, leaned back on the pillows with a placed smile. His bright little eyes roved dreamily around the ward where he chanced to be the only patient. c*is glance took in the figure of the guard ian policeman and then moved on to the shut door of a clothes closet. He noted a key in the door’s lock. “Say, old playmate," he addressed the policeman, “I wish you’d stake me to an other pillow if you can get hold of one. My back’s half-broken. Don’t bother to call the nurse. I sure do hate to have women folks pawin' around me when I’m sick. There’s lot of pillows In that closet. I saw her take some from there. Toss me one, just for luck.” Goodnaturedly, the policeman crossed the room to obey the request. He un locked and opened the closet door. “Why,” he began, “there’s no pillows in here, man. The"— He got no further. A mighty shove in the small of the back sent him head long into the closet. Before he could turn, Sam had slammed the closet door shut and locked it. Heedless of the policeman’s frenzied pounding on the panels, Eagan thrust his bare feet into his shoes, drew on his trousers and bolted for the corridor. In the doorway he collided with a doc tor and an orderly, who were entering the ward, the nurse at their heels. Taken unprepared the two men were not quick enough to stop the fugitive. He dashed past them, scattering them to left and to right, and gained the cor ridor. And there —unfamiliar with his sur roundings—Eagan started in the wrong direction. Instead of going toward the stairway, he ran the opposite way. And presently he found himself at the corridor’s farther end with an open window behind him and with no other means of escape. As he had been carried thither sense less, Eagan had no way of knowing whether he was on the first or the tenth floor of the hospital and whether a leap from the window would lead to death or to safety. Before he could look outward through the open casement to learn at what height he might be from the ground, the two pursuing men bore down upon him. They seized him rtfughly, and at once they found they had tackled a man they could not subdue. Sam, tearing free, glanced about for some weapon with whose aid he could hammer his way past them and to the distant stairs. Close beside him on a desk was the hall telephone. He caught up the heavy instrument, wrenched it loose from Its green cord and swung it menacingly above his head. The doctor and the orderly recoiled before the wordless threat. But just then a new actor appeared on the scene. The pounding on the closet door had attracted the nurse and she had released the imprisoned po- The patrolman was a born fighter; and, moreover, he was smarting for revenge. Without a second’s hesitation he sprang at Eagan. Down went the telephone in strument, swung with all the brute strength of Sam’s right arm. The blow, fairly landing, would have meant a frac tured skull at the veity least. But the patrolman had spent his boy hood on the water front. He knew every move in a rough-and-tumble bar room fight. And he was not to be felled like a stupid ox. He charged at Eagan. Down crashed the telephone. And, almost in midair, the policeman checked his own ad vance: stepping swiftly backward. The v.eapon, its distance miscalculated, whizzed harmlessly through the air, i.utting a path fully six inches in front of the bluecoat’s face. Before Sam could recover from that swashing blow the policeman dived in and grappled him. The doctor and the orderly crowded forward to re-enforce the officer s attack. The nurse's screams were bringing other men on the run from all parts of the building. Sam, with the true battling instinct, realized his peril. There was but one chance ot escape. And he must cake that chance, without stopping to cal culate its percentage. Putting all his strength into one tre mendous heave of body and arms he wriggled free from the policeman. As the latter instantly darted at him again, Sam wheeled around and sprang out through the open window just behind him. The window was one hundred and thirty-two feet above the ground. And beneath it was a cement pavement. “Smiling Sam" Eagan had fought his the silo, whereas, It was previously thrown away. A bushel of good mature corn will make anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds of pork, depending much on the condition and age of the animals fed and the management accorded them. Probably peas will give about the same result. Situated as you are we would undertake to raise hogs principally on grazing crops, and to this end would es tablish a rotation which would supply a part if not all of the green feed and grain needed during the greater part of the year. Peanuts could be grown to good advantage in your section of the state. If the hogs are fed a small amount of corn when grazing on pea nuts a hard, firm pork can be secured. You should also be able to grow cow peas, velvet beans and soy beans, and a patch of alfalfa would prove very help ful as furnishing green feed during sev eral months of the year. • • a THE WILT DISEASE OF THE TOMATO. A. J.. Riceboro. Ga., Writea: I would like to know what causes my tomato vines to die. They seem vigorous until the to matoes begin to ripen and then the vines die Any advice you can give me will be appreciated. Your tomatoes are suffering from what is known as wilt or blight, a dis ease very prevalent in the south. This trouble attacks the tomatoes just about the stage of development you describe. The disease germs find access to the plant and chokes it to death, as it were. A good deal of consideration and study has been given to this trouble, but no practical means of combatting it has as yet been found. The only thing you can do Is to pull up affected plants as soon as they show evidence of disease and destroy by burning. One reason why this disease has become so widespread is due to the fact that when outbreaks I occur, the diseased plants are left on j the ground, and the disease is rapidly : spread by the wind, rain, and the move- ' ment of drainage water through the soil, and through the use of Implements and the tramping of animals. Moreover, in many instances diseased plants are picked un and thrown on the compost heap. Thus, next year the disease Is snread over a fresh area of the garden There is only one practical remedy of ever getting rid of this disease and that is through the selection of strains re sistant to it. Is it not a difficult mat ter to save tomato seed, and if one suc ceeds In raising a number of plants which seem to resist It where others succumb, thev could in a short time de velop a strain which would withstand its attack. This has been practical, as you know, in the case of certain varie ties of cotton and cowpeas. last fight. He was stone dead before the first gaping attendant could reach the street and bend above him. Among those who gathered around the shapeless heap was Max Lamar who, returning from June’s home, had decided to stop at the hospital for a word with the prisoner. The word was never spoken. The patrolman, recognizing Lamar, hastened to tell him the tale of the battle; omitting merely his own impris onment in the closet. "The chief had just been here, too,” finished the officer. "Sam had sent for him. Told him about the Red Circle woman and —” Max waited to hear no more. Leav ing the policeman in the middle of a sentence he set off at a swinging stride for the Travis home. Clearly, no time was to be lost. • • • Mary had persuaded June to leave the library where everything spoke so eloquently of the bitter scene with La mar. The nurse had led the weeping girl out into the garden. There, seat ed beside her on a light rustic bench, Mary was trying vainly to comfort her. And there Mrs. Travis joined them, eager to talk over the capture of Sam and to ask what Lamar had had to say to June in the library. She attributed the girl’s tears to excitement and re action after the fight in the hall above. Mary, as best she could, sought to save June from answering the torrent of questions and to turn the tide of Mrs. Travis’ conversation. Presently some- Yama was ushering two me.i into the garden. June recognized them as Chief Allen and Farwell. And her heart stood still. Yet, straightening herself, she forced a careless smile to her white lips, and stepped forward to greet the visitors. "Good day. Miss Travis,” began the chief, awkwardly holding out his hand as he spoke. “You'll excuse us for in truding won’t you. You see, we—" He paused. June had accepted his proffered hand. He held her fingers in his for a moment peering down at the back of the little hand that lay in his own. Farwell also stared wolfishly at her hand. But no circle rewarded their keen ex amination. The back of June’s hand was white and unmarked. From her jright hand they glanced at her left. That, too, was spotless. The two looked blankly at each other. , “What can 1 do for you, chief?” asked June, struggling to keep her voice steady and pretending not to notice the double inspection of her hands. "Well,” stammered the chief, woe fully at ease, "you see, it's this way, Miss Travis; ‘Smiling Sam’ Eagan wanted me to see you about —about the Red Circle." "I’m afraM I can't be of very much help to you,” answered the girl, "I’ve heard Mr. Lamar speak about the Red Circle, of course, and I read something about it, I think, in one of the papers, but that’s really all 1 know. What did poor Sam think I—?” “Look!” shouted Farwell, in savage glee, “look there, chief! Look!” When Allen had released June’s right hand the girl had allowed* it to drop, carelessly, on the back of the bench. Farwell was pointing, excite.dly, at it. The chief’s gaze followed the direction of the stubby forefinger. June, with a cry, thrust her hand be hind her. But not before both men had seen the Red Circle begin to gleam through the soft w'hiteness of Its flesh. "The Red Circle!” exclaimed Chief Allen. He took a step toward the girl. Her nerve going to pieces, she screamed and fled into the house. At the chief’s next WhaiThei wrßi wnqlorTielarmer The European war Is not an J ■ ——rstgft* uumixed evil; uor yet la it an JI unniixed blessing for this ~ \ 'U|| country. We aball not at- | ii-«-jrJf • I tempt to co Into tb» etbb al I I Hile of tb>- ques'l'<n at ail. I ■ arSBLJySM&O W S ■ 'r -bail "wtr 1 ! nvai.l'icti plar.ts ,r 1 Mte. > f ! •b' f similar phases th- I MMfea wwra I sUuution. We shall look at | wM I -,„L. s, < Ither ; ■■! h-t > I I 1.1 this country or imported IlllwftWa" from foreign countries. And I t f **’---_- \j . —amongst them those that have ) not gone up In price In spite jgfMOTTWm W I ot tL< w * r ’ I I 7 " 1 * example, here a II : / peculiar eituatiou in regard to | « I a beyerage wbl -ti is so uni- i jf / vorsally liked that It bas l>e- / ft ■*» / O'o>e alm-t a s'aple Th- I I name of that beverage la / I Coca-Cola /gMR Jmw | Xow Coca-Cola. as you I know, is really an agricultural -FZOl'V' _ I. product—a product of the soil. Cane sugar—the very purest and finest—constitutes of course when we consider raw products we mnst carry the subject further on into the matter of the prices we get and the prices we must pay for finished products. We shall confine our consideration, too, to those products which have their origin on the farm either in the raw state or finished and manufactured into edible or wearable articles. Let us take wheat, for example. We all know that the war has put the price of wheat way up. Very well—this means that the whole country: city, town and rural population aa well are paying more for their flour—there fore the wheat raiser should theoretically be getting rich on a product which it costs him no more to raise than formerly and for which he gets more money. But wait a minute —there are other things to consider in this matter of growing rich off of the war. Cotton and wool and meats and farm machinery and sugar have gone up too. This means that while the wheat raiser is getting more for hls product, he is also paying some other agriculturist more for his product. This cuts down somewhat on the profits the war is bringing to the farmer. Then it wonld seem that the best way to keep ahead of the game is for the farmer to pay the farmer who raises his necessities the increased prices that the war has brought about and when buying his luxuries or those things that are not bare necessities of life to pick and choose from qßw *°iexas Quickest train Memphis to Dalle:: Cotton Belt Route all the way; no of cars. Leaves Memphis 10:10 p. m. Arrives Dallas 11:50 a. m. next operating^ solid mOrnin g- Ft ' Worth 1:25 P- “• through trains Cotton Belt Route morning train to Texas, leaves Memphl from Memphis 9:40 a. m. Trains from Southeast connect at Memphis; to Texas. Low fares to Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma _ JLP. Smith. Traveling Pass'r Agent, 201 Brown-Marx Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. z Topics V' -Conductedßy WORTH REMEMBERING NOT A BAD IDEA. The Charlotte Observer reporter finds a level headed man who talks thusly: "I believe for the sake of all concern ed," remarked a business man yester cay, “that each sale of a revolver should be accompanied by the name and address of the purchaser as well as a descrip-; tion of the person and a record kept of ‘ all such sales at the police department ; headquarters in Charlotte. It is an up to-date method of keeping track of all such purchases and ofttimes is of con siderable asssistance to the police In Texas, where they make it a violation of the law to place on sale revolvers, they evade the law ty ’renting’ the weapons. We have a very law-abiding city and county here and never have had a lynch ing in Mecklenburg county, to my knowl edge, but we can make it even more so by bringing forth a restriction of the j sale of revolvers so that a list of all ; purchasers may come into the posses sion of the police department for fu ture reference and. where necessary, for prompt action.” GOING TO A CHINESE FUNERAL. At the request of the Chinese em bassy, the department of state issued invitations to the funeral services of the late president of China, whose death was lately announced in our papers—> and was held June 26th. The services were held in the Continental hall, owned by the Daughters of the American Revo lution. Through the courtesy of one of the resident daughters, I was given an en trance ticket and I found the exercises very entertaining. The Chinese lega tion and perhaps resident Chinamen were present. The flowers were pro ! fuse and beautiful —and while the sing , ing and address were all in English— the Chinese seemed to be full of in terest, also understanding. A former United States minister to China prepared a noble address which was read by some gentleman, who also stated his views and estimate of the dead president, etc. There was a fine string band as well as a choir of boys, who sung delightfully. The hymns were "Nearer My God To Thee," "Lead Kindly Light" and “O, God Our Help In Ages Past.” The au dience also sung with the choir. Every thing was done up in first-class style, and. to me there w’as a great deal of In terest In the entire proceedings.—Wash ington City, June 28, 1916. step he found himself confronted by Mary. The old woman, eyes ablaze, had snatched up the light bench and was brandishing it wildly. “’You lay one finger on my precious baby, Mr. Chief." she snarled- like an angry cat, "and I'll brain you with j this!” The men, unheeding, made as though to push past her toward the house. She flung the bench straight across j their path. And. in their onward scram- I ble, they stumbled over it. As they gathered themselves up they I saw Mary vanish into the house in the wake of June. The chief —yelling to Farwell to watch the house from the outshle —ran in pursuit. June had fled upstairs. And. half way up the stairway, Mary was holding aloft a wicker chair. "You keep back!” she shrilled fierce ly to the chief. "Keep back or—” She hurled the chair full at him as he started to ascend the stairs. And she fled to the upper landing. There again with her bare hands this time, she at tacked him. He gently thrust to one side the scratching, buffeting old wom an and continued his pursuit. (Continued in Next Issue.) a large part of Coca-Cola syrup. As you know, sugar has gone way up—so every glass of Coca-Cola you drink makea some farmer’s heart gladder. So it Is with the pure fruit juices that, combined, produce the inimitable flavor of Coca-Cola. Not so much In quantity seemingly when you consider—a single glass of thia delicious beverage, but enormous when the en tire Coca-Cola output is considered. Yet this product of nature—of the farm— Increased in cost though It bas been to the makers, bas not been raised one penny in price to dealer—or to you. The price at the soda fountain and in the bottle has not risen one iota. Now inasmuch aa the rural population al&ne of America consumes millions of bottles and glasses of Coca-Cola every year, you and the other agriculturists of this country will not only be able to continue to please your palates and get delicious refreshment with this bev erage at no increased cost, but you will be sending back to the farm bigger profits and more money at no greater expense to yourself. 12F ! 5
