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Agricultural
DUNNS
This department will cheerfully endeavor to furnish any information.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Andrew M. Soule, pesident State Agri
cultural College, Athus. Ga
What We Might Do With Increased
Agricultural Wealth
What can we do with a billion dollars?
It this sum were at my disposal for the
promotion of the welfare of the ten
southern states south of the Ohio and
east of the Mississippi river. I would
place $1.000.006.fi«0 to the credit of cap
ital account for the avowed purpose of
providing the neded expenses of the
firm. lessening the high interest rates
which the farmer now has to pay. and
♦ diminishing tenancy. The next
> 000.000 would be used for the building
of 40.000 miles of sand clay roads an
nually at a cost of $2,500 per mile. In
me hrst year interstate thoroughfares
could be constructed connecting the
rural districts and the centers of ac
tivity In every state. The third SIOO,-
VOO.OOO would be used forth- purchase
of implements and farm equipment. The
trying need of the south today is crop
diversification. This cannot be accom
plished until we secure enlarged equip
ment for the farm and the Varied as
sortment of implements necessary to
properly plant, cultivate, harvest and
«are for diversified crops. The fourth
$100,000,000 would be devoted to the im
provement ot our live stock. This would
enable us to bring in one million pure
bred animals a year at a cost of SIOO
apiece, and it would only be a com
paratively short time until the scrub
would be an unknown relic of the past.
When we think of the progeny of a
cow which cost sl7 in the thira genera
tion being worth $142.50 for beef, we
can appreciate what it means to. the.
south to improve the grade and char
acter of her live stock. The fifth SIOO.-
000.000 would be devoted to farm build
ings and better rural homes. With this
sum of money 40.000 modern homes at
$2,500 apiece could be constructed.
One thousand five hundred dollars should
go into the house and its appointments
and SI,OOO into barns and other neces
sary outbuildings. When this is done
the country becomes an ideal place in
which to live and the country home a
source of pleasure and pride and not a
place of drudgery to the housewife as it
is too often at the present time. Thirty
five milliin dollars a year should be
spent for improved seeds <«nd plants so
that production may be standardized In
other words, we are growing now sev
eral hundred varieties of cotton. As a
matter of fact, they should probably all
be eliminated save a half Cozen of the
best. When this is done thousands of
bales of cotton of a given standard
could be produced tri any one communi
ty at an advance in price to the farmer
and a substantial gain to the manutac-
* turer. Thirty-five million dollars should
he used for the development of perma
nent fertility problems through the es-
? tablishment of crop rotations. The waste
due to the one-crop system is Incalcula
ble. It will continue just as long as
the present system of practice is fol
lowed.
There should be $200.000.000 spent for
rural schools for the encouragement
and advancement of rural people. With
this sum of money 20.000 consolidated
schools could be erected annually at
a cost of SIO,OOO a piece. A handsome
and commodious brick structure could
soon be built in every rural section,
thereby providing the type and char
acter of instruction essential to bring
about the elimination of the frightful
waste and loss which we suffer at the
present time. $10,000,000 should be
spent annually for training agricultural
experts. This is enough to develop 2,000
new leaders a yea** and thus afford an
incentive and opportunity to the genius
of the youth of the south.to prepare
. themselves to become home misisonaries
of the most approved and reliable type.
These men would find their opportunity
for leadership in the direction of con
solidated rural schools and in the re
search work and extension service of
the agricultural colleges and experiment
stations. $10,000,000 should be set aside
annually for the employment of addi
tional county agents. With this sum
4.000 experts could be employed or a
number greatly in excess of that pro
vided for in the whole United States at
the present time. A county agent has
been known to save to his community
the equivalent of $25,000 a year. This
is a conservative estimate. Imagine,
therefore, what could .be accomplished
could 4.00" experts be set to work in
the area under discussion. $100,000,-
000 should be devoted to the building
of new churches and establishing mis
sions. This would enable the construc
tion of 20.000 churches in the rural dis
tricts each year, thereby bringing into
the life of the community the most
wholesome and constructive influence
the world had ever known, and afford
► the country people the facilities for
worshipping God which they are now
frequently denied and which has been
one of the primary causes of people
moving from the open country into the
city. $100,000,000 should then be saved
and used to liquidate debts and to aid
in the development of a rural credit
system where necessary.
It is needless to point out that this
distribution of wealth is logical, though
seme might place the expenditures sug
gested in a different order. The fact
uppermost in the mind of the writer
has been that an infant must be fed.
washed, clothed, housed and developed
into worthy manhood. In other words,
it is necessary for us. first, to provide
capital and equipment before we can
hope to have the benefits which the ac
crued wealth enables us to later enjoy.
Now. let us consider a moment in con
clusion what the saving of a billion
dollars and using it as indicated above
would accomplish. First of all. it seems
clear to my mind that a race would be
developed rooted in the soil because
J. D. PRICE IS NOT A
FRIEND OF THE
FARMER
“The present administra
tion of the Georgia Agricul
tural Department is the only
such department in the South
ern States that does not co
• operate with the Farmers
Union or Farmers State Or
- ganizations.
(Signed)
“CHAS. S. BARRETT,
“Pres. Nat’l Farmers Union.”
FOR CO-OPERATION
VOTE FOR J. J. BROWN
OF ELBERT. .
the country would be the ideal place in
which to live. Certainly we would es
tablish a permanent system of soil fer
tility and thereby insure an annual in
crease of our agricultural wealth and
the production of a sufficient amount
of food for local needs and a surplus
for export to less favored sections. Our
agriculture would of necessity be organ
ized on a professional basis and until
this is done it can never become a lucra
tive and representative industry. We
would soon come to appreciate the es
sential character of research and to
glory in the opportunity and privileges
which education affords any people. Out
of all of this would grow a self-sustain
ing south characterized by a healthy,
virile race of people. With this would
also come the elimination of waste and
the development of a race of men and
women with fixed and high ideals, there
by safeguarding forever the permanency
of our institutions, the perpetuation of
the republic along the lines conceived
and so forcefully projected by our fore
fathers.
• • •
THE BEST WAY TO FEED AL
FALFA HAY.
A. J. G.. Maxeys. Ga., writes: I have
twenty tons of alfalfa that I raised, and
1 am thinking of granding it. What do you
think of thia idea, and what should a ma
chine for this purpose coat J
Alfalfa hay may be ground and made
into what is known as alfalfa meal.
Mills are on the market which will do
this work satisfactorily.
You can secure one of sufficient size
and power for about S4O. We have a
mill of this type and find that it does
very good work. Our thought tn secur
ing such a mill has been to grind corn,
cob, shuck and all. We cannot see any
particular advantage in grinding alfalfa
for use on the farm. If the hay is to
l>e fed to horses and mules it would
be better to let them masticate it with
their teeth. The same would be true
of other live stock. If you wish to sub
stitute alfalfa for a part of the pro
tein you have been feeding or to Bal
ance up a ration of corn to better ad
vantage. you could grind it. You could
not make alfalfa take the place of more
than one-quarter to one-third of the
grain in ordinary rations fed to work
stock or to beef or dairy cattle.
• • •
CHANGING A RATION FOR A
DAIRY COW.
J. R. M.. PosteUe, Turn, writes: I
•lave a cow that was fresh last Jone, and
should be giving quite a lot of milk, but
sh» only gives between three and four
quarts at a milking. She ia getting fat
enough for beef. I am feeling two quarts
..f cotton seed meal with a gallon and a
half of hulls, and some alfalfa hay at
night. I would like to arrange the feed so
.has the milk flow will be increased and
not so much fat put on. She is one-quar
ter Jersey and three-quarters Beil Durham.
The trouble you are experiencing is
probably not as much due to the char
acter of ration you are feeding as to
the inherent qualities of your cow. If
she is three-quarters Shorthorn or Dur
ham. her disposition is to lay on fat
rather than to make milk, and I suspect
that this trouble is so strongly inherited
that you will have difficulty in keeping
her from laying on fat at the expense
of milk production. Some cows, as you
know, milk very well for a short time
and then drop off to where they give so
little as to make their use for dairy
purposes unprofitable. A good dairy
cow should give at least two gallons
of milk for 300 to 326 days out of the
year. She should, of course, have one
month’s rest between calving periods.
The ration you are feeding is not a fat
tening one by any means. You are sup
plying a very good amount of protein,
and we can suggest no change that is
likely to be beneficial at the present
time unless you add one quart of bran
to the ration, and are in position to
provide some green feed by allowing
your cow to range on a cereal pasture.
• • •
WORKING A HORSE WITH RESPIRA
TORY TROUBLE.
L. T. C., Decatur, Ga.. writes: I have
a e,ule that gets bls breath hard and pants
when at work. I have had him two years.
He travels well mid has plenty of life. I
fe-d him or. corn fodder and hay. is there
any remedy for his trouble?
Your mule is suffering from either
heaves or roaring. Animals which have
been attacked by distemper frequently
are left with weak throats though roar
ing is often hereditary. This also is
true of heaves. In severe cases of
roaring a mule can travel only a short
distance before choking down. Little
can be done for this trouble except in
its early stages when blistering will
be of some benefit.
We think it best to treat your mule
for heaves as we are inclined to think
this is the case of the trouble you
describe. This disease is associated with
indigestion. The symptoms are labored
breathing and in most cases there ;s
a deep moist grunting cough. Mules
affected with heaves are -unable to per
form hard or fast work without stop
ping to breathe. Severe cases are, of
course, incurable. Treatment for this
trouble is purely hygienic. Keep the
quarters and the food free from dust.
The hay or fodder used should be
sprinkled with water. Only easily di
gestible food should be fed. Provide
as much pasturage as possible.
Medical treatment for this trouble is
not very satisfactory. About all that
can be done in this direction is to give
arsenic, in the form' of Fowler’s solu
tion. Give two teaspoonfuls in the food
three times daily. This treatment
should not be continued too long. If
symptoms of arsenical poisoning are
shown by the twitching of the muscles
the medicine should be stopped imme
diately. Any medicine which promotes
digestion can be used to advantage. Gin
ger root pulverized and given in table
spoonful doses three times daily is of
some value in troubles of this char
acter.
• • •
THE COMPOSITION OF MEAL OF A
GIVEN GRADE.
,V. O. M., Carrollton. Ga., writes: 1 would
like to know th- fertiliser content of a
meal which analyzes as follows: Protein
38.5 per cent, crude fat 5 per -ent, car
bohydrates 28 per cent and crude fiber 20
•■ r bent. I would like tc know the value
of cob meal as a feed for cattle compared
with cotton seed halls.
It would be impossible to say off
hand just how much plant food a ton
of the mixture about which you inquire
might contain. According to the figures
given it would run a little over 5 per
cent of nitrogen, whereas, choice cotton
seed meal would run 7 per cent or bet
ter of nitrogen. If the material about
which you write is made of cotton seed
meal, we presume a ton of it would con
tain between 115 and 120 pounds of
nitrogen, about 50 pounds of phosphoric
acid, and about 36 pounds ojt potash.
You understand that this is only an
estimate, but probably sufficiently ac-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1916.
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ft. Timefy lopirs
SONGS OF ATLANTA AMATEUBS.
Eighteenth Dixie.
Sung by W. H. Barnes.
"We will now in conclusion our song of
Dixie sing.
It is a song of triumph—let the echo
ring.
At Fairfax and at Bethel, where’ere
we’ve met this band,
Our boys have sent them howling from
the face of Dixie’s land.
"At Richmond and at Memphis. General
Scott says he will try
To be reigning with his hosts by the
fifteenth of July.
But ere that time, for Illinois both him
and Abe will run;
Jeff Davis and our gallant boys will be
In Washington.
"They may send their hireling soldiers,
and sail their vandal fleet;
They’ll find a foe to meet them while
a southern heart doth beat.
We’ll put our trust in Providence, who’s
protected us thus long—
The race's not always to the swift, or
the battle to the strong.
“Thrice is he armed for victory who
hath his quarrel just.
In God and in our righteousness we
wholly put our trust.
■Til the last drop of our blood is shed
from every vein.
O’er the land of Dixie no Republican
can reign.
"Oh, then rejoice, ye people! The vic
tory is ours.
Wherever we’ve met we have dispersed
the abolition powers,
And all of Dixie’s children rejoice in
her success.
May victory perch on bur flag and
peace and happiness!”
"Dixie” was paraphrased at least 18
times and sung to delighted audiences
In Atlanta, and outside cities.
THE ATLANTA AMATEURS IN MA-
CON.
The following letter was written by
a former Macon man, and will doubtless
interest those who joined the Confeder
ate army in 1861.
“Dear Mrs. Felton: I am a subscrib
er to The Atlanta Journal Semi-Week
ly, because you appear in it. Your last
article headed “How Atlanta raised mon
ey for relief during the Civil war,” has
and Griffin, left for the war. Macon Voi
men in the state, of Columbus, Macon
carried me away back to the memorable
night when the First Georgia battalion,
composed of some of the finest young
curate for the purpose you have in
mind.
Corn cobs contain practically no di
gestible nutrients and very little fer
tilizing value. Cotton seed hulls con
tain considerably more of both animal
and plant food. We do not think there
is any comparison between the feed
ing value of hulls and ground corn cobs.
We can not Imagine why any one would
feed groud corn cobs as there is no
poorer food substance which could be
found on the farm and used as a
roughage than corn cobs. The farmer,
of course, should make a practice of
growing his own roughage, but in case
you are short and require to buy any
thing, we would unquestionably give
preference to cotton seed hulls.
* * •
A CASE OF MOON BLINDNESS.
B. C. W., Mt. Vernon, Ga., writes: I
haie a horse about eleven years old, and
about two years ago her eyes became af
fected. They would get better and then
worse again. Now she is blind in one
eye and almost so In the other. I carried
her sometime ago to a man who said she
had hocks, and cut something out of her
left eye. It looks better but she sees
very little out of it. I feed her corn and
fodder or ha - ,. Do you think her eye
sight can be restored; if so, 1 would ap
preciate a remedy.
Your horse appears to be suffering
from what is known as periodic opthal
mla or “mon blindness,” the cause of
which is not known, though it is thought
to be propduced by germs or parasites.
For many years It was believed that
changes In the moon were responsible
for this trouble, but this is now known
to be a wholly erroneous conclusion.
This disease runs its course and results
in nearly all instances in total blindness.
During an attack the horse should be
kept in a darkened stall. Idodide of po'-
ash in one dram dose’s should be given
Internally as a drnch once dally for four
or five doys; then withhold for an equal
length of time and repeat. There is no
cure for this trouble. The removal if
the law Is generally a painful an un
nessary operation and will not cure the
trouble.
• • •
MERITS OF CERTAIN DAIRY
BREEDS.
A. H. P., Athens, Gm., writes: Which
gives the greatest quantity of milk, the
Holstein or the Jersey? How long arc they
dry before coming in ? How much milk do
they average during the time they are not
dry? How much does it cost to keep a
cow?
A good pure-bred Jersey or Holstein
cow will probably cost you from $75 to
SIOO. Choice speciments, f curse, can
not be bought for less than S2OO to S3OO
Good grade cows of these breeds will
probably bring SSO and upward. The
Holstein gives the greatest qnantlty of
milk, but it « not so rich in butter fat.
On the other hand, because of the great
er volume of milk given by the Holstein
cow, sne will probably yield as much or
more butter tn a day than will be ob
tained from a Jersey cow. The Jersey
cow does not give so much milk but it
Is richer m butter fat. She produces a
milk better suited to mature persons
than to children.
The length of time a cow is dry be
tween parturition periods depends alto
gether on the manner in which she is
handled as well as on her individuality
and breeding. A good cow of either
breed should give milk for eleven months
of the year, and if she does not give
milk for at least ten months she should
be disposed of and replaced by a better
animal. The amount of milk given by a
cow will give from two up to ten gallons,
and a Jersey from one and a half to four
or five. We would not keep a sow which
did not give an average of two gallons
of milk for at least ten or eleven months
of the year. In other words, the mini
mum amount of milk you should eiepect
from a good cow is 5,000 to 6,000 pounds
a year. We have cows which have giv
en more than twice the amount of milk
Indicated, and they have proven profit
able dairy producers.
The cost of keeping a cow depends al
togther on the management you can ac
cord her. If you have pasturage avail
able during several months of the year,
the dry feed and grain will not cost so
much as where the cow is confined. The
cow needs pasturage, of course, in order
to get proper exercise and maintain a
good flow of milk. There Is nothing bet
ter than Bermuda grass on which bur
clover has sown to utlizerl for win
ter grazing. A piece of land can also
be devoted to rye and this can ben used
for late fall, winter and early spring
grazing. If you produce an abundance
of peavine and sorghum hay. you will
have provided a satisfactory roughage
for the winter season. Along with this
you should feed cotton seed meal, and
occasionally a little bran or corn, gay
2 to 3 pounds of cotton seed meal, 2
pound, of bran and 1 to 2 pounds of corn
per day. The gram should be increase?
or decreased according to the flow of
milk and the appetite of th« cow.
“SEND AMERICAN
PEOPLE MY LOVE”
SAYS CAPT. KOENIG
“They Treated Me Finely/’
Deutschland’s Commander
Tells Correspondent at Cel
ebration in Bremen
BREMEN, Aug. 26.—(Via London.)—
The celebration of the return yester
day of the submarine Deutschland to
this port after its voyage to the United
States was kept up until long after mld-
Ing whenever men from the Deutsch
land were visible.
Captain Koenig was obliged to make
innumerable speeches ana was on the
verge of exhaustion when he retired,
with the crowd still clamoring for him
and singing "Deutschland Über Alles.”
To the Associated Press correspond
ent the captain reiterated his great sat
isfaction at the treatment accorded him
at Baltimore.
“Send the American people my love,”
he said. “They are good sportsmen.
They treated me finely."
On being asked when he was likely
to sail on another voyage, the captain
said it would be as soon as possible.
The homeward trip was without un
usual incidents. No British warships
were seen, the captain said, after he
left American territorial waters.
unteers. Captain R. A. Smith; Floyd
Rifles of Macon, Captain T. E. Harde
man—who resigned his seat in congress
to go with his company—Columbus Light
Guards, Captain Peyton Colquitt, and
Spalding Grays, (I cannot recall name
of captain.) I was a resident of Macon
at that time—quite a boy—and membei
of Volunteer cadets, an offshoot of the
Macon Volunteers, and armed with flint
and steel muskets, that Captain Holmes
carried to Mexico. We boys with other
companies escorted the second battalion
to the Macon depot. I will remember a
visit of the Atlanta amateurs to Macon,
did not hear them in Ralston Hall, but
from the balcony of the Brown House. 1
have in my possession an old scrap booK
of that time. If I could get some one
to publish it with me, I’d be glad to do
it.” (If you fail d4ar sir send it to me
and I’ll cull out the interesting thingo
and publish them for you. Mrs. Fel
ton.) “I mention a few of the articles
•Atlanta in Ruins,’ ’When Will the South
Surrender,’ ’Virginia Battle Song, by G.
G. Smith,’ 'Stand Firm,’ etc. lam now
70 years old.”
These thing make up the history of
the war time and their publication is of
value to those who were unborn at the
time of the Atlanta amateurs.
MRS. F.
RUSSIA'S AMAZING BATTLE DBIVES.
To those who have kept up with the
war in Europe and who were disap
pointed at Russia’s poor success In the
first year of this war. the story of 1916.
and Russia’s tremendous and successful
operations against Turkey, Austria and
Germany is simply amazing.
Their former inability was not caused
by lack of soldiers or raw materials, but
to thieir lack of preparedness and of
guns and munitions of war immediate
ly the Russian government set about
setting leady and they saw the necessi
ty for giving back on the front until
they had an equipment they could rely
upon.
The s.ory of their successes in 1916
reads like fiction. Every day Austria
same thing and the drive against Austria
and Turkey is no more animated than
tgainst the kaiser’s trained legions.
There seems to be perfect loyalty to
Czar Nicholas and the Russian soldier,
especially the hardy Cossacks, are as
soldiers as thei are in the world.
They are accustomed to hardships, bad
weather, everything that pertains to
Russian climate, and we know that Rus
sia is twice as large as all of Europe
besides.
The Associated Press tells us in the
Jaily dispatches that Russia is taking
over tens of thousands of prisoners
every week with guns and ammunition
in vast quantities.
I have a suspicion in my mind that
these prisoners have decided that it is
healthier to work in Russia at any sort
of labor than to stand in front of an
overwhelming foe in trenches which are
being bombarded day and night from
thousands of cannon, accurately trained
upon the trenches.
Austria is a very rich and well popu
lated country, but with Russia on the
■western front and Italy on the south
eastern front, and Germany with her
hands full nearer at home, the prisoners
may conclude that precaution is the
better part of valor.
WOMEN'S BIGHTS.
In the earlier days of the world,
especially among Oriental nations,
women were not allowed to communi
cate with the world. She was jealously
screened from intercourse with the world
in which she lived. She could make no
contract, sign no legal instrument, and
enter into no obligation for her own
protection as an Idividual. We get a
very good idea of woman's condition in
the eastern countries, in reading the
Jewish writings of the Old Testament.
We find that polygamy was authorized
and practiced by the wisest men of the
nation, on an enormous and general
scale.
Lecky, in the "History of Morals,”
volume eleven, says that in Greece a
woman, whether as maid, wife or widow,
had no legal existence, was never with
out a guardian. She was under per
petual tutelage, a son even being guar
dian of his mother. She could make no
contract or any sort of a bargaip, with
out consent of her tutor or guardian. She
could not appear in any court, no mat
ter when greatly wronged.
Under Roman laws women were sub
ject to the same restrictions as in
Greece. The father could sell his daugh
ter. give her a husband of his own se
lection and divorce her at his pleasure.
Quoting Lecky again, ’’where Christ
In His teachings nowhere degraded
women, yet even In the early Christian
church a married woman had no legal
existence or independence apart from
her husband.
The early societies of the church view
ed celebacy as the ohliest state on
earth, and Chrysistom is quoted as say
ing that woman is “a necessary evil,
a natural temptation, a desirable calami
ty, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination
and a painted ill!” The Provincial Ro- ,
man Catholic council at Auxeure. A. D.
578, forbade a woman on account, as
they said, of her inherent impurity, to ,
receive the eucharest in her naked hands
and required her to put on a white linen
glove before touching it.
Not until the act of 1866 was passed
could a woman in Georgia own her own
property.
The women of Georgia owe a debt of
gratitude to Hon. Andrew J. Miller, of
Richland county, Ga., for his noble de
fense of women before the legislatures
of the state. He is said to be the first
man in Georgia who raised his arm
and voice to battle for women's rights,'
and it was largely through hl’s effort
that the bill was carried through for
ownership and protection of their prop- |
erty. (
Out of this injustice has grown the
struggle to give to women in the United
States the ballot, by which the/ can
select rulers and defeat this tyranny of
early days.
Gloria’s Romance
Uy Mr. and Mrs. Bupert Hughes. .
(Copyright. 1016. by Adelaide M. Hughes.) ,
(Continued from Last Issue.)
GLORiA was gone and Lois was
gone, but an attractive youth like
Freneau was not left alone in
such multitudes of women as gather at
.’alm Beach with no more serious pur
pose than escaping the cold drafts of
Lhe north and the torments of boredom
in the south. Many women had to tell
him how brave it was of him to go into
lhe depths of the everglades and tear
from the savages there the daughter of
Stafford house. Many of them told him
that they would be glad to be rescued
by him from any danger.
He spent So much time gathering the
applause from fair women that when
the season closed at Palm Beach his
firm gave him his full liberty. He had
done nothing, they wrote, to encourage
them to pay him further salary. He
had to go next to places where his fame
had not reached —,where he had only his
winning personality as capital. He
found men rather hard to impress, but
there was always some woman foolish
enough to believe in his beautiful eyes.
Some of them were rich, and some
of them were as poor as poor Nell
Trask, the daughter of Gideon Trask,
a canal boat captain. He met her in a
cheap boarding house, where he paid
his landlady nothing, except his atten
tions and some extravagant compli
ments.
He behaved very shabbily in his af
fair with Nell Trask, and deserted her
cruelly because, at a critical time for
her, he got a tip on the market and
sold It to a broker, who gave him a
share of the proceeds.
He was so tired of poverty that he
went to New York and anticipated his
promise. But Gloria and her father
were abroad on a summer vacation and
Freneau was thrown on his own re
sources. He flirted himself into an
other tip and sold that to a broker nam
ed Frank Mulry.
Mulry knew the value of such a part
ner, and he encouraged Freneau to learn
from financiers' wives and daughters
what could not be learned otherwise.
In the course of time Freneau made
himself so important to Mulry that he
was taken into the firm as a silent part
ner. At length, through a most confiden
tial tip, he got in as a sort of stowaway
in a piratical raid on the market and
cleaned up so much money that Mulry
was glad to take him into full partner
ship as the senior member of the firm.
When he saw the legend, “Freneau
& Mulry, stocks and bonds, members of
the stock exchange,” on the door and
on the letterheads, Freneau felt so im
portant that he did not care what Pier
pont Stafford, or his daughter thought
of him. He was the young Napoleon.
One of these days ■he would buy and
sell Pierpont Stafford.
His success enlarged his acquaintance,
his attractiveness, and his temptations.
He was on the crest of the wave when
he met Lois Freeman again. He was
studyirfg the diamond crop in a jeweler’s
window and wondering just what peace
offering he should buy for a certain
person whom he had rendered violently
jealous when who should step out of
the shop but Lois Freeman!
Each stared at the other with eyes
ready for flirtation. Each recognized the
other as a former Palm Beach comber.
“Why, Mr. Freneau!” was Lois’ ex
clamation. Her language was not so
brilliant as her eyes.
“Why, Miss Freeman!” was his equal
ly brilliant answer. The same thing
was true of him.
"But I’m not longer Miss Freeman,”
said she-
"I’m still Mr. Freneau,” said he.
"I’m now Mrs. Stafford.”
“Stafford! Stafford? The name
sounds familiar,” said Freneau.
“Surely, you haven’t forgotten David
Stafford, your old rival for my young
affections?”
“Os course not,” said Freneau. ’Tvs
never forgiven him for cutting me out.
How long have you been married?”
“O, for an eternity—two years.”
“Really? You don’t look it at all!
But that’s long enough for you to come
and take tea with me somewhere, isn’t
it?”
”1 suppose so. Anyway, I’m dead tired
and in need of a pick-me-up. It’s so
stupid shopping all day. And my hus
band has already been married long
enough to be quite frank about my ex
travagance. But what else is there for
me? He is at the office all day; and
he travels a good deal. He’s ambitious
to outdo his father in business."
“So am I.” said Freneau.
They were buzzing away merrily when
they found seats in a tearoom
where dancing Was the main business,
with tea as an excuse. Freneau did not
even take tea. He was not particular
about excuses. He urged Lois to dance
with him. But she saw several people
she knew, and she declined. Also, she
slipped away early. She knew enough
to be elusive.
They met again, however, at a less
conspicuous tearoom. Then she danced
with him. She told him he fox-trotted
divinely well, lie told her she fox-trotted
devilishly well. When an unscrupulous
bachelor and the frivolous wife of an
ambitious and indulgent man once begin
a dance there is no telling how far it
will lead them. At least there is no
telling in circumspect print.
And all this while Gloria was cherish
ing her ideal of Freneau and working
hard to make herself worthy of him!
And her brother was cherishing a trust
in Lois and working hard to give her the
luxuries she exacted with increasing
greed.
(Continued In Next Issue.)
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“LIFE A PERSONALLY
CONDUCTED JOURNEY"
By Bishop W.A.Candleir
The Christian life is a personally con
ducted journey. So taught Jesus when
he said, “I am the light of the world:
he that followeth me snail not walk in
darkness, but shall have the light of
life.” John VIII. 18).
These words he spoke at the Feast
Os Tabernacle, when the Jewish people
celebrated the experiences of their fath
ers during their forty years of wan
dering in the wilderness. In that long
period of wandering Israel was guided
day by day and guarded night by night
by a pllliar of cloud and fire which was
to them the leading of the divine pres
ence. In the midst of these impressive
ceremonials Jesus declared that he was
to be to his followers what the mysteri
ous Presence in the wilderness was to
the chosen people as they journeyed
from Egypt to the Land of Promise.
The journeylngs of Israel In the wild
erness were not by a map, nor by any
plan of military foresight. Worldly
wisdom would have selected a different
and shorter route; but God in his per
sonal guidance led the chosen people by
His own way.
In like manner our Lord proposes to
lead his people. Life cannot be pur
sued with a program arranged before
hand by human wisdom To one stand
ing at its outset God gives no blue print
to guide and guard. And this is far
better than any other plan of life.
There are those who wish that every
detail of life should be worked out in
advance by human skill and set out with
minute directions. But this cannot be,
and such a plan has ended always in
casuistical confusion and perplexing un
certainty. It is the plan of the Phari
sees with all its painful regulations and
impracticable rules. It leaves God en
tirely out of account and undertakes to
mane every man the maker and master
of his own destiny. Such a plan implies
that a man may take his life into his
own hands and dispose of it without
reference to the divine purpose concern
ing him, and without regard to his place
in the providential movement which en
swathes all human history.
Young people frequently discuss the
best method of choosing a profession,
as if the matter were to be determined
on a basis of personal preference or am
bition. In this they are entirely mis
taken. The work of life ought not to be
a thing of mere personal choice; but it
should be entered upon as a vocation to
which God has called one. With refer
ence to the work of the Christian min
istry this truth is very generally rec
ognized; but with reference to other
lines of life most men seem to think
they may do as they please without ref
erence to God’s purpose concerning
them. Doubtless It is true that there is
a peculiarly solemn and sacred call to
the ministry; but it is equally true that
every man's life should be a plan of
God. The Scriptures teach us that
God has a particular care for every
man, a personal interest in him, and a
watchful oversight over him. Such be
ing the case, it is the privilege of every
man to shape his life under the guid
ance of God. Discussing this truth
Horace Bushnell says: "Every human
soul has a complete and perfect plan,
cherished for it in the hart of God—
a divine biography marked out which it
enters into life to live. This life, right
fully unfolded, will be a complete and
beautiful work, and experiences led on
by God and unfolded by His secret nur
ture, as the trees and flowers and the
secret nurture of the world; a drama
cast in the mould of the perfect art with
no part wanting; a divine study for the
man himself and for others; a study
that shall forever unfold, in wondrous
beauty, the love and faithfulness of
God; great in its conception, great in
the Divine skill by which it is shaped;
above all, great in the momentous and
glorious issue it prepares. What a
thought is this for every human soul to
cherish! What dignity does it add to
life! What support does it bring to the
trials of life! What instigation does it
add to send us onward in everything
that constitutes our excellence! What
live in the divine thought! We fill a
place in the great everlasting plan of
God’s intelligence. We never sink be
low his care, never drop out of his
counsel.”
At the outset of life the important
thing for a young man is not to under
take to choose a profession, but it is to
discover the plan of God for his life and
put himself under the divine guidance
and direction in fulfilling that plan.
The selection of a profession on the
mere basis of personal preference, or
selfish ambition, and which leaves the
will of God out of the account, is an
athestic thing and in the end leads to
defeat and despair.
The European war Is not an ’ J **B*‘ , “' ——
unmixed evil; nor jet ia It an I
unmixed blessing for this j. . At.
country. We shall not at- I SfeAr'ftfVerW 1
tempt to go Into 'ho >”hi nl I i
s:de of iho questbr at I | I
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standpoint -f prt-' s for ra .v 1 I
prvdui“•‘iih’-r ; r..du h r- I 1
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from foreign countries. And I ““““
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I amongst them those that have
Wwfey. I n< ’ l vone up in price in spite
H o w I ot lhe war-
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J'UGXJi aZNTOIOQfVTS'. • soil. Cane sugar—the very
of course when we consider raw products we
must 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
as 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 his 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 would
seem that the best way to keep ahead of the
game is for the farmer to pay the farmer who
raises his necessities the irsereased prices that
the war has brought about and when buying
bls luxuries or those things that are not bare
neceuittea life to pick sad idwase from
Close akin to the godless folly of
choosing a profession without reference
to God’s will is the morbid and preten
tious talk of some young people about
“getting ready for their life work. This
sort of talk sounds like the chatter of
one who has arranged a journey and is
undertaking to pack up his baggage and
arrange the details of the trip for per
sonal comfort and pleasure. The life
work of any man who leads a Christian
life is that to which God points him.
and there is no way to prepare for it ex
cept to do the will of God day by day.
On one occasion a young man wrote to
Thomas Carlyle asking advice as to how
to prepare for his life work. In reply
that rugged old philosopher said, “Do
the duty that lies next to you, and that
being done, the next duty will have ap
peared.” This Is but another way of
saying wait on the direction of God
from day to day, and one will certainlyj
get into his life work wisely and get out
of it well.
It is not possible that human wisdom
should be sufficient to plan a human
life. Men have no foresight adequate
for such planning. The contingencies
of sickness and health, adversity and
prosperity, defeat and triumph, are too
numerous and too uncontrollable for'
such far-reaching planning of the lim
ited faculties of men.
For the safe conduct of .life human
beings need an omniscient and omnipo
tent guide. Hence it was a gracious
and blessed thing when Jesus promised
to give to his followers “the light of
life” in Himself. Life thus personally
conducted will walk in plain ways and
safe patbs.
A supreme difficulty confronts every
man on entering life in the fact that he
has no experience of his own, and he is
entering upon a road over which no
other man ever passed before Him; for
each life goes along away never trod
by any other human being. Speaking to
this point, Nathaniel Hawthorne says:
“We have no experiences of our own,
nor can we use the experience of any
other human being until it is too late.”
The Hebrew Psalmist felt this truth
when he said, “I am a stranger in the
earth; hide not thy commandments from
me.” Being a stranger and a newcomer
on the planet he did not feel that he
was equal to his own guidance, but
needed the direction of the divine com
mandments and the assistance of divine
leadership.
- Such is the case with every one. We
all come through the world but once,
and we cannot afford to take risks in
the way that we go. Yet we take the
most fearful risks when we assume to
direct our own lives, or to mimic the
life of any other human being. The
position of each of us is peculiar, and.
hence, we require personal direction
that we may not miss the divine pur
pose in our lives nor mar God’s plan for
us.
Serious men in all lands and of all
classes feel this need of a personal
Guide through life. There Is a hymn
which has found its way in all the
hymnals of all the churches, although
It was written by one toward whom
most men in the English speaking world
felt during his life a certain antago
nism. It is the hymn of Jqhn Henry
Newman, written at Palermo, when all
the plans of his life seemed to have
gone awry, and when insuperable ob
stacles withstood him in every direc
tion. Because the lines he wrote an
swer to the need of the human heart
universally, his hymn is sung in all
the churches of Christendom. Where
is the pious soul who does not respond
to these tender lines?
"Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling
gloom.
Lead thou me on!
The night Is dark, and I am far from
home;
Lead thou me on!
Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for
me.
"I was not ever thus, nor prayed that
thou
Shoudst lead me on;
I loved to choose and see my path; but
now
Laed thou me on!
I loved the garish day, and, spite of
fears.
Pride ruled by will. Remember not
past years!
“So long thy power hath blest me. sure
it still
Will lead me on
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and tor
rent, till
The night is gone.
And with the morn those angel faces
smile.
Which I have loved long since, and lost
awhile!”
purest and finest —constitutes
II a large part of Coca-Cola syrup. As you
know, sugar has gone way up—so every glass
of Coca-Cola you drink makes 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 this
delicious beverage, bnt enormous when the en
tire Coca-Cola output is considered.
Yet this product of nature—of the farm—
Increased In cost though it has been to the
makers, has 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 as the rural population alone
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.
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