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Atlanta, Oa., Saturday, May 13,1899.
Next week we be(lb the
publication of a new serial
for oar Boys and Girls. It is
entitled “Larry the Wander
er,” and is a most fascinating
story from beginning to end.
The marked favor with
which “Jack, the Inventor,”
was reesived induces ns to give
onr youthful readers another
'equally as good story from the
pen of that capital Juvenile
entertainer, Edward Strata-
meyer.
The Threshold of a Hew Age.
War, being the great promoter of death,
has a way of turning our attention to life;
and the more we observe Ufa the finer
becomes our sense of art. At this mo
ment. therefore, when all eyes are fixed
upon distant military operations, and aU
hearts are timing their throbs to the pulse
of remote cannon, there Is a perceptible
freshening and quickening of art currents.
Doubtless It would be difficult to point
out with certainty the evidences of this
change. The beginnings of a new period
arc always nebulous and elusive, until the
many lines of impulse come together Into
one strong current bearing everything be
fore It.
Whatever may be said for or against the
national policy of expansion, no mind will
be so conservative as to regard with dis
favor a movement toward a truer and
stronger conception of art and a broader
and fresher field of expression. If '.c can
get out of the worn ruts Into the free,
open spaces where thought is not forced
to repeat itself through monotonies of
time-worn word and phrase, we shall
achieve once mpre an epoch of literature
and art. The shock of war somehow
breaks the spell of the commonplace and
opens new vistas. The most realistic of
all human experiences casts off the shac
kles from Imagination, renewing the an
cient poetic vision, so that after each
great war comes a regeneration of art.
It may he claimed that our war with
Spain has not been a great war; but. up
on second thought, we discover that,
small as the military operations appear
when measured by the wars of Caesar or
Napoleon, the result is likely to surpass
in worldwide significance what followed
any of the Old World struggles. A small
spark of reforming energy thrills a long
way through a ready medium. Wo were
waiting for the welcome charge. Life
had lapsed Into the lowlands of serene de
generacy, so far as noble and original as
pirations were concerned, while literature
and art, always the reflection of life, par
took of the monotony of artificial exist
ence, becoming as a painted ship upon a
painted ocean.
Russia and Universal Peace.
Hardly had the czar's disarmament
scheme been announced, when Mr. Wil
liam T. Stead, of the London Review of
Reviews, undertook to organize a univer
sal peace league to put a stop to war.
To aid his propaganda he began publish
ing a newspaper, the War Against 'War.
From the time the czar's project was
made public Russia has neglected no op
portunity for strengthening her military
and naval resources, a course that has
called into question the imperial sincerity,
and now that K has been decided to hold
the international peace conference at The
Hague on May 18. Russia forbids the cir
culation of the peace organ within her
territory.
Before the representatives of the nations
gather at The Hague to discuss the czar's
program for securing universal peace, it
might lead to quicker and more beneficial
results If each one would Impress upon his
mind some great facts in history that may
be recited in a few words.
In the last ninety-eight years Turkey
has had thirty-eight years of war; Spain,
thirty-one; France, twenty-seven; Russia,
twenty-four; Italy, twenty-three; Eng
land, twenty-one; Austria.seventeen; Hol
land, fourteen; Germany, thirteen; Prus
sia, singly, twelve; Sweden, ten; Portugal,
ten, and Denmark, nine.
Thus Europe alone, in the present cen
tury, has seen war spread over the enoi-
mous period of 2-13 years, collectively, or
more than one-quarter of the relative dur
ation of peace. Much of this fearful work
is chargeable to the ambition and exam
ple of a single man.
The United States has had about thirty-
seven years of war In this period—ten
with fo.relgn countries, four between the
states, and twenty-three with native In
dians.
Ur sentimental Side of Trusts.
Whatever else may be said of the com
bination of active capital which has cu
riously enough come to be known as a
"trust," It seems Indisputable that Its In
fluence tends toward the extraction of the
human element from business affairs. The
truth Is purely a system—more Imper
sonal. Indeed, than the corporation, which
so long as there wag-competition was to
some extent responsive to the sentiments
of its patrons.
The man who has a grievance against
a trust finds nothing but a system to
which to appeal, and has no redress in
the way of punishment if his appeal shall
not be effective. His complaint, if listen
ed to at all, is heard by an official ap
pointed by the trust for the purpose of
giving such matters a mechanical atten
tion. That official Is not responsible to
the patron, hut to the trust. He runs no
risk of personal discomfort or loss If he
turns a deaf ear to the patron; his only
danger lies in the opposite direction—that
of giving serious heed to the patron, and
so inflicting trouble.upon the trust. If he
Is an official of a diplomatic trust he is
suave and courteous, not because he feels
so, but becatlse he has been hired to act
so; but if he Is an employe of the aver
age combine, he simply records the com
plaint with the finality of a cash register,
and requests the next gentleman with a
grievance to step forward and state his
case. For the dismissed complainant
there Is ho remedy; like the hero of Ben
King’s pessimistic poem, he has “nowhere
to go but out.” *
Too Hasty.
A pleasant Shakespearean story going
the rounds of the press shows how the
wisest are sometimes caught napping. An
English literary man who visited the
United States a year or two ago to lec
ture frankly declared that he came not
expecting to find accurate scholarship
among Americans, especially on purely
literary subjects, adding affably:
"You have been too busy and useful a
nation In practical matters to give much
time to the arts and graces of learning.”
During the dinner at which he made
this remark he criticised Shakespeare,
sharply declaring that his metaphors of
ten were absurd.
“As, for example,” he said, “ ‘sleep that
knits up the raveled sleave of care.* How
ridiculous to figure sleep as knitting up
a torn sleeve of a coat!”
A young American sitting near him
said moaesUy:
“I think the word is not ‘sleeve,* but
'sleave,' the thin fluff of a damaged web.
It Is a technical expression among wea
vers.”
‘‘In the states probably!” retorted the
critic Irritably, “Shakespeare never could
have heard it. He meant ‘sleeve.' ”
“I believe,” persisted the American,
gently, ‘‘the word is printed ‘sleave* in all
the old editions. It Is not an American
word, but bas been used for centuries by
weavers in Scotland and In the north of
England.”
Tbs visitor frowned, and then said
frankly, laughing:
“Thank you. I was mistaken. Perhaps
I am mistaken about other things, and
will be corrected before I leave your
shores:”
bama is gwine to tie hisself up to any re
ligion dat ‘lows a 'possum to walk right
across the road ahead of him an* git
away free? No. sah! A religion which
won’t bend a little when a fat 'pos
sum heads you off couldn’t be ‘stablished
in de universe.”
Girls vs. Boys.
“We have forty girls in our employ,'*
said a business man. "Some are clerks,
some stenographers, others are bookkeep-
ers > and in the positions that they occu
py we consider them more valuable than
men.
“Why? For several reasons. One is
that they don't go out nights and dissi
pate, and for that reason are always on
time at the office in the morning. Then,
we can always depend on them; they will
do what they are told to, and do it con
scientiously. If, after they have earned
promotion we can give them a raise In
salary, they take it and are satisfied,
whereas, if we push the ordinary man
along he immediately begins to get en
largement of the cranium, wants to be
manager of the whole concern, and then,
of course, we have to discharge him. That
is discouraging, after we have trained a
man to do certain things, and ifs one
reason why we appreciates the women—
because we don’t have that trouble with
them.”
Dressing and Undressing.
I an not lazy, and very far from being
idle, but I must admit I get awuful tired
of rising every morning from my couch
and performing a hasty or ueliberate
toilet.
In this inventive age It does seem as
though somebody could Invent a contriv
ance by means of which a person may be
put In bed, and by pressing a button be
pulled out and dressed by some mechani
cal process.
Just think of the time wasted every day
In putting on and taking off our raiment,
and after all the bother, me lilies of the
field, or garden, with no effort, are ar
rayed In more gorgeous apparel than the
average man or woman—except of course
at Easter.
United States Coal.
Fully one-quarter of the world’s supply
of coal Is now mined In the United States,
and In the last twenty-eight years no
country has come anywhere near equaling
it In the Increase of production. While
the Increase for the whole world has been
less than one hundred per cent., that of
the United 8tates alone has been nearly
two hundred per cent.
In the calendar year 1887 the total pro
duction of bituminous and anthracite
grades was 184.«B,976 tons, worth at
mines 8188,889,178. Local Industries and
domestic consumption require an annually
increasing amount, and on top of this we
now have a strong foreign demand, al
ready large enough to warrant increased
and more steady mining for a long time
to come.
With a present production more than
five times greater than it was in 1870, our
exportations have increased from a little
more than a quarter of a million tons to
more than four million, and is causing
uneasiness in the coal-producing countries
of Europe.
Our Little Elastic Bands.
An Englishwoman who had been ar
raigning America and Americans was
asked If she could not say something
pleasant about us. “Haven't we a single
redeeming quality?” The Englishwoman
thought a bit. "Well, yes; you have one,”
she said in the tone of one who is mak
ing a great concession, "and that Is your
little elastic bands. They are so cov-
venlent, and they seem to be so plentiful.
I never saw so many In all my life as I
did in the States. I must confess that to
my mind very many of your worst traits
are more than made up for by your little
elastic bands.”
A Rare Compound.
To the ideal wife famous authors have
offered many a tribute. Emerson asserts
that society really begins and life be
comes delicious when a man meets his
accurate mate. He would change the old
adage, “He lives twice who lives well,"
to read, "He lives twice who lives well
and wisely.” Michael Dunton wrote of
the model > wife, “It Is virtue to know
her. wisdom to converse with her and Joy
to behold her.” Charles Dickens’ Ideal
wife was a woman who always speaks In
a low tone, and who does not speak much;
who is patient, gentle, Intellectual and
Industrious; who scolds and rarely argues,
but adjusts all difficulties with a smile.
Burns, the poet, divided the scale of good
wifeshlp into ten parts: good nature, 4;
good sense, 2; wit, 1; personal charms, 1.
The remaining two degrees covered for
tune, education, family blood and so on.
“Divide the two degrees among them as
you please," he said, “only remember that
all these minor qualities must be express
ed by fractions, not one of them being
entitled to the dignity of an Integer.”
Miss Bremer says that the Ideally true
wife should be to the domestic life of a
man "like a nightingale, like the sun
beams between the trees," and should
unite herself inwardly to him; whtle Mrs.
Jameson describes the true wife as the
compound of the bread of life, which Is
love, the salt of life, which is work, the
sweetness of life, which Is poesy, and the
water of life, which Is faith.
The Event of Events.
There is one event In the life of a man
that Is never forgotten. It Is the event of
all events most Important, and yet proba
bly not one man In a thousand could state
correctly the words he Used upon that oc
casion.
A suitor for the hand, heart, goods and
chattels of his lady love Is always more
or less conscious that while pnR ]■
marriage he made some kind ofaspeech.
He could swear that his lips ket>t moving,
and that hts vocal chords gave forth cer
tain sounds. He would be willing to state
also that he had a sort of stage struck
feeling, and the agony of suspense was
horrible.
And yet, ask that man to repeat the
words he used while proposing, and if
truthful he will admit that there is a de
cided blank In his mind. He will proba
bly say something like this:
“Well, now, really, I cannot remember
what I did say, but I can tell yoti what
■he said.”
Marriage and Funeral Notices
In this world happiness and sorrow are
mingled, or go together. 1 suppose it is
all right to have wedding and funeral
notices in the same column of a newspa
per, but these notices are a forcible re'
minder of the fleeting nature of life.
It has' always seemed to me that the
excitement of getting married must be
very wearing on the nerves.
There are many cases on record of wed
ding days very suddenly changed to days
of mourning. Perhaps It Is appropriate
that wedding and funeral notices are to
gether In the papers.
Ghastly Trophies.
Talking of the sparrows, a happier day
for all birds is dawning, since many wo
men will not wear their poor little stuffed
bodies—ghastly trophies at best—In their
hats. Even when bird* and wings are
used now. In the majority of Instances
they are made by the skilful hand of some
woman from ordinary feathers of the
barnyard fowls or are the wings or birds
which have served for food, such as the
wild duck or pigeon. ,
Milk for Facial Blemishes.
While women are wasting their money
on cosmetics with high-sounding names
and dangerous composition, why do they
never try one of the oldest, which is per
fectly safe? This is milk. The use of
milk as a wash for the skin Is as old as
Christianity or older. It is an beneficial
today as it ever was, and that is not a
meaningless phrase, either. Warm milk
used at night and in the morning will heal
many disorders of the skin, which It
nourishes and softens. While most of the
ill of the complexion are the sign of dis
ease to be treated inwardly, there are
some facial troubles which need local
treatment, and for a healthy jot an un
healthy skin there is nothing better than
a milk wash not followed by one of wa
ter. There are fine skins that are injured
by the use of much water In winter. For
these milk Is excellent.
. Religion and the Possum.
An incident told by the Rev. V. B. Car-
roll In the November Homiletic Review,
makes apparent the necessity, In the
transition period, of getting the negro In
wardly right in order that his relationship
to society may be right.
We were driving out one Sunday from
Decatur when we came upon a negro with
a club In hts hand and a freshly killed
'possum on his shoulder. We stopped to
examine his prize, and the colonel said:
"My friend, do you know It is Sunday.”
“Sartln, boss."
“Are you not a religious man?”
"I are. I'se jist on my way home from
church."
"And what sort of religion have you
got that permits you to go hunting on
Sunday?”
"Religion? Religion?" queried the man
as be held the possum up with one hand
and scratched hts head with the other.
"Does you 'spect any black man In Ala-
Chapel in a Coal Mine.
There are many strange places of wor
ship, but one of the most remarkable Is
doubtless the miners' chapel In Mynydd,
Menydd colliery, Swansea, Wales, where
for more than fifty yaers the workers
have each morning assembled for wor
ship. This sancutary Is situated close to
the bottom of the shaft. The only light
Is that obtained from a solitary Davy
safety lamp hung over the pulpit from the
celling, and the oldest miner in the col
liery Is generally chosen to officiate. It
is the custom In some places for coal
miners to gather at meal times for pray
er-meetings and the like, but it !* said
that this is the only Instance where a
special department is fitted out In a coal
mine as a chapel.
Only Thirty Cents.
It Is said that just now the New York
er's most popular phrase to designate in
feriority is “thirty cents." There are sev
eral variations of it. A man looks like
thirty cents; a promising venture
amounts to no more than thirty cents;
and the Idle tajk of an unimportant per
son sounds like thirty cents. The exact
significance of the expression has not so
far been explained; but it serves its pur
pose.
Trinmph of the Sparrows.
Boston has decided that the English
sparrow Is not so bad a fellow after all,
and he must not be molested. Now the
busy, cheerful bird citizens are topping
abo'it gaily as ever, and have already
♦es.=t Dumber of the nests which
man in his mistaken zeal ruthlessly de
stroyed. They, too, rejoice that a cruel
war Is over.
Camphor Trees in Florida.
Of a number of camphor trees set out in
a public park In Tallahassee, Fla., a few
years ago, some are now twelve feeet
high, the branches spreading until the
trees are nearly as wide as high. A num
ber of these trees are to be seeen tn pri
vate yards in that city, and their vigor
ous growth shows them to be adapted to
the soil and climate of that section.
Apple Cure for Alcoholism.
A German doctor has started a theory
that most drunkards can be cured by a
very simple and pleasant course of treat
ment—namely, by eating apples at every
meal. Apples, he says. If eaten tn large
quantities possess properties that do away
with the craving that drunkards have for
drink.
LINES TO A WILD FLOWER..
I was born In the depth, of the wild wood.
Far away from the haunts of men.
And serenely 1 live In sisterhood
With all else lovely in this lonely glen;
Here rill and river run on together.
And rank and riot bar the tangled way.
I see shadow* on the water quiver
And watch the little fishes dart and play,
I list to the mock-bird woo his mate-to-be.
And hear a note of answer from a tree;
But the wlld-rover bee seeks the heart of
me.
Because it Is as sweet as sweet can be.
Yet he soars far away on honeyed wing.
And 1 fall asleep and dream and dream
again
Of all the beauty around me blowing,
And I elng of It all In joyful strain.
I feel the fickle April rain's soft coming.
When panting rills run down the hills
together;
I love the hills and. lapses of their flow
ing,
I love {he fall of sunbeams from the
tether
Of the cloud that shows Its silver turning.
And all around Is mingled flower-glow;
For red-bud blooms on their boughs are
burning,
And all around is fragrant flower-blow.
For jasmine bells their odors are reveal
ing,
Lily stems measure the depth of the
water
Which their green pads supinely are con
cealing.
Whose odored blooms though faded seem
to linger
A moment before they are gone forever,—
Lovely and frailest of their flower kind.
Blue flags grow between the rushes of the
river
Where the harp-string reeds are bent
by the wind.
The sweet young vine runs riot over all,
Entangler of one thing with another.
The moon Is answering the river's call
To sleep In the cool depth of its water;
Or red or gold the changeful moon is
sweet,
Beside I love its silvery shining;
Above, with radiant light, the starry
sheet
Is the world’s dark night below enshrin
ing.
It trickles down In beams of globulsd
glory
Like the shimmering light on a silver
sea.
When drinking in the beauty all around
me
I feel the eweet spirit of ecstacy;
And It Is then I hum my little life
With the simple Joy that rune beside it.
For I love around me the beauty rife.
And the delusions that betide It.
But the wind tells of gardens far away.
Where, he says, that brighter blooms
are blowing,
And while listening to the voice, I Bay,
"I do not care for thetr braver showing."
And yet, he says, “There is a maiden
there
Who is the soul of the distant garden
fair.”
I list to the story and long to go
As the Illy did when It had ceased to blow;
So I'll drop my petals to the river
And follow the way of the wanderer.
—MARION MOBLEY DURHAM.
An Obliging Husband.
American men will have to look to their
laurels as being the most obliging hus
bands in the world. A man In Vienna
committed suicide just because his wife
asked it as a personal favor.
IRON SHIPS.
They Have Been Successfully Bnilt
for Less Thun a Century.
From the Pall Mall Magazine.
The story of the use of Iron as a ma
terial for the construction of ships Is full
of interest. Iron was long ago used ex
perimentally for building boats; several
references to these crude attempts will be
found in the Annual Register of last cen
tury. Grantham quotes from a publica
tion dated July 18, 1787. The writer says:
“A few days ago a boat built of English
iron by J. Wilkins, Esq., of Bradley
Forge, came Into our canal to this town,
loaded with twenty-two tons and fifteen
hundred weight of Its own metal, etc. It
Is nearly of equal dimensions with other
boats employed upon the canal, belDg
seventy feet long and six feet eight and a
half Inches wide; the thickness of the
plates with which It Is made Is about five-
sixteenths of an inch, and It Is put to
gether with rivets, like copper or fire en
gine boilers; but the stem and stern
posts are wood, and the gunwale lined
with the same: the beams are made of
elm planks. Her weight is about eight
tons; she will yCarry, In deep water, up
ward of thirty-two tons, and draws eight
or nine inches of water when light.” It
is extraordinary that such hints as these
should have fallen dead. Was there no
shipbuilder with an eye swift to witness
the enormous possibilities latent in these
little canal experiments? A small Iron
boat was launched in August. 1815. She
was fitted up in Liverpool as a pleasure
boat. Hundreds viewed her as a cu-'
noslty. She was sunk maliciously in the
Duke's dock, as though some Daniel
Quilp of a workman, foreseeing iron as
an issue If this boat was suffered to go
on hinting, had put an end to her. Her
owner raised her and sold her for old
Iron, but “the loss of this boat.” be says,
"turned my attention to the practicability
of making an iron boat which could not
be sunk by any ordinary means."
FARMING IN GEORGIA.
Plan* Submitted Which Will Ena
ble Every Farmer to Make Hie
Work Profitable.
Our study here on the model farm has
been for some years past to see how
near we could come to raising everything
we used right on the place. We became
convinced some years ago that the exclu
sive cotton raiser was destined to go to
the'wall. Just in like manner the exclu
sive corn or wheat raiser of the north-
,west .is bound to fall through In the long
guri t . Suppose we consider for a moment
a common sense "bill of fare" for the
middle Georgia'farmer for the year 1889,
and the closing year of the century, say,
the two years now at hand:
Begin near the city of Macon, Ga., or
any other town large enough to be a good
market for truck. Ten acr^ In a truck
farm, two acres for pasture, two acres for
turnips, collards and general garden
truck, including tomatoes, one acre in
sweet potatoes, one acre in orchard and
fruit, three acres in corn, cow peas, pea
nuts and other field crops, three-quarters
of an acre In vineyard, and occupy the
other quarter of an acre In house, stable,
chicken yard, etc.
But if he has fifty acres, and is too far
away to reach the city market, he could
model up this way. Ten acres for pasture,
part for a hog lot separate from the cow
pasture, and unless covered with timber
cultivated In Bermuda or Johnson grass,
with winter rye and other feed. It goes
without saying that he ought to have
choice stock, raise ten-acres In wheat,
oats, millet, rye and pea vine, crab grass
hay; ten acres in corn, with peanuts (the
old-fashioned Georgia ground pea is bet
ter than the Spanish, planted when you
first begin to cultivate your corn); the
other twenty acres should be cultivated
in orchard, vineyard, garden, etc., includ
ing, perhaps, two or three acres of cotton.
If you have children to pick It out at
home without hiring It done. I have a
nelghbot’here who has not raised any
cotton for several years. He takes life
the easiest of any man in the communi
ty, but he always has money at his com
mand, although he owns but a small farm
and is comparatively a poor man. He
never hires any help, however, and has
some fine Jersey cows, and his wife
makes fine yellow butter, that commands
a first class price in Macon.
Now I have a neighbor who owns 400
acres of first class land, as fine a body of
land as can be found in central Georgia,
and he is said to have twenty-five bales
of cotton now lying unpicked In the field;
much of it has spoiled on the ground. He
has been unable to get the help -to pick it
out, and the rains overtook him. He Is
a brother-in-law oT the last man, who
raised no cotton. He lives in a larger
house, he is sober, careful and no doubt
puts In twice as much hard labor every
year. To such a man my earnest advice
is to quit cotton., If he has suitable land
for raising fruit, put it out In fifty-acre
orchards, and raise peas, potatoes, tur
nips or other stuff In orchard until it be
gins to bear.
If possible avoid planting grain, espec
ially small grain, after the first two years.
In an orchard. Really, the best crop I
have ever seen for a young orchard is
cotton, and if he continues to raise any
cotton let it be among his trees. Corn.
Kaffir corn, millet and sweet potatoes
hurt growing trees far less than small
grain. A crop of crab grass can do little
harm If liberal manure and good culture
are applied the rest of the year. But the
man with 300 or 400 acres of good land In
central Georgia ought to be a king among
Americans, if such a thing were consist
ent, for with stock and cheese making
and butter making facilities he can live
utterly independent of hard times by right
management.
We still have a few old-fashioned looms
in existence In this state, and I saw one
of them not long ago. I tried to buy some
of the cloth the woman had woven on it,
but she had no need of the money, and
did need the cloth for her family. With
wheat for bread, cane for syrup and
sugar, butter, cheese, corn and cloth
made at home, an occasional load carried
to market would afford all the groceries
and dry goods needed by the family, and
considerable cash to spend besides.
Now it will be seen that this plan leaves
out cotton and the darky almost. The
"cropping" system of farming is the one
thing that has contributed to injure this
section of the Union. Next to it is the
plan of renting out the land for cash or
cotton. Millions of dollars' worth of
barnyard manure are wasted every year,
and replaced by commercial fertilizer.
Shame on such waste! I can take any
Georgia farm of 200 acres or upward, and
with stock sufficient to properly run it, 1
can keep the fields increasing In fertility
from year to year, and not buy a pound
of fertilizer. Except on a fruit or truck
farm no man has any business buying
commercial fertilizers in this state. But
how can fifty-acre orchards be made to
pay away from shipping facilities or the
city markets? In the first place, plant
your orchards so that they will bear a
crop of fruit every year. Put them on
the north and west slope of the hill, and
on the steepest slope you have, at that.
Then use first class seedling trees, not
budded, but selected seedlings, raised
from the seed of choice seedlings, and
give them careful cultivation and prun
ing, and you can have a crop of peaches
each year, with rare Intervals. Then pro
cure an evaporating outfit, or go to work
and make one for yourself, and dry these
peaches; or procure a steam canning and
cooking apparatus, costing not to ex
ceed 310, and capable of canning from 500
to 1,000 cans a day.
PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES.
There are many sections In the south
where fruit and vegetables are raised in
abundance, but where the amount Is not
sufficient to Justify a shipment In raw
condition to outside markets. This sug
gests canning establishments. Such as
have been started and managed with any
thing like business Judgment have not
only yielded large dividends to their own
ers, but have helped out wonderfully the
farmers who have orchards, and those
who had the foresight to diversify their
crops.
Cotton appears to be a necessary crop
to the average farmer. Of course he loses
every year, and gets deeper in debt. But
he must have supplies, and cotton Is the
only collateral. This new necessary evil
can be largely mitigated by the farmer
raising fruits and vegetables. If he can
only get a market for such products.
Canning factories supply that market,
and canning factories are cheap; almost
any fanner can have one. Certainly any
neighborhood of progressive farmers can
get one and- pay for it out of the first
year's profits. The Marietta, Ga., Journal
is forging ahead on this sensible and sav
ing line, as follows:
“When Is taken Into consideration
the many peach orchards around Mariet
ta, It would seem to us to be a wise busi
ness move to establish a canning factory
In Marietta by the time next season ar
rives. Like the Dalton factory. It need not
confine Itself to the canning of fruits, but
vegetables as well, and it could be made
to pay equally as well. We learn there
will be a crate factory started by one of
our citizens, so let us have the canning
factory also. It Is such small Industries
as these that give life and prosperity to
a town. The more we have of them the
better.”
The Dalton cannery alluded to, while
largely devoting Itself to fruit, has evi
dently taken to vegetables, as during the
past season It put out over 25,000 cans of
tomatoes, and doubtless will Increase its
vegetable output. Every farmer can put
a few acres In choice vegetables, and If
every farmer would, it would make hhn
independent of his "grub staker,” while
if he must raise cotton, he could hold it
as a surplus crop. Raw vegetables and
ripe fruits will not bear long transporta
tion. except under special conditions.
Canned vegetables and fruits go to the
ends of the world.
Song Canaries of Germany.
From the Chambers' Journal.
The home of these birds, the Harz, an
entirely Isolated chain of mountains ris
ing out ef the plain between- the rivers
Lelne and Saale, is the most northern ele
vation of Importance In Germany and ilea
partly In Prussia, partly In Anhalt and
Brunswick. The best song canaries are
reared here at the present time, chiefly in
Andreasberg, a town also celebrated for
Its silver mines. In every house and cot
tage of the place you see canaries, and on
a fine summer’s day, when walking by,
their songs greet you from every open
door and window. Whereas with the other
races of canaries color, markings, shape,
and size are important points, with this
breed there is but one—thetr song.
The birds are usually of medium size
and strongly built; the head Is large, the
legs shorter and the neck not so long as
In the common canary; the legs slant
backward a little and the bird does not
stand as upright a.i the others. The breast
ought to be broad and strong, the eyes
large and lively; the feathers must lie
smooth and the bird ought to to execute
all its movements with a sort of coquetry.
The colors vary from straw to golden yel
low. some with green markings, but deep
er shades of yellow are not to be found
among them. If we say that these birds
have to take the second place in outward
beauty of form and color, we certainly
must give them the first of all points of
song. Their entire value lies In this.
With the utmost care and science their
voice has been cultivated for years, and
splendid results have been obtained. The
song of a really first-class Harz bird is a
marvel of beauty for those Who under
stand It, but it needs much practice and
a musical ear to note slight differences
and faults, and to be able to choose the
really best songsters among a crowd of
birds.
Pearly Paid tor Her Consideration.
From the Now York Times.
"Of course," said the young married wo
man, whose native place Is some distance
from New York, “I knew that after so
many disastrous fire* in the city they
would be anxious about me at home, and
I wrote to reassure them. I wrote at
lengtn to say tnat my apartment was on
the ground floor, that there would be no
difficulty in getting from a window In
case of fire, that I should not then be
penned into a narrow court, etc., answer
ing at once all the questions regarding my
safety that I knew my anxious relatives
would be likely to ask.
"I waited with a feeling of pleasure the
return letter, telling the comfort my as
surances had been, and when it finally
came I smiled to myself with pleasure at
my own thoughtfulness as I broke the
seal. I stopped smiling, though, and be
gan to laugh, after the first shock of the
opening words:
“ 'Dear Margaret,’ the letter ran 'I
have hardly slept a wink since heating
from you. It seems to me that you were
most unwise to take an apartment on the
ground floor. I had not realized that you
were going to do so, or I should
have warned you against it. Don't
you know that burglars keep track
of weddings and are always on
the lookout for new silver that a bride
keeps out In the first enjoyment she takes
In her new possessions, ready for the first
arrivals to gather in? Suppose they should
steal all your beautiful presents?’ Actu
ally, It looks as If those amiable relatives
of mine care more about my silver than
they do about me."
■atiafactory Explanation.
From the Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. Crtmsonbeak—Has Mr. Crimson-
beak got home for dinner yet. Bridget?
Bridget—No, mum.
“I thought I heard him down stairs?"
“Sure, that was the dog you beard
growlin', mum.”