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be tortured by the misdoings of a black-sheep son
or the perpetual, pitiful shame of a wayward
daughter. On the other hand, had he permitted
himself to be swayed by passionate impulse, his
present decorous, harmonious household might
have been a somber nightmare of disgust; a re
proach in the eyes of the .world, to crush him with
the similar snadow of reflected sin.
In the still watches of the night, that awful time
when to the wakeful man the world seems to have
| but one inhabitant and that himself, how fearfully
j these relentless thoughts bear down on the sensi-
j live vision ! He might even detect himself, shame-
j facedly, wondering how much brighter and more j
elevated his lot might have been, had he chosen a (
more inspiring partner than the one sleeping tin- |
suspectingly by his side. Or inversely, shudder as
The Fine Art
Pipe Smoking
The Girl Who Didn’t Tell
Us “Yes”
to the time when his life reaches
the crucial.ridge of thirty-five years
reality and romance mingle strange
ly and closely in the mind of the
average man. Once past that boun
dary which marks the meridian of
youth, the dreams are suppressed
with an iron hand; they are still
present, but their possessor ceases to
exploit them with a proud indiffer
ence to ridicule. He has made the
discovery that the man who is given
to seeing visions at high noon is not
especially relished by the hard-
thinking dollar-chasers, and that, if
he would win competence and a diploma in Brad-
streets, he must make the pursuit of realities his
chief business in life. So, if he be the coming man
of business, he sighingly relegates his dreams to
the mental closet. To all outward seeming he has
become the man of action. If imagination tinct
ures his external deeds, it is the subdued, calculat
ing imagination of commerce—the kind which de
vises shrewd plans for corralling the illusive dollar
or the creation of methods to circumvent rivalry
and solid obstacles. And yet, way back within the
psvchological recesses of his soul he still harbors
furtive phantoms. If it were possible to probe his
thoughts with an X-ray they would still be found
to bear the considerable impress of the etherial in-,
fluences which have so large a part in the first few
enchanted years of manhood. More widely do his
memories center around that phase of his experi
ence which has to do with love for the opposite
sex. He occasionally forgets principal and interest
and dividends long enough to linger over the days
when he was in love with an even half dozen wom
en—hopejess as to the advisability of making a
choice. Perhaps dubious if his advances would be
acceptable in the quarter which his fancy dictated.
A favorite theme for speculation is that revolv
ing around the issue of his life, had some nameless
woman w ho refused his offer of marriage, accepted
it: in other words, if he had chosen a different life-
partner, a different mother for his children.
Fragmentary memories of blissfully stating
courtships recur in his reminiscent mood. He con
jures up the varied characteristics of the girl who
didn’t tell him ‘'yes;’’ he mentally compares her to
the one who did. He racks his judgment and his
faculties of analysis and synthesis, in an effort to
piece together a coherent image of his life, had
that other woman accepted his proposals and
woven her life into his.
Would he have been more pronouncedly success
ful ? Would he have been a more complete failure?
Would he have been happier and if so, in an ani
mal or higher sense? Would he have been more
discontented or found existence an even more in
tolerable punishment? The matter of paternitv
also enters the equation. Perhaps a different
choice would have brought him healthier or more
capable children: perhaps had he exercised greater
HH man who knows how to
s*noke a pipe, and to do it
sanely, artistically and
well, is a rarity. Thousands
of men smoke pipes, all
the way from the ’ dhu-
deen” of the Irishman,
past the long pipe of the
Dutchman to the bull dog
' of the Englishman, and
the church warden—which
is only smoked in pictures,
after all—but few men
know' the real art. For
art it is, as truly os any that exists.
The finest pipe in the world is the clay
. ' , , t , | pipe. The statement is open to doubt in
lie reflects on the black possibilities had the worn- the millds of manv becau s e only the ex-
an who bears bis name been unequal to the task of ! treme few know how to smoke a clay
meeting the privations and tests which come in all !
married lives however radiant their environment. |
Here is truly food for the widest range of spec
ulation reaching, on one side the heights and the
other unfathomed abysses. Where is the man suf
ficiently stolid and unimaginative as never to have
wandered, guideless, through the futile mazes of
this subject?
When they do know—-but this is
to teach the other:
Mr. Sage and the Vaca=
tion Idea
USSELL SAGE, who holds the du
bious record of ability to make a
dollar do more profitable flip-flaps
than any man living, has become a
publicist. It would be interesting
to know the size' of the check which
he receives for his dreary jeremiads
and it is a safe gamble that the fig- j pipe
ures are sufficiently luscious to
make it worth his while—for Uncle
“Russ” was never known to pass an
unpaving moment. Strange, is it ! Jacket and slippers
: while.
A clay pipe is good for only one real,
I genuine, soul-satisfying smoke—yet it
i must be smoked twice to get this one.
That isn’t a paradox, either. For it
I takes one smoke to make a clay pipe fit
i to smoke, ar.5 then one more to make it
I unlit. Hence, it requires two smokes to
i make the one of delight. For the first
j time that a clay pipe is smoked it is
| about as had as anything can be con-
j ceived. It is raw, sticky to the tongue,
I rank, new and beastly generally. But
j in that one smoke you have made it fit
I for a genuine good one, and after you
have smoked it once, do it again. Then
| —ah, heaven will "open at once, even
j though you -are using cut navy In the
I bow! and don’t know the art of smoking
i a clay pipe, anyhow. Then—dash the
( pipe against a stone, for Its life is done.
| If you smoke it again it is worse than
i green birch wood.
! The art of smoking through a pipe is
a dainty one, and it requires more time
in its execution than in its learning. Only
with full leisure should a man smoke a
The cigar is well enough for a
i quick smoke and the cigarette Is an
I abomination, hut a pipe, properly and
| slowly and leisurely smoked, indoors, or
at leas-t on the porch of one's house, In
is something worth
U
Along' tHe Highway
By FRANK L STANTON
1 Time i:
1 smoking.
Don’t try
that way
other da
i a keynote of successful pipe
And another is gentleness,
to do too much when you smoke
Take it easy; there will be
■ s, and It saves tobacco. Don’t
not, that as soon as men have earned
the reputation of being successful
wealth accunnilaters they have a
yearning to lecture or scold the world on any one
of a dozen vital or abstruse subjects? But Uncle
Russell, in yielding to the scribbling mania which
devastated Carnegie and Schwab and Rockefeller,
has cannily combined business with relaxation, in
the extremely happy choice of his subject. He
excoriates the custom of annual vacations — and
thereby dispels any vagrant ideas in the minds of
his own employees. With incomparable nerve he
clinches the matter by declaring that in place of
asking for salaried vacations, employees should j f n reaths are whal you want ’ Never 1
give their emploj’ers two weeks’ service gratis—
for the privilege of “learning the business.” Verily,
“use doth breed a habit in a man.” Uncle Sage has
so completely diverted his abilities and emotions
fsict to the task of imnrnvinir pvprv nr , C£ .,’k|„ I extinguished. You can relight a pipe and
V ) * IfiC tclSK OI impren ing- every possinle op jf you are an old smoker you will he
portunity for pelf-pulling, that his viewpoint has
cram the pipe to the top of the howl
a’n'd expect to find pleasure. It won’t ho
there. Fill it till you reach about an
eighth of an Inch from the top; then
tamp it down till the "feel” tells you that
it Is just right, and light it slowly, with
long, deep inhalations. Draw slowly
and dignifiedly on it.
Never get a pipe hot. Take in the
smoke gently and carefully and exhale It
In the same leisurely fashion. Keep up
a steady pull. Deep, long and lingering
a hurry; that gets things too hot, and
tobacco in a pipe should never be too
hot. Keep cool, keep your pipe cool,
keep your tobacco cool.
It your pipe goes out Tight it again.
A pipe is a. companionable sort of thing
and doesn’t spoil like a cigar does if once
THE PATHS APART.
Wlien the darkness with its shadows
Glooms the glory of the day.
And the dear lakes and the meadows
Melt in memory away;
Will you then, in gentlest dreaming,—
Wheresoe’er your steps may be,—
Think of stars once brightly beaming
O’er the hills once dear to me?
Dear to me because above you
Once I saw their summits gleam.
When I whispered first: “I love you,”
Whispering: “Love is not a dream!”
Dear to me because I knew you,
Crowned with Love’s own diadem,
Where I saw God’s angels view you,
And I wept, and envied them!
0 the ways that you are going!
Could you find not here delight
in the reaping time and sowing—
j In the red rose and the white?
j In the birds that, sweetly singing,
! Send their souls to God in song,
I In the hells in music ringing—-
i In the groves where thrushes
throng?
Dear, the violets will miss you—
Every rose of olden grace
(Those that leaned your way to kiss
you!)
Miss the beauty of your face!
And for one heart, lone, forsaken,
In the shadow he shall say:
“God gave all, and so hath taken
Even the gift of it away!”
There’s a' dove in -woodlands sighing
With no human voice nor art;
There’s a mate—a mate replying,
But you’re leaving me, sweetheart!
And in all the bleak dominions
Of the ’reft and lonesome night
Love in vain shall plume his pinions
For your farthest fame and flight.
Let us dream our best endeavor
Still shall lead from pain to peace;
Dream that love is love forever,
Living when the stars shall cease!
But the stars are mute above me,
And the brightest gleams depart;
Voices whisper still, you love me,
But you're leaving me, sweetheart!
HER HOUSEHOLD WAVS.
I see her, through melodious days,
So sweet about her household ways,
Serene as even a bird that sings,
With all the trouble that life brings;
Nothing seems toil, for heaven a to
Has dowered her with the gift of lov •
That love which deems it not a task
To give the bread the starved lips
ask;
To soothe the living into rest—
Place roses on the eying breast;
And if there be a helven above,
To reach it on the wings of Love.
Life is so short—the grave so deep,
Well may we kiss from eyes that weep
The bitter, burning tears, and make
Earth heaven for the other’s sake
So. those that bless the way thal s
trod
Must find at last some heaven and
God!
Che WeeK ii» a Busy
^ World <£?
A MESSAGE.
When thou shalt need me send my
soul some word—
Let but a sigh drift from thy lips
to mine
And like the light my love to thee
will shifie,
My soul soar to thee like a singing-
bird !
Yea, when thou need’st me speak, and
I shall hear.
Though oceans roll between! Some
sense of thee
Shall make the light a message; I
shall see
A meaning in the darkness, and draw
near.
Over great oceans shall my soul em
bark
’Till thou shalt feel my warm clasp in
the dark!
The most chaotic rumors are
in* in European and American new, ou
ters regarding the status at lor, Artnur
Piecing together the various
Of news which trickle through the c,
s ors, it may be stated defin e
heavy fighting is occurring l
land and sea side. One dispatch „
the Japanese with losing a.&uo n
four torpedo vessels in a Heavy
Another wilder rumor increases L
to I I 000 men, but gives
of the fortress. The Russians . «
irl assertions of them ability
the port indefinitely— a helitf
not shared by disinterested exp- ,
likewise reported that Kurokt a, :
patkin, the rival commanders on
about to clash, in which even ;
characterized by heavy casu.
be expected.
L state ‘approaching anareny 1,
reigning in tire Cripple Creek min.r
trict in 'Colorado.
| union and non-union was
j the disturbance. R I s rcp
leollisions between th
thirty n/cn have be
I The authorities in
ous steps that the
i suppressed, and m
I well under control.
RECORD - Ii
old eont
militia and
n killed and
ugurated nu<"
lisorder was .
y now be sa
t ;<j
deadlock
■k will
ion of
indidate
you
all the better for it. When you have fin-
i „ ,• , * . ished don’t refill a heated pipe. Knock
become distorted so that he can only see questions the ashes out gently and firmly and kn
it away to cool.
VIRTUES OF DIFFERENT PIPES.
As to the sort of pipe to smoke, that
is a matter of individual taste. The corn
cob is the sweetest—always barring the
second smoke out of a clay-, but few will
reject a clay ns soon, because it is so
fine that second time. A good cob pipe
will last a long while fmd is cheap. But
it is ugly—there's !ir*Pdenying that. A
brier is the most popular of all pipes
and one of the finest. A good brier will
last for a long time if properly cared for.
A weichsel wood pipe is prized by the
Germans, but few Americans <havo ever
taken to them. Applewood is used, but
sparingly and generally as a substitute for
brier. Meerschaum is fine, hut a meer
schaum pipe has to be cuddled more
than does a family's first baby and be-
rlcliheration and discrimination be would not now. i mere grabbling, mechanical process.
as they affect his little penchant.
His ability for other pleasures has become
atrophied from disuse. Instead of viewing wealth
as a means to an end, he has come to regard it as
the end itself. Holding the opinion that only one
thing is worth strife—and that money—he is in
capable of conceiving how others can hold broader
views. It is probable that the man never had what
is called by the generous name of youth. From the
start he was bent and sickened into his present
warped shape. He has never felt that glorious flow
of life’s tide which calls for some exertion other
than the piling up of dollars.
Not once does it occur to him that the majority
of people work primarily for a living and that ac
complished, they turn to pleasure for others, for ^°™ es an unmiti ^ atcd nuisance. Every
themselves, self-improvement and the building of
these graces which money cannot purchase. The
logical conclusion of his doctrine would be a bru
talization of life—a making of it into a treadmill
with no time for rest nr variety. However, lie can
not he blamed for following his own bent. He is
one of the human abnormalities which characterize
civilization, and their chief punishment is.the very
fact of their existence.
Nor is there near danger that his views will gain
wide prestige. The average American is too sane
of mind and wholesome of nature to drift into a
misinterpretation which permits life to become a
THE WEATHER.
The weather isn’t what we want, but
still we’re in the weather,
An’ rain or shine, there's one thing
sure—we’re travelin ’ ’long to
gether.
An’ the mockin’birds are singin’, an’
all the skies are blue,
An’ the trees each dewy mornin’ are
a-bowin’ “Howdy-do!"
The weather isn’t what we want, but,
brethren, let her roll!
You hear the birds a-singin’, an’ the
sunshine’s in your soul!
There’s lots of life an laughter, an
for every sultry day
There’s a lovely rose that's bloomin
where your sweetheart leads the
way!
THE LAZY SINGERS.
The folks that sing of fields of green,
and meadows wide, and such,
Ain't never bad to hoe a row—ain t
never plowed ’em much!
It’s well enough to write ’em down in
that ’ere city style,
But you bet they never leave the. town
to plow them fields awhile!
It’s all right—this here singin’ about
the fields and streams,
When you’re underneath your roof
tree from the hot sun's blazin’
beams.
But every one would change their
tune and quite forget to smile
If they struck the fields some August
and plowed them fields awhile!
IN A SUMMER GARDEN.
In a summer garden
Life is passing sweet.
Sunflowers light their lamps of gold— j th
Violets at your feet,
In a summer garden
Life is passing sweet.
Chas. S. Tieneen 11,1
Session, that a weeks •
after >n infinite number o
the convention reassemi
lock was still in evidence
broken by the defection ■
man and Hamlin, thr<-e
dates, to Denoen's forces,
that their own nominatu
impossible. Deneen has fo
is a politician
annul pres;ice
Southern Squab Farm;
A New and Profitable Industry
By HELEN HARCOURT.
with their
Americans Are Too Fond of Meat
TTF, food question is one
that has appealed to
mankind from the time
good Mother Eva tried
her dangerous experiment
with the forbidden appie.
Hers was the first asser
tion of appetite which
craved for that variety in
diet which her numerous
and equally venturesome
descendants have stren
uously maintained is the
real spice of life. Ever
elnce the primitive man ate what he
could get until the present, when his
. civilized brotner wets all he can eat and
looks for new viands to conquer, the
cultivated instinct of selection has been
an evolutionary and progressive one,
contributing to the “general gayety of
nations.” We have, perhaps, gone to
the extreme of Indulgence, like spoiled
children, but the halfit is a little too
firmly seated in the saddle to be bucked
unceremoniously in midair by some new
and fanciful theory of jerking the curb
rein.
The scientists tell us we consume too
much food, and they are right so far
as they go, but we listen and smile and
eatYm in spite of their chemical formulae,
their test tube methods and their quan
titative analyses of relative food values.
So, perhaps, it will always be as long
as man, the wilful arbiter of his own
destinies, insists upon living to eat
rather than eating to live.
'The real trouble, however, with ail
projected reforms in feeding has been
their iack of practical application to ac
tual needs. There is apparently no mid
dle ground for the discussion of general
principles of compromise between the
actual gourmand and the earnest and
abstemious crank. Theories are arbi
trary on one side and facts, are equally
stubborn on the other.
When the army squad had been fed
for weeks on the accurately estimated
food equivalent of certain approved
viands the victims craved an ordinary
Indulgence in plain old-fashioned corn
•beef and. cabbage. The limit had been
reached and simple nature made her
own cry in her own way. It was ap
petite against chemical experiment and
healthy hunger against mathematical es
timates of abstract nutrient forces.
NATURAL SAFEGUARD.
These, manifestations of natural crav
ing are, after all, our real safeguards
against the purely scientific methods
such ns have been applied to the “poi
son boarders,” and the "army squad.”
We may interpret natural laws, but
science, with all its learning and skill,
can not alter them.
In the face of such a conviction we are
now assured by high-standing authority
flint meat is virtually useless for any
of the nutrient purposes so long claim
ed for it.
Aside from the pure theory of the
matter, we may in the end be forced
to believe that man was never made for
a. mixed diet; that his sjomaeh and com
plicated intestinal apparatus are merely
an accidental survival of useless organs,
of which the insignificant and trouble
some appendix is the type. Experience,
however, against which there Is never
much of an argument, must prove Its
value against the mere logic of arbi
trary rules. The hungry man with a
juicy steak before him will continue his
hurtful habit of loading his stomach with
unnecessary fodder in spite of all theor
ies to the contrary. His instinctive need
for just such nourishment as he takes
will answer ail other questions. He will
not care how much more he can lift,
how much faster lie can run or how
much more fatigue he can enduie, but
will simply satisfy his want for Uie
time. ♦
And, in spite of crank notions to the
contrary, is not this the proper anil
rational way of solving the law of de
mand and supply upqn which our veiy
belng is based? The craving for cer
tain varieties of food Is as constant as
its gratification is imperative. Each tis
sue makes its own demands in its own
way and signals appetite to select and
nutrition to apportion Uie multiple sup
plies for bone, muscle and blood.
Nutrition, energy and heat are mere
abstract terms in themselves, and their
proper interpretation caa never be safe
ly Intrusted to laboratory tests or chem
ical formulae. Therefore, let us not
be in too great a hurry to adopt now
views that are neither sound, rational
nor practical. Tn spite of the niani
festo we are led to believe that the
average man will still take to his beef
whenever he needs it and can get it—
and, pray, why not?
ONE HOUR FOR THE SOUL.
(Albert Bigelow Paine.)
All day T have toiled in that busy mill
Where souls are ground and money is
made;
All day, till my temples throb and thrill
With the whirring grind of the wheels
of trade.
All day I have gripped the trenchant
steel
And grappled with columns black and
grim;
Till tonight I am faint and my sensos
reel.
And the glory of God seems far and
dim.
And so I have come to this quiet room
To sit in the dark and touch the keys
To wake the ghost and the lost perfume
Of the soul’s dead flowers with my har
monies.
And here, alone, for a single hour
I can dream and idle and drift away;
I can touch the ghost of a passion
flower;
1 can catch the gleam of a vanished
day.
I can gather the lilies of long ago
That bloomed by the path where a baby
trod;
And love’s first roses, as white as snow,
That are blossoming now at the feet of
God.
Ob, stainless lilies, and roses white!
Oh, passion-flower with your peitais
red!
You are mine once more for an hour, to
night.
Though the heart be dumb and the
years be dead.
Oh, scented summer of long ago!
Oh, vanished day with your gleam of
gold!
Oh. blood-red lips and bosom of snow!
You are mine once more as in davs of
old:—
Just for tonight, for at early dawn
I am back to the grovel of greedy lust;
Where the wheels of traffic go whirring
on.
And souls are ground into golden dust.
has to go through the meerschaum
stage, however, just as every baby has
to be weaned, and during it he is a ter
ror to himself and a nuisance to all the
jrest of the world. A good meerschaum
costs money and requires care; when
colored it is a 'handsome thing, but the
trouble is so great that it doesn’t pay.
This is one of the things, however, that
all men have to learn, hence the demand
for meerschaums.
if you must color a meerschaum here
are a few points: Never load the pipe
full, else you will burn the top edge,
where it is thin. Always scrape out the
bow-1; this (harms the taste, hut makes
for color, and you are engaged in a fear
some occupation. Have a leathern jacket
made for the bowl so your fingers can-
I not touch it.
Your meerschaum pipe is an aristocrat
among pipes and may not be lovingly
fondled, as all men Jove to do a pipe, but
must fiot be touched or the wax in which
it has been boiled will be drawn and
the pipe will not color properly and even
ly. Always smoke very slowly and al
ways cool the pipe very thoroughly be
fore reloading. Then—you will fail.
X'ever yet was a meerschaum colored to
anyone's perfect satisfaction.
Your brier pipe is. perhaps the most
popular on earth, because it will stand
more abuse, give better service, is cheap
er and more portable than all others, and
still it is a good looker. A so-caiied
brier pipe ean be bought for 25 cents—
but an expert won't advise it. Ray more
and get a better one. Eschew the carv
ed ones—they are pitfalls. They break
easily. Go in for everyday use for the
plain "bulldog” fashion, or, if you must,
for a drop stem, though this is apt to
put smoke in your eyes. Get it either
polished or plain; it will smoke equally
well. Fill it nearly full, give it a good,
even light and settle back in comfort;
you have the prize,of all things.
Never scrape the bowl of a brier if you
can help it. A crust forms in such a
pipe and the wood chars. This soaks up
the nicotine and leaves you a plain, sweet
and healthy smoke.
Leave In the crust till there is scarcely
room To put in the “weed.” Then scrape
It out. The next day will s6e 3-011 after
a new pipe, over whose "breaking-in”
you will groan pitifully. The initiation of
a new brier is .as painful as the break
ing-in of a clay—only, when once broken,
though It may take longer, it lasts lon
ger. But when you have a good brier
you have a treasure.
The church warden pipe is shape, not
make or material. It is the long stemmed’
affair that one sees in pictures of Sir
Walter Raleigh, the saint of all smok
ers. It is cool to smoke, but awkward
to handle. The stem is apt to break
and it 'has little save coolness to recom
mend it. The long Dutch pipe of china
bowl—well, it is nil right for Dutchmen.
The weischel wood affajr is lumbering,
but it makes a sweet smoke and Is fine
if you never want to move after light
ing it. The narghill, or Turkish pipe, is
a delusion and a snare. The smoke all
passes through water, and is emasculated
and diluted and deniectinized, and is not
fit for a strong, grown man. Only a
Turk could find pleasure in so watery
a smoke. Perdition take them!
A last word;: Always fill a pipe with
a little hump in the center of the bowl
and light this. Get a good light, but
have it all concentrated in the middle.
That keeps’the edges cool and makes the
draw better. A pipe lighted on one side
—well, that is awful. Don’t smoke in
the wind; the ashes get in the other fel
low's eye. And 3-011 lose the best part
of the smoke. Don’t smoke a pipe in a
street car. However sweet it may be to
you, it may be vile to the other chap.
And, last of all, don’t smoke in a hur
ry-take it easy or take a cigarette.
they can
Thorough
Written for Z>hc Sunny Jooth
IN THREE PARTS—PART II.
AVIXG arranged the inte
rior of the squab house,
it should be thodoughly
whitewashed, walls, nest
boxes, roosts and ceiling.
It is a wise precaution to
, add enough crude carbolic
acid to the wash to make
it smell 3'er>- strong, as
the acid is a powerful in
sect repellant. The floors
of -the next boxes should
not be nailed fast, but slip
ped in on cleats, so that
he taken out for cleaning,
cleanliness is essential in all
respects, otherwise lire are likely to get
a lodgement, and the3- are. one of the
creatures whose "room is better than
their company^"
The nests of domesticated pigeons are
not as other birds' nests, inasmuch as
fhe\- are built, not in tile branches of
trees, hut In earthern pans which, being
placed in their nest boxes, a''e ppeedily
preempted. The best pan for the pur
pose is the common 3-ellow- earthenware
dish, well known in many localities as a
nappy. Each pair of pigeons should be
provided with two nappies, one six, and
the other seven inch. The six-inch nappy
measures from a point on the inside of
the bottom circle to an opposite point on
the outside upper circle. The seven-
ineii nappy is actually nine inches at
tlie top diameter, and two and a half
inches deep. These nappies are not dear,
as They- can be bought for 5 or 10 cents
apiece at any- crockery store. The larger
nappy is to be put in one of the nest
boxes, and usually the pigeons lose no
time in taking possession of it for a
future nursery. Jf they have begun to
build on the floor of the box before the
nappy was put in, take up the nest care
fully, and transfer it to the nappy. The
birds will continue their work on the nest
just the same. The second and smaller
nappy is reserved for a purpose to be
stated presently-. The nappies are pre
ferred for the nests because they are so
easily kept clean.
A crate or box should be placed on the
floor, in the center of the house witli a
good supply of fine and coarse straw, and
grass, and fine cut tobacco stems. It
is a good plan to put a little of the lat
ter in the bottom of the nest. Sprinkle
dry- earth on the floor of the house, or
bettor still, if it can be procured, and
the fertilizing properties of, the guano is
an object, scatter some dry muck or leaf
mold on the floor. In a corner place a
drinking fountain that will allow the
birds to quench their thirst without their
being able to get into it bodily, in
which case it will speedily become foul
and unfit for them to drink.
IMPORTANCE OF BATH.
This is an important point, for pigeons
are as bad as ducks for splashing into
their water dislus. amf fouling the little
they leave in tnem. But of course they
should have a bath, that is as much a
necessity for birds as for their owner.
A dish or zinc trough about 2 feet square
and 4 inches deep, is just the thing for
this purpose. In cold weather, it should
hi- placed where the rays of the sun com
ing in one of the windows can reach it.
and in warm weatfier, kept in the shade!
The bath, tub must be in ’the house, or,
in warm weather, may be placed out of
doors on a box or table. The water
should be changed every day, and some
times oftener where there are many pig.
Mrs C C
eons bathing and foulin
earthy little feet.
A wire-covered yard, called the flying
pen, must communicate with the house,
with the door or one or more, windows
opening into it. The. larger the pen, the
•better, of course, but size is not an ac
tual necessity. The pen is not so much
needed as a place for the birds to fly-
in, as it isi to let them out in the air and
sunshine. They- love the sun as much as
they do the watser, and show their good
sense in both likings. It is a very- good
plan to build the flying pen up over the
roof of the house, at least to the peak, so
that the pigeons may sun themselves
there. If the slope of the roof is too
steep to affqj-d a comfortable resting
place, nail slats on it. similar to those
used by carpenters when shingling a
roof. The birds will show their grati
tude for a cosy sun bath like this, by oc
cupying it in force whenever the sun is
shining.
To make the pen. a. frame work of the
desired size is erected, nr upright posts
connected top, bottom and center, and
with cross-piece's here and there to
Strengthen the frame, and support the
netting. The latter should be of tho
ordinary- 2-inch poultry- netting ft can
he bought in rolls of from I to e fo P t
wide, and 50 yards in length, if the pe n
is to be 10 feet high, upe 5 foot wire;
if it is to he 8 feet high, use 4-foot
netting. Carry the netting around the
entire pen horizontally, starting at one
of the door posts, and finishing at the
other. Then, you see. there will be only I LINCOLN
one cut to make, join the edges of the j u u
two rows of netting to each other, us
ing pliable iron wire. No. 18 or 20. and
wea\-e it in and out along the two edges.
This w-ili make a. strong and neat job.
Proceed in the same way in closing )n
the top. Ten feet is a good height for
the pen. and this gives room for the
pigeons to rise in flying, and for several
roosting boards to be placed across about
a foot under the netting roof. If ori p or
two branches of dead pine or oak trees
are planted in the yard, the birds will
how their appreciation of the kind-
in this case the roosting
boards overhead will not be needed. The
yard should be .plowed or dug up once or
twice every- month, in order to keep the
soil fresh and healthful.
And now- as to the feed for the pigeons
In one corner of the house keep always
a large earthern rlish filled with old mor
tar and other grits, and rock salt broken
nto small pieces, about as large as a
grain of rice. Or the salt may be left in
one large lump, so that the birds can
peck at it. Pigeons must have free ac-
, to J ,alt fn order to retain their
health, but it must never be table or
cooking salt, for then they would'eat
too much, and too much salt acts as a
Poison. Pigeons have many good points
and one of them is this; while they have’
first-class appetites, they are not gluttons
exfenTlik^T L emSe,Ve9 t0 an in J”rious
extent, like ducks and chickens. Many
breeders feed their birds twice a wav
quite early in the morning, and again
about, an hbur before sundown. it , s
a better plan, however, and conduces to a
more rapid growth of the squabs, if the
food is kept where the birds ean help
themselves from protected troughs ’
A diversity of food is more necessary
tn f the . hea,th of Pigeons than it. Is to
that of most other birds. Wheat re,l
preferred, cracked corn, and Canadian
peas as staples, are rich in the mate-
Jlr'aT f ° r formation, and
are also the best for keeping the breeders
in good condition: These grains, that is
^U^^^^cmcked corn, should be
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name war
l-angdr.n. She
sister of G
Charles J. Lm
and she was tx
Elmira, N. Y
Mrs S L Cl—mens W'iiieh place -
married to Mr. Clemons in 1870. S:.
charming in manner, her home lif
of the happiest, and but recently
said of her that she seemed to p
the secret of perpetual vouth I
laughte
Miss Susan B
thony had dec
the presidency
cause of li e r advanced age. Th-
president lie b-en prominently 1
ed with the suffrage movement
T’nited states for several ears S
one of two Amertcani t.o be elect-' 1
year to executive offices in the ;e
Mrs. Foster Averv, of Philadelphia,
ing been elected secretary.
FOND
OF CIRCLt
soon
]y gift, and
CONTINUED on page four.
Welcomed by AM the Other Law>-
and by the Landlords.
(Jesse W. Weik in The Century *
Following the court about on the : r
cuit was, no doubt, the joy of Lino • n'
life. He was so fond of it that he de
clined a flattering offer to enter a It:era
tive law partnership in Chicago because
as he contended it would necessitate
more or less confinement in the office
and, therefore, keep him off the cir
cuit.
Seated in a one-horse buggy, behind a
sorry.looking animal, he would set out
from Springfield to be gone for weeks
at a stretch. The lawyers, as he drove
into each successive place, eagerly an
ticipating a new stock of stories, gave
him a cordial welcome and the landlords
hailed his coming with delight, for he
was one of the most patient and un
complaining of guests. "If every other
fellow-,” relates one of his colleagues
•grumbled at the indifferent accommo
dations and scant fare which greeted „s
at many of the dingy taverns w*e struck
Lincoln said nothing.”
His forbearance in this regard well
warrants the observation he is said o>
one occasion to have made, that '■
never so completely felt his ’ “o wn U r-
worthmess as when he stood face to fa, »
with a real, live hotel clerk." How he
appeared on the circuit may be gleaned
frona this sketch of him drawn by Henry
1 ? n? y ’. 0ne ° f his co "oagues in
central Illinois, who is yet livin'—
"His hat was brow-n, faded and the
nap usually worn or rubbed "
w-ore a short cloak ajid
shawl. His coat and
off. He
sometimes a
ns , , vest hung loosely
on his g,ant frame. His trousers were
carried a Tl In ° ne hand h «
carried a faded green umbrella with
A. Lincoln in large white cotton or
muslin letters, sewed on the inside rZ
knob was g.mo from the handle and •,
piece of cord was usually ti« i
middle of the umbrella to keepT^'’ 6 '
flying open, in the other hand ho
ried a carpet bag. in which ^
tlie few papers he usph
underclothing enough ' tl last'“ui ^
return « . _ ^ till his
car-
Wer e stored
return to Springfield.