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Drowsy Noons” and “Hon
ied Indolence"
EROME K. JEROME, the English
y Mark Twain, believes that the cur
rent conception of loafing—or idle
ness, if you would rather put it that
way—is all awry, lie holds that
the true loafer, your ideal loafer—
is not the man who, in the absence
of actual, prescribed toil, folds his
hands in delicious indolence and
lets the world go slowly gliding by
him. To him, the most ecstatic
time-killing comes when one’s desk
is overladen with neglected and ac
cumulated work and the task clam
ors for an early achievement. It is
then that the mind takes most delight in wander
ing vaguely along fugitive channels, pursuing none
with a shadow of persistence or serious intent, the
errant thoughts given a savory piquancy by the
subconsciousness that they should be about some
thing of greater concern—a sort of sweet, stolen
waters effect. Such a theory appeals to us, also,
more especially with the onset of spring, when na
ture loosens the taut bands of energy and beckons
the busy man and woman out of doors with a
thousand and one illusory and impossible promises.
Tt would be no pleasure to idle if we were paid for
it, or if conscience approved of the practice as a
most appropriate and commendable thing. It is
the taint of ungovernable irk of law which causes
many of us to relish this sort of diversion. To
some, the tendency appeals less than to others, but
it is a safe assertion that few men or women do
not feel its vagrant influence at times.
Along this line, the limpid stanza of John Keats
is of apt charm :
“For Poesy!—no—she has not a joy—
That I may never know how changes the moons,
And evenings steeped in honied indolence;
Oh, for an age so shelter’d from annoy,
That I may never know, how change the moon
Or hear the voice of busy common sense!”
As a matter of fact, commonsense flavored with
nothing but itself, does occasionally pall on the
most prosiac of our tribe. Then it is that money
getting appears profitless, ambition a mocking
will-o’-the wisp and achivement a rather barren
joy. We would prefer losing ourselves temporar
ily in what Oscar Wilde calls the “honey of ro
mance.” In other words, yield to the transient
longing for day-dreaming, the fairy architecture of
castles in the air that may be fashioned after any
pattern that flashes across the imaginative
orbit, and peopled with creatures of fantastic,
sweet or gruesome mold according to our several
temperaments. A profitless business, you will
say, and a weakener of the will.
Perhaps.
But are not these relaxed moments of life, these
drowsy breathing spells, greater fresheners and
sweeteners of existence than any positive recrea
tion, whether of the mind or the body? They may
not pay at once in a cash consideration, but it is
certain that eventually they return handsome divi
dends in a saner, quicker mind, a calmer judgment
and a broadened viewpoint. And they do not in
terfere with the serious affairs of life. The exigen
cies of livelihood are sufficiently omnipresent to re
claim the concentrated attention of the most lack
luster spirit. We may wander far afield in these
dream-moments, these “drowsy noons” and inter
vals of “honied indolence,” but the call of the trite
: s ever sounding in our ears with a subdued insist
ence, which becomes louder and less tolerant with
the fading of the deram.
It is when we return to the even poise of things,
the unimaginative appraisal of substance and shad
ow, that we realize the full benefits of these min
utes when the mind and the will play truant and
lead us off into a light that “is not on land or sea.”
We realize that they have helped to glorify the
tawdry, to give a zestful significance to the petty
detail of the moment and to bring the antiseptic of
sky and sunshine into the sometimes too narrow
alley-ways of our daily routine.
Hist! Popcorn Invades
London
Husbands and Race Suicide
From Jhtnt Judy’s Standpoint
By MBS. J. DAVIS.
Written'for Ohm Sonnr Sooth
ES, chile, times Is diffunt
fum what dey wuz, an’
foaks is diffunt, an' what
dey writes erbout an’ talks
erbout. In company Is dif
funt.
"My son Ephum reads do
papers out loud and he
read in dar whar hit say
dat do presdump hisself,
writ bout de small number
o’ chillun foaks in high life
had in dey famblies dese
days.
"De foaks what writes bout sich cz
dat lays de blame uv it ter ‘siety’ an’
wlmmen, but I knows a few things fum
observation and gineral knowledge.
"I am no young, silly nigger, an' ef
you listens ter me, you kin know de real
true caus.
“I ben in ‘siety’ myself when I wuz a
young nigger. My marster an' missus
wuz ez good siety ez enny nigger could
want, an' dey had ten chillun, ef dey all
had er live.
"Two ov cm died fore marster an' mis
sus larnt much bout fetchin’ up chillun.
“White chillun has ter be tuck keer uv
ter do well; an’ black chillun is a little
better off wid some keer, deyselves.
"Well, as I was gwine on ter tell yer,
marster an' missus had ten chillun, so
it can't be laid ter siety.
"No mo dan dat kin it be laid ter'wim-
men—but heer me, hit goes one step fud-
dor back an' restes on de pars uv dis day
Along' the Highway
B, FRANK l~ STANTON
LOWLY but surely the ingenious
Yankee is sapping the most cher
ished institutions of John Bull, at
least those relating to his monopoly
of the “tight little island” as a mar
ket for his own goods. Not only is
he being outbid under his very nose
in larger businesses involving mil
lions, but those relating to such ne
cessaries of life as food and pleas
ures are also coming in for repeated
and successful onslaughts from the
all-conquering American horde. It
will be remembered that but a few
months ago, an enterprising New
Yorker penetrated London and inaugurated tl,c|«•<*» »”
deadly “quick lunch.” For a time, English con
servatism, backed up by patriotism and the many-
syllabled protests of the medical fraternity, with
stood this latest flank movement. But the British
ers could not long resist the striking cheapness and
convenience of this lightning feeding arrangement,
and the lunch stands began to prosper, notwith
standing that eminent authorities predicted an ap
preciable lowering of the patron’s life expectancy.
Encouraged by this success other American pro
moters busied themselves, with the result that the
British populace is fast becoming addicted to the
more dizzy American customs and amusements, to
’he disgust and alarm of the old fogy element.
The latest innovation is the introduction of the
great American dainty, pop-corn, which, in its
pristine Coney island glory, promises to take the
English capital by storm.
According to the New York Herald, two Ameri
can manufacturers of this seductive edible estab-
’ished a factory near the metropolis and on Easter
Monday, which is a legal holiday in the kingdom,
:ent a huge van laden with parti-colored packages
to Hempstead Heath, the big London pleasure-
ground. What was their chagrin to discover that
their well-laid plans had come to naught, through
the intervention of a conscientious “bobby,” who,
refusing to let his palm be greased, vowed that no
pop-corn should be sold because the venders could
not exhibit a license. But only for a moment were
the resourceful promoters balked. They speedily
saw the making of a good advertisement, so ord
ered the attendants to distribute the contents of
the van absolutely gratis to the curious throng.
It is safe to assume that this master stroke will
have the desired effect and that within a fortnight
the Londonese, from Swipsey, the newsboy, up to
’Arry and ’Arriett, will be enthusiastically pro
claiming the delights of the new Americai/dainty
to all their friends and relatives. Tf such a devel
opment does not occur, we will sadly miss our esti
mate of the succulent charms of pop-corn as we
know it in this region and as it is dispensed to the
avid mobs which overrun Coney Island from June
to October. So peculiarly national is pop-corn that
we could not imagine a circus, a county fair or a
picnic in any of our communities without its flaky
accompaniment. On such occasions, it seems that
the highest state of bliss attainable by the small!
bov who, as Washington Irving says, has the
“dilating power of an anaconda.” is the absorption
< f as much of this distending food as he can buy,
steal or graft. On top of this he usually adds a
liberal allowance of red lemonade, the result being
a drum-tightness and a bewildered facial expres
sion more easily remembered than described.
It is our professional opinion that these joyful
symptoms will now be spread to the average Lon
don holiday, to the mutual joy of the inhabitants
and the thriftv American promoters. And as a
final clincher for this belief, we will state that the
latter have, adroitly, made a vital concession to
British euphony bv naming their product “maizv-
pop.” Could anything be more conclusive?
And it will probably taste as well under one
name as the other.
an' time
When I wuz groin’ up tie pars all sot
sto by dey chillun. Marster. wuz aJlus
an
"He didn't git up at 7 o’clock an’ swal
low' a moufful o’ coffee, an’ go to de au-
lice dout notissin his chillun, lack a sight
uv de pars o’ dis day an’ time do.
"At night he never spent half his tune
at clubs an’ dances an’ sprecin’ roun.
"Missus wuz his fust attention all <le
time, den come de chillun.
"Feared lack he love de chillun ino, kase
dey wuz her chillun an peared lack he
loved her mo, kase she wuz dey mar.
"J wuz dar through de horning uv de
whole family fum little Mars John, what
died, through de baby. Mars Billie; an’
every time one wuz borned peared lack
marster wuz a little hapyer an’ a little
prouder dan befo.
"He never no mo thought uv goin’ out,
evenin’ arter evenin’, talkin’ ter uddet
ladies an’ looking soft at um dan nuthin.
"Ef dey wuz vltcd out an’ missus could
go. an’ wanted to go. dey went tergedder,
an’ ef she couldn’t go, he ginnerrully
staid wld her.
"Dey seemed ter injoy deyselves rced-
ln an’ talkin’ wid one er nudder an’ do
older chillun.
bff all de pars in dis day an’ time
treated dey wives lack marster did hisn,
an’ give de smiles an’ cheer ter dey wives,
same lack dey do ter udder men s wives,
an’ sat sto by dey chillun, an’ hop dey
mars ter fetch um up, women foaks
would let a heap o' siety alone, an' clubs,
an’ slch Is dat.
"But ef a man spens mos’ o’ his lez-
zer time a hangln’ round udder wlmmen,
an’ techin’ note uv dem, den he better
spect ter line his wife smilin’ at udder
men.
"Soon as a wommun feels lack udder
wlmmen ’tracts her liusban' more dan
she do, de leedin’ joy ter her life is gone.
What do she want ter have chillun fur,
THE GOLDEN RULE
“Love your neighbor as yourself,,
I’ve said it o’er and o’er;
But my neighbor is so winsome,
I’m lovin’ of her more!
I love her as I love the light
That glimmers on her tresses
bright!
“Love your neighbor as yourself”
Ah, what a sweet command!
And, oh, that my dear neighbor
My love could understand!
Does she not hear my heart com
plain:
“Sweet neighbor, love me back
again!”
LOG CABIN PHILOSOPHY.
If you can’t rea<l the stars, you 11
do well enough if you can just read
yourself.
Don’t sigh for the mountain; for
soon some of us get so tired climbing
to the top, we can’t enjoy the scen
ery when we get there.
The time many come \yhen the lion
will lie down with the lamb, but if
he ever tries it in this day and tims,
heaven help the lamb!
We don’t want a world of wisdom
to get through life, but only just
enough to keep out of the way o’ the
fools.
If there were no such place as hell,
we'd have to invent it, in order to get
even with out enemies.
Btisy World
Attention has veered from the rival
* 1 and armies in the Far Eastern
f ‘. ee r ,o a consideration of the domestic
Wa ' * j n in Russia, which has again
? ltU nmc complicated. The disaffected ele-
btL in Poland took advantage of the
« ian Easter to parade the streets of
5r UsU nw ^ith red flags. Commands to
War ' St W ere ignored and Cossacks and
-***£ fired on t ,he mass. Hate report,
locate one hundred deaths and many
^isord^^as 3 ’ spread to other centers
i the authorities are fearful that
an ,m the front may precipitate a
serious crisis.
pression are 1 experience a nd ingcnuity
precaut.on t , ng ^ opted . Much uneas
nes/b expressed over the probable cul-
mination.
Fitzhu-h T-ce veteran of three wars
Fitznugn diplomatic service o-
and Prominent in th ^ ^
his countr ^’ returning to WashJngto,
ST sojourn .n Massachusetts, and
died in the former city, in spite of .
medical science could do.
7r„r'to the civil war. at the beginning
of which he resigned his commission in
United States army. General Hee saw
frontier duty in movements
HOLDING HANDS.
I.
He dunno what’s a-comin’
In de shadders er de lan’,
En so, dat 1IT feller
Is a-holdin’ ter my han’-
II.
He hear my heart a-beatin’—
He know, en onderstan’,
En so, dat li”l feller
Is a-holdin’ ter my han”!
III.
En I never would reach heaven—
De shinin’, promts’ lan’,
Ef dat sweetes’ li’l’ feller
Wuzn’t holdin’ ter my han’!
TOO DEEP.
“Jones is in the literary swim now.”
“Yes, and he’s hollerin’ like thun
der for some one to throw him a
rope!”
THEY’LL BE TAKEN CARE OF.
Joaquin Miller has built liis tomb,
J
^nr M tbc .-"ATirS
it every day. But 1 be tro u-
of the great host of a tomb
bled: If they cant afton1 ^
now, Oblivion will sutv
’em free!
CRI T"jl?e" S ' a bookmark
“That new poet 8* v ® s ® k «
to every purchaser df ' „
“Yes, the bookmark s all i S
If Mr. Carnegie would endow a^few
struggling authors coun try, and
better literature in this " would
the patrons of his libraries
reap the benefit of it.
.“SOON BE DAY.”.
Dark night failin’
On the lonesome way,
But a sweet voice callin :
“It’ll soon be day!”
An’ the rose will blossom
In "ne gardens gay.
An” the world go singing
In the bright, sweet day.
A LITERARY TEXT.
Sing for the love of song; write be
cause you have a story to teli—with
no thought of fame, or the money that
morning’to^ncAhat 1 you’re nearer the d “ r " n g the interval between ^his^war a
goal than millions of the mercenary ^ active work in
fellows!
THE STAY-AT-HOME AUTHOR.
I.
Home is the best place
All the world along.
(Can’t go to Europie
On a story and a song!)
n.
I cleave to the gardens,
AVhere red roses throng.
(Can t go to Europe
On a story and a song!)
THE WEALTHY OF THE WORLD.
It won’t do to say that the greatest
authors have died in poverty. Who
hath the gift of God is not poor,
but hath the riches of the world—the
glory of an immortal dream!
LET JOY COME HOME.
Sorrow is a night owl,
Where the shadows roam:
Open wide the windows,
And Joy’ll come singing home!
The New York papers tell of fifteen
authors who will spend the summer
in Europe. That shows that the lit
erary business is almost as remun
erative as real estate!
the
considerable
against the Indians. He was an exp-.
cavalry officer and on one occasion. Ju.,
16 I860, he was engaged in a hand-,
hand encounter with Comanche Indians
near Camp Colorado, Texas
His services in the confederate army
as a major general are well known. d
the Spanish-Ameri<
Millionaire Farmer Exponent of Simple Life
FTER making $1,500,000 in
the last fourteen years
out of the soil, I. D.
Smith, of Madison, South
Dakota, the richest exclus
ive farmer in the United
States, lias retired from
active life. He has an
swered the question of
whether one may honestly
earn $1,000,000 in a life
time begun without capi
tal. His only diversion is
a peculiar practice of giv-
jlg $8,000 farms to worthy tenants.
To this man, and to his wife, the philos
ophy of life is simple. To them the pos
session of over a million dollars brings
no question of travel in a petted land; no
lavish expenditure for uncomfortable tog
gery; no risking of limbs in automobile
racers; not even the burden of maintain
ing a place In society. Mr. Smith made
Ws money entirely as a farmer, and he
Is still a farmer.
Not a day passes that Mr. Smith is not
asked by someone: “How did you earn
nearly $2,000,000 as a farmer?"
"I made money by making It, not
^pending it,” is Ills answer.
And this is true. When he began life it
was with a few hundred dolars. With it
he made a payment on an Illinois farm
and then earned the money from the
farm to pay off the debt. Then he bought
another farm, which was long years la-
ter, and earned the money with the two
to pay off the second debt. Ever declar
ing that his profit consisted of the dif
ference between the money he received
and the money he paid out. Mr. Smith
proved himself a homely .master in this
true economy, not alone by keeping his
expenses down, hut with equal intellig
ence keeping his receipts at a large fig
ure. Wherever he has lived he lias en-
est possible money crop from his land
each year.
“How did I do it?” Mr. Smith repeats.
"I earned my money my working and
then when I made it I put it where it
wouldn’t be spent foolishly.”
Hut it was more than this. Mr. Smith’s
fortune is a monument to his ability as a
business farmer. Not only the most ad
vanced methods of soil culture were em
ployed, but, unlike nearly all farmers, he
never hesitated to make Investments if
he might thereby save expenses. In
short, he farmed under as accurate a
system as the average manufacturer has
for his plant.
In 1891 Mr. Smith moved to Dakota.
He spent all the money he had for land.
As fast as he made morejftnoney he
bought more land. This prairie country
was yet untamed by the plow. The secret
of its crop wealth had not been unearth
ed. Mr. Smith guessed this, and, guess
ing right, he found his land rapidly in
creasing in value. He sold and resold at
big .profits, all the time making every
farm produce the utmost.
When he went to South Dakota he was
worth $100,000. That $100,000 has grown
in fourteen years to $1,600,000, for, be
sides stock in banks and other real es
tate, he now owns ninety-four magnifi
cent farms in central South Dakota and
3,000 acres of highly improved land in
northwestern Iowa “A third of my
money I earned with my hands, the re
maining two-thirds with my head,” Mr.
Smith is fond of saying.
In a plain, rambling house, not far
from iMadison, boasting none of the lux
uries that come so readily to those with
fortunes, Mr. Smith is reaping his reward
and is perfectly happy. In the broad
rooms of that home are to be found no
plush carpets, no dancing floors, no re
ception halls, no mahogany furniture. The
home shows that the last dollar needed
for comfort has been spent, and not one
cent more. About that home spread no
Joyed the reputation of getting the larg- gleaming lawns, no spouting fountains, ey is its own reward.
no winding drives. Instead loom up great
red barns where the echo of tramping
horses resounds day and night, long rovs
of hay stacks, low-spreading sheds for
his cattle. To Mr. Smith a contented
horse is more pleasing than a prize dog.
GIVES AWAY FABMS.
Two years ago Joel Harris, a tenant
who never failed to pay his rent
promptly, who had kept every fence well
in repair, received through the mall a
deed to the farm he occupied. He took it
over to Mr. Smith’s home.
Here is something you sent to me by
mistake,” he explained.
‘Go on, you fool; don’t ask so many
questions,” was the reply.
Thus did Mr. Smith take his own way
of rewarding what he considered worth
and industry. Because the man farmed
as he had farmed he gave him the land.
Since then two other tenants have fared
equally well. It is needless to say that
renters are willing to pay a premium to
live on one of Mr. Smith’s farms, and
they watch the mails closely.
The only other known benefactions of
Mr. Smith are a farm to a Sioux Palls
cemetery and an other farm and $1,500 to
the Odd Pel low's lodge to which he be
longs.
It has been said that women spend
two-thirds of the money in America. If
this be true, Mrs. Smith does not do her
part. She is not unlike her husband. She
cares not one whit for society. She does
not even read a fashion paper. Her
clothes are of good quality, but never
expensive and four dresses a year are
considered by her an abundance.
On a fine day she may be seen driving
in a substantial but plain carriage. At
other times she will almost certainly be
found at home, where she still performs
many of the duties of a housekeeper.
To her, as well as to her husband, mon-
ef de^Jpead o’ Uc» home doan teck no
plezzur dar? * ' '
“She can't do all dey Is ter do In do
trainin’ uv chillun by herself; cf she
could, de Lord never would er made a
home depen’ on do jinin’ uv two ter
gedder.
“Marster hep fetch up his chillun, mis
sus never had ter hide things fum mar
ster bout de chillun, lack sum mat’s I’ve
knowed; kivrin up dis an’ dat.
“Dey chillun knowed marster felt fui
um an’ loved um an’ dey tole marster
dey secrets an' he tuck time ter notis um,
fer all he wuz one er de bizzest men in
de cuntry.
"Ever mawnin' he uster git de big Bible
an’ read while missus an’ de chillun sot
dur an’ listened. An’ den he would git
down an’ pray, while us niggers, big an
little, stood dar in de hall.
"Pears ter me lack lots er chillun dose
days, des groes up, or is drug an’ pushed
up. In my day an’ time dey wuz fetch
ed up an’ trained up, an’ dey i s a site o’
diffunee.
"Marster teached his chillun by his
zample, an’ de way he done, same as da
words he said.
“He showed 'spect fer missus an’ mis
sus showed ’spect fer him; dey peared
lack dey jined minds, same as hearts an’
hands whin dey got married.
“Dey showed manners ’tween deyselves
an' had dey chillun ter do de same; a3 ole
Ell Boger uster say, dey lef dey mark
on ever chile dey had. you eoulder know
ed um ennywhere.
“An’ T could start back ter de fust
an’ repress on you everything I is sed.
"De pars is de head o’ de house, an
ef dey wuster act lack my old marstei,
de mars would be mo lack my old mis
sus and dey famblies would be mo lack
dey fnmbly wuz.
"When de wimmen uv de Ian* fines dey
selves de queens uv dey husbans’ homes
an’ hearts, when dey fines dpyselves
crowned wid tender ertentions an’ reel
hep fum dey husbans, den dere will bo
jes as many home full o’ chillun as de
good Lord wants dem ter be.
"Den dere won’t be no use o’ "Preser-
dump Teddy,’ as Ephum calls him. er
worryin* hisself bout de number o’ smalll
famlies mongst de foaks In high life.
"Dere's a sight mo I wants ter say,
an’ I feel It In my heart an' mouf jist
reddy ter cum; but I 'spect Ise sed ernuff
to let you git my notion bout dis ting.
"Ernuff uv er thing is er plenty, but
whut Ise tole yer you kin count on, kase,
as I sed at fust, I am no young nigger,
an’ I knowse what I speaks uv."
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THE SUSPICIOUS PUBLIC.
Hard times our famous people viejv,
'Tis something rather sad;
No matter whut they say or do,
We say it is an "ad.”
If dimaond rings madame doth lose,
We think she should be glad.
To sympathize we quite refuse.
We say it is an "ad.”
Or if she sues for a divorce
Because her spouse is bad.
We wisely wink and say, ”Of course.
We know it is an ‘ad.’ ”
When on her tombstone they relate
The virtues that she had.
Some will suspect, sis sure as fate.
That's it's another “ad.”
—Washington Evening Star.
SOME ADVANTAGES AND DISAD
VANTAGES.
(From The Boston Herald.)
There is a typewriters’ (female) lunch
club In New York where. girls can get
bread for I cent, butter for I cent, coffee
or tea for 3 cents, meat for 4 cents, and,
as a climax, ice cream for 5 cents. An
other advantage of the club is thus de
scribed; "Shoe shines without men
watching.” And yfet the sight of a pretty,
modest, refined, graceful, perfectly self-
possessed, men-lgnoring girl having a
neat little shoe carefully manipulated in
public Is one of which one should not too
recklessly be deprive^
Turkey Farming One of the
Most Profitable Southern Industries
IN TWO PABTS—PAKT I.
By HELEN HABCOURT.
Written for So any South
CRKEY? Why Turkey? Who
can tell? who knows? And
echo answers, “Know, no!”
As a matter of fact, the
turkey is a native oft North
America. In the early days
of the colonization of the
new world, these big birds
were plentiful in Canada
and the extreme northern
parts of the United States,
but they are now practical
ly extinct in Canada, and
thereabouts, where the
country has for many years been, well set
tled up. When they were plentiful! in
New England, several importations of
the birds were made by England and
Scotland, and they were in a manner
domes Seated. This was in the sixteenth
century, and about the same time the
bird we know as the Guinea fowl, was
also introduced. Some of the writers of
tile sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
mixed up the two birds pretty badly.
The name of turkey was then applied to
the Guinea fowl, without rhyme or rea
son, since every one knew that the guinea
came from the country of that name. As
the two birds became better 'known, this
fact became recognized, and the smaller
bird was called the guinea, and the larger
one was given the discarded name. The
only reason, or explanation of the turkey’s
name that has ever been offered lies in Its
call note, which syllables "turk, turk,
turk.” However this may be, the big bird
has been known as the turkey by all
English speaking races ever since its
first discovery in the new world. Natural
ly, one would suppose that it came from
Turkey, but it never saw Turkey. We
are proud to claim the great bird as
American born and bred.
There is much of interest in the study
of the turkey in its wild state, and in the
methods of hunting it, and this is a sub
ject that we propose to take up a little
later on. We ure looking at the turkey
just now from a commercial point of
view, and this because of a request from
several of, our subscribers, who, together
with hundreds of others, are deeply In
terested in the question of how best to
raise turkeys for profit, and how not to
lose them in their infancy. Many people
fail in their efforts to raise this delicious
table fowl, and yet success may be
easily attained when one knows how, as
easily as King Ferdinand of Spain set
an egg on end—after Columbus had shown
him how.
Some poulterers will raise every turkey,
almost, that comes out of the shell, and
do it year after year no matter what the
weather may be. Others lose from one to
three-quarters of their turkey chicks with
the surae uniformity. The one cIubs is
careful in all things pertaining to the
business, and regard it as a business that
is worth conducting in the best manner
possible. The other class regards the tur
key as a sort of "by-product” of the
farm, that may be left to take care of
Itself, as not being worthy of looking
after. And the latter is true, so far as
they are concerned, because their lack of
care makes it true, it would be true
under the same circumstances, of their
horses, cattle, sheep or any other live
stock that was unfortunate enough to be
ewned If thepa.
I net e is no use in attempting to raise
turkeys unless care, and intelligent care
be given them. The success of nearly
all undertakings depends on beginning
right and having a knowledge of the
why and wherefore of a 1 deta.. 3 . This
is especially true as to raising turkeys.
Every one who has had any experience,
knows that the young birds are extreme
ly delicate for the first two months, and
most amateur raisers calculate on losing
about half of their broods. But there is
no need for such losses. Begin right and
keep on in the right path, and the tur
keys will grow in the same way—right
The beginning is the egg. Turkeys are
great rovers, like their wild ancestors,
and are wont to steal their nests in
some out-of-the-way place, where it )«
difficult to find them. Therefore, the
starting point is to make sure of these
eggs. To do this, “gentle” your turkeys
in every way possible. Never allow them
to be chased, or frightened by quick mo
tions or loud voices. Go in among them
often, feed them close at your feet, q.nd
accustom them to your quiet voice.
Clip t.helr wings so that they cannot
fly. Build a small house in a quiet
corner of the yard, if you have not a
shelter that can be used for the purpose.
It need not be elaborate or expensive.
It can be made of boards, and roofed
witli shingles, or patent roofing, or it can
General Fitzhugh Lee.
war General Lee filled a number of im
portant positions, including the govern ■
ship of Virginia, the presidency of
Pittsburg and Virginia, railroad, the col-
leetorship of internal revenue for the
Lynchburg district and the consul g n-
eralship at Havana. Following his hoi -
orable discharge from the volunteer arm
on March 2, 1901, General Lee was ap
pointed to the regular army, Februar .•
II, 1901, with the rank of brigadier g-
eral, and wfth this rank he was retired in
th* March following.
A few months before the end of Cleve
land’s last administration, when affairs in
Cuba were nearing a crisis General T.ee
was appointed United States consul y • n-
eral at Havana. One of his prin .pal
duties was to protect the lives of Ameri
can citizens, and this he did with such
determination and vigor that he won the
admiration even of that arch American-
hater. Captain General Weyler.
V hen the battle ship Maine was blown
up In Havana harbor and the life of no
American was considered safe on shore.
be built of poles, both walls and roof. | General Lee upheld the flag and made
interlaced with pine boughs and wire j the Spaniards listen to his voice, though
grass, or similar cheap materials. Make j bluntly denied an audience by’General
as many nests in this shelter as may be j Blanco. Everywhere General Lee wu
required, that will depend on the number hailed as the tvpical American citizei
ot turkeys you have. Roomy boxes j and as soon as war wa s declared he wa
without top or bottom are the best kind, j recalled to the United States in acoor
Settle them firmly into the earth, and | ance with his own wish, that he mig:
put a little line straw Into them. The j enter the army and lead a host again-
house should be so located that there
will be no danger of water getting into
the nests during floods or heavy rains.
In the spring, often in February, when
the turkeys want to go to housekeeping
and raise a family, you will know It by
even the best behavea among the hens,
straying off from the flock. The gobblers
also seem excited, and fairly yell their
call note. "Turk, turk. turk.” It is
claimed by some that the number of
hens allowed to one turkey cock may be
unlimited. The best breeders, however,
assert that the nearer the number of
hens approaches twenty, the weaker are
the constitutions (ft the chicks. The
number of hens to one gohoier, there
fore, should not exceed twelve, if strong,
healthy chicks are wanted. The turkey
cock may be used for breeding at two
years old. and the hens at twelve months,
but neither are in their prime until a
year later. They will be first-class breed
ing stock, as a rule, for two or three
years after this period, and a good cock
ought not to be discarded until u his chicks
show signs of degeneracy. The size ot
the hen is of more importance than that
of the cock, of very much more im
portance, in fact. The cock only needs
good shape, strength, and spirit, and
then he may be smaller than his spouses
with impunity. The turkey lien usually
lays about eighteen eggs, sometimes only
ten or a dozen, but when each egg is re
moved from the nest as it is laid, tho
poor hen is apt to feel disgusted at the
slow Increase in her embryo family, and
so lays more eggs than she otherwise
would. This is one reason for having
a nest house.
When the hens are straying off, and
th* cocks yelling, comes the time for
action on the part of the owner. It
should be the duty of some member of
the family to drive the hens every morn
ing into the hatching house. This is
easily done by scattering their food in
side the building. Keep the gobbler out
He Is not wanted in the house except
by himself. Feed the hens well, give
them plenty of water, and keep them
shut In until I or 2 o’clock. By that
time their eggs will have been laid and
they may be let out for a health prome-
rade. After a few days of this treat-
n.ent, there will be no trouble in driving
the hens into the house. Of com so, ap
of them will not begin to lav at the
same time, so the driving should be con
t.nued until each one has found oui
for herself the comfort and use of the
n«sts. After that, they will umuiiTv
cord th d d UlCt Shelter of the ir own ac-
e“«m, a , nd dr ° P their egS3 where you can
easily lay your hands on them.
Havana. I hough placed in comma:i‘l.
and tjioush he reached Cuba, the opp
tunity for battle never came. Afterwui .
engaged, with other high army offi
in an attempt to straighten out the mi
riicipal and governmental affairs in Cu
to prepare the people for self-rule.
General Lee wqs a grandson of the cel'
bra.ted "Lighthorse Harry” Lee, of r v •
lutionary fame, a friend of Washing
and a general at the age of 24 y
One of his sons. Captain Sidney Sm i
Lee, the father of Fitzhugh Lee wa- a
officer in the United States navy v .
the civil war broke out. Fitzhugh I \
then a lieutenant, his uncle, Robert E
Lee, and two other members of tht
family, were in the army. When ur
was declared they all resigned to fi.gh
the confederacy. .
ECRETARY’ TAFT
has received instil. -
tions from the pres
ident to call Min.
ter Bowen, now :
Caracas, to Was!
ington; also to send
Mr. Russell, now
minister to Colom
bia to Caracas, nJ
Mr. Barrett, n w
minister at Panama,
to Colombia. It is
stated that if Mr.
Bowen's action rela-
HATCHING them.
keTn It < *° llecting the e sss for setting
keep them small end down, on bran or
cotton, or, better still, let them It? ?
w. J ,’. ,aUer ” * , ‘ t «* »»'« trou-
Die, but It ensures th* yolk from
faat ,n £ n y one position, which is
fatal to the hatching of the egg it is
a very good plan to give th«**
first seven eggs to a hen to hatch This
^ many_as_, he can well cover, and
CONTINUED - ON LAST PAGE. ~
Herbert W Bowen
Secret?™ Lo Charge * af fecting Assistant
icism it u ls are not subject to crit-
. . e President’s purpose to send
t0 0hile ’ T he published
neetm f Loornis ’ alle &ed questionable con-
nections wuh the N@w Y(Jrk ^ Bcr .
*vl«w AsphaIt Company bore internal
its nr > e ° f * ,r ‘ Bowen ’s participation ia
on Pr . eparatlon - He will now be called
or toje e a r vo t0 th f^ 8tantl ate what he said
• rt, Plomatic service.
RED VOGEL JKl.
who has been elected
president of the First
national bank of
Milwaukee, is one of
the leading business
men of the city, and
has been known for
years for his careful,
conservative business
methods. He Is 68
years old and is at
the head of the Pfls-
ter & Vogel tannery,
~ the largest plant of
of the Ti!,.?,' country. He is an official
is interest States Glue Company and
CompaTy te H?^,l e8te ™
the Fir.?' ? e has been » director In
velrf „? ??? bank for a numb * r of
BB ’ He <Jid not wish to accent the
because of other Interests and hia
ta.S , .,‘. rad T “ h a “ y
tlon is taken !? n ° Uncement ot •!**-
sr- vKi.\rrsL2ii i s:
Fred Vogel, Jr.