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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA. ‘pTOTOl ■MranilHHIIIMtllftlllHIIIMItlMllinilllllllllllltlMIHIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIHIIItllllllllllttllllltlillllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIItlHIItlNIIIIIIIIttlllltlllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllt ■NMUnilllllllllilHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIMIIIIMIIMIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllltUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIMHIIIMIIMIIUIMIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIMI Uncle Sam Will Teach Nature Study Public school officials and teachers the country over will be interested In a new departure of the United States bureau of education as outlined In the following letter from John J. Tigert, United States commissioner of educa tion, to Mrs. John Dickinson Shermnn, chairman of the department of applied education of the General Federation of Women’s clubs: “Dear Mrs. Sherman: I have read with Interest your pamphlet on natural science and nature study in the schools, including a graded course of study from the kindergarten through the sixth grade. The bureau of education fully recognizes the importance of the study of the practical application of the natural sciences to everyday life in the education of the child and be lieves that the subject should receive specinl attention in the kindergarten and the elementary grades. To secure the best results the subject should be made an Integral part of the school course, recognized as one of the serious subjects of the curriculum, and credit given as for other recognized subjects. I appreciate the work of the General Federation of Women’s clubs In its effort to awaken a general understanding among parents of the value of science teach ing in the education of the child and urge that the work be continued. The bureau will support the project and give active co-operation in so far as it Is possible for it to do so.” The General Federation has undertaken to get nature study into the schools and Mrs. Sherman has now secured the approval and co-operation of the fed eral government, which will publish a graded course prepared by the federa tion and lessons now being prepared by the bureau of education. 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Love pirates who traffic in the affections of misunderstood hus bands or abused wives are to be the target of sweeping injunctions or re straining orders In nil cases where evi dence of home undermining Is properly presented to him. Convinced by the testimony of hun dreds of victjpns of the “other man” or “other woman” that powerful in fluence exerted by an outside agency might have broken the triangle before it was formed and saved another home and family to society, Judge Hurley widened the scope of his war on “easy divorces” to include a drive on the “domestic parasite.” Information that her husband has succumbed to a siren, if included In a petition for separate maintenance by( Jie wife, will result, Judge Hurley asserts, in the issuance of a forthwith citation for the “other woman” to ex plain her conduct. Substantiation of the charges will be followed by an Ir revocable decree restraining the interloper from “seeing, talking to, or writing to” the husband. iiiilimiiiiiiimiiiiiinmiiiiiimi mum Quits Mayors Job to Become Senator LarttOVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SundaySchool ' Lesson' (By REV. P. B. F1TZWATER, D. D.. Teacher ot English Bible In the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) Copyright. 1922. Western Newspaper Union. LESSON FOR DECEMBER 31 REVIEW A Mayor James Couzens. of Detroit has quit his job to become United States senator from Michigan in the place of Senator Truman H. Newber ry, resigned. Gov. Alex J. Groesbeck appointed him to fill the unexpired term. James Couzens was born in Chat ham, Ontario, fifty years ago. Re puted to have a fortune of many mil lions, he started his career as a “newsie” on a passenger train. In 1903 he became associated with Henry Ford, taking a position as book keeper. When he quit in 1916 he was vice president and treasurer. Mr. Couzens’ first public office was that of police commissioner in 1916. I-Ie was elected mayor of Detroit in 1918 and re-elected last year. A proposal sponsored by the mayor for the purchase of the Detroit United Railway lines lost by a few votes In 1919. He then obtained authority of the voters to build a municipal system, and after this w T as well under way he negotiated the purchase of the privately owned system and consolidated It with the new city lines after the voters had authorized the move. The Detroit community fund receives from him annually $100,000. He has established numerous homes and settlement houses. New Georgia Senator in Watson's Seat jMMNllNIIUIIIilUlllUllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMlllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllilllllHIlHllllllllllllllllllllllllinilllllllintlllllllllllllllllllHIlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIimilllNIlHinilll aHuiiiuiniiiiiximimitiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitii. iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuuiiiniiiiiHiiniiNiiiiiiiiiii»iuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuuiM«uuiwiiiiaiiuiuiiiMiuiiiiiiiii Walter F. George, the new senator from Georgia, is,in his seat and Is serv- ln^in^iiie committees on civil service, 'Immigration and post offices and post roads. He takes the place made va cant by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson. The circumstance of his taking his seat will long be remem bered, for the reason that he played his part in the seating of Georgia’s “grand old lady,” Mrs. W. H. Felton, as senator by appointment of Governor Hardwick. Rebecca Latimer Felton, eighty- aeven, will go down to history as the first woman to take seat in the United States senate. To be sure, her actual service was only a few hours, but she was actually sworn in. Moreover, she made a speech as senator, being rec ognized by Senator Cummins, presi- | -dent pro tem of the senate, as “the Junior senator from Georgia.” Senator- Blect George made this possible by withholding his credentials, which certified to his election November 7. Incidentally there was much amusement over the predicament in which ^.veteran senators found themselves. They assured Mrs. Felton she would be rorn In upon the assembling of congress. Evidently they had forgotten that be senate must be officially notified of the death of a senator before his sue- essor can be received. Also they bad forgotten that in accordance with un- *»ken nrocedent the senate must adjourn immediately out of respect GOLDEN TEXT-The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.— Luke 4:1S. DEVOTIONAL READING—Psalm 98. PRIMARY TOPIC—Favored Stories of the Quarter. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Went About Do ing Good. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC -How Jesus Ministered to the People. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Some Characteristics of Jesus’ Ministry. Since all the lessons t>f the quarter save one are from Luke, and tlie cen tral and unifying theme is Jesus Christ, a profitable way to conduct tlie review, as suggested in Peloubet’s Notes, would be to assign the follow ing topics to the members of the class to make a brief report upon: 1. Christ’s Mission to the World. 2. Christ’s Helpers and How He Used Them. 3. Christ’s Divine Power and How He Exercised It. 4. Christ’s Methods of Teaching. 5. Christ’s Love in Its Many Mani festations. 6. Christ’s Courage and How He Showed It. 7. Christ’s Foes and His Dealings With Them. S. Christ’s Pity for Sinners. 9. Christ’s Passing Through Human Experience. 10. Christ as a Missionary and an Organizer. 11. Christ’s Relation to the Father. 12. Christ’s Preparation for the Climax of His Life. Another way would be by summar izing each lesson, stating the out standing topic and teaching of each lesson. The following suggestions are offered: j Lesson 1. The birth of John the Baptist, which from the human stand point was impossible, was announced to his father, Zacharias. For his un- ; belief he was smitten with dumbness. | God expects of his servant unques tioned belief in what He promises. Lesson 2. Jesus was born in Bethle hem just as the prophet had foretold some 700 years before, and at the age of twelve years he consciously en tered into the services of God’s house. Though conscious of His divine being and mission, He lived a life of filial obedience. Lesson 3. John tlie Baptist’s min istry was a preparation for the com ing of Christ. He fearlessly preached repentance and pronounced judgment upon the impenitent. Though a mighty preacher, he humbly declared that Christ was immeasurably grehter than himself. Lesson 4. Jesus Christ after His baptism was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. The purpose was to test the reality of the incarnation. The re sult was complete victory—a demon stration of His ability to save to the uttermost all who trust Him. Lesson 5. Isaiah foretold the gold en age upon the earth when Christ will reign. Lesson 6. While Jesus was here He healed all kinds of diseases and cast out devils. He authenticated His mission and proved His power to for give sins by miraculous deeds. Lesson 7. Jesus taught the dis ciples the principles which should govern in His kingdom. Only those who have been bom from above can love their enemies. Lesson 8. While in Simon’s house 'at dinner, a woman who had been a notorious sinner anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. The sinner’s gratitude to Jesus for for giveness is measured by the appre hension of sins forgiven. Lesson 9. Jesus went forth through out every city preaching the glad tid ings of the Kingdom of God. The fact of salvation for sins through a cruci fied Redeemer is truly glad tidings, Lesson 10. Jesus sent forth mis sionaries with the realization of the big task before them, and with power to perform supernatural deeds to au thenticate their mission. Those who realize the bigness of their task will earnestly pray that the Lord will send forth laborers into His harvest. Lesson 11. Jesus’ reply to the ques tion of a certain lawyer, “Who is my neighbor?" shows that the all-impor tant consideration is not “Who is my neighbor?” but “How can I show that I am a neighbor?” Lesson 12. A certain rich man in his perplexity over his prosperty de cided to provide larger stores and set tle down to a life of sensuous indul gence. The one who lays up treas ures on earth and is not rich toward God is a fool. Consolation, Love, Faith, Hope, Life. May Consolation smile on every pain, and Love put her balm on every wound that life bears! May Faith strengthen you all in your unavoidable trials and Hope whisper through all sorrows that this terrestrial life of ours Is a mere shadow of tlie Life that never dies.—Mazzinl. The KITCHEN CABINET l(£>, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.) If you want to live in a kind of a town Like the kind of a town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. You’ll only find what you left behind, For there’s nothing that’s really new; It’s a knock at yourself when you knock your town. It isn’t your town—it’s you. EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS Those who have plenty of honey like to use it in cookery as the product keeps moist much longer than that made with sugar. Honey Cakes.— Melt one-fourth of a cupful of but ter and add one cupful of strained honey. Cool and add the grated rind of a lemon, one teaspoonful of lemon juice, two ounces of sweet almonds blanched and chopped line, one-fourth teaspoonful of mace, one-lmlf teaspoonful of soda and two and one-half cupfuls of flour. Mix thoroughly, then set aside, covered, in a cool place for twelve hours. Roll in a sheet one-half Inch thick, cut in squares and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. When baked brush over the tops with a thick sugar sirup. Apricot Cake.—Grate one-fourth of a cake of chocolate, take one-half cup ful of milk and tlie yolk of an egg. Cook together until thick. Allow this to cool, then add a tablespoonful of softened butter, one cupful of sugar, one-lmlf cupful of milk, one teaspoon- ful of vanilla, one and one-lmlf cupfuls of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Add one-lmlf teaspoonful of soda to the flour. Mix and bake In layer cake pans. Spread with stewed, sifted, dried, or canned apricots. Cover the cake with a boiled frosting. Barbecued Ham.—I-Iave the ham cut very thin and broil quickly or pan broil it. Arrange on a hot platter and add to the fat in the pan a teaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of made mus tard, a dash of red pepper and four tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Stir until bubbling hot, then pour over the ham and serve. Cottage Cheese Salad.—Take one cupful of cottage cjieese, add one-half cupful of whipped cream to which two tablespoonfuls of any good salad dress ing have been added. Stir and mix well into the cheese. Mold or press into cone-shaped forms with an Ice cream dipper and serve on lettuce with a little of the salad dressing on top. SIMPLE ELECTRIC EGG TEST Device Is Most Desirable Piece of Equipment for Dealer—Pays to Candle at Home. The egg tester as a necessary or desirable piece of equipment is re ceiving more attention than ever be fore. It has' always been a handy thing for the farmer and housewife, and an absolutely necessary thing for the egg dealer. With the passing of laws by states and the establishment of regu lations by health departments, candling is becoming compulsory for all egg buyers. This means that the AFRICA'S GOLD COAST Charity Among Yourselvea But before all things have a con stant mutual charity among yourselves, for charity coveretli a multitude of Bins.—I P“ter 4:8. Give thanks ere popping to deplore What seems to be a sorry lot; Give thanks, and most devoutly, for Those many things which you have not. GOOD THINGS AND LEFTOVERS A very dainty patty or meat ball may be prepared as follows: Take one cupful each of finely minced ham, mashed po tato and bread crumbs and one tablespoonful of milk mixed with a tea spoonful of dry mustard. Form into balls, roll in crumbs, dip in egg and fry in deep fat. Curried Chicken.—Sea son a cupful or two of boiled rice with melted butter and a teaspoonful of curry powder. Arrange a baking dish with alternate layers of minced chicken and the rice with some chicken gravy. Have the rice at the bottom and on the top of the dish with a layer of chicken between. Dot with butter and put into a moderate oven to become thoroughly hot. Shepherd’s Pie.—Butter a small bread .pan and line the bottom and sides with seasoned mashed potato. Fill with any cooked meat or fowl and cover with the mashed potato. Bake until the potato is brown, turn out and serve on a hot platter garnished with parsley. Coconut Pie.—Take one cupful of milk, two tablespoon fills of cornstarch, one-half cupful of sugar, one-half tea spoonful of lemon extract, the whites of four eggs. Put the milk into a double boiler and when boiling add one box of shredded coconut and the corn starch mixed with a little cold milk. Stir until well cooked. Add half of the beaten whites. Fill a baked shell with the mixture and cover with a meringue made of the remaining whites. Return to the oven and brown. Oatmeal Gems.—Soak two cupfuls of rolled oats over night in one and three- quarters cupfuls of sour milk. Add one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, one-lmlf cupful of light brown sugar, one cupful of flour and two well-beaten eggs. Dissolve the soda in a little hot water. Mix and bake in hot, well buttered gem pans in a hot oven twenty-five minutes. Beet Relish.—Chop cooked beets to make a quart; add one quart of chopped cabbage, one cupful of grated horseradish, two cupfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of salt, and vinegar to moisten thoroughly. This is a good relish to serve with fish. Guinea hens in casserole are fine eating. Stuff with seasoned crumbs and cook with carrot and button on ions for an hour and a half, well cov ered. Add potato balls the last half- hour. An Egg Tester From Flashlight and Can. country store which formerly accepted at a flat price whatever the producer brought in is compelled to be more particular. It means that the pro ducer who brings in eggs, will decide that it pays him to candle his eggs at home. For the general farm producer, the tester shown, improvised from a flash light of the familiar long, round type, is entirely satisfactory. It furnishes a 'good, intense light, making testing a task without undue eye strain. More over, the fact that the light is under control, and is only “on” intermittent ly, is a real advantage, as it prevents the testing device from becoming hot. A quart tin can is used, in the bot tom of which, centrally, is cut a round hole just large enough for the flash light to enter. Over the open top end of the can is stretched tightly a piece of felt cut from an old felt hat. In the center of that felt piece is cut a one and one-fourth inch hole. This is the egg hole. For the base an inch board several inches wider and longer than the tin can is obtained, and the tin can fas tened to this with two pieces of light vfire, as shown. Parallel with the bot tom end of the can, an inch board as high as the center of the bole is at tached crossways, and a slot cut in it where tlie flashlight, placed through the can hole to within an inch of the felt end, can rest. It will be noted that the flashlight is not made an inseparable part of this egg tester. When not required for this purpose it can be used for any other.—J. T. Bartlett, in Farm Me chanics. One of the Peculiar Buttressed Trees of Torrid Africa. POTATOES AS CHICKEN FEED Fed to Best Advantage When Boiled or Steamed—Should Be Supplied in Limited Quantities. Potatoes should be boiled or steamed before being fed to fowls and are fed !o best advantage when mixed with mash. Since potatoes are quite fat tening, they should be fed in limited quantities, preferably to laying hens or growing chickens, and should be used in connection with other feeds.' One hundred hens will consume about ten pounds of cooked potatoes daily, and these potatoes can be used to re place cornmeal in tlie poultry mash. If so used, an equal weight of pota toes and mash may be .mixed together. A laying mash for this purpose may be made of: One part meat scrap, one part middlings, two parts bran, and four parts potatoes, by weight.—Ex tension Service Colorado Agricultural Cqllege. GOOD REMEDY FOR SOREHEAD Slits of Canvas Well Greased With Antiseptic Hung Over Feed Hopper Is Favored,. Here is a new method for keeping sorehead out of the chicken flock: Hang a piece of canvas over the open ing of the feed hopper. Cut slits in this canvas, and keep the slits well greased with an antiseptic salve. In feeding, the birds get the salve on their heads, and this means no sore head. The hen with capacity and vigor should be retained. * * * A good layer has a large, open, moist vent. * * * Skim milk is thin-looking stuff, but It may be put to good use in the poul try yard. * * * Banking earth up around the found ation of the poultry house is a season able job now. * * * Whitewash is excellent for cleansing the poultry house. Cover every interior surface with It. The easiest way to apply Is with a spray pump. * • * Litter that is damp, foul-smelling, or full of filth is positively harmful. Often when the egg yield falls off mysterious ly the sole cause will be found to be dirty Utter. (Prepared by the National Geographic So ciety, Washington, D. C.) Commodities have left their names in the geography of western Africa in ascending scale. First came the Ivory Coast, followed by the Gold Coast and Slave Coast. Now that the age of coal is being threatened by the grow ing importance of liquid fuels, the Gold Coast, where important petrol eum discoveries were recently report ed, may take on a name that denotes a value- surpassing all the rest—the Oil Coast. Columbus is believed to have done some of his apprentice exploring along the Gold Coast shores before lie set sail for America and many an eman cipated slave of our southland could find his family tree among the na tives of tills ffl’itiarti colony. The col ony lies “under tlie eaves” of Africa, with the Gulf of Guinea due south of It. The golden age of the Gold Coast, commercially considered, was in the days of flourishing slave trade, and the oil fields promise again to outbuy the entire product of the gold grains winnowed from tlie sands of the many rivers of this region. When you read that three-fourths of the colony is covered with thick forests you get a very Inadequate idea of what you would see could you look upon the amazing fastnesses of Bom- bax trees, piercing the skyline at a hundred feet, with columnar trunks, free from branches below the top quarter length. The trees you know best at home are like icebergs in that their bases, or root systems, are under the surface. These foreign giants re mind you of your children’s Christmas tree, buttressed by wliat look to be huge triangular supports. Should you dig beneath one of these buttresses you would find tiny tendrils, such as those which might nourish a sapling. In the spaces between these buttresses natives sometimes pitch primitive tents. The impression of a forest of tele phone poles is further conveyed by great cables sagging from tree to tree. These “creepers” are popularly known ns monkey-rope, appropriately enough, since many varieties of monkeys are to be found in these forests. The Gold Coast colony stretches along some 270 miles of harborless coast, and extends back for about half that distance to the border of Ashanti. Its government seat, Accra, which es capes by only a few degrees of having both a latitude and longitude of zero, is reputed to be especially unhealth- ful. The entire region is hot and damp, lias two rainy seasons, and is swept by that peculiarly dust-laden Sahara wind, the harmattan. Along this cost lies Kormantine, fa mous as the place where slaves first were exported, which gave the name, Cormantynes, to the West Indies slaves from the region. Of the estimated population of a million, fewer than 2,000 are Euro peans. The most noted of the native peoples are the Fanti, whose women of light brown skin are pretty. Their favorite perfume Is distilled from the excrement of snakes. Shark flesh, sun dried, is a favorite edible. Among them, as among many primitive fight ing peoples, mothers are held In high esteem. Property Is inherited by the oldest son of the oldest sister. Land Is held In a communal fashion, the possession of a gold “stool" being the badge of a chiefs authority to the lands over which he holds sway. Areas are assigned to families but they revert to the community upon the holder’s death. Trees, plants, animals, snakes and Insects are found In amazing variety. Here, as in many other verdant trop ical regions, flowers are not nearly so abundant. The animate curiosity of the Gold Coast is the driver-ant, which also constitutes its worst pest. The driver-ants constitute the standing army of the insect world. They have a system of caste and rank, and the naturalist gravely tells that the work ers are a quarter of an inch long, the soldiers about half an inch, while tho stately officers reach seven-eighths of an inch. Results of the World War. As a result of the World war, Great Britain added to her Gold Coast col ony an area of about 12,500 square miles which was formerly part of German Togoland. A portion twice as large went to France. The new Brit ish addition to the Gold Coast lies along the eastern border and stretches away in the shape of a lens far to the north. Germany annexed Togoland in 1884, the year she launched upon her colonial expansion with the acquisi tion also of northeastern New Guinea and the Bismarck archipelago. Togo land was the first colony to dispense with imperial subsidy. Aloug the seacoast Togoland’s soil is rich and sandy, its climate warm and moist. The hinterland is higher, wooded and drier, but seldom arid. Thus the land is adapted to a wide variety of products, among which the growing of coconuts, corn, rice, to bacco and coffee already has been highly successful. The exports in clude considerable quantities of ivory, kernels, copra, palm oil and rubber. This colony affords a commentary upon Germany’s application of bureau cratic methods to her possessions. Despite heavy German emigration to the United States and South America, and despite her effort to divert this flow to her colonies, only about 300 Germans were to be found among the million natives of Togoland in 1910. Most of the 300 were engaged In gov ernment service, either in the coast cities of Lome, a made-to-order town which Germany planted on the site of a fishing village, and little Popo, or the inland government stations at MIsahohe or Bismarckburg. Togoland, too, was aloug the famous Slave Coast of Africa. About the Dahomeys. The Dahomeys, natives of the south, present a curious blend of shrewd ness, cruelty, and superstition. Small, robust and athletic, they climb trees like monkeys, easily become fluent linguists, but cling to fetichism and still practice cannibalism. The king of the Dahomeys is a tribal deity. He controls the lives and property of his subjects. Formerly he was regarded as more ethereal than human; he was believed to re quire neither food nor sleep. He strengthened that impression by hav ing all food served to him in solitude, and hearing petitions from behind a screen. Consultation with his minis ters was carried on through h* wives, who were state dignitaries. Genuine Amazons formed his bodyguard, and these warrior women were reputed to be as fearless and brave as those of Greek mythology, and much more cruel. Only the sons of. the dada. or queen, were regarded as heirs. From among the Amazons the sovereign selected other wives, but all except the favored few were celibates. The king was considered the father of all his sub jects. Children were taken from their mothers at an early age and given to other families so they might form no ties which would conflict wltt their allegiance to the king.