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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1906)
MAGAZINE SECTION. iDIVA OF GRAND OPERA, SIMPLE LIFE FOR MRS. JULIAS ■ST* RY WHEN SEA SOS IS OYER FOR EMMA EAMES. Bated Singer Flies to Husband at Italian Home as Soon as Las* Note of Contract Season t ails from Her Golden Throat. There are thousands of Madame -’mma Eames’ admirers who, hearing ~er sing this season, will think they now her well. They will have seen her in the trailing robes of Juliet, or the simple gown of Marguerite; dark skinned as Aida or fair and white as the young bride, Elsa. They will find in her a neighbor, giving plenty of heart and strength and personality to those who weep or thrill as they listen. Sympathy is meat and drink to the singer; but, in the spring when the big theater home of her triumphs is rlosed, Madame Emma Eames flies to Vallombrosa where sympathy awaits. As soon as she reaches her Italian estate she becomes Mrs. Julian Story. It is the beginning of the simple life; of household duties and dairy superin tendence; of the friendship of little chickens, new puppies and old ponies, of favorite flowers in a personal gar den, and the companionship of a husband. Mrs. Story was reared in New Eng land; Mr. Story in Home. They have a luxurious house in Paris, out it is this sunny mountain slope in Italy that awakens a responsive throb when the home longing is keen and the ap plause of the public fails to reach the heart. OLD VALLOMBKOSA MONASTERY. Many years ago, W. W. Story, traveling for his health in Italy found the beauty of the Appenines to culminate in the stretch of land known as Vallombrosa. The monas tery of the name, founded in the tenth MADAME EMMA EAMES. A Popular Favorite of Grand Opera. century, was in the hands of a few ] monks. The scattering of the monastic | Order was the first of innovations. The locality, famed for its health-giving properties, offers peace and immunity from tyie world, in a few hotels and sanitoriums. Two or three American millionaires have erected summer homes on near-by hill tops and several I families of the aristocracy of Florence ■pend the hot months here in feudal strongholds. The shooting box of the ancient Medici family, where the American poet lived and died, is occupied by his daughter; and Julian Story, because the spot is endeared to him through his father’s memory, has built on a farm of many acres a great square tower and hall. Campiglioni is the j farm, and Torre Di Campiglioni is the home, which signifies the happy abode of art and good fellowship. Mr. Story paints pictures, and spends his energy wherever his por trait commissions may take him while his wife is singing. To the visiting . friend of the singer the 20 mile trip from Florence was a fitting approach to her beautiful retreat. The road which eventually led up to the terrace of II Torre was tied in bowknots. and worked out like a puzzle. The puzzle was solved, however, and in the open living room or “loggia.” Mr. Story j gave me hearty welcome. ENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC. The girl who had been separated by professional etiquette from the great singer, looked forward with some ap prehension to meeting a divinity in sweeping sun-embroidered velvet drap eries. Soon Mrs. Story came out in a white duck afcirt and a drawnwork shirtwaist <A 501 ' j ! Mmtmmnw monitor. I “It's simply fine in you to come. Have some seltzer!” cried the lady. A| hearty laugh from the group on the , terrace broke in upon her greeting and made her call hastily: “Don't tell any . stories about me. Let us go over there,” she said, rising, "one can never , afford to miss a good laugh, and Ger man dialect is too rare on-these prem ises to be slighted 1 often wish that I had one of mv own, or that Joe Weber, Lew Fields or Sam Bernard could hear some of the attempts at English that ‘ reach my ears during the opera season. As it is, I can only enjoy them for a moment and repeat them afterward to some one who can perpetuate the in cident. Oh! we have droll times.” Mrs. Story has a keen sense of hu- i mor, and quite loses herself as she | ; listens to a group of story-tellers. Un- , like most strong personalities, she 1 does not rob those around her of poise ' ' and ease, but possesses the rare sac- ' ' ulty of bringing out the very best that , is in them. After dinner that wonderful even ing music came in for its share. The last Wagnerian production to the popu lar songs of the season was the range. A fragment of “Tammany” was sung hv that voice which will go down in history, and the chorus was taken up lin many keys by the dinner guests. All had heard the voice before, but it was not Madame Eames of Grand Opera who sang. It was Mrs. Julian Story singing to her friends. From ibovc llic Clouds. The view of a storm-cloud from above is one of the most interesting sights ever beheld by man. According to a famous aeronaut, a storm view from that position has the appearance of a vast sea of boiling, upheaving snow. The falling of the rain can be distinct ly heard, making a noise like a water fall over a precipice. The thunder heard above the storm-cloud is noi loud, and the flashes of lightning ap- pear like streaks of intensely white light on the surface of the gray-colored vapor. JOHN WESLEY S "MEM.” Representative J. W. Gaines of Ten nessee, Created Roars of Amuse ment' in the House, During Closing Days of Session by Reciting “When Democ racy Will Die.’’ “Whpn the Hons oat grass like an ox, And the fisherman swallows the whale; When th« terrapins knit woolen socks. And the hare is outrun by the snail; When serpents walk upright like men, And doodle bugs travel like frogs; tv hen the grasshopper feeds on the hen. And feathers are found on the hogs When Thomas eats swim In the air. And elephants roost upon trees; When Inseets In summer are rare. And snuff never makes people sneeze; When the fish creep over dry land, And mules on vebxdpedes ride; When foxes lay eggs iu the sand. And women In dress take no pride; When Dutchmen no longer drink beer. And girls get to ’preaching* on time; When the billy goat butts from the rear. And treason no longer Is crirm When the humming bird brays like an ass, And limburger smells like cologne; Whep plowshares are made out of glass, And hearts of Tennesseeans are stone; When sense grows In Republican heads, And wool'on the hydraulic rarn: Then the Democratic party will be dead. And this country not worth a " In the Friends’ burial grounds, in Salem, N. J.. there stands the largest oak free in the State and possibly the largest In the United States. It Is now used as the “trade mark” of the New Jersey Forestry Association. » 1 MOUNT VERNON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST y, 1906. JUVENILE GARDENING., JAMBSTOWS EXPOSITION HAS A MOREL SCHOOL GARRES OF A HU SURER ROYS. Practical Demonstrations by Depart ment of Agriculture and Various States Landscape Improvements and Beautifications. Among tlie many novel features at the Jamestown Exposition is the gar den work by school children. One hundred boys from the public schools of Norfolk, Newport News and Hamp ton, near the Exposition grounds, were selected by their teachers to carry out the plans for a school garden at the Exposition. Special trolley cars con veyed these young gardeners and their THE 1000 YEAR OLD POWHATAN OAK. teachers to the grounds, April 16, 1906, and under direction of Warren H. Manning, landscape designer of the Exposition, every boy was assigned to a small plot of ground In the garden and was given «seeds to plant and in structions how to plant them. In these gardens are now growing beans, peas, parsnips, carrots, marshmallow, parsley and other vegetables. They are attended by their little gardeners and are kept clean and free from weeds, most of the boys taking a special pride in their gardens. This is but a preliminary training for .he schoolchildren in gardening, —a trial heat, as it were, for the race next year. The actual work is to be taken up at the Jamestown Exposition next spring. PRIZES FOR BEST GARDENS. Those who have made a success of their gardens this season will be given preference next year and will have their same gardens. The Exposition Company will give prizes or medals for Ana best cultivated garden on the Exposition grounds and the young gardeners will he given some valu able lessons in agriculture. The U. S. Department of Agriculture and some of the state departments will have ex perimental stations and gardens at the Exposition as object lessons to the young as well as older gardeners. The young minds amongithe visitors which have a bent toward agricultural pursuits will have an opportunity to learn much of value in the way of till ing the soil. They will learn when to plant, what to plant and liow to plant, 10 get the best results. They will also be given an opportunity to study soils and their treatment, and how to enrich and improve them. Tree plant ing and transplanting will constitute another phase of Uncle Sam’s object lessons, as are done at other govern ment experimental stations. At the St. Louis Exposition Uncle Sam’s gar dens and the children's gardens proved exceedingly interesting as well as in structive to the farmers who were wise enough to appreciate the bene fits to be derived from them. At the Jamestown Exposition it is expected the Agricultural Department will broaden its scope of instructions in 1 many ways and surpass its efforts at St. Louis. WILD WOODS BECOME UARKb < The landscape gardening which has . transformed a wild woods into one of . the most beautiful scenic parks, will | also serve as an object lesson to farm ers and all who have grounds to beau- , tify with flowers, shrubs and trees. ' More than a million plants and trees are growing on the Exposition grounds, many of which have been transplanted; others are native to the soil. Among the trees transplanted < were several hundred old trees, some comprising an apple orchard, whose , trees were removed and planted around the thirty-acre drill plain on , the grounds. These and the pines, , cedars, dogwoods arid other trees have not suffered by being transplanted. Even trees which were hauled many miles over land and water and plant ed on the Exposition grounds arfl thrifty. They have all been handled under the guidance of landscape engin- ; eers. The work has been done seien-1 ■ tifically and skillfully. The results are; 1 seen in the fine condition of the trees. ; • The arrangement of trees, flowers :> and plants of all kinds, in various 1 parts of the Exposition grounds can I i be studied to great advantage by all ; ] landscape gardeners, and the unique • fence of wire and flowering vines, is j a study worth going miles to see, a 1 magnificent mode) which every fence ;1 builder will find worthy of following. This fence is eight feet high, made of several strands of wire, and running over the wire in every direction, com pletely covering it, are vines of honey suckle, crimson rambler, rose and trumpet creeper, making what seems to be an immense hedge of flowering vines. HOME IMPROVEMENTS. If the Exposition results in imbuing * its many thousand visitors with the spirit of home improvement and with . a determination to go back home and . make of their own towns, or houses , and grounds models of beauty and con venience. it will go far toward proving 1 a national success. Rustic benches and bridges, pretty . walks under canopies of vines ami flowers, shady lanes and streets and a thousand other interesting things at the Exposition are studies for the peo ■ pie, worthy of the most careful at • tention. it will not. be an exposition of commercialism, blit one showing the beauties of nature and the value of science in peace as well as in war. II EL II 'S O F J A MBS TO US. Site of Exposition Battleground of Conflicts Between Early Settlers and Indians, Os .‘ill the .Smiths who have ever lived. Captain John is becoming the most famous, due to the prominence given to ids doings, incident to the Jamestown Exposition. Tin* romantic days of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith are vividly recalled by the old Indian and frontiersmen’s relics which have been dug up in preparing the ground for the Jamestown Exposition. The site selected for the celebration of tlie three hundredth id versury of the first permanent English settlement in America was once an Indian village occupied by the I’owhatans, the most powerful tribe of the early American Indians, %vbo roamed over the country east of the Ohio River several cen turies ago. Near tla! State Exhibits Building stands a majestic live oak tree, the "Powhatan Oak,” estimated to be nearly years old, which was a favorite camping ground of the In dians before America was discovered by the Palefaces. Here were held councils of war when the only weap ons in use wore stone hatchets, stone war Hubs, spears with stone points and hows and arrows The arrow heads used were made of flint, chipped down to a cutting edge, almost as sharp as a knife, every arrow head representing many hours of hard and patient toll. Scores of these flint ar row-heads are being found on the Ex position ground, in excavating for streets and buildings. Some of them are broken, perhaps by striking some foe of the Indians in battle or some wild animal —in those days the woods about Hampton Hoads were alive with deer, bear and other animals. At Se well’s Point where these relies are found were fought bloody battles be tween the early English settlers and the Indians and. according to old In dian traditions, this was also the batttle ground on which warring In dian tribes desperately contended for the riglit of domain, long before the I occurrence of the historic event which ! the Jamestown Exposition eomrncrno- : rates. The valuable fisheries of what are now called Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, L.e beautiful hunt ing grounds along the water courses and the many attractions peculiar to this locality made this particular point of land very desirable, and for its possessions Indian tribes warred with one another. Now, after cen turies have gone by and the old In dian nations that once controlled this rqgion have passed away, their an cient battle fields have been trans formed Into a magnificent internation al exposition ground, Just outside the corporate limits of the city of Norfolk, Virginia. Want Industrial Training. Resolutions were recently adopted at the closing sessions of the Ameri can Institute of Instruction at New Haven favoring the installing of in dustrial departments in every efficient school system. The institute also placer! Itself on record as holding that In view of recent developments of dis honesty in high places and of the in crease of crime in different directions, it is the duty of the teachers to per sistently train the American youth In honesty. Integrity, and uprightness. FARM HIGH SCHOOL 1 GREA I IMPROYEMEST IS ERI CA - TRtSAL ME THORS IS TIIRIV- j I St- Ad.YS.4S TOUS. \ Consolidation of the Not House I Sell ms into u Large ant Well 1 Equipped high School- Students 1 Inih.ne the Spirit of Village linprov- < elite nt. AiMi.d examples of successes- -of things that already liuve been done are more convincing than a thousand ' plausible arguments to prove what pos- 1 sibly can be done. The Department of * Agriculture riles a case in _ Kansas, I showing the practical operation of a i county high school, which lias done 1 much for Norton County, and which, ' if faithfully worked out, in oilier in- 1 stances, would give a tremendous ini- 1 pet us to any other county in any 1 state, Kansas has local option in the es- 1 tablishment of county high schools. 1 As a result several sparsely settled counties or counties in which there ■ are few large towns are supporting 1 such schools. Norton County, which a 1 few years ago was idled with sod school houses, and which still has many sod dwelling houses, now sup 1 ports a good county high school In the 1 village of Norton, a town <•* 1500 in habitants, located near the geopraphl- ( cal center of the county. The high school building is of brick, 2 stories high, over a well lighte l’ basemenl, and is located on the outskirts of the village, where I uni can be easily se cured. The basement* contains fur nace and fuel rooms, lavatories, and a gymnasium. On the first Ihior is a physics and chemistry room, a natural history room, a music and art room, and the rooms of the business depart incut. The second floor contains an assembly and study room and two re citation rooms. The apparatus and other equipment for the work in phy sics, chemistry, and natural history are exceptionally good for a small high school. There Is also a good library and a reading room with current news papers and magazines. The expense of running me school In 1903-4 was $9,588, including $4,430 for teachers’ salaries ami $5,158 for buildings, grounds, and incidentals. This was a year when considerable sums were spent for furniture, appara tus. supplies, and additional land. 'Hie running expenses for the first six months In 1905 were $3,775. Hereto fore five teachers have been employed, but this year there are six. NO I’ARMI NO TAUGHT Previous to this year the Norton County High School has offered college preparatory, normal, business unn gen end science courses,‘but no course re bated in any direct way to the leading Industry of the county—farming. The county superintendent of schools said that his attention had been forcibly directed to this lack in the curriculum of the high school by tjic experience of a young man who came to the school from one of the many large farms in the vicinity, took the four-year busi ness course, spent one year In a local bank at S3O a month, and then con [7=**- -TZI ——iff eluded that he would Rain in both purse and pleasure by going back to the farm. Such a young man. and there are many like him in the Norton County High School, would have wel comed an agricultural course, and would have gone back to the farm much better prepared for the duties of life than he was with a business train ing. So the county superintendent of schools and the other members of the board of trustees decbbel that an agricultural course should take the place of the general science course,-and hired a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural College to teach agricul ture and other sciences in the high school. Secretary Wilson of Agricul ture. while making a trip through 'he “short-grass country,” learned of the enterprise, became much interested in It, and In response to an appeal for aid sent a representative of the Office of Experiment Stations to Norton to help start it. The president of the Kansas State Agricultural College also responded to a call for assistance and made one of a party of four that toured lh<> country for eight days in the in- IcreHta of the new course of study. As a result, considerable interest was aroused in the proposed new work, a tentative agricultural course was out lined, and arrangements were made with the three farm implement dealers of tile town to open their warehouses to tlte classes in agriculture and fur nish experts to give instruction on the mechanics, care, and use of farm ma chinery. STAItTINC IN AOKHHJLTURE The agricultural work of the course includes botany, with special reference lo variation, development of species, hybridization, and the influence of light, heat, moisture, etc., on the plant; soils and tillage; plant physiology, farm crops, grain judging, and horti culture; farm accounts; farm manage went, including farm plans, methods of erojujlng, farm machinery and its care, and' rural economies with spe cial reference to the problems of a business nature that will be met on the farm; animal production and stock judging, and dairying. The teacher of agriculture reports that the implement detilers have given further evidence of their interest in the agricultural course by r (Taring prlz.es aggregating sll2 in value for a grain-judging contest., open to all young med in the country, and that these prlz.es nave been supplemented by a sls suit oT clothes from a clothing dealer. Con tinning, he says: "I am well pleased with the way the hoys take hold of the work. Out of 70 hoys we have n enrolled in the agricultural course, and I think most of the first year boys will take it up when they get to it in the course, it is proving popular In the •chool and entirely free from the pre judice I had anticipated at the outset.” This is the nucleus of an Important experiment in education. Norton Is just in the edge of the great serniarid region of the Middle West. Agricul tural practice in that region differs ma terially from that of the more humid regions An the one hand and from that of the irrigated districts on the other. The teacher of agriculture is thoroughly familiar with the agricul ture of the-region, and has hut recent ly graduated from an agricultural col lege which is devoting much study to the problems of the hundredth meridi an belt. The agriculture of this belt, is extensive Here one man works as much land as four or five men in the Must: he cultivates three rows of corn at one crossing of the field, and does other tilings on an equally extensive scale. Improved farm machinery makes this method of farming possible, it • s therefore of the greatest importance 'hat much attention to farm machinery : e given in tlie agricultural course t the Norton County High School. The cereals (corn and wheat) are the leading field crops, hence the import ;mce of grain-judging contest** and other school work relating to these great staples. The county superintendent of school has expressed the hope that the school may also do much work that will 1m of Immediate practical benefit to me agriculture of the country, such as testing seeds for viability, or germin ating power, and milk and ereani for butter fat; treating oats anti wheat i for smut and potatoes for scab; spray ) lng trees and garden crops for insect 1 pests and diseases, and making plans i for farm buildings, roads, water sys tems, etc. Such work could he done I largely by the pupils at school or on i the different farms on Saturdays, it ' would he educational and at the same time would make the farmers feel * that they were getting some immediate i tangible return for the taxes paid in i support of the school. The Homer Pigeon. The homer pigeon, when traveling, seldom feeds, and if the distance to ils home be long, it arrives thin, exhaust ed, and almost dying, if corn be pre- I I sented to it, it refuses to eat, con i'tenting itself with drinking a little | water, and then sleeping. Two or j three hours later it begins to eat with i j great moderation, and sleeps again ' immediately afterwards. If its flight i has been very prolonged the pigeon i will proceed in this manner for forty- I eight hours before recovering its nor -1 rnal mode of feeding. PART TWO.
