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
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“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.
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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.
