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THE FARMER eOY EY C. T. I.EWIS. The f irmer hoy is the boy for me. V ; l! v V. c air and mirthful glee, His .v> ow v«ith the robe's line, His r brmv hissed by the morning's \Y llis pr* partakes of the rippling stream, jjporp to him a pleasing dream; B is eye r» hes the tints of the skv above, The trim ) cart responds to the throbs of levs The farmer Fry is tiie boy for me; lie wins my heart with his innocent nice, The honest face wi*h tHe tan of earth— To i>e born on the farm is a kingly birth. He has studied nature’s pure open book; And drunk in truth from the murmuring He brook; has caught the song of the warbling bird— Thus the ploughboy’s whistle so often heard. The farmer bry is the hoy for me; \ou Xo may call him rustic, blithe and free, matter though plain the clothes he Though wear, in summer he loves his f eet to bare; Jn touch with nature he’s nature's child. Stern life will tame him, he is not wild; He’ll need the strength he’s gathering now, Vi hen the dust of battle is on his brow. The farmer boy is the bov for me: 3M illions cannot purchase a life so free. To be reared on the farm is wealth untold, .Health is more precious than silver or gold. ‘The marts of trade, the city's din and strife Crush freedom and sunshine out of many a life; The strong trusted men in the world to Spent day happy hay. a boyhood amid clover and —Fruit Grower. 'TX'Vi -vt 'ri 'so *;t JSc 1rkirk-tck1c)rk1c By MARY ALDEN HOPKINS. ^ 1A. XA, TT— r^EFORE the door of room 5(1 * B q* Sallie Russell paused and % * regarded the sign hung >4/ f. there, business-like * * a square of cardboard, on on which was neatly printed, “Busy. • * But as Sallie was carrying food, she was not deterred by the sign; she knocked and pushed the door open. ** Her friend Rachel looked up from her book apprehensively. “What have you been doing?” she demanded. “Or is it something you want me to do?” naw’Teke this nice fat chocolate with ithe nut on the top,” urged Sallie. “ ‘I ’been doing?’ ‘Want you to do?’ It's nothing to get excited about. I asked a freshman to come to your room to a rabbit this evening. Let me tell you how it happened,” she urged hastily. I fell in with her coming up from the village, and 1 knew she was a fresh man because she wore kid gloves. So I asked ner if that was her first year, and she said yes, and I asked, her if she had met many of the students yet, jind what she she said very going few; to and specialize I asked her iu, was ami she said German. “Then there didn’t seem to be much of anything else to say, so I remarked that I had been to the village for cheese to make a rabbit, and she said she had never eaten one. After that thei*e was nothing to do but ask her to help cat this one. Fancy having never eaten a ribbit! And you know, Rach el, I can’t make it in my own room, because that tiresome roommate they put in with me when Blanche didn't come back says it gives her a head ache just to smell one. ?> 1 Rachel shrugged her shoulders re signedly. “Very well,” she said. “I’ll ask her if it's her first year and If she knows many people and what courses she takes, but after that you will have to entertain her. * • Rachel,” said Sallie, earnestly, “this morning in chapel the dean talked about the upper classmen helping the freshmen. She was very impressive. I have decided to help this freshman. If she can have the benefit of my three years’ experience when she lias been here only three weeks, think what a start it will give her! “I shall begin,” she meditated, “by arranging her hair “~ferently. That l \ K ‘j^earance. Per when the V hair "the other ^ fflfnu, • liouse drudge receives the . /vhicli she has been unjustly deprived, she at once has her hair coiffured by a competent hair dresser. To do t v hair, to dress the hair, to coiffure ta hair—what a difference!” The guest arrived that evening jus# as the “rabbit” had reached that crit ical point when one adds the egg anti waits to see if the mixture is going to turn out smooth or stringy. Sallie, bent over tlie chafing dish, greeted her abstractedly and left hospitality to Rachel. Rachel introduced herself, since Sal lie forgot to do so. And the name was? Caroline Conrad. .was her first year, Raeffvl understood. Had she made many acquaintances yet? And what courses was she tak ing? German, chiefly? Ah, Sallie was ha ’ in German: took the Heine course, and XV. and XVI. She, Rach el, elected French. There was a perceptible pause. A girl who had been longer in college would have relieved the silence by wandering auout the room, inspecting and commenting on the posters and photographs; but this girl was either ignorant of the custom or too shy to follow it. Her shyness was obvious, although she showed it by no distressing embar rassment or nervous iaugkter, but sat quietly, her cheeks growing pink. She was unusually self-possessed for a freshman, Rachel reflected, and pretty in a quiet, unobstrusive fashion. The rabbit passed the crucial stage safely, and Sallie ladeled it out, smooth and pale and creamy. Miss Conrad was frankly delighted with her first taste, and ate three platefuls, without mentioning indiges tion or nightmare. Sallie was pleased, for she prided herself on her skill. “You eat rabbit intelligently,” she assured her guest. “The dish becomes a habit with some people, but with me it is a passion. It is my dream to eat it some day in its original home—a Welsh rabbit in Wales!” “Like sardines in *» Sardinia. And spaghetti in- 99 “Italy. And in Germany— “Pumpernickel and sausage!” Sallie gathered her new friend en thusiastically into her arms. “You darling! You have been there? ft “I have lived in Heidelberg four years and have just come back,” Miss Conrad replied. “Heidelberg, with its adorable, im pertinent students! I have found a friend! How I have longed for you! This imbecile Rachel knows not pum pernickel from kaffeekranzehen. There’s a little restaurant in town that will take you back to Germany! Not a word of English—and the cooking! Munich and Berlin! We'll lunch there to-morrow. But don't tell, for the poor, ignorant faculty frown on for eign restaurants. We’ll steal away together, darling!” “Gormands!” murmured Rachel, scornfully. u Don't mind her!” cried Sallie. “She affects to be above eating, but it’s just a pose. All college girls eat; all they can; all the time. It is studying so hard does it. But now,” with sudden transition, “you must let me do your hair. ’ ? Before the startled guest could pro test, Sallie had pulled out her hairpins and secured Rachel's comb, talking all the time. “There's a lot of it and it’s lovely, but no one would have guessed, the way you fixed it. You had a pompa dour—and pardon my saying it was a very homely one—while your profile cries for a parting. My hand shall right the wrong. As soon as I saw you I said to myself, ‘A wavy part and a soft knot’ low in the neck And Sallie, happy in a listener, went on to expound her theories, not only of liair dressing, but of dressing in general. Miss Conrad resigned herself to her fate with a meekness somewhat at variance with the decided twinkle in her eyes. .. You must always wear a short skirt about the campus and to class and nev er kid gloves—that is what gives away freshman time. * * a every Sallie was too busy to notice Miss Conrad’s expression, but Rachel, see ing surprise, comprehension and amusement follow each other in quick succession, was struck with a some what startling thought. i. But in winter? My hands will be cold,” expostulated the instructed one. “Mittens or woolen gloves. You mustn't mind my setting you right on these points. It is better to learn them sooner by word of mouth than later by experience. Of course, having lived in Germany so long, you can't kuow about these little things. “There,” standing back to survey her work, “I knew that was what you needed! But, child, why do you wear a lavender ribbon? Rachel, give me the ribbon you have on. That is all right,” in reply to Miss Conrad’s trou bled protest. “Rachel, you can wear the lavender one very well, but it fights with your eyes. Now this blue one both matches and deepens them. '' Both the change of hair and of rib bon were for the better, as Miss Con rad could plainly see in the glass Sal lie held before her. As she was about +r > express her appreciation of Sadie’s uusual attentions the gong .unda struck two warning nick were echoed by shrill I Kpvtd i n evel *y corridor. 1 ,sjr me,” cried Sallie, “there is the bell! Where do you live? \his building? That’s fovtu rh it is funny I haven’t P- 'ore.” Sallie gave her a 'Remember our lunch train ' Ve ' H take thG 12 ' 10 x “But 1 he last period, >> protested “That does, have I—a lecture in the . new German t r acL by that long getting here. L. aen so borrow notes from som '•ays know we are allowed ). •'ll but? 19 .at. ' tf Rut. Miss Russell”- ihe eubnrrass ment that had entirely disappeared in the course of the evening returned; Miss Conrad’s cheeks were painfully don't understand. I m thui. new German teacher"’ There was an unusual silence in the room after the door closed behind Miss Conrad. Rachel occupied herself in ■ athering up the dishes, and tactfully ignored the dejected figure on the couch. As the o hts cuk’ bell sound ed Sallie rose. “Rachel!” “Yes, Sallie.” “I am going to take a stand against this fashion of promiscuous class cut ting. It is a bad example to freshmen. and as the dean remarked, we should do all we can to help freshmen. I shall not go to town to-morrow, By the way,” she added, as she reached the door, “if you will give me the lavender ribbon, I will wear it to class to-mor row to show Miss Conrad that I am not offended with her. Youth’s Coin. panion. ASIA’S FOUR--OOTED FREIGHTERS, Ships of the Ilesert Still Curry Merchan dise in Caravans. It will not be long before railroads will have pushed well into Asia Minor, and then the centre of Asia will begin to wake up, but to-day it is still impos sible to ship goods into Turkestan or Persia or Arabia by any means other than the caravan, just as goods were shipped iu the days of King Solomon. If anything, the roads are a little worse now than they were then, and a caravan bound from Teheran or Bag dad to the interior may be months and even years on the way. This fact has made it necessary for many an American merchant to study queer things about story-book land in order to know just liow liis goods must be packed and shipped out of America, so that they will be in the proper con dition for loading on camel and mule back in thq desert towns, whence they start on their strange voyages. An American shipper of goods for ex port into Far Eastern countries must know just how muph a camel can carry and over what kind of a road it will have to travel: for in many places the roads are over mountain sides that are so narrow that the size of the package is of the utmost importance. Thus, shippers in the United States who do business with the Orient, have had to learn that the merchandise must be packed in tin or zinc-lined cases, be cause it is sure to be subjected to fierce storms in shelterless trails. They have had to learn that a camel load is two packer ~s of 2G0 pounds each. Mules, according to the caravan drivers’ ta bles, can carry two packages, one on each side, each weighing 103 pounds. These packages must not be longer than four l'eet, wider than two feet or deeper than one and a half feet. Pack ages of this size can just scrape through some of the dizzy denies lead ing into wild Asia. At Ispahan abciii 300 mule and cam el loads of merchandise are received or shipped every mouth during the trading season.—Savannah News. Factory and School in One. One of the curiosities of current lit erature is the increasing number of monthly magazines published by big industrial concerns in tins country and in Europe. The cost of production .and the work of editing these little peri odicals is borne by the firms, tlieir sole .purpose being to form what sociolo gists call “a point of contact” between the employer and employed. The text, which is often illustrated with good half-tones, concerns everything that relates to the social side of the em ployes’ daily life as employes, and there are departments given over .to ‘“helpful hints’ that answer inquiries of all sorts. The magazine issued bj the Colorado duel and lion Company is printed in Italian and German, as well as in English. The Cadbnrys the cocoa manufacturers ot England, had a contest tor amateur protographers recently, hue reproduct,ons of the pr,ze winning pictures being rcproimced in the last number of the magazine. The contest was limited to the employes of the works, and the results were ex tremely good.-Xew 'York Press. Severed Fin;cr Replaced. In connection with the recent trans planting of an car, the following case may be of interest: A man aged sixty, some years ago, during the killing of a pig, had liis right middle finger bit ten completely off through the middle phalanx by tile animal. “He walked to my house,” states Dr. Edsall, of Surbiton, who records the case, “a dis tauce of six miles, with a friend. On my inquiry for the missing piece of finger the friend, after bunting in va rious pockets, produced it from one of them, covered with tobacco dust, etc. Having cleansed the stump and sev ered portion I joined the two ends by trappin o* and fixed on splints. In about fourteen days circulation was completely restored, union bad taken place, and lie has his finger to this day. Tlie nerves did not unite, so that the part is insensitive. The finger had been off about two hours. The distal joint is stiff, but notwithstanding this bo finds it extremely useful, “iid 1S ' 01 y md of it. • • Loudon Tit-Bits. $ $ $ GEORGIA. t 0 0 Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. Gordon Fund Climbing Up. The fund being raised for a memo rial monument to General John B. Gor don has grown considerably within the last few weeks, and the reports made at recent meetings of the associations eh<yw that the subscriptions have run considerably over So 000 Mayor of St. Mary's Commissioned. Governor Terrell has commissioned the new mayor and aldermen :,f St. Mary's, Camden county, Georgia. The „ new officials are: Mayor, L. M. TT Vo ccelli; ... aldermen, J. T R. r. Baehlott, r. , , . J. -r t-. F. ’ Arnow, a tt H. t L. T Long. T. R. t Lee Biaklev and „ , J. T .. M. Miller. ,,,,, Lnder T . , spey-.al . , act a 1 these appointments are made oy the governor. a • • Morris to Maks Contest. Hon. N. A. Morris, of Cobb, speak er of the house of representatives,who lost the race for the judgeship of the Blue Ridge circuit against Judge Geo. T. Gober, the incumbent, by about 200 votes, according to the official count, states positively that he intends to contest the race, both as to the vote in Fannin and that in Cobh county. He has filed formal notice to this effect with the executive committees of each of these counties, and it is said that an interesting investigation will be the ! result. , Judge Gober has also filed a ' contest as to the vote in Gilmer coun ty on very much the same grounds, and this will probably be investigated at the same time. * * * Military Companies Disbanded. Four companies of Georgia state treops have been ordered disbanded by special orders issued frem tfie of fice of Adjutant General Harris. The companies disbanded include two col ored military organ>ation in Savannah, which, it is said, have never made a satisfactory showing. Two white companies, both attached to the Third Infantry Regiment, wert also disbanded. These are Company B, Third Infantry, located at Augusta and known as the Irish Volunteers, and Company C, Third Infantry, locat ed at Greensboro, and known as the Greene Rifles. The two negro companies disbanded were the Georgia Artillery and Com pany C, First Battalion, Georgia State troops, colored, both of Savannah. * * * Convict Law a Great Success. From all the information received at the prison c-cmmission the new convict law is working well. All of the coun ties vhich have convicts at wo on the public roads seem to be wtu; : pleased with the results which are be ing accomplished, and are highly grat ified at the success of the plan. When the law was first passed, it was claimed that to put tae flve-vea. men and those under fho-jear sen fences on the public road would de tract materially fiom iiie school muo, j but many of the cot 1 ie» deck ?d to take the convicts anyhow, heaving that public roads in good condition would be almost as valuable to the i county as good schools, and tfiac the ; people, when they got good roads, would be willing to pay the additional j pa X f 0 r schools, So far the convicts have given no trouble, and seem to enjoy the open transfers of the convicts to the coun ,t deg a s some of them are constant’" , p e } n g freed on account of the ecpira i ^cn of their sentences, * * * CuthbOTt H „ Une 6u „. Cll .„ lert , rejl , ch ov „ th , offl . . , announcement of the pu-c-Me of , he Ta , lahMa , 0 Carabel ,. aIM “ RaMroad m Oeovgia. ^T',, , ,. , _ „ "T'’' . “ ... 1hls Uu,fiber, ,1. is piaced on a (liroH . one y of onlv 156 mi!es to th * Gulf of Mex ' j ieo. At Carrabe’le direct eon in.”ion is mode with P-*'- —cola, Mohi 1 > and i New Orleans stesmers. At TaPahaa ! £ee “ Fla “ th5s road a l r03dy an ' other connection whu the Se it..,ard Jacksonville and Pensacola. Be j Hjs, it. places C nth bert abo’t 20 ; nearer the pa,If. over thei- 1 i€ j to Georgia, ?t. Marks. Florida It and is Alabama stated that will the be j pn the operation of the Tallahavsee, j Carnbelle and Georgia at cnee. * * * , , tnjur.ction in Sheriff's P.sce j The election most exciting in contest in ‘he pri i tnary Coweta county last week war, that for sheriff, the candi dates being J. L. Brown. T he in am bent, and John H. Jones. Brow i was defeated by a small majority- end on Saturday filed notice of cwild the county executive committee. To this pe-iticn Jones demur-'d on the cround that nc-tlco of conte ,, t was not < Pled within the tim^ allowed under the , rules adopted b” the executive coui | mittee and for ether reasons. The ccm- mittee overruled the derm: decided to ailcw the contest ' • ceed. Later Judge R. W. Freej* sued extemporary order restram..-, i executive committee from further action in the proceefi he will hear argume*t Mav - motion to make the injun.-r, ’ on , manent. * n<?r •* * Two Railroads Chartered Secretary of State Phil Cook issued two railroad chart ,rs Augii ocf * s;a a „> j er 0n ai ompany with P- o P 0ae CapU ^ Stoc ^ a ThlS $100.)) : C ° mpa ." y P r3 P° se ^ to build a !i about 60 miIes length c m fror « Aujf ta, running through the l:F Richmond, counties of Columbia, Lincoln a fil El bert to Elberton. Tte .. T?'? 4 chartered j , a “ ’M'ancoga is ® - E trie Railway Company, ’ winch will 1 "'md a line about , , five „ miles m . len^ f,,ri h trom n Roseville, -,i on the m Tennessee lino . out . past , Chickamauga >«n mng b ParV rd -“h t„ to point . . near what , x . , known a is as the Dixon House in Catoosa county, Thp capital stock of this company is s ■> 000, and the principal office will be at Rossville, Walker county. * * * The Encampment at Gainesville. On April 11 the Universi ■/ of Georgia Cadets, 180 strong, went into camp near Gainesville, for the Purpose 0 f instruction i in camp usage and ex tensive military practice. The e earap was laid out by the engineering c or ps. Every detail of regular military camp was carried out. There were three drills a day, besides guard mount, of fleers’ school, rifle practice and guard duty. The boys enjoyed the neeit. The Dahlonega boys came down f or two days and joined in the sham bat tie. Governor Terrell and his staff in speeded the camp on Friday, stat* ed that he had not inspected as neat or more orderly camp and that he had heard nothing but praise from the- peo ple of Gainesville of the condi ot the young men. in its military depart ment the university has an excs'fint opportunity for the physical develop ment of the students. Military exer c } ses are regular and not spasmodic, reach all the students and not those alone who are fond of athletics, we kept within bounds and tend to de velop all the muscles systematically, pj n( i er proper training the cadet'; bod} straightens, his head is held ereef. Ins step j g ^ rm an( j graceful, his shoul ders are thrown back, his chest ex pands and a. manlier bearing rakes the place of the slovenly gait, round ed shoulders and uncertain look The increased physical vigor result ing from military drill acts directly upon the central nervous system and the intellect is quickened. The mind is clearer and better prepared fo’ 1 the studies of the night after the in vigorating drills of the afternoon Vol untary attention becomes jmbitual. The soldier must attend. Mind-wandering is fatal. From concentration on the drill ^ ro ], m tary concentration of attention upon the preparation of his studies is an easy step. Obedience and self-control b rrme secon( j na t ure to a well trained cadet. Respect for authority is inculcated and stlIf ] en( . ] )OCOm as a law-eb law-sustaining citizen. The effect up character here is most mciked for a good character is a comolrtely f af .hioned wall Thus the habits of attention to details> of exactness and thoroughness, of executing commands and of commanding follows a renng man from the school room to the counting house, office or factory, The university, in bringing the mk.dary feature of the institution into prom inence, is doing a great service to toe state by using it as a means of phys ical training and of establishing good habits—J. S. STUATIT, of State Uni versity. • « v Paying the School Teachers. State Treasurer R. E. Park is pre paring the checks fer the second month’s salaries of the Georgia school teachers, and State School Commis sioner Merritt is busily engaged in the work incident to sending out these checks so that the teachers may re ceive them with the least possible de lay. This payment will amount to a total of $260,913.98. e- * * Bankers Change Meeting Date, Tjj e executive council of the Geor g j a bankers’ Association have feund j }t necessary to change the date of the | meetlng t . he association at Lookout j ! j nn< Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, 20t.U to Tenn., from June 2fth and July 12th and 13th. UMON PLUMBERS QUIT WORK. Savannah Men Strike for Higher W,?ges and a Day of Eight Hours. All the union plumbers in Ga., went on strike Thursday giving their employers notice of intention. They strike for an hour day and Saturday afternoons with pay of $4 a day. They now a. nine hour day, no time off and i C ceive $3.23 a day.