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THE NEW SONG.
Before my life had tasted pain
1 sang in pensive, minor key;
How light so,per my Ivart. my strain
For others was a threnody.
But since I know the stress of care,
1 sing of hone find courage tine,
That other h.-mts with loads to bear
May gain no added weight from mine.
—Youth’s Companion.
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Josiar is a man that b'lieves in what
he calls systum. Have a place for
things, says he, an' keep things in
their place. That’s where they b'long.
Live up to that rule, an’ you’ll a’lays
know- where to find things when you
want ’em. An’ do things when they
need doin’.
Josidr’s ideas are good—I ain’t a go
in' to deny that—but the fact is, he
don’t jest live up to 'em. He has
places for his things, but the things
ain’t always there. Only last week he
wanted the hammer. Wanted it bad,
an’ sight off, an’ the way he went
through the house a huntin' for it, ail’
scoldin’ ’cause it wa’n't to be found
was a caution.
“Have you looked behind the cellar
door?” I asked. That’s where he
made a place for it, an’ ordered us to
put it whenever we used it, the min
nit we’d got done with it.
“Looked behind the suiler door!”
says he, dretful savage, “Wall, I sh’d
say 1 had! That’s where 1 looked
first. That’s where 1 expected to find
it—‘where I would ha’ found it if you
or the younguns had did as I told
you ’bout puttin’ it back where it
b’lengs, after you’d used it. I swan,
it does make me awful mad to think
none o’ you’ll take any pains to do ’s
I’ve told you.”
“But I hain’t had the hammer,” says
I. “I hain’t had no use for it. An' I
don’t b’lieve the children had it It’s
most likely where you left it.”
“Hear the woman talk!” says Josair,
an’ he jest glared at me. “J’d have you
know, ma’am—an’ you do know—that
I don’t go leaving things ’round as
you an’ the rest of ’em do. If you’d
try—jest try—to have some kind o’
system about you. I wouldn’t mind it
so much, but that’s the meanness of
it, you won’t try. You jest set out
to be contrary, an’ you encourage the
children in it. If l told you to leave
the hammer a lyin’ ’round, you’d put.
it up ev’ry time—I’d know right where
to look for it. Hain’t had it? How’d
you know you hain’t had it? How
long’d you remember whether you’d
had it or not? You’d forgit afore you’d
turned ’round. But of course you’d
declare, up hill an’ down, that you
hadn’t had it or seen it. It’s enough
#o make a man swear. If I ever find
it ag’in I’ve a good mind to put a
padlock on it, an’ carry the key ’round
with me.”
“What is it you’re -huntin for now,
pa?” asked Jimmy, who’d be’n some’rs
on a arrant, an’ hadn’t heard the rum¬
pus.
“The hammer,” says Josiar. like a
snapin’ turtle. “Your mother says
she hain’t had it, but that don't prove
sl*e hain’t, by any means. Have you
seen it?”
“It’s up on the scaffold in the barn,
where you nailed them boards yes’t’dy,”
says Jimmy. “You didn’t bring it
down, when you got through.”
When I heard that, I laughed. I
couldn’t help it, considerin' all Josiar’d
said. He heard me, an’ it made him
mad.
“Oh, laugh, will ye?” says he in a
low, awful tone. “You think it smart
to make fun o’ me, right afore the chil¬
dren, don’t ye? Laugh! Laugh! Why
don’t ye? But don’t carry your foolish¬
ness too fur, for you're fatter’n any one
o’ your Polan’ Chinys, an’ it might
bring on apoplexy.” Then he went
out, an’ slammed the kitchen door so it
’most jarred the clock off the shelf.
All summer the suiler stairs has
needed fixin’. There’s a board loose an’
sev’ril times I’ve come nigh takin’* a
fall. I’ve spoke to Josiar about it
more’n a dozen times, but he never
got ’round to fix it. We got into the
habit o’ sayin’ ev’ry time any o’ the
fam’ly went crown suiler, ‘Look out
fer that step!” More’n once I told
Josiar about it, an’ said ’tain’t livin’
up to his idees o’ doin’ things when
they needed doin’ to let it go so, but he
gits contrary if you keep a fellin’ him,
an’ by’meby I see ’tain’t no use o’ wast¬
in’ breath on the matter, so I hain’t
said anything to him about it lately.
Thinks I he’ll be more likely to get
round an fix it sometime, if I let him
be.
\\ all, last week he began to dig the
p tatoes in the garden, an’ when they’d
got dried off, an’ the children had
picked em up. he went to earrvin' ’em
down suiler in bags, He made three
or four trips ’thout anything happ’nin’.
but the last time he went down he
happened to^tep jest right on the stair
board to give it a flip, au’ it flipped, all
right, an’ down he went. Such a noise
as there was! He hadn’t tied the bag,
but jest hel his hand round the end
be d gathered up, to save a string an’
tyin , an of course when he went
down, he had to let go an’ the p’tatoes
jest roHed all over the suiler floor, an’
l sb d say be bumped hisself good’n
° on evry step, judgin’ by the
sound huf S ° Unds of aiI
came fShtful nut o’ £ arTm* rl ™ nUy
to 10 near him The way he
.
fnghtful . . . , , hear
o him! H rt a church
b«t bntTa™-”, I don t ES b Iieve 4 *■; he "**•»' would «*, be long,
if tife* minister’i ben there to n<*»*
what he said, as he sot there''on the
suiler bottom an’ said things.
1 went to the suller-way an’ looked
down. An’ says I—
“What’s the matter, Josiar? Has
anything happened?”
“Happened?” says he in one o’ them
awful tones o’ his. “Happened? Oh,
no. Don’t git that idee in yer head.
I was jest slidin’ down the suiler stair/
for fun, of course.”
Hr- said that sarcastic.
“Be you hurt?” I asked.
“No, of course not,” says he.
“ ’Twouldn’t be likely to hurt a man o’
my heft to fall the hull length o’ them
stairs, with a two bushel bagful o’
p’tatoes a landin' on top of him. Oh,
no, I ain t hurt any. Then he groaned
jest dretful.
“You’d o’t to a fixed it,” said I. “I’ve
told you about it, times enough. If
you’d live up to your idees—”
“There it goes!” says he. “I knew
you’d come in with your everlastin’ ‘I
told you sol’ I never knew it to fail.
Why in thunder didn’t you put me in
mind of it wheq I went to bringin’ in
them p’tatoes? You’re al’ays a cau¬
tionin’ the children to look out for the
snlier-stairs, but not a word—not one
solitary word!—did you say to me this
mornin’ about lookin' out. Wanted me
to falj an’ kill myself, an’ cut a swell
an’ get married ag’in, like’s not. Wall,
I shouldn’t wonder if things’d turn out
as you’d like to have ’em. Nigh’s I
can make out three ribs is broke an’
my stummick feels all staved in from
strikin’ it ag’inst your old soap barrjll.
Confound it all, Sarah, why can’t you
put things where they b'long, an’ not
leave that old barrill right where anv
body’d be sure to fall ag’inst it or into
it, if they fell down stairs. I never
see anybody quite so shifless as you
be.”
“If you’ll take the trouble to think
back, you’ll remember that that’s jest
precisely where you put the barrill
yourself,” says I. “You knew I want¬
ed it in the corner, but you said you
wa’n’t agoin’ to bother to move it.”
“Oh, that’s right, twit an’ fling!”
groaned Josiar. “Couldn’t you move it
yourself, if you wanted it moved, I’d
like to know? But tain’t anyways
likely I’ll be here to be blamed for
everything, must longer.” Then he
groaned some more. “If I live through
it, 1 wouldn’t wonder a bit if 1 was laid
up all the rest o’ the fall. Right in the
busy season, too. An’ you can’t get
help for love or money. I swan, it
makes me so mad to think of it! Why
in—in—”
“Be careful what ye say,” says I.
“The children might hear you, an’ it’d
git out what ianguidge you'd be’n us¬
in’.”
Josiar jest snorted.
“Why’n thunder don’t you make a
bigger fool of yourself than natur’ did,”
says he. “But you couldn’t do it, if you
tried,” says he. “I forgot that. But
why didn’t you tell me to look out for
the stairs? Say—what’s the reason?”
and Josiar fairly shouted up the sul
ler-v.ay at me.
“You needn’t holler so loud, I ain’t
deef,” says I. “I didn’t tell you to be
careful because I didn’t happen to
think of it I had told you times
enough afore, but you didn't pay any
’tention to what I said. It don’t look
very well for you to go to callin’ me
shifless, Josiar, s’long’s you don’t see
to things when you’re told about ’em.
It looks to me as if it was a kind o’
jedgment. on you for not practicin’
what you preach, an’ blamin’ other
folks for it. Do you want I should get
the arnicky, Josiar, or had I better
send for the doctor?”
I ain't goin’ to tell another word o’
what Josiar said, ’tain’t tellable. But
he wa’n’t half so much hurt as he
thought he was, when he come to get
limbered up. He fixed up the stairs, I
notice, afore he took any more p’tatoes
down ’em. But he hain’t got very good
natured yet.
THE “CAMPBELL SYSTEM.”
It Means Only Exercise of Intelli
gence, Care. Patience and Industry.
What Western people have become
accustomed to calling the “Campbell
s: stem of dry farming” consists sim¬
ply in the exercise of intelligence, care,
patience and tireless industry. It dif¬
fers in details from the “good farming”
methods practiced and taught at the
various agricultural experiment sta¬
tions; but the underlying principles
are the same.
These principles are two in number.
First, to keep the surface of the land
under cultivation loose and finely pul¬
verized. This forms a soil mulch that
permits the rains and melting snows to
percolate readily through to the com
pacter soil beneath; and that at the
same time prevents the moisture stored
in the ground from being brought to
the surface by capillary attraction, to
be absorbed a'nd placing it in the best
possible physical condition for the ger¬
mination of seed and the development
of plant roofs. The “dry farmer” thus
stores water not in dams and artificial
reservoirs, but right where it can be
reached by the roots of growing crops.
Through these principles, a rainfall
of 12 inches can be conserved so ef¬
fectively that it will produce better
results than are usually expected of an
annual precipitation of 24 inches in
humid America. The discoverer and
demonstrator of these principles de
serves to rank among the greatest of
national benefactors. He has not
! Merely made two blades of grass grow
j where only one grew before, but he has
I made it possible to cover with
and corn, alfalfa and other useftal
j crops, tens o thousands of square
I miles of fert ~ land on which nothing
I ^ sa f, buS J’ Kansas
ers and bunch grass are now found—
from John L Cowans "Dry Farming
Hope of -bo Went," in the Con
tury.
ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON. GA.
: GEORGIA BRIEFS
Lumber Yards Destroyed By Fire.
The Ocilla Lumber Company, one
of the largest in the state, was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday morning;
loss $50,000. Dry kiln, millions of feet
of lumber, laths, shingles and other
material were destroyed. There was
little insurance on the property, but
the mills will be rebuilt at once. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
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Farmers To Have Day At Fair.
The Farmers’ Union will have a na¬
tional day at the state fair in Atlanta
Friday, October 10. There will be a
state mass meeting in Atlanta on
Thursday and the following day a rally
will be held at Piedmont park and ev¬
ery member In the United States will
be invited.
Ibe organization has about 400,000
njembers. Most of them in the south
and southwest. Georgia has 40,000
members.
Decision Anent Domestic Wines.
A municipal law cannot be enacted,
according to the state supreme court,
which will exclude the sale of domes¬
tic wines, although the sale of in¬
toxicating liquors can be prevented.
The decision was made in the case or
Daren vs. Stephens, of Thomasville.
It is held that a municipality can pre¬
vent the sale of intoxicating liquors,,
but this cannot include domestic
wines, the sale of which is authorized
by general law.
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Governor Praises State Troops.
Governor Terrell, as commander in
chief of the national guard of Geor¬
gia, has issued a circular praising the
state troops for their conduct at the
national army maneuvers at Camp
Chickamauga.
The chief executive calls attention
to the improvement of the troops, and
requests every member in the ser¬
vice of the state to advance the stand¬
ard of efficiency.
Pharr Caught in Montana.
A dispatch from Livingston, Mont.,
says: Olia P. Pharr was arrested
here upon advice from McRae, Ga.,
where Pharr was cashier of the Citi¬
zens’ Bank. He is charged with de¬
falcation. Pharr was traveling under
the name of W. W. Williams, claim¬
ing to be a detective in the employ
of the Georgia bank, in a bunt for
the missing cashier. A. L. Ryals, a
director of the McRae bank, arrived
and identified the prisoner.
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State Road a Money Maker.
That the gross earnings per mile of
the Western and Atlantic railroad for
the past year were more Ilian thre9
times that of the Southern, nearly 80
per cent more than that of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern, nearly 100 per
cent more than that of the Atlanta,
Knoxville and Northern, and nearly
three times that of the Central of
Georgia, is the interesting information
contained in the report of the com¬
mittee to inspect the state road, whion
was filed with the general assembly
on the day of adjournment.
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Bound Over On Peonage Charge.
A. Q. Campbell, A. L. Bradshaw and
W. G. Matthews were bound over in
$1,000 bond each by United States
Commissioner Brown at Columbus on
a charge of peonage. These men are
superintendents, general foreman ami
commissary of the Atlanta-Birming
ham Construction Company, contrac¬
tors of the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic. The charges were preferred
by A. J. Hoyt, special agent of the
United States. Complaint was made
by a number of laborers who were
brought from New York some time ago
and they alleged that they were uu
lawfully detained by threats.
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Advance Notice to Corporations.
All domestic or foreign corporations
doing business in Georgia who fail to
make their returns to the secretary
of state by November l -will be amea
able to a penalty of $50.
The provisions of the biH, which
was passed by the general assembly,
provides that all corporations must
make full certified statements to the
secretary of state who will be ex
officio commissioner of corporations in
regard to their business, name, loca¬
tion, capitalization, etc.
The blanks for the statements can
be secured from the secretary of
state. The returns for the first year
will be $1, and 50 cents for each sub
sequent year,
Agricultural Schools in Demand
Three sections of the state are pre¬
pared to take immediate steps to es¬
tablish agricultural schools, according
to Governor Terrell. One application
comes from the southeastern portion
of the state, one from the southwest
ern an( ^ one front the northern part
of the state.
Governor Tem-*! states that the net
amount realized by the state from in
s Pection fees amounts to about $t>6,
000 annually, so that should an agri
cultural school be established in ea-h
of the eleven districts there wouid
be a fund of about $(.,000 for the schi sun
P°* and maintenance of each
Should ’ no TiT v-n 0 r, vT w es,ab " sh , « I .
l . a year after the
passage of the act, the pro rata share
of the fund which would go for the
establishment of a school will go into
the common school fund of said dis¬
trict.
Back Taxes Go To Augusta.
Upon the grounds that the princi¬
pal -offices of the Georgia Railroad
Company are located in Augusta, the
state supreme court has decided that
Richmond county and the city of Au
*gusta alone are entitled to the award
of back faxes on the 15,000 shares
of strfek of the Western of Alabama
railroad, which are owned by the Geor¬
gia railroad.
The decision declines to allow a pro
rata division of the award among
Greene county and the other countie,
and cities which contended for a
proportionate share because the Geor
gia railroad waS operated throug.
their counties and cities.
T io decision, which is a far-reach¬
ing one, involves a question of $750 -
000, and determines that the location
of a property is where its principa.
offices are.
The Corn and Cotton Contest.
One of the attractive features of the
stale fair will be the corn and cotton
cor. est by school boys. The fair has
offered $500 in prizes for the best ten
cars of corn and the best five stalks of
cotton grown by a school boy on a
sixteenth of an acre. There will be
ten prizes for corn and ten for cotton,
the first prize in each being $75. The
contest was inaugurated by the State
university to encourage the study of
these two important crops of the state
by the boys, and through them to en¬
list the study of they same by the par¬
ents.
The county school commissioners in
a number of counties have co-operated
in this important study and they have
sent me over 800 names of boys who
have entered the contest.
The local contests will he held the
first week in October, so that the ex¬
hibits may be then shipped to At¬
lanta to contest for the state prizes.
We want pictures of all the prize win¬
ners and of their county exhibits to go
in our next bulletin for 1907, twenty
thousand copies o? which we expect to
issue and distribute to the schools and
r farmers’ clubs of the state.
Next year
we want 3,00) boys to enter the con¬
tests.
We must get back of the strong,
manly, courageous country boy and
give him the best thought relating to
the farm and let him catch the in
spiration coming from intelligent farm¬
ing.
Agriculture ias taken its rightful
place among tie studies of schools and
colleges and lie entire farming class
will be uplifted. The boys’ corn and
cotton contest? will be a potent influ¬
ence in this development.—J. S.
STEWART.
UNION TYP IN SESSION.
Convention at Colorado Springs Dis¬
cusses P'ans for 8-Hour Day.
The fifty-seernd annual convention
of the International Typographical
Union of No th America began in
Colorado Springs Monday. Mayor
Henry C. Hal and other prominent
citizens welconed the three hundred
delegates, wh< represent 46,000 union
printers, and President Lynch of the
union responded. The chief event of
the day was the formal presentation
of books to the Amos M. Cummings
library at the Union Printers’ Home,
which is located in the city, The
ch^ef business! before the convention
is the consideration of plans for car¬
rying on the fight for an eight-hour
d n v. About $8#0.0-00 has been expend
ed by the organization up to date
in conducting (this fight.
ANOTHER LYNCHING CANDIDATE.
Posse Searches For Negro Who At¬
tacked Woman and Little Niece.
As the result of a brutal attack upon
Miss Ethel Lawrence, of London, Eng¬
land, and her little niece, Mabel, 14
years old, by a negro fiend, in the out¬
skirts of Atlanta, Monday morning,
the aunt lies in a dying condition at
the Wesley Memorial hospital; the
niece is suffering from three Plows on
the forehead, inflicted by a big stick,
•and five country for miles around is
being scoured by posses of determined
men, who will take the law in their
own hands if they succeed in finding
the guilty man.
AUTOISTS ARE MANGLED.
Train Crashes Into Touring Car and
Occupants Meet Death.
Three automobilists were killed and
another fatally injured at Allaire
crossing, on the Pennsylvania railroad,
near Asbury Park. N. J.. Saturday
night, when an express train crashed
into the automobile of J. G. Laffargue.
a piano manufacturer of New York
City. Mr. Laffargue, his wife and Mrs.
Charles Lurch were instantly killed.
Mr. Lurch, the only other occupant •><’
the car, is Jn a precarious condition.
FORMER SHERIFF SHOT DEAD.
Storekeeper claims Wife and Self
Were Insulted While Under Arrest.
I. V. Fllnekman, aged 60 years, for¬
mer sheriff of Miller county, Arkansas,
■ as shot and killed by H. Brock, in
the latter's store at Lane, La , 20 miles
north of Shreveport, Saturday night.
1'ive shots were fired, ail taking el
feet.
! Brock, who has been arrested,
el'aims that Hinckman Insulted him¬
self and wife.
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