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Fitzgerald Leader. FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. —• PUBLISHED BY— K3XTA.PP SORT. EDITORIAL AOTES. A Government tobacco plantation i the largest addition to the things owned nil d operated hy Victoria, Australia. r The cities are congested. “Back to the soil” might well be the rallying cry of the present economic revolution, states a writer in Public Opinion. r Great Britain is among the lowest oi civilized countries in regard to the ten¬ der age at which it allows child labor in factories, Seventy-six thousand children of ten years of age are now at work. Within the last few years the distinc¬ tion once enjoyed by Philadelphia of being the greatest manufacturing city in the United States has passed from., the Quaker metropolis to the City of New York. A correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald wants to know how her boy’s hair should be shingled. Don’t shingle his hair at all, is the reply; shingle his trousers occasionally, “like your mother used to do.” Sold $7,000,000 worth! This is what Kansas did with poultry and eggs last year, according to the very com¬ plete report of Secretary Coburn of the State Board of Agriculture, recently issued. The report shows these pro¬ ducts were sold to the value of $6,- 923,882.____ flu 1875, on the authority of one of our leading publicatibns, there was not an organized school system in any Southern State, aud yet in 1896 the South enrolled 4,000,000 public school children, expending for the support of her various school systems not less than $28,000,000. There is “food for thought” in the announcement that in the new high school building in Detroit, Mich., a room has been set apart that will ac¬ commodate no less than 300 bicycles. The idea is not a new 7 one, but this is believed to be the first time that dis¬ tinct arrangements for the accommoda¬ tion of cyclists have been made in the plans for a school building. Public schools generally do not need to pro¬ vide bicycle rooms, as the pupils live near them, but such rooms are a ne¬ cessity in the case of high schools that draw 7 pupils from a large area. Since the increase of the tax on spirits from ninety cents to $1.10 a gallon, illicit distilling has increased to a point almost, if not quite, beyond control, declares the Louisville Cou¬ rier-Journal. This is the case particu¬ larly in the mountainous districts in the South. Recently evidence has been obtained of its extension into the North. A Bhort time ago a large quan¬ tity of illicit w'hisky was captured in Montana, and an investigation dis¬ closed the fact that it was manufac¬ tured in Nebraska. That it is rapidly increasing and extending in many di¬ rections internal revenue officers say is beyond doubt, and with only the $50,000 appropriated by Congress for the detection and suppression of illicit distilling the Internal Revenue Bu¬ reau is almost helpless to stem the tide. r The San Francisco Argonaut says: • “It is impossible to find a member of either House of Congress who will con¬ fess that his official salary enables him to more than cover expenses, What is it that they are all to enjoy after they have w 7 on the goal? First of all, the annual salary of $5000. For rep¬ resentatives add $1200, allowed yearly for clerical services, but whose ex¬ penditure need not be accounted for to any one. For members of both Houses add $125 a year, allowed for stationery, the balance to be drawn at the end of each session if not all used. It seldom happens that more than $50 of this allowance is expended. There is no reason why a thrifty man should not save $1000 or $2000 during each term in the House. It is hardly pos¬ sible for a Senator to save, however, since he has to spend a great deal of money to keep up w 7 ith his greater social duties. To the millionaire mem¬ ber of Congress the annual salary is merely ornamental. It is the heavy swell thing for the Legislator of this brand to turn over bis $5000 a year to his private secretary, who generally has his employer’s private interests to attend to in addition. It is said that Hanna not only gives his secretary his whole annual salary, but $1000 in ad¬ dition. Brice is said to have given his whole Senatorial salary to his secretary, while his social pilot probably receives even more—some say $25,000. ... _ I $ f/ [/ * <1Sjo? ,v- / •'S - — A* il ' \YA ' VY l:.- ft I •••j :3s. k 1 -I* r. mm 1 l j8p m s. \ < *> r P> -s?-/ - V .' % I ■> «i'V ■ ‘Tretty soon.” ‘‘Pretty soon.” How the soft phrase slips, With limpid, laughing cadence, through the languidfips, , • Where the plumes of the palms by filagree the south wind swayed, Fling on the dewy terraces their of shade. When the almond and the myrtle have taken in their net, The doves that tread the measure of the tender minuet,- And the nestlings of the nightingale cuddle low and croon soon.” To the laughter of the laurel, ‘‘Pretty soon,” “Pretty “Pretty soon,” “Pretty soon,” cries Youth, I shall make A home amid the happy hills for her dear sake. There I will load my darling as Dawn doth lead the Day, While God is making morning I will sit with her and say, “Yon river to its ocean troth will never he more true, The best of life is mine to-day because of love and you.” * And heart shall rhyme to heart as unto the summer moon, The swinging sea doth sing “Pretty soon,” “Pretty soon.” “Pretty lily soon,” “Pretty soon,” sighs Age, I shall see That we call Heaven in the stream Eternity, And pluck the rosy tlie amaranths that make its meadows sweet, Still swaying to paces of the silver sandaled feet, When beneath the within healing for trees they refill the crystal urns, O how the soul me their blessed J.nd welcome yearns, But the band of shining spirits, with lips lutes iu tune, Bid me wait and bide their coining, “Pretty soon,”, “Pretty soon.” —Robert M’lntyre, in Chicago Times-Herald. $ All’s Well That & ;-»\ Ends Well. BIG, white steamboat backs away from the ? . 0 «» wharf, swings about, and goes slowly down £ % the river sounding her whistle at intervals, for the fog is coming ' in rapidly. The few loafers on the piers eye curiously the tall, elegant woman who has come ashore. She, casting a half scornful glance about, aj)proaches old Jed Rawson, and puts this query: “Can I hire any one to take me across the river?” “I reckon not,” declares old Jed, taking out his pipe to stare at her with astonishment, “The steamer goes into port jest below here ter wait fer the fog ter lift. Thar’s no gittin’ across the river tor-night, marm!” “Can. you manage a boat, my good man?” All the loafers smiled at this. Old Jed breaks into a mellow laugh which sends a perfect net-work of wrinkles over his brown face. “Why, leddy,” he says, “there ain’t nary a boy of ten or up’ard alongshore as don’t know how to handle a boat.” The lady laughs, too. She is very charming; even old Jed realizes that. She takes a gold piece from her dainty purse and says: “If you will take me and my trunk across the river, this shall be yours.” The trunk is a huge affair and Jed looks at it with one eye closed and shakes his head. “If it warn’t fer the fog, marm, eny one on us ’ud take yer aerost fer nothing. But we couldn’t see the boat’s length to-night.” The lady utters a sharp exclamation, anger and disappointment clouding her features. A brown-faced lad steps from the corner of the little red bag¬ gage house where he has been stand¬ ing. “If you dare to go, madam, I w 7 ill take you,” he says. She gives him a radiant smile at which he . Hushes to the roots of his fair, waving hair. Jed and one or two of the other men remonstrated with him to no purpose. A small brown wherry is brought up to the flight of weather beaten steps leading down from one side of the wharf. The big trunk is lowered into it, and the lady handed down by Andrew Russell, who is thrilled by the touch of her cool, satiny Augers. He pulls off into the fog bnnk while the loungers on the wharf make their comments. “Mighty fine looking craft that.” < . 1 ‘Carries too much sail.” : “What -can she want over the river?” “P’haps she’s bound for Barring¬ ton’s.” “P’liaps. She looks like his kind.” It is late in the evening -when Andrew Russell returns, Old Jed meets him hurrying up the village street. “Well, Andrew, you got across all right?” “Yes, I had a compass.” f “Where’d she go?” ‘‘I can’t tell you,” is the curt reply, as the boy passes on. All subsequent inquires elicit no further information than that Andrew landed her at the road which leads up by Barrington’s, and that she expected some sort of conveyance to come for her there. Barrington is reported to be im¬ mensely wealthy. He never mingles with the people there, and he lives in a lordly fashion. He brings his own company from distant parts, and there are stories of gay aud wild doings at the great house which fill the unso¬ phisticated natives with amazement. He comes and goes as he likes, and is altogether very mysterious. Andrew Russell has a sweetheart on that side of the river—pretty Jen Hardy, the fisherman’s daughter. It is only natural that frequently lie should row across in his wherry. But Jen Hardy does not see him every time he goes during the next fortnight., woodland , He tramps through a strip of across lots until he reaches a sheltered vale this side of Barrington’s. Here he meets the mysterious lady again and again. Andrew is twenty —tall, strong aud manly looking. Cars Ferris, as she calls herself, uses all her blandishments to complete his enthralment. She tells him a pretty story. How’ that her uncle is de¬ termined to make a nun of her. That Barrington, being her cousin and friend, she’ has come to him for pro¬ tection, until she can get out of the country. She wants to go to Europe, for as soon as her uncle discovers her hid¬ ing place he will follow her. She is apparently very confiding with An¬ drew, who is too innocent to see the flaws in her story. “Would he think she was twenty-five?” she asked co- quettishly. ay-'Andrew returns a decided negative, never once dreaming that she is ten years older. Jen Hardy is too proud to own.ythat Andrew does not come to motherf_ see hei£ any more. Andrew has no and his father, who is not a very clear-sighted man, sees no change in his boy, who is moody or exalted by fits. In two weeks’ time Andrew im¬ agines himself madly in love with this woman. He does not stop to reason over the absurdity of so bril¬ liant a creature finding any attraction in an ignorant boy like himself. One night he goes home intoxi¬ cated by the memory of a round white arm about his neck, and the pressure of soft, warm lips to his own. A week later, one hour before midnight, he crosses the river in his little brown wherry. On the big rock which serves for a pier, a man and a woman await him. Barrington carries a valise in each hand. They enter the wherry, and Andrew pulls swiftly and silently down the river. In about an liqur they come to a small cove, -where a commodious sailboat is tied to a ring in the rocky; shelving bank. They go aboard this, the little wherry is fastened astern, the sails are unfurled, aud on they go dancing light¬ ly out into the waters of the bay. At nightfall of the next day they come to a great city. Barrington and the lady go ashore. Some purchases- are to be made here, and Barrington is to see a man who will buy the boat— this is what they have ‘told Andrew. In the meantime he is to wait here with the boat until their return, when they will all go aboard the great ocean steamship whose black funnels rise from a neighboring wharf. that Andrew is not particularly pleased Barrington is to accompany them, belief but nothing can dampen the joy of his that she loves him, and he can never forget that her lips have touched his own. The poor hoy is quite daft for the time, and does not dream that he is being duped. . The city clocks aie striking 10,when ft ragged street gamin crosses the wharf and hails Andrew. “Hi, there. Bo your name Rus- sell?” Andrew nods, and the boy hands him a note. “A big swell uptown sent this to yer.” and it Andrew takes the note tears open. He knows, of course, that the “big swell” is Barrington. The note reads as follows: “When you read this we shall be aboard an outward bound express. Goodby, my dear boy, many thanks for your gallantry. Mr. Barrington makes you a present of the boat as a reward for your services. 0. F.” For a moment Andrew stares at the note in dumb amazement. His brain reels. The letters dance blood red be¬ fore his eyes. He staggers down into the little cabin, and throws himself prostrate upon the floor. He breaks into great sobs which shake him front head to foot. To be fooled, played with, cast aside, when I10 had served _ their turn! , - • j Oh, the bitterness, the grief, and rage in the boy’s hot heart as he rolls tp and fro uppn the cabin floor! All night long he battles with this first great trouble. In the morning he rouses himself and goes up into the city to finfl a purchaser for his boat, for the sight of it is hateful to him, and he must have money to get home with. He sells it for $150, which is a pretty sum for a poor lad. At noon he has a sunstroke, and is conveyed to the city hospital. When he comes out of his stupor he finds himself under arrest for being the accomplice of an adventuress, He learns, to his horror, that Cars Ferris is Madge Delaphine. That she en- gaged herself as companion to a little, miserly old woman. That she and Barrington, who is her lover, planned the old woman’s murder, in order to obtain possession of the money and jewels which she hoarded about her. That Madge Delaphine accomplished the murder by means of a subtle poi¬ son, packed the body into a trunk, and conveyed it to Barrington’s house, where it was buried in the cellar. The very trunk which Andrew fer¬ ried across the river! Andrew is taken before a Magistrate, where he tells his story, omitting the love pas¬ sages. But the Magistrate is an as¬ tute old man, and reads between the lines and pities the lad. “The -woman and her lover have been arrested. I want you to identify her.” He opens the door to an inner room and utters an exclamation of dismay. There, prostrate upon the floor, with her jewelled hairpin stuck through her heart, lies Madge Delaphine quite dead. “Is this the woman?” “Cars Ferris had dark hair,” re¬ turns Andrew, vtho is white to bis litDS. The Magistrate lifts a wig of dark hair from a table nearby. “A very simple disguise,” ho says, and motions Andrew back to the outer room, where, after a few more ques¬ tions and some fatherly advice, he dismisses him. The misery of An¬ drew’s journey home is boundless. When he reaches the familiar spot he is taken ill and for weeks is de¬ lirious with brain fever. Jen Hardy is hi3 patient and faithful nurse. To Andrew it seems as if the memory of his folly must torture him forever. But as the months go by the shame and agony die away little by little. Jen, faithful soul, believes in him and loves him. He is young, and the world is fair, and life is pleasant af¬ ter all. 80 gradually he returns to his old allegiance, and it all ends as it should —with a -wedding.—Dublin World. ' Making: Vinegar From Honey. The experiment of making vinegar from honey has been tried in Europe, and, as might be expected, was suc¬ cessful. Water was added to the honey, which, when in the first stage, made a palatable alcoholic drink, which has long been known under the name of metheglin. Of course, when this fermentation progressed to its final stage it became vinegar. But some American experimenters with honey vinegar have found that it pos¬ sessed peculiar properties. A -writer in American Bee Gleanings says that this honey vinegar is absolutely worth¬ less for making sour pickles, as of cu¬ cumbers or other vegetables often pre¬ served by being put in vinegar. This hardens their exterior surface and pre¬ vents decomposition. When such vegetables were put into honey vine- ■ gar, on the contrary they were made soft, and soon when exposed -to air spoiled. This seems to be a very sug¬ gestive fact. Ordinary cider or other vinegar made from sweet fruits or sugar is reckoned injurious to diges¬ tion. Why? It is evidently because of this hardening process, which pre¬ vents the digestive fluids from pene¬ trating it. Honey is nectar of flowers mixed with gastric juices of the bee which digests its food. It is likely, therefore, that vinegar from honey will not be.injurious to digestion. If the honey remains in condition to soften vegetables immersed in i^ that is just what is needed to be done for food in the stomach to aid digestion. A Famous Fat Boy. * ’ Currituck County, North Carolina, has long been famed for the most stal¬ wart men in the State, and now it adds a product of a fat boy thirteen years and six months old who weighed on April 6th 438 pounds. His name is Lewis T. Lewark. He has ten brothers and sisters, whose weight ranges from 180 to 250 pounds. His parents are under medium size and weight; his ancestors were some times fat people, showing that qualities skip children and reproduce remote ancestors.—AL lanta Constitution, ' _ £r;4 tJr; tv wSill^ • .csr<' T(w WjS&^^k • «3*~v** -TA- i r v; ' 1 I ’ > ITO, i w r . Covering the Manure File. If manure has any value, it is prob¬ ably fermenting, even in the coldest weather, if left in a pile. A slight cov¬ ering of dry earth will absorb ammonia, and will, if left on while the manure rots down, make it nearly or quite as rich as the manure itself. Its work in absorbing ammonia continues even when the pile is turned. The Children's Garden,,. • ! Wherever possible, a little plot of g ro und should bo devoted to the rais- j U g 0 f herbs, more especially where there ai;e little children in the family, Mint, sage, rue and horehound are all valuable as remedial agents. Sage tea j s to be recommended in cases where ; there is’excessive perspiration during s i ee p. It is also good for those who sp it blopd from the stomach. baby when Itue he has tea j s excellent for the co lio. It is also good in cases of ner- yousness. Horehound is invaluable to use f or colds, as teas, syrups, etc. Thyme and tansy also have their uses, alK \ should have a place in the garden. York Ledger. Raising Chickens. _ Those’who expect to raise poultry without devoting constant care and at- tention to them will generally make a failure. “Constant care is what they need, A painstaking and sensible application to the needs and requirements of the incubating eggs and growing chicks It is necessary that the hen be watched !in, t attended to while setting and the eggs looked after every few days. The first two or three days of a chick’s life are the most, critical and as they are very young and feeble great care should be exercised in attending to their wants. The early care is of utmost importance and should be most carefully watched and guarded during the first week or two.—Cloud’s Poul- try News. Try a Few Sunflowers. In planning to diversify crops this season, try a small patch of sunflowers. The value of the seed for poultry and farm stock has long been recognized, and of late years dairymen have siloed t b e entire plant and claim that -it gives as g0D q results as corn treated in the same manner. The culture of this crop is very simple. Prepare the grountj ps; for corn and plant in drills, dropping a seed about every four or five inches in May. While any corn land will answer, the plants' are gross feeders and the richer the soil, the more satisfactory the crop. Cultivate as corn, keeping the ground as free from weeds as pos¬ sible. In the fall the time and method of harvesting will depend upon whether the crop is wanted for the seed alone or for the seed and the fodder.—New England Homestead. L. Ventilation Overdone. Within the Limits of my experience, the warning to ventilate the cow stable is about on a par with the great anxiety of some writers that dairymen should not overfeed their cows. We might as well warn men not to be too good, too honest or too cleanly in their habits, for fear that they might be¬ come fanatics on these subjects. To be sure, some cow stables need venti¬ lating, but should the whole roof be taken off such stables and the cow-s exposed to the starry heavens, that would not remove the filth from those stables. We are told that, numbers of airshafts two or three feet in the clear should extend from the floor up over the cows’ backs and out at the roof, ■with other ventilators coming from outside at the floor and opening over the cows’ backs for fresh air. This, I presume, presupposes an air¬ tight, hermetically sealed cow stable, the approximation to which I; have never seen unless it was in a stone basement under ground, where cows should never be put. My notion is that cows should Stand on a floor well drained and dry,.-with plenty of good, dry bedding, and the stable kept clean; and there should be space enough above the cows for ample breathing room. If I saw a man filling his stable with ventilators I would suspect he in¬ tended leaving the droppings of the cows to lie iu the stable for a -week at a time. The hired man would cer¬ tainly think that way and act accord¬ ingly.—L. S. Hardin, in Jersey Bul¬ letin. Making Poultry Profitable. A Massachusetts writer says: There is probably no more seductive busi¬ ness connected ’with farming than is the growing of poultry and eggs for market. Neither is there any in which disappointment is not more certain to overtake the beginner who has not prepared for his work by some previous experience. The greatest trouble with the amateur is liis tendency to do too much with small capital and on too small grounds, However, poultry may be fed with purchased food, they need at least a quarter of an acre for each fifty fowls, and this must be so situated that it can be plowed, sown with grain and scratched over for worms and insects throughout the growing season. Only a small part of the feed will be grown on this quarter of an acre. Its value will consist rather in the insect and vegetable food it will furnish, and in giving enough surface to scratch over, so that the soil will not become poisoned by the ex¬ crement of fowls, which is the fruitful source of disease in small yards. Yet by sowing oats or wheat on this limited area, it will provide both grain and in- sects for the nutriment of the fowls, with enough of growing grain to make them digest their food well. If to this be added rations of fresh-ground bone, it will not need more to secure profit¬ able returns, But in no case should more than fifty fowls be kept on one- quarter of an acre. ■i Keep More Bees; Horticulturists, farmers and dairy¬ men should all keep bees, for the suc¬ cess of one is dependent upon the other. When the germ in the' bloom of many varieties of fruit is ready to receive the life-giving powder, its own balls of pollen are not ripe and it must obtain it from some other bloom, or the fruit will not set. Also some varieties of fruit cannot be fertilized by their own pollen. Nature has dele¬ gated insects to bring this dust and deposit it upon the germ. Early in the season, when fruit is in bloom, there are but few insects abroad ex¬ cept honey bees, and if they do not do this work the fruit crop will bo a failure. As an inducement or a bait for the bees, a drop of sweet nectar is secreted in the blood, and this is the bee’s wages. The pollen also is her hire, for this is what she makes her bread of, to feed her brood. As she fills her honey sack with nectar and loads her baskets with pollen, the fer¬ tilizing powder is conveyed from bloom to bloom, thus insuring a crop of fruit. The dairymen are dependent upon the bees for the great families of clover which could not exist without their agency. has whether Every one who a home, it is a village lot, or a few acres or a large farm, should keep bees. Mr. Muth, of Cincinnati, has kept them with success upon the flat roof of his store in that city, and an apiary at one time rvas a success located upon the roof of a building near Broadway, New York City.—American Agricul¬ turist. Cows Starving: to Death. Let us see how this same improper way of feeding works on a cow 7 . You have milked your cow all summer, and during the fall, and perhaps well into the winter. She is quite low in flesh, that is, muscle and lean meat and blood. You think while she is dry for a few -weeks it is not necessary to give her grain. She has hay. It is mostly, timothy, perhaps. She gets very lit¬ tle to build up her muscular system out of. The calf she is carrying is drawing hdavily on straw'will her. Timothy hay, corn stalks and fill the cow up well. She can get heat and force and some fat from this food, but it is very one-sided. You feel obliged to economize, and feed lightly while the cow is dry. Well, she gets along during tlie cold weather, and as long as no unusual strain is put on her. By-and-by she comes to calving time, and there is an unusual daain on her vitality. This may be the last straw that she cannot stand up under. And you find her down and unable to get up, perhaps, and you have to lift her up from .time to time. A crossroads cow doctor will talk about hollow horn and wolf in the tail. Quite likely she may die. At any rate she will not do nearly as well as she ought to do all that season. What was the trouble? A slow starvation, and usually nothing else. She has not been fed material to make blood and flesh and muscle out of in sufficient quantities. I have been right in this fix myself, friends. Three cows died on our farm the first spring we owned it in just this way, and the rest were of little account dur¬ ing the season. This was under a tenant’s management. The next year when we took care of ^kem it was with the greatest difficulty that wd got some then through alive. IV e did not knov. - just’exactly what the matter was. I have had to get neighbors to come and help lift up cows with bags put under them. Yes, and the cow doctor put stuff on their heads’ for the hollow horn and bored into the horn and split their tails and put in pepper and salt for wolf in the tail, the first year we owned a farm and a tenant managed it. Thank God, such days of ignorance and barbarism are forever over. We know now that the cow should have a little nitrogenous food with the timo¬ thy and common hay, along through the winter; such food as wheat bran, oilmeal or cottonseed meal or gluten meal. Or she should be fed on clover hay. Then she can gradually build up her muscular system while dry and be in good condition to start the sea¬ son in good shape. You will get back twioe the extra food fed and the cow will be humanely treated. Now, re¬ member, friends, you can’t balance ‘ timothy hay, stalks, straw, up corn etc., with cornmeal. No; you must feed bran, oilmeal, etc., for best re¬ sults. Better sell your corn and buy wheat bran. If your cows are thin; you might feed a little cornmeal, too,i or you can feed it with clover actually hay.i adding part bran. You may be, feeding a cow liberally and still al¬ most starving her to death if the ra¬ tion is not properly balanced.—T. B. Terry, in Practical Farmer. ■i .... Sick Royalties. It is remarkable that not only in- Russia, but in Austria, Italy and Spain, the health of either the sover¬ eign or the heir presumptive is a cause of anxiety to statesmen, aud even the German Emperor tis afflioted with a constitutional "malady which is said to be not without its effect on interna¬ tional politics.