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N a perfect sunny morning in Feb-
Oruary we stood on the hillside over
looking the town of Ajaccio and
rejoiced that we had come to Cor
sica. The magnificent gulf lay be
fore us with a grand range of
mountains on the opposite shore.
and, best of them all, Monte d’Oro
rose up eight thousand feet into
the sky, his peak decked with just
a sprinkling of snow, as if he alone
could wear that glittering crown
while all lesser heads remained uncovered. In
early spring the neighborhood of Ajaccio is very
beautiful. There is a fascinating daintiness
about the almond blossom, and you may look
from its delicate pink over the soft, gray olives
and the shining blue water to the purple haze
of the mountains beyond. Many lovely walks
are to be had all around, but to see the full beau
ties of the island one must go further afield.
Soon after our arrival we engaged a tiny car
riage and started to explore the wonders of
Plana ard Evisa.
There is much
that is worthy of
note on the forty
five miles of road
leading to Piana,
but on arriving
at the top of the
hill overlooking
the village, all
that has gone be
fore Is eclipsed.
Suddenly the Gulf
•of Porto, with
Piana in the
•f o reground,
comes into view.
We greeted this
first glimpse of
Porto with a gasp
of surprise and
delight.
Seen through
the translucent
yet slightly hazy
atmosphere of a
perfect day it is
a marvelously ■
beautiful scene.
Away down be
neath us the blue
sea lay calm and tranquil in the evening light,
■while the beautiful headlands of Cappo Senino
and La Scandola stretched out beyond. The per
fect outline and shapes of these noble headlands,
all of a glowing red. and the deep purple shadows
that melt into the deeper blue of the sea below,
make a scene of supreme beauty never to be for
gotten, and far beyond the powers of the camera
.to depict.
On reaching the hotel we had a hurried meal
.-and started for our first visit to the Calanches
with what remained to us of the evening .light.
No description can give an adequate idea of the
absolute magnificence of the gorges and gulfs
and towering piles of red-colored rocks. They
must be seen to be appreciated. Down, down,
away so deep, a small torrent was carving its
way still deeper through the granite rock below,
and up and up. tier upon tier rose above, with
glades of splendid pines and bushes making val
leys in the recesses. Rocks of all forms, weath
ered into ragged, fantastic shapes, often honey
combed into caverns and caves innumerable,
greet you on every side. Weird shapes appear
round corners like gnomes who seem to resent
Intrusion. Every bend in the winding road pre
sents a fresh scene of wonder, and we passed
:from deep gorges to masses of towering rocks,
■and on again to wider ravines opening out to sea
■with the distant headlands beyond. ;
After this first sight of the Calanches we spent
weeks exploring and scrambling about among
Its wonders, yet there was always something new
to see. Ono of our rambles was to a promontory
called Cappo Rosso, where we came on a goat
herd's hut, which proved to be a headquarters for
making the "Broccia” or “Brouch,” as it is called.
A dead tree stood near the door hung with an
assortment of black pots, while near by lay a
heap of wooden tubs. We were pleased to note
that all the pots and tubs were kept really very
clean, and were hung out in the open air. Seeing
this, and knowing that the goats’ milk had to un
. dergo much boiling before the “Broccia” was
made, all fears as to the hygiene of the cookery
departed Good the “Broccia” is when well made,
and we had many opportunities of enjoying it.
Piana has a name for making some of the best
"Broccia" in Corsica, so we know what It ought
to be like. It is snow white, with the consist
ency of cream cheese, and it is eaten with sugar
and occasionally with the addition of a few
drops of eau de vie.
After our stay at Piana we drove on to Evisa,
through such a wealth of magnificent scenery
that it is impossible to describe it here. The road
itself is a triumph of engineering skill. It de
scends from Piana to the sea-level at Porto, then
mounts to a height of three thousand feet, per
forming marvels in the way of lacets as it climbs
round the mountain-sides, yet the gradient Is
■quite gentle all the way and the surface remark
ably good At nearly every point where the
lacets cut away into the mountain there is a
gorge or ravine, some large, some small, but all
beautiful Many of these are so wild and rugged
that the thought at once struck us what perfect
hiding places they would be for bandits, and how
Impossible it would bo for any gendarmes to
approach unseen.
The so-called "bandit” in Corsica Is not a
brigand lurking behind the- rocks ready to issue
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forth and plunder the passer-uy. He is, in fact,
an outlaw, a man who has, perhaps, killed an
other in vendetta as a private act of vengeance
according to a Corsican’s idea of justice, but who
has thereby broken the French law and is com
pelled to take to the “maquis” to hide from the
gendarmes, as well as from the relations of the
man he has killed. In a country so rough as this
the gendarmes have a very poor chance, and
many exciting tales are told of their encounters
with the bandits. On one occasion when old
Bellacoscia, the renowned bandit, • was hard
pressed, the gendarmes managed to get him into
a ravine from which there w^s no outlet but the
entrance, and there he was, trapped, with the
gendarmes guarding the approach. It was late
evening, and they felt so confident of getting
their quarry that they thought it safe to wait
till morning to close in upon him and make an
easy capture, So they set themselves to watch
the entrance through the night and make their
capture at dawn. Things must have looked black
for Bellacoscia that night as he waited in the
dark, the stillness only broken by the tinkling
bells of the goats that were feeding among the
“maquis.” But he was a man of resource, and
as he waited there an idea occurred to him. An
old goat browsing near kept tinkling its bell as
it fed, and Bellacoscia, in a moment of inspira-
WHY THE GERMANS LEAD.
Influence Exerted by the “Continuation School”
in the Fatherland.
An American manufacturer who had wondered
at the success of his German competitors was
struck by certain big, flaming, official-looking
posters on the billboards and around public build
ings in Berlin. He might have seen similar
posters in every city and town in Germany.
Twice a year these official posters summon the
youth of the land to obligatory attendance at the
trade and commercial schools, Hubert Evans
writes in Harper’s Weekly. Indirectly, they tell
why the American or the English manufacturer
finds in the German such a dangerous competitor.
They reveal the secret of Germany’s wonderful
commercial and Industrial prosperity and of her
commanding position as a world power. To the
philosophically inclined they suggest interesting
reflections on the transformation of idealists and
dreamers into a nation of materialists and doers.
There is scarcely anything in all Germany so
new and modern as the continuation schools.
This whole movement has been a matter of only
a few years, and in its present form the continua
tion school is a child of yesterday. These insti
tutions receive from the nation more care and
solicitude than is bestowed upon the children of
the imperial family. They are still in a rapid
process of change and development. Their very
success has encouraged further changes and
more stringent legislation in their behalf. It is
only a few years ago that an imperial industrial
law was passed giving community authority to
establish and maintain obligatory continuation
schools for youths, thus making good the failure
of certain German state governments to provide
for such school by state law. One of the last
acts of the reichstag last December was to amend
this law so as to make it apply to all girl? em-
tion, seized the goat, undid its bell, tied it round
his own neck, and commenced to push his way
on all fours through the bushes, tinkling the bell
and rustling among them as he went. Nearer
and nearer the gendarmes he came, but he just
went boldly on in the dark, “acting the goat ’ to
such good purpose that the unsuspecting sen
tinels merely thought that an old goat was eating
its way along among the bushes in the erratic
way goats have. So Bellacoscia passed right
through the guarding gendarmes and clean away.
When morning dawned the certain capture was
not effected, and Bellacoscia was free to give
more trouble in the future. Another time he
was flying from capture, .the gendarmes close on
his heels, when he found the way blocked by a
river in flood, and escape seemed impossible.
Every minute bis pursuers were gaining. He
could not cross, and to go back meant certain
capture. Again his wits saved him. He scram
bled down to the marshy banks of the river where
there were some dark, reedy pools, cut a hollow
reed, put one end in his mouth, and sank himself
down into the slimy black water till he was
completetly covered, with only the broken end
of the reed projecting into the air, and through
this he breathed in comfort. The gendarmes
came rushing down to the river, where a mo
ment before they had seen the fugitive, but now,
when they reached the place. Bellacoscia was
gone—clean vanished, as if he had been spirited
away, and they went back to report that “the
devil had certainly got him for he had undoubt
edly been there, he had never gone away, and he
certainly was not there now!”
Towards evening we reached Evisa, a happy
little village rejoicing in a grand position, and
well worth a visit. If it were only to see the
view looking down the gorge to the Gulf of Porto,
that alone would be worth the journey. Just be
fore the forest of Aitone commences one should
leave the road and scramble across a field to a
projecting mass of rocks, for there can be seen
a sight that must equal many of the finest pros
pects in the world for majestic beauty. An im
mense gorge enclosed by magnificently shaped
mountains extends below, crowned at the end by
that king of them all, Cappo d’Orto, and away
beyond lies the blue sea, all hazy and soft in the
distance. While standing on the rocky projection
overlooking this impressive scene, a sense of
littleness comes over the beholder, and one feels
almost like an intruder in this solitary spot,
Where silent Nature reigns alone
Majestic, on her craggy throne.
ployed in offices, stores and factories, as well as
to boys. The whole subject is still so new and
fresh that every day the German press has some
interesting item of continuation school news —
the opening of more domestic science schools for
girls, the establishment of training colleges for
continuation school teachers, ■the publication of
new laws and material decrees.
A Good Thing.
“Now, this portable garage,” began the sales
man.
“I see the advantages," interrupted the pros
pective customer. “When the machine stalls I
can haul the garage out and cover it up. What
are they worth?”
. His Trade.
“Our doctor wishes well to everybody."
“Then he’s a hypocrite.”
“How can you say so?”
“Because how can he want his practice to grow
if he wishes everybody well?”
Our Best People.
“The marriage took place in prison.”
“I don't believe in jail birds being allowed to
marry.”
“You mistake your people. This was a promi
nent banker and a militant suffragette.”
Prudent Precautions.
“There is a great gulf separating the law’s vio
lators from the law’s protection.”
“Not if the violators are willing to ‘come
across.' ”
The Fitting Case.
“How harmonious are some coincidences!*’
“Such as-what?”
“Didn't you notice that with the decrease of
the lobster supply came a chorus girl famine?"
ram
IIXWM
COLD STORAGE EGG INDUSTRY
Infallible Rule Is for Farmer to Mar-
ket Product as Soon as Possible
After Laid.
(By M.‘ M. HASTINGS.)
The cold storage egg industry is a
development of the last twenty-five
years. Undoubtedly the industry as
a whole has been of great benefit to
both egg producer and egg consumer,
and has tended toward the leveling of
the price of eggs throughout the year
and has resulted in a large increase in
the fall and winter consumption. This
means a larger total demand and a
consequent increase in price.
Owing to the fact that eggs are
spoiled by hard freezing, they must be
kept at a higher temperature than
meat and butter. Temperatures of
from 29 to 32 degrees Fahrenheit are
used in cold storage of eggs. At such
temperatures the eggs, if kept in moist
air, become moldy or musty. To pre
vent this, the air in a first-class stor
age room ;s kept moderately dry,
which shrinks the eggs, though much 1
more slowly than would occur with
out storage. The growth of bacteria
in cold storage is practically prevent
ed. If bacteria are in . the eggs when 1
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Egg Room in a Large Eastern Cold-
Storage Plant.
stored, the growth will be checked,
but activity will begin again when the
eggs are warmed up.
Speaking generally, the cold-storage i
egg, while not unwholesome, is in
ferior in. flavor and strength of white <
to a fresh egg. The cold-storage egg
can be very nearly duplicated in gross
appearance and quality by allowing
egsg to stand for three or four weeks (
in a dry room. Cold-storage eggs,
when in case lots, can be told by the
candler because «f the uniform shrink
age, the presence of mold on cracked |
eggs, and perhaps, the occasional ।
presence of certain kinds of spot rots
peculiar to storage stock; but the ab
solute detection of a single cold- ।
storage egg by candling is, so far as (
the writer known, impossible.
With the present prevailing custom
of holding fall eggs without storage
facilities, it is frequently true that
eggs placed in cold storage in April
are superior to current fall and early
winter receipts. Cold-storage eggs are
usually sold wholesale as cold-storage
goods, but are retailed simply as
“eggs.”
The fall eggs offered to the con
sumer cover evejy imaginable varia
tion in quality, and the poorest ones
sold may or may not be cold-storage
stock.
Occasional articles have been print
ed calling attention to the fact that
the cold-storage men were reaping
vast profits which rightfully belonged
to the farmer, and advising the farmer
to send his own eggs to the storage
house or to preserve them by other
means. As a matter of fact, the cold
storage of eggs has not of late years
been particularly profitable, there hav
ing been severe losses during several
seasons. Even were the profits of egg
storing many times greater than they
are, the above advice w’ould still be
unwise, for the storing, removing and
selling of the farmer’s individual case
of eggs would eat up all possible
profit.
■When eggs in the hands of large
operators are properly preserved in
cold storage, the best and most effi
cient methods known are in reality at
the farmer’s service. Because of the
severe competition that prevails in
egg storing, the farmer is paid all the
increase in price which the business
will stand. A comparison of .the sum
mer prices of eggs now with summer
prices before days of cold storage will
substantiate the truth of this state
ment.
Use Charcoal Freely.
Charcoal should be freely used in
the poultry yard. Pounded fine and
mixed with the soft feed fed to the
fowls, it cleanses the system of im
purities. As it acts upon the blood it ’
acts upon the life of the fowl. When
the blood is thick and clotty, a dull,
sick chicken will soon follow. Thin
blood means vigorous circulation, and
on a good circulation of blood, health
largely depends. If your fowls lack
activity, they need something, to stir
the blood out of its sluggishness.' It
is best to keep the charcoal in a dry
place, and when needed, grind or
pound some fine and mix with soft
food.
Turkey Growing.
Turkey growers in middle Tennes
see report a very poor crop this sea
son. Not 20 per cent, of the poultry
hatched were raised, owing to the
long-continued, cold while the poults
were very young. AU told, there will
be scarcely half an average crop.
MACON, DUBLIN AND SAVANNAH
RAILROAD COMPANY
LOCAL TIME) TABLE!
Effective July 2, 1811.
No.lß N 0.20 Stations. -- No 19 Nolt
A.M. P.M. Lv. Ar. A.M. P.M.
- 7:To 3:25 Macon 11715 4:30
7:22 3:37 Swiffcreek 11:03 4:20
7:30 3:45 Drybranch 10:55 4:12
7:34 3:49 Atlantic 10:51 4:09
7:38 3:53 Pike’s Peak 10:48 4:09
7:45 4:00 Fitzpatrick 10:42 4:00
7:50 4:04 Ripley 10:37 3:53
8:00 4:14 Jeff’sonville 10:27 3:42
8:10 4:23 Gallemore 10:15 3:30
8:20 4:33 Danvilel 10:07 3:22
8:25 4:38 Allentown 10:02 3:17
8:34 4:47 Montrose 9:53 3:08
8:44 4:57 Dudley 9:42 2:58
8:50 5:03 Shewmake 9:36 2:52
8:55 5:09 Moore 9:29 2:45
8:10 5:25 ar lv 9:15 2:30
Dublin
9:15 5:30 lv ar 9:10 2:25
9:17 5:32 SouMD&SJct 9:08 2:23
9:21 5:36 NorMD&SJet 9:04 2:19
9:31 5:45 Catlin 8:54 2:09
9:40 5.54 Mtntor 8:47 2:01
9:50 6:05 Rockledge 8:36 1:50
9:55 6:10 Orland 8:31 1:45
10:08 6:23 Soporton 8:19 1:33
10:19 6:34 Tarrytown 8:07 1:21
10:26 6:41 Kibbee 8:00 1:15
10:40 6:55 Vidalia 7:45 1:00
CONNECTIONS.
At Dublin with the Wrightsville and
Tennille and the Dublin and South
western for Eastman and Tennille
and intermediate points.
At Macon iwth Southern railway
from and to Cincinnati, Chattanooga,
Rome, Birmingham, Atlanta and in
termediate points. Also the Central
of Georgia, G., S. & F. railway, Ma
son and Birmingham railway and the
Georgia railroad.
At Rockledge with the Millen and
Southwestern for Wadley and Intel*
mediate points.
At Vidalia with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermediate
points, and with the Millen and South
western for Millen, Stillmore and In
termediate points.
J. A. STREYER, G. P. A.,
Macon, Ga.
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