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Newspaper Page Text4 FARMS AND FARMERS. iUOET TALKS WITH THE NEK WHO GUIDE THE PLOW. Many Questions About the Farm Answered by the Agricultural Editor of The Weekly Constitution. Please look ahead and send in inquiries early—ordinarily an answer may not be ex pected under three weeks. Never request an answer by’ mail; the editor has no time to spare for writing private letters. Never ask where an article can be had or the price. Editors have no better sources of information about these than other peo ple. The editor has nothing for sale and is not interested in anything advertised in the paper. Questions of any character concerning the farm will be cheerfully answered bye editor of this department. Inquirers will please make their questions clear and to the point. The editor of this department will give all questions close research and 'yin give the readers of The Constitution the benefit of any information that ciu be ob tained on all questions propounded. Address communications for this depart ment to THE CONSHTUTION, Farm and Farmers’ Dept.) Atlanta. <»a- More Skill in Farming. ' We have more than once Insisted that Successful fanning is more a question of (skill than ever before in the history or the country. Our memory runs tacK to |he time when almost any’ industrious man could coin a good living out of the soil tor himself and family. Our soils were compar atively fresh; we had trained (but not skill ed) labor; we had a practical monopoly or cotton production; we had a system o finance and taxation that was more jus and equal in the distribution of the bur fiens of government. But times have chang id, and changed so rapidly that the term ers have not adapted themselves fully to the altered conditions. We used to cut down the forests and bring fresh into cultivation. The labor was available and controllable for this purpose. inose were easy-going days, indeed. But • we are confronted with a revolution ol labor system, low, prices of * Strong competition in its production, do not claim to be able to full V J ne the causes that have -brought depression in agriculture, nor . _ sary to our present purpose. '' i - eVr jnny be the causes of depression, it h>, cer tainly true that skillful tanning »eu.us higher profits and greater prosper ty han unthinking, unskilled and plodding abor. Indeed, it absolutely requires a considern ble degree of skill in order to ma. a bare living nowadays. To grow COLon CL J ’ peas and potatoes in quantity and sufficient, to supply the wantsio Iv requires no great amount ot intelligence ,„d unamhnlou. white riinarv average negio—ca.ii pivuu things’ His cotton will sell toi ab “ at much per pound as that of Hie uw- ’ and educated farmer. His corn an I pt and potatoes will answer the demands. of his hungry children fully as well as » the products of the most highly cuimated farm gratify the wants of the ow ' ier and his family. But the intelligent and th lik ing, educated man, by the application or science and skill will produce larger yields of cotton, corn, peas and potatoes, at t»ie B ame, or even less, cost than his unskilled and ignorant neighbor. Instead of produc ing cotton at a cost of 6 cents and coin at a cost of 50 cents, he will reduce the cost of tiie cotton he produces to a or even 4 cents. He will either make corn cheaper, or he will rely more on a less costly tooa for his live stock. But there is a more advanced skill or which we wish to write. At ter the exer cise of the highest degree of skill in the production of cotton, hay, gram and sc me other crops of the farm, the.e products are but “raw material’’ for the manufact urer, the stock feeder and the consumer. In the article of cotton it is not advisable for the farmer to undertake any step in ns manufacture further than the simple gin rit’g and baling for market. But with the other products it is different, and right at this point there opens up a field for the exercise of the highest skill of the farmer —that of stock breeding and feeding, and dairying. With the ordinary methods or the farm vie can no longer compete witn the virgin soils of the great west in me production of raw materials. The Texas farmer can grow cotton, ant the north western farmer can produce wheat cheaper than can the farmers of Georgia, or the Ftill more skillful farmers of Massachu setts-ordinary methods being employed in each case. It remains, therefore, tor the eastern and southwestern farmer to bring to bear more skill and intelligence in the production of higher forms of value. They can use more science, higher leitili zation, more productive varieties, etc., and thus, to a great extent, overcome tiie ad vantages enjoyed by the farmer of tne cheaper but richer soils of the west. But the main resource must be in resorting to developing raw material into more valua ble forms and products, while at tiie seme time tiie methods adopted will be less ex haustive and more restorative in their na ture. The following extract from “.Mirror and Farmer” on the subject ot “Poultry Raising in New England,” fully illustrates our argument: “New England has always used the raw material of other states and manufactured goods of all kinds in which her people have excelled. With fewer advantages as an agricultural country, yet she excels in yield in proportion to area cultivated, in many crops that are grown extensively else where. Massachusetts produces more corn per acre than any other state, but it pays ln r people better to grow articles that bring the highest prices in market. So far as pure breeds of poultry are concerned, New England leads all other sections, and she derives an enormous sum from that source alone, while her farmers also get the best prices for dressed carcasses and eggs. “<>f lute years it has been largely adver tised that many farms in some sections of New England no longer pay, and that owners have ceased to take an interest In them, even going so far as to abandon them in cases that have been noticed. The cause assigned is that farm products are grown so cheaply in the west that our farmers cannot compete with the western farmers. But our farmers can use the cheap food, however, and change them into more ratable products. It may be mentioned that iso far as the quality of the soil is con cerned, poultry can be made a specialty on the poorest or the best, and the frozen Stock of the west has never interfered with prices in the east. Strictly fresh near by eggs and choice carcasses cannot be brought east while consumers will not dis card the good for the inferior.” AX hat is true of New England conditions end farming is true to a less but increasing degree, of the south. We must vary our rural industries. We must create higher ifoi ms. We must adopt more conservative methods. There is more profit in choice but ter, nicely dressed fat mutton, fresh eggs, fine poultry, choice fruits and melons, home raised mules and horses than in bales of cotton and carloads of corn and hay. The aim of the farmer should be to produce as much as possible of those things that tax Frills. A |F “Best Liver Pill Made.” Positively cure BILIOUSNESS nnd SICK HEADACHE, expel all impurities from the blood. 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Various Subjects on Which the Farmers Aak Information. T. H. S., Chenango, Tex.—Will you please tell me why turf prairie land in Texas, after it is turfed and harrowed, then broke deep anti put in good condition will not grow vegetables or corn the first ye ar ’ 1 can raise cotton, peas and sweet poto toes, which does well on sod land the first year. The second year after planting in cotton, peas and potatoes, vegetables and corn will do well. 1 was thinking of planting cabbage and onions on sod land this fall that was broken last spring and on which 1 have planted nothing this year. Don't you think an application of acid phosphate would be sufficient? Please let me know through The Constitution. Not being familiar with the character of the soil we can only suggest that the soil the first year contains too much unde cayed vegetable matter, which renders it too open and porous, while at the same time the vegetable matter is not in condi tion to furnish any soluble plant food. The top roots of cotton and peas can descend and take hold of the firmer subsoil, which corn cannot do. In the case of vegetables we suspect that the soil is hardly rich enough, but we don’t know. The director of your experiment station, Mr. J. H. Mc- Connell, College Station, Tex., can prob ably solve the questions presented. A Subscriber, Chesterfield, S. C.— 1. Will you or some reader of The Constitution please give plan for curing tobacco for home use? 2. Is It absolutely necessary to build barn, if so, what is the cheapest plan for barn and flues? 3. Can flues be built of rock? 4. How manj’ degrees of heat is neces sary for curing tobacco? 5. How many days is required to cure to bacco? 1. We are not familiar with methods of curing tobacco for home use. Perhaps some of our readers can give you a good plan. 2. Some sort of a building is necessary, or a room in a building. Much tobadco is cured without fire heat at all and is called air cured or sun cured. A tight log house 16x18 or 20 and 16 or 18 feet between joints will answer for fire curing and furnaces may be built of rock, but (3) the flues must be of iron, such as is used for stove pipes. 4, The heat varies from 95 degrees to 150 degrees, and (5) the process of flue curing requires four or five days. Write to Major R. L. Ragland, Hyco, Va., for pamphlet on tobacco, growing and curing. W. W. R., Gasburg, Va. —I have been try ing for several years to raise bees in old style l*>x gums, intending then to buy the movable frame hives, but as soon as I get five or six gums the web worms take possession, and I just can save seed. Now, please tell me the best way to manage to keep out the worms. Some say sit the gums on flat rocks; some say on the ground. I have been setting all on one bench; have lost one gum by cockcoaehes. Any information that is not too expensive I think would be of interest to others, as well as myself. I only wish to raise for home use. The improved hives are quoted to me at $1.50 each. First, get improved movable comb hives and cease to bother with the old-fashioned “beegums.” Next, get the Italian bee, as it is much less likely to be troubled by bee worms. Then make it a point to keep your colonies strong in numbers. It is the weak colonies that fall a prey to worms. So long as there are bees enough to cover the combs there will be little chance for the moth and her progeny. Examine the hives frequently in May and June, and search for the worms and cut. them out, at the same time, or oftener, brushing out the dust and litter in the bottom if the hive. No successful moth trap h; s ever been in vented. Get you two or three good books on bee keeping, and study to learn all about the business, if you would attain success, such as “Quinby’s New i’>e<- Keep ing," Cook’s “Bee-Keeper’s Guide” and Newman’s “Bees and Honey.” All of these can be had of Orange J.idd A: Co., New York. J. R. L., Isbell, Ala.—l. How many hens would be necessarj’ to start a poultry farm, in connection with other farm duties; not on too large a scale? 2. What is your favor ite breed for quick growth and health? I have a number of mixed Brown Leghorns, but the chicks grow too slow for market. Among ail poultry advertisements I see no Indian games mentioned, where can I get the pure breed of Indian Games? 3. Can you or some of the farmers describe a good beehive that has movable frames so it can be robbed from the top, that I can make front description? I want some thing simple and practical. All the patent hives, besides being expensive, are too complicated. Please answer and oblige. 1. This question cannot be answered un less we could know how much attention you are willing to give to the business, and what you wirld consider “too large a scale.” We should say that fifty hens and four or live cocks would be a good begin ning. 2. We are not in the business, but we would prefer the Plymouth Rocks. Write to loring Brown, Bolingbroke, Ga., about Indian games. 3. Make a box of one-inch plank, 12x12 inches square in the clear. I should be thick enough to dress one inch. Eighteen inches high is a good height. Nail a half inch strip on the inner side of' two oppo site sides, the top of each strip to be 2 inches below the top of the hive. Make frames of four sides of stuff %x’/2 inch, the tup piece projecting Vi inch at each end. Cut slots in the cleats, or drive headless wire nails into the top of the same, so as to hold the frames l x /z iches apart from center to center. Put on a well-fitting top and fasten with wood screws. Cut a hole in one side of the hive and let in a pane of glass Bxl9 inches, protected with a ishutter fastened with But, after all, it were better to get a good hive, which will not cost more than, one to two dollars. Joe P. F.> Newborn, Ga.—l have wnat was a tine large mule until a few months back she became very lame m left hind leg. 1 am anxious to know what to do tor her. I stopped plowing ner more than a month ago. Said by some to be stifled. Others say she may have rheumatism. Have had stine shoe on her part of the time to throw her weight on the lame leg, but tnat don t improve her any. Before she became lame she didn’t seem to have good use of that same leg for a good while. The mule is not more than ten years old. Any sugges tion thankfully received. You give no symptoms by which the ease may be diagnosed, as you simply say that the mule is lame in the left hind leg, and that some say she may be flitted and some say it’s rheumatism. If she is stifled (stifle joint dislocated) it will be impossible for her to carry that leg forward at all. If the stifle joint is merely sprained—which is much more common—she will carry the leg forward with labored effort and a rather outward wing, and will carry it further forward than when in health. When stand ing still she will rest the leg. On further examination you will find a thickening of the ligaments and soreness on pressure around tiie stifle joint. If satisfied that it is a ease of sprain of the stifle joint, first put a high-heeled shoe on the foot of the lame leg so that the heel will be two inches higher than the toe. Then bathe the stifle as continuously as possible with a cooling lotion made by dissolving 1 ounce each of muriate of ammonia and saltpeter in one quart of water. After several days, then blister all around the joint by rubbing well in an ointment made of % ounce of pow dered cantharides and 2 ounces of lard. Give a long and absolute rest. Possibly a seton will have to be Inserted if the blister fails. W. S. H., Carrollton, Ga.—l have a sow and pigs. Sow seems to be weak in back and cannot walk. Her hair is long. She is in very good order. Pigs look well. 1 have put tar plasters on her back, sne eats hearty. Any information will be glad ly received. Please write, as she is a line hog. .Your treatment is very good for weakness Fine Watches of the Standard Foreign and Domestic makes —at retail. Spaulding & Co., (INCOKrORATED) State & Jackson Sts., Chicago, 36 Ave. de I’Opera, Paris. Our "Suggestion Book” mailed free. Mention The Constitution. o—MM—fjiiaatrg—a—w .!■■■ ■» in —r minsm Hrnwranwaromß in the loins of the back. It is pos sible that the sow has kidney worms. 11 so, nothing will remove them, or relieve her. Subscriber, Johnston Station, Ga.—(l.) Have just harvested oats, and 1 wish to know if there be any kind of clover that can be planted within the next three weeks or as soon as I can hear from you that will pay me better than flushing upland and al lowing it to seed to crab grass for hay. Shall anxiously await reply through Tiie Constitution. How would peas do, and cut peavine and crabgrass together?. (2.) Since writing above 1 have just discovered that my mare is totally deat; had noticed for some days that she did not respond to the ustial signals when told to stop. She took no heed but had to be stopped with the lines. Today 1 had occasion to plow her, and I found out that she was deaf; would not move until tapped with the lines, when she would move off freely. For a week or two she has allowed her ears to flop over a bttle, but as she is expected to foal about the 15th of this month, I attributed her list- Icssness to that cause. 1 am going to put a little sweet oil and laudanum in them, and if you suggest the cause and best mode to pursue to relieve her, I would be glad. She may probably come around all right after foaling. She has had no severe lick unless she did it herself in the stables. (1.) Why not sow in peas? we have been endeavoring for weeks past to induce every farmer to sow peas, especially after small grain. (2.) We cannot advise in regard to deafness. It is probable that she will come around all right after foaling. W. D. C., Moselle, Miss—l. Most every body lays by corn the Ist of June, when it is about waist to shoulder high. I would like to know if it would pay to work it on until in roasting ears? 2. I wish you would give a recipe for putting up cucumbers and beans for winter use. 3. Is there any way to make molasses on an evaporator without making sugar? 4. Does it pay to lay by corn with a big bed to it, or lay it by level. 1. We think it is a good praictice to culti vate corn until it Is in bunch for tassel, and that it should not be plowed so late as roasting-ear time. 2. We have no reoipe at hand for putting up cucumbers and beans for winter use. 3. We presume you wish to know if the juice can be boiled to molasses (not syrup). We don’t know, but probably it may be converted to mo lasses by cooking it very slowly, after let ting the juice sour a little. Any kind of acid added to the juice will prevent it from granulating, but we do not know the quantity. Likewise, long continued, slow boiling' will accomplish the same thing, but we hardly know what the quality of the product may be. 4. We prefer as level cul tivation as possible. A. G. M., Skelton, Ala.—l have a fine young apple and pear orchard that, has commenced bearing. 1 have planted it in Peas every year and have a fine coat of vines on the ground row to be turned under next fall. Would it be better to sow the orchard down in grass or continue to work it I have be» n told that apple and peat trees should not be cultivated after they commence bearing. Trees are low and spreading. I‘lease give your advice, and ir sow down, what grass and when. Hees are healthy, and land good; red clay. We would certainly not sow it down in grass, but, on the contrary, sow it in peas every year, planting tiie peas in three-foot rows and cultivating them. Nor would we turn under the green pea vines, but rather mow them for hay, or gather the ripe peas and turn under the stubble. Ext-hange List. Dr. J. D. Weeks, Ackerman, Miss., has well bred fox hound pups for young red or grey foxes. Tiie Skill Mnd Knowledge Essential to the production of the most perfect and popular laxative remedy known have enabled the California Fig Syrup Com pany to achieve a great success in the reputation of its remedy, Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggists. THE bid TH IS MOVING While Other Sections Are Quiet—New Industries for the Week. Baltimore, Md., June 21.—The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record, in its weekly sum mary of industrial conditions in the south, says: "The completion of the reorganization ot the Richmond and Danville railroad, backed by tiie greatest financial interest in Amer ica, must prove of inestimable value to the entire south. It will attract renewed at tention to this section and help to start with increased vigor the advancement of every business interest of the whole south. Re ports from all parts of the country show that increased attention is being given to the question of immigration to the south, while on the part of the southern people there is greater activity than ever before in devis ing ways and means to attract men, money and manufacturing to this section. Taking a general look over the situation the pros pect for the solid, substantial development of the south was never more promising. How an Ax Is Made. On entering the main workshop, the first step in the operation which is seen is the formation of tiie ax-head with tiie blade. The glowing fiiate iron bars are withdrawn from the furnaces and are taken to a powerful and somewhat complicated ma chine, which performs upon them tour disi ginct operations, shaping the metal to rorm the upper and lower part of the ax, then the eye, and finally doubling the piece over so that’ tiie whole can be welded together. Next the iron is put in a powerful natural gas furnace and heated to a white heat. Taken out it goes under a tilt hammer and is welded in a second. This done, one blow from the “drop” and the poll of tne ax is completed and firmly welded. Three crews of men are doing this class of work, and each crew can make 1,500 axes per day. When the axes leave the drop there IS some superfluous metal still adnering to the edges and forming what is technically known as a “fin.” To get rid of the lin the ax is again heated in a furnace and then taken in hand by a sawyer, who trims the ends and edges. The operator has a glass in front of him to protect his eyes from the sparks, which fly off by the hundreds as the hot metal is pressed against the rapidly revolving saw. 'The iron part of the ax is now complete. The steel for the blade after being heated, is cut by machinery and shaped. It is then ready for the welding department. A groove is cut into the edge of the iron, the steel of the blade inserted and tne whole firmly welded by machine ham mers. Next comes the operation of tempering. The steel portion of the ax is neated by being inserted in pots of molten lead, the blade only being Immersed. It is then cool ed by dipping in water and goes to the hands of the inspector. An ax is subject to rigid tests before it is pronounced perfect. The steel must be of the required temper, the weight of all axes of the same size must be uniform, all must be ground alike, and in various other ways conform, to an established standard. The inspector who tests the quality of the steel does so by hammering the blade and striking the edge to ascertain whether it be too brittle or not. An ax that breaks during the test is thrown aside to be made over. Before the material of the nx is in the proper shape it has been heated live times, including the tempering process, and the ax, when completed, has passed through the hands of about forty workmen, each of whom has done something toward perfect ing it. After passing inspection the axes go to the grinding department and from that to the polishers, who finish them upon emery wheels. _ FUTURE OF THE RACE. THOUGHT Os THE WORLD ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY INTELLECT. Mentol Marvell Said to be Coming—An Enormous Decrease in Insanity May Reasonably be Expected. The whole world is waking up to the fact that better times are corning. None so far has gone so far as to say that the perfect man will come with the twentietli century, but almost all science lifts its voice with the welcome news that with the twentieth century man will approach perfection much more nearly than he does now. Improve ment comes at a geometrical ratio just as deterioration does. When the Greeks and Romans began to fail they went down with a sweeping rush that would have carried them into oblivion had they not left their books and their monuments behind them. The man of today is going up with the same sweeping rush, and it will carry him far beyond any point dreamed of twenty years ago. Perhaps there is no stronger evi dence of the truth of this possibility than the Interest that these articles, telling the prophecies of scientific men, have aroused. That dealing with the proper birth of chil dren, printed several weeks ago, has called out many letters to the writer from people in almost every possible walk of life. This shows that not alone the scien tific men, but the people themselves, are progressive. Scarcely less interest is arous ed by the table on tiie increase of the length of human life, printed the week fol lowing, and there are indications that the astonishing facts concerning heredity pub lished last Monday will prove of quite as great interest. If these messages were interesting, what will the message today be? It tells how in sanity and idiocy will be wiped out, how our mental development will equal our phys ical gain, how in the future none will be predisposed to melancholia and failure. The coming man, says science, will be hopeful and jolly as well as strong and long-lived. Groundless sorrow will die out. As authori ties for these statements the leading brain students are ottered. Below will be found interviews with Forbes Winslow and Ed ward George Youger, England’s greatest mental specialists; M. Bertillon, of Paris; Dr. K. C. Beal and Dr. Frederick Peterson, of New York. Such testimony as this can not be ignored. A Great Londoner. The importance of Dr. Forbes Winslow is overshadowing. A representative of this paper called upon him at his residence, 33 Devonshire street, N. W., three weeks ago, and the utterance that followed was made rapidly and enthusiastically. It should be said that almost every criminal case in Great Britain where insanity figures is re ferred to Dr. Winslow. vomintc Mental Wonders. “Will the strength of the human mind increase, Dr. Winslow, as the strength of the human body has done?” asked the writer. “I can see no reason to doubt it.,” he re plied. “It is a somewhat discouraging sub ject to discuss now—that is, it would be to a man who could not see beyond the present. There has not been a decrease of insanity coexistent with the decrease in the death rate. That does not mean, however, that the human mind has not been growing stronger, but that an arti ficial agency has been at work to overcome its improvement. The ratio of lunatics to each 10,000 inhabitants of Great Britain in 1859 was 18.67. In 1893 it was 30.21. it should be understood, however, that a law passed here some two years ago requiring all eases of lunacy to be reported to the au thorities has brought the full number of lunatics to the public notice, whereas, prior to the passage of that law they existed but were not so widely known. That accounts for a part of the apparent increase. Due to Drink. “The remaining real increase, I say, with out the slightest hesitation, is due to one thing, and (that one thing onily—drink. Drink is and has always been at the head of statistical causes. Then follow competi tion, pressure of business and intermar riage. if intermarriage could be done away with and drunken men and women could be prevented from becoming tiie parents of children, then insanity and idiocy would be instantly reduced 50 per cent. It is the inheritance of the germs of insanity from drinking parents rather than from indul gence in drink tnat produces insanity, and in this way a man who drinks heavily and eventually becomes insane is often erro neously said to have drunk himself crazy, whereas his mental disease which he in herited forced him to liquor, and drinking was the effect rather than the cause of his insanity. Political and religious excitement are also productive of mental aberration and after every political campaign here our asylums are temporarily crowded. This de scription of insanity, however, usually passed away when the immediate cause is removed. To a pessimist these facts might readily be discouraging. To an optimist they are far from without encouragement. I cannot believe that we shall have to increase our number of drunkards and I cannot be lieve that the present agitation for rational marriage—almost the first in the history of the world and one that is so wide reaching that it actually forms the basis of the most popular English fiction of the day, as in stance, ’The Heavenly Twins’—will have its effect. If, as I said, the drink habit could be cured and improper marriages done away with, insanity and idiocy would decrease at once 50 per cent. I believe both will come in time.” Whisky Causes 30 Per Cent. Dr. Younger corroborated Dr. Winslow’s testimony as to the effect of drink. Said he: “Over 30 per cent of the entire number of lunatics in the world owe their condition directly or indirectly to drink. Fifty per cent of the lunatics and imbecils in Euro pean cities come from drunken parents. The proportions of drunkenness as a cause are horrifying. In the great asylum at St. Petersburg, for instance, out of 997 lunatics admitted during the year, 837 were reduced to that state by intoxication. The less alco hol used the less insanity exists. Drink certainly is the most formidable obstacle in the way of eliminating lunacy from the list of diseases and if, as many people hope, the present vigorous reform movement tending toward teetotalism and moderate drinking have good results, their effects will in stantly be felt in the reports of our insane 4 /owt ■ "W /U \ zyyt>*/ I CHA, J ®Go9d Oust Washing Powder Is every woman’s friend. Ask your grocer for it. Sold in four pound packages. Price 25 cents. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Boston, Philadelphia. asylums. Os course after the elimination of drink as a cause there will still exist mental worriment and anxiety, the Perp l ** - ty that is certain to come to all civilize people. But their unimportance as a cause is comparatively unimportant, and it be remembered that if we are in physical strength as rapidly as so mai > great specialists declare that we are then we will constantly grow less and !ess sus ceptible to the unfortunate effects °f those things. 1 do not think that insanity will ever be wiped out; accidents alone will see that there are always a few crazy ones among us, but I do believe that there will be visible in future years a great decrease. A Scientific Phrenologist. Dr. Edgar C. Beal, originally from the west, temporarily a German and now a New Yorker, has given as careful study to matters of the brain as any American, lhe fact that his studies have carried his opln ions away from the beaten track does no make them less interesting or less im portant. There are many who disagree with the theories of the school to which Dr. Beal belongs, but there are many who look upon its discoveries as among the most wonderful that have been made by mod ern science. Right Marriage Is Paramount. I called Dr. Beal’s attention to the opin ions of the English authorities concerning the drink habit. To some extent he agreed with them. “They have put the cart before the horse, however,” he said. “They speak of drink first and marriage afterward. They should speak of marriage first, and every thing else afterward. When the public conscience is awakened thoroughly on the subject of marriage—and that awakening has already begun, unquestionably—a great stride will have been made toward better physique and better mentality. When the public vanity is awakened on the subjet of marriage—vanity is infinitely more potent than conscience—then the battle will have been won. When people know enough about this subject to realize that it is blame and not pity that the parents of incompetent or un developed children deserve, the awakening will be complete. Men and wo men then will be ashamed to be recognized as the fathers and mothers of anything but perfect children. Widely extended knowledge will leave no excuse for igno rance and will bring condemnation and ridicule upon those who disregard the laws of parental influence or heredity. Essentia is of Happy Marriage. “The most common mistake in marriage is failure to secure comradeship on moral and intellectual planes. Nature exerts her self first of all to maintain the physical type and neglects morality and intellect, Physical strength is, of course, the foun dation for everything that is good in lhe human race, though not necessarily the accompaniment. You can’t have a house without a foundation, but it’s a mighty easy thing to have a foundation without a house. In the majority of marriages husband and wife are physically compat ible. Mental compatibility, however, is much less frequent. This is caused, first, by the fact that brain contours are usually concealed by bonnets or hair and are not made the objects of inspection and con sideration; second, by the fact that vanity, to say nothing of anything else, makes most of us hide our worst points from our best friends, and, third, by the fact that if the brain contours were examined and the worst points were not hidden, most people are so ignorant that it wouldn’t make any difference. Lincoln's Marriage. “In the United States especially careful marriage is necessary. We have a number of national diseases, such as dyspepsia and catarrh,and sectional temperaments, such as the New England, the southern, the west ern, etc., are much more universal than is ordinarily the case in other countries. Our most common type is the lank, lean, motive temperament. In men and women of this sort there is almost certain to be a de ficiency of culture and polish, although there may be none of intellect. Abraham Lincoln Is a striking instance of this, with which we are all familiar. His was an ex treme case. If Abraham Lincoln had mar ried a woman of like temperament, the re sult to lhe children of the union would have been most dreadfully disastrous. Lin coln was a man of tine intellectual develop ment. The faculties of the forehead were all there and large, although the forehead was not high. This was aue to the fact that the wreath of faculties which some times tops the intellect—wit, eloquence, cul ture, etc.—were almost entirely missing. Lincoln was not a witty man,' but he was a humorous man. His fun came from be hind his ears instead of from his forehead. He was not refined. As Ingersoll said: ‘He would use anw common word that fun could disinfect.’ A man of this tem perament should invariably marry a wo man reasonably rotund in figure and of rather yielding physical fiber. One of the simplest indications is the hand. Lincoln’s was hard, bony and big-jointed. The fingers could not be bent back a sixteenth of an inch. Had he married a woman with a hand like his their children would have been inclined to excesses of appetite. The hand of the wife of a man like Lincoln should have tapering, conic fingers, small jointed and easily bent back. A Race of Wonders. “Summing it all up, I can only say, how ever,” remarked Dr. Beal, “that the upward and better tendency is astonishingly large. Regard for the unquestioned truths of pre natal influences, for the laws of heredity and a wider study of the science of rational choice in marriage will bring a race of phys ical and mental wonders in the future. All these things are coming. People are think ing, writing and talking about these extra ordinary problems, anti the result will be felt. I saw that Mrs. Eliza Archard Connor announced in one of your recent interviews that if the breeding of the human race were as carefully considered as is the breeding of live stock, the perfect physical man and woman would result in five generations. I think I can, witli as great confidence, say that if the already discovered laws of ra tional marriage were observed, tiie perfect mental man and woman would result in no greater time.” Freights Dixcoutiiiuetl. Noblesville, Ind., June 18.—The effects of the coal strike reached this city Saturday. The Lake Erie and Western discontinued its local freight trains. The shipment of large quantities of small fruits and vege tables to this point is stopped and grocers are in a quandary how to supply the de mand. The American straw board plant stopped its ponderous machinery Saturday. 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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, June 25, 1894, Page 4, Image 4