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Conducted by Mrs. Wm. King, 480 Courtland Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
THE RIVER-
"There's always * river to croaa.
Always an effort to make.
If there's anything gool to win.
Any rich prize to take:
Yonder's the fruit we crave.
Yonder the changing scene;
But deep and wide, with a changing tide.
Is the river that lies between.
For. rougher the wny we take.
The -etouter »he heart and the nerve.
The stones In our path wo break.
Nor e'er from our Impulse swerve;
For the glory we hope to win.
Our labors we count no loss.
Tlx folly to pause and murmur because
Os the river we have to cross."
MAKING BERRY BASKETS.
Walking out on my back piazza the
ether day I noticed tn on* corner a num
ber of empty baskets. They had once
been filled with berries and peaches, and
as we had no more use for them, they
were thrown aside. 1 began to think of
>ow many thousands of these baskets
were us*d this -simmer while fruit was
so plentiful and wondered h«w they were
made. Strange to rotate, a few days
after I saw in The New York Sun a full
description, and I was so Interested that
1 want mv young people to share the tn
f *rmatlon with me. All such knowledge
cannot hut be useful to us. You have
r tleed how thin the wood Is. out of
which the baskets and wooden plates
they put butler In are made. Twenty years
ago a machine was Invented to shave
logs of wood Into strips of veneer about
the thickness of cardboard. Tills can
!«• bent easily. Where poplar, beech.
Mreh. elm and sweetgum grow, there nre
made the baskets. The crates In which
Icrrt.-s are sent to market are made
t* hero wh’te spruce grows. It will be
a• 11 for you to remember this and you
ran • >m**tfm«’«t give the Information to
•■th* rs. The process of manufacture be
gins *lth the barking of the logs. They
• re then si wed Into sections of about two
and a half feet In length, and Immediate
ly tdnnged Into a long vat of boiling
water, or F*-alcd In tanks where live
»:*:«m Is fed to them. They are steamed
or •H- I for twenty-f rar hours, a crane
v cks them up one by one. and lands
them betwr n ’h* centers of a turning
lathe. where they are automatically cen
tered am! cllpp 1 fart. A« they begin to
nil ng an the
logs eom*s up and slices each bag spirally (
Into one Immense r blton *f wood. As the I
ribbon glides over the knife, rollers catch |
1- and feed It under fixed knives which
Slice tt Into the *!ghl widths for basket
t ns. Other knlvst. set so n.s to cut but
t art of the wav through It. make the
marks upon wh’.-’i the parts are afi< r- i
wards folded.
Now girls take the formed pieces. Each
f ir! has before her a wooden form, shaped ■
I ke the tKisketa she is to make, and band- I
i 1 with iron where the tacks or staples
gr»» to I— driven. She d--ftly folds a strip I
• t<*ugh birch or •Im about the form for I
th. inner b ind; bonds over this the pieces
which form th.* b***ly. ana «n* r those an- I
r b n 1 ‘ f toug’i wood. If she is niak- |
fn~ lacked ba-*l. eh. already has her
tr.* uth full of tacks, and she t ikes these j
one by one. and drives th- m through the !
v«r «- -». wh*-re th* y clinch against the I
’r*»n hands of the form. Som* girls will !
wake three thousand berry baskets tn a I
•'»y. and the av*r«g*- worker can make |
® u; -wo *h«n .uel Th*y g«-t S» cents a I
thovs ar I for the w«*rk.
In other parts of the factory crates are I
I ng saw*d out and nailed iog*th*-r. I
1. a 11-nado crate will have sixty or
t» tails In It. be fitted with hinges. ’
1' st s* I■* for only c* nt a. Better crates, ’
Whi h are meant to Is* to tho
farn • r. ar.*i are pr* v i ’* j with metal cor- |
i-r p«*-ct for strength, and are made of ■
heart r material, Mil for a few onts i
more. F. h of the baskets are ever used
• MCond time, and it Is estimated that
tn h'indr I million I* i ,-y is alone >
butter di ranging in size from one i
; «. nd to th .se holding five pounds each, j
it is e. t mat'd that two himdr d million a
>*a- are a •d. I*le di l» s are use i. too. I
to th* ni.' ion, ami they do not c-*st as I
t .uch as ti tweetming of the pics.
THE BIRD LOVERS’ SOCIETY
Bextha Hammack. 11 Uy Fond. Ala.
1.- t . F V.ers. Lamlspn. Ala.
E:. r.t., ( Hood. Myrtle Hood. Mw I
JI • IT:I* k H • Maud Hood. John T. I
Ho>si. Baudr>*p Ut
kth.l J.lu s :n, Fajette. Mtun
I** a JlcArthiir. Chummkia. Fla.
l»Xce Turner. I*-.land. La.
• i: s. . White. Round Oak. Oa.
♦ -I* -ry. ■ i New? n. Mary N»*w-
•
1' s* E. U. k.ts, Cameron. X. C.
M.i" i. zj!- itowr*. Roberta. Ga.
Lr «8n al< v. Mrs. J-> s ;.- Smalley,
J .me, «; Smalley. Garner Stanlee. Flor-
JUN’OR CORRESPONDENCE.
Carrin Fletcher. ShUnh. Tenn.—Dear
I’m n little t-.v ten years old.
Ths- is my first l»-it« r to Th.- Constitution.
I ■ •• ■ .- I Grady. 1
»- .<« e-u’s *or the Gridy hospital.
Ifertha Hamtntirk. Hally Pond, Ala.—
r Jun ors: I am a little girl ten years
• I I hate been g -Ina to -. liool, but I
I t>» >tot» this a.. k. Mamma was not
• -y Ait S i-u-. | _,nt going to cat your
j ti <• .mt and frame it. I think so
» .h of it. .
• - I Perkin* Dear Junior: Pm 'five
y»ars »ld. I live tn Augusts. Am In
• n* •ts s;<ending the summer with mr
gr- iin.-thrr. Hope to see my letter !n
--int. i r nd » cents to the Grady hos-
•!.
<V ur letter Is scry nice for a flve
y>-»- I girl lam quite proud of It.—
T.'ttle F-l. rd. Nada wall. Ala.—Dear Jnn
-1 • . I • r»-y r« >ding the Junior page so
much. Ai d I sttniy f.-*l s-rrv for the
Jittie or|>h .rs who have n«» mother to
1 %c and ik.- care of th-m lint th«*v
a- by help «.f <■
ICUREFITS
When I say I cure I do not mean merely to
Stop them for a time and then have them re
turn ar? in. 1 mean a radical ewe. I have made
thed eate of FIT'. EPILEPSY or FALLING
SICKNESS a life-k ~g study. I warrant my
remedy to cure the worst cases. Because
ethers lure failed is no reason for not now
recenir.c a cure. Send at once for a treatise
and a Free Bttle of my infallible remedy.
Give Express and Post Office.
Pref. W.H.PEEKE, F.D., 4Cedar SU K.T.
who is all that a mother could be to them.
Aunt Susie, I send you this little chink
for the Grady hospital. I did not earn it
like some of the cousins, so I don't want
any credit.
I*ena McArthur. Chumuckla. Fla.—Dear
Junior: I have often thought of writing to
you, but never had courage enough to
write until now. I live m the country.
1 like country life better than city life. I
like to be awakened by the sweet, m« rry
songs of the little birds, to walk in the
broad green fields and gather the pretty
fragrant flowers. Correspondence solicit
ed near my age. which is sixteen. 1 join
the Hird Dovers' Society; will abide by
Its rules.
Kitty Williams. Dogtown. La.-Dear Ju
nior: I am eleven years of age. I like
to read the little girls’ and boys’ letters
very much 1 have three sisters and no
brothers. I live on the beautiful banks
of the Ouachita river. Our house was
burned last September. We can stand on
tho front gallery and watch the trains
and boats pass. Our school begins In Oc
tober ami ends Al ay IMli. 1 tuu ly live
b<.oks. Papa Is a farmer. How many of
the cousins like to go fishing? 1 do, for
one.
Charles Norman Culley, Durant.
; Miss —Dear Junior: I am a town
I boy, fourteen years of age, and
will go tn the seventh grade this
coming session. They have moved our
i s* hool house and will build un u |l2.(**>
| brick building. «rar schtral will not start
(until the Ist of October.
Mv father runs on tho Aberdeen dis
trict *d tie I. C. r<*a«l.
Much love to Aunt Susie. I saw her
I picture In The Constitution this week.
I Mv father has been taking The Cori'tl
‘ tution for three years. I am always so
j clad when It conies, so as 1 can read of
the wars
j Ethel Johnson. Fayette. Miss. —Dear Ju
; nfor: I live in the country, ju.it three
> miles from Fayette, and have a pleasant
J ride to school every rno*ntnß. I have en
joye*l the summer very much. Wo h ive
had lots of nice fruit this year, but it I
has all gone now. 1 think it Is delightful
to go horseba k riding, especially in a
big crowd. 1 like country lire very much,
I .it prefer city life. Aunt fiusie, please
put my name on the Hird l*overs’ Society ■
l:st. us I think tt eo mean to KUI the
sw«-ot little birds. Correspondence soli- I
cited.
Claud- Morrow, Forest City, N. C.—Dear
Junior: I have at last mustered up ceur
age enough to try to make a call on you.
Now, I hope, the editor will not use my j
letter to light bis pipe. 1 am a great big ]
boy. seventeen years old. and live on the j
farm. 1 like it very much. 1 don’t think
i 1 should like to live in town. Now. one i
i question about the Hird Dovers’ Society: (
I>. cs it cover hawks and crows and oilier ,
. such birds? 1 am a great, lover of read- .
I iug matter, end have read a lot of books. ■
i but can hardly tell which 1 like best. I 1
utn not g**:ng to school now. but hope to I
start shortly. Would lik>- to corr< »|>ond I
with either sex from anywhere in the |
I United States. |
Mary Smith. Greensboro. Ala.—Detr Ju- j
nlor: I ruppose the waste basket swal
lowed my other letter, but "Try,. try I
again’* is mv mott>. Som< of our great- ;
est men would not have achieved so much i
gcod In tile world had they b< en ser.sl- ■
t:ve to diseour.agt m. nt. 1 am a country
girl, an 1 think nothing greater th in a I
ph ant *-..ui irv home. My tn.>ther takes
Th Ven ’itui *n. I hav* been |o eptng up
with all the stories. My* dear father has I
l~ ,-n dead two years Children do not ]
know how to appv* ‘late their parents un
til th* y lose tb« m. How many boy“ and |
girls want an education? I. for one. I
am g.-i i rhe •’-institution his a page for
us y< ‘mg people. Would like to corres- ■
pond with either sex.
Bcpslo McCraw. Abercrombie, Ain. — ,
Dear Junior; I live where the long-leaf .
pine grows. Wo have several saw mills I
near u« which make the pines into lum- :
bcr to build houses, etc. There ar.- very j
high hills around us, and w sometimes ,
climb to th*, top and can s*-e for miles. |
<»n one we can the county seat of j
Ribb countv. which Is ten miles from
<ur house I live n. ar the Cahaba rlv-r. |
our* <ru land 1s on tho river. During th*-
• - . tinned rai ’ ca - d the I
river to overflow our corn and nat>a |
P *nted over. Abercrombie Is only a post- |
*>tle-. and not a town, as s-ni<- think. ;
We have good sch ols here, i am thtr- j
te«n years old and have a twin sister. ;
'• grandma lives with us. She D eighty- .
three v.-a-s old. I would like to corro- I
j-s -nd with a girl ■ f mv age from Flor- I
1.-.-i. I want to join the Hird Dovcrss
Society.
Ilnttlo I. Harris, Oxford. N. C.—D nr
Junior. 1 have b»« n s<-fng so many nice
left* rs’ from the Juniors I thought I
would writ* . My l«»pa is a farm* r. and
1.. Iraan taking The Constitution for*
a mt thrr* months, and 1 like it v* r>
mu* It Inm a little girl tw Ive years
..hi and have studfl music three months
an.i a hall and can play most any song
I„ n * ... 1 love to r.m.i the Junior
lettets v< rv much. I think Aunt •2' 1 ' 1 ’ s
pi. -ur.- looks like she is als.ut forty-live
. . ar- old. She has a nice, ph-asant-look
ine I io- I wonder how many ot the •
1 u-lors hav- b-en reading about Josiah
•*;.l San-anthn. I have, for one. and
like It v-rv much. I have three broth- ,
ers and one little halo q.-.r I’-iP-t '
that he Is the smartest baby in th
world.
Bettye Holly. Henry. N. C— Dear Ju
nior: I have been a reader of the
old Constitution for a iong time, but ;
11,ver had the courage to write before;
not that I am so young t»nd timid, neither
I am 1 oil and bold, hut I was just afrtud
of that dreadful waste ba-ket.
. -• • dM vu t.k Os "No-
holy's Johns” letter? Mr. Nobody, I
w sh I kn« w voiir real name.
I think all the cousins ought to clip
Aunt busies picture of this week’s pa
, r I know I will put It in my album.
' '
: her. Don’t •-• u think her a grand, noble
I and good woman? I do.
As this is inv first attempt I will not
make mv letter so long Why don’t more
( of the cider cousins write?
I woti'd like to correspond with some of
th. old. r one; especially from Florida,
I as I think nothing is sweeter than or
! ange blossoms. Adieu.
George M tgruder. Hattiesburg. Miss—
I D- ar Junior. 1 have been reading the
■ Junior !• tiers for some time, and the
more I read tin nt the more Interest 1 find.
I I go to schodl h- re. and I like it very
> much. I will soon Is* In the high school,
i i like to go to school so well that 1 tun
glad when school begins. The school
I h.re will Ingin the second Monday in
I SM-ptemU r. 1 will be fourteen years of
1 ng. on the 2.M of March. I like to go to
Sunday school very much. 1 go every
Sunday that 1 cat. Papa Is the super
intend, nt of the school no*. 1 have got
litli, 11 prizes lor being at Sunday sclkh.l
on tune, having a pefect lesson and third
for having contribution. I have such a
good papa and mamma. 1 was born
in New Orhans. La.. and was
brought her. by my parents when I "was
four years of age. Corr. -pondenco so
licited; cither sex. f will answer all let
ters received.
Ifelva Flowers, l.tmlson. Ala.—Dear
Junior. I have always since I learned to
nnd. read the Juniors' letters with pleas
ure. It Is both he.pful and Instructive to
us 10 t«ad each others thoughts. I live In
th. country two miles from ih»- little town
of Lajitisoii, which is our nearest post
office. I am very fond of flowers and de
vote much of my leisure time attending
to them. but haven't had wry good luck
with th-in ttiis year. 1 am also fond of
b- < »s and have r«-ad sev r.il, among them
are Ixifton'S ”<'har:vt<*r Sketches."
•'Youth's Summer Days.” and the •'Path
way of Use." and many others too nuin
« bus- to m. nt lon. My birthday is Septem
ber 30th. Apy one who feels disposed to
wr.to mg «r eand me a book of‘any kind
THE WEEKEY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1900.
will be very much appreciated by me. All
letters will be promptly answered. Would
like to exchange books and song ballads
with the cousini. My age Is eighteen
years. Aunt Susie. 1 don't t Ink you
ectild have originated a more important
thing than th • Bird Dovers' Society.
I’kasc enlist my name. 1 pledge to keep
the i u’e. Corr. spomlent.s aollcited.
Pearl Pratt. Whiteville. Ga.—Dear Ju
nior: I come begging the cousins to bo
true to ail pledges they may take upon
themselves: for insta.i.-.- tin- Hird I*oy
ers’ S*>ci< ty. Do you fully realize what
the pledge is? If you do, please do not
w.ar feathers on your hat alter you have
joined it. 1 know a lady that has joined
it and wears a hat b< .lutlfully adorned
•with fealh. rs. Now cousins, do you
think she Is very true to her pledge?
What a great thing It Is to be always
truthful and true —true to our par. tits,
true to our friends and true to God.
Wasn’t we honored this week by having
.Aunt riusir-’s picture on our page, oh,
' that we could look at that pictured face,
I and pledge ourselves to become as noble
and true as she Is; but that is one pledge
I we cannot take; that most come as a
i gift from God. There is one way we can
I la- like tier. We < ii be charitable. How
i many of you have sold any of Tom's
Isioks for him? Sisters, 1 have sold ten.
! Will smne of th.- cousins send me the
I words of the song "Sweet Maggio?” I
send 3 cents for the Grady ho.-pita'l.
i John Q. Hudgins, Temple, Ga.—Dear
| Junior: A year and more has passed by
| since I wrote to our page last, and un-
■ doubtedly a year lull of ev< nts to many
■ a junior. How many of you have r< -
I solved to live a better lite? How many
I of yqu have made promises and vows that
a.\ unbroken'.' oh, juniors, 11 you would
, pause to ilinik that out before you lies
I tho dark valley and the river, and be-
Iliui.l you is tin- shadow or. the track, and
iiow grand it will b- when you mingle
with its dark waters to cast one Imger
i iug look back cm your path well trod.
I 1 have watched this page as it developed,
i ami became inur. and more Interesting
(with its many bright and cheerful 1 t
t< rs from all parts of these United States.
Juniors, 1 live away up here in North
western Geurgl.i, a very healthful part ot
j tile country, surrounded by schools, and
■ the soil of this section is more produc
: five than any one may suppose. Almost
i anything can be raised Imre. There uro
ii.-kis <>l cotton, corn ami other grain. We
I have a good country for all. 1 would
I be proud it sum.) ot the Juniors would
I send mo tho words. "Bury Me Not on the*
I 1 • ■ Irle,” with a. criptton of their
• country?
Walter Berry. I’arngot-Id, Ark.—Dcnr ■
■ Junior: As I have n ver read u letter :
! from this part of Arkansas, 1 will try :
! and do my la st to interest th. Junior
readers of tho dear old Constitution. I •
t live in northeast Arkansas, in Green '
county, ul.out thirteen miles from the
| state line <>f Missouri. 1 have* been a
! reader of Th.- Constitution for four years j
i and in all tiiat time 1 have possessed !
stub a fear of the wastebasket 1 have ,
' never decided to writ.- until now, but 1 ,
' cam., to the conclusion that It my little !
I "literary effort" found its way to the
I "monster’s paws" it would be no great j
I Joss.
Well, cousins, I see the subjects “Nov- j
el Reading" and "Unknown Correspond- i
<nts ‘ ar* not discussed now with as I
mi.- h earn. stn<- a they fot-qo rlv were.
Now as to unknown corr -spomtents, I I
i‘#n't what possible harm can result
from tiiat. You gain knowledge you
otherwi.-e wiuld not poss. ss. You can
i" ■■ \ home, true enough, but* I
can you 'mt ha. - friends a; a distance 1
a.i well. “A fri.-nd’* <e friend lur it' I
that." And as to novel r. ding. I am I
never better pleased than when reading
some pice novel.
If ant one in South Carolina by tho
name of Hyatt should see this, < tthcr
writ.- to m<- to the above address or to
the Junior pane of The Constitution. My I
nmth r s maiden name wiui Hyatt and
her lather s narno was Alexander V. ’
Hjatt. Correspondence solicited.
Clara E. Powell. Montgomery, Tex.— j
Dear Junior: For mv subject I will take .
"ILducatmn"-something we all should trr I
to obtain. Education teaches us tii..; I
gn at qm .ition which we should '. am, .
that is, how to live—not how to live In th.; i
n« re mat. rial i.se only, but m the
.• : ■ . how t . live < tmple ely , how
to 0.-e our facuiti.-s to the greatest ad- j
vantage to ourselves and others. I tis .r
--lunat* . >i ■ . t i : ■ lent our <ducs
t < ii, aint <J.-.<>te years to some subject I
winch l.itt. 1 n or rui.-y mgg. <s. li lore
doing tills, jt would is- wise to weigh with
great car. the worth ot the results, as
< ompare i w th the worth of the r. suits I
which the s ine years n .ght bring being I
tlh. rwise appii.-.i. P.id. m.1.-< d, ;• is to j
see ....y , ami j.itls occupy th. ms.-Ives with j
tri. rallti- s.mr not evm consider wl. it j
H s. rmus thing life is. If we had an un
limited tim. io live, w- need not Is? so
particular; "But w-‘ that have but span- '
itng lives must « v-r be-»r in mind me I
limit, d time for a 'luls'lion.” Why do we 1
l. ne th- m< st important to b<» consider- I
ed last'* Sur< ly, our it. avenly Father ;n- |
tended It otherwise "As w.- only have I
Oil.- lie tO IlVe. We jllOU.d liVC It Well; illld
tua -
ly above tho mass of humanity."
"We live In l-cds. not ycark; In thoughts,
not breaths;
In feelings, n- ’ In figures on a dial, '
We sh > Hd < ount time by heart-throbs.
He m st lives
Who third: , in. t. feels the noblest, acts
the best/'
De’la Itl.llry, Westbrook, Ga. —Dear Ju- |
nlor: What music could be more Inspir- ]
Ing to the l.utnan mind than the enchant- i
ilig notes w.- daily hear sung by tlie birds
of the forest, w om w<- may w. 11 «li.«- I
finguish as the most perfect musicians?
1 Are they not perfect? And they sin<
1 their songs exactly as God has attuned
j their little tUr.-. s to do. How little do
we us.* or appreciate the opportunity 3
1 afford*-! us here in this life. It Is, in
ide. d. pleasant to go forth into the for
; ests and enjoy the cool, refreshing breezes
• of a bright, sunshiny afternoon while
, listening t > tlie s<<ngs of these f lined
niuslelans that are singing so gayly in
the leafy boughs of tin- trees above uh.
Each person can find at least a tew mo
, inents to spare from their daily task • for
such pastime as this, which proves to '.-t
! a great refreshment sot the tired minds
i and .mmUcs of those who have many du
. ties to perform. Together with tho read-
ing of good books, lids Is a much more
1 elevating way for voting people to spend
' their h lsur< moments thats. to Indulge
1 in all manner of sports, whore evil is
' most always predominant. Our Creator
bestows upon uh with a lavish hand : r
too numerous to mention, and we would
OLD TIMES IN GEORGIA
GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES
By SARGE PLUNKETT.
(A. M. WISH )
With The Weekly f'nnnrltiillon One Year
ONLY SI.OO.
This Is thy only book of Suige Plunkett's
Intinltabl sketches that has ever been printed
Jl il.s-s not e, main any o f his later letters hut
1., titled with s. me of his beat earlier produc
ts I■. Among thm are tils war stories, stunea
of the home, the customs and some of t; la
quaint ld< as ur the cracker, and his home
made phiiosophy and ob:ei vallum, well worth
the readu.g.
The I■ ok la tn paper cover, 200 pages well
printed, and wilt ho sent postpaid to any ad
dr- -s ill. - r the ibov- offer As a premium with
The We. kly t'..|istitut» n one year, £|, the book
really costs you nothing We will tend tho
b, ok aioli-- upon r*s-,lpt of 35 cents.
Our supply is limited and the offer la a
rnr* ore. First come, first served.
Addies, all orders to Th.- Constitution, never
to an Individual Semi your $| directly, or
through the 10-a. akent.
K.-mit by postal, monev order, express or
registered letter, wherein w-e assume nil risks.
THE CvNSTfTUTION, Atlanta. Go.
be much happier as we pass on our jour
ney through life if wo would rightly re
ceive. acknowledge ai d appreciate them,
not considering them as simply the
fruits of our labors and nothing more
than what Is justly due us. Correspond
ence solicited.
A South American Cousin. Villa Ameri
cana, E. de S. Paulo. Brazil, 8. A.—Dear
Junior: Here I am. I am from far away,
and maybe 1 am out of the traces, but for
eighteen years or more The Constitution
has found her welcome way into many
American homes ol this vicinity. This
American settlement Is situated about
eighty miles from the city of Sao Paulo,
Hie capital of this state, on the Faullsta
railway and consists of sixty or seventy
Am. rican families. Our ancestors came
from different southern states of the
United State* of America. After losing
a few negroes in tile war between the
states they become greatly dissatisfied
with the government of tiiat country and
drifted to the far off Brazil. That has
been thirty-four years- ago, and at that
time slavery was at its hlghtest pitch in
this country, but alas! even in this coun
try the goose that laid th.- golden egg is
d. ad. Slavery has been abolished about
i lllf.en years. The s.aple crops of this vi
cinity Is coffee, waterim lons and sugar
cane. The most of the melon crop is
planted. From four to live hundred acres
wdl tie planted In this vicinity. The crop
will b.- shipped fro-n this point. Villa
Amerl ana. Coffee is only grown on high
lands. The high lands ere free from
frost In this country. It takes coffee from
four to five years to bear fruit from time
planted. I have seen coffee orchards said
to bo eighty years old still producing good
crops. Tho most of the sugarcane is mailo
up Into ruin. This railroad station. Villa
Americana, ships from to 4,<do pipes
a year. Each pipe contains 500 liters or
more. This may sound strange to some of
you, but the making of tAqundlente) rum
for sale in this country Is as honorable
and respectable a business ns the grow
ing of corn and cotton in your country,
and by far more profitable. All letters
containing the stove address and a 5
cents postage stnrip will come all right,
and then I will write you.
Phoenix, Box 93 Burleson, Tex. —Dear
Junior: It has b*en some time since I
have had a say with the Juniors, and
lat this late hour I call again. I note
! a goodly number of the young people
' are discussing tho bird subject, but 1
i do not care to drop a thought along
that line just at present. We were much
impressed with a .suggestion made by
<>n< ol' the junior girls a few weeks since,
i She said: "Dot’s not fall to learn do
mestic ideas as w<- spend so much time
with books. Howers, etc.” This young
I lady is playing on the tenderest chords
of our h'-art when she thus speaks. Os
, all swe. t beiut’s in this old world of
ours is the ‘’sweet girl graduate" who
has a turn foi- doing everything in
woman’s line to do. This is the girl who
will make home happy and life worth
tin- living. H.-r sunny smiles will brlght
end every fin .-.ide and cause everybo.ly
to claim her as a friend. Are all young
ladles so this can be said of them? We
fear not. When a young man wakes up
in the garden of loveliness and decides ,
to brealy Hi.- chain of his singleness ,
ai.d takes unt himself the lady of his I
choice and en- long realizes the sail
fact that he has coupled himself with j
a society flowo*- and not n real lady, 1
he feels like he was on tho nowhero side |
of the mountain of mist, in the valley ;
of over there, and cannot explain. On ■
tho other hand when the love and devo- i
tion of a good, »ri:e woman of refinement >
and <|i>m<stic qualities has been won, ,
then- well, wo cannot explain the beautl- I
ful pfeturejon paper, and the readers may ■
guess the rest. Suffice It to say "the
liand that rocks the cradle rules the
World" and secreted and hidden in tho
lx art of tho world anil In the heart of I
woman Is the .Joy and comfort which
can illumine nil life.
Bcfote closing lot mo say that I greatly
- visits of Tho Constitu-
tion, 1> it not so much. I presume, ns
dots my mother, as she was raised In
Georgia and ihe says with the words of ,
the poet:
"Georgia., thou nrt the land of love,
Danil of my native hours;
I love thy so i and daughters fair,
Thy mountains, streams and flowers.”
GRADY HOSPITAL LIST.
"A friend.” Nndawah. Ala., $1; Norton
Davis. Os-l.a Ala., 10c; Norman Davis.
Ose-la. Al 1.. Ixrfs Davis. Oscla. Ala.,
1«. . I„an...ir ’. -b Osel i. Ala., JOc; Har
*. y Wilson .<>tes, Ala.. 2c; Emma C.
U--od. B op. La., 1c; opal Perkins. Au
gusta. Ga.. Be: A Lamar Byrd, Jane*.
Ml--.. »■; il ir.-l B-r ekw .y. Milstead, A*a.,
sc; Carney Fletcher, Shiloh, Tenn.
. .. ■—
Children’s Diet.
Nearly all tho nches and pains of early
childhood are due to errors in diet, and
nre to be rm-t In preventive measures and
a morn or lees positive system of elimina
tion by emetics and laxative treatment,
accompanied by the judicious use of
baths to produce relaxation and sleep.
In a pamphlet Issued by the Women's
Christian Temp-ranee Union, a physician
writes as follows:
"The age of, the child has to bo taken
into ronslderatl n in the method of treat
ment to bo ad .pted. If a nursing child
suffers from colicy pains it may be set
down at once that a vicious system of
overfeeding 1s being carried on, or that
the mother's milk is perverted by some
übi.i/rmal phy-l al or mental condition
under which she is suffering. Rather
than re-sort to the use of narcotics the
child had better be weaned and brought
up on .some of t prepared foods. If tho
child Is being led on cow’s milk great
care should bo Observed to get the same
milk each day. ard not to use mixed milk
from different oows. In case of chronic
indigestion tho Bulk should be Pasteur
ized tn lore using it, or the source from
wni 'h it Is obtained changed. It is bet
ter to u.-" no inlik. than milk from aources
that are doubtful.
"With children that ar« old enough to
Cilmi to the table some one person anou'd
be iu s.gn- d to tho care of tne child, and
its diet < Itefullv Observed to see tnai jt
doe.s not > at food tiuit disagrees with it,
or that it does not overeat of things
tiiat do not agree with it.
Stopping Coughs by Will Power.
It in not usually supposed that any ex
ercise of tho will power can be made elil
clent in checking a cough or a nneezc, but
Dr. Brown Sequ-ird. In one of his lectures.
Bald of the nubjevt: "Coughing can be
stopp**d by pressing on the nerves of the
lips in the neighborhood of the nose-
Sneezing may b stepped by the same
mechanism.” Writing in an eastern ex
change, I.eon Noe! nays:
•'FresesJng in the neighborhood of the
ear. right in front of *»ie ear. may stop
coughing. It Is also true of hiccoughing,
but much less so than for sneezing or
coughing. Pressing very hard on the top
of the mouth ;s also a means of stopping
coughing, and many H'ty the will has im
mense power. There ere many other af
fections assoelateil with breathing which
can be. stopped by the same mechanism
that stops tin* heart’s action.
“In spasm of the glottis, which Is a ter
rible thing hi children, and also In whoop-
ing couga, it is possible to afford relief by
•hrowing cold wti: *r on the feet or by
tickling the soles -if the feet, which pro
duces laughter and at the same time ar
rests the spasm almost at once.
•’I would not Bay that wo can always
prevent coughing bv our will, but m many
Instances these things are possible, and i !
you remember that In bronchitis and
pneumonia, or any acute affection of the
lungs, hacking or cough ng greatly in
ert uses the trouble nt times you an
easily s- -■ how imp >rtant it Is for the pa
tient to try to avo.d coughing as best he
can."
A Village Pepys.
Graphic: There is an old man,
eighty years of age, in the village of
Lymlngton, who ii.is kept a full detailed
h story of every event 1:1 his life s'.nca
he was nine years old. This modern and
painstaking I’epys has found Village life
sufliclemtlj entertaining and sulli-entiy
exciting to furnish material for severa
large volumes, and It is stated that lie Is
to be persuaded to publish it. It is not
the first time that village life lias been so
<ln >ni< led. In Babvttire. the native vil
lage of itebert En.mett. there was a
Quaker settlement, and years ago some of
the residents kept a full and minute rec
ord of the happenings, and very mt'rest
ing and very useful it Is to any one who
is called upon to write on the earlier
history of this century in Ireland.
Bill Arp’s Letter
(Written for The Weekly Constitution.)
We thought that maybe the late New
York and Akron riots would even up
things, and the south haters up in God’s
country would call off tho dogs, but they
are still blowing the same old horn. They
are hard up, however. Some of the hounds
have lost the trail, and all are scattered
| and there Is no keynote to rally them —
1 the buglers don’t harmonize. Seme said
i that the riot in New York was owing to
a corrupt democratic administration in
that city. The Akron horror called for
another solution, and now they boast that
they .-lived the nigger, but if It had been
down south he would have been lynched
I with Sam Hose tortures. A late paper
sent me as a marked copy says that south
ern mobocracy has crossed the fine and is
' affecting the lower classes up north. Just
as a contagion spreads In unhealthy re
gions. It all comes from the south, and
there Is no quarantine to arrest its prog
ress. That’s bad and sad. Det’s build a
w." 11.
But Seriously we must warn our good
negroes not to cross the line. It Is dan
gerous. Keep away from Pana and New
York. Stay at home and cultivate our
I cotton and corn anil let politics alone and
you are in no danger. Idleness Is your
! curse. If I had my way I would re-estab
lish tho old patrol system and make ev
ery tramp negro carry a pass or take a
whipping. I would empower the town
marshals and the country constables to
arrest every vagabond on the highway
I and If he couldent give a good account
• of himself he should be tied up and dress
ed down. We old men know that on© good
whipping has more effect on a bad negro
than five years In the chaingang. Even
a hanging Is glory, for they are going
' straight to heaven. Last Saturday night
a tramp negro cut the slat from the blind
of Mr. Cary's house and opened It and
crawled In and stole his paternal gold
watch and his pocket book within threo
feet of his head, while he was sleeping.
No doubt he was armed, and would have
shot Mr. Cary had he waked up and re
sisted. Tho negro took a night freight
and was arrested at Kingston, and tho
watch was recovered, but he got away.
We have got to do something with these
tramps. Our chafngangs are full enough.
I repeat It, that no good, industrious ne
gro Is in any danger in the south, and
they know it. Jim Smith Is the biggest
farmer In the state, and he says there Is
no labor in the world equal to that of
well-regulated negroes, and he knows.
But the spirit of mobocracy is not con
fined to the race problem up north. The
lynching last Saturday at Glllman, In Il
linois, was against an old defenseless
white woman—a doctress who was sus
pected of causing a young girl’s death by
malpractice, but who had not had a trial,
nor had any Intention to harm tne errtng
girl. A mob of 250 men attacked her house
In the night, and she defended herself and
her home and killed and wounded as many
as she could. They mortally wounded
her and burned her house. What kind of
civilization is that? Why dldent they
hunt up the man who ruined the girl?
Our civilization down south has always
protected women, no matter what they
did. We will not hang them for murder,
for even old Mrs. Nobles was sent to tho
chaingang. Our women must have protec
tion from white brutes and black fiends,
and we would have rejoiced if somebody
had have given that scoundrel. Dr. Wil
kerson. who ran away with his wife's
sister, a hundred lashe.s before he was
turned loose In Atlanta. That was a good
case for a little mob law. If the law could
not reach him the lash would. Poor, help
less. pitiful woman! I low you have to suf
fer In silence anil live and die with your
wrongs unavenged. How many hearts
nr* breaking now because of a husband's
tyranny or his faithfulness to his mar
riage vows. For her children’s sake she
keeps silent and buries her secret in her
bosom. I know of men who made fame
while living, and on whoso monuments
fulsome epitaphs nre chiseled who dis
graced and dishonored the name of hits-
I nw cAtriA tv V) fl f> T*<* Ylrtf flp'id
who are doing the Mima thing- now. A
’ woman chained to an unprlncipaled man
Is the most helpless creature upon earth,
i I’romethlus, bound to the rock and the
i eagles eating his heart, was not worse off.
j Blackstone says there Is no wrong but
| has a remedy. He was mistaken. Women
! have a thousand wrongs that are reme
diless. What kind of remedy Is divorce
or separation or alimony? It is the heart
that Is broken. It is love and honor that
woman wants, and that was promised her
at the altar. If, as a last resort, she
leaves him. he struts around and claims
the children. “The children are mine,”
he says. The man who says that is a
conceited fool. In the lirst place ho does
not know for certain that he Is their
father, and if he Is. ho made no sacrifice
to be so. All the pain of motherhood is
hers. All the tender care and nursing
and night watching and generally all the
prayers for their safety and good conduct
ate hers, while he is at his bank or store
or office or shop or maybe tit his club or
billiard table. Then- was a time when
the wife was the husband's slave, accord
ing t<> the law. and the children were his
property, and it Is hard to eradicate that
idea from some men's minds in our day. 1
Woman has been called the weaker vessel,
and men the lords of creation so long that
it won't obliterate. Giris, be careful to
whom vou chain yourself for life. Better |
sew or be a shop girl or a typewriter or a
school teacher or live with kindred or
I friends and do housework than take any
risks. .Marry a young man who has g< od
principals and good habits, and not much
money. The love of money is still the
same old curse, and most of the young
men want to make it by short cuts and
dishonest practices. "Get money, get ft
honi stly, if thou const, but at all events,
get money,” is still their motto. The ea
ger, grasping pursuit of money is the i
curse of this age and generation. Hunt
ington is dead, and left his millions-be
hind, and his boast was that till men
were purchasable, and when it was to his
Interest h* bought them, whether they
wi re legislators or congressmen, or Judges ■
of the courts. He spent millions that way.
Some of our office seekers are doing the
same thing on a small scale—buying votes
- yes, buying negro votes. The white pri
mary dident nominate them, and they
have renigged and renlggered. A little
whisky and a few dollars will secure the
darkies, and the fear is that the white
primaries will prove a failure. There are
men running for office as Independents ’
who rely mainly on the negro vote, and
can't be elected without It. Such m-“n
ought to have the contempt of every
good citizen. They ough to have
contempt for themselves, and I
reckon they do. The negro who
sells his vote Is not half as depraved
as the white man who buys ft. But wo
will know by waiting, and if the primary
proves a failure, then let us have the
Hardwick bill or something better, and ,
may the Lord protect us from unprinci- |
pled office .seekers. BILL ARP. I
OUR TRADE EAST IS
GROWING WITH RAPIDITY
People yellow and brown are coming
in crowds to trade at Uncle Sam's shop.
The folks of the orient want onr goods,
and they are buying more of them
every year. Our exports are turlng
westward, and the rate at which our
commerce across the Pacific has been
growing lately Is astonishing. In 1599
wo shipped a million barrels of wheat
flour to Hong Kong alone, and China
and Hong Kong together bought of us
upward of sixty million gallons of kero
sene. If things keep on as they are go
ing now we shall soon be clothing all
of eastern Asia, ns well ns a large part
of Oceanica. We disposed of $10,000,000
worth of manufartured cottons In that
part of the world last year.
J. J. Hill, tlie railroad owner and capi
talist. Is now building with the utmost
expedition a line of steamships to carry*
freight across the Pacific. I understand
that there are to be about a dozen
of these vessels, which will bo the largest
freighters in th? world—unusually broad
and deep, and of enormous tonnage.
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1 They will bo slow, speed being sacrificed
for the sake of stanchness and capacity.
In these huge craft immense quantities
of grain, harvested In the middle west,
will be transported to China and Japan,
as well as other products, such as cotton.
A part of the scheme laid out by the
proprietor Is to connect this line of steam
ers with railways which he controls In
this country In such av, iv as to ship
goods from the eastern part of the
I'nltcd States to the other side of the
Pacific direct, without transfer to or
from other companies, making a through
rate exceptionally low.
Raw cotton Is our most Important nrtl
' cle of export to Japan, China and Hong
Kong. It goes chiefly to Japan, where at
the present time our cotton Is competing
formidably with the raw product from
1 China. In China we are competing with
Japan In the sale of our manufactured
| cotton goods. It Is a rather curious sit
uation. one may say, promising profit
both ways to yankee producers India
and southern Russia buy our cotton be
cause of its superior quality, and on this
account It has driven out the Chinese
cotton to a considerable extent In Japan
within the last four or five years, not
withstanding the fact that ft costs more.
It Is by making the freight route con
tinuous across the I'nltcd Spates and
Pacific ocean, as It were, with a com
paratively low transportation rate that
the new steamship line expects to make
profitable the carrying of wheat from
the middle west to China and Japan.
The Idea at first entertained was to
construct comparatively small and swift
vessels, which should be able to convey
perishable agricultural products to orient
al markets In the shortest possible time.
This plan was rejected, however, and
provision for the preservation of such
products during 111- passage will he made
by the Introduction of cold storage ap- !
paratus on a large scale in the hold of
each ship, ammonia gas being utilized
for refrigeration. In this manner our
fruits and doubtless considerable quanti
ties of our vegetables will be delivered
In a fresh condition on the other side
of the Pacific.
XXX
Wo sent about 1,200,000 barrels of wheat
flour to China. Hong Kong and Japan In |
1899. Tho bulk of It went to Hong Kong—
n gieat entrepot through which American
grads of various kinds nro distributed
over a large part of China and the archl
prli goes of the southern Pacific. I may ■
mention Incidentally that some of our
wheat Is now being milled in Japan and .
China. Next aft -r raw cotton our most '
Important export to the orient is kerosene
oil, of w-hich we shipped to that part of
tho world last year about 74.000.01)0 gal- |
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I j lens. Tn the last decade our exports of
‘ kercsene to the east have much more
; than doubled.
We sent to China and Hong Kong last
, > year $50,000 worth of condensed milk, f r
which there is a. growing demand in that
I part of the world. The Chinese have
i taken to It with avidity, eating it ea a
i . sveetmeat, an I regarding It as a gr» it
, delicacy For cur eggs and butter, r ,
, i a market is springing up in those ports.
and It seems to offer attractive posslbih-
J I ties. Th- patriotic American hen n ■
I yet lay the basis of an Important trade ::i
i th-. orient. Foreigners criticise untav r-
I ably our methods of shipping eggs, claim
ing that the crates we use for the pur
pose are unsuitable and cause nreakage
, If they nro correct, we shall soon 1...1
, It cut an.l do better.
| Seventy-five per cent of our exports t ■
Heng Kong are farm products. Last year
we shipped to that port over S4.«X>» <
worth of wheat flour. 3-M.830 worth of c
n“«l fruit, ?lA,MI worth of beans and pea
$9,026 worth of green or ripe apples, •
worth of canned vcgtables. $3,398 worth of
potatoes and S6J>O3 worth of butter. Th
figures will afford an illustration of th
cj i-ortuntty for the sale of vegetables and
other farm stuff which Is furnished bj
foielgn colony In the orient. At present
! we sell twice as much to Hong Kong
Wo did ten years ago, and there Is every
j picspcet of a rapid Increase in tho tr< *
In the near future, especially when . r
i transpacific steamers are provided w
r» trig- rating outfits for the transport of
i perishable merchandise. Our total ex
yerts to China, apart from Hong Keg
r , ,3C ?0 from In 1833 to $ 4 ■
493,440 In 1899.
n. XXX
To sum up, our trade across the Pacific
Is growing at a wonderful rate and ho r.s
out most flattering prospects for the fu-
I ture. The sugar producers of the Ha
waiian Islands look to us today for a.l
i they consume, except sugar. They e v a
buy their vegetables on our Pacific com-:.
A large part of the cotton produced In c -
: southern states finds a market around •' t
, many parts of China. Lately we ha, ■
been furnishing ties for the railroad- of
Asia. Canned goods from our packing
houses , ir . going to China and Japan in
' T \° quantities, and thj wheat growers
I of the middle west will soon have a mar
ket in the orient.
The steamships that carry our goods to
hot WUI rPturn emr-v
but laden with valuable cargoes, and
w.tb.fn a few years from the present time
the commerce between the United Stat- .
■ w, ’l have attained dt-
I °I wh,ch as >'• ' «'> hardly
1 nren w b‘lfT'e tP f° nce Ption. What w->
are now beholding is merely the dawn o
: Bn?d W t«Trl ° n ” f which Is ic<-
| tint d to bring an unprecedented prosper-
I JAMES WILSON