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8 ’ *TnHF - [£L & Conducted by Mrs. Wm. King, 480 Courtland Ave., Atlanta, Ga. SLUMBER SONG. W en de shadders falls aroun' us, W 'en de chicks no longer peep, W'en de frogs sings in de medder, Den hit's time ter go ter sleep. lilt's dat time des now mah honey, Xou mus’ come an' tak' you' res'; All de day you’s run an’ scampered— Come now. Mammy knows de bes'. Mammy’ll sing about de angels, As she rocks her 11'1 boy. How dey scatters dreams all roun' you— Dreams dat's full ob lub an’ joy. Shut yo’ eyes up tight, mah honey, Dat’s right! dey calnt get a peep; You's a trabblln' on ter Dreamlan'; Dah! you's sholy soun’ asleep. CLARA D. GILBERT. THE DOLLPHINJL S. YACHT. Some of our boys and girls would prob ably like to know something of Uncle Sam's yacht. In foreign countries the kings, emperor and czar reserve the ex clusive right to their yachts, but In our country the Dolphin Is used by the secre tary of the navy, the admirals and others high in office, as well as by the president. The yacht Is a beautiful three-masted schooner rig. It Is 240 feet in length on the water line; 32 feet in breadth. The engines are of 2,250 horse-power, and sometimes has gone 17 knots an hour. The coal bins hold 275 tons of coal. It is painted a cream white, and the entire yacht cost the government $350,000. Os course. In carrying such important individuals as presidents, etc., it must be provided to protect them, if such should be necessary, and so it is equipped with two 4-lnch rapid-tire guns, one live pounder rapid tire, six three-pounder rapid fire and two colts. The ship's company number 137 men, with seven officers. These sailors are tailed the president’s “Jackies.” They have a mascot, which is a line, lively Scotch collie, a favorite with the whole The "jackles” have a good time, and ho d themselves In readiness to be called in service at any moment. The Interior of the yacht is as handsome as the ex terior, and every room is furnished for comfort as well as ornament. 1 resident McKinley made many trips on this vessel, as lias President Roosevelt. It is quite customary for members of the cabinet to use it for excursions either by day or moonlight, going down the Po tomac. Not long since .Miss Alice Roose velt made an excursion down the river for the pleasure of her small brothers ana listers. Often Mrs. Roosevelt will take i pleasure trip with her children down the Potomac and into the Chesapeake bay, often extending the trip for a short < ruise along the sea coast, staying as long as a week. To those that love the water, such trips are very pleasant, and toe Dolphin affords much enjoyment, to those high in Uncle Sam's employment Probably the most notable trip taken by the yacht recently was when the secretary of the navy, postmaster gen eral, speaker of the house and other dis tinguished men made a cruise to yte West Indies. I nope I have intee.rsted y®u in tellHig you something of "Uncle Sam’s” private yacht, the Dolphin. CHARITY LIST. F. Monroe Smith, Fairmont. Okla., $1; Carrie Mae Turner. Turner. S. C., 1c; Owen T. Brewer, Arcadia, I la 10c; Mat tie Chapman. Moody. Ark., lee.; Mrs. Lula Hamelton, .Manoak, Ark . 10c; Maud M. Chesnutt. Hope Hull, Ala.. sc. JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE. Maud M. Chesnutt, Hope Hull. Ala.— Dear Junior: I have been a silent ad mirer of your page for a long time, but have never attempted to write, before for fear of the waste basket. I am a farmer's daughter and live on a. beautiful farm about 12 miles from the capital of our state. I take for my subject “Con tentmer.t." Balguy says: “Contentment is a p.-arl of rare price.” Don't you cous ins think that it is quite true? How many of us are contented with our lot? Very few I am sure. We are always finding something that makes us discon tented. Don't you all think this would boa much nicer world if everybody would try to be contented with whatever lot falls to them? Would like to correspond with some of the cousins about my ige, IG, either sex. Inclosed will find 5 cents for the Orphans' home. Bernice Brooks. Quitman, Ga.—Dear Junior: T will take “Humor" for my sub let. What is humor? Is it not pleasantry and It is not the greatest duty of our lives to try to be pleasant? Some people have a talent for kindly pleasantry or jocularity, but we can be pleasant with out beinsr jocular, for as Temple says. •■ln conversation, humor is more than vit, easiness more than knowledge.” We should all try to be pleasant, for pF is an’rv loads to kinffiroro. does it not, cous ins’’ Unfortunately I am not pleasant at j a! j times. My teacher said I was too pleasant in school. I have read Dickens and think his works very instructive and humorous as well as pleasant and a great portraver or delineator of character. I would like to exchange the words and music of "Tell Me Not” for “In 1 lie | Shadow of the Pines.” I live on the edge I '-f'town Quitman is a pretty little town: of about 3 000 inhabitants. I enjoy living here’ splendidly. When I last wrote to this na-e I was in Alabama. Since then , 1 have crossed the Chattahoochee and am , now in the southern part of G. orgia. j tiorothv. I enjoyed your letter ex.-e. d ng- j tv I love scenery v. ry much, i again. I will close, with best wishes foi., all R.ibanna Newborn. Whistler. Ala.— ' ->ear Junior: As Aunt Susie requests us i o write about something we read, I win write about the pygmies. A. great while I ago when the world v. s full of womb re . lived an earth born giant name.’ ; Antae"® and a million or more of curious . mt e earth born people who wore called U-mies The pygmies were so small and i FhXre were so many sandy desert-- and inch high mountains between them and tPe r £ft of mankind that nobody could ICUREFITS ..■L , i I ctrd Ido not mein merely to stop them • 1 ■ ‘ ci . r? . [ iavermc j e lite disuse of HTS, ErY PPSY SICKNESS a remedy to c-i rPason for not now OthCr treatise andaFret Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office. proL W.H.PEEKE, F.D., 4 Cedar St, N.¥. get a peep at them more than once In a hundred years. Among the pygmies I suppose if one of them grett to the height of 0 or 8 inches he was reckoned a prodigiously tall man. It must have been very pretty to behold their little cities with streets 2 or 3 feet wjde paved with the smallest pebbles and bordered by a habitation about as big as a squir rel's cage. Maud McGee, Moseley, S. C- Dear Ju nior: I do enjoy reading the dear old Constitution, especially the Junior page. I live In a very pretty place, 2 1-2 miles below the little town of Iva- We have a nice orchard in front of our house. I wish Aunt Susie and the little cousins would visit me and help me to eat peaches. 1 live in a common size white house and have a grove of trees In our yard- My’ papa Is a farmer. I wish some of the cousins would be kind enough to send me the song "In the Shadow’s of the Pines." Correspondence solicited, either sex. My age is 13. Bertha Taylor, Corinth, Miss. —Dear Junior: I am a newcomer, but hope you all will welcome me as an old friend, I as I have been reading The Constitution, i Jr., ever since I could read and dearly I love Aunt Susie. I think she is such a j kind and noble woman. I am a country ■ girl and like it. Country life is so healthy and so pleasant in summer just !to get In the shade of a tree. I live 5 I miles east of the thriving little city of 1 Corinth. There is eleven In family at i our house. 1 have six sis.ters and two brothers. I wish I could see dear Aunt Susie. I know I would like her. She is so good and kind. I hear her say that will do. Give room for others. Creola Cooke. Alberta, La.—Dear Jun ior: After four long years of silence from your most interesting page I will try and write again. Many changes have taken place In my life since I last, wrote. Then I lived far out in central Texas near the noted plains, but. now I live in the piny woods of Louisiana. We moved here from Texas the 3d of August will be. a year ago. Texas is a beautiful state, but 1 had much rather live here than there. Alberta is a sawmill town situated in the northwestern part of Louisiana In Beinvllle parish, on the S. and G. rail road. What has become of all our “old time" cousins? Have they entirely de serted us? Forney H. Ray, write again if you are still in the land of the liv ing. Well, now for my subject, but don’t expe t anyth! ig extra, for I am a very poor hand to discuss a subject. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy r< iglibor.” the ninth commandment, shall bv niy subject. Now. dear cousins, let us consider these few words seriously for just a mo ment every time wv utter a false word against any one we break one of the g>. it commandments God has command*-*; us to keep. Os course it Is • ery easy to say a little thing against a >v one wo are angry with or to accuse them false ly just to make them feel bad. Certainly it niak**s them ft ■ 1 bad, but instead of injuring their character wo have added another sin to our own soul and injured ourselves, for some time in the near or distant future we will be found out. Now. when we speak of any one. let us tell of ail their good qualities and let • . rest al I we n't - >w any thing kind or pleasant, why don't speak of them at all. lot vs resolve to never say or act a thing that might blur our own or any one elsc’s character Correspondcnee solicited. Imogene Barnes, Riddle, Ind.—Dear Ju nior: I will take for my subject "The Rigiit Flood.” "There is a tide In the affairs of men. ’ says the greatest of poets, “which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune.” Not only do 1 believe that there is a tide, but I do believe that there are many titles, every day one. that might lead ns on to happiness and perhaps fortune, if we took advan tage of it. How arc we to find out. though, what particular tide it is on which our bark may sail down success fully? Why. only by taking all, by los ing no one. does the boat speed upon its way. All < hances are not against the player, or it could no longer be called a. game of chance. If, then, they art- eq t.ti, we presume that half the time we might be successful if we tried. Certainly some chances must be in our favor; some tide must be the fortunate one that leads to our happiness. But it is easily missed if we do not take advantage of all, and with the same energy, too. of one as of another. 11l success oftenest comes from want of energy—it is so natural to be come fatigued and dispirited from fruit less exertion. Natural enough, but that is also the natural reason of failure, the very cause of it. If perseverance alone Ins.ires success, as it generally does in time, with a good object In view, then l er. vcrance in seizing opportunity must, in reason, be still more certain of a good re-alt; and that every one has some opp minify in their power, at some, time <>r other, is as sure as that there is a dally tide, or a daily sun. When once convinced that the result Is certain, if the effort bo only long enough continued, the reasoning mind should not allow itself to relax those efforts through fa tigue and disappointment. The number of failures still brings success the nearer; after a. series of blanks must come a prize. But life is short; it may close before wo have gained our object. Then wo have the less reason for delaying. We c.tnne■: afford to lose a. single tide, for each one has the same chance of being one that will lead us on to happiness. We wettld certainly have found it before if we had lost none in our previous waiting: and. hotting, seize tills one — th nd -v< ry one and sure- ly But, dear mo’ I am giving til this excellent advice to my tired readers and pos-'. ',y 'nave stood bv the stream and 10l th- .Tde pass bv. Would like to hear from some of the cousins on the "bank.” Marie Williams, Lugoff, S. C.- Dear Junior: I live 2 1-2 miles from Davis Station, hut am visiting my grandma. Ibis is- a beautiful country with rocks ■a I hills everywhere. I know some of th- cousins never saw a rock and such a country as this. The rocks are as lit is* as a finger nail on up ,-ts large as a. on.*-room house. Y*iti can look out and see for miles. There is a hill 3 miles from here and you can see the houses on top of it. It's a gold mine not far from here that you can see. too. There are so many pastures it looks so p:*tty to s*. e the cows and sheep graz ing on the bills. Some people use water from t’-e s; rings. All the water up here, is cool and clear. This i.s a. line place for p '.]*'<• to spend summers. Much love to Aunt Susie and all the cousins. May Parker, Starlington, Ala—Dear Junior: Vacation days have come when we d<> as w like. Yet many of us are “busily idle. Idly busy.” Now let me tell you of one of the many small con trivances occupying my attention when 1 am "idle." 1 have a great many little friends, con sequently there must come a great many bit t j and Christ mas presents. All c Hl.lren like bright pretty pictures, and in this doy they come to us In profu sion. so with a little care we may col ie, t i great many during the year. I am stormy away every one I can get mv han.ls on ami at the Sime time mak ing books :o paste them in. Two yards of cambric in some pretty shade is quite enough for a book. I am cutting mine ten inches wide by tw’elve. inches long. I first fold the cloth in the desired shape and slteli through the center, ornament lug the back with a bow of ribbon. Scallop the edges of the leaves and paste large attractive pictures on the outside THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1903. leaves. Please your own fancy about arranging thorn on the other leaves and you will have something that will be a source of joy to some little friend for a long time. Myrtle Bond, Cedar Bluff. Miss. Dear Junior: Here comes a little Mississippi girl 8 years old to join your happy baud. My papa Ims been taking The Constitu tion .and thinks it is a good paper. 1 have three dollju 1 play with them and wash and iron their clothes myself. How many of the cousins like to go to school? I do for one. I study arithmetic, spelling, ge ography and language. 1 haven’t n'«g pet except a sweet little brother 6 months old. Carrie Mae Turner. Turner, Aiken county, S_C. Dear Junior: A year seems like a short time, but that length of time has elapsed since. 1 visited this page last. Our page has improved wonderfully In six months or at least I think so. I wdll take for my subject “Thorns.” First, ‘ what are thorns? Well, they are a kind . of prickly shrub; they are long and some of them are very sharp. Thorns are found ■ I ; i ■ 1 lyp-txj , ■: EUNTCK ANDREWS, Vincent Store, Vi». on various kinds of vines and trees such as crab apple, orange and locust trees, [ and among the vines are green bramble. I As to sand spurs and cockleburrs, they I are very painful whan stuck into the flesh and are. 1 think, disliked by every one who may come in .contact with them. There are others I could mention, but ere I take up too much space I will quit. Grover C. .Griffis. Electic, Ala.. I think vour letter a good one for your age. Please come again soon With best wishes to all I Inclose 1 cent for charitv. Ruby IT. Burt. Waldo. Talladega. Ala. Dear Junior: I enjoy reading The Con stitution very much and look forward to seeing it week. My school closed about four w--ks ago .'tnd I am enjoying my vacation very much. My father is a farmer. Every summer w- move to Eu reka Heights, win re wo spend the sum mer. This is a summer resort about 12 miles from Talladega. The Heights are about 1,000 feet above sea level. Talladega creek is close to th** springs and every week we all go in bathing, Snr,th E. Greene, "Waldo. Talladega, , Ala. Dear Junior: it affords me pleasure to r-.ul The Constitution. I have recent ly come to Eureka Heights, which is a nice stimnitv resort; it is about 9 miles from Talladega; it is u thousand feet above s-a level. Mv home is in Birming ham. Al:.*., but We jiave been coming here for the last three summers We have a summer home here We have a nice swimming pool and I have learned to swim. We dance and play games at night and have lots of fun. We are here with a very sick babv which we hope is im proving. Stella M Blue Bolton. N. C. Dear Jun ior: .1 ha.ve been a constant reader and silent admirer of the Junior page for quite a while. 1 will take "Cheerfulness” for my subject. One should never worry e’tt little things, instead of worrying th* y should be as m<*rry as possible. 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Mary Holloway, Dunn, La.—Dear Junior: Having been n silent admirer of The Constitution so long I often think of writing a letter, os I enjoy reading the letters from this part of Louisiana. I have been sick six weeks with typhoid fever. Have, to live on milk and soup. It ts a very long time, but 1 am on the Improve now. Hope to be aXe to sit up soon. When I am well I will wiTTe and describe our little town and country. Now I want to ask the cousins how many of you have mv birthday. July 28 J will be 15 years old and would enjoy a. letter party so much, ns I am shut In It would be such a pleasure to get letters from all that will write me. IJo;>e some of the readers will write me a letter. I will have a good time reading that day. Love to Aunt Susie and the cousins. Best wishes to the dear old Constitution. Good by. Farmer’s Daughter. Owen T. Brewer, Arcadia, Fla.—Dear Junior: Will you admit a stranger from away down In the "Land of Flowers.” I was born In the good old state of Georgia., but my present home is In south Florida, on tho banks of Peace Fiver. Several dredges are constknlly working night and_day, dredlglng for a kind of rocjc known as phosphate, which is dried and used as fertilizer purposes. It consists of prehistoric teeth, bones, eX 1 "., which perhaps has been buried here ever since the deluge. I am a curio collector. I collect fos sils, arrow-heads, shells, minerals, curio I and several other interesting things, i which makes a good study. 1 am em ; ployed at present with the phosphate i company, ond working with my father in j the sbj;p yard. I would like to correspond : with some of tho Geotgia girls between I the ages of 14 and 16. and would like jto correspond with till the foreign • cousins. Enclosed ten cents for Grady ! hospital Good luck to all. ■ * Better Thau Spanking. Spanking does not cure children of bed wetting If It did there would be few chil dren that would do It. There is. a consti tutional cause for this. Mrs. M. Sum mers, box 105, Notre Dame. Ind., will send her home treatment to any mother. She asks no money. Write her today If your children trouble you In this way. Don’t blame the child. The chances are it can't help it. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE How He Knew the Difference. Editor Constitution: Discussing the ! "race question” a few days ago. a good I story was told by a. San Francisco drum mer of Uncle Abe Williams, an old darky ; whose acquaintance he made at Meridian, Miss., while he was traveling that dis trict a few years ago. Uncle Abe, it seems, had heard tho “white folks” read and discuss the race question; besides he had on several oc casions traveled quite a distance to in terview colored people who had gone north ami returned. As a result Uncle Abe was loaded with information on the race question. Among other things he declared that the negroes would never get anything but synii«vthy from tue north and that if the negroes liked northern people halt ar, welt as they pretended to like the negro they would have imigrated north long ago. <m one occasion, says the drummer. Uncle Abe was carrj tg my grip and after s-timo talk on the race question, he said he could tell ,t yankee from a southerner every tjn*e I ” him bow he did it. "Wall,” said be. “one \lnte. I tuk a grip uptown to a hardware store for a •genaman' and he talked a heap and axed my name and so on. and when we got dare he pulls ot t a han'kei :h’ f and wipes His face den he put a nickel in my han' and said: 'I 'art you. Mis tah Williams, yousc* a nl* e old genaman.' Right, don I knowed be wa.- a yankee.” "How did you know. Uncle Abe?” ■'Cause if he had a beet* a .southern man I wud a-got more money ami not so much perllteness.” W. 1:1. SELLERS. Banning. Cal., May 19, 1903. Veterans Seek Comrades. Editor Constitution: I would like to know the whereabouts of th« following gentlemen who served with "to in the confeedrate ser,fl < anti enlisted from the following states. Jerry Clemons. ' Charley Cooley, of Nashville. Tenn.; ; James Saxton, George Willburn, of Gor don county, Georgia; A. W. Bray, of Augusta Ga.; N. E. Dabney, of Texas, and Joe Hanus Starks, commonly called “John Starks;” ad of whom served with me under Major Haws, of Hawsvllle, Ky.. quartermaster of the wagon repair shops, going from Calhoun t * Savannah, stationing at the following ; t -es: Nt ir Decatur and at Augusta and Savannah, thence back to Decatur. Ref rued home from there. Separated near Kingston, Ga. Will appreciate any information of any of mv old comrades. M. S SWANN. Roy, Ga. Editor Constitution: I served ns private in company F, C. 8. A., Seventh Florida regiment, under Robert Butloek, captain, afterwards colonel. I volunteered at Ocala, Fla. Would like to hear from some members who were In that com pany. ERVIN FLOYD, M.D. Fayetteville. N. C. Editor Constitution: I served as a private In company K, Thirty-seventh regiment, Georgia volunteers, C S. A. Would like to have the address of several members of that company. J. T. M. BAILEY. Marion, Ala. Good Hoads. Editor Constitution: The greatest need of Georgia—l emphasize that It le the greatest need In the conditions now existing—is the radical Improvement ot Its public highways, the country means ot transportation. This transportation Is entirely too costly at pres ent. not only In Georgia, but throughout the southern states, which are so tar behind tn this matter ot country Improvement. The modern development and Improvement of the roads Is as Important as that ot the improvement of the schools. The present roads cause stagnation, ruin the churches, schools, farms and all industries and insti tutions. There Is small attendance a.t church in the country' on account of the terrible— the almost barbarous—roads. Farming com munities are all more or less Isolated. There Is little social intermingling between neigh borhoods, and too little of It in neighborhoods, travel Is so difficult. This Is not tpodern; it is not Intelligent. President Spencer, of the Southern railway, recently called attention In an address to Ute fact that railroads could ham a ton of freight a mile at a cost of one-half a cent per ton per mile—and that It cost the transporter on the unimproved coun try roads usually 50 cents per ton per mile, or one hundred times as much as It cost the railroads. How ran the country districts be expected to prosper in comparison with the districts along the railroads? Easy transpor tation furnishes the key to development. On tlia Improved public roads of Now Jersey It costs only from 7 to 10 cents to haul a ton a mile; that Is, It takes from five, to seven times more mules to do the same hauling In Georgia and South Carolina than It does In New Jersey—Jive to seven times a greater Investment In mules and horse-power in this isectlon than there to do the same work. Could varied manufactories prosper under such a disparity of conditions? Could a city or town prosper that had to pay five to seven times more on freight than another town? The difference would annihilate such a town. So the remote country districts are being anni hilated on account of the cost of transpor tation. It takes two horses to pull two bales of cotton—half a ton—to market nearly ail over our southern section, when in New Jer sey. Massachusetts and all uvea* good road Europe, two horses pujl from 2 to 4 tons, and frequently more. Farmers frequently find It cheaper to buy their meal in the west, getting It by railroad, than to raise the corn and haul it to mill a few miles. So with wheat and flour. We do not diversify, to a large extent, because It is too costly to diversify. Timber stands unsawed and houses go unimproved because 1c Is too costly to farmers to haul lumber for oven 7 or 3 miles In tile country to Improve with. Districts along railroads get the lum ber from distant points by railroads rattier than haul it a few miles over country roads. It I.h the duty of the etale to attend to highways—to flx them, to improve them, to make them what they ought to be. 1 n*-*y are public, property, the land for them liaa been largely condemned or donated, the st has taken In its hands the matter of property attending to the highways, and it is bound to carry out Its obligation. A stale has no r *K ,lt to neglect Its highways, which so largely al fect the progress, the prosperity and the de velopment of the people. , , . Some such bill as the Felder bill should heroine a law hi every state in the south. The employment of the state convicts in building good roads .voul 1 mean more o the people, to thdir prosperity materiaiij, educationally, .serially and would bring d» vrlopment to the slate than muld prouably be wrought In any other way with the state felons. if I had the choice of tun months or schooling in a bad roads section or reads throughout the section and » -ight months of .-cho-»ling, 1 would take the laiter, and 1 think it would mean more educational im provement as well as meaning more material prosperity. I’ut the convicts of the southern states to showing the counties how to build scientific roads and they will do more for education than their lease money turned into tho schools, as well as bring direct develop ment and increase of state property The census shows, Mr. Editor, that in I BdU. the year of the beginning of railroad develop ment—this marvellous form of the 'road only about 7 per cent of the population or tMs country lived in cities and towns., was the era of the “country gentleman.” With railroad development began the depopulation of the country districts and the buil ling <», towns along the railroad lines, moved by the marvellous facilities of transportation, N< w over 53 per cent <>f the population nf the country iiv * in cities and towns. I’cople ! have left the isolation of tho country; its i How and .'”Btly transportation, its infrequent i mails, its la- k of Ueilities 1 >r social Inter, 1 mingling- ;!1 because <>f the bad < onditL n * >f j the rural rnt.l.s and trie vastly superior facili ties offered where tT-re arc railroads. Ih? 1 attraction of tin? railroads has been too groa. for the country. W* hav seen eon*-entrated i prosperity and development in the cities and i dilTits,*.! <b it** r.tliza thm ;in*l despair la tha c* -.intrv. Mattv .'.mtitry districts where the public’ roads have gone steadily unimprov-d fir** almost *i«*p* *p'.tlatc<l t**l:’y in (o’orgia an 1 other states. 1 see noble ntan.dons in Georgia remote from the railroads, inhabited by ne groes, their masters gone to the railroads and clvlllzatl.'n Datil wbl-h a few years ago scl.l readllv nt SIO and sl2 an acre, now gros begging at $3 and $4 All because ot this controlling matter of transportation. •I , states which built good highways early held mos’ of this population In the country. Massachusetts, t' .nn.-.-tlcut. N< tv York. etc., have some time ago discovered the secret ot their "abandoned farms" and are building fine hlchw.t . * and r.*,..*; ttl.trlng these farms ■ a thing Georgia and other southern states will have to do. The northern -t.ites are establishing "st.ro* highway commissions” with g-roral supervis ion of' the highways, .and providing large state means annually to assist counties In road Improvement under expert direction, ox |,ftrt supervl-Jon at bast Icing a most neces nrv thing M.roro bn -ns has been appro priating over SSOO.QCO a year for a long while for this purpose. The proper l ire for ‘he improvement of Georgl’i Hghwavs would be to make the ■■ rommtrslon "state highway romrnts sl n." with th*' eont- d ot the stat.- convict forces, for road Improvement and doing work In nil the counties In cooperation with the -minty forces on s.lentlflc principal* A f-w years of this work, besides the direct roads bu t, would cause an arouctng of the entire state to the Importance ot correct road Im provement, resulting In untold development and benefit. R- F- MIDDLETON. Augusta, Ga. Have You This Information. Editor Constitution: I write for Information to know it anj* one was In the war with John Cousey or J. W. Cousey. He belonged to company C, Fifty-seventh Alabama regiment. I want this Information for his widow. She will have to have two witnesses that were In the war with him before she can draw a con- pension. She is needy. Any reader who ro.-s this that was in the war with him o*- know of any one that was In the war with him and will write to me I will [T''uVi LIS Alexander City, Ala.. Route No. I. • Tribute to Watson. Editor Constitution: I am delighted to no tice that your great paper Is publishing In . . ■ ■ ; Lite tnd Times ot Thomas rcfr.-re.-n " bv the gifted pen ot that most w th*, son *f the south. Hon. Themis )•. Watson He Is preeminently a man ot parts, h.-n.-e quite capable, of correcting the many gross misrepresentations concerning the hist, ry ot our great southland, and the wonderful feats achieved by her men of valor. I have real carefully his "Napoleon” and his "History ot France.” and tho admirable Presentation ot th.- ■I I histmt- at splr-'l by the magic strokt* of his tiench.tiit and f-iclie pen gives movement and fascination ‘to his works rawly iqu.i.-d In th.* best works of notion. Hl,- short, direct sent*-n- .*> g.vo lucidity t*.* every p.tr.tgt *: h. I consider Mr Watson rhe gn-aust historian «>f America and ; th.', greatest orator of the south. Every loyal | ■on in whose veins course the patriotic blood I • ~.,i ; -ot cai.-tully thes- ' .laable rontrit.it- 1 tlr , nH . ERNEST C. MOBLEY, Rome, Ga. ’ What Georgia Negroes Have Tone. ! Editor Constitution: I wish to nay that T had thu pleasure of hearing B-‘ 'or Wash ington, the industrial educationali- and lec turer, last night at the People’s TaL'Tiia-- <*. I note with satisfaction that you published In full tn this day's Constitution the ad mirable speech delivered by the distinguished professor. I cannot better express n.v de light at hearing that splendid, practical and wise address than by wishing, as I most sin cerely do, that It could be heard by every community—white and colored In this st;: e Professor Washington gave. the negr s I much excellent advice. 11* properly em * phaslzed the necessity of savings with a view | to the purchase of lands and horn ■**. In doing . this, he thoughtfully suggested that tho col ored man who owns his home stands for , law, order and progress. This Is true ot all men, regardless of racial Hues I suspect that Professor Washington Is not aware ot the fact that Georgia negroes are paying taxes on thousands of homes, acres of farming lands. h**ma comforts, farm ing Implements, etn Listening to him. It occurred to me tn jot down a few items that will astonish and at the same time encourage many of your readers. Tlie facts which I .«hall give tell most pleas antly ami strongly of tho friendly disposition ..f Georgia white people toward Georgia ne groes. Running n mental eye over the state, I have taken a few counties at random to Illustrate the declaration Ju»t made. Tho comparisons j Instituted are between the years 1895 and 1902. llurko county, for example Tn 1895. the ne groes of Burke returned for taxation 19.643 acres of laud. By 1902 they had In* leased their holdings 70 4 per cent. In 1895 they owned city property t the amount of $17,665. by 1902 they had Increased that Item 43.6 per cent. In 1895. they owned household and kitchen furniture In tho sum or $23,022; at the end of seven years they had meieased this character of possessions 98.2 per cent. In 1895 they returned for taxation horsro. mules, etc., to the amount ot $42,199. by 19C2 they had Increased that amount 23 1 per " ent In 1895 they had invested In farm implements and machinery $7,653. By 1902 they Increased this Item 447 per cent. in 1895 their aggregate property amounted to $147,232: by 1902 they had Ineres.sed this 153 per cent. Washington county negroes ownrT in 1395 Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century PREPARED BT Splendid Offer so Subscription For Summer Clubs, The special summer offer, “All Summer for a Quarter.” has attracted wide attention. The Constitution has never before made a special run on short-time chibs, but now offers this splendid list of prizes under the rules provided below: For the agent sending the largest list of subscriptions to The Weekly Constitution by October JpIGO.GO For the next best list For the next best list For the three next best lists, $lO each 30.00 For the five next best lists, $5 each 3.>.00 For the ten next best lists, $3 each 30.00 For the sixteen next best lists, $2.50 each 40.00 §300.00 The following rules will be observed: 1. 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Watson was undertaken at the snqyesti* n 1* • Constitution, ami will be presented by It In Its flt,t and m**.-t a: r form This history has for Its purpose th< which the south will have justice in the the south has always taken in tiro pr< try, and the Important work done by It In evei ted from the so-called histories that have been used >rrect place due the south will be gf' ' H " be wrltl the claims made will be reliable and may be sustained This great history of the United States along r *"'** r. tr ■ Til .*:. ! i:n: ir lines will now be read with i ning interest. Tht arouse the enthusiasm and patriotism of '■*. '■ ft ■ .. . etltutlon’s readers. No offer has ever been made upon such easy and liberal terms. Get up a dub at once and have it booked In time for Its members sot t > miss ar the great summer features. Every 25-cent subscription will count on your list. Write all names and addresses plainly. If any R !' D. direction Is needed with any address do not fall to give It. with will begin with first copy of paper after receipt. No back numbers suppllr I This Is your chance to roll up a list at your office such as you have never seen before. Address all orders and remit by safe methods to r«£ An.A/vTZB comsrmTioiv, ATLANTA, BA. 10,024 acres of land. During the sev-n years UlLwljig they increased that acreage 20 i ' ; cent. In 1895 they owned <lty jnoj-eriy hi ihe sum of 67.600 lb 1902 they ineiea.-U’. ’hits item 132 i ceu f . In 1895 th- y i;a i 520.314 worth * f hou.<eh.-ld .tn I kitcli-'U • ;r • nlture. By 1902 th«*y ail' d 15 p’-r <<-nt rhe amount ■ f to ir holding’s. in 1895 the;. ; owned $32,254 w .rth f • • is-'.s, mub etc. ; Uy 1902 thev ir s. *1 that am ant 3! per ■ ent In 1895 tiny owned $5,959 w-h: ■ f farm implein nts and inachim • >'. J>y i i 902 ‘.hey inciv • I i’.- ; it' ; . 93 per nt. In 1895 their aq prop- tiy aiu ;; P' ’ to $106,263. £b 1902 they inert ay. *1 that amount 45 per • ent In 1895 T’uiaski county mvr.”l 14.145 n. its of lan l; ir. seven yars t! ■ v added 755 acres t ■ their j- >■■«?<•ln ■ 1895 tl.. \ ov.r,- .’ city prop- iuy in the sum ■■■f $26,345. lb 1902 '’* • in ” ''• • , item 22 per cent. In 1595 ’hey h-. l $21,460 j worth f hous’-hopj rind V./uhen furniture, j By 1902 th» y increase.! the air. unt 38 p-r i cent. Ir. 1895 tin y owned h n.uh <. etc., to the amount of $34,318 By 1902 they added 27 e’-r cunt. In i 895 they iia 1 ! $7,963 in farm impluuu-.i*s. Ey lOC3 t;-• y | incM.u-ed thttb amount 51 per cer: l;i IbVo • th-, .r whole jir- purty aimamt-d to $144, By 1902 Gu y increased that item 39 P’". e.-m.. ! Br?oks nt groes m 1895, uw.p *1 12,911 ; ’ ent to their holding.- In 1395 th* ■. o•■m- I , town pr< p riy to the amount -f $13,679. i i 9U2 th-y ireretirtd th.n -un 32 r- ; • ?. . j In '895 they b.i l sl7-395 worth . f .;•*< h I ! ' and kitchen furniture. By 1902 ; . creased that amount 19 per cent. In 1895 ! the.v returned for taxation horses, muh - io , i to tho amount of $29,513. B\ 1902 they ' increased that amount 56 per cent In 1895 '• thev owned only $1,301 worth of farm im plements. By' 1902 they increase.} th- :r holdings 607 per ■ >nt. In 1895 their np gr- zato prmmtv anvunted t> $118,812. By 1902 they inerea.-’ 1 that am-amt 48 *-r cent. During the seven years ment! red the nc pt< e<4 *.f the entire state Irmrensod their hold iugs in land t<» I. 175.291 acres i gain of acr> o At the en I < * the r« *. •:i years they wned citv and town prop-Tl’ 'mt Os $4 339.422 a gain .*f 347.356. They owre.j household ar 1 kit 'o f!!!?'' I ‘he Gum of $1,688,541 -a e m of $365,847 They ewned horses, mu • etc. to • 1 amount -i” $2,985,831 n of $696.98! At the end of the seven yen re.- their aggregate p'-onnytv an? anted to sls. ■88.069 a gain < f $2,247,239 i« not the foregoing a m • X’-eHr-nt h<- f.G the negroes of Georgia, and for (?eor gin. herself" M.AUTTN V f’AT.VTX H use of July 14, 1903 A Northern Suggestion. Editor Con.srltutlon: Your attention Is call ed to ’he *• ' editorial of T.ie Baltimore Evening News of y. sterday. called f<Tth by one in The Philadelphia Press of the day before. I: is as follows: “The crime which brought upon the negro White the «rr!:>le o’ the Delaware mob Is a .ipital offense in Maryland an 1 many other stao-s. Ii ought to be a capi tal offense In e\ury state An attempt to commit that crime can hardly, however, b- * made, however, a capital offense, and in most of the northern states the crime itself ,s not punished b\ death The case of White was made peculiarly abhorrent and « x it. I even m.-re than the usual in iignath u !f sm Ii a thing be possible that is stirred up bv such fiendish brutality, owing t . the alleged fact that White had previously served a term in the penitentiary for rape u - att-mut.-d rape 'I he Phil-.d-’lphia Press pr s a nnasure which It may fairly be h< . 1 w.-übl I do something to prevent these outrages. N> I man.” says The Pre.-e. “ought to leave a st.tc prison after a c>nvicti..n for this of fense or its attempt until the prison surgeon had made it Impossible to r.-jn-at offense nr ! attempt.” The pruposltc n Is eminently sound. I Not only would it operate as an absolute pro- I ventix- of a repetition of the crime by the : individual punish. I but it is the bell, f of I those who have given attention to the subject I that the intljeti -n of this punishment xv,,uld . have a peculiarly wholesome effect on the ■ class of brutes with whom xve have to deal In th!a matt* r. The measure proposed by I The press ought to be promptly adopted In ail ’ our states.” The puni-hment for rape therein suggested. ; I believe, w’ll be all that Is necessary' to 1 check the brutal nature of those for whom ! Intended. As you ar? aware, “a no-good nig- ; ger” .amongst hlf. kind, both male and female, i Is a pariah-the wiley Turk introduced this to | protect his home. Why should xve not d<> ' the same? Why’ not take this up seriously. I 1 agitate the question, with the viexv of leg- I 1 islative enactment on these lines in the V a- j 1 rlous states of the union, where the’e is : ’ a preponderance of ignorant brutes. Sug- 1 gested by a northern contemporary, they I 1 could say nothing against it. ' ' WILLIAM 11. SINCLAIR. P Baltimore. Md. i J ♦ £ The borough of Fulham. London, by the use of its garbage in the furnaces 1 of the municipal lighting plant makes a profit of $3,443 a year, A Story of Phil Cook, (From The San Antonio Express.) General '’Phil” Cook, late secretary of state of Georgia, was noted for his quick i ar.d stinging wit, as well as for a certain i eloquence of harmless profanity. When he was a npr seniativi? in. congress ■ thijm wer< ;■ t.'iy contest* over seats. I ■ ■::*. *l:iy a i.arti*:iil:i.rly shameless case i .vas t > be decided, and Ger:> ral Cook f It so ouiraged by ih,_. open rascality of both contestants that h? lid not want to take part in s-ating either. But he finally consented ■.■> vote for thro democrat, on the ground that, as one of the contest i ants m ist g*-t the scat, it would be better i for th-- democrats to put in their man. i When the time came for the roll call, however, tho old general had turned from . the nans* atlng details ami was busj - read- I Ing Suddenly the clerk called: "Cook | The old general dropped his book and I rose in a dazed and bewildered manin’r. ! Th n hr- remembered the sacrifice that was expected of hint, but he had forgot ten the name of the democratic contest- ( The clerk again called: "Cook of Goor- Turnlng to one of his democratic col : leagu s. the general inquired in a whisj | that could be heard in every corner of the ball; | "John, which is our d- *1 rascal?” How Our Bible Takes. The Premium Bible came to hand last We are delighted with It and consider it the most complete work that we have ever seen Wo shall always appreciate it as a Christmas present from vr> >, as the cost is too small to count, compared tu Its real value. L. j. HINE. Miakka, Fla. Been Beadin’ Riley. One of the Benedict poets of The Ton n< ssoe Farmer, who has boon reading I: mes Whitcomb Riley's famous poem "a l.lz Town Humorist,” breaks forth m this imitative S o„ S ; An set in the grocery store one night, | A smokin' an' talkin'. liile th** blaze In the fireplace shined up bright— I T's smokin' ,nn' talkin'. Joems Hass ho allowed that the most |->v fer one M us a jug-fulj o' licker to stir up our Lige Scott sorter halted 'twist licker an’ Es h*’ d plenty o' either he wan’t gwine to Bill Siaggs liked a farm with its acres untold. An’ Zeke Barnes swore that he longed most for gold. As we all set smokin’ an' talkin'. "Well, attic a mlnlt It come to my lot. A smokin' an’ talkin'; ■An * had boon thinkin' right smart tv'nar’ 1 sot A sm.ikin’ an’ talkin' lh<*,- ,i:ti tno wealth.in the prize I like, Au liek'j'. I sez- 'oven that dont strike. I i a t Her gits sick or ho mopes around blue. Ihe things yon have named mav o’ course please you: Put a tech of a hand an’ a lovin' kiss— The "I*l woman's love that," 1 sez. “suits me.” An' 1 kept on smokin' an talkin'!” The doopost depression In tho earth, at»- corta.ino 1 by sounding, is 5 1.4 miles;’ tiro greatest In iglit. the peik of Mount’Ev er»>st. 5 3-4 miles. lOfESgi It you suffer from Epilepsy. Fits, FalLng Sick ness, ot. 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