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8 I - - - Conducted by Mrs. Wm. King, 480 Courtland Ave., Atlanta, Ga /" THE TWO FARMERS. Farmer Joe was as jolly as jolly could be. He borrowed no trouble—no, no. not fie; If twas cloudy today 'twould be clearer tomorrow; Use was too short to waste it in sorrow. If the weather was bad and his crops wouldn't grow, *• 'Twill ba better tomorrow.” said Farm er Joe; If the bugs were too plenty and ate up his j grain. •'Ail right,” said Joe. "we ll plant it ; again!” It was not that way with Farmer Fete, lb grumbled at all he happened to meet; •'JWas too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry— Things didn't go right, however he'd try. The pigs got mangy, the hens wouldn't [ Jf he hired men to work they were likely ! to play; He always was careful to plant in the i moon. Put things wouldn't grow and he got out i of tune. The cold weather came ere he'd hauled any wood. A ;d when for his cattle he'd gathered no food; His wife couldn't please him in getting his dinner— In sho t' Farmer Pete was a wretched old sinner. The result may be guessed without any telling. | Vh!] ' Pete was around his troubles bo- j 3'inner Joe laughed and worked, took j things eaty you set. wore proudly the badge of A. S ! ci K -An Old Organizer. I NOT FORGOTTEN. D"ar < iiildren: You must not think 1 : have forsaken you because I let Uncle "Will write so often, but he is so good j and feels «n sorry for inn about, my eyes. ■ that 1 ■ is willing to li-lp me al: he can. i and I think what he gives you can not be i lie.iten it is just good enough I wanted to tell you two funny things: ; One • heard, ..nd the other 1 saw myself. '[ J have a gentleman who helps me in my ! K liday school class, and that just reminds i mo to toil you I had forty-one boys and , girls In my class l ist Sunday. Is that I rot a nice class? They listen to every j ■word I say and behave beautifully. Well j S-mday. after the lesson was over, the , p. h tieman whispered to rm and said: ' ‘ l-ast night I hard something at my j r ; kens. and 1 wilt out to se» about I them, and I want you to guess what it | ■was” 1 guessed a nigger, a dog. and I ’hen stopped, for he said "N ■ it was : ’possum Now. what do you think of V. A 'possum in the center of the city of Atlanta.. I expe y the old fellow’ had been read ing the Junior ... tge and the discussion. Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Used by people of refinement I for over a quarter of a century ! PREPARED BY SCHOOL 3_ AND COLLEGES. ! TELEtiKAPIIY 1 >«mt lift n J «•!<• t; r:i pit School. Box 5, Newnan. Ga ' rE hUiMs? ci: I K l: for IL>m< Study in all throe. *. Insures a l-autifi 1 La .i. ? ' ®Situations Seccred <3\ tor ; •. tu ' n refunded. Writ-.- w • • f Massey Colleges JI »■- Louisville. K>. Montgomery, Ala. Houston. Tex Columbus. Ga. Richmond. Va. Birmingham. Ala. Jacksonville, Fla. LEARN TELEGRAPHY t\ I) I’. I•. T<< OI \I I X <». •mr id I Vfte !’<•«• J ion. I bv a); rail- <Tel«-;; rnpl. < . <>a. SOLT’IERY SHORTHAND ATLANTA, GA. V The I.pa Ing Businr-FR St- . .1 of the - ■ ■ • ' Ad - I dres*A.< B -.h • «. Pr»>.. or L V . Ar nold. Vicr-Lr - . Af:r;ta. Ga . Mill:van Crichton - i ■ ' ATLA r/rA t G A . 1i « « n..... .. tt.... -- < ■ i.-80. ; i ■ A < Ik-v ■« ’• tttho ■■ . fM 0 Chain of 9 CoHecesowned hr busings® Ivlij X nun run! in ■■ ■ ■-■•d by boniness men. WiM W Fourteen Cashiersof Banks arc on fur B<ard of directors. Our diploma means nif. Enter any 1 ime. Positions secured. Draughon’s ° I (Incorporated, Capital block jyOO,000.00.) Nashville, Tenn. U Atlanta, Ga ft. Worth. Texas, t Maniiumcrv, Ala. St Louis. Mo ‘ Galveston, Texas, Little Rock. Ark. « Shreveport, La For 150 page calaloguo address either place. Ts yon prefer, may pay tuition out of salary af ter course is completed. Guarantee graduates to b* c cent or no charges for tuition. HOM * TIJOV: Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Femnau; .ip. etc., taught bv mail. Write for 100 page UOOKLLiT on Home Study. It s free. GUKIS WHcKt All r.lSt FAILS. grf Beet Cough Byrup. Taatee Go al. L&e Q-j In time. Bold by drunpys. "Which is the best, country or city life?” He hnd tried the country, and then he came in to try the city, but. alas' what conies to many others who try this, canw to the 'possum. He came to grief, and now he will make a good dinner for some one. Moral— Try and be content with your lot tn life Remember the obi adage, "Ret well enough alone." This is what I say: I have a few ' pigeons, and we feed them under my . dining room window. The other morning i 1 looked out and there were four little 'kittens taking breakfast with the i pigeons. I don : know who they belonged ' to. but after a while a cat came along ' and called them, and they followed her across the street. One of them walked rather slow, and I found it only had three legs. Did you ever hoar of a kitten born with only three legs'! That is what we call "a freak of nature.' Now. as I'ncle Will has some useful information I i for you, I will say goodby. a ours. AV NT SVSIK. THE AIR Wj BREATHE. ■ As you know. I am writing to help ! I Aunt Susie, who has a groat dor.l to do. ' and life. Is very little unless we can help ‘ other people. In writing I have hanged my subject almost every time, the reason being that I I may thus Interest each of you. Perhaps . I could entertain vou more by writijg you the experiences of my young life, but I there Is nothing higher than that which ; is to teach you something winch will be of value in after life, to help you acquire ‘ a fondness for knowledge, that yon In ; I your turn may lain others. For that | I reason 1 have selected my subject for | ■ this time ‘The Air We Breathe.” . Long years ago tile people then living— | ' I mean those who knew most—thought I the four elements of nature wore "lire. I ! air. earth and water." But as penpije . I learn'd more they found that all these j I were them-.1 yes made up of several parts. , I The air we i>r a th.- i.- made up of four : : elements at least. Two of them make up i nearly its entire bulk, an I these arc oxy- , 'gen and nitrogen, the others carbonic | ■acid and watery vapor, arc pr sent in I : <mall quantities. Oxygen, like the air. has no taste or color. A candle burns in I J it with great brilliancy, but burns out I ‘ very rapidly. It is the life-giving part of | ' the air. but If wc breathe that alone we ; I woul 1 live so fast we would soon die. The lair, therefore, to be tit for us to breathe | contains to each too gallons by measure: 79 gallons of nitrogen. 21 gallons of oxygen. 100 gallons. i Both of these are easily made, but you J ido not need that Information now Oxy- j ■ gen Is a little heavier than the air and | nitrogen a little lighter. | Carbonic acid, like the other, has no ■ I '-olor, but has a little odor, and a slight- ! ! ’y sour taste. It Is so much heavier than ! i dr that we can pour it into a 'tumbler I ’ tilled with common air as vou would wa- . ter. ‘ ; Nothing can breathe it and It will put out a fire quicker than water. All lire departments in cities have several nut chines for making it. so as to extinguish small fires. It cannot be breathed, but ; when in water makes a healthy drink. It. is this, that is used In soda water, ; ■ that the young people are fond of. The watery vapor is the steam or va por which we see or cannot see If you I leave a pan of water In the sunshine it 1 , disappears very rapidly and helps to . ! make the vapor of the air. The largest quantity, of course, comes I from Hie sea, where it is drawn up by j . the sun. ’ 1 told you before that carbonic acid 1 I was heavier than air, but. if it remained ] i near tl:c eat th nothing could live. But by , ; some Jaw that no one knows God makes ■ j it go upward where it can do no harm. ; | The winds blows or storms come and air | j rises up in right proportions. In J:tt a I I and I have heard at some parts in the t we.-J. they hav. valleys tilled with 1 is ' gas in which nothing < : n live. In these j | pl:<e s the gas from ome cause comes [ from the ground as fast as It. can go up I | into the air J The air is said to extend about forty- ■ five miles above t.he surface of th'- earth. : ■ bat becomes thinner so that at about I five miles ~ human being could hardly j ! live. The weight of the air is about sis- 1 ; teen pounds to the square inch. If you | t: a thin glass globe and :>ke the air ; i out of It with an ' iir pump" it would I I crush from the weight of the air.' Did I i vo : over think that on your bodies you ; are carrying a load of fifteen pounds to ' tin square inch? Tin re are so many in- ' teresting tilings to lie said about the air, i how the dew comes, lain fails, the light ning and thunder, et■•.. but already with 1 th'-se few things I have written enough. ' UNCLK WILL. | j I CHARITY LIST. Austin M Xnp’.y, Huffman. Ark. 5 (•-nt-. Minnio Hughes. Midland. Ga., 10 and TI rbort Maxwell. ’ Kyloton. \Lu.. 10 <ynts; Mary S. Wil- ! : liams. Pearl. Ai r. 5 rents; Mollie I Knowles Moody, Ark-. 10 •• no. JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE. , Frances and .’.ladelin. Lakeside. Wash.-- I Dear Junior: Here we are. a girl and a 1 boy. from the far-off state of Washing -1 ton. and it i.« not often we see a letter j from our .state. We liv.- 35 miles from 1 i a railr- ad. at the foot of a beautiful , laky called Lake Chelan. It is 50 mll< s ; long and averages a mile in width, ft is | ovei fourteen hundred feet deep; its ’ W‘-,.TS ere as clear as crystal ami till' d I with irotit ami other game lisln-s. Tse I ;:-,. : ei\ bi • WC. H th, head and the foot I • of ihe like, espi ially n ar the h-ad. is ‘ I grand and tile many tourists wlio I 1 visit flu lake saj jf (the scenery) I snrp: -■■■ - in beaut', that of Switzerland. , Tilers :ir - li’-ts of gold and silver mines iti Hi-, mountains .siirrotind'ng the lake An in: ■ i ■ s: in>' book niip.o.t be wriiu ii about lr. .: util ill Like Chelan. As i.is wn:..d j take up too mu. h sp e . I will refrain. > We have a fri-nd in .Mississippi. Drue . .la ves, who reads this interesting paper. and whom w , trust may see this letter, I should we be sn fortunate as to have it i . printed. I Alaynie Johnston, Owltown, Ga.—Dear Junior: Tonight while looking ov-r this I , week’s Constitution my eye fell and rest- ■ ■ cd for awhile on a letter from the pen of ‘ Mrs. A. F. Bonham, Chilbronle, Va. What j good advice she gives In only a few words. 1 What is more degrading to the character 1 than to be termed even a user of slang | to s ty nothing of using such language as this lady mentions? ] was never | , brought up to use ur handle ■‘sl ing*’ and nothing < rii.-hes me so much as ,o hear i a lady use slang expressions. What kind . iof an opinion did th gentleman have of i the ’‘college girls" he heard cursing? Did I their charming college manners (if they • had any) have any impression on him ' afterwards? The very idea of a lady THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: .cursing is a shame. God forbid that such can ever be said of me that I was once heard to "curse." Dear girls, 1 wonder" of one of your who contribute to our page curse? i pity you from the depths of my heart if you do. If you have 'Cursed only once that is the one f.tep downward In your course of life. Do yhu know that someone Is watching your daily walks, not only gentlemen, but those younger than wc are are following us? We are sowing seed. Do you not know of some dear little girl (if not a sister), perhaps som« dear little school mate whom you pet and caress and who loves you. whose little life is just bud ding, would .vou. dear girls, be guilty of sowing one evil seed ii. the pure, innocent life Ilk. this? I would like (if dear Aunt . Susie will permit me space) to thank the dear cousins who wrote me after my last letter in the .luinor. Dear cousins, 1 could not possibly answer all your good '1 tiers, but they were appreciaIed. 1 can assure you. Some asked me about this • place, iiwltov n is merely a. country post oflice, located 51- miles • ist of Ellijay, 'county .-.it of Gilmer county. Yes. I am I ''postmaster. ' and as oue soldiei cousin ! wrote me. "Cncl- Sam” Is a hard old I fellow to serve, ' always expecting the ■ b'':" and giving the worst.' Slill we might jsay, "He is a pretty good oh! fellow after | all." 1 think we should congratulate ■ Cousin George ('., .yin at this late date, lot his marriage, even It he didn't invite Iu s. Cousin G'.e-s Rogers, write again. ■ DeWitt and Herbert Maxwell. Kyletpn, Aia —Dear Junior; 1. t it too bad to | have tn sit upon a hard bench all day in a school house on a public road with your eyes on your book and can't look ■ out at the peojili . buggies and wagons i as they pass? If you do you must an ’ swi'r imp ifeet. We have a good, kind teacher and we love het. but sh< makes ‘ us toe the mark and mamma says that’s i right. I often find myself dreaming over j a 101.4 example and these are my thoughts: I Chritsmas is coming with frolic and fun, I Away with tlie arithmetic anil great, | long sum; I Santa is coming w itli candy and toys, i With orang', and apples for the girls I and the buys | The:, say he is prowling around every night. I Even peening through cracks to see we do right i Now Cousins, remember this, and don't quarrel or tight. ' For Santa Is watching us even in the I night. T: ■ School Boy s Re\ .fie. I I’. S.—l'ncle Will, don't laugh; I did I tie In st I could. Herbert and I send 10 | cents for Aunt Susie t<> use as she thinks • b.. t A nu-j-j-. I’hristmas and God bless I you all. Rubye Mills, Whigham. Ga—Dear Jun ior: I have been silent reader of The Con stitution for quite awhile and enjoy read ing It very much, especially the Junior pag l . I think it a gnat thing to be al- I lowed the privilege, of writing on this I page- 1 am a country girl and enjoy’ cottn i try life very much and also city lif. . I I have several married sisters and broth i ers ami they all live in town except one. : and l visit them every summer and sometimes in the winter, and always en- I joy myself ever so much. I enjoy re id j ing good books very much. I most al -1 ways get a good book on my birthday, i presented to me from mother How many lof the I sill ’n-m ever read "In His : Steps'.’” I have for one. and think ii is fill- I also lik. music. I can pkiv lairly well. Some of the cousins ask how many are a'• ti.ll ing a nic< time Xmas Wi J. wc all try to have a nic< time, but we A Great . . . Chn'slmas Offer Something for every household, a Sewing Machine 7 inches high and wide, sent by mail prepaid. It sews perfectly. I fk I i /.F i I .. f oil I .. - fl / IHo V A ' % Tf#iL '' • > -Zu * \ ... ■ ® " f' 0 .The “Midget” Sewing Machine With improved Auto matic Tension. i This is not a toy. but a practical ; Sewing Machine making a stitch ex- actly like the “Wilcox & Gibbs Au- I . tomatic” —it sews perfectly, making as gcod a stitch as a $75.00 sewing machine. Beautiful in design, ele gantly enameled and finished in ; flower designs cf five different col- I ■ ors. The little girl will claim it, but i mother will use it. i The Midget, postpaid, and Weekly Constitution one year, only $3.00. I Only Three Dollars j Address all orders to THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1903. ought to think of others, bow we can make them happy. ~, i 1 wi] be 18 Fehurary 7 and who will I send me a letter and a photograph of themselves for a birthday present? I certainly would praise them highly and I will return mine to them. I would like for some of the cousins to send me the song “In the Shadow of the Finos,” mu sic and words, and i will send them some of my music. 1 send love to Aunt Susie and the cousins and wish you all a mer ry Christmas and a happy New Year. Miss Grace, Otterbein. Ind.—Dear Ju nior: Do you cousins object to having' a northern girl among you? I have never seen any letters from here, Otterbein, and I decided to write one. 1 am a country girl, and proud of it. But. say. .it is cold here today. December 3, anil there is | snow on the ground. I should like to be In one of the warmer states today, for I do not care as much for winter as I summer. To be sure, there are sleigh rides and skating—though 1 can’t skate, but I could learn—and snowballing, but 1 prefer the summer days, when one does not have to sit by a red-hot stove, wrapped in shawls, to eat ice cream, but ■ can be out. in the sunshine, with pretty, i thin dresses and slippers on. Della M. ! Haymaker, I like your letters; they arc so lovely ami entertaining; I think I 1 should like to know you. Grace R- ■ Hemphill, I tried that cake recipe, and wo all liked It. well. I think I’ll try ft again for Christmas. I expect all the cousins are looking forward to a good time Christmas, r know I am. I am nearly sixteen years old. Mill close for this time. Austin M. Neely. Huffman, Ark.—Dear Junior: How ili,] yo U enjoy Thanksgiving ! day? I enjoyed it the fine/t kind. I had 'a nice dinner at home and also our school • served a grand dinner. We have a nice . school here and our school teacher Is ■ line, f am not going to school now. but I ' visit the school very often. As 1 live in Arkansas I will toll you of my home. I live IL miles below the Stati lin- be tween Missouri and Arkansas. I live on the banks of the old muddy Mississippi ' river. It is a pleasant place to live in sum mo: ; there is always a <ool breez ; in winter It is sever|ly odd. Out water is bad hen ; the river water is good with ■ in it. 1 will close by saying I fiope Aunt Sush- had a tin, fit turkey for .dinner, j inclose 5 cents for Aunt .Susie. ' 1 aura Pugh, Growe Hill. Ala.—Dear Junior: It has been near','.’ two years since I wrote to The (Constitution, and as Aunt Susie was kind enough to accept. I will write anoth- r. Inter has robbed our fields ami forests of their brilliant verdue and now their robes are gold and < rim son. Tin sweet little biids have flown, to sunnier climes, for dame nature has i taught thrill tli'V can't stand cold win- • ters. 1 have, box dowers, but si.ou winter j will force me to hide them beneath th" ■ earth until spring, with her warm, soft l sunshine brings them back to their ■ shi levs and stands I am going to school now and I su|>[>, sc all of Ihi cousins are. 1 love to go and every child should lake this op portunity in th./;- youth, tor without an i education our lives are vorj- unhappy • after we are grown. 1 have just read a beautiful look. Lena Rivers." and It was so much about Kentucky. We take a nice little paper tiiat is published there. I would like to correspond with some of (to coustns in the "lilu. grass" country and Virginia. Love to dear Aunt Susie and tlie cousins. I Eugene Hood, Jacksonville, Ala.—Dear . Junior: Would you be so kind as to ad i ii.lt me Into your happy elide? I have ! only been a render of The Constitution ; for about tw- months and think it one I of tie best pap' is iii tlio s >uth. I enjoy ■ reading The Constitution very much, but i most of all tin Junior department. I 1 am a college boy, 19 years old. I | am a junior student in the State Normal I .Schoo! of Jacksonville, Ala. 1 play foot | ball and We are going to play a match ! garm Thanksgiving. I ask the sympathy I of all the cousim on this day, for, as i you know, football is a rough game. I I think flic Junior department of The Con ! siitiition is very !■ netici.il. as it reqiiires i originality in writing, which I: so miu-li : m < de.d among studeras. It also teaches I self-dependence. I As tliis is my first appearance T guess | J hml bettei bril ■ to a cl"." . lor it will go to the waste basket. .My ' birthday is only about two weeks "ft and 1 would be delighted to hav. l'?l t er.-' ; from all ihe cousins in different parts "f I the country, ami especially tlie fair sex. ‘•Susie.” M'iri>hreesbo o. Miss.—Dear Junior: May I, T-. a S'ranger, seek to be admitted Into your I'oval band? And I rr.ify I, too, share part of the cousinly | love which exists among the many read ' ers? For some time I have remained | silent, but seeing that the grand old t State of Mississippi has so few repre- I seniativ. s, thought 1 w . ild no longer ! hold my peace. So will .mleavo' to • give • few ‘'thought' on whisky ' What ■ have we today in this glorious republic ' of oui:-:. pointed to as th. model o. t t'ee i dom, Christianity and lnt"!llgence >y th" ! civilized world? W" have armies of I-"ling drunkards, penii ntiarii s to hold the crime-smitten victim:- of drink, asy lums full of raving maniacs, hosts of willows and broken-lv arted. and millions of wasted "momy. disgraced in every form of demora liz 11 u»n that the wicked he.i.rt of man can coneeive. all caused by that one element—drink. Young I man, you may . oasider it you: right to I drink, and perhaps it Is. but what would I you think of young lady who would I go into a barroom and ask for ,t drink'.’ j Would you aaso.-iate with lo t ? No. you I would scarcely treat her with respect, j and it. would lie treating her right But I should you not .'ieeord her the ‘.ime priv ilege which you . njoy? You think noth- I lug of going with a nice, relined girl the ! very mxt day after a night's debam-h. j with the fumes of liquor still on your i breath and a bottle in your pocket. My young friend, if you are in the habit of Iti lulging in st nig drink. I beg yon stop ami consider. Will you not tak. warning ere It is too I.it. '’ Do you know that every d’oji you imbibe your gray-haired mother or s.m.. other loved one sheds ! a tear” I (You should have sent full name in I asking for cor: s.iomlents.) | W. J. Davidson. Cuba. Ala.—Dear Tr.n --' ior: There lias bi cn a great improvement ! made upon this page since tny letter was ; published in tiie . ar y part of the spring, j Many interesting and instructive letters I have appear” 1 op it since that time. How gifted some of the young writers ,an ! How eloquently can they put forfb I their thoughts upon the smooth white ■ : .iper. Oil. that I possessed the talent I that. I might move my pen as my mind ; dictates, but my hand Is numb to this, I 1; refuses to r, ;poml to the thoughts I I wish to write, s . xcu . for nut chousing a subject this time ' Christ mas is im: ■ upon m om e more. ( and what have we to show for the many I bright days? What have wc aceomnlisti .ed in 1903” Can w- look back over our lives during Ibis year without regrets? • Do wo not have some sad thoughts in termingled with those of pleasure? Have ' wc made use of all our opportunities i ami if so, for good or for bad? Ihe majority of us, 1 pan verv snfely Isay, can look b.u"k and see lost oppor i tv.nities, thing.- tiiat had we i ti: caught ! liold of would have been helpful to us. ; nut 'tis now too late to in 'ditatc ou the mistakes of the past; we should now look "it for the fatiir. . tlie |iast will take cere of itself. it is now time to form new resolutions and. mind you. if we make resolutions, let's keep them, what ever we do. i Only think bow rapidly the years are I rolling by. How soon the merry youths lof today will soon see stern manhood staring them in the face! The days are I fleeting swiftly bv and the cogs on the wheels of time will soon have another year nst by, and what will we have ac complished ? 1 desire to thank all for their nice let ters—some were very complimentary and would he glad to have all who wrote me to let me hear from them again. Several asked me fo r ihe address of the school that I mentioned and some must have taken up the study of shorthand from I tills school. 1 would be V rv glad inih <-d i' ail who took the course would write me and let me know how you are getting along. Some will perhaps notice the, change in my address, so I will say by wav of explanation that 1 am here at tending school. Wishing ./I a merry Christmas, I will now lay down my pen. Would be glad to have a Christmas let ter from all the cousins. Kathleen Gardner, Paragould, Ark., Box 105.-Dear Junior: It has been quite a while since last 1 wrote you, meanwhile there have been many changes, some jolly, others sorrowful. I have been off to college at Bowling Green, Ky.. also, and while there I saw many very pretty things. On my way home 1 came by Nashville, Tenn., and tarried there about two weeks, sightseeing. I have been having quite a “time” re cently going to weddings, candy-break ings. etc. Last Wednesday one of my girl friends got married and of course 1 went. Tin y intended having a Thanks giving supper at her house the next day, but after it ‘‘leaked” out she was not going to be at home we had it nt another place. Iler mother said it would lie too lonesome there without her at tlie Slipper. So Thanksgiving night I went to the supper and had an "immense n '\unt Susie, if you will come to see me Christmas 111 promise you a nice time. . I hope you all will have a merry Christ ■ n.as and a happy New Year. Correspond ence solicited, either sex. age 17 to zu. <lt is a pleasure to receive such 1 neatly written letter. Wish I could be with you Christmas.) Jean Gardner. Duke, Pulnski County. Missouri.—Dear Junior: As 1 have never seen any letters from Missouri. I thought I would try to write ami tell you “south ern cousins" that we. too. enjoy reading the Junior page. This page is n\v favorite part of the paper. Tins is my first attempt to write t<» the paper, and ■in afraid my b ttor will find its way to that mnch-di eaded waste basket. I live ..ii a large farm on the Big Piney river. My papa is a farmer, and is postmaster. Boys what has become of you all! It seems to me that th" girl: l are wilting all tii,- b’tters. Some ol your letters are tine. Write often. Hello there. James Dorn, I thought vou wore going to send me your phmo. I - would Ilk" to Iwar from you again. How many of the cousins antici pate a lively time Christmas? I hope to have a good lime, though I expect to <l" iid < 'ln i<tin:is at home. Papa has or d, red a bucket of candy for Christmas, <o vou cousins come over and we II have ~ plana- dust the boys, of course, will O' .-d to eat candy, for the girls are sweet enough, vou know. Would like to corie spond wfth .‘"in" of the cousins.” I am 17 years old. 1 will look for you all over i "arlstmas. Do -ure and come. Goodby. I Your Ictler is iu autifully written: wish nil the Juniors could see your writing. It i s a r.-al pleasure to receive such a letter.) Mary Snow Williams. Pearl. Ala.- Dear I’anior: I am a little girl I I years of I live on a farm 16's miles from Tusca loosa. Jt. snowed hire Tuesday, but it tn'dteil. Christmas will soon be here, ami our Sunday school is going to itave a Christinas trr■■. The edd has killed our chr.santheinums. but the hot-hous" flow <is ar* very p)<'tt.v. 1 four sisters nid on.- brother: he is going to the med , . i eolleg -of Birmingham. Ala- 1 also ii-iv,-. sister teaching school and one going to school. A colored woman s house who livs i mH" from here <aught on file last Monday evening, burning two children. Wo have a pit squirrel, wlies" n.uno is .Nellie Gi iv. I have picked son.-" nuts for it. I send 5 cents for Aunt Su.-ii to use for the orphans. T.uey Buckles. Hansonvillc. Va Dear Junior: Here com s a little eoiuary gtri. I am 9 years old, and go to seb >ol every day Cousin Pearl Hanson is our tea' her. 1 study the Third reader, geography, arithmi tic and spelling. Brother Bill e : T‘i,. Cm:,.■;( iiion. and Ollie, my sister, reads the Junior page to tm- every week I thought Willie Spradlin’s story <ii‘ tlie lit le hen was so Interesting. I have tour pets a doll, two little bantam el ick ens and a kitten. My little kitten is so cut 1 ; I sit it on the bureau in front of the mirror and it tries to tight itself through the glass. I have :i sled and have -ome of the best times . ousting on the snow. I hope all of the little girls and boys will have ,'. good ‘tme <'l>rist mas. and I also hone vou win ha.ve. a tiin . Aunt Susa tor,. Goodby, with lox.- to Aunt Susi" and the cousins. Julia F Thibodaux. LaFourehe Cross ing, La.- Dear Juniors: 1 have just tin islied reading the letters and 1 do think our page is improving so much. It has b-cn quite .t long- time since last. I wrote, but I never forget to r.-ad the many in ti rating letters, of each week. Well, dear Juniors, since last I wrote to the del artment th' re has been a great change in ntv horn* One of tny brothers left us. He di'<l on S< ptemlx f 24. H was. indec l. a shock for us, as be had not b n sick very long. We had rain yes terday. th-- first time in a. month. We. wore all in need of it, as many of the people w.-ie drinking water out of the bayou, and that water is very unhealthy sot ..talking purpo.-' -. The tain came in time to put out our forest tires. Our for ests have been on lit" for quite a while. W.. 1: id a narrow escape a few days ago by lit-. . I was scared nearly to death, a/ the lir, was 'oniing to the house My .‘ister is teaching school. She lias quite a lot of scholars. 1 have been going to sell■."l since OctobiKcnv many of the Juniors like to plat "j.’llnch?" I cer tainly do. It is :t good pastime for lonely days. I never iiiwl time lon.lv, as I am always studying, writing or read ing. Christinas is last approaching, and how many a little one is eag. rly awaiting lor dd Santa ('lans. 1 often wish I was little, too. But to my misfortune, I am ti" large for Santa to visit. I wish some of v 'it Juniors could come and spend Cltristmns with ut" and Aunt Sus!" also. Emory Jackson, Andalusia, Ala.—Dear Junior: This is m • first .ittmot to write to tlie Junior department. I am a coun try boy. 1 have to work on a farm and like it. I go to school during the winter months. I love to g-o to school. I have a pet dog. li'. will work in harness like a horse. His name is Fido. I think he is a t' .il smart dog. [ am 10 years old. It! I Set: ibis in print I will come again. Frank B a kitr W ilson. Vinton. Mist l . Dear Junior: i live in the grand old state of Mississippi. I am going to school and like my teacher real well. Dear .Jiiiiiois. I : t tiiat I can beat any of yon ir weight I am 12 years old and weigh 130 pounds’. 1 iiavc- a pet colt: he is going to be a fast trotter, and. of course. lam proud of him. I am anticipating a big time Christmas, as I am going to see one of my marri-d sisters. I have two sisters and six brothers. lam the baby. Mell, I will close for fear I may go to th:' waste basket, and I am anxious to see this in print, as 1 am a subscriber. With I' ‘t wishis fop Aunt Susie and al! o: tlie juniors. I bid you a fond adieu. A. ].'••(■ Osborne, Johnson city. Tenn Dear Junior: You have admitted to your page city cousin, country cousins, sailor boys and soldier boys. But 1 have never seen a Icft'r from a mountain boy. so I come asking admittance, and if permit ted to enter I promise to behave myself a" vve'l as possible. I live in tic mountainous parts of east Tiiiiii s.si'o. tti-ar the great Roen mount da, oil" of till loftiest ' as( of the Rockies, being neat 7.000 feet above ." i level. I have .‘•"o'd on th. summit of tit's mount:,in when the skies Were char and sen part" of North Carolina. South C.'t i lina. ileorgi... Tennessee. Kentucky and Virgini.'. Just, think of seeing six states front point. Ae.iin J have bon um>n fiWs When I say i cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them re turn avain. I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILFPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-lony study. 1 warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have iaii.4 is no reason for not now receiving'a cure. Send at once for a treatise anil a Fret Bottle of my infallible remedy* Give Express and Post Office. Prof. W.H.PEEKE, F.!)., 4 Cedar St. N.Y. this mountain and beheld a clear J about me a.nd tlie earth was parenta for the lack of rain, while in the val leys below the i<»ln was falling in to 1 " rents. Only imagine yourself above tno clouds and looking down upon thein. And 1 have been in tlie valleys and watched groat thunder storms raging on the mountain, while the crops were al most drying up. Cousins, what is your idea of a "moun tain boy?" Do you think him to be a kind of worthless animal, without pur pose or alm in life? MTiq never aspires higher than to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water?" If this is your idea, I must tell you that, you are much mistaken, and you owe me. an a,poiogy <for even entertainflng such thoughts. lam one of this specie, and I wish to say that my natural ad vantages have been less than the aver age mountain boy. And I want to tell you that I have set my stake quite high, and am much nearer it now than I was two years ago. I wish that space would permit my telling some of my ups and downs, but I will only tell you that I left my mountain home two years ag’o io enter college with only SSO. I am now instructor of military tactics in Milli gan college. I will graduate next year. Then look out for the mountain boy. He is coming. Boys and girls, have a pur pose. Hitch your cart to the stars and run just as near as you possibly can. Have plenty of self confidence, but not self conceit. If any of the cousins wish to write to the boy from the mountains, I will gladly answer all letters. Age, 20 yea rs. Carolyn B. Croley, Judges Siding. Ala.— Dear Junior: I have knocked for admit tance at your door once before, but you refused me; but I hope you will let me cotne in to stay Just a few minutes; 1 will not stay long, and will be SO very good this time. I do not think ft is any harm to road good novels; I read all th" time when I am at homo. I am not at homo very much of my time: In the sum mer I ant visiting most of the time .'itid in the winter I arn teaching school. You dear juniors don’t think I am so old because 1 am n school inarm, for 1 am. indeed, a very youthful one. My age is only 78. 1 ant not teaching this year: papa would not l."t mo leave homo to te'ch. and I am purely lonely. I haven’t i anything to do. and it is the first winter In a long time that I have been at hottie. Correspondence solicited. Bex 154 LaGrange. Ga.—Dear Junior: I certainly agree with Jimmie Lay Brady about farming. T am trying t> make a farmer myself. I used to be th" second boss, but now 1 arn full boss, and I believe the second boss has a little tlie best time; that is, he has more time to frolic, but T bei’.e.ve I have as good t time as anybody. I love to possum ' hunt; the follow that, loves it better than I I do, I watt to go with him. A fellow I from Chicago was here not long ago ajt i t wanted to go 'possum hunting: he never , had seen one cattghf; so ho came over • and I carried him down <♦ the er< "k at, i It- got tnuddy up to ills knees and fell in I the creek twice. I think that does fine • for the first time, don't you? There are . some girls that wanted tn go with mo ! f am going to take them some tint • ' soon, and I expect to have a lot of f in. I am go'ng hunting about 7 miles from • her- this- week and if 1 have good lit.-I-: i T will let vou know about It. 1 have ! got good dogs and live about two miles ' from town and make from fifty to otto • hundred bales of cotton each year. I ■ had just as soon bo myself as anybodv ' else, for there Is not many people that ! have any letter times than Ido Corro . spondence solicited. Either sex. ! A. Fussell. Breland, La.—Dear .Imilor: ■ In writing to your ever interesting de . partinent I would present a tow thoughts ■on "Hero and Heroism." It atoms that •all of us, to a certain extent, are hero ■ worshipers. We love the heroic. Often ! have our hearts thrilled and our eyes •: sparkled with martif s:t Interest as we ! listened to the recital of some thrilling i adventure or heroic encounter. Often we ■ have read th'- startling » i.’ount of sotn" i brave frontiersman as he ventured forth I among the wilds of the forest and beard ed the lion in his den or slew a must ’ ferocious mountain lion at a single blow. ! Then we felt that tlie life of the hunter land t’ trapper was the life for us Again we have the vivid description of great ■ liattl'-s and learned with what calmness I and Seif -possession the generals bore i themselves through tlies.p (tying ordeals j and felt that we would love to stand up"ti I the "bridge" while cannon boomed be ! Heath and shot and shell whistled by. ! or it; on the battle’s gory plain, charge the tv-my's fortification ami snatch victory j from tite jaws of d''f''.it. We think of I j.'aesur crossing the fated river, of Nelson jat Trafalgar, of Wellington's triumph ■ over Napideon ami of Washington, our j own hero and president. M e think of the | nobility of Lee ami Grant, of Dewey at I Maiiil:i and Schley in Santiago harbor. Inn. •we oftentimes forge; hat ('.nesar, upon I that fat:;' Ides of March met his Brutus, I Napoleon came to his Waterloo and that ('erwra's gallant ii-et found a resting i place beneath the ocean’s wreck strewn ■ waves. It seems so easy for us to remem ber the victories and forget th. defeats— !to forget that “northern laurels" are often turned to "southern willows”—that ! we aspire to be something very great, al \ ways achieving and pursuing, but nev-r i defeated or pursued. Wc may sometimes j dream we are heroes—that fam,- witli all I Its glory has been thrust niton us, or ' that we have. aehi"ved it at a sudden ! bound, but we seldom think ol it as some [ thing to be won by diligent application j and palient toil. There may be but "no I opportunity in a century for us to win renown by proving the valor of t.he army or the prowess of the »avy and thus be come the idol of the nation, a.nd it is also true that few of us can make for our selves a. name in literature or art, or scientific rest-C h. Thus we would do twill to study th...' Ilves and characters of ■ the heroes of the homestead and the tire ! side—men and women who have, lived sim- I pie yet noble lives—and strive to ' initiate ■ their virtues. This is tlie only sphere in 1 which every boy may become i hero and '•very girl a. heroine. Th/ little things of ■ life count, they may all be little, but i the aggregate will not be small a,’t the ! final close If we watch well the "little I foxes" and cultivate the many little vir- ■ ’ties’, in a ripe old age we can look back ; upon a life of true heroism and be i queath to posterity an unsullied name | and illustrious example. Fremont Doyle. Marion Ind.—R. F. D. No 7. Dear Junior: As I have not. seer ' any letters from this state for some 1 time I will writ" 1 will take for my subject.. "(Irirelty to Dumb .\nirnals.” but I guess 1 will have to begin tny dis- I ' mission with a story. It was a tine j Sunday morning and all nature seemed I at Its best. A bunch of fat porkers ■ were grunting with satisfaction as they I j eagerly devouri d their corn. A young I man might be seen w> tiding hi.- way ! i alot'.g the dusty road and going in th • I I direct ion of the neighboring church. As • lie came past a little grov" lie noticed | : some young men raising quite a distur- : t banco, anil as he drew yet nearer lie. ! 'saw one of them tak< aim up .among tlie green branches with a small pea skoot"!' and fire. In a few moments a li.Xle sparrow came thitterin., to the ground and as it turned its little bright ■ ! eyes upon Its cruel tormentor it seemed !i.o say. "God forgive them, they know '■ not what they do.” *• orrespondetiee j solicited. Wonderful Sense of Smell. i From Tlie Tx>ndon M ill.) • How infinitely minute must be lite pat- ' I tlcles that emanate from the ohje : wlti h ' the dog !s tracking' Y"t matter is ex tremely divisible. The tenth part of a. grain of musk will continue for y-ars to ill! a room witli its odoriferous parti- J cles. and at the end of that time will , not be appreciably diminished in weight . by the finest balance. A cubic inch of ■ air rising from the flame of a Bunsen burner has been found to contain no few- ■ er than 489.000.000 dust particles. A drop ; of blood which might be suspended from : the point of a. needle contains about a ; million of red flattened corpuscles. Still. ' though matter is so marvellously divis- , ible, the olfactory nerves are infinitely | more sensitive. .Much has yet to be in- ; vi stigated with regard to the differen tiation of tile points in these nerves, so tl.at they may discriminate with such apparently miraculous accuracy; yet even the results in the sont of dogs show how marvellously tine is their discriminating power. Our sense of smell, unless in the (rained chemist, is not even so acute as PRESEN T ARMS FOR CHRISTMAS Aiiiiiiiin iiwiii mu mi iumm- HmMWI | I Give the boys and j g Kiris what they j R want and make * H them happy. It i fnay y° ur Boy | h does not want a Rstevois H RIFLE OR SHOTCUHI Kv 0 If 30, he's a peculiar boy- Teach him to use one properly. Wo can help you with Our Free Bock It tells ail about the 9 flß.uvnn r'iv-* "Stevens,” also articles on 3 ■ hunting, fishing, camping, target shoottng. etc. B II When your dealer won t supply the Stevens h H we sell direct, express paid. ■ J. STEVENS ARM”'M> TOOL CO. S ■ A CtrVER PVZZLB I ’ , Main Street h 3 for 4 C in stamps, I < utoopee r alt*, a-as*. / r^TV.' ...,. . .. ■ 7 that of the semi-savage. The aborigines of Peru can, in the darkest night tmi in the thickest woods, distinguish nts; • - ly a white man, a negro and one oft: -p own race by the smell. Mitch v. gained by civilization: but not with" I some loss to our bodfi: -ii re: ■ .. i i senses. Man's recuperative pow" af' lan injury is in the inverse ratio social advancement. Similarly he seen-.: to '-ccom' less acute and deli. nt' i.t sense of smell as he fares better and 1 more comfortably. The faithful dog him to shame. TO CORRESPONDENTS ' .Maggie Painter, Simpsonville, c f - Your letter could not app ar. as I' ' written on both sides of your paper 1 again. F ncla, Melton, Ark —Writ - tinH". real name .’tnd not wi it ; n- ’ will be glad to receive you. ; W. if M |so Indistinct from pencil emtld not r lit. Try it over. Ma and Esther Hornliii-kj< Elm. A i Try aytain and don't use a pencil. Minnie Hugh s. Midlami. Ga S:; h t nice 'otter, but six pages Ir. I ■ ’. be dis-ouraged. I .Mildred Keenan, Humbok, Tenn. -Yi say; "I have written .m:., 1> did not see tny letter In print.” I'ou wi ! !«• disappointed at not s"t '!::g ti-.;.- ], t one. but pencil marks almost t tbb- I of I Try again. CONUNDRUMS. i I Why is a tight shoe like a g" 1 I farmer? Why is a proud woman ilka a mu book ” What things increase the more y< contract them? W’hy is a student f 't Theology lil. a merchant? . M’iiy is- a tin cup tied to a dog’s t. ■ I like death? UNCLE WILL. Better Than Spankin". ■ Spanking does not cure children of bed ; wetting. If it did there would be few ! children that would do it. There is a, i eonstitutior.a) cause for this. Mrs. M. ; Summers, box 404. Nott" Dame. Ind . will send her home treatment to an * I mother She asks no money. Write hr ■ today if your children trouble you I t | this way. Don’t blame the child. The I chances are it can't help it. FIGHT BEGINS FOR FORTUNJ Relatives of Philanthropist PalntT Contesting His Will. : New York. Do -ember B.—Sult has ; ; instituted !7y three relatives who seek • i set aside the will of the late bank Francis At Itury T’alm< r. v. h" be'/.: atle ■ his entire resid tary estate, amounting • ■ • between SBOO,OOO and S9OO 000. to tl ■■ | Francis Asbury Palmer fund, wtij. li w -.» I incorporated for the purpose of : ti;■:■ ■ j ing institutions especially design' d f j training young men for the ministry. : Mr. I’alnu-r endowed cob-y— ail o.- • the I'nited States during Ids lat. r yan ■ <1: -posing of more titan $5.C00,000 iii ' ■ . ■ I way. Just before his death hr tore ■ ■ I his will by which his grand nloci- w..-; ; • I receive the residuary . stat.’ and cm off because she had married a j time without bls consent. She did :-■■ i contest, however. Those seeki'::: ’ > i break the will are James R. P.ilm->r. Castle (Teig. California, .fl two .i- . I in Connecticut. Henry Clay Trumbull, Philadelphia. [ Philadelphia, December 8. —Henry t'la- Trumbull, editor of the Sunday Si-bo. 1 Times and known throughout the w . ' 1 as an author, died today In thi- ■■•’■ . aged 83 years. Ho was stricken by ■ .>. poplexy yesterday. Focrchap- T have called, sir to ' '< for the hand of your daughter. Old Bullion—Oh. really, now. 1 eoulii: give yon my daughter. y z m know Tb. ’ is asking too much. But here ar, ' soap tickets,— OWTimes in Ceoigia GOBD TIMES AND BAD TIMES. By SARGE PLUNKETT. WITH THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ONE YEAR CWLY SI.OO This Is the only book of Sarge Plun kett's inimitable sketches that has ever been printed. It does not contain an;.- of ills later letters, but is filled with some of his best earlier productions. Among them are his war stories, stories of the home, the customs and some of ths quaint ideas of the cracker, and his home made philosophy ana observations well worth the reading. 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