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OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
Beginning Again
Beginning again with a burning zeal
To complete what was left half
wrought,
With deep gratitude for the treasur
ed weal
Which the treasured old year
brought;
For the heart which found the whole
years round
With the choicest blessings
fraught.
Beginning again on the same old
tasks
That grow dearer each passing
year,
Renewing fires of a love that asks
But to serve in a lowly sphere;
For that work is new a whole life
through,
Which the heart holds truly dear.
Beginning again with a strong be
lief
That the right shall subdue the
wrong,
Bestowing at length tjie assured re
lief, *
For which all the ransomed long;
For the power of fight shall put to
flight
myriad, loathsome throng.
Beginning again with a clearer view
Os the lofty summit ahead,
Inspired by a hope, that is born anew
For a climb that the faithless
dread,
Within a calm repose in Him who
knows
Ev’ry thorn our feet must tread.
Beginning again, pressing near the
side
Os the sotil cheering friends of old,
Whose virtues the quivering heat
has tried
And found true as the purest gold;
And whose friendship strong, the
journey long,
With Increasing strength shall
hold.
O. F. LINN.
I h?.ve had nineteen beautiful let
ters thanking me for the help that
I was at Christmas time, and you
cannot imagine how it helps all of
us to know we are helping make
the world more livable to the bur
' denbearers.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: A great big
"Thank You” for the recipe you gave
me with your letter. Though I’d al
ready saved the clipping from The
Journal and I find all your recipies
to be the very best, I try part and
many times all of everyone. With
the execptlons of the fruit cake I’ve
not tried it.
I’m only a young housekeeper,
aijcl of course such talks, recipes
and the like that you give us,
should certainly be appreciated by
all. They mean lots to me, just
heaps more than I could explain.
You didn’t mention the name of
the yeast you use for your rolls. I’ve
tried both, the compressed and dry.
I really think the dry yeast makes
• better tasted roll.
My mamma was. an excellent bread
maker and she most always used the
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
Value of Alfalfa for Hog Grazing |s
W. S. G., Atlanta, Ga„ writes: £
What is the value of alfalfa as r
a pa~';ure and feed for hogs? I i
also wish advice in regard to t
getting alfalfa started on a *
sandy, loamy soil. (
, -
We have grazed hogs for a con- g
siderable extent on alfalfa. The t
animals did fairly well. i
tutes little better than a mainten- 1
ance ration. Where you expect t
hogs to grow vigorously and mature t
rapidly, it will ba necessary to feed 1
some, grain in addition. About two *
pounds per head per daj m grain >
should be us_d. This may be made J
up of equal parts of ear corn and
'•hurts. The shorts would of course
be fed in a dry form in a trough.
The corn may be scattered on the
ground and fed la • We were
not troubled seriously by the hogs,,
rooting up the alfalfa, though they
did the stand a considerable amount
and quite killed out the
jn the vicinity of the feed
~ We think it would be better
othe feeding on Bermuda sod
saljacent to the alfalfa field on that
a 'ount.
Our best results with alfalfa come
from cutting and curing it as hay
and feeding it in that form to cows.
It is too rich a feed in nitrogen to
be used as the exclusive roughage
for. horses. Alfalfa will grow quite
well on most of the red lands in ]
Georgia. The best results from al- <
salsa are obtained on the Cecil clays t
which predominate in the Piedmont j
section of the state. It does not ;
seem to stand up as well in south s
Georgia as in north Georgia. We 1
would advise that its cultivation be <
undertaken in an experimental way 1
in the vicinity of Dublin. The land i
should be broken immediately and ’
j
AN OPENTETTER ■
JO WOMEN 1
Tells of Mrs. Vogel’s Terrible Sus- <
* sering and how she was Restored ?
to Health by Lydia E.Pinkham’s '
Vegetable Compound
Detroit, Michigan.—“My troubles
were severe pains in my back and t
I" 7.. |. terrible bearing- <
down pains in my •
l||U| right side, also j
headaches and .
sleepless nights. I (
s w b e £ an having .<
troubles when I «
L x ff was 15, and they 1
Kk? <|| have increased as 1
\ Illi I grew older. A 1
||? ’ll little booklet was !
Jg left at my door, :
" and I read what ,
S sEJ Lydia E. Pink- J
ham’s Vegetable Compound has done j
for wonrn and decided to try it. As- (
ter the first week I could go to sleep <
every night and I stopped having that i
nervous feeling and pot .a better ap- i
petite. Th* cocivr had always said t
that an (Operation was the only thing I ;
that would help me, but I never had '
any faith in an operation. Since the ,
Vegetable Compound has started r
helping me I do not suffer the severe I,
pains, feel stronger, and am able to i
no my own work lam more than j i
glad to tell my friends that it helps
» where other medicines have failed.”
—Mrs. Gus Vogel, 6608 Pelouze St.,
Detroit, Michigan.
A record of fifty years service must
convince women of the merit of Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
THE ATLANTA TRLWEEKLY JOURNAL
idry yeast, and then she would make
her yeast, having the dry to begin
with and using potatoes and hop
blooms. Though I never learned
just how she made it.
The pieces in The Journal are so
good and when it tells all about
home making I am happy.
Here Is my recipe for yeast cakes.
"Many of my neighbors make good
rolls and bread by saving a piece of
the dough and using It instead of a
yeast cake. They call it Friendship
yeast. But I make a batch of yeast
cakes and when thoroughly dry I
put them in a glass jar, screw down
the top and use one every time I
make bread. If you have no yeast
cake that you are sure is alive, and
can’t get ohe from a neighbor, buy
one from your grocer. Remember
the cakes you get from your grocer
will not keep very long, so try to
make your yeast the day you get
the new cake.
Yeast Cake—Two boiled Irish po
tatoes of medium size, mashed fine;
a heaping tablespoonful of sugar,
one cup of the water that the potato
was boiled in, one yeast cake, flour
to make a stiff dough. Mix this
thoroughly and let it stand over
night. When it has risen twice its
size mix in enough meal to make a
stiff dough. Roll out and cut with a
biscuit cutter. Dry in the shade.
Dear Mrs. Thomas: I saw in The
Journal, October 20, where you want
ed to hear from any of the turkey
raisers an< 'what luck they had. I
am sixty-one years old and have
been in bad health for over two
years, want to say I have raised
nineteen turkeys this year. I had
only two hens of mixed breed, but
had a full stock bronze gobbler, and
they are mighty tine turkeys. (Have
been raising turkeys eighteen years.)
My turkeys have a large range, and
that is what it takes to raise them.
Thought you might be able to raise
some on the acre that you have. We
have had rain here all the year, and
some people around here have failed
to raise turkeys. But several be
sides myself have raised some.
I read your letter every time in
The Journal, and sure enjoy your
talks on chickens and everything
you write about. I would like very
much to meet you personally and
have a long chat with you.’ Hoping
to hear from you real soon, I am,
Very truly yours.
MRS. J. A.
Route 2, Lumber City, Ga.
Before long I want to give you
another letter about turkeys. The
Queen of Turkeys, as the Country
Gentleman named her, has written
me a nice letter about her beautiful
bronze turkeys. She sent me a pic
ture of her flock, merely 564, says
she has never had a case of black
head. That she gives them castor
oil when they have indigestion.
This has been a bad season for
baby chicks or hens setting. So
many have written their eggs
are not hatching. Some blame the
male bird, some one thing, some an
other, but I put it on the weather.
A famous breeder, with everything
just right, had - little chickens to
freeze under their mothers. Some
cold.
seeded to cowpeas. When the peas
are in condition for hay making,
turn ch.m under. Fallow the land
row it into the soil. Fertilize the
land with 500 pounds of a formula
throughout the summer and fall.
Before you plow the legume down,
apply two tons of finely ground,
crushed, raw rock. About two weeks
before you seed the alfalfa put on
about as much more lime rock. Har
c ataining 2 per cent of nitrogen, 10
per cent of phosphoric acid, and 5
per cent of potash. Use re-cleaned,
western alfalfa seed at the rate of
twenty pounds per acre. Inoculate
it very carefully and cross-seed it.
Cover it into the soil with a weeder.
Sow the alfalfa between November
1 and 15 in your location.
Breaking Land for Fall Sown
Oats
A. S., Lyerly, Ga„ writes: I
have some medium land which
has been lying idle for two years,
and am thinking of planting this
land to corn another year. I
turned the land while the weeds
were green. What kind of fer
tilizer would you recommend for
this land? In sowing fall oats,
would you advise to sow without
breaking the land where I have
had a previous crop of corn? Am
thinking of drilling oats with
drill, using long scooters. What
kind of fertilizer would you rec
ommend for sorghum, cane for
making syrup?
It is always good practice to break
land well in advance of the seeding
of a crop. Soils apparently increase
their supply of available plant food
if allowed to lie out in the form of
a fallow for several months. You
should run over this land with a disk
harrotv once in a while to keep the
crust broken, destroy weeds and pre
vent erosion. Where the land is roll
ing and is plowed in the fall good
terraces Should be provided so as to
minimize erosion.
Green crops, including weeds,
which may cover the land, should
be turned under when they are be
ginning to mature. If left too long,
they dry out the soil and cause the
material turned under to fire-fang, or
burn up. If turned under when con
taining too much moisture, they may
cause the land to sour. When green
crops are turned under it is desirable
as a rule to immediately roll the land
so as to compact it. This brings the
moisture in the lower areas to the
surface and causes the green ma
terial plowed under to decay very
quickly.
We think a very excellent fer
tilizer for corn would be a formula
containing 3.5 per cent of nitrogen,
9 per cent of phosphoric acid and 3
per cent of potash. Our experience
leads us to think that 300 pounds
put under the drill row at the time
of planting and 200 pounds used as a
side application will, as a rule, in
sure the best results. Some people
hold that none of the fertilizer should
be put under the corn until it is
knee high, when it should be used in
the form of one or two applications
at intervals of two weeks.
Oats should be planted immediate
ly: the sooner you get them into the
ground now the better. By all means
use a drill for seeding purposes. We
ordinarily plant about a bushel of
oats per acre. It has been our policy
to fertilize this crop with about 300
pounds of acid phosphate put down
at the time of seeding the grain. On
soils that are low in potash, we rec
ommend the use of 100 pounds of
kainit or manure salts. In the
spring we advise the use of nitrqte
of soda at the rate of 100 pounds
per acre applied as a top application.
A good fertilizer for sorghum to
be used for the making of syrup
would be 4 per cent of nitrogen. 9
per cent of phosphoric acid and 4
per cent of potash. The nitrogen
should preferably be derived from
cottonseed meal, sulphate of am
monia. or nitrate of soda. Acid phos
phate will provide the phosphoric
acid needed. and sulphate of potash
the potassium.
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Wcckly Journal Readers
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a south Alabama boy Into
your happy circle of cousins? Like most
of the cousins, I live in the country, and
like country life fine. Guess most of you
cousins are goins to school now. I am, and
I am in the ninth grade. 1 am also taking
a course in show card writing and oelieve
me, 1 surely have some studying to do, but
my greatest desire in life is to secure an
education. Some on, Alabama cousins, the
other states are getting ahead of us.
Will not describe myself this time. My
age Is between seventeen and twenty. I
guess I have broken the rules already. Will
close. All you cousins write to me; will
answer all letters received.
Your new cousin.
LEE LANE,
Repton, Ala., Box 50, Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Once 1
wrote, but in vain. So now I will try
again. What are you cousins doing this
rainy weather? I have just finished read
ing the Letter Box, which I enjoy very
much. Like most of the other boys, I
live on a farm, and like farm life fine,
"although it is n poor way to make a liv
ing. I’ll not take any subject, but will
say I do believe in friendship. I like to
have a lot of friends around me all the
time. Miss Zelila Smith, I have your birth
day. I will not describe myself this time,
so if any of you want to know how I
look just come to see me. Awake! Alabama
boys and girls, if you don’t the other states
are going to get ahead. My! I didn’t know
I was going to say very- much, but please
Aunt Julia, pardon me this time. All of
you good-looking boys and girls write to
me.
HORACE WILLIAMS,
Billingsley, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I will write
to you again- "Die last letter that I wrote
I didn't see it in print, but just the same
I will not be discouraged, and will write
again, for Aunt Julia is’ so kind to us I
do not believe she will overlook me this
time. I certainly do enjoy the cousins’
corner, especially dark, rainy times like
today. We are going to school at Tig
nall now, and go on a truck. There are
about twenty-two of us, beside the teach
er, and you can imagine what a time we
have. I study the sixth grade now. I
spent a very dull Thanksgiving, as it rain
ed all day. Just three weeks now until
Christmas. 1 have a lot of plans for
Christmas, hope I don't get disappointed.
I want to give as many presents as I
can.
How many of you cousins like to lend
a helping hand to others. I do especially
to one of my dear grandmothers, who is
almost an Invalid, and quite lonely. She
said she was always glad to see me come.
I da for. her, comb her hair, and try to
be a pleasure to her. I believe the dear
Lord will make us a blessing if we will
do His will. I have received some sweet
letters from some of the cousins and hope
to receive many more. How many of
you cousins want it to snow this winter;
I do. I like to pldy In it and make snow
dolls.
Lore to Aunt Julia and all the cousins,
MISS LOUISE ELLENBURG.
Tignall, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yoti
please make room for me, as this is my
first time to write to the letter box. 1 hope
all of you will have a jolly Christmas, for-
I suspect that you all are expecting too.
I surely am.
How many of you cousins like to go to
school? I go to school and am in the
fifth grade. I am thirteen years of age.
I go to Sunday school every Sunday, and
enjoy it. My teacher is a fine young man
of our own community.
My father takes The Journal as well as
other papers. But I .like The Journal and
especially the letter box, best of all. I
think Aunt Julia is worth so much to the
young folks, in giving them advice and
council.
Do you cousins like to go out in the
woods and look about? I surely do enjoy
nature as seen in the woods.
I also like music and flowers. My favo
ite flower is the asparagus fern. Flowers
are so helpful and rcStful when one is
tired.
As my letter is getting long I will say
good-by.
MILTON WALKER.
Denton, Ga., R. F. D. 11.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: We are
two girls, age sixteen, who have been read
ing your letter box for a long time, and
we have decided to write to you. We
think the letter "box a nice way to get
acquainted with new places and friends.
We live in a small town, thirty-five miles
from Birmingham. We go to Dell City
High school (sand enjoy it very much.
We would like to hear from all boys and
girls near our age, Who has our birth
days, Mildred, September 25, and Irene.
February 11? All who write to us send
their letters separate.
Your cousins.
(MISS) MILDRED HUGGINS,
Dell City, Ala., Route 2.
IRENE LOVE.
Dell City, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have
been reading some of the cousins’ letters
and I think they are more interesting
every day. I have written once betore but
did not see my letter in print.
I live in the country and don't think I
would exchange with any city cousin. Guess
most of you cousins are in school now.
This is my second year in high school. I
think every girl and boy should strive for
a high school education.
Arthur Fussell, come again, your letter
was just fine. I think we should always
do the things that will please our parents,
for if we don’t, I agree with you, that we
will at sometime regret it. We never know
how to appreciate our father and mother
until we lose them. My father died nearly
four years ago, but I still have a dear
mother living. I realize that the wrinkles
in mother’s face is caused partially by toil
ing for me. I have always tried not to
grieve my mother, so when we have to
part here I will not have that, to regret.
My birthday is January 5, have I a twin?
My age is between 14 and 18.
I will be very glad to hear from all of
the cousins.
A new niece and cousin,
(MISS) SUSIE BULLARD,
Whiteville, N. C., R. F. D. I.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have
for a long, long time wanted to be one of
the page friends, but was always afraid
Aunt Julia's waste basket would get my
letter. Now T am trying to see if I will
be admitted. I hope, with-every spec of my
heart, I will. I’lease, dear Aunt Julia,
print this, as I want so much to get letters
from every state.
I just bet you would like something
about myself, eh? Would you, really? I'm
only a little girl of eighteen, have dark
hair, just a bit curly. I am of the bru
net type. I suppose I must go now. I
would appreciate a letter from all of the
boys and girls and please every one of
you who write send your photo, as I'm go
ing to make an album.
A new cousin and niece,
(MISS) FLOSSIE TURNER,
Andalusia. Ala., Route “G.”
D. S. —Who has my birthday, Nov. 12?
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little shut-in into your happy band?
I am fifteen years old; have not been able
to help myself in any way for five years:
can not even feed myself. My dear good
father and mother take good care of me.
Mr. R. R. Trivett, a neighbor, was telling
me about the cousins corner. I want all
the cousins and Aunt Julia to write me; it
cheers me and helps me to while the time
away to get letters and post cards. Guess
all the cousins will be talking about Santa
before long, and if you all will remember
me with a card I will appreciate it very
much. I want the prayers of all Christian
people that read this letter. I’lease. Aunt
Julia, publish my letter as soon as you
receive it. Wishing you a merry Christ
mas, I am, your little shut-in friend,
CECIL MILLER,
Brownwood. N. C.. Care S. H. Miller.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit an Alabama girl in your happy band
of boys and girls? As are most all other
cousins. I am a country girl. I live two
miles from the little town of Webb, six
from Headland, ten from Dothan and
thirteen from Columbus. So you see it isn't
much trouble for me to get to town, as
we have a ear. What do yon cousins do
for pastime? I go to school, am fond of
good books. If any of you have any good
books and will send them to me, I’ll re
turn them with pleasure. Who has m y
birthday? l It is November 11. If any of
you have it write me and send your photo.
Do any of you girls go to Y. W. C. A.
meetings? I do. and enjoy it fine. We
have a fine band of girls. We meet at
the girls’ houses alphabetically. After the
program we serve salad and tea cakes or
something. We are clothing an orphan girl
in Troy. We girls work and get money and
pay so much each time. We buy her
clothes and send them to her. Her name
is Florence Wood. I don't ever mind help
ing orphans for I think, I know, if-1 was
in their place I'd want some one to help
me. And I believe you people feel the
same wav. I will appreciate a letter or
card from yon cousins and want the one
who has my birthday to send photo. Will
appreciate other photos. I remain, a new
cousin,
(Miss) SELMA RALEY,
Webb, Ala., Box No. 144.
Aunt Julia has Armistice dav as her
birthday.—AUNT JULIA.
Hello, Aunt Julia; Will yon please admit
a little Georgia girl into your happy band
of boys and girls? I have been a silent
reader of the Leite- Box for some time, and
1 th- k it's a nice pla< e for girls and beys
to get acquainted w h emh other. Wh.it
do you Cousins Co for pastime? I read,
play the organ, go to cane-grindings, and
i help with the housework. I live on a farm,
> four miles southwest of Moultrie, Ga., and
t I like farm life fine. Guess some of you
1 are wondering what I look like, so I will
i (Jescribe myself. I hac. black bobbed hair,
l and as “sweet sixteen."
; 1 will answer all letters you Cousins
. (girls nnd boys) who wish to correspond
> with a jolly little Georgia girl, let your
i cards and letters come to
, DIERCIE GAY.
Moultrie, Ga., Rt. 4.
I Dear Auntie nnd Cousins: Here I come
l again, I’lease let. me in. Auntie, and may
I I take a sent, next to Ruby D.val? A dear
cousin that I got acquainted with through
(lie letter box. The oranges are ripe now
and 1 am enjoying myself too, believe me.
I am going to school and am a Junior High.
I received so many nice letters before I
could not answer 11, but nevertheless, I
was proud to receive them, nnd 1 thank
, each and every one for writing me. Who
. has my birthday, January 17? I will
be 18 years young. All of my twins write
me and send photos. 1 will depart, and
leave my place to a more gifted writer.
' With love to auntie and the girls nnd best
I regards to the boys. Adieu.
(MISS) LEONA A. WALKER,
Eagle Lake, Fla,. I‘. O. Box 85.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit three Mississippi girls into your happy
circle? What is everybody doing this rainy
. weather. We are at school today. We hope
everybody will enjoy Christmas. We live
. about three miles from Laurel, it is noted
-for its large saw mills. We think it is a
, thriving and beautiful little city. For pas
time we rejid. We will tell our ages and
then we will go. I, Inez, am fourteen;
Gusta, fifteen; Macle, sixteen. Our birth
days are March IS, September 15, May 4.
We want everybody to write to us. We
. will try to answer all received. From three
Mississippi crackers.
(MISS) INEZ FOSTER.
Route 1.
; (MISS) GUSTA GARRETT,
Route 4,
(MISS) MACIE REID.
. Laurel, Miss.
I’. S. —I’lease write separately.
My Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I have
been thinking of writing to the Letter Box
for some time, I hope Aunt Julia can print
my letter, for I would like to hear from the
cousins. I will try and tell you a few
things about myself and where I live. My
home is near Key West, Fla., “The Land of
Flowers.’’ Cousins, this is a beautiful coun
try. We never have any cold weather. We
raise vegetables here all the year round. 1
will not describe myself in this letter. I
will say my age is between eighteen and
twenty-five. Can you guess my age? I
haven't any brothers or sisters. Sometimes
I get lonesome. I am sending 50 cents for
the orphan. If you cousins want to write
to n jolly lad, just let the letters come. I
will assure you an answer. I will tell yon
all about myself and more about south
Florida. With best wishes to you all, a
new cousin, . EUGENE LOWE.
Tavernier, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please let a North Carolina girl enter your
happy band of boys and girls? I have been
J reading all the letters and think them just l
grand. The Letter Box is a good place for
.girls and boys to get acquainted. I’ni a
school girl, of Wise High school, North Car
olina, nnd in the eighth grade. You see,
I'm a high school girl this year. An honor
like that makes one feel rather dignified.
Basketball is my favorite sport. I will de
scribe myself before leaving. Always the
sugar last. I'm a blonde and am sixteen
years old. Everybody write to me and I
will assure you all an answer, so come on,
boys and girls. If you want to correspond
with a jolly, good girl, that's me. A new
cousin,
(MISS) HELEN RAINEY.
Warm Plains, N. (.’., Route 1, Box 43.
Dear Aunt Julia and All the Cousins:
Please open the door and let me in for a
little chat. I want a seat beside Aunt
Julia. I guess most of you cousins are
going to school now. I am going, and like
1 school fine. I have a good teacher and
am in the ninth grade. For pastime I
read, play the organ and help mamma with
the housework. What did you cousins do
for Christmas? I guess you all had a fine
time. Cousins, don’t you all tbitfk Aunt
, Julia Is a fine lady for doing the work she
. | is doing in helping the poor little children?
[ I wijl not stay long, as this is my second
, visit. Cousins, you all write to me. My
■ sister has gone to Concord to work this
winter, and I ant lonesome since she left.
. I will be going before I break Aunt Julia’s
rule. AH you cousins write to mo, and I
j will assure you an answer. Good-by to all.
I 1 A cousin,
. ' (MISS) BELLE HUNEYCUTT.
, I Marshville, N. C., Route 5.
I
i Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please ad
mit a lonesome Florida boy into your band
of happy boys and girls. I have been a
silent leader of The Journal for some time
and enjoy the charming letters of some of
the coqsins, and beg you to not' deem my
. letter a fit subject for the wastebasket.
, To the first ten who send me their photos
, I will send a present, with one of myself.
| I am wishing you and nil the cousins a
merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
I will not describe myself this time, but,
, if permitted, will conte again. With best
wishes to all, I am a cousin,
ELIAS W. SMITH.
119 South Fourth St., Fort Pierce, Fla.
- Hello, Aunt Julia and all you cousins!
s Will you welcome another little Florida
girl? I have been a silent reader for a
, ong time. I live on a farm, and like farm
, life fine. I am busy all the time. I can
. keep house, cook and sew and crochet and
work. 1 like to read good books, and I am
a lover of music. We have an organ, and
i 1 play lots when I am lonely. I have a
. few box flowers. I can't take care of
i many in winter. I intend to have a lot
> next summer. Aunt Julia, please print this,
for I want to gam some pen friends, and,
’ it I «itin admitted, I will write r more in
tcresting letter next time and tell some
thing about my home and the country in
which I live. As this is my first attempt,
I won't stay any longer and Will leave
space for a more gifted writer. I hope
Aunt Julia and all the cousins will have a
merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Both boys and girls write to me. I will
! assure you everyone an answer.
(MISS) ROSA GILL. -
, Jasper, Fla., Route A. Box 59.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I
■ come again to join your happy band. 1
have knocked before, but did not get in.
, I gues» they were such tiny knocks you did
■ not hear, so I picked up courage and
knocked big and loud.
’ Good morning, all yon cousins! As our
' dear aunt has opened the door for me. will
■ 'i° U p J ease sit over and give me room to sit
, down. As I am a wee bit timid, let me
sit by Aunt Julia. Now. auntie, .you keep a
close lookout for Mr. Wastebasket and keep
him away while I am here, for he has
already got one of my letters and I don't
rant him to get this one, I read good
, books and go to school. How many of
you cousins like to go to school? Oil I I
i see lots of hands up. That is good. I
! think we all should go to shcool while we
■ have tlie opportunity, for our school days
will soon be over, and we must all strive
I for an education. If we spend our school
days in idleness we will look back at the
: golden moments we can never recall and
think, oh I if had not spent our best
days in idleness, how much better it would
have been for us! Cousins, let’s all keep
i striving for that which really belongs to
us. Come on. North Carolina boys and
girls; let's not let the other states get ahead
of us. I live in the beautiful hills of old
North Carolina, and I think it the best state
in the Union. Come along with your letters,
cousins. All of the cousins write, and I will
answer all I get. A new niece and cousin.
(MISS) DORA GLADSON.
Culberson, N, C.. R. F. D. 2, Box 19.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; Here we
come knocking at your door. Please let 'is
in. We would indeed be glad to get ac
quainted with some of you cousins. We think
it is so nice for Aunt Julia to give space in
the dear old Journal for the folks of differ
ent states to got acquainted with earn
other. We surely do love this dear old
paper. Oh, listen! We can hear you all
murmuring to each other, saying, “I wonder
what they look like.” Just read on and yon
will see. I. Rhomana, am fourteen years
of age, have light hair, brown eyes and fair
1 complexion. I, Alice, am fourteen years or
age, have light hair, blue eyes and fair
complexion, I, Gray, am fourteen years of
age. have brown hair, black eyes, dark
complexion. I, Vernie, am twelve years of
■ age, black hair, black eyes, dark complex
ion. Oh, pardon us: we didn't mean to
I make you all run. Who shall we talk to?
I Yes. there sits one in the corner who didn’t
• hear what we said. We go to school, and
■ like it fine. We are in the seventh grade
Wo like our teacher fine. Her name .«
■ Miss Etta Winthrow. Will some of you
i cousins send! us the songs. “The Ship That
■ Never Retv.rhed” and ‘•Nellie Gray?” We
will return the favor in any way we can
' Daniel Anant, of south Georgia, and George
I Stum. of North Carolina. I, Alice, lost your
address. I am very sorry I could not an
swer all the nice letters I received, but 1
lost the addresses. Grace Humphries. I
would like to hear from you. We wish yon
all a merry Christmas and a happy New
Year. Adieu!
(MISS) RHOMANA SOUTHER
I (MISS) ALICE HILL
(MISS) GRAY SALES.
I < MISS) VERNIE SOUTHER.
s Ellijay. Ga., Route 2.
P. Write separately. W<» want te
who the most letter s , and send
I phetos if you can.
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
Wo All Know the Goat Family—We
Sponge on Them and Then Hold
Them in Contempt Because
x They Let Us Make Goats
of Them
KIND reader, meet my friends,
the Goats. They are not rich,
for. although Mr. Goat has
been an able and energetic business
man all his life and Mrs. Goat has
been a thrifty housekeeper, they
have never been able to get much
ahead because
'* they have al-
/ •.;> ways had. such
f - * YwWbk ;1 horde of para
t s hes to support.
T Ever since
they had a home
K they have run a
frep hotel. They
have literally
been eaten out
"*• house and
home by self
■■ML > invited guests,
i by forty-seventh
cousins who al
ways cashed in
the blood rela
tion sh i p for
board and lodgings, and by old
friends who suddenly remembered,
when they happened to be in their
town, how they loved the Goats and
hated to pay for their own beds and
meals.
Any one of their many acquaint
ances who wished to take a. vacation
without expense, or have an opera
tion performed, or go to the opera,
or see the sights of the city, just
wished himself- or herself on the
Goats, and arrived bag and baggage
to camp in the spare bedroom. And
that was all there Was to it; a pleas
ant and economical arrangement so
far as the guests .were concerned.
And if it was inconvenient to the
Goats and they to sleep around
on cots and do without new clothes
to pay for the food that the dead
beats gobbled up, why, nobody both
ered about that. And the Goats
never bleated.
They never made a move to chuck
these grafters out, not even when
rich Cousin Susan, who could have
bought the family up a hundred
times over, came and stayed six
months, wore Mother Goat to a fraz
zle requiring to be waited on and
ran them into debt because she
couldn’t eat anything but the most
expensive foods. No, they felt that
it would be a stain on their escutch
eon to assert themselves and look
out for themselves a. little, and so
they lived up to the Goat coat-of
arms, which is a doormat couchant,
with everybody trampling over it.
By and by* the eldest Miss Goat
got married. Her husband proved
to be a bumptious, egotistical, opin
ionated fellow, and when he was
about the whole Goat family had to
walk on -eggs and suppress all of
their own opinions and tastes to
avoid irritating him. Indeed, when
their daughter married the Goats
acquired a new son, as the phrase
goes, because every Sunday and on
high days and holidays the young
couple arrived to take dinner with
papa and mamma. It was so sweet
to be all together at such times, and
it was also so economical and saved
them the work and worry.
Then the son Billy got married.
Not being born a Goat, Billy’s wife
had not the suffer-and-be-strong com
plex in her. On the contrary, she
was a go-getter, and what she want
ed she had to have. Therefore,
Father Goat was often called on for
money to help pay Mrs. William’s
bills, which had to be met regardless
of what sacrifice it entailed on the
Goats at home.
Mrs. William died, and, of course,
Billy took his motherless children,
one of them a tiny baby, back home
for mother and sister to take care of.
They did it for a few years, until
Billy married again, although it re
duced poor, worn-out mother to a
physical wreck. The family didn’t
approve of William’s choice of a sec
ond wife, but, with the Goat faculty
for swallowing anything, they ac
cepted her and felt that at least one
burden would be removed from them
and that William would take his chil
dren and set up his own home.
It now appears, however, that the
second wife refuses to be bothered
with stepchildren, and so William
has brought his brood back for moth
er and sister to rear and support.
It takes all the money he can make
to provide for his wife and her rela
tives, whom she has saddled upon
him.
Mother Goat says that no sacri
fice is too great to make for her
darling son, nor does she hesit 3
to offer up as a burnt offering her
unmarried daughter, Nanny Goat,
who labors in an office all day to
make money to help maintain the
family, and who comes home at night
,and does most of the housework.
But Nanny is beginning to show
un-Goatlike traits. She does not see
why she should work to feed a lot
of bum company who sponge on
them instead of paying their own
board somewhere. She doesn’t see
why she should spend her Sundays
and holidays cooking dinners for sis
ter and brother and the in-laws when
they might just as well eat at home
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or go to a restaurant. And she
doesn’t see what right brother has
to foist the care of his children and
their support on his old parents and
his young sister.
“I am spending my life slaving for
other people and bearing other peo
ple's burdens,” wails poor little Nan
ny Goat. ‘‘l earn a good salary, but
I can never have any pretty clothes
nor indulge myself in any of the
amusements I crave, because all of
my money is spent on people who
just make a convenience of us, and
who think more of being invited
somewhere else to tea than they do
of living on us without cost for a
month. All my youth, when I ought
to have the pleasures of the young,
is being given to trying to raise my
brother’s children, and do for them
the things that he is too weak and
pussillanimous to do himself
‘‘And I am sick and tired of it.
I am tired of supporting grafters,
that are more able to work than I
am. I am sick of being bled white
by blood-suckers. lam sore at hav
ing to do other people’s duty for
them, and I'want to know how I can
get out of being a perpetual Goat as
long as I live.”
Alas! poor little Nanny, it is easier
for the leopard to change its spots
than it is for one who was born a
Goat to cease being one. Still, the
thing can be done, if you have nerve
enough to butt your way to freedom.
Shut the door k.i the face cf (ha
deadbeat visitors. Make your broth
er act the part of a man and assume
his own responsibilities. And you
will find that you have gained rot
only relief but that you have gone
up a hundred per cent in every ci.e’s
esteem.
For while we all make use of the
Goat family, we hold them in con
tempt because they let us make goats
of them.
(Copyright. 1924.)
U. S. Supreme Court
Refuses to Review
Walton Ouster Case
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The su
preme court today declined to per
mit former Governor John C. Walton,
of Oklahoma, to bring up for review
direct from the legislature the im
peachment proceedings which re
sulted in his removal from office.
The case which the court acted
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forenoon today except Governor
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3,000 Chinese Slain
For Defying Pekin’s
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BY JAMES L. BUTTS
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rC/ Cotton
Success
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Plant Early Varieties
Plant Early and Use i
Nitrate
of Soda
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Remember there is no such thing as late cot
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Every Cotton District has abundant evidence
that Nitrate of Soda is absolutely nccescary to >
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This season the demand will be greater than
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My advice to farmers is to get busy and arrange
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CHILEAN NITRATE COMMITTEE
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Gas Tax Collections . I
To Exceed Estimates, i
Early Figures Show
Collections of gasoline taxes for
the last three months of 1923, for
the first quarter under the new ratff
of three cents per gallon, have reach
ed $742,334.37, it was stated Tues
day by William B. JJarrison, tax
clerk in the comptroller general’s
office. Mr. Harrison estimates that
$30,000 is still unpaid.
This large collection indicates that
the new tax will pay the state con
siderably more than the $3,000,000
per annum anticipated when the
Mann bill was passed, as the months
of October, November and Decem
ber are the slightest in the year in
the consumption of gasoline. The
second and third quarters, including
the months of April, May, June,
July, August and September, are
the heaviest in the year.
The sum of $48,798.03 has, been
collected since the gasoline tax waff
distributed on January 15. ' This
amount has been added to ’the col
lections for the present quarter, and,
will be distributed on April 15, with
the January, February and March:
collections. One-third of the total re
ceipts goes to the state for payment
of the W. anad R. rental notes; one
third goes to the state highway de
partment, and one-third goes to the
various counties for road and bridjb
work, on a road mileage basis.
provincial revenue authorities, ac
cording to dispatches received here
through Chinese sources. The re
port is believed to be somewhat ex
aggerated but undoubtedly there la
some basis for the dispatches as
provincial authorities have threaten
ed to inaugurate a reign of blood
shed if the order was ignored.
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