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THE ALLIANCE fiOME.
Mildred Beryl Brown, Editor.
[This department is set aside for the ladies,
and while they are urged to aval? themselves of
the opportunity of communing one with another
they should remember that space is limited and
that in the brevity of their letters depends the
variety.]
DYING IN HARNESS.
Only a fallen horse, stretched out there on the
road.
Stretched in the broken shafts, and crushed by
the heavy load.
Only a fallen horse and a circle of wondering
eyes
Watching the frighted teamster goading the
beast to rise.
Hold! for his toil is over, no more labor for him;
See the poor neck outstretched and the patient
eyes grow dim;
•See on the friendly stones how peacefully rests
his head,
‘Thinking, if dumb beasts think, how good it is
to be dead;
After the burdened journey, how restful it is to
lie
With the broken shafts and the cruel load, wait,
ingonlyto die!
Watchers, he died in harness, died in the shafts
and straps
Fell, and the great load killed him: one of the
days’s mishaps,
■One of the passing wonders marking the city
road,
A toiler dying in harness, heedless of call or
goad.
Passers, crowding the pathway, staying your
steps awhile,
Was it the symbol 1 Only death; why should we
cease to smile
At death for abe ast of burden! On through the
busy street
That is ever and ever echoing the tread of the
hurrying feet!
What was the sign? A symbol to touch the tire
less will.
Does he who taught in parables speak in para
bles still?
The seed on the rock is wasted, on needless hearts
of men,
That gather and sow and grasp and lose, labor
and sleep, and then :
Then for the prize 1 A crowd in the street of ever
echoing tread,
The toiler, crushed by the heavy load, is there in
his harness, dead!
—[John Boyle O'Reilly
There is nothing so lovely as a sweet
orderly home, where husband, wife and
children find their dearest comforts, their
most prized delights. A home that is
restful to the tired feet of the child, as it
is restful to the fathers,wearied brain; a
home, that if simple in its adornments,
is yet radient of love, and bright with
the happiness of a cheerful, hopeful,
busy little mother. A good mother,
whose brain is fullof plans for the further
development of her children, who
unselfishly sacrifices her own ambitions
upon the alter of poverty, and strives on
by dint of strictest economy, a great
deal of hard work, and scant hours of
sleep and rest, to make both ends meet
fSTtIK iibusdhoidtSild'tO render that home
the dearest spot on earth to father and
little ones though she lose the bloom
from her dear face, she must yet be beau
tiful with a loveliness not lent by peach
tinted cheeks or lustrous eyes. Through
the never ending “fire of little worries,
she comes triumphant with a heart of
pure gold, only brightened by the intense
heat.*'
Buckles and slides are much worn up
on both dresses and bonnets. The slides
are the most durable as they are carved
to fit the waist.
When boots are muddy and wet, wash
off the mud with warm water and a bit
of sponge, then rub with kerosine oil and
dry quickly. Finish with a coat of shoe
dressing. In this way the shoes will be
soft and pliable and there is little danger
of any odor from kerosine as it evapo
rates by the heat necessary for drying
quickly.
Cookery may be made as fas
cinating as crochet work, for as
great possibilities lie in a pan of
potatoes as in a spool of thread. The ac
complished cook will make as great a
transformation in one as the skilled nee
dleworker in the other.
Look into any of the professions of
to-day into which women have entered,
and the answer is quickly found whether
women’s services are underestimated or
underpaid. Take in literature and what
male writers receive higher prices than
do Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. De
land, or Mrs. Rohlfs! The editorial
chair is as remunerative to Marion Har
lan, Mary Mapes Dodge or Margaret
Sangster as to the foremost editors of the
opposite sex. The sculptor’s chisel in
the hands of Harriet Hosmer is as effect
ive as in the hands of a Ward or a Story.
In art,Rosa Bonheur commands the high
est prices paid in her profession. The best
paid newspaper writers of America to
day are women. As managers, Mrs Lou
isa Knapp with The Ladies Home Jour
nal, and Mrs. Frank Leslie with her sev
eral publications have given the world
convincing evidence of woman’s wisdom
in managemant. • As moulders of pub
lic opinion the ablest and most effective
editorials in the newspapers of to day
frequently come from woman’s pen. In
many of the mercantile pursuits woman’s
hand is found at the helm, steering, with
inborn intuition that is hers and hers
alone, her craft over shadow rocks wh< re
man’s less steady and patient guidance
would often fail.—Home Journal.
Miss Mary A. Greene, a member of the
Boston bar, is giving lectures at Lasell
Seminary »n business law for women as
follows: Legal powers of minors, mar
ried women, agents and partners; trans
fers of personal property (making and
endorsing of notes, checks, etc.); trans
fers of personal property, continued
(sales, mortgages, etc.); transfers of real
SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FARMER, ATLANTA, GA., FEBRUARY 25, 1890
property (deeds, mortgages, leases); the
law of tho domestic relations; probate
law, wills.
The lectures are popular with the girls,
and no doubt simple explanation of legal
points most important to women should
be a part of their education.
Mrs. M. M. Moss, Elbert, Ga. —I have
never before written a letter to any paper,
but I appreciate The Southern Alli
ance Farmer so very much that I cannot
refrain longer from telling you so. I
love to read the letters from the sub-
Alliances and know they are so strong
in the good cause. I like to see the cot
ton wrapped in cotton; it tells the tale
of our determination.
My husband is an Alliance man “warp
and filling, and checked back the other
way.” We eat Alliance pork at our
house ; Alliance corn and Alliance biscuit,
all made at home. We made seventeen
bales of cotton without hired help, and,
thanks to the grand Alliance cause, we
sold part of it for 9| and 10 cents per
pound, and hope to got 121 cents for the
balance. I pray God will help us, and
hope soon to know that we will have an
Alliance store in Elbert, and then we can
wear Alliance clothes and drink Alliance
coffee and sugar.
The great strength of the Alliance is
in her sound-hearted, true men, and if
they will combine they can lift the gate
on their shoulders and carry it to the top
of the hill, as did Sampson of old.
Mrs. J. E. Pounds, Milner, Ga.—l’lease
permit me to express my thanks for the
pleasure and benefits received from this
page. This is my first knock for admis
sion into the Home and I hope I shall be
welcomed.
My husband and self are both members
of the Alliance and of course we take
the Alliance paper. It is useless for me
to say how we read and watch the prog
ress of this paper. Sisters, we should
try to make our department as interest
ing as possible. Let’s all cpme to the
front and cast our mite; this corner de
pends ou us, so let’s exchange thoughts
and tell what we are doing at the begin
ning of this new year. I am very fond
of raising poultry.
I have ten little downy chickens and
several hens setting. I have sold a good
many eggs since Christmas, besides
what I have used, and I have only twenty
five hens and throe cocks.
I want to raise some turkeys this year
but have had no experience with this
fowl. Will some of the sisters who have
been successful please write to this de
partment and give her plan of feading
and raising.
I am a young housekeeper and derive
a great deal of useful knowledge from
this page, would be glad to exchange
crochet ’/icterus with some one; I have
a good > many pretty patterns. I will
close for this time; will come again if
editor will' permit.
“Browning’s marriage with Miss Eliza
beth Barrett was a romantic affair, origi
nating in poetical sympathy and result
ing, for both lovers, in a life of almost
ideal serenity and happiness,” says the
Boston Transcript. Miss Barrett was 37
vears of age. an invalid, with little or no
hope of recovery. The marriage was
opposed by her father and was at last
celebrated clandestinely. Miss Mitford
wries of it: “It was a runaway match.
Never was Iso astonished. He prevaied
on her to meet him at church with only
the two necessary witnesses. They went
by rail to Southampton, crossed to Havre,
up the Seine to Rouen, to Paris by rail
way. There they stayed a week. Hap
pening to meet with Mrs. Jameson, she
joined them in their journey to Pisa, and
accordingly they traveled by diligence,
by railway, by omnibus—anyhow—to
Marseilles; thenee took shipping to Leg
horn, and then settled at Pisa for six
months.” The new happiness, the new
life, the new climate called the sufferer
back from the gates of death, and the
Brownings spent 15 bright years together
in Italy in the closest union, both domes
tic and intellectual. They were singu
larly alike in their cast of mind, and al
though they stimulated each other’s
literary activity, the question has been
raised just how far the mutual influence
was of benefit to the poetical faculty in
either. The richest period of Mrs. Brown
ings life lies within the 10 years after mar
riage, which produced Casa Guidi Win
dows, the Sonnets from the Portuguese
and Aurora Leigh. But she lived to copy
a great deal of her husband’s 'roughness
and contempt for the art of expression.
Iler love poetry assumed a more contagi
ous fervor, and that of Mr. Browning be
came perhaps more exalted. Browning’s
estimate, however, of the claims of love
as tho arbiter of life and conduct was al
ways excessive, and it certainly was not
(Exaggerated by his beautiful devotion to
the wife who inspired many of his
noblest and purest lines. Upon the
whole, it seems that whatever faults
husband and wife may have learned from
each other, were far outbalanced by other
influences which sprang from this mem
orable union.
Then the small economics—tho cutting,
the contriving, the making over, the
plannings and the never-failing weekly
mending thijt every mother knows by
heart. And who shall say that it does
not require as great exercise of mind as
has a general when planting a campaign,
even though the outcome is not so brill
iant and the newspaper report of it want
ing entirely?
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Mrs. E. E. McKellar, Americus, Ga.—
I wish to express my appreciation of the
cordial invitation we have received to
visit the Alliance Home, and of the op
portunity we have of communicating one
with another. This is my first call, and
I want to tell our kind editress how
much I enjoyed reading the comparative
life sketches of Louisa Alcott and Nils
son, taken from that most excellent
paper Ladies Home Journal. I have
been interested also in the letters which
have appeared in our columns; but, sis
ters, why have so few of you availed
yourselves of tho kind invitation extend
ed to all?
Rev. Sam Jones has compared one
class of people to a man who was idly
seated one cold fros.y morning, axe in
hand, waiting to get warmed up before
he should begin his days work of cutting
down the forest. If any of us are ‘wait
ing to get warmed up’ let’s take the
great evangelist’s advice, “go to work,”
and we will become so. There are very
few of us who can not benefit or interest
some one. We can give our ideas on the
topics of the day; can toll of our hopes
and aspirations, our pleasant homes, and
our happy merry-hearted children; what
amusements we provide them, and what
means we use to interest them in their
daily duties. We can encourage the
editress by telling her what pieco’Tias
pleased us most, or by sending a scrap of
poetry or short sketch which has given
us delight, of some nice tried receipt, or
a good, handy remedy for “some of the
ills which flesh is heir to.” Surely we
can tell something we know and, as
Cousin Dowdell expresses it, “even some
things we have to guess at.”
The winter having been so mild, we
have many beautiful geraniums and hot
house plants now in bloom, but I am at
present more interested in poultry. We
have a yard full of beautiful, pure-bred
brown Leghorns, and the eggs we do
have! It is a pleasure to start out some
nice morning about 9 o’clock, bucket in
hand, our two bright-faced boys skip
ping in the lead, and ‘Chatterbox’ loiter
ing at our side, with tongue as busy as
the little feet, for a visit to the Leghorn
yard, which is a quarter of a mile dis
tant. Our feathered friends are on the
watch and the whole flock run to meet
us, for we usually send their breakfast at
this hour. How glad they are to see us!
and how eagerly they gather up the
grains of Kaffir we scatter. How pretty
they look, all in the same lovely brown
uniform. When we have unlocked the
fowl house door it is none the less pleas
ant to collect from the various nests the
large bucket of snowy white eggs await
ing us. If a large number of eggs are de
sired from a limited number of fowls the
brown Leghorn variety should be obtain
ed. We have bred them eight years and
and have tried several othei varieties on
a very small scale, but as an egg produc
er the Leghorns take the lead.
In our opinion the Game is the best
combination fowl. They are great layers,
(excelled only by the Brown Leghorn) a
most excellent table bird, good setters,
and faithful mothers. They are hardy
and easily kept as they have a disposition
to scratch for their own living. Some
times we think them a little too industri
ous when they have just expended their
energies on a box of choice geranium
cuttings. We will have a few eggs of
both kinds to spare, and if any of the
sisters wish a sitting, and can give in ex
change good books, magazines, a music
book, crochet or keit lace, just write us
what you have and the value attached to
the article. We have had our Games
thirteen years and are now starting a
yard of white Brahmas.
I really must “bow myself out,” for my
little visit has grown so long I fear
some of the sisters will think I have
come to stay to dinner. With a promise'
to call again some day, I bid you good
bye.
“Fireside”—l believe our noble Al
ance cause will prove a good thing
for our dear country if wo will
stand by our colors and never
waver. If we could only bring up new
industries, and-brighten and reinvigorate"
the old qnes. For instance, flax has been
raised in Georgia and can be again. The
culture of silk worms is a profitable in
dustry to those skilled in the art, and I
hope to see the day when the smoke
from silk factories will fill the air, for I
would love to wear a Georgia made silk
dress, from the growing of the silk
worms to the weaving of the goods; all
done in Georgia, on Alliance soil. I
think the proposed plan for buying up
homes for the poor farmers, who now
rent land is a splendid idea, if too much
interest is not exacted. The farmer
makes bread for the world to eat; there
fore, the richer part of the world should
not begrudge him a little push up hill,
by lending money at reasonable interest,
with which he can buy the happy right
to sit with his loved ones at eventide, be
neath his own vine and figtree. We want
to eat our own hog and hominy, our
home-made biscuits with Alliance syrup,
and when winter comes on, with its driv
ing snow and sleet oat side, we want to
sit a happy family around our fireside
and parch Alliance goobers.
Mrs. S. M. Wobrom, Pine Bill, Ga.:—
Is it not delightful to have a department
set aside for us ih such a noble paper as
The Southern Alliance Farmer?
How sorry lam to see it not filled up
with good and interesting letters written
by the Alliance sisters! I think the
young folks take more interest in their
department than we show in ours. I love
the Alliance organization, also the organ
so dearly that I want every thing to be
a grand success that has the Alliance
name added to it. lam by The South-
ern Alliance Farmer, as the Irish are
by corn bread; it is the staff of life in
this blessed organization. Sisters we
could do nothing better than to insist on
our husbands, our sous, and the brothers
to read the state organ as they should,
and keep posted upon every worthy en
terprise of their order. To the Daw
son sister, I think your recipe for pre
serving the husband is the best that wil.
ever be given, not only good for the husl
band, but a good way to preserve any
thing is with love and kindness. Now,
sisters, if we all love the S. A. F., and
our department as wo should, we will
preserve and make it a more noble suc
cess in the future than it is even now.
Let us work sisters for the order and
the state organ, work in away that our
good works will be to our glory in the
future and redound to the glory of God
Now in labor or in art,
Let the hand and loving heart
Each perform its own grand part.
As it depends upon the merit of the
letter whether it be published or not I
will close, wishing all the brothers and
sisters a happy New Year.
The following touching incident, which
draws tears from eyes, was related to me
a short time since, by a dear friend who
had it from an eye witness of the same.
It occurred in the great city of New York,
on one of the coldest days in February
last.
A little boy about ten years old was
standing before a shoe store in Broadway,
barefooted, peering through the window
and shivering with cold. • '
A lady riding up tho street in a beauti
ful carriage drawn by horses caparisoned,
observed the little fellow in his forlorn
condition and immediately ordered tho
driver to draw up and stop in front of
the store.
The lady, richly dressed in silk, alight
ed from her carriage, went quietly to the
boy and said:
“My little fellow, why are you looking
so earnestly in that window?”
’ “I was just asking God to give me a
pair of shoes,” was the reply. The lady
took him by the hand and went into the
store and asked the proprietor if he
would allow one of his clerks to go buy
her a half dozen pairs of stockings for the
boy. He readily assented. She asked
him for a basin of water and towel and
he replied: “Certainly,” and quickly
brought them to her. %
She took the little fellow to the back
part of tho store,and removing her gloves,
knelt down, washed those little feat and
dried them with the towel.
By this time the young man had re
turned with the stockings. Placing a
pair upon his feet, she purchased and
gave him a pair of shoes, and tying up
the remaining pairs of stockings, gave
them to him, and patting him on the
h'earfl said: I hope now my little fellow,
that you feel more comfortable.”
As she turned to go, the astonished
lad caught her hand with these words:
“Are you God’s wife?”—Parisi Register.
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Undoubtedly the best equipped house for doing an extensive fer tilizer business
or “Season 1890” is Messrs. Rodgers, Worsham &C >, Macon, Ga.
Last June they bought several thousand tons highest grade acid phosphate. No
other firm bought so early. Since that time crude material has advanced to such
an extent that their purchase price is below the factory cost to-day.
It has worried the farmer greatly in past seasons to abtain genuine GERMAN
KAINIT, and to bo sure of delivering the pure Kainit to their customers, Messrs.
Rodgers, Worsham Co., have ordered a cargo direct from Germany which reaches
Savanm.h about December 1, 1889. They will duplicate prices of any large dealer in
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on same.
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fertilizers the “Plowboys Brand” has analyzed the highest and its soil tests are
noted. This brand is manufactured by Messrs. Rodgers, Worsham & Co. They
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manure and cotton seed yet offered.
Cotton Seed Meal sold at factory prices as they represent several Georgia Oil
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WORLD WHO SELL ONLY TO PLANTERS —gained by selling nothing but the
highest grade of fertilizers.
The past season the Farmers’ Alliance was entirely ignored by the merchants in
Middle Georgia. Messrs. Rodgers, Worsham & Co., alone quoting them prices—
thereby aiding the Alliance to get a foothold at once.
Messrs. Rodgers, Worsham & Co., also make advances of money, provisions, etc.,
to planters, and we strongly advise our friends to call upon or write thembefore
making their purchases for season 1890.
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