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- 12 THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY MARCH 11.1884- TWELVE PAGES. THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM [Under thli heed wo wtU devote two or three oolumui o week to women and.lbelr work. The hemih on.: rcnfort of family, the propor keeping and beautifying of the home, the care of the kitch en, Dower; -.rd end guden, are »<clal topic! to be treated, we aolfclt abort contribution! from wo men on any .object that will Intereat woman, question*.-. u: jig to the borne wilt be anawered by ■'-lltrean ] heart loae and dally needi of human ezlalanca. fcing'aaitntt waa aa Important aa hlacraaon.tha ring united him to bla klngdao aa tha biahap to hla or* or the abbot to bla monaatory in the olden daya. wa 1 hallowed by lha teara of menrnara, ft elaaptd tha finger of the betrothed maiden and of the b at the altar, it dedicated alao tha widow to Ood. Itwaadroeituponby the thoughtful for emblema o' the uaaion of onr Lord, or for Ita acribed holy word!. Dot It waa alao uaed aa amulet to arert danger by the anperatltloui, t even aa an agent in the coamlialon of aecret crime by aril men in begh places, aa in caae of the fern- oua ring! of the Borgia with their tiny aecret reaerrolr of polion. The algnet ring of Ctctar gta iastill iu exlitence. itltofgold, allgbtly amelled, and beam the date of 16CU. On theinalde 1a a motto In old french ilgnlfylog. "Do what you muat, come what will." At Ita back to a elide with in which wai concealed the potoon which the owner would drop into the wine of an unampcctlng gneat, who happened to bo obnozloua to him. Another Borgia, Alexander VI.. poaaeeaed a k ring which unlocked a ciaket. Whon ho wlahed be rid of an objectionable peraou ho re<iucalcd1ilni to oblige him by unlocking thli caakct. and aa the cockwaaaliitl. bard to open, tbo pin concealed within, gar. tho fatal prick. Mourning or memorial ring had many and various device! and lnacriptiona. aome of which, aa ekulto and akeletona, were alao uacd bygrave rollgloua peraona. l.uthcr potaeawd auch a ona, a email ring of told with death a head in enamel, which to atlll preaerred In Dreadeo. Tha betrothal ring given by Luthar to hla wife la atlll preaerved In bla native country. It to of gold, elaborately wrought with the aymbola of the taaalou of Cbrlet, and to aur- mouuted with a ruby. Inalde arc the namca Luther and Catherine and tho date of tbolr merit ago; ita workmanablp ia very One. Their marriage ring waa of the kindcaUed tboflmmsl—twohoope Ivoted together; on one to a ruby, on the other diamond, and their Initial! join them. Wllhln beam thtolnacription; "What Ood doth join ahall no man part” Theae glmra-il ring! were often uacd by betrothed lovem-cacb keeping a hoop till marriage, when the two wore uulted by a rivet and uaed aa a marriage ring. A noted glmmal ring do le rvea mention, although not uaed either for bo- trotbal or wedding. It waa given aa a pledge perpetual frlondahlp by Mary queen of Bcoti ilueen Elizabeth. Two diamond!, ono on eaeh hoop, formed one heart. Each queen kept a hoop and it la aald that Mary lent hor'a to Ellaabeth plead her canae when ahe aought aaylum in Eng land, with how much aucaeia we all know, If lu deed, It ever reached Ita domination Womxn on SnieaoaaD.—Tho life which romen lead on board ahlpe to uiu ally a monotonoua one. Thtlr quartern are cloae and their aoclal opportuultloeaie qujto limited. Tha captaln'a wife may Ura of tha aociety of bar liua- band or of theconatantcareof her children. It ahe wlahea to go out to walk, ahe to conllnod to the quarter deck. A lllrlatlou daring her airing with „ue of Iho matea or the carpenter would be beneath If ahe happen! to bo good looking the veracl Several ladiea niodeatljr aend tie letters ask ing about what degree of literary excellence ia required iu lallera, promlalng to write ua '‘eonielbing for publication" If we think them capable of producinga readable contribution. To fill auch we have only toaay; If yen It*™ anything to tell that would be likely to Intereat or initruot any body, juet write it in plain, atmple words without any attempt at rhetorical flourlahee. lie natural, juat an if you were convening with frienda. Write only on one aide of the paper, do not use con tractions nor abbreviations and try to have your lotters legible ao as to avoid annoying inisaket. It It an editor's business to prepare contributions for the printer. Just try; let ter writing it very easy especially when one oonaolea borsalf that angels con do no more than ahe who does the beat aba can. Ono lady has written ua tbatahe intends to spend tills year on her farm in order to make her tenants plant what they should and then cul tivate their crops properly. 8he eaya Ihere is much to be done before her land will be re stored to good condition. The ditches have been neglected by tenants for aevaral years and ahe will see that old drains are cleaned out and new ones made wherever they are needed. The dally preaenca of an overseer ia - a great ad vantage to a tarin. Wa azpeel letters from every woman who superintends iter farm or engages in any kind of work In dcors or out. Hone ros tua Ilona -Thera to nothing that oxorta ao elevating and refining au Inflnonce aa music, and there lr nothing ou which so much money to wasted. Our children aro taught from their sla or eighth year, and until they leave achoel Ihera to much time and money oonsumod. Then tiler they marry how quickly tho7 give it up, and It to lost bore that 1 want to say a word. Tharetononocemliy for any young woman (o quietly give up her music. I have found front my own rz perl nice that I could always fled tlmo to do anything I particularly doalred, and I am aura others can do tbo same, and 1 address this especially to you ng mothers. Don’t let the little carat and vesztlons of home life cauaa you to nee- lac! lha cultivation of that accomplishment lhat In tha future to to give ao much pleasure to your own Ultle family circle. So many make lha asd mistake of thinking li.cause they cannot make Duo per formers or alug ilka Jenny Lind, Ihst It to no me keeping op their music; but tho’ you may make no rapulaUou lu iho outside world, you may do what Is atlll belter, you makq homa bright, cheerful, and knppy, and y->n keep your children around you, especially your boys. 1 bars only one ton, lie lovea muilcat-oro all Ibinga, lam now almost an old lady, but whantvor that boy cornea home, no mailer what: am doing or how Important tho work, it to all rut down, and wo go to tho parlor, and 1 play f..r him Juat at long aa ho wlahea I have known Mm to walk a mile from hit place rf boaiueaswksi. he had only one hour to spare,that we might practu i new placa, and many an avsulug I have kept bin n home when ha might have been out with tdl.' rotnpaulona being led Into the many temptations (o which all vciung boya art exposed' I waa much struck, a few daya ago, at a remark made byayoung lady who waa atteudlog a oollage of music. Sbe aril, ‘ I know I have no gnat mualca 1 talent, and I allt never make a lino alngor, for I hare very little voice, but my mother la dead and ray fathor to very fond of tnuilo aud I am aura f can laarn lo play and slog ilmpio ballads well enough to give dm pleasure," Bow I admired this young girl! 8'cwu striving lo giro pleasure not lo iho world, bnt si luma to her father. Not long ago laaw lha full-, wlug adreritoemenl: 'Tamm,aud I haroa broth r1 a. we came from Iho dig three years ago. Last spring brother aud I thought wo would buy an organ. Brolhar aud I worked iu toy shops I had worked threo month! and brother worked till New Year. Tha work being on loya ft to dnll after Chrtotmaa. Tbon my father said ha woald pay for It, but on lha Ulh of December the machine shop where ba woikad waa destroyed by Ura, and that ibrew him out of work. Will some pi lha reads.s J thli paper please toll me bow I can tara sous money to pay for lha organ, because I do not want lo give It up! tils ao much company. I have neter had any bnlraclcr, but In the school 1 attended In the city 1 learned tha notes, and I ran play Iwo-lblrda ol tha gospel hymns I will watt with patience, hop- Ing to hoar from you aoon.-Oraoe, boa 10, cast Hampton, Middlesex county, Conn." Thli Unload- verttocmeut want right to my heart, and I wished I bad riches, for t would have lent him tha money lo pay foe hto organ, Yet, muslo la, 1 think, eeacntlal to make lha homa clrola happy.iDouT fall- than, young or mlddla-aged mothers lo cultlvata II oven if It la only tha one talent." Do not bury tl In n napkin. OanannxTa von ntn llonn -Pretty ornaments oau ba mado lor Ura sluing room by Inking n large aponge, and altar It to thoroughly soaked, rolling It full of all kinds ot giasa and bird seed, or taka a pine cone and Iraat U lha same as lha aponge aud pul lha cooa In lha Mulct of the tponge. Thtocanbekopl In a deep dish or suspended byacocd In frontof the window. Both moat bo kept constantly wet and after tho bore baa aoekod a few days tl will clots up lo lha form ol a soli l cone, then the lttllw blades of great will bagtn lo uaefgt from lha wallaof lha aponga and oooe. making a lovely ornament, lien la another simple ornament: Taka about twonty wheal can, with two or three Inches ol _ , - .. - . ... —, , __ J many Bower beds and walks Annuals an otim straw, us utsm together, bang them up In a warm! uredfor Ihlipurpoae. but perennials are better for ptoses keep them sprinkled with water, and whan those who bare Mill# Urns in devote to gardening, they commtcct to epraut, pul them In a eatery glaaa with water. Tha top will aoon become a per fect pyramid c! verdure and will retain ita beamy for several weeks. Haw coene flannel around a goblet with tha stem broken off. put this shapely dome upooaaeucerot water; wet the ilannel aud aprlnkle orer as much flaaaaadas will adhere to 11. Tha flauDel will absorb tho went Iron Iho saucer, which should ottouhv teplrnlihcd. la about two weeks the flsnuel will be concealed In a beautiful verdure, which will vie with any table ornament. Trellis;* and Hcrrena-Make a lattice work of stool copper wire and fallen on lo the ride next to tho window. Train on It quick crewing trios morning glories, madcris vines or tha common sweat potato, and yon will hare a window clothed la Bring grata lhat will not shut oul thealr. I'laata for Hanging Baaketa.-A very pretty plant for a hanging basket and a muat curious one to pUee or ar:Ulrry plant. The leaves an produced Uka lent grounds and are covered with Horan, aoareatyaalarge aaa pinhead. When watered, thorn flowers crack and snap like miniature artll lory, twice Ihe name. If you want a lovely basket and only ono plant to do It with, get Ua begonia glencophslle li has beautiful oraage (lowers and the habl: of the plant to trailing. II grows ao rap. Idly lhat tha basket la entirely c metaled la a short time Among onmaroua plants now lu tree for Ua orna mentation cf hanging baskets for drspiag react or for training loosely up oaoaatvatory pillars few •urpaaa tha iry-laavad polar joortoae. Tha green and bronze-leaved vsrtMlee are the moat aursctlre. Illaes -Amongall Ua oroamtata worn by man kind. ctrtUzad or nnctriliiad. there la not one to which so much lutsmta hat been attached aa lo the flaier ring, gymhollam to ao closely Interwoven with life and death, mu church and stale. wiU t»attract her, A paving v«a*l arouse* her Inter Mt, end a hurricane relieve*, to a certain extent, the monotoujr ol her exfatenoe; but thow bleMlugi do not ccme along every day. Him haa uocue to guerip with but tho stewardets, and they And few nutter* of recant date which aro worth dlicusilng •i any great leugth. Tha captain's wife may be aa say aa ahe ehooaea without caualog any scandal, but unfortunately ahe haa little to stimulate what* cverdetfre for | ‘‘ L Nome advantage* — , an eyo on her hntband. How or where he spends HU evening* Is no mystery to her. a A woman who la fond of aociety doe* not enjoy herself on shipboard, aud consequently captain*' wives who go to aaa are, as a nut, staid matrons norssir a* an om tawor. one pints up mo teoonicst terms and acquires (he art of preserving her equl' IbBum la rough weather. If her husband la a part owner of tuo ship she keeps an eye on iho . latter take an Intereat In tho InRtltutiou aa long as Its continues to be novelty. Homo skippers* wires muter tho art of navlga< Hoi. There are a number of SuiUuce* on record where ttao wives af captains who had died or been Ion overboard havo token command and brought their vetaels safely Into port A few weeks ago a New Orleans woman, who had learned thoroughly solicitor of the treasury at\ should Oaingif Gosair.—Water allowed to stand about trees and shrubs at this ttnn of the year; care now will tvo much future losa and dUappoIntment. It Is a good plan to let bens tun among currant bushes We have kuown of pa Ichet to be always frto fronuho currant worm from this cause, when neighboring patches were annually defoliated, Immense Jacqueminot rosea have recently been the floral eeniatlon in New York city. A New Jet* ■ey grower hu obtained torn* elegant apeelmeua “ .— Ht cuts off all tho budsaave blossoms in superb propor sell at a fancy prlco to re munerate Its grower. A peculiar variety ot the wild blackberry occurs In woods in some parts «f New York aud Michigan, The fruit la yellowish* whits, and la known m ths 'white blaoibemr." It takes readily tocu'tlvatlnn, acy grower ua* ouuuiuv by severe pruning. Hoc one, which, of course, b tlons, and must needs i hoe and the Ulterior flowers do not show to ad van tage. If on a sodded lawn care nun be Ukcu not to make flower beds too narrow, however. If they run Into points the grass roots from the surround ing gran will give constant trouble. Very desirable plain* for bedding purposes are sedan*—Plants comprising the common live for* over. Many of the cultivated species are delicate and profuse bloomers. For rustic rock work they are excellent. The hardier aorta take care o| them* ' sand usually a little "yellow m acre, is one u —— -... most easily procured A tasteful plant border la a desirable addition to Idatory in his habits. Uts food Is insects,MMHIV much choice as to kind. Potato beetles, squt>h bugs, rose bugs, cut worms. i'i!*ub!o to the toad. Toad* if imo talcs care not to atep Ilium with a f.*w luiccti tfcvJHOTHHHIiPB I ikon bop behind a hosr inthecoolottwlUghtimd devour any insect which oomes near them. A toad has been known to devour continuously a hundred insects and then to wink for more. It la an entire ly mistaken notion that any unpleasant results come from handling ties to undoubtedly th^wlii^i^ooreMdLlri therefore becomes en Important qaeitton hmad Iprecnre good anode. It to not enough that MM grow; they should perpetuata and toien.lly the peculiarities of the variety. Of most plants the careful fanner can grow seeds for himself to ad van- ^■lle kndwi what peculiarities of tho plants ■h ItflMflMIflflMiiaaiMMflMMaM uc - :isrUl,-«HM tlnuslly Improved.MMPMMM I should fornuh tha seed. The lsixeet,faire«. smoothrat tomatoes should be saved for s**0, and 15S Cxi- xax axd Bice -Clean, wash and : a foil grown fowl aa far reading, and saw It nip snugly In spKoeot clean, w hits masqoltlo net- ring. Bare ready a pot of scalding—oot qnlfa HaStng—water, rut In UM fowl sod bring to a by. bu t not violent bolt. Half an hour Wiore dons uko cut a cupful of tho liquor, .klmsnd Ha Itlotoettn pell end asaaoo welt. Have ready scupiui of rfcw which bee been soaked two hours and bollod ton minutes then drained. Put Into the broth ta the pall, set In a saucepan fiffisiUng ■■HiH n elowly until Utt rice to soft. shaking from time to time, hut ntvtr atlring. rhnuld .oak npelltte brolb. When done stir with a fork, a teaspoon!nl of better and the far of minced paraley. Beat one leg Ilf hi and stir the aims way: cook ona minute and take from the Are. When Ibechleken la done undo the netting, make a flattened mound ol the rice, and lay the fowl on iop. Herve hot. Send aionnd a boat o drawn bntierwltb It, using for It another copful of liquor strained, a tcaapoonful of butter, a tea spoonful of flour, salt, pepper, and. If prarible, i beaten egg. Boll two mtnutee. An old fowl me] ba made lender by putting It on In cold water ent cooking very slowly flfieeu minutes to the pound. Of coureo, the broth wtU be need for tho next day’i poop, Waxixo a FIDOS —To wax a floor properly Ural clean It with turpentine ao lhat not a ipcck dirt to left either on the surface or embedded tha expoeed pores of the wood. If Ihe wood rough we sometimes scrape it and give It a coat shellac to DU tha pores, when It la perfectly hard dry and amolh wo apply the wax In one or i waya, either hard or melted with turpentine. Ihe latter. It to laid on with a brush, left to dry two nr threo hours, and to then noltohed wKh brushes The wax uaed to common beeswax. Here to ona of the brushes, very large, flat, and made with very ■Uflr brialles. They colt H a pair, and are mado large, ao that If desired one of them can ha fixed under the foot by meana of a atrap. and tha pollah- Ing dona by waning the leg to aud fro. That war ,f V ‘‘— ■ ■— * * ‘ * ‘ of bu-hlng to employed In dry waxing, which i much the hardest, and requires most vigorous pol ishing. Dry wsxlng coats ebon t four limes at much aa the other and will last two or three times as Iona. In elther'caae the wax haa to be polished right Ho the grain of the wood. It will not do ‘ R ut oil on a waved floor, aa II will render the ~ tee gummy and sticky and nasty. If pro) dona, olllogmakes afloor nice, but never rot, as waxing, sod oca Is nearly aa much. Raw linseed oil mixed with turpentine for a drier to need The _ Livixo Iisl'i—Several of 1 Con sTlTt’Tioia'a householder! bi hit upon an interesting theme which at the same time a Hying Irene. It ia nothing leas than the question of woman’s peculiar fit ness for farming and the management of ag ricultural a (Taira. The broad assertion is made that women farmed never fail and they are more successful than men. The state ment is at least near the mark. Woman has done much in agriculture and thousands of Instances of her brnr e exertions could be cited. Mrs. J. W. Bryan of Lookout moun tain took numerous prizes at the cotton ex S ealtion, She is famous for her success. Miss . L. Howard of Dade or Walker county, we forget which, translated George Ville’s works on chemical manures, thus giving to agri culture a valuable book. Miss Fannie W. Howard,of Bartow county, has mode a splen did success at dairy farming. These three ladies are daughters of the late Charles Wal lace Howard, a noted agricultural writer, They have put hla theories into practice with wonderful success. Mrs. Wade, wife of the Jersey breeder, is one of the best informed women on cows and knowi the anperlor points of an animal as well aa any man. Mrs, John L. Hopkins is, ills said, the power be hind the throne on the judge's model place, Mrs, C. W, Mabry of LaGrange is noted as a grower of fine poultry, Mias Margie Calhoun right here in two miles of Atlanta has a large dairy farm, one of the hsndeomeat places anywbe.e, Mrs. Watkins in Jefferson county heals most of the men farmlngright straight along. There are hundreds and thousands of such eases, and Tub Constitution would like fo have a letter of experience from every brave woman who is engaged in this lau dable work. BtitrLiasxxss —As far back can remember I have been troubled with that distrestiug affliction, in ability to sleep. In my early childhood Inc- quired a habit of building air-castles as 1 watched the shadows made by the firelight in winter or the moon beama coming through the leaves Into my window on peaceful sum mer nights instead of going to sleep liko t good little girl as my nurse advised. Later my conscience often kept me awake for boura, and even yet it often troubles my sleep,Ifo pcnanco ever quite atoning for any wrong doing of which 1 am guilty. Now In addition many cares of family and vicissi tudes of dally home affairs serve to drive tired nature's sweat restorer from me, 1 have read many and various directions for pro ducing sleep without resorting to the use of narcotic drugs. But all of these remedies presume that any one can go to sleep if she will only exert her will to do so, end no ono seems to appreciate the situation of 'be little girl who complained that she could not go to sleep because her eyelids “lust would come unbuttoned." We are advised to fix our thougbls on a wide field of windswept wheat or a sea of foam-capped waves; or we most ilcture an immense Hock of sheep jumping n succession over a fence or imagine a lea floating down a winding stream miles and miles long. One very wise men gravely insists that a room ventilated and made quite dark will make anybody go tosieep if he shuts his ey and slops thinking. Who can stop thinking or earing byslmply willing to do an? What haa darkness to do with sleep? Moon and stars light nj> the resting places of outdoor sleepers. I would like some experiences on the anbjeet of how to go to sleep. I have found hot baths sometimes iovite sleepiness but even that agreeable remedy does not al ways keep fired eye-lidaupoa tired eyes long enough to transport one into the land of Nod. Claudia. Womsn as Fasmist.—I read A, H. B’a letter last week with L great deal of interest and I appreciate the troubles that the has bad lo contend with, I mean the real troubles that I could read or between the lines for I do not believe that A. H. B. haa all the trials that ahe paints to ua. Clearly to my mind A. U. B. ia jesting, She surely has not failed at farming. I have put my studying cap on and I cannot recall a ■Ingle instance of a woman who has failed as a farmer, I know of numberless widows who have survived the devastations of war times and poet-bellum hard times and not -one to far aa I can hear has been sold out by the eberiiT, and very few if any have beau sued. It i* characteristic of a selwiepemlent woman lo live within her Income, If the has little tha manages to get along wi'h little. Her •phare la ona of ultea and ahe husbands them well. A woman who ia dependent on her own exertion! wiil bear privation before •he will buy on credit and trust to chance to lay out. A farm income la made up of many illln things that are too insignificant for a man's attention,but that a woman will gather UP carefully. Site makes the most of every thing, that ia of any value about a place. In short aha rsalixas her eituatlon and adapts herself to it. Man ia too proud an animal to equal woman as a farmer, that ia the secret. See now If any ona can call to mind a woman farmer who baa failed. Mas. Haixx B. Lis” as to HtsaiSD#.— “Lib,” South Attleboro, writes a pleasant letter, agreeing with farmer’s wife in her esti mate of husbands, and confessing that the would not dare set a poor supper before her lord and preelde orer it in inch a pretty dress that he would feel compeneated for the ellm meal by feaitiog his eyas on her comeliness. ‘ Lib" has four little children and she promisee to tell tie how the manages them so aa to find lima to do all ber work except tbe washing. She haa a family of eight to care for and wait on. She wishes to know how long the yeast for tha three hoar bread will I eat. Let some one who has tried it give her experience. "Lib" describes the style ot housed rest which she hu adopted. She mokes a tight basque cut evenly round and comingjust over tha hip. A plain skirt w ith fire widths of calico in it ia then gathered on to the bazque with a email ettndirg raffia at tha top for a finish. Tbeea dresses are neat and becoming to any figure beside being easily made and no tronbla to iron. "Lib" alao tails us that the is careful to keep her hair nicely dona np and a clean collar and apron alwayi on. Wa coturned this sister u an ex- amplary housekeeper on the principle that strews show which way the wind blows and bops to hear from her often. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. Devoted to the Instruction and Entertain ment of the Boys and Oirli Who Read The Constitution. [In writing for this department, write plainly, en one side of yourpawr. and put "Our Young Folks" In one corner of yonr envelope.] Open Tour Tour Houih and Nhnt Eye*, nv CISALD siAuav. “Open your mouib and shut your eyes,” Three little maidens were saying. --And rea what Ood send! you!" Little they thought He listened wblle they were playing; go little we guerethat a light, light word At llmca may ba more than praying. "I," said Kata, wlib merry bluo eyes, ‘-Would have lots of frolic and folly;" "I." said Sue, with bonny brown hair, "Would have Ufa always smiling and jolly, “And 1 would have Just what Onr Father mar send”— Bald loveable, pale UtUe Folly. Life came for the two with sweetness new Every morning In glou and glitter; But Our Father above, In a gush ol great love, Caught np little Folly and kissed her. And the churchyard nesUcd another wee grave, The angels another weo sister. Wonder how many ot my little nephews and nieces have tried the game of “Shadow Buff” I sent them last week; and whether or not they thought it was a good one? Wouldn’t it have been funny if I could have stepped into one of your bousea, while you were playing, and let my alisdow fall on the sheet; and wouldn’t we have laughed at tbe mystification of the boy behind tbe sheet, trying to guest whose the “strange shadow" was? I think I'll have to send you a “blowing” game to begin this blustering month with! it will bare forfeits, or pawns, in lt;xnd I think I'll have to give you oneortwo new things for the boy or girl to do to redeem his pawns. I won'ttollyou how to do them though, so you can give them to the brightest boy or girl In the room end see if they can guess tbe way to carry them out Another time Till tell you some easy ones that won't require guess- ing. . N "Fly, Fsathsb, Fly."—All the chlldre- that ore going to take part in this game moat stand or ait in a circle aa close as they can get without crowding. Then let of them take a tnft of cotton c downy leather and let it float above the headsof the players, giving it a puff with bis breath; the person to whom it directs Hsclfin its descent uuitaiso blow it up and away. If it falls on him he must pay a forfeit. A dezen children playingthix garnn formavery amus ing group, andaa it oiten is very hard to laugh and blow at the same time, it sometimes hap pens that the feather finds its way down tbe throat ol the lauchlng blower, who of course psys a double forfeit lor bis fancy for feather diet. Now forthe forfeits. To redeem yonr forfeit' you muat piece yard of twine on the flooreothat two persons standing on itcannot touch each other. Put your ieftbandwhereyour right cannot touch Place aroso on the floor so that no one can jump over it. Measure on the wall tho height of a "atovo pipe” hat, from the floor. Thatwill do for this time, and I'll see how many of yon can do them. Ai'.vt Susix. Bias Aumt Rusu.-About five yean ago my an cle, E. Be«t>, (eve me a little lamb whose mother had died. I brought it up on a bottle, and named H Beck, and how many lambs and sheep doyou suppose 1 have raised from It up to this time? bare raised twenty-live. Psps to gqlog toglvo me two pastures Just for my sheep, they have Increased ■| fut. Last year I attended to two cows, fed and mllkt-I icm myrelf. and churned nil the milk. In one .oath 1 (old fifty pounds of butter for thirty canto .pound, and my cows were not Jerseys either. Next Urns I will tell about my chicken-. Yours Truly, Bztin Nicuotx. Gam Hprinss, Clarke County, Ua, Feb. IS. 1SSI Wo are so glad to near of your snectse with your sheep and cowa and hope you will write about your chickens. Why can't some of my little nspbews or nelces follow Bettle'n exsmplo and try ■heap raising and butter-making. Dial Aukt Susix—1 sm seven years old,and have never beau at school, but mama teach aa me at home. I love to read Tat Coxsmtmox. Uncle Remus and Bill Arpareso many and 11 has ao D IpianM P aome corn" but It looks Ilka It never wUl come up. Y'suis reepectiully. kllLYOM IlKABD, Byron, On . February 28th. Hava patience Millie. If your corn comes up loo soon "Jack Frost" will nip it. Dxai Acnt Busts—I’m so glad you havo a place for the children la your paper, and love to read their letters 1 am eleven years old and I go lo school every day. Tell Robbie M. I bave a pair of bantams, and I am going loss* If my lltua ban will not lay as many cg(l ns bla Plymouth rock I haves hearth rug to make. Can't soma of my Ittle "couilna” tell me how to make H? Your ■ - -lend, Asms Kitxiaaxw, en valley. Qa, February 27th. I8SI. You most not forget lo let ua know bow many when It rslnspapa haa tosend ns This to my first letter. Year little tut known friend. Inn O. Davis. Decatur, Ga.. February 25th. 1881. MILLIONS IN FLOUR. ftw.^ r ;^,,od oTZ m Wrire'n. your first let- THE ENORMOUS VOLUME OF THE FLOUR TRADE IN ATLANTA. tor Annie xod you mutt write again. piA. AUXTBuw»~f amalittleglrt twalreyou. I ,, r< cram. Werth Sold fin. AnanaUx- ola, my mothers only child, though I hare two | 0a# D## j gr sluing 100,000 Barrel*. Worth 1800,000-The Famous W«n* Mill*, of half brother’s (hat are both married. I goto school to Mia* Fryer, and like her ever so much. Cousin Lizzie and I get np and clean up our room end mama’s before we go to school, and I make the biscuit for mama every evening when I get home from school. Your little friend. Lin nix Carter Orchard TT1U Spalding Co., Ga.. Feb. 25th, 1881 Litchfield, 111.—Interesting Story. “Very few people know anything about thovo!- I ume of Atlanta's trade In any of its branches,’* remarked a leading dealer yesterday in the hear- , Annie. Di ar Aunt Susix.—I am a farmer's son and last year I made two bales of cotton, a hundred bush els of corn, and ten bushels of peas mywlf—wasn’t that Hsht good fora little boy? I go toacbopl and am learning fast. This is the first leter I ever wrote. 801 will make it short. Yours truly. J. Stvkb. Trickum, Whltfleld Co , Ga , Fab,,15 1884. That waa splendid and wa are glad to tee that you plant com and peas as well aa cotton. Dxai Aunt ei’six —I am a little girl ten years farmer’s daughter. I have two little broth* and two sisters. My brother Maynard and sis* Lizzie go to school. I went last year but I have to stay at home now and help mamma keep home. 1 have made fonr quilts. One of them la aa album qntlt, and one "the old lady's dream.' I have knit two pair of stockings this year. Your little friend, Lula R. CAwraxLL. Centerville, Gwlnnette Co.,Ga., Feb'y. 2*1,1884. You art lesrnli rood scholar alu dream to a ales way tbmskeaqullL Dias Aunt ButifL—I am a little girl ten yean and I live about eleven mllreln tha country, WMtolGtimn on Flint river. 1 haves nice lima fishing with my mother. Last week, while I was playlngln lha raid, 1 saw a buzzard flying with a bell on blm tingling Ilk* aihcep IreU. I wander whore he got the bell. kourUtfl. totond.,^^ rooks Station. Ga . February 2sth. lMt. aybe ihe buizerds had been having a funeral that ona was "the sexton that tolled tha “ Don’t you ihlnkso? Dbas AcavBuaix -lam a nuraetymen’a son and five miles north of Oilflln on the Central raD- road. Wa an aniline now. and bare graftad twenty ihoutandrcnihra. I saw a letter In yonr 'tom C. B. Thomai, Horrowi station. I wish dwrite toms. Jtnt* Frank turrit. it™!™ ork Frank? Doyou hare any Wen or plants ol yonrown? Dias Acer Sunt.—I Uka to read the yonng •a column. I think the way Freddie's tooth . pulled was funny. It Is Inst Uka boys—they _ ao afraid ol being hart. I was glad that lady that thought monkeys wan bettor than children We are glad to hear from little girlt that "help IngofaCoxsnTUIioxman. mother." 1 know you make nice btoculi. I "What doyou meant" tree atked. Dez. AUXT fu««.—lTTve written three letter. "Well. I hemd a man tay Just now •»»» »•>«£ lotto Home and Farm, but they did not think representative fora well-known floutlDg mil, who enough of me to publish them. I hope yon wU1 bo. be.dqu.rten in Atlanta, tell, annually over print thli one. If you do, I will write another. I WCOO worth of flour, every Invoice of which am not going to school now, but will this sum* I comes through the Atlanta agency.” TH«'w^ Mary V. Alford. This extraordinary speech rather earned the re* « "rf t *L“PahUah’.“‘ttftottoS’thMV/m- P"'“ t0 „^ ea “* He lhe He friend, write, so you must all try very hard to I who lhe flour mill man was. -rite very nice ones. I -That’s a nut for you fo crack," was (he reply ho *1? JouhAve'hough.of SWgtW inquiries* the young folka as well as Uncle Ben of the Home I bsma street wholesale grocer*, and'Farm. I liked that paper very well. But ’Ono! that’s a mistake; lb#re Isn’t any one man Unde Ben did not publish my letter last year and I *n AtlRato who tells 1800,000 worth of flour,” I* m failing oat with him. If you treat me that way ta Then e anotaer'man said, "your informant is aim* I'll take off my editorial harness and retire from I ply mistaken; he his Imposed on your credulity, the business. But mamma says you will be more m. j r avnnmrtrum considerate, and I think you will too, for all my I who i* manager of the southern office of th« g \Ving aunties are good, and you must be too or you would I Milling Co., of 8t. Louis and Litchfield, Illinois, not think of so many funny game* and atoriea for I was seen. _ ^ ^ „ ns. I think the "Old Miser” will be a good game I “Cau you tel! me something about the flour and I’ll play it I trade of Atlanta?” I'm a/aimer boy bntlcan do anything in the I "I don’s know. Wh boy or girl line. Mamma call* me "old maid” be* I out?" cause I like to do girla work. I've plecM up one I "What man in Atlanta sells the mo t floor?” a nlltandamonmy second ono now. When it 1*1 "Well, 1 suppose I sell twice as much as any other nlshed It will contain two thousand aud sixteen I man.” pieces- can any of the Ut’le boys my age (eight I "How much do you sell?" years) beat this? If so let blm send me his card I "Hare are my copies of invoices; they foot np for and we'll jrolnto copartnership and peddle quilts. I tbe month of February about f6'400.” Yours, Waltxr 8. Collin*, I "Does all this come through Atlanta?" West Point. Harris Co., Ga. February 25'h 1> :1, I "Yes: it is all sold through the southern office of M, e are much obliged to you for your good opin* I our mill ” and will try and be good to you. You won't I "What will your yearly sales amount toV” —fbody that will beat you making quilts; I . "They will push 11,000,000, but I told a friend to* . haps Lula Campbell will send you the pat* I day that they would go over 1800,000." tern of one of her’*. I "I heard about it on the strneL" "A little girl nine years old," from Heard, Ga., I "Well, I didn't expect it to be talked about" wrote us a very nice Jittlo letter but she forgot to I — —- * *'gn her name, aod we do uot know who it Is from. I Write again, please! I "That's rath*r a hard question to answer Let’s — I see a moment." Here fur. Tollcson pnt some fig* How UXCLE Tom Ran Away -It wave rainy o'* »»>lp of paper. Tuen. resuming bis talk, #nf a —-.a- wi t wxswl "M®• In all braDchOf, counting that sold afurnoon and my six-year old nephew aud I were I tbrou/h brokers and dealers, there cannot be less sitting on tho rug iu front of the fire. Frank was than 15.000,COO worth of flour told here.’ stretched out at full length on the soft white fur. I !}!» h i l iurft^p?. 8 *£. e L♦ ■ L iu my own particular chair, ml p.Uzntly fStoto oS! awaiting the request for "a story,” which I know I and wo sell it over six stales. It is ui.qutstionably would be very sure to come sooneror later. I ““ Make it a real true one, auntie, planting bis chin in bis brown hands, straight into the burning coals. "When your Undo Tom and I were children.* I glvenYts phenomensl suroiuS.~If iUuTbeenoniy L/Cgan I, slowly, ”wo were ever such good friends: I equsl to the best It might havo sold as other flours and althniffh T •m#lffhtTr»r*ntdrr!h»n hn wn I fel1 ' when erer T UOUSewlfe that trlOS It U Ob- and although I am eight years older than be we were I j| IC4 j t0 Mn /<. H tlsat it is the bestshe haa ever used, always together. My pleasure was never real un* I you cau roadily ice that its sales will go way beyond leu Tom shared it too. Taffy was never sweet nor I * h ® °f. “X other G^r. The Perfect Pastry __ ,.-1,.. mw I Patent haa had a wonderful ruu. \\ bile It Is a flour my present! goofl unlenTom had some, half my I nos no equal on the market, and can stand t^lt* was always saved for him. I on its own merits anywhere, it has been in the very But sometimes Tom’s temper got the bettor of best hands here, and that has had much to do with him, aud when provoked—but wait a little and I its general Introduction.^" ahall see what happened to your big Unde I "What mills do you represent?" T manage tbe southern office o( Litchfield, 1111* “ CreMaM... flour men knowit. By tblil mean that it is a higher p, horaia at last, I grade of flour ahd it is finer In quality than any ands.and gazing | other. It Is the very best that can be done with the very belt wbca», by the very best machinery, regardless of cost. Nothing but this could have w hat Is the cspsdty of the mills?" •Nearly 700 000 barrel! a year, or over 2 000 barrels dally. This immense quantity of Hour I* worth over $4X0.,000 at wholesale, or over $5,000,000 at Tom for letting his temper run away with him. "Ono afternoon—a cold, cheer' like this, dear—I sat looking out .iau poor little meadow lark that stood shivering and wet on tho edge of the porch, I lion called Tom to look too, but when 1 turned to see if he waa emu lug. and not knowing he was so near me, I acci dentally struck him in the face with my dbow. • "Horrid, awkward thing, growled Tnm; and I „„ received a blow from his strong little flit which l I Pastry Patent?' am sorry to *ay was not sodden tol. Mother h*d -o a , yes; we make all grades. The Neptune juftenme in and the saw the whole tcene, 8he I brand, which wo sell at other points ts the same made Tom sit alone ona sofa, away from the win- | quality a* tne Perfect Pastry, aod has just as great dow and the bird, till he should grow good natured I a isle. In Georgia, though, the Perfect Pastry leads again. But Tom was not to be soothed ia any such everything el*o. It is our best patent aud is the way, for he wsj really angry. I very purest flc.ur i-oatlb e to obtain from wheat, and "•Horrid, awkward old * Vi —" v - --•*—* • v •—* ** again botween bis houso with such a I'll ruu away to-night,'he added in a loud voice, I are also very popular. Intending to attract my attention and thinking to I "Wnat state* do frighten me. . I mills?" " • What’s'that,' mid mother, ’runaway from "Georgia. Alabama, Florida. Tounessee, North home, and to night?’ and uouth Carolina " Bore Sir. Tolleson picked Yea. and I am going off right now if Jen don 11 uo his great pllo of Invoices. They nnmoort d sev- say she is sorry.’ oral hundred, and amounted to about $C0,000, or •Very well,’ said mother, looking at me, and I nearly 8.000 barrels for the month of February soeing no Hips ^_of repen tance j alone. Of course this will not be the heaviest you control for the Wing f*OB. know ..w». .*« * allow’[ month.but tho trade will averago considerably no ono la my nouse to tell a lie, so 1 suppose 1 must I more thau this every mouth In the year. Contin* say'good bye’to you, Tom • ulng. Mr. Tolleson said: "Upstalra to his room, directly overhead, wen I "Wo supply nearly all of Charleston with flour the angry \toy. We heard him shake his long-saved I direct from our mill. One house there buys and pennies out of his Un bank; heard him pull out I mJU twice a*much aaany houso here. Then 1 sell* the bureau drawers, and then all was still, tilliMsa* largely in Mobile, Jacksonville, Savannah; Au* tor Tom. flushed, angry, yet calm, trampol down I gusta, Montgomery and other places. Nashville is the rtalrs. He said,‘good bye' toall the family, I probably my best market, though the general except me, and started in out the wind and min. I flour trade of Nashville Is not much 1 shall never forget how forlorn the little fellow I if « U y more than Atlanta's." looked as he walked down the path from the home I Mr. Tolleson to a young man, not over twenty* to the barn. An immense umbrella, old and Urn. I fonry»arsofage.and it 1* a high compliment to have he tried to hold over him with one hand, wblle in ( the management of such an extensive btulnen in the other he held a bundlo containing bis last suit I his hands. He travels two sslesmen at his own ex- of clothe*, clean shirt and his pennies No over* I pense, and ba* tho entire confidence of bis at. Louis cost had be, no rubbers, and only an old straw hat I house His Atlanta office isslmply a branch of the which ho had pulled down over nis eyes. I Ht. Louts bouse, and handles ail the correspond* Bang! went the front door after him. Oo-oo, I enc* of Jhe tlx states named above, roared the wind as it followed him. Splash! came | YestettUy ooe of his salesmen te>en down the rain through his tom. worn umbrella; I for 875 barrels of flour, worth about and even the grim, tall cypres* trees swayed their orders are coming in constantly, and the trade Is dripping topi over the path as he passed, as though grouieg to really enormuus proportions. All the they would send down an extra shower on poor | shipment* for these different flours are made d!< Tom's head _ . _ a . . I rect from toe Litchfield mills to the dealer. al< "Boon It grew dark. Bat no Tom returned. | though copies of invoices come from Of wum none of us thought be would really go | the St. Louis office to Mr. Tolleson at Atlanta, in order that he may traci * ' ~ * * should happen to be delayt i— — m; ;— 7 -~ . "I wish you would say,"r .’Boor Tom!’I thought: ‘Its all my fault, every as tho reporter got up to bit of It;’ and although 1 waa fourteen year* old and I made tho largest purchase of strictly No. 2 wheat considered myself quite a woman, I began to cry . I the other day ever made by any millers in this "But suddenly, much to my Joy, I heard Tom’s | country." step on the porch. 1 wasabouttorushouttomcet I "How much was it? blm when my mother stopped u •• 'No, child,’ ahe said firmly. That minute the front door boll rang—thon it waa not Tom after all, 1 thought. a ‘'Mother went to tho door, and there Indeed waa "218,000 bushels." THE BUSINESS WORLD. '°0^ srciinV ms'deme. Will yon be**2&ndi‘uS h wrek 0B Jf 1 lSS*lkd !Tm£?th!£& coml ness to tell mo the shortest way to B—-?" I l! n th.' 5 nSS "Wo were, then Uvlug at AMenvood, ia the A 8 ??* J5 1 *. “HA? ft® »nWd b^.’wS* &*sssnjua i * “Oh! certain^, mother said. Take the first read I wpondln* week of to the right. B— is threo miles from the turn-1 ' W "* ' -v,—m— — - — i whose caDltal was under 15 000. *Th.nk yon, madsme. came the answer from U ,rit,uUr ' 10 Tom's proud lips; but bis moist eyes said plainly: I Au*®** * n “• “»*• JJJF ■ *1 m so sorry, mamma. J Bpringville—L. C. Moiclsnd, general store, sold He lifted np his hat once more and walked! ont andlclt town. Liabilities 14,000; nossrcls. calmly down the porch, off tbe stepe into tbe I okoxoia. dark garden and among the moaning cyprtn AOanta-J. J. Baker, general store, offers 40 "Ob. mother, mother,how could you!” I »ob- **Atlinta-John MUler St Son, stair buUderx, bed, no longer ashamed of my tears. Tom will I foiltd. d l ~1, ^ j.,.., I Augusta—Richards & Little, general afore, as- with 1883. About 85 small traders riuuuu iu, ..a k.- I * • worry, for jiuw. ue nai ioiu out do nnihlng but think how I loved Tom. snd how I sli bis iwu to his letter tt-lsw, J. J. Bredenberg, lonely It wss without him end how dreary he I to prouct hlsowncredltoissssgslnst the ludorse- muii bo feeling. . ... . I meats. "But another boar bed ticked lie slow way rontd f w n.iis the clock before we hestd ttosn stops on the porch I £•*J; ®“*!h-“ocs. ^*!iSSSK2 ssstn- Then iho bell rang sgsto, ss before. Thfi J , Dirien-.NsthsnJscobson, general store, closed by time I smut to the doorw’.th mother. Tom stood I ,n i"5- „ .... there. Hls hst wss gone-hU umbrella too—hU | frowsy hair was wet end hU hands purple with I ; PotttjMmtln A Allts,gmisrsl rtore.mort- I gen s men fitly cento yesterday that booght I “J££J N - H “* hM '*roceries end liquors,receiver ““•Wfflyou Semo P Khereto-ulghtr asked Tom. . J ' *“ e "* ,Wte ' «*«*• tanWf JSSnlre" 4 be 00011 '' ,0 ’ ,ed m °"‘ er “* Lh-W. D. Wsples. rice. IUM •• -No.’ mother replied; 'we don’t take In tramps I xoktr casouxa. hde. Perhaps they woald st Nichols’ across lhe I Jsckson-D. A. Jordan, drugs, failed. LlsbUl- roed.' I ties about II,COO. " 'But,' mid Tom, hU Ups trembUng, 'I—l—lore I Rocky Mount—Thomu ft Hart, general store, ss- you.' I signed. Llsbllltlcs 120,001. • "Molh'r's llpe trembled, too. -Theft s very Turnpike—J. C. Bmstheia general itore, aligned, strsnge thing for setnngs men to eey.totse Wbst I l.lsbUltlexllfi,C00; nseeti 113000; no preferences, < lo you mean' sir?’ end tnen somehow ihe shat the I H" his s brunch st WsynesrlUe, door tn poor Tom's face. Wsirenton—W, J, Norwood, general store, rc- "Ohl ah!"broke In Frank. “How conld she do I ported ssslgnsd. it? How coaid yon let her, suntle? It was Just I Windsor—W. B, Leigh, general store, failed, moaner than—Oh. auntie, hov mean it was!" I *ouni Carolina. But by that lime mother had gotten back Into ths I Bzmwcll-G. W. Bosweil * Co., general store, sltungtoom end Into her chtir, locking eo pete 11 turned over etock to mortxege. begin tound.nund ttstihe wseglrlngherdsil-1 Blockvllle—W. J. Msrtfii, general store, obtained Ing boy s letun. Bat she nearly broke my heart extension. . . ss well ss Tom's end her own In doing It. I Gilbert Hollow—'W. E. Crawford, general store. Eight o'clolk come end with It fsltcringly, alow I reported felled, ly cams Tom's step In the porch. He rang the bell | Langley-Alexander Cranston, general store, bnt It only tinkled feebly. Thli time we ell | mortgageforecloncd. cKentle, general store. would yon-wonld yon let me come In end worm | “ y poor Utile bends? I sm—Jennie, I sm so sor-1 In s mlsnte, in s second, Tom wss folded In I "Tzoant Plesssnt-WUUsms fit Ricketts, dings, mother's emu. sobbing, repentant, wet, draggled— I tailed. Uxbunica >t 500: assets tt.cw. kU.bUldss 11.000; s J KnaxTtlU—J. I ssslgnsd. nL "I think "No, 1 think mother wss ths 'Mick.' ss you say. t least sit she ever had to dost ter that ts 'db- klulnWlde Awake. hsCuir Mato. Cincinnati Commrrdal Gaastto. Conirtsstsiimuiaqatrstats ao thn subject of pensions 'Efforu are being mads to lemlon nearly .very body who was alive daring any of our wars. Tbe pension bills Introduced by ocamemberof congress would. If pemsri. cell let over two hun dred million, ot dollars, end Ire Is not s very p:om. meat candidate for ths presidency cither.