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12 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 188L : ~TWELVE PAGES. i I * r ? "Kr rtbnr.ii v/ 1 . x... ??? THE WOMAN???S KINGDOM The Home and the Housewife and Gossip of the Hearthstone???Talks With Women and About Women. [Short Letters 011 home tonics earnestly solicited, Write ???Woman???s Kingdom on one comer of the envelop.] An Irish Fairy Htorj. ???Good mother, from your wayside hut, Wise with your ninety years, Tell me a fair}* story???but First wring out all the tears; For I am hurt beyoud ??he skill Of leech, hurt with a knife That seems, in sooth, but slow to kill??? Good mother, hurt with life!??? ???My lady, sure you are but sad, Yet it's a merry day, I'm not too wrinkled to be glad (And you are not yet gray.) It's long, ioug yet I hope to live, For God Is good. I'm told, And life's the best He has to give; I'm thankful to be old. ???Yes, Gi??d is good, 1'in told. You see I cannot read. But, then, I can believe He's good to me, He is, aud good to men. They say he sends us sorrow, too, Tho world would be too sweet To leave, if this should not l*c true; ('The world tho moth can eat.) ???Ho keeps my little cabin there Safe when the sea winds blow, When I was young He let me wear Upon my check a rose; Aud then i*. was he sent a youth, The handsomest, you'd own, On all the fris|^coast. ... In truth It???s much I???ve lived atone. ???My lady, since that long, black night His fishing boat went down; My boy that kept my heart so light Had work thegp in tho town; A lovely boy; such gold-like hair, All curls;''???(Her eyes grew dim)??? ???Christ keep him. Ho Is ???inlet there With daises over him.'' She hushed and turned to go Inside; An eartheu floor, ah, me; A heap of straw (the door was wide) Was all that 1 could sec. Yet on the little window, low, A bright geranium grew; ???That's for my boy, he loved them so, Ho loved these thrushes, too." ???Good mother???sure, but things go 1)1 In our poor country. Yet ??? ??? Jlo gives me bread aud shelter still, It's mo He'll not forget." We parted, for the light was low; I turned and lookod around; Lord of us all! can hearts ease grdw In such a plot of ground? ???Mrs. 8. M. B.l'lnttln the Manhattan. Aik ok the Boors.???It seems almost incred ulous to read the accounts in northern papers of the craving of tho crowded populations ol the city for fresh air. Those who cannot go io the seasido or in the park, throng tho shady side of tho streets in tho afternoon, and enjoy the brightnosa of tho avenues in tho coed eve nings. But there aro thousands who, for ono reason or another, oannot resort to the streets or avenues for air, and to gratify tho longing that is in them for it they go on tho roofs of their houses. Whero the roof is flat there in often aeon in crowded tedemont districts quite amusing and interesting scenes. A reporter of the Herald writes an account of a spectacle he witnessed a few evenings since. He says: ???It was about five o'clock. Tho sun waa de clining in the weat, and a delightful breezo awapt over the housetops. Almost every roof in sight had ita little group, thirstily drinking In the coveted air. On one a father and mother???not very young and plainly very poor???were reclining against tho slope that backed dp the cornice. A child of eighteen months or so toddled and crept about them, playing joyously with tha breese which blew ita short flaxen hair into ita eyes, TUv mother bft<l tied tome sort of long band about tho in- 'tint's waist, and held the end to koep it from wanderiug into dangerous awucm to the edge of the roof. On tho next roof to thia three or four young girls just in their teens, were playing an animating game of ???tag" at the imminent risk of breaking their necks, while their elder sisters on the next roof con* ducted a flirtation with a couple of young tueu under the shelter of the ehimney. Some older women, perhaps their mothers, were holding a grave gossip on another house, amt some mischievous boys on another, lay just peeping over the parapet iuto the street, and apparently from time to time dropping lumps of coal, of which they had a store near by, on the heads of the passers by." 8uch scene* would indeed be a novelty to a southern, per son, for even in our cities there is no need to resort, to such measures to obtain the coveted prize. If there were half, nay I may say a quarter of the beautiful parks among ns that our northern frieuds have, we would be a ,*??|W pto r U' Thcrt Ih. mvro ???ll taken by our city fathers u?? bur parka and placet for outdoor recreation. There should be fountains, and flowers aud everything doue to make the places attractive for our young people, and for mothers with their puny babies who have no opportunity to go from their homes in summer. H will not only add to the pleasure, but health of our communities. Horn and There. Wins??????Bo try those peaches. James; you can't Imaftue how murh richer ihsy are since I've made them over." James (who has recently tried atuck raisins in Wall street)???"It that's the case I wish you'd make me over. How Conn Shk????"My lore," said a yonn* man to his wife, "I notice that a lady in England haa just talleu heir to ffi.OOO.OOO." ???All lu cash?" was the business-like reply. "No; in real estate. What would you do It you had such a stroke ol luck?" "Well, darlluf, I don't know certalnlv, but I think I would mortage the property aud buy me a a print bonnet. Ix Cauroa*ia among the vineyards they have a great demand (or turkeys; they want them to range in the vliu yards aud retch the slugs that are attacking the vines. They And the turkeys an excellent hand at the business. They would hire men and set them at the work, but a sufficient force is not attainable when needed. But the turkeys do the workneeriyas well as a man, and while retching the worms is earning his owu food. G annex sings a ben they become a nutoanre, may oaaily and safely bo abated. Distribute pretty liberally over the garden flat pieces of atone or bits of slate or zinc. At nightfall put n little bran on oarh fragment, and soon tho slugs win coma out from among the plant* aad abrabAo feed upon the bran. When ft to dark go out with a lantern and a paO containing some strong brine aad remove the slug* from the bran baited nr frees and place them In the pail where the salt I Is to takeone pint of,milk, one-fourth box gelatine aud water soon will dispose of the pests. I whites of six eggs and one pint cream; Dissolve Wages, on waHm etc. .rc very <Mh- 1W ' : ???'"V ? ??? ???T' lon.bl.Ja.tnow. but one hu J??,t occurrcdwbtcb l '??? D uke ??? 1Ik 1 ln,, ??? ,e " I. Homcthing new. M. Pirn. . pUnLtbu T'"* t ??? * Kt??Uoe ??nd put on undertaken to piny tbc pi.no In the lion'. ??,c In "? kJ,m * " ule un,U * el ??? ,no Pcio.,'. menagerie, Purl., and be l??c bl. bet II "???"/???.T' *?? ?????': BwM f ??? hi. ploying betray, any token, of agitation or to. S? ItYJEY T*"" " hlp ??? chu ???',??? h ?? n ofhl.cu.tom.ry rang hold. Ite.cem. to lenvo ^'???hcwhlte.olyoureint.bc.teuto..tlfriroth. ol account the powlblllty ol the lion, *???* be '?? re ,rcMlD * ml * ?? !1 l0 *' lh " ???<?? i freeze, etc.??? Mx??. H. T. Athens, Ga. Our Lettera. Improvising a finale of their own to one of his price*. M. IMrn discusses Chopin and Beethoven, Pezon will put the lions through their exercises. Ix IlxnF.Ri.vo a decision In a divorce case not | The poetry sent by "Ignoramus" 1* quite good, long since, where the ground alleged wasdesertion I but we have not room In our columns this week by the wife, the Judge said; "Home may be un- for It. Don't know whether It would be well to set pleasant; there may be unexpected toll; there | music or not. may be hardships too much for a weak or a sens!*1 live nature to bear; there may be neglect that I MV0A * Valley.-I am a farmer's daughter, nnd wounds deeper than a serpent's sting; there may I **??? * cr Y J* ,uch * home 1* on * delight- be broken promises that turn all anient love of I ful ??? rni an ?? 1 ???* ve everything around me to e??rly wedlock lo unrelenting h.tctycl neither one | ????? e me ????<1 happy. I am very fond nor all ofthcselssufllcieDt to constitute a legal excuse for a wife to leave her huibaed.' A Youxo Gentleman In a street car rose and gave up his seat to a lady, and his chum, who occupied the next scat, tendered him a position of flowers and have a great many around Will some one give me some Idea on fancy work 11 will be so glad to learn something new. Ella B. C'ataita, Ha Kris County, Georoia.???I would on hi.???knee??? which Vie' ??I??i.red. They chiiied I Jj k<! howmueh I like The Cotwtjtotkh,. pleasantly, and were riding along when the car I ! h , ,l 7 10 , 1 P*P er I have ever seen, shipped aud a pretty young lady entered. The I ** x papers and felt he could foree of habit was too strong for the young man. I a J*????? * n y more but feeling sure I could not . He forgot h?? was nueomfortly perched ou his I tt * ou * without It, I joined a club, gotten up in our friend???s knee; and, jumping up gallantly, said iu I ne tehborbood, and nowget tho Weekly. We take his most persuasive tone; "Take my seat Miss." I Toleda Blade and I enjoy the articles on social Lightning shot from the fair one???s eyes, and the I ??Hlquette. Will you please publish in the rests of the passengers hurled their faces In their I" W????***'* Kingdom" Hood???spoem In which oe- bandkercbelfs or looked out of the window. The cur thc Hne?????Pick Her up Tenderly," etc. I will be friend, however, settled the matter by vacating | b?? admitted Into the "Kingdom" and will the scat, and peace was restored. I ???*?? tn Y best. I would like to hear from ???Daisy 1 expect there are but few ladles In this country I . Maths 1. 1 that have not heard of Worth, the celebrated man I Go* vers, G a.???Dear Household???My little boys dressmaker of Paris. His large and fashionable es- I ftrc always delighted with The (Institution ; tablishnietit Is In the Hue do la i'alx, and Is the I "boost seem* like Christmas to them when emporium of tho fashionable world. It takes a I co,nea * Wc ought all to be more "interested small fortune to have one dress made by Mr. I * ucbM enterprise and write more ourselves Worth, yet there are thousands of ladles who arc I encourage each other. I am now In tho midst willing to give half their husband's year salary to I blackberry gathering, w*ould like some of the have a dress made by this great artist. He makes I household to give me a good recipe for blackberry almost all hlx fashions. He employs about seven I w * nc * I notice some one writing ou fashions; I hundred workwomeeti, comprising cutters, fixers, I hope they will give occasionally a few dots on trimmers, embroiderers, skirt makers, sleeve I ,K, y*. Mill* my lot to have a good many. I think makers???four hundred in tbchouseand three bun- I ^ would be well for us to write on different sub- dred outside, beside many trimming makers, etc.. I J^ts, it would furnish variety, which is the spice who work ludercctly for them. Worth says women I Dfe. bet u * ??R "P*rc a few moments from our will not accept a fashion Just when It is shown to I borne dujle* to write these letters. It will give us them; they prefer to have what they have been ac-1 loving hearts and draw us nearer to each other, customcd to for years past, and it is rather dlfli-1 A. G. C\ cult to make them understand that they must try change their habits. He says he once made an OUR YOUNG FOLKS. Devoted to the Iiiitruction and Entertain, merit cf the Boys and Girls Who Read The Constitution. (in writing tor tlil.dcpartment. write [.'..inly,... one ride of younmper, and put ???Our Young folks' iu one comer of your envelope.] Our Letter liox. Dear Aunt Susie; I received ten cents from tie boy nine years old, of Farmlngtou, Ga., who sent it to aid little Willie Smith's education. He made it by watching wheat. His name is Boy O. Marablc. I am very thankful for it, and I reckon Willie Smith is, too. . Yours, Daniel W. Green. Constitution Office, Atlanta, Go. Feminine .Anility. entirely new style cloak that was peculiar looking. I From tho San Francisco Kxumlncr. The first season he only made twy or three of these I Did you ever see a girl trying to climb a fence? cloaks. What a peculiar thing It Is, said each lady I It I* more of a show than a circus with a white- when she saw it for the first time. ???I shall never I washed elephant. This is the way she does it: wear a cloak like that." But thc???ucxt season they I "be looks around to find out whether any sold from two to three hundred of them, aud three I body is In sight. Then, If tho coast is clear, she years later every woman you saw In tho^treet* had I puts oho foot otr tho second rail of the fence and i, and all tho second rate establishments put I look! around again. Then she gives a little hop them forward os novelties. Usually when tho I ??'??<! K??ts her other foot up on the second rail, Paris season closes, a quantity of clothing remains I Here she stop* for n moment to rest and straighten which is sold at a reduced price and shipped to I ber hat. America, whero It Is sold again os a novelty the I The next maneuver Is thc critical onc-to get following year. | one foot up over thc top rail. She steadies herself for u moment, then gives a quick little upward kick that does not quite reach the mark, but Handkerchief* with colored embroidered I caUM- ber to Jump down on tho ground again borders In crimson and bluoare worn with morn- I w bh 11 Bny scream and tuck her clothes in all lug toilets, fastened iuto the belts, so as to form a I nro,,,, d her. Again she surveys thc surrounding sort of rosette. I country and again hops up on the second rail. I This time she Is Imldcr nnd throws her foot clear ' ounu i.Atuxs do not now wear largo bunches of I j 0 jjje top of tho fence, where It catches by tho flowers at their bosom or belt. The latest style Is I heel on the tap rail. It is now or never with her a single rose on the shoulder or three In a row dl-1 then???something must bo done instnuter. Grasp- ngonally across the breast. I j???g t j, e | 0 p ra || with all her might sho pulls her- Toilettes of black or cream surah silk, nun???s I * cir t,n "bo sits astraddle of the fence, with the veiling or albatross cloth can bo made to serve I kndscape spread out beneath her like a map. If double purpose by liclug changed and varied by I anybody appears In sight she Just drops ofT the tho Judicious appricatlon of two or more sets of M enc ?? ^ she hud been shot, and gathers herself these handiomo adjustable accessories. I U P when she gets there. ?????? I If tho coast continues dear, she proceeds In Black and wiiitk plaids nre vory much worn for I very leisurely manner to get dowu on the other street dresses by young people. The plaids come I gidcof the fence. First, she turns around, faclug In all sizes, from the small pin head that looW like I tho way she came, and feels backward with the gray at n distance, to tho large sbepard plaid. Ifoot which is already over tho fence for .a good There dresses are vory pretty and appropriate for I * t eady, reliable rail. Having found such a rail, outdoor wear aud when worn with long tail gloves I *i 1( < plant* herself upou it and sets to work to get ami a black and white hot, nothing prettier could I tho othertoot over thc fence, be asked for. But unless one cun aflonl to have This Is a very difficult and embarrassing piece many difliuent dresses it Is wisest not to got one 0| I of strategy, and a good many girls will sit on tho the large plaids, as it swu becomes conspicuous. J ;o p vi a fence half a day before they will attempt Ties and 8ASllER.-On7^f tho prettiest and most will even stay there till a horrid man graceful acceasortes to summer toilettes aro frlugcd I corac " ???'bmg and lifts them oil. Not so the truly ties ami sashes. They come In rerloui widths and I courageous glrl-she who fruo more afraid to lengths, aud all tints aud rich hues, with charm- cl,mb ft f ????? co 1,mn ?? ln the ** mc roonl with ??? ing combinations in Homan stripes and moorish mousetrap. She will never give up the foit till colonit I ???be gets otr that fence lu thc ancient aud hgnora- On ehlldten the wishes aro arranged about or bo* I hie manner of her sex. low the waist Hue and knotted or tied In a large | She grasps the top tail ami Irens am far hack as bow at aide or In buck. Again the sash is tied atl her arms will allow, and then triea to coax the renter in large rosette knot, which is secured on I refractory limb over after her. Alas! It is too the left shoulder of the child, and the ends are |lon*,ana??h??Jttmpabtck astraddle, with a little then passed diagonally across body, back and I bwglb and tucks her skltta around her again, front, aud fastened, Highland fashion, under thc I brief test, she tries another wrinkle. She right arm, or the arrangement la reversed and thc I Ure down flat on her face on the top rail, and tries renter of tho scarf Is under the right arm, while [??> Mlde off sideways, as she has often seen her lit* the ends fall loosely from knot over the left shoul* | Mo bMther do. der. ????*carfs put on In this tnauncr arc worn by I This would bo all well enough, and would place ???mall lads in kilts, as well as by young girls and I bcr 0,1 lorrm flrm * lf * ho "???'y lm ???* tbe cour- misses. There sashes are called Newport tips. I *** ?? rr r out hor Intention. But Just as she Is I tulles utilise those Newport tire In many ways I about "??P otr t Pallid fear seize* her. She to their own adornment. Some wear them simply I * cro * m ??* rl ibt?? up. and straddles tha fence once passed about the neck and (fed in a large bow lu I more - front at thtcat. or at the end of a Van Dyke of I This kind of thing continues for five or ten min- ???carflblds over bust. I utes. Th en the lair acrobat hcglna to get wrathy. ?? ??? I ghc looks at the ground, only three or four feet HouneholilJHtntx. I away, and makes up her mind she will reach It Ink Stains on a tablecloth may l*c removed if I *???? # wn y or #he bxve to, sometime, milk I* applied the moment the Ink is split and I the spot lUtarWard wMhed. X Nevada woman prefffitd eggs by brrekiug them aud putting their Contents Into a bottle, which she tightly corks and seals, after which they are placed iu a cellar, neck down. She claims the contents of the bottle come* out as freah as when put iu. It ts not generally known that codec placed upon lu??t coals or upon a hot plate the flavor arising is oue of the Moot, eflectlve. aud at the unc time agreeable disinfectant. If no heat is obtainable, even the spreading of ground cortec on the object to be disinfected is most satisfactory. IT hmnu Hau z.???Beat to a white ctvam a cup of butter aud two cupa of pow??lere??t ??ttgar. Add one at a time the unbeaten white* of two egg*. Then stir in slowly quarter of a csip of boiling water, heating all the time. Set the dish til a bowl of hot water and stir to a froth. Ip a uoose that is to be roasted is allowed to He In a deep pan with cold water over It, in which a tablrapoouful of zoda Is dissolved all the oil can be scraped out oi the skin and the coarse flavor which is greatly objected to may be entirely re moved. The goose must tint be perfectly cleaned by rluslug with clear, cold water. Cits xkd EtioV???Boll six eggs twenty minutes, make one pint * ream mure. Have six altre* of toast on a hot dish. Put a layer of sauce on each one and then part of the white* of the egg*, cut in thin stripe; rub part of the yolks through a sieve on the toast. Repeat this, and finish with a third layer of the mure. Flare In the oven for about three minute*. Garnish with pandey aud serve. Fkixcrs* IVdpixo.???Nook for an hour in a pint of cold water one box Fox's gelatine, aud add oue pint of trolling water, one pint of wlue, the Juice of tour lemous and three large cups ful of sugar. Beat the white* of four eggs to a sUiT froth, and stir into the Jelly when it begins to thicken. Four into a large mould and ret ln a cool pUre or lee water. When ready to serve, tuns out as you would Jelly, only have the pudding In a deep dish. Four one quart of boiled custard around Hand aerve. lot CngAM.???The my nicest redpt for Ice cream flo th$ settles her hat on her head with a deter- Valued look, steps lock on tho reliable rail, and with a mighty cflbrt draws back ber other loot to the very edge ol the top rail, like an srclteir draw ing an arrow to the head. Oh. if It only were not for that From U heel she would be free. Bnt. alas, it holds her there with the dull persistency of fat*. A look of terror and despair comes over her countenance: her eyes stick out Kfce button*. Sho give* a quick backward leap and let* go. What surprise, What delight! Hhe And* henelf alighting, right aide up with care, on thc soft turf wllh*>ut re touch as a feather Jostled In her hat. She enn't imagine how it happened so. 8h?? fully expected to be picked up a complete wreck and retried tl-mus to die among ner sorrowing friends. But up* that stje U really safe and sound upon tho drarVdd earth again, she looks up with unspeaka ble gratitude to the clear blue sky; Urea brushing her skirt* aud beating them down so that they wilt hang straight, she vow* that should she ever have occasion to go cross lota again aho will chbrr go in a balloon or else have a young man along to pull dowu the fence. CrOHHii> About Women, Woman to the masterpiece.???Confuclu*. Woman to the crown ol creation.???Herder. Women teach usrepore, civilly and dignity.??? Voltaire. Au. that I am my mother made me.???John Quincy Adams. Women are a new race, recreate since the world received Christianity.???Breeher. It is only necessary to grow old to become more Indulgent 1 see no fault committed that I have not commuted myself.???Goethe. A Negro Sunstrack. Darunuton, 8. C, July 21???(Apodal.)???A wl oral preacher named Camming*, was sunstnsck near this place last Monday, whilst working on his dwelling. He rennot get well, tho do* bus say. This to one of the few reaea of a negro being fatally injured by the sun. HU adamantine skull l?? usually thought lobe proof against tho ana???* fiercest raj*. Dear Aunt 8usic: I am 0 year* old and have made two quilts. I help mama darn aud do other lit- tlo things. I'apa has a pottery aud works convicts. Every afternoon my little sister and 1 go down and see them make pipes, flower pots and a great many pretty thlugs. Grandpapa takes your paper and will be glad to see my letter. Your little friend, Ivexe Stevens. Stevens Pottery, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am a farmer???s daughter, and live near Wards, Ga., in a pleasant home. I with some of the cousins would write to me during va cation. Yours truly, Emmie Crittenden. Wards, Ga. Dear Aunt Husle: We think The Constitution to a good puper. I cun sew on thc machine and cr chet. Will some one solve this riddle: Flour of Virginia and fruit of Spaiu, Met together in a shower of rain; Fut ln a bag, tied round with u string, If you solve this riddle I'll give you a pin. Your nclcc, Linnik Carter. Orchard Hill, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 7 years old and live In the mountains. I go to school, help mama cook and sister milk, and play on thc organ. Pupa is postmaster at Boy, and takes The Constitution. I have a little dog uamed Fldo. Your little friend, Nettie Smith. Roj*, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: We nre 12,9 nnd 7 years of age. Our father to n fanner and we help him work In thc fields, and carry dinner to the hands every day. We take The Constitution and like it very much. Yours truly, John, James and Edward Jackson. Mulbcry, Ark. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 14 years old. Wo have vacation now and I help do tho housework and piece null to. I can play on the accordoon. One of my cousins wrote you a letter. I wish sho would write to me. Your friend. Ida Jackson. Mulbery, Ark. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 11 years old. I don't go to school now. My father to dead. We live thir teen miles from the railroad. My uncle takes The Constitution and I like it very much. Your friend, W, O. Oguurn. Wilkins county, Georgia. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 14 years old and am fond of farming, although I am not doing that much. I have a watermelon and onion patch. I love to hunt very much. I kill birds and skin and stuiT them for sale and make money at It. Tho crops in this soctibn are all tho farmers could want, arc the best I've seen. We get The Constitution regularly and it to tho best paper I ever read. Yours truly, James H. Beaton. Stonewall, N. C. Dear Aunt Susie: I nm 0 years old and havo not been going to school this spring. I'apa takes The Constitution and I'm always%lad when it comes. I live on the Comessanya river. Your friend, RonKUT M. Baker. Beaver Dale, Whitfield county, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am n years old. I board with my uncle and go to school at Terry vllle to Profes sor Stokes. I love to stay with uncle and uuutle. Your little friend, Maud A. Henry. TerryvIUe, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: lam 11 years old, and now that we have vacation I help Aunt Fannie cook, wash dishes, sew, crochet and knit. Cau any of thc little cousins cook n vegetable dinner, and make pics all by themselves? I can. Your neice, Allen Du Free. Byron, Ga, PflAr Auut Susie: I am a farmer???s daughter and have lots of chickens. I sold seven last wecl going to give tho money to get some Sunday school books. I have three quilts quilted on tho machine. Wo have a patent frame, and cau quilt whole quilt ln one day. I have a cotton patch and love to work ln It. We havq lively flowers too, and as I look out tho window the dear pansies look up to bright and smart, and I feel like they arc readlug my letter. I wish some of thc cousins would write to me. Your nelco, Lafayette, Ga. Neva G. Fursley. Dear Aunt Susie: My father to a millwright ami takca The Constitution. Many of tho cousius say they like Bill Arp and Betsy Hamilton, but I like Unelo Remus best. 1 am eleven years old. 1 have brothers and sisters aud wo work the farm while papa works away from home. I am going to school as soon as my work to done. Your lit tle nephew, GkorokW. Simmons, Jr. Dear Aunt Susie: I ani six year* old and have been going to school, hut havo vacation now. 1 went 1U8 (lays. 1 help mama cook ami clean house. Papa makes furniture, and next year I am going palut for him. I havo a pet cow that tries to talk. He can say, "Maud, whero Is grandpa,??? aud several other words. 1 love to read Our Letter Box. Your little friend, * Maudie Moore. Stone Mountain, G*. Dear Aunt Susie: We have vacation now aud are having a delightful lime. We can milk, cook, cro chet, etc. We wfch Allie I-oftln would send us, through the mail, some samples of crochet work. We wish too, that Jennie Brecb, Joel Gilbert and other cousin* woold write tou*. Our papas take The Constitution aud we like it very much. Your little friends, Lrla Watson and Bmx Thomas. Chapel Hill, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 0 years old and live on a small torn; papa, being a physician, cannot culti vate a large farm, as it takes the moet of his time attend to the sick. I have a pretty kitten aud yoke of small oxen. Father takes Thk Constitu tion and we Hkc it very mueh. Your little friend, C. E. 8eoTT. Tompkins F. O., Camden county, Ga. Dear Aunt 8us!c: 1 am au orphan, 1G year* old and live with my grandparents. Mother died when 1 was 2 years old. 1 go to Sunday school every Sunday and work on the farm during the week. We have a nice crop. Wc take The Consti tution and I like It very wach, especially Betsy Hamilton and Dr. Talmage???s sermons. Will one of the cousins tell me how many books, chapters and versos the Bible contains? Your friend, Hardeman P. (X, Ga. Edward s. Moxcaxxr. Dear Aunt Susie: We are 12 and 13 years old. School began the first of July, and we had a con cert that night to raise mouey tor an organ for our Sunday school. We went to Atlanta and Carroll ton daring vacation and had a delightful time. Our papas take Tax Constiution and we like to remt Betsy Hamilton and Our Young Folks. Yours, F. A. C. and L. V. F. Villa Eire, Ga. Hamilton*. 1 can???t read Uncle Kemus, but sister but she never could play unless she was in good reads it for me. Can anyone answer this riddle: Some red, tome white, some blue, some green, The king can touch it no sooner than the queen; But Jack in his room can touch it as soon. I'll frP you this rbldlc to-morrow at noon. Your little neice, May chrimtian. White Sulphur Springs, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: We have vacation now. nnd I am having a delightful time at home, though I have all kinds of housework to do. I enjoy that too. Ifone of the corn-ins will send me a paper pattern of the "Old Lady???s Dreanf?" I will send a sample of crochet. I have done some that wok beautiful. I am learning how to draw and am very fond of It, but don't have much time for It. Your loving friend, Mary L. Durham. Woodstock, Gn. Dear Aunt .Susie: I am seven years old, nnd do many little things for mania. I nurse little sister, but when she cries I don???t know what to do with her. I love to sweep the yards, and can knit, sew on thc machine aud piece quilt" Your neice, Lizzie Ca rtek. Orchard Hill, Gn. Dear Aunt Susie: We are little friends k and years old. We have vacation now nnd are spend ing It together at Carrie???s home, and have a splen did time fishing and frolicing. We do lots of work Wash dishes, make beds and sweep. We to Sunday school every Sunday aud always know our lessons. We enjoy reading The Constitution, especially Betsy Hamilton and Our Young Folks. Your friends, Addil Vekdery and.C'akrie Rivers. Chapel Hill, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am eight years old. I am going to school and love my teacher dearly, help mama find thc little chickens every morning ami evening. Your little friend, Stcarnville, Ga. Patience Z. Hutchison. Deer Aunt Susie: I am a fanner's son, 11 j-ears Id. I plow, hoc and do other things on the farm have vacation now. Father bikes TllECoXiTITU tion and I love to readO. Y. F. Yours truly, Philemon Ogletkee. Dear Aunt Susie: I am 10 yean old and am not at school now, as we have vacation. 1 made a dress lor our cook U*t w????k nr??rl, ertty bit by mywIL M<uo* bud lo brip me a UlUo a* I lud norcr aud* oh alona batore. 1 low lo nad O. V. T. aad Beuy Simple Addition.???When Carol Morgan received one day a letter from her old teacher, Miss Cameron, proposing to pay her a visit on her way to Baltimore, she danced up and down for jo>*. It no wonder to anybody who knew Miss Cameron that Carol should love her thus dearly aud now they had not met for a whole year and half. So the guest-room was put In daintiest order; Mrs. Morgan saw that tresh muslins were hung in the windows and her own shaker rock ing-ebair brought In. aud Carol emptied her little purse at the florist???s to buy Msss Cameron 1 favorite Marcchnl Neil rosebuds, that were to greet her, when she entered the room, from the slender vase on the toilet-table, and the pot of blooming heliotrope that, standing ou thc window-ledge, would make the whole air full of luxury* It was pleasant to meet her friend at. the train, and escort her proudly home; pleasant to share her with the family aud see how they all appre elated her, from father down to his baby majesty who hadn???t any name'yet. But when the house hold was asleep, to sit talking alone with Miss Cameron, thc door of thc guest-room being shut, and to keep on in all the delightful recklessness of hot caring what time It might be???Carol had had few enjoyments all her life long in which sho had reveled more. Even in oightccu months a good deal had happened. Carol could astonish Miss Cameron wsth unexpected tidings of some who had been her scholars. M tos Cameron hud uews of others that Carol hud lost track of. Many incrty reminiscence made them laugh, and when Carol???s tears dropped fusion the last letter which Helena Everett, who died abroad, had written to Miss Cameron, thc familiar touch of her teachcr???i around her innde her cry again for the comfort of it. Then Miss Cameron had been out to Colorado the previous spring; and Carol's undo had taken her to thc White Monntuln*. But when they began on the books they had read, Miss Cameron, in spite of her interest, caught herself in unmistakable yawn, and Carol spraug up, saj*- iug, i>cnitcntly. "1 haven't been thinking at all how tired you must be. I won't stay another raipute." Miss Cameron still detained her as she returned thc good-night hug nnd ktos. Those loving brown eyes of hers looked deep down Into Carol???s eager, pink faee. " You look well and happy," she said; nil's well with you then, isn't It?" "1 sOppose so," answered Carol, slowly; but sho sighed and grew a little pale. A sort If worried look came over her face. 1 haven't the least thlhg to complain of," sho went on, frankly. "I haven???t any elegant miser- Don???t you remember Clementine Smythc, and how Charlie Brock used to mock her drooping aud her sighing, nnd say that she kept elegant miseries Just as her auut kept poodle dogs? I have good time, and everybody to kind to me, and 1 cau do just as all the girls do; but???but, after all, dear miss Cameron, I???m dreadfully afraid I don't amount to much, and that???s my trouble." Haven???t you enough to busy yourself about, then?" Asked Miss Cameron. Oh! it isn't that my time hangs heavy," re plied Carol. "In the house there to always plenty of work???you may trust his majesty for that???and 've only one servant, you know. Then, out ride, there are so many of bs girls that, between German classes, clubs, mission circles, little parties, fairs, and so ou, sotnct!??ng Is continually hurrying me. But I don???t feci satisfied lately. I enjoy it all, and still, as I said before, 1 know I don't amount to much. I havo a guilty feeling that somebody ought to come along, take Carol Morgan up and shake her, und then harness her iuto some missionary work that's really worth while." Maybe I???m thc one," returned Miss Cameron, gravely; "so go and sleep peacefully, ray child, tor if 1 am l shall surely do it." The loving browu eyes, without seeming In the least to spy upon Carol, after this watched her attentively. TBoy lost no look noa motion of Carol's, for Mis* Cameron wa* making a stud of the thing. Carol was not a remarkable girl. She was a rank, warm-hearted, wholsome oue, who told the truth, liked to share iu whatever was going on, mourned honestly that her hair wouldn???t curl, and wanted io bo a credit to her Lord and Savior, because Ae saw plainly that he had a right to ex pect it of her. She was always down stair* promptly in the morning. "For I wake early," she explained. and my sister is not nearly as strong as I am." So she naturally attended to the dusting of thc sitting-room, brushing up the hearth, and setting the breakfast table-garnished alsa, whenever a leaf or a flower could be had, with lu morning bouquet. She liked to be active. It was no trial to her to run up stair* for something her mother had forgotten, or go down town on an errand for Sue. or t arry her father's mail to the postoffice. And she took such Interest In everything interest ing to the rest that her eider sister Sue sometimes complained bitterly. ???Positively Carol wastes her time abominably," she would say; "she???ll stand listening to Dick???s description of his ball match by the half hour together. As If it were any account about his ball match, yon know! And when ped dlers, or book agcnU, or beggar* come to thedoor, actually I dread to bare Carol the one to attend to them. She will listen, she will get interested and throw away time on them as much as on people of some consequence." lf hto majesty fretted. It was the most natural thing In the world that Carol should throw by ber Kensington Hitch and rattle off Mother Goose rhymes to amuse him???yard after yard," as Dick declared disdainfully. "For my part, 1 never could tee," added Sue, ???how any sane creature could either team or remember Mother Goose." But hto Majesty adored Mother Goose, all the practice, and she never would sing unless the piano and her throat were ln perfect tune. She shivered over incorrigible Carol, who would oblige anybody at any time, be it her father who wanted the old hymn tunen on Sunday nights, or Dick asking a rong. "Because I???m the kind that practice make* no difference with, and as to my voice, I have so little that It* at nobody's service," she apologized. Miss Cameron heard of her, therefore, as slipping: into the organist's vacant seat in emergencies, or serving as a modest accompanist when more dlie- tingutobed ones failed. "The handiest little person to hove round," nod ded one observant lady across to Miss Cameron, upon such an occasion. Thc brilliant girls of Carol???s set were officer* iu the different societies to which site belonged, and often showed real executive talent as leader*. Carol never set up a way of her own. She only fell in with thc way of somebody else, and sometimes meekly confessed, ???I don't amouut to anything particular here, either." But really >-ou have no Idea, Miss Cameron,??? remarked the anxious president of the cooking club, "how valuable the comfortable member of a club to???that one, like Carol, who don???t set lip views of her own, nor aspire to criticise, but i* always good natured and willing to approve, to fall in and to help out." Nobody was afraid to ask Carol for any aid or favor. She carried burdens to nnd fro, or under took errands continually that, though homely or trivial In themselves, made her step quick with desire to accomplish, her face bright with hope to help as she went. "Doyou know my girlfriend, Carol Morgan?" asked Miss Cameron oi an invalid lady on whom she was calling. No; butj'ou don???t know what real good she does me," replied the invalid; "I sec her pats every day, and she looks so happy, stroug and bright that, bless her! many a languid hour has lost Its gloom at thc sight of her. I???ve often wondered lf she knows how much good she can do by Just carrying that cheerful, healthy face through the world." ???I will axk her," responded Mtos Cameron, soft ly- Ou Saturday night she sat alone with Carol again. It was in Carol???s own room, and the girl counting up tho Sunday school money, of which she was treasurer. At last the long, slim column of her sum In sim ple addition was completed, and she folded her bunds behind her head rather wearily for u mo ment before she went on to add It up. Well, so it goes, Miss Cameron," she said, thoughtfully. "My life 1s all about like this that you see???u little music, a little Kensington, some dusting, some mending, some nt tendance on hto Majesty, calling aud receiving culls, going to lectures, concerts, clubs, or parties, and doing as everybody does. But Isn???t It true that, after all, I don???t amount to anything? I don???t have time to amouut to any oue thing. I???m not fit to be a city missionary. It don???t seem to be the thing for me to give all my goods to feod thc poor, cither. Aud yet I did want, I did mean to ainouu to something, for???for????????? "I know it; for Christ's sake," said Miss Camer- tenderly, takiug up thc sentence where Carol's oice faltered. She drew Carol???s head down Into her lap. and, stroking the rather rough hair that would not curl, continued: ???My dear little true heartl???ve watched your rare* fully, aud now you may take my word for it, you have no need to blame yourself. You say that you don???t amount to anything. Very well. It is only because you aro uot added up yet. Here on this . sheet of paper is your long row of figures, waiting be put together. None of the numbers separately lurge, but there are so many that you can see the sum of them combined will be no iu ~ considerablc one. Now, by dohig the duties near est you, taking them just as they come, In this patient, cheerful way of yours, Carol, you are set ting down the figures that will make a noble total when j'otir life to added up in the end. That time not come yet. You can trust Him to do it accu rately, and at thc right hour, who never makes many mistakes. To carry a blithe face, to lend ready hand, to have au Attentive car, a quick sym pathy, to be faithful to all the minor claims of life, these seems to you dtocouroglngly small thlngsln ono who wants to live os Christ lived. But do you only go on iu painstaking with these parts of hto ways,??? as fast as He gives them to you, and wait till Ho shows you some day what you amount to. Remember you are only lu process now like you sum here; you are not finished; so be fair yourself, as st. Paul was fair. ???Yea, I Judge not mine own self,??? he says. Walt till the full time comes, and you are 'complete to Him'???the tiny ministries, tho humble efforts all counted in with Hto great and sufficient merit." ???Oh! how beautiful you make it!" cried Carol, with an irrepressible sob of relief. "1 knew I pre ferred to be Christ???s, but I was growing terribly frightened lest I might be mistaken; because I couldn???t see that I was helping anybody, ami Ho helped people all the time. 1 wanted to be doing work to help and comfort, too." My child, it to by what the heliotrope Is, not by anything it moves from its place o i the window sill to do, that ray whole chamber to penetrated with perfume. It is what you are that will make you valuable and useful; for, as has been truly said, 'No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without thc world being better for It, without somebody being helped nnd comforted by the very cxlstcnco that goodness.??? "???Christian Union. Sue was a fine musician, on the scientific plan. Why he Moved. Moving again, Fits?" asked Pullet, as Kite goober came out of the gate with a stove pipe tightly clasped in his arms and trailiug a mirror behind him. Yet," moaned the afflicted man, gouging a of soot out of hto can, and swabbing hto per spiring brow. "Pm going to leave this hole." What for, don???t like the neighborhood?" 'Oh, no, not that; thc neighbors are all righb" Water aint good, maybe." No better can be found in Atlanta," The rent hasn't been raised has it?" No, and that???s the reason I???m going to seek all- other residence.??? 'What!" exclaimed the surprised Pullet, "mo ving from a place because the rent has not been raised; surely you don't object to that, Fits?" No, I do not." sadly replied Fitz, os he started back for a kitchen set of furniture, "but thc rent ing agent does, j'ou know." Couldn't Stand Ita look mad, Plunkett," remarked Pullet; what's the matter?" Ob, nothing much; tut I don???t like so blamed much foolishness oa some people's got in 'em." Anybody been joking you?" No, it ain???t a joke; worse than that; if it wax just a simple joke I wouldn't be so mad." Well, what was it???? That fool friend of yours," angrily howled Plunkett, ???circulated a report that there was small pox at my house; that he'd seen the sign at roy frontdoor. Now, I want you to inform your friend that I can stand almostanything; but when a man trie* to make out that my nose can???t be distin guished from a red flag, he's got me to whip???d'ye catch ou???? Pullet caught on???to the street car???and left him boiling over with indignation. A Mail llulldog Killed. Manning, 8. C??? July 2S.???[Special ]??? A large Rnd feftirious bull dog was killed near the colored Methodist church yesterday. It was thought to be mad and had bitten two colored women and a small white hoy. None of those bitten nave shown any signs of madness. A Georgian in Chattanooga. Chattanooga, July 2A???{Specie.}???Colonel J. P. Sawtell. of the Cuthbert Appeal. Cuthbert, Ga., purchased John J. Littleton's half interest in the Daily Democrat of this city, and the latter today retired from editorial control of that paper.