The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-28


en- crisp and tender, the coffee rich amnrr' inc
eggs fresh and just right-therc was no trouble 10
keep house on those days for whatever your m
gers touched it yielded like magic to their sklll.
You could feel in bright mood all day. You cut
your flowers, arranged them III your vase eI,t
thorns pricked your hands, no worms or bilEhC
IN the bud-whO could not be COED on such u
day? -
ii those DAYS would always dawn, then there
would never be "a misanthrope. But alas, these
only glimpses of paradise and cannot always
last for there is a light and q dark side to every
thing, the wise thing to do is to make the pes,
of everything for this life is not all SUNSHINE nor
is it yet all showers, but storm and c''lm abeLnate
as thorns with the flowers, and Wllle we seek INC
roses the thorns full oft feel. Still let US,
though they wound us, be happy as we can.
Would like a lew correspondents.
Ira b. Dudney Hope Ark.-Here goes for that
wonderful letter to The Constitution which nave
always peen going to write, but iior various rea-
sons have never written as yet
Ny home is situated in Hampstead county, Ar
kansas country adapted to the cultivation OF all
the southern cereals. fruits and vegetables.
Though cotton and corn are the chlef crops
here now. an experiment station is placed at Hope
to demonstrate the practcabiiity of growing vege-
tables and small fruits III THIS county lor tne
northern market.
We have good schools and churches here of sew
eral denominations, and all honest and energetic
persons who desire homes here will be given
hearty welcome.
will answer one of the questions of Kate and
Ceciie Cole, Macon, Miss.
La Sale was assassinated in 1857 on the bank of
the Trinity river in Texas
Why is the OH day OF January called old Christ
mas?
II any of the cousins desire to correspond with
an Arkansas boy, let them write to me. l will be
pleased to answer all letters.
J. NJ Pharr, Rockwell, Texas.-I live two miles
north of the town Ct Rockwell on a farm; we
have beautiful place 20 live We live in the
black land belt and it is very muddy when it
rams, but we have ISurmuda grass in the yard,
and rock walks, so you see we do not have to get
in the mud. We also have lots of beautiful flow
ers in the yard.
wish some of the cousins who live in the tim
berod countries could see the prairies now, they
Just beautiful.
Iattended business college all winter, and l
like 1t splendid. | think there is nothing better
than good education; it fits and qualities Us to
I'LL any vocation IN life.
notice that Mr. John Hendricks says he likes
novel reading. good novel. read in the right
manner, is all right; but these cheap, trashy nov
els ought to be summed by all sensible people.
If the young people would use the time study
ing that they spend reading novels, they would
be great deal chat is ID good!y number of them)
better educated.
Will some one please send me the words to "The
Blind Girl, "Violtts Dipped in Blue" and "A
Cowboy" and after the Ball.
Correspondents solicited.
Ethel Hamlet, Port Royal, Tenn have be-
come very much interested in the Young Folks
Corner OF this paper, and would be delighted to
join this bright and happy band.
My nome is near a village, which Is situated Just
tile point where the Sulphur Fork creek emp
ties into Red river. There a good many young
people here and we have lots of tun.
About week after Christmas, | went with
party of on a hunt. We started early in the
morning ana did not reach our journeys end I'M
til sometime i'll the afternoon.
We camped near large river called Gambler
land, and saw good many curiosities, but the
most interesting was Il large cave. The mouth of
this was immense. and hundreds of names were
written on the walls. Some dated as far back as
1851. We wrote our names of course
A tiny stream ran along over the pebbly sand of
moss grown rocks into II large pond, we termed
BuZzard's bay.
hope spring has opened for good now and we
will no more feel the cold blasts from the north
until next winter.
| would enjoy corresponding with some of the
writers, especially from the southern states. Age
fifteen.
Josie Bost. Note Gal have long been silent
reader of The Constitution. | en- Joy reading the
Young Folks Corner, Tamage's sermons, Sarge
rlunketts, Bill Apps and Aunt Susie's letters. |
tllInk there u good deal of information to be
gained from them.
| want to try To have good garden this year. We
have planted onions, English peas beans, cab
bage. mustard and long cO!ards.
don't fear but OF my neighborS getting
ahead of me in gardening; she lives a half mile
from Note She has a nice new garden pailed in,
and from outside appearances, she will eXcel or
al least get ahead OF me She has also chicken
house; think she will raise a good many chick
ems. Her husband has pailed in her yard, and
some of the neghb0rs are carried away with her
NICE situation and residence.
Will answer Cousin Hattie Whites question:
In f743, O%lethOrpe returned to England.
will ask question: What were the last words
of General Wolfe?
Sale Wndham. Memphis, Ala.-I do not live III
a town like some of the cousins. TIE little place
L live in hardly deserves the name OF village, and
don't live i'll tins village; live on hill where
the pines and cellars grow rank and wild.
Between my home and this little village, there
Is creek called Cedar creek. because of the cedars
that grow is banks. This creeks bluffs
bottoms
streams flow over beds OF lime rock and pebbles.
A large bridge spans this creek.
d the rignt side OF the road which leads to the
village, is the village grave yard. In the woods
around this grave yard the doves coo their mourn
ful songs, and whippoorwills pour forth their eve
ming lay.
/ have a father, brother and sister-these, with
myself, make up our family. | have a pet cat
named Boots, and she has two kittens named Jake
and job. / suppose none OF the cousins cats can
beat these with names. While | am writing this,
Miss Boots and her children lying rug
near my chair.
I an reading Uncle Toms Cabin, and like it
very well.
We have Sunday school in our little village, and
preaching one sunday in month.
Correspondents solicited.
D. F. Pattishall, Geneva, FIa.-we came here
from GrovanIa, Ga, about five years ago. will
tell you something about this place. 1t is eight
miles from railroad but the st. Johns runs with
about two aud half miles from here, and a
steamboat comes up here twice a week i'll the
winter.
and large lake two miles from here, being eight
miles long and five wide.
There two churches, Methodist and Baptist,
store, SaWmlll, schoohOuse and postotfice.
Our school closed in March, but will open again
in October. We had very good teacher last term,
and expect to get him again this term.
Last winter they organized a social and debat-
ing club for the young people mostly, but in
a month or two they appointed new president,
and in five minutes after she appointed she
turned all out under sixteen years old, it broke
up.
frl,o
Irish potatoes and onions, but they depend
oranges mostly.
Some of the girls think they getting ahead
of the boys writing letters, but they are badly
mistaken.
Cora Belle Gaiher, Stoneville, n. C.-Dear
COUSINS | have written to you before, but it Ii, 8
been so long that expect you have forgotten me.
enjoy the letters every week. Our teacher reads
them ont loud in school
| am only eight years old, but have several cor
respondents. love to get letters.
practice in music two hours every day and can
play eight pieces.
have n large Newfoundland dog named Prince,
and a horse named George. like to ride the horse
down To the branch to get water My horse got In
quicksand one day last week; the men could
hardly get him out.
Why was Moses named Moses?
Why does a fish feel cold?
What part of the flower makes honey, and what
part makes the hOneycomb?