The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-09-10

be much happier as we pass on our Jour-
ney through life IL we would rightly re-
ceive. acknowledge ard appreciate them,
not considering them as simply the
fruits of our iabors and nothing more
than what Is Justly due us. Correspond
ence solicited
A South American Cousin. villa Ameri-
cana. e. de S. Paulo. Brazil. S. A.-Dear
Junior: Here l am. I am from far away.
and maybe l am out of the traces, but for
eighteen years or more The Constitution
has found her welcome way into many
American homes of this vicinity. This
American settlement is situated about
eighty miles from the city of Sac Paulo,
the capital of this state, on the Paulista
railway and consists of sixty or seventy
American families. Our ancestors came
from different southern states of the
United states of America. After losing
a few negroes in the war between the
states they become greatly dissatisfied
with the government of that country and
drifted to the far off Brazil That has
been thlrty-four years ago, and at that
time slavery was at It's highest pitch in
this country, but alas even in this coun-
try the goose that laid the golden egg is
dead. Slavery has been abolished about
fifteen years. The staple crops of this vi
entity Is coffee. watermelons and sugar
cane: The most or the melon crop is
planted. From four to five hundred acres
will be planted in this vicinity. The crop
VII b De e. shipped from this point, villa
lands. The high lands ere free from
frost In this country. 1t takes coffee from
Tour to I'VE years to bear fruit from time
planted. / have seen coffee orchards said
10 be eighty years old still producing good
crops. The most of the sugarcane is made
up into rum. This railroad station. Villa
Americana, ships from 5000 to 1900 pipes
a year. Each pipe contains 500 liters or
more. This may sound strange to some of
you, but the making of (Aquadiente) rum
tor sale In this country is as honorable
ana respectable business as the grow
Ing OF corn and cotton in your country,
ana by Far more profitable All letters
containing the above address and o
cents postage stamp will come all right,
and then | will write you.
Phoenix. Box 95 Burleson. Tex.-Dear
Junior: It has been some time since
have had say with the Juniors and
at this late hour l call again. / note
q goodly number of the young people
are discussing the bird subject, but L
do not care to drop a thought along
that line just at present. We were much
impressed with suggestion made by
one of the junior girls "A few weeks since.
She said: Let's not fail to learn do
nestle ideas as We spend so much time
with books, flowers, etc" This young
lady is playing on the tendereSt chords
of our heart when she thus speaks. OF
all sweet beings in this old world of
ours is the sweet girl graduate" who
has n turn for doing everything in
line to do. This is the girl who
Will make home happy and life worth
the living. Her sunny smiles Will bright
end every fireside and cause everybody
10 claim her as friend. Are all young
ladies' so this can be said of them? We
fear not. When young man wakes up
IN the garden OF loneliness and decides
TO brcaly the chain of his singleness
and takes unto himself the lady of his
choice and ere long realizes the sad
fact that he has coupled himself with
4 society flower and not real lady,
he feels like he was on tho nowhere side
Of the mountain of mist in the valley
Of over there and cannot explain. ON
The other hand when the love and devo-
ion Of a good, true woman of refinement
and domestic qualities has been won,
.hen-well. we cannot explain the beauti-
'ul picture .on paper, and the readers may
guess the rcst. Suffice II to say 'the
land that rocks the cradle rules the
world and secreted and hidden in the
heart of the world and in the heart of
woman IS the joy and comfort which
IAN illumine all life.
Before closing let me say that I greatly
,nioy tho weekly visits of The Constitu-
ion, but not so much. / presume, as
Toes my mother, as she was raised in
fcorGia and she says with the words of
he poet:
Georgia. thou art tho land OF love,
Land of my native hours:
love thy sons and daughters fair,
Thy mountains. streams and flowers"