The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-22

bed and regarded with awe. and faith
ana nope completed my burglar proof at
tachment which gave me a sense of alb
solute security. although 1 am very timid.
On April l really had a home of nv
own and If a mans house is his castle a
Womans house is her kingdom The
ehtlre cost of the cabin including Sc worth
OF shingletint with which it was painted
10y my own hands,, was $500, which 1
borrowed.
then made arrangements at the office
10 torego my usual vacation and make
saturday a whole instead of a half hol!-
day from April to November l bought
nve dollars worth of garden tools, turpen-
tine, Oil and dry colors and two dollars
worth of grocer boxes, with the addition
OF stain, these boxes and the boards
which the builders rejected made the fur
nlture for the whole house with the ex-
ceptlon of two cots and the appurtenances
thereof. A trunk full of books, some bits
OF brass and India prints from the city
den gave the finishing touches. l then
rented half the cabin to an artist friend
for one year with fruit. garden and fire.
wood and fad privileges for the sum OF
one hundred dollars, reducing my debt
to 500.
Practical Details.
Il worked at the desk for five days in
the week and in the, evenings planned out
the things to be done in the country on
Friday and Saturday 1 studied up the
subject through the week alb alb wise
stated my plans tentatively to the man
with the pillow on Friday evening when
got to the country, and then worked like
a beaver The cakes of soap made from
the drippings of my gas stove became
buckets of soft soap, which 1 fed to the
fruit trees. saving the cost of fertilizers.
An old cook stove, set up In a shed of my
own manufacture. also furnished quaint
ties of wood ashes l saved the cost of
another blowing by letting the man with
the ploW put in crop for himself, l get
ting the benefit of the cultivation. pick
ed thousands of stones and l laid the
foundations of Kaleidoscope garden of fra
grant color by getting slips and roots
IRON neighboring gardens of lilac wis
TARA, honeySuCkle and old-faShioned roses
L sawed down dead trees which the man
by the day (S1.5W. carried and set up on
the house slope, with their limbs still on
Tor the climbers to cover. l got this idea
from the beautiful wild vines climbing
over trees they had killed
The refusal of the man by the day to
allow me to touch his ak because l stub
bed its toes on the stones goaded me into
buying pruning saw for 75c, which has
WELD an ak can cut down the forest prime
val with pruning saw, and the man by
the day now respects me at whom he
once jeered. I couldn't carry farm in
one hand and petticoats in the other, so
bought some cotton covert cloth and made
blouse and boomers. Then with cold
cream and powder spread lavishly on my
countenance l hoed my fruit garden and
trees. l learned to bud and graft from
NV do NH
with the ploW, and to make cuttings of
the small fruit, by which means great
ly multiplied them and increased my sub
stance. l worked from sunrise to sunset
usually, but not always. Sometimes the
odor of sweet briar or the delicious west
wind would mock the vain and trivial
things of time and space, and would lay
down the shovel and the hoe and put by
Omer and Thoreau even to lie in the field
and watch the clouds drift. And the sum-
mer and autumn were the first year.
The Next Twelve Months.
MY taxes were only 81, for the tax col
lector had compassion on my feeble mind
My apples were very fine this year and
sold S12 worth, besides $35 for ounces and
cherries; SAT in all. I set out fifty young
fruit trees which with cost of planting
amount TO SIS. I seeded down two acres
10 grass, at cost of SIS more You see the
gambling instinct is not strongly develop
ed in me. felt my way slowly and eau
tiously, learned lot, worked hard, spoil
ed my hands and complexion, improved
my figure, and looked eagerly forward to
next year.
AS the weather got cooler 1 built
chimney of sewer tile, material $3.50, la
Dor 81. The lowest tile chad T opening
into the room, into which l fitted a GU
rious old stove with an open crate effect.
Second hand s25O) and we had glorious
wood fires. We stayed out till the mid
die of November. and went out for the
winter holidays when skating was good
on the little pond
This is the second season. I've made
the same arrangements for the Saturday
whole holiday, but I come out every
night this year, though it's rather too
much of a journey. Tho artist has rented
for another year at 800 and we've con-
solidated in one apartment in the city
for economy. The cabin has already paid
two-thirds of its cost. The small fruit first
set out yielded up $50 my farmer paying
10c quart for it. l provided myself with
glass jugs and jars. If by any mischance
the fruit is not sold it is Immediately con-
verified INFO the manufactured product
which I sell in New York or lay up in
quantities sufficient 10 Withstand famine
or ST ge. My hay brought SIS standing this
year. Next year it will bring more. The
artist has become enthusiastically rural
and provided herself with a chicken and
duck raising outfit. She has made little
round movable wire fences around the
fruit trees for her broods, and we believe
that dozen small chickens applied in
the active state to the roots of fruit trees
are of more value than many insect mix
lures.
THE man with the pillow has rented us
a fine young cow. with privilege of pur-