The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-09-03

you would write every week. SOLICIT
correspondents, either sex, from eighteen
to twenty-five.
Einim Ell Thomas. Meeks. Ala.-Dear
Junior: We have a very nice little town
here. Our school will start the nrst OF
September, and oh! my. / will be so glad.
We have a splendid teacher. He is so
good and kind | wish | could see Aunt
Susie. ! have no pets except my mamma
Oh. girls. amt 1t nice to have good,
sweet. nice mamma? | enjoy the Junior
letters. so much also BIZ Arp. lnlhk
he writes just splendid. am fourteen
years old. / enjoy horseback riding very
much. like to sew ana read good books.
Will close with love to Aunt Susie and
the cousins. Would be glad to CORE
spOnd with some Of cousins from any of
the states.
Southern Girl, Brandon. Fla.-Dear
Junior: i have been reader OF this
paper for several years. My home Is In
the Land of Flowers" Here we have
sunshine and roses and happiness always
How ungrateful we would be not TO be
happy in a land blessed with all Things
bright and beautiful. So many lovely
nowerS and so many varieties OF delclOus
fruits. The climate Is one OF our great
est blessings. While northern friends are
cooped up in the house to keep from
freezing to death, we are sitting on our
porcheS enjoying the sunshine. L wish
could invite you all to come and spend
the winter with me, but too many OF YOU
might come at one time; but l would be
delighted to have some or you; We VIII
have great many oranges TINS winter
for the first time in several years, ana
| know many of you would enjoy me
pleasure of going to the trees ana pull
ing all YOU wanted. Florida has many
attractions besides the orange groves. i
would like some correspondents. would
enjoy nice long letters TO the one whose
letter | receive L VIII send n souvenir
of Florida Write as above.
A. Ferrand Fihiol. Blankston. La
Dear Junior: Rapidly evolves the unre-
lenting wheel of Father Time, and al
most before l was aware OF 1t four long
years had sped by since we first began
TO take the welcome Constitution. Wen,
what shall be the subject OF my dlS
course? Say, "A Mother 5 Love Searcn
this illimtable globe and you VIII ma
not one mother who does not love her
offspring with an imperiShable auectoh'
Brotheriy love. sisterly love and the
love of an engaged couple, etc, are not
to be compared with the deep and noble
love mother bears to ner child. Searcn
through the annals OF the clNlllzed Worlu
and you may find an occasional IatnSr
who fOrSook his child, but not one inOth-
err But alas, how few children know
how to appreciate and reciprocate ms
deep undving love Of their mother. Ihe
average child of today. / am afraid, re-
turns to it's mother a cold and forced re-
spect. Boys and girls, cherish your pa
rents and you VIII never be sorry Ior ~
but do otherwise. and you VIII nave DC
casion TO regret it. Correspondence So
licitcd.
Alva DeBow LAWYER. Brownsboro. Ala
Dear Junior: I am a little boy and take
The Constitution. My father has taken IT
for years and | take It now. / think all
BOYS ought to take some good paper; /
will try to write about my county. hVe
in Madison county, north AlaDalha' .hc
county site We have a fine courthouse,
postoflce and county jail. all me puld-
ings: churches of all denominations; cot
ton factories and factories of all xmas
work for an that wants work. our eli
mate is pleasant most all the year. Hunts
Villc is at the foot of the far lamtd
Monte. She and her lover were Stun
we have a hotel with ali modern I'M
prOVcmcnts ard different Kinds OF wa
ter An old Indian chief once lNed on
that mountain NhO mad Il daughter nthtd
Nontce. She and her lover were sitting
on the edge of the bluff on sunset rock
watching the lovely sunset and he was
begging her to marry him ana go TO MS
far away home when her father, the
stealthv Indian chief. stepped out from
behind a rock and said. Monte, say no,
ana so we have the name OF Monte SanO.
/ could write more Of interest about my
county. but wait until another time VII
say EoCdby. God bless the editorial stan
of The Constitution and especially Aunt
Susie. Would IKE q few correspondents.
Belcher Clark. re ~,.4 Ala.--Dcar Jun
Tor: / Viii Try after 50 long a delay 10
write TO the dear old Constitution again.
My rheumatism Is not so bad as II has
been. / do not suffer so much pain now
but can't walk any yet. | wish TO thank
all the cousins who have been so KIND
as TO write to me. Your letters nave IN
deed been a pleasure to me, and DO wash
l could answer them all personally, bGt
could not so YOU all must not think hard
l.ffH ri
receipt of a nice basket of peas from my
little friend. Dawson Alexander. am
all the time getting something nice from
some of the good people OF TINS settle
ment / had the pleasure of attending
the quarterly meeting. which was he,d
at White oak the third Saturday in Au-
gust and certainly dld ENJOY H. lot l
don't get To 40 from home often. l wish
TO thank Miss BESSIE Smith for her Kind
offer of crutches. l certainly do appre-
ciate H.. but 1 cant walk ON them. !
can't ~ only as ] am carried. l hope II
the little boy in Stocard. Tex, sees this
he will please send me papers as ne prom
Used. as / have never received but one
copy ana some of the other subscribers
have never received any. Cousins / think
/ will learn TO crayun pictures before
long. and l. / do ] viii have fine time
enlarGing pictures.
Siddie Wilkinson, Lauderdale. Miss
Dear Junior: ! am very much interested
Ia all the cousins ana dear Aunt susie
have written about the birds. / AR
little country girl and would get lonely N
deed ii il were no, for my books and
beautiful hooking birds who build ara
raise their young uumOleStcd IN Tie ce-
dars near the door. think the biru5 are
wiser th4a We imagine. nave been
studying their HABITS and reading about
The foreign birds as wen as our lovely
home ones. Mr. Peunant IN his indian
Zoology says had providence left the
fcatherad tribes unCudowed with any par
ticular instinct, the birGs of the toTrld
zone would have built their nests in the
same uuguarded manner as those OF Eu-
ICpe; but there. the lesser species nay
ing a certain prescience OF the 0aHStTS
that surround them. and of their own
weakness suspend their nests at the eX-
IRENE branches of the trees. They are
conscious of iuhablting climate replete
with enemies 10 them ana their NouES,
with snakes that climb uP the bodies Of
The trees, and apes that are perpetdaliy
in search Of prey; but heaven instructed,
they eludc the gliding OF the one ana the
activity Of the other. The brute creation
are more at cnmity with one Another
than in other climates, ana the pros are
Obliged to exert an unusual arulce' In
placing their little brOodS out Of Ivacn
of the invader. Each aims at the same
end thOuEn by different means. some
form their pensile nest in the shape of
purse-deep and open at the top; Others
II ore cautions with an entrance at the
very bottom. forming their lodge near the
summit. The tailor bird makes one more
advance to safety. II picks up ucad
leaf, and surprising to relate, ScWS IL 70
the side of Il liVing one. Its slender bllt
being its needle and its thread some me
nbers, the lining feathers and down. Us
eggs are white; color of the BIRD. yellow.
It's weight three-si xIeenths OF an ounce.
So that The material of the nest and its
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