The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-27
PROF. De woe OBSERVES
,,,r THE FARMERS OF THE
! i1,,r,4 LACK INCONSISTENCIES.

,5,c1-ansack, n. J., July 2S.-Editor
ing News: I have just returned
I'm trip through the South Allan
49, and Gulf states. Perhaps few
-,coents on what I saw, and the i'm
ions T received may be. of inter
eft to your readers.
- ,-,'. sverage Southern farmer is
.hout twenty-five years behind our
1-.rtbern farmer, all because he does
-.. l,,oy hoin to turn the products of
49, ,arn, into cash money. For in
-..,oe a farmer in one of the Gulf
e-,+as hired a Northern man to work
,is farm. After the crops were all
- the Northern man asked his boss"
.,st no intended to do with the
4 .o~,sen He answered "nothing!" The
4 ,.frsd man then asked if he could cut
j :. and he answered yes" So the hired
-op went to work. cut and sold
tbousand dollars worth of hay.
within ten miles of Chattanooga,
T.nn.. good farming lands can be
l,oI1qht from S. to $40 per acre. And
i vet tbe people of Chattanooga are buy
i Ing most OF their vegetables outside or
+bsfr state. There is a grand opportu-
nirv for some garden truck farmers
to make a fortune in a few years
Soutbern Women Not Nervous.
Brt in at least one respect, the wo-
mon and children are ahead of the
N-orth. They appear to be entirely
free from nervousness. For instance;
while at Chattanooga. my friend took
me to the top of Lookout Mountain on
the incline railroad. When we came
down mother and her little girl of
about 8 years old got on the car. The
i mother sat on one side of the car, and
her little girl climbed on the opposite
side OF the car, sat on one corner of
the seat. folded her arms, swung her
feet and sung a lullaby all the way
down that steep mountain, with the
car almost on its end yet the mother
never spoke to the child all the way
down. A Northern mother would have
had a fit.
The next day I was riding on troll
ley car. when mother with a nursing
baby and a little girl entered the car.
The little girl carried a bottle of milk
for the baby, which she held outside
Of the window for several miles to keep
it cool. That mother never spoke to
the little girl about the milk, while
a Northern mother would have been
constantly reminding the child not to
drop that milk. Our Northern women
are entirely too anxious over trifing
matters brought ON by habit; both
the married and unmarried.
4 View of the Negro.
For the past two years I have read
many articles on the future race prob
lem of the South; but most of the
writer's were like a man trying to steer
q ship without a helm or rudder. |
found the negroes of the South very
Il respectful and / would rather sit be-
side a sober negro than a drunken
white man. But l found an old man
who has solved the future race problem
Of the South. His name is w. L.
Wright. and he is the only white in the
state of Georgia that is pastor of a
coored church twenty-seven years.
Twice he has offered his. resignation
because of his failing health; but his
people refused to let him go, saying
If he was too feeble to preach if he
would just sit in his pulpit, so long as
they could see his face they would be
content. That is another striking diff
ference between the South and the
North. For here in the North just as
fast as minister's hair turns gray,
his salary is reduced until he is starv-
ed out, so they can get a young man
TO entertain them. The saving of souls
i is a secondary consideration in a vast
majority of churches.
Wherever l had an opportunity,
called at the signal service stations
and conversed with the men in charge,
and 1 was surprised to see how little
they knew about the clouds and their
formation.
Something About Clouds.
The most enjoyable part of my trip
was the sail up the cost from Savan-
nan to New York city in the steam
ship Kansas City 1 had promised
them fair wind and weather all the
way, except thrunder shower, and
on Friday the 10Th, l had a splendid
opportunity to show the value of my
knowledge OF cloud formation. 1t
was about IL o'clock when l saw that
tnere was thunder shower forming
about one hundred and fifty miles to
Inc north of us, and / told the captain
so; but he remarked that he could not
see anything, and If 1 saw thunder
shower one hundred and fifty miles
ahead of the ship, / must have a very
uIiferent pair of eyes from the rest of
Them l told him that my eyes were
no better than theirs, except that my
eyes We're trained to distinguish be-
tween the different forms of clouds
Ihree hours later the thunder began
TO roll ahead of us; then the passen-
gers gathered around me on the for
ward deck, and asked me to explain
now knew that that thunder shower
was there three hours before they
could see it. This was my answer:
mere is only one form of cloud Gre
ated' namely the cumulous. All other
ioIlns Of clouds simply indicate the
1lHerent stages of growth which cumu-
l"us cloud has passed through. The
Suhulous cloud looks like a large
nullcn or loose cotton, and when at
Mospneric conditions are favorable,
eilIs loose bunch of clouds spreads out
laploiy and ascends and becomes a
ou"lulo-Stratus. If the atmospheric
IONS continue favorable to its
e'oWlh' then the upper edges of the
iulo-stratus cloud become white
Gu smooth and rain begins to descend
I'm nose smooth edges. Then Il be-
a a nlmbus cloud, and as soon as
f.iu mas descended from the ninbus
bN' 1hen the upper edges of the MINI
80 vloud become smooth and very
49, men we know IL is a cirrus cloud.
Us composed of fine needles Of
- therefore as soon as | see these
49, lufns OF clouds one above the
,'-'' ! know there is a thunder show
o, progress. and they can be located
r "uuared and fifty miles away with
dyt ease by any person having or
,S eyeslght, as soon as they learn
7unBuish the different forms Of
ANA II any person doubts nv