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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29

assessment is nearly three times what II
would bring If forced to sale at public
outcry.
Two weeks ago a farm of 100 acres du
New Jersey was sold for $500. 1t has a
fine large old style brick house. built for
a hotel in 1914. The barns and sheds are
roomy and stage horses were kept there
to carry passengers to New York city"
The editor commenting says:
These things are discouraging, because
Il has become impossible to get adequate,
reliable help on a farm. The farmers
boys viii not stay-they rush of to big
cities The farmers daughter prefers al
most any other work than teamwork, and
the farmer must take what he can get in
the way Of hired men, and what he gets is
not good for much
Now and then a rich man picks up a
nice farm for "A song. repairs the build
ings and has a nice summer home at
small cost.
II he can get a good man TO stay on
the farm maybe he can get enough re-
turns to pay the taxes.
The readers OF The Semi Weekly Jour
nal will not forget this is I'm New Jersey,
adjoining New York state and in easy
reach OF the city.
But it might be applied to other states
and other farm lands with equal force
and pertihence.
Take Barlow county. one OF the best
counties IN North Georgia. Farm lands
have been bid OF in that county at So
per acre in 1850 that would not bring so
10 day IL put up at public outcry-no. not
SIS. and compel the purchaser to set bis
living on the farm. Between loan COM
panies and difficult labor and poor crops
the land is sold for a song in many parts
OF the south because taxes eat il up.
The taxes here are simply enormous.
Last year the state and county taxes in
Barlow county lacked a fraction of ST
on the thousand. This year we are told
Il will be S2o on the thousand. Those who
have municipal taxation to pay may add
on considerably more. st
We had an excellent brick courthouse,
large and roOmy built since the war, but
the county authorities, determined to build
a new one that promises to cost some
where in the neighborhood of 100000 and
the bulk of this extorted money is to be
drawn out OF farm lands and real estate
under the same conditions that are COM
planned OF In New Jersey. a1
To man up a tree It looks like we are
being taxed to death for non-essentials
and TO support an extravagant civil gov
eminent while the farming interests are
being constantly depleted.
Labor Is almost worthless, such as farm
ers can get. and the struggle 10 keep out
Of debt Is exhausting.
Insurance In country places is almost
prohibltory-it IS so high yet you are not
safe to lie down in a country place when
the incendiary torch IS ready. 1t may be
applied on any night that suits them.
The land swarms with eX-convicts who
have neither character or credit and farm
ing has become a very risky business to
the man who has so many difficulties e
encounter and with profits so uncertain
New Jersey and Georgia are some miles
apart. but the story reads alike.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29
Girls Learning to Sew in New York's
Public Schools.

The New York Herald says there are
nearly 1900 school girls learning to sew
in the public schools of New York city.
They are eager TO learn, and II is said
they become really proficient after a sin
gle term OF instruction.
These girls come from the tenements.
Easements. everywhere in that over
crowded city. They are first taught the
proper way 70 thread and hold a needle.
The stitching lessons are very exact. Sew
ing seams. running edges together must
be done wei to pass inspection.
After awhile they are taught to cut and
TT dresses. make children's clothes, etc.
This work also progresses in the night
schools.
Ihls is as IL should be. These girls need
this instruction far more than they need
Greek or Latin or algebra.
This instruction gives them a chance to
renovate and keep their own garments
in good order. II they can do really good
sewing they are reasonably sure of get
ting work when obliged to help with their
own support.
Dress making. millinery, plain sewing
and fancy hendwork were never in great
er demand than at present.
While / will agree that the most OF our
average homes in country and I'm town
teach the girls to sew. and the average
girl has both pride and ambition to ex-
eel in sewing. still there is a great deal
in securing expert and scientific instruc-
ton on these lines under proficient teach
ers.
The time has come when public educa-
ton should mean equipping the pupil for
future life. and this learning to sew is
a step in the right direction. The old
fashioned mother took great pride I'm hav-
ing her daughters learn all that she could
teach them i'm sewing. 1t is nice, cheer
full employment, that fills a very proper
place.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29
cuttlnq Wlsdom. reeth.

I read of a man the other day who cut
two wisdom teeth after he was sixty
years old.
Poor fellowl II IS bad enough TO cut
them before you are twenty. and 1t is
good fortune when you get rid of them
by the time you are thirty, for 1t was
my experience that they were good for
nothing when they hurt and ached me
TO get up out Of the gums. and the only
pleasure I ever had with them was the
satisfaction of knowing I was for all
time done with them after they were ex-
tracted.
And they are so dificult TO get at when
the dentist says, open your mouth a lit
tie wider. please" had one or two that
had a double fang to them that showed
a resolution to stay there and keep on
hurting me.
I can generally arrive at a reason for
the appearance of such things as a sec
ond crop of teeth or the renewal OF finger
nails and toe nails, but / never did see
any use for those late arriving wisdom
teeth.
They are supernumeraries. so far as ]
can see and IL poor little babies are made
to suffer with their incipient teeth as
suffered with the advent Of my wisdom
teeth, do not wonder they cry, fret and
keep irritable. ~
Those who claim to know say that wis
dom teeth sometimes get hung under the
roots OF the next molar, and stay hung
until the poor sufferer is a victim TO
chronic ur1-algia. Sometimes they sup
puTate ani give a world of trouble. 1 re-
member having small cavity filled in
one OF miDe when I was in my Juveniles
and TIE fling, scraping and polishing act
ually put me in a sick bed. and It was
not long until the troublesome thing had
to be yanked out to give me relief. The
idea OF going through such torture with
tooth cutting al sixty years old makes one
nervous 10 think of II.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29
THE KINGS BELL.

A grave. sweet poet in a song has told
OF one. a king. who in his palace old
Hung up a bell; and placed its cord anear
His couch-that thenceforth. when the court
should hear
It's music all might know the king had rung
With his own hand, and that its SILVER tongue
Gave out the words OF Joy he wished to say,
Il have been wholly happy on this dayF
joys full perfection never to him came,
hand
Gathered-aud there was mourning In the land.
pray you, search the wistful past. and tell
Which Of you all could ring the happy .belll
The treasure-trove. the gifts we ask OF Fate.
Come far apart. come widowed come too late.
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29

but Notwithstanding all this. the old fire.
side. is dear to me yet. and my mother is
my mother still. My new relations have
increased rather than diminished my filial
affections.
Such will ever be my thought OF the
Congregational church which nursed me
into spiritual manhood and from which
now take my leave, to accept increased re-
sponsibilities In another religious house
hoId
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29
Summer Complaint

is not always brought about by change OF air
and water The ''stay-at-homes" are Just as
susceptible to diarThoea; due. generally, to
over-eating as unripe fruits etc, and drink
ing ice water: all accompanied by painful bowel
discharges, and If not checked results seriously.
Perry Davis Painkiller Is the only purely re-
liable remedy 25c and SOC
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29
A grandmother Seeks Grandchildren

Dear Mrs. FELTON,:
AsJwe have been readers for a long time
CT The Semi-Weelxly Journal, please make
inquiry through your Country Home col
umn for two little boys by the name Of
griffin. When we last heard of them they
we're In Jackson county. west Florida.
They are named Leonard and Johnny
Griffin. IL we can trace them up will glad
" pay all expenses. Their father, our son.
IS dead. and their mothers name was
Mary. 1 am going to watch your paper
to see II we can hear anything from them.
The last time we did hear from them was
eleven years ago.
MRS. ]. H. GRIFFIN.
Autreyille Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-29

Nevertheless. we are willing TO bet our
money that when WI Ting Fang loosens
up his Interrogation point In Georgia he
viii make Mr.. Guerry's question depart
ment look like a denial bureau.
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Why / Joined the [

BIZ Why Joined the UniVerSaLiSt Church. +
Tehe Spirit Of the Lord because He hath annonted
He hath the broken
hearted of sight
the blind bruised; the accept
able year o Lord"-Luke 4fS1e fsE
BY REV. CHARLES j. HARRIS, FORMERLY CONVERSATIONAL
sT, WHO HAS BECOME A UNIVERsALIsT.
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Maybe there is some use for big sisters 1T
tie brothers in the next world
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Write direct 10 Mrs. W. II. Fell
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
Letter Writing Ceasfnp,

The autograph letter is rapidly he.
coming Il thing of the past. Shorthand
and the typewriter have killed it. No
business man nowadays writes a letter
with his own hand: lie supplies the
matter and his signature. and his
typist does the rest. 1t is an age of
short cuts, and v literary men find
1t more profitable to dictate than to
write their copy. One of the most sue
cesstul Of modern newspaper proprie.
tors confessed the ether day that he
had not written IL letter for seven
years. although his private correspond
enc amounted to more than fifty let.
ters daily. says the London Tattler.
Cabinet ministers alone seem Ia
cling to the old tradition. Lord Sails
bury abllors II typewritten letter, and
Arthur Balfour writes Il large part of
his correspondence himself. Even MIR
Chamberlain. who is essentially ND to
date. seems to regard the typewriter
as altogether inferior t the telegraph
as Il vehicle for conveying his opinions.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
Arc Doing Well Enough.

The Cuban planters are doing we'll
enough. In 1900 the average price of
sugar exported from Cuba, nearly all
Of which came to this country, was
2.6O cents per pound. That was more
than the German manufacturers re-
ceived in 1890, which was considered
a prosperous year. The average price
obtained by Germans for the year was
2.24 cents, which. as We understand
1t. included bounties. 1t was "the
price" received by the factories. Our
Consul at Madgeburg reported in Au-
gust, that being the end Of the season.
that "the good prices secured for raw
sugar during the month of August (2.4:i
cents per pound more than compen.
sated for the low prices ruling earlier
In the season." # the German peoplA.S
with their stubborn soil and cold WIN.
ter climate. involving many expena166s
Gun produce raw sugar at 2.24 cenA1Itla
pound and call it livery satisfactqS 1si'ss
and consider 2.43 cents a pound aifs115aE
ly good thing, then the Cuban pf6GS11ot
With 9 warm climate. Q low ataI o4s1
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
trade relations with the Unl,ed States.

trade relations with the Unl,el States.
1t is not strange. therefore, that VIC
find their principal planters and bust
ness men greatly concerned in this re-
spect. So deeply are they Interested
that they are circulating and signing
petitions requesting that as IL favor to
them the United States establish free
trade with Cuba.
But that would he contrary to the
American policy. We are friendly to
the people whom we have assisted to
their freedom, but as an independent
nation they will be foreigners, and
free trade with other countries, aside
from certain moderate reciprocal
agreements that may be entered into.
is against our theory.
The Cuban planters and business
me are consequently asking for n
great concession. But they say that
without 1t independence will do them
no good. They must have free trade.
or at least reciprocity to an extent that
would practically amount to free trade.
But the United States will have to he
guided largely by its owp interests in
the matter. Too much cannot be con.
ceded out of pure friendship. The
erection of high tariff walls will. il is
predicted by many, result in the CHI
bans ultimately seeking annexation.
That. in II judgment, is the final
destiny of the island any way.-Scran.
ton (Pa.) Republican.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
UNJUsTLY BURDENED'
DOMESTIC ASPECT OF THE Gu.
BAN RELIEF PROPOSITION.
Three Agricultural and Two Manufac.
turing industries Asked to Bear the
Entire Expense o~fIncreasing Market
Value of Cuban Sugar and Tobacco.


The question is asked, can the nation
afford to Cypress or withhold justice
from a neighboring and independent
State? We should say not, on general
principles. Nobody proposes such a
thing. 1t is, however, in order to ask,
can the nation afford to Cypress or per-
petrate an injustice upon it's w pro-
ducers of sugar and tobacco? This is,
in fact. seriously md strcnuously pro.
posed. While it is not exactly clear
that the United States is morally
bound, or even should feel sentimental
ly impellcd. to rush to the relief of a
foreign country and alleviate condi.
lions Teal or imaginary, which it had
no hand in bringing about. it is entire
ly clear that the United States ought
not to select three branches of it's agri-
cultural industry and two branches of
its manufacturing industry to bear the
entire burden Of Cuban relief, even
to the extent of being themselves
thereby brought into a more desperate
case than that which is alleged in be-
half of the Cubans.
The three branches of agricultural
Industry which it is proposed to plum.
der are those engaged in the growing
of sugar cane and sugar beets, and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
Origin of a. Joke.

DR.. Finders Fletrie, the eminent
a~rchaeologist, announces that he has
deciphered the cuneiform inscription on
a tablet he excavated in the plains of
Assyria, and believes that it is a copy
Of u prehistoric comic paper. Among
other items, it contains the following
merry jest, which bears II strangely IA
miliar sound:
"Now, there We're gathered together
at the place Of the telling of stories.
many of them that have lived long in
the land, and M of them lifted up his
voice, and said:
"'Behold, it groweth cold with much
eXtremeness.'
"Whereupon another made answer,
saying:
".verily, it doth. But let us separate
and get hence, for here cometh Me-
thusalem, the aged. and If we tarry
he will even tell us again Of the cold
spell of the year 4O.'
"And they gat hence with much
speed."-Baltimore American.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
Who Paws II.

Cuba flourished under the American
tariff while she was under the rule of
Spain. and her would suffice
to give her prosperity if that tariff re-
manned unchanged. According to the
theories Of the free-traders, the only
sufferers by the duties on sugar are
the American people. for they have
told us with tiresome iteration that
tariff duties are only Il tax on the do
nestle consumer. and they can hardly
afford to turn around and tell us now
that the foreign producer is the indi.
vidual who really pays the tax
Brooklyn Times.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
Garments rhex Remoxed,

A prominent Sunday school worker of
Indianapolis, j. NJ. DUNCAN. was con-
Quoting a review of the Sunday school
lessons of the quarter at his old home
church in the country north of Franklin
and discussing customs Of Biblical
times.
Now. in those days. children. what
did they do when they entered a
house!" he asked.
"Took off their Shoes" came a chorus
of response.
"Ah, that's right, children. But now
adays what do you take off when you
enter a houseY" lie asked. expecting to
hear them say 'Your hat"
But there was silence for a time and
much thinking; then one little fellow
held up his hand.
"Well, what is it?'
Your o%vershoes," said the little fel.
low confidently.
The teacher at this point announced
q song.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21
l000OO000OOV
COOP
Short Stories

Henry Thomas Buckle Q thougnts u
conversation were alw 'ays on q nlgni
level. Once he remarkt I'd: men ana
women range themsel, res into three
classes, or orders. Of int diligence; you
can tell the lowest class by their habit
of ALWAYS talking about persons; the
next by the fact that the hr habit is al
ways to converse about things; the
highest by their preferen' sc for the dis-
cussion Of IDEAS"
1t is said that one OF ID avid b. Htl's
first Nlawsuits was. a non Jury case In
which the opposing couns I'll was one OF
the best attorneys in Ne, = York State.
Hill gave q speech which ! lasted about
three hours 1t was sue b q, speech as
might be expected from "a young law
yer. and;it was yerystryin g to the court.
After he had finished his opponent
arose and said: MAY 1t p! ease the court,
I intend to follow the q Example Of mts
young friend, and submit t the case with
out argument" Hill 10 st the case.
When asked what he thought Of a
certain captain who frequented the
Essex links a Scotch caddie said:
"Weel, sir, he's a Y ezra nice gentleman
on "A good. gaufer. tut he's awfu' nerra
awful nerra." Narrow! What: do
you mean, Donald?" ''Weel. sir. it wis
this way. Efter the g; lme was over. and
I had carried his clubss up tue the house.
he says: Donald. will ye haze a draw
and I said: Il do We e ira pleased SO
he gets the bottle, an L,e pourin' ava
intae a glass, an l want In tue be gen.
teel. says: Stop! stop!-aiI 4 he stopped"
L. R. Stockwell. the popular actor.
says that some years agt' in this city.
when Peter jackson, the colored pugil-
list, was a feature in a revival of uncle
Toms Cabin" "Bill" Nye was to have
lectured Mt the, Baldwin Theater. but
was greeted by so small an audience
that he excused himself and went over
to hear jackson talking of the pearly
gates to Little Eva. After the perform
the theater, and he exclaimed: Hello.
Nye! What did you think of Peter?"
"Well," responded the hu, norlst. dryly.
"~anatomically he was greilt, but Uncle
Ironically he is the worst j ever saw"
Philadelphia boasts of a setter called
Bill, who recently aroused a sleeping
family in a bur- ming house. when delay
would have meant death. and then him
| self carried a little child to safety. Bill
was asleep ut the foot of the stairs Oil
the first floor, shortly after midnight,
when the house caught fire. When the
smoke aroused him the family was still
asleep and unconscious Of danger. He
instantly bounded mp the stairs. bark.
ing furiously at every step. until he
reached the rooms of his owners. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Shannon. and tugged
at the bedclothes with his teeth. Mr..
Shannon awoke. and. alarmed by the
smoke. leaped out of bed. but before
he could get into his clothes the dog
had caught the nightdress Of Elvina.
a 6-year-old daughter of the family.
between his teeth. dragged her to the
floor, and bore her out into the hallway,
where her parents took the child from
him and carried he.- to the street.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-03-21

For many years there has been az
almost continuous discussion OF vyhai
might be called the age question. Ii
has heen said that as men grow ole
they find it hard to secure employ
ment, and sociological Investigations
have shown that the old age of the ar
tisan or the laborer is often one OF
considerable hardship. For the las,
few weeks in particular attention has
been called to the alleged discrimina.
ton of certain employers against men
over 40. 1t was for this reason. that
Mr.. Schilling, in addressing the Chi.
cago Philosophical Society, said that
one of the three things that the MAJ
tional Civic Federation should do was
to find an answer to the query: How
is the man over 45 to make his living?
1t cannot be denied that this question
presents some difficulties. At the
same time the hundreds OF thousands
Of men over 40 who are still capable
Of their best work show clearly that
no perfectly precise age limit can he
set. The hero of AddisOn's satire in
the Spectator papers died of old age
ut n. The captain of the Evanston
life saving crew is doing the capsizc
drill with great, agility at an age which
is so advanced as to be a subject of
endless speculation among the stu
dents 81 the university. The vital
po% ers last longer in some men than
II others. Some nell die in their boots
'ffnd some after they have shifted to
the slippered p~antaloon. One cannot
Say: Thus long shalt thou work and
ino longer. In the case Of artisans, in
jsome trades. who have ceased to be
capable of as full a days work as
they one accomplished, there is still
the device of piece work, which will,
to some extent, relieve the situation.
If Il man is paid according to what he
does the employer cannot complain.
1t is, of course. 10 be expected that IL
the employer is paying his men by the
day he should want men who can dc
Il full days work. Ii, however, he is
paying them, by the piece. any ten
dency to discriminate against older
men who may do less work than the
young mes is largely checked. AS
the worker passes the period of his
greatest efficiency and declines in
strength and skill, he Il still receive
IL return for his labor. and though
his earnings will doubtless decrease,
they will decrease only in proportion
to his failing powers.