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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
stock IN lac PhIIIpplnes.

The horses are very small, and were
brought there from Mexico. Spain and
China. but the work animal Is the buf-
faIo. found in the islands By the Span
fards.
II Is large. strong. easily managed ana
indispensable 10 the country. SO much
OF the country Is under water during the
rainy season. that there would be little
travel except for the buffalo. They ford
large rivers and work IN marshy lands.
A buffalo Is broken 10 work at four or
FIVE years old. and lives 10 81. II feeds
voracfousIy and drinks often. The COM
mission reports a million and a half Of
these animals on the fslands--It does all
the agricultural work and hauling. traffic
Of the country
Sheep are not suited TO the climate,
goats do better in the hills than sheep. A
great many pigs are raised. the Chinese
breeds Almost eli the families raise a
pig. while chickens and turkeys arc
scarce
Doubtless all tropical vegetation viii
flourish IN the Philippines, but Il viii be
years probably before the newly imported
plants, that viii be sent over. can make
a decided impression on the exports OF the
cOuDtry-
As soon as the natives are taught the
use Of labor-saving machines there viii be
seen g vast difference in conditions.
There Is estimated 10 be territory about
the size OF Italy. and a little less than
England and Ireland.
II would seem that the United States
paid a large price for this wilderness OF
marshy lands and neglected wilderness q
wood and vines
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
Thunder storms and SNOW.

A feWfnights sinhe was awakened from
sound sleep BY the patter OF sleet on the
roof and against the windows. I raised
I'D IN bed 10 look at the fireplace (for we
generally prepare for next morning by
covering UP a good sized stick OF oak
wood With the coaIsl and sure enough the
sieet was coming down the chimney and
Kissing a the hot embers.
As I listened the thunder rolled heavily
IN the south. and soon the lightning began
20 fash Ike midsummer storms. / de-
cided 20 light a lamp and stir up a blaze
because sleet and thunder storms are not
generally due az the same time. While
I was opening up the Goals a steely blue
fash filed the room. and a stunning crash
OF thunder came at the same instant, and
strange 10 say. after the thunder clap
there was no more snow or sleet. but the
weather developed into a small melting
shower later on.
The deepest snow I ever saw in the
south was accompanied by low. mutter-
ing thunder as a starter. but the thunder
died away and the snow piled up every
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
What Are Women To Do?
SHALL WE VOTE3
BY BELLE ALLEN ROSS.

benevolence patriotism, education, lit
erary literatii," etc, etc, are aolaze
with glory. flame and fame. We are
many of us, dating back to kings or Eng
land, royalty etc. family coats OF
arms and such. There may be some or
us that will have to be content with the
family armed coat.
With It all, we are doing valuable work
for our country in a wealth or noble
deeds. enshrining heroes and heroines, ana
preserving history.
Pray, don't let us vote. To our country
grace and honor we now belong. we are
in q position now to ask favors and nave
them granted, because we do not vote.
If we voted. how truly it will be said or
us by the men:
"Once our superiors, now our equals.
This grand United States has been sue
cesfully run without our votes; now
don t let's put it on the run with our votes.
II II did not need such woman's as Dolly
Nadison's vote it will not need ours.
There will be war. the most cruel, Of all
wars woman will be against woman
wives will be against husbands, sisters
against brother, Every one OF US would
be a candidate and dark horse, too.
To vote would break more home ties
than anything in the world.
Can IL be l am unpatriotic? j, VINO
it is said have the patriotism of the whole
family-three sisters and one brother!
And the own granddaughter of the found
er OF the first soldiers home of the Con-
federacy-Sara Boiler Halls Bellinger
To our country's grace and honor we
now belong. Let US ever be "Of all GODS
gift the best, o, gentle woman! Let us
trust the welfare Of our nation to the
men. Let us ever be the dainty lace, SILK
petticoat, blue stocking women. 1t does
seem the hour is ripe for southern
aristocracy of our own as in the days OF
southern chivalry.
Let us not rob our home Of its bloom
by placing our vote in the ballot box,
though IT be a free ballot and fair
count 1t is well for US to keep in touch
with the, political world and many OF us
do, but I again cry, don't let's vote!
Thanksgiving day in Alabama removed
the black birds, with few exceptions,
from the polls; and of course 1t is more
healthy atmosphere. but we are still
afraid of germs.
Oct us remember It is the hand that
rocks the cradle that rules the world, and
are not those hands now pure and winter
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
RECIPES.

Tomato Jelly.-Stew, without adding
water, a large canful of tomatoes until
thoroughly cooked. Mash until quite
smooth and stir into them a cupful of
hot water and a half-cupful of sugar.
Have half a teacupful of gelatine soften
ed in a half-cupful water and when the
tomatoes have boiled a few minutes with
the water and sugar add the gelatine,
take from the fire and stir until the gel
atIne is dissolved. Set It aside to con-
geal. stirring occasionally to keep the
tomatoes from settling at the bottom.
II preferred the mayonnaise may be
mixed with the jelly or it may be merely
served with IL.
Plain Salad.-Plain lettuce salad is a
relief to the palate after oyster cocktails
and mayonnaise. Use only the tender
leaves. Wash them well and garnish liba
orally with rings of hard boiled eggs
Season with salt only.
Hot Chocolate Sauce.-Boil teacup
full OF milk with a half teacup of sugar.
Beat an egg, mix II with little cold
milk and turn II into the boiling milk.
Stir the mixture constantly and as soon
as It boils again take IT from the fire.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
BY M. |. M'LENDoN.

way, to solve the great moral questions OF
the day. II is those women who devote
their time to frivolties who manifest no
interest in this question of woman sur
frage
THE woman OF. the future will be cit
izen in tne full suffrage. because it is just
and right. England cut no sorrier figure
in taxing her colonies without giving them
voice in the management of their own
affairs than we do in taxing women and
then Withholding the franchise from them.
IF woman is fitted for the high duties
of motherhood and wifehood, she can be
trusted with the ballot
Philadelphia and Washington are some
distance from Atlanta, but there are
preachers of orthodox evangelical
churches in Atlanta who have expressed
themselves in much the same way, per-
haps not quite so publicly. AS ] said he-
fore, queer things are happening these
days To those who are afraid the babies
will be neglected when Georgia women get
a chance to vote, we will ask who takes
care Of the babies when so many of the
mothers go to the courthouse and city hall
to give in their taxes and then work to
get the money-to pay-them2" Women, lu-
natics, idiots criminals and Indians are
about the only classes that are not per-
mitted TO have voice in the government
under which they live in Georgia. but
queerer things have happened than that
all this should be changed, as has been
done in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and
Idaho, where women have equal rights
with men.
Bronco in the New York Press, de-
elares: Woman might waste some time
finding out how to fold the ballot. but
the vote In that ballot would be what she
honestly thinks 1t ought to be- and not
what was suggested by the man who
bought the last round of drinks for the
crowd
They have tried it (woman suffrage) in
a partial way in New York state, and 1t
has not brought on revolution In the
Empire State of the North. Why should
It do any harm to the Empire State of
the South? NJ. L. MLENDON.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13

was rocked in Confederate cradle,
in the cradle of the Confederacy, so OF
course cannot go back to the full round
one hundred years.
Tradition and lingering memories from
voices OF the fading past, whisper south
ern chivalry and a beautifully rounded
womanhood that cannot be surpassed, II
equalled.
All sorts and conditions of life has
changed womans sphere Not so much
in the south by the march OF commerce
as by the march OF the "two-step" do
mestic. unbleached, not a yard wide, but
guaranteed little wool. In other words,
plain English-the negro.
Our homes are fuller OF occupations
today than ever before. This is self
evident truth. 1t needs no word demon
stration. How wonderful is the south
ern woman, who can and does today
seize occupations one by one and master
them with her own hands and active
brain. We will never run out of job,
we will always find something to do. 1t
is a lamentable and undisputed fact, wo-
men do throw men out of work. Are we
not today where we dared not tread
years ago? Why is this? Life Is more real
and woman's high sense of honor. con-
scientious scruples ability and lastly the
cheap pay thus scales wages. The bust
, ness avenues are broadening daily for
women, so many a man has to hustle TO
get a place and TO keep It. There are
but few women in the south who nave
gone out into the business world for PIN
money. Necessity in the grim guise Of
death or disease at home has made II so.
God bless the woman who goes out 10
battle for a living thus heavy-hearted.
The smile may be there. but It is only
skin deep" its seat is not in the heart'
Why is 1t the salary is not equal payE
Merit and not sex should be the stand
ard.
Genius knows no sex"
Why should commerce?
How long before this condition OF az
fairs is changed? There is no echo-not
a sound.
II is far better to let the man OF the
house 90 and make the full salary than
for him to divide II by one-third with
the woman who goes to help; unless 1t
be that necessity drive her.
What are women to do?
why we have so much to do we can
hardly get there.
Even the rural sisters are double step
ping" for their country's cause. Charity
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
chieken-Eating sOws win Eat Pigs.

Dear Mrs. FELTON,:
/ have Just read with much interest your
article on Pigs" AS you ask for infor-
nation. I will give you my experience
with chicken-eating sOws.
They will always eat their pigs. nave
been obliged to kiln some very fine Berk-
shire sows on account Of eating their
pigs. and I have never known one 70 be
broken OF the habit
When I read your previous letter about
your fine sow's liking for chickens l felt
sure she would eat up her own pigs. The
only way that know tosbreak'her Of the
habit is to kill her.
NY wife raised one by hand, as you are
doing. and IL was the finest pig l ever saw.
Her plan was to feed a little at a time,
but often.
i enjoy reading your letters very much.
I continue to take The Semi-Weekly for
your letters more than everything else.
do appreciate YOUR kind words Of comfort
I and advice. SurelylI need all the help L
can get TO help me 10 raise the six prec-
fous ones God has given to u.s.
May you be spared for many. many
years Of usefulness. is the wish Of
A PLAIN YOUNG FARMER.
PerhapsFthis is a good time. and place
to tell our readers how prospered with
the two young pigs that / rescued from
the pig-eating sow-mother.
Both did finely until a gawxy lout Of
darby servant let stick of wood fall on
one and killed it-much to my regret. The
survivor. which answers TO the name of
"Bobs." named after the British Lord
Roberts. who was too smart for poor Dom
Paul down in South Africa. is a blooming
specimen Of the royal Duroc-Jersey thor
oughbred pig He is the -smartest young
animal ever petted in my life. He is as
nimble with his feet as girls fingers on
a typewriter. and never fails to respond
when he sees me or hears my voice. He
eats and sleeps well. and has learned to
jump up steps like cat
lie is eating his white bread" as the
saying goes, for he must be shut out
whenever the severe weather ceases. He
| is a perfect beauty OF pig, ana yet l
/ know can never break him from coming
to me whenever he gets a chance. If ]
keep him here at home. l must either
| give him away or sell the little yellow
/ into some kind home, which aim to do.
Like my farmer friend, Iknow now that
/ little baby pigs can be entirely raised by
hand. II is a tough experience for several
days. until they do learn 10 drink from a
shallow pan, but they are all right after
they once learn to feed themselves.
II no accident befalls 'Bobs" ,he will
make a magnificent thoroughbred stock
hog for whoever gets him.-Editress.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
FOR the Mission saskss-cOurt plaster

There are many little articles that can
be prepared for the mission sale and ma
willing buyers II one only has a largo
amount OF that gift.called ingenuity The
odds and ends can be turned 20 good &C
count BY the woman who knows how
Court plaster in dainty cases will md
ready sale and can be made as follows:
Ffu q large mouthed bottle half ful OF
i<lnr glass. then MI nearly full OF the
l,ezf whisky and let stand until dissolved.
Use black silk, fine white linen anu
cream and flesh cOlored silk II desired Tor
the foundation. With a soft brush cover
the material with two or three coats OF
the solution. letting IL dry thoroughly be-
tween the coats. Cut TO the required size,
Ike 10 inches is about right, ana place
i've sheets IN each case.
Cases for the court plaster may be
made OF cellul0id cut the desired size,
hand painted and laced together with SIX
cord or ribbon. Some may be covered
with silk or satin and an initial embroid-
cred on one side. Cases for gentlemen
may be made OF cardboard or the cellu-
loid from discarded cuffs. covered with
kid The cuffs may be well cleaned with
warm pearline suds. then cut In the shape
Of an envelope. and, after heating with
warm nat iron. folded and pressed In me
desired shane with the iron. Have ready
a piece Of kid from an old glove cut The
same shape as the celluloid. brush the
celIuIoid with glue and Immediately cover
Il with the Kid. smoothing it carefully 70
remove any wrinkles or creases. When
dry and hard trim neatly any that may
project beyond the edge Of the celluloid
Color the kid any color desired by apply
ing a solution OF diamond dye with a
small sponge or brush.
A blue case may have the edges OF the
envelope. where one laps over the other
s.dabbled' with diamond gold paint. On
the front Of the envelope put diagonaily
with the gold paint the words. Il cure all
wounds but those OF love- or "Tll stick
BY you" one may have the label Stick
t0-it-iveness-"
After the case Is decorated fasten all
but one Zap BY applying little glue and
pressing with a warm iron
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
5quin Hun,orists of oAmerican Democracy.

coort follows tn iliction returns"
81 shud think Schley'd thry an prove
an allybi." Mr.. Hennessy suggested
pleasantly.
He can't said Mr.. Dooley. 'His
frind SIMPSONS got that"
I'VE can lade a man up to tn uni
versity, but We can't make him think. .
Mr.. AIDES more outrageous If less
aspiring humor derives its sap from a
less stubborn soil. Its ground has been
mellowed by the generations of humor-
lists who have worked it over and
over again with a rotation of various
and generous crops 1t is a provincial
life and manners as opposed to met
ropolitan. His field is the country
town where live the good folk OF bud
ding social aspirations who ape the
customs of the city.
Great American humorists before
him. Max Adler" and the 'Danbury
News Man" and H. G. Bunner, have
''chronkcled the small beer of village
life and decanted It to US without
tang Of unkindliness. But AIDES tap
has the wholesome bitterness Of satire
In every drop. He is as stanchly true
70 the Democratic ideal as Dunno, and
fummery and fiunkeyism are punctur-
ed by his pen as effectively as i'm
perialism and plutocracy are hammer
ed by Dooley's bungstarter.
He has the same intellectual power
of epigram, with the added artistic ele-
ment of phrase making. What car
toonist could draw more vivid sketch
in fewer lines than this? Aunt EN-
was two kinds of a Widow, Grass
and Sod. She had buried one Hus-
band and came out in Black. She had
tied a Can to No. 2 and came out in
Bright Colors."s What could be an
apter pun than che had heard that one
IS permitted certain Latitude with
Widows, and he went in for the whole
$50 Degrees''2 And as for insight into
human nature, certainly the contrast
between the realities and localities Of
life was never more tersely epitomized
than in the account Of The Girl Who
Could Compromise in Pinch:
The Man who wins my cardlacal
Regard must be Tall and Dark, with
Raven hair tossed from Brow OF
Alabaster Whiteness.' she said as she
reached for another Olive. He must
be Brave. yet Gentle. would have
him a Chesterfield as to manners, and
as bright as Winston Churchill. In
Thought and Speech he must be pure
and unsullied. Withai, he is to be
Strong and Manly. He who would
hold down my Rocking Chair must be
Chivalrous Gentleman, and don't you
forget it,
THAT evening a Red-Headed Boy.
wearing striped FIannels and smoking
a Bulldog Pipe, came to the Front Gate
and Whistled. She upset four Flower
Pots in getting to him.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13

In glancing over a late issue of The
Union Signal, the official organ or the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
union, / read the announcement that the
S4th annual convention Of the National
Woman's Suffrage association would be
held in the First Presbyterian church of
Washington, D. c.. February IL TO Is, 1907.
This paper has always good words to
say for the Suffrage association, which Is
not surprising, for every state ". c. I. y.
has adopted the franchise department rec
commended by the National W. G. 4. u,
except six southern state unions, and they
are afraid to do so because the preachers
! are so down on woman suffrage.
The wopderful thing to me is that a
PRESBYTERIAN church should open its doors
to Aunt Susan B. Anthony and her de-
voted followers.
But why wonder. when in the latest
daily paper we read that the Presbyterian
committee on creed revision declared. on
February sth that no man Is condemned
except on the ground Of his sin, and there
is no damnation for babies
Then, we all know the Methodist Epis-
eopaI churchmen have lately voted that
women can serve as delegates in the gem
eral conferences. and women members or
the Episcopal church can vote for vestry-
men.
II is a far call from the time when
Surtullian declared Woman is every one
a dewitt" to This day and time, when wo-
men compose three-fourths of the church
members and the same proportion OF
school teachers. while more than three
fourths of the criminals in our prisons are
men.
In a series of sermons on THE Woman
Of the Future" lately preached by Rev.
DR.. Herbert Foss. successor of Bishop
| Simpson. Of the Arch Street Methodist
church. of Philadelphia, he discussed the
question fought Woman to Have Full
Suffrage?' In part. DR.. Foss said:
1T is those women who are fighting the
evils of society. the devoted Christians,
who favor the right to cast the ballot.
They are doing IT, not because of notori-
ety. but because they see in it the only
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
The journal Has wide Circulation

FORT PIERCE. Fla, jan p. 1902.
Mrs. w. H. FELTON,:
Dear Madam-The note / wrote you in
regard TO shallott bulbs is certainly bring
ing forth, not fruit. but shallott bulbs in
plenty find that Georgia is full OF them.
find Furthermore that The Atlanta Jour
nal has a wide circulation. With many
thanks for your kindness. am very
truly. J. T. GRAY.
p. S.-As an advertising medium The
Journal has no superior. A friend of mine
had two pairs of turkeys TO dispose Of.
Inside of week at least two dozen appli-
cations came in. Could have sold that
many pairs inside OF a week.
MRS. FELTON,.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
The Literary Digest

ne l4llCIdIy 1A5CSls
TVHE forcing-bed of American
journalism has produced a
crowded crop of writer's of
such luxuriant wit that pre-
eninence in humor must hereafter
form a principal element in arranging
the precedence of our authors. Never
has natural selection a fuller field for
her weeding-out process. 1t takes a
s.ht man to survive. Most or the
humorists who sprang into prominence
suddenly have died as quickly, De
cause they had no depth Of earth.
Many wrote on, tolerated because OF
their former fame. They were better
dead"
Finley Peter Dunno and George ACE
are unquestionably the greatest OF the
later crop of American humorists.
They have received their training IN
the same school, for both are Chicago
neusnaper men. Each has been warn
ed by the critics. who have pointed to
the ending made by Artemus Ward
and Bill Nye. with the injunction
'sRespicel'' The fate 6f the creator
of the immortal Snowman, who
died at the zenith. of his fame, has
been wished for them in all kindness,
rather than the fate of the editor OF
The Boomerang, whose wit grew labor
ed as his life began to wane under the
killing contract to supply humor 10
the American nation by the column In
weekly installments.s
Yet Dunno and AIDE still flourish.
Their humor is equal to every emer-
gency; it expands. like the constitu-
ton. ex proprio vigore. And the rea-
son IS that it has depth of earth.
The roots of Dooley's philosophy sink
through the paving of the @Ar-rehey
Road" deep into the continental SOIL
beneath. A son of the city as MI:
Dunno is, seeing only the public side OF
life as it is presented through the
newspapers, he is thoroughly Ameri-
can in his shrewd wit and simple yet
profound wisdom. Every discussion
ends with a homely epigram which IS
worthy of Lincoln. We quote rev
from the present collection:
II think" said Mr.. Dooley, that II
tn Christyan Scientists had some sci
ence an tn doctors more Christyani-
ty. it wudden't make amy din renee
which We called inf We had a good
nurse"
mo matter whether tn constitution
follows tn flag or not. tn supreme
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
where durlng the following night.

where during the following night.
one OF the heaviest thunder storms
ever witnessed, when our piazza was lit
orally covered with the shivered bark
from a green giant oak tree in the back
yard. came upon US in January, shortly
after noon one day. The shock OF the
lightning bolt was terrific, and the hash
was described by one whOssaw II as
ball OF fire falling in the tree top and
rendIng the body OF the tree in twain.
But il is not a frequent occurrence 10
see SNOW and lightning, or snow and thun-
der. I'm the midwinter months. II seems TO
be out OF season. IL II is not really
strange occurrence. at that time OF the
wear
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-13
puek-RaIsInu- b the PhIIlppines.

Duck eggs are Matched In a novel way.
They are placed in layers on rice husks
and covered with bags containing husks
also The latter are heated every day
70 keep up the proper temperature. Just
before Matching time the eggs are spread
out on a table. covered 10 exclude a strong
hEht. and as the young ducks hatch out
they are collected in baskets until they
DRY on. and then the feeding process be-
gins Rice Is boiled soft. and mixed with
the meat OF small crabs. The little ones
have a pen. hoored with woven cane. and
as they grow they are turned into little
enclosed ponds, where they paddle and
feed The older ducks are fed on rice In
the husk
The male birds are sold in market. but
the females are kept for eggs.