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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

Not long ago I had the pleasure of visiting several schools for girls, schools in which the students repre- sented nearly all the states in the un- dens of girls. Seldom have I seen so many pretty maids together as in these institutions where young women in the sweet flush of the dawn, just the place where the brook and river meet. were gathered to be educated. Before the number of subjects with which were familiar I bowed my head in humility. for girls are far more learned now than they used. to be. Yet. learned or not, in every successive year a girl is as like the girls who went before her as the daisies of one season are like the daisies of another. A number of girls invited me into their rooms. and en- tertained me there. b-
 Now, whether you believe it or not. when a girl lets one look at her room she reveals a good deal of her char acter. A mans room hardly reflects his preferences and tastes as a girls dos hers. All the roous I visited left on my mind a general impression of banners, photographs and bric-a-brac. There were cushions as a matter of course, and most rooms had little tables with tear service and book shelves on the walls in which were the favorites of their owners.
 If a girls brother is in Princeton, orange is the predominating color of her room. If in Yale she Is probably a devotee of the blue, and so on. The college colors of brother and cousin are loyalty adopted by schoolgirls.
 As a rule, girls have too many small objects in their rooms which have to be taken care of and which. on the whole, leave the effect of a crazy-quilt on memory. Fancy being i'll in a room where photographs are pinned on every available space on the wall, and fancy waking up at night with the moon beams streaming through the window and lighting the faces of all the kith and kin, the girls one went to school with last year, the cousins in California and the ideal maids and matrons Of Shakespeare or Petrarch or the ear Her mythology.
 I give you my word that have seen specimens of every age, from early Phoenician and Greek art to the most popular New York. studio, huddled to- gether in the room of a single college student. Poor child! How could she ever get her ideas in order with so confusing a tumble about her wherever she turned?
 As to photographs, so far as the family is concerned l advise limiting the number to the dearest dear. Ones mother Is ones patron saint. A girl away from home always wants to say good morning to her mothers picture when she begins the day, and to bid that dear mother good night before she lays her head on the pillow. On the wall I would have one Madonna, not more. and that should be the one among Madonnas that I loved best. All the other pictures after those of the im- mediate family circle I would keep in a drawer or box. taking them out and looking at them from time to time, but not allowing them either to dis
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

{, tract my attention or to ask from me | the care that Is needed if they are to
 be kept from the all-pervading dust. | sA = A desk is a necessity for girl if she
 has many letters to write or much | theses or other written work. If she be orderly and systematic she | keeps her desk with neat precision and | can put her hand in the dark on any. thing she wants. If you happen to hs l a girl whose desk is usually at sixes 1 and sevens you will tell me that you l find occasional clearings up much cas-
 fer and simpler than continual tidiness. and also that you never have any trou'
 hle In finding a paper unless some one else takes upon her the task of ar- ranging your desk for you. I know that you are right. The one individual possession which no one should in- wade or molest without authority from the owner Is a desk.
 Polly may keep hers in exquisite neatness. May, on the contrary. will frequently leave hers in what looks to an outsider fearful mess But 1t is the privilege of both girls to close the lid and to answer no questions. As matter of choice, think the neat girls methods are the better. but as we all know, there is such a thing as Worsniplng system to an extent that ie defeats it's own end.
 Keep your desk and your bureau drawers. your closet shelves and every thing in your room in perfect order. if you can, but do not forget that to get the days work done we'll and thorough ly one must sometimes sacrifice a lit- tie order.
 When I think of an ideal girls NP Therefore I like a white room with pale gray paper on the walls, a small bed whitely covered and curtained with perhaps few roses sprinkled here and there. sparsely, on the coverlet, snowy curtains at the windows, loop. ed back with delicate pink, and if pos- sible a tall mirror, in which my little maid may see herself from the top of her dainty head to the toes of her we'll shod feet.
 I would have this mirror set in a door so that it should not take up any space. A single good picture would mean more than many small photo- graphs, and l would all the year round have something growing. Eng fish ivy in vases in winter. q pot of forget-me- nots or a fern in summer. A girls room should always have a few flowers in it.
 As for her toilet table its belongings should be simple and immaculate, with very little in the way of essences or cosmetics which a young girl does not note of an exquisite refinement. A banjo or a violin, if she be musical, gives an added touch, and by all means let the young girl have few good books well bound. books that she may read over and over. and which shall become her daily friends.
 Such a room will be eloquent of a girls personality. It will be her ref uge when she is tired, and in it she may have many a confidential chat with the girls for whom she most cares.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
JUVENILE DEPRAvITY IN ITALY.
Had Environment Responsible FO Eighty Per Cent. of Child
 Criminals.


 Consul Britain. of Kehl. Germany, furnishes some startling statistics on Juvenile crime in Italy, taken from an article recently published and written by Limo Ferriani. He says that so rer cent. of the child criminals of Ita- iy are manufactured by bad environ ment and inadequate education-in other words, by prevcntable causes; that 30 per cent. of the criminals of the country are minors. and of these S5 per cent. are thieves.
 Professor Feriani protests against scientific description. but pleads for cientific decription. but pleads for sci- scientific investigation. He himself has closely studied 500 boy prisoners be- tween the ages of II and IA, and re- ports that more than half of them came from the most wretched homes, and over 200 had criminal parents Very few had ever done any work, all were sexually corrupt, nearly all smoked and many had taste for alcohol.
 As a proof of how little good Is er- fected by mere instruction apart from moral training he asserts that the best scholars were among the worst offen- ders. As an alternative to prison the author proposes agricultural colonies in districts where the air is bracing, with good food and outdoor work, kindly discipline, and the supervision of an experienced physician.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

the butter comes salt and coioring are added, and the working out of the but termilk begins.
 For this process corrugated rollers are used. These revoIve toward one am other like the rubbers of a clothes i wringer, the milk is all squeezed out and flows of. and the butter is distrib-. uted to the packing rooms.
 In the packing room 1t is cut up into, pound and two pound packages if of the first grade, or tubs and firkins if inferior From there the product goes into cold storage, to be shipped upon orders. In another department home- made country butter is worked over by the addition of sweet milk and sold as renovated butter to the cheaper restau- rants and hotels.
 The amount of money the farmer gets is determined by the percentage of butter fat his product shows. In the test room are long shelves holding pint bottles. each labelled with a farmers name. From each consignment sent by him a sample Is taken and put in this bottle. Once month the chemist re-. ports on the percentage of butter fat and check is made out accordingly.
 The creamery has been q big thing for the farmer. He now gets more money for his butter fat than he once did out of his butter and has no trou- blesome churnins to do. The New York price of butter controls the price paid for the butter fat. The farmer receives 2 1-2 cents a pound less for his butter fat than the market price of a pound of creamery butter. This runs from 17 to 20 cents for the farmer.
 The average can holds about thirty five pounds of cream. This will contaiis about thirty-four pounds of butter fat and out of this amount the creamery will turn out forty-two pounds of butt ter. The extra eight pounds will pay the express and the company is able to lay down butter in New York at a cost of from IT to 20 cents. S
 Less than twenty years ago butter had little more than a local market, and 1t often suffered from depression poor paying one. Now there is not only sharp demand all over the country for it, but 1t can be sold wherever re- frigeration will carry 1t.
 The business has been gradually get. ting into flower hands, and at the same time there has been steady advance In price, until now it is about cents above what 1t was ten years ago. Much of the butter sent to New York is dis- posed of at 35 to 40 cents retail, and In Europe it has a ready market at as high as 50 cents a pound. The method of packing in cartons renders 1t dust, moisture and germ proof. besides ada ing to it's keeping qualities.
 With his nay dependent upon the quality of his cream, the farmer de- votes time and attention to this phase of his business. He attends the farm ers' institutes. reads up on the latest wrinkles and is able to get the last cent out of 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Free Seed Extravasance.

St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
 The intent of the free seed law was to put into the hands of those who would make good use of them new va- rieties of seed and so propagate more prolific or higher grades of various food and fibre plants. That purpose has been entirely lost to view. There is general grab for seeds annually by thousands of persons who are at best mere amateurs and who have no idea whatsoever of continuing the propaga- ton of the seeds they have received. They simply resort to this way of get. tin for nothing a few vegetable or flower seeds for their own selfish ends. Every package that goes into such hands is a loss to the government and a tax on all the rest of the people, with no benefit of any kind to offset the ex- pense and no agricultural progress to show for tt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

weakening drains, heals inflammation and alteration and cures female weak ness.
 "I am pleased to inform you of the benefit ! received from using Dr. Pierce's Favortte Prescription and Golden Medical Discov- cry" writes Mrs. Elizabeth A. Oswold of 45 Brant Street, Windsor Essex Go, Ontario, Canada Was quite discouraged when ] wrote asking your advice. as the physicians here told me l could get no relief except by an operation. Suffered for four years from irregular and profuse menstruation. had sick and nervous headaches most of the time and at times could hardly walk across the GOT from weakness. I thank God there is uch remedy as Dr. Pierces EavOrite Prt icription Tor suffering women, BetOre hat aken the first bottle the headaches had left me and 1t was not long before regularity was established and still continues so. Have just finished house-cleaning which I never eX- pected to be able to do again. and can truly say l never felt better than st present gladly recommend Favorfta Prescription to all who suffer from female weakness IL nas cugsd aae ana made me stronger in sFS1S ea;, way. Neither my husband nor myself can say enough in it's praise"
 The selfish seller who urges some sub stitute is thinking of the larger profit he'll make and not of your best good.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
JOHN ". GATES & co.
Are Said to be Reaching for Sioss-
 Sheffield Control.


 Shefield Control.
 New York Commercial.
 Wall Street is more interested Tn John w. Gates at the present moment than in any other man in the marker. Having completed his Tennessee Coai 6 Iron deal, the belief is that he IS reaching out for the Sloss-Shefield Steel Ss Iron Co. It is known that some of those who ar closly identified with him have been buying Sloss-Shef- field, but whether or not they nave secured control is not known, although the belief is strongly expressed that they have not.
 It was yesterday suggested by more than one man in the financial district that Mr. Gates is ambitious to creat a rival to the United States Corpora ton, a combine with a capitalization of Sl0e,000, 900 or whereabouts. It is known that MT. Gates has been studying the southern, particularly the Alabama, iron ore and coal fields, for some time. The Republic Iron & Steel Co. has some Alabama properties, as also has the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co.,, while the Sloss-Sheffield Co. possesses thous- ands of acres of the finest ore and coal lands in that State. The ore lands of that corporation in Alabama comprise something like 32,000 acres.
 That the Sloss-Sheffield people have
 
 shown by the statement credited to an official of that organization, who said he could not imagine how outside iu- terests could secure control of that company without the knowledge of the officers. Further than that, he averr- ed that none of those interested in the management had heard anything re- garding the passing of control, but ad- ded: However people closely identi- fled with Republic Steel and Tennessee Coal & Iron interests have been buy CTS of Sloss-Sheffield stock. but so far as I can find out they have not as yet secured a majority. We have not been approached by anyone on the question of merger This statement was not regarded in Wall Street as meaning anything In particular, as it has been shown that sometimes 1t is possible to obtain con- trol of a property without the man. agement being aware of it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
Plenty of Room.

Andadlusia News tenth of Covington county is in course of cultivation? Well, it's fact: We could accommodate thousands of far mers Where Andalusia stands we have the facilities for building and sustain ing a city of fifty thousand inhabitants. When the business men of Covington county awaken to the necessity of en- couraging farmers to come to this county we will have struck gait that means a greater degree Of pros prity than Andalusia has ever enjoyed. in order to have permanent prosperity you must have agricultural develop ment One man and one newspaper cannot do this thing. It is essential that the business men band together for the purpose of bringing desirable white farmers to this county to devel- on the idle lands. When panics come, when times are strenuous, the only communities that do not feel the pinch are the agricultural cnes. This Is the time to guard against the inevitable rainy day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
A pl.clple of Henrr Georrs.

Kansas City Drovers Telegram.
 Mrs Hi Uppe-Yes, my dear, I think 1t Is the most beautiful lawn I ever saw, and am so sorry 1t died so soon after putting it in your new park. think you should take it to a taxerder- mist.
 Mrs. -Riche-oh, no won't. Hub- by says his taxes is too high, now, and he swore about 1t, tool
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

her slumber will be and how re- freshed the
 morning will find her. But it's another
 thing for the sick woman to feel tired out. Rest only seems to increase her suffering. She feels acutely the aching back and throbblng
 nerves. Sick women,
 hundreds of thousands of
 them, have been made well by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription. It establishes regularity. dries
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

the Louth Education Council, the Rev. T. c. Simmons, Vicar of Grainthorpe, says: T drew attention to the very large number of people distinguished
 for amazing bodily constitutions and
 stupidity, also to several friends of mine distinguished for high mental at- tainments coupled with weak health, and concluded therefrom that health and stupidity go together
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
SCHOOL GIRLS ROOMS
 REVEAL CHARACTER

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
TIRED OUT.

There's many wife sits in the growing shadows of an evening, knowing what it Is to feel tired out; as If there was But if healthy she knows how sound
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24
KEEPING HOUSE FOR A
 FAMILY OF A THOUSAND

AMONG GREAT CITY1UsT HOW SHE IS MAKING THE HOLIDAYS WRINKLES WHICH IN TAsK-SwEEPING COMPRESSED AIR.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

Anglo French tradeJ in October amounted to $S.960,OOO of exports from
 England. and $19,757,4OO exports from France.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-24

Health and Stupidity. London Chronicle. Commenting on a recent debate at
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-18
Training Shepherd DOGS.

The natives of New Mexico have an
original and successful way of training
shepherd dogs. A pup is taken from
it's mother as soon rs possible. The
breed Of dog is immaterial. The young
Of sheep or goat is taken away and
the pup is substituted. After the first
few days the pup is never fed except
just before the flock goes to pasture in
the morning and just after the sheep
are brought in at night. As soon as
he can walk he goes out with the flock
and stays with it all day. Whenever
he begins tG anticipate supper by try
ing to drive the flock in before sum
down ne is punished. After he is
about year old, he takes a flock out,
guards it from other dogs and coyotes
during the day and brings it in at the
proper time at night without supervi-
sion or help. With dog encountered
in the hills with his flock all kinds OF
temptations are useless, for in spite Of
ali allurments be will remain faithful
Is duty.-E. r. Beach, in Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-18

anyone has ever really suffered frdh
q disease contracted in handling d
bills. They cite the experience vt b
money counters in the treasury Dom
In the basement of this building thfe
are many women who have been c0ylt-
ing money for the past eight or en
sears and they handle the very wfst
bills In circulation. Currency that is
not considered fit to remain In ua is
put up in bundles and sent to Wish
ington for redemption. These bur lies
must be counted by the women all it
is declared that not 8 single case on
record of disease contagion grFing
out of handling this money.
The national banks are compl1hing
about the expense they are put B for
the printing of new notes in rebonse
to this clean money craze. With the
past four years the volume Of r4emp-
tions have doubled. In 1900 thee was
redeemed daily about s.. 1.O00, 90, but
now the redemptions run over 2, ,100.-
900 each day. It will be nece4ary to
increase the force in the burest of en-
craving and printing to keep tp with
the printing of new notes u{ess the
secretary decides to prolong T. life Of
bank note and thus red Ice the
amount that is turned in for1redemp-
ton.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-18
FARMER AND PLANTER.
RAISING GRAIN In TIE sourH
The Southern Farmer Who NeE1eets
to Grow Wheat and Oats Isn't
Living Up to His Opportunities.

II any southern farmer fails to SOW
large crop Of wheat and oats, he sim
ply neglects his opportunities and fails
to do his duty; he fails to read Gods
handwriting upon the field" for the
early and short crop Of cotton will give
us plenty Of time both to SOW larger
area than usual, and to give it better
preparation. And the short cotton
crop. being interpreted rightly, certain
ly means to make up your loss as best
you can by intelligent efforts in other
crops that can be grown before another
cotton crop comes in. According to
past experience, next year will be a
good grain year, since this was q poor
Gne. We generally have one poor and
then good year. But leaving the yield
Of grain out Of consideration, it will
pay us well, IL we will only prepare
our land right, in this work upon our
soil and have something growing upon
it In the winter time to prevent wash
Ing and teaching and to add vegetable
matter or humus to our soil, in which
it is so deficient. However, we can
raise grain in the south, If we only go
at it right We know men who are
making money raising both wheat and
oats every year. OF course their yield
is not always so large, but when you
take good land to start with and plow
it deep, harrow it we'll, and manure it
well, then you can always count on
remunerative crop. With oats we have
not failed to make good crop in ten
years. We make it rule to SOW half
Cur crop in the fall, and half as early
after Christmas as we can get them in
the ground, but generally in February,
but have sown as late as the 4th of
April and made fair oats. If you will
sow them in the "open furrow'' you will
never have them. killed out. Let us
all unite and SOW so much grain that
the hills of our Southland will be COW
cred with coat Of green this winter
and early spring such as they have
never had before It need not cut your
cotton Or corn area one acre: you can
make good corn, or cotton either, after
this grain, if you will only manure
highly; and this is what we want you
to do. Spread or the manure and en-
rich your land. Make two crops where
one grew before and let us fulfill our
boast .that we have soil and climate
in which we can grow almost any
op.'-Southern Cultivator.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-18
HERE AND THERE.

There is nothing like kindness to
farm animals, if you would make them
docile and agreeable.
Teach the little pigs to eat as soon
as possible and feed them ski1n-milk,
all they will eat.
There is a better margin for profit
in well-fed litter Of pigs than may be
found in any other like investment Of
money on the farm.
Besides the proftableness of grow.
ing the better animals, there is the ad.
vantage in that there is always a de-
mand for such stock.
1t is of utmost Importance that the
water used on the farm should be pure,
though it seems there are many who do
not regard sanitary conditions and are
content to use water that is wholly un-
fit for either man or beast, from year
to year.
For diarrhea of fowls, dust little
powdered chalk and cayenne pepper in-
to boiled milk, mixed up with little
meal; feed on soft food, and without
vegetables for a few days. Keep the
birds in a warm place and out Of tho
draught.
Horse breeding continues with in
dustrial prosperity. With all the i'm
provements of electricity and mechan-
ical traction the demand for horses in
creases as our cities grow aud the su-
perior quality must replace the cheap,
small horses of the street car class.
Hickory, beech, maple and elm
wood make the best ashes and are Of
great advantage on clay land. There is
no manure so good for strawberries -
ashes and they are excellent for grass.
They are probably worth more than sta
BILE manure. They do not germfnats
weeds as tho latter does.
I'm 1000 pounds Of average milk
there are 36 pounds Of fat This -
taken of and sold as butter. It repre-
sents only the carbon, or that which
does not rob the soil. When you keep
the skim milk and feed 1t on the farm
you retain 80 pounds Of casein nitro
genous matter), As pounds OF milk SUI
gar, and I pounds Of mineral matter
(lime, magnesia, etc., al waN % phoss
phoric acid and potash.