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but their blankets and a rubber ponoho,
learn how to build a camp fire and cook
their own food and to depend entirely upon
themselves.
In some camps a months canoe trip
down the river is a regular feature Of the
summer vacation for the older boys.
In the last few weeks come the annual
meets and contests. Foremost are the
aquatic sports with their parade Of gay
ly decorated hoats and skiffs.
Then there are canoe and boat races,
swimming and diving contests and after
ward a show by the amateur actors Of the
camp and a spread for the benefit Of visit
ing friends and relatives. Al this time are
held the field sports, running and jumping
and amusing obstacle races. the champion
ship baseball games, the tennii finals, and
last of all visiting day, with The exhibition
Of manual training work, nature specimens
and camp photographs, Then the camps
close up. the boys assemble al their tents
to pack their scattered belongings and the
home trip is begun.
The typical summer camp consists OF a
farm of from twenty-five 70 $50 acres,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
SILK RAISING FOR WOMEN
A WORK THAT FARMERS WIVES
FIND PROFITiBLE.

Experience OF an Alabama Woman With an
Ounce OF Egss and Five Mulberry Trees
ms a Starter-Grentest care Must lie
taken In Feeding and In Keeling Silk.
my eldest daughter paid her W way
through college with money made by
raising silkworms," said Mrs. Mary S.
Graham Of Alabama when asked by a re-
porter TO give her experience Tin raising
silk for market. Il gave her n Thousand
silkworm eggs when she was ~ years old
and from them she made the money 30 pay
her expenses at college.
my own experience with silk raising
began when my daughter, who is my eldest
child, was 10 years old. My husband old
hIs farm in Connecticut and moved to
Alabama. On our new farm there we're
six splendid mulberry trees. From one
Of OUR ~neighbors l learned that they had
been planted by the former owner OF the
farm at the time when the Government
was Offering some sort Of bounty for silk
worm culture. She told me that at one
time there had been quite a number OF
mulberry orchards in the neighborhood.
THAT conversation put me to thinking.
I had only one child, my house work was
light and l didn't see why it wouldn't he a
good thing for me to try silk raising even
though my predecessor had failed and the
Government no longer offered induce
ments.
My first step was to write to the Con-
gresham from hat district asking for any
reports on the subject that the Govern
ment had published. / also wrote an old
school friend in Boston to send me any
book or magazine article that she could
ind, That winter | devoted all my spare
time to reading up on the subject and
making preparations.
Along in February, | think II was, I
bought an ounce OF silkworm eggs. The
cost when they reached me was just S..
Quite a high price, as 1 have since learned,
but as they we're guaranteed and proved
all that was claimed for them have never
felt that ! had any cause 10 complain. These
Eggs / kept in a cool place in my cellar
until the mulberry trees began to show
their first leaves. Then got out my eggs
and put them in my incubator, just the
ordinary chicken incubator. ! treated the
worm egg pretty much as ] had chicken
eggs kept the air moist and the heat regu-
lated.
while the eggs we're incubating | de-
voted myself TO getting the rearing room
ready. II was n large house and with our
small family there were several rooms
which were u~nfurnished, l selected the
largest on the shady side Of the house and
after having all the woodwork carefully
scrubbed and the room disinfected by
burning sulphur Ia 1t ! gave /. . good coat
OF whitewash,
'In the centre OF this rearing room l
placed a movable set OF shelves which my
husband had made. AZ soon as the eggs
showed signs Of Matching | placed over them
shallow trays with bottoms Of mosquito
netting. Into these trays ! sprinkled
lightly finely chopped mulberry leaves.
Az fast a. che young worms would hatch
they would crawl through the holes
In the netting and begin 20 devour
the chopped leaves. Following the di.
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range OF the bell. Soup, meat and vege-
tables. usually with,ice cream for dessert,
disappear rapidly. Good plain food d
Served and lots of it. The amount of
food a hungry bunch OF boys will stow
away is wonderful. Meat and potatoes
are what the boys want most of all and
pie and candy and other rich foods are
rarely eaten Apple sauce, as much as
they can eat. usually takes the place OF
indigestible pastry.
The hours between sunset and bedtime
are among the most enjoyable 81 the day,
There are gatherings round the camp
FIRE enlivened by stories and jokes and by
camp songs with banjo or mandolin &C.
compartment. Potatoes are roasted in
the ashes or corn is popped over the glow
ing Goals. On clear nights "A moonlight
sail or row across the lake is taken.
Whatever the diversion. the call 10
quarters ia always unwelcome, The boys
then assemble at their tents and get ready
for bed. Pillow fights and good natured
horseplay generally enliven the half hour
until at taps, 10 O'Clock, the last light is
put out.
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$50. While Keeling silk is not difficult it
is a delicate operation and requires con
siderable practice. Aside ftom chopping
the mulberry leaves it il the only part of
the work Of silk culture that | have found
tedious. The leaves may be picked and
c~hoppedS by children and as the season is
very short and at the time ofthe year when
everybody, old and young, is fond OF being
out OF doors it has never been dihicult for
Inc TO get it done.
Il have never used hired help forRrowing
this pin money CROP as / always call it, so
for that reason every dollar that / have
made has been clear gain. ! always cal
culate on making from $50 TO so from every
ounce OF silkworm eggs. As | have been
able to marage five ounces a season you
can readily calculate the amount | have
made. Not a fortune. perhaps, but enough
to make it worth while TO the wife of the
average farmer and her daughters. If the
Government would only establish failures.
as places for Keeling the silk are called, I
am confident that silk growing would be-
come one OF the most profitable Industries
in which women in the country could en-
GAGE.
IF any oma wishes 10 begin the cult
ure of the silk worms ! would adyise her
to start with o~ne-Quarter Of IN ounce Of
eggs. They should remember that the
mulberry trees from which the leaves are
TO be taken should be at least 5 years old
While there are other plants on which the
silkworm thrives | have never tried anv to
any great extent and il Is acknowledged
that the white mulberry, Of which there are
several varieties. lie the best food for them.
Fresh o sell at from 50 to 90 cents a
pound. As the season is short and the
money comes in az the beginning of the
farming wear it il particularly desirable
for the daughters and wives OF farmers.
All necessary implements can be made at
home and the work il about as light as work
can very well be-" =
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
ALANG OF NEW GUINEA.
Graz That Makes Fierce warfare on All
Other Kinds OF Vegetation.

W.. Poch, the Austrian a~nthropologis',
who has spent a long time in New Guinca
studying its natives and its geography,
tells OF a remarkable variety Of grass tina
max es fierce warfare upon other kinds Of
vegetation 80 that practically nothing
else grows where Il gets a foothold.
The natives call II alang. II has A tall.
thick and tough stalk. but its creates.
popularity is its roots, which spread out
through every particle Of earth they
reach and give II a matted texture Some
thing like felt. There is really no room
lett Tor the roots OF any other kind OF
vegetation.
Fields Of alang cannot exist in forests
because the plant does not thrive in the
shade. Neither can any kind Of tree make
Roadway In a patch Of alang.
The two kinds OF vegetation are antagon.
istic. One will mot grow where the othe
exists. Large patches OF alang are found
surrounded by timber and remain ther.
x islands, for no treea will grow In them
Between the alang and the forest 10 a sor,
OF neutral zone. for the shade Of the high
grass.
The New Guinea natives help 10 extend
the area covered by this grass. Each yea
they make q new clearing in the forest
for their little plantations. Az soon az
these are abandoned the alang takes Arm
lodsment there. IL has won Just 90 much
terntory from b forest and II yields 70
nv SShAStts
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-30
WHY CANOES ARE SCARCE.
None Are Being Made Stones Used by
Cutters.

There is a great scarcity OF canoes in
Europe and America now. owing TO the
gradual dying of Of the Old cameo cutters.
No canoes are being made. and the old
stock is diminishing rapidly because Of the
present craze for old fashioned jewelry,
and jewellers say the only way they can
replenish their stock is by buying DID
canoes from private owners.
or n dozen jewelry establishments in
St. Louis visited recently by a purchaser
in search OF canoes, says the Globe Demo
Graf, only one had unset cameot in stock,
and only three had more than eight speci-
mems of the set gems. This scarcity Of
canoes makes them very expensive, ard
those jewellers that are 30 fortunate se 10
have them in stock can get almost alY price
they choose 10 ask for them.
The true nature OF a cameo is very much
misunderstood by the public generally.
Most people think il is the stone itself.
when in reality the method OF cutting il
what produces the cameo The real mean
ing OF the word is unknown, it's derivation
having never been discovered, but correctly
speaking canoes are small sculptures
executed in low relief on some substance
precious either for its beauty, rarity or
hardness.
There are emerald canoes, turquoise
canoes. shell canoes, coral canoes; in
deed, any substance that lends itself -
carving in such minute detail can he usc
for cameo cutting, and nearly all precioY
stones, except diamonds. have been -
used. Diamonds have been used for IL
taglios but never for canoes. Emerald 4:
the most common precious stone from whitn
canoes have been made, and there a."
some very fine emerald portrait cameo.
in existence, notably those OF Queen Eliza
beth in the British Museum. Shell canoes
were first made in the fifteenth centur-
but never became popular until recently.
Banded onyx lie generally used for cameo
work because OF its hardness and coloring.
and IL ie this fact that has caused the mis-
apprehension, the stone being used 50
much in making canoes that II has now
become better known as cameo than by
its right name.
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EELS IN WATER PIPES.
One Place Where Their Presence Is Not
Considered Remarkable,

Some people think il a remarkable hing
to find an eel in a water pipe; but cells in
pipes don't strike them that way down
at the Aquarium, where nothing about
fishes would seem surprising, and where
cells are often 80 found.
II Ia not supposed that cells, finding them
selves In the city's water mains, seek the
Aquarium's supply pipe with the hope of
finding an outlet there into this home for
fishes: The simple fact is that the Aqua.
rum has, as II naturally would lave in it's
business. special facilities for finding eols
in its water pipes and for removing them.
There was a time when the Aquarium's
fresh water pumps we're clogged with eels
that came through the supply pipe They
have had to stop a big pump here and take
1t apart TO clear its valves OF cells, hut that
was some time ago. When they he gan
to have trouble OF this sort they simply
put a strainer in the main supply pipe.
outside OF the building in Battery Park,
and since then all the cells coming his way
have been stopped there.
In this trap they catch cells. sometimes
small. fishes. and vegetable matter that
would otherwise have got through with
the water into the pumps. Tit strainer
got at, and twice a week a clean strainer
Is put in Pnd the old strainer, with what
ever may have lodged against Il In the pipe,
is removed. r'
IN TINS way they CatrN Are first and
last many cells, Fall Is ne time when thew
come down in the greatest numbers, but
they catch them here also In the spring.
when the strainer was renewed on June
last there were found in the pipe here three
cells one measuring 2 feet 10 inches in length,
one OF ? feet n one a foot long.
so whatever other people might think
OF such things, they think nothing par
ticularly OF cells In the water pires AZ tha
Aquarium. but Just utilize them " thew
eome cells thus captured have found
comfortable honeA and plenty 10 eat in
tanks here, as additions TO the aquarium'e
eel exhibits.
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usually part woodland and part cultivated
fields and pasture land. Often a vegetable
garden and a herd OF COWS are maintained
especially for the boys. In most cases the
farmhouse is transformed into q head
quarters. The boys have lockers here in
which their travelling clothes are kept
usually untouched until the term closes.
There is alse a reading room and library
and a big assembly room with an old fash
Toned open fireplace, where they gather at
night and in rainy weather. Then there ia
the long mess hall and the servants quar-
tiers. At times the boys sleep in the farm
house or in frame dormitories. but az a gen.
eral rule they camp out in tents.
These tents nave waterproof flies and
board floors raised a foot or more above the
ground to, prevent dampness and insure
good ventilation. As a rule they contain
four beds for three boys and a leader
their kit boxes and a couple OF folding
camp chairs or stools. The leaders, or
captains as they are called. are nearly all
college men or school teachers who know
how to manage boys and are in sympathy
with them. The boys themselveSDrange IN
age from 8 TO 20 years. although a large
majority are between IL and 10.
The cost Of the summer vacation varie.
from SO n week at a Y. NJ. c. A. camp TO tiS
for the full term at a private camp. This
includes board INC lodging, the use Of boats
and canoes, bathing privileges. laundry
bills. personal instruction in athletic sports
and in swimming and medical attendance.
Every boy is carefully examined by the
camp physician Immediately upon his
arrival and thereafter at frequent intervals
so that his programme may be mapped
out 10 do the most good.
In addition to the regular rates there are
slight additional charges for special trips.
photographic supplies and small extras
Each camp member is allowed a fixed sum
Of spending money. rarely exceeding IS
or so cents a week. Boys must also bring
their own outfits and bedding. A carnp
uniform usually Of gray with stripes and
letters of some lighter color-consieting OF
a flannel shirt, sleeveless jersey and either
long or short trousers, is often worn, ell
though it is not required.
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Summer camps for boys nave increased
In size and numbers at a wonderful rate
In the last three or four years. The idea
had its origin in Germany. but hid not been
introduced to the United States more than
n decade ago. At that time a few scattered
camps had been established. bat they were
all in the experimental stage. Men who
began seven or eight years ago. usually
with less than a score OF boys and a few
tents. are now regarded as pioneers in the
field. Since their time the movement
has reached huge proportions. The Young
Mems Christian Association has taken
II up and has established colonies Of BOYS
in all parts Of the country. Settlement
camps for those who cannot afford TO pay
for a summers outing are now also being
founded. One estimate places the number
OF organized camps at between 3C0 and 400,
with more than 10000 boys under canvas.
The days programme in a typical camp
is carefully laid out. At half past 6 a
buglc sounds the ~reveille. The boys tumble
out Of bed and line up in long rows for a
few minutes of brisk setting up exercise,
followed by a five minute dip in the lake.
The breakfast bell then the
youngsters to a meal Of fruit. cereals and
esgs. After this they may follow their
own inciinations. A game of hare and
hounds is taken up, a small party is or
ganized for a tramp to some nearby place
OF Interest, or the camp naturalist Leads
them through the woods on some bug
hunting or ~botanizing trip. The wood
working shops are ready with competent
instructors to aid in the manufacture ola
trap or boat or some piece OF furniture
for theQkoys' tent, while tools are at hand
10 worF out some design in hammered
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brass or ornamental iron work. On the
athletic field the coaches are always ready
TO assist |. training for future games or
sports.
Eleven O'Clock is looked forward to with
interest. At this hour the morning squad
swim. The good swimmers enjoy them
selves without restriction while the be-
glnners are carefully watched and enoour-
aged. 1t very rarely occurs that a boy
leaves the camp after a two weeks stay
without being able TO swim.
At 1890 comes n substantial luncheon
followed by a brief rest. Then the boys
are turned loose again. Often there is
a ball game with a team from some neigh
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boring camp or nearby town. Then there
is tennis or a boat race or fishing Out
on the lake a group Of older boys are re-
pairing the float and diving platform. On
the rife range near by n squad Of seniors are
learning how TO handle a gun in prepare
ton for the coming shooting match.
At 3 o'clock comes the afternoon swim
ming hour, the most popular part Of the
day. Water polo. water baseball and other
aquatic sports are indulged in. while a
number Of the good divers practise from
the raised springboard. After this they
lie in the sun and accumulate tan.
The summons to Dime at 9 never has
to be sounded twice for ANYBODY within
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LIFE AT A BOYS SUMMER CANT.

Jay of Healthy Fun With Incidental Instrucion-An Idea That Has Rapidly
Found Favor in the Last Ten Years-A Typical Days Programme Swim.
ming and Manual Training Crosscountry TrampinG Trips.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-01-10
Took Him Down a Pea.

The young doctor to whom the
BscMapian oath was Greek looked
contemptuously at the old woman
who had come to the uptown hos
pital where he was an inferno to in
quire about her son.
'He has cerebro neurosis, 1 told
you once" he said.
ooh, DEAR" said the woman, for
she was not as ornately educated as
the young physician, "is it as bad as
that? New-what do you call it ?"
''Neurosis," said the surgeon.
Don't | talk plain enough for
you?"
"Is it anything like nervous pros
tration?" inquired the woman.
"You will pardon me, sir. My ed
ucation was along literary rather
than scientific lines"
'HThat's what some call it," said
the young physician as he got ready
to make run for the ambulance at
the door.-New York Telegram.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-01-10
To Enjoy a Good IDinner,
How to Avoid Distress and Indigestion
After Eating.

Let US show you how to enjoy a good
dinner, how to regain the appetite of
your childhood, and to relish your food
There is no need of any self-denying
diet lists, no call fol nasty and disa-
greeable medicine, no list of hard ex-
ercises simply Mi-o-na stomach tab
let before each meal, and one before
going to bed, and it will so strengthen
the stomach that a good dinner will
give you pleasure and comfort without
the least fear of distress.
The best proof of the value of our ad :
vice is the fact that G. r. Crosby & Co.
glVesla positive guarantee (applying tn
two soc boxes of Mi-o-nal that yonr
money will be refunded unless the rem.
edy cures A guarantee like this must
give you confidence in Mi-o-na stomach
tablets.
Mi-o-na is not a mere digestive with
only temporary relief, but a specific for
all disorders of the stomach, strength
ening the digestive organs and making
permanent cure.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-01-10
Sheriff Sales for Feb, 1907

Will be sold before the court house door.
in thecity of Marietta, Cobb county, Ga,
within the legal hours of sale, on the
first Tuesday in February, 1907, the fol-
lowing property, to-wit: Parcel of land
lying and being in the 18th District and
Sescnd section of Cobb county, Ga, and
being parts of original lot No. 90, To-
Gated in the town of Austell, Ga com
mencing at the center of a chestnut tree
near the residence of N. A. Morse on
the east side of Mulberry street, thence
running due east 275 feet to pine post,
thence Bis feet to Mulberry street, thence
south along the east side of Mulberry
street $50 feet, to the beginning point.
Also, parcel of land joining the above
described lot. beginning at a point 278
feet north, III east of stone CORE er at
the northwest corner of n. A. Morse's
front yard on Mulberry street, and rum
ming thence north II is feet, east 470
feet to stake, thence north degrees,
east 200 feet to stake, thence south N
degrees, Is minutes, 40 feet to the
southeast corner of n. l., Underwood's
lot, thence south degrees, west 200 feet
to the beginning point. Levied on as the
property of Mrs Nora A. Glenn, by
virtue of fl. ia. issued from Cobb Su-
perior Court in favor of ). Y. Stanback,
transferee, VS.. Nora A. Glenn; also, to
satisfy Fl. ia. issued from Cobb Supe-
rior Court in favor of J. L. g. Zenerich,
for use of officers of Court, VS.. Nora A.
Glenn Notice given in terms of the law
Also, at the sama time and place, one
black horse named Jim. nine years old,
one small sorrel horse named Frank,
about twelve years old, one two horse
wagon known as the Baker wagon, two
sets OF single buggy harness, two sets
of double hack harness, one set double
buggy harness, three horse collars, one
three seated hack and one two-seated
hack, one Cincinnati buggy, two White
Star buggies and one surrey. All levied
upon as the property of John MCGEE,
Walter MCGEE and MCGEE Bros, by vir-
tue OF mortgage fl. ia. issued from
Cobb Superior Court in favor of S. M.
MCGEE Property pointed out by de-
PENDANTS i'll fl. ia. Notice given in terms
of the law.
w. j. FREY, Sheriff.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-01-10

The demand from clerks teachers in
fact. lahoring peopie ~ al professions
Cor home study cougses in bookkeeping,
shorthand. writing and teleprsphy be.
came Sc great that iWe years ago we
installed IN oar Institution = regular
home study department F9a,s depart
ment has grown rapids and the sue
cess Of its students has been something
wonderful. under our new and original
methods Of teaching, and the use 81
the fsnons Byrne systems. To show
our faith IL, our methods, we have for
the pest year agreed to refund every
cent OF tuition at the completion Of a
course. If il was not satisfactory and as
recommended.
Those who take course by mail and
afterwArd enter our school for personal
instruction are given credit OF their
scholarship for personal instruction for
the full amount Of tuition paid on the
mail course, thus making the tuition
Abt Vic mail COutrS AACCs EOnlE Au0
that they can save month or two's
time and board by taking our home
study course before enrolling with US
for personal instruction. While our
home study course is more thorough,
practical and extensive than that given
i'll most business colleges, il is not as
complete and as extensive as our per-
sonal course in the same subjects.
However, it is just as thorough as far
as it goes. $l5 pays for life scholar
ship in any course, good at any time.
You can persue your work as your time
permits-in the Office or at home.
Don't think that our method of instruc.
ton is like that of other institutions ;
it is entirely different; it is thorough,
practical, and interesting.
ATLANTA CoMaERcIAL COLLEGE,
"A IL Whitehall st, Atlanta, Ga.