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OF our space with almost half our plants,
most Of them quite small, still In ths
pots.
There was nothing for 1t but to build
another frame and gee more glass. AS
our cash was running low my sister and
l decided to dispense with the carpenters
services and do the building ourselveE.
This we found easy enough and by tn
end of the month we had the satisfaction of
setting out the last OF our young plants.
These being very small we set them only
six inches apart in five rows.
Our next step was to make a suitable
shade against the time when the plan s
would need protection from the direct rays
of the sun. This we constructed ourselves
by fastening laths to wire clotheslines with
double pointed tacks. We selected this
means of protection because the screen
could be easily rolled up when not in use
"By the time the screen for the last
planting was finished the plants were be-
ginning to look decidedly yellow, and al
first we were uncertain as to the cause
After a few days under the shade theil
color improved so n~oticeably that we were
convinced that the sun had been too hot
for them.
OnAE EGu GVAAGEs ~ EABANa
During that first summer we were for.
tunate in having only red spiders to fight
against. During July and August we wer,
kept pretty busy Swinging the plants. 1
was not so easy as any one who has never
attempted it would imagine, as you mus
get the stream down low enough to STRIKE
the leaves underneath and turn them com
pletely over.
lou plants began to bloom about the
middle Of September, and though we KEEP
the blossoms closely picked we did no
attempt TO sell them until the first weel
I'm October. Thinking we would have Sc
few the first year that 1t would not b.
worth while shipping them to New Yorl
we agreed to let the florist In our subur
ban town have all our crop at what h
said was as good a price as he could pay
w picked the flowers early in tn,
morning and after putting them up II
punches Of fifty each carried them at one,
to the florist. For our October crop W,
received only 40 cents a hundred. and II
November, 55 cents.
During October we built our first green
house. 1t was sixty by twenty feet AM
by helping with the work in every POSSIBLE
way we managed to reduce the cost from
4SUi the HlbL eauAAANo AlfSu " A0 Car
penter, to Sos
The plants were lifted from the fran.
and set in beds in this greenhouse earl!
In November and 80 we'll did we do tn
work that acne Of them stopped blooming
At Christmas we picked nearly 1000 bios
SONS, which we sold at 90 cents a hundred
As our greenhouse had been built on Dor
rowed money you can imagine how glai
we were over this particular sale.
"As though TO make US realize that viole
growing has it's downs as well as its up
almost Immediately after the New Yea
We discovered that our plants were In
tested with aphis. A whole crop OF flower
was ruined and We both had our hands ful
in ~furigating 20 get rid OF the bugs.
when we we're beginning 70 congratu
late ourselves on our success the spo
appeared and Il was necessary for us to &
over the beds picking off each disease
leaf. The Ian who had acted as gu
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adviser came to see us about this time and
explained that the spot had been brought
on by using tobacco stems in fumigatinR
the aphis instead of a preparation OF
cyanide gas. He further cautioned us to
keep our plants dry at night as a pre-
caution against spot"
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this tool of rapine and murder ana
anarchy to enter into. The leaders
of these feuds had to give much at
tention to the restraint of these hu-
man hyenas. To these very few In
dividuals is chargeable the stigma and
reproach heaped upon the mountain
people by the outside world.
Saints and sinners are strangely
commingied in these wars. One preach
err, believing in taking little wine for
the stomach's sake, frequently in
duigcd himself In stronger remedies.
II was common to md this so-called
preacher with a deck of cards. bottle
of whislxey. revolver and Bible. he
was game to the bone-would fight at
the drop of a hat and even drop 1t him.
self He sacrificed his life for the
French cause In the French-Eversole
feud. Preachers never got to be TOO
good to be mixed up in some way once
in a while with these feuds. Pres
byterian preacher prided himself that
he could go in and out among the
beltngerents without being identified
wfah either side. One day an incident
occurred which robbed the parson or
hiS handsome boast. AS he was rid
ing aiond, suddenly a fleeing feudist
appeared In front of the mounted
preacher, with the command for MIN
to dismount. ne Reluctantly ooeJoo'
The feudist mounted and rode away,
saying. "I hope you may make your
appointment and have successful
meeting. The injured parson was too
full for utterance. He did not even
thank the hurrying fugitive for his
hasty words OF good wishes. He only
wrung his hands and painfully watched
his consecrated steed go on Into the
service of a desecrated cause. Hignt-
eous indignation Allied his souL He
had a new heaven-born revelation OF
the whols situation. To nearby
neighbor he poured out his soul for
the fearful condition of that blood
stained county. This is about what
he said: 81 have preached for these
people and I have prayed for them,
with them and over them. I've tried
to save their souls. I've married their
young people and buried their dead.
i've ministered to the sick and needy,
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impartially. I've begged. I've entreat-
ed. I've used the spiritual weapons
of moral suasion. but IL does not appeal
TO them. Now ! purpose to use more
carnal weapons OF warfare" no
shouldered his gun and Joined the OPP
posing side. In q few days the mai
great battle was fought, with the out
ragged parson right In the van OF the
fight. The fsud was over. The par
son was q hero. and In a short time
left his charge for a well-merited pros
motion elsewhere.
ApouL lnirey-Avuf counties CONSTITUTES
the Asntucky mo aaGA.ns. Aaost or them
nave peon disturbed 10 u grsaear or less
degree py tne xeuo spirit sun the res
markabie tacI reLaatns mat very snaak
per osnI o. the people ever took part
IN any way whatever In those feuds,
and stiii smaller per cent were even
engaged IN active warfare at any ona
tinle perhaps not ~ per cent OF the
mountain people ever nad q personal
aifficulty OF any sort whatever. Probably
NOT Az per cent OF the people ever WENT
to the court house TO prosecute or de-
fend a case OF any sort. Not half tho
enlisted partisans ever faced the music
in a show down fight and the numeer
who figured In the ambuscades was ex-
ceedipKly small. But this latter char
acter gets into the newspapers nun
dred times where the law-abiding citl-
gen gets into 1t once or not at all which
fact accounts for the wrong impression
of the world outside about the number
and influence of the worst element.
Generally during these feuds a stran-
ger could go In and out among
the warning factions with no danger
to person or property provided no
knew two things well--first he must
know how to attend strictly to his own
business; second he must know how e
LET other peoples BUSINESS alone. IT
these two qualifications were genuine.
nothing these feudists had was too good
for the stranger. they absolutely eia-
harrassed him with their attentions and
SACRIFICES for his welfare and comfort
But woe to the sham, spy or scout they
found out or turned against. When they
want TO be mean and set themselves
about II. they do thorough Job.
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imprinted, but systematixed and print
ed by Governor Eaton In 1855. They
were enveloped In biue-colored paper.
whence the popular tand subsequently
unpopular) name.
The Plymouth and Massachusetts coll
onies also had their Blue laws. calcu-
lated to send a chill through every nu-
man vein. Even New York. Maryland.
Virginia, and South Carolina-in fact,
all the English colonial settlements in
seventeenth century America. had laws.
orders and resolutions OF more or less
pronounced indigo tinge.
But the True Blue code was that
which terrorized early Connecticut.
The FIRST batch Of Blue laws. known
as the Capital laws" of Connecticut.
and purportins to punish. according To
the penalties prescribed in the, old
Testament, those ofenses forbidden
therein, was enacted in April. 1912. The
texts of Scripture on which they were
based were added to each law. as dicta
probantia, showing the divine author.
ity by which they were defended. They
are singular specimens of Jurisprudence.
For instance. witchcraft Is one of the
first offenses taken up. 1t Is enacted
that "if man or woman be witch
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bluegrass and the people of the noun
tains may be accounted for largely by
Isolation. The people Of the bluegrass
had contact with the world and took
I'D" the new-fangled notion OF pro-
crossing civilization. while the noun
tafneers lived on in the OLD Fashioned
way and with old fashioned ideas and
customs That some fugtives from
Justice found q refuge In the noun
tafns. as In other newly settled coun-
tries, In doubtless true, but no such
facts explain in any general way the
mountain conditions. The ciearest type
Of nationality in the mountains Is the
Scotch-Irish, though in the mountain
parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, ru-
raj England is largely represented in
names, language, traits and customs
And there are throughout traces OF
German and Huguenot
Looking, then. for causes of the
feuds we note the quick temper and
endless spite of the pioneer and Indian
fighter and the habits of thought nat
ural in, communities where for long
time there was neither sheriff nor jury.
Isolated people in all ages and places
have cherished the right to avenge per-
sonai wrongs with their own right
arms.
It must be remembered that even TO
this day the government of the noun
tain counties has hardly been able to
inspire either confidence or dread. II
could hardly protect and was by no
means certain to punish. There are
conditions which prompt the best men,
sometimes at least, to self-defense.
And there can be no doubt that the
Kentucky feuds bark back TO the i'm
pulse and conditions OF the <old world
But / wish to give as the most
fundamental and precipitating cause
of these feuds the great Civil War
Before the war feuds In the Kentucky
mountains were almost unknown. Once
On q while q man would be killed. and
once in g while a neighborhood would
have a brawl. Not only in Kentucky.
nut in Ohio and all the interior region,
men in those days often settled dis
rutes by a square stand up. knock
down. fist fight, but 1t was rare for
n weapon of any kind to be used.
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The Kentucky mountaineers suffered
more sharply than those Of any other
Southern State except Tennessee In
certain mountain counties of Kentucky
there were many slave holders. and
the line was sharp between the Union
and rebel counties. as well as between
Union and Confederate families, and
sometimes the line severed the family
ties. When the Confederates retired
from Kentucky after the battle Of
Richmond, a number of Union soldiers
were hung at the ford of the Cumber-
land near Pinevlua On the other
hand, Colonel Barnes OF the 9Th Ken
lucky sent some rebel prisoners from
Irvine to Lexington. The guards be-
came tired Of their fractions charge
and i'm Madison County. near Rich
mond, the prisoners were murdered
Every county in Eastern Kentucky has
its tales of blood-curdling deeds. I
know a gray-haired minister of the
Gospel who has been marked as one
who brutally murdered neighbor
during the Civil War, and he Is even
yet In danger of going down under the
hands of the avenger. The whole story
OF the disorder of the Home Guards,
the guerilla bands of Confederate and
swamp companies" which piundered
both Sides would be a natural intro
duction to any history IL Kentucky
feuds.
1t should be noted, too. that the
principals in these feuds were during
the civil war, boys whose imaginations
were filled with all these horrors. The
leaders have usually been men of
means who have provided food, cloth
ing. shelter, ammunition and whiskey.
The best fighters were paid as high as
81 per day. The actual number en-
gagged has ranged from ten to sixty
on a side and the duration of feuds has
been from one to forty years. Gener-
ally one side has stood for honor, be-
lteved in standing out in the open. as
opposed to "bushwhacking." and the
other side has generally degenerated
faster, till the deeds OF crime. lawless
ness and bloodshed shifted the sympa-
thy of the community to the more hon.
orable side. The side that stood out in
the open lost more men at first but
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the midst of the meeting one man
arose and asked what they wanted
with more white people in that section
for since they had more now than the
negroes could support. This senti-
ment has been entirely too widespread
throughout the great black belt sec
ton of this state.
We have thus fixed social brand,
on labor itself, and made 1t promotive
of social caste to be able to live idly,
and one of life's greatest misfortunes
entailing a sort of social exclusion to
be compelled to labor. This condition
has rendered our own people unwilling
and unqualified to multiply our fields
of industry, and has placed unreason
able limitations upon the future OF our
young men.
IdlIng Young Men.
How often have we all with almost
bleeding hearts observed the great
number of young men idling their days
away on the streets of our small
towns, These are the results OF a mis-
taken idea that ones social standing
Is lowered the moment that one be-
gins manual labor. The result is that
almost the only field of labor occupied
in our state Is that of agriculture, and
it is supposed to be only adapted to
the capacity OF the ignorant negro, and
in that field we find our natural
strength greatly lessened by the per-
petual wear of ignorant muscle in
stead of being as in the more prosper
Gus states mentioned, improved and
augmented by educated skill.
We have not only refused to mine
our own metals and give employment
to our own water powers, but we have
been cutting down and burning up our
forests, and we have SO ignorantly
stirred our soils that the rains which
kindly came to give life to them were
compelled cruelty to wash them away,
and in all the natural elements OF ag-
ricultural wealth we are weaker today
than we were fifty years ago.
This condition cannot continue, Our
coal and iron will not always sleep in
the shallow earth because we think II
unbecoming the social position of an
educated gentleman to wake It up and
lift IL out Our magnificent trees will
not always grow and fall and decay
because our young men think the style
of a gentleman is soft hand In kid
Glove. Our soil will not forever re-
turn I'VE or ten fold unless IL is aided
by intelligent effort and applied SOL
ence. Nor will the educated laborers
of other states and countries always
or even much longer send here and
freight away at great expense our raw
material to foreign shops for manu-
facture.
The time Is coming and now is. when
professional gentlemen will not be re-
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A1aban1a's Problems Of Today

world needs them and will get them.
Then the practical question which pre-
sents itself to you is. shah our own peo-
pie reap the harvest which Is going to
waste all around US or shall others
have the place OF honor in this march
of progress. These things are to be
accomplished, then shall we take our
proper places in it's performance? IL
we are to have this place of honor
which nature has tende~sd us, we must
get away from the idea that soiled
hand or blackened face limits or less
ems social opportunity
And 1t Is as certain as the rising OF
tomorrows sun that they who work
these results will govern this country,
not only govern II from the seas OF
political power, but govern 1t by the
natural power given those who con-
troll the Industrial conditions and ma
terial development OF country.
II the present gives sure prognosis
of anything in the future, or II the
history of other countries like devel-
oped, teach any lesson, 1t Is that the
physical and scientific development OF
this country will fix the character OF
our institutions and furnish tho rulers
of our people.
Progressive civilization has Issued
its new decree. Professional men have
rivals for the seats of power; ana
those rivals are the devoted followers
of applied science; the educated lead
ers Of skilled labor in field, factory
and mine. who hold in their grasp the.
ever enlarging fields which employ
improve, sustain and control mankind.
It matters not in what department.
industry you may seek your future
conquests. or what line of professional
work you may choose for your field,
success in life should be your goal,
but you must have the right idea OF
success
The Public BenefactOr.
1t does not necessarily mean that
you shall hear the tumultuous applause
of your countrymen, nor that you must
attain riches. for II has been well said
that he is a public benefactor who
makes two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before
While 1t is true that to be success
full means to attain greatness, but let
US learn one lesson now that we will
never forget unit 1.-The bell OF time
ceases to swing for us. and that is
that greatness does not necessarily
consist in holding ofice. Greatness
really consists in doing great deeds
with little means. in the accomplish
ment of vast purposes from the private
ranks OF life, In benehting ones own
neighb orhood, in blessing ones own
city, the community In which no
dwells. The private citizen who in
the everyday walks Of life, laboring
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The Feuds Of The Mountains

won out in the end. Many of these
feuds were carried on with military
discipline and deeds Of the unwashed.
depraved, abandoned renegade were
offset in part by the deeds Of real he
roes. One feud. however. was charac-
terized from start to finish by deprav-
ity, ignorance and brutality. ] refer
feud little distinction was made for
age or sex, and we must leave this out
when generalizing on Kentucky feuds.
In the Perry County feud one side
sent to Harlan for paid recruits. Per-
haps dozen renegades enlisted on the
French side for stipulated wages. Their
neighbors hoped they would never re-
turn, but were disappointed in most
cases.
The most honorable constituency
next to the principals IL the kin by
blood and marriage. These serve with
out pay furnish their own board and
clothing. firearms and ammunition.
Such q constituency Is on hand for any
service night or day regardless of wind
or weather. Generally the duration as
well as the results Of feuds are deter
mined not so much by numbers. but by
the honor, sagacity, courage and char
acter of this constituency of kindred.
Woman has figured in all these feuds.
sometimes as the precipitating cause.
always In the capacity of an efficient
and loyal retainer. Her GOODNESS and
courage has never been surpassed by
that of men. She acted as spy and
scout We sometimes hear of the three
ways of transmitting messages, by tel
egraph, telephone and tell-a-womafi.
The latter was the safest in feud times.
It was the rule OF these wars every
where not to modest the women, chill
dren or old people of the opposing fac
ton. And 1t was common for women
to take advantage of this unwritten
law crossing the lines of the enemy
without personal danger beyond arrest.
She would feign anything that would
enable her to fulfill her mission.
The renegade was always present In
varying degrees and numbers. OFTEN
his criminal habit and nature were
intensified by tho opportunity and
backing the feud condition gave him.
No crime was too dark or too foul for
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garded as the only class of occupied
society who need a first class educa-
ton, and who may compete with the
more fortunate idle in social excell-
ence and matrimonial preference. we
need reformation in social sentiment,
and one with such force behind 1t as
will remedy the conditions of which
we have spoken.
An efficient remedy for this condit-
ion would be for society to close her
doors to the young man who bases his
only claim to her favors on soft hands
and idle hours, and open them wide to
the one industriously engaged In some
productive labor. even though 1t re-
quires a garb of overalls. 1t is ques-
ton for our own solution, whether we
educate them or not and whether or
NOT in the persons of our own children
shall come the practical geologist, the
chemist, the miner, the manufacturer
the mechanic, the engineer the artis-
an. all these the earnest alumni OF our
schools of applied science, with diplo-
mas in their pockets shall inhabtt ana
work and build up this state SO filled
with rich gifts, and spreading fields
for all.
Dream of The Future.
When this change In sentiment snaIl
come. and our young men fully realize
NnaL In6y dES 90 LhAAS
vine purpose of their creation by ap-
plying intelligence to the proper Gull
ovation of the soil as in the count
ing room or office, and our young
ladies will learn to perform on steel
range with the same grace as they do
now on a grand plano, when this
change comes and come 1t must, our
tired soil will strike up song ike
INTO Miriam's when 1t feels the touch
OF active skill, our ores will leap from
their beds, and ringing with mirth
make and employ active machinery.
Our water falls "wearied with the
solos of the centuries will join in
musical duets with the shuttle and the
LOOM Our pine. and oak under the
magic touch OF our own skilled hands
will take every form of beauty and
avery shane of use. Our fields renew
ed like a strong man after illness will
Weld ten fold sheaves for our gamers.
Our rural districts will be dotted with
cottages filled with a happy, content
ed and prosperous people. Our villages
will grow into cities, and our cities
will enlarge their borders and increase
their wealth, railroads will interlace
our state like the threads of the loom,
and ON our Mobile harbor will proudly
ride the ships OF all nations bearing
along the products of mine and field
and shop and factory, 1nishSt into
everything Of ornament or value. And
II is needless to tell you that these
natural gifts are to be utilized. The
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Among the Capital laws OF the Col
ony of New Plymouth. revised and
published by order OF the General Court
in June. 1871" this pleasant little para
graph Is found:
Death for Sunday Oneuses.
"This court taking notice of great
abuse. and many instantaneous COM
mitted by divers persons In these many
wages, profaneing the Sabbath or Lords
day, to the great dishonor of God, re-
preach OF Religion. and grief OF the
spirits OF Gods people. Do. therefore
order, that whatsoever shall profane the
Lords day. by doing unnecessary SER
vile work, by unnecessary Travelling
or. by sports and recreations, he or
they that so transgress, shall forfeit
for every such default forty shillings,
or be publicly whipt; but IL It clearly
appear that sin was proudly. pre-
sumptuously, and with q high hand
committed. against the known COM
mand and authority of the blessed God.
such a person therein despising and
reproaching the Lord. shall be put to
Death, or grievously punished at the
Judgment of the Court.--Numbers XIV,
from 80 to SO verse"