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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

sprouted. Sow such seeds as tomato, cab
bage. lettuce. peppers. etc, but be sure
to reserve several rows for your flower
seeds. Make the rows run north and
south Water the bed with a sprinkler
having a very fine nozzle.
The little seedlings are very delicate
ard care must be taken not TO bake,
starve or chill them. Too much heat
is worse than too little, therefore IL is
necessary TO air the hotbed by opening
the frame when the sun shines and the
weather is warm.
Wafer with a fine hose when the soil
looks light in color and is dry TO the
touch Thin out the plants IL they stan1
too thickly in the row.
When the plants have attained two
or three true leaves they must be trans
planted into a cold frame This / mads
with the twin cupboard door. and con
tains no heating material and the frame
put on the top of the ground.
The earth should be banked all around
the frame and during cold days ana
nights both The hot and cold frame were
covered with board shutters. and carpeJ
thrown on top for further protection.
After the hotbed has been emptied into
the cold frame it may be used to grow
another crop of seedlings. The hotbed is
also a good place to start cuttings. Slip
the cuttings. place them in a dish con-
tanning sand which should be kept as
wet as mud. and the slips will grow IN
a short time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
AN EASILY MADE HOT BED
Care in PREPARING the Soil and Good Management Essential
Points in Hotbed Success

At the very first stirring Of the sap
comes TO most Of US longing to see
Dame Nature awake and go about her
spring business We eagerly look for
the first signs Of life in the naples
and in thd Sheltered recesses OF the
woods under the dead leaves
When feel the first. hint Of spring
I start my hOtbed. This 1 fashioned
some old boards. a saw, hammer and
nails Critics may find fault with II
but as il has been decided success
do not mind the verdict OF the critics
Trtility. not beauty, is my aim
The glass cover had done duty as
cupboard door for many years and
when the house was remodeled IL was
consigned to the sattic until IL was
pressed Into its present state of use
fulness.
The frame measures p inches high
At the hack and slopes down the sides
u the front to l. inches; the glass
frame is fastened TO the back with
hinges An excavation was dug and
the frame placed Upon it. The ex-
cavation Is eight or ten inches deeper
than the frame, and the frame stands
y inches above the soil at the back,
and the front five inches A stout
stake vas driven In the four corners
OF the frame to sspport it.
The bed Is located south Of the sum
ner kitchen. a weIl-drained spot where
Il will get the sun all day.
The earth is banked around the
eating material tinshanof ETAOIN IN
frame and a ditch carries all the sur
face water away. In the meantime the
heating material was prepared This
vas horse-manure gathered from the
stalls each day and put in cone-shap-
ee pile
One-third leaves We're added to as
sist the manure TO .-sweeten.' Manure
alone IS too dense and viii not ferment
properly unless leaves. straw or some
sort OF litter is added
As soon as the pile looked large
enough 20 eli the frame Il was allow
ed TO fernent evenly. When the mass
was moist ard steaming il was put into
the hotbed-
It is impossible 10 give any hard
and fast rule IN preparing manure for
+ the hotbeds, for 50 much depends upon
the composition and texture ot the ma
rure ard the state OF the weather.
II is safe TO say, however. that the
+ pile must be worked over several times
and when il is moist and warm IL is
& ready for the frame.
In the bottom OF the excavation
always place a thin layer Of cornstalks
cut a foot long. for protection against
+ the cold earth. When the manure is
put in Il nearly reaches the top OF the
soil: then il is we'll tamped. and after
tamping. it should reach within ten
inches - the top OF the frame in front.
As a usual thing eight inches OF
thoroughly prepared manure viii heat
/. a spring hotbed. The bed is then COW
cred with the glass door and left to IT
. self for 4 few days.
Then i've inches OF fine rich. we'll
prepared soil is added; again the COW
e. let down and the bed allowed 10 heat.
= thermometer placed in Ii and, and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

Today, is Good Friday, and knowing
we would have a late Easter, 1 have
been expecting something like the wealth
er we are now experiencing. 1 am long
ing TO see clear days 4 want to get out
on the farm and rest both mind and body
by seeing the green pastures and spell
ing the freshly up-turned soil. Nothing
is more satisfying to me IN my declining
years than the farm pleasures, the grow
ing crops and the cheerful farmers as
they tell me they are doing first rate"
God has been so good to the farmer in
these late years. with satisfying price
for their cotton. / have lived through
time. several times indeed. when cotton
sold down al and cents a pound. 1
have feeling recollection OF these times
when we were even pinched i'm getting
enough nourishing food to eat
May the kind Father give our farmers
year of plenty in l9I1-enough to eat, 10
wear and to satisfy both man ana beast.
May the Easter morn bring us gladness.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

some besotted face with its mark of the
satyr and, at one side, little wooden
pillow of black lacquer. There was no
sound save the sweep of the wind out
side and the heavy breathing of the un-
conscious man..
He was dreaming-yellow dreams like
the blackguard fancyings of the half
world-visions in which be moved,
Prince of Largesse, through unending
pleasures of self-indulgence. He was
on an European Boulevard, riding with
Haru by his side in silk and pearls, and
people turned to gaze as he went by.
But now, with sinister topsy-turvydom.
the dream changed. The cocher drove
faster and faster, into a mad gallop.
He turned hisa head and Phil saw that
the face under the glazed hat was the
face of his dead brother The staring
pedestrians began TO pursue the carri-
age. They showered blow after blow
on it. till the sound reyerberated like
thunder.
mot the ghosts of his dream, but a
hand of flesh and blood was knocking.
1t was on the outer shojl and the frail
dwelling shook beneath it. The servant,
sunk in bovine sleep, heard noN sound,
but the chauffeur in the automobile that
throbbed outside the wistaria gate, rose
from his seat, and across a bamboo wat
tie a dog barked and scrambled ven
omously.
Phirs eyes opened and he sat up gid
dily He went unsteadily to the door
and unfastened the shoji, blinking at the
great form that strobe past him into the
inner apartment.
Bersonin's gaze swept the room. THE
girl!" he said hoarsely. Where is she?"
Phil looked about him dazedly-at the
tumbled fton, the deserted wooden pill
low Haru gone? His senses, clouded
by intoxication, took in the fact DULY, as
thing of no meaning.
The expert grasped him by his Shout
der and shook him till the thin silk of
the kimono tore under the enormous
white fingers. The violence had its eff
feet The daze fell away. Phil broke
into loud imprecations.
did you tell her anything?"
Phil's tongue Glove to the roof Of his
mouth. What is-what makes you
think" he stammered.
Bersonin's face was greenish hue
His great hands shook.
fi,Jafol M 1-us cmfwyp shrdlu fwypo
Tonight he said, in a whisper. ITO
night-an hour ago-I saw her on the
street. / wasn't sure at first, but 1 know
now it was she A naval officer was
with her. He tok her into the house OF
the minister of marine!'
The other gave low cry A chalky
pallor> overspread his features. "Haru'
no, Bersonin! You're crazy, say. She
she would never telli'
Fury and terror blazed out on the big
mans countenance. A sharp moan came
from his lips.
80 she did know! You told her then
o. incredible fool!'
For an instant the demon of murder
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PRISONER ENDS TERM IN JAIL
Z AND WEEDS SHERIFF'S DAUGHTER

for each other. there was no trouble for
them to met and plan.
Manly was released some time ago, but
the young couple decided to wait for their
elopement until superior court got busy
on the criminal docket, when Sheriff Gil
bert would have little time outside OF
court. Thursday morning they left here
for Ramhurst to be marEiedJs On learning
their intention after they left, Sheriff Gil
bert put in long distance telephone call
for Ramhurst to tell them that they had
been freely forgiven and to request them
to return home.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
PICKLE APRIL. COLD AND CHEER
LESS

PICKLE APRIL COLD AND CHEER
LESS.
I have been a prisoner IN my home
FOR at least ten days because OF this
tickle and uncertain April weather. With
a well-set case OF rheumatism In one
limb and a wounded foot 10 make 1t
hurt little more, I have watched the
rain clouds and listened TO the wind out
side until I feel like the starting that
beat It's wings behind the bars OF ITS
cage.
There is but one circumstance I'm the
farmers favor. The Industrious people
got their land well turned. narrowed and
in some cases laid off before this sob
hing April weather settled down upon
Us. Whenever the sun shines out. they
can begin 10 plant. and although they
win be hurried and outside labor IS scarce
and all labor difficult 10 manage. ana
exacting as 10 pay. stsIl they can get
cotton seed and corn seed IN the ground
whenevr the weather opens
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
Especial Dispatch to The Journal)


DALTON, Ca. April H.-After serving
time in Jail for ''moonshining." Tom
Manley. a young man living in Murray
county, repaid Sheriff Gilbert by clipping
with his daughter. Miss Lizzie Gilbert
Thursday morning.
Aside from being convicted Of making
whisky, Manly bears an excellent repu-
tation, and when he was brought to Dali
ton to serve out his Jail sentence he was
permitted many liberties, as there Is a
strict code of honor among moonshiners
and when they give their word they win
not escape, it can be relied on.
During the two months time he re-
NAMED here Manly saw Miss Lizzie Gil
bert frequently They found after a
time, that they were unusually congenial.
and the friendship so strangely formed
soon turned to love and thoughts of mar
riage. AS. Miss Gilbert, with her parents
lived at the jail. and as the parents were
absolutely ignorant of the fact that the
young people had formed an attachment
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

Weeds in many cases have been bliss
ings in disguise They have taught US
how to cultivate the soil and they never
allow us 10 forget the lesson-"Solomon
went by the field Of the slothflll and by
the vineyard of the man void Of UNDER
standing. and. 10. it was all grown over
with thorns, and nettles had covered the
face thereof"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
CHAPTER XVII.
Whom the Gods Destro,

" IIOIII tI1O NIOI1 11V"t1 %
There was one whose guilty eyes
were closed to the red danger so near.
In the house in the Street-of-the-Misty
Valley, under the green mosquito net
ting. Phil lay in log-like slumber. The
soft light OF the paper andon flowed
over the gay wadded f'ton, the hand
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

Animals are as uncomfortable as a man
would DO when forced TO stand or lie on
a cold cement floor. Such floor should
be covered knee-deep with straw. espe-
cially for mich cows and young stock
Fattening beeves will show their appre-
citation Of such comfort by taking flesh
more rapidly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
ACwoRTH WOMAN HAS
90 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN

= ACWORTH, Ca, April 15.-Mrs. :
> Nancy E. McEver, of near Ac-
; worth, is enjoying perfect health :
, in this, her S9th year. Last year. :
; she hoed cotton. She has raised
= nine children to be grown and is
= now raising her third set of
= grandchildren. She has "A grand
, children and so great-grandchil-
. dren.
. Mrs. McEver now heads five :
> generations and is hale and :
= hearty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
CHAPTER XLVIII.
THE LATCH


As Bersonin stood by the wistaria gate
beside the pulsing motor, confused
thoughts rushed through his mind into an
eddying phantasmagoria The fear and
agitation which he had kept under only
by an immense self control returned with
double weight.
All was known-thanks to the brain
less fool in, whom he had relied! The
government knew. The wild tale the
Japanese girl had told had been be-
-lievedA Had there been suspicious be-
fore? He thought of the espionage he
had fancied had been kept of late on his
movements, of the silent, saturnine faces
he had imagined logged his footsteps.
Even his servants, even Ishida, with his
blank visage and fantastic English, might
be-
He locked sharply at the chauffeur He
was lighting a cigarette in the hollow
of his hands: the rudy flare of the
match lit the brown placid face, the mar
row, secret-keeping eyes.
He tried to force his mind to meas
cure of control, to look the situation in
the face.
If Phil failed. If the aeroplane won
against darkness and wind-if the bum
galow was reached in time. and the ma
chine made harmless. Nothing would
happen. Who then, would believe the
girls wild story? Who could show that
he had made it? He had worked at
night, alone in his locked laboratory.
Besides, it would tell nothing. 1t would
yield its secret only to the master mind.
And if its presence on the roof damned
anybody It would not be him! He had
not nut il there He had not been in
Yokohama in three days!
If the aeroplane did not start-he re-
nen1bered the look on Phifs face when
he rushed awayt-or If it failed-~ With
it's own deadly ray, the very machine
would vanish. Phil had not known this
could not have told. The searchers
would find nothing! The news would
have flashed along the cables that must
roll up for him vast sums in the panic
of markets. And there would be moth
ing to bring the deed home to him!
CONTINUED in next Issue)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

when it registers s. degrees the seeds
are sown.
The amateur will want TO SOW seeds
when the bed is entirely too hot. but
make haste slowly is a good policy in
this case.
Before sowing the seeds rake the soil
to destroy the weed-seeds which have
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

1t is a good time now to read the poui-
try column for hints on how to raise
ducks
If the worst comes to the worst, this
weather can't possibly last into the base
ball season.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18
yusl Do Ne A Good nlrn
The Kingdom of
Slender Swords
BY Halle Erminie Rrves.
BY Halle Erminie Rlves.

Author OF Hearts Courageous ''satan Sander
son." Etc.-Copyright 1910, The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-18

looked from the doctors eyes. Phil
ouailed before him. A frenzy of fear
twisted his features; he felt the passion
that had been his undoing shrivel and
fade like a parchment in flame. His
voice rose in a kind of scream
Don't look at me like that! he raved.
II was a fool to trust her, but it's done
now. It's done, tell you. and you can I
undo it! What can they do to us?
They may find the machine, but what
can they prove? We're foreigners! They
can't touch US without proof!
He had no thought now of the mil
lions that were to have been his. All
the grandiloquent pictures he had painted
of the future faded in panic. He trem-
bled excessively.
Proof sneered Bersonin savagely
''There would have been none fit hap
pened! / had arranged that In it's
operation the machine destroys itself.
And neither of US is In Yokohama to-
night"
Pills ashen face set; his tongue curled
round his parched lips. What is to be
done? Can we still"
Listen" said the doctor "A single
hour more, even with your cursed folly,
and all would have been well, for no
traius are running and all wires are
down. 1 heard this afternoon. too, that
the wireless Is out VI OIOSis
.'Then-then-they cannot" Phil
voice sank with a nauseous eagerness.
watt When l saw the girl there, l
was suspicious. / watched In little
while your friend Daunt came from the
gate In some way he happened to be
there. The betto was hogging the horses
like a crazy man. He came in this d.
rection!-Can't you understand? His
aeroplanei He is going to use 1t as
last chance. If he succeeds, we may
spend our lives in the copper mines. IL
he can be stopped. we may win yet!
Therel will be nothing but the tale of a
| Japanese drab--that and nothing else!
Phil flung on his clothing in mad
ness of haste. The desperate dread that
| had ragged in him was become now a
single fixed idea, frosted over by cold,
demented fury Unhealthy spots of red
/ sprang in his white checks; his eyes di-
l lated to the mania of the paranoiac.
4 Hatless, he rushed through the little
garden, cleared the rear hedge at a
bound, and fled, like a runaway from
| hell, toward the darkness of the vast
I parade ground.
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For so years Lydia e. Pinxhana's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy foT
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lin. My grandmother by my mama's
side was born in Houston County,
and I guess I have many little rela-
tons in Georgia. My papa is a great
friend and admirer Of Uncle Tom
Watson, whether he agrees with him
on everything he writes about or not.
[ certainly enjoy Uncle Toms jeff
ersonian. His articles on Socialism
and Romanism are attracting a great
deal of attention in this section. Oc-
casionally, Uncle Tom hits the saloon
and it's twin consort, the white slave
traffic; and I think he can do a great
good by hitting hard and often, these
monster evils which are dragging
down so many human souls. l hope
our Uncle Tom will go for both of
these 'black spots with as much vim
as he has hit the Socialists and Cath
olics. My Papa is a hatef Of the
saloon and the white slave traffic, and
he says ali men ought to be up and
doing against these unholy infuen-
ces. Like Cousin Sarah Floyd, too
am in piano contest. Every
body ought to learn the truth about
the saloon and the white slave trade
and kinship between them. Trust
ing that this lengthy letter will not
find it's way to the waste basket.
I am very respectfully, your new
Cousin, THELMA E. ALBRlTTON,
Hartford, Ala.
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A NEW COUSIN.

Dear Aunt Addy: This is my first
attempt to write to the P c. G.. How
are all you Cousins feeling this hot
weather? And what are you doing?
I have been picking cotton, and like
it fine. am a little boy eleven years
Of age, have brown hair, grey eyes.
For pets l have one calf, Mamie Bill,
and q dog, Mamie Foe. Mr.. Watson
spoke in LAGRANGE lately; I surely
did want to hear him. Papa takes
his paper and thinks him great man
If this escapes the ste-basket,
will come again. Your new Cousin,
RALPH BAILEY, LAGRANGE, Ga.
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"WHY SHOULDN'T BOYS LEARN
TO COOK?"

GIY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:
INT Our Page seems to be start
ing up again famously, and I
am afraid we will have diff
Guilty in printing as many letters each
week as we would like to do.
You recollect last week l said we
would begin the discussion Of an
interesting question, and this is it:
Why should not boys learn to cook?
can hear some of you boys whoop
at that, but perhaps you won't think
it so odd when you have thought a
while.
How many of you boys hope to be-
come surveyors, miners, civil engi-
neers, or to take up other professions
that will take you into the world,
away from home comforts, comfor-
table meals, and all the good things
you have been accustomed to?
And then-wouldn't it be nice to
know how to make a good cup of
coffee, Or cook piece of meat, or
knock up batch Of biscuits?
Let me tell you of a Boy l know:
he and his mother lived together in
a big city; the boy was going to
trade school and the mother was
working; they both ate their mid
day meal at a restaurant, but their
breakfasts and suppers were eaten
in their little fiat, and the Boy al
ways got them ready.
He could broil lteak, make toast
tea and coffee; cream potatoes or
French fry them; cook grits the
incest you ever saw, and 'set"
table as neatly as his mother.
Don't you know how happy his
mother felt after she had finished a
hard days work at her office, when
she thought Of the Cosey little room
the Boy had frightened for her, and
the nice, hot supper she knew would
be ready?
And he wasn't a molly coddle; he
didn't make any fuss about the work
he did, and he didn't seem to think
it anything unusual.
Now [ want to hear from the Big
Boys on this subject, anu then We
will let the girls have a chance to say
a word or two.
Let's have your answer to the
query "Why Shouldn't a Boy Learn
How to Cook?" AffectiOnately,
AUNT ADDY.
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BRIEF, BUT BRIGHT.

Dear Aunt Addy: thought would
write you letter; it is my first time.
l am going to school. | am in the
fifth year work. My father takes The
Jeffersonian. l have a team of colts
and a SOW and seven pigs. | live on
a farm my father has 205 acres.
From friend, Bleanford Stewart,
Casey, ILL.,