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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
A PRACTICAL FLOWER rALK

Dear Sisters OF House hold: | come to tell
you % my successful gardening, Last year
nearly ell Of ny tomatoes rotted, so 1 started
ont this. xear 10 find the lca0se. to seesff its
was the fertilizers used or from planting 50
Tong IN the same place Very early In the
season a friend gave me plants, and i
sent them out in the field and had them set ON
thrown up terrace without any manure at
all. They were slow TO bear, but In July put
on a full crop of tomatoes and am now gath
ering them by the peck, Just fine as ever
saw. They were so fine that / sent two Of
then Them to the store and had them weighed.
They weighed la pounds. then started
thsstoRass rSs they we're much earlier sniTS TO
fipel '5ut 1the VfuVsv vgiltea eorder wnend 4
first started TO gardening, 30 years ago, l
thought had to pick all the worms off of
my cabbage and have all my peas and beans
stuck, but now never think of such thing
| plant my cabbage in my best rows and
have them pioughed as often as | can. I al
ways have some to spare. The peas bear wen
without sticks. plant my beans and corn to-
gether, and at the some time, the corn VIII
perish the beans. Yes. / glad l have
i found the easy oway, II II did take a long
-sdstefs. y8f tnSk anime 'uho~cf lHaoma6ss
Just lone creature. for all the rest of you
have dropped the subject. Yes, the rains came
down and the flowers came up and everything is
now in ship-shape. The geraniums In small
pots didn't reset in the spring, they were
blooming so well, but later they seemed to
come TO standstill, so have reset them in
large boxes and am expecting much of them
fall.
II your ferns are slow IN growing. iust
ne Dtbbwaterson aud keep lin the shade
They seem to live on water ~Rucias have
grown wen for US but find they are heavy
drinkers. too. so must be kept moist or they
wilt In roofing tender plants I use glass.
Nearly every mail brings me letters want
ing to exchange flowers for flowers Now
hatf not to he accommodating. but have alI the
flowers l. can care for. so I can't exchange
that way. But win let you have plants and
cuttings as cheap as I can pack them.
! All You that have made failurues In bread
making send back; have some splendid yeast
on hand
Miss Thomas I am glad you can take trims
and tell MS abOut them. We have 70 STAY at
home all the tine but ! have a good time
sitting on the veranda and wishing summer
would last always.
MRS. t. J. ROBINSON.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
BOOKS ron YOUR BOYS

Dear Miss Thomas: After seeing your call
for Old members, I hasten to renew my ale
glance.
] wondeF what the other members are (doing.
is II canning bee--or a suffragette meeting
that keeps You away?
! am under the shade trees. enjoying
cool breezes while I write. but stop my pen
occasionally to bsten to the birds singing
their. beautiful cherry, songs.
Now is tho time to look IN some good books
for your bows winter reading. Great care
should be taken In making the selection. for
many of the late so-calledp boys hooks will he
verv deprecating 10 the growing boy. Here is
list of good books which every boy should
read: First. we will take Fome~'s "Hiad :"
The great imnerial work OF all literature "Odvs-
aev 4" 1Virgil's ".Aeneid." Goethe's 'SWilhelm
Neister' and Molieres plays. which, II mas.
tered. Is worth a trip to Enrope ALONGSIDE
Of these we viii place the poems of Words
worth. Lougfeilow. Tepuyson and Shakespeare.
DcFens' and SNott's novels and Gibbons ''Rone -
GiNbons 7 think. is our greatest historian.
The Rihle have not named because Il is
supposed the Bible forms a part Of each days
reading.
Trusting this will help some one in making a
selection, beg to remain your Household sis
ter, MRS. J. Fl. H0WSER.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25

business, and l now wondering what my
relation 10 my old friend is, or shoulu pc.
Poor, misguided mother, sne lost her first
child and mat has made her very soft-hearted
towards the others. know tine old adage
SOFT hearted mothers make hard-headed emil
uren-
There are some parents who are so busy try
ing 10 cage. all the silver eagles that they 10
not have time 10 teach their children those
nice little habits thar viii mean 50 much 10
them in after yeais.
10 teach child that money and fine clothes
are the only essentials In life Is To pave
hard road FOR = 70 travel. l think child
should be taught TO grasp every opportunity
towards self-improvements Ia both business and
social circles. Parent should cultivate the tend
ency which best developed BY nature towards
achievement In sumo worthy role, showing 10 the
world around Them they worthy OF love and
repect. aud that they must use the gray mai :
ter In their heads IN building name and
character that win stand the trials aud temp
tat.ons thai cross their pathway. And though
they may never be great or famous theSw0rht
wpt be the better for their Kind noble and
punselfish acts. It Is alarming to see SO many
bright children growing Up like little mush-
rooms. Mothers You can afford to let your lit
tie ones grow mp in poverty, pat yOu can not
afford TO let them grow up at will and expect
them to reach the top rung in life's ladder.
CAROLINE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
Pope Able to Walk About

ROME, Aug. 22.-The condition of the
pope continues satisfactory. This morn
ing he walked in the vatican gardens
with especial fatigue.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
A WORD 10 cHrcKEN cRANKs

Dear Household: am recent subscriber
IN The Semi Weekly Journal and VIII ask ner-
mission to. write few line TO the Household.
7 20 enjoy reading the sisters letters so much.
btlt am sorry can't have many letters.
send remedy for mites and lice on chick
ers have tried this with my chickens and
find II to he III right; Mix one 'easpocnful Of
Kerosene of with two teasDoonfnls Of salty
grease and apnlv ~ the heads and under their
wings " Miss Thomas aud the sisters give
ne \ welcomed will come again soon. will
oiosr. honing 70 many letters TO the dear
Horsehold. l remain MRS. DAVIS.
Macon. Ca.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25

INFORMATION WANTED
Mrs Ellie Het+. Of Cedar Bluff. Ala. wants
Ia know the whereabouts 1T her hoy. Luth""
Hiett last heard fro mat Kennedy. Tex. Any
information viii be gratefully received.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
TWO ATTACKS FAIL.

1t was about 9 o'clock when the head
OF the federal column came in sight and
tire advanced. Confederate battery opened
fire on them Immediately the infantry
left the road to right and left, seeking
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
SEVEN
YEARS OF
MISERY
All Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

SikestOn, No. -"For seven years
suffered everything. / was in bed |
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25
YOUR HEART

Does 1t Flutter, PRlpttato or
Skip Beats? Have you Short
ness of Breath, Tenderness,
Nunnbness or Pain in left
side, Dizziness, Fainting
Spells, Spots before eyes,
Sudden Starting In Sleep
Nervousness. Nightm are,
Rungryor Weak SPELLS, OPP
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-08-25

men were new to lighting and that to
stand still and be shot at might prove
too great strain, had given orders to
fire one round and then charge with the
bayonets
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
BOXING


 New Orleans, Feb. 21.-The betting odds on the Coulon-Conley fight jumped to ' to with Conley the favorite, today, following the choos- ing of Tommy Walsh for referee, last night. The choice lay between Walsh and sDr. Wallace Wood but in a stormy conference no agreement was reached until the tossing of a coin was suggested and Walsh won.
 A grand rally by Paddy Sullivan ia the last few rounds enabled him to draw last night with Kid Burns, whom he met in a ten-round bout at the Olympic A. C., in New York. The bout went the limit, neither man ever being in danger of a Knockout. Sulli- vans hard right failed to work at opportune moments. Sullivan's poor showing was due to a large extent to a foul blow which Burns unintention- ally sent to his groin in the fourth round. Burns had the advantage when the gong sounded for the fourth session, and, eager to follow it up, Burns rushed out of his scorner and hooked a hard right for Paddy's body. Had Sullivan remained in his position he would have received the blow in the pit of the stomach. In his anxiety to avoid it, Paddy jumped back and the blow struck him in the groin. Sullivan was hurt by the punch and was unable to continue until after fve-minutes' rest.
 Just to show that he is in the best
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
MOT0RETTE TO BE
 RUN TO FRISCO
Little Car Will Be Started on Long
 Journey Tomorrow.

Hartford. Feb. 21-Tomorrow noon Cat 12 o'clock sharp) one of the three wheeled motorettes from the factory of the c. W. Kelsey Manufacturing Company of this city. will set out on a noteworthy triD from Hartford to San Francisco. B. R. sharwood will accompanied by his mechanic. Otto Krouse. This trip. coming as it does at the worst possible season of the year, will be a supreme test of the car.
 The little black car. all solid steel, except for little woodwork about the wheels. the seat and other similar places. unassumlng though it is in appearance when casually looked at, upon closer inspection looks compact and powerful enough to cieaye e,o,a the through the red mud of Virginia, with little abatement of its main purpose to reach the other side of the continent. E. F. Dustin, advertising manager, caid yesterday that no other car under such a trip. The Kelsey Motorette sells for only $685. and it is to under take it's trip by the Southern or very worst route. and during the most in- element time of the year. not only for the North. but for the South. now in the HiluSt OI us rainy SecSOH. IHN test will be to show that the motorette is not merely a proposition for asphalt pavements. but an all year car on any roads whatsoever.
 The trip will be through seventeen States and the territory of New Mex ico The following principal points will be touched: New Haven. Bridge port. New York. Philadelphia. Balti- more, Washington. Richmond and Roanoke. Va: Atlanta. Ga.: Birming- ham. Ala: Dallas Fort Worth and Fl Paso. Tex: Juarez. N. M.; Tucson and Phoenix. Ariz.; San Diego. Los An geles and San Francisco
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
STALL ONE OF FEW WHO
 QUIT GAME VOLUNTARILY

Baseball players who retire deliber- ately when they have plenty of good playing days ahead of them are few and far betweeen.
 Cases like that of Jake Stah1 are very rare. stahl. from the form he showed with the Boston Red Sox last lyl.
 Other notable instances of this kind were those of Fielder Jones, Bill Lange and John M. Ward. Jones stopped when he was right at the top of his ability. He hadn't reach himself to be a star manager as well as a ball player. Fruit raising in Oregon held out allurements which he couldn't resist, and with his re- tirement the game suffered the loss of a player of rare skill.
 Bill Lange wao another shining light which the sport could i'll afford to lose, although the defection of any one player, no matter how eff ficient. makes only microscopical inn press on the national game. AS a fielder, batter and base runner, run of players, and he probably wasn't even at his best-would have improved still further when he dropped diamond activities for good and all and settled down to business in California.
 John Ward. may have seen his best days as a player when he forsoook baseball for the law, but man of his type and ability would have gone on for 8 good while longer as a man. ager had he cared to. Like the oth- CTS, however, when he said he was through he meant it.
 Mike Donlin gave up the game when he was at his best. and men who could hit as he could are @ loss when they and the diamond come to the parting of the ways. When Mike quit he quit. though with him had the sufficient money incentiv been forthcoming he probably would have come back to the game. Billy Lauder, the third baseman, stopped playing of his own free will and for no other reason than that he prefer red to do something else. He could have held his own in fast company for some time longer, as also could Ted Lewis, the pitcher, who gave up baseball without waiting for the first symptoms of a decline
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
HAE. VARD'S PRESIDENT
 FiV0RS NEW FOOTBALL

Boston, Feb. 2I.-President A. Law renee Lowell of Harvard is authority for the statement that the revised football rules have reduced materially the injuries which have heretofore characterized the game He made this statement in his annual report to the board of overgeers of the uni versity.
 President Lowell holds that the changes made in the rules govern- ing the game have not detracted from the spectacular features of the sport and tntimates that when the players become more familiar with the new rules the injuries will de- crease in proportion. In his report he says:
 ''rhe feeling that intercollegiate games of football were too danger ous to life and limb has resulted in an effective revision of the rules. These have not, perhaps, been in op- eratian long enough to produce their ultimate results.
 Tt would seem that the teams in some of the colleges have not yet become accustomed to them, but the changes have certainly not made the game less interesting spectacle, and among Harvard players, at least, the injuries have been greatly reduced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
CUBS LEADER
 DEAD SURE HIS
 BOYS WILL WIN.

Chicago. Feb. 21.-Bronzed. rugged and full of confidence in his team
 Manager Frank Chance has returned to Chicago ready to take the tiller the coming National league race.
 The Cub leader not only thinks his team will win the pennant again, but is willing and able to tell why he thinks so, and this is it.
 we will win," he said. because we won easily fast year with a team that was not at it's best. With just the same men in the ranks the Cubs will be stronger than last season. l do not look for any such run of hard luck as we encountered all through 1910. But the race will be harder strengthened. To offset that we have picked up a lot of promising material from which we certainly ought to gain as much new strength New York and Cincinnati have brac- ed their teams and Pittsburg must always be counted in the running. Fred Clarke is a grand fighter and you have to figure him in all the time no matter what they may tell you
 'The Reds will be dangerous if that man McQuillen Is right. Much de- bends on him, but believe Griffith
 can get the best he has, and that means ne VIII De a. grand pltcner. With McQuillen added to the pitching staff Griff's bunch will be a tough proposition. His men are fast on the bases and in the field. while they are likely to break things up at the bat any minute.
 Nevertheless, I don't see anything
 but a win for the Cubs in the end We are not going to have Reulbach sick from diphtheria and weak from the effects of it for the greater part
 of the season. We missed him last year. Then Pfester just as he was going right broke his wrist. Overall twisted ligament in his pitching arm, and could not help us in the lat ter half of the season. If we could
 win in the face of all that happened to us last year, can't see how they can beat us if we have only the av- age amount of tough breaks in a sea- son.
 "We have some mighty good ma- terial among the recruits, and lot of them are pitchers. We need only
 one good one out of the lot Vic Willis will besa big help. I shall al- whys believe he pitched Pittsbur1 into the championship in 1909. He did not go back as fast as many per sons think in single season. I at-
 tribute his comparatively poor show ing last year to the conditions in St. Louis. Willis is a cool weather pitch CT, and is best in spring and fall. It | is awful hot at times in St. Louis, and l the heat weakened him. Chicago is
 far cooler. a,nd--well, you just watch Vic"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
U. 5. CURLERS DEFEAT
 CAKADIANS FOR TITLE

Boston, Mass, Feb. 21-The inter- national curling championship and the Gordon medal was won by the United States at the Boston Arena after five hours of play yesterday when the Canadian teams were defated by the total score of 149 to 137. It marked the nineteenth annual tournament, during which time Canada has won thirteen times and the United States six times. Canada won last year.
 The United States teams won in five of the eight rinks today, twenty-one ends being played at all the rinks by agreement.
 The closest match was that between the St. Andrews of Montreal, and the Jersey City Curling club, which was not decided until the last stone was skipped. Measurements of the three nearest stones gave the match to St. Andrews by one point, the score be- ing IS to IT. State Senator Edwards of New York explained the Jersey City team.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
UMPIRE SAYS BASEBALL
 FANATICS ARE RAnMIE IESS

Umpire Billy Evans, who is a sporting scribe in the Winter time. and thus keeps before the public, does the talking for the other um- pires in both the American and Ma tional Leagues: Evans is of the opinion that the baseball reformers are inclined to go too far in attempt ing to make the fans adopt pink tea manners at ball game.
 people who favor rule providing grounds of any fan who hoots or howls at the umpire. Now. to my way of thinking, that would be alto gether wrong. The warwhoop of the fans is music to my ears" It used to hurt, but it doesn't any more. The fans have an idea that the home team outclasses the visiting team, and if the home team doesn't win the umpire is at fault.
 As I was leaving the ball field af- ter a game in P I;lade.-- ia one day a game in which the Athletics beat their hated rivals. the Tigers by a great maintaining rally, I heard a man say: We'd never have won tha. game put for the way we got after that umpire. He was afraid to give us anything but a square deal at the finish
 Now, this fan thought he was right He magined that because I had declared Schmidt safe at the plate on desperate slide in the eighth that the misses greeting the decision had been a factor in my de- cisinn that the same player, Schmidt, had failed to get the ball to first ahead of Captain Davis in the ninth and that the last decision had paved the way to the Athletics victory.
 'AThe average fan is all right. He imagines lot of things that don't exist. but let him go on so thinking. 1t makes him fan, and it is to just such fans as this that the national game must look for its support and it's prosperity"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-21
Special from United Press, 7,

Special from United Press.)
 London, Feb. 21-Race prejudice as strong as ever manifested itself in the United States is cropping out here in connection with the 20 round fight, to- Boston Tar Baby, and Bill Lang. the Australian. Hundreds of letters have been received at Lang's camp from all over England wishing Him luck in his effort to uphold the white race.
 Last evening a large delegation, most of whom were women. visited Langford's headquarters and openly insulted the black man by telling him that they hoped he would "have his head knocked off,"
 While the public is pulling for Lang to win 1t doesn't let its favoritism get the better of it's judgment and Lang ford Is still the long end in the bet ting at odds of 5 to 1. It is isestimat- ed that 3175,0O0 has been wagered on the fight in big bets alone.
 Physicians examined Lang. today. and pronounced him the finest physi- cal specimen they had ever seen. and repeated his prediction, today, that he would put Lang away inside of 12 rounds.
 My match with Jack Johnson is as good as made" said he. today, eff Johnson sticks to his promise to meet the winner of tonight's fight
 Langford will enter the ring weigh ing about 165 pounds whereas Lang will carry all of 190.
 Mcintosh, who is Lang's manager has repeatedly announced that the Australian is the best white pugil st in the ring, not excepting Al Kaufman and other "hopes." but in this coun- fvxy fy1r dn this opinion, with the result that Langford has been heavily backed here as we'll as in Great Britain and will be the ringside favorite.
 Langford was born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia in 1880 and Is feet 1-2 inches tall He has a phenomenal ring record. Starting out as profes- sional in 1902 he began to attract att tention in Boston and New England He was1oH1y a weTterwetght then. but he rapidly forged to the front by de- feating such men 'as Tim Kearns, Walter Burgo, Belfield Walcott, Young Griffo. Patsy Sweeney, Joe Cans, McFadden, Young Peter Jackson. Lar ry Temple and Joe Jeannette. He met Jack Johnson at Chelsea, Mass. in 1908. and the latter got a decision Tn a fifteen round bout, although Langford knocked the big negro down TOT the count III the second round. All ter that Langford went to England and stopped Tiger Smith and Jeff Torne in jigt:me.
 Coming back to America he whipped Jim Barry. Jim Flynn, Sandy Fergu- son, Al Kubiah, Morris Harris and John Willie, after which he made an- other trip to London and knocked out the English heavyweight champion. Ian Hague. in four rounds at the Ma tional Sporting club. He was matched to fight Johnson at this club. but the latter. after beating Burns in Aus-