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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
Bypnth. in DixIc.n


BY Sarah johnson Cooke, OF Virginia.
Introduction by Harry stillwen An
drews. and illustrations by Duncan
Smith. of New York, formerly of the
University of Virginia II. p Dutton
and Company. OF New York. publishers.
This book embodies a most valuable
collection OF folk tales OF the South"
The author is a Georgian by birth.sbut.
since her marriage to Lucian Cooke.
OF Roanoke, Va. has made her home
IN this State. and largely enhanced
her reputation for writing. reputa-
ton first established by her in Atlanta.
where she edited magazine that was
a great success.
Harry S,illwell Andrews. in his hap
py Introduction to Mrs. Cookies book.
says: when Joel Chandler Harris de-
veloped the 'Brer Rabbit stories, /;
seemed as though future work along
folklore lines must lle I'm refining. for
the ore WINS all in sight.
But there was one lead almost en-
tirely forgotten or undervalued in the
scramble for literary wealth. and this
lead was into the Southern nursery
where tho real black nanny rcigned.
With the better lights before us now.
we realize that the very heart centre
OF Southern civilization had not been
touched
Mrs. Cooke, in tho charming stories
contained in this volume. is the happy
pre-cmptor OF the new find Every
Southerner. old enough, will recognize
the absolute truthfulncss OF the scenes
and methods therein embalmed. and
applauded the faithfuness with which
she has reproduced that difficult po-
tency, the gentle. tender, playful. elu-
s!ve. young old. child-wisc mind of tine
African nurse In the white family"
No figure in the life OF the Old South
more richly deserves perpctuatior in
literature than tho negro NANNY who
tells the FOLKLORE tales in pixie By
paths" The echoes from childhood's
days. heard in the messages from the
rooster telephone. from the haunt of old
man Gully, from the annals of Jack
Ola intern and the glow worm. from
Miss Race HOSES party, Mr.. Tall
Pines Christmas tree and other kim
dred subjects, hnEer long in tho mem
cries of those who recall a mammy's
watchful care and responsiveness,
when little children gathered at her
knee and demanded Tell us some
tales. nanny. and make haste before
the dustman comes"
The tales in Dixie Bypaths" arc
ell entertaining. They arc full of
imagination and told in Just the way
TO appeal most strongly to the minds
OF grown people and children alike
And IT Is not often that the mean
dng OF tales is so we'll brought out bv
illustration, for few authors are for
tunate enough 10 have an illustrator
so fully IN sympathy with tho shirt
OF their writing as Mrs Cooke evident
~ has In Duncan smith
The Joint result produced by author
and artist Is one that will make
endless amusement for many house
holds during the approaching Christ
mas season. The publication is snc-
cially apt as to time. and tho volume
viii be q most welcome additio to the
holiday output. which is already APP
pearinE in great force
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DIR. MorrIson's hook.

DIR. Alfred i. Morrison has lust got
ton out a circular prospectus OF his
tory of tho College of Hampden- sid
ncy, which he Is preparing to write
The funds necessary to defray the cost
OF publication are to be raised by sub
scription,
DR. Morrison. who has had such a
work In mind for a number of years
has collected "A great amount of data
concerning every phase of the college
from its beginning. one hundred and
thirtyhve years ago This college
really has history and that it should
be reduced to writing and thus pre-
served and made accessible is not only
important to the college Itself. but
TO the public at large. SO conspicuous
q part has IIampdcn-S Sidney played in
the life and affairs OF the State and the
nation that its history VIII he of gen
cral interest and value
scholar a great student. ono who
delights in historical research, accurate
TO q degree, having the skill to ar
range his material in its logical and
proper sequence and withal possessing
striking literary finish. no one could
be better qualined for the undertake :
ing than Dr Morrison
Moreover. from his lie and associa-
subject An honor graduate OF this
institution, as Was his father and
grandfather before him-the latter
Dr. John NJ. r Atkinson, having pre-
coded DR. Richard McIlwaine as prcsi-
dent-wiuh most of his boyhood spent
within the sound Of the college bell
tho very spirit of the school is in him
and he goes about his task with en-
thusiasm and love for his theme.
After graduating at Hampden-Sid
ney. Or Morrison pursued his studies
at the University OF Virginia. in Parts.
and at Johns Hopkins University, re
ceivlng from the latter institution thc
degree OF doctor OF philosophy. He has
done Il very considerable amount Of
literary work notably in the way Of
TRANSACTIONS. especially from tn. Ger
man Besides this he has edited 81
number nj books and has written num-
erous historical sketches and pam
phlcts RALPH BROCK.
Farmyiiic Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

BY Jean Webster run mage ulus-
trations by Relyea Tho Century CON
rany, Of New York 81 20 net.
JUST Patty-full Of the low Of living
given to ingenious mischief for lis
own sake popular and pretty with "A
nehclous sense of hrmor and de-
alghtf"i disregard of petty conven-
lions.
This latest hook Of her aayant,,ras
deals with i!fo at a select boarding.
school 81 frsnla's Young folks win
Ike to read about Pattys adventures,
and Jean Webster tolls them with surh
zest that they seem like record OF
real happenings
Miss lean webster. the author or
Just Patty Is a daughter Of Charles
J. Webster the publisher aud grand
niece. through her mother. Of Marx
Twain. Since her graduation from
Fassar in 1901 Miss Webster has
Travelled widely spending winter In
India and the Dutch East Indies and
several months in Japan during /, tr,u
around the world.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

''iHNoc.
BY Il. Phillips oppenhcim Little.
Brown & Company Of Boston. 1928
Howard Chandler Christy has made
the color Illustrations for havoc
which has been Justly classed as "a
brilliant and engrossing story of love.
mystery and International intrigue"
In tho story an American Journalist
and an EnEllshman In the secret SER
vice of his country find themselves de-
barred from a royal conclave held in
Vienna. between the Emperors of Ger
many and Austria and the Car of
Russia The American. by a happy
trick of fate. comes into possession Of
a state paper containing the results
of the meeting of royalties Attempt
ing to escape with this paper. he PAYS
the forfeit of his foolhardness with
his life The paper comes again into
possession of German diplomats who
carry il TO London. where the English
man follows with the woman he loves
| She is beautiful opera singer and is
greatly Interested IN the recovery OF
tho papers by the EnElishman, as She
feels that what they tell must decide
the fate of her beloved native land.
Scrvia.
Given motives lihc these to inspire
a war of diplomatic rlcverness and
background like London. and il may
he well imagined that an end may he
reached only after series of absorb
ing and romantic situations. Affairs
take moreover wholly unexpected
turn because or the Introduction into
them Of a wholly unexpected factor.
ono who acts purely from personal
motives and without regard 10 the
diplomatic and patriotic reasons gov
erning the conduct of others
Altogether the ct tie In,
terestinS, one of the best of tho class
that has rendered f. Phillips Open
helm so well known and popular in
England as we'll as America.
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which It's different clements are
welded together. renders less starkly
apparent the motive which is the un-
derlying and basic power of tho whole.
1t is thus unusually consistent.
Tho other characters In the book are
really the book. Gabrielle st. Leger
stands in 1t for tho most exquisite type
of Partisan womanhood. beautiful. in
tellectnal. devoted mother and
daughter yet a woman who cannot
forbear tho exercise OF the Influence
which her beauty enables her to exert,
until she is brought sharply face to
face with the harm she has done
man thoughtlessly but mono the less
cruelty. This man Is n strange per-
sonality. genius on tho artistic side
OF his nature. but so cynical and lack
ing In balance, so apt to repel where
he would most desire to attract that
when he crosses tho dividing line be-
tween sanity and insanity, II would
seem that he has merely followed out
an inevitable trend. The description
of the studio of this man, Rene OAK
by name, with gray lemur sitting
before the fire In n scarlet painted
cane chair. gives the Keynote to the
impulses which harry and drive the
master of the studio. Yet this man
could paint Gabrielle st. I,eEer as the
Madonna OF the Future. with a noble
going forth to meet fate in her cx-
preston and bearing, as ono conse-
Grated. a once the emb odiment and
exponent of some compelling idea. the
leader of some momcntous movement
the elect spokeswoman of n new and
tremendous age"
There IS nothing OF the Madonna
of the Future" in poor Joanna Smyrth-
waite. who is too heavily shacklcd by
the conventional gives which weigh
her down from birth. TO ever come in
TO n genuine conception of herself and
her possibilities as woman. She sup
piles an element of painful tragedy
the pitdfulncss of her starved woman
hood contrasting sharply with the
shallowness of her sisters Instincts
and the depravity of her brothers
tastes. Joseph Challoner figures in ~
strategic movement" that ii would be
well for all women to read and learn
how one woman failed In desperate
effort to elule pursuing. self-creatcd
fate. Otherwise this mans type Is,
to the distinction.
adrian Savage" therefore, has as
sociated with him by ties of friend
ship. association and relationship,
people who awaken interest and serve
to illustrate many psychological and
intellectual phases of humanity Ad-
rian is himself most admirable in his
attitude as n lover. in the reverence
with which he bears himself toward
the one woman who fulfls his ideals
The end of the story is its climax and
rounds out its purpose.
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Client guarantee that IL is the
runner OF more

When Molly Elliot seaweiI az
asked the or day how she can,i,
write The .-igglers." the novel wcn
is to he published In the near fute.
she replied: The characters d
long been floating in my mind. Ty
took possession of my house IKE,
swarm of unlimited guests, and Nh
TO provide for them. one day. in J.
cember, 1910. suddenly remember h
story | had read about the Parisom
mune. A young man with, Il vii and
children was condemned TO deal by
the Communards. In the next I. To
him was priest. who said to hiuhat
no effort was made TO identify thton-
dcmned, and IL he. the priest lehia
beard grow, he could easily pastor
his neighbor, and offered to diehat
the young man might be saved this
family. This sublime offer vase
fused. and in the end both escapedut
1t seemed to me that 1t would be Ire
dramatic If the sacrifice could he nio
unknown to the one meant to be sad
by it, The power of the situation
pealed to me. said to myself. 'Thas
why all these people have descent
upon me-they certainly mean to h
something startling. The Juggle.
was begun that very day"
Funk & Wagnalls Company. of NJ
York, have brought out n holiday gi
edition of The TRANSPORTATION Of Mil
Philura." by Florence Morse Kingsle,
This charming little love story has be
come classic. In its present form,
is illustrated hy Ethel Pennewi
Brown with four full-paEe picture.
The book Is bound in green silk eliot
with cover design in gold leaf. 1t i
priced at Sl.oO net.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

Thomas Nelson Page. in an article in
the November Scrbner on General
Lee and the Confederate Government"
makes 81 very clear that the great
leader of the Southern armies was woe
fully handicapped by the administra-
ton in carrying out his campaigns
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

For generation Andrew Lang has
delighted the children and grown-ups.
too. for that matter, with his fairy
books. and the fairy lines in II. j..
Ford's dainty illustrations have been
of no less charm than the stories
themselves. After the Blue Fairy
Book the red. the olive and other
color names, came titles less coufus-
ing when we tried to remember which
we had already read.
The All Sorts of Stories Book" an
nounced by the Longmans for this
Christmas. Is the twcnty-third annual.
This is of new sort. for Tie tales are
of many different kinds. Some are
true like the history of the man who
met In America the other man whom
he had been hanged for numbering in
England: then we have several stories
of adventure that happened to historic
personages: besides stories of treasure
hunts. Greek mythology. wild witches
and red Indians!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
BO0k NOTES.

Amons the Paul Elder and Company
announcements Tor early publications
are the following
The Little Lad - Bethlehem Town"
- winsome drama poem telling an
imaginative incident of the frst
Christmas Eve. Ny Emily Huntington
Miller, 1t Is to he illustrated and is-
sued as an exquisite example OF book
making.
Envelope Brochures"-a series 10
present exquisite examples or typo
Sraphy. elaborately printed on beauti-
ful hand made papers. The first mum.
bers are: Charity" compiled by
Beulah Warner; alteration" poems Of
trustfu prayer. by Florence NJ
schmidt; Mathis and Vespers." poems
for tho morning and evening devo-
tons, by Violet NJ. Firth: and "IIappi-
ness" compiled by Paul Elder.
The return OF Mary Anderson to her
native country is sure to awaken a
host OF theatrical reconections among
older playgoers In her own book. "a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22

Neronese lovers Finally. Tybalt. with
out Shakespeare's permission. returned
to the scene and led him off. In Dub
lin ne was disguised as an ancient
peasant In The Winters Tale and
the manner in which he strolled about
conversing in his own--not Shakes
peares = language and ferociously
waving a long staff. was more alarm
ing even than his petrifcation in
Romeo ana Juliet"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
Evergreen Preserving Company's
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Prepared by MRS GREENE thirty years experience Pre-
Mamaade Jeies Spce6 Pears
Picked Canoupes Mncemea, Apple Plum Puddics
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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15
The Common Chicken Mite.

The worst external parasite of poul-
try against which the poultryman and
farmer have to contend is the "com-
mon chicken mite" or ''red chicken
mite There are other species Of
mites which attack poultry, but they
do much less damage. This blood
thirsty little pest causes great loss to
the poultry industry of the country
by killing adult fowls and chicks and
cutting down egg production. 1t not
only attacks poultry, but horses and
even man as we'll.
The adult female mite lays her eggs,
which are elliptical in shape and
about HOO of an inch in length, in
the cracks and crevices Of the roosts,
walls, nests, or boxes, usually where
there is some manure or other filth.
Under favorable conditions the eggs
will hatch in few days, when the
young mites are white, oval in shape,
and have but six legs. They feed for
a few days upon filth, but attack
fowls when older. Every few days
the young mite molts or sheds its
skin an increases in size, becoming
full grown in about ten days from
birth.
REMEDIES.
The best remedies for mites are
cleanliness, sunlight aud spraying
with disin fecting solutions. The
poultry house and fittings should be
so built as to be easily cleaned. The
walls should be smooth and as free
from cracks as possible. Nests, roosts
aud dropping boards should be easily
removable to allow spraying of their
entire surface and the walls beneath
them
There are several preparations for
the eradication of mites of which
four good ones are given below:
S have or chop one 1O-cent cake OF
laundry soap into one pint of soft
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15
Quit Chicks for Kittens.

YORK, Pa. = After accomplishing
the commendable feat of Matching
thirteen chicks from as many eggs,
Plymouth Rock hen owned by James
M. Cross deserted her broods and
undertook to mother four baby kittens
which arrived on the same day. The
old cat had been given quarters close
to the hens nesting place and for
four days the hen spent most of her
time covering the kittens, driving
away the mother cat whenever she
appeared. To keep the kittens from
starvation under their unnatural
mother it was necessary to confine the
hen in a box.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15

water. Heat or allow to stand until
a soap paste is formed. Stir in one
pound of commercial cresol and heat
or allow to stand until soap paste is
dissolved. Stir in one gallon OF kero-
sene. For use dilute with 80 parts of
water, which will make a milky color
ed liquid.
Commercial cresol is a coal tar by
product and may be obtained from
the druggist at about 80 cents per
pound. Care should be taken not to
get any of it upon the hands or face
as it will cause intense smarting.
KEROSENE AND CARBOLIC
ACID.
Add one part of crude carbolic acid
to three parts of kerosene. Apply
without dilution and keep stirred
while applying. Crude carbolic acid
is preferred to the better grades be-
cause of it's containing other coal tar
compounds in addition to phenol.
Of these preparations probably the
best is the cresol soap solution as it
is readily prepared, cheap, efficient
and easily applied.
Any of the commonly advertised
coal tar stock dips may also be used
with satisfactory results. They may
be diluted with so parts of water.
These mixtures may be applied with
large brush or with a spraying
machine. A good spraying machine
is quicker and more efficient than a
brush. Great care must be taken to
fill thoroughly every crevice in the
walls, perches and nests with the
liquid, Any of these mixtures will
kill every mite with which it comes
in contact, but it is impossible to get
all of them with one spraying. Two
thorough spraying should be made on
the first day. The next day careful
examination should be made and If
any mites can be found alive the house
should be thoroughly treated again.
Although these solutions will kill
the adult mites, it is not likely that
they will reach the mite eggs and pre-
vent them from Matching. The houses
should, therefore, be sprayed twice
again at intervals OF one week. This
will catch any mites that have hatch
ed out from eggs laid previous to the
first spraying.
Before setting hens are placed upon
eggs for Matching the nest should be
thoroughly saturated with some one
of these preparations to kill any mites
that may be present and to forestall
immediate lnfestation. A teaspoonful
of the undiluted cresol soap solution
placed beneath the straw. in the hol-
lows OF the nests will keep them free
from lice, as we'll as mites, but 1t
should not come in contact with eggs.
Poultry Topics.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15

ter of the elimination of the 'star
boarders" and the conservation of
the 200 egg "a year hens. Prof. Dryden
of the Oregon Agricultural College
has made special study of this sub
ject, and is firm believer in the
trap nest.
"To discover the egg type of hen
we have got to use the trap nest, or
some method of keeping record of
eggs laid by individual hens,'' he has
said. 1.-The trapnest is about the best
thing we have discovered in the
poultry business. We will make slow
improvement the necessary time. |
believe that the state or experiment
station should come to the rescue
here. There should be breeding
station, or several breeding stations,
in every state, where farmers could
secure at nominal prices cockerels
of good egg laying pedigree to mate
with their tiocks. It would not take
very long to furnish every farmer with
a male bird whose ancestry for two
generations had an egg record of 100
eggs year or more.
"We say it is the hen OF vigor that
lays. We say without constitutional
vitality she will not lay. That is IN
doubtedly true. A hen may have the
egg laying capacity, but without
vigor she won't produce eggs. On
the other hand. the hen may have
vigor without egg-laying capacity.
She may have constitutional vitality
and lay less than 20 eggs year. The
point is that ! by selecting for vigor
alone we won't make very rapid pro-
gress in breeding up strain OF lay
ers. We have to select for both vigor
and egg capacity. The trapnest en-
ables us TODD this. The hen that lays
200 eggs year has good vitality, so
that high egg record is an indica-
ton of high vitality. 1t is possible.
of course, that the 20O-egg hen will
not produce chicks of good vigor; it
is also possible that her eggs may not
be very fertile. That is another ques-
ton. 1t is possible that very heavy
laying may injure her breeding quail
tiles; that is a debatable point. But
the fact remains that the hen that
lays $50 eggs or more year has good
vitality, and it is such hens that we
must depend upon to increase the
egg weld and make poultry keeping
more profitable. A high egg record
indicates constitutional vitality
stamina. The trapnest, therefore,
selects for vigor as we'll as egg laying
capacity.
"If each state would take hold OF
this in earnest, we believe that in few
wears it would add millions of dollars
to the profit of the poultry keeper,
and at the same time help solve the
nroblem of the nations food supply. "
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15
To Produce More Heavy Layers

The conversion of flock of hens
that barely pays for the feed it eats
into one which will lift the mortgage
from the home farm is largely mat
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15

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The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-10-13

lilaH 100 Representatives NJ Institutions ~
iiRlHf mufhii6h answered thn t0ll ealll
and ~ lenders N Amhfipah p1Uenti1ii an1
opinion brought eGhRiainlW0fy intaslptg,
Dean Gptfh Henry Perkins N tle Dtis
vafsitH N Vermont presided The appeafs
aDpe NJ President Jgb1 NJ 1J6tDaA N
MiddlpiGify Cdiieget following bis recent
aafims Illness Win Appendicitis, yas
RteHef Win prolonged applause ht1 IN
iie afternoon, Whnn W. Harvey w WHEY
iD6b NE degree, tlie applause was almost
dHpihHihe
Following n buffet lunch N he ilnlyefs
NV gyHhasiuiH ille procession ~ ifllss
ifis, faculties guests, alumni hhd siii.
deHia formed IN he university green alid
lBafdipd W Tho Strong ileatfp, which ~
INC llnf llN hsffeish began was lllled W
0vpiil0WiBR. Tho sentiments Oppressed
IN ilH adltssee Wpfe cordially received
by Tho lafee audience and President Bon
IONS Mpaflelll statements were heartily
apViauded Honorary degrees, which were
Omitted M commencement me- Wffe
conferred upon ~ scholars, A reception
nj the itilliHaH library ana the corporation
dinner M The Hotel Vermont brought The
busy day Ton close,