Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-11
IN THE WEE sMA, HOURS.


So often have | written on the i'm
pOrtance of an occasional visit into other
territory that there are some who think
] am obsessed by the idea. l am not,
but l do maintain my position and I do
know that nothing clears the mental no.
riZon like a cnange of scene and cir
cumstanceS.
When that telegram came TO me it
found me immersed in home duties.
There were innumerable hens TO hatch
their checkers before the first of May,
turkey eggs under hens, young puppy
to care for and train amidst young
chickens, kitten that Beautiful lately
presented to me. Young chickens just
ready to put in the rape patch and to
teach them to consider a new shelter
their home. A turkey hen to watch
and to keep her from systematically
hunting the sitting hens and pulling
them of their nests Neighborhood in
terests. such as Children's day and a
canning club.
All of you know the countless things
that seem to tie US to the place The
farmer had his time as thoroughly
crowded-spring time is seeding time
and verif1es' the proverb well begun is
half done" He knew in a general way
that l had over a hundred eggs L ex-
pected to hatch pretty soon. that | was
everlastingly sending off baby chicks
and eggs, that I had eggs worth 40
cents each under hens at the barn, for
he fed those hens for me! but the idea
of feeding, watering or housing the
chickens no more entered his brain than
the idea of my taking his place in the
management or work of the crop.
But | took him to the calendar and
h Tn 1vyo a
write down the place and various items
around the date the eggs are to hatch.
Laura promised to remind him every day
that hen or some hens were to come
off and there / left the matter. / know
that things will be done to the best of
his ability. Mrs. Grimes and Mrs. Wal
den prpomised to help him and Mrs.
Walden took home the butter | had
Just taken out of the churn- She is
an expert along that line for she has
a Jersey COW that is a wonder. These
women have frequently been blessing
to me. I am ont worrying in the least.
My dear mother is still with us, her
strength is wonderful and these days
in the midst of the loved ones from
whom I've been so long separated have
been too precious to be spoiled with anx-
iety about how things may or can hap
PEN in Alabama. Many of you know
that the worst bridge that you ever
crossed mentally never did materialize.
AS soon as / can / want to go over
this farm and tell you of the tobacco.
the forty-seven varieties of cotton that
the United states government has
planted here and is studying so as to
tell the farmers which will do best under
the usual conditions and beat the boil
weevil. The government expert who has
the cotton in charge has thousands or
bugs in his laboratory. I want to tell
you about the hogs that Madison county
ships-twenty-fi carloads went last
winter There are Shetland ponies
raised here, and a lady from north
Georgia said a few days ago that the
sleek cattle, fat mules and horses and
the herds of hogs made her think OF q
land of plenty. 1t is astonishing how
some counties forge ahead and so quiet
" take a new line of procedure that her
neighbors know nothing about it till she
accompli shes so much that she gets
her name in the papers" ! am proud Of
my old home. and rejoice in her pros
perity. l wish that she may continue
to forge ahead in all that's beneficial.
AS a county, as a unit in the southland,
and a factor in the uplift of the world,
I want her citizens to