Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-05
Mast EITONS TALKS
CONDUCTED BY
rqas. WIZ FELTON,
FEE HISTORY or THE TELE-
DEyNNE

EA0NG
Among the latest inventionS-up
to the good year 1880-was the
telephone I CHANGED to see the very
first official telephone few hours
after it was installed. 1t connected
the u. S. capitol building with the
placed there to prove to the men,
bers of congress that the human
voice could pass along a wire and
for one mile, people in the capitol
could talk to the people in the print
ing office, with distnctnesS and with
accuracy. AS soon as DR.. FELTON,, my
deceased husband, saw the phone ap-
paratuS, he sent messenger to our
hotel in Washington City Che was
a member of congress), begging me
to lay aside my work OF directing
letters and to come quickly. 1 was
allowed to talk to a Georgia printer
from our town, employed in the gov
eminent printing office. 1t was the
marvel of the age!
Since that time there have been
more than twenty-nine millions in
stalled in the United States. Every
state in the union has them. People
talk through them, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from the lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico. This has been
the advance inside of thirty years.
The inventor or discoverer lived in
Washington City. We could see him
on the streets very frequently
All the hotels, of any size, in all
the towns of the United States, are
used bell-boys when the telephone
was unknown. Now you call for
anything you need and you do not
leave your room to do SO, ana tne
employees answer very quickly. In
case of fire these phones are very
prompt to sound alarms. II Tor
nothing more important these fire
alarms would be worth the expense.
In case of mob, of riot, or disasters
the word can go quickly.
OF course the wireless has over
Swallowed the telephone business.
With cables underneath the ocean
and air-voyageS over oceans, ana
wireless everywhere on lana ana sea-
we could be Informed OF pattle
when it was begun over in Europe.
In the olden time it would take many
weeks and only by sail vessels.
These wonders are only torerunnerS
of greater discoveries.
What wonders hath God wrought!
BUT LITTLE FRUIT
We have a great many peach trees
in my part of the country, ana the
summer crop is all gone. 1t went
and came almost in flash. And
have seen more wormy peaches-eVen
with such a transient crop-than Tor
many others years-w1th a plentiful
one. ,-
Adde's are SCdTCS-NCIS I1SlL S"AANN
very sorry. I hope other sections
are in better luck.
The loss of fruit crop accentu!-
ates the high cost Of living. Until
one is forced to do without fruit
they cannot appreciate what a help
it is for food, purposes, 1t can "a; pc be
summer time, and if properly can
ned is three-fourths of the living,
when sliced bacon sells for Is cents
a pound in winter time.
Nevertheless, there is not the
proper regard for cultivating fruit
in my part of the country. We fail
to understand that nothing of the
plant kind will prosper without at
tention. If you fail to work cot
ton or corn crop you fall---or any
other thing you cultivate.
We set out fruit trees and then
quit! Forest trees can get along
if let alone but the trees that bear
fruit must have more or less atten-
ton to survive. Even an aged, neg
with some good apples if they are
pruned and the ground underneath
has some cultivation. 1t is surpris-
ing how the young buds and bios
SONS start up and do willing part.
But a starved apple tree is like
starved horse, it will droop and die
if severely let alone.
In my youthful days great care
was taken with fruit trees. and the
seeding fruit of that early time was
fine. remember the splendid
White English" peaches and the
juicy Red Indian peaches with de
light. I have had the Juice run
down my little arms and trickle off
my elbows when, I enjoyed those
great big Indian peaches.
What's the, matter, anyhow?
Are we only cotton tots? Every
oh q
good things to eat--that grow out
Of the ground. If peach trees were
planted along the bitches, and the
bitches kept open, as they should be,
there would be an enormous plenty,
and to spare.
In looking back, along my 1ife's
pathway, and seeing as I do, that a
producer can grow all he needs, if
he will, I feel constrained to say
good word-once in a while-al-
though. I fear it is seed that will
never terminate.