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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-05

WV kHOW nothing aDOut IL, Mdr-
 " ian declared. II was a fool to tell you of my intentions anyway-cer- tainly while they are as uniformed as they are now. Nothing may come of any of my efforts, so, for pity's sake try to suppress your censnre until you know what I am going to do. I am sure l don't know myself yet"
 "Wefl,' Lois said, rising with dign- ity, there is no need of your flying into rage over my interest in what you expect to do with yourself. As your sister I may be pardoned if I. fell some concern on the subject"
 Pray don't lie awake at night wor- r{ing over il" was the curt advice. At least not until you are sure that I am doing something that yod would disapprove of"
 Il am not thinking of myself" Lois said sadly. But of father. I know that he would dislike to have you teach even children to dance. But that might be necessary. Yet you would hardly be teaching kiddies at night. Moreover, Marian, I happen to know that some of the places to which you have been have a bad name. Ralph's, for instance"
 Marian's face changed. "Who told you that?" she demanded.
 Mir. Sumner,-and you must ac- knowledge that he would not say such a thing without good reason."
 Has he ever been to Ralph'sg'
 Of course not! The idea of clergy man going to a resort like that!"
 ''Then he can hardly know much about it except from hearsay. And
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Nope !" the mean old Magician said, q shall not tell you what I did with the Magical Burni,n z Stick, nor what I dM with the Wild Ga zook's Granma nor anything more !" aR
 This made the Wild Gazook very, very sad and he cried upon Mrs. H O gool y's shoulder. And all of his. friends cried too, though they still held the mean old Ma gician upon the ground.
 Finally Raggedy Ann wiped every ones eyes with her pretty white apron and-said to the mean old Ma. gician, s"How would you like it if some very mean person should come into your house and take something which belonged to you besides that, take away your nice Gran ma, too. How would you like that?" q wouldn't care, even a speck !" the mean old Magician growled.
 "Oh ! Be careful !" Raggedy Ann eau tioned, Remember that you promised that you would not tell any
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anything about Peter's troubles, but as he sat there singing he happened to look down and saw Black Pussy. He knew by the way she was sitting and the way that she kept her eyes fastened on a certain opening between the stones in the old wall that she was waiting for some one to come out there. Vel come Robin stopped singing. "Nows wonder who is in there,g thought he. Probably it is Striped Chipmunk or Chatterer, the Red Squirrel. If it is Chatterer it will do him good to be kept a prisoner awhile. Still I hate the cat so much that I would like to upset her plans. She has no business to be hanging around the Old Orchard anyway. believe I'll get some of the other birds and see if we can drive her away. Anyway we can have some fun with her." @s Ii sas
 saw something move He waited to see
 Just as he lifted his wings to fly he what it might be. When he made out the face of Peter Rabbit he nearly lost his balance in his surprise. It was plain that Peter was going to poke his head out.
 Look out, Peter! I mean don't look out !! That wicked cat is waiting for you!" screamed Welcome Robin at the top of his voice.
 Next Story: How Peter Was Set lFree At Last.
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MARCH 5, 1924

in this town there are lots of old fogies who condemn things just on principle. Anyway--I am not going to Ralph's this evening" So set your mind at rest on that score"
 There was. another place you went "a place you mentioned to father, but I forgot the name of it'-Lois seemed to be thinking aloud.
 Marian spoke quickly. 'The fact that I told dad had been there might prove that it was a respectable resort. Any way, l decline to say any more on the subject"
 q am not anxious to hear any more on it," Lois said coldly, turning to the door. But one thing I do know, if you can run out as often as you like and where you like and with whom you like, do. not propose to be cooped up here at home while you are away. If decide to go to church suppers, or meetings of the women's auxiliaries, shall certainly go."
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cried, Did you ever see such a mean, disagreeable person in all your life?"
 ''I never did P Harry Hoolygooly re- piled. "It makes me want to give him hard thumpp
 "IIl tell you whatr' the Wild Ga zook said. "Just you let the mean old Magician up and will bump him all around this place until he tells us what he did with my nice Granma do not care if I always have to remain Wild .Gazook. the rest of my life if can just rescue my nice old Granma from where ever he has hidden her!"
 Hal If you let me up. shall change you all into animals!' the Ma sfcian promised. 'sThen you will be sorry, I'll bet v ...
 .I do not believe a word he says ]" the nice, fat policeman said. "If he
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guess when the way was. clear, and if he should guess wrong, well, it made him shiyer to think what might happen.
 So he wisely decided to be, patient. As long as he remained where he was he was safe, and that was the most i'm pOrtant thing. So Peter tried to take q nap, and because everything was so quiet he presently began to nod, and in few minutes was asleep. By and by he began to dream. It was hOrrid, bad dream in which Black Pussy, five times as big as she really is, had sur prised him far from any place of safety and was telling him what dreadful things she was going to do to him. Finally she put out a great paw armed with cruel looking claws to seize him. Peter gave q frightened bump and bumped his head. His eyes flew open and with a great sigh of thankfulness he found he was still snug and safe in tine hollow in tine old stone wall.
 Peter rubbed his head where he had bumped it, when he had jumped in his sleep, and then he began to wonder. He began to wonder how long he had been asleep. It seemed to him that he had been asleep a long time. Really he had had only a very short nap. If he had been aSleep long nme, as ne was sure he had, perhaps by this time Black Pussy had given up and gone away. The more he thought about it the more sure he felt that she must have. Still he didn't quite dare poke his head out side for a look around.
 He listened with his long ears cooked to catch the least suspicious sound. but not thing could he hear save the sound of Bully and Mrs. Bully. the English SparrOws. quarrelling over in Farmer Browns doOryard and the cherry voice of Welcome Robin from the far side of the Old OrchOrd. At last Peter made up his mind that the way was clear. He stole up close to the opening. With out putting his head out he could see the blue. blue sky overhead, and the tip top branches of an apple tree. He was still sitting there trying to make up his mind to poke his head out. for a look
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really could change us all into animals, he never would tell us, you can bet p
 q believe the nice, fat policeman is right !" Raggedy Ann said. Then turn ing to the mean old Magician he said. Will you tell us now what you have done with the Wild Gazook's nice, dear old Granma! !! r
 "No! I shall not p the mean old creature howled so loudly it startled Raggedy Andy, Harry Hoolygooly and the nice, fat policeman so much, they rolled off of the Magician.
 With another loud cry, the Ma gician sprang to his feet and started running away and as Raggedy Ann and her friends ran after him, he jumped over little brook and disappeared into thick clump of bushes.
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the first time of Natalie. The straight lips as she spoke of the car, the deter mined chin. Natalie had written her, coached her, was my thought,
 Natalie welcomed her affectionately and until we sat down to dinner l saw no more of her.
 >"How can you endure to live in a flat?" she asked Natalie.
 "This is an apartment" I smiled at her. "You should see New York flats. V
 But all on one floor, no privacy" {" She fairly sniffed. 8~#
 "It is the best I can afford" I re- piled as I served her, wondering what was to come.
 (To Be Continued)
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Hearts of Two By VIRGINIA JERHuNE VAN DE WATER
CHAPTER e7

[(VX 7HICH only proves that you
 w know nothing about it." Mar
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Guarding Against Anlnosity To.
 Children
sy sopH,E ,srHt lors

~ ONE one writes to me as follows N T want to tell about holding
 animosity against child. The writer has a friend who had sweet little girl and that child's aunt would not look at the child for years because of something the child's father had done.
 "When the child was born no one came to see it. and 50 as the years went by they only ignored the child but swore revenge. Don't you think this is a very sad cast? P?
 Of all the dreadful things in the world, it is for any one to take his spite ont on a little one. believe that spite is the father of revenge and is next to being insane.
 Certainly those who bear such ill will are diseased. If they would but look about them and see nature and how it acts, they win realize that there is nothing more unhealthy in the world than to nurse feeling of bitter ness.
 Take even the poison weeds that grow around lpyely flowers. Unless they are etadicated the beautiful blooms are very much injured and sometimes die altogether.
 So it is with humai, being that per. mits unhappy thoughts 10 enter into his makeup. They eat the best part of him away and the beautiful side may fade and make him ugly. The per son who can throw off felling aginst another and be just is the one who has some chance for happiness. @
 Revenge is almost dead sea fruit. It may give q momeptary sense of exul- tation, but it is gone immediately and remorse is buond to follow.
 If you don't believe it, go down into the criminal courts and look at the hundreds of cases where people have sought to injure others because of spite or hate, and how they now regret it when they have to live out a term of loneliness and misery. How far worse it is to take that spite out against a child who cannot defend itself or even ask for justice.
 It seems to me that the person who all feelings in order to give joy to a little child and save it's spirit from being troubled. has shown a bigness that makes for, better human-not only better to the child and those about him, but to himself.
 Have you ever analysed the feeling that comes to you when you have made up with friend after serious quar- relf. There is no moment so fraught with exquisite joy as the one in which reconciliation takes place.
 As a wise soul ehas said, If the angels are ever with us, they are there at such moment"
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M Y WIFE AND I
 4 Hssband sgells His Story To Carolyn Beecher

She intended to encourage Natalie in
 her extravaganza. would not be forced to buy a car. The idea was be- coming an obsession with me-Natalie intended to compel me to. hum0r her.
 I stole glance at my mother-in-law. I had met her only few times before my marriage; she had seemed an Ordi- nary small town woman then. But l saw something that reminded me for
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fibs. If you tell a fib, your mama would feel sad"
 "Well, of course, I would care! 7" the mean old Magician said, But that is just what you did! You went into my house and took some of my magic medicine"
 Indeed we did!" Raggedy Ann agreed. "It was because you had done such wicked things to Harry Hooly- gooly and the Wild Gazook and intend ed sS.ssS sng g re1sa 1as Sns ne S as take. Magic medicine you would long ago have changed all of us into some kind of animalsr' T
 And I am sorry that didn'tw the mean old Magician said.
 My gracious" Mrs. Hoolygooly
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 hollow between the stones of
 the old wall on the edge of the Old Orchard. Black Pussy had chased him there. and now she was keeping watch just outside. Peter didn't par tieularly mind staying in there. He had the room to turn around, and he was fairly comfortable, except that one leg smarted where the sharp claws of Black Pussy had torn through his trousers just as he had diyed to safety through the opening between the stones of the wall. He wouldn't have par ticularly minded being a prisoner there but for one thing. He knew that sooner orSlater Black Pussy would give up and go away and then he could make his escape back to the dear Old Brier Patch. The thing that worried him was that he would have no way of knowing when Black Pussy did go. He would have to
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Do" Marian urged. You might be happier if you went in for that kind of thing. You seem to need it."
 When the door had closed behind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-05
LITTLE BEDTIME STORY
Peter Gets a Warning Just In Time
By THoRNToR ". BURGESS
NETER RABBIT was prisoner in around WI

around when who should alight on the tip-top branch of the apple tree but Welcome Robin.
 "Cheer up! Cheer up! Cheer up Cheer up!' said Welcome Robin, and it seemed to Peter that that message was meant especially for him. Now. of course, Welcome Robin didn't know
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
Coats Lincoln Wore
When He Was Shot
Are Too Numerous

CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-How many
coats did Abraham Lincoln wear
when he was shot? This is a ques-
ton Chicago Historical society Of.
ficials are asking.
For years the society has held.
exhibited and treasured as one of
it's cherished possessions, a coat,
which affidavits in the possession
of the society attest is the genuine
garment worn by the president
when he was shot by John Wilkes
Booth while in q box in Ford :.
theater, April IA. 1865.
Philadelphia dispatches yesterday
stated an auctioneer there had sold
the only original coat worn by Lin
coin when he was shot, for $500.
Included in the Philadelphia sale
were a pair Of Wrinkled trousers
an overcoat and a faded silk STOCK
said to have been worn by Lincoln
The garments, according to tn
. auctioneer, had been presented tC
Alphonse Dom, White House door
keeper, by Mrs. Lincoln, and a let
ter from her to Dom was included
in the sale.
The Chicago Historical society's
coat was presented to it by Frank
G. Logan who obtained it in 1885
from Thomas F. Pendel, a doorkeep
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

because well he knows that the price
of such an indiscreet revelation
would be to have her nagging him
about it forever and a day.
A wife would just love to tell her
husband about her adventures in
buying a new hat, and how she fell
for the seventy-five-dollar one in
stead of the fifteen-dollar one she
meant to buy. But she is we'll aware
that she would never hear the last
of her extravaganza if she did. So
they both keep silent.
There is little home conversation
because nobody is interested, and no
body pretends to be, in what you
say. In the family circle nobody
listens. Nobody laughs at your jokes.
Nobody sees the points of your merry
cracks. Try to tell a good story, and
somebody is sure to remark that
| it is an ancient wheeze. If you had
discovered the North Pole and were
relating your hairbrea0th adven-
lures in reaching it by airplane,
somebody would interrupt at the
most breathless moment to say that
the iceman forgot to deliver the ice
| yesterday.
Wives won't listen even when their
husbands try to tell them about their
hopes and plans and ambitions in
their careers. And when a woman
tries to talk to her husband about
the things that are Of vital interest
to her he falls asleep and shores in
her face.
And that is why conversation is &
lost art in the family circle.
(Copyright, 1924.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
KILLSAST lima GERMS
IN Three DAYS

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Mrs. c. H. Lea, Hoberg, Mo-, says:
"My daughter had a light attack the
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May Gods blessing rest on the dis
coverer of such a boon to humanity"
Since this does not cost you any
thing and does not obligate you in
any way, simply send name and adj
dress for free treatment today, and
prove at my risk that you can be
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ASTEMA-TAB LABORATORIES,
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
A BEDTIME STORY
BY THORNTON ~. BURGESS

found Reddy in his old hiding place
behind Farmer Browns barn. Pa
tiently he waited, but all the time he
was waiting he nervously watched
for Old Man Coyote. The same thing
happened that had happened the
night before. Just before the last
light in Farmer Browns house went
out Farmer Browns Boy brought
out a pan of food. Reddy waited
onlv long enough for Farmer
Browns Boy to get back to the
house. Then he ran swiftly to that
pan and began to gobble that food
lust as fast as he could. But all the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
Influence of Location Upon the
AdaptabilitY of Varieties of Cotton

j. N. p, Conyers, Ga, writes:
What variety of cotton will suit
Clay county soil? / have 205
acres Of land in Gilmer county
and 125 acres in Clay county.
Which would be the best place to
farm?
In your section, we recommend
that you plant a we'll selected strain
or college No. l cotton. This is a
variety which natures two weeks
earlier than most Of the varieties Of
cotton in general cultivation in Geor-
gia. 1t is quite probable that one
strain of Cleveland might not prove
satisfactory and another demonstrate
its adaptability for growth under
your local conditions. 1t is very i'm
| portant that you secure purebred,
stabilized seed from a reliable grow
err. There is a lot of poor seed on
the market. We only recommend
that which has been certified through.
the agency of the Georgia Breeders
association. There may be other
seed as good and probably some of
1t is better, but we cannot indorse
seed with which we are not acquaint.
ed and which our experts have not
had a chance to examine and pass
upon under field conditions.
For diversified farming, Gilmer
county offers some advantages. No
doubt grazing lands can be develop
ed to good advantage in that county.
Cattle raising could therefore be
conducted with a considerable degree
Of success in Gilmer county. You
can grow a reasonable amount of cot.
ton in Clay county if you exercise
proper methods Of weevil control and
use calcium arsenate as a dust spray.
One can probably make just as much
money relatively in one of these To-
cations as in the other. Much de-
ponds upon the character of the
crops planted and the management
accorded the enterprise.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
lIIIIIIIIAIINNIIIIIIl

Be has made me well and able to do
INV work again. have even helped
<take care of sick neighbor recently,
30 you can see how fit am. l highly
praise your medicine and you may use
2fny letter as you see fit, l hope it
will help some other woman. Mrs.
OLE NoRDLEIN, Box %, Zahl, North
Dakota.
Over 121, 900 women have so far re-
piled to our question, ''Have you re-
ceived benefit from taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compounds"
9Sper cent. of these replies answer
ayes. ,"
This means that 9S out of every
100 women taking this medicine for
ailments for which it is recon-
mended are benefited by it. For sale
by all druggists.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
FARM EDUCATION
BY DIR. ANDREW M. SOULE

as the best for you to undertake to
use on an extensive scale.
Feeding Nut Producing Trees Ac-
ceptabIy
J. D. E., Thomson, Ga, writes,
have 200 pecan trees that were
set in 1922 which I wish to fer
tilize. I am unable to secure
stable manure, and will thank
you to inform me the proper
analysis Of commercial fertilizer
to use.
Commercial fertilizers may be used
acceptably for the enrichment Of the
ground on. which pecan trees have
been set. Young trees require a rela.
lively liberal amount Of fertilizer in
proportion to their size and age. AS
a rule, trees of this character need
more nitrogen than those Of greater
maturity. We suggest that you ap
ply from two to three pounds of fer
tilizer per tree. Put it on in a circle
about the tree, but not close up to
the trunk. Cover it into the soil. A
great many mixtures will be found
suitable for this purpose, but we are
inclined to believe that you can pre-
pare what you need in the following
manner:
Secure and mix 1000 pounds of
| high grade acid phosphate, zoe
| pounds of choice cottonseed meal
200 pounds of nitrate of soda, and
| 100 pounds of muriate of potash
You are not limited however, to the
use of the material suggested. You
may replace the cotton seed mea.
| with some other carrier of this ele
ment. You can also use sulphate
of ammonia in place of nitrate OF
soda Some other form of potash
may be applied The important thing
is to have about the amount of avail
able plant food in each ton of the
mixture which a combination Of the
materials suggested above will pro
ry;
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23
Building Up Grazing Areas in
Georgia

Building Up UrdZIHg AREAS III
Georgia
A. e. B., Concord, Ga, writes:
[ am interested in starting a
permanent pasture, and wish to
know the best varieties to use.
have so pounds of Dallas grass,
IS pounds of yellow melilotus
and Black medic mixed and wish
to inoculate the seed before SOW
ing. Your advice in this matter
will be appreciated.
It is not practicable to inoculate
Dallis grass. This procedure only
applies in the case of legumes, such
as the clovers, cowpeas, and other
crops which belong to the same fam
| lily. Among the grasses best suited
+ for cultivation in your section OF the
state are Lespedeza, Bermuda, Dali
- lis grass and White clover. You
! no doubt are already familiar with
Bermuda grass. 1t does exceptional
+ ly we'll on the red lands of north
Georgia. It is the best general
grazing grass we can develop in
. this section of the state. 1t is easily
established from cuttings. These
may be put in the soil at any time
I from this date forward. Along in
April you may seed as much as five
| to ten pounds of Lespedeza on your
Bermuda sod or upon the areas of
land already laid down to this grass.
The seeding of LespedeZa should not
g.. be undertaken until the ground is
fairly warm and the weather well
settled. Scatter the seed over the
surface of the ground, and, If you
can harrow them in, so much the
better. Lespedeza may be called a
summer grazing clover" 1t is a
little late starting in the spring, and
of course, the first frosts of autumn
cut it down.
Carpet grass promises to be of
much greater value for cultivation
in south Georgia than in north Geor-
gia. 1t constitutes one Of our most
desirable grazing crops. I have not
Emphasized it for use in your sec
ton, however, for the reason al
ready advanced. Dallis grass prom,
Uses we'll in most parts of the state.
1t grows normally in lunches, as
you doubtless realize. It starts about
three weeks earlier in the spring
than Bermuda grass. If it is kept
grazed closely it continues to grow
throughout the summer
One of the troubles about Dallis
grass Is the difficulty of securing
good seed. The seed is attacked by
and hence does not germi.
PIE well. 1t ordinarily takes about
sive pounds of Dallis grass seed per
acre. White clover can be used to
some advantage in pastures in north
Georgia. Naturally there are other
grasses and clovers which you can
use for supplemental purposes. We
consider those mentioned, however