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Arp Tries Colonel Reddinjfs Plan, to
Get Rid of Potato Bugs, p
OFFERS THE CHILDREN A PRIZE
dives Them a Nickel a Dozen For
Dead Bujcs-yttow the Philosopher
is Succeeding.
I am trying Colonel' Redding plan
to exterminate , the potato bugs. He
says begin early and watch for the first
ones that come. Make an inspection
every mourning and kill the large
striped ones before they lay: their eggs.
My crop is about six inches high . I
have six long rows in the garden and
the : other morning I found the pesky
things had come. I killed about thirty
and 'then told the children the grand
children I meanthat I . would pay
them a nickle for every dozen bugs
they found; That evening they killed
sixty and next morning forty, and
this Imorning fifteen, and this evening
ten. So. the three little girls brought me
in debt sixty cents and feel rich. The
bargain is that they are to pay me back
for all I find and I have not found but
five yet, though I don't look very care
fully. Children like to work for money
just like grown folks. I remember well
" the first half dollar I ever earned. ?u'y
father was clearing land and told me I
might have the saplings if I would
trim them up and pile the brush and I
. might have the wagon and team to
haul them to town and sell them. I
had the evenings after school and Sat
urdays to work and soon had a load
ready; and sold it to our school teacher
for a silver half dollar. I was rich, and
as I .drove home I felt of it in my pocket
every little while to be sure it was
theie. T like to reward these little
chaps, for it. does them so much good
and makes them love me. The love of
an innocent child is the purest on earth 1
except the love of a mother. I have no
greater comfort now than the glad
smile of a little one that jumps into
my arms whenever I come. It flatters
my Vanity, for though I am old and
ugly the little one will hug me and pat
- my wrinkled cheeks and turn riway
from those who are young and hand
some. The greatest inducement for a
parent to be a Christian is to secure the
salvation of their children and meet
them in heaven, for it is said in the
scriptures in three places "Believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved thou and thine house." It
was said by Paul and by Peter and the
Spirit, ."thou and thine house." So let
the good mother not despair of her
. wicked son who went unrepentant to
his death and may these words always
comfort her, "thou and vhine house."
For the sakeof ten-good people the
Lord would have saved Sodom, and for
the sake of good parents He will save
the children.
Last jyear my potato crop was serl
p ously damaged by those bugs, and by
the pans green, .too, for I used too
much of it, and so I am taking Colonel
Reading's advice and killing off the big
striped beetles before they lay their
patches of yellow eggs on the under
side of the leaves, i instructed the chil
dren, to look for eggs and they found
only two leaves with eggs on them.
With a little sharpened stick they dug
around . the base of every plant, and
there found most of the beetles, but I
am already satisfied with the experi
ment, and hope that I will not have to
use paris green at all. I shall continue
my bargain with the children, even if
it Is expensive. I overheard "them plot
ting this evening about going to the
drug store tomorrow and buying 3ome
ice cream, and they agreed to take two
saucers apiece. These little girls are
great inventions, and I love to watch
them and then ruminate and ponder
why it was that . children, ' especially
boys,' get more" selfish" and deceitful jis
they grow older The devil - seems , . to
let them alone until they, get .weaned
from their mother. ; f i P ?
The 'good and .the bad are 'strangely
mixed in this world. New plagues and
pestilences keep on coming, both ' on
animal and .vegetable life, but a kind
Providence .has provided remedies and
given Us minds . to find, them: - But I
have found no way to keep the pigeons
from preying upon my young peas as .
they peep out of tlje ground. They ut
terly destroyed my first planting and;
have begun ion the ; second. We have
had a flock for many years, and I never
knew them to trouble - the garden be
fore. I say; Colonel Redding, what
.. must ldo about it? My wife says
cover them with brush, and I will if I
can find the brush. The English spar
rows do leave us most of the crop, but
the pigeons don't leave us anything.
Reckon I will have to turn the boys
loose on them. The beans; onions and
. nearly corn are alright yet, and the
strawberries seemto have no enemies.
They, make a beautiful show, and give
us great comfort.
In a veek or two we will have ripe
fruit in abundance and shall send' some
to the preachers. Brother Yarborough
says he does not think It any harm to
send good things to a preacher even on
- fiundav. Stxawharrv culture is soread-
iV raniiiiv in rvur town and some of
the neighbors are trying it as a busi
ness for profit. Dr. Felton, J r., an
put out thirty thousand plants the last
season. It was Isaac Walton, the great
fisherman, who wrote In his " book on
angling, "Dr. Butler said that 'doubt
less God could have made a better ber
ry than the strawberry, but doubtless
God never did,' arid so I say that God
never triad a more calm- quiet, Inno
cent recreation -than angling." My
good friends, Dr. Benham and Colonel
Murphy heartily indorse Walton on
fishing and will sit in a boat half a day
in a summer's sun and watch the corks
and ruminate and not catch enough
fish for supper. If I was as fond of it
as they are I think I would move to
Florida and stay there. I have caught
more fish there in one day than in all
my life up here in , Georgia, p ,
I did not go to Dallas, the long spell
of grippe left me too dilapidated to tra
vel that far and give up my home hab
its and comforts, but I read all about
the great reunion with keen satisfac
tion. Thee is life in the old land yet
and love for the "Lost Cause" in the
hearts of our people, -the confederates
and their children and children's chil
dren. May it never be extinguished.
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
NEMESIS ILLUSTRATED, t!
How a Thief Was Discovered In a
French Dame School. .
Professor Richard G. Moulton, of
Chicago, editor of literary editions of
books of the Old Testament, has a
fund of interesting; material concern
ing conceptions, ancient and modern,
of the word "nemesis." The English
meaning of the term he illustrates
by an experience of his mother when
a1 child attending a "dame school" in
France. Dr. Moulton defining a
"dame school" as a place "where chil
dren were sent to an elderly woman
who had nothing else, to do to keep
them from doing anything else." p
Repeated thefts of small articles be
longing to the school resulted in in
quiries as to the offender, but the in
quiries were unsuccessful and resulted
In nothing whatever. At length the
dame announced that as she had been
unable to discover the thief in any
other way the "duck" would have to
find out for her. Now the children
knew the little lame duck that wad
dled about the school yard, but how
that duck was to find cut who it was
that had done the stealing the oldest
of jthem could not guess.
One of the smaller rooms was dark
ened, and ) through this the pupils to
walk in turn and, as they did so. pass
their left hands along the back of the
duck.
By its quacking, she said she
wa$ able
to know the thief. The
children were more in the dark than
iej, for the ill tempered little fowl
kept up a querelous complaint at the
strange procedure an 1 small differ
ence could they tell in Its quacking
at one or another of thorn. But the
dame did, or at least, 3he appeared to,
and when they were gathered in the
class room again she puzzled them
all the more by telling chem to lift up
their left hands. -
Up went the hands and what was
the hildren's"surprise o: find that
the podgy palm of every one of them
blackened. But no, not quite every
one. One miserable little chap lifted
up a ' clean hand as clean hands go
among school children. Him the
good dame straightway declared the
thief. She had covered the back of
that duck with a "layer of lamp-black,
and fear of. the tell-tale quacking had
led the guilty . youngster to merely
pretend to touch the duck's back as
the others did. It was simply hia
dread of detection that had convicted
him.
'That," says Dr. Moulton, "was
Ideal retribution neme bis."
p Fun xrlttx the Bank of England
J. Eierpont Morgan is the hero of an .
anecdote repeated at a recent meeting
in the headquarters of the steel trust,
and If not apocryphal, illustrates a bent
of humor hitherto unsuspected in the
banker : p r;:- -p ppj?;"'P:.: V
While In London he visited th TtnnV
of England with a large currency note,
for which he wished to obtain; gold.
The teller examined the note and hand
ed it back. ' - - ' ,
: "You! have' not indorsed ithesaid,
glad of j an oppor tunity to occupy an. at
titude. : ? pp" ;pVp P;p :yr ;;pf.p,- p
"Is this not payable on ':: demand ?"
asked Mr. 'Morgan, simulating surprise.
"Yes,wIf indorsed" haughtily.
i The magnate frowned. "I am very
udreiui jwuuse Tioies i maorse," ne said,,
with1 mock' severity. '
"Do yoiiTchallenge the Bank oj Eng
land?" gasped; the clerk, gazing at the
visitor as upon a blasphemer. . ; ;
"If you asp solvent, why do you want
my name on your paper?" p' , v v : ,
The; glare of suspicion which accom-1
panied the. words was too much for the
clerk; he stared speechlessly.
"Very well, continued the magnate,
with vigor,, "we will let it go to pro
test." , .
The petrified clerk looked alarmed
about it, but could offer nothing in re
ply except a : mumbled and ridiculous
assurance that the bank was not in
distress. Then Mr. Morgan smiled and
indorsed the note. :
I oZLX oJ "StUo quickly it Uealp Mm
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