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Natur ally it would be expected that young women trained as they are at Rad cliffe, where the courses, teachers, ex aminations and general requirements for degrees are exactly similiar to those of the men's big universities, would go into teaching or other pro fessional work almost exclusively. While it is true that a large pro portion of the graduates still do this, there is nevertheless a considerabh. number who take up occupation of a very different sort. Most prominent of these, perhaps, are the former Radcliffe girls who carry on a good share of the charitable work of great cities. The successor of Mrs. Re becca Foster, for many years the "Tombs angel" in New York, is Miss Eliot not long ago a student at the women's college at Cambridge. One graduate of Radcliffe is head worker at Hartley House, in New York city; another holds a similiar position in the neighborhood settlement carried on by students and teachers of Pratt institute, in Brooklyn; a third, who was graduated in 1895, is assistant secretary of -the State Charitable Aid Association of New York, which has a kind of advisory oversight of all charitable and penal institutions on the continent; still another is at the head of the Friendly Aid House maintained by All Souls' church in -the metropolis. There are also a few trained nurs es among Radcliffe graduates, and some of the girls who have taken up secretarial work have shown marked ability. As a rule, commereKal life does not seem to make a strong ay peal to these college gractuates. Tn fact, only one downright business undertaking appears in r.he records. That is a partnership between a for mer Radcliffe' student and a girl friend from the same town in the south who started in Boston a labo ratory kitchen where, as a beginning, scientific baking was done. This r start has now developed into two very successful restaurants in the New England capital. Making a Business. One who has had experience and thoroughly understands the business can make the poultry business pro fitable almost anywhere. One who has had no experience should be very careful. The following from the Southern Agriculturist is very good advice: A reader who is much interested in building up a p''tltry farm in the south says that he has eighty acres of land located on a main jine of rail road between two cities of -o,s..o and 40,0oo inhabitants. He says the na ture of the soil is dead and red, but that clover will gr' w rankly on it. A There are a few springs on the hill side that may he used to advantage. This man wvants to start into the egg * business and asks how many incu bators and how many hundred head of good pullets he should buy to start with. He has one of the essential points of success, for he wants nothing but pure-bred stock to work with. White Leghorns are the fowls he wants to use in this egg business. He should not start with incuba tors, but with one incubator and a pen of *cen or twelve puliets and a cockerel. His incubator and brooder can be bought this winter and he can profitably put in some fime trying to hatch "store eggs" or those he can buy up among the farmers near his p-, jl w !a eaS.m. A . hvI b mCS prO'cielit le can -pread wtit umi! he w!! have to n:ove t his farn. On his smali p.ace he cai iearn how to mate, raise and select his best fowls. He can learn how to fight lice and produce early spring eggs for his incubators. These and a thousand other th-ings will keep him so busy while out of his office that the time will go in a hurry. If he undertakes too much before he has had experience, the chances are that we will hear of his quitting in disgust. It will take twu years for him to acquire a good wcrking knowledge, and in each year thereafter he will learn twice as much. Let him read largely, but sift the chaff from the wheat: stick to the business. and make it win, if you can. Ask qu-estions, and study for your self. Get -o the bottom of the trou bles you meet, but never let them twice get you down. Remember that health and size are the two things to keep right in the parent stock: then ills with chicks will not be too hard to conquer. After getting things go ing, then begin to hunt the markets. Try to arrange to supply swell ho tels and restaurants with your brani of table eggs. When you prove chat your eggs are the best the price will not cut any figure-the demand will not be easy to fill if the reputation holds good. ' Back to the Farm. Opportunity. Things on the farm are changin, and we already observe, if we watch the barometer of social life, that there is a tendency 'o get back to the country. Ffteen years ago, for in stance, less than fifty per cent. of the population -were moving country ward: in igoo the statistics show that seventy per cent. were seeking homes in rural districts, and it is likely that the proportion now going away from the city reaches seventv five per cent. At last, with Solomon, they are discovering that "all is vani ty", in the cities: that friendships are difficult, that neighbors don't know the names one of the other, that noise, dirt, confusion are here and the struggle to live is at the desperate stage all 'the time. The telephone, the trolley line, free rural mail delivery-these are n'iti gating the unsocial side of rural life, and the beauty of nature is doing the rest. Intelligent men anc. women, seeking the health of th-eir families. physical, moral and spiritual. are tak ing up homes where acres abound, and are giving to rural life sometnmng it has lacked before. The practical farmer finds in these additions to ials neighborhood circle stimtilus and cheer, and the ch-ildren of the farm and of the families from 'the city find mutual pleasure in association. I'he movement is an all-round good one. It marks a new era in rural life ai. a change of estimable value to those with courage to pull up stakes and leave the town. It is one of the most encouraging signs of the tines. In the Name of Sport. Macoin Telegraph. May automobile racing or any oth er sort of machine racing be regard ed as sport in the true sense? We doubt it. It is very well that manu facourers should compete with one another in demonstrations of the Speedl and safety of their respectiv'e machines. But that is not sport. Tests o.f the excellence oft varius mechanical inventicins, one atgainst' the other, can not be placed in the category of b)aseball, football, horse racing, rowing, hunting, fishing, ten nis, golf. skating, nield athletics, etc. These he sports of 'the kind that bring the animal-wheth er man or ho rse or hound-into the sphere of actual physical prowess. Therein lies the essence of the Isaak Walton philosophVy. This thing of risking the breaking of one's neck in order to prove the quality of a mechanical device is as far demoved from sport dom as one could imagine. In the old days on The broad Misissippi rw er there were contests of steamboats. The queens of rival lines would start from New Orleans at the same time with Cairo or some other up-river city as the finishing poimt. These i'a:s wuld be loadedl :ith passen aili~~~~~~~ r:'t'c\.1 rae(er th I a I[c Iv valv C. tXa 11ha. wrt Far from it. It was mereiv h;iness rivalrv. And so it is with Ihe amtomobile racing business. It is n t the man who - enters for the stake or purse but the machine. The credit of victory goes rather to The latter than to the former. The auto mobile has come to stay. It is an im portant faccor in the general econo my of things. It is.useful in a thous and ways. Nevertheless automobile racing, as we have said, is not true sport. English Words Good Enough. Lady Violet Greville, in the Graphic. WVhy do people persist in using French words when there are good old English words to serve the pur pose? It is a habit That is growing daily. For instance, at dinner people give you "menu" instead of "bill of fare." though the items are such English dishes as boiled cod, roast beef and apple tart; one is accom modated wit ha serviette instead of a napkin (an English word, but ori ginally of French origin), as is the Scotch word napery used for house hold linen. When you enter a shop you are served with corsets instead of stays, costumes by a costumiere instead of dresses by a dressmaker; "blouses" take the place of shirts or waists, as the Americans have it; and hose are offered for s7tockings. The former ward, is however, English. At the -theatre we have programs instead of playbills, and matinees in place of afternoon performances; toques are adjusted with as much ease as hats, and we eat in a restaurant as cheer fully as in a dining-room. There are, of course, unrranslatable words which must be used, but our good old English language is rapidly be coming a hotch-potch of foreign words, while telegraphy is doing its best to oust all tfie crisp and racy Saxon speech. Whenever possible let us determine to use an English instead of a French word, both in li4 erature and conversation. What They Hope For. The Christian Herald asked a number of distinguished Americans this question: "What in your opinion is the most desirable thrng to be hoped for by the American people during th four years of President Roosevelt's ad ministration ?" It prints their replies, the gist of which appears below, except that where more than one desirable thing is mentioned only that first named is here given as the most desirable: WV. J. Bryan-A government of "equal rights to all and special privi leges to none." Speaker Cannon-We should ad vance as rapidly as possible the great constructive work of -ch'e Panama ca nal. Senator Frye-Peace. Postmaster Gen.eral WVynne-Ag gressive integrity in the public ser vCe. Ex-Senator Long-The simpler life. Railroad President M. E. Ingalls Peace and prosperity. WV. E. Chandler--Laws prohibiting national banks and other corpora tions from contributing from their corporation treasuries money in aid of political parties. John WV. Foster-Peace with the rest of the world. Breath. an essay on~f breath a sch'oolboy begins: 1Treath is made of air. WVe breathe always with our lungs, except at night, when our breath keeps life go ing through our noses while we are asleep. It it wasn't for our breath, we should (lie whenever we slept. Boys that stay in a room all day should not breathe: they should wait till they get outdoors. For a lot of boys staying in a room make car bonicide. Aanid carbonicide is more poisonous than mad dogs, though not just in the same way. It does not bite, but th!at's no matter as long as it kills you." A Scotch Sentence. Hard Scoth. l ord Braxfield admitted, the abili tes of a criminal who was undoubt elly an accomplishedi murdeCrer. for the j'iU(Ie said. "Y're a clever chief, b.t v11 he nane the waur of a hanQ A Dream. 'ire:anv. She wa- in heca-een ;mni an angel was showing her abut. Thev came tf) a 11agniIcelt mansi). and she asked: "\Vhuse is this?" "That is for your gardener." was the reply. "My gardener!" she exclaimed. "What can he want with such gran deur; he is quite content with his little cottage down on earth'." The angel replied: "He sent up the material and it had to be used." Presently they stood before a tiny structure. "And whose is this" she inquired. "That is yours," was the answer. "I live in a home like that when I had such a beautiful mansion be low!" she replied in astonishment and sorrow. The angel answered: "We have to do the best we can with the material sent up." Thie dreamer awoke; she felt God had spoken to her. Her life was changed. From that day she began to build for eter nity. The Youth's Companion for Feb ruary 2d is a full and varied number. The chief feature is an able and most interesting article on "The Future of American Cotton," - by R. H. Ed munds of Baltimore, the authority on Southern industrial conditions. There are four good stories. One concerns a girl who would not toler ate incapacity in others until one day her own incapacity caused her to see a great light. Another tells of an old-fashioned farmer who railed at the telephone in his son-in-law's house, until it chanced to be the means of saving his life. Then he changed his tune. There is the ac count of Zebedee Pelton's extraordi nary appetitie, and another of an en countei with a man-eating cayman in a Philippine river. All in addition to a bc-ckful of humor, miscellany, an ecdotes and the like. Damage Cotton Fear. Sumter Item. Cotton buyers here and in fact throughout the south express the fear that 'the damaged cotton which is bound to come unless great care is taken by the farmers in 'the matter of storage, will entail a great loss to the 'hiolders of cotton. Let us im press upon them to see to it now, while in time 'to have their cotton well examined; remove any damage that may have started and see that it is properly stored. Otherwise thous ands of dollars will be lost to the far mers by ro'tten cotton. His Disappearing Pulse. "My!" exclaimed the doctor. "You've hardly apy pulse today!" "Well, don"t you remember, doc tor," replied the patient, "you took it when you were here yesterday?" SEA B AIR - LINE NORTH -SOUTH Two Daily Pullman V Between SOUT H a FIRST-CLASS DiN The Best Rates and Rc Via Richmond and Norfolk and Stear Nashville, Memnpt Louis, Chicago, NE Points South and Souti and Jacksonville an< and Cuba. POSSITIVELy THE SHC NORTH Ab ?abFor detailed Informato: man reservations, etc., app board Air Line Railway, or. Passenger Agent, Columbih C. F. STEWART, A SAVANN. Ice oceam ftoee Cream t FOWDER wLich is meeting with great favor, as it enablee everyone to make ice cream in their own home with very littletrouble. Everyr hinginthe packageformak ing two quarts of deliciot-s ice cream. if your grocer can't supply yonsend 25c. for two pkgs. by mail. Van illa,Choco ate, Strawberry and Unflavored. Address, The Genesee Pure Food Co., Dox 295, Le Roy, N.Y. Wisdom Whispers. Girls please don't Talk as though each sentence were produced with an effort. Carry on a flirtation with the pur pose of making some one else feel a sense of annoyance. Forget that it is better to be con sidered over-polite than to appear even a little commonplace. Speak of men in a tone that indi cates a tendency 'coward undue fa miliaritv. Hold to a position you know to be wrong rather than acknowledge a mistake. Assume a lofty attitude with the idea That it adds to your influence or standing. Take on a positive or dogmatic method of making an assertion. Fall into the way of whining over things which don't exactly suit you. Show a desire to exhibit finery .n a way to cause questionable comment. want to give you a real birthday treat. Tell me what you would like better than anything else. Willie-(after thinking earnestly for five minutes)-Bring me a whole box of chocolate crams, mother, and ask Tommy Smith to come in and watch me eat 'em. Pawning Wives and Daughters. They have a curious way of tAiliz ing wives and daughters in some parts of India. If a native wants money he puts these members of his establishment in pawn and his credi tor detains them until the debt is discharged. The custom varies in different localities. In Mellore the Yercalls pledge their daughters to creditors who may either marry them or give them away,.and a man. who has to go 'to jail deposits hi& wife with another family of her tribe until his return.. In North Arcot unmarried daughters are frequently mortgaged and become the absolute property of the holder until liquida 110n. Best Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CANNON,. Near C., N. & L. Depot - RAILWAY. S- EAST - WEST. ~stibuled Limited Trains nd NEW YORK. ING CAR SERVICEI >ute to all Eastern Cities Washington, or via rers.-To Atlanta, uis, Louisville, St. iw Orleans, and All west-To Savannah I all points in Florida RTEST IlNE BETWEEN ID SOUTH. i, rates, schedules, Pull ~y to any agent of The Sea Jos. W. 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