sources which are but in the infancy
of their development There is no
other part of the Republic which
makes a stronger appeal to enterpris
ing men, whether they have large or
small capital. It is a beautiful coun
try a healthful country and a country
which holds out every promise of so
cial satisfaction for those who go there
to make their homes.
The most amazing thing aoout the
South is the cheapness of its fertile
agricultural lands, though one hears
on every hand that prices have gone
up considerably during the past few
years. They must have been giving
land away before, for after years of
national prosperity and W’onderful
strides in local settlement and deve
lopment, one can still buy fine farm
ing land at prices ranging from |5 an
acre upward.
People regard $25 an acre as a
pretty stiff price for lands which
would be considered very reasonable
at three or four times as much under
the same conditions in Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Washington, or California.
True, the Far Western lands are irri
gated, and irrigation is a sort of mir
acle which, among other things, gives
extraordinary value to land. But we
can compare these fertile Southern
lands with the agricultural districts of
Illinois, lowa, and other prairie States,
and still they are literally ‘dirt cheap.’
There Is no way to account for it ex
cept that the process of readjustment
which baa been going on since the
War, has not yet brought Southern
land up to the level of prices prevail
ing in other parts of the United States.
With regard to markets. In the
West, we are accustomed to long dis
tances. When we start on a journey,
we do not expect to arrive anywhere
THE GBADY MONUMENT AT ATLANTA. CEOBCIA.
In particular In teas tlian two or three 1
days. Our markets are a long way I
off and the bnrden of transportation
Is necessarily heavy.
Close to rino Markets.
But the Southern truck-gardener
and fruit-grower can reach great cities
In every direction In twelve, twenty
four, and thirty-six hours He la sur
rounded by mining and manufacturing
centers and has quick access to the big
cities of the North. He is favored, of
course, by tho latitude, which enables
him to produce both the necessaries
and luxuries of Northern tables while
Jack Frost still holds the earth In his
grip above Mason and Dixon's line.
In the matter of transportation, the
new settler In the South Is fortunate.
Compered with newer sections of the
country, the South is grldironed with
railroads. Not only so, but It enjoys
Important natural advantages In the
way of navigation, both Interior and
exterior. It Is manifestly good rail
road policy to facilitate the settlement
of tributary railroad territory by mak
ing rates which encourage colonization
and enable the settler to prosper. Rail
road earnings and values Increase
rapidly with population and develop
ment
The opportunities of the South con
stitute an open Invitation to all men
who desire to Improve their conditions
of living by getting an independents
from the sell. The man who wants to
avail himself of these opportunities
may do so at ones, with a small outlay
Of capital, without waiting tor the
adoption of new public policies of any
sort But It la Impossible to travel
through the Southern States without
thinking of the obligation which rests
upon the Nation to do certain thing!
which must be done before the largest
economic results can be achieved.
I have bees interested for many
years In the promotion of a govern
ment Irrigation policy and In scientific
forestry aid systematic colonization,
which are inseparably associated with
It Bnt these ere only n part of the
great work ef Internal Improvements
to which the government must set Its
hand. Tkay are hut a portion of the
bigger problem of Building the Un
finished Republic and “finishing tho
world In partnership with God."
To Upbuild the Nation.
The United States should drain the
Southern swamps for precise!r the
same reason that It stores the waste
fiood water to Irrigate the Western
deserts In order that wo may widen
the foundations of our national Ilfs,
ephaaa. the common prosperity, and
give man more room in which to build
their habitations. We should proosrvs
and extend tho forests on nil the wsUr
abeds of the United States and net
MS* is the meaitalaa at tho Ws at
We should store the floods and regu
late the flow of streams throughout
the land. We should adopt policies
which will everywhere facilitate the
subdivision of the soil into
small holdings, and the growth of in
dependent homes upon these holdings.
Even in those sections which are most
densely peopled, and, perhaps, least
favored in natural advantages—New
England, for example—there is much
to be done in Improving natural con
ditions aiyl opening new opportunities
for successful rural settlement.
But it is not enough to make the
land ready for its highest uses; the
people must also be made ready to
utilize the land. Every boy and girl
should leave the public schools pre
pared to make a living, and to collect
it from mother earth herself, when
they desire to do so. This is distinctly
in line with our great need of increas
ing economic efficiency, and thus en
abling the country to meet the de
mands of increasing population. The
South is beautiful and promising as
it is, but how much more beautiful
and promising it would become with
the adoption of public policies which
would make the utmost of its natural
advantages and which would train the
rising generation so that they could
realize the best results from the oppor
tunities thus opened to them!
I reached Atlanta on a winter morn
ing and killed time before breakfast
by visiting a statue which loomed
through the growing light. It was the
memorial erected in honor of Henry
W. Grady by his appreciative fellow
citizens. And there 1 found two in
scriptions which may well inspire all
the friends of national development,
and, especially, those who believe that
oor future security rests chiefly in the
hops of establishing millions of now
homos on the soil. Hors are the words:
Oive us the broad and perfect
: loyalty that loves and trust*
Georgia alike with Massachu
setts —that knows no South, no :
East, no West, but endears with :
equal and potrlotle love every :
foot of our soil, every state in :
our Union. S
The citizen standing in the door- :
way of hi* home —contented on :
his threshold —his family gath- :
ered about hit hearthstone — :
: while the evening of a welt- :
spent day closes in scene* and
: sounds that are dearest —Ha :
: shall save the Republic when :
the drumtap is futile dnd the
barracks are exhausted.
Wat on the Bill of tarn.
A man entered s restaurant, took a
seat, and, after a little deliberation, asked
the waiter for a “plate of fly-specks."
The waiter reported the uncomplimen-
tarjr rape* to the propiictot. whereupon I
the latter approached the caatomer and
informed him (hat he did not "aecve fly*
apecka." -“Then," waa the reply, "I uoold
aoegeet that yon taka tktm of the MMoC
CARVING BY MACHINERY.
BATTLEFIELD MEMORIES OF
GETTYSBURG FASUIOXED
BY COMPRESSED AIR.
Historic Spots of the Conflict Mark*
ed by Memorials of Artistic De
sign-Expense and Time Saved by
Yankee Ingenuity.
The field of Gettysburg and the
other scenes of strife in our great
Civil War are rapidly being filled with
memorials In granite, marble and
bronze, which will greatly enhance the
interest of these national parks for
all visitors and particularly for those
of future generations who cannot have 1
the aid of any veteran of the great
conflict to guide them, to the points
of interest
The tablets, statues, monuments and
other memorials which are finding 1
place in rapidly increasing numbers
upon these historic battlefields have
been erected in some instances by the
Congress of the United States, but in
a majority of cases the expense has
been defrayed by States or by veteran
or patriotic organizations. Some of the
memorials are mute testimonials to ,
the bravery of fallen comrades, while
others are tributes to the command
ers conspicuous in this engagement
or that However, the matter does not
stop here and of late many commemo* ,
rative masterpieces of sculpture have
been installed to mark in each in*
stance the exact spot rendered memor
able by some notable assault or de
fense or some other unusual event in
the great drama of the War for the
Union.
The production of great numbers of
these battlefield memorials has re
sulted in another Yankee scheme for
saving time and labor, namely, the in
troduction of sculpture by machinery.
Formerly all the statues carved from
marble or granite had to be alowly
and laboriously chiseled by hand. Un
der the new order of things all this
is changed and mechanically operated
tools cut away the hard material and
carve, in the stone, representations of
human figures, lettering, etc., in a frac
tion of the time that would bn required
for the same work undor the old
methods.
Many ingenious Tools*
The tools which are Instrumental in
performing this ingenious sculpture
by machinery are what are known as
pneumatic tools, that Is, they are op
erated by compreased air Instead of
by & Learn or electricity. The type most
commonly used might be described as
a combination hammer and chisel, and
how much more speedily such can
work than could a workman with the
old-fashioned chisel and hammer may
be appreciated when It is stated that
by means of the compressed air thei
hammer Is made to strike hundreds
of blows per minute.
In this mechanical chiseling the
pneumatic tool, which is a portable
piece of apparatus, is held in the hand
of a workman and by him guided
ftack and forth on the stone surface
wherever cutting Is to be done. The
compressed air is led to the tool
through a rubber hose, and the oper
ator can with the utmost easo and
at a moment's notice regulate the
force of the hammer blows according;
to the depth of the cutting required.
Moreover different styles of pneu
matic tools are provided for the va
rious classes of work to bo performed
* in producing a statue or other monu
ment. For instance, there is one tool
for light carving, tracing and letter
ing on granite, and a different one for
i heavy carving and large raised letters.
I The tools require from five to seven
• cubic feet of free air per minute to
. operate them. In the battlefield memp-
SCULPTURE BY MARCHINERY.
Hall now betas erected In many k>
call tie* figures of soldiers, mounted
or on foot, are Introduced In great
numbers, but there Is also eaten si re
use of representations at cannon, can*
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In Old Ireland,
In cennection with what la known
as the “Irish revival,” an interesting
work has been started by Irish ladlea
In a village close by Dublin.
Three industries were selected,
namely, the printing of books, embroid
ering on Irish linen and the weaving
of tapestry and carpets; and some
exquisite work has been produced.
.One of the leading Ideas of the pro
moters has been to produce things
which will be recognized as Irish both
In style and design. In the carpets,
for example, all ordinary patterns are
discarded In favor of those recogniz
ably Irish.
Many of the workers are Irish peas
ant girls, who, by patient training.
A MASTERPIECE SHAPED BY PNEUMATIC TOOtS.
havo acquired rare skill In their ar
tistic pursuits. As s means of keep
ing the Irish people st home/ and
winning back their old prosperity,
everyone will wish the scheme to be
a success.
Why We are Might-Banded.
Why do we use the right hand In
preference to the left?
An unatomlst, who has studied the
question very closely, says that Jt Is
largely a matter of heredity. The
early races of men must have used the
right hand in lighting, reserving the
left to cover the left side at the body,
where wounds—as their experience
showed them—were the more danger
our This more frequent use of the
right hand would react upon the brain,
bringing about a special development
of that part which controls the right
hand.
One of the most scholarly women of
society In the National Capital, Is Mrs.
Henry Cabot Lodge. As the daughter
of Hear Admiral Charles II. Darla, she
was reared In an atmosphere of cultural
She took a college coure In Wellesley,
and studied la other seats et learning
She takes a keen interest la Greek
re irch and the reading ef proof
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