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ON THEY WENT ACROSS THE HORSESHOE PLAIN, WADING From How the ofessor of phil- ersity of B ed by has-wri It mes or ma BREAST HIGH. West Was Saved, in Scribner’s Magazine for July. - 2 | IN WATER SOMETIMES | he pursuit of more energ! fes to t satisfacti he mainten ion, or repe- es that this s a p le one. its inadequacy can should be univ as the imitation of , for which there may b s but no opportunity. He admi wtion is of the itest import- much play. Nevertheless, he conception of imitation , as the repetition to which the in- become accustomed lirectly to the prim- 2 , to its 4 , to the d of’ children, in- iat imi anc fiolds. i y of y or such ) r to get a s the subject, are tions, but rathex serious occupations e he professor's is an instinct dey n, works ble for the pres- A condition of vous force undoubt- one for but it is nor necessary tence. ative fn play, like so f heredity, first ap- 1 eds them instincts g that is se of th a requisite running and leaping, rev, in seizing and in fleeing from his is opponent, ete. stem would not be suffi- nd trained for all these uld be want- skeleton, much d by functional adap- victim, | tation during the life of each Individual, even in the period of growth. It is ths fron hand of natural selection that brings into bold relfef without too compelling in- sistence and apparently without serlous motive—namely. by means of play—what will_later be S0 necessary. There need | not be any particular superfluity of ener- gy; so long as only a small remnant ot unemployed force is present the animal will follow the law that heredity has stamped upon him. Instinct, therefore, Is the real founda- tion_of play. “Foundation, T say, because all play is | not purely instinctive activity. On the | the higher we ascend in the scale | ence the richer and finer become | chological phenomena that supple- mere natural impulse, ennoblin | ating it and tending to conceal it | under added detail.” Play not only enables the young animal to exercise itself beforehand in the stren- uous and necessary functions of its life, £0 as to be ready for their onset, but it enables the animal by a general instinct | to do many things in a playful way, and | so to learn for itself much that would | otherwise have to be inherited in the form | of special instincts. When the Inherited | instinctis thus supplemented by individual | experience it need not be so carefully | elaborated by selection, which according- Iy favors the evolution of individual in-| telligence as a substitute for blind in- | stinct. At the moment when the intelli- | gence reaches a point &f development where it s more useful than the most per- | instinct natural selection will favor lividuals in whom instinct appears only n_imperfect form, manifesting itself | in early vouth in activity purely for ex- | ercise and practice—that is to say, In ani- mals which play. Indeed, the conclusion seems admissible, in summing up the bio- | logical significance of play, that perhaps | the very existence of vouth is due in to the necessity for play. The animal not play because he {8 young; he h period of youth because he must play His third and fourth chapters Professor Groos devotes to anecdotic {llustrations. as a with a wealth of detall. an opulence of literary information and a soundness of critical interpretation which are heartily to be commended. I1e goes into the actual plays of animals | art | oes | | As Indeed, as Professor | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 3, 189 ®®®©@©®@®®©®@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 9 (ORONONONONOXOJOXONOXO] Mark Baldwin says in the illuminating preface which he supplies to his daugh- ter's translation, it should be a matter of congratulation to all workers in biology and In psychology that the first book on this subject is at the same time one of such unusual value, both as science and as_theory. s The term ‘‘experimentation” is used to denote such movements of young ani- mals as enable them first to win the mas- tery over thelr own organs and then over external objects. It inciudes stretching and straining the limbs; tasting, seizing and clawing; gnawing and scraiching, ex- ercising the voice and making other sounds; rending, pulling, tearing, tugging, kicking, lifting and dropping objects, etc. | Such experimental movements are of fundamental importance for all the life tasks of animals, for on them depend the proper control of the body, muscular co- ordination, etc., and, physically, they pro. mote the development of the perceptiva | faculties, such as space perception, at- tention, will power, memory, etc. They form the common foundation on which the specialized plays are built up. “With the stretching of his limbs,’ the Mullers, “the young dog begins first stage of his baby play. also begin very early to gnaw any wood- en object, as well as their own extremi- ties, with their little sharp teeth. Even the play with their talls is largely experi- mental. Afterward the c insti comes in, when the end seems to van as mysteriously as they whirl. A Kit- ten, too, will play with its tail and exer- cise the claw armed paws in seizing and holding. Scheitlin observed a young pan- ther playing with its own tail, and Brehm relates how pumas, at the age of from five to six weeks, play with their moth- er’s tail, as do all the cat tribe. Little nestlings make fluttering efforts before they can fly, and young sparrows chirp so lustily in the nest as to suggest genu- ine voice practice. The case of animals is much like our own. The impulse to experiment con- tinues into advanced age, and constant- ly tends to rise above its instinctive origin to freer, more individual ac vity, so that the fully developed animal prob- ably also feels something of the pleasure in exercising power, in being a cause. By the term movement plays Professor say Groos designates sports that Involve change of place for its own sake. “‘Hunt- ing and fighting, indeed, also produce change of place to a considerable extent, but with them the movement has a cific aim. Here I refer only to such pl as are concerned with practice in locomo- tion as such, where the walking, running, leaping, climbing, flying, swimming of the animal finds its object in itself. Birds can no more fly of themselves than babies can walk. The infant’s kick- ing corresponds to the fluttering of little birds in the nest zlmlll his first step to their st attempt at flight. flr’r}m lr\ar(vrnu ot sparrows shy of flight urge them on by holding food before them and flying on with the dainty morsel, ut- tering encouraging calls Among aquatic birds. also, the parents t instinct in teaching the young how vim, and so hasten their preparation for life’s tasks. Old swimming birds take their young on their backs and then slide them “off into the water—a very simple method by which many a boy has been taught to m. Such ma ments can, of course, be con- sidered as play only so long as they are simply as the bird is far enough or flying or swim- ming to account in the search for food play changes to serfous actlvity. This transition takes place very quickly in birds, but their short time for practice is just as really a playtime as is the longer Deriod of beasts of prey. 0000000000000 0O0O0 BOOKS RECEIVED. 0000000000000 00D0O “Memorles of a Rear Admiral,” by S. R. Franklin, rear admiral, United States navy, contains the story of over fifty years of service In the American nav a midshipman Admiral Frankun served with men who had sailed with Hull o o o] o 000 WHI 1dpd 3 non; and Mr. Woodwargd THE GANADIAN WHIST CLUB, for the championshi; p of Can- 98 ontests for the for club pairs for the the championship of Can- (lady and gent) for the championghip for 1 e open to @nd cores in the higuest hip match. will, be entrance fee of ch match, will close Jioan -and “As-th A , as_the contests have arranged with .that view, and to enable s in Canada to try conclusions ized champlons of the American “received from prominent officers ‘Indicate a ndeavor to bring about and have assured the st only be present, ce others to ente that every recognized make a special effort dvise by re- Ve supplied. 3 X W. A. HUNTE - “Honorable Secretary-Try TAFFY. FOR ‘OUR WHIST EDITOR. ~The Nashville Banner says: “Our cousins over the border have pald American whist players a great compliment by deferring the annual congress of the Canadlan Whist League until the-month of July, in the hope that Americans may feel disposed to favorably con- Bider dn Invitation that has just been sent by W. A. Hunter, secretary of the Canadian ‘Whist League, to all members of the American | | American | a secretary. | ! similar to these a | different forms, and the best | home of e: | Is left with the best card of the suit. | by second hand wi Whist ducem ayed In the beautiful of the Toronto Ath- hoped that a s T, round man, San Francisco e July pilgrimage to To whis make th OUR WHIST EDITOR OFF EIGHTH CONGRESS. On the 6 o'clock overland train last evening, In a through car to Chi our whist editor settled himsel FOR THE ugh the sage brush (o be held at Boston, July 11, and ending Satur- vs been the alm of The Call to on all whist mattes nd for that reas: r whist editor will be on the ground when the battle opens. WHAT IS FORCED FINESSE. Judge George L. Bunn of St. Paul, Minn who! without doubt Is one of the greatest whist players living, tells us what is called the forced finesse is, strictly speaking, not a finesse, cannot lose; a common example is this: North leads a small spade from queen, ten and two others; South plays king and wins the trick; he returns a small one, West plays small, and North plays the ten, not the queen, for the ace must be with East; if East has the jack also, the play of the ten will do no harm; but 1t West has Jack, North's ten forces the ace, and he Even annot cover the card played hout playing the second best card of the suit, the forced finesse must be made; for example: North leads fourth best from queen, nine and three smal with king and returns b when third hand Bouth wins _the eight, which West rt that South t has ace or with East; North en, for ace may be . in which case it must uit is established, while if he he Jack, d played queen, have been made goc er must, however, and be ca ful th ple, suppose South lead of a low card , nine and th West won with ki S T South gets in and returns e the jack is placed. in be there Jalso, but t is holding it up; en, for 11 he does not, the trick; this situation 1 5, Where sec- on the see- Situations arising in many rule fs to note mmon sense and ond hand ond round if 11l rarely’ he has a smaller on tiy the fall of the cards and use con reason, WHISTLETS. The crack whist team of the Fifty-first 11 nols Volunteers, made up of Major Mathews, surgeon of the regiment, captain: Colonel Sahn C. Loper, Captain Worthington and Adjutant Davidson, were given a whist reception at the President Calley of the Linda Vista Club of Oakland, Thursdey evening last. After the game Was over refreshments wora served and a general infomal receptin ook | place. Mr. Calley is one of if not the strong- est whist player In Oakland, and he says next fall the Linda Vista Ciub will 1 « work In the whist field. Sl A tear of four, made up of ex-Prasid, George E. Hates s captain, H. C. Ricant in, Dr. W. R. Lovegrove and Mr, J. R. Hanlly of the San Francisco Whist Club, ieave for Port- land, on or about Saturday, July 18, to play & qutck for the Pavot trophy. This is Pooked formard to with considerable interest, hut of gourse no e expects but one resuit—that he y wi soon ornament the rooms of tj Ban Francisco SWhist Crab, e ong, hot ride over | th congress of the | for no chances are taken—the play | HIS POETICAL ASSISTANTS. folly,” he said to his wife, “I wish you'd finish this poem on ‘Hobson'—I've got to.get it off to-night. Just go ahead on ll!whlle I round up my fifteenth Dew- Y ode.” ushed the following pen- kelftun" toward her: ha cr way view. made —~skies; fade ——flies.” And in short order the wife handed him the following: “It was in Santiago Bay That Hobson and his crew Sped like the lightning on thelr way With Spanish guns in view. “A charge as if in hell they made Beneath the blazing skles, And never shall their glory fade ‘While Freedom's banner flies!"” “Good!” he exclaimed. “And now, if you're tired, just order some salmon for supper, and 1l let lttle Johnnie fill out that ‘Little Green Apple Tree’ poem, as he's been eating cucumb and can put the proper spirit into it.”—Atlanta Con- stitution. —_———— Captain Gridley of the Olympia, Cap- tain Coghlan of the Raleigh and Cap- tain Wildes of the Boston, who fought together at Manila, were classmates at the Naval Academy, graduating in 1863, and Gridley and Wildes were roommates. S The captain of an Atlantic liner, after many calculations, has come to the conclusion that the general size of a fog in the Atlantic is about thirty miles in diameter. THE BOOK OF he | {ng Puppies | distini and Decatur in 1812, and as a captain he was with Farragut at Mobile Bay. His recollections amount to a history of our naval service in war and peace. Long as- signments on foreign stations have made his life full of incident, and his recollec- tions of notable men, places and events, both at home and abroad, are numerous and varied. The volume was prepared without referring to notes or journals, and this has imparted an informally con- versational tone to the pages of the book. There is a strong flavor of Marryatt in the opening chapters, which tell ‘of the | author’s rollicking midshipman days off the coasts of South America and Califor- nia. From the primitive naval academy of those times he went to Washington in 1848 and engaged in coast survey work { until ordered to the Mediterranean squad- ron. His reminiscences of society in the American capital fifty years ago are fol- lowed by recollections of foreign service, naturally interesting, because a naval of- ficer’s dutles, social and official, necessar- i bring him in contact with a great ariety of prominent and interesting char- acter: Returning to America in time to; h_himseclf in the i1 War, Ad- miral Franklin saw the navy change from od to iren, from sail to steam, and he w on the Roanoke In Hampton Roads when the little Monitor saved the Union | fleet from destruction by the Merrimac. In charge of the dispatch-boat Dacotah he witnessed and took part in many stirring scenes, and many chapters are de- voted to his anecdotes of historical per- sons and events of the war. His promo- tion to the rank of rear admiral In 1885 was a fitting culmination to his long and honorable seryice of the country. The Play of Animals. BY PROFESSOR KARL GROOS. @‘@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@®’03@@@@@@©@®@©@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ THE W . HE WEEK. : ® Sl [C} [} @ & o @® @ [0} @ “Four “Centuries of Spanish Rule in Cuba,” by Italo Emilio Caninl, is the title of a new book that ought to prove of per- manent interest. In the opening chapter we find this: ‘ ‘History,’ sald a great writer, ‘is a mixture of good and of evil, with' here and there a glorious page.’ But he who would undertake the study of the methods which Spain adopted in con- quering Cuba, and in retaining its pos- session for 400 years, with the expecta- tion of finding such a page, would com- mit a grave error, for he will meet with the story of no deed on which he may dwell with satisfaction.” The book contains some forty illustra- tions from authentic sourc being portraits of famous Cubans, pi ures showing the burning of men at the stake, the terrible garrote, Havana in the sixteenth century, Cuban forts, Spanish guerrillas firing, scenes at executions, the destruction of the Maine, etc. Laird & Lee, publishers, Chicago. Extra cloth, 76_cents; paper covers, 25 cents. Don’t Worry Nuggets. By Jeanne G. Pennington. Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, New York. Price, 40 cents. War, being true stories of camp and battlefleld by famous officers. McClure & Co., New York. A Trooper of the Empr Ross. D. Appleton & Co., New Yor! sale by Willlam Doxey. Price, $1. Materfamilias. By Ada Cambridge. For sale by William Doxey. Price, $1. Torn Sails. A tale of a Welsh village Alen Raine. For sale by William Doxey. Price, $ v _him- By Clinton - 1. The Making of a Millionaire. B gelf. G. W. Dillingham & Co., New York. | Harper & Bros; price $3. [ONONOXO] The Pall Mall Magazine for July con- tains “Mr. Perry’s Woolng,” a very amus- ing short story, by Hal Godfrey; the first of what promises to be a remarkably In- teresting series of articles by Clark Rus- sell, “The Ship; Her Story,”sin which he traces the development of the ship from the “‘dugout” of prehistoric times down to the modern man-of-war; the concluding chapters of Anthony Hope' thrilling romance, “Rupert of Hentzau"; part IV of C. J. Cutliffe Hyne's series of storles of adventure on the Spanish malin, Prlnc? _Rupert the Buccaneer”; part II (concluding the series) of the Evolution of Comfort in Raflway Trav- nln;l by ;&ngus Sinclair; a second in- stallment of J. Holt Schoolirg’s remark- able articles on “Crime”; another of Miss Nesbit's charming stories of children en- titled “The Divining Rod”; “Towana Khan and His Master,” a short story (il- lustrative of British rule in India), by Colonel Alfred Harcourt; ‘“The People That Delight in War,” a poem, by Chris- tian Burke; “After the Honeymoon,” a full-page plate, by Max Cowper; and many other interesting features, the whole exquisitely illustrated. _A rich frontisplece, after a palnting by Van der Velde, accompanies the number. Scribner’s. The war leads the July number of Scribner’s Magazine. Richard Harding Davis’ account of “The First Shot of the the graphic picture of what an eye-wit- ness saw when the Buena Ventura was taken and Matanzas was bombarded. How it feels to be on a great warship in action is made vivid. Snapshot photo- graphs by Mr. Davis add to the sense of reality. “The shin seemed to work and to fight by herself.” he says. “You heard no human voice of command.” “Manila and the Phillnnines” are de- scribed by Tsaac M. Elliott, for three years United States Consul at Manila. Captain Mahan (now of the naval strategy board at Washington) writes of the most popular naval hero of the revo- lutfon. “John Paul Jones." “Tndergraduate Life at Smith College” 1s written by a recent graduate, Miss Al fee Katharine Fallows. Mr, Wyckoff depicts this menth a “Workingman's Sunday in Chicago.” Brlantis Manthiv. HETaActanat and “TNa Tanadanna nf fnalet® ama $%a bwa lenading articles in the S#lantie far Inlv. Tlnntnnnattle Tlavmestoht * ke WA to n Enmash ctame In tha Tha ~thar foatures are “n #n the nennl etandard. CTTArATA DraAtar awA @ Tan 7 Tule T iantnanss Tha Rbana Baer-c 9% Ve %A Trowy Geaorge F. Willlnms, fs the leader in the Arena this month. It Is an able article, HICAGO, ILL.—Recently Aldegrman ‘Willlam T. Maypole and his family and John Lyke and his family oc- cupied the same cottage on the In- gleside shore of Fox Lake. Each occupied half the structure. Each still occuples a half. A few mornings ago Mr. Lyke was awakened by the rip, rip of a big saw and a stream of sawdust fell on the Turkish rug in the center of the floor. The wor- thy man looked up and saw a thin line DIVIDED A HOU SE BY SAWING TN T WO0. of daylight along the middle of the cefl- ing and through the aperture was work- In% the flashing blade of a saw. 'Wo or three feasons agd Alderman Maypole and Mr. Lyke, also a Chicago citizen, decided to build a cottage at Fox Leke for their mutual occupation. They were great friends and they, knew it would be pleasanter for both if they would pool their interests in the matter of summer living. The cottage was bullt, a barn, an ice- house, chicken coops, and all the neces- sary bujldings for t. jummer home were erected,” and the joint owners surveyed their work with pride. The warm weather came and the fam- ilies moved in, each occupying half of the remises. It was a fine arrangement— or a time. Mrs. Lyke and Mrs. Maypole borrowed sugar and ralsins of each other and the husbands traded cigars, which they smoked on the veranda in the warm evenings, The cottage was the first to be bulit on that side of the lake, and they no neighbors to encroach on their privacy. At first the fact that the Lykes were of ‘War” and “The First Bombardment" s | Price, 50 cents. o¥oXoRoYOROoXOROYOROFORCYOXOOROOROROROROROROROROROROROROJOROROROROKO] THE JULY MAGAZINES. : (0XOXCXOXOXOXOXOXOROXOROXOXOXOXOROXOJOROROXOLOJORONOROROJOROROJOROXOIO} worthy of deep study by all interested in the money question. Among other arti- cles can be mentioned ‘“The Superstition of Science,” by Count Leo Tolstoi, and “Sclence and Psychical Research,” by B. O. Flower. Cassell’s. This English magazine is fully up to its usual entertaining foreign matter. It con- tains a number of good stories. The prin- cipal one is “In the Chains of Crime,” by E. W. Hornung Ladles’ Home Journal. The President on horseback rides spiritedly across the covers of the July Ladies’ Home Journal under his new flag, and his chief characteristics are de- talled in an illustrated anecdotal biog- raphy, contributed by his nearest and most intimate friends. Very timely, also, , among these | is “The President's March,” comnosle’g by Victor Herbert and.designed to piayed as a compliment to the head of the natfon whenever he appears in public. At this time much interest- will be taken in the origingl Declaration:of Indepen- dence, now guarded from public gaze, which, with the originat draft of the treasured document, is’ photographically reproduced in the July Journal by ar- rangement with the State Department. The Parlstan. - The Parisian for July is profusely il- lustrated. It contains a representative collection of portraits, etc., of the Paris Salon of this year. .There is an interest- ing article (lllustrated) on Copenhagen. Leon Tolstoi gives vent to some opinions on Wagner's music whick will -greatly shock the Wagnerites. McClure's. The opening article of McClure's Maga- zine for July portrays the private and official life of President McKinley from | the first dawn of the war crisis down al- most to the present moment. Only four of our Presidents have had to conduct a | war, and how President McKinley con- | ducts one is here related: with a most in- | teresting wealth of detail. The flustra- tions of the article consist of typical war- time scenes in the White House and de- partments, drawn from life, and a num- ber of excellent. portraits from recent | special photographs. | “Stephen Bonsal, “who was himself a | participant in it, tells -the story of “The | First Fight on Cuban Soil” in_ our war | with Spain, and his article is interestingly | fllustrated from photographs taken by himself. Cleveland Moffett's account of “The Fastest Vessel Afloat—the - Tur- binia,” which easily makes forty miles | an_hour—is the narrative of a thrilling and unique experience as well @s the de- scription of a most remarkable inven- tion. | The Century. | The Century for this month Is fully up | to its usual high standard. ‘Of course it | is apropos of the principal events in the public mind. Stephen Bonsal, late of the American legation at Madrid, has written an article for the July Century on “Holy Week in Seville.” The paper is illus- trated with sketches by Joseph Pennell. Poultney Bigelow contributes to the July number of the Century a_paper entitled | “Ten Years of Kaiser Wilhelm.” Mr. Bigelow is a’ personal friend of the mon- arch and he reiterates his statement of ten vears ago that the Emperor has a “Yankee head on his shoulders.” The ar- ticle is accompanied by a drawing made by Emperor Willlam of *The . Ironclad of the Future.” Harper's. | Theleading featuresof the July Harper's are “The People and Their Government,” | by Henry Loomis Nelson; “The Ethics of | a Corrida,” a story of a recontre with a Spanish bull-fighter, by Lucia Purdy, il- lustrated by photographs taken by the author; Notes on Journalism,”” by George W. Smalley; *“A Man and His Knife, Passages. from the Life of James Bowie,” by.Martha McCulloch-Williams; “Eastérn Siberia,”” by Stephen Bonsal, il- lustrated from photographs taken by the | author; “A Colonial Dame: ~Neglected Records of the Life of Mistress Margaret Brent, the Earliest American Woman to Demand the Right of Suffrage.” by C oline Sherman Bansemer; ‘“New Era in the Middle West,” by Charles Moreau and “New Worlds and Old,” by or Brander Matthews. “HE WAS GROWIN' PRETTY WEAK" From Heroes of the Deep, In the Century Magazine for-July. a religious turn of mind and loved qulet and Sabbath calm, while the Maypoles liked dancing and games and all joined voices in singing the popular songs of the day, did not mar the happiness of the flock. The relations were cordial and the exchange of cigars and raisins and laun- dry soap continued. In time, however, the likes and dislikes of the families began to jar. Sometimes Mr. Lyke and his family would be tired and retire early, only to have their nerves iump in tune to “There’ll Be a Hot Time n the Old Town T ight”” or “My Gal is a High-Bo'n Lady And in time, too, there came gentle suggestions that early hours and much quiet were best for city dwellers who were seeking rest and health in the country. On the other hand there were as covert suggestions that| there was no need for persons to be| mummies simply because they were in | the rural districts. The rag-time melodles continued to | make the shore of Fox Lake echo, and | the Lykes continued to retire early and | court elusive Morpheus or seek the sub- | stance of Fox’s martyrs at a distance of | fifteen feet from a rousing chorus, ac- companied by a piano that was working overtime. | The thread broke at last and the atmos- | phere about the Maypole-Lyke cottage | became such that the icehouse went into | disuse. If either side wished to have ice- cream or sherbert for Sunday dinner it simply set the mixed ingredients on the front porch and in five minutes the stuff was ready for the table. Last season Mr. Maypole and his fam- ily left the cottage for the sole use of the Lykes. They spent the hot months else- where. The Alderman thought long over the proposition, and as a shrewd business man, came to the conclusion that it was poor policy to ‘have vacant property on his hands. Under this train of thought a | result was soon reached and the next day a local carpentering firm sent a force of men to Fox Lake with a full kit of tools. The carpenters waited until the gray dawn appeared, and then they mounted upon the roof of the mutual cottage. ‘They began to saw. Rlip, rip, went the blades, and they did not stop until they had made halves of the structure from roof peak to basement. Then they began on the barn. That was divided, and the icehouse and chicken coop suffered a like fate. Not a hair’s sreadth from the cen- ter of the building did the carpenters dl- walted his half. Every movable gren. The Alderman was a fair man and 1 e(on!y thing on the place was sawed in two be- fore the workmen ceased their .labors.. - The halves have heen moved a few feet apart and sided up, and now -the. LyKes and the Maypoles occupy. their several.. - ortions in peace. The ice-créam can still - : e made by placing the cream -between - the halves of the cottage, and the. plana. =~ continues to accompany -a° c¢horus. of healthy young voices in {‘On’the- Banks of the Wabash” and ‘‘Mistah -Johns Tu'n Me Loose.” g et e A REAL FARMER IN CONGRESS: The farmer in Congress ‘is ‘not the .: Hon, Jerry Simpson, not the Hon. Ben- - jamin F. Marsh, not the Hon.:John Clardy—none of these. The farmer f; Congress is the Hon. Leonidas I Liv- ingston of Georgia. He began the fas-: cinating vocation of national solonizing. * in 1891 as the representative ‘of the At-. lanta district, and has been hard at it ever since. The other day he was fé- - nominated, and he will be a member. of the Fifty-sixth Congress. He:was re- ° nominated over the protests of Editor Howell and Editor Smith, He.beat the Atlanta Constitution and the. Atlanta Journal —two papers that.are agreel in nothing except that .the “Chicago of the South” ought to be represented-in"Con-." gress by more brains than- the -Hon, ° Lon Livingston can bring to.bear in . that behalf. : f Sas ey But the Hon. Lon is a .farmer and: “has always lived on a farm:" . The Fifth Georgia contains the countfes of Campbell, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Newton, Rochdale and Walton, as well. as Fulton, and all of them are-full of . farmers, and the Hon. Lon, a' hucol Claverhouse, gave the “literary feller: a bucolic “Up with the bonnets of Bo: nie Dundee,” and he swept them off-tha face of the earth at the primaries, He - had been in both branches of the State Legislature and chairman of the Com- - mittee on Agriculture, and he never.- Icst an opportunity to tinker with the. - farming interests. He was vice presf- - dent of the State Agricultural Soclety.: eleven years and president of- it four years. He was president of the Farm- ers’ Alllance for three years.—Louls- ville Courfer-Journal, s ¥