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But Alexandah Hamilton Jefferson Smiff certainly did admire the swimming qualities of these feesh. Said he to Mr. A. L. G. W. Johnson: “Mista Johnson, you know Ah always said Ah could swim same, but when it comes to scooting from the water, a feesh is certain a big lot fastened than mah han'” “Hush up, niggah. You swim? Why, you ain’t never been in the water yet, you ain’t.” “Oh, man! Hear that niggah, the duck. Well, Ah just het you-all mah new razor to anything you like in the name that Ah can swim furdah in ten minutes and back that you can go in one way,” - All the World S a Nine By T. E. Powers, the Famous Cartoonist Cont, 14, by the Star Company Great Britain Rights Reserved. “All right, Mister Smiff. You just excuse me for one minute, that all Ah ask.” He D disappeared for a little while and came back shortly with a small oil stove tied on his back and a basket of provisions halanced on his head. “What all that mess for, Miss Johnson?” “Nemmine, niggah. As just want you all to understand one thing before we dive off this here levee. Ah got mah cook stove and mah food with me to eat on the way, and you don't get nuffin’ even though you swims loose to death with starvation. Mah first stopped and New York, and mah nex am Lunnon. Is you ready?” Ephraim Williams had finished his day’s toil on the plantation and gone to see the lady of his heart, a cook on a neighboring plantation, some two miles away. The road to the place led by a cemetery. It happened that a child had died of a virulent contagious disease that day in the nearest town. As is customary in that part of Mississippi, an order was given for the immediate burial of the body early the next morning, and to expedite matters the grave was ordered dug that night. Moonlight night. Finighed grave. Trembling Eph walking speedily by the cemetery on his return home. Suddenly the gravedigger, cramped from bending over and digging in the hole, straightened up, and gave utterance to a loud “oo-o-ah!” Eph gave one look, a wild shriek, and dashed down the road so fast that his shoes were left behind. He's running yet. A vigorous evangelist was baptizing some colored candidates in a Georgia river, on a rather cool January day. A voling negress who had the reputation of being the queen of profanity. In the town, appeared among the candidates on the river bank. The gray-haired cullud evangelist led Liza into the water, Gingerly she waded in knee-deep, then jerked back violently. “Ow! ow-wow!! Go’ long way from here, niggah. You want to freeze me stiff? Ah ain’t going in that rubber and catch no ammonia.” Her mammy, recalling daughter’s profane habits, shouted: “Go, Liza! Beef! Ah bang a rock on your ear gets out into that rubber up to your mouth: Da who all your sins is!” “THE SEVEN DARLINGS” A new novel which will be the most talked-of book of the year, written for THE SUNDAY AMERICAN FREE FICTION MAGAZINE By GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, Begins in the June number. New is the Time to Study Our May Garden Calendar and Learn More Things About Home Gardening Than the Man Who Invented Seed Catalogues Ever Dreamed Of. It Is By That Celebrated Ungentlemanly Farmer, Lewis Allen, Author of “Come Out of the Garden, Mud,” “How to Have Corns in the Winter,” etc. Copyright, 1914, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved. AY 4—Adem invented gardening in the year one. Profanity invented soon after this date. If your lawn grass does not begin to come up by this time there will be found two reasons for this. Either you have not planted any grass seed, or else something is the matter with it. By covering your lawn with cement and painting it green you will not have to water it. If you do not live next to a neighbor who owns a good lawn mower. You will either have to buy one yourself or move into some more prosperous neighborhood. MAY s.—Flias Boudinst, LL.D., A mere patriot and philanthropist (doesn't cost anything to be ever), born this date, 1740. He was director of the mint at Philadelphia. By all means, devote two patches of your garden to mints and juleps. When these are ripe and combined, seven or eight of them will make you forget gardening. Plant cold frames this date, also hot beds, keeping them well separated as the cold frames may chill the hot beds, or else the hot beds will melt the cold frames. Cold frames are for chili sauce and cold slaw. In the hot beds plant peppers, mustard and popcorn. MAY 6.—Guiglelchane, the great mathematician and astronomer, born near South Damascus, this date, 980 A.D. He discovered the distance between the earth and the moon. He also computed the length of time it would take to hop on one leg from the earth to the sum, but committed suicide when overdressed by the king to tell how lony it would take to make a productive backyard garden. In planting seed, always measure the diameter of the seed, multiply by five and the answer is the depth it should be covered with soil. Do this with each seed, as they vary in their diameter. No two cucumber seeds are the same diameter, some are 537, 924th of an inch thicker than others. MAY 7.—John James Audubon, celebrated naturalist, born in Louisiana this date, 1780. He knew more about birds and bugs than any other man except an amateur gardener. But with all his knowledge he didn't know how to keep the bugs from aponging a free lunch off young lettuce, or how to prevent robing from stealing cherries. This is a good time to plant succotash. Plant one can lima beans and two ears corn to the hill for the best mixture. MAY 8. Four thousand eighty years ago today, King Solomon admitted he was not wise enough to know how the geeds got in the watermelon without letting the water run out. It is now warm enough for the children to go out and plant their little gardens. A splendid collection of flowers for the little tots, designed to aid their tender memories, includes scabrosa caucasica, heuchera sanguieneum, delphinium belladonna, hemerocallis thunbergll, meritus virginica, lupinus polyphyllus, ajuga reptens rubra and erigeren grandiflorus elatior. Give the children some pennies and tell them to run down to the store and ask for these. MAY 9.—Robespierre born this date, 1758. He planted the French Revolution and raised the deuce. After that, they cut him back, for a while, his shoulders and he was no more bother. When little green things begin to come up in your garden, watch them closely. If they move about, they are green worms. Kill the worms. If they do not move about, they are probably vegetatien. The green growing things do not prove they were oucumbers or lettuce or something good. If they do not die, they are weeds. Weeds may be removed by grasping them firmly about the abdomen and pushing the garden back, or downward, away from them. MAY 10.—Charles William Wells, M.D., F.B., born in Charleston, S.C., this date, 1757. He received gold and silver medals for writing an essay on “Dew.” (Isn't that a throbbing top for a life-sized man to write about?) Now that your garden is beginning to thrive, more or less—note the accent—it is time to learn who's who in garden truck. If you see some tiny green shoots and later find them dead, with many little yellow bugs with black stripes on them in that vicinity, those green shoots were cucumbers. If the bugs are three-cornered and gray, the green things were squash. If the little green shoots fall over, having been greatly nawed—that is, neatly gnawed off—and a large white, res-headed and succulent slug is drowsing near by, those green shoots were tomatoesses. MAY 11.—Senator J.H. Hammond was born this date, 1807. In a speech in the Senate in 858 he was the first to say “Cotton is King." But he did not add that “Silk is Queen” and while men folks are glad to jog along with only cotton, look out for frosts and typhoons if the queens do not get sick. It is all right to call a spade a spade, but when a man whangs his shin on one in his garden he calls it a “shovel!” Now is the time to get out your hoe, rake, weeder, spade, crowbar, garden hose, sprinkler. In the pot, trowel, dibber and other tools, Arrange them in your garden quite handy, forget to take them in, and they will be gone the next morning. MAY 12.—The noted Hanging Gardens were in the limelight about this date. 3000 B. O. Since them, many a man has fervently wished his garden would go hang. Watch for egg plants this date. They are very destructive and scratch up everything, if they are your neighbor’s, shoot them. If your own, don't let them get out of the hen yard. Cabbages planted in the top will not be ripe for several days yet. About now carefully protect the tall, velvety-leaf plants that begin to come up. In another month, they will develop into sturdy pig-weeds. YAY 13— Heronius, a Phenician, invented the table knife this date. The invention of the table knife is a reminder that it is time to plant the second crop of green peas. The first crop is undoubted dead by this time. Writing to the Agricultural Department at Washington for ketchup seeds will not avail. However, do not fail to send to the Secretary of State for a few grape juice plants. These cultural jokes will prove a novelty in any garden. 