House and Garden 
The Detroit News said of our first issue: 
“A splendid magazine, worth five times Its price 
for its tone ot cheer and feast of good things.” 
Uncle Remus’s 
Magazine 
(.Edited by Joel Chandler Harris ) 
FOR SEPTEMBER 
MR. BILLY SANDERS, THE SAGE OF SHADY DALE : HIS VIEW OF THE 
NEGRO PROBLEM AND ITS REMEDY. Having known the negro for nigh 
onto sixty years, what Mr. Sanders says about the problem and its remedy is 
worthy of attention. It wouldn’t be far from wrong to say his view is that of 
three-fourths of the Southern whites. 
LITTLE CHILDREN ON THE SNAP-BEAN FARM, an editorial by Joel Chand¬ 
ler Harris. Perhaps no one knows better the heart of the child than does Mr. 
Harris; certainly none writes of children with more exquisite appreciation or with 
more sympathy. 
IN THE WAKE OF LUCRETIA BORGIA. Louise Closser Hale, author of “A 
Motor-Car Divorce,” writes, with whimsical humor, of an auto tour through the 
most picturesque part of Italy. Beautifully illustrated with drawings by Walter 
Hale. 
HOW BRER RABBIT RAISED THE DUST. An Uncle Remus rhyme, which 
tells how all de creeturs went a-courtin’, and how Brer Rabbit won the hand of 
Miss Meadows’ gal. Illustrated by J. M. Conde. 
FIVE MEN WHO HAVE MADE EPOCHS: III.—WEISMANN. M. A. Lane 
in discussing the life and works of the great zoologist, applies his doctrine to the 
two great menaces, the “yellow peril” and the “negro problem.” 
FICTION. “The Bishop, the Boogerman and the Right of Way,” by Joel Chandler 
Harris. Part IV; “The King of Makawao’s Jester,” by John Fleming Wilson; 
“The Serpent in the Garden,” by Norval Richardson; “Thg Kiss Denied,” by 
Reina Melcher; “The Tribulations of a Rhyme-Factory” by Don Marquis. 
Illustrations by Charlotte Harding, James Preston, Alice Beach Winter and R. 
H. Palenske. 
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LANDSCAPE WORK AND DESIGN 
For 17 years at the head of the Shady Hill 
Nursery Company, of Boston, I have had most 
intimate experience with not only Landscape de¬ 
sign, but with every other feature of practical 
Arboriculture, Construction and Engineering and 
in all parts of the country. I will visit any 
place and advise as to planting or improvements 
required, furnishing plans for the same. Plans 
for medium or small estates furnished by mail 
promptly, and material selected and furnished from 
the best growers at first cost, with great saving to 
buyers. If you contemplate any planting or 
Landscape improvement, I invite correspondence. 
E. L. BEARD 
155 Milk Street - Boston, Mass. 
1 he growth of oak production in the 
South promises to be one of the phenom¬ 
enal experiences of American lumber 
history. This prospect should enhance 
the value of oak lands. Sagacious 
lumbermen are seeing that which is 
coming, and many are buying up oak 
areas. This movement is bound to 
increase. 
There is this to be said in respect to 
oak-timbered lands: They are invari¬ 
ably areas good for agriculture after 
the timber is cut off'. For this reason 
denudation will go on with relatively 
greater rapidity than on lands covered 
with the softer woods. It was this 
that cleared the forests north of the Ohio 
river, and it is the same influence which 
is rapidly denuding the maple lands of 
the Northern counties of Lower Michi¬ 
gan- 
When the tide of emigration shall set 
strongly towards the alluvial areas of 
the lower Mississippi and tributaries, 
the hardwood forests will melt away be¬ 
fore the onslaughts of the farmers. 
For this reason those desiring large 
holdings of Southern oak and other 
hardwoods will need to secure them 
within a very few years. Having 
purchased the lands, they will have 
both the timber and the richest agri¬ 
cultural areas in the country, and 
thus doubly insure themselves a good 
prospect of profit .—Northwestern Lum¬ 
berman. 
INTEREST AROUSED IN THE IRRIGA¬ 
TION CONGRESS 
MPHE greatest interest is being arous- 
ed in California and adjoining 
States in the various features of the com¬ 
ing National Irrigation Congress to be 
held in Sacramento in September. 11ns 
session of the Congress will differ ma¬ 
terially from preceding ones, not only 
in the scope of the work planned, but in 
the character and extent of auxiliary 
features. Sacramento is preparing to 
welcome the immense attendance which 
these attractions are sure to draw to the 
city and which is already foreshad¬ 
owed by inquiries from everywhere 
concerning arrangements and accom¬ 
modations. 
Not only is the city ready to take care 
of all who come, but is planning to 
royally entertain her guests and visitors 
during the continuance of the Congress 
and incidental events. 
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