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1 6 ' * n + A HOMESICK TKX.W. I + 1 ++++4.+.V++++++++++ +4.+4..V4John Hallow, Hutinels County Texas, in The lamisvillc Inland Farmer. In this letter we want to ramble. We do not want to be eon lined to any subject or any rule of procedure. It is too hot lo be eontined. We want to ramble at ease and leisure a \i , used to do back in old Tennessee a/ Hoyville. anient; the mossy liiils JT:.! deep hollows. We want to turn l^wk. We must no back. Our ears aye itch inn for the musical liuuiininil of th old spinning wheel, and the Vlick of the reel. Did you ever see Oyrhank." a "cut" or a "broach?" K\Jhr " more in" and "hew to the line'yand help build a double Ion house And chink the cracks with mortal^'and lime'' Ever no fishing on Sutupiy and catch a nice strinn and after father had made a hearty meal, walk up like a soldier and take your lickinn on the naked hide? Ever chase snake doctors and wade branches and climb mulberry trees and eat insects? Ah, my friends, those days ran never come again. But occasionally j we must go back. Mrs. ltuth Fletcher, we must go back. Back yonder where the pawpaws ripened and the May apples grew for boys and girls. Ever go hazle nut hunting? Ever cut the initials of your sweetheart In the bark of a beech tree? Wonder if it is there yet? Ah, we must go. They tell me that the old gum spring is dried up. They tell nie that the big fields are now shrunken to small patches. They tell me that the old double-log house is tumbled down and that the roof is caving in; but I must go. I must climb again the tall persimmon tree. 1 must taste again the delectable persimmon beer 'and apple cider. Oh. go away, trouble. We must go once more out into the tall timber at night and hear old Trailer open up on a coon trail and we must hold old Trailer till the tree falls and then see the light and the fun. We must tramp again through the dense forest and smell the wild grape blossoms and the crab apple. Once more we must chase the bumble bee through the clover. Man, did you ever try to split a blue poplar or sweet gum? It you ever did, old comrade, you and 1 are kin folks. Shake! Ever see an iron wedge, a dog-wood glut, a maul? 1 have grown children out hero on the Western plains who would not know the names of these tilings if they were to see them. Kver see a froe? Kver ride any boards? Say, did you ever put two bushels of wheat across old Oobbin's back and ride astraddle of it eight or nine miles to mill and get your own Hour, seconds, shorts and bran? Kver do that? Well, sir, if you did vnu and 1 are brothers. "Nothing to it," we are the same flesh and blood! Hoys, we will just have to go hack. How many rentiers of this good paper I ever cracked walnuts on mother's ' smoothing iron and roasted chestnuts *Ji ami yaller pert a tors till bedtime? oh. come away. Those times can never be again. But we can go back, boys. Let's charter a car. Look out hark there, we are coming. We are going to bring our gray hairs, bald heads and appetites. "Put the big pot in the little one." Have the pot pies, 'possum and 'taters and livers and gizzards ready. Oh. go away, trouble. The Frenchman in the War. Salisbury Post. The war has brought many surprises. Among these is the fine showing made by the French under arms, lany thought the French could not uid the hardships of the irenehes I firing line, that their life had Nn such as to sap their vitality and ' they would prove weak physicalvand without force and stamina. |.T who had so sized up the . , chnian have had their opinion befr - ' j.ted to tlie extreme, for the , eh soldier has borne tlte brunt bain wjn 'e fighting and liow well he lias "so challenges the admiration of *"l?ir world. He lias (ought and held ftongue. Few claims and no brags attr** ^een Riven out from the French Qr.,- office, hut everywhere tlie French ,?jldier has given a glorious account , -rtT of himself. For hitn the German haR expressed the highest admiration and !n the heart of many neutrals the frenchman finds a warm place, for there are many of us. who deep down in our heart feel more keenly for the French than any of the belligerents. He has backed Uls warm patriotism by a valor and courage that astounds the world. He has so much at stake and be Is giving so heroically to save that much. Feeds on t'otton Only. Remember that the boll weevl' doesn't eat wheat, oats or corn. Th< weather has been fine for sow'ng fa' oats. Are you neglecting it? \r this crop was short Inst "t"- ' apt to he good another year.?-Washington (Ga.) Reporter. \r \ j A Hint To I Of Grow / >1 il? 1 Dnvntivc ai Kegulnr Interval*. \ Will l'i't'vciK Constipation. f A vital point upon which all school oi medicine seem to agree is that nor mal regularity of the bowels is an cs | sential to good b?alth. The impor tanee of this is impressed particular j ly on mothers of grow ing children, j A very valuable r< inedy that slioul I ' " kept in every home for use as oeea sion arises is Dr. Caldwell's Syrup i Pepsin, a compound of simple laxa- j live herbs that has been prescribed i by Dr. \V. It. Caldwell, of Monticcllo. , 111., for more than twenty-live years, and which can now be obtained in an> , well stocked drug store for 11 fty cents : a bottle. In a recent letter to Dr. Caldwell.' Mrs. II. C. Turner. 8 14 Ma'n St., ituir-ii.. v v "i i.dii lIi .. bottle of Dr. (.'aidwell's Syrup Pepsin for my baby. Poland Lee Turner, and 1 find it works just like you said it would. It is fine for the stoinaeh and bowels." A bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup I Pepsin should be in every home. A The Night School. Salisbury Post. It ought to be exceedingly pleasing to all of us to see how well the moonlight schools are being attended. It reflects the keen interest being taken in education. Less than one third of the adults in the moonlight schools of Salisbury are illiterates, these more than twothird majority are prompted by an earnest desire to improve themselves, realizing that they will be enabled to get more pleasure and profit out of life thereby. A few months each year for i very few years will make a wonderful change in North Carolina. Such a campaign will wipe out the illiteracy remaining and spur the people to higher and better things. Th interest will directly aid and improv thousands in the state and inspire many more thousands. The night school is doing a great and good work. The teachers who have volunteered have ottered them selves for a noble work, and their state ought to uncover to them. Many a hoy has gone from the night school fired with a new ambition. The higher schools and colleges have boys today who were ill IMI.11'11 il.l UK'll infill ni lllltll C.Vper ience. The night school for boys by flu; V .VI. C. A. is a service we ought to appreciate and support. Some day the state will have .1 legislature big enough to forget to play small politics and make an educational appropriation tor such work as this, and the schools of North Carolina will get a sum of money that will be creditable to the state. The schools ought to lie equipped for service, and it they can seru 111 a u.\ at night, the doors ought to h< open at night and paid teachers > duty, the same as by day. Some day wo will learn how to spend money for schools, as w e havlearned how to lavish it on man> other things that perish in a day And when we ilo we will hear no more of this cry of illiteracy and of boys and girls mentally starving, because our poor school facilities are running 011 broken down machinery that operates only about one-tifth of the day light season. In the meanwhile we can make forward strides by supporting these schools which are hurriedly called together by night for the instruction of those who will attend. THK I' ltllHT. Krom northern plains wc hear her coming feet; In every sudden breeze her tones we hear; And through the days, still warm and bright and clear, Her cricket heralds fiddle loud and sweet, When in the chilly wind she speaks at noon. The trees all shiver and mourn for their leaves. In saddened monotone the ri\er grieves. Knowing that winter follows fast and soon. In all her splendor earth awaits het doom; Kadi flower wears an unearthly loveliness. As though it sought with pity to impress That untamed spirit bringing death and gloom; In vain they strive, still louder and more clear The echo of her footsteps meets th<* ear. ?New York Sun. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by V"w? 1 pvlli'tttooa. they cannot reach tba dUeaacd i?ftlnn of the car. Thcro la anly one way to euro deefnaaa, and ttiat la by eooatltuttoaat remedloo fH-afncs* la earned by an Inflaniod condition of the mucoua lining of the Eoatachlee Tube When thia tnt>o la Inflamed you bare ' mnabllnr round or lmi>erfeet hearlnc, and wh?\ It to entirely rlnaed IVafneaa la the reautt, and nnleae the Inflammation can to- taken out and tbla tube restored to It* normal condition, hearing wilt tie dcafroyed fereyer; nlno caaea out of ten are canned by Catarrh, which la nothing but an lnflanie.i condition of the muenua aurfacea. Wo will tltf One Hundred pollura for any caw of Doafiie-m (rniiaed by catarrhl that cannot b< cured hjr Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for clrcu lara. free. F. J CIIKNBV Ic C<l., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take HalCa Family 1*111* for constipation. \ \ 7 \ * k ' THE LAfrv >j,:p\VS Mothers' ] ing Children If 0, . I I il ItOI.WIl LF.F ri K\KH. trial bottle, free of charge. ran he obtained by writing to I?r. \V. It. Caldwell, 454 Washington St.. Monticello. 111. i ? The old Folks. Fountain Inn Tribune. \\ :,en tnc.t ue-e savage and < .\-! istence was a continued an 1 unre-' mitting struggle against beasts antl| the elements, it may have bet v good j policy to leave the decrepit uud the! weak to the tender mercies of the jungle where death would soon relieve their sufferings, for thus the young end strong would >e relieve*, of burdens and better tilted to cope with the hardships of tluu hard tife. i Hut now that man has in part out-1 grown his savagery, and exi tence; become a mere matter of temp'oanee. and coddling, there is no longer >c ; casion or excuse for brutality. \nb yet, because of the brute instinct bred in us all through ages of jungle life, the younger generation of to-i day feels more of contempt than of! I?it> for palsied hands and hacks hi nt with labor. Parents, following the foolish way o! parents sinee Adam, deny theinselves the pleasures and comforts; to which their industry entitle them,; in order that something may he saved for the children. And when j their bodies are worn out at the; task and old ago finds them help-1 less, the children take, or rather snatch the fruits of their labors, with never a word of appreciation, ash once in possession of the property or goods they could never have attained by their own industry, begin to speak of tile old people as "burdens.'* 1 don't know what the old folks think about this sort ol tiling. Perhaps those ages in the jungle laugh: tlieiu resignation. Hut I do know that the heartless young brute or -die cat who can accept the boi'Utv of parents through many years, lib h from t llelil or wheedle ffOHl theni tile Isti list a lice, and then pay for it all with impatience, intolerance and bicker ing. has no place in this decent civilization. but belongs hack in that liar I jungle life with the other jungle! beasts. The I test Man. Anderson Mail. A young man just about to start out in life went to and old man and asked his advice. "What profession or business would you advise me to) adopt?" he asked. "It doesn't matter very much what i you do." was the old man's reply, "just so you do it well. If you will | do your work, whatever it is, better than anybody else around you is do-i ing it. you will get to the top of the! ladder." And the ulil man viau i ioln I' ? ? ? ?! '. learned tin* truth by long living unci I observation and fxperience. The man who does his work better ( than anybody else does the same kind ' of work is bound to succeed. Me just j cannot be kept from it. The best carpenter is always sure I of a job lie is the last to be laid oft : if times get dull and the first to be put back to work when times get' better. The same thing is true of the be?t bricklayer in the town The best machinist that we know bus not been out of a job since he a .hed his apprenticeship The best lawyer that we know turns away clients overy week eitnply because he | caunot find the time to handle their business. I It is so in every walk in life. The J man who does hta work best stands at the top. And he is not crowded, while the shoddy workmen below liiin are fighting and scrambling to re| tain their pntcnrious footing. And another thing. It is better to i stand at the top of the list in an I humble calling than to be a failure in : a moro pretentious one. There is more money in it. more satisfaction more self-respect and more respect I from one's fellows. ?{ XOVKMBKR 16,1915. + + + THK IIEAKT OK A TOWN. + + + Amlersun Intelligencer. ' Publication in a recent issue of] The Intelligencer of a news story giving the facts with reference to a case of human distress in one of the local mill villages, was followed immediately by public contributions to their relief surpassing anything we believe that has ever come to our attention. Donations of provisions, clothing an 1 money came not alone from the u el! j to-do and those prominent in church work, but from people who very prob-; ably have not been inside a house of worship in a shamefully long whit".! and from people who ordinarily i would not be chosen as ready-mad" prototypes of the good Samaritan. These donations have exceeded a' 1 ' present needs of the family in eli - [ tress, and numbers of persons who pr tiered further assistance wore advised to withhold their contributions t< '"iir there would tic waste, an l ' > wait until they were notified of an further wants of the family. It takes an incident like this of the family in distress to show the people of Anderson up in their tru? light. They are the best people on' earth, we honestly believe. Others, not native to the town but thoroughly competent to judge, have declared that the people of Anderson are the most generous, the kindest and the: most hospitable they have ever; known. It is hard to conceive of how 1 people could be more so. Our people may not appear this way to all folks at all times, but that is because the occasion for them to be shown; up in their true colors is not present-1 ed. An incident like that brought to light in the house of misfortune in the mill village is needed to dispel! what coldness, what air of aloofness or spirit of selfishness one might at times imagine he sees about them. What is th<> secret of the goodie of heart of the Anderson people? Why is it that a human being n dis t ri ss is no sooner discovered than lie is succored by scores of the best ami the meanest and the poorest and the richest people of the community? i It is because we have not as yet forgotten how to be neighbors. And we have not yet forgotten this because j we are as yet a good distance from 1 being a real "city." a place where; every fellow scrambles around for himself to the devil, a place w her", one does not know the fumliy next door and does not care. All the disadvantages and the undesirable things of life are not to b> found in the little town. The trut.i of which is beautifully illustrated, to I our mind, by an incident in the life oi Henry W. (Srady, Georgia's pccrh -s orator and writer, who went to New York to accept a very flattering posi tion. Ho managed to get along in an apartment house until a little girl living in the Hat above sickened and died. lie made every effort to lind out tlie same ot the little girl whose hotly hud hi ten taken away surrounded by only the family as mourners, but when no one could tell hint who she was his great heart sickened and tired of such relations between hu man beings and he went hack to his old country home in Georgia, where " he could know and call the people! about him by their given names and rejoice with thent in their happinessl and mourn with them in their sor-' row. AI'Tl'MXAIj DAY IN CAROLINA. | I My William II. Timrod.) Sleeps the soft South,?nursing her delicate breath, To fan the lirst buds of the early spring; ' And summer, sighing, mourns his faded wreath, Its many colored glories withering Meneath the kisses of the new waked North,? Who yet in storms approaches not, hut smiles On the departing season, and breathes forth A fragrance as of summer, till at' whiles. All that is sweetest in the varying year Seems softly blent in one delicious hour, Waking dim visions of some former; sphere Where sorrows, such as earth owns, had no power To veil the changeless lustre of the skies, And mind and matter form one paradise. (William H. Timrod of Charleston waa the fnther of lienry Timrod of Columbia, whose "Carolina" Is an imI mortal epic. The above poem was published-in the Charleaton Year Hook, 1845, and seems to 4iave been borrowed quite freely by Kmemon In his essay on Indian summer.?Kdltor of The Columbia Record.) 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If you are interested in a j iloor covering that is practically everlasting and at the s same time very low in price, come in and let us show i I you the goods. Beautiful patterns. Circulars free. J. F. Mackey ^ 1 tr. S. Ilattlewlilp "Soutli Carolina." GREAT CELEBRATION i AT CHARLESTON \ DECEMBER lath TO 17th, 1915. The Southern Commercial Congress will be held at Charleston December 13th to 17th, 1915. This Is an Association of prominent business men from all over the South uud meetings are held each year for the purpose of discussing business welfare, both of the manufacturer and of the farmer. Last year the Congress was held at Oklahoma City and the year before at Mobile. This year the meeting is to be held at Charleston' and very many taen of prominent business. social and public life have already accepted Invttatlona to be present. At least four members of the Cabinet ^ of the President of the United States will be present at the meeting. A squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, Torpedo Boats, Submarines and Torpedo Boat Destroyers, as wetl as Dreadnaughta, will he la the Cbarleaton Harbor, open for inspection of the public, December 14th and 16th, and visitors at thl stlmo will also have the pleasure of seeing a magnificent carnival. The Southern Hallway is arranging special fare tickets and excursion trains. _ r News Want Ad Bring I Results. | / /