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! The Ninetj s BY MRS. ETH One day during the beautiful March weather, little Mrs. Thorndyke sat in a rocker by the window gazing northward over the freshly plower fields. In the distance sho could see the stalwart forms of her husband and son, Vernon, and could hear their gentle 'Gee, Moll," "Haw, Fred," as they followed the slick mules up and down the long furrows. The peach trees were in full bloom and as the delicately perfumed zephyrs lightly kissed her brow and ruffled her hair, the little woman wondered why it was that she exnfirinnnfwl mi < In-ill i>f 'P....!.. k ? v? mvii^iiu i i un IB she looked upon a beautiful scene. Nature was busy with her brush, and had already touched the budding trees with many delicate tints, and (lie mountain left of tlie farm was en H trancingly beautiful with every shade of coloring. H[ For several evenings the "wliipEH poor-will'' had been singing and Mr. Thorndyke declared that cold weather j^H' was over and corn planting time had come, .lust outside the, window as fluffy white lien with a large brood of fluffy white babies was taking a dust j^^Bfbath. The little ones, impatient at the mother's prolonged stop, wandcr^ / ed farther away on ? hunting expediW^m lion of their own. The old hen cluckHb} ed loudly, coaxiugly ami ihreatening1/ to no avail, and was just starting on a hunt for her refractory babies when a hawk swooped down and ^^^caught one. carrying it away in his Sj^^Hcrucl talons, while the rest ran lo the ^ ^Bjlistrnctcd mother for protection. Tears came in Mrs. Thorndyke's |HH "How croullv one must suffer, HBraBnmetimes, for disobedience," she ^pWfij|uirmured. "Even poor little chickens ^ V^w'ijMist pay the penalty." Then her gaze* L ttv?j??cler?d back toward her son and P tender, motherly feeling surged T TOjjRver her soul. Poor Vernon, he sufk MVvred, too, but it made a man of him, m Uroank Clod! All boys must sow "wild I Ms more or less. I suppose. Hut h<* triad, how devoutly thankful I an* that Vernon sowed his while so yo.^Vti', and is now sn steady. Bless I my .Viny! he will be If) this summer, and If or .ur years has been as < tied t^s lii> papa. ITearinf some one I on tl/? piazza. Mrs. Thorndyke went to th?* $oor. "Why how do you do, Mrs. Allen? Come ric'iit in. T am so gind to see you. Am sntVeriut.* dre-V fully with tl.e I 'blues' and no one can cure me so 1 quickly as yon." 1 Mrs. Allen was a great big bunch of loving kindness and mothered the whole no'i.hb'M'hood. S' < weighed 'J00 f pounds, and by the side of Mrs. .1 fill- "il * ' ' j. norn?tvk?, who only weigiied !j/, V she looked a veritable giantess. Puf1 fin<:- and blowing. she wt.'ked in and took ,'i rocker and pave her stiffly starched bonnet to her hostess, who laid it. carefully on the bed Then picking up her gingham apron, she wiped the perspiration from her face. 1('My aint it hot? T do say?it's queer how everybody axes that question, jest as if one didn't know it good as another! But what in the land have you got the blues fur? An'why hain't you bin writ in none fur the papers here lately?" "Well, now, Mrs. Allen, I don't whether I've jrot blues?or what. Rut. it seems to me T ean't do a thing to save my life, only cry?and 1 don't know what T want to cry fori When I try to write, two or three pages is as much as I can accomplish, then, my gaze gets fixed in a certain 8 direction and stare, stare, stare, witli13 out a single intelligible thought or if idea nresentinsr itsself. is Hip rcsuH." !! "Let 1110 sop your tongue. Humph! pral! you need a liver regelater an' spring tonic. If your liver don't act you needn't expect your brain to work. An' if your blood's full of pizen, you cain't expect- to feel smart an' chipper like, an' have a appetite that's rambunctious. 1 never did put much store by doctors fur spring ailments; but T can sight you to a kind of herb tea that 'll astonish yon by its results. It aint bad to take inuther.'' "All right. Mrs. Alien; knowing your reputation as a doctor and nurse, T feel 110 hesitancy in placing myself in your hands." Mrs. Alien took a package from her "' t, "TTorc you arc! "she exelaim owing it iu Mrs. Thorndyke's knowed i/ inv mind you needwhen I Started \ put it in my ''akfc 'a teaspoonful an' pour hot water 011 it. Drink at me an' in three days you won't ?_ r and Nine. IEL THOMAS. ! iknow yourself." "I declare," laughed Mrs. Thorndyke, UI never saw your match. You just know everything! Say! a hawk caught one of my little chickens a few moments ago?can you give me any kind of a remedy for him, besides a shotgun?" A humorous twinkle came into the old lady's eyes. "Why, your pore ignerunt little thing! put nliorse shoe or a Hint rock in the lire. Keep il hot and it'll draw the hawks claws up if I.e come in '200 yards of the house, an' he can't open 'cm to grab a chicken to save his life." 4'Mrs. Allen! be ashamed of yourself!" laughed Mrs. Thorndyke. "Surely you arc not that superstitions'?" "Well Susan Raker has the best luck raising cliickotts ol' anybody in I his sot I lenient an' i've heard her say time air agin that the hawks wnz allers a dahhiu' after her chickens an' endn'l get 'em. an' a hot horseshoe wuz all that saved 'em, an' she lowed it wn/, a more ('hristin act then mnrderin' the pore things which didn't know any better, hut jest l'ollered alter thare nateral instincts," continued the old lady solemnly. "Murder a hawk, indeed!" exclaimed Mrs. Thorndykc. " Nakes alive! when I think of how my poor little innocent chicken went olV cryin"' in agony?why, could kill 100 hawks and feel 110 compunction. Jf Mrs. Maker is so squeamish about killing hawks how does she manage to shed the innocent blood of a trusting chicken'?'' Mrs. Allen leaned over and whispered loudly: "She don't?she puts 'em in a oil cloth bag an' chloroforms 'em!" and then joined in Mrs. Thorndykc's laugh. "No. dearie, layiti' all jokes aside? I don't believe in hot horseshoes and rocks. An' we wimmin folks enn'f nil handle the gun?but we oughter. Nux vomica, a teaspoont'ul every other day in food for !2."? little chicks, will do Mr. Hawk up a job if he catches one. Xux vomica is a queer stuff; it won't hurt chickens or people or enythimr horn with their eyes open, but is shore death to hawks or envthing else born with their eyes shut." ''What a treasure you are!" exclaimed Mrs. Thorndyke. "I'll <ret some riirhl away. I do wish there was something I could do for you?you do so much for me." "Well, you can. I want to borry some readin' for the boys, to see if I can keep 'cut home of nites. Here of late my baby one, .lim. has got to runnin' around turrible an' I've notified if he could get readin' matter that he was interested in, he'd stay ill an' read. 1 've bin after the old man to perscribe fur some books and weekly's fur 'em but he lows times air too hard. You see, he hain't got I no hankerin' atter books hisself, an' I don't know liow to feel about them 1'at has. I've never bin able to read much, an' never try nuthin, but the Bible, but I do love to see folks with books an' paper's in thare hands an' tr\in' to larn." "What kind of reading matter does Jimmie like best?" asked Mrs. Thorndyke, leading the way to the "front room" where the girls receive company, and where a goodly number of books were piled on the "center table" and also tilled a neat little homemade hanging bookcase. "Why, thare's one kind of a weekly about a boy named "Wild West" and anuther about "The Liberty Boys of 76 and?" Mrs. Thorndyke turned deadly pale. Turning, she caught Mrs. Allen's hand and drew her to a seat on the sofa, placing herself at her side. "Mrs. Allen, for find's sake, for your boy's sake, for your own sake, keep such books from your house! They are rank poison to a boy of Jimmie's age?to any one. Oh! such literature is ruining the young generntion. There ought to be a law prohibiting the sale of such stuff. T verily believe that more boys are ruined bv such trash than are ruinorl by whiskey and cigarettes. To read of the darincr exploits, thrilling experiences and hair-breadth escapes of "Wild West," "Dick Slater" and "Bob Kstnbrook," naturally makes their young hearts leap in admiration. From 12 to 1f> seems to be a critical age with boys as well as girls. During this age is generally the lime when foundations are laid <?n which character is built. Oh! keep the literature you mentioned, awav from your boys." Mrs. Allen was astonished at her friend's vehemence, and also somewhat puzzled. "I do say!" she exclaimed. "The way you talk an' feel makes the creeps run up an' down my back. I've hearn Jimmie readin' them books out, and 1 enjoyed hearin' 'em. Hut 1 never thought of the harm in 'em. It aint sich explitos here in a civilized country. You know it's been oven a 100 years ago so nee them Liberty Bovs's had sich doin's. An' "Wild West" allers acted in the West you know. 1 can 'I see what rale harm it can do a boy to read about sich things. 'Pears to me it' it keeps him home stiddv of runuin' I about at night, that it's a good thing. It shore seems the least of two evils anyhow." And Mrs. Allen, still puzzled, looked inquiringly at Rlrs. Thoriulyke, whose face plainly betrayed that she was going through a mental struggle, trying to decide a point. At Jasl, she spoke: "Mrs. Allen, it is a well known fact, vouched for by Ilu? whole neighborhood, that Vernon is an uuusuallv ?joo?I Imv?isn't it ?" smiling. '' Korgive a mother's praise.'' "That's so. Since yon all moved here two years ago, I hain't never liearn a soul speak of him only in praise an' admcration. lie is the very best young man, I know of?not aeeeptin' my own hoys, which 1 don't deny air a lit lie wild, hnt as good uatcred as ever lived." "Well, dear Mrs. Allen, to prove the truth of inv assertion, concerning poisonous literature. I will tell yon in eontidence, a hit of personal experience. It is something I don't like to think about, much less speak of. hnt you have been so kind to me? and I dare not keep from yon, under the circumstances, truths which should impress you forcibly. You know that before we moved here we lived at S , and worked in the cotton mill. When Vernon was between 14 and 1"> years old (he worked in (he mill too) he began to he out at night?not late?but .just, till early bedtime, and he was so good to work that his papa thought no harm would come by letting him have a little freedom. We generally knew where he was?either at the "company store" or at a neighbors. Soon 1 noticed that he and a certain boy a year older, Fred Arthur by name, were almost inseparable. Vernon spent nearly every night till !) or 10 o'clock with his friend, but it was very seldom that Fred could be induced to spend any time with us. I was very much puzzled and asked Vernon why it was that he visited Fred so often, and Fred so rarely returned the visits. 4Oh Mrs. Arthur gives us such uood times. All the boys like to go there. She reads to us the ,7??11 iest books you ever beard of.* Now that was his answer, and, naturally, I was a little jealous. I told him that 1 would uladly read to him and his friends at any time and that 1 would do all I could to entertain them. At that time 1 worked in the mill myself and my little daughter 'kept house.'. 1 was not strong and at night was always very tired, but I eared not for that. X would have uladlv have read to :i number of or done anything I could to help them, hut Mrs. Arthur had already won them and with a hoy's notions of 'honor' they were true to her. (To be Continued.) COUNTY INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS. A teachers institute will be held at Newberry, beginning on Monday, June 15, and continuing for two weeks. The institute wil be conducted by Prof. S. J. Derriek and E. O. Counts in tho graded school building. The following subjects will be taught: Civic, Pedagoay, Algebra, Arithemetic and Drawing. The colored school will he hold at. the same time in the Hope School building and conducted by Rev. B. Levister and Ella V. Scott. These subjects will be taught: Civics, Pedagogy, Arithemetic and English Grammar. No certificate will he renewed except upon attendance at this institute. All teachers and those who expect to teach are urged to attend. J. S. Wheeler, t&f td Co. Kupt Education. LOW RATE MILEAGE TICKETS ON SALE BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY. f)00 Mile State Family Tickets $11.2")?Good over the Southern Railway in South Carolina for the head or dependent members of a family.: Limited one year from date of sale. 1000 Mil es Interchangeable Indivi-i dual Tickets $20.00?Good over tire Southern railway and thirty other roads in the Southeast aggregating .'50.000 miles. Limited one year fiwm date of sale. 2000 Milo Interchangeable Firm 1 Ticket $40.00?Clood ovor tho Southern Railway and thirty other roads in the Southeast aggregating 30,000 miles for a manager, the head of a firm or employe. Limited to fivo but good for only otio of such persons at one time. 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