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N. CljiWretfjColuroof , Over th«i HI ver of DroopInK Cjrc*. Orfcr the Utvor of DroopInK Eyes I» the wonderful land of Dreunis, "When* lllleH Krow ast white tut snow, And fields are green and warm winds blow, And the tall trees quiver, all in a row— And no one ever cries: For It’s a beautiful place for girls and boys, Where there’s no Molding and lots of noise, And no lost balls or broken toys— Over the River of Droontng Eyes i In the beautiful land of Dreams. t : Over the River of Drooping Eyes Is the wonderful land of Dreams, There's horns to blow and drums to beat, And plenty of candy upd cakes to eat, And no one ever cleans his feet And no one over tries! There’s plenty of grassy places to play, And birds and bees, throng all day— Oh, wouldn’tyou like to go and stay Over the River of Drooping Eyes * In the beautiful land of Dreams? —Manrlce Crayton in New Orleans Times- Demoerat. Habit of Cheerfulness. There is a habit of looking at the Wight side of things, ami also of look ing at the dark side. We possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercis ing the will as to direct the thoughts npon objects calculated to yield happi ness and improvement rather than their opposites. In this Way the habit ©f happy thoughts may l be made to spring up like any otherfliubit. And to bring up men or Xotnen with a genial nature of this j sort, a good temper, and a happy ytrume of mind, is perhaps of moreanmportance, iu many cases, than ho perfect them iu much knowledge^ aud many accom plishments. | Tha Trtir Character. r The true character acts rightly, whether in wicret or in the sight of men. That/boy was well trained who, when asked,- why he did not pocket some pearfu for nobody was there to eee, replies, “Yes, there was, I was there to fee myself; and I don’t intend ever to Vgg myself do • dishonest tn IOU, — w® e~ , mLta0*4B fo I was much puzzled by the whole incident, and can only suppose that the bird had in the first instance been slightly stunned by a stray shot from some sportsman; while it was reviving in the grass I discovered it,the gentle ness of my approach gave it no alarm, and during the night it fully recovered its faculties and its power of flight.-— Onr Dumb Animals. Franklin’s Moral Code. The professor was having a few pleasant and instructive moments with th3 class outside of the field of the text-book, just as every good teacher ought to do if he does not. He had knocked around in many localities, and had touched upon mauy subjects, coming back at last to the homely aud plain. “How many of you,” he inquired, “ever heard of llenjumin Franklin?” All hands went up. “How many of yon know that he sleeps in a neglected grave in a ceme tery in the very heart of Philadel phia?” All hands went up. “How many of you know that he was the greatest philosopher America has produced?” All hands went up. “How many of you know the moral code which he formulated and kept for his guide to action, handing it down to posterity iu clear and succinct form?” No hands went up. “Get out your pencils, then,” said the professor pleasantly, “and'write it down in paragraphs as I call it off to you from memory, for I find it an excellent thing to know as one knows a road leading to a good place. It runs as follows: “ ‘Temperance—Eat not to fullness, drink not to elevation.’ “ ‘Silence—Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversations.’ “ ‘Order—Let nil your things have their places; let each part of your busi ness have its time.’ “ ‘Resolution—Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.’ “ ‘Fragality —Make b,o expense, but do good, to others as yoprself; that is, waste nothing.’ ndustry—Lose no time, be al- wav^employed in something useful; iMri^jid all unnecessary actions.’ cerity—Use ito hurtful de- nnoceaHv «id justly, 4»d •• Kheu ■kin (tamps The Best Celery. Good celery—or we may say first- class celery—cannot be obtained with out an abundance of water, for the plant is naturally a citizen of swamps. It is always best, therefore, to set the plants in shallow ditches, so that wa ter can be more easily collected; and it is also very fond of high living, consequently no well prepared manure is too rich for it. The quality of mar ket celery has fallen off somewhat of late years, chiefly through the culti vators treating it to surface culture. When planted iu the latter way there is not the same advantage for blanch ing as when set in trenches. It is much easier to let down earth than it is to raise it.—The Silver Knight. Millet Hay Hood For Home*. I am surprised to learn of Professor Hinebaugh’s adverse experience with millet as horse feed noted in American Agriculturist of November 13, as mine is just the opposite. I fed three horses millet from October, 1896, till about the last of June, 1897, together with grain ration. I must say I never had my horses do better. In fact they rather lost flesh after feeding timothy hay with the same amount of grain. I am now feeding the same horses millet and grain and expect to do so as long as the millet lasts, which will be all winter at least. I have seen and talked with one man in this county who has fed millet longer than I have. He raises more and more of it every year and feeds it to all kinds of stock. I have cut the millet quite green, before it is all headed oat.— William Dongall, Schenectady County, N. New England Homestead. T^io Old Farm. The following beautiful composition is from the pen of Jean G. Wiley, in the National Stockman and Farmer: “What a cherished spot in the memory of vast multitudes is the old farm! Men who have climbed to the topmost round of the great ladder of fame; men who have achieved by in dustry, self-reliance and perseverance, sneoess in life; many of these look taekward onr the long years to the days ft childhood spept on the Cry. and Itch and Tettsrno wlR. ... etter. EcMMk, ®§lt m. King worm or mere abrasion of tin* At drug stores, or by mail fortfj. in ps from J.' No Use to | No use to fret and ! scratch. That won’t cure too. Any sort of akin dKeaaa, T« . T. Snnptri: e, Savannah, Ga. Gray horses are the longest lived. Creams are decidedly delicate, and art. eerlouaiy af fected by very warm weather. Ruasia is increasing in population taster than any other country in the world. To Cure a Cold Iu One Day. Take Laxative BromoQuinine Tablets. Druggiata refund money it it falls to cure. A® teetotal influent lating 1 on raoul daily. the schot srely UjC power regu- ii.. VATaprinciple goes ^28 character hourly and dng with a force that operates every moment. Without this dominating influence,chAructo* has no protection, but is liable to fall away before temptation, and every sneb temptation succumbed to, every act of meanness or dishonesty, however slight, cantos self-degradation. It matters not Whether the act be suc cessful or notrdiscoveredor concealed; the man is uo Ipnger the same, but another person; aid he is pursued by a secret uneasiness,'^ by self-reproach, or the workings of/what we call con science, which is the inevitable doom of the guilty. The Yellowleg and the Hen*. Last August, on the shore of Silver lake, Manitoba, I saw by the margin great numbers of snipe, tattlers, aud other wading birds. As I drew near they arose in flocks aud flew away, but as I was gazing after a noisy array of flying yellowlegs, my eyes fell on a single one that stood iu the grass not more than ten feet from where I stood. It was looking at me fearlessly, and seemed to have so little idea of flying away that I got out my sketch-book and made a sketch of it. As it still stood looking at me, first with one eye and then with the other,I stepped up quietly, took it gently in my hand, and pnt it into my game-hag, intending to make a more finished drawing at home. When I reached the house I set the bird ou the floor; it ran about whistling at times, did not seem much alarmed, but it refused all food. Bo the next morning I put it into the yard so that it might feed itself after its own fashion. There was a number of hens about, aud as soon as they saw the stranger they were all excitement. They gathered together, and with lond cackles came on, with upraised feathers to attack the newcomer. The yellow leg was swift of foot and eluded them ouee or twice, bnt the hen-mob, noiser than over, at length succeeded in surround ing him, and all closed in together with evident intention of pecking him to pieces, bnt the yellow leg, giving one glance, I thought, of scorn, at the clumsy, cackling cowards, spread out his great, glorious wings for the first time since I had seen him, and pour ing out his lond thrilling whistle, so well known on the breezy sandbars, lie sailed away and away fh great,over- widening circles till bird aud chant were lost in the far heights of the sky, sndthe hens were left to feel as foolish and mean r»3 it was possible for hens to do. Jns ijyn.ies or omitting ^awonr duty.’ ‘Moderation — forbear resenting injv ■ “ ‘Cleanliness—Su ness in body, clothe ‘Tranquility __ Lear benefits that 5id extremes; 08. Ir no nneleanli- lr habitation. ’ not disturbed lecidents common about trifles, or at or unavoidable.’ “ ‘Humility—Imitate Jesus Christ “There,” said the) professor, ®Ckow mauy of you think that is a good code of morals?” All bands went np. They Shot HI* Fe**. George Pyt/el, a burglar serving a twenty-year sentence in the New Jer sey state prison at Trenton, sat iu his cell recently weeping because his pet rats were killed by the keepers. For years Burglar Pytzel and hi* pet rats had been an attraction to visitors to the prison. He found the old cookhouse infested with the pests when he was sent to work there, but soon he had become complete master of them. He taught them tricks, and called them forth from every crevice and hole by a peculiar whistle. They would crawl up his tronser legs, march in single file ever his outstretched arms and over his head, aud retnrn to their hiding places under the floor at his word. Recently the old cookhouse was de molished, and Heed Keeper Moore was convinced that to permit the rets to live meant that they would infest the new building, for he knew they would follow Pytzel. So he decided they should be shot. Aud the mau who loved them was commanded to call them forth for the slaughter. He begged that his especial favorite, whom he named Ktty, might be spared. “She is a great comfort to me,” he pleaded. “Indeed, sir, as much a pet to me as is your pet dog. Please do not kill her, even if you have to kill all the others. But Kitty aud the others were sholi at sunrise.—New York World. I>al*le* In Hie South. A southern man says the daisy was never known iu the south until after the war. Now every part of the south visited by the Union army is covered with daisies. “Sherman brought them to us,” he said, “and the march to the sea can be followed in the sum mer time by keeping w here the daisy grows. The seed aeems to have been transported iu the hay that was brought along to feed the horses. That is the only explanatiou that ha* over been made of it.” occupy one and a half inches of space, and in spacing the frames it should be done with exactness. In 100 parts of the yolk, fifty-two per cent is water, forty-five per cent, is oil and fat, and one per cent, each of albuminoids, coloring and mineral matter. Peach trees may be examined for borers as late as the weather holds good, and if not yet attended to should not be neglected longer. Uo not per mit these grubs to winter in the trees. If two or more swarms cluster to gether, do not hive them thus, but hunt out the queens and divide them, especially if they are first swarms aud large ones. Valuable queens are thus saved by so doing. If properly kept and judiciously ap plied to land, poultry manure is worth one-half the cost of the food the fowl gets, and yet little account is taken of the droppings when an estimate is made of the profits. A very profitable field of investiga tion for farmers the coming winter will be to learn all they can about the insect and other enemies of the vari ous plants which they cultivate and the remedies therefor. Robbing frequently occurs at the end of the honey season, as in swarm- ! ing colonies frequently become queen- J less, and sooner or later they will fall a prey to robbers. If colonies are in proper condition in every respect rob bing seldom occurs. Beeswax is a valuable product, aud every particle of comb should be saved aud rendered into wax. The price of 4>eeswax has not fallen below twenty- five cents per pound for the last twenty years. The solar wax extractor, which can be made very cheaply, should stand in every apiary. In the planting of windbreak* the Nebraska station has found that thq., western grower needs protection chief-, ly on the sonth and west, since it is^ from that direction that the most damaging winds come. The eastern K& grower needs protection on the west and north for like reasons. If obliged to keep apples and pota toes in the same apartment, store the in the cooler and the potatoes England is now conMimlng large quantities of American slate. I Fits permanently cured. No fits or nerrow** ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free Dr. K. H. Kune. Ltd..ttl Arch St.. PhlU., Pa. In Japan children are taught to write with both hands. Chew Star Tobacco—The Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. Beit There are five comets scheduled for 1898. Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reducing infiatna. tiou.allays paiu.curea wind colie, 25c. a bottle. For Whooping Cough cCssful remedy.—M. P. Ave., Biookiyn, N. V., Nov Piso’s Cure 1* a sne- Dietbr, B7 Throop 14. 1SW, Hood’s S.f.-saparilla Absolutely cures scrofula, Salt rheum, Dyspepsia, rheumatism, Catarrh and aU diseases Originating in or promoted By impure blood. It is Tiie great nerve tonic, Stomach regulator and Strength builder. Fruit Trees and Vines become hardier, and their products bet ter colored and better flavored when ^liberally treated with fertilizers containing at least 1 ^ o% actual Potash. •heriAed »pot., the loving good mother, the cheerful of a kind father, the brig] brothers and sisters gathered round the old fireside, soften the heart and bring tears to the eyes of the strong est men. I “A sweet influence of snob a home is like a flower that never dies, but sheds its sweet perfume all through life, and reblossoms anew in eternity. It is said that in order to be suc cessful in any pursuit one must fifst learn to overcome difficulties. It was on Hie farm where most statesmen en countered and overcame difficulties. A boy on the old farm has an oppor tunity to learn this important lesson without meeting many of the tempta tions incident to the life of a city boy. As we live in an age of progress, the farm of tq-day bears but little resemblance to the farm of fifty years ago. It now requires an educated man to moke a prosperons farmer. “One who has spent his happy childhood on the old farm, received an education aud went abroad, plunged into cares and bnstle of city life, in after years revisits the old farm. All the old familiar spots, as the meadow, orchard and old-fashioned well, with its moss-covered bnoket, recall scenes which seemed long Ainoe forgotten. “Pictured on memory’s wall arc the faces of loved t ones, those of father, mother, brother, sister and dearest friend, ae Ithey were in boyhood’s days. They are all gone. Some are dead, others are toiling or roaming in different parte of the world; and as he sits [and meditates upon the past, he longs once more to be that free-from- care, light-hearted boy, roaming over the meadows and woodlands of the old farm, that he once was. He now realizes, more fully than ever, how vain are the hopes of life. “The old farm house is filled with strangers, and he, feeling wiser and better by his visit to the old farm, returns to the toils and cares of city life.” 4 Farm and Garden Note*. The goose lays a score or two of eggs in a year. From thirty-five to forty docks and drakes are allowed in a pen. Eleven dozen eggs a year is the average estimate given as the produc tion of the hen. Ducklings are marketed at five pounds weight, which they should at tain in ten weeks. The secret of large honey crops is, strong oologies and plenty of room for the bees to store honey. ,uy apples are lost every year _ r ng kept too warm. They are best preserved in a temperature main tained close to the freezing point. Largest Fountain In the World. The Anaconda Mining Company has acquired rights to all the water in Hearst Gulch and Lake, at Anaconda, Montana, which are fed by the melt ing snows that exist there the entire year. This lake lies up against Mount Hoggin, 2900 feet above the level of the street in front of the Montana Hotel. The company will raise the bank about Lake Hearst so as to make it a reservoir with a capacity of nearly billion gallons and giving a daily flow of four million gallons down a slope of 3000 feet into the city. A steel pipe liuo will carry this water down six miles to Anaconda, where another immense reservoir will be built to receive it. This reservoir will be 320 feet higher than the busi ness centre of the city and a quarter of a mile long. Its short line will be irregnlar, lying against the hills, and it will be a beautiful sheet -of water. As a further means of adding to the beanty of the npol, the supply main hmm Lake Hearst will terminate in a fountain in the centre of the reservoir. Only a portion of the enormous pres sure will be used, but a solid jet of water over three inches in diameter will be thrown 220 feet vertically in the air, while around the base of the fountain will ba a fringe of sprays, consisting of row* of jeto rising to varying heights and at different angles. The fountain, when completed, will be, withont exception, the largest in the world. I iCO An illustrated I.C what Potash* should be used, is tpplicants. Send your addrj GERMAN KALI W ji Naiitu St], * TUTTE. * Rice’s Goosa Grease Linimeet , Is always sold under a guarantee to cure all (grippe No cure Japanese Birth Trees. At the birth of a Japanese baby a tree is planted, which mast remain untouched until the marriage day of the child. When the nuptial hour ar rives the tree is out down, and a skilled cabinetmaker transforms the wood into furniture, which is consid ered by the yonng couple as the most beautiful of all ornaments of the house. —Meehan’s Monthly. Bower of the Ware*. A dynamometer invented by an English engineer measures the power of the waves of the ocean. Experi ments made with the apparatus dur ing a storm have shown a pressure exceeding 7500 pounds per square inch. quicker than any known remedy. No ewe no pay. Sold by all druggist* and general stores. Made only by GOOSE GREASE LINIMENT CO.. Oreensbobo. N. G. SEEDS fiartftn ft Ftarar with a world-wide reputation. Catalog Awe to all. JABE8 J. H. ORKGORV a SOX.Marblehead, ■as. B PIUM,MORPHINE,WHISKEY,C0- EATME.Vr. My book, .ontalni. e mu in for Station, mailed free. DB. J. HOFFMAN. Been 0 U i 4 leabella Bulldlne. t'hlraco. 111. HARLOTTE COMMERCIAL 0LLE6E, OIMllOTTG, N. 0. XoVaeatloae—PoetUonaUtiaraateed -Catalogue Free If eflUeted with l •oreeyesrue* i Tkuipstt'sEyt Water 8 N. U. No. A- G8. C O l M P T I o N * NORTH * FROM CNATTANOORA OR NAMU- MAN JUNCTION VIA TUI QUEEN UND CRESCENT BOUTt Handsome Festibnled Trains. Telephone competition in Wabash, Ind., has reduced the cost of the ser- Each frame of comb iu a hive should vice to sixty-six cents per month. flaranjah, ^ oxv Through rnllmans from Savstaal lumbla, Spartanburg, Asheville, Itm Atlanta and Chattanooga to CINCIMN ATI. SHORTEST LINE. FINEST (SERVICE. O. L. MITCHELL. W. C. RINEABSON, District Pass. Agent, GettT Par*. * „ Cbattiuioova. Tsa*.