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CHILDREN’S CORNER. TIMZLY TOPICS FOR OUR SOVS gssj A: i He/ jar ■Tfl\|' MeJWI^iX •-' - v - •- i :•*. W • rt - J3g / ebarce to want Am(( and gentle etoplitrt. H«H futen on own Ug no** On* at my long black woolen bun*. Ana on bin bonds tad bended know Is elephantine an yon pleas*. And truly seems to like the sport Os eating peanuts by the quart. Then, when I want a Dan's roar. Ben go behind my bedroom door And growl until I sometimes fear The king of beast* Is really near: But when he finds my oonrage dim H* peeps out. and I know If* bias. And be can meow Just like a cat— Wo/Tom can beat my pa at that— And when be yowls and dab* and spit* tt sends us all off Into fits. 9o Uke tt seems that every mouse Pwb up bis things and leaves the Then, when he barks, tbs passers by Look an about with fearsome aye. And bony off with scurrying feet To walk upon some other street. Oscaase they think some dog Is there To rush out at 'em from his lair. And oh, *twould make you children laugh When daddy plays the big giraffe Hell take his collar off, you know. Ah* atretoh bis neck an inch or ao> And took down on you from above. IBs eyes so soft and full of love That, as you watched thorn, you would think From a giraffe he'd learned to blink. T* as a dolphin though that he is strongest as It seems to me And 1 don't know much finer fua Than sitting in the noonday sun Upon tbs bench and watching pop* As In the ocean he goes flop, And makes us children that he’s A porpoise from across the scan And when he takes the tin tub* out. And blows up water through the spout. The stupidest can hardly fail To think they see a great Mg whale! And that is why 1 say. to you tty paa a perfect dandy sta The very beet menagerie That ever you or 1 did see; And what is finest, Ist ms say. There never is a cent of pay! H Osgtoa V. Drake; in Harper’s Round Tania \ Several rhyming games are given among these Round Games, and the following is etmpiy a variety of some of them: A SUP of paper Is given to each play* er, who Is requested to write In one comer at tt two words that rhyme. The papers are than collected aad rend aloud, after which eery oae Is expected to write a short stansa, In troducing all the rhymes chat have When the completed poems are read aloud, it la very amusing to obeorve hew totally different are the styles adopted by the various authors, sad how great la the dissimilarity that ex ists between the idea* suggested by eaeb one. tidsv we Cedar Crash. * Evidence accumulates that the de feat of the morning at Cedar Creek would not have been tamed Into a vic tory during the afternoon -If It had . not ten for the arrival es Gen. Sheri* dan. The story 1* told that a Confed erate officer of deservedly high repu tation present at the first Interview between Ocna Early and Gordon, after tbs letter's surprise and defeat of onr troops, quotes tuts dialogue: i>r Early—l congratulate you on year great vtotory. Now we will go into camp. dm Gordon (in surprise)—lnto camp? Why, ehaat we parent? Gea. Early—No, we have done a great thlag aad w*’ll not run any risk. So their army reefed, tm a bad con dition, aad defeat afterward followed, it was sH da* to Gen. Sheridan, who showed the same tenacity and grip which afterward were conspicuous hi bis porpnJt of Lop after tbs Five Fork victory. Ceils AeHs's kerpriUs. Dona Soda Lanm MJcaela Silva 4s Peralta do In Cordoba do luthw e Ybnim do 1H nr bode had never seen snow before. In Urn sonny land whsrs aha was tom, the roses bloomed their s unldurintwr mmA 4Km nifeiel HI HMOwinWry Mtt ID6 D6mfil approach to a snow bank had toon the bodge of great white eaJtas In the backyard. Therefore, when Che saw «fcjob eto now oalled woe* 2J gMaa 'only Choah tor bead and T pa's die b*et That ever any one did ate: I i need no when he la by TO make the days end hours fly. For any Mrd or beast or fish I want he's whene’er I Wish. For Instance, If I mid tt wea too cold to go out doors. The little girl stood contentedly a long, long time watching the fairy winged things. She did not notice when her mama left the room; but, at hut. turning to speak to h*r. found herself alone. Presently a thought struck her. There was no one In sight. Seising her pall, which she had ao often filled with sand on the shores of the fer-away Pacific, she opened the door aad ran out Scurrying across the yard to where a drift gleamed white and cold la the morning aun, the scooped up a bucketful of the shin ing crystals and hurried back into the house; The Journey was repeated again and again. Her dolls had all been dressed and redressed, and the box of pretty bits of ribbons and laces, which grandma had given her tor this numerous family, had been looked over and over again, but sun she was not happy. Her throat felt queer—and her heart, too. when she thought of how she had dis obeyed bar mama—her good, kind mama! Oh, why had she not waited? After dinner, she crept softly up stairs. Her mama stood In the south room, motionless, her looks betokening the utmost amassment. On the pretty light carpet, all around, were stalns aa of a recent flood, and from some Uup, dejected-looking pasteboard boxes on the dresser drops of m-ayish water were oozing. w The little glr? stood breathless for a moment: thro she ran across the room to a trank which stood in the corner. It was empty. ; .j ‘Kama, mama," she cried In dismay, the tears starting to her eyes as she gaxed from the empty trunk to the scena of desolation about her. “It was to to a lovely 'birthday surprise for Cousin Aaita-and now It’s all gone. And little Dona Sofia Laura Micaela Silva do Peralta de la Cordoba de S&n ches o Ybarra de Bscobeda sobbed afresh.—Eleanor Hoot In 8t Nicholas. The Baby H*pkut. A very good Imitation of a baby ele phant can sully be got up by two or three of the company, who are willing to spend a little time and trouble in making the necessary preparations, la the first place 4 large gray shawl or rug must be found, as closely resem bling the color of an elephant as possi ble; On this a couple of flaps of the same material must be sown to repre sent the ears, and two pieces of marked paper for the eyes. No difficulty wIU be found in Hading tusks, which may consist of cardboard or stiff white pa per, rolled up tightly, while the trunk may he made of a piece of gray flan nel. also rolleJ up. The body of the creature is then constructed by mean* of two performers, who atend one be hind the other, each with his body bent down, so as to make the backs of beth one long surface, the one In front holding foe trunk, while the one be-, hind holds the tusks one In etch hand. The shawl is then thrown over them both, when the result will be a figure very much resembling a little elephant. The cervices es a third performer tc. take the pen of keeper to the elephant are required. If the persons chosen for this capacity have good Inventive facul ties the description of the elephant given by him may M made to add greatly to the amusement of the scene. Blowing Oct the Candle. No end of merriment baa frequently been created by this simple, Innocent gams It Is equally Interesting to old people cod to little children, for In many cases those who have prided themselves on the accuracy of their cal culating powers and the clearness of their mental vision have found them selves utterly defeated In It. A light ed candle must be placed on a small table at one end of the room, with plenty of walking space left clear In front of IL One of the company Is in vited to blow out the flame blindfold. Should any one volunteer be la placed exactly In front of the candle, while the bondage Is being fastened on bis eyes, and told to take three steps back, turn round lhr*» steps, then take three steps forward and blow out thh light. No directions could sound more sim ple. The opinion that there tt noth ing In It has often been expreesed by those who have never seen the thing dona. Not many people, however, arc able to manage tt—the reason why. you young people will soon find oat. If yon decide to five the game a fair trial. ‘ ■ ‘ r, * Oddly Colored Squirrel*. Some oddly colored squirrels are said to have been token near Onu A black squirrel with numerous white spots was allied by Hull Austin, aad another man got a fox-colored black squirrel. The queerest two were Mack squirrels, one with a rod tail and the other with a big white spot on the breast aad one on the back. A cream colored black squtircl and n "snow whtts" one, both rufous brown on the under parte, were killed. Mflfc groups of odd Mttnals are often noted In certain molgkborhoods. In tom* places freak robins will to semi every year: in another it Is oddly col ored quail.—New York San. AttMnt every timet and monopoly la the eooqtry to asking for higher duties What ttoy asad meat to not higher dut ies, but a higher sense of duty.—lndtou zpotto Mew*. rEI'AN CULTURE. Interesting Facts About n Growing Southern Industry. One of tho growing industries of the South, and one wbioh appeals to the average farmer to help hies out la sea sons when drought or olhtr asuraa hero rained hi* crop*, tt the raising of pecan auto The peoan riot tt found In almost any part of tho South where the soil is fsstiie and abundantly watered; for this reason tt tt generally to be mat with on the banks of streams. It tt a moat corions trw in Mime roaprstv ( have seen them grow in * in teit nsl like rows, straight a* a Jjomtia df popular, and at a diatanos re*em!>liu{ them. At other times I have met with them fringing the banks or water ooacees for miles end having every ap pearance or weeping willows. Th» leaves are Men in nearly every she la of green, are smooth an<i pointed, and range in length from six to eighteen inches; the onto also vary greatly in sixo and color (paper shell, sort and bird shell pecans, ranging from thirty two to foTty-elpht ponuds to the bu»bel aad in colors a 1 Ihs way from a very dark brown lo almost wh'te). There has existed in many parts of tho Bontb an erroneous Idea that pecan cul ture would not pay, that the time nrc-s* aarj to lullj mature a tree under ord a *»y conditions wonl.l be 100 distant to warrant any litre outlay either of t>ms or labor; and this belief in many ease* would undoubtedly be a truo one bnt for the present practice of buddiug with a scion of cultivated tires to a stock of a folly matured wild tree. By this prooern tho farmer gets a crop la two yesra in favored localities. X ha y sera buds which were set in Jure Os me year grow fady two feet aad make oiF-hoots during the same sea son, the neat year blowom and arow five aud sewn feet, and the year fol lowing bear a peok of nuts. The method of budding wbioh has proven most suoeesafol in tho South tt as fol lows : In the fall ol the year matured trees not over two feet in diameter are looped; that is, all the upper limbs are cut off aud in their places small •boots grow out. Homo time in the following June and during a spell of dry wßsthev e ring of bark tt out from one of ibeao shoots and on lbs Imre wood tt bound a bud from a cultivated tree;in clwut two weeks seder favor able conditions the sew growth will have started. The experiments of grafting have been tried but have proven nnsnocsufal with this variety at tree, The pecan true needs a great amount til water after It baa attained a reasonable size; in Hufge trees we often find the tap root extending down thirty sod even forty feet. XI the ground about the trees tt planted with some thick grass like the common blue gtioa of the South the soil will thus be protected from being washed away by the flood* A tree in fall bearing will average ten bashels of ante a s?a*on. 1 have known them to yields* high as twenty bashels a year, but this is exooptional. The note bring nil tbs way from four lo fifteen cents a pound, the cultivated varieties being hard to obtain even at this latter figure. They will average four dollars a bnabeL At forty f«t apart there will be one hundred and eight trees to the acre. It will thus beseenwbata large profit there tt even to the email farmer with only a few trees in his orobard. The nuts are generally gathered on shares, the owner of the tress getting half the profits. Sometimes, however, labor hired by the day is employed; wages lathi* ease are from one dollar end fifty cents to two dollar* and a half a day. Boys armed with light flails climb the trees and knock off the nuts, which are then gathered into baskets and token to the separator bouse*. Here they ere put into revolving drums and polished by frletion with each other. They are afterwards poured into shallow shntss which are pierced with various sized holes, the largest boles baingplaeed at the ends; As the nuto elide down they drop through the boles into different bins according to rise, aad are thus sotted out. The oil from ante which have matured too let* fax market is now extracted and commends « big prioo a* e medicinal end high grade labrt eettog oil Given a warm Minute with rich soil and abundance of water, aad peoan onlture tt bound to be ene careful. The pecan true tt comparatively free from Insect peste The common tent astcrpiller in some districts makes its appear once in the height of summer, tot it mey easily bp destroyed while in the eocoon stage by burning with kerosene. Sqnirrols, opossums sffid eooos ns* the peoan for food, bqt they msy readily b* prevented from reach ing the limbs by a smooth pleo* of tin with projecting edge* nailed •round the trank of the tire*. To protect (he young trace from the dep redations of rabbits, orated boxes eighteen tnehes high are placed around each tree. It tt n well-attested fsok a# is proven in the Old World, that the peeen tree will beer conns! frail for hundred* at yaere, even surpass ing the olive tree in this respect The demand for note woonatently increas ing, and new markets forth* prodnet ere constantly totag fouoffi Nyw York, St Look end* Atlanta, the principal oentree of distribution ml A Ism Br mmmn A 41m mu iKHii n fUGS OP BARTOW PASSES HIS SEVENTY-FIRST MILE POST. | QUOTES 11 FEW NURSERY SONGS; Boalavra That Mmm Kxjmrtoneod Near Trial* ami Much TMbnlatton—What Julius Cornier Still. "Dow many mile* to Milybrightr" “Three noon aad ton.” I cant help thinking of that old nursery s?3s*, r * \ Me I™* pwwod my seventy-flint btrUuhv and am therefore just ewe nty yours old. It to Ilka crossing the Subloon, and jtka Ccasar I may any “The die to oast.” 1 have reached tha allotted age,and how every day that I live to a personal privilege—a fa vor not promised nor deserved, i'hnra is -nmotiitug *>kmu and serious in tho word, for eoriptare and anoiaut history seamed to have mode it significant. There w«ae seven ty elders of Israel and tho Lord sent oat »«▼- enty missionaries iscventy learned mm trans lolmi the Old Testament, and man's ago was eat down by degrees from MO to seventy .sod ■ there the Lord oalled a halt, and Moses satth that all the excess to labor and sorrow. Mooes was feeling very blue when he wrote that. The old man lived to be libandhada troubled time.bnt! know some men aad many women who lived past eighty and whose last days were their best days. Those who have lived rlffbt or tried to and have been uuael flsh and are bleared with a good wife or a good husband and loving children uou take all the risks that attach to four soars years. Labor and sorrow do not nec essarily follow old age. Sydney Smith said, when he wo* seventy-four: "I am at earn la my circumstances-.ln tolerable healths a tol erating churchman—much given to talking, laughing and noise ; I am, on the whole, a barmy man, have found the world on enter taining world and am thankful to Provi dence for the pari allotted me In it" Longfellow lived to be seventy-live. When bowofi seventy he wrote his friend Childs: "It to like olimbingthe Alps;yon reach n snow-crowned summit and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits, higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb or you may not. Than yen sit down and meditate and wonder which ft will be. Tbit is the whole rtorv." Dr. Holmes saw so much fun in everything that be couldn't help making funny rhymes about an old man: "But now his nose to thin • And tt rests upon hi* chin Like a staff;. And a crook to in hi* back, And a melancholy crack tt to hto laugh.” Then he wea sorry that he wrote It, for to says: "I know It to a sin £ For me to sit and grin At him here.” The doctor didn’t expect to live to be eighty-five, for long ego he said: "Our brains are soventy-ycer clocks: the angel of life winds them up once for all, tiunmoeee the case and gives the key to the angel of the resurrection." Bat an old man Is not obliged to havo a crook in hto hack nor a crack lu hto tough. We see mauy aged men who are straight os on Indian und havo not lost the musical tone of tholr voice. Habit and pride of person bare much to do with this, i know an aged matron, a neighbor of ours, who when eh* to sitting hardly touches the back of a chair, and yet she to not stiff or awkward— always graceful, always beautiful. She is kind ana gentle In her ago, and has a worm welcome wherever she visits. If she cannot hear all that to said she to not embarrassed, for she says what she* lacks In hearing she makes up tn seeing end reading and to thankful forth* faculties that are still left her. I never saw her with a troubled look,- Utongh I know she lias hod trouble and deap grtnf. Hew contrast -each a woman with one who Is always eomptoining of her hard lot, or saying something disparaging about her neighbors! But tbu old-time mothers hud some excuse for bent shouldors, for it wee the fashion to sleep CA pillow and bolster, and it was the fashion to lean the child while it was nurs ing. Habits begun in childhood and con tinued In motherhood wUI never be broken in the deoline of Ida. I believe that the habits of the girls of this generation are on Improvement on those of the past They do act lose like they used to, and they carry themselves more gracefully. They hava bet tor fitting shoes and comets. They have more comfortable seats at school and are not allowed to less forward to: their books or slate or writing pad. The life Insurance companies have at last dbeovured that wo men live as long as men, if not longer, and policies are issued to them on equal terms. The longevity of both sexes tt Increasing, •lowly bnt surely, anil the only drawback to bttocaporauco—whisky and opium. Were it pot for these the threoecore-and-ten limit Would soon bo advanced to four wore and give us a stronger and handsomer race of people. Bhakcspeore gave ns some typoe of old age that seem to have fitted tho time In which he lfred, but they are very rare In our*. Prince Bel said to Fatotaff: "Have you not all the ehemoter* of age—a motet eye, a dry band, a yellow chock, a white beard, a decreasing leg. on increasing oorporoslty? J* not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single and every part about you Mooted with antiquity?” I deny the picture. As somebody said, I deny the allegation and defy the alligator. Thereto some of tt that does not fit me, I know. These pools are too fond of poking fan at old men. The she bears ought to come along. The scripture days that old age is honorable and that the young men shall rlsa up whoa the old men pome tn at the gate- The old men ore the balance wheals of all the machinery of government. If it were not for them, tbs boys would run sway with the wagon. There mart he wheel botsre wlttbrarehlng on to hold heck when going down hill. Wlutt ora w* here for? W# can’t etlmb a tn* or Jump a ton roll fenoe any arete, nor kick a college bell nor ride a b£ cycle, hut there things ere upn-eraoattato and don’t have to be done. We eao look after the grand children cud point * moral end tell them a tala and teach the yonng Idea how to shoot without oorrytof a ptotoi droc, and be might hove said that the o hl£ dren who have no greed parents did eo« MV *** Hffi BOhBOHK Homw ft bn pimA in iriflihoon tihi l^r^Se^ w* old men remember when there wee hut one little railroad In the United States aud no telegraphs; whoa tho old stage coach car ried the moils and postage waa Ml cent* a letter i when then was no kerosene oil cud no matehec, no steel pens and hut few hooka of any kind. Old age Is not alarmed about politics or the downfall of the government, for there seme periodical excitement* hove 4 agitated the country re tar hack as we eon remember. It to the acme old song, bat It doea not disturb our oorerrtty. When our old cook concluded to quit, she advised my wife to look 'round and “got a settled wo man to take her plaoc." r ‘Dera young nig gers hain't got sense eouf to stay anywhere long and dtty will be runnln’ off attar every MUishion and funeral and ptanlo dot oomeo along. Better get a settled woman." Ago Jock settle us wonderfully and it looks like a pity that wo have to shuffle off this mortal coll about tho time wo have gotten some sense and learned the lemon of life Bat we must auuept our destiny withgne* and gratitude, nod may the Lord give as ‘An ago that molts la unperceived decay, And glides In modest innooeuco away." —Biix Anr, In Atlanta Constitution. UIM WORDS lIU Hit PM! 4 CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP. •‘That* tt Aacther Ring, One deoat." Ist* 17:7. fan! sad Bliss stand before the authorities of Tbeiaaiontoa indicted for treason. There mm any, so the charge ran, that "There to acothor king, on* Jeans." Tho same char** was need, as a political club, to bring Pitot* Into line; by the mob that starred around tho lodgment hall. "If thou tot this man go thou art not CuuMtr's friend." Tho relation of Jenu* Christ to civil govern ment has boon a living, bunting, dtoturMag question through all the Christian oentßriaa and Dover more vital than now. Boms of ns remember that err that was once made, “Colton to king,” ai d tilt > talar "Com to king.” And now tho nlr to full es Jangling voices, "Capital is king." "Labor to kin*" "Ooia to kuuc,” "Stiver to king.” Let ns list u to the diviner voice which tho ooaiari** aro proving true, "there to an other il ig, one Jwua ’ Ryeiy great principle of human progress wbotnur mechanical, political, or relulous, has ruu the gauntlet of sneering clrtlctam before u hits bweu established. A riupid En glish lord proposed to swallow the Unit en gine that should cross the Aitiuitla A brilliant Boston lawyer called tlw Declaration of ludvpatideuoe "a String c£ glittering gen eralities.” But the generalities were empha sized into realities by the esxiuou'a mouth. The nobis motto of Fronoc "Liberty, Equal ity and Fraternity," has been nnearuigly termed a dream between two liea But liberty to not license—that to a lie every where; Liberty means that every mao is a law unto btaseii, subject to a law within. Fraternity mesas that lu a new relation with Christ we enter a new relation with nil the world. The true ruler of France la not Louis XIV, nor the Directory, but that other king, on Jesus, Whoa our Lord, standing before Pilate, an swered the question, "Art thou a king; than?” be both affirmed hto royalty and re vealed its nature "To this sad we* I bon, feat I might bear witness to th* troth." Hot by tore* of arms, not by craft or selfish com promise; but, by the enthronement of truth flora Christ reign by teaching men to know aad obey the truth of hnmou relation, obligation aad privilege. Tho state to to be takes up Into tits gospel scheme und I*4o be ennobled aad fulfilled lu tho Christum Com monwealth. ■■ ■; r —•— Thu state is a moral organism. One man \ to uot altogether man. Human nature can- > not manifest Itself wholly iu the Individual, D does not develop in Isolation. Hone# omergra, of very necessity, out of tho soul of humanity, itself, family life, social life, re ligious life, political Ufa. • Civil government has thus a tree basis in human nature, a divine sanction in Chris- I trinity and n noble end to servo In the duvei- } opautnt qf the race. J/ ~ That to n mischievous theory of govern meat thatodoflnos its purpose to bo m«re!y to repress viotenas aud preserve order. Spso «** seta "ft not government essentially im mora>? Does tt not exist because crime extols?” The seed ol anarchy Mss latitat theory. (It to not tar In that direction to the red fiog> The true purpose of government fa to build up tho true humanity. It not only suppresses crime, but achinret nobler conditions of human welfare, ns iu the Bev olution of TfiJ ref*. «“ MKMteiro character of Christian clrtibation that Jesus was speak ing when be said; "I am oame to send a sword upon the eortb”—that is, uodoinprom talng opposition *o everything that degrades oroMtevrahumantty. In the vision* which John caught of ten nt glory He w*s crowned with many crowns. All occupations, all activities, sit relation, jdtlps are to be permeated with Hto spirit. Tbs Christianity Is someth!og more than a •yjtcm of moral truths, more than tttM duties, morethan spiritual rsjrtuwSlft tt a supremely vital and practical thin, towhtag Use tt all iu relations JKuJg Christianity to weak to-day because or u. oSVBS The atluglng worts of Cain’* >. a »nKaSS'ssSiSßt •tsry. Wo bear J*!* 00 Wmea- The remedy far man? eri£ u E? federal government l to •S 4 £?. txr rir truth?’ thU 1 trior witness to the Hlmnrxu Loooocx.. A Chcfecmae Leffcuri iu Btlihua, children at Btflgtam kav* a Christmas legend about fluto SJTT. Pot *' *3”*?* Place Jfcelr tofcoden sabots on the window teflfa, stuffed fun of oats, bay an* foddro for th# "dear ta the curly morning they run oTSL to* I* leek; and beheld! the bay gone, and the shoes are brlmmin* erem with toyw aad sweetmeats! TtoL^S SSWKSttSa ttme to cce the pony mumSSTS 5St h * T * bM * *«**
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