Tho Progressive) Farmer, April 1 IOC 2
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Children's Column.
I WOULDN'T FBET.
FLORENCE A JONES.
tvr little lad, with flashing eyes,
f of t cheeks where the swift red
geone has grieved yon, dear; I
know
jnat how it hnrts ; words can hurt bo !
Bat listen, laddie don't you'hear
Tke old clock ticking londand clear?
It sav?, "Dear heart, let us forget
two u l-d-n'-t f-r-e-t, Iw-ovu l-d-n'-t
1 f.r e ti"
flty, little
wrcngr
girlie, what's gone
jly Bcng-bird's drooping, hushed her
gong.
fjte world has used you ill, you say?
Aji, sweetheart, that is just its way.
It doesn't mean to be unkind,
go, little lassie, never mind ;
Tte old clock ticks, "Forget, forget,
Tw o-u-l-d-n'-t f-r-e-t, I w o u-l-d-n'-t
fr.etl" -Selected.
I was a young man," he
TAUGHT HI2X TO SEE.
igain and again are we surprised,
tfcen the secret of some man's suc
cess has been revealed to us, to find
at in itself it is a simple matter,
tat that a wonderful amount of
patience, thoroughness and concen
tration has been necessary.
When Benjamin West, the Quaker
artist, was a young man, a celebrated
German artist, Professor Camper,
paid a visit to England. His facility
and power of drawing struok all
English artists with amazement.
His drawings, not only of the human
figure, but of animal and vegetable
nature, possessed all the deoision,
correctness and purity of tracings
from the most deeply studied works.
West and "his brother-artists in
quired by what means, or course of
fcidy, he had acquired such extra
siinary and almost miraoulous
crers.
"When
answered, "there came to Germany
12 Italian artist, possessing all that
power of drawing which you imagine
I have acquired. I put to him the
same question that you have asked
me. He replied that he would teaoh
me to do the same, ani that he
would send me something or other
to draw from. Next day I reoeived
from him a present of eggs, which I
found particularly good.
i A few days afterward I went to
aim to remind him of his promise.
In reply he asked :
'Did you not receive the eggs I
sent you?
"'Yes, said I, and thanked him
for them, adding how excellent and
fresh they were.
uWhatP said he. 'Did you eat
them?'
"'To be sure I did.
"Why. I sent them for you to
draw from.' &
"'Draw from? Why, surely, if I
drew one. I should draw all ; .are
w
they not all alike?'
" 'You think so now, no doubt,' he
replied, 'but you will find a differ
ent in both their form and char
acter when you draw fron them.
Get eonie eggs and draw from them,
tea tell me whether they are all
alike.'
"I did so and soon discovered so
much difference that they seemed to
lose all resemblance, except that all
ere white and of an oval shape.
"'Now,' said my Italian friend,
7osr eves are opened to see that
satil now you have been blind with
out knowing it. "
It was thoroughness of observa
tion, as well as of execution, that
tie artist needed, and thoroughness,
is some form must enter into the
ork of each one of us if we hope
10 gain success. Young People's
Weekly.
TO FASHES SOTS.
I want to tell the boys how I am
taking my own spending money. It
k & mistake for boys to depend on
fceir n-irents for every nickel they
ePend Laat summer my mother
8&ve my brother and I tho use of a
P'ece of ground in whioh we planted
lic-as and made 13 on them. We
picked and sold 21 gallons of
ueVprries. We are now making
V.; traps and expect to make
evrul dollars. Bava rand eirls.
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H-urn to be independent. Do
r-n to town every spare time
in some bad way. You. will
make a man of vonrsnlf in
ttat way. Edmund Kuhnel, Sey
Mo., in Practical Farmer.
Christian Life Column
not
MM v
neve r
there a man with soul so
B'eath?
ko never to himself hath said,
1 Midnight, stumbling o'er a toy:
whizz! I'll simply skin that
toy." -Catholic Standard.
THE A FT EE-GLOW.
Twilight was falling at the close of
a chilly fall day. A young girl and
her mother were walking beside
broad river, looking at the smooth,
wttwr on wnose euria.ce every
passing cloud was faithfully por
trayed. Suddenly the girl, with
little shiver, exolaimed :
"Oh, what a gloomy evening,
mamma I Everything is gray, every
where I It fairly gives one the blues.
Do let's go home, please 1"
Her mother looked up. Gray dis
tanoe hid the islands, gray clouds
we're sailing above, their dull tints
and outlines reproduced in the gray
water below. Everything looked
lifeless and dismal a gray evening,
indeed I
But as they turned homeward,
both mother and daughter gave
little cry of delight. All along the
western sky blazed the afterglow,
glorious in tints of orange, crimson
aifil gold, and lighting up the river
in flaming colors. No grayness in
that direction 1 How could they
have thought this a gloomy evening
Ana they stood drinking in the
beauty of the scene, with a warm
glow at their hearts beoause of the
brightness so suddenly contrasted
with the monotony of the gray land
scape whioh still stretched bleak and
drear behind.
If you are walking to-day beneath
gray clouds of trouble, or facing
hopelessly a dead level of monotony
stretching in seeming endlessness
before and around you, wait a bit
and see if you cannot catch a bright
ray which comes as the after-glow
from mercies already reoeived, that
will give you faith and cheer and
enable you to go hopefully forward.
Young People's Weekly.
A C0MX05 CRUELTY.
If accused of cruelty in daily life,
we should probably resent it indig
nantly, yet every time a person in
fliots an evil mood upon his house
hold or upon his fellow-workers he
is treating them cruelly. Most of
us are guilty at times, and we never
stop to think that our innocent vie
tims are utterly defenseless. Con
sider how quickly all members of the
family suffer when one brines his
depression to the breakfast table
how easily good spirits are quenohed
by one person's moroseness ; how
readily an atmosphere of nervous
ness, of ill nature, of physical pain
makes itself felt when there is no
effort at self-control ! Even a sulky
maid in the kitohen can bring dis
comfort to the whole household. No
one has a right to inflict his bad
feelings upon others, and we realize
this when we are the viotims. But
if we have not slept well, or if we
have a headache after a wearisome
day, or if some business matter has
gone wrong, where is our own cheer
fulness? Our shortcomings should
help us to make exouses for other
people's tempers, but our sufferings
should teaoh us the cruelty of self
indulgence. Congregationalist.
HELPING OTHEBS.
The best way to help one's self is
to help others. This is not the view
worldly men take. They imagine
that the more they do for others the
less they have left for themselves.
They get all they can, give as little
as possible, and keep all they can.
The do not give to help the poor, to
build great institutions for educa
tional and charitable uses, beoause
they believe that giving will dimin
ish their store and weaken them
selves. When they give at all they
try to do so in suoh a way that all
men will know it in order to make it
work for their own good after all.
They give for themselves, and not
for others. Dr. Buokley. '
HOT PAID POB IT.
"Are youpaid anything for swear-
ing?" Eli Perkins once asea a com
mercial traveler.
"No ; I do it for nothing."
"Well," said the lecturer, "you
. .
work cheap. You lay asiae your
character as a gentleman, infliot pain
on your friends, break a oommand-
ment and lose your own soul ana
for nothing 1 You do oertainly work
cheap very cheap." Ep worth Herald.
More hearts pine away, in secret
anguish for unkindness from those
who should be their comforters, than
for any other oaiamity in me.
Young.
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Nature Study.
AHOJfG THE PINES.
Wo. 9 of the Series of Nature Study Articles
rrepared for Tie Progressive Farmer by
' Mrs. F. L. Stevens, West Ealeigh, H. C.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Every tree has a distinot oharao
ter of Its own, so that when you
iook at a tree, from its general ap
pearanoo you say, "That is a maple;
or that is a pine."
When you look more closely yon
will discover that this ability to
recognize a tree at sight is due to
the leaves and their arrangement on
the branches. This is especially true
of the evergreen trees. Evergreens
are so named beoause they always
appear to be covered with leaves.
But for the soft oarpet of pine
needles under your feet, you would
think that the evergreens never shed
their leaves. We know that their
leaves surely fall; but who of us
have ever seen them fall? The fall
ing of the leaves of the oak and
maple is a familiar sight. Not so
with the pine and other evergreens.
If you look olosely you will -discover
that towards the end of the branches
are most leaves, while the interior
part of the branoh is quite bare,
yet leaf soars are there whioh show
that they once bore leaves.
A closer look at the leaves of some
of the common evergreens will be
interesting.
The pine is the commonest ever
green of this section, but of pines
there are many varieties growing
side by side. When the leaves are
borne in clusters of Jive you may
know that it is
THE WHITE PINE.
The leaves are soft and very slen
der, from three to four inches long.
Examine a pine twig and and try to
determine the age of the leaves. The
last growth will be found at the end
of the twig these leaves are one
one year old. Trace baok from the
end, try to locate the growth of the
previous year by the "joint" mark
ings. The leaves on this part of the
twig are two years old. Continue
the examination you will possibly
find some leaves on the previous
year's growth. On the part of the
twig produced four seasons ago you
will probably find no leaves. The
different growths on the evergreens
are not so plainly marked as on the
oaks and maples but a whorl of
branches about the limb usually
marks the season's growth.
The white pine cones, in whioh the
seeds are born,e are conspicuous.
They are five or six inohes long and
somewhat curved. Examine a cone,
find out where the seeds are at
tached. Do the seeds ripen the same
year that the cone is formed? Colleot
some cones and notice how they re
tain their seeds and how they shed
their seeds.
THE PITCH PINE
is different from the white pine in
many ways. Its leaves are in dus
ters of threes. At the base of the
leaf cluster is a scaly sheath whioh
remains after the leaf has fallen,
while in the white pine it soon dis
appears. The leaves of the pitoh
pine are larger and quite stiff in
comparison with the white pine,
and they extend straight out from
the branohes. The cones of the
pitch pine, too, are very unlike those
of the white pine. They are obovoid
in shape and are often borne in
clusters of two or "more and some
times remain on the tree for several
m Am - a
years alter tne seeas nave ripenea
and soattered.
The white pine is a valuable lum
ber tree while the pitoh pine does
not grow large enough to be of use
as timber, but has another use which
makes it. a valuable produot in this
State.
THE SHORT LEAF PINE
has dark green slender leaves from
three to five inohes long with the
leaf dusters commonly arranged in
twos, rarely in threes. The tree
1 1 i a i ti.
may De easily reoogmzsu uy im
long straight trunk with a broad
oval crown of foliage. The bark is
of a brownish red. The oones of this
tree are quite different from other
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pines, rney are rareiy two inones
long and are covered with short
spines. The short leaf pine grows in
the upland regins of this State and
s rarely found along the ooast. It
produoes some seed eaoh year and
onoe in three years it yields a full
harvest. The short leaf pine has a
great tendenoy to spring up in old
fields and the more open woods. It
s also a valuable lumber tree.
One of the trees of greatest com
mercial value in the State is the
LONG LEAF PINE.
It is usually found In the low lands
or the coastal plain. Its leaf clusters
are in threes and vary from ten to
fifteen inohes in length. The long
leaf pine bears seed rarely, not of
tener than once in five years but the
yields at these times is very large
and the young plants are very num
erous after a seed year. In this
State the long leaf pine some times
grows to a height of ninety five feet.
The cones of this tree are slightly
oval in shape and are from six to
ten inohes long. The cones are pro
vided with a short blunt spine and
the soales are quite thick.
The pine whioh supplies us with
most of our fuel, whioh yields some
turpentine, and whioh is found in
more or less abundance throughout
the State is
THE LOBLOLLY PINE.
The leaves are from six to ten inches
in length, are slender,and light green
in color. The leaf duster is usually
in threes with a rather long close
sheath. The somewhat oblong cone
is fr?m three to four inches in length
and is provided with numerous short
rigid spinea. This tree bears its
seeds every year, and veryabund
antly every two years. The loblolly
pine is oommonly distributed, and
its method of ripening its seed an
nually makes it one of the best types
for observation.
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THE LATEST SPEIHO FASHIOK NOTES.
Sleeves are inoreasing very day in
size, and it seems not at all unlikely
that before the summer -we shall be
wearing the flowing sleeves so fash
ionable in the early forties.
The prominence of stripes and
small oheoks in all the new spring
and summer materials is very
marked, and applies to silk and
washable f abrios as well as to woolen
goods.
White skirts will prove popular
again during the coming white and
cotton season, for suoh goods are in
full sway, and cool, dainty, freshly
laundered frooks will this summer
reign supreme.
Braid laces describe well the new
laoes made of white washable braids
for summer gowns. These laoes
come in lovely patterns and in vari
ous widths suitable for skirt as well
as for bodioe trimming.
For morning and all informal oc
casions pretty and sensible blouse
and skirt gowns will be muoh more
worn than they were last year.
Linen, Madras, duok and Holland
will be muoh in evidence for these
gowns.
The new hats remain, in nine cases
out of ten, low and flat both as to
shape and style of trimming, . show
ing a very deoided tendenoy to fall
low over the hair in the baok, and to
droop well over the edges of the
brim at all times. This fashion is
deoidedly a pretty one, especially in
summer hats, as laces and flowers
can be used most effectively in this
w m a A
manner, many 01 me larger nais
show uneven brims, the edges bound
with silk and wired into drooping,
and downward or sharply upward
curves, beooming to any face. April
Ladies1 Home Journal.
Do not permit the children to form
the habit of disputing and quarreling
with eaoh other. It may be pre
vented, like other bad habits, by
watchfulness, particularly if the
training is begun when the children
r-s ii 1 xi
are very young, oeparanon is ine
best punishment, breaking up the
play and taking away the cause of
the dispute. Children are social be
ings and do not life to play alone.
They dislike solitude, and if they
find it is invariably the result of
quarreling they will take pains to be
more amiable so as not to be forced
into it. Selected.
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