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cotton, for he intended to have some
of that hones? m m me uee gums. Ul
course, the" cotton was hurriedly got
ten, hut amongst all our tears and
fears, laughter was bound to come
vchen we saw a dozen or more tackle
the bee gums. The bees were much
braver than Air. Bluejacket, for they
made him make tracks through the
field.
One got our dried fruit. Mother
got hold of the sack and told him he
must not take it from her children,
but he said he must have it for the
bospital. Then came an officer who
made him give it up; said the hospital
would never see it. They cut open
beds and emptied them in the fields. I
have now a pair of white satin slip
pers that they took from some one;
I guess they were their wedding slip
pers. Father went next dav and crot us a
guard, and they never plundered us
another time. Some of them would
often come to get us to prepare meals
for them; would give us coffee. or su
gar for it or pay the money. Of course,
coffee was preferred, for we knew no
other than rye coffee sweetened with
sorghum. That is what we called our
molasses, made at home and boiled in
our wash pots. We children would
gather white mulberries and press all
the juice out through a cloth and boil
it to make candy, and a time we would
have pulling mulberry candy. Some
made candy out of watermelons; I
never tried them.
We had a hard time, but the Lord
blessed us that year after all was
taken from us. The Yankees left in
about eight weeks ; then all of us went
to the camps and got what we ccild
to eat and carried it home. We got
old horses that they left, for they took
our horses and carried them off. Our
crops that year were the best they ever
were, and everybody made enough to
eat. I could tell you much more about
the war and the coming of the
Yankees, but I have written enough.
As this is the first letter I have ever
attempted for publication, I hope it
may escape the waste basket and give
no offence. MRS. S. F. T.
Wayne Co., X. C.
PHYSICAL CULTURE IX II E LP 1 21 Q
H0THX2.
1.
America still has several million
girls who find a large part of their
physical culture in helping mamma,
and are not blushing because of the
fact. For such girls, the vista of pos
sibilities is long and alluring.
For arms, fingers, and wrists, wash
ing and wiping dishes will be fund
admirable. One is as good as the oth
er. Perhaps the water aids in giving
suppleness to the joints of the fingers.
That is an advantage washing dishes
has over wiping them. However, there
is surely a fine elbow movement in the
wiping.
Bed-making, as it is still taught in
the homely physical-culture academies
of Yankee farmhouses, cannot be too
highly recommended. With the fold
ing of every counterpane, blanket, and
sheet, the arms are stretched as far
apart as they will go, each hand hold
ing one end. Then, standing perfectly
erect, the chest is thrown out. Quick
ly the hands are brought together
again, and presto! the sheet is folded
double ! Shoulders, body and limbs are
all developed by the mattress-turning.
The eye and the sense of symmetry
learn much from the regular arrange
ment of counterpane and pillows. Of
course, this exercise ought not to be
carried too far.
Sweeping gives much the same mo
tion, without the jerkineas of golfing
strokes. For the graceful perfection
of arms and shoulders, so much desir
ed by every ambitious girl, nothing
could be better. I do not advise excess
in this recreation. But there will be
nothing harmful if you only sweep
each room in the house once a week.
Floor-scrubbing, like lawn tennis, is
rather violent, and not to be tried un
less you are sure about your heart.
At first, it will be almost as severe on
the knees as rowing in a shell; but, as
you get used to the occupation, it will
give a subtle satisfaction of its own.
Running -up stairs when mamma
wants something is first-class exercise,
and running down stairs js almost as
irood. Interesting diversions will be
found in egg-beating, tind ice-cream
freezing. Dusting ought to have a
' liapter by itself. First, you are down
on all fours; then you are on tiptoe,
s- oing how far the duster will reach.
This tiptoeing, with its ankle develop
ment, is superb! But that isn't all!
You twist yourself into all sorts of
positions to get at the corners of the
carved furniture. First you are on
one knee, and then on the other. Every
muscle, every tendon is brought into
service before you are through. Even
this magnificent exercise can be over
done, but you will make no mistake if
you only dust every room after you
have swept it, although most house
keepers dust oftener. Cynthia West
over Alden, in April "Success."
Children's Column.
Ei'lMLUTAiaiHO SI8TZ3' BEAU,
My sister's beau's a feller 't mos' any
one'd like,
He's awful good t' me, an' once he let
me ride his bike,
He'd lef ' it standin' by the gate, out
side, an' I got on
An' maw lit into scoldin', but he took
my part, doggone!
He said I wouldn't hurt it, an' I didn't
neither. Say I
But ain't it mean to scold a boy 'fore
compn'y that a-way?
My tops an' balls he looks at, an' my
"For a Good Boy" cup,
When I'm a-entertainin' him while sis
is dressin' up.
He's jes' wrapped up in furrin Stamps,
postmarks an' tin tags, too;
I showed him mine, an' he jes' looked
my whul collection through.
He says he "dotes" on bird eggs, an'
ne nandles 'em as if
He knowed 'ey'd break like everything
if once 'ey got a biff!
An', say, he listens to me when I tell
him things on sis,
'Bout her last beau, jes' 'fore him, an'
how I seed 'em kiss !
The feller laughin', says : "Oho, of
knowledge deep I sup"
When I'm a-entertainin' him while sis
is dressin' up.
'N'en sis she comes down stairs, "with
face as fair as any saint,"
I heard him say softlike to her, he
doesn't know it's paint!
Fm 'most afeard to tell him, though I
want to mighty bad,
Fr he's the tiptest-toptest beau 'at sis
she ever had,
An' 'tisn't right to fool him. Gee ! he
tells such bully things,
Of shootin' bears an' catermounts, an'
all such scary things;
An' me an' him talk ev'rything, from
porkypine to pup,
While I'm a-entertainin' him while sis
is dressin' up.
Leslie's Weekly.
UA7XES8 FOB BOYS
Keep step with any one you walk
with.
Hat lifted in saying "Good-bye," or
"How do you do?"
Hat lifted when offering a seat in
a car, or in acknewledging a favor.
Always precede a lady up-stairs, and
ask her whether you may precede her
in passing through a crowd or public
place.
Let ladies pass through a door first,
standing aside for them.
Let a lady pass first always, unless
she asks you to precede her.
Look people straight in the face
when speaking or being spoken to.
In the parlor stand till every lady
in the room is seated; also older peo
ple. Rise if a lady comes in after you are
seated, and stand till she takes a seat.
Hat off the moment you enter a
street door, and when you step into a
private hall or office.
Never play with knife, fork or
spoon.
Use your handkerchief unobtrusive
ly always.
Do not take your napkin in a buncji
in your hand.
In the dining-room take your seat
after ladies and elders.
Rise when ladies leave the room, and
stand till they are out.
Eat as fast or as slowly as others,
and finish the course when they do.
Cover the mouth with hand or nap
kin when obliged to remove anything
from it.
Do not look toward a bedroom door
when passing. Always knock at any
private room door.
If all go out together, gentlemen
stand by the door till ladies pass.
Special rules for the mouth are that
all noise in eating and smacking of
the lips should be avoided.
These rules are imperative. There
are many other little points which add
to the grace of a gentleman, but to
break any of these i3 almost unpar
donable. "Did you make up all these rules,
auntie?" said Roy, as a copy, neatly
printed by a typewriter, was placed in
his hands.
"Make them up? No! These are
just the common rules of societv
which every gentleman observes. You
will not find your father failing in one
of them.
"Well, but he is a man!" said Roy,
deprecatingly.
"And do you not wish to be'a manly
boy?"
Roy said nothing, but it was noticed
that the rules were placed very care
fully in his drawer.
Some months have passed since and
auntie has had the pleasure of hearing
repeatedly the remark, "What a man
ly, thoughtful little nephew you have,"
as one and another observed his polite
and careful attention to others. Un
Christian Life Column.
VALUE 07 A GOOD HAKE.
A good name is the best protection
a young man can provide against evil
days. If Jim Wilcox had lived half
right the jury would not have "agreed
so quickly that he was guilty of the
crime1 with which he was charged, but
he was so worthless and wicked that
the evidence against him was readily
accepted and believed. Testing times
will come in the life of every young
man. There are sl.,r"ierous tongues
ever ready to destioy the reputation
and stab the character. It is a pity
that we are obliged to believe that
there are around us every day those
so debased and corrupt as to rejoice
at the downfall of a good man. What
a rock of Gibralter a good name is to
a man who is maliciously assailed!
Covet a good name boys. Its price is
above rubies. Charity and Children.
AW EXPERT OX DBIHK.
Seved Ribbing, the famous profes
sor of medicine at the Swedish uni
versity of Lund, makes these remark
able statements in concluding an ad
dress on one phase of the drink curse:
'How large a per cent of moral
downfalls are caused through drink I
am unable to say, but certainly it is
not infrequent that you hear from
many a questioned youth for an an
swer, 'I was somewhat under the in
fluence of liquor.' Through drunken
ness and in drunkenness one accus
toms himself to conditions which, un
der ordinary circumstances, would be
religiously shunned. In course of
I time the sense of shame is overcome,
and silenced, and the evil habits are
looked upon as an every-day necessity.
The cases when a young man Will m
cold-bloodedness and with a clear head
and with decided intention throw him
self into the arms of prostitution are
very seldom in comparison with those
that happen under the influence of
liquor. An English army physician
has shown figuratively that sickness in
a troop is much less among the total
abstainers than with the balance of
the men."
WHAT 18 ITS MESSAGE 1
What does your money say to you?
What message does it bring ? Is it one
of hope, of culture, of soul-growth, of
education, of opportunity to help oth
ers, or is it a message suggesting more
land, more thousands for yourself ?
Does it bring a message of generos
ity, or of meanness ; of broader man
hood, or of more selfish exclusiveness ;
of larger aims, or of lower ideals ? The
character of the answer to these ques
tions measures the worjh of your
career.
If your success does not mean open
ing wider the door of opportunity to
those about you; if it does not mean
encouragement, inspiration, and help
fulness to those who r.re struggling to
get up in the world; if it does not
mean ia wider outlook upon life, a
truer measure of real values, you have
missed tha higher meaning of life and
have failed to catch the keynote of the
great harmony of the universe.
What if you have gathered money,
if you have starved the mind; what
if you have broad acres, if you have
a narrow intellect; what are houses,
stocks, and bonds to a man too small,
mean, and narrow to use them wisely?
What if you have reached the top of
the ladder yourself, if you have crowd
ed others off and kicked the ladder
down after your own ascent! Is this
success? to keep others back?
No man climbs the ladder success
fully who does not grasp firmly and
helpfully the hands of others who are
crippled and 'handicapped in their
climbing. When riches beget greed,
they become perfectly useless. The
man who possesses them creates ani
mosity among his fellow beings while
his own life is a burden.
The man who mounts the ladder
alone without trying to help others,
lacks the warmth of human sympathy,
the touch of helpfulness, the quality
of humanity. Success for July.
"Pshaw, youre afraid!" "Yes, I
am! I'm afraid of being sorry and
it's the only thing I'm afraid of in this
world!" It was a scrap ofa street
conversation, and the two' girls who
spoke were out of sight before the
words had died on the air. But one
listener, at least, was stronger for
having heard them. Youth's Compan
ion.
He Do you really believe ignorance
is bliss? She I don't know. You
seem to be happy. Exehange.
Woman's Work.
THE CHILD TO THE FATHER.
""""
Father, it's your love that safely
guides me,
Always it's around me, night and
day,
It shelters me, and soothes, but never
chides me,
Yet, father, there's a shadow in my
way.
All the day, my father, I am playing
Under trees where sunbeams dance
and dart
But often just at night when I am
praying
I feel this awful hunger in my heart.
Father, there is something it has
missed me
I've felt it through my little days
and years;
And even when you petted me and
kissed me
I've cried myself to sleep with burn
ing tears.
Today I saw a child and mother walk-
ing,
I caught a gentle shining in her eye,
And music in her voice when she was
talking
Oh, father, is it that that makes me
cry?
Oh, never can I put my arms around
her,
Or never cuddle closer in the night;
Mother, oh, my mother! I've not
found heir
I look for her and cry from dark
to light!
By Robert Bridges, in Ladies Home
Journal.
A THOUGHT FOB DISH 7A8HEB3.
Do you know it is real missionary
work we believe, to continue to agi
tate the dishcloth and dish washing
questions. Why there are housekeep
ers in the U. S., we are told, who just
wash all their dishes, glass, silver,
greasy plates and all, through a sort
of luke warm dish water, wring out
the dishcloth and wipe them with it.
Wipe all of them, mind you, in this
way. No nice, hot suds at first, no
rinsing in hot, clear water, no dry dish
towels, no nothing to make the dishes
sweet and clean, and the occupation
rather a pleasure than a drudgery.
"Line 'upon line and precept upon
precept," There must be a way to
arouse such housekeepers; to impress
upon them the filthy, unhygienic side
of the matter. Think of the microbes
fostered under such a regime! Dish
washing and caring for beds are two
important things, not alone to the
housewife, but to all the world. We
hope our young housekeepers, the lit
tle girls growing up, will begin right.
Habit is everything. Selected.
To take life as God gives it, not as
we want it, and then make the best of
it, is the hard lesson that life puts be
fore the human soul to learn. Anna
R. Brown.
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL
DIRECTORY.
FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
President W. B. Fleming:, Ridgeway, War
ren County.
Vice-President T. P. Johnson, Salisbury,
Rowan County.
Secretary-Treasurer and State Business Agent
T. B. Parker, Hillsboro, Orange County.
Lecturer J. C. Bain, Wade, Cumberland
County. '
Assistant Lecturer or Steward Jno. M. Mit
chell, Wayne County.
Chaplain Rev. W. S. Mercer, Moyock, Cur
rituck CouDly. 1
Doorkeeper Geo. T. Lane, Greensboro, Guil
ford County.
Sergeant-atrArrcs R. H. Lane, Aurora, Beau
fort County.
Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A. Gra
ham, Machpelah.
KXECUTIVK COMMITTEE.
J. W. Denmark, Chairman,' Raleigh
W. B. Fleming, Ridgeway.
John G aham, Warren ton.
D -. J. E. Pe s n, Pikevllle.
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
OFFICERS.
Commissioner S. L. Patterson.
Secretary T. K. Bruner.
Entomologist Franklin Sherman.
State Veterinarian Tait Butler.
State Chemist B. W. Kilgore
Eotanist and Biologist Gerald McCanhy.
Postomce address of all officers, Raleigh.
AGRI ULTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION
Director B. W. Kilgore, Releigh.
Agriculturist O. W. Burkett, West Raleigh.
Horticulturist W. F. Massey, WestRalaigh.
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
President J. VanLindley, Pomona. -Vice-President
O W. Blackball, KittrelL
Secretary and Treasurer Franklin Sherman,
Raleigh.
Executive Committee-J. Van Lindley.Chair
man, J F. GuUiver, B von Herff, O. W. Bjack
nall, T. K. Bruner, Franklin Sherman, P. H.
Beck.
District Vice-Pre: idents W. L. Baxter.Ridge
way; Geo. N. Ives, Newport; Wm. Cole,
wayneaville; P H. Beck, southern Pines;
Moses Cone, blowing Rock.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
President J. A. Long, Roxboro.
Secretary J. E. Pegue, Raleigh.
Tr.asurer C. B Dense n, Raleigh.
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