LENOIR, N. C. LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920 Page Three THE GARDEN LADY'S STORIES (WritUa for Um UoiUd StatM School Army Garden, B Education, Deprtrn ent ( ti Interior.) THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF A RAINDROP V By Ethel Allen Murphy "The green things and flower I adventure of all! things growing along oar -way were! "'The Moon Maiden spread won- swayed to and fro as we brushed derful white dreams upon us, and against them, and they seemed to be reaching out to stop us. Some flow ers were so pretty and had such sweet looks that I wanted to stay always when the moon was brightest our longing for the known, yet un known, sea was the deepest. Could any Garden Soldier tell us why the with them, but there was a song that moon made the streams long for the All my companions kept singing over sea? Deep down in us we could feel and over that made me feel I must j the moon pulling on us, pulling on go on. i ma is tne song iney sang: Oh, come on with me To the deep, deep sea, .Where the wandering waters go! Where the wandering streams Fulfill their dreams In the great tide's ebb and flow! " 'So down the slopes we ran, sometimes stopped for an instant or turned aside by stones, around which we parted and joined again with a great rush and splutter, sometimes leaping over big spaces, down steep rocks, and making the green and white flying veils that you call the waterfalls. " Then we. ran on through deep woods and came, out into meadows soft and smoothly sloping, where the red clover was growing. The red clover, you know, Garden Lady, such as the children plantjn their gardens, in the fall, because the plants, hold the moisture raindrops like me' you know, and keep the soil in place dur ing the winter and spring months. Thep in the spring when it is plowed under the clover adds humus to the earth. You see, Garden Lady, I've sometimes been sorry that I did not spend the winter, tucked away safe in the kind brown earth. Some of my friends did, and tfiey had the most amazing adventures, and they met the old man of the garden, the mole, and they heard all about the little field mouse and her little un ground home. " 'We almost went to sleep while we were passing through the meadow-lands. But still we heard the song which had led us on calling to us again: Oh, come to the sea! The deep, green sea, Where the waving seaweeds grow, wnere tne wild sea creatures wander free And the proud ships proudly go! " 'So we went on, through broad, flat lands, past farms and towns and cities. And here in the open ooun try we knew that great blue space that you call the sky. We felt some thing speaking to us from it, as if we were kin to it. " 'The stars dropped their images down to us, and we laughed, and rocked them to and fro, and tossed them from one to another. The lights from boats shone and gleamed down upon us and flung long red or green or white streamers of light down to us. We caught them like the boys catch baseballs, and carried them on, rippling and waving, and dropped them as we went laughing -on. We were to have the biggest us to it! Oh, come to the sea, the deep, deep sea, Whose waters still obey, And ebb and flow, forever free, Yet bound to the month's bright ray! " 'Great cities grew up alone our way. And at night these cities seem ed to bloom with flowers of fire. A million, million times brighter than the firefly's torch or the glowworm. " 'But we went on in a deeper, broader, more powerful stream, and by our force we gave power and light to the great cities where thou sands of soldiers in the United States School Garden Army were raising their wonderful gardens. We were proud of our million, mililon strength and -because we were united, and all worked and pulled together, we were strong enough to bear on the great, moving shoulders of the muddy streams the boats that carried mes sages and gifts and letters from one great city to another. " 'And something else we carried, too, because we carried the gifts of the plains to the mountains. We carried the golden grain from the fields to the pepole who mined the coal from the earth. The people of the plains and the meadows, and those who raised gardens and had or chards sent grains and vegetables and fruits to those who lived in the mountains and forests. And the mountain folk and the forest folk sent great logs to build houses, and coal to warm the children's homes, and minerals from the treasuries of the mountains. " 'No one of us. alone. Garden Lady, would have been of any use, but when we joined we made the rivers and the streams, and so be cause we were. all together we car ried the great boats. We were united in one great army, just like the boys and girls of the United States School Garden Army. Why, there isn't any thing, Garden Lady, that the boys and girls can not do if they all are united and work together like the drops of water. " 'As we carried the gifts from the mountains to the plains our stream that had been clear and sparkling grew yellowish with mud, tawny col ored but grand in its bigness, and beautiful, too, when the sunlight and sunset colors, and moonlight and clouds sent their messages and dreams of beauty to us. " 'Other streams joined us. Then there was great news of their ad ventures. These streams, too, brought millions and millions of earth grains or mud with them, and this dark- MUSIC TEACHER IS Miss Centril Declares That Tanlae I the Beet Medicine She Evr i Heard Of HOOVER WONT RUN AS DEMO CRATIC CANDIDATE Herbert Hoover again has answer ed "No" to a ninquiry whether he would accept the Democratic nomina tion for President if it was offered to him. In a telegram to Chandler M. Wood, chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic State committee of Massachusetts, Mr. Hoover said : "Your published letter asking if I would accept the Democratic nomi naiton has been received by me this morning, and I appreciate the im- "A" ill 1 4 The largest electric sign in the world advertises on Times Square, New York Cltv: It is 250 feet long. 70 feet high. Made up if 17,286 electric lamps. The fountains play, the trade mark changes, read ing alternately WRIGLEVS SPEARMINT, DOUBLEMINT. and JUICY FRUIT, and the Spearmen "do a turn. This sUo Is seen nlahtly by abpot 500.000 people from all over the werid. Sealed Tight II 2 IK Hi1 ftrmn Tn m-m-nrm -m mm rwrW IB ... -Kept Right A7 1 HI' i -, ma . t . "I am simply delighted over my wonderful improvement aince I be gan taking Tanlac," was the enthu siastic statement made by Miss Louise Cantril, popular music teach er of 8405 Elm street, Los Angeles, Cal. "For as long as I can remember my kidneys troubled me and I rarely ever got a good night's rest," she continued. "I lost my appetite com pletely and what I managed to swal low by sheer force of will would fer ment and cause so much gas that my heart would palpitate terribly and at times 1 came near fainting. I fell off from one hundred and twen ty pounds to ninety-eight and was so nervous and weak I had to give up my work. Medicines and treatments did not do me a bit of good and I lost faith in them. A friend of mine kept in sisting that I try Tanlac, and to please her 1 did. JNow 1 can t tnank her enough, for the way Tanlac help ed me is nothing short of remarkable. My appetite came right back and I eat anything I want without the slightest trouble. My kidneys seem to me in perefct shape and I sleep all night long like a child. I have gained so much in weight and strength and am so happy I don't hesitate to say Tanlac is the best medicine I ever heard of. Tanlac is sold in Lenoir by Bal- lew's Cash Pharmacv. plied compliment. I gather that St was written prior to a statement oC mine last Saturday, which appear! in Boston and other papers. Yon ird no doubt, therefore, now appreciate that the answer to your inquiry T0 'No.'" - colored mud was a rich gift from highlands to lowlands: for some times in the Spring, when there were great rains and the white cold coyer of the earth grew warm and turned to sparkling water, the big and little streams came hurrying down from all directions. Then our stream grew so big and deep and broad that it spread out over the banks, carry ing great loads of mud with it. And when the water went back the land was made rich with a new layer of earth full of food for growing things.' " (To be concluded next week) CAKE 4 FEET IN DIAMETER A cake baked to celebrate the an niversary ot a store at Bonner Sprina-s, Kan., contained 50 dozen eggs, 100 pounds of sugar, 60 pounds of butter, 125 pounds of flour, 10 gallons of milk, 7 pounds of baking powder and a quart of vanilla. The first layer of the cake was 58 inches in diameter, the second 36 inches and the third 25 inches. When it was cut 2,000 customers were given slices. A Year's Abuse In 7 Days AH Light Car Road Records Smashed At Indianapolis recently an Overland 4 stock car was driven 5,452 miles continuously in seven days and nights, over frozen country roads. This is an averafe of 778 miles per day more than the distance between Toledo and New York City. 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