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
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Miss Centril Declares That Tanlae I
the Beet Medicine She Evr
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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-
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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
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continued. "I lost my appetite com
pletely and what I managed to swal
low by sheer force of will would fer
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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
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sisting that I try Tanlac, and to
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ed me is nothing short of remarkable.
My appetite came right back and I
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Tanlac is sold in Lenoir by Bal-
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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. This is another tribute to the cushion
ing effect of Triplex Springs and the quality.
uof material in Overland 4.
ANDREW S. NELSON
Phone No. 49
W. Harper Ave.
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