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THE CAROLINA lOTON FARMER Thursday, February 8th, 1912. Country tlome Department Conducted by Mrs. E. D. Noll, Sanford, N. G., to whom alt Matter for this Department Should be Sent ADVICE IS CHEAP. “Get up, young man,” the poet wrote. And breath the air so sweet; Put on your light spring overcoat And walk before you eat. With lambkins in the early morn. Go sport upon the green!” Next day the poet, all forlorn, Arose at ten-fifteen. It is an easy job to give Advice—we all can teach— But such an awkward thing to live And practice what we preach! Of kindly precept none have lacked, So far as I have seen. Put words by good example backed Are few and far between. The country stands in need of those Who do as Enoch did. And while their weary jaws repose Walk right side up amid The mad, discordant, surging throng That treads the pavement blocks— Such men do more to crush out wrong Than one who simply talks. —Selected. SEVEN RULES OF LIFE. Live upstairs if you wish to be in good health! “Up how many flights?” Only one flight of seven steps. I will describe them. First step—Eat wheat, oats, corn, fruits, beef, mutton, plainly cooked, in moderate quanity, and but two meals a day. Second step—Breath good air night and day. Third step—^Exercise freely in the open air. Fourth step—Retire early and rise early. Fifth step—Wear flannel next the skin every day of the year, and so dis pose your dress that your limbs shall be kept warm. Bathe frequently. Sixth step—Live in the sunshine. Seventh step—Cultivate a cheerful temper. Seek the society of jolly peo ple. Refuse to worry. Don’t be afraid to laugh. Live high. Sickness can not crawl up there, rarely does it go upstairs.—Ex. ter day in the annals of the house hold. With its music and with simple song each daughter in her turn touched with love the heart of her future husband. With it the sacred liymn and family prayer are joined in chastened memory. With it, closed and silent, are tenderly re membered the days of sickness, the time of death, and the funeral’s solemn hush.” When the family circle is broken and its members are scattered, happy is the’ son or daughter who can place among his or her hose- hold goods, the old piano.” How dear to our hearts are the songs we sung in childhood. The memory of them have re-echoed in our lives in the years that .have passed and still they grow dearer. Fortunate are the homes that contain a good piano or organ, v/here the boys and girls, the young people, gather around it in the evenings, and sing together. After they are scatterred far and wide, how often they are reminded of old homes, old friends and loved ones by the strains of some song, perhaps sung by childish lips, or voiced by stranger. Music has a softening influence over children. When they are cross and irritable, often, if a song which is familiar to them, is started up by mother or some one, they will soon join in and forget their little troubles. It is not only with the little folks, either, that this plan works well. It helps grown people too, “to sing a song as you go along.” The ministry of music and song; are we not thank ful that they are within the reach of all. How often the stranger pauses on his way to catch the notes of some familiar song and brush a tear away, as he remem bers the voice of his mother, sister or brother. It is said that in a gambling den in Hong Kong, China, two men sat playing cards. The younger man began to hum: "One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o’er and o’er.” The older man arose with tears in his eyes and said, that song came to him as a reminder of his early training, and he could not lead that kind of life any longer, and afterwards spent ten years of his life as 'an evangelist. Have music in your home. It will prove a benediction in the days to come as well as sweeten the present days. It was a bitter thing to say al though it came from a careless thoughtless heart, and the young man felt the sting deeply. For a time he was sorry he was not on the old farm he loved so well, and the dear ones there. They would know how the words hurt him and would sympathize with him. Quickly a braver spirit came over him. “I don’t need sympathy,” he said to himself. “I’ll prove to them that I can match them in my work if my trousers are too short.” And he did. At the end of the course he was the valedictorian of his class, taking the very, highest honors for good scholarship. What is in your heart, fire or ashes? It takes courages to stand up before the world and say bravely: “You may sting me to shine; you cannot stmg me to death! I’ll be strong, I’H be manly! I’ll show the. world that my heart is in the right place. —N. C. Advocate. The Fire in Your Heart. He was a plain farmer lad spend ing his first winter at the village academy. He was there for work, and it did not trouble him that his clothes were not quite as fine as those worn by most of the students. His trousers were of cloth he had earned with his own hands, and his own mother ha.d made them. But a remark made by one of the young ladies of the academy as he passed down the aisle before chapel exercise one day cut him to the heart. “He ought to have a ruffle round his ankles, his trousers are so short.” Criticising. The girl who criticises generally excuses herself by claiming that what she says is true. But even u it is true, is it necessary? Never say a thing that hurts, unless you are sure that it is going to help and if the wish to help is uppermost m 3’our mind, your words are not lik^' ly to be cutting. The criticising girl is never popular with oth^^ girls. They are always expecting her to make some remark about them, they do not value her opiu' ions very highly, and lay little stress on anything she says—and the crd icising woman—she is a terror the neighborhood in which she lies. It is worth while to criticise- Music in the Home. How tenderly wrote Grover Cleveland of the old piano, “In many an humble home throughout our land the piano has gathered about it the most sacred and ten der associations. For it the daught ers of the household longed by day and prayed in dreams at night. For it fond parents saved and econo mized at every point and planned in loving secrecy. For it on a cer tain Christmas day, on which the arrival of the piano gave a glad tfiwpri^ was marked as a rtd’ k?t>- Mr. J. R. Rives’ Contract Saves You $10.00 on This Range. By selling the Farmers Union thousands of dollars worth of goods each month we ^ Quote wholesale prices to the Farmers Union. To illustrate this, we a.sk .vou to read we say below. Note the blue steel body, the extra weight, the double thick asbestos i ing, the oven thermometer, and the extra discount to the members of the Farmers Un>° ■ We cannot offer a better range at any price. $5h 00 seldom buys one equ.al to tn Spotless Special Steel Range. You may try it in your kitchen for thirty days. ijjp the handsomest, best-cooking and most satisfactory range you ever saw at any price, sn y it back to us and we will refund your money. - Our Spotless • pecial Ranges are built for us on a large contract by one of the range manufacturers. They are made in the best steel district. By buying enormo Quantities from this factory our customers get the beneSt of a big saving. MADE OF HIGHEST GRADE MATERIAL. Spotless Special Steel Ranges are made of the best material throughout The are made of Wellsville polished blue steel, the smoothest, ea.siest to keep clean, most resisting, and in every way the best steel used by any manufacturers. They are ed with double screw draft registers, have large square ovens: all plated parts are electro copper plated by latest process. j duplex grates for burning wood or coal, and improved 6re back in" These Spotless Special Ranges are Unequaled forBahi^f Improved system of dampers enable you to throw heat just desired. Water in the reservoir heats quickly. Double thick lining throughout the range, holds heat and saves fuel, Well brace no buckling—.no warping—no getting out of shape. Unsurpassed for Beauty and Durability. The handsome blue finish looks like gun metal and requires blacking, enameling, or japanning. Only a little rubbing now then to preserve its high polish. Has an oven thermometer that show you just how hot your oven is at all times. But you must act at once to accept this offer. Simply look at the list below, select which size you want, j Jjj range will be shipped to you promptly from Richmond, Va. your order enclosing our price through your State or local Busi Agent. . front All sizes furnished with six 8-inch lids, measure 31 inches floor to main top of range: have 25-inch fire boxes for wood, ano 7 inch pipe to fit collar. Note the weights: *N» pekoes are. complete with Web oloaet and reservoir as illustrated and described: No, Ranee Size Oven, inches Wiipping Weight Special Prices to Farmers Union 8-10^ 16 X 20 X 13Js 4M lbs $:S.98 8-18 18x20x18}^ 460 lbs. 21.26 8-20 20 X 20 X li^^^ 475 lbs. S8.60 Above stoves and prices have been examined and approved by your State Bustness Agent, 39 Shocko. s«u.r. the spotless company ^ “THE SOUTH’S MAIL ORDER HOUSE** RICHMOND*
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