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MRS. J. S. R. THOMSON. SPARTANBURG, S. C.
WORK FOR OCTOBER.
In almost every vocation in life there
seems to come a resting spell—excepting
in agricultural pursuits. In this, one rarely
has any idle time, none to tritter away.
Wet days and dry as they come and go—
each finds some employment. Operations
must now be started even at this early day
for next year’s crops.
Lettuce sown now—mixed with a few
black seed of hardy mustard, will be well
established before hard freezing weather
comes—and thus remain unharmed
throughout the winter, though unpro
tected, in most parts of the South.
When hard weather is expected the left
over trash from the pea sticking can be
thrown over them, and wheat chaff, straw
or leaves scattered amongst them will give
ample protection, and ensure heads of
lettuce early in March. Sow Spinach for
early salad; also plant out onion set«,
selecting the smallest grown, as the larger
ones have a tendency to form seed heads
before a bulb is made. Make your beds
very rich. If you have poultry droppings
and unleached ashes, no better fertilizer
can be used. Put in your line to form a
drill—and then stick in the sets one foot
between the rows; four inches apart in
row and about one to two inches deep in
well pulverized soil. The variety which
I plant is extra early Pearl—b< th white
and red; planted before September 15ih,
these will be well established and make
eating onions late in February and early
in March or earlier, in some Southern
States. The seed I planted quite thickly
broadcast, kept weeds out by finger pick
ing—when cured off in July, i. e., all tops
dead, gathered my crop—which was pro
nounced by J. H. Alexander, the seec
merchant in Augusta, Ga.—“as being the
prettiest he bad ever seen grown in the
South—they usually growing to too large
size.” lam selling these readily now for
25 cents per quart, i. e. SB.OO per bushel. 1
made three bushels from two small beds—
not over two hundred feet long by six feet
wide; $24,00 worth is not bad gardening, is
it, from two pounds seed costing me just
$4.00.
Strawberry beds must have best atten
tion all season and, if desired, no better
r n new beds. Plant
in squares full eighteen incnes apart; rem
lize the bed heavily and spade deeply be
fore planting—be careful not to cover the
crown in setting out, but be sure to pack
*soil firmly to**ehch plant.
Celery should now be handled, previous
to hilling. Take the whole plant in one
hand, squeeze the leaves compactly in your
hand. Then draw earth up to it, which
should be rather damp and sticky, so as to
remajin where put. Draw enough to hold
the,leaves in the position in which they
we.fre in your hand. To those not minding
trouble, placing the straw or thin wooden
wrappings which come around beerand wine
bottles around the celery plant, prevents
/the soil sifting in amongst the stalks of the
/ plant, which causes rust, so deleterious to
/ celery. Every two wedfcs thereafter, draw
soil to the celery, which must be kept
almost to top of leaves. By November
15th the celery will be beautifully blanched,
and can then be covered by two wide—
-12 or 14 inches wide slabbing—placed on
each side, meeting, almost, at top. Put a
rock or brick in to let in air, to prevent
celery rotting. All winter you can go out
and get this delicious vegetable to make
your chicken salad, or to eat with your
roast turkey. When using, do not throw
away the roots, but wash clean, grate, place
in a bottle, and cover with eider vinegar,
which makes a delicious dressing for your
chicken salad, requiring less celery than it
would otherwise take. It is good, also, to
add to soups, where a seasoning of celery
seed is used.
Your turnips should be carefully thinned
out and kept free from weeds, and well
cultivated. If not already enriched, sprinkle
some commercial fertilizers along the row,
and dig in when hoeing.
Collect and dry your last crop of sage.
Do not neglect to save all seed of sun
flower which matures. These are used as
feed, as a substitute for meat diet for poul
try of all kinds, enabling them to moult
more safely, and imparting that beautiful,
glossy appearance to their feathers, required
in fine specimens.
Mistress— “Why, Mary, I told you to
make up my room an hour ago, and here
it is in terrible disorder.” Mary—“Yis,
mum, an’ I did make it up; but the
master came in to put on a clane collar,
mum, an’ he lost the button.”— Epoch
Aunt Chloe—“Mornin,' Uncle Rastus,
W’at’s de mattah wid ye? You’se looking’
pow’ful ole dis mornin’.” Uncle Rastus—
“d<> s I lock ole, Chloe? Well, de fac’ is I
don't t'ink I ebbah was so ole in my life
beio’.”— Tid-Bits
For Woman's Work.
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
It was old Isaac Walton who said. “ Ev- j
ery misery that I miss is a new mercy;” a ■
saying worthy of the profoundest philos
opher. It is only too true that misfortunes
come to us on wings, but retire with a limp
ing pace, and yet we should be ready to
meet calamities cheerfully, determined to
successfully overcome them.
There is scarcely an evil in life that we
cannot double by pondering upon it; a
scratch will thus become a serious wound,
a slight illness even be made to end in
death, by the broodingapprehension of the
sick, while, on the other hand, a mind ac
customed to look upon the bright side of
all things will repel the mildew and damp
ness of care, by its genial sunshine.
A cheerful heart paints the world as it
sees it, like a sunny landscape; the morbid
mind depicts it like a sterile wilderness,
and thus lite takes its hues of light or shade,
from the character or disposition upon
which it rests.
For Woman’s Work.
EARLY TRAINING FOR BOYS.
Boys cause great anxiety as to their fu
ture. They are to be the citizens of the
future, and on their training much of the
country’s welfare depends.
Next to Christian principles and proper
motives, labor, mental as well as physical,
should be insistea on—in the training of
boys. Labor is, in itself, not only discip
line and practical preparation for an active
life, but it accustoms the mind to methodi
cal habits, gives it ease and alertness in
practical achievement, and by profitable
occupation of time, lessens liability to temp
tation. In youth, the mind is in its most
formative state, and, by a law of nature, it
is obliged to be active for either good or
evil; therefore, it should be taught, to work
along the lines of sound principles, and
ennobling incentives should, be held out to
the youthful aspirant. Early habits and
impressions are hard to change, and if they
are of the right kind, make a solid founda
tion for a noble and useful life. L. M.
For Woman’s Work.
SELF DISCIPLINE.
There are some traits of manner that
’ unmistakably indicate good or bad breed
ing. To the cultivated man or woman,
’ traditions of good breeding impose a reti
cence on all matienr-cbnerrning ones ncb.
' No well bred person makes himself or his
affairs a subject of common conversation,
neither is he inquisitive with regard to oth
ers. He does not parade his petty griev
ances,disappointments, and morbid feelings.
Lincoln, it is said, was a sympathizer with
all who laid their troubles before him, but
his innate delicacy and unselfishness made
him very reticent on things concerning
himself.
Carlyle said, “Good manners are an ab
sence of all fussiness.” We say; it is a
kind consideration for others. We were
never fully impressed with the latter mean
ing of the word, until employing a little
girl from a poor, poverty-stricken "family—
a child who knew nothing of the comforts
of home, except as she occasionally looked
through a neighbor's doorway, but could
not pass within. She was unselfish, bouy
ant. and ambitious; and without any train
ing whatever, her manners were admira
ble—her politeness came from a kind con
sideration for others, with a native self re
spect.
When our neighbor makes us a call,
before we vent our ill-natured pent-up feel
ings, for her consideration and sympathy,
we would do well to recall the adage
“ Familiarity breeds contempt.” This
thoughtless reflection of our own unpleas
antness, is an offense to our neighbor and
also to good taste. We spoil the back
ground to what might have been a pleas
ant remembrance. VVe should study how
to make a visitor feel refreshed and bene
fitted by her call. If she is disposed to be |
meddlesome and familiar, lead the subject i
to a more healthful and cheerful channel,
and she will bebenefltted by your consider
ation. Above all things, women who live j
in a small community need the discipline
of books. Read mothers; read to your chil
dren, talk of what you read, and don’t
bother about your neighbors’ affairs. When
Mrs comes to deal out her gossip, give
play to your enthusiasm about something
you have been reading. Make books the
common subject of conversation at your i
homes, with your children as wed as with
the older members of your family and I
friends. and you will help to root out the
greatest of all social evils—gossip. Ifeach
individual would scrutinize his own con
duct and act as self-critic, it might be the
means of correcting many grave and de- |
trading faults. Not all of us have the
opportunity of associating with the highly
bred, but we can so educate our every day
manners, that when we do meet them we
will feel at home and not be looked upon as
boorish companions. ■ C. ' j
METHODIST
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CHARTERED 1882.
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I
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State Insurance Commissioner, etc. Liberal
terms to good Agents. S. C. ALLEN, Sec’y.
demand
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