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PINEY WOODS HOW DOES IT SEEM TO YOUT It seems to me I’d like to go Where bells don’t ring, nor whistles blow, And I’d have stillness all around. Not really stillness, but just the trees’ Low whisperings, or the hum of bees, Or brooks’ faint babbling over stones In strangely, softly tangled tones. Or maybe some cricket or katydid, Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid, Or just some such sweet sounds as these To fill a tired heart with ease. If 'twern’t for sight and sound and smell I’d like the city pretty well; But when it comes to geting rest I like the country lots the best. Sometimes it seems to me I must Just quit the city’s din and dust, And get out where the sky is blue, And say, now. how does it seem to you? —Eugene Field. FRANTIC FABLES. By Henry Horseceller. Claude de Clove was a poet, a ro manticist —>a dreamer. He dreamed all day. He was more awake when he was asleep than he was when he was awake. He wore his hair Buster Brown fashion. I don’t mean to cast any canned asparagus at Buster Brown, but mere ly to indicate that he had skinned barbers as zealously as he had skin ned creditors for the past ten years. He was such a good skinner that he always took a blue ribbon at the Shun show'. In fact, he was the original Shunshine kid. Now it happened that one pellucid morn he awoke betimes, and his THE GOLDEN CALF. ' (Temperance Lesson.) V Sept. 21st, 1913. Ex. 32:15 to '2O. Ex. 32:30 to 35. Time —1491 B. C. Place —Sinai. The Golden Text — “My little chil dren, guard yourselves from idols.” Ist John 5:21. Suggestive Thoughts. What Should I Do? 1. Keep your vows. The Golden Text, 1 John 5:12. It has only been forty days since the giving of the law (Ex. i24:18; Deut. 9:9). When the people said “All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do” (Ex. 19:8; Ex. 24:3 to 7). Now we see them violating this law they prom ised to keep. This lesson teaches us that the human heart is wicked and unreliable. That the promises of the natural man are worthies and unreli able because his “heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wick ed” (Jer. 17-9). These people’s hearts were not turned unto God. Therefore their vow was easily broken and they couldi propose to Aaron to make them gods to take the place of Jehovah XEfc-, 32:1). They wanted something' they could see to worship. The natural THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 11 . -I - ■K \ . <■ Jig poet’s fancy was stirred by the sweet lilt of some rare bird that carolled in the catcus outside his window. A seraphic smile crossed his fea tures as he lay musing and listening to the delicate cadences, the glad somebugle, the liquid quarter notes, throaty symphony that welled from the two-fora-quarter liquid notes, the the feathery of this little messenger of the morn. If he could have got a pen without reaching for it he would have penned the following lines: Sweet bird, singest Thy gosh dingest, Don’t spike it, I like it, Sing tra-la to the blithersome morn, I listen with an ear of corn. L’ENVOI. Every ray I hope you do so, The sweetest rooster never Caruso. Just at that moment when Claude de Clove wasn’t penning these lines, the landlady, Mrs. McFigg, entered the room. “Mr. de Clove,” she said, “this bill which has been overdue now so Poet, “before we speak of such earth ly, trivial things—tvould you look out of the window and tell me w r hat bird it is that sings so sweetly—” Mrs. McFigg looked for a minute from the window. “That,” she said tartly, “is my old man carrying dirt to mend the path that w r as washed out last night. The old sardine is too lazy to grease his wheelbarrow'.” SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va. heart always wants something to aid him in worship. It may be a cross or an image of Christ or the virgin Mary. They do not want to renounce Jeho vah (Ex. 32:4 and 5), but God re garded it as an utter renunciation of Himself (Ex. 32:7 to 10). God wants only a spiritual worship (John 4:23 and 24). This we will not give Him until we receive the spirit of Christ and become spiritual. 2. Have God’s law written in your heart. Vs. 15 to 20. When Moses saw the awful apostacy of the people he spoke very sharply and sternly to them. He was indig nant because of the way in which they had dishonored God. He was very jealous for God and His glory. His anger waxed hot when he saw the golden calf and the people dancing around it. In his holy wrath he broke the tables that had been written upon by God Himself. Well might the true servant of God wax hot as he sees the professing children of God today wor shiping the golden calf and engaging in their licentious dancing. Many, even the best of men, cannot keep un broken the law written on tables of stone, but the time has come when A LEGAL MATTER. A woman walked into the office of the courtrooms one busy day and, ad dressing the judge, said: “Are you the Reprobate Judge?” “i am the Probate Judge, madam.” “That’s what I mean,” she contin ued. “You see 1 have come to you because 1 am in trouble. My hus band was studying to be a minister at a logical seminary and he died de tested and left me three little infidels, and I have come to you to be ap pointed their executioner.” AN EMERGENCY. When a certain darky of Mobile, Ala., announced his engagement to the dusky one of his choice, the con gratulations that were showered upon him included a note of wonder. “Joe,” said one of these friends, “I shore is surprise. We-all never thought you’d speak up. It’s going on two years sence you began to fool around Miss Violet.” Dat’s true,” said Joe, “but de fact is, old man, 1 didn’t lose my job until last night.” WALK RIGHT IN. Arthur was a very mischievous lit tle boy and played many pranks around the neighborhood. One after noon one of the women called to see Arthur’s father about something the boy had done. “I want to see your father,” she said to the boy. “I’m afraid you can’t see father God will write' His law in the hearts of His people (Heb. 8:10 and 11.) Therefore go to Him and ask Him to put His laws into your mind, and write them in your heart and enable you to walk in Ilis statutes, that the righteousness of the law may be ful filled in you and that you may walk after the spirit and not after the flesh (Ro m.8:4). 3. Have Power in Prayer. Vs. 30 to 35. j Moses was a nian of great power in praygr because he was 'unselfish and willing to sacrifice Irmself. He did not seek to cover the sins of the peo pie but confess them and so got for giveness for them. He offered him self as a sacrifice for the s ; ns of the people. Paul offered himself as a sacrifice for the salvation of his brethren, his kinsmen accordhig to the flesh (Rom. 9:3). These men had the spirit of Christ. The spirit that iead Him to sacrifice Himself to put ay sin and save men (Heb. 9:26 to 28). We greatly need men of this type today. If you wish to be a man of power in prayer, then you too must have the spirit of Christ. You must seek to know and do God’s will. You SKETCHES Br MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW now,” answered the boy. “I must see him,” the woman con tinued, “and I intend to see him.” “Well, all right,” and the boy open ed the door for her to enter. “Go right up stairs. Father is in the bath room taking a bath.” A Scotch class was examined in Scripture. “Can any boy or girl here tell me how Noah would be likely to use his time while on the ark?” asked the inspector. One boy timid ly showed his hand and replied: “Please, sir, he w'ad fish.” Well, yes, he might,” admitted the inspec tor. Another little fellow waived his hand, excitedly, and said: “Please, he couldna fish vera lang.” “What makes you think so, my little man?” “Be cause there were only two worms in the ark.” —Record Herald. “That doctor is a regular human dynamo.” “Yes; w'hen I came in contact with him I myself was highly charged.”— Washington Herald. An Italian who kept a fruit stand was much annoyed by possible cus tomers who made a practice of handl ing the fruit and pinching it, thereby leaving it softened and often spoiled. E’xasperated beyond endurance, he finally put up a sign which read: If you must pincha da fruit — pincha da cocoanut! —Lippincotts. FOR SORE THROAT AND CATARRH. llpre Is a treatment prescribed by many leading physicians with splendid results. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of Tyree’s An tiseptic Powder in a teacupful of warm water. Spray or gargle every two hours in acute cases and thrice daily in chronic Try it. The powder can be had for 25c a box at any drug store (or by mail). If not pleased return the empty box and your money will be refunded. .1. S. Tvree, Chemist. Washington, D. C. Mr. Tyree will mail a liberal sample and full direc tions, free, to any who writes mentioning this paper. must have such a great love for lost men and women that you are willing io sacrifice yourself that they may be saved. DON’T BURN YOUR COTTON. What would you think of a man who would deliberately burn eight hundred and thirty-three pounds of good cot ton? He would be destroying about one hundred dollars of good money. No sane man would waste his wealth in such a manner, and yet we all waste a hundred dollars or more each year in thoughtless and careless buy ing. When we pay more for an arti cle than is necessary we are wasting 'just that much money and are burn ing our good cotton. If your home is in need of a good piano or self-player p ; ano you can save upwards of eight hundred and thirty three pounds of cotton by uniting with n'rety-nine other careful and thought ful buyers in The Golden Age Piano Club. Write for your copy of the Club catalogue, which explains the great saving in price, the convenient plan of payment and the protection against every cause for dissatisfaction. Ad dress the Managers, Ludden & Bates, Golden Age Piano Club Dept.., Atlanta, Ga. 9