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MJHICH 2, 1907.
!(HE SUNNY SOUTH
SEVENTH PAGE
Household Letters
CONTINUED FROM SIXTH PAGE'.
THE COMMON LOT.
bis. g<">d friend, is the common lot;
To make the choice that we should no*;
To barter the blessings that Fate have
brought
'•'or a fancy or whim that comes to
nought.
■U
Ibis, good friend, is the common lot,
To be the thing that we wonlj not;
To pray and labor and often blot
With impulse rash and immortal thought.
ibis, good friend, is the common lot;
1 i leave the greater good unsought
to mourn for the thing we might have
wrought.
And find that the sequel is merelv
nought.
I <> mingle sweat with our daily bread;
io look on the narrow face with dread;
To sin. to suffer, to be forgot—
I liis, good' friend, is the common lot!
ARTHUR GOODBN'OUGH.
THE MAJOR’S STORY.
liear M. E. B.: Will you admit another
applicant from the Old Tar Heel state in
to your wonderful family and allow him
to tell you a true story, just as it was
related to him?
A few miles from the town of S.
is situated a fine old mansion oc
cupied by a retired veteran offi
cer. Major Charles White, who ii)
the evening of a vigorous old age had
established himself on tnts fine property,
where he lived in seclusion with only a
few servants.
in person Major White was tall and
powerfully built; his rondures were firm
• 'i'd hard; ids complexion bronzed by thy
sun and winds. In character he was ee-
ntric—called reserved and haughty, and
therefore disliked by tnose who had heard
of or casually known him. Few persons
had ever talked wirn him, and not one
knew him intimately. His mornings wore
usually spent in the cnase. He was a fine
s iot and Ids extensive grounds w* re
well stocked with game, but he alwoys
hunted alone. It was said that he had
never married, anv that ttds and ids
secluded life and aversion to company
was due to nIs having been embittered
by an early love afia-r. Rut these say
ings were mere rumors and conjectures.
None of his neighbors knew anything
a dually about the major.
I became greatly Interested in the
strange solitary man with his highbred
face and his fine though reserved man
ner. ] wanted to know something of his
past life, hut T was told he declined to
receive visitors. However. I thought*
nothing venture, nothing done, and one
fine day 1 drove out to the old man
sion and rang the oell of the heavy
carved door. T hardly hoped for a re
sponse, but the door was presently
opened by the stately major him
self, and greatly to my surprise and
pleasure T was invited to walk in.
As I entered the large hall and follow
ed my host into the handsome old li
brary. { saw all aboul me. evidences of
Wealth and refined taste. After convers
ing a while about tlie country. the
weather and the news of the day T said
to him in a frank wn;> :
“Major, you have such a beautify*
home, and you seem to be a man so well
fitted for companionship that T can but
wonder why you choose to live here
alone, without associates or family, l’ar-
dmi me, hut it seems such a pity T havt>
long wanted lo know your reason for
this—not through curiosity, believe me.
but because you have inspired in me a
real human interest.''
The major looked \t me keenly, l i t
with no displeasure. He must have road
sincerity and sympathy in my face, for
when-he spoke it was with much gentle
ness.
"My young friend.” he said. "I have
never told any of the people around me
tlie cause of my being a recluse. In truth,
no one has asked me or seem (si to car* 1
save as a matter of idle curiosity, but I
believe you when you say your Interest
t,, (be matter Is from •> Vbgher.motive, and
1 will freely tell you of the incident in
my past life that has made me a solitary-
man.
“X was brought tap In Louisiana and
educated in the legal profession. When T
was 25 1 had a large clientele and had
won an enviable reputation, though my
leal manhood had never been put to the
test by temptation. I found later on that
1 was lacking in self-control and weak
where the affections are concerned.
•But life went well with me until I fell
deeply in love with a young girl of great
beauty of person and sweetness o. na
ture. her only faults seeming to be a
love of admiration and a passion tor
danrdng After we became engaged I
exacted from her a half promise not to
waltz anv more. T could not end ore to
see my promised wife In the arms of
nnothcr man.
••Among our acquaintances was a
young man of engaging manners and at
tractive person, of v hose character and
antecedents peoole 1 new very little. He
seemed to have plenty of money and spent
It in gratifying his luxurious tastes. He
was an extremely* graceful dancer, and
It was this which first made him attrac
tive to my fiancee. He used all his fasci
nations to win her and one night when I
entered the ball room I saw her waltzing
and. pointing to a house that had tlie
rod light signal of shame, he told that he
had just taken her there to board. At
the instant my brain seemed on fire- 1
saw before me a. picture of the ruined
girl, once so sweet and pure, and draw
ing a revolver from my pocket, I shot her
cowardly seducer dead then turned and
walked rapidly away.
“No one pursued me. IHardly knowing
what I did, I made my way to the rail-
become so cold the atmosphere would' ble ideas on this subject, I ask per- > that animals have descended from at
liquefy and run about over the ground! mission lo place it before them. Mr. | most only four or five progenitors, and
In streams large enough to turn a mill, I Orton, surely you have some knowl-
and the equator would freeze and bow ] edge of this terrible turning point in
up In the middle like a lioboken slide::
while the other side would become so
hot the north pole would sprout. Why-
talk about miracles! As little George
Osborn, in Vanity' Fair, was want to
say, “God bless my soul,’’ Tom Ochiltry
said, “anJl Uchiltry was an honorable
man.’’ there was a place down In Texas
where the laws of gravitation were pet
rified, and stone birds poised about in
mid-air!
John, you’ve never made good the first
plants from an equal or lesser number.
Again, Darwin says, “The original germ
or germs of life may have 'been supernat-
urally created.’’ Now you go still further
it our support, our Subscription, our ap
proval, our ideas—the best wp have. Then
we shall see it grow.
Yesterday I passed a little country
school house, set in grounds that once
echoed with the shouts of children at
road station and got on board an outgo i question I popped into your unreeeptive
me train, rhe wav netween the north , ,
ears. Why Is it that the divine elements
(the wisdom) of the human mind hasn’t
ing train. The war oetween the north
and south had already begun. I enlisted
in the southern army in another state and
remained in service until the end. Then
finding myself alonw m the world, with
out near ties of blood, with nothing in
deed but money, I settled here on an
estate left me by relative. 1 pass my
days with my hooks and niy dogs as my
only companions. When 1 look back on
that night when I took the life of a
fellow mortal I sometimes regret that
his blood is upon my hands. But he de
served to die. Some may call my act a
sin. but T cannot look on it that way.
There are crimes amenable to no law.
The man’s deed was such a crime—it was
the murder of a. fair soul. It called for
the punishment of death.
“As for the poor girl. I remember iter
only with pity. I wish T could point to
her fate as a warning to every girl who
is Infatuated with pleasure and with the
seductive allurements of the waltz a
dance that insidiously blunts a woman's
instincts of modesty and loo often loads
her steps into the downward path.’’
For some time after Major White had)
ceased to speak: he sat with his fine,
gray head 'bowed as if lost In thought
or in memory. When tie looked up at!
length 7 thanked Mm for his story and |
assured him of my respect and sympathy.
Then T took my leave. T linve not seen
him since, ns T returned home shortly
afterwards and have not seen fn that
part of the country since.
T would he glad to have a few corre
spondents.
Snow Hill, N. C.
HERMAN 9. BEDARD.
developed one iota since the days of (
Adam? Talk about the creations of'
modern minds. There isn't anything]
new under the sun. Leo Galvinzy, the;
famous Sicilian archeologist said, ‘‘and
Galvinzy was an honorable man,” thafl
while uncovering a buried city in the
valley of Vlceroskelotal he came on an
automobile in which sat a boy and girl.
The boy, in order to bp out of the elec
tric light, had stopped his machine in
the shadow of the “elevated” and start
ed to kiss the girl. But just as he was
in tlie act they were overwhelmed by
the catastrophe. And there they had
been sitting, lips to lips, for 5,000 years!
(I hope their oscillatory passion was
satiated!)
Ah. go long, John, and turn the poor
old over-juiced cow of evolution out to
graze; and when your oviperous monkeys
begin laying send me a “sittin' o’ eggs.”
PIXEYWOODS TOM.
into the mire when you touch the spun- | play. Now it was a goat farm. Two
Ricl)ard Wiegal.
our country cousin’s life, stored away
in your cranium. Please give the li.
If. the benefit of it.
M IZBA 11.
A ROUGH JOKE OF OLD TIME
TENNESSEE.
Annie Valentine, your life-like cte-
laneous generation theory of Bastian.
Don’t you know that at best it only tend
ed to demonstrate the difficulty of ex
cluding the ininuite germs of low life?
I am glad to meet you on the field of
science, for l love it. That is, true sci-
i enee.
You are ail wrong, Sammie, when you
| class tlie elect, those who believe in
! Christ's divinity, with mossbacks. 1 have
! met a great many scientific men among
j them. The Quarterly Journal of Science
! remarks that Darwinism is not su.tisfa.c-
j tory, and while admitting that it has
thrown light on some of the most diftt-
j cult questions of natural history, “we
| cannot forget its difficulties.’’ All you
I have and all you can hope to have is
j development, and we all accept it.
; df you want a definition of creation,
I how will this do: Creation is the con-
| crete expression of an idea. Now when
! the earth was without form and void.and
tlie Spirit of God moved upon tlie lace
of the waters, tlie grand idea was there
and was expressed in a concrete form
when the goods were delivered, and they
were endowed wilh the power of procre
ation. Now for the hie jacet. ’Tis a
counter en carte, so fine that the points
of our literary swords will turn in a
wedding ring, if you succeed in pan-yin.
QUOTATIONS PARA.PHRA.SEiD.
What’s in a name?_ .Clliat which we call
romance.
By any other name would sell as well.
Breathes there a man with .soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said.
”1 am inspired—I'll write a book
More than wisdom, more than wealth.
Tlie power to write the thing one would.
He writetli much who writeth well.
Thoughts weakly told are filing away;
He writeth best who best can tell
Of true tilings 'truly done each day.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near Is God to man.
When Muses whisper low, “Thou must,”
The poet says, “1 can.”'
MARGARET A. RICHARD.
the old-time country boy’s idea or tun
in some of tile rural districts.
Tlie roughest joke 1 ever knew of was
played by the boys In a baeftwoorts
neighborhood of Tennessee, where the
darkies were holding a " ’stracted
meetfn' ” of the most distracted kind.
It was engineered by a famous revival
preacher, possessed of 1 lings of forty-
donkey power. Crowds of negroes came
from near and afar to hear Brother
Jones “disclaim” on the lire and brim
stone horrors of "everlasting torment, ’
and the singing and shouting was of
the most vociferous kind. The revival
had gone on for weeks and the excite
ment seemed to he increasing when the
boys of the neighborhood decided to
have a little fun themselves. Two of
them, while hunting, had found where
there was an immense hornets’ nest.
They were sent to bring it to the pine
thicket near tlie church where the other
boys were lying in wait. After plug
ging up tlie hole in the nest to prevent
the insects escaping, they carefully
Full of youthful hop* - , she looked j brought this bug of animated dynamite
long rose-tinted, love-lighted i to the other boys in the pine thicket,
vista of future years. | and when the “meetin' ’’ was at its
She was fond of pleasure; she loved toj height, women shouting, men hollerin’
... „ on. scared and wild
| fly that she was, thoughtlessly basking eyed, the hoys threw the hornets’ nest
scription o “the good old times in Ten- I t,ie lljrust - Here it comes: If you should
nessee,” as wistfully related by a Ten ' P ossibl >' 'be right we lose nolTilng, but if
nessee old-timer in Texas made m* j 6 , are rlKht you lo »* a11 '. '\' hat 8°°^
in null nil i » i T nl ® business man or true scientist would
jaugn an oxer. > es, just such horse i trade
play and rough and tumble jokes were '
off a splendid inheritance and give
up tlie great principles that advance civ
ilization for a mere hypothesis? Hoping
you will see the light, I am, your friend,
DOCTOR NAT.
TOMMY ONCE MORE AT THE BAT.
The German emperor, on one oc
casion, while visiting a kindergarten,
took on his lap a little girl, and, re
moving his liat, asked the child what!
kingdom the hat belonged to. “To the'
vegetable kingdom,’’ she said. He next I
took out Ills watch and told her to name! UNCONQUERED.
(he kingdom it belonged to. “To the! She was beautiful i n face and form-
mineral kingdom, - ' was her reply. Tlie! possessed of buoyant spirits and sparkling
great man then asked: “What kingdom' w
do I belong to?” All the inmates of the | down
school room sat with ears at full-cock j
to hear If the little girl was going to |
tell the emperor he was an animal. But! a< ^ ota herself in dainty apparel—butter-J and kids lookin
the child remained silent for a moment
then looked up into the monarch’s eyes,' * n £be sun and drinking the sw*eets ofj in at a window and fell back to their
and, with her face illumed with divine present. But a shadow was hover-; covert to await results. At first, in the
inspiration, said: "To the kingdom of ; ’ nff ov er her. Unconsciously she wasj excitement, the nest wasn’t noticed—
heaven!” i sacrificing her greatest gift—health—on j it was soon stamped on and torn to
My worthy contemporaries—the evolu-j altai of pleasure and fashion,
tionists of the Household—have never vet ■ ^ u *is only a little hacking oougit
lifted their heads high enough to get a| but llow obstinate it was! How it clung
comprehensive view of the subject they j to
are contending with. Like moles, they
go boring, eyeless, and endless through
subterranean darkness, without a
knowledge of the prospect as seen from
the Anossback hills.” No one with
even a casual acquaintance with Na
ture dentes there has been, and is, evo
lution in tlie vegetable kingdom, or does
rot concede that there are also many ear
marks of it in tlie animal kingdoms. There
are elements in his composition akin to
the animal, it is true, but In iiis entirety
he is. as the little girl told the empeior
THB MOTHER SPIDER.
foine time ago I wrote about finding
some curious eggs. Yes, they were
spiders’ eggs. 1 put them away In a
w< oden box, thinking in spring- they
would hatch. In about two months they
"LVOluted” into a mass of living spiders.
I. took thorn to a sunny slope and find
ing an old worn out eoitton picking
bt sket all crank sided, 1 put tlie tiny
nest of sp/ders jn the old basket and ar
ranged some trasli for them to spin on.
In several Mays I went to see about
them, but alas! the old basket had been
moved so 1 could watch the progress of
my strange pets no longer.
I once was stung by a spider on pull
ing 4t large ponegranate. On ex
amining the beautiful fruit 1 found a
nest of tiny spiders in the nose of the
pomegranate. The angry mother had
stung me for taking her babies. 1
SUNNY SOUTH PATTERN.
goats stood in the dilapidated doorway
staring at me. The red paint had been
worn away from the old weather-beaten
wvils: all tlie glass was gone from tlie
windows, yet ii love the old school house.
As I looked at it there came to me mem
ories sweet to recall.
The little schools are becoming tilings
of the past. As we improve our roads,
tlie little schools are consolidated, the
small, rough school house is deserted and
larger and better ones take Us place. The
little school house had Us mission for
good, hut we can do better. It is this
way with The Sunny South. It served
us well. It will not die when its publi
cation ceases. Its spirit will be ex
pressed in other forms; its memory will
live until the knell lias tolled for tlie
passing of the last Household reader, and
spirit and memory will help to inspire
and sustain a broader, finer and more
successful southern literature.
ROANBY ALTON.
THE COUNTRY BOY.
The child city born and bred, has, 1
think, fewer opportunities for acquiring
a sound, practical knowledge of the es
sentials of life than the child born
the country. j
The farmer’s boy may not have the|
polish of the city hoy. he may not be;
able to talk so understandingly of the I
current events which take place in j
town, his hands may not be so soft and j
smooth, and lie may not so often think'
of how his finger nails look, but of real,
useful, practical knowledge he has ten 1 a PRETTY BLOUSE IN MOHAIR
The girl or woman who Is looking foi
a waist which she may fashion for her
self and which is eminently suited for
everyday wear will be pleased with the
accompanying sketch. The waist is de
veloped in a ciiecked mohair which is
...in i serviceable for cold weather and retains
.Tnd frauds * by SbarperS ! its good looks as long as It lasts. The
c.„,, 1 i ' *' . ..... I blouse has two pleats at each side of the
." hU V?r 11 V‘ ab ° Ut tbe , 01,1 bay ' front which end at yoke depth and pro-
nre n«f Tff country Jakes.” they I vkle a mtK , lsll flllt1Pss . The closing is
are not half so gree n as they look. j effected at one side of the front in
rile country boy IS courageous, for his; trtlly m „ itarv mannPr and may he fas-
,, , , , . tened with buttons or frogs. A collar
. mb the trees for tlie; of t[) sa me or linen may complete the
nuts and apples, and cjimlfng ~
times as much as the city boy.
The farmer's boy knows the birds, the]
beasts, tlie trees, the various plants; he
can pretty accurately foretell the]
weather, and if he sees a good horse or I
cow he knows it. lie is a good judge!
of character, and later on in life, he
daily life leads hint into more or lessj
danger. He must
.. ’ an< * cJim!|ng gi\ es i nec) . w |,i] e the s i PPVPS , nav be long or
him agility and self-confidence. He | shorter
For the medium size 3 I-2
yards of 27-inch material are needed.
6793—Sizes. 32 to 42 inches bust meas
ure.
The price of this pattern is (0 cents;
rder.
Bails of tiny spiders are often found in
tl.e house spiders' webs.
MATTIE HOWARD.
“MY DREAM—AND THE AWAKEN
ING. ’ ’
I turned from my morning paper
And smiled, as my bride young and tab,
With rosebud lips pressed my forehead,
; While a curl of her pale goid hair
pieces. Then the hornets got in their Stole silently down on my shoulder.
As she wlrlts-pered soft and low.
Now tell me, my own. my dearest,
Have you ever loved before?”
"No, you dear, little doubting woman,
in my work or in pleasure's whirl.
My heart never knew but one fancy,
For hie there was only one girl.”
How honest I was when 7 said it,
For mine was the happiest lot
That e'er blessed a weak son of Adam;
No wonder the past was forgot.
But alone in tlie evening twilight
1 dreamed of another scene.
work. Tiie first victim was a fat young
iman, who, when a hornet struck tier,
her! The family physician looked] jumped up on the bench and gave vent
grave. She was startled into fear. Could | a yell that rang through tlie big
that he the shadowy faee of the terrible! house. The boys heard it outside and
White Plague, dimly seen down that understood. The preacher heard it,
rosy vista ot the future? Could it be] and it inspired him afresh. He thought
possible that such a fate lay in wait for , jf was an expression of increased fer-
lier—tlie young. the beautilul, the be- vor and appreciation of his lung power,
loved? j His voice rose to a higher pitch, and as
Sitting in the shadow of this great] fresh yells and screams came to him
fear, she postponed her marriage to the; from hornet-stung ones in the congre-
man she loved. . ; gation. he redoubled his efforts until _
The days passed, and with them there! suddenly a hornet speared him on the | In a distant foreign country,
seemed to pass the shadow of tlie greati nose; then another on the lip. He look I Where my wandering feet had been,
fear. the vision of the White Plague] j n tbe situation, jumped from the pulpit Again I saw white-capped billows
vanished; in its place appeared happy i anf j made a dash for the door, followed Toss on a southern sea.
; out joy- pell-mell by a!’ his congregation. When i A' 1 '} ;l sb 'P was entering the harbor
head at ] as t seen he ivis flying along the road M ttli tidings trom home for me.
enjoy the; half a mile away, his coat tail straight! But , turnod f rom the messenger, white-
{ oi*t behind The aisle leading- toj
erning the brute creation is untenable J -7 WH * onI >' a mocking gleam! the door was }so jammed that many Wlios e missive could mean only pain,
bv anv conscientious believer n tJ security. Disease reared its serpent made for the windows, and scarcely a I And 1 clasped the hand more closely
divinlt v if Christ ! bea d front among the flowers. 1 he, w ltole pane of* glass was left. As the; Of a dark-eyed daughter of Spain,
‘ ' ,*.1, j i Inward fovor, the hectic: people eame out and ran wildly in j ^ ho looked up in innocent wonder
I he mossbacks don t claim to under- n us ] lf these, the tokens of the Whitft evert* direction, they were followed bv ^' l the tear that dimmed my eye,
s>tand everything- in the Bible. Tt was ; Plague, wore with her again—more evi-i t he furious bisects that not satisfied ' And murmured in foreign lingo.
^b nt — y **>•■ * wro,.^i\ ^ »«>- ^od., y r-
necessary that we know whence Cain got nm "°‘ k ' J* d ' d ‘ >e ‘' j man victims, attacked the horses hitch-| - u wont bp for long, my darling.”
hts wife or how Sampson caught 300 : ? steps move about her home. or 0 <1 under tlie trees, their fiery stings j And I folded her close to my heart,
foxes- ti is pnoiizli tint w know ~ ; stra y hito the daisied fields to gatner; causing the animals to break their "On earth there’s never an ocean
” . . v , . flowers. With pain as a constant com- j halters and stampede through the! So wide that 'twill keep us apar
wife and foxes were had. The getting , pan i on ; she lay through long days and '
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State
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Bust
Age (If child's or
of the kinguTmi of heaven. He is a fif
ing of the “fourth dimension”—incotn-j I>ove The wedding hells ran?
preliensible to the carnal mind. The j0llg]v . therp was ~ no death ’ a
thought of arranging Cod's own imaged i Ule feast shp coukl now
beings in the same category, and, making i „ ool j c.jf ls of ;jf e
thorn mjbnervtMii to the w«.me liuvs u°v - -Mas* !♦
of* «of*nr
conscientious believer in the
'breaks” the colt his father gives him, I
and ii e lias a horse that is a pleasure
to ride ever after. He raises his own
hens and chickens, and when hp eats
the custards li is mother makes for him; m nn ,v with
not blame her, hut how T had to bathe there is no flavor of antinuitv about!
my hand in soda water before the pain | them.
v.u.' relieved. jj e breathes the pure out-door air a'l ^ *
day. and feels the sunshine fresh from, f Pattern Dept., The Sunny South. ♦
the eternal fount, and not held in solu- • . ., ..
i ,,, , i Please send the *t>ove mentioned
! tion by clouds of smoke or gases from , t
some poisonous distilling manufactory. . ? pattern, as per directions given be
lle is alive all through. He has a
jolly good time in life, even though he
does have to work hard, and should he
go to town and succeed in business there,
he. will look back to his life on the
farm with a regret that is akin to pain,
f He will recall the bottom fields, where
] the ribbon cane looked so inviting in
I the fall; and the sugar mills, where
the luscious sweetness bubbled in the
great vats, and tlie girls from neighbor
ing farms came down on moonlit nights
to help at the “sugaring off.”
I The life of a farmer's boy may have
restrictions; it. may hold its full share
of hard work; but work is a glorious
thing' when the ability to perform it is
i given. Work at which so many worth- i or whatever It may be.
less scions of effete aristocracy affect to
] be horrified is God-ordained. Tt strength
ens and develops a man mentally, mor-
[ ally and physically. The man who can
j work lias a comfort in time of trouble,
! and a staff on which to lean in adver-
‘ slty.
1 Let no living person decry tlie country.
To live in a pure atmosphere, to see
I daily unfolding before tlie eye the won-! l ook could he brought out in near, c!
derful problem of the seasons—old but form it would have a good sale TorJ
ever new, to love the gentle animals and would comorise all kinds of recipes
the singing birds, which are ever around heme, farm, kitchen, gar, en. stock
the child of tlie country—why. it is but 1 H he glad for any suggestions i
a step to the perfection which We hope publication. ...
may come to us when the glad new life! Dpnr fiends. T am afraid we shut-in.
opens up to us in the mystical beyond!
"ALWYN.”
^ miss’ pattern) .
* CAUTION—Be
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careful to give
• correct number and size of pat
tern wanted. When the pattern Is
• bust measure you need onlv mark
•
• When in waist measure, 22. 24, 28
• or whatever It may be. When mtse’
4 or child's pattern write only the
• figure representing the age. It is
a not necessary to wrtte “inches” or
f “years.”
and catching are only a means to the
woods. Pieces of broken buggies and! May God forgive me my weakness.
, . , ,_. nights, feeling that she was the loser in ] larI1 ess were found scattered every-
cuid wife and foxes. Tis tlie ends, not! tlie contest going on between life and
the means, that count in the course °f death,
salvation. And it is passing strange tha.t |
some of our omnivorous devourers bf
knowledge are ready to repudiate thoff her. leading- her along the King's high-
material ends of tlie Rihle because (*od way. As her body became frailer, her
in His wisdom saw fit not to burden our, SO ul expanded and
understanding with tlie nonessential ! mc>re uplifted. Her mental vision he
means. Boys, you'd better explain (some- came clearer, and she saw how utterly
thing science has so far failed to dot fined with vanity had been the butter-
why the leaves fall, and how - the rain-, fly life she had thought was so beautl-
drops are suspended In the air. before; f„]. Daily she became weaker.
where in tlie woods and along the high-
, wavs. The negroes were it sight to he-
But pain was nor her only companion | hol ^ for we eks afterwards, their lips
her Rider Brother Christ was with noses swelled to twice their natu-
ral size and their eyes closed up. The
hornet experience broke up the meet-
grew stronger and j nfr an( ) was for a long time after
wards that not a negro could he got
to enter that church.
The hoys who did the mischief were
muni about it for years. They feared
For it was the only way.
And I hadn’t the courage to tell her
1 was going home to stay.
All night I tossed on my pillow,
My efforts to sleep were in vain;
My hand was a fair-haired woman's,
\Vliile my iieart was over the main.
But hark, there, a bugle is calling—
(How tiresome those fellows are:)
As I rolled from under the canvas
Tlie note sang P-a-n-a-m-a-a-aa.
, All is vanity, sayeth the preacher,
_ It seem- rP buke from their elders, and no doubt j And vanity makes tin life:
von tackle tlie Almighty s personal af- Pf j that her soul must hurst its frail they would have received it, hut all j Farewell to my dark-eyed maiden,
55 * j tenement and seek the high abode to uie same there was many a chuckle Forgotten my golden-haired wife:
John. > ou say that you believe part, which it aspired. over the big joke played on Brother j It was there in my place at the roll call,
. I1MII , , , ' lf :ll, ‘ l! 'fi le ,nlt ca " no£ credit it ns a Xo one expected to see the stricken Jones’ congregation, for, as Annie has I But instead of answering "Here,”
with him. When the dance ended and I j whole, because recent discoveries In' girl ever rise from her lied again, or ( “the old-time Tennesseeans en-
cought her and reproached Per for her science have proved part of it untrue.] hear her sweet voice in song; but one joyed the roughest kind of fun."
disregard of my wishes, she laughed Now - , as until those scientific discover- fl ay they heard, to their great surprise,! WILLIE.
and finally said she would not he die-| j PS you had no reason to doubt one i the soft chords of the organ blending
tated to. It ended in our engagement be- p ar f of tli e Bible any more than nil with the tones nf a sweet voice, weak b if TNTTO TTTF. BREACH ONCE MORE
ing broken off. ^ ftr j' £ * iat a !\‘^ ! "tlier. then, by tlie same course of rea-j with a note of triumph In it. Tt was ••nnoe more into the
wnl have but small showing in tlie new,
grand magazine. It will hurt my heart
to meet you no more in the dear House
hold. but I pray I may meet you in.
the great heavenly Household, where
♦her" is no parting. May God bless you.
dear friends, and make this a happy
aud prosperous year for you and yours.
Your loving friend,
BEN C. KNIGHT.
1 sleepily ask of tlie captain.
“Are there any girls down there?”
F.
CARL HOWELL.
Dear Houstholders: I come into your
circle tlie bearer of sad news. You
will remember an excellent letter that
recently appeared In the Household
under the head, “Don’t Tempt Them,"
expressing such chiva’rous and manly ] THIS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY,
sentiments about young women. The { saw a WOIuan s wondrous eves,
letter was signed “Carl Honell." It l ike jeweled lamps of Paradise,
was tlie real name of a young man of ; guide on the men who ’round her ram*
A morions. Ga., who was beloved and es- | Like flitting moths about a flame;
teemed by all who knew him. And j For man will dare the serpent's hiss,
now he has pased a wav. He died witn j To gain from woman's lips a kiss,
his Bible lying bv him on the bed. ! And dying, know it were but bliss,
where he had ben trying to read it. i Afar, a small yoke set-mod to say.
though his sufferings were intense. His AH such as tbis sh:lIt ^ away '
j mother said, as she looked upon his j I saw men strive to gain a crown,
! face for the last time: “M\ bov never By trampling each his brother down;
me an unloving word or a mo- ! Looking with scorn upon the ixior.
iv mo
gave
C.
t|tl HI •( III 1- * ■
• i «» enu i Turning- the needy from their door,
menl » anx > J - ' ' ' * Men strives for gold, wliat does he sain,
this. He and 1 often talked about 1 lie i j, 0 i eaves bl it anguish in his train.
And wounds that ne’er will cease to ;ain?
breach, dear
recklessly into all the S CO n r sta „t I sonlng .it Is natural to expect some- Lie young wife. AVith flushed cheeks; f r j €11( j s , once more." I see, Sammie, that
7 , ma , n , atfeiifirms ind ! thing, in the words of Mr. Mlcnawber, i and shining eyes, she sang;
(Ktmptinlnn and lavisnmg attentions and j ^ up , any day> prt)vln( , tho |
presents upon her. 9ne had no one to re
strain her and soon she was lightly
-pokei
forever lost
"T had loved her deeply and my sor
row ov«<- her fall was profound. One
night I happened to r»e passing near a
group of young men standing at the cor
ner of a hack street. I heard the name
of my lost love spowen by the man who
had caused her ruin. Tie was boasting
to h1s boon companions of his conquest
Bible bogus. Then.
what becomes of | “I am drinking at the fountain
Where I ever would abide,
Bible? | p ' or I’ve tasted life’s pure river,
John, if Christ (I think you believe In i m Y soul is satisfied.
TTim?) could turn water Into wine, and There’s no thirst for worldly pleasure,
raise the deed, why should It be so tin-1 admirers rich and gav;
naturally miraculous for God Almighty j 1 have found a richer treasure—
to stop fne diurnal motion of the earth; One that fadeth not away.”
for a few - hours? Ah, you say, if the]
earth was to stop, one side of it would | Toe terrible white plague had
your are determined to get that Hie .Ta-
oet I promised you. “Lard, man, you
shall have it.”
In the beginning, r will preface my
remarks by saying that you don’t fight
fairly. You misplace words and mis
construe their meaning. Of course, eve
don’t believe with the old negro that I
God made Adam out of mud and set !
him up against the fence to dry. Neither
j are we quite so ignorant as to suppose i , warnuts." she asked, "when it’s
Now. Sammie. the . , =t » O!lov .
A CHILD’S REBUKE.
“I like walnuts," said the small gir
in a gray woolen dress, one of a party ] paper
of women and children, including a young
father, who were seated under an old
pole shed partaking of the rich goodies
of the black walnut.
“Walnuts!” exclaimed the young man.
‘Why don’t you eay warn-uts. like the
rest of us? You do try to lie so proper!”
the sentence ending with u sneer.
A pair of calm blue eyes were raised
to the speaker’s face.
"What's tile use of teaching children
Sunny South. He loved it and he
fond of the Household and felt anxious
lest it should die with the dear old
ONE OF YOU.
A WORD FROM EiE(N KNIGHT.
My Dear Household Friends: 1 ai
“de sun do move.”
con- I diameter of tlie sun being 866.000
just as easy to speak tlie word the right
thankful if I may hi- able to speak on e
more to you through our dear old Sunny
South, which has been our friend fo
sc many cold winters and blooming
summers. Often. I have thought, as 1
sat drawn up in my winter corner by
the lire reading the Household letters
what would we poor shut-ins do if ve
had nowhere to call in, and no good
friends to remember us and visit
Afar, a small voice seemed to say.
"Ail such as this shall ipass away."
What can we claim, what can we wn,
That shall be ours when time has down;
That shall endure when earth and. sea.
And sun and moon have ceased to be?
The law He gave—the crucified—
Who, ere on Calvary He died.
Bade men relinquish gam and pride
In love alone be sanctified.
Afar an angel seemed to say.
"Love onlv shall not pass awav.’’
HARRY M. DEAX
quered the fair body, but the soul was! miles and that of the earth only 8.000.
! way. and besides they will have to learn through tlie paper and through letters
victor over disease and death.
RACHEL BROOKS.
WHY DO BOYS LEAVE THE
FARM ?
of course we very naturally supposed
over again when their teachers
I them, or when they go among
correct i ’I he mail
th»
you would understand a popular phrase
being used to fit the undersnmdfng of
greatest comfort
people | l ave, though my letters now are few
j and far between, and often T have tin
IS IT TOO LATE?
Dear Meb: Do let me in just a minut*.
Dr. Botts lias got me-a”! -stf red up/ I
want the doctor to tell me if it is to?
late to reduce my husband to such gen
tle submission as he has described in
from the young father, heart-sick feeling that I am forgotten | himself? I have been married to this
Why are the boys leaving the farms You
to come to the city? This to me is ' you
very alarming. Is it that they are be
coming restless to break into and join
the trusts or has the tilling of the
soil become so monotonous that they
desire to try new fields? In the office
where T am at present T have noted
this with an extra sigh—during my
stay in the lumber office the country
applicatlons were mostly for the saw
mill employ, but in the hardware bus
iness the average applicants are three
per day.
This little town T live in boasts of,
say. 80,000 inhabitants. Doesn’t it seem,
a feasible idea that there would he
boys enough to take the place of the
! the people of that day. As for -explain- on|v a and a mt , chagrined laugh. 1; many who once kindly thought >f
! L n :* ,V nP ..°., r S 0d l^i ra J, eS ’.J'. 0a „ a _ ak ,_ , .° 0 ! Heretofore when he guyed the girl on her me. But 1 a " 1 ho na ° ri re m tba " full
“trying to be so -proper.” ltis speeches i tlie kinaness shown me the letters full
had been received with approving laugh ot cheer, the beautiful card- nice ban 1-
ter as smart (by those hearing them, but | kerchiefs— and a few great > needci .
today they were silent in the face of I and welcome dollars. You don t know
much, and He made all universal law.
also made a misfit when
said evolution was lieredity
anfi environment carried to its legitimate
length, for legitimate means lawful, and laln ’ rPaS( ' )n Soon afterwards, the little
law remfires nrnof. nor," of wh.cn vnn I ^ , Jp , )Pr broad-brimmed hat,
law requires proof, potie of which you
have ever given. Y'ou miscue again when
you say evolution does not -contradict
the Bible. Now. of course, it would be
mighty nice if we let you have every
thing your own way. Yon would de
stroy history, blot . out the Christian's
hope and turn civilization backward, for
such would be the y result of the success
of your doctrine the beast of Revela
tion would 'be in evidence, but, thank
God, your words will be talten “cum
grano salis.”
Why is it you outdarwin Darwin him
self when you say that there is no neces
sity of a supernatural power? Listen to
lx — . , , . tint til n oulici nuiumi . ljunril
older nen in the hardware business. words of your leader himself, when
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T think so, but the influx of country
applications has two sides to it—city
folks rely upon country produce for
their living—if the men leave the farm
women flock to cities to make “pin
money.” Where, oh where, are we go
ing to turn for bread and living?
Some harbor thoughts that the edu
cational advantages of the day are the
real root of evil, hut T can’s see it In
that light. Even a farmer must of
necessity have education; else how can
he run the farm?
In this city the country people seem
to lie flocking to the city—entire fam
ilies are coming—some claim school
advantages, others the country is too
lonesome, and others. T surmise, have
grown so shiftless that they merely
come to get out of hard work.
John Trotwood Moore says that the
man who has never lived upon a farm
has only half lived ltis life. He goes
on to say they are nearer to nature
and the close association with great
he (Darwin) says In his exhaustive efforts
to find the origin -of species, “I believe
TO WOMEN WHO DREAD MOTHERHOOD!
Information Hov> They May Give Birth to Happy,
Healthy Children Absolutely Without Pain.
Sent Free.
and saying goodby to the others, started
homeward with her little brother, not
realizing that she had dropped a seed of
thought by the wayside.
"Tell you what,” said an onlooker, who
had usually taken, sides with the gruff
young father, "that young 'un's got more
sense in a minute than vou’se got In a
lifetime.” MRS. G. O. CORBETT.
-order must change for the new." Thiiff
with ‘the dear old Sunny South. Its
passing is lamented by us who have read
it with interest for so long that the place
on our tables seemed permanent and the
pleasures derived from it a part of our
daily lives. For some of us it lias awaken
ed a deeper interest In literature, and
instead of plodding alone in tiie darkness
we have been able to chaf with others,
to be helped by their ideas and sngges-
No woman need any longer dread the pains of * ,,d \° paths of
childbirth, or remain childless. Dr. J. H. Dye has thoug?ht made brigihtei with the l*oht ol
devoted his life to relieving the sorrows of women, i their minds.
lie has proved that all pain 4 at childbirth may be* The Sunny South is a good paper; that
entirely banished and he will gladly tell you limv ] none will deny; the Household is the
it may be done absolutely tree of charge. Semi your , . . . . .. , ,. .. , „ , .. fl
name and address to Dr. .1. If. Dye. 136 Lewis ' f 1 ^ feature, its drawing card, full
Block. Buffalo. N. Y.. and he will send you, post i instruction to young writers, of en-
pnid. his wonderful hook which tells how to gUe » tertainment with its spicy letters and
birth to happy, healthy children, absolutely without ! sketches and its help in literary studv.
£j” : CUre ' 5 ' i see,lls a f’it-v that the weekly journal
7 ] could not have been given a better grade
of printing and pajier, the Household
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE—THE
PAPER AND THE MAGAZINE
As Tennyson says in “Morte D'Ar-
thur.” when a reason was given for the
passing of the Round Table “the old I wife and throe little girls to support by
husband of mine nineteen years and be
is very set in his ways. Any advice you
can give me in the matter. Dr. Botts, will
he highly appreciated, and if I get into
trouble, why I will just appeal to you to
help me out. Such a pity T did not know
how good it is to he able to have a little ; you sooner!
money to buy things you so much need. ; ; feel quite out of place in such smart
Oh. if I could work!—could only use company as the Household, but 1 like
these cramped limbs and fingers to earn ; every one of you and read alt your let-
a support or even part of a support. 1 ters with pleasure. Once I could write
think it would be happiness enough. 1 with a good deal of spirit, hut you see
am not smart and well educated enough having been a man's wife so lon-J, I have
to write book- like my noble friend — ] learned to repress myself and keep quiet.
Mr. Tom Lockhart. T caught at a sug And since so many olive branches have
gestion front one of your friends to j come to be mine, 7 nave little time to
pi blislt a book of recipes of all kinds, - think of anything put tnem and their
contributed bv the Household writers j father. Now their fainer is a smart titan
and readers. Many kindly sent recipes, j and every one of them “took after him.”
but 1 do not know how I shall get tiie j ; jive on a farm and have my chickens
book published, as it co-ts so much ; and flowers and ray row. anit I ntilk her,
money. I am dependent on my brother, : too. Annie Valentine. 7 could tell some
who is a small, delicate man with a ] funny things if T had time. V.’hat’s that?
Glad I haven’t time?" Well T'll stqa.
his work on a small farm. I think if the
JESSICA.
out the ev B traits and makins the
good ones much better in quality
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