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The Revenue of Waste.
The farmer who fincls it difficult to
make a living is rarely the one who is
economical in management, especial
ly in the saving and feeding of farm
products. He looks after his grain,
but the forage and straw are mainly
wasted. His stable and barnyard
manures are thrown outside to be di
luted by the winter rains until less
than half their original is left to be
spread over his fields. His summer
and winter apples are wasted because
he neglects to pick them in season,
or for the want of a local marKet, In
the fall he husks his corn and then
leaves the fodder to be bleached by
autumn suns and beaten by winter
storms until at last perhaps he turns
in his cattle and hogs to glean the
remnant of value left. In the spring
is ambitious to do too much 7ork,
and lie SKims it in sucii a careless
manner that much of it is lost
through lacK of management, and so
on from season to season, and it is
only the prolusion of products which
his land yields that enables him to
make a living amid such waste. In
some countries these leakages of the
are worth fully as much as the
product* in this country; and more
and more it is coming home to our
farmers that their main revenue in
the future is to be utilized from the
present waste. The narrowing of the
margin of profit by competition and
consequent lowering of prices has
compelled a study of the economics
of tne farm and the avoidance of
waste. The man who plants acres
of strawberries and grapes, or even
the more hardy trees and shrubs, in a
hasty, careless manner, wrecks all
his future prospects.
There can scarcely be greater waste
of labor than that of too great haste.
It is oiten more profitable to go very
slowly, and especially is this the case
in planting, aw I have found out by
my own experience.
But even if a man plants his or
chard or vineyard with care, when the
harvest time comes thrre are many
bushels of fruit wasted for want of a.
local market, or manufactories to can
and preserve them. And also im
menae quanti ies are allowed to spoil
in the orchard because they are not
worth the picKing up.
The extent of these has been so
great that even their partial avoid
ance enables the farmer to live at
prices which a few years ago would
have been deemed a bar to produc
tion in certain lines. Heretofore the
very profusion of products has per
mitted if not encouraged waste; but
it is believed that the possibilities of
economy and method in cultivation
and cropping will be quite sufficient
in itself to render future farming
profitable.
Frequently a great deal of the
farmer’s vvorK is waste. It is done
less thoroughly than it should be,
demanding to be done over again in
the near future. Our country roads
is one example of this; our careless
planting and ploughing of these crops
are even worse illustrations.
Hut ail this will become the farm
er’s revenue of the future. When
competition and quick transporta
tion have brought prices down to the
lowest possible margin of profit, then
he will gather up these fragments of
waste, and unite them in a. substan
tial revenue.
Do not anticipate your revenues
and live upon air till you know what
you are worth.”—Gray.
N. F. L.
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THE LISTENING WOODS.
I went to the leafy forrest;
Not a leaf, not a flower was stirred ;
Still, in its nook, was the dreaming brook,
Still was the nesting bird.
I looked at the shadowed mosses,
I looked at the nests o’erhead;
I looked at the small brook dreaming
Alone in its sandy bed.
I listened long in the stillness ;
I listened and looked in vain;
It seemed that the silent forest
Never would wake again.
At last, like a gentle breathing,
A wind of the Southland blew,
And it whispered, “The folks of the forest
Are listening child, like you.”
Love for Others.
Love for others covers a broad field
it now only means to regard with
honor and esteem, but includes all
forms of respect and our actiors to
ward others. Love for others does
not mean to look up to others and
regard them better than self, but to
give to them all the honor and esteem
due to them. And to always bestow
honor upon those to whom it is due
and respect upon those to whom it is
due. 4 *I)o unto others as you would
have them to do unto you.” This is
the golden rule and if always followed
everyone would be much more happy
than they now are. Let us practice
this golden rule day by day and all
through life, and say that we will
love one another as God loves us.
Respect your teachers and your
schoolmates. When a person holds a
high position be is duly respected,
but he is not the only person to
whom honor and esteem is due. Let
us practice this in all periods of life,
in the school room, in the highest
positions of life, and in the lowest
callings of life. Let us not think
that because one person is w r ealthy
and another one poor that the wealthy
man is the best, because each beggar
in our land, though poor and de ti
tute, has some reason for being in
this pitiful condition ; so let us not
think that because he is in the world
alone that he does not need our sym
pathy, help and respect, for they are
in a condition to appreciate every
thing that is done for them. Respect
others, and they will respect you.
Do for others as you would have them
do for you. “Help the poor, and
cheer the lying, and you shall re
ceive your reward/’ has often been
repeated. Our love for others great
ly influences us in all of our actions
toward them. If you imagine your
self in the place of one suffering we
would expect someone to help us and
cheer us in our hours of suffering
just so they expect our sympathy and
help.
May we keep our eyes open to the
sufferings and sorrows of the world
and our love toward others help them
and cheer them in their hours of sor
rows and suffering.
ThALMA GILMORE.
Xenophon.
Among the many great men of old
we know of none who are worthy of
more praise and emulation than Xen
ophon.
It is thought that he was born
about 481 B. 0., the first year of the
Pelopennesian war.
His parents were Gryllus and Dio
dora. * Tiiese parents were wont to
sacrifice swine to 1 enus the Gracious,
from which it is thought the name
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His writings are divided into his
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(411-862). Next comes nis Anabasis.
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proven by the fact that from the time
of Xenophon until the present day,
it has held an undisputed place in the
college curriculum as the Dest of all
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to Grecian language and literature.
Of his generalship and other works
we will say nothing, as it will suffice
to say that as a historian he was ani
mating and delightful, as a general
he was brave and unconquerable, and
as a statesman he rivalled in great
ness those of our present day.
He died in 860, having lived a life
that will ever be handed down as a
model, a life of usefulness and devo
tion.
* John Colquitt Thomas.
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By authority of the General Assembly,ap
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felony convicts who may be in the Peniten
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