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“The Good old Days.”
If those people who are always
lamenting the passing of the good
old days, who ask in hopeleß6
tones for the noble men, the con
secrated women of other times,
would only open their eyes to the
real lives of the men and women
about them, they would usually
find the answer to their pessimis
tic questions right at hand. We
look back to the men of an earlier
generation and recognize their
honesty of purpose and upright
ness of soul because we are able
to look at their lives as a whole,
and to see their mistakes and
faults and sins for what they tru
ly were—mere blemishes upon
characters in the main true and
sound. Too often, however, as we
look at the man close by we per
mit these little defects, because
of their nearness, to loom larger
to us than do the real qualities —
the innate integrety and good
ness —of the man. It behooves all
of us to remember that were we
judged only by our weakness and
our errors, we would seem very
bad indeed. Yet in our own hearts
most of us know that we wish to
do right, to be just, kind and help
ful. It is not likely that the men
and women about us are so very
different.
No, it is not worth while to ask,
as so many do, for the old-fash
ioned men and women of many
virtures; if we can not see them
all about us, it is only because we
are looking at life through distor
ted lenses. The men of to-day are
as upright, as brave, as truly de
vout as the men of any past time;
the women of today are as pure,
as loving, as tenderly helpful and
serenly hopeful as women have
ever been. The old-fashioned fath
er who gave good counsel and set
a good example tD his children
can be found all over the land.
The old-fashioned mother, whose
gentle charity took in all the
world and whose self-sacrificing
devotion covered her loved ones
as with a garment, walkß the
streete of every village and
throngs the aisles of every coun
try church. The sweet girl of the
old-time; the youth of great am
bitions and high ideals; the peo
ple who unselfishly loved home
and country, and who reverenced
abstract truth and justice—all
these, the real nobility of earth,
are all about us; we jostle them
in the streets or see them pass
along the “big road” every day.
Let us ; careful that wo do
not, becuus- <>f their mistakes and
failures, shut our eyes to their
real characters and persuade our
selves that, like Lot of old, we
are almost the only righteous per
sons in a land overflowing witn
iniquity.—Progressive Farmer.
The hope of the South is in bet
ter farming—learning not only
how to produce the world’s cotton
crop on the smallest possible ac
reage, but also the biggest possible
yields of grain, forage and feed
crops, for human food and for
feeding live stock, so that we may
be independent of “speculators”
and and prepared to
hold cotton whenever the time
comes to hold.
J. E. Parker, 2021 No. 10th St.,
Ft Smith, Ark., says that he had
taken many kinds o< kidney
medicine, but did not get better
until he took Foley’s Kidney Pills.
No matter how long you have had
/ kidney trouble, you will find quick
and permanent benefit by the use
of Foley’s Kidney Pills. S*tart
taking them now. For sale by
all druggists.
When you finally consent to the
boys going to town for a vacation
have them figure out exactly how
much it will cost —and then double
the amout. Better give nothing
uuless you can give liberally.
Rub a sore thuoat with BAL
LARE’S SNOW LINIMENT. One
or two applications will euro it
completely. Price 25c, 60c anc*
SI.OO per bottle. Sold by New
Lyons Pharmacy.
The farmers of the South nr>-
learning to grow their own pork,
and this is a great step toward in
dependence.
For coughing, dryness and tick
ling in the throat, hoarseness and
all coughs and colds, take Foley’s
Honey and Tar Compound. Con
tains no opiates. For Sale by All
druggists.
If You Own Hens, Read This.
Everv reader of the Progressive
Farmer should know that his eggs
are much more liable to decay if
laid in damp, musty, unclean
nests. He should know that the
market value of his eggs will be
decreased if his hens are allowed
to wade in mud and filth as they
go to the nest. He should know,
above all, that the germ in a fer
tile egg begins to develop as soon
as the egg is laid, if the tempera
ture is above 68 degrees, and that
this development is fast or slow
according to whether the egg is
kept warm or cool. The normal
temperature in an iucubator is 108
degrees. If the egg is kept at a
temperature of 90 degrees, the
germ will develope as much in sev
en or eight days as it would in one
day in an incubator. If the tem
perature gets to 95 degreers or
more, it will require only three
or four days to get development
equal to a day in the incubator.
The egg kept in a kitchen near the
cooking stove, or in a warm pant
ry, or left in the nest in the sum
mer time may be fully this warm.
The egg hauled to town on a hot
day without any protection from
the sun, may be heated to 107 and
108 degrees, and at this tempera
ture there will be as much devel
opment in one day as there would
be in three days in an incubator.
Os course, the merchant who
buys the eggs knows nothing of it
if they have been wrongly handled
but the men who buy eggs in the
city figure on the average number
of eggs they lose and the price of
all eggs is marked down accord
ingly.
The rules to be observed, then,
in getting good eggs and keeping
them good until marketed are:
(1) to have clean nests, (2) to
gather the eggs every day, (3) to
keep them just as cool as possible
without freezing, and (4) to mark
et just as quickly as possible. An
egg begins to deteriorate from the
time it is laid, and while cold
storage is the best preservative yet
known, no cold storage egg, or no
egg more than three or four days
old can be as good as one that is
freshly laid —The Progressive
Farmer.
The Hub of the Body.
The organ around which all the
other organs revolve, ancf upon
which they are largely dependent
for their welfare, is the stomach
When the functions of the stomach
become impaired, the bowels and
liver also become deranged. To
cure a disease of the stomach, liv
er or bowels get Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin. It is the promptest
relief for constipation and dyspep
sia ever compounded. It is abso
lutely guaranteed to do what is
claimed, and if you want to try it
before buying, send your address
for a free sample bottle to Pepsin
Syrup Co , 119 Caldwell Bldg,
Monticello, 111. It is sold by All
Druggist at 50c. ard sl. a bottle.
We are told at the end of forty
years it was not Mrs. O’Leary’s
cow, but presumably a cigar
thrown into a pile of shavings,
that started the great Chicago
fire. Which iB all very well in the
interest of truth and 1 veracity, but
in the interest of justice it neces
sarily imposes the enormous task
of making adequate amends to
the cow.
DOCTORS FAILED.
RESTORED BY PERUNA.
Catarrh of the Lungs
Threatened Her Life.
Miss Ninette Porter, Braintree, Ver
mont, writes: “I have been cured by
Peruna.
“I had several hemorrhages of the
lungs. The doctors did not help me
much and would never have cured me.
“I saw a testimonial in a Peruna
almanac of a case similar to mine, and
I commenced using it.
“I w-as not able to wait on myself
when I began using it. I gained very
slowly at first, but I could see that it
j was helping me.
“After I had taken it awhile I com
menced to raise up a stringy, sticky
substance from my lungs. This grew
less and less in quantity as I con
tinued the treatment.
"I grew more fleshy than I had been
for a long time, and now I call myself
well.”
Dr. King's INew Life Pills
The best in the world.
HE LYOM& PROGRESS, NOV. 17, 1911.
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