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BY A. CHURCH
VOL. II
Poetry.
Somebody's Mother.
The woman was old and rugged ard gray,
And boot with tho chill of the Wint er’s day:
'The street was wet with s recent snow,
And the woman’s feet were aged and slow.
t3ho stood at the crossing and waited long.
Alone, uneared for, amid the throng
•Of human being who passed her by,
"Nor heed the glance of her anxious eye.
Sown the street, wiih laughter and shout,
•Glad in the freedom of school lot out,’
"Came tho beys like a tioclc of sheep,
H.. iling the snow piled white acd deep,
Past the woman so e ui and gray,
Hastened children on their way,
JNTor offering a helping hand to her,
.So meek so timid a (raid to stir
Lest the carriage wheels or the horses’ feet
•Should crowd her dowa in the slippery streot.
At last same one of the merry troop—
The gayest laddie of all the group;
Ale paused beside her and whispered low,
'“I’ll help you aeross if yon wish to go."
Her aged hand on his strong young arm
;She placed, and 10 , without hurt or harm,
He guided the trembling foot along,
d’roud that his own wore firm auidAtrong.
"Thon again back to his friends he went:
His young heart happy and well oontent;
•“She’s somebody’s mother, hoys, you kuow,
Far all she,s aged and poor and slow;
And I hope some follow will lend u hand
To help my mother you understand,
If ever sho’s poor and old and gray
When her own dear boy is far away,’
And ‘somebouy’s mother' bowed low her bead
duller home that night, and the prayer she
said
Was ‘‘liud behind to that noble hoy,
Who is somebojy’s son pride aud joy.— see.
Do Your Best.
IIavo you failed to-day, good heart?
'Tis ■ o cause for sorrow;
Try agaiuj the clouds may part—
I’oihrps in ,y part to uiorrow
If you arc a brave, strong man,
You will do the best yo can.
I)o your best,and leave the rest,
Have you lost your land or gold?
That’s no cause for sighing;;
One bright hour doth olt untold
Many a year’s denying.
Bo not weary or downcast,
‘‘Patience holds the gale at last.’’
Ho your best, and leave the rest,
And never give up trying.
Rich or poor, be all a man;
Wear no golden fettor,
Ho the very best you can,
And you’ll soon do better.
Hvory day you do your best
Is a vantage for the rest.
Don’t complain; every grain
Is making your best still bvttor.
A Pleasing Incident.
If there are any of our girls who
think working in the kitchen some¬
thing to bo ashamed of, and who,
when so doing snatch at their big
apron when the door-bell summons
them as though ic was a badge of dis¬
honor that must not he allowed to be
seen let them read this.
There is a lady living in a little
four-room cottage in tho environs of
Boston whoso name is well known to
literary people. She depends wholly
upon her own exertions for the support
of herself and children and does all her
own housework, and yet her cottage is
tho focus of the best society of the lo¬
cality. A geutleman calling there re¬
cently was recieved at tho door by a
daughter of the lady who told him her
mother was too busy to ho called but
be could see her in the kitchen if he
pleased; and he followed her to that
room. The lady greeted him without
the least embarrassment though she
bad on a big apron with her sleeves
pinned back to her sbbulJers. She
was cutting a pumpkin into strips for
pies; and there sat a venerable gentle¬
man paring the strips to the accompan¬
iment of brilliant conversation. I was
asked to guess who this gentlemen was
and after several fruitless attempts was
told it was poet Longfellow While
the pumpkiu-paring was in process an**
other distinguished poet called and he
also insisted upon being impressed into
the service. It was a dreary day out¬
side aud no one cared to leavo the
pleasant cottage so they ail stayed to
lunch one of the pies forming the piece
dc resistance of the occasion Speaking
of this incident afterwards the lady
said: “My friends are kind enough to
come and see me though they kDow I
cannot leave my work to entertain them.
Visiliug and work must proceed togeth¬
er aud when I set my callers at work
with me we are sure to have an agree¬
able time.—Lippincott's Magazine.'
Croam Pie —Ono cup sugar one egg.
piece of butter size of an egg, one
teaspoon soda dissolved in a cop of
sweet milk; add to this when mixed
together two teaspoons cream tartar,
rubbed in three cups of flour and bako
iu three jelly cake tins.
OUB OWN SECTION WE EMtOS i'OU ITS ADVANCEMENT.
CLEVELAND, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, JULY :l 0, 1KS
Plucky
Tho boy marched straight up to the
-counter.
‘Well, my little man,' said the mer¬
chant, complacently—he had just rison
from such a glorious good dinner—‘what
will yog have to-day? -
It might have been the pleasant blue
eves that did it, for the man was not
accustomed to parley with small
gentlemen, and Tommy wasn't seven,
yet, and small of his age at that. There
wore a few wisps of hair on the mer¬
chant's temples, and looking down on
the appealing face, the mau pulled at
them.
‘Do some work for me, eh? Well,
now, about what sort of work might
your email manship calculate to
be able to perform ? Why you can't
look over the counter.’
*Qh, yes, I can, and I’m growing,
please, growing very die fast—there! see
if 1 can’t look over counter!'
‘Yes, by standing on your toon; are
they coppered V
‘What, sir?’
‘Why, your toes. Your mother couldn’t
keep you in shoes if they wern't.’
’.She can't keep mo in shoes, anyhow,
sir.' aud tho voice hesitated.
The man took pains to look over tho
counter. It was too much for him ; be
couldn't seethe little toes. Then he
went all the way around.
‘I thought I should need a micro¬
scope,’ he said, gravely, ’but 1 reckon if
I get close enough I can see what you
look like.’
M m older than I'm big, sir,’ was the
neat rejoinder ‘Folks say I’ui very
email of ray age,’
Aud what might be your age, sir?'
responded the man with emphasis.
’I'm almost seven,’ said Tommy, with
a look calculated to impress even six
foot nine. ‘You see my mother hasn’t
anybody but me, and this morning I
saw her crying because she coulu'ut
Hod five cents m her pocket book, be
i cause the boy that took the ashes stole
it—and —I—haven't— had —any — any
breakfast, sir.’
The voice again hesitated, and tears
came to the blue eyes.
‘I reckon 1 can help you to a break¬
fast, my little follow.’ said the man,
feeling iu his vest pocket. ‘There, will
that quarter do ?’
The boy shook his head. ‘Mother
wouldn’t let me bog, sir,’ was the sim¬
ple reply.
‘Humph! Where's your father ?’
‘We never heard of him, sir, after he
went away. He was lost, sir, in the
steamer City of Boston ’
’Ah! you don’t say. That's bad. But
you aro a plucky little fellow anyhow.
Let me see’—and he pondered, pucker¬
ing up his mouth aucl looking straight
down into iho boy’s eyes winch wore
looking straight up into his. ‘Saun¬
ders,’ bo asked, addressing a clerk who
was rolling up and writing on parcels,
‘is Cash No. 4 still sick?'
‘Dead, sir; died last night,’ was the
low reply.
‘Ah, I’m sorry to hear that. Well,
here’s a youngster that can take his
place.’
Air. Saunders looked up slowly, then
he put his pen behind his left ear, then
his glance traveled curiously from Tom¬
my to Mr. Towers.
’Oh, I understand,’ said the latter.
‘Yes, he is small, very small indeed,
but I like his pluck. What did No. 4
get ?’
‘Three dollars, sir,’ said the still-as¬
tonished clerk.
•Put this boy down four. There,
youngster, give him your name, and
run home and tell your mother you’ve
got a place at four dollars a week.
Come back on Monday, and 111 tell you
what to do. Here’s a dollar iu advance;
I’ll take it out of your first week. Can
you remember?’
Tommy shutout of the shop.
If ever broken stairs, that had a twist
through the whole flight, cracked and
trembled under the weight of a small
ooy, or perhaps, as might be better
stated, laughed and chuckled ou aeount
of a small boy’s good luck, those iu that
tenement house eDjoyed themselves
thoroughly that morning.
‘I’ve got it mother! I’m took! I’m
a cash boy! Don’t you know when
they take the parcels the clerks call
‘cash!’ I’m that! Four dollars a week!
And .lie man said 1 bad real good pluck
courage you know. And hero's a dollar
for breakfast; and don’t you never cry
again, for Pin the mau of the house
now!’
The bouse was only a ten by fifteen
room, but how those blue eye* did mau
uify it! At first the mother looked eon
fouuded; tkeu sho looked faint; and
then she looked—well, it passes ray
power to tell how she did look, as she
caught the boy iu her arms and hugged
and kissed him, the tears streaming
down her cheeks. But they Were tears
of tki5,ukfulue.->8 now.
Salt For Trees and Vegetables.
I will give you a sketch of my experi¬
ence with the use of salt in the garden
and orchard. Young fruit tr« os can be
made to grow and do well in places
whore old trees have died by sowing a
pint of sale on the ground where they
are to stand. After trees aro set I con¬
tinue to sow a pint, of salt around each
tree every year. 1 sot twenty dive trees
in sandy soil for each ono of seven voars
and only succeeded in getting one to
live, and that only produced twigs a
few inches long in nine years
Last spring I sowed a pint of salt
around it, and limbs grow from three
to three and a half feet long. Iu the
spring of 1877 I sot out twentysfivo
trees, putting a pint of ealt in the dirt
used for filling, and then sowed a pint
more on the surface after each tree was
set. All grew as if they had never been
takeu from the nursery. Last spring I
set thirty more, troatiug them in ttie
same way, and- they have grown very
finely. The salt keeps away insects
that injure the roots and renders the soil
moro capable of susuiuiug plant growth,
In 1877 my wife had a garden forty
feet square. It was necessary to water
it nearly every day, and still the plants
and flowers were inferior in all respects
Iu 1878 I put half a barrel of brine and
half a bashel of salt on tho ground,
and then turned it under. Too conse¬
quence was that tho plants were of ex
traordinary large size and flower* of
great beauty. It was not necessary to
water the garden, which was greatly
admired by all who saw it. The flow¬
ers were so L rge that they appeared to
ba of different varieties from those
grown on land that was not salted.
1 bad some potatoes growing from
seed that wilted down as soon as the
weather became very hoc. I applied
salt to the surface of ,the soil till it was
white. The vines took a vigorous start,
grow to the length of three feet, blos¬
som moil ami produced tubers from the
size of lion's eggs to that of goose eggs.
My soil is chiefly sand, but I behove
that suit is highly beneficial to clay or
to common prune land.—[J. D., iu Chi
cago Times.
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The Blamed Fools.
When Davy Crockett was a member
of Congress ho was sitting nan day in a
hotel toasting bis shins, when a Senator
from Massachusetts entered.
Approaching the old fronuorsman the
latter said:
‘Crockett, a large procession of your
constiuents are marching up the street.
You ought to go nut ami greet them.’
Crockett hurriedly rose and went out
upon the hotel steps, when a largo
drove of mules passing by caught .his
eye. He quietly watched them until ’.he
last one had passed, and then returned
to his soa't by the stove. The Alassa
ehusetts Senator was stiil there, aud as
the redoubtable Davy dropped into Ins
chair, asked:
‘Well, did you eee your friouds?’
“Oh, yes - ’ was tho reponse. ‘They
look remarkably woll, too.
‘Did you ascertain their destination ?
’Certainly, sir, ’
‘And where wore they going in such
a so!id body ?'
Crockett turned to the Senator with
a quiet, calm expression, and replied;
* fho blamed fools were all going
down to Massachusetts to teach school!’
Aud they gazed a moment into eacu
other’s faces and sadly walked up to
exorcise the bar-keeper a while.
Fun With ail Ox.
A Marion county man drove an ox to
Americus, purchased a lot of goods and
started home at dark. About nine
o'clock he concluded the ox know the I
road, turned over in the cart and wentj
to sieep. In a short time the ox saw a |
drove of cattle lying down iu an old |
field, and concluded to join them, which
he did. Whan the mau awoke he was j
wroth and smote the ox, which stainpe- j
ded the herd, and spilling bis ox his joining good* promis- in tho j j
scamper, stopped
cuously. Finally, getting him
he drove back into tho road and trav-1
eled till daylight, only to find tuat he j
was going bac k toward Americus. |
and Then made he got the out. leant against remarks. tho feuce They J !
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“Come doctor, it's 10 o’clock and I
think we had bettor be going for it’s
time bouast folks wero at home,’ said a
lawyer to a physician one eveuing re¬
cently. “Well, yes,’ was tho repty. “I
must he off but you needn’t go on that
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