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r/i if nil W "■*-“V* *’, * •*: Ai -ii] TifT Sr. s \ \H ii k- If V , ! 1 ' } \j t • j |ks 1 'll % i®b: ■ t-i'n 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. -----------*--*.**---A— 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. 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