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TO MY SWEET MATTIE. I mi»s thee! Oh, how much, dear I miss thee! Oh, hom much, dear one, My lips can never tell; For through all sorrow and all joy, We loved each other Well! I One tender moon long years ago, While walking by my side, You gave a promise, sweet and true, true, That you would be my bride. And ever since that blessed dawn, That fair and cloudless day, To this, that finds me by thy grave That hold# thy precious clay, Thou ’ast been to me, 0 darling one! Through all the scenes of life, The pleasant sunshine and the shade,' A true and faithful wife, Together hand in hand we strayed Along earth’s borders fair; Together drank the bitter cup Os trials, pain and care. I miss thee! Oh, how much, dear ' one, My lips can never tell; For through all sorrow and all joy, We loved each other well. A. E. S. XS MAMIAGE A FAILURE? Is the a failure because some imprudent persons expose thefts selves and experience “sunstroke?” Is the ocean a failure be6av.se some are so unfortunate as to sink ill water? Is sweet, fresh water a fail ure because some are drowned in it? Is fire a failure because it sometimes causes loss and suffering? la com merce a failure because all do not succeed in it? Are railroads a failure because accidents occur? Is the at mosphere a failure because of wind storms? Is human society a failure because of a few evils in it? Is ed ucation a failure because some do not turn knowledge .to good account 1 Are all human relations failures be cause all find not perfect happiness in them? Questions like the forego ing could be continued indefinitely, but is is very evident that marriage is no more a failure than any of the things above mentioned. What would human beings become without the homes that marriage brings? They would sink far below the brutes. Un worthy, bad people may themselves be failures in marriage, or worse out of marriage, but marriage itself is di vine.—Ex. A LOVE TRAGEDY. Love and laughter, pain and sor row, the abandon of gaiety and danc ing for the public with the grip of a heartache in her little body, is the pathetic paradox presented in the experience of Mabel Hite, a vaude ville actress in Chicago, whose hus band, Mike Donlin, the ball player, has become a sot. Mabel has tried faithfully to reform Donlin, paying his fines from time to time, helping him to sober up, and exacting prom ise after promise from him to do bet ter, so far without avail. The other day she got him out of the police sta tion, where a four days’ debauch had landed him, gave him a Russian bath to boil the alcohol out of him and the© bought* Mto a railroad ticket •Il «. and sent him away to remain six months and gave him to understand that at the end of that period if he could not come back to be a perma nently sober man she would secure a divorce. Said * the little come dienne: “I can’t stand it any long er. Now, you don’t think it’s such a dreadful thing for a woman’s hus band to get drunk and in the news papers, do you ? But it means so much when you love a man and he’d promised not to do it. And every time it happens it’s so much worse and it worries me so I can’t sleep and I have to go out before that au dience and act like a fool and make them laugh, and sing my songs and dance, and my heart is breaking. For he’s good to me, except when he for gets himself.” There are only two kinds of fruit growing in the executive office grounds, plums and lemons, and poli ticians readily know 'them by their fruits. —The Examiner. THE SOUTH’S GREATEST FARM PAPER w The Southern Ruralist MW One Year FREE ovft, FfcACH caor saaag&g O f O with this paper l iavc just perfected arrangements with The Southern Rural- 3 v v ist by which we are able to offer it to our patrons together s iSwith our paper for only SI.OO a year. This gives you two one dollar papers for the price of one. We have selected The Southern Ruralist because we were satis sSgpgTg Rrtgggggg-g tied, after careful examination that it was the best paper of its class, ® an( i that it would do vou more good and be more appreciated by you than any other farm paper. The Southern Ruralist and the Men Who Make It This should be of greatest interest to every farmer and gardener of the South. The Ruralist is the only fully reliable, up-to-date, practical Southern farm paper published. It’s a dollar-a-year paper, 24 to 40 pages, twice a month. It goes into 75,000 Southern farm homes twice each month, and is a power for good wherever it goes. If you don’t read it you are missing a good thing. , i MR. F. J. MERRIAM, Japanese Agricultural Department. He has f MRS. F. J. MERRIAM . ... . ~ , addressed tens of thousands of fanners’ instl- —< n . ~... the publisher and managing editor, is a Georgia tuteß . and among farmers who know hlm there will continue to edit the Home and Children’s farmer, a successful one who Puts money in the lg no one g 0 pular Ho , 9 a man of both ,X, L •J*””’ ° f bank every year, profits from his 200-acre farm, ’national and international reputation. Dr. now known as the Ruralist Farm.” Hundreds stockbridge writes just as he talks, short and reade ” dUring the ,aßt few years - of experiments are tried out every year on that stralght to the presentlng the great ■. farm, lou see them in the Kuralist. truths that are the basis of profitable farm- F. J. MARSHALL, .— w Ing in language so simple and plain that all a noted poultry man and judge, has full charge .. understand fully what he means. c of the best Poultry Department ever printed in DR. H. E. STOCKBRIDGE an agricultural paper. It's interesting to every needs no introduction to tens of thousands of nonr rwn r mtrunv " n ° Wh ° keeps and r& i sea poultry. farmers in tlie Southeastern States. He is agri- rKCJr. C. L>. WILLUUUriUY cultural editor of the Ruralist; is owner of a and P. N. FLINT z DR. C. A. CARY, large plantation near Americus, Ga., but Is more nf the Georgia Experiment Station conduct a Veterinarian of the Alabama Experiment Station, widely known through his work with the Florida splendid Dairy and Live Stock Department in answers all questions of Ruralist readers, tolling Experiment Station, the organization of the each issue full of valuable information to every them how to handle sick and diseased live stock North Dakota Experiment Station and in the one interested in live stock and dairying. and gives the remedies. SPECIAL PRIZE ARTICLES— Every month a number of the Ruralist is Issued covering a special subject. Cash prizes amounting to S2O are paid on each subject. These articles are written by farmers themselves. The subjects to be covered in these specials for 1907 are as follows: January. "Labor-Saving Tools and Devices"; February, "Garden and Truck Growing"; March. "Increasing Yields of Cotton and Com"; April. "The Dairy"; May. "Forage Crops”; June. "Live Stock”; July, "Home Building”; August. "Special Crops That Pay”; September. "Small Grains”; October. "Fruit”; November, "Farm Labor and Immigra tion”; December., "Poultry." Mr. Merriam says: "I am going to make every issue of the Ruralist In 1907 worth a dollar to the reader, and the paper will be still further improved in 1908.” The Greatest Southern Novel ever written, “The Bishop of Cottontown” -is now running in the Ruralist. You ought to read it. From this you can see that The Southern Ruralist is a first-class paper in every way for the coun try home and from which you can not fail to derive much pleasure and information. We offer it to you Weekly Jeffersonian FREE with the applies TO renewals also. BOTH PAPERS ONE YEAR FOR ONLY Address all orders to THE JEFFERSONIAN, Thomson, Ga. x WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN WHEN PETTUS WENT WOOING. Senator Pettus married a daughter of Hon. Samuel Chapman, a promi nent citizen of Sumter county. To a Selma friend Senator Pettus in his old age told a beautiful story of her, who blessed his life for mere than half a century. “You see,” said Senator Pettus, “as I was a boy I was inclined to be wild and a little rough. When I fell in love with her I went to her and told her. She said: “ ‘Why, you are only a rough boy, You haven’t an idea of what life means. You have not even taken the trouble to get an education.’ “I knew she spoke the truth. When I left her I formed a determination I would get an education if it were possible to get one. Without my mother’s help and sacrifice it would have been impossible, but she gladly helped, and she gladly made the sac rifice. “By her sacrifices I went to Ten nessee to school, and I studied as no boy ever studied before. In time I finished. I rode home from Tennes see on a pony after that long ab sence. As I drew near her house I turned my pony and drove by her door. She was at work among her flowers. I hurried tn rough the gate to where she was, and as I met her,. I said: • * “ T am no longer a rough and un educated boy. I have gotten my ed ucation. What is your answer?’ ” Her answer made possible that beautiful wedded life that extended over joys and* sorrows of more than fifty years.—Nashville Tennesseean. Suppose when John D. Rockefeller goes across the dark river and comes to St. Peter’s gate, he makes evasive answers to the questions there pro pounded, do you think he will get off as easy as he did with Judge Landis? If Peter doesn’t send the illustrious old hypocrite to the smoke house it will be because the devil is out of cobs. —Bix, in State Journal. PAGE ELEVEN