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The Bo.it Adrift
II hud floated away from llio beach
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and lniov.
Out of hIkIiI. of tlio tower and' town.
Though a battered, usolcss nul empty
wreck, -x
The boat would- not go down.
The mooring rose on the waters
wiifo,
yXmX the nlirht foil, cold and dark.
Yot over on, with the wind and
tide,
Drifted llio usolefis bark.
The Hall had passed from its broken
mast,
And its painted pride was dim;
Tho soft sea weeds hung round its
hows,
Which had boon so sharp and trim.
Whore were tho merry mates and
crow
Who had gone with it afloat?
TJioro woro nono to tell; but llio
world's wide sea
Ilnth many a drifted boat.
Lives that in early storm hath lost
Anchor and sail and oar; '
Ah, never again can the drifting boats
Como into tho moorings more.
Out of their lovoless, trustless days
Tho hope and heart nave gone;
Good boats go down in stormy seas,
Hut these boats drirtcd on.
They had hearts to sail in tho wind's
eye once;
They had hands to reef and steer;
With a stretch that would not yield
to chance,
And a faith that know no fear.
But the years wore long, and the
storms were strong,
So tho rainbow ilag was furled;
And thoy that launched for suniiv
skies,
Float, driftwood ou the world.
Anon.
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Our Social Chat
' In the columns of the scores of
papers and periodicals that come to
my homely llttlo den, I find so many
good things that I wish I might iae
the scissors, rather than the pencil.
Amng them all, I nko best those
which deal with the every-day world
giving us ideas for tho betterment of
the race, and for tho building up of
the home into tho heaven (nof haven)
which it should bo. Many of tho
finest, most practiced thoughts, come
t rough the agricultural papers, from
tho pons of men and women who have
lived and have learned the lessons
of life through living.
iIanl g,U(1 t0 seo tImt lleso writers
instead of wrangling over "race sit'
olelo, ' and scolding women for want
ing to share in the education of the
selvof ' hv" itryln8, t0 BI,Pwt ih'
bqios by honorabio Industry are
irging upon us tho question of how '
o Sn" chIldron WG ave;
S, ? "J0111 llp t0 a wealthy, mental
d?t on i i w11 as wnyBlca coS
d tion and how to guard them from
the vices and weaknesses common to
ZvIoTT00' In sh to
"innra p ""lan anImal int0 the
image of God," ratner than to en-
herSldUlof ,na,Ul th brtBlng Into
mo voiui ot more weakling wlm
must suffer for the stub of the fathers
Sl,lh weaknesses or tho mS
Most of those writers demand first
toottopcnro, of the fathers and motS
AN OLDANn WET.LTR1KD RTCVVTvr
U'wonty-Uvoceutsa bottlo. romeUjr for diarrhoea.
' in order that thoy may be able to
transmit to their offsprings the qual
ities that make for strength and
health mental, moral and physical.
Thoy insist that the would-be parents
should give to themselves and to each
other tho caro and consideration
which is freely dealt out to their
brood animals from which superior
offspring is expected. Much depends
on proper food, cleanliness, fresh air,
exercise in the right directions of all
tho higher functions or brain, mind
and body, and the proper environ
ment. It is nonsense to ask that
these things be taught in schools;
the adult man or woman should teach
each other, and fheso lessons should
constitute a post-grauuato course a
never-ending study of the laws of life,
for what will serve ror today may in
no wise suit the conditions of tomor
row. While studying these problems, con
sideration should bo given to the new
being which they hope will be given
them, and preparations, not wholly
physical, should be made for the
"bettor horning" of tlie little child
the strange, sweet being they would
call from tho depths or the infinite.
What does either trie boy-father, or
tho girl-mother- know of its needs?
Perhaps neither of them ever saw a
new-born infant! Should they not
give to the thought of its coming and
preparation for its care the same anxi
ous consideration they give to cloth
ing its little velvet body? Should
they not study closeTy tlie best litera
ture to be had, take into their con
fidence some dear, experienced friend
and Invite the counsel or their family
physician, thus learning all their in
experienced minds could grasp and un
derstand? There would still be
worlds" of knowledge to be con
qnered before they couid sav "I
know." "
Friends it is of far greater import
ance that your little cnild should be
born with a "clean Dill of health"
mentally morally and physically, con
ditioned by hereditary to grow up to
a clean, happy, sensible adult age
than that we fill our homes with
weaklings whose tendencies and short
corn ng8 of b0(1V) mInd and soulort
SSow0"00"!6 of an 'Siwnmt, selfish,
v,v,,u "wu-y, wno nave given lit
tle or no thought to the sacredness of
responsibility which every pTentage
entails upon its progeny.
School Influences
owlaioenwS,,?ll(1 not f0,'Set that they
thrown nlm,T " "ie nuuen
nn tiin i "u scnoois and
&.. $Z2L 5n',s-- any dee,,
munh nf 7u """"s suspicions tliat
much of the vice and crime of the
lay is due to the lax morals and
loose nietlinria nri,i, ':'". uua
scnoois. Look well to the aqsooin.
tions vnni' ni,ii,in.. x.-.. . . 'issocia-
minclori niin, " lorra' lno Purest
A Plea for the Garden
A correspondent writes me "I did
ot know that the Home Departme i?
c .n-lvon, atee famiL To'la" J?
sry for vegetables than lo it see
' be oo of tho right, .mmunnurh.
conceded to the women of the house
hold to do the digging and planting
for the vegetables, and to cultivate
and care for them until they reach
the table in eatable form. But this
should not be. "A little garden truck"
seems a small thing in tho eyes of
most farmers, and tne work to raise
amounts to less; but there is all the
difference in the world between nav
ing a plenty of "green things" for
the kitchen, and not having them.
The garden should be longer than it
is wide, and so situated as to allow
tho plow, harrow and roller to be
freely used in it, and that is just
what should be done. The use of
these implements in tne garden is
hotter than tho medicine bottle and
the druggist's bill In the homo, and
does more to keep the wrinkles out
of the gude wife's face than any
preparation known to the beauty
specialist. Don't be afraid the wife
will have too much leisure, or will
lose interest in her vegetables because
of the horse and plow. You'll see
her, as often as is good for hor, out
there, hoeing away for dear life, or
pulling up weeds, transplanting plants,
or running the light weel-hoe as
though she enjoyed it.
Put plenty of manure on the ground
before you break it upplenty of it,
and let it be as well-rotted as possible
for immediate results; then plow it
under, going over it in different di
rections, several times; then use the
harrow to break up the clods, and the
roller to pulverize them. Open the rows
for the early potatoes, peas, and other
things that must be in the ground
early, and when the seeds are planted,
cover the rows with the plow, and
- v. uw u LU BU over tne rest of
the ground for the late plantings,
keeping it loose and open. If possi
ble, invest in one or more of those
handy little implements which can be
turned to so many accounts, for both
her sake and your own, and do keep
the hoe sharp! RememDer, that what
ever benefits this "willing worker,"
benefits you, and- sfch investments
pay a higher dividend than you can
well calculate.
If you haven't got your seeds yet
order them as soon as possible, and
from a reliable seedsman. Many of
our best seedsmen offer collections for
a small sum as a matter of advertise-
Sirt th5 i Secure future custom,
and the seeds and plants they send
out are of good quality. There are
offeon' "Che JohnJncerns wh'o
offer old, worthless seeds, but vou
should patronize the best; a few good
nof grow b?r thn a Iot ai "
thnJ et g00d seeds anl Plant
cu?t?va1t1ion00nr1Slr0Un(,' gIVe tIiem
But iSf ; Sd you won,t regret lt
heavv nnrJ . ' PlW d the
In JnS tf alUl kcep the sPadlnS fork
in your own, or other nands equally
SnfBtIon& to. d0 wnat tIle -Plow can
not reach. Do not forget the garden
The Fruit Garden
tnSI equaJ imPptance with the vege
table garden is the supply of 2
and thero should be- a ninf J ft
but the work of ySJ fop WIntop
hers thin q . ,g Ifc is no more
and that he might not have any time
to visit the corner grocery, thus leav
ing Eve subject to the wiles of the
old serpent. An abundance of fruit
and vegetables to be "put up" keeps
a woman busier than the ordinary
club work, and with fully as good
results, so far as the health of her
family is concerned. Let the fruit
garden, like its vegetable sister, bo
planted in rows for the plow cultiva
tion, so long as cultivation may be
necessary, and remember, there is
health, happiness and big profit in tho
gardens, even if you never sell a
dollar's worth of their produce.
Brain-woryers
The changes of tissue in 'the brain
that takes place during study and
thought are very important and very
rapid; it has been estimated that
three hours of brain-work causes as
great an exhaustion or the forces of
the body as an entire day of manual
labor. This waste must be replaced
by abundant food, but its selection
requires careful consideration and
often self-denial, for many things
which the physical worker can eat
with impunity are slow poison to the
brain-worker, who exercrses the brain
at the expense of the body, and rarely
gives the latter sufficient exercise to
counteract the mental strain and
keep it in condition to resist disease.
While the waste of tne body is much
more rapid, the deprivation of physi
cal exercise encourages torpidity of
the involuntary functions and renders
them sluggish in eliminating these
wastes; therefore, it is important
that the tasks imposed upon them
should be light. Brain-workers re
quire the most concentrated foods;
pey should eat fresh beef, and mut
ton, fish, eggs cooked in many forms,
but never hard-boiled nor frie'd; oys
ters, crisp salads, lettuce, chicory, to
.matoes, watercress, spinach, and the
like, with dressing. They should be
gin the day with fruits, and make that
?a? Sf P1Q luncIleon.; .be veryspar
Lm ,nheir use of cereals, eschewing
entirely white breads and oatmeals.
The ideal lunch is a glass of milk, or
a hot cup of chocolate, or a glass of
fresh buttermilk, with two or three
graham crackers, some fruit, an ap
ple, a fig or an orange.
rf5ab2ft Luis steveon advised
Si -hm t a literary man.
He said: "Shakespeare himself was
nnfi a factory life's partner, and
authorship is a sedentary, brain-wbrk-jng
dyspeptic profession. He who
bends over a desk coming fine sen
ftc will likely scowl gwhen the
baby yvails, quarrel with his food!
want silenc e when the children romp
on h rr,m ins?,mnia a live chiefly
on his nerves." He commends "a
good capable journalist, as an em
inently good-natured fellow, cheerful
oflehun an l 'T to!S25
of human nature, leads a busy life
maldnTnf11 "le "osophy of
making the best of everything."
Lent and Easter Sunday
vn?a?? Sundayls a movable festl
March?2Corni0tf ha?PGn earlier Si
s lould ?Si iV11 forward Easter
the"full moon n1G "T Sunday after
after Mn,w? 91 CCU1'r,ns on 01' uxt
auei March 21, or, in other words
"on tho first Sunday after the first
full moon after the sun crosses (he
OLES AND WARTS
ff Jol!.1? ES2S vvZta,
Miller , Manufacturing Co., Uucoto, Neb,
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