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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

Far up on these abandoned mountain farms,
Now drifting back to forest wilds again,
The long, gray walls extend their casping arms,
Pathetic monuments of vanished men.
serpents in stone, they wind DER hill and dell,
Mid orchards long deserted, fields unshorn-
The crumbling fragments resting where they fell,
Forgotten, worthless to a race new born.
Nearer than stones of storied Saxon name
These speechless relics to our hearts should
come.
No toiler for priests or monarch's fame,
This farmer lived and died to shape home.
What days of lonely toll he undertook
What years of iron labor and for what2
To yield the chipmunk more secret nook,
The gliding snake one more sequestered spot.
SO little time on earth; so much to do;
Yet all that waste Of weary, toil.worn hands.
Life came and went; the patient task is through
The men gomez the idle structure stands.
II. W. Hgginson
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
The Apple Crop.

Advices received by one of the lar
gest frui handling firms in Chicago
point to one of the heaviest apple sea
sons in years this fall, and consequent
low prices. While the New England
crop is comparatively light, as are also
those OF parts Of New York and Penn
sylvania, there are certain districts of
the latter state reporting heavy yield.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
HOw's This ?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and fnan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

HALLS Catarrh Cure Is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, seventy-fve cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

~ The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for wholesale lots mot obbing
prices unless otherwise indicated, and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
AGRICULTURAL.
Sturdy Changers of Vermont

Hold Their Annual Picnic at the State Ex-
pertinent Farm. Burling ton-Addres of
Welcome by President Buckham Din
ner in the Grove, Followed by an In
spection of the Farm and Buildings.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castorla.
CHILpRss Cry for Pitchers Castoris
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Bilionsness, Indigestion, ii ca d &C h g :.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
EDUCATIONAL.
Waterbury Center, Vt.

A highgrade school for both sexes. Re-
ligious influence. Full courses Of study,
viz. English and Classical, College Pre-
paratory, Commercial, Teachers, Music,
Art. Location unsurpassed for beauty and
healthfulness. Lodge for ladies'. Rooms
large and airy. Bathroo n and modern i'm.
provements. Expenses very low.
Open September 10.
For terms and information, address
PRINCIPAL, Green Mountain Seminary
Waterbury Center, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28
SHORT LUMBER.
SPRUCE.

Spruce frames, cars. ordinary.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03

Central r. R., leaving Lanes 3s a. m., Man
ming Is a. a.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03
Atlantic Coast Line.

Manchester & Augusta Railroad
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03

*Daily. fDaily except Sunday.
No. So runs through to Charleston, S. c.,
via Central R. e., arriving. Manning 81 p.
m. Lanes 7 90 p m Charleston 40 p. N
Trains on South and North Carolina R. R.,
leave Elliott e2 p no., arriving Bishopville
7 80 p, M. Lucknow 10 .. m. Returning
leave Lucknow 6 81 a. m, Bishopvile 90
m arrive Elliott SO g. ~. Daily except
Sunday.
Mixed trains, Nos II and ls make connec-
! tions to aud from Sumter on c. S. / a. R..
R. with the foregoing, AS follows: Lea7e
Sumter $40 p. NJ, Oswego 80, ST. Charles
$50, arrive at Elliott 7.02 p N. Leave
Elliott 7.38 a. m., ST. Charles Isl, Oswego
8.ll, arrive Sumter $50 q. %
Trains on Wilmington l. Conway r R.
leave Chadbourn II 30 a. m., arrive at Con-
way 45 p NJ, returning leave Conway at
80 p m., arrive Cbadbourn S 90 p. m.,
leave Cbadbousn IS p H., arrive at Hub at
20 2. m.. re,urnl x leave Hub Is a. N {,
arrive at Chadbourn no a. N. Daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Trains leave Pregnalls 80 a. m., Summer.
ton 9 48 a m., Sumter 10 35 a. N :, Darling.
ton II IS a. M, Bernet,sville 70 48 p. N
arrive Hamlet / 40 p. N. Returning, leave
Hamlet 10 p. a., Bennettsvile 90 p. tn
Darlington 50 p m Sumter II p. m..
Samm:r,ou SO p M, arrive Psegnalls 81
p. m. Daily except Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE, Gen'l Supt.
J. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
TN EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03
ONLY A MISTAKE. AFTER ALL.

And Nothing for . Respectable Coiored
Gentleman &C Worry About.
A serious blunder occurred in West
Virginia county not long ago. 4 num-
Der of the farmers had sustained losses
Of sheep from their respective focks,
and, being skeptical as to the efficiency
of the law officers, one night took the
matter In their own hands. A dozen or
more of them proceeded some miles
away, to the house of Rehoboth Jem-
son, and, notwithstanding his protesta-
-tions Of innocence, gave him severe
drubbing.
The affair created no little str, as
Rehoboth was a very respectable col
ored man, who owned snug little farm
and was deacon in the Baptist church.
He had the confidence and esteem Of
his white aeighbors, who were so
worked up over the matter that they
considered the expediency of an investi-
CATION that should lead to the punish
ment Of the raiding party.
Within few days the farmers dlscov-
cred they had made an awkward mis-
take, the guilty party having been
caught red-handed and had made full!
confession; so, being in the main right
good set of fellows they decided to offer
balm to Rehoboth for his many wounds.
Three of their number were designated
a committee with full power to act, and
they fastened to the discharge of their
duty. Old Rehoboth was sitting in his
neat little cabin with bandaged head,
while his wife was applying cooling
wash to his lacerated back. The COM
mittee looked foolish and scarcely knew
how to begin; bxt finally one OF the
number stammered out an apology, and
added that they were willing to pay q
reasonable amount as recompense for
his sufferings.
La, child, how you does talk. sholy!
Ameckin' sich furse dat is ershamed
Gu ye! You jes' git back ter yer homes
u stay dar. l ain akin muffin n don
want muffin. Wy honey, eff done tuck
on erbout dc mistccks er white folhses
I'd jes' be plum, iais.able harf de time. ;"
Chicago Tribune.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03
A Confederate Hero.
Tribute to Major F. Gendron Pal
mer. by Mrs. I. M. Porter.

Major Francis Gendsou Palmer, of The
Hoicombe Legion, a Citadel graduate, of ,ht
class of 1851, fell mortally wounded a
Second Manassas. Miss Porter, the daughter
of Judge B. F. Porter, Of Alabama, com
posed this tribute to the soldier.
DEFEATED vALoR BIZ MOURNING BEAU UT1
CROWNED.
BE sleeps upon Virginia's strand,
While comrades of the Legion stand,
With arms reversed mournfu, band
Around his early bier;
His war.horse paws the shaking ground,
The volleys 6red-they close around,
And, on the white brow. laurel bound,
Fails many q soldiers tear!
Up, stricken mourner, look on high!
Loud anthems rend the echoiog sky,
Reborn. where heroes never die
The warrior finds his rest;
Gone is the weary, pain-traced frown-
Life's march is Ger, his arms cast down,
His rlumes replaced by shining crown,
The red cross on bis breast!
Though Gendron's arm is with the dust,
Let not his blood-ssained weapon rust!
Bequeathed to one who'll bear the trust,
Where Southern banners fy;
Some brave who followed where he led
Aye, swear him Ger the martyred dead,
To avenge each drop of blood he shed,
Or else like him to die!
Be deemed death for honor sweet;
And thus be fell tits doubly meet
Our flag should be his winding sheet,
Proud colors Of the free;
Oh, let his honored form be laid,
Beneath the loved palmetto;s shade,
BIS praises sung By Southern maid,
While fows the broad Ssutee!
We come around his urn to twine
Sweet clusters of the jess mine vine,
Culied, where our tropic suabeams shine,
From skies deep.dyed and bright;
We kneeliag VOW to right tc yield
On, brothers, on and win the field,
Or dead return on battered shield,
AS martyrs FOR the right
Where camp 6res light the Redeemed sod,
The grief-bow Legion kneel to God,
in Palmer's name asd by his blood,
They swell the battle cry:
Will sheath no more our well-tried steel,
Till tyrapts Southern vengeance feel,
And Northern borders az suppliants kneei,
To victory. or die
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03

Trains 50 and 81 carry through Pullman
Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars between New
York and Augusta aud Macon.
Train No. so leaves Atlanta Is a II /,
Macon 90 a N, Augusta 2 Is m, arrivin5
Sumter 6 05 N, Fayetteville 9 35 M,
Petersburg 2 80 m, Richmond 3 40 a m
Washington 90 m, Baltimore 20 " m
Philadelphia 10 46 m, New York ! 23 m
Train No. 81 leaves New York m, Phil
adelphia IL 40 am, Baltimore l3 p NJ,
Washington 80 p m, Ricbmeud Tsp N,
Petersburg 46 IN, Fayetteville IL So 10,
Sumter 4 l9 N, Augusta 90 d, Sumter
4 10 10, Augusta 90 . N. Macon ! 90
m, Atlanta - Is p 70.
T. ". EMERSON, II. n. EMERSON,
Traffic Manager Asst Gen Pass. Agt.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03

Bicycle Oil, Lanterns, Graphite,
Bells, Pants Guards, etc., FOR sale oy
z. g. ostsen B Co.'S.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03

OFF ALL.
All the earth is filed with blessing
Which 70 sorrow can destroy,
And for every day of trouble
There shall come day Of joy.
There are moments fuli Of silver
AS the showers from Heaven which fell,
And the tenderness of loving
Is the t'essing of them all
Though the clouds may hang above us,
Somewhere sonligh, fingers still;
Aud the gold Of every moment
Shall surpass the momeot's i'll.
Love and truth are yet imnortal,
Loving souls immortal. TOO;
And the glory of jewel
'Sparkles in drop of dew.
Take the dew-drops as God gives them,
Be they moments, be they hours,
So the stream of life which bears you
Shall Aow on through banks of flowers
There are mo ,en,s full of blessing
AS the showers from heaven which fall
But the tenderness Of loving,
Is the blessing of them ell.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-07-03
Ohio River & Charleston Railway Co

SAMUEL HUNT. Agent for Purchaser.
In effect December /, 1894.
CAROLINAS DIVISION.
NURTHBOUND.-(Duily except Sunday
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
vietoria,s Arbitrary Powers.


People on this side of the water are
apt to attach too much credence to the
ort-repeated, but somewhat fallacious
assertion, to the effect that the Queen
OF England has no power, Is a mere
n~gurehead; in fact, nothing but a con
stitutional puppet in the hands of the
cabinet for the time being. 1t Is often
stated that the President of the Unied
Bates Ii possessed Of far more execu'
i've power and prerogatives than hei
British majesty.
This Is q great mistake. The English
sovereign has retained far more power
than people realize. For instance, she
has the power to dismiss every soldier
IN the army, from the COMMANDMENTS
chief down to the youngest drummer,
bne could disband the navy In the same
way and sell all the ships, stores and
arsenals to the first buyer that present
Cd himself. Acting on her own respon'
utility, she could declare war agains,
any foreign power, or make a pFesen'
OF any section of the empire ovsr "hie'
she rules to any foreign power.
Acting strictly within her prsrosA'
tive, she could make every man. WON
an and child In the county q peer or
peeress Of the realm with the right ~
the case Of males, who are ~ age =
Q seat and Q vote in the House o,
Lords. With a single word or stroNS
Of the pen she could dismiss any Oapi
net that was in power, and could, more
over. pardon and liberate every Grim
inal Of every graee that are N
IN British psniteHdaries, Ihese ar'
only a few Of the things that the 9uesl
could DO Il abe desired.-MarauNe ="
Fentsncy, In PhIAAAluhia Press
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
Cable Sparks.

Bismarck has increased facial neu-
ralgia as the result of cold weather.
Nine. Adelina Patti has ~laryngeaI
catarrh, but will regain her health in
few days.
Welsh tin plate workers will ask then
employers not to sell black plates fol
timing In other countries.
The Pope opposed the proposed visit
of the King of Portugal to Rome and
will probably refuse to receive King
Carlos.
Six thousand men are being enlisted
in the Kongo State for a mysteriou;
expedition, which is to be headed by
Baron Dhanis.
| Prince Lobanoff, the Russian Min
j, lister of Foreign Affairs, denies the story
of an early visit of the Gar to Paris,
American oranges and apple;
brought good prices in London.
The dead in the mill collapse a
Bocholt, Westphalia, now number 50,
The British steamer BeIgic, which
has been ashore on Japan, has been
f1oated.
1t is reported that the Earl OF Elgin,
Viceroy of India, has resigned for per
sonal reasons.
Baron Won Pasetti : Friedenburg
Under Foreign Secretary, has been APP
pointed Austrian Ambassador to Italy
BY the terms of the peace between
France and Madagascar all grants o
land to Germans and Englishmen may
be withdrawn. {
The funeral of William W. Story
the noted American sculptor, tool
place at Rome.
Russia is trying to make a treaty o
commerce with Germany in order t.
Gust American petroleum from tina
country.
1t is said that NJ. Turpin, the French
man who discovered the explosive
mehnite, has been summoned to Con
stantinople to advise the Turkish Gov
eminent in terrifying the Dardanelles
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
A NOVEL CHARITY.
fhe Home for Aged Baptist Ministers
Mt rmaufnM pa

fine Home for Aged Baptist Ministers
at Germantown, Pa.
Germantown, Pa, will soon have a
antique institution, to be known as the
George Nugent Home for Aged Baptist
Ministers. MI. Nugent was prominent
IN Germantown business circles TWEEN
.sy-fve years ago and when he died
about six years ago his will provided
vat about 100000 be set aside for
; endowment and establishment of a
0me for aged Baptists. Shortly after
-lis death his residence was converted
into a home and many laymen and
ministers are now finding rest in their
declining years. The new home is To-
eated on a tract of land left by Mr..
Nugent, and it was his request that It
be erected On 1t. 1t Is surrounded by
Iplendid shade trees and with an abun-
lance of ground which can be made in
10 attractive lawns. The residences Of
Some Of the wealthiest citizens and
business men In the city are contiguous
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
PENIS GROVE. n. j.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER Is. 1896.

| Wall, of Reading, has sued the Phila-
delphia & Reading Company for
l $1,000.
Abandoning the slate quarry as u
dangerous place to work, Memo Pau
les, of Slatedale, turned farmer, but
fell from his hay NOV and was killed. ,
A fall of coal in a Minooka mine
killed Patrick Rafter.
Highwaymen stabbed John Il. Sha-
fer at Altoona, but failed to rob him.
The Allegheny murderer, james W..
Mullen, will be hanged on December
IL.
A gas explosion in a Pottsville mine
badly burned Joseph Foster and John
Reese, of st. Clair.
The body of an unknown man vas
found at Pittsburg in a freight car
loaded with bananas.
A pardon will be asked for William
Penn Bowman, awaiting execution at
W~ilkesbarre for numbering a peddler. i
Governor Hastings new carriage
cost $500.
A Lebanon factory makes many or
gans for a London firm.
The large new shirt factory at Nor
risyille started up recently.
The popular subscription for a hos
pital at Allentown amounts to nearly
$4,000.
Cigarmakers in York, Lancaster
and Berks Counties are having a busy
season.
The price of bricks at Reading has
advanced owing to the extensive build
ing operations.
Judge Ermentrout says the habeas
corpus cases are becoming a nuisance
at Reading and he proposes to stop
them. !
In a miners riot at West Newton
one man was badly stabbed and
another was shot.
A hot fight is on for president and
secretary of the Window Glass Work
ers' Association.
Joseph Boschino, who killed Frank
Coufort, was sentenced to be hanged
at Scranton.
Highwaymsn dubbed Charles Buch-
ter insensible at Lebanon anG then
stole his watch and money.
One of the best-known miners in
Luzerne County, Edward j. Gibbons,
was killed by a fall of coal at Mill
Creek.
With his throat cut, the body OF
George Barr, was found in the woods
near Altoona, the victim of his own
hand.
Hugh Osborn, of Philadelphia, is
accused of stealing S267 from Mrs
Annie Hayes, an Altoona boarding
house keeper.
Policeman John Mallock, of Green.
land, Luzerne County, was shot in the
arm by Dido Rocco, whom he tried tc
arried.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
Pennsylvania
- Items.

W. J.. Mease has struck several
veins of coal in the mountains near
Cold Spring, Lebanon County.
The pit drivers Of Waiton's Lower
Road mines, near Pittsburg, have
gone on a strike for an increase of
wages.
The County Capital Building and
Loan Association, of Hollidaysburg,
was chartered with a capital of $780,
900.
Title Dunlap, the seven-year-old
child of James Dunlap, of Linfisld,
had her face and hands burned by the
explosion of torpedoss.
Two locomotives coIlided at Ar
amingo, near Reading, and Brakeman
Edward Delaney and Harry Naragong
were badly sealdsd. 5
Bar iron manufacturers may form a
national organisation
A train at Atglen ran over and killed
aged Samuel M. Krauser, of Lancaster.
Joseph Pentez fell from a tree while
gathering hickory nuts at Dubois, and
was killed.
Thomas Mahony, of st. Clair, was
squeezed between cars andidied shortly
afterward.
Charged with passing bogus money,
John S. Wright, of Punxsutawney, was
held for trial.
An explosion of powder in a North
Ashland colIiery badly burned Michael
Snyder and Christian Seymour.
Thieves carried away several hundred
dollars worth of goods from Milton
Zimmerman's store, at Berne.
w. F. Magee was appointed fourth
class postmaster at Harrisville, Nd,
vice Robert Black, dead.
Counterfeit nickels are freely circu
lated at Pottsville and vicinity.
Long illness drove Caleb P. Pyle, of
Kennett Square, to suicide by shoot
ing.
A freight wreck on the Lake Erie
road at Beaver Falls destroyed cars
worth $4,000.
Farmer Edward Adams, a widow er,
at Carpenter, Lycoming county, slopec
with 15-year-old Elizabeth M. Parker.
Last month Schuylkill county re.
duced the cost of keeping it's Jail in.
mates one cent, the new figure being
10 6-10 cents a day.
The estate of Nicholas Thouron, Of
Philadelphia, has blocked the trolley
road from Pottsville to St,huylkill Ha-
ven with an injunction.
For the death of her hu sband, who
was q brakeman Mrs. franklin b.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18

10 1t. Work was begun on the struc-
lure last April, and the building will
be finished within the year.
1t is of the French transition style Of
architecture and will contain about 60
rooms. 1t VIII cost in the aggregate
100000. 1t will be 122 feet long and a
feet wide and will be three stories high.
1t will be built of bufr brick and terra
Gotta. One of the attractive features
will be a Spanish tile roof, its rich
,oloring contrasting with the bun Of
he building. At one end Of the build
ng will be a pretty three-story porch
t!ehly ornamented and supported BY
stone and terra Gotta columns. There
are porches also on the side Of the
handsome doorway. The interior will
be finished entirely with hard wood and
win contain all the latest improve.
uents.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
CARPETS, ~
{
BEDDING,
BLANKETS,
QUILTS. ~
FARMERS
MUTUAL FIRE ms. co. OF
SALEM COUNTY.

OrFIcE-HEAD OF MARKET ST., SALEM.
THIS old and reliable Company Of 80 years
Il standing continues to insure all kinds Of
try FOR any length of time not exceeding five
years at as low rates as will pay losses and ex-
penses. 1t insures against FIRE or lightning or
damage by either. Its losses are prOmptly ad-
to meet all probable loss, being larger than at
any previous time OF Its existence and steady
increasing, while its reserve assets are of q
character and amount to surely meet all losses
however extraordinary, and cannot be FILTERED
officers.
Directors-Joseph Waddington, VIM. B. Car
penter, Charles Hires, Josiah ,Wistar, David F.
Grier, Q. II. Sinnickson, Woodruff Petit, Bar
clay GriscQm, Quinton p. Harris, Chas. W.
Richard Bassett.
Executive Committee w. B. Carpenter,
Petit, q. p. Harris, g. w. Casper, who meet
weekly, on Seventh-day, at 3P. NJ.
Secretary and observation-disclosures Petit,
to whom applicants may be made in relation
at the Office of the Company, 1888 Broadway,
ihead OF Market ~street,) or at his residence, go
Z. Broadway, Salem.
In addition to tie above the following per-
sons haye been elected Agents and Surveyors
r.. NJ. Hitchner, Elmer,
George y. Grier, Woodstown.
Josiah Summerill, Upper Penn's Neck.
Asa G.. Turner, Pennfs Grove.
Daniel ID. Hitehner, Cohansey.
j. Forman Sinnickson, l.. r. Neck.
John Hitehner, AllOway.
Joseph b. Livezey, Berkeley.
David z; Griscom, Marion, Nj.
george I. Morrison, Salem.
&B. Siekler,
Nm. B. CARPENTER, President.
PETIT. see'y and Treasurer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18

Deep Water at Gibraltar.
The water in the Straits OF Gibraltar
9 100 fathoms deep.
The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18

best things he has written, very plainly
lhows the style and character Of hi,
oems:
The cold has killed the corr off an blight
cd all the wheat;
The ice is on the peach-blooms an tn,
apple-blosnoms sweet.
An the country is in mournin' from thu
mountains to the sea,
But the good Lord runs the weather IN
1t mint a-botherin' mel
The bees was out fer honey an a-workin
fer their lives,
But the blizzard stopped their buzzin
an they're froze up in their hives
An there won't be any sweet'nin' fer the
coffee or the tea,
But the good Lord runs the weather, an
it amt a-botherin' me!
The mockin' birds was singln' jes' the
sweetest kind o. notes,
But now they're sittin' silent with a fan,
mel roun' their throats;
An there won't be any music till the
summertime to be,
But the good Lord runs the weather, an
1t amt ~a-botherin' mel
1t don't make any difference what these
changin' seasons bring;
If it's cold, the fires a-blazin' an I hear
the chimney sing;
If it's hot, the trees is shady, with the
breeze a-blowin' free,
Fer the good Lord runs the weather, an
1t amt a-botherin' mel
Stanton's father was a journeyman
printer and was something of a poetic
genius. He died when he was young
and Frank was obliged to go to work
when a mere boy. ~ had a pretty
rough time" he says. "When 1 was II
years old l was saving wood for 81 a
month in north Georgia; saving wood,
you know, and saying nothing, but l
was looking all the time at the things
about me-the wild flowers, the forests,
the blue sky overhead. They all sank
deep into my heart. Then, too, I fol-
lowed the plow and learned a world
about nature behind the handles"
Later he drifted into a country news
paper office-the Smithville (Ga.) News
and there his poems and other writ
lngs first attracted attention. The At
lanta Constitution secured his services
six years ago and he has since been
with that enterprising journal. His
writings are To- eagerly sought and
copied by the magazines and newspaper
editors and he promises to fill a CON
spicuous place In American literature.