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The Drug Habit.

a long breath, and then took thought
for the morrow, which is apt to
dawn rather bleakly on cases of this
sort. Finally he took the pledge,
which was evidently the right medi-
cine. as it did him more good than
all the other things in this medi-
cal version of the house that Jack
built.
Certainly, under the direction of a
competent physician, Il drug may
help nature temporarily, but never
for very long. The fate of the pa
tent whose dependence for length
ened periods is on drugs instead of
on nature is as sure as it is sad. 1t
is strange that those who are we'd
ded to the use of medicines do not
consider the medicinal value of foods.
Asparagus acts on the kidneys, to-
matOes and carrots on the liver,
onions and celery on the nerves. Let
tuCe is anarcOtiC. WeI-cOOked wheat
meal and oatmeal, pea soup and bean
soup contain more strength for
brain and muscles than all the prep
aratiOns of iron and extracts of beef
on the market. Any fresh, green
vegetable helps to purify the blood.
Blackberries and rice are valuable in
dysentery. A diet of baked apples
has cured the jaundice. Three toas-
ted figs taken on an empty stomach
before retiring have cured constipa-
ton when medicines failed. There
is no food and no drug hat will per
manently produce a good appetite.
Time, toll, abstinence and fresh air
do that.-Miss E. w, in American
AgriCulturist.
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TO HAVE GOOD TEETH.

All persons, old and young, should
have their teeth examined once every
six months by "a competent dentist.
Decay will be present, and tartar
forming, which nothing but a thor
Ough examination will reveal. Pro
fessiOnal service rendered in time
means high-class work, less pain,
and great economy. A tooth filled
when decay is slight will not be SEN
~sitive, the operation not long, and
the filling lasting, because the oper-
atOr has more and better structure
to work on. He is enabled to make
the walls of the cavity thicker and
stronger, and with slight danger of
exposing the nerve, the dread and
fear Of all when having teeth filled.
Have your teeth attended to in time.
Do not p~rOCrastinate. Give the den
fist good tOOth-struCture to work
upon, and ne will render you excel
lent service. One person in a hun
dred has good teeth nine-nine per
SON in a hundred could have good
teeth with the proper attentiOn.-H.
G. VOrhies, D. D. S., in WOman's
Home Companion.
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Our Social Chat.
TOITED AND CONDUCTED BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, y. c
AUNT JENNIE'S LETTER.

Many thanks, Jackanna, my girl.
There is nothing that would afford
me more pleasure than to know you
all personally, and I trust that you
will remember this when you visit
Raleigh. My address can be obtained
at The Progressive Farmer office and
I will be delighted to have you call
at my home. [ have pictured each
of O in my Imagination and, were
you to come, I could then know
whether or not 1 am correct. hope
u girls will preserve your letter and
learn the lessons suggested for each
item you quote is we'll worth remem-
bering.
I am glad that Loretta has had
courage to join US at last. It is never
too late to do good and I think that
you will help others who read your
letters to us. Many thanks for reel
pes. Any fruit keeps better in a
dark place. If you use glass jars
and must keep them in the light,
paste heavy brown paper all over the
cans. Tell Earl that [ think him a
real smart boy and hope that he will
be a good and great man.
All Patience, your letter encOur-
ages me more than you realize.
Your recipe for tea cakes is good and
[ know that the lard and butter
melted together, adding just a pinch
of salt before using, makes quite as
good cakes as to use all butter. [
think the flour you describe is an
oxalis. When planted some three
inches apart they form a beautiful
border, but I think there is some
thing so fascinating in caring for
and cultivating individual plants.
But persons living in the country
have-as I now have nOt-plenty Of
space to mass flowers and thus SEEM
ingly enhance their beauty.
Jennie Acton is with us this week.
You will have to change your chicken
yard before you succeed with them,
l fear, Jennie. Move the coop in
which you feed them. The trouble
may be caused by it having been
damp for quite a while.
Eleanor writes again after a long
silence. The subject she presents is
indeed worthy of attention and [
shall be glad to have the opinion of
any reader Of the Chat regarding it.
AUNT JENNIE.
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INSURANCE.

That there may be such a thing as
carrying insurance too far is indi-
Gated by the case of Mr.. MulCahy and
Mr.. Mulhooly, two Irish gentlemen.
Though they were known to be great
friends, they were one day observed
to pass each other in the street
without a greeting.
"Why, Mulcahy," a friend asked,
in establishment, "have you and Null
hOoly ~quarreled?"
THAT we have mott" said Mr..
Mulcahy, with earnestness.
There seemed to be u GOODNESS
between you when you passed just
now"
"That's the insurance of cur friend
ship"
4 don't understand"
''WhOy, thin, it's this way. Mul-
hooly and l are that devoted to wan
another that we can't bear the idea
of a quarrel an as we are both
moity quick-tempered, we've re-
solved not to sphake to wan another
at all"
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will act as the young ladies of his
community have done. My FRIEND
Won need not measure all girls by
their standard, for I assure you l
know quite a number who are far
above it. do not think you deserve
much sympathy, but you have my
best wishes for your perfect happi-
ness in your "bachelor's paradise. "
7 am inclined to believe you are
about to retire from single blessed
for surely you would not be SO
selfish as to make things so attrac-
for Just one cross old bachelor. Lis
ten, we may hear Tennessee Boys
wedding bells soon. [ must close,
but will come again before you have
time to miss me. With best wishes
for the Farmer and much love to Aunt
Jennie.
Sampson Co.
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hands, temperate habits, honor, love
and ~unselfshness are the birthrights
of every child. Just so far as they
fall short of this standard you have
failed to start them Alright in this
world. When you fail to teach, by
precept and practice, these holy
principles, you rob your children of
that priceless pearl. I would be the
last person to discourage any laudi-
BILE ambition, but it is with genuine
sorrOwI hear a girl lament the mar
rowness Of farm life" and express a
desire for ''city or town advantages, y
and a determination to seek employ
ment there. To such l say, Don't,
my dear. Where one, who has left
the farm, succeeded, scores have
failed. Many without sufficient
fortitude to return to the farm home
and begin where they left off have
drifted to ruin. You will say, This
is an old story. [ have heard it be-
fore. It is true, nevertheless, as
many a wrecked life, d premature
grave, will tell you, if you listen. If
your home is a happy, cheerful one,
you are needed there to keep it
thus. If it is a cheerless, discOn-
tented abode, your duty is to
make a model home of it. Farm life
is not narrow, neither need our lives
be narrow on the farm. In no other
place, in all this beautiful world,
does Nature deal out her glories with
so lavish a hand. In no other place
are the evils of life 50 completely eX-
cluded. In spare moments and even
ings you can meet the noted writer,
the eloquent preacher, the scientific
lecturer, between the lids of book or
magazine, and meet them at their
best. There they are shOrn of the
petty frivOlities that mai the beau
ties of so many lives. What glorious
hours for study, for acquainting ones
self with gems of thought, for men
tai communion with the true, the
noble, spirits of the day! Drive
away this discomfort with plans for
Frightening and identifying your
home, then put your plans into ac-
ton. No duty, however ~distasteful,
but may be made a pleasure if you
will. Take an interest in everything
around you. Look for beauty and
you will see it. Work for happiness
and you will get it.-Mrs. Annie B.
Bushong, Sweetwater, Tenn.
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a few hours, or even an hour 10
slider, would never have been soIa~
nized. It isn't that our girls -
make foolish marriages are crir,+
or inherently wicked. Thew
simply thoughtless. They do w.
take time to think. No girl da7ihoy
ately runs her head into a nose =,
though appearances often give tho.
impression. Thousands of girls hors
no idea what marriage means n,
many it is a joke a lark. The avail
ening soon comes. Then the Stot.
steps in. But it is too late To srob
girls a law which would compel thor,
to take time for thought would he or
unreasonable blessing. 4 4 When o..
girl has to live with a man for Efo
time, which usually means a good1r
number Of years, it is not too mnnb
to ask that she shall take a fortDiob+
or a month to make up her mind
| And if she will not take that time
herself, then it is perfectly DroDor
in the girls own interests and in the
defence Of the integrity Of the family
that the State should come in and
compel her to do So"
Now, Aunt Jennie, Ihaven't time +,
write a letter, but [ wanted to let the
Circle know Editor Bok's ideas On
this important subject. And what
do the C~hatterers think of the rem.
edy he proposes? Think it is d good
subject for discussisn and with the
sole idea of drawing out the opinions
of those older and wiser than myself
I have written this. l think our
circle improves steadily. And now.
hoping for opinions Of the subject
have presented, I will close.
ELEANOR.
Haywood Co., N. G.
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JENNIE TRIES POULTRY RAILS
ING.
Sampson Co,

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Now l am
here [ mean to tell you all a secret.
Some Of you have been good enough
to wonder if [ deserted the circle.
No, I have read the nice letters every
week and wanted to come in and talk
some too one week, but [ must have
knocked at the wrong door for the
first thing I knew [ was in the waste
basket. Anyway, [ guess that IS
what happened, for [ have not heard
from myself since. [ am all right
now and [ do believe that it will take
more than one little letter in that
basket to make me keep still, for l
mean to try again and hope to inn
prove some.
What are you all doing? [ have
had a time with little chickens this
spring. I don't think that the fault
has been with the weather, but some
how they died. [ would think that
they had taken cold sOmeway, for
they would sneeze and sneeze, then
begin to cape and seemed to be try
ing to blow their noses, but finally
they gapedfOr every breath and died.
Somebody told me that they had
worms in their wind-pipes and If I
could get them out that they would
get we'll. I gOta horse hair, put the
oro1CO e Or,0 I0S1s 4O~O%hnTp N nd 4uiC@n1
it some, leaving a little loop in the
middle of the hair then held the
chickens mouth open and ran the
loOped end down the wind pipe,
twisted the hair around several
times, then pulled it out, and sure
enough there were some little, long
red worms on the hair. That is one
time [ succeeded, but, let me tell you
that [ don't believe the one who told
me to try it ever did it herself, or
she would know that for one success
a dozen failures await you. 1t was
so in my experience. Besides it was
so hard to hold the chicken and
keep it's mouth open. Who can tell
me what to do for my chickens?
How many of you will try to raise
turkeys this year? [ had rather
trouble with them than chickens, for
they will bring a dollar apiece next
fall and they are so nice for home
use. Ducks and geese don't have
gapes either, and there is so much
consolation in trying to raise any
thing that is healthy. [ had better
stop, or 1 might get into that basket
again. With best wishes,
JENNIE ACTON.
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PATIENCE COMES AGAIN

DEAR AUNT JENNIE - Several
months have elapsed since I last
wrote to you, but my interest in
terest increases in our" corner
with each issue of The Progressive
Farmer. Your letters are so inter
esting and instructive [ am sorry to
miss a single III so when the paper
came last week and l turned to the
fourth page and found not a single
letter from one the Chatterers or
yourself, my disappointment may be
imagined. Now, Cousins, let US not
let this occur again Off tits our FAULTY.
[ cannot blame anyone specially, for
l have been as negligent about writ
ing as any, and more so than some ;
therefore I am to blame as much as
any one. IwOuld have written before
though, but there are SO many of the
ChattererS who write letters of so
much more interest than I could
hope to make mine, I thought it best
to remain quiet awhile. Now l am
resolved to do my part of the writ
ing for the Chat. I mean to write
every time I feel like it, if Aunt Jen-
ME cOnsigns two-thirds of my let
tiers to the waste-basket. I am will
ling to trust to her Judgment in that
way.
Pansy, 1 hope you will continue to
write real often, [ enjoy your let
tiers so much. l heartily indOrse the
quotations from the Farm Journal
in your last. With you 1 say chow
true that is" If the girls of u
country would take those words to
heart and govern themselves accord
ingly would they not make purer,
truer women, and would it not cause
a great reform among the young peo-
pie generally? Girls, let us keep on
the safe side, not do anything that
would detract one iota from our in
fuence for good.
Some of the Chatterers have sug-
gested that we exchange recipes that
we know to be good, through these
columns. 1 will give my recipes for
tea cakes. They are cheap and
very good as we'll. Three eggs, two
cups granulated sugar, one cup sweet
milk or water, two heaping teaspoons
baking powder, lump of butter size
of an egg q use lard sometimes with
good result). Flavor with lemon ;
mix with enough -four to make a stiff
dough. Roll thin, bake quickly.
A word to Tennessee Boy and 1 am
through. I think he goes a little too
far when he thinks ALL young ladies
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Haywood Co., N. G.
WHAT TO EACH GIRLS.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Here | come
again !; I won't give you all time to
forget me this time. Aunt Jennie, I
wish I could see you face to face and
have a chat with you [ feel that
would enjoy it SO much. Never
mind, [ can read your letters. They
are just splendid, but 1 would like so
much to know you personally.
sHurrah for Will Retlaw he wrote
my sentiments exactly about Ten
nessee Boy. Come again, Will you
know what you are talking about. l
wish you and your better half a long
and happy life.
read in an old magazine the other
day, "What to Teach a Girl The
magazine was for March, 1888, but
some Of the rules were SO good |
must give a few of them. [ want the
old bachelors, widOwers and boys to
get good wives. (Some of US may be
old enough to teach ourselves if 50
let's go at it, But it is especially
for mothers:
'sTeach her to search the Scrip
lures. Teach her to be careful OF
the minutes. Teach her to think be
fore she speaks. Teach her to con
troll her tongue at all times. Thor
oughly teach her domestic work.
Teach her to he Industrious. Teach
her to be high toned. Teach her to
be a true, noble, Christian woman,
Teach her politeness. Teach her not
to desire to attract attention, but to
merit attention. Teach her to be
kind to all. Teach her economy.
Teach her to be a sincere Christian.
Teach her that striking manners are
bad manners. Teach her that the
mother and not the daughter is queen
of the house. Teach her ~self-reliance.
Teach her to look on the bright side
of everything. Teach her how and
when to laugh. Teach her how 30
see a frog without s~quealing. Teach
her to remember, that true happiness
is found only in the exercise OF
Christian virtues. Teach her to re-
member that no thought, no word
no act of man ever dies. Teach her
that Speech is silver, but silence IS
golden Teach her that what IS
worth doing at all is worth doing
we'll. Teach her to have nothing to
do with Incorporate or dissolute
young men"
Now girls, n and all, let's keep
those rules, for the reform com
mences with US. I guess my letter
is getting too long. I close, VIII
best wishes to Aunt Jennie, the
Cousins, and The Progressive Farmer
JACKANNA.
No 10 10 NJ q
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Victims of the drug habit are
easily recognized at sight. They are
firm believers in the theory that
drugs cure disease. To them the
statement seems as incontrOvertible
as that fire burns woods or that water
runs down hill. If, after taking sew
eral scores of drugs in succession
they find themselves no better, but
rather worse than they were Origi-
nally, it is because they have not
yet hit the right medicine 1t does
not occur to them that while they
are trying to hit the right medicine
the ninety and nine wrong medicines
are hitting them, and hitting them
so hard thatin many cases they never
survive the harsh treatment. After
nature has enabled a man to recover
from a disease, her next endeavOr is
to enable him to recover from the
medicine he has taken and in this
latter attempt she is not always sue
cessful.
A simple illustration is that of a
child who has taken cold. All that
nature requires to make Il cure in
such a case is that he shall go
supperless to bed after a warm bath.
AS u result of this treatment the
child usually comes downstairs next
morning as bright as d sunbeam.
But abstinence, warmth and rest
form too simple a prescription for the
fond mamma. She believes in stuff
ing Il cold. Accordingly the little
one is allowed to eat a hearty sup
per, followed by a mixture of butter,
sugar and mOlasses supposed to be
good for a cold" or some cough
candy, and the inevitable medicine.
The dullness and assitude from
which the child suffers for a day or
tive thereafter arise not from the
disease but from the surfeit which
was intended to cure it.
When a broken bone is set, what
Is it that completes the cure? What
drug is it that knits the parts to-
gether and makes the patient a well
man again? In that case it is said
that nature cures. All the patient
needs is warmth and rest, free
dom from anxiety, freedom from in
digestion. Nature cures the broken
bones as well as the open wound,
and if given q fair chance she will
strive as hard to cure an inherited
disease, and those other quite as OBJ
stinate ailments which arise from
bad habits and the immOderate use
of drugs.
Many of us are like the wOman
with d chronic disease who, after
swallowing powerful medicine, ate
an unusually heavy meal so as to
give the remedy something to do"
In this case nature had to grapple
with the original disease, plus the
fermentation of a meal three times
too large. [ have known d man suf-
fering from II slight ''attaCk of ma
laria to take quinine to destroy the
germs" then take a cathartiC to re
move the effects of the quinine, fol
lowed by a tonic to counterfeit the
weakening effects of the cathartic,
then take a sedative to quiet the
too stimulating action of the tonic,
then take a sudorific to get rid of
the sedative, then take bitters to
strengthen a stomach made limp as
a rag under all the medicine, then
take whisky to assist the bitters.
After the lapse of some time he took
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She wished to break it to him gent
ly. Il have decided" she said, "to
return your ring" He however.
was a r~esOurceful man, who did not
believe in letting a woman get the
better of him. You needn' t bother. "
he replied, Il buy them by the doz-
en-. '-Chicago Evening Post.
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THE HOME CIRCLE.
RUNNING BAREFOOT.

What fun it was in early spring,
When days YER warn and mild,
And birds came back, and everything
Just summed itself and smiled,
To sit down by the old pump trough,
When mother wasn't near,
And sneak our shoes and stockings off
But then came half a fear
That we might e a frOwn O~'erspread
Her ever-kindly face,
Till smilingly she shook her head,
And then departed every dread,
And Joy usurped its place.
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How carefully we first would walk
Upon the cold, damp ground
We didn't want to laugh nor talk,
Nor needless gaze around,
Until our feet, from toe to heel,
Could join our heads in fun,
And stones themselves we didn't feel,
As over them we'd run.
Our kites in stubble fields we'd fly,
We'd walk d sharp-edged fence;
To ev'ry banter we'd reply
With answer we could verify
With ample confidence.
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But there's no joy without it's woe,
No day without its night;
At times we'd stump our longest toe
And drive it out of sight;
Or else q stone bruise on our heel
Would come and make a stay,
Until we most began to feel
"TwOuld never go away.
And then our shoes we had to get,
When Sunday morning came.
Those swollen feet-the vain regret
That we had them Off-and yet,
Next day we did the same.
John L. Shroy, in Saturday Evening Post.
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Wake Co., n. G..

EnamOred Youthful beg you, SIT,
for the hand of your daughter. l
cannot live without her"
Old Grumps-"Glad to hear 1t. l
can't live with her. Name the day
young man, and have it soon"
Enamored Youth Cbacking off,
"Um-er-please give me time 70
reflect New York Weekly.
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Fate is the friend of the good, the
guide of the wise, the tyrant OF tn0
foolish, the enemy of the bad.-"'
r. Alger.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-10-06
WARRINGTON.

The attendance at the state fair was
large.
Everett, Wash. is talking Of a mu.
nicipal wafer plant.
There was q large attendance at ths
Whitman county fair.
The southern part Of Thurston coun-
ty 10 being explored for coal.
The Spokane Red Cross Texes relief
fund has turned the $500 mark.
The wounded prisonar at Colville IL
Henry Coffee and not Ned Coffeen.
Nearly $4,000 has been raised To-
ward the proposed labor temple inSe-
attic.
About 800 IL TO be spent in improv.
ing the public library rooms in Ia
coma.
The schools Of wenatehee are crowd.
ed. A hfth teacher has just been en-
ployed.
spokane's population f. 3e,s4s.
Those are the figures the census bureau
gives out.
The assessed valuation OF Seattle IL
S4o.i4s,2s5, about $4,000. 900 larger
than last year.
The wheels Of the Washington State
Beet Sugar eompany's factory were set
in motion last week for the seasons
run.
About $500 Of the required SIS, 900
have been raised for the proposed
Olympia university ct Olympia.
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Ths cranberry marshes of Paciac
county win yield ahoat q thErd q !
crop thls rear. The plekars are nov
n The aab1
Tbs Whateom county Agricultural
assoCistien ha0 called Cor bids for
siAshtnE. clearing and grnhhing the
roeentiy purchased fair grounds.
Tbs o. r. q n. and Great Northern
havecombtned In meeting the special
rata In shipmsnf az apples IN CARLOAD
lots from eastern Idaho ana Waahlne.
ton 10 s.. Paul.
The Burlington railroad has granted
q petition Of the washington lumber
manufacturers and made 4 rate OF 20
cents on lumber to all points west Of
Alliance. Neh. and Brush, Col. opan.
Ing mp to Washington ar q markst In
western Nebraska. Colorado and Wash,
lngton.
Major James A. Drain. spokane's
county clerk. was the victim Of q seri-
Gus accident Saturday. He accident
ally shot himself through the right
hand. Physicians who dressed the
wound fear he may lose the use d that
member.
A. the outcome Of q liberal mixture
OF bad whiskey and jealousy over a love
affair Theodore Berso was shot through
the thigh By William Stensgar on the
south half OF the Colville reservation
i've miles west Of Daisey. Both are
young men and had been lifelong
friends.