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English Branches. Mandolin,
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Execution, Cornet,
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Fencing. Violin.
Trombone. Painting,
Guitar. German
Theory, Physical Culture
Banjo, Drawing,
Fine teachers. Reasonable rates. Cata-
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Apply on premises a26-Gt
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rs, so, IS, Sc, ~ per cent, or any
other per cent. up TO co. These
problems in the daily life of che farm
will be live questions TO the boy or
girl and do more to give them a
thorough knowledge of arithmetic
than any number of dead questions
that they may get out of the book.
Where the boy does not expect to
have anything more than the com
mon school education, he should
make the most of it and get a thor.
ough grip, especially on the three
Rs. This should be supplemented
by reading the best GLASS of news
papers: the county paper, provided
it does not abuse the opposite party,
the up to-date agricultural paper,
the religious paper, and such stand
ard books, agricultural, religious,
and political, as may be found in the
farmers library. The boy should
not be allowed to read poor novels,
but tales of adventure we'll written
and first class novels that give an
actual protrayal of everyday life,
will be found valuable. If the boy
expects to get a good grip on the
English language, there are three or
four books that he ought to read,
and read over and over again. The
first, of course, is the Bible, which
is the best literature, considered
merely as literature, that the world
has over seen, or ever will see. Bun
vans Pilgrims Progress and Shake
speare should be ground into the
child as soon as he is able to master
them. If the boy and girl will get
all they can out of the country school
and the home reading, they will not
be satisfied with this, but will in
some way or other get an education,
whether at the high school, or COL
lege, or out of it, that will make the
boy a man among men and fit the
girl for any place in society that she
may be called upon TO assume.
We are assuming in all this that
the teacher employed in the COM
mon school knows how to teach and
is not hired because she can be had
cheap. The fact is that the common
school teachers do more to shape the
child's life than the high schools,
colleges, or universities DR. Henry
Wallace, in Wallace's Farmer.
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THE G DOLLAR.

A young man was making a small
purchase at a florists stand where
we were waiting for our change from
another assistant. A silver dollar
was offered in payment. The pro
prietor glanced at it, and handed ii
back to the youth, saying, "Can't
take that it's a plugged dollar"
"What's the odds?" asked the
young man.
"shors weight" said the other
brusquely.
We turned away, thoughtful.
There was good metal in it, but that
did not save it from rejection. So it
is, we reasoned, with some people.
They are wanted for this position
and for that, but ''short weight" is
the sentence passed upon them. For
one reason or another, they fall short
of being STANDARD"
How is it with you whose eye rests
upon this? Are you "standardP"
Or has some little temptation bored
it's way into your character, and
filled up the space, making you
eight weight?"-YOung Peoples
Weekly.
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SPOKEN THANKS AND REAL GRATITUDE

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Have you
ever felt the difference between graft
tude and thanks? I think verbal
thanks are but an outward ceremony
we have, by which we acknowledge
a favor. Gratitude is the unspeak-
able language of the heart.
In the journey of life one meets
many men Of many minds, and eel
dom a day passes without a call to
do some service, great or small, for
others. Now, that is all right. For
we ourselves often have need of a
helping hand. If any one does aught
for me, it is altogether by the spirit
I judge the deed to be done in, that
I measure my obligations to that
person.
If he does it by reason of counter
obligations, as rendering good for
the good I may have done him in
time past, I feel myself under very
small obligation. If one does me a
favor from a sense of moral duty, be
cause he feels himself better than I,
(and helps me only to indulge his
pride, in order to pat himself on the
back and say, "What a great man
am I!") thanks are forthcoming, but
gratitude is scarce. When [ do a
person a favor that costs me nothing
of thought, or love, or money, if I
get thanks I am surprised I do not
expect gratitude. IF I help another
because I must, without a desire to
do so, I do not appreciate thanks if
| get them. Indeed I had rather not
be thanked. But when I sacrifice
my own pleasure, and do aught for
one I love, because of love, I natur
ally expect heartfelt gratitude and
a satisfying evidence thereof, on
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HYMN BEFORE ACTION

From panic, pride, and terror,
Revenge that knows no rein
Light haste and lawless error,
Protect Us yet again.
Cloak Thou our undeser wing,
Make firm the shuddering breath
In silence and answering
To taste thy lesser death
All, Mary pierced with sorrow,
Remember, reach and save
The soul that comes tomorrow
Before the God that gavel
Since each was born of woman,
For each at utter need
True oOmrade and true foemsn,
Madonna, intercedel
Fen now their vanguard gathers,
Fen now we face the fray
As thou didst help our fathers,
Help thou our host to-day!
Fulfilled of signs and wonders,
In life and death made clear,
Jehovah of the Thunders,
Lord God of Battles, hear
-Rudyard KipLing.
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A NEW Conner.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE For
time / have wanted to write n =
cial Chat, but have held back y
given my room to others who oo1'
write better letters than I can. :
so many remain absent 80 Iorn,
will do the best I can, for l do tb;s,
we all should respond to the eordi,
invitation extended to US and trn !,
make of this pape what it =.
and should be.
l have been a constant reado, j..
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER for mn,
than ten years and think it a spI,
did paper. Now, since we have
corner in which to meet and oh,
awhile I am always anxious for !,
welcome weekly visit. If the farm
ers would read this paper and hsa
the advice given them, / thin
many Of them would be more 81.
cessful, but I am partial to CHI
I should like to write nice letters In
some of the members, but my fesS
pen will not respond. I will taken
part in the discussion, but will tab
a back seat and pay attention h
what others may say. I think Ii,
letters of the various members an
quite interesting or entertaining
and perusing them often drives dull
care away.
Many thanks to Happiness for
Group cure. I do not want to Boa
sponge on Social Chat, absorbing
the good and giving nothing inc
turn. 1 will therefore give a reNA
for nursing sore mouth: Take
small piece of chlorate of potash,
allow it to dissolve in the mouth
then gargle with the saliva thus
formed and spit it out. Use three
or four times a day. Also keep the
bowels open, which is as necessary
as anything else.
This is my first attempt, and if
meet with a welcome by seeing thi
in print, I will drop in again Bomt
time. DoKoTHY!F
Wake Co, N. G.
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GET A GOOD GRIP ON THE THREE RS.

right which expresses most clearly
and fully the meaning of the writer
80 the reader. There are COMPARE
lively few, even among the educated
men, who know as much about punc
tuation as should be taught, and
taught we'll, in every country
school.
1t is equally astonishing how few
people know how to write how to
write a plain, legible hand, and write
so distinctly that nothing else can
possibly be made out of it except
what the writer intended. It is not
every man that oan write a beauti
full hand. We know this from expe-
rience in attending the public school
that teachers often ruin boys and
girls for life, so far as writing is
concerned, by becoming impatient
with them and not bearing with
their infrmities. Every boy and
girl, however, ought to learn at
school 80 write at least a legible
hand, n that can be read with com
fort and with pleasure, and of which
it is impossible to mistake the mean.
ing. Unless the habit of writing a
legible hand is learned at school,
and in the common school, it lie not
likely that it will ever be learned in
the high school or college.
Neither should any boy be satisfied
without a thorough knowledge of
arithmetic He should add, subtract,
multiply, and divide with perfect
and absolute accuracy. The habit
thus formed will continue with him
through life and may save him hun
dreds and thousands of dollars in
the course of the years business. No
boy a be thoroughly grounded in
arithmetic without doing hundreds
and thousands of sums that are not
in the book. Sums that are in the
book are simply training for the
problems shat will arise in everyday
life. The parent may be a great aid
to his children in giving them farm
problems or having them work
out for him problems that arise from
day today. For example, the number
of acres in a field so may rods wide
and so many rods long the number
Of bushels in d corn field of so many
acres yielding so much per acre the
number of bushels of corn in a crib
so many feet long, so many feet
wide, and SO many feet high the
number of bushels of wheat or oats
held by a bin of specified size; the.
number of tons of hay in a stack
counting cube of seven feet for a ton,
a cube of seven and one half feet, or a
cube of eight feet; the value of
ear corn, 20 ears to the bushel, at go
Scnts, when il shells out 20 per emit =.
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The earth is full of anger,
The seas are dark with wrath,
The nations in their harness
Go up against our path
Ere yet we loose the legions-
Ere yet we draw the blade,
Jehovah of the Thunders,
Lord God of Battles, aid
High lust and forward bearing,
Proud heart. Tebellious brow
Deaf ear and soul uncaring,
We seek Thy mercy now,
The sinner that forswore Thee,
The fool that passed Thee by,
Our times are known before Thee
Lord, grant us strength TO die
For those who kneel beside Us
At affairs not Thine own,
Who lack the lights that guide us,
Lord, let their faith atone;
If wrong we did TO call them,
By honor bound they came;
Let not Thy wrath befall them,
But deal 80 us the blame.
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DRUDaERY THAT MADE GENIUS.

~Paderewski, when told by her
royal highness, Princess Victoria,
perhaps the most accomplished
musician of all the members of the
royal family, that he was "surely
inspired" answered:
"Your royal highness will, I dare
say, be surprised when I tell you
that 1 remember the day when I was
quite an Indifferent player. I was
determined, however, to be what the
world calls a genius, and TO be a
genius l we'll knew that 1 must first
be a drudge, for genius and drudgery
always go hand in hand. Genius
and P~aderewski spoke exoitedly-''is
three-quarters drudgery that's what
genius is. 1 at one time practioed
day after day, year after year, till 1
became almost insensible to sound
became a machine, as it were. Now
'Paderewski is a genius says the
world Yes, but Paderewsk was a
drudge before he was a genius l'-
Selected.
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SOME FAST TRAITS.

sFSpeaking of boastfulness born OF
pride in home," says Hamilton w.
Mabie, 81 WAS once in a smoking
compartment with a man from New
York, another from Chicago, and
another from New Jersey. The New
Yorker was boasting of the Empire
State Express, which he said went SO
fast that the telegraph poles slipped
past seemingly as close together as
the teeth in a fine comb.
"sThat's nothing said the man
from Chicago. There is a train
from my city to Milwaukee. Moth
ing like it. I started TO cross a
bridge on the road and heard the
train coming. Having great pres
ence of mind, I made a leap in the
air and the train was gone when l
came down.
"'That's a fast train said the
New Jersey citizen. 'The Jersey
Central f1ier is equally fast, but
makes better time, because it starts
fast. My wife was on the platform
to bid me good by in Jersey City. I
opened the window to kiss her, and
by the good name of the land of nos
quitoes I kissed a strange woman
standing on the platform at New
ark. New York Press.
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HIS MEMORY WAS GOOD.

Mr.. s wanted to move from the
city to q small town near by, in
which there were but one or two
stores. He would be in the city
every day and agreed to purchase
the "few little things" his wife
could not buy in the village stores.
You'd better put them down on
a piece of paper" said Mrs. S. when
about TO give her first order.
"Oh, no." said Mr.. s. "My mem
DRY is good"
"Well, then," began Mrs. s., ga
spool of 80 black thread"
eyes," said Mr.. s.
"a yard of not too light and not
too dark calico"
Yes"
GA small hammer, a a of peaches,
a dozen small pearl buttons, two
yards of cardinal ribbon, silk on one
side and satin on the other"
eyes," said Mr.. s thoughtfully.
IA pair of slippers for baby, a
dozen lemons, a good tooth brush, a
pineapple, two ounces of sky blue
yarn, an ounce vial of homeopathic
nux vomios pellets, a.
"Wait a second, said Mrs. count
ing on his fingers and looking per-
picked.
"And a bottle of vanilla extract,
and a yard of triple box-plaited
crepe. lissle rushing, and three yards
of small checked nainsook, and"-
But Mr. s. had seized his hat and
vas running tor the station.
What the poor man brought home
as: A yard of ~bedtioking, three
yards of black Grape, a bottle of vine
gar, eight yards of nankeen, a scrub
bling brush, a pound of green yarn,
go spools Of "coat thread" a yard of
very light and a yard of very dark
calico and a pint bottle of homeo-
pathio pills.
'There, my dear, " said he triumph.
antly, throwing down his numerous
packages. 81 don't think you'll find
a thing missing. Who says a man
can't do shopping? My memory never
played me false yet. Buffalo En-
quirer.
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Quite a large number of the chill
dren of the men who read Wallaces'
Farmer will have TO get their educa-
ton as the little red school in the
old field. There is no high school
convenient, and their parents are
really not able, or do not think them
selves able, TO send their children to
the town high school, much less TO
the agricultural college or univer
sity. Their opportunities, therefore,
for an education are limited to the
common schools and to the papers
and books that are taken in the
home. This need not discourage any
of the young folk. There is many a
man now welding a State wide and
nation wide influence who had no
better opportunities of securing an
education than they.
Among the principal things taught
in the country school are the three
Rs, Or reading, writing and arith.
metic. A thorough knowledge of
these is the first condition of sue
cess in any high school, college, or
university. They lie at the founds.
ton of everything that is called ed
ucation. The ambitious boy, there
fore, will try to get out of this school
house all that it can give him, and
If he gets nothing more than a
thorough knowledge of reading,
writing, and arithmetic, and what
geography and other branches are
taught there, he will be better
equipped for the battle of life than
many a boy or girl who has gone
through the high school or the col,
lsge. He should, however, master
these thoroughly.
In reading, he should know not
merely how to spell and pronounce
the words, but he should be able TO
understand fully the meaning of the
page or the sentence read, and 80
express it clearly and distinctly in
other words, to convey the meaning
TO others. 1t is astonishing how few
people, even among college gradu
ates, know how to read. There are
comparatively few preachers even
who know how to read a hymn or
song with the full appreciation of
the meaning and with the proper ex-
precision. A thorough knowledge of
reading is in itself a good education.
This, of course, implies a knowledge
of punctuation. Punctuation marks
are simply aids in expressing the
meaning, and that punctuation is
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Our Social Chat.


AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we have some of the
most wide-awake and progressive young ladies
and young men and some of the most entertain
ing writers among the older people of this and
other States. the ages of the members ranging
from sixteen to more thOn sixty.
YOU ARE REQUESTED to Join by sending
us q letter on some subject of general interest,
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
If YOU do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish to be
known as a Chatterer.
TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as q rule,
elapse between the time q letter is written ana
the date of it's publication.
all letters to Aunt Jennie, care OF
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh, N c.
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his part. But the sweetest
is Gods service, to serve n ~, I
creatures unmindful of mora, :
of self interest, or former obIios%
in ready obedience to a Cbris s', ~
purpose to do good. This is . W
of love, an ideal mission. 7 boa'
members of our Chat will join in ~ -
blessed service, which is it's ow.
"aro' SINCERE
CASTOR Co., N. G.
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PURPOSE.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE The last time
I wrote I tried to say something
about moral courage; now, with
your permission, I will attempt to
ride another hobby: "Purpose."
Ny little Worcester's Dictionary
says that purpose is "design, inten.
ton, or aim," and I like the last
word best as a definition.
It is of the greatest importance
that we should have some aim in
life. How many lives are stranded
on the shores of time, as miserable
failures, because they possessed no
definite aim Ali around us we SEQ
boys entering life, without any pH
pose at adjust living in the preaHt
and taking no thought of the future
We often hear it said that where
there is a will, there is a way bat
how can there be either, if therell
no purpose?
Purpose is the great exponent OF
character By it we are enabled TO
solve the motives of all noble deeds
And what an incentive it is for the
youth who has ever present with him
a high, a noble, and an unselish mo-
tive.
In this life we are ever ready TO
overlook our fellowmen's faults and
injuries to us, if we know that they
have a good and true purpose. And
I believe in the life to come Jul mis-
deeds and shortcomings will not DO
charged against as, if we live with o
good aim.
It matters not how strong and able
the ship IS to battle against the
storm, if the captain has not port OF
haven in view, but is just ''letting
her drive and drift with the cur
rents, he will never accomplish any
thing, So it lie in life. Our bodies
may be all that physical science can
desire, our minds living stores Oh
knowledge, and our talents unsur'
passed F; but if th91e is no purpose
then is life indeed a failure.
Let Us have some aim in life. Lev
US have some hearts desire, EDO
granting of which would lift us up /"
a higher plane of Christian living
All around us is the constant clsSH
of right againt wrong. By having
a well-defned purpose, we are Ell
abled to avoid many of these en.
counters, which otherwise mlSD'
have been the bane of our moral o.
istence. Then perhaps we can nna0l
stand John Fishes statement: "0'