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 Soc and SI OO FoulardS, 67c. Soc and $Ioo Figured Satin Foulards All this Springs goods 24 inches wide bright cloth heavy soft and the kind we'll This price almost mercantile miracle Colors, Old Rose Resed Tan Cadet White Black Royal Navy During sale o7c
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BIG SHUCK; SMALL NUBBIN.

Gen. Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning with Grant," tells a story of
the meeting at City Point between
Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Confederate States, and
other Southern commissioners, and
President Lincoln and Secretary Sc
ward to discuss preliminaries of peace.
Many officers, including General
Grant and General Porter, were in at
tendance on this meeting.
Vice-President Stephens was a sal
low, understood man, whose skin seem
ed shrivelled on his bones. One of the
officers said of him, at the end of an
interview, "The Lord seems to have
robbed hat mans body of all it's flesh
and blood to make brains of them"
On his arrival, Mr.. Stephens was
wrapped from his eyes to his heels in
a coarse gray overcoat about three
sizes too large for him, with a collar
so high that it threatened to lift his
hat off every time he leaned his head
back.
The coat, together with his complex
ion, which was as yellow as a ripe ear
of corn, gave rise to a characterize
ton by Mr.. Lincoln which was very
amusing. The next time Mr.. Lincoln
saw General Grant at City Point, af-
ter the conference, he said to him:
Grant, did you notice Stephens's
coat?"
ooh yes" answered the general.
Well" continued Mr.. Lincoln,
"soon after we assembled on the
steamer at Hampton Roads, the cabin
began to get pretty warm, and
Stephens stood up and pulled off his
big coat. He pulled it off just about
as you would husk an ear of corn. I
couldn't help thinking, as I looked
first at the coat and then at the man:
"'WelI, if that isn't the biggest
shuck and the littlest nubbin I ever
did see?"-The Youths Companion.
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could know that you would always be
blind, what happiness would be yours.
A s~hortcoming or fault for a day is
endurable, and you can overlook it,
but day after day and year after year
that defect in character if INDUCED
in becomes m~onotonous, then irksome
and finally almost uncomfortable. No,
do not trust to blind love; rather seek
to have your eyes wide open; get
glasses if need be. But be sure you
see congeniality of temperament, taste
and ambition. The lack of this means
misery. Love is ESSENTIAL, but love is
not all of life.
MRS. S. E. M.
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AUNT JENNIE'S LETTER

What an ideal day this is for Gre
cess" and the happiest moments in
school life are those spent at recess.
The races, games, getting tired then
resting-oh, it is delightful! These
thoughts were induced by a tiny verse
of poetry in a child's paper about
weaving a little straw basket at play
time. I saw in my imagination a merry
group of girls and boys, seated under
those grand old pines near the home
of my childhood, busily engaged in the
same occupation, only we used pine
needles and laughed when they proved
refractory and pricked our fingers.
Many were the articles we contrived
to make. Leaf hats were popular
among us and when finished rivalled
in profusion of decoration those in the
shops. "How dear to our hearts are
the scenes of our childhood" and fond
recollection often brings them to our
view. Margaret quotes more of these
lines in her letter on "The Old South"
Mr.. Williams's letter is interesting
and not too long; indeed we would
have been delighted to have had him
make it longer.
Mrs. S. E. M. talks of marriage
an interesting subject to the young
people.
By the way, where is Pansy? We
have missed her so much, and hope she
will call soon.
AUNT JENNIE.
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read, and interpreted from within
rather than from without, they would
have a new interest. No other set of
books has been so abused. The his
tory, legend, poetry, wit and humor'
tragedy, in the Bible are all sublime.
Do not fail to give constant and pro-
found attention to the Bible.
Let me name some books that have
a recognized standing, and which can
be secured in cheap editions: "Adam
Bede" by George Eliot, "Blithedale
Romance" by Hawthorne, David
Copperfeld" by Dickens, Emerson's
Essays" Goethe's Faust" "Heroes
and Hero Worship" "House of Seven
Gables" by Hawthorne, "IvanhOe" by
Scott, "Meditations of Marcus. Azure
Illus" "Old Curiosity Shop" by Dick
ems, "Pilgrim's Progress" by Bunyan'
"The Pilot" by Cooper, pleasures OF
Life" by Lubbock, Plutarch's elves"
"Prince of the House of David" by In
graham, "Reveries of a Bachelor" by
Marvel, Robinson Crusoe," "Sartor
Resartus" by Carlyle, Scarlet Let
ter" by Hawthorne, Sesame and Lii
les" by Ruskin, "Story of An African
Farm" by Iron, "Tales From Shakes
peare" by Lamb, "Three Guardsmen"
by Dumas, "Toilers of the Sea" by
Hugo, "Tom Browns School Days" by
Hughes, "Tom Brown at Oxford" by
Hughes, 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast"
by Dana, "Urcle Toms Cabin" by
Stowe, "Vanity Fair" by Thaokeray,
"Vigar of Wakefield" by Goldsmith.
All of these can be obtained in diff
ferent cheap editions. For instance in
the Windsor edition they can be Sc
cured from most of the department
stores at about Is cents per volume.
This is, of course, a low price edition,
but is bound in cloth and is readable.
Better editions can be had at prices
varying from % cents upward. Half
a dozen good books can thus be bought
for a dollar. l have named only good
books, some of them great books.
There is no excuse for getting poor
books. With many people the only
purpose of reading is entertainment,
and hence reading sometimes becomes
worse than a waste of time. The bet
ter way is to read the great books that
have secured the Endorsement of years
or ages and read them and possess
them until we have fitted ourselves for
the noblest companionship and life.
Read the books that do not wear out,
that are always fresh, and whose in
terest increases with every reading
Chicago Farmers Voice.
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sweeter to me than a bower 81
roses, though now fast fadin !ON
our sight. A little more tbas !'N
years have slipped away since - 'o'
days of wal stirred. VIC aa
But it is not of these 1 worId
for they are already STORED in b;s "'e
but of the years prior to this ~:
the good old days of Southern ~
ton life,-when hospitality Ao',ss
in it's own native soil, and q ~; '
knew what it meant to be Or -
neighbor. Then father and INV
lived-ruling and presiding a. Nv
ter" and mistress" the Older =.
as uncle and aunt; Jane and I
waited in the house," Sam @ton1u \
to the horses and drove the carriaa'
Aunt Katie was and had been ~
for thirty-fVe or forty years Nv
such a cook as she was! y
Would that she could have tran.,,
ted her art. Her mullins, waffle. ~
cults, the chicken broiled 50 do;,I1
that you could scarcely wait f., ~
assembling and hearty thanks rbs y
we're never forgotten by father D.
we knew what is was to wait. f., "
we're never allowed to come f. AZ
first table. We were taught m.,'
wholesome lessons of patience and "
denial; those we're hardy as we'll :
wholesome days.
Saturday night was Grafton tim.s
Each man with his sack and bucket >.
paired to the meat house, or smoL.
house as we called it, for the v,sH.
allowance, one peck of meal, one or.J
of molasses and four pounds Of no,t
per capita, as they would say now end
then returned to the little cabin ~
the lane. When the slave visited ,
neighboring farm, he was required h
have his pass. The log cabin is fast
passing away; in some sections there
is barely one to tell the tale. Thew
have been replaced by the more mod.
ern cottage.
Each one had his or her work assign,
ed, and was required to do it, and do
it well. What an abundance of pro,
visions was made! Then hog and HON.
my were king instead of cotton and to.
bacco. MARGARET
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READ THE GREAT BOOKS.

Every person owes it to himself to
read and assimilate some of the mas
~terpieces of our literature. Happily,
these are now within reach of the
humblest home. The works of Shake
speare can be had for a dollar, or even
less, and no family should be without
Shakespeare. The separate plays can
be secured in handy little volumes that
readily slip into the pocket for a few
cents each. This is a very good way
in which to get the works, because a
little book can be kept within reach
for spare moments,a wise use of which
is with many people the secret of Gull
ture. No matter how many times you
read Shakespeare, the last reading will
be the most interesting and the most
fruitful. He never wears out and
never grows stale. Perhaps no other
book will stand this test to the same
extent except the Bible.
The Bible is with many people a
Q69lecL6u WOEhy anu yet IL SuTpdSSeS
in its richness and scope every other
work of which literature can boast.
The misfortune is that the literary
qualities ofthe Bible have been large
ly missed by regarding it only as a
book of religion, while, as a matter of
fact, it is an intensely human book.
Ii the little volumes in the Modern
Readers Bible Series, edited by Prof.
Moulton, could be studied in the same
rational way in which other books are
read a new sense of value would be
realized. A gradual appreciation is
coming and with it a larger use and
influence. If these books could be
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Our Social Chat.
. EDITED By AUNT JENNIE, RALEIsH, n. c. =

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we have some OF Lne
most Wide-aWake and progressive young laoles
and young men and sOn'eO of the most entertain
ing writer's among the older people OF this ana
other States, the ages of the members ranging
from sixteen to more thOn sixty.
o ARE REQUESTED to join by send1ng
us a letter on some subject OF general interest,"
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
ofhce address for Aunt Jennie's Information.
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 MOR must, as a rule,
elapse between the time q letter is written ana
the date of it's publication.
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N.
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"HAND TO MOUTH LINERS ARE
SLAVES.

One of the paradoxes of waste is
that the persons most addicted to it
are not men and women of independ-
ent means, who can support them
selves in spite of their extravagant ex-
penditure, but the poorer classes.
There is hardly an able-bodied laborer
who might not become financially in
dependent, if he would but carefully
husband his receipts and guard against
the little leaks of needless expense.
But, unfortunately, this is the one
thing which the worklngman finds it
the hardest to do. There are a hun
dred laborers who are willing to work
hard, to every half-dozen who are will
ing properly to husband their earn
ings. Instead of boarding a small per
centage of their receipts, so as to pro-
vide against sickness or want of en-
ployment, they eat and drink up their
earnings as they go, and thus, in the
first financial crash, when mills and
factories "shut down." and capitalists
lock UP their cash instead of using it
in great enterprises, they are ruined.
Men who thus live "frOm hand to
mouth" never keeping more than a
days march ahead of actual want, are
little better off than slaves.-Prof.
William Mathews. in Success"
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THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE.

They were both college graduates;
he with all the enthusiasm of one just
from college, she with all the fresh,
youthful sweetness that is the girl
graduates especial prerogative. To-
gether they were discussing college
days.
eyes," he said, "I shall always look
upon my days It college as the hap
piest time of my life; I thoroughly en-
joyed the life and the opportunity it
afforded for study and research. I
shall never forget the pleasure I de-
rived from the study of linguistics
alone. The languages have always
been particularly interesting to me;
didn't you enjoy studying them?"
Dear, no." she said. II think they
are stupid"
Indeed" he exclaimed: "I can't
understand how you can think so. But
perhaps your taste runs to some other
line of study; probably you found his
tory more interesting than anything
else"
ooh, l think it's a dreadful BORE"
she fastened to say.
Maybe you like mathematics" he
suggested.
INC, indeed" she replied; 81 think
mathematics hOrrid."
Perhaps" he said, "you enjoy liter
allure more"
Its so dull" she answered, absent
ly.
probably you prefer the Sciences"
he continued, doggedly, for he could
see that he was boring her.
Il never could see any sense in the
Sciences" she said, while she made a
desperate effort to suppress a yawn;
Il never would study any of them"
"Well, will you tell me what you
graduated in?' he asked, desperately.
Her face lit up, and for the first
time she showed some interest in the
conversation. white organdie over
s%atin," she said, smilingly.-S. E. Jen-
nings, lii Woman's Home Companion.
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Grace is a gift, a ~benevolence of
God. You can earn death, but not
eternity, for that is a gift of God.
The law came from Moses, but grace
came by Jesus Christ. We are saved
not by merit alone, but by grace-a
free gift. God is love; love lives and
heals and pities. Grace is something
that is given and not earned. There
are many forms of religion, but there
is only one vital distinction-man-
ward religion and Godward religion.
In the former, man, not God, becomes
in the course of time the centre. There
is no religion worth the name that
has not its centre in God. It was
Jesus who showed man what his right
relation is to God, and thus his true
relation to man.. He said, in a word,
that God loves the world, and it was
this revelation that changed the world.
The preaching of morality alone, by
even the most eloquent of men, has
never had the least influence on the
majority of men; but when God is
brought very near to our daily lives,
then we learn to love Him.-Rev. John
Cuckson.
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AUNT JENNIE.
THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE.

Dear Aunt Jennie :-Some one has
requested me to write on the subject
of marriage but / shrink from the
responsibility of the task. Young
people will love and think they are
loved in return, court and be married
on this supposition, and finally realize
when it is too late that they were both
mistaken; then Of course live misera-
bly, ever after.
I have often wondered why novelists
carry their readers to the altar with
their heroes and heroines and then
quietly draw the curtain. Is it be-
cause they find life's realities too diff
cult to paint or the models too for
bidding and they forbear? They would
have us believe that life is one sweet
dream until the altar is reached and
then,-then what is it? No more
dreams, no more ideals, just simple
humdrum existence. Are there no
ideal husbands and wives or does the
sense of ownership detract from the
at~tractiveness of genuine worth?
"There is more pleasure in pursuit
than in possession" the popular
writer's would have us believe; but is
it true? Is there no long perfect day
in life, shared by two faithful trust
full souls who are all in all to each
other, whose every act is perfection
itself in the eyes of the trustful and
indulgent companion who believes that
all the other does is right because he
or she does it? Is there no husband
so noble, kind, generous and thought
full that to her who has left all to be
a companion to him he still is her ex-
allied ideal, her perfect hero? I re-
member now one such picture of do
nestle felicity-an old couple whom I
knew and with whom I have spent
many happy days and who have now
crossed to that bourne from whence
none return. Their life was one per-
feet harmony and no ear, though ever
so sensitive, could detect the slightest
note of discord. The principal u
of misery after marriage is the deceit
practiced by the young people. They
would have you believe that they are,
what you find they most decidedly are
not, when you know them. This de-
ception is practiced most assiduously
until the prize is won, and then time
removes the veil.
Love is oftentimes wilfully blind,
but there is usually an oculist in the
form of an acquaintance of mature
years who, if you will quietly but
earnestly request, will furnish you
glasses which will not magnify the
good nor contract the bad. The trou-
bic is oftentimes with you yourself,
for there are none so blind as those
who will not see.
Now, could you keep your eyes shut
to those faults which appear so glar-
ing to other eyes than yours, if you
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The Home Circle.
~THE MAN WITH THE HoE."*


Bowed by the weight of centuries he
leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages In his face,
And on his back the burden of the
world.
Who made him dead to rapture and de-
pair,
A thing that grieves not and that
never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the
OK
Who loosened and let down his brutal
jaw2
Whose was the hand that slanted back
this brow9
Whose breath blew out the light with
In this brain3
Is this the Thing the Lord God made
and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the
heavens for power;
To feel the passion of EternityE
Is this the Dream He dreamed who
shaped the suns
And pillared the blue armament with
light?
Down the stretch of He'll to its last
gulf
There is no shape more terrible than
this
More tongued with censure of the
worlds blind greed
More filled with signs and portents for
the soul
More fraught with menace to the I'M
iVerse.
What CULTS between him and the sera-
phiml
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to
him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades ?
What the long reaches of the peaks of
song,
The rift of dawn, the ~reddening of the
rose?
Through this dread shape the suffer
ing ages look;
Times tragedy is in that aching
stOOp;
Through this dread shape humanity
betrayed,
Plundered, profaned, and d~isinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the
World,
A protest that is also prophecy.
o masters, lords, and rulers in all
lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This mOnstrous thing distorted and
soul quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this
shape;
Give back the upward looking and the
light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Touch it again with immortality;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Peridious wrongs, immedicable woes?
o masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
How will the Future reckon with this
Man?
How answer his brute questions in hat
hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake
the world?
How Will it be with kingdoms and with
kings
With those who shaped him to the
thing he is
When this dumb Terror shall reply to
God
After the silence of the centuries?
Edwin Markham.
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1T WAS THE JURY.

Mr.. McSweeny believed in winning
his case, and spoke to the jury With
that single end in view.
On one occasion he was engaged as
counsel for the defence in a CaltG
MIA murder trial. The case lOdA
hopeless. Not a link was missing IN
the chain of evidence which the prose
cution had welded. To the surprise Of
everybody, Mr.. McSweeny submitted
no evidence for the defence. Bei9T
ing that the case was won, the States
attorney made only a few perfunctoV
remarks in conclusion, and then the
great Ohio leader faced the jury to
make the concluding argument.
He began in a quiet, friendly, con-
versational tone, such as one might
use in discussing the weather. No
reference was made to the murder,
even indirectly, but the boyhoOd OF the
prisoner was quietly and rapidly
sketched with a master hand-nS
~school-days, his embarkation in buSl
ness, his love affairs, his courtShip ana
marriage, his struggles to earn a III,
tie home for his wife and his loved
ones.
The jurors were deeply interested
and followed the narrative intenty'
Mr.. McSweeny stepped closer. In q
manner which seemed almost conn
Dental he drew a vivid picture OF q
pretty country cottage, with a door
yard bright with flowers and roses
climbing over the porch. Within De
showed a faithful and loving wife pre-
pairing supper-the table partially Sc"
the teakettIe steaming and singing Oh
the stove. On the d~ooryard gate three
ruddy-faced youngsters we're swinging
and looking up the road to see VINO
should be first to catch a glimpse Oh
"papa" coming home to supper.
Suddenly the speaker stopped
Drawing himself up to his full height
he exclaimed, in a tone which start
led the whole courtroom, "Gentlemen
you must send him home to them"
The effect was electrical. A roar o.
applause followed, and one old grH
zIed juror, brushing away a tear, burt
ed out, well do it, sir, we'll do it,
Mr.. McSweeny instantly stopper
and sat down. The jury brought III q
verdict of acquittal without leaving
their seats. ,
Foremost among those who preSSSu
forward to congratulate the eloquen'
Ohioan was the prisoner himself, "nO'
with tears streaming down his cheeh''
wrung his counsePs hands, and thanA
ed him again and again. But bet"e0D
his sobs he managed to say: =,
"No other man in the world couIo
have done that! Why, sir, l nave ~
wife O children; I never was eve
married, you know."-Chicago: Ilhn0'
Herald.
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No one can ever become quite soil
tary, quite poor, quite miserable, who
can truly say, lord, if only I have
thee" That is just the same when
God makes his consolation most graf
flying and abundant, when we through
distress of body and soul have turned
from all temporal things to him, and
have learned that royal, overshadowing
"only thee. "-Theodore ChristIieb.
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I.

Dear Aunt Jennie:-"How dear to
my heart are the scenes of my child
hood, as fond recollection presents
them to view!" Even so the dear Old
South with it's clustering memories
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sTbis is No. As Of our series of the worlds
Rest Poems, arranged especially for TIE Fko-
5RFssIvE FARMER by the EDITOR. 1n Inls
series selections from the following Mr and
nave already appeared: Burns, BryhnL5 a
Ms Brownlng. Lord Byron, EugenaS
Field, Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, HOMES, G0ng-
FOLLOW, Lowell.
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Suspicious among thought are like
bats amongst birds-they ever fly to
twilight; they are to be trepressed, or,
at least, well guarded, for they cloud
the mind.
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Our souls crave a perfect good; we
feel the pull ~thitherward, we own the
law that points in that dirao+ilon.-
William M. Salter.