The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-19
BOYHooD'S HAPPY DAYS.
Why Men Dream and Wake to Weep
 For Times Gone By.
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Yes, sir! Boyhoods happy days, of course. We know about that. We haven't forgotten the joy of sleeping in an unfinished loft in winter when our ' breath froze to the bedding and we had to thaw us out with a hot f1atiron every morning.
 Morning, tool We got up at a. m., pitch dark S4 below zero and still going down! We had to get up, hustle out and feed and milk the lowing herd, curry the rear elevation of the family mule, wake the rooster up to crow, thaw out the pump, chop four cords of wood and shovel away the snow to make room for the sun to risei
 Sometimes we went to school in the winter-not often. Only on the days when it was too cold and stormy to go outdoors Then we sat a nice. cool board about fifty feet away from the stove and gayly blew at our fingers and picked iccles from our hair. And, as we sat- We listened to a wooden image with teachers license as he handed us mis- information and permanently crippled our intelects.
 Then came the merry springtime! Rise at 2:30 a. m. More lowing herd! The herd owing to the supply of fodder being low. Then the hired man, who had hi- bernated in the forest, came forth seek ing whom he might make happy with his presence. And we. being in need of eX- tra joy, were allowed to sleep with this woolly hireling who snored like the boom of the sad sea waves. He was a good fellow, this hired man. He taught us to chew tobacco and swear. These gentle pastimes procured us more vio- lent lickings than any other joy in our whole young life.
 No memory is more loaded with joy -~xlrs.. Can we ever forget the blowing? How we held the blow when we had to reach up with a pike pole to get the handles; how we drove the old plug team with the lines around our neck; how when the clovis broke the mares walked away with our frail body dragging behind by the ears? When darkness came we stabled the plugs and went forth to milk the brindle heifer. The heifer kicked us across the barn floor and an old COW obligingly kicked us back again. Then when the milking was over, what fun to turn in and teach a fool calf to drink! This acting as dry nurse to a bandy- legged calf was one of the most un- mixed joys of all. We tied the calf short. set the bucket in front of him, got astraddle of his neck, stuck two fingers in his mouth and with the other hand jammed his head into the pail. And all the time we were emptying out abuse on calves in general and this lop-eared idiot in particular. This went on until dad came in and with loving patience horsewhipped us all about the place.
 Then when we had carried in the wood, brought forty gallons of water from the spring and eaten about eight pounds of solid food we went joyfully upstairs and came down again immediately to breakfast
 We often dream and wake to weep for fla 6a hxy xr-hnn how ripe. We recall the old swamp that al- ways had to be cut by hand. We recall little stones that we rasped the edge of our blades on. We recall the pretty snakes we stepped on with our bare feet. We remember 1t all with solemn gladness.
 We'll we'll! How it all comes back to us
 To Clean Carpets.
 The following method of cleaning car pets appears in The Housekeeper for No vember. It has been thoroughly tested and was secured from a professional source First have the carpet cleaned in the usual manner and tackled down on the floor where 1t is to remain perma- nently. and it is ready for the cleansing process. Take one and half pounds of the best white laundry soap, one-half pound of white oak bark, three-fourths pound of borax, one-fourth pound of full lers earth one-half pint of wood alco- hol, one-half pint of ammonia, one-halt ounce of chloroform and four gallons or water. Tie up the bark in piece Of thin material. and boil in two gallons of water for four hours. Keep boiling water at hand to replace that lost by evaporation. Now remove the bag. add the soap. shaved fine the borax and the fuller's earth, and let simmer until all are dissolved: then add the other two gallons of water which should be boiling hot, and when partly cool add the all