Bellefonte, Pa., December 9, 1910.
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A WORD OF APPROVAL.
Give me a word of approval. I've tried to be good
and true.
I am weary and sick of heart
critics do.
I've given my life for others, have always opnos-
ed the wrong: |
I've tried to lift up the fallen, | have cheered the |
jostling throng. i
Give me a word of approval, ere the setting of the
sun.
1 have a sort of misgiving that my race is nearly |
run; i
Have felt the spirit of kindness and the thrill of
glowing truth
And love the good old honest way as I loved it in
my youth.
Give me a word of approval as my mother used
to give
When I was a bitof a boy just learning the way
to live.
My soul responds as readily to sweet words in
kindness said
As in early childhood days, to the prayer beside
my bed.
Give me a word of approval, for my eyes are
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at the way my |
For the way ismuch rougher now and I'm not
so fleet of limb
As in the hopeful boyhood days when I cleared
the vaulting pole,
For Iam in the final race with my eye upon the
goal.
Give me a word of approval: it may be the last to
me,
For the winter days are coming: the frost is strip-
ping the tree
And the chilly winds are blowing; the coms
ripe in the ear:
1 await the house of quiet and the crossing must
be near.
D. A. Watters.
AT THE FOOT OF THE MONUMENT.
The worm of time has long been gnaw-
ing at the names chiselled into the noble
monument that stands before the ruined
battlements of Trinidad da Granada.
Time and weather have eaten little by
little into the Andean stone, so that the
record seems scarcely destined to outlast
memory of those who are com-
memorated there. Yet, when I mounted
the crumbling steps I could decipher let-
ters names, from El General
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y Vorres, still ble above the red-flow-
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Trinidad was a proud when Drake
sailed north to po she is al-
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creeper cover it. Higher than this it
never climbs, but points its red trumpets
at it, that all may read.”
“Whose is the tomb?” | asked.
“Here the rebels assaulted,” he con-
tinue, leading me to a great mound from
which wins ocks of masonry extruded.
breach made, and so this
that my father told
living whe Jesus how much
except parrot there,
almost forgotten, it happened so long
Ah, the tomb? Let his Excellency have
patience, and I will tell him of the dead
nun, whose lover went down into hell for
her, and, having gained her, turned aside
three times lost her.”
I drew a Mexican dollar from By fucks | only makes your final
| and laced
which closed
man began
it in the claw-like
"You must cast your mind back,Senor,”
he said, “to the days when Trinidad da
Granada was very different from what
she is now. Then she wasone of Spain's
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on it tightly. Then the old | officers
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the Sigates $f Spal Jie fathoms deep be- thie had gained the onpily street that locks THE MYSTERY.
neath the tides of Panama A FEE, the convent. ih Bursting Beart | —
The Captain read laughed. ° drove steps toward gate. And, | When the ages of earth shall be ended
lie, he answered, and drove the emissary | even as he pressed the lowest of the stairs, | And we from time's limits are free:
I Lipid omg ny ie Su we § How wandrously all will be blended,
the attack became relentless, and | among the nuns, clad in the novitiate’s!| we shall in eternity see.
Was worse by far than. either. nunger or | ig 4nd Prone: her eves velscd heaven. | Why. often, the plessure we ofr
was worse ar unger or i er eyes ven- | . ,
dread of . But still none spoke of | ward, | ,Becomesonly bitterest pain;
surrender, there were no traitors “Thus, Senor, Fortune disclosed her. | And our effortsat doing our duty
among that garrison, Senor—notone. | self. Here ends my father’s tale. He Are sooften blind and in vain.
“Then came an emissary again; no com- | who had betrayed in to win what was | why the happy and useful are taken
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mon soldier on this occasion, but none to be denied him, thinking himself exe- From their fields of usefulness here:
other than the rebel leader himself, but | crated of all men, remained bereft of what while the sad and wemy still linger
stripped of epaulets. And he spoke se- | he coveted and honored above all those In this vale to them 50 drear.
cretly in the Captain's ear. whom he had cast into death's jaws. bh ;
“ “Why do you fight hopelessly and | Afterward, when his past life had become Why the things which we seek are denicd us,
fling your lives away?" he whi | remote and alien, he grew glad that hon- And the cares we seek not are ours,
“Trinidad must fall, and your resistance | or remained by him and all his house, and | And the sunshine we fain would bask in
more - | he came to believe that he it was, in-
as you.
paused here and scanned the Ca
tain's face craftily. He had not A
faces of men. One glance was all he ery, and in his first battle he turned cow-
chief cities in the New World, and a stout
fortress. But presently her ity
prosper
departed, for the whole land was at war, |
from Mexico southward to the cold plains, | ple
and Bolivar was wresting, one by one,
n's fairest provinces away from her.
et all derided him in Trinidad, for we
knew that the sea was ours, and even
Bolivar himself covid never cross the
Andes to her assault.
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and time, seeing that
tain's company continually
upon the walls, while upon him
command had fallen, since the
eral was incapacitated by reason of
and sickness.
"At first few died, for the
were well guarded behind their f
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the investment grew so close that
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pick strokes of their enefnice. Abia the
rebel leader sent an emissary with a
of truce, and he was brought to the Cap-
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* ‘Many a soldier fights under the Re- ward conscience drove I.im through many
| publics ," he continued, ‘whom peo- lands, but he found no resting-place.
sworn allegiance his bones would be whit- he had known was gone, and all that he
| ening among the ant-heaps of the jungles. had loved rested at the short avenue of
! Nor need any men know.
{your men to-morrow night to resist a mained in him, and the name liveson the
feigned assault elsewhere, merely forsuch monument. Time cannot efface it nor
' a time as will enable us to lay our pow- creepers cover it. But the parrot remem-
‘ der-bags beneath the tower. Then strip bers.”
‘off your uniform and come tome in peas- © The bird awoke, and stretched its head
ant’s guise, and you shall be conveyed to toward the old man, screeching malig-
ta, where a regiment will acclaim nantly. He turned toward me.
. © "A fine romance, Senor? [It warms the
| "‘Wait!" muttered the Captain. and he heart as I foretold. Then the Senor will
; withdrew a short interval and sat down, pay another peseta’’—By Vicior Rous-
his face between his hands. seau, in Harper's Weekly.
“There, while the rebel leader fingered :
his sword-hilt and smiled cunningly, he Raisin Bread as a Food.
fought his battle out. For high command f———
he cared nothing. But he knew that, for The raisin grape is perhaps the most
good or evil, the Senora Mendoza would popular variety with the growers in Cali-
prove as clay between his palms, that he fornia, says the San Di co ent
model her to his desires. And of the New York Sun.
gra
Laing: thi a full grave, white for a space trays upon the ground a
beside the sea, then hidden beneath the the curing process goes on. round,
weeds. At last he arose. full grape dries and shrivels and the
“I will only ask this,’ he cried. ‘That. green, fresh stem withers and contracts
whether you succeed or fail, or whether | until finally the grapes have ceased to ex-
I live or die, henceforward I am forgot- | ist as in their place is a light
ten, and my name shall never your . brownish bunch of capsules filled with a
lips unless I come to you for the fulfill: | pulp many times sweeter than the origi-
{ ment of your promise.’ nal grape, the goodness and richness of
| “The envoy swore, and wentaway. On the grape having been concentrated by
the next afternoon a strong assault was , the sun’s rays and its sweetnes increased.
made against a distant tower, and thither Before California learned the value of
the Captain hastened with all his com- | the irrigating ditch and began to plant
pany, who followed him, no word Spon grapes and cure raisins the United States
their lips, nor any doubt questioning th- got its raisins from Spain and paid a fair-
in their hearts. And there he fought till | ly good price for them. In course of time
darkness, alone exposed above the but- | native raisins began to creep into the
tresses, while bullets streamed Jet and | market and make their way into the fav-
overhead, and left him unscathed. So! or of the public.
then he knew that fate had resolved the | Of all the dried fruits none perhaps
issue. equals the raisin in food value and ease
digestion, and containing but 13 per
drew and crept through the deserted | cent. of moisture and the balance almost
streets under cover of twilight, and hid | wholly grape sugar (carbohydrates) it is
himself in a small, empty house which he | on a par with the grape the dried fig
had noted. He stri off his uniform | as an energy producer in the system, fig-
dressed himself in | uring up over 1,200 units of fuel value.
peasants guise, staining his face and | But the raisin grower has, because of pe-
to the color of an Indian's. So he ' culiar market conditions, been forced to
lurked in the shadows until he heard bu- | keep his nose to the grindstone of meagre
blown and then the great noise of a | ts. the new raisins were in
: shape to market the carried-over old stock
ion 04 was field 4b int fron: of the grow.
fer by the dealer and prices suffered. The
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“Here, Senor, hard by this monument,
the General fell, even as he hastened
his sick-bed; for
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that the ordinary housefly lays twenty
thousand eggs in one season.”
“He—*"Great Peter! Why don't they
graft the housefly on the barnyard hen?
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: man had died more certainly than all his |
company, and what remained was but the |
t sepulchre of his remembrances. They |
his way from Panama southward during | say that he went north to fight under Bol- ;
five years of war without learning toread ! ivar. But courage endures not treach-'
needed, and he pressed home his assault. ard and slunk out of the field. After-
mourn in Spain. But had he net Years later, when he crept back, :)! that’
Only draw off tombs. But while she lived her pride re- !
bunches of !
kind of muscular work | has
alone.
Is so often hidden by showers.
The Infinite Wisdom, controlling
The mysteries through which we live,
Knowth best the right way to lead us
To offer the best we can give.
Life, with its many illusions
And the mystery of them ail,
We shall know when the ages have vanished
And time is beyond rec. 1,
M. V. THOMAS,
How Expert Farmers Are Made
JTowa’s Small Boys.
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Out in the State of lowa, where the
flower of the Nation's great farming land
lies, they have found a way to check the
: tide, which, ever since the days following
! the Civil war, has been carrying the farm-
| ers’ boys away from the soil and into the
: cities and towns, there to grow up among
' the marts of trade far removed from the
fields their forefathers tilled.
The method used in the accomplish-
I ment of that end is gradually coming
‘eastward. Already there are plans on
foot in New York State to apply the meth.
! od here, and those who have looked deep-
ly into the subject say there is small
doubt that it will i uite as well in
the East as in the Middle West.
The method itself is simple enough in
the telling. It is more or less
than the arousing of enthusiasm in the
country boy for t things which per-
tain directly to farming—modern farmi
—not the kind of farming their grand-
! fathers and their great-grandfathers did,
but the kind of farming which pays,
which places the farm upon a basis of
mercantile establishment and makes of
the farmer himself a keen business man,
with all the acute perceptions of the city
man of business.
In lowa, especially some parts of it,
they have the advantage of many object
lessons to drive home the arguments of
those upon whom the duty has devolved
of arousing enthusiasm for the farmin the
minds of the farmers’ sons. One does
not have to travel far in certain sections
to find model farms. Page county, for in-
stance, is full of them.
The vehicle used in arousing enthusi-
asm in the sons of Jarmers is not alone a
vehicle of verbal arguments. Nor is it
alone the object lessons presented by
those two model farms and model farm-
ers. Both help it is true.
another and even more important vehicle
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rivalry a the farmers’ sons, a rival-
ry in the study of modern farming which
puts them upon their nettle, drives al
thought of the city from their minds and
starts them along the trail of up-to-date
agricuiture, which leads to success early
n life.
Perha, the keynote of this rivalry
farmers’ lads of Iowa is to be
found in the
which have been fou there in recent
8” Starting with one small club in
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the State, have
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intendent, is head of the club. At
east she exercises a general suvervision
over it.
The ori
ty Boys’ Agricultural Club was to encour-
age the youngsters in their studies of
modern farming. While its purpose is
still that, the scope of the organization
widened. It has come to be the po-
litical “enthuser” of the farming youth of
county, and, in the j nt of
some of the most successful of Iowa's
modern farmers, it has accomplished far
mere than was ever anticipated.
Regular meetings of the club are held.
There are branches of the organization all
in the Iowa method. It is the creation of '
boys’ tural clubs’
riginal purpose of the Page Coun- '
| most as important for the achieving of
| large Yields as is the Selection of fertiliz-
ers and the r rotation of crops on a
certain field. There is always a State
‘trophy for the winning team of corn
_ judgers from the boys’ agricultural clubs.
It is usually » large silver cup or a vase,
and those prizes are valued far more than
their weight in gold by the winners.
With such a State-wide interest among
the farmers it is not strange that a keen
rivalry exists among the various county
clubs. To the boys that corn-judging
prize is quite as important as the inter-
national cup for which the yachting men
contested some years ago, before Sir
Thomas Lipton became tired of building
cl judgi
n the last corn-j ng event among
the farmers’ boys of Iowa Mr. Brown
played an interesting part. He wished
the trophy to go to a county team.
A little while before the State contest
was scheduled to take place Mr. Brown
sent the Page county team of three boys
to the Ames Agricultural College for a
short course. carried off the trophy.
These lads were Edwin Sowhill, Bernard
Hagglund, and Martin Johnson.
The ye Jevera) Superian: 4 factors
entering into t udging of corn.
One is to determine just what
' kernel is best adapted for seed. It
not be too flinty, nor too short. Nor
should it be too round. Also the cob must
ir, ge oo
usually uce t grain
cobs which are too small do not hold
enough kernels of grain.
But the P. county boys’ team knew
all of that. Sy that they did
was that they carried off the prize.
The Rat and the Weasel.
~ Once a sawmill in a Western town was
infested with rats, which, being unmolest-
ed, became very numerous and bold, and
Played round the mill among the men
while they worked during the day. But
one day there appeared upon the scene a
weasel, which immediately declared war
on the rodents.
One by one the rats fell victims to the
weasel's superior strength, until only one
very large, pugnacious rat was left of the
, once numerous colony. The weasel had
| a go at the big rat several times, but on
| each occasion the rodent proved more
: than a match for his slender antagonist,
i and chased the weasel to a hiding-place.
Shortly thereafter the weasel was seen
busily digging under a lumber pile near
the mill. He was engaged for some time,
but later appeared again in the mill, seek-
, ing his old enemy. He soon found him,
‘and at once renewed hostilities. As usual,
after a lively tussle the rat got the better
of the argument, and the weasel
Plysued closely by the rat, straight to the
le under the limber pile.
He ran in, still followed by the rat, al-
fo Iumedistely feappeared the
of the pile, a again godged into
, the hole behind the rat. Neither was
seen again for some time, but the weasel
finally reappeared, looking no worse
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| —1If you have a bad headache go out
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| Sitement of the fracas you may lose your
! head.
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