THE FARM AND GARDEN, 



II 



Odds and Gmds. 



Alwaj/a gather up the ndds ani ondi. A farm 

 looks bHt^T when aU the odds and ends arf picked up 

 and put in shape. We pick up odds and ends the 

 same as a farmer^ and always put them on this page. 



CHEERFULNESS 



We all advise cheerfulness, and we all admire it 

 —especially In other people — but we do not always 

 attain to it ourselves. Of course, there are cir- 

 cumstances under which cheerfulness is simply 

 Impossible,— with a raging toothache, lor in- 

 stance, or when you have Just upset the ink 

 on the new carpet, or have been caught in a vio- 

 lent shower without an umbrella and with your 

 best suit. To be admonished to be cheerful at 

 such times is adding aggravation to misfortune, 

 and might exhaust the patience of Job himself. 

 But there are many very small annovances, too 

 insignificant to be mentioned and yet whose 

 daily ocurrance may and must be expected, over 

 which we have no right to lose our cheerfulness 

 for a moment. There is no doubt that the hap- 

 piness of many a home, the charm of manv a 

 fireside has Ijeen clouded and displeased bv this 



his face ready made up for the occasion, and all 



his sensibilities iron-clad. One says that " the 

 guiltiest looking man he ever saw was one 

 charged with stealing a horse, which afterwards 

 proved to be his own." 



Unsatisfying.— How many imagine that with 

 a million of dollars they could be perfectly happy. 

 Here is the verdict of one millionaire, Stephen 

 Girard. He says:— "As for myself, I live like a 

 galley slave, constantly occupied, and often pas- 

 sing the night without sleeping. I am wrapped 

 up m a labyrinth of alTairs, and worn out with 

 cares. I do not value fortune. The love of labor 

 is my highest emotion. When I rise in the morn- 

 ing my only effort is to labor so hard during the 

 day, that when night comes I mav be enabled to 

 sleep soundly." Retiring from business would 

 have had no Joys for him, if, indeed, it has for 

 any one. Life without work. Is not the happy 

 state it looks to be in the far distance. 



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its eat-'h, we «ill giie, fre. 



We have arransPd with tlic largest groirei 

 the cjuntry to till our orders lor tbe folio* - 

 itig fourtiunorb vnrietlep* of Cttmu. 

 > lloiii.!-*KIM»0>' KIXG, ilir, 

 I durk. rich L'urmlne, Ix-aiiijiul iti 

 form Tru^runt. ■■ih-l an ubundunt 

 bloomer. MISS JOLIFFEE, i ,r Jt1l,ut<- olnk, - .1. tm 

 salmon, a profuAe bloomer. PKTKK IIK>'l>i:K'*0 V pur 

 whlt«4 large, full, and double, a profuMe bloomer. LILlXV.'* 

 white, str-lp*»J aad {ed^ed with muroon. ~ 

 nrrrp . For a dob of ei«ht •, 



Urr Ln . at twenty-llve (S3j cents eatm, we «iii giie, rree 

 by mall, a3 a premiuiu, one each (four iu all, of tliede eleRant plau 



want of cheerfulness In the elders of the family 

 group. Little vexations were sufficient to cha.se 

 the smile from the lather's face, or cloud the 

 mother's brow with annoyance, and so the home- 

 gatherings grow Irksome to the children, and the 

 bond of sympathy was forever broken. Let us 

 cultivate, therefore, a cheerful spirit, and like all 

 efforts In the right direction, we shall find that 

 we cannot Improve ourselves without Improving 

 others. That the reflex of our cheerfulness will 

 shine out in the tempers of those aiunnd us and 

 brighten the darkest days.-rAri.»(ia/i JnlclHi/tnccr. 



A C.^SE OF Forgery.— A large dog had been 

 accustomed to receive a. slip of paper from his 

 master, containing an order for a bit of meat for 

 his dinner. The butcher became accustomed to 

 n and to.ssed aside the paper without looking at 

 it, and handed over the bone. The dog finally 

 concluded that one piece of 

 paper was as good as anoth- 

 er. ,So, whenever he felt 

 hungry he' hunted up one 

 and took it to the meajt 

 stall. By-and-by, a pretty 

 long score was sent in for 

 " dog meat," to the surprise 

 ofthemaster. Itwasaclcar 

 case of forgery, but tlie dog 

 still occupies a respectable 

 plao« in society, and the 

 story of his smartness has often been repeated. 



THE SULT AN'S T REASURY. 



There Is no such thing as describing in detail 

 the splendor of the Sultan's treasury. There are 

 antique arms and armor, heavy with gold and 

 jewels; there are Innumerable horse trappings 

 and saddles, covered with plates of gold and 

 studded with emeralds, rubles, topaz, diamonds, 

 oatj pearls; there are saddle-cloths embroidered 

 with precious stones. .Several sofa-covers hang 

 in the cabinets as background to the smaller 

 articles. They are worth $150,000 a piece, and are 

 heavy cloth of gold, embroidered with. seed pearls. 

 Inoneof the cabinets are three uncut emeralds, 

 the largest being the size of a man's fist, and the 

 smallest larger than a hen's egg. The imperial 

 princes appear to have gone to school in child- 

 hood, for here are the satchels In which they 

 carried their books. Bags of velvet, embroidered 

 with gold, pearls, and diamonds. In another 

 place you see many mottoes from the Koran, em- 

 broidered in diamonds on red velvet. There are 

 amber mouth-pieces for pipes, studded with dia- 

 monds and rubles. There are coflee-sets and tea- 

 sets of all degrees of magnificence; and vases of 

 crystal and agate and onyx. There lire royal 

 knives and forks and spoons of solid gold, with 

 Jewels on their handles. Among the articles in 

 this imperial treasure-house, are manv which 

 must be regarded simply as tovs. Ul .such is a 

 tea-set of tortoise-shell, as thin as paper. Another 

 toy la a lady's parasol, of white silk, exquisitely 

 embroidered with gold, the staff 01 which is a 

 single branch of coral, so long and true, and well 

 adapted to Its purpose, that one might search 

 years and Till to find its like 



Mahomet, says:— "Wine has its uses, but its 

 injury is greater than its utility." 



The circular saw was Introduced into England in 

 1/90, but its inventor Is not knowa. 



Nothing serves better to persuade people of 

 little sense than what they do not understand. 



Mecca is called the holiest city In the world by 

 the followers of Mahomet, because It was hfa 

 birtliplace. It is the only city of the East In 

 which the houses have windows opening on the 

 streets. 



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Elijah Smith, of Leesburg, Crawford County, Missouri, 

 ears :— '■ I am fourteen years old, and like your paper bo 

 well I thought I would try to write for it." 



Mrs. R. B. Skinner, Albert Lea, Minnesota, savs of the 

 Farm and Garden :— " Can truthfully sav Ihal'it yields 

 the largest returns for the least oul'lay.'of aiiythiD- I 

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M. H. Wright. Hamburg, Towa, snvs :— " . am niuch 

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John Moorda-fT, Banner Ranch, Wyoming Territory, 

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S. R. Smith, Houlton, Maine, writes :— I like Thk 

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CAFtLYLE ON INTEMPERANCE. 



Is It a green, flowery world, with azure ever- 

 lasting sky stretched over It, the work antl gov- 

 ernment of a (rod; or a inurlc.v, simmering to- 

 phet of coppera.s-fumes, cotton-fuzzy, gin-riot, 

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 throat into which wretchedness of every sort 

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 of men, whose lot, of all others would require 

 thought and resolution; Ikinid madness, sold at 

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