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SWEET SEVENTY-FIVE. 
On sweet sixteen the poet’s praise 
Is lavished in uncounted lays; 
In tenderer measure I would strive 
To sing the praise of seventy-five. 
Sweet seventy-five 1 The soft brown hair, 
Though touched with silver here and there, 
Still clusters round the saintly face 
Where love has set the crowning grace. 
Sweet seventy-five! The gentle eyes 
Still near the hue of girlhood’s skies, 
And still thy lips with winsome smile 
Childhood and age alike beguile. 
Sweet seventy-five! The scattered band 
Still owns the guidance of thy hand. 
And children’s children yield to thee, 
Unasked, their loving fealty. 
Sweet seventy-five! We at thy feet 
The fable old in faith repeat, 
For thou hast found in every truth 
The secret of immortal youth. 
—Aunt Marian , in Christian at Work. 
Beans. 
BY W. D. BOYNTON. 
Much abused product! Yet thou nour- 
isheth the highest cultured of the land, 
and lendeth an unspeakable charm to the 
dear old fireside of our Puritan ancestors* 
Whether we can credit thee for the prodig¬ 
ious enlightenment and culture of far-famed 
New England, without her time honored 
baked beans, is something which even the 
American mind has thus far failed to ac¬ 
complish. The golden wheat fields of the 
West, pale to insignificance when compar¬ 
ed with the bean-covered hills of our fore¬ 
fathers. Sunny Florida, laden with the 
orange, and vine-clad California can offer 
no rivalry to rock-bound New England— 
the home of the bean. So much for the 
New England bean. 
Now why should we slight it in other 
parts of the country ? Yet it is an undesir- 
able fact that it is slighted. The lordly 
wheat-raisers cannot condescend to grow 
the paltry crop, as he terms it. The small 
farmer on the lighter soils strives to im¬ 
itate his brother in this respect, and thus 
the bean has become a tabooed product in 
the West. Many a field that now produces 
but 10 or 12 bushels of wheat to the acre, 
would yield 15 or 20 if planted to beans; 
thus enabling the owners to realize $60 
where he now gets but $10. To be sure, it 
will require a little more labor, but then 
there is ample recompense for this. The 
farmer who cultivates but few acres should 
aim to raise such crops as will give him full 
and profitable employment so that he need 
not go off his own farm for work. Better 
do more planting and hoeing and less sow¬ 
ing on such farms. Fewer expensive farm 
implements will be needed in the cultiva¬ 
tion of such crops, so the farmer will not 
be obliged to burden himself with debt at 
the start, as many do in the vain struggle 
to compete with the larger farmers who 
cultivate twenty acres to his one. Some 
men seem to think that they are not farm¬ 
ing unless they are raising wheat and fol¬ 
low after .the wattle of the reaper. What 
a silly idea! when they might get ten times 
as much from their land with less capital 
and hard labor. 
Beans do not require a very rich soil, but 
still they will not yield largely if planted 
on a barren or worn out soil, as many seem 
to think. If the soil is too rich they will 
run too much to vines. A light, well- 
drained, fertile soil is the best, They should 
be planted in rows 2^ feet apart, with hills 
16 inches apart in the row. The regular 
S end $1 for formula to make 50 lbs. best LAUNDRY 
SOAP for $1, J. E. Rue, Jr.. Littleton, N. C. 
The South Florida Orange Grove. 
50c. a Year. Sample, 5c. Silver. 
FOUR ACRE ORANGE GROVE. 
Payment on time. J. CROSS, Liverpool, Fla. 
EGGS 
for Hatching from fine Plymouth Rock Fowls, 13 for 
Si 26 for SI .75. A. J. Fouch, Warren, Pa. 
H 
painted Silk blocks, for Cen- 
S’® I# ters and Borders of crazy quilts, 
tidies, wall banners, screens, etc. 
Send 50 cents for beautiful sample. 
WESTERN ART CO., Salem, O. 
TEN CLADIOLUS 
& 5 TUBEROSE BULBS by mail for $1.00. 
SAMUEL C. MOON, 
Morrisville Nursery, Morrisville. Bucks Co., Pa. 
Farmers, Look Here! 
I have the Best Wliite Corn in the world, and 
I challenge the world to produce a superior White 
Corn. The stalk takes strong hold of the soil and it 
does better in any soil than anv other corn. I call it 
„ DURHAM’S WHITE CORN. 
Send for Trial Package. Price, 30 cts., 4 pkgs. for $1. 
Each pkge contains ^ pint. Order early as supply is 
limited and I can only sell by the package this season. 
Address all orders, WARREN DURHAM, 
3-5 Black Oak, DeKalb Co.. Ala. 
