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THET TERMATER RAISIN'. 
SEPT 25 
BY AUNT SUSAN. 
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}’np gut bis prime termater seed 
An' planted ’em right early, 
An' tickled half to death he wuz, 
Ter see 'em greeu ez gross. 
Per most of our termaters, 
They wuz sorter stunt an’ nerly, 
An' Pap, he tikes termaters 
Retter'n any kind o’ suss. 
Alt' when the nights growed warmer. 
An' the frost lied quit a hazin’, 
Then Pap he set them plauts out 
Jest ez natrel ez ye please. 
An’ the children they all wanted 
Fer ter try termater raisin’; 
So Pap, he give ’em all a plant, 
.Testso’st they wouldn’t tease. 
We hed a little pauper 
From the County house thet Summer, 
.Test a rugged little feller 
Doin’ chores and runntn' round, 
Not much hlgge.t- than a corn cob, 
But ez spry ez ary hummer; 
Pap bed tuck him home to raise him 
So’st they couldn't hevhim bound. 
An' that little pauper feller 
Stood around there sorter waitin’, 
•Ail' Ills eyes growed mighty wistful 
Ez he looked the plantin' o’er. 
Pap wuz alius sorter foolish, 
Tender-hearted, alllis hidin’ 
Fcr ter see folks havin’ trouble, 
Hut there wanr't but ouc plaut more, 
Thet wuz dredful poor and spindlin’, 
But the little feller tuck it, 
An’ he dug a hole an fixed It 
Jest ez slick, an’ clean ez wax. 
Au" lie Jest took hold and hoed it, 
Carried water lb a bucket, 
An' lie rigged him up a cover 
From some pieces of old sacks. 
Now the children soon gut tired 
An’ they quit termater raisin’, 
An’ the weeds growed up an’ smothered 
All them plants away frum view. 
But thet little pauper feller 
Stuck to his’n most amazin’. 
An’ it jest heats nil my tellin’ 
How thet plaut gut up an’ grew. 
Pap walked out last Sunday evenin’ 
Fer ter sec how tilings was growin’, 
An’ thet big termater razln’ 
Sorter made him stop and think. 
An’ he shet Ills eye a miunit, 
An' he did look mighty knowln’, 
An’ I couldn’t help a seeltP 
Thet Ills mind let out a link. 
An' he sez “we all git started 
Sorter fair lu life’s big battle, 
But It ain’t so much the startin’, 
Ez It. is the bangin’ to. 
Them thet starts out sorter blusterin’ 
With a mighty noise an'rattle, 
Find thet noise won’tmake no showin’ 
When they run their journey through. 
Take the poorest chance an’ work It, 
Sorter foster and stay by it, 
An’ it's sure ter come ter somethin' 
Ef ye keep It clean an* bright. 
Take the biggest chance agoin’ 
An' neglect il, and half try It, 
It'll spindle down to nothin’.” 
An' I guess that Pap was right! 
One of the greatest men we ever had in this 
country said that no man was ever so ignorant 
that we could not leant something from him 
if we tried. He was right. If you watch 
sharply you will find that every person has 
some one thing that he can do a little better 
than anybody else can. Sometimes we can’t 
find it out at once, but when we do find what 
it is wo can learn from him. Be careful about 
calling people ignorant. The first you know 
some one who knows a great deal more than 
you do will come along and show people how 
little you know. Where will you be then? 
Never parade your knowledge. It takes many 
years of study to got enough to parade. Keep 
quiet aud learn all you can. 
Almost before we know it we shall have to 
get ready for Thanksgiving. I hope we shall 
all have much to be thankful for this year. 
When we come to figure things up we shall 
find that we have a great many things that 
we wouldn’t have taken away from us. 
We want to make the hens comfortable this 
Winter. Look out for the houses now, and 
don’t forget to give plenty of food. How 
would you like to be shut up in a cold room 
without enough to eat? You are not a hen, to 
be sure, but you are not as good as a hen if 
you are cruel to stock of any kind. 
Schools have beguu in the city. There are 
nearly 200,000 children in the New York City 
schools this term. I went by a school the other 
day and saw some of the scholars playing about- 
They had to play in the street or in a little 
room in the basement. I wonder how our 
boys and girls would like being cooped up in a 
little place like that. Not very well, I think, 
j know that I shouldn’t. 
It is a fine thing to be able to write a good 
report of a meeting of any kind. Such re¬ 
ports are always in demand, and very few 
people can write them up just as they should 
be. Our boys aud girls can learn to do this 
work. Begin now. Whenever you go to a 
meeting of any kind pay close attention to 
what is said. If you have a piece of paper or 
a book, write down the things that seem to you 
good. If you have no book remember all you 
can of what has been said, and when you get 
home think it over. This practice will help 
you. You will be able to pick out the best 
parts of a sermon or n speech, and people will 
soon a_sk you to help them when they want to 
hold a meeting. Begin with the sermon. Think 
over what the minister says, remember the 
text, and when you get home see how much of 
the sermon you can write down. It will be 
bard at first, but if you will keep at it, the 
work will come easier. 
THE STORY OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL. 
A COLLEGE BOY’S DIARY. 
( Continued .) 
“I am glad to see you” I began. “I hope 
we shall get along nicely together. You 
know, and I know just what we have come 
here for. We are not here simply to have a 
good time but to try and learn something. 1 
have no doubt there are many things you can 
teach me. I shall be glad to learn with the 
rest. There is one thing about studying which 
I hope you will all remember. Knowledge 
represents just so much work. We can never 
learn a thing unless we are willing to work 
for it. Now a man might stop in here and 
ask us the right way to town, but I never 
could put him there. I could show him the 
way, but unless he made some exertion he 
never could reach the place.” 
1 noticed a boy sitting ou a front seat who 
seemed greatly interested in iny remarks. 
His mouth was wide open iu his excitement^ 
and he tapped his boot on the floor to gain my 
attention. It seemed to me a good opportunity 
to stop and poiut my speech, so 1 turned to 
him and said; 
‘•Don’t you think that is so?” 
“Sposiu’ye had a load o’grain or sum hogs 
ter take ter town. Why couldn’t ye hitch up 
au’ carry him’” 
He fairly shot these words out of his mouth 
in his eagerness to explain the ideal education¬ 
al system of Bear Creek. The rest of the 
school appeared to agree with him. It was 
certainly far easier to be carried to town than 
to walk there, and the same rule would un¬ 
questionably apply to studying. 
Before I could explain as 1 wished to do, the 
door opened with a great flourish and the di¬ 
rector strode in. It he had kept away I be¬ 
lieve I should have made a much better start. 
In his great desire to help me out, he precipi¬ 
tated a conflict which lasted during the whole 
term. He carried a large bundle of sticks 
under his arm; several of them geuuiue clubs 
iu size aud shape. He handed me this collec¬ 
tion with a most dramatic flourish. Then he 
rapped smartly on the desk and made a long 
speech iu a tremendous voice, in which he in¬ 
formed the scholars that be had carefully 
studied the law and had found tlmt his posi¬ 
tion gave him the right to maintain order in 
all parts of the district. He told them that 
he could send any of them to the Reform 
School in case they disobeyed me. At the 
last he turned to me and fairly shouted in a 
terrible voice: 
“This gentleman has been selected as your 
teacher. His first duty will be that of en¬ 
forcing the law. I stand back of him, and 
back or me stands the Government of this 
great State, and back of that the Government 
of these United States, and back of that all 
moral law. We are too strong to be beaten. 
We will not be imposed upon!” 
The effect of this outburst was not immedi¬ 
ate. The scholars looked at each other in 
wonder. The larger boys shook their heads 
sullenly and muttered to each other. It was 
the custom of Bear Creek to move slowly in 
such matters, but the movement was always 
sure. All such statements were to be report¬ 
ed at home and carefully discussed around the 
fireside. When some decision could be 
reached, the children could lie sent to school 
armed with the. parental authority to make 
things interesting for the teacher aud fight 
the battles of the district through him. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: If I may be allowed to 
call you by that name as I have never written 
before: I live ou u farm in the southern part 
of Alaijama, 25 miles south of Mobile, aud five 
miles from the Gulf coast. The bay from 
which the place gets its name furnishes good 
fishing aud duck hunting. The creeks furnish 
good sjHirt with hook aud line in lishiug for 
black bass and pickerel. The other day I 
went down to the creek which flows iu sight 
of our place, and was back home iu less than 
an hour with a bass which measured two feet 
in length and weighed seven pounds. Can 
any of the Cousins beat that? My father has 
a dairy of 13 cows. He ships the butter to 
Mobile where it brings 25 cents a pound. He 
also owns about 100 sbeep. 
Yours truly, frank warren. 
[I think we would have to get up early and 
make a long day to beat that fish. I would 
like to catch one like it..—u. M.] 
Drar Uncle Mark: I want to know if you 
want another niece. Pa takes the Rural and 
I like to read the Cousins’ letters. I am a 
little girl, and 1 have two brothers. We live 
on a new farm in Northern Michigan. We 
have a nice garden. Pa cleared the land last 
Spring. I have a nice flower garden from the 
seed that Pa. got with the Rural. Pa. has a 
pint of Alaska (teas. We have a lot of Prince 
Albert and Stratagem peas, Pa. raised from 
the seed you sent, out last year. I have a hen 
and she raised 12 chickens. They are great 
big ones. Don’t you think that is pretty good? 
She is raising 12 more. Your niece, 
GEORGIE STEWART. 
Kalkhskn, Michigan. 
[That is a flue record for a hen. You are a 
Cousin surely.—c, m ] _ 
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