Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — The Farmer’s Don’t. [ARTICLE]

The Farmer’s Don’t.

fj Don’t settle down to the belief Hi at red clover woi.’t grow on the farm.Try it. Don’t believe that berries and the other fruits are not wholesome in the family, but save health and obtain pleasure cheaplv by planting all that will grow. - Don’t fix the fence partly to-dav. with a promise to do it better next we k.— That time does not come until damage to be regretted ha- been done Don’t be content with half a crop when a little more labor will bring a full one Don’t try to get somethingnut of noth ing. Don’t wait ton much on the weather. Don’t go off dissatisfied because you don’t gel rich by /aiming in a year or two. Don’t discourage vour children by constant complaints about farm business. Don’t buy a new farm tool until you know just how you can pay for it. Don’t go fishing as long as the ax and the hoe need sharpening. L>oVt forget that, if you waste no time in attending to them your crops wiil grow nights aud Sundays. Don’t abolish farm accounts, but make eaeh cultivated field pay something above expenses annually. Don’t forget that a few acres in fjuit will often pay' the expenses of an average family. Don’t use ‘cuss words’ with any expectation of making them mend broken harness.—Southern Gultivator.

The world has three 'great constitutional documents, the declaration of independence, the declaration of rights of 1688, aDd the Magna Charts of King John. The original of the first named is preserved in the Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is familiar to most Americans The bill or declaration of rights thal followed the revolution of 1688 is preserved in the Somerset house. London. It is written in a small, but plain hand, in Rnglish. and covers a parchment twelve inches wide and nearly thirty feet long. Such was the form in which, in those days, the records of the house of lords were kept. The original of the great Magna Gharta of King John has tad a varied history, having been many times moved, and barely .escaping destruction in the great fire of 1666. It is written on very heavy parchment. in sizeßox42 inches, and surrounded by the seals of the eighteen barons who forced the Blantagenet kirg to exeente the document on the plains of Runnymede on that June day 668 years ago. The text is iu old Latin, the exact translation of which has given rise to a great deal of learned controversy. At the bottom right hand corner is the signature of the king, and through it runs a leather thong which sustains theseal - ablack and white quartz-rock the size of a wal nut or thereabouts. The interesting old decument ii now preserved in one of the mammoth safes iu the British museum, and is shown to visitors only upou an order from the lord chamberlain.