"FARM BALLADS”

SPECIAL AUTOGRAPH EDITION FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS

Exclusively for presentation to the readers of EVERY WHERE we have had printed a limited edition of these famous poems on fine quality paper, from new plates, handsomely illustrated, in cloth binding with original cover design. The regular editions of "Farm Ballads" have always sold at $1.25 and $2.00 a volume, and our special printing, even without the autograph, would comrand as high prices. Although "Farm Ba ilads" has never been offered at so-called popular prices, the tremendous power and popularity of the book have given it a sale of over 500,000 volumes, and it is recognized as the best-known and most important poetic work of the present generation. It marked the founding of that new school of American poetry of which Mr. Carleton is the head. The collection includes such world-famous poems as

"BETSEY AND I ARE OUT" "HOW BETSEY ANDI MADE UP" "The Greatest Domestic Epic of American Literature",

And

"OVER THE HILL TO THE POORHOUSE”
A soul-stirring poem of tremendous power, known the world over.

"OUR ARMY OF THE DEAD"

Read first at Arlington Cemetery and now the national ode of our Memorial Day.
many others equally well-known, including "Uncle Sammy", "The Editor's Guests",
"Goin' Home Today", "The Fading Flower", "How We Kept The Day", etc., etc.

EACH COPY SIGNED BY WILL CARLETON

We have arranged to have Mr. Carleton sign each of these five hundred volumes. This means that you can obtain for your library the most widely-known single volume of American poetry, signed by the author himself. You would treasure an autograph copy of Longfellow's or Whittier's verses. Yet Will Carleton was an intimate friend of both, ranks beside them in American literature, and has been truly called "the Longfellow of the study and the Gough of the platform."

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College Poems.

By Will Carleton.

Value of School Friends.

WHEN first the uncouth student comes in sight

A sturdy plant, just struggling toward the lightAnd timidly invades his classic home,

And gazes at the high-perched college dome,
Striving, through eyes with a vague yearning dim,
To spy some future glory there for him,

A child in thought, a man in strong desire,
A clod of clay, vexed by a restless fire;

When, homesick, heart-sick, tired, and desolate,
He leans himself 'gainst Learning's iron gate,
While all the future frowns upon his track,
And all the past conspires to pull him back;
When, with tired resolution in his looks,
He bends above the cabalistic books,
And strives, with knitted forehead throbbing hot,
To learn what older students have forgot;
And wonders how the Romans and the Greeks
Could cry aloud and spare their jaws and cheeks;
And wants the Algebraic author put

On an equation, tied there, head and foot,
Which then, with all Reduction's boasted strength,
May be expanded to prodigious length;
When he reflects, with rueful, pain-worn phiz,
What a sad, melancholy dog he is,

And how much less unhappy and forlorn
Are all those students who are not yet born;
When Inexperience like a worm is twined.
Around the clumsy fingers of his mind,
And Discipline, a stranger yet unknown,
Struts grandly by and leaves him all alone;
What cheers him better than to feel and see
Some other one as badly off as he;

Or the sincere advice and kindly aid

Of those well versed in Study's curious trade.
What help such solace and improvement lends.
As the hand-grasp of Brothers and of Friends?

When, with a wildly ominous halloo,
The frisky Freshman shuffles into view,