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BQOMVILLE HOMELETS. [Copyright, 10CA, by 0. B. Lewis.] Booinville ought to have *ft fire tie- llmcnt. At fte present time the dy conveniences for fighting the lurid troyer are n stepladder and an old ueket without a handle. Let us not ake up when It Is too late. We received a coil a day or two since in Mr. Sam Norton, who lost a dol- r on Main street a few weeks ago and » not Recovered It up to date. lie ay never recover It, but be has the nsclatlon of knowing that the dls- cnest finder will not go to heaven -ag with the rest of us. It now transpires that Mr. John Grts- •lob’s year-old baby did not swallow pair of scissors, as stated In cur last sue. VThut It got away with was half doeeu tacks and a brass thimble, but doctor anticipates no malign re- ults. Boomvllk-cherubs have healthy -petltes. , . rr.tf The editor of this paper, while on his •ny to the postofflee the ether day, -as picked o£' bis feet end thrust head first Into an empty barrel In front of Strong’s grocery. The ‘thruster was Abner Green, who-bad been drinking J was In a Jokeful mood. We trust It may not happen again. The position was undignified. We arc sorry to sny that we missed the Item last week about n cow breafi ll ; through I >cl ’ .g Glass river bridge and breaking her leg, but we ■ hi time to announce that It wus ber li ft hind leg nod that she is owned by k-'nrmer Savage. He thicks he can amputate the leg' and save her life. Among those who remembered the straggling but undaunted editor lust week wus Mrs. Jason Williams. She biuugln us In a [x>und of butter and » basket of potatoes, and could sin* have M i n the fours In our wife’s eyes ns we tarried the luxuries borne she would b.ive ft It amply rewarded. We love to ■Li- au otiluir, uad r. e It our subscctb- era, „ • \l. Q r id, _ Crncl CTivtstop-h*.. There swm to have been - nothing to appeal to la the "Emperor” Chris toi"tie's nature. Bravn-y, hlnnilltji. nil alike failed to touch hiut. Lie biul oo bowels of mercy. He was one duy on the battlements of Haiti with a youth, who, perhaps presuming mi past favors. In some manner displeased biiii.' The drop froth those sheer walls is li.COO feet to the plain below. “Von are. of ooutw. obem to die." said Flirts- Uijihe. hut i will b»- kind to you. Vou l| h -c e p of deaths, Either yon throw yourst'li over here or the soldiers shall shoot you.” 'I lie young man chose to dug blmaelf inio space. But by n miracle hi- fed among some trees or bushes on the cliff side and so escafted with a broken arm. He gatheroil himself up some how and presented himself agalD hw fore the emperor "Your bidding has been done, sire," hi said “Yea, ir has.” remarked Cbris'oplip. "and I am very much Interested to find ttrat you survive. Oblige me by trying If you can do iv again!"—“Where Black Rules White, Haiti," by Prichard. HIS FIRST RECOGNITION. n>» Tm-tiiiiK Point In tbe Career Of Nathaniel Himgiuriie. The first reading of ‘The Scarlet Letter” has been told In T. W. Hlg- glnson’s book of essays, ‘‘Contempo raries.” The reading was given to the author's dearest critic, bis wife. During the entire winter when be was at wofk upon the book he seemed op pressed by some secret anxiety, "There was a knot la his forehead all the time," said Mrs. Hawthorne. Finally one. evening he went to her nnd said that bo bad written something which he would like to read aloud. The work amounted to very little, but still be would like to read It AH that evening be read, but as the romance was unfinished at bedtime bis wife made no comments, knowing that he disliked criticism until one had beard the whole. The next night he road again, and now her suspense grew so unendurable that lu the midst of a moving aeeue she sank from her low stool to the floor, pressed her hands to her cars and declared ..that ahe could not bear to bear It Hawthomo put down the manuscript and looked lit ber in amazement “Do you really feel It so much?" he asked. “Then there must be something la It." The next day the manuscript was de livered to the publisher, anil on the following morning Mr. James T. Felds, the publisher, appeared at the author's door. When he was admitted, he caught the little boy of the family In his nrme rttvd asked, “You splendid little follow, do you know what a father you have? 1 He tind sat up all night to read the manuscript and bad posted out to Salem In the early morning. After hit- interview with the publisher Haw thorne came down stairs with a firm step and walked about, his face lllu mined by now hope and vigor. Tbo world had found biui out. Recognition was at the door. ...... t’t* Hn-aniii'ciii!i|tjim, Fair.Shopper (to ne.~if-.;act. who has Bl own in-r every piece of goods in Block)—'Weli. I don’t see anything bore tlmt suit.-i me. I’ll go down to Yard & Stuff’s and see what they haw. Bales tuna (eagerly)—Here's the card of one of tJ»elr assistants. Witl you kindly get him to wait on you? Fair Shopper (pleasantly) — Ah, a friend o; yours, I snmioee? Salesman—No. my greatest enemy.— London Fuji. inotusirtuiiv. “See here!” exclaimed the shopper, excitedly, "there's a man Just dropped dead in that bargain crush!*' “How InopjKjrtune!" cried the floor walker. "We have not yet opened our undertaking department" -*■ Philadel phia Press. FRANCE THE TEUTONIC. Ports ot thr R.-pablfr Are ss Mach German an tbo Peth?vlKDd, The nortburn third of France and half of Belgium are today more Too tonic than tin- south of Germany. This should not occasion surprise when we remember the Incessant downpour of Teutonic tribes during tbe whole his toric period. It was u constant pro cesslcn of Goths from all points ot the rompasa—Franks, RurguwUuiia and others. France was entirely overran by the Frank.i, with tlio cxrcpfkw of Brittany, by the middle of the sixth century. All through the middle ages this pert of Franca was German in louguagu aa.l customs as well. The very itiime’ of tlje country is Teut'-nlc. H has the same origin ns Franconia, in southern Germany, in 81.2 the or,uadi of Tours, a way down south, crUeiticd that every bishop should preach iwih in the Bo manic nnd the Teutonic langtiagos. The Franks reserved Cl or. mu; speech 400 years after (its conquest Charlemagne was a l remain. His courtiers were all G-rmans. He lived and governed fioin outside the limits of modern Fta::c<*. The Attic the yen uttered an ethnological truism, whan. In th-e course of the French iv volution, he cried cut again.;* the Fvcr.cti arls tocrocy. “Let us send them bock to their German marshes wbwioe they camel”—Ixmdoa. Espi'cas. Tho SertRTi In "Yott foreigners," ea.vs a Mexican woman Quoted !>y a rorieapendent of the Boston Transcript, “nrc so silly with servants. You come here nnd ex claim, 'How awfully the Mexicans treat their servant si* find tiuo you give them Iron !if-ds nnd mntG'cmistuffed with wool, whore with ta> tiiey haw to Ik* down to s!<h*x> on t);r straw rants, as ts beat fur them. You think It nice «o give them ribbons for their hair and neck. and f.m.v.. of you put the women tn corsets and moke them wear cups a ad aprons! 'lids turns the tieuda of die young women, mid they thick they are real senorns (ladles; ami grow Impudent. That Is how you sped oitr servants, who, alien they get ufigry with its, talk up loudly and say they will go nnd five la u foreign family! Alt, you foreigners ore so j Fhorulgbtcd. Boon you will «(*»> bow | there are no more g<xxl. loyal, old fash- | ioned servants! You pet a race witlcli I needs firmness and discipline, eta 1 ; kindness, not pampering." A Grand M«K»o»r. I A highland girl, who had been lu service in Dundee ami had pone to n I place farther south, called upon her I old mistress on her way north to visit ber friends. She was invited to take tilt-cer with the family, and her master coked a blessing cm the meal a* usual, when the girl salil; “My, malr-ter, ye mnuri im’u a gran' memory. That's the grace ye said WwL'r\ i Vv'SS tUrTt' ttii ycUrG Dt*» *— Louduc Telegraph. CM For Did 'Envelopes. Rigid economy Is the mother of ac- cnuiulatlon. One of the busier busi ness men of this city, with offices on Broadway, never purchased n scratch- book la bis life and never wastes a fresh piece of paper on a memorandum or a column of Ugures. Kvery envel ope thut comes In bis mall la sliced apart, back from front, and the front, or address side, is preserved for use. The Inside forms n clean, smooth sheet HL, by «H4 Inches. One cf the millionaires of Boston made his start by saving empty nail kegs and selling them back to tbe naUmakevs for 10 cents each In trade. His clerks were accustomed to kicking In the staves and burning them In the stove.—New York Fress. - ..j.- Located the ftolae, «Y little 4-year-old was taken on a visit to grandmamma lu the country There for tbe first time he had a view of a cow. He would stand and look on while the man milked and ask all tnon tier of quest Iona, lu this way he learn ed that the long crooked branches on the cow's head were horns. Now, the little fellow knew of only ono kind of horn, and a few days after obtaining this Information, hearing a strauge kind of bellowing noise In the yard, he ran out to ascertain Its couse. In a few minutes he returnee! with wonder and delight depleted on his countenance, ex claiming: “Mamma, mammal Oh, do come out beret The cow's blowing ber hornst"—Exchange. The Way to'A’tu StrenKth. Tbe Romans won their empire by at tacking their enemies one by one. Be sides this, they did not attack a new enemy until they had couquered tbe old enemy. They went farther still and like the Euglish In conquering In dia used their lute enemies, nnd this la what we should do In learning and practicing games and athletics. It Is of little use to try to-conquer the whole empire at once. First conquer a part and mate ft your own Then proceed to Q second part and conquer that: and. If you eon, let the parts which you have already conquered help yon to conquer fresh parts.— Eustace H. Mills tu Saturday Evening Foet The Counterfeit Kill. The average counterfeit bill shows better work ou tlie right bnnd side than on the left. Moo* care Is taken to make the work accurate, becatfse un less a man Is left ha uticd It Is custom ury In counting a pile of bills to hold the left ends down and turn np only the right ends. Tbe assistant lu the city banks now reverse# the process and turns tire bills with his left baud. Stylish. "V.'hat’s dem spota on.you all’s fort** bead?" asked Mr. Mrastus Plukley. ‘"My wife done gimme dem," answer ed Mi Simpkins Collidewer. “Dat'e <k* Btyliahei’ kin’ o’ decorations. Detn’s pokei dots."- Washington Star. „ —• Butted flint. *" Railway Official (traveling Incog, on tits own line)—They «oy there lias been oorao fuult found with the lamps on these trains. L)o you seo anything wrong with them? l*»8seujjer~No. sir. Od the con trary, they on* exactly the kind ol lani{>s 1 like to see used. Railway Official (highly pleasod)- l prcBorue yon are o professional man? ]*Hssenger—Yes, sir. 1 aw an ocu list - Loudon Fun. A PonutMe Iteasoa. Freddie's father find Just l>cen strug gling with un old fashioned burt-mt. and retiring disheartened from an un successful effort to oi»vn ooe of its com parUnents lip moved to the tfgiudow and looking out upuu the lowering sky exclaimed; "M's mighty strange that tbe weather bureau can’t give us a change of weather.” “Maybe,” shyly interposed Freddie, “they cau't open tho bureau drawers." srWeekly BouqncL Ad rice. “Young man.^sald Benafor Sovghnm, “If you want to succeed In politics never break your word.” "But are there not times when It Is Impossible to keep a promise?” “To be sure. But you must make your arrangements eo that you don’t break the promise yourself. Put the blame on somebody el3a.”—Washing ton Star. In St Helena there are descendants of colored meu who were brought tn (he Island lno years ago. They are as biaefi a. i. ir distant cousins on the coast of Quiuett. ic.-o. “I burl the lie back in your tortb!’' be cried. Which was quite appropriate, for they. too. were false. — PhlUficlphlu j North American. Ko Trouble. “I suppose,” said, the visitor, “It's like pulling teeth to get any money out of your husband these days?” “Oh.” chipped In little Tommy, be fore his toother could speak, “ma don't have any trouble pullin ’ teeth. She Just takes ’em out aDd puts ’em in & glass.”— Philadelphia Record. H»r Sinaia?. Faiher-You heard my daughter sing Uet night? Artist—Yes. Fatbpr—Did yon observe tbo blrdllke quality of her uotes? Artist—Ah-er-there are so many fibula of birds, doo’t you know)—De troit Free Preas. Dop't dresa for show. Tbe thinnest «oap bubbler- wear the gaudiest colors —Chicago News. NO BUSINESS. Can be properly run without being Advertised, And no advertising pays better than newspaper advertising. The news paper goes into tho homes of the * people and is read through. If bar gains arc offered, they make a note of it. TIE SEACEH-LISi a first-class advertising medium, As it is rend by tbe people very generally in this county and by many in adjoining .counties. And work up your business to a payin point. Job Our book aud job office is busy l.urn- ing'ont first-class job work all the time,.and we propose to give sitis- faction at reasonable prices. If you need anything in the. jut* printing line, writ** to us or gee us .before placing your order, It will pay you. SJEDSPEOTFULdAlL THE SEAEOH-LISHf.