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OFFICIAL OliGAN
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franklin COUNTY.
VOL. II. NO. 38.
I Whon Onr Ship Comes In.
ill have ships on the wide, wide sea
Olafterawblle; and we watch and wait;
AU J we wonder what their stories will be;
Or early or late.
Some see their ships in the morning gray,
When over the billows first breaks the
light;
While others, longing, wait till the day
Fades into the night.
Still others wait through the long alway,
^nd wait where the fortunate ones have
been,
For their absent ships. Alack-a-day,
They never come in.
_[W- J. Lampton, in Detroit Free Press.
“TO BE A LADY.’’
BY AMY KAND01.ru.
“I’vo brung her up to bo a lady,”
Mrs. Savillc disconsolately said.
“French lessons and music, and good¬
ness knows what all. I never wanted
no girl of mine 10 work as hard as i
have done. And this ’cro’s tho cud
on it!”
Mrs. Saville wrung her hands in
despair.
“I s’pose,” said Uncle Broin (the
local abbreviation for “Abraham”),
“she ain’t none too good to work.
We’ve all of us good Bible authority
for earning our bread in the sweat of
our brows. There's Lo-i-sv hall,
she’smadea nice livin’Bellin’ eggs and
spring-chickens to the boarders in
Jacksonville, and—”
“Lo-i-sy never had no boardin'-
school education,” whimpered Mrs.
Saville.
“P’r'aps sho ain’t none the win for
it,” said Uncle Brom, closing his snuff¬
box with a significant click. “And Eb-
enezer Laighi’s darters earn twelve
dollars a month doin’ housework at
the Beckwith Hotel.”
“Alice ain’t no hired gal.”
“lluinpi Where is she now?”
“Upstairs a-writin’. She's read in
papers how them New York editors
pays big prices for poems and stories,
and she’s a mind to try lier luck at the
business.”
“Oh!” Uncle Brom said. “Postage
is cheap, lucky for yon. But 1 guess
Alice won’t make lier fortune outen
no such work as that. Call her down.
I want to speak to lier.”
So Alico Saville was called, and
enme down-stairs—a pale, pretty girl
with wistful brown eyes, sunny hair
and red sensitive lips. The bright hair
was rumpled over lier forehead; there
was a troubled expression in the brown
eyes, aud the pretty middle finger of
her left hand was stooped to the bone
in ink. Evidently, literature did not
agree with lier.
“Pretty hard work?” said Uncle
Brom, with a chuckle.
Alico laughed and nodded.
“Jest like mo,” snid Uncle Brom,
“I’d rather cut up a whole crop o’ to¬
bacco than write a letter, any time o’
day. But look here, my gal: Your ma
says times is hard and you can’t get
no place to governess out or do iadics’
companioning.”
“No,” sighed Alice. “Every posi¬
tion of that sort seems to be filled al¬
ready.”
“Wal, look here,” said Unc'o Brom.
“Onr hired girl has gone home with
tlie neurology in lier face, an’ Die
house is chuck full o’ hoarders, an’
my ole woman she’s in a peck of half
bushels what to do. S'pose you could
come over an’ help wait on table an’
straighten up the bedrooms? My ole
woman she wants things to be pretty
nice since the member of Congress
has taken rooms tliar, with his two
gals. An’ she ’lowed you was always
a pow’fnl smart gal round a house,
Alice. Bless my soul, what’s your ma
a-crying about?”
“I c-c-can't help it J" blubbered Mrs.
Saville. “I brung my Alice up to be
a lad}', and here she’s ngoin’ out to
day’s work!”
“Don’t fret, mother,” soothed
Alico. “IPs only to help Aunt Thalia,
you know.”
“Git out I” Uncle Brom said.
‘‘Don’t your ina know that we’ve all
of us got to work in this world?”
So Alice Savillc ran up stairs to put
on her hood and shawl and make up
her little packet of belongings. And
when she got there slio discovered
tliat a sudden flurry of wind had car¬
ried every sheet of her painfully
copied and recopieil manuscript out
of the wide-open window into the field
that sloped down to tlie river!
For an instant she could have burst
out into a tempest of passionate tears.
Then she thought better of it.
“It is just as well,” .she murmured,
setting her small white teeth firmly
together. “There shall be an end of
my scribbling! I will accept the fiat
of Fate without a murmur!”
“Papa, I am so glad we came to
this place,” said Gladys Ayrault. “It’s
a deal pleasanter than tho hotels. And
the orchard is so beautiful, and tlie
air from tho liver comes up like a
breath of healing.”
THE ENTERPRISE. ■
“Yes,” little Fan cried, “and old
Mrs. Iladgitt is so plump nnd com¬
fortable, and tho new waitress is eo
pretty I”
“And only think, papal” cried
Gladys, “her name ii Alice Savillo,
Just Jiko the heroine of a l-omaiico,
isn’t it? And site can repeat tho whole
of ‘Marmiott’ from beginning to end,
and slio translated that French label on
my bonnet-box without the least diffi¬
culty, yesterday."
“A rara avis, ch?” laughed Colonel
Ayraulf, the member of Congress
elect from tho District, who
brought his daughters to Jacksonville
in order to accelerate Iho slow con¬
valescence of Fanny, tho youngest,
who was just up from scarlet fever.
“But Gladys is always discovering
hidden treasures. I wouldn’t like to
count tho number of tiinos that her
swans havo been transformed back
into geese before her very eyes; eh,
Fan?”
“But Alice is really a gem, papa,”
declared Fanny, siding audaciously
with her sister.
“Which is Alice? The little girl
with the curly hair?” asked Colonel
Ayrault.
“Yes, papa. Da be kind to lier;
won’t you? She is some relation of
Mrs. Ilndgitl’s, and she’s certainly a
lady by manner and education.”
“I try to bo kind to everybody;
don’t I. Fan?” archly asked the colonel.
“Yes, papa; but Aliee is so sensi¬
tive.”
“I’m sorry for her, then,” said Col¬
onel Ayrault. “If she has her own
way to make in the world, a sensitive
nature is a sorrry endowment. And
now Gladys, get your pen and ink. I
want you to write 6omc business let¬
ters for me.”
Rather unwilingly, Gladys laid
down her novel and went to look for
her desk. In the bedroom beyond,
Alice Savillc was just hanging clean
towels over the rack and replenishing
tho solid old ewers with fresh water.
“Oil, Alice,” said she, “can’t you
spare a fow minutes, to write some
letters for papa? You write such a
beautiful, clear hand, and—’’
Alice colored a little, but answered
“Certainly,” with all duo promptness,
and Gladys brought her triumphantly
into the sitting room.
“Here’s an amanuensis, papa,” said
she, “that will bring you a deal more
credit than I can ever do.”
It was Alice Saville’s first lesson in
writing from dictation, but slio ac-
quitted liersolf nobly, and Colonel
Ayrault expressed himself as entirely
satisfied. But when the work was
finished and she had blushingly with¬
drawn, the member of Congress looked
laughingly across the table at Gladys.
“My daughter,” said he, “here is
die key to the riddle.”
«<What key, papa?” said Gladys.
“"What riddle?”
“Don’t you remember,” said he,
“the mysterious manuscript?”
Fanny jumped up and clapped lier
hands.
“What!” cried she, “tho stray
leaves about. Sir Alexis and the beau¬
tiful Geraldine Aubrey that wore
found scattered about in the orchard
tliat, day after Die gale?”
“Exactly,” said the member of
Congress, “And this handwriting is
exactly the same.”
“Oh, papa,” cried Gladys, “may I
congratulate her on being able to im¬
agine so beautiful a story—to turn it
into such exquisite lnnguago?”
“No,” said Colonel Ayrault. “Say
nothing at all. Don’t you see how it
might embarrass her?”
“But she really must be a genius,
papa,” was the opinion of Gladys,
prone to hero-aml-lieroiue worship.
“Aha!” laughed Fan. “How about
my riu a avis now? Isn’t she really
and truly a white swan? Whiter
than any lily?”
After this, Alico Savillo was tho
chosen companion and favorite of the
member of Congress’s two daughters,
rather to Die surprise and critical re¬
marks of the oilier boarders.
“I ain’t a bit surprised,” said Uncle
Brom. “She was brought up to lie a
lady, and a lady slic’d he to tho end of
Die chapter, no matter if slio was
Bcrnbbiu’ floors or scourin’ tins.”
But ono day Gladys forgot her
father’s words of caution and un¬
guardedly reveald to Alico Saville
how she and Fun had found the miss¬
ing pages all blown about the orchard.
To her surprise Alice burst into tears,
and Gladys, in her panic and uncer¬
tainty, ran into the other room where
Col. Aryault was writing as usual.
“Papal” she cried, “papa, do come
in hero an l see if you can com¬
fort Alice.”
The girl” tears were dried in an
instant. But Colonel Ayrault rallied
her a little after a playful fashion,
and showed lier the very rain-stained
sheets tliat lm !* id found.
“Yon have no cause to blush for
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO., GA., SEPTEMBER 25,1891.
(Item, Miss Savillc,” said he. “Tha
fancies aro exquisite and clothed in
most appropriate words. Had I writ¬
ten this sketch I should be proud of
it.”
Ami then, cheered by his words of
encouragement, she told him all her
hopes and fears, tho dreaming aspira¬
tions and tho blighting fulfillment.
A week afterward Gladys Ayrault
came to her fatlior with Hushed checks
and tear-sparkling eyes.
“Is it true, papa?” said sho. “Aro
wo to have a—step-mother?”
Tho member of Congress looked
calmly up from tho piles of manuals
and records.
“Ah!” said ho. “Who has been
talking to you ou this subject?”
“Everybody is talking I” said Gladys.
“Even Alice Savillo knows about it;
and sho is sorry' for mo, I know she
is, for sho began to cry aud hurried
away when I told her about my
troubles. Oh, papa, papa, Fan says,
and I think so, too, if you wanted to
marry anybody, why couldn’t you
have married Alice?”
There was a mischievous twinkle
under (he grave eyelashes of tho mem¬
ber of Congress, as he answered.
“Give me a little more time, and
I’ll sec if I can’t oblige you.”
“Papa,” gasped Gladys, “is it
really—”
“It is really Alice,” said Colonel
Ayrault. “Whore is tho child? Go
aud capture her and bring her hero to
hear her sentence of step-motherdom
pronounced.”
Gladys clapped her hands. Fanny,
who was solemnly listening clo e by,
brightened into radiant happiness, and
in another moment Alice Savillc was
brought into the presence of tho na¬
tional law-giver and forced to plead
guilty to the soft impeachment.
Afier that the secret was a secret no
longer. Everybody in Jacksonville
knew that the wealthy widower, Col¬
onel Ayrault, was about to contract a
second marriage, and that bis young
daughters were delighted at the idea.
Alice was very, very happy. Tho
member of Congress, in his grave,
quiet way, was not less satisfied; aud
Mrs. Savillc said, contentedly:
“It’s just as it orter bo. I’ve always
brung my darter up to bo a lady, and
a lady she’s gain’ to be.”—[Tbe Led¬
ger.
First Use of Horseshoes.
No date can be fixed for the first
use of shoes on horses. Horses were
not shod in Egypt, Assyria or Pales¬
tine. Aristotle and Pliny give us to
understand that horses doing service
in stony places had their hoofs pro¬
tected from breakage and wear, but
just how this was done is not stated.
Suetonius refers to the dismounting
of Vespasian’s muleteer to shoe his
mules. The horses of Japan are, or
have been until quite recently, shod
by means of twisted straw. The first
mention of shoes nailed to the hoof
is in the works of the Emperor
Leo,Ninth century; and the practico of
shoeing horses is said to have been in¬
troduced into England by William I,
tho practice having, of course, been in
use in liis own country previously.
Much remains to bo done before horse'
shoeing generally is anything like
what it ought to ho. Most of those
now engaged in this business are no
better than cobblers of the most or¬
dinary sort, tho result of their service
being no end of horses with ruined
feet, that otherwise are sound and al
right.—[Courier-Journal.
Hats and Heads.
It has been noticed by Henry Heath,
who sends hats all over (ho world from
Calcutta to Peru, tliat different nation¬
alities possess heads of distinctive
sizes and shapes. For instance, Ger¬
mans have very round heads, a peculi¬
arity shared by our own royal family.
The average English head is wlmt hat¬
ters call a good shape—that is, rather
long. The Scotch, ono is not surprised
to learn, aro very long-headed.
Canadians arc distinguished by excep¬
tionally largo heads, South Americans
by very small ones, Australians,
again, have rather small heads, The
subject is an interesting one and worth
pursuing further if space allowed.
The heads of individuals also vary a
good deal from time to time, shrink¬
ing during illness or mental worry,
and generally becoming smaller with
advancing years. As to shape, there
is such a thing as fashion, but it only
affects mashers; men stick to much
the same shape year after year.—[Pall
Mali Gazette.
A Modest Request.
Condemned—Do you usually grant
Die last requests of Die condemned?
Executioner—Yes.
Condemned—AVill you do some,
tiling for me?
Executioner—I’ll try old fellow.
Conderoued-~Cbango places with
me,
THE OMISH.
A Peculiar People Found in Scv-
. eral States of the Union.
Their Curious Habits, Dress
and Religious Observances.
In the rural districts of scvoral states
in the Union (hero is u religious sect
—the Omisli—about which little is
known. Where tho sect originated, or
statistical information as to tho growth
and number of its communicants, may
not bo as interesting as a littlo skotcli
of the character, dress and habits, as
woli as tiio religion, of tlicso people.
in tho extreme lower part of south¬
ern Pennsylvania, following closely
the Mason and Dixon line, a colony of
tlie Ornish lias thrived in a country
that was once barren. The weird and
almost inaccessible mountains, through
which the Casselmau river flows with
its many picturesque curves, have, by
the industry of these people, been
transformed into a fertilo region.
Where once stood tho tall pino and tho
knotty oak, with countless thickets to
liido the light of day, tliero aro now
handsome cotlagos anil lingo barns,
smiling holds of grain and heavy laden
fruit trees.
In the valley the whining cry of tho
wild-cat has given way to tho limn of
the buzz saw, but in tho mountains
the rattlesnake still exists.
Tho Omish, while strictly honest in
ail their dealings with each other and
with ethers, are exceedingly frugal.
Most of them aro evon penurious, to
which fact may bo attributed their
prosperity in so forbidding a country
as they inhabit. In their dross the
men aro obliged by their religion to
wear something plain in color, and in
most cases black liome-spun cloth is
used, but they aro not restricted to
any particular color, so long ns it is
severe.
The men’s coats are always made
very short, which may bo duo to their
strict observance of economy in dress,
as in everything. No buttons aro al¬
lowed to be worn, books and eyes, al¬
most invisible,form tho only fasteners
by which the two edges of the coat are
brought together. This rule also ap¬
plies to the women, who fasten their
plain dresses with books and eyes.
The men wear no board on their upper
lip, though they are allowed to have
beards.
Their bats are all plain and generally
black, low in tho crown and broad in
the brim, always tho samo in style.
Tho men work hard, and their filial
love is stronger than anything except¬
ing the lovo of dollars. The women
wear a sunbonnet of calico, and their
dresses are as plain as they cap bo
made. They are of calico, usually
in black, above which their fair faces
shine in (he contrast.
With these people divorces are un¬
known. They live happily and con¬
tented and seldom marry persons of a
different religious belief. In fact, in¬
termarriage lias made them a typical
race, just as it has of tho Israelites,
whoso manners and customs tho
Omish follow in various ways.
Their form of worship is not unlike
that of the primitive Christians. On
tho Sabbath tho men and women at-
tend services, to which they take all
their children no matter how large or
how small they may be.
No regularly ordained minister ad¬
dresses the congregations, but mem¬
bers with sound lungs and contrite
hearts generally exhort tlie faithful to
lead a pure life, to fear the Lord anil
to follow tho example of tlioir Saviour
in all worldly affairs.
Each year during tlie harvest season
love feasts are held, when everybody
takes a foot bath. The sisters go
down reverently on their knees and
with a pail of water, soap and towel
begin the washing and drying of each
other’s feet until tlie entire congrega¬
tion, including tlie men and hoys, arc
ready for another pair of hose; then
follow much hand-shaking and kiss¬
ing.
The men kiss each other and tho
women do the same. This is done to
atone for any unpleasantness that
might have occurred between any two
members of the congregation, and by
this ceremony peaceful relations are re¬
stored, after which tho Lord's Supper
is taken. Cooking utensils arc on the
grounds of the church property, and
often, at all-day services, moils are
prepared at the church. Brotherly
love predominates to an extent not
surpassed by tlie Quakers.—[New
York Sun.
“Anil you say you would die for
me? I’m afraid you’re not as brave
as that.” “Am I not? Why, I show
my fearlessness of death every lime I
como into your presence.” “How is
that?” “Because you always look so
killing.” That settled Die business,
Ladies’ Wraps for Full.
Tho tendency of fashion for tlx
coming scasou still points to tho ser¬
viceable and sensible jacket or shor 1
coat as tho loading staple nnd popular
garment, tho clothos used being, out¬
side of plain beavers and kerseys,
rough diagonals, serge*, whipcords,
etc. Tho length of tho ordinary
juckot will run about twenty-eight
inches, but tho tine trado will use them
thirty-two inclios and longer, and no
woman of high social standing will
accept any garment shortor than tho
last mentioned longtli.
Long capes for thoso looking for a
novolty will bo much worn, and tho
demand is already far exceeding tho
expectations of thoso houses which
havo been producing this stylo of gar¬
ment. Tho capos aro made up very
elaborately', many boing heavy beaded
or trimmed with handsome passemen¬
terie or crochet trimming. One espe¬
cially novel garment- which wo were
shown was a combination of a long
jacket with cape over and running full
length of tho jacket.
Newmarkets are not by any meant
dead, either, the prophecies of certain
manufacturers to tho contrary not¬
withstanding. Orders aro boing
placed for fair quantities already, and
many houses are showing good linos
of this sonsiblo and very necessary
long garment.
Flush jackets and long garments are
very quiet at the present time, but the
majority of the parties whom we have
seen seem to fool that tho usual
demand will be extended to them as
the season opens.
In fur garments, tho popular skins,
asido from seal, will bo astrakhan,
skunk, mink, martin ole.
Shoulder capos will hold their own
against all comers again, and dealers
look forward to a very heavy season.
Astrakhan-trimmed garments, while
going fairly at present arc not
looked upon with much favor by tho
trade, and one loading manufacturer
prophesies that they will he a dead
letter within sixty days’ time. A few
weeks hence will prove whether or
not lie is mistaken.
Manufacturers are looking for a
heavy fall trade, factories aro work¬
ing full time in turning out new
goods, and salesmen aro all out for
orders, which, as far as tho uoveltios
are concerned, they are largely book¬
ing to be made specially.—[Dry Goods
Chronicle.
The Dreary Winters in Newfoundland.
The isolation of life in ilie distant
parts of Newfoundland during winter
is extreme. Outside tbo peninsula of
Avalon there aro hardly any roads,
and even if (hoy existed snow and ice
would render them impassable. Out
to sea stretches a vast icy pavement,
through which it is often impossible
for even a steamer to ram its way. So
all the long winter months the little
hamlets lie surrounded by the great
snow blanket, and cut oft' from com¬
munication from all mankind save
those who inhabit their littlo settle-
incut. Should Die store of provisions
run low the situation is perilous, for
there is no possibility of getting sup¬
plies unless a “lead” opens in the ice
anil allows a steamer to get along
the coast; or if she bo not
icebound at too great a dis¬
tance perhaps some of tho men go
out over Die frozen sea to meet the
vessel and carry homo food to their
families. Should llic ship fail to come
Die people arc sometimes driven to eat
their dogs, of winch several are usu¬
ally kept in order (o draw home wood
from tho forests on sleds. So great is
the difficulty of communication during
winter that a clergyman relates that
on one occasion, as near to the capital
as Trinity hay,$10 hail been demanded,
and $6.25 was ac.ually paid, for the
conveyance of a single letter overland
to the city by a cross-conn try guide.
While Dio coast is icebound Dio direct
steamers from England do not touch
at Newfoundland, but tlie mails are
brought up from Halifax in a email
wooden steamer exprossly built for
facing tho ioo; but even this vessel
cannot always manage to get in, and
mails havo to be carried ashore seven
or eight miles over the ico on men’s
hacks.—[Chicago Nows.
Speed in Tunnel Building.
The s; ecd with which a tunnel can
be made now, when tho conditions
aro favorable, is remarkable. Tho
Vanxhuli and Southwark Water Com- i
pany of London has just built a tun¬
nel, nine feet in diameter, beneath tlie
Thames at Kingston. There are two
noteworthy points about this subway j I
* .
the first „ , that ,, the . roof . of . it is . only ,|
three feet below the water in the rivei j
bed, and the second that it was con- j
slructed in nino weeks. Tho material j
pierced was clay, and the system em- j
ployed was tliat of laying shield.-[B-.ton iron plates j
behind a circular
Transcript,
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
STOBV TIME.
Go slower, clock,
Wbon babies climb
The mother's lap
At story time.
When, waving wands,
The fairies walk,
And witches scold,
And hears can talk,
And, best of all,
The mother too
Is telling what
Site used to do,
No decent clock
Would lift its head
And say 'twns time
To go to bed.
—[Albert Bryant, in N. Y. Independent
A BOY BEOAN IT.
Years ago a well known engineer
offered .$10 to tho hoy who would got
a kite string of sufficient strength to
haul a clothos lino across tho river.
Tills offer brought a regiment of kite
flyers into tho Held, and linally a boy
named 1 Ionian Walsh was successful
and received tho prize.
From this small beginning tho great¬
er suspension bridge on earth has re¬
sulted.— [Detroit Froo Pross.
DEEP-SEA CREATURES.
The queerest thing about deop-soa
creatures is their arrangement for
vision. Fish (lint live at very groat
depths havo cither no eyes at all or
enormously big onos, Indeed, there
nrc two ways you may get on ill tlieso
gloomy abysses—by delicate touch
organs, or by sight that collects tho
few rays of light duo to phosphores¬
cence) or other accidental sources.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms the
eyes get constantly bigger and bigger.
Beyond that depth suuill-eyed forms,
with long foolers, developed to supple¬
ment the eyes, Lower still we find
functionloss eyes, and in the most con¬
firmed abysmal species the eyes have
disappeared entirely.—[Picayune.
THE FAITHFUL FRIENDS.
When Abdallah had reached a good
old ago ho called his ten sons to his
side, and told them that lie had ac¬
quired -n fortune by industry and
economy, nnd would givo them one
hundred gold pieces each before bis
death, so that they might begin busi¬
ness for themselves. It happened,
however, that soon after, lie lost a
portion of Ills property, and had only
nino hundred and fifty gold pieces
left. So ho gave one hundred to each
of liis nine sons. When his youngost
son, whom lie loved most of all, asked
what was to be his share, ho replied:
“My son, I promised to give each
of thy brothers ono band red gold
pieces. I liavo fifty loft. Thirty I
will reserve for my funeral expenses,
and twenty will be thy portion. 1
possess, in addition, ton friends, whom
1 give over to thee as compensation for
thy loss of the eighty gold pieces; and
they aro worth more than all the gold
and silver.”
The man diod in a fow days, and
tho nine sons took their money, and,
without a thought of their youngost
brother, followed cacli his own fancy
But tho youngest son, although his
portion was tho toast, resolved to heed
his father’s words, and hold fast to
the ton friends. So after awhile lie
propared a modest feast, wont to tho
ten friends of his father, aud said to
thorn: “My father asked me to keep
you, his friends, in honor. Before I
leavo this place to seek my fortune
elsewhere, will you not slmro with mo
a farewell meal?”
The ten friends accepted his invita¬
tion with pleasure, and enjoyed tho re¬
past; aud when the moment for part¬
ing arrived, one of them rose and
spoke: “My friends, it scorns to mo
that of all the sons of our dear friond
that has gone, Die youngest alone is
mindful of his father’s friendship for
lls ’ Lot us then be true friends to
him, and provido for him a generous
sum that lie may begin business here.”
The proposal was received with ap¬
plause. The youth was proud of their
gift of friendship, and soon became a
prosperous merchant, who never for¬
got that faithful friends wore more
valuable than gold or silver, and who
[eft an honored name to his descend,
ants.—[Harper’s Young People.
Telling Age with a Hair.
Tho latest “fad” in Lewiston, Me.,
is telling one’s ago with a hair. It is
not new, but an old fad that lias been
revived, ami it is generally tried on a
horse, the lmir being taken from the
tail, although on human beings it
“works just as well.” The idea is this:
“Suspend . a gold ,, ring . from , a piece . of .
1 ” “ ‘
hair over half a glass of . cold water, .
and Die ring will begin to swing to
and fro until it hits Die sides of Die
glass. It will strike Die exact age of
a horse, or, if it be a person’s hair, of
the whose . head , , it grey,” „
person upon
—[New York Dispatch-
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—oar TiiB-
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
$1.00 PER YEAR.
A New Farm Ballad,
When I start my plough a-runnin’ in tlie
black ami mcllcr ground
And the land is growiu’ smaller that my
horses tramps arouml;
When tho white-oak buds arc openin’ and
the grass a growiu’ green,
Makes a feller think of summer as he gazes
on the scene;
When the chipmunk runs and chatters, ’caus*
tho plough his den ’as torn,
An’tho crows are loudly scoldin”bout tho
plantin’ of the corn;
Whan the bluebird boilers out a rail and
starts to build a nest,
Then I think that that’s tho time o’ year I
kind o’ like the best;
But it’s mighty nice, I tell you, when tho
summer time is here,
With tho wheat a-growln’ yeller and the har¬
vest drawln’ near;
With the timothy in blossom an’ the hayin’
just at band.
An’ the mother quail a-callin’ to her peepin’
little band.
Oh. I like to watch the woolly clouds u-float-
in’ far away
As I’m riding on tbe mower or rakin' up tho
hay.
Then 1 somehow seem acquainted with each
bird or bumblebee,
An’ I think tbe gold™ summer is the tiino
o’ year for me.
—[Ohio State J ourual.
HUMOROUS.
High tied-—weddings of nobility.
IIow to got fut—Go to the butchot
and buy it.
Perspiration has tho drop on tho
public at lurge.
If tastes didn’t differ restaurants
would have an easy time.
The scholar who takes the first
prize in arithmetic is only a figurc-
lioad.
Tho more tho girls pine for somo
young man the more spruco they be¬
come.
A sailor is a lightning cliango man.
In a twinkling bo can turn into a
hammock.
Maud—Is it true that you aro in lovo
with Mr. Bullion? Clara—Mercy, no I
I’m only engaged to him.
Qucricus—Wlmt have you being do¬
ing up in tho country? C’iticus—Oh,
just fishiu’ and lyin’ around.
“Didn’t get no pwizo climbin’ do
greased polo, did ye, Epli?" “No, but.
I g at J t mi4 a ps+tn’ oMol’ttWe4«rd.
Out West they judge an expert
hangman as they do a ship—by tho
number of knots ho can make in an
hour.
Mrs. P.—They say that Mr. Hay,
wiio used to sing so much, has lost
his voice. Mr. P.—I shouldn’t think
he’d offer much of a reward. *
O.’d Drunk (pleading hia easo)—
I’vo not much longer to Jivo, your
honor, God will not spare mo many
hours. Judge—Well, Pit givo you ton
days.
“Gertrude refused Tom four timos
before she married him,” said a girl
to lier friends at the seaside. “All, I
see. It was a caso of well shaken bo.
foro takon.”
She (fishing for a compliment)—Do
you think my voice needs cultivation?
IIo (anxious to pay her a compliment)
—Not at all, not at all. Cultivatiou
cohldn’t improve a voice like yours.
“Doctor," said a grateful patient,
seizing tho physician's hand, “I shall
Mover forgot that to you I owe my
life.” “You exaggerate,” returned
the doctor mildly; “you owe mo for
only 15 visits. That is the point which
I hope you will not fail to remember.”
Last of the Norriilgewocks.
For many years John Sabattus, the
last of the Norridgowock tribe of In¬
dians, lived at Vassclboro. There ho
spent Die latter portion of his days,
and acquired the high esteem of the
wliito men far and wide. lie was a
tall man, over six feet in height, and
possessed of great strength and power '
of endurance. When General Arnold
marched his army on his celebrated
expedition northward through the
woods of Maine, John Sabattus was
his guide. The services ho thus ren¬
dered are by no means slight.
When the expedition was over lie
made Vassclboro his home, and here
is his grave. No stone marKs his
resting place, and it is only a few of
the oldest people around that can
identify the spot. Had some James
Fennimore Cooper written of him as
Cooper did of the “Last of the Mohi¬
cans,” doubtless an imposing monu¬
ment would have towered above his
remains.—[Fairfield (Mo.) Journal.
Saved.
“Tho water here is more than 400
feet deep,” said the oarsman casually.
“Mercy!” exclaimed the timid lady
of the party; “and we can’t any of us
swim. Do, for Heaven’s sake, let us
get, nearer shore.”
“The water here is only twenty feel
deep,” said the oarsman a few miuutes
later, aud the timid lady of the party
exclaimed:
“Thank Heaven, we are safe!”—
(.Somerville Journal.