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lleyond the Stars.
Rpyond the stars, beyond our sight,
Above those silent worlds of light,
There is so much for which we care;
Our best and deepest love is there,
In that vast realm that knows no night.
Cold glitt’ring orbs of radiance bright,
Look down in pity from your height,
Aud tell ub of that laud so lair,
Beyond the stars.
Heath knows not mercy in his might;
His hand Earth’s fairest b oom doth blight;
But still we trust and kneel In prayer;
There Is no sinning, no despuir,
But perfect safety—all is right,
Beyond tlic stars.
— [Clara I. Wood, in the Churchman.
IN THE ORCHARD.
BV FRANCIS ASIIETON.
It is a gentle May day, and tho
apple blossoms are breaking whitely
over the trees in the Cavauaghs’ or¬
chard. Rhode Island is never luxur¬
iant and in May is often grugglng of
her favors, but this spring she seems
|o have been seized by a kindly ca¬
price, and adorns liorselt for the
bonclit of her children. Ono docs not
have to be of the soil, however, to be
grateful for her loveliness, and Miss
Humphreys, though nil alien, is aware
of her privileges. Slio is sitting on a
flat stone, resting and talking over
past times with her companion, a man
whom one would describe as long
rather than tall, and who is occupied
in making excavations on a small scale
among the roots of the tree under
which lie is sitting.
“I never could understand why the
Dennisons asked me on their party at
all,” Miss Humphreys is saying. “I
was on excessively bad terms with
Charles Dennison at tho timo”—her
companion looked up significantly—
“and Carrie and I quarrelled every
day and several times an evening. I
went because I was utterly bored with
life’just then, and intended to be
amused at any cost—and I was.” She
met the young man’s eves for a mo¬
ment and then turned away and went
on; “Do you remember our im¬
promptu ball? You played fiddler—”
“And you danced with Charley,”
finished the other, “with whom you
wore 011 such excessively bad terms.”
Dolly laughed. “Yes, with all his
faults ho danced like a—’’
“Dream,” cut in the young man,
sarcastically. “That is the correct ex¬
pression.”
“I never knew you to have sueli an
envious and bitter turn of mind. I
thought you were above it.”
“I fiud in the course of thirty odd
years that I am above nothing, but
cheating at cards and telling tales,”
was the answer.”
“Dear me! What a gloomy out¬
look for Miss Dolmer!” said Dolly;
but the constraint of her manner took
the lightness from her speech, and
Aikens was as serious as he answered,
“Yes, but Miss Dolmer docs not ex¬
much.
Dorothy flushed. “The fool?” she
said in her soul; outwardly she was
silent.
“I remember,” began tho young
man, slowly, trying to paint in words
tlie picture that rose before his eyes,
“that night in the big west room as
though it was yesterday, the roaring
fire snapping and blazing on the wide
hearth, the Christmas holly green and
dark everywhere, its glistening floor
and the old square piano pushed up in
the corner, behind which it was my
hard necessity to sit and play while
you danced, Dolly.” Ilis dark eyes,
in which the pup's seemed points of
light, flashed into hers.
“Whoso fault was that?” she re-
turned reproachfully.
“Yours,” came tlie answer bitterly
—“yours—yours. It was all in your
hands, and yon chose 10 throw me
away like a—’’
“Ilusb!” she interrupted, tlie beau¬
tiful color mounting <0 her cheek.
( < That is not true, and you must not
say it.”
He was calm again, and went back
to his reminiscences.
“It was wet and cold and bluster¬
ing outside, and I spout len pleasant
minutes standing in tiic rain to cool
off somo of my superfluous spirit.”
And he smiled sadly, tie was what
most people did not care to look at,
without being ugly. No one could
be ugly with that straight fine-cut
nose and the eloquence and fire of
bis eyes; but the long, rather liaggard
face was thought sinister, and the thin
lips cold and hard. “Did you enjoy
those dances, Dolly?” lie leaned for¬
ward and looked into her eyes.
“Yes,” she answered, blushing. “I
loved tlie movement, and I knew all
the time—”
“That I was eating my heart out,”
be interrupted, scornfully; “and you
liked that almost as well as making a
fool of Poor Charley Dennison.”
“Don’t,” said Dolly; “yoq hurt me
and you have no right.”
THE ENTERPRISE.
“No, I have no right to upbraid you,
poor girl! You had too many lovers
nnd too light a heart not to make some
of them unhappy. Only I wish I had
not been ono of tho sufferers; that is
all. Oh, Dolly, I think I could have
withstood you, if it hadn’t been for
that day on the river in the autumn,
when you tried your host to wile the
hcavt out sf mo, and—”
“Fail said Miss Humphreys,
stcadil *1 have never had your
heart, Aiken; it has been in your
own undisturbed possession ever since
1 have known you. If you had cared
you would never have gone away from
the Dennisons’ without a word.”
His eyes blazed, but h« said noth-
ing.
“This is all very unprofitable,” she
went on,leaning back against a tree;
“let us change the subject.”
Aiken’s eves wandered away
through the orchard. “By all means,”
lie said, and then again fell to study¬
ing her face.
Two years and over since they had
parted that Christinas day, and he
had never seen her since. Two years
had made a change. Two years ago
he had a cherished theory that it
would bo impossible to bring tears to
those brilliant g ay eyes. Somehow
today that theory was destroyed. Two
years ago slio could laugh at yon,
mystify you, allure and deceive you,
but love you never, so lie believed.
“’Tis summer, fiery summer,
Upon thy cheeks divine;
’Tis winter, icy winter,
In that little heart of thine.”
But to-day—to-day! Suddenly a
hope, a slight but exquisite hope,
stirred within him. A slow fire of
passion darkened his searching eyes.
Miss Dolmer, to whom he had intend¬
ed to propose in the course of week—
Miss Dolmer to whom he had paid a
number of business-like attentions—
sank swiftly out of sight. IIo re¬
membered a dream he had the sum¬
mer before in which Dolly Humphreys
had been walking by the sea and ho
had kissed her and waked to spend a
week 111 utter misery in blotting out
every memory that crowded into
. “Where were you last summer in
he asked.
“I was at the sea-shore,” she
answered, and colored a little,-that
delicate pink that he remembered
a vividness that was half joy,
half pain. “I spent hours literally on
tho beach. Nobody else had any lik¬
for it, they preferred gayer spots,
but I became quite a solitary last sum¬
mer, and used to watch the waves
through the long a'ternoon. Mamma
got rather nervous, for 1 refused any
company, and site was divided be¬
tween a fear that I was meeting an in¬
eligible suitor or getting a bit touched
in my head. I will say that she might
have had some reason for the latter
theory, had I told her what queer
fancies 1 had, for I got quite under
the influence of tho curling green
waves.”
“A modern Lorelei,” said Aiken.
“I was much more like a ship¬
wrecked mariner,” said Dolly, smiling
softly. “I had one idea that I re¬
member, that if I waited very patiently
the waves would wash up at my feet
a treasure. Wliat the treasure was I
did not know, but something that
wou’d rejoice me forever.”
“The jewels of some poor mermaid
who misl: i 1 them,” suggested Aiken,
watching her with hope growing in
liis heart.
‘•I had a fancy, also,” went on Miss
Humphreys, raihcr shyly, “that some
of my old friends might turn up;
you among them. That you njiglit
suddenly appear walking along the
smooth tawny sand, and we would have
a friendly talk together.”
“If I had only .known,” said Aiken,
between his teeth. “But,” lie added;
smiling a little, “I wouldn’t have
come as an old friend. I never was
one.” Dorothy looked into his face
with a hurt wonder, which changed
as he added, “I was your lover, dear.”
“What were you doing all last sum¬
mer,” she said, hastily, leaning for¬
ward and setting six small stones in
an even row, \\ hiie her cheeks again
colored pink.
“I worked,” was the brief answer.
“All tho time?” raising soft pitying
eyes to liis.
“Most of it; but I did not mind the
work; it took iny thoughts from other
tilings, and I had nothing pleasant to
think of.”
“Wliat a mealneholy young man!”
said Miss Humphreys, lightly. “You
should have paid the sea a visit as I
did, and found solace for your ills.”
“Did you need solace also?” asked
Aiken, eagerly. “Were you not happy
too?”
“What an impertinent question!”
and Dolly laughed a little. “Why
should! not bo happy?”
“I thought—1 hoped,” went on the
young man, earnestly, with intense
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 0.1891.
pleading in his eyes, “that perhaps
yon were lonely, too. That perhaps
you had a littlo of tho hcarlacho that
was with mo night and day, and has
been theso two long years and more.
I hoped that you perhaps i„grottcd
your cruelty to mo zi (he last, and
would at least let me try again. I
I knovf I have no right,” ho contin¬
ued, “to cherish my hopes—you cer¬
tainly did your best to crush them out
—but we had been so happy before I
grew quite mad about you, and you
had seemed to like mo then, and so it
suddenly comes to mo that now, after
these 5 ’ears, you might give mo another
chance. God knows I ask nothing
better than to spend rny heart and soul
in trying to make you love nte. Speak,
Dolly, give mo some answer. Am I
gone mad again, or—”
lie did uot try to touch her hand or
make her look at him, but wailed in
a passionate silence that somohow
made itself felt in the quiet spring
air. Slowly Miss Humphreys heaped
her six little stones one on ttie other,
and as they fell to tho ground she
turned and looked at him and smiled,
a wistful, deprecating smilo that
steadied his hot impuiso to express
his utter joy, and yet gave him full
measure of it.
“Don’t say anything now,” she
whispered. “I could not bear to hear
it;’’ and her eyes asked for a morciful
gentleness from him, and not iu vain.
Controlling himself, he turned away
from her and looked about tho or¬
chard witli happy eyes that noted
every beauty of color and form.
“We have never been together any¬
where in the spring, have wo?” he
said, still looking away to tho flower¬
ing trees, “hi the summer, in the
autumn, in the winter, but never in
the spring. I see it all with new eyes;
I always have seen things differently
when wish you. Today the apple
blossoms are a shade moro pink, tho
sky a deeper blue,than when 1 walked
here yesterday. Will you go down to
the lake with me? There is a boat,
and I could row you in and out tho
little islands that are still brown with
last summer’s leaves, Will you
come?”
“Yes, I will come,” she answers,
smiling, and springs lightly to her
feet. “Which way is it? I have
never staid here before, you know-”
“That little path through the trees.
But first I want you to give me some¬
thing. ’ She raises frightened cyos to
his. “Neither your money nor your
life—don’t be afraid!—but that violet
in your dress.”
Dorothy looks down at it, and
draws her breath quicker between her
parted lips. “And if I do?” she said.
“If you do,” ho returned, “I shall
ask you to give me the white hand
that picked it.”
With a swift movement she took
the flower from her dress, and held it
towards him. and Aiken caught her
hand in botli of his, and raised it to
his lips.—[Harper’s Weekly.
Grafting Teeth.
Much has been written of late about
skin-grafting, and a Reading physi¬
cian has even succeeded in transplant¬
ing a mustache to the upper lip of a
woman. But there are several local
dentists who have met with remark¬
able success in grafting teeth. The
process is known as implanting, and
should not be confounded with either
transplanting or replanting, both of
which iiavo been done for years. In
implanting a tooth tho gum may have
entirely healed over; in fact, a tooth
may be implanted years after its pre¬
decessor lias been removed. With tho
aid of cocaine tho operation is not at¬
tended with any great amount of pain.
The gum is thoroughly saturated with
cocaine and an incision is made expos¬
ing the jawbone. A socket is then
drilled into the bone and a tooth, after
having been placed in an antiseptic so¬
lution, is fitted into the socket and
tightly bound in its place. The wound
heals quickly, and in two weeks the
grafted tooth partakes of all the nature
of a perfectly natural tooth.—[Phila¬
delphia Re ‘ord.
A Bit of True Politeness.
Some time ago a friend of the
writer gave a dinner to which a young
man, his wife and their little child
were invited. The child was a very
precocious, bashful and intensely
sensitive little one. During the din¬
ner she upset a glass of water upon
the table-cloth, and hastily noticing
the looks in her direction, her little
lip quivered and her eyes filled with
tears- A*, that moment my friend,
who gave the dinner, knocked over
his own glass with a crash that drew
every eye in his direction. He laughed
over the matter and said it made no
difference, etc., and succeeded in
withdrawing the attention from the
child, who soon smiled again. That I
consider to have been the perfection of
politeness.—[Farm and Fireside.
THE CELLAR.
A Part of the House Which is
Often Neglected.
Some Practical Hints About
its Proper Arrangement.
When the house-keeper lias bought,
built, or hired her house, after due
consideration of the family needs and
tastes, and after careful examination
of tho locality and construction of the
chosen home, her earliest attention
should be directed to tho collar, as
that part of the homo which is most
often neglected, and where order nnd
convenience combined add no small
amount to (lie comfort and healthful-
ness of all parts of tho house.
The arrangement of tho cellar takes
timo and attention rather than any
great outlay of money. The windows
should first be seen to. A stuffy, un-
ventiiatod collar, full of dead air, is
an abomination. Tiic windows should
bo so liung that they can be removed
from tlie inside, and during all but
the extreme winter months should be
taken out, and even then in mild days
they should be opeued in the middle
of the day. The outside of tho win¬
dows should be protected by galvan¬
ized wiro window netting, costing two
and a half cents tho square foot. A
heavier, coarser-meshcd quality can be
used instead, if great strength is
desired.
This quality costs six cents the
square foot. Tho hatchways of cily
houses are troublosoino in cold
weather. Eoth tho rear and front
hatchways admit a great deal of wind
during tho winter, in spile of the
wooden covers that aro fitted to them,
and mako tho kitcho.i and dining¬
room il ors draughty and cold. This
can be remedied by covering the iron
grating over each hatchway with
several folds of old carpeting or furni¬
ture sacking, and then fitting tho
cover clown tightly. Tho hatchway
on the sunny side of the house must
be frequently opened for air. The
cellar should be thoroughly white¬
washed,two heavy coats being enough.
All the cellars, and many in the
country towns - 010 ! villages, aro
cemented, which under most condi¬
tions is the safest and cleanest floor¬
ing. But in the country, where the
ground is not poisoned from leakages
sewers or the foul gases of cess¬
and where, yet farther, the
is dry arid sandy, a cellar
bottom of well-beaten earth is not un¬
wholesome, and has a mysterious
capacity of keeping fruits and vege¬
tables beyond that of cemented collars.
Such a cellar should have boards for
walks to bins, barrels, and cupboard,
to keep the Lousc-mOther from fret¬
ting over the dirt “tracked up.” If
these boards are occasionally turned
over when swept, there will bo no
trouble from dampness or “saw bugs.”
liaising them up slightly from the
ground by inch cleats nailed to the
under side of the boards is another
and better method.
I 11 a collar where there is a furnace,
it is a great help to household man¬
agement to have a portion of the cel¬
lar divided from the furnace portion
by a tight board partition, with a pad¬
locked door opening into it. The
boards used may be rough and cheap,
costing two cents a foot ; but (he par¬
titions must be tight, so as not to ad¬
mit the warm air from the furnace.
Under ordinary circumstances the ex¬
pense need not be over len dollars
and in many cases even less.
In this cold cellar the vegetables and
apples, butter and preserves, may be
kept, and oven in tho city the uncom¬
fortable habit of living from hand to
mouth might be changed to a groat
degroe. Here tho time-honored vine¬
gar barrel or keg may have its place,
giving out its supply of “pure cider”
vinegar whenever needed. Near by
should be tho swinging shelf and cup¬
board, and the old-time feeling of
plenty and comfort, which the memory
of the wel’-fllled cellars of country
homes always brings, would return to
the household.—[Harper’s Weekly.
A Promising Outlook.
Gus Snobberly, who is a poetry-
stricken youth, applied to old Mr.
Bondclipper for the hand of his daugh¬
ter Lucy, who was in the room at the
time.
“What arc your resources?” asked
old Bondclipper.
“In the first place, I've sent iny ap¬
plication to President Harrison for a
position in one of the departments.”
“Have you any other resources?”
asked the prospective fa.her'iu-law.
“You bet I have. I’m seriously
thinking of giving up smoking.”
“Pa,” exclaimed the young lady,
“that’s enough for us to begjq lyitlj,
isn’t it?”—[Texas Sifting*.
Value of Machinery.
Few porsons have uny corrrcct hloa
of tho diflleuHies which wore met with
sixty to seventy years ago in making
suitable tools and machinery from
metal. There wore no pinning, boring
or shaping machines; tho turning
lathe and tho drill-borer wero about
all tho devicos which could bo called
into use by tho mechanic of that limo.
Invontors had to make by hand tho
machines they invented, with tho aid
of othor machines in making the indi¬
vidual parts. They had to invent
so mo tools so ns to bo nblo to mako
certain parts of their invented ma¬
chine. When tho eolebratod English
machinist Clement ontored a shop as
master at Louden in 1814, ho found
tho tools so poor and dcfcclivo that he
had to spend days (n making such
ones as were needed. James Watts,
tho inventor of tho stouni engiue,
could not got his first machines in
working order in consequence of n
lack of sonio contrivances. Tho first
cylinder which ho had enst was not
tight, and was on ono end fivo milli¬
meters wider than on tho other. A
good cylinder should not show moro
di lie re n co in width than one-half uiilJI-
ineter.
And then the cost of work at. that
timo was extravagant. Whitworth,
one of tho oldest manufacturers of
working machines in England, says
that the polishing of cast-iron cost $3
per squuro foot forty years ago, as the
work had to be done by hand. The
manufacturer Ferry paid for tho first
steel pens $1.25 apiece, but still theso
pens were not so good in quality as
those which are inado today. After
(lie factories had been established,
tho price of a Bteel pen was still $1,
then fifty cents and then twenty-
five cents, w h'ch price was kept up
for some time. Today one can get a
gross for that price; nil owing to our
perfect machinery.—[New Orleans
Delta.
Fastest Train In tho World.
IIow many people arc aware that
tlie fastest scheduled train in the world
runs between Washington and Jorscy
City every day? The train is tlie
Baltimore and Ohio, New York and
Washington limited, and it uses the
tracks of tlie C 'ntral Railroad of Now
Jersey and I’hiladelphia and Roading
between Jersey City and Philadelphia.
The latter roads furnish tlie locomo¬
tives 011 this part of tho lino.
Notwithstanding tho stories about
trains running 90 mites an hour in
England, nothing of the kind is pro¬
vided in tiic time tables of tho London
and Northwestern and Great Northern,
which admittedly have tho fastest
scheduled trains in tlie kingdom. The
fastest train on the Northwestern is
I ho celebrated Scotch express, which
makes tlie run of 400 miles from Lon¬
don to Edinburgh in 8 1-2 hours. This
is at a rate of 51.6 miles an hour, al¬
lowing for stops. The Royal Blue
line trains make the run of 226 ini.'cs
between Now York and Washington
in 5 hour*, which is at an nvorago
speed of 51.9 miles an hour, with cor¬
responding allowances for stops.
The Scotch express does better thnn
51.6 miles an hour between certain
stations; Its best run is (he 75 1-4
milos from Rugby to Crewe in 85
minutes, an nverngo of 53 miles an
hour. But tlie Royal Blue line also
makes some smart runs. On tho Bal¬
timore and Ohio road, botween Balti¬
more and Washington, it averages 60
miles an hour for tho greater part of
the 40 miles, while tlie Reading and
Jersey Central engineers, in places,
rash along at 75 to 80 miles on hour,
aiitt do it evory day. It is said that
the Great Northern lias lately added a
still faster train than the Scotch ox-
press of the London and North-
western. It averages 54 milos an
hour, but only for a distanco of 105
York Sun.
Six Suits in One Hay.
On one day, during his stay in Eng¬
land, Emperor William chan ;cd his
clothes exactly six times, lie wore
four different uniforms in the course
of Iho day and two different suits of
plain clothes. Why the emperor should
have arrayed himself as a British ad¬
miral to visit Albert Hall is as incom¬
prehensible as tho reason which in¬
duced the IViuce of Wales to mako
himsolf uncomfortable by putting on
a hot, unattractive and anything but
becoming Prussian uniform. The
> mperor’s announcement—made as
usual at tlie last moment—that he
wished the Albert Hall visit to be an
affair of “semi-sta'o” caused infinite
(rouble and inconvenience to all con¬
cerned.— [Chicago News.
Very Popular.
Tottling—You wouldn’t class the
lien among song-birds, would yon?
Dimling—Why not? We are ail
fond of her lay. —[Truth.
FOIL THE HOUSEWIFE.
BRliAKl'AST 1)1811,
Tnko throe, four or fivo largo toma¬
toes, peel them carefully and slice
into a clean saucopnii with a large
spoonful of butter, a largo spoonful
of chopped ham, pepper and salt to
taste, a little chopped parsley or pow¬
dered sago if liked. Cook gently for
a few minutes until the tomatoes scorn
well done, thou add two eggs, and ns
soon as tho eggs are boiled through
nnd sot remove tho |saucopan from the
fire. Servo immediately on hot but¬
tered toast.—[Chicago Nows.
It AM AN I) TOM ATOES.
Trim tho surplus fat and tho skin
from n half-inch slico of ham, put it
over the tiro in a pint of cold water
in the frying-pan, heat it, pour of the
water, dry tho ham, put it again into
the pan with a heaping tcaspoonful
of butter and cook it fivo minutes on
each side; moan while peel and slico a
a pint of tomatoes; when the ham if
fried lift it from tho pan, put in tho
tomatoes, season them with fait and
pepper, lay tho ham on them and
slowly stow them for about ten min¬
utes, taking care not to burn them.
Servo tho linm laid upon tho tomatoes.
— [Juliet Corson.
Arri.K MKIUNGUH.
This is a simple dessert that will be
often found moro acceptable than a
heavier pudding. Stew tart applos,
sweeten thorn and flavor them with
lemon juico and somo bits of tho yel¬
low rind. Strain tho apple sauco into
a dish, cover it with a meringue made
of the whites of two eggs beaten to a
still' froth with two largo tablespoon¬
fuls of powdered sugar. J’ut this
meringue over tho apple sauco in a
rough, irregular way, and set the dish
containing it into a cool oven for
twenty minutes. Tho oven should bo
merely hot enough to cool tho merin¬
gue slightly. Servo tins dessert cold
with cream if you wish.—[Now York
Tribune.
ItAKKD HADDOCK WITH PARSLEY SAUCE.
A lisli of livo or six pounds is a good
size for baking. IVhen tho fish has
been properly scraped, washed, aiul
dried, rub it with a lahlespoonful of
salt. Soak sufficient stale bread to fill
a pint bowl, squeezodry, and add to
it unougli peper to cover n ten cent
piece, quarter teaspoon salt, tabic-
spoonful chopped pai-Bley, onc-lialf
teaspoon summer savory, the same of
thyme, smalt piece of lemon peel,
chopped or grated, ono tablespoonful
of butter, one egg.; mix and put into
the fish, .-kewer the opening, or sow
with white darning thread. Have
three or four thin slices of fat pork,
place over the top of the fish, and
bake one hour, often basting it.
sauce. Put one pint of milk into
ft small saucepan, and while it is heat¬
ing beat a tcaspoonful of better into a
tablcspoonful of Hour, add a pinch of
salt and a tablcspoonful of chopped
parsley ; rub it to tho consistency of
cream, with cold water, and stir it
into the boiling milk. Set it back
that it may not brown, and stir until
it is done, which will be in about ten
minutes.—[Yunkoe Blade.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS,
A pudding in Which thero is much
bread must lie tied loosely to allow for
swelling; batter pudding must be tied
firmly.
Rice and other grain puddings must
not be allowed to boil in the oven be¬
fore setting; so never put them into a
very hot oven.
It is often the quantity of sugar
that makes tapioca and arrowroot,
boiled plain, troublesome to kocp in
shape When moulded.
It will do no harm to allow your
pudding to stand a littlp timo after
being stirred together, in order that
tho flavors might bo blended.
Old carpets may bo made into rugs
by unravelling them and weaving the
ravclilngs on frames which come for
this purpose, or knitting them.
The soap-saver is a useful little
utensil. It is a box of wire not with
a long handle attached. The soap is
placed in it, and if shaken in a pan of
dishwater, will produce a strong suds
without the slightest waste.
The Biggest Engine in the World.
It is not strange at all that the big¬
gest engine in tlie world is exercising
its ponderous strength in Pennsylvania.
“The President,” as it is called, is
constantly at work pumping water
from the zinc mines at Friedensvilie,
Lehigh county. Its enormous
is that of 5000 horses, or as it is com¬
puted, of 35,000 men. In the
county thero is still preserved at
konduuqua the first engine ever
in Lehigh, and set up at
by Eli fciager ip
Press,
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—or tub—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Sleep's Lullaby.
Dear Sleep, thou art ray mcrclfulles*
friend.
When, tired of all, nightly I come to the*;
Thou art so patient amt good to me.
IIow gently do thy faithful hands extend
The old sweet welcome, motherly and
mend
My broken toys of hope, while at thy
knee
Quite forget the hurtful,things to bo.
And when I feel thee touch my brow nnd
bend
To kiss mine eyes, Hove to put my hand
Into thine own to feel that thou art near;
To nestle closely to thy peaceful breast,
And hear that lullaby about !h it laud
Sung of so softly, where there is no tear,
And where the weary ore for aye at
rest.
—[John H. Bonner, In tho Independent.
HUMOROUS.
Whippod cream is apt to bccomo
aoiir.
Grass makes no noUo, yet many
people hoard it mown.
Women may not ho deep thinkers,
but they aro generally clothes observ¬
ers.
In casting about for a national
flower tho wall Cower, as usual, is
quito forgotten.
Wliilo a woman seldom understand*
herself let her alono for seeing cloar
through nny other woman.
Engaged couplos may not average
larger than other people, yet tlioy are
often distinguished by their sighs.
If wo could only see ourselves as
others seo u«, tho probability is that
most of us would look tho othor way.
In the slang of tho day to say that
a thing “has no flies on it’’ Is to com¬
pliment it, hut it is no compliment to
fly-paper.
The most attentive man to business
wo over knew was lie who wrote on
his shop-door: “Gone to get marriod;
return iu half ait hour.”
Trembling Youth—“Madame, Hove
you to distraction. Will you be my
wife?” Girl of the Future—“You
may leave your reforoncos and call
again.”
•*I ncvor knowCumcash to have but
ono failing,” said a friend of his to a
businessman. “Yes,” ropliod tho busi¬
ness man, “that’s nbout all; blit J
understand lie made a great deal ol
money out of that.”
A Baltimore lady, with her littlo
daughter, mot an acquaintance and
stopped to ask after a mutual friend.
“Slio is verv ill,’’said tho acquaintance;
“indeed, slio has been next to death’s
door with that fever.” Mamma,”
said the wise little maid, thoughtfully,
as they walked on, “if that iady yon
wore talking about is next door to
death, why dosen't she move?"
Rival of tho Mafia.
Tho Infaino Leggo, which was dis¬
covered a short time ago, in Andria,
Italy, is an organization similar to the
Maia Vita,although far less notorious.
Tho confiscation of the account books
in tho house of a member led to the
revelation of interesting details of its
management. A enndidtae for mem¬
received instruction iu
and shooting for $2 monthly. After
acquiring tlie necessary amount of
skill for his murderous calling be be¬
came a “neophyte.” The chief, dur¬
ing the ceromony of admission, cut
tlie candidate in tlie breast with a
dagger, and then tho candidate, with
his hand on tiic bloody weapon, swore
loyalty to tho society. Tho steps of
promotion were indicated by the titles
“neophyte,” “regular,” “tlie initiat¬
ed,” and “chief.” In Barietta the In¬
faino Legge had a woman’s branch
organization. Tho first arrest of
members of tlie socioty took place in
Andria. In one hour fifty of these
declared highwaymen and murderers
were captured, and the work of hunt¬
ing them down is still in progress.
Tho name of tho society moans, literal¬
ly, “Infamous Law.”—[New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
White Money Paper.
Notice has been issued from the
Treasury Department regarding dis.
linctivc paper for the obligations and
oilier securities of tho United States.
Tho silk thread paper adopted in 1885
will bo used until the present supply
is exhausted. The new material for
United States notes, National bank
notes and certificates is a cream-white
bank note paper. Its distinctive fea¬
ture consists of a localized red and
blue fiber incorporated in tlie body of
tlie paper, while iu the process of
manufacture, so placed as to form a
perpendicular stripe on cither side of
the center portrait or vignette of each
nolo and other obligation. The dis¬
tinctive paper of similar quality with
water mark, U. S. T., D. so placed
therein that it may show on each sep¬
arate check or draft, adopted in 1885
for United States checks and drafts,
will be continued in use for. that pur¬
pose, —[Picayune,