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OFFICIAL ORGAN
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FRANKLIN COUNTY.
VOL. II. NO. O.
The Homestead Spring.
How Well I remembor the spring,
The homestead spring,
That gushed from the foot of the hill -
And ran, in nn oft winding rill,
Through the beds of sweet smelling mint
Between patches of tangled grass,
And on light, ns it wandered, the glint
Of the sun o’er Its pebbly pass.
Then the sheltering springhouse, too,
I seem to view,
With its stone walls and mossy eaves
Half hidden in mulberry leaves;
The piggin that hung by the door,
The gourd vines that climbed up the
walls,
Tans of milk and ot eream on the floor,
And platters of gold butter balls.
Ah! cool, limpid, chattering spring,
Time on its wing
Has carried me far, far away
Prom the scene of my cbilhood’s day,
But the charm of your crystal flow,
Sung low ill the fulness of choice,
Is n treasure of long ago,
Like the tones of a dear lost voice.
I think that if fortune should bring,
Fit for a king,
Her rarest of dust-covcrcd wines,
Her choicest of south-bearing vines,
And offer my feverish lips
Such draughts that a poet might sing
Their delights, I would leave such sips 1
For one quaff at the homestead spring.
How oft in the c’.ose-crowded street,
In summer’s heat,
• Or yet in the hot dusty square,
Fiercely kissed by the sun’s bright glare,
Has the vision, distinct ana clear,
Filled my soul like a holy thing,
With its memories, sweet and dear,
Of that far-off old homestead spring.
MRS, HERRICK’S BABY,
It is a hot, dusty summer day, and
along tho whole straggling length of
the one street of tho liltlo mining
camp but two living creatures are
visible. From tho open windows of
the Mermaid and White Elephant sa¬
loons conies a hum of lazy voices
whose owners arc doubtless playing
flpe.ze-out for the drinks; aside from
this, the motley cluster of log houses
and “A” tents partakes largely of the
silence popularly attributed to a
cemetery.
Of the two animate objects on tho
street, one is “ Gawgo,” (ho huge
Ethiopean who oflieiates as presiding
genius of the culinary department at
• Peter Iloskin’s boarding house, near
. by. lie, after iho fashion of his race,
is lying on a bench face downward,
taking an audible siesta, with the dense
rays of the scorching sun beating un¬
heeded upon his broad back, The
other creature is the saddle horse be¬
longing to Doc Starr, tho physician
from (he neighboring camp of Ana¬
conda; this animal, tied in front of
the one-story and two-room residence
of Homely Herrick, is busily engaged
in brushing off the torturing armies of
fles which beset him.
Homely Herrick is a leading citizen
and a very important personage, in¬
deed, in Cartcrviilc and all tho camps
around. Not tliat he possesses any
unusual charms of mind, manner or
person—not in tlie least; for lie is
lazy, ugly, drunken and shiftless to a
degree seldom known. But, fellow-
citizens, is the fact that lie is the proud
husband of the only woman within a
hundred miles or more—hence he is a
person to bo looked up to, anil liis
opinion, even at liis drunkest, is ac¬
cepted as the utterance of an oracle.
Mrs. Herrick is not a goddess, al¬
though any man in Cartervillc or any¬
where else who says anything calcu¬
lated to cast a shadow of doubt upon
tlie divinity sho is supposed to possess
mighj as well select his last resting-
place about the Mine tic utters tho sac¬
rilegious words. In fact, this fair
creature is a coarse, densely ignorant
Cornish woman, who is as unprepos-
sessing personally as her spouse—per¬
haps more so.
But she is a woman, anil, as the solo
representative of her sex in this wild
little camp, is gazed upon by tho 400
men of Cartervillc with feelings akin
to worship, and tlie lucky man who
is so fortunate as to receive the lady's
gracious permission to carry her bun¬
dles home feum the store is for days
thereafter the object of vividly green
jealosy, on the part of his companions.
A jfeure emerges Herrick from mansion. the front It is
door$#Mie
Doc ;Starr, “who Hastily mounts his
lidi-sc and gallops wildly up tho street,
.followed by a swirling cloud of while
[lust.
snoozing on tlie bench,
! k&iu from his slumber and
awn gazes
at thff cpjning horseman in blinking
surprise, for Doc Starr is usually mcr-
ciful& unto , Ids beast, and this un¬
wonted baste on liis part, on such a
hot day, astonished the colored gen¬
tleman.
The physician draws rein at tlie
Mermaid, throws his reins over a
post and rushes into tlie barroom,
where lie brings all tlie miners to their
feet by yelling, in a manner entirely
at variance witli professional ethics:
“Boys! Baby at 'Herrick’s!”
There is a wild rush, aud tlie bar
land the card tables are deserted, tho
THE i H
bartondor coming with the rest, and
they almost crush tho beaver of the
wonderful news in their eagornoss to
get near him.
“Sho!” “Do tell!” “Great Scott!”
“By gosh!” “Why in Toxas don’t
you give Doc a chance?” “Boy or
girl?” (Tuis last hesitatingly.)
“Girl!” yells Doc, proudly, “born
last night. Come on, boys—lot’s
iiq tor up.” But in the wild shout
which followed his announcement tho
invitation passes unheeded.
Thou there is a briof consultation
with tlie physician. Yes, Mrs. Her¬
rick is sitting up, and is woll enough
to receive visitors, lie thinks, Tho
news spread liko wildfire, and iu less
time than it takes to (ell it, there is an
excited mob of men—almost three
hundred of them—in the street, whith¬
er they havo flocked from saloons,
stores and boarding houses.
Doc Starr, Pete Iloskius anil Heavy
Fairbank, tlie rotund proprietor of tho
Mermaid, are appointed an interview¬
ing committee to appraise tho happy
parents of tho intentions of the mob
and are hurrying down the street to¬
wards tho Herrick abode. They re¬
turn soon with tho desired permission,
and the eager but now quiet procession
rapidly along, headed by the
committee and Clip-Ear Tomkins, tho
gentleman who runs tho White Ele¬
phant.
The doors of the Herrick home are
opened wide, tlie one for tho worship
pers to enter by and tho other for an
exit. The procession halts anil tho
four gentlemen leading it enter to
(also their look at the little red, ugly,
blinking thing which Mrs. Herrick
proudly holds iu her arms.
Doc Starr has seen it beforo and
may sec it again any time, so he does
not linger; Hoskins and Fairbank, be¬
ing bachelors, merely look curiously at
tlie little creature and pass on, feeling
qirer. But Tomkins is said to have a
wife and family somewhere back in
the “States,” and a hungry, heart-
starved feeling swells up in his breast
and two big tears start from the keen
eyes that have not known them for
years. Tomkins looks long and wist¬
fully—then tlie crowd outside tells him
to hurry. IIo stoops hastily over the
babe, kisses it bashfully, and, with
something like a sob, grabs a hand¬
ful of coin and nuggets from bis
pocket, throws it into the lap of the
astonished Mrs. Herrick and says,
“Git somethin’ fer Hi’ kid,” and rushes
out.
And so all tlie rest of the afternoon
the wondering curious throng goes in
and out of the little room, each one
leaving a remembrance behind him,
until Mrs. Herrick’s lap overflows,and
then a vacant chair and a wooden
(able are strewn with little sacks of
gold dust anil littered witli nu.getsaud
coin. It is more money than tho poor
couple ever dreamed of having all at
onco, and Mrs. Herrick sits in stupe¬
fied amazement and her wondering
spouse hastens down streot to spend
part of liis suddenly acquired fortune
for whiskey.
Anil the miners come in, four at a
time, to sec and bo conquered—old
incn young men, ignorant minors and
men whoso faces if shaven would bc-
token their owners gentlemen by birth
and education, Married men, some
of them whoso throats feel choky and
stifled as they looked upon this tiny
creature anil think of their own little
ones at homo far away, and they leave
tiic house lingeringly and sneak off by
themselves to have a good lonesome,
think. Young men, some
of them hardly more than boys, also
come in and sec (his baby with strange
feelings in their hearts, and go away
ashamed of themselves, somehow,
though they know not why. As they
their friends afterward they en¬
to assume an air of cheerful
nonchalcncc they are far from feel-
There is no procession back up the
The men who marched togeth¬
down to Herrick’s awhile a go go
alone, or in quiet groups which
separate. Somehow nobody
sociable, and Heavy Fairbank
Clip-Ear Tomkins as tiiey sit be¬
their respective places of business
tlie evening, think a great deal, but
not notice now dull trndo is.
Tho little red baby, in the midst of
where poverty had reigned be¬
squalls and howls, and makes
hideous just as other babies do,
knowing how many hearts she
has softened, nor how many sweet and
tender recollections she lias caused to
wake iu tlie rugged breasts of the
of hardy, reckless, careless
who gathered this day to do her
And Mr. and Mrs. Homely Herrick
have issued “P. P. C.’s”—verbal—to
their many friends. They are going
back to the “ States,” and Carterville
(Penn.) Inde-
pendent-
Equal Rights to all, Privileges to None.
FRANKLIN CO:. OCTOBER 16.1891.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
Why the Bachelor President
Never Married.
A Secret of His Life Told After
Fifty Years.
A Minneapolis lady told mo tho
other day (he true reason why James
Buchanan, tho fifteenth President of
the United Stales, never married. Sho
used to live in Lancaster, Penn., and
it was near this little city that Presi¬
dent Buchanan lived (when “at home ’)
and died. I quote her own words:
“When I was a young girl and a
young lady at homo I used to know
Mr. Buchanan quite well. Father was
one of Ids intimate friends, and used
to spoud a good deal of his time—
nearly ail ids Sunday asternoous—at
liis country placo, Wheatland, about a
mile from Lancaster, lie was at my
sister’s wedding, ami L remembor tlie
expression on his faco and (he twinkle
in his eye as he quoted tho old saying
to my oldest sister: ‘When a younger
sister is married lirst tho older lias to
sit on the fence and await her turn.
You must dance in your slocking feet
tonight.’
“lie was a tall, fiuo looking man,
with silvery wiiite hair, generally
dressed in black broadcloth, black
satin vest, and wore the old fashioned
high linen collars. One great peculi¬
arity of his was carrying liis head on
one side.
“He told ray father about the love
affair. I’ve heard it dozens of times.
Ho was engaged to Miss Coleman of
Lancaster, ami there, too, lived Miss
Rose Hubley, also very much in love
witli him, and mortally jealous of Miss
Coleman. Tho course of true love
was running smoothly for tho two
lovers until Miss Hubiey came be¬
tween them. Mr. Buchanan hail been
out of town on some business, re¬
turned late one afternoon to tho city,
and on liis way home lie passed by
where Miss Hubley lived. She called
him into the house, and he was there
soino minutes, and then went directly
home to get his supper.
“As frequently happens, some gos¬
siping neighbors either saw it, or Miss
Iiubley herself took pains to inform
Miss Coleman that Mr. Buchanan had
called at tho other lady’s home lirst
although engaged to her. She re¬
sented it, and when lie went to call
upon her, declined to see him. Tlie
next day he went up to Philadelphia
on an early train and with her father.
She went up later iu the day to go
with the two gentlemen to tlie theatre
in the evening. She did not appear
as usual, not at all Jiko herself, and
finally declined to go to the theatre, or
even see Mr. Buchanan. When they
returned, she was a corpse, and was
brought to Lancaster and bu- ied there.
Heart disease was given as tho cause
“The other holy lived to be an old
maid and Suffered an awful fate. She
was standing before qu open grate,
warming her hands behind her, when
her clothing caught fire and she was
burned to death. Mr. Buchanan never
forgot Miss Coleman. When he died
lie said that he wanted to bo bm'ied in
Woodlawn Hilt Cemetery, because
when she was living they used to walk
out that way together. lie was a very
modest man. The Presbyterians had
a silver plate put on liis pew with his
name on it, and the President didn’t
like it, for lie did not like so much
ostentation.—[Minneapolis Tribune.
Two Wonderful Feats.
“I witnessed a wonderful feat at
tlie last Atlanta Exposition,” remarked
a gentleman to The Man About Town,
“in illustration of what it is possible
to accomplish in a few hours this day
of inventive genius. I there saw iu
one day cotton picked from the boll,
taken to the gin and ginned, carded
and spun into .thread, woven into
cloth, cut and made into a garment
Which was worn iu tho evening at a
banquet by the Governor of the
State.”
“That is pretty good for Georgia,”
remarked a Philadelphia gentleman
present, “hut let me give you its
equal recently performed as an exper¬
iment by the proprietor of the Phila¬
delphia Record as to tlie time required
to print the Record upon tlie paper
direct from the tree. His record was
like this: Chopping one and a half
cords of’poplar wood and stripping
and loading on tho boat, three hours;
time consumed in manufacture of
wood pulp, twelve hours; manufac¬
turing wood pulp into paper, five
hours; transporting to Record office,
one hour anil twenty minutes; wet¬
ting paper, preparatory to printing,
thirty minutes; printing 10,000 Rec¬
ords, ten minutes. Total time from
tree to paper, twenty-two hours.—
fSt. Louis Republic-
The Geranium Saved ller Life.
The father anil brother of a iloar
little woman died of consumption, ami
sho firmly believed she would soon
follow them with tho samo dread dis¬
ease. She had a friend who believed
tho invalid had inherited Ivor mothor’s
stronger constitution, and if she could
only be aroused, and the idea banished
from her mind that she would soon
die, sho might bo a well woman.
Arguments woro iii vain, and as the
friend was going away for years, she
gave a geranium to tho dear little
woman, with tho request that sho
would take care of it, and also, that
sho would work out in tho garden
through the spring and summer two
hours a day. “1 might as woll do it,”
said tlie invalid, “for I shall not live
but a few weeks or mouths at the
longest.” Vory feeble woro ho’first
attempts at gardening, and sho would
often say on coming in, “I shall die
now, anyway.” But tho next day
found her out again. The geranium
was cared for, and gradually other
plants were added. She became very
much interested in gardening, and her
mind was taken up reading the many
good floral magazines and in earing
for her flowers. In the winter a bay
window was full of blooming plants.
It is now three ycais sineo she began
this new cure, and it has worked
wonders. Sho is a healthy, happy
woman and says that “women stay in
tlie house too much, are afraid of
their clothos, and tho light-lacing
mnkos a short breath, and then they
say, ‘we are not strong enough to
work in a garden.’ ” Shut up tlie pill
boxes and throw away tho bottles.
Breathe tho fresh air and take your
medicine at the end of a light hoe
handle, and 6co if you don’t savo
doctor’s bills.—[Vick’s Magaziuc.
Heating the Joker.
A young man in New York city rc-
married and settled down in a
little vine-clad cottago iu tlie suburbs.
Not being accustomed to gardening lie
asked advico of some of liis shopmntes
as to tho best kind of seeds to plant
for salads. Several roplies were given
and one young man from Hoboken
who thought lie was smarter than the
others brought him somo radish seed
next morning. Tho now seed were
taken home, and while the husband
was preparing the ground his wifo
opened tho paper and nt onco smelled
the odor of fish. Sho called her hus¬
band's attention to it, and he quickly
discovered Mint his friend had given
him some dried roe of a herring. Ho,
however, sowed il ns directed. Four
days later the husband procured some
of the smallest fish lie could get and
cut oil the heads and stuck them in (lie
soil with the month and eves just
above the surface. Next day lie was
asked by tlie joker bow tho seeds were
getting on, and told him that the first
crop was just peeping through the
ground, and invited him to come out
to see it. His curiosity was aroused,
and lie got off that afternoon with liis
friend and went out to investigate.
When shown the small heads protrud¬
ing through tho ground he took to his
heels. He was beaten at his own
game.
Will the Earth’s Motion I'eascI
Is tlie motion of our earth and other
planetary bodies perpetual? A super¬
ficial survey of tlie field would convey
the impression that such motion will
continue forever. Tho earth with its
mass of 3,000,000,000,000,000 tone
for a long time defied all attempts to
detect its loss of speed, but, with the
friction of the tides continually at
work, it was shown that such loss
must take place, anil now it is pretty
certain from calculations of l’rof.
Adams and others that the earth loses
about an hour every 10,000 years,
anil is slowly but surely coming to a
stand-still. The experiments and in-
vestigations of modern scientists are
proving what Sir Isaac Newton be¬
lieved—that the motions of all bodies
in space aro suffering retardation, and
that (heir velocity is becoming less
and loss and will ultimately cease al¬
together. Then Mic wliolo planetary
system will fail through space ever¬
lasting— [St. Louis Republic.
Dodged the Empire.
A seedy looking individual knocked
at the door of a house on Cass
avenue, and when tlie girl opened it
lie said:
“Judging from your expression,
yon mistake me for a tramp?”
“Yes,” “said the girl,” judging from
your appearance I do.”
“Well, you wrong me. I have had
a wrestle with Fate and been thrown,
but I am no tramp.”
“I’ll let Towser decide,” said the
girl; “he never makes a mistake.” -
But while Towser was getting up
the cellar stairs the “tramp” worked
liis way out of tho neighborhood.—
Free Press,
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
SUNSET AN1> SUNRISE.
Bow your heads, daisies white, daisies
white;
Bow your little heads, purple clover,
And shut your eyes up tight, for soon It will
be night—
The sun sets, and day-time is over.
Lift your little heads, daisies white, daisies
white,
And open nil your eyes, purple c’over.
For the sun is coining up to cover you with
light,
And to tell you that tho nliitlt-timo Is
over. Nicholas.
—[St.
JOlINNV's A lit; t; M K NT.
Johnny’s niothor went out when the
table was sot for tea,leaving hint alone
iu tho room, and saying that she would
only bo gone tivo minutes. She staid
nearly half an hour instead, and when
sho returned she at once noticed a de¬
ficiency iu the preserves.
“Johnny,” she said solemnly, “you
have been at the preserves?”
“Has it shrunk?” asked Johnny
anxiously.
“Yes, it lias. There was twico as
much Micro tvlien I went out as there
is now.”
“Yes, but you were gone twico as
long as you expected to be,” was the
clinching argument of tlie young hope¬
ful.— [Detroit Free IToss.
A HOUSE WHICH FED lltS FELLOW.
A correspondent of Our Dumb Ani¬
mals tells this horse story: A team
of handsome horses was standing in
front of my door. The near horse
was munching some grass contentedly,
which tho off horso could not reach.
Suddenly, to my astonishment, the
near horso raised his head with liis
mouth full of grass, and Hold it near
liis companion’s mouth. The off horse
accepted tho apparent invitation to
eat. and took the grass from the
other one’s mouth. Aftor turning and
eating awhile on liis own account ho
repouted this manoeuvre, anil I Uion
called in tlie other members of my
family to watch them. Tlioro could
be no mistake about it; tho horso
which could reach tlie grass fed his
companion at short intervals as long
us they stood beforo tho door.
A REMARKABLE MOUNTAIN LION.
A remarkable story of a child’s ad¬
venture with a mountain lion coincs
from the town of Lampazos, in the
State of Nitcvo Leon, Mexico.
A littlo boy, six years of ago, was
playing with tho lambs near one of
tho corrals of a ranch a few miles
from Lampazos, when a powerful
mountain lion bounded from an adja¬
cent thicket anil seized one of tho
lambs. Tlie child mistook the lion
for a dog aud struck it with a stick,
whereupon, dropping the Jautb, the
lion caught tho youngster by his dress
and carried him into tho yard of the
ranch.
None of the men were about at tho
lime. A woman who hail witnessed
sho entire proceedings, gave the alarm,
and several women ran to the child,
whom they found unharmed, whore
the lion had depositod him.
The lion returned to tho lamb and
dragged its carcass a long distanco in¬
to the thicket.—-[New York Press.
IIOW TO BE HAPPY.
Once upon a timo there was a king
who had a little hoy whom he loved
very much, and so lie took a groat deal
of pains to make him happy. He
gave him beautiful rooms to live in,
and pictures and toys and books with¬
out number. He gave him a graceful,
gontlo pony that ho might riilojust
whore lie pleased, and a rowboat on a
lovely lake, aud servants to wait on
him wherever he went, lie also pro-
vided teachers, who wero to give him
the knowledge of things that would
make him good and great; but, for
all this, the young prince was unhappy.
He wore a frown wliorovor ho went,
and was always wishing for something
lie did not have. At length, one day
a magician came to the court. He saw
tlie scowl on the boy’s face, and said
to the king:
“I can make your son happy, and
turn his frowns into smiles, but you
must pay me a great price for telling
him tliis secret.”
“All right,” said the king; “what¬
ever you ask I will give.”
So Mie price was agreed upon and
paid, and tiic magician took the ooy
into a private room. He wrote some¬
thing with a white substance upon a
piece of paper. Next lie gave the boy
a candle and told him to light it aud
hold it under the paper, and then see
what he could read. Then he went
away. The boy did as lie had been
told, and the white letters turned into
a beautiful blue. They formed these
words: “Do a kindness to someone
every day.” The prince made use of
the secret, and became the happiest
boy in the realm. — [Children's Record.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
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FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
Tho Leopards Liked Perfume.
Recent investigations seem to sli >vs
that certain animals, notably pnntber*
am] lions, havo a distinct fondness for
some perfumes qnito devoid of snolt
suggestions. At any raio experiments
in this direction have lately been made,
with bottles of scent mid bunches of
cotton wool, upon tho animals of the
London “Zoo” with results, as do.
scribed in tho Spectator, substantially
as follows:
Lavender water was the favorite
scent, and most of the lions ami leop¬
ards showod unqualified pleasure when
tho remit was poured on the wool ami
put into their cages. The lirst leopard
to which it was offered, stood over tho
ball of cotton, shut its eyes, opened
its mouth, and screwed up its nose,
rather liko the pioturo of tho gonltc-
mnu inhaling “Alkaram” in the ad¬
vertisement. It then lay down and
held it hot ween ils paws, rubbed its
faeo over it, and lluisbod by lying
down upon it. Another leopard nne't
it and sneezed; then caught tho wool
in its clnws, played with it, tlion lav
oil its back and rubbed ils bead and
neck over tho scout, it then fetched
another leopard which was asleep in
the cage, and tho two sniffed it for
eomo timo together; and tlm last
comer ended by taking tho ball in its
teeth, curling its bps well back, and
inhaling tho delightful perfume with
half-shut eyes. Tho lion and lioness,
when their turn came, tried to roll
upon it at tho same time. Tho lion
then gave tho lioness a cuff with his
pnw, which sent her off to the back
of tho cage, and having secured it for
himself, laid his broad bond on the
morsel of scoulod cotton, and purred.
— [Boston Commonweal lb.
A Singular Incident.
Ail Auburn lady tolls us this slory
that is tnio and which she thinks
proves the unconscious communication
of souls. Slio says that a lady visiting
in Auburn this summer had at otic
time as member of tho family an
adopted sister who loft homo years
beforo and went into another part of
the country. Communications ceased
by degrees. Addresses woro lost, or
lapsed, and when tho lady came to
Auburn to visit sho had not heard from
her sister for a number of years and
did not know where sho was. Things
were in this condition us she sat in I ho
library of the homo of her Auburn
friend by the open window. Suddenly
there flashed over her tho remembrance
of the sister and sho seemed almost to
have felt her presence, Then she
thought sho would write a Setter to her
and inclose it in one to Mrs. U., who
would know all about her. She gath¬
ered her writing materials and pre¬
pared to write. 8hc was about to put
her pen to paper, when she heard her
sister’s voice, clear, loud and joyous.
It seemed in the room or nt tho open
window. Ghost? No, not at all, for
looking out of the window she saw
her sister sitting in a carriage at the
house ncross tho way. The meeting
was rapturous, and all the explanation
to it is that tho sister was visiting over
in Now Gloucester and Poland or vi-
and h> d driven into town with
her hostess to call upon another lady.
Strangq? Well, that’s according to
how you look at it.—[Lewiston (Me.)
Journal, August 8.
A Flood of Honey.
The pretty little Episcopal church
iu Hanford, Tulare county, Cal., lias
been ruined by a flood of honey. It
seems Unit bees had selected the loft
of Iho church over the chancel for a
hive and storehouse. Bees make honey
rapidly in southern California, where
the ground is carpeted with flowers,
and they soon had literally
tons of lioucy laid away un¬
der (lie roof of the church.
But it was a hot place, that loft, in
tho recent warm weather, too hot for
the good of the wax, and one lino
Monday it began to give way. Down
ran tlie dripping sweetness, oozing
through the plaster, trickling down
tho walls, and when the church was
opened on Friday, carpet, pulpit,
Bible, pews, everything, was saturated
witli honey. The church will have to
be refurnished and the loft will bo
made bec-tight.—[I’ioayuuo.
The Best Light to Rend By.
Dr. John H. Payne, a celebrated
oculist, says: “Most persons who use
the incandescent electric light like a
new lamp, because the light is whiter
and more brilliant than after the lamp
lias been in use for two or three
weeks. This is wrong. It is this
dazzling white light that harms the
eye. An old lamp is the best, for in
these the light has become changed to
a pale yellow, witch is tlie idea! color.
Just as in noonday brightness human
sight is not so clear and far rcachi g
as at tlie yellow sunset, so a new in,
candescent burner is not so good for
tho eye as tho old one.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Fay-Dreams.
Who .nyn that noon la not the hour ol
dream*?
Tho breeze* drowse amid the lifeless
leaves;
The swallows rest beneath the sheltering
eaves,
And languor-lulled arc all tho meadow
stream*.
In hllessc, hidden from the burning be ams.
The gleaners lie behind tho barley sheaves;
fNo soaring note tho sleeply silence
cleaves,
And for a spaco Time slumber-fettered
seems.
V»guc visions haunt this still enchanted
hour,
When e’en the hoe, drugged by the poppy,
droops,
And the sharp locust in tho tree-top
broods;
Dream-spirits borrowed from nlght’i
charmed dower
Arc these dim shapes, these shadowy,
shifting groups,—
Fantastic forms in airy multitudes.
— [Clinton 8collnrd, in Frank Leslie's.
HUMOROUS.
Earth has no greater joy than the
discovery of a quarter in a cast-ofl
vest.
“Don’t you think tlie barytone’s
voice has unusually tine timber?” “Yes,
some chords of it.”
It is s ntoil that in many of the
seaside hotols the chief cud of tho
waiter’s cxistouco is becoming (ho lip
end.
Dazzle—Why do they say truth is
Ilian fiction? ltiizzlo—Be¬
cause some people see so little of it
that it seems strange.
Amy—I guess Cousin Ilozekiah was
afraid our food would got away at
dinner. Alice—Why? Amy—Didn’t
you notice how he bolted it?
Wooden—Now I havo nn iiloa that
I would like to have you Help carry
out. Miss Sinilax—Oil, I should
hardly think it would need two.
Tho fact that a man lias not cut his
hair for ten or twelve years neod not
liocessarily imply Mint ho is eccentric,
lie may ho bald.
“it’s slrango how marriage changes
a man. You recollect how Mildly was
always complaining of liis deafness
beforo ids marriage?" “Yes.” “1
notice now ho never seems to think
it’s an nflliction at all.”
“Doctor,” said a grateful patient,
seizing tho physician's hand, “I shall
never forgot that to yon I owo my
life.” “You exaggerate,” returned
tho doctor mildly; “you owo me for
only fifteen visits. That is tho point
I hope you will not fail to remember.”
Hippopotami Still Plentiful.
Tlie hippopotamus, though tho ob¬
ject of attnek for years by natives and
travelers, is still found iu vast num¬
bers in all tho rivers of Africa within
26 degroes of latitude north and south
of tho equalor. Il ranks second to
the elephant iu weight, and is about
fourteen feet long, including the tail,
in largo specimens. Its method of
defenso is ils powerful jaws, which,
being armed with teeth of extraor¬
dinary sizo, make it an object to be
dreaded.
Tlie White Nile is famous for ils
man killing hippopotami. On one oc¬
casion somo villagers wero waiting
tlie return of their sheik, who had
been on a visit of ceremony across
tho river, when, to their horror, a
largo hippopotamus appeared, and,
rushing upon the boat, seized it and
tho sheik, crushing both. On an¬
other occasion a man had entered tho
water to bathe, when a hippopotamus,
which had boon in concealment near
by, rushed at him, biting him in two
as a shark inigltVhavo done. - The ac-
llou of the animal is simply wild rage,
which causes him to attack anything
without regard to size. A well known
ofiiciut reported that all liis boats had
been damaged by these animals dur¬
ing tlirco years’ experience on the
Nile. — [Chicago Tribune.
Elevating Ferry boat*.
One of the forties on the Qlydc has
in use a novel boat with elevating
docks, by means of which passengers
can be landed on a fixed dock at any
stage of tho tides. This Vessel is
built of steel, and, and in addition to
the usual main deck, she has’ another
deck, running the full length and two-
liiirds of the width of the boat. By
means of screws worked by steam,
this dock can be raised fifteen
feet with its load of passongors and
vehicles, thus rending landing stages
and inclined planes unnecessary. The
vessel is eighty feet loag and forty-
three feet wide, and the movable
deck is seventy-eight feet long by
thirty-two feet wido.
Time’s Changes.,
Penelope (sighing)—Ah! the men
aro not what they used to be.
Tom Barry—I’d like to know why
not.
Penelope—They used to be boys,
you know.