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JLehleremcnt.
tj rus t in thine owu untried capacity
As thou wouldst trust in God himself.
Thy soul
Is but an emanation from the whole.
Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee,
y ;16 t ami unfathomed as the grandest sea.
Thy silent mind o’er diamond caves may
roll.
Go seek them—hut let pilot will control
Those passions which thy favoring winds
can be.
So man shall place a limit on thy strength;
such triumphs as no mortal ever gained
May yet be thine if thou wilt but believe
in thy Creator and thyself. At length
Some feet will tread all heights now unat-
tained—
Why not thine owu? 1‘iess on; aebievc!
achieve!
— [Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
TALE OF A "PHONO.”
The little villago of M—, situated at
nn equi-distnnee on tho north, south,
east add west from several manufac¬
turing towns, was unique in its isola¬
tion. Its people were staid, slow-go¬
ing and conservative. The only com¬
munication with the outside world
was had through a weekly mail coach
—a “rumshaekiy” affair drawn by a
pair of equines that had seen their
best days long before they were util¬
ized as the motive power of the stage.
The inhabitants of the town and sur¬
rounding country were perfectly con¬
tented and happy. Indeed, progres¬
sive citizens of the larger towns, de¬
siring to awaken their somnolent
neighbors and enter the rich agricul¬
tural region lying contiguous, lmd on
repeated occasions, surveyed routes
for railroads through M—; but the
townspeople and country folk arose
en massu iu their opposition to this
invasion of their pastoral peaceful¬
ness, invariably defeating the benevo¬
lent schemes of the railroad mag¬
nates.
i Such a thing as a sensation iu the
sleepy old town had been unheard of
since the last attempt to locate a rail¬
road though it failed. However, ono
Thursday, when the stage, at a snail’s
pace, drew up at the door of the vil¬
lage postoflice and general notion store,
and a passenger alighted, an utter
stranger, his appearance in the village
created something akin to a sensation.
Humor and conjecture as lo who lie
was aud what he was were rife, and
when it was learned that he was to in¬
habit an old two-story frame house on
the outskirts of the town, that had
been vacant for some years, the towns¬
people were in a ferment of curiosity
aud inquisitiveness. In fact, the old
gentleman furnished food for gossip
ad libitum.
When the turmoil caused by the ad¬
vent of Mr. Thomas E. Dison iuto the
midst of their contented little village
subsided, life among the villagers
went on as usual. In time he became
incorporated into the every-day rou¬
tine of llieir town, and the interest
aroused by his first appearance among
them was forgotten.
Although nothing certain could bo
learned of liis reasons for settling in
M-, it became a generally accepted
fact that, Mr. Dison had chosen this
retired place to conduct a series of
experiments, which lie had in hand,
the result of which it was very de¬
sirable and important should be kept
secret. Of the specific nature of
these experiments nothing could be
learned.
No one was ever admitted to the in-
Bide of his house, and how this rumor
could have become circulated and ac¬
cepted as the truth was a mystery.
Nevertheless’it wa» a satisfying ex¬
planation to the simple villagers. Mr.
Dison, outside of his~ home, mingled
with the people on a footing of equal¬
ity, his affable manner and genial tem¬
perament causing him to be liked mid
esteemed by the whole town. Occa¬
sionally, however, sonic one move
bold than the Olliers would interro¬
gate him as to the experiments lie was
engaged in, but this attempted inva¬
sion of his secret would promptly be
repulsed. When ho had resided in the
town some Jive or six months, no one
was rash enough to ask the old genlle-
man the result of his iiivo ligations, * j
In the year lSTti, when Mr. Dison
had lived iu AI- three years, Ids
goings and coining* were as unob¬
served and created as little interest as
those of the older inhabitants,
i One Thursday morning, when the
usual crowd was gathered around the
postoflice awaiting the arrival of the
stage coach, Mr. Dison was found to
be missing, contrary to his wont, from
the assemblage.
“I haven’t seen him for three days
past,” said Sapi Hall, the postmaster.
“Nor I, nor I,” half a dozen in the
crowd observed. A silence fell over
them, and several shook their jieads
omiionsly, though why it would be
hard to tell.
“If’se dos’d put in an appearance
by the t.nie the mail comes in, boys. I
move tbaiwe make a visit to his
THE ENTERPRISE i t
house and seo if there’s anything the
matter,” continued the postmaster.
In a few minutes more tho stage
pulled up, the mall was thrown out
and distributed.
“A letter for Mr. Thomas K.
Dison,” called out llnll. “Has lie come
yet?”
lie was answered in the negative,
and then said:
“Well, come on, gentlemen, we’ll
go to his house.”
The postmaster in the lead, with tho
crowd following, proceeded to act.
Traversing the one long street, in tlie
bright morning sunlight, they arrived
at Disoii’s home at the extreme end.
As (ho house came within view, some¬
what obscured from the street by
large locust trees in tho front yard, it
presented, as the villagers afterward
said, a weird and uncanny aspect.
Tho windows and doors were closed—
not a sign of life was visible. Knock¬
ing and receiving no answer,they scat¬
tered and went to work investigating
and searching tho grounds. A back door
was found open, through which they
entered,finding themselves in the room
evidently used as the kitchen. Dirty
dishes and cooking ufcnsiis were
strewn around just as they had been
left—from their appearance—three or
four days before. The rest of tho
furniture on the first floor was in its
proper place and undisturbed- Pass¬
ing from the down stairs to tho second
story, the seif-constituted investigators
found themseves at the entrance of a
room opening oft" a hall. The door
was fi mly locked, and, seemingly,
the only one in uso on that floor. It
was manifestly tho workroom in
which Dison conducted his experi¬
ment".
“IIow shall wo get In, fellows?”
Slid Torn Jones, a big, strapping
countryman. “Break in the door?’
“Hold on, Tom,” Hal said, as Jones
put his shoulder to the door, prepara¬
tory to carrying out Ids suggestion;
“maybe some of (lie boys have a key
that will fit the lock.”
Several men stepped forward with
bunches of keys, and among them one
was found which opened the door.
Sam Hall, tho postmaster, was the
first to cross the threshold. As he
made a step or two he uttered a loud
exclamation aiuTpointed to the middle
of the room. Lying tinder a large
table was the body of Dison. Upon
investigation iUwas discovered that a
long knife wound in tho breast was
the cause of death, although probably
not immediately. The. apartment was
torn up and everything in confusion,
as if a desperate struggle for life had
'uken place. A safe in the corner of
the room was blown open, and the
conclusion was naturally drawn that
the crime had been committed for the
purpose of robbery. On the table
just above the dead man was
a peculiar looking machine. The
villagers had seen nothing like
it before. When the excitement
caused by the discovery of the murder
had somewhat subsided, an examina¬
tion was made of the machine. The
apparatus consisted of a tube having
an open mouthpiece at one cud, and
bearing a the oilier end a thin dia¬
phragm of metal or other substance,
with a sharp point or stylus affixed to
the centre of its outer surface. Au-
other apparatus'consisted of a cylin¬
der about four inches in diameter,
having on its periphery a V-shaped
groove cut spirally from end to end.
Over this grooved cylinder a sheet of
wax was placed and advanced till lhe
point of lhe stylus lightly touched
tho wax over the opening of lhe V-
shaped cut. The cube with tho
mouthpiece" was williin the cylinder,
which had a handle for turning it.
The instrument caused a great deal of
speculation as to what i9 was, but
nothing couid be made of it, although
it had the appearance of being used.
The result of the inquest and a full
account of the murder wore published
iu tiie county paper, but no one ap¬
peared to identify the dead man. No
clue to tho perpetrator of the crime
could be gleaned, the town a cl county
authorities doing all in their power to
ferret out tiie guilty person, The
deed remained a mystery.
The own?r of the house in which
Dison had lived took possession of the
murdered man’s effects, stowing away
ill the garret tiie instrument found in
workroom, where it was forgotten.
In time the story of tbe only crime of
its kin 1 ever committed in the village
became a tradition—and nothing
more.
* • • * *
Another mail day, three years af¬
terward, aud from tiie appearance of
tire town of M---ono would suppose
the inhabitants of the whole place
were collected around tho postoffice.
Such, indeed, was the fact, A stu-
peudous event hgd taken place in their
quiet little habitat. Great interest
was depic'ed on the faces of the as.
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER «. 1891.
semblage. They M ere waiting to*
their weekly papers.
At hist the mail coach wm seen in
the iihianeo, coming up tho main
street, (he horses in a brisk (rot —a
pace, it is safe to suv, they had not
struck for years. As it rolled up in
front of tho store and tho mail was
carried in, the crowd became wildly
impatient.
“I{"tul the news out loud!” shouted
tho people. Duo of tho number
mounted u barrel, paper in hand.
Quiet prevailing, lie read:
“Sam Hail, formerly storekeeper
and postmaster at M— ; —, is convicted
and sentenced to be hung. * * *
The story of the crime is one of the
most sensational on record. Three
years ago, Thomas E. Dison, a well-
known inventor, was murdered in
M-. No clue to the crime was dis¬
covered at the time and tho matter
died out. Some months ago, how¬
ever, William Laurens, while travel¬
ing through the small towns of the
stale giving exhibitions with the pho¬
nograph, and incidentally explaining
the working of the invention, stopped
at M •. After the entertainment,
one of the townsmen, J. C. Nottleton,
approached Laurens and claimed
that lie once knew a gentleman who
had invented (lie phonograph prior to
Tlioinas A. Edison. This claim natur¬
ally aroused the cuviosuy of the ex¬
hibitor, and lid asked for proof to
substantiate it. Nettleton took Laur¬
ens to his home, and from a garret lit¬
tered with rubbish resurrected a ‘re¬
ceiver’ identical with Mr. Edison’s.
Laurens, on examining it, perceived n
series of indentations ou tlie wax, in¬
dicating- that it contained a message.
Mr. Laurens, learning the circum¬
stances under which Nettleton had be-
come possessed of tiie ‘receiver’ was
eager to use it in liis phonograph.
When the cylinder crank was turned
this is what it revealed:
>i < I, Tohrnas E. Dison, have been
murdered by Sam Hall, tho postmas¬
er of this town, for the purpose of
robbery. Hull know that I rocoivod
large sums of money through the
mail. 1 have no strength to say
move, but if this wonderful instru¬
ment, which is (lie fruitipn of long
years of study, becomes known, what
I have spoken into the “receiver” will
(ell who my assassin is. May God
have mercy on my soul, and for—.’
“Such is the story of the detection
and conviction of Hall. If Laurens
had not givcu his exhibition in M-,
probably the guilty perpetrator of the
horrible crime would have remained
unknown for years to come, as the
people in the staid little burg bad
never—up to the time of Laurens’
arrival in tho town—heard of Edison's
invention for the transmission of
sound. What makes it more remark¬
able is tho effrontery and subtility dis¬
played by Hall. He it was, when Dison
had not been seen for several days,
who suggested that a search be made
for the misting mau. No one sus¬
pected that Hall was tho principal in
such a terrible crime, and his arrest
stirred M—*— from centre to circum¬
ference.”—[Atlanta Constitution.
A Man of Nerve.
A pretty exhibition was given by
the students of Springfield Medical
College under the auspices of tbe
Young Men’s Christian Association.
It was (lie resuscitation of a man who
had been smothered by smoke. In a
large hall bad been creeled a wooden
structure, which was filled with Roman
candles, firecrackers and other com¬
bustibles. Ia the midst of all these
the unfortunate had been placed for
suffocation and the building fired.
Shortly afterwards tlio victim of the
experiment was taken from the house
of smoke in a thoroughly unconscious
condition, lie was put through a
process of pumping and rubbing and
in the course of thirty minutes was
again walking around die hall. This
Mr. Taylor thinks the quickest process
he has ever seen for bringing to life a
person who had been smothered or
one who was suffocated from smoke.
—[Richmond Dispatch.
W hat the Waiter said.
A witness defendant was testifying that he | ’
met tiie at breakfast, and
that the latter called the waiter and j
said:
“One moment,” exclaimed the coun¬
sel for the defence. “I object to what
ho said.”
Then followed a legal argument of
about ari hour and a half on the ob¬
which was overruled, and the j
court decided that witness might state j
what was said- |
“Well, go on and state what was j
said to the waiter,” remarked the
winning counsel, Unshod with his legal
victory.” i
“Well,” replied the witness, “he 1
said: ‘Bring me a beefsteak and fried
potatoes.’”—[Boston Globe. i
! BEACH MOSSERS.
The Curious Industry of A New
| England Town.
Gathering: Moss from Which
^ Blanc Mange Is Made.
.
' Fair old Selhmte boasts industry
an
i in which, if in no oilier, it is tiie lead¬
ing town in the country. It has, as
none of its more wealthy sister towns
| have, its moss. Front the rocks that
; carpet its harbor and make its shores
feared by the sailor is gathered an in¬
come every year that may not be
princely, but is still largo enough to
compensate the town for tho lack of
noisy, smoky factories and strong-
smelling wharves.'
When the moss-galhoring industry
began in Sciluute no one knows.
Probably the value of tiie moss was
first discovered by accident by some
fisherman's wife. The gathering ami
curing of moss for food begun ill Ire¬
land many years ago. It was used
principally by tho people of tiie south
of Ireland near the sea coast. Many
people have made the claim that they
introduced tiie industry in this coun¬
try, but even tho oldest inhabitants of
Scituato are in doubt as to who was
the first.
The particular locality where the
business is carried on is called “Peg-
gotty Reach.” Little Peggotty village
is bunched here, and here the mossors
and their families ply their trade.
There is no loafing. Everybody is
expected lo do liis share of tho labor.
AVhilo Hie father is out in Ids boat
robbing Hie sea to put broad in his
family’s mouth and blane mango and
jelly into the mouths of mankind, tho
wives and daughters ate ivading along
tiie rocks near the shore filling their
aprons with the smaller pieces of the
m ss. The boys are at tho same time
raking and turning tho patches of
moss that are laid out in regular lots
in front of each creel house.
The veteran “niosser” is on tho
beach at sunrise. There is much to do
before the tide “will answer,” and ho
must watch (he tides. With garden
rake he levels off a patch on the grav¬
elled beach, always being careful not
to leave a footprint. Then lie carries
the moss that his wife and daughters
have washed out tho li ght before and
spreads it on (lie smooth spots. It is
of many colors, from the maroon,
purple black, to a delicate yellow, ac¬
cording to the washings and teach¬
ings it has received.
The Globe man happened upon lhe
best possible day to see the process of
mossing. A low tide in the morning
and a westerly breeze—not a wind—
is what the men pray for. Out by the
rocks of Third Cliff tho double sprits
and dories were already stationed,and
men were standing up in the boat
poking around in the water with long
poles. In order to got a nearer view
the Globe hired a typical small boy to
lake him out in his dory.
“IIow do you know when you are
over moss?” was asked of a man
whom the guide called “father.”
“Oh, I can see it,” was the answer.
The uninitiated could not distin¬
guish one rock from another at the
bottom, but tiie experience of years
(for some of tiiese people have been
here as many as thirty years) makes
their sight wonderfully keen.
The rake used in scraping the rocks
has a handle fifteen feet long fitted in¬
to a heavy iron head. The teoth are
set very close together and are sharp
pointed. Over the back part of this
head there is a guard that keeps the
load from falling back into the water.
As much as tivo pounds of moss can
be torn off tiie rocks at one shove of
the rake. A good day’s work for one
man is 125 pounds of moss. Tho cargo
seldom falls below 70 pounds. Should
the niosser lose run of a rock which
oilers a good yield, and the ruffled
waters interfere with his finding if, a
licttle of oil 19 brought iuto requisition
and a little of it is thrown into the
water to quiet the ripples.
Tiie moss gatherers are met on the
beach by the young folks, and “creels”
holding a barrel eacli of tbe weed are
tilled to the brim at the boats, and it
is then spread to dry on the beach. To
bleach the moss to the desired col«r
eight washings must be made; it is
housed, when perfectly dry, in the
shanties. This season the mossers
want five cents a pound, while the
dealers do not want to advance the
old price of 4 3-4 cents. The highest
price ever known was 25 cents a
pound, and for years it held as high
as ten cents, even with the great sup-
ply. This year has not been specially
yet all the single men
bav8 from $100 to 900 0 worth of
and (hose wffth families can
on $1000 for their season’s work.
Globe. y
North America’s Highest Poult. v
Dr. J. T. Scoveil, Professor V. 6.
Blatchloy of tho High School, Terre
llmite, 1ml., Professor U. O. Cox of
tho Mankato (Minn.) Normal School,
and Professor Woolman, who went to
measure tho height of Mount Orizaba,
in Mexico, have returned with infer-
mation settling beyond doubt that tho
peak named is tho highest in North
America.
When tho time came to measure the
hoigbt of Orizaba, Dr. Scoveil went
unaccompanied by any mombor of his
party, taking only the guide witli him.
The guide made tho steps by which lie
climbed, and then Dr. Scoveil could
with difficulty keep near him.
They ascended to a height 14,000
feet on tho mountain, and at that
point tho snow was too soft for Die
levels to bo placed firmly, and b«ro-
metrical calculations had to be used in
measuring (lie mountain's altitude.
These calculations arc not always re¬
liable, because a slight variation in the
barometer makes such a great varia¬
tion in altitude, but the Imromotrieal
measurements were compared and
checked as well as the other measure-
inciits, and tho Instrument* were
tested by the Mexican Government
observatory instruments after (ho
measurements had boon taken.
On August 3d tho ascent was made
again by Dr. Scoveil and bis guide to
test tho measurements made on tiie
trip July 29th, and the result of the
two trips was that the height of (ho
mountain was found to be 18,3(50 feet.
Somo triangulations remain to be made
when the snow has grown firmer, to
make (lie measurements more exact.
The best previous measurement of
the mountain, which is now known lo
be higher than Mount St. Elias (17,00C
foot), and the highest mountain in
North America, was made by a Ger.
mau doctor wlio had not the advantage
of tiie Mexican observatory instru-
meats by which to test liis liislru.
nients, and who made tiie height about
18,270 feet__[San Francisco Exiuni-
tier.
Making Sand Musical.
Mr. Cecil Cams-Wilson has found a
way of making sand musical, It is
well-known that certain sands, like
that of the Jobel Nagous or Hell
Mountain of Suez, or some of the
beaches of Hawaii, and other places
home, suoh Kliidland Ray '
nearer as
and Eigg, yield musical nolcs of dif-
forent pitch when disturbed by tiie
wind or the tread of a by-passer, lhe
causo of tliis sound is rather mystcri-
ons, it to but the friction Mr. Carus-Wilson of tiie polished attributes | •
sur-
faces of tho grains on one another. I
According that the to this grains theory, should it is bo neccs- quilo J
*ary
clean islied. and Dirt, of a certain mixture size, of line aud sand pol- j
or a
and effect. rough edges,would It is proof probably of his theory spoil J
the a
that he has recently been able to im¬
prove the note given out by “musical
sands” and to elicit notes from sands
not musical, by earofully washing and
sifting (hem so as to get smooth grains
of a favorable size. Moreover, when
such grains are placed in a porcelain
enp with polished sides they are very
sonorous .—fLondon Globe.
Tiny Town.
Many people have been told that
Vergemcsi, Vt., is the oldest town in
the Union. But they are misinformed.
Vergenncss look out her charter in
1788. Hartford and New Haven,
Conn., took out theirs in 1784. Vcr-
genness, however, can truthfully
claim to be Hie smallest and most qniel
city of (lie United Stales, as she lias a
population, after 103 years of city-
hood, of 1773 souls, and covers a ler-
rilory of only 1200 acres. Her boun¬
daries are a mile and a half ono way
and a mile and a quarter the other.
She lias a mayor, a city council, a full
board of aldermen and a completo
city government, says tho Boston
Herald. There are offices enough so
that nearly every man in town may
have one. Iu this way the political
squabbles and selfish struggles for
power common to most cities are en¬
tirely overcome, There arc offices
enough to go around and everybody is
happy.—[New York Journal.
Color-Blindness From Fatigue.
A Russian physician, Dr. M. Reich,
has reported the interesting case of a
locomotive engineer, 40 years of age,
who was dismissed from service on
account of color-blindness. Tiie man
wa« able to distinguish color* correctly
and with confidence up to the summer
of 1889 whon over-work and loss of
sleep gave him a violent headache for
two weeks, after which for three j
months all objects appeared red, and !
then a)) sensation of color disappeared,
I„ Muv, 1890, he again came for ex- ,
aminatiou, and had fully regained the
power to distinguish colors.— [Tren¬ (
ton (N. J.) Americrn.
I’lllLlHtEVS COLUMN,
GOME, LITTI.K I.KAVB8.
, *Comc, little leaves,” wild thu wind one
| day— play;
, "Come o’er the meadows with me, and
Put on your dresses of red and golds
summer is gone, and the days grow cold.”
1
| Soon ns the leaves heard the wind's lout)
call,
Down they came flattering, ouo and all;
1 Over the brown tields they danced and t lew,
Singing the soft little songs they know.
— [Youth’s Banner.
TltE JAGUAR.
Tho jaguar inhabits America. It ii
lai-g'er and more poworful than tiie
J leopard, which it resembles in color,
but Ims a black streak across the chest,
'
!lm i a black spot in tho centre of the.
i-osettes. It, is fond of climbing trees,
;im | HiicIh little difficulty in ascending
even whon (he trunk is smooth aud
destitute of branches. It chases mon¬
keys successfully, and is said to watch
for turtles on tho beach, and to scoop
out (heir flesh by turning them ou
their backs aiid inserting its paws be¬
tween their shells. Nor does it coniine
its attention to lhe turtles themselves,
for it watches them lay their eggs and
then scoops them out of tho sand with
its sharp claws anil devours thorn.—
[Detroit Free Press.
y< t:i:s mart’s l. WDOG.
Mary Queen of Scots had a favorite
lnpdog. which is said to have been
present at the execution of its poor
mistress in lfotheringay Casllo. After
fho royal lady had boon beheaded (lie
faithful creature refused to leave her
dead body, and lmd to be carried out
of tho ball by force. At that period
lnpdog* wore tho pels of men us well
as of women. I)r. Boleyn, a relation
of unhappy Qtieou Anne Boleyn,
owned ono, “which,” us it is written,
“ho doted on.” Anne onco asked him
to grant her ono wish, and in return
lie should have whatever lie might do-
sice. Knowing liis affection for the
dog, slio bogged it of him, and of
course the doctor laid nothing to do
but (o givo it to her. “And now,
madam,” lie said, “you promised to
grant my request.” "I will” quoth tho
Queen. “Then, Ip:ay you, givo me
my dog again.”—[New York Adver¬
tiser.
A llEEIt STOUT.
A Tampa (Fla.) correspondent says:
George Bell, keeper of Picnic Island
j„ || le j 0W er harbor, lias two little
givU to whom ft pot deer belonging on
(| 10 n.ml is much attached. Tho lit-
^j 0 follows one of the children
wherever it goes. Wednesday the
childron stole away from home to
j,iay on the wharf, whon tho younger
()Iie accidently foil overboard. The
deer at once jumped lit after tho child,
w hic!i sunk out of sight,
The deer then swam to tiie beach
nn( | j 0 || lfl keeper’s house, whore
the mother of the child was. It reared
on its hind feet, blew and snorted,and
cut queer antics so as to attvack Mrs.
Hell’s attention. It thou started down
on the beach on an excited run and
jumped into tho water again. Mrs.
Roll followed tho sagacious animal
which she saw plunge from tiie wharf
into tho bay. One leg of her little
girl was sticking out of tho water and
wiien she rescued the child it was un¬
conscious. The child was finally re¬
suscitated. Captain Robert Warren,
who owns tho fawn, is so proud of
the animal that he has ordered a hand¬
some collar and silver bell for it. IIo
says $1000 would not buy it.
I IHII THAT SHOOT PLIES.
There is a curious fish ot the Indian
Ocean, to which, although it has long
been known to naturalists, attention
lias recently been called on account of
some now observations of Us pecu'ari-
ties. It is fat and chubby, not unlike
the ordinary sun fish, and seldom
exceeds seven or eight inches in
length.
Jt is furnished with a short snout
or muzzle, which as we shall see,
serves very much the purpose of a
sportsman’s gun. It is fond of in-
secG, and Us mode of capturing them
has suggested its name of the archer.
Swimming close beneath the surface
it watches tiie brilliant flies flittting
above, aud, having selected one to its
fa,u y ’ sud,1c,, 'y fD‘ usts its muzzle out,
a,,(1 with almost unerring marksman-
* hi P discharges several drops of water
at its vic,iu '-
Confused by tho watery projectiles,
a,ld ' vill) iu win « s el “ a,1 S led a »d ren -
deed temporarily useless, the insect
falls "P°" lhe surfttc0 of the sea ’ a,,d
is Mediately seized by its voracious
enem v ’ The fish 18 sald t0 be ftlde t0
-
doWr ' a ln th ' 1B ,nauner from
a height of two or three feet.
kee Sorao P tho3C of !ltl,e (ho ^habitants Uh iu ca P Uvif ot y Java for
the sake of watching them practise
their archery upon flies and ant* sus-
pended above them.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
-oar* tbb—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
$ 1.00 PER YEAR.
When My Ship Cornea In.
Wlicn my ship comes in I
Ah, whon the morning of that day shall rl*r.
Whose blessed dawning long delay’d hath
been,
When all Is gain’d which fortune now denies.
When at my feet fate subjugated lies,
How brilliant are the conquests I shall win
When my ship comes in I
When my ship comes in!
When hope ahull smile with Iridescent beam
Despair no longer from his victim thin
With gloating eyes shall suck the vital stream
Nor rob the bosom of Its fondest dream;
But pleasure shall her halcyon reign begin,
When my ship comes in.
When my ship comes in!
Far o’er the waters I call sec her sail;
And when that sal) her destin’d port shall
win,
What riches shall be found in every bale. 1
No Dead Sea fruit whose sweets at last shall
tail,
But only treasures where no moth hath
been,
Wlion my ship conies in.
When uiy ship comes In!
Ah, who hath not upon the boundless fide
Some gallant craft, some hope to life akin?
Amt when returning from its voyage wide.
Oh, we shall sing with hearts how gratified!
And our desires all granted shall liuvf
been,
When our ships conic in 1
— [Willis Leonard L'lanuahsn
HUMOROUS.
Tho bone of contention is the jaw
bone.
The man who keeps his mouth shut
novor lias to eat any crow.
An old sad sea dog is probably a dis¬
mantled ocean greyhound.
A reigning folly—Leaving home on
a cloudy day without nn umbrella,
Tho man who lost liis watch iu a
crowd complained that ho was “pressed
for lime."
When a man grows bald it is safe
to say that his wife’s influence is gone-
She has lost her pull.
“I’m not in it,” sorrowfully sang
tho mosquito, as he buzzed ou the
outside of the netting.
“Excuse my back,” is what the
gentlomanly mulo said to tho driver
aftor he backed him over the embank
meat.
Doctor—Did you shako the medicine
boforo taking? I’ationt— Certainly.
It was too late to givo it the shako af¬
tor taking.
Housewife—If you arc not away
from hero in two minutes I’ll send for
a policeman. Hungry Higgins—Give
mo tho arrant, ma’am. I’ll hunt one
up for on’y ton cents.
Fond Parent—I fear, young man,
that you sock my daughter’s hand
solely for her wealth. Young Man—
Well, look at her candidly and kindly
mention what other qualifications alio
possesses, will you?
It Is a very easy inattor for a person
to be in two places at tho same time,
evon though those places bo thousands
of miles apart. One frequently hears
of a man being in a strange country
nml homesick. ,
The Romance of a Trotter.
The remarkable two-year-old Eaglo
Bird colt Monbars is crod ted with
another very fast mile. This time he
wont a milo in 2.21, which caused his
owners, Richfield & Leathers, to be-
licvo Hint ho will break tbe
two-yenr-oid stallion record of
Regal Wilkes, which is a quarter of a
second faster than thin trial of Mon¬
bars. The history of Monbars rends
like a romance. Less than a year ago
his owners placed him in (lie hands of
a horse dealer to be sold for $3500.
While he was a good-looking colt, liis
breeding on liis dam’s side was not
sufficiently attractive (o cause any of
tho horse fanciers to pay (ho seeniiug¬
ly exorbitant price. Fortunately for '
his owners, lie was given to “Uncle”
Dan Brown to train, or rather break. -
Brown was driving for George W. St.
Clair at the time,and about the twelfth
time tho colt was handled, he showed
a quarter in 0.40.
This fact was communicated to his
owners, who immediately raised tho
p r j C e for tho youngster to $5000.
Messrs. Richfield & Leathers had been
importuned to buy tlio youngster at
$3500, but they did not see enough in
him to warrant tho expenditure of so
much as $5000. When they, learned,
however, that ho had gone a quarter
so fast, they immediately opened up
negotiations looking toward his pur-
dlM0 . They were not willing to give
f 50 00 for him, bnt a few days later
when Monbars had gone another qua*,
ter in 0 .38 they concluded to buy the
colt. When they had met his owner
aga iu the price had risen to $10,000,
but so anxious were his present own-
Brg t0 obtain possession of the colt
that they never ceased their impor-
tunities till Monbars had become the',,
property at a private price. The
j other day these gentlemen $30,000 were for of-
fered, so it is stated, the
coit tbatf teu months ago, could have
been bought for $3500.—[Timcs-Deni-
ocrat.