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FRANKLIN county.
VOL. III. NO. 5.
- . Nothing is Lost.
Nothing is lost; tbe wood* ami fields grow
green again In spring,
The earth and flowers are full of life—new
life in everything.
(V e fall asleep and rest, and wake, and call
it daily life,
And sleep at last—an end of pain—au end
of care and strife
N'otbiiig is lost, for life Itself is only a pass¬
ing thought I
H'c lose our yesterday, 'tis true, but hold tbe
good it brought.
Nothing is lost, the sweet, sweet songs come
to us o’er and o’er,
fbe same fond faces oft return, and will for¬
ever more.
_rj. IV. Donovan, in Frank Leslie’s
Weekly.
rhe Cruise of the “Ice King"
BY GEORGE ETIIELBERT WALSH.
Tho icc had been so smooth and
thick all winter that nearly all of the
ikias and furs bail been sent down lo
llio s alious by pack-sleds drawn over
;he ice by skaters. There wero only
leveral such fur-trading stations along
ihc whole length of the river St. John,
md these journeys wore often long
»ud toilsome.
Willis Boynton, the son of an old
trapper living on the shores of the
Eagle Lakes, had made an innovation
in the business which bad at least tbe
marks of nov.-lty and uniqueness.
Out of the solid trees of the woods he
aad constructed a large, strong ice¬
boat, which with a favorable wind
:ould skim over the ice with the speed
of a lightning express. With this
boat Willis intended to do business.
He offered to make a weekly trip to
;be stations, carrying the skins and
bides of the animals with him for a
very small sum. At first the trappers
did not enter into tho new scheme
with much enthusiasm, but before the
winter was half over, Willis could
weekly collect enough skins along his
route to make eacli trip a profitable
one for him.
Jim Carson was bis only competitor.
Jiip was a rough, gruff’ old trapper
who did not believe in modern con¬
veniences, and when Willis pvoposed
to carry his skins for him on his new
ice-boat, the man replied:
“No, thauk’ee; I kin carry lay own
skins. That old hulk of yours ain’t
goin’ to prove much of a success. It
ain’t no good. Ye can’t depend on it,
an’ it’ll be wrecked some time.”
“Then I’ll pay for all tbe skins
that’s lost,” Willis replied.
“Where would ye get the money?
No, thank ’ee; ye ain’t coinin’ round
me with any new-fangled notions. 1
kin carry my own skins faster than ye
kin with that boat.”
Willis smiled aud (old him (hat lie
could beat him one-lmlf the way from
Eagle Lakes down to Aroostook sta¬
tion, and have several hours to spare
at that.
“Now, ye cau’t do any such tiling,
but ye can brag.”
Willis met the old trapper one
day, skating leisurely along the river,
drawing a sled piled high with furs
behind him. The man was a line
skater, aud though lie had no grace
about his strong form, he could make
the skates spin.
A very light wind was blowing and
tho ice-boat moved slowly, Willis
longed for a fair breeze, for he saw
that old Jim was going to prove his
claim by racing with him. The trap¬
per waited until the ice-bo it was even
with liitr, and then lie said:
I. “1 suppose ye think that ye can beat
nre now? I ain’t in none too good
trim, but I can beat (hat rig.”
“There isn’t much wind today,”
Willi i replied, doubtfully, “and this
is as fast as I can go ‘until the wind
freshens up.” /
“Weil, then, if this is your fast
travellin’, I’ll leave ye, an’ wait in
Aroostook for ye.”
The old trapper laughed a loud,
grating laugh, and then moved swiftly
ahead of the boat. Willis could only
make the best of the situation, and
trust to the wind for better speed
He watched the trapper gain rapidly
on him, and once or twice he saw him
wave bis rifle over his head as a token
of farewell.
“You wait until the wind blows,”
Willis muttered to himself, “and I’ll
show you if you can beat the Ice
King.”
But the wind did not seem to freshen
up much and Jim Carson was soon lost
in the distance. He was skating rapid¬
ly toward the station and he would
probably reach it by bight.
At noon time Willis ate hi* light
lunch and anxiously watched for any
sign of a stiff breeze. About one
o'clock it came up with great sudden¬
ness and the Ice King soon increased
her speed. As the minutes passed,
the breeze continued to increase and
in one hour tbe ice boat was fairly
humming over the icc. The speed
was something tremendous and at
every turn in the river it seemed to
}n£reasq.
THE
“Now, Jim Carson, look out for
your laurels,” Willis muttered, ek.
ultantly. “I'll pass you now before
night.”
About throo in tbe afternoon be
caught sight of the trappor, who was
still skating vigorously along. The
man saw the ice-boat coming and he
quickened his speed. But he might as
well have triod to escape an express
train, for the ice-boat swept down
upon him with the speed of the wind.
“Good-by, Jim,” Willis shouted, as
ho came up to the skator; “I’ll wait
for yon at Aroostook.”
The old trapper exerted every mus¬
cle in his body to keep abreast of the
lee King, but in half a minute he was
several lengths in the rear.
The Ice King reached the trading
station long before sundown, and dis¬
charged her cargo before Jim came
up with his pack-sled. Willis was
arranging to take back a load of pro¬
visions and other useful articles, and
the following morning was spent in
loading the tee King.
Jim, on the contrary, started to
return in the foronoon, determined to
beat his young rival back to Eagle
Lakes. lie was tired with his exer¬
tions of the previous day, but his
sled was light and his heart was
strong.
Willis had another object in waiting
until the afternoon: the wind was
dead against him in returning, and a
change was expected before night.
In the afternoon it shifted around to
another quarter, and the sails of the
Ice King were hoisted.
It was a fine afternoon, but there
were indications of a cold, windy
night. The wind howled and moaned
among the trees on either side of the
river, and in two hours it was neces¬
sary to keep on the leeward side of
the wooded shore to avoid the gusts
of wind.
Jim Carson had made good timo,
and he lmd several hours the start.
The afternoon waned and darkness
settled over tho laud early. The cold
was intense, and Willis had to beat
his hands to keep them warm. In the
distant woods he could bear the bowl¬
ing of thn Wislm and tbe shrieks of
the night-birds.
“How I wish some wolves would
come for me and give me a race!” he
said, laughing heartily at the thought.
He did pass one or two of the ani¬
mals on the ice, but the boat swept by
so suddenly that they did not have
timo to think of chasing if.
As the darkness increased, itbocame
more difficult to see objects on the ice.
i i My only danger is running against
ft snag. Going at this rate everything
would to smash if I hit anything. ’
go
He sped on rapidly for half an hour
after this, and then the sound of
wolves ahead of him attracted his at¬
tention. They seemed to bo on the ice
directly in his path. lie peered as far
ahead in the darkness as he cou'd, and
in so doing ho did not see objects close
to him.
Suddenly there was a crash, and the
splinters of some heavy object flew
into tbe air. The boy jumped ack in
fright, but the lee King kept steadily
on her course. He gave a quick glance
behind him, and in the dim light he
caught a glimpse of Jim Carson s sled.
“Gracious! lias anything happened
to him?” he gasped.
He was about ready to bring the
boat up in the wind and go around to
investigate, when another sound at¬
tracted his attention. He listened at¬
tentively. He heard the nmistakable
sounds of skates dashing wildly over
the ice; but above the ring of the
skates the patter of many feet and the
howls of wolves could bo distinctly
heard. wolves,
Was Jim Carson pursued by
and had he abandoned his pack-sled to
escape the fiendish animals?
This thought fairly made his blood
rnn cold, and lie trembled with ex-
citement. The wind was now blowing a
small hurricane, and the Ice King was
almost flying.
In a few minutes lie could catch
sight of (he hungry pack of wolves,
rushing headlong up the river, Far
ahead of them he thought ho saw the
solitary form pf a skater making
desperate efforts to escape.
The boat was going so fast that
there was not much chance of Jim
getting on it unless she was brought
around, and that meant the wolves
would get up to them before they
could get under headway.
“I must work it some way,” the
boy said under his breath.
He steered the Ice King close up to
the bank of the stream, aud passed
on one side of the wolves. Then
bringing her out into mid-stream, he
soon overtook the solitary skater.
“Jim, I’ll rescue you,” be % shouted,
The man looked around at the ap¬
proaching boat, and Willis could see
by his unsteady motions that he was
nearly exhausted.
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CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN (X).. GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ». 1892.
“ Skate up to the othot* shoro and
I'll come for you,” ^illis shouted, “I
can’t stop here.”
The tVapper mechanically oboyod
the order. The Ice King was then
brought up close to the wind, and her
course changod so that she would cross
directly in the path of the howling
wolves. Tho animals slackened then-
speed a little at the sight of Ibis
strange apparition, and tho boat had
ample time to pass ahead of them.
When just abreast of them, Willis
took bis Winchester and shot several
times right into the pack.
His shot was effective, for the whole
pack stopped, and growled over their
dead and wounded comrades. While
they were tearing the flesh off the vic¬
tims, the Ice King was heading for
Jim Carson again.
The boat ran in front of him, and
then she was brought up into tho wind
so suddenly that her headway was
checked. She came almost to a stand¬
still before the sail Hilled on the other
side.
“Now quick, Jim, get on hor,” the
young ice-boatman shouted.
The trapper skated up to her, and
dropped down upon the welcome
boards exhausted. The wolves had,
meanwhile, started in pursuit again.
Tbe chase was not over. To get head,
way on this tack, Willis had to let the
boat run right down the howling pack.
The animals saw it coming, and
stopped in consternation, but ready
for a spring.
When within a few rods of the
wolves, Willis brought hor around on
the other course, allowed the sheet
rope to run, and the sail to fill from
behind. She whistled along with tre¬
mendous 6pecil; but one of the fore¬
most wolves gave a mighty spring,
aud landed directly in her path.
There was a crunching of bones and
the wolf was crushed into a mass of
jelly.
Away the Ice King sped under a full
head of sail, and in fire minutes the
pack of wolves were nearly out of
sight. Five minutes more and they
gave up the chase. Carson said noth¬
ing but simply watched the Ice King
sail. When they had covered ten
miles be ejaculated:
“Wonderful 1 wonderfuil Ye al¬
ways carry my skins after this. This
rig has saved my life, and I can thank
’ee for it,”—[Harper’s Weekly.
Power of the Bee.
In a recent work on the bee, Mr.T.
W. Cowan states that the insect can
draw twenty times its own weight,
can fly more than four miles an hour,
aud wilt seek food at a distance of
four miles. By a beautiful mechau.
ical adaptation its wings bear it for.
ward or backward, with upward,
downward or suddenly arrested
course. Its threefold voice organs are
tho vibrating wings, the vibrating
rings of tbe abdomen and a true vocal
apparatus in the breathing apparatus
or spiracle. The buzz is produced by
the first two, and the hum, which may
be “surly, cheerful, or coiioquial sig¬
nificant,” by the vocal membrane. A
number of the bee’s notes have been
interpreted, “Humm” is the cry of
contentment, “wuh-nuh-nnh” glori¬
fies the egg layings of the queen,
“sbu-u-n” is the note of the young
bees at play, “s-s-s-s” moans the mus¬
ter of a swarm, “b.r-r-r” the slaughter
or expulsion of the drones, and the
“tu-tu-tu” of the newly hatched
young queen is answered by the “qua.
qua-qua ” of the queens still im¬
prisoned in their cells.— [Scientific
American.
Snipe Surgery.
Examples of the surgical treatment
of wounds by birds were brought be¬
fore the Physical Society of Geneva,
at a recent meeting, by M. Fatio. Tbe
snipe received especial credit as a snr-
gcon of remarkable skill. With its
beak, it makes feathers into a very
good dressing, applies plasters to
bleeding wounds, and even secures a
broken limb by means of a stout liga¬
ture. One snipe had on its chest a
large dressing of down fixed by the
coagulated blood. Others had inter¬
woven feathers strapped over a
fractured limb; and one snipe whose
legs were broken by a misdirected
shot, was found the next day, after it
had contrived to apply dressing, and
a sort of splint to both limbs, Ob-
servers have been particularly struck
by a grass ligature wound on the limb
and fixed by a svmt of glue.—[Tren¬
ton (N. J.) American.
The Fattest Babies.
The fat babies from Stone county
were on exhibition at the Monett re-
union. They are both girls. The
oldest, aged five years, weighs 107
pounds and the youngest, aged two
and one-half years, weighs 93 pounds.
Stone county is closely competing
with Douglas In the matter of produc.
ing fat girls.
WHALE FISHERIES.
Facts About an Important but
Languishing Industry.
Down East Harpooners Now
Rendezvous at San Francisco.
A bullotin recently issued from tho
Census Department is devoted to the
businoss done out of Uuitcd States
ports in tho whale,* fur, seal nml sea
otter industries for tho year 1889.
The first table is dovoted to tho
whale fleet of the-United States, giving
tho names of vessels, their rig, ports,
net tonnage and Whaling grounds. It
shows a total of 101 vessels engaged
in the sorvice, over one-half of which
arc barks and about one-quarter
schooners. Over forty of theso on
leaving port have for their destination
Behring sea aud tiie Arctic ocean,
while tho Atlantic ranks second as a
whaling ground, with some thirty-six
vessols. The’ remainder go to the
Indian and South I'acilic oceans and
to the Japau sea. The num.
her of vessels, 101, with a
tonnage of 22,660.19 not tons, shows
a constant and ceasoless decline in
the whaling industry. Compared
with the year 1880 there is a decrease
of 40.94 percent, of the number of
vessels, of 41.35 percent, of tiie net
tonnage and of 3S.06 in their value
which for 1889 was §1,918,276. This
decrease has been growing more and
more marked for the past thirty years
and is due both to a scarcity of whales
and to the discovery of mineral oils
and of substitutes for whalebone.
One of the most interesting com¬
parisons afforded by the bulletin is in
the figures assigning to each ship its
home or bailing port. Theso read as
follows: New Bedford, Mass., 67;
San Francisco 27; Provincetown,
Mass., 9 ; Edgartowu of the same state,
3; New London and Stouington,
Conn., 2 each, and Boston 1. The
old home of the whalers, New Bed¬
ford, yet leads the list, but her glory
is only a refleeted one, as 24 of her
57 ships render* -u* at San Francisco,
outfitting and disposing of their pro¬
ducts within tbe Golden Gate, which
may thus claim the distinction of
yearly seeing more whaling vessels
than any other harbor on the United
Slates coast.
The total amount of money repre¬
sented by the business is $1,913,275.
Of this the vessels represent over one-
half, $994,800, the apparatus $147,-
639, the remainder being credited to a
cash and credit capital and to other
investments.
The total catch 4 and •he year was
780 whales, of whicu a. -o sperm,
109 right, 121 bowhea, a the re¬
mainder humpback, finhuct.’ and black-
flab. The product of 128 was brought
to San Francisco, a majority of which,
88, were bowhead. In connection
with this a table in the bulletin shows
that although the right and bowhead
varieties form but 29.49 per cent, of
the captures they yield 70 por cent, of
the total value of.products.
The total number of men employed
during the year was 3017, and of
these 1802 were nativo or naturalized
Americans, 228 were from Great
Britain, 699 from Portugal and the
remainder from various climos and
nations; 1039 find employment in San
Francisco, and to New Bedford, in¬
cluding those who rendezvous at San
Francisco, belong 1651.
During tho year live vessels valued
at $65,000, were lost, carrying down
with them 22 members of their crews.
Another industry to which the bul¬
letin devotes attention is tho fur seal
and seal otter fisheries. Twenty ves¬
sels are engaged in this, and with a
single exce.ption every one of the
twenty sails from ports on the Pacific
coast. Of the nineteen eleven hail
from San Francisco, one from Santa
Barbara and seven from Port Town¬
send, Wash.; while tbe single excep¬
tion comes from Salem, Mass. Nine¬
teen of tbe twenty vessels are schoon¬
ers and one is a steamer. The total
capital invested in the industry, ac¬
cording to the bulletin, is $152,-
757, and of this $112,861 belongs in
San Francisco. For tho amount of cap¬
ital invested tbe valuo of tho products
was decidedly large, viz.: $114,318,
by far the larger part of this, $81,594,
coming to San Francisco’s port. Of
this $81,594, $43,518 came from seal
skins and $87,755 came from sea otter
skins. The total number of men em¬
ployed was 422, 192 of whom hailed
from the city by the Golden Gate.
During the year two vessels, the Annie
and the Otter, wemlost.?— [San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
There is a new book entitled ‘ ‘How
to Keep Dogs in a City.” A fortune
awaits tho author who will tell how to
keep cats out of a city.
Honors to llio Flag in the Jinry.
1 am not so fmniliuv with Urn
customs of the army in regard to the
ting; but in the nary I know the) aro
admirable, mid decidedly worthy of
emulation in civil life. You may por-
' haps know that the flag of a ship does
not fly during tho night. It is taken
in at sunsot; and I think the simple
little coromony that attends the haul-
ing down of the ensign at sunset is
ono of the protthst in existence. The
first time I over saw it I was sitting
on the quarter-deck of tho l T , 8. 8.
“Yantic,” conversing with three of
hor officers. Wo had boon dining to¬
gether, a d were enjoying (lie cool
evening breeze under tho awning I
knew that it wa» almost time fo •
“evening colors,” and I was anxious
to see wholher the coromony in the
navy was different from that aboard a
tirst-cla9s yacht. I speedily learned
that there was a difference.
A few minutes before sundown a
bugle-call sounded from the flag-ship,
and tho call was i nmodiate y repeated
by the bugler in the oihor allies of
the squadron.
“What is that?” I asked.
“That’s ‘Stand 1 y the colors, » M
said one of the officers.
Two sailors came aft, cast off the
ensign halyards, and stood by with
(heir eyes on the flagship. lu a few
niinutos wo heard bugles sounding
again; for you must know that on
board ship m«ny of the commands are
canveycd by a few musical notes up¬
on the bugle. A marine came aft
and, saluting, said:
‘‘Haiti down, sir."
•‘All right,” said the officer of the
deck. “Sound ott.”
At that order the bugler of the Yan-
lic blew the lovely call, “Evening
Colors.”
Tho moment ho sounded the first
note, tho officers rose from thoir
chairs, look off their caps, and stood
silent, in respectful attitudes, whi I
the two seamen slowly hauled down
the colors, bringing them in over the
rail as the call came to an end. When
the colors reached the deck and were
gathered in by the seamen, and tbe
last note died away, the officers put
on their caps, resumed their seats,
and went on with their conversation.
Removing the cap in honor of the
colors is the common form of salute
in tho navy. When an officer comes
up from below he always lifts his cap
in the direction of the quarter-deck;
and all boys should remember, when
visiting a uinn-of-war, that the proper
thing to do when yon go on board is
to turn townrd the stern of the ship
where the ensgin nlwnys flieB at tbe
taflVail staff, and raise the hat. If
the ofiicer of the deck sees you he will
return the salute; but wholher anj
one sees yon or not, always raise your
hat wh it you go aboard. The ealute
is to the flag, not to any person, and
surely every American boy ought to
be proud to lift his hat to the flag of
iris country.— [St. Nicholas.
“Horse Power.”
Hero is a correction: “The term
horse power was derived from the
power of a horse, as established by
Janies Watts, who found by experi¬
ment that the average mill horse could
lift 150 pounds, when attached to a
rope over a pulley, at the continuous
speed of 220 feet per minute or 2 1-2
miles per hour: 160x220—38,000
pounds lifted one foot per minute.
This has since been verified in Eng¬
land by an average on the continued
day work of 144 horses used in
ploughing, when the average work
was found to he 163 pounds lifted 220
feet per minute, or at the rate of 2 1-2
miles per hour. This somewhat ex¬
ceeds Walts’ assignment of Ihc horso
power of work.” Mr. J. Nettleton,
who sends ns this, says it comes from
a scientific paper, which lie names.
The statement is interesting, but not
authoritative, in spite of the name aud
pretentions of the paper. The actual
power of the average horse is between
two-thirds and three-quarters of the
accepted horse power, 33,000 foot¬
pounds.— [New York Sun.
The Hmallest Banker.
Robert Philson and child, Jacob C.
Pliilson, Miss Eleanor Philson and B.
F. Collins and wife, a party from Ber¬
lin, a little mountain town in Somer¬
set county on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, ate dinner at the St. Charles
(lie other day. They came to Pitts¬
burg for a day’s pleasure. Robert
Philson is a banker and modestly
proud of being the smallest person in
that business in the world. He con.
ducts a general banking business in
Berliu without assistance. He is mar¬
ried to a lady of normal stature and
is the father of a four-yea r-old child
as big as himself. Mr. Pbilson mea¬
sures about 38 inches in height, but
docs not mind hit absence of stature.
— [Pittsburg Po6t,
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. 1
Spiders usually live for two or threi
years.
Only nine per cent of cases ol
ninpulation are fatal.
A steel steamer is now building is
Chicago, Ill,, which will carry 4000
tons.
Ono pound weight of cork will sup.
port in the water a umn weighiug 14C
pounds.
Electric motors havo been so great,
ly improved of lato that they will uow
pull nearly !10,000 pounds.
Tli# frying sound in tho telephone
is caused by induction from othci
lines, earth euvvents, and static die
charges.
There is u man in Chicago who do
dares himself the inventor of a de
vice which will speedily dispel thi
densest fog.
During heavy galosthe waves of thi
Atlantic aro from 24 to 36 feet it
height, half above and half below the
menu level of the sea.
The year 1849 was the square ol
forty-three; wo had not a square year,
so to call it, brforo then since 1764
and tho next will not occur until 19,16
An average man of 60 has spew
6000 days, or nearly twenty years, ii
sleep, and has consumed about 17,000
pounds of bread and 16,000 pounds oi
meat, washed down with 7000 gallon'
of liquids.
Every portion of soapstone lost in
cutting is utilized in oilier ways. Ii
gives the dull color lo rubber goods.
Is used in paper to gain weight, and
is also an excellent article to use in
making flre-proof paints.
Ono of tho effects of tho earthquaki
in Japan was tho sudden disturbing
of the sen seventy-five miles front
shore and (he deluging of the Ameri¬
can bark Ilespcr with water so hot ai
to be apparently at llio boiling point.
Owing fo the failure of Europeai
iron manufacturers to compete it
making an enormous steel spring do
sired, the contract was given to ai
American firm. The spring has been
completed awl lithe largest ever mnde.
being 110 feet long, six inches wids
and one-fourth inch thick.
At a recent meeting of the Entorao-
logical Society of Washington, IS O.
Howard exhibited specimens of bum¬
blebees which had been attracted in
great numbers to the blossoms of a
largo horse-chestnut near his house,
and described the peculiar actions of
theso beos possibly resulting from the
toxic pll'ect of the nectar.
Some Historic Islands.
Of the many who havo read and on
joyed Lord Tennyson’s noble ballad ol
“Tho Revenge,” probably fow know
much about tho singular group of is-
lands, lying well out in the North At¬
lantic almost 800 miles from Portugal,
off which the famous fight celebrated
by tho Laureate took place.
Nothing cortuin was known about
the islands until about the middle of
the fifteenth century,an honest Flemish
merchant hard pressed by stress of
weather, took refuge under the lee
of their rocky and inhospitable
coasts.
Tall, conical peaks of volcanic ori¬
gin and wooded almost to the sum¬
mits; high tablelands covered with
trees,shrubs and langlod undergrowth
and cloven at intervals by tremendous
ravines, down which tho mountain
loi rants flung themselves foaming into
the sea; a coast rising up everywhere
into giunt precipices characterize these
islands; and, as a final touch to the
weirdness of the scene, there is no
sound or sight of living thing except
the hawks, creatures as wild as the
islands, that wheel and hover over tho
cliffs and now and thendart like light¬
ning into the son after fish.
It is from these birds that the
islands derive their name, the Portu¬
guese word for hawk being acor
(plural scores); but the English navi¬
gators of the time called tho group
“Western Isles;” aud doubtless be¬
fore the discovery of America it must
have appeared to them situated far
toward the mysterious realms of the
setting sun.
Our worthy Fleming, reluring safe¬
ly to Lisbon, whither be was bound,
reported his discovery to tho Portu¬
guese co irt, which, with commend¬
able enterprise, forthwith despatched
a navigator, Cabral, to make inquiries.
In this way tbe island of St. Mary’s
was discovered in 1482, but it was not
till a quarter of a century later that
the position of the whole gro&p was
ascertained. The finding of the Azores,
however, was a trifle compared with
t’.ie magnificent discovery of America
sixty years later and there is little
wonder that from that time a mania
for voyaging and for cole “zation be¬
gan to spread among the nun „ adven¬
turous spirits of Europe. ____
OFFICIAL OBOA
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
11.00 PER TSAR.
Tending the Jlena.
Matilda, jest you mind them hens,
And shoo 'em out away from here!
They’re scratching all the garden np;
Why, Tildylsgone, wa’I, wa'l, that’s queer
>he haln’t contrary, as a rule,
And gen’lly obeys my will;
But, though she lieerd mo, off she pot—
Why, there’s Lorenzo lYttingilll
He’s met her, and she stopped to talk!
Them hens will eat up everything;
He's wanting her to take a walk—
Wa'l. It’s nice to walk in spring.
He took her hand—come, that won’t*do-<
.She seems to stand uncommon still;
I’d better let them know I’m round—
Good evening,Mr. l’ottingill!
He don’t mind me—it ain’t no use—
Ah, wa’l, my time has come and gone!
But, then, I’d reely no idee
How TUdy was a gettin' on.
Those gals grow up, and pretty seon
They Jay us old ones on the shelf.
Lorenzo Is a smart young mail—
1 guess I’ll tenu them hens myself.
—New York Advertiser.
HUMOROUS.
The royal chief docs things to the
Queen’s taste.
The harness manufacturer is th(
only successful rein-maker.
Time heal* all things except
wounded pride and old rubber boots.
A ticket agent may be a dandy, but
the train crier is the high-toned man
about a depot.
In breadmaking, as in baseball,
there is nothing like a good batter in
the hour of knead.
People who can’t afford to follow
tho fashion usually try lo follow the
people who do follow it.
First Fair One—But, darling, I have
many social engagements (his season,
you know. Second Fair One—Oh,
indeed I As a chaperon, I presume.
Scene: A family boarding house.
Time: Sunday evening. “You are
not eating any chicken, M. Lemachin!”
“No, m&d&rne, thanks, I never work
on Sundays.”
“What is the multer, dearest?”
i‘Soinefln’ awful’s happened, mam¬
ma.” “Well, what is it, sweetheart?”
“My d-doll baby got away fwoin me
and bwoked a plate out in the
pantwy.”
Juvenile Johnny, having had the
meaning of the phrase “multum in
parvo” (much in little), amply ex¬
plained to him, and being called upon
to give an illustration, replied with
much enthusiasm, “Why, baby, just
after dinner.”
Flowers Good for 1 atiug.
Flowers may some /lay enter more
largely than at present into tho list of
foods for human consumption. Al¬
ready, as Is remarked by a recent
writer, they are much more widely
employed for purposes of diet than is
commonly Imagined. Artichokes are
immature flower heads aud cauliflow¬
ers are a sort of flowers. The com¬
mon cabbage, a rare wild plant in
nature,furnishes under cultivation tiie
cabbage, the turnip cabbage,the cauli¬
flower and Brussels sprouts,according
as the leaves, roots, or flowers of the
plant have been specially developed.
Brussels sprouts are buds which have
not reached maturity.
Another variety of tho cabbage,
called “broeoli,” is grown on alluvial
soil that has been reclaimed from the
sea. It Is a distinctively maritime
plant and to secure for its sustenance
as nearly as possible like its natural
food starfishes arc gathered on tho
beaches for manure. Tho crop is put
into casks which have contained wines
of Burgundy or Bordoaux, an agree¬
able aroma being in this way added.
Finally tho broeoli comes to the tuble
in the form of pickles or chow-
chow. .o'-
Yellow pond lilies make delightful
preserves. Tbe flowers of tho Judas
tree aro mado into fritters, with but¬
ter added, or mixed with salads; or
sometimes the flower buds arc pickled
in vinegar. Nasturtium flowers are
often used in salads. The flowet's of
the caper bush arc familiar in sauces.
Cloves, used for flavoring, are the un¬
expended buds of the clovo tree dried
in the sun.
Every ono has seen and many have
eaten violets, jasmines and rose petals
in tho form of preserves and candies.
The flowers of the abutilon esculen-
tum are commonly used as a vegetable
in Brazil. Some North American In¬
dians regard as a delicacy the cooked
flowers of the pumpkin vine.— lWa3b
iugton Star.
No Illiteracy in Bavaria.
According to the late military, star
tis:*cs there are no illiterate persons
in Bavaria. Among 2772 recruits
enlisted in the army in the Palatinate
there were only three individuals who
could not read or write. But that
district forms no .exception to the rule.
The general number of recruits from
the entire population was 20,584 and
among them were only six illiterate
perggus,—[Sun Francisco Chronicle,