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proportion to. its size England
haf eight times as many miles of rail¬
ways as the United States.
Tbo Czar of Russia, with nil annual
income of $10,000,000, is probably
the best paid ruler in Hie world.
The Chitieso employ foreigners nl-
most exclusively as customs ngents in
their thirty treaty ports, fearing tt
trust Chinamen.
It is estimated that at least fifty mil¬
lion dollars of tho Government's paper
money supposed to he in circulation
has been lost or destroyed.
There are now twenty-one law firms
in the United- Slates composed of
husbands and wives, and there about
200 American ladies who practice law
in tho courts or manage legal publica¬
tions.
__
Tho Government of Victoria, South
Australia, is going to prevent the de¬
struction of the wild turkey, which is
considered tiie best destroyer of locusts
and other insect pests that can he
found.
The latest estimate places the num¬
ber of American bison at 1096,distrib¬
uted as follows: 254 in captivity in
American zoological parks; 20.) wi'd
ones in Yellowstone Park, protected
by the Government; 85 wild ones in
other parts of tiie United States; and
seven in parks in foreign countries.
A good move in the reform of con¬
victs has been made at St. Petersburg,
Russia, learns the San Francisco
Chronicle. Several philanthropists
have begun subscriptions for the es¬
tablishment of workshops for criminals
who hava served their terms iu prison.
When such men do not have trades
they will be trained so that they may
earn their living. This reform will
save many who would otherwise drift
back iu(o crime.
The Medical Record publishes an
article by an American physician who
recently made a voyage from Eupope
to this country in an emigrant ship.
He says that out of 153of the stcerago
passengers whom he examined, not
one half wore found to he physically
sound, though the unsound passengers
were not afflicted with such diseases
as would prevent them from landing
at any of our ports, “if this ship¬
load is a fair sample,” he says, “ lie
amount of disease imported annually
into this country must he appalling.”
Iu 1881, after considerable agitation
on the part of die Seotch-Gaeiic so¬
cieties, a column was added to the
schedule of that year’s British census
for “habitual” speakers of Gaelic.
The number of “habitual" speakers
was found to he 231,594, or 6.19 per
cent. But as many persons who could
tpeak Gaelic did not “habilualy” do
bo, the inquiry at tiie recent census
was simply—could they speak Gaelic.
The total number was found to be
only 231,602, or 5.72 per cent, of the
present population of 4,033,000—this
is one in seventeen of the population.
Says (he New York Press: “In tiie
naval warfare of the near future the
deliberate, accurate marksmanship for
which the American navy lias always
been famous would be of Hie highest
moment. In the all important matter
o! battery equipment the cruisers and
armorclads of our new navy will sur¬
pass foreign vessels of the same
tonnage. Aside from their ample ar¬
mament of tiie best modern steel rifles
cf four, six, eight, ten and twelvo
inch caliber, our new warships are all
abundantly supplied wilh six, three
ami one pound rapid tire guns, Hotch¬
kiss revolving cannon and Gatling
guii9. Our battleships and cruisers
uow building, as well as our cruisers
already constructed, are fully qualified
1° hold their own in a modern sea
fight against the finest foreign ships
of their respective classes afloat”
1 he reasons that have been advanced
from time to time against the intro¬
duction of various applications of
electricity aro numberless, hut an ob¬
jection lias been made to the use of
hie telephone in a Freuch town which
Tna 7 be characterized, confesses the
Chicago News,as distinctively original.
Ute manufacturers and merchants of
Limoges found that the development
of their business was being seriously
impeded from the want of telephonic
communication and they accordingly
petitioned the chamber of commerce
°f the city to be allowed to produce
i f - That body after long discussion
a
icfueed to take part in Hie establish-
meat of a telephone line connecting
Limoges with Paris. These wiseacres
gave as their reason for the decision
that the telephone “would Injure tiie
smaller traders iu the towu by enab¬
ling tho inhabitants to correspond too
easily with the large shop* in Paris*”
THE ENTERPRISE.
The Mastery of Love.
Love was a stranger,
Without lock or key
Ue unlocked my bosom
And took my heart from me.
Now my heart Is subject
Everywhere I go.
Be a gentle master, Love,
To one who loves you so.
In a few days and weeks,
Iu a few months or years,
Love brought me sorrow,
And the salt, salt tears.
Oh, Love, come with laughter,
Or, Love, come with woe,
Deal but gently with the heart
That leans upon you so.
The bee’s wing is fragile,
The, lark’s egg is small,
That you took was little,
But it was my all.
Bear the captive where you wi’l,
To high estate or low,
But be a geutle master, Love,
To one who loves you so.
-[Dora Read Goodale, in Harper’s Weekly.
THE SMUGGLERS.
On tho French frontier, opposite
Spain, stands the town of Querterac,
like a watch-dog guarding the en¬
trance to tho valley, and on either
side, tho mountains which seem to
have been gashed just here, continue
their monotonous way as far as eve
can reach.
Querterac is a very old town con¬
taining 6000 inhabitants; in former
days it was fortified, isolated and dif¬
ficult to approach.
Up in the neighboring mountains
live a people wtiose reputation is as
doubtful as their nationality—a much
mixed race, ten times crossed with
Gaseous, Basques, Catalans and Bohe¬
mians—and their favorite occupation
is highway robbery, or smuggling, to
say the least. For this reason, as well
as because of tho situation of Hie
tow-n, the custom-house of Querterac
is one of special importance. Frontier
guards keep continual watch over Hie
narrow valley which forms the only
passnge between the two countries,
there being nothing but lofty peaks
and dangerous ravines for many
leagues on either side.
Towards tho middle of this century,
a wind from Africa brought terror
and desolation to Italy, Spain and
France. Cholera!
The people were filled with con¬
sternation. In Querterac, which was
one of the first to be attacked, nothing
was to be seen hut empty, deserted
streets, and houses closed from top to
bottom, as if in a state of siege. Those
persons who succumbed to the plague
received no help nor care, for Pity
was the first to die.
If a beggar approached a farm¬
house, he was greeted with a shower
of stones or gun-shots, and Hie dogs
were let loose upon him. Among the
peasantry, fear was complicated with
folly, and the people circulated absurd
tale*.
“The cholera is not as bad as it
seems,” said they, “many persons be¬
lieved to have died of it have in
reality been poisoned by enemies—a
mouthful of drugged water, a slice of
bread sprinkled with arsenic—it does
not take much to kill one.” Then the
people of the valley began to suspect
the mountaineers of being responsit le
for (he evil.
“Those vagabonds up there moan
to kill us all,” they cried.
Among the custom-house officials
the pestilence found twenty victims in
a few days’ time, and those surviving,
stricken with fear, neglected their
duty of watching the frontier. One
of them only stood to his post, an old
sergeant named Valgenod. lie was
a born hunter, a customs-officer by
nature, for he could scent a smuggler
three hours in advance, and a bundle
of contraband tobacco three leagues
away would set him sneezing.
“It would be absurd for an old
officer like me to die of the colic!” he
declared, and night and day lie
made his rounds as usual, doubled the
guards, took the place of those who
were struck down by the
general foe, and kept one eye un-
ccasingly turned towards tiie moun-
tains where tho miscreants perched,
hidden by their rocky homes, lie knew
them very well,and a hundred times lie
had fired On them, when they had been
skulking about on dark nights. They j
could not get the . best of him, a>
though, perhaps, there was one ha had
to watch continually, a gray-beard
named Meritas. He and Valgenod had
bad rnarty a contest of wits together, j
for Merit is was a •muggier by tern-
pergment and instinct just as Valge- j :
nod was a customs-officers; it was his
vocation. It was impossiblo to sur- !
nri*e him, and he had invented so
S'the rnanv tricks and stratagems that he
acknowledged leader of the j
whole band Away up in tho clefts
of the mountains he stored his mer-
handise tobacco, silks, skins, span-
i«h laces and spirits; and by little thew
goods were brought iuto France.
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA„ FRIDAY. MARCH 11.1892.
“Confound that Valgenod—but for
him—ab, but for him!” the smuggler
used to say, longingly.
“That villain, Meritas! The day
after my deatii, ho he will bring the
whole of Madrid into France!” was
tho officer's indignant exclamation.
And the two men lespectod while they
hated one another. The Bohe¬
mians had a tine opportu¬
nity to enrich themselvos dur¬
ing the plague, for sheep, goats and
cattle roam uucared for through the
meadows, far from the barn yard,
and at night they call to each other
with long, gad lowing; instinctively,
they formed themselvos into groups
and would have followed anyone who
called to them, in tho death-stricken
villages many houses were left open
and deserted, the kettle still hanging
from Hie crane, the table set for the
mid-day meal just as the dread spectre
had found it. Robbers would have
nothing to do but to walk into those
ownerless homes, and then with well-
filled sacks to return to their moun¬
tains in all safoty ; and what matter
if some one ventured to interfere
with Diem?—knives are sharp, and
who would notice one more corpse
among so many dead ?
Tho mountaineers, however, did
not stir from their lair. Why was
this? Because they, too, were dying.
it seemed, indeed, that they were
carried oft’ in greater numbers than
the people of tho valley, and when
the force of the pestilence was sub¬
siding in Querterac, the “vagabonds
up there,” continued obstinately to
die and to he buried. People won¬
dered and admired, tor every evening
at dusk, three or four wagons fol¬
lowed by mourners came down to tiie
cemetery. These miserable pagans
treated their dead with religious
respect, instead of casting them into
tho streams which rushed swiftly
through the ravines! The spectators
ran away when these wagons appeared,
and the mourners passed on through
empty streets.
One evening- about twilight, Ser¬
geant Vnlgenod, ever on the lookout,
saw a wagon drawn by a broken-
winded mulo coming towards tho city
gates. Behind it walked Meritas and
a few of his tatterdemalions, singing
psalms in their degenerate patois,
while the long outline of a coflin could
be seen on the wagon. Valgenod
drew himself up and saluted in mili¬
tary style as the funeral train ap¬
proached, for tho dead are always de¬
serving of respect, whatever the liv¬
ing may have been, and as lie passed
the custom-house, old Merilas, his
eyes red and bis face pale, raised his
great, gaunt arms towards heaven and
sobbed out:
“My wife, my wife!”
“Poor fellow,” thought Valgenod,
and he lighted his pipe quickly and
felt deeply touched.
A short time after a similar pro¬
cession came down the mountain road;
this time there were three coffins on
the wagon, ami Meritas walked be-
hind. It was night and the lurid light
of the torches carried by Hie atten¬
dants cast fantastic shadows upon Hie
walls of the customs-building. Tiie
old smuggler tore his hair as lie
walked, and filled the air with his
lamentations.
“My sons, my sons! Give mo
back my sons!” lie cried, hoarsely,
while Valgenod sainted three times,
and tiie whole post hared their heads
out of respect for tlm father’s grief.
This was repeated every evening.
Meritas, who was generally the chief
mourner, lost by tho epidemic not
only his wife and sons, but
also his daughters, nieces, ue-
phews and cousins. II is despair
was so great that he had to be sup-
ported by his attendants, and one day
lie besought Valgenod to kill him and
end his misery. turned—’tis
“His brain is no won¬
der,” said the officer, who felt his
former respect for his old enemy
deepening into aflection.
This lasted for three weeks, and tho
people of Querterac were suprised
am i dismayed to find that pestilence
stRi raged in the mountains, though
jt had disappeared from the valley,
One evening three funeral wagons
came actoss the bridge as usual, and
one of the mules having gone loo near
t j ie edge, the wagon lurched from
s jde to side, and Hie coflin was thrown
out at the feet of Sergeant Valgenod.
immediatsly Meritas aud the other
mourners spread out their arms like
great wings an! fled at full
g p ee d towards tbe mountains leav-1
j U g the officers to gaze thunder-
struck, at the coffin, of which the lid !
had burst open, aud instead of a corps :
there rolled out four bundles of mer- j
cha ndise carefully labelled.
“To arms!” cried Valgenod, “fire!”
an d the whole post went in pursuit of
the smugglers. Too late, however,
»nd when the other coffins were found
on examination to contain tho same
enrgs us the first, Sergeant Vnlgenod
tore his hair in exa*. oration.
But the people of Querterao were in
an ecstacy of joy when tlioy learned
that not a single mouther of the moun¬
tain bind had died of tho plague.
The dread visitor had ptissod away at
lust, hut Hie smugglers had improved
the opportunity and made their for¬
tune.
Sergeant Vulgeuod gnashed his
tcetli in rage, and swore that tho next
arrival from Hie mountains would be
searched, uvon if ii were a skeleton !
—[From the French, in Epoch.
Styles or Whiskers.
There is a barber in one of tho down
town shops who used to be in tho
array of her majesty Queen Victoria,
lie was also a harbor in tho old coun¬
try, strange as it may seem. They
tiro usually noblemen in disguise when
they get hero. But this man acknow¬
ledges that he was a barber in Hie
kingdom of Great Britain. In one of
his talks to a customer ho said :
-'What a groat country this is for
mustaches and goatees or imperials !
AVe always know an American in the
old country by tho way in which he
wears his beard, or nearly always.
And I must say Unit tho fashion set by
tho American mou in this reaped is
rapidly gaining iu England. Of
course with tho nobility tho stylo is
the short and pointed beard. The
Duke of Edinburgh set the fashion,
and tho style is contagious among out-
military men, especially those in tho
navy. You know the style in hoards
in England used to bo tho side chops
—mutton chops they were most gen¬
erally called. Well, sir, that is not
the proper tiling any more. The old
men cling to the custom, bicss their
hearts, hut the young men are fast
following the American ideas in
whiskers. Our judgei in England aro
for the most part cleau shaven. Tho
barristers for the most part wear the
mutton chop. It is soldom one gees
a long-whiskered man in any of the
profev'oos. When I was in New
York I had Mr. Ward McAllister
pointed out to me. His style of
mustache would not bo tolerated one
minute in English society, but 1 was
told lie is Hie leader of fashion in New
York. Tiie neat way to wear a mus¬
tache is to cotnb it over tbe mouth,
then twist tiie ends or wax Diem. A
mustache is an ornament. Tiie Amcr-
can goatee is not seen on the faces of
an English gentleman.”—[Chicago
Tribune.
Property of Care lens Senders.
Tho Washington Post contains an
amusing account of tho annual sale of
the matter at tho Dead Loiter Office,
which took place thi. week. It re-
quired a closely-printed catalogue of
eighty-four pages to enumerate the
articles that the government was tired
of storing. There wore 5208 misce’-
lancons articles, 1223 packages of
hooks, and 181 packages of jewelry
sold. The bidding was lively, as no
time was allowed bidders to make up
their minds, and the sales Were spot
cash, a collector armed with a cigar
box at the end of a long pole raking
in the shekels. The buyers were most-
ly female, of all ages and colors, and
tiie bidding was spirited in the ex-
tretne. There were packages of music
by Hie quire, hut it was not a Wag-
ncrinn crowd, and it went for a song,
as it were. One young lady was a
heavy J bidder for Easter and valentine
cards, 9 while tho young ..” man who . stood
near her raised . the . bids on damaged , .
kid gloves, handkerchiefs and necic-
ties. An agee bac 1 U 01 , w 10 t it
he was buying a ru let (.oat an two
razors, found folded in the coat two
neat suits of baby underwear. A
package of sixty cigars was knocked
down for eighty cents, and a coflin
plate, on which wa» inscribed, “Al
Rest,” went for forty cents.
Domestic Reciprocity.
She (at her desk)—Dear, please teli
me how to spell costume. I’m writ-
ing to mother about my lovely new
gown.
lie—Well, aro you ready?
She—Yes.
He —C-o-s-t, cost.
She—Yes. t
He—T-o, to.
She—Well?
He—M-e, tne—$200, as yet unpaid.
She—You’re a wretch.— [Pittsburg
Bulletin.
The Way of the World.
The spirits of youth are elastic and
*o° n throw off the burden of grief.
“I’ve nothing to live for now,”
sighed the young widow after the
funeral; “my life is ended.”
Two days later she refused to take
the gown made for her by the dress,
maker became it wasn’t stylish
enough.—iNew York Press.
! ! PRECIOUS STONES.
Enormous Capital is Invested in
Their Production.
Little Mining for Gems in the
United States.
From the customs import list, after
deducting the approximate vttluo of
cut stones, other titan diamonds, we
find, says George F. Kunz in tho En¬
gineering and Mining Journal, that
import duty wa9 paid on about $120,-
000,000 worth of cut diamonds in the
last 24 years, of which $90,000,000
worth were imported during tho Inst
12 yours. In 18(18 $1,000,000 worth
were imported and about $1,200,000
in 1807, hut about $11,000,000 wortli
in 1888, and in 1889, about $13,000,-
000, or 10 to 12 times as munv us 20
years previous, showing tho increase
of wealth and the great popularity of
Hie diamond among Americans, the
previous figures representing the im¬
port prices, exclusive of mounting or
dealers’ profits, and uo account taken
of those smuggled.
Tho probable value of all Hie dia¬
monds in tiie world is estimated at
over one billion dollars. The entire
diamond trade is carried on by 8000
dealers, with a total stock of not fur
from $8. r )0,000,000. These stones are
prepared for market by perhaps 4600
cutters and polishers, principally in
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, Hie Jura
Mountains and the United Btatos. A
limited amount of cutting is also done
in England. About 200 men cut dia¬
monds in the United States. The
diamond-cutting industry is develop¬
ing rapidly in this country. In New
York there arc sixteen firms engaged
in cutting and recutting diamonds,
and in Massachusetts there are three.
Cutting has also been carried on at
times in Pennsylvania and Illinois,
but has been discontinued.
Forty million carats of diamonds,
weighing over nine tons, have been
found iu South Africa. In the rough
their aggregate value was $250,000,-
000, which is mope than the entire
diamond yield of tiie world during
the past two centuries. Of the whole
production perhaps 8 per cent, are of
first water, 12 per cent, of the second,
and 25 per cent, of tho third, while
the romainitig 45 percent, is known as
hort.
Up to the present time there lias
been very little mining for precious
•tones in tho United States, and this
only at irregular intervals. It hat
been carried on during the past few
years at Paris, Me.; near L >a Car¬
rillos, N. M.; in Alexander county,
N. C., from 1881 until 1888, and on
the Missouri river, near Helena, Mont.,
8i,,cc tl,e b ** in,,ln K of 1890 ’ T,ue
bor y ls and « ar " e ' 8 1,avc bce " fo,lml
f,c< J ,,enti y a8 » by-prodoel in the min-
,n * of ,nica > “P eoW, J r in Vir « i,lif *
a,ld Nonb Uwol,na - A ver y limUed
nurnbcr of diamonds hare been found
in the United States. They are met
with in wcll - deflned distric, » of
California, North Carolina, Georgia,
and "““‘‘X in Wisconsin, hut up
to the P reae,,t ti,ne ,bo db *ovcrie*
have beet, rare and purely accidental.
As t0 sa PP hirc8 > none of tbe fl, ' c bln0
color have beet, found. The same fact
tluo of >» bi «» of tine rod color,
Tbe onl y locallt y which bas b een at all
P»' olific is the P ,acer <? r <>und betwCe "
E,,b X and Eldoml ° bar8 ' 0,1 tbe
8 °« ri 16 ">»?■ < ;a8t Hc » e, '"»
Moik Hero sapphires are found i n
i : glacial ... an moron 8 gravels while sltuc* , .
Jng f(n . gold> and unti , „ ow |my(J boe „
co|lgidorcd 0ll | y a by-product. The
co j org Q f t j ]C g GWg obtained, although
f beautiful and interesting, are not the
ltandard bluo or red gh ades popular
; wJth th# publjc> X1|0 eulei . a!d ,,a«
j been mi „ ed t0 golno ex tent at Stony
Point, in Alexemker county, N. C.,
i and has also been obtained at two
other places in Hie country. Tur¬
quoise, which was worked by the Az-
tecs before tiie advont of the Spaniards,
' a[ld j, then by the Pueblo Indians,
j 6 lce
and largely used by them for orna¬
ment and as au article of exchange, is
now systematically miued near Los
Cerillos, N. M.
An Ingenious Orange Peeler.
A remarkably ingenious and simple
orange and lemon peeler is now being
introduced by which it is claimed that
1000 oranges may bo peeled without
soiling finger or glove or losing a drop
of juice. The peeler i« a piece of
wire, nielfel.plated, very much in the
shape of a button hook, but with a
tiny blade let into the inuer bend of
, the hook. When the point , of the l»ok
U drawn into the fruit it slides be-
tween the puip and tbe peel without
danger of entering either, while the
,
blade divides the peel easily and rap-
idly, after which it maybe removed
' without trouble, [Chicago Herald,
Shooting an Alligator.
The ours were stopped, resting in
the wntor; the akitr liulf turned, drift¬
ing in the sluggish tide; (ho long
beam of tho lantern with its oval
disk of dim light retting far out on
tho surfneo, swept slowly around
over tho waters looking for (lie two
lost lights. Ten minutes or more
thus passed, and suddenly Hie two
lost sparks gleamed back in n now
direction. A gentle, noiseless push
on tho port oar headed the skill'toward
them again. “ Doucemont!” whis¬
pered I’tittl. His associate, still more
gently, guided tho boat to the left, till
only one light shone front tho obscure
object in the water. This showed
that Ito bad got on its side, ns was
desired, beenuso a forward shot al¬
ways glances. Cautiously Hie t>ilent
oarsman again turned his craft to (ho
right. Paul raised his long rifle ready
to tire. The disk of tho lantern on
tho water, contracting gradually,
grow proportionately more brilliant.
As it contracted Hie solitary light
shining hack on the water from its
centro became larger and brighter, till
at last tho eye of the great saurian
glittered as if lie had Hie “Koh-i-noor 1,
itself in his head. Slowly, silently,
nearer tho boat moved, till
within ton yards of tho reptile. The
glow of tho lantern flashed along the
barrel of tho rifle for a few seconds:
then came the ringing report. The
light on Hie water instaiiliy wont out,
and tho glow of tho lantern, now
shining in a circlo only a few feet in
diameter over the place it disappeared,
showod only a few foamy bubbles
and little whirlpools. Thirty seconds
passed in silence; then tut immense
dark form bounded from the depths
below above tho surface of tho water,
and,rolling over on Its back, allowed Hie
broad, yellow-white body of an enor¬
mous nlligator. The shuddering reptile
remained otherwise motionless for a
few minutes; then spasmodically
stretching and stiflening its ugly legs
and feot, and leaping half its length
in the air, foil back again, boating
the wator witli its tail in blows sound¬
ing us loud as the report of the weap¬
on which had slain him. “Mo! tuo
li,” muttered Paul in an accent, ol
quiet triumph. Iiis associnto, after a
few exclamations of more valuable
admiration, rolled another cigarette,
and quietly turned his bout oil - in
search of other game. In a few hours
of this hunting five alligators were
shot. — [The Century.
Rhymeless Words.
There are in tiie English language a
number of words which hnvo always
been tiie despair of would-be poets
who desire to put their fanciful or
romantic or pathetic ideas into rhyme.
Wlion ft poet writes with that sublime
disregard of rhyme and meter which
characterizes Walt Whitman lie is not
troubled witli the limitation of making
tho end of ono line resemble in sound
Hie end of another, hut rhyme lias
about it something so attractive to Hie
ordinary ear, at least ie English, that
it will probably continue to he in uso
always. Among the Latin poets of
Hie classical age, on the contrary, a
rhyme was deemed a blemish, and we
can imagine Horace or Virgil or Mar¬
tial struggling as hard to avoid a
rhyme us some of our poets have to
do to find one.
Some of the rhymcless words in
English will occur to any one at once.
A word, for instance, like “cusp”
carries its own condemnation for
rhyming uses, for the sound is an un¬
usual one, and it is no wonder tliut it
has not been duplicated. “Culm” is
another obviously hopeless word, and
“gull” is still another. There are, in
«l), nineteen words which have boon
Related unrhymablo by competent
authority, no less a rhymester than
Tun Hoed, and the list is as follows:
Bilge, chimney, coif, crimson, culm,
cusp, fugue, gulf, have, microcosm,
mouth, oblige, orange, rhomb, scarce,
scarf, silver, widow and window.—
[San .Francisco Chronicle.
The Rome of the Potato.
The world owes Chile a debt of
gratitude which will never be paid,
for that country is agreed by botanists
to be the native home of tho white, or
round, commonly called the “Irish,”
potato. Ou the western slopes of the
Chilean Andes tbe potato plant still
grow* wild in a form so similar to
that of tbe cultivated variety as to he
easily recognizable. Tiie cultivation
of tiie plant spread into Peru and New
Granada about the time of tiie Euro,
pean conquest, aud iuto Virginia and
North Carolina in the latter half of
the sixteenth century, about tbe same
time that it was taken to Europe. The
wild potato, however, grows only in
Chile. The tubers are about the size
of marbles, but have all the taste and
the characteristics of the cultivated
varieties.—[Globe- Democrat,
OFFICIAL ORGAN
of Tixaa—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Sttvetl.
Her heart is the court of love
Wherein I atu being tried; «
I ask the powers above
That she may become my bride.
Her “no" to me will be death—
Ah, ended is all the strife,
For "yes” with a smile she salth;
The verdict is thus "forlife!”
► [Edgar A. Elllaton, in Munsey’sMagazine
HUMOROUS*
A slow match- Tito courtship of a
bashful young uinit.
“S luothing that should be looked
into”—a microscope.
It is the “sweet buy and buy” at
Hie candy shops all llio time.
Egotism is a failing which is itiva-
riahly possessed by tho oilier fellow.
Professor—Wliut is tiie most neces¬
sary tool in plying the vocation of a
watchmaker? Bright Pupil—Piters.
Penelope—Do you soo that hand¬
some fellow by tho piano? 1 rejected
him once. Pcrdita—That’s nothing.
I rejected hi in twice.
Marrittgo seems never so mnch n
failure to a man tis when something
goes wrong at ho mo that lie can’t
possibly blame on his wife.
The Hostess—Lot mo introduce you
to Sir. Rimer, tho famous poet, Sir.
Dossit. You must bo acquainted with
his beautiful poems. Mr. Dossit
(retired)—Oh, yes; I’ve wrapped up
tons of butter in ’em!
She (at her desk)—Dear, please toll
mo how to spell costume. I’m writ¬
ing to mother about my lovely new
gown. Ho—Well, are you ready? She
—Yes. Ho—C-o-s-t, cost. She—Yes.
lie—T-o, to. She—Well? He —Sl-o,
me—$200, as yet unpaid. She—You’re
a wretch.
“She may bo well educated, as you
say, hut slio usos very singular ex¬
pressions.” “She does?” “Yes; yes¬
terday, for instance, site spoke of a
musical concert.” “Wasn’t that cor¬
rect?” “Certainly not. It wasn’t
necessary to say musical in speaking
of a concert. A concert must bo mu¬
sical.” “Alust, eh? Well, I’ve been
at some that woro not.”
How gluil J am that leap year's come,
Dll, I'utiiru bright ami sunny!
For every single girl I know
Has stacks ami stacks of money.
Other People’s Privileges.
“Tho prosump'.uouBiiess of somo
people is past endurance,” remarked
a lady recently in conversation. “I
allowed my little girl to spend an af¬
ternoon wilh a friend, and when she
returned her little ears had been
pierced and a pair of earrings hung iu
them. 1 looked upon it as an unwar¬
ranted piece of impertinence, and the
present of tho rings did not reconcile
me to it in tho least.”
“That reminds mo,” said another
lady, “of my experience witli med¬
dlers—for I cannot call them anything
else. T sent my little daughter out to
walk witli a friend who, because Hie
cl ill <l complained of a toothache, took
her to a dentist and had two of litJr
baby teeth pulled. When 1 remon¬
strated she said site had paid tho bill.
It was Hie loss of the teeth and the
fact that anybody dare to moddlo with
mv privileges that 1 regretted. Who
could forgive such stupidity?”
Another Indy told Iter story:
“My father sent mo a very fine
hunting dog, which a friend oil'eredto
bring through puppyhood for me. I
saw the dog occasionally and ho was
getting to lie a beauty, when one day
my friend walked in and handed me,
with a very triumphant air, two $10
hills.
“ ‘I sold Jasper,’ site said, ‘for l
know you would rather have the
money than the dog.’
“I informed her, as soon as I could
speak, that 1 wouldn’t liavo taken a
hundred dollars for hint, or parted
with him at any price, and she re¬
garded mo as if doubtful of my sauity.
She was another of those wol[-moan¬
ing blunderers who arrogate to them¬
selves the rights of their friends.”—
[Detroit Free Press.
Uses of Paper.
Thoro seems to bo practically no
limitation to the uses to which paper
can be aud is applied. To the long
list of articles intended for personal
use, and in the smaller details of con¬
struction of rolling stock, such as
wheels, axles, etc., there has been
added a more extensive application to
(lie needs of every-day life by the
building of a hotel constructed of
this material. This novel residence,
which lias just been finished, and is
situated in Hamburg, has been made
entirely of paper boards, which, it is
said, are if the hardness of wood, but
possess an advantage over the batter
material in that they aro fire-proof,
this desirable end being effected by
impregnation with certain chemical
solutions. — [Chicago Times.