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FRANKLIN
VOL. 111. NO. 11.
Tito Light of Life.
Two little children whispered love
Beside a quiet stream,
rue suullght played about their forms
In many a golden gleam.
“And this, ” I thought, “is innocence,
Rove’s purest, sweetest dream."
A lover and a maiden sat
Beside the running river,
He whispered vows of endless love
That nought hut Death should sever.
"And this,” I thought, ‘‘is Love that lives
A day. Then dies forever."
Kw aged couple o’er tho sand
Their footsteps slowly wending,
Two shadows on the ocean strand
Xu perfect twilight blending.
’And ibis,” 1 thought, “is Love, indeed
That lives when Life is ending."
—Arthur J. Lamb, in Once A Week.
KATTY’S PARTY.
11V llEl.KN FOnitEsr GHAVKS.
“Kalty, "hat are you thinking of?”
said Sir. Dilkes, brusquely, “Fire
all out! Lamp not lighted!’’
He had come in from the barnyard
with Uvo foaming pails of milk and
a liberal powdering of snow on his
fur cap and heavy beard, and as he
set the pails down on the buttery ta¬
ble, Kathleen sprang up and lighted
the squatty kerosene lamp, and raked
the broken logs together, so that a
vivid blaze rushed up the old chimney
throat.
“Have you got the butter.all print¬
ed?” said lie. “Aud tho poultry
packed, and the eggs laid down? I
shall have to make an early start to¬
morrow morning, and there’s every
prospect of a snow blizzard.”
“It’s all ready,” said Kathleen, som¬
brely.
Mr. Dilkes turned short around aud
looked at her.
“Eli? What’s the matter?” said lie.
“They’re not going to invito me to
the party at Griggott’s!” the girl an¬
swered.
“They ain’t, ch? Why not? I guess
you’re as good-lookin’ as any of ’em,
and as good, too !”
“I couldn't help overhearing Mally
Griggettnnd Josie Kirko talking about
it when I went after the mail to¬
night,” 6aid Kathleen. “They had just
got their letters, and I was waiting
for a chance to get near the mail win¬
dow, and there was a pile of drygoods
boxes bet ween me and them. Mally
said why wasn't I a»ko<l? and .Josie
said because I never returned any of
the neighborhood parlies. It was all
take, sho said, with Kathleen Dilkes,
and no give. And it was quite true,
uncle.”
Mr. Dilkes moved uneasily in his
chair.
“We ain’t party-givin’ folk- 1 ,” said
he.
“Then I oughtn’t to go to parlies,”
retoited Kathleen. “Audi don’t see
that I shall any mare. Nobody "ill
ask me.”
“WcP, I wouldn't, mind,” soothed
Mr. Dilkes. “It’s all folly and non¬
sense, anyhow.”
Kathleen’s lovely Id no eyes flashed.
“I don’t think it’s folly and non¬
sense,’’ said she. “I waul to no. All
the young people but me are going,
and I’m tired of drudging and work¬
ing the whole time ivitlnntnbit of
fun.”
Mr. Dilkes was siicnt. lie tipped
his feet against an u leven brick in the
hearth and stared at the fire.
Kathleen came closer to him.
“Uncle,” said she, ‘‘can’t I have a
Twelfth-Night parly?’’
“Nonsense!” growled the old man
“It wouldn’t cost much!'’ pleaded
Kathleen, “I’d make all the cake
myself, and I've saved enough out of
my share of the chicken money to buy
sugar and lemons. And m.v dress
needn't cost anything. I could trim
over my Avhilo bunting, with a little
new ribbon. May I have a Twelfth*
Night party, uncle?”
Mr. Dilkes rose suddenly to his
fcot.
“Xo,” said lie, “you can’t! And
there’s an end of it!”
Kathleen said no more, She was
used to her uncle’s moods, and knew
that there Avas no use in striving
against them.
But half that wild, stormy winter
night she sobbed silently on her pil¬
low and rebelled against fate.
Early in the gray, frozen daybreak
Mr. Dilkes ro«e, ate the hot broakfast
of sausages and coffee and fried po¬
tatoes that Kathleen had ready for
him, and started off for Cone City in
his red cutter, snugly lined with buf¬
falo robes and packed close with the
produce of his farm.
He had scarcely been gone an hour,
when an unexpected guset arrived at
the house—Miss Dorothy Purple—a
friend of Kathleen's dead mother and
a distant cousin of herself.
“Oh, Miss Dorothy!” cried the
girl.
And to her faithful bosom she con¬
fided ail her troubles.
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THE ENTERPRISE.
It was so nice to have some otic to
talk to!
“But this won’t do,’’ said Miss Dor-
otliy Purple, viewing the well-shod
toes of her pretty feet as she warmed
them at the tiro. “You can’t be shut
up here like a lark in its cage. You
must go out like other people. I don’t
wonder they have left off asking you.
You must give little companies, too.
Otherwise you’ll be left like mo—an
old nta'd.”
And Miss Purple’s bright black eves
sparkled merrily.
“I’ll talk to your uncle about it
wlion lie gets home,” said sin.
“It won't be of any use I” sighed
Kathleen.
At noon, however, the depot boy
came plunging through the drifts with
a telegram.
Mr. Dilkes had heard from his
brother in Pennsylvania, who had had
some sort of accident. He had decid-
ed lo go directly to him for a few
days.
“Katly,” said Miss Dorothy Purple,
j waving a very pretty pocket handker¬
chief above iier head, “this is provi¬
dential interposition.”
“What?” cried Kathleen.
“We’ll have (lie Twelfth-Night par¬
ly now,” said Miss Purple. “Write
your invitations at once. Send ’em by
tho depot boy. Don’t yon seo there’s
no time to be lost? I’ll help you with
the cake and coffee, and I know a
grand recipe for ice-cream.”
“Ice cream!” gasped Kathleen.
“Why not?” said Miss Purple, with
a bird-like tip of her head. “There’s
plenty of ice and snow outside, and
plenty of cream in your milk-room.
We can have kisses and mottoes, too.
I know how to make ’em; aud I shall
want a lot of spruce and hemlock
boughs (o decorate the rooms!”
“I can git ’em for ye!” said the de¬
pot boy, displaying teeth enough for
an ocelot.
And as soon as Kalhleen had caught
her breath, tin proceedings began in
good earnest.
“What will Uncle Dilkes say?” cried
Kaihleen, as they stood ready on
Twelfth Night, all dressed, with the
supper table spread in the big kitchen,
temporarily transformed into a bower
of evergreens, and die big parlor de¬
nuded of its carpet and bedecked
with wreaths of princess pine and
clusters of scarlet hollyberries, while
“Black Jack Blackman,” with his fid¬
dle, and little Billy Xickbam, with his
clarionet, sat waiting for the arrival
of the first guest.
“O, I don’t care what ho says!” said
Miss Dorothy, audaciously, “Yon
doq’t happen to know, do you, child,
that twenty years ago, before yon bad
opened those big blue eyes of yours
on the Avickcdiicss of this world, lie
used to be a beau of mino? ’
••A—beau of yours! Uncle Dilkes!
Why didn’t lie marry you?” ques¬
tioned Kathleen.
“He didn’t quite ask me, Katty.
You see, in thoso days, before my
blessed father went into Mexican sil-
ver inine speculations, I was Miss
Purple of Purple Hall, and he was a
poor young farmer. He didn’t like
to be thought a fortune hunter, 1 Slip-
pose. Well, iime« have changed.
I’m poorer; he is richer; and we arc
both wiser; I only tell Die slory to
prove to you that I’m not in any Avay
afraid of Harmon Dilkes. There
comes a sleigh full of people.”
The Twelfth-Night party was a
brilliant success, Tho ice cream Avas
a surprise; the snow-mountain of a
cake developed a series of the most
astonishing effects; the mottoes made
no end of fun, and the dancing held
out until long after midnight.
Suddenly in the midst of a wild
Virginia reel, the door opened. Mr.
Dilkes stood there, fur capped and
collared, like Santa Claus in a
tableau.
Black Jack sawed the fiddle strings
with his bow. Little Dick puffed his
cheeks out over the clarionet like one
of Raphael’s cherubs; Die dancers
flew by, and only Miss Purple saw the
snow-strewn vision.
Sho closed Die hall door, and met
Santa Claus face to face.
“Harmon!” she uttered, gently.
“Why—Dorothy Purple!”
“Exactly,” said the little old maid.
• •I’ve como to visit you. Kathleen
has made a party in my honor. If
you find a word of fault, I’ll leave the
bouse tonight.” breathlessly
“I! Fault! Dorothy,”
cried the farmer, “if you were the
-queen I couldn't feel more honored.
I—i— Oh, Dorothy I”
She laughed a little hysterically.
“Tlicn you haven’t quite forgotten
me? - ’
“Look here, Dorothy—you . ain’t . ,. a
rich grandee no longer. I ain't afraid
to speak ray mind to you, as 1 once
was. But you’re just as pretty as ever.
Dorothy, Dorothy! what’s to prevent
yonr stayin’ here for good and all?”
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 18.1892.
Ilia breath came rapidly, his cyot
sparkled. “Say yes, Dorothy 1 l'vt
been in love with you all tlieso years,
I’ll be a good husband to you if—’’
Dorothy Purple caught his hand
gaily,
“Come,” sho cried, “dance down
the'Virginia reel with me as you used
to do!”
“If you’ll say yes, Dorothy."
“Yes!” sho cried, in a sort of exul¬
tation. “Quick, Harmon—tho music
waits!”
And the eyes of (ito whole country¬
side wore amused by tho unwonted
spectacle of old Harmon Dilkes swing¬
ing down tho Virginia reel hand in
hand with Miss Dorothy Purple.
Kathleen looked on astounded.
Black Jack nearly dropped his fiddle-
bow. But the old man was fleetest
and nimblest of the lot, and when at
last the music stopped, lie turned in
front of (he big iiieplacc and faced
them all.
“Friends,” he cried, breathlessly,
“I’m glad to see you every one, and 1
hope this is only the beginning of a
iot o’ good times! Don’t go yet. I’ve
got something to toll you. I’m going
to be married to this lady here,’' hold¬
ing tightly on to Miss Dorothy Pur¬
ple’s hand, “and I want you all to
come and dance at my wedding this
day month. No, Dorothy, it ain’t no
use demolishating. And if any of
tho rest of you have any notion that
way, I’d advise you to speak it out
this merry Twelfth Night, Matri-
mony’s sort of in the air just at this
season.”
‘•If that’s the case,” said Young
Manly, the squire's son, stepping
boldly to the front, “I’d like to give
notice that Kathleen has half promised
tonight to bo my wife.”
“And I’ve come to terms with Jose¬
phine Kirk,” cried John Jocelyn,
waving his hat. “One weddin’ makes
many. Tbreu cheers for Mr. Dilkea
and Miss Dorothy Purple!”
“Well, Katty,” said Miss Purple,
when the last chime of sleigh bells
had gone joyously away from the
door, “your uncle didn’t scold you
after all. ’
“Scold!” beamed the old man. “I
am too happy ever to scold any one
again. I tell you what, Katty, you
may think that young Manly fellow
is A-ery fine, hut there ain’t no young
chap in a radius of twenty miles from
here as is half as well pleased as I be
tonight. Come here, Dorothy. I’ve
got Katty in one arm, now I want
you in t’other.”
Dorothy came with promptitude
and snagged up to his butternut-col.
ored left sido with eyes full of happy
laughter.
“But there’s one thing you’re going
to be disappointed about, Hannon,”
said she.
“Eh?”
“I’m an old maid,” said Dorothy,
••but I'm not a poor one. We had lost
our property when ivc 6old Purple
Hall and ivent awny from here. But
father built his fortunes up anew out
West. I can bring you twenty thou
sand dollars for a marriage portion.”
“1 don’t care,” said Dilkes, “if it
was twice as much, I couldn’t lovo
you no dearer. Money ain’t no draw-
back to me.”
“Why, uncle,” laughed Kathleen,
“that ain't the way other people talk!”
“I never Avas like other folkR,” said
Farmer Dilkes.—[Saturday Night.
Sure Profits for the Banker.
“You ought to come tip into our
part of tho state,” said a tall country-
man over the bank counter the other
day to the cashier.
“Where’s that?” inquired the cash-
icr.
“Up in the upper peninsula of
Michigan.”
“What have you got that’s intercst-
ing?”
“Got people that’ll make more
money m ten minutes doing banking
their way than you’ll mako your way
in ten years.”
“IIow do they do it?”
“Discountin’.”
“Wo make something in that line
ourselves.”
“Yes, I s’pose so, but not like them.
By criminy,” he Avent on, emphati¬
cally. “I had a note for 6150 the other
day I Avanted discounted and I look
it to one of them shavers and after he
had figgered about ten minutes lowed
him $1.3?.’’
“How did he make that out?” in¬
qtiired the puzzled cashier.
“That’s what I said to him aud he
told me that according to his way of
calculating the discouut on a note like
that, the whole thing would amount to
6151.37 and he was willing to take
the note if I’d pay tha balanced cash.
You ain't got any bankin’ like that
here, havo you?” and the cashier
hastened to assure him that city bank-
ers didn’t do business that way.—
rCliiciigo Nows, ,
ANIMAL PARASITES.
They Cause anAnnual Loss of :
Millions to Farmers.
Important Investigation by tho I
Department of Agriculture.
A recent discovery to the effect that
tho trichinae of pork, which caused
the American hog to be shut out of
Europe so long, are from rats 1ms
given new impetus to the pursuit of a
line of investigation which lms been
claiming tho attention of tho United
States Government. Dr. Leuckhart,
tho groat Leipsic professor, who made
the discovery, ascertained by I he dis¬
section of rata that TO por cent of
them were infected by trichina). Hats
arc cannibals. They eat their own
offspring and each ollior, and spread
the infection. Whether they ever die
of trichinosis is not known, although
it makes them lame sometimes. Pigs
devour them nud contract the com¬
plaint. Human beings in their turn
cat the pigs, and tho Iriohiuss develop,
with fatal results frequently. The
disease is reckoned the most deadly
known, inasmuch as it kills in CO per
cent, of all cases. Among the animals
attacked by it arc cats, dogs, horses,
bears and rabbits, although bow I hoy
get tho parasites is uncertain.
The Department of Agriculture is
at present giving earnest attention to
the study of animal parasites, with a
view of fluffing out methods for
lighting against some of them which
cause a loss of many millions of dol¬
lars yearly to farmers. It has made a
big discovery recently in relation to tho
fatal disease of cattle called 'Texas
fever, which is cansod by a minute
animal called a protozoon, that feed
on the red corpuscles in the blood and
destroys them. Recent developments
of knowledge reveal the protozoa as
producers of morbid complaints. It
has been ascertained that the cause of
malaria is a protozoon which feeds on
the blood corpuscles and another mic¬
roscopic foe of like description is re¬
sponsible for certain forms of dyseu-
tery. Undoubtedly many disorders
not now understood will eventually be
referred to a similar origin.
The department is trying to discovor
means for combatting another para-
siie which causes a loss of nearly $3,-
500,000 a year in cattle slaughtered in
Chicago. It is the dreaded heel fly,
which lays ils eggs on the backs of
the animals, the worms hatched from
them boring through the skin and re¬
maining buried for'severa! months in
the flesh. On emerging they fall to
the ground and form the chrysalis con¬
dition, come out as perfect flies, ready
to lay their eggs on the backs of other
cattle, that being their only melhod of
reproduction. If a hide at the market
has more than five holes made by the
worms it is rated as of second quality,
and the meat sells for one cent less a
pound in gross.
Another insect, known in the West
as the gadfly, attacks horses, laying
its eggs on the animals. The horse
licks itself and conveys tho eggs to
its stomach, where they are hatched,
the worms clinging to the stomach
walls. Very often they bore through
tho stomach and kill the horse. A
parasitic worm known as the liver
fluko attaches itself during a certain
stage of its being to tho liver and lungs
of cattle. During its early growth it
goes through a series of astonishing
metamorphoses, developing a new
self inside of ils old self in a differ¬
ent shape several times. Finally it
leaves the body of the beast, and what
becomes of it is not known precisely;
but there is no doubt that it is trans¬
formed into a species of snaii that
lives in wet places. It certainly must
lay its eggs in such spots, where the
cattle lick them up, thus completing
the cycle of its being.
Only a beginning has been made by
this Government in the work of fight¬
ing the parasites of animals. Ily al¬
ways condemning the pigs which aro
infected with trichina; the disease will
be rendered less common. Heel flies
anil gadflies are combatted success¬
fully and destroyed by spreading tar
ointment over the bodios of the beasts
attacked. In its labors the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the Department
of Agriculture devotes its attention
first to studying the life history of
each parasite, in order to find out at
what stage of its existence the enemy
can be attacked to the best advantage.
Having procured a full knowledge of
the habits and manner of existence of
the adversary, it is comparatively easy
to interfere with its operations.—[New
York Sun-
I put outside my window a large
box, filled it with soil and sowed it
with seed*; what do you think came
up? A policeman, who ordered me
to remove it.
Complication of Influenza.
The grippe or influenza itself is not
particularly dangerous, according lo a
writer imho London Lancet, but its
complications are serious, and its sc
quels are of a peculiarly low and de¬
pressing type. Tho attack is common¬
ly very sudden. The flrst symptoms
arc a chill, nausea, and a feeling of
general illness, followed quickly byjn
severe and persistent headache, break-
bone pains in the limbs and trunk, and
great prostration.
A violent paroxysmal, irrepressible
and harsh cough with soreness in tlie
chest, is common. Coryza—running
at the nose—may or may not attend
it. When the disease is uncomplica¬
ted, the worst is over by tlm third day,
and tho fever by the fourth or fifth,
though (he debility may continue fot
weeks or months.
The most serious complicatio i of
the disease is acute bronchitis. This
may appear early or iate. The breath-
ing becomes rapid and difficult. A
spasmodic cough is almost conslanl.
The expectorations are glairy aud
tenacious. With all this there is the
peculiar prostration of the grippe.
A moro common complication is
pneumonia, of which there are three
varieties—croupous, congestive and
broncho-pneumonia. Although those
complications are dangerous, yet re¬
covery is the rule under prompt and
caroful treatment.
A third complication of (lie grippe
is connected with the heart. If pa¬
tients sit up, they bccomo faint. Same
dio of simple failure of tho heart;
others are saved from death only by
careful attention on the part of the
nurse. After the grippe has passed
off, a tendency to faluluess and neu¬
ralgic pains may remain for weeks or
months.
Another complication affects tho
nervous system, and| is characterized
by pains in the head or elsewhere, or
by weakness in certain parts of the
bodj-, such ns tho hands or arms.
As to treatment, tho doctor must
decide in view of all tho symptoms.
But the patient should in every caso
take to his hod. To keep about is ex¬
ceedingly dangerous, especially as ex¬
posing the patient to tho above com¬
plications.—[Youth’s Companion.
Peculiar Fact About Dentistry.
Dr. Willard C. Hanford, a promi¬
nent New York dentist, is stopping at
(he Southern. His many years of ex¬
perience in dentistry have given him
a store of interesting and curious
anecdotes. “One of the most peculiar
things 1 have noticed,” said he, “is
one that occurs in my office nearly
every iveek, and yet I nover eoaso to
wonder at tho credulity of grown-up
people. Many a time I have given a
young lady ga* and extracted a tooth,
and to hear Avhen she awoke a ques¬
tion like this: ‘Has it gone down?’
No, she did not mean, as you may
suppose, to ask if sho had swallowed
her tooth, but she was actually under
the impression that tho tooth had on.
■ered Ihe rubber tube that conveys the
gas. Women are often under tho im¬
pression that somehoAV it is this little
rubber lube that has jerked a molar
out by tho rools. They do not seo the
forceps, and never seek to inquire into
the modus operandi employed, but
take it for granted that teeth arc ex¬
tracted differently when gas is given.
If avo laugh at them they get angry
immediately; if wc tell them the truth
they will not at first believe it. When
children they were made lo believe
this story, and they have never be¬
lieved otherwise. It is curious, be¬
cause there are so many that believe
in tills nursery tale.”—[St. Louis
Star-Sayings.
Tlinlier in the Northwest.
The great timber resources of the
Pacific Northwest can scarcely be
realized by those who have not visst-
ed the immense forests of the giant
trees growing so dose together in
many places that it is almost impos¬
sible to travel through the woods.
Twenty million acres of land are
covered wiih a growth of wood which
will cut an average of 25,000 feet of
lumber to Hie acre. Much of it will
cut an average of 100,000 feet or
more, Avhile single trees are common
that Avill cut 3000 feet each. The
i Port Townsend (Washington) Leader
estimates the quantity of merahant-
able lumber standing in the forests of
Washington at 160,000.000,000 feet—
suciffient to supply all ttie markets of
America for generations, and yet send
fleets laden Avith ship timbers to every
part of the civilized world. Oregon,
iu the coast and ea*cade ranges, aud
in the counties along the ocean from
i the California River to the California
line, has as much more timber, and
these two great sister stales, unless
devasted by forest fires, will never
run short of building material,— [C'hi-
cago Times,
(TlILimUN'S COLUMN.
inr KNOW UOVMC.
All yesterday It snowed ami snowed,
Ami ail Inst ntvht, until the road
U'.is whiter than the downy spread
I pou my cozy trumile-bed.
And once, before the daylight broke,
When from the land of dreams 1 woke.
1 beard the poor wind wlilnc ami moan
Like Carlo when he's left alone.
Then high above the fleecy plain
The rod sun sprang, and shook bin mane,
And every window seemed like cake
The busy city bakers make.
So I got nil my warm wraps out.
And buttoned tight my roundabout,
And found my shovel in the shed,
And shouted loud and long to Ned,
l Util he cmuo with answering cries.
All bundled to llie very eyes;
Then down the orchard path we ran,
And Ned was roar and I was van.
Its whistle shrill the wind still blew,
And. oh, what drifts wo floundred through!
The apples clinging to the bough
Were, like biv. bursting puli’balls now;
Tho brook was smothered;not a note
Came gorg ing from its merry throat,
And only cheery Chickadee
Sang welcome from the cherry tree.
Beside the fence was piled the snow
As high as pony’s back, i know;
And there we cleared a space before
A bumpy drift, ami made a door.
And hallway wide to light the gloom,
And then a great round sitting room,
Whose roof was set with sbinglng things
mat looked as brlgb t as mamma’s rings.
We had to creep along he ball,
But didn't have to here at all;
And snug within our house of snow
Wc played that wo were Esquimaus.
—[Clinton Sooltard, In Harper’s Young Peo¬
ple.
KI.KPHANTS IN BATTI K.
Alexander was one of the first of
the famous kings of history to tell of
lighting against an elephant host. His
invading army had reached the river
Hydaspe*, and as the warriors looked
across they beheld tho opposing army
of King Porus, who lmd not only
chariots aud an enormous army, but
“the huge crealuros called elephant*.”
These great animals, which stood on
tho farther river-bank shrieking und
trumpeting, tilled the soldier* of
Alexander with terror aud dismay.
Tho two armies watched each other
for several days; then Alexander
succeeded in crossing the river and
the two forces drew up In line of
battle. The Indian king placed his
elephants In the front rank, one hun¬
dred feet apart, thinking in this way
to frighten tho horses of tho foe that
the entire army would bo put to flight,
Between the elephants were fo6t sol-
diers and at the ends of tho line were
largo, elephant* hearing strong towers
filled with armed men. King Porus
himself was borne upon an elephant
of unusual height, probably as largo
as the famous “Jumbo.”
Alexander moved his forces to the
attack, and poured in a shower of
arrows and spears. Tho elephants
stood like a stone wall, trampling the
foot-soldiers beneath their heavy feet,
seizing them In their trunks and de¬
livering them to the soldiers upon
their backs, or tossing thorn high in
air. The elephants wero evidently
the main hope of King Porn*, and
perceiving this, Alexander directed
men armed with scythes ttml knivos
to attack them. These warriors
chopped at the elephants’ feet and
tender trunks, until in terror the great
creatures turned and began a stam¬
pede that was disastrous to the foot-
soldiers of their own side, for they
trampled upon them and in their flight
mowed them down like grain. Alex¬
ander followed close after the ele¬
phant* upon his wounded charger;
and filially tho battle was lost toPoru*
because of the elephants themselves.
King Porus, being wounded during
Die hurried retreat, desired to alight.
The driver ordered ins elephant to
kneel, whereupon all the elephants,
having been accustomed lo obey in
concert, did the same, and the soldiers
of Alexander fell upon them and
gained a complete victory.
It is said that elephants whioh sur¬
vived this famous battle wore revered
for years by the Indians and honored
much as are Hie veterans of our Avars.
In an ancient book, the “Life of
Apollonius of Tynna,” ho i* said to
have seen in a town of India an ele¬
phant which the people held in the
greatest respect as having been owned
by King Portia. „ It was perfumed „ ,
with sweet css nces and decked with
garlands, while upon its tusks were
rings of gold, inscribed with these
words: “Alexander, son of Jupiter,
dedicates Ajax to the Sun. The
elephant Ajax, according to Apol-
lonius was the o d war elephant of
Porus in his battle with Alexander,
and had survived and lived in honor,
able idleness for 850 years.
While Alexander defeated the ele-
pliant corps of Porus, he saw they
were good fighters, aud created the
office of elephantarch, or Chief of
Elephants; and afterward visiting
monarchs found him surrounded by
the ' largest elephants magnificently
harnessed,—[St. Nicholas,
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Over the Balusters.
Over the buluBtcru bends a face,
Dsrllnifiy sweet and beguiling;
Somebody stands In careless graced
And watches the picture, smiling.
Tired and sleepy, with drooping head,
i wonder why she Ungers,
And when all the good-nights arc said
Why somebody holds her lingers—
Holds her lingers and draws her down,
Suddenly growing bolder,
Till her loose bufr drops In masses brown
hike « mantle over Ills shoulder.
Over the balusters soft hands fair
Brush his cheeks like a feather;
it right brown tresses and dusky hair
Meet ami mlugle together.
There’s a question asked, there’s a »Wlf
caress,
She lias flown like a bird from the ball-
way;
lint over the balusters drops a '‘Yes"
That slmll brighten the world for him
;il way.
— [College Song.
III MOIMH N.
The talkative man is sound to the
core.
Why is (ho letter K like a pig’s tail?
Because it is the end of pork.
Bread is the staff of lifo, but most
men are looking for a “puddin’.”
Thomson—My wife and I never dis¬
agree. Johnson—Her word is law,
thou.
The liar needs a good memory; but
his victim is in no danger of forgot-
fultiess.
The Prince of Walos lias lived a
remarkable life—50 years without a
drop of reign.
Brainless Fop—Aw, do you believe
that; aw, monkeys can bo taught to
ta k? Pretty Girl—Well, you seem to
bo able to chatter a little.
Visitor—So you have a little baby
sister? Little Girl—Yes’tn. Won’t
she be mad when sho dets bigger an’
finds she’s got to wear my clothes?
Uncle—What in.your favorito dish,
Karlclnn? Karlchcn — Suet dump¬
lings; for liny always make me so ill
that I can’t go to school tho day after.
Not long ago in Loudon, England,
a preacher indulged in a little bit of
sarcasm over a small collection and ho
did it very neatly. “When I look at
tho congregation,” said he, “I ask:
Where are the poor? and when I look
at the collection l ask: Whore are the
rich?”
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A Poet’s Dilemma.
Apropos of home-cleaning manipu*
Inlions, wo are all aware that new
milk is a sovereign remedy, if imme¬
diately poured over spilt ink on any
woolen or cotton fabric, Lord Ten-
nyson once went through an experi-
cnee over AVliich his grandchildren
still delight to make mciry. Some
dear old friends of his, absent for
some years in Persia, returned sud¬
denly for good to England, and among
the first to call upon them in London
Avas Tennyson himself, The Avorthy
pair were “not at home,” and the poet
nskctl for permission to write them a
few lines of Avelcomo before calling
again, Conducted to the drawing-
room, Tennyson wrote ills little note
and was rising to depart, when his
sleeve, catching the lid of tho ink¬
stand, turned over the Avholo content*
on to a beautiful Avliite Persian carpet
covering tho floor.
“New milk!” cried tho distracted
laureate; aud the housemaid flow to
do bis bidding. Poet and maid now
Avent doAvn on their knees together,
pouring milk right aud left, rubbing
Avith towels and handkerchiefs until
not a trace of the tell-tale fluid re-
mained. When all was over, Tcnny-
sou hatlily snatched his hat and,
pressing softie money into tho maid’s
hands, fled for dear life, Whether
those two old friends are aware of
what befell their Persian carpet on
that famous afternoon is to this day a
myttery. Anyhow, Tennyson appre-
ciates their reticence. — [Chicago
Herald.
A Very Fine Legal Point.
“They say judges are always on
the side of justice,” remarked Squire
Johnson this morning, “but I fail to
see it. Do you knoAv Avhat they did
j to me once? I found a grocer guilty
j ^ selling oleomargarine, contrary to
j a|)( j ln y Decision was reverse^
,j ln p|y. because in the warrant for hj*
„ relt I gaid hotter was made of ‘milk
3rci . eam . ingt ead of ‘milk and cream.’
j ., hair ip j !ttillg for you. He
Uniwd State9 iud ge, too.”-
, 1 [Ciudnnati L Timei . S t,r.
Over a Back Fence.
Neighbor Woman—Your dog was
chasin’ our chickens this morniu’, an’
I jest want you to understand that’s
got to stop right now.
Mrs. Mild—I did not see the dog
out of our yard.
Neighbor Woman—He wasn’t. The
chickens wa* in your yard. —[Good
News.