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OFFICIAL ORGAN
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FRANKLIN county.
VOL. 111,. NO. 1 2.
jlypnottzihg is now recognized by
Belgian law as a possibly criminal act.
Will)!" 62 yeaas.Moxico has bad 64
Presidents, one Regency and one Em¬
pire.
Several Chicago preacher* nro advo¬
cating Hie covering of the pulpits with
Ihc Stars and Stripes.
What is said to bo tlio only mine of
yure platinum in existence has recent¬
ly been discovered' iii Oregon.
The pecan orchards of Texas are
attracting addition. Grower* believe
that there is great profit in tlio nuts.
Some time ago the Japanese adop'ed
(lie custom of burying the dead, but
for sanitary reasons they have re¬
turned to cremation.
Insanity lias increased so iu France
that the asylums can no louger hold
the inmate*. The Assistance Publique
has, therefore, decided to place some
of the crazy paupers who are harm¬
less with peasant families, jmt as it
puts out pauper infants and chil¬
dren. —
_
One of the queerest tilings in mod.
eru exploration and development is
tiic part played by the Chiuese. They
never! <lo pioneer work, but as soon as
the white man lias opened anew coun¬
try. they come in to trade and take ad¬
vantage of other opportunities to
make money. They have just begun
to appear in West and South Africa,
and in the new mining camps they
will reap a rich harvest.
Waiters in New York ci.y res-
taurauls and hotels are up in arms be¬
cause they have been asked to shave
oil' their moustaches and whiskers.
“We arc already obliged,” said one
disgusted waiter, “to give our tips to
the head waiter and spend half our
wages in tiie house to keep on tiie
good side of tho proprietor, aud now
they demand our 'whiskers. That is
too much and wc must rebel.”
"■i
.The Lee title, with which the United
S ates governmc it will arm tiie naval
battalion, can be used either as a re¬
peater or a single shooter. Tiie de¬
tachable magazine holds five car¬
tridges, and the soldier carries several
magazine* in his belt. They cm be
attached o.- detached in one second.
The range of the rifle is nearly two
miles. Tlio New O loans Picayune
predicts that half a dozen infantry¬
men in the next war will be as form-
dable as a galling gun.
Funeral directors are reaping a
golden harvest in London, England,
just at present. This is duo to (he
“grip.” The increased demand for
their services lms had Dio eftecl of
stimulating competition. A novel
method of attracting custom has been
adopted by one undertaker in the East
End. He causes a licarsc to be drawn
through tho streets, bearing a large
sign with bis name and address, and
the announcement (hat his charges for
conducting a funeral are -‘only
twenty-four shillings and sixpence
upward.” The hearse is accompanied
by three gloomy looking individual 1 ,
dressed completely in black, and the
device succeeds in attracting much
attention.
“The iron ore industry of tiie Unit¬
ed States lias shown since 1880,” main¬
tains (lie New York Press, “one of
the most remarkable strides ever r<5-
corded of any industry in any coun¬
try. Tiie census figures have just
been tabulated, and it appears that
the increase of production in ten
years lias been over 100 per cent,
from seven millions odd to fourteen
millions odd gross tous. In the same
time there has been an average de¬
crease in the cost of mining of
fifty cents a ton, an average de¬
crease in Die value at the mines of
ninety-five cents a ton, and an aver-
age increase i i milling operatives’
earnings of more than $100 per an¬
num. These figures will bear careful
scrutiny.” ______
The proposition to erect a statue in
London in honor of tlio frog is, iu the
estimation ot the Chicago News, a
tardy recognition of that frisky
batrachian’s contribution to Die sum
of human. knowledge. Alany a pro¬
found and unfeeling scientist has
catfghl him and studied his nerves aud
muscles and blood corpuscles and
vi cera with the aid of batteries, mi¬
croscopes and other machines peculiar
to the vivhectionist's ttade. Since
the study af frogs has been a great
help to humanity the tuneful creature
deserves a monument, and Die move¬
ment in London tor the building of
such a memorial should receive the
moral and financial support of all the
viviseclionists, who have vied with
each fitliqr in tearing him limb from
limb.
THE ENTERPRISE $
*•' Are the Children at Home’
EauU day when the glow of sunset
Fades lu the western sky,
And the wee ones tired of playing,
Oo tripping lightly by,
I steal away from my husband,
Asleep in LU easy chair,
And watch from the open doorway
Their faces fresh aud fair.
Alone in the dear old homestead
That once was full of life,
Hinging with girlish laughter,
Echoing boyish strife,
We two are waiting together;
And oft, as the shadows come,
With tremulous voice he calls me,
“It is night! are thecbildren home?"
“Yes, love!” I answer him gently,
“They’re all homo long ago;”
And I sing, in my quivering treble,
A song so soft and low,
Till the old man drops to slumber,
With his head upon his hand,
And I tell to myself the number
Home In a better land.
Home, where never a sorrow
Shall dim their eyes with tears!
Where the smile of Uod is on them
Through all the Summer years!
I know 1 Y'et my arms are empty
That fondly folden seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.
Sometimes in the dusk of evening,
I only shut my eyes, '
And the children arc all about me,
A vision from the skies:
The babes whose dimpled fingers
Lost the way to my breast,
And the beautiful ones—the angels,
Passed to the world of the blest.
With never a cloud upon them,
I see their radiant brows:
My boys that I gave to freedom—
The red sword sealed their vows !
In a tangled Southern forest,
Twain brothers, hold and brave,
They fell; and the flag they died for,
Thank God 1 floats over their grave.
A breath, and the vision is lifted
Away cn the wings of light,
And again we two arc together,
All alone in the night.
They tell me his mind is failing,
But I smile at the idle fears;
lie is only back with the children,
In the dear and peaceful years.
And still the summer sunset
Fades away in the west.
And the wee ones, tired of playing,
Go trooping home to rest,
My husband calls from his corner,
“Say, love! have the children come?”
And I answer, with eyes uplifted,
"Yes, dear! they are all at home!”
Great-Grandmamma’s Quilt.
Nanny and Grammie sat by (lie big
fireplace in the hall having afternoon
tea- The firelight danced and gleamed
on the polished floor, tiie dark oaken
walls, tho suits of armor hanging
thereon, and (he curious old tapestries
at the doorways. It shone in old
Wolf’s eyes until lie blinked, growled
and dragged his big, clumsy body
away from tiie blaze.
It flickered over quaint little Nan,
iu her black velvet dress and deep
lace collar, and shone on her hair,
turning it into a mass of spun gold.
It rested softly on Grammie, lean¬
ing back in her big chair, her white
hair put smoothly back, her gray Qua¬
ker dress witli its soft folds of wnito
at tiie throat and wrists, ami the dainty
Sevres cap in her tiny, wrinkled
hand.
N.m and Grnmmio were both very
fond of tiiis fire, which was never
allowed to go ont, and of (lie big old
andirons and the dusky oaken ball.
They always look their lea here
when tiie rest were away and usually
Nan had a basket <>f cones by her to
throw into (lie dancing flames.
But today she was sitting with her
head in t er bands, staring witli big
brown eyes at tiie queer bine portiere
covering one of the loiv doors.
“Grammie,” she said presently—
Nan always called' this grandma
“Grammie," because, as she explained
it, it was not her very grandma hut
her great-grandina— “that is a very
curious curtain at tlio music room door.
Did it conte from England with the
other tapestries?”
“No, dear,” said Grammie, “I made
that.”
“You, Grammie, you yourself!
Why how cou'd you? Tell me all
’bout it. Mako it a long story, Grarn-
mie, do,” and Nan drew her footstool
nearer to the fire and placed one el-
bow on Gratninie’s knee.
Grammie put down her teacup,
smoothed ont her dress with a medi¬
tative, far-away look in her eyes, and
then she said: “It is a long story,
dear, tiie story of that quilt, for quilt
i> is. To tell it is to tcii you all my
Jife.” all
•Oh, I should like that above
things,” cried Nan. “Go on, do. Is
it really a quilt— that lovely tiling?”
“Yes. I spun the cotton and wool
for it, and wove the quilt all myself.
Girls in my day," *aid Grammie, sen-
tentiousiv, “were brought up to work.
Why, at your age, Nanuy, I could
bake and knit and sew, and I bad al-
-eady commenced to weave this quilt.
All through a vou”g girl’s life she
sowed, pieced quilts and spun linen
sheets, so that she might have a fitDig
trousseau to take to her linsband.
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 25.1892.
“This quilt was part of my house¬
hold outfit, but it was finished and
laid away many years before I was
ready to use it. When 1 was a mite
of a girl I spun winter evening* and
long summor afternoons until I hud
enough wool and cotton to mako it.
Then tho wool was dyed a dark blue,
to make tlio foundation, while the cot¬
ton with which i traced ill tho figures
was loft white.
“Father set me up a tooin in the
long eastern room—the very room your
mamma usc9 now for a breakfast
room—and I commenced to weavo my
quilt.
“I clioso the rose pattern; you see,
Nanny, all those white figures tiro
roses, or rosebuds or rose leaves, and
first of all I wove in the upper corners
Ihc words which you sco in alt four
corners:
: the RosE-J-asoa am :
i82o-;-or,8i i
: AKKK CABT1 K—H3IHV0 BXXV 1
“Then I commenced to weavo in
good earnest. Two years l wove on
that quilt, a little at a time, until it
was finished. 1 can almost see myself
now,” and Grammie looked absently
into the fire. “A curious little figure,
not any larger than you, Nan, betiding
over the loom, uiy feet scarcely touch¬
ing tho floor from my high seat,
dressed in a big flowered chintz dress
down to my heels, a bag of (he same
banging from my belt for my thimble
and handkerchief, a while bertha
around my neck like this I wear now
and a little mob cap on my head.
“Well, at last it was finished and
laid away in a cedar chest, with sprigs
of lavender in the folds to keep it
smelling sweet.
“When I was married and went to
the neighboring village to live the lit¬
tle cedar chest went too, on top of
father’s big coach. How they decked
that coach out—those rogues' of broth¬
ers and cousins—with lilacs and white
ribbons and. wedding favors, so that
everybody should know I was a bride!
“The quilt tvas unpacked and laid
on my spare bed, and a very dressy
appearance it gave the room, so I
thought.
“Many distinguished people slept
under that quilt. Tlio Governor of
tlio state slept there often, noted min¬
isters who came to preach were enter¬
tained at our iiouso and slept there,
and once our President rested for a
night beneath its folds.
“When tny first baby was born—
.
your Great-Aunt Lou, my dear—-they
wrapped her iu it and brought her for
me to see.
“When Tom was killed, poor Tom,
my oldest boy, he was thrown from
liis horse—you remember, Nanny?—
they brought him home and laid liitn
on that bod. There is a big rent down
on one edge, made by Ids spur. Poor
Torn! lie was a wild lad, but lie was
my favorite. He loved and obeyed
his mother always,” and Grammie
wiped a tear furtively from her eye,
while Nanny pressed nearer for sym¬
pathy.
Grammie recovered herself and
went on: “Your grandfather, too,
iay on that quilt after lie was dead. It
used to be the New England custom,
dear, to lay dead people on a board
with only a sheet over thorn and tiie
Biblo under ilieir heads. That was
the way they laid your poor grand¬
father out—your great-grandfatlicr,
my linsband. But I couldn't bear to
think of him lying up there in that
cold room, on that hard couch, I
slipped up when they were all busy
and lifted him until I could put the
blanket under him. They all said it
was foolish in me, but I couldn’t help
it. That board seemed to hurt me.
“Then when your Aunt Sue, my
granddaughter, was ill for so long,
she had a fancy to he moved down
here by this fireplace.
“Right there in Die corner they
made her a low bed and covered i fc
witli pine houghs and over them laid
the quilt. She would lie there for
hours looking into Die fire and listen¬
ing to tho wild tales of her old Indian
nurse. I always thought that sickness
dechled Sue’s life. Y r ou know that an
old Indian woman came to tiie house
and Offered to cure her, when every¬
one else had given her up to die. She
did cure her, too. Sue was so grate¬
ful that it seemed as if she must sacri¬
fice something for the Indian race,
and in the end she sacrificed her own
life.
“Yon know how she went among
them, taught and lived with them, and
was killed during an Indian uprising
—not by them, but by a stray shot
fvpra a white man’s rifle.
t « After a bit the quilt was deemed
old-fashioned and banished to the gar¬
ret, where your mother found it a few
years ago and dragged it forth to nse
as a portiere, declaring it was as
pretty as any of her costly fotoign
tapestries. Your sister Alice stood be-
fore it when slio was marriod. Sho
said Nod propose, to her in front of
it, just as siio was going through tho
music room door. You see, Nanny*
tho old quilt lias played quito a part in
the family happenings.” “Is that
all?” said Nan. “Then it didn’t linvo
anything to do with tho War of tlio
Uosos?” “Why, bless you, child, no,”
said Grninmic, “it was not woven un¬
til years afterward. But it was wov-
en quite a time ago—72 years come
Spring, Nanny; 72 years ago.”—
[New York Recorder.
The Gatling Gnu.
In 1861 Dr. Robert Galling of In¬
diana invented the first inacblno gun.
Though tho attention of tho govern-
ment was forcibly drawn to the doc-
tor’s new invention during tlio civil
war, the official test of tho gun did
not take place until some years after¬
ward. After the mitrailleuse had bo-r
come an acknowledged failure in tho
Fran co-Prussian war it was, toward
the end of that struggle, replaced by
the Gatling gun, but too late.
Tlio mechanism of the gun under
discussion is as simplo as it is ingen¬
ious. The gun consists of from six to
ten rifled barrels, each of them having
a corresponding lock. Both barrels
and locks revolve round a central
shaft, which projects beyond the muz¬
zles and also extends behind tlio
breeches of the barrels. The breeches
and muzzles are firmly screwed into
disks. Besides tho revolving motion
the locks iiave forward and backward
motion of their own. The former
places tlio cartridges in tlio barrels
and closes the breeches before firing,
while by the latter movement the empty
cartridge cases are extracted from (lie
breech. The loading and tiring of the
gun are done by turning the handle
from left to right.
The arrangements of the mechanism
are such as to permit continual firing.
A hopper is fastened on tlio top of the
gun and receives tho cartridge from a
feeding case. From this hopper each
cartridge drops into the breech block
and is automatically put into tlio
proper place before it revolves; then
a hammer is drawn back, also by an
automatic device, and when the car¬
tridge reaches the lowest point of
revolution the hammer is released and
explodes it. From this it will be
easily understood that the rapidity of
firing depends solely on the.rnpid ac¬
tion of the man turning Die handle. If
tiie gunner is well trained as many
as 1200 shots can be fired iu one miu.
ute.—[Chicago Herald.
A Remarkable Mechanical Clock.
The World’s Columbian Exposition
officials have the promise of a vei y
wonderful clock which is to be exliib-
ited by Die inventor, August Noil of
Berlin. The clock is a wonderful
piece of mechanism, 21 inches high,
nine feet wide and three feet deep-
Jt indicates the time to tlio last stroke
in Die year 9999. A hammer is lifted
every hour aud Dio imago of an angel
stiikes the minutes on a bell, while
another strikes Die quarter hours. A
skeleton representing death strikes Dio
hours.
After the sounding of each hour,
figures representing Die 12 apostles
appear and bow before an image of
Christ. At 6 o'clock a procession of
praying monks passes into Dio on’
trance of a church. Beforo midnight
a watchman gives the signals fov each
hour, and at 3 o’clock lie is released
and the first crowing rooster appears.
During Christmas times there are
singing choruses, aud the four seasons
are represented by symbolic figures.
By meaus of an ingenious invention,
Die entire functions of lids clock can
be shown in 20 minutes.—[Jewelers’
Circular.
Sample of French Thrift.
At Paris recently some curious
revelations have come out as to those
mysterious dealers in edibles who sell
v(tl -ious collections of articles of food,
technically known as bijoux. These
enterprising dealers collect the frag¬
ments of fish and game from tiie
cooks of clubs and restaurant-keepers.
Then the}*, with infinite trouble, “ar¬
range” the various kinds, shape them,
cut them into neat pieces, garnish
them and set them out on clean plates
for sale. Alany a so-called rentier is
glad to get a good dinner at a nomin¬
al price.— [Chicago Post.
A’Change of Tune.
Mrs. Grump (nee Sweetly)—I de¬
clare, John, if you don’t get me a new
fealekin this winter I shall freeze to
death!
Mr. Grump—Bab I Just average up
your system by thinking of tire hot
summer days long ago when you took
ice cream to keep from melting.—
rfruth.
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VJiVE. V L i IvrV V L/L«L«Lii\.iJ,
Mexican Hidalgos Care Nothing
I for Expense.
i The Comical Notion of a Rich
Mexican Miner.
Iteau Campbell of the Mexican Cen¬
I tral railroad and “Doc” Baroford were
comparing notes about travellers from
tl.c land of the Montezuma* at the
Grand Pacific yesterday. “I tell you
they’re tho greatest travellers in tlio
world,” said ltcau Campbell, wlto is
the author of a pleasing romance,
entitled “A Trip Through Mcxioo,”
“and they care nothing for money.
If a rich Mexican is travelling alono
lie takes a section in a sleeping car.
If his wife is with hint they take the
drawing room if they can get it, and
when there is a party of five or six
they just charter a sleeping car all for
themselves, Not long since, a rich ■
hidalgo came up here. In tho party
were himself, his wife, two children
who were not charged fare,his brother*
iu-law and three servants. He had a
sleeping-car chartered for ids private
use all the way from the City of Mex¬
ico to Now York. To liavo the car
hauled by the railroads bo lmd to buy
fifteen first-class tickets from Alexico
to New York, although there were but
six persons in his party. Besides this,
he had to pay‘$35 a day for tlio use Of
tiie car. Then he had a cook and a
butler on the car, and had a big stock
of delicacies for nse en route. When
lie came to me lie said he would slay
over two or three weeks, I told him
lie need not keep the sleeping-car
standing iu tho railroad yard all that
time at an expense of $35 a day. lie
could savo that amount by giving up
the car and taking another when he
resumed Ins trip, llo replied that ho
liked that car and guessed he would
keep it. And so he did, paying $35 a
day for it for two weeks. Then lie
changed his mind about his trip, threw
away his fifteen tickets to < New York
and bought fifteen more to New Op-
leans. Alonte Cristo isn’t iu it with
those Alexicau hidalgos."
“That’s so,” corroboratingly re¬
marked Clerk Bam ford. “When I
was at tho Burnett House in Cincin-
nati, one of these samo chaps camo
there on his way to Europe, where ho
aud his family intended toVeniaiu five
years. The parly comprised tlio old .
man himself, his wife, eight children,
twelve servants, a physician and a
priest. There was a servant for eacli
of the children, two for the lady and
two for the head of the family. Tlie.y
cmldn’t get anything good enough
for them. They ' rented tho entire
parlor floor of the Burnett House and
had special service, table and cuisine.
They had two c ges made to ordtr
at enormous cost to take to Europe
witli them, and they bought four
splendid horses to u-o with the cur.
ringes. . They bought a piano to take
witli them and chartered a special
train to take them to New York,
They came from New Orleans to Cin¬
cinnati on Die steamboat Guiding Star,
then the finest craft plying tiie Mis¬
sissippi and Oiiio. Tlio captain told
me that at New Orleans the Mexican
tried to arrange it so that the* boat
would carry no passengers but him¬
self and party. To provide for hot it
physical and spiritual ills the family
doctor and Dm family confessor were
taken with tlio party. I Lave seen
royalty of almost nit degrees on its
travels, but I never saw anything to
equal that Mexican in utter disregard
of expense.”
“Sometimes those same Mexicans
are quite comical in their ideas of
modern travel,” said Reau Cainpbelb
again taking up the story. “In what
one might call the ‘back countries’ of
Alexico the mode of travel is exceed¬
ingly primitive. The only method of
transportation is by diligence or
clumsy stage, with no conveniences.
There are no hotels and travellers
must provide for themselves witli
mattresses, blankets, plates and other
things pretty much as steerage pas¬
sengers on a steamer do. One day one
of these rural wayfarers, a miner
whose iucomo was possibly $3000 a
day, but who had never been far
away from home before, came into
my office at Mexico, fresh from Die
mountains, and bought a ticket to
New York- He had with him his bed.
and bedding, cooking utensils and the
whole paraphernalia of a traveller by
diligence. I explained to him as well j
as I couid the workings of a sleepiug-
car, but he insisted on taking bis bed
on the cay with him. I was told after¬
wards that when he discovered the
luxuries of sieoping-cars aud hotels
he threw bis impediment off' the car
and enjoyed Mmseif with the new¬
found pleasures tike a chi Id with a
new toy. He wanted to buy the whole
business and take it back lu tlio mines
with him. — [Chicago Post.
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The Trade Hills of Arizona.
A miner near tlio Senator recently
had n rather singular experience with
(ratio ruts, known also as mountain
rats. As the nights were cold (lit
minor look his oro sack to rcplcnisl
Ids rather hard bod. Having neglected
to conic to town for several weeks,
Ids supply of beans had given out, and
lie lmd come down toudiet of straight
bacon. Considerably out of humor, be
slatted in to pull his bod to pieces one
morning, and in removing (lie sacks
wits agreeably surprised to find three
pounds of beans, with a little cotleo
mixed, which tlio trade rats lmd
brought from tho Senator and Stored
.ill bis bed.
The rats aro native Americans and
very different front their imported
Norway cousins. Tfmy at e called U nde
rats because thoy generally leavosotne
nrtic’.o in exchange for what they take
away.
:: '-THc minor slates that he never killed
a trado rate; that llteso rodents habit¬
ually steal from one cabin and carry
i their plunder into an adjoining one;
that on one occasion he spilled a couple*
of quarts of corn on the floor of hie
cabin, and the next morning found
tlio rats bad stored away every grain
of it in a pair of saddle bags hanging
upon the walk
' Tie also states that (.he rats have
thiok caudal appendages, about three
inches in length, which they keep con¬
stantly throwing up and down, striking
tho floor with eacli downward move¬
ment with (ho regular, measured
stroke of a musical professor marking
time. They carry off pings of tobacco,
tooth brushes, ctiinbs and brushes, in
fact, anything which they can inaungs
to move.—[Prescott(Arizona)C.iuricr.
Dinner Plates for the White House.
Tho White House dining room at
AYasliington is tlio better off by four
hhtidepmq sets of dinner plates that
havo, -just arrived in that city, con-
.sigtied,. tp M. Wi Beveridge from
Limoges. The plates aio executed iii
the finest style of the potter’s art, aud
with the set of cut glass that arrived
soino timo ago will make a handsome
addition to tiie table furniture for
state banquets. They are in four
sizes—soup, dinner and two sels of
dessert plates, The flr.t two sizes
aro alike lit general. design. The
gilded;, edgos^ arc sligjitlj*. indented.*
The rim is of dark navy blue, deco¬
rated witli full of ' and
ear# corn
wheat, and just within and on five
edge of the white field is a row of
stars, one for each state. In -the•
center is an eagle with spread wings,
standing upon the American shield
and brought out in strong relief
against a sunburst. Beneath the shield
waves a long streamer, upon which
are Die words “E Piuribus Unurn.”
The dessert plates aro iu a general
way • decorated like tiie others, tho
only difference being that tho outer
half of Die rim is in while with the
corn and wheat and tiie inner half is
blue with tiie row of stars. The
decoration in tho center is (lie same.
On the back of each plate, in addition
to tiie usual maker’s mark, are Die
words “Ilurriajm, 1892.” 'This is for
Die purpose of identifying the plates
with the administration. No other
record is kept, aud tho history of most
of tiie While Iiouso china and glass
lias consequently been. lost from lack
of any such marking.
Not a Disqualification.
In the first session of tho Superior
Court, on Tuesday, while Judge Sher¬
man listened to tiie various excuses of
men who did not want to servo on (lie
'jury, Lawyer Samuel Hoar told a neat
little story of bis falbpr,. Judge Ebeu-
ezer Rockwood Hoar.
‘.'One of tiie jurors whom fathor had
itnpauelled,” said the lawyer, “once
camo to liirij with the request that
father excuse him from serving.
<* * Why do you wish to bo excused?’
he was asked.
‘Becauso, your Honor, I am deaf
in one ear.’ :
“ ‘That will not make the slightest
difference,’ replied tiie Judge. ‘The
grand jury hears evideuce only on one
side of the ease.’ ”—[Boston Herald.
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The Blue Rose Impossible.
A florist says that tho law govern,
jng the coloring of flowers makes a
blue rose impossible. According to
this law, the three colors, red, blue
and yellow, never all appear in the
same species of flowers; any two may
exist, but never the third. Thus we
have the red and yellow roses, but uo
blue; red and blub verbenas, but no
yellow; yellow and blue in the vari¬
ous members of the viola family (as
pansies, for instance.)^ but no red;
red and yellow gladioli, but no blue,
and so on.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—OS' •FEESI-
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
What Shall We Dol
When wo are growing up
And parents we don’t please
When, whichever way we twist and turn
We always raise a breeze,
Wben-oua ciders on us frown
And burden us with thrashings,
And make us fairly squirm with shame
’Neath swift and sure tongue lashings—
The question’s on us forced,
It makes tis all-fired blue,
As we ask and ask and ask ourselves
Oh, whst shall we do?
Then, after we are grown,
Ami have to buck our Vay
Through thick and thin as best we can,
We seldom ffet fair play.
Bucks broader than are ours
. Are shoving us aside,
We’re pulled behind, trod on before,
With nary chance to hide.
Tain’t right for us to spend
Our lives in such a stew,
It makes us cry and cry and cry
' Oh, what shall do?
we
— [Browne I’errttuau, in Yankee Blade.
HUMOROUS,
The “Bored of Education”—The
pupils.
What kind of robbery is not dan¬
gerous? A safe robbery, of course.
“So dark ami yet so light," as the
man said when he looked at his new
ttm of coal.
No man can lift himself by hie boot
tops, but bo can easily pull himself
down by bis chin.
Why is X the most unfortunate oi
letters? Because it is always in a fix
and never out of perplexity.
Air. Hamm—How did the audiences
strike yon out west this time, Mr.
Fatter? Mr. Fatter—Same old way
—with eggs.
Tom—Jack is continually getting
caugiit out in a rain storm. Will—
Yes, poor fellow, lie roads and fol¬
lows the weather forecasts in the daily
papers.
He (admiringly)—And did yon
make that mat yoursolf? She—Yes,
I did it all myself, with the exception
of a little liolp I received from my six
younger sisters.
Foathorstone—I wonder where those
trousers' aro that I ordered? ltingway
—Why, I thought that you couldn’t
afford any more clothes! Fcather-
slono—I couldn’t. But I got a new
tailor.
Old Curious (to shoemaker)—What
is the first tiling you do when you be¬
gin to make u pair of shoes? Shoe¬
maker—Well, the first thing I use is
the last. Old Curious is taken from
the shop to the insane asylum.
Effective Soap.
Tlio children’s toboggan slide is quit©
an institution in a certain nursery. It
is an old ironing board, a good wido
oiio, and wlion its end is tipped up oil
a chair it furnishes all kinds of amuse¬
ment to .tlio small owners.
The oilier day tiie children discov¬
ered a new joy in the ironing board.
They placed it flat upon (lie floor.
Ti,en they smuggled a pioco of soap
front the bathroom, and soaped the
board well from end to end. It made
a famous slide.
The three boys and tlio girl, who is
tiie wildest boy of the four, gave-
themselves plenty qf room to run,
and the board was long enongh to
mako a good slide.
One after tlio other then ran. The
chase grew exciting. Finally, Alice,
taking her turn, came' With a rnih
down the hall aud across the board-
The impetus was too much. Her heels
flew u ]> anil she camo down hard,
very hard.
She gathered herself together with
a bewildered look on tier face. Then
b)ic stood up slowly.
“Dear me!” she said. “I didn’t
know soap was so effective t”~[New
York World.
Some Words on Opals.
The fields in which the Australian
opals are found are situated in Queens¬
land. The stone is found in shallow
alluvial deposits. Iu many cases the
gems are found so surrounded by the
matrix as to render them almost value¬
less. However, some experts have
placed the Australian opal above the
Hungarian and Mexican product, but
tin's is contested by admirers of the
la’ter stone.
Up to nearly a century ago the opal
was venerated as a stone of good omen
and vested with the powers to banish
evil spirits, inspire pure thoughts and
induce good dreams. A few years ago
Queen Victoria began to bring this
gem into fashion again. All the gifts
of jewelry that she has bestowed on
her favorites have contained opals in
some shape or other. She has rightly
insisted that they bring no more bad
luck to those wearing them than an/
other jewel.
The largest opal known is in the
Imperial Cabinet of Vienna. This
gem is five inches long and two aud
one-half incites wide, and is considered
priceless.—[Jewelers’ Circular.