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FRANKLIN COUNTY.
VOL. III. NO. 16.
Ode to Spring.
*„kened to the singing of a Wrd;
.
I heard tho bird of spring.
And to I
At bis sweet note
The flowers began to grow,
8rsss leaves and everything,
, world beard
K s if the green tiny throat
The trumpet Of his
From end to end, and winter and despair
] *t his melody, and passed in air.
F | el
heard at dawn the music of a voieo.
t said, the
Omy beloved, then I spring
On v isit only once the waiting year;
The Wnt can bring
Onh the season’s song, nor his the choice
To waken smiles or the remembering tear I
But thou dost bring
Springtime to every day, and at thy call
The flowers of life unfold, though leayes of
autumn fall.
Mrs. James T. Fields, In the Century.
A BOX OF DIAMONDS.
In the year 1867 I found myself at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, jnst out of hos¬
pital, not a dollar iu my pocket, and
ready to ask the American Consul to
send me to the U nitty! States in the
name of charity. I had been out with
an American whaler, and had been
left there so broken in health that no
one supposed that I could live two
weeks. As the ship had taken no oil
there was nothing coming to me. In¬
deed, 1 was in debt to her, anil but for
the few dollars raised among the men
I should have been a pauper on land-
ing.
One afternoon, while I was on my
way to llie Consulate to see what help
I could obtain, 1 encountered an Eng¬
lishman, whom I at once identified as
a sailor—captain or mate. lie stopped
and inquired my name, nativity
nml occupation and when I had given
him the information he slapped me on
the back and exclaimed:
‘•It’s a bit of hick that 1 met you!
I’ve got a place for you, and we’ll
drop iu somewhere aud have a talk."
Ho was a blunt-spoken man, but a
cautious one. lie did not unfold his
plans until he had pumped me pretty
dry and apparently satisfied himself
that I was a man he wanted. Even
then I only got a part of the story,
ami am still in the dark as to many
povtieulnrs. The stranger’s name was
Captain Roberts, and lie had given
up the command of an English brig
on purpose to enter upon a bunt for
treasure. Two years before, as he
informed me, a coasting schooner,
which was carrying half a million
dollars’ worth of diamonds, besides a
large sum in rough gold, between Rio
and Montevideo, had bcc.i wrecked
shout seventy iniies below Porto Ale¬
gre. Why this treasure had been in¬
trusted lo a sailing vessel and wheth¬
er it belonged to church or state or
some individual I never learned. The
captain had nothing to say about that,
and I bound myself to secrecy regard¬
ing the whole affair.
How Captain Roberts had located
the wreck was a matter I did not ask
about, but I did hear it said that all
the crew were lost. 1 was a sailor and
a diver and lie offered to stand all tlio
expense of the search and give me
$10,000 iu gold if we recovered tho
diamonds only, if we got the gold as
well I was to have a larger share. He
hud chartered a coasting schooner for
three months, and was thou getting
aboard whatever he thought would be
needed. I signed with him that after*
eoon as mate, and three days after
We had picked up all our crew. For'
tunately for us a ship came in with
twelve seaman rescued from a burn¬
ing bark at sea, and we took eight of
them and a cook. This gave us eleven
hands all told on tlio little craft, but
wrecking is a thing demanding plenty
c f muscle at the cranks, windlasses
®nd tail ropes. The crew proper wero
not let into the secret, but signed for
a voyage to Buenos Ayres and return.
There was a Rio banker behind the
Expedition,as I aecidentUy discovered,
but he did not come near the schooner,
“ml Captain Roberts visited him only
by night. We were so well provis¬
ioned and provided that it must havo
taken a snug sum of money to fit us
out. This the -banker no doubt ad¬
vanced and took his.chances. At the
Custom House we cleared for the La
Plata in ballast, but some of that bal¬
last had been taken aboavd under
cover of darkness. We had a diver's
outfit, timbers, plank*, spare casks,
extra ropes and chains, and about the
last package received contained a
fiozen muskets and a lot of fixed am¬
munition. Weslipped out quietly one
night with the tide, and before day¬
light came we were far away.
Captain R berts had a pretty
fair chart of the neighborhood
of Hie wreck, and after a I
speedy run down the coast wo
reached jt one afternoon about 4 i
°cloek. When we came to work in¬
shore we got sight of the mountain
peaks laid down on the chart, and iu
a c °nplo of hours were satMlod that
the wreck was vyithiu a miio of ti«
THE ENTERPRISE.
north or south. Just there was a reef
about four railos off shore and extend¬
ing up and down the coast for thirty
miles. Behind this reef iu mnuy
pieces was doep water up to (lie shoro
line. It being summer weather, with
the winds light but holding steady,
wo anchored off tho reef, and then Ihe
men were told that wo had come to
search for a wreck. It was all right
with them, and after dinner two boats
wero lowered to begin the search.
Taking the schooner as tho centre,
we pulled both ways, running close to
the reef. The treasure craft had boon
dismasted in a squall and driven
shoreward, and wo confidently ex¬
pected to find her hail, if it had not
gone to pieces, on or wear the reef.
Boforo sundown we had made caro*
fut search for three miles away, but
without finding the slightest trace of
her. Next morning Wo tried it again,
but nothing was brought to light. In
somo places the reef showed above
the surface at low tide, in others there
was plenty of water to carry us over
at any time, The treasure craft
might have hit the reef at a favorablo
spot and been driven almost to llie
beach; but before accepting this
theory we got out the drag aud ex¬
plored the deeper waters seaward
from the reef. We spent three days
at this work, grappling only tho rocks
hidden away from SO to 60 feet be¬
low, and using up the men with tho
hard work. The schooner was then
sailed over the reef and anchored in a
snug berth iu 30 feet of wator, and
we began tho search of tire shore
waters. The shore was a rocky bluff
crowned with a dense forest, with a
few yards of shingly beach at long
intervals.
Wo had searched this bay for four
days without luck when I had tho
good fortune to discover the wreck
with my own eyes. She lay within
half a mile of the beach in 22 feet of
water, and was bottom side up against
a big rock. She had probably passed
the reef iu safety, but had struck this
rock, which thrust its head within
three feet of the surface, and in going
down had turned turtle. It seemod
now that not a soul of her crew had
escaped, and how anybody h id after¬
ward located the wreck and made a
chart of the locality was a greater
mystery than ever. Our first move
was lo bring the schooner as near as
possible, and then we began prepara¬
tions to lift the wreck. She must be
turned over, so as to float on her keel,
if uothiug more. Lying boitom up,
there was no possible way to get into
her cabin.
Next day after the discovery, I
went down in my diving dress anti
attached chains to her starboard side.
These were spliced out with stout
ropes leading aboard our schooner,
and after half a day’s work we were
ready to haul. We could lift her a
bit, but not more than a foot, and
after working one day we gave up
that method for another. Casks were
sent down to ins and attached wher¬
ever possible, and but for the presence
of sharks we would have had her over
in a day. As if one monster had
communicated with another for miles
up and down the coast, they gathered
about the schooner aud the wreck,
and I had tho closest kind of a call
from being seized by a man-eater that
was fully 15 foot long. Standing on
our decks 1 counted 86 dorsal fins
moving about us at one time, and I
don’t believe that was half the num¬
ber of sharks within a circle of a
quarter of a mile. There could be no
more diving while they were hanging
about, and we sot to work to get clear
of their company. Captain Roberts
had foreseen such an emergency and
had come provided.
I doubt if a ship’s crew over had
deeper revenge on Sailor Jack’s impla¬
cable enemy. The muskets wero
brought up and four of the men told
off to uso them. A fifth man was
given charge of a whale lance, aud
the rest of us were kept busy admin¬
istering a punishment which might be
called barbarous by humanitarians.
We heated bricks red hot on the galley
stove, swiftly wrapped them up in
cloths, and they no sooner touched the
water than they were gulped down.
As soon as a shark was wounded by
ball or lance so as to leave a trail of
blood he was at once eagerly attacked
by others, and our hot bricks soon
turned a dozen or more big follows on
their backs.
It was a regular circus for about
three hours, during which at least
fifty of the monstei s were slaughtered,
and then those that were left alive
suddenly drew off to the last one, and
we did not sight another shark during
our stay. I did not go down again
for twenty-four hours, however, not
feeling certain that somi big fellow
was not lying in wait behind Ihe
wreck. When I did descend I found
tiro schooner Jlfthpr to the casks, aud
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO., GA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 22.1892.
after atlachiug three or four more she
slowly rose to the surfaco. We then
got the boats out and towed her into a
depth Of fourteon feetand then swayod
her over until site righted. She went
to the bottom again, of course, as the
casks no louger buoyed her, but we
expected that.
When I came to go down in my suit
l found almost a clear deck. She had
beon schoouer-rigged and both masts
had been carrlod away at the deck.
Beginning at the heel of the bowsprit
and running along tho port side about
twenty-five feet of her bulwarks were
left standing. Capstan, windlass,
hatch covers and the skylight of tho
cabin had beon swept away. This
latter fact was greatly in my favor, as
I could drop directly into the cabin.
I was told to look for the treasure in
the captain’s stateroom, but my feet
had no sooner touched llie cabin floor
than my outstretched hands encoun¬
tered something which I know by the
fool to be a dead man. My finding him
in the situation I did still further
deepened tho mystery of tho whole
expedition. lie was tied fast and 1
hail to cut him loose with my knife.
As soon as released the body floated
upward, and tho men told mo that it
floated out to sea with the tide, riding
on the surface like a cork.
Evening was now drawing near,anil
further search was abandoned until
another day. After breakfast next
morning I descended again, and with¬
in two hours had the treasure out of
the wreck. I found it, not in tho
captain’s stateroom, but on the floor
of the main cabin—the diamonds were
iu a cast-iron box about as largo as a
child’3 savings bank, and the gold in
stout wooden boxes, and I left nothing
behind.
From the treasure being found
where it was 1 argued that there had
been a mutiny before the storm, and
that the captain had been tied in the
cabin and the crow was making ready
to divide up the spoils- Perhaps after
driving over the reef and striking the
rock one had been cast ashore to tell
the story, and it was on his informa¬
tion we acted. If so, however, the
fact was not admitted. I learned no
more than I have told yon. Not one
of the crew knew the value of our
find, and, sailorlike, asked but few
questions.
When the treasure was safe aboard
we returned to Itio. For four days
not a man was permitted to leave the
vessel. Then I received the sum
agreed upon, with a considerable in¬
crease, tho men were made happy
with a snug sum of money counted
down to each, and wo were all bundled
aboard a steamer bound for Cuba,
each giving his promise to say nothing
of tho wrecking expedition to anyone.
I learned later on that Government
vessels searched for weeks for the
wreck, and that the Rio banker had to
flee to England for safety, but that
only added to the strangeness of the
adventure instead of clearing up the
many mysteries.—[M. Quad, in St.
Louis Republic.
Devil’s Lake.
Few people outside ot the Ozark
wilderness iu Southwestern Missouri
have ever heard of Devil's Lake, one
of the strangest of natural phenomena.
A traveller thus describes it: “Fancy a
lake perched on the top of a moun¬
tain, its surface from fifty to one hun¬
dred feet below the level of the earth
surrounding it, fed by no surface
streams, untouched by the wind, dead
as the Sea of Sodom. There is no
point of equal nltiiudc from which
water could flow within hundreds of
miles, and yet it has a periodical rise
of thirty feet or over, which is in no
way affected by the atmospheric con¬
ditions in the country adjacent. It
may rain for weeks in Webster comi¬
ty, and the return of fair weather will
find Devil's Lake ot its lowest point,
while it may reach its highest point
during a protracted drought.”
John Lee, who lives within a mile
or two of tho lake, says that a sound* j .
ing of 100 feet has failed to reach
bottom. Owing to the steepness of .
tho sides of the bowl in which the
water lies, it is very difficult to meas-
ure tho depth. Ho believes that tho
lake is fed by a subterranean stream, •
and that the water so supplied flows
out by a passage many hundreds of (
feet below the lake’s surface. A Mr.
Crafibe, who has lived in the neigh- ,
borhood for years, says that he always
knows when the rise is coming by re-
ports in the papers from the Upper
Missouri River in Montana, jli„
theory is that the Devil’s Lake is a ,
part of an underground river, whose \
entrance is larger than its exit, and
whose source is somewhere in the ex-
trerne Northwest. Devil’s Lake is 1500
feet above the sea. It is situated
a few miles north of Fordiaud on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
Rat* 10
QUEER ANGLING.
Some Ingenious Oriental Ruses
to Catch Wary Fish.
The Chinese Have Trained
Cormorants to Assist Them.
•‘The Chinese have many very cu¬
rious ways of catching fish,” said a
piscicuttural sharp. '‘In winter they
dive for them. A certain species de¬
manded in the market scoks shelter
during the cold season under rocks at
a considerable depth. They cannot
be got with a hook and lino, and so
the fishermen go down into the water
after them, plunging from a boat.
Three dives aro mndo each hour, and a
fire is kept up on board tho boat for
the purpose of warming those at work
between whiles. Not infrequently
they como up bleeding from tho lungs,
and rheumatism and skin diseases
render them disabled by tho timo they
are forty years old.
“It was the Chinese who invented
tho well-known plan of capturing
ducks and other water fowl by wading
toward them with a baskot over the
head and dragging them under wator
boforo they knew what bail caught
thfcm by tho legs. Theirs is the idea
of employing cormorants to aid them
in fishing. You have heard, doubt¬
less, how the birds used for ibis pur¬
pose havo collars around their necks
to prevent them from swallowing the
food they capture. At a signal given
by their owner they plunge into tho
water after the prey. Whatever they
get is taken from them, and they are
rewarded for every success with a bit
of fish small enough for them to cat.
They are forced to work very hard all
day long, but great care is taken of
them and they are nursed most atten¬
tively when they are sick. A bird is
usually good for service until it is ten
years old. The cormorant fishermen
are organized into societies, the birds
belonging to each association having
a peculiar mark.
“In India also the natives employ
many methods of fishing which seem
odd to us. There is in the district of
Oude a species of so-called ‘walking
fish’ with snaks-like beads, which aro
often seen floating on tlio water as if
asleep. Tho people shoot them with
cross bows. Usually they sink when
they aro kille4 so that they have to bo
dived for ufttrward. In tho Indus,
the Ganges and other streams are nu¬
merous flsli-ettiiig crocodiles which
attain a length of more than 20 feet.
Except when near their nest and
anxious to defend their eggs they run
away from human beings. Of fish
they catch an enormous number, null
it has been lip light very strange that
the fishermen should not dostroy such
rivals in their own business. But they
regard the mere suggestion of such an
idea with horror, saying that tho croc¬
odiles are brothers in trade.
“The mail-eating crocodiles of those
rivers aro regarded as sacred and aro
never harmed. Of late years they
have destroyed more lives than form¬
erly, owing to the prohibition by law
of the ancient practice of consigning
corpses to the streams. It was the
good old wiy to fill tho mouth of the
defunct respectfully with mud and
leave the cadaver to be swept away by
the current. Upon such supplies of
food the great sauriasis depended
largely, ani, being deprived of them,
they lie in vait to snap up living peo¬
ple and cattle. Five persons have
been knows to be carried off in one
year at a single pool. However, the
country is over-populated, but one
would not think it an agreeable death
to die.
“The Buddhists in India have a
horror of sating the flesh of animals,
believing hem to bo incarnations of
human beings’ souls; but they permit
themselves tJm luxury of fish, usually
getting arsund the difficulty by saying
that 11,0 fishermen lake away the
fishes’ livss and are responsible. Oil
*be walls *f their temples are nutner-
ous frescoes vividly depicting the ter-
r ‘ble tortures which fishermen will
have to eidure in a future state. In
the8c P al, tings Ares are represented
Bdrl ' ed ^ hnps, who are dragging
flsheimen into the flumes in not*,
hauling hem by hooks and lines aud
prodding them from behind with fish
®P ears -
“Thera is a story of a Buddhist
priest vdio lodged for some time at
the home of a fisherman, Tho latter
had rectntly reformed and was pursu-
mg another occupation. After two
da y* ‘1® g’uest asked why no fish were
served upon the table, and, being in*
formed congelations that his host was withheld by
temples from catching
them, he expressed his approval in
Big'll tarns. At the end of a week,
howevtr, he felt a craving for fish
strong upon him, and inquired how
far the fishorman’s net stretched across
tlio neighboring stream. Ho was tohl
that it exiondod one-third of the way
across.
‘“If that is the cose,’ said the
priest, <ihe fish have their choice as to
whether they will be caught or not
So, if they choose to be taken nobody
o’se is vosponsiblo. Therefore, you
will do right to try to catch some.’
•'Accordingly (ho priest was served
therewith with fish, of which delicacy
ho would have boon deprived had it
not been for the wisdom which sacred
books had taught him.”
To Make Tea.
The toa question Sicins to have
many phases. Articles are written
for aud against its baneful qualities,
and women who preside at b o’clock*
aro as tenacious of I lie superiority of
the particular sort they oflbr as they
aro of tho virtues of (heir family
physicians. Oolong, Formosa, Or¬
ange Pekoe and ihe rest of them all
hftvo (heir zealous advocates. One of
the best of teas is undoubtedly a clioico
and mild English breakfast, This
tea lias many grades, the best being as
delicate and delicious as the poorest
is rank and undesirable.
When it comes to (lie matter of
brewing, theories again clash. llow
much to each cup and to the pot,
how long to stand, to stir or not lo
siir—these aro some of tlio rocks upon
which the ignorant go to pieces. U.
I*. Huntington, who is considered a
connoisseur in tea, and who frequent¬
ly offers a cup to a business friend in
his office, believes in the stirring
clause. Ho ladlos out the precious
leaves, a teaspoouful to tlio cup and
one to (ho pot, pours on a very little
water, stirs it well, pours oh a little
more water, lets it stand for a little
less than a minute, then pours off this
first decoction, which he asserts is not
acceptable to the educated tea palate.
After this he fills the measure with
water, of course, freshly boiled, and
in threo minutes oflors a cup of amber
liquid, fragrant, smooth and delicious,
to Ins favored guests.
Real tea lovers take it unsugared
and unereamod; few, indeed, nowa¬
days are such vandals as to take the
latter “trimming,” though many still
incline to tho sweetening part. As a
somewhat romantic man puts it:
“Part of tlio poetry of lea drinking is
the fascinating moment when the pret¬
ty woman, clad in her dainty ten gown,
pauses, cup in one hand, and tongs
daintily poised over it with the other,
aud, looking up into your face with a
most engaging expression, murmurs
softly, ‘One or two lumps?’ " —[Phil¬
adelphia Record.
How They Came by Their Names.
The study of philology develops
such curious derivations as those be¬
low, and proves a most interesting—
even fascinating—study.
Blankets, it is said, were named
after their first makers, three brothers
of Bristol, England, named Edward,
Edmund and Thomas Blanket, who
established a large trade in this article
of woolen goods, and were tlio earliest
manufacturers of it in the middle of
the fourteenth century.
Cambrics, we aro told, came from
Cambray, a town in French Flaudois
famous for ilg fine linens, and damask
originated in Damascus,.
Calico is derived from Calicut, on
the Malabar coast, and muslin from
Monssoul, a city of Asiatic Turkey,
giving evidence that, though these
goods are now sent to India and the
East, they wero originally imported
thence.
Few persons have ever troubled
tliemscivos to think of Ihe derivation
of the word dollar. It is from the
German that (vailey), and came into
uso in this way some three hundred
years ago. There was a little silver
mining city or district in Northern
Bohemia called Joachimsthal, or
Joachim’s VutlGy. The reigning duke
of the region authorized this city in
the sixteenth century to coin a silver
piece which was called “joaehims-
t haler,” Tho word “joachiui" was
soon dropped and tho name “thaler”
only retained. The piece went into
general use in Germany and also in
Denmark, where the orthography was
changed to “dealer,” whence it came
into English, and was adopted by our
forefathers with some alterations in
the spelling.
The Most Durable Voices.
All other things being equal, a bari¬
tone voice iu a man, and a contralto
voice in a woman will wear better
and last longer than any of the others.
It is, however, impossible to lay clown
any absolute rule as to the voices of
individual singers, because so much
depends on the method of life, tem¬
perance in food—solid as well as
liquid—and the care of the voice ex¬
ercised by ciic|| Individual.—[Detroit
Free Press,
SCIENTIFIC W RAPS.
Boning paper is made of eof
ton rags boiled in soda.
Babbits signal with their fore pawi
and have regular signals and calls.
Scientists sav that bees will visit
tields twelve miles from their hives
A man lms invented a machine
which will register the paces nml the
ground covered by a liorso.
Tho power of Hying possessed by
many sea-birds is so enormous that
they are, practically speaking, never
out of reach of fresh water.
A four and a half foot voin of coal
has been struck near Niobrara, Nob.,
by artesian well drillers. Tho fuel is
of good quality and from superficial
examination seems to ho plentiful.
Two pieces of aluminium can tot
soldered together by the use of silvei
chloride. Finely-powdered fuzed sil¬
ver chloride is spread along tho junc¬
tion, after which I bo solder is melted
on with a blowpipe.
gured out that if tho entire
population of the world, comprising
1,100,000,000 people, wero divided
into families of five, Toxas could
furnish each family with a half-acre
lot and havo plenty of land to spare.
The shad of Florida are not the samo
ns tlioso of the Hudson or the Connec¬
ticut or the Susquehanna. The same
fi-li como each year lo the particular
river where they were born, an:l iu
their appearance aro slightly different.
At a meeting of Florida orange
growers a Kentuckian present, who
lind tried it, suggested cave storage
for oranges for summer consumption.
He told that in the Mammoth Cave
for instance, tho temperature is about
52 degrees the year round aud the air
dry.
A man weighs less whon the barom¬
eter is high, not withstanding the fact
that die atmospheric pressure on him
is more than whon tho barometer is
low. As tho pressure of air on an
ordinnry-sjzed man is about 15
the vise of the mercury from 29 to 81
inches adds about one ton to tho load
he lias to carry.
Tho first coining of money is at¬
tributed to I’heidon, King of Argos, in
895 B. C. Coined money was first
used in this country twenty-five years
boforo the Christian era, but gold was
not coined . here , „„ till „ the eleventh . „ con-
(ury, and money was not given (1 the
round , form „ , to which ... wo are accus-
tomed , until ttio lapse of another hun-
, , yeuia oi so.
iu
Is There a Maelstrom?
Every school child in the enrly par
of the presont century was taught to
believe that there was a terrible and
wonderful eddy or vortex several
miles in diameter on the coast of
Norway, into which ships, icebergs,
whales and all the monsters of tho
deep were indiscriminately dragged
and buried forever in the ocean’s
awful depths.
A correspondent says: “1 have
been informed by a European
quainfancc that tlio maelstrom lias no
existence outside the imagination of
sensational writers. A joint commit-
sion of Swedish and German
and scientific men recently went
seiii'ch of this, the greatest bugbear of
antiquity, and report themselves un-
able to locate it, anil that the sea wei
perfectly smooth where the whirlpool
should have been.” “Ye Curious
Ma i” is of the opinion that
above is correct. The latest geog-
raphers barely allude to it. One
marks its site upon (he map, but doct
not mention it iu bis article on Nor-
way. According to our wuy of viow-
ing thesubj ot, the maelstrom romance
has been pretty effectually destroyed.
— [St. Louis Republic.
A Century’s Famines.
Only three or four periods oi
scarcity of food that cau be called
famines have occurred in Europe dur¬
ing the present century. These wcr*.
in 1812. 1817, 1817 and 1853. In 1847
816,000 starving poor had to be fed
Paris. In 1853 the crops failed in
France, Germany, England and Pied-
mout, and Louis Napoleon, (o prevent
a rise in the price of grain, caused the
supplies of the army to bo purchased
abroad. It is to be noted that the
destitution that prevailed in England
in 1847 was one cf the causes that led
to the abrogation of the corn law*.
Droughts ave of late years thonnost
frequent cause of famine, which usu*
ally occur umoug people who depend
on a single crop, as on rice in the East
Indies and China or on wheat in Rus-
eia, and we may add in Nebraska. In
Ireland the potato crop fails from an
excess of moisture rather than for the
want of it. Famines sometimes oc*
cur among fisliei'ineii from tho
of fidi to visit their coasts iu sufficient
numbers,—f8«n Fivwjei teg Ohrquiole,
OFFICIAL ORGAN
- Off THD—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
$1.00 PER YEAR.
The Return.
Now home again comes hove who loug
Has absent been, ami Joy once more
From sleep awakes and, with a song.lt
Hastens to meet him at the door.
lie sees In each familiar spot
The friends who sorrowed when he went,
And all his exile is forgot,—
’Tis they who toll of banishment.
For. like that wayward son of old
Who left his kindred, far to roam,
Love knew but half the griof they told
Who long had exiled been at home.
F. De Khermon, In Youth's Companion.
HUMOROUS.
Snusago at wholesale price is dog
cheap.
“There goes a ntau to be trusted,"
said .1 agson, as Dudeson entered the
tailor shop.
Tho depth of inisory lies at the
bottom of a mud-puddle if you happen
to stop in it.
“Did you ever write any ‘Beautiful
Snow’ poetry?" “I tried it once, but
tho editor pronounced it beautiful
slush."
A school juirnftl advices: “Make
the school interesting.” That’s what
llie small boy tries to do to the best of
his ability.
To the chiropodist frankness is the
most admirable of human character¬
istics; lie delights in hearing men
acknowledge Hie corn.
Harry—So sho refusod you, did
she? Jack—Yes, und I shall remem¬
ber wlmt sho said as long as I
live. Harry—What did she say? Jack
—Sho said No.
James—I understand a new molov
lias been adopted for increasing the
spooil of horso cars in this place.
Brown—So? What is it? Jones—A
whip for the mules.
Hunker—Ever since I can remem¬
ber, Miss Flypp, I have searched for
(ho beautiful, the true and tho good.
Mies Flypp—Oh, Mr. Hunker, this is
so sudden. But you may speak to
papn.
Bingo (at the table)—Seems to me
wo have less and less to eat all the
timo. What’s the matter? Mrs. Bingo
(sweetly)—You can’t expect us to
have as much as usual, iny dear, when
I am paying for my sealskin on tho
lUetallmcnt plan.
Teacher—Now, Willie Wilkins, I
want you to toll me the truth—did
Harry Thomas draw that picturo , on
the board? Willie Wilkins—Teacher, . „ .
i firmly refuse to answer ,, that , ques-
-
tlon. teacher—You do? Willie WII-
Hus—Because I gave Hurry my word ,
jf honor I would not fell on him.
•‘I have an Ides!” she suddenly said.
Her lover was sitting near;
He gazed at tier fondly: “I see that you
have,
And un awful bright eye, dear."
Superstitions of Herman Miners.
German miners havo many extra¬
ordinary superstitions, which ure
handed down by tradition and firmly
believed iu. They imagine that the
subterranean domains aro ruled by
Sf ood - uatu ' -cd a » d bcncvolout gods,
There are chiefly two, one being good
u,ld ‘h° other bad. The former is
culled Nickel and tho other Kobold.
To propitiate them their names have
been given to the metals nickel aud
cobalt, which wore originally discov-
e, 'od * n l h° mines of Saxony. They
are ‘be gnomes who fill or empty the
lodes, and who reproduce tho ore as
‘ a9 ‘ as ‘‘ removed. They prowl
“bout the old galleries or abandoned
working places; they blow upon the
lamps •» order to put them out, and
drag by the nose or hair the miner
whom they encounter alone. When he
has greatly displeased them they cast
*P° 1U u P on hin b lllroff ld,n do ' V11 ‘be
ladders or crush him under a fragment
of rock. Provisions are made in the
mines for these formidable goblins,
bread,cake and pieces of money being
placed in niches where they can got
them.— [Washington Star.
A New Use for Gas.
A field iu which gas is likely to
pi a y an important part is to heat boil-
<u'b and raise steam. The system has
been at work in a large establishment
j n London, England, and the results
obtained arc simply astounding,
Burning about 300 cubic feet of gas
p<. t - hour under a 30-foot boiler, steam
i 8 said to have been raised to 50
pounds pressure in 40 minutes. Gas
and air are supplied under pressure to
pipes that run parrallet with and nn-
Jer the boiler, and furnaces and chim-
neys are dispensed with.—[Gas
World,
Reparation,
Jones—I say, colonel, your dog bit
m F c ‘ ldd i 8nd you’ve got to make
reparation.
Colonel Brown—All right, Jones,
HV‘ks suitable reparation, You
(‘adly) may have tht) dog.—-fiaukee
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