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franklin COUNTY.
HI- NO. IT.
j, is said that gas bids fair to super-
e ,!c ah other'fuel for making engines. steam, The
a, least in stationary
"vitem has been at London, work In England, a large
/uablishmcnt i»
the results obtained are simply
Inloiimlipg. Burning hour about under 300 thirty cubic
feet of ga« l>or a
foot boiler, steam is said to have beeu
raised 10 fifty pounds’ pressure in
forty minutes. Gas and air are sup-
under pressure lo pipes that
Min parallel whit mid under the
bailer, and furnacoi and chimneys
are dispensed with.
_
Wild, the present century was be¬
gun French was spoken by nbout 37,-
000,000, German by 30,000,000, Rus¬
sian by 30,000,000 and English by
only 21,000,000. Now, however, 125,-
000,000 peop e speak English and only
41,000,000 speak French. English,
French and German arc spoken the
world over, hut the probability of
English being the world’s language
seems .to be growing stronger every
year. An authority writes that with-
in a few years English will be spoken
by 1 , 837 .,000,000 poople, and refers to
(he language as one of such sense and
strength of expression that no other
language could he compared with it.
The daughter of a Revolutionary
soldier (Heel, at Darien, Conn., the
other Week in the person of Mrs.
[bt6ey Mather Lockwood, Her
father,'Deacon Joseph Mather, of tho
•ante town, was at the Inking of Ti-
couderega and at the siege of Mon¬
treal.; dfeV grandfather, Dr. Moses
Mr her, pastor of the Darien clniroh,
ns taken from his pulpit one Sunday
by British.'soldiers and carried to New
York,.where he was confined in a
prison ship. Mrs. Lockwood was
.
p anted ft pension by a special act of
Congress. .Bi.'view not only of her
fathers military service but also of
iarge pecuniary losses which his pa-
Iriolism caused him to suffer. Ilis
iaugMgr’s age at her death was ninety-
seven years nine months and three
lays. The names of but two daugh¬
ters of Revolutionary soldiers now re¬
main on the pension rolls.
In three of the six great military
European realms—Germany, Austria
und Russia—civilians, compared with
Sbose.-who “wear the Emperor’* coat,’’
are at a decided disadvantage, legally
as well ns socially. It has been re¬
peatedly pointed oat how difficult it
is, for instance, for a German to be
admitted to good society in bis own
country- unless he lias a recognized
right to wear a uniform. Strange as
it seems to English and even to French
apprehensions, in German and Aus¬
trian society a second lieutenant of
regulars occupies a higher standing
Ilian the most learned professor, elo¬
quent advocate, or skilful physician,
unless, haplv, those gentlemen should
hold military rank outside their re¬
spective professions, as many of them
-to. In Prussia the army or navy
'Ulcer must not sit in the opera stalls.
He is too sublime a personage for
tliut. Tho stalls are for such
inferior beings as civilians, whose
social superior he is in virtue of his
silver sword knot, no matter to whit
subordinate station of life his family
may belong.
A navttl officer who has made fre¬
quent visits to Jamaica, where the
mongoose is employed to exterminate
snakes, vises up in opposition to. the
plan of introducing the little animal
•° Hie United States for' the same pur¬
pose. He says; “Tho. mongoose came
■o Jamaica with an amiable character.
In India he was a respectable menthol
°I socioty, hut in Jamaica he is a nui-
9ai 'ee. Re is so destructive in the
barn-vard that it is in the country Al¬
most impossible to keep poultry ol
a "y kind. He lias increased to such
nu extent that he has destroyed all the
lizards, toads, and stnatt snakes, harm-
lcsa In themselves, but having an im¬
portant part to play in the economy of
nature. Tho consequence is that the
grassy portions of tho island arc be-
coming almost tilth ibitnble on account
of (he plague of ticks—small,- black
fellows, whose bite is moro irritating
H'an lhatof'-anr insect I ever expert-
ei| ccd, and which commonly ends in
Bn n gly Watering sore. Pasture land*
are, on account of these little pests,
becoming, I in some places, useless.
be cattle cannot stand the ticks,
w hich once formed the food of the
toads, etc., which Hi ave gone to fill the
T °i'aciouB maw of jhe mongoose. Birds
that nested on th^,ground have been
in some cases utterly destroyed, their
e ggs anq themselves going for food
f °r this pesky JhTtlo animal, and iu
0 her ca»es they have changed their
hib;ts completely; The mongoose
f hnbs trees and eats the birds, their
young and their egg8. It is in fact
working a change in the entire faun*
of >Iw island.”
THE ENTERPRISE.
Above Suspicion,
They who Imagine evil
That does not meet the eye.
Are the mean anil base in spirit;
Pas# them by, pass them by 1
They who always cheer tin* worthy,
Help them onward to the goal,
Always think the best will happen.
Hall then, bless them, heart and soul!
—[George QrltlHb, in the Housewife.
A "HOGUE" ELEPHANT.
11V c. II. LEWIS.
1 had read and heard a groat ileal
of tho famous “rogue” elephant of
the district of Mysore, province of
.Madras, before I ever got within 200
miles of his stamping ground. He
made his first appeavnnee in 1868, and
for years was a veritable terror to an
area of country 30 miles long by 30
broad.
A “rogue” elephant, as ha3 often
been explained, is a male who has
oithcr voluntarily left the herd because
of defeat cr has been driven into
I'xile by his companions for reasons
not known to man. He no sooner
takes up this solitary life than he be¬
comes vindictive and reckless, aud it
goes without dispute that one of these
“vogues,” especially if past the age
of 30, is more dangerous than a herd
of a dozen ordinary elephants.
This fellow was called “The
Wicked” by all the natives in that ler*
Yitory, and some of the stories told of
his doings were really wonderful, os
well as strictly true. His territory
wns along die Suddnr Valley. On the
eastern edge of this valley, which is
from one to five miles wide, is a dense
jungle fifty miles long, and this place
.was his retreat. lie was probably
bunted after more than any other
“roguo” ever heat'd of in India. After
a yoar or two the Government oflered
a reward of £100 for his death, and
before he was finally disposed of this
reward had been increased to £300.
He was buttled on several occasions
by bands numbering 400 men, and at
least fifty different white hunters
journeyed into (he district and had a
try at him.
It was wonderful how “The
Wicked” managed to escape death so
long, but it used to Be asserted that
he was only an elephant in form. The
natives fully believed (hat he was the
Evil One in disguise,and more than 1000
people moved out of that productive
valley on his account. Tho official
records of his doings would make a
big book. He began killing as soon
as he appeared. One night about
midnight he cncrtered a native village
containing about seventy huts, pene¬
trated lo tlio centre and killed five
people sleeping in a hut. Even the
dogs Anew nothing of his presence
until he got to work. He put his
tusks under tho foundation poles of the
hut and tipped it Over and then he
trampled on the family sleeping in the
middle of the mud floor.
Only tlireo or four people caught
sight of him as he moved away. A
grand hunt was organized, but he was
not even discovered. It was hoped
(hat he had been frightened out of (lie
district, but two or three days later,
as a native was driving a bullock cart
along a road at the edge of a forest,
the elephant, who was in hiding be¬
hind a clump of bushes picked the
man off itis seat with his trunk, and
flung him 20 feet into the air. In the
same minute he drove his long tusks
through the bullock aud then disap¬
peared. The native was so badly
hurt that lie died three days later.
This was on a Thursday, about 11
o’clock itt the morning. At 3 o’clock
in the afternoon the elephant appeared
at a point up tho valley, exacily 32
miles away, and killed a ryot, or
native farmer, who was at work in
his field.
In three years, according to official
returns made, “The Wicked” killed
upward of 100 people, destroyed thou¬
sands of dollars’ worth of crops, and
caused the death of hundreds of do¬
mestic a limals. His aim was to kill
and destroy, and he went about ltis
work in such a queer and mysterious
manner as to keep all the people afraid
of him, Wild elephants never, leave
cover during daylight, This fellow
stalked abroad by day as well as by
night. He moved as silently and
swiftly as a tiger. Oil one occasion
five natives, wi.o had been stacking
grain, sat down to eat their luncheon.
It wns high noon, and they were half
a mile from the edge of the jungle.
The eie hant came upon them over
hud and stony ground, where the
footstep of a man would cerfniuly
have been heard, and the first known
of his presence was when he struck
two of the five down. Tho others es¬
caped him by leaping into a ravine.
• When I reached the valley it was
half depopulated, and all those re¬
maining were in a state of continual
toil-in-. Not a day tlmt 11,0
elephant did «ol kill or attempt (p
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE, FRANKLIN CO.. GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 211.1892.
kill some one. As one of the precau¬
tions against Ida visits after dark the
villages had been surrounded by walls
of dry brush. The idea was that in
breaking a way through or over the
animal would make noise enough
lo betray his presence. On Iwo occa¬
sions ho had removed enough brush
to make an opening and douo it so
carefully that people sleeping Ion feet
away had heard no noise. "When dis¬
covered and shouted at “The Wicked”
always made off for the jungle with-
out, attempting further mischief, lint
he generally managed to kill some one
before an alarm was raised. At the
time 1 reached his stamping ground
thero were two British army officers
hunting him at the other end of the
jungle, but no one had seen the ele¬
phant for about a week, llo hadn’t
left the district, however, and neither
had he been killed.
I took possession of an abandoned
village at the lower end of tho valley.
Here the elephant had first appeared,
and here he had killed over a dozen
people. Tho villagers had at length
become so terror stricken that they
had abandoned the fertile spat and
moved thirty miles away. There were
about forty lints still standing, but
instead of occupying any one of them
I took up my position for tho night in
a ravine at the northern edgo of the
town. I had two native hunters with
me, and to lead the elephant to be¬
lieve that the villagers had returned
we tied five or six dogs to as many
doorposts. It was iooked upon as
doubtful if “The Wicked” would
show up, and after watching until
midnight I turned in for a nap, leav¬
ing both natives on guard. It ap¬
peared that they dozed oft after an
liouv or so, hut an hour before day¬
break one of them awoke and found
the elephant standing on the bank and
looking down upon us.
This bank was 12 feet high and
very steep. The mun plucked at my
sleeve, but tho instant I moved the
elephant vanished. I would not be¬
lieve that he had been thero, but day¬
light proved to the contrary, it was
soft ground, and the prints of his feet
were so deep that both unlives declared
he had stood in ono spot for many
minutes, perhaps half an hour, We
further found that “Tho Wicked” had
traversed a good part of the village,
and that so quietly that not a dog had
given the alarm.
The natives of this valley had long
before resorted to pitfalls, traps, and
other practices in vogue, but all to no
pupose. The white hunters had set
spring guns and even poisoned some
of the pools whore he was supposed
to drink, but “The Wicked” hud out¬
witted every move. I determined to
take up his track and follow it until
he was found. Ono of tlio natives re¬
fused to euter the jungle for any price
I could pay. but tho other had in wo
pluck and agreed to stay with me. We
found the elephant had gone straight
into the jungle from the ravine, aud
as the soil was moist from a recent
storm, the tracker had no difficulty in
following him for about live miles.
Then all evidences of the trail were
lost ou rocky ground. A wild clc-
pliant moving through a jungle gen¬
erally leaves a plain path by breaking
and trampling. If in retreat it looks
as if a troop of cavalry had forced Us
way along. This fellow had moved
as cautiously as a deer, and no white
man could have followed him half a
mile.
At the spot whore the trail was lost
there was an immense outcrop of
rock, and, after looking around for
three hours without finding trace of
footprints, I became heated and ex¬
hausted, and eat down for a pull at
the water bottle and a bite to eat. The
tx-acker also refreshed himself, an-1
then, while I had a smoke, lie started
off to search anew on his own account.
He had not been out of sight more
than five minutes when I heard him
shriek. After running a distance of
400 feet I came to a small dell or glade
in the jungle. About tho centre of
this lay the body of my tracker. It
could hardly be called a body; it was
rather a mass of pulp. There was no
living thing in sight, but there were
footprints to prove that the elephant
had been there, “The Wicked” had
been in » mbush behind a large mass
of rock. He had only fifteen feet to
go to seize the unfortunate tracker,
aud he had made short work of him
by trampling on him. I ran through
the forest in several directions, per¬
fectly reckless of the probability that
the elephant was itt ambush again, but
I got no track or trace of him. He
had vanished as silently and swiftly as
a siartled wolf.
I returned to my quarters fairly
beaten, and to learn two days later
that the elephant had killed oue of
the British officers tire day after kill¬
ing my tracker. He had ambushed
him in the same fashion and had torn
him limb from It nb. It had now bo.
como utterly impossible to biro native
assistance. At least no ono would
consent to beat up tho junglo with mo,
and I saw that I must depend entirely
upon my own resources or Icavo the
field. In this emergency 1 determined
to meot “The Wicked” with his own
weapon—trickery. For several nights
he had not molested any of tho vil¬
lages, but during each day ho had
committed some depredations. His
last victim was n woman, and she was
killed within two inilos of where 1
was stopping. Sho was working in a
field with a heavy fringe of bushes
along the north side. The elephant
rushed out of cover and killed her
with a blow of his trunk, and was
gone before tho husband, who was
working 200 feet away, got the alarm.
The night was dark and rainy, and
I hived some of the natives to go with
mo and prepare tho plot. We dressed
up a lay figure to represent a rvot’s
wife in the net of reaping grain. We
plnced (his about forty feet from the
bushes. Then at tho edge of Hie
bushes and thirty feot away from a
straight line to tho “dummy” wo dug
a rifle pit deep enough to liido me.
Every care was taken to leave nothing
by which the elephant’s suspicions
might be aroused, and as soon as the
natives retired I wont to sleep. I
neither hoped nor looked for “The
Wicked” to appear during tho night.
If ho did, then I should miss having a
shot, and ho might evon And me as I
slept and pull me out of the hole.
The night passed without an alarm,
and I was awake when daylight canio.
I had as English elephant gun carry¬
ing a two-ounce explosive ball, and I
knew that elephant was my meat if he
appeared. I was well covered in with
bushes and branches, but had peep¬
holes through wliich 1 could clearly
survey the field. It was 9 o'clock in
the morning before anything moved,
and lmd I not been waiching -‘The
Wicked” would have played me a
sharp trick, lie caine out of tho edgo
of the jungle just where I had hoped
lie would, but so quietly that but for
seeing him I could not Imvo credited
his presence, lie covered the ground
between the jungle and the lay figure
at a swift pace, and it was not until
he seized the dummy that he suspected
anything. He tossed it sky high aud
wheeled to go back, and I stood up
and gave him a ball behind the
shoulder. As he received it lie wheeled
and started across tho grain field, but
I rolled him over before he lmd gone
ten yards.
The trick.ey old beast was dead at
Ja6t, and he had been lured to de¬
struction by one of the simplest plots
ever put into practice against him. 1
had to walk around him tlireo or four
times before I could realize that he
had ac nally been downed. Indeed,
until the natives began to gather and
rejoice over his death, I was afraid
that I had missed the “rogue” and
trapped some beast from a near-by
herd. Ho was soon fully identified,
however, as lie carried several marks
by which ho was well known. For
instance, he had a deep scar acres < his
forehead, where a bullet had furrowed
the hide, there was another on tho
trunk, where a native had once
slashed him with a big knife; he hud
a peculiar spot on Ids side, and, in
brief, there was no possibility of mis¬
take. The Government paid the re¬
ward without hesila'tion, and it no
sooner became known iliut the dreuded
scourge of the valley had met his fate
than the people began to return to
their homes, and the anniversary of
the event has for years been celebrated
in the district ns a holiday.—[St.
Louis Republic.
All Chinese Are Not Educated.
The common belief in the United
Slates that all Chinese read and write
mid are well informed does not con¬
tain one particle of truth. The higher
classes, who do not exceed five per
cont. of the population, receive what
might be called a good literary edu¬
cation. As for the Chinese language,
there is no such thing, Every prov¬
ince has its own language and every
district its dialect. The native so-
called written language is not a lan¬
guage, but an ideographic system and
is one of the greatest marvels of
human genius. It could be applied
with almost as much facility to Eng¬
lish, French and German as it is to
the numberless languages of China,
Korea and Japan.
Largest Orange Trees.
J. T. Hancock, Sr., has an orange
tree on his place, two miles west of
Fort Meade, that measures 24 inches
in diameter two feet from the ground.
Six years ago it bore 7000 oranges.
The age of the tree is not known. It
was there 40 years ago, when Mr.
Hancock first took the place,—[S«*
vannah (Ga.) Nows,
ICE-HARVESTING.
How the Ice is Gathered In and
Stored in Houses. •
Three or More Crops May Be
Cut From the Frozen Fields.
While ice is in general use, com¬
paratively few poople know how tho
crop is gathered. It is a very Inter¬
esting ns well as useful Industry.
Recently artificial ico lias been intro¬
duced, but it doos not compare favor¬
ably with the natural ice. Snow ico
is the most desirable, it having more
durability than tho clear ico, and con¬
sequently is most sought after for use
in refrigerators, clc.
A largo quantity of ice for New
York consumption is gathered up the
Hudson, and from tho lakes in Rock¬
land and Orange counties. The lee is
fit to cut when about ton inches thick,
though sometimes crops over twenty
inchos in thickness are gathered.
If tho season is a good one sometime*
three or more crops are cut, providing
the companies engaged in tho indus¬
try have sufficient storage capacity.
Tho ice harvest provides employment
for a large number of men who can¬
not work at their ordinary occupations
during the wintor—carpenters, brick¬
layers, tnasous, fishermen and others
being among those who benefit by the
industry.
The first process of gathering in
tho ice is to plane it (which is (dono
with a machine called a scraper or
planer), which removes all tho rough
pieces of ico aud olhor substances,
and leaves a nice, smooth, clean sur¬
face. The next thing is to mark out
ho ico in blocks 22 by 80 inches,
which is done by a machine, After
this the ice-plow is brought into uso.
Tho plow resembles a saw witli very
big teeth, and is drawn by a horse
and guided by a person who cuts into
the lines made by the marker. The
ico is plowed to within four inchos of
its depth, which leaves it sufficiently
strong to boar the weight of
the workmen. Large cakes are
next sawed off by band and
floated through canals kept open for
the purpose to the icc-honse. Tho
workmen have long stool bats with
which they guide the blocks along. It
is a common sight to see men standing
on largo cakes of floating ico and
pushing themselves along with 'their
ice-bars; occasionally the wind op
current will carry them out to the
middle of the lake or river, making
their rescue necessary by boat. As
tho large cakes of ice aro floated up to
the storing-house a workman breaks
off the blocks info tho regulation size
as marked, This is done with a bar,
and is called barring off the ice. Tho
blocks are (hen guided on to a ma¬
chine resembling an endless chain*
which carries tho ico to tho
room, where it is stored away. in
layers, with the ends two inches apart.
The old plan was to pack tho ice closo
together, with the result that it froze
into a solid mass. This meant a groat
deal of labor to get it out again when
wanted, and also considerable waste
in broken ice. Even when stored
with the ends of the blocks two inches
apart there is more labor attached to
getting out the ice than in cutting aud
storing it '
away.
When wanted tho ice is taken from
the top and conveyed by an incline
tramway or slide, which runs down on
the outside of the building to the
ground, und is placed in wagons and
carried to the trains and boats for
transportation all over the country. It
takes one hundred and fifiy men about
five days to cut and store away the lee
from twenty acres of wafer. — [ilir-
per’s Weekly. ’ '
The School Girl Train.
The school girl train relieves (lie
gloom of the early morning hours..
Tltis is the 8 3,) train on the-Sixth
avenue road that brings down Die
school freight from the uptown dis¬
tricts.
Standing whore tho eye ean take
note of the youth in ono of its most
attractive phases, is not the hardship
that standing is on a Ninth avenue
elevated express swarming with busi¬
ness men, clerks, errand boys and
laborers.
The collective view of the New
York school girl out of sight of her
mother and her teacher is wholly eu-
conraglng. She gives no evidence
here of that reputation the American
girl is said to have achieved in public.
There is a gentle dignity in the self-
confidence of her demeanor which is
creditable aud befitting the daughters
of a republic.
Her clothing has the trim smartness
with which even American babies
wear their bibs, and seem to posses*
at birth. Her appearance carries with
it an air of prosperity. Sits is neither
I pallid nor pasty. Tlio school girl diet
of slate pencils, chalk ami picklot
seem lo have gone out. She probably
cats candy and chocolate eclairs—alt
sho can got—but she also eats roast
hoof and mutton.
She is apt to look over her lessons
on the way down, A pleased look
comes over the veteran who sees her
with an open Legendre laboring over
the pons nsinorum. The school
books, even, have sot-np for them¬
selves. Tho smart red bucks of n
sclent!lie rorics mid color ami viva-
city to the school gitl abroad. Sho
carries no dull green Tnlomaquo or
Corlnuo, hut La llatnillo dcs Dames in
gay paper covers, or be Nouveau do
Colette in the audacious yellow of
France.
At Fifitioth street the school girls
began lo fit cr out. Black and gray
beards and mustaches till their space*.
All are estimable doubtless, but not
picturesque. The car grows dull and
coloress. At Twenty-eighth street
the school girl has taken tlio last Lit
of brightness out. with her, and the
busy nion and women settle down be¬
hind tltoir newspaper* and lift their
eyes no more. — [Now York Suit.
Purls Executions are Businesslike.
“While in Paris last summer 1 wit¬
nessed tho execution of the two young
thugs Who kicked a poor old woman
to death ami robbed her of a few
francs,” siiid a gentleman who spends
a good doal of his time abroad, ‘ ‘and
I wns certainly surprised at the deft¬
ness and dispatch with which their
heads were chopped off. It is not
half so revolting a sight as a hanging,
or what I imagine an electrocution
must be. The guillotine, which is a
very small affair, scarcely larger than
a corn-shelling machine, stood in tho
center of the big Place do In Itoquetle.
Thousands of spectators crowded
around tho cordon drawn by the po¬
lice—a crowd that sang and laughed
and shouted as if the occasion was
that of a grand fete. Tho execu¬
tioner, who is known as Monsieur de
Paris, was dressed in solemn black of
faultless cut.' Ho tested his machine,
aud walled until tlio prison gates
Opened. -*Thero was a movement in
(lie throng as u pale, slondor youth ap¬
peared, supported by two of Mon-
sietjr’8 assistants. His shirt was cut
away at the . nock, laying bare his
throat.. He was thrust against what
was, apparently, an upright board,
but at the sumo instant, as quickly as
a horse is hitched to n (ire engine, ho
.was made' fast, and the hoard, with
its living burden, was tiirneil on a
hinge uiitil it was horizontal. Then
the heavy triangular knifo dropped,
and tlio head rolled into a wicker-bas¬
ket. -Tlio body was dropped into an¬
other basket. Not a minute elapsed
before the second murderer npponred,
and his head was chopped off with the
same rapidity. I never saw anything
as rapid and, artistic In my life. There
was no hitching or halting on the part
of tho executioners, and apparently
no resistance on the part of the con¬
demned. Five minutes afterward the
baskets were carted off to the ceme¬
tery, the guillotino was removed and
the big square resumed its every-day
aspect.”—[New York Advertiser.
A Big ( aluinoiint.
Last Wednesday Hugh Carpenter
and Wiley Curtis, with six hounds,
Went a fox hunting. About 10 o’clock
the dogs tregit utt animal and on going
up to it found it to Lo a catamount.
At first they did not know what it
was and Mr. Curtis "climbed the treo
and cut ih<V 'limb on which it was
perched.- It then jumped to ono:her
tree and 'MA'. Curtis climbed this tree
and with- a.stick punched it out—not
'knowing what it was. It fell to the
ground ami after; about ten thin ales’
-chase the hounds oh tight it. This was
in Asberry Fyy’s woods, about four
miles southwest of La Plata, They
brought the animal to town yesterday
and we belieye (lie best authority—at
least a majority of tlio Wosleners—
pronounced it a catamount, while
some claimod it was a wild cat. It
measured six feet and four inches from
tip (o tip and wus a vicious looking
animal.v— [La Rmta.'(Mo.) Homo Press.
Putting Up Cassava.
There several of putting "
are ways
up cassava in leaves as provision for
ajonfney in Africs. It is sometimes
tied up in lumps about the size of a
man’s head. More frequency it is In
pieces from a foot to three ‘feet long
und al>ont:‘fts stout as a man’s wrist
SomeOrrte? jt is made up in a roll
about the. size of the middle finger and
inanj' yards in length. It is then
coiled - about the body like a penitent’s
rope,-and the uarive takes off a foot
or two whenever he feels hungry.
The young leaves of the cassava plant
are boiled as < ‘greens,” food and form near*
ly as important n resource as the
roots,—[N.Y. Independent,
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—or
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR .
Friendship.
Friendship Is not like love; It esnnot ssy
“Now Is fruition given me and now
The crown of me is set on mine own brow,
This Is rhe minute, the hour and the day.”
It cannot find a moment which It may
(.'nil that for which It lived; there is no
vow
Nor pledge thereof, nor first fruits of Its
hough,
Nor harvest, and no myrtle crown nor bay.
Love lives for wbat It may win or has won;
Hut friendship has no guerdon save to be,
Itself is its own goal, and In the past
Or future can no dearer dreams be done
Or hoped for; save Its own dear self to see
The same, and evermore unchanged to
Inst.
— [Edward I,. White, In New York Sun.
HUMOROUS.
“I’m onto you," is wlmt the wig
remarked to the bald-headed mail.
There is always a hand of welcome
ready to be offered to the strange um¬
brella.
The course of true love may never
run smooth, hut it generally gets
there just the saute.
“A goot turn done a friend vns vort
moro ns six turns vat you didn’t
done,” says Carl Pretzel.
Tho Boston people have discovered
that “bons pckukol” is Volupuk for
baked boans, and they are correspond¬
ingly happy.
Wool—When it comes ton difficult
case l>r. Emdee is always at home. <
Van Belt—How is that? Wool—He
is never called.
We havo noticed that the clieupor
the trousers a young man has on the ,
more fnr ho puts on tho collar and
cuffs of his overcoat.
“How did tho surprise party go off
last night?” “Double-quick time. The (
sm-prised people thought they were
burglars and turned tho hose on
them.”
It is said (hat a man in Chicago
owns an ape who steals his master’s
shoes and blaoks them with ink.
We’ve hoard of monkey-shines before,
but this beats all.
TH* WOOKk'b SON*!.
My heart Is light and 1 feel so glad
That I for joy could shout,
Because my best girl’s terrible dad
Is laid up with the gout.
The Twin Phenomena of the Northwest.
.Inst at the Allantio cities wore sur¬
prised when Chicago distanced all but
two of them in population, and ohnl-
lenged all of them by her enterprise,
•o will they be astonished again and
from another quarter, if they refuse
to study tho forces that arc operating
to build.up new capitals in the West,
lit another ton years thorn will be
another claim of a million population,
and the counting of heads will not
make nonsense of it. The new and
wonderful assumption of metropolitan
importance will be that of the twin
cities of the wheat region—Minneapo¬
lis and 8t. Paul. They may not be
joined under one name and govern¬
ment—opinions differ about thnt-r-but
all agree that they will jointly possess
a million of population. The last
census credited Minneapolis with
164,700 population, and St. Paul with
133,000, or, jointly, 297,000. At the
time of the preceding census (1880)
the two cities included about 88,000
soul*. At that rate of increase they
will boast in 1900 a population of
976,000 and more. But they insisted
in the summer of 1891 that they pos¬
sessed more than 330,000 joint popu¬
lation, and that the million mark will
ho reached before the next census is
taken.—[Harper’s Magaz t ne.
A Jonruey to the Sun.
Stop and think a moment what the
sentence “A journey to tho sun” im¬
plies. A cannon ball could hardly
complete the trip in fifteen years
going at the rate such missiles are
known to travel. Take the fastest
express train as another illustration
of that unthinkable distance. Had
one of these trains loft the earth at
the tame moment the Mayflower
sailed for America, and had it
travelled at the rate of a mile a
minute day and night since that time,
it would still be several miles from
its celestial destination! Tho fare,
at the customary rate, would be $2,-
850,000!
Again, it ha* been found that sensa¬
tion is not absolutely instantaneous,
but that a very minute time elapses as
it travels along the nerves. There¬
fore, if a person put his finger to a
heated iron, or in the blaze of a
candle, there is a certain almost in¬
conceivably small space of time, say
the one-thousandth part of a second,
before the brain knows of the burn.
with .'V>'
Now, suppose a man an arm
long enough to reach tho sun. From
(he known rate of sensatory transtnis-
lion, that man would have to live
more than one hundred years after
touchiug the great luminary before he
would know that hi* fingers had been
ifpypMj—[8t, I,outs Republic,