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FRANKLIN county.
VOL III. NO. 22.
T l, e Mormons claim that no polya-
nisrriagcs hare been oeiebrated
moil*
j„ Utah for (wo years._
China’s foreign irado increased by
ore than $ 20 , 000,000 in 1891.
til
R lias boon several times decided in
the sap er jor courts of England that
railway company is not bound to
a
fence against trespassers.
At ono time upwards of 60,000
Irisli soldiers woro to bo found in the
British army, whilo at present there
m scarcely one-third of that
amount. ___
Edmund do Gouoourt, the French
writer, recently said that, in spite of
the ever increasing sale of popular
works of fiction, ho was inclined to
believe that novels would soon be
things of the past.
Tlio officers and sailors of the Uni¬
ted States navy got $7,500,000, and
the ifficers and soldiers of the army
$10,000,000. Uncle Sam spemjs
$150,000 for horses for his cavalry
and artillery, and pays his retired
army officers a million and a half of
good round dollars.
An Australian agricultural paper
makes note of an immense increase in
the number of sheep in Australia in
tlio last two or three years, and of the
enormous development of tho grazing
capabilities of Die country. Tho esli-,
mated number of sheep iu Australia in
1892 is 60,000,000, against 31,000,000
ia 1884.
_
Within the last few years the Eng-,
lisli Government in Egypt has remit¬
ted taxes to the amouut of $4,000,000
•a year, and yet last year there was a
surplus of $5,500,000. The French,
as usual, refused to allow the reduc¬
tion of the taxes paid on .poor land. It
would be a great evil, maintains tho
New York Independent, if England
should retire from Egypt.
Insanity is Increasing so rapidly in
France that the asylums cannot accom.
mudate the patients, and Ihe scheme
of billeting tho harmless lunatics
among peasant families will be tried.
It would be interesting to learn,
speculates the San Francisco Chroni¬
cle, whether this great increase in in¬
sanity is due in any part to grossly
adulterated wine and brandy and to
the growing use of absinthe.
John Good, who left New York a
couple of months ago to overlook the
building of a factory on the Bay of
Naples, Italy - , has returned to have bis
structural plana altered, as these wore
drawn for the employment of wood in
the building, and he finds that marble
is much cheaper than wood in Italy.
For the same reason, relatively, ties of
solid mahogany and rosewood have
been used in building railroads in
Soulh America aud Mexico.
The work of the Department of
Agriculture in securing a wider use of
Indian corn in Europe is meeting with
deserved success,announces the Ameri¬
can Fanner. Not only are mush aud
corn bread becoming fashionable, but
in addition to this there is a real and
growing demand for maize products
both for man and beast, Tlie circular
of information respecting the use of
Indian corn as food, prepared under
direction of the secretary of agricul¬
ture, lias been translated into German
Rid distributed throughout all Ilia
Rates of the empire.
Compulsory education is making
rapid progress all over the world.
“We aro heartily glad to learn,” writes
Die National Guardian of Calcutta,
India, "Diat the thakore of Morvi lias
initiated in his demesne a system of
compulsory prirtiary education. All
■children must have education pro¬
dded for them at state expense, and
suy guardian noglecting to send the
little ones in his charge to the free
schools shall be severely punished.
Fhis is exactly as it should be, and the
people of Morvi cannot bo sufficiently
grateful to their ruler for this piece
of wise administration.”
Mankind is reminded how much
room for itself there is in the New
World by tho reports of the different
commissions which within tlio last two
years had visited Peru. They agreed
on one point, and that was that the
country was admirably suited for
European immigration on a large scale.
Pern required and must have, not
only skilled labor, but above all agri¬
cultural laborers. If the wealth of
the country was, to be turned into ac¬
count, capitalists must make up (heir
Kuhds that their first step must be to¬
ward promoting an immigration cur¬
rent into Pern. The depression in
agriculture dated siuco the abolition
vi slmi jr ia lWt.
THE ENTERPRISE. /
A Song for Her.
Sing for her, mockingbird,
Your warm breast heaving in the junbrigh*
blossom#;
Sing sweeter songs thau we have ever
heard,
Until the wild heart of the world is
stirred,
And love wakes wondering in a thousand
bosoms!
Smg for her, lark of dawn,
When on your breast the lofty light is gleam¬
ing’
Sing sweet, and bear the message on,
and on—
Higher and higher, till the world is gone,
And at God’s gates the melody is dreaming!
Sing for her, whip-poor-will,
Your sweet voice ringing from the twilight
covers,
IV lie re stars stream splendid over vale
ami hill;
Sing sweet, until your melting notes
shall thrill
And throng the wide, awakened world with
lovers!
Sing, mockingbird! Sing, lark!
Sing, whip poor-will—your songs in coucert
ringing;
Sing in the dewy dawn—sing in the dark;
Rut while ye make your sweetest music,
hark!
A sweeter song to her my soul is singing!
— [Frank L.Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Miss Vervain’s Mistake.
11Y AMY RANDOLPH.
March in the mountains! Freshets
roaring down the ravines; great
thickets of pines tossing their green
crests to and fro in the rush of tho
tempestuous wind; snow shining off’
on tho plateaus, and pink clusters of
trailing arbutus breaking into bloom
in southern nooks and sheltered places
where last winter’s dead leaves had
not yet drifted away. And Lucy Ver¬
vain, standing iu her russet walking-
dress on the pirch of the little moun¬
tain inn, wondered if the famous Ber¬
nese Alps were grander thau these
same (jatskill heights.
Lucy Vervain was small and slight
ami brown-skinned, but she had large,
wistful cyos of so dark a hazel that
they seemed to melt into black around
the iris, and there wore quick roses
ready to deepen ip her cheeks if any
ono spoke to her. She was pretty, in
her way, like a wild-flower, or a little
brown-winged bird, and she looked
around with a troubled air, as tho
sound of an excited feuiiuiuo voice
floated out from he ono unpretentious
little "best parlor” of Die inn.
"It’s outrageous!” said Miss Clara
Vervain.
"I’m very sorry, ma’am,” said Mr.
Mixit, who kept Die house.
‘■Unendurable!” declared Miss Yer-
vain.
"It does happen, sometinios,
ma’am, when the streams is high, at
the spring of the year,” tlie landlord
pleaded. t * You see, there ain’t no
bridge that will stand the freshets,
if—”
"And we have got to stay here, in
this horrid liu’.e of a place, until your
tumble-down bridge is mended?”
"I don’t see any other way for you,
ma’am,” said Mr. Mixit, meekly.
"It’s the most provoking thing I
ever knew in my life,” said MisB
Vervain.
She stalked about the room liko ft
second Lady Macbeth, as she spoke.
For Clara was as unlike her blushing,
shrinking little sister as the tall poppy
is to tho humble oorn-flowor. She
was ImntUomo and stately, aud wore
long train* * * b r drivse- aud bangles
on her wt-i , and used perfume on
her lii.iiiike: chiefs and "did” her hair
af er the latest fashion-plates.
"It ain’t my fault, ma’am,” said
the landlord, driven to the very con-
fines of despair. "I can’t stop the!
yet I can’t build a new '
freshet, nor
bridge.” yourself i j
"Clara, dear, don’t allow
lo be so annoyed," soothed Lucy,
coining like a noiseless little gray
shadow into the room. "Wo shall
only be detained a day, after all, and j
I am sure it is very pleasant here.” ;
"I am not accustomed to delays,” j
said Miss Vervain, loftily.
"I know, dear, hilt—”
"And if I am compelled to remain j
in such a place as this,” added Ciara,
glancing superciliously around her, “l
must really insist upon privacy. i
"Eli?” said Mr. Mixit. •
“That old person in the 6nu!l-oo!ored j
coat,” said Miss Vervain, witli a royal |
motion of her head toward an old j
gentleman in a wig and spectacles
who was reading the paper by a dis¬
tant window, "l dare say lie will do
very well in your kitchen or barroom,
and I prefer this apartment to my-
self.”
"Ob, Clara 1” pleaded Lucy, crim¬
soning to tho very roots of her hair.
:• The landlord looked puzzled, but
the old man himself folded
his newspaper, returned' ids spectacles
to Ibcir oase, and rose "lowly to bis
feet.
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to Hone.
FRANKLIN CO.. GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 3.1892.
"Certainly, miss," said lie; <*cer.
talnly. If I’m intruding, I’ll go to the
kitchen. There’s always room for mo
thero. Eb, Mixit?”
And he trudged with alacrity out of
the room, followed by mine host.
"I’m afraid you’vo hurt his feelings,
Clara,” said Lucy, piteously.
"Who cares for iiis feelings?” said
Miss Vervain, sniffing at her scent
bottles. "Mine are much more to the
purpose. And I don’t choose to asso¬
ciate with every farmer in the Cats¬
kills.”
"Clara, dear!”
"Well?”
‘ ’We are only a bookkeeper’s daugh¬
ters ourselves.”
"As if that signified,” said Miss Vor-
vaiu, scornfully. "We are going to our
aristocratic rnlations, aren’t we ?”
"But perhaps they won’t care to
keep us.”
"That is noithor here rior there,”
said Miss Vervain, "but you never had
any proper pride, Lucy.”
Little Lucy Vervain was still pon¬
dering, with a puzzled brow ovor the
distinctiou betwoen proper pride and
pride that was not proper, when the
landlord’s wife, a buxom dame in
madder-red calico and a frilled white
apron, came to summon tho guests to
dinner.
"We’ve only a roast fowl, with
bread sauce and a little cranberry
jelly,” said Mrs. Mixit; "but it ain’t
often as folks stop hero ovor a meai,
and I hope, ladies, as you’ll kindly
pardon any shortcomings.”
But Miss Vervain stopped short on
the very threshold of tlio dining room.
"I should prefer a table to myself,”
said she, haughtily.
"Ma’am 1” said Mrs. Mixit.
“Dear Clara,” pleaded Lucy, in an
agony of distress, as she saw the red
flush rise to tlio forehead of the old
man in a snuff-colored suit, who sat
at the head of the well-spread board.
“I prefer dining witli my sister,
only,” insisted Aliss Vervain, delight¬
ed with an opportunity of asserting
her exclusiveness. "Really, I cannot
imagine how people can obtrude them¬
selves iu this sort of way
The old man rose quietly.
"Do I understand, young womau,”
said he, "that you object to me!”
"Yes, sir, I do object to you—if you
compel mo to put it in that way,” said
Miss Vervain.
"Indeed!” The old man lifted his
grizzled brows, "I may not be ono
of your fashionable fops—”
“That is easily to be seen,” con-
temptuously interpolated the young
lady.
“But I am clean and decent,” added
the stranger. "However, I dare say
Mrs. Mixit can accommodate me with
a plate and knife and fork in another
room, if my presence is really ob-
noxious to these young women.”
“Y'oung ladies, sir, if you please,’’
said Miss Vervain, with a toss of her
head.
He smiled a shrewd, sagacious
smile.
"As (o that,” said ho, "opinions
may perhaps differ.” Aud he followed
Mrs. Mixit into the kitchen.
Clara Vervain took her seat com¬
placently at. tlio table.
a These people will begin after
awhile to comprehend the difference
between a lady and a shop-girl,” said
she. "It is quite evident that they
are not favored with many travelers.”
Half an hour afterward, as the old
man in the snuff-colored suit was etep-
ping into his plain, little carriage, a
soft hand touched his sleeve, and
turning, he found himself looking
into Lucy Vervain’s troubled brown
«.Well, my dear,” said l:e, kindly,
,, what }g it? o
"I—I only wanted to beg your
par(lon> g jr ” faltered the little brn-
(
nct(e <<l am sure my sister did not
mcan ( 0 i, ur t your feelings, and—”
"l am sure, at all events, that you
not) » en j<i the old man, kindly.
« An q I dare say that your sister
w ;n ; je w j s er one of these days!”
And thus speaking, he nodded good-
humoredty, and drove away.
jt W as nearly dark, however, before
the c i U mbsy carryall which was to con-
vey the two New York ladies to thfir
destination arrived, and they entered
it. said Miss Vervain,
"To Cliff Hall,”
haughtily, as she leaned back in the
seat, and settled her skirts languidly
around her.
"Cliff Hall!” said Mr. Mixit
staring.
"You don’t mean as you’re going
to Cliff' Hall?” echoed Mrs. Mixit.
"I think we have considerably as¬
tonished these good people,” said Miss
Vervain, with a smile, as the/rattlcd
away from Die door,
"I only hope our Uncle Clifl will
receive ns kindly/’ sighed poor Lucy.
CUff.Hall was a substantial old man-
lion built of gray •tons, with a me*
cession of terraces fallng down tho
mountain’s side, and cxjuLito groups
of statuary half-hidden in the forest
trees; and tho lights wee already be¬
ginning to gloam hospiably along its
front aq they drove up. An old man¬
servant opened the ousklo door just
far enough to reveal tie cheery glow
of a wood fire, and tho deep tints of a
crimson Axmineter oavpet within.
"Is my Uncle Cliff it home?” said
Miss Vervain, with an uir and a
grace.
"Mr. Cliff is—ay, msm,” answered
the servant, with a strong Scotch ac¬
cent.
"Tell him his nieces Tom Now York
are here—tho Misses Vervain,” said
Clara, ns she swept into tho aute-
chamber.
As she entered, an rid man dressed
in snuff-browu rose fioni before tho
blazing logs.
< i My nieces from New York, t-li?”
said Caleb Clifl. “L’lioy are wel¬
come,”
And to Miss Vervain's surprise and
dismay, she found herself face to face
with tho old man of the Cat.skill way-
side Inn.
"You are astonished?” said lie,
slightly arching his krows. "So am
i- It is not nlways best to judge by ap¬
pearances. Sit dowa. Sanders,” to
tho servant, "let dinnor he served.”
Miss Clara Vervain loft Cl ill Hal!
the next day, with ail her bright an¬
ticipations shattered to tho dust. But
little brown-faced Lucy stayed to keep
house for her undo.
“She’s loo genteel for us, isn't she?’’
chucklod old Caleb Cliff as tho enriago
drove away which was to carry Miss
Vervain to the New York station.
Clara wont back to her teaching,
and if the bitter tears of repentant
mortification can wash out the past
that day in tho Catskills would have
been erased long ago.
"If I had only known who he was,”
said Miss Vervain.
Alas I this world is full of "ifsl”—
[The Ledger.
Umbrellas In Turkey.
In many. Eastern countries an um¬
brella is a mark of distinction, and its
use is confined topeople of rank. Tur¬
key is ono of the few Asiatic coun¬
tries where’ tlio umbrella is In com-
mou use, and carried as a protection
from rain. In most places its uso is
that of a parasol. Says an Eastern
traveller: "Arrivingat Constantinople
from countries further to the East,
where the umbrella is considered a
badge of high rank, I was much as¬
tonished to find it In common use in
rainy weather. However, I soon
learned that traces of the same super¬
stition existed. One rainy morning I
had occasion to walk along tho road
which faces the Bosphorus. One of
Die buildings I passed is a favorite
palace of the Sultan’s, in which ho
was then residing. As I approached
tho gate with my umbrella over iny
hcadonc of the sentinels stationed thero
accosted mo in a threatening manner.
Not understanding what ho said, l
went on, whereupon lie ran at me with
his fixed bayonet levelled.
"At-that monjent a friendly Turk,
who was walking behind me, snatched
my umbrella with violence from my
hand, and thrust me forward. Thou
the soldier returned to his station, and
allowed me to proceed iu peace. Ott
returning my umbrella the Turk ex¬
plained that everyone is obliged to
take down his umbrella on passing
the actual residence of tlio Sultan. No
matter how heavy the rain, each per¬
son passing Die palace must lower tho
umbrella, and not raise it again until
fully past Die buildiug.”—[Harper’s
Young People.
Pass of St. Bernard.
The Pass of St. Bernard over the
mountain of the same name, is famous
in military history, two great armies
at widely different periods of time
having marched over it. Under tho
shadow of its great peak Hannibal led
the Carihagetiians, and by the same
route 2000 years Jater, Napoleon’s
army marched to Marengo. The
mountaiu takes its name from the
monastery of Si. Bernard, still to be
seen on the summit. This is one of
the oldest religious establishments iu
the world, having been founded A.
D. 982, and kept up ever since by suc¬
cessive generations of monks. Tho
railroad tunnel between Italy and
France have left the Pass of St.
Bernard desolate, but a few monks
still remain to entertain travellers
who, from whim or caprice, prefer
the toilsome passage through the
pass.—[New York Dispatch.
Very Bad.
Jimmie—How’s business?
Cracker—Bad, very bad.
Jimmie—What yer been doin’
lately?
Cracker — Bobbin’ safes. — fNew
York Weekly.
SALMON CANNING.
A Prominent Industry on tlw
Pacific Coast.
Cutting up, Packing and
Cooking the Fish.
When ono comes to think of it It
seems quite wonderful that ono should
he tibia to buy a pound of salmon ill
a can from tho Pacific, coast for 25
ecu's. Tue frozen fish costs 40 cents
a pound at least, white the unfrozen
article ranges iu Eastern markets from
$1 up. Besides, the manner in which
each can is made to contain u segment
of salmon perfectly li ted into it ap¬
peal’s most surprising, tho bones, even
to the larger vertebiat, melting in tho
mouth without requiring so much as
a crunch between tho teeth and tho
rod flesh separating iu beautiful,
clean flakes.
Yet salmon would bo very much
cheaper than at present wore it not
that the great canucrs of Alaska have
formed a combination to restrict the
product. This is unfortunate for
consumers, porshaps, but lucky, cer¬
tainly for tho fish, which would he
wiped out altogether within five years
at the most if tho companies engaged
in their capture had a market for #11
they could produce at profllablo rates.
The methods employed nro the most
destructive conceivable, inasmuch as
the fishermen stretch seines across tho
mouths of tho rivers and take Die fish
which are going up tho stream to
spawn. There is a law against, this
sort of thing, but it is not enforced.
Eventually, doubtless, the supply of
this valuable finny game will run out
and artificial propagation will have to
be rcsoi led to.
Tito salmon caught iu tho seines and
gill nets are brought to the cannery
wharf, counted and thrown into heaps.
Chinamen, their labors being cheaper,
are mostly employed for subsequent
operations. They take each fish, cut
off the head, tail and fins, remove the
entrails and throw the rest of tho ani¬
mal into a big tub. Next Die tHi is
washed and placed in a trough, where
several knives, acting after tho man¬
ner of a feed cutter, slice it into sec¬
tions exactly as long as the height of
the can. These sections aro set on
end and split into throe pieces eacli—
one piece large enough to fill tho can,
while the others are smaller. The
fragments are then placed on tables
and tho Chinamou fit them into Die
cans. Next the covers aro put on the
cans and soldered.
After being soldered the cans are
put into hot water and watched in
order to sec if any bubbles rise, in¬
dicating leaks. Those which indure
this test successfully are placed in an
iron tank and boiled in salt water.
Sait water is used in preference to
fresh, because it can be raised to a
higher temperature. After boiling
for one hour anti a quarter each can
is "vented.” This means that a hole
is punched in its top to permit the ex*
panded air to escape. Then the hole
is soldered up, and the cooking is fin¬
ished by further boiling in salt water
for an hour and a half. If they were
not “vented” this second cooking
would burst the cans. Finally,
each can is tosted by tapping it on tlio
head with a big nail. If leaky, it
will usually give back a "tinny”
sound. Great care is tuken to avoid
leaky cans, because any which are not
hermetically sealed will onvarinbly
burst. The meat decays, pushing up
the top of the cans. One so affected
is called "swell-head.” If it bursts,
it is likely to ruin the whole case.
Three salmon will ordinarily fill for.
ty-eigl t one-pound cans, making one
case. The cans are made on the
premises out of sheet tin.
Within tho last few years the manu¬
facture of oil from sa'mon heads lias
been undertaken with profl. The
heads are bought from the canneries
at Die rate of 1000 for $1. One fac¬
tory produces as much as 18,000 gal¬
lons a year, worth 24 cents a gallon.
The heads are cooked by steam and
the oil is run off the tops of tho vats.
One thousand heads make from thir¬
ty to thirty-five gallons of oil. It is
not disposed of by itself as a commer¬
cial article, but is mixed us an adul¬
terant with other and more
costly oils. Salmon intended for
smoking are, first scrubbed and
dried, after which they aro hung
up in Die smoke bouse, where a slow
fire is kept burning. One week is re¬
quiredfor the smoking process. Seal
and sea bom arcagreat nuisance to Die
salmon fishermen. At the mouth of
She Columbia River they watch the
gill nets and grab Die caught salmon
by the throats, devouring those parts
which they regard especially as tidbits-
Bears nro vory fond of salmon and
c Irish a greet many it then in th*
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FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
streams. They oat only lino bend*.
Chinamen are forbidden to fish for
salmon In ihe Columbia Hirer on penal¬
ty of being shot on sight. Therefore
they do not fish.—[Washington Star.
Spontaneous Combustion.
Tho theory of spontaneous com¬
bustion of the human body in former
ilinos was hold by almost every ex¬
pert. French scientists, in particular,
supported it, and several of them
published pamphlets in which numer¬
ous cases of alleged spontaneous cotn-
bns'ion of the human-body- were des¬
cribed at length, but thero are Unco
vory sigui cant points to bo noticed
in connection with such reports.
Ono is tho in variable admission
that there was a light or lire in tho
room where the catastropho occurred;
another, that tho alleged instances
always happoned in families composed
of ignorant persons, and another, that
in no cnae was there any actual witness
of the occurrence. Something like
seventy-five per cont. of tho human
body consists of tvntor. This fact in
itself is sufficient to discredit any of
the alleged instances of spontaneous
combustion.
It is just conceivablo that persons
who drink an enormous amount of
spirituous liquors may bocomo so
saturated, us it wore, with this luflatn-
mablo material that their bodies burn
more easily thau would those of peo¬
ple who do not overindulge iu this
way, but it is perfectly certain that
tho fire would have to bo applied from
without, for no such tiling as spon¬
taneous combustion could bo pssible iu
an article containing so great a pre¬
ponderance of tho liquid elements as
does tho human body.—[Boston Trans¬
cript.
_
Switched Off the Track.
Tiie next time you meet a succoeds-
ful man ask him if ho succeeded in
just the way ho expected to succeed
when ho startod on IfiB oavoer in life.
His answer is practically oertain to be
in tlio negative. Mr. Gladstone, the
famous British statosmnn, startod out
as a theological student; and expeetod
to become a clergyman. Mr. Morse,
who invented the electric telegraph,
was a painter. Artomas Martin, ono
of tho greatest of mathematicians,
began life a market gardener. Mr.
Carnegie, the iron manufacturer,
started as a telegraph operator. Goo.
du Maurior, who is one of tlio great¬
est of caricaturists—men ablo to make
pictures in which the peculiarities of
a person, tho oddities of a thing, or
the fad of tlio time are so exaggerated
as to make them appear ridiculous—
wanted to bocomo a musician, both of
his parents being accomplished musi¬
cians. Tho latter did not wish him to
be a musician and so they undertook
to make a chemist of him. George
tried chemistry and wont so far as to
graduate and liavo ono or two com¬
missions. But ho could not succeed.
So ho left retorts and music, and liko
most other successful men, won suc¬
cess in a field of work that neither ho
*or his parents had at first mapped
out for him.—[Harper’s Young Peo-
pte.
Edible Birds’ Nests.
The edible birds’ nests of China are
an important article of commerce be¬
tween the eastern islands and China.
Tho nest is made by a kind of swal¬
low, being shaped like that of Die
common swallow, and adheres to a
rock, vast numbers being found to¬
gether iu caves of tho Eastern Archi¬
pelago. The nests themselves aro
formed of grass, sea weed fibres,
small leaves, etc,, and arc Attached to
ihe rock by a sort of bracket made of
a gelatinous substance which is, in
fact, Die part really eaten. 1 his was
formally thought to be made of sea¬
weeds, but is now known to consist
of saliva which the swallow exudes
from the salivary gland* under tho
tongue. The nests are collected by
moans of ladders and often by mean*
of ropeB wiiioli enable the gatherers
to dccend from Uio summit of a preci¬
pice, like the rock fowlers of (he
North. The nests are gathered /ice
a year, after the young aro fledged.
They are rated as a great delicacy,
sometimes soiling us high as $30 a
pound,and arc seen only on tho table#
of the wealthy.—TSt Louis Republic.
The Crown of the Czar.
The Russian crown and other royal
insignia,known as the "crown jewels,”
are valued at $11,000,000. The crown
itself is worth $(3,000,000. It is adorned
with hundreds of diamonds.
Besides the diamonds thero are set
around the rim fifty-four splendid
pearls, cacti without a flaw, a ruby of,
extraordinary size and beauty being
set as a centrepiece. Tho crown was
made by Panzie, a Geneva jeweller,
and wn» first worn by Catherine the
$1.00 PER YEAR.
A Dream of tho Fields.
Yo* fellers from the country—you kee*
away from town,
If you don't want to unsettle thins* and get
us up-side down; th*
For you always leave a memory of
mcadows-and the streams,
Ait' I straightway get to wibhln’ and to
ftshln’ In my dreams 1
You fellers from the country—when you
strike me at my desk
Tlio room begins to blossom an’ the street
looks picturesque! La engines
And the roarin’ of tho city with
an’ its bells,
Seems to melt Into the music of the moun¬
tains and the dells!
You fellers from the coiintry—you get so
much of life—
go little of its sorrow, of Its tears and of Us
strife, and just riot
That I want to get off with you
In your joy,
And wade in your coo! branches, like I used
to, when a boy! Constitution.
— [Atlanta
HUMOROUS.
Tho train of thought of somo peo¬
ple aro Dio slowest kind of thoughts.
Teacher_When does vain return
to the sky ? Scholar—In dew sea-
son.
Mrs. Gay—How do yon liko yonr
new home? Fino landscape, I sup-
poso? Mrs, Glum—No; but tlicro are
two flro ’scapes.
“Now that I have my brand-new train,’’
She said, with joyous smile;
“I think I’ll take a little walk
And clean the streets awhile.”
Bagby—I have often wondered how
a blind man can tell what sort of food
ho is eating. Loslio—-Easy euough if
he lias an eyetooth.
Johnny—I do wish Dmt I were
grown. Mother—What for? Johnny
—So I could get a sliavo instead of
having my face washed.
A Novatht hunter spent three months
looking for a grizzly hoar, and tho
man’s relatives have spoilt three months
looking for him. They think lie must
have found tire bear.
Girls, never throw yourselves at men,
Or you may learn too late
That girls may throw ami throw again—
But never cau throw straight.
EtheWWhat did you mean by toll¬
ing Jesse 1 was tlio biggest flat you
ever knew? George—I meant that cr
—you were the most level-headed
girl In (own.
Visitor (to littlo Johnny)—Are the
students in your class very bright ?
Johnnie—Guess you’d think wo ought
to he if you’d see tlio polishing ofl
somo of us get every day.
Tho Visitor—But why become en¬
gaged if you never meant to marry
him? In the Hammock—Because he
is so sensitive. You know it mortifies
a man much more to be refused thau
to liavo on engagement broken.
Where Goatskins Are Obtained.
The great impetus given to morroco
manufacture in this country lately is
duo to science and invention—tlio dis¬
covery of Improved methods of
tanning and tho development of
modern machinery. „ Tho sumac pro¬
cess, so long used, has been succeeded
by an alum-and-gambier tannage.
This new system is what is revolution¬
izing the leather business. Owing to
it, this city, grout in many things,
Is the greatest goatskin port in tlio
world. In round numbers, more
than 21,000,000 untannod goatskins
came in through tho Narrows in tho
year just closed. To secure this im¬
mense number of skins buyers for
New York houses have visited and
mado permanent homes in tho utter¬
most parts of tho earth accessible to
human beings.
These historic animals aro found in
greatest numbers where civilization is
at its lowest ebb. The importers of
( j i0 Western world find their'supplies
among tho savage hill tribes of the
northern and southern elopos of tlio
Himalayas, in the valleys of Persia,
on the stoppes of Asia, and among the
semi-barbarous described by.. Marco
Polo; they get them from (ho sandy
waters of Arabia and the Sahara, from
the slave caravans that reach tho coast
of Somnaliland from the head waters
of tho Blue Nile, and ftom tho Kaffirs
of South Africa; they scour the re¬
motest pampas of South America, and
the foothills of the Andes after goat¬
skins, and the Indian’ pastoras of
Central America and Mexico, and ail
Die islands of tho sea contribute to tho
total.— [New York Tribune.
How a Carnet is Londed.
The ordinary load for « camel i,s 600
pounds for a long journey, though if
tho journey is to last only a week or
leu days, 1000 weight is frequently
placed on tho back of an average
animal, but not without strenuous ob¬
jection on-the part of the beast, which
watches the process of i'oAdhVg with
great anxiety, and frequently inter¬
rupt* it by rising and rofusin# to
kneel to riwive laors.