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franklin COUNTY.
VOL. III. NO. 45.
More United States vessels visit tho
Mexican ports ihun those of ail other
nations combined.
A PariB physician is authority for
tiro statement that 40 people aro annu¬
ally prepared for burial in Frauen
while still alive.
When the coal fields of America and
Europe are exhausted, China will still
be ablo to supply tho world with fuel.
Her coal supply is practically illimit¬
able.
Mrs. John A. Logan has undertak¬
en to raiso $1,000,000 from tho
women of tills country for the Amcri.
can University, the national institu¬
tion founded by the Methodists at
Washington, D. C.
The Boston Herald would like to
have the European custom of selling
fish alive in the markets introduced in
this country. “Our fashion of selling
fish in the market,” it says, “would
fill a German with disgust. In tho
German cities fish is almost invariably
sold alivo.
M. du Haudray, following (lie
method of Professor Gamier** studies
of the Simian language, has carried
his phonograph into the hencoop. He
places it in ono henhouse where the
“family” are ap home, and when the
receiver has been cackled into for half
an hour it is taken away, and made to
repeat all Hie gossip in a neighboring
hencoop. The results of the experi¬
ments are said to be marvellous.
There has been in England an inter¬
esting discussion as to the moral
superiority of spinsters over matrons,
from which it is shown that women
who have achieved real greatness in
history and shown greatest valor have
been as a rule unmarried, the most
illustrious examples given being
Queen Elizabeth, Charlotte Corday,
Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale and
Sister Rose Gertrude.
Morocoo needs another Decatur,
ooncIude8 the New Orleans Picayune.
There have been several reports lately
of the depredations of Moorish pirates.
The latest one is the robbing of a
Spanish ship, the Yeard, which was
trading between Cape Juby aud the
Riuer Deoro. The ship was plnudered
aud eleven of the sixteen members of
the crew were made captives and car¬
ried off to be sold into slavery. A
Spanish gunboat was dispatched to
their rescue.
The most fertile field of the Mor*
mon missionaries, declares the Boston
Transcript, has been in London, and
all efforts to stop the work of prose¬
lyting have proved futile. Among the
middle and the lower classes the oily-
tongued elders find ready listeners
and many converts. It is stated that
one apostle annually sends over 500
converts, mostly English. The Mor-
mon settlement is composed of for¬
eigners and a few American thugs
and bandits, who saw in the secret
organization like the Danites a chance
just suited to their desires. The na¬
tive born converts to the Mormon
faith aro few and far between. The
■turns of Europe offer a far more
romising field to the elders.
A complaint comes from California
'• tat the Chinese arc ruining tho lull¬
ing in San Francisco Bay. Particu¬
larly is the shrimp business affected.
Paying only $400 a year in licenses
the Chinese fishermen send across the
Pacific 1,000,000 pounds of shrimps
annually and half as much dried fish,
flounders, soles, etc. Great quanti¬
ties of young fish are caught in their
nets that are set all the year round,
the result of which is that the bay is
being gradually emptied of grown
fish. This, of couvse, is in violation
of the law, and the authorities are be¬
ginning to bestir themselvos. The
Chinese fishermen, it seems, are ex¬
tending their operations along the
coast. Their camps dot the shore
from tho Sacramento river to Red-
Wood Slough. The boats used by
them aro regulation junks with la¬
teen-like sail. On shore the fisher¬
men have their boiling-tauks and dry¬
ing-houses. The fish aud shrimps are
put up in 200-poutid bags. Mud,
dirt, slime and seaweed aro boiled
With the shrimps, as though it wero
all an integral part of the product-
No attempt is made to separate tiie
filth from tho food, either at Hie boil¬
ing-tanks or in the sorting sheds.
Fishing in the hays, Hie State authori¬
ties often find Chinese craft with no
license abord. The crews on these
boats do the most damage to spawn¬
ing fish. One of the finest spawning-
grounds for flounders and sole and
smells in San Pedro Bay has been act¬
ually devastated by the rapacious yel¬
low fishermen.
THE ENTERPRISE.
CARNESVILLE FRANKLIN CO., GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11.1892.
Life and Lore.
Ah, Love! thou urt the azure sky,
And Life a summer cloud.
Which blends with thee tn rapture.
Within tby lovellght bowed.
And Life is like the ripples
Which spread across the lake)
Love is the depth beneath them
O’er which the ripples break.
love Is one long mellow breeze
On which light Life doth float—
Love~ah, yes, it is the oar,
And Life, it is the boat.
—[Boston Transcript.
IN SPITE OF HIMSELF.
BY HELEN FORKEST GRAVES.
“Mattie I Mattie I did you lake that
huckleberry pie out of the oven?
“Yes, Aunt Ann.”
“And the cup custards—you didn’t
forget the cup custards?”
“They’re all right, Aunt Ann.”
“Matty!” in an accent one degree
shriller than usual.
“YesI What is it?”
“There’s a tramp coming up the
back garden path. Send him about
his business.”
“Yes, Aunt Ann.”
Matty Vernor went valiantly to the
back door, prepared to do battle,
glancing tills way and that as she did
»o, to make sure that there was plenty
of boiling water on the stove, nndthat
the broom was handy, in case of
need.
“Well,” said Matty to herself, eye¬
ing the mass of rags on the doorstep,
“yon are a tramp. Nobody could
possibly mistake you for anything
else. What do you want?” she added
aloud.
“Could you spare me an old shirt,
young lady? or a suit of clothes? I’m
In great need—”
“That’s what you all say!” crispl/
Interrupted Matty. “I’m sure I don’t
know where you get all your rags
and tatters from. “Your’e just from
an hospital, I suppose. That’s the
next ohapter.”
But even as she spoke her woman¬
ly heart melted within her at tho sight
of the tired, pale face, the wretched
garb.
“No,” said lie, with a sigh, “I'm
not from the hospital.”
He was turning away, when she
recalled him.
“Wait a minute,” said she. “I’ll
go see what I can find.”
Bolting the door unceremoniously
in his face, she went to a store-room
opening out of the unused best par-
lor.
“I don’t care I” said Malty, arguing
with liorself with a certain fierce im¬
patience. “Uncle Job’s things have
lain here, of no use to anybody, since
be died. That poor fellow may as
well have them, I suppose.”
She came back presently with a
compact little bundle under her arm.
“There,” said site, flinging it out of
the window, “take it and bogonel
For,” she added to herself, “if Aunt
Ami should find out I’d been giving
away any of Uncle Job’s old traps—
Why, goodness mel he’s eaten up the
huckleberry pie aud the three cup cus¬
tards that I left to eool on the buttery
window-ledge! Here, give me back
those clothes! You shan’t have so
much as a rag I You don’t deserve
them!”
She had unbollod the door as she
spoke, and, with a quick, light move¬
ment, caught up ttie bundle before the
stanger could possess himself of it.
“I’m very sorry,” lie said, peni¬
tently, “but 1 was desperately hungry
and I didn’t stop to consider.”
“Didn’t slop to consider?” indig¬
nantly repoatod Matty, “No, I
should think not. You are a thief!
Do you hear that? Not only a vaga¬
bond, but a thief! And I should think
a great able-bodied scamp like you
would be ashamed to go begging and
8 tealing around the country. There I’’
Thus terminating her lecture with a
very expressive outburst, Matty once
more shut the door iii the poor, tired
face, aud resumed iter cccapation of
ironing out Aunt Ann’s Sunday lace
cap. “Matty! Matty!” called out the old
woman from above stairs, where she
was turning over the contents of a big
cedarwood chest.
“Yes, Aunt Ann l”
“Did you send the fellow pack-
ing?”
“Yes, I did.”
“That’s right — that’s right!”
chuckled Aunt Ann. “These stroll¬
ing beggars are getting to be a perfect
nuisance hereabouts.”
But as Matty fluted the borders of
lace with a quick, efficient hand,
thinking the while what she should do
replace the missing pie in time for
Aunt Ann’s dinner, a softer mood
came over her.
“Poor wretch!” she murmured to
herself. “Perhaps he was hungry.
H« aerUiolr did look sale and tired,
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
and bi» rags woro dreadful. I wish I
hadn’t snatched those clothes back. It
wasn’t real nice and ladylike of me,
now I come to think of it. I wish— 1 ’*
All of a sudden, Matty Vernor made
up her mind as sho hung Aunt Auu’s
lace cap on tho nail by the window.
She set her rosy lips together; her
eyes glistening determination.
Down through the golden gleam of
the ripening rye field went a little
curving patli close to the stone wall,
crossing the brook on a narrow plank,
and ofien losing itself in a wooded
copse, joined tho main road close to a
peaceful, willow-shaded graveyard.
Here ten minutes afterward, Matty
Vernor came upon the tired tramp
sit'ing on the stone wall, f
“Oh, here you are I’’ said she. 1 d
thought I should overtake you if 1
took ilie short-cut. I’ve brought you
a tin of coffee and some sandwichos
and a piece of liome-bakod ginger¬
bread. I’m sorry I spoke so cross to
you; but, you see. I was vexed to see
the dinner pie gone, and tho cup cus
iards, too. And here are the clothes.
I’m afraid you need them very much.
“Thank yon,” said tile man, deject¬
edly. “You see, I haven’t always—”
“Oh, never mind all that,” inter¬
rupted Matty, imperiously. “I know
about ‘having seen better days,’ and
that sort of thing. But yon really
ought to be a little more particular
about the truth.”
Unconsciously Matty bad fallen
into tho air that she adopted when she
was haranguing her Sunday-school
class. Her bright eyes sparkled; she
emphasized each point by tapping her
foot on tho gtouud and lifting her
berry-stained forefinger in the air.
“Yes, but—”
“You should go to work,” said the
girl. “You can’t expect always to
tramp about the couutry. It will end,
sooner or later, in the county jail, and
you are too smart-looking a man to
bring up like that.”
The inau, eating his bread and ment
and drinking hie coffee, listened meek¬
ly until sho stopped for sheer lack of
breath.
“Yes,” said he, with a sigh. “But,
you see, I'm not a tramp. Oh, I
know appearances are agaiust me I”
as Matty’s glance reverted to his
wretched tatters; “but I really am
not a tramp You see—”
The sound of approaching wagon
wheels startled the girl.
“Oh, I dare say I” said she. “But
I really can’t stay any longer talking.
I must get back. Here’s a quarter
for you. Mind you don’t spend it for
beer.”
And flinging the coin towards him
—it missed its aim aud rolled to the
foot of old Deacon Jobley’s grave¬
stone. whence the man rescued it with
prompt dispatch—she vanished back
into the wood-path aud was seen no
more.
Half an hour later, Squire Somer¬
set, examining a pile of law papers in
ills office, was startled by the suddeu
appearance of a tall figure in liis door-
way.
“Nothing for you, my man—go
along!” said he curtly, without look¬
ing up.
“That’s always the way!” sighed a
resigned voice, “It’s ‘Move oui’
wherever 1 go. But I’ve ‘moved on’
just about far enough, old man!”
And he perched himself composedly
on the office desk.
Tiie squire stared.
“The voice.” said he, “is tiie voice
of Frank Atherton, and the counte¬
nance also beareth witness thereto!
But the faded corduroys and the vel¬
veteen coat are Hie coat and corduroys
of old Job Vernor, who died two
years ago. Old fellow” (clasping
him cordially by both hands) “you’ro
welcome! "Where on earth did you
drop from? For—not to disguise the
truth—I honestly did take you for a
tramp 1”
“I meaut to give you a surprise,”
said Mr. Atherton, still in the same ac-
cent of melancholy composure. “And
I’ve every reason to think that I have
succeeded. I left Wyndale to walk
into Glen’s Falls, and a mile or so be¬
low here the river meandering through
the woods looked so enticing that I
ventured on a bath, just at sunrise.
Unfortunately, however. I was not
the earliest bird going. Some deep-
dyed villain, while I was disporting
myself in the lucid element, stole my
clothes leaving a mass of dirty rags
behind. Then I was a tramp iti spite
of myself, and such a lecture I got
from a pretty maiden at a farmhouse
on the road! However, she gave me
something to eat, between her pieces
of advice, also this wardrobe, and
when the express delivers my trunk, I
shall be all right—Richard will, be
himself again 1”
“She gave you those clothes?”
“She did.”
“Then,” said Squire Somerset, slap¬
ping the table until the legal docn-
nients flew in all directions over the
floor' “you’ve been lectured by Matty
Vernor, the prettiest girl in town—
old Job’s niece, and the owner of a
pair of superb black eyos and tho best
farm in Warren Couutyl”
“Yes.” mournfully accoded Atlior-
ton. “Sho told mo that I ought to go
to work, and then threatened mo with
the county jail, and finally—bless her
dear little heart!—ended up by giving
mo—this!”
Ho produced from the pocket of
Uncle Job Vernor** trowsers a silver
quarter.
Tho squire grinned broadly.
“Here comes the express delivery
now with your box,” said he. “And
a good thing for yon, Atherton, for,
iny wife is going to h*vo a tennis par¬
ty here this afternoon, and Malty
Vernor is (lie champion player. You
can handle a racquet, can’t you, old
man?’’
“Itathet,” said Mr. Atherton.
Malty Vernor came to Hie tennis
party in pale pink albatross cloth, cut
after a semi-masculine fashion that
was eminently calculated to drive any
one mad.
But when Mrs. Somerset presented
her to Mr. Atherton from Now York,
sho changed color and started a little.
“Yes,” said Mr. Atherton, in his
gentle, mournful way, “you’ro right.
It’s the same person. Huckleberry
plo, you know—cup costards.”
“But—” hesitated Mutty, in a be¬
wildered manlier.
“You see, you wouldn’t allow me
to explain,” reasoned he. “You were
determined I should be a tramp. I
couldn’t get any innings then, but
now’s my time. Pleaso may I mako
an unprejudiced statement?”
Matty listened to his explanation,
coloring like a rose.
She would like to have run away,
but she had not sufficient moral com"
age to do so.
“And I gave you Uncle Job's old
clothes,” said she wringing her hands
in despair.
“You never can know how accept¬
able they were,” avowed Atherton.
“And some bread-and-beef sand¬
wiches I”
“Ambrosia and nectar couldn’t have
tasted better. And tho cup-custards—
don’t forget the cup-custards and the
huckleberry-pie. I was so indescrib¬
ably hungry, Miss Vernor.”
“Aud the quarter of a dollar—my
last quarter 1 You’ll give me back
that quarter, Mr. Atherton?” said
Matty, with a spice of iter old mis¬
chief.
“Never!” said Atherton. “I’ll part
with that silver coin only with my
life.”
Matty dropped Iter head.
“How I did lecture youl” said she.
“How insolent I must have ap¬
peared !”
“Not in the least,” said Atherton.
“Your advice was exactly suited to
tho occasion, if only I had been a
tramp. But I wasn’t.”
“Wo are waiting to play, Matty I”
cried Mrs. Somerset.
“Colne on, Atherton!” bawled bis
host. “Do you mean to keep us wait¬
ing all day?”
“Please,” whispered Matty, catch-
ing up her racquet, “will you forgive
me?”
“A thousand times over!” Atherton
answered.
“George,” said Mrs. Somerset that
night, when Matty Vernor was gone
and Atherton had bidden them good
night, “our guest and dear littlo
Matty seemed very much taken with
each other. He’s rich, and ought to
have a wife, and Matty is such a
darling! Only suppose they should
fall in love!”
“I wonder,” said Mr. Somerset,
solemnly, “if the woman ever was
born who wasn’t a thorough-goiug
matchmaker.—[Saturday Night.”
The Lightest Metal.
“Some people seem to think that
aluminum is the lightest metal in tho
world,” said a gentleman who deals
in all the fancy articles now made of
that commodity, “but that is a mis¬
take. The specific weight of magne¬
sium is only one-third of that of alu¬
minum, and is even more hard and
durable. It is not as useful, however*
as it catches fire very easily, even at
the open hearth. It is not destined to
crowd the popularity of aluminum,
although up to a short time ago it was
even the cheaper of the two.”—[Cin¬
cinnati Commercial.
Tlie Father Improving.
Mother—Have you heard how Mr.
Spanker is this morniag?’
Sma'.i Son—Oh, he’« all right. He’s
getting well fast.”
“Who told yon?”
“No ono.”
“Then how do you know?”
“His little hoys his begun to hear
w’en their mother calls.’’---[Good
News
ORIENTAL SHOPS.
' Life the
Curious Pictures of in
Bazars of Cairo.
A Confusion of Articles Use¬
ful and Ornamental.
The appearance of Oriental shops is
well kuowu. A square cavity hol¬
lowed out of u wall two feet above
the ground, that is a shop at Cairo.
Strictly speaking, it is nothing more
than a largo rectangular niche open¬
ing on to the street, with no way out
either at the hack or tho sides, iu
whicli, instead of a statue, is a mer¬
chant squatting amongst liis wares, or
a workman at his task. Those shops,
instead of being scattered about in
different streets, as in Europe, are all
together at cermiit corners; and when
(lie corners are roofed in, they become
a bazar. For there fa not at Cairo a
special structure for protecting those
shops, as thoro is at Constantinople or
at Tunis.
All theso shops make curious pict¬
ures. There behind a mass of pols
and pans, dishes and plates of red and
yellow copper—some black and rusty
with age, others spick aud span with
newness, with hero and there gleams
of the red or straw-colored gold so
dear to painters of still-life subjects—
an Arab is busy at repousso-work. Ids
hammering making a deafening noise
which is heard afur off. Egyptian
metal work is very fine, with a dignity
all its own, and the common ewer in
use amongst the poorest is of really
extraordinary beauty of style.
Further on we come to a collection
of red, black, or gray earthen-ware;
cheap stovos, pipes, and vases, en¬
graved with ornaments in intaglio,
painted blue or red. This common
Egyptian pottery disdained, I know
not why, by dealers in Oriental ware,
is extremely interesting. Its shape is
often grand, and the forms found in
Egyptian tombs have been preserved.
Next, gleaming like a border of jon¬
quils and poppies with its masses of
red and yellow, is a shoe-shop, a
regular flower bod for color.
And in tho midst of a confusion of
Turkish slippers iu scarlet or saffron
leather crouches the cobbler stitching
away or drilling liolos with his awl.
The bazar, par excellence, is broken
up in an extraordinary manner. Fan¬
cy an alley so short that it is barely
two hundred paces long; so twisted
that you can only see a scrap of it at
a time; so narrow that tiie houses
seem to be scowling at and ready to
fall upon their opposite neighbors;
and beneath the dull-hued loan-io
walls, in every nook and corner, are
shops full of dazzling objects; many-
colored Oriental stuffs, figured bro¬
cades, dainty Arab jewelry, gleaming
daggers and sabres, ancient damas¬
cened helmets, silver wino bottles,
spread out or piled up for sale. And
amidst this confusion of stuffs,
weapons, and jewels in glass cases, or
of unfolded silks, is the merchant,
squatiiog in tile shadow and smoking
with absolute indifference, his dreamy
eyes gazing forth in a kind of
ecstacy of melancholy, whilst be¬
fore him, in the transparent bowl of
liis nargilen, at eacli breath he draws,
floats a regular flotilla of rose leaves,
dancing, whirling round, and suffer¬
ing shipwreck amongst the big bab¬
bles on the surface. Tlicso shrewd
old merchants really look like poets
lost iu the third heaven of blissful
contemplation.
Immediately after sunset the life and
motion of Cairo cease, and it is a rare
thing to meet a native returning home
on a dark night with a white paper
lantern in Ids hand, or to see an Arab
cafe still lit up, and with the candles
hung up round the door, making a
brightness in the deserted street.
— [Harper’s Bazar.
Valuable Moss.
Tho valuable moss of Florida, says
Harry Bomford, abounds in the ham¬
mocks and back lands. It is gathered
chiefly by colored men. In its natural-
state it hangs in festoons from the
trees in strands from one to five feet
in length. The moss is gathered by
pulling it from the trees with long
poles, or by cutting the trees down
and then removing it. The moss is
buried in the earth for about a month,
after which it is dug up and is dried
and shaken and sold to the local moss
dealers for $1 per hundred pounds.
It is then run through a machine
called a gin, which is nothing more
than a cylinder covered with three-
inch spikes revolving between a roll of
similar stationary spikos. The action
of these spikes is to knock out some
of the dirt and trash, but it does not
complete the job. It is then shaken
over a rack formed of parallel bars,
afrer which it i» Dressed into bales of
about 200 pounds each. Some of the
moss works do all this work by hand,
except tho ginning. The moss, after
having gone through the above pro¬
cess, brings from $2.50 to $8 per
hundred pounds.
If, instead of allowing it to remain
in tho earth for one month, it is left
thcro for threo months, tho entire
bark of tho moss is pulled off and
there remains a beautiful black liber
almost exactly like hair. The hair
tnoss brings from $5 to $7 per hun¬
dred pound..
Mr. Bomford suggests (lie trout*
ir.cnt of tliis moss us a good field for
invention. He thinks a machine could
he made which would take off the
bark, leaving the fiber, without tho
necessity of burying the moss for so
long a lime in the earlb.—[Scientific
American.
Tools Used in the Pyramids.
During a residence of two years in
a tomb at Gizeh Wilhelm M. Fdttdcr*
Petrie collected evidence allowing that
the tools used in working stono 4000
years ago were made with the jewelled
cutting edges, as in tho modern cus.
tom. lie has stated liis reasons for
coming to those conclusions, and
proves in a very satisfactory manner
that the pyramid builders used solid
and tubular drills, straight and circu¬
lar saws and many oilier supposed
modern tools in erecting that greatest
of buildings. He also shows that
their lathe tools woro set with jewels,
and that they did work wiih them that
would puzzle the modern artisan. In
one place ho found where ttio line* of
cill ting on a granite cove made by a
tubular drill form n uniform depth
throughout, sliowiug that tho cutting
point was not worn as the work ad¬
vanced.
Tho regular taper of the coro would
also go to prove that tho drill was sot
with jewels on tho Inside and on the
outside aliko, thereby facilitating its
removal. In some specimens of
granite lie found that the drill had
sunk one-tenth of an inch at each re¬
volution, tho pressure necessary to
accomplish this have been at least two
tons. Tho capacity of the tools and
tho skill of Hie workmen aro illustra¬
ted by tho clean cut they made
through soft and hard materials alike,
there being no difference In tho width
of tho groove when it passes through
soft sin dstone and granite hard as
iron. Nothing is known concerning
tho material of which their tools wero
made nor how the jewols were sot.
The diamond was very scarce at that
time, therefore the only logical con¬
clusion is that they used corundum.—
[Chicago Times.
Restoring Breath in I)es|>erate Cases.
Anybody may be called upon to af¬
ford assistance to drowned persons
while Hie doctor is bciug sent for, and
Professor L.iborde’s simple method
for restoring breath when all oilier
means have failed deserves to be uni¬
versally known.
Tiie other day at a watering place
in Normandy two bathers, a young
man and a boy, who were unable to
swim, went out of their depth and
disappeared. They wero brought on
shore inanimate and were taken to tiie
village. Two doctors were sent for,
but Hie young men gave no sign of
life, and they were declared dead.
M. Laborde, who was fishing at
half an hour’s distance, came up os
soon as lie heard of the accident. He
examined the body and found that the
extremities were cold and the heart
had stopped. Then taking hold of
the root of the tongue he drew it vio¬
lently forward, giving it a succession
of jerks in order to excite the reflex
action of the breathing apparatus,
which is always extremely sensitive!
says the London News. At the end
of a few minutes a slight hiccough
showed that the patient was saved.
In addition to the usual restorative
means, Professor Laborde in extreme
cases rubs the chest with towels
soaked in nearly boiling water.
Some Spanish Practices.
The Spanish shepherds practiced
marking their lamb9 by branding the
nose with a hot iron.
Shearing time came in May. One
hundred and fifty men wore employed
to shear 1000 sheep; each man was
expected to shear eight per day; but
if ram», only five. The sheep stood
on llieir feet while being sheared. For
a lime after shearing they were care¬
fully housed from storms and the
chilling air of the night. The flocks
were not permitted to eat the grass
while the dew was on it, nor were
they suffered to drink out of brook or
of standing water wherein hail had
fallen, experience haviug taught them
that on such occasions they are iu
danger of losing them all. — [Ameri¬
can Farmer.
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—oar the—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
To-Morrow.
When Father Time,
Now old and gray,
Was in hi* prime,
I’ve oft’ heard say,
Hi* one quest w»* to-morrow.
With Eve he talked
The matter o’er,
With Adam walked,
Hie spirit aore—
His search was one of *orrow.
From Jordan’s tide
To far Cathay;
By Tiber's side
In t'nssar'* day,
Fresh trouble he would borrow;
For where lie went,
’Twas all in vain,
Fast time was spent,
To-day was plain—
But where, where wu to-morrow?
Anil so wc sec
Him gray and old,
Ami so he’ll be ->
Through years untold,
There’s no ease for his sorrow.
Go where he may,
He’ll simply find
Just plain to-day.
Which lags behind
That false mirage—to-morrow.
-[It. L. Hendrick, In Youth’s Companion,
HUMOROUS.
Driven to drink—Artesian wells.
It can be said of the feminine
fashion of suspenders that it is hold-
iug up.
“I think that young man’s conduct
•imply shocking.” “That’s all right;
it’s professional with him. lie’s an
»U;ctneian.”
She—Do you love mo for myself
alone? He—Yes, and when we’re
married I don’t want any of your
family thrown in.
Johnny—What did your mother
whip you for, Jimmy ? Jimmy—Eatin’
green fruit. Johnny—Who gave ye
away? Jimmy—The doctor.
Tho gentleman so ofton mentioned
in novels, who riveted people with his
gnzo, lias now obtained permanent
employment at a boiler manufactory.
Said the lecturer: “The roads up
these mountains arc too steep and
rocky for even a donkey to climb;
therefore I did not attempt the as¬
sent-
Yabsley—Do they set pretty appe¬
tizing meals at your house. Roddy?
Reddy—Appetizing? Ob, yes. A fel¬
low gets up hungrier than when besat
down. 4k
Miranda (sobbing)—It is better in
every way that wo should part, dear
Orlando. Orlando (in n choked voice)
—Only in one way, dearest. Miran*
da—Yes, beloved? Orlando (over-
ooinc with emotion)—it So ciicaper,
darling.
“Did you go on that trout fishing
excursion?’ “I did.” “Did vou fish
witli flies?” “Fish with flies? Yes,
we fished with them, camped with
them, dined with them, slept with
them—why, man, they almost ate us
alivo!”
“Your husband,” said the caller,
eympaUietically, “was a man of ox-
cellent qualities.” “Yes,” sighed the
widow, “he was a good man. Every-
body says so. I wasn’t much ac-
qualified with him myself. He be¬
longed to six clubs and as many
lodges.”
Higher Council of Labor.
A British consular report gives an
account of the new “Higher Council
of Labor” which has come into exist¬
ence in Belgium. The object of tho
aew body is to form a permanent
centre for the local councils of indus¬
try aud labor, and to act as the Inter¬
mediary between thorn and the Gov¬
ernment; it will also advise Hie au¬
thorities in regard to labor iegMafion
and labor questions generally. It is
composed of 48 members, 16 repre¬
senting employers and 16 workmen,
while the remaining 16 are selected
for special knowledge of economic
questions, nil being, in the first in¬
stance, nominated by the Crown.
They are appointed for four years,
after which time it is hoped that tiie
organization of tho local labor coun¬
cils will have improved so as to be
capable of electing the representatives
of the employers and workmen. Tho
members during sessious are to re¬
ceive $1.20 a day and traveling ex¬
penses. The first subjects for discus¬
sion are ttie application of the law of
1889, regulating the work of women
and children, apprenticeships, techni¬
cal education, insurance against acci.
dents, etc. The names of the first
members have been published by
royal decree, but it appears that tho
Socialists among the workmen are not
satisfied because they think that the
clerical element is unduly represented.
Another Socialist has resigned because
his party, which is in a majority in
the local, is in a minority in the higher
councils. Further trouble from this
source is inevitable.