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THE PIEDMONT REPUBLICAN. VOL.IL POETRY. WEEK OLD-WEE COLD-WEAK OLD. [For a con-bination of pathos and humor, ths following, purporting to be tbo wail of a father over his buried boy, is to say the least, Tery peculiar.] Close nettled in his his mother's arms, His cheeks as red as roses, With eyes of Heaven's bluest blue, , And snubbiest of noses— Close nestled >l> his mother's arms, My “Week Old’ ’ boy reposes. Fast mouldering on the hill-side green, Where myrtles bloom, and roses, His baby-brother sleeps—I ween No arm iiis form incloses; Fast mouldering on the hill-side green, My "Wee Cold” boy reposes, Sweet slumberer in loving arms— Dear dreamer 'ueath the rotes— May I as free from all alarms Best, when this brief life closes— When, mouldering on the hill-side green, This “Weak Old” boy reposes. A ROMANTIC STORY. Both the Parker boys, Robert and Marry, were treated like equals by itheie father and mother. In the little village where the good old man lived there was a snmmer hotel, which was patronized considerably during the season, young Harry Packer often taking his meals there. A young girl named Lockwood, the daughter of a respectable citizen liv¬ ing near the village, came in to as¬ sist waiting on the table. The frequency of Harry Packer’s meals at the hotel attracted some at tendon, and his brother Robert, or “Bob,” as he was familiarly and af¬ fectionately called by almost all who ever knew him, said one day before the father that Harry was sweet on a Sittle girl down at the hotel, and was the reason he did not come to his meals regularly. Harry colored up a little, and after they had finished their breakfast the old Judge seated himself on the front porch, which overlooks Maunch Chunk an d gives such a magnificent view of the Lehigh Valley—the moving boats and trains which his own industry bad created and brought together. The old gentleman said. “Harry, who is this girl Robert refers to ?” “Miss Lockwood, the daughter of a man you know very well.” “Are you going to marry her, Harry?” said the Judge. “I have some notion of it, father,” •said Harry. “Well, Wait until I go down and see her,” said the Judge, and picking up his his old white hat ?nd cane the Judge quietly ambled down to the hotel and asked for Miss Lockwood. She innocently came to the office of the hotel with her dining-room apron on, and seated herself beside the Judge. Just what he said to her, or she to him, will never be exactly known, unless she tells it; but when the Judge came out he was smiling and appeared mighty well pleased. He went home and found Harry still sitting on the porch where he had left him. By this time the Judge’s face had resumed its usual grave hut kind expression. “Well, Harry,” he said, “that is a very nice girl down there, but she has no money. We must raise her some.” The eld Judge put down his me¬ morandum for $50,000, the mother and the others for $25,000 each, and this 150,000 was placed in the hank to the exclusive and immediate cred¬ it of Miss Lockwood; the engage¬ ment was announced, the wedding day fixed, the marriage took place, and Harry Packer got the girl lie liked.—Pittsburg Post. A NOVEL CHALLENGE Rival Candidates to Plow Ten Acaes The Democrat- of Maryland have nominated an Allianceman for Gov¬ ern oj ; Col. Van Nort, the Repub¬ lican candidate for Governor, is very confident of being elected. He says he will challenge Frank Brown, his Democratic opponent, to joint debate on the stump, 3nd also to plow ten acres of ground in order.to show the voters of Maryland which has. the best claim to be considered a farmer candidate. “THE lUOl THE COIOT* I'lE 1 IIS HI OFOBCBifllT Of THE LAWS." JASPER. GEORGIA/ SATURDAY OCTOBER 3. 1891. A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. A Norwegian Sea Captain Weds a Brunswick Girl. Marriages are the sensation of the day m Brunswick ju-t now. A few nights ago a romantic and novel ceremony was consummated in Judge Coker’s office between Capt. Carl Garseu of the Norwegian hark Adele, and Miss Janie Skipper of Brunswick, a 15-year-old girl—buxom, and pret¬ ty as a picture. The Norwegian’s friends were witnesses, and to the last endeavored tr persuade the cap tain not, failed. They urged his y , for of such he is ; pleaded u ealtliy parents, but Carl was obsti^ te and captured his bride. By appointment they met while Jane’s parents watched for her presence at their home; but now she is on board a ship bound for foreign shores, and Carl says death alone can separate them. Carl is rich, his father owning a half interest in a fleet of vessels and steamers, and stands high in rank at his home. Their son will in¬ herit a title with an immense estate unless this marrage causes a split. He was placed in command of the ship to keep him out of wild frolics, and now masters a vessel that once cruised in China’s waters where cannous were needed to keep pirates away. The night of the marriage the esnnons boomed, while from every yard arm the merry Sailors shot off fireworks in honor of their captain’s bride ; and the next day the Cupid-buccaneer sailed away from Brunswick with the prize he had captured. THE WANING ALLIANCE. Big Crops In Kansas Killing It. A Leavenworth man who lias just returned from a trip through Kansas very flattering reports from all sections. Said he: “The crops are immense. Corn-cutting is now in progress, but not much is being cut, as the fine stand ofgrass has enabled the farmers to put up an immense amount of hay for feed, the crop be¬ ing the largest and finest for many Wheat is turning out better than expected. All kinds of stock in splendid condition, and force for market has already be¬ Speaking of politics he said: “As as the Alliance is concerned it is losing ground. The speeches calamity prophecies of the Alli¬ politicians are becoming a laugh¬ stock with the people. The good and large crops are the strong¬ of arguments in repudiating their Mrs. Lease and Jerry never fail to raise a laugh. “The Democrats are massing them¬ under their old flag, while the are working might and to keep their organization intact. the Alliance keeps on losing at the same rate it will cut little figure m 1892. Sixty mil¬ bushels of wheat and 250,000,000 of corn will accomplish its as it only flourishes in cal years, while prosperity and now are Kansas’ lot.” UNIQUE MANTEL ORNAMENT. On Chauncey M. Depew’s mantel, the reception room of his elegant home on Fi fty-fourth street, there is a miniature locomotive of burnished silver and gold, the workman¬ on which is simply marvelous. It is perfect in every detail, and forms the setting for a clock and barometer. I am told that Mr. Depew is particu¬ that the clock shall be kept wound; if he goes into the room to meet and finds that it is not running, will not stay there to talk with but has them pass into his li¬ or jparlor, while lie sends for a and has the clock set a-going. Shallow water makes most din. MONEY IN SUGAR BEETS. Profitable Crop of Nebraska Farmers. The sugar beet factory at Norfolk, Nebraska, is rapidly advancing to completion. Over 100 car-loads of machinery have been received, most¬ ly imported from Europe, but the boilers were made iu this country. The estimated expense is ¥500,000. Over 2,800 acres are m beet cultiva¬ tion, and much ot' the crop is now laid by. The frequent lains since June 1 greatly retarded thinning and weeding. Over 200 hands have been kept steadily at work when the weather would permit. It is stated that at an average of one pound to a beet the yield in good fields will be 34 tons per acre. At $4 a ton this moderate estimate will make it a very paying crop. So encouraged is Mr. Oxford that he offers to duplicate the factory in case the people at Norfolk will guar¬ antee 5,000 acres of beets in 1892. The effect on business prospects in the city is very marked All vacant houses are filled, and good wages are paid every man, woman and child that has a mind to work. Common field hands receive $1,50 to $2 a day An electric railroad from the city to the factory is to be constructed. [This is an industry our North Georgia farmers could engage in to their advantage. The soil and climate of this mountain country are favorable, and the business, as the above fgures show, is profitable. Besides, the government pays two cents bounty on the sugar made.— Ed. Republican.] A HORSE’S GRIEF. There is a pathetic story about High Tariff, the colt that fell dead in the race for the American Derby at Chicago, and his companion-colt Poet Scout. The latter was to make the running for High Tariff, which he did, but High Tariff fell dead at the end of a mile, and Strathmeath won the race. Mr. Easton said that High Tariff was the best colt he ever owned. He thought that he could have won the race sure. Poet Scout and High Tariff were nearly full brothers in blood, and were never separated from the time fhey were weaned. They ran in the lot, and were kept in adjoining stalls, with a board removed so that they could see each other. In the evening after the race, Poet Scout looked for his dead companion. He would not eat, but would walk around his stall and look out at the door. He whinnied all night, and for days would look in vain for his mate. When his feed was put in his box he would take a mouthful of oats and run to the door and whinny, but High Tariff never came. Poet Scout is a changed horse, and all connected with the stable say that he grieved as much as any hu¬ man being grieved at the death of a brother.—New York Tribune. FRUITS OF REPENTANCE. He walked in and put down a dol¬ lar, he did, a silver dollar that clanked like 'a carriage wheel in the stillness of the sanctum. Said he; “There, take it and credit my subscription, quick.” “What’s the matter? we asked. “Well,” said he, “last weeK I was fishing, a thunderstorm came up and it rained and thundered, and lightning flashed all around me. I crawled into a hollow log to escape it. The rain made the log swell up until I was fastened in and nearly squeezed to death. I began to to think of all my sius and to repent. Suddenly I remembered that my subscription to the Republican was not settled up, and I felt so small about it that I was able to back right out of the log at once.” Precepts may load, but examples draw. AN AMBITIOUS GOBBLER. He Wanted to Hatch a Crop Of Watermelons. Mr. James Grier, who lives near Dawson, Ga., has a turkey gobbler that \* a curiosity. Mr. Grier’s tur¬ keys consisted of two hens and the gobbler. The hens made nests about seventy-five yards apart in Mr, Grier’s melon patch, laid their nest full of eggs and went to setting. The gob¬ bler got lonesome, and concluded that the proper thing for him to do was to set also. lie got an equal distance between the two turkey hens, squat¬ ted over a guinea watermelon and set for six weeks before he was dis¬ covered. Mr Grier thought that his gobbler had been stolen, and was utterly astonished when he found him in the patch trying to hatch out young watermelons. A STUDY FOR BOYS. The life of Charles O’Oon nor the eminent lawyer, shows what diligence and perseverance will accomplish. When eight years old, l.e was an office boy and a newspaper carrier. His father published a weekly news¬ paper, and Charles, besides attending in the office, delivered the journal to its subscribers in New York, Brook¬ lyn, and Jersey City. He used a skiff to cross the rivers, and frequently would be out all Saturday night sei ving his route. It is said that he never lost a subscriber. When seventeen years old, he en¬ tered a lawyer’s office as an errand boy. He borrowed law books, took them home and read thorn by the light of a candle far into the night. Several lawyers, noticing the boy’s industry, aided him in his studies. When he was twenty-four years old, he was admitted to the bar, and even then it was said that young O’Connor’s legal opinion was worth more than that of many other law yers. But success comes slowly'to a young lawyer, and it was not until his thirtieth year that clients recognized the legal learning and skill of young O’Connor. He was very* poor, but industry and ability were his capital. He worked hard at the smallest ease, never slighting any trust, and in time secured the reputation of a man who would do' his best for those employ¬ ing him. To this conscientiousness and industry he owed his success. DAKOTA IN MOURNING. Order thirteen hundred thousand yards of mourning goods for North Dakota. That is a great country for barley. Nearly three million bushels of a prime article were raised there last year. Now come the brewers ot Minnesota in line and declare that henceforth and forever they will not buy barley grown ir. a prohibition state. This a terrible threat, and North Dakota should at once drape the legs of her farmers in habiliments of woe. But there is no law compel¬ ling farmers to raise barley! In fact, the world could be as well off were barley stricken from the list. They can raise other grains, fruits, beans, homes and sober children. They can raise school houses and the standard of morality. They can raise the rate of happiness of wives and mothers, and thus let in more of sun¬ shine into the coming man. Still, if they do raise barley, it is good for chicken a, horses, and for bread. Its bread is a little rough, but not so rough as the declining years and the future of a drunkard. It makes very nutritious bread and bis¬ cuit, and when mixed wjth oat meal and corn meal in the right propor¬ tion of each it is fit for an angel, and a thousand times better than is the job lot of stuff givin to paupers after they have run out in their great work of augmenting the dejuand for barley.-Pomercrjr’s Advance Thought, . tt - ~"h~: : Lady merchants generally make ’good advertiser—her*. OUR SUN. A Small Body Compared With A returns. There are well-defined classes of stars, judged by quality of light they yield. In the first-class are the clear white and bluish white stars, like Sirius and Vega. These are supposed to be the hot¬ test stars and the most - luminous in proportion to the extent of their surface. Then there are the golden yellow or pale orange stars, of which Arcturus and Capella are tine exam¬ ples. These have begun to cool. Final¬ ly, we have the deep orange and red stars like Aldebaran and An tares. These have advanced still further in the cooling process. Now the spectroscope informs us that our sun belongs to the orange or Arcturus type, and if we could view it from distant Hpace we should see a lovely star of a pale golden yellow. The question arises, then, how far would our sun have to be removed in order to shine with a brightness no greater than that of Arcturus ? According to Mr. Maunder it would have to be removed to 140,000 times its present distance, or about half the distance between us and Alpha Centauri. But Arcturus is 11,500,000 times as far away us the sun, and if our sun where placed at that enormous distance its diameter would have to be eighty-two times as great in order to give a light equal to that received from Arcturus. I hesitate to present such liguars, implying magnitudes far beyond any to which we have been accustom¬ ed, yet they are but the logical de ductionvf of observed facts. In other words, upon Mr. Maun der’s reasonable assumption, Arcturus must be a gigantic sphere 520,000 times larger than our sun, with a di¬ ameter of 70,000,000 miles, or more than large enough to till the entire orbit of Mercury. To make this contrast clearer let us institute a simple comparison. Ju¬ piter is larger than all the other planets and satellites of the solar system. The sun is a little more than 1, 000 times larger than Jupiter: but Arcturus, if our information is cor¬ rect, is 520,000 times larger than the s«n. By the side of such a majestic orb our sun, grand and overwhelming as it it in our own system, Would dwin¬ dle to an insignificant star. Contemplating a world so vast en¬ dowed with such mighty energies and rushing with such resistless force through the great deeps of space, we cannot resist the question: Whence came this blazing world? Whither is it bound? What is its' mission and destiny? Is it simply a visitor to our side¬ real galaxy, rushing fariousl y through it like a comet? Is it being constant¬ ly fed and enlarged by the worlds it encounters and the meteoric matter it gathers up in its wonderful journey? What would be the effect if it chanced to pass through the nebula ora star cluster? Was the new star which suddenly blazed forth in the nebula of Andromed in 1876 due to a similar cause ? , As this mighty aggregation of at¬ tractive energies sweeps along his celestial path, thickly bordered with stellar worlds, how many of those worlds will yield forever to his disturbing forces? How many will be swerved from their appointed courses by his irresis¬ tible power ? How many will plunge into his fiery bosom and be swallow¬ ed up as a pebble is swallowed up by the ocean ?—Scientific American. Costumer—-This coat dosen’t fit; it’s too tight .across the breast. Tailor—You tf^nt to: take about fifty dollars out of your inside pocket ' and it’ll be all right. NUMBER 28. TROUBLE TURK ATE MED. Longshoremen Out On A Strike iu Savannah. Twenty thousand ball cartridges are in Savannah —five thousand hav¬ ing been sent this week—for uso by the militiary of the city in case of an emergency arising out of the threat¬ ened strike of the colord longshore¬ men—laborers on the wharves and vessels. The walking delegates of the long¬ shoremen’s organization waited on the officials at the Ocean steamship ani Savannah, Florida and Wescrn railway wharves on Sunday, and noti¬ fied them that the longshoremen wanted 20 cents an hour for their services hereafter, instead of 15 cents. The demand was refused. The delegates then threatened trouble. They said the men they represented would not work for less than 20 cents an hour, nor would they allow any others to take their places except hv walking over their bodies. After consulting with Lieutenant Colonel Peter Reilley and Colonel William Garrard, Mayor McDonough requested Colonel Reilley to tele¬ graph Governor Northeu for 5,000 ball cartriges, to be ready to meet any demonstrarton in the nature of a riot. The telegram was sent at once, and the requisition was honored by the governor. There are now 20,000 cartridges in possession of the military and police, and it wouldn’t be well for either the longshoremen or any one else to start a riot at the present time. At midnight (Sunday night,) Ser¬ geant Muse, of the Central railroad force, carried all the rifles belonging to his department from the barracks to the wharf, together with a quanti¬ ty of ammunition. This was done as a precautionary measure. A wagon was used to convey the firearms to the wharf. PROSPEROUS DAKOTA. Mr. John W. Dwight of Tompkins county, New York, has a great farm of 60,000 acres in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. In a recent con¬ versation in regard to that State Mr. Dwight said: “ There has never been such a period of prosperity for North Dako¬ tans as now. The crops of this year will sell for more money than ail the land on which they were raised would have brought on sale last spring. With a population of only 200,000 people, the crops of this State will bring between $45,000,00^ and $50,000,000 into their pockets, at the lowest estimate of prices. There were 3,000,000 acres of wheat from which at least 50,000,000 bush¬ els have been produced. The price of wheat there now is eihgty cents. Then there is considerable barley, oats, and some coin. There are ful¬ ly a million sheep on the ranges— something new for this section. “As a result of this prosperous condition of things,” continued Mr. Dwight, “the farmers in North Da¬ kota are paying off their debts and looking comfortable and happy. The older settlers, who were out of debt, are buying more land to extend their operations. The hank deposits at Fargo have increased 40 per cent, in twelve months, and every dollar of the increase is home money. In Fargo, Wahpeton, Grand Forks and lied River there is no house vacant, and no real estate agent in either place has one to rent. There never has been 1 such prosperity in that country since I have known it, or in the memory of the oldest inhabitant of my acquaintance there.” Therd is a genuine case of the office seeking the man in Kentucky. Heis a country Postmaster, and has absconded with $100 worth of stamps. An .old maid’s favorite musical injtument—Cast-a-net.