SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. General Miles disapproves of the plan I*> cousolidatc Statu militia with tho regular army. AVlicn American farmers do business with Europe, brags the Philadelphia llemrd, they do it on a large scalo. It -will take 8100,000,000 to pay for tho wheat which France will this year bo compelled to secure from this country. !No\v Russia, following the example of 15nglam], Germany, France, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland, has adopted a magazine guu for the armies. "The United States has yet to fall in line," comments the New York .Vail and Ex jrrcj&. The Treasury officers at San Francisco have rejected papers presented at that port by Chinamen seeking admission to the country, as certificates of identiflea tiou.issued by the Chinese Government, in/compliance with Section six of the Re striction Act adopted nine years ago. This section provided that all Chinese, other than laborers, to be permitted to enter the country, should show a Gov ern meat certificate properly identifying them. Chinameu have not attempted to avail themselves of this provision until within the hist few months. Tho port officers suspected that the papers offerod were forgeries, and have sinco ascer tained that such documents, forged and bearing an imitation of the imporial seal of China, have been sold to Chinamen coming to this country for from $330 to §3OO. The rapid, the startling growth of tho debt of Canada, states the Neie England Mii/jazine, which has increased from $78,209,742 in 1870, to $238,000,000 in 1890, with a population almost at a standstill and a stagnant trade, lias struck calm, impartial observers with the idea that there has been something wrong in the government of a peaceful young Btate of enormous extent aud great nat ural resources. Of course, a large por tion of this debt was incurred for the construction of railways, improvement of canals, and similar political and commer cial works; but tho results or returns do not compensate for the vastness of the new debt, with its oppressive load of in terest. They freely comment upon the fact that while the United States have reduced their debt from $59 to $10.50 per head iu twenty years Canada has run up her's from s2l to sl7. A young student at the Nichols Latin School at Lewistou, Me., who goes under the name of Lewis P. Clinton, is really Somayou, King of the li:issa tribe in the southwestern part of Africa. The tribe occupies a territory running back over the Kong Mountains, 500 miles in length and 200 miles m breadth, with an outlet to the sea. In his boyhood Somayou had a strong desire to learn the English lan guage, sj that he might trade for his people. With this determination ho ran away from his tribe and finally found his way to this country under the care of a missionary. He is not only a good English scholar, but has shown average ability in mastering Latin, Groek, rnatfca matics, and other studies. lie contem plates a course in Bates College, after which his plan is togo back to his peo ple, not as a ruler, but for the purpose of establishing a civilized coloay and de voting his life and energy to the inter est-! of his people, educationally and re ligiously. Somayou defrays his ex penses at school by lecturing. The French earned long ago an hon orable distinction by their success in the treatment of tho blind, and the figures read at the receut annual meeting of La Societc d'Assistance pour les Aveugles in Paris fully sustains their reputaiion in this respect. The two principal institu tions of the city are the Clinique Opthal mologique des Quinae Vingts and L'Ecole Braille, the former devoted to the preservation or the restoration of sight, and the latter to the instruction of the hopelessly blind. Since its creation in 1880 the Clinique has had under treatment 108,793 patients, and the pro portion of cures has reached the splen did figures of ninety-live per cent., while the expenses incurred iu each case has not exceeded seventy fraucs, or less than sls. The Ecolo Braille has an equally creditable account to give of itself. Tho blind boys und girls are educated to bo breadwinners, not only for themselves, but in many cases for their parents and relatives. While at tho school they not only earn enough to pay for their main tenance, but are able to contribute to a savings bank fund which is used to start them in business. "IF WE MIQHT." If we might, oh if we might Turn back the wheels of time, my friend, to-night; If to the vale of childhood we would go And climb again from those warm depths below To this strop hilslde; live from day today, The past just as we lived it once, oh bay Would you l>e glad to tread the pathway o'er, Tho game old steps again, no less, no more? If we might, yes, if we might Turn back the whirling wheels, my friends, to-night, And slowly wind from youth to middle ago, The tangled road; if every blotted page We would omit and let the good romain; In life's book skip all the grief and pain; Would you 1)0 willing then to live them o'er. The backward years that can return no more? "If I might, oh, if I might, Perhaps I would, perhaps I should to-night; lam not wise. Old friendships wore so true, Old loves so sweet, and, oven if I knew, I must have all the sorrow, all tho pain, For love's dear sake I might go back again, The thorny pathway to my willing feet Would not be hard, I think it would be sweet." But, if the spring, ah! if tho spring Lead onto summer; if tho autumn bring The winter snowiiukes; if the joyous chime Of wintry bolls ring in the blossom time, Why would you live again the same old year, Knowing another spring will soon bo here? The dead May violets rather should you kiss And say, "Next year they will bo sweet as this." And if the life, ah, if the life We live on earth, so full of restless strife, So full of joyful love, or blessed peace Is beautiful, why should you wish to oease The onward journoy? Do not wish again To live life over, oven without the pain, For oh, my friend, when life's last sun is set The bright next day is Heaven, do not forget. -—Julia 11. May, in Boston Journal. , "NONA." Count Raymond De Villcmero awoke from his lethargy and recognized his physician who was looking at him sadly. "Saved again!'' said the patient, smiling as ho turned his head ou the pillow. "My poor fellow," sighed tho doctor, and as his hearer opened his eyes wide in wonder he added: "You are a brave man, and it is my duty to tell you the truth." "Well*" •'You have all the symptoms of Nona." "What's that?" asked Raymond. "A fatal malady," replied the medical man; "you have recovered from the lethargy, and will be conscious for three hours, but, at the end of that time, death will come suddenly, instantaneously." "Bother!" said the Count. "Be brave, ray friend; arrange your affairs, you have just time. Now I will leave you. Good-by." Ten minutes later, Count de Villemere, clad in a flannel dressing gown was calmly making his toilet. When he had polished his finger-nails, and given the last touch to his moustache, he lighted a cigar, and casting a heart-broken glance at the box, the contents of which he should never finish, he threw himself upon a couch and reflected. He was far too brave to fear death, and yet he found his situation an unpleasant one. The day before he had been seized with a violent illness and believing that his last hour was come, had sent for a notary and a priest, and had burned his letters. Then he had fallen into a heavy sleep from which he had not expected to awake. Now ho lelt like a condemned mau, who, after having hopes of pardon, suddenly finds himself on the scatlold. Outside his window was heard the ceaseless rattle of vehicles in the Champs Elysees, and every one seemed full of joy and health In the bright June sun light. He himself felt vigorous and en ergetic, and he could hardly believe that to-morrow there would bo a lugubrious procession, a heavy jolting hearse lead ing the way, then prayers and droning hymns around his grave. Yet, it was true; in a few hours, his joys, sorrows and aflectlons, his whole life would be forgotten. Stretched comfortably upon the sofa, he linished his cigar, and in imagination lived his life again. Long forgotten events of his childhood were recalled, then his various love affairs from the age of fifteen to twenty-tive years, and more distinctly than all, the first few months after his marriage. He remembered every detail of tho3e honeyed moons. Ah, how happy he and Odette had been! lie had loved her madly and with a fierce jealousy which made them both laugh. And it had ended in a quarrel, u rup ture caused by his mistake, and an act of rash folly on the part of the beautiful young countess. So they separated by mutual consent, but they continued to love each other in secret, and although they affected indifference and passed each other with cold bows on the Boul evardo or at balls, they did not deceive their mutual friends. The thought of dying wittiout seeing his beloved one again was more than Ray mond could bear, and the studied cold ness so long persisted in peemcd unneces sary now that he was about to be sep arated from her by death. What harm would one stej> toward* reconciliation do LAPORTE, PA.,' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891. him, even if she made no movement la response? He seated himself at his desk, hur riedly wrote a brief message, rang the bell, and sent his valet to the telegraph office. Then he looked at his watch, ho had two hours more to live. "She will have just time to come," he said, but then he wondered whether she would come or not. Would that fond farewell touch her heart, or would the dignity of an offended woman be inex orable even to the lastl The agony of suspense was now added to the anxiety with which Raymond de Villemere, in spite of his gentlemanly self-possession, counted tho minutes as they passed, lie wrote a long letter to his mother, and tho act brought tears to his eyes. It WHS hardly finished when a riug at the front door bell rnado him start, and a few seconds later the door of his room opened and a servant announced: "Madame the Countess de Villemere." Ho stood up and turning pale, ex claimed : "Odette!" The youug woman, however, stopped in the doorway, aud with a frowning glauce said coldly; "This is a senseless joke." "A joke!" ho exclaimed. "What do you mean?" "You sent mo a dispatch saying that you were dying, and I find you sitting up writing. Good day, sir." She turned round and was leaving him, when ho said: "Listen, Odette; let me explain, I en treat you. See, read this letter—only look at it once!" He handed her tho letter ho had just writtcu to his mother, and when she had glanced at tho first pago, she said: "Then it is true. Oh, my poor darl ing!" Tne next minute sho had thrown her self upon his neck and burst into sobs. Long they stood thero, clasped in a close embrace which seemed to contain their regrets for their few months of happiness and their reinorso for their wasted years. At last they sat down, hand in hand, struck dtimb, over whelmed with sorrow. But the Count recollected what was due to the dignity of his noblo ancestors, one of whom, his grandfather had whistled an air from the Indes Galantes as he mounted the scaffold in '93. "Bah!" said Raymond, with a smile. "I have nothing to complain of; I ought to feel thankful for being allowed to die of a malady which will be the fashion to-morrow " but Odetto stopped him with a glanco of reproach. Women are not fond of such ioruy. Then they talked of the past in low tones, us if they were already in a funeral chamber, and in spite of themselves they smiled at the thought of the days gone by. When they glanced round tho room many a trilling object served to recall some event which occurred before their marriage. A hunting scene hanging on the wall made them hear onco more the merry "Hallalis! Whoopl" piercing the November mist, and they spoke of their long rides side by side over the dried leaves of the forest. Some tiny dusty fans on the mantel carried them back to a cotillon danced together and to their flirtation under the exotic plants in tho green house. Then they wandered in fancy along the green, cool pathways of the Bois de Boulogne, lunched in the Chi nese Pavilion, and came back by the Chataps-Elysees to the busy, bustling city, parting for a few hours only, im patient to meet aicuiii (after tho tiresomt club and the five o'clock tea) at the opera, or, still better, to pass a quiet evening together at her hom<\ Raymond and Odette <!ro so busy with their reminiscences chat they lost all sense of tnne, and of the catastrophe which had brought them together again. A ring at the frout door roused them suddenly, und they looked at each other in acute anguish. "Momseur, Doctor Darlois," said a ser vaut as the door of tho room oponed, and the new comer exclaimed in uuiazo lnent. "What! Up? And I came to—" "To what?" asked Raymond de Ville mere. "I enmo in order to report your death," said the physician. "Thanks for tho attention, Doctor," said the Count with a smile, and Madame de Villemere exclaimed anxiously, "He is cured then?" "Evidently, Madame. It is verj strange, the Echo dea Clinique* of last .week gave a most conclusive article OD Nona. However, lam sincerely thank ful, quite delighted—" The good man was glad, of course, but yet at the bottom of his heart there was a tiny grain of annoyance. The Count whispered in his wife's ear: "Shall we ask him to dine with us this evening, dear?"— From the French, in Epoch. Feat or a Strong Man. The Cinicelli circus had been perform ing at Riga, Russia, and was on board of a steamer starting for Duppoln. Tht strong man of the circus, who wanted to stay at Riga a few days longer took leave of the company and did not notice the signal for the departure of the steamer. When he looked around tho boat was some feet off from the wharf, the pad dles revolving, but the loot bridge still projected from tho shore. He bent over, caught tho bridge, and dre.v the boat back t« tho wharf by his owu strength, then stepped ashore and waved his hat. —Hartford Tinted. WISE WORDS. The worst of davesis ho whom passion rules. The anticipation of evil is tho death of happiness. The goal of yesterday will bo the start ing point of to-day. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Who ever heard of a pure thought or noble deed originating in a saloon? Love is a blessed wand which wins the waters from the hardness of the heart. To give heartfelt praise to noble ac tions is, in somo measure, making them our own. Tho scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man dis agreeable. We seldom condemn mankind till they have injured us; and when they have, wo seldom do auything but detest theui for the injury. If you have built castles in the ah your work need not be lost; that is whero they should be; now put founda tions under them. Haste and rashness arc storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking busi ness, but nimbleness is a full, fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven. Let any man once show the world that he feels afraid of its bark, and 'twill ily at his heels; lot him fearless face it, 'twill leave him alone, but 'twill lawn at hi; feet if ho fliugs it a bone. A New Locomotive. The St. Paul Railroad is building two engines which promise a revolution in locomotivo building. These engines will consume their own smoke and will have no smokestack. They will be fitted up with an electrical headlight, placed immediately in front of the boiler, thus giving tho engineer an unobstructed view of the track ahead. The driviug wheels will bo larger than on ordinary locomotives,and are intended for greater speed. It is hardly possible to overestimate tho valuo of the discovery of a smokeless locomotive, if the plan shall prove a suc tx'ss. To think of riding in a car with out being exposed to a rain of soot an l cinders when the window is opened, or l>eiu£ choked half to with smoka vheu going through a tunnel or a snow shed, is something almost too goo.l for even the imagination. Railroad travel ing would be a positive pleasure undet such circumstances. Nor is this all. Tho suiokeloss and cinderless locomotive does away with the danger of burning up wheat fields—a thing which occurs many times every year with the present style of engines. Spark arresters have been invented, but they do not do their work perfectly, and every summer tho railroad companies have to pay for fires caused by sparks from their engines. Again, where railroads run into cities the vicinity of the road is continually smeared and grimed up by the smoke and soot froii the passing and repassing locomotives, aud the housewife who hangs out her week's washing often h:is occasion to do anything but bles3 the present style of engines. This evil will be cured by the adoption of smokeless locomotives. Every railroad iu the United States ought to adopt these engines if they prove a success, and if they seem unwil ling to make the change the law should lend them the necessary stimulus. The comfort and convenience of the people should bo considered beforo the extra cost to tho railroad compauies.—Sun Francisco Chronicle, Grafting Teeth. Much has been written of late about skiu-grafting, and a Readiug physician has even succeeded in transplanting a mustache to tho upper lip of a woman. But there are several local dentists who have met with remarkable success in grafting teeth. The process is known as implanting, and should not be con founded with either transplanting or re planting, both cf which have been done for years. Iu implanting a tooth the gum may have eintirely healed over, in fact a tooth may be implauted years after its predecessor has been removed. With the aid of cocaine the operation is not at tended with any great amount of pain. The gum is thoroughly saturated with cocaine and an incision is made exposing the jawbone. A socket is then drilled into the bone, and a tooth, after having been placed in ap antiseptic solution, is fitted into the socket and tightly bound in ite place. The wouud heals quickly, and in two weeks the grafted tooth par takes of all the nature of a perfectly natural tooth.— Philadelphia llecord. To Straighten the Eye. Any squint or cast in the eye can bo cured without the expense of going to a physician or an oculist. It is only , necessary to get a pair of spectacles with plain glass iu and to color tho ceuter of one of tho lenses black. The eyo will naturally make an effort to look straight ahead all the time, aud after a few days the effort will be imperceptible. With a child a euro can bo effected in a week, and with a grown person a month will suffice to remedy the worst case. Wear ing smoked glasses is the best possiblo safeguard for weak eyes when in a strong light, and even these will help to get ml of a "cast" by strengthening the eyes and relieving thorn from unnecessary ex ertion.—Detroit Free J'ress. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. There is no way to bend wood better or cheaper than by steaming. Recent experiments show that with proper appliances ordinary gaslight can be used in making photographs. • Fahrenheit at first used alcohol in making his thermometers. He was led to use mercury after experimenting with boiling water. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges the refuse from the kitchen is thoroughly dried, converted into char coal, and used as fuel. At the naval exhibition in London there is a colossal electric lamp, con structed by the Admiralty, which gives a light equal to 5,000,000 candles. Jupiter is larger than all the other planets and satellites of the solar system. The sun ia a little more than 1000 times larger than Jupiter. But Arcturus is 550,000 timc3 larger than the sun. A philological statistician calculates that in the year 2000 there will be 1,700,000,000 people who speak Eng lish, and that the other European lan guages will be spoken by only 500,000,- 000 people. A scientific observer publishes a pam phlet to show that the Europcau jaw is narrowing through the lesser severity of its labors that accompanies civilized food. The lower jaws of the later Eng lish are smaller than those of ancient Britons or even of Australians. To the inhabitants of the moon, if there be aav such beings, the earth ap pears sixteen times larger than the sun ana of a blue color. That the aurora boreals is the tail to the earth like the tail to comets, and as seen from the moon streams out behind oar globe iu a bright and beautiful trail. The rate of growth of corals is diffi cult to estimate. At the meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila delphia, Professor Heilprin exhibittd a specimen of Porites astrceoides which had been taken from an anchor cast in the autumn of 1885. He estimated that the annual amount of increase was scarcely one-twentieth of uu inch. The latest plan to improve the draft of the furnaces of ocean steamers is to in crease the height of the smoke pipes. The new steamer Scot, of the Cape Mail Line, is provided with smoke pipes 120 feet high above grates, being the loftiest pipes ever put into a steamer. A draft of tliree-quarter-inch water pressure is thus obtained, all tho steam needed is easily secured, and the use of fans is dis pensed with. Her speed is nineteen knots. Bombay has the greatest piece of solid masonry construction that the world has seen in modern times. For years past the water supply of Bombay depended upou works known to be defective, in volving the possibility of a water famine. A consultation of eminent engineers was held, under tho direction of the Govern ment, with the result that a large dam was determined onto inclose the water shod of the valley which drains into the sea south of Bombay. At Sophia experiments have been made in the last four weeks to ascertain the ac curacy of the rapid-firing cauuon recently received from the Grusou Works iu Magdeburg. At u distance of 5000 feet a target representing two field cannon and ten men was almost completely de molished by twenty-five shots. A line of thirty wooden soldier 8, lying six feet apart, so that only tho heads were in sight of tho marksmen, received twenty six loads of chain shot and nine of shrap nell. Twenty of the chain shot and forty one pieces of shrapuell struck fourteen wooden soldiers. Wondorfnl Growth of Electric Travel. Only twelve years have elapsed siuce the first crude suggestions of tho practi cal working of an electric railway were made, and four years ago a list of a dozen would comprise every such road in the world iu even passably successful opera tion, whatever the method of application. The first largo commercial electric rail way was, after many difficulties and dis couragements, opened in the early part of 1888 at Richmond, Va.; and siucS* that demonstration was made, the indus try has grown until there are now in operation or under contract, on the general lines laid down at Richmond, not less than 350 roads in tho United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan, re quiring more than 4000 cars and 7000 motors, with more than 2600 miles of track, a daily mileage of nearly 500,000 miles, and carrying nearly a billion pas sengers annually. Fuliy 10,000 people are employed on these roads, and there has never been an authenticated report of death on account of the electrical pres sure used. Over <350,000,000 are in vested in this industry in this country alone.— The Forum. For the King's Pleasure. In ancient records we find mention of four-wheeled carriages drawn by mules, to convey in vessels set apart the water of a noted river, for the use of a kiug then engaged in battle; for none other would the royal geutlemau accept as a beverage, and even that not only until it had been boiled in silver vessels. In such princely manner rumbled the water-cart withersoever it might please his Highness to travel.— Uur/ier'a Weekly. How is it that the same weather which makes your collar shrink from public gaze brings your battered cuffs down over the kuuckles of your bauds?— Pack. NO. 1. THY BEST DEUOW. H*" When thou who k>ve«t well thy kind P' / Despairing ones shall chance to find. Be their relief thy belt delight, And lead them forth from doubt's dark night, Beyond the miasmatic breath T Coursing along doubt's vale of death, To sunny hills whore roses bloom • And faith's clear light dispels the gloom; Where they shall hear the chorusing Of all the sweetest birds that sing; And sweetest brooks that ever sung, Since brooks, anl birds, and time were youug Shall purl and sparkle in tho light Succeeding uuto sorrow's nightl Then ever shall a voice for theo Sing hope-inspiring minstrelsy Fur sweeter than the singing heard From any brook or any bird In happiest glen of all the world, And like tho brooks that joyous purlod In Eden when the earth was young ; And all the sturs together sung! V And dost thou doubt, and point to men Who bless and are not blessed again, But live in grief, and grieving die Of much bestowing charity?— Perhaps not here, yet in some climo, 1 Perhaps not now, yet some good time Of (rod's sure years, shall greet the eye That moistens hero with sympatliy Scenes bright as those the seer of old Entranced on Patmos isle beheld, When full tho radiant glories shone From gates, and temple, and the Throne! —Aella Greene, in Boston Transcript. lIUMOR OF THE DAY. To err is human, to forgive, divine; But Justice says: "Wecan't remit tho line." —Puck. Au abandoned barn is not half so bad as an abandoned farmer.— Lowell Cou rier. "This is a very wet country. What do you raise hero chiefly?" "Umbrel las?''—l'uck. "I am feeling my ground," said tho man who slipped up in bis own door yard.— Washington Post. Poet (in newspaper office) —"Have you an efficient staff?" Editor—"Perhaps not; but I have a very effective club."— Puck. George—"Maude, do you love me .far myself alone?" Maude—-"Of course I do; but how many of you are there, any bow?" The fact that brevity is the soul of wit may explain why some of our bright est people are so unremittingly short.— Washington Star. Maud—"l wonder why they call it the angry sea?" Webb—"Perhaps be cause so many people persist in crossing it."— Boston Post. Blanche—"Did you part owing to a misunderstanding?" Rosalie "Good ness me, no! We understood each other too well."— Judge. "Sir, how dare you disagee with me?" said the cannibal, indignantly, to the missionary whom he had just swal lowed.— Washington Star. The man who fools around a inula, Long after he's forbid— Although he may not know it all, Will know more than lie did. —Philadelphia Times. Merritt—"She doesn't seem to get much good out of her money." Cora— "No; she speuds it in getting thiuga which she says are too good to wear."— Judge. The difference between the amuse ments of an Arcadian shepherd and a modern politican is, after all, only the difference between piping lays and lay ing pipes.— Our Society Journal Ho forgets not to boast what ho doos for his brother, Procuring him victuals aud pelf; Though it's not half so hard to beg for an other. Ho 11 Lids, as to beg for himself. —Judge. First Hen—"There comes the woman to drive us out of her garden." Second Hen—"Yes; and she's picking up a stone, too. Let's fly out quick." First Hen "No, no; stay here." Second Hen—"But she's aimiug right for us." First Hen— "Yes; aud if we move we might get hit."— Liverpool Porcupine. In a battle, a soldier was wounded in the head by a javelin. The surgeon ex amined the wound and told the man that, as the weapou had not touched his brain, there was every prospect of his recovery. "Had I possessed any brain," said the soldier, "I should not have been in the battle."— Argonaut. "Oh, yes; he's quite a remarkable man. Able to concentrate his mind on one particular subject, 110 matter how great the crowd and confusion aiound him. His power of abstraction is simply wonderful." "What is his special branch of science?" "Kleptomania I believ« they call it."— Washington Post. Thiugs one would have said differ ently: A young lady was calling for tho first time upon acquaintances,whoso friudship she was exceedingly glad to cultivate, and before whom she wished to appear as advantageously as possible. But as she withdrew gracefully from the parlor, she exclaimed, cordially, while shaking the hand ot her hostess: "Dear Miss G do come and see me soon, and don't stay as long as J have done!"— Christian Union.
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