SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. No bank can hereafter be established n Canada with less than $250,000 cap ital. A crusade against high buildings has been inaugurated by the Chicago Real Estate Board. The cruiser Bennington was storra tested olf Cape Hatteras, and found, congratulates Once a Week, to bo all that we claim for her—a fast and seaworthy gun-boat that neither tempest nor wave can disconcert. The Canadians are troubled because the exodus to this side takes the best ele ment of the population. It is believed the census of last year will show more than a million Canadians in the United States, or one-fifth of the population of Canada. Professor Thomas E. Edison's latest suggestion is the most stupendous, thinks the Washington Star, of any ho has made. lie says that by surrounding a mountain of magnetic ore with wire, it would be possible to hear sounds from the sun. It would be going to a good deal of trouble, adds the Star, merely for the sake of hearing a loud noise. The people of Iceland are the latest to be affected by the general spirit of dis content that pervades Europe, observes the Philadelphia Uxard. Numbers of them have within the la3t few years set tled in Manitoba, and it is now said that there will be a large immigration to Alaska. The Icelanders have long been striving to secure autonomy in their homo affairs, but so far the mother country, Denmark, has refused them a fuller measure of legislative power. Charles 11. Moore, a prominent lum berman ol Galveston, Texas, contem plates, it is said, the shippiug of a huge raft of log* from Galveston to London. He thinks there is less risk in this trip than in shipping from St. Johns, New Brunswick, to New York. Old sea cap tains assure lii.n that his plau is entirely feasible. It is proposed to build the raft in three sections, lirmly lashed and spiked together. It will b3 composed of yellow pine for building purposes. ' The Loudon Financial Timin places the European wheat crop at 1,068,000,- 000 bushels this year, a decrease of 203,- 000,000 bushels from 1890. It esti mates the net decrease in the wheat crop of the world at 78,000,000 bushels. The net requirements of importing: countries are put at 4(57,000,000 and the surplus of exporting countries at 390,000,000 bushels. It concludes that the deficit in wheat, as well as the larger deficit iu the rye crop, must bo made up by imports of corn and provisions from America. The following sentence from a letter from one of our friends in West Africa, remarks tho New York Observer, shows how so:ne of our missionaries live: "I think it would greatly add to our lives and strength to have fresh meat once in two mouths instead of once iu two years, as has been about the average since we came to Africa." This state, ment was made in view of the fact thai there is now a better prospect of securing a supply of animal food at Kamondongo. Such provision is most desirable, anc we are happy to learu that it can prob' ably be met. Notwithstanding the improved me chnnical precautious, the greater skill ol employes, and the close inspection which corporations, in their own interest, are bound to maintain, the frequency of railway accideuts is said to be increasing in this country. The long series ol serious wrecks this summer is strong evidence of the truth of this statement. A fact which must work to that end is the deterioration of roadbeds. One of the disasters which occurred on Western railroads this summer was manifestly due to tho insecure condition of the rails. The railway authorities of the State in which it occurred notified the officers of the corporation that thoy must see to it that the road was properly repaired, or forfeit their franchise. The railway company's officers replied that the road did not pay and therefore • l ia not warraut them in making the ex >e..diturcs necessary to keep it iu goo.', physical condition, which was tantamount to an acknowledgment thut the road had not beoi. kept in a condition fit for use. This is no doubt an isolated case, but it is probable that many railways constructed in this country during the last twenty years are getting to that where repair* iUe necessary. ■WHEN THE LEAVES TURN RED. There is a purple peacefulness that cover* nature's features. Like a many-colorcJ-bed-quilt o'er a baby's trundle bed, Nature covers all us children, nervous, tired little creatures, Nervous, tired little children, whether princes, popes, or preachers; When the leaves turn red. And she spreads her gaudy bed-quilt, all aglow with golden glory, For she knows 'twill please her children and decoy them off to bed, They drift off in their gorgeous cribs, like babies in a dory, Down through misty, hazy valleys that we read about in story; When the leaves turn red, A balm that's full of sleepiness envelops hill and river, An air that's full of sweet content o'er all the earth is spread; We know we dream, and yet wo pray to be awakened nevor, For'tis the prayer of every soul to dream right on forever; Wtieu the leases turn red. —S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blaile. A COUNTRY GIRL. BY GENEVA MARCH. "There arc lots of pretty girls around hero. You've come just in time." The speaker was Jeromo Wallace. He and his friend Clinton Munroe, sat smok ing in the room of the former, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, a fashionable resort among the picturesque hills of Colorado. "You ought to know, as you camo a week ago," replied Munroe. "Arc any of our set here?" "None, except Miss Fortesque. 1 re ferred to the girls of tho neighbor hood." "The country girls! Bah! Milkmaids and ii.rmers' daughters, and the like. Blowsy creatures, with waists like bar rels, great red hands, and feet as big and heavy as sledge hammers. Thanks, none of them for me!" "Sh!"said his friend, speaking in a whisper. "Not so loud. The partitions between these Western hotel rooms arc very thin. Miss Fortesque's room is next to this, and, if I'm not mistaken, I saw some of those very girls go in there a while ago." Jlnnroti was a gentleman notwith standing his coxcombry, so he lowered his voice also as he replied: "Sorry, 'pon honor, if they heard. Wouldn't do anything to hurt their feel ings for the world. I suppose they have feelings, you know." "Wait till you become acquainted with some of these girls before you speak so impudently of them," said Wallace, se verely. "There's Judge Horton's daughter. He was in Congress for several years, and she spent her winters in Washington. She's as fresh as a pink, and bright as a diamond; rides superbly; rows like a Harvard or Yale stroke oar; dances divinely; sings " "Spare me, spare mo!" cried Munroe, affecting to stop his ears. "I know just the sort of thing you mean. Goes blustering about in a man's hat and jacket, apes all sorts of fhen's sports, talks in a man's voice, and has a mus tache almost as thick as a toothbrush. A woman has no business with physical exercise. It's the fad of the age. A Fifth avenue belle is the only woman tit for our class." "You don't mean what you say," answered Wallace, half angrily. "You're not such an absolute fool." The next day the two friends returning from a walk up the mountain side found themselves in the valley, where a clear, crystal stream here and there starred with water lilies flowed between wooded banks. Suddenly they heard the quick sound of oars, and the next moment there shot into sight around a bend a small boat. The only occupant was a young lady, a beautiful one, too, who sent her fairy skiff skimming along with a grace and ease that made it seem really alive. She remained in sight only a few minutes, then disappeared around another bend, coming and going like a swallow in its flight. Wallace, however, during that brief apace, recognized an acquaintance, and removed his hat deferentially with a low bow. She answered with a brief smile and a nod, then was gone. "A modern water nymph, by Jove!"' cried Munroe. "Beats the old Greek ones all hollow. Who is she? Some Eastern girl, I -suppose." "That returned Wallace, gravely, "is one of the girls of the neighborhood of whom you made fun yesterday, you remember." Munroe gave a long whistle. "Oh! Miss Gorton," he exclaimed; * 'if she's a specimen of your country girls I take back all I said. Are there any mors like her?"' "Pleutv," replied Wallace, "but this is not Judge Horton's daughter. This is Miss Nannie White. Her father owns a farm in the valley. A farmer's daugh ter, you see." Munroe gave another long whistle, but said nothing further. That night there was a hop at the hotel, and Clintoo Munroe, in a perfect evening costume, was to be seen danc ing with Miss White, not once only, but every time she would permit him. "It really seems one of those ca«f " said Miss Fortesque, "so rare in tHis selfish world, of love at first sight, and I cougntulate you, my dear," she said, turning mischievously to Miss White, iust th*n came up. Miss Fortesqu' LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1891. was a few years older, and had a way of saying what she chose. "He is unde niably handsome, beside being a mil lionaire." "Dear mc," demurely replied Miss White; "you frighten me. To think that this «rand Sultan should condescend to throw his handkerchief to poor me, who am only a country girl." Miss Fortesque looked at her sharply. "So you overheard that speech of his," she said. "I hoped you hadn't, for Clinton Munroe, with all his dudishness, is at heart a good fellow." "But think of his having to associate with blowsy, red-handed, sledge-ham mer-footed girls," answered Miss White, with a gay laugh. "Nay I having even to dance with them. I wonder if I would crush his daiutv foot if I had chanced to tread upou it in that last waltz," and as though to emphasize the idea she put out for an instant the small est and prettiest slipper imaginable. "You are making fun, and I won't talk to you any more," replied her companion, with a grave affectation of reproof. "Speaking rationally, I don't know what our cities would do if they were not recruited from the country. Most of our prettiest women had mothers or grandmothers born on the farm, and to that they owe their health and good looks, for the two are substantially syn onymous. A vast majority of our leading lawyers, clergymen, physicians, and merchants were country lads. But fortunately every city gentleman is not like Clinton Munroe. You don't find Mr. Wallace disparaging the country, do you?" A deep blush rose and spread over Miss White's face till it dyed even the tips of her small shell-like cars. Sho waved her fan before her face nerviously, but Miss Fortesque had noted the blush, and drew her own conclusions. In a few days every one at the hotel was talking of the conquest Miss Whito had made. "Such a match for her," said the en vious old maids. "How she'll adorn Fifth avenue," said a good-hearted old dowager, who boasted of the "bluest blood."' "I though Wallace was smitten there," said a cynical old bachelor, "but as he is only a poor lawyer, of course ho has no chunce, and aware of this he withdraws." "I met Mr. Munroe and his friend Wallace,"said acother,"out walking this morning. Miss Ilorton was with Wal lace, and the lovers were behind; Mon roe was very attentive, I assure you." "For my part," said a. romantic miss, "I don't think Miss White will marry for money. Mr. Munroe may be very attentive, but if some one else, whom I have had my eye upon, would speak I believe she'd take him without apenny." AVho that some else was this keen ob server did not say, but other people be sides Miss Fortesque had their suspicions. We who are in the secret of all parties will not attempt to conceal Wallace's love for Miss White. lie had stood aloof, however, ever since the night of the dance. "If she likes him best let her havo him,'" he had thought. "He is richer than I, and can give her luxury aud case. I will not stand in her way." From which it will be seen that he was a very proud man, and was also slightly one-sided in his judgment in this matter, for why not give the lady a chance to take him and a moderate competence if she preferred it instead of ease and luxury? Fortune made for her, or for him, the chance in spite of Wallace's pride. One evening after they had danced together, Munroe for once having taken out au otlicr lady, the two strolled out ou the piazza, and thence by tho inoou light down to the river. Wallace chanced to say that he expected to leave in a day or two, and something in the tone of her reply made him look quickly into her face. The secret came out, as it always does, iu the most natural manner after this, and before they returned to the house were plighted lovers. "Only you were hardly fair to me," said Miss White, "I had never, I am sure, given you any reason to believe that 1 was mercenary, or that I would rather be an idle woman of fashion than the real helpmate a wife ought to be. I don't believe tho truest happiness is to be found in wealth alone. It is rather in knowing that others are making sacri fices for one, and that one can make sac rifices in return. I knowjou thought I encouraged Mr. Munroe, but I did not. I only accepted attentions that I could not refuse without positive rudeness. If he had ever said a word that permitted me to reveal my position I would have spoken quickly. Besides, you never, or hardly ever came near ine, and somehow —you musu't misunderstand mo, dear, I don't wish to speak unkindly of tho man, but he always seemed to take it for granted that every girl must fall in love with him; so I thought it quite fair to punish him with his couceit, at least a little if I could." An hour later Miss White stood again by the stream, this time with Mr. Munroe. "Mr. Munroe," she said gravely, when he had finished his avowal, "I regret you did not tell me this before—if I had to be told at all—which I deplore. For I cannot marry you. In fact, I am pledged to another." "Ah!" he cried, with a start. "Yes; this evening I agreed to be come his wife. But," and now she drew her tall figure up to its fullest height and her voice had a tone that made him feel rather humiliated, "in no event could I have married you. lam only a country girl," with a low cour tesy, "one of those blowsy, red-handed, sledge-hammer.footed creatures." She was gone. For with the last word she dropped another courtesy, and with a gay, mocking laugh ran back to tho hotel. "A precious fool I've made of myself. We city chaps are not smart enough for these country girls," was his mortified mental comment, but when he learned to whom she was betrothed he was amazed. "Cut mo out! And he a poor man I By jove, women are what no fellow can find out."— New York Weekly. Bamboo for America. It is hoped by the Department of Agri culture that tho bamboo may yet be cul tivated in this country, as it is in China, where it supplies a large part of tho wants of the people, being applied to more than five hundred different and useful purposes. In the Flowery King dom it takes the place both of iron and steel. The farmer builds his house and iences out of it, his farming utensils as well as his household furniture are manu factured from it, while tho tender shoots furnish him with a most delicious vege table for his table. The roots are carved into fantastic images, shaped into divining blocks to guess tho will of the gods, or cut into lantern handles and canes. The tapering culms are used for the prons of houses, the frameworks of awniugs, tho ribs of sails, and shafts of rakes; for fences, and every sort of frames, coops and and for tjic handles aud ribs of umbrellas and fans. The leaves are sewed into rain coats and that?hes. The wood, cut into splints of various sizes, is woven into baskets of every form, sown into window curtains and door screens and twisted into cables. The shavings aud curled threads furnish materials for stuffing pillows, while parts supply tho bed for sleeping, the chopsticks for eat ing, the pipe for smoking, the broom for sweeping, the mattress to lie upon, the chair to sit upon, the table to eat on, tho food to eat, and tho fuel to cook it with. The ferule to govern with, the book to study from, tho reed pipe of the organ, the shaft of the soldier's spear, and the dreaded instrument of the judge; the skewer to pin the hair, and tho hat to screen the head; the paper to write on, the pencil to write with aud tho cup to put the pencil in; the rule tn uatsmre lengths, the cup to gauge quantities, and the bucket to draw water; tho bird cage, the crab net, the fish pole—are ono anil all furnished by this plant, whose beauty when growing is commensurate to its usefulness when cut down. A score or two of bamboo poles for joists and rafters, fifty fathoms of rattan ropes, and a supply of palm leaves and bamboo mats for a roof, supply material for a common hut in the south of China.— Button Transcript. Yoii'i? People Need Much Sleep. A German specialist, Dr. Cold, has recently pleaded for giving young people more sleep. A healthy infant sleeps most of the time during the first weeks; and, in the early years, people are dis posed to let childreu sleep as much as they will. But from six or seven, when schools begins, there v a complete change. A' the age of ten or eleven, and as he grows older the time of rest is shortened. Dr. Cold believes that, up to twenty, a youth needs nine hours' sleep aud an adult should have eight or nine. With insufficient sleep, the nerv ous system, and brain especially, not resting enough, and ceasing to work normally, we find exhaustion, excitabil ity, and intellectual disorders gradually taking the place of love of work, general well-being, and tho spirit of initiative. —Scientific American. Facts About the Queen Bee. A queen can beat a hen at laying. Give her tho best surroundings, with plenty of honey combing in and all that, and she will lay 3000 eggs in twenty-four hours. She does not cackle over it either. Each egg measures one fourteenth of an inch in length and one seventh ot an inch in thickness. Even when she is only an average busi ness she will lay more than twice her own weight in twenty-four hours. But, mind you, she does not do anything else. Does not even feed herself. You will see tho workers constantly offering her food.— American Bee Journal. Toughness of Cottonwood. Cottonwood, which grows abundantly ou the banks of many Southern streams, is coming into use for box making. It is a very tough wood, as shown by a remarkable test made at Memphis. A concern thero made to order for a Cali fornia express company a dozen boxc3 for conveying treasure across the contin ent. Theso were packed solidly aud then dropped from a height. Boxes of other woods wore destroyed, but those of cottoawood were only slightly injured by the twisting, but otherwise were not damaged.— Chicago Times. The French Army. According to the "Annual of the French Army for 1891" the stauding army will coutaiu next year 570,603 men and will show an increase over this year of 324 officers, 7410 men, and 1018 horses.. .i The total number of doctors, and other officials of officers rank is given at 75,000. The estimated expenditures for the army next, year art $134,000,000. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; 51.50 after Three Months ' SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Paper belts beat leather. France makes paper linen. Electricity heats laundry irons. A four-day ship must have 155,000 I horse-power. 1 About 4500 species of wild bees are known, and of wasps 1100. ' The electric motor is said to have now found a use in connection with nearly 300 branches of productive in dustry. i The greatest known depth of the ocean :is near the Ladromo Islands, where soundings have been made to a depth of 36,850 feet. Mr. F. Walter claims that an alloy of , ninety-five per cent, of tin and five per j cent, of copper will strongly cement glass to metals, i It has been lately pointed out that the air is much contaminated with arse nic, especially in English cities,from the ! burning of coal. A German substitute for leather in j some of its uses consists of thin boards i with wire netting between, the whole I glued together and pressed. The mate j rial is tough aud pliable, and suited for I trunks, etc. An instrument whereby a star is caused , to record with absolute accuracy the 1 time of its transit across the meridian i has been perfected at the Georgetown | (S. C.) College observatory. The instru | ment is called the photochronograph. | The fourth edition of the Russian j Pharmacopcsa is soon to be published, | and will describe 808 substances used in ! medicine. In the third edition the num i bcr was 1026, of which 318 havo been I discarded, while 100 have been added. I Dr. M. C. Cooke, of Loudon, finds [ that 4600 species of mushrooms and toadstools are now known to science, 1400 ol them being found in the British Isles. Only 134 can safely be regarded as edible, while thirty are decidedly poi sonous. A "locomotive steamboat" is being I built in Sweden for the navigation of a j chain of small lakes separated by falls, j The boat is to be fitted with wheels fit i ting a track, and power can bo applied j either to the propeller or to tho locomo j tive driving wheels. Professor Frank H. Bigeltjw, the ctni i nent astronomer, is saia to nave com | puted, by a very complicated process of calculation, the exact period of the sun's ! revolution on Its axis. He makes it I twenty-seven days, niue hours, fifty-two I miuntes and fifty-two seconds. In Oldenburg, a fall of temperature from thirty-seven degrees above zero to twenty-two degrees below is reported to have occurred in twenty minutes on No vember 18, 1890. A heavy rain pre ceded the change. Some thirty Kirg hises, who were returning to Oldenburg, were drenched with the rain, then frozen on their horses. Dr. Giraud's recent experiments in Franco in the transformation of the thermic energy of combustion into elec trical energy, and the consequent gener ation of heat, have resulted in the con struction of a stove which may possibly, when modified and perfected, come to xevolutionize our present modes of heat ing dwelling-houses. The enormous mass of extra dead weight, due to the carrying of the boiler, fuel aud water in the old locomotive, will be entirely unnecessary in the rail ways of the future, which will be pro pelled electrically. Unquestionably the future electro-locomotion will show a motor on every axle, or, at any rate, upon two axles of each car, and every car running as a unit, in which case thoy can ruu coupled together in a train or not, as may be convenient. An Astonishing Discovery. In 1799 a discovery was made which profoundly agitated the scientific world. Duriug that year a man named Schu machoff, Chief of a waudering tribe of Tunguzes, built a cabin for his wife on the borders of Lake Oncoul, and went to search on the seashore for mammoth tusks. Ono day ho saw in an icy cliff a shapeless mass which piqued his curios ity. About a year afterward, passing this point, he observed that the object iu the ice cliff was more detached from tho ice than it had been before. He noticed two long projections, but he could not yet tell what they were. Toward tho closo of the next summer the whole side of the animal projected beyond the wall of ice. Tho Chief returned now to his cabin on tho shore of Oncoul, and told his discovery to his wife and friends. They were seized with consternation. Tho old meu told over again the sto ries they had heard from their fathers, storim of a like monster seon once in an ice cliff of the same peninsula, and they told what their fathers had said of the calamity which befell the discoverer and his household. They perished miserably, every one. Schumachoff was terrified aud fslf sick. On his recovery avarice began to get the hotter of superstitiou. Tlic icc cliff was explored again, but the maiomoth was found ftill imbedded. At last, toward the close of the fifth yeat after the first discovciy, tbo ice had melted so much that the great beast had slid down along nn escarpment more thau 200 feet high and lodged on a bank of sand ou the seashore. Here Schu machoff found his mammoth and cut off the tusks which he sold.— Washington Star. The banjo girl is a back number. NO. 4. A LITTLE GARDEN. A little garden, prim and square, Has little own-r, sweet and fair. A little garden hedged about, With little beds and walks laid out; Where little hollyhocks grown tall Stand close against the garden wall, And up their slender stalks there twines A host of morning glory vines; Where little roses, from their trees, Bend spicy calls to little bees, And little daisies, pink and white. Crowd little bluebells, blue and bright; Where little pansies, put bet ween Verbenas red and white, areseen, , And all around the borders set. Are little plants of mignonet. Alyssum, heliotrope together *-£ Run riot there in summer weather; And pinks and aster.-", lovely grucjs, Fill up the little garden spacjs; j And little butterflies that flit Complete the dainty charm of it. Ah, little garden, well I know What little maid, not long ago, Plucked all your choicest bu Is to be ■> A little nosegay just for me! —Eva Lovett Carson, in Independent. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Eaten out of house and home—Pi;nic lunches.— Boston News. The "words that burn" go into tho waste-paper basket first. The womau who says she "has waited an age" is very careful not to add it to her own.— Puck. "The Chinese aro a queer race." "Aren't they. What you might call a scrub race, too."— Life. "I never have any luck," groaned Chipsley. "You are fortunate. I have pleuty, and it's all bad."— Puck. He (proudly)—"My motto is live and let live." She (wearily)—"l wish it was sleep and let sleep."— Boston Courier. Photographer—"Now, look pleasant, please." Customer—"lt is quite impos sible, sit. I'm a ticket agent in a rail road office." He—"Are you sure you rare for me?" Ol»c. —"I irbH bo o\.o dUU. pieious. Have I asked yet to sec your bank book?" Life. Age before beauty—After time has turned it into antiquity, people may go crazy over tne uglisst article wo can make to-day.— Ju hje. Miss Dorcas—"llave the poor any pleasure, think you?" Miss Ann Thrupe —"Oh, yes! They criticise the charac ters of the rich."— Puck. "Do as I say," thundered an angry father. "My will shall be law." "Well, then, I'll bet it wasn't drawn by a law yer," returned his son.— Life. "Pa, how do you scalp?" said the In dian boy to Oyster-that-Laughs. "First catch your hair," sententiously replied the noble red man.— Boston Transcript. He swore lonj ago to succael in life, And the crovrn that ho wears is not dim; For a racs-horse to-day is name! for his wife. And a tug-boat is called after him. —Jud'je. Architect—"What do you think of my design for the female college?" Friend—"l notice one incongruity—it has a man-sord roof."— Binghtunion lie publican. "Pop, what docs 'commons' mean?" "Why, food—rations." "Theu," said the smart youngster, with a wink, "isn't a hotel the llouje of Commons?" —Baltimore American "Is that the President of the bank?" "Which one?" "That stylish looking fellow who says, 'I and the Board of Directors so much.'" "No; that's the janitor."— Brooklyn Life. "No wonder the papers talk about po litical extravagances," said Mrs. tiill hooley. "Didn't 1 hear my husband talking the other day about a convention that wanted a silver platform!"— Balt imore American. Visiting Aunt (consulting railroad guide)—"l never could understand one of these things. It's all Greek to ine." Boston Child (agedtthree"ll that's all it is, auntie, let ine have it. I'll read it for you."— Chicago Tribune. Responsibility: "To look at that young clerk one would think that he carries a greater weight of responsibility than the proprietor." "Well, he does, for that matter. The proprietor can make mistakes without losing his job." —lndianajwli* Journal. "Now, gentlemen," said the eloquent advocate, "I leave the case iu your hands. In closing I have just one re mark to make." And the experienced juror ia the dark corner of the box set tled himself for another comfortable half-hour nap.— Buffalo Kcpress. She assisto 1 tha lire with the keroaenu can: She always persisted in following that plan In spite of her iniisiis's ra;e. And now she has Mow a from this dull valo of tears, At the soft, tender age of ninety-five years- She bad to succumb to old a je. —lndianapolis Journal. According to the Burlington Hawkeya an old stage driver remarks that life may be compared to a set of harness. "It has traces of caie, bits of good foitune, breaches of good mauners, bridled tongue, and every one has a tug to pull through." It may be added that it is saddled with great respousibdi ties.—Lovcell Courier.
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