SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. About 400 people are annually killed in Chicago, 111., at grade crossings of railroads. Spain has been steadily making a de ficit for fourteen years past, and what is ■worse, seems to be making a bigger one each succeeding year. The German Government is preparing a bill to regulate emigration. It is in tended chiefly to restrict the activity of agents, who will be prohibited from carrying emigrants at the expense of foreign States. Californians expect that within a year or two their State will become noted as a centie for the cultivation of flowers for perfumery purposes, and thus become a rival to France and Germany, which have monopolized tills business heretofore. The country that has the cheapest coal, declares the San Francisco Chronicle,can depend upon winning the race for manu facturing supermacy. Statistics show that the average price of bituminous coal per long ton at the mouth of the pit in the United States is $1.12, while in Great Britain the average is 91.60. Tho firing of the Miantonomoh's big guns without damage scores another naval triumpli for the United States, is the boast of the San Francisco Examiner. Several of the English ships carrying large guns have found that the discharge of their own batteries was the greatest danger they would have to fear in action —there being a certainty that a few rounds would send the vessel to the bot tom. The Miantonomoh will evidently be able to hurt something else than itself. The inventor of the "whaleback'' steamer, Captain McDougall, of West Superior, Wis., thinks that his type of vessel will make a more formidable man of-war than anything afloat, especially for coast and harbor defense. He has had a number of pictures nude of his idea of a belligerent whaleback. They are to be so constructed that iu action they can be entirely suinmerged, except a small turret and the bow. In the bow are to be stationed two heavy guns, one of which can be run out and fired, whilo the other is drawn back for loading. The vessel has been patented in this and all foreign countries. A chivalrous man is trying to awaken a little interest in Mr 3. Columbus in this anniversary of the discovery that made her consort famous. He tells us that she was a Miss Palestrello, which is in • finitely more distinguished than plain Mrs. Columbus. Her father was a navi gator, and as a girl she made many haz ardous voyages in company with him. She possessed a fine education and was a brainy, ambitious woman. It may be possible that she suggested the Western excursion to her lord and master, and spurred him onto his discovery, like plenty of other good wives to whom the husbands owe their fame. Says the Gossipper in the New York World: "One who witnessed the fire drill by Tiffany & Co.'s clerks during the recent blaze which threatened the great jewelry store tells me it was one ot the best specimens of human mechanism he ever saw. At the first sign of fire the store was cleared of customers and the clerks took positions assigned them in practice. At the first signal the heavy iron shutters were closed, next the hose was uncoiled, and at the third command the jewelry was deposited in the various safes. There was no confusion, no con flicting orders or excitement. This ad mirable drill undoubtedly saved the firm from a heavy loss, as, had a panic taken place, the result may easily be imag ined." This has been a great season for sport in the hunting regions of the New Eng land States, announces the New York Sun. One taxidermist in Bangor has re ceived fiftccu moo3e heads for mounting this season, all of them being unusually large and fine. A fur buyer in Farm ington who returned a few days aga from a purchasing trip among the trap pers of Maine, New Hampshire, and Ver mont brought more than a score of bear skins, a great number of fox skins, in cluding a very fine gray; thirty beaver, about as many fisher, a quantity of otter sable, coon, and cat skins, five or six hunlred mink, and as many skunk. He bought about two thousand muskrat skins in New Hampshire. The animals bad been kilted this season. THE STATION DESPAIR, We must trust the conductor, most iurely, Why millions of millions before Have made this same journey securely And come to that ultimate shore. And we, we will reach it in season; And ah, what a welcome is there! Reflect, then, how out of all reason To stop at the station Despair! Ay, midnights and many a potion Of trouble and sorrow have we. As we journey from ocean to ocean, From sea unto ultimate sea. To that deep sea of seas, and all silence Of passion, concern, and of care, That vast sea of Eden-set islands Don't stop at the station Despair! Go forward, whatever may follow, Go forward, friend, led or alone; Ah, me, to leap off in some hollow Or fen, in Che night and unknown. Leap off like a thief; try to hide you From angels, r.ll waiting you there! Go forwardwhatever betide you, Don't stop at that station Despair! —Joaquin Miller, in St. Paul Globe. A WINTER WOOING. g 3 E N E V 1 K V E Mr Chamberlain is too silent," remarked » Hal Balkan. "When ijjA she comes into u ) j room I feel as if I II wanted to shake a secret out °f her perfect mouth; but, I V 88 si l6 is very J vfe,dainty and very ■ beautiful, I don't really do it." The young woman who sat near him as he spoke, painting, and who could not quite compare with a great beauty, thought that Balkan was showing off, being irritated by Genevieve's apparent indifference, and was trying to console himself by grumbling at her, although he would have been very critical of any one else who dared to do so. This young woman, who could reflect intelligently, was, nevertheless, a perfect child in guilclessness. She was the sort of girl who would remain sweet and naive as an old woman. Nellie Feathcrly looked round at Bal kan in a moment, and said: "Now there is nothing mysterious about me." "You? I should think not! You a.-a so fearless, straightforward and amus ing." "You have not quite enough illusion about me, I think," pouted Nellie, over her satin scarf, which was just bursting into flower and leaf. "You have made me out just one of the ordinary, useful, toss-me-aside kind of women, and, al though you are right, I do hate to hear the fact repeated." "I don't care what you think of your self, or how you construe my apprecia tion of you," answered Balkan. "I ain perfectly content with enjoying your traits and sitting near while you paint." Nellie went on busily, with a dozen pretty motions, and a rather dissatisfied expression of countenance. Whether it was her work or his words which an noyed her, Balkan was not quite sure. "That's exquisite and no mistake," he went on, peering over at the drawing board on her knees, upon which the satin was stretched. "Oh, please don't say pretty things," Nellie cried. "Somehow you seem in sincere to-day." "I? My dear Miss Featherly, I should not hesitate to tell the truth rather than prevaricate. To be quite honest, I would tell you the truth about anything in the world you could ask me; though with others 1 might be as silent as Gen evieve, instead of confessing to actual ities." "If I ev*>r want to ask you anything I will remember this,"the young amateur rejoined, with a smile into Balkan's earnest face. Cecil Morton sauntered across the room during the little pause ensuing, and said that the day was too pleasant to stay in the house. Why not goto walk before dinner? The young people, eight in all, were visiting some dear old coun try gentleman to whom Nellie was near ly related, and who had asked them for a week of sleighing and other winter sports, the snow being in better condi tion than for years past. That evening they were togo sleighing by moonlight, and it was super-energetic for Morton to talk of walking. But we all know how these restless people of energy and mus cle rout us o.it of lazy tete-a-tetes and fireside luxury. Neither Nellie nor Bal kan wished to be stigmatized as loth to exercise, so they rushed out of the par lor to find the cthcr3 and get wrapped up for a cool ramble; while Cecil Mor ton smiled to himself in a mirror, think ing of the commotion he could atfect at ■will. Nellie and Genevieve paired off, in tentionally, as the group left the hall door ten minutes later. Something agitated Nellie's beautifui friend, as the former was able to discover through girl ish intimacy. Genevieve's face looked calm and pale as siie said in a low,tragic voice to the girl beside her: "My heart is almost breaking. lam so surprised and so wretched. To think of it! I have never loved before, and every one always on his knees to me. And now, the very one who absorbs my thoughts--cold, cold!" "Don't be silly, Gen. You're so tired up at finding .iny one you can become romantic over, that you arc as blind as a LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 11. 1892. hickory nut, besides being dreadfully awkward when he's around. Moreover, Hal Balkan is perfectly splendid—so handsome and so manly I I don't won der you like him tremendously! And the idea of his not coming under your spell 1 Why, I just know he thinks you are irresistible. I know you are in his mind—" "You love me, and try to th'nk me a vanquisher of all hearts," murmured Genevieve. "But my former conquests have not been all-convincing, because Mr. Balkan is really the only true per son of enviable position and means whom I ever met in our set. There seems to be a thousand foolish bachelors to one real hero." "I think Hal is a fine fellow," Nellie again admitted softly, resting her hand upon Genevieve's arm for a few step 3, then stopping her and letting the others catch up with them. "How far north we seem?" she then exclaimed. "I am sure the Arctic Sea is over that hill of pines by the meadow. This exhil arating atmosphere makes me feel as if I were somebody else. Oh, we are ex plorers ! Is that a Polar bear or a snow drift?" she concluded, pointing to a white-banked gate post by the cattle lane. Cecil Mortou tried to shuffle the little perty in such a way that he would come next to Genevieve; but she evaded him by sheer force of desperation. And as luck would have it, Hal Balkan came up to her with his fine, hearty good cheer, and asked her to walk with him as far as a wide-spreading elm at a considerable distance down the high road, and Nellie Feathcrly heard him say it. Genevieve was willing, and they started off at a huge pace which the rest tried to imitate; but not too well, as everyone of the giris thought that Balkan wanted to propose to his companion, and deter mined to let him have a chance. At last the two figures iu advance stopped under the delicate tracery of the great bare elm tree and seemed to be talking earnestly. Then a cry went up from Nellie Peatherly, for Genevieve had suuk to the grouud, evidently iu a faint, and Balkan kneeled at her side. '•The walk was too rapid for her," exclaimed Nellie, off-hand. "Oh, Mr. Morton, why must you always be asking us togo for constitutionals; they'll be the death of us!" And Nellie whom no one had ever seen really provoked be fore, gave him a cross glance, and then went on a run, accompanied by the re proved Morton, toward her friend, while the others followed more or le s ardently. As faithful Nellie ran she discerned a strange black cloud rolling towards them all down the snowy road. Soon the mo tion of two prancing horses became ap parent, and as Nellie reached Genevieve's prostrate form in the middle of the road, over which Balkan was bending in absorbed dismay, the plucky girl realized that a runaway team was iu full swing at a few yards' distance, and quite un observed by anyone but herself and Cecil Morton, who shouted to Nellie to have a care and jump aside. But this Nellie never thought of do ing. On she ran, beyond Genevieve whose danger was so immenent —and what could she do to avert the danger? Iu her muff was a ball ot snow, which had been reduced by careful mauipula tiou—under Morton's instructions—to an icy consistency, capable as her teacher had explained, of killing anybody, if rightly aimed. It is by no meaus easy to swerve the direction of a maddened horse. But one of these was running away because the other wanted to, and he yet retained some common sense. At any rate, Nellie drew forth her icy ball in a twinkling, and hurled it. by good luck, at the saner horse—for they were now close at hand—with splendid vigor and true aim that it hit him on the nose, lie plunged a'ide, slipped on the hard crust of the old. snow beside the road, and keeled over, carrying his rampant mate with him into the ditch. They were a powerful team belonging to Nellie's uncle, and were dragging an empty wood sledge. Their driver was hallooing in the distance, as he ran wear ily along. Nellie pondered a moment over the success of her defence and gazed at the quivering limbs of the foe, and then turned back to Genevieve, panting. The girls were on the bank at the other side of the road. Meantime Balkan had but just looked up, realized the peril, and caught Gene vieve in his arms, while Morton threw his weight wildly upon the young man's struggling shoulders. It is always iu some such way that a person weak in emergencies assists the real actors. So swiftly did the runaway horses pro ceed that it seemed only an instant since Genevieve had fainted. Now all the girls swooped down from their perch helpfully and surrounded their pale friend, whose swoon was so much in earnest that she had not stirred an eyelash. Nellie seized Balkan's hand told him she inu9t speak with him in stantly. "Did you offer yourself?" she severely demanded, when she had led him, per emptorily, out of hearing of the others. "No," he gasped, gazing blankly, as a man does who is confronted with more Greek than he is prepared for. "Didn't you propose?" exclaimed Nellie, in the same indignant tone,which showed Balkan he was a criminal,which ever way he pleaded. "Do explain?" he quavered, gently. But Nellie was off to Genevieve with impertinent haste, kneeling down at ber side, calling for soft snow from under a drift and rubbing the beauty's temple and lips with it, while she explained to Morton how to got Genevieve's hands warm; much to his satisfaction, for she did not object to his covering them with kisses. The teamster came up, and Nollie found time to scold him for his stupid ity. The horses were unhitched from the sledge, and the youug people undertook to drag Genevieve home, which the stout poles at the sides of the conveyance as sisted them to accomplish, as the girls could take hold and propel, while the young men dragged the cumbrous con cern. The fair invalid was pillowed on muffs and covered with newmarkets,and was pleased to revive nicely. It was first su»set and then deep dusk when the catafalque slowly reached home. It may be supposed that dinner was a little late that evening. Nellie came into the parlor before the others, looking lovely in still another of her fashionable frocks <tud Balkan was waiting for her ready to pounce. "Whatdid you mean?" he whispered. Nellie's eyes, which looked big and bright, because she had been crying all jto herself, filled agaiu with tears. She ! edged away iuto the anteroom and h« i followed. "I meant," she replied sotto voice, ' "that when you love her, and she loves you, and when you come out into the backwoods and have plenty of oppor tunities, and when we are all looking on j from a respectful distance, it is perfectly stupid of you not to offer yourself to Genevieve, and I should have fainted and : died both if I had been in her place. | She showed great self-control not to , have died. You had no business to stipulate the tiee, anyhow, for of course ; she would expect everything to be settled i before she got there. Oh, of course, you think me outrageous to meddle with : you and talk right out as if I were a J novel, without respect of persons and open secrets, but I'm nobody in par ! ticular. you know, and seeing that I love Genevieve, I will put my finger into her affairs if I like to. And I'll just add 1 this—that I'm going to arrange to havo you both driven by the coachman to night in the big sleigh while we are portioned off to little cutters. The driver's seat is way up." "But my dear Miss Feitherly— Nellie—" "Now, don't be disrespectful. Of course I can only ask for an outward . shejw of respect after telling you to offer yourself to my dearest frieird, whom wo : all know you are hoping to win, but that show of courtesy I stipulate for." "But how can I ask Miss Chamberlain lin marriage if I love you?" Balkan squceezed in desperately. Nellie sat down on the arm of a chair and looked up at him aghast, blushing and appealing. "Oh, you can't be in love with me?" she said, breathlessly. "I wish you would not be so scornful. You ought to have known it. Months ago I was crazy about Genevieve, like the rest; but only for a week, for then 1 met yffu. A man doesn't sit staring all day at a girl unless lie loves her. While I stare at you your utter indiffer ence to me is something appalling but I had hoped to win you in the end. Then you take me by the throat, yank me in front of somebody else, with orders, martial in their haste, and now cast me into a perfect sea of premature ness; for, of course, you'll spurn my un heralded revelation. But I'm as obsti nate as you are, and love you I will, by Jove!" Balkan sat down on the other arm chair, and being trim as a marble statue for dinner, and not having time to brush his liair again if he tore it a little, thrust his thumbs into his pockets and glared at the fire. A feint rustle of heavy silk at his el bow made him feel exultant. "If she consents to it, you might pro pose to me in the Kussiau sleigh, then." He turned, and liei superb eyes met his. He caught her hands and studied her face with blissful care. "I thought I was of no account," she murmured, all of a tremble; and was suddenly kissed in a way that made her feel that for the future she had some one to guard her against all harm, and give her all the happiness she could wish for.—New Orleans New Delta. Redeeming Florida Land. It is not generally known that thou sands ot acres of land under water in Florida are being gradually restored and used for planting sugar cane and rice. Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, the well known manufacturer, has been in terested in the reclamation of land is Florida for many years. I saw him recently at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and i he said that the State gave the company half of the land it restored. I "Have many acres been redeemed?" "Already several hundred thousand I acres have been deeded to the company," he said, "and the work is still going on. iWe have a sugar cane plantation con taining ten thousand acres. The land | produces the finest cane in the world, and seed cane has to be used only once iin a number of years. About six thou | tand pounds of sugar are produced per . acre, for which we usually get four cents a pound. "It is only a question of time when nearly all the overflowed lands in Florida will be reclaimed, and sugar and rico will be produced in great quantities."— New York Herald. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; 51.50 after Hwree Mnthi SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Electric elevators increase. There's an electric hammer. Recent experiments have shown that liquid oxygen is magnetic. Steam locomotives are to be tried on the Chicago (111.) street lines. Tho best isinglass dissolves completely in hot water,leaving no visible residuum. The jeweler has drills so small that they can bore a hole only one-thousandth of an inch in diameter through a pre cious stone. The globular brass lantern, hitherto in use for military service purposes, is to be superceded by a folding lantern for use in tents. There is a new sanitarium in the Rivi era of Italy for the inhalation of ozone for the cure of most weaknesses,particu larly tuberculosis. The best material for hardening and tempering malleable iron and steel goods is said to be leather cinders, made by burning waste leather. Children are not numerous in France. Out of 10,000,000 families in the Re public one-fifth have no children at all and another fifth have one child each. The star Sirius, which is shown to be about double the size of our sun, emits from forty to sixty fold more light than the sun, owing to its matter being much more diffused. Recent explorations in the district of Sonora, Mexico., show that the coal de posits in the San Mareial Valley will amount to fully 60,000,000,000 tons and it is of excellent quality. Dr. Koch's lymph, according to the results of the experiments communicated to the last meeting of the Berlin (Ger many) Society for Internal Medicine, seems to have proved untrustwoitv, even us a means of diagnosis for tuberculosis. A French inventor has attached a tiny incandescent lamp to an ordinary pencil for use by reporters and others having to take notes at night. The light is not affected by rain or wind. The battery is carried in the pocket, the wires pass ing down the sleeve. A novel method of testing the condition of a horse's feet is to attach one termi nal of a light battery to the bit and the other to the shoe. If the foot is im properly penetrated by the nails the ani mal will squirm under the test, but will give no token if there is no irritation. The natives of Madagascar formerly followed the moon in daterinining time, but since the influx of missionaries the CJueen issued an edict that the Christian year should be followed. But in com mencing the year the first year the dato of the first day was set some time in October and November. The red color of the markings on Jupiter is believed by Mr. Barnard, the eminent astronomer, to he an indication of their age, the spots or markings (other than tho white spots) being dark or black on first appearances, but afterward becoming red. The great red spot seems to be no exception to the rule. The success of the existing electric railway in London, England, has givcu ail impetus to the movement tor loco motion of a similar kind. For considera tion during the forthcoming session of Parliament there aie no fewer than five bills which propose either tho construc tion of new electric railways or the ex tension of lines already authorized. A Colorado man has devised an elec trical machine that successfully operates in placer deposits of gold that could not be profitably worked by the sluice methods. The employed for saving the gold is -t of collecting it by means of the electric current, so that it forms an amalgam from which the precious metal may be easily separated. An Ingenious Ilolther. Kuhn, the great German naturalist, informs that in the .year 1799 some monks who kept bees observing that they made unusual noise lifted up the hive, when au animal flew out, which to their great surprise—for they at first took it to be a bat—proved to be a death's head hawk moth, and here Mem bers that several, some years before, had been found dead in the bee houses. Ilubcr also, in 1804, discovered that it made its way into his hives and those of his vicinity and robbed them of their honey. In Atrica, we are told, it has the same propensity, which the Hottentots observ ing, in order to monopolize the honey of the wild bees, have induced the colonists to believe that it inflicts a mortal wound. This moth has the faculty of emitting a remarkable sound, which Huber sup poses may produce on effect on the bees somewhat similar to that produced by the voice of their queen. As soon as ut tered, this strikes them motionless, and then the moth is enabled to commit with impunity much devastation in the midst of myriads of armed bands.—Cassel's Magazine. Singular Capture of a Swan. John Jordan brought a large white swan to Pendleton the other day, and tells a queer story as to how he got it. While near his house, on East Birch Creek, he saw some eagles chasing the swan in the air above him. The unfor tunate bird, in its anxiety to escape, flew directly over the young man's head, and with a quick spring ho munaged to seize and bring it down, the disappointed eagles flying away.—PortUnd Or egonian. HO. 22. J ED'S HORSEHAIR SNAKE. Jeb took a horsehair every day and l'ushe® down to the lake, And threw it in and watched to see It change into a snake; He'il seen little snakes in puddles that looked like horsehairs, so Ho thought all horsehairs would be snakes if they had time to grow. Every time it rained the highway glearasd with temporary lakes, All perturbed with writhing horsehairs which had been turned into snakes; They looked like snakes, they looked like hairs, and Jeb he said the rain Had turned the horsehairs into snakes—'twas easy to explain. Bo ho put horsehairs in the lake and watched from day today To see them turn to wriggling snakes and swim and crawl away, But though he gazed intently with eyeball! tense and strained. The horsehairs still were horsehairs and as horsehairs still remained. Perhaps we all are much like Jod—beside life's sheltered lakes We watch for harmless horsehairs to turn into noxious snakes, The hissing vipers of the soul, the serpents of the brain, Are mostly fangless horsehairs and will ever so remain. —Sam Walter Foss, in Yankoe Blade. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A tumble-down affair—A wrestling match.—Texas Sittings. "The grent heir of fame"—"Lo, the Conquering Hero Comes." The chief attraction about a raiser is his charming heirs.—Texas Sittings. When a man takes a fatal step he is sure to put his foot in it.—Pittsburg Post. Advice from the Century Dictionary, page 4908.—"T0 pop the question. Set pop."—Life. An "ice jam'' is anything but a sweet thing to the Maine logger.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. It is profitable to know one's self; but there is money in knowing just how others rate us.—Puck. "A simple look is all I crave," said be. "Gaze into yonder mirror and you'll get it," said she.—New York Journal. "Cecil Van Dunse gave me a piece of his mind to-day." "I noticed you weren't as brilliant as usual."—Truth. When a man resolves to be good aud patient the next pair of shoes ho buys I are sure to pinch him.—Atchison Globe. Setting a broken neck is a great feat of surgery. Still it doesn't quite come up to putting a head on a man.—Boston Herald. The world is full of men so engaged in saying "Amen" that they fail to see the contribution basket. ---Atchison Globe. The man who can't keep up with the procession in this world mustn't expect to enjoy the music of the band.—Elmira Gazette. Unwed—"What is this serveant-giri question I hear so much about?" Benedict —"How many nights nmy I have off?" —Boston Post. "Do you know, I don't think much of Mawson!" "You don't have to. You can size Mawson up in two seconds."— Brooklyn Life. An unpledged legislator may have "a head of his own," but other men are making desperate efforts to get his ear.— Columbus Post. Why Two Friends Parted: "Oh, say, I know a good thing I'd like to put you onto." "What is it?" "Ice."— Indianapolis Journal. Of all the fools, who leads tha van? If it were put to vote I think he'd be the silly man Who jumps to catch the boat. —Judge. Debtor—"l can't pay you anything this month." Collector—"That's what you told me last month." Debtor "Well,l kept my word,didn't I?" Texas Sittings. Judge (after the jury has acted against his judgments in acquitting a man)— "Give this man his liberty, but watch your coats aud umbrellas."—Fliegende Blaetter. Things one would wish to express dif ferently: "Well, good-by, Miss Smith. Tell the others I was very sorry not to find any one at home—a—a—a—except you—a."—Punch. There are people who have lived to old age for no other reason apparently than because they have never been able among the multiplicity of diseases to de cide which one to die of.—Boston Trau script. D'Aubique—"Miss Daggett was into see my color studies yesterday, and said she liked them immensely. What an artless little creature she is." Siunick— "That's what makes her like your paint ing."—Boston Post. Mr. Getup (of the firm of Getup it Howell) —"Where in thunder is that worthless office boy? Have you sent him anywhere?" Mi. Howell—"Yes, confound him I I've just sent him out to find another job."—Chicago Tribune. Undertakers are candid people. A gentleman called at an establishment last week and ordered an outfit for a funeral. "Dr. Blank s»ent mc here," he said. "Oh, yes," said the undertaker, "Dr. Blank sends us all his work."—London Till Bits.
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