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REPUBLICAN,
VOL. XXXI. NO. 3G.
TIOXESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21, 1898.
81.00 PER ANNUM.
' Now they are ballooning across the
Alps. Wbafa the good of Alps if you
tare to use a balloon, besides, to get
np in the air with?
With the establishing oi a press
censorship in London tho European
war cloud toJf on a distinctly darker
line.'' Onssteeuied contemporaries
in the British capital now knew iof
J is themselves. . '
.' Ofllcial reports show that th
Omaha Exposition paid all expenses
1 t f i 1 .. itAii nnn a- 1..'
ami icib n aurjjiua ui $uu,uw iu ia
divided among the stockholders. The
meu who managed that splendid en
terprise certainly got a show for their
money. ' " '
A soothing thought it is amid all
the perturbations in the politics of
this planet of ours onr wars and ru
mors of wars that tbe calm philos
ophers who search the skies in the
silence of the night go on finding and
mapping little bits of the great Uni
versenow a steady-going little plan
et, now vagroin comet. Dr. Brooks
has just found one of the latter "right
: i l . i l , : -1
RSUOUB1UU, lUllltCDU uuuis lUirtJ-lUlCI
minutes; declination, north sixty de
grees twenty-six minutes; motion
southeasterly." The little plancl
spoken of is nearest io us of all heav
enly bodies except the moon, and it is
to help us yqetting the parallax of
the sun . ' X better, therefore, be-
nave. - !
A conimitteo appointed by the Na
tional Education Association to amend
the spoiling of certain words iu com
mon uso has completed its labors and
will report to the Executive Commit
tee of the association, recommending
n list of words to be spelled preciselj
- as they are pronounced. 'The list in
cludes such words a program (pro
gramme), altho (although), thorofare
(thoroughfare), tho (though), thoro
(thorough), thru (through), thruout
(throughout), prolog (prologue), de
magog (demagogue), catalog (cata
logue),, decslog (decalogue), pedagog
(pedagogue). The changes are cer
tainly suggested by common sense;
but who ever heard of common senst
. where the English lauguage is con
cerned?
The United States and Russia con
stitute now tho two largest govern
ments in the world in the area and
population of the home country, th
homogeneity of the inhabitants and in
the total population. The products
' both are varied and extensive, and
it would not bean unnatural inference,
perhaps, that an extensive businesi
existed between the two, going to maki
np a part of the $000,000,000 of im
ports into the United States and tin
$1,000,000,000 of exports. In fact,
however, the commercial business don
between the United States and Russia,
between ttvo countries having collect
ively mere than 200,000,000 popula
tion and occupying 12,000,000 square
miles of the earth's area,, is com
paratively, insignificant, as the Treas
ury figures show.
The kingdom ef Sweden is just now
agitating the question whether or not
to follow Norway's lead iu granting
nniuAVdat nil ftVa rr n ( n f rf rtnmita.
uuwuiMMa Dituingvc VU Ul f(i X,' 1 - 1
tion of some 1,300,000 men over the
age of twenty-one, only about 300,000
have at present the right of suffrage.
To vote iu Sweden one must show that
his yearly income is 800 crowns ($195)
and that he pays taxes on that income.
The liberals are circulating petition!
throughout the kingdom, to- be pre
sented to the Riksdag at its meeting
this' winter. Norway has just re
cently given universal male suffrage
to its people, but in Sweden much op
position is expected from the party in
power Protectionists and Conserva
tives. Tho classes ore being organ
ized, and the advantages which the
United. States is believed to have
found in universal suffrage will have
great force.
A .remarkable story is going the
rounds of tho press as. to a weaving
machine newly invented in France,
says the Dry Goods Economist. This
machine, it is claimed, turns out from
100 to 175 yards of fobrio per day of
ten hours, with the expenditure of
but half tho ordinary motive force.
The fabrio is said to show a woven
effect on one side and knitted on the
other. It is also stated that great
economy is effected by the fact that
one workman can oversee as many as
six machines. The description is so
mixed up as to need considerable re
vision before receiving credence. It
seems to apply more to a knitting ma
chine than to a loom, while many im-.
portant details are wanting. Tho
ckim that one man can run six ma
chines is not startling, inasmuch as iu
some cotton mills iu this country one
jperative tends fully that number of
looms and more.
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A farmer's kitchen of lonot ago,
With oaken rafters, and fireplace wide,
Where three small stockings of scarlet wool,
filled to o'erflowlng, nans; side by side.
An ancient cloak in tbe corner stands;
There aro pewter dishes on dresser tall
And rlro-arms of the old-timo war
Aro crossed together upon the wall.
A sliver pathway the moonlight make.
In slanting brightness upon tbe floor,
And the fitful flare of tho firelight
Cast wild, weird shadows upon the door.
Into tho window a rosebush peeps.
Wrapped In a mantle of fleecy snow;
and the house-ont in a high-backed clu.fr;
Sloops lu the firelight's brilliant glow.
Before the stockings of scarlot wool.
With tender light In her eyes of brown,
Stands the mother, tall, and young, and fair,
In snowy kerohlct, and homespun gown,
I THE MAGIC DOLL.
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A Christmas Allegory. Q
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By IlarcheriU Arlina TJamin.
Y lady, the Trincess
Angelina lived iu
Dollytown. She was
a doll the most
beautiful, delicious,
lovable and lovely
doll that was ever
born. She could
close her eyesand
aay "Papa" and
"Mamma." She
could stand upon
one leg and hold her
other leg over her
shoulder for half an
hour. When a doll
can do this, she is a royal doll and not
a common doll. She bad a marvelous
complexion, and the more yon washed
it the brighter it grew. The Princess
Angelina had a beautiful wardrobe.
She had a ball dress, a dinner dress, a
slumber gown, a bicycle suit, a golf
toilet, a rainy day costume, a bib and
tucker to make believe she was a baby,
and four other common frocks, and
her oommonest. suit was better than
the best dresses of a great many dolls.
Now, Dollytown is in the middle of
New York. It doesn't begin anywhere,
and doesn't end anywhere. The Prin
cess Angelina was a magical doll.
When a person came to buy her whom
she didn't like she squinted with one
eye and made the other turn green, so
that she looked so ugly people put her
down right away. Another time when
some one wanted to buy her whom she
didn't like, she took a hat pin out and
stuck it in the woman's thumb and the
woman got mad and went off and
didn't buy any doll at all. This is
why all the other dolls got sold in
Dollytown the day before Christmas
and why the Princess Angelina was
not sold. It got arouiid to evening
and the Princess said, "I wonder
where I'll go." Then she gave a
scream because right in front of her,
looking like a dear old grandfather,
was Santa Claus himself. He bowed
very nicely, begauso Santa Claus is a
very polite gentlemau, and said:
"Good evening, Princess; I called to
see if your Highness would like to
take a walk."
The Princess emiied and said.
Thank you, Santa Clous, that is just
what I have been wanting to do all
day, but there was no gentleman
around I cared to walk with," and she
took Santa Claus's arm and they went
walking out of the beautiful rooms
where she had been living into the
street.
To prevent anybody stealing her
beautiful dresses, and I am sorry to
ftE BOWED VEBf KICELT.
say that there are bad, wicked,
naughty dolls who steal other dolls'
gloves and handkerchiefs and who tell
ribs, and do other awful things, Santa
Claus packed all ber dresses, bonnets,
gloves, shoes, stockings, parasols,
fanB, umbrellas, bibs, aprons, water
proofs, handkerchiefs and bracelets
into doll trunk. He put this on hj3
Christmas
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shoulder and off they went. The
street was very crowded, but it didn't
make any difference. Sometimes
they walked through the people,
sometimes the people walked through
them and sometimes they walked
through each other. At one place in
the street she walked right through
the heart of a very pretty shop girl
who had charge of rag dolls, and there
she saw beautiful piotures and statues
and jewelry and bands of musio play
ing and fountains leaping and flowers
waving and apples and pears hanging
from the bows of the trees. They
were not exactly real things she saw;
they were magical things, which are
sometimes more real than real
things.
At another place on the street
whom should they walk through but a
cross old maid, who had charge of the
rubber dolls in Dollytown, and again
SOMETIMES THEY WALKED THROUGH
THBS FEOPLE.
the Princess said "Oh," because in
the old maid's heart there were
gloomy woods and caves, frogs, green
snakes, and horned lizards and bats,
and owls that shrieked, "tu-whit, tu
whoo!" The Princess was very glad
to get out on the other side, and then
she knew why she had always loved
the young girl and always hated the
cross old maid. By and by they
came to a house with big doors, and a
waiter at the door who let people in
and out, but they didn't mind him in
the least. They did not even wait
for the door to open. They went
through the door and through the
waiter, and floated up stairs into the
nursery, where there were three or
four children getting ready to go to
bed. They were all little girls, and
tbey had hung their stockings upon
the mantelpiece, and upon the floor
with their backs against the wall they
had put oil their dolls. You see,
they thought that when Santa Claus
came he'd see all the dolls and would
give each one a little present. They
talked about it, too. The Princess
could hear them and see them, but
they couldn't see the Princess or
Santa Claus. She looked up at her
companion and soid, "Are you going
to give the dolls a present, too?" and
Santa Claus laughed a little bit,
turned red as if he were blushing, and
said, "Yes, I guess I'll have to. They
are good little girls. Wouldn't you
like to stay here with themV"
The Princess thought for a moment
and answered, "No, I thank yon,
Santa Clans. There are so many dolls
here their talking would prevent my
thinking."
Santa Claus laughed again, and the
next moment they floated through the
wall, through many walls and stopped
in another nursery. Here there were
two little girls and their mother. One
of them bad been quite naughty. The
mother eaid she hoped that Santa
Claus.who was a very kind man, would
forgive her. The little girl looked re
lieved and said, "It Santa Claus will
forgive me, I'll never break another
doll again!" and from the folds of her
little dress she pulled out (the rem
nants of a doll which had lost one
hand, one foot, its nose and half an
ear.
The Princess grew very indignant
at the sight, and said: "If you please,
Santa Clans, I don't like such people.
Let us go somewhere else." Santa
Claus nodded silently, and again they
floated through the walls, out into the
street, and into other homes. It
wasn't until the hundredth call that
the Princess noticed something. It
was this, that whenever the children
wished for something very much and
their mothers and fathers smiled,
Santa Claus nodded and took some
thing out of a pocket and dropped it
in a closet. This something was like
a little cloud of smoke, such as comes
when you strike a match, but it grew
IS! IP "
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS,'
and grew and became hard and took
the form of just what the children had
been talking about.
But the Princess was getting very
tired. They stopped finally in a little
room where there was a big bed and a
little crib. There was a sweet-faced
woman putting a little girl to bed. The
child said her prayers, then lay down
aud closed her eyes. She opened
them again and Baid softly: "Mamma,
do you think Santa Clans will bring
me a doll? I don't want a big one,
just a wee little one," and the mother,
who was dressed all in black, said: "I
hope so, darling." Thon silence came
upon the room. The clocks tolled mid
night aud the mother fell asleep. The
Princess turned to her guide and said:
"Santa Claus. if you please, I think
I'll stay here." Santa Claus nodded,
but said not a word. Then the Prin
cess climbed into the crib, although
she had on her ball-room dress, her
bracelets, her fan and her gloves. She
got under the bedclothes and put her
head upon the child's arm and her arm
around the child's neck. Then she
closed her eyes and foil sound asleep.
And she was still sound asleep in
the morning when the child awoke and
found the Princess in her arms.
Service of the Holly.
A picturesque shrub, especially use
ful at this time of tho year, is the holly,
with its tough and shining spinous
leaves and its pretty little full round,
berries. It is the only plant appro
priate to this happy period that re
lieves the dead green and monotonous
white of the non-flowering plants and
vines supposed to belong to Christmas
and the days that follow until Epiph
any. Like the mistletoe, most of the
holly exposed for salo in American
marts comes from Great Britain,
although some species of the plant
grow in the Southern States. The
commercial holly, however, is cut in
Scotland and sent here in bags. It is
roost valuable to work up in combina
tion with laurel, ivy and mistletoe . to
wreaths, anchors, stars and other de
signs, while for running decorations,
that is, long festoons and great sweeps
of green, a few of the bright red ber
ries wound in at regular intervals
heighten the effect and relieve the eye.
The favorite manner of arranging holly
for sale is to make it up into some one
of the numerous designs appropriate
to the day and the season, and thus
most of the plant offered this year is
fashioned. Holly is not so expensive
as the mistletoe and is more hardy and
lasting.
A Bare Thins;.
Poorer "I've been married twelve
years, and I don't believe I ever suc
ceeded in getting my wife a Christ
mas present that really pleased her."
Hooper "Lver try a check?'
Chicago Journal.
Between the Lines.
My dear Miss Bonds, your eyes pray
lift
(If this don't wla ber I am lost!)
And deign to view my humble gift;
(I hate to think about the cost!)
May it find favor in your sight,
(I (tnd bring nbout the end I set-k!)
Although its value is but slight.
(.I'll have to fast at least a week!)
The Flam Pudding.
Take two pounds of Sultana raisins.
Wash a pound of currants. Chop fine
a pound of beef suet and two ounces
each of candied orange and lemon
peel. Blanch two ounces each of
sweet aud bitter almonds. Grate
three nutmegs and one pound of bread
crumbs. Squeeze the juice from one
lemon. Weigh three-quarters of a
pound of flour and a whole pound of
powdered sugar. Measure a tumbler
of tart jelly currant is the best and
use nine eggs with this recipe.
Use a large mixing bowl, putting in
the eggs first, beat the jelly into these,
add the suet, thou the flour, a little
at a time, putting in the fruit, nuts,
crumbs, etc, and, last of all, put in
half a teaspoonful each of powdered
ginger root and salt.
Let all hands take part in the stir
ring. Have ready a large piece of
muslin, well washed; wet it and
sprinkle with flour; tie the pudding
loosely into this cloth, nnd put it into
a large pot of boiling water. Cover
and let it boil slowly nine hours. Lift
it out and put the pudding, cloth and
all, into cold water.
Turn out on a dish, stick it full of
blanched almonds, put a sprig of holly
in the centre and serve.
Their Forte.
Gals, thev wouldn't hurry much
Washln' up the dishes;
Helpin' out at harvest time
Went ag'in their wishes.
Workod right hard when corn was husked,
Iiut they didn't like it;
Knoned thev had a "forty" though
If they could but strlko it.
They've discovered it at last;
Alius on the go!
Orter seo 'em hustlin' 'round
rickia' mistletoel
Hon the Illusion or Santa Claus TTas
Cruelly Dispelled.
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PUZZLE DEPARTMENT.
Tbe solutions to these puzzles will a p.
peat in a lucceedlflg issue.
13. A Ieraplttlon.
1. Behead part of a vessel, aud leave
a tree.
2. Behead to cut, and leave a tree.
3. Behead to remain in liquid, and
leave a tree.
4. Behead to think, and leave a tree.
5. Behead a slice of beef, aud leave
a tree.
14 Transposttlan.
Transpose a tree into part of a win
low.
Transpose a malediction iuto a re
ceptacle. Transpose an object of interest to
explorers iuto a legal claim.
Transpose a certain kind of food
into that which cooks it.
Transpose the part of a plant of
which paper is made into a document
writteu on paper.
Transpose something that lives uu
er water into something dreaded by
ships on the water.
13. A Diamond.
1. A letter used to express number.
2. A dweller iu the city.
. 3. What a narrow street is callod iu
England.
4. A kind of puzzle.
5. A word formerly used to desig
late a standing place.
6. Termination.
7. A letter usod to express number.
10. An Endless Chain.
(Every syllable appears twice, form
ing the end of one word and the be
jgiuning of the next, thus forming a
chain. The end of the last word is
like the begiuning of the first, thus
making the chain endless.)
1. Unproductive.
2. Income from property.
3. An old way of keeping accounts
4. A vice.
5. A hearth.
C. Acoording.to law.
7. French.
8. A Roman official.
9. A mutilated trunk.
10. The subject of a famous poem.
11. Found on a polished diamoud
12. Pertaining to a whale.
13. A confection. .
14. To trausfer shoots.
15. Part of a roof.
16. A fungus growing on grain.
17. Obtained.
18. Part of the body.
19. A beast.
20. The most important part,
21. A kind of bow.
22. Bended.
23. A poem.
24. A kind of bird.
25. To prevent.
SOLUTIONS TO TKEVIOUS TUZZLES,
9. A Ladder
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HOUR
V S
IOWA
L R
LUNG
L E
10. A Square
POST
ONCE
SCAN
TENT
11. A Diamond
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SALAD
HOLIDAY
DADDY
DAY
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12. A Letter Puzzle From 1 to
23, "Field Flowers," Etigeuo Field.
1, Fowler; 2, defies; 3, lounge; 4.
defile.
L Thlnrs Learned In a Lawyer's Offloe.
A prominent lawyer, whose office is
in the Franklin Building, went to
the 'phone the other day aud, after a
tactful parley with the haughty maid
at the central oftioe, succeeded in get
ting his stationer. "Send up to me
half a dollar's worth of the same kind
of paper I got the other day and
send a half dollar along with the boy,"
said the lawyer. A student sitting
uear by let his "Brewster's Practice"
fall unheeded to the floor as ho gazed
iu wide-eyed astonishmeut at the
lawyer. "Great guns, Mr. T ,"
exclaimed the youth, "I expected to
learu how to do mauy queer things in
a law office, but I never dreamed that
even our profession had a way of get
ting both goods and money at the
same time!" He was quite disap
pointed when Mr. P explained
that ho wanted the half dollar sent
along iu order to change a dollar bill
he already had. Philadelphia Record.
A ltemarkable Name.
The following is a tiue story told of
t Mr. Ottiwell Wood, who was a min
ister of tho Gospel, and whose son,
Mr. John Wood, for many years chair
man of the board of inland revenue,
vouched for its correctness. Mr.
Wood had to appear as a witness in a
north country assize court, and was
asked and gave bis name in due
course.
"What?" askod the Judge peevish
ly, being rather deaf.
Mr. Wood repeated his answer.
"Can't hear you; spell it out,"
mapped the Judge.
"O. double T, I, double U, E,
donble L, double U, double O, D."
The Judge threw down his pen in
lespair. Household Words.
A Jeweled jlobe.
The Shah has iu his palace at Tehe
ran a twelve-inch globe, upon which
the various parts of the world are set
out in jewels of various colors Eug-!
land with rubies, India with diamonds,
;he sea with emeralds, and so on.
LOOK OUT FOR IT.
Tour heart would still be happy, an' wculd
never have no woe
It you looked out fer tbe engine when you
heard tbe whistle blow!
l'ou wouldn't koer fer summertime you
wouldn't mind tbe snow
If you looked out fer the engine when yot
heard tbe whistle blow!
I don't keor what they tell you, an' I don'l
keer whar you go
Vou must look out fer the engine when you
hear the whistle blow!
Fer time it is a-flyin' no river stops its
flow;
3o, look out fer tbe engine whon you hcai
the whistle blow!
Frank I,. Stanton.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Loud "Did you hear about that
golf coat of mine?" . Redd "Yes,
heard it." Yonkers Statesman.
Papa "The rattlesnake gives warn
ing before it strikes." Johnny
"What a chnmp it is, papa!" Puck.
"Young man, you'll spend your days
in the poorhouse yet." "Oh, well, I
sleep all day, anyhow." Indianapolis
Journal.
"My employer is so queer; I can't
ell when he's pleased." "Well, you
can tell wheu he's displeased, can't
yon?" Chicago Record.
Susie "Papa, what makes a mau
slways give a woman a diamond en
gagement ring':" Her Father "The
woman." The Jewelers' Weekly.
The Boston Herald says tho womau
olf champion has a man's arm.
Well, that's certainly a good thing to
iiavo about her. Cleveland Leader.
Her father was a druggist,
Blie was cashier in Ms store;
And the other girls all envied
The complexion that she wore.
Chicago News.
Ancient Adorer "I could sacrifice
ill my riches to win your love!"
Young Adored "If you did anythiug
so foolish I should never love you."
Judy.
Woman (suspiciously, to milkman)
"I believe you water your milk."
Milkman "Don't talk nonsense!
Why, water's scarcer than milk!"
Fun.
is "Doctor, is it very difficult to put a
person in the idiot asylum?" "Oh,
no. Most patients go there under very
simple conditions." Indianapolis
Journal.
Mamma "Oh, dear! Johnny, I
lou't believe yon know what it is to
be good." Jimmy "Yes, I do, mam
ma. It's not doiug what you want tc
io." Truth.
Little MlssMufTit,
IS lie sat on a tulTet
Eating up curds and whoy;
A microbe espied her,
And slipped down Inside her,
And she had Influenza next day.
Johnnie "Pa, where does a man
jfet a theory?" Pa "In his head, my
son." Johnny "Well, doesn't it
hurt his head when a theory is ex
ploded?" New York World.
"Speaking of business marts and
bargain hunters," said Gwilliaras,
"tiieyare about the same thing. One
is a centre of trade aud the other is a
trade scenter." Chicago Tribune.
"I see some collego out West is
ibout to confer a degree ou Spend
thrift, the author," said Cushly.
"Good,"said Lenderby. "What is it
to be? I. O. U. ?" Harper's Bazar.
"I am going to send my boy to col
lege. I waut him to come out on top of
the heap." "But yott can't be sure of
it, you know; football is such an tin
certain game." Philadelphia Bulletin
"A Dansjerons Man."
Here is a story illustrative of the
ignorance of the colonies that onco
prevailed in the Colonial Office and is
not yet entirely banished from Down
ing street. As we all know, the late
Lord Carnarvon, whon Colonial Sec
cretary, officially recorded his opinion
of Sir George Gray as "a dangerous
mau." Sir Charles Gavaa Dully, on
one of his visits from Victoria, called
upon Lord Carnarvon in Downing
street, and in conversation chanced to
iutroduco a reference to Sir George
Grey. "A very strange and incom
prehensible character," soid Lord
Carnarvou, with a shake of the head;
"I hear he has now withdrawn to an
islaud off the coast of New Zealand
and surrounded himself with a num
ber of wallabies." "Oh, yes, I think
that is not at all improbable," replied
Sir Charles. "You surprise me," re
joined Lord Carnarvou; "what must
be the state of morality in a countrj
whore you make light of such a pro
ceeding?" "Why, my Lord, what dc
you suppose a wallaby to be?" "A
half-caste female of course. Is that
not so?" "Certainly not; a wallabj
is simply a small kangaroo. " Londof
Chronicle.
The Tea riant or China.
The Chinese tea pluut is au ever
green shrub, growiug from three to
live feet high. It is not iudigenous to
China and for a long time its origin
was unkuown, but a native tea-tree
was found iu Assam, India, which it
now generally regarded by botanists
as the parent of all the cultivated
species. It is a real tree, attaining s
height of from fifteen to twenty feet,
but growiug iu the midst of moist
jungles and iu shady, sheltered situa
tions. A rich and luxuriant growth ii
necessary to secure the best resulte
from this species, which attaius it!
best development in a moist and
equoblo climate. Formerly the tcs
plant was supposed to require a tem
perate climate and a site on steep slop
ing ground, and most of the Chinese
plantations are so located. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Sugar Cane In Deluware.
It is said that snsar cane grown iu
Delaware will yield 320i pouuds of re
fined product to the acre, compared
with 2800 pouuds, the best results
from beets in t'aliforuiu. This state
ment is made after experiments iu tho
Delaware Agricultural Station.