SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIII. Journalism is looking up in China. There are now threo newspapers pub lished in that country and there is a prospect that another one will soon be started. The prospectors are waiting until they can find out whether it will fill a long-felt want. In China, by the way, if a paper publishes an untrue statement about any one, not only are the editors punished, but all the read • era as well. In 1880 6,048,571 tons of coal were mined in tho South, and in 1888 the output was over 18,000,000 tons. Cot ton mills havo increased from 161, with 14,323 looms and 667,854 spindles, in 1880, to 355 mills, •with 45,001 looms and 2,035,268 spindles, whilo many new mills are un lor construction and many old ones being enlarged. In 1880 thero were 40 cottonseed-oil mills in tho South, having a capital of $3, 500,000; now thero are 213, with over $20,000,- 000 invested. Tho great town of Shoshong, north of Capo Colony, South Africa, has been abandoned by the cntiro population of 20,000 persons becauso of tho scarcity of water. A new sito for tin town was found about 100 miles northwest of Shoshong, and thither tho people jour neyed with all their perional property and about 50, 000 head of cattle. Shos hong was the largest nativo town in South Africa and pictures of it appear in some school geographies and in Reclus' Universal Geography. The Argentino Republic now cher ishes the expectation that it will soon havo a stream of immigration equal to that which has enriched and still swells tho opulenco of this country. During the first seven months of last year the Argentine Republic received 157,681 immigrants, and a total of 250,000 for tho year. "Those figures," says tho Washington Star, "point to the not distant day when a republic not less powerful than our own will in clude all the States of South America Under its authu.lty." With tho discovery of sand in the Berkshire Ilils of Massachusetts not long ago, which is almost pure silica, a now era in American cut-glass making has begun. Formerly, sand and other materials for the manufacture of tho best cut glass were brought to this country from Belgium aud France. Tho only exhibitor of American cut glass took tho grand prize in tho recent Paris exposition. It is not generally known that tho best glass blowers and cutters have been attracted to America on account of tho good wages paid. Tho industry has won a triumph for Amer.'ca in carrying off tho World's Fair prize from European rivals. A company charterod in West Vir ginia, with a capital of $1,000,000, had for its object tho manufacturing of big steel guns on the Delawaro river, near Philadelphia, under tho patents of Dr. li. J. Gatling, the inventor of the rapid-fire gun that bears his namo. Congress has made :'.n appropriation of $6,000,000 for hoavy guns, and the com pany intend to make 6, 8, 10 and 12- inch guns both for coast fortifications and for naval warfare. Thoy will bo sent to government testing stations, and if they come up to tho requirements they must bo accepted. Dr. Gatling has a system by which ho claims guns can bo made much quicker and cheaper than by the present processes, and ho alone understands tho secrot. The Hartford Courant is of tho opin ion that "all cities should bewaro of largo blocks of buildings nominally fire-proof, but which, as in the recent case at Boston, are so constructed as to bo really invitations to the flames. Then tho method of fighting firos and espe cially the modes of ogress from burning housos should bo improvod. As to the equipments of firo companies, it ought to be known that new modc3 of building residences, officos, theatres and hotels demand now and better arrangements for subduing conflagrations. Wash ington has not suffered as much from fires as many other cities. But this fact should not blind tho city to the neces sity for improvements in all respects demanded by wise vigilance before it is visited by one of those terrible scourges that havo befallen Boston, New York, Chicago and othor large cities, and havo also swept into the limbo of the lost tho property of whole villages Md towns in all parti of the What is a Gentleman. What is a gentleman? It is not one Knowing instinctively what be should shun, Speaking no word that could injure or pain, Spreading no scandal, and decp'ning no stain? One who knows how to put each at his ease, Striving, successfully always to please- One who can tell by a glance at your cheek When to be silent and when ho should speak? What is a gentleman? Is it not one Honestly eating the bread he has won, Walking in uprightness, fearing the God, Leaving no stain on the path he has trod Caring not whether his coat may be old, Prizing sincerity far above gold, Kecking not whether his hand may be hard- Stretching it boldly to grasp its reward? What is a gentleman? Say, is it birth Makes a man noble or adds to his worth? Is there a family tree to be had Shady enough to conceal what is bad? Seek out the man who has God for his guide, Nothing to tremble at, nothing to hide, Be he a noble, or be he in trade, He is the gentleman Nature has made. APPLE GATHERING. BY BHIRLEY BROWNE. "Why, Cassy, what have you dono to yourself?" Miss Marietta Carstairs might well start as she sat in her cushioned chair by the fire-light, drinking a cup of tea out of the dclicato old china which had be longed to Grandmother Carstairs, at the apparition of a tall, slight figure witji a man's overcoat buttoned in loose folds around it, so that the skirts nearly touched tho floor, a man's boots pulled up over tho pretty feet, and a felt hat clapped, in cavalier fashion, on tho back of the head. Cassandra Cant airs burst out laugh ing. •■Making a man of myself," said she. "Pretty well dono, isn't it?" Miss Marietta stared harder than ever. "Is—it a masquerade?" sho asked, doubtfully. '•Does it look like it? No,'' Cas sandra. , "but there can't bo any mistake. I saw thom myself, steal - ing my applet Here's the key of the icc-liou?c. I'm ready to lodge a com plaint against them. Why—Doctor Harford—" For, as tho constable opened the creaking old door, out walked her ele gant next door naighbor with a most inscrutable expression of countonance. "I plead guilty, Miss Carstairs," said the doctor, brushing the blua mold off his fashionably cut garments, "and I rscommend myself—and Tommy, my office-boy here—to tho mercy of the court. Yes; it's all qnito true. We were picking your apples; but it wasn't for our own benefit. I heard that your factotum was sick, and I knew that you wished to send your app'ei down by old Israel Jones early this morning. We wanted to do a neighborly act, but wo didn't expect to bo caught in fla grante delicto by you." "Oil, Doctor Harford t but why didn't you tell mo who you wore! 1 ' "If you will kinlly remember, you did not givo me any opportunity to ex plain myeelf," "I called you names I" gasped Cassy. "Yes, I believe you did," said B*. Harford, smiling; and now that Cas sandra looked Lira directly in the face, he had certainly a very sweet smile. "And," added Cassandra, feeling herself grow cold and hot by turns, "I —hit you with the lantern when yon were climbing down." "And broke it—yes." "And all the tima you were trying to do mo a favor." "In a mistaken way, as I now think —yos, I was," said the doctor. "I should have asked your permission to make myself of use." "And now," cried out Cassy, clasp ing her hands, "I'vo shut you up all night in a moldy ice-house—and I've sent for tho constable—and l'vo bo haved worso than any gypsy girl could possibly do, evon down to using op probrious language and committing assault and battery. Oh, Doctor Har ford! I never shall daro to look you in the face again." And sho fled up to the houso, burst ing into a flood of passionate tears, as sho went, and ran straight down collar to hide herself. "I'll go as a femalo missionary to Japan," sobbod Cassandra. "I'll enter asistorhood; I'll never show my face again to any living soul!" But sho did. Sho neither set sail for Yokohama nor entered a cloister; and tho very next day sho went out driving with Dr. Harford. ' 'But why havo you always disliked mo so? Why have you refused to be introduced to me? Why have you in variably looked tho other way when you saw me coming, and run into the houso when I came near the garden fence?' asked he. "Idon't know," said Cassandra, in a low voice. "Is there anything so disagreeable about me?" "No, no," admitted Cassy. "But I thought you lookod haughty and super cilious" "Come," said tho doctor, laughing, "that's funny ! I thought it was mo that you despised! Was it becauso I was a doctor?" "Oh, no!" "Have you anything against doctors, as a rule?" "No." "Have you anything against me?" he persisted. 'Not in the least." "Then, shall wo bo friends?" in a coaxing voice. And Cassy agreed cordially. How slight is tho dividing lino be tween friendship aud love. Miss Mari etta Carstairs alone can tell, for sho alono was tho confidauto of both these deadly enemios turned into excellent friends. Suflico it to say, that when next year's applo gathering camo around, Dr. aud Mrs. Harford both went out to superintend the operation.— Fashion Bazar. Swallows Are Great Pathfinders. As swallows often fly through long distances at a very great height, it fol lows that thoy are excellent pathfinders. It remains yet to be found out how they set out for their autumnal journey to the South, as they start at night, but it is supposed that the young birds aro taught by tho parents tho direction iu which to fly. It has, however, been quite recently ascertained that a single b r l is ab'.o to find its way back from a very long distanco. In the daucing room of a rostau ateur, in a village not far from Dusscldorf, Germany, a num ber oi swallows havo their nests on a rafter which runs across the room, under the ceiling. In September last three of tho parent birds were taken from tho ne>ts, and a gentleman traveling to Ber lin took them by train and gave thom their libsrty at ditlereut stations. Each bird had a narrow red ribbon tied round one leg, but all threo had by some iiioans torn this off, and were con sequently not recognized immediately after their return, After two days, however, all tho nests were examined, and it was found that the wanderers had returned to them. Tho Colossal Czar. Both in appearance and manner, the Czar has become a Muscovite of the old Cossack 11 pe. He is a colossal figure, being a giant, both iu height und girth, quite bald, with a fiat nose, an immense sweeping moustache, and a stupendous beard, which flows over hi* oh«»t. Ar gonaut. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The longest time thus far reported for an incandescent lamp to burn is 10,- 608 hours. Experiments are being carried out on the Thames river with lifeboats pro pelled by the reaction of water pumped astern. The electric lights havo roduced the average time of vessels passing through the Suez Canal from 37 hours 57 min utes to 22 hours 32 minutes. In the purest airsubjocted to tost for the causes which produce the di mming effect of hazo thero were about 34,000 dust particles found in each cubic inch. A novel feature of the coming exhi. bition in Edinburgh will be a working 4liip railway in which the vessel wiU be immersed in wator whilo upon the car. It is said that ten par cent, of alum, added to plaster of paris whilo boing burned, renders it ai hard as marble on setting, and capable of taking a fine polish. A color test for railway employes has been introduced in tho shape of a devico consisting of a revolving series of colored g'asscs lighted from bohind by a flamo and tinted like the lamps of tho signal boxes. In tanning by electricity the ordinary tan liquid is employed, and the hides revolve slowly through it, while the current from a dynamo traverses the vat and helps tho tanning to combine with tho golatine of tho skin. A skillful cork-cutter can produce from 1500 to 2003 corks a day, his only tools being two sharp, broad bladod knives. Machine) havo been introduced which can turn out about 2000 corks an hour, but thoy aro useless* for the cutting of tho finer qualities. A new sort of boot-sole has boon in troduced in Nuremberg, c insisting of a sort of trellis of spiral metal wire, the intcrsticos being filled with gutta pcrcha and rosin. Thoy can bo fitted with nails like ordinary soles, are fifty per cent, cheaper than loather and vastly more durable. When Sir J. Herschel was defending the character of astronomical science in view of an error of nearly 4,000,000 miles in estimating the sun's distance, tho correction wus shown to apply to an error of observation so small as to ba equivalent to the apparent breadth of a human hair at a distanco of 125 feet. It is sometimes said that the branchos of very old trees are, properly speak ing, roots, an l that if planted upside down the troos would flourish. Herr Kny, a German bo:anist, has recently investigated the matter by planting vines aud ivy with both ends in tho ground and subsequently cutting them at the arch. Tho experiments were fairly successful, though not in every instance; and Ilerr Kny intends to con tinue them with other plants and treos, such as willows, poplars and roses. Long Range Itilie Shooting. There is an immense amount ot non nenso talked and written about long distance rillo shooting, and tho stories men tell about their own or somebody else's wonderful accuracy at long range may be set down as campaign inven tions. In fact, the same importance is not attached to long-distance shooting as formerly, for it has been demon strated beyond doubt that it is compar atively useless, except whero the dis tanco has b?cn carefully measured and the gun properly gauged for it. It can be readily seen that this would bo im practicable either in shooting at game or in a military cugngemont. To illus trate, tho vi ry best long-dis tanco riflo that is made has a fall of forty inches in 510 yards. Now, how many men arc there who can accurately calculate such a long distance? And of •what use would tho gun be in caso tho marksman's judgment orrod fifty yards one way or tno other? Those considera tions have induced tho government to change tho whole theory and practice concerning tho mo of long-range guns. Tho Creed moor system has been abandoned entiroly by tho army mark* men, and thoy are now taught the aif of measuring distanc33 by tho eye, and •lso practice shooting at moving ob jects. When firing at targets each man makes his own estimate of distance, i cpiad Qres and then all advance, say 50 ynrds, malco new cttimates and fire again. This process ii repeated, so tlw t the noldier really gets experience lot will be of use to him iu actual Wli/fare. Olobi-Dtnwerni. NO. 19. CHILDREN'S COLUMN. A BABY'S REFLECTIONS. I'm s very little baby, Little face and hands and feet; And my mother says she never Saw a baby half so swest. It is nice to hear them talking In that way, but I can see, Oh, a lot of little babies, Who all look and laugh like me. When I look out of the window There's a baby in the gloss, And he waves his hand as I do To the people as they pass; When I put out hands to touch him And to pat him on the cheek. He will look and act as I do, But he'll never, never speak. There's a baby in the mirror, There's a baby in the spoon, And there's one in front of mother When we play a little tune. These are very funny babies, Where I go they always come, But I never hear them talking. So I guess they're deaf and dumb. ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP. A blacksmith namod Thomas Rac bought a little black-faced lamb and put it into a field in wero a cow and a little Galloway pony. The lamb took no notice of tho cow, but soon began to show fondness for tho pony, which rfturned its affection, and tho two frientts kept constantly in oach other's coapany. When tho pony was used for viding or drawing a cart tho lamb would trot besido it, and if at any time the lamb was alarraod by people coming too noar to look at it, it would run under the body of tho pony and pop out its littlo black face from between the forelegs, and look about it in con scious security. At night tho lamb slept in tho stable, and if separated front tho pony would raiso plaintive bloat ings, which tho pony answered by mournful noighings. And just as a dog leaves tho society of its own kind to follow man, this littlo lamb forsook its own species that it might associato with its friend, for on ono occasion, when tho blacksmith was riding the pony, tho lamb, as usual, trotting beside it, they passed a largo llock of sheep that was being driven along tho road. The lamb never heeded the sheep, but went straight through them with tho pony. Another time both pony and lamb strayed into an adjoining field, iu which tliero was a flock of shoep feeding. The lamb joined them for a short time, but as soon as the blacksmith camo to drive out tho pony tho lamb followed without onco looking back at its natural companions. SPARING THEIR STRENGTH. "Look at thoso men!' exclaimed Harry Djlmar, as ho pointed to some trackmen at work. "It takes six of them to carry that iron rail, and they move like snails." "They aro sparing their strength," remarked his father. "Well, I should say so," declared Harry. "Four of them could carry that rail with case." "Perhaps they could," replied his father. "They are sparing their strength, and they are wise." Harry looked at his father, a faint expression of surpriso on his face. "I notico that the foreman does not reprove them," continued his father. "He is satisfied that they are doing an honest day's work. If they worked as you seem to think they ought to work, it is likely they would not bo hero to morrow, or not ou tho next day at least. They would break down. They must husband their strength so that they can work day after day without abatement. There is speed in method though it maj seem tedious. A quick firo soon burns itsolf out. Tho tortoise beat tho hare in tho race. A rocket makes a big fusi, but it comes down a stick. A volcano creates a great up roar, but it remains still a long whilo afterward Tremendous effjrts aro soon spent. The 'pitching in' prorvss docs not last long. It is wiso for us, my son, to spare our strength, whether wo labor with our hands or brains. It is the secrot of long sustained effort. The enn*gy in reserve is often the orgy that wins and wears." "I sco now, papa, that I spoke too hastily," Harry said. "Tho meu aro not shirking thoir work. Yes, thoy aro wise.''— Harpsr't Young People. Highly Improper. Husband—Mary, would it bo proper for mo to say I made the fire, or started the fire? Wifo —Now, John, the idoat When j fou know that I've built the fire every | morning since wo got mtrrlcd.—Biig \amt»n Lmdtr,