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. <msVvorcd, with spirit., "No;
I'm simply going to gather my apples."
"Whero is Ben?"
'•Fiat on his back with rheumatism.
And those apples must bo marketed at
once, or they'll spoil."
"But, Cassy—"
"Ohl I know beforehand all you're
going to say," dcclarod Cassandra,
loaning, in a mannish fashion, with
her hands deep in her pockots, against
the edgo of the wooden mantel. "It
isn't a woman's work. Well, I mean
to make it a woman's work. After all,
how docs it differ from nutting or
misletoc hunting, both of which are
supposed to bo eminently feminine
accomplishments? Old Jones is coming
hero to-morrow morning at fivo o'clock
to tako them to Weldtown. If they're
not gathered, of courso they won't be
marketed; and those red-heari appl.-s
mean not less than twenty-fivo dollar.;
to us, Polly."
Miss Marietta sighed. "I wish I
cculd help you, Cassy," murmured she.
"But I am sure Doctor Harford's hired
man would assist you if—"
Cassandra started away from tho man
tel as if sho had been stung by a wasp.
"If," sho repeated, brusquely. "But
what a comprehensive if, Polly! I'd
cut off my right hand," sho added,
"sooner than to ask that man to help
us. That haughty, composed pink of
perfection—that high-bred aristocrat
that dospises a'l women who—work!"
"Is that tho reason, Cassy, that you
gather your apples after dark? That he
shall not see you?"
'■No," sharply answered Cassy. But
Miss Slarietta could see, in spito of the
dusk, the quick scarlet mount to her
sister's forehead. "I gather thom after
dark simply because I don't want all
the villago tonguos gossiping about me.
It's my business, and no one else's, un
less you, dear Polly" —kneeling a min
ute at her sister's side— "it's yours.
Just as I'm your business—and a bad
business you find mo, I'm afraid!"
'•But how do you know that Doctor
Harford entertains these very hostilo
sentiments toward U3?"
"I know a good many things, Polly,
that I ean't give rhyme or roason for,"
Casav answered, positively. "Haven't
I seen him look at mo when I was weed
ing the onions and husking the pease?"
"A cat may look at a king, Cass!''
said Miss Marietta, laughincr in spite of
herself. "Mayn't Doctor Harford look
at Miss Carstairs?"
"No," said Cassandra, with a stamp
of the small, cow-hided foot—for she
had borrowed old Ben's farming outfit
for tbia oaoailon. "Ha may noil"
LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1890.
And then she took up a lantern and
a box of mutches, and went her way,
flinging back a kiss to the invalid sister
as she did so.
It was neaily midnight whon she re
turned, flushed and radiant, her hazel
eyes shining, her breath coming quick
and fast. Miss Marietta, who had
fallen into a lady-liko doze in front of
tho smoldering logs, started from her
dream.
"Goodness mo, Cassy 1 is that you J"
said sho.
1 -Yea." Cassy was unbuttoning the
old coat and shaking her foet out of the
cow-hido envelopes now stained with
the mud of tho swampy orchard land.
"Have you gathered tho applos?''
'•Yes. They'ro all iu barrels, close
to tho bars, ready for Israol Jones when
he comes along, to-morrow morning.
Old Ben's nephow, a stout sailor lad
just from sea, helped me got them in.
We broke tho lantern, but that didn't
signify—there was a moon when tho
clouds parted enough for us to get a
glimpse of it. Tho apples ought to
bring a fair price; they'ro in beautiful
condition. And, what do you think,
Marietta? Jack and I captured an
apple- thiet—two of'em—coolly picking
our fruit into baskets, and they're
safely padlockod into the old ico-liouse
now."
"Oh, Cassyl thiovo3l Who are
they?''
"Well, naturally, they didn't offer to
give us their cards; and Jack Tar and
I walked them directly oil into tho ice
house. I led the biggest one by his
coat-collar, and my sailor boy hustled
the little one along. I think tho little
chap would have show.i fijfht, but tho
big one shut him up."
"Cassy, you did that?"
"laud Jack Tar, whoso roal name, I
believe, is Bartholomew Clark. Yes;
we mado the capture, unasiisted and
alone, and Bartholomew is going to
fquiro Patton's to-morrow to have tho
scamps regularly committed. Now,
aren't you glad I went out myself to
gather tho apples?''
'•Oil, Cassy, suppose they had had
fire-arms concealed about them? Sup
pose you had been hurt?"
"Oh, suppose, suppose!" gayly mim
icked Cassandra. "But I wasn't hurt,
as it happened; and now let us goto
bed, Polly, for it's past twelve, and
I'm tire J to death!'"
Weary though sho was, however,
Cassandra was up blight and ear'.y tho
next morning to feed her spring chick
ens and preparo her sister's breakfast, for
tho Carstairs girls kept no servants, and
there was plenty to do. Eirly though
it was, however, a sturdy young man
with a sunburned faco stood at the
gate.
"Whnt do you want, Bartholomew?''
said Cassy, taking in the milk-pail
from its hook on the left-hand of tho
door.
"Tno constable's hero, miss. He
won't take no orders, except from
you."
"When is he?''
"A-waitin', miss, out by tho ice
house door."
Cassandra caught her hat from its
peg under the kitchea clock-sholf, and
walked in hor quick, elastic way by
"Jack Tar's" side to tho ancient fast
ness built into the side hill, once used
for tho reception of ice.
"I think, miss," said tho thickset,
grizzle-bearded old villago constable,
"there's some mistake."
"Mistake 1" echoed Cassandra, in her
clear, lou 1 voic>, "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,