SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIII. Russia has just asked tor another loan, this time for one hundred million dollars. The modesty of the request, •ays the Now York World, would be more conspicuous if Germany had not recently asked a loan almost as large. Peace is to bo kept in Europe. An exact copy of the United States •lien labor net has been introduced in tho House of Parliament at Ottawa, Canada. Tho bill appears to be a slap at tho United States for enforcing their own act to keep Canadians from work ing across the border for a short timo. The Rothschilds have refused to float the proposed new Russian loau. This fact has more weight than all the rumors of war the correspondents may cable frcm Europe. If the European Powers could not get themselves any further into debt, the New York Teh gram declares that disarmament would soon be a necessity. Tho effect of our stringent laws Against polygamy is scon in tho settle ment of 1,000 Mormon refugees from Utah in Canada. At present there is no law against polygamy in tho domin ion, but the government will be askod to introduce a measure making it a puni«hablo offense. Tho Canadians view with alarm the migration of Mor mons to their country. Tho destruction of human life by our railways is attaining truly alarming proportions. According to tho esti mate of the Interstate Commerce Com missioners the mortality from this ciu«c in a single year is as high as 5693, whilo for the samo period tho number of persons injurod in railroad accidents reaches 27,898. Of course, a groat proportion of both classes is rnado up of railway employes. A burglar who went through a St. Louis house, generously rjfreshed him lelf on the premise) at the conclusion of his labors. Tho conscquenco was that sleep overtook him and he woke up only to find himself in tho clutches ol a policeman. The New York I'ribuxe thiuks it may probably occur to him now thnt eternal vigilance, especially in his lino of practical effort, is the price of liberty. The Germans have been the pioneer* in scientific forestry. With a total forost nrea of only 34,346,000 acres, of which 11,234,000 belong to the state, the German empire now has no less than nine schools of forestry, and during the threo years ending with 1888 it published 177 books on the various brauclus of tho subject. There are also ten periodicals devotel to forestry, and a general association o) foresters with annual meetings, and ton local societies. It is evident, observes the San Fran cisco Chronicle, that the Nihilis: sin Russia aro again preparing for soni'! great stroke such as that which ended the life of the Czir, Alexander 11. There is the samo feverish acliv.ty, the frequent discoveries of plots and the desperato nets of thoso who are caught. No wonder that tho Russian police dread the Nihilists whon a young girl like Sophie Porovski has the nervo to givo tlio signal for throwing tho fatal bomb that killed tho Czir, and another in Moscow shoots down the chief of the secret police who camo to arrest her, and thon takes her own life. Swift death by her own hand was a far better fate than exile to Siberia, with tho nameless indignities to which female prisoners aro subjjctcd. As anthracito coal has como of late /cars to be used more and moro cxclu lively for domoslic purposes, it has grown to be a more accurate measure of the consumption of fuel by the people. Nobody will be surprised to learn that the amount of coal used for purposes of house-warming was surprisingly small during the mild wint;r of 1889. Yet the official figures ore rather startling. In 1888, except for tho brief period of the Maich bliz/. ird, the country expe rienced little cxtremo cold; yot the an thracite consumption in 1889 fell short of that in 1888 by 3,111,958 tons. Thia has been a serious affair for tho coal companies, and all of them havo lost money nt their business, but wc Buspect that tho people at targe will tiol complain. The consumer fiads it ex tnmaly difficult to look at thess mat ters from tlio same point of view us the producer. Russia has just asked tor another loan, this time for one hundred million dollar*. The modesty of the request, •ays the Now York World, would be more conspicuous if Germany had not recently asked a loan almost as large. Peace is to bo kept in Europe. The Heights ud the Talley. He stood in the valley with eager sy« Turned to the peaks where the sunshine lay. "O, for the heights that are near the skies, The glorious heights that are far away," He cried, and ever his longing grew To climb the steeps till the heights were won, And ever a wild unrest broke through The daily tasks that must be done. "It must be lonely on those far heights," Said the friend he told of his wild desire. "Better the valley of old delights;" Hut the heart of the dreamer was all on lire With the thought of reaching the hills afar, And he would not tarry with friends of old, But followed the flash of ambition's star, Ana climbed up the mountains bleak and cold. There were rocky places where feet must bleed; There were awful chasms where danger lay; Through nights of darkness and days of need Towards the peaks he longed for he took his way. And nearer, nearer the peaks of snow Each day the climber in rapture drew, Forgetting the valley that lay below And the valley friends who were kind and true. At last the terrible heights were scaled; Alone on the desolate peaks stood he. In the moment of triumph his courage failed, And his heart turned valley ward longing ly- O, to hear the voices of friends again, To clasp a hand that was warm and true! O, to love and be loved, and to share with men The little joys that the valley knew! Better the valley with jieace and love Than the desolate heights some souls at tain. Lonely is life on the hills above The valley lands and the sunny plain. What is fame to love? Can it satisfy The longing and lonely hearts of men? On the heights they must hunger and starve and die. Come back to the valley of peace again. —Ebcn K. Rezford, in Youth's Companion. "Fifty CeDts a Ticket." BY AMY RANDOLPH. She was spreading towels and table cloths on the crisp, short grass to bleach, when he saw her first—a slim, Diana-like young creature, with large, limpid eyes, a brown skin not entirc'y innocent of freckles and a mass of jet ty shining hair, which ha I broken loo?e i from its coarse horn comb, ana fell in ink-black ripples down her back. There was a little brook twining its transparent spirklcs around the gnarlod i roots of an ancient tree, and a back ground of black-greon laurjl, which, i with the sun-bathed meadow in front, made a sort of rustic picture that struck , Paul Gcssncr's artistic fancy as he , crossed the wooden bridge. I "Islioulu like to sketch her," he L thought to himself. "I wonder, now, what she would say to It 1" But before he could get his pencil • and mill-boards out tho young D ana i I *iad poised her empty basket lightly on : her head and she was gone. I "I'm sorry for that," eobcrly pon dered Gessner. "She had a brilliant ! Char'.otle Corday sort of a face that > would havo stood the test of perpetua tion on paper!'' i And then Mr. Gessnor wont into the inn and set liimsalf at wore to elnbo ) rato the notes of his lecture on "Tho I Literature of Queen Anne's Time" r which was to be delivered the next j evening at the village hill. , There wers plenty of people at the t inn. Brook bridge was a wild, sylvan r sort of place, wh'ch attracted people in o the summer season. Every farm house 0 and cottage in tho vicinity was crowd ed, and a "Lecturo" was something to stir the quiet stagnation of their every e day life. Moreover, Paul Gessner had a reputation for scholarly polish and graceful wit, which had reached even to Brookbiidge, and everybody was talking of the Lecture. "Can't I go?" said Natty Purple. •'Oh, I wish I could go!" The towels and table-cloths were all bleached whiter than snow, between the daisiei grass and the July sunshine, and Natty was sprinkling and folding them now, with quick, deft fingers, in an obscure corner of the kitchen. "You go, indeed 1" said Miss Carrie i. Podham, who condescended to wait at o lable during the crowded season, o ''You've too much to do in the kitchen, c and bosides, the tickets aro fifty cents >t each!" Natty Purple sighed dolorously, t "Fifty cents!" she repeated. "Oh, then of course it's out of the question 1" For N»Uy'» slender wages were all of LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1890. them, expended la the. support of • good-for-nothing old- grandsira who, when ha was was suffering unheard-of' agonies with the rheumatism. Shejnever wore anything but calico, and dijudged away in the inn kitchen, like a' modern! Cinderella, without any of the eclat which, in ancient story, appertained to thnt young person. But. later in the evening, the head stableman looked into the kitchen where Cinderella was darning a well worn table napkin, and Mrs. Podham was preparing brook-trout for a,break fast for the morrow's early travellers. '•Where's Jim?" said the head\stable. man. "Gone out," said Mrs. Podham, curtly. "I want some one to row one of the boarders out on ths lake," s:4d the stableman. "He's a pteter pailntec, 1 guess. Ho wants moonlight effects, he says'' (with a chuckle). "I'd a. deal ruther hev feather p llow effects, my self. Then where is Dick?" "Dick never's on hand when ho's wanted," Mrs. Podham replied. "I heven't seen him since supper." "Thon he'll lose a fifty-cent job.|" said the stableman. "Well, Is'poso I can huut up some one, somewhere.'^ "Fifty cents!" cried Natty Purple, springing to her feet. "I'll go, The mas! I'm handy with the oars, and I'm just perishing for a breath of cool air from tho water." "Them napkins isn't mended," crooked Mrs. Podham, discouragmgly. "I'll finish 'cm when I come back," said Natty, coaxingly. "Do let me go, just this once!'' So that when Mr. Gessner came out to the edge of the lako with his pic ture quo Spanish cloak thrown acrosi one shoulder, and his sketching ap paratus under his arm, Natty Purple sat in the boat ready to row him whither he would go. "Hallo!" said Paul. "Why, you're a girl!' "Yes, I'm a girl," apologetically confessed Natty. "But I'm a good hand to row, and I know a'l about the lake. I can take you straight to Echo Cove, where the waterlilios grow thickest, aud past the Old Indian Rock, and—" "Agreed," said Paul, good-humorcd ly. "But was thero no man about tho p'.nci to undertake this disagree able job?" "Oil, it isn't disagreeable," said Natty, earnestly. "1 liko to row! And, besides, Ido so much want to earn fifty cents." 'Do you?" said Paul, as the littlo boa*, propelled by Natty's skilful strokos, vanished into tho deep shad ow of tho overhanging birches that fringed the lovely tides. "May I ven ture to ask why?" "Oil, yes," said Natty. "It's no secret. I want togo to the lecture to morrow night." Paul Gessner smiled to himself in the moonlight, as ho sat there liko a Span ish gondolier. "Do you suppose it will bo so very intcrciting?" said he. "Interesting!" echoed Natty. "Of course it will bo. Haven't you heard? Mr. Gessner is to deliver a lccturo on tho "Literature of Queon Anna's T.me." "And who is Mr. Gessner?" demand ed the young man. "If you don't read the magazinos, of course you can't bo expected to know," said Natty Purple, with some natural impaticnco. "But I have read every thing ho writes. He is stopping at our place now, they tell mo." "Is he?'' said Paul. "You are tho landlady's daughter, I presume?" "No, lam not," acknowledged hon est Natty. "I help in the kitchen. 1 am Natalie Purple." "Well, then, to be honest with you, Miss Purple," said Paul, really feeling a sting of conscience, "I am Paul Gessner 1" Natty gave such a start that the boat careened dangerously to one sido. "You!" sho cried., "Yis, I! Now, if you will take me safe to tho Echo Cove, I will give you a complimentary ticket. So, there!" "No," said Nattie, with true woman ly pride, "I accept no favors, even though I am nothing but a working girl. If lam to have a ticket at all, 1 prefer to earn it." Pavil was silent. In truth, and in fact, ho felt a little ashamed in the presence of this flute-voiced, indepen dent vounar beautv. ••You must have read a great deal,* said he, nt last 4 'Oh! I have," said "We are not so busy in winter, you tee; and be sides, all the girls lent me their nsws. papers and magazines. But'l never ex pected to soe a gentleman who wrote books." "I hope he comes up to your expecta tion," said Paul. VI must have time to make up my mind about that," said Natty, with all good faith. And once again our hero found him self at a loss for something to say. But when ho came out into tho moon bathed glories of the Echo Covo, where all the world was steeped in silver soft ness and the matted masses of water lilies were swinging to and fro on the tides like emerald carpets, his tongue was looseped once again, and before they camo back he and Natty Purple were on terms of the pleasantcst ac quaintanceship. But he had not sketched half as much as ho had expected. "The light was so uncertain," he said, "he could reproduce it better by tho next day's memory." Natty went to the lccturo with her fifty-cent pieco, and listened with a grave and critifcal intentness, which spurred Paul Gessner onto his highest elocutionary effects. "It was very good," sho said, the next day, "very good indeod. It has given me something to think about. And, oh! dear, I have so much time for thinking!'' "Natty," said Mr. Gessner (everybody callod tho girl "Natty" here). "I hare been wondering why you stay here at all." "Whero else shou'd I stay?" she ques tioned him with a simplo directness. "Why do you not goto Boston and teach school?" he questioned. "Oh!" criod Natty, clasping her hands eagerly, ''do you think there would be nny possibility of my obtain ing a situation there?" "We must see what can be done," said Paul, reflectively. So Grandfather Purple was left in charge of a thrifty neighbor, and stayed by himself that winter, whilo Natty went to Boston to try hor luck in one of tho grammar schools. In the spring sho came back, opparently transformed into a new creature. "I didn't want you," growlei the old man. "Tho Widtiw Matlcy takes good enough care of me. To tell you tho truth, wo was married last week, and Mrs. Purple sho don't want no step-grand darters around." "Oh, grandfather, I am so glad!" cr ed Natalie, turning pink and white in one breath. "Because lam not com ing back to stay. Mr. Gessner—" "Oh, I understood," said Grand father Purple, chuckling hoarsely. "You're going to be married, too." "Yes," said Natty, "I'm going to be married." Thus en ded tho little Brookbridge idyl. Natnlio was happy. So was Paul Gessner. As for Grandfather Purplo and his elderly bride, let us hopo that Ihey wore not very unhappy. For the roses and nightingales of life cannot bo enjoyed by every one, and the spring tide of tho world comes but once. Fashionable Smuggling. There is a great deal more of this fashionable smuggling than wonld gen erally be supposed, says a New York letter to tho Chicago Hsrald. While it is not all confined to very rich peo ple, yet it is cortain that they do a great deal more than their share of it. The experience of the officials also bears out the general impression that it is almost as natural for a woman to smug gle as it is for her to breathe. It is hard for her to realize that bringing m bonnets and everything else which can contribute to her wardrobe when ever the chance is presented to do so without paying duly is not both her right- and her duty. Consequently the women inspectors at tho Custom-House havo a great deal moro work to dr than their fellows among the men. Unprepared. Palmer—lt's mighty funny, but there are no less than six people with whom I havo been talking within a week who are now dead. Curtleigh—l haven't the least doubt of it. I'm sorry I can't stop to listen to you today, but the fact is I'm not pre. pared. Appearances aro against some piopls, and so are their disappearances. Terms—sl.26 in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. QUAINT AND CUBIOUS. At a rat hunt held in Coshocton County, Ohio, recently, 2066 rats were killed. London is to have a "Monkeries," at which 1000 monkeys will be on ex hibition. A Florida paper maintains that bald headed men, as a class,- are distin guished for morality and benevolence. A man in Chester, Ponn., is seek ing a divorce from his wife because she danced for joy when ho chopped his fingers off. Queen Victoria's crown, together with other royal regalia, is Valued at $600,000 and kept under strong guard at the old tower. El ward A. Lahr of Fayette, N. Y., shot a white owl tho other day that measured four feat and ten and one half inches from tip to tip. The youngest couple ever married in North Carolina have been united in Davis County. The groom was 13 and his bride but 11 years of age. Two young girls, beating their way east on a freight train, wcro observed at Grccnsburg, Penn., seated on the ledge between two baggage cars. Near Virginia City, Nov., the other night, an unlucky yearling colt flound ered into a snow drift and stuck fast. Then some lucky coyotes came along and had supper. The roy nl baron of beef for Quoen Victoria's C.iristmas table weighed 300 pounds. It was roasted at Windsor Castlo and sent to Osborne cold. A kite 16 feet high and 12 feet wide, made of 54 yards of Hnen, was recently mado by five boys in Terry ville, Conn. At its first ascent it went up 2000 feet. Profiting by its previous a fox at Lancaster, Penn., when re leased for the third time to be hunted, seized a chicken and secreted himself in a wood-pile before the hounds could be released. A Pacific coast journal says the Indi ans at Round Valley Reservation now own 1000 besides other live stock, have 1400 acres planted to wheat, and grow finer apples than any of their white neighbors. The president of the Now York Mu seum of Natural History is soon to award a prize of S2OO for tho best method of breeding insects which prey upon and destroy tho mosquito. There are a great many contestants for tho prize. Thero are over 500 swells-in the city of Philadelphia who do not pay their tailors' bills. This fact was brought out when the merchant tailors of that city formed an organization for mu tual protection and formed a black list of dead beats. Tho price now demanded in England for whalebone is at the rate of sl2, 500 per ton, which is tho highest ever known. One result of this advance in price will bo that next season several additional ships will be sent to Davia straits, after tho Newfoundland seal fishing is closed. The Great Hall of tho Mammoth Care. S me important new discoveries in tho Mammoth Cave wcro described by the Rev. 11. C. Hovey at tho meeting of the American Association. They arc connected with the arrangement of tho cave passages in tiers and tho great pits or domos. Following the guide across a treacherous chasm known as tho covered pit, the author found a so - rics of these chasms exceeding in size any that had evor been discovered be fore. Ho afterward visited the pits with a photographer, Mr. Ben Hains, and means for taking photographs. As measured from above, they varied from forty-seven to one hundred and thirty five feet in depth. With much diffi culty and risk he succeedod in reach ing tho bottom of Charybdis, the deep est of the pits, and there discovered, by the aid of chemical fires, that the whole senes of pits, eight in all, wera joined at the into one magnifi cent hall several hundred feet long. This hall was travorsed from end to end. Dr. Hovey proposes to name it Harrison's Hall, after the President of the United States.— Popular Sciene* Monthly. Easily Answered. •When i»- a mermaid not a mer maid?" "When she's on exhibition In a dime UWUft" NO. 23. Sab ROM. I have heard the robins singing Where the sweet magnolia grow* I have seen the zephyrs flinging Twilight kisses to the rose; But a sweeter song has filled me Than the birds id perfumed bowera, And a softer kiss has thrilled me Than the south winds on the flowers. M*-- **, ■ I have felt the lilies blowing Dewy fragrance in the morn; I have seen the sunbeams glaring . Golden blushes on the coA; But I know a flower that's, fairer Than the lilies ever grew, And I love a blush that's rarer Than the sunbeam's softest hue. I have seen the moonbeams flying Over starlit, silvery seas; 1 have heard the zephyrs sighing Through the orange-blossomed trees; But a purer ray has blessed me Than the moonlight on the sands, And a softer sigh caressed me Than the breath of Tropic lands. She is fairer than the flowers: She is sweeter than the rose, And her heart of kindness showers Blessings everywhere she goes. Altruistic —without sinning— She's an angel from the sky (Far above my earthly winning)— She's engaged! and so am I i —Larry ChUtcnden. HUMOROUS. The oyster carries hii shelter with him. A watchmaker belongs to the sell- tick race. Littlo dogs bark tho most, bccauso that is all they can do. A prudent mau is like a pin—hii head prevents him goiug too far. A fruitless search—The one a farmer makei after tho small boy has passed through the orchard. Tommy—Pa, what does "the lap of luxury" me in? Mr. Figg—Means a cat drinking cream, I suppose. Carberry—lt strike] me you are rather long paying that bill. 6nodsy— That's because I am so short. Jessie—l'm sure Charlie loves me, but he's afraid to propose. Bessie— Well, that shouldn't surprise you at all. Photographers are the most charlta ' ble of men, for they are always anxious ' to take the best view of their fellow creatures. "Alfred," she said, disengaging her hand, "those horrid men saw us—what did they say as thbypassel by?" "How touching." "So Smith has failed. How much monoy did ho get with his wife?" "Her face is her fortune." "No wonder he had to make an acsignment." "What do you valuo that handsome spaniel at, if I may ask?" "Well, if you want to buy him h6's worth SSOO, and if you're th" ly a job of psi'C ting. She's the l est wntc'i ! dog I ever tad, and wo x\ou di't Utl thfu if our pot goos* should die/'