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<! assessor I reckon he's
worth about 19 cents."
Two howling pot dogs in a back yard
uptown were struck by two bullets last
night. Howling dog 3 should cut this
out and pasto it in their hats.
The quintessence of laziness is illus
trated by a Dutch artist who was. com
missioned to paint a picture of "Jonah
and the Whale," and who thereupon
painted a picture of a very large whale,
explaining that Jonah would be found
insido the monster.
Little Brother Can't you walk
straight, Mr. Mangle? Mr. Mangle—
Of course I can. Why do you askl
Little Brother—Oh, nothing; only I
heard sister say she'd make you walk
straight when sho married you. And
ma said she'd help her.
John—l'm sorry I shall bo away so
long, Miss Janet. You don't know how
I hate to say "good- by'' to you, but I
suppose the best of frionds must part,
you know. Janet—Oh, yes, and what's
the use of people who are nothing to
each other growing sad over separation?
That's the way I look at it.
A Watchful Gvos*.
A citizen of Elberton, Ga., has a pet
goose which keops a better watch
around his house at n'g'.it than most
dogs woull. The citizen recently said
to a visitor: "I've got ths worst pet
goose you ever saw, and if you como
around without hallooing or striking a
rock with your stick you'll ihink some
thing's taking you <ff like a bu?< saw,
she's a bad one, anl after ws goto bed
sho make' a pith around tho house like
a circus ring, anil every fort/ feet she
yelps out «.caa;i quiet, kanp q liot,' and
if you don't urn t shu'll bj tearing oil
yi ur ] ants raid giving somel>" 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/'