SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN
W, M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. VIII.
No less thau twenty-eight private
sealers ore fitting out at Victoria for s
raid in the Behring Sea this summer.
MA Indication of tho spread of Eng
lish as a language is given by tho fact
that it was chosen for use in tho record
ing cf important treaty engagements
between Russia and China.
An addition to tho French Navy to
the oxtent of seventy-eight now craft
is proposed by Admiral Krantz, the
Minister of Marine. Ot these fifty-four
will be torpedo boats; tho rest ironclada
and cruisers.
There is a vast quantity of msat re
paired in Europo over and above what
id provided. In France, 226,000 tons
are yearly required; Germany, 360,000
/>ns; Austria, 15,000 tons; Belgium,
481,000 tons; England, 672,000 tons.
South Dakota claims to hnvo been
grossly libeled by Chicago newspapers,
which represented that tho people of
the new Stato were starving. The Leg
islature, therefore, retaliated upon Chi
cago by instructing tho Smith Dakota
Senators and Representatives to vote
for Now York for the World's fair.
Tho Sultan of Turkey may not bo
much of a financier, but his ideas of
meeting a monetary crisis aro practical
and souud. A few weeks ago an audit
of his financo department disclosei a
big deficit, and to moot it his Majesty
ordered a reduction in the salaries of
his state officials. Anothor monarch
would have raisod the public taxes.
There are, it appears, in Europe, the
Americas, Ejypt, South Africa, Japan,
India, etc., no lesg than 1,714,000
mile* of laud and telegraphs, and their
estimated value is $258,642,500. Of
cables, 107,547 miles have been laid
down by companies, at a capital outlay
of SIBO, 000, OUO. By government, 12,-
623 miles of submarino cablo at a cost
of $18,500,000.
The Italian E:ist African Company
will organize an extensive factory in
Africa, and do whatever else is neces
sary to work largo plantations thcro.
To our minds, says the New York Ob
urver, factories are better than fort
resses, and tho nation tli:it will intro
duce the industries of peace, rather
than the art and implements of war, is
Africa's best friend.
The National R.fla Association be
lieves it to bo entirely feasiblo to bring
together in connection with the World's
Fair the expert shoti of England, Iro
land, Scotland, Australia, Canada and
America in matches for tho military
chairmanship of tho world. Such an
attraction would prove a drawing card
for even so great an exhibition as the
proposed exhibition of 1892.
Wing Chin Foo, the Chine o jour
nalist of New York city, who has
written somo expose* for American
newspapers of tho doings of his fellow
Celestials, is fearful for his life. Recent
developments show that S3OO has been
offered for his death, and an extra
S3OOO to enablo tho successful assassin
to leavo tho country. He has had tho
enmity of the Chincso secret society at
New York for several years, it having
followed him from San Francisco.
The Italian Protectorate over Abys
sinia has been strengthened by tho
recent march of a small army to tho
province of Tigre. The new king,
Menelek, is thereby recognized through
out the couutry, and tho cession of the
northern part to Italy made per.uanent.
The climate of tho uplands of Abys
sinia is so much more healthy than that
of tho greater part of Central Africa,
that Italy may well congratulate herself
on tho peculiar advantage sho has
gained by her venturo in tho Dark
Continent.
It would seem that Lord Stanley,
Governor-General of Canada, has a de
cided leaning toward blue blood, and
considers the intrinsic value of coronets
greater than that of kinl hearts. That
nobleman and Lady Stanley announce 1
their intention of giving two dances at
the Government House, but greatly
surprised the aristocracy of Ottawa by
omitting from tho list at least two-thirds
•112 the Members of Parliament. Instead
Of these "grave and reverend scignors,"
he invited a number of minor officers
whose birth entitled them, in liis opin
ion, to precedence. Great indignation
is expressed in tho lobbies of Parliament
•vsr Lord BtaaU/'s action.
The Best We CAB.
When things don't goto suit us,
Why should we fold our hands.
And eay, "So use in trying,
Fste baffles all our plans."
Let not your courage falter,
Keep faith in God and man,
And to this thought be steadfast
"l'll do the best I can."
If clouds blot out the sunshine
Along the way you tread,
Eon't grieve in hopeless fashion
And sigh for brightness fled.
Peyond the clouds the sunlight
Sliinrs in the Eternal Flan;
Trust that the way will brighten,
And do the best you can.
Away with vain repinings;
i-ing songs of hope and cheer,
Till many a weary comrade
Grows strong of fceart to hear.
He who sings over trouble
Is aye the wisest man.
He can't help what has happened,
But—does the best he can.
Eo, if things won't goto suit us,
Let's never fume and fret,
For finding fault with fortune
Ne'er mended matters yet.
Make the best of whate'er happen
Bear failure like a man;
And in good or evil fortune
Do just the best you can.
—jEben E. Itexford, in Saturday Night.
THE STORY OF BIP.
'•Bip's s'.ory is well known in the
i Cumberland valley, where ho lived for
many years, and died not long ago,"
J said Samuel Logan of Franklin county,
i Penn., "and it is one of the most re
markable narratives of slavery times
ever related. I have hoard the old man
tell the story with tears in his eyes many
and many a time, and no one who evor
knew him could have tho slightest
doubt of its truth. Bip was born in
Africa, where, as ho believed, he was
tho son of a king or a chief, for ho re
membered that his father and mother
lived in a bark hut surrounded by
smaller ones, which wero occupied by
many women and children, his father's
hut always being approached by others
in a most deferential manner. His
mother wore inimeuso gold or brass
hoops in her oars aad bands of metal
on her arms. His father wore a big
yellow ring in his noso. When Bi p was
about 5 years old, as he afterward cil
culated, his father's household and
many of the tribo were overpowered by
a horde of strange blacks and taken
captive. They wore bound together
and driven for days until thoy came to
the seashore. There they wero por
tioned among a number of whito men,
the first Bip had ever seen. Tho cap
tives were taken away in boats. Bip
never saw his father again. He and his
mother were packod with hundreds of
others on board a vessel, and they wero
many days on tho water. Tho vessel at
last landed and the negroes that were
still alive were taken ashore, and Bip
and his mother wero selected from
tho lot by a white man and taken away.
It was not until after years that Bip
knew and appreciated tho fact that ho
and his parents and their tribe had
fallen victims to the African slavo trad
ers, and that he and his mother had
boen sold into slavery to a Cuban
planter.
"At the ago of 15 Bip, which name
had been given him by his Cuban
owner, was sold, with a lot of other
young negroes of both sexes, to a slavo
trader. Bip's mother was at work in
tho sugar field when he was sold and
taken away. Ho never saw or heard of
her again. Tho herd of young negroes
was taken to New Orleans, where Bip
was sold 011 tho auction block. Ho was
put to work in the sugar fields, but
when ho was 20 years old he became
tho property of an Arkansas cotton
planter. Ho was taken to the Arkansas
plantation, which was not far from Lit
tle Beck. His now master proved to
be a kind one, but Bip felt that ho was
not born to be a slave, and ho was de
termined to escape from bondage, even
at tho risk of his life. Lato ono night
in the fall of 1821 he made n break for
liberty. Ho never knew exactly the
routo ho took, but he turned his face as
near northward as ho could calculate
and blindly followed that course. He
traveled all night, swimming rivers
and floundering through swamps.
In tho daytime he hid
nmong the dense brakes, and satistied
his hunger by Jigging turtles from the
mud and eating their raw meat. He
travolled in that way for three nightsi
and just before daybreak on the morn
ing of the third ho came suddenly upon
a clearing. Ho saw at once that it was
the homo of a "face camper." In
those days that part of Arkansas was
wild and sparsely inhabited, and settlers
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1890.
from other states and other portions of
Arkansas wore taking up land and
gradually clearing the country into
plantations. The settlers usually lived
during the first year* of their occupancy
in what was known as face camps, their
first crop enabling them to put up bet
ter dwellings. The face camp was a
rude board hut or shanty enclosed on
but three sides. The side facing the
south was left open, the climate, even
in winter, being mild enough to keep
as airy a habitation as a face camp en
tirely comfortable. The shanty was
roofed with boards, and, as the whole
was built with slight frame walls, it
was not the most secure dwelling in the
world. The interior of one of these
face camps was severely simple. It con
tained the settler's bed, a table and a
bench or two, and a loft for storing
various articles of hou;ehold use. The
bed was a rudo board bunk in one cor
ner, made fast to the side on one end
of the shanty. The loft was a similar
bunk, built three or four feet above the
bed.
"The face camper, during his first
year as a settler, depended, in a groat
measure, on game for tlio sustenance of
himself and family. The woods were
filled with deer, bears and other wild
animals. When a deer or other animal
was killed tho dressed carcass was
suspended on a pole in front of the
open end of the camp, the polo being
supported by long forked sticks driven
in tho ground. The face campers
rarely owned slaves whils they were
making their clearings, but they always
looked forward to tho day when they
would become masters. As a rule they
were hard, ignorant peoplo, and their
reputation as slave-holders was such
that even tho slaves of the cotton
planters on tho lowlands pitied tho
negroes of a face camper. So, natur
ally, whon Bip came suddenly at tho
homo of one of this class he was
greatly alarmed, and made up his mind
to get away from that locality as soon
as possible. The moon was shining full
and bright in the shanty, an I Bip could
see tho bunk and the outlines of its
sleeping inmates, and the loft
above it. As he stood peering out of
the thicket, taking a hurried view of
the curious scene, an and ominous
growl camo from tho shanty. Suppose
ing that his presence had been discov
ered by the camper's dogs, Bip was
drawing back hurriedly to oscape from
the spot, when he discovered that it
was something elso that had aroused tho
dogs. Out of the shadows on tho op
posite sido of tho opening camo two
dark objects towards the deer, and two
hugo bears wcro revealed in tho moon -
light. They did not stop, but slouched
impudently along to sccuro the object
of their visit, the deer's carcas). Bip
could not ovorcomo his curiosity to
watch and see what tho result of this
invasion would be. As tho bears shuf
fled up to tho spot where tho doer hung,
two dogs rushed out of tho open camp.
With furious barking and loud yolping
they sprang upon the bears.
'■The noiso awoko the owner of the
camp, and Bip saw him spring from
tho bunk. At tho samo timo tho wifo
and the faces of three wild and
startled- looking children rose up in tho
bunk. The woman and the children
began to scream and cry. As the #ot
tler jumped out the bears made a rush
for tho dogs which retreated to tho
shanty. They almost ran ovor tho man
as he approached. Ho ran back and
helped his wifo and childron from the
bed to tho bunk overhead. The next mo
ment man, dogs, and bears were closed to
gether in one indiscriminate struggle.
Feeling that whatever the result might
bo his own safety lay in escaping from
the scene without dola/, Bip hastened
into the forost. Ho had not gono
far when it occurred to him that a
fellow man's life was undoubtedly in
peril, and that it was his duty to aid
him in preserving it, no matter what
tho consequences might be to himself.
Without an instant's further hesitation
he turned and dashed back through the
thicket. He cleared the opening at a
bound, and the next second had joined
tho settler and his dogs in their contest
with the boars. The settlor was being
pressed by tho bears against the board
wall at the foot of tho bunks, and the
frail shanty was shaking and swaying
threateningly. The man's wife and chil
dren were shrieking frantically in the
loft. Ouc dog had been killed nud the
other disabled.
"Bip closed with one of the b-*ars at
once. His kuifo wus a keen, long
{ bladad dirk, with two tdgos. H« thrust
it to the hilt in the bear's breast as the
animal lunged up against him. The
blood followed the blade in a stream.
The bear staggered back. Before it
rallied Bip turned to the other one. It
had knocked the aettler to tho ground,
where he lay stunned. In a second
more the bear would have torn the
man's throat to strings. With one
slash of his effective weapon Bip sev
ered the big arteries in the bear's neck,
and laid the windpipe open. The bear
raised up erect on it* feet and fell over
backward with ita whole weight against
the side of the camp. The shock was more
Mian the structure could stand, and the
sbanty camo down with a crash, bury
ing bears and all beneath a pile of
boards and scantling. The next that
Bip knew it was broad daylight. He
was lying on the ground on a deerskin.
He was soro and lamo but managed to
get to his foot. A big-whiskered man,
a pale, weeping woman, and two
frightened-looking children were
grouped near him. By the side of a
ragged pile of boards that had been the
face camp, lay the carcasses of two
huge bears. The big -whiskered man
came forward, grasped Bip's hand, and
told him he had saved his life. Tho man,
his wife, and two of the children had es
caped from tho wreck of the shanty
with but slight injuries, strange as it
seemed, but tho other child had been
killed. Bip folt that he would be safe
with these people, and ho told them his
story. lie then learned that the face
camper was Israel Vawn, a noted re
ligious enthusiast, who had settled in
the wilderness to form the nucleus of a
co'.ony of his follower!. Bip helped
rebuild Vawn's camp, and whon it was
done Vawn made him promise that he
would remain at the camp until tho set
tler made a businoss trip to Littlo Bock
and returned. Whon Vawn came back
ho placed in Bip's hands a bill
of salo for himself from his master.
Vawn had purchased the young negro
and given him his freedom. The over
joyed Bip remained in Vawn's service,
a*d was given tho name of Solomon
Vawn. Israel Vawn died about the
timo tho war of the rebellion began.
Bip, or Solomon Vawn, came North
and settled in tho Cumberland valley,
where he worked as a farm hand until
he died somo months ago, nearly 90
years old. Ho is buriod near Mont
Alto, and his gravo is on land, 1 bc
ieve, formerly owned by Thaddeus
Stevens."—JV. T. Sun.
A Czar's Cure for Obesity.
Peter tho Great was onco traveling
incognito in a part of Finland, just
conquered, whoro he was executing
some naval works. Ho met an over-fat
man who told him he was going to Bt.
Petersburg. "What fort" said
the Czar. "To consult a doctor
about my fat, which hai becamo very
oppressive." "Do you know any doc
tor thore?" "No." "Then I will
give you a word to my friend, Prince
Menschikoff, and he will introduce you
to one of the Emperor's physicians."
The traveler wont to tho Prince's house
with a noee. The answer was not de
layed. The next day, tied hands and
feet, the poor man was dragged oil on
a enrt to the mines. Two yenrs after,
Peter tho Great was visiting the mines;
ho had forgotten the adventuro of the
over-fat man, when suddenly a miner
threw down his pick, rushed up to him,
and fell at his feet crying: "Grace,
grace! what is it I have done?" Peter
looked at him astonished, until ho re
membered the story, and said: "Oh,
so that is you? I hope you are pleaded
with mc. Stand up. How thin and
slight you have becoraol You are quite
delivered of your over-fat; it is a first
rate cure. Go, and remember that
work is tho bost antidote against your
complaint I"
Well Matched.
There are now living in Washington
a married couple, Paul and Albina
Hellmuth, who were born at Baden,
Germany, within four miles of each
other. Even through their childhood,
playing in tho streets of the same town,
they were strangers to each other. In
the course of events they came across
the ocean to the land of promise, and
at different times and by different paths
they drifted to Washington, where they
met and loved and wedded. Upon
comparing notes to take out their mar
riage license they d.scovered, to their
muiuut surprise and gratification, that
thi!® were not only natives of tho same
|il«C3, but rejoiced iu exactly '.be same
iigos to a day.
Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A ST. BERNARD BTORT.
A Monk of the Alpine Monastery of
the Grand Chartreuso, accompanied by
his faithful St. Bernard dog, was on
his way home up the mountain one day,
when, by a sudden mischance, he
slipped over a steep place, and fell into
the snow many feet below. His d6g
could not help him but by going
home to fetch the monks, and this he
did, plainly telling them at the monas
tery by his barking and gestures that
they should follow him. Seeing that
Father Nicholas was not with his dog,
they set out with the faithful creature,
which led them with joyous gambols
straight to where the monk lay half
buried in the snow; and he was rescued
from what would have been certain
death.
THE LITTLE ROPE-WALKER.
A groat many years ago—more than
half a century, in fact—a family of
French acrobats traveled through
Europo and made their living by giving
entertainments in the villages through
which they passed.
They did not perform in theatres or
opera houses because there were none in
the hamlets of France and Germany in
those days. No, this family of acro
bats performed in tho market place or
on the open green, and strotched their
long rope from the ground to the top of
the tallest stoople.
All the members of the family were
acrobats, and their parents before them
had beon acrobats, too, journeying from
one villago to another, and buying
their bread with the pennies and six
pences that tho country people threw
into the father's hat. I said that all
the members of the family were acro
bats, but I had forgotten little Henri,
who was only four years old, and teo
young, therefore, to do his sharo in
amusing tho public. So little Henri
went about with his fathor and
mother and sister and big brother,
and slopt in tho wagon at night and
. l.ijSfd wi' h tho big dog or •fldlod
about tho villago green while his elders
were dancing on the long rope. It was
his sister Jeanno who took care of him,
washed and dressod him in the morn
ing, put him to bed at night, and
taught him to say his prayers beforo he
went to sleep. She was a kind, good
girl, and little Henri lovod her more than
any ono in the world, and when ho
saw her tako her long polo in her hand
and dance gracefully up tho long rope
toward the top of the steeple while the
peoplo looked on and clapped their
hands, he though there was no ono in
the world as lovely and charming as
his sister Jeanne.
Ono day they stopped in a beautiful
old-fashioned village on the banks of
the Rhine. They strotched their long
rope from the ground to the top of the
steeple, and Jeanne took her pole in
her hand, bowed and smiled to the
peoplo and danced lightly and grace
fully up toward tho top. And little
Henri, standing on tho ground, with
his father's cane in his chubby hands,
watched her with as much delight as if
he had never seen her do it before. But
when sho had gone about half the dis
tance a gust of wind shook the rope!
she tumbled, almost lost her balance,
and cried out in terror.
"I'm coming," screamed little Hen
ri, and while his mother turned away
her face, and his father implored him
to return, he balanced his cane as his
sister balancod her pole and ran up the
rope to help her. It was the first time
ho had ever been on a slack ropo in his
life, but he was not afraid, nor did it
make him dizzy. He ran up to where
Jeanne was clinging and threw himsolf
into her arms. Sho hold him tight un
til his father cam» and carried him
down. *'Ho will make a great rope
walker," said his mother, as sho clasped
the little boy in her arms. "He takes
to it as a duck takes to water. It must
be in hib blood," said tho father; and
from that day little Henri's education
as a tight-rope walker began.
Years afterward this same little boy
stretched a rope across Niagara Fall
and walked across it as easily as if it
had been a barn floor, and then the
whole world rosounded with the fame
of Blondin. And one day, after he '
had performed in Paris in the presence
of thousands of people, he eat in his
tent and told me the story of how he
had run up the long rope to save his
sister.— Pttiburg D spatch. ;
The London market is largely over
stocked with diamondet
NO. 26.
From Night to Light.
Friend, yon are sad, ypU »yT ,/
TOOT grief onCe IN the put,
All shall be clear to you;
The sorrow shall not last,
But then be dear to you
Some coming day.
Bo consolation find; <
Tield not thus to despair;
Believe joy waits for you,
And, in the future, there
Opens her gates for you.
Be then resigned!
—Georgt Birdtey*.
HUMOROUS.
Most any city can look well if it hat
a good site.
If experience is so great a teacher,
why do wo speak of a "green" old
ago?
The only way to be happv on five
hundred a yoar, is to live on four hun
dred and ninety-nine.
First Little Girl—ls your doll a
French doll! Second Little Girl—l
don't know, she can't talk.
The most disagreeably obstinate per
son on earth is the coal dealer when he
insists on having his own weigh.
No wonder the toy pistol cannot be
exterminated. People are always
teaching the young idea how to shoot.
The plumber executes his work very
finely, as a rule. When you got his
bill, you feel as if you would like to
execute the plumber.
Old Gentleman (to little girl)— Sissy,
what makes your eyes so bright! Sissy
(after a little thought)—l guess it's
cause they're kinder new.
Some men will get up out of bed at
night in the coldest of weather togo to
a fire who cannot be induced to get up
at 7 to start one in the stove.
The two most exciting periods in a
woman's life are when she is listening
to her first proposal and bidding on a
baskot of broken crockery at an auc
tion.
A new variety of clam has been dis*
covered. As it is tenderer than the old
style of clam, it will not be used for
chowder, but will be worked up into
chewiug gum.
Mrs. Bloodgood—What! not an open
fireplace nor a stove in the house? How
docs your father warm his slippers,
Willie! Willie (ruofully)—Warms 'em
on me, ma'am.
"A man may smile and smile and be
a villian." This probably accounts for
the existence of so many villainous
pictures of persons who have been told
to look pleaiant.
The nuisance of the hotel was in the
parlor warbling, "Oh, would I wore a
bird." "Well, hero's a beginning for
you," ?aid the landlord. And he
handed him his bill.
A delinquent walks into the prison
carrying Ins head high and with a cer
tain patronizing air. Pointing to the
constable who is leading him by the
arm, he says:—"Allow him to pass; ho
is with me."
4 'That is not more than half the com*
position," she faid, as she turned on
the piano stool. "Shall I play tha
rest?" "Yes," he replied, abstracted
ly, "play the rest by all means; play
all the rests you can find."
"Miss N , how could you think
that I had ever said in company that
you were stupid; quite the contrary,
whenever your name was mentioned I
was always the only one who didn't say
so."
A\ agricultural journal advises:
"Grit. ,our own bones." When aman
is in such a condition that he ho has no
further use for his bones, ho is alto
gether too exhausted to grind them.
He sometimes "grinds his teeth," but
there ho draws the line in tha matter of
self-bone grinding.
Wit That was Appreciated.
Tompkins—Pshaw! Brown's no wit.
There must be au elemont of surprise in
what a man says to make it wit. Don't
you agree with me?
Wilson—Perfectly. That was a eler
er witticism you got off the other day.
Tompkins—l forget. What did I
say?
Wilson—You said, "Here's that five
I borrowed from you."— Harpsr'i
Bazar.
At the Photographer's.
The professional beauty—Will my
pictures flatter me?
The poseur—Ah, madame, that ques
tion I must answer in the
Town T&i*.