SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. ML CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIII. Seventy per cent, of the voters of Kan sas are farmers. It is proposed to have a permanent census department in Great Britain,whose duty it shall be to take the usual de. cennial census. Says the Denver (Col.) Field and Farm: "The country pays too much for its milling. We sell wheat at one cent a pound and pay two cents a pound for flour, the miller keeping nearly half of the product of the grain to sell fot stock food. The miller's family weat better clothes than the farmer's." A. Montefioie, who has beeu travel ing in Florida and devoting careful study to the fruit-growing districts of that vast State, calculates that the Americans eat more meat in the course of twenty four hours than all the inhabitants of Great Britain, Frauce, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland put together. According to the New York Commer cial Advertiser, Chaplain Parks, who has recently been on duty aboard the receiv ing ship Vermont, is the iir3t Roman Catholic chaplain that the L'nited States Navy has had. He is said to have had a far larger attendance at divine service than any other chaplain who has filled a similar position. Tho Drovers' Journal states that "those who are laying out new industrial towns in the South are very wisely giving special attention to tho houses of wage workers, allowing them more room. Tho workingmen's quarters in Southern cities and towns will not be so crowded as in the Northern cities, and will be in every re spect more home-like." The arid regions of the West com prise 800,000,000 acres, of which, asserts the New York Voice, about 100,000,000 acres (equal to about eight acres for every family in America) can be redeemed by irrigation and made among the most fer tile and valuable lands in the country. Of this vast region about one-half is al ready in thy hands of individual settlers. The other half is in Federal possession. A cablegram from China says that a decree from one of the viceroys imposing a tax upon opium has been abandoned because of the protests of Great Britain. The British Government holds a monop oly of the opium crop in India. Under this opium is sold to middlemen at a pro fit of six hundred per cent. It is then taken to China, but the Chinese are per mitted to impose only a nominal tax England holds it as a British interest in India, and insists that it shall bo so re ceived in China. The revenue from this monopoly varies from iorty-five to fifty four millions of dollars a year, and with out it England could not govern India. The rapid increase of the wealth, busi ness and prosperity of the United States during the past ten years, says the Boston Manufacturer*'' Gazette , is simply marvel ous. According to the published figures, the total wealth of the country is now $71, 4511, 000,000, equal to nearly §IOOO per capita. This is an increase in ten years of §18,000,000,000, or 42 percent. England's wealth in 1885 is given at §50,000,000,000. Tho average of wealth per head in England is $1545, in Scot land §1215, in Ireland but §505. The total wealth of France is estimated at §30,000,000,000. England exacts in taxes §2O per head of population, while each individual in the United States pays but §12.50. America will produces 7,000,000 tons of iron this year, while England's greatest production is 8,000,- 000 tons. The only genuine and reliable canni bals in existence now are the natives of Solomon Islands, a small group in the South Pacific. To be sure cannibalism is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere, but its devotees would prefer kid, kan garoo, monkey, cockatoo and snakes, and cat tho human kind only when hungry from the lack of their usual game. But the Solomon Islanders will eat a tough sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of their own tribe in a mere spirit of wan ton gormaudiziug when thov are far from starvation and other meat is plenty. They have just had a barbecue consist ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his three native assistants. They have eaten six white men within tho past few months and are really transacting about all of the genuine cannibal business at present being done. TO AN OLD APPLE-TREE. Those maimed limbs plead thy story; Hie wounds upon thy body speak for thee: n»ou art a veteran soldier scarred with glory, My brave old apple-tree 1 Oft hast thou borne up under Dnset of storming wind and shot of hail; And once a sword-lunge of assailant thunder Sloshed down thy barken mail. Old age, disease, and battle Save scathed and crooked and crippled all thy form; And thy Briarean bare arms clash and rattle, Tost in the wintry storm. I seem to feel thee shiver As on thy nakedness hangs rags of snow; Hay charitable Spring, the gracious giver, O'er thee her mantle throw I She will; and sunshine spilling From blue skies thou again shalt drink as wine, And feel afresh the rush of young blood thrilling Through that old heart of thine. For in the season duly Bach year there rises youth's perennial power Within thee, and thou then rojoicest newly In robes of leaf and flower. Ay, though thy years are many, And sorrows heavy, yot from winter's gloom Thou issuest, with the young trees, glad as any, As quick of groen and bloom. The bluebird's warblo mellow Returns like memory and calls thy name, And, as first love, the oriole's plumago yel low Burns through thy shade liko flame. Thou quiver'st in the sunny June mornings to the welcoming of song. And bees about their business of the honey Whisper thee all day long. Thus thou art blest and blessest— Thy graco of blossoms fruiting into gold; And thus, in touch with nature, thou pos sessest The art of growing old. —Coates Kinney, in Harper's Magazine. AN AWFUL TIME. BY ANNA SHIELDS. It was ai awful time. In the first place, it was the middle of July, and we had to move. Old Mr. Townsend died, and every stick and stone that he owned in Dolliver w..s sold. His heirs, two sons (oh, how wo hated their very names, knowing no more of them), had been abroad, had come home, intending to divide their time between their New York residence and the family estate at Chester Grove, but they didn't want to bother with a lot of rented houses in Dolliver, and these were peremptorily doomed to be sold. Old Conway pounced upon ours at once. Of course ho did! Mrs. Conway and her two homely daughters had been hankering for our house for years, for, though we did "only rent it," we had lived there for thirteen years, and, oh, the additions and improvements we had made to it.' We had doubled its value, lam certain. AVe beautified it, inside and out; we lavished our artistic tastes upon the panels; we adorned the walls; we had the lloor puttied, painted and polished, and Teddy had actually paint ed the most beautiful border and cor ner-pieces of oak leaves and acorns round the entire sitting room. And now, to give it all up! Oh! those hate ful Townsends. What added to the distress was the fact that the only houso we could find in all Dolliver to rent was a little two story cottage, quite a distance from all the neighbors to whom we had become attached, and in a locality we detested. However, there was no help for it,and aJI said before, we had Rn awful time. It was bad enough to know the dear, old home was lost to us, and that the Con ways were to enjoy all our labors of love on the walls and floors; it was sufficiently exasperating to be compelled to take up our abodeat Jenk's Corner, a locality we abominated, but these were only the be ginning of our tribulations. The day we were to move was hot— oh, so hot! and the dear mother having done the work of about three men, the previous week, and weighing at her best times about ninety-four pounds, broke down with a blinding nervous headache. Martha, a treasure of a servant, had already laid herself up by spraining her wrist, in moving a trunk, so there wore Teddy and Jim and I to "do" the mov ing. Teddy is my elder sister Theodosia,and Jim is Jemima, my youngest sister; I am •Tionr.asine, always called Tom in the 6osom of my family. We are all young, we are all blondes, we are all smoll, anil we are all pretty. We have incomes of "ur own of three hundred dollars a year, and the dear mother has about twelve hundred a year, so we can live very nicely, indeed, in a quiet place like Dolliver. When mother patiently fainted away just as the first furniture van drove up to the door, Teddy and I detailed Jim for active duty in the hospital depart ment, and promised to have mother's room made ready the first thing. In thu meantime, shewa3 made comfortable in Jim's room, and Martha undertook to superintend the loading of the vans, while Teddy and I scampered oil to the new house, to see to receiving the furniture- It was clean as a new pin; that was one little ray of comfort, and we hung up our hats, and put on the biggest of LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1890. aprons and Lady-AVashington caps, and were ready for action. Even in my misery I noticed how un usually pretty Teddy looked. Her hair is the purest gold color, and makes hun dreds of little rings round her face, and she has a color like a wild rose on each cheek. But on that day, the excitement, the hurry and the indignation combined had made her blue eyes blaze, her cheeks brilliant as carnations, and every little curl bristled defiance of the Townsends and our wrongs. But more was to come. Up drove the first van with one man. Both Teddy and I were at the door, and exclaimed: "Where's the other man?" "Sure, mann, he was sint for by his old woman. One of the childer's scalded hisself, and it's half over Dolliver I've been thrying to foind somebody to take the job, and niver a one is there doin' nothing at all, at all!" Here was a dilemma. "Well," said Teddy, "those things have got to be taken into the house. You and I can carry some of tho light ones." Neither Teddy nor I knew that we had an audience. Not until long after ward were we aware of the wicked trick that was at that instant devised. From round the corner of the house appeared two men in flannel shirts, minus collars, neckties or hats; with hair in wild con fusion and extremely dirty hands and faces. In the richest of brogues one of them respectfully addressed Teddy and requested work. I really wonder now that we didn't embraco them. But we engaged their services nt once, and how they worked! They did a considerable amount of laughing whenever they were alone, and they required the most minute directions for everything they undertook, but they put down carpets and put up pictures and carried in furniture and unpacked glass and china, in fact, worked with might and main, leaving to the driver of tho van only the task of going to and fro with tho goods, which he managed to load with Martha's assistance. At noon we un packed a substantial lunch, and as Bill and John, our new help, showed no signs of going home, we spread out a meal on the kitchen table and sent them into it. I never in my life heard men laugh so much over sand wiches, hard-boiled eggs and coflce. In all this time, you may be sure Teddy and I wero berating these horrid Town sends at every turn. We called them nil sorts of names expressive of meanness and selfishness, hoped their own house would burn down and let them know how pleasant it was to be turned out of a home they loved. AVe were sure they were sour, grumpy old bachelors, and we hoped they would never marry uulcss it was to some old witch who would worry all the year round. All this we said in confidence to each other, never heeding those quiet, modest young men who were so meekly obeying all our orders. The houso was really iu very nice order, and mother's room as homo like as we could mako it, when at last the carriage drove up with our dear invalid, Jim and Martha. Mother was very palo and propped up by pillows, and I was worrying over the necessity of her walk ing upstairs, when out walked our two hired men, without any orders whatever raised her tenderly and gently, pillows and all, in their arms, and carried her upstairs as carefully as her own sons, had she ever had any, could have done. Jim stared, as well she might,and Mar tha muttered "Holy Moses!" as she made a dive for the kitchen. Teddy paid tho men; Jim and I did the hist few things necessary before rest ing; and then we all gathered in moth er's room. Such a chattering as followed, the dear mother laughing and talking as merrily as any of us. "But, oh, what guys you two are!" cried Jim. "Tom, you've torn yourself, as usual, wherever there was tho smallest opening for a rent, and your cap is hang ing half way down your back, while your hair defies description. Teddy always does keep nice, somehow; but now— even Teddy will bear an application of soap and water." "Same to yourself," said Toddy. "I guess you sent all the mirrors away bo fore washed your face. You've got what Martha calls a 'smooch' right across your nose." "Don't be personal, young ladies," said mother, in a tone of extreme gentle ness, "but perform your ablutions, and see if Martha can make out a tea." In a fortnight wo had settled down in the new house, but we did not occupy ourselves as of old, in beautifying our home. AVo were advertising far and wide for a houso such as we wished, and we hoped to purchase one. The prico of the one we had left was beyond our reach, but wo thought we could hear of one at a more reasonable rate. During this time of waiting, feeling as if we really had no home, we had gone out but little. Mother was not well, and the heat was very oppressive, while Martha's lame wrist threw considerable of the house-work on our hands. But one evening there came an irre sistable invitation from mother's dear old friend, Mrs. Raymond, of Chester Grove, to a gurden party and a dance. "You will stay all night, of course," she wrote, and I will send the carriage for you at two o'clock. Be sure you nil come. I cannot spare one of you I" But we did not all go. Mother was not equal to the eight-mile drive, and Jim stayed with her. We all wanted to stay, and finally drew lots, and it fell to Jim. "I'm not really out, anyhow," said that young person, philosophically; "and, as you and Teddy seem awfully slow about leaving the family nest, per haps it is just as well that I am not brought forward just yet." "The effect will be overwhelming when you are," said Teddy, laughing; but secretly we all thought Jim the beauty of the family, for, with the golden hair, she had soft-brown eyes and dark eyelashes. It was with the utmost sorenity that Teddy and I accepted Mrs. Raymond's invitation to stroll about the grounds a little with her, and see somo new neigh borg only lately come to live at Chester Grove. We were arrayed in the finest of linen lawns, white, with a small blue figure, with blue belts, and white muslin shade hats with blue bows. Blue neckties, knots of blue in our curls, and blue trimmed white gloves constituted our costumes; and I can answer for Teddy's being exceedingly becoming. >• Strolling leisurely along, we met two gentlemen in white linen suits and straw hats; we heard Mrs. Raymond say: "Allow me to introduce the Messrs. Townsends, lately returned from Europe. Mr. John Townsend, Miss Theodoisa Brent; Mr. William Townsend, Miss Thigmasine Brent." Ir thought I was going to faint. I heard Teddy gasp. I saw Mrs. Raymond sail majestically away; and then I looked again. Yes, it was "Bill;" and Teddy was blushing, with drooping eyes, before "John." "Would you please forgive us?" said John, presently. "Wo had just come over to Dolliver, and had heard for the first time that there was any personal feeling involved in the sale of our fa ther's property, which we had regarded as a mere business transaction. We were coming up the street beside your house, when we saw your distress, and, having nothing to do, we took off our coats ami vests and hats, and rubbed a little mud on our faces and hands and—" •'lt was just for a lark, you know," pleaded Bill, as his brother paused; "and you did look just ready to cry, you know." "It was very good of you," said Teddy, looking very much as Bill had just de scribed her. "Yes, we are very much obliged," I said, thinking of all they had heard us say about them, aud wondering how much they remembered. But, somehow, just then we all looked up, and in another secoud the air was filled with laughter. It was irresistible. The whole affair was too funny. After that, we were the best of friends. The Townsends catno ofton to Jenk's Corner, and when Jim comes out regu larly, next winter, she will have no sis terly compunctions about Teddy or me, because there will be a doublo wedding in about two weeks. Teddy and I are going to marry "thoso horrid Town sends."— The ledger. A Toy for the Chinese Emperor. About two years ago they presented *. complete miniaturo railway to the Em peror through Li Hung Chang, and the line, which is about three miles long, is laid down within the Imperial city. The young Emperor is very much interested in its works, and spends a greut deal of his time riding to and fro in the beauti fully appointed little carriages. lie was greatly struck with the toy railway and its influence upon the recent decree has been very considerable. The old reactionary party among his advisers were adverse to the miniaturo line being laid c'own within the precincts of the Be-- cred city, and it was very near being re turned to the donors. But the Govern ment was afraid lest it should give offense to the French, who are greatly feared and respected since they burned and sunk the Chinese fleet. At first the high authorities would not allow any foreigners to have a hand in laying down or working the model rail way. Tho result was that when they started the little engiuo they could not stop it, and great consternation was oc casioned to the occupants iu the palace by their inability to control tho strang9 contrivance of the foreigners, which dashed along the line till it was pulled up by coming in centact with a mound of earth. Since then, however, a French driver has been procured, and the Emperor is a frequent traveler upon the cars. Pet Chickens are Dangerons. •'Pet animals," says Dr. F. Saum in the St. Louis Oldbe-Democrat , "and even chickens will often cause disease and spread infection. Some people let dogs sleep with them and see nothing wrong about the practice, forgetting that tho favored canine may have smelt and even lain upon infected rags and refuse dur ing the day. Pet dogs and birds con fined in sick-rooms with patients suffer ing from infectious or contagious dis eases frequently spread the disease to other members of the families. Careless ness about chickens is also a cause of a good deal of sickness at this season of the year. ' 'ln the country there is nothing so healthy as a chicken, but when kept in close confinement or allowed to rango in dirty stables and alleys they become regular disease-spreaders. I know of several cases of serious malarial affections caught in this manner, and at least one of typhoid." Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. ' SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A deposit of beautiful agate and car nelian has been found on Cedros Island, Lower California. Scientific farming in Italy is to be un dertaken this year by a company with a | capital of §20,000,000. I Coffee is boiled by electricity in a Ber • lin cafe, glass jars being used and plat -1 inum wires passing through them being heated by the current. Women are longer lived than men; a woman of twenty may expect forty-two years more of lfe, a man of the same age only thirty-nine years. An electrician says that just what takes place in the human organism to produce death from an electric current seems to be an unsolved problem. The result of recent experiments with the heliograph demonstrate the adapta bility and v due of that instrument for signaling to great distances. Tho whitish, vapory belt popularly known as the "milky way," is a mass of | many millions of stars, the mingled light of which makes a bright belt. The water barometer in St. Jacques Tower, Paris,has a glass tube over forty one feet long, and about three-quarters of an inch in diameter—the largest yet made. The board of naval experts found the eophoue a very accurate instrument for locating the direction from which so arid comes, its value being of greatest im portance in thick foggy weather. The experiment of producing rainfall by explosions of dynamite, has ben pro posed. An item has been included in the Agricultural Appropriation bill, sot ting aside §3OOO for that purpose. Dr.Charle3 W. Dullas,a prominent phy sician of Philadelphia, in a recent paper on the subject of consumption, points out that while in England half a century ago there were 55,000 deaths annually among 15,000,000 people, there nre at pres ent in a population of 40,000,000 but 14,000 deaths due to phthisis. It has been discovered that a current of electricity passed through impure water, restores it to purity by destroying any living germ* with which it may be impregnated. Animalculce which escape the eye, and which almost eludo the microscope, can not escape the all-search ing power of the electric flash. A New York man has invented a new mode of rapid transit for street railways. It is an application of the nrc'uitnedean screw principle to the cable system. In stead of a wire rope in the conduit be neath the track, is a wrought iron tube with a stout worm, and in place of the grip is a shoe pushed forward by the worm and raised or lowered by a rod. There ate some philosophers who maintain that longevity is becoming more general than it was, even forty years ago. There is no doubt, but that during the first few centuries of the Christian era, the average duration of life in tho most favored classes was thirty years, while in the present century, the avarage age of the same classes is fifty years. To Cure Consumption. A great scheme has been inaugurated at Philadelphia to establish tho Rush Hospital for tho cure of consumption and allied diseases. It will be conducted on the same plan as the German and Eng lish hospitals for consumptives, that is, to give the patients as much rest as possible, to reduce the fever and to nourish tho body. In those foreign hospitals patients are kept in bed or a room, or are carried out iu the open air on cots, and, protected by clothing from draughts, are left to inhale the fresh air. This treatment has been found not only to rest the patient, but at the same time to improve his appetite and reduce the fever. In the second place the patient is in troduced into a cabinet room, which is an air-tight compartment, from which the air has been exhausted. After the patient is placed in the room, it is filled with oxygen, or nitrous oxide, or any vapor containing medicine. By in haling this vaporous medicine tho patient is liable to be cured of the terrible dis ease. As to nourishing the body, the patients are given the most nutritious pro vender, chiefly beef, eggs and milk. Medicine is taken at regular hours. There is also a constant medical supervision over the patients. This is the plan on which tho Rush Hospital will be conducted. Statistics show this mode of treatment cures forty per cent, of consumptives placed in such hospitals. In fact the Germau and Eng lish claim a larger percentage of cures. "It is now an established truth in medi cal science," says Dr. Mays, one of the trustees, "that consumption can be cured. When I make the statement I in clude all kinds of consumption, whether inherited or induced by exposure or ex cesses. The plan of treatment adopted by the Germans nnd English cures the average consumptive in six months' time This is remarkable, but it is a fact."— New York Newt. A Split Ear. The curious case is mentioned by a German doctor of a man who experi enced unpleasant cracking noises in tho left ear during a period of a year and a half. Those occurred every few seconds, and could bo heard by any person at a distance of a foot. There was no deaf ness or inflammation, but the drum wai found to have a split in it through which air was forced by the act of swal lowing. NO. 48. WOMAN. Fairer than all the fantasies that dart Adown the dreams of our most favored sleep, • Thy perfect form, since Edefl*» day, doth keep The constant pattern of a perfect art I Yet more mint we admire thy better part,— The spirit strong to smile whew others weep,— And well know we who sail life's ocean deep There is no haven like a woman's heart. Thus, often weary ere the strife is won, Tired of my task, my head I fain would lay In some good lady's lap, as did "the Dane." And watch the action of the world 'go on, Knowing 'tis but a play within a play, The fleeting portion of an endless plan. —Charles H. Cranilall, in Lippincott. HUMOR OF THE DAY. 1 Told to make a noise— A bell. Old ns the bills—The valleys. A catch question—"Will you be mine?" ~ . . r , Man wants but little lvete below; but when he gets on top he wahts the earth. It is the small boy „gj»tut hist night aud the constable put them jin the pound." Farmer Wise—"Take care of the pens and the pounds will care of themselves." fe " 'Sh!" exclaimed Tommy, listeningm the door. "There's company in the p&r --lor." "How do you know?" inquired Willie. "Mamma's calUug papa 'ipy love.'"— Chicago I'rifaiigjk / Fait tad asks '' Wha&^v'HDMaT' as though it were hard to tcil;-bttSfet one womac sit behind another in ch«*fch, and jhe'll till what's on her in less than two minutes.— llaroard Lampoon. We all know the men who like to make Cruel jests, and think them immense; But (jive me the ona who can always take A joke at his own expense. —Judge. Would-be Facetious Teacher—"Boys, thero is an old saying that if you give a nan an inch, be will take an ell. Now jan you tell me what would bo the result if you were to give a man a foot?" Small but Bright Boy—"He would kick."— New York Tribune. Strive as we may we nover can Tell who are happy, who forlorn; The cutest little shoo of tan May hide a very painful corn. —Chicatjo Evening Post. Fruits Prematurely Plucked. "At present the trouble is to get things to eat," said a prominent caterer of years gone by. "Fruits and vetrpti bles, especially the earlier varieties, .. brought from a great distance, and in order to carry well are picked green. Ripened artificially off the trees, vines and plants, they not only lack flavor,but are positively unwholesome. Take the first tomatoes, for instance. You look in vaiu for a ripe one, and the taste is frightfully unnatural and unsatisfactory. It is the same with peaches, pears, apri cots, pluuis and smaller fruit. So far as meat is concerned, beeves are driven for miles and miles, and when killed many of them are bruised, thin and diseased. When they are brought in cattle cars they are crowded togother so closely that they cannot move without trampling on each other, and suffer terribly from lack of water and food. Sheep and swine are in the same category. Under such con ditions it is no wonder that much objec tionable meat is offered for sale. In the past, fruits and vegetables came from near at hand and were gathered almost ripe, while the beef, mutton, veal and pork were from this State and New Jer sey and were of excellent quality, to say nothing of being in prime condition and altogether wholesome. Things have changed in the line of marketing, but the change has not been for the better,— .— Philadelphia Inquirer.