SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. IX. ' Italy, it is announced, is strongly op posing emigration. Tho President of the Mormon Church himself admits that the days of polygamy are numbered. The MH nufaeturers' lieeori claims that "the agricultural possibilities of the South are greater than those of the bal ance of the country all combined, based on the aggregate values and on actual profits to producers." Five years ago those who enjoyed briwling on "ten pins" in and about New York city certainly did not number more than 5000, says the New York Times. To-day, if a census would bo taken it is doubtful it less than 20,000 patrons of the alley would be counted. Tho Indianapolis (Ind.) Ham's Horn says: "An erratic old gentleman in New York recently went hence and left a large fortune to be expended in teach ing people to eat with their forks. Had •he left one-half of tho sum to provide something for them to practice on, his toemory as a benefactor would have lasted longer." A Chicago inventor claims to have pro duced a machiue for picking cotton that will do the work in the Southern fields for one-tenth the present cost. The pres ent cost is estimated at nearly §100,000,- 000 a year. It follows that if this ma chine will do all that is claimed for it, the saving effected will be not much less than §90,000,000 a year. Great preparations are being made in Australia for the forthcoming Austra lasiau Federation Convention, in which all the Australian colonies of Great Brit ain will be represented, and the meeting of which will be the first step toward a national organization that is intended to include all those colonics in one power ful union represented in a federal par liament. Lawyer Simon Stevens says that when he sold the Mariposa grant for General Fremont the latter realized §1,237,500. He urged the General to put $600,000 into a trust fund. "He was at first in clined to listen to mo, but Mrs. Fremont ■was full of ideas that it could be invested by him in speculation, where it would yield him untold millions, and she car ried the day." The fact that the French colonists in Algiers show increasing fecundity, whiles the French in France are steadily falling off in that respect, suggests that the mother country is overcrowded and the social system unfavorable to marriage. The cry is again raised that the Latin race is dying out, which, asserts the Washington Star, the fact recorded iu Algiens and Latin-America do not bear out. Another reason for decadence in population is the eaily army age aud long military service exacted, which, with other causes, prevent the multiplica tion of the population. "It is singular," declares Frank Les lie t, "that the rise iu silver threatens to seriously affect Christian missions in for eigu lands. Wheu silver was worth twenty or thirty per cent, less than it is, an American dollar was obviously worth in the debased silver coinage of foreign countries twenty or thirty per cent, more than it is now. In other words, the rise •in silver has brought the currency of silver lands pretty nearly to an equality with that of countries banking on a gold basis. It is said that the Methodist Mis sionary Society will, by reason of the rise in silver, require a special appropria tion of 820,000 to meet \he increased cost of exchange in India, and that all other religious missionary societies will bo seriously affected." It is interesting to know that when the new naval vessels are completed the ef fective force of the United States navy compared with the European navies will be as follows: United States, forty-two, of which five will be battle ships and ten other armored vessels; England, seventy - six armored, 291 unarmored; France, fifty-seven armored, 203 unarmored; Rus sia, forty-nine armored, 119 unarmored, and Germany, forty armored, sixty five unarmored. "But the comparison with these greatest powers of the world is more flattering, admits the Washing ton Star, than that with the smaller navul powers, snrli as Holland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, China, Sweden and Aus ,tria; for we are surpassed by them a!) STIM with the new shies added." REVELATION. Brain-weary, heart-w«ny, soul-weary, I sit me down to-night; And sadnees deep enfolds me As the dark on gulfs the light. This dally toll and struggle- Does It not far out-weigh The little grains of gladness We pick up, day by day? Not for myself I sorrow, My tot is heavenly bright In contrast to the many That throng my thoughts to-night. So much of toll and trouble! So much of needless pain! So much of wasted riches Of hand and heart and brain I I strive to put it from me, This puzzle old as Time— Of unrewarded virtue, Of thriving, happy crime. I glance about for something To turn my thoughts' sad strain; My eye fal's on the Cereus That wreathes my window pane. So gaunt and grim and ugly In its torturous twistings there; So full of thorns, so graceless, Devoid of all that's fair t "Fit symbol," muse I, sadly, "Of our twisted, thorn-strewn lives; All barren, bent and wasted, Where hope alone survives I" But even as I whisper These words of rebel gloom, A strange, delicious fragranco Pervades my lonely room; And starting up in wonder, I trace tho perfume's source To a bud upon the branches I had scorned as mean and coarse 1 I watch it, wonJer-stricken, The clasping leaves unfold, And reveal its matchless beauty, So pure, with heart of gold! I feel its mystic message To my very being's core, And the burden that oppressed me Is gone to come no more! Could ever sweeter token Or surer answer come, Than this perfect, stainless blossom From its strange, unsightly home! A flash of revelation Enlightens all my soul; The clouds of doubt and darkness Forever from me roll! My heart swells up in gladness^ In gratitude and love, In faith and trust, implicit, To the Father-heart above! I know, past all distrusting, That from our pain and strife, Will bloom in perfect beauty A glorious after-life! —JBeulah It. Stevens, in the Housewife. A DETERMINED WOMAN. BY MACIUC E 6LINQBBY. In one of the back settlements of South Carolina, in the days which ren dered the name of Marion, and other he roes, forever glorious in the annals of their country, dwelt a brave and devoted family of patriots, named Hart. Abijah and Abigail Hart were scarcely past the prime of life, although they had been blessed with a large family of chil dren, only three of whom, however—two boys and a girl—had survived the com mon ills incidental to childhood. The eldor son would have been two and twenty had his life been spared; but eight months before he had fallen an innocent victim to the rage and mal ice of the Tories, who swarmed in pred atory bands throughout this section. Upon these murdering wretches, who had thus wantonly deprived them of their eldest born, at a time when he might have been of inestimable service to them, the father and mother, and only remaining son, Bilas, now in his nineteenth year—afterward the cel ebrated Indian fighter of Hardin County, Kentucky—swore to be revenged, when ever and wherever an opportunity should offer to wreak their vengeance. Leuh, their second remaining off spring, was a beautiful and warm-hearted maiden of seventeen, and the affianced bride of Raudolph Darell, a brave young officer, at one time upon the staff of General Marion. Young Darell was in the habit now and then, whenever he could make an excuse to obtain a furlough, of paying a flying visit to Gum-Tree Farm, the humble, though comfortable, home of the Harts. On one of these occasions a party of seven mounted Tories pursued him near ly the the entire distance from the Ameri can camj) to the residence of the Harts, he, however, contriving to elude them in a piece of woods just before reaching the farm. An abrupt bend in the road had fav ored him, und the Tory rangers, not dreaming of this adroit move on the part of the flying fugitive, dashed furiously on till they came to the farm-house, where they tumultuously demanded of Mrs. Hart, who was standing in the door-way, if she had seen a horseman pass by who wore the uniform of an American officer. The woman shrewdly surmised who the officer might be who would be com ing alone in that direction, and promptly inquired if the horse he rode was a sor rel one. To her seemingly careless ques tion the Torries promptly gave an affir mative reply. "Then he has rid into the swamp yon der, by a cßrtpath that leads onto tha Dcechkuoll road," answered the quick* LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1890. witted woman, with an admirable pres ence of mind, and an apparently cool in difference to the subject, which carried instant conviction to tho minds of the Tories, who again spurred on in supposed 1 pursuit of the fugitive; but, to their ! great disappointment, the cart-road pres 'ently terminated in a bog, and, on acare fful examination, thoy discovered that no other horse-tracks had been left thero but those of their own animals. "He must have taken to the thicket," said the leader, after fully satisfying his ' mind on the subject. There is no use at all in beating the ground farther, for ho has had ample time already to escape. We may as well make a virtue of neces sity, and go back and see what is to be got of the squint-eyed old woman at the farm-house in the way of catibles. But isn't she a big one in size, thought" "And uglier-looking than sin, thun derin' sight 1" added one of the men. The Tory horsemen now wheeled about and retraced their way to the farm-house, which was only a short distance, just as Randolph Dnrell was on the point of emerging from the wood; but luckily he disoovered them in season to escape their notice, by abruptly retreating back again under cover. Alighting once more at the door of the farm-house, tho Tory leader ordered Mrs. Hart to prepare dinner for the party, and bestir herself. "How can I give you dinner when I've nothing to cook?" retorted the reso lute-looking woman, angrily. "I should need a full larder to satisfy a half-dozen such dirty rascals as you are." "Silence, woman!" thundered the Tory, in a commanding voice, "and do our bidding." "I'll soon give you some thing to cook," lie added, leveling his carbine as he spoke, and bringing down a plump turkey gobbler that was strut ting along under cover of tho garden wall. "There, now, go and pluck that fine fellow, my beauty, and don't belong about it, or we might be tempted to serve you in the same way." Leah, who had shrunk timidly into a corner, started up in alarm when she heard this threat, and made her way out to the spot where tho bird had fallen. Randolph Darell, alarmed at the shot, was just on the point of dashing out of his cover togo to the rescue of the females, when he saw his aftinnccd rush out, and bear the turkey hastily to the house. In a moment he divined tho cause of the firing; and npt apprehending any immediate danger to his sweetheart, so long as the Tories were only anxious to appeaso their appetites, he wont back to his cover. The quick eye of the Tory leader took In the graceful outlines of the fair girl's figure, as she rushed from the house. "By the beard of King George 1" he exclaimed, admiringly, "who 'ould 'ave hexpected to see such a hangol in petti coats 'ere. Come, my lass, and give us one kiss from the rose-bud of a mouth." "You dare to lay jour cowardly hand on ray Leah," cried the enraged mother, doubling up her great, bouv fist, "and I'll strangle you like a cur!" "Why, you squint-eyed old beauty," retorted the Tory, mockingly, "I took you for a hangel, but I find you are wickeder than a she wolf with whelps!" The rest of the gang laughed boister ously at this weak attempt at wit. Then turning to Leah with a gallant smile, the Tory inquired how long it would take to pluck and cnok the fowl. Leah answered in a modest tone of womanly anxiety, that it would require at least three hours to serve it to their liking. "But," she auded, in a tone of con ciliation, "wo have a pieco of roast pork and some cold potatoes and corn cake in the pantry, if they will answer." The hungry party, who had been some hours fasting, declared that the articles named were good enough, and that they would forego the turkey on this occa sion for her sake. With great alacrity, but with an anx iously beating heart, Leah spread the homely board, and brought forth tho promised viands, which she laid out temptingly before them. Sho then placed what chairs and stools the house afforded around the table, and politely invited her unwelcome visitors to be seated. Complying with her invitation, the Tories carelessly stacked their cabines near an open window, and, seating themselves at the table, fell to, greedily devouring the repast. Mrs. Hart, in the meantime, with a heroism superior to her sex, had watched her hungry guests till she saw she was not observed by them, when she slipped out slyly from their midst, and, noise lessly approaching tho open window, she succeeded in drawing out three of the carbines before her little game was dis covered. The moment the Tories perceived the deadly purpose of the giantess, the three nearest the window sprang to their feet in terrified astonishment. "Stanch back!" she cried, in a threat ening tone, presenting one of the loaded carbines with an air of resolute determi nation. "Tho first villain of you that stirs a step, I'll shoot; and the first one that touches another mite of that pork I'll blow his brains out!" Without heeding her blazing eye, or her stern verbal warning,the Tory leader sprang fearlessly toward the stack of arms; but before he could reach them there was a report of near bine, and the advancing ruttii/- fell tc the floor, while th* slug, whici* had passed entirely through his pody, struck another in the temple, who was seated at the table, kill* lag him instantly. A third, rendered desperate by the try ing situation, made a reckless attempt to get possession of one of the carbines, and instantly paid the penalty with his life. Throwing the second empty carbine aside, Mrs. Hart caught up the third one, with which she now covered what remained of the terrified party. There were but four left, and not ono of the four dared to move a finger. "Leah, blow the dinner-horn I" cried tho mother, in a tone of resoluto triumph. "It is safe now to call in Silas and your father." The young girl, half-terrified out of her wits, promptly obeyed the maternal command, and a long, winding blast echoed and re-echoed through the inter vening woods. She had left the house and joined her mother on the outside before slie essayed to blow it, and as she lowered the horn frotn her lips, now rendered colorless from her recent fright, her anxious eyes were bent in the direction of the distant corn-field, where her father and brother and a faithful negro servant were at work, although a narrow belt of timber stretched between them. She uttered a quick exclamation of joyous pleasure, for at that moment sho saw all three strike out of the wood and start on a rapid run toward the house. Hearing tho first shot that had been firod and then alarmed by the other two which had followed in such rapid suc cession, they caught up their loaded car bines and started on a run from tho field whero they were thea at work. The moment they had quitted the tim ber they saw at a glance, by tho several horses hitched to the fence and the bel ligerent attitudo of the heroic giantess at the window, pretty nearly how matters stood at the house, and they all three sent up an encouraging shout to the women. Just at thi9 point they heard the ring ing sound of a horse's hoofs in an op posite direction, and, turning suddenly, Leah beheld her lover dashing furiously toward the houso. This additional rein forcement, coming so opportunely, yet so unexpectedly, filled the heart of.the timid maiden with Increased confidence. "Ob, mother!" she burst out, excited ly; "Randolph is coming—see! lie is just leaving the wood. Isn't it lucky for him to come just at this time, when wo hau no reason to expect him?" "I expected him," said Mrs. Hart, with quiet assurance. "I know It was he the Tories were in pursuit of, and I was determined to outwit them, if it lay in the power of a woman to do it. Every thing has turned out for the best; for had Lieutenant Darell ridden straight here, instead of lingering in the wood, as he did, he would doubtless have been captured, and perhaps murdered before our eyes. 8o you see, my girl, the ways of Providence are better than our ways, for they always turn out for the best in the end." In another moment Randolph Darell had alighted at their side, and in the next, tho blushing and happy Leah was enfolded in his manly embrace. While the lovers were thus pre-occu picd. Abijah, Silas and the negro ar rived, fearfully excited and wholly out of breath. Hilas recovered first, and was about to shoot down one of the Tories, when his mother resolutely interfered. "Don't shoot them! Leave them to mo, Silas. I will mete out their punish ment to them. We haven't forgotten Eben's murder yet, and shooting is too good for 'em. We will just hang thera like a pack of dogs, the whole cowardly kit of them. Oct the clothes line, Leah; we can afford to cut it on such a right eous and heaven sent occasion!" Randolph shuddered, for he under stood the determined character of tho woman and knew that she would not be long in putting her terrible threat into execution. Nor, indeed, was sho; for within the ensuing hour, in spite of their (rrayere and protestations, the bodies of the four Tories went dangling from tho nearest tree. And thus at the hand of a resolute and heroic mother, was the death of a beloved son simply and satisfactorily avenged. After the Tones had hung a sufficient time, they were cut down and tumbled indiscriminately, with the other three, into one common grave. Shortly after this event, Leah and Itandolph Darcll were happily united in wedlock; and soon after the close of our glorious Revolution, the whole family emigrated to Hardin County, Kentucky, where they could have, as Mrs. Hart expressed it, more "elbow room," if less civilization.— New York Weekly. Trade in Cast-Off Teeth. A medical statistician estimates that tho citizens of the United States are car rying gold to the value of 1)500,000 in the recesses of what ought to bo their teeth. There are no people on tho face of the globe who have such bad teeth and who spend so much money upon them as the Americans. No doubt the habit of huriied feeding atid the wholesale con sumption of sweet dishes have assisted much toward this end. But is it not a mistake to suppose, as says the medical statistician, that false teeth set in gold are buried when their owner shuffles off this mortal coil? If this is the custom iu America, it is not so in England, or why the numerous advertisements offering to to buy old artificial teeth'; The old teeth are not bought to use again, as somo nervous people fancy, but simply for th« sake of the gold.— Popular l') uci</tr, Terms—sl2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A mill at Alpena, Mich., makes good cnaniila paper from pulp of tamarack. An lowa court has deoided that a meteor belongs to tho person on whose land it falls. Montana claims to have the largest and finest jasper quarries in the world, re cently discovered. A new gutwhas been perfected by Signor Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire sixty four shots a minute. For every fifteen yards we descend into the earth the temperature increases about ten degrees Fahrenheit. The fastest ship in the French navy now has a speed of 19.(38 knots per hour without engine strain. An Italian savant claims that in jecting a current of electricity through milk delays its souring for several days. A new system of ventilation, never be fore used on ocean steamships, is to be a factor of the two new vessels now being constructed for the transatlantic service of the Cunard Line. A rich bed of coal has beeu discovered in the Russian Amrtor province of Siberia, on Usuri River. The quality of the de posit is said to be equal to that of tho best English product. It is the opinion of noted specialists on diseases of tho noss, throat and lungs that one baby in every three has a growth in the nose that obstructs respiration. It is due to covering up the head. Ono of the steel saws at the Washing ton Gun Foundry recently cut tlftough a piece of gun-carriage metal four inches in width by five inches in thickness in twenty minutes. The saw is of English make. Two chemists ore experimenting at Preeport, Penn., with the view of pro ducing cttrbon points for electric lighting from natural gag. It is said that by burning the gas in a specially prepared furnace pure carbon is obtained, but as yet at a cost too great for practical pur poses. A twenty-two-icoli iron pipe which was recently exhumed after being buried in the earth for fourteen years, at Lassen, Cal., came out as good as new. The pipe was coated with asphaltum when it was put into the ground. This may be taken as a good test of the preservative virtues of asphaltura. An old sea captain's argument is re called at the completion of till race be tween thte steamships City of New York and Teutonic. His was the view that the City of New York would win the eastward passage and the Teutonic the westward, because the vessels are evenly matched, and one is better adapted to English and tho other to American coals. The Buffalo (N. Y.) fire department has lately received a novel Are engine which has excited much interest in that city. The carriage is constructed en tirely of papier mache, all the different parts of the body, wheels, poles and the rest being finished in the best possible manner. While tho durability and powers of resistance possessed by this material are fully as great as those of wood the weight is, of course, mucb less. A new machine has been designed for the excavation of sewer trenches. The material in this system of excavation is handled but once, and the operation is continuous, a lino of loaded buckets passing out and a line of empty ones re turning to be filled at the same time. Ordinary excavating machines requiro the empty buckets to be returned over the same line over which the full ones >re sent out, and ill is claimed that for :his reason the new machine cau work noie rapidly and cheaply. The six-incb ordnance rifle which suc ;eedcd in demolishing tho British armor plate at Annapolis is capable of hurling a projectile through 10$ inchos of wrought iron placed 1000 yards from the muzzle of the gun. The power of the eight inch gun is 16 3-10 inches, same dis tance, and of the ten-inch gun twenty one inches, same distance. Tho twelve inch projectile will pierce twenty-eight inches at a distance of 3000 yards. The thirteen-inch guns, which will be pro vided for the battle ships, are capable of demolishing the heaviest armor. A New Puzzle. A new puzzle lias been sprung upon the inoffensive people of this weary world. It is an innocent-looking affair, and au inexpensive one withal, but more deadly than ''pigs in the pen." This latest brain-raking device consists simply of three columns of figures,arranged thus: 111 8 3 8 5 5 5 7 7 7 0 8 9 Nov . the point is to add together any six of the above figures and make the total 21.— Philadelphia litcord. One way of gcttiug along in this world is to walk.— Vet rait Free Pre**. NO. 7. LEAVES. rhe leaves, so brilliant before they wero shed, How changed they seem when they cover our dead! Silently fallen with pathos of tears, How like.they are to the vanishing years! What precious, consoling thoughts they in spire, [n hearts now as still as a broken lyre! Under the leaves and, though sadly laid there. With a trust as sweet as an infant's prayer. Under the leaves and the shadowing trees, Their requiem sung by the moauiug breeze. Under the leaves and the moon's tender light, Under the stars of the soft, jeweled night. Under the leaves and the sun's splendid ray. Prophetic sign of etornal (lay. Under the leaves and tho dear summer flow ers. Fragrant with memory of happy hours. Beneath the autumnal and storm-swept sky, Yet peacefully resting whore pansies lie, Under the leaves and the white, vestal snow. Emblems of pureness the angels know. Under the leaves and tho blossoms of spring, There awaiting our risen King, Under tho loaves and the sweet song of birds, Can lovo bo lost that was deeper than words? O'er tho sad, dead leaves, oh, do not grieve long, But breathe a prayer that shall blend into song; For under tho leaves, though the mortal lie, How grand is tho soul on high I There, through eternity's cycles untold. The love that was true shall never grow cold. And there, nt last, by the beautiful stream, May our lovo and life be like a sweet dream. —The Interior. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Noah's arc—The rainbow. Each addition to one's kiudrcd is a relative gain. A fiery temper gives adverse criticism a warm :eception. The cat has nine lives, and spends them all in vocal culture. There wasn't enough of the Swiss revo- lution togo round.— Pittsburg Chronicle- Idegraph. "Well," said the baseball captain, "our cake is all dout'h? "How do you account for it?" " WJfrlurreu't u «ood batter."— Munsey's Weekly. Fred—"What is the matter? You look positively ill." Tom—"Negatively ill, you mean, isn't it? My best girl has said no to me."— Munsey's Weekly. The oldest inhabitant is an interesting personage; but he doesn't make half as much noise in his immediate locality as the youngest inhabitant does.— Puck. Tho man who thinks ho knows it all Upon his nose may take a fall; But ho who sometimes is in doubt, May tlnd that weakness helps him out. —Puck. Politeness generally pays. A gentle man who gave up his seat to a lady on an elevated train, afterward found out that she hud been robbed while occupy ing it.— Puck. "We are rather at a loss to kt*>w why sunlight is so often described as "gold en." The "silver" moon is accounted for by coming in quarters and halves.— Berkshire News. "How long has your daughter been practicing on the piano?" "To be exact she began one month before our neigh bor went crazy, and he's been iu the asylum a year."— Figaro. The Obliging Peddler—"lf you don't stop talking to me al>out your wares I will whistle for my dog." "I have some most excellent whistles, sir; just try one or these."— Flitgerule Blnetter. Landlady—"Mr. McOinnis, may I ask what you are trying to iiud in that cream pitcher?" Boarder —"1 am trying, Mrs. Irous, to rescue an unfortunate fly from a watery grave."— Chicago Tribune. Willie took his father's razor and his shaving cup ' To shave hiuiself last week; The doctor charged a fiver when he sewed the gashes up In little Willie's cheek. "Humph," remarked a young man, "my cigar has gone out." "Well, that settles it," replied his room mate. "I was wondering which of us it be, myself or the cigar."— Washiugton Post. Grocer—"What's that about the dozen eggs you bought this morning?" Brown —"They were all bad except one, and I've called to see how much extra I owe you for tho good one."— New York Sun. "This bell," said a well meaning sex ton, when showing the belfry of an in teresting village church to a party of visitors, "is only rung iu case of a visit from the lord bishop of the diocese, a fire, a flood, or any other such c.ilar - ties."— London Figaro. Travels—"How much tiro tues>- trousers!"' Tailor—"Twenty dollars, sir." Travers—"Ami you sny you re quire a deposit from strangers!" Tailor —"Yes, sir." Travers (warmly)—" A lready I feel myself growing intimate with you."—JVeio York Sun. Briggs—"l want to get some soiled neckties." Astonished Clerk—"Soiled neckties, sir? Soiled, did you say?" Briggs—That's what. When you call upon a girl four times a week and she's miking a crazy quilt, you will under stand that a man has trot to buy neckties at job-lot prices or suspend payment-**— Clothier and Furnisher.
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