SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. IX. It is said that over thirty-eight thou sand copyrights have been granted to American authors during the past year. The amount of real literature put forth is not stated. The Sultan of Turkey is not in all respects the easo-loving monarch he is reported to be, observes the New York World. He passes a good part of the day with his secretary, discussing mat ters pertaining to the empire, and it is his boast that he has never signed a State paper without rending it. California comes to the front with an invention that will be a great boon to predicts the Chicago Post. It is an electric frost alarm and consists of an accurate dial thermometer, elec trically connected with a bell and switch in such a manner that the bell will ring when any desired temperaturo is reached. A census bulletin tells us that there are 140 religious bodies in the United States, not counting the large number of independent churches which do not ac knowledge the authority of any denomi national organizition. The increase in sect, declares the Cincinnati Enquirer, has been something remarkable since the dawn of our national history. It seeins necessary, exclaims the Chica go New x, to again call attention to the fact that the much-used word "cloture," which Congressmen so delight in utter ing with an infinite variety of accents, means nothing more nor less than the "previous question." The word is au unnecessary importation from the French and is almost synonymous with the Eng lish "closure." The demand for the previous question and the stifling ot "closure" of further debate is all that i» meant by the mysterious Gallic term. The entire country—the entire world, in fact—is interested in the preservation of the giant trees which form a unique attraction in certain portions of Cali fornia. An agent of the Land Office who has been making an investigation reports that some of them are in danger. The importance of Government action to prevent further destruction of the sequoias is therefore apparent. Thcr>! are 2675 of the giants now standing, th< largest being over thirty-three feet in diameter. Not one of them can be spared. The origin of the National Marine Band nt Washington is most curious. Nearly a hundred years ago, alleges the New York Morld, a Yankee Captain kid napped a strolling troop of musicians on the shores of the Bay of Naples and brought them to this country. From this handful of Italians the band was de veloped. The descendants of theso stolen Italians are now among the wealthiest people of Washington. Some of them are prominent lawyers, and others have their names connected with the best-known hotels and the largest real-estate offices in the capital city. The Church of England, as shown bj incomplete returns of the revenue report by order of Parliament, is the wealthiest church in Christendom. The income of the ecclesiastical commissioners is about «5 ,750,000, nearly one-fourth of which is derived from tithes. The Welsh tithes yield about $20,000. The gross annual value of benefices for twenty-one coun ties is $10,000,000 which is distributed among 6600 clergymen, giving them an average of a little over SISOO a year. There are parsonages, however, and other items to be added, which bring up the annual average to about S2OOO a year from endowments alone. Of the $10,000,000 three-fourths are derived from tithes. The Boston Cultivator estimates that more than half the railway track in the world is on this continent, and nearly half ol the whole is in the United States. This proportion may or not be kept up, as Asia and Africa are beginning to shorten their long distances by using steam horses on the iron track. In the past four years I 'J. 000 miles of track have been laid in America, and in the United States 30,- O'J miles of this, while all the rest of the world built only 24,000 miles. Kailroads in Europe cost an average of $115,000 per mile. Here the average cost is $60,- t)00, and this is about the rate elsewhere. Kates of fare are, however, lower in Euiope than here, the denser population and lighter expense for running the roads more than offsetting the difference in their original cost. GL-OA.MINO. The setting sun baa dropt below the sandy reach; The laggard rooks come home, belated, from the beacb; Here in the garden-beds the flowers close their eyes. And twilight's soft wan mist across the wood land lies. Oh, ig not this most sweet of any time or hour, After the garish day, and ere the night clouds lower? 'Tis as though Nature's self should pause upon her way, Gray-clad and pilgrim-like, to meditate and pray. JACK TEMPLE. My first piquant encounter with Jack Temple wa9 when I was about seven years old. Uc said the Bostona was the fastest boat on the Ohio. And I stood out for the Daniel Boone. The Boone hnd given a dinner at which my father and mother were invited, while his were not. On theso facts wo each based our conclusions on the com parative speed of the different boats, and tooth and nail rolled over in the dust to maintain them. We wero picked up variously by old Cerbems, who was picking his banjo nt one end of the hotel gallery, and by a journeyman shoemaker and a telegraph operator playing chess at the other end. This they did with divers words of Ecorn at the kicking boy. To this day I believe that if we had been left alone I would have whipped; for nlthough small, 1 was active. Shortly after we moved away to Wash ington where my father spent one year in getting a consular appointment which he held for six years. Then we came back to our village' life. John Temple was now u beautiful youth, strong limbed, broad-shouldered, with a head like a Greek god. To these physical perfections he added a charm of manner as captivating to his fellows as to the op posite sex. Underneath this lay a tenacity of purpose which made him invincible. lie was adored frankly by all girls of the school of which I speedily found my self a member. Among these he scat tered his attentions according tD bis royal pleasure. Those who received them were elated and grateful. Those who did not patiently waited their turn. Although younger than the others I held their barn-yard acceptance of John Temple's attentions with silent scorn. "I'd hate to run after a boy," was my inward comment. But I was soon singled out as the one he most delighted to honor. I was younger than the others. Thus might an older boy play with a child, for the years bad not greatly increased my stature. Lut while the other girls sued for his attentions I only accepted them. That I made no response encouraged him the more. When a class was called John Temple always went out first. As he walked by me he would say, and he had a teacher defying way of talking under his lips, "Kitty, come and sit by me." There are plenty of ways in which school boys can show their chivalous consideration for girls, and these John Temple always showed to me. It was thoroughly understood that I had a champion; that there was always Bomo one looking out for Kitty Black. As I was not permitted to <,O to parties where there were boys, an arena remained where John Temple could be contented for by others. At school I was supreme. As I moved, bis fate followed me. When I achieved any honor, no one was so proud as he. There was a stolen word here, a pressure of the hand there. When we played, and no one was so heedless and reckless as I, a protecting arm always stood ready to keep me from harm. Never did I show any signs of my con quest, although I was fully aware of its value in the eyes of others. Never was I jealous; I was too confident, too as sured for jealousy. I often wonder now if I cared for him then. I do not know; but I do know that I lived and fed on his preference. It may have been only vanity. For three years this lasted, deepening constantly, and was a matter of general comment at school. John Temple was always a matter of comment. Dashing giTls from other towns came and bid for John Temple's smiles. He gave them now to one, and now to another. Mean while I played tag and ran races, but no one ever succeeded in winning away any thing that was mine. "Are you going to marry Kitty Black when she grows up J" one of the older girls asked. "Yes." "I'll bctjyou don't." "I'll bet I do. I'll bet you a gold ring that when Kitty Black is eighteen years old she will be my wife." The school buzzed with his bet. 1 was not supposed to know it. But I did, and gave no sign. Soon after I was sent to boarding school. My father had heard with great displeasure of the affair, and did not choose that such thoughts should be putin my head. Then he moved away from our old home. I was not back again until after I had gradu ated. It was in summer—a summer of calm starlit nights. The town was full of young people who had put school behind them, and now pressed forward eagerly to taste the cup of joy which life presents LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891. but once. Among them was John Temple, even more triuuiphtant than of old, for he wore the all-conquering uni form of a West Point cadet. He had; no rivals. When he appeared,,others,re tired. lie took by right, and.caused no jealousy. Such wasihistcomplete»damin ation. It was while the \gayety was at its height that I came. I saw hitnl first, at an evening party. Kui.por had engaged him to a young girl of tl»e towntwhojliad won him by years of devotion. 'He 'had brought her that evening. There were strangers 'Vpresant, one a gay and handsome South era, girl, lie was bending over her when! first saw him. He pretended,, he (fid-not see mo at first. I am not a persion that chal lenges the attention ofithol roam. But I knew that he did see me„iondi with that subtle quiet understanding 'that never had needed signs betwaenp»is,il knew he would be at my side presently. His devotion to girl grew even more marked, but I wiis (not surprised when, although I was deep'injeonversa tion with some one else, ll?felt'him ' take my hand. He drew i|t in his arm. "Come," he said, and gallery where up and dowjn w&Jpaacd in the moonlight all the evening. As we passed the long open windows I could see within. The pirl to whom John Temple was said to'bjoicngaaed had left the dancereand two kind girl/friends were trying to screen her* unha)ppincss and tearful eyes. The gay visitor to wliomgho :had. been nil devotion was laughring'still in hard strained tones, and looking about with wonderiDg eyes; youth\isJhard and re morseless, I feltino pang. ' I»cnjoyed my triumph. This was the beginning. When'.l was not present John Templet repaired/ his omissions and paidlcourt (right and deft. But when I was presentj'wiis all|in all. We sat out dances andipaccd the side walks, wandering up and down the block with that; freedom': wihichWillagc life allows. "He can't propose toher.tbecausoiho's engaged to Edith,V" I heard#a» voice say one evening. "That wouldn't\be atstrawiin his way," was the reply. I heard both indiflsrently. I saw Edith grow*paler ami; thinner, and tinhoppiness settleton face like) disease. I pitied her,«only. Tier'preten sions to John Temple . see toed absurd. He was mine—if I cared'J to'have him. One evening I was late iat a dance. When I came in John TeirQ)le was/the center of a group of girls. There was. a laughing dispute among (tliem. '•But I have documents,''The said, and pulled from his poc&ctia time stained' card. "Years ago I'knew fthere v/faa a time coming when you wouW denyyyour ages so I took precautions«t«»igot them then. I guess |' nl equal to*thoarithmetic." There was a cry and lianOs fiungtup to seize the card which ho ./quickly re stored to his pocket. "Who would haveithought you could, have been 60 sly," one cried. "What a base ndvantagofof innocent confidence," exclaimed anotber. Well as I knew him, coujd so long and secretly cherish euch a scheme was a revelation. He disentangled himself/ from them and came to me. Aftertu ' few languid whirls he said, "Let us leave thisL"'And as usual we went out ; on they gallery where we sat dowmou the vines. John Temple had i never madellove to me. He treated me with an prietorship as one might care for'a • rare vase, or something too delicate and precious for common use. It was so different from the freehand easy relations of young people even when thoy are in love, that it had an unique and most agreeable value. "You will always'be young to, me, Kitty," he said, as we sat down. "In my thoughts you arc still a fiery little child." "Are you going wway/to-morrow?"*hc asked after a silence. ••Yes." ••You must not go. I cannot let'you go. You always stay so long. Ah Kitty, you won't go?" ••There are others." "There is only you, Kitty. Did yov: ever know that years ago I made a bcl about you?" "Yes, Iheard of it." •'The time is up, Kitty, the gage wai a ring. I have it here. But I want yot to wear it. Where is your dear littU hand. Yours? Mine. I can't remem ber the day when I did not claim it." I began nervously to pull off m; glove, warm and clinging from his strong grasp. "Where is the ring? I put it here. He began to probe the traditional waist coat pockets. I turned over the loni glove stripping it from my hand no* half revealed. "Ye gods," he laughec' loudly. "I had forgotten. Lauii Golden wears that ring. It is Laural hand that is mine." She was the Southern girl. How, I know not, but a diamond bau ble that I had borrowed from my au4 changed its place and then I tore off m) glove. The ring danced in the but my heart stood still, stunned by tlf brutal blow. "You never wore that ring before,! he challenged. "lonly got it to-day." •'What does it mean?" "That there is some ouc at home want ing me back." •'You said yau- were going to Mays ville." "I am for a few lays only." ♦'You have outwitted me." My heart had grown steadier. I coula now ask as well as answer. "Now tell me why you have taken the trouble during all these years to play this little game?" "When yon were a little girl you humiliated me. I said then I would be revenged and I never relinquished my purpose." Mv inability to understand such vin dictiveness brought my head to the aid of my heprt. "Do you feel satisfied?" I asked, not without malice. "You have outwitted me, I said be fore," he answered sullenly, and I could have told him but for an instant's mis calculation, he had the reward of his years of effort. "Enough of this," I said. "You have had your little game and I mine.' Let us go in." "Kitty, you nre not going, you can not." He bent upon me all tile fervor of his eloquent eyes. "Oh, can't I?" I got up. "There is that between us which has never been said." "The rest is silence," I answered, and my airy gown slipped through his hands. I saw him after I went in with his head bowed in his hands. "Take me home, Aunt Betty, I'm tired," I pleaded with my gay maiden aunt. As we went out I saw John Tem ple come in by the window, and as we closed the gate his blond head was droop ing over Laura Golden's shoulder. "Here is your ring Aunt Betty, it hurts my finger. But you can't tell huw I en joyed wearing it just once." "I didn't know you were so fond of diamonds, Kitty." "I am on occasion. This was an oc casion." "Well, I'll leave it to you in my will to remember it by." "Never!" I shrieked. "Never! I never want to see it again." And I sobbed myself to sleep. The next day I went to Ma rsville, ten miles away. The third day John Temple came np and drove by the house, waving his hat out of the carnage window. It was a "protected spree," Aunt Betty i wrote me. I never saw John Templo again.-When ever I heard of him, he was still treading on women's hearts and being fed by de votions. We never eithei s oi us mar ried. Last week I learned he was dead. He had been thrown from his horse on the plains and was killed. He had been . drinking. Long since I lost the power to care. I •can only wonder at the prodigality of na ture, who can create bodies like that of John Temple, so beautiful, so gracious, so full of charm, and then leave them to perish as should misshapen creatures, by neglecting to provide them with a soul. t —Epoch. What an Indian Cab. 4 <*nd. To show what an Indian <V stand when he has to, I may tell of an incident which happened during the winter I was with them. Toward evening on a very cold winter day, when it was snowing just a little and drifting a great deal, an Indian came to the log house with a jug half full of whisky and with his rifle. I imagine that the jug had beeu entirely full of whisky when he started, and by i the time he got to the house he was in rather a jolly condition. The jug and i the riflo were taken away from him, and he was ordered to get to his wigwam as i as quick as be could before darkness i came on. He left, and was supposed to i have gone to the camp, but early next ; morning his squaw appeared at the house and said he had not come home that ~ night, and as the night was cold she had i been anxious about him. Then the search > for the lost Indian began. He was found in one of the sheds near the barn under a heap of drifted snow, and the chances are that the snow that was above him had helped to save his t life. The searchers for the Indian had , gone in different directions and it was his own squaw who, with true Indian in stinct, had tracked him out, and she was alone when she found him. Appar ently the Indian was a frozen corpse. She tumbled him out of the snow bank and dragged him down to the creek, where a deep hole was cut in the ice for the pur pose of watering the cattle. Laying the Indian out on the snow, she took the pan that was beside the hole, and, fill ing it repeatedly, dashed pailful after paiful of ice watar over the body of the Indian. By the time the other unsuc cessful searchers had returned she had her old man thawed out and seated by the fire wrapped up in blankets. There is no question that if he had been found ' by the others, and had been taken in the house frozen as he was, he would have died.— Detroit Free fV««. Prayer Among the Mongols. On the tops of all the bouses were lfttle prayer wheels turned by the force of the wind, a simple arrangement like an ane mometer placed on them catching the air and so keeping them in motion. In the hands of most of the old men and women were bronze or brass prayer wheels, which they kept continually turning, while not satisfied with this me chanical way of acquiring merit, they mumbled the popular formula "Om mani j peme hum," tho well-kuown invocation to Avalokiteshwariai, the would-be sav i ior of the world.— Century. Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months. Effect of Wind on Trees. Trees which grow in exposed situations have their tops always leaning away in the opposite direction from the prevail ing winds and the casual observer con cludes that the branches have been bent by the constant pressure of the wind and retained their position. Now, although such trees have the appearance exactly of trees bending under a gale, still it is not pressure in that way which has given them their shape. The fact is, they have blown away from the blast and not been bent by it after they grew. Examination of the branches and twigs will show this. We hardly realize the repressive effects of cold wind upon tree growth, which it partially or altogether arrests, accord ing to its prevalence. Conifers show the effect of this more distinctly than other trees. Owing to the horizontal habit of growth of the branches, they point di rectly to the teeth of the gale from what ever direction it comes, and cannot, like the oak, lean over and grow in the op posite direction, hence coniferous trees growing in exposed situations produce good, long branches on their lee sides, while on the windy side the branches re tain their rigid horizontal position, but make comparatively little growth,which is simply suppressed. Example: I measured the branches of a Nordraann's spruce, growing in a posi tion fully exposed to the north and south. One branch on the north side of the tree bad fifteen annual nodes or growths, and was seven feet long, and its opposite had the same number of nodes, but was nearly two and one-half feet longer, all the lateral branches being proportionately jong and well furnished.— The Garden. The Music of Chinese Speech. There is in China not only an intimate association between music and poetical speech, but alto between music and speech generally. The Chinese being a monosyllabic language, depends to a great extent upon musical intonation to convey meaning. If you listen to tho conversation of your Chinese laundrymen you will discover that their ordinary speech is almost as musical as the recita tivo secco of the Italian opera. Many words in thi Chinese language take from three to six different meanings according to intonation. Those intona tions, as Dr. 8. Wells Williams forcibly urges, have "nothing to do either with accents or emphasis." They are distinctly musical, and it is much to be regretted that Dr. Williams was unablo, for obvious want of the musical to study them from a musical point of view, as it is all but impossible to convey a clear under standing of their nature by description. There seems to bo many variations, but generally there are four of these intona tions, or shing, named and defined as follows: One, ping shing, or "even tone"; two, shang shing, or "rising tone"; three, k'eu shing, or "declin ing tone"; and four, jun shing, or "en tering tone."— Century. An Indian Romance. Rain-in-the-Face is a smart and ex ceedingly dangerous Sioux warrior. His daughter had a romance that makes u rather interesting story. She fell in love with a Lieutenant in the army once, when the Lieutenant visited the Sioux Reservation. Later he was transferred to Fort Laramie. Not-long after that a band of Sioux obtaiue<tya hunting pass and roamed over into Wyoming. The Indian maiden persisted in accompanying them. She saw the .-Lieutenant, and upon learning that he was married she fell upon the ground moaning and tear ing her black tresses. The. young squaw refused to return with the Indians, and they continued to camp in the vicinity for several weeks. One day the Indian girl ended her unhappy life by cutting her throat with a hunting knife. She was buried with the usual ceremonies of Indian obsequies.— Denver Republican. A Thirteen-Pound Knifo. "Yes," said a Main street hardware dealer to a Cincinnati Timet-Star re porter, "that is the largest knife in America. It was made to order by a firm in Oermany. One man did the whole job, and it took him just a year." The knife in question is known to almost every person in Cincinnati and perhaps for one hundred miles around. It has fifty-six blades and is a chest of tools in itself, containing anything from a slender toothpick or a cigar punch to a pair of scissors or a hand saw. The handle is of tortoise shell and the immovable parts are gold-plated. It weighs thirteen pounds and a modest card says:"For sale, $500." An Owl Kills a Dog. In a Main street window in Pawtucket there is a fine specimen of tue cat owl, olive and apparently ugly. It was caught above the Diamond Hill Reservoir in rather a curious manner. One of the resi dents in that vicinity was in the woods with his dog, a Gordon sitter, when the owl attacked the dog, catching it by the throat. The owl succeeded in killing the dog, but its beak or talons were caught in the dog's hair and its capture was easy.— Providence (R. I.) Journal. A Town With But One Man. A town in England, Bkiddaw, Cum berland, stands unique as a township of one house and one solitary male adult in habitant. This man is deprived of his vote because of the fact that there are no overseers to make out a voter's list, and no church or public building on which to publish one if made. —New York Jour nal. NO. 18. SONG OF THE BULLET. It whizzed and whistled along the blurred And rad-blent ranks; and it nicked the star Of an epaulette, as it snarled the word— War! On it sped—and the lifted wrist Of the ensign-bearer stung, and straight Dropped at his side as the word was hissed— Hate! On went the missile—smoothed the blue Of a jaunty cap and the curls thereof, Cooing, sweet as a dove might coo— -Ixs ve! Sang—sang on! sang Hato—sang War— Sang Love, in sooth, till its needs must cease. Hushed in the heart it was questioning for— Peace! —James Whitcomb Itiley. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The supreme court —A youth's first wooing. A good thing to have around the house—A fence.— Statesman. "Is Mr. Robinson a single man?" No; he has a twin brother."— Life. A comb may show its teeth, but it never gets its back up.— Binghamton Republican. The favorite plant of the political worker is the famous itching palm.— Chicago Pout. "I draw the line right here," as the fisherman said when he got a bite.— Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. Customer —"Is the manager in? I want to buy some doors." Boy—"Yes, he's in—but he's out of doors."— New York Herald. A lawyer defending a burglar vised as an argument in favor of insanity the fact that the burgular left $lO in the safe.— DantviUe Breeze. Age comes to every man, but fate Is kind to woman fair. For when she reaches twenty-eight She stops right then and there. —Cape Cod Hem. Father—"Another bad report from your teacher! I hope next time you will do better." Son—"That's right, papa— j don't lose your courage."— Flieqende Blaetter. Patient—"That medicine you gave me for my cold, doctor, cured me entirely." Doctor (in surprise)—" Did it? Well 1 believe I'll try it myself. I can't get rid of mine." Visitor—"l suppose your daughter is busily preparing for her wedding?" Mother—"Yes; »he is up to her room now, destroying all her old letters."— Household Monthly. The Duke of Norfolk, who was much addicted to the bottle, asked Foote, the actor, in what new character he should jjo to a masquerade. "Go sober," was the instant reply.— Chicago News. "I'rti saddest when I sing," I said; 'iSaras lit tip Maud 1 said it to. She sighed and raised her pretty head And spoke—"There's others jnst like you!" —New York Herald. "How does it happen that Dr. World ly performs the marriage ceremony for so many old maids?" "Oh, he always asks them in an audible tone if they are of nge, and they all like him."— New York Herald. Fashionable Young Lady—"Papa, what would you do if you found out I was going to elope?" Father—"Why. I'd stand outside the house and hold the ladder for your ltomeo."— New York Journal. "If you wish in the world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance, You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own tmmpet Or, trust me, you haven't a chance." The newspapers are forever speak ing of"the blushing bride." Well, when you reflect upon the kind of hus band not a few of the brides marry, you ;annot wonder that they should blush.— Boston Transcript. "What kind of a physician is Dr. Scalpel?" "Splendid! I never saw his equal. His diagnoses are wonderful. He makes a dead sure thing of it every time." "Does he? Well, I guess I won't have him."— Boston Transcript. Salesman (showing samples of wall paper to young couple)—" Here, now, is a pattern with a beautiful chocolate back ground that—'' Youthfnl Bride—"Oh, Herbert; that will just suit me! You know I almost live on chocolate."— Chi cago Tribune. "Five years'ago," began the stranger toWentman, "I sought that woman to be my wife. I believed her to be congenial, light-hearted an<l beautiful. Has our married life been pleasant 1 Not" "Why not?" asked Wentman. "Why not? Because she declined to marry me, of course!"— American Grocer. A 7000-Mile Circuit. The most remarkable wire ever known, it is said, is the Cambridge, Mass., San Francisco time circuit, which was in operation in 1871-2. The wire extended from the Cambridge Observatory to San Francisco, by way of Boston, Spring field, Hartford, New York, Buffalo, Chi cago and Omaha, returning over the same route to Chicago, then to Pitts burg, Harrisburg, New York, New Ha ven, Providence, Boston and into Cam bridge. The observatories were "looped in" at each terminal, forming a complete cir cuit 6852 miles in length.— New York Journal. Yokohama, in Japan, is 5300 miles from San Frncisco.
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