SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. IX. The cigarette is »n illegal luxury f Of youth in twenty-nine States. A census of the Province of Quebec, Canada, compared with the returns of 1881, shows a great exodus of the popu lation. The University of Oeno, Italy, has es tablished an academy lor scientific travel ers. It proposes to teach students how to observe and investigate all phe nomena. The New York World estimates that "in Western Nebraska from 8000 to 10,- 000 people are on the verge of starva tion, and in New York City about 20,- 000 families are evicted, every year for non-payment of rent. But more corn is produced iu this country than 80,000,- 000 people could consume and the land lords of New York pocket over $70,000,- 000 rent per annum." Many women are finding congenial em ployment in the various libraries which have beeu established in nearly all the cities and towns throughout the country. The work is eminently suited for them, declares the New York World, and they have been found suited for the work. Mrs. Caroline Le Coite has been ap pointed State Librarian of South Caro lina. She is un accomplished student, a resident of Columbia, and is the first womau to hold such a position in the State. If there is no law upon tho statute books to preveut a same person from being dragged from home, declared in sane on the authority of two physicians, and left to the chance of meeting an up right judge to save him from incarcera tion in a lunatic asylum, it is time, in sists the New York News, that one should be passed. How easily a man may be got out of the way in New York has i-e --cently been Bliown iu tho case of a well to-do citizen, and tho fact is not credit ablo. The existing statute on the sub ject evidently requires overhauling. Tho United States has now become the greatest iron producing nation of the world, having produced 9,202,703 gross tons of pig iron in 1890, against about 8,000,000 gross tons produced in Grea* Britain, an excess of about 1,200,000 tons, or fifteen.per cent. It has been at tained by the most astoundingly rapid development of a vast industry which tho world has ever seen, our pig iron product having increased from 4.04 millions iD ISBS to 9.20 millions in 1890, an In crease of 5.1U millions or 128 per cent., during which period the British product increased only from 7.42 to 8.00 mlllfoz; tons, or about 7.8 per cent. \Says the St. Louis Republic: We think we have some big churches here in America, but few of them have a seating capacity of over 1500 persons. Com pared with some of the big churches ol Europe ours are but as molc-hills tc mountains. Scats St. Peter's Church, P.0m0... 54,(XX Milan Cathedral 87,(XX St. Paul's, R0me..... 32,(XX St. Paul's, London 35, (KX St. Petrionio, Bologna 34,4stle, with love for creeds. The world's brave prophet, after God's plan. In healing and teaching he leads the van— Our kind of a man! —E. S. L. Thompson, in Frank Leslie's. AN EVICTION FIGHT. BY LUKE SHARP. This is the story of the house of Ma ginley, its building and its wreck. A the present moment Maginley him self is in Montana. He made his money in Australia and then came home to Ire land and foolishly built a house on a land lord's estate. It was built where labor and malerial were cheap. Stones cost next to nothing; in fact, the laud around produced little else, and so Maginley spent 91500 in building a nice two-story house with a slate roof upon it. Maginley was in America. Times were bad. His boys had not been able to make any money in the Scottish harvest fields. They wanted an abatement of the rent, but that the landlord refused to grant. The money was subscribed and was offered to the evictors by the priest ! of the parish, the celebrated Pr. Mac- Fadden. It was refused as being offered too late, and the command was given that the eviction must proceed. I ar rived on the ground just at the end of these negotiations. The police refused to allow me to pass down the road near the house to be attacked so I struck across the fields, keeping on the outside of the police cordon—threatened every now and then when I approached too near that line—and at last took up a po sition on th« hillside, just outside the line of policemen and facing the end of the house where I could see what was going on on both sides of it. I will now mention a little incident •which, although trivial in itself, goes to account for the hatred with which the police are regarded in Ireland. When I took up my position as near to the out side line as 1 was permitted, the police man near where I stood thought it would be the correct thing to stand in front of mo so that I could not see what was go ing on. I moved up the hill a little and he moved up in front of me. I moved down and he ngaiu moved down in front of me. "I don't think you have any right to do that," I said. "You move OD," was his answer. My own impulse at the moment was to hit the man across the face with my um brella, but I realized tho futility of do ing this to a man armed with a ritle, so I called to an officer, who was standing near by, inside the cordon. "You cannot get inside," said the of ficer, anticipating the question that was usually asked him. "I do not want togo inside," I said, "but I want to know if it is any part of this man's duty to obstruct my view of what is going on?" "Not at all," was the answer of the officer. Then addressing the man he or dered him to keep his place and I had no more trouble with that man. The fact is the police are over-zealous in their du ties and get themselves disliked—not to put it too strongly. Although there were so many people around the line kept by the police the si lence was most Intense. The house showed no signs of having anybody in it, yet everybody knew that a number of young men were locked inside and were going to defend the place as long as they were able. Here a certain comic element was in troduced. One of the officers of the constabulary looked as if he had just come off the Savoy Theatre stage after playing tho part of an officer in the "Pirates of Penzance." lie was a fine looking ruan with a heavy mustache and he had one eyeglass stuck in his eye. This, which dce§n't look at all bad on Piccadilly, seems rather comical out in the wilds of Donegal. He strode into the open space before the house and with bis one eyeglass cast, a look up and down the house as if judging the best place to attack. Then he walked a few steps further with that pompous stagey air of his and again glanced up and down that house. Finally he walked down to the other corner and gave the same glauce. It looked rather ridicu lous wheu you remember that only five boys were in that house and this of ficer bad at least 150 armed policemen at his back. Nevertheless he examined the house as critically as if Napoleon were defending it,land the Old Guard that might die but never surrendered were going to take part in the conflict. When ho stood hack a man with a crowbar ad vanced to the corner of the house and drove his crowbar in between the stones. At the same instant appeared the head and shoulders of a man from out one of the second story windows, lie had a stone in his hand and he flung it with a LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1891. viciousness that I have never seen equaled at the man with the crowbar. ■ The ston* went wide of its mark. The next came closer. The third, with deadly accuracy, hit the man and keeled him over, while the blood spurted from his cheek where the stone had struck. His comrade* pulled him back into line. The head and shoulders disappeared from the second' story window and a cheer went up from the crowd of peasants who saw what had been done. Maginley's house is situated on the hillside. The main body of policemen were on the side above the house. Af ter the repulse of the crowbar man a number of \jolice picked up a ladder and placed it on the edge of the roof. Then very nimbly three or four police men ran up the incline. Instantly there was a shower of stones from all that side of the house—knocking down a couple of the policemen, but one managed to secure his place on the roof. He raised a hatchet which he had in his hand and struck the slates, which flew off in a dozen pieces, rattling down the roof and falling in a shower to the ground. Blow after blow was struck. Those inside, being unable to hit the man on the roof, began flinging stones at the crowd of po lice outsido. Then the police, seized with a sudden frenzy, began to throw stones back at those in the house. This, I was told, was against the law, and it has been denied that the police throw stones; nevertheless they did it, and did it with a vengeance. In a very short timo every window -on that side of the house was riddled. The police threw with an accuracy and vigor that was ad mirable, looked at from their point of view. When the man on the roof had smashed a sufficiently largo hole in it two or three more policemen with arui l'uls of stones rushed up the ladder in spite of the missiles flung at them and began throwing stones down the hole in the roof at those inside. Then a body of polico took another ladder and smashed in the paneless sash of one of the upper story windows, giving the ladder one or two swings as tho sash gave way from its impact. Placing tho ladder on the window-sill, n dozen po licemen, with great nimbleness, rushed up the ladder and entered the house. Another dozen or more quickly fol lowed. The men on the roof ceased throwing down stones. The man with a hatchet pulled out a handkerchief and began to mop his brow. The raio of stones from the police Stopped and silence again intervened, only broken by a low wall from the peasants on the hill side who knew the "boys" inside and knew what thsir fate would bo. In a very short time tho door looking out on the hillside was opened and twenty or thirty police marched out with five ill clad lads rauging in age from sixteen to twenty-four. The first prisoner who came out had a fearful cut on* his faco until it presented a most hideous aspect. Another had his hand completely smashed, and as the boy stood on the road he held his hand out from him and the blood streamed from it as if it were poured from a teapot, forming a great slowly coagulating pool on the road. The police were very much excited, and when some of tho English ladies, who had been wringing their hands and crying as they looked at the scene, tried to pass down the road to say a word of comfort to the prisoners, the polico shoved them i back with some degree of rudeness, al- j though for that they were checked by ! their officers, who explained to the j ladies that they would uot be allowed to j have a word with ths arrested men. One of the young men was the son of Ma ginley, who was off in America. The rest were neighbors' boys from the im - mediate locality, and their relatives and friends stood on the hillside crying, as they saw their hands held up while the steel handcuffs were clasped upon them. Thirty or forty policemen completely surrounded them. Nobody was allowed to approach tbem or speak to them. The constabulary formed two double lines on each side of the young men. The order: •'Forward, march," was given, and the regular tramp of the troops echoed down the hard road. Then an officer of the law went to the ruined house, picked up a piece of j broken slate and a handful of the earth near the house. He went inside to see j that the fire was trampled out, because if a spark of fire is left alive the eviction is not complete. lie searched the house to see that no domestic animal was inside. A dog is a domestic animal and if left , inside of tho house invalidates the evic tion ; a cat is looked on by this wise law as a wild animal and docs not matter- Coming out the officer handed the pieoe of broken slate and the piece of earth to the agent of the landlord, saying, as he gave the slate, "There is your house," ' and as he gave the earth,' 'there are your lands." This was accepted by the agent, and thus the house that Maginley, who is in America, built with his own money,becomes the property of the land land, who never expended a cent on the house, and never expended a cent on the land. Thus ends the story of the House of Magiuley, its building and its wreck.— Detroit t\ee Press. "Tommy," said an anxious mother to her boy, "your uncle will be here to dinner to-day, and you must have your face washed." "Yes, ma, but s'posen lie don't come. What then?"— Texas Sifting*. A burking dog caunot bite, but the troublo is that he is likely at any time to stop barking aud take aj>ieco out" of jour leg.— Somerville Jo> -Ml. COTTON IN THE ORIENT. IRRIGATION THE SBO RET OF ITS SUCCESSFUL CULTURE. How the Crop Is Raised in the Val ley of the Nile—The Story of the Industry. Surprises have been coming out of Egypt ever since outside barbarians picked up intelligence enough to recog nize that which was odd when thoy saw it. Even down to this day the Nile country has continued to send forth strange things, and every-day things put to unusual uses, and curious things to be used for most prosaic purposes. It was not very long ago that shiploads of all that was left of sacred cats and a job lot of run-to-seed mummies arrived in Now York en route to the fertilizer factory. That was certainly putting what had once been objects of veneration and affection ate care to strictly utilitarian uses. Aud now Egypt stands as the source of sup ply of shipments to this country of what has always been considered a peculiarly American product, at least in its best forms. A few days ago the Times told of the arrival in this port of a large cargo of Egyptian cotton shipped from Alexan dria. to be worked into fabrics in New England mills. It consisted of 2150 bales, was valued at about $350,- 000, and was by far tho largest impor tation of the kind ever made into this country. Persons who are interested in tho trade say, however, that a good deal of Egytlan cotton has been coming here from Europe In the shape of goods manufactured in English and Continen tal mills. One American manufacturer began to (experiment with tho Egyptian product three years ago. He began buying a lot of fifty bales; now he gets 2500 bales in a lqt. About twenty owners of cotton mills in this country are said to be using tho imported article. To handle it they have to uso combing .machines and that fact prohably keeps it out of other mills. In Egypt itself there is no manufac turing of the cotton. The product is exported to be niado into cloth and that is tho last the producer generally sees of it. Two kinds of cotton are produced— one white, the other brown. The white is the less valuable of tho two, as the staple is shorter. Cultivation on a large scale began in 1821, in the reign of Mahomet All. Ex periments were made with the seed from plants growing wild, and cotton was produced of a character good enough to warrant a rapid spread of its cultivation throughout Lower Egypt. Very high prices were realized for this early pro duct. A Frenchman named Jumel, a mer chant, brought about tho next step in the development. He imported the seed of Sea Island cotton from Florida and devoted much care to its culture. His trouble was well rewarded, lor his experiments were highly successful, and the now grade of cotton he secured was a great improvement on that formerly raised. One result of his entsrprise was the giving of his'namo to Egyptian cotton which is called either Jumel or Mako. The latter name is that of a planter who, previous to the Jumel experiments, had raised cotton on an extensive scale. In the beginning the cultivation was a monopoly farmed out by the Govern ment, but later on the fellahs secured the right to become planters. There was a boom in the industry when that privilege was granted. Methods employed were rudimentary then, and they are svill far behind the time. Primitive tools are used, such as an American planter would regard as beneath contempt. There has all along been one factor in the case, however, which the poasant understood thoroughly. He knew how necessary ir rigation was to cotton-growing in his country. They have two met' ods of cultivating cotton in Egypt, on known as "Mes gani," the other as • Bali." In the for mer the fields are regularly irrigated with water pumped from tho Nil# and carried over the country iu canals. In the lat ter the fields arc thoroughly saturated before the planting takes place. After that tho plants have to get along with out water until the Nile rises. Then pumps are set at work and the fields get their needed supply of moisture. In Up per Egypt the Meagani system is gener ally followed. Directly the Nile inundations are of no benefit to cotton, although for a long time a notion prevailed that the overflow would serve to fertilize and irrigate the fields. Experience showed however, that too great floods often moant that cotton could not be raised. So weirs or dams were provided to carry off the sur plus water into canals. Planters have more or less difficulty from the fogs which prevail in September and October to the detriment of the crop. When the British took hold of Egypt they went to work on vast improvements designed to extend irrigation. A great deal of money has been expended on these works, which are expected to prove of lasting benefit to the planters. There is some doubt whether the area under cotton cultivation can be extended very greatly. In the delta abort 1,000,- 000 feddans, or acres, are in use for the crop, or about one-third of the total area under cultivation of all sorts. One estimate is that the limit of the crop is about 100,000 bales in excess of any year's yield so far recorded. Further up the Nile, to be sure, the system of irri gation may be perfected, and perhaps Terms— Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months that region may increase the total pro Auction more than if at present ex pec ted- Nearly half the Nile delta, which wai cultivated centuries ago, is unproductivi now, because the water supply for tbre« months of they Car is none too large foi tho fields in use. To get much biggei crops it is estimated that storage reser voirs will have to be constructed, capable of taking in from 20,000,000 cubic me ters to 50,000,000 meters a day. Even the smaller figure calls for a flow ol 8000 feet per second. The crop for 1889-90 turned out to be better than the unfavorable condi tions indicated that it would be. Tho Nile was unusually low, and the weather was not all that could be desired. Sys tematic irrigation produced a good ef fect, nevertheless, and the season proved to be fairly prosperous.— New York Timet. Abont Glass Eyes. "Good glass eyes come high," said an occulist recently. "Cost a big price, do they?" "Yes, the good ones do." "Then there is a good deal of differ ence?" , "Oh, yes. They range all the way from fifty cents to $50." "Is there such a big demand for them*" "Larger than n*.-t people suppose. The fact is that many people get along so well with a glass eye that not one per son in ten suspects the fact." "Some of our friends may bo wearing one of these solid visual organs and we do not it?" "Precisely. I'll bet that several peo ple in this city with whom you are ac quainted are wearing glass eyos and the fact has ulways escaped your attention." "Tell me something about the busi ness, doctor." "Iu the first place the greater share of glass eyes, so jailed, are not glass. The best quality of artificial eyes is manufac tured in America by a process which is kept absolutely secret. These are the lightest and best and will last longer. The Germans also make a fine artificial eye. The best eyes are made of stone. The German article is cheaper than the American. The velning in the foreign eye is not so well marked." "What makes the trade profitable?" "I'll tell you. One-eyed men aro likely to be rather scarce, and one would think that having once at «Acd up they would buy no more. But this is not the case. An artificial eye gets to be a nuis ance after it has been on duty for two or three mopths. Another one has to be purchased. This explains the reason for the lively trade in those articles. There'll always be a trade in them, and a good one, too." "How is it wo don't notice a glass eye in some men?" "Because they know enough to keep still about the matter and wear the best eyes obtairable. In this way, if you no tice anything at all peculiar about their optics you imagine they save a squint or are cross-eyed."— Duff (do {N. F.) I Veto*. Lobbyists la England. In England lobbyists are called parlia mentary lawyers, and they are uphold by some peoplo who really do not know much about them as a class infinitely su perior to our lobbyists. Maybe they are as a class better than some of our lob byists, but there are some of them a great deal worse than our lobbyists are as a class. They are supposed simply to argue before parliamentary committees, but what is to prevent them from argu ing with the individual members of the committees? In the House of Commons of Great Britain are some of the most disreputable scamps in England. They frequent the gambling houses and the low saloons, and they are just as pur chasable by an unscrupulous "parliamen tary lawyer" as any member of Congress is in this country by a lobbyist. If there were statistics in existence they would show, without a shadow of a doubt, a greater percentage of corrupti ble members of the House of Commons than of the House of Representatives. The British lobbyist is at any rate a luxury fully as expensive as ono of ours. A number of years ago it is said, that the enormous sum of $410,000 was paid the parliamentary "solicitors" for one rail way bill that never got into the House of Commons at all. There is a story of an other British "lawyer," "who being re tained to appear beforo a number of dif ferent committees at the same hour ol the same day, having received a num ber of guineas for each attendance, was found by a friend reposing under a tree in the park, in order, as he said, that he might do equal justice to all his clients." Perhaps the cunning of our lobbyists was an inheritance from the old country. If the truth were known it would be found that many lob byists prey upon the credulity of their clients and that they pretend to do a great deal of bribing, where in reality they do but little.— Wiishington Star. A Faculty Prairie Dogs Lack. Dr. Wilder has made an interesting note relative to prairie dogs. They seem to lack any sense of height or distance, owing, it is thought, to the nature of their ordi nary surroundings—a fiat, level plain, destitute of pitfalls of any kind. Sev eral dogs experimented with walked over the edges of tables, chairs and other pieces of furniture, and seemed to be greatly surprised when their adventure ended in a fall to the ground. One dog fell from a window-sill twenty feet above a granite pavement.— Neat York Journal. NO. 25. AN AIR CA3TLIS. - 1 bnOt a house In my youthful dreamy In a sunny and pleasant nook, Where I might listen the whole day long To the voice of a gurgling brook; A cottage with wide and airy rooms, And broad and shining floors— A house with the hidden charms of homei And the freedom of out-of-doors. Fair morning-glories climb and bloom At will by the eastern eaves, And on the doorstep and window sill The roses shake their leaves; And fair old-fashioned lilacs toss Their purple plumage high, While honeysuckles drop their sweet* On every passer-by. Down at the end of a pleasant path Is a group of evergreen trees- Pine and hemlock, and spruce and flr. With their spicy fragrances; And, sweetest picture of calm content That mortal ever saw. Under a low-boughed apple tree, Is a bee hive made of straw. I have pictured it all a hundred times— I shall do it a hundred more— But I never shall own the pleasant home With the roses over the door. Never a dream of mine came true; It is Fate's unbending law. I never shall see the apple tree, Nor the bee hive made of straw. But yet, in the airy realm of dreams Where all my riches be, I enter into the heritage Which is elso denied to me; I have but to close my eyes to And My Eden without a flaw— The home, the garden, the apple tree And the boe hive made of straw. —Elizabeth Akers Allen. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The pickpocket has his business at his fingers' ends.— Epoch. It takes two to make a bargain; but only one of them gets it.— Puck. A man never fully realizes the wealth of information he doesn't possess till his first child begins to ask questions.'—El mira Qazttte. "It don't pay to be kind to pets," said Johnny. "I filled the goldfish globe up with milk one day,and the fish all died. —Harper't Batar. •'Are you acquainted with this?"asked Banks, as he dupU., -d an uupaid note to its maker. "No," replied kyting, "I never met it."— Puck. Boggs—"Hicks seems to a well-in formed man." Foggs—"Yes, his wife is Secretary of the Homo Missionary So ciety. " —iV etc York Herald. The young man sadly counts his cash. And finds, to his great sorrow. His sleigh ride's left him scarce enough To hire a cab to-morrow. Washington Star. Namby—"She is very rich; do you suppose he had a tender feeling for her?" Hooks—"Of course, of course, a legal-tender feeling."— Next York Her- Frightened Female —"Leave the house, sir?" Unabashed Burglar—"Oh, I wasn't going to take it—only the sil verware and jewelry, mom. Pleasant evening, mon."— Da am Hie Breeze. Hard on the Nerves: He (discussing electrocution) —"I think decapitation is the worst death. I don't think I could meet it calmly." Sho—"No; you would probably lose your head."— Yale Record. How oft a vague presentment Of coming ill dopressee us, When if we'd but look back we'd find 'Tis breakfast that distresses us! —Puck. Harry—"l soe it stated, Miss Dora, that London ladies are always in terror of being sun-kissed. That terror does not extend to this country." Dora (shyly) —"Well, it depends on the son."—(Jhi cago Inter-Ocean. Patrolman—"They've just took a floater out of the river with a cross marked on his forehead with a knife." Ohief—"Start right out and arrest every man that isn't able to write his name."— Indiannpolit Journal. "Do you frequently pen this sort of thing?" asked the editor of the poetic contributor. "Oh, yes; very frequent ly." "Well,why don't you pen them so that they cannot get away and stray around like this?"— Light. At a Workingmen's Congress: Door keeper (to stranger)—" What are you? A possibilist, Guesdist, solutionist, Marxist, Eupist, Blanquist or collect ivist?" Stranger (taken üback) —"I I'm a machinist."— Chicago Newt. Since every dog will have bis day. Pray, Towser, take thine own; But be content with that, we pray. And leave the night alone. Washington Post. "I noticed that a tramp left the house as I came over the hill," said the farmer. •,Yes," replied his wife, "he left the house, but he managed to get away with about everything else in sight. Maybe he'll come back after the house later on." Wathington Wathington Pott. As one by one our idols fell And we of heroes wore bereft, Our grief, of course, we sought to quell By thinking there were others left; But now the tides of sorrow swell Unchecked, and deep's our melancholy. There never was a William Tell, And Vallombrosa's leafless whollv. —-Veto Yorle Prtsn. Mild Old Gentleman (goaded to mad ness by next room lodger)—" Good gracious 1 What are you pounding the furniture in that way for?" Idle Party— "Trying to kill time." Mild Old Gen tleman (after deep thought)—" Well, I suggest that you also try to deaden the sound."— American Grocer,