SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M. CHENE Y, Publisher. VOL. IX. t The population of India is believed to have increased in ten years from 225,• ,000,000 to 285,000,000. !y A servant in London was dismissed !for refusing to wear a cap. She brought Buit, and the courts sustained her on the ground that she had not refused to obey & lawful order. i The Franklin Club, a Nationalist con cern at Cleveland, Ohio, demands that the city shall assume control of all va cant lauds within its limits and cultivate cabbages and potatoes to be given to the poor. 1 United States Minister Phelps has hopes of inducing Baron Krupp to ex hibit some of his immeuse guns at the Chicago Exposition. Baron Krupp hes itates, for he says it will coat him $250,- 000 to make an exhibit creditable to his establishment. | A. young woman in Cincinnati de termined to die and made all of the es sential preparations, including a letter of instruction to a friend enclosing the money for her burial. She then changed her mind about the suicide and tried to recover the money. The friend was obdurate and insisted upon keeping it until the specific purpose for which it was given had been accomplished. The courts decided that the friend must return the money. The Canadian Pacific Railroad, an nounces the New York Telegram , has ordered fifty new locomotives and 1500 box cars. It will require ten trains daily for seven months, it is said, to move this season's crops in Manitoba and the Cana dian Northwest. With equally abund ant crops on the American side of t'no line the New World is prepared to keep the Old Word from starving, notwith standing the failure of the grain crops in India and Russia. t , The Russian press censorship is not ;only very rigorous in regard to letters posted in the couutry, but is extended to letters in transit. Au English corre spondent complains that letters in course of transit from Persia to Great Britain, and vice versa, are frequently tampered with while passing through Russian terri tory, being sometimes cut open, some times detained and sometimes destoyed. The British Government has been re quested to interfere. Over 30,000 head of neat cattle and 5000 horses and mules died of starva tion and pestilence last year on the lower Amazon, above the delta. The annual floods were higher than usual, and the small farmers owning the animals could not afford to hire tugboats and barges to transport them from the narrow ridges between the numerous channels of the river, on which the stock was so un expectedly imprisoned, to the upland ten miles or more back from the valiey proper. ; Three charitable ladies in Chicago have started a movement which prom ises, predicts the San Francisco Chronicle, to be of great help to working girls. It is a lunch in a fine cafe, all the materials being furnished at cost, with a reading room and parlor attaahed. Although it has been in existence only a few weeks, it is crowded at the noon hour and the membership is largo. Ten cents a month gives a girl all the privileges of the rooms. Such a place for working girls who live in cheap lodging or boarding houses is both home and social club, and the association will probably do more real good than many pretentious chari ties that spend a hundred-fold rnoio money. The absurdity of the German laws against the importation of American pork was shown in a recent issue of the Allgemeine Reichs Correspondent. The paper, after relating the vaiu attempts of the merchauts of Berlin to induce the Government to withdraw the prohibition against the American meat, declares that the law is constantly evaded. American meat is sent to Holland and Denmark packed in ice. In those countries the meat is smoked and forwarded to Ger many as "Dutch" or "Danish" meat. Recently more thau 20,000 packages of such American-Dutch meats were offered for sale in the markets of the German capital. The journal quoted above de clares that the Americans have offered to 6ell meats iu the Berlin markets at forty three to forty-fivi. pfennigs, or ten to eleven cents a pound. At present, adds the New York Tribune, German incut is much dearer than that. LIFE AND DEATH. "I reign beyond the bourne of fate and time; Through all the prosent I echo of the past; All things but God are in my leash; I climb. From star to star and quench them all at last; I blast the blooms of promise with a breath"— Vaunts Death. "I am the spirit in matter—the All-searcher; I'm driven like surf by one deep, moving force; Even in the grasp of Death my hope I nurture; Enswathing love is both my end and source^ Peace is my handmaid and my thrall is strife"— Chants Life. —Craven Lanrjstroth Betts, in Independent. HE GOT IN AT BRUGES. Mr. Portman Brown was a prosperous, elderly gentleman, of quiet ways and fixed habits. A small circle of familiar friends supplied all his social needs, ho concerned himself little with the rest of humanity, belonging to the class who can live side by side in the same street with a fellow-creature all their lives without so much as knowing them by sight. Among Mr. Brown's fixed habits was a yearly tour But he did not take it, like most peo ple, in the summer months, but in the early spring. Regularly, as the first week in March came round, he went abroad. A common-place tour, in beaten tracks, following the usual routine of travel in steamers and trains, and lodg ing at palatial hotels. No adventure had ever broken the uneventful record of these tours for over a quarter of ° century; no more exciting incident than an unusual overcharge at some hotel had come within Portman Brown's personal experience. In 18—, when March came round, he made the usual preparations for his yearly tour in his usual way. On the evening before his departure, nn old city friend, Mr. Goldsmith, dined with him at his house iu Harley street. When about to leave, Gold smith drew a small case from his pocket. "I brought this with me on the cbauce thnt you were going to Cannes. You will do me a great favor by giving it into my brother's hands there. It ct>u tains a brilliant of such rare value that I could intrust it to few. It will give you no trouble, being so small; there will be no risk, as no one will kuow you have such a thing with you." "Anything to oblige a friend," said Brown, lightly. "I would take the Koh-i-noor as a traveling companion under the same circumstances." The two men were stuudingat the study window, the blind of which happened to be up. While in the act of placing the case in his pocket, Brown's eyes wandered to the street. At the moment the light from a lamp in front of the door struck on the face of a man who was passing—or had been standing there? —a peculiar dark face, with straight black whiskers. The man moved on. Brown drew back hastily. "None of your people knew that you were giving me this commission 1" he inquired of Goldsmith. "Not a soul, my dear fellow; the matter is entirely between you and me. My head clerk alone knows of the exist ence of the brilliant." "What is he like?" "Like you, like me. Respectability itself! What are you thinking of?" "Has he white whiskers?" "Grey as a badger's—white even! But, bless my soul, what is the matter? What do you mean? Have you seen aDy one?" "A man was standing there by the lamp post as you handed me the jewel case, lie was apparently looking at us, and might have heard '.hat we said." "Then he must be in the street still," said Goldsmith, throwing up the win dow and putting his head out; Brown did the same. The night was bright. Not a soul was to be seen anywhere— the street was quite deserted. "A neighbor or a neighbor's butler. He has gone into some house." Gold smith withdrew from the window. "In any case, no one could have overheard, nor, I should think, have seen us. As for my clerk, Travers, I boast myself an honest man, but I don't hesitate to ac knowledge that he is the honester of the two. Your imagination is playing you tricks. I didn't know you were givec that way. Perhaps you would rather not take charge of the brilliant?" But Brown would not hear of this. Already shamefaced over his hasty and somewhat ridiculous suspicions, he dis missed them abruptly. "Not for worlds would I give up the charge," he said. "I'm net such a fool us I seem. The man probably is one of the new neighbors; there are a good many newcomers in the street." Portman Brown set out next morning for Lucerne via Brussels and the Rhine, staying a few days at Ostend on the way. He took his place in the undeniable com fort of a first class carriage iu the express to Brussels with a mind as frco from care and unensiness as an elderly gentle man ever possessed. A life of plain, un diluted prose hud, up to this, kept his imaginative fauulties in complete abey ance; lunatics, hypnotists, murderers, etc., as possible fellow-travelers, had never entered his mind. As a rule, in deed, his fellow travelers no moie excited LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891. his Interest or notice than his neat neighbors at home. On this occasion he was just conscious, in leaving the station at Ostcnd, that an elderly couple were the other occupants of the carriage; he merely gave a passing glance from his newspaper at the man, a stranger who got in at Bruges and sat down on the opposite seat. Nearly an hour had passed beforo Brown laid down his newspaper, and when he did he was horrified to see in tho traveler who got in at Bruges the dark-faced mau who had excited his suspicions when he started from London. At Brussels Brown dodged the dark faced man. Never within the whole course of his experience in foreign ports had Brown passed a more wretched night; the morning found his nerves in a sad state. lie, who had never before known himself the possessor of nerves! The fidgety man who made fussy arrange ments about starting by the first train for Lucerne, and whose eyes hart a way of casting furtive—not to say apprehen sive—glances around, was strangely un like the self-satisfied, phlegmatic Briton who had arrived the evening before at the Three Kings. The success of his manoeuvre in leav ing Brussels made him repeat it, and, be sides, he was in a perfect fever to get to the end of his journey, and rid himself of the charge of the diamond. His spirits rose considerably as the hour of the train's departure drew near without any appearance of the "shadower" iu the station. Brown remained on tho platform until the last moment, then, with a fervent sigh of relief, he entered the railway carriage. Tho train wa9 just moving off when the door was sud denly opened, a breathless porter dashed in a handbag and parcel of rugs, fol lowed by u still more breathless traveler. The door was shut, the engine shrieked the last departing signal, the train moved from Bale station. In one cor ner sat Brown; in another—the farthest on the opposite side—sat the man with the black whiskers 1 The position in which Brown now found himself might well have appalled the bravest. lie was alone in a railway carriage, with a scoundrel who had fol lowed him from London. Brown had utterly abandoned surmise since last night and accepted each idea as an abso lute certainty. The object in this scoun drel's view was the capture of the valua ble diamond, which was at that very moment on Brown's person. A long journey lay before them, and Brown was unarmed. At this review of the situa tion his heart sank; he drew back in stinctively into the corner. His eyes suddenly met those of the other man; a deep flush suffused his face, which seemed to find reflection in the other's. Brown hastily took up Baedeker and affected to read; the man opposite simul taneously did the same. A transparent unreality on both sides. Brown's fur tive glances invariably caught—quickly withdrawn though they were—those of the other man levelled on him. While this went on,the slighest change of posi tion, the least movement in tho oppo site corner, made Brown start. Might it not herald the approach of danger? A spring, a rush, the attack 1 The tension was terrible; to remain inactive almost impossible. Brown had au inspiration, as a man in extremity sometimes has. Though he wus not armed, he would pretend to be. That might do something; produce hesitation, or delay, at least. Accordingly, he de liberately assumed a bold, even threaten ing demeanor. Casting a truculent glance across the carriage, he plunged his hand into his pocket, affecting to grasp an imaginary revolver. To his intense delight the ruse took immediate effect. The man opposite gave an un mistakable start, and shrank back into his corner. So far, so good. But how to keep up the pretence? What to ' • next? At this crisis the wh\stL : engine suddenly distracted £ 5? Good heavens! lie had forgotten the long tunnel! They were coming to it now! His eyes, with a quick, involun tary movement, sought the lamp. It was not lighted 1 Entrapped! Doomed! The wildest thoughts rushed confusedly to his brain. With a shriek the train plunged noisily into the tunnel, into darkness. The din and rattle outside contrasted sharply with the silence within the carriage. Crouched in his corner, Brown, his hear ing sharpened to agonizing acuteness, listened for a stir, a rustle, the sound of humau breathing drawing nearer to him. Every moment fancy detected a step, a stealthy, cat like movement. His imagi nation. after the neglect of a lifetime, was now taking ample revenge. Un controlled and uncontrollable were its wild flights. Every railway murder of which he hnd ever heard flashed upon him with all the ghastly details. The spring upon the victim, the struggle, the death-stroke, the body thrown out on the rails. How idly he had read of these things happening to other men! But now to realize himself as the victim; his, the body! Absolute pauic seized upon him; hardly knowing what he was do ing, he tried softly to open the door. It was locked, however. His movements must have been heard, there was a stir nt the other end of the carriage. The fatal moment had come, the assassin was advaucing to the attack. In the extrem ity of his terror Brown sank swiftly on the floor and crawled under the seat. For what length of time he crouched there, half stifled, scarcely daring to breathe, Brown knew not. Agony can i not measure time. A sudden and ex- traordinary rush of air made his heart first stand still, and then sent tho blood coursing wildly through his veins. The far door was swinging open! Something had happened! And what? His straining ears detected no sound but the outside rattle and roar of the train through the tunnel; within all was silence. He remained listening in in tense excitement and amazement until the hope which hnd hardly dared to stir in his breast grew into vigorous life. He was alone in the carriage? He was saved I Deliverance had come miracul ously—why and how he knew not! Tho tunnel was coming to an end; light began to stream into the carriage. Cautiously and slowly Brown peeped from under the seat. He was quite alone. The man had disappeared. The fact of his escape was, at the time, enough for Brown. Afterward, in thinking over the adventure, he sur mised that the man, deceived by his (Brown's) attempt to turn the handle of the door, had followed in supposed pur suit. At the station, just outside the tunnel, Brown—alighting almost before the train had stopped—changed his placo for one in a crowded second-class com partment. A few hours later the brilliant was safely transferred from his charge into that of Goldsmith's brother at Lucerne. The rest of his tour was uneventful; he neither heard of nor saw his perse cutor again. » * * • * » Brown's adventure mado quite a sen sation on his return to London. He was tho hero of the hour in his circle. Whether or not he related the circum stances exactly, as here set forth, need not be mentioned. Ilis friend Jones, among others, gave a dinner party in his honor. Brown, with his usual punctual, ity, was the first of the guests to arrive. "By tho way," Jones said chaffingly to him, as the two stood chatting to gether on the hearth-rug, "you must look to your laurels to-night, Brown. I)o you kuow Leroy, your neighbor in Harley street? "Never saw the man in my life. What's the joke?" "A rival adventure! In Switzerland, too, and culminating in a tunnel—not sure that it wasn't the Olten one also!" "Dear me! What an extraordinary coincidence!" "Iu his case it was a luuati'', not a robber. He was shadowed at hotels and trains. You must hear the story from his own lips; he's dining here to night. The climax is terrific. Shut into a railway carriage alone with a lunatic, aforesaid lunatic armed with a revolver. A long tunnel, an extinguished lamp, tl lunatic crawling in the darkness to the attack, an escape by the skin of the teeth. Leroy has sufficient presence of mind to open the door and pretend to get out, in reality crawling under the seat instead. The ruse saved his life. He supposes that lie fainted in the sti fling air, for, when he was next con scious, the train had left Olten and ho was alone in the carriage, from which all traces of the lunatic had disappeared." Jones was so engrossed in telling the story, he did not remark its curious and startling effect on Brown. Just then the door was thrown open, and the footman announced "Mr. Le roy." Jones, springing forward with effusion to greet the new comer, led him gush ingly up to Brown. "You two must know each other," he said. And they did. The recognition was instantaneous on both sides. With a gasp, Brown stared in speechless wonder on the man with the black whiskers, while Leroy stared back aghast on en countering the gaze of tho lunatic!— London I'ruth. Docks as Fire Extinguishers. Once at a large house in the country the chimney took fire. The flames spread to the woodwork in different parts of the house, and although the fire was extinguished at each place it caught, it still burned in the chimney, and from timo to time spread iu some other direc tion. The fire grew hotter and hotter, and threatened to burst the chimney. It was hard to reach, and there seemed no way of putting it out. The gentleman who owned the house was fend of fowls, and possessed some valuable ones. A bay who stood by looking at tho fire saw the danger, a bright idea struck him. He ran to the duck pen and startled the sleeping ducks by seizing by their legs as many of the largest as he could carry. The ducks squawked vigorous protests, but were hurried off. A ladder was called for, uud before any one realized what he was going to do, tho young fellow mounted to the roof, and made his way to the chimney. Flames and smoke were pouring out, but the boy went as near as he dared, and by a dexterous motion tossed a duck down the narrow shaft. It fluttering and squawking. The flames subsided a little, and the smoke grew denser. The boy threw down another duck, and after a minute another. Tho cloud of soot and dust carried down by the flapping wiugs of the ducks smoth ered and checked the fire with such good effect that tho advantage gained was easily followed up, and the fire soon put out without further damage.— Harper'* Younq People. It takes an unusually good swimmer n« wa-dajyu to float a loan.— Boston Herald. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A wood-carving machine is success ful. Terrorite is more powerful than dyn amite. A pound of phosphorus is sufficient to pit 1,000,000 matches. A Swedish cavalry officer has invented a horseshce on which the calks and clips are changeable. 1 A street railroad to be operated by motors run by fuel oil will soon be in operation near Prague. The Philadelphia mint has installed an Eddy electric motor of twenty-fire horse-power, which is run by wires from the street. It is estimated that twenty thousand horse-power will be required for the electric lighting plant of the Columbian Exposition. Observation step-ladders are to be used in the Belgian artillery, the ob ject being to enable a commander to better direct the fire of his gunners. The Michigan Central Railroad has in use a new machine that does the work of 300 men in scraping the dirt dumped alongside of the track to the edges of the fill. A spring has been discovered in Greenville, N. 11., which contains ail almost phenomenal amount of lithium, even more, it is said, than the famous spring at Londonderry. Watch crystals are mado by blowing a sphere of glass about one yard in diam eter; after which the disks are cut from it by means of a pair of compasses having a diamond at the extremity of one leg. A device has been invented by which an engine may be stopped on any floor of a building by simply pressing a button, thus making an electrical connection with the governor of the en gine. A toilet brush is made of two halves which are hinged and are detachable, one half being the brush and the other half the mirror, while in the space be tween is a comb, a tooth brush and a button-hook. The Munich Poeller Physical and Op tical Institute have constructed for the Chicago Exhibition an enormous micro scope, manipulated by tho aid of elec tricity. , It has a magnifying power of 11,000 linear perspective uud k,i*s cost $8750. It is stated that Dr. Lehner, of Augs burg, Germany, has solved the problem of manufacturing artificial silk. The fabric is said to be superior in lustre to natural silk, and caunot be distinguished from it; and that a limited company is to be constituted to work the invention. If this is true, and is found to be thoroughly practicable after a fair trial, it will revolutionize the whole industry of producing aud manufacturing ruw silk. Mr. 11. Darwin, of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, has de vised a "cup micrometer" for measuring the rate of growth of a plant. A thread is attached to the upper end of the plant and passes over a pulley. To its lower end is fastened a weight, which descends as the plant increases in height. The amount of its descent is a measure of the vertical growth of tho plant, and it is obtained very exactly by means of the micrometer in question. Ia a paper read to the French Academy of Sciences, M. Colin discusses the action of cold on animals. The rabbit endures considerable cold. Adults have livec' iu ordinary hutches suspended from the branch of u tree or standing on a heap of snow, and their temperature has only been lowered about one degree in five or six days, when the outside temperature varied from ten to fifteen degrees C. Other individuals have lived in perfect health for two months in cubical hutches, completely open on one side, when the temperature rauged from ten degrees to twenty-five degrees. Sheep and pigs are also able to live through severe weather, but the dog and horse are killed by it. Checking: Coughing and Sneezing. Dr. Browu-Sequard, in one of his lec tures, dwells with great emphasis on the importance of general knowledge in the matter of checking coughing and sneez ing. He states that coughing can be stopped by pressing on tho nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of tho nose, and sneezing may be stopped in the same way. Pressing in the neighbor hood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccoughing, but much less so than for sneezing or coughing. Pressing very hard on the roof of the mouth is also a means of arresting a cough, and the will itself is often found to be a wonderful preventive. Dr. Brown-Sequard points out that in addition to the many ordi nary reasons why people should know these simple facts, there are conditions uuder which this knowledge may prove of the greatest value. In bronchitis and pneumonia, or any acute affection of the lungs, hacking or coughing may lead to serious results, and the ability to readily mitigate or arrest them is of the highest importance.— Chicago Neu>». "Don't you think bye-bye is rather a silly soit of expression for sedate folks like us to use when we part?" she asked as she stood in the door of his office pre paratory to her shopping tour. "It de pends, my dear," her husband replied, "on how you spell it, I mean 'b-u-y, b-u-y."' — Washington Pott. NO. 51. WE AND THE WORLD, The world is the name as it usod to be, Butthere have come changes to you and to me, There is just as much right and as little of wrong. There is just as much summer and sunshine and song. But we—oh, we look throngh our tears and our care, And we fancy the fields are all cheerless and bare. And we say of the picture, "How sadly deranged!" But it isn't at all, it is we who have changed. The birds sing as sweetly, and brooks as they flow Are babbling the songs of the glad long ag°. The butterflies dance in the meadow to-day. And the children are laughing about in the hay. Our ears havo grown dull and bedimmed is the eye, And we miss all the beauty of earth and of sky. We are shut in ourselves; wero we not wo could see That the world is the same as it used to bo. —Nixon Waterman, in Chicago Herald. IIUMOB OF THE DAY. The love of show is u sort of pomp adore. A commanding presence-The subpoena. —Puck. A day-scholar—The pupil of the eye. —Puck. Old age tells on one aud so does youth. —Dallas News. Cupid is cx-officio a member of every archery club.— Washington, Star. The knife-grinder ought not to be out of work in dull times.— Picayune. Strange as it seems,a collector's work is dun While it is doing and when just begun. —Judge. A cobbler would not be laying a heavy ■wager if he staked his awl.— Detroit Free Press. There should be naught but admiration for an athlete's big feat.— Detroit Fret Press. A good man must stand on his dignity when he has nothing else to stand on.— Picayune. Women may not be deep thinkers, but they are generally clothes observers.— Texas Siftings. Making both ends meet—when the head of the family foots the bills.— ] Washington Star. After people take a spin it is quite \ natural for them to leel like a top.— Pittsburg Dispatch. If ignorance is bliss, the wonder is why so many people complaiu of being 1 miserable.— Atchison Olohe. "This is very well put," remarked the j editor as he dropped the poem into the I waste basket.— Washington. Star. I Georgia has a woman train dispatcher, i Every small boy knows of a woman j switcntender.— Washiiu/ton Star. The reason why a ily is generally mon j arch absolute of a bald head is because ! there is no heir apparent.— Philadelphia Times. "Would you permit me to read you j my last poem, my dear young lady?" "If I it is your last really, certainly."—Flit j gende Blaettcr. "In getting through a failure success ! fully," says old Mr. Cumrox, "a good j deal depends on a man's lie-abilities."— j Washington Star. The world owes us a living, yet no J man can collect the debt unless he pulls | oil his coat and takes it from the world's | hide. Texas Siftings. "What do you sell a pound of tobacco for?" "Cash," the laconic answer. "How much for a pound?" "Sixteen ounces. "--Philadelphia Times. The only objection to the self-made man is that in so many cases he has failed to put himself together so as to work noiselessly.— Washington, I'ost. It is about as easy for a beginner to keep his seat astride a bicycle as it is for a venturesome youth to ride the trick donkey at a circus.— Detroit Free Press. How doth the little buzzy bea Improve each shining minute? Go search the little hat and see If he's not buzzing in it. —Detroit Free P>'cs>. At 6A. M. Tommy (yawning)—"A river must have a good time." Dick— "Why?" Tommy—"Because it doesn't have to get out of its bed."— Lowell Uiti ten. Brown —"I say, doctor, what will happen to a man if he drinks about four quarts of water in the moruing?" Doc tor—"Can't say, certainly. But I can say what has happened to hiai."—Chi cago Neies. "If I were to commit suicide," said Gus de Jay to his father's physician, "What kind of a verdict would the eor woner bwing in?" "Justifiable homi cide," was the emphatic reply.— Wash, ington Kreninq Star. Merchant—"l missed you from the store yesterday afternoon." Clerk— "Yes, I was down to the Y. M. C. A. rooms leading a prayer-meeting." Mer. chant—"ls that so. How was the um piring?"—Dinghamton Lewler. Papa—"See the spider, my boy, spin ning his web. Is it not wonderful? Do you reflect that, try as he may, no man could spin that web?" Johnny—"What of it? See me spin this lop. Do you reflect that, try as he may, no spider could spin thin top?"— New York Sun.
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