SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Over thirteen humhed trade journals •re now, published in thfl United States. A commercial organ believes that Maine is destined to become the centre of the paper and pulp industry. Statistics goto show that the male population of the civilized world is fall ing farther- and farther behiud tho fe male. France is now trying to induce Brazil to enter into a reciprocity treaty similar to that recently entered into with tho United States. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce is informed that the engineering world ■will shortly be startled by the appearance of a new engine which will revolutionize motive power. A few days ago, soliloquizes the Bos ton Transcript, American boodlers were all headed for Canada. Now Canadian boodlers ere coming across the border. Boodliug is a bad rule that works both ways. A weighing machine has been invented which weighs cars at the rate ot" six per minute, the cars being moved along the track. A device automatically records the weights on a piece of tape similar to that used on the ticker machine. While Hats are becoming increasingly popular in Frauce among people of mod erate means, people in a corresponding position in Germany aro as anxious to live in houses of their own, and a com pany has just been formed in Berliu to enable them to do so. The native population of Alaska has decreased 8000, or over twenty per cent., in ten years. The cause, laments the St. Louis Republic, was the usual one—edu cation by association with whi>c people and the attempt to assimilate the highly developed vices of civilization. Says the San Francisco Chronicle. Over one hundred of tho Mcscalero Apaches in New Mexico have asked that lands be set apart for them in severalty. Quite recoutly an extensive allotment of this sort was made in the Southern part of this State. This is the correct solu tion of the Indian problem. Give them the same privileges as the white man, aud no more, and let them sink or swim. Two new Atlantic liners, to be COO feet long aud faster than anything afloat are guaranteed by the builders to be ready for sea early in the spring of 1593. They will bo almost as long as the Great Eastern, though not nearly so wide. They will have quite as much engine power as that unfortunate steamship had, but it will be so compact and econo mized that it will not occupy one-third as much space nor be one-quarter the weight of the old paddle aud screw engines. It is difficult to estimate, confesses the New York News, the amouut of money ; that has been left in Europe this year by j American tourists. Taking all the ex- | penses into consideration, however, the passages out and home and the average sum disbursed on the other side, the aggregate cannot be far from 675,000,- 000. All of this has to be paid out of the products of lal>or in this couu try,and if it is not returned in the shape of the gold paid for our wheat, petrole um and other articles, it will represent tho cost paid by this country for the pleasure of its citizens abroad. In no other department of the World's Columbian Exposition, perhaps, will be seen a greater diversity of exhibits than in that of mines and mining. Not only will there be a dazzling array of dia monds, opals, emeralds and other gems, and of the precious metals, but a most ex tensive collection of iron, copper, lead, other ores, and of their product; of coal, granite, marble, sandstone and other building stouc; of soils, salt, petroleum, and, indeed, of almost everything, use ful or beautiful, belonging to the mineral kingdom. How extensive the mineral exhibit from other countries will be, it is yet too early to know, but the indica tions are that it will surpass any that has heretofore been made. However that may be, there is no doubt that the mineral resources and products, not only of this country as a whole, but of each State and section, will be of the most complote ng-sought goal at last. , "O the i whose reverent feet have found The : taster's footprints in thy way, And walked thereon as holy ground, A boon of thee I pray. "My lack would borrow thy excess, My feeble faith the strength of thlno; 1 need thy soul's white saintliness To hide the stains of mine. . "The grace and favor else denied 1 May well be granted for thy sake." So, tempted, doubting, sorely tried, A younger pilgrim spake. "Thy prayer, my son, transcends my gift; Nopowor is mine," the sage replied, "The burden of a soul to lift. Or stain of sin to hide. « "Howtfcr the outward life may seem, For pardoning grace we all must pray; No man his brother can redeem Or a soul's ransom pay. "Not always age is growth of good; Its years have losses with their gain; Against some evil youth withstood Its hands may strive in vain. "With deoper voice than any speech Of mortal lips from man toman, What earth's unwisdom may not teach The Spirit only can. "Make thou that holy Guide thine owu, And, following where it leads the way, The known shall lunso <•< the unknown As twilight intOi "The best of earth shall still remain, And Heaven's eternal years shall provo That life and death, and joy and pain Are ministers of Love." —John Q. Whittier, in the Independent. AUNT MEHETABLE'S VISIT. BY AMY JtANDOLPU. "It's all very well for tbem to invite me togo and visit them down in York State," said old Miss Mehetable Bevis; "but, of course, they know that I won't come." "Of course!"' snarled Mr. Bevis, who did not believe in anybody but himself, "Why should they want you, Mehetty? You ain't very young, nor yet you ain't very attractive." "In that case," said Mebetable, not without a lingering vestige of spirit, "I'm surprised, Brother Reuben, that you and Betsy tolerate me here." "Wa'l," said Parmer Bevis, slowly taking tho pipe out of his mouth, as if this were a new and unconsidered ques tion, "you're my sister, Mehetty, and you've a natural claim on me. Of course I ain't goin' to see none of my kith and kin turned on the poor-house. And I don't deny, mind, Mehetty," he made haste to add, as he saw the indignant color mounting to her cheeks, "but that you earn your victuals. You're a smart worker, Mehetty, and a'.ways was. And Betsy is glad, with her big family, to have some one to help around." "I should thiuk so," said Mehetable. "Why, lieuben, you could not hire any body to come here and do tho work I accomplish for four dollars a week, let alone the board and lodging!" "What's all this got to do with tho question ? What I meant to say was that Brother Ben's fashinable city daughter and her husband can't care about plain folks like us." "I am sure they enjoyed their visit here," observed Mehetable, knitting away as if her needles were electric wires. "And nothing could be more cordial than the invitation they gave me to return it." "City folks nro always smooth spoken," said Mrs. Bevis, a lantern juwed, faded-eyed, blue-nosed woman, with her face eternally tied up in a yellow silk pocket-handkerchief, and a most aggravating way of singing her sen tences through her nose. "I'm glad I charged 'em a good high price for granny's old spinning-wheel, since you wouldu't let me ask no board-money." "I should think not," said Miss Mehetable. "Reuben's own brother's daughter! Board, indeed." "Of course, Mehetable will do as she pleases about visitin' 'em," said Mis. lieuben Bevis, working diligently away at her "Fool's Chase" quilt pattern. "But it was very plain that they only asked her because they thought it was a duty. And if Mehetable goes ofl and leave/, us just now with tho quilting and the peach-butter and the apple butter all at onee—" '•Well, what then?" said Mehetable, knitting away faster than ever. Mrs. Bevis tossed her head. "In that case," said she, "you needn't be surprised if we hire some one elso in your place. And, of course, you won't expect to come back to free board and lodging here." Miss Mehetable laid down her work. "Before this morning." said she, crisply, "I hadn't made up my miud. Now, I have. I shall goto Mrs. Walter Cherryfield's. If matters have come to such a pass that I can't go and come when I choose, but must drudge on day by day like a slave, why, then, it's time I knew it." "You and Betsy never could agree," groaned Reuben Bevis, with a lugubrious countenance. "It ain't my fault," snapped Mrs. Reu ben. "There ain't no saint in the calen dar could stand what I've stood with Mehetty's temper." "Guess you'd better patch up a peace," LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891. urged Mrs. Bevis. "Hired help is dread ful scarce, Betsy—and, as for you, Me hetty, 'taint long one would put up with your old-maidy ways as Betsy does." But the "little rift within the lute" once split apart, was past mortal power to mend. Betsy took herself and her neuralgia sulking out of the room. Me hetable quietly but steadfastly adhered tpher resolution—and Mr. Reuben Bevis at last lost his temper. "Wa'l, Mehetty," said ho, "go your own way. But you're as contrary a piece as ever I sat eves on, and I don't know how I and Betsy ever got along with you all these years. P'r'aps it's best we should pait now—but don't you come back to me for food and sheltor— that's all!" "I shan't nsk you for even that much, Reuben," said his sister, quietly rising and putting up her work. "But we're brother and sister after all, and after ten years of steady work for you and yours, I'd a little rather have parted in good will and amity." "That's bosh!" said Bevis, gruffly. "You've had your own way, and I hope you'll find it pays best in the long run." Mehetty went slowly to her room, packed her trunk and dressed herself in an antique debeige dress, cut in the fashion of full twenty years ago, with a shirred poke bonnet, thick calf-skin boots and pale-blue cotton gloves, while uuder her arm she carried a green gin gham umbrella, thriftily patched with material of a darker emerald. "I'll settle the question at once," she murmured to herself, "whether or not they are ashamed of their old Aunt Me hetable, from Deer-Horns, up in Maine!" And then, wishing Reuben and Betsy a pleasant good bye, which neither of them saw tit to notice by word or look, she went straight to the stage-office. Lawyer Darkley rushed out of his office as she stepped briskly by in her squeaking new boots which, as tho errand-boy re marked, sotto voce, "was every bit as good as a band of music," and smilingly accosted her: "Miss—ahem!— Miss Bevis, aro you leaving town without any moro definite instructions as to—" "Hush!" said Mehetable, übruptly. "Not a word! Yes. I will write in a day or two. Remember, Mr. Darkley, everything is confidential between us." The lawyer nodded, and retired once more into his little den, and Miss Bevis hurried onto catch the afternoon stage. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cherryflcld were having a little evening reception that bleak November night. Miss Mehetabif Bevis had not been ignorant of this fact; in truth, Mrs. Walter had mentioned it incidentally in her last letter to Deer- Horns; and she marched up the steps looking curiously at the brilliautly lighted windows. "And now we shall decide this mat ter," she said to herself, "as to whether my city cousins are glad to see me." Yes, Mrs. Cherryfield was at home. The waiter looked dubiously at the strange guest, so unlike the fancy figures muffled in soft white garments that made them seem like floating clouds, that cainc and went from satin-liued carriages close to tho curbstone. He would call her, he said, if the lady would step into a side room and wait. It was Mrs. Cherry fie'd birth-night, and— "No," said Mehetable, "I will go in to her. Stand aside, my good man, if you please!" Mrs. Cherryfield's face flushed up with unmistakable pleasure at this unexpected apparition, as she hurried to meet tho visitor from Deer-Horns. "Aunt Mehetty," she cried. "Oh, this is a surprise, indeed! lam so glad to see you. Here's Walter, aud here arc my girls! And now you must let me in troduce you to my friends. This is Mr. Warrenton, tho artist; you know I told you about him last summer—and Miss Briginage, who wrote the volume of poems you liked so much—and this is Miss Stallenkamp and Miss De Vauren — but what a thoughloss cieatiue I am! Let me take you up to ray room to re move these heavy wraps!" 1 'No," cried cheery Walter Checryficld. "Up to your room, indeed! Wh(»t for, Alice? Aunt Mehetable shall tako off her things here, and then wo won't lose u bit of the fun. It's like a whiff of the fresh mountain breeze to see Aunt Mehet ty's fuce again—and I'll lead off the Vir ginia reel with her myself!" While the girls clustered around her, to introduce their friends, anxious to make her wholly and entirely at home, so cordial aud sunny, that Miss Meheta ble scarcely knew whether to laugh or cry. "Reuben said your invitation was a mere matter of form," said she in a choked voice. "That you didn't want to see me! But I guess Reuben ain't such a good judge of character as ho thinks himself." And then the umbrella, poke-bonnet and clogs having been removed by the trim littlo maid servant with the blue ribbons in her hair, Aunt Mehetty was whirled down the center by Walter Cber rytield in genuine country style. Aunt Mchetable stayed a month with the Uherryfields. She drove in" Central Park, looked with awe-struck eyes at the smoke-crowned serpents of tho elevated road gliding above her head, and wan dered through the aisles of the Metropol itan Museum. She went to see the obelisk, was taken over Brooklyn Bridge and when ehn went home to Deer- Horns and tried to think of thein all,she felt as if her brains had been chopned up into very line hash. "But if I'd be the President's lady herself," Miss Bevis always added, "the ! Cherry field's couldn't have made a greater fuss over met" She had not been at the village hotel more than two days before her brother Reuben drove over In his funny litfiie one-horse buckboard. "Morniti'," said Reuben, suecintly "Heard yc had a nice time at Alice's." "I never enjoyed myself so much in all my life," Miss Mehetable answered, with spirit, "nor never was treated better!" "Iluinph!" said Reuben. "Wa'l, Betsy don't seem to get along with the hired help we've employed; and so, as we concluded you'd be glad to get homo agaiu, I've fetched the buckboard for you." "Much obliged," said Mies Mehetable; "but this is home." Reuben stared around the room. "Why," said he, with lobster eyes of amazement, "this 'ere must cost you a dollar a day, at the very least I" "About that," said Miss Mehetable, serenely. "Hut I calculate, Brother Reuben, that I can afford it. I didn't tell you, did I, about those Leadville bonds I took just to accommodate Lean der Jarvis's widow, before she went West. I held my tongue about 'em, for I was afraid I had done a foolish thing, but they've quadrupled in value, and Lawyor Darkley has just sold 'em out aud invested thirty thousand dollars for me in government stock. So I can live pretty much as I please." Reuben involuntarily took off his slouch hit—a sort of tribute to the heii ess of all this wealth. "Well, I do declare tor *t !'* said he, "Some folks have all the luck. Why, Miriam Jarvis wanted to sell me them bonds at par, and I told her I'd have nothing to do with such wild-cat stuff, not at no price." "And," added Mi*s Mehetable, with a secret satisfaction in the too perceptible changes of her brother's flint-like face, "I've made my will, and I've left it to my niece Alice and her girls. I like to think that honest and friendly folks will enjoy it when I am gone." Reuben Bevis turned silently und went out. Aud when lie related the story to his wife, he added, with true matrimonial courtesy: "It's all your fault, Botsy. You must up swid quarrel with her when there wasn't no occasion. Women if such blamed fools 1" "Everything is always my fault," an swered the despondent Betsy, bursting into tears. "There never was a woman so tried as I be I"— Neu> York Letljcr. First American Water Works. John Christopher Christensen, a Dan ish Moravian, built the lirst water works in the United States in 1762 at Bethle hem, Penn. Tho machinery is thus de scribed in an early print. It consisted of three single-acting force-pumps, hav ing a calibre of four inches and an eigliteeu-inch stroke, which were worked by a triple crank and geared to an un dershot water wheel having a diameter of eighteen feet, and two feet clear in the buckets. Tho total head of water was two feet. On the shaft of the wheel was a wallower of thirty-three rounds and gearing into a spur-wheel of lifty two cogs, attached to the crank. The three piston rods were attached each to a frame or cross-head working in grooves to give them a parallel motion with the pump. This cross-head was of wood, as were also all tho parts contain ing the grooves as guides. A lirst these works were capable of raising tho water to a perpendicular height of seventy feet, but afterward were so arranged that the power was in creased to 114 feet. As late as 1832 tho primitive affair continued in full operation. Gum wood was used in the construction of the first rising maiu, because it was strong enough to resist the great pressure at that point, but the remainder was co n posed of pitch pine. Thirty-six years after this main was laid lead pipes were substituted, aud in 1813 iron ones were introduced and served the purpose until the works were replaced by those of moro modern pattern.— Detroit Fret Pres*. Primitive Pottery. Tho primitive potters kneaded clay by hand and baked the articles made from it in the sun, but they were very porous and fragile. Then it ocuurrcd to the potters to subject them to the action ol the fire and thus increase their consist ency and resistance, but the wares still remained porous, which led to the dis covery of making them impermeable by covering them with a glaze. The early glaee was, however, hardly moro than u varnish, and the white enamel glaze ol the present day has been attained by a long series of experiments too intricate to detail in this column. Pottery which is coated with this en amel is by the French called faience. In Italy it is known as majolica, because tho methods employed by the Italians were imported from an island of thai namo.— Philadelphia Record. Asiatic Pheasants in Oregon. It is said that the Asiatic pheasants that were imported aud set free in the forests of Oregon some years ago, have fully justified tho hopes of their impor ters by the rapidity with which they have multiplied where they have not been mo lested by hunters. These birds are of very gorgeous plumage, and are excellent game fowls, being stroug and hardy, of lari>e 3ize and very good eating. Strin gent laws have been passed to protect them from pot hunters.— 'Picayune. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Coffee acto as a germicide. Eleotric pleasure-boats are successful. An automatic electrical pump has ap peared. A process for photographing in colors has been patented in London. It is estimated that the coal strata un derlying Colorado exceeds 30,000 square miles. To make cloth that is used in lining shoes waterproof, use oiled silk or hoat the linings in melted paraffin. A station cf the maritime zoology of the Johns Hopkins University has just been opened at Port Antonio in Jamaica. A society has been formed at Berlin for (he purpose of co-operating in as tronomical and meteorological re searches. A mining corporation in the copper region of upper Michigan will sink the deepest shaft in the world—over 4000 feet, at least. Minute electric lights are successfully used in dentistry, making the very small cavities visible when they would other wise escape notice. By a recent appliance to kitchen ranges the refuge from the kitchen is thoroughly dried, converted into char coal and used as fuel. Although diamonds will stand a very high temperature when held in vacuum, the admission of air causes them to burn almost as readily as coal. A recent invention used in factories enables any person in any part of tho factory to stop the main engine by simply pushing an electric button. Ellison is now at work on an electric motor to replace tho ordinary locomotive. It is designed to take up electricity from a central rail and to develop at least one thousand horse power. The French have planted works at Havre, France, for utilizing the ebb and flow of the tide to work turbine wheels to generate power for the dynamos to supply Paris with light. Small cups are now being used with great success by oculists for the cure of long-sightedness and kindred diseases of the eye. The cupping restores the cir culation and strengthens the tissues. A new invention by which it is said that the stamps ou 40,000 letters can be canceled in an hour is on trial in tho New York Postoflice. It is operated on tho rotary system, aud is run by electricity. A new treatment for yellow fever has cured every case of this disease in San tiago de Cuba. The principal part of tho new process consists in placing the patient in whal is termed a "polar" room. In establishing the longitude of Mc- Gill College in Montreal, Canada, by means of the telegraph.it was found that it took the electric current 1.05 seconds to cross the ocean and return, a distance of 8000 miles. At the naval exposition in LondoD, there is a colossal electric lamp, con structed by the ndmirality. It gives a light equal to that of 5,000,000 candles, and is placed iu a model light-house, fifty-six meters above the grouud. Notwithstanding the assertion that there is no animal life in Death Yalloy, the Government surveying party has found 200 varieties of mammals and six ty varieties of reptiles, specimens of which have been forwarded to Washing ton. There arc said to be no moles in Ire land. Mr. C. I. Trusted, of the British Naturalists' Society, has never seen a mole-hill in that country, aud an ac quaintance of his at Belfast,a naturalist, says,"lt is a fact that molc3 do not exist in Ireland." Progress in electric roads can be seen from the following: In 1885 there were only three in this country. Now we have 325 roads, with 4000 car 3. Tho comparative cost per car inile is 18.12 cents, while for horse cars we have 13.10 cents and for cable 14.12 cents. Professor Karl Myer, who is conduct ing the Government experiments for pro ducing rain artificially, has invented what he calls a "sky bicycle." It is a torpedo-shaped balloon, to which is sus pended a machine similar to tho frame work of a bicycle. Curious paddlewheels produce the propelliug power for the apparatus. Sink or Swim Eggs. "Hi, there! These eggs don't swim," exclaimed a man in a Milwaukee restau rant one day last week. He had been trying to float some soft boiled eggs in a glass of cold water. "They don't swim? Well, supposin' they don't?" replied a waiter, who had come to find out what tho man was yell ing about. "That's what's the matter; supposin' they don't. I'll tell you what's the trouble pretty quick. Do yuu notice that egg? It sinks to the bottom ker chug when put into cold water. Now, my wife is just as good a cook as there is in this town, and she says that au egg that will sink in cold water like that af ter it has been sott-boilcd is jest about ready to hatch. Sh! Can't you hear a peep?" Tho eggs that could not swim were exchanged for others that were fried, while a number of other customers who had soft-boiled eggs spoiled glasses of cold water to find out whether their eggs were sink eggs or swim eggs.— Peck'* Hun. NO. 3. DOWN THE STREAM. Love! It began with a glanea, Grew with the growing of flowery Smiled in a dreamful trance, Keckonod not the passage of hours- Our passions flood rose ever, Flowing for her and me. Till the brook became a river. And the river became a sea. Grief! It began with a word, Grew with the winds that ravod;' A prayer for pardon unheard. Pardon in turn uncravedj The bridge so easy to sever. The stream so swift to be free, , Till the brook became a river, And the river became a sea. Life? It tegau with a sigh. Grew with the leaves that are dead; Its pleasures with wings to fly, Its sorrows with limbs of lead; And rest remaineth never For the wearier years to be. Till the brook shall become a rivor, And the river become a sea. —Robert Lord Houghton. HUMOR or THE DAY. Hps and downs of poverty—The rag ged edges of your collar and your trous ers. There are tricks in all trades, partic ularly horse trades.— Binghamton liepub lican. Kammerer —"How do you feel when a man strikes you?" Haimnercr—"l feel for him."— Puck. When a man begins to blow you may know he is trying to take things by storm.— Qalveston News. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed little John nie, "the trees in our yard are getting bald-headed I"— Binghamton Bejrublican. The oratory of some men may not move mountains, yet it often succeeds in making a big blulf. — Westfield Standard. "The shoemaker who breathed his last" should not be pointed to as a man of phenomenal lung power.— Washing ton Star. Mrs. Steptin (calling upon Mrs. Solder, the plumber's wife) —"And how is Sir. Solder?" Mrs. Solder—"Oh, has mend ing slowly." Sho—"l suppose in Bohemia every one is Tom, Dick and Harry?" He— "Well, yes; but Bills are rather more numerous."— Brooklyn Life. We may boast about our refined civili zation ; but when a man doesn't turn to look at a dog fight, it is safe to bet that he is cither blind or deaf.— Puck. However much we feel of woe From saying things we dread, We find it harder stilt to know The things to eave unsaid. —Judge. "What was ths collect this morning?" asked papa, desiring to see if liis son re membered anything of the church ser vice. "Foreign missions," returned Tommy.— Sew York Herald. "Good nature or amusement, among the people of the earth," writes an in habitant of Mars, "is expressed by a movement of the mouth which exposes a portion of the skull."— Puck. Traveler—"What is that tall chim ney for? Someone putting up a fac tory?" Citizen—"Naw. That's Jim Bisbcc's well. Cyclone turned it insido out."— lndianap lis Journal. A strcet-car driver in Toledo recently rau over a young lady aud she was thrown to the giouud. He was prompt ly fired by the company for knockiug down the fare.— DejiMce Crescent. "Where are you going, niy pretty maid?" "I'm going to Sunday-school, sir," she said. "Cau I go with you, my pretty maid?" "We've uad oiu* picnic, kind sir," slie said. —Sew York HcraM. "liemr -ber, my son, that the owl's reputat' \»a for wisdom is not due to his staying out all night. Jt is rather due to the tact that he has too much seuse to stay up all night and day too."—lndian apolis Journal. Watts—"l don't approve of this idea of burying every eminent citizen with a brass band." Potts—"lt would not be so bad, though, if they'd bury a brass band with every eminent citizen."— Indianapolis Journal. Maud—"What are you reading?" Pim mio—'' 'A Mau Without a Country.' It's such a painful story." Maud (looking drearily up and down the beach) —"It isu't half as painful as a country without a man."— Chicago Tribune. "Why is this boat backing up?" asked the passenger on the steamer. "Oh," said the mate, "the captain's wife and baby are on board, and the baby wouldn't goto sleep until he'd seen the engines reversed."— New York Sun. Madam is at the draper's, in the act ol selecting material for a new dress. "No, that is not the kiud of thing I want; it is too bright—too loud. My husband is very ill aud I should like something a little quieter—say half mourning."— he Petit lllustre. Swayback—"Hello, Javsmith! What did that straw hat cost you?" Jaysmith —"I gave the clerk a five-dollar note for that hat." Swayback (incredulous) "What?" Jaysmith—"And he gave mo back four dollars in chauge."— Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. Husband (newly mirried) —"Don't you think, love, if I were to smoke it would spoil the curtains'" Wife—"Ah, you are really the most unselfish and thoughtful husband to be found any where. Certainly it would." Husband —"Well, theu, take the curiuiu3 down." TV.