W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Germany is determined to make a fine showing at the World's Fair. The Rothschilds are predicting that Prance alone will have to pay America nearly $40,000,000 in gold for wheat this year. A frost insurance company is being formed in France, and it promises to 1)9 a successful venture. It is estimated that the loss to agriculture by frost in France is about $15,000,000, and the company will insure against this. According to the San Francisc® Bulle tin the census report will show these fig ures concerning fruit trees in California: "Of almond trees there were during the census year 336,464 bearing trees and 405,464 not bearing; of fig trees, 140,- 778 bearing and 231,301) young trees; lemon, 32,137 bearing, 121,252 not bearing; orange, 523,100 bearing, 1,- 641,400 not bearing; olive, 209,411 bearing, 253,613 not bearing." A remarkable career in the teaching professions was brought to a close a few weeks since, learns the Boston Tixia tcript, by the resignation of Miss Lucy D. Bliss from the principaUhip of the Plain Primary School, Stockbridge, Mass. Miss Bliss began teaching in town when sixteen years old and taught continuously, with the exception of one year, for about fifty-four yean. Three generations of Stockbridge have begun their school life under the instructions of M'ss Bliss. The Nashville (Teun.) American pub lishes a summary of the co3t per day of keeping convicts at some of the princi pal penal institutions of the country. The daily average cost in twenty-two prisons is 45 05-100 cents. The cost at the Virginia Penitentiary, which has 905 inmates, is the lowest, being 18 73-100 cents. Albany Penitentiary and Sing Sing Prison come next in tiie order of cheapness, the State of New York being at an expense each day for each convict confiued in th'iin of about thirty cents. The cost at the Nevada State Prison in Carson is ninety-seveu cents per day, the highest in the list. The carp may now be considered a New York fish. The Mohawk and other streams of Central New York are full of carp, some of them weighing as much as fourteen pounds. During the last nine years the Kirkland Fish-Stocking and Protection Society lr.s placed 383 Ger man carp in the ponds and streams of the town of Kirklaud, N. Y. The Sec retary of the Society in a recent report says: "We have demonstrated that carp can be successfully propagated in this country, and with proper care can be made a valuable source of reveuue to the cultivator and u cheap and dainty article of food for all classes." A giant carp was taken through the ice of the Mo hawk above Utica last winter, and the mill-ponds iu the valley where young carp have been placed are already afford ing excellent sport. Shipowners aje much concerned about the report of General O. M. Poe, of the United States Engineers, that the waters of the great lakes are becoming lower every year. The following figures for five years show the gradual fall: June, 1886, Lake Huron was 583.13 feet above the sea level; June, 1887, it was 532.38; June, 1838, 581.79; June, 1889, 681.04; Juno, 1890, 581.01; June, 1891, 58J.4J. The mouth of June is taken because the water is then at its highest. In February the minimum depth is reached, and the shipowners ex pect to see many exposed places in that month next year. They are, of course, more troubled about the rivers empty ing into the lake 3 than about those waters themselves. The Sault Canal now shows a depth of fourteen feet four inches only, and at Grosse Pointc, the entrance to the Detroit Uiver, many vessels have grounded this season on ac count of the low water. In the old days of shallow boats and flat-bottomed steamers the plummet was still used, but now that their places have been taken by vessels with deep holds, the state of the water is a matter of grave considera tion. General Poo says that the rain fall in the lake country during the last five years has been below the normal, and that this accounts for the low water in the lakes. The shipowners, who reach these great bodies of water by tributary streams, are hardly reassured, and are asking themselves whether it would not be more profitable to build ▼MMlMlrawuur less water. SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. "WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN." "Whon my ship comes in," runs the young man's song, "What brave things shall I do With the strength of my wealth and the joyous throng Of friends stout-hearted and truer' He watches and waits 'neeth storm and sun By the shore of his life's broad sea. And the days of his youth are quickly run, Yet never a sail sees he. "My ship has gone down!" in soberer strain Sings the man, and to duty turns. Ho forgets the ship in his toil and pain. And no longer his young hope burns. Yet again by the shore he stands grown old With the course *>f his years well spent, And gazing out on the deep—behold, A dim ship landward bent! No banner she flies, no songs are borne. Prom her decks as she nears the land; Silent with sail all sombre and torn She is safe at last by the strand. Andlo! To the man's old age has brought Not the treasures ha thought to win. But honor, content and love—life-wrought, And he cries, "Has my ship come in!" —M. A.deW. Howe, Jr.,in Harper's Weekly. MALCOLM'S IDEAL, BY ANNA SHIEI.DS. "She must be tall, Bab; she must be graceful as a willow branch, with eyes of midnight darkness, classic features, hair like the raven'a wing.'-' Bab, who was stirring cake, looked up at the deep window-scat that separated the old-fashioned kitchen trom the garden beyond. Seated there, swinging one foot id'y, sat Malcolm Hoyt, describing the future Mrs. Malcolm as she existed iu his youthful imagina tion. "Well?" Barbara said, presently, after a glance from the tall boyish figure and frank, handsome face, to a small mirror that reflected hair of burnished bronze, the true auburn, and numerous freckles. "Well? Tall, dark, classically featured. Any other perfections?" "Accomplished, of course. Bhe must dauce like a sylph, sing like a nightin gale, draw, piay on the piano—" "Make cake?" suggested Bab, vigor ously stirring her batter. "Why, no—Mrs. Iloyt will not need to make cake, I think. Not but what it is very jolly to know how," he added, hastily, "but Mrs. Clark might resent nnv invasion of her especial depart ment." "Yes, I see," said Bab, dryly. "You don't want your wife to bo a kitchen maid.'' Malcolm blushed furiously; he was not quite tweuty-one, aud had not for gotten how to blush. "I don't mean that at all," he said, and then laughing heartily, added, "don't you think we are talking con siderable nonsense, Bab?" "I don't know," said Bab, slowly. "You say your father wants you to mar ry, and as you are in quest of a wife, you might as well have some idea of what you would prefer." "Just like choosing a necktie," said Malcolm, "though I think I should feel more interest in the neckfie. By the way, what is your ideal, Bab?" "I haven't considered," said Bab, bending her face low over the pan into which she was pouring the cake. "Nonsense!" said Malcolm. "As if a girl ever lived to be eighteen without an ideal." Then Bab violated the truth with a daring voice, and bright eyes, for she said: "My ideal doesn't sit on kitchen win dow-sills and talk nonsense, at any rate." "You don't know what he might do under sufficient provocation," saicl Mal colm, teasingly. "I have seen Stevo Hale look longingly at my perch within the last ten minutes." "Stephen Hale!" cried Bab, scorn fully, and lifted the pan to carry it to the room beyond, where the fire was lighted in summer. Her heart was swelling with indigna tion. She was only a farmer's daugh ter, she told herself, and Malcolm Hoyt was heir to a magnificent estate and lor tune, college bred, and could marry in aristocratic circles. But to think she could look at Btephen Hale, her father's "help," a man who could not read 1 It was insulting, little Barbara thought, and she took an unreasonably time to adjust the cakepan oa the oven-bars, and pile on fresh wood in the stove. "Good-bye!" shouted a cheery voice, presently. "I'm oil to the postoffice, but I'm coming to tea to cat some of that cake. "I've a great mind to scorch it," thought Bab, spitefully. "I would too, if it wasn't father's favorite." "I do believe she is fond of Steve,' thought Malcolm, as he swung himself into the saddle. "She blushed as red as a peony when I mentioned him. I sup pose it would be what my father calls a suitable match, but she's a thousand times too good for him. Why, she's as good a Latin scholar as half our col lege fellows, and she sings so beauti fully, that it is a burning shame she has had nothing but a concertina to accom pany her voice." Then his reverie took another turn, and he thought: "I won der if father is illl" It was the nineteenth century, and Matcolm was an only child, denied no indulgence from his infancy, but ho never thought of his father as the "gov ernor" or the "old man."- Hia mother LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1891. was but a memory, for when he was five years old, her golden-haired beauty was hidden under the daisies. He liked to think his great, blue eyes and crisp, blond curls were like those in his mother's portrait, but imagination was more potent than actual memory in re calling her. "Iwonder if father really is ill!" he thought, jogging along slowly. "He seems so anxious to have me settled. And that means married. He seems to think I will weary of dear old home, if I have no family ties to bind me there." And then fancy painted again that ex quisite, graceful and accomplished be ing he had endeavored to describe to Barbara. It was odd that oven with this mental vision before him he thought what a home Bab would make of the stately pile that was to be his inheri tance. "There is not much that is home-like about it now," he thinks, "for Mrs. Clark is too old to fuss much, and I im agine the servants have it all their own way. But how Bab's little trim figure and red hair would lighten up those big gloomy rooms." A week later, he is on his way to New York, to visit his aunt, to see society, aud, by his father's express desire, to find a wife. Heart-whole, fancy free, he mingles with the guests who gather at Mrs. Markham's, his aunt's; escorts his pretty cousin Mabel to opera, theatre, concert; dances gracefully with one belle, takes another out to supper, makes himself agreeable with a third on a sleighing party, escorts a fourth for a promenade, and so on—sixth, seventh, eighth, num bers indefinite, coming under his care pro tern., but not one stirring his heart as Bab's cordial greeting did when he returned from college. Bab! There is scarcely a frolic of his lonely childhood that is not associated with Bab. How many times has her mother called him in from snow-ball fighting or coasting frolic, to eat crisp, hot doughnuts or gingerbread! How many caudy-pulls has he had with Bab at one end of the sweet, sticky mass and himself at the other! Bab is not his ideal. That was tall, stately, brunette! Bab is short, merry, brown-eyed and with hair of burnished bronze that Malcolm irreverently calls red! And then, although there is no foolish pride about Malcolm, he has cer tainly moved in more cultivated and re fined social circles than Barbara saw. He wonders how Bab would look in clouds of tulle, her round white arms circled with bracelets, her glorious hair starred with gems, and mentally decides that she would look "jolly!" A letter from home reached him in the middle of November. "DEAR MB. MALCOLM: lthinkl ought to write you about your pa. Ho won't com plain, and he ain't to say sick, but he's pin ing, and very weak. Barbara Croft is hero every day, reads to him, sings for him, plays chess and brings him aii sorts of good tilings she cooks to please his appetite. She's the best girl in the world I think, but she aint like your pa's own. He frets for you, though he won't say so, and I think, Mr. Malcolm, if you'll excuse the liberty of ray saying so, tha time is coming whon you will be glad if you come home to cheer him. "Your obedient servant, "MAUV CLARKE." "My dear old dad!" thought Mal colm, tearing down stairs with the letter in his hand. "He is sick! I was afraid he was last Bummei, aud here I've been fooling away for months while he has been fretting for me!" His remorse was deeper than his neg lect warranted, but ho loved his father, the ever indulgent friend of his life, his one tie in the dear old home. And so, making graceful apologies to his aunt, he started at once for Deerfield. Mr. Iloyt was in the library when he drove up to the door, and through the window Malcolm could ree the ruddy light from the grate, the deep arm chair, the figure of his father reclining there. But, pausing on the porch, he saw more. He saw that the dear face was hollow eyed, haggard, fearfully changed. He saw a trim little figure bending lovingly over the sick man, coaxing him to cat the dainty luncheon on the table beside him. Aud he saw Bab more than once draw back to hide quivering lips and eyes filled with tears. "How good she is," Malcom thought, "to leave her bright home, to comfort a lonely old man." And he stepped soft ly, not to disturb the pretty scene, and went to the back door to send Mrs. Clarke to give notice of his arrival. lie was diappointed when ho went in to find his father alone, but he forgot all else in his sorrow at fiuding such a change in him. "Why have you not sent for me be fore?" he asked, reproachfully. "I knew you were enjoying your visit, my dear boy. Your letters were like gleams of sunshine; Bab read them over and over to me, but I would not let any one write but myself, for fear of troubling you." "Butyou were lonely?" "Yes, very lonely, though Barbara has been very kind. She is the gentlest of nurses, the moA patient of com panions," then, a little wistfully: "Have you no news for me, Malcolm?" "None, but what I have written!" "I so wish to see you settled in your home, before—l mean, soon." "Married! But if I fail to find my ideal?" "Ah, we all fail in that." "But father, you would not liavo me marry without love?" "Neverl" "I sav nobody 1 loved iu New York." - - '♦But, nearer home?" •'Your tea is ready, Mr. Malcolm," said Mrs. Clarke at the door, and Mal colm obeyed the summons. The subject was not renewed as father and son sat far into the night conversing. There were many matters needing super vision, and again Malcolm reproached himself that all the care of the estate had fallen upon his father's feeble hands while he was pleasure-seeking. "But I will never leave him again, '* ho said to himself as he assisted his fath er to his bed-room. A whole week passed busily, and there came a few days of warm weather, such as November finds often in her dreary weeks. Barbara was in the garden, walking up and down, thinking. Of what? Of Mrs. Clarke's announce ment a whole week before that had sent her skurrying home like a frightened rabbit. Was Malcolm so engrossed with his idea that he had not even one hour for his old playmate? It hurt her to think so, and she missed, too, the daily care she had voluntarily assumed during his absonce. "I do believe I am blue!" she thought, pettishly. "What will happen next?" What happened next was a crunching of gravel under quick feet, and a voice saying: "Bab, I have come to see why you have desertod my father." It was so sudden that Bab crimsoned as 6he replied: "He does not need me, now that you are at home." "He asks for you every hour. But, Bab, I did not come only on filial duty. I came to say somebody else needs you, longs for you, loves you! Bab, darling, won't you come to the old home for life! Won't you be mine, dear, my wife, my darling?" She could only answer by shy blushes, by vailing the soft, brown eyes to hide their happiness.' But Malcolm was sat isfied; and when she asked, presently: "But your ideal, Malcolm?" ho answerod, triumphantly: "She is here in my arms, Bab—my first and only true love."— New York Ledger. American Pearls. Not all the pearls come from the Arabian seas or from the S3Uth Pacific islands. A considerable supply Is de rived from a mussel found in a number of American rivers. When Be Soto mode hi» expedition westward from the Florida coast he found that the Indians possessed an abundance of pearls taken out of the rivers. The Tennessee is particularly prolific in these pearl mus sels. They are also found in the rivers of Texas and other States. Sugar River, in Wisconsin, recently attracted much attention on account of its pearls. Al though most of them are white, they are found in various colors, such as pur ple, pink, golden yellow, bronze, green, gray, black and nil the intermediate s'uadej. Some combine two colors, as a deep metalic purple, over which plays a lovely pink-red light that seems almost to stand out from the surface of the pearl. Another will be of a rich gray tint, with green reflections. Still another is black with dark purple. In brilliancy of lustre and fairness of texture they can not be excelled. In variety and richness of coloring they surpass the Oriental pearls. Quite a number have been sent to Europe, where they have found a ready market at good prices. Single specimens have sold nt S2OOO and more. When a number of these pearls are ar ranged together in a brooch with small diamonds to throw out their colors the effect is superb. Something over SIOO,- 000 worth were found on the banks of Sugar Itiver within the limits of one small township last summer. Neio Orleans Picayune. Hearing One's Self Speak. "It is a singular thing," says a phy sician, "that a man does not hear his own voice exclusively through his ears. The prevalence of throat deafness is a proof to the laymen of the connection between the ears and throat, aud this in ability to hear one's self speak just as others hear U9 is another instance. In some people this peculiarity is very marked, and in my case, if I speak into a phonograph and let the machine grind out the sounds again, I don't recognize the voice at all. In regard to singing, the varying ability to hear one's self with the ears pluggei up with cotton makes it3elf evident, for while one member of a chorus will only hear the blending harmony, or discord, another will hear little beyond his or her own voice, and makes occasional bad breaks in conse quence. I know a man who used to sing a very fair baritone, but whose voice is now ouly adapted to the weakest falsetto. Yet he doesn't realize the change, and I believe he honestly thinks he sings as well as ever. This apparent impossibility may be a dispensation of Providence to prevent men with excep tionally ugly voices being driven to suicide.— Chicago Herald. Fairies lu All Countries. Below I give a list of the names by which tho fairies have been known in tho various countries: Fairies, elves, elle-folks, fays, urchins, ouphes, ell maids, ell-women, dwarfs, trolls, horns, nisses, kobolds, duendes, brownies, knecks, stromkarls, fates, wights, un dines, nixies, salamanders, goblins, hob goblins, poukes, banshees, kelpies, pix ies, peris, dijinns, genii and gnomes.-- «. Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Month* BCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A pneumatic shoe sola ie\ new. Sydney, New South Wales, has a 12,- 000,000 electric light. A company has been organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., for the manufac ture of paper matches. Many metals, such as gom, silver and platinum, are now caused to volatilize by means of the electric current. Concentric wiring for electric work is rapidly gaining ground, it being re garded as safer for lighting purposes than the two wire system. The new system of transmitting power by means of compressed air, which was recently tried in Offenbach, showed a loss of but thirteen per cent, in the daily output. The recent losses by fire in the cargo of ships carrying cotton has shown that cottonseed oil, when held in the cotton on the outside of the bail, rapidly oxi dizes and generates spontaneous com bustion. A disinfectant which combines cheap- Bess with general worth is found in permanganate of potash. One ounce will make a bucketful of disinfectant. It is a crystal and can be kept in this state un til ready for use. The Cambria Navigation Company, of Wales, has recently build for one ot its coal pits a ventilating fan which is claimed to be the largest ever construct ed. Under favorable conditions the fan will deliver 500,000 cubic feet of air per minute. As an antidote for a consumptive ten dency cream acts like a charm, to be used instead of cod-liver oil. Also aged people, invalids, and those who have feeble digestion or suffering from dull ness as well as growing children, will he greatly benefited by taking sweet cream in liberal quantities. An ingot of nickel steel weighing more tbau twenty-five tons has been cast in the Homestead Steel Works, and it is to be rolled into a single armor plate for the United States monitor Monterey. It is the largest of the nickel steel ingots yet cast in the mill, but an effort is to bo made to ca3t an ingot to weigh more than fifty tons. France is fortunate in possessing 1102 mineral springs, of which 1027 are turned to account, and Algeria has forty seven in use. Of the total irt,Fraoce3l9 lire sulphurous, like that of~ Amelie-les- Bains; 354 are alkaline, such as Vichy; 135 are ferruginous, for instance Orez za, and 219 are of various sorts, some containing common salt, others sulphate of sodium, and a third group sulphato of lime. A California physician has invented an attachment for gas buruers to stop the flow of gas automatically when the gas is blown out. The dtvice accom plishes its purpose by means of the ex pansion and contraction of a liquid iu a hermetically sealed receptacle, so that when the gas is extinguished the contrac tion of the liquid operates levers which control a safety valve, thus closing and shutting off the gas. The Prussian Government ha? made a report upon its buildings struck by light ning between 1877 and 1886. There were 53,502 buildings used tor oflieial purposes in Prussia; 264 of these were struck, or one-half of one per cent, per thousand annually. Of the total num ber, fifteen only were fitted with con ductors, and only one of these escaped injury. Generally the conductors were found to be either dangerous or useless. In six they were not touche 1. The Cowboy's Quirt. St. Louis sends out every year about 30,000 whips of a peculiar character known as the quirt. No one but a cow boy, a wild AVesterner or Mexican has any use for such an article, but away out on the plains it is indispensable, as itau swers the purpose bath of a whip and a life-preserver. A quirt is a solid leather whip, with the handle loaded with shot and so heavy that the thickest skull will yield to a blow from it. Missouri holds a practical monopoly in the manufacture of this curiously named article, St. Louis making the most and others coming out of the State Penitentiary at Jefferson City. At least 350,000 leather whips are made in St. Louis or near to it, and it is often asked where they all goto. As a matter of tact, this city stands al most alone in this manufacture, for while light buggy whips are made in various places, leather whips are not made in large numbers outside of Missouri, al though there are factories in New York, Philadelphia and West Virginia. One reason why St. Louis holds the fort is that this is one of the cheapest. hide mar kets in the world, and instead of buying tanned leather the plan here is to buy green hides and literally make the whips out of raw material.— St. LouU Globe- Democrat. Gorgeous Palace of an Empress. The Empress of Austria's new palace at Corfu has cost six hundre I thousand dollars. The bill for the wood carvings in the Pompcian suite of seven rooms, which is the great feature of the house, amounted to fifteen thousand dollars. It may be hoped t.hat the Empress will be more satisfied with this abode than she was with a villa she built a few years ago in the neighborhood of Vienna, for after it was finished she took a dislike to the place, and has never lived there, al though upwards of four huudrei thou sand dollars had been expended on the house and grounds. Onot-- Week. NO. 8. NEVER GIVE UP. Never give up! It is wiser and better Always to hope than once to despair; Fling off the load of doubt's cankering fetter. And break the dark spall of tyrannical care. Never give up! or the burden may sink you; Providence kindly has mingled the cup; And in all trials or troubles, bethink you. The watch-word of life must be, never give up!" Never give up! Thero are chances and changes Helping the hopeful a hundred to ons; And, through the chaos, high wisJom ar ranges Ever success, if you'll only hope on. Never give up! for the wisest i3 boldest, Knowing that Providence mingle 3 the cup And of all maxims, the best, as the oldest. Is the true watch-word of "Never give up!' Never give up! Though the grap?-sbot may rattle, Or the full thunder-cloud ovjr you burst; Stand like a rock, and the stor.n and the battle Little shall harm you, though doing their worst. Never give up' If adversity presses Providence wisely has mingled the cup; And the best counsel in all your distresses, Is the stout watch-word of "Never give up!" —Martin F. Tuppcr, in New York Weekly. HUMOH OF THE DAY. Benjamin Franklin was the original lightning calculator. Crops that grow by tho electric light —Wild oats.— Bonton Journal. "Ask popper," said the fire-cracker fuse when a match was suggested. That money talks I don't deny; To me it always says, "Uood-by." —Puck. It is odd enough that burglars take such risks in a safe opening.— Baltimore American. The head waiter reminds one of mat rimony. He is a high menial, it will be remembered. A stingy man can be relied upon to keep everything but his promise.— Slmira Gazette. "Capital punishment," as the boy said when the school-mistress seated him with the girls.— Bazar. A man finds the poorest companion ship when he "entertains a suspicion." Wash injtoti Star. Your friends may not know much, but they know what they would do if they were in your place.— Atchiion Olole. Stranger (brightly) "Fine day!" Chronic Grumbler—" Ye-es—locally— probably raining somewhere.''— Puck." Now is the time whea th'j stmll boy of the family is caught poaching on his mother'* preserve?.— Baltimore Ameri can. Ail animals have their good point*, but for abundance of the sama aouo can compete with the porcupine. Tezat Sittings. It isn't so much that a man objects to pay the dubt of nature; it is nature of the debt that trouble him.— Boston Transcript. The peacock may not be inclined to gossip, but he loves to spread a highly colored tale dbout the nt'';hborhood. — Elmira Gazette. A man can always keep himself in good credit so long as he doesn't ask for it. Paste this in your hat and dodge the fatal request.— Puck. "If I were only in politics," mused the car-horse as he started up the hill, "what a lot I could do with the pull I have."— Baltimore American. "I don't look like a very formidable fellow," soliloquized the honest milk dealer; "and yet I've made lots of bigger men take water."— Life. Blinkers—"Hello, Winkers. I hear you married a woman with an independ ent fortune." Winkers—"No-o; I mar ried a fortuue with an independent woman. Mudge—"l hear that Tiinming's girl has induced him to give up his cigars." Yabslev—"ll'mh! That's more than any of the boys could do.''— lndianapolU Journal. People who are constantly saying "what is due to society" often forget al together what is due to themselves, to say nothing of what is due to the butcher and baker. "Sir," said the tailor, "my suits talk forme." "But, my dear sir!" expostu lated the customer, "cau you expect mo to believe statements made out of the whole cloth."— Baltimore Amerizm. He—"Yoj say you love me, but can not bo my wife. Is it because lam poor ! There are better things in this world than money." She—"Quitetrue, butit takes money to buy them."— Baton Budget. THE BALD MAN REJOICES. I love the crisp, cool autumn day#, They till my soul with gloe, For then in peace I go my ways With not a fly on uie. —New York Herald. Oldun—"Remember, my son, to al ways keep your expenses within your in come." Young-un—"Got a better plan than that. I propose bringing my in come up to my expenses."— lndiaruipolis Journal. "Dinguss is a man of expensive habits, is he not, Shadbolt?" "Yes. Dinguss's habits since I have been ac quainted with him have cost me $156, without counting a cent f at interest."— Chicago Tribune.
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