SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. Indian corn meal has become extreme ly popular in Germany. In Samoa the adviser of the King lives in a handsome house and the King in a shed next door. The adviser luxuriates on a salary of SSOOO a year and the King starves on SB4O. Some genius in Georgia is forming "before-breakfast clubs" among the far mers. The object is for each member to set aside a piece of ground which he agrees to plant and work before break fast, giving the entire proceeds to his wife for her use. "Jenny Lind is truly but a memory in America!" soliloquizes the Chicago Herald. "In London the volumes of 'Memoirs' of the great songstress have gone through three editions, while in this country barely fifty copies have been sold. And yet what a name and fame were hers/" Now that students of the art of living nre crying out for new meat to relieve the inevitable recourse to beef anil mut ton, veal and lamb, it is remembered by scholars that Maecenas, the rich Rouiau patron of the poet Horace, delighted in the flesh of the donkey and served wild ass from Africa as a far greater delicacy than venison. The genius of Yankeelaud i* irrepres sible, boasts the Chicago Herald. "Ger many has at last opened her arms to re ceive American corn as an article of food, and coru dodgers and johnny cake will soon become familiar articles upon the tables of the Teutonic empire. This is a gigantic stride toward the unification of the human, race. These articles, in conjunction with 'hog and hominy,' will tend to strengthen the friendly ties between Germany and the United States and promote that harmony which shall result la hastening the advent of that period when the sword shall be beaten into a plowshare and the spear into a pruning hook, and nations shall not learn war any more, but devote their time to the cultivation of the ethics of mush and hoe cake." A crop statistician in Kansas calcu lates our wheat crop for 1891 at (500,- 000,000 bushels, of which 255,000,000 will be available for export. To this exportable surplus Canada may add 15,- 000,000 bushels, and he estimates the surplus of other wheat-exporting coun ries at an amount sufficient to raise the aggregate to 377,000,000 bushels. On the other hand ho figures the require ments of countries that have to import wheat in excess of their own productiou at 455,000,000 bushels, leaving a de ficiency 78,000,000 bushels. This, in the opinion of the Epoch, is more cheering to our farmers than to the populations of wheat-importing countries. But the prospect in the shortage of rye, so largely used for food in European countries, is far more serious. This statistician calcu lates the requirements of importing coun tries, including Russia, at 335,000,000 bushels, while the surplus of other countries for export is only 30,000,000 bushels. This must open tho way to a largely increased consumption of ludiau cam. Ono of the most interesting experi ences of the United States troopers is patrol duty in the Yoseraite reservation. Captain A. E. Wood, of the Fourth Cav alry, who recently returned to Sun Fran cisco from a tour of this attractive region, says that he had a very lively time of it keeping the reservation clear •of cattle. Until the Government inter fered, tho herders took in as many as 2000 cattle and 90,000 sheep every sum mer for pasture. This has all been stopped. It is the duty of the soldiers to keep on the trot in every part of the re servation, turn the herds back and warn owners not to trespass. Hut, iu spite of this vigilance, cattle slip in. Tho herders ate promptly arrested and es corted to the other side of the reserva tion, a journey which takes five days. Meanwhile their flocks are unprotected, and bears and wolves attack the animals and kill them. By the time the herder secures a permit, geta his flock together and leads them out of the reservation, he is taught a salutary, if a severe, lesson. Another duty of tho troopers is to lay out trails. Captain Wood had the au thority to hire a guide, but he found no one who was familiar with the wild •country, and explored it himself. Dur ing the summer the soldiers laid out twenty-five miles of trail passable to mounted men, often over mountains that had been declared inaccessible. WINTER LILACS. A bunch of lilacs there by the door, These and no more 1 Delicate, lily-white, like the new snow Falling below; A friend saw the flowers and brought thorn to me. As one who should see A rifle, a glove, just dropped and returned While a loving thought burned. Dark all day was that room of mine Till thoso flowers divine Into my darkness brought their own light, And back to the sight. Of my spirit the fairest days of June And the brooklet's tune; Where the garden-door was left open wide, While by my side One sat, who, raising his eyes from the book With the old fond look, Asked if I loved not indeed that page And the words of the sage. And as we spok<* the cool blue sky, The robin nigh, The dropping blossoms of locust-trees Humming with bees, The budding garden, the season's calm, Dropt their own balm. All these, my friend, were brought back to me, Like a tide of tho sea, When out of winter and into my room Came summer's bloom; The flowers reopened those shining gates Where the soul waits Many and many a day in vain, While in therain Wo stand, anil, doubting the future, at last Forget the past! So you will believe what a posy may do, When friends are true, For the sick at heart in tho wintry days, When nothing allays The restless hunger, the tears t lat start, The weary smart, But tho old, old love and tho summer hush, And the lilac bush. Annie Fields, in Scribner. THE WRECK OF THE SALLY. 11Y rr. C. DODGE. I am the captain of the fine canal boat "Sally—No. 452," my wife is first mate and our baby is the crew. The "crew" tsn't big enough to steer the mules yet or throw stones at them when they stop to dine on the pushes along the tow path, but he can do his share of yelling, and, as the mules think the yells are for their beuelit and start up a little when they hear the disturbance, the "crew" earns his salt. The cargoes we carry are of coal from the mines, uud our trips often extend to the seaboard, where we see the ocean blue m the distance, while the Sally lies moored to the dock. Sometimes, in late fall, while anchored that way in salt water, the canal will freeze over so we cannot get back, and we are then forced to spend the winter in or on the edge of the city, for we, of course, live aboard our boat, as we own it. My first mate enjoys this hugely, as she has been told it is quite fashionable to spend the cold weather in town. It also gives her an opportunity togo a shopping, hear the opera, and attend scieutic lectures—same as city women do. I tak« much pride in sailing our mule yacht, and many a race I've run and won with her by sueakiug past the boats ahead of us while they were heaved to for the night. Folks think a canal boat sailor is something to make fun of, and they always like to get off their little jokes about getting wrecked in a storm on the raging canal. They take delight in speaking of the larboard mule and the starboard mule, and like to ask if we have had a spankcr-boom on deck when ever they see the baby. They like to call out "Breakers ahead" when the mules stop to kick at a fly, and "Low bridge" and "All hands to the punps," and "Let go the main sheet," and "Weigh anchor," and other ridiculous things. It makes my first mate mad when The Sally is treated with disrespectful levity, and sometimes I lose my patience, too, but the baby don't mind it, so after all, what difference does it do. If the small boys catching catfish out of the canal think it is smart to display their ignorance of seamanship in those ways, or if the grown up people attempt to ohow off their nautical knowledge in such silly manners, they can. But if they knew that The Sally had really been to sea in a raging storm and prop erly wrecked and that those aboard only saved their lives by a thorough under standing of what is required in such emergencies, the laugh would be on them and not on the captain, first mate and crew of a mule yacht. Two years ago we were spending the winter on The Sally moored alongside one of the great coal docks of Jersey City opposite New York. Our small cabin was handsomely deco rated by my wife and in it we were as cosy and comfortable as possible. The baby was then about ten months old, and in his hammock enjoyed life im mensely. The mules were snugly stabled in the forecas'l after the coal had been taken out and extr.i planks laid 011 the floor to prevent their kicking a hloe in the bottom, and everything looked favorable to all hands leading a serene and happy existence aboard till spring. But "Man proposes aud God dis poses," as the saying is. About the middle of Jauuary a terrific wind stoirn set in, blowing great guns LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1892. from the northwest and every day get ting worse. Tho cold was intense, the mercury going to fifteen and twenty degrees be low zero. Forty degrees below in the Western States was hot along side of it, for the damp, chilling air of the coast eats right into the vitals aud freezes the very mar row in tho bones. Keeping warm was out of the ques tion. If we could keep alive was enough to be thankful for. The ever increasing and colder grow ing gales bad raged for a week without a lull, ant'/ the fearfully angry waves in the bay were leaping mountains high and causing destruction and wreck all around. Old sailors who had lived at sea for years said they never saw the ocean any worse. Shins were dragging their an chors and dashing ashore by dozens aud many lives were nightly lest in vain efforts to save the vessels. I had stout and extra lines from our fresh water boat to its dock, but in spite of them our frail and unworthy craft was wrenched and tossed till I began to feel we had no business to risk staying aboard wliile the storm lasted. My wife wouldn't listen to our leav ing the only home we had, aud vowed if I talked of deserting The Sally agaiu she would head a mutiny to prevent it. So both of us, being only lresh water sail ors and knowing but little of the force of a salt water storui, settled down to remain aboard in spite of the warnings given lis by men on the dock. It was on the fifth night of the awful and almost unprecedented gale aud the chilling cold was at its lowest point. By stuffing all the crevices of our little cabin room and keeping the stove red hot tve made out to be comparatively comfort able. Baby was sleeping soundly in the middle of a big feather bed on the floor and in ';is warm nest was happily ob livious to the tempest and arctic tempera ture outside. By aud by without undressing at all and in fact putting on overcoats and wraps wife and 1 laid down and tried to sleep aud forget how the gale was shriek ing in the black night without and how our boat was creaking and straining and tossing on the rough waters. The wind aud the rockiug of our craft after a while made us sleepy and soon we were slumbering as soundly as the baby. I was dreaming of shipwrecks and drowning when suddenly I awoke. It seemed as if our boat was pitching harder tbah ever and being battered and knocked about frightfully. The noise of the hitting against the wharf aud the creaking of ropes I missed. I got on my feet and managed to get to the little window and peer through the frosted glass. The city lights had vanished and noth ing but intense blackness met my gaze. Something was wrong I kuew. Mount ing the ladder stairs aud opening our littie hatchway door I looked out. We had broken loose from the dock and were Hying before the shrieking gale and the liugo waves to almost certain death. Where we were—what to do I knew not. I quickly roused my wife and told her of our danger. How brave aud how calm she looked. Iler courage made mine. Leaving her to bundle things on the baby aud prepare for whit was to hap pen. I stuck my head outside again to try and discover a way to safety if there was one. We were drifting rapidly across the bay, and so far, luckily, had not struck au anchored vessel. Behind us I could see the distant aud dissappearing lights of New York City. In front the light-house on Bobbin's Reef, and beyond that the lights on Stateu Island. If we were not carried out on the ocean through the Narrows—if wo di J not collide with a ship or strike the reef, we probably would bring up against some dock on Staten Island—providing our frail and clumsy craft lived to get there. As soon as we struck anything, I realized too surely that in a momeu t's time after the crash we must founder and die. Our only chance, then, was to be ready to leap, if possible on the object wo should dash against, and trust Provi dence for the rest. The Sally had whirled around, and was rushing stern foremost throuy;j the thundering billows, and I hopetl when we struck that end on which we were would hit first. If it didn't, no use leap ing, for we never could all of us make our way over the icy, slippery two foot wide deck on the boat's side to its other end. Passing a large ship so close that I thought our end had come, barely missing the light-house reef, we were fast approaching Stateu Island—and the Narrows. For a time it looked certain that we would be swept seaward and surely per ish—then we switched arouud and went before the wind straight for the island docks. Five minutes I calculated and our fata for life or death would be sealed. Getting a ropo I placed our darling baby, laughing and crowing at the ex citement, 011 its feather bed, rolled the soft b«d entirely around it, trusting it wouldn't smother for awhile, and bound the precious bundle firmly with the rope. Taking it in my arms, bidding my brave aud uuict wife to hold mo and follow I gained the stem, over the slippery boat's deck. Thank lieaveu, wo were still stern foremost—dashing straight on a dock. One more moment of suspenso and horrible dread—then with a crash that smashed tho boat under us like an egg shell, we hit the wharf. At the same instant, before tho wreck could rebound, I flung bed and baby on the dock, seized my dear wife's hand and leaped for life. We landed safely alongside our chiid —then down under the raging waters plunged our good boat, drowning the awful cries of the poor mules left on board. Cutting the ropes to give air to our babe, blown along by the blasts behind us, we reached land and a house and, soon inside, found shelter and a warm welcome. We also found The Sally after the storm was over, raised and mended her, and now she is as good as ever for fresh water sailing, which she me IDS to stick to for the balauce of her days. And this is why I am provoked when land lubbors try to ridicule her, or her captaiu, mate aud crow.— Chicago Sun. A Remarkable Career. Robert Harvey, of England, is quite a remarkable man. One of thirteen chil dren of an assisstaut overseer of Truro, he started life in au engineering firm at thirty-five cents a week, and when he came of age was earning 62. A little time after, his firm built some machinery for South America, aud young Ilarvcy took So much interest in its construction that he attracted the attention of the owners, who took him out to superintend the fitting-up,under a three-years'agreement, at one hundred and fifty dollars a mouth salary. At the end of this term he picked up his traps and made for Peru, where he cast about for a job, and got one at two hundred dollars a mouth. Thou came the "discovery" of the nitrate fields, aud young Harvey showed his spirit by seeking and obtaining the posi tion of inspector-general of tho nitrate fields for the Government of Peru, at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year. Then came the war. He was taken pris oner, put on board one of the Chilian iiouclads, aud condemned to death—no one knows what lor. This did not prove a very great obstacle to Robert, for he argued the Chilian Government into be lieving him invaluable in the working of the "fields," and they straightway par doned him and installed him in his l.xnict position, under tho now Govern meut, at an increased salary of twenty five thousand dollars a year. Enter Colonel North, sent over by Fowler, of Leeds, to fit up engines. North aud Harvey join forces, discover other nitrate fields unknown to the Peruvians and uu capturcd the Chilians, start large ni trate and iodine works, and prosper. Re turn to England, float their companies for the procuring and working, etc., of the Chilian properties, become million aires, and, in Robert Harvey's case, pur chase a sumptuous mansion at Palate Gate, and "Dundridgc,"in South Dcvor,, become a Justice of the Peace for tin County, a Deputy-Licutcuaut for the Cit; of Loudon, and an aspirant tor political fame. Robert Harvey, in all his com mercial transactions, is as "straight" as the rivets ho handled as a lad. He honors all men, fears none, has an ac complished and charming wife, and no children.— Yankee Blade. People on Wheels. It is interesting to observe how the habit of moving about increases with the facilities for gratifying it. When street railways were first introduced they were intended to accommodate tho lim ited number of busiuess men who lived a half mile or mile from the counting rooms and women who lived such dis tance from the retail stores, and a slow going horse-car was fully equal to the easy task of dragging the limited number of persons about. Hut the insignificant enterprise has grown iuto proportions that its projectors were not able to con ceive at the beginning. The horse-car loads alone of New York City carried last year 102,000,000 passengers. This is 30,000,000 more than they carried in the year 187(3, when tho first elevated railroad was built, so that tho elevated roads which, it was thought, would de stroy tho business of the horse-cars havo not had any such effect. It might bo thought that, with 102,000,000 passen gers carried on the surface roads, there would be none left for the elevated ways, and their cars would run empty. And yet the elevated roads have had all they could do also. They carried last year 201,000,000 pnssengers, making a total of 303,000,000 for both systems. This is 240 times the population of the me tropolis. So that there wefe 240 trips for every inhabitant. The per capita number of trips iu 1880 was 175. At this rate it will be only a few years be fore the city will exhibit the phenomena of a population on wheels.— St. Louir Star-Sayings. A New Feyer-House. Tropical countries havo been advisod to establish cold greenhouses as hos pitals. This idea has resulted from tho remarkable success of a Cuban physician, who has been treating yellow fever by keeping the patieuts in artificially cooled rooms. It is proposed that each town iu districts liable to epidemics of this dis ease shall build a great glass house for the fe"er victims. Then houses would be artificially cooled, and plants of cold and temperate regions would be grown in them.— Trenton (iV, J.) American. Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The heaviest guns made for the navy nre twelve-inch, forty-five-ton breech loaders. For such a small country, Belgium has made great progress in the udoptiou of electric lights. Illuminated walking sticks arc among the latest applications of electricy. A small incandescent lamp is concealed in the head. Rigel, the magnificent star of the first magnitude in the constellation of Orion, has recently been discovered by astrono mers to be one of the most distant stars in the celestial vault. A new invention is an elastic rubber cushion for tho soles of the shoes, the special object being to give relief to those who arft compelled to stand all day on wooden or marble floors. The new Italian rifle is a repeater and will penetrate planks five inches thick at a distance of 4000 feet. A smokeless powder is used with it, thus allowing the soldier to carry greater weight of cartridges. Miss Annie I. Oppcnheim has been awarded the diploma of the British Phrenological Association honoris causa, in recognition of her studies of the anat omy of the brain and her interest in phrenology. A Russian electrician has invented a pneess of etching on metal by means of electricity, thereby dispensing with use of acids for this purpose. The image is first transferal to the plate by photo graphic methods. Tiie method of determining specific heats by the use of Joule's law has only been successful in liquids which were good conductors. A new method has been adopted for such measurement by means of a glass spiral tilled with mer cury. An automatic cut-out that replaces a new fuse when one is burnt out is being introduced by a firm of electrician?. A rotating drum with tho sever-wire3 on its surface is so arranged as to turn around and insert a new fuse when a burn-out occurs. A maritime laboratory of biology and zoology will be opened next year at Ber gen, Norway. Situated in a region where the marine fauna is particularly rich and interesting, it is destined to rendered great service to science. It has been decided to allow the free use of the establishment to foreigu savau, s. A new life-belt has been patentel in in Germany. It is in the ordnijtiy lortu, but is made from reiudeer hair covered with canvas, and is much lighter thau the belt of cork. Its weight is only two pounds, while it will support twenty-two pounds of iron in the water. Its buoyancy is not affected by prolonged immersion. A new idea to give an ordinrry room the appearancejof a parquetry border is tc cover the floor with wall-paper, forming a design representing wood parquetry. This is afterward varnished and the floor will then so closely resemble inlaid wood that only a connoisseur will detect the difference. An oriental rug throw in the center of tho floor will complete the floor decoration. The magnificent glacial scratches and groovings in the limestone at Ivelley's Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, havo been preserved from destruction and perpetu ally dedicated to the public by the cor poration owning the quarry. These markings are unique of their kind, and the finest in the world, and their de struction would have boon an irreparable loss to geological science. In the neighborhood of Schaffnausen, close by the three rocks know as the "Schwezersbild," Dr. Uucsch lias dis covered an extensive human settlement belonging to the Stone Age. It is in a rocky niche about thirteen metres high and thirty-seven metres long, and is the first of that period which has been dis covered in Switzerland and which is not in connection with a cavern. One of the greatest objections to tlio wooden flume 3 commonly used in the mining distrtcts of this country, and more lately for irrigation purposes, is the alternate shrinking and swelling of the wood, which causes warping and distortion. To avoid this galvanized iron, the upper edge of which is stifled, is being used for flumes. These mental flumes are nearly circular iu section and are usually supported in cast-iron brackets placed in timber supports. Dr. Mitcherlich has invented a stuff made from the fibers of wood. Thin board 3, with the knots taken out, are treated with a solution of sulphuric acid in a hollow boiler. Not only the hard matter, which is the cause of the brittle ness of wood libers, is eliminated by this treatment, but the fiber itself is chemi cally transformed. It is bleached, and becomes silky as well as strong and elastic. It is then treated in the same manner as any other goods, that is, combined, spun and finally woven into stutls of exceeding fineness and different varieties. New Mode of Catching Elephants. The Indian mode of catching elephants by driving them into inclosures formed of foiled trees in the forests seems likely to bo definitively abandoned by the Madras Government iu favor of what is known as tho pit system. The forest officers are of opinion that if tho pits are properly constructed and duo precautions are taken to break tho fall of the animals the pitfall method of capture is the less liable of the two to cause injury and mortality.— Neu. York Commercial Adver tiier. NO. 14. THE THREE WISHES. Three little girls suit idly on the bench One like a lily, tall and fair. One brilliant with her raven hair, One sweet and shy of speech. "X wish for fame," the lily said; "And I for wealth and courtly life." Then gently spoke the third: "As wife, I ask for love instead." Years passed. Again beside the sea Three women sat with whitening hair, Still graceful, lovable and fair. And told their destiny, , "Fame is not all," the lily sighed. "Wealth futile if tha heart be dead." "I have been loved," one sweetly said, "Aud I am satisfied." —Sarah K. Bolton, in Boston Transcript iIUMOK OF THE DAY. A rousing speech—"Get up!" The best thing out—An aching tooth. Onions form :i large percentage of too many dinners. The dust has been laid. Its name is mud. — Pica y une. A man goes to law to got justice or to keep it from some other fellow. The bill-poster knows his place, anil there he sticks.— Providence Telegram. The American hog is a success. He lins often been "tried."— Columbus Post. All who invest in good deeds will be j cutting coupons in the sweet by and by. Only a very selfish man or woman can have the blues persistently.— St. Louis ! Republic. The wharf builder is a man who is pretty suru lo be tried by his piers.— Lowell Courier. There's pitch in the voice, and that's why some singer's notes stick.—Pitts \ hurj Dispatch. AVhen there is work to be done the buzz saw is always willing to take a ham 1. Statesman. The anaconda who tried to swallow itself should hava credit for being a | self-contained animal. A Boston boy recently defined a wed ding as nothing but a prayer meeting with a sociable after it. Why is buttermilk like something that has never happened. Because it hasn't j a curd.— Texan Sifting». Young people in the country are not ! so slow. They often make love at a rat tling gate.— Stutcaman. She—"The man I marry must be hand- I some, brave aud clever." He—"How j fortunate we have met!" The sluggard who goes to his aunt and gets nothing is forced to deal with his | uncle.— Pittsburg Dispatch. The watch that is placed over the peo j pie's interest at the polls must not be u j repeater.— St. Louis Republic. It's bad enough to bite oil more than I you can chew, but it's worse to try to , chew it.— Detroit Free Press. We should like to see the man who , would make no bones of eating a fresh j mackerel.— Note York Mercury. "You're a dead loss to yourself" is the ; latest sarcastic way of telling a man he I is no good.— Philadelphia Record. Man is a good deal like a fish. You know the fish would never get in very j serious trouble if it kept its mouth shut. ] Of love and naught else would ho chatter; Ho would often persist till near dawn. At lirst'twas "A truce to this matter!" A trousseau it was later on. —J udqe. She—"Tell me what difference is there between a ready made tie and one you tie yourself?" He—"About an hour."— Aew York JVens. "What did you get for your birthday? "A watch-chain." "Where is it? Let's see it." "Can't. It's with the watch."— Harvard Lampoon. The people shout, the bands all play, And louder every minute, The bass drum has all things its way; The ear drum isn't "in it." —Philadelphia Press. "Did you run for ollice the other day?" asked Spriggius of a defeated candidate. "No," said the candidate, sadly, "I walked. The other fellow ran."—Somer oille Journal. "I am of a very sympathetic disposi tion," said N. Peck. "Wheneverl como home and find my wife with a nervous headache I am sure to catch it."—lndian apolis Journal. Singleton—"l am suffering dreadful ly ; cutting my wisdom teeth, you Know." Doubleup—"Don't say. I didnl cut mine till after T was married."— Katj Field's Washiw/ton. "You needn't open your mouth so wide," the dentist remarked; "I shall stand outside." Aud then he was shocked at the back talk's flow that came with the tooth when the roots "let go." She—"Am I not clever, dear? I have just given the porter twenty-five cents not to light the lamps when we go through the tunnel." Ho—Yes, dear. But I had alroady given him half a dollar for the same thing."— Brooklyn Life. "Do you think you, could tell the difference between a kleptomaniac and a shoplifter?" "That's easy," said the would-be floor-walker. "The shoplifter is unable to pay double price for the goods, if detected."— lndianapolis Jour nal. Travelers have remarked the absence of song birds on the Pacific coast. An effort is being made to introduce hardy varieties from Germany.
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