SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. China's Emperor has got tired of counting with the abacus and is now ■studying English arithmetic. A New York preacher, who preaches •nmong the most ignorant of the city's population, employs many devices to en force his meaning—using rats, frogs, pumps, snakes, electricity, aud chemicals iD object sermons. The Australian city of Melbourne, •which was founded less than fifty years ■ago, has already a population of nearly lialf a million, and stands fifth among the cities of the British empire. It is now a great shipping port, and its slum quarter is small. Slavery still exists in Portuguese In dia. A Brahmin, at Ivalloda, possesses a village of thirty-two hut, where every soul is as truly his slave and property as in the olden days; and recently h Portu guese, traveling from Goa, spoke openly of the slaves on his estate. No colors can be "nailed to the mast head" of a new steel warship. Doubt less, suggests the Chicago Herald , Sec retary Tracy and Clark Uussell and the gallant jack tars of naval tradition may feel one pang of regret at this impenetra bility of a metallic mast. Fortunately the metallic bulwarks are equally inpene ablc. Aconite seems to be the favorite poison of physicians who seek to take their lives. The death by this means of Dr. Doug lass, in Kansas City, Mo., will recall to the memory of newspaper readers the fact that within the last six months there have been four or five cases reported of medical men who have committed suicide by the use of this same drug. A curious fact revealed by the figures of the recent census is that while there are in the United States three cities of over 1,000,000 inhabitants each, one of between SOO,OOO aud 900,000, three of between 400,000 and 500,000 each, and nine of between 200 000 and 300,000 each, there is not a single one having be tween 300,000 and 400,000 inhabitants. In all Madagascar no secretary, clerk, nrtisan, soldier or civilian serving the Government in whatever capacity (with the exception of a trilling percentage re ceived by some of the Governors of dis tricts) is paid or even fed by the State. "The CJueen honors them by employing them" (so the official euphemism runs), and they must feed and clothe them selves. According to the Boston Cultivator the wood cutters of England strongly object to the methods of the Salvation Army in interfering in their business. One of the avocations to which General Booth has assigned a part of the outcasts and unfortunates he is reclaiming is that of wood cutters. The enterprise, backed np by benevolent contributions, hits been extremely successful, so that General Booth is now one of the largest wood merchants of London. He is, of course, able to undersell those with smaller cap ital who have no one to set them up in business. AVhat is needed for England is not greater competition, for it is that which has overthrown them. They need a country where competition is less fierce and the chances of success for small capitalists are greater. An American boatbuilder who has just built a small steamboat for the Magda lene River, in the United States of Co lombia, says "They get §2.50 per 100 for freight 380 miles, and S6O for pas sengers, $lO extra if they take a room. But there is hnrdiy one who wauts a room. They all carry their bed with them. It consists of a straw mat. You will see them come aboard with beds un der their arms. Along this river there is some very tine land. Everything grows without aid. They never plow 1 or hoe, but just put these.d in the ground and go oil and leave it till it gets ripe. They can raise throe crops of corn h year, aud fine potatoes. Vegetation of every kind grows the vear round. The climate is just the same, never varies more than ten degrees It is now sev enty-five degrees. Mosquitoes and alli gators are plentiful on the river. It is amusing to see the monkeys piaying on the trees as we pass, and the alligators plunging into the water. There is no system about boating down here. They are never in a hurry and take no care of anything. If they had a full crow of our steamtioatmen they would get rich in a short time." dreaming of homes. It oomes to me often in silence. When the Are light sputters low- When the black uncertain shadows Seem wraiths of the long ago; Always with a throb of heartache That thrills each pulsive vein, Comes the old, unquiet longing, For the peace of home again. I'm sick of the roar of cities, And of faces cold and strange; I know where there's warmth of welcome, And my yearning fancies range Back to the dear old homestead, With an aching sense of pain, But there'll be joy in tho coming. When I go home again. When I go home again! there's music That never may die away, And it seems the hands of angels. On a mystic harp, at play. Have touched with a yearning sadness On a beautiful broken strain, To which is my fond heart wording— When I go home again. Outside of my darkening window Is the great world's crash and din, And slowly the autumn shadows Come drifting, drifting in. Sobbing, the night wind murmurs To the splash of the autumn rain; But I dream of the glorious greating When I go home again. —Eugene Field, in Chicago Neivs. A WEDDING PRESENT, BY CLARENCE C. CONVERSE. AC K BROW NELL and Hugh Morris, two chums of miue,and I were roughing it West. The camp wo had selected for our headquarters was far up in the wild , est part of Colora -4 i do, and only num f ' '.JfMj bered a baker's LA dozen of old, al- B , | most tumble-down =-_.i (112 Ijgßli. 1 log cabins. They Mi we r e stretched 7* If flg9 x| P along the eastern AU lh »Vw 'A U edge of a deep fnd i ii' P' ctur esque ravine J *l\ a ' on K whose base its hi» \ 81u r d ? denizens 1 V V their glooray- ™ looking shafts. Our cabin stood a little removed from its neighbors, up the ravine. The view from its doorstep was magnificent. The rug ged peaks of tall mountains towered at the west, forming an admirable frame for its grand sunsets; at the east lay in viting green valleys broken by oddly winding passes, while here and there rose slighter peaks in fine contrast with theit emerald beauty. We sat about the doorstep oce night reading the mail the stage had just brought. I had two letters, Jack and Hughes, each one. Hugh finished his first, and when i had read mine I saw he was regarding Jack with apparent in terest and amusement. Jack's face was brightening more and more, every word he read of his dainty, •cented little message. He was a hand some fellow then. His head was crowned with wavy, golden hair; he wore no beard, his eyes were large, dark brown, and his build was almost faultless. "Is it from Dresden?" finally ventured Hugh. Jack nodded. We smiled. Then he turned one of the leaves nearly upside dowu and kept on reading. The next page, too, had writing up its side, as we told by his tilting it; but that was the end, and he exclaimed; "Boys, I am the happiest fellow in the glorious United States! Do youcouTatu lat. me?" "I never knew you two cared for each other," cried Hugh, jumping at the con clusion Jack's words hinted. "And now you say you are open to congratula lons! Do you really mean it?" I also stammered something, I forgot just what. "Yes, the heart of stern Papa Hastings was melted by my fervid supplications," cried Jack, tossing his hat into the air, boyishly. "Now you two know the secret reason why I have lost ten pounds avoirdupois in the last three weeks. It was not my climbing these perpendicular hillsides. The old ogre wanted to forco Belle into marrying some lout of a lord j over there. It is a wonder I have not ! gone stark, staring road." no opened the little billet-dcux aud | read: " 'His name is Claverhouse, and I he has two or more castles, and is one ol les immortelles, and papa likes him hugely, but I put my foot down against marrying him. I woukl rather my—' " Jack stopped there, blushing hotly, and decided not to read further. I feel as good as I would if I happened j onto a ton of gold up in the hills," he exclaimed. "If we were in New York I would take you fellows down to Dcl's and give you the best supper he could serve." "But as we arc not?" queried Hugh. "Come in and burn a pipeful of boot top tobacco with me," ho laughingly ex claimed. He gayly led the way into our little cabin as he spoke, and soon we were sit ting around the shaky table puffing our corncobs and chatting merrily about Jack's good news, a cloud of blue smoke hanging over our heads. "Somehow this subject suggests one I have intended to broach three or four times before," said Hugh, after a while. "Noj it isn't anything like Jack's aa LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1892. nouncement," he added, as we started to jcke him. Slowly he knocked the ashe3 from his pipe by striking it against thfl edge of the table, and then tilted his box—that cabin had never known a chair—gainst the wall, fie had an unruly mustar-he, and he tugged at it as he said: "Monti." "What of Monti?" asked Jack. "I am afraid ho will do some mis chief before we leave here." "Nonsense," insisted Jack. "He is as reliable as any greaser." "I hardly like his looks," I acknowl edged. "You remember I advised not hiring him, at the first. I think we should get rid of him." "But I am learning a lot of Spanish from him," exclaimed Jack. "And we three athletes need hardly fear one thin greaser, who appears as weak as the pro verbial cat." "I have heard you say 'si senor' once or twice," twitted Hugh. "I hardly think you will gain a hoard of knowl edge fiom Monti, and I say with Cad, get rid of him. You are likely never to see Belle Hastings again if you don't; I run a chance of never putting foot on Broadway, and Cad the same. Shall we give him his walking papers when he appears to-morrow?" "No, no," pleaded Jack, "I rather like him, too, for his Castilian airs. We have weapons. Let us keep him. That he is useful you cannot deny." We finally wer per annum of twenty-four-hour da\s at these rates: For 5000 horse power. $lO per horse power; for 4500, $10.50; for 4000, $11; and so on down to 300 horse power, for which there will be charged s2l per horse power per annum. If there be not ti very great loss of power in the transmission to Buffalo, it seams very likely that the company will have no difficulty in underbidding auy con cern now using steam as tho motive power for the electric lights, as tho loss by transmission is considerably less than twenty per cent. About ti.o. m.of water power of the great falls in Buffalo within a year or so there can be no doubt. When it shall be brought to New York is another matter, but about that there are not so many elements of improbability as to excite men to scoff, for power has already been transmitted electrically a great distance, and that too with reasonable economy. At the recently held electrical exposition at Frankfort-on-the-Main, power to operate some of the machinery was transmitted by electricity from Lauffen-on-the- Neckar, a distance of 10S miles. At Lauffen there was a waterfall from which a turbine was opened, and a dynamo on the shaft of the turbine generated the current which was transmitted to Frank fort over a wire one-sixth of an inch in diameter. It was found here that the losqin transmission was only twenty-five per ceut. Therefore it is likely that tho power can be transmitted four times the distance without a loss so great as to make the scheme impracticable. When it does reach the great city, and by the water which leaves its natural channel for a brief space in the Niagara River, our streets lighted, our factories run,the machine of the seamstress .kept in motion, and the very drill the dentist uses to bore our teeth impelled by it, then we shall more than ever feel that around the earth has been placed a girdle, a living belt that throbs and pulsates at the bidding of science, an encircling band rich in the potentialities of mighty but well regulated movement.— Harpn-'s Weekly. Fee of §2OO for Advice of One Word. Not long ago Mr. Morris Butler, sor. of John M. Butler, who had just arrived home from an evening party at 2 o'clock in the morning, heard a carriage drive up to the house, and a moment later an swered a ring at the doorbell. A young man of handsome face and energetic manner blurted out without ceremony: "What States can cousins legally mar ry in?" "I don't know," said Mr. Butler, a? soon as lie could recover from the ef fects of his visitor's bluntness, "but 1 will ask father." He went up stairs and, after much knocking, aroused his father. "Father," said he, "what States can cousins legally mairy in?" "Kansas," was the single word in re sponse, bet ween what sounded suspicious ly !