SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. YOL. X. Many Georgia farmers are dropping the culture of cotton for that of tobacco. If is generally believed that the Rus sian Government maintains spies all over the world who keep it posted about the operations of the Nihilists. In most of the countries of Europe the manufacture of salt and tobacco is con trolled by the Government. The Swiss Government now proposes to buy up all the match works of Switzerland and make their manufacture a Government monopoly. Genoa is preparing to celebrate the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, by an Italian-American Expo sition, the aiui being to strengthen the friendship and increase the business re lations between the native land of Col umbus and that discovered by him. Now that they are beginning to realize the effect of out-side competition in Eng land it is amazing, declares the Ameri can Dairyman, the number of dairy schools that are springing up in all direc tions, and most, if not all of them, itinerant at least for a part of the year. Daring the English Protectorate over Egypt irrigation has been extended in almost every direction, thus increasing the agricultural productions to a won derful extent. Last year Egypt raised 400,000,000 pounds of cotton, or nearly one-fourth of the entire quantity con sumed in Great Britain. The Chicago Post exclaims • "As tha ■world moves, and as surely as the sailing vessel replaced the galley, as the swift locomotive took the place of the post horse and stage ciach, as the trained lightning displaced the courier, so will coal, cumbrous, costly and grimy, give place to some more perfect, more etheral essence, evolved from itself, distilled from its liquid essence, cr it may be to that kindred invisible agent that springs forth spontaneous and perfect at the touch of the drill." Pasteur, the French scientist, has an eye of wonderful power. A visitor to his "menagerie," in Paris, where he has gathered various kinds of animals for experimental use, saw the chemist quell with a glance a fierce Spanish mastiff which for his ferocity had been muzzled and chained. Pasteur had the brute brought before him, and lr King the an imal straight in the ey .Carlessly took off his muzzle and n.moved his chain. The dog cowered at the glance, then fawned upon Pasteur, licked his hand and finally lay submissively before him. Among the numerous petty principal ities of Germany is the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The whole popu lation is less than 200,000, and its very existence would be scarcely known, but for the eccentricities of the Grand Duke who takes pains to let his hostility to the reigning house of Germany be known on all occasions. lie, however, has no children, and his heir apparent is the Duke of Edinburgh, whose wife is sister of the Czur of Russia, and at heart an intense Russian, especially in her dis like of everything German. The possi ble complications are interesting as illustrating the influence of personal prejudices in the politics of Europe. M. M. Cowley, a pioneer in the North west, who for many years dealt in furs with the Calispel, Spokane, Cccur d'Al ene, and Columbia River Indians, and is one of the best informed men on all matters pertaining to the tribes in the Northwest, says that the Indians are dying off rapidly. "Take the Cceur d'Alenes, for instance," he 3ays. "I was among ttiem for a long time. They have a magnificent reservation and fine farms and good houses, but the houses are killing them. They cau't staud roofs. When I was located on the Spo kane River, there were immense bands of the Cceur d'Alene, Calispel, Spokane, and Columbia liiver Indians about there. They were engaged steadily in huntiny and trapping ull kinds of wild animals. I bought black and si'ver gray fox skins of them at $1.50 and S2 apiece, 500 martins a year at $lO each,fisher, grizzly, black bear, beaver, and other kinds of skins without number. Then the whites had not encroached on them, and they were robust and healthy. It is a mis take to try and civilize them. They must be wild or they are nothing. If we keep on civilizing them, wc shall have no Indians. Apparently this is something the Government will not un derstand." WHEN? We'll read that book, we'll sing that song, But when? Ob, when the days are long; When thoughts are free and voices clear; Some happy time within the year The days troop by with noiseless tread. The song unsung, the book unread. We'll see that friend, and make him feel The weight of friendship, true as ste* 1 Some flower of sympathy bestow. But time sweeps on with steady flow, Until with quick, reproachful tear. We lay our flowers upon his bier. j And still we walk the desert sands, And still with trifles fill our hands, While ever just beyond our reacb, A fairer purpose shows to each. The deeds we have not done, but willed, Heuiain to haunt us—unfulfilled. —Boston Journal. LOVE AND WAR. o=r EAIt S ago 1 Jy Judge Jesse X vz/— _ Phillips, of \(J7 Hillsboro, 111., was a dashing (tfvWA A nQ d successful n ' on soldier. I ' 8 now a }Mi\\\lll\)yl stead y*S 0 • n g 1 ft[u ' level-head- — practicing law yer when the war broke cut; that is. he was a lawyer, but he wasn't practicing a greal deal, for he had not yet convinced the public that he could untangle legal knots equal to the dusty, musty old fellows who haunt ed his chosen court-house. But he was a live, energetic young man, and when the first call for ninety-day men came in 1861, Company H, of the Ninth Illinois Infantry, was commanded by him, and was as proud of its handsome young cap tain as he was of his very respectable soldiers. When the regiment was or ganized a little strife arose between rival candidates for the command of major, and while those most favored for that position did not share iu the strife or its attendant temper,their respective friends were almost painfully in earnest. Just at the time when the situation was much strained, Captain Phillips got up on a cracker box and made one of the best speeches the assembled soldiers had ever listened to. He advised union, har mony, mutual trust and unwavering fealty to the Government, and advised against jealousy, bad temper and extrava gant words. Even in a day of much fpeechmaking it was the perfection of timely oratory, and it won the union and jUrmony he had s» well pleaded. It yon more. It gave him the office, aid Urom that day until the summer of 1863 ie wore the rank and honored name of major. Two years later, long after the nine ty-day men became three-years soldiers, Major Phillips was promoted to the rank of Colonel, and one day, while the Ninth with others of the Government troops, lay in Corinth, Miss., a detail in force was sent accross the line to Florence, Ala., with instructions to destroy some cotton and woollen mills in that city which had been busy for a year or two making clothing for the Confederate soldiers. Colonel Phillips was in com mand, and so well did he do the work that, although quite a strong body of Confederates was posted to defend the town, he won the fight after an hour of sharp contesting and drove the jast Johnny Keb out of Florence. Then the mills were destroyed and a detachment of Union soldiers held the town. But in that sharp afternoon encounter Billy Neal, a fellow-townsman of Colo nel Phillips and a member of his regi ment, was badly wounded and went into the hospital which was established at Florence, and into which the disabled from both armies were admitted. For the good women of the town turned sisters of charity and ministered to all sufferers, regardless of the color of uni form worn. And one of Billy Neal's first visitors, after Federal con trol was assured, was Colonel Phillips. A few days later the Colonel came again and sat by his old friend while the ghastly duty of amputation was per formed, strengthening him with his sympathy and cheering him with the kind words of an old friend. The Union force was soon afterward withdrawn from Florence, but the patients remained in the hospital there, and so strong was the Colonel's attach ment for his unfortunate friend that he several times went back to the Alabama town to see him. At length the Con federates came back and occupied the city, throwing out pickets and holding the place with all due formality,but with no great force and with no intention of making a fight to hold it against superior numbers. And the first time after this reoccupation, occurred when Colonel Phillips announced his intention ot going to see Billy Neal, his brother officers ad vised him to forego the visit. The boy was in good hands and doing well, they argued. The women of Florence were as attentive to him and those of the North as to those of the South and it would do no good togo there and chase the Johnnies out. But be was going. He pulled his slouch hat over his eyes and started for permission togo scouting with 200 men. He swore quietly as he went about it, and those who see these signs in Judge Jesse Phillips to this day know he means what he says. The Ninth was mounted infantry at this time, and if the dashing Colonel didn't LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892. take 200 of the best riders and tlio best fighters it was because he didn't know who they were. They went across the Tennessee River and cams dashing up at the town as fiercely as the Assyrians when they came down liKe a wolf on the fold. The simile ended there, however, for Colonel Phillips and bin men took the town beyond a doubt and spent a day there visiting comrades in the hospital and renewing such socialties as had been formed during the Yankee occupation of the previous months. Some of the shrewd soldiers noticed that the haudsome Colonel seemed a heap more interested in one of the young women nurses than in poor Billy Neal, and when they mounted to ride back they felt like chaffing him about it. But you can't chaff Jesso Phillips much, and never could. The Confederates didn't care much about Florence, Ala., just then, anyway, so they let the Federals have it, and did not soon regarrison the place. All the summer and fall of 1863 the Colonel took occasional trips across country, with the ostensible object of seeing Billy Neal, even continuing them long after that young man had got well and gone home. If the army was busy the Colonel was all contentment, but when the troops lay around with out employment simply watching, he would fuss for a day or two and then announced that he was going over to Florence to see Billy. Nothing could break liini of the habit, and nothing coald satisfy him when he reached the town but a visit to that same kind-hearted girl who had forgotten all North, all South, in the greater problem of suffering men. lie didn't talk about her much, but his associates knew he would give up one of his coal-black eyes any day for the privilege of possessing her. And it didn't seem unreasonable to expect he would win her. She received him kindly, she treated liira well; she really appeared to love him. The Confederates had been gradually creeping back into Western Alabama. They seemed to waut the river and the good towns up there, and Major Falken burg, who was in command of their forces at Tuscurabia, sent over the river and stationed two companies of men in the town, meeting with no sort of opposi tion. The Union fiorces were massed at Decatur now, and all through the fall the two opposing forces relaxed the rules of war a little andl traded coffee and tobacco, bread and meat, and such little things as did not give combative aid or comfort to an enemy. Big stories Major Falkenburg came up to Coiotiel Phillips's ears from the soldiers who talked about the Johnnies, and there was no evidence wanting that he was a big man where ho was known. One night in October, as a private in the North Illinois Mounted Infantry was swapping truck with a Confederate, he was informed incidentally that the com mander of the Confederate forces was going to get marriedl. "Who is your Major Falkenburg going to marry?" deniandt-d the Northerner. "Oh, a Miss Chairity Blank, at Flor ence. She's a regular stunner. No nuther such a woman iu all Alabama," said the admiring Johnny. The information dtifted up through the various grades of loyal blue and finally fell on the ears of Colonel Phil lips. "Fires of TophetP raved the Colonel, "she shan't marry ham," with a rising in flection on the last pronoun, expressive of the unfitness of such a fate for Miss Charity Blank. But what about it? He had nothing to eay. Ho walked around his tent and triod to think of something else; tried to forget this, tried to see some way through it, tried at last to stop the banns. The marriage was announced for Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, and this was Sunday. He fussed arouud till he got permission togo out with another detail of 200 men, for it was well known the Confederates were again in Florence. Tuesday afternoon he started, made a masterly detour, and just before sun down faced straight for Florence. He strnck a patch of canebr.ike about mid night, for the march had never been abated for darkness. Here he hid his men and there they stayed all night, all day Wednesday, and just at dusk they crept out, six miles from Florence, and pulled for the town. The surprise was complete. It still lacked an hour of 8 o'clock, and when the rattle of musketry which told of flying Confederates had died away the Federals were in com mand. They threw outpickets and surrounded a good portion of the residence district, particularly the home of old Judge Blank, where Colonel Philips had often visited. It wasn't as light as a house of wedding ought to be, but the Colonel dismounted and knocked at the door. Just what he meant to do nobody knew. Maybe he will tell by now, but, having driven away the doughty Major, he had little fears he could win the Major's charmer. Judge Blank himself answered the summons at the door. His colored help had grown too strong to work since the Federals came down. He wasn't very well dressed, and he was a good deal frightened. But the familiar figure of Colonel Phillips reassured him. "Why, Colonel," he said, "is it you? Come in." "It is I," said Phillips grimly,going ir. They entered the parlor and sat down. The Judge apologized for not appearing in fuller dress, and after his apology was accepted conversation flagged a little. There was nothing in the rather strained relations of Southern and Northern to make them specially sociable, yet they had frequently met on cordial terms,and did so again this time. But it soon hap pened that thefe was nothing more to talk about, and then Colonel Phillips re vealed the secret of his preoccupation by asking "Where is Miss Charity?" •'Charity?" said the father, a little surprised and a little inclined to culti vate a twinkle in his left eye. "Oh, she's married." "Married!" shouted the Colonel, leap ing to his feet. "The dickens!" "To whom are you referring?" asked the old man, sober in an instant, but carefully polite. "Oh, to no one—certainly not to her. Who married her?" "Rev. Dr. Brown, of the First Bap tist—" "No; I mean to whom was she mar ried?" Colonel Phillips was getting very angry. "To Major Falkenburg, of the Con federate Army. They left for Tuscuinbia last night—right after the wedding." The Federal officer was an extremely angry, an awfully chagrined man. lie could have prevented that marriage, but some fiend sent him the news that the ceremony would occur Wednesday night instead of Tuesday. He raved around for a time a really pitiful object, for he did love that little girl, and he knew he was worthy of her, but he could not undo the work of the past day and night, so when the passion of dissappointment had exhausted him he left his men back to camp—for all the world like the King of France, who with Twenty thousand men marched up the hill, then down again. The happy Major of Confederate gray had a hint that Phillips would rob him if lie could, and so he had announced the wedding for a day later than it was really to occur, and immediately after the ceremony he and his bride rode horseback to the Tennessee River and hailed the ferry man. But Yankee caution had long before driven ferry boats from the river, and no one re sponded. There was no bridge then as there is now, and there was nothing for it but to hunt up and down the bank for a skill. To add to their trouble the canebrake was so thick and tangled they bad to abandon the horses and creep along the water's edge through the damp and the dark till way past midnight be fore their search was rewarded. When they finally found a skiff and got across the river not a inan iu Tuscumbia would receive so dilapidated-looking a couple, and it was broad day before they could get either food or lodging. But they were married and are yet, getting gray and fat together in a pleasant Southern city, resigned to everything in life, even to the final vanquishment of Major Falkenburg and his brave legion. Colopcl Phillips and his men returned to camp and two days later, while the offi cers were basking in the sun,a flag of truce approached the picket lines. Major Clements was Provost Marshal of the region at tho time and he went out to meet the messenger of some sort of peace. He found it was a hireling of Major Falkenburg, bearing a great bas ket with about two bushels of wedding cake which Mrs. Charity had baked with her own hauds and sent him—her parting shot in the campaign. The messenger was reeived with all courtesy, was entertained as became a belligerent in the time of temporary cessation of hostilities and was given safe conduct out side the lines when formalities had been complied with. Then Colonel Phillips, making the best ot a bad matter, shared his cake with his command and was bet ter liked than ever. That was a long time ago. The foe of Confederate majors came home indue season, honored by service and sancti fied by wounds, and after some years of patient, honest work won a high place at the bar, which he has never since dimmed by any act unmanly. Years ago he married his choice of all women and lives with her yet, laughing with her now and then when some old com rade chaffs him about his raid into Flor ence or his bushels of wedding cake.— Chicago Herald. Early Marriages of Royalty. A glance at the pages of history re veals the fact that early marriages have long been the fashion among earth's royal personages. Here are a few in stances:- Queen Victoria was married when she was scarcely twenty-one, and the Prince of Wales espoused Princess Alexandra before he was twenty-two. The Emperor of Austria took to wife the radiant Elizabeth of Bavaria when he was not yet twenty-four years old. The present Czar of Russia was twenty-one when he gave his hand to Prineess Dag mar of Denmark (who was two years his junior). King Humbert of Italy was twenty-four at the time of his marriage to the fair Marguerite of Savoy(then a girl of only seventeen). The present King and Queen of the Belgians were one eighteen and the other seventeen at the time of their wedding. And the late King of Spain, Alphonso XII., was very little older when he formed his brier, bright union with his charming cousin, Mor cedes. He was only twenty-two when he married his second wife, the present Queen regent. And it was at the same age that tne present Emperior of Ger many wat united to Augusta Victoria of Schleowig-Ilolstein-Augustenburg. The unfortunate Prince Rudolph of Austria was twenty-two at the date of his iii starred union to Princess Stephanie at Belgium.—Chicago Post- Terms—sl.2s in Advance; 51.50 after Three Montfc* SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Parsley is poisonous to many kinds of birds. There are 365 electric roads in this country. Only nine per cent, of all operations in amputations are fatal. Conch shells, when ground, enter into the manufacture of porcelain. Electricity is to be applied to the flour milling interests in St. Paul, Minn. Ammonia as a motive power is coming into use on various street car lines. France's latest torpedo boat made twenty-three knots and a half in a bad sea. Good peat in Germany furnishes a eel • lulose which is valuable to paper makers. The phonograph is now used in hospi tals for the purpose of studying the auditory characteristics of pulmonary dis ease. The Liverpool (England) Elevated Railway will be worked by electricity, using motor cars instead of separate locomotives. An Antwerp (Belgium) inventor has patented a system of ventilation by com pressed air, for use in the holds and cabins of vessels. A recent English invention is a screw propeller in which the blades can be ad justed fcr maneuvering or can be feathered for running under sail. Four tons of grapes to tho acre are said to take from the soil three pounds of nitrogen, twelve pounds of phos phoric acid and forty pounds ol potash. In calming the ocean by means of oil, it has been found that petroleum and mineral oils in general are indequate for the purpose, and tnat train oil is tho most effective. The heaviest freight locomotives built nowadays weigh 115,000 pounds and their tenders loaded weigh 64,000 Sounds. Passenger coaches weigh 50,- 00 pounds and the palatial Pullmans run up to 95,000. Dr. Valentini, of Konigsberg, Prussia, who has met with phenomenal success in the treatment of typhoid fever, gives his patients all the water, milk, etc., they can drink. He says tho fluids eliminate the poisons in the system. The first ingot of nickle steel to be used for the manufacture of armor for tho United States Na'. j v;as cast in a mold weighing fifty-six tons. The ingot weighed 60,000 pounds. This armor plate will be used on the Maine. A snake moves by means of the ribs and the scales on the abdomen, to which each rib is attached by a set. of short muscles. These scales take hold of the surface over which the serpent may be passing, and in that manner aid the creature to glide, often very rapidly, around the trunks of trees and along the smaller branches. Machinery is now made for the manu facture of all kinds of casks and tubs, so that no handwork is required. Flour barrels are made in this way for six cents each, and other kinds in proportion. If butter tirkins sell for forty cents each, it seems as if the business of making them, where lumber is cheap, might be profitable, if the cost of shipment was paid by the purchaser. A Norwegian farmer has invented a curious lock in which the bolt is released by a stroke troni a pendulum bob. The pendulum, invisible from the outside, is moved sufficiently by blowing sharply several times through a hole in the door, but the puffs of air can be giveu at the proper time only by swinging a key pen dulum, previously adjusted, to vibrate in unison with the lock pendulum. Air plows, V-shaped contrivances, to be placed ou the front of engines of fast express trains, are the latest scheme to get more speed by overcoming much of the natural resistance of the air to the front of the locomotive. Tne plow ex tends from a few inches above the track to the top of the smokestack, the sharp edge, of course, in front. "Shoveling fog" is a common expression among rail road men, but plowing wind is a new thing in railroad agriculture. Saved From Suicide by His Dog. An intelligent pet dog owned by Louis Schmidt, of Cauidem, N. J., has prevented him from committing suicide. Schmidt is just recovering from a serious attack of typhoid fever, which left him very nervous and subject to fits of mel ancholia. lie was seized with one of those spells Monday night, and while his wife was asleep stole to the kitchen. Here he procured a rope, and, making a noose, tied one end to an iron hook in the wall. Then procuring a chair he adjusted the rope, aud kicking away the chair swung himself off, as he thought, into into eternity. But, unknown to Schmidt, his faithful dog had followed him, and instinctively knowing some thing was wrong the intelligent animal went back into the bedroom whining pitifully. Finally he awoke Mrs. Schmidt lay tugging at the bed clothing and rub bing his cold nose in her face, and she followed the dog down stairs as soon as she missed her husbaud. There she found him hanging trom the hook. She managed to cut him down in timo to save his life.—Philadelphia Times. The writer who taxed his ingenuity never knew what a low valuation the editor would put upon the property asuessed.—Truth. KO. 26. COLD IN THE STARS. [A meteorite recently found contained gold in its composition. Several scientific men of considerable note consider this aa proof positive that there is gold in the stars.) Ho, poor folks all over the earth! Have you heard it, the beautiful news, To relieve you from poverty's dearth, And to save you from poverty's blues? A meteor fell in the West That was striped with auriferous bars, And scientists therefore have guessed That there's plenty of gold in the stars. Then away with all hunger and woe. And away with all sorrow and want, Let your spirits exultingly flow While you join in the glorious chaunt. Oh, why be with sorrow oppressed? There is gold in Arcturus and Mars, In the Dipper, the Twins aud the rest- There is plenty of gold in the stars! 0, ye toilers with sensitive souls, Who are chained to a tedious grind. Now the burden away from you rolls And is left in the distance beiiind. Cast the shackles that bound you away And forget the disfigured soars— You can soar as you will from to-day. There is plenty of gold in the stars. Oh, ye slaves to the rigors of fate. Who live but to struggle for bread, Whose love has been curdled to hate Till ye sigh for the peace of the dead; Bid good-by to the era of wrong, Bid good-by to the pitiless bars Behind wuich ye have strugglodso long, There is plenty of gold iu the stars. Let us hear of injustice no more. Nor of riot surrounded by dearth; God is merciful now as of yore, And has never forgotten the earth. Ye who grovel in poverty's ditch, Look to Jupiter, Venus and Mors; They are nearer by far than the rich. And there's plenty of gold in the stars I —•George Horton, in Chicago Herald. HUMOR OF Tin: D4Y. When the tired mother asks her hus band to take the baby he is apt to an swer, "I don't mind.'"—Union County Standard. Police Captain—"Did you catch that murderer last night?" Detective—"No, i but I dreamed I had a clew."—'New j York Weekly. Bjenkins—"lsn't Bjones a very liberal man?" Bjohnson—"Yes; I don't know | bow many times I have heard him give , himself away."—Lowell Citizen. Jack Spratt took anti-fat. His wife took anti-lean. And so betwixt them both They struck a happy mean. —Detroit Free Press. Nothing Like a Change: She—"Since j my return from the south of France I'm | another woman." Sarcastic Friend— | "How delighted your husband must be." 1 —Fun. Bilious—"l sleep in feathers, but I be lieve it's not healthful." Toflnut— | "What's tha(y look at vour spring ! chicken—see how tough he is."—New | York Herald. Everybody knows a woman is hard to | please. She likes the matrimonial I harness, but doesn't like to be hitched | up with a man who is strapped.—Bing- I hamtou Republican. Gave It Up and Guessed It: "What 1 does a volcano do with lava?" asked | Freddy. "Give it up," replied his father. "That's right," said Freddy.— Harper's Young People. The proposed fast mail trains from New York to Chicago will have one serious drawback. They will land the London comic papers here several hours earlier.—Chicago Times. Cora—"Why do you think Attorney Jimpson is destined to become a Supreme Judge?" Dora—"lie says he has de cided lam the prettiest girl lie ever saw."—New York Herald. Teacher of Physiology—"What in gredient which is highly essential in tho composition of the human body does sugar possess?" Pupils (in one voice) —"Sand."—Pharmaceutical Era. Haughty Lady (who has purchased a stamp)—" Must I put it on myself?" Stamp Clerk—"Not necessarily. It will probably accomplish more if you put it on the letter."—New York Ilerald. "Sir, you have insulted ine. I here by challenge you to a duel with pistols. My name is Hare.'' "Indeed! Then you'll have to wait cill I have procured a shooting license."—Kolner Tageblatt. Passenger (in a railway car) —"Can't you make room there? All the other seats are full." Twoseats—"Go along; can't you see that lam sick?" Passen ger—"What's the matter; trichinosis?" —New York Sun. Serious Artist—"l think you kccw the model for this figure—poor beggar, deaf and dumb." Light-hetrted Friend "I know—used to sit at corner of street. Deaf and dumb! By Jove, you've trade a 'speaking' likeness of him! Wonder full"— Punch. Johnny—"Where are you going?" Tommy—"Home. Don't you hearmaw a callin' me?" "That's nolhin'. She called you two or three times before." "Yes, but she's out at the peach tree now cuttin' oil an ultimatum."—lndiana polis Journal. "There go the Spicer Wilcoxes, mamma! I'm told they're trying to know us. Hadn't we better call?" "Cer tainly not, dear. If they're dyiug to know us, they're not worth knowing. The only people worth our knowing are the people who don't want to know usl" —Punch.
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