SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. X. There arc now 3715 places in the ITnited States which have h population ol more than 1000. Tolstoi, the Russian philosopher, says that the least complicated and shortest rule of morals that he knows is to get others to work for you as little as possi ble and work yourself as much as possi ble for them; make the fewest call upon the services ot your neighbors, and ren der them the maximum number of ser vices yourself. Few people perhaps are aware of the fact, believes the Huston Transcript, that there was once a Postmistress- General. She did not serve in this country or iu the present century, but the fact that a woman ever served in that capacity is indeed remarkable. Denmark was the home of this remark able woman, whose name was Countess Gyldenlore, or Dorothea Krag, as she was called during her term of office, which extended from the year 1703 to 1711. The present postal system in that country, waic'a Is considered one of the best in the world, was inaugurated by her. Professor Jameson, of Brown Univer sity, is lecturing on tho historic colonial mansions on the James River in Vir ginia, especially those at Shirley, West over and Upper and Lower Brandon. This region and the country about Will iamsburg, which the professor designates as "the quaintest placa in the English portion of America,"was once a virgin field of discovery for the see'.ter after old colonial furniture. Many a rare find of ancient mahogany tables and sideboards has been made thereabouts, and quaint Chippendale chairs used to be found there in numbers—interesting objects of treasures-trove that could be secured for the proverbial song. But time has changed all that, and such articles when discovered there now are held at fair price. It is said that much of this sort of colonial furoitare may be obtained nowadays iu parts of Kentucky, rare pieces having been inherited by the present generation of lventuckians from their Virginia ancestors. People who think that the free-pass business is carried to extremes in the United States should note how they do it iu Russia. The Railroad Gazette says that the Russian railroads have been ac custoired to give free pusses not only to their employes, but to relative of their employes, a practice which may have been heard on this side of tiie Atlantic. The term "relatives," however, has been found to be extremely clastic, aud re cently the Great Russian Company put its foot down and issued positive ovders that hereafter pusses will be granted to no other relatives of employes tlum their wives, though a trifling reduction of seventy per cent, on the prices of tickets will be made to paren':-, brothers and sisters of employes and of their wives,but all aunts, cousins find stepmothers must pay full fares. If your brothel receives a salary of ;va much as £750 from the company, you can get your disccuut only on first-cla«s tickets; if lie has from 150 to $750, you have second-class tickets; if less than *!"><>, third-class tickets. The ides of the bicyclo railroad liuds favor nt Seattle. A linn is soon to ho constructed between that city and Taco ma. The contract calls for its c >m|>le tion within a year. The following de scription is given of the road: "There will l»« two tracks, each of a single line of steel rails. A Umber will he laid on the ground acrosi the width of both tracks at intervals of tweuty feet, an I across these, lengthwise of the track, lOxl'J-inch stringers will be laid, to which the rails will be spilced. To each end of the sills will be bolte 1 upright timber* inches md eighteen feet high, with 4sHdncb braes*. These up rights will be couuecte I overhead by a cap, which will ..upport a litinch wooilen guidi rail, directly above e*eu line of rails. The cars will run uu wheels under then centre ei wheel will (evolve ' i «t the under Side ol this rail, p»u««iu., . - tint it an■* ><»• to replai th« tin* l»rs with it*-'I »u tu la»t that sould uot be, aud '.lie old hor.e joggetl into (he woods, aud Johu uevei thought Ins old Aunt tlanuah, his th-it.'t lot t«mty loug years, Has tun Mia:.- away - ,\l tfcwluu * kllnlly MWlwlM buu^ltt U*i * Uiluugli 111 ltd lui INju-'h "It 1 « lung lui Ml ullt Uly Ilk.: )««»," U" Mill. ' Uui l iM «tui ul ■»> •g«," »U Mia LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1892. anxiously; I never bed a Clay's sickness since I was a gal." "Going all the way alone?" '•With Providence," she answered brightly, alert and eager to help herself, but silent and thoughtful as the train took her into strange landscape where the miles where the landscape went so swiftly it seemed like the past years of her life as she looked back on them. "Thy works are marvelous," she mur muied often, sitting, with her hands folded, and few idle days had there been in the world where she had sat and rested so long. In the day coach the people were kind and generous, sharing their baskets with her and seeing she changed cars right and her carpetbag was safe. She was like any of the dear old grandmas in Easteru homes, or to grizzled men and women like the memory of our diJad mother, as faint and far away as the scent of wild roses in a hillside country bury ing ground. She tended babies for tired women and talked to tha men of farming and crops or told the children Bible stories, but never a word she said of her self, not one. On again, guided by kindly hands through the great bewildering city by the lake, and now through yet a strange land. Tired and worn by night in the uncomfortable seats her brave spirit be gan to fall a little. As the wide, level plains, lonely and drear, dawned on her sight she sighed often. "It's a dre'ful big world," she said to a gray bearded old farmer near her; "so big I feel e'enmost lost in it, but," hope fully, "across them deserts like this long ago Providence sent a star to guide tliein wiie men of the East, an' 1 hain't lost my faith." But as the day wore on, and still the long, monotonous land showed no human habitation, no oasis of greon, her eyes dimmed, something like a sob rose under the black kerchief on the bowed should ers, and the spectacles were taken oil with trembling hand and put away care fully in the worn tin case. "Be ye goin' fur, mother?" said the old farmer. lie had bought her a cup of coffee at the last stition, aud had pointed out on the way things he thought might interest her. "To Denver." "Wal, wal; you're from New England, I'l be bound." "From Maine," she answered; and then she gTew communicative, for she was always n chatty old lady, and she had possessed her soul in silence so lo ■ and it was a relief to tell the story of her weary years of waiting to a kiudly lis tener. She told him all the relations she had were two grand nephews and their fami lies. That twenty years ago Sam (for she had brought them up when their parents died of consumption, that takes so many of our folks) went out West. He was always adventurous, and for ten years .she did not hear from him; but John was different and steady, and when he came of age she had given him her farm, with the provision that she should always have a home, otherwise he would have gone away, too. Well for years they were happy, then John married, and his wife had grown to think her a bur den as the years went on, and the chil dren when they grew big did not care for her; she felt that she had lived too long. "I growe I so lonesome," she said pathetically, "it seems I couldn'tjtake up heart to live day by day, an'.'yit I knowed our folks was long lived. Ten years back, when Sain wrote he was doin' fair an' scut mo money. I begun to thiuk of him; fur he was alius generous an' kind, an' the gratefulest boy, an' so I began to save togo to him, fur 1 knowed 1 could work my board for a good many years to come. Fur threj years he ain't hardly wrote, but 1 laid that to the wild kentry he lived iu. I said b'ars and injuus don't skeer me noue, fur when I was a gal up in Aroostuk kentry there was plenty of both, an' as fur bullalers them horned cattle dou't skeer me uoue. fur I've been used to a farm alius. But the lone sumuess of these medders ha* sorter up sot lite and made me think every duy Sain was further off thau 1 ever calc'lated on." "But what will you do if S an ain't in Denver!" asked tho farmer. "I hev put uiy faith in Providence," | the answered simply, ami the stranger could nortuar that trust by any word of warning. lie gave her his address ts he got .iff at the Nebraska liue, aud told Iter to tend him word if she needed help. With a warm hand clasp he |>ai'tcd fr.nu her I" join the phantoms in iter memory of "folks that had beet! kind lo her, Go I bless me," aud then the traiu was ruiu-. bling on. But litany of tiie |m*.-*sugers had is teiied to Iter story aud were interest*.!, aud they cantc to *it with her. One pale, little lis. 1 iu a Seat in front, lurued lo look at her uow and then uud to answer Iter smite, lie was gotu to the new couutry for health aud wealth, poor tail, oulv lo tlu I eternal re»t iu the ■uuuy laud, but his last day* brighieaed by the reward for his thoughtful acts of ktndnvss. "She probably brought llt.Me Isiy* up,' ha thought, "sud denied hsrllli for them. I» >he to an. g >o*i lit lb. world tl that l-e so." He thought ol liei and i»"k .til Ins put. I'hero w»« MI little money in it. tuo.es.o 1,1,1 male a bin hole in lit* »t Mfe, tut the I i injiniin»«wi irrf a go<>'t de.»i wa W'.ith loutsibiug "1 Htjis t ht*s lbs sitss.' to do m%ny more," thought the lad, but toning his worn overcoat. He slipped oft without a word at a station aud sent a telegram to Denver. "To Samuel Blair"—for be had caught the name from her talk—"Your Aunt Hannah Blair is on the W. and W. train coming to you." It was only a straw, but a kindly wind might blow it to the right one after all. When he was sitting there after his message had gone on its way, she leaned over and handed him a peppermint drop from a package in her pocket. "You don't look strong, dearie," sho said, "hain't ye no folks with ye?" "None on earth." '•We're both lone ones," she smiled; "an' how sad it be there ain't no one to fuss over ye. Aur' be kecrful of the drafts, and keep flannels alius on your chist; that is good for the lung 3." "You are very kind to take an interest in me," he smiled, "but I am afraid it is too late." Another night of weary slumber in the cramped seats and then the plain began to bo dotted with villages, and soon ap peared the straggling outskirts of a city, the smoke of mills, the gleam of the Platte River and a network of iron rails, bright and shining, as the train ran shrieking into the labyrinth of its des tination. "This is Denver," said the lad to her, "and I'll look after you as well as I can." "I won't be no burden," she said brightly. "I've twenty dollars yet, an' that's a sight of money." The train halted to let the eastward bound express pass; there was an air of excitement in the car, passengers getting ready to depart, gathering up luggage and wraps, und some watching the new comers and the rows of strange faces on the outward bound. The door of the car slammed suddenly, and a big bearded man with eager blue eyes came down the aisle, looking sharply from right to left. Ho had left Deuver on the express to meet this train. His glance fell on the tiny black figure. "Why, Aunt Hannah!" ho cried, with a break in his voice, aud she—she put out her trembling hand and fell into the big arms, tears streaming down the wrinkled face. "I knowed Providence would let me find ye, Sam," she said brokenly, :.ndno ] one smiled when the big man sat down beside her and with gentle hand wiped her tears away. "Why, I've sent John twenty >J ''tn j a month for five years for you," he said ; angrily, as she told him why she rat i away, ' 'and he said you could not write, | for you had a stroke and was helpless, ! and I have written often and sent you ' money. It's hard for a man to called his own brother a villain. "Wis wun't, Sam," she said gently, "but just furgit; anil I wouldn't be a burden to ye, iur I can work yit, an' for years to come." j "Work, indeed! don't I owe you ■ everything?" he cried. "And my wife I has longed for you to come. There are i so few dear old aunts iu this country, | they're prized, I tell you. Why, it's as I good as a royal court of arms to have a I dear handsome old womau like you for a I relation." Then he found out who sent the tele ' gram and paid the lad, who blushed and stammered like a girl and did not waut ' to take it. "I suppose you want a job," said the j big man. "Well, I cau give you one. I'm in the food commission business. Give you something light? Lots of your i sort, poor lad, out here. All the refer ! ence I want is that little kindness of 1 yours to Aunt Haunah." "Here's the depot, Aunt Hannah, and ' you won't see 'bars and Injuns' nor the buffaloes; sunniest city you ever set your j dear eyes on." He picked up the earpet bag, failed anil old fashioned, not a bit ashamed of it, though it looked as if Noah might have carried it to tho ark. They said g odby, and the last seen of her was her happy old face beaming from a carriage window as she rolled away to what all knew would be a pleasant home for all her wauing years, j —New Vork Herald. The Astronomers Are Puzzled. One of the most mysterious caaugcs witnessed iu the ever-changing solar sys tem is the variation iu the brightness of the moons of Jupiter. Two of the four satellites occasionally cro*tt the planet's disc a* dark objects, although it is kuowti that their «unuy sides aru presented to us and >dioul I appear no less brilliantly il luminated than the piauet itself. Tin third and fourth satellites ofteu make these .lark transits and the first is some - i time, seen as i brown object, but tha second has ucv. r been noticed otherwise than as a bri.lit doc. i'lte phenomenon still remains »■. ithotil satisfactory eaplana -1 nou.--St Louis Kcpublic. Masterpiece of Burmese Art. I'lin.e li.su.ai> k has just received a ' valuable present Irutu the German colouy l in Burma)!. It cuu*i«U of a ceutre piece of solid s 'Ver two lest long and lliree ' let l high Ihe pedestal Is entirely .>v ered with tieaotlftilly worked figure*, and 'ifwtftMt*, CMli of * hi. II carries a bugu ivory tusk, which is hollowed out and die orates! with liui.li. se ear Vlug*. I'll!* gilt is pionuuu.ed by eSpclt* In he the ' itiiMl liiitsl. iplti. U of li.itiitcse .|TI industry which ha* ever leashed l.afupi.. - Ksa York IV»t. Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; 51.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AMI INDUSTRIAL. E'ectric welding is now applied to the work of manufacturing iron wheels. Zinc expands up to the melting point. A bar of zinc six inches long will cxpanu 1 1-100 of an inch in rais ing the temperature 100 degrees F. The average mortality of unmarried men between the ages of twenty and twenty-fivo is 1174 in every 100,000, while that of married men is only snr. It is stated that a Gorman firm has perfected a means of making a profitable disposition of sawdust. An acid is mixed with the sawdust and tho wholo mass molded into blocks or any other form, resulting in a fine material for building purposes. A new machine is being used in England to level the tips and nails in the bottoms of boots and shoes and to produce a fine polish and finish hitherto impossible by hand work. The machine is arranged to run by power and is firmly placed on an iron base, with counter shafting and pulleys. A design of an electric boat, pro pelled by a sea-water battery, has been exhibited before the French Academy of Sciences. The battery plates are uuder the boat, in the form of a keel, and the current generated drives a motor oper ating the screw. The plates (copper or zinc) are raised or lowered by means of pulleys. lu the Electricity Building at the World's Fair, Chicago, there will be forty thousand panes of glass, or more than in any other exposition structure. This building will be especially con spicuous at night, as, owing to its ex tensive glass surface, the brilliancy of its electrical exhibit will be strikingly visible from the outside. Thomas Median says that striking variations in plants occur at times sud denly by bud variation as well as .by seeds. The curled-leaved weeping willow suddenly assumed this character on a tree of the ordinary kind; the red sweet potato is also a bud variation from the ordinary white variety; the double flowered tuberose is believed to have originated by bud variation. One of tho most attractive of the ex hibits at the Frankfurt Exposition is that in which the process of manufactur ing the celebrated Sevres china is shown to the public. Bohemian girls, attired in their national costume, manipulate the plastic clay and wax int* ':!e—like leaves ami birds. The mass is theu placed in a furnace and the heat- is so regulated as to solidify the substance without the least fracture. A second furnace evaporates all that is left of the wax, leaving a very friable dead white cliin.i flower. On this the coloring artist reproduces the delicate shading of the natural flower ami the article is again placed in the furnace to burn the color. A Philadelphia scientist has made an analysis of the brains of a gorilla, and the results of his investigation are calcu lated to give little comfort to those who have maintained there is only a ''missing link" between man and the gorilla in the chain of evolution. It was found that the brain of the gorrilla was really of a much lower order of dcvelopemcut than that of the ourang-autaug or the chim panzee. The gorilla's frontal lobe, in stead of being round and convex, was pointed and concave, and the lower portion of tin- brain, visible lu the chimpanzee at well as man, is missing. Tht! gorilla, instead of standing at the head of tin monkey tribe, is lower than nt least two other members of it. No Wonder Indians Are Ikying Out. Tho conversation hail drifted onto Indians, and apropos of the topic a lum berman in the office remarked that at tho last camp on I'rairie Kiver, from which he had just returned, he had seen a goodly group of these noble aborigines camped near the lumber shanties. "They cum* to look after a horse," said he. "Lost a horse/" "No,we lost one; got killed, ami they came down to cut him up." "What fort" "Why, to eat him. I'bey stayed right by the carcass and hung up ami driud every pouud of meat ou him. IJucer low they found it out The horse hadn't been dead twenty four hours before the whole tribe were after him. crows cou opu!atloii when you know wiiat ihey eat. Minneapolis (Mlliu.) Lumberman I'rnlt Price* lii I'iuueer Hays. The i trly fruit growers of Oregon had a wonderful market for a few years at San Kraut two. I u IHM 500 bushels ot apples were shipped from Oregon to California, aud returuvd a u«t pr.illt of rmmll.Sot- s'ipu pound. iu IMS the shiftmen.* rose to tIMM bush«U, will, h K' 'ld at froiu »-> to #.'ln a bushel, lu th<- shipments rose to"1" 000 bone*. Even tu tin* year big prise* were received, and lor t holee fruit laoey tig* ures Here M ,lllcl, on- lv ol K*«pU» ■pit*, ill* I -illtin for #*o. I'lle t ill lotlitalis pi. ,t. I tppU 1n.., sui att'i !*#•» lite shipment ol t,.pl. . Horn Of I _* to d*s 111.. Apple lalsin,; was inn pi. >liM I lie lb in 'ld mining for the lust i.all I u yeais of the iu.ln.lir it Oiv."ii i kOu n '"t'l Until. NO. 29, WHEN THE COWS COMB HOM*. With the klingle, klangle, Far down the dusky dingle The cows are coming home. Now sweet and clear, and faint and low, *" * The airy tinklings come and go, I>ike chimlngs from a far off tower. Or pntterings of an April Bhower That makes the daises grow. Koling, kolang, kolingelingle. Far down the darkening dingle The cows comes slowly home. w And old time friend 3 and twilight playa, And starry nights and sunny days. Come trooping up the misty ways When the cows come home. With jingle, jangle, jingle. Soft tones that swelling mingle, The cows are coming home; Malvine, and Pearl and Florimel, DeKamp, Red Hose and Gretchen Schell, Queen Be«s and Sylph and spangled Sue, Across the field I hear their 100-o-o And clang of silver bell. Goling, golang, golingelingle, j With faint, far sounds that mingle. The cows come slowly home. And mother songs of long gone years, And baby joys and childish tears, , And youthful hopes and youthful fears. When the cows come home. With ringle, rangle, ringle, By twos and threes and single, The cows are coming home. j Through violet air we seethe town. And the summer sun a-skipping down, And the maple in the hazel glade Throws down the path a longer shade. And the hills are growing browu Toring, torang, toringleringle. By threes and fouis and single, The cows come slowly home. The same sweet sound of wordless psalm. The same sweet June-day rest and calm. The same sweet smell of buds and balm, When the cows come home. With tinkle, taukle, tinkle. Through fern and periwinkle, The cows are coming home; A-loitering in the checkered stream, Where the sun's rays glance and gleam, Clarine, Penehbloom, Pbebe and Phillis, Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies. In a drowsy dream. Tolink, tolank, tolinklelinkie, O'er banks with buttercups a-twinkla, The cows come slowly home. And up through memory's deep ravine Come the brook's old song and its old-time sheen, And the crescent of the silver queen, W hen the cows come home. With klingle, klangle, klingle, With 100-oo and moo-oo and lingle. The cows are coming home; And over there, on the Merlin hill. Sounds tbe plaintive cry of tho whip-poor will. And the dew-drops lie 011 the tangled vines, And over the poplars Venus shines And over the silent mill. Koling, kolang, kolinglelingle, - ;''J With a ting-a-ling and a jingle. The cows come slowly home. Let down the bars, let in the train ' Of long-gone song and flowers and rain. For dear old times come back again When the cows come home. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Startling figures—Ghosts. A catch phrase—Sick hira I A man may be lantern-jawed anil yet his face never light up.—Kaston Free Press. The astronomer who has made a tele scopic discovery is naturally proud of his good looks. The moon is above all human follies ami always looks down on lovers.—El ulira Gazette. A coal dealer cau't be a musician. Ho can never learn to ruu the scale accurate ly,—liinghutntou Republican. The most dangerous "charge of tho light brigade" is that made by the gas office clerk.—Columbus l'ost. When i man is "beside himself" he generally demonstrates that he doesn't like the company.—Bostou Courier. Plenty »>f tall men are "short," loose men • 'tight," cod men "warm" and big men "small."-—Puiladelpbia Record. From the prescriptions of some physi cian-., it is evident that they have for gotten their boyhood.—Columbus Pott. "Will the coining uiau use both arlus?" 'itki u scientist. "\cs, if he cau trust lite girl to handle the reius."—«• Pitilndclphia Press. Prominence has its drawbacks. The drum major doesn't see Bear aa much of the parade as the man ou the curbitoue. —lndianapolis News. Anarchist—"We espeul to argue our CHUM with bombs, sir!" tjuiet Cilumi —"A bomb, my friend, is an argument that has been > iploded long ago."- Chicago Inborn Jut won (at the restaurant) —"Waiter, givi me some chicken »alid anil a bottle of ioda " Jagsoa— "Give me tbe same.'' Jobson (who is from ll«*tou>— "Kv use me; it cannot be the * -tine say, similar."- -Shoe and latallitn lie porter. Kutlini li—."How is that little luiuing scheme of your ifettiu.. aloug I Any uuu>«) ill u " VN • cub it "Auy money in it' • 1,1 sbuiihl -ay an! All of mine, ■ I 1 •( lit) * lie's, >iittl about tifty ihumoul 1 lu»t I got I rum my frien.l»" - Huston I i.uiiei A W«i|bl # >'ai« envoy to Aftlca as tomsbtil the uaitvvs wtlb *u t.ii.>(|is|>b and talking dolU.