SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. YOL. XI. Mexico ia seriously considering plana for building a navy. The assessable personal property in New York City is set down at $1,800,-» 000,000, but only nbaut one-fifth of that amount is actually taxed. W. 11. Mallock declares in the Forum that Scott and Dickens are not only read by many people, but they are read by more people to-day than they ever were before. In the consular district of Picdras Ne gras, Mexico, there is not a single Amer ican commercial house. Trade is en tirely in the hands of Mexican, Blench. German and English houses. Augusta, Ga., will realize in 1893 irom her canal, in water rents from the people and amounts paid by the facto ries for water power, at least $90,000 or per cent, on $2,000,000. The Boston Transcript declares that American engineers have every reason to congratulate theinsalves over the fact that several large bridges on the line of the Transandino Riilway, in South America, were built by American com panies in the face of Eaglish competi tion. A "culinary academy" has been formed among the leading cooks of Paris. The members are thirty in num ber, aud they meet once a month in an establishment in the Passage , Saulnier, under the leadership of a cook attached to one of the most celebrated restaurants in Paris. According to one estimate the total value of the crops of the United States during 1892 >vas 63,000,000,000, of which the largest item was $750,000,. 000 worth of hay. The animal products, including meats, dairy products, poul try and eggs and wool, arc placed at at £965,000,000 more. The Sau Fraucisco Examiner relates how a St. Paul (Minn.) man has bad his gold plate attached by a dentist for debt. This not only interferes seriously with his dining, but ho cannot even guash his teeth in disapproval. The only teetfc ho has have the misfortune to appertain to the gold plate aforesaid. The fame of Kentucky as a liorse breeding centre has penetrated even to far Japan, a number of line auiinats hav ing been purchased there by an agent of the Mikado's Government, whic'.i leads the Chicago Times to remark that it pays to get a reputation for a specialty estab lished for a given district. Then buyers come direct to that market. The Philadelphia Record is horrified to know that two thousand people be come insane in New York every year owing to the noise and confusion inci dent to life there. There are no statis tics at haud, retorts the Ne-v York World, to show how many are made insane by the dullness and monotony of village life in Philadelphia. "People who move there from the cities arc said to die oil rapidly." France lost a valuable citizen a few days ago, says the New Orleans Picayune, in George Hachctte, the publisher, who between 1867 and 1878 brought out 16(50 volumes. Every work he believed useful for instruction he published re gardless of financial considerations, lie had the monopoly of railway station libraries, and exercised over them a supervision which was equivalent to a vigorous censorship, but it was an en lightened censorship, and those who protested against it had little sympathy from men of education. The eight-hour-a-day proposition for domestic servants and various other schemes for getting the British Parlia ment to interfere between servants and employers, which have been urged by the London Domestic Servants' Union, have failed to make even a favorable im pression in a critical examination before the Royal Labor Commission. The com mission gave a long" hearing to a repre sentative of the unian, but the case fell to pieces under questionings. The im practicability of the eight hour idea ap plied to domestic servants was very clearly demonstrated. It also appeared that the union itself was very weak, and that the vast majority of domestic ser vants seemed to be well treated and quite content. The investigations showed that the servant is far better oil in regard to facilities for legal redress than is the employer. The union had a proposition to substitute a system of paying servants "in kind'' but its representative was "not quite prepared to suggest a system fo take the place of money wages." The Conclusions arrived at by the Commis sion so far are that the relations between employer and domestic servant must bo of a give and take character, and any in terference by the Legislature would do more harm than good. THF. CHILDHOOD OF THE HEART. Ob, the rosy day* of childhood, How blissfully they sped, - When not a charm had vanisheJ, And not a wonder fled! The year was full ot promise then. The tongue was full Of praise- But X think the cup is sweeter now Thau in the childish days. Ob, the laughing world of childhood, Of ignorance and ease! The lightest touch could quicken, And the least pleasure please; Yet the upward pat!is are dearer, With all the thorns they bear, Than a garden of a hundred flowers When Ignoranoe is there I Ob. the beating heart of childhood— That little heart of show, That doubt has never entered, Nor sorrow has brought low I Trust me, not all the rapture Its eager life can spau Can shadow forth the perfect love That warms the breast of man. —Dora Read Goodale, in Harper's Weekly. A DOMESTIC REVOLUTION. UKE MARPOD was neither better nor J»lggi| worse than the gen fi era ' 1-1,11 °' oaortals, BlfPlllb " D< * rs ' ara b Mar poc*' k' s w *^ e ' was i 88 wor 'd Roes, a very fair sample of a var woman. Luke Mar pod was a f armeri hence Sarah Marpod was a farmer's wife; both hard-working, unsophisticated people, conscientiously pursuing the straight path of life, while, on the other hand, a little keener insight into human nature and its motives might have shielded them from many a blow, and materially aided their right economy. In spite of hard work they advanced slowly in the acquisition of home com forts. Disappointments and misfortunes accumulated with pitiful rapidity and lroze the fountains of domestic happi ness. Before marriage the happiest of couples, they looked with sanguine hope to the future, not expecting great re wards, but trusting in Providence and loving each other fervently. They never had a lover's quarrel and the idea of post-nuptial disagresments dawned not upon their youthful imagi- I natiom A comfortable home, content ment and love was all they bargained for; all they 'ought, and surely fate might yield this to any one who means well and thinks honorably. Thus they thought, and thus they ex pected it would be, but the path of life runs continually into the dark. What jagged rocks may pierce the feet of the traveler on this highway no one can fore tell. We can only judge by the light of the past, and t j people of limited ex perience this light is a line so narrow as uot to reveal the rocks and thorus on either side. Lultc Marpod was simple, honest and narrow-minded. Mrs. Marpod was was simple, honest and narrow-minded also, and perhaps the trouble lay in this very uniformity of tastes and tempera ment. Luke's little farm was mortgaged at the outset, and the few hundred dollars* that Sarah received from her father disappeared in a twinkling and left no trace or footprint. Their first season was a bad one; crops were a general lail ure and weeds and creditors arose on every side. The neighbors, who always liktd Luke's conscientious good nature, began to look askance at him, for they saw the tables turned, and, paradoxical as it may appear, found it much more convenient to be Luke's creditor than bis debtor. As time passed without bettering their condition and creditors became impor tunate, Luke and Sarah took to brooding over their troubles and occasionally find ing fault with the ways aud means of the other, which might never have led to anything serious had the second year's crop proved a good one and helped to make up for the deficiencies of the first. This, however, was not the case, for, whereas, the year before the drought had baked the soil and scorched the growing blades of wheat and rye, the second year it began to rain in April—a very good prognostication, everybody thought, of a bountiful harvest, but Pluvus, having other aims in view, refused to recognize limits and give the farmers time to plow and sow. Through April, May and June the rain poured down incessantly, day after day, until at last all hopes were abandoned aud the Marpods entered upon their second year of infelicity. Luke, who began to think that the cause of all his troubles lay in his mar riage, was rash enough one day to hint the same, and received a retort from his spouse that roused his latent dignity of marital lordship. Words were ex changed, and the result of their first pro nounced disagreement ended by Luke's sla'nming the door behind him, and go ing hastily across the lot after the cows. That night he whipped the dog for let ting the brindle heifer escape through the bars into the cornfield, had trouble with the same member of the bovine genius at milking time, and rose wrath fully to his feet after extricating the cow's hoof from the milk pail, to swear an unmistakable oath for the first time in his lift* Then he beat the animal and made such a hubbub that Sarah came in hot haste to remonstrate on his brutality. "Shut up; mind you* business, will you?" shouted Luke, as he hurled the milking stool after the cow and chased her around the yard. Tht same evening Mrs. Marpod, con doling over the loss of milk, gave vent to her indignation at her other half's carelessness, and the quarrel was re newed with rigor. These first storm clouds in the do mestic atmosphere soon cleared away, but each had discovered the other's lack of infallibility, aud accordingly, while Luke lost a little of manly pride, Sarah lost also in gentleness of disposition. For more tliau ti month all went well, hut aggravating thing* will happen, es LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1893. pecially during harvest time when reapers and mowers art constantly get ting out of repair; Luke one day went to cut wheat in A field from which every stone and stump had been carefully eradicated. The sky was lowering and he wished to finish before a storm. Around and around the field went the horse, faster and faster fell the grain be fore the sickle. Luke's blood was warming with hope, 'when suddenly, smash—chunk—chunk went the ma chine and the horses were jerked vio lently tack upon their haunches. The big cast iron seat hurled Luke clear across the sicklo-bar into the grain. Scrambling to his feet he found that a sad ncciiient had happened. A large stone hail been lifted to the surface of the ground and left for removal. lie had forgotten all about it, and hence a serious loss of time right in the busy season. It took several days to obtain repairs, and in the meantime the rain came on apace, levelling the wheat to the ground and causing great damage. Luke be came gloomy, and Sarah could not help speaking regretfully of the loss her hus band's forgetfulness bad incurred. Everything was propitious lor a quarrel and the quarrel came. Mutual recriminations became frequent and seldom did a day pass without unlovable scenes between the two Marpods. The neighbors began to make comments. Gossips took occasion to condole with Mrs. Marpod respecting the unreason ableness of her spouse, and, seeing her take their sympathy kindly, grew bold enough to betray all the rash things Luko had been guilty of prior to his marriage, acts which ought to have been burled long before in the graveyard of oblivion, so extremely remote was their connection with the present. Poor Mrs. Marpod I She took them to heart and at the next opportunity burled them at the head of the aston ished Luke. lie owned up to every thing, not even trying to soften his wito's too serious interpretation of his escapades, as he might easily have done, for the sinfulness was more against con ventionalism than morals. lie was in no mood to extenuate, and declared coldly that he didn't "care a cent about it"and that he "would do the same thing over again for all of meddling neighbors and ill-natured wife." Life gradually lost it charms for the Marpod?. Through perpetual clouds and storms they pursued their gloomy pathway to the grave. Sarah bud begun to think seriously of preferring charges against Luke for cruelty and praying for a divorce, when an event happeued that tempoianly dis missed the idea from her mind and made Luke more solicitous and tender. A lit tle girl was bom to them, and because it was in the spring time of the year tuey named her Flora. She came like a ray of sunshine to bnghten the hearts of the parents and show them their dependence ou each other for happiness, but by the time Flora was able to toddle around by herself and lisp the names of papa and mamma the parents had resumed their old fault finding habits, and having once resumed them they were not long in re gaining their former facility in the use of sarcasm aud taunts. Lune in the first place found fault with the mother's method of nursing and declared it a miracle if Fiora did not prove a weak, sickly child. He was sure that so much fussiug would entI told him it was false, and he said that was worse than dyeing it."—Phil adelphia Record. When a girl gets so she can play mu sic in which she crosses her hands, ihe stops referring to it by name and title, and calls it "a little thing by Batoven." —Atchison Globe. "There is one thing sure," said the editor, who was reading the new re porter's long article; "you are in no danger of being troubled by a shortage in your accounts." —Washington Star. "He'll be heard in the world," "'