SULLIVAN JB&k REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XIV' Socialism is said to mako rapid progress in Spain. Ordinarily when a European says "America"he means "the United States." The Pleas.nt Sunday Afternoon movement in England has enrolled ie hundred thousand members, and •adily auvaucinc-. ensus of 1895 shows that the Empire now has a population ',009, despite emigration, an ? 2,330,000 in four and n osing a row in Wisconsin i university. It is being converted into he sons of rich have no show death of a public ■h generous, almost practically universal .ein both for the man ;al leader,'' notes Publio nave been accorded the or Tiinrman." official census of 1811, taken ar preceding the beginning utilities with tho United States, population of England was 10,- >O,OOO, of Scotland 1,800,000, and of Ireland 0,000,000, a total of 18,000,- 030. The census of the United States taken in 1810 showed the total popu lation of this country to be, States and Territories, 7,239,000. The last official census of Great Britain, taken in 1891, showed the population to have been 37,858,00!>, and the census of the United Stater, taken tbe year previous, showed the population of this country to be 02,622,000. Dr. H. K. Carrol!, in the Independ ent, says that tbe aggregate oT colored church members in the United States is, in round tributed as follows: Baptists, 1,403,- 559; Methodists, 1,190,638; Presby terian?, 30,000; Disciples of Christ, 18,578, and Protestant Episcopal and Reformed Episcopal together, some what less thaa 5000. According to the census figures, there has been an increaso of 1,150,000 colored church members during the last thirty years, which Dr. Carroll thinks is unparal leled in the history of the Christian Church. The value of colored church property is $26,620,000, and the num ber of edifices is 23,770. Aii Australian agriculturist, Mr. Kricliauff, has called attention to the fact that the potato will celebrate the 300 th anniversary of its introduction into England this year. It was in 1590 that- Sir Walter Raleigh returned to England from America with the first tobacco and potatoes which originally grew in Pern. Although the potato, it is estimated, now furnishes one sixth of the nourishment o" the human race, for a long time it was a delicacy for the rich alono. Even at the be ginning of the seventeenth century noblemen paid two shillings a pound for potatoes and eeasoned them with sterry. People often visited the gar dens of the botanist Gerard at Hoi born to see the plants in bloom. There is talk of a celebration in honor of the anniversary. The American Cultivator remarks: The fire fiend is an enemy to forestry. More stringent measures are necessary to prevent forest fires. The forests aro becoming too valuable to ba neg lected. Their destruction by fire means not only the loss of property, bat the serious loss of employment to woodsmen, teamsters, sawyers, wood workers and all the kindred trades. Ordinary cutting of trees need not destroy a forest, bnt a heavy firo works destruction. Dr. Rothrock, of the Pennsylvania forestry commission, thinks it an outrage that while a man under our laws cannot set fire to a ben coop without Eevere punishment, be may carelessly or willfully set fire to a forest and burn up many thou sand dollars' worth of property with out being molestod. Pennsylvania loses 31,000,000 annually through forest flres, -and $50,000,000 would not cover the annual loss to the coun try from this cause. It is found in many cases that when a man is 'pur sued by one holding a mortgage on bi? woodland he sets fire to it to spite the man who forecloses. It is very difficult to convict surh a man. Care lessness and ignorance are responsible f<Jr many fires, yet thousands of dol lars' worth are burned every year from this cause without anybody evor being punishoi. Why one kind of property can be burned up with im punity when other kinds aro proteotcd by the severest fines is one of the curiosities of legal ailirinistration that iff beginning to be looked after none too early. I A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. Chisel in haud stood a sculptor bo;-, | With his marble block before him. Aud his face lit up with a smile of joy | As an ange'-dream passed o'er him. lie curved tho dream on the shapeless stone With many a sharp incision; With heaven's own light the sculptor stood— Ho had caught tho "Angel Vision." Sculptors of life are we, as wo stand With our souls uncarved before us, Waiting tho hour;when at God's command. Our life- dream passes o'er us; If we carve it then on the yielding ston?, With many a sharp incision, It« heavenly beauties shall be our o\7D, Our lives that "Angel Vision." —Bishop Donne. A STORY OF THREE, BY ALBERT E. IIOOrER. f7E was a stalwart iff I y oun " farmer, a I ( [ gr-mdly built man, -1 with ft handsome, M I bronzed face; broad K I shoulder!, feet *"fSr j" '1 which stood square \U !- | 'y upon the earth, CtL ' a P a ' r °* fear less eyes. Frank Maxwell, aged twonty-five, owner of broad acres, a physical framo in per fect condition and a well developed mind, was a man to be envied. She was a dainty maiden, with a graceful figure, a complexion of mingled roses and lilies and eyes as bright and blue as tho summer skies. Daisy Springfield, aged nineteen, owner of a beautiful face, a glad bearted, sunny disposition and count less pretty dresses, was a woman to be loved. It was something less than a man, but more than an animal, with a face of satyr-like hidcousness, a misshapen back, bowed legs and a pair of arms so long that the hands hung low like those of a gorilla. Dumb Dick, of age unknown, owner of a lialf-witted inind, a body of abnormal strength and ugliness and a fierce and ungov ernable temper, was a creature to be bhunned and distrusted. These were the invariable judgments of everybody who knew the three characters of this little story. Frank was an orphan, living on bis own farm, understanding his business and capable of conducting it in a thoroughly efficient manner; just the sort of man who would be likely to cut a very respectable figure in the world and end by leaving his children moro money nnd more acres than his father had left him. Daisy was tho only daughtor of a prosperous lawyer, a little inclined to be vain of her good looks, but good by nature and thoroughly pure beurt ed ; just the sort of woman to make an affectionate wife, careful of her home, a comfort to her husband and a friend to her children. Dumb Dick was presumably the or phan child of a gypsy woman, who had brought him long years ago to the workhouse and had died there. He was wild and unmanageable, had run away and refused all control, and lived where and how he could. Frank nnd Daisy stood together in the path of a little wood. Dumb Dick was ulso in the wood, but was hidden by a thick screen of hazels. Frank and Daisy faced each other, and Frank hold both of Daisy's little white bands in one of his brown palms. Dumb Dick, all nnseen, clenched his fist aud ground his teeth in fury, crumpling up his face into tho new ugliness of mingled rage and misery. Tho little wood was very still, save for a slight rustling among the dry leaves, or the crack of a twig beneath the swift foot of a squirrel, or the oc casional fall of a ripe nut. And in the silence and the shadow Frank bent forward and kissed Daisy lightly on tho lips. Then the lovers walked away to gether, hand in hand, like a pair of uappy children And all alone behind his screen of hazek, Dumb Dick tlung himself down at full length, clawing at tho brown earth with his hands and giving vent to his feelings in inarticulate growls of rage and dry choking sobs of misery. Frank bought a new dog cart, a light and delicate turnout of the latest pat tern, painted black and picked out with red, and with its polished lamps and new silver plated harness and its bright bay, it looked rather a smart and showy affair. He drove it round in triumph to Squire Springfield's, and his prido redoubled when he saw Daisy's delight. But when he had banded her in, dressed in her latest and prettiest costume, and had sprung lightly up to his place beside her, bo felt that his pride and happiness wero almost complete. He gathered up the reins, clioked encouragingly to the bay, and off they went, bowling along the lanes in splen did style, laughing and chatting as only a happy pair of lovors can when tho course of their love is smooth aud prosperous. Tho first slight chili of autumn was in the air; tho hedgerows were brown ing, and tho perfume of the flowers had given place to a faint scent of de cay, but it was Bummer in the hearts of the lovers, and in the selfishness of their bliss they wero heedless of the first signs of the year's approaching death. On a piece of common land which skirted tho little wood in which Frank had told Daisy of his lovo there were many clumps of bracken, now in pro cess of chango from green to ruddy gold. In the midst of ono of tbe largest of theso clumps lay Dumb Dick. He seemed to be uncoUßcioua, aud be might have been either drunk or sleeping naturally. Presently thero was a sound of swiftly approaching whoels grating along tho road, aud then the sound became suddenly muffled, as if the LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1896. vehicle was boing driven over tlie grass. Lftughter and the sound of glad voices succeeded, and by some magical power they penetrated to the dull brain of Dumb D'ck and made him dream for one brief moment of Paradise. Deep in his dream ho heard the musio of a woman's voice, and he saw the radiant beauty of a woman's face; and then—and then— still in his dream—some envious fiend seized his wrist in the grasp of a red hot hand, and he awoke in agony. A roar of anguish burst from Dumb Dick as he leaped to his feet, holding his wrist, and stamping madly about in the bracken. Frank pulled in his bay. "Hallo, Dick!" he cried. "I'm afraid you are hurt. Did the wheel go over your wrist? How could you be such an ass as to stick your hand out?" In his momentary excitement Frank ponred out questions upon ono who had no power to answer them. As for Dumb Dick, ho turnod upon his questioner with eyes which blazed with fury, and for a moment he looked ready to drag him from the cart and tear him to pieces. But he caught sight of Daisy's pitying glance, and instantly the firo died out of his eyes. Daisy sprang to the ground, and, timidly approaching the spot where Dumb Dick stood, she laid her hand upon his wounded wrist. It was as cool and whito as a snowfiake upon the hot, haiiy hand; and he at once surrendered to her will. Showing no sign of fear or disgust, but with only tender pity iu her glauce, Daisy exam ined the great hand, knotted and clawed like the paw of a wild beast. She saw that, light though the wheel of the dogcart was, its iron tiro had cut the flesh nearly to the bone, and, taking the white silk scarf from her neek, she deftly bound it round the wounded wrist and stopped the bleed ing. By this time Frank was standing by her side. "This isn't work for you, my dar ling," he sold; "let him goto the nearest doctor. Here, Dick," lie added, "see how soon this will heal your cut." As he spoke he tossed half a soverign on the ground at Dumb Dick's feet, slipped his hand through Daisy's arm and dexterously lifted her back into her seat. In another moment tho cart had been driven away. Dumb Dick watched it until it was hidden from view, and then he stooped and picked up Frank's half sovereign. There was a sudden Hash of light and a tiny dise of gold went singing through the air in the direction of the wood. Dumb Dick's next act was to tear Daisy's whito scarf from his wrist, and thou ho walked away along the road, marking his track with blood. Tho fiery finger marks of autumn no longer lit up tho faded foliage of tho little wood; oniy a few brown leaves cluDg to tho skeleton branchos of tho tree, the rest lay in rotting heaps around the roots, fitting grave clothes for tho dying ferns, till the chills blasts should ariso again and scatter them abroad. Approaching the Game spot along widely diverging paths came two figures, the one tripping lightly and tho other sloughing along with slow, limping stride?. Though the method of their advance was so different, the rate of their progress was about equal, and they mot just at the point where the two paths formed a junction with tho main road. Daisy, who had all along had her oyes fixod upon tho last visible point of the steoply sloping main road, looked up when sho heard the shuttling footsteps, and, with a start, recognized Dumb Dick. Dumb Dick, who had seen and known the first flutter of Daisy's dress in the distance, now halted; and his red eyes peerod out strangely from tho tangled masses of hair which hung over his face. Daisy knew that Dumb Dick was feored and shunned by everybody, and she was not a little startled at finding herself,alone with bim. She wished ho would pass her; but he stood quite still, and seemed waiting for her to spoak. "Is your hand better, Dick?" sho asked, touching her own wrist." Ho seemed to understand, for he thrust his hand clumsily forward. An ugly, deformed and much knotted hand it was, but, to her surprise, Daisy noticed that it was now quite clean, and its great clawlike nails had been closely cut. Dumb Dick pointod to a purple sour on his wrist with the finger of his other hand, and Daisy saw that this other finger was both dirty and clawed. She looked back at Dumb Dick's blinking red eyes and smiled. A single glance at that ono clean hand, mis shapen aud ugly though it was, had driven all fear from her hoart. It was as if tho wing of Ariel had suddenly sprouted from tho shoulder of Caliban, and Miranda felt a strange throb of joy, for her woman's instinct told her that she had some mysterious part in bringing tho first sign of order into thiß human chaos. But hark ! the sound of a wildly gal loping horse and tho swift roll of wheels! Daisy looked up the steep incline of tho road, aud saw that Frauk and his dogcart were in sight. But no smile of joyful welcome appeared on her face; she turned as pale as death, clasped her hands in an involuntary attitude of prayer, and cried out sharply in her deadly fear. For her first glimpse of Frank had shown her that be was standing up in his cart, swaying to und fro, and that although ho still held the tightly gathered reins, ho had lost ail control of the bay, which seemed to bo rushing to inevit able destruction. Dumb Dick saw Frank's peri), and understood in an instant the onUi trophe wbioh must occur at the bot tom of the hill; and, flinging his long arms wildly above his head, he broVo forth into a hideous cackle of laugh ter. • A new terror seized upon Daisy's heart at the sound, but, with it a new thought entered her mind, and, with out hesitation, she laid her hands upon Dumb Dick's arm and shook it fiercely. "Save him, Dick ! Save him !" she cried. No sooner did her hand touch his arm than he turned to look at her, and, at the sight of her pale and agonized lace, his laughter ceased. Then Dumb Dick responded to her call; ha obediently leaped into the middle of the road, and awaited the onrush of the terrified horse. Nearer and nearer came tho hor3e, and Frank swayed more and more in tho cart, till at last he was 60 near that Daisy could see the terror in his eyes. Then, with a mighty leap, Dumb Dick sprang to meet him ; two long arms swung upward, there was a whirl of dust, a wild beating of hoofs, a sickening crash and all was still. Then came a cry. "Help, Daisy! Quick!" It was Frank's voice! Thank God ! he ivns safe! Daisy ran forward and found Frank bending over the motionless figure ot Dumb Dick. "Quick, Daisy! take my hat and rnn and fetch some water from the nearest ditch." Daisy obeyed, and then, kneeling in the road, Frank opened Dick's coat and coarso shirt and thrust iu his hand. The hunchback's heart had ceased to beat; but when Frank with drew his hand ho drew forth a whito silk soarf stained with blood. He quickly replaced it, and then ran to meet Daisy, who was returning with the water. "He is dead, poor felloe," said he —The Quiver. Best Hunting tiroiinil lor Meteor?. Twenty millions of meteors, accord ing to Dr. Murray, fall upon the earth every day, their aggregato weight amounting to something like two ton?. In a hundred years we should get at least one pound, at most twenty pounds, of cosmic dust distributed over each square mile of the earth's surface, and yot the organized search which has been made for cosmio dust iu every quarter of tho globe has yield ed meagre results. The best hunting ground has proved to bo the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where, 1000 milos from any land, a red clay is brought up, which, on, examination, is slown to consist of three kinds of particlos. A magnet will pick out cer tain microscopic fragments of titanic or magnetic iron, leaving behind n mixture of blackish and brownish spherules, the former of which con tain copper, and are seemingly of vol canic origin, whilo tho latter (called "chondres") are of radial eccentric structure, and are judged to bo cos mic dust. The slopes of Ben Nevis also yield traces of this extraneous matter, which, considering the millions o; years during which it lias been steadily raining on the earth, is strangely little in evidence. —Pall Mall Gazette. Origin ol "John Bull." The origin of tho term "John Bull" is thus explained by the London Gold en Penny : Dr. John Bull was the first Gresham professor of music, organist of Hereford Cathedral and composer to Queen Elizabeth. John, liko a true Englishman, traveled for improve ment, and, having heard of a famous musician at St. Ooier, ho placed him self under him as a novice; but a cir cumstance very soon convinced the master that he was inferior to the scholar. Tho musician showed John a song which ho had composed in forty parts, telling him at the same time that ho defied all tho world to produce a person capable of adding another part to his composition. Bull desiroi to be left alone and to bo indulged for a short time with pen nnd ink. In less than three hours he addoi forty parts moro to tho song, upon which tho Frenchman was so much surprised that ha sworo in great ecstaov he must be either the devil or John Bull,which has ever since been proverbial in Eng land. Growlh oi Trees at Diflcrent Time*. Tho growth of trees at different times oi the day has been a subject of experiment by Mr. E. H. Thompson, the Government Entomologist of Tas mania, who has contributed his re sults to knowledge. Measurements wero taken as far as possible every three hours. Of the total growth 8-: per cent, were obtained between tho hours of 6 and 9a.m. ; 1' per cent, between 9a. m.and noon; none be tween noon and 3 p. m. ; none between 3 and 6 p. in. ; 11 per cent, between 6 and 9 p. m. ; 3J between 9 and 12 p. m., and eighty-five per cent, between midnight and oa. in. Tho greatest growths in twenty-four hours wero Banksia rose, (i! 5 inches; geranium, 5j inches; wattle, 4J inches; apple, 2} inchos; pear, li inches.—Trenton (N. J.) American. Hold Front Ocean Kami. The Pacific Beach Mining nud Dredging Company is tho name of a corporation receutly formed in thiH city for tho purpose of exploiting the gold fields which it is olaimed exist in tho sand along certain portions of tho shoro of the ocean between Bedondo and Santa Monica. The cor poration has a lease on a milo and a third frontage on the ocean, which it proposes to treat as soon ai proper facilities in the way ol machinery, etc., can be placed upon the grounds. Already an analysis has been made, with the most promising results, and the expects to develop an iniporU.it mining industry.—Los Angeles (Ual.) Herald. His Star Still Shines, a a £2,434,463. l £4,618,224. WOOLEN COOD3 I WOOLEN COODS £2,595,595. £5,030,058, jJjfer Jjg C11,064 ' 2 ° 7 " John Bull: "This licks creation. No wonder they're all talking war. 'Ere, in one year of American Free Trade in raw wool, we've scooped in over fifty-five millions of their blooming dollars—just thirty millions more than wu 'ad with their blareted Protection, and they've got to get the gold from 'ere to foot the bill. What a.friend wa have in Grover." LIVE STOCK IN EVIDENCE. Live stock was imported to the ex tent of '51,938,226 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895. During the previous year the Vitue was }l,- 222,741. In 1894, under tbe McKinley Cattle Countries " ]lW(cdStSw_ ((luring the years^encli^JurieJO 1 "■ Ijnporfc^ / r—B»~7Qff j i"J "- 1 - V r —L— " !' 1 _ (so), mi Timoftj (Scale). jDollars' jflollors. Dollars, 'isef W tariff the amount of anty collected ' upon foreign cattle, bogs, horses, j mules and sheop was $342,910, the ' average of valorem rate of duty being ; 28.04 per cent. Under the Gorman ' tariff the average rate was 20.23 per Want Another Message. We have been waiting for a ringing message from the President on tho subjeot of protection for the United States. If Mr. Cleveland is willing to fight John Bull on behalf of the Ven ezuelans, why not on our own account? If he objeots to John Bull's invasion thexe, why not object to his invasion here, at home, in onr own markets? If there is to be a look-out of Mr. Bull from Venezuela, why not also from the United States? Is CJrorer His Nurse I There aro perhaps few men in the country who havo clearer conceptions on theoretic finance that Mr. Car lisle; but in praotical finance he must be ranked among the babies and suck lings.— New York Journal of Com merce. What, That Fu.<u in 'Ol i Secretary Carlisle ►ays that "no surplus revenue, however large, could extrioate ue lrom our present difficul ties, or give assurance of sa'ety iu the future." Why on earth, tlien, was there so much fuss aud bother about that ''tariff f<"■ revenue onlv." Terms—Sl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. cent.,and tho amount of duty collecto was $392,012, an iucrease of SSO, 000. It is true that the Goverc ment was badly in noed of this 850, 000 but, in ordor to get it, foreig live stook worth $700,009 was al lowed to supplant American live stock. This was pretty hard upon American farmers, but the free traders' tariff was not designed to benefit Americans. A True Prediction. I have no hesitation in declaring that a tariff for revenue only—that is, a tariff law under whose provisions tho largest amount of revenue can be raised in the easiest manuer for the Govern ment—would be more disastrous to our people than free trade, for, while it would leave open and freo competition to all countries in everything wo raise or manufacture, it wonld increase the cost of those wo cannot and yet must have, the factor of competition beicg loft out.—W. P. Frye, United State# Senator. Points for Protectionist*. Eleven Southern States mined 29.* 321,608 tons of coal in 1894, or more than 20 times the product of same States 20 years ago. Exports of man ufactured goods nine months of 1895 were 8145,793,686, against 8133,378,- 609 a year ago. It is to be hoped the coming Congresti will arrange to meet tbe Government's ordinary expenses by protection to Amerioau industries rather than aid aliens to get our gold and displace our laborer by filling our markets with foreign mado goods.— Clapp'a Circular. NO. 19. CHARITY OF LABOR. Quiet and Kftectlve Relief Given by Labor Organizations. Labor organizations do mnoh chari table work that in never heard of. Wage earners are in a far better posi tion to learn of the distress that sur rounds them than others are. It is brought face to face with them every day, and the relief afforded is given quietly and unostentatiously. No free clothing and free bread funds are her alded throughout the world. The charity of labor is sympathetic. It is not a free advertising scheme. The year 1894 was a hard one upon the labor organizations in New York State. The twellth annual re port of the Burean of Statistics of Labor shows that 474 organizations, with a membership of 121,957, ex pended $106,801.69 among those who were out of work. This was in addi tion to 889,150 distributed among men on strike. There was a further sum of $151,545.22 expended that was not classified, and the report of the bureau says that: "Presumably a greater portion of this last named sum was paid to members who wore unable to procure employment." Evidently about $200,000 was ex | pended by labor organizations, in this State alone last year, to relieve the distressful condition of those who were out of employment'during the period when the country was threatened with A free trade tariff. This good work was quietly and unostentatiously per formed. The contribution of $200,- 000 by labor to relieve its fellows,con trasts strangely with the muoh adver tised free bread fund whieb, even if a million loaves were given away, would not cost more than $25,000 or SBO,OOO. How different it i«, too, to that second advertising scheme of giving away free clothing when the clothing was con tributed by others than the one who got the credit for it. Labor believes that "oharity begins at home." It finds the need of it in its own ranks and sets quietly to work to relieve its distress. Labor, more over, had no hand in bringing it about as those free advertising schemers had. No trade was more affected by the Democratic hard times than that of tho printers—a non-protected indus try. The sum of $35,377.72 was dis tributed, within a year, to idle print jrs in New York, showing clearly how printers sutler under tariff revision that is injurious to American indus tries. Printers need protection as rell as the labor that works in manu facturing. What, 'I hat Fas* in '9ll Secretary Carlisle eays that "no surplus revenue, however large, could extricate us trom our present difficul ties, or give assurance of safety in tho future." Why on earth, then, was there so much fuss aud bother about that "tariff for revenua onlj." EUctrlelty on Trains. Tho Australian? have solved the problem of lighting railroad train* electrically, aa cording to a report to tho Stato Department from United States Consul General Mnratta, ot Melbourne. A (lvnamo placed In a bag- Kage oar is driven uy a belt from the etu axle and charges storage batteries, watch furnish the llghis. Full details of the ap paratus are given iu tho report, which showi that It has run for two yearn without failure, aud at a cost, Inolu ling uttojdiiiice for light ing. of £9 13s U.l per w«e», as against £i foi kerosense lights. Itovlrrtt of glx-Mtilr Freighters. A rate war iu California him brought about (ho establishment of a line of old-fnthlonml six-mule freight wagons betw 'en Fresno and Btookton.
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