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.