Republican News Item. CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY JULY JS, 1898. "FIRST OF ALL —THIi Nb'WS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. Bv The Suliivau Publishing Co. At t lie County Seat ol'Sullivan County. LAPOBTE, PA. l-.ni>-■ I II Hie I'nil Office nl ljiljjorte, :ls< HCFDIIIL CIIIMS mail matter. •Srusciiiri !<•»— -f I|>••! milium. If |>aii| in:>• I\ ancr I»I > iui|il«' eii|. .\i tree. All «'i >III in II ■■ i4-:i i ■>■■■:- -11 ■ > 111 >i be nl> ■llV-.'ll to i; KIM' r. I.it A >• N'l'.WS IT KM. Laporte Pa., S«illl«> of the Slitlil» of IVkinic-To Say XotliiitK »112 tlie Smell*. The fur market covers several acres, and here in the early morning one may see a thousand almond-eyed mer chants in gorgeous silks moving about among masses of furs of all kinds brought in by nomads on their camels and dromedaries from the wild and cold regions of Mongolia. It is one of the most interesting of all the noval spectacles which Peking has to offer to watch the caravans of these nomads and their odd-looking animals with huir nine or twelve inches long pass ing In single file through the gate. They bring In furs, and carry back brick tea, silk and coal to the Tartars and Russians of the interior. In a peregrination of the city one come 3 across strange spectacles, and makes acquaintance with strange businesses. Here is a butcher killing a sheep in front of his shop and leaving the blood on the ground before you. Next door, perhaps, is one who sells fish, which he extracts all alive from a tank. In case you wish for less than a whole fish, the dealer will pull one out of the water, lay it on the block and cut a piece of quivering flesh out of the side while you wait, throw the rem nant back into a separate pail of wa- ter, and wait for another customer to take it. One of the chief meats sold is pork, and you sec pigs trotting about through the streets. Close to the pork-shop is a place where they sell nothing but coffins, which the dutiful son invests in as a present for his father long before the old gentleman is dead; and on the opposite side are places whose specialty Is incense and joss-sticks, or gold and silver paper to be burned at a funeral to provide the fare from this world into the next, or birds and goldfishes, or coaldust mix ed up with mud and made up into balls. If you are very hard up and in want of a meal, there is a little place round the corner where you can get camel's-meat soup, roast mule and similar luxuries at low prices. There are places for gambling and "dime museum" shows. There are restau rants of-every description and opium Joints without number. And the streets meanwhile are filled with a stream of yellow individuals of all classes and ages and both sexes. The Tartar city is in many respects different from the rest of Peking. In it dwell the thousands of Manchu offi cials. the foreign legations, the Govern ment departments, and all the para phernalia of this queer Chinese Court. It is the most interesting city on the face of the globe, anil its sights really beggar description. From the walls, this portion of Peking looks like an immense orchard, with here and there one-story buildings shining out through the trees. in its centre there is a walled-off inclosure filled with massive buildings, roofed with yellow tiles. This is the Purple Forbidden City, where the Emperor and his Court reside. Closer acquaintance fails to fulfil the promise afforded by a view from the wall. The streets are wider, but they are quite as filthy and foul as in the Chinese section. The roads have no sidewalks, and the rude Chin ese carts sink up to their hubs as they move along. The streets are the sew ers. and it would be hard to find any where a savage with less regard for the exposure of his person than have these pig-tailed, silk-dressed, gaudy! fat Pekingese. The Father of nu RinprcttN. A German banker, traveling by rail in a first-class carriage toward Vienna, had as a fellow-traveler at one of the intermediate stations an old gentle man, who entered into conversation and proved very pleasant. The banker got out before his companion, and be fore he did so asked the latter how far be was going. The gentleman replied, "To Vienna." "I have a daughter very well married there," said the banker."l should like to give you a note of intro duction to her." "I have also a daugh ter very well married there," said the other. "Would it be too great a liberty to ask her name?" "My daughter," the gentleman answered, "is married to the Emperor of Austria." It was the old King of Bavaria. Iceland'* llottle Pout. The "bottle post" is an old institu tion on the south coast of Iceland.Let ters are put into corked bottles which are wafted by the winds to the opposite coast. They also contain a cigar or other trifle to induce the finder to de liver the letters as addressed. "Our new pastor, the Kev. Mr. All well, preaches a great deal about heaven. You renieuitw the good old Dr. Scarus, his predecessor, was al ways preaching about the other place." . >•' "Yes; he was blazing the way for Brother All well.—Chicago Tribune. WHIMS OF ENGINES.' AN ENGINEER'S THEIR PECULIARITIES ~ They Vary Oiteu Fall luto Queer Sjjky aQjl lialky Spells—The Antics o t Some FIH | iitous Machine* -Old '*100" Killed tht Kuyliieer in u Fit of Rage. "It sounds Queer to say that lpcomo tives have their likes and dislikgsj" said a veteran engineer, "but it &?tual ly does seem sometimes as if tUe'x had, and airold-time believe it. I've seen locomotives when tbsy, acted as if they were human, beings. They get the sulks and have balky streaks, and when they're in such moods you can't make time with them, do what you may. Then, again, they'll be as chipper and willing as a trotting horse, and you actually have to liold 'em in place to keep.'em from running into stopping-places ahead of time. There isn't an engineer of any experi ence at all who can't tell you of in stances by the dozen of engines that positively would not make time with some engineers, but which would get there every time in charge of some other engineer. You might say that it was the fault of the engineer that such engines did not make their time, but 1 have known as good engineers as ever mounted a footboard who have been transferred from locomotives placed in their hands to run because the locomotives would not make their time, but which, under the hands of another engineer, neither as skilful nor as experienced, would never run be hind. "Take the case of Josh Martin and Gad Lyman, two of the early engineers on the Erie Railroad, and neither of them with a superior in his craft at that day. One time a new locomotive was turned out of a Paterson shop for the Erie, and Josh Martin wanted her the worst way. lie ran on the Dela ware division, from Port Jervis to Sus quehanna. The superintendent, though, wanted the engine for the Eastern division, between Port Jervis and Piermont, and so he put her in charge of Oad Lyman. Gad ran her, or rather he tried to run her, but she had made up her mind about something, and she wouldn't make any kind of time for Gad. She would stall without provocation and actesj con trary generally. Gael-tried her for a week, and then reported the locomo tive 'No good.' and she was condemned to run the gravel train. She worked as balky and suHky as ever, though, and at last the superintendent ordered her to the scrap heap. "Josh Martin/heard of the fate the locomotive hadrbeen sentenced to, and he came down; the road a-flying. He begged to have#the engine, for he liked her, and said 'he was sure she would do all right with him. The superin tendent yieViled tin Josh's appeal, and told him to take the locomotive and give her a trial. Josh did so. He mounted the cab' at Piermont, and when he opened )mer up she went like a bird. She madevthe trip to Port. Jer vis quicker than,' any locomotive had ever made it befjbre, and Josh Martin ran her for yeansion the Delaware di vision after that.jand always on time as easy as The locomotive was the old 71. aiud.she is remembered yet by all the, o>d engineers, and is well known to the ytounger ones by the tradition of tl*> road. When Gad Lyma»n gave up that lo comotive bee-, use eorjdiict of the locomo tive that lie uppffi;-.! to have her ex changed for some otherjone, although she worked like'a thoroughbred ever since the day shje refused to pull the great pioneer thlrough sjppciafl. The company would (not makeMhe change that (lad wanted, and lie! refused to run that locomotive any (longer and quit the ro>ul., TIKs loaonjotive was the 100. Whey. Gad gavfe Her up she was placed uncharge of' B#l Lyman, Gad's brother. There waenjt a better ■engineer on tine road thanißUll, and he •knew that makeiof locompjfctae particu ilarly, for he hall worked) InMthe shops 'and helped make 'em. Butwnvhat did ! i tliis rantr.nkerous looofnotivef 100 do? She sulked with Bill from, the4tlme>ihe j, tcok hei . a L! little, but if she did s&ejmase by lagging worse than ever. Bill wor ried along with her for nearly a yearj but she wouldn't work under him at all. One day In the spring of 1852 she balked for certain at Chester station, just as she was pulling out with a train. Bill pounded her, for he was mad, but it seemed as if she actually shook her head like an ugly horse. Bill socked it right onto her, and suddenly, she gave a spurt ahead exactly like the quick start of a balky horse. Then everything roared and shook around the place for a second or two. The vicious old 100 had exploded her boiler. She tore and riddled herself frightful ly, but the horror of It all was that she had killed poor Bill Lyman and his fireman. Gad Lyman lived many years after that, but he always regretted his abandoning of that locomotive, for he said that if he had stayed by her there was no doubt that she would have end ed her days usefully and in peace and the awful tragedy of her ending would not have been." HOW I?»KIHII. M. SI'KAKV, Notice ol DisHOlutiou. Tlu' ]»»rtners*liii» heretofore existing between M. K.Heeder ttiifl K. K. 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