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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-12-20
Teachers Institute.

The anniial session of the Sullivan
county Teachers Institute will be
held in the Court House, at LaPorte,
commencing on Monday Dec. 30th
1889, and closing ON Fridayi Jan.
Sd, 1890.
The following instructors and
lecturers will be present:
Prof. b. Z. James; Montrose: Pa;
Sup't. NJ. F. Cass, Tioga county;
Pa; Prof: Henry B. Sanford, SYRIA
cuse, n. Y; DR.. A. II: Horne, AL
lentown, Pa.
LECTURE COURSE.
Tuesday, evening Dec. 3lst, Prof.
Henry r. Sanford; what we
Breathe" Wednesday evening
January ist, Prof. i. E. James;
"The Girl to VIM" Thursday
evening January 2hdj DR.: A. r.
Horne.
Teachers, directors and friends of
education are cordially Invited to
attend the institute; but especially
the teachers of the schools of Sulli.-
van county. A special effort has
been made to make the coming in
stitute a good ones The lecturers
and instructors are men of much
lfietit, and will make our programme
both for day and evening sessions,
strong and interesting. 1t will be a
delightful pleasure to attend.
Strange that with the liberal pro-
visions made by law, and with all
the urging and pleading that Can be
ddne, still here and there teacher
with some trividl excuse will be
absent. "Don't care to go;' "No
way to get there, Want to visit
"Cant afford it, "and the like are
held out as excuses.
Teathers, this is not progressive
grouhd to stand on, and reflects on
your enthusiasm. Your expenses
are paid, your professional obliga.
tions require you to attend.
Come, l expect full attendance
and good meeting; and trust that
no teacher will be absent With an
excuse sufficient to keep him away
FROM his school.
M. r. BLACK, Co., Supt.
Forksville, Pa, Dec: IA, 1889.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-12-20
T. F. CARSKADDFN
MERCHANT TAILOR,

IN THE OLD CITY HOTEL
Corner Of Third and Pine Stsd
WILlIAMSPORT, PA.
For the latest style and a good
it we would refer our Sullivan coun-
sy friends to Mr.. Carskadden who is
numbered among the best Tailors in
che Lumber city. Sept. 18th, 's9s
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-12-20

j. II. Thomas of taPorte will
give d turkey shooting match at La
Porte; on Tuesday, Dec. Gath: The
contest will commence 1T 10 O'clock
a. m. sharp on the ball ground: All
lovers Of this SPORT are cordially
invited to attend. The sportsmen
of LaPorte bofo. claim that they can
hold on the mark a trife closer
than their neighbors throughout the
adjoining districts. The township
hoys should visit the contest and
show them how its done.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-12-20
A little oiri four wears of age of

A little ciri four years of age of
Chas: Cox, OF HaPorte twp, fell Ii.
pail Of hot scalding water on
Thursday last and burned its body
below the waist so badly that the
skin peeled off and clung to her
clothing when removed. The water
had just been removed from the
stove by the mother who was at the
time of the mishap engaged in re-
placing the lids on the STOVE. DIR.
Hill was summoned.
LAfER:-The child died on Tues
day morning:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-12-20

TAKE NOTICE.
s. s. Sinmbns Post, No. All, Sat.
urday Dec. Ss, at 2 p. m.-please be
on hand, one and all members as
there will he election of officers and
other business of Importance to be
transacted. j. c. PENNINGTON,
Commander
Nordmont, Dec. II, 'S9.
An Oyster Supper for the benefit
of the W. G. II. u, of LaPorte, will
be given at the room under the Odd
Fellows Hall, at LaPorte, Thursday
evening Jan. End, 1890. Supper
served from $50 to 1870, also after
lecture.
By ORDER OF COMMITTEES.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
AMERICA IN ASIA.
The Impossibility of Getting Away from
the Yankee Joker,

The Impossibility of Getting Away from
the Yankee Joker.
After long and diligent search in a
queer, dark, secondhand booth kept
by a swarthy Mongol, | was rewarded
hv the discovery of n product of Amer-
lean genius that partly satisfied my
patriotism and served as tangible
proof that New England marks the
time to which all humanity keeps step.
1t was an old secondhand clock, made
in Providence, II. l., the battered and
somewhat grimy face of which still
bore in capital letters the characters
tic American legend, Thirty Hour
Joker" Mongolia might know moth
ing of American literature or of Amer
lean magazines, but it had made the
acquaiL tance of the American clock;
and although this particular piece
of mechanism had lost its hands,
its Thirty Hour Joker" was
sufficiently pointed allusion to
the National characteristic TO sat
isfy the most ardent patriotism.
An American joker does not need
hands to point out the merits of his
jokes, and this mutilated New En-
gland clock, with its empty key-hole
eyes and its battered but still humor-
Gus visage, seemed to leer at me out
of the darkness of that queer old
secondhand shop as if to say: "You
may come TO Siberia, you may ex-
plore Mongolia, but you can't get
away from the American joker"
was little disappointed not to find in
this bazar some representative mas
terpiece of American literature, but
/ was more than satisfied a short time
aiterward when / discovered in still
wilder and moro remote part of the
Trans-Baikal, copy of Mark Twain's
life on the Mississippi" and a
Russian translation of Bret Harte's
Luck Of Roaring Camp. y George
KEENAN,, in Century.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
The Paper Collar Trade.

The caprices OF fashion order many
changes in mans apparel, but it is al
most safe to say that the return to pop
ularity of the once all-prevailing paper
collar is about as probable as the re-
turn by the nineteenth century youth
to the powdered wigs, cooked hats and
knickerbockers OF their colonial pred
ecessors. And yet decade and
half ago the paper collar. with its
muslin foundation and its glossy vc,
neer. was almost universally worn. II
Is now stated, as reminder of the
one-time popularity of this collar, that
between the years 1860 and 1870 over
1000, 600 of the collars were sold daily.
The extent of yearly sales of these col
lars nowadays amount to about 250,-
600. 1t is scarcely necessary to add
that the paper collar still reigns SUI
preme in the backwoods, and that the
circulation of this article of apparel is
merely confined to the country places.
1t Is difficult TO persuade oneself that
this collar was once the dear partieu-
lar "fad" of the young and old men of
fashion throughout the country. 1t
was first introduced to the favorable
notice of the public by a well-known
New Yorker. young man about town
who had the courage of his convic-
tions and his taste. The dudes" Of
that day were as quick then as they
are now to 'catch on" to good thing,
and the paper collar entered upon its
long career of popularity. = N. Y.
Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
One Dollar Per Year.

not come under the head OF housework.
sewing, or teaching, with very little OF
the last. In 1915. nearly half "a century
ago. the census of the city OF Boston
gave list of employments carried on
by women, % in all. In 1885 the con-
sus OF the State of Massachusetts in
cluded l07 occupations pursued by wo-
men, nearly all OF which doubtless are
carried on in Boston as well as else
where. When we consider that the
whole variety in which mon are there
engaged is but 1l5, it is plain that wo-
men have in that region but few more
doors to open. This opening OF the
doors settles the question OF compe-
tency; that OF comparative training,
pay, and promotion must follow. In
these things there is yet much to be
gained; but it is evident that the time
will come when all these matters will
be settled, not by nero prejudice, as
formerly, but by real competency of
hand, eye and brain. Undoubtedly
there are employments which are in
trinsically better suited to women, and
others for men; but we have never yet
had the opportunity to determine by
fair comparison which these were, be-
cause the whole thing was formerly
controlled by mere tradition, now
happily passing away. -Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
THE BASIS OF VOTING.
What Should Constitute Eligibility t
Ballot.

What Should Constitute Eligibility to
Ballot.
At one OF the recent hearings before
the woman suffrage committee of the
Massachusetts Legislature, objection
was raised to letting women vote, ON
the ground that "a large majority of
thcm are not engaged in any branch of
business or industrial occupation" In
reply the Boston Globe sensibly says:
ut seems to us that this argument
proves too much. 1t makes business or
occupation, and not manhood, woman
hood or citizenship, the basis OF voting.
But it would hardly be admitted that
the consequences that result from TAX
ing business or occupation as the basis
of suffrage. There are large numbers
of gentlemen OF leisure men who never
had any business or occupation, and
who never earned a dollar in their
lives. Should they be disfranchisedP
ION the other hand there are, in this
city alone, many thousands of women
VIII nave DuSluooo anu OCCuptllOll, WIN
are compelled to earn their living by
hard and educating contact with the
business world. Shouldn't they have
the ballot? II not, explain why the
young salesman, standing at the counter
of q dry goods store, has more edu--
eating business experience than the girl
who stands beside him and does the
same sort OF work? Or why the man
who runs a pegging machine in
factory has an occupation better fitting
him to vote than the woman who runs
a binding machine in the same roomp
at will not do to say that women
should not have the ballot because
majority of them have no occupation.
A majority of them work harder than
men. And even if only O minority of
them are engaged in occupations which
cit them for voting, what justice is
there in Withholding the ballot from
that minorityp There is only one just
basis for suffrage, and that is manhood
and womanhood
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
HUMOROUS.

Mrs. Fangle "It's getting light
ri raise the blind" Mr.. Fangle
(only half awake)-"All right! I'll
stay in. Epoch.
-Would-be Patron hat is the
legal fare for ten blocksp" Cabman-
dunno. II you want ter know any
thing bout law go ter lawyer.
Philadelphia Record.
A Brown County I'LL man, eighty
six years old, has never seen a piano.
He is hale and hearty old Christian,
and never swore in his life. His paths
have been paths of pleasantness, and
all his ways were ways of peace. Life.
Encouraging. -''Well, how did you
enjoy yourself in the art exhibition"
"Oh, splendidly! l looked at nobody's
pictures but yours! You see there
were always SO many people standing
before The otho, pictures, and there
was always plenty of room by yours. ;"
-Fliegende Blatter.
PA, won't you give me a new
dressp / want one so muchr" "Tll
speak to your mother about it" The
child's wistful expression was turned
Into disappointment "Surely man.
ma will know if it's necessary" said
the father. Eyes" replied the child,
demurely, Il suppose SO; but when
you speak to her, do it gently, papa,
Or she might want one herself IN
Y. Ledger.
He was young and inexperienced,
and as he struggled to tell his love his
tongue cleaved to the roof of his
mouth. 1t was hopeless. Drawing a
beautiful solitaire diamond engage
ment ring from his pocket he trem-
blingly placed it upon her tapering
finger. us it too large, Miss Lulu?'
was all that he could utter. "A trifie
too large. Mr.. Sampson, Miss Lulu
shyly replied, "but can have it fitted
the first thing in the morning"
Miss Gotham-"Ah, Miss Benton,
l see you have been looking over
Lyrics poems. What is your opinion
of his work." Miss B.-"I do not
fancy it at air. Miss G.-"Indeed?
/ think him sweet aud charming
writer. What are your objections. "
Miss B.-"Why, any one can under
stand him, and who cares for writer
so intelligibly commonplace. Give
me that charm OF mystery that so dis
tinguishes dear old Browning. Who
is ever caught understanding him?"-
Boston Budget
MIR. B-"These biscuits remind
me of mothers" Mrs. B.-"Well,
declared Have you gone crazy?"
"Crazy, my dear? OF course not.
"Well. never expected to hear you
say that any Of my cooking resembled
your mothers She was a wonderful
cook, have no doubt, for you have
said so thousands of times" YES,
she certainly was. In fact there wa'
only one dish that she ever failed IN.
What was thatFi "B.scuits."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
Women in Asia.

The Kirghiz are among the most con-
sentative of the Central Asian tribes
over whom Russia's dominion extends,
but even among them there are signs of
progress. A correspondent writing
from Odessa says; IAN attempt has
now been made to break through the
hitherto impenetrable wall of prejudice
which excludes female children from
all educational culture. The wife of
Kirghiz chief named Gaischevskaya has
overborne all native opposition, and.
with the permission of the government,
u lew months ago opened school for
girls in the little town Of Irgis, Thus
far she has only succeeded in bringing
together fifteen girls. all OF whom are
daughters OF native sultans, but there
is reason to hope that her example will
be followed shortly by the opening Of
similar schools In other populous
places. The girls at the Irgis' school
are said to be wonderfully good pupils"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
SLIPS OF SUFFRAGE

MISSOURI has just granted school suf-
frage to women.
The women Of Denmark to the num-
Der of 10000 have petitioned for the
right Of suffrage.
DETROIT saloon-keepers deplore the
entrance OF women into politics as det-
rimental to their business Very good;
the politics of the country can stand
set backs of just that kind without
much concern.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE SAYS: ..You
ask me my reasons for believing in
women's suffrage. 1t seems to me al
most self-evident, an axiom, that every
householder and taxpayer should have
voice in the spending OF the money
we pay, including. as this does. inter-
ests the most vital to human being.n
The Massachusetts, Benefit Insurance
Association. OF which Miss Emily A.
Southmayd is general agent for Chica-
go, emphasizes its appreciation OF wo-
mans work by employing two lady
physicians OF different schools, and
paying all its women employees the
same salaries as men for a similar
amount OF service.
IT has now been many years since the
village schools Of Maine passed almost
wholly into the management of lady
teachers. Now the SUPPLEMENTARY of
the schools is passing by degrees into
the same skillful hands. the Lewiston
Journal says An unusually large num-
Der of towns have elected women TO this
position this year, many ofthem for the
first time 1t seems TO be . case OF the
survival Of the fttest
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

of the LOO students at the UNI
versity of Michigan thirty-seven are
Japanese.
p. T. Barnum lately gave $11, 900
to the University Church of Bridge
port, Conn, thus freeing it from debt.
Out of thirteen clergymen in
terviewed in Cincinnati on the subject
of preaching sermons for little chill
dren twelve decidedly opposed it.
"A prominent Episcopal clergyman
of New York is quoted abroad as say
ing that the Bishops of the American
Episcopal church are rapidly coming
to believe that distinctive Episcopal
dress is desirable.
The Department Of Biology in tho
University of Pennsylvania is here
after to be separate school, with a
four years instead OF two years.
course. Its graduates will receive an
appropriate degree.
The orthodox Friends attend very
closely to their educational interests;
their recent report presented in Phil
adelphia showing that of 791 children
of school age in the yearly meeting
more than 600 are educated in Friends
schools.
The duel problem is before the
German University public at present
as it has not been for decades. The
barbarous custom finds defenders
among theological professors. AT
more than one pastoral conference OF
late it has been defended. In several
of the German state churches no can
didate with duel scars on his face can
receive an appointment to u vacant
pulpit.
The Roman Catholic church in
Great Britain is we'll organized. In
England and Wales there is l Arch
bishop (Westminster), 1G Bishops
with 2 suifragans, and Cardinal (Man-
ning); there are $3.50 priests, serving
1906 chapels, churches and stations,
with considerable number privately
employed. In Scotland there are :
Archbishops, Bishops and 81 priests.
Ireland has Archbishops, with Is
Bishops. Public Opinion.
The church is your house, as hosts
in Gods behalf; and you are glad tc
have visitors attend its services, Their
show them the pleasure you really
feel at their presence. As host, in
troduce yourself, and mako the visit
ors acquainted with others, so tha
they may feel that they are welcome
Invite them to come again. DO no
give them occasion, from your man
ner, to think that your congregation
is made up of a cold or exclusive set
A church is not club, where all but
those who belong to certain circles
must expect to be snubbed if they pre-
sumo to intrude.
The American Sunday-Schoo
Union during the year ending Marcel
l established 557 Sunday-schools il
the Northwest alone, and brough
4,346 teachers and II, AL scholars int
them. This work was done in com
munities that had not been cared TO-
by any other agency Besides this
it aided other schools, previously or
ganized, in 2,37S cases, numbering
l1,0S7 teachers and 105,723 scholars
Its missionaries held 1858 religious
meetings, made IS, 290 religious visit
to families, supplied 5,903 person
with the Scriptures, and placed in it
schools So, 657 worth of religious lit
erature. Exchange.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
He Found His Ideal

"Miss Smitherson." asked young
man, do you sing Marguerita?"
no"
ibid you ever attempt The Heart
Bowed Down with Grief and Carer"
Never"
"Do you play the Boulanger
march?"
II never tried it.
Did you ever paint any pictures
of puffy-faced boys with wings for
ears?"
NO"
IBID you ever work worsted Home
Sweet Home notices with purple
vines climbing over a pea-green cot
tagea"
II never did.
Miss Smithersonir
"Wen?"
Would yen mind linking your ufs
! Eith NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Traveller.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


1t is asserted that Mrs Ward,
Mrs. Burnett and Amelie Rives- Chan
Ter have more readers than Mrs. Stowe,
Charlotte Bronte or George Eliot ever
had.
Secretary Tracy, of the Navy, is
man of wide reading and fond of quo
tation. He has a fine library, and
has q special Partially to English
classics.
The encyclopedia published by
the Academy at Pekin, as far as bulk
is concerned at least, is the largest in
the world, it being composed of l6O, 600
volumes.
Marion Harland says that who
ever establishes regular reading club
in an agricultural district does more to
check the deadly progress of farmers
wives to the insane asylum than all
the doctors and medical journals in the
land.
The "Nestor of English scholar
ship" Prof. Kennedy, died at Tor
quay recently. DR.. Kennedy had car
ried off almost every classical honor
at Cambridge, was head master at
Shrewsbury and Professor OF Greek
at Cambridge. His authority on
points of philology was regarded as
unrivaled.
"A good story is told of Miss Mary
Booth. late of Harpers Bazaar. She
was bothered constantly by amateur
playwrights. who desired her to read
and pass judgment upon their manu-
scripts. One of them once said to her:
"Miss Booth, don't you think there is
some way by which my play can be
put upon the stage?" "Oh, yes" she
replied. "Do tell me-" cried the
supplicant why, have it ground up
and used for snow-storms, was the
crushing reply.
Chief ustice Fuller and Judge
Harlan are almost always together,
and are daily seen walking to and
from the Capitol in Washington,
Judge Field and Judge Bradley are
close friends and are at each others
house frequently. Judge Blatchford
and Judge Lamar walk Or drive in
company every pleasant afternoon.
Judge Miller in his walks or drives
"goos it alone" but he is the friend
of every Justice and his society is
gladly welcomed by any of them at all
times.
WILLIAM Dean Howells is one Of
the neatest men in the world of let
ters," says Current Literature. His
study is as daintily ordered as lady's
boudoir, and his dress is immaculate
but he can not induce his thick, gray.
ish-brown hair to remain in the state
of smoothncss to which he endeavors
to reduce it, and, rumpled over his
broad forehead, it gives him singu-
larly youthful appearance. He i:
rather un-American looking, on the
whole; dark, with heavy features and
very deep eyes beneath dropping lids
but which light up wonderfully, as in
deed the whole face does, when he i:
conversing."
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06

The interest-bearing funds of the
common schools and the University Of
Texas amount to over $50. 600. 900. and
the $4,000, 600 acres of unsold lands
will, within the next two decades,
swell this amount to 500. 900. 900.
Thus it will be seen that the public
school endowment is nov more than
800, 0QQ, 600 Journal Of Education
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
VOL. V.-NO. %.
ONE LIFE.


Her little hand is resting
On the arm that held it OF old,
And he thinks IL Is only the n'ght-breeze
That makes it SO soft and cold.
Her eyes INTO his are gazing
Eyes SO faithful TO him
Ana he thinks II the shadowy twilight
That makes them SO strange and dim.
Her pretty face turns toward him
Ah, when did her face turn away,
And he thinks 1t the siivcry moonlight
That makes 1t SO faint and gray.
0 spirit that fingers and falters,
Take courage and whisper sGood.bye. -
A lifei Why, a life is nothing
When millions each minute die.
With millions each minute dying,
What matters one life or deathf-
One fragile and tender cxistcnce?-
One tremulous, passing breath?
A life! Why, a life is nothingl
What matters though one turn dimi
Alasi for the folly OF reason,
One life is the world to him.
-LesIies Newspaper.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-06-06
THE PIVOTAL QUESTION.

Said Joe &c Sam, in fercc debate
Upon the woman question::
"You've answered well all other points.
Now here's my last suggestion:
"When woman goes to cast her vote
Some miles away, 1t may be-
Who then, ask. will stay at home
To rock and tend the babyf'
'Well, since the question seems to turn
On this as on its axis,
Just get the one who rocked 1t when
She went to pay her taxesn"
Our Herald,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-18
Constitutional Catarrh.

No single disease has entailed more suffer-
ing or FASTENED the breaking UP of the con-
stitutiOn than Catarrh. The sense of smell,
of taste, of sight, of hearing, the human
voice. the mind-one or more and sometimes
all, yield to its destructive influence The
poison it distributes throughout the system
attacks every vital force. and breaks UP the
most robust of constitutions. Ignored, be-
cause but little understood, by most physi-
clans, impotently assailed by quacks and
charlatans, those suffering from il have little
hope to be relieved of it this side of the grave
1t is time, then, that the popular treatment
of this terrible disease by remedies within
the reach of all passed into hands at once
competent and trustworthy. The new and
hitherto untried method adopted by Dr. San
ford in the preparation OF his RADICAL CURE
has won the hearty approval of thousands
1t is instantaneous in affording relief in all
head colds, sneezing. snuffling and obstruct-
ed breathing, and rapidly removes the most
oppressive symptoms, clearing the head
sweetening the breath, restoring the senses
OF smell, taste and hearing, and neutralizing
the constitutional tendency of the disease
towards the lungs, liver and kidneys.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one
bottle of the RADICAL CURE, one box of Ca
TARRHAL SOLVENT, and IMPROVED INHALER;
price, 81.
potter DRUG & CHEMICAL CORPORATION.
BOSTON