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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
Goodbye
There's kind O. chilly feelin in the blowin'
O. the breeze

There's kind o. chilly feelin' in the blowin
o. the breeze,
And sense O. sauness stealin' through the
tresses O the trees
And a smist seems fallin' dreary on the
mountains towerin' high,
And l feel my cheeks grow teary as 1 bid
you all goodbyel
Goodbye" the winds are sayin'; 'good-
bye" the trees complain,
As they bend low down an whisper with
their green leaves wet with rain;
Goodbye" the roses murmur, an the
bendin' lilies sigh
AS if they all felt sorry I have come-come
to say goodbye.
reckon all have said it some time or other
soft
And easy like, with eyes cast down, that
dared not look aloft
For the tears that tr,mbled in them-for the
lips that choked The sigh,
When it came a-swellin' from the heart an
made it beat goodbye!
/ didn't think twas hard to say; but
standin' here alone,
With the pleasant past behind me ana the
future dim, unknown,
A gloomin' yonder in the dark-the tears
come to my eye,
And I'm weepin' like woman as bid you
all goodbye.
fhe work I've done is with you; maybe
some things went wrong,
Like a note that mars the music in the sweet
flow of song;
But brethren when you think ofme only
ask you would
Say as the Master said of one "He hath
done what he could"
And when you sit together in the time as
yet to be,
BY your love-encirced fresides in the val
leys fair and free
Let the sweet past come before you, and
with something like sigh
Just say: "We amt forgot him since the
day he said 'Goodbyep"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY MAY 9. 1890.

'1ll keep your secret, Jerry, for ]
believe you when you say you wero
half mad"
Great was the excitement at Rye Hill
when it became known that Lawyer
Simpkins had had a communicate on
from the party who had stolen the tin
box, confessing the theft, and revealing
the hiding place. There was group
of half the people of the village in
front of Jacob Green's porch when Jer-
rvs carpenters work was torn away,
| and the earth that covered the buried
treasure removed. Lawyer Simpkins
took small key from his pocket.
''Stop moment" he said, as Jacob
Green was about to take the box, ''as
executor of Hiram Green's estate,
must open this box and see if tho con.
tents are all right"
There was a sudden catching OF
breath audible as the lid of the box fell
back. On the top was an open paper,
and Lawyer Simpkins read alou1:-
Il Hiram Green, do give and bequeatb
this box and all it contains to Sarah, wife
of my nephew, jeremiah Green. ] leave il
to her as token of my love for both,
and because l think she will be more care.
full of 1t than my nephew. And do ask
Of, Ip,I A. 1. 4
see my wish carried out, and give to Sarah
his advice about investing the money.
'HIRAM GREEN"
There was one moment of intense si-
lence and then a cheer rent the air.
Every man there was glad that the
misery, grasping Jacob Green was dis.
appointed, and every man rejoiced for
Jerry and Sally.
But the sick man was humble as a
child when the lawyer told him the
news. He did not die, nor did anyone
but Lawyer Simpkins ever guess his
secret, but he was a broken, premature
ly aged man, creeping humbly about
and living on the income his wife drew
from tho ontents of the tin box, which
he had hidden from spite, and by so
doing, overreached himself.
.'If had died without telling" he
thought often, 'Sally would never
have had the money, and Jacob might
have found the box, after ALL"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
The Child of the Future.

1t is a dreadful point about these
microbes that the only way to avoid
having them in virulent form is to
have them in an artificial or attenuated
form. The children of the future will
not run through the present gamut OF
infantile disease. but they will probab-
ly be subjected to incubation with
various microbes every few months.
First, they will be vaccinated for small
pox; when they have recovered from
that they will be taken to Pasteur in
stitute to have mild form of rabies.
Next, they will be given dose of the
comma baccilli to prevent cholera, and
so on through all the ever growing series
of disease microbes. On! luckless child
of the futureI you will never be ill and
never be we'll; your health will never
be awfully mon otonous; you will never
know the WEAKNESS of the first night Of
measles, when it was so nice to lie in
mothers lap and feel her cool hand on
your forehe ad; you will never know the
joys of convalescence, when oranges 5
were numerous and every one was kind
to you because you were not well; and
your end will be TO die OF debility.
How glad We are that we live In the
present. with ail iss Ups aud down. Of
hsAltk to lsRd vsrlsss 20 life and Death
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
HomelY Women Of Portugal.

The Portuguese men are rather be-
low the medium height, of olive com.
plexion and have brilliant black eyes.
For the most part they are very hand
some. The women, on the contrary,
are excessively homely, but dress in
very good taste. Both gentlemen and
ladies copy the Partisan fashions. The
prettiest women arc the fisher maids,
who 60 about the streets barofooted
with their baskets of fish on their heads,
after the fashion of the Egy ptian women
with their pitchers of water. Some OF
these girls are remarkably pretty, and,
strange to say, their feet sSs smAll aad
delicate loskIns saa thsir farms <RAss'
fu. as~..t
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09

after midnight, but eating the comfort
able meal is the last thing We do every
night of the year. This IS not an un-
tried experiment or one depending on
the testimony of single Witness
american Anatyst.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
HUMOROUS.

Flower girls-The miller's daughters.
Hailstones intended for publication
are usually as big as hens eggs.
When a man knows that he cannot
get out of the mud his next impulse is
to go in deeper.
That silence is golden is proved by
the fact that it is sometimes very cost
ly article to buy.
1t was a waggish physician who adj
vised man afflicted with kleptomania
to take something for it.
Landlady-Will you pass the butter,
Mr.. Johnson' Mr.. Johnson-That
butter will not pass, MADAME
The quantity of paper that jewellers
wrap around their goods strikes most
people as great waste of tissue.
A sailor Is considered good skipper
when he understands the ropes. The
same may be said of little girl.
An American girl in France who
wanted to save cable tolls, telegraphed
to her father: ''Marseilles Tuesday,"
Writing poetry is recommended as a
mental exercise. You can get physical
exercise by attempting to read it to the
editor.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the grocer's business
The finest in the land.
Foreman--What's all that racket over
there; somebody pied form2 Printer
No, sir. The towel fell on the floor,
that's all.
Photographers are the most charita-
BILE of men, for they are always anxious
to take the best view of their fellow
creatures.
profitable for the button business is
thing that sooner or later is bound to
get into hole.
Miss Gabble-I have had that parrot
for three months now and It has never
spoken a word. Caller-Perhaps you
have never given it a chance.
Mrs. Hardhead-That's our milk
mans wife. Mr.. Hardhead She's very
becomingly attired. Mrs. Hardhead-
How so2 Mr.. Hardhead-She wears a
watered silk.
Young Wife-Oh, John, the rats
have eaten all my angel cake! Hus.
band-What! All of ita Young Wife
Every piece. I feel like crying.
Husband-oh, pshawl Don't cry over
few rats.
''No," remarked Sonesby, enthusi-
astically, 'there's nothing like the hot
water curel 1t will brace a man UT
when all other remedies fail-er-Mrs.
Slimdiet, just let me have cup of tea,
is you please2"
Student (writing to his father: J
beg you, my dear father, not for s
minute to think that need this money
to pay debts with. / give you my
word of honor that want 1t only fol
myself, and that there is no question OF
debts.
Teacher (promenading with his pupil
in tho feld-'' Natures works are
marvellous" exclaimed the pupil.
Eyes, indeed" the teacher replies,
.'when you come to think, for an ex-
ample, that the humblest insect has its
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
They Split the Difference.

reminiscen mood. ''I will tell you a
little experien ce had down in Louis
lana in 1862" he said. 81 was a men,
Der of the Connecticut Volun teers. The
opposing armies had come into pretty
close quarters, and Con federate out
pickets, stragglers and skirmishers
were around us and doing consid cradle
mischief. Three companies of our reg
iment were ordered out on skirmish
duty. We marched down, FIVE PAGES
apart, ac cording to regulations, into a
perfect morass. The water was waist
deep everywhere.
Il am not very tall, and found it
necessary to hold up my cartridge belt
to keep it from getting saturated. The
Confeder ates were scattered through
this swamp, and we to * number of
prisoners without opening fire. l met
with misfortune. My foot caught be.
meath a couple of parallel branches be-
meath the water, and 1 was securely
pinioned. My companions continued
on their way while l struggled hard to
extr:cate myself from my unpleasant
predicament. I finally pulled my foot
out with desperate effort, but my shoe
was left behind. could only secure
it by plunging my head beneath the
surface of Shiny, noxious, muddy
water, but it had to be done. hal
no sooner got the shoe tied on again
than Confederate came in sight from
behind some bushes. Intuitively our
muskets were simultaneously raised.
"surrender!' thundcred the Confed-
crate.
"Surrender yourself?' I returned at
the top of my lungs.
''Then we stood and eyed each other
Each had his gun cooked and levcle1
at the other, but neither pulled trig-
ger. Why We hesitated is more than
can explain. BY delaying, you see,
each was practically placing himself at
the mercy of the other, or so it would
seem. Suddenly the Confederate gun
dropped and 1 brought mine down
also.
"See here, Yank, he began, in a
you my side wouldn't gain much; and,
again, if you should shoot me your side
wouldn't gain much Now, I've got a
wife and two babies over yonder, aad
if you dropped me they wouldn't have
nobody to take care of them. Now,
it's blamed mean man what won t
split the difference. I'll let you go if
you'll let me go. and we'll call the thing
square. What do you saya
"Well, what should 1 say! l walked
over half way, and we met and shook
hands and parted. About year after
letter came to our camp addressed to
Little Yankee that split the d.ffsr-
ence.' had told him my regiment,
you see, but not my name. The letter
was a cordial invitation to visit the man
at his home In Louisiana. He wanted
me too see the wife and babies whose
m0mbers had prompted him to propose
to split the difference, and 1 have al
ways regretted that was unable to ac-
cept the invitation. '-St. PaaoL Pioneer
Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
THE TIN BOX.

''It is very mysterious business"
said Lawyer S;mpkin rubbing his
nose, and adjusting his spec.acles.
"Hiram Green sent for me- ten days
before he died, and gave me his bonds
and securities to draw the July into rest
for him. put them all back in the
tin box myself. , and he counted and
examined them. The day he died he
tried to tell me something about Jerry
and that box. 'Jerry-tin box-all in
the box--Jerry,' was about all could
make out"
"And the tin box was stolen" said
Tom, the lawyers son and partner.
t'Well, it has disappeared. If it
was stolen, it is of precious little use to
the thief Every paper in it could be
traced. Trust old Hiram Green to look
out for that"
''What was it worth?"
''To a lawful owner, about twenty
thousand dollars"
"Then Jacob Green is so much
poorer! aim glad of it."
Toni Toni Jacob Green is our
cicnt"
'All right! Ishall not proclai m my
opinion on the house-top; but, between
ourselves, think he is the meanes st man
/ ever met. Why. he must be a rich
man, and he grudgcs his family the
necessaries of life. Look at Allie!
There is not servant at Rye Hill who
has not better wardrobe than Alice
Greenl
Just sol" said Lawyer Simpkins, with
twinkle in his eyes. Her hus band
can make that all right though. Eh
Tom?'
Then Tom, blushing crimson, began
to talk again about the tin box and old
Hiram Green's will.
Left every thing to Jacob" said the
lawyer; 'the house, real es tate, and
personal effects"
''And Jerry2"
s'Was not even mentioned in the will.
Hiram Green never forgave Jerry for
failing in business, declared he had no
head, and wasn't fit to be trusted with
money.
''He was his nephew, though. just
as much as Jacob. and he nursed him
faithfully at the last"
''But Jerry is dreamer. Jacob will
double every dollar the old man left,
while Jerry would probably spend
legacy in a year or two."
1t was not alone in the lawyers office
that the subject of Hiram Green's will
and the disappearance of the tin box
were topics of conversation. Every
body at Rye Hill had an opinion to ex-
press, theory to advance. Mrs. Jacob
Green and Mrs. Jerry Green were talk
ing the whole matter over on the po rch
of the old house where Hiram Green
had died, while jerry sat on the steps,
looking moodily down the garden pat h.
Jacob says" said that worthy's
wife, "thas hs witt God that boz, II It's
hsays sreala."
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-09
The Voice of the Void.

warn, like the one drop or rain
On your face, ere the storm;
Or tremble in whispered refrain
With your blood, beating warm.
am the presence that ever
Battles your touch's endeavor,-
Gone like the glimmer of dust
Dispersed by gust.
/ am the absence that taunts you,
The fancy that haunts you;
The ever unsatisfied guess
That, questioning emptiness,
Wins sigh for reply.
Nay; nothing am 1,
But the fight of breath
For am Deathl
George Lathrop IN The Century
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21

nv life. AN simply giving you
hasty glimpse OF Wall street life.
HOW 1T FERIs To SENTENCE \ MAN TO
BE HANGED.
This man with the calm, cold, ascetic
face. firm mouth, massive forehead, who
walks along the street with big black
cigar in his mouth, is Recorder Smyth.
He throws his shoulders well forward as
he walks, and his hands are clasped at
his back.
II have always had a curiosity l
said To- him, ito know the feeling that
comes over a judge when he sits calmly
ON the bench, calls up before him fell
low-being and sentence him either TO
twenty years Imprisonment, or TO be
hanged?"
..Well. my boy" says the recorder, IN
"a clear voice. 1.-The feeling IS awful. IL
is indescribable The first time SEN
fenced man to be hanged l was so
nervous that / thought l should break
down. Yet / knew the fellow was gull
ty. The crime was extremely brutal.
The evidence was conclusive.
lie was defended by good lawyers,
there were no eXteuuating circum-
stances. the jury was unanimous. l
made "a private investigation for myself;
the murderer was low. coarse fellow,
whose whole bearing was one of bravo
do throughout the trial, aud yet l was
sorry TO make the law take his life.
Finally the day of sentence came, the
court room was thronged, the convicted
murderer and his keepers stood before
me. As / took my seat on the bench
the ouietness of the moment awed me.
There was no noise but the singing OF
some birds i'm the caves Of the old court
house. the room was abiaZe with the
mellow light of June sun The clerk
arose: asked the prisoner If he had any
thing TO say why sentence should not
De pronounced upon him. The fellow
made no reply. Then l began TO pass
sentence My tongue seemed TO cleave
90 the roof Of my mouth, my limbs shook
as II palSied, my teeth chartered, flashes
of cold and heat chased each other
over my body and great drops of perSpl-
ration stood on my forehead. l shall
never forget the moment, but my duty
was clear.
IL was only an instrument in the
hands of the law. / faltered several
TIMES, but
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21

of an old army musket out of the win
dow. and remarked that IL was "a blank
of a time TO disturb the slumbers OF a
Christian"
He consented. however, 10 give us
directions for finding the spring down
in the meadow, and we followed them
so accurately that | walked right into
it within ten minutes after leaving the
house In spite of this misfortune the
spring water made very Creditable coffee
after we had found our way back to the
shore, walked up Sam and rebuilt the
fire which had gone out during our alb
Sencc.
find that the delights OF this eXcur-
sion into the heart Of nature 50 crowd
upon me that am using up all my space
without getting ahead any. ! always
thought should like this rOughing IT,.
Mr.. Murray and others had prepared me
for the pleasures Of canoeing by their
descriptions of the gently gliding birch.
though | think they didn't lay stress
enough upon the value Of the exercise
which can be got out of such a trip if a
man is strong enough to live through it,
The river is damned at Orand. This
necesSitates carry" Sam showed the
Kid and how to put the canoe on our
shoulders, and then he went ahead and
picked out the best path. Then he
watched the canoe so that nobody should
steal it while the Kid and Invent back
for the baggage. A little further up
the stream is damned again. This time
Sam showed us how to tie all the bag
gage over our shoulders so that only
one trip would be necessary. ] rcmem-
Der particularly the ingenious way IN
which he suspended three pairs Of long
legged boots and frying-pan around
my neck by string. This method was
so ingenious that whenever | meditated
a halt all six of the boots kicked me
simultaneously, and gOadcd me on while
the string wore a deep furrOw into my
sunburned neck.
1.-The stream we were ascending is
called the NarramooSook. which is a
very pretty name to look at, and is de-
rived, ! believe, from two Indian words,
one of which means dam" and the
other the "carry" (necesstated there
BY. A judicious combination Of these
words will give very fair and unvarn-
ished idea of the stream as a place for
canoeing.
Sam objected TO this derivation, be-
cause he said that the stream wasn't
damned when the Indians made its ac-
quaintance; but l told him that If it
wasn't it ought to have been, and fur
thermore. never saw an Indian name
in the books which showed any signs OF
dismay at a mere question of chronol-
ogy.
The stream leads into Alamoosook
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21
IN A CANOE.
HOWARD FIELDING SENDS A WALL FROM THE
MAINE WOODS.
Being the Hard Facts About Canoe Trip IN the
Wilderness with the LATEST Man
Alive.
Sneciol correspondence Of the Register.

SUecidL Correspondence or me he9teteF.
OK COAST OF MAINE, September To-
There is poetry in birch canoe. Every
bodv saws so and it must be true. |
know. in fact, that, five seconds after l
first stepped into canoe, the poetry
aforesaid was all that was left in it.
Probably poetry has been associated
with a canoe so long that it knows
enough to sit down and keep still. l
didn't and that was the reason why l
was not Gin it," The man who told me
IN stem into the canoe had an instanta-
neous Photographic apparatus with MN
and he took beautiful view OF my feet,
which present to the reader. The
nicture represents me in the act Of look
ing for something solid in two tatnoms
of water. | did not find it because some
body fished me out, but | did find a
large quantity of caution which ! have
since used whenever it has become neceS-
sary for me to get into a birch.
1t was only my first lesson, and was
designed to prepare me for delightful
excursion into the interior OF the Pine
Tree State. This little pleasure trip
was proposed to me while | was spend
ING n few weeks at a summer resort on
the Maine coast When my friend asked
me if would not like to see the Maine
wilderness | Siad: whats the matter
with the place we're in now?" He re-
piled that this wasn't solitude; he could
Show me place where they didn't have
even graveyard. The town | speak
of has a remarkably pretty burying-
ground, and the people are so proud of
it that they regard death with compla-
cency. Sometimes, of pleasant Sun
day afternoon, it is quite lively in the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-09-21

rid of his Scotch accent. when ne
breaches the words comes so iaSt tn1'
they suggest Niagara trying TO do douole
duty. DR.. BehrendS on the contrary
has a singularlarly sweet voice. Both
men are popular, both smoke hall Il
dozen cigars day and l, for one, do
not think even minister is any the
worse for it. Do you?
MIR. DANA's TRIP ABROAD.
No man that I know of carries his
years so we'll as Editor Charles A. Dana.
saw him day or two before he went
to Enrope on his Semi-annual holiday
He was coming out of the sun Once.
His stem was as elastic as a dancing
masters, He threw his shoulders back
like an athlete on dress parade. Ills
eve was clear. and he seemed to me 10 De
a man who never knew a care. Mhlle
in Paris he was the guest of James Cor
don Bennett and of Whitelaw Reld.
How strange it seems for these three to
be friends, now comrades IN the true
sense. And while they ate and slipped
their wine another great New York ed
itor was sitting in a darkened room In
his hotel, the light of his eyes gone out
forever.
Poor Joseph Pulitzer, still in the first
freshness of manhood with a great ca
reer before him. with an income larger
than he ever dreamed of in his widest
flights of fancy, hopeleSSly blind. The
doctors give him no hope. He Will
never see again, and he is not likely to
visit this country for some years. /,
for one, am deeply, deeply grieyed at
his great misfortune.
PHIL ARMOUR'S FIRST 500.
A frequent visitor to New York Is
Phil Armour, short, stocky, far from at
tractive i'm any sense but Singularly
happy man who has managed TO make
| big fortune. He cares little for money
now, but time was when the loss of 500
nearly drove him mad. 1t was good
many years ago, in the days of gold on
the Pacific slope Armour was one OF
the numberleSs thrOng there searching
| for fortune.
Fortune paid no heed to him, how
ever. but finally he managed to get some
..washings" that he sold for one hun
| dred dollars. This sum he carefully
tied up in an old cotton handkerchief
for safe-keeping. Then he hunted
around for place to put it. His eye
spied an old and dilapidated coffee pot
i'm corner of cabin he occupied with
three other seekers for fortune. He
nut the one hundred dollars carefully in
il. and placed it lovingly on conven
lent shelf: then he went about his daily
toll. When he returned from work hi:
eye inStinctively searched for the ole
pot 1t was gone,
One of his partners had tired of work
and come home. He had nothing else
to do so he went to clean house. The
old coffee pot went with the other rub
! bish and a fire was made of it all in {
little clump of bushes near by. Great
was the CONSERVATION when Armour
told what the pot contained. And how
carefully he worked over that fire &c
rescue the pot. Finally he reached it.
blackened and bent, but the money was
intact, and no happier man slept in the
diggingS that night. Thereafter he car
ried il around with him in belt.
And that one hundred dollars was the
/ foundation of the Armour millions.
FOSTER COATES.