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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
HUMOROUS.

It is better to have turnup nose
than cabbage head.
The flannel shirt is so modest that it
shrinks from day to day.
Is gun thought to b, doing great
execution when it hangs frca
A prudent man is like pin; his
head prevents him going too far.
When the man said figures do not lie,
he did not allude to figures of speech.
Culture does not make gentleman.
A regular beet may be cultivated
thing.
''Silence is golden" said the wit
who wrote and sold his joke, instead
of telling it.
A morning paper asks, ''Is the Indian
dying out" He is not dying out so
much as formerly. As he becomes moro
civilized he goes in to die.
Inauisitivo Citizen-What's the mat
ter with the mana Been run over by o
railroad traina Ambulance Surgeon
Worse than that. He was caught
among the women in bargain rush at
| Sellers.
A good thing can be carried too far.
A Boston man, who had been told that
he was about to die, asked the doctor
for his bill, saying that he did not
wish to depart from his lifelong rule,
"Pay as you CO."
Station Master-Come, come, my
good man! You mustn't walk on the
track. Tramp (dsgustedly)-The
conductor says can't ride, and you say
can't walk. What's your blamed old
road here for, anyhowl
Mamma-Bobby. noticed that your
little sister took the smaller apple. Did
you let her have her choice, as told
you toa Bobby-.Yes, 1 told her she
could have the little one or none, and
she chose the little one.
Young lady Ito editoD-I have such
pretty little story with me. Can you
use it2 Editor-Oh, certainly; we can
use anything here. (To office boy)
Jimmy, put few moro manuscripts in
the stove; the room is growing cold.
Always Employed-B,nevolent Per-
son Ito tramp)-What do you usually
do in the winter timea Tramp-Wait
fer summer. Benevolent Person
| And what dc you do when summer
comesa Tramp Gesignedly)-Begin
to wait fer win tier.
Cremation reduces the human body
to little paper of ashes which a post
age stamp will carry any distance with
in the bounds of the country. Stingy
people can congratulate themselves on
the economical rates of travel in store
for their remains.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
The Earth Growing Larger.

The earth, travelling in its orbit
around the sun and onward with the en-
tire solar system around some unknown
and still greater centre of attraction, is
constantly traversing new regions of
space, which it depletes of meteoric
dust and meteorites, thus steadil y-no
matter how slowly--increasing in diam.
eter. Now let this growth continue till
the earth has just twice the attractive
power which it now possesses. we
should then have twice the number OF
meteorites and d ouble the quantity of
dust falling annually upon it than
now.
Fortunately for our heads, the earth
has not yet attained very formidable
dimensions, but we may look upon it as
an established fact that it. constantly
gains in weight, and that in proportion
to such gain its attractive power steadi-
ly increases.
The attractive force of the sun is so
en- ormous that a perpetual hail of mete-
orItes and torrent of dust particles
must rush upon it from all directions,
and some of the foremost observers are
now of opinion that these falling
bodies are the sole cause of the suns
heat.
In the light of this theory our earth
is young and growing, not an old and
dying planet; planet with future,
which ought to be cheerful news to all
of us, although we shall not live to reap
the benefit of it, and the sun, far from
being on is last legs as an expiring
lum nary, is steadily gaining in heat
and lighting capacity. -Amerisas Geolo-
oiss.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
NO. 81.
Light and Love.


If light should strike through every dark
ened place
How many deed of wickedness and =
shame
Would cease, arrested by its gentle grace,
And striving virtue rise, unscathed by
blame!
The prisoner in his cell new hopes would
frame,
The miner catch the metals lurking
trace,
The sage would grasp the ills that harm our
race,
And unknown heroes leap to sudden
fame.
If love for one short hour had perfect sway,
How many ranking sore its touch
would heal,
How many misconception pass away
And hearts long hardened learn to feel;
What sympathies would awake, what feuds
decay
If perfect love might reign for one short
day!
--New Orleans Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

The human family today consists of
about /, $50, 600, 600 individuals. In
Asia, where man was first planted, there
are now about 500, 900, 900, an average
of 12o to the square mile. In Europe
there are 32O, 900, 900, averaging 100 to
the square mile. In Africa there are
210, 900, 900. in America North and
South, there are 10, 10000 relatively
thinly scattered and recent. In the
islands, large and small, probably 10, :
900, 900. The extreme of the white
and black are as to 3, the remaining
700, 900, 600 being intermediate brown
and tawny.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

father, said Harry, hurriedly buttoning
his coat. s'But know all isn't as it
should be-"
We came up to the Court, little
band of us, in the frozen silence of the
winter night, and found that it was as
Harry Dawson had suspected. Christall
Court was in the possession of three
men whose tools, scattered around, pro-
claimed them to be profes sional burg.
lars, while the poor old butler, fast
asleep at the top of the house, never
dreamed that aught was amiss. But,
expert as were these thieves, the sturdy
strength and superior numbers of our
party were too much for them. They
were overpowered and bound--and
when the wagonette came home with
its load of cross and sleepy servants,
it served to carry the captives to the
county Jail.
1t proved that one of them was We.
ronique's brother-and that the French
woman herself was in league with them.
Veronique left the country, abruptly;
all the other servants, except Mrs.
Hood, Old John and the butler, were
discharged am Mrs. ChristalPs
own maid, now.
To be sure, it isn't much of an ad-
venture, but such as it is, have told il
as plainly as could remember. = Tht
Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

A meeting of landowners aud farmers
has been held at Stcttin, Germany, at
which it was agreed that, so great is
the scarcity of farm laborers, it will be
absolutely necessary to arrange for the
importation Of an adequate number of
Chinese, and committee was appointed
to confer with the Chinese minister at
Berlin on the subject. The rural dis
tricts of Prussia have been so depopu-
lated by emigration and other causes
that the farmers are really compelled to
obtain foreign laborers without further
delay.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.


Artificial glaciers as a means of stor-
ing water for irrigation have been pro-
posed.
Adolph Sutro of San Francisco is
trying to solve tho quinine problem on
his estate by raising cinchona trees,
from tho bark of which quinine is
extracted.
Miss Proctor of Lima, Ohio, has
patented a process by which it is
claimed 10000 cubic feet of illuminate
ing gas can be extracted from one
barrel of Lima oil.
The mineral called turfa, or brazo-
lima, lately discovered in Bahia, fur
nishes an oil akin to petroleum,a a paraf-
fine suitable for the manufacture of
candles, and good lubricating oil.
The hydrocar bon process of treating
iron so that it will not corrodc, is said
to cost less than one-half of that of
galvanizing, while the durability, under
similar conditions, is considerably ex-
tended.
A method of treating pine leaves for
the purpose of converting them into q
pulp for tho man ufacture of a strong
and superior paper by exposing the
leaves to the action of steam under
pressure has been success fully tried.
The peculiar odor of Russian leather
which enables it to resist The ravages of
insects, arises from the employment of
an oil obtained by the dry distillati on
of the bark of the birch tree, the oil
being worked into the flesh side of the
leather by means of suitable tools.
Recent observations of the waters of
Great Salt Lake prove conclusively that
the statements made that no form OF
animal or plant life exists in the lake
are erroneous. No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered fact
from the abundance of animal exist
ences.
DIR. Alanus, leader of ehc German
vegetarians, has abandoned the diet or
the ground that purely vegetable diet
interferes with the proper functions OF
the arteries. The French physicians
Monin and Trielli con firm this view, and
say it causes chalky degeneration of the
arteries on account of the too great
preponderanco of mineral salts.
Signor Schiaparelli, the eminent Mi
Ian astronomer, we'll known for his re-
searches on the shooting stars and or
the canals of the planet Mars, has an
nounced that after ten years investiga-
| tion he has ascertained that Mercury
has a rotation like that of the moon.
Its rotation on its own axis and that
round the sun synchronize, so that il
always turns the same side to the sun,
as the moon does to the earth.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

We made four new States last year, a
greater number than for any other year
since the foundation of the Republic,
and there arc a greater number of appli-
cants for stateho cd on hand in spite of
the recent heavy reduction in the list
than in the early years of the nation.
The year 1889 and probably few years
of the immediate future promise to be
the great state making period of the
Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

Stanley sees fine prospects for rail-
ways in Africa. According to his esti-
mates 800 miles could be laid down for
SIT, o0e, 900. This mileage would
open to commerce four great river
basins, with total area of 3, $40, 900
square miles, and a total population of
so, $50 0O0 OF the resources of the
region he speaks in the highest terms.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
After the Storm.

The widest storm must spend its force,
The baffled winds pause with moan,
For sunshine struggling through the mist
Clasps the tired earth in shining zone.
So stormy grief will rob of light
The soul that prays for mornings dawn,
Through black despair in deepest night,
Till hope, and love, and life seem gone.
'Tis then the mornings golden splendor
Dispels the gloom, illumes the way,
Whilst dreamy voices, low and tender,
Whisper, sad heart, behold perfect day!
-Chicago Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

Apropos of the epidemic of influenza,
it is noted that the visitations of this
disorder have been preceded by SINH
lar disease among horses. 1t is curious
to observe that distemper of this kind
has been actually prevailing among hor-
ses in London for some time.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
ernnnent.

Quinine drove a victim of influenza
to suicide in Hartf ord, Conn, and
many physicians are inclined to the be-
lief that tho use of this drug in excess
is worse than the disease.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

THE cunning dog belonging to Jacob
Hendricks, of Swamp, Berks County,
Pa, was stolen a few nights ago and
tied to tree in the woods. When re-
covered it was nearly famished, and
had almost Rnawed the tree down
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

The new tate of Washington COM
plains that it has too few lawyers il its
legislature, and consequently business
does not progress.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

OF the 400, 600, 900 population of
countries recognized as belonging to
the civilized world, about $50, 600, 600
are now under republican forms of gov
ornmnnt
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07
VOL. VIII.

The women of Milton, Ore, put into
nomination full set of women for the
city elections.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-07

Artificial glaciers as means of stor-
ing water for irrigation have been pro-
posed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
A JAoKsoNIAH ESTIMATE or Mo-
hIhLhf,

The Wooster Iaeka0nian edited by j
n, MarehaHd, IL taking a measure OF
our home statesman, Major MCKINLEY
and IN tho light OF his achievements -
estimating tho value OF his claims 10
popular support,
The Jaekaonian alzeahlm up, aa a one
idea man, aud 40 q lawyer ana lnlelleel
tual f0Ioe, places him 0n a plane below
the eloquent Smyhrf OF WOOSTER iltie
we qlOle from the editorial Ia tho JACK
HOniani
aTO become q useful lawmaker u
thorough aud practical knowledge OF
the law is Indispensable, Meklnleys
experience Ia tho courts IL eompahhea
Ia q few uneyentinl years, IN Whloh
there was fOreshadOWed no future OF
greatness or genius, Ihlh N
manifest Ia all OF his written ubllahed
speeches aud addresses, N which we
have a right 10 presume that he demon
stTatGa his full power or thought, lle'
tiOn, arrangement ana construction,
Neither do they exhibit an intimacy
with the wider areas OF tho higher IN
teligenoe or the range OF investigation
and thought OF tho political student,
aayant and atgleaman, The eoneen-
tFated essence and juice OF the
whole matter ia this, Major Mckinley
soon after his election 10 Con
greaa made a hobby Of the taflii lie
has bestowed upon II more thought
aud attention than any other subject
that has been an issue for twenty years.
Col, II. n, Hill OF East Liverpool and
Zig Iron Kelley gfo0med HIM Blaine
gave him the "aplendor or nus smile,
partisan newspapers careaAed him aud
advertised him, his speeches were sent
out like Gargling OH olrcnlara-eyery'
body got them and nobody read them
and no woke up one line morning
with the belief that he was Tarlil
lefOFmer. Both hla feet have since
stood on this one fact, With him II n
now the balancing act, When no
falls, ~ he will, 10 the lower ground, u
will be final. lie viii drop from the
pOaef'a platform upon q marble lloof
where nothing grows and where there
ID nothing 10 tax A thousand marks
per day for respect will not save him IN
November, There are two things for
which no has q soorchlng, consuming
and passionate loves llrat, himself, ana
second, his present pet protective meas
ure. His initial motive, however N 10
advance the ego, He 10 lnexpreaeibly
aelAah, and his pride 10 Of the climbing
kind. The ladies say he poses well and
that, like Tltania, u part OF his bual-
ness II 10 seem beautiful
Where ia the man or woman OF far
intelligence who will not soy the above
10 Il true pen picture OF our Pagan idol,
drawn with q deft hand, aud true to
lruthY
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
oETTINo IN DEEPER,

The Republican papers OF Martin
Luther Smysera district are endeayor'
Ing 10 lot him down easily, They print
q patent rescue dispatch from the Cin-
clnnati Commercial Gazette, wherein he
10 permitted 10 parade his chlldlike In
nOoence. But he says
In fact told members OF the com.
mttee 10 days ago that | was perfectly
willing 10 impart any information rs To
my own stock aud my connection with
the company
We quote from the Congressional
Record the statement OF Mr. Morrill,,
the Kansas chairman Of the inyestigat'
ing committee;
Mr. Morrlll-Mr, Speaker, In justice
10 the committee and 10 the Speaker, |
think 1 ought 10 say 70 this House that
the ArBt intimation we had that any
member of the committee held any
stock In the company was when the
books were produced,
Here 10 what another Republican
member OF the committee said;
Mr.. Sawyer-As 10 whether the gen
tIeman from Ohio lMr. Smyserl owns
stock, never heard any intlmation Of
IL until 10 day,
Now the Smyser interview, the dis.
coyery OF the stock book, these above
quoted remarks, and his dismissal, all
occurred on the same day, September 2,
When Mr.. Smyser says he mentioned
his ownership Of stock 10 days ago, did
no or Mr. Morrill,, utter the falSehoodY 2
Mr.. Smyser tried TO hide on packed
Jury. lie was detected. Let him keep
atill
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11

SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont,
says the deficit In the y. $. treasury
WIN be 950OO0000. Vulgar Joe Can
non, Of Illinois, who has been threshing
the numerals for his own benefit, says
there will be q surplus, When the
leaders Of the Republican party are not
able 10 agree on a simple proposition in
addition and subtraction, Of what reli.
ance are their statements on questions
Of principle and policy There is one
thing, however, that we all do know, as
stated by Mr. Blaine; the Mckinley
bill does not make a market for one
additional bushel OF corn, or a barrel OF
pork, When we understand this thor
oughly II Is not necessary 70 know
much more In order to vote right this
fall.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11

THE Scripps League list of newspa-
pers all claim 10 be for tariff reform,
but they are always for Protection can
didateS, They are like Ben Butter.
worth and some other Republican poll
tlclanB we know Of, they talk one way
and vote another, The Cleveland Penny
Press, last year supported Foraker and
threw dirt at Governor Campbell dur.
idg the entire campaign, Foraker was
committed to the robber tariff, that the
Penny Press claims TO he opposed to,
and Campbell was committed 30 tariff
reform, which the Penny Press ably
and lucidly advocates. In the present
campaign In this district, enough Is
seen already Of the Penny Press TO in
dicate that II will do all in lis power to
aid Mckinley, and defeat Warwick
This will not be done openly, but by
the same tactics that was prNcticed so
ingeniously, but unsuccessluIly 10 de.
feat Governor Campbell.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
THE GLASS COMBINE,

The glass manufacturers Of the eoun'
try have Just concluded their session
at Chicago. With defiance aud reck-
lessness that seem the direct oileprlngs
of present autocratic political methods,
they adopted resolutions ITO advance
prices, 70 limit production, TO demand
d prohibitory tariff 80 that Belgium
and other European glass may be Kept
out"
Can any microscopic eye detect in
these principles any flavor Of that de-
lioious protection theory that duties
win lower prices by fostering home
competition between domestic maru'
facturers2 Here Is an avowed COM
bine whose purpose ig to prevent com
petition an0 TO sell glass Mt agreed
upon higher prices, These glass men
are rapacious. The Mckinley bill haa
already provided for increased taxes
on glass. The appetite grows by what
IL feeds upon. Is II possible 10 gorge
10 safety a protected capitalistY You
might surfeit his stomach with epicur'
can food, but never his purse with
wealth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
In CANNON InsIsts that The surplus

MIR. CANNON insists that the surplus
will be s65 100000. Mr.. Sayers, Demo.
cratic member Of the Appropriation
Committee declares that the deficit will
be Sll 100000. The Plttsburg Dispatch
neatly reconciles this thus:
This contradiction ls easily explained.
Mr.. Cannon conveniently omits from
his calculations Of expenditures certain
liked charges upon the United States
Treasury, amounting to about sixty
millions OF dollars. These charges are
not created by this Congress, and Mr.
Cannon prefers not to see them. But
the painful conviction will be forced
upon the nation that clever cooking
cannot change a balance sheet A de-
aUit is certainly 10 be expected.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
noB KEnNRDY's Bu0LH RLAsTl

General bob Kennedy, Congressman,
ID well known 10 tho many admlflng
lepublioans OF Canton, lie GRATED
here for the great cause OF Mckinley
and Protection, lilo represents lhp
lnea6ly politics OF the Force bill, ehaih,
pioned Also by Mckinley ana endorsed
by the Ohio Republican platform, Ills
attack upon Chairman Quay ana the
Republican Senate represents more
than Hob KENNEDY, aa " IL now known
that no WAS put forward by tho feVoln'
tiOni6t OF tho House 10 arouse publle
OpiniOn against tho maleOntenh OF the
senate, not only on the Force bill, but
tho Mckinley Iarlit bill aa we'll That
no should call Senator Quay aaeopnafel
On tho iOOr OF tho House, Ia Violation
OF the rules OF the House, IL certainly
abn0Tmally melancholy, Dut that MS
eplthels are bOttOmed on the bed rock
OF truth does not admit OF IN argument
Ia this connection II must DO femtln-
bered that General Bob Kennedy 10 ono
OF our foremost Republican statesmen,
IL was Ouly u few moons ag0ne that no
waa nearer and dearur the Republican
heart than Ou' own William Mckinley,
Jr, IL was Robert who, 40 Lieutenant
Governor OF Ohio, decided Officially ln
the Ohio Senate that II was
a majority OF 81, thereby beat
ing the . arithmetic aud the
Democrats OF the Senate ~ Que fell
awOOp OF his Jaw bone, For this no
WIS made q hero aud sent 10 Congress,
and came near getting the Republican
nomination for Governor OF ono,
Hence when Robert arfaigns the boss
iugltman OF the 4, o, y, OF the Nation
aa q corrupt aeouudreI, hla words
should cast potent, paIaly spell
over the Republican party OF Onlo,
especially In tho 10th district, where no
was u great oracle last year, We are
not In favor Of spending hard earned
Democratic money on Republican lit'
eTatuTe, but II would be u good invest
ment for the Democratic CongrehhlUn-
al Committee 10 circulate, say 2OOOO
copiea OF Bob kennedy'a araignment
fthe prominent Republican acoun-
dIela, who were solely instrumental In
foIating Ben Harrison aud the present
Republican Congress upon the country
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-09-11
REoIPRooITY AND Fann TRADE,

Mckinley, IN his Maaaillon speech &C
eeptlng tho nomination FOR Congress,
TejOloed that European countries hay
ing business relations with the United
States detealed the new law because II
would ruin their American commerce,
suppose We e0nGeda thli, Then lot na
ask, what Ia GOmmeleef ~ Ia, In plain
speaking, the exchange OF products be
tween two countries, 10 fOllOwa OF
course, that no trade means nOn-inter'
course, or exclusion, Now there Ia u
much larger sized man than Major Nc
Kinley, who also claims 10 be q liepub
liean, who holds q doctrine directly 0p-
p0site 10 Mckinley, la 1883 no stood
whore Mckinley now tries 10 stand,
but he has taken on more sail, and
sees new lights Ia the distance, lle IL
now Democrat on the tariii, but with
limitations. ll6 fayora absolute free
trade with certain designated countries
with b00OO,000 Ofp0pulati0n, aud larger
than the whole United States and one
half of Europe, and speaks OF the Nc
ltlnley bill ~ measure that will not
make a market for q single
buahel OF corn or q barrel
of pork, McKlnley'a plan 10 10 shut
out all foreign wares, and destroy all
the commerce OF the seas, Blanca
plan 10 open up 4 market for our farm
products and manufactured wares 20
the whole South American continent,
Now the difference between
these two plans In 90 vast
aa the difference between Christ
and brigham Young, One desired
his apostles 10 20 into all the world aud
preach the gospel, while the other Inn
tied the area OF sanity influence 20
the home market of the harem,
A writer, known on both sides OF the
Atlantic, In defining reciprocity says,
and says truly;
"Reelprocity Ia simply a word, an
idea 10 express commercial freedom
IL 10 not the end In ylewi simply the
means, Extend lbs application, with
out changing itH principle In the least,
and you have the Golden Blaine dream
Of Free Trade realized. Aa the Golden
treaty of 1860 10 today tho basis of trade
between England and France, 80 the
Blaine plan, II 6ucceaafully introduced
among the nations OF the world, would
produce reciprocal Free Trade. There
10 war, perpetual war, between this
theory and the Mckinley plan 10 in
crease duties, or TO make them prOhib'
tive; and no amount Of sophistry eau
argue away that war"