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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
famed DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis

famed DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical DIG
covery. . L..
Irving conditions these, under which 20
offer the afflicted relief and cure. NO orci-
nary remedy could sustain itself under sucn
a 0itorantec. 1t would bankrupt its proprf-
etorsl Not so with "Golden Medical Dis
coyery." Its best advertisement is the thou
sands of consumptives, in all parts OF ths
world, which it has restored to health,
strength and happiness To-day no other
medicine has SO great sale. Whyf be-
cause it does Just what it is guaranteed TO
accomplish, otherlcise its sale on so peculiar
a plan as this ,oould ruin its naan'fact-
1trerS. =, r.,
"Golden Medical Discovery" cures Con-
sumption in all its earlier stages, on common
sense principles. Being, according to ali
| recognized medical authority, scrofulous
| affection of the lungs, it is reasonable 10
seek remedy in those agents known to
| prove most eficacious in conquering scrofu-
| fous disease affecting other parts and organs
| Now for Scrofula In all its myriad forms,
nothing has ever yet been discovered to
| compare with the wonderful remedy already
mentioned. And especially is this true OF
Lung -scrofula, or Consumption. 1t soothes
the cough, improves digestion, sharpers the
appetite, invigorates the liver, ,purlhes the
blood, cleanses the system of all scrofulous
humors, and builds up the flesh and strength.
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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
i" BOAT, AHOY 4!

the RAPIDS arc below you" cried man to
a pleasure party whom he deserted gliding
swiftly down the stream toward the foam
ing cataract And we would cry, Boat,
Ahoyl" to the one whose life Is being drawn
into the whirlpool Of consumption, for un-
less YOU use effective measures you Will 30
wrecked in Deaths foaming rapids.
II your lungs are weak, breath short, have
splitting of blood, experience occasional cold
chills creeping up your spinal column, with
hacking cough, variable or poor appetite,
feeble digestion, with gradual loss Of nesh,
cold feet, lassituds OF general debility, are
easily fatigued, don't disregard these pre-
Tnonitory symptoms. Thousands annually,
without experiencing half the above symp-
toms and not needing thoir timely warnings,
most fatal scourge Consumption.
You can't afford to fool away any
precious time, II suffering from any
considerable number of thess unmistaka-
bic symptoms of approaching dangeri It's
madness to tribe and experiment with un-
certain means when thus afflicted. Don't
forget at such q critical period that the
only medicine possessed Of such positive
curative properties as to warrant ita
proprietors In guaranteeing 1t to cure
Consumption Of tie Lungs, il taken In
time and given a fair trial, is tho world
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

A centenarian who has just died iY
England spent ninety-nine years OF her
life in the one house.
The highest railroad bridge in the
United States is the Kinzua viaduct on
the Erie Road-305 feet high.
The town of Be thel, Me-, with nearly
three thousand inhabitants, has no use
for q lookup, and proposes to rent
out the building formerly used for that
purpose.
At the funeral of John Cozzens, a
prominent citizen of Spotswood, N. j.,
some one discovered that there were
thirteen carriages in the procession and
one carriage was withdrawn.
A letter written by George Washing
ton in the year 1898, introducing Win
stanley, the painter, to the commander
at Georgetown, was sold recently for
$35, at Sotherbys, England.
A man with penchant for statistics
has computed that more than four mil
lion miles of blood pass through the
veins of al ordinary human being dur
| ing lifetime of seventy years.
A wild rabbit in the streets of Bidde-
ford, Me-, was one of the ''sights" that
certain inhabitants of that city recently
enjoyed. As areward for his temerity
he was allowed to depart in peace.
A Riverside (Cal.) man sent a pie ece
of manzanita wood to friend in New
York recently. He has now received
an order from maker of musical IN
struments to forward whole carl DAD.
A special train of the Baltimore ano
Ohio Railroad made the run from
Philadelphia to Baltimore in two hour
and sixteen minutes, the fastest TIM
ever made over the ne division with
single locomotive.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
LeprOsy in Civilized Lands.

According to DR.. Morell Macken zie,
leprosy, the scourge of the Middle
Ages, has not become practically ex-
tinct among Europeans, but is really
spreading. 1t has between 1000 and
1900 victims in Norway, is found also
in Portugal, Greece and Italy, and Is
rapidly spreading in Sicily. in the
Baltic provinces of Russia and In France,
while the British Islands are not ex-
cmpt from it. In the United States,
cases have been found in California in
some of the states of the Northwest; in
Utah and in Louisiana. Many cases
exist in New Brunswick. In the Sand
wich Isl ands the disease first broke out
in 1853, and there are now HOO lepers
in the Molokai settlement alone. The
disease is extend iny in the West Indies.
In Trinidad there were three cases IN
1905 $50 in 1878 and probably more
than 1000 now. Leprosy exists IN
Australia and New Z3aland, and Is
estimated to have more than a quarter
of million victims in India 1t may
be added that recent investigations
seem to remove all doubts that leprosy
is contagious. The cause has beer
found by Hansen in bacillus resembl
ing the germ of consumption, and Dr.
Aiming of Hamburg has prod
leprosy in condemned criminal by in
oculation.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
A Wonderful Japanese Family.

"a thousand years in one household"
Gl1ka SEN nen) is an old Japanese say
ing, employed with reference to an
event which, in respect of extreme
rarity, may be classed with the sight of
dead donkey or a tinkers funeral.
The Hochi Shimbul says that an in
stance may at present be found in the
household of merchant called Mizuma
Gensuke, who resides at Kanazawa, in
the Saitama district of Sado. The
family consists of the following men,
bers: Great great great grandpapa
Congo, aged 1870; Great great great
grandmamma Toni, aged 1872, Great
great. grandpapa Gembei. aged 101;
Great great grandmamma Miyo, aged
90; Great great-grandaunt Yoshl, aged
1O5; Great grandpapa Gensuke, aged
81; Great -grandmamma Kmi, aged 70;
Grand papa G.mpachi, aged 81; Grand
mamma Togo, aged 60; Papa G,nkichi,
| agei ~, Mdtuuld 1oitV, d5cd 20, Ou-
Gle Genroku, aged 35; Son Genshichi,
aged IA; Daughter Toki, aged 5. The
united ages of the fourteen amounted
at the close of last year to $50, and
conse quently became 994 on the first
day of .his year, according to tho Jap
anese method of calculation. Mex
New Years Day, supposing that deaf
had not intervened meanwhile, the
aggregate ages would be zoos. and as
994 is nearer 1. 900 than l, 00S, thu
family have resolved to celebrate thei
ikka sen-nen this Spring by visit t.
the shrine of Ise, and afterward t.
Kyoto, where the whole fourteen, from
the little tot of to the grayhead-i
he still has any hair-of 13O, will d
!, their sightseeing in company.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
An Aerial Hunt.


stream on the pampas, says the author
of Argentine ornithology. watching
a great concourse of birds of several
kinds on the opposite shore, where the
carcass of horse, from which the hide
had been stripped, lay at the edge OF
the water. One or two hundred hooded
pulls and about a dozen chimangos
were gathered about the carcass, and
close to them a very large flock OF
glossy ibises were wading about in the
water, while among these, stan ding
motionless in the water, was one soli-
tary white egret.
Presently four cavanchos appeared,
two adults and two young birds in
brown plumage, and alighted on the
ground near the carcass. The young
birds advanced at once and began tear
ing at the flesh, while the two old birds
stay ed where they had alighted, as If
disinclined to feed on half putrid meat.
Presently one of them sprang into the
air and made dash at the birds in the
water, and instantly all the birds in the
place rose into the air screaming loudly,
the two young brown cavanchos only
rem aiming on the ground.
For few moments was in ignorance
of the meaning of all this turmoil, when
suddenly, out of the confused black and
white cloud of birds the egret appeared,
mounting vertically upward with vigor-
Gus, measured strokes. A moment
| later first one and then the other ca
van cho also emerged from the cloud,
evidently pursuing the cgret, and only
then the two brown birds sprang into
the air and joined in the chase.
For some minutes watched the four
birds toiling upward with a will d zigzag
flight, while the egret, still rising verti-
cally, seemed to leave them hopelessly
behind. But before long they reached
and passed it, and each bird as he did
so would turn and rush downward,
striking at the egret with its claws, and
while one descended the others were
rising, bird following bird with the
greatest regularity. In this way they
continued toiling upward until the
egret appeared mere white speck in
the sky, about which four hateful black
spots were still revolving.
had watched them from the first
with the greatest excitement, and nov
began to fear that they would pas
from sight and leave me in ignorance o
the result; but at length they began t.
descend, aud then it looked as if thu
egret had lost all hope, for it wa
dropping very rapidly, whilo the fou
ravenous birds were all close to it
striking at it every three or fou
seconds.
The descent for the last half Of tn
distance was exceedingly rapid, an
: the birds would have come down almoi
at the very spot they started from
S which was about 40 yards from wher
l stood, but the egrct was driven aside
: and sloping rapidly down struck th
g earth at distvnce of $50 yards fror
Q the starting point. Scarcely had
:. touched the ground before the hungr
(, quartet were tearing it with their beak'
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
Heredity and Beauty,

Heredity has much to do, of course,
with facial beauty and refinement,
Generations of cultured associations and
ed ducation will naturally produce faces
of innate refinement and spirituality.
If the course of such life in a family
is uninterrupted, it will lead moro and
more to beauty and refinement of fea.
lures. But it is, unfortunately, rarely
uninterrupted. There is degeneration
in nearly every generation, oithe;
through crossing with coarser stock, oi
lack of education or mora. influences ol
cultured associations, or the demoraliz'
ing defects of dissipation or low pur
suits.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
Cats Eyes for Clocks.

At IL o'clock, noon, the pupil of a
cats eye is nothing but thin, hair like
line; after that time it dilates, so that
by noticing the sizs and shape of the
pupil one CHI. Se independent in meas
uro of clocks and watches. ~-Fhiladei
phia American,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
The Indy Next Door.

Mrs. W. envied the lady next door because
she always seemed well and happy she
enjoys life and don't" said the dlscontented
with her!' At last she made the acquaintance
of the object of her envy, and this is what IN the
lady told her: Happy, OF course Ma aR' az rorr I0r
facet face tells me why you are not happy. You are
suffering from functional derangem9snts; me
hnt Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription cured
me- as il viii you if you will try it. 1t is guar
1nteed to give satisfaction In every case or
price ($D returned.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system
effectually, yet gently. when costtveor bilious
or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to
permanently cure habitual constipation, to
awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy ao-
tivity, without irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup of Figs.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

DIR. Pierce's Pellets, one a dose. Cure head
ache constipation and indigestion.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

THERE are eighty-on women in Kansas act
ing as superintendents OF public schools
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

Old Mrs. Weatherbee-"Good-h -hye! John,
and do take care of yourself. and don't forget
etian Imminent; somehow / can't get along
without it, and look out II tney tell you some
thing else Is just as good-for 1 ior one
TO n host of others, either Why, there's Polly
Ann Jones, Theresa admington and Sarah
Clarke and"
forget tbat IL is Dr. Tobias's Venetian Lini-
ment that you want mother! How many
friends that old remedy has, and you're one OF
them, amt your"
All dIuU1ists sell 1T.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30
To Dispcl Colds,

THE taxes for State purposes are lower In
Missouri than in any State in the Union.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-05-30

Halls Catarrh Cure offer 500 reward for any
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taxing
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials
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We recommend ''Tansill's Punch" Cigar.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-01


"There. will that do, my little one?"
he said, handing this letter to Nancy
after he had written it, and we may be
cure her smiling rosy lips thanked him
for his words.
They left Mrs. Loftus's house half AN
hour afterwards, and the letter left too,
and speeded on its way until it reached
the great house which Sir Thomas Clifford
had built in his pride, before he became
the first Lord Gilmore, and where the
second lord had lived and died, and
where his children had been born. And
it .resched the hand OF Lady Gilmore who
seized il with passionate haste, recogniz-
ing The hadwriting of her son. But as
she read the words it eonteined-words
that crushed all her hopes to dust-a
shrek SO loud, SO terrible that the lofty
root rang, burst from her writing lips.
and utterances wild, self-aousing, and
despairing, escaped her tongue.
She walked up and down the room like
mad woman; she wrung her hands, she
cried aloud
My sin has found mo outi Nv sin
has found me outl''
But suddenly she stopped; flung up her
arms. and fell forward, stricken, para
lyzed, on the floor. The violent emo
tons Of her heart had shattered their
frail tenement.
TO % coSTIEuzp.l
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
THE GRAVE BY THE SIDE OF THE TRAIL.

BY GEORGE E. POWELL.
The trails are forgotten. and covered with green
Are the paths now displaced by the rail,
And only is left, where the white trains were
seen,
The lone grave by the side of the trail
The low little mound meath cushion of green,
To mark the old overland trail.
Here, with hfe's hopes, lies proud mothers
With no tablet to tell the dark tale.
How her heart found a tomb, to sleep with her
boy
In the grave by the side ofthe trail;
To lie there eternal with far away boy
In the grave by the side of the trail.
The miner lies here, and the hunter yon there,
AS they fell fore the warriors fiel &c hail;
With bosom laid bare to do and to dare,
And to fall by the side of the trail;
With mission thus ended forevermore there
In the grave by the side of the traill
Here maiden was left on the way to the gold
So in legend is cut on the rail
And bowed was head there, brave. manly and
bold,
Ger the grave by the side of the trail;
With bright hopes all buried, down deep meath
the mold,
In the grave by the side of the trail!
But when the last trumpet, to rally again,
Is heard ringing mandate sublime,
From pea k OF the mountain to depths of the glen,
Down the paths of etern1tys time,
It's music win miss then mound long forgot,
AS it echoes thro' valley and vale,
To reach mid the rest cen the lone prairie spot
With its grave by the side of the trail
To call cen the lost one, in sorrow forgot,
From the grave by the side of the trail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18

enemies to defend themselves against.
Horns, being useless and dangerous,
should be got rid of. One who has new
er experienced the comfort of herd
without horns cannot realize the adj
vantages of it. The simplest way to get
rid of the horns is to destroy the en-
bryos in the calf. This may be done by
means of caustic potash, applied to the
part where the young horn may be felt
under the skin. Any strong acid will
be equally as effective.
THE milk is 1nquestionably as much d
drainage from the system as the urine
is. AS the waste of salt used up in the
secretion of the gastric Juice, and the
digestion of food is got rid of through
the kidneys, so there are some waste
matters which are got rid of in the
milk. Poisonous matters are certainly
thus disposed of. There is no sickness
or disease of a COW which does not af-
feet the milk, and the COW escapes from
many dangers by reason of the escane
through the milk of injurious matter
eaten. Hence the food of the COW. and
the water especially, should be care
fully scrutinized and selected, and the
animal should be kept in the best of
health.
"sALr is good" This is averred by
Vic NC1S IiSHtSl hulnOIlly. Ii Is 0OONl
for land. 1t is really fertilizer, as it
supplies soda and chlorine, which is
found in every plant. It is good for all
crops. 1t discourages fungi, which in
fest the most valuable crops; as rust,
SHUTS, ETC., and it discourages insects
which damage the roots of plants. 1t
has remarkable effect upon grass and
clover, at times doubling the yield. One
of the best and most prosperous farm
ers IN New Jersey applies 1000 pounds
meadows, and, although he sells at
times more than $500 per acre of mar
ket crops from part of his farm, he
ayers that his grass pays him more
profit to the acre than his melons, cab
bages or tomatoes. Any farmer who is
troubled with scab on his potatoes
should try a liberal sprinkling of salt
along the rows before dropping the
seed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
Their Relative Value.

A recent opinion rendered by the Vir-
ginia court of appeals shows that the
law recognizes a graded valuation of
wives. The complainant had sued for
damages for the loss of his wife, who
had been accidentally killed through the
negligence of the defendants. On the
trial evidence tending to show that the
deceased had been superior wife was
offered, and, presumably influenced by
this, the jury gave the complainant YER
dict for Sc, 600 The defendants object
ed to proof as to the character of the
wife, and carried the issue to the high
est court of the state. The tribunal
holds that such evidence was perfectly
proper as means of estimating the dam
age suffered by the husband eff the
character and conduct of the wife" says
the court, "be such that her death will
cause but little sorrow, suffering and
mental anguish to the husband, then
the fair and just proportion of the dam
ages to be awarded by the jury will be
measured accordingly. But if, on the
contrary" the court adds, ''the wife be
loving, tender and dutiful to her hus-
band; thrifty, industrious, economical
and prlldent-as the evidence in this
case proved Mrs. Mcconnell to be-
then her price is far above rubies, and
the loss Of such a wife, of such help
meet, of such influence, of such bless
ed and potent ministry and companion
ship, is a proper element of damage to
be considered by the jury in fixing the
solatium to be awarded to the husband
for tearing her from his heart and
home
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
The InyalideS.
home.

Visitors of Paris will regret to learn,
says letter from that city to the Lon
don Telegraph, there is again much talk
of the closing of the Hotel des Inval-
ides, which corresponds to Chelsea
Hospital as a retreat for old soldiers.
1t was begun by Louis XIV. and fin
ished in 1914. Napoleon [. restored it.
The extensive dormitOrles, dining halls
and kitchens are commodious enough
for small army of veterans, and now
that the original number of inmates has
declined from 5000 to $50 the vast hotel
has singularly deserted appearance,
and the central court-yards look very
desolate. The fresco-paintings in the
corridors have suffered from exposure
to the atmosphere, and there is gener-
al air of neglect and scant comfort.
Nevertheless, the one-armed men, and
the men without legs, seem dearly at
tached to the old place, and will not
probably appreciate the change-when
the time comes, in accordance with the
decision of the government-to allow
each pensioner 800 francs or 400 francs
year to enable him to live with his
friends, instead of maintaining one GEN
eral asylum. 1t is true they have only
their own society except when, as was
the case the other evening, some pleas
ant amusement is provided for them.
They were treated to a performance Of
marionettes, the scenes represented be-
ing purely military The old fellows
were enthusiastic applauders, though
many of them, for want of pair of
hands, could not clap, but banged the
floor with their crutches instead.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
own. Only the roar of the earthquake

own. Only the roar of the earthquake
answered them.
''But he must be there p cried the
lad, "of course he's there. He's very
shabby old negro. He is all patches,
and his knees and hair stick out. His
hat looked like a coon-skin hat. His
hair is gray hair He carries little
bundle on his shoulder. He's a very
strong old negro. He smashed the sta
ton in like-like blocks. He was a
slave, and he was so strong he cost
$4,000 He is going to see his daughter
in Branchville. She's dying. He's so
poor he had to walk from Charleston all
the way. He saved the train. Youjust
look and you'll find him.
A mighty shock drowned the boys
words at this moment, and seemed to
ieer at them. The people huddled to-
gether, and looked into each others APP
palled faces, and no man said word.
1nstinctively they ranged themselves
into mass, as if united humanity could
defy aroused and raging nature; then
broke, and ran for their homes and
wives and babes, and whatever fate had
left to them.
But where is the hero? Who saved
the train? Summerville, to this day.
goes seeking him, and her search is a
vain thing. Will he not break his long,
mysterious silence? Will he not come
forth to take the blessing of the CRATE
full people? An obscure old negro, poor,
hungry and homeless, will he not accept
the proffered reward? Where is the
hero?
Like Moses Of old, hath God buried
him? The earth knows, which yawned
beside the track-and closed again
when the crushing wheels struck the
life from the unknown savior of the ex-
cursion train. The earth knows. But
she keeps her secret. Her awful lips are
dumb.
Some weeks after the shock of August
81 section hand, setting a sleeper,
tied to a stick, and moldering in the
ground. He opened it carelessly and
threw it away, and hardly thought to
mention it to his overseer, who had the
curiosity to pick up the rags and ex
anime them.
A handkerchief, once red, with polka
spots, contained ragged flannel shirt
and stocking-heel tied with a piece of
evidently the wallet of some poor travel
er, held one silver piece of the value of
10 cents, two coppers, and newspaper
clipping, old and faded. 1t was copy
of the proclamation of emancipation to
81, Abraham Lincoln" and bearing
date 1868.
For this story the authors received the first
prize, $1,000, offered by the publishers of the
Youths Companion for the best story for boys.
competition of 1882