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THE CROWN OF woMANHooI

THE CROWN OF wOMANHOOD.
Give back, o man. my ancient crown,
Nor hence deny by sovereign right;
Bar not my way to fair renOWn,
Nor seek TO stay my upward flight.
The superstitions old as time,
The naughty pride, the cruel Sneer,
Must yield at last TO truth sublime,
The day of freedom draweth near.
What man hath done may woman do;
Her brain as large, her sight as keen
Her Will as firm, her heart IS true,
AS ever lordly mans have been.
Out of the dust rise at last:
break my chains defy my fate,
The days of servitGde are past
claim my place in Church and State.
Owoman fair, surprised hear
Thy stern demand, thy lofty tone
Of man though hit thou vert the peer,
That all he has was all thine own.
did not know that thou vert shorn
OF what was thine by vested right;
The crown thy mother Eve had worn
In the worlds early morning light.
But, woman, if 1t be thy will
To wear the crown which l have worn,
Take it, and wear 1t to thy fill.
But know its laurel hides thorn.
A thorn to stab thy heart and BRAIN
To wound thy love, destroy thy rest,
And make thy toll and triumphs vain,
And peace stranger to thy breast.
A thorn to mar thy face so fair,
And rob thee of thy grace so sweet,
And break the charm which everywhere
Has brought earths monarchs to thy feet
Suppose the end long sought be won,
And thou at length with man to stand;
And do with him whate'er be done
Upon the sea, upon the land.
PaDoeYo bar +bjc ic n ,,,,ro0t
Distinctions. whether false or true,
Which underlie thy high repute,
And bring thee honor as thy due.
Man as builder makes the plan,
He hews the timbers. breaks the stone,
But toiling on as best he can
He fails at last if left alone.
Woman completes what man begins,
'Tis hers to polish and refine;
But if she builds alone she sins
Against her art and Gods design.
Man searches for the truth unknown
On seas where none have sailed before,
And every ocean, every zone,
Adds to the wealth he brings to shore.
But love it is that braves the gales;
Love is the anchor on his ships:
The winds which fan his dropping sails
Are kisses from woman's lips.
Blame not the world with partial need,
With friendly leaning to the man,
Nor say, till thou art sure, Its creed
Has put the woman under ban.
The world, though selfish, still is Just;
Sex is no bar to praise or blame;
Weakness is buried in the dust,
And strength is lifted up to fame.
Depart the shadow from thy brow,
The flash of anger from thy eye;
Recall again thy hasty VOW,
There's nothing left for which to sigh.
Love is thy scepter hearts thv throne
Than this there is no higher good.
No crown SO royal as thine own
Thy peerless crown of womanhood.
BY the late Rev. A. d. Yocum.
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TREATISE on
CANCER and
Blood Diseases
mailed FREE.
CANCER
CURED.
The Effect Was Magical.

Isuffered from cancer on my lip thatdefed
the skill of the best physicians OF the State.
/ had 1t burned out, but the operation only
more surface and eat deeper in. 1 finally
used Swift's Specific IS. S. So to heal it up
and drove the poison out of ruy blood. The
effect Of the Specific was magical! It
healed up entirely without leaving scar as
a reminder. This was over four years ago,
and since then there has been no sign of
return of the cancer. I will cheerfully an
swer any inquiries in regard to my case.
ENoS YoUNT, Bradford Ohio.
Book on Blood and Skin Diseases Free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ga.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-04-09

active, sluggish one, penned up and
fed on an exclusive diet OF corn.
The sluggish one will fill up with
fat, and the secretions will be dried
up and the blood will thicken. The
system of such an animal is always
more susceptible to disease, and be-
sides it is always more costly to
produce tat than good meat, and to-
day it is the least value as a food.
The old idea seems to have been
to begin to fatten the hogs as soon
as born, and as a result nothing but
fat pork was produced. People
liked this less and less, and then
when the germs of a deadly disease
were found in the great rolls of fat
consumers became frightened. Pork
was no longer the meat for the peo-
pie. The hog that is brought up to
make muscle and lean meat, and
then when needed for the market
fattened on corn, always pleases the
butcher and the consumers. A COM
plete change has thus been inaugural
ed in swine breeding, and for the
better. The result is going to be
more profit for the breeders, and
more and superior pork for the con-
sumers. It will also blot out the
bad name which American pork has
received abroad quicker and more
effectually than all governmental in
reference. The whole trouble and
remedy lies in the hands of the
swine breeders.-W. e. Farmer in
American Cultivator.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-04-09
Keeping Irish Potatoes.

Please permit me a line in which to
tell my brother farmers how I manage
to keep Irish potatoes the year round.
1 have built what term root-house,
by digging a pit ten by twenty feet and
three feet deep, and setting posts six feet
in length, in corners and on sides with
plates on same. Joists are placed on
plates and covered with boards or plank.
A roof of one-half pitch is put over and
the space between it and the joists is
partially filled with hay from the gable
ends. The building is sided up partly
on the inside and the outside above
ground. The earth taken from the pit
is then banked against the building
about as high as plates, except at one
gable end where the door is made in the
center and double walls eighteen inch
es thick are constructed with plank
and filled compactly with hay The
door opens outward with the roof pro-
jecting over it. At the entrance small
timbers are placed at angle of forty-five
degrees from top of the door frame to the
joist to admit of ingress and egress, and
the same covered with hay, straw or
other material equally as good. Dig a
trench to drain, if necessary, put i'm
floor, also shelves; exclude all light pos
SIUlo, dHu you nave cdplIal place IOr
Irish potatoes, canned fruit, etc. 1 do
not recommend it for sweet potatoes, it
hastens the process of decomposition.
Chloride of lime would likely give bet
ter results. If you have any particular
time in which to lift your potatoes dig
them in your sign and if they are begin
ming to rot spread them over the root
house floor until the rot becomes dry,
then pile them and thank your lucky
stars that you dug them in the right
sign. Now, brother farmers, let us plant,
cultivate and harvest our own potatoes
and save the millions of cotton money
sent away for what we can easily have
at home at less than half the cost, and
we will all have more money with which
to pay taxes, provide little luxuries,
promote the general welfare of the coun-
try, pay for and extend the circulation
of Home and Farm, the grand champion
of our rights and the answering expo
nent of all just and equitable measures
for the relief of the oppressed from the
grasp of the avaricious oppressor.-
Nathan TRULY, Ark, in Home and Farm
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-04-09

and cultivating thoroughly with hoe
and pillow. This system embraces
all of the economic points with
which 1 am familiar that tend to
hold the plant in check. Salt may
be used if to be had cheap.
J. H. CoNNEIL.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-04-09
Pigs In Glover.


are the best pork producers. The
old idea was to make pork from
slop and dirty dish water, and a sole
diet of corn, but now that pork is
made from good milk, clover and
grasses, it is better, sweeter, and
more commonly used. Grass fed
hogs, or those which are fed clover
until Autumn, and then fattened on
the new corn, are nearly always ex.
empt from hog cholera and other
swine diseases. Glover and other
sweet grasses are essentials in the
diet of pigs as we'll as in the other
animals. The farmer that feeds
his COWS and horses on an exclusive
diet of corn, and denied them clover
and grass, would be voted down as
a lunatic or fool. Yet about the
same sort of system has been ap.
piled to the swine for many years
past, and growers as we'll as con-
sumers are awakening to the fact
that sweeter and more wholesome
pork is being sent to the markets,
Germany and France complain oi
our pork, and often with good cause
No country in the world is 80 well
adapted to swine raising as this, and
more pork than can be consumed in
the States is grown every year
Foreign markets are thus essential
to the swine raisers, but these can
not be opened and kept supplied
unless more pains are taken in send.
ing abroad good, sweet. wholesome
pork. American pork has received
bad name on the other side, but
with the improved methods of rails.
ing swine on good sweet clover and
grass. and fattening them on new
corn, there is every possibility O.
greater success in the business.
AS it may not be practical always
to pasture the swine OUTFIT is a good
plan to adopt a system of soiling
which will keep tie hogs supplied
with green food in summer. anG
roots or silage in the winter, If the
hogs are given the run of the hay
stack they will subsist for months
with but very little grain. A ratior
of hay or dried grass during tn,
season when the pastures are cover
ed with snow will be very accepta
BILE, and greatly reduce the cost o
wintering the herd. Our pig money
must now come out of the pasture
the clover, the orchard, and othe
cheap foods. The old demand ma,
have been for pork in the lard sense
hut the coming demand is for mea
in the muscle sense, and good sweet
| wholesome meat at that. The &C
tive hog, which has the range of tn
srlds, will produce this kind of mea
much faster and better than the in
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-04-09
johnson Grass.
PROF. J. HI. CoNNELL:


planting small patch in it. Some
parties told me you had it on the
College farm and that it was giving
you great deal Of trouble. l have
fine cotton plantation, and don't
want it to get into my cotton land.
The place where think of planting
it, is an isolated field that has no
connection with the balance of my
place. Please tell me all you know
about it pro and con, what you think
of it as hay grass, and what you
think of it as a PEST. JAR.
Centerville, Miss.
ANswER.-Concerning the john
son grass, of which so much is being
written, I hold very decided views.
We have it on the College farm and
I have been familiar with it for
twelve years. 1t delights in black
prairie, walnut ridge, lime ham,
mock and all lime soils; is not spec
tally adapted to clay or sandy land,
but when fairly fertile these lands
often produce good crops. On land
adapted to it, there is no economical
way of destroying it in one season.
If your land is of a character suited
to it, it will scatter over your farm,
no matter how isolated may be that
planted, and will gradually spread
over your section. It often changes
an all-cotton farm to an all-stock
farm. 1t is a nutritious grass and
hay, and when properly handled af-
fords good pasture and the best of
meadow. This past winter I fed
cattle on it and nothing else, giving
the cattle access to pasture that had
been we'll stocked for twelve months
before and on the first of February
they were in very fair condition,
with healthy coats and good flesh.
The hay should be cut before the
head appears to make it palatable
to stock. If pastured it should be
plowed every few years to prevent
the ground from becoming too hard
for it's profitable growth. The hay
will never meet with q favorable
sale on account of the seed found in
the hay. If hay is cut and fed to
stock on a farm their droppings
soon spread it to all parts; birds are
supposed to carry the seed; water
may wash both seed and roots; cat
tie may carry the seed in the cleft
of the hoof for any distance.
The feshy red, cane.like roots are
readily killed by frost. The hot
sun during drouth win kill exposed
roots. A heavy shading crop causes
fewer seed to be produced and
crowds the plant down. Red clover,
pea vines, Louisiana cane, pearl
millet and such crops are effective
for such shade. Prof. Tracy recon-
mends the close clipping off of every
blade that appears above ground
Salt applied an inch deep on the
ground will kill the plant by poison,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
A Church Built of Coral.

The Seychelles Islands, which are sup
posed by many to be the site of the
Eden of the Old Testament history, form
an archipelago of 114 islands, and are
situated about 400 miles east of Alden,
and 1000 miles from Zanzibar. They
rise steeply out of the sea, eliminating
in the Isle of Maize, which is about 5000
feet above the level of the ocean, aud is
nearly the centre of the group. All these
islands are of coral growth. The beaches
which surround them are the most
beautiful in the world, and are of white
calcereous sands inclosed in coral reefs
of the most subtitle and varied structure.
The reefs form sort of wall around
the island, and when the suns rays fall
slanting on the sands the shore reflects
here and there light-tint rainbows of
the most exquisite shades.
The houses are built of species of
massive coral hewn into square blocks,
which glisten like white marble and
show themselves to the utmost advantage
in the various tinted green of the thick
tropical palms, whose immense fern-like
leaves give pleasant and much needed
shade.
The palms grow as high as 100 feet
and more, overtopping both the houses
and the coral-built church. They line
the seashore and cover the mountains,
forming in many places extensive for.
ests.-Boston Globe.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11

Californians now engaging in the cul-
tivation of prunes find the profits very
tempting, being about one dollar tree,
or 500 the acre. This rate increases as
the tree grows older until the fruit each
year is worth almost two dollars. Ex-
Secretary of State Thomas Beck has given
up everything else to engage in the cul-
tivatiou of the prune. The Paiaro Land
and Fruit Company was recently formed
for the purpose of raising this fruit in
large quantities. 1t has bought 900
acres of land in Pajaro Valley, and will
plant an orchard of French prune trees.
They will be from four to six feet in
height when put into the ground. The
stock of these trees is to be two years old
and the grating one year. Next year
they will begin to yield fruit. The av.
craze. Life, Of a tree is thirty. years.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11

Canada gives to its geological survey
only S60,000 year, while, contrasts
the Chicago Herald, the various geclogi-
cal surveys incur own country absorb
nearly 81, 100000 annually. Yet Can
ada makes fine showing with this
modest sum. The annual geological
records are in part records of original
discovery and research, and, with their
fine maps and photographers, ar, as in
teresting as many books of travel. Can
ada contains the largest unknown areas
of the, American continent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
CuriOsitieS About Gold,

Gold is so very tenacious that piece
of it drawn into wire one twentieth of an
inch in diameter will sustain a weight of
500 pounds without breaking,
Its malleabilityis is so great that single
grain may be divided into 1000, 900
parts and a cubic inch into 1888, 500,
523 parts, each of which may be dis
tinctly seen by the naked eye.
A grain and half of gold 1ay be
beaten into leaves of one inch square,
which if intersected by parallel lines
drawn at right angles to each other and
distance only the ne-hundredth part of
an inch, will produce 5000, 600 little
squares, each of which may be distinctly
seen without the use of a glass.
The surface of any given quantity of
gold, according to the best authorities,
may be extended by the hammer 80, 1S4
times. The thickness of the metal thus
extended appears to be no more than the
56S. 020th of an inch. Eight ounces of
this wonderful metal would gild silver
wire of sufficient length to extend en-
tirely around the globe. --RshobotA Sun
day Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
What Becomes of All Old Hats =?

What becomes of all old hats ? "We
have about 200 old hats strewed along
under the counters and in the back
room," said South Clark street halter.
a" From ten to twenty five tramps come
in daily and ask for hat, yet our
refuse supply seems undiminished. The
tramps are glad to see cool or rainy
weather at this time of the year. They
know that it will drive in the straw hats,
and they will fall heir to them. After
these straw hats have done service all
summer the tramps wear them all winter.
For a summer hat the tramp gets tho
cast-off winter hat. He reserves the
fashion. A great majority, however,
take their old hats home and lay them
up for rainy or snowy day. Some
people will wear straw hat two sea-
sons, but the great majority give them
to the poor. We send large number
to the charitable institutions. A great
many hats are left to be called for. Ii
not called for within thirty days we give
them away. Sometimes sharpers attempts
their little games on us. A small man
left his hat here, buying cutoff crown
hat. The one he left was out of shape,
had lost its gloss and color, and was
worthless. He did not say that he would
return for it, nor did he say that he
would not. We put it aside, but when
he called for it we could not find it at
the moment He then claimed that it
was good hat and demanded $5 for it.
We made thorough search, found the
battered tile and handed it to him.
Seeing that his scheme had failed he
threw the old hat into the street. y
Chicago Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
LAPORTE. PA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER IL. 1891.
what Sazeda was saying-the mufky
cabin swan before her eyes.


what sazeda was saying-tho mufky
cabin swan before her eyes.
"Pm afraid you feel the swell of the
waves, DEAR" whispered Mrs. Dixon.
'Let us get out as quick as we can."
In the same instant curious express
sion passed across Sazeda's handsome
sardonic face. The cigar box vanished
as if by magic--the captain disappeared
also.
ga custom house fellow" whispered
the little hunchback, madly swinging
his lantern to and fro. ''All ashore!
Quick, signorasw
He thrust the cage of dropping white
macaw into Mrs. Dixon's hands. She
nodded shrewdly, and pushed Dorothy
across the plank toward the stairs. In
her haste, however, the young woman
stumbled.
"Quick," cried Luella - "quicki
What's the matter with youg"
'Tm-I'm afraid have sprained my
ankle" walled poor Dorothy, growing
white and sick. "Oh, Luella, wait"
And that was all she remembered.
u =
Diamonds, my dear - diamonds?"
echoed Aunt Rhoda. "Just cut glass,
and nothing more. Bright pebbles that
one can pick up anywhere"
''But Mrs. Dixon" stammered Dor
othy.
''Don't talk, DEAR" said Aunt Rhoda,
with wave of her hand. "Ralph made
me promise not to let you get excited.
But l think it's best to tell you the
whole story at once. They've cut and
run, the lot of 'em-Dixon and his wife,
that Sazeda fellow and all. They palmod
off lot of those false jewels on people
who supposed they were buying SNUG
gled diamonds, and the ship was found
deserted the next day. Where did we
find you2 Why, fainting away all alone
on the dock steps. 1 had followed you.
| had come in that morning, and was in
the next bedroom all the time that wo-
man was putting her falsehoods down
your throat.
Sand knew, in Ralph's absence,
that it was my business to look after you.
Bridget was with me, and together we
got you home. Much that other woman
cared whether you lived or died She
has left you to your fate. No, Dotty,
no; don't look so grieved! 1t was u
false step, but the Lord has mercifully
preserved you, and now we'll wipe off
the old scores and begin again"
And Dorothy had just enough strength
left to press her lips to Aunt Rhoda's
withered hand.
'Ralph," she said, when she was quite
recovered, "if ever you are able to buy
me any jewels"
(which 1 certainly shall do, dot, one
of these days" he gaily interrupted.
"Don't let them be diamonds. l hate
diamonds! never want to see one again.
Turquoises, amethysts, whatever else
you please, but not diamondsr"
"Well, it shall be as you please, " said
Ralph. "Your bright eyes, love, are all
the diamonds l wantw
"Oh, Ralph" sobbed Dorothy, show
good you are to me! How | love you!"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
Savage or half-civilized princes oil

Savage OR kalf-civilized princes often
prefer death to- exile in foreign coun-
try. Malietoa, the King of Samoa,
jumped overheard when the Germans
took him to the Gilbert Islands, and was
not rescued with his own consent. Three
chiefs of the Comoro Islands, off the
East African coast, were taken away
from home three months ago on account
of the revolution which they headed
against the French. They were very un-
happy on board ship, aud when the YES
sci reached Obock they tried to jump
overheard, and were placed in irons to
prevent further suicidal attempts.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11
E-LIM-IN-AH-DO.

Z wasin the bazars of the Smyrniotcs
That we heard the lingering call,
With its mellow, musical, bell-like notes,
And its rhythmic rise and fall.
1t scared DER the camel-driver's shout,
And the bale-bent porter's angry fout--
100
E-lim-in-aI.-do"
There were the figs of Omoorloo,
Large and luscious and bursting ripe;
And from cafe near there blew
The tempting scent of the water-pipe,
But Tirehs grapes would have hung in vain
Upon the vines had we heard that strain
100
E-tinr-fn-ah-dor'
Amber, clear as prisoned ray
OF the morning sunlight, was forgot;
Rugs, rich with the hues of dying day.
From the looms of Persia, lured us not.
While the motley Smyrna world swept by,
We hung on the sound of the witching cry
900
E-linl-in-nh. dor
Then out of the jostling crowd he came
With his crook-necked flask and his clink
of glass;
As keen of eye and supple of frame
AS Lydian pard we saw him pass
Saw him pass and above the roar
Caught the lilt of his call once more
800
E-lim-in-dh-dor'
Who can measure melody's power?
1t sways the soul with the same strange
spell
On lovely lips in lady's bower,
Or those of q vagrant Ishmael.
And still floats back, with its thrilling bars,
The strain from the Smyrniote bazars-
100
'E-lim-tn-ah-dor'
Clinton Scottard, in Atlantic Monthly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11

1t is said that a few years ago some of
the members of foreign legations in
Washington gave the police no end of
trouble. They knew that they could
not be punished for any ordinary misde-
meanor, aud frequently raised row on
the streets. When arrested they had
to be released as soon as identified. FL
nally the police tried new dodge. They
had few sluggers loafng around the
station, who made 1t point to pitch into
the foreigners, and give them black
eyes and bloody noses. This quieted the
riotous members of the legation, and for
some time past they have gwen the po
lice very little trouble.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-11

An expert (Hoard's Dajrvman) says:
"The COW is winning her way into the
hearts ofsthe Southern people. One in
stance insproof thereof is the first con-
signment of cheese ever received in st.
Louis from Arkansas, which reached that
market lately from the Grand Prairie
Dairy Company, at Stuttgart, Ark"