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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
children as Finders Of Diamonds.

The discovery of diamonds in South
Africa was brought about by two Dutch
children, who tossed diamond IN the
air and caught it, thinking that it was
pebble. They were playing the childish
game one day in 1867 when John
O'Reilly, an interior trader, stopped at,
their fathers farm in Griqualand West,
near the Vaal River, to trade for skins,
and he was attracted by the peculiar clear
ness and trans parency of the pebble.
He asked one of the children to show 1t
to him, and after he had examined it he
was satisfied that it was stone of some
value. The father, Van Niekirk by
name, laughed when O'Reilly offered to
buy the stone, and said that plenty of
them could be found in the river.
O'Reilly accepted the stone as gift, and
promised that if he succeeded in selling
it he would give half of the proceeds to
Van Niekirk toward the expenses OF
educating the girl, which was the Dutch
farmers greatest desire
At Hope Town the stone was ex-
amined by many traders, but nobody
supported O'Reilly in the belief that it
was valuable, its size being too large.
O'Reilly kept it carefully until he had
time to send it to DR.. Atherstone, u
capable authority in Grahamstown, who
said that it was diamond of about
twenty-five carats. Some time after
ward Sir Philip Wodehouse, then Gov
ernor of the Cape, bought the diamond
for $2500. On his return to the Vaal,
OReilly gave $3.50 to the little girl,
and asked her if she had any more peb-
bles. If the stone came from the river,
as Van Niekerk had said, more must be
there, O'Reilly argued, and he hired
natives to collect for him all the trans
parent stones they could find on the
river banks. Sackful after sackful were
examined, but OReilly found only one
more diamond four carat stone.
That is the story of the
discovery of diamonds told by J.
Thorburn in the London Graphic. 1t
agrees with the authorities in describing
children as the first finders, and it IS
probably true in regard to details, be-
cause he was one of the men who went
to the Vaal to search for diamonds after
the news of O'Reilly's find had ,been
spread among the traders aud settlers.
For three years after O'Reilly's find the
banks of the river were washed for
diamonds, but not many were found.
The finding of some diamonds in the
mud walls of hartebeeste hui. led to the
opening of the dry diggings, Tnorburn
says, and soon the most profitable search
was in the ground of the now famous
Du Toits Pan, De Beers and Kimberley
mines. s.=Mep YORK Sun.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
What is Farm without a Boy9

s'I agree with Charles Dudley Warner
that farm without boy would rapidly
come to grief" said Peter J. Millsdon at
the Lindell. "Just stop and consider
for moment what boy on farm is
required to do. 1t is understood, IN the
first place, that he is to do all the errands,
to go to the store, to the postoffice and
to carry all sorts of messages. If he had
as many legs as the centipede it is my
private opinion that every one of them
would be thoroughly tired out by night.
He is the one who spreads the grass when
the men cut it, be slows it away in
the barn, rides the horse to cultivate the
corn up and down the hot, weary rows,
he picks up the potatoes when they are
dug, he Is the one who totes all the wood
and water and tires his back out split
ting kindling. No matter where
he is, in the house or out of it, there is
always work for him to do. Before he
goes to school in the winter he shovels
the paths, and in the summer turns the
grindstone. Yet the farm boy has a
happy life in spite of all, and he is the
stuff that great men are made of. If it
were not for the fresh young blood Of
the country am afraid the city would
run to seed. st. Louis Star Sayings.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
He Hunts With Cats.

Charles Walcott, a we'll known bust
ness gentlemen of indianapolis and
splendid rifle shot, has two cats which
retrieve small game better than the best
trained dog. One is tiger striped, half
Maltese cat, and the other is cat of
BLACK, white and gray. Mr.. Walcott also
has thoroughly trained retriever, and
the cats and dog are inseparable COM
panions.
Whenever Mr.. Walcott makes his ap-
pearance with his rifle the cats set up a
series of yowls, and when the rifle is
sighted, for instance at a sparrow, the
cats will crouch IN eager expectation,
lashing their sides with their tails and
carefully watching every movement of
the fated bird. If the bird lodges among
the branches in its fall, like flash the
cats spring up the tree, and they will
take great risks in reaching the limbs to
which it clings.
Mr.. Walcott is very fond of household
pets. The first named cat came to him
a stranger, and by that name she is
known. The mother cat was accidentally
taught to retrieve. While Mr.. Walcot
was in feeble health and confined to his
premises he amused himself by shooting
sparrows, which were given to Stranger
to eat. In this way she came to follow
him whenever she saw the gun. She
will follow wounded bird from tree to
tree, and from house to house, for blocks
away, and she seldom fails in retrieving
it.
The other cat is one of her progeny,
and he caught the retrieving contagion
from her. Both are excellent hunters.
Mr.. Walcott is firmly of the belief that
if cats are properly trained they will
make better retrieycrs than the finest
dogs. s.-Ne,o York Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
Hawaiian SuperstitIOns.

"Superstition takes on some very
peculiar forms in Hawaii, said t. E.
Martins, of Honolulu, at the Palmer
House. ''For instance, some of the
natives believe that if they cross the
thereshold of the royal palace with the
left foot first a train of bad luck will
follow them in some way-either In
health or business. And a great Juror
was raised among the natives when the
United States warship Charleston steamed
into the harbor at Honolulu. The
average Hawaiian would as soon welcome
the sight of an ocean of hot lava pour
ing over the country from Mauna Loa
as to see foreign warship anchor in the
great harbor. The natives believe a
warship brings bad luck. To their
minds the arrival of the Charleston
brought some mysterious train of circum-
stances that caused the sudden death of
the prince regent. p Chicago Herald.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
LAPORTE. PA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1891.

upon Mrs. Claxton's fair matronly face
rested a shadow of anxiety. When the
visit had extended over three weeks,
Laura having left for a previous engage
ment, bearing Harry's regrets for break
ing the same, Harry dared his fate, and
won Ned's confession that she gave love
for love.
And Mrs. Claxton, in Ellie's room,
thus accounted for the shadow upon her
brow.
ssYou see, dear, I am old-fashioned
in my notions, and believe IN educat-
ing girls for wives and housekeepers -
well as for parlor companions. AS soon
as Laura left school, taught her to
cook so that she can either superintend
her servants, OF if necessity requires it,
take their place. Yet, she is not the
less graceful lady, I think"
"You are right. She is as lovely a
girl as l ever met" Ellie said, half
guessing what was coming.
"And dear, that is what worries me
about Harry's choice. think Edmonia
is one of the most charming girls ever
met, pretty as flower, graceful, modest
and accomplished. But she seems to
me so lreadfully helpless and dreamy. l
don't know how often have found her
curled up like kitten in the winter
seat, her eyes seeming to be looking
miles away, and her hands lying idly be-
fore her. You know dear, she writes,
too, and literary women are so often i'm
practicable. To be sure, Harry will
have money enough to give her comfort,
and he has good start in his profession.
Butfstill, dear, could wish his wife had
some knowledge of housewifery ways,
and was not so dreamy"
Ellie smiled, and said:
s'Do you remember our invisible girl,
Mrs. elaxton-the one who was here
when you first came?"
"Yes, my dear. 1 have often Won
dered why you sent her away. The one
you have now does not compare to her.
I never ate such biscuit. Why did she
leave2 Did she drink, after alla"
s'She did not leave. She only changed
her name to Edmonia Colebridge."
"My dearp cried the astonished old
lady, ''you are Joking!
~ was never more serious in my life, "
said Ellie, and gave detailed account
OF her perplexities and Ned's devotion.
''5he did everything" Ellie said, $50
as to leave me time to entertain you.
And she is the smaItest needlewoman
you ever saw. To be sure, she hates it,
| and likes books, music and writing be.
| ter, but her Aunt Jane insisted upon heI
learning all the domestic accomplish
ments; and she said: IF had to do it,
was determined TO learn to do it well. ~
"Well, we'll, who would dream she
hid so much energy under that sleepy
manner. You have lifted the only care
from my mind, my dear. I can con
gratulate Harry now with my whole
heart. t."-Anna Shields, in the Ledger.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
A Vegetable Restaurant.

In London are vegetarian restaurants,
one of which is called ''The Apple Tree. "
Its bill of fare is long and elaborate.
You order "Saronuy Steak" with a
triumphant feeling that here, at last, the
the cook has been caught in his own
ambitious tolls, aud beguiled into serv-
ing up flesh. A sort of Drowned cake is
produced, and when one investigates, it
offers hint of many grains and vegeta-
bles, so cunningly mingled and so delic-
iously favored, that neither eye nor
tongue can distinguish form or distinct
taste. A vegetable ragout sounds mar
velously insipid, does it not? Yet when
one has before him steaming plate of
tender young carrots, turnips, and other
spring benefactions, favored with Won
drous herbs, he must be an exacting
man, indeed, if he is not content. From
"The Apple-Tree' also are to be
gathered delicious puddings of figs and
dates, plates of fruit smothered in cream,
and many colored salads, which delight
the eye and tickle the palate.--A,go-
ndut.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

G. w. Childs, in the Philadelphia
Ledger, is authority for the statement
that American gardeners are now pro-
ducing as fine chrysanthemums as those
of Japan, which, thinks the New York
Post, will scarcely be credited by Sir
Edwin Arnold, who has soiourned so
long in that country and expatiated on
its floral beauties. Probably the finest
specimen of this flower to be found in
America to-day is product of the slip
sent from Japan to Mrs. Alpheus Hardy
OF Boston, and named after that lady.
The wonder is that Americans should ex-
eel in the cultivation of this flower after
comparatively few years of familiarity
with it. The chrysanthemum did not
become generally known here until 1862,
when a number of varieties were intro
duced from Japan. We have now up
ward of 1000 of them. They have al
most supplanted the rose in the favor of
rich and poor alike.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

In letter written shortly before his
death Historian James Parton Illustrated
his views on the financial side of author
shin by saying: San industrious writer,
by the legitimate exercise of his calling
that is, never writing advertisements or
trash for the sake of pay-can just exist,
no more. BY compromise, not dis
honorable, although exasperating, he
can average during his best years $1,000
to $4,000 year. But no man should
enter the literary life unless he has a
fortune or can live contentedly on $4,000
a year. The best way is to make a
fortune first and write afterward."
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

1t seems likely, notes the Chicago
Herald, that electricity is to be called
in to explain many of the cele,sial
phenomena which have hitherto been
ascribed to other agencies. That Won
derful yet beautifully simple instrument,
the spectroscope, which has revealed to
us so much of the cosmos, still seems to
be baffled in some directions where
difficulty would scarcely be anticipated.
Strangely enough, the phenomena which
it fails to satisfactorily explain are
either such as are known to be electrical
in character or are at least strongly sus-
pected of so being. From this and
other facts, Stas has been led to suspect
that the ordinary Interpretation ssof the
spectroscope arc not to be relied on
when it is applied to electrical phe-
nomena
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
FAIR IS THE WORLD.

Tender was spring, when shyly she came
wooing,
Kissingto life the clods that long were
dead;
Summer was fair, her generous aims pur-
suing,
Filling the world with garlands and with
bread.
ruleth,
With leaf and blossom rudely thrust
away;
Sweet is the air the sturdy north wind
cooleth,
And dog and gun take their awaited day.
Keen is my joy, though sadly their last
petals
The faithful asters drop upon the sod;
Blithe is my heart though grim the frosty
cystaIs
Lie cold upon the PROSTATE golden rod.
Fair is the world, my buoyant youth recall
ing,
AS deep into the woods / take my way;
Fair is the world, though forest leaves are
falling
And moor and marsh and upland change
to gray.
For overhead the eager wild fowl greets me.
And from the upland pipes the plover's
cry,
The saucy Escape" of startled jacksnipe
meets me,
And timorous hares to friendly cover fly.
Yes! fairs the world, though Old Time
turns the glass,
And woods are bare of any bird that
sings!
For staunch old Bang goes "feathering"
through the grass,
And stirs the copse with whirr of hurrying
wings.
Outing.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
A Petrihed Coon.

S. r. Shelton, while cutting up tree
lap, which he had cut down for rail
tree eight years before, cut into hollow,
exposing what he thought squirrels
nest. Upon opening large orifice he
drew from the hollow dead coon, per-
fectly preserved from decay, which had
laid there for eight years. The tree had
fallen on the hole by which the coon
had entered. 1t had died of starvation,
and the body was preserved from decay,
as is supposed, by the tan ooze of the red
oak Copingtoa (2esa.) Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

The Breeders Gazette says it recently
visited the Union Stock Yards at Chi.
cago, in company with gentleman from
England who is carefully studying
American agriculture. His exclamations
were not called forth by the magnitude
of the yards and the multitude of animals
gathered there, but to the ill-iattened or
immature condition of nearly all the
cattle in the pens. "We tried" con-
tinued the Gazette, ''to interest him by
calling attention to the characteristics of
lots from widely different sections of the
country, but the diversion was but brief,
and he always came back to the same
point of wonderment. why do you
Americans send such i'll fatted beasts as
these to market when there are great
maize fields on every hand2' We offered
as excuse overpIoductiop, the partial
failure OF the last corn crop, and that
growers were discouraged, but failed to
quiet his mind. The well matured
animals-only handful in number
were bringing from $3.50 to Sc. 20 per
hundred pounds, while myriads, SEEM
ingly, ranged down, down, down,
reaching $3.50 per hundred pounds.
Our English friend left shaking his head,
puzzled that America should have
maize fields of almost unlimited area,
with scarcely well fattened animal in
the Chicago stock yards"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

Mr.. Keith has contracted with the
Costa Rican Government for the con-
struction of suspension bridge over
the Reventazon River. As security Mr..
Keith receives a concession of 800, 600
acres of national territory.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Wages always appeal to mans hire ma.
turc.-Pitts6urg Dispatch.
The bright girl tries to make light of
everything. .-DalIas NeocS.
You can't estimate mans liberality
by what he thinks you ought to give
Ehnira Gasette.
"What on earth is Binks picking on
the guitar2" ga quarrel, | should
Judge. Puck.
The naves of a church do not com.
prise the rogues of the congregation.
Chicago Tribune.
A good liar is better company than
truthful man with an iupediment IN his
speech. Magazine.
sTime's up" as the workman an.
nounced when he fixed the hanging
clock. Baltimore american.
1t is great deal easier to secure an in
dorsement for mans character than for
his note.-PatSburg Dispatch.
Tue statement that detective recently
caught a cold has beer received in sug-
gestive silence. Binghanaton Leader.
It takes a smart boy to tell lie sue.
cessfully. If he tells it unsuccessfully his
father is apt to make him smart. --Prooi-
9eaes Telegram,
(Which one do you wish to marry9"
"The younger sister" (Which one is
she?n 81 don't know. They both claim
to "-BroOklyn Life.
Hicks-"What is political faith9"
Wicks-"Merely a choice between the
lies promulgated by the different par
ties. Boston Transcript.
If all the people in the world were ex-
pert mind readers, how quickly the daily
thoughts of most people would be radi-
cally improved. .-SOmerDtlle Journal.
The sumac has its fiery glow,
The maple has its flame,
The elm tree has no red at all.
But it's handsome just the same.
Boston Transcript.
The Arkansas rejected lover who is
suspected of having burned brides
trousseau may have wished to be regarded
as her old fame-Louis0i2ls Courier.
Journal.
Happy thought! Feeblewittle sug-
gests that henceforth it be considered
quite the proper thing to serve dropped
eggs with picked-up dinners. .--Detron
Free Press.
Professor Whackem-''Who helped
YOU to do these sums ?' Johnny Fizzle
top-sNobody SIR" "What! nobodyi
Now don't lie. Didn't your brother
help you2" ssNo, he didn't help me;
he did them all by himself. ."-Tera
Sytings.
aAfter all" said the great man as he
laid down the paper, ''it is the living
who suffer most when one of our number
passes from this life." ''Do you think
so9' said his private secretary. Yes;
the survivors are the ones who see the
newspaper pictures. > Washington Post.
An Objection Overcome: Hojack-
'sIt is objected that now the Government
rainmakers can produce shower, they
have no means of shutting the rain oil
when we have had enough" Tomdik-
.sOh, yes, they have. All they need to
do is send up lot of balloons loaded
with dry sponges. ."-Brooklyn Life.
It's said of certain literary woman
that she is never at loss for reply, and
never misses an opportunity to say
bright thing. One day, friend was
describing to her noted artist, about
whom her curiosity had been greatly
aroused, but whom she had never seen.
"To begin WITH" remarked the friend,
che has a perfect Niagara of aforeheadP
"What?n said the other: edo you mean
to tell me the poor man has cataract
over both an-Argonaut.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
I'm THE: PAusEs OF HER SONG.

A singer who lived in a sunny land
Poured forth song SO full of cheer,
The murmurer listening, forgot his plant,
The mourner, to shed his tear.
Oh, what a happy lot is hers,
Said the toiling world as it heard,
To pour forth songs as carelessly
AS joy from the throat of a bird.
Alas, 1 said for Art is long;
have trodden its weary way, and know,
Could you but dream of the struggle and
woe
That come in the pauses of her song!
-Orelia Key Bell, IL, the Century.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

Professor P. II. Carpenter, the deep.
sea student, like Hugh Miller, the geol-
ogist, has taken his own life after a
period of madness. What is there in
the pursuit of science that drives some
of its greatest votaries to insanity and
suic1de
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18
VOL. x.
Twenty million acres of the land of
the United States are held by English-
men.

The colony of Sierra Leone, Africa, IS
103 years old, yet there is no machinery
there except the sewing machine. The
population is upward of 10000, and not
sawmill or any other kind of mill in
operatiou.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-12-18

Words are ever mighty to deceive. It
makes big difference whether tramp
or hero cries, "Give me rest l"-PucE.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18
PROPOSED AMEADMEATIT0 The, G0NSTI-
TUTI0NI0F OHIO.


SECTION I. Be 1t resolued By the General As
sens6Ly Of the State of Ohio, That a proposition
shall be submitted to the electors of this State on
the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1891 to amend Section q Of Article XII, of the
Constitution Of the State Of Ohio, so that 1t shall
read as follows:
ARTICLE XII.
SEC 2. Laws may be passed which shall tax by
uniform rule all moneys, credits, Investments In
bonds, stocks, joint-stock companies, or other
wise and all real and personal property according
to the true value thereof In money. In addition there
to, laws may be passed taxing rights. privileges,
franchises, and such other subject matters as the
Legislature may direct; but burying grounds,
public school-hOuses, houses used exclusively for
public worship, institations ofpurely public char
ity public property used exclusively for any public
purpose, and other property, may, by general laws,
be exempted from taxation land tie value of all prop
erty so exempted shall from time to time. be ascer
tanned and published as may be directed by law.
SECTION q. At such election, those electors de-
string to vste for such amendment may have
placed upon their ballots the words "Ta1ation
Amendment--Yes," and those opposed to such
amendment may have placed upon their bali its the
words "Taxation Amendment-No."
SECTION 8. This amendment shall take effect on
the first day of January 1922. uvor,,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
VIM. VANCE MARQUIS,
President Of the Senate.
Adopted April "a. 1891.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIO,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
l. Daniel J. Ryan, Secretary OF State of the State
of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing is
true copy Of joint resolution adopted by the Gen.
eral Assembly OF the State Of Ohio the 2Ith day
of April, "A. D. 1884, taken from the original rolls
filed in this office.
In Testimony whereof, have hereunto subscribed
+ my name, and affixed my official seal. al
TsEAL.l Columbus the 25th day OF ApliI, A. D.
1871. %t
DANIEL j. RYAN,
2acn Of a
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18
A FISHER MAIDS SONG

Tho poplars tall kissed the cold gray sky.
And In front was the hungry sea.
And the river swept dark and drearily By,
While the wind sighed mournfully. =
Away In the west the low sun died
The amethyst banks between:
And amid the reeds the ployer cried,
As gazed OF that well known scene
And the nshermen's boats were far away
On the oceans heaying breast;
And the red lights CLEANED wide over thi
bay
From the high hills windy crest:
And saw again my lovers boat
With her white sails all outspread.
Like joyous bird DER the waters float
When the evening skies were red.
Tomorrow the sun in the east will rise,
And the fishing feet come home
To gladden. the weary, waiting eyes,
Wet with more than the salt sea foam
But ah mel for the boat that left the shore
That eve when the skies were red,
For the fisher lad shall see no more
Till the sea gives up its dead
-Magdalen Rock In Chambers Journal
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-06-18
Happy Hoosiers.

VIM. Timmons, postmaster Of liza.
vile, Ind, writes: Electric Bitten
has done more for me than all other
medicines combined, for that bad feel.
ing arising from kidney and liver trou.
ble." John Leslie, farmer and stock.
man, Of same place, says: "Find Elec-
trio bitters to be the best kidney and
liver medicine, made me feel like a new
man." s. w. Gardner, hardware mer.
chant, same town, says: Electric
Bitters Is just the thing for a man who
is all run down and don't care whether
he lives or dies; he found new strength,
good appetite and felt just like he had
a new lease on life. Only SOC bottle,
at d. ]. Humphreys drug store.