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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
NOTES IN GENERAL.

The sheriff Of Glasgow says thirty
thousand people get drunk in that city
every Saturday night, and that crime
is increasing six times faster than the
population.
The Russian Duchy OF Finland has a
Temperance League, Blue Ribbon
movement, form Of Good Templars
nodded by Government orders, and q
coffee-house movement.-Christian In
quirer.
The King of Samoa seems de-
termined that his subjects shall be
sober if not free. The following order
is his own proclamation, any breach Of
which is to be visited by heavy penal
ties: mo spirituous, vinous or fermeut-
ed liquors or Intoxicating drinks what
ever shall be sold, given or offered to
be bought, or bartered by any native
Samoan or Pacific islander resident in
Samoa. Signal.
ANOTHER fond delusion has been
shattered by the relentless data Of sci
ence. Whisky has long been regarded
as of valne in the treatment Of pneu-
monia, tat comparison of the results
attained in different hospitals by it's usa
in this capacity shows that it's employ
ment is not desirable. II is found that
in the New York hospitals sixty-five
per cent. of the pneumonia patients die
under alcoholic treatment while in
London, at the Object Lesson Temper
ance Hospital, only five per cent. die
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
THERE are, il is stated, b round num-
beRs, fourteen thousand drink-shops in
london, and every year twenty
thousand persons are arrested for
drunkenness In the United Kingdom
there are one hundred and ninety thou
sand public houses. and every year
there are two hundred thousand arrests
for drunkenness. II is estimated that
there is = huge standing army of half q
million men who are more or less al
ways besotted, men whose intemper
ance impairs their working power Ton.
sumes their earnings and renders sheil
homes wretched. National Teupev
ance Advocate.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
A LITTLE BOYS OPINION.

My mother she's so good to me,
Eff l was good as l could be,
couldn't be as good-no, sir!
Can't any hey lie good as her!
She loyes me when I'm glad err mad;
She loves me when I'm good er bad;
An, what's funniest thing, she says
She loves me when she Furnishes.
don't like her to punish me-
That don't hurt, but it hurts to see
Her cryin'-nen Il cry an men
We both cry-an' be good again.
She loves me when she cuts and sews
My little cloak an Sunday clothes;
An when my Pa comes home to tea,
She loves him most as much as me.
She laughs an tells him all said,
An grabs me up an pats my head;
An hug her, an hug my Pa,
An love him purt' nigh much as Ma.
james Whitcomb Riley, in Century.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
Fur SUNDAY READING.
THE IMMORTAL NOW.

Sit not blindfOld, Soul, and sigh
For the immortal by and by!
Dreamer, seek not Heaven afar
On the shores of some strange start
This star is-this, thine EARTH
Here the germ awakes to birth
OF Gods sacred life In thee
Heir OF immortality!
lnmUst heaven its radiance pours
Round thy windows, at thy doors,
Asking but to be let in;
Waiting to flood out thy SIM
Offering thee unfailing health,
Loves refreshment, bOundless wealth.
Voices at thy life's gate say:
"Be immortal, Soul, to- day"
Thou eanst shut the splendor out;
Darken every room with doubt;
From the entering angels hide
Under tinseled wefts of pride;
While the pure In heart behold
God in every flower unfold
While the poor His kingdom share,
Reigning with Him everywhere.
Oh, let Christ and sunshine in!
Let His love its sweet way winl
Nothing human is too mean
To receive the King unseen:
Not pleasure or o care
But celestial robes may wear;
Impulse, though and action may
Live Immortality to-day.
Balance not in scales of time
DeathlesS destnies sublime!
What vague future can weigh down
This great Now that is thine own?
Love were misery that gave
Only gifts beyond the grave.
Heaven makes every earth plant thrive;
All things are in God alive.
Oh, the stified bliss and mirth
At the weary heart of Earth,
We, her children, might awake!
Songs would from her bosom break;
Toll, unfettered from its curse,
Gods glad purpose would rehearse,
If with Him we understood
OF creation-"It Is good"
Soul, perceive thy perfect houri
Let thy life burst into flower!
Heaven is opening to bestow
More than thou canst think or know.
Now to thy true height arise!
Enter now thy Paradise!
In to day, to- morrow see!
NO'c Is immortality!
Lucy LarcOm, in Christian Union.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
BREWERY AGENCIES.
A System by which the saleeA Basiness
Is Increased.

a SyvG0M " WuScu tuG S8hou2 wUNHuo98
Il Increased.
It is to be hoped the recent report
win prove true that the Chicago
brewers have decided to abandon the
practice of paying for the licenses of
saloon-keepers. The system began in
the strong competition between rival
brewers. In order to increase the sale
Of his beer the breweryman would
find . room in a locality which seemed
promising, w0ah supply fixtures and
pay the license and make himself re-
sponsible for the rent and other run
ming expenses; the nominal proprietor
bound himself to sell only his patrons
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
The Music Of Chiuese Speech.

There is in China not only an intimate
association between music and poetical
speech, but also between music and
speech generally. The Chinese being a
monosyllabic language, depends to a
great extent upon musical intonation to
convey meaning. If you listen to the
conversation of your Chinese laundrymen
you will discover that their, ordinary
speech is almost as musical as the recita-
two secco Of the Italian opera.
Many words in the Chinese language
take from three to six different meanings
according to intonation. These intona
tions, as DR.. s. Wells Williams forcibly
urges, have ''nothing to do either with
accents or emphasis. They are distinctly
musical, and it is much to be regretted
that DIR. Williams was unable, for obvious
want of the musical talent, to study them
from musical point of view, as it is all
but impossible to convey clear under
standing of their nature by description.
There seems to be many variations, but
generally there are four of these intona-
tions, or shing, named and defined as
follows: One, ping shing, or seven
tonc"; two, shang shing, or "rising
tonc"; three, k'eu shing, or "decin-
ing tone"; and four, jun shing, or "en-
tering tone. ~ Century,.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
An Indian Romance.

Rain-in- the Face is a smart and ex-
ceedingly dangerous Sioux warrior. His
daughter had a romance that makes
rather interesting story. She fell in
love with Lieutenant in the army once,
when the Lieutenant visited the Sioux
Reservation. Later he was transferred
to Fort Laramie. Notlong after that
a band of Sioux obtainedte hunting pass
and roamed over into Wyoming. The
Indian maiden persisted in accompanying
them. She saw the Lieutenant, and
upon learning that he was married she
fell upon the ground moaning and tear
ing her black tresses. The. young squaw
refused to return with the Indians, and
they continued to camp in the vicinity
for several weeks. One day the Indian
girl ended her unhappy lie by cutting
her throat with hunting knife. She
was buried with the usual ceremonies of
Indian obseQuies. DenUer Republican.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
What an Indian Can and.

To show what an Indian ca stand
when he has to, may tell of an incident
which happened during the winter was
with them. Toward evening on very
cold winter day, when it was showing
just little and drifting great deal, an
Indian came to the log house with q jug
half full of whisky and with his rifle. l
imagine thatthe jug had been entirely
full of whisky when he started, and by
the time he got to the house he was in
rather jolly condition. The Jug and
the rifle were taken away from him, and
he was ordered to get to his wigwam as
as quick as he could before darkness
came on. He left, and was supposed to
have gone to the camp, but early next
morning his squaw appeared at the house
and said he had not come home that
night, and as the night was cold she had
been anxious about him. Then the search
for the lost Indian began.
He was found in one of the sheds near
the barn under heap of drifted snow,
and the chances are that the snow that
was above him had helped to save his
life. The searchers for the Indian had
gone in different directions and it was
his own squaw who, with true Indian in
stinct, had tracked him out, and she
was alone when she found him. Appar-
emily the Indian was frozen corpse. She
tumbled him out of the snow bank and
dragged him down to the creek, where a
deep hole was cut in the ice for the pur-
pose of watering the cattle. Laying the
Indian out on the snow, she took the
pan that was beside the hole, and, fill
ing it repeatedly, dashed pailful after
paiful Of ice water over the body of the
Indian. Ry the time the other unsuc-
cessful searchers had returned she had
her old man thawed out and seated by
the fire wrapped up in blankets. There
is no question that if he had been found
by the others, and had been taken in the
house frozen as he was, he would have
ied.-Detroit Free Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
Effect Of Wind on Trees.

Trees which grow in exposed situations
have their tops always leaning away in
the opposite direction from the prevail
ing winds and the casual observer con-
cludes that the branches have been bent
by the constant pressure of the wind and
retained their position. Now, although
such trees have the appearance exactly of
trees bending under gale, still it is not
pressure in that way which has given
them their shape. The fact is, they have
blown away from the blast and not been
bent by it after they grew. Examination
of the branches and twigs will show this.
We hardly realize the repressive effects
of cold wind upon tree growth, which
it partially or altogether arrests, accord
ing to its prevalence. Conifers show the
effect of this more distinctly than other
trees. Owing to the horizontal habit of
growth of the branches, they point di-
rectly to the teeth of the gale from what
ever direction it comes, and cannot, like
the oak, lean over and grow in the op-
posite direction, hence coniferous trees
growing in exposed situations produce
good, long branches on their lee sides,
while on the windy side the branches re
tain their rigid horizontal position, but
make comparatively little growth, which
is simply suppressed.
Example,: measured the branches of
Nordmann's spruce, growing in posi-
ton fully exposed to the north and south.
One branch on the north side of the tree
had fifteen annual nodes or growths, and
was seven feet long, and its opposite had
the same number of nodes, but was
nearly two and one-half feet longer, all
the lateral branches being proportionately
rong and we'll furnished.-The Garden.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

It seems necessary, exclaims the Chica-
go Neus, to again call attention to the
fact that the much-used word ''cloture," "
which Congressman so delight in utter
ing with an infinite variety of accents,
means nothing more nor less than the
"previous question" The word is an
unnecessary importation from the French
and is almost synonymous with the Eng
Iish ''closure." The demand for the
previous question and the sitting OF
.closure" of further debate is all that is
meant by the mysterious Gallo term.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
LAPORTE PA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891.
"You said you swerc going to Mays.

"You said you swere going to Mays
ville."
81 am for few lays only"
tYou have outwitted me-"
My heart had grown steadier. Icoulo
now ask as we'll as answer.
Snow tell me why you have taken the
trouble during all these years to play this
little gamea"
"When you were little girl you
humiliated me. 1 said then would be
revenged and I never relinquished my
purpose"
My inability to understand such vim
dictiveness brought my head to the aid
of my heart. ''Do you feel satisfied" I
asked, not without malice.
"You have outwitted me, said be-
FORE" he answered sullenly, and could
have told him but for an instant's mis-
calculation, he had the reward Of his
years of effort.
"Enough of this, said. "You have
had your little game and mine Let
us go in"
''Kitty, you are not going, you can
not" He bent upon me all the fervor of
his eloquent eyes.
"Oh, can't II" I got up.
"There is that between us which has
never been said"
"The rest is silence" answered,
and my airy gown clipped through his
hands.
l saw him after went in with his
head bowed in his hands.
"Take me home, Aunt Betty, I'm
tired" pleaded with my gay maiden
aunt. As we went out saw John Tem-
pie come in by the window. and as we
closed the gate his blond head was droop-
ing over Laura Golden's shoulder.
"Here Is your ring Aunt Betty, it hurts
my finger. But you can't tell how l en-
joyed wearing it just once" M
81 didn't know you were so fond of
diamonds, Kitty"
t'I am on occasion. This was an oc-
casion."
"Well, I'll leave it to you in my will
to remember it by"
"Neverp I shrieked. "Never! I
never want to see it again." And l
sobbed myself to sleep.
The next day went to Mavsville, ten
miles away. The third day John Temple
came up and drove by the house, waving
his hat out of the carriage window. 1t
was protected SPREE" Aunt Betty
wrote me.
Inever saw John Temple again. When
ever heard of him, he was still treading
on women's hearts and being fed by de-
votions. We never either OF us mar
ried.
Last week learned he was dead. He
had been thrown from his horse on the
plains and was killed. He had been
drinking.
Long since lost the power to care. I
lcan only wonder at the prodigality of ma
ture, who can create bodies like that of
John Temple, SO beautiful, so gracious,
SO full of charm, and then leave them to
perish as should misshapen creatures, by
neglecting to provide them with soul.
I-EDoch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

The Boston Cultiuator estimates that
more than half the railway track in the
world Is on this continent, and nearly half
OF the whole is in the United States. This
proportion may or not be kept up, as
Asia and Africa are beginning to shorten
their long distances by using steam horses
on the iron track. In the past four years
~, COO miles of track have been laid in
America, and in the United States 30,
coo miles of this, while all the rest of the
world built only 1000 miles. Railroads
in Europe cost an average of $115, ,O00
per mile. Here the average cost is $50,
900, and this is about the rate elsewhere.
Rates of fare are, however, lower in
Europe than here, the denser population
and lighter expense for running the roads
more than offsettlng the difference in
their original cost.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
AThirteen Pound Knife.

eyes" said Main street hardware
dealer to Cincinnati Times-Star re-
porter, "that is the largest knife in
America. 1t was made to order by q
firm in Germany. One man did the
whole job, and it took him just year. !"
The knife in question is known to
almost every person in Cincinnati and
perhaps for one hundred miles around.
It has fifty-six blades and is chest of
tools in itself, containing anything
from slender toothpick or cigar
punch to pair of scissors or hand
saw. The handle is of tortoise shell
and the immovable parts are gold-plated.
1t weighs thirteen pounds and modest
card says: 'tFor sale, $780,"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

The Church of England, as shown by
incomplete returns of the revenue report
by order of Parliament, is the wealthiest
church in Christendom. The income of
the ecclesiastical commissioners is about
S5, 750, 900, nearly one-fourth of which
is derived from tithes., The Welsh tithes
yield about $40, 900. The gross annual
value of benefces for twenty-one coun-
ties is $40, 900, 900 which is distributed
among $500 clergymen, giving them an
average of little over 1880 a year.
There are parsonages, however, and
other items to be added, which bring up
the annual average to about $4,000 a
year from endowments alone. OF the
$40, 600, 600 three-fourths are derived
from tithes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

The entire country-the entire world,
IN facts interested in the preservation
of the giant trees which form unique
attraction in certain portions of Cali
fornia. An agent of the Laud Office
who has been making an investigation
reports that some of them are in danger.
The importance of Government action
to prevent further destruction of tho
sequoias is therefore apparent. There
are 2675 of the giants now standing, the
largest being over thirty three feet in
diameter. Not one of them can be
spare0
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

The origin of the National Marine
Band at Washington is most curious.
Nearly hundred years ago, alleges the
New York World, Yankee Captain kid
mapped ,trolling troop of musicians on
the shores of the Bay of Naples and
brought them to this country. From
this handful of Italians the band was de-
veloped. The descendants of these
stolen Italians are now among the
wealthiest people of Washington. Some
of them are prominent lawyers, and
others have their names connected with
the best-known hotels and the largest
real-estate Offices in the capital city.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
Prayer Among the Mongols.

On the tops of all the houses were little
prayer wheels turned by the force of the
wind, simple arrangement like an ane-
mometer placed on them catching the
air and SO keeping them in motion. In
the hands of most of the old men and
women were bronze or brass prayer
wheels, which they kept continually
turning, while not satisfied with this me-
chanical way of acquiring merit, they
mumbled the popular formula 'Om mani
peme hum," the well-known invocation
to Avalokiteshwariai the would-be saw
ior of the world. - Century.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
A sOOO-Mfle Circuit.

The most remarkable wire ever known,
it is said, is the Cambridge, Mass, San
Francisco time circuit, which was in
operation in 1912. The wire extended
from the Cambridge Observatory to San
Francisco, b, way of Boston, Spring
field, Hartford, New York, Buffalo, Chi
cago and Omaha, returning over the
same route to Chicago, then to Pitts
burg, Harrisburg, New York, New Ha-
ven, Providence, Boston and into Cam
bridge.
The observatories were 'loopcd in" at
each terminal, forming complete cir
cult 6S52 miles in length.-Ne@ York
Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
An Owl Kills a Dog.

In Main street window in Pawtucket
there is q fine specimen of the cat owl,
alive and apparently ugly. 1t was caught
above the Diamond Hill Reservoir in
rather curious manner. One of the resi-
dents in that vicinity was in the woods
with his dog, a Gordon setter, when the
owl attacked the dog, catching it by the
throat. The owl succeeded in killing
the dog, but its beak or talons were
caught in the dogs hair and its capture
was easy.-P,0Uideac Or. ~ Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
GLOAMING.

The setting sun has dropt below She sandy
reach;
The laggard rocks come home, belated. from
the beach;
Here in the garden-beds the flowers close
their eyes,
And twilights soft wan mist across the wood
land lies
Oh, is not this most sweet of any time or
hour,
After the garish day, and ere the night
clouds lower?
IT'S as though Natures self should pause
upon her way,
Gray-clad and pilgrim-like, to mediate and
pray.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

California comes to the front with an
invention that will be a great boon to
fruit-growers, predicts the Chicago Post.
1t is an electric frost alarm and consists
of an accurate dial thermometer, cleo
trically connected with bell and switch
in such manner that the bell will ring
when any desired temperature is
roached
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

A census bulletin tells us that there
are 140 religious bodies in the United
States, not counting the large number of
independent churches which do not ac-
knowledge the authority of any denomi-
national organization. The increase in
sect. declares the Cincinnati Enquirer,
has been something remarkable since the
dawn of our national history.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
SONG OF THE BULLET.

SONG OF THE BULLET.
It whizzed and whistled along the blurred
And rad-blent ranks; and it nicked the
star
OF an epaulette as it snarled the word
Wari
On it sped.--and the lifted wrist
OF the ensign-bearer stung, and straight
Dropped at his side as the word was hissed--
Hate!
On went the missile--smoothed the blue
OF a jaunty cap and the curls thereof,
Cooing, sweet as dove might coo---
Love!
Sang--sang on! sang Hate--sang War
Sang Love, in sooth, till its needs must
cease.
flushed in the heart it was questioning for
Peace
james Whitconb Riley.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13

The Sultan of Turkey is not in all
respects the ease-loving monarch he is
reported to be, observes the New York
World. He passes good part of the
day with his secretary, discussing mat
ters pertaining to the empire, and it
is his boast that he has never signed a
State paper without reading it.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1891-02-13
A Town with But One Man.

A town in England, Skiddaw, Cum
berland, stands unique as township of
one house and one solitary male adult in
habitant. This man is deprived of his
vote because of the fact that there are no
overseers to make out voters list, and
no church or public building on which
to publish one if made. --Neso York Jour
nal.