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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
For Patty and Polly.

When Washington returned to Phila-
delphia after his trip to the East, in
1889, he stopped at Uxbridge, Mass,
and was entertained at the home of Sam
uel Taft. The old homestead, with the
great oak before the door, remains vet in
possession of the family, preserved in
commemoration of the distinguished Wis
itor.
Washington was so well pleased with
his reception and entertainment. at Tx
bridge that he wrote the following letter
to Mr.. Taft, which is carefully preserved
in the family.
HARTFORD, Nov. s, 1199
SIR: Being informed that YOU have
given my name to one of your sons and
called another after Mrs. Washington's fam
lily Dandridgel and being, moreover very
much pleased with the modest and innocent
looks of your two daughters, Patty an1
Polly, l do for these reasons send each of
these girls piece of chintz; AMI to Patty,
who bears the name of Mrs. Washington,
and who waited upon us more than Polly
did, l send five guineas, with which she may
buy herself any little ornaments she may
want, or she may dispose OF them in any
other way more agreeable to herself.
''As do not give these things with view
to have it talked of, or even of its being
known, the less there is said about the mat
ter the better you will please me; but that
may be sure the chintZ and money have got
safe to hand, let Patty, who, dare say, is
equal to it, write me a line. informing me
thereof, directed To the President OF the
United States at New York. l wish you
and your family well, and am, your humble
servant, G. WASHINGTON"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
Something About Cocoa.

All over the civilized world people
drink cocoa, and yet few, venture to
say, writes Fannie B. Ward, know how
it is made. On scraggly bush that
looks like underbrush the long bean-l like
green pods grow that contain the "nibs"
from which cocoa is made. These kernels
resemble n size and general appearance
the kernel of an almond. They are first
spread out in the sun to dry, where they
are raked over and over by barefooted
colored girls that walk over them with
utter disregard to their future use as a
beverage on an English or American
breakfast table. After it is we'll sun dried
1t is put up by the buskel in coffee bags
and shipped all over the world. The
after process of making it palatabe col-
sists merely in scorching it brown in an
oven, grinding it and mixing it with
some substance that will allow it to be
worked into cakes suitable for sale in the
markets, but the famous brands one buys
in American groceries are no better than
the beverage made by grinding the dry
and scorched nut between two stones in
a West India mountain side camp and
boiling it in goats milk. Skeptical cooks
may doubt this, but the "proof of the
pudding is in the eating"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

Thunderstorms occur most frequently
at sunset.
Harvard Observatory has photographed
the new star near Chi Aurigae, recently
discovered in Scotland.
Chronographs are now being made
that are capable of measuring to the ten
thousandth part of an inch.
Careful investigations show that in
ordinary flames charged with common
salt the yellowness is due to too free me-
tallic sodium and not to the undecom-
posed molecules of chloride of sodi um.
Between forty and fifty species of bac
terra have been found in normal milk
and cream. This large number IS due
to the fact that milk is apt to collect any
species of bacteria that may be floating
in the air.
Cyclones originate in the Tropics, and
are chiefly found in five localities: The
West Indies, Bengal Bay and the Chinese
coast, north of the equator, and in the
South Indian Ocean off Madagascar, and
the South Pacific, near Samoa.
A Frenchman has perfected an inven-
ton by which managers of theatres can
ascertain on first nights-in a practical
manner-the feelings of the public. The
contrivance is an automatic applalder,
set in motion by tive-centime piece.
A special train of five cars, constructed
entirely of steel, is on exhibition at the
Chicago &c Northern Pacific station in
Chicago, Ill. 1t is claimed that the
cars neither cost nor weigh more than
the old style, while being practically
indestructible by fire or in a wreck.
A professional nurse in Frankfort,
Germany, who allowed surgeon to cut
away piece of her arm to place in an
open wound on the body of wealthy
patient, is suing the surgeon for dam
ages on the ground that he took too
much from her arm in the operation.
A recent series of elaborate tests made
of the dust in various portions of the
streets of Naples, Italy, show that the
sections of the city which are the clean
est are the healthiest; and by the mere
inspection of the dust the degree of ILL
ness pertaining to each locality could be
readily determined.
From many experiments made on the
condensation of steam in wrought-iron
pipes when exposed to the open air, it is
found that one pound and six ounces of
steam per square foot OF pipes surface is
condensed per hour when the difference
in temperaturs between the steam and
air is 200 degrees.
Professor Duner, of Germany, has dis
covered that the revolution of the sun as
shown by the movement at its equator
is once for twenty-five days and twelve
hours of our time, while at or near its
poles the revolution may be only once in
forty-six of our days. This would only
be possible with movable aud gaseous
surface like that of the sun.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

The little island of Navassa, which
lies in the Caribbean Sea, about thirty
miles from Hayti, is of small account in
itself and geographically considered !;
which is probably the reason why its
acquisition as part of the United States
territory by the mere act of Presidential
recognition, as very briefly announced in
one of President Hayes's messages, at
tracted little public attention at the
time Latterly the island has been chiefly
notable as the scene of a riotous out.
break by laborers in 1889. Commercially
its only value is in its rich phosphate de-
post. In diplomatic sense, however.
its acquisition may easily prove to have
been an event of utmost Importance.
since it has given the United States a
foothold in the West Indies--s most de-
sirable section of the globe, at times, in
which to have stopping place.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

Many Eastern drug stores have
adopted the precautionary measure of
having two persons attend the prepare.
tion of any prescription containing pois
onous drugs. The Medical Record calls
attention to the Harris murder trial in
New York City as au illustration of the
importance of this check, because "if a
single clerk received the prescription,
prepared the capsules and delivered them
it might readily have been claimed by
the defense that mistake had been
made by the druggist. AS it was, the
druggist was able to go on the stand and
testify that an assistant had also read the
prescription and seen the amount of
morphine which it called for properly
weighed and dispensed
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

DIR. Krug, a German scientist, claims
that he has discovered how to make an
eatable and nutritious cake out of wood
His method consists in transforming the
cellulose into grape sugar, substance
assimilable by the animal organism. The
biscuit is made by adding to this about
forty per cent of meal of wheat, oats or
rye. Phosphates and all the bone ele-
ments may also be introduced. This
bread of wood glucose is intended to be
fed to cattle, for which it will take the
place of oil cakes and other feeds COM
posed of industrial wastes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
That the German Emperor has tender
heart under all his martial sternness is
shown by the pardon he granted to de-
serter from the German army who was
captured on his return to the Father
land. The application that touched him
came from the little daughter of the
prisoner, who appealed to him on her
fathers birthday. For an autocrat who
has retained his warm sympath;es there
is always hope. Napoleon or the great
Frederick would have tossed this littlc
girls letter into the waste basket.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
THE LADY OF TEARS

Through valley ana naHleI anu Cicys
Wherever humanity dwells.
With heart too full of infinite pity,
A breast that with sympathy swells,
She welks in her beauty immortal.
Each household grows sad as she near.s,
But she crosses at length every portal,
The mystical Lady of Tears.
If never this vision of sorrow
Has shadowed your life in the past,
You will meet her, know, some to-
morrow
She visits all hearthstones at last
To hovel. and cottage, and palace.
To servant and king she appears,
And offers the gall of her chalice-
The unwecome Lady of Tears.
To the eyes that have smiled but in gla d.
ness,
To the souls that have basked in the sun,
She seems in her garments of sadness
A creature to dread and to shun
And lips that have drank but of pleasure
Grow pallid and tremble with fears,
As she portions the gall from her measure,
The merciless Lady of Tears.
But in midnight, lone hearts that are break
ing,
With the agonized numbness of grief,
Are saved from the torture of breaking,
By her bitter sweet draught of relief.
Oh, then do all graces enfold her;
Like goddess she looks and appears,
And the eyes overflow that behold her
The beautiful Lady of Tears,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
Plants Living without Earth or Water

A number of plants have the singular
power of living a long time without
water, and without any connection with
the earth. DR.. Torrey found root with
some signs of life in a herbarium long
after 1t was collected ,and hence we have
Lewisia rediviva. The Rose of Jericho
is plant not distantly related to the
wild carrot, which draws itself out of
the ground and rolls into ball, driven
by the winds and then spreads,root and
grows under the first rainfall. In Mex
leo, Arizona and Texas, is a club moss
which also dries into ball, and is sold
in curio stores as the "Resurrection
plant" 1t develops in earth or water
after q six months drying, just as well
as if nothing had happened. New York
Independent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
Fox Terriers Guard the Elephants.

The visitors to the Central Park
menageriein in New York City, often Won
de- why fox terriers are always to be
found in the enclosures with the ele-
plants. 1t is simply because if they
were not there the rats, which are many
and large, would eat off the feet of the
elephants. The elephants are chained,
and when they lie down they can't keep
the rascally rodents from gnawing their
feet. So fox terrier is kept in with
them whose business it is to see that the
rats are kept away, and to kill as many
as possible. The elephants appreciate
the dog, too. And lately the rats have
begun to gnaw holes in the thick, hide of
the rhinoceros. So a terrier was placed
in with this beast, and in one night
killed twenty seven rats. Rats, by the
way, are one of the greatest pests which
the keepers have to tight.-Boston
Transcript
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
NO. a..
A MORNING SUMMONS.

Upon the outer verge of sleep heard
A little sparrow piping in the morn;
Unto my very heart the sound was bornes
1t seemed to me a something more than
bird,
Even Natures self that touched mo with .
word:
''While thou sleepst on, have not done
my duty.
Awake, oh mani OF all this gift of beauty
Lose not one grain. The forest deeps are
stirred
With morning, and the brooks are loud
allow"
Perhaps it was dream, but this know,
Behind me, as passed into the sun,
Whether to me or each one to his mate,
heard the little sparrows one by one
Piping in triumph at my garden gate.
Arch Lampman, in Youths Companion.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

complexioned, with regular features, and
large, gypsy black eyes, where the jctty
lights seemed to swim at every breath.
A very old woman, covering over the
stove, had the same strange eyes, al
though her hair, under its close frilled
cap, was bleached snow white, and her
skin was the color of old parchment.
"What ye got?" the crone demanded,
rs young Pole flung bunch of birds on
the table.
Something for breakfast, granny"
said he. ''Fve been hunting in Callet
Woods. Not much luck, though. Isay,
Naomi, l wish you'd hurry up supper"
"What for3 1t amt supper time yet,
and I've got all the towels to do yet"
"0h, bother the towels l want to
20 over to Skene's Corners to night and
see Miss Stuart's new piano"
''Humphl" Naomi ironed away with
redoubled zeal. "Miss Stuart's new
piano, indeed! l wish Miss Stuart was
further, and her new piano, tool But
you're like all the rest, Dave-a new face
turns your head. Hessie Holt and her
poor little parlor organ amt much ac-
count now"
"Eh? What We talkin' bout. Who's
Miss Stuarta Is Hessie Hollis organ out
o tune ag'in2" crooned out the old
woman by the fire.
Granny don't know" said Naomi
~ guess she's the only one that don't.
Miss Stuart, grannys Why, she's the
latest fashion at Skene Corners. She's
the new schoolma am. Ask our Dave if
you want to know all about her. Ask
any of the young fellers
"Ask John Classon!" added David,
angrily. ''Naomi's iealous-that' s
what ails Naomi
Naomi impressed her full red lips
and ironed resolutely on. The old
grandmother fell into a sort of doze and
nodded over the stove. David Pole
took the lantern down from its nail
against the chimney. piece.
"If can't get my supper here," said
he, "Fll get it over to Classon's. I'll
look arter the cattle first"
you'll get it here if you wait till
supper time" sharply spoke Naomi.
81 don't choose to wait"
"Then don't"
David Pole bit his lip.
can I'll take care to let John Clas-
son know what sweet tempered sister
I've got," said he.
"John Classon nothing to me-" re-
torted Naomi.
"And never will be, guess"
Naomi uttered a vexed exclamation
her over-heated iron had left its triangu.
lar impress on a fringed, red. .bordered
towel
"Somethin's burnin'!' squeaked
granny, starting from her doze.
And in a moment David was gone.
"He can do as be pleases," thought
Naomi, vindictively. "Ther's nothing
but cold pork and picked beets for
supper, anyhow. Perhaps they'll have
something better at Classons. Mirandy's
agood cook"
She put the tea stepping in little
earthenware pot; she took the irons off
the stove, put away the clothes horse,
and began, in spiritless way, to set the
table for the evening meal.
The clock bad just struck six, and
granny was stirring the homely brown
sugar into her first cup of tea, when a
gentle knock sounded on the warped
panel of the outside door. Naomi rose
to answer the summons.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

Twenty-Five acres of land are needed
to sustain mau on fresh meat, while the
same amount of land under wheat feeds
forty-two people, unher oats eighty
eight people, and under the pIantain or
bread fruit tree over 5000 people.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

The mortality from measles in England
is said to exceed anything that can thus
far be attributed TO the influenza. There
are $4,000 deaths from measles annually
in England and Wales, and the mortality
has increased greatly during the last
1ecade
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

John Maley, after staying twenty
years in the West Virginia Penitentiary
for the murder of his wife, will soon be
released, proof Of his entire innocence
having come to light. Now, in what
way, asks the Atlanta Constitution, can
Maley be compensated for this mistake
of Justice
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

The official census analysis of the Cape
Colony of South Africa discloses the fact
that out of total white population of
376, ,9S7, only 25G, ,2l3 are able to read
and write. The number, however, in
cludes 81, 237 persons under nine years
of aup
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

A trustworthy statistician has ascer-
tanned that the gross amount raised by
taxation in France is greater than that
of any country in which authentic figures
are forthcoming.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15

With the reduction of the hours of
labor in England during the last sixteen
years crime has been reduced forty
seven per cent.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
DELIVERED FROM EVIL
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

IS supper ready,
Naomi2"
mo, it ain't!"
David Pole had
brought with him
a breath of the
cold outside air
into the room
where his sister
was ironing. The
young people were
alike-tall, we'll
] shaped, swarthy .
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-04-15
VOL. x.
Chicago has become the third manu-
featuring city in this country.

Professor John Fiske declares "that
there is not competent scientific man
in the world to-day who is not an evo-
lutionist."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-20
VICTORIA WILL Run.
Mrs. Martin Accepts the Women Sumragist
Nomination for President.

Nomination for President.
NEW YORK, Oct. l7.-Mrs. VictoEia
Clafiin Woodruff Martin. the candidate
of the women suffragists for president
of the United States, arrived
here from her English home on
the steamship Etruria, which, after
a night at quarantine, reached
her dock at 1850 Sunday morning. Her
husband, Mr.. John Biddulph Martin, a
London banker, who is a worlds fair
commissioner from Great Britain,
accompanied the American presi-
Dental candidate. They will at
tend the dedicatory ceremonies
at Chicago Immediately after the
ceremonies they will return to this city,
where the arrangements will be com.
p!eted for the campaign speeches
which Mrs. Martin will deliver in
Boston, New York. Philadelphia,
Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
Chicago and some other large cities.
Mrs. Martin gave out for publication
her letter of acceptance of the nomina-
ton for president by the convention OF
woman suffragists. 1t is addressed to
ANNA NJ. Parker and others, national
nominating convention of women sui.
fragists." A synopsis is as follows:
The letter begins b. stating that the nomina
tion upon a wOman's suffrage platform com.
mends itself to the writer especially
from the fact that the issue is one
which was originally raised and advocated
by her and others as long ago as 1870
before congress, and was afterward maintained
as the principal plank in the platform OF the
woman suffrage campaign Of 1872, when my
name was presented to the public the first
female candidate for president OF the United
States"
Mrs Martin then quotes at length from her
addresses delivered during that campaign, IL
which she argued that the fourteenth and IF
teenth amendments 10 the constitution permit
ted this right Of suffrage 10 women. and she
earnestly ccmmends all good women TO persist
entity demand this right. The plank in the plat
form adopted at the convention Of 1892 which
declares that by the united efforts of the
women voters of this nation we will drive an
archy crime, insanity and drunkenness from
our midst by our humanitarian efforts. backed
by the ballot" is next considered, and Mrs.
Martin says:
'Old constitutions are incompetent 10 deal
with the new conditions. The advance in
science has shown personal conditions Of physi-
cal unit illness Of humanity itself to grapp.e
with the various new conditions OF progress.
1t is becoming just as necessary now
TO consider the important subject Of
breeding intelligence and physical culture in
the human race as il is in the inferior animals.
In order TO accomplish such results and !
will add TO overcome the conditions OF
crime, insanity and drunkenness referred to
in your resolution, new regulations
must be proposed for society Nay
more. we must go even further, and.
investigating the physical degeneracy which
breeds criminals. we must surround mother
hood with the proper conditions of an enlght-
ened age II is to women, therefore. at the
base, that we look for the regeneration OF man
ind
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-20
LYNCHED FOUR NEGROES.
a Wholesale Burning at the Stake Pre-
vented by Hanging.

SUNNY SoUTH, Ala, Oct. 14.-It is
of infuriated citizens storlned the Jail
at Monroeville and took therefrom Bur-
rell Jones and his son Moses. with two
accompllces, who were charged with
numbering Mr.. Richard L. johnson and
his daughter and burning their bodies
at their residence at Davis Ferry
on the Alabama river last Saturday
night The officials learned that a mob
had been organized from the neigh bor-
hood of lower Beach Tree and were
coming to the Jail for the pur-
pose of burning the four negroes
at the stake. The prisoners were
at once taken from the Jail and
an attempt made to spirit them away,
but the officials ran into another mob,
who took the four prisoners, and, after
hanging them To tree, filled their
bodies with bullets. Burrell Jones
said that the four men went to
Johnson's for the purpose of rob-
berry and the old man discovered
them, whereupon he was murdered
with an AK. The daughter came to the
rescue of her father, and the villains,
house was then set on FIRE to hide all
traces of the crime. The mob that was
to have burned the culprits expressed
much dissatisfaction at being thwarted
in their designs.