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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25
BEYOND THE ALPS LIES ITALY,

A fresh memorial to vanished youth,
The sweet girl graduate. with flower face,
Her eyes SO full of trust, her heart Of truth,
Looking DER all the world to find her
place,
Her theme holds weighty words and
thoughts SO staid,
A travesty on life in phrase austere;
But youthful confidence is unafraid,
And gladness vibrates in the tones SO
clear:
beyond the Alps lies Italyp
The joy of triumph, and Of proud applause,
Sweet floral offerings, the musc's stir
Fair, sunny slope of youth Oh, let us pause,
And linger in this girlhood's glade with
her,
Ere yet she climbs those rugged sleeps of
life,
Where womanhood with all its mystery
lies.
Remember, ere you go to meet its strife,
o, maiden innocent, grown strangely
wise,-
Beyond the Alps lies Italyp
The essay soon will yellow grow with time
Inc years Will StfiuB bueiF TOStTy VI teaTs,
Weary and footsore, we the hills must climb,
And stumble o'er the stones of cares and
fears,
The mists of doubt will all the landscape
veil,
The summit lies so very far away:
The feet may falter. and the courage fail,
The stern pale lips will quiver, then, to
say:
beyond the Alps lies ItalyF'
o, when the hands that helped you up the
slope
Shall loose the clasp we cannot always
+ keep;
When in the night Of pain you upward
Blinded by tears, with tagging footsteps
Greer;
Then let your girlhoods maxim cheer your
heart s.
A peal of joy through all life's sad realm
Though here we love and lose, and meet an
part,
There is a height where pleasure conquers
pain
beyond the Alps lies Italy"
Anna B. patten, in Youths Companion.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25

The returns of the Bureau of Statistics
at Washington conclusively establish the
following facts That during the last
ten years Canada has in every year pur-
chased from the United States very
much larger amount of merchandise than
the United States has purchased from
Canada, and that this excess of pur-
chases during the ten years has amouted
to fully $125, 900, 900.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25

The critics OF fruii-growing in Califor-
MIA, are advised by the San Francisco
Chronicle to read the story from Fresno
of the yield of two and half acres OF
seedless Sultana grapes. One hundred
tons of grapes which will produce $4,000
in raisins is pretty good return for
labor and time expended in this little
ylneyard,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25

Some argue that the deepest place in
the ocean will be found to correspond al.
most exactly with the height of the high
est mountain. This theory has been dis
proved within the last year; ocean depths
10, 900 feet deeper than the height OF
Mount Everest having been found.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25
VOL. XI.
Charles Ashton, London policeman,
has received prize of $3.50 for an un-
published photography of Welsh litera-
ture from 1901 to 1890.

Mars, says r. j. Crowley, the English
scientist, is probably in communication
with other planets, and these Martial
people are probably tearing their hair
because they can't "get" us on their
telegraph circuit.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25
THE TWO COUSINS
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

WO Is that talking
in the hall2" tartly
demanded Mrs. Jen- :
infer, and little
Lucilla, running to
the door, to take a
bird's-eye view of
matters through its
yawning crack, re-
turned with the
satisfactory inform
alton:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-25

The extent to which dementia has
taken hold of the Royalty of Europe is
almost pitiable, states the Arkansas
Traveller. 1t is not an uncommon thing
to hear of some royal parsonage who has
had his Uranium measured for a crown
going about with very ordinary wheel
in his head
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14

tDaily. Except Sunday. fFlagstop. meals.
Dark Faced Type denotes time from 2 90 noon to 12 90
midnight Light Faced from u 90 midnight i2 90
JOSEPH WOOD, EA. FORD,
General Manager, General Passenger Agent
S15-92-I PITTSBURGH, PENNA
For time cards, rates of fare, through tickets,
baggage checks, and further information re.
garding the running of trains apply to any
Agent of the Pennsylvania Lines.
w. D. ARMSTRONG. Agent,
Ravenna, o. :
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
A Boys Essay on Cats.

A small boy in one of the Detroit
schools recently handed in this posi-
ton on cats: Cats have four legs and
nine lives. Why they are five legs
short l don't kno at this time. l CESS
| can find out tho when die. | think
cats wood be gould deel funnyer if
they nine legs and five lives, don't
you? Cats have tales which they rap
round thare feat when they set down so
as to hold them together. kno bob
tailed cat that is ashamed to set down
in public tall. l CESS it is afrade its
feat will skater. Thare are Tom cats
and Puss cats, which the Tom cat is
more massive and as more sounding
voise, in the midnight darkly when
all elts is still. Cats cries like babies
sometimes, but you can not Civ them
parrygorick to quiet thare nervus sys-
TENS like you can babies. We have a
baby at our house that l CESS has
drinked about foar quarts of parry
goriek and every mite it cries just the
saim for more. I CESS that baby must
hav the parry gorick habbit. Young
cats are very frisky and they will play
all day because they don't hav no
skool to 90 to. l CESS l would like to
be cat till was growed up to be a
man. Cats eat milk and mice regular
and the canary for dezart. Cats are
very clean animals, but I never
thought it was very clean to spit on
their hands and wash thare faces in
the manner in which they do. l CESS
l have wrote all l kno about cats.
P. S. Cats has lectrisity in thare
backs and they can bio up thare tales
as big as fiji brush when they are
Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14

A Cincinnati mother, in jerking her
son onto the street car by his hand,
pulled the arm out of the socket at the
shoulder, and the lad had to be taken
to the hospital
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
wished He Was a Colored Boy.

Some people contend that the white
man is born with an antipathy for the
negro and that no amount OF leglsla-
ton, augmentation or eXhortation
will ever induce him to regard his col
ored brother as his social equal.
used to be of that opinion, too, but
have my doubts about it now. This is
what caused me to doubt it:
Some few months ago the firm en-
gagged new Office boy. He was a
bright little chap, just turned fourteen
and fresh from England. "Arry," the
clerks call him, because that is the
way he first pronounced his own name
when asked what it was. When he
grows bit bigger and acquires bet
ter knowledge of United States Eng
lish he will punch somebody's head fol
calling him AIRY" and then he will
be called Harry. But that will make
another story when the time comes
round.
carry" at once struck up a Gloss
friendship with the little colored er
rand boy in the office. The pair otter
take bites out of the same apple anc
otherwise manifest congeniality O
tastes and temperaments. The Other
morning "Arry" showed up at the of
fee with dirty face.
"Go and wash yourself" said one o
the clerks to him, reprovingly; "dt
you want to be taken for niggeI
boy?"
larry" shot an envious glance a
his colored chum, and then replies
with the utmost seriousness:
"I wish | was like i'm; then when
didn't wash my face nobody wouldn'
| know it."-N. Y Herald.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14

1t is stated that 40, 900, 900 of Queen
Victoria's subjects in India never know
what it is to get enough to eat.
A crazy Louisiana negro few days
ago informed white colonel that he
had just killed a man and desired to
be hanged for it. The colonel prompt
ly got a rope and hanged him.
The Guadalupe bees lay their money
in bladders of wax about as large as a
pigeons egg, and not in combs.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
WHO SET TIE BARN ON FIRE7
4 Tramp with a Powerful Mastery of His
Case in Court.

A barn had been burned in the
suburbs, and tramp had been arrest
ed for setting fire to it. After the
most of the testimony was in the pris-
oner was permitted to make state
ment.
your honor" he said, "if anybody
set this barn afire it was the prose-
cutting attorney"
The prosecuting attorney was on his
feet in an instant and the tramp held
up his hands appeahngly. "Let me
90 on" he said, and the court let him
go on.
. Didn't you," he said, addressing
the prosecutor, "throw a man out OF
your second-story window yesterday
EVENING""
The prosecuting attorney said he
had caught tramp in his house about
o'clock the evening before and fired
him through window.
"Thanks!" said the prisoner. That
was me- I went out on to a shed roof
that almost broke my neck, and went
on down where / lit-on the hired girl,
and scared her so that she made a
break for the back yard, where she
started stray dog SO that he made
off with howl for the street, running
between policeman's legs and upset
ting him.
"The policeman made swipe at
him with his club and hit horse stand
ing by the curbstone, and he ran away,
and up the street he scattered a crowd
of women and then scared horse
hitched to milk wagon, and he broke
| for home and there scared a cow, and
she ran over a cat in the stable-yard
watching a rathole, and the cat went
| into the barn where a lantern was
| hanging, and the lantern was turned
| over on to pile of hay and set it atire,
and the man who ought to have been
there was downtown trying to catch
the horse that scared the crowd that
scared his horse that ran away and SET
| the barn on fire. And that's how il
happened" concluded the tramp with
long breath of relief.
| The court was paralyzed. Sand
where were you all this timer" was the
next inquiry.
"Mep" he asked innocently. 80,
was in the gentleman's kitchen eating
the hired girls supper while she wa;
out trying to find the policemen the
dog upset, SOS ne could come anc
see what had dropped on the hired
girl"
The case isn't settled yet.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14

The Servians had a curious custom
of giving parting kiss to their de-
ceased friends before final burial, and
the observance of it caused a serious
epidemic of diphtheria. The custom
has now been forhidden
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
ElRsr PARTY cALlEoRNlA TOURISTS.
The Messenger Boys Are Starting for the
Worlds Fair in Chicago.

"Seyen er der kids has started for de
Worlds Fair" said the 'Pinhead Kid"
of the Western Union messenger SER
vice, his eyes dancing with enthusiasm
at the thought of the departure of the
first party of tourists for the great Co
lumbar Exposition at Chicago. Inc
"Pinhead Kid" has his own ideas OF life
and in his view the exploits and ex-
plorations of Columbus. PiZzarro and
the other gentlemanly road agents
who worked the new world Tor all 1t
was worth sink into insignificance be-
side the achievements of the seven
bows who started for the Windy City
last night.
In his slow, messenger-bo way the
"Pinhead Kid" told the story of the
start.
"Who compose the partyP" asked an
interested bystander.
90, dere's de Bart Kid, an de Larry
Kid, Hatchet-Face Daley, de Windy
Kid, Kelly de Clubfoot, de Webb Kid,
an McShane = mabbe some more's
gone, but dems de only ones ! knows" f"
"How are they going to make the
journeyP"
80, dey've got money"
"How much-$3?"
"Ah, nav. What yer take 'em fur
-stockbrokersP Dey've got quite Ell
sack. bet dey got $15-mebbe ST ;"
Seventeen dollars between them?"
Eyes; between 'em."
"But that will not take them to Chi
20, dey knows dat. Dey's goin' tc
make Fresno on what dey's got. Der
dey's work er while an make er shoot
fur Chicago"
"But have they any idea how far :
is from Fresno to ChicagoP"
"Only it's mighty far"
"How long do they expect to be OF
the roadP"
o, er year. AIebbe er yearna half
Dey're all right. Yer see, der Windy
Kid, he's been up der road before. HI
knows. An de Webb Kid, he comes
from Kansas or somers, an been in al
der big cities. o, dey'll be all right i
dey don't get ditched, Yer know wo
ditched is, don't yer?"
"Where are they from-what com
panyP"
Windy Kid, de Webb Kid, an Kell.
the Clubfoot, dey's from der Western
Union. Daley an McShane, dey'
from one O. de oder companies"
"Do you know their names?
"Naw; dat's what we calls 'em."
"Are any other tourist parties bein!
made up?"
Haven't heard O. any. Dis'n star
'em, though; dis'n start 'em. De-
wen dey gifts started yousell wish yo
hadn't cussed us so much. Waitl
, yer ring, an ring, an ring, an n
messenger boy comes. We1l all b
dere if desc fellers gifts through. De
) yer'n walk wild yer own notes."
What "the Pinhead Kid" told wa
| true. Last night between seve
and eleven boys, none of them owe
, Is years old, drew all the money com
ing to them, crossed the Oakland ferr
) and started on their pilgrimage t
: Chicago to see the glories of tn
Worlds Fair. Their exchequer doe
not contain over SIS, and the brake
beams are all mans size. Yet it is
good bet that the boys will all be i
! Chicagoif "dey're not ditched, see?
Sam Francisco Examiner
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
Bob Ingerson Can Cook.

Col. Robert G. Ingerson and Lawyer
Edward Murphy were walking to-
gether across the Brooklyn bridge.
Mr.. Murphy had been complimenting
Col. Ingersoll upon legal argument
he had been making. The colonel
thanked him but said:
"That is nothing. Any man can be
an orator; any man can make a legal
argument; any man can be success
full lawyer; any man can make great
speech; it only takes study and hard
work. l am not at all proud of being
able to do any of those things, but
there is one thing of which am very
proud, very proud.
"What is that colonel?"
Il can cook mushrooms better than
any one else in all the world. ."-Nea0
York Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
She Is a Martyr.

A famous duchess in London recent
ly went through the ordeal of having
dress made on her own figure. She
stood for three hours while the dress
maker wrought fifty yards of rare old
lace, that could not be cut, into a
gown for soiree, at the close of which
every stitch had to be carefully picked
out before the lady could disrobe.
The amount of torture that fair wo-
men will undergo in the name Of
vanity would astonish the martyrs
Baltimore American.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
A Chinese Baby.

Mea, the daughter of the Chinese
minister in Washington, is person
age of much interest at the national
capital. She is only year old and
can scarcely toddle. Chinese etiquette
forbids the attaches of the legation to
recognize the minister's wife and Sis
ter-in-law, even though they pass those
ladies on the stairs. But they ex-
change salutations with the infant,
who, perhaps, with the privileges of
her age, makes the first advances.
Meas name means Beautiful Amer
ica n-KnlzSnS CStaL Times
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
Did You Ever Try?

A mixture of alum, glycerine, vim
egar and water for mosquito bites?
Salt or ashes for removing diseolora-
tions from coffee cups or other dishes?
Cleaning the lint from clothes
wringer with cloth saturated in kerr
osene?
Alcohol to remove grass stains from
the children's white aprons, skirts,
etc.?
Pulverized chalk and ammonia for
removing stains from marble basins
and closet bowls?
To clean a gilt picture frame by
using a sponge wet with hot spirits of
wine or oil of turpentine, then leaving
it to dry?
To cook onions, cabbage or turnips
without having the odor escape to all
parts of the house? If you have. then
you probably failed, even if you had a
dish of vinegar on the stove.
To do over the much-used baby car
riage, staining with equal parts of So
luton of extract of logwood and solu-
ton of saffron in diluted spirits of
wine, with solution of tin thrown in
for tone?-G00d Housekeeping.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
Johnny on Married Folks and Girls.

Mamma and papa gets mad every
once in while and has a great time
about nothin'. You'd think they eat
each other up. But when mamma
goes off visitin' papa acts like a cry
baby, and when papa goes off on busi-
ness mamma is a cry baby till he gets
back safe. Other boys say their papas
and mammas is the same way. guess
it's malaria.
l like girls. Some boys don't, but
that's because they doesn't know how
to manage 'em. Girls gets tired OF
everything so quick that all you got
to do is to let 'em have their own way
till they gets tired of it an then you
can boss 'em all the rest of the day ]
guess womens is the same way.-M Y.
Herald.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14

Nos. 336 and 33S connect at Wellsville for
Steubenville and Bellaire. Nos. 33S and 342
connect in Union Station, Pittsburgh, for the
East.
pEIMEEM pAXhRn ANN NRu pun nnrI pu,n
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
EARLY Use of Coal.

London has the distinction of being
the first city to use coal. This was in
the latter part of the twelfth century.
Its use was prohibited shortly after its
introduction, and one man was actu-
ally executed for violating this law.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14
Oaks in England.


The largest oak now standing in
England is the "Cowthorpie, which
measures seventy-eight feet in Cir
cumference at the ground. At one
time this tree and its branches COW
cred more than an acre of space. The
gigantic old parliamentary oak" in
Clipstone park, London, is believed to
be 1,500 years old. The tallest oak on
the British isles is called the Dukes
walking-stick." 1t is higher than the
spire of Westminster abbey. The oak
of Gelemos, which was felled in 1910,
realized 1880 for it's owner; the bark
was sold for $1,000, and the trunk and
branches for So, $50 more.
Of the 328,O00 divorces granted in
the United States during the last 20
years 10000 were granted at the re-
quest of wives.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-09

md this is probably tho feason why n CROSS
between these two varieties generally makes
the best farmera' dog.
American farmers oftSn say the reason
they do not buy snoh dogs Ia because of
their cost and the difficulty of getting
youngsters trained in thia country; yet now
that the best prize winning stock has been
introd esd from England one disadvantage
may he counted out. When IL 10 remetn-
bored that II 10 u compafati Jely easy task TO
train a dog from such stock the other ex-
cuHe also vanishes.
OF courae unless the dog invariably in-
herits native intelligence from tho right
stock 1t is Il useless task TO try to tench him
to BIO OF ser vice on a farm. Ho may chase
the cattle and sheep but he will not fetch
them. Surprising a pup from the right
stock is procured, one OF the family should
have charge of his education IL the IA MGR
cannot attend to 1t.
The pup should NOS be taken into the
house to DO petted and 81 oiled and made
unfit for outdoor life. but should DO kept In
the barn near the stock. His first lesson
should be obedience, and II he who has
charge of his education always feeds him
and let's him out for n campo 1T Will be
found that the pup will ieudily show hla
gratitude for these two chief delights and
will soon learn to obey. AT first 1t will be
well to foster his love of appreciation and
attend to his mental development rather
than TO teach tricks without n purpose,
J hen as he learns his name and comes
when called he may bs taught TO come in ri
the word ''heel'' or TO heel'' remaining
just behind until encouraged TO 70 forware
by u cheerful tone. which assures him hs
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-09
Railway ~Conundrums.

What is the railway mileage of the United
States? 1860 miles.
What has been the cost? Over ten billion
dollars.
What state heads the list in point of
mileage? 1llinois-1O,O 79 miles.
What is average cost of constructing a
mile of railroad? About 100000.
Who built the first locomotive In the
United States? Peter Cooper.
What ID the cost of a palace sleeping car?
About $4,000. or SIT. 900 if v%estibuled.
What load carries the largest number of
passengers? the Manhattan Elevated rail
road, New Iork-525, 600 a day or 1911, $685.
600 yearly.
What are the chances of fatal accident in
railway travel? Statiatics show one killed
in every ten million.
What road runs the famous v~estibuled,
electric lighted and steam heated train be-
tween st. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago!
The Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul rail.
way. 1t leaves It. Paul at $40 O'Clock every
evening. Considered one of the most com
plete and handsomest trains in this coun.
try.
How many trains rer day via this road
from the twin c,ties' to Chicago? Four
from st. Pau Union de OF at 7:50 a. M,
2:55 4. M, 6:h5 \. IN. and $40 p. m.
Are they all heated by steam? Yes.
Is there any road. except 1.-THE Mil
waukee," which furnishes electric berth
lamps to read by? No.
Who should n passenger apply to for in
United States and Canada via 1.-THE Mil
waukee?' 10 any coupon ticket agent in
the northwest or address
j. Il. CoNLEy,
Asst Gen'l Pass. Agent.
st. Paul, Mimi.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-09

the mountains. These fine Weloh animals
are sure to be thoroughly trained and make
excellent dogs for tho farm.
There is another kind of shepherd dog,
also used on the WEIGH hills and III many
parts of England, called the bob-tailed
sheep dog.
When in old England everything else, in
GLIDING windows, were taxed. mans best
friend was not overlooked, but the poor
shepherds were allowed one dog free, pro-
vided they cut his tail short. which was sun
posed to interfere with his chances of catch
ing hares. After being prevented by law
from enjoying the usual caudal nppendaae,
eventually they were born a la statute, and
they have been botn 10 ever since. knowing.
wide awake fellows they are, when YOU
can get them ut aight from stock that
inherited this popularity; always resolute
and determined. not quarrelsome, except
when his flock or anything belonging to his
master is molested. and then woe TO the
venturesome offender. be he human o.
canine. Ii canine 1t ID ten to one he never
RECEIVERS from tho attack. for bob-tniled
sheep dogs do not appreciate the quality of
mercy.
For hard work, native intelligence. faith
f~ulnesa, sagaeity and general ada liability
they have no superior. IL Ia but seldom.
however, that they can he made to gather
She flock o. "rouna" ia the collie fashion,